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Run/Debug Configuration: PHPSpec
This dialog box is available only when the PHP and PHPSpec plugins are installed and enabled. The plugins are not bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, but they can be installed from the JetBrains plugin repository as described in Installing, Updating and Uninstalling Repository Plugins and Enabling and Disabling Plugins. Once enabled, the plugins are available at the IDE level, that is, you can use them in all your IntelliJ IDEA projects.
Use this dialog box to create a configuration to be used for running and debugging unit tests on PHP applications using the PHPSpec toolset.
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Before you start
To run PHPSpec tests:
- Install and configure the PHPSpec toolset on your computer as described in Testing with PHPSpec.
- Make sure the PHP and PHPSpec plugins are installed and enabled. The plugins are not bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, but they can be installed from the JetBrains plugin repository as described in Installing, Updating and Uninstalling Repository Plugins and Enabling and Disabling Plugins. Once enabled, the plugins are available at the IDE level, that is, you can use them in all your IntelliJ IDEA projects.
Test Runner area
In this area, appoint the specifications to launch and the command line switches to be passed to PHPSpec.
|Test scope
| In this area, specify the location of specifications or the configuration file where they are listed.
Command Line area
In this area, customize the behavior of the current PHP interpreter by specifying the options and arguments to be passed to the PHP executable file.
|Interpreter options
| In this text box, specify the options to be passed to the PHP executable file. They override the default behavior of the PHP interpreter and/or ensure that additional activities are performed.
If necessary, click and type the desired options in the Command Line Options dialog box. Type each option on a new line. When you close the dialog box, they are all displayed in the Command line options text box with spaces as separators.
|Custom working directory
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This setting does not block the test execution because the location of tests is always specified through a full path to the corresponding files and/or directories.
By default, the field is empty and the working directory is the root of the project.
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|Click this button to remove the selected configuration from the list.
|Click this button to create a copy of the selected configuration.
|Edit defaults
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|Alt+Up or Alt+Down
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|Move into new folder / Create new folder
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If one or more run/debug configurations are in focus, the selected run/debug configurations are automatically moved to the newly created folder. If only a category is in focus, an empty folder is created.
Move run/debug configurations to a folder using drag-and-drop, or the buttons.
|Sort configurations
|Click this button to sort configurations in alphabetical order.
Common options
|In this text box, specify the name of the current run/debug configuration. This field does not appear for the default run/debug configurations.
|This node in the left-hand pane of the dialog box contains the default run/debug configuration settings. Select the desired configuration to change its default settings in the right-hand pane. The defaults are applied to all newly created run/debug configurations.
| Select this check box to make the run/debug configuration available to other team members.
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This check box is not available when editing the run/debug configuration defaults.
|Single instance only
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Every time a new run/debug configuration is launched, IntelliJ IDEA checks the presence of the other instances of the same run/debug configuration, and displays a confirmation dialog box. If you click OK in the confirmation dialog box, the first instance of the runner will be stopped, and the next one will take its place.
This makes sense when the usage of certain resources can cause conflicts, or when launching two run/debug configurations of the same type consumes too much of the CPU and memory resources.
If this check box is not selected, it is possible to launch as many instances of the runner as required. So doing, each runner will start in its own tab of the Run tool window.
|Before launch
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Dear Reader: I am typing in some excerpts from a letter Stephen Senn shared with me in relation to my April 28, 2012 blogpost. It is a letter to the editor of Statistics in Medicine in response to S. Goodman. It contains several important points that get to the issues we've been discussing, and you may wish to track down the rest of it. Sincerely, D. G. Mayo
Statist. Med. 2002; 21:2437–2444 https://errorstatistics.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/goodman.pdf
A comment on replication, p-values and evidence: S.N. Goodman, Statistics in Medicine 1992; 11:875–879
From: Stephen Senn*
Some years ago, in the pages of this journal, Goodman gave an interesting analysis of 'replication probabilities' of p-values. Specifically, he considered the possibility that a given experiment had produced a p-value that indicated 'significance' or near significance (he considered the range p=0.10 to 0.001) and then calculated the probability that a study with equal power would produce a significant result at the conventional level of significance of 0.05. He showed, for example, that given an uninformative prior, and (subsequently) a resulting p-value that was exactly 0.05 from the first experiment, the probability of significance in the second experiment was 50 per cent. A more general form of this result is as follows. If the first trial yields p=α then the probability that a second trial will be significant at significance level α (and in the same direction as the first trial) is 0.5.
I share many of Goodman's misgiving about p-values and I do not disagree with his calculations (except in slight numerical details). I also consider that his demonstration is useful for two reasons. First, it serves as a warning for anybody planning a further similar study to one just completed (and which has a marginally significant result) that this may not be matched in the second study. Second, it serves as a warning that apparent inconsistency in results from individual studies may be expected to be common and that one should not overreact to this phenomenon.
However, I disagree with two points that he makes. First, he claims that 'the replication probability provides a means, within the frequentist framework, to separate p-values from their hypothesis test interpretation, an important first step towards understanding the concept of inferential meaning' (p. 879). I disagree with him on two grounds here: (i) it is not necessary to separate p-values from their hypothesis test interpretation; (ii) the replication probability has no direct bearing on inferential meaning. Second he claims that, 'the replication probability can be used as a frequentist counterpart of Bayesian and likelihood models to show that p-values overstate the evidence against the null-hypothesis' (p. 875, my italics). I disagree that there is such an overstatement.
THE TRUE PROBLEM WITH p-VALUES
The uninformative prior that Goodman considers causes no difficulties for p-values at all. The problem is rather that the 'uninformative' prior is rarely appropriate. In general, however, it is not possible to survive as a Bayesian on uninformative priors. It is a key feature of Jeffreys's approach to scientific inference, for example, that he recognized that some way had to be found for down-weighting the effect of higher order terms [8]. To give another example, this approach is essential in dealing with carry-over in analysing cross-over trials [9].
If, in testing the effect of a treatment in a clinical trial, we have a lump of probability on the treatment effect being zero, then, as is well known from the Jeffreys–Good–Lindley paradox, a p-value overstates the evidence against the null [10; 11]. So, of course, do Bayesian posterior statements of the sort made by Student [3].
The important distinction here is Cox's distinction between precise and dividing hypotheses[12].In the Neyman–Pearson framework, the former corresponds to testing H0: τ = 0 against H1: τ ǂ 0, whereas the latter corresponds to testing H0: τ ≤ 0, against H1: τ > 0. The Bayesian analogue of the first case it is to have a lump of probability on τ =0. Where such a probability is appropriate, then from a Bayesian perspective, the p-value will have most unfortunate properties.
It is important to realize, however, that the reason that Bayesians can regard p-values as overstating the evidence against the null is simply a reflection of the fact that Bayesians can disagree sharply with each other. For example, suppose in fact that we have two Bayesians who agree before seeing some data that the probability that the treatment is beneficial is 0.5. Given that the treatment is effective they have the same conditional prior distribution as to how effective it will be. However, one of them, the 'pessimist', believes that if not beneficial it may be harmful. On the other hand the other, the 'optimist' believes that if not beneficial it will be harmless. After running the trial the pessimist now believes with probability 0.95 that the treatment is beneficial, whereas the optimist now believes with probability 0.95 that it is useless.
