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The Iroquois League, or Six Nations (Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida and Tuscarora), had supported the British against their longtime enemies, the Cherokee, Huron, Algonquin and Ottawa, whom the French had supported in their attacks on colonists. Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa, had organized a large-scale attack on Fort Detroit on May 5th 1763, and some 200 settlers were massacred along the western frontier. Local reaction to the news was brutal. In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a mob of mostly Scots-Irish immigrants known as the "Paxton boys" attacked a small Conestoga Indian village in December, hacked their victims to death and scalping them.
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The myth of Ishtar's descent into the underworld relates that "dust is their food and clay their nourishment, they see no light, where they dwell in darkness." Stories such as the Adapa myth resignedly relate that, due to a blunder, all men must die and that true everlasting life is the sole property of the gods. [18]
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Russia’s perspective is not altogether unreasonable. Its territory is difficult to defend and its history is one of continuous invasion, the most recent — World War II — being a particularly devastating experience. Throughout the Cold War period, the enormous sacrifices Russia made to defeat the Nazis were reiterated in schools and propaganda over and over again. During the same period, most Russians were convinced the West intended to attack them. As Thomas Kent, an AP journalist, wrote in the most recent issue of Harriman Magazine:
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"Today of all days, John McCain’s stubborn insistence that the ’fundamentals of the economy are strong’ shows that he is disturbingly out of touch with what’s going in the lives of ordinary Americans,“ spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Even as his own ads try to convince him that the economy is in crisis, apparently his 26 years in Washington have left him incapable of understanding that the policies he supports have created an historic economic crisis.“
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I think it's education. No one is born a generic beer drinker, they are raised one. So many people chose their brand based on what their parents drank or that it doesn't fill them up when they have many at an event. But if you are wanting flavour and style in a beer, you can easily find and appreciate quality beers without it "filling" you up, but the giant marketing machines of the big breweries keep telling people they have to drink the name brands and sacrifice quality.
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We have found that crosscutting cleavages also matter. Being Sunni, Kurdish, or Turcoman does not on its own reveal how an individual will assess regional and major powers. For example, Kurds evaluate the Turkish model less positively than other Sunni groups because of the assimilating policies toward Kurds in Turkey since its inception. This study has demonstrated that there may be a positive in-group perception of foreign countries on the basis of ethnic, religious, and sectarian identities.
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While in the aforementioned image I had the freedom to choose the monochrome approach, this one was asked for in full-color though as you'll notice, i still managed to keep things in balance without making it too splashy.One of the things I love the most about illustrating the grim darkness of the far future is that it affords me to possibility to do some interesting compositional choices and editing to benefit the work as much as possible. In images relating to the Space Marines, I always make my best efforts to have them look larger than life; bulky, heavy, strong and stoic.
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W e came to Miami expecting a good show, and we were not disappointed. Reid Duke gave us an epic show as he played some incredible matches in the Top 8 on the way to taking down his second Grand Prix title here at Grand Prix Miami 2013! In the finals, Duke dropped his first game to Josh McClain's Junk Reanimator deck and mulliganned to five in his second, further increasing the tension in the Feature Match area.
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He is the first member of the Menard family, or the first person driving sponsored by Menards to win at Indianapolis, in any event held at the track. He also joined Trevor Bayne, Regan Smith, David Ragan, and Marcos Ambrose as first-time winners in the 2011 season.
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RUBIO: Let me ask both of you: has anyone ever asked you, now or in the past, this administration or any administration, to issue a statement that you knew to be false? ROGERS: For me, I stand by my previous statement: I’ve never been directed to do anything in the course of my three-plus years as director of the National Security Agency – RUBIO: Not directed. Asked. ROGERS: — That I felt to be inappropriate, nor have I felt pressured to do so. RUBIO: Have you ever been asked to say something that isn’t true?
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The visitors had a turn on the ball between the 11th and 12th minute, with nigh-on every midfielder and defender getting a touch as HSV were forced into a brief spell of shadow-chasing. However, with patience comes the opportunity for the other side to set their two banks of four up, and thus, it was difficult for Hoffenheim to go anywhere in the final-third. The move came to an end when Sebastian Rudy tamely shot from range at Jaroslav Drobný.
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The Item Mall will be located both on the SanrioTown website and will also be accessible while playing the game. At the Item Mall players will purchase premium items including unique clothes, pets, weapons and house designs. [55] Purchases will require Sanrio Loyalty Points (which are gained from using SanrioTown services such as blogs), and Sanrio Cash Points (which are purchased using real money). Another method is paying money in exchange for points using game cards. [59]
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On January 29th, Uber had reduced fares in more than eighty cities in the U.S. and Canada. Drivers in some of those cities, including San Francisco, San Diego, Tampa, and New York City, have reacted with strikes and protests. One of the many barriers to sustainable organizing for those working for sharing-economy apps like Uber and Lyft is that the flexible, cloud-based nature of the service creates a relatively tenuous connection to other workers. Uber drivers have protested policy changes in the past, but this round appears to be more widespread and intense than before.
