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Analysis Led by NYU College of Global Public Health Focuses on Harm Minimization in Smoking Cessation
Quitting smoking is among the top New Year's resolutions, but is notoriously difficult to do and often requires multiple attempts and strategies.
A growing body of research points to using a harm minimization approach for smoking cessation. Harm minimization recognizes that while quitting smoking altogether is ideal, reducing exposure to harmful cigarette smoke by switching to safer nicotine products like e-cigarettes is beneficial.
A new article publishing in the forthcoming volume of the Annual Review of Public Health focuses on harm minimization and smoking cessation, with alternative nicotine products like e-cigarettes emerging as a promising avenue for people who want to quit smoking. Compared with vaping, smoking is much more harmful and prematurely kills over half of lifetime smokers.
"Studies show that if most current American smokers switched to vaping e-cigarettes over the next 10 years, there could be as many as 6.6 million fewer premature deaths and 86.7 million fewer life years would be lost," said David Abrams, PhD, professor of social and behavioral sciences at NYU College of Global Public Health and the article's lead author.
"The safest course is to stop smoking or, better, never to start. But a harm minimization approach recognizes that demanding absolute perfection is often counterproductive and that, when a harmful behavior cannot be eliminated, we can still dramatically reduce adverse health consequences."
Correcting Misconceptions About Nicotine
When people smoke cigarettes, they consume nicotine in a lethal mix of carbon monoxide and 70 known cancer-causing chemicals; contrary to what some may believe, however, nicotine causes little if any of the health harms of smoking. The toxic smoke inhaled is the culprit and is the overwhelming cause of tobacco-related disease and death.
Many alternative nicotine products have been developed—including e-cigarettes and nicotine gums, patches, and lozenges—that do not burn tobacco and are therefore substantially less harmful.
The authors call for the correction of mistaken beliefs that vaping is as harmful or more harmful than smoking cigarettes. Most reviews of toxicological, clinical, and epidemiological evidence show that the chemicals found in e-cigarettes are far fewer and well below levels seen in cigarette smoke. In fact, the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom and other systematic reviews of all the evidence to date estimate that e-cigarettes are about 95 percent less harmful than smoking.
E-cigarettes in the "Sweet Spot"
What makes someone use—and continue to use—different nicotine products? In addition to considering the harm they can cause, the authors also consider the appeal and satisfaction of products containing nicotine.
Cigarettes are the most appealing, most addictive, and most toxic of all nicotine products, while nicotine replacement therapies like gum or patches are lowest in harm, but are expensive and less appealing to consumers.
E-cigarettes fall into a "sweet spot" of high appeal and satisfaction, but low harm, making them a promising tool for smoking cessation or switching for smokers who want to use nicotine but want to safely avoid deadly smoke. As evidence of their appeal, e-cigarettes are now used more often than nicotine replacement therapies when smokers try to quit in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
"A smoker who finds an e-cigarette that is enjoyable can switch. Successful switchers have either switched quickly or slowly after a period of both vaping and cutting back on smoking and by trying a flavor other than tobacco," Abrams said.
The Future of Harm Minimization and Smoking Cessation
The U.S. government is taking notice of the evidence on harm minimization. In July 2017, the Food and Drug Administration announced a major shift in its tobacco strategy, including recognizing the role of less harmful products, such as e-cigarettes, for smokers who want a satisfying alternative to smoking cigarettes. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said, "Nicotine, though not benign, is not directly responsible for the tobacco-caused cancer, lung disease and heart disease that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans each year."
"Alternative nicotine delivery systems, such as e-cigarettes, have the potential to disrupt the 120-year dominance of the cigarette and challenge the field on how the tobacco pandemic could be reversed if nicotine is decoupled from lethal inhaled smoke," added Abrams. "E-cigarettes could provide a means to compete with, and even replace, cigarette use, saving more lives more rapidly than previously possible."
In addition to Abrams, the article's co-authors include Raymond S. Niaura of the NYU College of Global Public Health, Allison M. Glasser and Lauren K. Collins of the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies and Truth Initiative, Jennifer L. Pearson of the University of Nevada, and Andrea C. Villanti of the University of Vermont. The research was supported by Truth Initiative.
About the NYU College of Global Public Health:
At the College of Global Public Health (CGPH) at New York University (NYU), we are preparing the next generation of public health pioneers with the critical thinking skills, acumen and entrepreneurial approaches necessary to reinvent the public health paradigm. Devoted to employing a nontraditional, inter-disciplinary model, CGPH aims to improve health worldwide through a unique blend of global public health studies, research and practice. CGPH is located in the heart of New York City and extends to NYU's global network on six continents. Innovation is at the core of our ambitious approach, thinking and teaching. http://publichealth.nyu.edu/
About the Annual Review of Public Health:
The Annual Review of Public Health, in publication since 1980, covers significant developments in the field of public health, including key developments and issues in epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, social environment and behavior, health services, and public health practice and policy. For further information contact: jrankin@nullannualreviews.org
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Q: error on results for sql join I'm joining two tables and it appears that each payment is being associated to a payee once, I think this is because of a join.
Say I have an account with two payments on it, and two different payees. The data is contained in two tables
Payment: 35.00, Payee: Dave
Payment: 40.00, payee: Mark

Table1
PK, Payment, Account number

35.00
40.00

Table2
PK, Payee, Account number

Mark
Dave

Query:
select distinct C.Payment, B.Payee
from table1 C
join Table2 B on check.PK = trans.PK
where check.accountnumber like ''123456''

Results looks like this
35.00 Mark
35.00 Dave
40.00 Mark
40.00 Dave

Each name gets its own record of a payment which is inaccurate, any advice?

A: Looks like you are just cross joining one table with another and getting back every possible combination of the two tables.  Try joining on accountnumber instead. The PK value in each table have nothing to do with each other and should not be joined on here.

