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Pace found his prime as part of an online collective called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS. Pace and thousands of volunteers ran software on their personal computers crunching numbers day-in and day-out.

Anyone can participate, you just need a computer, an internet connection and a lot of patience. Pace began his prime hunt 14 years ago.

"There was a $100,000 prize attached to finding the first prime that had a 10 million digit result, and I was like, 'Well you know, I've got as much chance as anybody else,' " he says.

Pace's prime holds the title for the largest, but there are other bigger ones out there. And they're important, especially when it comes to cryptography, internet security and the future of computing.

"When they ultimately get to quantum computers, however long that takes, they'll be able to crack current encryption in milliseconds," Pace says. "So there's going to be a need for extremely large prime numbers, and I'd like to at least have left some legacy that I've helped contribute something to society."

NPR's Isabel Dobrin produced this story for the Web.

January 7, 20188:06 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO


This past week, a FedEx employee from Germantown, Tenn., made a massive discovery — and it wasn't in any packages. John Pace found the largest prime number known to humankind.

And that number goes on to more than 23 million digits.

"So it's longer than anybody really wants to sit down and hear," he says.

If you're not great at math, here's a primer: Prime numbers can only be divided by 1 and themselves.

Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


NAGPABILIN sa balay tambalanan ang usa ka 35-anyos nga lalaki human gidunggab sa iyang silingan kinsa gialingugngugan na sa yabag niini nga tingog samtang nagkanta sa videoke.

Ang insidente nahitabo alas 8:40 sa buntag, Enero 1, 2018, didto sa Barangay Bago Oshiro, Tugbok District, siyudad sa Davao.

Giingong nalabdan na'g ulo ang mga silingan nga naminaw sa walay hunong nga kanta sa biktima nga si Narciso (bansagon gitago), diin gawas sa walay hunong iyang pag-videoke, yabag pa kini og tingog.

Daling giduol sa suspek nga si Jim Paul Gabato ang biktima dayon gihansakan og kutsilyo hinungdan nga nakahiagom kini og samad sa kalawasan.

Human sa hitabo, daling misibat ang suspek diin ang kapulisan naghimo na og manhunt operation batok kaniya.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Enero 03, 2018.

The book's publication came as news emerged that at least a dozen members of the US Congress were briefed last month by Yale University professor of psychiatry Bandy Lee on Trump's mental health.

Assessments questioning Trump's stability have grown throughout his first year in office, fueled by what critics said were his often petulant, and even childish, reactions to criticism.

Last November, Lee wrote to The New York Times that she and several other "concerned mental health professionals" were detecting "more than his usual state of instability," with "characteristics (that) place our country and the world at extreme risk of danger."

The White House has regularly dismissed such criticism, saying it is no secret that the president has a strong personality, but that it makes him a more – not less – effective leader. – Rappler.com

'Dope'

The book includes extensive quotes from Steve Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist, who accuses Trump's eldest son Don Jr. of "treasonous" contacts with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, and saying the president's daughter Ivanka, who imagines herself running for president one day, is "dumb as a brick."

But it is Trump himself who is cast in the most unfavorable light.

The book claims that for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, the president was an "idiot." For chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, he was "dumb as s***." And for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, he was a "dope."

Wolff also says he detected signs that some believe could point to incipient dementia, or at least mental deterioration -- his repetition of the same stories and anecdotes, sometimes within minutes.

Even in defending Trump, the former ExxonMobil chief executive told CNN he has had to learn how to effectively relay information to the president.

Journalist Wolff, no stranger to controversy, quotes several key Trump aides expressing doubt about Trump's ability to lead the world's largest economy and military hegemon.

"Let me put a marker in the sand here. One hundred percent of the people around him" question Trump's fitness for office, Wolff told NBC's "Today" show.

"They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. It's all about him."

Trump's tweets came ahead of his meetings Saturday with top Republican lawmakers and Cabinet members at the Camp David presidential retreat to discuss party priorities ahead of the crucial 2018 midterm elections.

Yet the sensational details in the new book and Trump's continued defense of his mental health have wrenched attention away from policy and news of US financial markets hitting all-time highs, bringing even more scrutiny over whether the US leader is fit for office.

'Like a child'

On Friday, Washington's chief diplomat Rex Tillerson was obliged to defend Trump after being asked during an interview about claims that the president has a short attention span, regularly repeats himself and refuses to read briefing notes.

"I've never questioned his mental fitness. I've had no reason to question his mental fitness," said Tillerson, whose office was last year forced to deny reports that he had referred to Trump as a "moron" after a national security meeting.