The reason is that the result of the trial is marginally positive. For the optimist such a result could have easily arisen under the 'null', which is concentrated on zero. In fact, if most of the prior belief under the alternative corresponds to large treatment benefit, a moderate observed benefit is more likely under the null than under most of the alternative. Hence, the optimist is now inclined to believe the null. For the pessimist, however, such a result is even less likely under the 'null' than under the alternative, since both stretch away towards infinity from zero but the point estimate is in the alternative region. Hence, the pessimist is now inclined to believe the alternative hypothesis.
1. Lehmann EL. Testing Statistical Hypotheses. Chapman and Hall: New York, 1994.
2. Fisher RA. Statistical methods for research workers. In Statistical Methods, Experimental Design and Scientific Inference, Bennet JH (ed.). Oxford University: Oxford, 1925.
3. Student. The probable error of a mean. Biometrika 1908; 6:1–25.
4. Cushny AR, Peebles AR. The action of optimal isomers. II. Hyoscines. Journal of Physiology 1905; 32:501–510.
5. Fisher RA, Yates F. Statistical Tables for Biological Agricultural and Medical Research. Longman: Harlow,1974. (First published Oliver and Boyd: Edinburgh, 1938.)
6. Royall RM. The effect of sample size on the meaning of significance tests. American Statistician 1986; 40:313–315.
7. Senn SJ, Richardson W. The first t-test. Statistics in Medicine 1994; 13:785–803.
8. Jeffreys H. Theory of Probability. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1961.
9. Senn SJ. Consensus and controversy in pharmaceutical statistics (with discussion). Statistician 2000; 49:135–176.
10. Lindley DV. A statistical paradox. Biometrika 1957; 44:187–192.
11. Bartlett MS. A comment on D.V. Lindley's statistical paradox. Biometrika 1957; 44:533–534.
12. Cox DR. The role of significance tests. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 1977; 4:49–70.
13. Goodman SN. Toward evidence-based medical statistics. 1: The P value fallacy. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999; 130:995 –1004.
14. Goodman SN. Toward evidence-based medical statistics. 2: The Bayes factor. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999; 130:1005 –1013.
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Jodi Arias spoke with Phoenix television station KSAZ minutes after the jurors announced their guilty verdict. She says the outcome was unexpected. Arias still claims that she killed her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in self-defense.
When asked about the possibility of being executed, Arias told the reporter she prefers that end rather than living out her days behind bars.
"The worst outcome for me would be natural life. I would much rather die sooner than later ... I said years ago that I'd rather get death than life, and that still is true today. I believe death is the ultimate freedom, so I'd rather just have my freedom as soon as I can get it," she said.
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Personally, I would prefer to see her rot in prison amongst the worst of the worst rather than allow her an out.....a quick death sentence would be any convicts dream...let her pay....day by day!
Jodi is a disgrace. This trial was ridiculous, it was all about Jodi trashing Travis and she was the victim. Give her what she wants, the death penalty. She took a beautiful young man's life. God bless Travis's family.
Yes, prison anyway. She is right I would rather die than do life
Even with the death penalty, there will be years before it's carried out. I say let's save tax dollars by denying her any appeals and schedule the execution 1 week from the end of her hearing.
I am a mother of a murder victim, i can not believe the things she was allowed to say. All the days she was on the stand, all the days this case took. I do not know how the family could handle all the photos and all the horrible things she said. She has killed there brother,son and friend over and over again with her every word. mental illness, everyone that kills has something wrong with them. I think the judge was so wrong in so many ways,the case was suppose to be about her killing travis, not jodi's life story of sex and lies and how everyone did her wrong by her account.
So, let's grant her one last wish in this life.
She is out of wishes and this continues to NOT be about her!
She's looking for an easy way out. Let her rot in prison!
I am with you. Let's not waste tax payers dollars!
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Islamic terrorists like the one that decapitated James Foley, and the mainstream Muslims, want to have a world governed by Islamic Law (Sharia). When that happens, a nightmare planet will rule all. Then those who will be in charge of Islamic rule under global Sharia will execute citizens, even those guilty of what we call petty "crimes" , even speech criticizing the Prophet Muhammad or those converting to Christianity or other religions. There will be one religion. And that will be Islam.
But all Muslim groups want to have a world controlled by Islamic Law (Sharia). In the end, the whole world will be under Islamic Law. Jews, especially, will be hunted in order to kill all Jews, and in the last days "the trees and rocks will tell Muslims where to find and kill the Jews." Muslim children learn this in school. Homosexuals, Jews and all other religions will not exist. And a draconian planet will rule everywhere on Earth, where punishment of death is common for your speech, behavior or belief.
Muhammad used violence and force by his soldiers of God for 1400 years when he committed horrible crimes against all those who disagreed with him. And the bloodletting continues today. The recent beheading of James Foley by the terror group (ISIS) was an example to others and even other Islamic groups. (Islamic groups understand that all other members of religions and those without any religion will also die.) American Muslims celebrated 9/11 in the United States. Some Muslims even celebrated on the line at a car factory.
Beheading was, and is today, a popular way of ridding Muhammad's enemies as he sought to establish Islam everywhere he went-by force. It continues today. Here a few examples:
For example, while in exile in Medina (Yathrib), Saudi Arabia, the prophet was ridiculed by the Jews for trying to convert them to Islam. Muhammad handled these criticisms by ordering his detractors assassinated. In the case of Abu Afak, a 120 year old Jewish man urged people to reject the false prophet. Muhammad had Salem Ibn Umayr run a sword through the elderly man while he slept.
After his murder, a Jewish poetess named Asma Marwan spoke out against Islam and Muhammad, asking who would stop her? Hearing this, another hit man, Umayr b. Adiy al-Katmi, went to the woman's home, removed the baby she was nursing and killed her by the sword. Muhammad told the killer, "You have helped God and his apostle, O Umayr." This became the generally accepted way of silencing the critics of Islam and the prophet.
The there was Theo van Gogh, a filmmaker who was killed by Mohammad Bouyeri, a Muslim, on an Amsterdam Street in 2004 for making a film about women abused by Islam. He stated that, "If I ever get free, I would do it again. The reason? Van Gogh had insulted Islam.
It is in Madina, Saudi Arabia, however that Muhammad received his highest reputation for beheading in one day. There he launched a jihad against Jewish villages to take care of the enemies of Islam. In a Jewish town in April of 627, after the surrender of the Beni Quraidha near Medina, the prophet had all of the men and boys of fighting age (about 900) beheaded. His campaign wiped out most of the Jews in the area. The women and children were taken as slaves and their property divided among the Muslim army. Muhammad took Rayhana bint Zayd, a beautiful Jewish woman to add to his collection. Her brother, husband and father had just been beheaded by the prophet's army of Allah.
Muhammad set the standard for beheading those who refused his religion. Muslims were emulating the prophet when they beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and Nick Berg and Paul Johnson in Iraq. And, of course, the recent beheading of James Foley as an example. These horrific crimes of Muhammad and his followers throughout 1400 years are known as the most violent religion in the history of the Earth. There is no love in Islam, only death, killing and suffering. There is no freedom of speech in Islam. And now your speech can get you 3 to 10 years in prison throughout Europe. George W. Bush tried to get that international law passed by Congress when he was in office but it failed to pass. But our leaders keep trying. (Another beheading of an American.)
There is no love in Islam.
London: "Two Muslims jumped a British Army trooper in London a year ago on a main street and beheaded him with machetes in front of stunned shoppers. This kind of behavior remains normal in Islamic countries…"
The Muslim with a knife has just cut off the head of a British soldier and bragged about it to this female Londoner. European natives in a number of EU countries cannot defend their citizens as the Muslim hordes grow stronger. The British government has told their soldiers not to wear their military uniform in their own country because they cannot defend their own citizens.
