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2015-2016 Fall/Spring TV Preview
August 13, 2015 August 13, 2015 by Kelly
In a little less than two months, new seasons of TV shows will be returning to the networks. Re-boots are the next big thing these days, but many brand new shows will also be making their debut alongside the lucky shows that got renewed for another season. (Condolences to the fans of the cancelled shows that didn't make it to another fall premier.)
These days, the cancellation ax comes quickly – sometimes even just after two aired episodes if ratings are bad – and it's hard to decide which of the new crop of freshmen shows to invest in. No one wants to watch an entire season of something, become attached to the characters, then suffer the disappointment of an unresolved ending thanks to a network cancellation.
So how do you choose? Some may wait to see if a show gets buzz, then catch up and finish out the season if it looks like a sure thing. Others might wait until at least a second season is guaranteed before binge-watching the first. I've done both, but after looking at the crop of new shows and reboots for the up-coming season, I've found a handful that I'm interested in watching right away.
Here's my list of shows I'm excited about for the 2015 – 2016 TV season:
Heroes: Reborn
The first season of the original Heroes series is exceptionally good. Then the writer's strike in Hollywood happened and season two got cut short, ratings fell and it was all downhill from there. I stuck it out and found that by the end of season 4, it was getting interesting again, but it was too late for the show to be saved. Heroes: Reborn is a re-boot of sorts, although most of the original cast will not be returning. Zachary Levi stars and it's being billed as a 13 episode mini series and premiers September 24th on NBC.
I like American Horror Story and I liked Glee up until the last couple seasons, and Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens seems like it might be a mash up of both his shows. Each week there's a new murder with the killer to be revealed at the end. The casting is also pretty solid: Lea Michelle, Emma Roberts, Nick Jonas, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ariana Grande, just to name a few. Sounds like a soapy, guilty pleasure kind of show! Airs on Fox, beginning September 22nd.
Comic book adaptations are hot right now for both the TV networks and movie studios. I'm more of a Marvel fan myself, but really enjoyed Melissa Benoist on Glee and the trailer for this show looks really good, so I'm going to give it a shot. Plus, CBS is usually pretty solid with their programming. SuperGirl premiers on Monday, October 26th.
You, Me and the End of the World
The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, and Community are all long gone from NBC's comedy line-up and in a world where everyone is searching for the next Breaking Bad, good comedies are hard to come by these days. You, Me and the End of the World looks promising though. Jenna Fischer (The Office) and Rob Lowe (Parks and Rec) star, with a release date TBD on NBC.
This one won't be on until 2016, but is brought to you by HBO, Martin Scorsese and Mich Jagger. Vinyl centers around the music industry in New York in the late 1970s and stars Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano and Bobby Cannavale. I enjoy almost anything music related, so I'm pretty excited about this one!
The truth is still out there…The X-Files returns to Fox on January 24, 2016. Right now, there are only six episodes scheduled in this limited edition mini-series (mostly due to the actor's tight schedules) but if it's a hit, we can probably expect Fox to order more in the future. I want to believe this will happen. Don't disappoint me Mulder and Scully.
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Finally we get a first set pic from Marcus Nispel's upcoming 'Friday the 13th' remake, thanks to the official Platinum Dunes website. Unfortunately no glimpse of serial slasher Jason just yet, instead we just get Brad Fuller and Andrew Form who are both producing the redux.
Brad Fuller had this to say, "In this movie you will see a feral, brutal Jason who is hell-bent on killing in astonishing ways. And tonight our director, Marcus Nispel, constructed a shot of Jason as he is about to strike that is when I got scared. The shot is iconic in its construction. It's our Batman or Spiderman shot and when you see the movie you will know exactly what I am talking about. It is the single shot that tells you everything you need to know about Jason."
Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, whom are being considered to write the new 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' script, scribed this also.


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10/08/18: Surgery is over. Was at Amala hospital yesterday. It was an Ovarian tumor and one ovary was removed. After the biopsy, Radha has been instructed to start chemo from next week.
The surgery was done by personal loans from many people and also borrowing from lenders.
It is only five months since Radha's father succumbed to cancer. It is getting impossible to even pay the house rent. Everything, including the cost of treatment, is met by only by selling lottery tickets.
24/10/18 Radha's house is a rented house -5000 rupees per month. Not so bad. It is only seven months since Radha's father died of cancer. As of now when we saw her Radha looks bright. She has discontinued her studies at Plus 1 level as she has been diagnosed with ovarian tumor. The family spent 70,000 Rupees recently for a surgery in Amala Hospital where one of her ovaries was removed. She has to do three-courses of chemo with seven sessions each. Which means she has to do 21 sessions.
Radha's mother runs the house selling lottery tickets. The family has no other means of sustenance. The older boy, Gautham is doing his first-year degree course in Economics at Cooperative college. He is trying for a part-time job.
She is at home after completing her first chemo course.
Radha had waist-long hair. Now it is cut short to the nape of her neck. Since she has just come back from chemo, her hair has not started falling yet. We have to start expecting that to happen, mustn't we?
The roots of her tumor ran so deep it had reached her kidneys.
It was because the tumor burst suddenly that she had to go to Amala to have it removed.
Radha's mother runs the house selling lottery tickets. The family has no other means of sustenance. The older boy, Gautham is doing his first-year degree course in Economics at Cooperative college. He is trying for a part-time job. After his father's death by cancer, he had to undergo a genetic test. There is no problem with the results. Day after tomorrow they are going to RCC. They said they will drop into Solace on the way. It will be a good thing for us to try and support them in whatever way we possibly can.
They really want to meet and talk to Sheeba Ameer. But we said that won't work out now as she has just gone to America.
26/12/18: Radha's mother had come. The girl is much better and is taking her medication. Her mother plans to resume selling lottery tickets which she had stopped temporarily ….
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There's a day off in the FAT KID RULES THE WORLD schedule, and the last day before the day off wraps at 5am. By the time I make it back to where I'm staying, it's closer to 5:30am. The next day is Sunday, and since I'm free, I take the opportunity to wake up at noon to listen to Film Courage on LA Talk Radio with guest Wonder Russell calling in from Denver. I'm listening to it in Wonder's living room. In Seattle.
Welcome to the weirdness that is my life.
Near the end of the show, my phone rings. Phil Seneker (who keeps showing up on this trip) is working on a film and wants to know if I feel like swinging by. So then I'm in the car, driving to Woodinville, WA to help out on Brendon Fogle's debut short SYNC.
They're in the last day of shooting. Actually, the last half day of shooting. They don't need my help. They've got a small crew in a small room with a somewhat minimal kit and they're on schedule. No drama. No chaos.
But Phil's a backer. His son Ethan is the film's lead. Brendon is a backer. The least I can do is show up and shoot some behind the scenes photos and hang out.
SYNC is shooting in a small, alternative high school where Brendon teaches. They've built a full set in their big common room, complete with moveable walls and all that fun stuff, but today they're filming in a classroom they've turned into the bedroom of Ethan's character.
It really kind of makes me wish I could have shown up for the set construction, because I imagine that would have been compelling.
I'm there for a couple of hours. I take a few pictures. Eat some of the extra craft services food. I spot a picture John Trigonis on the wall--apparently he sent them a picture of himself to use on an album cover (the indie community at its most elegant and cooperative).
And that's it. I'm not even sure what the film is about. I know there's Ethan and a girl laying on a bed (go Ethan) and some vinyl records. I've asked Brendon to write something on the production, so we can get a proper feel for it. But, for now, enjoy some pictures from my "day off".


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Соревнования по триатлону на летних юношеских Олимпийских играх 2018 года прошли с 7 по 11 октября в парке Трес-де-Фебреро в Буэнос-Айресе, столице Аргентины. Были разыграны 3 комплекта наград: у юношей и девушек в личном первенстве, а также в турнире среди смешанных команд. В соревнованиях, согласно правилам, смогли принять участие спортсмены, рождённые с 1 января 2001 года по 31 декабря 2002 года.

