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Second, and more significantly, it is not how those reasons were understood in subsequent decisions of this Court. Those decisions, particularly Chanter v Blackwood [62] Bridge v Bowen [63] Woodward v Sarsons as establishing that an elector is prevented from voting if the elector is prevented from voting with effect. In particular, Isaacs J explained [64] Bridge v Bowen that an elector is prevented from voting if, through official error, the vote which an elector submitted could not be counted. (Isaacs J distinguished between errors in performance of provisions of enactments requiring strict performance and other kinds of error but this distinction, if relevant to the Act as it then stood, need not be drawn for the purposes of the provisions at issue in these petitions.) This being the state of the law as determined by this Court at the time of the 1922 amendments, there is no reason to conclude that "prevented from voting" was used in those amendments with some narrower meaning. No party submitted that any later decision of this Court casts any doubt on this understanding of "prevented from voting". The parties did examine a number of decisions of State Courts of Disputed Returns [65] The course of decisions in this Court, before the enactment of the 1922 amendments, provides a sounder foundation for construing s 365 than the later decisions of State Courts of Disputed Returns. Apart from the decision of Sugerman J in Campbell v Easter [66] Finally, the preferred construction of the expression "prevented from voting" is consistent with what is now s 367 (also inserted in the Act by the 1922 Act), which regulates when the Court may admit evidence of any witness that the witness was not permitted to vote. It is notable that s 367 uses the phrase "not permitted to vote" rather than "prevented from voting". It follows, and no party submitted to the contrary, that cases where an elector is not permitted to vote must be understood to be a subset of cases where electors are prevented from voting. The question then becomes how widely the set (of which s 367 is a subset) should be drawn.
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Ptpn6mice have proved extremely useful in delineating the potential signaling pathways involved in neutrophilic dermatoses, but have also allowed us to further understand IL-1α cytokine biology, which remains significantly obscure ( Figure 4 ). Unlike CAPS and FMF, IL-1-mediated disease progression in murine models of neutrophilic dermatoses is independent of inflammasome activity. Instead, this type of skin disease is mediated by RIPK1, independently of RIPK3, and possibly through a novel cell death pathway. Future genetic studies in mice may help to elucidate the role of some of these signaling components in disease progression. In light of recent studies demonstrating redundant roles for caspase-1 and caspase-8 function in promoting IL-1β and instigating autoinflammatory disease in a mouse model of osteomyelitis [], it is possible that, in Ptpn6mice, these caspases could be playing a similar redundant role. For instance, Ptpn6mice deficient in both caspase-1 and caspase-8 might uncover the redundant roles of these caspases in provoking disease. Furthermore, it will be interesting to discern whether the RIPK1 scaffolding function versus its kinase activity are implicated in pathogenesis. Does(MLKL) activity play a role? One might propose that RIPK1 kinase activity is important in disease induction based on the described data with Nec1s-mediated RIPK1 inhibition []. Moreover, the cellular compartments responsible for IL-1α production and responding to IL-1α are not yet known. From a therapeutic perspective, these studies highlight the importance of further differentiating the biologic function of IL-1α versus IL-1β because these two IL-1 cytokines can have completely different functions depending on the nature of the disease. Specific blockade of IL-1α in patients with neutrophilic dermatoses could indeed provide much needed targeted therapy for these rare disorders.
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‘The Irony of Fate’ brings joy to Soviet architecturemedium.com Russia would like this. The things the United States is likely to do in a Trump-led conflict with Iran are most likely to their benefit. Chief among these is Trump’s threat to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran. The “stick” of the deal is that if Iran violates it the previous sanctions regime is supposed to snap back into place. But if the United States unilaterally cancels the deal, there is no reason to believe that such sanctions would return. It seems decidedly unlikely that Trump will have the global influence and respect necessary to put such a challenging regime into place, especially when the sanctioning nations have no reason to expect that their actions will contribute to a lasting solution to the conflict. If the agreement is scrapped Iran has no limits on their nuclear program or other military advances and no limits on their economic activities, something that benefits its major military and commercial partners — including, of course, Russia. As for an actual U.S. war in Iran — something, again, that major administration figures have advocated — such an invasion would be far less successful than even the Iraq fiasco, with no meaningful base of popular support in the country. In fact, there would be a broad-based insurgency against such a crime. Iran also boasts a much larger and more treacherous terrain and significant proxies abroad capable of extending asymmetric resistance to U.S. forces and our allies. Even U.S. air strikes and other direct attacks short of full war could be met with proportionate Iranian attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, an escalation that has nowhere to go but this very no-mans-land of ground war in Central Asia. If the United States ends up down that path our capacity for imperial influence on the region will come to an end, possibly along with our empire altogether. Again — this has been Russia’s hope all along.
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My bio-mother drove her self into the ground further with pills and alcohol, and I would constantly come home to her naked on the ground passed out, and my brother roaming the house... lost..At this time, I was the head of the household because I was 18 and my bio mom was not previously on the lease, so she talked about how my grandmother said that she wanted her to take care of me and that she wasn't going to leave me, so she had me put her on the lease.. afterwards she made my life a living hell.. she brought drug dealers over, I would come home to 5 people I didn't know asleep in our living room, she was dating a hobo, dealing drugs to the neighbors, coming home in drunk rages. Having sex very loudly in the next room with her boyfriend.. I tried to have her evicted but I couldn't because it was low income housing and she had equal right to the property.. so I was forced to move out on my own..That brings us current... I recently lost the love of my life thus far.. she moved away to school, and promptly cheated on me before going. went through a string of crazys after her.. all meaningless .. I haven't felt love in nearly a year now.. its become lonely and dark..the days grow distant, and I dont know if I want to continue.. I've made mistakes and I dont think I deserve any luck to have a good life... I've taken way to long in college and am barely passing.. I have a dead-end job that I hate.. and no parents.. or anyone that will come and hug me and tell me that it will be okay, and that I can do it.. I feel like I'm a strong but weak person.. If you needed me, I would be the strongest person, but for myself I'm weak.. I just want to be loved you know? to be valued and admired, to mean something to someone so and not just tossed aside..but alas I don't deserve that...
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Qolsys IQ Panel 2 is Latest Product in MONI’s Curated Product Portfolio; All-in-one Security and Smart Home Platform Provides Customers with Enhanced Security and Control MONI today announced the newest addition to the Company’s portfolio of cutting edge smart home security offerings. The Qolsys IQ Panel 2, an all-in-one security and smart home platform that combines advanced hardware and leading interactive software services, will now be available to MONI customers nationwide with any package. According to Statista, there are approximately 41.5 million smart homes in the U.S., and that figure is expected to jump to 80.4 million by 2021 – almost doubling in just four years. As the number of smart homes continues to rise, MONI is anticipating the changing needs of increasingly connected consumers. By adding the Qolsys IQ Panel 2 to its product portfolio MONI is working to provide higher levels of security, Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, and greater ease of use. The Qolsys IQ Panel 2’s tablet-like form factor includes an intuitive swipe-based user interface. LTE and Wi-Fi dual path connectivity help enable stronger connection. Bluetooth touchless disarming and S-Line encryption technology add extra layers of protection. Additional features include a built-in glass break detector, a built-in router, and over-the-air software updates. A built-in panel camera also captures and sends photos to the user’s smartphone or watch so that they can quickly see who armed or disarmed the system. “MONI has seen 2x growth in its interactive services customer base since 2012,” said Jeff Gardner, president and CEO of MONI Smart Security. “With an expanding customer base comes increased customer needs. Our product offerings are designed to meet the rapid rise of the smart home, while making connected technologies more accessible to non-technical consumers. We see ourselves as curators, bringing together the best technology of its kind, like the Qolsys IQ Panel 2 – to deliver on what customers require and want.” MONI has spent more than two decades serving the home security needs of homeowners across the United States. The Company actively seeks best in class technologies to augment its product portfolio, curating innovative solutions that can be easily accessed and understood by consumers of all technical abilities. MONI’s smart home security product portfolio is anchored by the Company’s patented ASAPer technology, an interactive messaging hub that alerts both MONI customers and their emergency contacts “as soon as possible” when an alarm is triggered.
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The description of his final birth in this discourse shows how important the devas are to this unique baby. Queen Mahamaya gave birth standing under a tree in the woods near the village of Lumbini: "When the bodhisatta came forth from his mother's womb, first the gods received him, then human beings... He did not touch the earth. The four young gods [the Four Great Kings of plane No. 6] received him and set him before his mother saying: 'Rejoice, O queen, a son of great power has been born to you.'... Then a great immeasurable light surpassing the splendor of the gods appeared in the world... And this ten-thousandfold world system shook and quaked and trembled, and there too a great immeasurable light surpassing the splendor of the gods appeared." (MN 123.17-21) The recluse Asita, who was associated with the court of the Bodhisatta's father, witnessed these heavenly celebrations. Asita was visiting the deva worlds at the time so he asked them, "Why are you all so happy and joyful?... I've never seen such excitement as this." The devas explained to him: "In a village called Lumbini, in the Sakyan country... a bodhisatta has been born! A being set on Buddhahood has been born, a superlative being without comparison, a precious pearl of the health and goodness of the human world. That's why we're so glad, so excited, so pleased. Of all beings this one is perfect, this man is the pinnacle, the ultimate, the hero of beings! This is the man who, from the forest of the Masters, will set the wheel of Teaching turning — the roar of the lion, King of Beasts!" (Sn vv. 679-84) Some of these devas were probably ariyas themselves, and others would have been aware of the infant's future destiny. They rejoiced that the way to the end of suffering would soon be expounded, and Asita, stirred by their revelation, went to see the new-born child with his own eyes. Period of renunciation and asceticism After living a refined life as a prince for many years, the Bodhisatta gradually became dissatisfied with this tedious round of hollow sense pleasures. His paramis, built up for aeons, came to the fore, ripe for the attainment of Buddhahood. He knew he had to find the way to release from suffering, so on the very night his wife gave birth to their only child he renounced the home life to become a recluse.
