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NEW ORLEANS — April is Senior Hunger Awareness Month – a time to raise awareness about the unique challenges of senior food insecurity and the ways individuals and communities can help older adults access the food they need to stay healthy and strong.
In Louisiana, 23 percent of seniors, nearly one-in-four, face the threat of hunger. This ranks Louisiana as the second worst state for senior hunger. Seniors represent 25 percent of the individuals served by Second Harvest Food Bank annually.
“Many seniors live on a fixed income. They skip meals or choose between buying groceries or paying their rent or utility bills, or even medication,” said Natalie Jayroe, President and CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank. “This can create serious health implications,” she added.
Throughout April, Second Harvest Food Bank will host a community-wide food drive with a focus on non-perishable food items that support the nutrition needs of seniors who are at increased risk for chronic health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Items that are high in protein and low in sodium/salt and sugar are needed as well as easy to prepare foods/meals such as:
|Pop-top cans of meat (tuna and chicken)||Brown rice|
|Canned soups, stews, chili||Whole wheat pasta|
|Fruit cups or applesauce||Peanut butter and jelly|
|Dried fruits (raisins)||Juices|
|Dried beans, lentils, or peas||Powdered or shelf-stable milk|
|Tomato sauce/spaghetti sauce||Ensure and other shelf-stable nutritional drinks and supplements|
A complete list of most needed food donations can be found at: no-hunger.org/suggested-food-donations.
Food donations will be accepted at Second Harvest Food Bank at 700 Edwards Avenue in the Elmwood Warehouse District, Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. In addition, non-perishable food donations can be placed in red collection barrels inside any Rouses location.
Second Harvest Food Bank works year-round to remove barriers seniors face to accessing nutritious food. The Senior Café program prepares and distributes freshly made, wholesome meals daily to senior centers throughout Greater New Orleans. Moreover, the Second Harvest client services team works to close the hunger gap for seniors by connecting eligible seniors to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
“We all have a role to play to ensure that older adults have access to the food they need,” added Jayroe. “Senior Hunger Awareness Month is a call to action. Each of us can check on an elderly neighbor, parent or grandparent to assess if they are getting the proper nutrition they need to stay healthy.”
Together, we can fight senior hunger. Here ways individuals can help seniors who are food insecure:
- Prepare and deliver a healthy meal to a senior in need.
- Donate nutritious food items that seniors need to Second Harvest Bank or a local food pantry – items that are high in protein and low in sodium and sugar.
- Volunteer to sort and pack food boxes.
- Adopt a senior. Pick up and deliver food to a senior who is home bound or provide transportation to a nearby grocery or food pantry.
- Help a senior connect to ongoing food assistance – a local food pantry, SNAP benefits, or community programs like Meals on Wheels, Food For Seniors.
- Donate to Second Harvest Food Bank. For every dollar you donate, Second Harvest can provide 4 meals to a senior who is hungry.
To learn more about the State of Senior Hunger, visit www.feedingamerica.org/research/senior-hunger-research/senior. To learn more about volunteering or donating food or funds to Second Harvest Food Bank, visit www.no-hunger.org.

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text: In particular, when utilized in psoriatic arthropathy, they have been reported to induce pustular eruption (2), erythroderma (3) and pustular psoriasis (4). We report here a patient with psoriasis and subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) who was treated successfully with hydroxychloroquine. Drugs used in chloroquine resistant malaria Canc plaquenil give you ulcers Methotrexate can cause bone-marrow suppression as well as liver damage with long-term use, and regular monitoring of full blood testing, including liver function should be performed 3 or 6 monthly during therapy with methotrexate. Antimalarial medication such as hydroxychloroquine Plaquenil is also used for persistent psoriatic arthritis. The. Methotrexate, an immunosuppressive drug, is FDA-approved for treating psoriasis, and is used widely and successfully for treating psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. It can be effective at relieving the symptoms associated with psoriatic arthritis, and it may help prevent joint destruction. At the same time the psoriatic lesions became more inflamed and larger. Because of a positive rheumatoid test, she was diagnosed as having rheumatoid arthritis RA and given 7.5 mg/day prednisone and 10 mg/week methotrexate. The arthralgia improved, but the psoriatic lesions did not. CASE REPORT A 66-year-old woman had vitiligo for 40 years and psoriasis for 30 years with lesions localized on the extensory face of her elbows. A critical review of the literature casts some doubts on the contraindication of antimalarials in psoriasis. Methotrexate and plaquenil for psoriatic arthritis Methotrexate vs Plaquenil Comparison -, DMARDs & Psoriatic Arthritis National Psoriasis Foundation Chloroquine in vivoRa treatment plaquenilWhat people lose their hair when on plaquenilCan plaquenil help with hairloss In the randomized placebo-controlled trial, the Methotrexate in Psoriatic Arthritis trial MIPA, MTX was not effective overall for improving synovitis; however, there was significant efficacy in the patient and physician global assessments, and Psoriasis Area and Severity Index PASI scores at 6 months, and also efficacy for peripheral arthritis in subsets of patients with more polyarticular disease at enrollment Kingsley et al. 2012. Psoriatic arthritis latest treatments and their place in therapy. Hydroxychloroquine in Psoriasis Is it Really Harmful.. Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Options Johns Hopkins.. Results from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine have demonstrated that a combination of conventional DMARDs, an approach called “triple therapy” which includes methotrexate, sulfasalazine, and hydroxychloroquine, can provide significant benefits in patients with RA who have. Arthritis Foundation National Advocacy Board member and psoriatic arthritis warrior, Kevin Brennan wrote an article published in the Washington Post and was also featured in an interview on NPR’s All Things Considered, to raise awareness about those living with immunosuppression and the coronavirus – COVID-19. Methotrexate MTX is now the most popular drug worldwide for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Low-dose, weekly MTX 10 to 25 mg/wk used as either monotherapy or in combination with other drugs has a superior efficacy profile as defined in placebo-controlled trials and comparable efficacy to other drugs including anti-TNF therapy.

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Wilson was chosen by the Bogus board of directors, who said they interviewed candidates from around the U.S. and around the world.
Wilson has more than 30 years of experience in management, marketing, sales, and master planning within the ski and hospitality industry, resort officials said in a prepared release. He worked as general manager of Diamond Peak Ski Resort at Lake Tahoe, as president and COO of Catalina Island Resort Services, director of marketing at Alpine Meadows, assistant general manager at Mountain High Resort, and in lead marketing roles at Sugarbush, Bear Mountain, and Brian Head resorts.
Bogus, located about 16 miles north of Boise, is a nonprofit ski and recreation area that has been operating since 1942. It has 2,600 acres of skiable terrain and a vertical rise of 1,800 feet. The ski area has three detachable high-speed quads, one triple chair, three double chairs, and two people movers.

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RALEIGH — Late but enthusiastic, winter is due to arrive in the Triangle on Monday night and take temperatures into the teens by Wednesday morning.
The National Weather Service says an arctic cold front will cross the state Monday night, bringing brisk northwest winds and below-normal temperatures.
“We’ve got some very cold air headed in over the next couple of days,” WTVD meteorologist Don Schwenneker said.
Temperatures will drop into the upper 20s by Tuesday morning and rebound no higher than the upper 30s. The coldest morning will be Wednesday, with temperatures dropping into the upper teens – cold but not near Wednesday’s record low of 8 degrees.
The cold air will stick around a while. Forecasters don’t expect temperatures to reach 50 at all this week, with overnight lows dipping to freezing or below.
Normal highs for this time of the month are a high of about 51 degrees and overnight lows at or just below freezing.