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However, there are some problems such as not showing the video but audio only, unsupported file type when playing & editing Panasonic GH5 video in Adobe PPro, especially in 4K. So, how to import Panasonic GH5 4K video to Premiere Pro CC/CS6 on MacOS (Sierra) beautifully?
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However, Seymour was under orders from Gillmore not to advance deep into the state. [2][3][4] The battle was the only major one in Florida. [citation needed]
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After being excommunicated from the Nation of Islam, he started the NGE by preaching to the youth in the streets of Harlem, which explains why members of the NGE call Harlem “Mecca.”
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1:25 p.m. Update: Just in is the latest European model, which explodes the storm off the mid-Atlantic coast Monday afternoon into Monday evening, producing an additional few inches of snow Monday night. This is similar to scenario 3 below, although suggests two somewhat distinct periods of accumulating snow — lighter accumulations Sunday night into early Monday morning, and heavier accumulations Monday night — with total accumulations in the 4-6″ (or more) range. We’ll be watching to see if other models trend toward such a scenario.
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It proved something of a false dawn, with a number of delays and quibbles about the design putting the project on ice, but by September 2014 Spartak at last had a permanent abode, the Russian national team had another occasional venue – and the World Cup had a stadium that should be popular among supporters.
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Evidence abounds that ancient and medieval readers relished giving voice to their favorite texts in order to appreciate more fully the cadences of Homer and Lucian. Of course, we equally enjoy reading poetry aloud. The question is: Could the earliest readers literally not shut up? Paul Saenger thinks so--but his argument for the onetime dominance of the spoken word doesn't rest on Augustine. Saenger, a medieval-manuscript expert and a curator of rare books at Chicago's Newberry Library, believes that reading aloud wasn't a mere preference for the ancients, but a practical necessity. His explanation is simple: Ancientandmedievalmanuscriptslookedlikethis anditwaseasiertoreadthemaloud.
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It’s interesting that, four out of five times, Strickland was right around his target. Only the pitch to Infante badly missed. The issue hasn’t been his fastball command; it’s been command of the other stuff. Without it, hitters have looked for the fastball, and when the fastball has been there, it doesn’t matter if it’s 97 if hitters have a hunch. It is to a large extent bad luck that five swings have already generated home runs. Home runs aren’t common, and Strickland’s fastball doesn’t actually supply that much power to the bat-ball collision.
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Nationally, they're betting that they can profit off buying and renting out homes in cities hardest hit by the housing crisis -- a plan that relies on their ability to repair, manage and lease tens of thousands of houses nationwide and on a scale far larger than anyone or any company has ever attempted in the United States.
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I think maybe it’s a preview of how he will look when he gets old.
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Neither robot is able to get any purchase on its opponent until Vulture starts erratically driving over every single fucking hazard and ends up getting toppled over by the floor flipper. This affords Bucky the opportunity to finally bite down on something and it catches Vulture on its corner while it tries to self-right. Bucky makes its first power play of the heat and takes Vulture into Dead Metal’s CPZ for some nice sparks before letting it go. Vulture retreats and gets close to the Dial of Doom button but doesn’t touch it.
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Ben Bishop has already left his mark as an outstanding goal keeper for the Tampa Bay Lightning but is looking to take sole control of the top spot in victories for the organization as well as win a Stanley Cup. Bishop currently sits with 21 wins in 35 games while collecting 886 saves, allowing 71 goals, posting a 2.10 goals against average, a .926 save percentage, and also grabbed five shutouts in the process. Four of his five post season shutouts have came in series clinching games.
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Jason Felch and I learned from confidential Getty documents and dozens of interviews that while True was building her reputation as a reformer, she maintained curatorial ties to suppliers of unprovenanced, and likely illicit, objects. In 1992, she agreed to meet two men at a Zurich bank to inspect a gold Greek funerary wreath from the fourth century B.C.
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The results of the pilot study, which used an ALD system in Kobayashi's lab designed for microelectronics, convinced the team to design a larger system that could accommodate telescope mirrors. They filed for a patent on their concept and found an equipment vendor willing to work with them to build the system. The vendor, Structured Materials Industries (SMI) in Piscataway, New Jersey, makes thin-film deposition systems for the microelectronics industry.
