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Guest opinion: Legislative accountability leads to better environmental outcomes
Lauren Melo and Chris Hudson
Special to The News-Press
Florida has weathered the coronavirus storm better than most states. As we begin to move past the pandemic and toward a strong recovery, we need to ensure that all sectors of the economy are firing. President Joe Biden's recent moves on energy and the environment would make that harder to achieve.
In addition to establishing new layers of bureaucracy, the administration is poised to adopt a series of greenhouse gas regulations that seek to commandeer state regulatory systems — including Florida's — with stringent national standards and unrealistic deadlines.
Instead of unproductive, one-size-fits-all dictates from Washington that fail to produce better environmental outcomes, we believe a better policy would embrace bottom-up innovation, and empower people in their own communities to be conscientious stewards of the environment.
That is what we aim to accomplish with legislation which would require approval from Tallahassee for the state's participation in any program regulating greenhouse gas emissions created by regional climate initiatives, federal mandates, or international treaties or agreements.
This is the most effective way to ensure elected officials in Florida have a seat at the table, and leverage over a de facto federal takeover of the state's energy policy.
Experience has shown that we get results.
Since 2006, Florida has reduced per capita energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by over 25 percent, more than twice as much as California in that period — without the Golden State's restrictive mandates and high taxes. Governor Ron DeSantis and Speaker Chris Sprowls have prioritized these issues, and provided the infrastructure, policy, and personnel, including a chief climate resilience officer, to enable Florida's leadership when it comes to environmental and climate goals.
Florida is not alone in this kind of success.
From 2007 to 2019, U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell roughly 15 percent, while at the same time global emissions increased more than 20 percent. States such as Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Wyoming avoided top-down climate policies, and have reduced per capita energy-related CO2 emissions five times more than California.
Florida has a long history of cherishing our incomparable natural beauty. Our environmental laws are based on the concept of cooperative federalism, which includes a primary role for states in developing standards grounded in legislative accountability, which yield positive outcomes without raising costs, hurting the economy, or killing jobs.
We take all those priorities into consideration, because they are all essential to success.
Energy costs account for a sizable proportion of Americans' regular expenses. We spend over $1.27 trillion per year on energy, and the lowest income households devote more than 20 percent of their after-tax income to residential utilities and motor fuel. With more folks staying home because of COVID-19, energy poverty has increased.
But long before we were blighted with the coronavirus, heavy-handed, top-down policies were making things worse, especially for those least able to afford it.
Renewable portfolio standards, for example, add double digit price increases to electricity bills, are an inefficient way to address greenhouse gas emissions, and exclude or penalize low- or no-carbon alternatives such as hydropower and nuclear.
The kind of red tape now being contemplated anew has added years of delay and millions of dollars of cost to infrastructure and energy projects, including renewables such as wind turbines, solar panels, and geothermal projects.
Innovation is the key to real progress, but grandfathered, two-tiered regulatory systems protect existing companies, and discourage the kind of competition that leads to modifications which can dramatically increase efficiency at existing power plants, factories, and small businesses.
Another threat to sound policy and affordable energy is local, California-style efforts to prohibit certain types of utility services, such as natural gas. Localized efforts create inconsistent regulation among cities and counties, making it tougher for both consumers and businesses to know all of the rules Legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate to restrict these local efforts to undermine new or existing energy infrastructure.
Do not buy the false choices. We can protect our state's ratepayers, economy, and environment at the same time. But mandates — federal or local — are not the way to do it. State-led efforts and legislative accountability will result in better environmental outcomes at a much lower cost for all Floridians.
Lauren Melo represents the 80th district in the Florida House. Chris Hudson is vice president of government affairs at Americans for Prosperity and former state director of Americans for Prosperity-Florida.


