--The World Premiere of ALIEN ENCOUNTERS: THE MESSAGE debuts on SCIENCE Tuesday, March 13, at 10:00 PM ET/PT ALIEN ENCOUNTERS: THE ARRIVAL PREMIERES on Tuesday, March 20 at 10:00 PM ET/PT--

ALIEN ENCOUTNERS brings together renowned experts including Nick Sagan and SETI Institute’s Dr. Jill Tarter to explore how alien life might communicate with Earth. Some of the world’s leading scientists explain the scientific, cultural and psychological effects a first contact with aliens would have on humans. ALIEN ENCOUNTERS is a part of SCIENCE’s Are We Alone? initiative happening the entire month of March.

Episode Descriptions:

Part 1- The Message premieres on Tuesday, March 13 at 10 PM (ET/PT)Part 2- The Arrival premieres on Tuesday, March 20 at 10 PM (ET/PT)

In two dramatic hours, ALIEN ENCOUNTERS lays out a plausible hypothetical scenario for a first contact event. What would really happen if we got a message from space? How will humans react when we learn that a message from a distant technology or a spacecraft is on its way to Earth? Will humans learn from aliens, or become colonial subjects? Some of the world’s leading astrophysicists, astrobiologists, and sci-fi writers help unravel the scientific, cultural and psychological impact of this world-changing global event. This show is made in cooperation with The SETI Institute which was founded in 1984 and had renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan as one of its Board of Trustee Members. Carl’s son Nick is now following in his father’s footsteps wondering, “How will we meet our galactic neighbors?”

The Paramount/Skydance release is on track to pull in about $52 million for the weekend in its 3,956 locations, according to studio estimates. The fifth installment in the series, written and directed by Chris Mcquarrie, finds Cruise facing off against a squad of special agents known as the Syndicate. Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Ferguson also star.

“This is the rare sequel that leaves its franchise feeling not exhausted but surprisingly resurgent at 19 years and counting,” Variety‘s review says of the pic. Cruise has already announced plans for a sixth film.

“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,” the previous pic in the series, pulled in $209 million in the U.S. and $485 million internationally. The first four “Mission: Impossible” films have totaled more than $2 billion in worldwide grosses.

The “Vacation” remake pulled in $4.5 million in 3,411 locations on Friday night, bringing its cumulative gross to $10.8 million since bowing on Wednesday. The laffer is expected to make about $13 million in the three-day frameNew Line’s “Vacation,” made on a $31 million budget, bows 32 years after the original trip to Walley World. Helms plays the grown-up Rusty Griswold, who plans a trip to the theme park with his wife, played by Christina Applegate, and their children. Chris Hemsworth also stars.

Channing Tatum has closed a deal to star in Gambit, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men spin-off movie.

The move, which was widely expected, contradicts reports that appeared last week suggesting the actor would exit the project after failing to come to terms with Fox.

Sources say that Tatum and the studio did hit a sensitive spot in negotiations, but such back-and-forth is a normal part of top-level talent dealmaking. The Magic Mike star's participation hardly was in any real danger because the actor already had invested quite a bit in the superhero part. Tatum has been attached to the movie (loosely then officially) as both actor and producer for a few years and even made a surprise appearance at Fox’s X-Men panel at Comic-Con in July.

One thing that needed figuring out was the extent of Tatum’s involvement in the X-Men universe. Fox sees Tatum’s Gambit, a mutant who harnesses kinetic energy, as one of the anchor characters of the X-universe, akin to Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, someone who would anchor his own movies and appear in numerous others. It’s a commitment that could theoretically last more than a decade. (Jackman has been portraying Wolverine since 2000, for instance.)

Sources say that backend compensation was also a sticking point.

Rupert Wyatt, who directed Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, will direct Gambit.

The Josh Trank reboot of Fantastic Four doesn't come out until next week, but with a sequel already set for 2017, we're already thinking about the future, as are the cast members.

At a recent press event in Atlanta, we had the chance to sit down with Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, and Michael B. Jordan who play Sue Storm, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm, respectively, in the upcoming film from 20th Century Fox.

We asked the cast members what they wanted to see in the sequel and Bell had clearly done some thinking on the topic. "I'd like to see more of how the characters interact with each other famously from the comic," Bell started. "It would be appealing to me. This one very much is to get them to that point, to take them from people you don't know, to transition into characters you can recognize. The job of the next film is taking it further and having the characters already established, seeing them interact in the very famous kind of way. Things between me and Johnny get very antagonistic. More of a blossoming love story between Reed and Sue. More of a family dynamic. Stuff like that would be great There's a wealth of material and with a 90 minute run time of an origin story it's very difficult to fit it all in."

So, Bell wants to see the good guys interact and become a tight knit team, but what about villains? You can't have a good super hero film without a good villain and for Bell, the villain he wants to see in a Fantastic Four sequel is the Silver Surfer. "You can't get away from Silver Surfer. I know chronologically speaking that was the next villain in the previous franchise but I think Silver Surfer is cool looking," Bell said. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, was the 2007 sequel in the less-then-critically-acclaimedFantastic Four pair of films which starred Doug Jones as the titular Silver Surfer.

Jordan, who Flames On as the Human Torch throughout the upcoming film, has a different opinion and he feels pretty strongly about it. "Namor is a cool one," Jordan said, adding he is, "by far, he's the strongest mutant. You know what I'm saying? Maybe not by far, but he's the strongest mutant. It would be a pretty interesting battle, the Fantastic Four vs. Namor."

That's an unlikely showdown seeing as the rights to Namor currently reside with Universal Studios who would more likely broker a deal with Marvel that would see Namor on the big screen than Fox. Remember, The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's despite coming from Universal.

Jordan knows his stuff when it comes to comics though. He has a specific Namor storyline he wants to see and he opened up about it. "The classic one where he's running rampant and the only way he'll stop is if he gets a kiss from Sue right in front of Reed. It's awesome. I think that would make for a good movie and storyline," Jordan said.

As part of CBR's weekly Q&A column AXEL-IN-CHARGE, Marvel Comics Editor-in-ChiefAxel Alonso confirmed plans for a previously teased Brian Michael Bendis-written sister-title to the upcoming "Invincible Iron Man", as part of the All-New All-Different Marvel initiative.

"Brian and David [Marquez] are playing thelong game with 'Invincible Iron Man,'" Alonsoexplained. "When Brian pitched us, he said there was an idea for a sister-title that would spin out of the first germinating in his brain."

Alonso didn't reveal a title, artist or focus character for the sister-title during the interview, though he did hint that October's "Invincible Iron Man" #1 -- specifically its ending -- will contain plenty of clues.

"I can’t say much, but I will say this: The reveal on the last page of 'Invincible Iron Man' #1 is big enough that it might need an entire series just to deal with. Retailers -- plan accordingly!" he added.

The October debut issue of "Invincible Iron Man" has reportedly will amass more than 200,000 copies sold based on initial direct market retailer orders. The first issue, which sees Bendis continuing his collaboration with former "Ultimate Spider-Man" artist David Marquez, will find Tony Stark stepping into a new suit of armor and a new era of his life, as he tries to uncover the mystery of his parentage.

All-New, All-Different Marvel kicks off in full force this fall, and Marvel is making sure all comic book stores worldwide are armed and ready for the new flagship Marvel title as INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 explodes into comic shops on October 7th! You won’t want to miss comic superstar Brian Michael Bendis and red-hot artist David Marquez’s opening salvo in their explosive new ongoing series. And Marvel is ready to make the launch one to remember. In addition to being first in line to purchase INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1, fans will also be able to receive special items at participating retail stores, including the first piece of the exclusive BUILD YOUR OWN IRON MANpromotional item!

Launching alongside INVINICIBLE IRON MAN #1, the first piece of the BUILD YOUR OWN IRON MAN promotional item will allow fans to assemble their very own Iron Man armor. Based on artist David Marquez’s new armor design, collect all six pieces, launching alongside Invincible Iron Man and five other October Marvel titles, fold and compile your very own Iron Man standing nearly a foot tall!

To ensure these parties are a massive sales success, each retailer opting into the event will receive exclusive INVINCIBLE IRON MAN Party promotional materials. Check your Marvel Mailer for more information on how to opt-in by 8/10 to ensure your store has these items.

“Make no mistake, INVINCIBLE IRON MAN is the flagship title for the new Marvel Universe,” says David Gabriel, Marvel SVP, Sales & Marketing. “Brian and David are exploding out of Secret Warswith an exciting new beginning for the most recognizable super hero on the planet. This one is going to be BIG and we’re backing our retail partners with access to all kinds of promotional materials, exclusive variants, cake toppers and more – everything they need to entice customers to suit up with Tony Stark!”

