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Violent crime remains a pressing problem in Chicago, and one Mr Emanuel has failed to affect in a meaningful way. His first full year in office was particularly bad: in 2012 Chicago registered 500 murders, more than any other city in America, even though the Windy City has only a third as many inhabitants as the Big Apple. The murder rate has been inching down since then, but there are streets where no one feels safe—particularly during the summer months, when people are murdered in Chicago every day.
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As you walk among the many ruins, left to deteriorate for over 90 years, the only sound is the wind howling through a ravine that marks the border between Turkey and Armenia.
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Each of the mummies is aligned with the power of an Egyptian god. Ja-Kal uses the spirit of falcon, Rath uses the spirit of snake, Armon uses the spirit of ram, and Nefer-Tina uses the spirit of cat. They are able to call upon it for magical armor and powers to fight superhuman evildoers. Although, once their strength is exhausted, they must rest in their sarcophagi to regain the ability. In order to access these powers, the mummies call out the phrase "With the Strength of Ra! ", which triggers their transformation.
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Summary odds ratios (ORs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were computed from the unconditional logistic regression models, which included, as indicated, terms for age (in 5-year categories), study center, history of Pap smear screening (ever versus never), oral contraceptive use (never, <5 years of use, ≥5 years of use), number of full-term pregnancies (0, 1–2, 3–4, ≥5), C. trachomatis seropositivity (seronegative versus seropositive), the number of lifetime sexual partners (≤1, 2, ≥3), and age at first sexual intercourse (younger than 17 years, 17–20 years, 21 years or older). Subjects with missing values were excluded from statistical analyses.
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She first requested from each school printouts of the teachers’ credentials and the classes they led. Then she cross-referenced the classes to ensure they were in compliance with various education codes. She also checked California credentialing websites to make sure instructors were teaching the right classes. “It just drove me insane,” O’Neill recalls. “I spent so much time flipping through pages.” So O’Neill got to work on a project dubbed Access, which linked courses and credentials for each class in the district. After writing the logic, O’Neill worked with the district’s technologists to create the application.
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"We have got signals that are good for forming scar, and others that are good for regenerating tissues. "One way to think about these matrices is that we have taken out many of the stimuli for scar tissue formation and left those signals that were always there anyway for constructive remodelling." In other words when the extra cellular matrix is put on a wound, scientists believe it stimulates cells in the tissue to grow rather than scar.
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The Brexit campaign has made much of ties to the Commonwealth, particularly its richest members. They seem to think that those countries are still in England’s thrall and will remain so come what may. That’s a very naive assumption. Their populations are of increasingly diverse origin, with the exception of Nigeria and India. But it doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to think that if Britain breaks up these countries will then sever what remains of their umbilical cords, at least in terms of sovereignty if not trade and sport.
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This record fall warmth appears to be part of an ever-more-pervasive ‘death of winter’ type scenario related to human-caused global warming. And unless temperatures in the Arctic revert back toward base-line pretty soon, we are at increasing risk of hitting some state-change tipping points. In particular, these center around a nearer term loss of Arctic Ocean ice than expected. An event that could happen this year if we experience an anomalously warm winter followed by a similarly warm summer — but one that many experts expect to hold off until the 2030s.
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My family is generations of broken hearts and bruises. Colonization, violence, and internalized hatred has left my ancestral memory shattered into pieces and just as I reach down to try and piece them together, try to make some meaning out of a heritage I grew up knowing only partially, it’s swept away again. I want to make something out of the pieces that are left, but I can’t because someone else is claiming ownership over them and it’s preventing me from healing. Your whiteness taking up all the space, even the spaces that we thought were safe, keeps these wounds open.
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So in a class of 35 kids, 12 had reading disabilities. Now I'm guessing if we had just used test scores back then to evaluate me, you maybe would have thought that I had suddenly become a really crappy teacher that year. Test scores alone wouldn't have told you what happened. They wouldn't have given you an analysis of why.
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There are two potential ways the nightblood could function; if the compound triggers a genetic modification in an individual (as Clarke implies,) then it is possible that the nightblood became a recessive gene within the Grounder gene pool. This would explain the relative rarity of it, but there haven’t been enough generations for this genetic quirk to disseminate across the Grounder population.
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Five ACL injuries occurred during the regular season and one during the postseason. Five of the six wrestlers were injured in competition: one in the first period, three in the second period, and one in the third period. The only practice injury occurred in one wrestler during the final quarter. The mechanism of injury was similar for most of the athletes. Video recordings were available for four of the six wrestlers at the time of injury. Of the six wrestlers, five experienced external tibial rotation with coronal knee stress (either valgus or varus).