История
Триатлон является постоянным видом программы, который дебютировал на I летних юношеских Олимпийских играх в Сингапуре.

На предыдущих юношеских Олимпиадах играх в 2010 и 2014 годах в триатлоне также разыгрывалось по три комплекта наград.

Квалификация
Каждый Национальный олимпийский комитет (НОК) может заявить участников не более чем в 2 соревнованиях, по одному у юношей и девушек. На правах страны-хозяйки юношеской Олимпиады Аргентине предоставили максимальную квоту. Ещё 4 квоты, по 2 у юношей и девушек, были распределены решением трехсторонней комиссии. Остальные обладатели 58 лицензий определялись при помощи квалификационных соревнований (пяти континентальных квалификационных турниров).

Общее число спортсменов, которые выступят на соревнованиях, было определено Международным олимпийским комитетом и составило 64 человек (по 32 у юношей и девушек) из 42 стран мира.

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Price Waterhouse Bangalore and its two erstwhile partners - S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri Noticee - have been asked to jointly disgorge the wrongful gains of over Rs 13 crore with interest calculated at the rate of 12% per annum from January 7, 2009, till the date of payment.
In a 108-page statement, SEBI said that the manner in which various entities bearing the PwC name had been registered in India in a "nebulous way", made it hard not to take notice of the "loss of faith of the investors in the brand name".
After the scandal broke, Price Waterhouse moved the Supreme Court to challenge SEBI's jurisdiction and authority in investigating against it; the SC, however, didn't stall investigations.
The affair, however, may make it hard for Price Waterhouse to win new clients because of the damage to its reputation, and the uncertainty that a court proceeding for a stay order would bring. PWC was acting as the auditor of the company between 2000-2008.
PW sources said that since the 2009 Satyam scam, where two partners of the firm were found to be involved in wrongdoing, the global audit and advisory giant has tightened its systems and has undergone several peer reviews.
Price Waterhouse said it would appeal against the Sebi ban, which came nine years after Satyam founder B. Ramalinga Raju confessed to cooking the firm's books in a Rs7,136 crore fraud.
Price Waterhouse, the auditing arm of consultancy firm PwC India, is the auditor for 77 companies listed on National Stock Exchange of India, according to data from Prime Database.
In a 1999, interview with Larry King, the future president said she would be his choice as running mate with the Reform Party. Jones continued, "Well, they've readied [Winfrey] to run against Trump in 2020 and to fire that campaign up in about a year".
Although the PwC firms were individual partner firms with separate legal existence, they benefited from the brand name and the resources behind it, and ostensibly held out to the public to be a single consolidated network of firms, SEBI said.
The notification also said it will not impact audits for the financial year 2017-18.
The order was passed under the Prevention of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices (PFUTP) regulations and Section 11 of Sebi Act, which empowers the regulator to pass directions in the interest of investors.
"Companies will be in a sticky position if Price Waterhouse refuses to resign", said Gupta.
The market regulator held in its 180-page order that the firm was complicit with the main perpetrators of the accounting fraud and did not comply with auditing standards. "We believe that the order is also not in line with the directions of the Hon'ble Bombay High Court order of 2010", the accounting firm said in a statement issued as a response to the Sebi order.
The PW statement also said: "We have learnt the lessons of Satyam and invested heavily over the last nine years in building a robust and high quality audit practice, as also confirmed in 2015 by an independent monitor appointed by the US SEC". The Satyam promoters inflated revenue and profits to showcase a healthy picture of the company when PwC was its auditor.
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Crazy week, the match is almost completely already. AI system has been rebuilt from the ground up to be more flexible (previous matches could potentially benefit from it... will depend on testing feedback, I guess), along with a lot of other additions, fixes and improvements. I'm currently working on the audience, and when that's done... match will be done, and I'll move on to the next item on the to-do list!


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Cycle Strike: Event concluded in the presence of Deputy Commissioner of Gulmarg
2 years ago GNT Bureau
Srinagar (Jammu) [India], July 3: On June 27, a cycling race called Cycle Strike was held in Gulmarg to encourage Kashmiri youth to participate in sports and, in particular, to steer away from drug addiction.
"This is the first race of its sort up to the tourist attraction Gulmarg at an altitude of 8,700 feet above sea level," organiser Syed Ali Asghar Rizvi stated in a press release.
"Forty-three cyclists took part in the 30-kilometer race, including national and international cyclists. The race started at Magam. There was a lot of enthusiasm among the young cyclists. The physical fitness training of these cyclists was given by the famous fitness expert Imtiyaz Darne. To keep the young generation away from wrong deeds such steps are being taken," he added.
By travelling a distance of 30 kilometres from Magam to Gulmarg, Muhammad Akbar Khan, Waheed Ahmed, and Monis Ahmed took first, second, and third place, respectively. The teenage cyclists were ecstatic to have taken the lead positions.
The awardees were presented with awards by Deputy Commissioner Gulmarg Bhupinder Kumar. He acknowledged his delight at the race's organisation and stated that Kashmir's kids have a lot of potential.
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Aerosol types play an important role for air pollutant tracking, satellite retrieval, and atmospheric radiation calculation. In addition, East Asia is the most complex region of aerosol type in the world, and aerosols type classification could be challenge for this region. Pervious studies proven that the extinction to backscatter ratio (lidar ratio, Sp) can be applied to distinguish aerosols types effectively. Therefore, this study focus on studying the relationship between aerosol types and aerosol optical properies. We analyzed long-term data of Sp and other optical properties. Information of the aerosol vertical uding distribution and air mass trajectories was used to clarify our founding.
Eight years (2005-2012) of EPA-NCU Micro-PulseLidar observationswere applied in this study. Seasonal variation of aerosol optical depth (AOD) shows highest AOD (~0.8) in Mar, about two times higher than average value of 0.4. The high AOD in spring is attributed to long-range transport of biomass-burning aerosols from Indochina According to aerosol profile classification, extinction profiles were classified into two types: Type 1 (near-surface aerosol transport) and Type 2 (double layer aerosol transport). Fall season (Oct-Nov) is the prevailing season for the Type 1, whereas Type 2 mainly happened in spring (Mar-Apr). In type 1, air masses were travelled from 3 sectors: Asia continental (AC), Pacific Ocean (PO), and Southeast Asia (SA). The mean Sp values for the three sectors are 3917sr for AC, 3012sr for PO, and 3818sr for SA. According the meaning of Sp, a low Spimplies a stronger scattering characteristic. The Sp results suggest aerosol from AC sector contain dust particle, and aerosols from PO are most likely sea-salt. We further combine the EPA dust event database and backward trajectory analysis for Type 2. Results show that Sp is 4114sr for dust storm events. The histogram of Sp for biomass burning events in Type 2 shows two peaks pattern. The first peak occurred within range of 30-50sr corresponding to urban pollutant, whilesecond peak occurred within range of 60-80sr in relation to biomass burning. Finally, our study summarized the Sp values for four major aerosol types over NCU:Urban (4218sr), Dust (346sr), Biomass burning (6912sr), Oceanic (3012sr). The relationship between Sp and aerosol types based on our study can be applied to air pollutant monitoring.


