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Duke Cancer Institute Clinical Research Fellowship
Closes: March 1, 2023
Duke Cancer Institute is pleased to accept applications for the DIRECT program. DIRECT is a 12-month applied cancer training program for recent minority university graduates with an interest in entering the cancer research workforce. The program will focus on experiential learning and mentoring in the following key areas:
Our vision is to create a cancer research workforce that is diverse, innovative, and impactful.
DIRECT Program Goal: To build a robust, sustainable, and replicable program that eliminates barriers for minority trainees and promotes equity in the cancer research workforce by providing mentoring and training focused on cancer research, professional development, and science communication.
Program Components:
Research experience & critical thinking. Fellows will engage in mentored, applied research experiences to prepare for rigorous scientific research at the graduate level
Professional Development. Fellows will receive training in networking, career development, and peer mentoring
Science Communication. Fellows will be mentored in scientific writing, peer-reviewed publications, and presentation at scientific conferences
DIRECT Program Eligibility Criteria:
Candidates must have a record of superior academic achievement (e.g., grade point average, honors, or other designation), have received a bachelor's degree by June 2023, AND meet one or more of the following criteria:
Come from a background that is underrepresented in graduate study in your discipline
Have demonstrated a sustained commitment to diversity through work experience, volunteer engagement, or leadership of student or community organizations. A commitment to diversity may include efforts to reduce health, social, educational or economic disparities by race, ethnicity or gender
Have experienced financial hardship as a result of family economic circumstances
Be a first-generation U.S. citizen or first generation in your family to graduate from a four-year college
Stipend and Benefits:
DIRECT provides a full-time, 12-month experiential learning program in cancer research. Fellows will be employed at Duke University as Research Interns and receive a monthly stipend with full medical benefits. Anticipated program Start Date: July 17, 2023.
Our mentor team consists of cancer researchers with specific expertise in providing mentored research experiences and career development training for undergraduate and graduate students. Mentors include:
Dr. Tomi Akinyemiju, Associate Professor, Dept of Population Health Sciences and Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. Meira Epplein, Associate Professor, Dept of Population Health Sciences and Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. Jason Somarelli, Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine and Duke Cancer Institute
Apply here and upload the following documents to this application:
Most recent official or unofficial college transcript
Diversity statement – this one-page document should provide a description of how your past efforts and current interests will contribute to a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Duke
Letter of interest – this one-page document should describe your interest in cancer research and how further training and mentoring can help you achieve your career goals in this area
Name and email address of one reference
Deadline for application is March 1, 2023. Please have these documents available as they must be uploaded at the time of the application.
About Duke University School of Medicine
Established in 1930, Duke University School of Medicine is the youngest of the nation's top medical schools. Ranked tenth among its peers, the School takes pride in being an inclusive community of outstanding learners, investigators, clinicians, and staff where traditional barriers are low, interdisciplinary collaboration is embraced, and great ideas accelerate translation of fundamental scientific discoveries to improve human health locally and around the globe.
Comprised of 2,400 faculty physicians and researchers, the Duke University School of Medicine along with the Duke University School of Nursing and Duke University Health System create Duke Health. Duke Health is a world-class health care network. Founded in 1998 to provide efficient, responsive care, the health system offers a full network of health services and encompasses Duke University Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Primary Care, Private Diagnostic Clinic, Duke Home and Hospice, Duke Health and Wellness, and multiple affiliations.
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The Australian Curriculum informs both what we teach and how can we approach curriculum in Years Reception - 10 in all Learning Areas. Our Religious Education program from R-12 is based on the Crossways Framework which has been developed by Catholic Education South Australia. Our cross-curriculum, teaching and learning practices are also informed by The Child Protection Curriculum and the Made in the Image of God (MITIOG) Framework, and initiatives at Federal and Sector levels respectively, which support students in learning about themselves and their world throughout a variety of subjects and approaches.
Teachers plan learning experiences from these areas which enables students to gain diversity in experience of achievements at each respective year, and also prepare for future study. As such, learning opportunities are designed to meet the developmental needs of students to equip them with the skills and knowledge to make informed choices about the culmination of their schooling in Years 11 and 12: the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE).
There are five classes of Year 10 which are overseen by the Year 10 Coordinator and five classes each of Year 11 and 12 overseen by the Senior School Director.
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NASA's Mars rover shares amazing images of rocky landscape
By Trevor Mogg June 16, 2022
NASA's Mars rover, Perseverance, has shared some remarkable images of different rock formations at its next exploration site.
The rocks are located in the area of an ancient river delta inside Jezero Crater that scientists believe has the best chance of containing evidence of any past microbial life on the red planet.
In a message posted on Perseverance's Twitter account, the rover said there were "tons of potential targets for study," describing its surroundings as "a paradise for rock nerds like myself."
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One particularly striking image (above) appears to show a bolder perched atop a larger rock, while others show in great detail various layered rock formations.
I mean, take a look at some of these close-ups. Tons of potential targets for study. Paradise for rock nerds like myself. pic.twitter.com/0uEHHVvZds
— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) June 16, 2022
According to the Perseverance team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, the delta comprises an enormous fan-shaped assortment of rocks and sediment that formed at the meeting point of a river and a crater lake billions of years ago.
It said the delta was the primary reason why the team landed Perseverance in the Jezero Crater last year.
"It has so many interesting features," said Ken Farley of the California Institute of Technology, which is also involved in the current Mars rover mission. "We will look for signs of ancient life in the rocks at the base of the delta, rocks that we think were once mud on the bottom of Lake Jezero."
Higher up the delta, Perseverance will be directed to examine sand and rock fragments that came from upstream, possibly from places miles away that the rover will never explore. "We can take advantage of an ancient Martian river that brought the planet's geological secrets to us," Farley said.
Perseverance has already collected martian soil from other areas of interest, and during its exploration of the delta it's expected to gather an additional eight samples. The material will be returned to Earth in another mission, enabling scientists to use powerful laboratory equipment to confirm whether life once existed on the distant planet.
"The delta at Jezero Crater promises to be a veritable geologic feast and one of the best locations on Mars to look for signs of past microscopic life," said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "The answers are out there — and Team Perseverance is ready to find them."
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1 :: If you do not want your program to halt while it waits for a connection, put the call to accept( ) in a separate thread?
If you don't want your program to halt while it waits for a connection, put the call to accept( ) in a separate thread.
out.write("You've connected to this server.
2 :: Public ServerSocket(int port, int queueLength) throws IOException, BindException?
This constructor creates a ServerSocket on the specified port with a queue length of your choosing. If the machine has multiple network interfaces or IP addresses, then it listens on this port on all those interfaces and IP addresses. The queueLength argument sets the length of the queue for incoming connection requests--that is, how many incoming connections can be stored at one time before the host starts refusing connections. Some operating systems have a maximum queue length, typically five. If you try to expand the queue past that maximum number, the maximum queue length is used instead. If you pass 0 for the port number, the system selects an available port.
The constructor throws an IOException (specifically, a BindException) if the socket cannot be created and bound to the requested port. An IOException when creating a ServerSocket almost always means one of two things. Either the specified port is already in use, or you do not have root privileges on Unix and you're trying to connect to a port from 1 to 1,023.
3 :: Explain Look for Local Ports?
There is a server on port 1026.
There is a server on port 1028.
4 :: To create a Socket, you need to know the Internet host to which you want to connect?