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Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber was appalled by the totalitarianism, neopaganism, and racism of the Nazi movement and, as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, contributed to the failure of the Nazi Munich Putsch of 1923. [33] In early 1931, the Cologne Bishops Conference condemned National Socialism, followed by the bishops of Paderborn and Freiburg. With ongoing hostility toward the Nazis by Catholic press and Centre Party, few Catholics voted Nazi in elections preceding the Nazi takeover in 1933. [34] As in other German churches, there were some clergy and lay people who openly supported the Nazi administration. [28]
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Maybe we should we should be pre-dry hopping our beer (adding dry hops to the fermenter before the wort and yeast) to take the greatest advantage of both the biotransformation process as well as the greater hop oil extraction due to not being introduced to the wort during the boil?
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Bannister must unravel the mystery of the reaper, while being trailed by Milton Dammers (played brilliantly by Jeffrey Combs), a psychotic F.B.I. agent assigned to the murders, who suspects Bannister is the killer.
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This is also a looter shooter game where gunplay feels extremely satisfying but it's not without competition. Most players looking for that quality in this genre are most likely standing at a crossroad - it's either Destiny 2 or The Division. You might argue that Warframe and Borderlands are in the mix but none of them quite hit the spot on the way guns feel like Destiny and Division did.
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This is an interesting article which says a lot of the things I've been thinking recently. I'd agree with some of the other comments about terminology, and go further in one case by saying that OO != C++ - that the language does not support dynamic typing and late binding is (if true; I don't do C++) an inditement of C++ rather than of OOP per se. There are two things I really wanted to do here: One, to echo the point that encapsulation is not everything; "do one thing and do it well" is often not enough.
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Advocates of specific a technology platform are known to rather vigoursly proselytize and defend their technology platform of choice, and they are also known to call out “blasphemy” (as they see it) against their technology platform. I guess it’s just human nature to gravitate to concepts and communities and to then defend them from perceived outside attackers. I myself have at times been among the technology platform devout over the years though I do try my best to keep it in check.
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A very simple statistical techniques suffice to reveal sensitive information such as the length of users’ passwords or even root passwords. By using advanced statistical techniques on timing information collected from the network, the eavesdropper can learn significant information about what users type in SSH sessions. [29] Because the time it takes the operating system to send out the packet after the keypress is in general negligible comparing to the interkeystroke timing, this also enables an eavesdropper to learn the precise interkeystroke timings of users’ typing from the arrival times of packets. [30]
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I sometimes think that parenting is a continuum between two poles. Obviously this is simplistic, but on the one side you have the parents’ needs and the parents’ desires held as most important and the child’s needs and child’s desires deemed irrelevant while on the other side you have the parents’ needs and the parents’ desires held as irrelevant while the child’s needs and the child’s desires are most important.
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In humans and other animals growth can occur in most parts of the body. As we mature, our bones, skin and muscle all increase in size. Trees do not grow like this. Trees grow by producing new cells in a very limited number of places. These places of cell division are called meristems. Meristems are zones of intense activity. They are where all new cells are formed and where they expand. Trees grow in height as a result of meristems that are located at their branch tips. These meristems are called apical meristems.
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To quote the mime, Marcel Marceau, "When the man in the street forgets his dream the theater becomes a myth and a dispenser of signs." Although the vast majority of creative expressions of liberation are manifested within the fantasy world of Hollywood, we already understand that Hollywood is unreal even if its effects may thoroughly permeate our reality. Despite critics' antagonisms that "Experience is not real unless it is recorded and validated through the media" millions of New Yorkers didn't need CNN to tell them that the skyline had been dramatically redrawn on September 11th even if the rest of us did.
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Residents of the tiny, triangular neighborhood squeezed in by two freeways and the Caltrain/Union Pacific tracks who spoke at Monday’s open house would prefer under as a first choice and through as the last. But under is the most expensive option because it would involve building a separate station for high-speed trains deep underground in a place where the water table is high. Through is the cheapest, because trains are already using the railroad tracks along the neighborhood’s southern border. But it would introduce much more train traffic at grade crossings.
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And then there’s this: “Well, Aimee Semple McPherson has written a book. And were you to call it a little peach, you would not be so much as scratching its surface. It is the story of her life, and it is called In the Service of the King, which title is perhaps a bit dangerously suggestive of a romantic novel. It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.”
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As I grow older and reach the age of when my parents left Afghanistan, however, I feel a sense of unresolved fascination with my parents’ generation, memories, and earlier lives. I hoped that this interview with my father could develop a better understanding of his adolescence, and connect me to exactly what my father saw as his “homeland,” unsure what it really meant to him, through his eyes.
