THE MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, and dear friends, media friends, very warm welcome to everybody, and welcome to the press conference of the BMW Masters 2015. Good to have you all with us.
From the coverage we had, we experienced some exciting moments, and we have reason to believe this year the tournament is going to be exciting, as well, and we have so much to look forward to as we have a brilliant and strong lineup. So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to introduce our VIPs and distinguished guests present.
Mr. Wang Liwei, Director General, Multi-Ball Games Administrative Centre of General Administration of Sport of China, Vice President and Secretary General of China Golf Association.
Mr. Sun Weimin, Deputy Director of Shanghai Sports Bureau.
Mr. Pang Zheng, Director of Olympic Support Department of Multi-Ball Games, General Administration Sport of China and Deputy Secretary General of CGA, welcome.
Ms. Tao Xiafang, Deputy Magistrate of Baoshan District Government.
Mr. Keith Waters, Chief Operating Officer of The European Tour.
Mr. Ulrich Sanne, Senior Vice President and CFO, BMW (China) Automotive Trading Ltd.
Mr. Jack Lei, Senior Vice President and CFO BMW Brilliance Automotive, Limited.
Mr. Marco Kaussler, Tournament Director, BMW Tournament Director.
Last but not least, Mr. Jeffrey Kao, general manager of Lake Malaren Golf Club, Shanghai. Welcome.
Ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming Mr. Ulrich Sanne from BMW who would like to say a few words. Mr. Sanne, if you please.
ULRICH SANNE: Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, everyone.
On behalf of BMW China, I would warmly like to welcome all the players, tournament official, sponsors and media to the BMW Shanghai Masters 2015.
First of all, let me sincerely thank the China Golf Association, the Shanghai Sports Bureau, and the Baoshan District Government for continually supporting this event and my special thanks to Lake Malaren Golf Club. The main sponsor, Ballantine's, Minsheng Bank, Rolex and Samsung, as well as everyone else engaged in preparing this exciting tournament.
Also, I would like to express our gratitude to The European Tour, our one-time honoured partner on a global level for enabling BMW to present the BMW Asia Open and the BMW Masters for so many years.
Above all, I would like to welcome and thank all players joining the BMW Masters. We are graduate to again have so many top players in the field in 2015.
From BMW's side, we have always strived to make the BMW Masters the best organised tournament providing service that matches the high standards of our brand to the players and tournament team, as well as the media and spectators. This year is no exception. We try to be precise and paid attention to every detail the same way as we build our cars.
Our newly a launched 7 Series is the hole-in-one prize. It is the most progressive and the most innovative car in the luxury segment, standing for our quest for the highest quality and absolute precision.
We also arranged a series of new cars for display or test drive, including the BMW i and the locally-produced plug-in hybrids. In China we always try to align our brand with modern values of society which today are innovation and progression. So our brand stands for innovation powered by joy, and we are demonstrating this spirit at the BMW Masters, and with the exciting tournament we look forward to.
Sport in general is a key part of our brand tradition and brand strategy. Beyond golf and motorsports, we also support other prestigious sports such as equestrian, sailing, as well as mass sports. BMW is becoming a dominant force behind the sport of running. For example, BMW is the main sponsor of the top marathon events in Shanghai, Lanzhou and Xiamen, and we support eight events organised in many communities on an ongoing basis.
As a long-term partner of the Chinese Olympic Committee, BMW is committed to promoting Olympic movement in sports and healthy lifestyles in China over the long run. This is in line with our brand strategy and social responsibility, as a key market player in China.
Golf is making a return to the Olympic Games next year. We especially wish the Chinese players an excellent performance up to the Games. Once again, thank you, everyone. Let's wish the BMW Masters another huge year of success. Thank you very much.
THE MODERATOR: Mr. Wang Liwei on behalf of CGA to say a few words, as well.
WANG LIWEI: Good morning, everyone welcome to the BMW Masters 2015. On behalf of the Mult-Ball Games, CGS China and the CGA, I would like to welcome everyone to Shanghai to attend this BMW Masters event. BMW Masters is one of the four major tournaments sponsored by BMW worldwide, and is a clear testament of BMW's commitment to supporting the development of golf events in China.
We are confident that BMW Masters will play a positive role in promoting the golf sports in China and around the world and will further enhance the golf competition at large in the world.
This year is the fourth edition of the BMW Masters in China. The 2015 tournament presents a similar number of players and prize money as the last three events, 78 top players from more than a dozen countries and regions will be playing for a total of $7 million.
It is also worth mentioning that there will be around 14 players recommended by CGA in the field here this year, and it makes a new record for the number of Chinese golfers in a tournament of this level, of this kind. The participation of the top golf players here will help enhance the popularity of golf events in China, and will further seek to attract a large number of Chinese youth to join the sports. In addition playing in a tournament of this calibre and exchanging experiences with top-calibre players will greatly be helping the Chinese players to be better prepared for the Olympic Games next year.
The various hosts and sponsors of this event including the Shanghai Sports Bureau and the Baoshan District Government have all made great effort for the success of this tournament, so on behalf of the Multi-Ball Games Administrative Centre of the CGS and CGA, I would like to say a big thank you to all of these professional organisations and also I want to specifically thank BMW Group, in particular, for your kind and important contribution to this event.
Last but not least, let me sincerely wish the BMW Masters 2015 a great success. Thank you.
THE MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Mr. Sun who would like to say a few words, as well, on behalf of Shanghai Sports Bureau, if you will.
SUN WEIMIN: Dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. First of all, on behalf of Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, I would like to express my warm welcome and sincere gratitude to the sports players, athletes, coaches and guests and media friends to attend the 2015 BMW Masters.
The BMW Masters is part of The European Tour and also top of its kind in size, prize money and the level of competition. This event will seek to further promote the image of Shanghai as an international metropolitan city, and also to help further promote the development of golf in China.
There will be all together 78 top-class players from more than 17 countries and regions around the world to play in this year's tournament, including 13 players recommended by the China Golf Association. Let me wish you success this year, and I would like to thank all the sponsors and also the contributors to this event, including the Baoshan District people's government and BMW Group.
I would like to wish the BMW Masters 2015 a great success and wish all of you a very happy stay here in Shanghai. Thank you.
THE MODERATOR: Now, like to also ask Ms. Xiafang on behalf of Baoshan District Government to say a few words, as well.
TAO XIAFANG: Dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends from the media, good morning.
In this golden season of autumn, the 2015 BMW Masters came back again to this beautiful City of Shanghai and came to the beautiful District of Baoshan, especially to Lake Malaren. Around 78 top-class golf players from 17 countries and regions around the world have gathered together with our friends from abroad for this event. This is a very grand event for us.
On behalf of Baoshan District Government, let me say a big welcome to all of you, and also I would like to say a big thank you to the CGA, the Sports Bureau of China, and also Shanghai Sports Bureau for your kind support.
And also, I would like to express my warmest welcome to all the leaders, guests, officials, athletes and media friends who come all the way to attend this event today.
I hope in the next week following the tournament week, you will feel the warmth of Baoshan, and all of our departments do what we can do ensure the tournament goes safely and smoothly and everybody can enjoy a lovely week here.
We are confident that this year's BMW Masters event will further promote the development of golf in China and will further enhance and develop the popularity of Shanghai and will further boost the ability of Baoshan to provide high-quality and comprehensive services to events of this kind.
Finally, we wish all the best for 2015 BMW Masters, and also wish you a very good health and all the best. Thank you.
THE MODERATOR: I would like to call up Mr. Keith Waters on behalf of The European Tour. Would you share your thoughts with us.
KEITH WATERS: Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of The European Tour, I'd like to welcome everyone to the BMW Masters, the penultimate event of The Final Series.
I'd like to place on record my thanks to BMW, one of our longest-serving partners for The European Tour; to the Shanghai municipality; to the Shanghai Sports Bureau; and of course to the Chinese Golf Association. Special thanks go to Jeffrey Kao, the SRE Company and Lake Malaren.
In conjunction with Mikael Eriksson and Eddie Adams, the agronomist for The European Tour, I know all the greens staff here at Lake Malaren have worked extremely hard over the last few months to prepare this course. It's in excellent condition for the tournament this week, so many thanks to them.
BMW have been a tremendous supporter of The European Tour now for over 27 years, encompassing 55 events back to the BMW International Open in Munich in 1989. So a special thanks to Ulrich and the continued support of BMW for this tournament. Also, to the other sponsors, we have Ballantine's, Samsung, Rolex and Minsheng Bank.
This is the penultimate tournament in The Race to Dubai. Next week is the final tournament, the DP World Tour Championship. We are very fortunate that we have some great players here this week in Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson that have an opportunity still to win the Race, but particularly, Danny Willett, who is in second place behind Rory McIlroy. He has a chance this week to overtake Rory. He closed last week by finishing third in the HSBC Champions, so he's only 75,000 Euros behind Rory now in the Race.
Further down the rankings, players are trying to qualify for the 60th place to actually qualify for the final event next week. The Top 60 qualify for The Race to Dubai.
We had a very dramatic finish here last year, Marcel Siem, fittingly a German player in a German-sponsored tournament chipping in on the last hole in very dramatic fashion as we saw on the video earlier. We look forward to another exciting tournament this week.
And of course we have recent performances from Li Haotong, who played well in the HSBC Champions, and he also played very well in Shenzhen earlier this year. Ashun Wu went on to win the China Open earlier this year. We look forward to welcoming all the Chinese players and hope they perform well again this week.
Many thanks to everyone. We are looking forward to a very exciting week and a climax to the season. Thank you.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, Mr. Waters.
At this stage, I'd like to also invite our Tournament Director, Marco Kaussler. I'm sure he has a lot to share with us about all the information related to the tournament.