To create a Socket, you need to know the Internet host to which you want to connect. When you're writing a server, you don't know in advance who will contact you, and even if you did, you wouldn't know when that host wanted to contact you. In other words, servers are like receptionists who sit by the phone and wait for incoming calls. They don't know who will call or when, only that when the phone rings, they have to pick it up and talk to whoever is there. We can't program that behavior with the Socket class alone. Granted, there's no reason that clients written in Java have to talk to Java servers--in fact, a client doesn't care what language the server was written in or what platform it runs on. However, if Java didn't let us write servers, there would be a glaring hole in its capabilities.
Fortunately, there's no such hole. Java provides a ServerSocket class to allow programmers to write servers. Basically, a server socket's job is to sit by the phone and wait for incoming calls. More technically, a ServerSocket runs on the server and listens for incoming TCP connections. Each ServerSocket listens on a particular port on the server machine. When a client Socket on a remote host attempts to connect to that port, the server wakes up, negotiates the connection between the client and the server, and opens a regular Socket between the two hosts. In other words, server sockets wait for connections while client sockets initiate connections. Once the server socket has set up the connection, the server uses a regular Socket object to send data to the client. Data always travels over the regular socket.
The ServerSocket class contains everything you need to write servers in Java. It has constructors that create new ServerSocket objects, methods that listen for connections on a specified port, and methods that return a Socket object when a connection is made so that you can send and receive data. In addition, it has methods to set various options and the usual miscellaneous methods such as toString( ).
1. A new ServerSocket is created on a particular port using a ServerSocket( ) constructor.
2. The ServerSocket listens for incoming connection attempts on that port using its accept( ) method. accept( ) blocks until a client attempts to make a connection, at which point accept( ) returns a Socket object connecting the client and the server.
3. Depending on the type of server, either the Socket's getInputStream( ) method, getOutputStream( ) method, or both are called to get input and output streams that communicate with the client.
4. The server and the client interact according to an agreed-upon protocol until it is time to close the connection.
5. The server, the client, or both close the connection.
6. The server returns to step 2 and waits for the next connection.
5 :: Explain A Daytime Server?
Example is straightforward. The first three lines import the usual packages, java.io and java.net, as well as java.util.Date so we can get the time. There is a single public final static int field (i.e., a constant) in the class DEFAULT_PORT, which is set to the well-known port for a daytime server (port 13). The class has a single method, main( ), which does all the work. If the port is specified on the command-line, then it's read from args. Otherwise, the default port is used.
The outer try block traps any IOExceptions that may arise while the ServerSocket server is constructed on the daytime port or when it accepts connections. The inner try block watches for exceptions thrown while the connections are accepted and processed. The accept( ) method is called within an infinite loop to watch for new connections; like many servers, this program never terminates but continues listening until an exception is thrown or you stop it manually.
When a client makes a connection, accept( ) returns a Socket, which is stored in the local variable connection, and the program continues. We call getOutputStream( ) to get the output stream associated with that Socket and then chain that output stream to a new OutputStreamWriter, out. To get the current date, we construct a new Date object and send it to the client by writing its string representation on out with write( ).
Finally, after the data is sent or an exception has been thrown, we close connection inside the finally block. Always close a socket when you're finished with it. In the previous chapter, we said that a client shouldn't rely on the other side of a connection to close the socket. That goes triple for servers. Clients can time out or crash; users can cancel transactions; networks can go down in high-traffic periods. For any of these or a dozen more reasons, you cannot rely on clients to close sockets, even when the protocol requires them to (which it doesn't in this case).
6 :: Explain A Time Server?
Sending binary, nontext data is not significantly harder. Example demonstrates with a time server. This follows the time protocol outlined in RFC 868. When a client connects, the server sends a 4-byte, big-endian, unsigned integer specifying the number of seconds that have passed since 12:00 A.M., January 1, 1900 GMT (the epoch). The current time can be retrieved simply by creating a new Date object. However, since the Date class counts milliseconds since 12:00 A.M., January 1, 1970 GMT rather than seconds since 12:00 A.M., January 1, 1900 GMT, some conversion is necessary.
As with the TimeClient of the previous chapter, most of the effort here goes into working with a data format (32-bit unsigned integers) that Java doesn't natively support.
7 :: What you know about Random Port?
System.out.println("This server runs on port "
The only socket option supported for server sockets is SO_TIMEOUT. SO_TIMEOUT is the amount of time, in milliseconds, that accept( ) waits for an incoming connection before throwing a java.io.InterruptedIOException. If SO_TIMEOUT is 0, then accept( ) will never time out. The default is to never time out.
System.out.println(server + " will time out after "
System.out.println("Impossible condition occurred in "
8 :: What is a Client Tester?
Example is a program called ClientTester that runs on a port specified on thecommand-line, shows all data sent by the client, and allows you to send a response to the client by typing it on the command line. For example, you can use this program to see the commands that Netscape Navigator sends to a server.
NOTE: Clients are rarely as forgiving about unexpected server responses as servers are about unexpected client responses. If at all possible, try to run the clients that connect to this program on a Unix system or some other platform that is moderately crash-proof. Don't run them on a Mac or Windows 98, which are less stable.
This program uses two threads: one to handle input from the client and the other to send output from the server. Using two threads allows the program to handle input and output simultaneously: it can be sending a response to the client while receiving a request--or, more to the point, it can send data to the client while waiting for the client to respond. This is convenient because different clients and servers talk in unpredictable ways. With some protocols, the server talks first; with others, the client talks first. Sometimes the server sends a one-line response; often, the response is much larger. Sometimes the client and the server talk at each other simultaneously. Other times, one side of the connection waits for the other to finish before it responds. The program must be flexible enough to handle all these cases. Example shows the code.
("Listening for connections on port "
9 :: What is an HTTP Server?
HTTP is a large protocol. A full-featured HTTP server must respond to requests for files, convert URLs into filenames on the local system, respond to POST and GET requests, handle requests for files that don't exist, interpret MIME types, launch CGI programs, and much, much more. However, many HTTP servers don't need all of these features. For example, many sites simply display an "under construction" message. Clearly, Apache is overkill for a site like this. Such a site is a candidate for a custom server that does only one thing. Java's network class library makes writing simple servers like this almost trivial.
Custom servers aren't useful only for small sites. High-traffic sites like Yahoo! are also candidates for custom servers because a server that does only one thing can often be much faster than a general purpose server such as Apache or Netscape. It is easy to optimize a special purpose server for a particular task; the result is often much more efficient than a general purpose server that needs to respond to many different kinds of requests. For instance, icons and images that are used repeatedly across many pages or on high-traffic pages might be better handled by a server that read all the image files into memory on startup, and then served them straight out of RAM rather than having to read them off disk for each request. Furthermore, this server could avoid wasting time on logging if you didn't want to track the image request separately from the requests for the pages they were included in.
Finally, Java isn't a bad language for feature-full web servers meant to compete with the likes of Apache or AOLServer. Although CPU-intensive Java programs are demonstrably slower than CPU-intensive C and C++ programs, even when run under a JIT, most HTTP servers are limited by bandwidth, not by CPU speed. Consequently, Java's other advantages, such as its half-compiled/half-interpreted nature, dynamic class loading, garbage collection, and memory protection, really get a chance to shine. In particular, sites that make heavy use of dynamic content through CGI scripts, PHP pages, or other mechanisms can often run much faster when reimplemented on top of a pure or mostly pure Java web server. Indeed, there are several production web servers written in Java such as the W3C's testbed server Jigsaw (http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/). Many other web servers written in C now include substantial Java components to support the Java Servlet API and Java Server Pages. On many sites, these are replacing the traditional CGIs, ASPs, and server-side includes, mostly because the Java equivalents are faster and less resource-intensive.