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Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series acts revealed
Acts for the 6-8:30 p.m. Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series free performances have been released.
All-female mariachi band Mariachi Flor De Toloache will open the series on June 16 with its take on traditional Mexican music. Opening act DJ Kidd Nems with Tim Dolfin will spin pop tunes.
World music performer Samite will headline June 23 with vocals and flutes. The Ragbirds will open with a hybrid of indie-pop melodies and global rhythms.
Scythian will play immigrant rock on June 30, throwing in Celtic rock, folk, gypsy and Americana. The Wild Reeds, an indie-folk band known for its harmonies, will open.
The Main Squeeze will blend funk, soul and rock ‘n’ roll on July 7. Zach Vinson will warm up the evening with his pop sensibilities and lyrics.
Bluegrass will be served up on July 28 by the Travelin’ McCourys. Sheboygan band Deadwood Chop will warm up the stage with Americana/bluegrass.
Nashville singer/songwriter Sierra Hull will headline the Aug. 4 show with her mandolin-infused bluegrass. Andi and Alex, the Green Bay twins known for their performances on “The Voice,” will open.
Rebirth Brass Band will serve up brass infused with funk and hip-hop on Aug. 11. American-roots folk singer/songwriter Tim Grimm will open.
Six-time Chicago Music Awards winner Funkadesi will combine cultural and musical styles to create a one-world sound and positive vibes on Aug. 18.
Food and beverages will be available at the concert site - the John Michael Kohler Arts Center - along with food trucks. For more information call 920-458-6144, email email@example.com or visit www.jmkac.org.
Joey Spyder to sign books
Joey Spyder, a resident of Fond du Lac, will sign copies of his book “Tammi the Treefrog” from 1-3 p.m. on May 28 at Book World, 3347 Kohler Memorial Dr., Sheboygan.
After hearing from her friend Sammi that there’s an entire field of her favorite flowers, the book follows Tammi embarking on a journey to discover where the field is.

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Storytelling is a powerful and captivating art form that has been passed down through generations and cultures, captivating listeners and readers for centuries. It is the art of conveying a narrative, often through spoken word or written text, with the purpose of entertaining, educating, or inspiring an audience. Storytelling has roots dating back to ancient times, evolving as a fundamental means of communication and cultural preservation.
The history of storytelling can be traced back to early human civilizations where stories were shared around campfires. These narratives were vital for passing down knowledge, traditions, and history from one generation to the next. Oral storytelling played a significant role during this era, as it relied solely on the power of human memory and imaginative storytelling techniques. Ancient epics like the “Epic of Gilgamesh” from Mesopotamia or the “Iliad” and “Odyssey” from Ancient Greece are prime examples of storytelling traditions that have endured throughout history.
As civilizations progressed, writing systems emerged, allowing for the preservation of stories and the dissemination of these narratives to a broader audience. Written texts provided a new dimension to storytelling, enabling narratives to endure beyond the limitations of oral tradition. This led to the creation of various literary genres and the rise of renowned storytelling traditions, such as fables, mythology, and fairy tales.
Three core elements define the art of storytelling:
- Narrative Structure: Storytelling relies on a well-structured narrative, often following a beginning, middle, and end pattern. A compelling story engages the audience by introducing relatable characters, establishing a setting, presenting a conflict or problem, and finally resolving it, creating a satisfying conclusion.
- Emotion and Imagination: Storytelling has the power to evoke strong emotions and stimulates the imagination of its audience. It captivates listeners or readers by transporting them to different worlds, allowing them to empathize with characters and experience a wide range of emotions, from joy to sadness or fear.
- Connection and Meaning: Storytelling serves as a means of connecting individuals, communities, and cultures. It provides a shared experience and creates a sense of belonging by highlighting universal themes, moral lessons, or societal values. Stories often hold deeper meanings and help us understand the world around us by shedding light on fundamental human experiences and dilemmas.
In today’s digital age, storytelling has expanded its reach through various mediums, including books, films, podcasts, and social media platforms. While the methods of storytelling may have evolved, its essence remains the same – to ignite the imagination, evoke emotions, and connect people through the art of narrative.

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Princeton Forrestal Village was built in 1986 to resemble, no surprise here, a village. Despite its main street and central square with tree-lined pedestrian walkways connecting restaurants, retail, and office space, the village has never had residents. The newest development proposal for the complex, reviewed at the Plainsboro Planning Board Meeting on June 16, aims to change that. Three amenity-rich apartment buildings may replace existing parking bordering College Road West near Seminary Drive. The housing is intended to create a true village environment where one can live, right alongside work and play.
“There are a lot of open gathering spaces in Princeton Forrestal Village, but it’s not animated enough once all the stores close. We don’t have much activity outside the nine to five work day,” says Robert Schenkel, senior director of development at Lincoln Equities Group, the current co-owner and developer of the Village.
The property has switched owners frequently — the most recent in 2011, when Lincoln Equities Group in Rutherford and Bahrain-based Investcorp Real Estate partnered to buy the property, determined to turn the center into a successful multi-use complex.
Inspired by the relocation of the University Medical Center of Princeton to Plainsboro, the new owners introduced medical offices to the village in 2012. In addition to new surgical centers and outpatient clinics, the complex also includes Can Do fitness, a Westin hotel, retail stores, and restaurants. The village also began hosting a farmer’s market in the plaza on Fridays.
The estimated $25 million development project plans to build 394 luxury residential units of which 50 will be affordable rate units. More than half, or 54 percent, will be one-bedroom units, while 41 percent will be two-bedroom, with the remaining reserved as studios. The units will range from 750 to 1,050 square feet.
While Plainsboro already has a sizable cluster of apartment developments off of Plainsboro Road, Schenkel — trained as an architect — says those “garden-style” family apartments, characterized by their low-rise structure and surrounding landscaped grounds, are “rudimentary and pretty simple.”
According to Schenkel, the proposed three to four-story “hospitality-style” apartments will have upscale finishes with elevators and amenities — more akin to an urban hotel than a suburban apartment.
Both Schenkel and Lester Varga, Plainsboro Township’s director of planning and zoning, cite boosting retail as the chief motive behind this proposal. “Princeton Forrestal Village is isolated from Route 1 traffic; you really have to want to go there to visit. In order for neighborhood retail to be more successful, we need residential development to create built in, on-site customer demand,” says Schenkel. The June 16 presentation “was our first formal meeting with the planning board,” says Schenkel, “though we’ve been working with the township for almost two years in order to create this mutually beneficial proposal.” Schenkel hopes to receive approval by the end of this year, with construction anticipated as early as next summer.
Varga says the presentation created by the architects from Minno & Wasko was well received. The Lambertville-based architecture firm has done previous residential work in downtown Princeton, including the Residences at Palmer Square and the Witherspoon House, an apartment building next to Princeton Public Library. The proposed Forrestal Village development is similar to the Palmer Square residences in its enclosed parking design. However, one major difference between the two is that none of the Forrestal Village apartments will be for sale. Real estate brokers have noted that the Palmer Square apartment leases went quickly, while condominium sales lagged behind.
According to Varga, the architect has been working to blend the apartment buildings in seamlessly with the surrounding architecture using extensive brick work.
“The best thing I can say about the plan is you can’t see the parking from the main road [College Road West]. It’s not underground but tucked into the buildings themselves. It’s unique,” says Varga.
Unlike Windrows, the residential community directly across College Road West, the Princeton Forrestal Village apartments will not be age-restricted.
As for the target tenant market, Schenkel says, the apartments are designed with young professionals, rather than young families, in mind. The residential development is expected to attract hospital employees, given the nearby opening of the University Medical Center of Princeton’s hospital. According to Schenkel, there is a growing trend of young professionals seeking urban-type living, something in limited supply in the Plainsboro area. “Empty-nesters” who wish to remain close to friends and relatives but no longer need a large home may also find it convenient to move into this pedestrian-centered neighborhood.
Because the luxury apartments are not aimed at families with school-age children, Schenkel says the residential complex could be a source of property tax income for Plainsboro Township.
Varga, however, believes the residential area will “be property-tax neutral”; though these new residents won’t be straining the public school budget, they will be consuming costly local services, such as police patrols, firefighter calls, and postal deliveries. Besides supporting commerce in the Village, Varga says the proposed development’s primary contribution to the township will be maintaining Plainsboro’s variety of housing options, not generating township revenue.
Although a few Windrows residents were in audience at the June 16 board meeting, Varga says there was no opposition during the concept plan review. “It’s hard to say if it [their presence] was out of curiosity or to confirm what they’ve been told in private meetings with the developer,” says Varga, “but the presentation went very well.” Schenkel says the proposed development will benefit Windrows residents by “connecting communities in a pedestrian experience that doesn’t always exist in suburban New Jersey.”
This will be an innovative real estate venture for the Plainsboro area, says Schenkel. “These apartments are at a higher price point but will be of very high quality. It’ll be an example of very upscale development. Though there are some examples of this in areas around Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, there really isn’t anything like this in the region.”