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First off I want to say that this, is by far one of the most unintentionally misogynistic things I’ve ever read in my life. The Misandry I expected. The misogyny, not so much. Second thing I will say before we start, is that for a master’s thesis, this is very poorly written. It doesn’t flow and she can’t piece together an argument to save her life. You don’t read this thesis, you survive it. If you actually understand what she’s saying, it’s like living through that scene in a clockwork orange, where Alex is being brainwashed. It’s an utterly painful experience..
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Tony O'Brien, head of the HSE, has asked the patient safety watchdog, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), to begin a separate investigation.Meanwhile, Irish President Michael D Higgins, who earlier said the probe into Savita's death must meet the needs of her family as also the State, defended his intervention in the row.Higgins said he spoke out to express the great sadness felt in Ireland, but some felt he was sidestepping his obligation not to make political statements.
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Then there’s the increasing competition from battery-powered electric cars. As the cost of batteries drop, some carmakers see fuel cell vehicles as increasingly uncompetitive. Recently, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said that hydrogen fuel cells are no longer a major part of the automaker’s plans for the future. Instead, the Mercedes-Benz parent company said it would be doubling down on electric technology. His comments are already being interpreted as a signal that Daimler will be winding down its participation in a 2013 agreement with Ford and Renault-Nissan to jointly develop fuel cell technology.
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The two leaders decided to open ways for peace for the "larger good" of the people of the two countries.After PM Modi landed in Lahore, the two leaders flew to Sharif's palatial residence of Jati Umra Raiwind, which is some 20 km from the airport, in a chopper making it the first time that any two leaders of the two countries were travelling together.They spent about 80 minutes during which Modi greeted family members at the marriage function of Sharif's grand-daughter Mehrun Nisa (who is daughter of Mariam Nawaz Sharif) at the latter's Raiwind home.
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Whatever the reason, the result is a president who seems to have trouble learning fundamental facts even on the job. No conspiracy theory around Trump’s presidency is as frightening as this incompetence. The power of the presidency has reached extraordinary heights, and now that power lies in the hands of a man who, when confronted with risks, may simply tune out — or who may be dissuaded from danger, then forget in a few weeks why he was wrong and make the mistake anyway.
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Just is Thy punishment and as we have slain him we now dedicate our lives to his resurrection. The first was our human weakness, the second our sacred duty." "Be it so," answered the Voice from Heaven. The great Light vanished and the clouds of darkness and mist concealed the body of the murdered Master. It was swallowed up in the swirling darkness which left no mark, no gravestone to mark the place where the Builder had lain. "O God!" cried the three murderers, "where shall we find our Master now?"
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We have gradually built out the key elements of the game, first locally, with single player combat, then with a few thousand players across the internet. On 30 th May the Premium Beta extends this to many thousands of players worldwide, with an increasingly rich game. I want to take this opportunity to thank all those who have played such an important role in Alpha testing, and I’m very happy that we will continue to benefit from their valuable input as they test Beta builds approximately 2 weeks in advance of release.
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In 2007, following the success of Batman Begins and the disappointment of Superman Returns, Warner Bros. was unsure how to proceed with its bevy of comics properties. Christopher Nolan was developing what would become The Dark Knight, but WB was noodling around with the idea of culling its slew of popular characters together in a Justice League film. This would exist separately from Nolan’s films with Christian Bale not playing Batman in both movies, and would hopefully spinoff a series of other superhero movies for the future.
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Rhode said she hoped to be able to pass her rifles down to her now three-year-old son, who she plans to teach how to use a gun as soon as he is at “an appropriate age”. She said new laws in California to curtail the flow of guns will actually prevent her from inheriting her own father’s guns or maybe even give hers to her children. In fact, although it’s true that firearms defined as “assault rifles” cannot be inherited, parents can lawfully transfer non-assault weapons to their adult children. (Generally, California does not allow minors to have handguns.)
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But he spent most of his time checking his cellphone, she added.
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The essential question is—How much is he compelled to labour for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labour for his own benefit? The degree of his slavery varies according to the ratio between that which he is forced to yield up and that which he is allowed to retain; and it matters not whether his master is a single person or a society. If, without option, he has to labour for the society, and receives from the general stock such portion as the society awards him, he becomes a slave to the society.