MARCO KAUSSLER: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, and also warm welcome from my side to the press conference of the 2015 BMW Masters. And I have to say, Lake Malaren Golf Club, the course is in excellent condition, and Jeffrey and your team, thank you for preparing this event to perfection again.
The total prize money will be $7 million and the winner will receive a cheque for almost 1.2 million dollars this week, but it's not all about the money. With a bit of luck and a hole-in-one on the 17th hole, the professionals can actually win the all brand new BMW 7 series.
During the fourth edition of this tournament, BMW is offering more activities to introduce the game of golf to the general public. On Thursday and Friday, there will be free entry to the event and in the Public Village there will be plenty of activities going onto promote the sport.
The 2015 edition of the BMW Masters shows again strong support by the best players in the world with Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson, that we have two players from the Top-10 in the World Ranking and 14 of the 15 leading players in The Race to Dubai are playing this week, where five of them can actually overtake the leader in The Race to Dubai just before the final tournament.
But Keith Waters said it before: We wish the 13 Chinese players a great performance this week, and it would be amazing if one or two would actually be in contention to win the title on Sunday. We wish them all the best.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would now like to take this opportunity and welcome four of our top stars here on stage who will be interviewed by The European Tour's press officer, Paul Symes. Please welcome the former U.S. Open Champion and currently world No. 6, Justin Rose. And World No. 7, Henrik Stenson; and two national golf heros, Wu Ashun, and here at his home club, Li Haotong to the stage. Thank you very much.
PAUL SYMES: Many thanks, Marco, and everyone else, and welcome to our four players here.
If we could start with you, Henrik.
HENRIK STENSON: Since I have the mic.
PAUL SYMES: Indeed you do. Coming here on the back of a very good performance at the weekend last week, so I guess you're looking to carry that momentum through this week.
HENRIK STENSON: I've been out on a little journey and got another couple of weeks to go. This is right from the middle and hopefully I'm picking up some pace. Played some good golf on Saturday and Sunday, and had a decent finish. So hopefully I can start a little bit quicker than I did last week and be right there on Sunday, yeah.
PAUL SYMES: Still an outside chance of winning The Race to Dubai. I guess you need a very strong end to the season, but you can take heart from the fact that you've finished the last two seasons very strongly.
HENRIK STENSON: Yeah, it's a lot of points to play for here this week, and of course in Dubai in the final. So yeah, two wins or two really good weeks could do the trick I guess. So first thing's first: Got to play well here this week to put ourselves in position.
PAUL SYMES: Justin, your last appearance on The European Tour brought a win in Hong Kong. So how do you assess your chances of going back-to-back in China this week?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, obviously that was exciting to win at the end of the season. Like Henrik was saying, we're all kind of trying to make up some ground on some of the guys who are leading The Race to Dubai. It was an important win for me to try and sort of keep the dream alive.
Again, obviously Henrik's had a great record and finished the year very strongly, and so yeah, he's going to be a man to still obviously keep our eye on. But there's a couple of guys: Danny Willett had a great finish last week and got himself neck and neck pretty much with Rory, so those are the guys we are trying to chase down.
It means playing well for two straight weeks. The equation is pretty simple. I think I need to win at least one of them, and it would be great to start this week.
PAUL SYMES: This week you have a great course record in the last couple of years, fourth and sixth, so that gives you a lot of confidence to take into the week.
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, I've really enjoyed playing this golf course. You've got drivable weather around here. Last year I seemed to start hitting the ball further in this tournament and that helped on some of the par 5s. I got off to a terrible start last year, 4-over par through seven holes, and then played some really good golf to give myself a chance it win come Sunday.
But obviously this is a new year and another week, and hopefully I can keep that momentum going but yeah, positive memories of the venue is always helpful.
THE MODERATOR: Wu Ashun, you are a BMW ambassador and attached to Lake Malaren Golf Club. How much would it mean to you to win this week?
ASHUN WU: Obviously I'm looking forward to this week, and being sponsored by both BMW and Lake Malaren, if I could do well to repeat my success from earlier this year, it couldn't be better to finish as such.
PAUL SYMES: Speaking about that success earlier in the year, how much has your life changed since becoming the first Chinese player to win a European Tour event in China?
ASHUN WU: Winning the tournament earlier this year means a lot in my life. It was good to win there and the significance is fantastic, tremendous. And of course it's also a gigantic step for the Chinese development of golf, as well.
It gives me a chance to play on The European Tour for two years. That's fantastic to be able to compete with Justin and also Henrik, and this is really a great pleasure. I certainly would like to do my best for these tournaments on these big occasions.
PAUL SYMES: And Li Haotong, you come here after a great week at the WGC-HSBC Champions. How much confidence does that give you coming into this week?
HAOTONG LI: Last week's performance really helps me pick up my confidence. Prior to last week, actually, I was struggling quite a bit, however last week I had sort of like an explosion. That really was like a career-high for me, and I hope this is a turning point for me to do even better down the line.
PAUL SYMES: And onto this week, you're also attached to Lake Malaren Golf Club, so I'm sure you know the course very well here.
HAOTONG LI: (Nodding head enthusiastically) Yes, to be able to play at Lake Malaren, this is like my home court. I'm so delighted to be here and to actually participate in this event, and also with all the fan support, I would like to do well.
This is such a happy thing for me to here, and I would like to enjoy these upcoming days to do well to really return the kindness and hospitality of everybody, all parties concerned.
PAUL SYMES: Thanks very much.
THE MODERATOR: We have four highly selected junior players from Shanghai, and we would like to start with them with their questions to their heros in their eyes.
Q. How much chip-in practise do you do every day?
HAOTONG LI: When you focus on your short putting, you should talk less and focus on your short putting and that will help you out.
Practise will probably get me anywhere and everywhere.
Q. When you don't do well, when you don't have a particularly good day, how do you try to adjust your mind-set in particular?
HENRIK STENSON: Well, part of playing professional golf or playing golf in general, you're going to have good days and bad days. I think you just need to take some time to reflect on the day that just passed by, and you know, try and make things better for next round.
There's always a chance to improve the next time you're going to play, and you've really got to think a little bit about why it didn't work out the way you wanted and then try and change those things. Then just work harder at it.
Q. Before you go out to the course, what do you eat as far as your dieting? How do you actually try to adjust yourself to not be too full on course?
JUSTIN ROSE: It's a good question. Part of what I think is important as a golfer is to eat little and often, because really, as a golfer, you want to sort of maintain your blood sugar levels so you can keep your concentration very even.
So if you have a Coca-Cola and a bag of chips and some French fries and a burger before you tee off, you might feel good for two or three holes, but then you'll feel terrible at the turn. So just try to eat a little bit every four or five holes just to help you concentrate.
Q. If you don't have a lot of time to practise, how do you improve efficiency in practicing?
ASHUN WU: The answer is very similar to the question raised by the little boy. Understand that you have school to attend and that you have to practise at the same time, so you have a lot of time every day to practise golf. But definitely, I need a very good plan. I need to identify the time available during the day, and when you do have some time for practise, you have to focus on practise. Certainly that helps to improve efficiency.
When you practise, you have to put your mind all to practise. When you study, you have to put your mind all to study. You cannot think of practising and studying at the same time. That helps you to improve efficiency in both study and practising golf.
Q. First, I would like to offer my congratulations to you for your explosive performance last week. So this week, what is your expectations for your performance on Lake Malaren? What is your target? Since Lake Malaren is your home course, which hole has left you with the deepest impression?
HAOTONG LI: Well, I naturally don't have a lot of expectations for my performance this week. I expect a very strong lineup this week. Hopefully better than the last edition of the BMW Masters. I've been playing on this golf course for a very long time, and I also live here. I receive a lot of support from Lake Malaren club, and I love each and every hole on this course.
Q. During the past couple years, the Chinese players have improved significantly, with your participation, what do you think of the BMW Masters when it comes to improving the golf industry in China?
ASHUN WU: I think this is a very valuable competition. It provides a lot of opportunities for the Chinese golfers. The Chinese golfers improve year on year. You can see that Haotong Li finished in seventh place in the HSBC. I think this is closely related to the launching of this event.
Q. This is home court for with you hand and Li Haotong. So any experience that you can share with your European counterparts?
ASHUN WU: Well, I think you have to be in your form. I think that you have to adjust your performance and conditions to the best possible level. There's no secret ingredients in winning a tournament. Of course, the golf course conditions and weather may have a direct impact on the players. If there is a drop in temperature or it's a little windy; so the elements can be a challenge to the golf players.
Q. We saw the article about you were voted to be the best choice to play 007. Do you agree with that? Or there are three players sitting next to you; do you think one of them might be a better choice other than yourself?
HENRIK STENSON: Of course not. (Laughter) I think Justin would do a great Q. He could supply with me all the things I need. Then we just need to figure out some other roles -- especially for Marco. That's going to be a tough one I think.
I have it down to probably poor selection of the other opponents then on the voting form. If I came out on top, it couldn't have been too much good Bond material around I guess, so we'll leave it at that maybe. (Laughter).
Q. What do you make of the comments from Stenson about you being perhaps cast in the role of Q?
JUSTIN ROSE: Well I think for a start, I'm the only English one here, so I have the best chance. I could put on my best accent. Right now might be wearing more of a villain look.
I can say a bit of Daniel Craig, that's the Bond closest suited to the Stenson.
HENRIK STENSON: You could be my Bond Babe (placing arm affectionately around Justin).
JUSTIN ROSE: Not so sure about Pierce Brosnan or anything like that. (Laughter).
THE MODERATOR: Thank you very much indeed, gentlemen.