These two Muslims cut off the soldier's head next to a military post (in London). The Muslims pranced up and down, bragging about their deed. The bystanders just watched and no one did anything. This killer even gave a long speech.
(NOTE: The British Government, a few years ago, told their soldiers to not wear their uniforms when they are back home for fear of Muslim attacks in their OWN COUNTRY.)
Muslims in America are trying to make Sharia law legal in our own nation and have already made some Sharia (simple legal law) in Canada legal. Sharia Islamic law is a comprehensive law, which includes the death penalty for your speech or violation of some simple religious law.
Women under Islamic rule will be your worst nightmare. They have no rights.
Muhammad is reported as saying in one hadith that "…the majority of people in Hell are women." He also said that he had not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women).
Muhammad explained that, according to the Quran, the testimony of two women witnesses are equal to that of one man in a court of law. (Sura 2:282).
Sura (4:34) is one that will warm the hearts of women everywhere: "Good women are obedient… As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to bed apart and beat them."
Beating your wife (wives) is important. "To this day the proper way to beat a woman is still a matter of concern in the Muslim world. Spain's Muslim imam, Mohammad Kamal Mustafa, published a book in the year 2000 which included advice to men on the correct way to beat their wives.
A good Muslim should strike "…only the hands and feet, using a rod that is thin and light so that it does not leave behind scars or bruises on the body."
The goal "…should be to cause psychological suffering and not to humiliate or physically abuse his wife."
(Notice that in Afghanistan the religious police must keep women covered and proper or the police will strike the women. The little girl below will also be subject to the religious rod. Meanwhile she must wonder what life will be for her. Is this what we are fighting for?)
How to kill your daughter or wife. This is a sample of what Muslim women can look forward to, such as killing the wife or the daughter if they embarrass the family. Generally a son will take care of the offending daughter. This is happening in Canada and the United States, as we speak. This is Islam. Beautiful, isn't it.
If you would rather not become a Muslim, you should stand up and fight against this evil force that threatens the world. It is, truly, a war of good against evil. It's your future. Good or Evil. Your choice.
Read what Muslims are doing now in the United States to spread Islam around the world:
Detroit Muslims want Sharia Patrols-See What Evil Sharia Brings to America
Muhammad: A Model For Today's Terrorists
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Yertle the Turtle quotes were banned from the classroom in a small British Columbia town, after the Seussian character's words were used in protest by the teachers union.
The National Post reports that a first-grade teacher at British Columbia's Prince Rupert elementary school could face disciplinary action for displaying the following Dr. Seuss quote from Yertle the Turtle on school grounds — "I know, up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights."
Given that this quote was construed as an oblique reference to the ongoing battle between the teachers union and the provincial government, teachers in British Columbia have now been banned from displaying Dr. Seuss quotes on their cars or on their person. We do not like this development in a house, we do not like this development with a mouse.
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Thankfulness is an attitude of heart from which we are aware of our blessings. Thankfulness flows from the knowledge of how loved, valued and precious we are to the creator, our family and our friends and how enjoyable life can be with the environment, water, oceans, plants, flowers, the sun, the moon, lovely landscapes etc around us. Our daily activities such as walking, breathing, talking, seeing, working, playing will take on a new meaning when our heart is thankful.
Expressing thankfulness and gratitude goes beyond national boundaries and geographic regions. Different nations and people have different ways and practices of expressing thankfulness, at different times of the years and performing different rituals. Some have a fixed date each year for expressing thankfulness, while others have various dates for different reasons of thankfulness.
The picture at the top was taken at the DaZhao temple of Inner Mongolia, China where people burnt joss sticks to express their thankfulness.
After praying, joss sticks are usually placed into a utensil; some of which are made of brass, until the joss sticks are fully burnt and the prayers heard.
Some images of this utensil, usually found in Chinese temples, are depicted here.
As someone who do not burn joss sticks to express thanks, I thought it would be more important that we always have thankfulness in our hearts; that we express our thankfulness in words and deeds to those whom we love and care and also to those who care and love us, whenever the opportunity arises.


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The NFL regular season is over. So how did your team do?
How These Work
As we have in the past, these charts are based on Football Outsiders' DYAR stat, which compiles everything a player does on the field—yards, catches, third down conversions, touchdowns—and adjusts them against the quality of the defense each week to give you a sense of how much each player has produced, not how well they've played per touch, or per game. So a player who's been shockingly productive in a small amount of carries (Toby Gerhart, say) will look good, but not off the charts good. Offensive line is broken into run blocking and pass protection stats, also provided by FO.
The charts have three colors: BLUE, GREY, and RED. Blue means a team is above league average at that position, and the larger the bubble, the better they are. Grey means a team is below league average at that position, and the smaller the bubble, the worse they are. Red is god awful, and means the position isn't just below average, it's actually below replacement level (similar to the replacement level from WAR in baseball). It means the team could, hypothetically, hire a bunch of free agents off the street and get better production than its paid starters. A larger red bubble is worse than a smaller red bubble, but any red at all is disastrous.
As an illustration, here's each position progressing from the best squad in the NFL (i.e. "Broncos" at QB) to the worst squad in the NFL ("Ravens" at RB):
We've split the charts into playoff teams and non-playoff teams, so you can see that Cincinnati, 17th overall, has the worst offense of anyone in the postseason, while the Bears, sixth, have the best offense of the non-playoff teams. We tried to make the charts as easy to understand for non-nerds as possible, but let us know if you've got any questions.
A few year-end takeaways:
- We say this every single time, but oh my god Blaine Gabbert. Despite playing just three games this season, he led the league in negative DYAR with -434. Brandon Weeden played in eight games and was second with -429. These are remarkable numbers, given that DYAR is a counting stat. Willis McGahee is also third-worst in the league having appeared in just 12 games after the Browns traded away Trent Richardson (Richardson's composite DYAR was ninth-worst among running backs).
- The two running backs below McGahee are both from the same backfield. Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce have been dreadful all season, and while this does reflect serious dropoffs in their play and the high rate of carries they continue to get, it also reflects a team-wide malady that DYAR can't quite capture. The Ravens offense is broken, as you can see from Baltimore having the worst rushing stats of any offensive line.
DYAR attempts to separate those, but it's very hard to do so(Correction: DYAR doesn't attempt to separate these stats. The Ravens terrible O-line stats and the Ravens terrible running back DYAR are definitely interconnected). So while they've produced the worst results in the league, we're not sure anyone could have done much better.
- One position that doesn't see many negative figures for DYAR is wide receiver. This, we think, illustrates a fundamental truth about the position, namely that it's a lot easier to find replacement level wide receivers off the scrapheap than it is to find, say, a quarterback. This is compounded by the fact that wide receivers are more likely to see their involvement in the offense cut if they perform poorly, so it's hard to accumulate large negative DYAR values.
- That makes it all the more astonishing that the Browns have the two worst WRs in the league, Greg Little and Davone Bess (-171 and -134 respectively) while also having the third best in Josh Gordon (+389, in 14 games).
- It's impressive that the 49ers have managed to be the 8th best offense by DVOA, given that they only have two positions playing above league average by DYAR standards. But they're not woefully short at the other positions, and the return of Michael Crabtree has helped.
- It's likewise befuddling that the Lions have every position but tight end playing above league average and managed to be 19th in overall offensive DVOA. This at least gives some hope that whoever takes over the team has a chance to turn things around quickly.