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In September 2011, the Nikon 1 system seems to be instantly controversial thanks to a very small sensor. However, it is actually only a tad smaller than micro 4/3 (2.7X vs. 2X crop) and a good match for the existing 1-inch standard format -- still huge compared to Pentax Q. Nikon 1 looks most like anti-social competition for the micro 4/3 crowd, comparable but not compatible. However, even a little increase in crop makes it less good with old SLR lenses... and perhaps better with C-mount lenses, which should show a lot less vignetting? The relatively modest 10MP sensor also roughly matches the resolution of the best C-mount lenses. The phase-detect autofocus trick is not a big deal with manual-focus lenses, but the Nikon 1's high-speed capture features should work well with old glass. Incidentally, I know Nikon says it isn't a Sony sensor, and Sony didn't have phase-detect on chip, but the high-speed stuff is verbatim from the sensors Sony sold to Casio for the EXILIM compacts...? Olympus: Olympus used to be known for their relatively compact SLRs, so it isn't too surprising that they were deeply involved in development of the micro 4/3 standard, which was the first EVIL mount. They have tiny cameras with sensor-movement image stabalization, which can work for any old lens. A lot of people also love the retro-SLR-scaled-down feel of the OM-D E-M5. The primary issue is that micro 4/3 is the same sensor size as 4/3, yielding a 2X crop. On the other hand, flange distance is just 20mm, so even C mount lenses (~17.5mm) can be adapted with just a little harmless intrusion into the body -- and the small sensor means some C mount lenses cover the frame with just a little vignetting. In late 2011, Olympus upper management self-destructed, so we'll have to see how the company evolves....
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The resolution called for sanctions on Mugabe and 13 other officials Britain and the US have condemned Russia and China for vetoing a draft UN Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the veto was incomprehensible. The US said it brought into question Russia's reliability as a G8 partner. Zimbabwe and its main ally South Africa welcomed the result. Russia and China defended their stance, saying the situation in Zimbabwe posed no threat to international stability. The proposed measures had included an arms embargo and a travel ban for President Robert Mugabe and 13 of his key allies. Zimbabwe's Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu described the resolution as a Western plot and welcomed its rejection. "We are happy that the United Nations principle of non-interference with member states of the United Nations has been brought to the understanding of the whole world," he said. "Russia and China have only observed the principles of the United Nations. We... would like to thank those who helped defeat international racism disguised as multilateral action at the UN." International security There has been growing international criticism of Zimbabwe since the re-election of Mr Mugabe in a run-off boycotted by the opposition. The opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change party say they had faced a campaign of violence by Mugabe supporters, which left dozens dead and thousands injured and forced from their homes. Russia and China said they opposed the resolution because the situation in Zimbabwe did not threaten international stability. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The US ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, said Russia's veto raised "questions about its reliability as a G8 partner". Mr Miliband said Moscow and Beijing had sent mixed signals about their intentions - with Russia using its veto despite a promise by President Dmitry Medvedev to support the resolution when it was discussed at this week's summit of the G8 group of industrialised nations. "The vote yesterday showed that, in the end, the Russians and the Chinese - I wouldn't quite say put two fingers up - but effectively they blocked action," he told the BBC, adding that Britain would be keeping up its pressure. The resolution had the support of nine council members, the minimum required to pass in the 15-member council.
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And though HTC finally gave up on UltraPixels and went the other direction to get extra resolution for better photos, the One M9 still wasn't anywhere near the competition in terms of imaging — even though the camera was fast and the interface was good, the resulting photos just lacked quality. The software was good, like it had been the past two years, but that wasn't enough to save HTC's hopes for having a hit on its hands — the One M9 just didn't do enough.
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An endocannabinoid-netrin signaling interplay to control the growth cone morphology of RGC axons was suggested since CB 1 R activity affected PKA-dependent targeting of DCC to the plasma membrane (CB 1 R antagonists increase DCC s insertion into the plasma membrane) [17]. However, the morphological outcome of this CB 1 R/DCC interaction is ultimately growth arrest; this also manifests in the lack of eye-specific segregation of retinal projections in CB 1 R−/− mice in vivo because the CB 1 R drives this interaction by decreasing intracellular cAMP levels via G i/o proteins.
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The $100,000 first place prize is a huge motivator for sure, but INnoVation would have stayed with KeSPA if money was his primary goal.Don't be fooled by INnoVation's disinterested demeanor and monotone voice, a certain interview lets us know that Innovation's ultimate goal is winning and proving to both himself and to the fans that he is the best player on the planet. Winning is what Innovation is all about. and nothing else will satisfy him. With an attitude like that, mark my words that INnoVationmake sure he is in the very best condition he can possibly be in coming into the WCS Finals, and heplay at the highest level possible at Blizzcon.
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Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), the highly acclaimed English architect and builder, designed and constructed many important buildings during his long career. His masterpiece is the present St. Paul’s Cathedral on Ludgate Hill in London, which was under construction from 1675 to 1708. Upon his death in 1723, Wren became the first person interred in St. Paul’s. Inscribed on a tablet mounted above Wren’s unpretentious grave in the south aisle of the crypt are the Latin words “Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice”: Reader, if you seek his monument, look around. With these words, the visitor is invited to observe the beauty and majesty of St. Paul’s Cathedral and to contemplate the achievements of its distinguished creator. The same inscription is useful when considering the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edward Murray, the subject of our history offering in this issue of IEEE Power & Energy Magazine. Murray was an outstanding entrepreneur, inventor, engineer, industrialist, and corporate executive who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the development of New York City’s vast electric power system. Moreover, his inventions, electrical products, books, technical papers, speeches, and ideas enjoyed wide circulation within the industry and influenced the creation of modern electric power systems everywhere. Murray is less well known today, largely by his own choice, than are many of his contemporaries. However, our readers need only “look around” to experience and appreciate the many benefits of today’s safe, adequate, and reliable electric energy that Thomas E. Murray helped so much to create. This history article marks Joseph J. Cunningham’s third visit to these pages. Cunningham’s interest in electric power systems dates to his youth when his high school science project “The Theory and Operation of Alternating Current” was awarded a first place gold medal. This success led to a scholarship for the study of physics in college. He has researched and authored numerous booklets, articles, and books on topics such as industrial electrification, electric utility power systems, and electric rail transportation. In 1976, he coauthored a definitive three-volume History of the New York City Subway System. He has also lectured and taught widely on the history of electrotechnology and has consulted on numerous history projects and television productions. We are honored and pleased to welcome Joseph Cunningham back as our guest history author for this issue of the IEEE Power & Energy Magazine. —Carl Sulzberger
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Cells in the culture were fixed in 4% formaldehyde, blocked with 2% bovine serum albumin, stained with a biotin-conjugated antiadiponectin antibody for 1 h at room temperature, and then incubated with Quantum Dot 655-conjugated streptavidin (Chemicon International Inc., Billerica, MA) under the same conditions. Further, cell nuclei were stained with H33258 (Wako Pure Chem., Ind., Ltd., Osaka, Japan) and examined under a fluorescence microscope. Feeding of mice The animals were maintained in accordance with the Hokkaido University guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals. The cages were placed in a room with controlled temperature (21–23°C) and lighting (light from 08:00 to 20:00 h). All animals had free access to tap water and a solid laboratory diet (CE-2, Japan Clea, Tokyo, Japan) during the feeding duration before tissue collection. Four-week-old mice (Sankyo Labo Service Corporation Inc., Tokyo, Japan) were housed at 1 mouse per cage in a controlled environment (12-h light cycle). After 1 week of acclimatization, mice were randomly distributed into 2 groups (n = 5) and thereafter were fed experimental diets with free access to drinking water. The 2 experimental diets were a standard diet (CE2) and a high-fat diet (High Fat Diet 32). Fecal samples After 55 days, mice were placed in clean cages with bedding for 24 h. All feces from each cage were collected, weighed, air-dried, ground in a mortar, and stored at −20°C until analysis. DNA extraction from fecal samples and quantitative PCR One hundred mg of ground fecal samples were weighted before DNA extraction. DNA was extracted using QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit (Qiagen, Venlo, Netherlands) according to the instruction manual, and the DNA concentration was determined using NanoDrop. Phylum-level analysis was performed on 3 phyla of intestinal bacteria: Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and all bacteria combined using a slight modification of the method described by Guo et al. (16) The relative population of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes to all bacteria were quantified on the basis of amplification of genomic DNA coding 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) using PCR with group-specific primers. (16) For the analysis of Firmicutes, the primers Firm934F (5'-GGAGYATGTGGTTTAATTCGAAGCA) and Firm1060R (5'-AGCTGACGACAACCATGCAC) were used. For the analysis of Bacteroidetes, we used Bact934F (5'-GGARCATGTGGTTTAATTCGATGAT) and Bact1060R (5'-AGCTGACGACAACCATGCAG). For the analysis of all bacteria, foward (5'-ACTCCTACGGGAGGCAGCAGT) and reverse (5'-AGTATTACCGCGGCTGCTGGCAC) were used. Real-time PCR was conducted using LightCycler 480 (Roche Applied Science, Manheim German) according to the SYBR Green I Master protocol.
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Evel Knievel on ABC's Wide World of Sports Date Place Jumped Result 11/10/1973 L.A. Coliseum 50 stacked cars Successful 02/17/1974 North Richmond Hill, Texas 11 Mack trucks Successful 08/31/1974 Canadian National Exposition 13 Mack trucks Successful 09/8/1974 Snake River Canyon, Idaho Canyon Crashed 05/31/1975 Wembley Stadium, London, England 13 Double-tiered buses Crashed 10/25/1975 King's Island, Ohio 14 Greyhound buses Successful 10/30/1976 The Kingdome, Seattle, Wash. 7 Greyhound buses Successful But there was a price to pay for Evel's work. Knievel estimates he spent nearly three years recovering from his injuries. On WWOS, Evel crashed twice, and was lucky to have survived both times. The first crash occurred at Snake River Canyon in Idaho. Despite two failed unmanned practice attempts, Evel decided to go forward with the jump for the fans in attendance and ABC, which was televising the event live. In place of his signature Harley Davidson, Evel attempted this jump in a sky cycle -- a jet-powered sled that took off from an inclined metal runway constructed on the edge of the canyon by the Knievel team. Seconds after Evel Knievel's sky cycle cleared the edge of the canyon, his parachute ejected prematurely. As fans, family, crew and ABC watched Evel descend into the canyon, it appeared he was heading directly for the river. Landing in the river would have meant certain death. Luckily, Evel and the sky cycle were saved because they landed on the rocks on the far edge of the river. However dangerous his jump was at Snake River, Evel returned to his Harley for a jump in London's Wembley Stadium, which was even more frightening. Evel successfully cleared 13 double-tiered buses, but his landing didn't go according to plan. A moment after his motorcycle hit the landing ramp, Evel was launched over his handlebars. Once he plummeted to the stadium floor, the momentum from the jump continued to pull, scrape and smear him for another 20 yards with his Harley in tow. But Knievel's problems did not end there. When his body finally came to a stop, the Harley landed directly on top of him. As a result, he broke his hand, re-injured his pelvis and had a compression fracture of a vertebra. Despite his condition, Evel was determined to, and did, walk out of the stadium. Evel was on Wide World just five months later at King's Island in Ohio, and America's love affair with Evel peaked.