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Three months after the police shut down the pro-democracy movement that made headlines last fall, a new wave of protests crested in parts of Hong Kong. The protests were smaller in scale, much less representative of the Umbrella Movement’s many voices, and angrier, erupting in shopping streets and malls near the Chinese border in February and March. Their grievances weren’t with the mechanics of voting, but with so-called “parallel traders” from the mainland who have been sweeping tax-free products such as baby formula off the shelves in Hong Kong and reselling them across the border for profit.
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Pallets also evolved with time and use. In order to facilitate the use of the forklifts, spacers were added in between loads, boards were then added on top of stringers to make skids. With time, boards were also secured to the bottom of the skids in order to create a pallet. It was not until 1925, when boards were attached to the bottom of these “pallets”, that the modern wood pallet was born. The addition of this bottom deck resulted in an improved weight distribution and a decrease in product damage, problems which were often encountered with the single level skid.
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Of course, most of this discussion is simply speculation at the present moment. Although nobody knows what is to follow behind the scenes at Ibrox, the developments in recent weeks have shown that radical changes may be afoot. However, there is little doubt that this change should be closely watched by the fans. The more time goes by, the more Charles Green tends to morph from the quick-witted defender of Rangers to a hard-nosed businessman; is further development in this change coming? Can anyone truly say they believe Green to be the trustworthy figure to lead the club forward?
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Also giving up your job and possibly moving to a new city in order to give a bootcamp a go without knowing if it’ll be successful and if you’ll find a job afterwards, is a big decision. Some people may not even want to attend a bootcamp, whatever their reason may be. Stop telling people that bootcamps are the way to go and stop making them feel bad about it when they either can’t afford it or have their doubts about bootcamps. There are many other ways for becoming a developer.
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Early on Saturday morning, 18 year-old Sammy Yatim pulled a knife out on a crowded streetcar that was traveling west on Dundas St. W, right by Trinity Bellwoods park. Luckily, the streetcar was stopped before anyone was hurt, the passengers were fully evacuated, and the police were quick to arrive. What followed, however, has been the source of confusion and outrage in the Trinity Bellwoods community and Toronto at large, as a police officer shot the 18-year-old nine times. Then for whatever reason, police electrified his body with a taser.
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The Wood Royal Commission identified that while there were benefits to these illegal shooting galleries, allowing police to cooperate with illegal activities could encourage corruption, it suggested an independent medical facility to continue providing safety for the users, and safety for the public by lessening the impact of drug use on the streets, such as discarded needles or drug related deaths. [31]
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Oh, each of them can spin your head off about that. But it’s mostly about cable bundling, the decades-long concept that might finally be coming to an end. Or rather, the beginning of its end. With so many (in both the industry and consumers) pushing or pleading for change, and with streaming services making that change happen faster than anyone expected, we’re not far from the end of the way the cable industry used to do business and the beginning of some alternative that, soon enough, won’t be able to support cable channels nobody watches.
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“The whole colony, moreover, had suffered. The people had been so determined upon hunting out and destroying witches that they had neglected everything else. Planting, cultivating, the care of houses, barns, roads, fences, were all forgotten. As a direct result, food became scarce and taxes higher. Farms were mortgaged or sold, first to pay prison fees, then to pay taxes; frequently they were abandoned. Salem Village began that slow decay which eventually erased its houses and walls, but never its name and memory.”
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Unsecured hazardous materials cargo Edit Bainton and others hypothesize that Ourang Medan might have been involved in smuggling operations of chemical substances such as a combination of potassium cyanide and nitroglycerin or even wartime stocks of nerve agents. According to these theories, sea water would have entered the ship's hold, reacting with the cargo to release toxic gases, which then caused the crew to succumb to asphyxia and/or poisoning. Later, the sea water would have reacted with the nitroglycerin, causing the reported fire and explosion.
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But if there’s something just a bit unsavory about judging a paper solely by who wrote it, there’s good reason for it. The scientific world prides itself on judging content of ideas, not presumed integrity of authors. It’s the rationale behind the widespread practice of research journals blinding reviewers of authors’ names. Using any criteria other than quality in scientific evaluation is admittedly a kind of bias – something we are usually quite wary of in science.
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Politically active corporate and religious interests benefit from privatizing schools. They work in legislatures to protect profits and shield curriculum content and workers’ rights issues from outside interference. Though private school teachers have fewer messy real-world problems at work, they receive even lower salaries and exercise even fewer of the limited labor rights that public school teachers struggle to maintain. Mexico is profoundly Catholic.
