They on average account for much less than 1 percent of the U.S. homicide rate and are unusually hard to stop through gun control laws (since the killer is bent on committing a publicly visible murder and is thus unlikely to be much deterred by gun control law, or by the prospect of encountering an armed bystander).

[UPDATE: For whatever it’s worth, Heidi Kinchen of The Advocate (Baton Rouge) notes that Myrick was in the Army reserves and in the National Guard, though he was obviously not on duty at the time of the shooting.]

He had just left the dance hall, carrying his gun — possibly to attack more people, though the stories that I’ve seen are unclear — when he was confronted by the dance hall owner James Strand, who lived next door and kept a shotgun at home.

he would generally not have been allowed to carry a gun except when on security duty

But Barner was acting as a civilian, and carrying a gun as a civilian (he had a concealed carry license);

At that point, Sean Barner, a Marine who was attending Georgia State as part of the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program

the new report reads that in states without required permits to carry, crime has declined.

“They are reluctant to use the the guns in a wrong way because they have a lot to lose if they do something wrong.

That’s because the NRA describes law enforcement as an ally in an ongoing culture war against forces like Black Lives Matter, which the gun group believes would irrevocably damage the country’s essential character.

Uber and Lyft both use independent contractors, instead of employees who would likely get more benefits, to staff their services

Officials with the public defender’s office had asked for a $23.1 million boost, while Nixon recommended a $1 million increase

they already pay the highest property taxes in the nation.

the Supreme Court ruled that Native Nations could no longer exercise their inherent criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.

Thus far, these efforts have been in vain. Google has not responded beyond saying there was a violation of the Terms of Service agreement.

Gartner's Hype Cycle

WikiLeaks dumped a massive amount of what it claims are Democratic National Committee documents online Friday morning, in what it’s calling the first part of its “Hillary Leaks series.”

The Wikipedia page of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, on the other hand, has seen 62 edits on Friday alone. There have been almost 90 edits over the past week.

preferred the thermostats at around 75 degrees Fahrenheit

“Domestic partner” shares that disadvantage while also assuming cohabitation.

UPIARR

“There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit.”

ollege education is designed to get you a job, that’s not the case in Spain.”

digital repository

Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the URL in Archive.is, a "time capsule of the internet" that saves unalterable text and graphic of webpages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as it originally existed.

We were hoping to develop this into a new grant proposal, which was not possible when the mistakes were realized.  But fortunately a graduate student was not involved, but the postdoc involved probably lost 6 months of effort.

This has been tried in the past, unsuccessfully. But earlier campaigns lacked Rauner's $20 million and counting in personal campaign cash.

two additional percentage points in the rate of the individual income tax, to 5.75 percent, will be needed. The rate might be cut back a bit after the huge backlog of bills is paid off.

The sample was D+15

By that measure

hey did any work as a paid employee, work for their own business or farm

worked 15 or more hours unpaid for an enterprise operated by a family member.

I’m going to tell you there’s new information.”

in classic Kennedy fashion

“There’s a lot of safe and peaceful immigrants,” she said. “For example Russia. Peaceful. … Italians. Germans.”

he also said that Clinton and Obama had “a lot to gain by having these attacks happen” and cited their pro-gun control stances.

Kobach's instructions this week to allow thousands of people who register at motor vehicle offices without citizenship documents to vote only in federal races.

Kris Kobach has no legal right to bar people who register to vote using a federal form from voting in local and state elections.

Justice Stephen Breyer joined the court’s four conservatives to add a huge loophole to that long-established doctrine.

A physical copy of your fingerprint could be used to unlock your phone. You leave fingerprints on many things you touch, including your phone.

Using your fingerprint to unlock your device may be less secure than a strong password, PIN, or pattern.

the cable industry’s biggest lobbying group highlighted the comments of the dissenting judge, Stephen Williams, and said its members were reviewing the opinion. The group also said broadband legislation by Congress was a better alternative to the F.C.C.’s classification of internet business as a utility.