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What was Khloé Kardashian's secret to losing weight
Khloé Kardashian has surprised everyone with this change.
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Khloé Kardashian has experienced difficult moments in the personal field, it is not a secret that the conflicts she had with her ex-partner, Tristan Thompson, an NBA basketball player, had an impact on her having significant emotional effects.
Despite the situations she has faced, the member of the Kardashian dynasty has managed to reinvent herself through a physical transformation that has surprised everyone, since lost 20 kilos in a relatively short timesomething that has caused various questions.
It is common for Khloé to share photos on her official social media profiles where she is seen exercising or wearing outfits that show how her transformation has gone, but despite the fact that She has been disciplined in terms of exercise, as well as her dietFor many, Odom's ex did something else.
After multiple speculations, Kardashian herself has shared what her secret was to recover her spectacular figure. Therefore, she confessed that Beyond your constancy in exercise, the key is foodFor this reason, he indicated on his Instagram profile that his daily carbohydrate consumption is low.
Their diet is made up of proteins, which are accompanied by several meals a day to avoid the feeling of hunger. His meals include green leafy vegetables, single-ingredient starches, lean red meat, fresh fruit, oily fish, eggs, poultry, nuts, and plenty of water.
Despite his explanation, many were not satisfied, therefore, in 'E! News' it was speculated that the influencer ingested exclusive medicines for people with diabetes. She was told that she ingested semaglutide. Even this hypothesis was handled in one of the responses she received on Instagram.
Khloé's response was categorical: "Let's not discredit my years of working out. Get up five days a week at six to train. Please stop your assumptions." The 38-year-old socialite cleared up all doubt about her impressive physical change by writing her position on the subject.
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Safety Alert from National Propane Gas Association
In Health, Media, Personal Responsibility, Science on May 23, 2008 at 4:59 pm
SAFETY ALERT
INTRODUCTION: Readers of this bulletin should consult the law of their individual jurisdictions for codes, standards and legal requirements applicable to them. This bulletin merely suggests methods which the reader may find useful in implementing applicable codes, standards and legal requirements. This material is not intended nor should it be construed (1) to set forth procedures which are the general custom or practice in the propane industry; (2) to establish the legal standards of care owed by propane distributors to their customers; or (3) to prevent the reader from using different methods to implement applicable codes, standards or legal requirements. The National Propane Gas Association assumes no liability for reliance on the contents of this bulletin. It is offered as a guide only to assist expert and experienced teachers and managers in training in service personnel in their organizations.
The brass valve in a propane cylinder will be damaged if it comes in contact with anhydrous ammonia. This deterioration will lead to cracking of the valve body or its components and can ultimately result in a violent, unexpected expulsion of the valve from the cylinder, causing personal injury or death.
Background and Recommended Action
It has come to the attention of the National Propane Gas Association that propane cylinders are being used in the manufacturing of Methamphetamines. This drug is commonly referred to as 'crank'. Manufacturers of this illegal substance are using propane cylinders for the storage and the use of anhydrous ammonia. These cylinders have been found in many states at cylinder exchange and refilling locations as well as in hotel rooms and mobile laboratories, where the manufacturing of this illegal substance takes place.
As observed in the illustrations, a blue-green stain on any brass portion of a service valve is evidence that it may have been in contact with anhydrous ammonia*. The pungent odor of ammonia on or near the cylinder is also an indication. If you suspect that a propane cylinder contains or has contained anhydrous ammonia, exercise extreme caution and restrict access to the area.
It can be dangerous to move the cylinder due to the unknown integrity of the cylinder's service valve. If you determine that it must be moved, keep in mind that hazards due to valve expulsion can be reduced by pointing the end of the container in which the valve is placed away from yourself and others and towards the most safe direction.
Immediately contact your Fire Department, Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Unit or the nearest office of the United States Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for information on properly disposing of the cylinder. If these respondents are not sure what to do, for assistance call 1-800-728-2482, which is the contact number for PERS, an independent hazardous materials information resource.
*Note: Sherwood valves contain a green coated valve stem. Additionally, a green thread sealing compound is used on some valves. These valves should not be confused with those that have been exposed to anhydrous ammonia.
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Man foregoes snake oil, sells snake vodka instead
In Courts and Justice System, Crime, Drug War, Entertainment, Health, Humor, Law, Law Enforcement, People in the news, Politics, Science, Shine on you crazy diamond on April 1, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I couldn't help but chuckle a bit when I read this. This is such a novelty that I'm quite sure that many people would pay top dollar for it, but not as an ancient Asian elixir. They'd buy it because it's a bottle of vodka with a doggone rattlesnake in it, LOL.
Still, I don't see the harm, as long as the snake's venom doesn't poison people who drink the beverage (though I will also note that later in the story, Bayou Bob admits that "I've honestly never seen a person drink it"). The state doesn't say anything about it possibly poisoning anyone though; they're just upset because he doesn't have a liquor license. So it appears that the state is just worried about getting their cut.
A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an "ancient Asian elixir." But Bayou Bob Popplewell's bright idea appears to have landed him on the wrong side of the law, because he has no liquor license.
Popplewell, who has raised rattlesnakes and turtles at Bayou Bob's Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch for more than two decades, surrendered to authorities Monday. He spent about 10 minutes in jail after the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission obtained arrest warrants on misdemeanor charges of selling alcohol without a license and possessing alcohol with intent to sell.
If convicted, he faces up to a year in jail and $1,000 in fines.
Popplewell said he will fight the charges. His intent, he said, is not to sell an alcoholic beverage but a healing tonic. He said he has customers of Asian descent who believe the concoction has medicinal properties.
"It's almost a spiritual thing," said Popplewell, 63.
But alcohol commission agent Scott Jones pointed out that investigators confiscated 429 bottles of snake vodka and one bottle of snake tequila. At $23 a bottle, that's almost $10,000 worth of reptilian booze.
Even if Popplewell intended his drink be used as a healing tonic — an assertion the alcohol commission disputes — his use of vodka requires a state permit, authorities said.
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"It's sold for beverage purposes, and he knows what he's doing," commission Sgt. Charlie Cloud said.
You can read the rest of this interesting article here.
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What is the government's proper function in child death caused by religious belief?
In Constitutional Rights, Courts and Justice System, Crime, First Amendment, Health, Law, Obituaries, People in the news, Personal Responsibility, Science on April 1, 2008 at 9:17 pm
On Sunday, 11-year-old Madeline Kara Neumann, known as "Kara", died due to diabetic ketoacidosis. While diabetes is a treatable disease, the girl had not seen a doctor, so she had not been diagnosed with diabetes.
Her parents, Leilani and Dale Neumann of Wisconsin, believe that healing is received only through faith, and not through medicine. They therefore did not take Kara to a doctor even though she had been severely ill for days, possibly a week. Instead, they prayed for her.
Authorities were first contacted by the child's aunt in California, who had asked them to check on the child. From ABC News:
"My sister-in-law is, her daughter's severely, severely sick and she believes her daughter is in a coma," [Ariel] Gomez is heard telling the dispatcher in one of the 911 calls released by the sheriff's office. "And, she's very religious, so she's refusing to take [Kara] to the hospital, so I was hoping maybe somebody could go over there."
Gomez asks authorities to send an ambulance, and warns the dispatcher that Leilani Neumann will fight attempts to intervene. "We've been trying to get her to take [Kara] to the hospital for a week, a few days now," Gomez tells the dispatcher.
Before police got to the house, they received a medical emergency call from the Neumanns.
The parents post on the website of a congregation which refuses medical treatment, but the minister said they are not members of that congregation. The parents seem to have their own prayer group, comprised of about eight people. Authorities believe the girl, who was being homeschooled at the time of her death, had been very ill for several days, possibly a week, before her death; and the mother had reported to family members that the girl had slipped into a coma, but they were still refusing to take her to a hospital, believing prayer would heal her.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the girl's parents confirmed that they believe healing comes from God, but said they did not want their child to die, they are not zealots and they do not have anything against doctors.
Dale Neumann, a former police officer, told the AP that he started to perform CPR on his daughter "as soon as the breath of life left."
In the interview, Leilani Neumann said that she is not worried about the police investigation because her family's lives are "in God's hands" and they know that they did the best thing for their daughter that they knew how to do.
You can read the entire ABC News article here.
A similar case occurred earlier this month, when 15-month-old baby Ava Worthington died of bronchial pneumonia and a blood infection, after Carl and Raylene Worthington, her faith healing parents, failed to obtain any medical care for the infant; the illness was exacerbated by a benign cyst on the child's neck which had never been medically treated. The state medical examiner said the infant could have been saved with a simple prescription for antibiotics. The Worthingtons have been criminally charged with manslaughter and criminal mistreatment.
Should parents who believe in faith healing be charged criminally in the death of their child, or should they be protected by the First Amendment? Should the government intervene and take away their other children in such situations, for their safety and protection? Or are these parents within their First Amendment rights to not seek medical care for their children, relying instead on prayer alone, even if their child is obviously dying?
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Gravel announces Libertarian presidential run
In Congress, Global Warming, Guantanamo, Health, Iran, Libertarian Party-US, Politics, Presidential Candidates, Science, Taxation, Torture, US Government, Veterans, War on March 26, 2008 at 4:59 pm
A Personal Message from Mike
March 26th, 2008 by Senator Mike Gravel
I wanted to update you on my latest plans before news gets out. Today, I am announcing my plan to join the Libertarian Party, because the Democratic Party no longer represents my vision for our great country. I wanted my supporters to get this news first, because you have been the ones who have kept my campaign alive since I first declared my candidacy on April 17, 2006.
The fact is, the Democratic Party today is no longer the party of FDR. It is a party that continues to sustain war, the military-industrial complex and imperialism — all of which I find anathema to my views.
By and large, I have been repeatedly marginalized in both national debates and in media exposure by the Democratic leadership, which works in tandem with the corporate interests that control what we read and hear in the media.
