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CRTC chair Jean-Pierre Blais, a Harper appointee who has allowed the CRTC to become greatly diminished, has also set us on a course that will make it more and more difficult for Canadians to view stories about ourselves. This, despite the fact that it is only our Canadianness that distinguishes us: Our compassion, our humour, our concern about issues such as cultural diversity, healthcare, and the environment. A Canadian culture that cannot speak to Canadianness through its own storytelling is not Canada. We should not accept it. Nor should the Liberal government.
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There is a difference between the mindset of a master stonemason sculpting the expression on the face of a gargoyle and someone using the commodity blocks that make up a multi-storey car park. In the latter case the last thing I want is someone’s “personality” causing some of the blocks to be different sizes and no longer interchangeable, never mind the added expense of having someone manually hew the stone rather than using machine tools. In the former the stonemason’s attitude is indulgent. He is putting his signature (and his ego, and his reputation) into this magnificent representation of Hell’s best.
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At the Last HOPE conference, University of Pennsylvania researchers who led EVEREST's analysis of ES&S e-voting technology described exploitable security vulnerabilities in almost every hardware and software component of ES&S's touch-screen and optical-scan systems. Some of these flaws, Clark said, could allow a single voter or poll worker with bad intentions to alter countywide election results, possibly without election officials ever knowing that the results had been tampered with. "There wasn't an attack that we tried that we weren't able to carry out," she added. "We learned that every current e-voting system has serious exploitable vulnerabilities."
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He said, and I quote, Mr. Speaker: "'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large.
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This is America, and you shouldn’t have to die for it. The death threats that I’m getting are constant and they are detailed and they are serious and they are specific. And today it’s me, and tomorrow it could be you. I don’t think I will have a career after this. I think he — I’m going to be honest, he broke me. And then I was like, no, this isn’t right, it’s just not right. There’s a bunch of old white guys trying to silence me and I’m just here to say that’s wrong.
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I have to wonder, naturally, whether Google's decision to delist NaturalNews.com is part of its attempt to clean up fake news. To be honest, as much as I despise Adams and his website, I'm not sure that NaturalNews.com qualifies as fake news. Adams rarely makes up stories out of whole cloth. Rather, like every good propagandist he takes existing news stories and information sources, cherry picks from them, and then weaves them together into a deceptive, biased tale designed to rile up his readers by confirming their conspiracy theories, all while misrepresenting science and evidence to fuel his quackery-supporting narratives.
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Dean Medland, vice president of combat vehicle programmes at BAE Systems stated that this allows the company to "offer our customers a mature, low-cost technology that can enhance the performance of current and future combat vehicles. "FUTURE POWER CHALLENGESDemands in combat vehicles for more electrical power has increased several fold in just the last decade. Mark Signorelli, vice president and general manager for combat vehicles at BAE Systems reflected to Armada that "in future armoured vehicles could be stressed to meet electrical power demands."
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In Ohio in 2007, the Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, after the largest independent study of its kind, recommend the ES&S iVotronic, as well as the state's other "nationally certified" Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems no longer be used. "To put it in every-day terms," Brunner said when the study was released, "the tools needed to compromise an accurate vote count could be as simple as tampering with the paper audit trail connector or using a magnet and a personal digital assistant."
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Undying Loyalty. I can’t say that there aren’t loyal UNC fans, but I do see a lot more cars on the road with removable UNC magnets than I do NC State decals.  Loyalty to a fault is exactly the identity of NC State as a fan base and it is what keeps us coming back to the games week-in and week-out even when times are rough.  We don’t know why we do it; we just do.
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There wasn’t enough focus on the external influences that guide our choices; I wanted to hear more about how our colonial history has always placed people of colour beneath white people in the racial pile or, alternatively, exotified us to the degree that we’re caught in a double-bind of desirability being hinged exclusively on race.
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Don't think it could never happen here, that Quakers are immune from such behaviour, that we are somehow so much better that such unpleasantness is unthinkable.
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Our work is focused on changing legislation as it is unanimously recognised that it is really only national and international policy that can halt climate chaos. Now that we have succeeded in getting the environment to the top of the political agenda, our challenge is to make sure that Government takes the right action, now. Ask any Defra Minister and they'll tell you we're getting through - however willing they've been to listen.
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Technically, progressive steering differs from the basic steering system primarily by the rack’s variable tooth spacing and a more powerful electric motor. Its functional difference: Unlike with constant steering ratios, which by necessity always represent a compromise between dynamic performance and comfort, here the steering rack’s toothing is significantly modified by the steering stroke. This results in more precise and relaxed driving in the middle steering range up to high speeds; due to the smaller steering input angles that are required, the system offers significantly greater agility and more driving fun on roads with lots of bends.