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Meetup.com is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies. It operates as a free service; users enter their zip code and the topic they want to meet about, and the website helps them arrange a place and time to meet. Its primary revenue comes from restaurants that pay $29 a month to be listed on the site as possible meeting venues. Participants vote where to hold a meeting, and eateries pay a finder's fee if their establishment is chosen. In addition, Meetup members can choose to pay $29/year to sign up for "Meetup Plus" that gives subscribers more options for planning meetings.
From 2002 to 2004, Meetup.com was one of the fastest-growing online social networks in the world. It took center stage in the American political consciousness in 2003, when it attracted the attention, first of Dean campaign staff, then of pundits in New York City and Washington, DC, and was soon being used by a number of candidates for the Democratic nomination, to build and energize their grassroots support. By January, 2004, 30% of the site's members were signed up for the three most popular topics: Dean in 2004, Clark in 2004, and Kerry in 2004. Following Dean's departure from the race, the "Dean meetup days" became the model for similarly-organized "National Democratic Party Meetup Days." [1] Meetup.com has also been used by conservative Internet organizers, including the Heritage Foundation's Townhall.com and the re-election campaign of George W. Bush.
As of March, 2004, more than one million members were using Meetup to arrange regular gatherings of more than a thousand groups.
Meetup.com was founded in 2000 by Scott Heiferman, Matt Meeker and Peter Kamali.
"The primary inspiration was the book Bowling Alone, which is by Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam about the decline of community in America and how people don't know their neighbors anymore," Heiferman said. "The Internet does a number of wonderful things, but it treats geography as irrelevant. We still live in a world where the local level is extremely important. ... We are providing a service that revitalizes the Internet for local communities." [2]
"The founders of the company knew people were staying in front of their computers, DVD players and TVs more and more, and losing personal connections," explained Meetup vice president Myles Weissleder. "After 9/11, they started thinking they could help do something positive in the world by having people reconnect - not with people in chatrooms across the globe - but in their own communities." [3]
Some of Meetup's earliest press coups resulted from active initial support from the Slashdot community. They ran their software on similar platforms, and had a large, successful "International Slashdot Meetup Day" in early July 2002. As a result, Meetup got frequent publicity boosts from Slashdot before and after that event, and were soon a byword in geek circles. [4]
Interest from hobbyists and fans of all stripes grew steadily. Their next surge in popularity and exposure came early in 2003, when politicians campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination collectively started to use Meetup to coordinate their grassroots movement. "In MeetUp.com's original concept, the sessions are leaderless, just folks with similar interest," Knight Ridder reported in February 2004. "But it didn't take long for savvy political campaigns to have a staffer or volunteer show up to collect names and addresses and hand out material for the candidate."
Howard Dean's presidential campaign took Meetup very seriously, and by February 14, already had 1200 supporters signed up [5]; a month later, there were over 5,000. "We fell into this by accident," Dean said later. "I wish I could tell you we were smart enough to figure this out. But the community taught us. They seized the initiative through Meetup. They built our organization for us before we had an organization." His first personal realization of Meetup's potential occurred when he attended a New York City meetup on March 5, 2003 where he found hundreds of enthusiastic supporters waiting to greet him. "I've never seen anything like that, with no advance people, totally self-organized by a bunch of citizens," said Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi. "It was a really great moment."
"Meetup quickly became the engine of Dean's Internet campaign," reported Wired magazine's Gary Wolf. "Back then, the leading group on the site was a club for witches. Zephyr Teachout, Dean's director of Internet outreach, describes sitting across from campaign manager Joe Trippi in the early weeks and hitting Refresh again and again on her Web browser. 'I was obsessed with beating Witches,' she says. 'Witches had 15,000 members, and we had 3,000. I wanted first place.'" [6]
"His rivals grudgingly concede that Dean, 54, has clearly tapped into something," the Washington Post reported in June 2003. "He is attracting the largest crowds of the nine Democratic contenders -- which his staff attributes almost entirely to his campaign's Internet reach. His supporters arguably are the most intense for this early in the process, tens of thousands of them self-organizing in about 300 cities once a month through their online contact, a Web site called Meetup.com." [7] By the time Dean suspended his campaign for the candidacy in February 2004, there were over 180,000 supporters signed up via Meetup worldwide. Soon after Meetup began acquiring this political sheen, media attention blossomed.
After John Kerry and John Edwards emerged as the first- and second-place contenders in the January Ohio primary, the number of Meetups for Kerry and Edwards supporters spiked up dramatically. "Registrations for Edwards rose 44 percent to 3,949 people, up from 2,751. Kerry's registrations rose 22 percent to 22,076, up from 18,140," reported the National Journal.
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Jim Cashel, "Interview with Scott Heiferman, MEETUP," Online Community Report, August 2002.
Debera Carlton Harrell, "Meetup.com Links Together the Like-minded," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 8, 2003.
Lisa Napoli, "Like Online Dating, With a Political Spin," New York Times, March 15, 2003.
Gary Wolf, "How the Internet Invented Howard Dean," Wired, January 2004.
Chris Gray, "MeetUp.com Working to Become a Force in Politics," Knight Ridder, February 8, 2004.
Nathan Kaiser, "Interview with Scott Heiferman," nPost, April 20, 2004.
"Howard Dean's Internet Love-In, CBS News, June 4, 2003.
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For close to a decade, I worked as a federal regulator, inspecting experiments involving non-human animals (hereinafter referred to as animals) in Germany. Because I had always been skeptical about the ethical and most of the scientific justifications given for conducting invasive research on animals, I felt that as a veterinarian I should work within the current system to scrutinize these practices and help improve the lives of individual animals used in the name of science. By inspecting numerous animal laboratories and breeding facilities, and assessing countless animal research proposals and their scientific outcomes (if they were published), I became exceedingly aware of the considerable harms involved and the flaws of animal-based research on all levels—ethical, scientific, legal, political, and economic.
Alongside my work as an inspector, I carried out a PhD project, assessing the use of refinement, the last R of the 3Rs principles, in practice. Refinement refers to methods that ought to reduce animal suffering in the laboratory. I focused on experimental refinements in over 500 animal research applications comprising recovery surgical procedures from around Germany. My results show that the majority of evaluated proposals did not take all possible measures to avoid needless suffering. They confirm the trends found in structured and systematic reviews of published animal studies from around the world. Being a member of the competent authority, I frequently experienced its limits in safeguarding animals due to the way it is set up: decentralized, understaffed, and with limited resources.
Consequently, the political aims of reducing and replacing animals in science have remained political claims; and authorities are unequipped to ensure that only research projects that have a realistic potential to produce benefits, which outweigh the harms inflicted on the animals, are granted licenses. The poor application of refinement methods in laboratories, and a malfunctioning regulatory body emphasized, for me, the urgency for a paradigm change, away from using animals in science. Fortunately, in some areas this change is already slowly happening. But to accelerate the shift, it is crucial to appraise animal experimentation critically, from all angles, and to publicly discuss the findings—a realization that led me to initiate this book project. The 51 experts who contributed to this volume critically appraise current animal use in science, and they discuss innovative, human-relevant approaches to advance the life sciences and to accelerate the shift towards the replacement of animals in research, testing and education.
I have more than a decade of experience in research and education, working in animal welfare and animal protection. Originally, starting my career in zoos and laboratories, I chose to specialize in animal behavior and welfare because I felt that science had a role in improving the lives of animals used by these industries. However, based on my personal experiences working in these environments and hand-rearing animals to be used for behavioral laboratory research, my moral values shifted. With my increasing knowledge of animal behavior and welfare, I realized that these industries were seriously flawed, both scientifically and ethically. Increasingly, the scientific and educational research about animal behavior that I was exposed to on a daily basis informed me that the animals I was working with should not be used for these purposes.
I now work as a Senior Scientific Researcher for an animal protection organization that promotes phasing out animal use in these industries, particularly in the areas of animals used in research, education, and entertainment. The study of the behavior of all animals is fascinating; but only when the animals can express their natural behavioral repertoire, under natural conditions. I truly believe that furthering our understanding of wild animal behavior through non-intrusive means can help those campaigning and lobbying for greater animal protection, by enhancing appreciation for all species. Through generating more public support and using indisputable scientific rationale, which cannot be ignored, governments and policy makers can be influenced to make progress towards ending the use of animals in these environments.
We first met back in 2014, at the University of Exeter, during a workshop that aimed to introduce perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to a dialogue with practitioners and stakeholders across laboratory animal science and welfare. Our mutual concerns about animals used in science led us to collaborate on this book project. Since we both work closely with researchers, scholars, and campaigners, who are active in the fields of animal protection, animal replacement technology, and ethical philosophy, the project rapidly evolved into a 28 chapter-volume. Our aim is to not only transform science, education, and policy into a more inclusive environment, but to continue to work on projects that consider the impact of human behavior on all species.
This book may be eye-opening for some and encouraging for others. Its ultimate goal is to motivate everyone to work together in order to end the suffering of our fellow animals.