- Adrian Peterson simply wasn't the same player he has been in past years. This isn't even a direct comparison to his superhuman 2012—he was a 43rd of 96 qualifiers among running backs, and even by traditional metrics, 4.5 yards per carry is pretty pedestrian for AD. We don't know how he'll come back after his knee surgery, but an extended rest after two brutal, high-workload seasons will hopefully do him some good.
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4. Patriots (+16.4 Percent)
5. Saints (+15.9 Percent)
7. Seahawks (+16.4 Percent)
8. 49ers (+9.1 Percent)
9. Packers (+8.6 Percent)
10. Panthers (+8.1 Percent)
13. Colts (+4.2 Percent)
15. Chiefs (+2.8 Percent)
17. Bengals (+0.5 Percent)
Non-Playoff Teams:
6. Bears (+13.8 Percent)
11. Cowboys (+7.5 Percent)
12. Steelers (+4.4 Percent)
14. Falcons (+3.2 Percent)
16. Titans (+1.3 Percent)
18. Dolphins (-1.8 Percent)
19. Lions (-1.9 Percent)
20. Cardinals (-2.6 Percent)
21. Vikings (-4.7 Percent)
22. Rams (-9.6 Percent)
23. 'Skins (-10.0 Percent)
24. Buccaneers (-10.5 Percent)
25. Bills (-11.4 Percent)
26. Browns (-14.4 Percent)
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Russia withdrawing warships from Syrian waters
Aircraft carrier, other vessels start military drawdown, Moscow says
Russia announced on Friday that it is withdrawing its aircraft carrier and some other Russian warships from the waters off Syria as the first step in a drawdown of its forces in the war-torn Mideast country.
According to Russian General Staff chief Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier and accompanying ships are to be the first to leave.
Gerasimov was quoted as saying by the state news agency Tass that "in accordance with the decision by the supreme commander-in-chief [President] Vladimir Putin, the Defence Ministry is starting to downsize the grouping of armed forces in Syria."
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Moscow has been a key supporter of President Bashar al-Assad's government and forces in Syria's devastating civil war.
Gerasimov did not give further details on the force reduction, which follows an order by Putin on Dec. 29.
Syrian forces' retaking of the city of Aleppo last month and a subsequent Russia- and Turkey-brokered ceasefire, in place for nearly a week now, make Russian forces less critical to Assad, but it is unclear how extensive the drawdown might be.
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Airstrikes from the Admiral Kuznetsov began in mid-November, the first time the carrier has been used in combat. It has lost two aircraft — an Su-33 fighter jet that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in December as it returned to the carrier following a sortie over Syria. In November, a MiG-29 crashed into the sea while trying to land on the carrier.
Russia and Turkey, a strong supporter of Syria's moderate opposition, brokered the current ceasefire, which came into effect on Dec. 30. The truce has mostly held but not altogether halted fighting in the country, and the government and opposition have blamed each other for violations of the truce.
The ceasefire is meant to pave the way for peace negotiations in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital, later this month. The gathering could give new impetus for UN-mediated talks between Syria's warring sides.


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From the Anglican Church of Kenya
As we enter the season of Epiphany we rejoice in the splendour of the light that has dawned upon us in the appearance of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Yet it is a great sadness that before the New Year has hardly begun, the life of the Anglican Communion has yet again been clouded by compromise with the secular preoccupations of the West.
The decision by the Church of England's House of Bishops, just announced, that clergy in Civil Partnerships can be eligible to serve as bishops will create further confusion about Anglican moral teaching and make restoring unity to the Communion an even greater challenge.
The provisions of the UK's Civil Partnership legislation mimic marriage for same-sex couples and are clearly designed on the assumption that such couples are sexually active. While it is true that the House of Bishops require bishops with Civil Partners to be celibate, this proviso is clearly unworkable. It is common knowledge that active homosexuality on the part of Church of England clergy is invariably overlooked and in such circumstances it is very difficult to imagine anyone being brought to book.
However, the heart of the matter is not enforceability, but that bishops have a particular responsibility to be examples of godly living. It cannot be right that they are able to enter into legally recognised relationships which institutionalise and condone behaviour that is completely contrary to the clear and historic teaching of Scripture, as reaffirmed for Anglicans by the 1998 Lambeth Conference in its Resolution 1.10.
The weight of this moral teaching cannot be supported by a flimsy proviso. In his teaching about marriage, Jesus reaffirms that marriage is the coming together of a man and a woman in accordance with the pattern of creation itself when he says 'from the beginning of creation God made them male and female' (Mark 10:6). For the health and well-being of both church and society we must promote this great God-given gift of marriage without compromise and ambiguity.
The Most Rev. Dr. Eliud Wabukala
Archbishop, Anglican Church of Kenya
and Chairman, GAFCON Primates Council
Epiphany Sunday 2013
From the Anglican Church of Uganda (via email):
It is very discouraging to hear that the Church of England, which once brought the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Uganda, has taken such a significant step away from that very gospel that brought life, light, and hope to us.
The recent decision of the House of Bishops to allow clergy in civil partnerships to be eligible to become Bishops is really no different from allowing gay Bishops. This decision violates our Biblical faith and agreements within the Anglican Communion.
When the American Church made this decision in 2003 it tore the fabric of the Anglican Communion at its deepest level. This decision only makes the brokenness of the Communion worse and is particularly disheartening coming from the Mother Church.
We stand with those in the Church of England who continue to stand for the Biblical and historic faith and practice of the Church.
Our grief and sense of betrayal are beyond words.
The Most Rev. Stanley Ntagali
Archbishop, Church Of Uganda
January 7


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Chalk talk: Saints at Jets: How the units stack up
Before every Saints game, I break down the contest in several categories.
In Week Nine, New Orleans travels to the home of Super Bowl XLVIII to take on the Jets.
Kickoff is set for noon Sunday.
Saints rushing offense versus Jets rushing defense:
New Orleans continues to struggle on the ground. But when your quarterback can throw for five scores and no picks, who cares? Pierre Thomas' 65 rushing yards last week is the most yards an individual rusher has had for the Saints this year. However, the Saints amassed 12 yards on their other 12 carries.
The Jets have boasted the league's best run defense in both yards per carry (3.1) and yards allowed (623).
Big advantage for New York here, but it shouldn't have much effect on the outcome.
Advantage: Jets
Saints passing offense versus Jets passing defense:
Drew Brees just continues to amaze. His 19 passing touchdowns is second behind the incomparable Peyton Manning's 29. But maybe more importantly, he's limited the mistakes with just one pick in his last four games. New Orleans has been nothing short of a juggernaut through the air, and the emergence of rookie Kenny Stills in the past two weeks has made a great offense even greater.
But Brees wasn't the only signal caller to throw for five touchdowns last week. The Jets' opponent, Andy Dalton, also did it, and he added 325 passing yards. That could be bad news for the green and white.
New York ranks in the bottom third in the league versus the pass and has tied for the league low with just three picks. With 25 sacks, they can get after the QB, but New Orleans did a nice job offsetting their disadvantage up front with well-designed screens last week, and I'd expect much of the same.
Advantage: Saints
Jets rushing offense versus Saints rushing defense:
In an effort to slowly bring along rookie Geno Smith, the Jets have run the ball the fourth most times in the NFL this season. However, they've only punched it in three times on the ground, and they've been fortunate to only lose one of their five fumbles. Chris Ivory (3.1 yards per carry, 0 TDs) certainly hasn't made the impact the Jets would have liked after surrendering a fourth round pick to New Orleans for him during the draft.