All qualifying retailers who opt in will receive the following as part of the INVINCIBLE IRON MAN launch:

Mass media promotion around the launch of Invincible Iron Man and the associated parties

But that’s not all! Retailers who qualify will also be eligible to order the INVINICIBLE IRON MAN #1 Deadpool Party Variant. Everyone loves Tony’s new armor – even the Merc With a Mouth! From rising star Yasmine Putri, fans won’t want to miss this exciting variant only available at the upcoming launch parties. Strap in and suit up! Prepare for the marquee comic launch of the fall as Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez armor up and bring you a new Iron Man for a new Marvel Universe. Don’t miss the blockbuster INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 – on-sale October 7th !

Their legend echoes through history. Ancient warriors and wielders of the legendary Ebony Blade. Champions of their own destiny. But what do you do when it’s your destiny…to be damned? Find out this November as the creative team of Frank Tieri (Wolverine) and Luca Pizzari (Red Skull) bring you BLACK KNIGHT #1 – a brand-new ongoing series launching as part of All-New, All-Different Marvel!

Forged by ancient magic, long has the Ebony Blade granted its user the powers of the Black Knight, passed down through the centuries. But all power comes with a price, as each and every Black Knight has met an untimely end – a victim of the blade’s curse. Will Dane Whitman’s fate be the same? The long-time Avenger’s addiction to the blade grows stronger and stronger every day. Will he succumb to its power and suffer the same end?

A lost man himself, Dane now finds himself in Weirdworld, the place where all lost things go. What are the circumstances that brought him to this strange place, so far from the world he called home? And what could he possibly have done that would cause the Uncanny Avengers to mobilize against him, a man they called friend?

See the Marvel Universe from a whole new angle this November as Tieri and Pizzari take Dane Whitman to the depths of Weirdworld and beyond in BLACK KNIGHT #1!

On Thursday, Stardust tweeted, "It's just a matter of hours before I utter FIVE words that will SPICE up the summer." Later during a WWE SmackDown match Stardust spiced things up by taunting his opponent with: "You have failed this city!"

Hey, that's the catchphrase Stephen Amell's Arrow/Oliver Queen uses on his superhero television series! The thievery did not go unnoticed by Amell, who quickly responded with his own tweet: "That sonofab*tch stole my line." He added, "You know the saying imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? I disagree."

The CW’s “Arrow” has cast “Falling Skies” alum Ryan Robbins in a recurring role for season four,Variety has learned exclusively.

Robbins will play Conklin, a sadistic and ruthless member of Shadowspire who will be an adversary for Oliver (Stephen Amell) in the flashback sequences. The show’s flashback arc will also see the titular hero take on Jimmy Akingbola’s Baron Reiter (aka Baron Blitzkrieg in DC Comics Canon), who is the leader of Shadowspire.

Robbins will make his first appearance in episode three of season four. The actor is one of several new additions for the superhero show’s fourth year; he’ll join Echo Kellum as Curtis Holt (aka the heroic Mr. Terrific), Neal McDonough as villain Damien Darhk and “Star Trek: Voyager” favorite Jeri Ryan as Jessica Danforth, a friend of the Queen family with political ambitions.

Another beloved manga is about to find a new life on the silver screen, as sources confirm that Lionsgate is moving forward with an adaptation of the mega-popular NARUTO, with emerging helmer Michael Gracey in line to direct. The studio recently closed the rights to the Japanese series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto, which follows Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who dreams of one day becoming the Hokage, the village ninja who serves as protector and leader, considered strongest of them all. Prolific producer Avi Arad, a self-described fan of the series, will produce via his shingle Arad Productions, while Erik Feig, Geoff Shaveitz, andKelly O’Malley will oversee for the studio.

With over 200 million copies in print, Naruto has become the third highest-selling manga in history, generating an avid fan-base worldwide. Though it originally started out as a manga, the property has since been adapted into an unbelievably popular anime series, which has aired on the likes of Cartoon Network, Hulu, and Disney XD in the U.S. The series spawned ten feature films, with an eleventh, Boruto: Naruto the Movie, set for release next month.

Though he initially began in visual effects/animation, Gracey has now moved to feature directing, with a slew of high-profile projects in his wheelhouse. He’s currently at work on a new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witchesfor Warner Bros., with Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo Del Toro producing. Gracey is also directing the Jim Henson biopic Muppet Man, Focus Features’ Elton John biopic Rocketman, and 20th Century Fox’s P.T. Barnum musicalThe Greatest Showman on Earth.

The development of the project doesn’t come entirely as a surprise, as popular manga series have proved tempting fodder in Hollywood. The Guest director Adam Wingard is currently working on the long-gestating Death Note adaptation for Warner Bros., while Scarlett Johansson’s Ghost in The Shell, which Arad is also producing, is moving forward at Paramount with Rupert Sanders directing.


Selective dispersion of carbon nanotubes and nanoclay in biodegradable poly(ε-caprolactone)/poly(lactic acid) blends with improved toughness, strength and thermal stability.
Poly(ε-caprolactone)/poly(lactic acid) (PCL/PLA) blends are promising biomaterials with biodegradable characteristics. However, poor compatibility of the two components may lead to undesirable mechanical properties. In this work, the effect of combining carboxyl multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and organically modified montmorillonite (MMT) on the morphology and properties of PCL/PLA blend was investigated. The morphological observations and rheological analysis showed that exfoliated MMT platelets enhanced interfacial adhesion of the two phases, whereas CNTs formed a percolating network in PCL matrix. The addition of CNTs/MMT (0.5 wt%: 0.5 wt%) led to an increase by 137.4% in elongation at break, 79.6% in tensile strength, and 14 °C in decomposition temperature without sacrificing its rigidity apparently for the PCL/PLA matrix. Obvious synergistic effect was demonstrated in comparison to the blends containing single nanofiller. This study demonstrated that combining CNTs and MMT is a facile way to preparing immiscible PCL/PLA blends based nanocomposites with interesting structure and properties.


Advme2004

VME 4-axis Pulse Control Board equipped with PCL5014™

The Advme2004 is a VME board which features four PCL5014™ control chips for controlling speed and position of 4-axis pulse motors and servo motors.
Speed and acceleration can be changed during operation. Maximum pulse rate could be 1.2Mpps.

Not Recommended for New Design

HIGHLIGHTS

4 channels

Controlling of pulse and servo motors

Rate up to 1.2Mpps

Supports micro step control

It can be used as counter board

APPLICATIONS

The Advme2004 is equipped with four Nippon Pulse Motor PCL5014™ control chips for controlling the speed and the positioning of 4-axis pulse motors and servo motors.
It is used to be connected to a pulse-input type pulse or servo motor driver. A sine waves control (S-curve for acceleration and deceleration) can be realized. Also support drivers with micro-step control.
Speed and acceleration can be changed during operation. Maximum pulse rate could be 1.2Mpps.
ChannelsI/O signals are provided for interfacing with the motor driver and the limit sensor. Each channel has four general-purpose input points and four general-purpose output points.
Each channel has a built-in independent 28-bit length up-down counter and, if it is used in combination with a two-phase encoder, the Advme2004 performs as a counter board.
It provides general-purpose digital I/O and all I/O signals are photo-coupler isolated.
Device driver for VxWorks is available as an option.
Sample program is included as an accessory.


Distal musculoskeletal manifestations in polymyalgia rheumatica: a prospective followup study.
To determine the frequency and the characteristics of distal musculoskeletal manifestations in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). Prospective followup study of 177 consecutive patients meeting clinical criteria for PMR, diagnosed over a 5-year period in 2 rheumatology secondary referral centers in Italy. Seventy-nine of the 177 patients (45%) had distal musculoskeletal manifestations. Peripheral arthritis occurred in 45 patients (25%), carpal tunnel syndrome in 24 (14%), distal extremity swelling with pitting edema in 21 (12%), and distal tenosynovitis in 5 (3%). These manifestations were usually associated with PMR proximal symptoms (69%); however, 31% of the episodes represented isolated relapse/recurrence at distal sites. Distal symptoms responded promptly to corticosteroids. No evidence of joint deformities, erosions, or development of rheumatoid arthritis was observed during the followup. The group of patients with peripheral arthritis included a higher proportion of females, had a longer duration of therapy, and had more relapses/ recurrences. Patients who had distal extremity swelling with pitting edema had a higher age at disease onset, a shorter duration of therapy, and lower initial and cumulative prednisone doses. Inflammatory involvement of distal articular and/or tenosynovial structures occurs in approximately half of the cases of PMR. Peripheral arthritis is associated with more severe disease, while distal extremity swelling with pitting edema appears to identify a more benign disease subset.