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Our team, a mix of physicists and seismologists in the US and Europe, used pen-and-paper and supercomputers to make a first theoretical estimation of how large these early gravity signals could be (Harms et al, 2015). The results looked “promising”: observing the phenomenon with current instrumentation promised to be a nice challenge. Our best bet was then to look for recordings of the huge 2011 Tohoku, Japan earthquake by a superconductive gravimeter installed in a quiet underground site, 500 km away from the epicenter, and by nearby broadband seismic stations.
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George has discovered in the past several months what Durant and LeBron James already knew about superstar defections. “There’s no right way to handle it,” George says. “I get the frustration. I get why people are upset. But at the same time, I want the average fan to understand that we only get a small window to play this game and more than anything you want to be able to play for a championship. I wanted to bring that to Indiana. I really did. I love Indiana.
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"The teachers that come here are young, they’re well-meaning, they’re teaching basic Chinese. They're pretty free to do what they like. We pick the textbooks. Hanban doesn’t force anything on us, and they never have. They’ve never interfered. We select the teachers, but of course they’re selected from a list that they present, just like, for example, Fulbright scholars are selected from a list. They're vetted here, and the list is sent to home countries and they pick. There’s nothing sinister in that, and they make it sound that way, and I think it’s kind of regrettable."
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Another set of job data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that is less timely but based on more detailed employment reports filed by businesses, also showed that the pace of hiring slowed to just 0.7 percent during the first three months of this year, which was slightly less than half of the 1.3 percent increase in jobs during the same period in 2016. That data also showed that hiring here was less than half of the 1.5 percent nationwide pace.
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It is the artists’ intervention on powerfully articulated symbolic material that can touch others, elicit responses and open up a space of reciprocity for many different uses of the radical imagination.
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No one is going to take criticism from someone they can’t respect, and on the flip side no one is going to deliver criticism well to someone they don’t respect. Telling someone “This idea is god awfully stupid because bla bla bla just never do that again.” vs “I think we might be better off doing something like this because bla bla bla.” means the world of difference in any team environment. The former sounds like someone is thinking to themselves “I just can’t take your shit anymore.” while the latter promotes more of a collaboration.
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She had seen Ivanka Trump speak at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in California the month prior. She knew of the American businesswoman and former model’s desire to be seen as an advocate for feminism. And she nearly missed her plane home in order to witness firsthand how Ivanka would handle questions about the alleged sexual indiscretions that dogged her father’s campaign. “She was impressive — she handled it with a lot of poise and grace,” Telford says.
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A judge found, “Requiring reasonable suspicion for all computer searches may ‘allow individuals to render graphic contraband, such as child pornography, largely immune to [a] border search simply by scanning images onto a computer disk before arriving at the border.’…Thus, the level of suspicion required to conduct a search of information carried by a person should not be based on the form in which that information is kept and presented at the border.” It declined to dismiss House’s claim his Fourth Amendment rights were violated because of how long the government held on to his devices when they were seized.
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The launch of the initiative was widely covered by the international press. The leading European media reflected in their reports the following days both the potential of the movement and the major contradictions it faces. Varoufakis was asked by the press about the relationship between his initiative and the proposals that exist on the part of other leaders of the European left to confront and to handle the so-called "crisis of neoliberalism", namely the position of Oskar Lafontaine in Germany and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France, for a recovery of sovereignty and a return to national currencies, abandoning the euro.
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But Aamer’s own campaigning spirit may be working against him. “The irony is that Shaker may be the victim of what he has done inside Guantanámo rather than anything he might be suspected of doing previous to his captivity. He has been a thorn in the side of the prison authorities, organising hunger strikes and fighting for prisoners’ rights. By all accounts he is a charismatic and eloquent man,” said investigative journalist and author Andy Worthington.
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JL: It's made me realize how the fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing. As for observing the world, it struck me that I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting.
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Porter said there is room for improvement at the high school level. “Skyline is solid, Oakland High is getting better and better,” he said, attributing Oakland High’s success to current music director David Byrd. But he expressed concern about Oakland Tech requirements that may restrict students from taking more than one year of fine arts. “A lot of students in high school will do one year of instrumental music, and in many cases that’s all they can do,” Porter said.
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Sigh…. Deadpool is 70 points with 8 clicks of life that, wait really?! 8 clicks of life? Geez, okay… with Indom- Are you serious?! Okay, get through this. Deadpool is 70 points with 8 clicks of life, Indom, 6 range, with a single target. His numbers are…. incredible for his point cost with appropriately strong powers to match. He starts off with 9 Running Shot which drops to 9 Charge on click 4, and 8 Stealth on clicks 7 and 8. His attack is naked (See! You want to see my raisin buns!)