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When developing the original Ogg backend for Firefox we had to integrate and use a number of C libraries. Over the months after landing a number of bugs were raised for various issues in the backend. A fair number of these were the result of common coding errors. Things like not checking return values of the C API calls and not releasing resources correctly. This was internal to the third party libraries we used as well as in our own code. This has made me interested in looking at programming languges that make these sorts of errors easier to find.
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The equities process for zero days has until now largely been focused on critical infrastructure systems – for example, the industrial control systems that manage power plants, water systems, electric grids – with the aim of giving government agencies the opportunity to state when disclosing a vulnerability to the vendor might interfere with their own ability to exploit the vulnerability.
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The Oath Keepers try to appeal to military and law enforcement personnel by reminding them that they swore an oath to defend the Constitution "from all enemies, foreign and domestic," and suggesting that now is the time to live up to that oath by resisting an allegedly tyrannical government.
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Six years later, in 2007, those seeds sprouted into the question driving this book. As a doctoral student at Columbia University, I wanted to learn more about the international sources of the information age, a topic that first crystallized for me in Fred Turner’s graduate seminar on “Computers, Information Ideology and American Culture since World War II” at Stanford University in 2005. If, to gloss Whitehead, all philosophy begins as a series of footnotes to Plato, then this book began with an obscure footnote in Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman’s popular biography of Norbert Wiener.
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We welcome this scenario as we believe businesses will progress through database phases from proprietary -> permissioned -> permissionless technology. The businesses that do so fastest will realize the greatest advantages.
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. . . many wealthy individuals, rather than simply allowing redistribution to be decided through the democratic process as such median-voter models assume, respond to higher levels of inequality by adopting religious beliefs and spreading them among their poorer fellow citizens. Religion then works to discourage interest in mere material well-being in favor of eternal spiritual rewards, preserving the privileges of the rich and allowing unequal conditions to continue.
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Username and password pairs control access to users’ personal data. Websites should handle this information with care and only request passwords over secure (authenticated and encrypted) connections, like HTTPS. Unfortunately, we too frequently see non-secure connections, like HTTP, used to handle user passwords. To inform developers about this privacy and security vulnerability, Firefox Developer Edition warns developers of the issue by changing the security iconography of non-secure pages to a lock with a red strikethrough.
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True, he can sometimes come up with a line like “Cosimo’s experience suggests that successful propaganda sat on a rock of shared local axioms and cultural tropes,” but he far more often writes great lines like, “He may have arisen to save Christian virtue for Christian politics, but only because Machiavelli had left a shattered moral system begging for proof of its own utility.” And he’s always at least as interesting on the subject of the city culture surrounding the man as on the man himself:
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Though it starts off “only” demonstrating it knows how to make challenge-based television entertaining (in lieu of actual fights, it generally sets up compelling puzzles of all shapes and sizes for its heroes), it ends up jumping from genre to genre, dabbling in crime thriller, tournament shounen, and even war drama. And through it all, the show’s fantastic aesthetics elevate it above almost everything out there – in direction, in sound design, in pacing, in animation, in basically every relevant aesthetic metric, Hunter x Hunter triumphs.
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Should these expectations materialize, the Syrian army may seek later to clean up the last enclaves of armed opponents between Damascus and the Syrian coast in the north and northwest. Moreover, there are serious discussions that have started at this level about a willingness to resolve the Qalaat al-Hosn battle, west of Homs, near the southwestern Syrian border with Lebanon. As a result, the regime will be able to devote itself to the Aleppo battle, which is expected to be a major battle in the next phase.
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Instead of building a dedicated Sea Control Ship, the U.S. Navy simply turned its big amphibs into small carriers. The Tarawas furthered the experiment with USS Guam by regularly carrying a squadron of six Harriers. The Wasp-class normally carries a complement of six Harriers, but can carry up to twenty-four if requirements demand. The 45,000-ton USS America and her sister, USS Tripoli, can carry at least as many, and because of the lack of a well deck is optimized for flight operations (although later ships in the class will retain well-decks).
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In this way, one can get rid of the incorrect assumptions and beliefs (biases) and finally settle on the real (confirmed) facts.
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Used for debugging and profiling. Usage: r_NoDrawNear [0/1] Default is 0 (near objects are drawn). Usage: r_DrawNearFoV [n] Default is 60. Usage: r_Flares [0/1] Default is 1 (on). Usage: r_Gamma 1.0 1 off (default), accepted range on PS3 is 0.8 to 1.25 Usage: r_Brightness 0.5 Default is 0.5. Usage: r_Contrast 0.5 Default is 0.5. Usage: r_NoHWGamma [0/1] Default is 0 (allow hardware gamma correction). Usage: r_Coronas [0/1]Default is 1 (on). Usage: r_CoronaFade 0.5Default is 0.5. 0=do not take a screenshot (default), 1=save a screenshot (together with .HDR if enabled), 2=save a screenshot Use negative values to log a single frame.