Senator Win Gatchalian on Wednesday urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to fast-track the transport-related projects included in the Duterte administration's 75 flagship infrastructure projects amid an investigative report revealing numerous cancellations of the of the Philippine National Railways' (PNR) scheduled trips.

"If it is no longer feasible to rehabilitate the existing track and trains of the PNR, then we should give priority to the transport projects of the Build, Build, Build (BBB) program, especially the Metro Manila Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Lines 1 and Line 2, to give PNR passengers an alternative means of transportation," he said.

The Metro Manila BRT Line 1 project is a fully-segregated 12.3-kilometer highway with 16 stations from the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City and ending at the Manila City Hall. Passengers will be conveyed by 280 buses.

The BRT Line 2, on the other hand, is a 48.6-kilometer track divided into 63 terminals to be traversed by a total of 1,151 buses. According to the BBB website, the system consists of four corridors including the main corridor along EDSA, and corridors along Ayala Avenue to the World Trade Center, Ortigas to Bonifacio Global City and the three Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminals.

Both projects will feature an intelligent traffic system as well as an automatic fare collection system.

"I checked the BBB website and it shows the BRT Line 1 at the project development stage, while the BRT Line 2 is already at project procurement. We invite the BBB team and DOTr to relay to us how we, the legislative branch, can help expedite the implementation of the project," Gatchalian said.

Meanwhile, the lawmaker also called out the PNR for failing to provide prior notification to commuters of trip cancellations.

"Wala naman sigurong may gusto na maghintay sa wala, Not only do the trip cancellations lead to lost man-hours, but the uncertainty of not knowing whether a scheduled trip will push through or not gives added and undue stress on our commuting public," he said.

An investigative report by published by Rappler revealed that in routes in January and February of this year, the PNR canceled 18 percent of 4004 scheduled trips for available, or a total of 713 train cancellations.


Q:

Button click and ListView click

I have a ListView. on click of a list item I start a Activity. Now I have added a Button on that ListView and onclick of a button I want to start a another activity. After adding a Button, I can click on the button and start a Activity but now I can not click a list item. What happened to listview's item click ??

A:

Read this excellent blog post: Focus problems with list rows and ImageButtons
Essentially you should add the following to your root layout element in the row-item xml.

android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"


Phase transitions detached from stationary points of the energy landscape.
The stationary points of the potential energy function V are studied for the ϕ4 model on a two-dimensional square lattice with nearest-neighbor interactions. On the basis of analytical and numerical results, we explore the relation of stationary points to the occurrence of thermodynamic phase transitions. We find that the phase transition potential energy of the ϕ4 model does in general not coincide with the potential energy of any of the stationary points of V. This disproves earlier, allegedly rigorous, claims in the literature on necessary conditions for the existence of phase transitions. Moreover, we find evidence that the indices of stationary points scale extensively with the system size, and therefore the index density can be used to characterize features of the energy landscape in the infinite-system limit. We conclude that the finite-system stationary points provide one possible mechanism of how a phase transition can arise, but not the only one.


A workshop on sustainable lobster farming takes place in Khanh Hoa on April 13. - Photo: VNA

The attendees focused theirdiscussion on lobster farming-related policies, post-disaster support for theaquaculture industry, new lobster farming techniques and how to prevent thespread of diseases on lobsters.

According to the Directorateof Fisheries, the number of lobster cages in Vietnam rose from 49,000 in 2010to 83,000 in 2017. The country’s lobster output was estimated at about 1,530tonnes last year, mostly from Khanh Hoa (984 tonnes) and Phu Yen (500 tonnes).However, lobster price fell from 2.5 million VND (110 USD) in 2014 to 1.6million VND (70.4 USD) this year.

Speaking at the event, TranCong Khoi from the Directorate of Fisheries said the unsustainable developmentof lobster farming will result in a low and unstable yield. Despite higheconomic value, the sector faces many challenges in planning and management, henoted, adding that the increase in the density of lobster cages and theexpansion of lobster farming in tourist and industrial areas are among the sector’sproblems.

He also named other issueslike old and non-ecofriendly farming practices and lack of links betweenfarmers and traders.

Khanh Hoa is home to over40,000 lobster cages while Quang Ngai has started breeding lobsters in recentyears with about 400 cages over an area of 2,000 sq.m.

Phu Yen is one of thebiggest lobster breeders in Vietnam and the success of the lobster industryhere has helped improve incomes of local farmers.


Woman gets life sentence for 1978 murder

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The family of a Moiliili man, who was fatally shot more than 30 years ago, tearfully spoke at the convicted murderer's sentencing Monday.

Maryann Acker, who now goes by the name Maryann Bray, apologized for her actions and told the judge that, after three decades, she's a much different person.

The siblings of murder victim Lawrence Hasker pleaded to the judge for a stiff punishment, saying a short prison term for Acker would only prolong their suffering. They got their wish -- a life sentence.

With heavy hearts and a sense of purpose, four siblings arrive from California, North Carolina and Wyoming to face the woman convicted of their brother's murder.

"All of this has been tremendously trying for all of them," Landon Murata, deputy prosecutor, said. "I'm thankful that the four of them were able to come down here at great expense, their own expense, to be present for sentencing."

It's taken 31 years and two trials to get here.

Prosecutors say in June 1978, Maryann Acker and her then-husband William stole money from Lawrence Hasker's Moiliili apartment and then took the 20-year-old to Hanauma Bay, where he was shot and killed.

Two months ago, the jury in Maryann Acker's re-trial decided she wasn't the one who pulled the trigger, but, as an accomplice, was still guilty of murder.

Five days after the Hasker slaying, the couple robbed and killed a man in California.

"These people should never be let out, to be honest," Murata said. "They should be held accountable for what they did, the ending of two young lives for no reason. It was a thrill ride for them."

"No. I mean, she lied before and she was still lying and I believe she is still lying," Joe Hasker, murder victim's brother, said. "So I think the judge saw that and took that into consideration as well. That's why it was a harsh punishment."

The judge gave Acker, who's already served 28 years in a California prison, a life sentence with the possibility of parole.

"We're just very happy with the outcome and the judge's decision," Joe Hasker said. "He took all our feelings into consideration and we're just very happy with the outcome."

When Maryann Acker's case first went before the Hawaii parole board, the panel set a 30-year minimum term. She's already served 28. Prosecutors say they'll seek a higher minimum at the next parole hearing.


Rose Of Winter Develops Fuller Foliage With Spring Sun

Diggin' In

March 07, 1999|By KATHY VAN MULLEKOM Daily Press

Helleborus is the garden topic to talk about this year.

Magazines everywhere are spotlighting the beauty of this plant with its nodding, sleepy-looking flowers. The Tidewater Garden Symposium on Thursday in Norfolk features Dave Culp, a nationally known helleborus hybridizer as one of its speakers.

Helleborus gives gardeners what they are looking for - wintertime color when bare is boring. That's why it's called the rose of winter. The showiest species is Lenten rose - Helleborus orientalis - which delivers flowers well into April. Colors include shades of plum, burgundy, lime green, light pink and white. Specks of colors often enhance the petals.

The most recent issue of The American Gardener published by the American Horticultural Society devotes eight pages to these winter wonders. This evergreen plant thrives in rich, well-drained soil in light shade. Spring sun, however, makes the foliage fuller. Hellebores tolerate most soils, but they like limestone added to acidic soil. They are long-lived strong plants that spread by rhizome division and seed.

"Foliage alone is reason enough to grow purple hellebore (H. purpurascens)," says author C. Colston Burrell, who has moved his hellebore collection from Minnesota to the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville.

"The deeply divided hand-shaped leaves resemble origami parasols. Sauce-shaped flowers vary from rich plum-purple to sea-green and can open as early as December in mild climates."

The garden symposium featuring Culp will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at Norfolk Academy on Wesleyan Drive, just off Interstate 64 in Norfolk. Other speakers include Pam Baggett, a specialist in heat-tolerant plants and owner of Singing Springs mail-order nursery (919) 732-9403); Sylvia Ehrhardt, owner of Ehrhardt Organic Farm in Knoxville, Tenn.; and Longwood Gardens horticulturist Richard Lighty, a native plants expert. Cost: $35, including lunch and handouts. To register, call 440-5137. The event is sponsored by the Norfolk and Virginia Beach garden clubs.

CAMELLIAS DROPPING? If the blooms on your camellia japonica develop dark veins, turn brown and drop off, the flowers probably have flower blight, a fungus named Sclerotinia camelliae. To control, pick off and discard all old camellia blossoms before they fall. A mulch of wood chips around the base of the plant prevents fungus bodies in the soil from ejecting their spores into the air and onto the plant. Replace the mulch each year.