The new supposed tell-all book – Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" – was rushed into stores Friday after the Trump administration failed to suppress it.

The book quickly sold out in Washington and has been the talk of the town. Trump has decried the instant best-seller as "phony" and "full of lies" as the White House issued a scorched-earth dismissal of "Fire and Fury" along with its author and his sources.

Trump's stability has been questioned by critics almost since he declared his candidacy for the presidency.

In March 2016, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Trump lacked the "temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader." And Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton regularly declared him "temperamentally unfit" for a job requiring "knowledge, stability and immense responsibility."

Trump praises self as 'very stable genius' amid bombshell book
In a series of extraordinary early-morning tweets, Trump says, 'throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart'
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Updated 12:58 AM, January 07, 2018





WASHINGTON, DC, USA – US President Donald Trump on Saturday, January 6, praised himself as "a very stable genius," following the release of a bombshell book that calls into doubt his mental health.

But Trump's response to the book's allegations had Washington focusing anew on the question of his stability.

In a series of extraordinary early-morning tweets, Trump said that "throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart."

"I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!"

The average pay of the chief executives had dropped by a fifth through 2016 to £4.5 million (€5.1 million, $6.1 million), according to the latest available figures published by the think tanks.

However, that remains 120 times more than an average full-time worker's salary, a slight drop on the ratio of 122-1 of the previous year.

"We need a significant re-think on how and why we reward CEOs, taking into account a much more balanced scorecard of success beyond financial outcomes, looking more widely at the impacts of businesses on all stakeholders from employees to society more broadly, said Peter Cheese, chief executive of the CIPD.

The two groups said they were working together to push for high pay to be addressed as part of a broader review of corporate governance in Britain, including greater transparency on workforce data.

The organisations report the mean pay of chief executives at companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's benchmark FTSE 100 index will pass employees' median yearly salary of £28,758 (€32,328, $38,861) during the day.

Although they note executive pay has fallen amid "modest" restraint by company boards, the study authors warn the pay gap between top and average workers "remains wide".

"While it was encouraging to see a tiny amount of restraint on pay at the top of some FTSE 100 companies last year, there are still grossly excessive and unjustifiable gaps between the top and the rest of the workforce," said Stefan Stern, director of the High Pay Centre.

"Publishing pay ratios will force boards to acknowledge these gaps," he added.

"We look forward to working with business and government to make this new disclosure requirement work as effectively as possible."

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Martin Sorrell, head of advertising and public relations giant WPP, is reportedly the highest paid chief executive among FTSE 100 companies, taking home £48 million ($65 million)


Bosses at Britain's largest public companies will have on average made more money in the first four days of 2018 than typical workers earn annually, according to independent calculations released Thursday.

The High Pay Centre, a think tank, and human resources body The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), have dubbed January 4 "Fat Cat Thursday" to mark their findings.

It's also possible that a variety of factors not examined in the study, such as the impact of early puberty on academics or friendships, might at least in part explain the reason puberty timing appeared tied to the risk of depression and behaviour problems, the authors note.

From a social standpoint, girls who develop early tend to be treated like they are older than they really are, said Dr. Ellen Selkie, author of an accompanying editorial and an adolescent medicine specialist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Sometimes, that means they might hang out with older kids to try to fit in, Selkie said by email.

But that also means they could be involved in things that they aren't really mature enough for, Selkie added. That sense of not really belonging can lead to mood problems and acting out — which we know can set up a pattern of behaviour that leads to adult problems as well.

Questions focused on the timing of menstruation and also touched on symptoms of depression that the teens had experienced in the past week and the frequency of so-called anti-social behaviours like lying, stealing and dealing drugs.

Young women who experienced depression as adults may have been at risk because they were more likely to start experiencing these symptoms during adolescence and remained at risk over time, the study concludes.

With antisocial behaviours, the increased risk of acting out in adulthood after experiencing an early puberty wasn't as pronounced as it was for depression.

The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how early puberty might influence the risk of depression or behaviour problems in adolescence or later in life.

Three U.S. girls in seventh grade look at their smartphones in a 2014 file photo. Researchers gathered data from a survey of teenagers that asked when they first got their period and what symptoms of depression teens they had experienced in the past week. (Martha Irvine/Associated Press)

Sweeping changes in biology, appearance, self-perception and emotion combine to make puberty one of the most pivotal phases of development during the life span, the researchers note in Pediatrics. Although puberty can be a challenging time for all adolescents, it can be a particularly vulnerable time for girls who physically mature ahead of their peers.