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THE REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE (RPF) The Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) is a voluntary religious program of spiritual rehabilitation to provide a “second chance” to those who have failed to fulfill their ecclesiastical responsibilities as members of the Sea Organization, the religious order of the Church of Scientology. It represents a free religious commitment by the individual to a spiritual discipline. The word “force” in this context means a group of people acting together. The RPF is based upon one of oldest and most fundamental concepts in religion–a religious retreat in the form of a cloister focusing on intensive spiritual introspection and study and balanced by some form of physical labour. This practice is common to the religious orders of many other world religions in addition to Scientology including Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and the monastic orders of the Roman Catholic Church. The RPF was created during the 1970s at the request of Sea Organization members in order to be given a second chance. As with any religious program requiring high spiritual and ethical standards as well as dedicated service, some Sea Org members stumble in their effort to maintain such high standards and a few members commit serious breaches of ecclesiastical rules governing their conduct as a member of this order. In such a situation, the individual is given the choice of either leaving the Sea Organization or participating in a religious program designed to provide the individual with an opportunity to progress spiritually and remedy past shortcomings — the Rehabilitation Project Force religious program. The program is done voluntarily for purposes of penance and amends. It consists of 5 hours scripture study and counselling per day and extroverting physical actions. The program is devoid of luxuries, to motivate the individual to improve himself and get through the program to once again be a capable and contributing member of the group. It is conducted in the Church facilities which contain grounds, gardens and the property is open to the street with free access to and from the property. Every Sea Organization member who does the RPF is only permitted to do so after reading all relevant Church policies, so they can give fully informed consent for their participation. It is a voluntary religious program of spiritual rehabilitation.
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In August 2016, Hillary said: "He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous," "A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military," she added. . . . Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border. Now come to think of it, there actually maybe one other place that does that, the so called Islamic State, the territory that ISIS controls. What a cruel irony that someone running for president would equate us with them. Now but don't worry some will say, as President Trump will be surrounded by smart advisors who will rein in his worst impulses. So when a tweet gets under his skin and he wants to retaliate with a cruise missile, maybe cooler heads will convince him not to, well maybe. But look at who he's put in charge of his campaign. Trump likes to say he only hires the best people but he's had to fire so many campaign managers it's like an episode from The Apprentice. And the latest shake up was designed to quote "Let Trump be Trump". So to do that he hired Stephen Bannon, the head of a right- wing website called Breitbart.com, as the campaign's CEO. Now, to give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines that they've published. And I'm not making this up. "Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy." "Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?" "Gabby Giffords: The gun control movement's human shield." "Hoist it high and proud: The confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage". And that one came shortly after the Charleston massacre, when Democrats and Republicans alike were doing everything they could to heal racial divides that Breitbart and Bannon tried to inflame. Just imagine, Donald trump, reading that and thinking: this is what I need more of in my campaign. Now, Bannon has nasty things to say about pretty much everyone. This spring, he railed against Speaker Paul Ryan for, quote, "rubbing his social-justice Catholicism in my nose every second."
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Test of Honour has really grabbed my attention and enthusiasm recently. I still haven't gotten a game in, but it has caused me to get back to painting the mountain of plastic Ashigaru and Samurai I had. As I am the only person I know with the game, I am trying to paint two factions but in a way that they can also be used as a single faction or a single army for another game system if I want. My solution to this is slightly distinctive samurai and 'unit' Sashimono (back banners) all this is somewhat historically accurate (if you squint and turn your head sideways and wish really hard). This allows all the troops to be in uniform green armor and still be identified.As a reward for making a solid start on the Ashigaru, I painted up Tadashi, the Ronin hero character. I am pretty pleased with the result. He needs a little more highlight and shade in the hair but it is a tabletop figure so good enough.The rightmost dude was from my first fifteen speed painted guys. The rest have been painted more recently with about the same effort although I have changed how I apply the Quickshade. In a previous post - I lamented how much of the quickshade pooled in certain areas. This time I painted the stuff on... which works a LOT better... but... I will have to pick up white spirit as getting the stuff off the brush is a nightmare and I really don't want to burn through a brush every time I paint a few minis. The figures are still pretty shiny as the weather has been too wet to get the varnish on them yet but I will be doing that soon I hope and getting on to the yumi ashigaru.Another thing I did for Test of Honour (to save me rebasing my old Wargames Factory minis) is to try and modify the round bases so I can just tack the square bases on top. This has worked pretty well I think. Obviously it's not as natural as direct mounting on the round bases, but as there is no 'true line of sight' or anything in ToH, it shouldn't impact game play.
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(Photo Courtesy: Israel Police)Standing outside the synagogue, Eli, who was praying during the attack, recalled panic as worshipers crowded into the back room to hide from what was happening outside.“I am happy that God saved us,” he said, as services continued within the house of prayer behind him.Ramat Bet Shemesh Gimmel is a new community still largely under construction and residents voiced worries regarding the high number of Arab laborers and what they believe is an inadequate police presence in the area.Saying that he has not yet had time to process what happened, Akiva Marks, who recently moved there from the more established Ramat Beit Shemesh Alef neighborhood, said that he “wished the authorities had taken intelligent steps in advance instead of reacting after the fact.“Let’s be clear, these guys didn’t just drive in here,” they work in the neighborhood every day, he said. “Is anyone checking Arabs workers to see if they are authorized to be here? Either no or the process doesn’t work. Now they will think about it. Now that there is blood on the floor.”Chana Keren, who was supposed to put her children on their school bus, said that she was grateful at her luck in running late and that she had already made calls to cancel renovations to her house because of anxiety regarding Arab workers.“I don’t need Arabs with knives in my garden. Let’s get some workers from Thailand.We don’t need Arabs.You know what happened in Har Nof,” she said, referring to last year’s attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, when two Arabs for the capital killed four ultra-Orthodox worshipers and a Druse policeman.“There are usually not a lot of cops here. It’s a miracle. It could have been much worse, infinitely worse, if they got on a school bus,” her husband, Shlomo, added.“We are scared to go out,” said one crying woman, standing across the street from the scene of the shooting.“Many of the workers are illegal and the contractors don’t do anything about it,” she asserted. “The laborers sleep in the empty buildings at night.”Beit Shemesh residents expressed concern earlier this week when security guards were removed from two kindergartens in order to man police patrol vehicles in the city.
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public class Indexer : IDisposable { private readonly IndexerConfig _config; private NatsClient _natsClient; private InfluxDbClient _influxDbClient; private ISubscription _natsSubscription; public Indexer(IndexerConfig config) { _config = config; _natsClient = new NatsClient("HeartRateIndexer", config.NatsConnectionInfo); _influxDbClient = new InfluxDbClient(config.InfluxDbHost); //Shows that you don't have to subscribe against //NATS and MsgOpStream in one go. //Here we subscribe to the in-process message dispatching //via observable stream of MsgOp //The NATS subscription is configured in StartAsync _natsClient.MsgOpStream .Subscribe(async msg => await HandleHeartRateReceived(msg)); } private async Task HandleHeartRateReceived(MsgOp msg) { //Parse out the message var heartRateReceived = HeartRateReceived.Parse(msg.GetPayloadAsString()); //Create points for writing to time series health database var points = new InfluxPoints() .Add(new InfluxPoint(nameof(HeartRateReceived).ToLower()) .AddTag("user", heartRateReceived.User) .AddField("beatperminute", heartRateReceived.BeatPerMinute) .AddTimeStamp(heartRateReceived.TimeStamp, new SecondsResolution())); //Write points to InfluxDB so that they can be visualized in Grafana await _influxDbClient .WriteAsync(_config.InfluxDbName, points) .ConfigureAwait(false); } public void Dispose() { _natsClient?.Dispose(); _natsClient = null; _influxDbClient.Dispose(); _influxDbClient = null; } public async Task StartAsync() { //Ensure time series database exists await _influxDbClient .CreateDatabaseAsync(_config.InfluxDbName) .ConfigureAwait(false); //Connect to NATS and subscribe to subject for //HeartRateReceived messages _natsClient.Connect(); _natsSubscription = await _natsClient .SubAsync(HeartRateReceived.NatsSubject) .ConfigureAwait(false); } public Task StopAsync() { //Be a good citizen and Unsub from NATS subject _natsSubscription?.Dispose(); _natsSubscription = null; //Can also do... //await _natsClient // .UnsubAsync(_natsSubscription.SubscriptionInfo) // .ConfigureAwait(false); _natsClient.Disconnect(); return Task.CompletedTask; } }
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The maximum values for minimum and maximum sample size per group were 593 and 2,192, respectively. Showing these outliers would make the box plots impossible to see. Seventeen studies were excluded from this analysis as sample size was not reported (n = 614). Panel d: The types of figures that are selected depend on the type of statistical analysis that is performed. We performed ordinal logistic regression, with analysis type and figure type both classified as ordinal variables. The distribution of figure types differed significantly between studies that performed only parametric analyses and studies that performed both parametric and nonparametric analyses (p < 0.001), and between studies that performed both types of analyses and studies that performed only nonparametric analyses (p < 0.001). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002128.s008 (TIF)