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Grafton, Anthony, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West.
Grafton, Anthony, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West, Cambridge, MS, Harvard University Press, 2009; hardback; pp. 422; 5 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$29.95; ISBN 9780674032576.
Anthony Grafton is as much a polymath as the Early Modern scholars who are the focus of his work. This collection of essays, originally published between 1983 and 2008, ranges far and wide, from Leon Battista Alberti and Johannes Trithemius in the fifteenth century to Robert Morss Lovett and Hannah Arendt in the twentieth. A loosely unifying theme is provided by the nature of scholarship and the place of scholars in the intellectual communities of their times. Along the way, Grafton covers such diverse figures as Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, and Mark Pattison, together with such topics as the place of Latin in the modern world, the Jesuits as 'entrepreneurs of the soul' and 'impresarios of learning', and the relationship between Christian and Jewish learning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All these highly specialized subjects are presented with a lightness of touch and sharpness of style that belie Grafton's formidable scholarship and breadth of knowledge.
Some of the essays strike a more personal note. Arnaldo Momigliano was Grafton's own postgraduate supervisor in the 1970s, and one essay looks at the way in which Momigliano's intellectual development was shaped by the scholarly community at the Warburg Institute in London. Grafton's account of his father's attempt to write an article for Look magazine about Hannah Arendt, based on an interview with her at the height of the controversy over her book on Eichmann, is particularly interesting, being based partly on his own childhood memories and partly on the surviving documents. He also reviews the history of the Journal of the History of Ideas, of which he is one of the editors; the result is an illuminating miniature history of the field of the 'history of ideas' over the last fifty years.
The essays that open and close the volume are those of the most general interest. Grafton begins with an overview of the Republic of Letters, that 'lost continent' of an interdisciplinary and international community of scholars which flourished in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows how, despite their confessional differences, these scholars managed to work out ways of communicating and exchanging ideas and learning across all fields of knowledge--both in formal societies and through informal contacts. Perhaps the most important means of communication was through letters, thousands of which survive to the present day.
His closing essay, 'Codex in Crisis: the Book Dematerializes', is a thoughtful and judicious consideration of the future of reading and libraries in a scholarly world dominated by Google and its global digitization project. While well aware of the benefits of instantaneous access to millions of electronic books, he sounds several cautionary notes. Google has left the digitization of the imprints of the Early Modern era to the large-scale commercial products of Chadwyck-Healey and Gale, and its digitized books have been plagued by poor metadata and inadequate Optical Character Recognition (OCR). More generally, he thinks, the future will not produce a universal digital library, nor a universal digital archive. While the present (1990 onwards) will be almost entirely accessible in digital form, anything earlier will only be represented by a patchwork of interfaces and databases. We will still need unique physical copies of books, together with the libraries to hold them, and we will still need 'serious' reading.
Goodall, Peter, ed., Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-2000.
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Q: Phase space orbit for a projectile After playing around with drawing the phase space orbit for a harmonic oscillator I started wondering about the case for a free falling object. So the equations of motion are:
$$
P = P_0 + mgt
$$
and
$$
q = q_o + \frac{P_o}{m}t + \frac{1}{2}gt^2.
$$
So my problem here is that I am not clear on how to solve for the trajectory. that is, obtain the momentum as a function of position, $P=P(q)$.
Could someone put me on the right direction?
Tried putting solving for the time in terms of the other two quantities, but I did not seem to be getting anywhere.

A: Substituting to eliminate time is the right idea. Re-arrange the first equation to give:
$$t=\frac{P-P_{0}}{mg}$$
Insert that into the second equation:
$$q=q_{0}+\frac{P_0}{m}\left(\frac{P-P_{0}}{mg}\right)+\frac{1}{2}g\left(\frac{P-P_{0}}{mg}\right)^{2}$$
Then expand the brackets, cancel out what you can, and rearrange into the form that you want. Since you're doing this for fun, I'll not give you the final result.


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Saudi Princess Lamia bint Majed, goodwill ambassador for the Arab world
Time: 13 February, 2020
Princess Lamia bint Majed
Princess Lamia bint Majed, secretary-general and a member of the board of trustees of Alwaleed Philanthropies, has been appointed as the first regional goodwill ambassador for the Arab world by the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat).
Her appointment came during a press conference held on the sidelines of the 10th session of the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Princess Lamia will advocate for sustainable urbanization, helping UN-Habitat to address urban challenges in Arab states and advance sustainable urbanization as a driver of development and peace.
Princess Lamia has also worked as the secretary-general of Alwaleed Philanthropies since March 2016. She also worked as executive manager of media and communications at Alwaleed Philanthropies between 2014 and 2016.
Princess Lamia has a bachelor's degree in public relations, marketing and advertising from Misr International University in Cairo, Egypt.
In 2003, the princess founded Sada Al-Arab, a publishing company operating from Cairo, Beirut and Dubai.
Princess Lamia also co-founded Media Codes Ltd. in Egypt and the Fortune Media Group in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
She was editor in chief of Rotana magazine between 2004 and 2006. She held the same position at Mada magazine between 2002 and 2008.
In 2017, she was awarded the prestigious Arab Women's Award for her charitable work.
In 2019, Princess Lamia was appointed as a champion of Generation Unlimited, a global partnership that aims to boost the productivity of young people. Her Twitter handle is @lamia1507.

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Two members of the duPont family must take a challenge over the management of their employees' pension funds to a federal court in Delaware, a federal judge in Maryland ruled ( Wright v. Elton Corp. , D. Md., No. 1:16-cv-00329, 3/17/17 ).
The most convenient venue to litigate the family's allegations that Elton Corp. and other trustees failed to bring the pension trust into compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Judge Richard D. Bennett held March 17. Delaware is where the plan is administered, where the alleged breach took place and where the trustees may be found, the judge said in granting the trustees' request to change venue.
This unusual case involves one main question: whether the M.C. duPont Clark Employee Pension Trust, which was created in 1947 by Mary Chichester duPont Clark to provide retirement benefits to employees of members of the family, became subject to ERISA upon the law's passage in 1974.
The lawsuit was brought by M.C. duPont Clark's grandchildren Helena duPont Wright and James Mills and their two employees, Joseph Wright and T. Kimberly Williams.
They claimed that the trust has never been operated in compliance with ERISA, despite their efforts to persuade the trustees to do so. This failure, they alleged, created increased funding obligations for them and created exposure to penalties and fines if the Labor Department learned of trust's existence and its failure to follow ERISA over 43 years.
M.C. duPont Clark funded the trust with 50 shares of common stock of Christiana Securities Co. that eventually came to include more than $6 million of DuPont corporate stock, according to court documents.
Funk & Bolton PA and the Wagner Law Group PC represent the family and employees. Franklin & Prokopik and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP represent the trustees.
Text of the opinion is at http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/FACTUAL_BACKGROUND_The_MC_duPont_Clark_Employee_Pension_Trust_the.


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package org.traccar;

import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelEvent;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelUpstreamHandler;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.MessageEvent;
import org.traccar.geocode.AddressFormat;
import org.traccar.geocode.ReverseGeocoder;
import org.traccar.model.Position;

public class ReverseGeocoderHandler implements ChannelUpstreamHandler {

    private final ReverseGeocoder geocoder;
    private final boolean processInvalidPositions;
    private final AddressFormat addressFormat;

    public ReverseGeocoderHandler(ReverseGeocoder geocoder, boolean processInvalidPositions) {
        this.geocoder = geocoder;
        this.processInvalidPositions = processInvalidPositions;

        String formatString = Context.getConfig().getString("geocoder.format");
        if (formatString != null) {
            addressFormat = new AddressFormat(formatString);
        } else {
            addressFormat = new AddressFormat();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void handleUpstream(final ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ChannelEvent evt) throws Exception {
        if (!(evt instanceof MessageEvent)) {
            ctx.sendUpstream(evt);
            return;
        }

        final MessageEvent e = (MessageEvent) evt;
        Object message = e.getMessage();
        if (message instanceof Position) {
            final Position position = (Position) message;
            if (processInvalidPositions || position.getValid()) {
                geocoder.getAddress(addressFormat, position.getLatitude(), position.getLongitude(),
                        new ReverseGeocoder.ReverseGeocoderCallback() {
                    @Override
                    public void onResult(String address) {
                        position.setAddress(address);
                        Channels.fireMessageReceived(ctx, position, e.getRemoteAddress());
                    }
                });
            } else {
                Channels.fireMessageReceived(ctx, position, e.getRemoteAddress());
            }
        } else {
            Channels.fireMessageReceived(ctx, message, e.getRemoteAddress());
        }
    }