New Orleans faced a hobbled Fred Jackson and submitted its best effort versus the run last week. We'll find out Sunday if it was a fluke or the beginning of a post-bye week trend.
Because I have little faith in either unit, I'll call it a push.
Jets passing offense versus Saints passing defense:
The Geno Smith that looked like he was turning the corner with three touchdowns and four incompletions in the Georgia Dome a few weeks ago has thrown one touchdown and four picks since in two ugly losses to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and a shocking win over New England. On top of that, the Jets have surrendered tied for the second most sacks in the NFL with 29. The quarterback just isn't moving through his progressions quickly enough and being decisive enough.
The Saints have been fantastic versus the pass. They're one of only five teams with more picks (nine) than passing touchdowns allowed (eight), and they can wreak havoc in the backfield with 24 sacks, which is tied for eighth in the league.
The Jets have really struggled up front, and that's a nightmare for a young quarterback – especially one who spent his entire college career in the shotgun, therefore utilizing limited protection schemes. Big advantage for New Orleans.
Advantage: Saints
Special teams:
Maybe the most troubling of all the negatives from the Saints early on versus the Bills was the kicking game. Garrett Hartley missed tries from 47 and 38 yards out – both wide left. He's now 14-for-18. His 77.8 percentage ranks in the bottom fourth of NFL kickers. On the other side, Nick Folk is a perfect 19-for-19.
Since taking over as punter, Ryan Quigley has allowed almost 10 return yards per punt. So look for Sproles to get loose. No such problems for Thomas Morstead.
Neither team has a kick/punt return score.
I think Hartley will bounce back. He always has. But because of last week, I'll give the Jets a small advantage here.
Advantage: Jets
Warning: Obligatory Ryan Bowl reference.
Now that that's out of the way, you'll actually be watching one of the two better head coaches in the league. We all know about Sean Payton, but Rex Ryan led a team to consecutive AFC Championships before management betrayed him with awful personnel moves. If you've read everything I've written so far, you'd think the Jets were a two-win team, right? Wrong. Somehow, someway, they're 4-4 with two wins over 2012 playoff teams.
Payton gets the edge here. But it's much closer than you think and MUCH closer than the New York media would have you believe.
Advantage: Saints
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A Texas A&M University biologist has received a federal grant to study the fecal samples of hundreds of people to better understand the gut bacteria Clostridium difficile the cause of some 14,000 deaths a year in America and to help lay the basic science foundation to develop drugs to combat its deadly results.
Joseph Sorg, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology since 2010, is among a wave of younger researchers studying C. difficile as it has gained more attention in the U.S. in recent years. These bacteria cause infections primarily during hospital visits, when antibiotics alter the composition of microbial flora in the colon and make patients, most commonly the elderly, vulnerable to infection.
Death can occur in the most severe cases, but more likely, C. difficile infection results in severe diarrhea which unleashes into the environment dormant spores that are immune to antibiotic treatment.
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If you talk to people who have C. diff and are relapsing, they are miserable, Sorg says. We want to make sure that we can eventually treat people and prevent them from relapsing, or even keep them from becoming infected in the first place. C. diff is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections now, so its a big problem in the U.S. and other industrialized nations.
Sorg and his postdoctoral mentor at Tufts University, Abraham Sonenshein, have started a company to commercialize their research, Spordiff Therapeutics, in an effort to create a drug that would prevent the dormant spores from growing and causing disease, a process called germination. The human body produces two types of signals two different bile acids that act on the C. difficile spore, one that activates germination and another which inhibits the process.
What were interested in doing is trying to develop an inhibitor as a potential drug, Sorg says. If you inhibit the process of germination, you would completely inhibit the disease.
Sorg and his research group will be working on the recent two-year, $275,000 National Institutes of Health grant with Sonenshein and Yoav Golan, a clinician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. The goal of the trios research is to understand the bile acid composition of various human populations healthy people, those who have C. difficile, and those who have recurring C. difficile infection in order to develop drugs with the potential to inhibit C. difficile infection. The human fecal samples will be collected at Tufts Medical Center and shipped to Texas A&M, where Sorg will use his $80,000 portion of the grant funding to analyze the bile acid composition of the blind samples.
The microbial flora in a healthy person metabolizes bile acids into secondary bile acids, and these secondary bile acids are actually toxic to C. diff growth, Sorg says. One of the ways we think that microbial flora inhibits C. diff infection is this metabolism. And when you go on antibiotics, the microbial flora that does this metabolism is obliterated. This NIH grant will allow us to correlate a particular bile acid profile with susceptibility to C. diff infection.
In addition to research, Sorg has been recognized for teaching, recently earning selection as the 2013-14 recipient of the Montague-CTE Scholar Award for the College of Science. The honor is given to one tenure-track faculty member in each of Texas A&Ms 10 academic colleges based on their early ability and interest in teaching. Sorg plans to use the grant to develop an open online course to assess the preparedness of students registering for Biology 351, Fundamentals of Microbiology. He hopes to have the course, which would be open to anyone with a valid Texas A&M NetID, developed by the end of spring.
Sorg received his bachelors in biochemistry from Purdue University in 2001 before earning a doctorate in microbiology in 2006 from the University of Chicago, where he decided he wanted to study the basic science of C. difficile.
It seemed attractive because there wasnt a whole lot known about it, and it seemed like a good opportunity to go into a field that was young, Sorg says. I think its important to study and fund basic research. I wanted to study C. diff and just happened to meander down the road of drug possibilities. Without basic research, we wouldnt have been able to go even remotely into the applied side.


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After the rain cometh the fair weather, quoth Aesop –
…… he of the many pearls of wisdom.
I was thinking about this recently, having spent a lot of time in inclement climates. After years of growing up in rainy England, I made a new life in Los Angeles where it was claimed, "It never rains in Southern California…." Hmmm.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I was with my family in England. I find myself working long hours, seven days a week in Hollywood, so my only break from this is to fly far, far away from it all.
Of course it rained, and it was dark by 5 pm. But it was cozy, and the Christmas lights and busy shops and crowded London streets were cheerful. For a while. I'm just not used to being so cold anymore.
My siblings and I spent a few days in southern Greece, where the Mediterranean sunshine was very welcome. It was on the cool side, but the feel of even the winter sun on our faces was such a tonic. However, later on, after the sun dipped down setting into the reddening sky over the Aegean Sea, the thunder rolled in and lightening crackled and cracked. The heavens opened up and rain lashed out, whipping across the beaches and coastal village throughout the night. It was spectacular to watch – and rather scary to listen to, as I lay in bed, unable to sleep because it was so loud. But it was dramatic and exciting.
In the morning, a weaker November sun began the task of drying up the pavements and puddles. These spectacular night storms that vanished at dawn continued for several days.
When we drove back to Athens for our return flight to Gatwick, we stopped en route for lunch in Ancient Corinth. The winter sun had warmed considerably as we sat on the terrace of a small taverna, enjoying a simple Greek salad and souvlaki, at the foot of the Temple of Apollo. Rain seemed a distant memory.
We arrived back in England in the dark. It was freezing cold. Thirty degrees. I had forgotten the misery of the bitingly cold, damp, weather of my early years.
The rain and the cold continued when we took a day-trip down to Hastings in Sussex. With the drip, drip of rain somehow getting inside my collar, wet hair plastered to my head and the wind lashing around my icy, mauve-with-cold face, we braced ourselves for a walk along the pebbled beach where many Foyle's War episodes had been filmed, then hurried into the warmth a local café for fish and chips and hot cuppa (cup of tea). Bliss.