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… Today I am speaking of something more serious, of an affliction so severe that it significantly restricts a person’s ability to function fully, a crater in the mind so deep that no one can responsibly suggest it would surely go away if those victims would just square their shoulders and think more positively—though I am a vigorous advocate of square shoulders and positive thinking! … “So how do you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or those you love? Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend. … Never, ever doubt that, and never harden your heart. Faithfully pursue the time-tested devotional practices that bring the Spirit of the Lord into your life. Seek the counsel of those who hold keys for your spiritual well-being. Ask for and cherish priesthood blessings. Take the sacrament every week, and hold fast to the perfecting promises of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Believe in miracles. … Hope is never lost. If those miracles do not come soon or fully or seemingly at all, remember the Savior’s own anguished example: if the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead [see Matthew 26:39]. … “If things continue to be debilitating, seek the advice of reputable people with certified training, professional skills, and good values. … If you had appendicitis, God would expect you to seek a priesthood blessing and get the best medical care available. So too with emotional disorders. Our Father in Heaven expects us to use all of the marvelous gifts He has provided in this glorious dispensation.”1
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"When the world's two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction. It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to harness the energies of its own population and oppressed people elsewhere in the service of the men who took advantage of the popular ferment in Russia in 1917 to seize State power. One major ideological weapon employed to this end has been the claim that the State managers are leading their own society and the world towards the socialist ideal; an impossibility, as any socialist -- surely any serious Marxist -- should have understood at once (many did), and a lie of mammoth proportions as history has revealed since the earliest days of the Bolshevik regime. The taskmasters have attempted to gain legitimacy and support by exploiting the aura of socialist ideals and the respect that is rightly accorded them, to conceal their own ritual practice as they destroyed every vestige of socialism. As for the world's second major propaganda system, association of socialism with the Soviet Union and its clients serves as a powerful ideological weapon to enforce conformity and obedience to the State capitalist institutions, to ensure that the necessity to rent oneself to the owners and managers of these institutions will be regarded as virtually a natural law, the only alternative to the 'socialist' dungeon. The Soviet leadership thus portrays itself as socialist to protect its right to wield the club, and Western ideologists adopt the same pretense in order to forestall the threat of a more free and just society. This joint attack on socialism has been highly effective in undermining it in the modern period." - Noam Chomsky, The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
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An artist could work for a month trying to animate a firm C-cup and not get it right. And, a double-D behaves tremendously different in a midriff tank-top than it would in a tight tube-top -- try it someday! Can you draw for me the difference between the bounce of a B-cup in a moist tee-shirt vs. an A-cup that's using a wonderbra? You need expert physicists to unravel these mysteries.Physics?Right. That's our specialty: Applied anatomical physics. For example, take a good look at this picture of a woman endowed with a tremendous set of martial arts abilities.I find it difficult not to.Good. Now, as she bends down to make her move, you can see several forces being applied to her plump, firm, ripened melons. And there's inertia to consider, plus the make and cut of the fabric and, of course, the cold weather. Newton's second law tells us how to calculate the acceleration of a body once we know the forces acting on it. The forces may vary as the body moves, but, provided we can write explicit expressions for how the forces vary with time, position, tautness, and velocity, we can determine the delicious acceleration of the body at every point during its motion, as well as whether or not it will "pop out," jeopardizing the game's rating. See here:Now all we need to do to locate the body at any given point in time is to simply substitute the appropriate data into the kinematic equations. Here at T&A Imaging we've put together formulae for everything from underwire bras to spandex. And I, personally, have put in hours and hours of field research. As you can see from the final results, hard physics -- oh so very hard -- pays off again with the convincing illusion of mammary motion like a delicious quivering zip-lock bag fulla chocolate puddin'.Impressive.I'm typing with one hand!Certainly this can't be the whole basis for your business model?No, as our name implies, T&A Imaging also services firm butts. You would think that tight buttocks shoved into denim wouldn't jiggle when dropping into a fighting stance but you'd be amazed what our scientists came up with. The radial component of the force provides the centripetal acceleration, and this makes the frictional force in the tangential equation velocity-dependent; we like to call this "getting down in the juice all oompah-loopah style." Take a good look at this picture:...and what can we conclude from this?What?
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So I don't know that I need to be a control freak all of the time. If I'm working with somebody new, then yeah, I might be a lot more measured in what I give them. But in general I say, "Here's what's in my head, show me what's in your head and let's come up with the best synthesis of those two things we can. "GeniusTeddy wants a full script. So there's not a lot of random discovery in a book I do with Teddy generally. The next book we're doing together is batshit crazy that way. [laughter] But he likes information. The trick is... all of that layering is already there, so the trick is not to suffocate him with it. He's aware of what I'm going for. The dialogue is pretty much there, although I rewrite the dialogue when I get finished art because you get rid of whatever you can. I'm pretty intentional about things. I don't want to spend a year on a book where I don't have an idea why someone would want to read a book and what they would get out of it. Even though that's now mine to control.It's everyone's life. Publish or perish is a bigger metaphor. My wife is a college teacher. She's at a community college in California that doesn't have that. I used to teach at the four-year level. And if you wanted tenure, you had to publish articles. These articles had nothing to do with teaching students. Which is kind of the job of a teacher. But it was somehow more important that you have these national periodicals regurgitating this stuff that you laid out that's of marginal importance, if that, at least in the discipline I was in. I'm sure there are theoretical journals about chemistry and stuff that really matter. My stuff, it was interesting, but it didn't matter. So part of it is that. But come on, if there was aright now, I wouldn't even make the top 500 writers. [laughter] This is a career where there's nounless you're the hot young ticket. I wasn't hot young ticket when I was young and hot. I'm neither of those things now, and I'm still not that guy. I think I relate to him that way. But as much as I kick that around in the book, you're right. My life is great. I have nothing to bitch about.
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3165 | D:3 | Noticed Terence 3202 | D:3 | Killed Terence 3202 | D:3 | Reached skill level 5 in Spellcasting 3406 | D:3 | Reached XP level 6. HP: 26/32 MP: 14/21 3633 | D:3 | Noticed Robin 3656 | D:3 | Killed Robin 4112 | D:4 | Noticed Desia's ghost (average GrFi) 4124 | D:4 | Killed Desia's ghost 4124 | D:4 | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting 4124 | D:4 | Reached skill level 5 in Conjurations 4124 | D:4 | Reached skill level 5 in Fire Magic 4124 | D:4 | Reached XP level 7. HP: 35/38 MP: 16/23 4311 | D:4 | Found a sparkling altar of Nemelex Xobeh. 4313 | D:4 | Found a glowing silver altar of Zin. 4327 | D:4 | Found a basalt altar of Yredelemnul. 4414 | D:4 | Reached skill level 6 in Spellcasting 5021 | D:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon 5091 | D:5 | Noticed Eustachio 5106 | D:5 | Killed Eustachio 5250 | D:5 | Noticed Prince Ribbit 5276 | D:5 | Killed Prince Ribbit 5276 | D:5 | Reached XP level 8. HP: 45/45 MP: 19/25 5805 | D:5 | Reached skill level 7 in Spellcasting 5888 | D:5 | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging 6096 | D:5 | Noticed Crazy Yiuf 6103 | D:5 | Killed Crazy Yiuf 6129 | D:5 | Noticed Edmund 6150 | D:5 | Killed Edmund 6634 | D:6 | Found a deep blue altar of Sif Muna. 6735 | D:6 | Found a stormy altar of Qazlal. 6745 | D:6 | Noticed Grinder 6757 | D:6 | Noticed Blork the orc 6774 | D:6 | Killed Blork the orc 7151 | D:7 | Found a white marble altar of Elyvilon. 7243 | D:7 | Reached skill level 1 in Shields 7295 | D:7 | Reached XP level 9. HP: 36/51 MP: 19/28 7488 | D:7 | Reached skill level 8 in Spellcasting 7894 | D:7 | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple. 8026 | Temple | Entered the Ecumenical Temple 8197 | Temple | Became a worshipper of Vehumet 8453 | D:8 | Learned a level 6 spell: Bolt of Fire 8490 | D:8 | Found an iron altar of Okawaru.
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Among a myriad of tech switches and super technical pushes, Sharp’s unique goliath-heavy TvT style is able to break Sea’s air tech. This game came down to the wire as both players found themselves in the late game with only a single mining base left. Unfortunately for Sea, goliaths are far more cost efficient than wraiths, and Sharp was able to break Sea’s final mining base for the win.Shuttle began with a devastating DT drop that nearly outright killed Last. With a booming economy and all the map control in the world, Shuttle teched up to arbiters with a gigantic ground army. Unfortunately, Last is the master of positioning, and managed to find an opening to push directly into Shuttle’s natural. Despite having all the tech at his disposal, Shuttle just couldn’t break the siege line and had to tap out.Okay, well... you should know what to expect by now on New Taebaek Mountains. Last tried a strangely executed SCV pull bunker rush, but Shuttle was able to easily deflect it. Naturally, the proper response by Shuttle was to build three stargates and start pumping out carriers. Despite Last’s best effort to keep control of the center of the map and kite the carriers back with his goliaths, the golden armada lived on and completely obliterated Last’s defenses.A passive opening from both players, but Last surprisingly took the low ground expansion closest to Shuttle’s third. Despite some attempts to break it, Last held strong and was able to put significant pressure onto Shuttle’s main base. Shuttle did his best to rebuild his main base on the other side of the map while Last expanded into Shuttle’s natural—an unusual “base trade”, to say the least. Using some brilliant tactics using the mobility of his gateway army, Shuttle outmaneuvered Last’s bulky mech army to whittle down his expansions, chip away at the deathball, and eventually take the breathtaking win.It was clear that Shuttle had the upper hand by this game. The early game was characterized largely by macro pushes from Last thwarted by constant micro tricks from Shuttle. After breaking Last’s third with a zealot drop on top of the tanks, Last fell apart and couldn’t keep up. The incoming flood of Protoss units turned out to be too much, and he had to type out the fated words “gg”.