}

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Our focal species - Sclerophrys perreti (common name: Perret's toad) is only known from the Idanre Hill, in Ondo Province, southwestern Nigeria. This species is listed as 'Critically Endangered' under IUCN red list http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/54732/0. It was previously thought that it may occur in similar habitats in southwestern Nigeria, but subsequent surveys in similar habitat around the type locality have failed to record it ...
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Conservation status of Tolley's Forest Chameleon (Kinyongia tolleyae), a new species recently discovered in the Albertine Rift of Uganda
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Ecology and Conservation of the endangered endemic Chrysichthys walkeri in the Pra Basin, Ghana
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Ambohitantely Special Reserve in Madagascar is the only remaining patch of humid forest on the central plateau north of the capital Antananarivo. The remaining 3,000Ha of forest is home to two site endemic Critically Endangered frog species: Anilany helenae and Anodonthyla vallani. This project seeks to undertake the first population assessment of each species as a basis for long-term monitoring.
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A genetic approach to conserving the critically endangered day gecko Phelsuma antanosy in Madagascar
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Ecology and conservation of Mauritian free-tailed bat (Mormopterus acetabulosus)
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Understanding bushmeat hunting on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, through passive acoustic monitoring
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State Crimes Against Democracy
State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) are actions undertaken in direct violation of sworn oaths of office to circumvent, exploit, or otherwise undermine or subvert laws and institutions to advance personal or political gain and/or to silence or otherwise suppress public foreknowledge and awareness.
Read and Sign Our "SCAD TESTAMENT AND PROCLAMATION" Petition Here
by Prof. Peter Phillips and Prof. Mickey Huff
Global Research, March 4, 2010
Project Censored - 2010-03-03
New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of "State Crimes Against Democracy" (SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University writes that SCADs involve highlevel government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities for political advantages and power. Proven SCADs since World War II include McCarthyism (fabrication of evidence of a communist infiltration), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (President Johnson and Robert McNamara falsely claimed North Vietnam attacked a US ship), burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in effort to discredit Ellsberg, the Watergate break-in, Iran-Contra, Florida's 2000 Election (felon disenfranchisement program), and fixed intelligence on WMDs to justify the Iraq War.(1)
Other suspected SCADs include the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooting of George Wallace, the October Surprise near the end of the Carter presidency, military grade anthrax mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, Martin Luther King's assassination, and the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. The proven SCADs have a long trail of congressional hearings, public records, and academic research establishing the truth of the activities. The suspected SCADs listed above have substantial evidence of covert actions with countervailing deniability that tend to leave the facts in dispute.(2)
The term "conspiracy theory" is often used to denigrate and discredit inquiry into the veracity of suspected SCADs. Labeling SCAD research as "conspiracy theory" is an effective method of preventing ongoing investigations from being reported in the corporate media and keep them outside of broader public scrutiny. Psychologist Laurie Manwell, University of Guelph, addresses the psychological advantage that SCAD actors hold in the public sphere. Manwell, writing in American Behavioral Scientist (Sage 2010) states, "research shows that people are far less willing to examine information that disputes, rather than confirms, their beliefs . . . pre-existing beliefs can interfere with SCADs inquiry, especially in regards to September 11, 2001."(3)
Professor Steven Hoffman, visiting scholar at the University of Buffalo, recently acknowledged this phenomenon in a study "There Must Be a Reason: Osama, Saddam and Inferred Justification." Hoffman concluded, "Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as 'motivated reasoning,' which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. In fact, for the most part people completely ignore contrary information." (4)
Sometimes even new academic research goes largely unreported when the work contradicts prevailing understandings of recent historical events. A specific case of unreported academic research is the peer reviewed journal article from Open Chemical Physics Journal (Volume 2, 2009), entitled "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust for the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe." In the abstract the authors write, "We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic." Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction and is used in controlled demolitions of buildings.(5)
National Medal of Science recipient (1999) Professor Lynn Margulis from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is one of many academics who supports further open investigative research in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Margulis recently wrote in Rock Creek Free Press, "all three buildings were destroyed by carefully planned, orchestrated and executed controlled demolition."6 Richard Gage, AIA, architect and founder of the non-profit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Inc. (AE911Truth), announced a decisive milestone February 19, 2010 at a press conference in San Francisco, CA. More than 1,000 architects and engineers worldwide now support the call for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center complex on September 11, 2001.(7)
Credible scientific evidence brings into question the possibility that some aspects of the events of 9/11 involved State Crimes Against Democracy. Psychologically this is a very hard concept for Americans to even consider. However, ignoring the issue in the context of multiple proven SCADs since World War II seems far more dangerous for democracy than the consequences of future scientific inquiry and transparent, fact-based investigative reporting. Anything short of complete, open discourse based on all the evidence about these critical issues in our society relating to the possible continuation of SCADs is simply a matter of censorship.(8)
Peter Phillips is professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, President of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored, former director of Project Censored, and coeditor of Censored 2010.
Mickey Huff is associate professor of history at Diablo Valley College, Director of Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation, and co-editor of Censored 2010.
1 Lance deHaven-Smith, "Beyond Conspiracy Theory: Patterns of High Crime in American Government," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 53, No. 6, (February, 2010): pp. 795-825. For more studies on SCADs and related issues see all articles for American Behavioral Scientist, Sage publications, Vol. 53, No. 6, (February, 2010), online at http://abs.sagepub.com/content/vol53/issue6/.
For more background reading on this subject with specifics on the controversial cases mentioned in this paragraph, see the following scholarly works: Robert Abele, The Anatomy of a Deception: A Reconstruction and Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (New York: University Press of America, 2010); Bob Coen and Eric Nadler, Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009); Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (New York: Viking Adult, 2002); Steve Freeman and Joel Bleifuss, Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006); Robert Griffith, The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987); David Ray Griffin, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False (New York: Olive Branch press, 2008); Mark Crispin Miller, Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 (New York: Ig Publishing, 2008); Kenneth O'Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983); Robert Parry, Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1993); William Pepper, An Act of State: The Execution of Marin Luther King (Updated) (New York: Verso, 2008); Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq (New York: Tarcher and Penguin, 2003); selected works of Peter Dale Scott, including Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003), The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2008); Norman Solomon, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning us to Death (New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005); Lawrence Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997); Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2nd Edition, 2003);
3 American Behavioral Scientist, Sage publications, February, 2010, Vol. 53, No. 6, online at http://abs.sagepub.com/content/vol53/issue6/. Specifically, see Laurie A. Manwell, "In Denial of Democracy: Social Psychological Implications for Public Discourse on State Crimes Against Democracy Post-9/11," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 53, No. 6, (February, 2010): pp. 848-884.
4 "How We Support Our False Beliefs," Science Daily (Aug. 23, 2009) online at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090821135020.htm. For the full study see Steven Hoffman, Ph.D., et al, "There Must Be a Reason: Osama, Saddam and Inferred Justification," Sociological Inquiry, Volume 79 Issue 2, (2009): pp. 142-162.
5 Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe," Open Chemical Physics Journal, Vol. 2 (April 3, 2009): 7-31, online at http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm.
6 Lynn Margulis, "Two Hit, Three Down, the Biggest Lie," Rock Creek Press, February 2010, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 6, and online at http://rockcreekfreepress.tumblr.com/post/353434420/two-hit-three-down-the-biggest-lie
7 Richard Gage, AIA, Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, Press Conference, February 19th, 2010, SF, CA, online at http://www.ae911truth.org/info/160. See the Conference announcement video online at http://www.youtube.com/ae911truth#p/c/891B0945A34D98F7/0/R35O_QQP8Vw
8 For more on issues of media censorship see Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, eds., Censored 2010 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009).
Project Censored: http://www.projectcensored.org/
Daily News at: http://mediafreedom.pnn.com/5174-independent-news-sources
Validated News & Research at: http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/
