Surely he meant a penis photograph. No wonder the other party declined.
Just completed. Holy shit is that survey a pile of crap. Broad, sweeping questions about regulations and KPIs and all kind of stuff. It's literally like a preplanning spitball meeting where you trying to establish issues that need examination but it suddenly veers into the weeds for specifics on who and what.
FIRMS relies on a few satellites. MODIS and VIRS are the ones I remember off hand. They monitor specific wavelengths of infrared. So yes major industrial processes like metal smelters, coal plants, pulp mills, refineries etc will sometimes show up depending on what's going on.
We just call that a donation. And it goes through a PAC and it's legal. The supreme Court has removed all the guard rails so unlimited donations and direct coordination with a PAC is now possible.
This does not seem to be using a reliable data source. CIFFC is reporting 154 active fires in Manitoba. https://ciffc.net/ This site is reporting...8 maybe?
FIRMS is available directly without going through whatever the hell this site is. https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/
Ignorance is not knowing. Stupidity is not applying what you know. Think of the friends meme...
What good is bribing a candidate? And by bribe do you mean blackmail?
I routinely tell people to get fucked but didn't make the list. They must have more stringent criteria than just being rude.
There is a lot of nuance that gets lost in the discussion of asylums, particularly if you know about them primarily from fictional sources. Historically they were actually a great improvement over the model that existed up to the late 1800s. That model threw the mentally ill into a general prisoner population which included debtors, criminals, and anyone else deemed appropriate. There wasn't a keen understanding of mental illness or how it differed from cognitive dysfunction or how either of them differed from bad morals. It didn't matter because there wasn't really any treatment anyways.
There were attempts to separate out those who couldn't care for themselves from those who wouldn't. Bethlehem Hospital is an example of this and that did not work out particularly well. It gave us the word bedlam in english which means loud confusion. It was a popular tourist attraction as well with the well-to-do paying fees to watch the capers of the mentally ill while they suffered. So prison or a sideshow.
Against this backdrop the asylum model was pretty humane. By the early 20th century medicine was getting a hand in mental illness, and there was general agreement that we shouldn't make their lives miserable for our own amusement. At its best, an asylum would be in a rural location with an associated farm. Residents would work if they were able tending animals or gardens, or maintaining the buildings or working in the kitchen. The produce would provide some income and partially supply the kitchens. What developed then was a self contained community with some residential staff.
One of the best documents for this model is Erving Goffman's Asylums published in 1961. It examines the asylum model in great detail. It is worth mentioning that there was anti-psychiatry movement at that time that continued build steam through the 1970s. Goffman writes with an eye towards that movement that often portrays the staff as being the beneficiaries of the institution. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest shows this in a setting reminiscent of bedlam like torture. Inherent Vice portrays it in a humorous fashion with psychiatrists dining on linen table cloths and eating gourmet meals prepared by patients. Both are fictionalized exaggerations, but it's true of any institution that lacks strong oversight that they will be highly variable depending on the specific adminstration and culture at a locale. This is true of prisons as well.
So that was kind of the situation in 1980 when Reagan came into office closed them all down. The mentally ill now live on the streets. I worked in this area for many years. It's funny to me how a modern best practice would have a stable community setting with residential staff and meaningful work for people according to their capacity. Sound familiar?
That's me lurking until I have something to contribute.
Mogged by a footmaxxer.
Published in the New Yorker in 1993, the same year the world wide web went live.
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I was on blast. Basic message: there needs to be legislation to enforce transparency and accountability at every step of the value chain. Main reasons are consumer protection and records for litigation.