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Rockies, now dealing with a bullpen surplus, send Carlos Estevez to Triple-A
"He is going to work on his fastball command," Black said, "but I suspect he will be back up to help us. He is going to force us to bring him back."
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Carlos Estevez
By Nick Groke | ngroke@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2017 at 7:27 pm | UPDATED: May 3, 2017 at 9:54 pm
SAN DIEGO — Already wrestling with the uncomfortable situation of finding a place for Ian Desmond, the Rockies on Wednesday squeezed lefty reliever Mike Dunn back on their roster. It resulted in another difficult decision.
Colorado sent down young reliever Carlos Estevez to Triple-A Albuquerque, but not because he was obviously struggling. Dunn's return from the disabled list, after his back spasms calmed, required a roster move.
"That tells us we feel good about the depth of our bullpen, having to send down Carlos like that," Colorado manager Bud Black said.
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Desmond, who started a second consecutive game at first base Wednesday, put veteran Mark Reynolds to the bench again, despite his team-high eight home runs. But the Rockies surplus of relievers is a new problem.
Estevez was a paperwork victim. He pitched well over 11 appearances, with a 2.61 ERA over 10 2/3 innings. But a 12th appearance, last week against the Nationals, resulted in seven runs in just 2/3 of an inning, ballooning his season ERA to 7.94.
His ERA, though, was likely not the reason behind Estevez's demotion. With a second-year player such as Estevez, the Rockies have the option to shuttle him between the major leagues and Triple-A.
As an example, veteran Jordan Lyles, who has 10.03 ERA over 11 2/3 innings, does not have the option of a demotion unless he is designated for assignment. The Rockies risk losing Lyles to another team on the waiver wire if they designate him.
Dunn's return reunites a three-lefty bullpen that excelled through April, including Chris Rusin and Jake McGee. Dunn had a 1.17 ERA over 7 2/3 innings before a minor back injury put him on the DL. He has allowed just one run, while striking out 10 and walking just two.
Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (3-1, 2.93 ERA) at Padres RHP Luis Perdomo (0-0, 4.96), Thursday, 1:40 p.m., no TV, 850 AM
Freeland is forcing a higher percentage of groundballs than any starting pitcher in baseball through the first month — a trait suited well for a defense that includes Gold Gloves at third, in Nolan Arenado, and second, in DJ LeMahieu. Freeland, showing a two-pitch mix of cutting fastballs and sliders, allowed just one run in six innings over the weekend at Arizona. The 23-year-old will pitch at Petco Park for the first time in his rookie season.
Friday: Diamondbacks RHP Zack Greinke (2-2, 3.19 ERA) at Rockies LHP Tyler Anderson (1-3, 7.71), 6:40 p.m., ROOT
Saturday: Diamondbacks LHP Patrick Corbin (2-3, 2.29) at Rockies RHP German Marquez (0-1, 7.20), 6:10 p.m., ROOT
Sunday: Diamondbacks RHP Taijuan Walker (3-1, 4.19) at Rockies RHP Tyler Chatwood (2-4, 5.40), 1:10 p.m., ROOT
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Queensland premier apologises for contempt over Anning comments
5:40pm Oct 22, 2019
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has apologised swiftly to parliament after being found in contempt for taking funding away from Katter's Australian Party for refusing to denounce former senator Fraser Anning.
Ms Palaszczuk threatened to take away the discretionary funds she gave the minority party years earlier if its three Queensland MPs did not condemn Mr Anning for his speech using Nazi terminology.
In a report tabled in parliament today, the ethics committee found her actions amounted to improper interference with the free performance by the KAP members and constituted contempt.
Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in Question Time today. (AAP)
"I accept the findings of the report," she told parliament.
"I accept responsibility for the actions I took which led to those findings and I offer my unreserved and sincere apology to the House."
Mr Anning was widely condemned for using the Nazi-associated phrase, "final solution" during his first speech in federal parliament.
Ms Palaszczuk pulled funding for a special staffing arrangement when MPs Robbie Katter, Shane Knuth and Nick Dametto refused to call Mr Anning out.
She was then referred to the Crime and Corruption Commission, which found the premier technically broke the law through her actions but left it up to the parliament to decide what to do next.
The ethics committee found the premier intended her actions but did not intend to commit wrongdoing.
"The committee is cognisant that the premier believed that her actions in calling out 'hate speech' and putting what she believed to be legitimate pressure on others to also condemn hate speech, was in the public interest," the report said.
"But the premier is a senior, long-serving member and arguably should have realised the consequences of her actions."
Fraser Anning. (AAP)
Robbie Katter. (AAP)
Robbie Katter said the premier's apology was heavily qualified after multiple Labor ministers rose in parliament to acknowledge she had taken a stand against racism.
"(The) sentiment that is coming across is that there was all this background and need for it, and that it was all these disgusting acts and that's why it was done, justifying it," he said.
"I'm offended by a lot of things in this parliament but I don't get to use my position or be able to intimidate or bully people into a position."
Mr Katter said the party is considering its options, including whether or not it could or would refer the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The ethics committee described the CCC's handling of the matter as "problematic".
"It was not fair to the premier to essentially declare there was prima facie evidence of commission of a crime, but that prosecutorial discretion would be exercised not to proceed," it's report said.
"The CCC also created an expectation that a contempt had been committed, when that was a matter for this committee to examine and ultimately a matter for the Legislative Assembly to determine."
It recommends the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee consider the CCC's assessment and public reporting methods and its use of prosecutorial discretion.
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Hubert Laurence Higgs (23 November 1911 – 4 January 1992) was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Hull in the modern era (from 1965 until 1977).

Life
Higgs was educated at University College School and Christ's College, Cambridge. His first post after ordination was as a curate at Holy Trinity, Richmond. He was then Vicar of Holy Trinity, Aldershot, Rural Dean of Woking  and finally Archdeacon of Bradford before elevation to the episcopate as a suffragan to the Archbishop of York.

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Натали́ Пешала́ (; род. 22 декабря 1983, Руан) — французская фигуристка, выступавшая в танцах на льду. В паре с Фабьяном Бурза, с которым каталась на протяжении четырнадцати лет, была участницей Олимпийских игр (2006—2014), бронзовым призёром чемпионата мира (2012, 2014), чемпионкой Европы (2011, 2012) и пятикратной чемпионкой Франции (2009, 2011—2014).

После завершения соревновательной карьеры — спортивный функционер. В 2020—2022 годах занимала пост президента Федерации ледовых видов спорта Франции.

Биография

Начало карьеры
Натали Пешала начала кататься на коньках в возрасте семи лет как одиночница. В возрасте десяти лет она переключилась на танцы на льду.
В марте 2000 тогда партнёр Натали оставил её, и тренер Мюриель Буше-Зазуи предложила, чтобы она встала с Фабьяном Бурза. Сначала пара не была в хороших отношениях, но постепенно они становятся друзьями.

В интервью 2011 года Натали сказала, что она и Фабьян имеют разные характеры и свои преимущества и то, что он — идеальный  партнёр для неё: «Он очень одаренный. Он работает через чувство и вдохновение. Как только он чувствует движение, он может воспроизвести его и интерпретировать его». Фабиан же охарактеризовал свою партнёршу так: «Натали всегда тянет пару вперед и заставляет нас работать. Она приносит свою экстраординарную возможность работать. Она всегда хочет сделать все на отлично».

Натали и Фабьян известны своими оригинальными постановками и нестандартным выбором музыки. Композиция «Времена года» (), которую они использовали для произвольного танца в сезоне 2006—2007, была написана специально для них Ассеном Мезоуки (), а постановщиком выступил брат композитора. На произвольные же танцы сезонов 2005—2006 («Отверженные») и 2004—2005 («Кошки») пару вдохновила подруга Фабьяна, работающая в этих мюзиклах.

2008—2011
Летом 2008 года Натали Пешала и Фабьян Бурза ушли от своего тренера М. Зазуи и переехали в Москву, чтобы работать с Александром Жулиным. За год до этого они уже приезжали к нему на консультации, и результат сотрудничества им понравился. На данный момент Натали учится заочно в Финансовой академии при Правительстве РФ, на Международном Финансовом Факультете.

В сезоне 2008—2009 были в призёрах обоих этапов Гран-при, в которых участвовали («Skate Canada» — бронза и «NHK Trophy» — серебро), но в финал отобраться не смогли. На чемпионате Франции в отсутствие лидеров сборной Делобель и Шонфельдера стали первыми. На чемпионате Европы остановились в шаге от пьедестала, стали четвёртыми, причём от третьего места, англичан Керров их отделили лишь 0.36 балла.

Сезон 2010—2011 пара начала с побед на турнирах Nebelhorn Trophy и the Finlandia Trophy. Пара первоначально использовала музыку из кинофильма «Амели» для своего короткого танца, но скоро заменили его на Доктор Живаго, который показали на этапе Гран-при в Китае (Cup of China 2010), который они выиграли с большим отрывом от российской и итальянской пар. В этом же году пара побеждает и на парижском этапе Гран-при Trophée Eric Bompard 2010. Их результаты позволили снова квалифицироваться в Финал Гран-при, где они выиграли серебряную медаль, которая стала для французов второй в карьере.
Сезон продолжился победой на чемпионате Европы 2011. Для французской пары это первая медаль на данном турнире, но тем не менее на чемпионате мира того же года пара останавливается в шаге от бронзовой медали, занимая 4 место. По окончании сезона французы переходят тренироваться к Анжелике Крыловой и Паскуале Камерленго.