Investigation of HTTP servers begins with a server that always sends out the same file, no matter who or what the request. This is shown in Example, SingleFileHTTPServer. The filename, local port, and content encoding are read from the command line. If the port is omitted, port 80 is assumed. If the encoding is omitted, ASCII is assumed.
10 :: What is an HTTP Redirector?
Another simple but useful application for a special-purpose HTTP server is redirection. In this section, we develop a server that redirects users from one web site to another--for example, from cnet.com to home.cnet.com. Example reads a URL and a port number from the command-line, opens a server socket on the port, then redirects all requests that it receives to the site indicated by the new URL, using a 302 FOUND code. Chances are this server is fast enough not to require multiple threads. Nonetheless, threads might be mildly advantageous, especially on a high-volume site on a slow network connection. And this server does a lot of string processing, one of Java's most notorious performance bottlenecks.


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Das Untere Estetal ist ein Naturschutzgebiet in der niedersächsischen Hansestadt Buxtehude und der Gemeinde Beckdorf in der Samtgemeinde Apensen im Landkreis Stade.

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Das Naturschutzgebiet mit dem Kennzeichen NSG LÜ 342 ist circa 263 Hektar groß. Davon entfallen circa 189 Hektar auf die Hansestadt Buxtehude und circa 74 Hektar auf die Gemeinde Beckdorf. Das Naturschutzgebiet ist auf 238 Hektar Fläche Bestandteil des FFH-Gebietes "Este, Bötersheimer Heide, Glüsinger Bruch und Osterbruch". Das Gebiet ist fast vollständig vom Landschaftsschutzgebiet "Este- und Goldbecktal" umgeben. Im Geltungsbereich der Naturschutzverordnung ging das Landschaftsschutzgebiet im Naturschutzgebiet auf. Das Gebiet steht seit dem 14. Dezember 2018 unter Naturschutz. Zuständige untere Naturschutzbehörde ist der Landkreis Stade.

Beschreibung
Das Naturschutzgebiet liegt südlich von Buxtehude. Es umfasst das Estetal von der Kreisgrenze zum Landkreis Harburg bis zur Querung der Este durch die Bundesstraße 73 in Buxtehude und einen rund 2,5 km langen Talabschnitt der Goldbeck, die hier entlang der Kreisgrenze verläuft. Das Naturschutzgebiet wird von einem Wechsel von Auwäldern und Grünländern unterschiedlicher Feuchtegrade mit Röhrichten und Hochstaudenfluren geprägt. Die Wälder sind als Erlen-Eschen- bzw. Erlenbruchwälder mit Schwarzerle und Gemeiner Esche und feuchte Eichen-Hainbuchenwälder mit Stieleiche und Hainbuche ausgeprägt. Sie dominieren insbesondere den nördlichen Teil des Naturschutzgebietes zwischen Heimbruch und Buxtehude. Stellenweise sind Grünlandbereiche in die Wälder eingebettet, die vielfach brachgefallen sind. Grünländer dominieren den südlichen Bereich des Schutzgebietes in der sich hier aufweitenden Esteniederung. Die Grünländer werden überwiegend extensiv bewirtschaftet. Insbesondere im südlichen Bereich des Naturschutzgebietes sind auch wertvolle Feuchtwiesen zu finden. Auf brachgefallenen Bereichen breiten sich Schilfröhrichte und Großseggenriede aus. Außerdem sind mehrfach Hybridpappelforste zu finden. An den Talrändern stocken teilweise Eichenmischwälder und Kiefernforste.

Die Este verläuft im Naturschutzgebiet teilweise relativ naturnah mit flutender Wasservegetation und Uferstaudenfluren. Sie hat besondere Bedeutung als Lebensraum und Wanderkorridor verschiedener Fische, darunter Meer- und Bachforelle, Hasel, Döbel, Gründling und Schmerle, und der Rundmäuler Meer-, Fluss- und Bachneunauge sowie für den Fischotter. Vereinzelt wurde auch der Bitterling im Gebiet nachgewiesen. Altarme und Kleingewässer sind Lebensraum verschiedener Amphibien, darunter der Kammmolch. Das Naturschutzgebiet ist Lebensraum des Schwarzstorchs sowie verschiedener Fledermausarten.

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Naturschutzgebiet im Landkreis Stade
Geographie (Buxtehude)
Beckdorf
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12-year-old boy's fatal shooting by cops could have been avoided: Family
December 5, 2014	Category: Stateside	Posted by: adminphilasun
ABOVE PHOTO: This undated photo provided by the family's attorney shows Tamir Rice. Rice, 12, was fatally shot by police in Cleveland after brandishing what turned out to be a replica gun, triggering an investigation into his death and a legislator's call for such weapons to be brightly colored or bear special markings. (AP Photo/Courtesy Richardson & Kucharski Co., L.P.A.)
By Mark Gillispie
CLEVELAND — The family of a 12-year-old boy fatally wounded by a Cleveland police officer said surveillance video of the shooting shows that if the officer had not acted so quickly the youngster would still be alive.
The video made public on Wednesday shows Tamir Rice being shot within 1½ to 2 seconds of a patrol car stopping near him at a park in Cleveland on Saturday. It shows the boy reaching in his waistband for what police discovered was a pellet gun that shoots non-lethal plastic projectiles. He died the next day.
Tamir's family said in a statement released by their attorneys that they hope Cleveland police and Cuyahoga County prosecutors "thoroughly examine" what happened at the park that day.
"It is our belief that this situation could have been avoided and that Tamir should still be here with us," said the family. "The video shows one thing distinctly: the police officers reacted quickly."
The patrol officer who shot Tamir was identified Wednesday as Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old rookie who began his career in Cleveland on March 3. He previously spent five months in 2012 with a department in suburban Independence, but four of those months were in that city's police academy.
Loehmann's partner that day was identified as Frank Garmback, 46. He has been with the department since 2008. Both are on paid administrative leave pending a decision by the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office whether to pursue any criminal charges.
Much of the video footage shows Tamir alone in a park on an unseasonably warm November afternoon. He is seen pacing, occasionally extending his right arm with what appears to be a gun in his hand, talking on a cellphone and sitting a picnic table with his head resting on his arms.
The gun wasn't real. It can be bought at sporting goods stores for less than $20. Tamir's was lacking the orange safety indicator usually found on the barrel and, from a distance, was indistinguishable from a real firearm.
At one moment, Tamir is sitting at a picnic table in a gazebo. He stands and a police car zooms into the frame from the right and stops on the grass, just a few feet from Tamir. The passenger door opens and Loehmann shoots Tamir before Garmback can get out the driver's side door.
It's unclear how far Tamir was from Loehmann when the officer shot him, but Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said Wednesday that it was less than 10 feet.
The low-resolution video shows Tamir reaching to his waistband and then bending over after being shot. His body is mostly obscured by the patrol car when he falls to the ground. Garmback can be seen walking around the car and kicking what is said to be the airsoft gun away from Tamir.
Tomba told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that an FBI agent who was working a bank robbery detail nearby arrived within a few minutes and administered first aid to Tamir. Paramedics arrived three minutes later. The boy died on Sunday at a Cleveland hospital.
Tomba said the city was releasing the video at the behest of Tamir's family.