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Given the classic look of Michael Fassbender's Magneto at the end of X-Men: First Class I really hope they make a serious effort to match the classic costumes. Blended From Around The Web Facebook
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EnumValue Command Description 10 Handshake Instructs the Trojan to use a new key and initialization vector (IV) to encrypt network communications. The Trojan will then creates a thread that it will use in an attempt to establish communications using the new key. 14 ShutdownClient Exits the current instance of the Trojan. 15 RestartClient Restarts the Trojan and exits the current instance of the Trojan. 16 UninstallClient Creates a batch script with a temporary filename that deletes the Trojan and then the batch script. The script contains the following::Repeat:DEL \”<executable path>\”if exists \”<executable path>\” goto RepeatDEL \”<batch script path>\””One interesting thing to note is that there is a flag called “BlueScreenOnTermination”, which if set in the configuration will set the Trojan’s process to be system critical by calling the SetProcessIsCritical function. After the batch script deletes the files, the Trojan exits itself and causes a Windows error due to the fact the process was system critical. 17 RestartPC Restarts the system using the command line “shutdown.exe -r -f”. 18 ClosePC Shuts down the system using the command line “shutdown.exe -p -f”. 19 GetSoftware Handled by the helper DLL, which opens a specified registry key in the HKLM hive and enumerates its sub keys looking for “DisplayName” and gathers all software packages that do not have “Hotfix”, “Security Update” or “Update for” within their “DisplayName”. It responds to the C2 with a list of software packages delimited by the string “|A|”. 21 unistallSoftware Handled by the helper DLL, which enumerates the “Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall” registry key looking for the software package provided with the command and will uninstall it. It responds to the C2 with “Unistall is running” if successful or the exception if it fails. 22 GetDriver Handled by the helper DLL, which enumerates the mounted storage devices, their total size and the available space left on them. The command concatenates this information into the following structure and sends it to the C2: “<drive number>|H|<drive’s total size>/<drive’s available space>|Q|”. For systems with multiple mounted storage volumes, the command will concatenate the additional data following the same structure above. 23 GetFiles Handled by the helper DLL, which lists the contents of a directory of a provided path. Each folder in the directory are added to a string, which is sent to the C2 in the a format of “<folder name>|G|Floader|G||G|<provided path>|H|”.
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His social conflict resolution method combines the fun of gambling coupled alongside the opportunity for my players to push the game in ways that I wasn't expecting.Nick has a discerning eye and an imaginative mind for game mechanics that makes his musings all the more interesting. Where others tend to create rules out of the air, without much forethought, Nick always seems to be working through the complications as he writes which gives his blog a frenetic feel that I find reenergizing. If youre looking for somewhere to debate rule mechanics then this is the blog you have to check out.by Patrick Stuart, from the blog False Machine : Whether you're a seasoned Game Master or a novice player one of the things you're always looking for is something to set your imagination on fire and to inspire your games to greater heights. With Patrick Stuart blog False Machine you find both in abundance and this post is a prime example. In Swamp-Drunks and Melanic Moors Stuart creates both a location to explore and peoples it with a distinctive group that could only exist there through what reads like scraps of explorers' journals. Not a word is wasted in this expertly crafted piece and I am deeply envious of his talent.by DM David, from the blog DM David : The release of Fifth Edition has inspired a lot of talk online about the changes that game has made from previous editions especially from Fourth Edition and often these discussions center around how people feel about those changes without focusing on what the actual differences are and how they impact the game. DM David, however, does not do that. Instead he methodically discusses the changes and how they have impacted the game without turning the discussion into a boring examination of esoteric facts. As a result this post is one of the best to come out on the subject so far.by Courtney Campbell, from the blog Hack & Slash : The special snowflake setting has gotten a bad reputation in online discussions as a vainglorious enterprise where people talk about things like the color of hats the people of Xanvos wear just to make it different from all the other settings out there. Is that really such a bad thing, though?
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A lot of women experience low libido for many reasons, but one of these major reasons is that the hormonal system is not in balance. This could be because of postpartum issues or you could be entering menopause. I recommend Maca Root Powder. And not just any one, but the one offered that is organic by Sol Raiz Organics. There’s is a special heirloom variety called Lepidium Peruvianum Chacon and I really feel the difference in comparison to the standard ones they sell in the store. Not all Maca is the same and most people are buying low quality varieties that don’t have the same effects as the Chacon one. Exercise! At least 20-30 minutes a day. Spicy food. Come on, I can’t be the only one who wants to get ‘freaky’, once I overdose on spicy Indian or Pakistani food. Fresh ginger, cayenne, and turmeric increase libido and vaginal wetness. Garlic too, but it’s really quite ‘fragrant’ and it’s hard to get your freak on with your significant other if you smell like a garlic pizza. But, if that turns your lover on, go for it! Sleep and relaxation. Make sure you get 7-8 hours of sleep per night. Want a method to achieve orgasm and healthy libido that isn’t tested on animals? Try Hypnosis Erotica. Seriously, this stuff works!
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This formula for the driving input is similar to the usual weighted sum of firing rates, except for the novel factor , which is 1 if and 0 otherwise. This would suggest that when neuron is saturated (being either shut off or firing at the maximal rate), the external inputs have no impact on its state. The only term that remains in the neural update equation, equation 2.1, is the one that drives the state toward 0, bringing it out of the saturation region and back into a regime where the neuron is sensitive to the outside feedback, so long as is not a saturated value (which is guaranteed by the condition that ). This idea is developed further below. 2.3.1 Fixed-Point Behavior In particular, it is interesting to note what happens around a fixed point of the state dynamics. Inspection of equation 2.5 reveals that for a fixed point , it must be the case that (2.11) which means that (2.12) Let us consider the hypothesis that unit is saturated: . In this case, , and the neural update becomes which converges toward with . Thus, could not have been a fixed point. Therefore, assuming that is not a saturated value (i.e., that the origin corresponds to a region where the derivative is significantly nonzero, ), we get that if , the network cannot be at a fixed point. Equivalently, if the whole network has converged to a fixed point, all neurons must be in a sensitive regime, which makes them respond to their inputs. which means thatLet us consider the hypothesis that unitis saturated:. In this case,, and the neural update becomeswhich converges towardwith. Thus,could not have been a fixed point. Therefore, assuming thatis not a saturated value (i.e., that the origin corresponds to a region where the derivative is significantly nonzero,), we get that if, the network cannot be at a fixed point. Equivalently, if the whole network has converged to a fixed point, all neurons must be in a sensitive regime, which makes them respond to their inputs.
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For all that, however, this is not the end of the welfare state. It will continue to spend sums on social assistance that would have astonished Beveridge. There is certainly a case for major administrative reform of the system, which has grown in a haphazard way. It meets needs as they appear and is as a result a complex system that is difficult to keep a grip on or to understand. But it is not a scrounger’s paradise. On the contrary, its complexity tends to result in people being denied their entitlements. So there would be an argument on grounds of administrative simplicity for a universal credit that bundled benefits into a coherent single payment. Unfortunately, there is no average recipient of welfare benefit. Families and individuals differ enormously in their needs, which makes a universal benefit difficult to calculate equitably let alone administer. That is why capping the payment will be so unfair, since in its provision for the unemployed, universal credit appears to pay no regard to the crucial variable: family size. Were the intentions of those who have devised the new system benevolent this would not be an insuperable difficulty. Alas, their intentions are anything but benevolent, and, an indication perhaps of how much they care, the new system, in common with all the legislation of the present government, is being rushed out almost unproven. It was supposed to be tested in four localities, but now it is to be tested in only one (Ashton-under-Lyne), and we can bet that the test run will be pronounced a success, with predictable consequences. It is also designed to be administered largely online. But welfare claimants, especially older ones, have less access to the internet than anyone and are most likely to be baffled by it. Replacing human contact with the internet is thus likely to discourage many people from claiming benefits to which they are entitled: something presumably known perfectly well to the Department for Work and Pensions. In any case, given the record of Whitehall’s IT disasters in the last few years, it must end in tears.
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If a computer interface is required, you can most probably forget about attempting to adjust anything unless you find a friendly shop to provide the adapter and walk you through the procedure. Why would they want to do this? Because they know you there is a good chance that you will have to pay them to unscramble the mess you created! Focus adjustment On a decent TV, you should be able to make out the individual scanning lines. If they are fuzzy, especially in bright areas, then focus may need to be adjusted. The focus pot is usually located on the flyback transformer or on an auxiliary panel nearby. Where there are two adjustment knobs on the flyback transformer, the top one is generally for focus and the bottom one is for G2. The focus wire usually comes from the flyback or the general area or from a terminal on a voltage the multiplier module (if used). It is usually a wire by itself going to the little board on the neck of the CRT. Let the set warm up for at least half an hour. Display a good quality signal. Turn the user color control all the way down and the brightness and contrast controls all the way up. This will be the worst case. Adjust the focus control for best overall sharpness - you may not be able to get it perfect everywhere - center as well as corners. If best focus is at one end of the focus pot's range and still not good enough, there may be a problem in the focus divider, focus pot, or some related component. Adjustment of the internal SCREEN and color controls The screen should be adjusted with a white pattern (snow from the tuner should do or turn the user COLOR control all the way down to get a black and white picture). Put the set in Service mode (horizontal line) if it has such a switch in the back or inside. If not, just use the raster in a darkened room. Adjust screen for a dim white line (raster). If the line is not white at its dimmest point, you will need to adjust the drive and cutoff controls for R, G, & B. Alternatively, you can use the following procedure: Turn R, G, and B screen (or background) controls down. Now turn color control fully counterclockwise -- off.