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Vol 7 No 2. Monday, March 6, 2017: Thankfully February was a short month again this year, so I hope you’ll forgive me for not having a newsletter out last month. Unfortunately I must ask your further indulgence for still not including a full “news and notes” or even “new books and audiobooks” section in this newsletter, even as (especially) publication notes begin to pile up to the ceiling! But enough of my groveling, let’s jump right in and talk about some upcoming events:
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Besides predicting customers’ questions, another interesting RNN experiment we worked on was exploring how well the actions that customers take during signup can predict whether the account is fraudulent. We initially attempted to answer this question with more traditional data exploration techniques by constructing features manually and looking at correlations. This previous analysis failed as there was too much noise in the data and it was difficult to find time based patterns and deal effectively with the information contained in categorical variables.
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His weekly column, 'National Interest', currently published in India Today, is in its 20th year.)
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“I’ve given kids a day off of football before because they’re so overwhelmed with academics, or the combination of everything,” Martinovich said. “A lot of times it happens as freshmen because they’re still trying to understand how to balance everything. Once they figure it out, it’s a little easier but there are tough weeks. Sometimes we have to adjust practice or whatever, but I’m never going to ask my players to sacrifice academics for football here, and they understand that.”
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6. Share this information with EVERYONE you know in Virginia. Together, we can stand up for the Constitution and liberty! Today, the Virginia State Senate held a procedural vote on House Bill 1160 (HB1160), commonly referred to as the “Virginia NDAA Nullification Bill.” There was a “motion to recommit” the bill – essentially delaying a vote on it until next year. The bill was almost put on hold as the vote in the Senate was 20-20. The Lt. Governor, though, decided that this was an issue worth voting on now, not next year, and was the deciding vote that stopped the motion.
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Neither Johnson nor Weld are libertarian radicals. Both have offended the purist extremes of their party, but would seem pragmatic and sensible to the general public. Both oversaw growing budgets and debts in their respective state, although both did so in the face of Democratic legislatures that actually controlled the purse strings. Both left their states with a balanced budget and lower taxes. Johnson vetoed a third of all bills that came across his desk. Weld turned around Massachusett’s unemployment crisis.
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We are now in the heart of the TraumWerk: a 4,000-square-foot landscape over 16 feet high. A piece of Europe in miniature: Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, including Lake Constance. In total one hundred and eighty trains, all from Porsche’s private collection. Forty of them are chugging along at the same time on nine separate tracks – a total of 1.7 miles of rail lines – while their companions are recuperating in 32 fiddle yards below the installation. Thirty model cars are en route. The skiers at Semmering Pass are not sliding down the mountain – “Well, not yet,” Porsche calls out.
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But what does that mean to PreK-12 educators? It means that a consideration of diversity is starting to deeply permeate the things that individual and institutional ASEE members do, and this should impact the way we interact with you and your students. From the outreach materials we produce, to how we present materials at college fairs, to the support we give to K-12 institutions, to the regions where we focus outreach efforts, to who we hire, to what kind of freshmen classes are offered and how they’re designed…I could go on.
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Behind the administrative muddle, this case provides us with a glimpse of the reality endured by the thousands of people who were forced onto the roads of Europe by the wars of the 1990s and obliged to reinvent their social identity to survive.
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DA: [Laughs] Probably the latter. My father was a newspaper editor. He started doing film reviews, so he’s probably the one who got me interested in film. He watched a lot of movies. That might be where it came from. I was kind of discouraged, because it was seen as “Hey, Mum and Dad, I want to be a rock star”, you know “I want to work in movies” – “Yeah, yeah, whatever”. I think they thought maybe photography, maybe advertising, something like that, could be a more realistic option.
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And the reason the Indian example is so important and the Supreme Court's holding in Elk v. Wilkins in 1884 is so important is they were neither ambassadors and they were not foreign invaders occupying our territory. They were born in the United States, but the Supreme Court held that they did not owe allegiance to the United States because they owed allegiance to another power.
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The emphasis of deed over creed encourages the individual (irrespective of personal belief or doubts of faith) to help build a better world through acts of social justice (tikkun olam) and provides the individual with a variety of opportunities to do so. The doing of these good deeds, which emerge from a foundation of positive Jewish values, brings me closer to others and to humanity. The affirmation of one God is the unity principle that is the foundation of Jewish faith. Judaism encourages questioning and debate. Faith comes through struggle. The result of this struggle helps to define Jewish theology.
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MIR2911 also inhibited H5N1 and H7N9 viral replication in vitro and in vivo. Strikingly, administration of MIR2911 or HS decoction dramatically reduced mouse mortality caused by H5N1 infection. Our results demonstrate that MIR2911 is the first active component identified in Traditional Chinese Medicine to directly target various IAVs and may represent a novel type of natural product that effectively suppresses viral infection.