"This is not an effort to exonerate. It's not an effort to show the public that anybody did anything wrong," Tomba said. "This is an obvious tragic event where a young member of our community lost their life. We've got two officers that were out there protecting the public that just had to, you know, do something that nobody wants to do."
On Saturday, a person had called 911 about a male pointing a gun at others at the park. The caller told the 911 dispatcher that the gun was "probably fake," then added, "I don't know if it's real or not."
Tomba would not discuss statements the two officers gave after the shooting, saying they were part of the investigation. Nor would he discuss details of the radio conversation between the officers and a dispatcher except to say they were apprised that they were on a "gun run."
David Malik, one of the attorneys representing Tamir's family, said Wednesday that he hoped the shooting of Tamir would lead to reform. He cited Cincinnati, where he said the police department, police union and the community worked collaboratively.
"Hopefully, incidents like this won't occur again," Malik said.
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A Tale of Two Martyrs
DR. RIDLEY, entering the place [of execution] first, earnestly holding up both his hands, looked towards heaven; then shortly after, seeing Mr. Latimer, with a cheerful look, he ran to him and embraced him, saying, "Be of good heart, brother, for God will either assuage the fury of the flame, or else strengthen us to abide it."
He then went to the stake, and, kneeling down, prayed with great fervor, while Mr. Latimer following, kneeled also, and prayed with like earnestness. After this, they arose and conversed together, and, while thus employed, Dr. Smith began his sermon to them.
Dr. Ridley, then, with Mr. Latimer, kneeled to my Lord Williams, the vice chancellor of Oxford, and the other commissioners, who sat upon a form, and said, "I beseech you, my lord, even for Christ's sake, that I may speak but two or three words."
And whilst my lord bent his head to the mayor and vice-chancellor, to know whether he might have leave to speak, the bailiffs and Dr. Marshal, the vice-chancellor, ran hastily unto him, and, with their hands stopping his mouth, said, "Mr. Ridley, if you will revoke your erroneous opinions, you shall not only have liberty so to do, but also your life."
"Not otherwise?" said Dr. Ridley.
"No," answered Dr. Marshal. "Therefore, if you will not do so, there is no remedy: you must suffer for your deserts."
"Well," said the martyr, "so long as the breath is in my body, I will never deny my Lord Christ and his known truth. God's will be done in me."
They were then commanded to prepare immediately for the stake. Then the smith took a chain of iron and placed it about both their waists; and as he was knocking in the staple, Dr. Ridley took the chain in his hand, and, looking aside to the smith, said, "Good fellow, knock it in hard, for the flesh will have its course."
They then brought a lighted faggot, and laid it at Dr. Ridley's feet, upon which Mr. Latimer said, "Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out."
When Dr. Ridley saw the fire flaming up towards him, he cried out, with an amazing loud voice, "Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit: Lord, receive my spirit!" and continued to repeat, "Lord, Lord, receive my spirit!"
Mr. Latimer cried as vehemently, "O Father of heaven, receive my soul!" after which he soon died, seemingly with little pain.
Owing to the bad arrangement of the fire [about Ridley], it burned all Ridley's lower parts before it touched his upper and made him struggle under the faggots. Ridley, in his agony, often desired the spectators to let the fire come to him, saying, "I cannot burn." Yet in all his torment, he did not forget always to call upon God, "Lord, have mercy upon me!"
As soon as the fire touched the gunpowder [hung around his neck], he was seen to stir no more, but burned on the other side, falling down at Mr. Latimer's feet, his body being divided.
The dreadful sight filled almost every eye with tears, for some pitied their persons, who thought their souls had no need thereof.
By John Foxe
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The growth of the Industrial Revolution depended on the ability to transport raw materials and finished goods over long distances. The changes came in several stages. First, roads were built, then canals were built, and finally the railway was developed. Each change had an impact upon life in the growing country, each shortened travel times over longer distances and each enabled industrialists to seek new markets in previously out of reach areas of the country. Likewise, they enabled more raw materials and goods to be shipped to and from factories, providing further impetus to the industrial age.
To stop this, spikes were put on top of the gates. In some parts of the country, the toll gates were so unpopular, that they were destroyed. Parliament passed a law that meant execution for anyone who was caught destroying a turnpike.
Both Thomas Telford and John McAdam were credited with improving the roads in Britain. Telford believed in building roads that would last and needed little repair. His roads cost a lot of money and they took a long time to build - but they lasted. McAdam's roads were cheaper as they were not as 'fussy' as Telford's. McAdam's were hard wearing and he believed that the weight of the traffic using his roads would press down the road and make it stronger. As his roads were cheaper, they were more in demand by the turnpike trusts.
The new manufacturing class – those who needed an improved transport system to move their finished products from town to town, and were on the whole pleased as they had most to gain. However the cost of living increased pleasing the wealthier and making the poorer suffer.
The Industrial Revolution was creating huge amounts of heavy produce which had to be moved. Roads simply could not handle such weights and the vehicles needed to move this produce did not exist. The answer to moving heavy objects large distance was canals. Canals were man-made rivers which were deep enough to cope with barges which were capable of moving nearly forty tonnes of weight.
The person most associated with early canals was the Duke of Bridgewater. He owned coal mines in Lancashire but he needed to get the coal to the big market of Manchester which was nearly six miles away. The duke gave the task of designing and building the canal to James Brindley - an engineer who at this time had never built a canal before. As such, the duke was taking a great risk and he even had to borrow £25,000 to pay for the project. It took two years to build the canal which was completed in 1761. The canal had a series of tunnels which were linked directly to the coal mines. But its most famous section was the Barton Aqueduct which took the canal over the River Irwin. The canal was a huge success as it made the duke a lot of money. Other people saw the success of the Bridgewater Canal and decided to do likewise thus opening up Britain even more with a series of canals that linked the major industrial centres of Britain.
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High quantities of valuable materials are being discarded every day and even though we already have the technology to recycle, still there is no efficient way of identifying and sorting waste streams. Our current recycling efforts do turn scrap into new materials, but these are of a lower quality than the input. We cannot use these secondary raw materials for the same purposes as the original. More importantly, in the long run we simply cannot continue the way we, as a society, have been producing our goods and services. What we need is to move from the linear system towards a circular one. Meaning that we maintain, repair, refurbish and in the end recycle products so that the materials that are used to produce these products would stay in the loop.
Making transparency and communication in circular value chains possible by utilising blockchain and zero-knowledge proof.
It is our goal to overcome the communication barrier that is limiting current and future progress towards a sustainable economic model: the circular economy.
In essence we are developing a blockchain‑based communication protocol called "smart questioning" to promote value chain transparency without public disclosure of datasets or supply chain partners.
Founder - Jordi is an early blockchain aficionado with a business background, "temporarily" trading his MBA for real entrepreneurial experience. He starts his days by checking the latest news and FUD and has been a tireless entrepreneur since his first year of Bachelor studies when he met Mesbah.
CTO - Arvind co-founded Milvum (a digital transformation lab) in 2012 and joined Circularise as CTO in 2017. He is an advocate for the AI and blockchain technologies, making use of them with his teams at Milvum. In 2017, they were awarded a prize in the Dutch Blockchain hackathon.
Technical Account Manager - With over 8 years of experience in sales, finance and recruitment, Brian is merging all this experience in his role of Technical Account Manager at Circularise. His business instinct helped him understand the importance and future of a circular economy.