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January 30, 2017
CUA 2017-02 Underwriting Requirement Changes and New Credit Union Underwriting Manual—Effective March 1, 2017
Effective March 1, 2017, Arch MI and United Guaranty will combine their underwriting requirements into a single Credit Union Underwriting Manual (the Manual) to be used by all customers.
In comparison to United Guaranty’s current Credit Union Guide, the new Manual will have expansions to the underwriting requirements in many areas. One underwriting requirement change requires a 30-day notice per the terms of the Master Policy. This document serves as that notice.
The following is a list of underwriting requirements being changed in the Credit Union Underwriting Manual effective March 1, 2017:
Underwriting Requirement Expansions:
The following areas have underwriting requirement expansions (specific details will be described in a future customer announcement as we get closer to the effective date).
CU SwiftClose® and Standard Requirements:
- Credit requirements.
- Subordinate financing requirements.
- Property types allowed.
- Number of loans insured per member.
Additional Standard Requirements:
- Loan amounts for full-file submissions.
- LTV/Loan Amount/Credit Score/DTI requirements for delegated submissions.
- Jumbo loan requirements.
- Gifts used to satisfy minimum member contribution.
- Asset requirements.
- Valid credit score requirements.
- Occupancy requirements.
Underwriting Requirement Changes Requiring a 30-Day Notice:
- "Attorney" will no longer be an eligible profession under the Professional Program effective March 1, 2017.
Please contact your Arch MI Account Executive if you have questions about this announcement.
© 2017 Arch Mortgage Insurance Company. “Arch MI” is a marketing term for Arch Mortgage Insurance Company and Arch Mortgage Guaranty Company. “United Guaranty” is a marketing term for United Guaranty Residential Insurance Company and United Guaranty Mortgage Indemnity Company (coverage from United Guaranty is available through admitted company only). SecureCert is a registered mark. Desktop Underwriter and DU are marks of Fannie Mae.

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With many research labs and universities closed indefinitely, roboticists around the world are separated from the physical hardware and environments that they need for developing, testing, and deploying autonomous machines. Now more than ever, better simulation tools can help keep vital efforts in robotics and automation moving forward.
This Robotics Experience presents the NVIDIA Isaac Sim simulation toolkit within Omniverse Kit. Building Isaac Sim into the Omniverse platform brings several useful improvements over existing robotics workflows.
Here’s a closer look at the previews and example code included within this release.
Read the full tutorial on the NVIDIA Developer Blog.


Containing the Atom
Rudolf Avenhaus, Viktor Aleksandrovich Kremeni͡uk, Gunnar Sjöstedt
Lexington Books, Jan 1, 2002 - Political Science - 440 pages
Containing the Atom, the product of three years of research by the members of the Processes of International Negotiations (PIN) network, is a comprehensive study of the theory and practice of international nuclear negotiations. Well-known experts in the field test eleven cases of international nuclear negotations covering: strategic arms control; Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; Nuclear Weapons Free Zones; Non-Proliferation Treaty and its Review Conference; Nuclear Materials removed from the defense weapons programs; Nuclear diplomacy with North Korea; Nuclear risks in the Barents region; Nuclear safety; French-Japanese nuclear negotiations; and the nuclear plant perspective on negotiations. Each case study analyzes the actors, strategies, processes, structures, and outcomes and weighs the impact of the negotiations on security, energy, trade, and the environment.
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One person is dead after a fatal accident early Friday morning in Berrien County.
It happened around 5:30 Friday morning on US 12 between Red Bud Trail and Mayflower in Bertrand Township.
According to the Berrien County Sheriff's Department, a 28-year-old man from Klamath Falls, Oregon was driving a pickup truck westbound. He crossed the center line and struck an eastbound car driven by Lorelei Kickels of Dowagiac, Mich. Kickels was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the pickup sustained serious injuries and was taken to the hospital.
A motorcycle was unable to stop and avoid the two vehicles in the roadway. The driver of the motorcycle was also taken to the hospital.
The Berrien County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate the cause of the crash. Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor.
US 12 was closed for nearly four hours while officials investigated the crash and crews cleared the road.


Al Franken announced today that “in the coming weeks” he will resign his seat in the U.S. Senate. Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, was the subject of a series of allegations of sexual harassment and improper conduct, and ultimately members of his own party decided it was time for him to go.
Why Franken will leave “in the coming weeks” rather than immediately isn’t entirely clear — but apparently part of the Senatorial prerogative is deciding when your resignation will actually take effect. In any case, Franken is one of three members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, to announce during this week alone that he is resigning in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.
When I heard that Franken had finally bowed to the inevitable and decided to resign, I thought about the fact that I saw him on the Bill Maher show only recently, when he was riding high and touting his new book, called Giant of the Senate. I’ve seen the book prominently displayed in the local library during a recent visit before the allegations and the appalling photo first hit the news. Franken being Franken, no doubt the book title was in large part tongue in cheek — but still the juxtaposition of the book title and its cover illustration with Franken’s rapid downfall and humiliating resignation suggests a valuable lesson. Hubris, even partly tongue in cheek hubris, is just begging to be brought low.
You can probably buy Franken’s book at a discount these days.


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OTTAWA, May 1 (CGTN) - Canada has banned military 'assault-style' weapons following the country's deadliest mass shooting which left 22 people dead, Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau announced.
"These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada," said Trudeau. "Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country."
The ban includes 1,500 types of firearms which licensed gun owners will no longer be allowed to sell, transport, import or use in Canada. Gun owners will be given a two-year amnesty period to comply with the ban and should expect some legislation to be passed in the coming months to provide "fair compensation" to anyone giving up any of these firearms, Trudeau said.
The ban comes after officials say a Nova Scotia gunman, identified as Gabriel Wortman allegedly targeted a former partner in a killing spree. Dressed as a Canadian police officer, the 51-year-old man was armed with two semi-automatic rifles and several semi-automatic pistols, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. One of the weapons was described as a 'military-style assault rifle.' Wortman was shot dead after leading Canadian authorities on a nearly 12 hour and 50-miles-long manhunt.
Canada has one of the highest rates of gun ownership on Earth, and a poll released Friday showed nearly four out of five Canadians support the ban.
Some opponents say the ban will not help keep Canadians safe and question how it will protect citizens from firearms bought illegally. The Nova Scotia shooter did not have permits for his firearms, and its believed they were bought illegally in Canada and the U.S.

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Balsam Abdulghani, Tuomo Helo
Randy Connolly; Ricardo Hoar - FUNDAMENTALS of WEB DEVELOPMENT - 1'st edition or later.
The course consists of exercises, and Project work (group work).
These are practiced individually and with the teacher help in the computer class room.
Each session begins with an introduction to the topic of the week, which includes examples and lecture slides. In addition, students have a weekly task to do.
Weekly exercises 70% (maximum grade 3)
Project group work 30% (maximum grade 2)
07.01.2019 - 30.04.2019
03.12.2018 - 13.01.2019
Engineering and Business
After completing the course the student is able to:
• Understanding of world wide web architecture
• Write well structured, easily maintained, HTML code
• Write well structured, easily maintained, CSS code
• Write well structured, easily maintained, PHP code
We need XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment for practical training, which needs installation on the personal computer, USB memory stick (mobility between school and home), and/or on the personal profile in TUAS domain (computer class room).
In addition, we use WordPress for the Project work.
Degree Programme in Information and Communication Technology
Participation in the class room teaching is highly recommended, but not compulsory, which allows working remotely.
Learning by doing, trial-error, listening and collaborating with peers.
Participating weekly in the computer classroom 30h
Individual work for exercises 70h
Project group work 30h
Weekly meetings in the computer class room between weeks 2-16.