I don't remember England being this cold – or wet. My energy seemed focused on trying to keep warm and dry. My family teased me about being 'soft' and spoiled by the artificial life in Hollywood, where Christmas day is usually sunny. It was the warmth of having my family around me that made it so special. We chatter continuously and laugh a lot. But I'm not sure I would want to get used to the endless gray skies and rain again.
And so I came back home to sunny California.
It certainly was warmer in Hollywood the first couple of days; the sky was blue with just a few wispy clouds. Hallelujah! Then it started. A pitter-patter on my windows. Oh no – not again! For the following three days, the rain bucketed down and skies remained dark.
But then it stopped. The next day it was blue skies and sunshine and I got my smile back.
I realized that it wasn't just the rain and overcast skies that had been getting to me. It was that time of year. Many of us silently panic that the year is rolling to a close and we have not finished what we promised ourselves we would do. Uncompleted To Do lists, abandoned projects, all those holiday gifts and cards to buy and taxes to start thinking about. Writers have unfinished stories and articles to write. I certainly do. And what about that extra weight we were going to lose? But what's the point of dieting now, at the eleventh hour, with all the holiday parties and meals with friends and family almost upon us. What's the point, with all the chocolate appearing everywhere we look? No point at all. (She says, savoring another favorite Quality Street chocolate: a purple wrapper this time.)
So we resolve to switch to healthy salads and fruit plates in the New Year. This time I mean it! Except that the winter has only just started and salad weather seems a long way off. We're about to have the shortest day of the year… January and February can be very cold, wet and gloomy. Lots of rain. Oh dear.
But there's another way to look at it. Especially if you're a writer. Winter's the best time to shut oneself away and write, with no distractions. You can't really potter in the garden, should you have one. So you might as well stay inside and write. No matter how gray the sky is, how torrential the rain or how short the days are outside, we are inside, with an extra layer of sweaters on and perhaps a wooly scarf to keep the draughts out, and a clever little heater aimed at our feet, keeping us warm as toast.
And we write – and write. Typing away, as our imagination takes flight. It is the best time to do what makes us feel alive: the best time to write. We shut ourselves away in our own literary world. And with a little discipline and lots of cups of tea or mugs of coffee, we turn out yet another masterpiece with our name on.
Then one day, we realize that it's not so cold. A scarf and a layer of sweaters get discarded, the heater gets turned down a notch. When we finally look out of the window again, there is the smattering of blue patches in the sky.
He was right. Aesop, that is. After the rain cometh the fair weather – with all the possibilities of the spring season, with summer to follow. And a tumult of new ideas and fresh approaches to our writing.
Clever lad, Aesop also said that the level of our success is limited only by our imagination. That is something writers have in spades. Imagination. So what are you going to work on to get you through this winter? Where will your imagination take you?


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Google's shiny Chrome Web browser is shaping up to be a real winner. It offers great performance, relatively good stability, and an increasingly nifty feature set. Although it has a lot to like, it's lack of extensibility is impeding adoption among technology enthusiasts. This is a weakness that the Chrome developers are keen to address.
The Chrome developer channel builds recently gained an experimental extension system that makes it easy for third-party developers to add new features and expand the browser's capabilities. It's still at an early stage of development and has a long way to go before it can be used to replicate the broad spectrum of functionality provided by the most popular Firefox extensions. But despite the current limitations, it is off to a good start and is already capable of facilitating some useful enhancements.
I made my own custom extension that adds a Twitter toolbar to the bottom of the browser window. It includes a textbox that can be used to post Twitter messages and it also loads the latest @replies to the user and displays them in a marquee that scrolls horizontally across the window. In this article, I'll show you how I made the extension and supply a brief overview of other features that are offered by Chrome's extension system.
Overview of the extension system
As the extension system is not yet mature, the APIs are subject to change, are not completely documented, and are still somewhat inconsistent. Only the basics are supported right now, but the underlying model seems relatively strong, which makes it seem likely that a lot more internal browser functionality will be exposed to extension developers in the future.
The extension system offers several integration points in the Chrome user interface. At the present time, there doesn't appear to be any way to add items to the browser's standard toolbar or menus. My Twitter extension prototype uses a toolstrip, which is a segment in a special toolbar element that runs along the bottom of the browser window. The bar can contain multiple toolstrip extension items alongside each other and it is apparently possible to drag them around, though that functionality doesn't seem to be fully implemented yet.
Page Actions are another major integration point provided by the extension system. Page Actions live on the right-hand side of the URL bar. These can be programmed to show up selectively when the page in the current active tab has some relevant characteristic. One of Google's examples to demonstrate Page Actions shows how it can be used to display a clickable RSS icon in the URL bar when the user visits a page with feeds.
Chrome extensions support several kinds of scripts. There are content scripts which allow developers to dynamically manipulate the contents of webpages and there are background scripts which run persistently. The content script mechanism reminds me a lot of Firefox's Greasemonkey add-on. The content scripts are activated when the user surfs to a webpage with a URL that matches the associated URL pattern. The wildcard glob symbol can be used in a URL pattern to do generic matching. For example, if I wanted to make a content script that manipulates Ars Technica news articles, I might specify the following pattern:
Due to the experimental nature of the extension system, it's not fully integrated with the browser yet. In the build of Chrome that I tested, you can have the browser initialize an individual extension by launching it from the command line with the
--load-extension parameter and supplying a full path to the directory that contains the extension. This appears to be changing very soon, however, because the most recent documentation in the version control system has a screenshot of a nifty extension management interface at "chrome://extensions" which includes buttons for extension installation.


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This is the last chance a lot of us will have to play football and certainly to play football here at Timpview, and we just wanted to make sure we had no regrets. – Timpview quarterback Jake Lloyd
PROVO — The top players for the top teams are almost always the ones who put in the most work. Top players don't just show up the first day of practices and go from there, but report for the season having maxed-out every opportunity to improve themselves in the offseason.
Jake Lloyd and Dax Raymond form one of the best, if not the best, quarterback/receiving combinations in the state — and it's not by accident. The duo put in a lot of work in the offseason along with other key offensive players, and the dividends are apparent.
Lloyd has thrown for 3,566 yards and 50 touchdowns with just six interceptions this season on a 65 percent completion percentage. Raymond has been on the receiving end of 22 of those touchdowns and has 72 receptions for 1,366 total yards.
"We worked so hard in getting to the point where we're at now," said Lloyd. "I'd get as many of my teammates out as often as I could to make sure we were at our best when the season came around, and it's obviously paid off for us."
Lloyd claims to have worked out with his receivers every day of the offseason, save for a two-week period he took off for vacation. He'd attend as many camps, 7-on-7 tournaments and other functions as possible, but mostly he'd just call the guys up and they'd practice on their own.
The motivation was to simply rid themselves of the bad taste left over from the 2011 season.
"We knew that this was our final year and we were determined not to end it the same way we did last year," said Lloyd. "This is the last chance a lot of us will have to play football and certainly to play football here at Timpview, and we just wanted to make sure we had no regrets."
Timpview was fortunate to retain the services of offensive coordinator Chad Van Orden this season, and the offense has benefited greatly as a result. Van Orden runs a college-style offense that depends on a lot of line checks and option routes and puts a premium on quarterbacks and receivers being on the same page.
"We're to the point now when I know that Jake (Lloyd) is seeing exactly what I am when we line up," said Raymond. "We can both see how a defense lines up, and even though he makes checks at the line, we both know exactly what route I need to run and when he needs to throw the ball."