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import UIKit protocol CreateOrderRouterInput { func navigateToSomewhere() } class CreateOrderRouter { weak var viewController: CreateOrderViewController! // MARK: Navigation func navigateToSomewhere() { // NOTE: Teach the router how to navigate to another scene. Some examples follow: // 1. Trigger a storyboard segue // viewController.performSegueWithIdentifier("ShowSomewhereScene", sender: nil) // 2. Present another view controller programmatically // viewController.presentViewController(someWhereViewController, animated: true, completion: nil) // 3. Ask the navigation controller to push another view controller onto the stack // viewController.navigationController?.pushViewController(someWhereViewController, animated: true) // 4. Present a view controller from a different storyboard // let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "OtherThanMain", bundle: nil) // let someWhereViewController = storyboard.instantiateInitialViewController() as! SomeWhereViewController // viewController.navigationController?.pushViewController(someWhereViewController, animated: true) } // MARK: Communication func passDataToNextScene(segue: UIStoryboardSegue) { // NOTE: Teach the router which scenes it can communicate with if segue.identifier == "ShowSomewhereScene" { passDataToSomewhereScene(segue) } } func passDataToSomewhereScene(segue: UIStoryboardSegue) { // NOTE: Teach the router how to pass data to the next scene // let someWhereViewController = segue.destinationViewController as! SomeWhereViewController // someWhereViewController.output.name = viewController.output.name } } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 import UIKit protocol CreateOrderRouterInput { func navigateToSomewhere ( ) } class CreateOrderRouter { weak var viewController : CreateOrderViewController ! // MARK: Navigation func navigateToSomewhere ( ) { // NOTE: Teach the router how to navigate to another scene. Some examples follow: // 1. Trigger a storyboard segue // viewController.performSegueWithIdentifier("ShowSomewhereScene", sender: nil) // 2. Present another view controller programmatically // viewController.presentViewController(someWhereViewController, animated: true, completion: nil) // 3. Ask the navigation controller to push another view controller onto the stack // viewController.navigationController?.pushViewController(someWhereViewController, animated: true) // 4. Present a view controller from a different storyboard // let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "OtherThanMain", bundle: nil) // let someWhereViewController = storyboard.instantiateInitialViewController() as! SomeWhereViewController // viewController.navigationController?.pushViewController(someWhereViewController, animated: true) } // MARK: Communication func passDataToNextScene ( segue : UIStoryboardSegue ) { // NOTE: Teach the router which scenes it can communicate with if segue . identifier == "ShowSomewhereScene" { passDataToSomewhereScene ( segue ) } } func passDataToSomewhereScene ( segue : UIStoryboardSegue ) { // NOTE: Teach the router how to pass data to the next scene // let someWhereViewController = segue.destinationViewController as! SomeWhereViewController // someWhereViewController.output.name = viewController.output.name } }
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What I find very interesting is that a lot of fans of The Young Turks have told me that they don’t care about the Armenian genocide. Or they are completely ignorant about the historical Young Turks and have no idea that Cenk was and is a public Armenian genocide denier. They don’t care that The Young Turks progressive parts of the definition comes from the original Young Turks who later committed the Armenian genocide (or second wave of The Young Turks). They are devout fans who wear rose colored glasses it looks like. Others just don’t get it and that information just passes over their heads like it’s just too hard to grasp. So many other liberals/progressives who aren’t die hard fans of The Young Turks don’t care at all even though they are social justice warriors too. ? ?? I can’t get over how bizarre this is. Yet one TYT fan asked me how can Ana Kasparian work for a show/network with the same name of the leaders/political party/the actual people who caused so much suffering to her family? And I had no idea what to say. She somehow got over the name with such a horrible history (it’s called getting ahead in her career! ), which directly effected her own family (and getting over her boss being a public Armenian genocide denier). It is very strange and would be like a Jewish woman working for a show called the Nazis and the show is about how everyone should be strict and this Jewish woman’s boss is a public holocaust denier and even supports holoacaust denying organizations. A Turkish American who denies the Armenian genocide shouldn’t get away with having the name The Young Turks for his show and network. It is weird how there are so many passes given and how so many liberals/progressives/SJWs really don’t care about the Armenians (the Greeks and Assyrians are offended by this name/term too as well as many others who knows this history). These people think overly sensitive Armenians care about this and they’re just a tiny ethnic group and so what is their attitude. These people also think the other people who bring up Cenk being an Armenian genocide denier etc are the alt right and they only bring it all up to hurt poor innocent Cenk. They don’t think all people can be concerned about all of this. ? ??
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Name Bio Edward Teller Identified by name Member of the Manhattan Project. Co-founder of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Pushed for the development of fusion weapons. Member of the US Global Strategy Council that pushed the development of non-lethal weapons and the Star Wars program. Teller was one of most important promoters of Star Wars, which was later accused of having served as a bogus front program to divert funds into black projects mainly having to do with the development of psychotronic weapons. Friend of Col. John Alexander, the Army's top psychotronic researcher and someone involved in the civilian UFO community. According to Greer, Teller was involved for a long time in MJ-12 and-or successor groups. Harry D. Train II Identified by name, although misspelled Born in 1927. Son of Admiral Harold Cecil Train. BS from the US Naval Academy in 1949. Commander of the Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 8 in 1971-1972. Director of international security affairs at the East Asia and Pacific Region Office of the Assistant Secretary Defense 1972-1973. Director of the Systems Analysis Division at the Office of the Chief Naval Operations 1973-1974. Director of the joint staff at the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1974-1977. Commander of the US 6th Fleet, Naval Forces Europe, 1976-1978. Promoted to Admiral in 1978. Commander in chief of the US Atlantic Fleet and supreme allied commander of the Atlantic 1978-1982. Atlantic Command is part of NATO. Merle Shane McDow, who worked under Admiral Train at a top security department at Atlantic Command, testified to the Disclosure Project that sometime around May 1981 a UFO appeared on the US East Coast which did circles around the interceptor jets. Train turned out to be completely unprepared for this encounter at the time. The next year Train retired and became one of the major community leaders (business and politics) in the Hampton Roads/Norfolk area, next to the locally very influential businessman Henry Clay Hofheimer II. He already met with these businessmen during his time as head of Atlantic Command. Train became manager of SAIC's division in Hampton Roads in 1986 and never left. Joined IDA. Joined a host of other technology and regular business companies. Member of the United States Commission on National Security that warned for a 9/11 type attack. To prevent such an attack a "Homeland Security Agency" had to be set up. Greer says he has evidence that Train is/was involved in overseeing certain USAPs.
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And it seemed the city’s estimate for what it would take to provide one is ridiculous. If $550 is clearly not enough to do the job right, the city’s estimate of $65,000 to $150,000 seems to overshoot the mark by an order of magnitude in the other direction. Other media outlets obtained quotes from contractors for a properly installed concrete staircase there with metal railings and came up with numbers in the $5,000 to $10,000 range. Many of us might support a generously paid public service and understand that government accountability measures mean a premium might be applied: maybe 10 or 15 or even 25 per cent higher than the private sector. But 10 to 20 times higher? No. It’s the kind of outrageous-on-its-face example of government spending estimates that the late Rob Ford built his career on pointing out. When we hear the Scarborough subway extension will cost $3.35 billion or more, we may be certain that sounds like too much, but the numbers are so high and the project so big that we have no way to get our heads around it. A concrete staircase, however, many of us know at least a bit about — many of us have replaced our own, at home, for less than a few thousand dollars. To hear the city looking at possibly $150,000 for a similar and only barely larger job is galling. If this is the kind of cost inflation the city faces for a small job, many ask themselves, what kind of money is being thrown around on the big ones? It’s worth talking about. Astl’s carpentry project may not stand up as a piece of infrastructure or an example of how to solve the city’s problems. But as a way of calling attention to some of those problems, it may be eight steps in the right direction. Correction – July 21, 2017: This article was edited from a previous version that mistakenly referred to the stair’s stringers as risers. Edward Keenan writes on city issues [email protected]. Follow: @thekeenanwire
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, said the action threatened the return of wolves to Oregon and the future of "the icon of American wilderness." "Misguided wildlife management policies drove wolves in Oregon to extinction over 50 years ago," Pedery said. "True recovery of gray wolves in Oregon will depend on healthy wolf populations existing in neighboring states. "Unfortunately, Secretary Salazar's decision to reinstate the Bush wolf policy will put these animals back in the crosshairs in Idaho, Wyoming and elsewhere in the West, and endanger recovery in Oregon." Pedery urged the Obama Administration to reinstate the protective listing for gray wolves. Gray wolves were listed as endangered in the lower 48 states, except in Minnesota, where they were listed as threatened. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service oversees three recovery programs for the gray wolf -- each with its own recovery plan and goals based on the unique characteristics of wolf populations in each geographic area. The northern Rocky Mountain Distinct Population Segment includes all of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, the eastern third of Washington and Oregon and a small part of north-central Utah. The minimum recovery goal for the region is at least 30 breeding pairs and at least 300 wolves for at least three consecutive years. That goal was achieved in 2002 and has been exceeded each year since. There are currently about 95 breeding pairs and 1,600 wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Federal officials will continue to work with the State of Wyoming to develop adequate state protection for the wolves there. Salazar credited the work of states, tribes, landowners, researchers, sportsmen and conservation groups and the Canadian government with the return of the Gray wolf. The service will monitor the delisted wolf populations for at least five years to ensure their recovery continues. At that time, the service could decide to relist the wolves, continue monitoring or end its monitoring. Wolves in other parts of the 48 states remain endangered and are not affected by today's action.
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Like the martial eagle, the crowned has throughout modern history been persecuted by farmers, who maintain that the bird is a threat to their livestock. [7] In fact, both the crowned and martial eagles only rarely attack livestock. [6] In some cases, however, crowned eagles have actually been killed while attempting to hunt domestic animals. [16] Another cause for persecution of the species is that crowned eagles are considered competitors in the illegal bushmeat and poaching trades. Within the forest land-locked countries of Africa, the bushmeat trade is the largest source of animal protein for humans. [85] It is a multibillion-dollar business with some 5 million tons (mostly small antelopes and monkeys, the crowned eagle's staple diet) being killed each year. [86] In just 500 million acres of the Congo Basin owned by 8 countries the weight equivalent to 40.7 million humans is removed each year (or 740,000 bull elephants). [87] The effect of this unsustainable culling is to severely depress or remove the large, medium and small wildlife species of the forests. Crowned eagles require some 430 kg (950 lb) of "bush meat" a year and thus directly compete with the industry. [16][63][85] The red colobus, a monkey that typifies the optimal forest quality and is a main food species for crowned eagles, has been singled out as one of the fastest declining and most endangered monkeys in the world due primarily to the bushmeat trade. [88] In some cases, crowned eagles have reportedly even been shot by primate conservationists in a misguided attempt to mitigate their predation of declining primate species. [16] It is estimated that 90% of the global distribution of the crowned eagle may be subject to habitual persecution or is even killed and eaten itself as bushmeat. [16][85] On the other hand, some educated foresters and fruit-growers actually encourage protection of populations, due to the controlling effect crowned eagles have on populations of potentially harmful mammals. [7][36]
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Kim, et al (2011) [10] found associations between urinary concentrations of DEHP metabolites and delays in both BSID mental and motor development and urinary concentrations of DnBP metabolite and delays in mental development in 6-month old Korean boys. These three studies are limited by the measure of neurobehavioral assessment, which becomes more reliable as the children age. Tellez-Rojo et al (2013) [26] evaluated prenatal phthalate exposure and repeated BSID scores at ages 2, 2.5 and 3 years in 135 children enrolled in the ELEMENT study in Mexico and found associations with DEHP metabolites in sex-specific analyses only. A final, albeit cross sectional, study found inverse associations between metabolites of DEHP and DnBP and vocabulary development at ages 8–11 years among Korean children [13]. The inconsistent associations regarding the specific phthalates may be due to the variability in age of assessment (the BSID become more stable with increasing age at assessment), the WISC testing different constructs than the BSID, poor adjustment for the correlations between phthalate metabolites, and differences in the concentrations of phthalates in the specific populations. Nevertheless, the consistent pattern of associations between MnBP and MiBP across ages in our cohort lends support to our cognitive findings. Comparison of the concentrations of phthalate metabolites in our study to those in the last reported NHANES data [27] find, as expected, slightly higher concentrations among women in our sample. However, the confidence intervals in our data and the NHANES data overlap substantially, suggesting that the concentrations in our study are still relevant. There are several possible mechanisms underlying these associations. Phthalates may act as anti-androgens and lead to disruption in the normal sexual differentiation of the brain [28]–[30]; they may modulate the activity of aromatase in the developing brain and thus interfere with estrogen synthesis [31], [32]; they may interfere with thyroid hormone production [33]–[36], [29], [37]–[41]; and they may disrupt brain dopaminergic activity [42], [43] which is linked to inattention and hyperactivity [44]. These mechanisms may shed light on why the adverse associations are sex specific. Our study has a number of strengths. First it is a prospective evaluation with assessment of exposure to phthalates not only in the prenatal period, but also at ages 3 and 5 years. It is noteworthy that our associations were primarily limited to prenatal concentrations of phthalate metabolites, with some additional associations seen for age 3 exposures, suggesting that there are critical periods of exposure related to adverse cognitive outcomes.