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The government's charges suggested that Brown, often described as an advocate for Anonymous, went further than simply collect information, accusing him in court papers of working to "conceal the involvement and the identity" of the hacker, to "create confusion" about what had been done and of communicating with the company that had been targeted in a manner that "diverted attention away from the hacker." Anonymous, a collective of loosely connected groups, engages in activities ranging from online protest against big business to stealing and disclosing data. Some members of the collective have been jailed for cybersecurity violations.
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After a series of skirmishes between independent pilots and pirates, as well as the drawn out battle against the Sobek Boys, 78 Ursae Majoris was facing a security threat in the run-up to Federal President Jasmina Halsey’s planned visit. News of the catastrophic accident that is believed to have consumed Starship One and taken the President’s life, has been spreading through the galaxy, but 78 Ursae Majoris has now been secured.Members of Congress from across the Federation have made their way to Mars today, in response to Shadow President Hudson's call for a Vote of No Confidence against the current administration.
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She also played baritone for a year and was drum major the year after for the Sacramento State Marching Band. In the spring of 2017, Kelley graduated from Cosumnes River College with an Associate of Arts degree in Theatre Arts and is currently studying Drama at University of California, Irvine. She hopes to receive her Honors in Directing upon graduation. While attending school, Kelley is a novice stage manager for student projects and is also working as a private drum major instructor for students all over California and Hawaii.
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It was interesting to see what they had picked out. We first watched it at home on the flat screen. But the next time I watched it, we were in Toronto in a theater with 300 people on a 60-foot-wide screen, and it’s a very different experience to watch it with other people than with just the two of us. You could hear their emotions, and you could tell they were using Kleenex at certain times. There’s about three moments in the thing that are quite emotional, I think partly due to the wonderful music that was composed for it.
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The downside being that Jeyal wants to attend the wedding, and if he objects to Odo’s sincerity, he can null the arrangement. This presupposes Jeyal is an honorable man, obviously, since if he was truly determined to keep the child for himself, he’d object no matter what Odo said. Really, the only reason the clause is there is so Odo can give a very nice speech about how much Lwaxana means to him. He slightly oversells the case, for obvious reasons, but the sentiment is heartfelt, and reinforces just how nifty this small, heartfelt relationship has been.
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For planets in the 1.0 to 1.4 R E range (which would include worlds that are most likely to be rocky like the terrestrial planets of our Solar System) with periods of 5 to 50 days, Petigura finds an occurrence rate of 7.8% (+1.3%/-2.1%).
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[13][17][18][19] It has been alleged that Prisyazhnyuk knew Makar before they met on 8 March and planned the crime[20][21][22][23] although this has been denied by Makar's mother. [24] Three men raped Makar at the apartment and attempted to strangle her with a cord. [13][17][18][19] After that, they took Makar who was barely conscious, moved her to a nearby construction site, wrapped her in a blanket and set her on fire that was burning during the whole night. She was discovered the next morning, still conscious, by a passing motorist[25] and taken to a hospital.
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It featured a photograph of Henry Lee McCollum, a menacing-looking African-American convict on death row, who, along with three other men, raped and murdered an eleven-year-old girl. After describing McCollum’s crimes in lurid detail, the mailing noted, “Thanks to arrogant State Senator John Snow, McCollum could soon be let off of death row.” Snow, in fact, supported the death penalty and had prosecuted murder cases. But, in 2009, he had helped pass a new state law, the Racial Justice Act, that enabled judges to reconsider a death sentence if a convict could prove that the jury’s verdict had been tainted by racism.
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Daniel, 15, in charge of telling the story, doesn’t actually know. There’s that underlying darkness. There’s a distant disappeared mother; there’s the hint that at some stage she might have been a little too friendly with the bad lot landlord. There’s a woman who’s a friend of Daddy, who doesn’t make friends lightly. She’s reassuringly normal. There are locals, dispossessed of their properties by the evil landlord. There are his two posh sons. They’re all peripheral but the growing sense of unease is not. It’s Cathy’s story, and all is not right in her world.
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Fifteen new businesses have opened in Crosby since 2011, and the only thing that’s changed, Hautala says, is the singletrack that now winds through the woods outside town. There’s a new brewery, a yoga studio, two wood-fired pizza joints, and the True North Base Camp, which caters to cyclists with six bike-in, lakefront cabins. More importantly, many of the business were started by young people who moved to the area or chose to stay because they see potential in the trails.