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This, in turn, causes the photon Bob has to collapse into the state of Alice’s original photon, thereby teleporting quantum states between Alice and Bob, who can, in theory, be separated by a distance of miles.
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So how is it that a script/show like this can get so much heat, and land on such a quality network like HBO, when its pilot is so subpar? GREAT QUESTION! I’m trying to figure that out myself. But I’d like to venture a guess. Cohle is an interesting character. I mean, I wasn’t interested by him. His bleak depressing persona actually kinda put me off. But his whole extreme philosophy about how life is meaningless along with the crazy attention to detail he has for investigating murders – I can see an actor wanting to play that role.
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Out of over 4800 commits since 1.7.9-jumbo-7, over 2600 are by magnum, making him the top contributor. Other prolific contributors are JimF, Dhiru Kholia, Claudio Andre, Frank Dittrich, Sayantan Datta. There are also multiple commits by (or attributed to) Lukas Odzioba, ShaneQful, Alexander Cherepanov, rofl0r, bwall, Narendra Kangralkar, Tavis Ormandy, Spiros Fraganastasis, Harrison Neal, Vlatko Kosturjak, Aleksey Cherepanov, Jeremi Gosney, junmuz, Thiebaud Weksteen, Sanju Kholia, Michael Samuel, Deepika Dutta, Costin Enache, Nicolas Collignon, Michael Ledford. There are single commits by (or attributed to) many other contributors as well (including even one by atom of hashcat).
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Name Bio Ability Bat Glove Stats Red Yoshi A speedy Yoshi with all-around skills. Tongue Catch Left Right Pitch 3/10 Bat 4/10 Field 4/10 Run 8/10 Blue Yoshi A speedy Yoshi with a decent arm. Tongue Catch Left Right Pitch 4/10 Bat 2/10 Field 6/10 Run 8/10 Yellow Yoshi A speedy Yoshi with a decent bat. Tongue Catch Left Right Pitch 3/10 Bat 4/10 Field 6/10 Run 7/10 Light Blue Yoshi A speedy Yoshi with a decent glove. Tongue Catch Left Right Pitch 3/10 Bat 3/10 Field 6/10 Run 8/10 Pink Yoshi An extra-speedy Yoshi who loves to run.
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The German use of “Ersatz” vehicles was not unknown, but Major Alfred Becker of 21st Panzer Division took things to new heights as a marvel of recycling, and on an industrial scale too, at the Hotchkiss plant near Paris – becoming known as Baukommando Becker. In Tunisia, May 1943, the vaunted 21st Panzer Division of the Afrika Korps had ceased to exist. It was reconstituted as Schnell Brigade West in France during June 1943, but had nothing to start with other than a few troops. Becker transformed it using captured French halftracks and light tanks, which he armoured and upgunned.
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All in all, though, Torment is a great watch. There’s a shot near the the beginning of the film that shows the family eating lunch at a picnic pavilion. Behind them, fog carpets the outside and gives a ghostly feeling to the film. This was appropriate as you can feel the ghost of Liam’s mother haunting the film as well. It’s well shot (even though my screener was doing something funny with the lighting), and the performances are outstanding. DaCunha is a great child actor that plays well off his adult counterparts.
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By the time Perry sold his 40-acre farm in 1998, claiming a $17,693 loss on his federal income taxes for that year, Texas taxpayers had been paying his salary for nearly a decade. They continue to do so — $300 a month as a state representative in the early days, $150,000 a year as governor, in addition to numerous fringe benefits and a generous retirement package. Taxpayers also pay $10,000 a month, plus expenses, for the Perry’s rental home in West Austin while the governor’s mansion is restored.
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=C2=A0 We use an algorithm to cr= eate a list of potential thought leaders and then chose the actual group in= consultation with our clients.=C2=A0 This gives us an ability to weed out = potential embarrassing choices.
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I started to see it everywhere, and I also started to find a lot of amazing information on it, including others who had used it with success to heal everything from arthritic joints to severe lifelong depression. All of a sudden my friends started to see it everywhere, it was a very cool phenomenon. I continue to use this very sacred plant ally through tincture I make myself. I use it daily to take away the pain of living with lyme disease, as there has been a tolerance I have developed and I do need more now.
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Not even death liberated me. At least Emperor Kōmei passed away in a less violent manner in this new world. This brought me to my vote at Peking, that we were hallucinating and the amnestics will cure us. Actually, I only want to forget. But the consensus was reached, and I am not allowed to forget. One insisted that we were fated to work together, and no one else shall stand alongside us in this council. At least it was tolerable, knowing that there were others like me. Three, Seven and Thirteen were very positive influences.