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06 Feb 7 Easy Ways to Give Your Eyes a Rest
In today’s day and age, our lives revolve around digital screens. We are constantly streaming, scrolling, swiping and typing. Studies have shown most adults now spend over two hours each day looking at a digital screen. Prolonged near work, such as computer use, reading, using hand-held electronic devices, or even doing homework will stress our eyes’ focusing system.
This stress has been shown to be a factor in stimulating our eyes to grow longer, especially in children, thus triggering near-sightedness. Follow the guidelines below for reducing visual stress and fatigue. Do you often experience any of the symptoms listed below?
- Pain in or around the eyes
- Blurred , and dimmed vision
- Double vision
Smart Habits for Your Eyes
Follow these simple steps you can do every day to start reducing the impact of prolonged near work.
- Make sure viewing distance is not too close. Reading, writing or near-work is best performed at a distance equal to the length between the knuckles and the elbows known as the Harmon distance.
- Take frequent breaks with prolonged close-up work. In the digital age, you stare at screens more than ever. This means you may blink up to 66% less, which contributes to dryness. Refer to the 20/20/20 Rule. Rest your eyes every 20 minutes, look out in the distance 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
- Adjusting your screen. Change your screen settings by dimming the background and increasing text size.
- Utilize proper lighting. Illuminate the entire area using overhead/full-room lighting. In order to avoid glare, the best light source should be coming from behind, over one’s shoulder if possible.
- Strive for adequate posture and positioning. Maintain an upright position with the book inclined at an angle of about 20 degrees. Avoid reading while lying on the back, side or stomach in the bed or on the floor.
- Avoid sitting too close to the TV. Maintain a distance of 6 to 8 feet from the television. Have indirect lamps on inside of the room.
- Always stay active. Participate in outdoor activities that require seeing beyond arm’s length.
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Wavelength and flatfield calibration is obtained using the GCAL, the facility calibration unit. Baseline calibrations will be obtained for all observations, queue and classical. Additional calibrations must be requested as part of your program.
For all queue observations a set of standard calibrations (the "baseline calibrations"), shown in the tables below, will be taken by Gemini Staff to ensure the long-term utility of data in the archive. The baseline calibration set varies from instrument to instrument and from mode to mode. Baseline calibration data may be shared between programs and will be distributed to the users as part of their dataset.
Any time used between the hours of nautical sunset and sunrise to obtain baseline calibrations will not be explicitly charged to the program but will be charged to the partner country whose NTAC recommended time (i.e. it is part of the time accounting used to balance partner usage). The time will be charged in proportion to the number of programs that receive the calibration data. Any time required for additional calibrations requested by the PI will be charged to that particular program. All calibration data are available through the Gemini Observatory Archive.
The time required for any nighttime baseline calibrations has to be included in the "Total Time" requested during Phase I. The required "Night Basecal Time" per observation is automatically calculated by the Phase I Tool (PIT). If additional calibrations are deemed necessary by applicants, for example to achieve a precision beyond that achievable via the baseline set, then these must be included explicitly as part of the Phase I proposal and Phase II science program, as nighttime partner, or program calibrations. Note that all calibrations must be included in the Phase II science program.
|Bias levels||Bias images are taken during the day in all modes used for science and calibrations, and are used fur bias subtraction.|
|Bad pixel mask||New bad pixel masks are derived using dome flats, and bias images each semester.|
|Flat field corrections||Dome flats are taken in the respective resolution and read modes of science during the day using a 100W lamp. All dome flat-field observations are taken in dual target mode, with the two IFUs illuminated evenly. These are sufficent to reduce single target observations taken in matching instrument modes.|
|Wavelength calibration||Wavelength calibration is conducted using arc exposures taken during the day with a ThAr lamp in the respective resolution and read modes to match science. There is minimal flexure in the Cassegrain unit, and no nighttime arcs images are taken. All arc lamp images are taken in dual target mode, with the two IFUs illuminated evenly. These are sufficent to reduce single target observations taken in matching instrument modes.|
|Twilight flats||Twilight flats, to define the slit illumination function need to be defined and requested by the PI. A twilight flat in each resolution mode, will be obtained once per semester. Twilight flats are considered baseline calibrations and are not charged to the program.|
|Internal flats||Internal flats mixed with night time science observations, taken using the 100W lamp in the position of the IFUs for science are not taken as part of the baseline calbration program. Such observations, if desired by the PI must be requested as part of nighttime partner calibration.|
|Radial velocity standards||Radial velocity standards are observed as part of the instrument monitoring program, but are not guaranteed to be obtained during the same nights as the science observations of a program. If required for science, please include a chosen radial velocity standard as part of your time request, as nighttime partner calibration. This will be taken in conjunction with your science.|
|Telluric standards||Wavelength longward of 700nm are contaminated by telluric lines. If your science region of interest requires accurate telluric subtraction, please include a telluric standard closely matching the airmass of your target, so that it can be scheduled before or after the science observation in your time request. These observations are taken as part of the nighttime partner calibrations.|
|Spectrophotometric standards||Given the aperture limit and the fiber relay, absolute spectrophotometric calibration is not possible unless taken in seeing limited clear conditions. Although spectrophotometric standards are taken as part of the regular instrument monitoring program. These observations are not guaranteed to be obtained during the same nights as the science observations for the program. If absolute flux calibration is required for science, please include a chosen spectrophotometric standard in your time request, which will be charged to the nighttime program calibration. This will be taken in conjunction with your science.|
Observations of spectrophotometric standard stars are required in order for spectra obtained to be flux-calibrated. For spectra at wavelength longwards of about 680nm, calibration spectra of hot stars are needed if cancellation of telluric features in the spectrum is required.
Spectrophotometric standard stars for performance monitoring are chosen from the sources listed in the following table, and include the HST white dwarf primary standards, and Hamuy standards. If you require an additional standard star not present in this list, please let us know.
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|Hamuy et al. (1994, PASP, 106, 566)||-68 deg to +11 deg||330-1030 nm||5 nm|
|Bohlin et al. (1995, AJ, 110, 1316)||+15 deg to +52 deg||100-30000 nm||0.06 nm|
Observers interested in features in the red part of the spectrum, may benefit from telluric corrections depending on the wavelengths of the lines of interest. The selection of a telluric standard depends on the science spectrum, and an appropriate standard may be found here. The telluric standard should match closely the airmass of the target during observations, and is usually taken before the science spectra. Early type stars are preferred, however these have broad lines that needs to be subtracted. Instead, users may also use solar type stars for telluric correction to avoid introducing noise if those are the regions of interest.