Good sanitation in the garden helps control the spread of many diseases, especially fungus-type ones which spread by air-borne spores.

GARDEN EVENTS. Here are some more gardening events you may like to attend:

* Garden Club of Gloucester hosting Virginia master gardener and author Hardie Newton for a lecture and flower-arranging demonstration spotlighting her new book "Celebration of Flowers" 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. March 17; cost $50. A book-signing party for Hardie that evening at White Hall Plantation is $10. Reservations: Louise Whitley, (804) 693-5042.

* Colonial Williamsburg hosting its 53rd Colonial Williamsburg Garden Symposium March 28-31. Nationally known landscape designers will explore the theme "Celebrating American Garden Design." Other events include workshop with Libbey Oliver, former Colonial Williamsburg floral manager, and tours of some gardens in Virginia Beach. Information: 220-7174.

* Today is the last day of Outdoor '99 at McDonald Garden Center in Hampton.

TIP OF THE WEEK

* It's time to apply pre-emergence crabgrass control. Some products recommend several applications, so read the directions carefully. See your local extension office or garden center for more information.

* The grass is greening up, too. Make sure your lawn mower is clean, the blade is sharp and the spark plug is new so your mower is ready to roll.

* Play the gardening trivia contest and win tickets to the Mid-Atlantic Home & Garden Show March 26-28 at the Virginia Beach Pavilion. To play, call 928-1111, category 4780.


Het Plein

Het Plein (; English: The Square) is a town square in the old city centre of The Hague in the Netherlands.

It is located adjacent to the Binnenhof, the meeting place of the States General of the Netherlands; the entrance to the House of Representatives can be found on Plein 2. The Mauritshuis art museum is located on Plein 29.

Het Plein was originally a garden, forming a part of the Binnenhof castle, residence of the Counts of Holland. It was used to grow vegetables for the court. The garden was surrounded by a ring of canals and intersected by ditches. As a town square, Het Plein was constructed in 1632 and was inspired by the Place des Vosges in Paris.

A statue of William the Silent, made by Dutch sculptor Lodewyk Royer, was installed in the centre of the square in 1848.

References

External links

  (in Dutch)

Category:Squares in The Hague
Category:Tourist attractions in South Holland


Q:

How to label the Vertex and, or Edge labels with their weight

I noticed that the Mathematica 9.0 documentation only mentions the usage of "Name" to label the vertexlabel or edgelabel in the Graph.
Is there an option to use the Weights automatically just as "Name" does?

A:

I found that "EdgeWeight" and "VertexWeight" are next to "Name" also possible candidates.
Graph[{1 \[UndirectedEdge] 2, 2 \[UndirectedEdge] 3,
  3 \[UndirectedEdge] 1}, VertexWeight -> {100, f[x], 300},
 EdgeWeight -> {10 || 20, Prime[x], g[x]^2},
 VertexLabels -> "VertexWeight", EdgeLabels -> "EdgeWeight",
 ImagePadding -> 20]


I like journaling, and needed a place to do it. Since I am not doing it in my actual journal, I thought I would give this a try.
Come learn a little about my inner workings (please, not too much though), some about Wifey, my lovely and talented wife, and Munchkin and Munchkenna, our incredibly darling girls. Besides talking about my family, you will probably hear some random information on books, music, art, and writing.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Easter Sunday

Today was an Easter I wouldn't mind repeating. It was filled with lots of family and music, so what more could you ask for?

I got asked on Saturday to play the organ for our church service today. I enjoy doing that, and wouldn't mind doing it more so I could get better on the organ. I still don't know much about stops, but if I had to play more often, I would be forced to learn. Anyway, the only let down about the service was that we didn't sing my favorite Easter hymn, O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown.
After the meeting, I had an elderly woman come up to me from the congregation and paid me a very nice compliment. She said that every time I get near an instrument, it thrills her. Although I flubbed a few notes, I guess I did something right on that old organ.

I also loaned my copy of The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis to someone who is struggling with the passing of his father. I read this novella a few years ago, and found it most instructional on what the afterlife might be like. If you are so inclined, I highly recommend it. I'll be eager to talk with him about if he found it helpful in his current situation.

We got the girls down for naps, even though Munchkenna didn't stay there very long. I watered all our non-flowering tulips and daffodils in hopes that they will flower this spring. Our hyacinths flowered great, but only one daffodil flowered, I'm guessing because we didn't plant them until early last year, and I think they are still trying to root into the earth before flourishing. Maybe next year.

After a ham dinner with the in-laws, the kids hunted Easter eggs. They had so much fun that we sent them back inside and hid them again. The sun was shining, and it was about 70 degrees. Perfect weather to bask slightly out of the sun on the deck.

We went to an Easter concert tonight where one of Munchkin's aunt was singing a solo. Munchkin sat entranced on my lap as her aunt did a great rendition of Tell Me The Story. After it was done, Munchkin had to be escorted out of the chapel to use the restroom. Along the way, she kept singing part of the lyrics back to me. I had her go sing it for her aunt after the concert, and I think they were both equally pleased.
And I also forgot to mention that I got to play prelude music for the concert. More creating for me! Hooray!

All in all, an above average day. I might even go so far as to say a great day. Now, tell me how your Easter was.


A big, wild cat eluding 200 police and military forces near Disneyland Paris is not a tiger, French authorities said Friday – but they don't know exactly what it is.

The creature popped up near a supermarket, crossed a major highway, slinked past a gas station, and sent regional officials into high alert.

The administration for the Seine-et-Marne region had announced Thursday that authorities were searching for a tiger on the loose.

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But in a statement Friday afternoon, the administration said "the presence of an animal of the tiger species has proven to be excluded." The statement was based on analysis by government wild animal experts of the animal's tracks.

It said the animal is a feline but they are still trying to determine its species. The hunting office could not be reached for comment.

The animal's origins remain a mystery.

Some 200 police, military officers and others are still searching for it. A helicopter buzzed over woods east of Paris and a dozen police vehicles lined a grassy area where the feline was spotted early Friday.

"He was also seen by truck drivers on the road," Montevrain Mayor Christian Robache said.

Police officers guarded a school Friday morning as children arrived for class in Montevrain, the French town where the animal was first seen near a parking lot Thursday.

Tracks were spotted Friday morning near the A4 highway between the towns of Bussy-Saint-Georges and Ferrieres-en-Brie.

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The regional administration asked drivers to take "the greatest precautions" on the highway, a major artery between Paris and eastern France.

Authorities warned nearby residents to stay in cars instead of walking on foot – and especially to avoid walks in the woods. A Total gas station near the sighting was briefly closed.

Both sites where the animal or its tracks were seen are about 10 kilometres from Disneyland Paris, one of Europe's top tourist destinations. The operator of the theme park says it isn't taking any special precautions because the loose animal isn't deemed a threat. Disneyland Paris is surrounded by high walls to keep out intruders.

A wild cat animal park in the region, the Parc des Felins, said none of its cats is missing.

Some tweets suggested that the tracks belonged to a big dog, not a cat, but the head of the Paris regional Wolfcatcher Society, Robert Picaud, insisted the tracks could not have been falsified.

"It is clear that here is a feline walking around," he said.

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French tiger trainer Thierry Le Portier told BFM television that if the feline was raised by its mother it would be more distrustful and tougher to catch. Raised by humans, it would be less distrustful but no less dangerous.

"It can remain in hiding for a long time," he said, adding that it's "no problem" if the cat goes without eating for up to four days.


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In 2013, when Gap, Target, Walmart, and 23 other North American companies refused to join with unions in a legally-binding agreement to improve workplace safety in Bangladesh, they announced their own corporate-controlled alternative. Our report, which we researched and wrote together with the Worker Rights Consortium, Clean Clothes Campaign, and Maquila Solidarity Network, is the first independent investigation into the Alliance’s track record. It exposes a startling disconnect between the Alliance rating system and the actual conditions in the factories. Of 107 factories we examined that are labelled by the Alliance as „On Track,“ we found that:

57% have compromised fire exits

58% do not have a properly functioning fire alarm system

41% have uncorrected structural problems

These statistics are terrifying, and they have real world consequences. Our analysis revealed that there are 120,000 garment workers employed in the 62 factories that produce items for Walmart that do not have fully viable fire exits.


The SAMP8 mouse: a model to develop therapeutic interventions for Alzheimer's disease.
The senescence accelerate mouse P8 (SAMP8) is an excellent model of early learning and memory problems. A number of studies have shown that it has cholinergic deficits, oxidative damage, alterations in membrane lipids and circadian rhythm disturbances. The brains of the SAMP8 overproduce amyloid precursor protein (APP), amyloid-beta protein and have an increased physphorylation of tau. An antisense to APP has been developed that reverses the cognitive deficits and oxidative damage. This antisense represents a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease.