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I have spoken about that and that is why I have all the more reason to explain the dangers jeopardizing humankind today, when wars have become the biggest suicide risk for our fragile species.
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2a,d) reveals superficial landslides on the margins and thin layers of units 1 and 2 on the floor (Fig. 2d). A prominent landslide deposit at the foot of the headwall can be distinguished (Fig. 1a,d). Deep faulting is not observed, beneath either the breach headwall or beneath the margins (Figs 2d and 3).
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Trump may find a diplomatic deal with Ankara for Brunson appealing. After all, one of his few diplomatic accomplishments since taking office was securing the release, during the visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, of charity worker Aya Hjiazi, an American citizen who had been jailed in Cairo for three years. But trading a peaceful faith leader imprisoned on spurious charges in exchange for a sleazy middleman accused of corrupting a foreign government on behalf of Iran would only help Erdogan suborn the rule of law in the United States as he has done in Turkey.
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Finally, the packets make their way back to the access network, where your smartphone resides.
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By late 1944 the 30th flotilla had sent to the bottom just over 45,000 tons of Soviet shipping (with most of this damage done during 1943) but by September of 1944 the Red Army was sweeping through the Balkans. All six Type IIB U-boats of the 30th flotilla were subsequently scuttled - three off the Romanian coast and three along the Turkish coast. The Turks interned the crews for the remainder of the war.
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Alternatively, it is also possible that the pattern of results observed in the current study is an indication that cardiorespiratory fitness in females may bare less impact on reducing excessive cardiovascular responses to psychological stresscompared with men. Previous reports by Rimmele and colleagues have shown that in men, elevated levels of cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with attenuated cardiovascular responses (lower HR) to psychological stress[16, 17]. We did not observe an obvious attenuation of cardiovascular reactivity pattern in the higher-fit women in the current experiment.
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The Internet can be ignored, but if someone who you’re talking to has it, and is telling you their stories, it’s harder to ignore. You can’t just turn them off.”
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A true match for the best Voskhods, wonderful flow, large sound stage, sweetly musical. Just a touch more layed back then the above Voskhod Rockets. Backgroud textures were clear and silky smooth. On Florence and The Machine ‘Dog Days Are Over’ no etch on Welch’s voice which can be heard on some tubes. I use this track to test for this and in the middle section – for congestion – as it gets very loud and busy. Not with the USNs, everything cleanly seperated, easy to follow, no strain at all.
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Heavy metal and hardcore label group Century Media has pulled all its labels from Spotify, according to the company, "to protect the interests of their artists". Labels include Century Media and associated labels InsideOutMusic, Superballmusic, Ain't no Grave Records, Hollywood Waste and People Like You. "Spotify in its present shape and form isn't the way forward," the company said in a statement siting potential loss of income. "Physical sales are dropping drastically in all countries where Spotify is active."
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Like NFL, I don't know, maybe you have to receive half a million dollars per year just to play in the NFL or maybe a quarter of a million. The UFC's not like that. They can offer someone, you know, $5,000 and $5,000, the guy can fight at first and get his face broken to pieces and then he can totally put on a poor performance and then get fired. That scares me. I would like to be paid like an athlete and, I don't know.
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As with bourbon, ground grain is mixed with water and a bit of mash from a previous distillation, in what's known as a sour-mash process. This introduces yeasts from the previous distillation. In baking terms, it's similar to using a sourdough starter to begin the fermentation process. The sour-mash process has two advantages: first, it creates a consistent environment for yeast from batch to batch, helping ensure that each batch of whiskey has a consistent flavor and aroma with batches that came before.
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He has a sensibility and an oddness to him… and a directness and a fantastic sense of humor … in many many ways we are similar in our approach to work (…) So I respect him on a pretty fundamental level (…) He’s an actor who has the ability to play in the outer field of basic acting work (…) He is a very generous, very sensitive, very thoughtful, focused, disciplined actor and, you know, when you work with somebody like that it’s just like playing… like Ronnie Scotts with B.B.
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But most of all, JAST is not abandoning its fans. They have to maintain a facade of plausible deniability. They’re unlikely to be prosecuted in the US over content in Shiny Days, but it’s still possible. Christopher Handley of Iowa was charged under US federal statutes and sentenced to 6 months in jail in 2010 for obscene manga including sexually-explicit “depictions of children”. Understandably, JAST doesn’t want to become a test case for the newest version of the US Protect Act.