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This is just a starting "Think" as to exactly how a lunar eclipse would certainly work with the level earth version. Traffic signal makes far more sense than a rd darkness since a red shadow has not been demonstrated by scientific research. The moon is a light which the moon certainly passes through or behind some kind of membrane when we. 28/08/2017 · This was the true solar eclipse viewed in totality at the flat earth society convention. The flat earth society is a large organization with members all arou. 22/08/2017 · These groups of flat Earthers believed that the solar eclipse would be the final exclamation mark in proving the Earth is flat. Most flat Earthers agreed, something fishy is going on during a solar eclipse and the way media and science are portraying it, leaving them a chance to unveil the truth. Total eclipse of the brain Why the 2017 solar eclipse proves the earth is not flat. by Robert Carter. Published: 19 August 2017 GMT10 The Great American Eclipse of 2017 is already one of the most talked-about scientific events of recent memory, and it hasn’t even happened yet.
21/01/2019 · According to a post by the Flat Earth Society, the Shadow Object is orbiting the Sun at an angle of 5°10’. If you’re wondering where that number comes from, that’s the angle between the orbital plane of the Earth and the orbital plane of the Moon. 19/08/2017 · And yet, for a small group of people, the total solar eclipse isn't a natural phenomenon caused by the rotation of the Earth, the sun and the moon. Rather, for the Flat Earth truthers out there, the eclipse is proof that our planet is flat. Of course it is not, and how exactly this eclipse proves their theory is a confusing tale. 21/08/2017 · What Flat Earthers Are Saying About the Total Solar Eclipse It's rare moment of agreement. By Peter Hess on August 21, 2017. Filed Under Astronomy, Conspiracy Theories, Eclipse, NASA & Twitter. A s the Great American Eclipse of 2017 makes its way across the. but the official account of the Flat Earth Society snapped back to put. 21/08/2017 · While you might think that an event like the eclipse would easily disprove the Flat Earth theory, that isn't the case at all. A solar eclipse fits well into the plan. Plenty of people are online discussing the possibility of a Flat Earth. Many are curious about the theory and want to know more, and. 21/08/2017 · So the heliocentrist spherical earth scientists are predicting a solar eclipse on August 21st in 2017. They have calculated the locations across the world where a full eclipse will be visible and the timing in those locations down to the second.
There are also understandably lots of people online who mock and ridicule the flat earth society. Some of it may be from people finding out about it and surprised it exists. There are also online groups who are known to mock the flat earth society, like the dinosaur earth society or donut earth society. Our beautiful flat earth caught on camera from a high altitude balloon during the eclipse takes place. At this altitude, we should witness a big curve, but we don't. Awesome footage anyway, enjoy! Have a.
12/08/2017 · Another, more controversial community believes the upcoming eclipse could provide overwhelming evidence to support their cause. These people are flat Earthers, and they believe the solar eclipse will prove once and for all the Earth is not a sphere. I spoke with four flat-Earth truthers about the 2017 solar eclipse. 30/05/2017 · Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat. Walking around on the planet's surface, it looks and feels flat, so they deem all evidence to the contrary, such as satellite photos of Earth as a sphere, to be fabrications of a "round Earth conspiracy" orchestrated by NASA and other government agencies.
I’ll copy my answer from a similar question: How do flat earthers explain eclipses of the sun and moon, especially why the moon's shadow takes the exact path it does? Thank you for the A2A! Since no FE has actually replied to the question, I’ll he. Anyway, about the eclipse: Flat Earth folks are convinced that this will help prove flat Earth because "there's no way" the globe model could have the shadow move from west to east. The reason being that the Earth turns once per day, while the Moon takes 29.5 days synodic month: new Moon to new Moon to make one circuit. 14/12/2019 · This is the forum of the world-famous Flat Earth Society, a place for free thinkers and the intellectual exchange of ideas. 28/11/2017 · The belief that the world is flat has kind of been around forever, but it picked up steam in 2015 with a rash of online communities, YouTube videos, podcasts, and even songs preaching the gospel. At some point, Kyrie Irving of the Boston Celtics started talking about it too, which really seemed to blow the lid off the heliocentric model. 18/08/2017 · The official NASA explanation of a Solar Eclipse is that the moon passes directly between the sun and the earth blocking the sun's light, creating a total solar eclipse on the earth for those directly in the shadow path. There are several problems with this explanation.The first main problem with the globe model is that.
20/12/2017 · 8 Times Flat-Earthers Tried to Challenge Science and Failed in 2017. Flat-Earthers used the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse that crossed the contiguous United States as "evidence" of their beliefs. Why does the Flat Earth Society believe in direct observations of Mars' roundness but not Earth. Members of the Flat Earth Society and other flat-Earthers claim that NASA and other government agencies conspire to delude the public into believing the Earth is spherical. According to the most widely spread version of current flat Earth theory, NASA is guarding the Antarctic ice wall that surrounds Earth.
21/08/2017 · Other Flat-Earthers suggested the eastward movement of the eclipse across the continent was evidence that the Earth doesn’t actually rotate. That would prove one of the tenets of most Flat Earth theories — that the Earth is a stationary disc with a similar-sized sun and moon rotating above it. 09/12/2017 · Hello Flat Earthers, This is my first video in English, with Indonesian subtitles, plus English CC if my voice is not clear. In this episode, I collaborated with so many people from Flat Earth 101 Community to perform many experiments using 2D, 3D and real life scale model. 05/04/2019 · The evidently displeased Flat Earth Society called SpaceX “FakeX.” 7 They Claim Solar Eclipses Prove The Earth Is Flat. Solar eclipses are a definitive piece of evidence that the Earth is round. Every part of the world facing the Sun would see a solar eclipse at the same time if the.
In reality, the moon and sun are said to be 30 miles in diameter over the flat earth., You would, however, still be able to see the sunlight as it travels around the flat earth. So, my video shows: Every 28 days: 1. the sun circles the earth 28 times, and. 2. the moon circles the earth only 27 times. 22/01/2019 · Clearly The Flat Earth Society's explanation of the lunar eclipse is flat-out wrong. You can read more about the amazing math and physics of lunar and solar eclipses here. And don't worry if you missed the Super Blood Wolf Moon; here's when the next eclipses will occur. So from what i understand, flat earthers who believe in the firmament think of it as being a solid transparent dome above the flat earth, and that the reason why the sky appears blue is because there’s water above the transparent firmament. This water is the water of “The Great Deep” according to their idea of Biblical cosmology. Welcome to the Flat Earth Wiki, otherwise known as The FEW - a collaborative resource maintained by the Flat Earth Society! This website is dedicated to unravelling the true mysteries of the universe and demonstrating that the earth is flat and that Round Earth doctrine is little more than an elaborate hoax. 24/06/2018 · Just found this gem of a video asking all the right questions on Youtube Maybe the FES could answer a few.
02/11/2016 · Are there any FEers on this site who are able to explain in their own words how a lunar eclipse is explained on the Flat Earth? I am very interested in having an actual discussion about this. 26/08/2017 · Can you just get to how the eclipse proves them right? Alright, let’s jump right into it, then. The flat-Eathers first argument is that if the Earth is truly rotating from west to east, the shadow of the eclipse should have passed across Earth’s surface from. 24/01/2019 · According to The Flat Earth Society, this elusive object is a satellite of the sun and gives rise to a lunar eclipse roughly twice a year. A round Earth, they say, on the other hand, plays no role in the phenomenon – as made apparent by the reddish hue lunar eclipses have become known for.
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After years of rumors, it seems that in the coming week or so, OnePlus will be officially taking the wraps off its upcoming tablet, the OnePlus Pad. We’ve been seeing leaked renders in the past month or so, and now thanks to a tweet by Abhishek Yadav, the potential specs of the tablet have been revealed.
According to the tweet, the OnePlus Pad is expected to come with an 11.6-inch 2.8K LCD screen, and while we’re sure many would have preferred OLED, the upside is that it will sport a 144Hz refresh rate, making it faster than a lot of other smartphones and tablets out there.
OnePlus Pad specifications.
– 11.6" 2.8K LCD display with 144Hz refresh rate, HDR 10+ and dolby vision
– Mediatek dimensity 9000 chipset
– 13MP rear camera
– 8MP front camera
– 9500mAh battery 67 watt charging
– Stylus support#OnePlus #OnePlusPad pic.twitter.com/LgdgqhyWu8
— Abhishek Yadav (@yabhishekhd) February 6, 2023
It will also support HDR10+ and Dolby Vision to top things off. As for the hardware under the hood, the OnePlus Pad is rumored to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset. It will also feature a 13MP rear-facing camera, an 8MP front-facing camera, and there will also be support for a stylus.
Also, based on the leaked renders, it looks like there might be an accompanying keyboard accessory. It will also come with a 9,500mAh battery with support for 67W charging. We’re not sure how long this is supposed to last since it will depend on the optimization of the software, but 9,500mAh is pretty huge. There is also no mention of pricing, but hopefully OnePlus will have more details come 11th of February.