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DPS defends trooper in hot-asphalt arrest video
A video of a DPS arrest in Mesa has sparked some debate as to whether a trooper used excessive force.
Graig Graziosi
"It's so hot," Marc LeBeau, 34, screams, his face pressed to the pavement as an Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper attempts to handcuff him.
A video circulating online shows the confrontation that happened Monday in Mesa and has been generating debates across social media as to whether the trooper used excessive force to subdue LeBeau.
DPS officials defended the trooper Tuesday afternoon, saying he was using restraint, not unnecessary roughness, against a combative suspect. The trooper's name has not been released. The DPS also produced a second bystander-taken video that shows the arrest from a different angle.
LeBeau was being held Tuesday in a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs, according to the Sheriff's Office website.
DPS: Vehicle clocked at 95 mph
DPS officials say a trooper running radar just before 1 p.m. Monday clocked LeBeau's vehicle traveling 95 mph in a 65-mph zone on Loop 202-Red Mountain Freeway near Brown Road.
After stopping the vehicle, the trooper attempted to arrest LeBeau, but officials said the driver got out of the vehicle and pushed him.
LeBeau was barefoot and complaining his feet were hot, officials said, as he continued to push the trooper, who managed to get one handcuff on LeBeau but was unable to secure the second handcuff.
The confrontation eventually ended up on the pavement, which is where both videos begin. LeBeau appears to be fighting against the trooper as two bystanders step in.
The videos show LeBeau's face and body pressed against the pavement during the arrest, and he can be heard wailing and screaming. The high temperature Monday was 107 degrees.
After the trooper and those assisting him got LeBeau into the trooper's cruiser, the video shows the trooper shouting at LeBeau that he could have avoided the whole ordeal if he complied with the trooper's commands.
"It's nice and cold in there, huh?" the trooper yells at LeBeau, who is handcuffed in the back of the air-conditioned cruiser. "You didn't have to go through all that (expletive)."
LeBeau was taken to the hospital and treated for scrapes and bruises before being booked into jail.
Different angles
A video of the incident was soon posted online. Austin Maxwell said he was driving by the scene and stopped to film the encounter. Maxwell's video quickly circulated on social media, sparking some debates as to whether the trooper used excessive force to subdue LeBeau.
Col. Frank Milstead, DPS director, called a news conference Tuesday, where he presented a second bystander-captured video of the confrontation shot from a different angle. That video, posted above, shows the end of LeBeau's arrest.
Milstead said the video showed that LeBeau caused the struggle and the trooper was using restraint rather than excessive force.
He rebuked the coverage of the event by some media outlets, saying their reports were biased against the officer and drew incorrect conclusions from Maxwell's video.
"I'll tell you, looking at it, I think he's trying to use the least amount of force possible because no one wants to become the next viral video on one of your news stations," Milstead said. "It's a very, very difficult time for law enforcement."
At the press conference, the DPS also brought up a man they only identified as Tom (he wouldn't provide his last name). Tom said he was one of the men who helped the trooper apprehend LeBeau and expressed disappointment that so many people were filming the encounter rather than helping. His message for the public was that they should help law enforcement.
Milstead echoed Tom's sentiments, adding that "I've never seen a situation where a citizen tried to help an officer and it turned bad."
"My people are out in the middle of nowhere all the time by themselves," Milstead said. "If a citizen sees a trooper who needs help, I'd hope they'd stop to help, because I'll tell you this, the men and women of this agency would give their lives to protect our citizens."


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Q: Why WebGL is faster than Canvas? If both use hardware acceleration (GPU) to execute code, why WebGL is so most faster than Canvas?
I mean, I want to know why at low level, the chain from the code to the processor.
What happens? Canvas/WebGL comunicates directly with Drivers and then with Video Card?

A: Canvas does not execute a pipeline of layers of processing to transition sets of vertices and indices into triangles which then are given textures and lighting all in hardware as does OpenGL/WebGL ... this is the root cause of such speed differences ... Canvas counterparts to such formulations are all done on CPU with only the final rendering sent to the graphics hardware ... speed differences are particularly evident when massive number of such vertices are attempted to be synthesized/animated on Canvas versus WebGL ...
Alas we are on the cusp on hearing the public announcement of the modern replacement to OpenGL :  Vulkan who's remit includes exposing general purpose compute in a more pedestrian way than OpenCL/CUDA as well as baking in use of multi-core processors which might just shift Canvas like processing onto hardware

A: Canvas is slower because it's generic and therefore is hard to optimize to the same level that you can optimize WebGL. Let's take a simple example, drawing a solid circle with arc.
Canvas actually runs on top of the GPU as well using the same APIs as WebGL. So, what does canvas have to do when you draw an circle? The minimum code to draw an circle in JavaScript using canvas 2d is
ctx.beginPath():
ctx.arc(x, y, radius, startAngle, endAngle);
ctx.fill();

You can imagine internally the simplest implementation is

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*beginPath creates a buffer (gl.bufferData)

*arc generates the points for triangles that make a circle and uploads with gl.bufferData.

*fill calls gl.drawArrays or gl.drawElements

But wait a minute ... knowing what we know about how GL works canvas can't generate the points at step 2 because if we call stroke instead of fill then based on what we know about how GL works we need a different set of points for a solid circle (fill) vs an outline of a circle (stroke). So, what really happens is something more like

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*beginPath creates or resets some internal buffer

*arc generates the points that make a circle into the internal buffer

*fill takes the points in that internal buffer, generates the correct set of triangles for the points in that internal buffer into a GL buffer, uploads them with gl.bufferData, calls gl.drawArrays or gl.drawElements

What happens if we want to draw 2 circles? The same steps are likely repeated.
Let's compare that to what we would do in WebGL. Of course in WebGL we'd have to write our own shaders (Canvas has its shaders as well). We'd also have to create a buffer and fill it with the triangles for a circle, (note we already saved time as we skipped the intermediate buffer of points). We then can call gl.drawArrays or gl.drawElements to draw our circle. And if we want to draw a second circle? We just update a uniform and call gl.drawArrays again skipping all the other steps.

const m4 = twgl.m4;
const gl = document.querySelector('canvas').getContext('webgl');
const vs = `
attribute vec4 position;
uniform mat4 u_matrix;

void main() {
  gl_Position = u_matrix * position;
}
`;

const fs = `
precision mediump float;
uniform vec4 u_color;
void main() {
  gl_FragColor = u_color;
}
`;

const program = twgl.createProgram(gl, [vs, fs]);
const positionLoc = gl.getAttribLocation(program, 'position');
const colorLoc = gl.getUniformLocation(program, 'u_color');
const matrixLoc = gl.getUniformLocation(program, 'u_matrix');

const positions = [];
const radius = 50;
const numEdgePoints = 64;
for (let i = 0; i < numEdgePoints; ++i) {
  const angle0 = (i    ) * Math.PI * 2 / numEdgePoints;
  const angle1 = (i + 1) * Math.PI * 2 / numEdgePoints;
  // make a triangle
  positions.push(
    0, 0,
    Math.cos(angle0) * radius,
    Math.sin(angle0) * radius,
    Math.cos(angle1) * radius,
    Math.sin(angle1) * radius,
  );
}

const buf = gl.createBuffer();
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buf);
gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array(positions), gl.STATIC_DRAW);

gl.enableVertexAttribArray(positionLoc);
gl.vertexAttribPointer(positionLoc, 2, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);

gl.useProgram(program);

const projection = m4.ortho(0, gl.canvas.width, 0, gl.canvas.height, -1, 1);

function drawCircle(x, y, color) {
  const mat = m4.translate(projection, [x, y, 0]);
  gl.uniform4fv(colorLoc, color);
  gl.uniformMatrix4fv(matrixLoc, false, mat);

  gl.drawArrays(gl.TRIANGLES, 0, numEdgePoints * 3);
}

drawCircle( 50, 75, [1, 0, 0, 1]);
drawCircle(150, 75, [0, 1, 0, 1]);
drawCircle(250, 75, [0, 0, 1, 1]);
<script src="https://twgljs.org/dist/4.x/twgl-full.min.js"></script>
<canvas></canvas>

Some devs might look at that and think Canvas caches the buffer so it can just reuse the points on the 2nd draw call. It's possible that's true but I kind of doubt it. Why? Because of the genericness of the canvas api. fill, the function that does all the real work doesn't know what's in the internal buffer of points. You can call arc, then moveTo, lineTo, then arc again, then call fill. All of those points will be in the internal buffer of points when we get to fill.

const ctx = document.querySelector('canvas').getContext('2d');
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.moveTo(50, 30);
ctx.lineTo(100, 150);
ctx.arc(150, 75, 30, 0, Math.PI * 2);
ctx.fill();
<canvas></canvas>