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“The easiest way to describe it is that this is our Enterprise,” he said, referring to the prototype shuttle orbiter that performed approach and landing tests at the same site in the 1970s but never itself flew in space. With the completion of the taxi tests, when Dream Chaser was towed behind a truck at speeds of up to nearly 100 km/h, and the captive carry flight, the next step is a glide flight. Sirangelo and the company have not announced a specific date for the test, other than it is coming soon.
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"His role in 'Mormon scholarship' was," as Professor John L. Sorenson puts it, "largely that of enthusiast and publicist, for which we can be grateful, but he was neither scholar nor analyst." We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists, and we suspect that a poll of even those Latter-day Saints most interested in Book of Mormon studies would yield only a small percentage who recognize his name.
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His approval numbers later dipped lower when his attacks moved Golding to tears in their final televised debate just days before the election.
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Climate change and peak oil are long-term perspectives that many prefer not to think about or to reject as frauds. That is because they force us to consider that there may be real limits to growth. That is anathema to the economic and cultural paradigm that much of the world embraces. They suggest that energy will cost more and that we may have to live with less in the future than we have in the past. That means extreme changes in both our behavior and our expectations.
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Across an initial study and two preregistered experiments (N = 262), infants in the Effort condition made more attempts to achieve the goal than did infants in the other conditions. Pedagogical cues modulated the effect. The results suggest that adult models causally affect infants’ persistence and that infants can generalize the value of persistence to novel tasks.
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I note that standing alone, these discrete elements might not amount to a finding of infringement, but here in the context of the two games having such overwhelming similarity, these copied elements do support such a finding. It is the wholesale copying of the Tetris look that the Court finds troubling more than the individual similarities each considered in isolation.”
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Since then, the so-called Islamic State has shown skill at collecting revenue. Even during the 2009 nadir of its AQI predecessor, the group still raised $200-250 million per annum, almost exclusively from kidnapping and extortion. Today, as ISIS adds territory, it gains more revenue from taxes, oil, antiquities, and the slave trade. One potential difficulty might arise if pensions for the families of fighters killed on the battlefield become an unsustainable financial burden. Such factors obligate ISIS to continually expand its tax base. Yet its self-financing mechanisms are difficult to disrupt.
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And your HS has confirmed that we have been shamelessly cheated all the time to perform, give our utmost, and then left behind squeezed like lemons. The promises your HS gives you for the coming months are very vague and I do not believe that anything will change feasibly on the ground for the PAT – the same pains and sufferings will continue, which I and the others feel now on a daily basis, even though I asked my HS to be released from the cleansing activities on behalf of humanity.
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If it had not been for the long stretches when the horses had to walk, enabling most of us to get out and "foot it" as a relaxation, it seems as if we could never have survived the trip.
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The primary pharmacodynamic study results were reported elsewhere (Schmid et al., 2014). The a priori hypothesis relating to the PK-pharmacodynamics as defined in the study protocol was that the pharmacodynamic effects of LSD would show no acute pharmacological tolerance (ie, no clockwise hysteresis in the concentration-effect relationship). To assess PK-pharmacodynamic relationships, the LSD-induced effect was determined as a difference from placebo in the same subject at the corresponding time point to control for circadian changes (Schmid et al., 2014).
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The commercialism of Christmas reinforces our goodwill. When you scour the malls in search of the perfect gift for a loved one and witness the cornucopia of goods and lights and decorations, you can't help but feel that your fellow human beings are not enemies to be feared or fools to be avoided but fellow travelers and potential allies in the quest for joy. It's no accident that America, the world's most productive country, is also its most benevolent.
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Like any great artist, Robert Kirkman understands the importance of anticipation. Few writers have the skills or patience to build a sense of dread like Kirkman has in the past few issues of The Walking Dead. As Rick and his group are lead by Jesus to the new community, it is in these moments that we are shown the first signs of the nightmare to come. But more than hint at the inevitable trouble that is around the corner, The Walking Dead #95 further pushes Rick to the brink of inhumanity.
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Projections of future distribution and density of parasites and vectors are highly dependent on the accuracy of climate models. Over the last year, and particularly in recent months, it has been debated whether the projected future changes in climate might be wrong; -not wrong in the sense there will be no global warming, but how warming will evolve over time. The Earth is presently cooler than projected by most of the global climate models, and this has been picked up by news outlets like Daily Mail and The Economist.
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This trend will be more pronounced going forward as companies make greater efforts to downsize, idle factories and restructure (like Chrysler closing 1/4 of its dealers!). Disappointingly, the US unemployment rate forecast of 10% remains on track for mid-summer. Continuing claims surged another +202k last week to +6.56m for the 15th-straight week of record highs. Record numbers are receiving extended federal aid after exhausting their State sponsored benefits. A horrible number and fact that more workers are having trouble finding jobs, as companies cease to hire.