Daily Censored Blog at: http://dailycensored.com/
Blog: http://mythinfo.blogspot.com/
Peter Phillips is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Peter Phillips
Global Research Articles by Mickey Huff
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Lecture by Dr. Peter Dale Scott on the Process by which the U.S. Constitution has been Superseded.
Lecture by Dr. Graeme MacQueen on September 4, 2010 - The Fictional Basis for the War on Terror.
Lecture by Laurie Manwell on September 4, 2010 - The Psychological Implications of 9/11 and State Crimes Against Democracy.
Interview with Dr. Graeme MacQueen and Laurie Manwell on September 4, 2010 - 9/11, Anthrax and SCADs.
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STATE CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY TESTAMENT AND PROCLAMATION
Testament and Proclamation
Democracy and popular control of government require public officials who speak truthfully about their intentions and actions; who respect, obey, and execute the nation's laws and treaties without deference to wealth and power and certainly without exceptions for themselves; and who openly and thoroughly investigate defense failures, financial crises, environmental disasters, and other national tragedies. To abrogate any of these responsibilities is to abuse the public trust and attack democracy itself.
We the Undersigned find, based on substantial available evidence, that the United States Government, including the Office of the President, Congress and ancillary agencies, have intentionally, systematically and serially defrauded the American people in what we find to be State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD): actions undertaken in direct violation of sworn oaths of office to circumvent, exploit, undermine or subvert laws, the constitutional order, or the public awareness essential to popular control of government.
Most recently, these State Crimes Against Democracy have included:
1)	The BP oil spill debacle in the Gulf of Mexico, the initiation of and response to which have constituted criminal neglect if not deliberate malfeasance. i ii iii iv
2)	The mortgage lending fraud and subsequent bailout of the most powerful U.S. syndicated banking interests, precipitating untold hardship upon the American people into the foreseeable future, not to mention world financial destabilization. vi
In at least these instances of the Gulf oil spill and mortgage lending fraud, judicious warnings were well in place to head off catastrophe, warnings that U.S. governmental entities and Congressional oversight committees either suppressed or permitted to be circumvented. There exists a history of collusion between the US government, including the CIA, and agents of BP in executing secretive and illegal actions; now there is a growing body of evidence that both are suppressing the facts on the origins and severity of the current oil disaster and the future environmental, public health and safety, and economic impact. x
In addition to these two recent devastating events, we find as components of a broader platform of syndicated state sponsored fraud and malfeasance perpetrated against the American people, other peoples across the globe, and democracy itself, the following:
1)	Willful manufacture and proffering of false information to garner public support for the war on the sovereign nation of Iraq and its citizens. xi These illegal actions have resulted in the deaths of well over 100,000 Iraqi citizens – and possibly over 1,000,000 - and over 4,000 American soldiers. xii As a belligerent occupying force, the U.S. government continues to fail to meet its obligations under the 1907 Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on the Land, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, and customary international humanitarian laws, resulting in failure to provide even the most basic water, food, medical, and security requirements for the Iraqi people. xiii
2)	The illegal war on the sovereign nation of Afghanistan and its citizens. This illegal war has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Afghan civilians and nearly 2,000 coalition force personnel. xv xvi xvii As a belligerent occupying force, the U.S. government continues to fail to meet its obligations under the 1907 Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on the Land, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, and customary international humanitarian laws, resulting in failure to provide even the most basic water, food, medical, and security requirements for the Afghani people. xviii
3)	The passing and continuance of PATRIOT Acts I and II by the Bush and Obama administrations in direct violation of the United States Constitution, including the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments. xix As a result, the civil liberties of the American people and of other peoples have been usurped with exaggerated and in some cases fraudulent claims of terrorist threat accompanied by illegal spying, arrest without warrant, torture, and assassination. xx xxi xxii
4)	The refusal by U.S. governmental agencies, including under the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to independently and thoroughly investigate the events prior to and during September 11, 2001, including material, forensic evidence, especially since these events have been the primary basis for the crimes detailed in 1, 2, and 3 above.
5)	Repeated public statements, by both Democratic and Republican officials, that another catastrophic event, such as another 9/11, would be beneficial for garnering public support for the current administration and/or incumbents and for Executive actions. xxiii xxiv
6)	Executive usurpation of the media to manipulate the public into supporting wars of aggression, as well as the censorship and repression of a free press and internet communication. xxv
7)	Syndicated fraud of (and subsequent cover-up about) voting in low income precincts in the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential elections. xxvi
We the Undersigned call for plebiscite hearings into the advisability of incorporating as legal framework State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD) into federal law, including statutes that would: prohibit political crimes from having a statute of limitations; mandate minimum mandatory sentences for specified high crimes; prohibit presidential pardons where the president himself stands to gain; and specify maximum prison sentences for specified SCADs. xxvii
We the Undersigned find such initiative essential for restoring faith among Americans, and people the world over, in the promise for democracy and justice that the United States once did, and must again, hold out for what Abraham Lincoln once declared the last, best hope for humanity on Earth.
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Notations:
i "Obama Sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon Rig From Regulatory Requirement," Tom Eley, May 2, 2010, WSWS. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/may2010/gulf-m06.shtml
"BP Coverup and the Criminal Pursuit of Profit: Deepwater Horizon Workers Knew of Problems Before Explosion," Josue Olmos, Jluy 23, 2010, Global Research. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20242
"BP, NOAA, EPA Cover-Up; Neurotoxin Pesticide Dispersant Corexit's Lethal Effects," Simon Atkins, July 27, 2010, Gerson Lehrman Group. http://www.glgroup.com/News/BP-NOAA-EPA-Cover-Up--Neurotoxin-Pesticide-Dispersant-Corexits-Lethal-Effects-49684.html
ii "The Government's Catastrophic Response to the Oil Disaster: Washington's Reaction is Causing Greater Damage than the Event Itself," Jon Basil Utley, Reason Online, July 9, 2010. http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/09/the-governments-catastrophic-r
iii "The BP/Government Police State," Glenn Greenwald, Salon, July 5, 2010. http://www.salon.com/news/louisiana_oil_spill/?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/07/05/bp
iv "Obama and the Oil Spill: In the Abstract," Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, Huffington Post, June 21, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-chabris/obama-and-the-oil-spill-i_b_619595.html
v See also the following:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/20/epa_whistleblower_accuses_agency_of_covering
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/10/why-haven-t-we-heard-from-dick-cheney-on-the-oil-spill-.html
See Marrs (2010) and also "Financial Coup d'Etat," Catherine Austin Fitts, The Solari Report, February 2, 2009. http://solari.com/blog/?p=2058
vii Huge financial frauds have been perpetrated roughly every ten years since the early 1980s: the pillaging of the Savings & Loan industry, the bankruptcy of WorldCom and Enron, and the global financial collapse caused by supposedly transparent, yet deliberately opaque and poorly collateralized investment products. In each instance, the main players used some of their fraud-derived gains to buy political influence and undermine the government's policing of their activities so they could continue to escape detection, steal from their depositors and investors, and siphon purloined revenues to more political contributions. See Black, W. K. (2005). The best way to rob a bank is to own one. Austin: University of Texas Press. See also: Calavita, K., Pontell, H., & Tillman, R. (1999). Big money crime: Fraud and politics in the savings and loan crisis.
viii "US Financial System Support Up $700 Billion in Past Year – Watchdog," David Lawder, Reuters, Wed. July 21, 2010, http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2010140720100721
ix See summary and links provided by Adam Curtis of the BBC: "As the film makes clear, the British persuaded the Americans to mount a coup by telling them that Mossadegh was leading Iran towards communism - represented in Iran by the communist Tudeh party. This was not true. One of the leading Iranian historians, Maziar Behrooz, has stated simply, "The perceived Tudeh - communist - threat, as feared by the perpetrators of the coup, was not real." But the CIA, led by Allen Dulles, believed it. Dulles sent the CIA's top Middle East agent - called Kermit Roosevelt - to run Operation Ajax. The plan, drawn up by the British and the Americans, was to bribe the street gangs of Tehran to create chaos, and then install an army general, General Zahedi, as prime minister.The only problem was that the Shah of Iran - Mohammed Reza Shah - didn't want to join in the plot. But then the Americans sent General Norman Schwarzkopf to the Shah's palace. (Schwarzkopf's son led Operation Desert Storm). He bluntly told the Shah that he had no choice as Britain and America had already decided to go ahead….The coup succeeded and Mossadegh was overthrown.
"But the price for the British was high. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company now had to share the oil - with the Americans. A new consortium was formed. The leading American oil companies took a 40% share, while AIOC also had a 40% share. And in 1954 it changed its name to British Petroleum.