In other words, fill needs to always look at all the points. Another thing, I suspect arc tries to optimize for size. If you call arc with a radius of 2 it probably generates less points than if you call it with a radius of 2000. It's possible canvas caches the points but given the hit rate would likely be small it seems unlikely.
In any case, the point is WebGL let's you take control at a lower level allowing you skip steps that canvas can't skip. It also lets you reuse data that canvas can't reuse.
In fact if we know we want to draw 10000 animated circles we even have other options in WebGL. We could generate the points for 10000 circles which is a valid option. We could also use instancing. Both of those techniques would be vastly faster than canvas since in canvas we'd have to call arc 10000 times and one way or another it would have to generate points for 10000 circles every single frame instead of just once at the beginning and it would have to call gl.drawXXX 10000 times instead of just once.
Of course the converse is canvas is easy. Drawing the circle took 3 lines of code. In WebGL, because you need to setup and write shaders it probably takes at least 60 lines of code. In fact the example above is about 60 lines not including the code to compile and link shaders (~10 lines). On top of that canvas supports transforms, patterns, gradients, masks, etc. All options we'd have to add with lots more lines of code in WebGL. So canvas is basically trading ease of use for speed over WebGL.

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GOP senators slam Biden for working with Russia on Iran Deal during Ukraine invasion: 'Insane'
By Andrew Mark Miller - March 9, 2022
A group of Republican senators slammed President Biden during a press conference Wednesday and sharply criticized him for working with Russia on a nuclear deal with Iran while Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashes chaos and bloodshed in Ukraine.
"This Iran Deal if and when it is announced will be a massive win for Vladimir Putin," Texas Sen. Cruz said during the press conference while flanked by several fellow Republican senators. "Because the Biden administration has been eager to tell Putin and tell the Ayatollah of course we will have a carveout for the Iran deal on Russia sanctions which means Putin will make billions in oil and gas transactions, in nuclear transactions, and in weapons transactions."
Cruz added that the Biden administration is "incoherently" announcing sanctions on Russia while also "creating a massive subsidy" for Russia which "makes no sense."
"This is not right, we should walk," Republican Sen. Jim Risch emphatically stated during the press conference. "This doesn't need to be done right now and particularly it doesn't need to be done when we have the problems going on that we have in Ukraine. We should walk."
"Mr. President, you're the only one in America doing business with the Russians, stop doing business with the Russians," Risch added while slamming his hand on the podium. "Don't have them negotiating for us, walk on this deal."
Republican Senator Joni Ernst said during the press conference that she doesn't understand Biden's foreign policy and referred to working with Russia on an Iran nuclear deal as "insane."
"Russia, this is the country with tanks running over Ukraine right now killing innocent civilians," Ernst said. "Children, women, people that we care about and yet they're using those Russians to negotiate a deal with yet another one of our near-peer adversaries, Iran."
Sen. John Barrasso agreed with Risch, Ernst, and Cruz and criticized the administration for working with Russia on the deal while the country invades Ukraine.
"It's the Russians who are doing the negotiations on behalf of the United States," the Wyoming Republican said. "You turn on the TV and radio and see what the Russians are doing in Ukraine. How in the world can we allow them to negotiate on our behalf?"
The Republicans also blasted President Biden for "working with our adversaries" across the globe to alleviate the Russian disruption to oil markets rather than opening up energy production in the United States.
"What we have is an administration that would rather deal with international killers than with American drillers," Sen. Bill Hagerty said. "This my friends has to stop and we could stop it tomorrow. All we need to do is have this administration come out and clearly state that we're going to reopen the Keystone XL pipeline. That we're going to get back in the energy business. We're going to become energy independent again. That we're going to remove this massive lever Vladimir Putin has on the American economy."
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The Luddites were skilled workers in the English woolen industry around the years 1810 to 1814. New machines such as power looms and shearing frames were taking their jobs, and they demanded protection against displacement by machinery as a constitutional right. They wanted a gradual introduction of new machinery, with alternate employment for displaced workers. They also wanted a legal minimum wage, better working conditions, especially for women and children, and the right to organize trade unions.
Luddites were defending more than their own jobs. They saw the huge cotton mills advancing with their long hours of work, exploitation of child labour, and the reduction of workers to objects in the marketplace – all this powered by the mean –spirited, degrading ideology of unregulated laissez-faire competition.
Because the English Parliament had blocked all constitutional means of reform, the Luddites were forced into destructive action against property. "We will never lay down Arms till the House of Commons passes an Act to put down all machinery hurtful to commonality…We petition no more – that won't do –fighting must, said Ned Ludd.
Violence against machinery was organized and selective. For example, framework-knitters only broke the frames where wages had been lowered.
In 1812 the Government responded to the frustrations of the wool workers by making frame-breaking a crime punishable by death.
Today our rights, including the right to a decent job at a decent wage, are being taken away from us by an international, corporate agenda driven by the same Scrooge-had-it-right, laissez-faire, economic ideology against which the Luddites fought.
Our Luddite brotherss and sisters were part of the two hundred year fight for a more democratic and just society. We, also, are part of that long haul.
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This week we end our storytelling blog with a classic game. This is not only a great at parties but is fun to play with the family around the dinner table or on a road trip. Please visit Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series if you want to start from the beginning.
Children take turns telling a story, each one picking up where the other left off.
This can be done by setting a timer, passing a yarn ball with knots (child unwinds ball as the story is told and passes ball to next child when they reach a knot), or assigning each child a "part" of the story (setting the stage, unfolding the crisis, resolving the problem).
Beginners can retell a story they have recently read at home or school. More advanced storytellers can be challenged to incorporate a moral or lesson into their story.
As you play storytelling games with your children use the opportunity to teach them how stories are constructed. For example, as the children become more skilled at storytelling you can start discussing what types of details make the story more interesting, the characters more believable, and the plot more captivating. For older children you might even discuss the roles characters can play in a story (main characters, supporting characters, antagonists, protagonists) or the different types of stories that can be created (comedies, dramas, tragedies, fables, mysteries, fairytales). Have fun and bring your favorite stories into therapy…we would love to hear them!!!