Project Manager - Teresa got her Master's degree in Public Policy and Management with a focus on European/ International Relations and Environmental Politics. She gathered experience in international politics very early working on large-scale project management within United Nations/ European and national public institutions and working on research within one of Germany's leading think tanks for International Politics. Her love for international interdisciplinary projects also lead to her voluntary work in sustainability projects, and her enthusiasm about learning languages makes her aim for fluency in her 6th language.
Growth Manager - Combining his degrees in industrial engineering and strategic management with experience in marketing, outreach and stakeholder management, Igor joined our team in the role of a Growth Manager. In addition to being passionate about blockchain and all things tech, he is also a huge foodie and sport addict.
Developer - Jelle, straight from the Delft University of Technology, is a free software hacker and coffee devotee. He loves breaking and subsequently trying to fix his own gadgets. Is not on friendly terms with the office printer, but he is definitely a passionate developer.
Developer - Tim is a game and media expert with roots in the universities of Utrecht and Delft. He found himself with an aptitude and passion for all things blockchain. As a true table tennis fanatic, he does not let up on people. Always concerned with the little details, Tim drives others and himself to always bring their A-game.
Developer - Kaj is a result-oriented researcher from the Delft University of Technology. He is a developer who can usually be found in a variety of positions that would make a contortionist blush. He enjoys finding practical applications of cutting-edge theory and technology, and never goes anywhere without his trusty notebook.
Regional Representative - Asia - Jip is a passionate linguist and globetrotter, who has lived in China for the past few years. After living in the ancient capital Xi'an and in Xianyang, he is now located in Jinan, China. He has had a fair taste of air pollution, therefore he is eager to make the world greener.
Legal Researcher - Siebren is working on a research focused on the Dutch cryptocurrency market legislation. He seeks to understand the legal differences between an ICO and an IPO, and how regulation can protect but still foster innovation. With this research, he will graduate from Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam.
A Senior Research Fellow with TU Delft and also a Visiting Professor at Coventry University and Adjunct Professor at MIP Politecnico di Milano, David also manages projects with the EU EIT Raw Materials and H2020, such as ProSUM project. He has a focus on the circular economy, critical materials and circular built environment, and has published more than a dozen academic articles about circular economy and critical materials.
Secretary General of the WEEE Forum, Pascal has been involved in e-waste matters since 2000 when the European Commission proposed its WEEE legislation. Also a member of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials, he has run or been involved in various EU projects that support the advance of the circular economy, interactions among parties in the value chain, and optimal collection and recovery of materials from e-waste.
Senior Vice President Business Development at iQor, Tom spent 25 years solving complex issues for global brands. He solved these problems through support of Product Repair Services and Customer Interaction. Tom believes that data analytics will enable further efficiencies in the reverse supply chain, accompanied by the highest customer experience and effective cost of service.


Well for over 2/3 of the month I was travelling arround USA and now i'm back after some time away and relaxing well maybe too much as i started this with 5 hours left on the clock and well hour later here a little something. out of relaxation mode and back to crunch time.
Here begins my journey to make 12 vocal song remixes for 2019.
I really dig this song and its overall atmosphere, but one problem I found myself facing is that it pretty much only has one melody.
Also, I rarely work with vocals so I struggled quite a bit with making this. The latter part feels a little bit unnecessary, but at the same time it was important to not leave that last bit of lyrics aside.
What does SHD stand for? It's for the big brains to figure out.
First song using Fruity Loops Mobile and im kinda proud of what I came up with on my first run of this advanced as hell tool. Finally slowly starting to understand music theory as well what with the answer question kinda thing? Wanted to implement that here but I have to sleep.
Kind of wanted to try and channel that chill vibe and also break out of my normal chiptune stuff and just kinda cleanse my pallette?


Dr. Frank Wong, the Bayer CropScience senior regulatory affairs consultant and the 2017 TOCA Environmental Communicator of the Year, shared his insights on Pollinators, Pesticides and Public Perceptions with TOCA members during the 2017 annual meeting.
In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the decline of the bee population worldwide. Wong shared data to shed light on the issue.
In most places, bees are not declining as dramatically as once thought, he said. However, as the green industry, we can still take steps to help mitigate the stresses the bee population is facing. The U.S. GAO report on bee health from March 2016 listed factors affecting pollinator health, and Wong outlined ways to mitigate these stressors. Wong said, by taking these into consideration, we can be part of the solution and prevent potential damage to pollinators in the future.
Migratory stress from long-distance transport. Reduce reliance on long-distance transport.
Parasites and diseases. Manage hive pests: Varroa mite and others.
Pesticide use. Follow label instructions.
Use and steward pesticides responsibly.
Manage pesticide drift and exposure.
Habitat loss: degradation, fragmentation and reduced sites for nesting and breeding. Increase natural habit in agriculture and urban systems.
Poor nutrition: decreased forage quality and diversity. Increase forage diversity.
Wong also highlighted why organizations like TOCA matter. TOCA members provide public information, education and outreach to many audiences, while upholding journalistic standards and fact checking. This is key for science and issues communication, especially with all the places people can now access information.


It was January 2013, and I, like many of my fellow competitive cooks, was eagerly waiting for Pillsbury to release the rules for the upcoming Bake Off. This would be the year that I seriously try my hand at becoming a finalist. I had attempted to put together a few recipe submissions for the 45th Bake Off, but they all fell flat. I had tried WAY too hard to create something. None of the submissions were ones that I would feed my family, none of them had my fingerprint, none of them were me. So I wasn't surprised to be watching the festivities from the comfort of my home.
I don't normally turn on the television during the day, but I made it a point to watch as Martha Stewart announced the grand prize winner, Christina Verrelli. Wow, oh wow! A million dollars! That's life changing. I've never really been preoccupied with money. My husband and I have always put family before money, and in doing so, have had to make significant sacrifices. We were and still are completely content with our decisions. But as our children grew, it seemed that our expenses did as well. I bet some of you are there. Someone needs new shoes…again. Unexpected medical bills. A monthly food bill that looks more like a mortgage. Orthodontic work. You get it! And while I completely trust that the Lord will fulfill His promise when He says that He will supply all of my needs, I am keenly aware that that may involve some work and effort on my part. Last time I looked, the trees in my backyard were only dropping black walnuts not Franklins. Entering into the competitive cooking arena was a way for me to do something I love, cook, while trying to earn a bit of money from home.
So the day finally came. The rules were up. As my hopes started to rise, my stomach quickly began to fall as I read the rules. The Bake Off had been totally revamped. In the past, finalists were selected by "The Test Kitchen" based on the merits of their recipe. This year, Pillsbury would select semi-finalists for each category, then the public would vote to determine which would move on to the finals. There would be no way I would make it. I wasn't into the whole social media thing. I had three facebook friends (seriously) and rarely posted anything on my site. I wasn't into Pinterest or Twitter. It seemed like this would come down to a popularity contest.
I determined that I would enter one recipe, only one. I set off to the grocery store to scope out what products I would experiment with. I picked up two different Pillsbury products and a small assortment of frozen vegetables. I vowed that I would not allow myself to endlessly experiment and spend money that I didn't have. Something would have to come from what I had. Period.
Before cracking open the blue tubes, I set about to do some research. I took a good look at the finalist recipes from past Bake Offs. I skimmed over the recipes on the Pillsbury site. I wasn't looking for what was there but for what wasn't there. I wanted and felt like I needed to create something that hadn't been done yet. I didn't want to make a pizza, sandwich, or a dessert. I simply didn't think that I was creative enough to make any of those things make you say "wow". After a bit of time I realized that I didn't see many recipes that used skewers. I decided that that would be my direction. It's kind of funny that I would choose that direction because I've avoided skewers all together. I'm the mom of three boys. Three boys + skewers = trouble or a trip to the emergency room.