I look forward to advancing my presidential candidacy within the Libertarian Party, which is considerably closer to my values, my foreign policy views and my domestic views.
Please take a moment to make your most generous donation to my presidential campaign today. $10, $20, $50 — whatever you feel you can afford.
I want to thank you all for your continued support.
So, what are Gravel's views on the issues? Here are some issue statements from his website:
The War in Iraq Senator Gravel's position on Iraq remains clear and consistent: to commence an immediate and orderly withdrawal of all U.S. troops that will have them home within 120 days. The sooner U.S. troops are withdrawn, the sooner we can pursue aggressive diplomacy to bring an end to the civil war that currently consumes Iraq. Senator Gravel seeks to work with neighboring countries to lead a collective effort to bring peace to Iraq.
One of the leading opponents of the Vietnam War, Senator Gravel was one of the first current or former elected officials to publicly oppose the planned invasion of Iraq in 2002. He appeared on MSNBC prior to the invasion insisting that intelligence showed that there were indeed no weapons of mass destruction, that Iraq posed no threat to the United States and that invading Iraq was against America's national interests and would result in a disaster of epic proportions for both the United States and the Iraqi people.
Today, more than four years into the invasion, the death toll of U.S. troops has climbed over 3,300 with over 50,000 more permanently maimed, some having lost limbs, others their sight. Tens of thousands more are afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and urgently need psychological care. The Iraqi civilian death toll nears three-quarters of a million, and still there remains no end in sight to the bloodshed.
As President, Senator Gravel will call for a U.S. corporate withdrawal from Iraq and hand over reconstruction contracts to Iraqi businesses which will empower Iraqi nationals to reconstruct their own country.
The National Initiative for Democracy Mike fully supports the National Initiative for Democracy. The NI4D is a way to bring legislative power back to the people. In many states, citizens can put measures on the ballot and Mike believes as citizens of the United States we should all have that power.
Iran and Syria Senator Gravel opposes a military confrontation with Iran and Syria and advocates a diplomatic solution to the current situation.
Global Warming/Climate Change Senator Gravel believes that global climate change is a matter of national security and survivability of the plant. As President, he will act swiftly to reduce America's carbon footprint in the world by initiating legislation to tax carbon at the source and cap carbon emissions. he is also committed to leading the fight against global deforestation, which today is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouse gases. However, any legislation will have little impact on the global environment if we do not work together with other global polluters. China, India, and under-developed nations all work together fighting climate change can only be effective if it is a collective global effort. As President, Senator Gravel will see that the U.S. launches and leads a massive global scientific effort, integrating the world's scientific and engineering community, to end energy dependence on oil and integrate the world scientific community in this task.
Progressive Taxes – A fair Tax Senator Gravel's Progressive Fair Tax proposal calls for eliminating the IRS and the income tax and replacing it with a national sales tax on new products and services. To compensate for the tax on necessities, such as food, lodging, transportation and clothing, there would be a "rebate" to reimburse taxpayers. This would be paid in a monthly check from the government to all citizens. The focus on taxing new goods would also help tackle the global climate change problem.
Healthcare Senator Gravel advocates a universal healthcare system that provides equal medical services to all citizens, paid for by a retail sales tax (a portion of the Progressive Fair tax). Citizens would pay nothing for health benefits.
Reproductive Rights Senator Mike Gravel supports a woman's right to decide if and when to have children. He also supports a woman's right to make the difficult decision about abortion without interference by government authorities. Comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education, including accurate information about contraception, can always be provided in order to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions. Parity in health insurance and access to specialized family health care services, including family planning education, would also benefit the health and welfare of infants and children, who need and deserve to be wanted and loved.
Immigration Senator Gravel favors protecting our borders and monitoring the flow of immigrants into our country. He also favors a guest worker program and setting up naturalization procedures that would fairly bring immigrants into legal status. America must address the root cause of illegal immigration. Any discussion of immigration must include NAFTA and the concept of "free trade." The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been a disaster for the working class of both the U.S. and Mexico and a boon to the international corporate interests. A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that over 1 million U.S. jobs were lost as a result of NAFTA, a third of them manufacturing jobs. In Mexico, 1.3 million farm workers lost their jobs in the same period. This has led to a wave of immigrants looking for work in the U.S. Reforming unfair trade policies spawned by measures like NAFTA will stimulate job growth on both sides of the border.
LGBT Rights Senator Gravel supports same-sex marriage and opposes the Defense of Marriage Act. He supports expanding hate-crime legislation and opposes laws that allow discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or one's gender identity or expression. Senator Gravel strongly opposes the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" legislation on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, as it restricts the rights of gay Americans. He opposes any state or national constitutional amendment that restricts the rights of the gay community.
Social Security Senator Gravel wants to put real money, rather than borrowed money, in the Social Security Trust Fund. He advocates investing it properly and identifying the interests of individual beneficiaries so they can know what their retirement fund is and leave surplus funds to heirs.
Education Access to public education is a bedrock American value. Why is it then that the United States ranks 49th in literacy and that an estimated 30% of our students don't graduate from high school? Investing in education provides a pathway to a thriving national economy, to individual and family economic opportunity, and to the reduction of poverty. A successful education system requires the commitment of families, the community, and government. It's time to re-order our national budget priorities in order to improve the American education system. Parent education and access to preschool programs such as Head Start need to be expanded so that children from low income families are equally ready to benefit from elementary school. Universal pre-kindergarten would also enhance readiness. Encouraging our students to be the best they can be will require flexibility from the federal and state governments, within school systems, and from groups with a stake in educational success. Flexibility may mean extended school days and summer learning opportunities or extended school years. It may mean online and broadcast courses to provide access to highly qualified teachers. It may mean charter schools to address the needs of local communities, smaller classes, enrichment programs for students at risk, and vocational options. One thing we know for sure: No Child Left Behind has left too many children behind. It needs to be reformed and adequately funded. It needs to acknowledge the need for a fuller curriculum that encourages critical thinking-not just math and science test-taking. A high school diploma should be the minimum goal for all students; without it, our children will be condemned to a substandard economic existence.
Veteran's Affairs As President, Senator Gravel would ensure that veterans receive full funding for their most important needs, including healthcare that is indexed to the increasing cost of care and medicine. He would make sure that all soldiers receive a full medical diagnosis to assess what their individual needs would be. He would also make sure that the VA system is fully financed and has sufficient well-trained personnel to provide the finest care that is available. As the Senator says, "We can do no less and we will do much more." Mike Gravel is the only military veteran in the democratic race.
The War on Drugs The War on Drugs has been a failure. It is time to end prohibition and start treating addiction as a public health problem. This has ravaged our inner cities, and we are losing an entire generation of men and women to prisons. We must regulate hard drugs for the purpose of treating addicts, which would emphasize rehabilitation and prevention over incarceration. We must decriminalize minor drug offenses and increase the availability and visibility of substance abuse treatment in our communities as well as in jails and prisons. The United States incarcerates more people and at a higher rate than any other industrialized nation in the world. Some 2.3 million Americans are now behind bars. This tragedy must end.
Net Neutrality Net Neutrality aims to keep the Internet free from large companies, which are trying to limit the number of web sites their customers can view and the speed at which they can view them. Senator Gravel guarantees a free and open Internet with unlimited access to all sites. He will do this by supporting legislation and regulation that keeps you in control of your Internet usage and promotes free speech.
Human Rights Senator Gravel is adamantly opposed to torture, indefinite detention, and the deprivation of lawyers/speedy trials. He opposes the Military Commissions Act, flagrant ignorance of the Geneva convention, and Guantanamo.
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Cops Gone Wild: Vehicular Manslaughter Edition
In Cops Gone Wild, Corruption, Crazy Claims, Crime, Health, Law, Law Enforcement, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Local Politics, Media, Obituaries, People in the news, Personal Responsibility, Police Brutality, Politics, Science on March 15, 2008 at 4:08 am
In Ironton, Ohio last night, a pedestrian was hit and killed by a police cruiser, driven by a cop on his way to work. Unbelievably, the cruiser dragged the man for blocks, and the cop allegedly didn't even realize he was dragging a human underneath his cruiser. In fact, he dragged the man all the way to the police station, over a half a mile away!
I don't buy that "I didn't know I'd hit someone" story at all. If a driver hit a dog, they'd know it, and they'd know if they were dragging the dog because there would be noise and bumps involved. Given that a human is much bigger than a dog, how much more would someone realize they were dragging a human?
I suspect the cop was hoping the guy's body would disengage from the cruiser, and then he could be the first on the scene, blaming someone else for the death.
The victim, Guy Thomas, age 46, was a block away from home when the accident occurred. His family found his shoe and his wallet two blocks away from the point of impact. The family has still not been contacted by the police, which makes me think the cops are circling the wagons already. At the very least, the Police Chief should have gone to the family's house, apologized and offered his condolences, and assured them that all steps will be taken to get to the bottom of it. The police have asked the Ohio Bureau of Investigation to become involved, which is a positive, but at the same time, how can they not contact the family? How can they even make a positive identification without contacting the family, when the man's wallet was found elsewhere?
Even if it was an accident, which is altogether possible, it does not excuse the actions of the police following the incident. If your car hits and kills someone, chances are you're going to be arrested. The cop in question has been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.
However, if a citizen hit and killed someone and dragged their body for blocks, do you think the cops would believe them if they said they didn't know they'd hit someone? No way would that story be believed, and the driver would be booked and charged with vehicular homicide or vehicular manslaughter, as well as hit and run and leaving the scene of an accident.