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We are delighted to announce that Amanda Weston QC of Garden Court Chambers has been shortlisted for Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year by the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards 2021.
Chambers Bar Award finalists are selected through extensive objective research by Chambers & Partners to identify barristers at the pinnacle of their profession, including outstanding work and excellence in client service.
Amanda is a leading silk in administrative and public law with 25 years' experience in judicial review at all levels including the Supreme Court.
Substantive areas of her public law practice include community care, mental health and mental capacity, immigration and nationality, unlawful detention, trafficking, national security measures such as deprivation of citizenship, prison law, criminal and coronial procedure and children’s rights.
She is an elected member of the Executive of the Bar Human Rights Committee engaged in promoting and protecting human rights internationally and is on the ‘A’ Panel of Counsel approved to represent the Equality & Human Rights Commission.
The themes of human rights, discrimination and civil liberties established by the common law run through her work.
The breadth of her expertise can be seen from her recent Supreme Court cases. They include ‘Re T’ concerning the limits on the use of the court’s inherent jurisdiction to authorise a deprivation of liberty of a teenager at risk of harm, ‘SM (Rwanda)’ concerning the legal effect of defective bail order and ‘VC’ in which the Secretary of State for the Home Department conceded breaches of article 3 in her treatment of a mentally disordered detainee.
Her clients include individuals, charities, NGOs and local authorities and she has extensive experience in systemic and public interest judicial review, cost-capping orders, closed material procedures and interventions.
She writes, teaches and trains other lawyers on the cutting-edge of public law, human rights and discrimination, coaches and mentors the next generation and is committed to an inclusive Bar and access to justice for all. She is the co-author of Judicial Review: A Practical Guide (Lexis Nexis).


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Scientists at Harvard School of Public Health with others have determined that the existence in the blood stream of a fat (trans-palmitoleic acid) found in milk, cheese, yogurt and butter (but not produced by the body) is associated with a significantly lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and healthier levels of cholesterol.
Per the article:
"At baseline, higher circulating levels of trans-palmitoleic acid were associated with healthier levels of blood cholesterol, inflammatory markers, insulin levels, and insulin sensitivity, after adjustment for other risk factors. During follow-up, individuals with higher circulating levels of trans-palmitoleic acid had a much lower risk of developing diabetes, with about a 60% lower risk among participants in the highest quintile (fifth) of trans-palmitoleic acid levels, compared to individuals in the lowest quintile."
"In contrast to the types of industrially produced trans fats found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, which have been linked to higher risk of heart disease, trans-palmitoleic acid is almost exclusively found in naturally-occurring dairy and meat trans fats, which in prior studies have not been linked to higher heart disease risk."
The researchers have cautioned that confirmation studies are in order but the results of the current study have been published in the 12-21-10 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
I didn't know that previous studies showed no link between the fat in dairy products and heart desease. Although I love cheese I have not been eating it because I thought it would contribute to the development of heart desease. Especially with the positive correlation between trans-palmitoleic acid (that I can only get by injestion) and lower risk of developing diabetes I think I can now partake of cheese el al of dairy without a guilty conscience.
I would think that if any dairy would be problem with diabetes, it would be milk. Milk has a fair amount of sugar, in the form of sucrose, in it - 11g of of it per serving.
Oh well, I'll add this article to my list of articles that are in firm support of dairy, especially milk. Outside of beer, nothing beats milk, which is why I drink 4-5 servings a day. Well, coffee comes close....


The Flyers won their game against the Capitals yesterday and maybe we can say that the game was fun. It depends on your definition of fun, I guess. It was pretty wide open and there was a whole lot of scoring, which was fun. But that also means that there were certainly stretches where the Flyers’ defense, well, sort of forgot what defense even looked like, which was decidedly less fun for us to watch (and probably even less fun for Carter Hart to live out).
We know that the Flyers’ defensive situation this season has been, tenuous, to say the least, and yesterday was more of the same, further exacerbated by the absence of Travis Sanheim. And the bad news is that, with Sanheim being added to the NHL’s COVID Protocol list last night, it looks like his absence is going to be a lingering one, which means the Flyers will have some work to do to cobble together a functional defense corps.
And what does that mean for us? Well, it’s time to play a bit of armchair coach. So, if we were tasked with optimizing the defense pairs with the group that the Flyers have, this is what we would submit:
Provorov - Gostisbehere
Friedman - Myers
Hagg - Braun
And a lot of this makes sense—the pair of Ivan Provorov and Shayne Gostisbehere has been dominant in the past, and while they haven’t gotten to quite that same level in their few looks this season, the early returns have been positive.
A combination of Mark Friedman and Philippe Myers would be a new one, and putting two young players together might cause anxiety with some, but Myers has come along well enough to anchor a pair, and it’s not like Friedman plays a terribly high-risk game that would be in need of too much potential cleaning up for.
And that Robert Hagg and Justin Braun pair does tend to get shelled by chances against, but for some reason the pucks just don’t go in when they’re on the ice. Regression may well be coming there, but it hasn’t yet, so you ride that PDO bender until it runs out.
But the key here is that there’s a lot of potential with these pairs, and it’s time that we get Mark Friedman out of the doghouse and back into the lineup. The group the Flyers ran with yesterday, even though they picked up a win, was plainly not working. They got caved in by chances against and the defense in front of Hart in the crease was often nonexistent. The Capitals made them pay for it a handful of times, and it feels a safe bet that they’ll make things even worse for the Flyers next time around, if exposed in the same way. The Flyers need a new look, and perhaps more than anything else, someone else who can move the puck. (And, would you look at that, that’s something that Friedman proved really reliable at on Phantoms teams that were struggling mightily to break pucks out of their own zone).
And here’s the thing: Alain Vigneault loves to talk about players having “money in the bank,” and how that can help or hurt them and the leeway they’re given. And that’s understandable, a player can earn himself a certain bit of benefit of the doubt, but there does come a point when this mindset ceases to be particularly helpful. To say “I won’t put this player back into the lineup because I didn’t love his play last time around and he doesn’t have enough money in the bank, despite the fact that the other options we’ve been running with simply have not been working” is, to put it bluntly, insane. You don’t keep running it back with the same failing group. You try something new and give that a chance to work, and if it doesn’t, you go back to the drawing board.
Is this a guaranteed fix? No. And the Flyers’ defense almost certainly won’t be playing up to its full potential until Sanheim is back. But the point remains that there is another option worth exploring to improve the team’s play in the now, and to rule out even trying it, be it for stubbornness or whatever the reason may be, would be a mistake.
I mean, what’s there left to lose?