The cable and telecom industries have signaled their intent to challenge any unfavorable decision, possibly taking the case to the Supreme Court.

using political leverage to damage other communities, and we cannot let that happen.”

Salem was released in April 2015, five months after being arrested, but was arrested again for failing to appear at an arraignment for the original assault charge a few weeks later, on May 13, according to the Daily News. His lawyers claim the letter informing Salem of his court date was lost in the mail and had been stamped “return to sender” by the post office.

where online piracy of copyrighted materials

The minimum salary for a full-time, non-visiting specialized faculty member with a nine-month appointment will rise from the current $40,000 to $43,000 in August 2017, and to $45,000 in August 2018.

though not in the College of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine or College of Law.

50–70 years for a journal article

had privately acknowledged its error.

The special exemption comes after intense lobbying by the American Network of Community Options and Resources, or ANCOR, a trade group that represents over 1,000 private agencies providing disability services across the country

that doesn't mean the drugs can't be immensely profitable. Treanda is an orphan drug but also Teva's second-best seller, racking up $740 million in sales last year, according to Teva's annual report.

the FDA disclosed that it would not apply the court’s reasoning to other products

We continue to believe that the Depomed court erred in not deferring to FDA’s statutory interpretation, and we therefore deny your request for exclusivity on that ground,

the FDA is denying seven-year exclusivity that orphan drugs typically get on the grounds that Bendeka shares the same active ingredient as Treanda but is not clinically superior to it.

The governor of Michigan refused Alabama’s request for extradition

Patterson was again found guilty and sentenced to death.

after answering a question about "sex assigned at birth."

"Magically, the words ‘impermissible benefits,’ ‘football’ and ‘men’s basketball’ no longer appear in the documents." But the women’s basketball team is still mentioned — it’s "either North Carolina’s renegade sport or convenient scapegoat," ESPN said — and "will be subject to the full force of the NCAA rule book and the new penalty structure." Final decisions by the infractions committee are, at best, months away.

eight spent all of their institutional aid money on "merit" scholarships, rather than on need-based aid.

a third of their financial aid in 2014-15 went to students who didn’t need it

Krzysztof", "Kryzysztof" and "Krzystof" have different lengths and different regular fingerprints, but share the same 1-gram fingerprint because they use the same letters.

obtain all the string n-grams

So, for example, the 2-gram fingerprint of "Paris" is "arispari" and the 1-gram fingerprint is "aiprs

control characters

remove leading and trailing whitespace

whitespace-separated tokens

The URN solution is embedded: the whole system is based on existing identifier systems, so e.g. serials will be identified by ISSN and books by ISBN, using the URN namespaces assigned for these systems

The ISO Draft International Standard version of the DOI makes it very clear that whenever there is a standard identifier for a resource, then that identifier shall be used as a part of DOI.

PIs may, however, also compete with the traditional identifiers, since almost all of them (the odd one out being URN) are also identifier systems

In practice, the differences may be less pronounced than on paper, since some features of e.g. the URN system have not been implemented.

PI systems do differ with respect to services

Cool URIs cannot track the changes of such web pages and help the user to find the exact version he or she is interested in.

anyone can give a URI to anything he / she wants, and the intellectual content, available in a Web location such as http://www.w3.org/, can and probably will change more or less often and may be available in the same time at numerous other locations

HTTP URIs will capture all functionality, data, or services presented by other identifier schemes.

HTTP URIs are the preferred identifier for all authorities (although they may well be preferred for HTTP-oriented authorities).

With the help of DNS, claim the proponents of this view, a URL can be made as persistent as a PI can ever be. 

which are an extension of URIs

The Digital Object Identifier was not listed above, because it is an implementation (and an important one) of the Handle system (and will be discussed as such below).

While this has not prevented other initiatives from striving towards publishing RFCs, it may well be that URN has the best chance of reaching the status of Internet standard.

PIs must be actionable on the Internet, and IETF is the key organization developing Internet standards.

while most traditional identifiers have been under the wing of ISO, most PIs are linked to IETF in one way or another.