"But the price for the Americans was also high. They had got the oil, and they had installed a pliable dictator in Iran. But the anger against their ruthless conspiracy was still seething - not just among the left but also among the conservative merchant class. These two groups would come together under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1978 - their persistent anger at America and Britain being the force that bound them together. But British Petroleum didn't give up on trying to subvert and avoid the decisions of democratic governments. In particular its own, British, government."
"BP and the Axis of Evil," Adam Curtis, BBC, June 19, 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/06/post.html
x Regarding the extent of the oil disaster cover-up, Matthew Simmons, prominent advocate about about the "peak oil" crisis, stated the following in a Bloomberg interview: "…it's a total diversion - that's the gas condensation that was trapped in the drilling riser which blew off the wellhead at 10:01 PM CT on April 20th, it's a mile-long compressed natural gas... What we don't know anything about is the open hole which is caused by the drill bit when it tossed the blow-out preventer way out of the hole…and 120,000 minimum of toxic poison has now covered the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. So what they're talking about is the biggest environmental cover-up ever. And they knew that that well, that riser, would finally deplete. And then they could say it's over. And unfortunately, we now have killed the Gulf of Mexico…Some 5-10 miles away is what the NOIA research vessels have now proved is a deep oil lake that is growing by the day and it's very toxic oil and its gases are very lethal. Basically if we have a hurricane now, we would have to evacuate the Gulf Coast….When people find out the magnitude of the story, I don't know if we can technically clean up the Gulf but it would cost at least a trillion dollars…"
"Simmons, former Bush energy advisor: "We've now killed the Gulf of Mexico"," Anjli Raval, Financial Times of London, July 22, 2010. http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/07/22/simmons-former-bush-energy-advisor-weve-now-killed-the-gulf-of-mexico/
Complete interview at on Bloomberg TV: "Matthew Simmons Discusses BP's Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico," Bloomberg, July 21, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwX9RXFRJD4
xi See Bugliosi (2008) and The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder: The Legal Framework for the Prosecution," Vincent Bugliosi, The Huffington Post, May 19, 2008. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vincent-bugliosi/the-prosecution-of-george_b_102427.html.
xii See Bugliosi (2008) and the following articles:
Spagat M, Dougherty J. 2010. Conflict deaths in Iraq: A methodolgical critique of the ORB survey estimate. Survey Research Methods, 4; 3-15.
Hearld J, Spagat M, Dougherty J. 2010. Discussion of "Conflict deaths in Iraq: a methodolgical critique of the ORB survey estimate". Survey Research Methods, 4; 17-19.
Tapp C, Burle FM, Wilson K, Takaro T, Guyatt G, Amad H, Mills EJ. 2008. Iraq War mortality estimates: A systematic review. Conflict and Health, 2: 1-3.
Burnham G, Lafta R, Doocy S, Roberts L. 2006. Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey. The Lancet, 368: 1421-1428.
ORB. 2007a. Despite violence only 26% preferred life under Saddam. http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=103.
ORB. 2007b. Iraq casualties poll update. http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_detailsaspx?NewsId=111.
ORB. 2008. Update on Iraqi casualty data. http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_detailsaspx?NewsId=120.
xiii See Mandel (2004), Roberts (2004), Klein (2007), and Scahill (2008).
xiv See Mandel (2004).
xv See latest summary of civilian casualties compiled from various sources at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
xvi "The Afghan War Diary," posted at: http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/
and also investigated by:
Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,708314,00.html
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html
xvii See http://icasualties.org/oef/
http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html
See also "The Unknown Afghan Body Count: An unwillingness to track the number of Afghan civilians killed undermines attempts to gauge progress in the Country," James Denselow, The U.K. Guardian, July 4, 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/04/afghanistan-body-count-civilian-deaths
xviii See Professor Marc Herold's (2009) lecture at Harvard University, "Killing the Innocents to Save 'Our Troops'," (transcript at http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/rawanews.php?id=1267) and updates at: http://pubpages.unh.edu/%7Emwherold/dossier.htm
xix In particular, Sections 213, 214, 215 and 218 of the PATRIOT Act vastly expand governmental prerogative for expeditionary surveillance. Gag orders on librarians and other custodians of records impinge on First Amendment rights. For detailed exegesis of PATRIOT Act trespasses into civil liberties, see: http://www.aclu.org/national-security/surveillance-under-usa-patriot-act.
xx Americans for Terror Watch List Reform (2008). Retrieved February 13, 2008 online at: http://terrorwatchlist.org/Press_Center.html.
xxi See also "Fox's Chief Legal Analyst: Bush and Cheney Should Have Been Indicted for "Torturing, for Spying, for Arresting Without Warrant," Raw Story, July 12, 2010. http://www.alternet.org/story/147517/
xxii Boykoff, J. (2007). Beyond bullets: The suppression of dissent in the United States. Edinburgh, U.K.: AK Press.
xxiii See remarks by officials reported in the following articles, including this most recent example cited by Edward Luce, Financial Times, July 13, 2010, "Obama Faces Growing Credibility Crisis": "The bottom line here is that Americans don't believe in President Obama's leadership," says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. "He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can't think of how he could do that." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/434315b2-8ea6-11df-8a67-00144feab49a.html
xxiv As discussed in Manwell (2010) : "As the November 2008 U.S. presidential election neared, neoconservatives continued to invoke the threat of "radical Islamic extremism" as the "absolute gravest threat" to the existence of America, even conceding that another 9/11-like terrorist attack would be "a big advantage to [Republican Presidential candidate John McCain]." "The Evolution of John McCain," CNN Fortune Magazine, June 23, 2008 http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/20/magazines/fortune/Evolution_McCain_Whitford .fortune/index.html
xxv "Was Press a War 'Enabler'? Two Offer a Nod From Inside," The New York Times, May 30, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/washington/30press.html?ftay Meet the Press, MSNBC, September 14, 2003 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080244/
Time Magazine, June 19, 2006. Dick Cheney said, "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis . . . it's about our response." http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1205478,00.html
xxvi In the disputed 2000 presidential election in Florida, officials at the highest levels of Florida government conspired to weaken black voting power with a flawed program of felon disenfranchisement; disrupt and block a legally mandated recount; and include in the tabulation of overseas military ballots votes cast after Election Day.
Barstow, D. & Van Natta Jr., D. (2001). How Bush took Florida: Mining the overseas absentee vote. New York Times. July 15.
deHaven-Smith, L. (2005). The Battle for Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
deHaven-Smith, L. (2008). "Beginnings of a Lawless Presidency," in Mark Crispin Miller, Editor, Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000 – 2008, Ig Publishing, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, pp. 45-58.
Widespread evidence of election tampering by political insiders in the disputed 2004 presidential election in Ohio.
Fritkis, B. (2008). "As Ohio Goes . . . ," in Mark Crispin Miller, Editor, Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000 – 2008, Ig Publishing, Brooklyn, New York, pp. 192-206. Miller, Anita (2005). What Went Wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers.
xxvii Jordan J. Paust, Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration's Unlawful Responses in the"War" on Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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California's Stanford University opens a new building today by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that houses the school's art and art history department, with a design featuring two interlocking strands (+ slideshow).
Encompassing 100,000 square feet (9,290 square metres), the McMurtry Building contains classrooms, galleries, and a 125-seat flexible presentation space, along with studios, a digital darkroom, a print lab, a tinker lab, and a sound recording studio. The executive architect was Oregon-based Boora Architects.
The building will allow art history students to work directly alongside students practising fine arts for the first time in the university's history. It also enables the department to increase its art practice course offerings by 35 per cent over the next two years, according to the school.
"Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)'s innovative building design maximises moments for collaboration between the disciplines through the shape of two interlocking strands that connect around a vaulted central library," said the university in a statement.
The strand containing the art history department has a cement plaster exterior that references Stanford's traditional campus aesthetic. The other strand, which houses the fine arts program, is clad in a custom-zinc finish that is meant to have an industrial and contemporary appearance.
Between the strands is a volume containing the library, with a sheltered courtyard below and a roof garden above.
"Appearing as a floating glass box, the library offers views of every floor through a stunning glass oculus," said the school, noting that every aspect of the building is "designed to encourage intermingling".
"While the building was inspired by the traditional arcaded courtyards of Stanford's historic buildings, its dramatic sculptural presence is unique on campus," said Charles Renfro, partner at DS+R. "It is an architecture that both illustrates and contributes to the pedagogical practises of the multiple disciplines housed within."
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The Oshman Presentation Space on the first floor features a garage-style door that can be opened up for outdoor performances. Adjacent to the room is a lawn that is shared with the school's Canto Arts Center, an art museum dating to 1894.
The $87 million (£57.4 million) McMurtry Building marks the third addition to Stanford's art district in the past three years. The Bing Concert Hall, designed by Ennead Architects, opened in 2013, and the Anderson Collection, also by Ennead, was completed in 2014.
DS+R recently completed another project in California: The Broad, an art museum in downtown Los Angeles.