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Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, may have retired 15 years ago, but his influence in corporate America still resonates. Not only is he known as one of the most successful industrial leaders of the 20th century—most notably increasing the value of GE by 4,000 percent—but he is also a great example of how a company can effectively grow powerful leaders from within their own ranks.

Welch, who graduated with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, joined GE in 1960 as a junior chemical engineer. After a year with the company, Welch began seeking other jobs until a mentor in the company’s executive office recognized Welch’s talents and persuaded him to remain at the company. Just seven years later, Welch was appointed vice president of GE’s plastics division, and the climb up the corporate ladder continued. In 1981, Welch became GE’s youngest chairman and CEO.

Jack Welch, April 15, 2015 in New York City (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

1. Empower employees through mentorship and delegation. Everyone can be a leader, especially when CEOs become mentors and empower employees through delegated projects. Effective delegation creates leaders.

“An employee’s success, the lens they see through, the decisions they make and how they navigate their careers are all heavily influenced by the types of leaders they are able to observe and learn from,” said Glenn Llopis in his article “Leadership is About Enabling the Full Potential in Others.” “This is why you will find that many of today’s best leaders were mentored by great leaders themselves.”

Fishbowl started as the outgrowth of a project that was in danger of being shut down. I had been asked by the company’s investor to close the business because his large investment wasn’t being realized. Once I began working with the six employees, however, I noticed they were on the verge of delivering something amazing. I asked the investor for 30 days to help the small team realize their potential then and for the long haul.

One of those original employees demonstrated great potential, but he was reluctant to lead. I decided to delegate training responsibilities for all new customer service reps to him. While he initially declined the challenge, he took on those training responsibilities at my request. Now, 12 years later, this employee manages customer service, support, training and tech departments. He hires and trains 4-6 new people every six months. He is a strong leader and manager today because he was given an opportunity … and a little push.

Unfortunately, many CEOs don’t have the time or the patience to grow that leadership from within. Take, for example, a startup with traditional investment funding. The CEO is on a fast-growth trajectory with a three- to seven-year exit strategy. They need their leaders to be ready fast and panic when they don’t see their leadership team developing quickly enough. Because we were self-funded at Fishbowl, I’ve been fortunate to be able to take the time to grow our leadership.

Whether you are a fast-growing startup or an enterprise, taking a long-term approach to growing leadership will benefit your organization. If you are a startup with a rapid-growth trajectory, do what you can to be patient with your team, and talk with investors to get their buy-in on your strategy. They’ll thank you later.

3. Avoid bait and switch tactics. Sometimes, well-meaning CEOs promise to promote their employees into leadership positions but then lose confidence in their abilities—so they bring in leaders from the outside to grow the team. This bait-and-switch tactic should be avoided at all costs.

Don’t promise your employees something and then switch strategy midstream. If one of your employees is being groomed for a leadership position but is then supplanted by an outsider, that will set a dangerous precedent and destroy the trust you’ve worked so hard to establish. When employees lose trust and become worried, they start putting out their resumes and listening to headhunters. Don’t sacrifice your company culture to fast-track your executive leadership.

As Jack Welch said, “Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.” Keep the long term in mind, and watch your leaders grow as you effectively delegate and mentor employees, remain patient and build trust. And don’t welch on your promises.

I am the founder and chairman of DKW Ventures. I am a serial entrepreneur, have led divisions and companies and a C-level executive for companies ranging from startups to multi-nationals. I am a consultant to C-level executives throughout the world, from South Africa to Amer...


The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that it will consider African elephants, seven pangolin species, two bee species and two fish for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

African elephants are currently listed as a threatened species. In response to two petitions from conservation groups, FWS will now consider changing their status to endangered, the next worst step beyond threatened. The agency will also, finally, consider listing African elephants as two species, the forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephant (L. africana), a taxonomic change that was formalized a few years ago. Conservationists estimate that nearly 100 elephants are killed by poachers every day for their valuable ivory.

Protecting the African elephant as two species would not only offer more flexibly conservation actions, it could also help to enhance our greater understanding of the endangered pachyderms. “Splitting the two species would certainly draw more attention to the crisis in Central Africa,” says Tara Easter, a scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the petitioning organizations. “That would in turn provide more funding for actions specifically targeted for forest elephants or savannah elephants, which are facing different threats beyond the overall demand for ivory. Plus, there is so much we don’t know about forest elephants that we do for the more easily-observable savannah elephant.”

FWS also agreed to consider listing the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), giant ground pangolin (Smutsia gigantean), Indian pangolin (M. crassicaudata), long-tailed pangolin (Phataginus tetradactyla), Philippine pangolin (M. culionensis), Sunda pangolin (M. javanica) and tree pangolin (P. tricuspis) as endangered species. Currently just one of the eight pangolin species, the Temminck’s ground pangolin (S. temmincki), is protected by the ESA. Pangolins are among the most heavily trafficked animals on the planet.

Protecting these international species under U.S. law is important because Americans are big buyers of illegal wildlife products, including both ivory and pangolin-derived “medicines.” “The U.S. is a destination for parts and products of poached pangolins,” Teresa M. Telecky, Ph.D., director of the wildlife department at Humane Society International, said in a prepared statement. “In 2014, authorities seized more than 11 kilograms of traditional Asian medicines containing pangolin, and seized an additional 460 individual medicine containers that also had pangolin parts. Our research shows that these products are sold here in the U.S. both online and in stores. Listing all pangolin species as Endangered will end the role of the United States in this harmful trade.”

Also on today’s list of species that FWS says may deserve ESA protection: the western bumblebee (Bombus occidentalis), the yellow-banded bumblebee (B. terricola), the Rio Grande chub (Gila pandora), Rio Grande sucker (Catostomus plebeius), and a plant called the Leoncita false-foxglove (Agalinis calycina).

FWS also agreed to consider petitions to remove three species from the ESA: the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus), the Deseret milkvetch (Astragalns desereticns) and the southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus). Petitions to delist those species came from the energy, construction and ranching industries.

On top of all of this, FWS found that an additional 15 petitions did not present enough information to take action. Those would have addressed protections for the Acuna cactus, Arizona night lizard, Arizona wetsalts tiger beetle, Bezy's night lizard, Cheoah bald salamander, Cow Knob salamander, MacDougal's yellowtops, Monito skink, Navasota ladies-tresses, Patagonia eyed silkmoth, reticulate collared lizard, South Mountain gray-cheeked salamander and southern dusky salamander.

This is just the first step in the process for all of these species. FWS will now collect public comments for the next 60 days, after which it will begin a formal 12-month review to determine if Endangered Species Act protection is warranted.


Bilateral Thalamic Glioma: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Bilateral thalamic glioma is extremely rare and the incidence cannot be adequately expressed. We present the case of a 72 years old male suffering from the rapid deterioration of cognitive function to moderately severe dementia in a short period of time. Magnetic resonance studies demonstrated a bilateral thalamic glioma with a minimal focal gadolinium uptake in the left thalamus. Biopsy was performed and pathology report was of anaplastic astrocytoma, WHO grade III. Radiotherapy was proposed but was rejected by the patient's relatives. The patient deceased 57 days later. We performed an extensive review of the literature and by updating the previous described series we can state that to the best of our knowledge this is the 60th case described in the literature and the second eldest patient presented. Patients suffering from this disease present a poor prognosis, the longest survival described being of 3 years in patients diagnosed with grade II bilateral thalamic glioma. Adjuvant therapy in form of radiotherapy to the thalami is most commonly used but the benefits are unclear. The natural progression of WHO grade III bilateral thalamic glioma left untreated, as can be seen from our case, has an even poorer outcome.


Friday, July 9, 2010

Obama bypasses Senate for new Medicare chief

President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid. Take a close look at why Obama bypassed the Senate on this guy's appointment. It was a smart move by Obama if you ask me. This guy would never have made it past the Senate or the American people in the hearings. He is just another radical from the left and that is why they bypassed the Senate. Why do we even need a Congress with this admin?