There may not be a manifestation at all, in which case the XRI would identify a work.

The purpose was to provide a standard means for identifying any resource, independent of a physical manifestation of it.

But OCLC has never tried to standardize PURLs in IETF or elsewhere, which means that, unlike most other PIs, PURLs are and will remain purely a technical solution.

The draft 15 expired in November 2008 and, apparently, no new ARK-related Internet drafts have been published since then.

The  major PI systems are, in chronological order

but there is still some lack of clarity concerning for instance the relation of traditional and persistent identifiers and the relation between cool URIs and persistent identifiers.

persistent identifiers should only be assigned to resources that will be preserved for long term, that is, over several hardware and software generations

that persistence simply means that ‘an identifier is valid for long enough

whereas a persistent identifier incorporating this ISBN is a hyperlink when expressed as HTTP URI

Traditional identifiers such as ISBNs are not and will not be actionable in the Internet as such

CRL does not believe that any legislation about these issues is necessary

Unlike some publications, we don't endorse or support candidates. As a nonprofit, we're legally prohibited from doing that, and, just as importantly, it would be counter to what we stand for journalistically.

This is about building a relationship, and we're going to ask for money.

articipants should be aware, however, that the experiment is not being run from a “secure” https server of the kind typically used to handle credit card transactions, so there is a small possibility that responses could be viewed by unauthorized third parties.

nd, once she finally addressed the issue, she made clear a distinction based on economic disparity between herself and Latino migrant workers.

Professor Salaita’s reinstatement and monetary relief, including compensation for the economic hardship and reputational damage he suffered as a result of the university’s actions.

Sixteen academic departments of the university have voted no confidence in the UIUC administration

The governor stood by his demand that any state spending deal includes pro-business anti-union reforms from his so-called “turnaround agenda.”

Gale’s quote begins with “although,” but the more appropriate word may be “because.”

it seems like an amalgam of news reports and calls from concerned librarians

She volunteered to donate the archive to the Smithsonian museum but the museum was not interested.

Clinton’s

but still positions the male as the default and women as a specialist group

The United States supports some degree of subsidies for local renewables in nearly half of all states. India could likely file a WTO complaint against the U.S. if it wanted.

The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge

Without Forte, where would the Bears have been?

Many Bears fans want a staple of their team to stay around, but Pace has other plans, and those should be trusted

“I love my job,” said Governor Bruce Rauner during the his first stop of his visit to the Quad Cities, at Ridgewood Elementary School in East Moline.

Actor John Boyega will play one of the Storm Troopers, Finn. Lupita Nyong’o will also star in the film as Maz Kanata.

The committee did not vote Wednesday on whether to confirm Hayden.

first African-American to lead the institution.

relate to the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water and not to the possible link between Flint River water and an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that is tied to the deaths of 12 people, one of the sources said.

Officials believe the city got artificially low lead readings because they didn't test the homes most at risk — those with lead service lines or other features putting them at high risk for lead. Among those to be charged is a City of Flint official who signed a document saying the homes Flint used to test tap water under the federal Lead and Copper Rule all had lead service lines — a statement investigators allege was false.

documents it does release will be subject to review by the country’s military censorship apparatus.

If this “Bernie treating Hillary like a whore” narrative is something the Clinton campaign is trying to push in the final days before New York primary voters cast their ballots, it is clearly working. And on cable news at least, there are plenty of hosts throwing fuel on the fire.

New Day host Chris Cuomo (brother of Clinton supporter and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo) that Clinton strategists have been “quietly” talking to him about how “sexism” has affected her unnervingly high disapproval ratings. “You know, everybody raises money from all types of sources,” he said. “She’s the one they throw dollar bills at.”

echoing insinuations they have heard from Clinton’s campaign, lump those two incidents together to frame Sanders supporters as sexists who view the former secretary of state as a sex worker.