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The show takes place in a college setting with all of the normal college experiences, including dealing with the ups and downs of assigned roommates.
The story follows Madison, Shane and Alexandria as the three different individuals learn more about each other while trying to share the same living space.
Canty said "Roommates" will be relatable to everyone, especially those who have gone through the trials and tribulations that roommates can bring with them when they move in.
Olivia Moses, the writer and director of "Roommates," has been working on the production of the web series since January 2016, when auditions were held. Moses draws her inspiration from many of the people she knew, whether it was back in high school or someone she knows today.
Like many writers, Moses writes based on experience. Like many viewers, we laugh based on empathy, because, for many people in college, we've all been there before.
Canty said working with the cast and crew has been great.
As far as he's concerned, they have all come together to make this web series a reality.
Though primarily your standard sitcom, Canty said there is a bit of a drama-esque feeling to it, particularly when it comes to character development. While the audience may laugh at the light humor of the show, the backgrounds and personalities of the characters are very real.


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With everything switched on I'm not surprised that happens, particularly at idle speed.
Check or change your belt incase it's slipping, other than that just carry on.
Agreed, my car does the same even when driving but I have never had any charge issues. I'm hoping when I get round to improving the wiring throughout the car it can only help the alternators output by fixing some old/corroded connections.
My heater fan speed changes depending whether I'm on or off throttle ... I suspect something's not quite right!


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Website Conor manages a charity that works with prisoners and their families, the Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas. He recently ran as a Labour candidate in a local election in the London Borough of Islington.
Does Clarke have the courage of his convictions?
Ken Clarke's announcement on prison policy is welcome news for those of us who campaign for penal reform.
Probation will reduce re-offending – not privatisation
Following their proposals to reintroduce prison ships, the Tories announced plans last week to put post-prison services in the hands of the private sector.
Prison policy should cut crime not costs
The announcement in the pre-Budget report that savings of £360 million will be sought by "outsourcing inefficient prisons" is symptomatic of the Government's increasingly reactionary and haphazard approach to prison policy.


Amgen and Xencor, Inc. have announced that the two companies have entered into a research and license agreement to develop and commercialize novel therapeutics in the areas of cancer immunotherapy and inflammation. The research collaboration brings together Amgen's capabilities in target discovery and protein therapeutics with Xencor's XmAb® bispecific technology platform.
The collaboration includes molecular engineering by Xencor and the preclinical development of bispecific molecules for five programs proposed by Amgen, leveraging XmAb bispecific Fc domains to make half-life extended T cell engagers and dual targeting bispecific antibodies. The agreement also includes a preclinical bispecific T cell engager program directed at CD38 and CD3 for multiple myeloma.
Amgen will be fully responsible for preclinical and clinical development and commercialization worldwide. Under the terms of the agreement, Xencor will receive a $45 million upfront payment and up to $1.7 billion in clinical, regulatory and sales milestone payments in total for the six programs. Xencor is eligible to receive mid to high single-digit royalties for candidates directed against Amgen's targets, and high single to low double-digit royalties for Xencor's CD38 bispecific T cell engager.
"We are pleased to be joining forces with Xencor to expand our immuno-oncology and inflammation position by leveraging Amgen's antibodies and Xencor's bispecific antibody platform," said Sean E. Harper, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "We are especially excited about the T cell engaging bispecific antibody directed against CD38, which complements Amgen's BiTE® platform, while growing our hematology and oncology portfolio that includes two bispecific T cell engager antibodies, BLINCYTO® (blinatumomab) and AMG 330, as well as Kyprolis® (carfilzomib) for relapsed multiple myeloma."
Bispecific technologies seek to engineer monoclonal antibodies to bind two unique drug targets, as opposed to traditional antibodies designed to bind to a single antigen target. This approach represents a powerful opportunity in immuno-oncology to simultaneously engage immune cells and tumor cells to localize anti-tumor immune activity where it is needed most.
"Amgen, which has pioneered the use of bispecific antibodies, has chosen to access our XmAb bispecific technology for its robustness, long half-life, and the plug and play ease-of-development of our platform," said Bassil Dahiyat, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Xencor. "This opportunity expands the reach of our technology with a partner that has proven experience in bispecifics and immuno-oncology.Xencor will continue to focus on its internal programs including its immuno-oncology XmAb bispecifics, XmAb14045 in acute myeloid leukemia and XmAb13676 in B-cell malignancies, which are expected to enter clinical development in 2016."