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That form of immunity, of course, would be even greater than that held by the President, as the Clinton v. Jones case makes clear, and should be rejected as legally unsupportable. [my emphasis]
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From our award-winning wines to memorable events to our world-class accommodations, there are innumerous ways to experience the magic of Trump Winery. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along central Virginia's Monticello Wine Trail, Trump Winery’s stunning 1,300-acre estate lies just a few miles from James Monroe’s Highland and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, the birthplace of American viticulture. We pride ourselves on creating the finest terroir-driven sparkling, white, and red wines, which have won numerous national and international medals and best-in-class designations.
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In the past, Foreign Licence Validation Certificates, a certificate issued by Transport Canada to a pilot with a foreign licence allowing him/her to temporarily operate a Canadian registered aircraft, could only be issued for specific and limited reasons: For short term recreational reason, to ferry or position an aircraft, to provide or receive type training, to operate a Canadian aircraft for a foreign operator, or to operate a Canadian aircraft wholly outside of Canada. and also also, for specific commercial purposes like fighting forest fires, evacuation, etc in case of national emergencies such as fires, floods etc.
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This scene was played out not on Skid Row but a few steps from Pershing Square, in the heart of downtown. More homeless men and women occupied every corner of this landmark park, panhandling, cadging cigarettes, shuffling aimlessly, huddling under blankets on benches or the hard earth. In the center of this oasis of defeat, skaters glided and twirled cheerfully on the seasonal rink. In the evening, after the sanitized, guarded office buildings empty out and the concert- and theatergoers drive off into the city’s vast sprawl, the homeless take over the downtown like wraiths in a haunted encampment.
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Another purpose of using Elcomsoft Password Digger is building a custom dictionary containing all of the user’s passwords. As you may know, many types of passwords are just too slow to brute force. For example, even if you use a high-end hardware accelerator, you can only try about 25,000 password combinations per second when attacking documents encrypted with Microsoft Office 2013. That’s not a lot, and rules out attacks on long, complex passwords – unless you have a good dictionary. And what could be more relevant for breaking a strong password than a dictionary containing that user’s other passwords?
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The bill passed Thursday, and by 8 a.m. Friday morning, Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council had e-mailed and hand-delivered a letter to Brewer warning her of costly litigation if the bill becomes law, including the loss of jobs and a potential threat to next year’s Super Bowl, set for Feb. 1 in Arizona. “It’s a little bit like our Olympics,” Broome says. “We want people to come and see how beautiful the state is. We didn’t want it to become an easy target for protests.”
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From their first days together on the campaign trail, he forged a bond with his former rival. Cruz’s wife, Heidi, also hit it off with her. And at a “Women for Cruz” event in Madison, Wis., in late March, Fiorina held hands with Cruz’s young daughters as they walked on stage; held the arm of Cruz’s elderly mother as she exited; and chatted with Heidi Cruz throughout the event. On stage Wednesday, Fiorina broke into song briefly, chanting a tune for Cruz’s daughters.
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But be aware in interacting with the country's government officials or being in sight of plainclothes government agents, it would be wise not to criticize them/speaking out against the political system as such risks could lead to arrest or deportation as in the case of a NGO director from Switzerland being deported for sending a letter to the Laos Government criticizing them for creating a hostile environment for development and civil society by suppressing freedom of speech and expression.
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These islands (labeled here in red) are separated from Ötzi's final resting place (marked here with a red circle) by over three hundred miles and a sizable body of water. That's pretty incredible, if you think about it. On one hand, it suggests that Ötzi's descendents may have once inhabited a much larger portion of mainland Europe, only to die out — or become part of a much more diverse genetic pool — save for the inhabitants of these two, isolated islands. It also points to the evolutionarily isolating effects that islands can have on a population's genetic makeup.
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In 2007, the top 1 percent of wealth holders in the United States controlled 33.8 percent of the wealth of the country, while the bottom 50 percent of the population owned a mere 2.5 percent. Indeed, the richest 400 individuals had a combined net worth of $1.54 trillion in 2007—approaching that of the bottom 150 million people (with an aggregate net worth of $1.6 trillion). On a global scale, the wealth of the world’s 793 billionaires is, at present, more than $3 trillion—equivalent to about 5 percent of total world income ($60.3 trillion in 2008).
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However, how you end up constructing the stack greatly depends on the environment and specific use case in question. For a small-sized development environment, the classic architecture will look as follows: However, for handling more complex pipelines built for handling large amounts of data in production, additional components are likely to be added into your logging architecture, for resiliency (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis) and security (nginx): More about using ELK in production can be found in this article.
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So Newman enacted the idea that the best way to complain is to make things and penned Heather Has Two Mommies (public library) — a sweet, straightforward picture-book illustrated by Diana Souza, telling the story of a warm and accepting playground discussion of little Heather’s life with Mama Kate, a doctor, and Mama Jane, a carpenter. Today, it is notable primarily for its pioneering status as the world’s first children’s book about a two-mom family.