This narrative likely stems from a comment made by Sanders supporter and prominent healthcare activist Dr. Paul Song at a recent rally. "Medicare-for-all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us,” Song told the crowd. Following the event, Sanders was forced to apologize, calling the statement "inappropriate and insensitive

He is a politician we can all trust, and just that alone is such a rare thing, it’s like unicorn rare,” Justin Long—a Brooklyn-born actor who played “Mac” in those grating Mac vs. PC commercials—told the crowd, moments after describing grainy footage of Sanders in the ’80s as like watching “an actual unicorn.”

The Sanders campaign strategy has been akin to the Southern Strategy employed by Republicans: Center white people and their anger, and have them work to protect their entitlements despite the fact that no one is trying to take anything away from them.

Hillary has not done much more to secure the votes of black people than the Sanders campaign.

it costs about $60,000 per year to house a person in a Community Integrated Living Arrangement (the technical term for a group home) versus $257,000 per year to put a person with a disability in a state-run institution.

(almost)

The DataCite MDS stores information about DataCite DOIs, but can’t store metadata (again title, authors, publication date, etc.) for other resources such as Crossref DOIs.

the “baggage” is her husband cheating on her and the “charisma” is what allows her philandering husband who perjured himself to be loved, while she’s gets called “untrustworthy.”

But maybe you would be bad at campaigning too if you had been subjected to over two decades of vicious and often contradictory political attacks.

she is naturally bad at running for office and that painfully shows through at almost all points

If elected, she will kill people

I would say that voting for her would be like putting Lady MacBeth in the White House, but if you think Hillary would have a nervous breakdown just because she got her hands dirty while bringing about regime change, then you haven’t been paying attention to this woman the past 25 years.

You better have a plan to replace that tax base.

Bernie’s support comes from educated white males, young white women, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the Screen Actors Guild

He’s the only candidate running for President this cycle that I would want to have a beer with.

Sanders’s reliance on extremely low-turnout caucus states has meant the pledged delegate count overstates his share of votes

the “working 'round the clock” to raise money, garner support, and develop policy positions — as a kind of unfair advantage was pretty weird.

disquisition

inchoate

averred

there's no off button, so it's always sitting in a semi-ready state.

often don’t vote in a way that advances conservative policy.”

And then he argued that the court is too political because Republican nominees don’t act sufficiently politically.

Grassley now says that the only way to depoliticize the court would be to appoint nominees who conform their political views to those of the Republican Party.

If politics have overtaken the nomination process, it’s the court’s fault.

e could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

 “Free data services are pro-consumer, innovative offerings that we should all embrace,"

. Comcast exempts its own streaming TV service from its monthly data cap on cable Internet, but the company says the video product is "an IP cable service" that isn't delivered over the Internet and thus isn't subject to the net neutrality rules

US Class A (book)

The war effort provided an opportunity to regain status for the profession that had been lost as a result of policy decisions during the progressive era in librarianship

incorporating a new element into the common set of attributes for research and higher education.

First let me say this: Leave Megyn Kelly ALONE.

he reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women.

The same thing happened when women in large numbers became designers (wages fell 34 percentage points), housekeepers (wages fell 21 percentage points) and biologists (wages fell 18 percentage points).

At the other end of the wage spectrum, janitors (usually men) earn 22 percent more than maids and housecleaners (usually women).

The median earnings of information technology managers (mostly men) are 27 percent higher than human resources managers (mostly women)

PPI also wants less regulation, lower corporate tax rates and a shift away from taxing income and toward taxing spending.

In addition to free trade (including ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Sanders and now Clinton oppose)

After the editing changes, he said, “it got to be a deeper story,” with greater context.

Ms. Steinhauer, in a response to my email, suggested that I speak to editors because “it was an editing decision.”

but not before he completely stripped them of their inherent significance. At one point, he declared that it’s “unfortunate” that black people have decided to come forth and voice their disapproval of Saldana’s casting because when blacks were enslaved, “the slave masters separated light-skinned blacks from dark-skinned blacks.”