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The novel revolves around a central theme of language—written and spoken, truth and myth—and the power inherent in all of its forms, a power that is often only present in the deconstruction of communication. González Echevarria argues that "Dr. Francia's fear of the pasquinade, his abuse of [Patiño,] his constant worry about writing all stem from the fact that he has found and used the power implicit in language itself.
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He’s also developing the aforementioned The Gray Man, but news of his heavy involvement in Edge of Tomorrow 2 will surely drive fan interest for the sequel even further.
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* Xytronick Nawiasem mówiąc właśnie zauważyli nowych moderatorów w s/Strims. * eternal Dokładnie http://strims.pl/s/StrimsSpolecznosc/t/f21su7/czyzby-administracja-sie-nam-rozrosla-w-strimie-sstrims-jest-kilka-nowych-moderatorow-konta * kaso Możemy zostawić to nierozwiązane, ale stawiam na to że treść o tym będzie miała 1000 komentarzy i nic się nie zmieni. * Hope Prędzej czy później zauważyli by, zresztą i tak się dzisiaj ujawniamy. * Hope W takim razie zostawiamy? Jeżeli tak to powinniśmy się zająć tą treścią od Ciebie @kaso. * Xytronick Jeszcze o powiązanych by się przydało pogadać. * kaso Ja jestem aby tak zostało, dać duże limity na DV jak proponuje eternal. ale przekonać o niuansach tego rozwiązania jest bardzo trudne.
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Sometimes it's better to get the bad reaction to that over with quickly while your civil society still is strong and you can react and respond and protest, and you know, four or eight years from now, make another decision, and maybe it's better to have that happen now than 20 years later when some of our problems are worse and our national mood is worse.
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If you have another piece of hardware you can make a copy instantaneously. So the population of these digital mind-workers could quickly grow to the point where their wages equals the cost of making another copy--electricity bill, the hardware rental cost. And in one set[?] of scenarios you could quickly get into a Malthusian state where the average income drops to subsistence level, but subsistence level for these digital minds, which would be lower than subsistence level for biological minds like ours, because we need housing and food and stuff like that than these more efficient minds.
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I talk a lot. Playing someone like Alie is a big challenge for me because she’s so minimal. And that was something that I wanted for her because that’s who she should be, but figuring out Alie was way more challenging than Becca. Becca felt like I could go to set and remember words and feel. It was way more natural to play Becca than it was to play Alie.
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When something bad happens in my life, I usually think, “Adorno would have seen this coming.” Election day was no exception. So I was glad to see The New Yorker corroborate my suspicion with a December 5 essay by Alex Ross titled “The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming.” Ross saw in the election of Donald Trump something in the way of vindication for these intellectuals, particularly Theodor W. Adorno, the arch-curmudgeon of Marxist philosophy known to Twitter users as the avatar and general inspiration for the @NeinQuarterly account run by former University of Pennsylvania German professor Eric Jarosinski:
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It would pay another $2.1 billion to resolve 4,000 Texas City personal-injury suits.)
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The best parent can do in such situations start giving choices and not orders. Stopped arguing immediately user-friendly eye contact, be firm and calm. Give the child useful ways to feel powerful. So instead of abruptly going and switching off the television and declaring “no more TV now” think what can be done differently here. How can you give different choices about not watching television and please don’t tell me that you have tried everything. Usually, parents who have problems with managing power suddenly become powerless and say things like we have tried all of that. You have not.
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The combined company’s Board will be comprised of experienced directors from both LogMeIn and Citrix who share a commitment to customer satisfaction and shareholder value creation.
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Can a “bad brewery” produce good contract beer for someone else? Are there precedents here? In my experience, contract beers produced by breweries are typically a step down from their usual production, but somehow I don’t think that will be the case here.
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The weekend of 7 April and 8 April saw protests across the prison system. [53] At HM Prison Leeds there was a sit-down protest after the arrival of over 100 prisoners who had been transferred from Strangeways. [53] At HM Prison Dartmoor, between 100 and 120 prisoners wrecked D wing of the prison, and 12 prisoners also protested on the roof of C wing unfurling a banner that read "Strangeways, we are with you". [53] 32 prisoners from Dartmoor were transferred to HM Prison Bristol, where there was another major protest following their arrival.
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Marc, a university professor and videographer, and Trudi, a graphic designer, have been living an eco-conscious lifestyle for several years. They’ve documented their conservation and tiny life in their blog, A Greener Boese. The house was modeled after some homes the couple saw in Oregon and cost $12,000 to build over the course of a month. The solar panels cost an extra $8,000. Trudi mentions in the video that the transition to a smaller house was easier than she thought, and that getting rid of most of their possessions was liberating.