2011—2014

Готовясь к следующему соревновательному сезону, Натали и Фабьян провели время в течение лета в Лионе, где работали с балетмейстером Кадером Бельмоктэром над новым произвольным танцем на тему Египта.
В сезоне 2011—2012 Пешала-Бурза были заявлены на три этапа Гран-при: Skate America 2011, Skate Canada 2011 and Trophee Eric Bompard 2011. Хотя партнёр был болен бронхитом, они смогли выиграть серебряную медаль на этапе Гран-при в США. Позже пара решила сняться с канадского этапа и восстановиться, чтобы продолжить сезон и вернуться на парижский этап, где они выиграли серебряную медаль, уступив Тессе Вирчу и Скотту Моиру. Эти места позволили вновь квалифицироваться в Финал гран-при, где Натали и Фабьян в третий раз в карьере выиграют медаль, на сей раз снова бронзовую.

В 2012 пара приезжает на чемпионат Европы в качестве действующих чемпионов, но начинается турнир для французов не столь удачно. После короткого танца их ставят на 2-ое место с минимальным отрывом от лидеров. Но после произвольного танца Пешала — Бурза обыгрывают российскую пару Екатерина Боброва и Дмитрий Соловьёв и защищают своё чемпионское звание, становясь двукратными чемпионами Европы.
Спустя пару месяцев на тренировке Натали ломает нос, но операцию откладывает до окончания чемпионата мира. Несмотря на проблемы со здоровьем партнёрши, французская пара завоевала свою первую бронзовую медаль на чемпионате мира 2012.

В новом сезоне Пешала — Бурза были заявлены на два этапа Гран-при. Они побеждают, как и в 2010 году, на китайском этапе (Cup of China), оставляя позади российскую пару Екатерину Боброву — Дмитрия Соловьева и канадских спарринг-партнёров Кейтлин Уивер — Эндрю Поже и на домашнем этапе, опережая итальянцев Анну Каппеллини — Луку Ланотте. Тем самым, пара в четвёртый раз в своей карьере отбирается в Финал Гран-при, где занимает 3 итоговое место. Первая часть сезона заканчивается для представителей Франции успешно, победой на национальном чемпионате, которая становится для Натали и Фабьяна четвёртой в карьере. Позже пара вынуждена пропустить чемпионат Европы в Загребе из-за травмы Фабьяна. Как становится известно, на тренировке в Детройте он частично порвал приводящую мышцу на правой ноге. По той же причине выступление пары не сложилось и на чемпионате мира, куда они изначально планировали ехать за медалью.

На Олимпийские игры в Сочи пара приехала фактически за медалью. Однако после исполнения короткого танца они были четвёртыми, в произвольном ситуация не поменялась. В результате пара так и осталась на четвёртом итоговом месте.
После завершения турнира пара объявила о завершении любительской карьеры.

За пределами льда
По окончании спортивной карьеры Пешала стала спортивным функционером, войдя в руководство Французской федерации ледовых видов спорта.

В 2020 году многолетний президент Федерации Дидье Гайаге (1998—2004, 2007—2020) ушёл в отставку на фоне дела фигуристки-парницы Сары Абитболь. Спортсменка обвинила своего бывшего тренера Жиля Бейера в изнасиловании, а Гайаге, предположительно, покрывал преступление. На выборах нового руководителя организации Пешала одержала победу, при отсутствии нескольких кандидатов, снявшихся с выборов из-за опасений, связанных с распространением коронавируса.

В 2022 году Пешала не была переизбрана на должность президента Федерации. Она получила 412 голосов против 452, отданных малоизвестной Гвенаэль Жигарель-Нури, которая, по мнению L'Équipe, является ставленницей Дидье Гайаге.

С 2014 года Натали состоит в фактическом браке с актёром Жаном Дюжарденом. У пары две дочери — Жанна Дюжарден (род.05.12.2015) и Элис Дюжарден (род.18.02.2021).