Well Grandma here is the person that will tell you that you can't get the care you need. We told you that this was all about redistributing wealth and now the man in charge is saying the same thing. It looks like the left was full of crap when they said we were crazy about obamacare being about wealth redistribution. Just remember what party did all this to you and your loved ones. Just remember what party took what you earned. And never forget that it was the Democratic Party that made this country a second rate nation. And when the left start their riots because they want more,like they always do, fight back. If you have a job then you are too rich to vote for a Democrat and they know it. Wake up you neighbor's and let them know they are too wealth to vote for a Democrat. The Democrats in power think you owe more then you give. They will take away your personal freedoms for the collective. And this radical Berwick is just another piece of the puzzle in the redistribution of wealth for the "collective good". All you baby boomers are going to get what you voted for,"change". Now when you are coming to the age when you will need health care we once had you wont have it. And if you think the Democrats give a shit that 69% of Americans want obamacare repealed then you are still stoned from the 1960's. And all you young people that voted for these socialist cry over your dead parents body because they didn't get the care they needed,blame yourself instead of the Fed. You are the ones that voted them in.

#4 I Personnely Would Have Liked To Hear Doctors Response To How Do You Take $500 Billion Out Of Medicare For Socialized Insurence When Medicare Is BROKE? Redistributing Wealth From A Bankrupt Program Is Done In What Manner? I Believe Reduce Benifits To Elderly Is The Answer.

On Different Note Congress Is Recessed Anybody Have Schedule Of "Town Meetings" Taking Place This Year? Well Time For A Cup Of Tea Then Maybe Golf.

I understand there may be occasions that necessitate recess appointments, but this was not one of them. Even Baucus (Democrat) was complaining about this one. Obama did not want this guy to face any tough questions. What is this administration afraid of? I guess the shorter answer would be given if I asked what this administration WASN'T afraid of!

Best solutions Comrade FAILK? Solutions like health INSURANCE for everyone? You know, insurance, that thing that you hated before Obummer, Pelousy and Harry "Negro" Reid decided that Big insurance was the way to go? What a pack of idiots; no wonder you worship them. Idiots of a feather flock together.

Here are some links on the British Health Care System FAILK:-----February 25, 2010Stafford Hospital caused ‘unimaginable suffering’http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7039285.ece-----February 18, 2010Debt-ridden Hinchingbrooke Hospital to be run by a private companyhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7031332.ece-----10 Surprising Facts about American Health Carehttp://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649

Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.[1] Breast cancer mortality is 52% higher in Germany, and 88% higher in the UK. Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the U.K. and 457% higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40% higher.Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long. In England, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70% of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults say their health system needs either "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding."Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K.Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.-----And are we still talking about health care?!?! You Hypocrats got what you wanted, the bill you wanted, rammed it through AGAINST the wishes of the majority of VOTING constituents. You want to talk about focusing on the best solutions NOW?!?! LMAO ... your solution was to make health care more expensive by bailing out Big Insurance, Big Pharma, trial lawyers. Now you idiots are going to have to live with it!

Bruce I lived in Japan and was under their nationalized system. I know first hand what it is like so don't tell me that it's better. I have many friends throughout the world and none feel that their national system is better then ours. Do you think spreading the wealth is what our government was set up to do?

Hey, Brucski,Remember the promises made by the 3 stooges, Obama, Pelosi & Reid?Lower premiums- According to a recent memo from the Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the medical device and pharmaceutical drugs fees and the health insurance excise tax will ―generally be passed through to health consumers in the form of higher drugs and device prices and higher insurance premiums, with an associated increase in overall national health expenditures.OPPS!

Americans who like their current health plan can keep it- the Administration own published a regulation regarding grandfathered health plans, as many as seven out of every 10 businesses across the country will lose their grandfathered health plan. And Americans will see the cost of that employer-provided coverage increase due to government mandates and regulation.OPPS!

And the big boy liberals where fighting for:Now, Millions of people without insurance can get insurance- the CBO estimates 23 million people will still be without health coverage at all. The dramatic cuts to Medicare could cause some providers to end their participation in the program, and could jeopardize access to care for beneficiaries.OOOOOOPPS!!!!!!!!

There’s more, but you get the idea.

Summary:-Sixteen million Americans are forced into Medicaid, a program that denies care and yields lower health outcomes for patients, and for which there are minimal physicians to deliver care.-American citizens will be forced to purchase costlier health care or pay a tax; illegal immigrants will continue to get free care and those costs will be shifted onto Americans.-Uninsured Americans will now be considered violators of the law and could face harassment by the IRS.-The new health law increases the cost of health care and insurance.-Millions of Americans will lose their current health plan as employers either drop coverage or purchase more expensive, government-dictated health insurance. http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=722faf8b-a5be-40fd-a52b-9a98826c1592

Of course Pelosi said "let get something passed and worry about the details later."Yeah, lets point the gun at someone BEFORE we check to make sure it's not loaded.

Bruce Name One Country Where Socialized Anything Has Worked And Lasted 234 Years?

This Nation Is The Greatest On Earth For One Reason. We Treasure Freedom And Will Sacrifice All For It. Name ONE Thing This Regime Has Done To Further Creating Jobs And The Economy? Without These Two Being Strong Entitlements Mean NOTHING Cause Whos Paying For It?

This Regime Is Targeting Socialized Insurance,Tax And Trade And Amnesty Which Will Help Citizens Looking For JOBS How?

Amnesty Is The Biggest "Voter Registration" Program Ever Attempted Plain And Simple.

Wow Comrade FAILk, way to ignore what everyone wrote. You have no response, other than what the stolen money from others will go to pay for?!!? ROFLMAO

Inadequate Spending? By Howard RichJuly 09, 2010

In a column published last week in The New York Times , Paul Krugman condemns recent attempts to inject some common sense into what has become an epidemic of mindless government growth in America and around the world.

With the global economy teetering on the brink of another slowdown (due to excessive government borrowing associated with Europe’s failed welfare state), Krugman and other Keynesians — including President Obama — are now lobbying aggressively for additional government “stimulus” spending at home and abroad.

They say they want to protect a “fragile recovery,” but Americans know better. With no new jobs, deteriorating consumer confidence and unexpectedly low retail reports putting a dent in the markets and on Main Street, the truth is there is no recovery — there is only an attempt to justify more government growth.

Specifically Krugman blasted several world leaders (although obviously not the leader of the “free world”) for what he called “preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending.”

And no, that’s not a typo. He actually said “inadequate spending.”

According to these “New Keynesians,” the unsustainable government growth that preceded the most recent economic downturn apparently wasn’t enough. Nor was the unprecedented barrage of bailouts, taxpayer-funded guarantees, freshly-printed greenbacks and deficit spending that Washington threw at the problem over the last two years. And let’s not forget what has been heaped on top of all that “stimulus” spending — a $2.5 trillion socialized medicine plan that represents one of the largest expansions of entitlement spending in American history.

Amazingly, despite the clear failure of the “stimulus” — and despite the fact that excess entitlement spending is what has driven the eurozone to its present precariousness — the rallying cry of these big government backers appears to be “we have only just begun to spend.”

Let’s examine the efficacy of that mantra for a moment, shall we?

Even prior to the onset of the “Great Recession” in Dec. 2007, government at all levels in the United States was growing by leaps and bounds. For example, state and local spending soared from $1.74 trillion in 2000 to $2.66 trillion in 2007. Even after adjusting for inflation, that’s a 23.7% increase. Similarly, federal spending jumped from $1.79 trillion in 2000 to $2.73 trillion in 2007 — a roughly identical 23.5% increase after again adjusting for inflation.

Obviously, this upward trend was placed on steroids when the downturn began. For starters more than $13 trillion has been spent, lent, printed or pledged on “recovery” efforts alone over the last two-and-a-half years. Also, Washington’s two most recent federal budgets have added more than $3 trillion in deficit spending to our skyrocketing national debt, with trillions of dollars in additional red ink projected over the coming decade.

Accordingly, when we add post-2007 spending to the total tab for the decade, the government growth rate has more than doubled — to 52.4%.

By comparison, total government spending in the 1990s grew at a much slower rate — by approximately 17.4% — which enabled more economic activity and the creation of more wealth up and down the socio-economic ladder. In fact, per capita personal income during the 1990s grew by 23.6%, adjusted for inflation. By comparison, per capita personal income during the first decade of the new millennium has grown by only 4.6% — a sad testament to the failure of the Keynesian philosophy that Washington continues pursuing with reckless abandon.

This is not rocket science, it is common sense. The more government grows, the more the economy suffocates. Conversely, the more government contracts, the freer we will be as a nation to prosper.

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a TelePrompTer installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

IfGeorge W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historicallysignificant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , would you have said that he is clueless.

If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minutespeech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in Texas , would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like DanQuayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, wouldyou have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 15 months -- so you'll have two years and nine months to come up with an answer.

Bruce is a disgusting piece of human waste. A typical liberal thug who has been arrested before because of his nazi tactics. These lunatics justify anything and everything they do because they are fanatics - and a danger to society. Using the Huffington Post and the word "facts" in the same sentence - great job there Bruce! LMAO! You can see why he's bitter little ignorant man who's greatest accomplishment in life is that he's the editor of a paper with 13 subscribers!