This cop should be treated like anyone else would be treated under the same circumstances. He should be arrested, not just placed on administrative leave. That he hasn't been arrested is outrageous.
You can read more about this – some of the comments are quite interesting – on WSAZ.
UPDATE 3/10 @ 3 pm: Police have confirmed that the victim is Guy Thomas, and that he was found dead beneath the cruiser's rear bumper; and that the officer who hit him is 27-year-old Patrolman Richard Fouts. Fouts has been with the police department for only two months. He has been placed on administrative leave with pay.
Why isn't the cop being charged criminally for leaving the scene of an accident, and hit and run, along with vehicular manslaughter? Do you really think that if you or I ran over someone, then dragged them for over a half mile under our car, that we wouldn't be arrested when we tried to claim that we didn't know we did that?
The police say they are waiting to find out if Mr. Thomas was dead before he was hit by the police car. Does that really matter at this point, other than giving the cops an excuse to cover for the cop who committed a horrible, incomprehensible crime?
To believe that, one would have to believe that Mr. Thomas was seen alive just moments before he was hit, yet he suddenly died, fell in the middle of the road, and was hit by a cop who then cluelessly dragged his dead body for over a half mile.
Whoever came up with that one should be writing fiction for a living. Even if Mr. Thomas was dead when he was hit, it does not excuse the officer lying about whether he knew that he hit a human and was dragging a human body underneath his car; he had to have known that. That cop still committed a crime, either way. He committed hit and run and leaving the scene of an accident, both of which are criminal charges.
Put that cop in jail, or at the very least suspend him without pay while the investigation is ongoing. The level of disparate prosecution in this case is shocking.
Originally posted on Adventures In Frickintardistan
Alden Link, atmospheric carbon dioxide, british thermal units, BTU, candidate, Elections '08, electric generating facility, energy independence, gallons, gasoline, hydrogen, import, Libertarian, Libertarian Party-US, motor fuel, non-polluting, nuclear power, nuclear power plants, oil, oil dependence, petroleum, Politics, pollution, POTUS '08, presidential candidate, recycle, Science, technology, United States, water, watts
Is it just me, or does this not make sense?
In Libertarian, Libertarian Party-US, Politics, Science on March 15, 2008 at 3:38 am
Alden Link is a Libertarian candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination. He's an older gentleman, and his main emphasis seems to be on nuclear power. He claims that nuclear power plants can produce enough gasoline to end our dependence upon foreign oil.I'm no scientist, but I don't understand how nuclear power plants can produce gasoline. Perhaps someone reading this can explain if the following is possible:
A nuclear power plant has the energy to produce about 15 thousand barrels of gasoline a day.
Given the following equivalents:
• 1 watt equals 3.4 british thermal units (BTU)
• 1 nuclear power plant produces 1,000,000,000 watts
• 1 barrel of gasoline contains 42 gallons
• 1 gallon of gasoline is equal to 125,000 btu
• 1 day has 24 hours
1) 1,000,000,000 watts / hour x 3.4 btu = 3,400,000,000 btu/hour
2) 3,400,000,000 btu/hour divided by 125,000 btu/gallon =27,200 gallons per hour
3) 27,200 gals./hour divided by 42 gallons per barrel = 647 barrels/hour
4) 647 barrels per hour x 24 hours = 15,542 barrels of gasoline per day
The raw materials needed for this process are carbon from recycled atmospheric carbon dioxide and hydrogen from water. This process is therefore non polluting and actually cleans the air
The United States imports about 13,000,000 barrels of oil per day. Some of it is used to run electric generating facilities. Most is used as motor fuels.
If the US builds 900 nuclear power plants for converting energy to fuel we would be energy independent. and not need ANY imported oil. More power plants than that and we could export petroleum products.
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Government admits that the living dead are real
In Corruption, Crazy Claims, Health, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Obituaries, Politics, Science, Social Security Administration, US Government on March 8, 2008 at 10:02 pm
If you have ever had to deal with the federal government's bureaucracy, you can only imagine how hard it would be to prove to the government that you actually are alive if their records reflect that you are dead. After all, just showing up at the Social Security Administration isn't going to do it. Given that, how exactly does someone prove to the satisfaction of the government that they aren't dead, when they're dealing with brain-dead government employees who simply believe whatever their computer screen tells them?Yet, a shocking number of Americans have to find this out the hard way; by at least one official estimate, the government incorrectly declares 35 Americans dead every single day.
The problem begins at the Social Security Administration, keeper of most of the records tabulating deaths in the United States. Like other government agencies, the IRS, with whom Todd has most recently tangled, relies upon Social Security's database, said Dan Boone, a spokesman for the IRS.
When Social Security determines that an eligible current or future beneficiary has died, it closes the person's entry in its Case Processing and Management System, or CPMS.
The system is only as good as the data it receives. Sometimes, that isn't very good.
Todd, for example, was killed when someone in Florida died and her Social Security number was accidentally typed in. Since then, her tax returns have repeatedly been rejected, and her bank closed her credit card account.
"One time when I [was] ruled dead, they canceled my health insurance because it got that far," she said.
Toni Anderson of Muncie, Ind., expired when someone in the government pushed the wrong button, making the records declare that it was she, not her husband, John, who died Nov. 8.
Social Security even sent this letter: "Dear Mr. Anderson, our condolences on the loss of Mrs. Anderson."
In September 2006, the inspector general's office tried to get a fix on how many people Social Security was improperly killing off by reviewing updates to the agency's Death Master File.
In all, Social Security officials had to "resurrect" 23,366 people from January 2004 to September 2005. In other words, over a period of 21 months, Social Security was presented with irrefutable evidence that it had been "killing" more than 1,100 people a month, or more than 35 a day.
Two months later, in November 2006, the inspector general looked specifically at 251 cases of people to whom the agency continued to issue checks even though Medicare records said they were dead.
"Of the 251 individuals in our population, 86 are deceased and their SSI payments should be terminated," the audit said. "The remaining 165 beneficiaries were actually alive and their Medicare benefits—and, in some cases, their SSI payments—were incorrectly terminated."
Read this entire article here.
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"Mind-reading computer" raises ethical questions
In Big Brother, Crime, Police State, Science on January 16, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Crime investigators always have their ears open for information only a perpetrator could know—where a gun used in a murder was stashed, perhaps, or what wounds a stabbing inflicted. So imagine a detective asking a suspect about a killing, describing the crime scene to get the suspect to visualize the attack. The detective is careful not to mention the murder weapon. Once the suspect has conjured up the scene, the detective asks him to envision the weapon. Pay dirt: his pattern of brain activity screams "hammer" as loud and clear as if he had blurted it out.
Read the rest on Newsweek.
Christianity, Complete Stupidity, Constitutional Rights, Democracy, Republican, Science
Texas wants to teach you about marriage
In Constitutional Rights, Democracy, Republican, Science on April 12, 2007 at 11:53 am
That, or you can pay them $100, an increase from the previous $30 marriage license fee. From the Dallas Morning News:
A bill by Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, raises the cost of marriage licenses from $30 to $100 and requires engaged couples to take an eight-hour class on marriage if they don't want to pay the fee. Poor couples can apply for a scholarship to the class.
Now, I'm sure the State would prefer the $70, but if not, you can take this nice class, which also isn't free.
While Googling Rep. Chisum to see if he had any connections with the proprietors of this class, I found this memo, which he sent out on February 9th. I wish I was making this up:
Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called "secular evolution science" is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternative "creation scenario" of the Pharisee religion. This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic "holy book" Kabbala dating back at least two millennia. (emphasis his)
So since evolution is a Jewish conspiracy, it clearly violates the Establishment Clause to teach it in public schools. The evidence for this is contained in links to fixedearth.com In other words, CRAZYTIME.
I've already emailed the Gray County, Texas LP about this memo, so that they can use it against Chisum in 2008.
Military, Science
France does something pretty cool.
In Military, Science on March 25, 2007 at 3:46 pm
They're opening up their files on UFOs.
It's really anyone's guess what the truth is about aliens, but I'm glad to see at least one government opening up their files. Not really a huge deal, but it'd be cool if America did the same.
Traffic is crushing on the French government UFO site, but if you care to wait the URL is here.
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I can't believe I'm reading this shit.
In Corruption, Democracy, Health, Nanny State, Police State, Politics, Science on March 16, 2007 at 1:45 pm
His Excellency Yahya Jammeh, President of the Gambia by right of tainted elections and really big guns, discovered a cure to AIDS in a dream and has begun administering it.
Why didn't we think of that? All this time, President Bush could've just thrown some herbs together, guided by his ancestors, and cured AIDS forever. Dammit Bush, why didn't you dream up a cure to AIDS? Why can't you be as cool as His Excellency Yahya Jammeh, President of the Gambia by right of complete fucking stupidity?
Just think of all the money we've wasted on "science" and "medicine" when all it took to cure AIDS was some goddamn fucking herbs and testicles the size of minor asteroids. Well shucks, we sure are silly. Read the rest of this entry »
Environment, Global Warming, Science, Socialism
Wake Up and Smell the Hysteria
In Environment, Global Warming, Science, Socialism on March 11, 2007 at 5:20 pm
I preface this by saying that I consider myself an environmentalist. I see crap in streams, smell what comes out the end of cars, and it annoys me. I also believe the free market to be the best solution to this. Then I see the crap spewing out of the faces of those who latch onto anything they can to justify their hate for development, growth, and freedom. This documentary is interesting and probably different from anything you've seen before on the subject, especially if you're an anthropogenic global warming fence-sitter like me.
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God bless public schools.
In Humor, Politics, Science on February 7, 2007 at 2:48 am
This is called "I'm too lazy to surf CNN to find something to get pissed about so help yourselves to my porn stash My Pictures folder instead."
NASA, Politics, Science
NASA might have accidentally killed tiny Martians.
In Politics, Science on January 8, 2007 at 8:30 pm
You can't make this shit up.
Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing.
The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn't recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University said.
In the 1970s, the Viking mission found no signs of life.
But it was looking for Earth-like life, in which salt water is the internal liquid of living cells.
Given the cold dry conditions of Mars, life could have evolved on Mars with the key internal fluid consisting of a mix of water and hydrogen peroxide, said Schulze-Makuch.
That's because a water-hydrogen peroxide mix stays liquid at very low temperatures, or -68 degrees Fahrenheit, and doesn't destroy cells when it freezes. It can suck water vapor out of the air.
The Viking experiments of the 1970s wouldn't have noticed hydrogen peroxide-based life and, in fact, would have killed it by drowning and overheating the microbes, said Schulze-Makuch.