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5 Marijuana Stocks Overflowing With Cash
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Marijuana may be illegal at the federal level, but that hasn't slowed growth of the drug one iota within the U.S. or North America. In June, Mexico fully legalized medical cannabis, and right now Canada is debating legislation that would legalize recreational marijuana by the summer of 2018. This expansion comes on top of continued growth in the U.S. market, which now has 29 medical cannabis-legal states, and eight that allow adult-use sales.
According to ArcView, one of the leading cannabis research firms, legal weed sales soared in North America by 34% last year, and they're slated to grow by an average of 26% annually through 2021. That type of growth is certainly enough to attract investors to marijuana stocks, which have risen as a group by more than 100% over the trailing year.
Cash is king when it comes to green
With the marijuana industry growing so rapidly, cash has become an increasingly important commodity for pot companies. Of course, obtaining cash isn't always easy. Since financial institutions report to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a federally created entity, and cannabis is illegal at the federal level, they often fear being prosecuted or fined for offering basic banking services to marijuana-based businesses. This leaves weed companies to deal with cash in many instances.
Considering that cash is king in the weed industry, here are five marijuana stocks that are overflowing with it.
Canadian medical cannabis producers and retailers
It probably won't come as surprise that the purest-play marijuana stocks from Canada's medical-cannabis industry are among the most cash-rich companies in the industry. Based on their most recent quarterly filings, here are the total cash and cash equivalent positions for four of Canada's biggest medical pot players:
Canopy Growth Corp. (NASDAQOTH: TWMJF): $83.8 million.
Aphria (NASDAQOTH: APHQF): $137.6 million.
Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQOTH: ACBFF): $91.4 million.
MedReleaf (NASDAQOTH: MEDFF): $77 million (following its public offering, as of June 7, 2017).
The reason these companies are so cash-rich is that they're looking to expand as quickly as possible. According to data from Health Canada in May, the number of eligible medical patients in Canada has increased by about 10% per month.
What's more, as noted, the Canadian government is currently debating legislation introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that would legalize recreational weed by July 1, 2018. Canada's parliament has estimated that legalizing adult-use pot would result in $5 billion to $7 billion in additional revenue each year for the Canadian marijuana industry.
Furthermore, a handful of Canada's growers, such as Canopy Growth and Aphria, have been given the green light to export some of their dried cannabis production to foreign markets where medical cannabis has been legalized. A good example is Germany, which recently legalized medical marijuana but has virtually no domestic production to speak of. This export opportunity is also fueling expansion activity.
What's coming down the pipeline in terms of expansion, you wonder? Unlike the other three companies listed, Canopy Growth is primarily using acquisitions to fuel its growth. The purchase of Mettrum Health earlier this year should allow it to reach more medical-cannabis patients. It also made a major land purchase surrounding its corporate headquarters to boost production capacity.
The remaining Canadian producers have predominantly chosen to grow organically. Aphria's phase 4 expansion could boost its grow capacity to 1 million square feet once complete. Meanwhile, Aurora Cannabis' 800,000-square-foot Aurora Sky facility may be the most technology-advanced and automated once completed. Lastly, MedReleaf is using its initial public offering cash windfall to boost capacity at its Bradford facility in Ontario.
The kingpin of cannabinoid-based drug developers
But when we're talking about the cash cows of marijuana, none has more on its balance sheet than cannabinoid-based drug developer GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH). According to the company's third-quarter report, it had $374.8 million in cash on its balance sheet as of June 30, 2017.
Why so much cash? First, GW Pharmaceuticals is preparing for what it expects could be a costly but lucrative launch of experimental drug Epidiolex, an oral cannabidiol-based medicine designed to treat two rare types of childhood-onset epilepsy -- Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. In two late-stage studies for each indication, Epidiolex met its primary endpoint, which was a statistically significant reduction in seizure frequency relative to the placebo. Assuming Epidiolex gets the green light from the Food and Drug Administration, we could be talking about a therapy capable of between $500 million and $1 billion in peak annual sales. Marketing expenses associated with Epidiolex should prove to be money well spent.
The other reason for the cash hoard is GW Pharmaceuticals needs capital to run studies for its other pipeline products. Remember, even if Epidiolex is approved, it could take a few years before the company is generating enough in quarterly sales to become cash flow positive. In the interim, it'll be burning through its remaining cash on hand. Thus, having a lot of capital is critical for cannabinoid-based drug developers.
The two downsides you need to be aware of
While cash is king among marijuana stocks, investors also need to be aware that this cash isn't just being plucked out of trees. In many instances, the way pot stocks accomplish capital raises is through secondary or bought-deal offerings. In a bought-deal offering, which is particularly common in Canada, an investment firm or institution agrees to buy an entire share offering from a client.
That these companies have been able to raise as much capital as they have signifies that there's a lot of investor interest in the marijuana industry. However, it needs to be pointed out that these secondary offerings and bought-deal financings are pushing up the outstanding share counts of these stocks and potentially diluting existing shareholders. There's no doubt that this capital is very much needed if these pot companies hope to remain competitive, but it's likely to be a near-term hindrance to investors.
While we're on the subject, also keep in the forefront of your mind that recreational marijuana is still illegal throughout all of North America. Despite all the projections of growth, nothing matters unless Canada, Mexico, or the U.S. alters its broader stance on cannabis. Canada seems to be the likeliest of the three to make that happen, making the four Canadian cannabis giants a potentially intriguing play. Nevertheless, without a bill being signed into law, pot stocks remain a very risky investment, huge cash balances or not.
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Reviewing South Carolina at Alabama: What Do We Make Of This Game?
By Gamecock Man Oct 18, 2009, 11:29am EDT
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Well, that wasn't pretty. In a game in which the norm for both offenses was off-kilter offensive play, defense ruled the day, and Alabama's big interception return on the first drive and their ability to run the ball fairly consistently helped the Tide to a 20-6 win. The game was a close one, and you really have to give our defense credit for keeping us in this thing. I was impressed with how Ellis Johnson's group didn't crack after numerous aborted offensive series. They kept 'Bama out of the end zone until the very end of the game, and they came up with several turnovers. That's the recipe for success in a game like this.
Unfortunately, our offense failed to capitalize on the numerous opportunities to score that the defense produced, and you have to recognize that both our coaches and players simply didn't do a great job in this game. The play calling was questionable for most of the night. Why continue to run draw plays that 'Bama has held in check all night? Why run a play three straight times on first and goal at the five? For his part, Stephen Garcia, although he made a noble effort, played very poorly. A lot of his throws were a little off and he didn't do a good job of avoiding sacks. The interception looked like the receivers fault for running the wrong route, but it goes on the books nonetheless. It was possibly the difference in the game. Finally, some of our receivers suffered from the dropsies. Just an all-around poor offensive showing.
The question now becomes what to make of this one. You can, of course, call it yet another missed opportunity and worry that the wheels are about to come off. And that's a valid response; we've been there before, and while I expect to beat Vandy this week, nothing will come easy after that. Some of our problems, such as the offensive line play, will probably continue to haunt us. Depth will only become more of an issue on both sides of the ball as the season progresses.
However, this loss doesn't have to mean that the season is falling apart. This wasn't a game that many people expected us to win or even to keep close. We were playing what's possibly the best team in the nation in their house. Despite having an off night offensively, though, we kept it closer than most folks expected us to. If I'm Steve Spurrier and his staff, I'm telling this team that they're right there, so close to being able to win the big one. I'm also telling them that this team is still in position to achieve its goals for the season, and while the schedule is daunting, all of our remaining games are winnable. That includes Florida, who looks vulnerable right now and won't have the luxury of playing us at home. (Although they might enjoy other luxuries, such as biased officiating and broadcasting commentary. Yeesh to that game yesterday.)
In the end, I still think we're where we were this time last week. We're searching for that game when it all comes together. This week, it was the offense that was off. We've seen Garcia bounce back from off nights before, and I think we'll see him do it again, hopefully next week against Vandy. If he can do that and the rest of the team can come to play, as well, then maybe we can get a little retribution against the 'Dores and gain some steam as we head on the road to take on Tennessee and Arkansas.
A few more thoughts on the game.
As I expected, Ellis Johnson played the run aggresively all night, and it worked for most of the game. Kudos to our staff for their gameplan and to the players for executing it.
Even with Akeem Auguste coming back, I think C.C. Whitlock has earned a place in the starting lineup. He played another good game and is finally showing us why he was considered such a good prospect.
If I'm Vandy's coaching staff, I'm thinking the only way my generally incompetent offense is going to move the ball is to get in the wildcat and run it up the gut. Our defensive coaches need to be prepared for that next week, as it's given us fits now for two straight weeks.
After running the ball well against Kentucky last week, we looked like 2008 Carolina this week. At some point, I think Spurrier is going to have to diversify his offense a little bit to incorporate more power formations. Everyone can see that draw play coming from a mile away, and unless the rest of our offense is clicking on all cylinders, good defenses can shut the play down pretty easily.
On that note, not having Jarvis Giles hurt us more than I thought it would. Having a good outside runner like Giles would have given us another option in the running game.
Jason Barnes finally had a good game. Hope he can keep it up. (After today, please don't remind that Barnes could have been the hero if not for a bad Garcia throw.)
Kentucky beat Auburn at Auburn last night. Perhaps the 'Cats are a pretty good football team and a nice scalp for our team.
On the other hand, N.C. State certainly isn't making our victory over them look like it means anything.
Finally, all my best to Moe Brown. Get well soon, buddy.


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Важным принципиальным вопросом теории дискретизации является вопрос об объёме дискретного описания сигналов, то есть о количестве  базисных функций, используемых для представления:

 .

Чтобы найти оптимальный базис, нужно определить класс сигналов, для которого он отыскивается, а также задать точность восстановления для этого класса. При статистическом подходе к описанию сигналов оптимальным  — мерным базисом для представления отдельных реализаций сигналов обычно считается базис, при котором норма ошибки, усредненная по ансамблю реализаций, минимальна. В этом случае необходимые и достаточные условия минимума нормы ошибки представления сигнала в виде суммы базисных функций определяет теорема Карунена-Лоэва.

Популярная формулировка
Минимальное значение нормы ошибки представления сигналов на интервале протяженностью  достигается при использовании в качестве базиса собственных функций оператора, ядром которого является корреляционная функция сигналов :

 ,

соответствующих  наибольшим собственным значениям.
При этом норма ошибки равна:

 .
Такое разложение является разложением Карунена-Лоэва.

Применение
В теории случайных процессов теорема Карунена-Лоэва  (названа в честь Кари Карунена и Мишеля Лоэва) — представление случайного процесса в виде бесконечной линейной комбинации ортогональных функций, аналогичное представлению рядов Фурье — последовательному представлению функций на ограниченном интервале. В отличие от рядов Фурье, где коэффициенты являются действительными числами и базис представления состоит из синусоидальных функций (то есть, из функций синус и косинус с разными частотами), коэффициенты в теореме Карунена-Лоэва — случайные переменные, и базис представления зависит от процесса. Ортогональные базисные функции, использованные в этом представлении, определяет функция ковариации процесса. Если мы рассматриваем стохастический процесс как случайную функцию F, то есть процесс, в котором функция на интервале [a, b] принимает значение F, то эта теорема может рассматриваться как случайное ортонормальное разложение F.