I have to admit that I was not feeling particularly inspired. I had no idea what I would actually put on the skewers that I had vowed to work with. Then one evening, while I was rolling out miniature meatballs to pop into a pot of soup, it hit me. My kids love these little meatballs. I bet they'd love them more on skewers, maybe with a breadstick twisted around them, with cheese and a dipping sauce. I had an image in my head of what the finished product would ideally look like, but I wasn't sure if it would all come together. My kids were busy playing outside so I took the opportunity to give my recipe a try. I remember holding my breath when I opened the oven door and exclaiming, "It worked." And it had worked. They looked exactly like what I had envisioned, and more importantly, they were tasty. Later that evening I scoured over search after search for meatball sub sandwich skewers. I couldn't find anything like it online. I knew that this would be my one submission.
The entry period closed. My one submission was in. Now the waiting game would begin. Then one afternoon it happened; an email message from Pillsbury in my inbox. I clicked it and then nearly passed out. I couldn't believe it; they actually picked my recipe. I called my husband, laughed and shrieked with my kids, and ran barefoot over to my neighbor's house (she had been one of my loyal taste-testers). The joy of the moment would soon be replaced with reality. I've got to get people to vote..a lot of people to vote, and I've got to do it now.
I made flyers, lots of flyers. I went door to door. I spoke at a local Women's Club. I bombarded Facebook pages with requests. I called a local radio station. A few local newspapers ran articles. Local restaurants posted my plea for help. Soon, seemingly everyone in town knew. The receptionist at the dentist, the cashier at the grocery store, the clerk at the post office, the teller at the bank…they all knew! Word was getting around. The voting period came and went. Now I waited. I reflected on how hectic the time had been. I had done a lot to try to get votes, but realistically I knew one thing: if the Lord wants me at the Bake Off, then I'll be there. If it's not part of His will, then I won't. I needed to prepare myself to be content either way. I would have three sets of eyes watching closely. Would I cry and pout if I didn't make it or would I congratulate and praise the ones who beat me out? Would I heap praise upon myself if I did make it or would I proclaim that the Lord had orchestrated it all?
To prevent this from going on forever, I will simply say that I made it through to the finals. Amazing, truly amazing. My little recipe for Meatball and Breadstick Sub Skewers would be competing for the big money in Las Vegas. Las Vegas? Well now, that will be interesting.
Next up: The Road to Vegas.


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Abuja – Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) on Wednesday threatened to boycott bad roads should the Federal Government fail to repairs important roads before the rains begin.
The PTD National Chairman, Comrade Salimon Oladiti made the threat in Abuja in a statement signed by Mr Abdulkadir Garba, Head Media Relations of the union.
According to him, the warning may affect the smooth supply and distribution of petroleum products to some parts of the country.
"Despite the visit by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the road leading to the Tatabu Bridge is still in a deplorable state stretching from Jebba to Mokwa, where trucks spend days on the road.
"We therefore call on the Federal Government to expedite action on repairing the road, because with the onset of the rain soon, the situation will totally be out of control.
"Some of the bad roads identified must be repaired as Tanker Drivers cannot do anything to assuage the suffering of Nigerians under the circumstance.
"Already, some roads are by-passed to Mosimi to demonstrate that PTD is ready to work 24 hours to ensure smooth supply of products across the country.
Oladiti commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for pumping petroleum products through the system Two- B.
"The system now bridges fuel products to the North and other parts of the country through Ibadan- Mosimi and Ejigbo depots as well as Warri-Calabar-Aba depots, while waiting for the commencement of Ilorin-Ore depots among others.
"We support the use of other depots outside Lagos as a way of decongesting the gridlock in Apapa and easing the problem of fuel scarcity and that where this method as well as the system Two-B is sustained.
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The new pastor and religious humor
By Melanie Behrens July 15, 2016 No Comments5 Mins Read
At First English Lutheran Church we have a new pastor, the Rev. Tonya Brittain.
She and her husband, Gene, have recently moved here from North Carolina, where they have lived all their lives. It's quite a change to come to Ohio, but we're glad she did. She is an interested and interesting person, very open to conversation, and has a wonderful sense of humor. Oh yes, I should also mention she has a beautiful singing voice. It is a joy to listen to her.
I thought of her as I came upon these stories involving religion. You know, you have to be careful with this stuff. There's a certain line not to be crossed, so we hopefully won't do that.
But, we all have to be able to laugh at ourselves and life, so I'm sharing some of my favorite religious stories. I hope you will appreciate them, too, and let the humor bring a smile to your face.
There was a little old lady who was very spiritual who would step out on her porch every day, raise her arms to the sky and yell, "Praise the Lord." An atheist bought the house next door to her, and became very irritated with the spiritual lady. So after a month or so of her yelling, "Praise the Lord" from her porch, he would go outside on his porch and yell back, "There is no Lord."
Yet, the little old lady continued. One cold, wintry day when she couldn't get to the store, she went out on her porch, raised her hands up to the sky and said, "Help me Lord, I have no more money, it's cold, and I have no more food."
The next morning, she went outside, and there were bags of food on the porch, enough to last her a week. "Praise the Lord," she yelled.
The atheist stepped out from the bushes and said, "There is no Lord, ha, ha, ha, I bought those groceries."
The lady raised her arms to the sky and said, "Praise the Lord, You sent me groceries and made the Devil pay for them!"
This next story not only involves the afterlife, but also is combined with what we're all going through now, a political campaign and election. Seriously, I'm already sick of all the politics and we have several months to go.
While walking down the street one day, a U.S. senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in Heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. "Welcome to Heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the man.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up," says St. Peter. "You spend one day in Hell and one in Heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."
"I've made up my mind. I want to be in Heaven," says the senator.
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules." And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down to Hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him. Everyone is very happy. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and dine on lobster, caviar and champagne. Also present is the Devil. He really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before the senator realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises. Now it's time to visit Heaven. So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
"Well, then, you've spent a day in Hell and another in Heaven. Now choose your eternity."
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers, "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean Heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in Hell."
St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down to Hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The Devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"
The Devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted."
Now lastly – the sign in the church front yard read, "To whomever stole our AC units, keep one, it's really hot where you're going."
Happy smiling to all!
(Melanie Behrens – melb@marysvilllejt.com)


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Entertainers Who Turned to Politics
Posted by Cindy Uken | Jun 18, 2019 | Politics
PALM SPRINGS — This community, an international tourist destination, is a playground for some Hollywood celebrities and entertainers — and home to others.
One of those entertainers who called it home was the late Sonny Bono. He set a precedent in the community for entertainers not only running for public office but also winning.
Bono, half of iconic American music duo Sonny and Cher, served as mayor of Palm Springs from 1988 to 1992. He was elected as Republican to the House of U.S. Representatives in 1994. He served in the House until his death in 1998.
He wrote the ever-popular, "I Got You Babe." In August 1965, the single spent three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States where it sold more than 1 million copies and was certified Gold. It also reached number 1 in the United Kingdom and Canada. He was known for his music and comedy, not his political moxy.