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More recent accounts from the early 1990s have presented evidence that Sucharski's officers had vowed not to disclose in their lifetimes that their commander had been shell-shocked for most of the battle and had advocated surrender as early as 2 September, and several times thereafter; and that Captain Dąbrowski had effectively taken command following Sucharski's breakdown on the second day of the siege. [34]:153[27][35][36] Sucharski's conduct is still debated by historians. [37]
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If Chris Paul plays a good game, Blake Griffin isn't hit with fouls that prevent him from being on the floor and DeAndre Jordan is able to stand under the basket and eat up rebounds and throw back any attempt Golden State gets at the basket, LA should feel comfortable. At the same time, it's hard to ever feel comfortable when you're standing across from 5 other guys on the other team that can absolutely light it up from 3 point range.
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Roughly 80%of us now live in states either partially or totally controlled by Republicans. Two-thirds of our nation’s governors are now Republican — tying a 94-year-old record — and an all-time high 69 of 99 state legislatures now have Republican majorities. In half of our 50 states, both the state legislature and the governorship are controlled by Republicans. And that’s aside from the fact that Republicans control Congress and the White House and have appointed a majority of justices on the Supreme Court.
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The final meeting between Beaumont and Stark feels like it was written in a single, white-hot burst of inspiration. The two men meet, travel through a secret door, and begin to write their book together. They hate each other and love each other and seem to be melding into one identity when, suddenly, a massive flock of sparrows descend and tear Stark to shreds. It sounds silly, and it is, but on the page it’s executed with such intensity of conviction that the laughs die in your throat.
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Repairs after the abortive first flight took three days. When they were ready again on December 17, the wind was averaging more than 20 miles per hour (32 km/h), so the brothers laid the launching rail on level ground, pointed into the wind, near their camp. This time the wind, instead of an inclined launch, provided the necessary airspeed for takeoff. Because Wilbur had already had the first chance, Orville took his turn at the controls.
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After working at Entertainment Weekly for over a decade, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is currently a TV columnist for BBC Culture. Her history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2013. Her new book, Seinfeldia: The Secret World of the Show About Nothing that Changed Everything, is currently a New York Times best-seller. She now lives in Manhattan and teaches for Gotham Writers Workshop.
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If Ivan maintains his outstanding play, he has a chance to make Team Russia for the upcoming U20 championship in this month in Montreal and Toronto (he is one of 14 defensemen on the preliminary list). Update: He did indeed make the final cut:
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public interface DNSSDServiceCreator<T>{ DNSSDService getService(Subscriber<? super T> subscriber) throws DNSSDException; } private <T> Observable<T> createObservable(DNSSDServiceCreator<T> mCreator){ final DNSSDService[] mService = new DNSSDService[1]; return Observable.create(new OnSubscribe<T>() { @Override public void call(Subscriber<? super T> subscriber) { if (!subscriber.isUnsubscribed()) { mContext.getSystemService(Context.NSD_SERVICE); try { mService[0] = mCreator.getService(subscriber); } catch (DNSSDException e) { e.printStackTrace(); subscriber.onError(e); } } } }).doOnUnsubscribe(() -> { if (mService[0] != null) { mService[0].stop(); mService[0] = null; } }); }
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I’ve discovered users like the example applications, love the tutorials, but appreciate that the project’s greatest value lies in its ongoing maintenance. Any Rails application or tutorial gets outdated quickly as Rails and its ecosystem of gems go through constant rounds of updates. This is the project’s third value proposition: keeping the example applications and tutorials up-to-date so developers can find a reference to current implementation practices. This is why I started the project. Every time I came back to working with Rails, even after only a few months, things had changed and I needed to see a current implementation.
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The Body of Christ cannot be broken, but can we point to ourselves as a witness of that unity? Is Christian unity best expressed by the division between the Old Calendars and the New, the Patriarchal Church and the Church in Exile, the near schism of Constantinople and Moscow (Note: a short time before this letter the two Patriarchs had a spat over Estonia and were not in communion for a while. ), the competing ethnic jurisdictions in the Americas, or the conflicting claims of canonicity in The Ukraine (to cite a few examples)?
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The company’s first target is those who shoot competitively and spend regularly on gun accessories AimSteady was set up in January 2016. To get the ball rolling the company used an Enterprise Ireland innovation voucher in conjunction with University College Cork to get help developing the app and its unique feedback feature. AimSteady, which now employs four, is part of the NDRC’s Catalyser accelerator for technology and deep know-how start-ups with global market potential. The business has received funding of €100,000 from the NDRC and the cofounders are in the process of raising €500,000 to underpin manufacturing and product launch costs.