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Cosmic Symphony: A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
May 25, 2011 by Ervin Laszlo, in First blog
The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity and could also enable us to surmount the problems that threaten our life and our future.
But just what is quantum consciousness, or QC? I have spoken about QC in my previous posts, but the question merits a further, deeper look.
First of all, what is consciousness? The commonsense assumption is that consciousness is a stream of experience produced by the brain. As long as the brain functions, there is consciousness; when the brain shuts down, consciousness vanishes. This, however, is not necessarily the case. It could be that our brain no more produces consciousness than the radio produces the symphony that comes through its speakers. The symphony, too, disappears when the radio is shut down, yet we know that it's not produced by the radio. Both the radio and the brain pick up signals, transform them, and display the result in our stream of conscious experience.
According to received wisdom, the things and events that make up our experience of the world originate in the world. People and things around us reflect light and make sound; for the most part they can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted. The corresponding signals reach our eye and ear in the form of waves in the electromagnetic field, in the air, and in the physical, chemical, and biological fields in and around our body. Our exteroceptive senses transform this information into nerve signals, and the signals are analyzed, sharpened, and interpreted by our brain. The result is the experience that appears in our consciousness.
This is the gist of the standard scientific explanation of our perception of the world, but it's not complete. It's incomplete not only because it fails to solve the age-old philosophers' puzzle, how physical signals can transmute into intimately felt conscious experience (is this transmutation the work of the brain, or does the brain also transmit forms of consciousness from the external world?), but also because it doesn't account for all the things that appear in our consciousness. Some of the things that appear in our consciousness convey information about the world even though we cannot see how they could be based on sense-perceivable events. Happily, unlike the philosophers' "hard problem," this is no longer an unsolved puzzle. We now realize that our brain is not limited to capturing sense-organ-conveyed information, for it's not just a classical biochemical system. It's also a "macroscopic quantum system," and such a system can "resonate" with the world. On the quantum level it can capture and process signals that far exceed the range of the signals available to the bodily senses.
The quantum-perception of the world is just as real as its sensory perception. Here, in brief, is why.
All things in space and time emit waves, and these waves interact with the waves produced by other things. They create wave interference patterns. Pressure waves in the air, and electric and magnetic waves in the EM field, diminish with distance, and the patterns they produce are limited to our immediate vicinity. However, quantum waves (waves that propagate in the nearly infinite virtual-energy domain that fills cosmic space) move instantly over any distance. The kinds of interference patterns they create constitute quantum holograms, and quantum holograms are "entangled" with each other — they are instantly connected. As a result the information carried by one quantum hologram can be transferred to any other quantum hologram. Thus a system that can "read" the information in one hologram has access to the information carried by all. Our quantum-resonance-decoding brain could in principle capture information on anything and everything that creates quantum-interference waves in the universe.
Evidently, to capture this kind of information, our brain must have the corresponding receptivity. Scientists are now beginning to understand how quantum-hologram receptivity might be built into the brain.
It appears that quantum-level signals are picked up by microstructures in our brain's cytoskeleton (the cytoskeleton is a protein-based structure that maintains the integrity of living cells, including neurons). The neurons in the brain are organized into a network of microtubules of microscopic size but astronomical number. There are about 1 x 1018 microtubules in the human brain, and "merely" 1 x 1011 neurons (though this number is still larger than the number of stars in the galaxy). With filaments just five to six nanometers in diameter, our network of microtubules — the so-called "microtrabecular lattice" — is believed to capture, process, and convey information.
Physicist Roger Penrose and neurophysiologist Stuart Hameroff claim that consciousness emerges from these quantum-level elements of the brain's cytoskeleton. The microtrabecular lattice could be responsible for the quantum-receptivity of our brain, picking up, transforming, and interpreting information based on phase-conjugate resonance.
If this is the case, there is not just one mode of perceiving the world available to us, but two. We have what neuroscientist Ede Frecska and anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna call the classical "perceptual-cognitive-symbolic" mode, based on information conveyed by our bodily senses, and we also have the "direct-intuitive-nonlocal" mode, enabled by the quantum receptivity of our brain's microstructures.
In today's world we tend to perceive the world in the classical mode, yet we could, and sometimes do, perceive aspects of it in the direct mode as well. However, our left-hemisphere-dominated perceptual mode represses information that doesn't accord with our established ways of thinking. Only in spiritual, religious, or mystical experience does such information penetrate to our everyday awareness — and then, just fleetingly.
Yet our brain could operate in a more balanced way: the cerebral functions underlying our everyday awareness could be more embracing than those in the classical perceptual mode. Operating in this way is possible, and has already been achieved by a few people. This was the finding of British psychophysiologist Maxwell Cade, who in the 1970s examined the EEG patterns of more than 3,000 individuals. He had found four typical patterns, made up of specific combinations of alpha, beta, and theta waves. (He did not consider dreamless deep sleep, where delta waves predominate.) Each combination turned out to be associated with a particular state of consciousness. The consciousness accompanying dreamful sleep, the state between waking and sleeping, and deep meditation each exhibits a typical combination of EEG waves. Dreamful sleep, the transitory state between waking and sleeping, and meditation all show pronounced alpha and theta waves. Our state of ordinary awareness is dominated by beta waves.
But Cade also found a "fifth state." This is the remarkable state that comes to light in the EEG-portrait of accomplished healers. Cade called the consciousness associated with this state "awakened mind." Here alpha and theta waves are strong, much as in the meditative state, but there are also beta waves. In some healers this state has become the norm, maintained not only during active healing, but also in everyday life.
Just as remarkably, in the fifth state the EEG waves are balanced across the left and the right hemispheres. This is important. The brain-state underlying ordinary consciousness is left-hemisphere dominated, and we know that the left hemisphere filters out experiences that do not mesh with our established beliefs and expectations. We also know that deep prayer and meditation activate the right hemisphere and tend to synchronize the two hemispheres. A hemisphere-synchronized brain can operate in the direct quantum-resonance mode: as experiments I have witnessed myself demonstrate, expert meditators synchronize not only their own left and right hemispheres, but can also synchronize their left and right hemispheres with the synchronized hemispheres of others who meditate with them. And this synchronization occurs in the entire absence of sensory contact among the meditators. They can be in different rooms, different cities, even on different continents. (I reported on these experiments in my book, Science and the Akashic Field, and in other books.)
Unfortunately, a state of deep prayer and meditation is not functional in the everyday context: in most cases we need to sit with closed eyes, detached from the world around us.
A truly evolved consciousness would have the quantum-receptivity of deep prayer and meditation, but it would operate also in the everyday context. It would display a broad EEG wave-spectrum, embracing alpha and theta as well as beta waves. And it would show that the two brain hemispheres are highly coordinated, so that the information processed by the quantum-mode receiving right hemisphere is readily communicated to the sensory-information processing left. An evolved consciousness is wider and deeper than the everyday consciousness of people today, and more functional than the consciousness of those engaged in deep prayer and meditation.
In the past this kind of consciousness has been limited to exceptionally sensitive and creative people: to healers and poets, prophets and spiritual masters. In the future it could spread to a wider segment of the population. Humanity could be evolving its consciousness.
In closing, let us return to the example of the radio. Tuned to the right station, our radio can pick up and bring to us a great symphony. Imagine what our quantum brain could bring to us when, in the expanded and balanced mode, it would be tuned to the information encoded at the heart of the cosmos. This would be veritably a cosmic symphony. Of course, we could never capture all of it — only God could do that — but we could capture far more than we do today. This would make us more empathetic as individuals, and more cooperative as citizens in our interactive and interdependent global community. The rise of these attributes in a critical mass could be the key to our continued survival. QC may be not only the next step in our species evolution; it could also be our collective salvation.
Copyright © Ervin Laszlo.
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CureSearch for Children's Cancer receives gift to support promising immunotherapy trial
By CureSearch / November 30, 2022 December 15, 2022
CureSearch for Children's Cancer receives $1 million gift from Norcross Family Foundation
Funds to support cutting-edge immunotherapy trial for pediatric high-grade glioma
Bethesda, MD – February 8, 2020  – CureSearch for Children's Cancer has received a $1 million gift from the Norcross Family Foundation in support of a first-in-human, phase I/II clinical trial testing an innovative personalized immunotherapy for pediatric high-grade gliomas, the primary cause of death in children with brain tumors.
The project is funded through a CureSearch Catapult Award granted to pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, MD, PhD at the University of Florida who will partner with the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium to enroll patients at up to 18 different institutions across the U.S. beginning this year.
Elias Sayour, MD, PhD
Like a flu vaccine, which takes pieces of the flu virus and activates the immune system against them, Dr. Sayour's technique takes pieces of a tumor's genetic material and activates the immune system to identify and destroy that tumor. If high-grade glioma, a hard-to-treat tumor type, is responsive to this immunotherapy, the treatment will likely translate to other pediatric and adult solid tumors as well.
"Dr. Sayour's preclinical work is extraordinary, and if successful, the implication for treating all solid tumors is nothing short of groundbreaking," said Kay Koehler, CureSearch President & CEO. "Unfortunately, this is the type of innovative project that often goes unfunded in the current research landscape. We're thrilled to partner with the Norcross family to fill that funding gap and ensure that all children diagnosed with cancer have safe and effective treatment options."
"Our family believes that the work Dr Sayour is doing has the potential to be a real game changer in the progress and treatment of these cancers," said Gary Norcross, President, Norcross Foundation. "We look forward to seeing the impact that this project will have on so many children and are proud to support this innovative work."
"I'm truly humbled and so very lucky to be surrounded by incredible people in the lab, at CureSearch, and within the community by the Norcross Family Foundation," said Dr. Sayour. "We're eager to move forward with our trial in this new year and we will work tirelessly to make a difference. Together, I know we will."
Dr. Sayour is an assistant professor in the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery and the department of pediatrics in the UF College of Medicine, and principal investigator of the RNA Engineering Laboratory within UF's Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy.
As part of CureSearch's growing co-funding model, this $2.5 million Catapult Award project is also supported in part by the Resonance Foundation for Children's Health, co-founded by Sheri Sobrato Brisson and Eric Brisson, and by the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research.
About CureSearch for Children's Cancer
CureSearch for Children's Cancer, a national nonprofit organization based in Bethesda, MD, works to end childhood cancer by driving targeted and innovative research with measurable results in an accelerated time frame. CureSearch focuses on advancing the strongest research out of the laboratory and into clinical trials and development, where better, less-toxic treatments can quickly help children.
CureSearch Catapult Awards support high impact, clinic-ready projects as part of an overall research strategy focused on moving new treatments quickly to clinic, reaching patients in need today while potentially changing the standard of care for all patients across the globe.
For more information, visit curesearch.org, follow CureSearch on Twitter @curesearch or join the conversation on Facebook at  facebook.com/curesearch.
About Pediatric Brain Tumors and High-Grade Gliomas
Brain tumors are the most common cause of pediatric cancer death. Gliomas originate from glial cells which support and nourish neurons in the brain and are classified as either low-grade or high-grade based on how likely they are to grow and spread. Low-grade gliomas usually are slow growing and stay in a local area of the brain. High-grade gliomas grow and spread aggressively and are the primary cause of death in children with brain tumors. Median survival in high-grade glioma is less than two years.
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Sign the Petition Here. We call for urgent enquiry into the Governance of the BBC The BBC has become an ideological tool for promotion of an agenda actively hostile to Christianity and to the maintenance of traditional morality, which historically has underpinned and given strength to our society for over a thousand years. In promoting this agenda it displays contempt for Christian belief, abusing its position to provide '... impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services, which inform, educate and entertain'. In a recent broadcast of its flagship Christian programme Songs of Praise, the Corporation broadcast a supposed homosexual marriage ceremony performed at Rutherglen United Reformed Church near Glasgow. It chose to do this knowing that the Bible prohibits any and all sex outside marriage, laid down as between one man and one woman for life, for their mutual benefit and support and for the bringing up of any children that may result from their union. It chose to broadcast this moreover in the clear and certain knowledge that such ceremonies are banned by leading Christian denominations, including the Church of England, the Church of Wales, and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches...
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Kristie Higgs, a pastoral assistant at Farmor's Academy in Gloucester, was recently sacked after posting concerns on her personal Facebook page about RSE lessons at a nearby Church of England Primary School attended by her own child. Worried especially by the use of two story books promoting homosexuality and transgenderism, Kristie, a committed Christian, asked friends to sign a Voice for Justice UK petition calling for the right of parents to have children educated in line with their religious beliefs. For this she was anonymously reported for homophobia to the school where she worked, with the result that she was summoned to a disciplinary hearing at which she was sacked for gross misconduct.
It is unacceptable that a devout Christian mother, with an exemplary work record spanning six years, should be penalised for expressing justifiable concerns over teaching that prematurely introduces children to sexual issues of which they would otherwise be unaware, and that runs directly contrary to her Christian faith...
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Sign the Petition Here. Petition to: Reject flawed and dangerous RSE regulations
Sex and Relationships Education up to now has been a disaster. Despite all efforts we still have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe; one of the highest teenage abortion rates in Western Europe; epidemic level STIs amongst teenagers; frightening levels of child addiction to pornography; unprecedented levels of diagnosable mental illness among children; and police reports of alarming and growing numbers of child-on-child sex abuse, some including children as young as five...
Call for anti-Christian Counter Extremism Commissioners to resign
https://www.citizengo.org/en/168052-call-biased-counter-extremism-commissioners-resign On Monday July 3, the Government proudly announced a 75 point plan to improve the lives of gay people, eliminating discrimination and advancing 'equality'. Citing a recent survey of gay people in the UK, the BBC stated, "LGBT hate incidents had been experienced by 40% of people in the survey, with more than nine in 10 of the most serious offences going unreported." Seemingly, however, such even-handed treatment does not extend to Christians, who routinely in the UK today are being subjected to intolerance, harassment, and abuse - despite the fact that freedom of belief is enshrined in Art 9 of the Human Rights Act 1998, and is listed equally as a protected characteristic, alongside such characteristics as age, disability, sex and race, under the Equality Act 2010...
Keep Marriage Special: Reject No-Fault Divorce
Petition to: To the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice - the Rt Hon David Gauke MP
...The current proposals to remove any element of fault from divorce trivialises both the commitment to, and solemnity of, marriage. It destroys any idea of covenant, and risks making it from the outset a temporary contract that can be terminated at whim by either party, without agreement from the other side...
Uphold the right of parents to have children educated in line with their religious beliefs
https://www.citizengo.org/en/node/166296
The attempted push by LGBT activists to make teaching about alternative lifestyles and sexualities compulsory for all children from the age of 4 is a declaration of war against Christianity. It suppresses freedom of belief as enshrined in the Bible, and denies the right to free speech. Worse, it is a form of indoctrination of young minds, who have no experience or understanding of the possible outcomes of different behaviours and who, by definition, lack the emotional and intellectual maturity to judge such issues for themselves.
Justice for David Skinner: Charge LGBT thugs with assault
https://www.citizengo.org/en-gb/164935-justice-david-skinner-charge-lgbt-thugs-assault - On Saturday, 14thJuly, Bournemouth held a Gay Pride Parade through the centre of town. According to the local paper, thousands of spectators lined the streets to welcome the dozens of floats celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture. The parade was led by crews from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service, joined by members of the police force, fire service and paramedics. David Skinner is an elderly gentleman who also attended, but in his case to bear witness to the shocking death at the turn of the century of Harry Hammond, a 69 year old, Christian street preacher, who in 2001 was physically attacked at a similar parade, after the sign he was carrying provoked outrage from the crowd...
Hands off our children!
https://www.citizengo.org/en/162802-scrap-guidance-stopping-parental-access-childrens-medical-records Please sign our petition to the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Theresa May, calling for Government to scrap the guidance stopping parental access to children's medical records We thought it was maybe misinterpretation of new GDPR requirements, when parents started to receive letters from their doctors' surgeries telling them they would no longer be allowed access to their child's medical records, unless the child gave explicit permission. It appears, however, that we were wrong, because the Government has now issued a Briefing Paper entitled Patient records and confidentiality. And as s part of this, The British Medical Association (BMA) has produced guidance on confidentiality and the disclosure of health records in relation to children. The guidance states: '…children who are aged 12 or over are generally expected to have capacity to give or withhold their consent to the release of information … If the child is competent to understand what is involved in the proposed treatment, the health professional should, unless there are convincing reasons to the contrary … respect the child's wishes if they do not want parents or guardians to know. However, every reasonable effort must be made to persuade the child to involve parents or guardians particularly for important or life-changing decisions.' (House of Commons Briefing Paper, Number 07103, 25 May 2018)
Stop promotion of underage sex. Ban contraceptive implants for underage girls.
https://www.citizengo.org/en/160969-stop-promotion-underage-sex-ban-contraceptive-implants-underage-girls
Recent figures released by NHS Digital and reported in the national press reveal that in the past two years 10,593 contraceptive implants have been given to schoolgirls below the age of 15 – some even as young as 12 – without their parents' knowledge or consent.
ARCHIVED PETITIONS
Stop prioritising LGBT rights over Christian rights to belief and free speech
https://www.citizengo.org/en/signit/164013/view On Monday July 3, the Government proudly announced a 75 point plan to improve the lives of gay people, eliminating discrimination and advancing 'equality'. Citing a recent survey of gay people in the UK, the BBC stated, "LGBT hate incidents had been experienced by 40% of people in the survey, with more than nine in 10 of the most serious offences going unreported." Seemingly, however, such even-handed treatment does not extend to Christians, who routinely in the UK today are being subjected to intolerance, harassment, and abuse - despite the fact that freedom of belief is enshrined in Art 9 of the Human Rights Act 1998, and is listed equally as a protected characteristic, alongside such characteristics as age, disability, sex and race, under the Equality Act 2010...
Reduce the time limit for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks!
In 1990 the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act lowered the legal time limit for abortion from 28 to 24 weeks, which was at the time the accepted point of viability – the time when the child was recognised as capable of independent existence outside the womb. Medical advances since that time mean that a baby born at 22 weeks has around a 10% chance of survival, 3.4% surviving without medical impairment.
Since 1967 over 9 million abortions have been performed in this country. Despite what was claimed when abortion was legalised in 1967, less than 2% of these have been for medical reasons, with a staggering 98% performed for what are euphemistically termed 'social reasons', meaning that, for whatever cause, the baby was simply unwanted.
Say NO to Assisted Suicide
VfJUK received an email yesterday directing our attention to a poll on Assisted Dying currently being run by the BMJ (British Medical Journal). It may be remembered that the BMJ has recently issued a call to government for assisted dying to be legalised to reflect the view of what they call 'the great majority of […]
Call to government to prohibit all medical treatment for gender reassignment below age of 18
With increasing reports of people seeking reversal of gender reassignment surgery (see recent report in The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gender-reversal-surgery-demand-rise-assignment-men-women-trans-a7980416.html ; see also The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/25/bath-spa-university-transgender-gender-reassignment-reversal-research), we call for medical intervention to change gender, whether surgical or by the administration of sex changing hormones, to be banned below the age of 18. Increasingly in schools, children as young […]
Protecting the rights of free speech for Christian MPs
Protecting the rights of free speech for Christian MPs Protect the right to free speech of Christian MPs. Do not allow Secular and LGBT activists to suppress Christian belief. December 2017: VfJUK delivers the petition with over 30,000 signatures to Downing Street. Although we have had formal acknowledgment of delivery, we are still awaiting a […]
Against Gender Dysphoria
http://www.citizengo.org/en/115050-scrap-guidance-teachers-church-england-schools-promoting-gender-dysphoria-among-children
Review current SRE
http://www.citizengo.org/en/107925-review-current-sre-remove-damaging-material-prematurely-sexualizing-children
Make all sex education in the UK carry full and comprehensive warning of the health risks attached to non-monogamous sex
http://www.citizengo.org/en/signit/70761/view
Protect Christian belief in Education
http://www.citizengo.org/en/signit/156104/view
We call for former Tory MP Andrew Turner's immediate reselection and reinstatement as candidate for the Isle of Wight
http://www.citizengo.org/en/63242-we-call-former-tory-mp-andrew-turners-immediate-reselection-and-reinstatement-candidate-isle
We call on the National Union of Teachers to withdraw its motion promoting LGBT + issues to toddlers
http://vfjuk.org.uk/delivery-of-petition-to-nut/