Bono entered politics after experiencing great frustration with local government bureaucracy in trying to open a restaurant in Palm Springs, California. Bono made a successful bid to become the new mayor of Palm Springs. He was instrumental in spearheading the creation of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, which is held each year in Bono's memory.
The question as to whether entertainers are equipped to become local, state, or national politicians has surfaced in Palm Springs following Alfie Pettit's political announcement. Pettit is seeking the lone seat in District 3.
Pettit, a drag queen, lists his occupation as an entertainer. Coffee klatches, happy hours, breakfasts, and more have been abuzz with his potential candidacy. He has his fans and supporters. Pettit also has his detractors. Among the naysayers are those who question the entertainer's qualifications, his knowledge of local government, and govern beyond photo ops.
To date, Pettit has not publicly responded.
The decision in District 3 rests with registered voters. Pettit is challenging incumbent Mayor Pro Tem Geoff Kors.
In addition to Bono, numerous entertainers have run for — and won — political office.
Consider this list of entertainers:
Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan left the bright lights to serve first as California governor and then as U.S. president from 1981 to 1989.
Academy Award-winning actor and director Clint Eastwood Actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, Calif. in 1986. He was later appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission in 2001 under Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Fred Thompson, best know for his television role in "Law & Order," served as a U.S. senator for Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He also ran in the Republican presidential primaries in 2008, ultimately losing to the late Sen. John McCain.
Real estate mogul and reality TV personality Donald J. Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign and now serves as president of the Free World.
There are many other entertainers who sought a life in politics. Consider Jesse Ventura, Jerry Springer, World boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, and Al Franken.
Below are the candidate qualifications for elected office:
Be registered to vote at their current residence in the City of Palm Springs.
Must reside in the district in which they are running.
Obtain not less than 80 nor more than 120 voter signatures on the Nomination Paper.
A citizen of the United States.
Not disqualified from holding office by the Constitution or laws of the State of California.
The Nov. 5 Palm Springs City Council is about choices.
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White House: Increase In Terror Attacks Since 9/11 A Success
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Eric Brewer
Published: Saturday January 10, 2009
One of the many sad ironies of the Bush era that is rapidly and mercifully drawing to a close is that after the president created a "central front in the war on terror� by invading Iraq, the amount of "terrorism� in the world skyrocketed. I call it the Bush Bubble:
At first, the administration seemed a little embarrassed by this result, and it engaged in various attempts, which I've documented over the years and summarized here, at disguising the increase. Interestingly, the public face for many of those shenanigans was John Brennan, formerly head of the National Counterterrorism Center and currently Obama's transition intelligence adviser and pick for the newly created position of deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism.
In July 2005, announcing a new web-accessible database of terrorism incidents compiled by the RAND corporation and available at tkb.org, Brennan said, "We're trying to be as open and transparent to the public as possible."
That lasted a little over two years. Funding was withdrawn from the project on March 31, 2008, probably because people like me were using the analytical tools on the site to produce embarrassing graphs like the one above. Note that the data used in that graph was accessed a couple of months before the site's demise, and the decrease shown for 2007 may reflect incomplete data. The government's own figures, put out by the National Counterterrorism Center but going back only to 2004, show an increase in 2007:
Those increases were largely driven, of course, by the carnage let loose in Iraq subsequent to our invasion. The last time Bush's attention was called to the havoc he wreaked there, his response was a blithe, "So what?�
I didn't want that to be the last word, so on Friday I went back to the White House to throw one more metaphorical shoe at the president. Luckily, Deputy Press Secretary Scott Stanzel was sitting in for Dana Perino and Tony Fratto, both of whom have ignored me these last couple of months. Here's the transcript of my exchange with Scott:
ME: The administration has been boasting about the success of the President's war on terror, yet data compiled by the RAND Corporation show that the global rate of terrorism, as measured by the number of people killed per year, increased by almost fivefold during the Bush presidency. And according to the government's own terrorism statistics, 2007 was the worst year ever, with over 22,000 people killed worldwide. Does the President consider that record a success?
MR. STANZEL: The President considers it very much a success that we have kept this nation safe since the devastating attacks of 9/11. The magnitude of the attacks on 9/11 were unprecedented, unseen, when 19 individuals armed with box cutters flew airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and were fought and died in a field in Pennsylvania.
We have taken the fight to the terrorists. It has been this President's sole mission throughout his presidency to confront those threats where they are. He has a much talked-about Bush Doctrine. The President has made it very clear that if you aid, abet, house, feed, fund a terrorist, you are just as guilty as the terrorist, and that we will also confront the challenges where they emerge so we don't have to face them here at home. And we will work to spread an ideology of hope and freedom, which will be the ultimate tool in combating terrorism around the world.
So I'll move on. Yes, go ahead --
ME: But shouldn't the anti-terrorism efforts reduce terrorism rather than increase it?
MR. STANZEL: Well, I guess you should ask the question, have terrorists -- do terrorists continue to try to kill innocent civilians around the world? Yes, they do. Should we then just take a step back and decide, no, we shouldn't confront those challenges?
ME: But you can try a --
MR. STANZEL: I'm done, I'm going to move on.
ME: -- you can try a different tactic.
MR. STANZEL: Which is -- we have a full tactic, full panoply of tactics that we use, on the diplomatic side, on the defense side, on the homeland security side, and terrorist financing side. So the President is very proud of his record in defending this country and taking the fight to terrorists for the past two terms.
This is probably the last time I'll set foot in the Bush White House. So that's my farewell kiss in honor of the widows, the orphans, and all those killed in Iraq.
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Now this is one sweet Supercharger station.
Our largest underground Supercharger station in Europe, located in Westfield London, just got its final touch. Have a look.
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Ahhh – Eric Loveday: "largest underground Supercharger station in all of Europe" Needs a Number to it for reference, don't ya think?
Is it 6? 8? 10? 12? 14? 16? or 18 Stalls? Just how many stalls is this 'Largest' underground station?
Anyway – it sure looks nice!
How many Tesla superchargers are underground in Europe? If there is one, then that one is the largest even with a single stall!
Besides, is it some kind of achievement to pull some electric wires below ground level?
It sure shows it can be done there too unlike Hydrogen refueling.
Anybody ever wonder why they make these chargers so that people have to back their cars into them instead of driving into them? I see a future of a lot of banged up Superchargers.
Looks nice. But it looks like it is part of some other parking structure. So the question is, what makes it "the largest?" How many charging bays does it have?
Maybe this is a valet-only lot, but it sure seems inconvenient to have to back into the spots to charge, even with backup cameras and parking assist. Doesn't it look like some sort of angled/head-in system could have been developed to make it a lot simpler?
I have made the same complaint about Tesla and BMW with the location of their charging ports.
Um… we don't really 'do' valet parking in the UK. This SC station is in a large (by UK standards), 3 level car park beneath an equally large (the UK's largest?) shopping 'mall' which also houses a Tesla showroom. It is not terribly well placed for long distance travellers as it is some way into central London with it's appalling traffic all day long.
I was there a month or so back and I think it is 8 bays – they were all in the process of being upgraded and the floor painted etc when I was there. It certainly looks very posh now.
Maybe instead of "LARGEST" they meant "LOWEST".
LARGEST Underground SUPERCHARGER. Nobody have Superchargers except TESLA.
This supercharger is INSANE !
Considering this is the only underground (that I know of) supercharger that would make it the largest underground by default?
I think i count 8 stalls in one of those photos.
I love the fact all the comments on this story surround the minutiae of the structure and Tesla's phrasing – as opposed to the (pretty cool) Supercharging setup itself.