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A new report on sea level rise recommends that the State of Maryland should plan for a rise in sea level of as much as 2 feet by 2050. Led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, the report was prepared by a panel of scientific experts in response to Governor Martin O'Malley's Executive Order on Climate Change and "Coast Smart" Construction. The projections are based on an assessment of the latest climate change science and federal guidelines.
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He thus held on to the leadership of his party despite the fact that three-quarters of his colleagues in Parliament think that he is unfit for the job and many leading MPs refuse to serve in his shadow cabinet.
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Also at stake is the relationship between national constitutional courts and the ECJ. The German Court has often been caricatured as biased against the monetary union and prone to nationalistic decisions. Some have read the latest decision in that light as politically confrontational (Pistor, 2014). However, this reputation and interpretation are ill-deserved. In October 1993, as much of Europe held its breath, the German Court determined that the Bundestag, the German parliament, had the authority to determine Germany’s participation in the monetary union as conceived in the Maastricht Treaty.
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Those of us who oppose the war, who believe that all U.S. troops should be withdrawn and the network of permanent bases in Iraq dismantled, have only two options in the coming presidential elections — Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney. A vote for any of the Republican and Democratic candidates is a vote to perpetuate the occupation of Iraq and a lengthy and futile war of attrition with the Iraqi insurgency. You can sign on for the suicidal hundred-year war with John McCain or for the nebulous open-ended war-lite with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, or back those who reject the war.
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Testing groupthink in a laboratory is difficult because synthetic settings remove groups from real social situations, which ultimately changes the variables conducive or inhibitive to groupthink. [18] Because of its subjective nature, researchers have struggled to measure groupthink as a complete phenomenon, instead frequently opting to measure its particular factors. These factors range from causal to effectual and focus on group and situational aspects. [19][20]
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He is the total package, a strong player, with great speed, quick hands, a fantastic shot and high level lacrosse IQ Cockerton should find himself contributing readily to the Black Wolves offense. People say Cockerton playing limited games of box lacrosse over the past 2 summers may hurt him going into his rookie season, I highly doubt that, having seen him play in those limited games with the Brooklin Redmen he did not look like he lost a step. Look for him to likely lead all rookies in scoring in 2015 if played in a pure offensive role.
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The four classes correspond to: (i) anticipatory discussions (blue dots), (ii) unexpected events (green), (iii) symmetric discussions (red), and (iv) transient events (black). Anticipatory conversations (blue) exhibit most of the activity before and during the peak. These discussions build up over time registering an anticipatory behavior of the audience, and quickly fade out after the peak. The complementary behavior is exhibited by discussions around unexpected events (green dots): the peak is reached suddenly as a reaction to some exogenous event, and the discussion quickly decays afterwards.
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The two opposing lines lower the SUV’s visual center of gravity and, as in a sports car, they form athletic muscular surfaces over the wheel arches, a clearly identifiable waist and a highly dynamic shoulder section.
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Throughout your budgetary travail, you will contend with good news and bad news on the organizational front. Some good news is that you will not have to start from ground zero and find departmental homes for 160 separate programs and agencies from five Cabinet departments and the National Science Foundation. The bad news is that you may face pressure to dismantle the tidy structure created during the past year and scatter its pieces back throughout the Federal Government (for instance, returning responsibility for the education of the children of some migratory workers back to the Labor Department).
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Musk’s National Press Club announcement of September 29th, 2011, shows that the recovery plan includes having the first stage actually reverse course and land vertically back near the launch pad. This means the rocket has to cancel all eastward velocity and gain westward velocity, as well as decelerating the vertical component during landing. This would require a significant amount of delta-V that would reduce the payload capacity of the Falcon 9, but with the Falcon Heavy, which has extra payload capacity and where at least two first stages would be recovered, the payload size reduction may not be that big an issue.
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Previously associated with Budd Hopkins. In the summer of 1991, C.B. Scott Jones [Mentioned in Greer's book; Naval Intelligence; vice president US Psychotronics Association; associate of Hans Adam von Liechtenstein, who was mentioned in Greer's book] and Laibow were planning a yachting excursion together with Col. John Alexander to investigate anomalies in the Bahamas. Laibow, Stubblebine, ufologist Victoria Lacas (wife of John Alexander), and Jones toured Europe and the Soviet Union, where they established a prodigious UFO/Psi network. Married Gen. Albert Stubblebine at some point.
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The Luftwaffe also used the technique with both liquid-fueled units made by the Walter firm and BMW – and solid fuel, themselves made both by the Schmidding and WASAG firms – as both firmly attached and jettisonable rocket motors, to get airborne more quickly and with shorter takeoff runs. These were used to boost the takeoff performance of their medium bombers, and the enormous 55-meter wingspan Gigant, Messerschmitt Me 321 glider, conceived in 1940 for the invasion of Britain, and used to supply the Russian front.