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Tips to Improve Your Military Reporting
Sources & Records
Knowing the players and building contact lists
| Schedules Matter | Buildig Contacts | Building Phones Lists |Key Records & Stats |
Half the battle in reporting on the military is knowing the players and building contact lists before a crisis erupts in your area because once it does, it is very difficult to get through to a military public affairs official, much less a key participant.
Know their schedules
A key rule to remember: The military is on a different clock than reporters. It's much more than the military use of 24-hour time – – i.e. 1300 hours for 1 p.m. If you cover the military, get used to making calls in the 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. range.
Your chance of getting a military public affairs officer after 8:30 a.m. drops greatly after 9:00 a.m., leaving you a small window. So early-morning calls are most effective. PAOs don't seem to return calls or be available until after 5:30 p.m. – – always away at meetings, it seems.
To help solve this problem, build up your e-mail contact list early.
Build your contact list
If all you have is a name, here are the current military locator numbers to check if the person is in service.
Air Force (210-565-2660)
Marine Corps (703-784-3942)
Navy (866-827-5672)
The Army has two numbers:
To get all releasable information about service members such as when they entered, awards and rank, call the Human Resources Command ( 502-613-4416/4212). The command can also give you the date for recent retirees.
If you want to contact a soldier, you need to leave information, such as a phone number or e-mail, with the Command's Customer Service number (800-833-6622).
It helps be accurate on ranks. Here are details on each branch:
Phone lists
Knowing the players in your region is like covering the fire department before a four-alarm fire. Make face-to-face contact and gather e-mails, cell phone numbers, wire diagram charts and directories of bases beforehand.
If your base has a unit deployed overseas, find out who heads any associations charged with family support. They can be valuable in an emergency.
Your reporting will also inevitably involve calling "The Pentagon."
Below is the latest telephone listing of public affairs officers, broken down by joint command and team. It was updated in January, 2011, so specific names may or may not still be accurate, but phone numbers should be. The chart of joint commands should help you decipher the list (here's a geographic breakdown). To decipher other acronymns, search the Dictionary of Military Terms.
SOURCE: http://www.defense.gov/orgchart/#45
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[field name="DOD"] Another source for contact information is the U.S. Government Manual, which is updated annually and is available by chapter as text or PDF.
The manual covers major departments and agencies and includes leadership names and main phone numbers, as well as high-level organizational charts and an overview of the department's responsibilities.
At right is the Department of Defense chapter from the manual.
KEY RECORDS and STATS
Contractor deaths
One of the largely uncovered legacies of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is contractor deaths and injuries.
Under a World War II-era law called the Defense Base Act, contractors are required to carry death and injury insurance. The government reimburses companies for the premiums. In many cases, if the injury or death is war-related, insurers also will be reimbursed as well for the full cost of benefits plus 15 percent in administrative fees.
I have written stories about contractors, such as KBR, alleged to have submitted inflated premiums for reimbursement and alleged excessive profits by insurance carriers such as AIG. ProPublica has written extensively about the plight of workers denied benefits by major insurance carriers and contractors failing to report injuries and death in a timely manner.
You can track these issues in your area by looking at the Department of Labor Office of Workers' Compensation Office website. It lists totals of injuries and deaths by company, location and carrier.
ProPublica's "Disposable Army" series gives names of attorneys specializing in DBA claims.
Obtaining military records/fakes
Covering the military more and more involves uncovering instances of "fake valor," or an exaggerated military record.
Here are three good stories to review for technique and context:
Washington Post: Exposing Falsified Valor.
Financial Times: Mock Heroics.
New York Times: On A Sworn Mission Seeking Pretenders to Military Heroism.
Here's how to get the official breakdown of a person's military record from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. (Official request form).
Send a fax on company letterhead to the center's "emergency line" – – 314-801-0763. Write "Attention: Customer Service, Media Request." Include a return fax number and mail address.
Outline who you are, provide a deadline and ask for "all information under FOIA" on the person. At minimum you need name, middle initial, date and place of birth and branch of service.
Within three days, the center will work to compile a Form 13164 that lists the military record, including locations served, and any medals or commendations.
DoD Personnel and Procurement Reports and Data Files
A plethora of statistics about military and civilian personnel and procurement is available from the Department of Defense's Statistical Analysis Division. Key topic-level pages at which to begin your searches are below.
Procurement (2006 and earlier)
Procurement (2007+)
Military casualty data
Military personnel statistics
Civilian personnel statistics
Other helpful military-related links
A list of military journals in your area of coverage.
DOD News Via E-Mail
Essential Tips and Wisdom,
Straight From the Experts
Content in this section was contributed by Tony Capaccio, Pentagon correspondent for Bloomberg News.
Capaccio was editor of Defense Week and staff associate with national columnist Jack Anderson, covering a variety of beats. Capaccio speaks to many audiences about the military and media.
The guide was enhanced and packaged for the web by Scott B. Anderson of Medill's National Security Journalism Initiative.
Tony's Tips
Videos by Brian Paris
Search Military Terms
Pentagon Clip Service Sign-up (from DefenseNews)
Dept. of Defense budget proposal
Dept. of Defense organizational chart
U.S. Government Manual
Federal Contractor Misconduct Database
Federal budget earmarks database
Federal Procurement Data System
Effective FOIA Requesting (PDF)
Topics in This Section
All NSZ 101s
Combat Zone Deployments
Defense Budget
Navigating Congress
Pentagon Contracting