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If a character like Linkle had been around back then, it might have helped – but who knows? I mean … look at Linkle. Kid-me would’ve just put her in the “Sheik” box and continued to hate pink. I remember picking Trini as my favorite Power Ranger because she wore yellow; I hated Kimberly because pink was “for girls” and therefore it meant stupid. Even though Kimberly was actually pretty rad in the original show, Trini was “the smart one” – and the less feminine one. That message stuck with me — and it didn’t hurt that it was everywhere.
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Furthermore, bypassing all the international organizations and their resolutions, a certain “group of friends of Syria” will declare a decision to establish a no-fly zone over Syria to “ensure the safety of the civilian population” as part of the US “R2P – Responsibility To Protect strategy. After a repeated provocative episode, for example, the use of chemical weapons, there will be an announcement for the beginning of a full scale military operation against the “criminal regime and its ally”
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Apart from that, the code feels very similar to programming against normal Haskell data types and characterizes fgl in general pretty well. DFS Our maze algorithm is going to be a randomized depth-first search. We can first write a simple, non-random DFS and then go from that to our maze algorithm. That’s one of my favorite ways to implement more difficult algorithms: start with something really simple and iterate. The basic DFS is actually pretty similar to mapNodes except that we’re going to build up a list of visited nodes as we go along instead of building a new graph.
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“Sometimes Nedra was obnoxious and said things that were so out of line and shocking, but the woman is unbelievable in her loyalty toward her daughters.” Patsy and Judith Phillips, raising children roughly the same age, were drawn to each other, although there were differences. “Patsy was very pro-life,” says Phillips. “I was a feminist.” Patsy was involved in Atlanta’s Junior League and a ladies-who-lunch charity called SocieTea. And up until the birth of her son, Burke, she worked. Phillips says Patsy had very expensive taste.
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This effect can be found in many domains of physics, but can usually be reduced to insignificance by using different instruments or observation techniques.
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Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy — which was always exclusively for Jews — has been hijacked by extremists who are pushing the country toward fascism. Many of Israel’s most enlightened and educated citizens — 1 million of them — have left the country.
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Riley, at 33 years old, has become one of the hotter names in the business over the last few years, first for running some high-scoring attacks at East Carolina and then taking that show to OU, where his version of the Mike Leach Air Raid has put up some huge numbers for quarterback Baker Mayfield as well as tailbacks Joe Mixon and Samaje Perine. Riley is in the position to kind of wait on his chance to be a head coach, so this seems unlikely.
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"It is wildly irresponsible for LA Talk Radio to allow a Trump fanatic to co-host one of their programs, where she can spew her idiotic lies unchecked. (Being a liberal and a patriot are mutually exclusive? Hillary is causing the protests & hate crimes? The Koran is a political tract? )," he wrote, referencing the numerous topics discussed on Wednesday's episode. "As much as I love [cohost] Sheena Metal, I think LA Talk Radio needs to give 'Cindy Brady' her walking papers. I will not listen to or appear on any shows there from this point forward until she's gone.
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For every video he watches, Angle gets 0.00004 bitcoins, or about half a cent, thanks to a service, called BitcoinGet, that shamelessly drives artificial traffic to certain online clips. He can watch up to 12 videos a day, which gets him to about six cents. * And he can beef up this daily take with Bitcoin Tapper, a mobile app that doles out about 0.000133 bitcoins a day – a couple of pennies – if he just taps on a digital icon over and over again.
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You have redeemed and made us whole. Holy is your name in all the earth forever. Amen!Please be praying for us as we discern the right time to come home. There is much to be done in terms of preparing Exodus Cry for their future safety in events such as the one they just experienced.Be praying for Jen and the kids. The have sacrificed so much over the past several years, but even more now than ever before.Please cover Terrance, Taylor, Tanner and Tucker. Each one of them have been experiencing nightmares nearly every night since we have arrived.
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On the one side human life, the source of all meaning, a free consciousness bent on making its freedom real and on the other the sheer weight of circumstances that not only resist this freedom but threaten to turn human actions into inhuman results.
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Perhaps the definitive case of 'What Might Have Been' in cinema, the lifecycle of the Alien franchise immediately after 1986’s Aliens was as complex as that of its own xenomorphs. Ridley Scott and Renny Harlin were linked with Alien³ before a newbie filmmaker called David Fincher was parachuted in (without, it later transpired, a parachute), and a miscellany of writers worked across a variety of storylines, each of which would have taken the Alien mythology in a vastly different direction. Some were dazzlingly original and laden with metaphor and subtext; some more hidebound and derivative and involved aliens ransacking New York.