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Q: merge array in to objects into MongoDB Explanation: I have to arrays TV  and values  I want to merge as one array in side the object. TV_values will be the output as one array.
{
   "TV":[
      {
         "T":"2018-05-05T09:00:00.000Z",
         "V":1.3
      },
      {
         "T":"2018-05-05T09:00:00.000Z",
         "V":2.21
      }
   ],
   "values":[
      100,
      200
   ]
}

Expected output document
{
   "TV_values":[
      {
         "T":"2018-05-05T09:00:00.000Z",
         "date":2018-05-05,
         "hour": 09,
         "V":1.3,
         "values":100
      },
      {
         "T":"2018-05-05T09:00:00.000Z",
         "date":2018-05-05,
         "hour": 09,
         "V":2.21,
         "values":200
      }
   ]
}

A: Solution using map on indexes.
$map on range of count (map on indexes), takes elements of both arrays and merge them. (requires same size of TV and VALUES)
It ignores the V field, merge by indexes TV index 0 with Value index 0,TV index 1 with Value index 1 , i guess this is what you wanted.
Test code here
db.collection.aggregate([
  {
    "$project": {
      "TV_VALUES": {
        "$map": {
          "input": {
            "$range": [0,{"$size": "$TV"}]
          },
          "as": "i",
          "in": {
            "$let": {
              "vars": {
                "tv": {"$arrayElemAt": ["$TV","$$i"]
                }
              },
              "in": {
                "$mergeObjects": [
                  "$$tv",
                  {
                    "date": {
                      "$dateToString": {
                        "date": {"$toDate": "$$tv.T"},
                        "format": "%Y-%m-%d"
                      }
                    },
                    "hour": {"$hour": {"$toDate": "$$tv.T"}}
                  },
                  {
                    "values": {
                      "$arrayElemAt": ["$values","$$i"]
                    }
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
])