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APHA is pleased to announce the 2011 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship is awarded to Gwido Zlatkes.
Gwido Zlatkes is now a reference librarian at the University of California, Riverside, Special Collections & Archives. Back in the late 1970s, however, he was involved with experimental theatre, and got swept up in the Solidarity Movement, as a journalist and as an editor and publisher.
In his proposal entitled: "'Our Gestetner keeps on turning'—underground printing in communist Poland 1976–1989." Mr. Zlatkes writes:
In the 1970s and 1980s, Poland saw a "paper revolution," that is, one fought, and won, with (printed) paper rather than guns and bullets. Breaking the communist state's monopoly on information and restoring free circulation of information and ideas began as pages typed on onionskin with carbon paper and passed around among friends. By the end of 1980s, it evolved into a sizable underground industry. Publishing houses … released several dozen titles per year and developed their own clandestine printing shops and networks of distribution. …. The print runs, as well as the quality of the output, varied vastly from 50–100 copies to 50,000 and more, and from slim books of poetry printed on a "ramka" (the simplest silk-screen printing) to the then top of the line Xerox color print with pages of photographs and professional binding.
Printers, the "black revolutionaries," are the unsung heroes of this revolution. While virtually all historical writing on Poland under communism pays tribute to (and abundantly quotes from) underground publications, there is very little information on their actual production. What information exists is mostly focused on the editorial side. Printing techniques, the kinds of equipment used and access to it, the organization and conditions of work, obtaining supplies, innovations and inventions, distribution procedures and networks, etc. have not been systematically studied. At present, they are mostly in the memory of the "perpetrators."
Mr. Zlatkes will use the APHA Fellowship money to travel to Poland this year to gather information and record interviews with some of the "founding fathers" of independent printing in Poland, concentrating on the technical aspects and details of underground printing. Because he knows the language, is acquainted with some of the pivotal figures, and is familiar with the various technologies of printing involved, he is an ideal candidate to execute this project.
The committee was swayed not only by the strength of the proposal and the skills of the proposer, but by the project's urgency – collecting history which has not been documented (even the presses' products are scarce, as so many were clandestinely created and dangerous to own), while the participants can still tell their tales. And the focus on printing technologies makes this a highly appropriate project for APHA to support. It also shows that APHA is listening to its own call to save the printing history of the 20th century.
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4.1 The Providential Causes of the World Wars
Wars break out due to such factors as conflicts of political and economic interests and clashes of ideology. Yet these are merely external causes. There are also internal causes of wars, just as there are internal and external motives for every human action. Human actions are decided by the free will of the individual, who is trying both to respond externally to the situation with which he is confronted and to follow his internal tendency toward the Will of God and the advancement of His providence of restoration. Therefore, the good or evil of a human action should not be judged only by external motives. The same can be said of the world wars, which have resulted from the worldwide collision between the actions of numerous individuals arising from their free will. Accordingly, we cannot grasp the providential significance of the world wars by focusing only on conflicts of political and economic interests, ideological clashes and other such external causes.
What are the internal, providential causes of the world wars? First, the world wars have resulted from Satan's last desperate struggle to preserve his sovereignty. Since the Fall of the first human ancestors, Satan has been building defective, unprincipled imitations of God's ideal world. Aiming to restore the ideal world of His Principle, God has been in pursuit, gradually expanding His dominion by reclaiming it from the unprincipled world under Satan's bondage.13(cf. Parallels 7.1) Accordingly, in the course of the providence of restoration, a false representation of the ideal appears before the emergence of its true manifestation. The biblical prophecy that the antichrist will appear before the return of Christ is an illustration of this truth.
Human history under Satan's evil sovereignty will end with the Second Advent of Christ. Then it will be transformed into the history of humanity abiding in the realm of God's good sovereignty. At that time, Satan will put up a last-ditch fight. When the Israelites were about to leave Egypt in the national course to restore Canaan, Satan worked through the Pharaoh to wage a bitter struggle to keep them in bondage. By virtue of this, God's side was entitled to strike him with three supernatural signs. Similarly, in the Last Days, Satan has been putting up his last struggle to undermine God's side as it has prepared itself to embark upon the worldwide course to restore Canaan. God's three counterattacks to Satan's aggressions have manifested themselves as the three world wars.
Second, the three world wars have occurred in order to fulfill the worldwide indemnity conditions to restore the three great blessings. Upon creating human beings, God gave them three blessings: to reach individual perfection, multiply as an ideal family and have dominion over the creation.14(Gen. 1:28)RS|KJ|NI By fulfilling these blessings, our first ancestors were to build the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth. Since God Himself created human beings and blessed them, He did not annul these blessings just because they fell. God had to allow fallen people to build an unprincipled world that has imitated the three blessings, though defectively, under Satan's leadership. Accordingly, at the consummation of human history, unprincipled worlds have emerged which have realized defectively the outward form of the three blessings: an individual championing Satan's causes, multiplication of satanic children, and the conquest of the world under Satan's domination. To fulfill the worldwide indemnity conditions to restore God's three great blessings, three world conflicts must break out by which God can prevail over these satanic worlds through the three stages of formation, growth and completion.
Third, the three world wars have occurred so that all humanity may overcome on the world level the three temptations by which Satan tempted Jesus. As Jesus' disciples, Christians are to follow the course of their Teacher and overcome the three temptations which he confronted in the wilderness as individuals, families, nations and at the world level.
Fourth, the world wars have taken place to fulfill the worldwide indemnity condition to restore God's sovereignty. Had the first human beings not fallen but reached perfection by passing through the three stages of the growing period, they would have realized the world of God's sovereignty. Similarly, worldwide restoration must pass through three stages. The restoration of this world requires that it first be divided into Cain-type and Abel-type worlds, and that there be three final wars in which the heavenly, Abel-type world prevails over the satanic, Cain-type world. This is a condition to restore through worldwide indemnity Cain's murder of Abel. After that, the world of God's sovereignty can be established. Accordingly, the world wars are the final global conflicts in human history, restoring horizontally through indemnity the purpose of all the wars that have been waged for the restoration of God's sovereignty in the vertical course of the providence.
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Heavy rainfall maintains flooding in parts of West Africa while the Horn of Africa remains dry
1. After several months of poor rainfall abnormal dryness has deteriorated to drought in southern Ethiopia.
2. Heavy rainfall triggers flooding in parts of central and southern Nigeria. The Niger and Benue River levels are high.
3. Heavy seasonal rainfall has caused flooding, in parts of Sudan and border areas with South Sudan. In the past few weeks, fifteen states in Sudan have experienced flooding.
4. Flooding persists in Chad and other parts of the Sahel where water levels have been slow to drain.
Flooding is progressing downstream along the Senegal River.
5. Below-average rainfall over the last three months has caused abnormal dryness in parts of Nigeria and maintained similar conditions in parts of Kenya and Somalia.
6. Continued below-average rainfall strengthens abnormal dryness in Somalia and Kenya
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Mississippi Canyon Gas Pipeline Transports production gathered from the Mars, Mensa and Ursa Projects in the Mississippi Canyon Area of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf and delivered to Mississippi Canyon Gas Pipeline at West Delta 143 Platform.


Ol' Wisco Those backyard herds are in bumbleyouknowwhat. They aren't just outside the city and can run into town and pick up some pork chops. Many of them are a multi hour drive down dirt and mud roads on a so called dirt bike. Also they raise pork in there back yard bc it is a cheap form of protein and nutrition.
ETA:It's highly likely many of these backyard herds have been eating some soybeans. The big boom in the container market for soy has been where the containers were shipped to extreme rural areas of Asia and then distributed through that rural community.