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After World War II, only the British and the French branches of the Rothschild family remained. In Britain the family has a "boutique" investment bank, NM Rothschild & Sons, which engages mainly in consulting, underwriting and mergers and acquisitions. In France the primary businesses are Rothschild & Cie Banque, owned by David de Rothschild, and the banks of his cousin Benjamin. David's has a higher public profile in Paris, because of its involvement in large industrial transactions, but the banking branch controlled by Benjamin is several times the size of Rothschild & Cie.
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Phillips, a 24-year-old former five-year member of the U.S. ski team, had never played football at any level before earning the Utes' starting place-kicking job this season. Through six games, he's a perfect 11-for-11 on field goals and 27-for-27 on extra points. On Saturday, he kicked a career-long 48-yard field goal to help the Utes upset No. 5 Stanford 27-21, the first time Utah defeated a top-five ranked opponent at home. Phillips also has successfully converted two onside kicks this season.
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Not at all. The LCBO has installed three Pegas growler-filling stations. You may have seen the fillers this company makes at Toronto breweries like Great Lakes, Indie Ale House or the (now closed) Beer Academy. Unlike a regular beer tap they first fill the growler with carbon dioxide before the beer starts pouring. This flushes oxygen (the enemy of fresh beer) and creates a counter-pressure to keep the beer carbonated. Equipment-wise this is pretty much the best-case scenario.
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Then, in 2014, in a ‘dry run’ of today’s crisis, the Saudis, UAE and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Doha following a Qatari proposal to help Iran develop its side of the North Field/ South Pars gas field. But what’s taking place now is much more serious. And that is largely because of the likely earth-shattering impact of the decisions surely now being considered by the two powers over where their gas will go, how it will get there. And in what currency it will be sold.
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Before transitioning, over 10 years ago, I really thought about changing careers, but along the way, I realized that being an astronomer is as much my identity than anything else is. I don't drop stuff from my past, but I de-gender it. I haven't totally figured out how to talk about who I was in the past, and that's challenging. My latest fun thing is to just tell people "do a 'man xterm'" if they want to find out what my name used to be. So, accept and don't take it too seriously.
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Perhaps a deck will emerge with Call of the Conclave, Giantbaiting, Wake the Reflections, and Sigil Blessing but without the reach of Red it is likely to come up short.
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The prices on firearms often vary quite a bit, month to month, season to season. There are gluts and shortages, particularly in foreign imports and surplus guns - an importer might bring in literally a warehouse worth of stuff from Serbia, and then for a month or two this particular AK is cheap and available everywhere - but when the warehouseload is gone, the prices go up $100 or more. This is even more true for surplus equipment - if you are old enough, you may remember the era of a $80 Russian SKS - which sells for $500+ today.
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When Benny moved to television, audiences learned that his verbal talent was matched by his controlled repertory of dead-pan facial expressions and gesture. The program was similar to the radio show (several of the radio scripts were recycled for television, as was somewhat common with other radio shows that moved to television), but with the addition of visual gags. Lucky Strike was the sponsor. Benny did his opening and closing monologues before a live audience, which he regarded as essential to timing of the material.
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So not only did Lana have a marriage and child in her past - a family that has never been mentioned before or since - but she keeps her dead son's ear (which she describes as "a dried piece of skin that looks like an apricot") at her bank. Did I mention what an enjoyable comic this was?
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We will of course never know for sure, but the psychoactive properties of the many plants and fungi at the Greeks’ disposal is unlikely to have escaped the investigation of these early scientists.29 While Hadot’s “privileged experience” can be cultivated in any number of ways, including meditation, the most reliably fast-acting across the ages has been through psychedelics (a beautiful Greek word meaning “that which makes visible the contents of the psyche”), the significance of which will have to be explored in future discussion.30
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At $615,000 of contributions, as an experiment, we're going all Sidereal on you and prognosticating that there are three possible Stretch Goals that might occur. We'll only know after the $600K Goal is met. They are: 1) We'll hire full page art from famous comic artists to go into the EX3 Comic by Zub, 2) A set of Ready Made Characters PDF, 3) an additional +5% pay bump for the creative team. Update: we went with the +5% Pay Bump for this Goal.
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Putterman and Weil say their findings are in line with other studies that find centuries-long persistence in the impact of other growth determinants, including the long-standing presence of state-level polities, the early transition to agriculture, and early advancement with respect to technologies like writing and number systems. But when Putterman and Weil examine these early indicators — then adjust for the origin of nations' current populations — the impact on today's incomes becomes even stronger.