Raymond certainly isn't the only receiver on the team who has that connection with Lloyd. By getting guys to work out and getting them to put in the time, the entire Timpview offense is running well.
"Jake (Lloyd) has been a great leader for us and a lot of our seniors have been like that," said coach Cary Whittingham. "Jake has worked as hard as anyone I've coached in the offseason, and players see that and they've sort of rallied around him. And that's all you can ask for, as a coach, from your seniors."
Lloyd has benefited greatly from his teammates and will end his career regarded as one of the top quarterbacks ever to pass through the program — right up there with names such as Brett Engemann and Danny Southwick.
"He's right up there, no question," said Van Orden who has coached at Timpview for 23 years. "He leads this offense and knows it as well as anyone I've ever coached. He's also benefited from some great receivers, but it all starts with Jake and his leadership and how he runs things when he's out on the field. He's as good as any of the quarterbacks I've coached in that regard."
The work isn't quite done for Lloyd and his teammates, and they will have to beat a very good Mountain Crest team to acheive their ultimate goal — a state title.
"It's now or never and we're going to put it all out there on Friday, no question," said Lloyd. "We've worked too hard to quit now and I believe that myself and everyone else will put it all out there, and if we do that — if we just continue to work like we have all year — then I'm confident that we'll reach our final goal, which is to win a state championship."
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Okay, so I have a class and in this class I have a method that runs a random boolean generator and I want to make it so that, depending on the value, it does one thing or the other. It's part of the battle class of my console game, Dungeoneer.(Which I will make a thread for soon, I may need help there lol).
Anyhow, here is the current code, and it has a massive error that I can't seem to work around. Basically, I want
to make the method blockCheck be a part of the battle system and essentially it works like this: "if player block true then take no damage, else take random damage(which I'll make shortly).
So, what can I do to make this if statement work without error(aside from actually putting code in it)?


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Crazy Incan suspension bridges
In Tuesday's Science Times there was a feature on Incan suspension bridges, which we also cover in an upcoming mental_floss book called Origins: the Beginning of Everything:
Incas in the Andes mountains were weaving rope suspension bridges from wood fiber and grass before European colonization in the 16th century, which acted as vital connections along ancient mountain roads. Made from inherently degradable material, the bridges had to be rebuilt annually to prevent dangerous sagging. One such bridge, spanning a canyon of the Peruvian River Apurimac, has survived in this manner for more than 500 years.
But even though the Incans invented their bridge free from outside influence, they weren't the first ones to do it. The ancient Chinese, for instance, had them beat by more than 1500 years: evidence exists there of iron chain suspension bridges dating to the third century BC.


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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to require telephone carriers to provide their customers more billing information in an effort to crack down on mysterious, unauthorized charges on phone bills.
The new rules, adopted Friday, are targeted at so-called cramming, the illegal placement of unauthorized charges on monthly landline phone bills. The new rules require telephone carriers to notify subscribers of the option to block third-party charges, if they offer that option. The FCC required the notifications at the time the customer signs up for service, on each monthly bill and on carrier websites.
In addition, the FCC voted to strengthen its rules requiring that third-party charges be separated from the telephone company's charges on phone bills. The FCC will also solicit comment on whether the agency should adopt additional protections, such as requiring landline carriers to get customer approval before placing third-party charges on their bills.
Many telephone service customers don't recognize for months or years crammed charges on their bills, the FCC said. Crammers often avoid detection with small charges -- as little as US$1.99 on a monthly bill. In other cases, the crammers describe the charges in a way that makes them appear to be for telephone services, the FCC said.
Fifteen to 20 million U.S. households are victims of cramming on their landline phone bills each year, according to the FCC.
AT&T, in a statement, said it has committed to working with the FCC and other carriers to fight cramming. The carrier said last month it would limit the types of third-party charges that can be added to its customers' phone bills. The company takes cramming "very seriously," AT&T said.
The FCC's new rules don't apply to mobile phone or voice-over-IP service, but the FCC will monitor complaints from mobile and VoIP customers, the agency said.
In another action, the FCC also voted to solicit public comments on new ways to fund the Universal Service Fund, a fund that now subsidizes telephone service in rural areas. A tax on long-distance service now pays for the fund.
The FCC has moved to transition most of the fund to broadband subsidies, and on Friday, the agency asked for comments on what services and service providers should contribute to the fund and how the agency should bill providers.
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Everything that has been mentioned on Global Geopolitics since 2011 regarding Berlin and it's United States of Europe project is pretty much summarized within this article. The only thing missing is the end game.
Germany has once again conquered Europe and the entire world has missed it. The plan and timeline has changed but the goals once again remain the same. Instead of Nazis you have Germans running the EU through the Troika with key figures in key places, subjugating the entire continent through political sabotage and economic might. It's been said oft here that if you're looking for Nazis, you're over 70 years late. It's now a multicultural and multinational European superstate once united by a common goal, but now by force, and by Berlin. It even has its own European Army under construction.
The Fourth Reich has landed.
"Periodization" is a trendy academic term for historians' use of particular (and sometimes arbitrary) chronological terms—often in reference to wars in general, and in particular to when they started and ended.
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Anyone that says he ain't scared in a hurricane is a liar or a fool. That's what the Colonel says. A hurricane spins up like you're nothing, and takes your world apart like it's nothing too. There's no time in it, no sense of the sun moving, no waxing or waning light. All you can do is breathe and ignore the world flying to pieces beyond your door.
I'm looking forward to seeing my 4th graders tomorrow after a week apart. And as I reworked my lesson plans it hit me that we would be in the midst of another hurricane, the one in the climax of Sheila Turnage's Three Times Lucky. I have to say that the idea that my New York City kids would be listening to this book after their own serious hurricane experience was the last thing on my mind when I decided it would be our first read-aloud of the year.
I decided because Sheila's publisher brought her to town in early October and we were one of several schools she visited. It turned out that she and her book have been great hits. After every session I am surrounded by children wondering who, who, who killed Mr. Jesse. Their answers shift constantly as they learn more. And they knew that hurricane was coming, the one in the book much more than the one we just experienced.
I was incredibly touched when just as I was making my own hurricane preparations a little over a week ago, Sheila emailed with some very smart tips for dealing with a hurricane. She's been through a few. Now I had already planned to fill up the bathtub, but others she provided were surprisingly useful given that Sheila lives in rural North Carolina and I live in urban New York.
I should say that while Sheila's book has plenty of scary moments, I don't think they are anything my hurricane-experienced fourth graders can't handle. Last week it was the real Hurricane Sandy. This week it is the fictional Hurricane Amy.