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We could sit in denial and argue that this has nothing to do with the Gramscian politics of the democratic left. But then we would be dead wrong. Here's why. Radical British Marxist, Anne Showstack Sassoon, raved about Gramsci in her book, Gramsci's Politics. She noted that Gramsci saw the transition to authoritarian socialism accomplished by "a new type of party" that would not govern in the formal sense, but rather by "directing the course of policy toward hegemony."
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Option Memcached Riak Redis Key limits 250 bytes No limit No limit Value limits 1 MB No limit 512 MB Persistent No Yes Optional Transactions No No Yes Connection protocol TCP/IP HTTP TCP/IP Key scans No Done with Solr Yes Scripting No No Yes(Lua) Data schema No Custom types + blob Custom types + blob Data stored binary binary string Licence BSD 3-clause Apache 2 BSD 3-clause Cluster Cluster info Client knows all servers in cluster Client knows some nodes Client knows the routing table Cluster architecture share nothing ring all connected Consistency Doesn’t apply Tunable from eventual to strong No guarantee Replication No Configurable Async Multi data center sync No Yes Yes(only Enterprise version) Run on Windows/Linux/Unix Linux Windows/Linux Main features auto deletion of data multi data center replication speed/pub-sub Build for cache server Key-value store across multiple data centers speed
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“I can’t necessarily pinpoint what it is, but obviously I was a little less aggressive. You can’t steal 40-something bases if you don’t try to steal 40-something bases,” said Gardner in Spring Training about his decline in stolen bases. “It’s not like I’ve tried to go 50 times and only been successful half of them. My percentage has still been pretty high … I think for the most part I’ve done a good job of trying to do that and being smart about when we run but we’re always looking for ways to improve.”
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This is a summary of key points on both research and management – especially those that relate to the way in which some of the current research findings on infection, immune system dysfunction, muscle/mitochondrial function, etc, link in to practical patient management. The summary also includes information from the meeting on the role of stress, activity management and drugs that may affect the underlying disease process in ME/CFS (e.g. antivirals, steroids and rituximab).
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There are so many hidden tricks, match-ups, and stage choices etc in all of the smash games, and the community has always been trying to help develop the metagame and get that information out there. It's just due to the type of game Smash is. ”
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Let's also go back to that statistic on his corner shooting - Nik is a 48.5%3PT shooter from the corner. Once again though, Nik suffers from a very similar issue. Only 18.9% of his 3s came in the corner this year. This one is not as much of an issue as the previous, only ~14% of Redick's 3s came from the corner, but it could certainly be worked on. 40% of Porter's 3s, 27% of Korver's 3s, and 27% of Klay's 3s came from the corner.
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Let me say, first of all, the racing was quite good. In fact it was very good – both events. As a fan of the sport, I was quite happy to have witnessed the action on track. Both races had action galore, large grids and thankfully both races were much cleaner than expected. Many in the sport had expected to see less than 50% green flag action during the short two hour races, but that was thankfully not the case this time. The new regulations and new perspectives on running the race appeared to make a positive influence on the track action.
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Bellen has written extensively about the history of fruit fly research, and he said that about 8,000 genes in the fruit fly (of about 14,000 in total) are “conserved” in humans, meaning humans have a number of essentially the same genes as flies. The “conservation” of so many genes from flies to mice and even to humans has helped us make incredible discoveries in a wide range of fields. Another Drosophila expert, Gerald Rubin, cowrote a paper in Science in 2000 summarizing the fruit fly’s contributions.
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Yet the process of converting Boulet’s research into sellable products has been fraught with uncertainty. Far from creating near-instantaneous, stable and high-paying jobs, pharmaceutical start-ups are known for long periods of what Crombie calls “hibernation” between production for pre-clinical and clinical trials. Translation: contrary to what Blaney announced in 2009, PurGenesis’s $12.8-million, government-subsidized plant will remain largely shuttered as PurGenesis awaits approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada. And that’s if the drugs are approved at all.
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The oscillations of gravitation between these systems, as also the attrition resulting from tides, again limit their stability within a period of from five to ten billion years. 40. Although these figures may seem astounding, nevertheless, even to the simplest of the faithful, they bring no new or different concept from the one they learned in the opening words of Genesis: "In the beginning . . .," that is to say; at the beginning of things in time.
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I loved shaped puzzles and fall-themed puzzles, so this puzzle was extra fun to assemble. The image has lots of fall leaves, both large and small. It really puts me in the mood for crisp autumn days! The Sunsout quality is excellent with thick, sturdy pieces and a wonderful random cut and hangs together really well. The overall difficulty is moderate. Most of the puzzle is easy, despite the shaped border, but all the squirrel fur gives the puzzle a little more challenge at the end. Highly recommended.