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Apple thinks about things the way we do. Plepler believes Now will position HBO for an even bigger slice of the $236 billion people are expected to spend on subscription television by 2018. But this is a massive change for a company accustomed to enjoying life as a high-minded service that has never needed to scramble for ratings or lower its taste to reach a mass market. Plepler started at HBO 22 years ago, managing PR. Gregarious and opinionated, he quickly stood out as more than just a flack. When Jeff Bewkes ran HBO, Plepler became Bewkes’s consigliere, giving advice on everything from marketing to corporate strategy. “When I first met Richard,” jokes Bewkes, who’s now CEO of HBO’s parent Time Warner, “he outlined the future of the television industry, forecast the rise of Netflix, predicted the iPhone, and described the coding changes for Microsoft Windows.” What Plepler has done is impressive: Besides bringing great talent to the network again and again, he helped HBO fend off an earlier wave of competition, in the mid-2000s, when AMC and Showtime emerged as rivals for premium original content. And he has ascended through the ranks of Time Warner, a place whose corporate infighting has sometimes been as cutthroat as anything you’ve seen on Game of Thrones. “He’s the peacemaker who gets everyone to work well together,” says Jay Sures, managing director of United Talent Agency. As Bewkes puts it, Plepler “won’t steal your sandwich if you leave it on a desk. That’s an important trait if you’re going to go around and work in the white spaces, between people who are at odds with each other or have well-established walls between them. You have to make sure everybody knows you’re trustworthy.” When I ask Plepler if launching HBO into even more direct competition and an even less certain future makes him anxious, he barely blinks. “No, I’m not nervous,” he tells me. He’s the cool cat of the cable content wars. HBO has had Netflix on the brain for years. When it launched HBO Go in February 2010, it touted the app’s 600 hours of programming by imploring users to “Watch something you haven’t watched a million times before.” Courteney Monroe, the former SVP of marketing at HBO who’s now CEO of the National Geographic Channel, admits, “There was some implied digging there, that this was a better alternative” to Netflix.
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size_t a = (size_t) strlen(argv[0]); 00007FF60F43A41F mov rax,qword ptr [rbx] 00007FF60F43A422 or r8,0FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFh 00007FF60F43A426 mov rdx,r8 00007FF60F43A429 nop dword ptr [rax] 00007FF60F43A430 inc rdx 00007FF60F43A433 cmp byte ptr [rax+rdx],0 00007FF60F43A437 jne main+0B0h (07FF60F43A430h) size_t b = (size_t) strlen(argv[1]); 00007FF60F43A439 mov rax,qword ptr [rbx+8] 00007FF60F43A43D nop dword ptr [rax] 00007FF60F43A440 inc r8 00007FF60F43A443 cmp byte ptr [rax+r8],0 00007FF60F43A448 jne main+0C0h (07FF60F43A440h) Report(If(a > b, size_t, a, b), a, b); 00007FF60F43A44A cmp rdx,r8 00007FF60F43A44D lea rax,[rsp+40h] 00007FF60F43A452 lea rcx,[rsp+40h] 00007FF60F43A457 cmovbe rcx,rax 00007FF60F43A45B mov rcx,qword ptr [rcx] 00007FF60F43A45E call Report (07FF60F4292F2h) Example output: C:\Temp>VsUpdate3.exe a Opportunity to attach a debugger. Press any key to continue 140694781775872 Error - result is garbage */
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They work like this: We can use Spider-Man as an example to keep it quick. "Spider-Man #240 Snowball variant. Order 150% of your ordered quantity of Spider-Man #235 and this variant is order all you want." Now the percentage required changes with the wind and can be as low as 90% of a previous issue but it can be as high as 200%. If your orders are very small, this type of variant isn’t as onerous but it really punishes larger retailers. 200% of 3 copies is only 6 copies but 200% of 60 copies is not. Once again, your customers may have seen the cover and expect to have it. When you don’t have that cover, they may go to another retailer to try and find it. If the retailer takes the plunge and orders the right amount, they still face the prospect of the customer putting back the regular cover and buying the variant instead. No guaranteed extra sale, just extra risk.Now, there are certainly times when variant covers can make retailers extra money. I’m not trying to say that there is never a silver lining, but those are exceptions to the overall rule. Sometimes, a 1:25 variant can sell for $25-$30 when it first releases. Retailers can mark those up and try to capitalize on the surge in demand to make more money on those issues. That strategy can also backfire on the retailer as the value usually drops over the course of a few weeks and then the customer can feel cheated as their investment is not going to hold its value. When more than one customer wants one of these, you have the problem of choosing who you are going to disappoint. Again, not a win for the retailer when you have unhappy customers.Now, let’s stir the pot a little. If you are putting out a well-written book with quality art, shouldn’t that be the driving force behind your sales? It will certainly drive monthly sales instead of just single issue bumps. If you have confidence in your product, then you can use a variant as an incentive once in a while when you have that "sweet spot" artist who hits one out of the park. When you use variants as an incentive every month, aren’t you really saying, "Look at the pretty cover, what’s on the inside doesn’t really matter!"?
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Celebrity couples who split 26 show all Celebrity couples who split 1/26 Nick Young and Iggy Azalea called off their engagement in June 2016 after cheating allegations surfaced against Young. They had been engaged for a year. Jason Merritt/Getty 2/26 Professor Green and Millie Mackintosh Professor Green and Millie Mackintosh were granted a 30-second quickie divorce after two and a half years of marriage. Mackintosh cited "unreasonable behaviour" as the reason and was soon pictured with new beau Hugo Taylor. Ian Gavan/Getty 3/26 Cheryl and Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini The couple split after 19 months of marriage and Cheryl struck up a relationship with former One Direction singer Liam Payne Beretta/Sims/REX Shutterstock 4/26 All over Singer Gwen Stefani and husband Gavin Rossdale filed for divorce amid rumours of an affair. Angela Weiss/Getty Images 5/26 Short-lived Big Sean and Ariana Grande seemed loved up last year... but it was all over by April. Jason Merritt/Getty Images 6/26 Calling it quits Olly Murs and Francesca Thomas didn't look too happy at Wimbledon in June. They split shortly afterwards. 7/26 Different directions Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards called off their engagement just months after Malik quit One Direction. Disney/Rex 8/26 So much for a happy ending Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne filed for divorce in September. Everett Collection/Rex 9/26 PArting of the ways Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have officially started seeing other people. Getty Images 10/26 Family affair Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian finally ended their on/off relationship. Chris Weeks/Getty Images 11/26 Amicable Vogue Williams and Brian McFadden amicably call off their marriage. Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images 12/26 Calling it quits Actor Jon Hamm and actress Jennifer Westfeldt have broken up. Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images 13/26 Bets shot Lewis Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger gave their on/off relationship one more go this year... before breaking it off for good. Clive Rose/Getty Images 14/26 Back on the market Olivier Martinez and Halle Berry, previously Hollywood's most gorgeous couple, are both single again. Matt Baron/BEI/Rex 15/26 Shock split They were one of the strongest couples in Hollywood... until they weren't. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner filed for divorce in 2015. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images 16/26 Life change Louis Tomlinson and girlfriend Eleanor Calder split... and he is now expecting a baby with Briana Jungworth. Richard Young/Rex 17/26 The beautiful people Joe Jonas were Gigi Hadid went their separate ways this year.
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Making a living as an artist is fucking hard but it doesn’t have to be. It’s taken me over twenty years to get all of my own bullshit out of my way. So I can finally make my first feature film. I don’t want anyone listening to this podcast. I have to go through the same crap that I did. If not worse maybe. OK. You’ve gotta just do it. But listen to these steps. It is a roadmap. It ain’t the end all be all guys. It’s a start. Learn from other people go out read other books, follow other people, listen to other podcasts, educate yourself as much as you can but this is a good step. I wish I would have had this. When I started out I wish I would have led. I don’t know if I would have listened to it because I was an idiot when I was in my twenty’s. But it’s a blueprint. It’s a blueprint. It’s a nice blueprint that if you can follow and do, you have a much better chance of success guys and in the future coming episodes and coming online courses and things li
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Silianat and I talked to him for hours on that subject and more, advising him and refining his ideas, and in the end we are ignored - as per usual. Since the Senate officially denied him however, he had to take it down a notch...but it was still no where near the practical worth of a political vote in the Assembly. So it gets denied again, and he proposes a lower one - still too costly, it gets denied. On a technical level, it would only take 10 or so minutes of one's time to get the materials needed each week, for each vote, but it really was not worth it - no one valued the Assembly votes that high. So his motions repeatedly got denied. He expected too much of the average Civcrafter, and he wanted to have ridiculous amounts of gear by the time August hit. So, since Silianat and I disagreed with him, and the Senate disagreed with him, he took his motions to the Assembly and was promptly denied. This is what sparked a fire under him, causing him to get this ridiculous idea that the Republic was broken, and that everything needed to be reformed. He said that there was tensions between the upper echelons and the average citizens, and there was a large division of opinion and background in the city. He made it sound like the citizens were ready to revolt against the Senate. This made no sense to me at all. I even double checked the older threads on the subreddits. We have many opinionated people, but none that were ready to revolt because the Senate was doing a poor job. I was very confused about this, but Mark failed to elaborate on the matter no matter how much I asked about it. Mark always had a tendency to seemingly produce random, but false, opinions and facts out of thin air, but it was particularly bad now. It was the strangest I've ever seen from Mark, and then the reformations phase hit. His initial plan, he confided, was to manipulate Ghalen into giving him dictatorship and to enforce new reforms that would change SPQR into something that "it needed to be". The very fact that he was going to use dictator and force his way through was enough to make me oppose him, and Silianat and I talked him down - a few more hours of wasted breath.