And whoever becomes the Democratic nominee, the stakes are far, far too high for us to selfishly stay home because we didn’t get our first choice. I will happily, proudly vote for either Clinton or Sanders, and I hope you will do the right thing and join me

Marco Rubio’s campaign wins points for the campaign that pays women the best. Women on Rubio’s staff make, on average, just over $5,000 more than men, and of the 10 highest-paid staffers, six are female.

Hillary is winning and she’s winning because of her positive, pragmatic and uplifting message. Bernie could learn a thing or two from her campaign.

ernie’s Wall Street dog whistle is a barely concealed attempt to accuse Hillary Clinton of corruption, despite the fact that he lacks a scintilla of evidence to support that claim.

many countries would refuse to recognize the Honduran government until Zelaya was finally allowed to return to his country in May of 2011

We should congratulate the Honduran people, we should connect today's vote to the deep democratic vocation of the Honduran people, and we should call on the community of democratic nations (and especially those of the Americas) to recognize, respect, and respond to this accomplishment of the Honduran people.

we have big military equities in Honduras through Joint Task Force Bravo at Soto Cano airbase.”

shifted the deliberations on Honduras from the Organization of American States (OAS) – where Zelaya could benefit from the strong support of left-wing allies throughout the region – to the San José negotiation process in Costa Rica.

: Clinton admits that she used the power of her office to make sure that Zelaya would not return to office. “In the subsequent days [after the coup] I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere, including Secretary [Patricia] Espinosa in Mexico,” Clinton writes. “We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.”

Zelaya, as president, was by no means perfec

That record, and her statements from that era, should be scrutinized. In her support for the 1994 crime bill, for example, she used racially coded rhetoric to cast black children as animals.

When Clinton left office in 2001, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the world.

The distributors, described in a professional journal as uneducated and barely literate, were "trained" to "screen" for medical contraindications of pills-vision problems, headache, jaundice, varicose veins, breast masses, breast feeding of less than eight to nine months, and pregnancy. The screening consisted of "taking a brief history and observing the clients."

this means that AID feels that doctors in Haiti need not waste time with pelvic exams or pap smears; just get the “acceptors” on stream with the hormonal method of choice.

a billion dollars a year pays into the system the same amount as somebody making $118,500 per year.

This is to remove the cap on income that is taxable for Social Security. Right now the social security tax is only paid on income up to $118,500

acute episode of mental illness.

angel tax credit

Duckworth wants to protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security from reforms; she says she is "open to the possibility" of having high wage earners pay more into Social Security. That would generate revenue but not address the extraordinary cost of maintaining entitlements

Addressing mental health issues.

http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/27110/bernie-sanders/#learnmore (votesmart.org)

Hillary Clinton has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2016 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests

but he said Sanders hasn’t returned his phone calls for the past 15 years

They both served on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, and in July 2008, along with Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy, the pair co-sponsored the Access for All America Act to expand the availability of primary care medicine, which died in committee.

And I said, “How about the president of the United States actually leading the American people?’ and she said, ‘Tell me something real.’ ”

In the most recent budget proposal from the governor’s office, agriculture education in Illinois is set to be cut completely out of the budget. In past years, agriculture education has received nearly $2 million.

No one at the university ever lodged a formal complaint against her, which meant that her actions were not subject to official internal review.

expansion of the Affordable Care Act

But things have obviously changed. If the prices stay low as expected, and the hedge contracts expire, how much exposure do the banks have to very risky oil industry debt?

The death of Mr. Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody last April, set off a wave of looting, arson and violence in Baltimore — the worst riots in the city since the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

what he says can’t be used against him in his own trial.

Neither sector has shown particular hostility to trade agreements, with a number of congressional Democrats in the opting to vote for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Democrats say Sanders would need to notch similarly massive victory margins in Tuesday's races in Illinois, Ohio and Missouri — where polls show him down by double digits — if that course were to change

syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer.

an artificially intelligent library catalogue, will be able to take verbal book requests, work out where the hard copy is and lead students to the relevant bookshelf.

By contrast, the activists who spoke at Sanders’ rally on Friday were well-received.