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Under these conditions the Workers Group was able to attract elements who were reacting to the rightward moving Workers Opposition, as well as from the Democratic Centralist group. The close work and discussions as well as the solidarity in reaction to growing repression inside the Party in 1921-22 had produced two opposite reactions within the Opposition. Those who sought to conciliate with the Party and state apparatus and those who were to draw more radical conclusions from the course of events. The former included the majority of the workers Opposition and the Ignatov group who had joined them.
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Currently unittest.py is 1760 lines of Python and test_unittest.py is 3699 lines. Frankly that's horrible and it makes unittest hard to understand and hard to maintain. Benjamin Peterson (the current Python release manager) has said he will split unittest into a package after Python 3.1 is released. If he doesn't have time for it then I'll do it. Once you are familiar with the responsibilities of the various moving parts in unittest (TestCase, TestRunner, TestLoader, TestSuite and TestResult) it is pretty easy to extend. Unfortunately it is difficult to extend so that other people can reuse what you have done.
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What distinguished Trump's version from the original Puritan one is, first, that the failings are a matter of power and wealth rather than of moral purpose and, second, that they are caused by the depredations of others rather than the weaknesses of the in-group (that is, his supporters).
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The Florida Panthers blueline is led by Brian Campbell, who some argue is one of the best defensemen in the team's history. His offensive performance was outstanding. He totalled 53 points this season, which included 49 assists. He led the team in that category, and was second in the league in helpers. He made up for about 14 percent of the team's assists. Those are ridiculous numbers from the blueline, and it gives the Panthers something the Devils lack - a true offensive defenseman.
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The system is at its best when carrying out COMBO KILLS, which aren’t as obnoxious as they sound, despite the game flashing up a celebratory message whenever one occurs. They involve such joys as lifting an alien from behind cover, suspending it in the air, and then having a sniper perform a critical strike, killing it one hit. There are also happy tactical moments, such as realising how to take down a Sectopod effectively, using space and positioning to become Davids against Goliath.
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Gracias a las bendiciones de los gurús, gozo de buena salud y no estoy experimentando ningún obstáculo. Al día de hoy yerro sin tener un punto fijo, de un lugar a otro. En este momento estoy con Lama Tashi a quién me encontré inesperadamente. Lama Tashi me pidió con sinceridad que lo dejara acompañarme y yo acepté su petición. Me dio algo de comida, ropa y otras cosas de necesidad básica. También me comunicó las buenas y malas noticias, hecho que me dejó sintiendo una mezcla de felicidad y tristeza.
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[42][43] In 2016, journalist Semen Zakruzhnyi followed the Investigative Committee's alleged route pointing out to numerous inconsistencies and concluding that neither Savchenko nor Russian investigators ever visited the places mentioned in the indictment. [44]
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The Resurrection Man The team are tasked with bringing in Mitch Shelley, a man capable of reviving himself upon death. His capture becomes paramount and it’s a mean feat when other agency’s start getting involved. I loved the bickering phonecalls that the agency directors have back and forth, set to the backdrop of chart topping ring tones. It’s clear the music choice of famous songs may have somewhat influenced the tune choices for the Suicide Squad film and it’s interesting to see their pop culture roots sprouting here.
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47 As explained further below, Parliament intended CCOs to replace not only Community Based Orders (CBOs), but Intensive Correction Orders (ICOs) and suspended sentences. Recent data collected by the SAC, however, suggests that CCOs are not yet being fully utilised. The SAC’s research shows that the higher courts have tended to impose CCOs of the same length as CBOs, and to impose the same kinds of condition. The new kinds of conditions now available as part of CCOs have been used only rarely.
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Often he did so in service of a losing cause. Game 6 of Houston’s 2008 first-round series against the Jazz is a perfect example. McGrady’s line is bonkers: 40 points on 50 percent shooting, 10 rebounds, and five assists. At one point, he spun baseline and executed a double-clutching, Jordanesque reverse layup. The Rockets won 55 games that season. And the Jazz crushed them by 22 points in Game 6. It was never close.
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“In the vast majority of cases, following these ‘rudimentary steps and procedures,’ as Justice Downes calls them, would ensure that this issue did not even arise,” Stewart said.
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Ukraine has scheduled a national presidential election for May 25 that may further legitimize the regime the Kremlin hates and wants to overthrow. The Kremlin may find it hard to resist the temptation to attack Ukraine and "liberate" the south and east while Russia is ready, the Ukrainian military weak, and the regime in Kiev unstable. Such a move could lead to more Western sanctions, but this risk maybe dwarfed by the vision of a major geostrategic victory seemingly at hand.
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