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Project Origins of the Molecular Cloud Structure
Researcher (PI) Jouni Tapani Kainulainen
Host Institution (HI) CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB
Summary Understanding the physical processes that control the life-cycle of the interstellar medium (ISM) is one of the key themes in the astrophysics of galaxies today. This importance originates from the role of the ISM as the birthplace of new stars, and therefore, as an indivisible component of galaxy evolution. Exactly how the conversion of the ISM to stars takes place is intricately linked to how the internal structure of the cold, molecular clouds in the ISM forms and evolves. Despite this pivotal role, our picture of the molecular cloud structure has a fundamental lacking: it is based largely on observations of low-mass molecular clouds. Yet, it is the massive, giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in which most stars form and which impact the ISM of galaxies most. I present a program that will fill this gap and make profound progress in the field. We have developed a new observational technique that provides an unparalleled view of the structure of young GMCs. I also have developed a powerful tool to study the most important structural characteristics of molecular clouds, e.g., the probability distribution of volume densities, which have not been accessible before. With this program, the full potential of these tools will be put into use. We will produce a unique, high-fidelity column density data set for a statistically interesting volume in the Galaxy, including thousands of molecular clouds. The data set will be unmatched in its quality and extent, providing an unprecedented basis for statistical studies. We will then connect this outstanding observational view with state-of-the-art numerical simulations. This approach allows us to address the key question in the field: Which processes drive the structure formation in massive molecular clouds, and how do they do it? Most crucially, we will create a new, observationally constrained framework for the evolution of the molecular cloud structure over the entire mass range of molecular clouds and star formation in the ISM.
Understanding the physical processes that control the life-cycle of the interstellar medium (ISM) is one of the key themes in the astrophysics of galaxies today. This importance originates from the role of the ISM as the birthplace of new stars, and therefore, as an indivisible component of galaxy evolution. Exactly how the conversion of the ISM to stars takes place is intricately linked to how the internal structure of the cold, molecular clouds in the ISM forms and evolves. Despite this pivotal role, our picture of the molecular cloud structure has a fundamental lacking: it is based largely on observations of low-mass molecular clouds. Yet, it is the massive, giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in which most stars form and which impact the ISM of galaxies most. I present a program that will fill this gap and make profound progress in the field. We have developed a new observational technique that provides an unparalleled view of the structure of young GMCs. I also have developed a powerful tool to study the most important structural characteristics of molecular clouds, e.g., the probability distribution of volume densities, which have not been accessible before. With this program, the full potential of these tools will be put into use. We will produce a unique, high-fidelity column density data set for a statistically interesting volume in the Galaxy, including thousands of molecular clouds. The data set will be unmatched in its quality and extent, providing an unprecedented basis for statistical studies. We will then connect this outstanding observational view with state-of-the-art numerical simulations. This approach allows us to address the key question in the field: Which processes drive the structure formation in massive molecular clouds, and how do they do it? Most crucially, we will create a new, observationally constrained framework for the evolution of the molecular cloud structure over the entire mass range of molecular clouds and star formation in the ISM.