I noticed in the last SuperCharger site that was published, the logo is backlit on the SuperChargers now. Pretty sweet addition and useful for locating them in the dark.
Would be even better if Tesla would add some led lightning for the surrounding of the cable holder, that turns on with a sensor when someone gets close to it.
Pretty flashy. Is it in the red light district?
Tesla is really a class act, that station looks amazing.
Looks like the stalls aren't actually large enough for the cars. The front of the car overhangs the driving lane just a little.
Hmm! Cost cutting on paint? I have read dents are expensive to repair on Teslas.
You know, these stations serve a dual purpose. Besides being able to charge up tesla customers, they are also a form of advertising. Anyone who drives by those spots are going to take notice. They're going to wish THEY could be parking there and be seen parking in such a fancy spot.
I guarantee, they *will* park there.
Good points. People will think it's cool, plus the spots will not get all dirty with grease and oil spots as they would with an ice.
Those picture kind of shows what it would look like if placed in an underground city on Mars. You would drive underground in tunnels with your Model S but you would have to be prudent since gravity is one third, so is the grip but the inertia remains the same. That is the perfect recipe for a crash if you apply your Earthlike Model S driving habits in a Mars underground environment.
Now that you think about being underground on Mars look at the pictures again and you will be surprised by all the scenarios that get into your mind just by considering that sole fact. It looks completely different. The red in the pictures make it even more dramatic. This is real good stuff for a Sci-Fi start. That view in the beginning and then you only realize you are on mars when the car takes a tube and a Mars Hyperloop next to it goes free outside under the Mars sky. Great. I just love Friday afternoons that is when creativity just pops out of the brain.


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One man is in the hospital after a reported stabbing on Syracuse's Northside, according to police.
The call came in at about 4:10 a.m. Syracuse Police Officers responded to Park Street near Wolf Street where they found a man in his 30's, who was suffering from stab wounds to his left arm and to his back.
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For the past eight years Sole DXB has been an annual gathering in the heart of Dubai that focuses on fashion, music, art and basketball. Though its name could easily give it away as being just a sneaker-centric event, Sole was much more than that from day one. In fact it was built upon those aforementioned "four pillars" as co-founder Raj Malhotra explained to us.
Hosting their first two editions in 2011 and 2012, the founders decided to take a year off in 2013 to shift to the larger format found today. Their current operation includes participating brands who apart from showcasing their latest sneakers and celebrating their heritage, also contribute to the lineup by presenting several artists and/or speakers.
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Tying in with their back to the '90s theme, there will also be a special exhibition featuring the original crown worn by The Notorious B.I.G. in what can be called one of hip-hop's most iconic images. Lucky attendees will get their chance to pose for a picture wearing the authentic crown and get their picture taken by Barron Claiborne, the original photographer behind the image. Vikki Tobak, the author of Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop will also be giving a talk.
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Uneasy Calm In Delta Community Over Strange Deaths
Augustine Okoroafor Send an email November 26, 2020
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After what locals described as a 'strange disease' killed about 50 persons in Ute-Okpu community, Ika North East Local Government Area, Delta State, Southsouth Nigeria, youth in the community are threatening to attack the traditional leaders for being the cause of the illness.
While the community is on the edge, Delta State Government has imposed a curfew to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
The curfew was to control the growing angst among the youth who were threatening to burn down the chief's palace insisting that he was responsible for the 'plague' in the town.
It would be recalled that angry youth who attended the community meeting at the palace of the monarch where the development was discussed almost razed the palace citing the traditional ruler's lack of respect for customs as the strange deaths.
The people who said the deaths which were mostly recorded in Ute-Alohen, Ute-Erumu, Ibiegwa and Idumuesa have been on the rise, claimed also that people are dying on a daily basis.
Already, the Delta State government, through Dr Ononye Mordi, Commissioner for Health had identified an outbreak of Yellow Fever disease as the factor responsible for the strange deaths.
The government which had announced that 22 deaths had been recorded in relation to the outbreak said efforts were being made to ensure that the deaths were contained and that the situation did not escalate.
Mordi said vomiting, mouth and nose bleeding, headache, feverish condition and body pains were observed among the patients.
The State Government commenced vaccination against Yellow Fever to check the outbreak of the disease as locals continue to check the spread of the disease and inoculate the populace from being infected.
In spite of the medical explanation for the strange death toll in the town and efforts by the government, the people were not convinced that it was not a spiritual problem.
The curfew which was approved by Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State was said to have become necessary because of angry reactions by the youths of the affected community.
They also said they were not satisfied with what they deemed as the government's inability to curtail the spread of the strange disease.
According to Victor Ebonka, chairman of Ika North Local Government Area, the curfew was imposed on November 23 from 6 pm in the evening to 6 am in the morning.
An indigene of Ute-Okpu simply identified as Onuwa, confirmed that vaccinations were being administered to the people and that the people were embracing it.
Onuwa, however, said in spite of the preventive measures, people were still dying almost on a daily basis, lamenting that the death toll had reached 45 against official figures.
"As I am speaking with you, people are dying, the number of deaths is increasing. Recently, we lost four persons in a day," he said.
"Government has started vaccinations and our people are turning out to receive it but they said it will become effective after 10 days of administering it."
"For us here, we are still living in fear, nobody is sure of himself or anybody, the deaths come in short notice," Onuwa added.
He said the curfew was in force.
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This is the ultimate power bank for your MacBook Pro, iPhone 13 and iPad
This portable power bank fast charges at an incredible 140W and can recharge your iPhone five times from flat
(Image credit: Anker)
Here's one for the travellers and road warriors: Anker's new 737 Power Bank, aka the PowerCore 24K, is the ultimate charger for even the most demanding devices and could well be the best power bank for pro users. It can deliver fast charging at 140W to get even the biggest MacBook Pro to 50% in just 40 minutes, and it has the capacity to recharge an iPhone 13 4.9 times.
Given the high specification and capacity I expected it to be more expensive than it is: in the US it's $149 and in the UK, £139.99.
It's not bad looking, either. Anker has managed to make a very powerful device into a pretty portable unit, and at 630g (1.39lbs) it's not going to eat up too much of your luggage allowance either. It's on sale now directly from Anker and from retailers such as Amazon too.
How does the Anker PowerCore 24K charge so quickly?
The secret is USB-C Power Delivery, which in this device is version 3.1. That means it can deliver higher power than the previous versions' limit of 100W from a single USB port. There are two USB-C ports, each of which is capable of delivering 140W, and there's also a USB-A port putting out up to 18W for less power-hungry devices. At 140W you could get a 16-inch MacBook Pro from zero to 50% in around 40 minutes if you have the correct cable.
It's worth focusing on that for a moment: you can undo all of Anker's good work if you don't have the correct cables. Like other power banks the PowerCore 24K doesn't come with cables or a power adapter, and if you want to use its full power potential you'll need both to support PD 3.1 too: the cable so you can get the full output power, and the power adapter so you can charge the power bank at its fastest possible speed.
One of the most interesting things about this new charger is that it has a smart display. That's really useful: it makes it easy to see how much power you've got left and how much power is being used. The screen itself uses a fairly frugal 0.36W of power, but you can turn it off completely so it's not using even that.
This isn't the only new power bank Anker has released, but it's the only one with USB-PD 3.1 and that means it's the one I'd buy right now: it's got the spec not just for the kit I've got today, but the kit I'm likely to be using over the next couple of years.
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