A: You can use this aggregation query:

*

*First $unwind to deconstruct the array.

*Then set each value according to the index - 1 from the V position. (V 1 is index 0 (position 1 in the array) and V 2 is index 1)

*And regroup again to get the final object.

db.collection.aggregate([
  {
    "$unwind": "$TV"
  },
  {
    "$set": {
      "TV.values": {
        "$arrayElemAt": [
          "$values",
          {
            "$subtract": [
              "$TV.V",
              1
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "$group": {
      "_id": "$_id",
      "TV": {
        "$push": "$TV"
      }
    }
  }
])

Example here

A: *

*$map to iterate loop of TV array

*$indexOfArray to get index of current element from TV array

*$arrayElemAt to get specific index element from values array

*$toDate to convert string date to date type

*$dateToSting to get formated date

*$hour to get hour from T date

*$mergeObjects merge current object properties with new values` property

db.collection.aggregate([
  {
    $project: {
      "TV_values": {
        $map: {
          input: "$TV",
          in: {
            $mergeObjects: [
              "$$this",
              {
                hour: { $hour: { $toDate: "$$this.T" } },
                date: {
                  $dateToString: {
                    date: { $toDate: "$$this.T" },
                    format: "%Y-%m-%d"
                  }
                },
                values: {
                  $arrayElemAt: [
                    "$values",
                    { $indexOfArray: ["$TV.V", "$$this.V"] }
                  ]
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
])