If you are switching to a new course of study within the Royal Conservatoire you may need to apply for an extension to your Tier 4 visa. To make an application under the Tier 4 (General) category within the UK, you must read the UKVI Tier 4 Policy Guidance It is no longer possible to apply using a paper application form and all applicants must now use UKVI's online application system. It is important to consider whether you're able to apply to extend your Tier 4 leave in the UK or whether you'll need to return home to apply for entry clearance. If you're switching from MA Music to MMus you'll need to return home to apply for entry clearance. You can email Sarah Ward at international@rcs.ac.uk for further information. Information is also available via UKCISA If you meet the rules to allow you to apply for further Tier 4 leave in the UK you can stay in the UK until you get your decision.
You apply, pay the fee and submit the form online, and then make an appointment to have your documents scanned at a UK Visa and Citizenship Application Service (UKVCAS) of which there is one in Glasgow.
The application will cost £475 if you use the standard service (for a decision within 8 weeks) or £952 if you use the priority service (to get a decision within 5 working days). To get a same day decision you could opt for the super priority service which costs £1085. You will also need to pay £19.20 to have your biometrics (fingerprints and a photo) collected unless you opt for the super priority service when the biometrics fee is waived. You will also need to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) at a cost of approximately £300 per year of your course. The exact amount you'll pay will depend on the length of your Tier 4 leave. You can check here.
Once Sarah Ward has reviewed your form she will issue you with a CAS by email. There is a maximum time limit on studying with a Tier 4 visa. Before you can be issued with a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS), Sarah will check that your application will not take you over the maximum time allowed. For courses at degree level, the cap is five years. However, there are some exceptions to the five-year cap, including those Tier 4 students who are applying to study on or continue a course in music at a Conservatoire.
You should start your application once you have been issued with your CAS but when you get to the Declaration section you should stop. Once you agree to the Declaration, your answers become locked and you will not be able to change them when you attend an appointment with Sarah. Book an appointment with Sarah Ward when you are ready to submit your application and bring all the required documents with you for her to check. Please also remember to bring a debit/credit card to pay for the visa application fees and the IHS. Once you submit and pay the visa application fee online you will be directed to the Sopra Steria website to book an appointment at one of the UK Visa and Citizenship Application Service (UKVCAS) centres to enrol your biometrics and have your documents scanned. Sopra Steria is UKVI's official commercial partner. There may be an extra charge for this appointment. There are some free appointments available at 6 core centres, one of which is in Glasgow.
If you are eligible to apply under the differentiation arrangements you will not be required to scan your financial documents or qualifications at the UKVCAS. However, your visa application will be refused if you do not provide them if requested by UKVI, within the given time frame. So, you should still prepare the documents. If you are applying in the UK, you must ensure that you select 'yes' when asked if you want to apply under the differentiation arrangements on the online application form.
You will be able to retain your passport and other original documents while your application is under consideration. Please note that you should not leave the UK during this time as that would result in your application being withdrawn.
Documents that will be required for your visa application are as follows. You do not need to send them into UKVI because if required they will be scanned at the UKVCAS.
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"Sigrid only deals in unforgettable pop bangers. 2018 is hers for the taking" – The FADER "A sound bigger than anyone else" – Elle "From a tiny city in Norway comes a young woman with a powerful voice" –NPR "Sigrid is crafting inventive and ever-catchy pop melodies with every track she makes"
– V Magazine
(New York, NY – October 4, 2018) Ground-breaking Norwegian pop star Sigrid releases the highly-anticipated new single 'Sucker Punch,' following her critically acclaimed EP, RAW. Highlighting the breadth of Sigrid's maturing talent and aptitude for song writing, Sucker Punch cements the 22-year-old's rise to pop prominence.
"Sucker Punch is one of my favourite songs so far and I've been so excited for release day! Emily Warren, Martin Sjølie and I made it when we were in Ocean Sound Recordings in my hometown a while ago. The song is just a result of our usual way of working: talking, cooking, strolling, singing, dancing, experimenting...! Ugh it was so fun - just like the track itself," says Sigrid.
With the energetic "Strangers," and zeitgeist defining "Don't Kill My Vibe" – which catapulted Sigrid into the public consciousness last year – the pop star has released a collection of songs throughout 2018 including 'High Five,' 'Raw,' and 'Schedules.' Sigrid will play her biggest headline to date as she takes on O2 Brixton Academy next month and will support George Ezra in March on his arena tour.
From her VMA nomination for "MTV Push Artist of the Year," winning the BBC Sound of 2018 to storming the stage at Panorama and Coachella this year, selling out shows in both NYC and LA, and performing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Sigrid's unforgettably impassioned live performances have sparked mass appreciation and defiant, rebellious pop songs. With her Spotify following tripling since the start of the year, and streaming numbers reaching almost 450M globally, Sigrid is undoubtedly set to continue her ascent with non-conformist and progressive attitudes to femininity with 'Sucker Punch'.
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Q: extract portion of file name using gsub() I'm reading multiple .txt files using list.file() and file.path(). Just wanted to parse the full path names and extract the portion after the last "/" and before the "."
Here is the structure of file path names :
"C:/Users/Alexandre/Desktop/COURS/FORMATIONS/THESE/PROJET/RESULTATS/Vessel features/Fusion/OK/SAT-DPL192C.txt"
The code I've tried
# l <- list.files(pattern = "SAT(.+)*.txt")
# f <- file.path(getwd(), c=(l))
f <- c("C:/Users/Alexandre/Desktop/COURS/FORMATIONS/THESE/PROJET/RESULTATS/Vessel features/Fusion/OK/SAT-DPL192C.txt", "C:/Users/Alexandre/Desktop/COURS/FORMATIONS/THESE/PROJET/RESULTATS/Vessel features/Fusion/OK/SAT-DPL193D.txt")
d <- lapply(f, read.delim)
names(d) <- gsub(".*/(.*)..*", "1", f)

Last string give [1] "1" "1" instead of  [1] "DPL192C" "DPL193D" etc...
I've also tried the syntax like ".*/(.+)*..* for the portion to conserv with same result.

A: A . is a special character, so you need to escape it. Please, when you want to grab the captured expression, you need to use \\1, not just 1. Try this:
gsub(".*/(.*)\\..*", "\\1", f)
# [1] "SAT-DPL192C" "SAT-DPL193D"


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The Roman Catholic sanctuary/chancel arrangement
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PREPARATION FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC DIVINE SERVICES Roman Catholic divine services, commonly referred to as Mass, may be conducted daily but will almost always be conducted on Sundays, special Roman Catholic feast days, and on holy days of obligation. Roman Catholic Sanctuary Arrangement Most military chapels are configured in a manner which will readily accommodate Roman Catholic divine services. The items which are used to prepare for this service will most likely include the same type of items which are found in the Roman Catholic field kits and combat kits. In the Roman Catholic service, the central focus of worship for the congregation will be the priest's actions at the altar. The arrangement of the sanctuary/chancel and the altar for Mass (see figure 3-46) may be setup as described in the following paragraphs. THE ALTAR.— The altar is the focal point of the Roman Catholic worship service or Mass. The priest conducts most of the Mass on or near the altar which is centrally located in the sanctuary/chancel of the chapel. The altar may sometimes be referred to as the Altar of Sacrifice. The arrangement of the altar will vary according to the preference of the priest but will, in most cases, resemble the arrangement seen in figure 3-47. Note the 287.84(M1) Figure 3-47.-One type of altar arrangement which may be used by the Roman Catholic chaplain for Mass. 3-61


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