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Monday, February 04, 2013 1:37 am

US woman, Chinese divorce after high-profile case

The Associated Press

A Beijing court has granted a divorce to an American woman and her Chinese celebrity-entrepreneur husband in a high-profile case that highlighted the often-hidden problem of domestic violence in China.

The case began when Kim Lee posted graphic photos of the injuries she said came from her husband Li Yang on her microblog in 2011. Li Yang's chain of English-teaching schools, "Crazy English," is a household name in China.

The photos of the bump on her forehead, bruises on her knees and a bleeding ear went viral and sparked tens of thousands of postings on Chinese Twitter-like sites, along with protests and talk show debates. She inadvertently became a folk hero for battered women because domestic violence isn't often talked about in China, where tradition holds family conflicts to be private. It is also hard to go public in a country where many still consider women subservient to their husbands.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the divorce was granted Sunday on the grounds of domestic abuse and the court approved Lee's request for a three-month restraining order against Li.

Reports said the court ordered Li to pay his former wife 50,000 yuan ($8,000) compensation for mental anguish as well as child support. She will also have custody of their three daughters and receive properties worth more than 12 million yuan ($2 million).

A woman from the press office of the Chaoyang District People's Court confirmed the divorce on Monday, but wouldn't give any details.

The China Daily quoted Lee's lawyer, Qi Lianfeng, as saying that the court's acknowledgement of the domestic violence will encourage more women "to protect their rights in a legal way."

Lee said she would continue to live with her children in China because her daughters have been educated here, the China Daily reported.


Villacis v City of New York (2019 NY Slip Op 02378)

Villacis v City of New York

2019 NY Slip Op 02378

Decided on March 27, 2019

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on March 27, 2019
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.
JEFFREY A. COHEN
JOSEPH J. MALTESE
HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.

2016-13367
 (Index No. 4429/15)

[*1]Jorge Villacis, et al., appellants,
vCity of New York, et al., defendants, Globe Gates, Inc., etc., respondent.

Raymond Schwartzberg & Associates, PLLC, New York, NY (Raymond B. Schwartzberg and Hilary M. Schwartzberg of counsel), for appellants.

DECISION & ORDER
In an action to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kevin J. Kerrigan, J.), dated October 6, 2016. The order denied the plaintiffs' motion pursuant to CPLR 3215 for leave to enter a default judgment against the defendant Globe Gates, Inc., and granted that defendant's cross motion for leave to serve a late answer.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The plaintiffs commenced this action to recover damages for breach of contract. In June 2015, the plaintiffs served the defendant Globe Gates, Inc. (hereinafter the defendant), with process via the Secretary of State and by mailing to an address in the Bronx. In June 2016, the plaintiffs moved for leave to enter a default judgment against the defendant. The defendant opposed the motion and cross-moved for leave to file a late answer. The defendant contended that it did not receive that service because it had moved in May 2015 from that address in the Bronx to an address in Yonkers. The Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs' motion and granted the defendant's cross motion. The plaintiffs appeal.
CPLR 317 permits a defendant who has been "served with a summons other than by personal delivery" to defend the action upon a finding of the court that the defendant "did not personally receive notice of the summons in time to defend and has a meritorious defense" (CPLR 317; see Eugene Di Lorenzo, Inc. v A.C. Dutton Lbr. Co., 67 NY2d 138, 141). Here, the defendant, who was served by delivery of copies of the summons and complaint to the Secretary of State, demonstrated that it did not receive personal notice of the summons in time to defend, and that there was no evidence that the defendant deliberately attempted to avoid notice of the action (see Fleisher v Kaba, 78 AD3d 1118, 1119). Furthermore, the defendant established the existence of a potentially meritorious defense (see id. at 1119).
Accordingly, we agree with the Supreme Court's determination denying the plaintiffs' motion for leave to enter a default judgment and granting the defendant's cross motion for leave to serve a late answer.
MASTRO, J.P., COHEN, MALTESE and LASALLE, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court


One Sunday morning I watched my daughter walk towards her group in church where she serves small children that have her on her toes during the morning service. Back home an hour or so later, my son said something funny as he always does, and my wife and I just couldn’t stop laughing. “This is good!,” I thought to myself. And I also wondered.

So the dreamer in me took charge. What if I had a time machine? Where would I go? What would I do? Who would I meet? Maybe I could go back in time and place myself into history and help win battles, or I could witness the declaration of independence. Who knows, since I was dreaming I could go anywhere. What about the moon? I can just sit down, history books on hand, and just choose where to go or what to do. What would it be? What would make me feel whole and happy? Fulfilled? What would I do if I could go back on a time machine.

And I wondered again. And the idea came to me as I reflected. I knew exactly where to go and what to do. It had nothing to do with history, but happiness. It had nothing to do with money but with relationships. I would go back in time to my own life to relive the greatest moments. I would be there again the day I first saw her. I would relive the moment I kissed my son the day he was born and to the moment when my daughters face graced our lives for the first time. I would embrace every second of my smiling son and daughter. I would contemplate intently the refreshing laughter of my wife and her beautiful voice as she sings. I would be more present, more alert. I’d make less money but live more life. The best moments in my life had nothing to do with earthly possessions or career achievements. But the most significant moments, the times in which time itself seemed timeless, were the moments in which joy and happiness where are it’s highest.

What about the times I remember with pain? What about those moments that I wish not to relive? And I stopped for a moment. Could I change them? I have a time machine here. Can I just fix the past and create a new future? But then a sobering thought overcame me. Being immersed in the wonder of life and taking it in completely, being present and awake, would help me confront those difficult times. And I abandoned this idea of changing the past, and embraced the one of changing the future. I cannot change the story of what has already happen. But I realize that I can still change how the story ends. So today everything can be a new beginning. It doesn’t matter where it started, but how it ends. Pain is real, but grace and hope stand tall.

So the question remains, what would I do If I had a time machine? Simple, I’d do it all over again, happiness and yes, the pain, because it has been in the low moments that the Almighty has shown up and shown off! So as I snapped out of the dream mode I was in, I realized that the future is before me, and I walk with the Maker of the heavens and the earth and He can change anything. I just a grateful heart and desire to live full and free.

I’d do it all over again; yes the happiness and the pain, If I had a time machine.

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67% Of Smokers Quit Their Habit

Researchers use small electric jolts to help smokers quit the habit and stay smoke-free up to one year later

There are two categories of smokers.

Those in the first category are quite happy with the habit. They know and understand the risks. They’ve been warned by health professionals, and by their thinning wallet, faltering breath and all sorts of other telltale signs that this is a dangerous game they’re playing. But they choose to smoke anyways.

Hopefully, you belong to the second category.

You want to quit.

And if that’s the case, you’ve probably tried and failed more times than you care to remember.

Nothing seems to work.

You tried smoking less — But then life happened and you went back to smoking your usual amount, if not more.

You tried to quit overnight — But pretty soon you turned into a raging fiend on a rampage, so you decided to preserve your sanity and pick up the habit once again.

You tried nicotine patches — But you realized they were no substitute for the “activity” of smoking, so you threw them out and bought another pack of smokes.

The list goes on and it keeps getting longer.

It’s a very disheartening picture for you and so many other smokers out there who keep trying and failing.

Why you fail at quitting smoking

It’s simple. You keep failing because smoking is a habit. And by nature, habits are reinforced every time you repeat the behavior.

You might try to exercise willpower. But willpower is a limited resource, and habits tend to outrun willpower over time.

Smoking is like a toxic relationship. Cigarettes become a part of your life. Think about it.

You smoke:

when you have coffee

when you socialize

after you eat (or even while you eat)

after sex

while you drive

when you’re stressed, sad, angry, upset, grieving, crying

when you’re relaxed, enjoying yourself, happy

when you mourn the loss of someone

The cigarette cheats you into thinking that it’s part of every one of those activities. Eventually it becomes an extension of “you”.

And that’s precisely why it’s so difficult, so terrifying, to quit smoking.

You need to reprogram your brain.

Thankfully, 80+ years ago, science discovered a method to do just that. And studies show that it has an astonishing success rate with all sorts of habits, including smoking!

Researchers use small electric jolts to successfully help 67% of smokers quit in as little as 5 days

In a research experiment, a number of smokers were treated with harmless electric jolts to help them quit smoking. The participants smoked an average of 21.5 cigarettes per day. They had all previously tried to quit smoking by their own will-power or other conventional means.

Participants were hooked up with electrodes and provided a favorite brand of cigarettes. At some point during the smoking process, they would be given a signal. This signal was followed three out of four times by an electric jolt.