Amazon Web Services provides services and infrastructure to build reliable, fault-tolerant, and highly available web applications in the cloud. In production environments, these applications can generate huge amounts of log information. This data can be an important source of knowledge for any company that is operating web applications. Analyzing logs can reveal information such as traffic patterns, user behavior, marketing profiles, etc.
However, as the web application grows and the number of visitors increases, storing and analyzing web logs becomes increasingly challenging. This diagram shows how to use Amazon Web Services to build a scalable and reliable large-scale log analytics platform. The core component of this architecture is Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web service that enables analysts to process large amounts of data easily and cost-effectively using a Hadoop hosted framework.
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The John Milton Project for Religious Free Speech
A Project of the National Religious Broadcasters
The free speech liberty of citizens who use the Internet is nearing a crisis point. New media companies who function as “gatekeepers” to their web platforms and devices, like Google with its gmail system or web tools, Apple with its iTunes app store for its iPhone, and Facebook with its social networking site have consistently censored on their sites the speech of Christians and others when they communicate on issues of widespread public concern. A Christian pastor’s support of traditional marriage and opposition to same-sex marriage was recently stripped from Google-owned YouTube as “hate speech,” according to the message posted by YouTube itself. When Gov. Mike Huckabee posted a pro-Chick-fil-A announcement on his Facebook page during a public debate over the orthodox Christian statements made by the restaurant chain’s CEO on the issue of traditional marriage, Facebook took Gov. Huckabee’s page down for twelve hours.
Yet, two realities have made a resolution of this problem difficult. First, some courts have held that the First Amendment of the Constitution does not apply to prevent censorship by private companies like Google, Facebook and others. Second, these companies possess private property rights and free enterprise interests in their devices, innovations and corporate decisions; rights and interests acknowledged and supported by the John Milton Project and National Religious Broadcasters.
However, there are two other realities, and in the event of a conflict of values, they should take predominance: First, these Internet-based communication platforms have gained huge market dominance and influence, making them similar to the telephone networks in our nation. Citizens would never tolerate a telephone company refusing to provide telephone service to a church or synagogue because it disagrees with the theological beliefs of that house of worship. Neither should new media companies with ever-broadening market power arrogate to themselves the right to arbitrarily shut down communications of citizens because they disagree with their religious, political, or social values.
Second, the leaders in these new media giants have often spoken of the values of openness and freedom of information on the Internet and on their web-based platforms. If those statements are made in good faith, and we are willing to believe that they are, then these companies should be willing to establish free speech standards for their citizen users that aspire to the highest levels of expressive liberty, not the lowest. These companies should be willing to afford their citizen users nothing less than the free speech and free exercise of religion rights that are embodied in the First Amendment and as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. We urge these companies to embrace, and enact policies and practices that are consistent with those constitutional principles.
If the standards we propose here are voluntarily adopted at this critical time, we believe that a truly free marketplace of ideas will flourish on the Internet, and in turn, generations to come will be the beneficiaries of expressive liberty in our digital age. If not however, then we foresee a tyranny over ideas developing over web-based platforms, and a whole class of citizens of faith and others being shut-out out of this new electronic town square.
Freedom of speech, including religious expression, is an enduring American value. It has been regularly emulated and praised around the world. But First Amendment values cannot function in a vacuum. They require and presuppose not only the liberty to speak, but also access to the available channels of communication so that others may hear.
Internet technology has provided immediate connectivity between people, businesses, and organizations, and now presents users with devices and web systems that have faster and more elegant functionalities. A small number of media technology companies have emerged that now control the development of a handful of spectacularly effective communication devices, applications, and programs that are utilized by every aspect of American citizenry – public, private, commercial, and non-profit – in order to participate meaningfully in both interpersonal and in mass communications.
Unfortunately, at the same time, this free enterprise success story has now created a conflict with the free speech values that this nation holds dear. National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), through its John Milton Project for Religious Free Speech, has documented in its September 2011 report, titled True Liberty in a New Media Age, a dangerous trend: namely, an emerging pattern, practice and policy by some new media “gatekeepers” providing Internet communications platforms, of viewpoint censorship levied against otherwise lawful content, much of it religious, and often Christian and conservative in nature. Since the release of that report, the John Milton Project has documented further acts of viewpoint censorship by new media companies.  It must be stressed that we distinguish these new media “gatekeepers” which are basically communications platforms which invite user-generated content to populate those platforms, from websites and blogsites which are content and idea providers and which should have the same kind of free speech editorial freedom that newspaper editors have.
We do not doubt, and we certainly do not wish to subvert, the value of free market principles that have energized the expansion and refinement of Internet communication platforms and devices.  For that reason, we call on the major web-based media technology companies to voluntarily adopt robust, free speech standards. In that regard we do recognize that courts have ruled in certain cases that new media companies are not “state actors” sufficient to require the application of the First Amendment to their censorship actions.
However, we urge these media technology companies nevertheless to use, as a paradigm, the First Amendment principles laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court where government bodies or "state actors" are involved. Citizens would not tolerate a telephone company refusing to provide telephone service to a church or synagogue because it disagreed with the theological beliefs of that house of worship. Neither should new media companies with ever-broadening market power arrogate to themselves the right to arbitrarily shut down communications of citizens because they disagree with their religious, political, or social values. Leaders of large, successful new media technology companies often articulate the values of Internet “openness” and “freedom.” The question then arises: why should these same companies, then, execute on their own platforms a free speech standard that is substantially lower, and is much more anemic than the First Amendment? We do not believe they should.
The benefits of the approach we are recommending are threefold: first, this body of First Amendment Supreme Court law provides an identifiable and reasonable discernable standard. Second, it reflects the considered, established opinions of a judiciary that is nominated and confirmed through a constitutional and representative process that by design derives its authority from “we the people.” Third, the ubiquity and monolithic power of the largest new media companies make them analogous in some ways to certain state actors such as public utilities.
Lastly, this approach reflects the historical distinction between the editorial free speech and free press rights of publishers and content providers on the one hand, and on the other hand the mechanical and engineering functions associated with the printing press. Even If only a handful of printing presses existed throughout the realm, it would still be true to say that the press operators and owners possess a property right in their devices, but it could not be said that they also have a free speech right to demand that an author must change a particular viewpoint as a condition of being printed. The rights of free expression should inhere to the authors and publishers, whether they are professional writers or ordinary citizens, and those rights should not be held hostage either by the printers who control the levers of the printing press or by the digital network operators of new media platforms.
Today, many of the web tools, devices, programs and applications of the new media bear this resemblance to the printing press: they are instruments that facilitate the rapid communication and distribution of ideas to large numbers of people, yet in the end they still depend for their utility and profitability on the expressive content of citizen users who are exercising their free speech interests. To the extent that various new media technologies can be classified essentially as platforms for communication, and thus can be likened to the printing press, they are distinguishable from the editorial functions of content-providers who generate ideas, opinions, and information and who should be the true beneficiaries of the principle of freedom of speech.
Accordingly, we believe that the guidelines below strike a practical balance between free enterprise and freedom of speech. Beyond that, we believe these guidelines are also a necessary bulwark against the troubling specter of private media technology companies wielding a private monopoly over ideas when they inappropriately censor public viewpoints.
Free Speech Guidelines for Internet Technology Companies
New media companies should permit all manner of content, information, and opinions on their web-based platforms, regardless of the viewpoint expressed, unless that content, information or opinion fits squarely within one of the ”traditional,” “well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem.”  Those limited classes of speech recognized by the Supreme Court are listed below.