Because physical maturation is linked to changes in social roles and relationships, this has long been linked to difficulties coping with new changes and stressors in life as well as changes in the brain that can make youth exceptionally vulnerable to mental health and behavior difficulties.

Researchers examined data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative study that includes youth from a broad range of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The interviews examined in the current study were conducted in four waves from 1994 to 2008.

With earlier puberty, girls were also more likely to have behaviour issues that led to things like stealing, lying, breaking into buildings and selling drugs. The link lasted into young adulthood.

Interestingly, the magnitude of the association between puberty and these psychological difficulties remains stable, meaning that puberty is as strongly associated with depressive symptoms and antisocial behaviour during adulthood as it is during adolescence, said lead study author Jane Mendle, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

This suggests that the psychological vulnerability of earlier puberty lingers longer than we previously may have expected, Mendle said by email. It's not simply a question of adolescent growing pains.

The younger the age at the first period, the stronger the risk of mental health problems
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Depression in children and youth can be hidden and needs to be taken seriously, psychiatrist says
Young people in Windsor-Essex struggling with depression aren't seeking professional help

Girls who go through puberty early could be more likely to experience depression and behaviour problems that last into their 20s compared to peers who start menstruation later, a U.S. study suggests.

Researchers studied data on nearly 7,800 women who had their first menstrual cycle at an average age of 12. The women were interviewed four times, starting around age 16 and continuing until about age 28.

Girls who went through puberty earlier than most were more likely to become depressed, and their symptoms were also more severe in adolescence, the study found. 

The younger the age at the first period, the stronger the association between early puberty and mental health problems; It was stronger for girls who started menstruation at age 8 than at age 10, for example.

The interview was recorded in Toronto, Canada, in September on the sidelines of the Invictus Games, the athletic tournament created by Harry for wounded former soldiers.

Despite admitting concern over the future of the US, Obama, who did not mention his successor Donald Trump by name, said he felt a sense of "serenity" on leaving the White House.

"There was a sense that we had run a good race," he added.

On his new routine, Obama told the prince: "I wake up later, it's wonderful to be able to control your day."

The prince opened the discussion by saying: "This is the first interview you've said 'yes' to doing since you handed over the reins", to which Obama replied: "that's true".

Harry is due to marry his US actress girlfriend Megan Markle on May 19 at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle near London.

According to British press reports, civil servants are concerned that a wedding invite from the couple to Obama could cause a further rift between Britain and Trump following a series of high-profile spats.

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The interview was recorded in Toronto in September on the sidelines of the Invictus Games, the athletic tournament created by Harry for wounded former soldiers


Former US President Barack Obama told Britain's Prince Harry he was concerned social media was "corroding civil discourse", in what he said was his first interview since leaving the White House, aired Wednesday.

"One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities," he told the prince, who was guest editing BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. Things aren't as simple as they've been portrayed in whatever chat room you've been in," he added.

"The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a Balkanisation of society and allows ways of finding common ground."

He he..

Check this one up:  https://i.imgur.com/jV57Wn9.mp4

Quote from: islander on November 12, 2017, 05:21:28 PM

cat bandanna.

Hmm, speaking of which...

kini kaha:

After Hemingway's own heart... 

Quote from: islander on November 15, 2017, 12:30:54 PM

what a sweet pig. i wish i know their name.

Hmm, Pigllow?

Good mood ang bratty kid dinhi...

Ikaw may nagbuot...

Ang kinan-an og matjes ni Aylandil as a grownup...





Bwahaha! 

Presenting to you...


Frank Morris the Cat!   

Other [equally insightful] views on the subject:

Quote from: MIKELIGALIG.com on November 08, 2017, 07:27:18 AM
Consumed by ambition and greed, Roque moved heaven and earth to get the appointment. And he was so proud of himself that he uttered to his imagined detractors: mamatay kayo sa inggit!

Mamatay kayo sa inggit!

Trump's authoritarian tendencies are showing up in other ways as well. Axios reports that when he met with Native American tribal leaders and they complained about land use regulations that prevented them from extracting energy resources, he responded, "But now it's me, the government's different now. Obama's gone; and we're doing things differently here. So what I'm saying is, just do it." Trump may actually believe he has the unilateral power to lift any regulation he wants to, and he unquestionably wishes that were true.