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OverviewThe Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (NDLP) is assembling a digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States. Begun in 1995 after a five-year pilot project, the program began digitizing selected collections of Library of Congress archival materials that chronicle the nation's rich cultural heritage. In order to reproduce collections of books, pamphlets, motion pictures, manuscripts and sound recordings, the Library has created a wide array of digital entities: bitonal document images, grayscale and color pictorial images, digital video and audio, and searchable texts. To provide access to the reproductions, the project developed a range of descriptive elements: bibliographic records, finding aids, and introductory texts and programs, as well as indexing the full texts for certain types of content.The reproductions were produced with a variety of tools: scanners, digital cameras, devices that digitize audio and video, and human labor for rekeying and encoding texts. American Memory employs national-standard and well established industry-standard formats for many digital reproductions, e.g., texts encoded with Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and images stored in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files or compressed with the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) algorithm. In other cases, the lack of well established standards has led to the use of emerging formats, e.g., RealAudio (for audio), Quicktime (for moving images), and MrSid (for maps). Technical information by types of material and by individual collections is also available at this site.Vision
A physical library is more than a catalog that points to volumes on shelves. A digital library is more than a database, and the future National Digital Library will be much more than a universal union catalog. We envision the National Digital Library as a set of distributed repositories of managed content and a set of interfaces (some of which will resemble traditional catalogs) to that content. Some interfaces may offer comprehensive access to the entire resource, while others will be specialized by content, by intended audience, or by primary purpose. Some interfaces will be closely tied to a particular repository, while others will provide access to a selection of content from distributed repositories.Access to the content in the National Digital Library will not be limited to searching a bibliographic database. Even in traditional libraries, users do not start every visit by searching the catalog. Instead, library patrons browse current issues of favorite journals or lists of new acquisitions, use specialized indexes to journal literature, or consult bibliographies, references from scholarly publications, and lists of readings. The digital library must be usable in equivalent ways. School teachers who use the online collections at the Library of Congress have already communicated their eagerness to find shortcuts to the most valuable materials so that they can quickly illustrate classroom presentations or develop lesson plans.From the user's point of view, the digital library has the potential, in ways not yet realized and not possible with traditional library resources, to be an extension to every desktop, classroom, and personal library. Patterns of use of the World Wide Web already demonstrate that teachers, scholars, and students will want to refer to items in the digital realm as active links from reading lists, articles, textbooks, and term papers. We also know that students will want to work with these items in their own electronic environments, constructing presentations, reports, and online projects.Digital Library Users
In 1989, to help launch the American Memory pilot project, a consultant surveyed 101 members of the Association of Research Libraries and the 51 state library agencies. The survey disclosed a genuine appetite for on-line collections, especially in research libraries serving higher education. The American Memory pilot (1990-1995) identified multiple audiences for digital collections in a special survey, an end-user evaluation and in thousands of conversations, letters and encounters with visitors.The most thorough audience appraisal carried out by the Library of Congress consisted of an end-user evaluation conducted in 1992-1993. Forty-four school, college and university, and state and public libraries were provided with a dozen American Memory collections on CD-ROMs and videodisks. (These formats are no longer being supported.) Participating library staff, teachers, students and the public were polled about which digitized materials they had used and how well the delivery systems worked. The evaluation indicated continued interest by institutions of higher education as well as public libraries. The surprising finding, however, was the strong showing of enthusiasm in schools, especially at the secondary level.The evaluation team learned that recent reforms in education had created a need for primary-source historical materials such as those in the Library's incomparable collections. Teachers welcomed digitized collections to aid in the development of critical thinking skills; school librarians used the electronic resource to inculcate research skills. These findings have been validated in the educational outreach program initiated by the Library of Congress in 1995 and initially funded by the Kellogg Foundation.Educational OutreachIn 1995, in conjunction with the launch of the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program, the Library brought together leading history and social studies K-12 teachers and librarians to consider how archival on-line resources could best be used in the nation's schools. The participants at this Educator's Forum validated earlier findings: that while the primary sources were in great demand, for teachers to be able to make effective use of them, they needed additional materials to frame the collections and the topics represented in the collections. To this end in 1996, the Library of Congress developed The Learning Page -- a gateway to the digital collections, which provides contextual material, search help, sample lesson plans and activities, special presentations, and descriptions of the digital collections for K- 12 school teachers and media specialists. New material is continuously added to this page. In 1997, the Library initiated the American Memory Fellows Program, which brought together 25 two-person teams of K-12 educators to explore the collections and to develop sample lesson plans, teaching activities, and Web sites that could be used in their local communities. Throughout the 1997-1998 school year, these educators will participate in an online forum as they test and evaluate their materials under development. The Library will continue the American Memory Fellows Program in the summer of 1998 with the goal of building champions for our collections in schools across the country. We believe that not only does this extend the reach of our on-line collections to a community that the Library of Congress has traditionally not been able to serve, but it assures that American Memory collections are developed with real users needs in mind.
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Research shows that children whose parents who allow them to think end up socially maladjusted in middle school. Sometimes they don't get a date to prom. They're also not considered physically attractive by their peers.
Kids who spend time reading don't spend enough time watching TV. Even if they get in some screen time every day, they do not have enough to truly keep up with their peers.
Kids need lots of sleep. If your child isn't getting the average amount of sleep needed, then you are harming your child's mental abilities. Having your child lie awake with no distractions in a crib is better for hir than allowing hir to play on the computer. We all know that unsupervised screen time is harmful to children.
Allowing one's child to think is also harmful to parents. They are branded, "pushy," and socially condemned if they are egotistical enough to talk about their children instead of quietly listening when others talk about theirs.
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Listen to my latest musical composition, NO2H8, based on audio I recorded of speeches at the Protest Against Prop 8 this Sunday and some organ and synth tracks of "deconstructed" Mendelsohn's Wedding March.
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LS outside the UN with Human Rights Watch colleagues
I went to the New York launch of the Yogyakarta Principles on LGBT rights in the international human rights context on Wednesday. It was my first time inside the UN, so it was very exciting. I was very upset by a very rude and racist security guard working at the security entrance, but it did not damper my spirits at this historic event in the struggle for international human rights for ALL people.
From the Yogyakarta Principles website:
In 2006, in response to well-documented patterns of abuse, a distinguished group of international human rights experts met in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to outline a set of international principles relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. The result was the Yogyakarta Principles: a universal guide to human rights which affirm binding international legal standards with which all States must comply. They promise a different future where all people born free and equal in dignity and rights can fulfill that precious birthright.
So here is the story of the security guard: He was a white man and most likely an Eastern European immigrant based on his heavy accent. There was a woman ahead of me in line wearing metal bracelets. He told her to lift her hands up while going through the metal detector, because the machine indicates where the metal objects are. If she beeps only because of her bracelets, then he would let her through. But he did not convey this in a clear manner, or the woman did not understand him well. So the security guard cracks a not-so-funny comment: "You know, I'm not speaking Japanese here you know!" I cringe.
Then it is my turn to go through the metal detector. I take off my coat and empty my pockets and place my belongings on the conveyor belt x-ray. Then I walk through the metal detector. My belt buckle sets off the metal detector. He tells me to take off my belt. "What!?" I retort. I have been in airports countless times, and NEVER have I had to take off my belt or seen anybody take off their belts. That is why they have wands. Taking off one's belt in public is 1 step too close to a strip search. Ok, maybe that is overexagerating, but it is undignified in any case. "Don't you have a wand?" I ask. "No, I'm kidding when I tell you to take off your belt!" he snaps back. I would have gladly taken off my belt the first time if he had asked nicely, without sarcasm and spite in his voice. I say, "well, you could at least ask nicely…"
"Please, thank you" was his curt reply.
If I were to give this guy the benefit of the doubt, perhaps his English abilities were not good enough to convey instructions in a polite way. Or maybe he is just rude. Either way this is still unacceptable, especially at an institution such as the UN. In addition, we were not tourists; we were invited guests to a special event. Not that we should get preferential treatment in any way, but the UN does belong to the people of the world after all. Racist comments and unnecessary rudeness have no place. Also, if you are going to work in a customer service position that deals with the public, it should be expected that you can communicate politely.
Sorry for the rant. In any case you can read more about the Yogyakarta Principles New York launch on the Human Rights Watch website and visit the official Yogyakarta Principles homepage.