Центрированный случайный процесс {Xt}t ∈ [a, b] (где центрирование означает, что математические ожидания E(Xt) существуют и равны нулю для всех значений параметра t из [a, b]), удовлетворяющий техническому условию непрерывности, допускает разложение следующего вида:

где Zk — взаимнонекоррелированые случайные величины и функции ek — непрерывные вещественные функции на [a, b], ортогональные в L² [a, b]. В случае нецентрированного процесса имеет место аналогичное разложение, получаемое разложением функции математического ожидания в базисе ek.

Если процесс  гауссовский, то случайные величины Zk — тоже гауссовские и являются независимыми. Этот результат обобщает преобразования Карунена-Лоэва. Важным примером центрированного случайного процесса на интервале [0,1] является винеровский процесс, и теорема Карунена-Лоэва может быть использована для получения канонического ортогонального представления. В этом случае разложение состоит из синусоидальных функций.

Приведенные выше разложения в также известны как разложения или декомпозиция Карунена-Лоэва (эмпирическая версия, то есть, с коэффициентами из исходных числовых данных), как анализ главных компонент, собственное ортогональное разложение или преобразование Хотеллинга.

Формулировка
Сформулируем результат в терминах комплекснозначных стохастических процессов. Результаты могут быть применены к вещественнозначным процессам без модификаций, вспоминая, что число, комплексно-сопряженное с действительным числом, совпадает с ним самим.

Для случайных элементов X и Y скалярное произведение определяется формулой

где * обозначает операцию комплексного сопряжения.

Статистики второго порядка
Скалярное произведение корректно определено, если как , так и  имеют конечные вторые моменты, или, что то же самое, если они оба квадратично интегрируемы. Отметим, что скалярное произведение связано с ковариацией и корреляцией. В частности, для случайных переменных со средним нулевым значением, ковариация и скалярное произведение совпадают. Функция автоковариации

Если процесс {Xt}t центрированный, то

для всех t. Таким образом, автоковариация KXX равна автокорреляции RXX:

Отметим, что если {Xt}t центрированный и t1, ≤ t2, …, ≤ tN являются точками на интервале [a, b], следовательно

Формулировка теоремы
Теорема. Рассмотрим центрированный случайный процесс , индексированный  на интервале  с ковариационной функцией . Предположим, что ковариационная функция  непрерывна по совокупности переменных . Тогда  — положительно определенное ядро, и по теореме Мерсера интегральный оператор  в  (близкой к мере Лебега на ) имеет ортонормированный базис из собственных векторов. Пусть  являются собственными векторами , соответствующими ненулевым собственным значениям и

Тогда  — центрированные ортогональные случайные величины и

ряд сходится в среднем квадратичном, а также равномерно по . Кроме того

где  собственное значение, соответствующее собственному вектору .

Суммы Коши
В формулировке теоремы интеграл в определении  можно понимать как предел в среднем сумм Коши случайных величин

где

Особый случай: гауссовское распределение
Так как предел в среднем квадратичном из совместно гауссовских случайных величин является гауссовским и совместно гауссовские случайные (центрированные) величины независимы тогда и только тогда, когда они являются ортогональными, мы можем также заключить:

Теорема. Случайные величины  имеют гауссовское распределение и являются независимыми, если первоначальный процесс {Xt}t тоже является гауссовским.

В гауссовском случае, поскольку случайные величины  являются независимыми, мы можем быть уверены в том, что:

почти наверное.

Отметим, что обобщая теорему Мерсера, мы можем заменить интервал  другими компактными пространствами  , а меру Лебега на  — борелевской мерой с носителем в .

Винеровский процесс
Винеровский процесс в теории случайных процессов — это математическая модель броуновского движения или случайного блуждания с непрерывным временем. Здесь мы определяем его как центрированный гауссовский процесс B(t) с ковариационной функцией

Легко видеть, что собственные векторы ковариации равны

а соответствующие собственные значения

Это позволяет получить нам следующее представление винеровского процесса:

Теорема. Существует последовательность {Wi}i независимых гауссовких случайных величин с нулевым средним и единичной дисперсией такая, что

Сходимость является равномерной по t в норме L² так, что

равномерно по t.

Использование
Было высказано мнение, что в проекте SETI следует использовать преобразования Карунена-Лоэва для обнаружения сигналов с очень широким спектром. Аналогично, в системах адаптивной оптики иногда используют функции Карунена-Лоэва для восстановления информации о фазе фронта волны. (Dai 1996, JOSA A).

См. также
 Метод главных компонент
 Нейронная сеть Кохонена

Ссылки
 И. И. Гихман, А. В. Скороход, Введение в теорию случайных процессов.- М.: Наука, 1965.
 B. Simon, Functional Integration and Quantum Physics, Academic Press, 1979
 K. Karhunen, Kari, Uber lineare Methoden in der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fennicae. Ser. A. I. Math.-Phys., 1947, No. 37, 1-79
 М. Лоев, Теория вероятностей, — М.: ИЛ, 1962.
 G. Dai, Modal wave-front reconstruction with Zernike polynomials and Karhunen-Loeve functions, JOSA A, 13, 6, 1996