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*** UPDATE 1 *** Full statement… Statement from Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno: “It truly is an honor to represent the 41st Senate District and my Republican colleagues in the Illinois Senate. I have done the job to the very best of my ability and always with the needs of the state and my constituents in mind. I am proud of my legislative accomplishments – none of which were achieved alone. I have always appreciated the support, advice and counsel of my colleagues in both parties, staff and family.
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But I also believe that even though the majority of those Muslims in the western societies today are not extremists or terrorists, that if we will get more of massive immigration we will get also more of the Islamic culture and the Islamic identity and the Islamic ideology in our societies, and then our societies will change: we will have what we are witnessing in the UK today, 85 sharia courts functioning where a woman is less worth than a man, where homosexuals should be killed.
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Yet such an understanding fails to account for the almost classically economic liberal argument at its heart: China’s own continued economic development depends on a peaceful and stable regional and international environment but, at the same time, China’s active participation in international trade, investment, and finance helps underpin stability and peace by contributing to economic development around the world. This logic mirrors the core political-economic rationale of domestic governance in China: economic development is necessary for social stability, which in turn allows for further development.
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Whether enough bees survive in the future to pollinate food crops depends, in part, on how much land continues to be reserved for biofuel production, the researchers wrote.
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Dr. Wall also showed us a spectrum of insects arranged by how much it hurts when they sting, called the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Join us backstage at the San Diego Natural History Museum, where they keep the stuff that's too good to show the public! Go To Episode Page
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All of Frances Cleveland's ancestors were from England and settled in what would become Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, eventually migrating to western New York. [2] She was their only child to survive infancy (a sister, Nellie Augusta, died before her first birthday). She originally had the first name Frank (named for an uncle), but later decided to adopt the feminine variant Frances. [3] A longtime close friend of Oscar Folsom, Grover Cleveland, met his future wife shortly after she was born and he was 27 years old.
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"Whereas Ahmed Muhammad, an evidently obstinate-answering student bringing in a homemade 'clock' that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told 'if you see something, say something!') gets invited to the White House."
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Meanwhile, the f*ckers who figured they could put me under siege, ended up just creating a monster who has simply gotten too frigging big to shove back in the bottle. "Then you have those tits who love nothing better than to flame me at a forum where I can't post; and posting all manner of c*ck sh*t. These are the same ladies who give flaming a bad name or who would just duck around the corner if they ran into me in public.
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The pay of public sector workers actually fared much better than private sector pay in the immediate wake of the financial crisis, largely keeping pace with inflation while private sector pay fell almost immediately. However, since 2010 public sector pay has grown more slowly with pay frozen for much of the last parliament. More recently government workers have led the return to falling real pay, with wages falling from the end of 2016 as inflation’s journey back up towards 3 per cent combined with a policy of capping pay settlements at 1 per cent.
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Meanwhile, the real politics happens behind the scenes.
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What about non-deterministic computation? Not surprisingly, a quantum computer can also simulate this type of computation by using another famous quantum gate, namely the Hadamard gate, which receives as an input the state \(\lvert 0\rangle\) and produces the state \(\bfrac{\lvert 0\rangle + \lvert 1\rangle}{\sqrt{2}}\). Measuring this output state yields \(\lvert 0\rangle\) or \(\lvert 1\rangle\) with 50/50 probability, which can be used to simulate a fair coin toss.
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Power supply: A bit like the cable company we found I guess. There are many many potential suppliers but the quality of the power supply and the certifications the manufacturers have are crucial. A lot of issues in CE devices are caused because of poor adapters and so we went through the process on this too. Without boring you on the details we again chose a small company. One managed by a good team, who smile and laugh a lot but who make great power supply units and nothing else.
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I decided to head home -- a trip of a few hours by train -- and thought nothing more of it. Click to expand...
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Separately, the Supreme Court said it would not review broadcasters’ appeal of the FCC’s media ownership rules, including ones that restrict the ability of a company to own a newspaper and TV station in the same market. Several companies and lobby groups — including Media General, Tribune, Fox, and the Newspaper Association of America — said that regulators didn’t go far enough in 2008 when they relaxed cross-ownership rules. Regulators and consumer advocates said that the restrictions were still needed to ensure a diversity of voices in local markets.
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In simple terms, certain Bitcoin participants are incentivized to do the dirty work and maintain the network. These participants — called “miners” — bundle transactions into a “block,” add this newest block to the “chain” of prior blocks (hence: blockchain is used to describe Bitcoin’s unique database structure), and devote immense computational power to the network in the process. For doing this work, these miners are rewarded with bitcoin. With a single bitcoin worth thousands of dollars, this is a very strong incentive.
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