The participants had been instructed to put out the cigarette upon receiving the signal. Failure to do so immediately would result in a second jolt.

Additionally, they were asked to imagine a favorite situation for smoking, such as the first cigarette of the morning. As they reached the imaginary moment of lighting the cigarette, the same signal/jolt procedure was carried out.

From 21.5 cigarettes a day, to 1.4 cigarettes a day in 3 sessions, with most participants quitting the habit within 5 sessions

By the end of the treatment, 67% of the participants had quit smoking completely, and when assessed one year later, 43% were still off cigarettes.

According to the researchers, “there was a noticeable effect after the first session” (Russell, 1970).

The attitude of participants towards cigarettes changed drastically.

In fact, feedback included comments such as “I threw it away after two draws, to my surprise”; “I took only a few puffs-I just didn’t fancy it. My mate laughed when I threw it out the window.” (Russell, 1970)

One participant even complained that the “cigarettes were stale”. (Russell, 1970)

References

Russell, M. A. (1970, 12). Effect of Electric Aversion on Cigarette Smoking. Bmj, 1(5688), 82-86. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.5688.82


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Feb 12, 2019

Big Batch Dinner Rolls

These Big Batch Dinner Rolls are soft and fluffy, and are perfect for a big family feast.

I first made these big batch dinner rolls for a big family dinner. As the family "bread geek," I felt some pressure to come up with fresh dinner rolls.
Preparing a big dinner for a large group and making soft and fluffy dinner rolls that emerge fresh from the oven and into the bread basket at the same time is a big challenge.

Sometimes it's just easier to make a big loaf of bread that can be made a day in advance to slice and serve.

Still, there is something about soft dinner rolls warm from the oven, split open, and buttered or dipped in gravy.

These dinner rolls are great straight from the oven, but they also make wonderful leftovers.

There is so much bake-ahead or bake-at-the-last-minute flexibility in this recipe. For example, you can freeze the shaped rolls to bake later. You can also place the shaped rolls in the refrigerator for a few hours and bake them when you are ready.

In fact, you can do all three with these rolls... bake one batch right away, bake some the next day from the refrigerator, and bake the last batch from the freezer a few weeks later.

How do you make these dinner rolls in advance?

To make these dinner rolls in advance, shape the dough into rolls, place them into pans, cover with plastic wrap, and freeze the rolls.

If you want to make these rolls a few hours in advance, place the shaped and wrapped rolls in the refrigerator for about two to four hours. Once you've baked your main course, pop the rolls in the oven to bake while your turkey, casserole, roast, or whatever your main dish is sets up.

There's a lot of yeast in this dough, which makes them fast rising. Your bowl of dough will actually feel warm. P.S. Leftovers will be good saved in a plastic bag for up to 3 days.

This month, we are catching up on old ‘Bread Bakers’ themes we missed out on. Our host of the month is Pavani at Cook's Hideout. I decided to revisit the theme "Family Feast." Check out what the Bread Bakers have baked up.

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.


Q:

Spotfire Trellis Maps of Cumulative Activity

I want to create Maps by Year-Quarter each accumulating on the previous quarter.
I'm splitting the Maps on Trellis by a Date column so the custom expression looks like this currently:
< BinByDateTime([Approved Date],"Year.Month",1)>
and the problem is I don't know how to incorporate the AllPrevious function. If there is another way to make each map trellis add up the previous maps' data.
I'd really appreciate it!
Open attachment to see what my current maps trellis looks like without them accumulating.

Thanks, George

A:

I'm not sure you're going to be able to do this the way you'd like. I believe by now you have read the documentation of OVER functions and understand that they navigate a hierarchy, in this case one constructed from the date (if you haven't read it yet, press F1 and get to studying because none of this will make sense :).
thing is, what you're doing with the trellis is then limiting each visualization by a given category. in other words, each panel of the trellis is containing and can access only the data defined by your Year.Quarter hierarchy.
to put it in OOP terms, it is out of scope to access 2016.Q2 from 2016.Q3.
you can recreate this by building a chart with a Data Limiting Expression of, say, Year([Approved Date]) = 2016. no matter what you do, you won't be able to access 2015 or 2017 from this chart, because you've explicitly limited  the chart to only 2016. the trellis is an implicit limit, I guess you could say.
that said, I don't know the ideal solution to recommend. one idea is to have a separate map to the side that shows the cumulative sum. this will show the comparison quarter to quarter as well as the result for "today," but you lose the perception of growth over time.
another could be to create a slider property control for the date, and then limit a single map chart to that document property, so that the user could choose his own date range and even drag the slider back and forth to visualize change over time. but then you lose the side-by-side comparison.
a third idea: use a single map chart with markers showing the total all time, then create a details visualization line or bar chart that shows the growth over time. you get total comparison and growth, but sort of muddy the big picture.
sorry that this isn't a perfect answer, but hopefully one of these suggestions works for your use case. even better is if one of the other power users here have an idea of how to break out of trellises.


Induction of abortion in queens by administration of cabergoline (Galastop) solely or in combination with the PGF2alpha analogue Alfaprostol (Gabbrostim).
The efficacy of cabergoline solely or combined with a PGF2alpha analogue in inducing abortion at different stages of pregnancy was investigated in 18 queens. The queens were assigned to two treatments: Group I ( n=10 )-cabergoline (15 microg/kg; daily, orally) and Group II ( n=8 )-cabergoline (15 microg/kg; daily, orally) combined with alfaprostol (10 microg/kg; every other day, subcutaneously). Each group was divided into two subgroups according to the duration of pregnancy when treatments started: Group IA ( n=8 ) included queens from Days 34 to 42 after mating. Group IB cats ( n=2 ) started treatments on Day 45 post-mating. Similarly, the combination of cabergoline and PGF2alpha analogue was first given to Group IIA ( n=6 ) from Days 25 to 40 of pregnancy and to Group IIB ( n=2 ) on Days 45 and 47, respectively. Termination of pregnancies was successful in all cats of Group IA, while treatments failed in both cats of Group IB, even though seven and eight treatments, respectively, were given. Mean (+/-S.D.) plasma progesterone concentrations before the start of treatments were 85.0+/-12.3 nmol/l and decreased within 3 days to 8 nmol/l and subsequently to basal values, when the queens aborted (Group IIA, n=6 ) or gave birth prematurely (Group IIB, n=2 ). When abortions failed (Group IB, n=2 ), progesterone concentrations remained elevated (16.9 and 9.8 nmol/l). Duration of combined therapy during late pregnancy in Group IIB ( n=2 ) lasted about 10 days. In both cases, premature birth occurred and the kittens died within 16 h after birth. Overall, treatments starting on Days 25-42 of pregnancy (Groups IA and IIA) had abortion rates of 100%. The average duration of treatments was 5.6+/-1.5 days (range, 3-8). Side effects seen were vomiting and occurred in 6 of the 109 (5.5%) treatments. In conclusion, pregnancies were successfully terminated in the second trimester of feline pregnancy by daily application of cabergoline solely or combined with the PGF2alpha analogue alfaprostol (given every other day). Cabergoline alone was ineffective in inducing abortion at later stages of pregnancy.


Marcel Desprets

Marcel Desprets (19 August 1906 – 12 March 1973) was a French fencer. He won a gold medal in the team épée event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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More than 100 new laws, from requiring baby-changing tables to making bestiality a crime, take effect Sunday.

The Nevada Legislative Building is pictured in Carson City (David Guzman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

CARSON CITY — More than 100 new laws, from one requiring baby-changing tables to one making bestiality a crime, take effect Sunday.

Among the measures coming on the books are Assembly Bill 97, which requires law enforcement agencies to submit rape kits for testing within 30 days, and Assembly Bill 150, revising the qualifications a person needs to serve as a private professional guardian. The laws were passed by the 2017 Legislature.

Nevada has a years-long rape kit backlog.

Assembly Bill 241, the baby-changing bill, was co-sponsored by Assemblyman Justin Watkins, D-Las Vegas, who said during the session that such changing tables are typically not provided in men’s restrooms.

Penalties for bestiality under Assembly Bill 391 include removal of a person’s animals, a prohibition on working in jobs around animals, and a mental health evaluation.

Senate Bill 253 establishes the Nevada Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act to provide protections to female employees and applicants for employment.

Section 1 of Senate Bill 344, regulating edible marijuana products, also takes effect Sunday. The bill prohibits production of such a product in any form that is or appears to be a lollipop or may appeal to children.

Senate Bill 541 adds prison time of one to 20 years for felonies against police officers, firefighters or emergency medical personnel acting in their normal course of duty.

Contact Sean Whaley at swhaley@reviewjournal.com or 775-461-3820. Follow @seanw801 on Twitter.