Примечания

Литература

Карунена — Лоэва
Случайные процессы


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RIM takes its case to BlackBerry investors
Shareholders of Research In Motion, perhaps some of the most staunch supporters of the BlackBerry smartphone, are expected to take a far more critical view of the embattled company at its annual meeting on Tuesday.
WATERLOO, Ont. — Shareholders of Research In Motion, perhaps some of the most staunch supporters of the BlackBerry smartphone, are expected to take a far more critical view of the embattled company at its annual meeting on Tuesday.
The meeting in RIM's hometown of Waterloo, Ont., will be the first time many of them will meet new chief executive Thorsten Heins and the numerous other executives who have come aboard.
It will also be a prime chance for them to grill Heins about the state of the company awash in technical delays, financial underperformance and an eroding stock price.
"This is the one time when shareholders can actually get their voice heard," said Sameet Kanade, a technology analyst at Northern Securities.
"I'd be surprised if there weren't any backlash."
Much has changed since former co-CEO Jim Balsillie stood before RIM's stakeholders last July and assured them that RIM's deteriorating stock price — which had just fallen below $30 a share — was merely in a temporary dip. It has since fallen to well below $10 per share.
Last year, Balsillie offered up a series of assurances and timelines that have fallen by the wayside. He told the audience that RIM's foundation was strong and it was on the verge of its biggest product launch in the company's history — one that would help it meet its financial guidance for the year.
As history has it, RIM (TSX:RIM) didn't launch those products, and still hasn't. The BlackBerry 10 operating system and its new line of smartphones have proven to be the biggest hurdle the company has ever faced, with delays pushing the release date until early next year.
The company's share of the U.S. smartphone market has also eroded to around 10 per cent.
Earlier this year, Balsillie left the company, while co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has also stepped aside and taken a lesser position on the company's board.
RIM's new leadership has been hurriedly trying to rescue the company's reputation in hopes that consumers will consider buying another BlackBerry instead of the array of alternatives on the market, such as Apple's iPhone and a flurry of devices operating on the Android system.
Chief marketing officer Frank Boulben, who took over the job just four weeks ago, said BlackBerry 10 will be "a truly different experience."
"What we are going to introduce is a different paradigm where you are always 'in' and you flow seamlessly from one application to another," he said Monday in an interview.
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He said the BB10 launch will be wider than the initial plan, with a scheduled release in the early part of next year in "more countries than we anticipated in a shorter period of time."
While he declined to detail the specifics of the delayed BlackBerry 10 rollout, he assured the global campaign would echo the same messages, unlike in the past.
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Self-induced spatial dynamics to enhance spin squeezing via one-axis twisting in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate
Haine, S A, Lau, J, Anderson, R P and Johnsson, M T (2014) Self-induced spatial dynamics to enhance spin squeezing via one-axis twisting in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. Physical Review A, 90 (2). p. 3613. ISSN 1050-2947
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We investigate the prospect of enhancing the phase sensitivity of atom interferometers in the Mach-Zehnder configuration with squeezed light. Ultimately, this enhancement is achieved by transferring the quantum state of squeezed light to one or more of the atomic input beams, thereby allowing operation below the standard quantum limit. We analyze in detail three specific schemes that utilize (1) single-mode squeezed optical vacuum (i.e., low-frequency squeezing), (2) two-mode squeezed optical vacuum (i.e., high-frequency squeezing) transferred to both atomic inputs, and (3) two-mode squeezed optical vacuum transferred to a single atomic input. Crucially, our analysis considers incomplete quantum state transfer (QST) between the optical and atomic modes, and the effects of depleting the initially prepared atomic source. Unsurprisingly, incomplete QST degrades the sensitivity in all three schemes. We show that by measuring the transmitted photons and using information recycling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 053002 (2013)], the degrading effects of incomplete QST on the sensitivity can be substantially reduced. In particular, information recycling allows scheme (2) to operate at the Heisenberg limit irrespective of the QST efficiency, even when depletion is significant. Although we concentrate on Bose-condensed atomic systems, our scheme is equally applicable to ultracold thermal vapors.
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Grossman, D.
Upon its initial publication, On Killing was hailed as a landmark study of the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects soldiers, and of the societal implications of escalating violence. Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to include information on 21st-century military conflicts, recent trends in crime, suicide bombings, school shootings, and more. The result is a work certain to be relevant and important for decades to come.
Available in print, e-book, and audio.
On Combat by Grossman, D. with Loren Christensen
A ground-breaking examination of what it takes to perform, cope and survive in the toxicity of deadly combat as a soldier in a foreign land, and a police officer in the mean streets of urban America.
AUTOGRAPHED copies available at the SDK&G shop!
Bulletproof Marriage: A 90-Day Devotional by Adam Davis and Dave Grossman
Bulletproof Marriage is a 90-day devotional that applies biblical principles to support and strengthen the marriages of military members, law enforcement officers, and first responders. Each day includes a Bible verse, an inspirational reading, quick tips, action steps for both husband and wife, and a prayer.
Preorder on Amazon, B&N, or CBD!
Warrior Mindset: Mental Toughness Skills for our Nation's Peacekeepers by Dr. Michael Asken, Loren Christiansen, and Grossman, D.
Warrior Mindset presents psychological techniques and training to develop Mental Toughness, a Survival Mindset, and a Hardened Focus. In an easy-to-read format, you will learn simple techniques to integrate psychological skills with physical and tactical training to add a dimension that is often overlooked, but necessary to achieve maximal performance excellence as a modern warrior.
Available in print and e-book.
Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing by Grossman, D. and Kristine Paulsen, with Katie Miserany
Drawing on crime statistics, cutting-edge social research, and scientific studies of the teenage brain, Col. Grossman shows how video games that depict antisocial, misanthropic, casually savage behavior can warp the mind - with potentially deadly results. His book will become the focus of a new national conversation about video games and the epidemic of mass murders that they have unleashed.
American Sheepdogs: Why Mommy Carries a Gun by Grossman D. andStephanie Rogish
Suitable for all members of the family, not just Moms. Follow Mrs. Shepherd and Max as they explore the responsibilities inherent in carrying a firearm, as well as the history and social impact of the 2nd Amendment.
Available on Amazon here.
Available with FREE SHIPPING at the SDK&G shop!
Sheepdogs - Meet Our Nation's Warriors by Grossman, D. and Stephanie Rogish.
The debut children's book by Grossman and Rogish, Sheepdogs helps children understand the differences between sheep, wolves and Sheepdogs in our world today, and why Sheepdogs are important.
Available in print from the SDK&G store.
Also available on Amazon.
Electronic version available at iBooks.
Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill, Revised and Updated Edition: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence by Grossman, D. and Gloria Degaetano
Completely revised and updated, a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth
The Bulletproof Mind for the Armed Citizen released by USCCA
In this 5 DVD set, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman addresses the question of whether or not we can take the lessons learned from Columbine, Virginia Tech, and the World Trade Centers and apply them to our future. Can we confront the true problem in America: Denial? Watch as Col. Grossman calls all American citizens to wake up to reality and truly prepare for the ominous days America will surely see in the future. Find out the warning signs, and what you can do now to ready yourself and your family.
From him, you'll learn how the body responds to lethal combat, what happens to your blood flow, your muscles, your judgment, memory, vision, and hearing when someone is trying to kill you.
Available directly from USCCA.
The Bulletproof Mind released by Gavin de Becker and Assoc.
This series was recorded live at a special meeting of experts from law enforcement and the military. They gathered to discuss just one thing: killing - with our Nation's leading expert on the topic, Col. Dave Grossman.
This Series Contains:
1. The Hidden Truth About Lethal Combat
2. How the Body Responds to Combat 1
4. The Bulletproof Mind
5. Terrorism and School Violence
6. Who is Teaching Our Kids to Kill
Currently Unavailable. Check back soon.
The Two-Space War by Grossman, D. and Leo Frankowski
The Two-Space War: Volume I of the Westerness Saga, Baen Books, 2004. All of the information that Col. Grossman writes about and teaches in his military and law enforcement training sessions has been included in his military science fiction books. This may be the first time any fiction book has ever talked about what combat is REALLY like!
Available in print.
Available as a DRM free e-book.
The Guns of Two-Space by Grossman, D. and Bob Hudson
The sequel to Two-Space War is now available as a DRM free e-book purchase or a print copy.
Available as DRM free e-book.
Available in print from Lulu.
Recomended Reading
Secrets of Mental Marksmanship: How to Fire Perfect Shots by Linda K. Miller and Keith Cunningham
Training at the Speed of Life, The Definitive Textbook for Police and Military Reality Based Training by Kenneth Murray (Forward by Grossman, D.)
Available in print at RBTA.net
Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools by John Giduck (Forward by Grossman, D.)
Available in print at SDK&G.
Available on Amazon as e-book.
Innocent Targets: When Terrorism Comes to School by Michael Dorn and Chris Dorn (Forward by Grossman, D.)
Available in print,
Field Command by Charles "Sid" Heal (Forward by Grossman, D.)
Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer by Phil Chalmers
Available in print and eBook,


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Q: C# library for PsService functionality We have the PsService.exe tool provided by Windows Sysinternals to start or Stop any remote machine's service.But in order to use this exe in our C# we need to use the a traditional approach where we invoke a process from C# code.
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Path\PsService.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = @"\\server64 restart spooler";
p.Start();

string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();

p.WaitForExit();