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They used most of the money they had on ... running backs? With Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell forming a productive one-two punch at running back last year, Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan could have looked at his dangerous duo and remembered how cheaply they were acquired. Granted, they both arrived in town before Maccagnan, but Powell was a fourth-round pick and Ivory was acquired for a pick in the same round. Even in 2015, their combined cap hit was less than $5 million. That's a smart way to put together a running back duo.
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By the time Maggie was born, Homer had shown great signs of distress, but he managed to find motivation in the form of his newborn baby girl. [3]
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Fixed an issue where Ice Comets had less health than intended. Battlegrounds and Arenas Conquest vendors have been temporarily removed while we investigate an issue with Conquest caps. Items Timeless Curio should no longer create Contemplation of Chi-Ji for Elemental Shamans, Shadow Priests, and Balance Druids. Timeless Isle [Requires a realm restart] Celestials in The Celestial Court will now only rotate their order after they have been defeated.
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In early October, Hurricane Nate became the fastest-moving tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico while also becoming the fourth hurricane of the year to make landfall in the contiguous United States. Slightly over a week later, Hurricane Ophelia became the easternmost major hurricane in the Atlantic basin on record, and later impacted most of Northern Europe as an extratropical cyclone. The season concluded with Tropical Storm Rina, which became a post-tropical cyclone on November 9, although the season did not officially end until November 30.
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Later Fred suggests that Mels learns to perform in order to impress girls, as he himself does. The remark leaves Mels determined to find a saxophone and learn to play it.
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[43]:132 After the assassination of Garfield (2 July 1881) and the accession of Chester A. Arthur to the presidency, Blaine was replaced by Frederik T. Frelinghuysen as secretary of state. Frelinghuysen thought that the USA was in no position to back Blaine's policy and recalled the Trescot mission. Kenneth D. Lehmann states about the USA policy:
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Just like a stroll around World Showcase invites you to sip many different wines, you can also enjoy many specialty beers. I recommend that you enjoy wine and beers on separate days. Of course you can hit the UK and Germany for a good brew, but there are some other options in the World Showcase as well. You will find Carlsberg in Norway, Dos Equis in Mexico, Tsing Tao in China, Birra Moretti in Italy, Kronenbourg in France, and Moosehead in Canada among others in other countries. Take the opportunity to try something new!
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The first recruits in the regiment were nicknamed the "Blue Puttees" due to the unusual colour of the puttees, chosen to give the Newfoundland Regiment a unique look, but quickly abandoned when the first five hundred reached England in October 1914. The headquarters for recruiting and training was also supplied by the CLB, as was the nucleus of the command structure. In fact, the first man to enlist was also a member of the CLB.
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On September 2, 2011, Ablow admitted he never interviewed, diagnosed or treated Bono in a professional setting. He wrote in his opinion piece on FoxNews.com, “Chaz Bono didn’t come to me for help, though. She [sic] didn’t ask me for my opinion. But when she [sic] decided to promote gender reassignment surgery in the media as a happy triumph, she [sic] ended up getting my attention, anyhow… Would you not prefer that they try every available medication to impact mood, thought and perception before going under the knife?”
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We are currently going through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process to select release locations and assess and mitigate impacts to land owners and managers in the region," says West. "The return of condors to the Pacific Northwest, after more than a century-long absence, will be a testament to the ability of federal, tribal, state, and private entities to come together to champion the cause of wildlife, ecosystem, and cultural recovery in our region."
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Because Director feared collectivism, and believed certain classes of people favored different freedoms more than others and would strip certain ones away if they could, Director did not have much confidence in majoritarian decision-making. He believed it was a necessity, in a democratic society, but an evil one as well, that needed to be mitigated by a system guided by the elite class. This is probably the main difference between him and Knight, his counterpart at the time.
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Please leave your comments below!- I'm a fan of AirBnb and have been renting out my apartment regularly for over a year as well as using the service in other cities.
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NARRATOR: To keep its exacting schedule and the money flowing, everything on the platforms must be orderly and run like clockwork. After incoming passengers exit, cleaners enter and finish very quickly. Outgoing passengers, who have been waiting in designated lines, enter their assigned doors. Conductors check departure time, and once the platform clears, gates close and the train leaves. All this takes place in five minutes or less, hundreds of times a day. Rarely is a train late. And this could only happen with rigorous training.
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Over the next years he would use these drawings to create many of the iconic paintings featured below.
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Ian Stewart is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of King's College. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics (Trent University), an MA in History and Philosophy of Science (Toronto) and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, (Cambridge). In the History of Science and Technology Programme at King's he teaches courses in the history of science and of medicine from the ancient to the early modern period, including a course on the history of the interaction of science and religion.
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