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Q: Now that I've beaten the game, should I play again in Hard Mode? I've beaten the game, and now I feel kind of empty.
And, I seem to have lost my old save states, restoring from slot 1 one gives me an almost empty state (40 candies or so).
It seems now to be possible to play the game on hard mode.
Is it just harder or do new game play elements pop up?

A: You can play hard mode, but the only difference is that you can't get more health by eating candy.  It's quite interesting though.


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Ok, decisions made and now you have some printed Coloring Pages, great! Time to permit them to make the next important decision – how could they be going to be filled in.
Most homes could have coloring pencils or crayons. In my house we also have glitter pens, foam pens and most importantly paints to deal with to select between. Using paints will demand a bit more setup time as you may need to clear a place and lay newspapers down over the table to protect it.
No matter the age of the child is because they can still be involved. My youngest cant keep the page steady so I put it down with a few sellotape and he or she may then be involved!
Once these are done, we often grab our child safe scissors and remove the figures around the pages. From there we have the choice of putting them up throughout the house or adding them in to a scrapbook. Trust me if they start scrapbooking these, you'll be with tons of books packed with pictures which you will treasure more and more because they mature. I intend to make an attempt to embarrass the kids with these on their own future wedding days!
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After delivering a debut performance of "On My Way" at the American Music Awards last month, Jennifer Lopez has released the accompanying video for the track. On Dec. 3, the multihyphenate dropped the visual for the song, which shows Lopez belting her heart out in a series of gorgeous outfits in front of a screen playing scenes from her upcoming rom-com, Marry Me. The film also stars Maluma, who plays J Lo's character's cheating fiancé, and Owen Wilson, who ends up marrying J Lo's character instead. "On My Way" will be featured on the film's soundtrack, and the movie is expected to hit theaters on Feb. 11, 2022.
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A new drug called Actonel (generic name, risedronate sodium) has been shown to improve bone mineral density and reduce the risk of broken bones in post-menopausal women who suffer from osteoporosis. A study published in the October 13, 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals women who take five milligrams of Actonel daily may significantly reduce their risk of spinal, wrist, and hip fractures.
In a study conducted at the University of California at San Francisco, researchers observed 2,500 post-menopausal woman between 1993 and 1998. In 450 women who were given Actonel, the risk of spinal fractures was reduced by 41% after three years compared with those who were given a placebo (ineffective pill). Actonel was also shown to reduce the frequency of wrist and hip fractures by 39%.
A previous clinical trial that enrolled 4,875 post-menopausal women with osteoporosis, showed that taking Actonel reduced the incidence of spinal fractures by almost 50%. Actonel is currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat Paget's disease of the bone—a debilitating bone disease of unknown cause. In late 1999, Actonel was submitted to the FDA for approval to treat osteoporosis. A spokesperson for Proctor and Gamble, the manufacturer of Actonel, says the company expects FDA approval to come early in the year 2000.
If approved by the FDA, Actonel will join a handful of other drugs used to fight bone loss, including raloxifene, alendronate sodium , and calcitonin. Since women will have different responses to different therapies, researchers hope the addition of Actonel will help treat more women with osteoporosis.
Though side effects of Actonel were mild in clinical trials, physicians do not recommend that women with severe kidney disorders or stomach or digestive problems take Actonel. The most common side effects of Actonel noted in clinical trials were indigestion, nausea and abdominal pain. Other side effects may include allergic reactions, difficulty swallowing, heartburn, or a burning sensation under the ribs. As with other drug therapies used to treat osteoporosis, woman who take Actonel should also take daily calcium and vitamin supplements.
Osteoporosis is a degenerative bone disease that primarily affects post-menopausal women. It is estimated that one-third of women over age 50 have osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects roughly 25 million Americans and is currently one of the most under-diagnosed and under-treated disorders in medicine.
The October 13, 1999 HealthSCOUT report by Adam Marcus, "New Osteoporosis Drug Shows Promise," is available at http://www.selfcare.com/Centers/Article.asp?pt=article&artid=32877&id=
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The June 14, 1999 Doctor's Guide report, "ENDO 99: Actonel Reduced Incidence Of Osteoporotic Fracture By Half," is available at http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/1076EE.asp
To learn more about osteoporosis, please visit http://www.imaginis.com/osteoporosis/
For full prescribing information on Actonel, please visit http://www.actonel.com/pages/pi_frame.asp Note: Actonel is not yet FDA approved to treat osteoporosis.