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Speaking at the rally, Mutharika said his government has developed the country beyond reasonable doubt and for such developments to continue DPP has to continue ruling for the next five years.
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Places → North America → United States
What percentage of the United States' population is living in poverty?
by Halskiisaklink 3 hours ago
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http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html Has alot of Data on Poverty in the USA.
A LOT IF YOU LOOK AT BRITISH PEOPLE THAY LOOK BETTER THAN AMERICANS
Morkin
OK, now that we have the answer to that prickly question sewn up, what are we going to do about it? I vote we sit back, enjoy what we've got and do nothing!
-O-uknow
In America no internet is poverty.
Is the United States in violation of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? If so, in what ways?
Is the United States of America the richest country in the world?
What do you love about the United States of America?
Inflation in Venezuela is expected to hit 1,000,000 %. 90% of the population is in poverty.
Everyone is saying that the rest of the world hates the United States of America... ...Why does the rest of the world hate the United States?
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How many towns are in the United States?
How many of the United States have you visited?
What percentage of land in the United States is developed (both including and excluding Alaska)?
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Paul Kennedy, and distinguished practitioner Charlie Hill. Several graduates of that program have gone on to positions of responsibility in the Clinton, Bush, and now Obama administrations. Some of them might even lurking here in Shadow Government.
I am starting a similar program at Duke and I find it is an excellent way to bridge theory and practice. Grand Strategy begins with theory: leaders' theories about how the world works and what is or ought to be their states' roles in that world. Yet it is embodied inpolicy and practice: government action and reaction in response to real (or perceived) threats and opportunities. Grand strategy may be born in debates at the highest levels of national power, but it lives or dies in the collaborative action of myriad junior officials.
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Such students would be well-equipped to subject the Sanger review of Obama's grand strategy to some critical scrutiny of its own. Such students would ask Sanger to consider the numerous continuities in the Obama foreign policy thus far, such as in terrorism policies or Iraq — continuities that are obscured to the casual observer because of the changed rhetoric but do not fool those who have eyes to see. The students would also press Sanger to distinguish more carefully between the optics and the operations of Obama's grand strategy.
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Video of former President Donald Trump backing the COVID shot in an interview with TV host Candace Owens, who has been repeatedly accused of peddling vaccine misinformation, has gone viral.
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Conservative host Candace Owens (left) interviewed ex-President Donald Trump about COVID vaccines. Trump told the vaccination skeptic that « vaccines work. »
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Q: Unable to deliver attributes from JASIG CAS 3.5 using SAML 1.1 I am trying to configure a JASIG CAS 3.5 server to release attributes via SAML 1.1 as described here.  Unfortulately, nothing I do seems to make it release them to my test application.
CAS Server Configuration
I started by using the StubPersonAttributeDao that appears in the default configuration (DeployerConfigContext.xml).  My later attempts to set up a JDBC version did not produce any better results.
<bean id="attributeRepository"
        class="org.jasig.services.persondir.support.StubPersonAttributeDao">
        <property name="backingMap">
                <map>
                        <entry key="uid" value="uid" />
                        <entry key="eduPersonAffiliation" value="eduPersonAffiliation" />
                        <entry key="groupMembership" value="groupMembership" />
                </map>
        </property>
</bean>

I made sure that my test application was authorized to use CAS and that the attributes were allowed to it.
<bean
        id="serviceRegistryDao"
        class="org.jasig.cas.services.InMemoryServiceRegistryDaoImpl">
    <property name="registeredServices">
        <list>
            <!-- MIS Developers -->
            <bean class="org.jasig.cas.services.RegexRegisteredService">
                <property name="id" value="6" />
                <property name="name" value="Grails run-app" />
                <property name="description" value="JCC Developers can use this from any PC within the jccadmin domain." />
                <property name="serviceId" value="http://.*.my.domain:8080/.*" />
                <property name="evaluationOrder" value="6" />
                <property name="allowedAttributes">
                  <list>
                    <value>uid</value>
                    <value>eduPersonAffiliation</value>
                    <value>groupMembership</value>
                  </list>
                </property>
            </bean>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

The attributes are highlighted when you look at them in the CAS services application.
The Tests
In order to learn whether my attributes were actually working, I created a CAS testing application by using Gradle and the Jetty plugin to give flesh to the sample code on the JASIG website.  My application authenticates to the server and then makes a SAML 1.1 request to get the attributes.
I have verified that it is making the correct SAML request.
https://my.test.server/cas/samlValidate?TARGET=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.local.machine%3A8080%2Fcas_tester%2F
It receives the following response from my CAS server.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Header/>
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <Response xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol"
              xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion"
              xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol"
              xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
              IssueInstant="2017-02-01T14:40:35.328Z"
              MajorVersion="1"
              MinorVersion="1"
              Recipient="http://my.local.machine:8080/cas_tester/"
              ResponseID="_a0df351b1081dafe599829f406be79f5">
      <Status>
        <StatusCode Value="samlp:Success">
        </StatusCode>
      </Status>
      <Assertion xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion"
                 AssertionID="_988118abbd06485ab7f1eb684639ce38"
                 IssueInstant="2017-02-01T14:40:35.328Z"
                 Issuer="localhost"
                 MajorVersion="1"
                 MinorVersion="1">
        <Conditions NotBefore="2017-02-01T14:40:35.328Z"
                    NotOnOrAfter="2017-02-01T14:41:05.328Z">
          <AudienceRestrictionCondition>
            <Audience>http://my.local.machine:8080/cas_tester/</Audience>
          </AudienceRestrictionCondition>
        </Conditions>
        <AuthenticationStatement AuthenticationInstant="2017-02-01T14:40:34.312Z"
                                 AuthenticationMethod="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:unspecified">
          <Subject>
            <NameIdentifier>coleew01</NameIdentifier>
            <SubjectConfirmation>
              <ConfirmationMethod>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:cm:artifact</ConfirmationMethod>
            </SubjectConfirmation>
          </Subject>
        </AuthenticationStatement>
      </Assertion>
    </Response>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

No matter what I do, it doesn't show any attributes in the response.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help you can give me.

A: It turns out that the problem was far away from the attribute configuration.  In my credentialsToPrincipalResolvers bean, there was no reference to the attribute resolver.
<property name="credentialsToPrincipalResolvers">
        <list>
                <!--
                        | UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver supports the UsernamePasswordCredentials that we use for /login
                        | by default and produces SimplePrincipal instances conveying the username from the credentials.
                        |
                        | If you've changed your LoginFormAction to use credentials other than UsernamePasswordCredentials then you will also
                        | need to change this bean declaration (or add additional declarations) to declare a CredentialsToPrincipalResolver that supports the
                        | Credentials you are using.
                        +-->
                <bean
                        class="org.jasig.cas.authentication.principal.UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver"/>
                <!--
                        | HttpBasedServiceCredentialsToPrincipalResolver supports HttpBasedCredentials.  It supports the CAS 2.0 approach of
                        | authenticating services by SSL callback, extracting the callback URL from the Credentials and representing it as a
                        | SimpleService identified by that callback URL.
                        |
                        | If you are representing services by something more or other than an HTTPS URL whereat they are able to
                        | receive a proxy callback, you will need to change this bean declaration (or add additional declarations).
                        +-->
                <bean
                        class="org.jasig.cas.authentication.principal.HttpBasedServiceCredentialsToPrincipalResolver" />
        </list>
</property>

I put a reference to the attributeRepository into the bean for the UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver.
<bean
        class="org.jasig.cas.authentication.principal.UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver" >
    <property name="attributeRepository">
       <ref bean="attributeRepository"/>
    </property>
</bean>

And then my attributes came through.  Deo gratias!


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New single "So Yours" out in Europe in March
The closer we get to the release of Darin's new album Exit, the more surprises we get.
On February 22nd a new single called So Yours is out in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It's totally different from Playing With Fire, its beats have nothing to do with club music. It's more of a mixture of pop and rock, quite similar to One Direction's music style. And it's not included in the tracklist of the new album which is out on January 30th across Scandinavia.
The single is going to be released all over Europe in March as well and might be the first single from an international version of Exit or maybe a brand new album for the international market.
German fans can pre-order the single now on Amazon.
You can stream the full lenght version of the song right below, released on YouTube from Darin's German label.
Amazon Europe Exit So Yours
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And in addition he sings well.
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