With this approach we have very little control (exception handling, logging etc) and is a bit cumbersome to use. Is there any C# library through which we can achieve the same rather than invoking a process.
I did some Googling with very little luck.
The same applies to other tools like PsExec, PsKill etc


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I weigh 70.5kg, running/core-training for 15-30 minutes 3-5 times a week. Some stretching (NO, it's not YOGA).
I've learned to make my own maki! This is awesome because everyone here loves maki, and I love getting creative with what I put in there.
I am eating as much as I want but my weight is dropping quite fast. I try to consume more avocados and nuts these days for the high-caloric fat they provide.
The only con to a HCLF vegan diet I found so far is social incompatibility. If I meet friends in a common restaurant it is rather difficult to find something on the menu without animal and/or tons of fat in it.
Everyone has heard multiple times in their lives that vegatables are healthy, colesterol is bad and how "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", right?
Common sense is though, that it doesn't really matter what we put into our mouths. Yeah, yeah, if we eat too much we get fat and if we don't eat enough we starve but besides that: as long as it tastes good it should be OK.
This is weird because we accept that these little pills our doctor has put us on do make a difference to our health. But those 35 tons of food we eat during our lifetimes do not?
A presentation by Dr. Neal Barnard addresses in depth how food-choice is linked to degenerative disease in western societies.
We need to eat like our ancestors of the Paleolithic Period did because this is how we have evolved!
Seems legit at first glance, doesn't it? Let's give it a little more thought. Our ancestors goal, 2.5 million years ago, was to get into their late thirties without starving. Ours is not. We'd rather live into our eighties without degenerative deseases these days.
But let's just assume it would be a good idea to mimic their behaviour for the sake of argument, shall we? Imagine wandering a Savannah with wood spear and stone knife in hand. You are also equipped with the knowledge of sparking a fire and identifying edible plants. Medical treatment consists of a Shaman dancing and chanting. Would you rather plug berries and dig up roots or hunt animals?
You now loom above a collapsed gazelle. Luckily you got your tools at hand, your body alone is neither capable of carving nor digesting the animal. After you have eaten the roasted meat you sit at the fire, musing about how desperate and bloody that hole endeavour had been.
Considering the risk/reward ratio, hunting must have been a rare and frantic act in the beginning. As our tools and techniques evolved over the centuries, this ratio shifted to the better. The big game-changer had been the invention of agriculture around 11,500 years ago. From then on we had carbohydrates without foraging and animal produce without risk.
Everything you put into your mouth is either carbohydrate (carbs), fat or protein – a macronutrient. Ideally, brains run on carbs (glucose), while muscles run on carbs for high intensity (anaerobic), and fats on low intesity (aerobic) activities. But what if things are less than perfect? Your body will metabolize subpar energy sources in order to function. Even the protein your muscles are built from can be consumed for energy in a starvation-scenario. You can also run on fat alone if the preferred carbohydrates are unavailable. This is called Ketogenesis and smells pretty bad.
"Paleo" is a low-carb, high-protein diet. It works really well for weight loss, because you force your body into an adverse situation, where the preferred energy source (carbs) is scarce. I went down to 10% bodyfat on this kind of diet over two years, vast amounts of sports involved.
My body did send a clear message after those two years: stop that, it hurts! I had an inflammation built up in my right shoulder and elbow. Now, eight years later, my shoulder is not back to normal.
As mentioned above I no longer believe that we are born to eat diets high in fat and protein. When I look into the mirror I see a primate, not the teeth/claws of a carnivore.
Have you experienced a Paleo or low-carb diet yet? How did it work out for you?
I want a burger with BEEEF!
I weigh 71.8kg while slacking at the beach or city-triping.
Denmark is expensive. Luckily, basic foods like rice, pasta, potatoes and vegetables not that much. I had a vegetarien Quiche in Esbjerg. Never before had I this much butter & cream in one single meal though.
Weird thing is, I am losing weight at a decent pace without even trying. I am eating as much as I want, whenever I want. I do not feel deprived of anything without meat, fish and dairy. Quite awesome!
Eat your vegetables, they are healthy!
I weigh 72.9kg at light core-training/stretching 10-20 minutes 3-5 times a week.
Made Hummus and Mustacado which I like much better than the store-bought spread. Growing sprouts in a sprout jar. Homed in on ricemilk to go with my coffee.
My digestion has improved, partly due to my high intake of filtered water, I guess. I underestimated the amount of food I had to eat to meet my caloric needs at first. No wonder, as fat is 9 calories per gram while carbs are just 4 calories/gram. Once realised, I have fun eating an abundance of diverse and spicy meals.
I will be on vacation in Denmark for two weeks now. Curious how that will work out.
My favorite spread/dip/dressing and all-purpose weapon when something creamy is urgently needed.
This spicy cream sides really well with tomatoes. If you want it extra-creamy you can add flaxseed or olive oil. I usually don't.
I can not eat that. It is too GREEEN!
I weigh 73.8kg at light core-training/stretching 10-20 minutes 3-5 times a week.
Cream cheese is difficult to replace. The buyable vegan spread is either laden with sunflower oil, tastes like cardboard or both. Finding a replacement for the milk in my latte is equally challenging. The various plantmilks either taste weird and/or flock out on contact with coffee.
This is more fun than I thought it would be! Before, I would concentrate on the animal content while preparing a meal. Vegetables were just accessories of moderate to low importance. They are the meal now, combined with whole food starches.
Bought some vegan cookbooks and tried several meals. Some were great, some good but nothing really disappointing. Best so far: Vegan für Faule (German) – too much refined oil though. Worst: Eat to Live Cookbook – health over taste & convenience.
Found Dr. Greger for solid information on nutrition. Love that guy!
My mother-in-law is Japanese. This made my taste buds adopt a weird mix of German Hausmannskost and asian quisine. My undisputed favorite is this sesame-flavoured salad, often served as side-dish with sushi.
blend dressing and add squashed spinach from 1. and roasted sesame from 2.
While not essential, the seaweed with its crunch and mild fishy flavor is what elevates this dish from solid to pure delight. Damn, I'm hungry now!
According to the German Vegetarian Association we had around 10% vegatarians and 1.1% vegans by January 2015. So refusing animal products can safely be considered "not normal".
But are these vegans a menace to society, as some claim, ready to overthrow economies by force and plunge us all into a dark age of minimalism? Or are they just delusional but harmless individuals fond of yoga?
I will provide intel by gathering vital information from the battlefield of vegan nutrition to aid you in your quest for wisdom. Yes, I am that heroic.


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DJ RO-Z
DJ RO-Z moves to a beat that is very much her own.
Born and raised in England, she has circled the globe as a highly acclaimed DJ with a number of residencies, predominantly for Nikki Beach - the world's premier luxury beach club brand.
Both spinning and producing has led her to work with many other world-class DJ's and producers from the musical stylings of DJ Wady to Joey Negro, and she has entertained high calibre audiences from Jay-Z and Beyonce to Sir Richard Branson.
With a truly unique style, RO-Z has an evident love of music that showcases the international influences she's acquired from playing in Miami, New York, London, Thailand and the Caribbean.
She is currently spinning in Europe and producing original material in the studio.
From intoxicating soulful and sexy lounge beats to exhilarating, heart-thumping dance anthems, whenever she plays, her mission is clear; ensure that everyone loves what they hear and WANTS to MOVE!
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