However well-intentioned the practices and policies of new media companies may be, they should not limit or prohibit expression because a viewpoint or opinion is deemed to constitute “hate speech” or is considered to be “hateful,” or is thought to be unacceptable under any similar formulation, as these types of limitations have been rejected by the Supreme Court.  On the other hand, new media platforms can establish some rules of civility and decorum regarding the manner in which content is communicated – e.g., “no personal attacks or ad-hominem rebukes;” however, those rules should not be used as a pretext for viewpoint censorship. The quotation from a religious or other text or sacred book, or statements of religious belief should never constitute a violation of such rules of civility or decorum and serve as a pretext for censorship; such statements are protected under both the free exercise of religion and free speech principles imbedded in the First Amendment.
We have, however, omitted the categories of defamation and copyright infringement from this list of suitable exceptions for the reasons that: (1) a new media company that errs on the side of inclusion rather than exclusion will still have broad immunity from lawsuit liability under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; (2) both of these categories require intensive fact-verification which could cause the media technology company to regularly default to a practice of exclusion as matter of expediency, thus censoring content that could be entitled to a “fair use” defense under copyright law, or to various defenses under defamation law; and (3) offended copyright-holders still have an adequate private remedy under copyright law against copyright offenders. Also, new media platforms could require accurate identification of users who post potentially infringing content in order to aid plaintiffs in the event of later lawsuits, and could place warning tags on information posted on a site where a copyright infringement is suspected.
We would also urge new media companies to continue to develop, utilize and integrate “safety” procedures and operations for their sites, and they should have the fullest liberty to do so, where the subject of prohibition or limitation does not relate to a particular disagreeable viewpoint, but it deals rather with invasion of privacy and inappropriate sharing of non-consensual private information, or deals with sexually explicit information or images that would be accessible to minors.
Therefore, new media companies should only be able to restrict or prohibit content that, under a good faith, view-point neutral analysis, is determined to qualify under any of these traditional exceptions to the First Amendment:
The Equivalent of Broadcast Indecency if Accessible to Minors;
Incitement to violence;
Or speech that is integral to criminal or unlawful conduct.
The United States Supreme Court has refused to expand the list of traditional exceptions to free speech under the First Amendment.  New media technology companies should follow suit. However, this does not mean that these companies may not develop creative standards that impose remedies that fall short of censorship, blocking, or Internet take-downs.  In the end, however, those companies should err on the side of free speech. That approach will not only serve their customers and users which in turn will better insure the long-term success of their innovations, it will also serve their industry by fostering a healthy, honest free speech precedent to be followed in the future by their innovational partners and successors.
 A Christian pastor’s support of traditional marriage and opposition to same-sex marriage was stripped, from Google-owned YouTube as “hate speech,” according to the message posted by YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v27k5cM7N4A&fe, accessed 5/10/2012. “YouTube yanks youth ministry’s video,” OneNewsNow, May 18, 2012. When Gov. Mike Huckabee posted a pro-Chick-fil-A announcement on his Facebook page during a public debate over the traditional marriage statements of the restaurant chain’s CEO, Facebook took his page down for twelve hours. Jennifer Riley, “Huckabee’s Chick-fil-A Facebook Page Disappears for 12 Hours,” Christian Post, July 25, 2012.
 Congress has raised questions about the monopoly power of some new media giants, and has held hearings on that subject focusing on Google. On the cover of the June 2012 issue of Wired magazine the question is asked: “Is Facebook a Monopoly?” On the other hand, as Justice Scalia has said, writing for the Court: “The mere possession of monopoly power … is not only not unlawful; it is an important element of the free-market system … To safeguard the incentive to innovate, the possession of monopoly power will not be found unlawful unless accompanied by an element of anticompetitive conduct.” Verizon Communications, Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis, 540U.S. 398, 407 (2003).
 Green v. AOL, 318 F. 3d 465 (3rd Cir. 2003) (AOL is not a state actor under the First Amendment). Langdon v. Google, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc. and Microsoft Corp., 474 F. Supp. 2d 622 (2007) (these private companies are not state actors).
 Our analogy that “editorial” content providers like web sites or citizens who post on Facebook, should have free speech protections that transcend the rights of new media “platforms” (Apple, Google or Facebook) when the later function merely like “printing presses” is limited, however, only to media technology giants that enjoy ubiquity and monolithic market power. A local T-shirt printer who objects to printing a pro-gay message should not be treated the same as Google.
 U.S. v. Stevens, 130 S. Ct. 1577, 1584 (2010) (citing Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315U.S. 568, 571-572 (1942).
 R. A. V. v. St. Paul. 505 U.S. 377 (U.S. 1992); Snyder v. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207 (U.S. 2011). Similarly, UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, in his blog, has soundly criticized a proposal for a “hate speech” code forUniversity ofCalifornia, despite the risk of extremist or bigoted expression that might result from the absence of such a ban. Eugene Volokh, “University ofCalifornia Jewish Student Campus Climate Fact-Finding Team” Call for Banning “Hate Speech,” The Volokh Conspiracy, August 11, 2012.
 U.S. v. American Library Association, 539 U.S. 194 (2003) (Congress has the authority to require public schools and libraries to install web filtering software under the Children’s Internet Protection Act). A U.S. District Court has upheld the Indiana law that restricts access of registered sex offenders from accessing Internet sites that permit usage by minors. Doe v. Prosecutor, Marion County, Indiana, case no. 1:12-cv-00062-TWP-MJD (U.S.D.C. Southern District of Indiana, June 22, 2012). See also: the Stored Communication Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, the former providing privacy protection by prohibiting intentional access to electronic information without authorization.
 See: U.S. v. Stevens, n. 1 infra, for a listing of these exceptions.
 Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S. 476, 483 (1957). See: Ashcroft v. ACLU, 535 U.S. 564 (2002) (“community standards” element of federal statute upheld that outlawed “indecent and patently offensive communications over the Internet if they are deemed “harmful to minors.” But see also: Ashcroft v. ACLU (Ashcroft II), 542 U.S. 656 (2004) (Congress failed to consider less restrictive means to protect children online, such as blocking or filtering technology, and that was fatal to the law).
 FCC v. Pacifica Found., 438 U.S. 726 (U.S. 1978); FCC v. Fox TV Stations, Inc., 556 U.S. 502 (U.S. 2009); FCC v. Fox TV Stations, Inc., 132 S. Ct. 2307 (U.S. 2012); see also Ashcroft cases, n. 8 infra, as well as both Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675, 684 (1986) and Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968) (sexually explicit communications, even if falling short of “obscenity,” may, consistent with the First Amendment, be restricted where aimed at or accessible to minors ).
 Virginia Bd. of Pharmacy v. Citizens Council, Inc., 425U.S. 748, 771 (1976).
 Brandenburg. v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447-449 (1969) (per curiam). This would also include, of course, true threats of violence as well.
 Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., 336U.S. 490, 498 (1949). This would include any other use of the Internet that is deemed unlawful by, for instance, the regulations established by the Federal Trade Commission or the Federal Communications Commission or other agencies of competent jurisdiction.
 U.S. v. Stevens, n. 1, infra; and Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass’n, 131S. Ct. 2729 (2011).
 See: Danielle Keats Citron, & Helen Noron, “Intermediaries and Hate Speech: Fostering Digital Citizenship for Our Information Age,” 91 Boston University Law Review 1435 (2011). This article provides a helpful discussion. We do not endorse all of the proposals, however, as the authors propose blocking free-speech troublesome categories such as “hate speech,” or speech that inflicts several emotional distress which is a category rejected by the Supreme Court in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), as well as suggesting other categories for blocking that are equally problematic. On the other hand, we do support the editorial, First Amendment rights of websites, and blogsites as an example, as opposed to new media “gatekeepers,” to be much more selective about the expression they allow on their sites, much as a newspaper can select what letters to the editor they permit.


GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan has reported 1,791 more coronavirus cases Saturday and 23 deaths — 15 of those from a vital records review.
The latest data brings the total number of positive cases to 144,897 and 7,010 deaths since the virus was first detected in Michigan in mid-March.
Since the virus was first detected in Michigan, the state says 109,539 people have recovered from the virus.
Of the 23 deaths reported Saturday, four were in West Michigan. Kalamazoo County recorded one more death for a total of 96. It has had 3,324 (69 more than the previous day). Muskegon County recorded two more deaths for a total of 76. It has had 1,728 cases (15 more). Ottawa County recorded two more deaths for a total of 67. It has had 4,085 cases (52 more).
Kent County confirmed 11,448 cases (144 more) and no new deaths.
In Wayne County, where the virus has hit hardest in the state, there were 150 more cases for a total of 35,114 since the start of the outbreak. It has had 2,854 deaths (four more than the previous day). Oakland County has had 18,418 cases (122 more). It has had 1,175 deaths (two more). Macomb County has had 15,932 cases (113 more) and recorded four more deaths for a total of 1,010.
If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been exposed to someone who has it, health officials want you to get tested. You can find a testing site near you at Michigan.gov/coronavirustest.


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