He recently told reporters, "My attitude is the only one that matters," when it comes to dealing with North Korea, adding that he is "stronger and tougher" than his advisers. Similarly, when Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked Trump last week whether he planned to fill appointments at the State Department, he replied, "Let me tell you, the one that matters is me. I'm the only one that matters, because when it comes to it, that's what the policy is going to be."

We don't know how much this president really understands about the limits of his authority. And we don't know how far the members of his own party and law enforcement officials who support him are willing to go. But we know what he would "love" to do because he's told us. He would love to use the police power of the federal government for his own purposes. By firing Comey and pardoning Arpaio, he's already pushed the boundaries. This used to be called abuse of power. Under Trump it's business as usual.

The reason I say it's revealing is that one phrase: "I am not supposed to be doing the kinds of things I would love to be doing." Clearly, what Trump would love to be doing is persecuting his defeated political rival. Whether he would love to do that out of simple sadism or because he thinks it would effectively intimidate those who are investigating him or simply to muddy the waters is unknown. To do it based upon discredited disinformation created by Fox News and various Republican operatives, working together in what has basically become his personal propaganda operation, makes it all the more chilling. This is the work of a dictator in a banana republic, not the elected leader of a major Western democracy.

The fact that all this is being met with a big public shrug is more than a little bit worrisome. The president may not be officially directing the Department of Justice to prosecute Hillary Clinton on spurious grounds, but DOJ officials certainly know he would "love" them to. Republicans in Congress also understand the game that's afoot. They've initiated three different "investigations" into these ridiculous Clinton questions and on Friday took the next step, proposing a resolution that calls for Mueller to "resign from his special counsel position immediately," since he was FBI director when Clinton allegedly committed all her traitorous crimes and therefore showed "willful blindness" to Russians to infiltrate the United States and spread corruption.

He's gotten himself into some trouble because of this. He asked FBI director James Comey to give his friend Michael Flynn a pass and then fired Comey when he refused to play ball, an impulsive act that ended up with the appointment of Mueller. Trump then tried to get the Justice Department to go easy on former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and when that didn't happen he just pulled out his pardon pen and set Arpaio free, sending a strong message to all his cronies that he looked out for those who stood by him. But the one thing that both thrills his supporters and gives him sustenance is continually calling for Hillary Clinton to be prosecuted.

Just before the president set out for his Asia trip, he went on a Twitter spree and gave a series of interviews that made it clear he's serious about this. He tweeted frantically about the bogus story being pushed by Fox News about Clinton supposedly "selling out" the country to the Russians in that 2010 uranium deal. Trump made his most revealing comments of all on a radio show last Thursday:

I look at what's happening with the Justice Department. Well, why aren't they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her -- the dossier? I'm very unhappy with it, that the Justice Department isn't going. I am not supposed to be doing the kind of things that I would love to be doing. And I am very frustrated by it.

Trump's previous foreign trips have also been embarrassing, but he seems more off-kilter than usual this time. That's obviously because of the pressure he's under back home, with the indictments of his former campaign officials by special counsel Robert Mueller. That pressure has once again brought out into the open the authoritarian impulses that are becoming more and more pronounced by the day.

Back when Trump took out full-page ads calling for capital punishment and allowing police to brutalize citizens, he was just another tabloid blowhard. And during the presidential campaign, when he endorsed torture and war crimes and made racist comments about a judge's Mexican heritage, people assumed he was just being hyperbolic. When he repeatedly declared his opponent guilty of crimes, even spitting out the nasty jibe, "If I were president, you'd be in jail," at Hillary Clinton in a presidential debate, nobody thought he actually meant it. But after more than nine months of his presidency, it's become clear that Trump truly has no respect for the rule of law.

“I’m the only one that matters”: Trump’s chilling imperial power-grab
Trump has never understood, or respected, the limits on presidential power. Now he’s trying to make them disappear
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
11.06.2017•7:05 PM





President Donald Trump is overseas right now, doing personal appearances at his properties and making a fool of himself. So far, he's asked Japanese car makers to start making cars in the United States, apparently ignorant of the fact that three out of four Japanese-branded cars and trucks are already manufactured in America. And he hawked U.S. military equipment as if he were selling Trump steaks on YouTube.

That wasn't the worst of it. He also told American and Japanese troops that no nation should "underestimate American resolve." Then he quipped, "Every once in a while, in the past, they underestimated us. It was not pleasant for them, was it?"

Attagirl! 

Hmm, mikibra baya tawon ang ilang production tungod sa sea lice...

Hala, kaluoy. Dia ra ang link sa TV news:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH2GsZeeEIs

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Limited edition, feline category...