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The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday, claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.Centerton Mayor Ken Williams said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose.It was a double-life he had never acknowledged, Williams said, because he didn't even realize it existed until he had recently taken a truth-serum injection.As Williams regained his memory, he said, he realized that he had a wife and two kids but that he had decided to leave and take on a new identity to protect them. "I had no choice. The choice was to watch my family killed before my eyes or go with these people, and I chose instead to run," Williams said.He wouldn't explain from who he was running, saying only that he had been brainwashed. "I had multiple shock treatments," Williams said. "It took five years to get my memory back. "Williams said he took his current identity in 1980 when he moved to Centerton. His full name -- Bruce Kent Williams -- was taken from a man who died in a car crash back in 1958, he said. "What happened in 1980 -- whether it was right or wrong -- I did it under the threat of my family and for my own survival," he said.The information went public, Williams said, because he runs a Web site about Don LaRose and his disappearance. LaRose's former family found the Web site and started inquiring about its author. They found the site registered to a Ken Williams and went from there.Williams said his current wife is standing by him and the two of them want to continue living in Centerton. He said he plans to continue living as Ken Williams.Also, his resignation was signed with two names, he said.According to police, Williams is under no investigation for any wrongdoing.
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Only one of two shipwrecks were ever developed for the island, Captain Flint’s Walrus, which can still be slightly seen in the overgrown brush that has now overtaken the abandoned island.The new, yet-to-be purchased or named island would likely include a pier so that even the largest of Disney ships could easily dock there. Many of the activities found on Castaway Cay, like the snorkeling and the age-specific beach areas, will likely be included in the new island. The new Caribbean island will likely also be included in the treasure hunting scavenger hunts that Treasure Island hosted before becoming Discovery Island. A similar, but much more high-tech pirate-themed scavenger hunt , is now available inside the Magic Kingdom.There’s no word on where the new Caribbean island will be or when Disney will announce details regarding it. Disney Cruise Line’s three new ships will come in-service one per year between 2021 and 2023.
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Smulian was sixty-seven, and, by his own admission, “broker than broke.” He had sold his company and was working in the front office of a hypodermic-needle factory in Tanzania. He and Bout had not seen each other in nearly a decade, though they had stayed in touch through e-mails and phone calls. Lately, Smulian had begun corresponding with Bout about prospective investments in Tanzania, including building a casino, importing cashews, and supplying the Tanzanian military with helicopters, tanks, and ships. Bout had contacted Russia’s defense export agency to see whether it would fulfill such a legal arms transfer; he was awaiting word. In November, 2007, the D.E.A. launched its sting. Mike Snow, a Congo-based businessman who was friendly with both Smulian and Bout through the aviation industry, had become a D.E.A. informant. Snow wrote an e-mail to Smulian. Referring to Bout as “Boris,” as they did when using insecure communications, Snow said, “May have a deal for Boris, could your guy get you and me to go see him?” Smulian forwarded Snow’s request to Bout. “Seems they are looking for some ‘agricultural stuff,’ ” Smulian wrote. Bout replied four hours later. “About ‘agricultural stuff’ all possible. What is needed??? You can proceed.” Smulian flew to Curaçao, and on January 10, 2008, he went to the tiki bar at the Hilton, where he met with Snow and two undercover operatives posing as FARC representatives. One operative, a convicted Colombian cocaine smuggler who called himself Ricardo, spoke only Spanish; the other, called Carlos, spoke English, and did most of the talking. He knew how to build a case, having worked with the U.S. government on some hundred and fifty undercover assignments. He also knew the world of drugs and guns. Born in Guatemala, Carlos had joined the Army there in the early nineties, then moved into military intelligence. He soon began trafficking drugs, moving, by his estimate, more than six thousand pounds of cocaine. He eventually turned himself in and presented his services to the D.E.A., which has since paid him more than one and a half million dollars. For his work on the Kassar case, in which he posed as a FARC logistics man, the State Department gave Carlos seven million dollars. At the tiki bar, Carlos and Ricardo told Smulian that they were eager to acquire Iglas—Russian-made shoulder-fired missiles—to target helicopters flown by American pilots.
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The boost lasted 6 minutes and accelerated Apollo to escape velocity of 40,000 km/h (25,000 mph).. Ninety minutes later, the Apollo spacecraft separated from the third stage and continued onwards to the moon.Here’s the poster’s depiction of the full Saturn V stack, and of the separate stages:I believe the Apollo program to be the most magnificent achievement of our species to date, and the world has never again seen a rocket the likes of the Saturn V. Its nearest competitor, the N1 built by the Soviet Union for its lunar program, was an abject failure and was mercifully abandoned before a crew was ever placed atop it.Yet there is hope. NASA is presently at work on a new breed of heavyweight launcher for human exploration beyond low-earth orbit: the SLS (Space Launch System). All going well, this system, together with the Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle , might see human beings on the moon again in the 2020s: over fifty years after Armstrong’s “one small step.”
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In the off-season, he was a technician on a Norwegian oil platform, dangling high above the North Sea to weld joints and replace rivets. He was not easily unnerved. Then again Chevé was more than usually unnerving. Caves are like living organisms, James Tabor wrote in “Blind Descent,” a book on Bill Stone’s earlier expeditions. They have bloodstreams and respiratory systems, infections and infestations. They take in organic matter and digest it, flushing it slowly through their systems. Chevé feels more alive than most. Its tunnels lie along an uneasy fault line in the Sierra de Juárez mountains and seethe with more than seven feet of rain a year. On his first trip to Mexico, in 2001, Gala nearly died of histoplasmosis, a fungal infection acquired from the bat guano that lined the upper reaches of a nearby cave. The local villagers had learned to steer clear of such places. They told stories of a malignant spirit that wandered Chevé’s tunnels, its feet pointing backward as it walked. When Western cavers first discovered the system, in 1986, they found some delicate white bones beneath a stone slab near the entrance: the remains of children probably sacrificed there hundreds of years ago by the Cuicatec people. When the call to base camp was over, Gala hiked to the edge of the pool with his partner, the British cave diver Phil Short, and they put on their scuba rebreathers, masks, and fins. They’d spent the past two days on a platform suspended above another sump, rebuilding their gear. Many of the parts had been cracked or contaminated on the way down, so the two men took their time, cleaning each piece and cannibalizing components from an extra kit, knowing that they’d soon have no time to spare. The water here was between fifty and sixty degrees—cold enough to chill you within minutes—and Gala had no idea where the pool would lead. It might offer swift passage to the next shaft or lead into an endless, mud-dimmed labyrinth. [cartoon id="a18189"] The rebreathers were good for four hours underwater, longer in a pinch. They removed carbon dioxide from a diver’s breath by passing it through cannisters of soda lime, then recirculating it back to the mouthpiece with a fresh puff of oxygen. Gala and Short were expert at managing dive time, but in the background another clock was always ticking. The team had arrived in February, three months before the rainy season.
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well that is what was done by the supporters of Gilad Atzmon on Indymedia not too long ago who used 'procedure' and 'rules' rather than arguing their case honestly.It is clear that this attempted infiltration by Zionist activists of the editors' group, aided and abetted by an exiting Wiki editor 'Zeq', if it had succeeded, would have meant that Wikipedia would have become merely another arm of Israeli propaganda. The contempt by the Zionist movement for any modicum of freedom of speech and discourse should be no surprise. In Palestine they shoot people who speak out of turn, in the USA they merely demonise them and burn their books or the net equivalent.Tony GreensteinPro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia Report,The Electronic Intifada 21 April 2008A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, Long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online Encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, Pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia Administrative structures to ensure these changes go Either undetected or unchallenged.A series of emails by members and associates of the Pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one Activist termed a "war" on Wikipedia.A 13 March action alert signed by Gilead Ini, a "Senior Research Analyst" at CAMERA, calls for "volunteers who can Work as 'editors' to ensure" that Israel-related articles On Wikipedia are "free of bias and error, and include Necessary facts and context." However, subsequent Communications indicate that the group not only wanted to Keep the effort secret from the media, the public, and Wikipedia administrators, but that the material they Intended to introduce included discredited claims that Could smear Palestinians and Muslims and conceal Israel's True history.With over two million articles in English on every topic Imaginable, Wikipedia has become a primary reference Source for Internet users around the world and a model for Collaboratively produced projects. Openness and good faith Are among Wikipedia's core principles. Any person in the World can write or edit articles, but Wikipedia has strict Guidelines and procedures for accountability intended to Ensure quality control and prevent vandalism, plagiarism Or distortion. It is because of these safeguards that Articles on key elements of the Palestine-Israel conflict Have generally remained well-referenced, useful and Objective.
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-Toxic Shot damage (both the on-hit and the DoT) is amped by 50% whenever there are other Poison debuffs on the target Q -Base damage down 80/125/170/215/260 >>> 80/115/150/185/220 -AP Ratio down 0.8 -> 0.6 -Now is a Poison Debuff W -No longer breaks stealth E -New Active: After a 1 second delay, Teemo enters Camouflage for 3-5 seconds. Teemo is slowed by 25/22.5/20/17.5/15% during this effect, and gains 20/30/40/50/60% Attack Speed for 3 seconds when it ends. Camouflage does not tick down while Teemo is in a brush or is standing still. R -Base Damage down 200/325/450 >>> 150/250/350 -AP ratio down 0.5 >>> 0.4 -Mushrooms health up from 6 at all ranks to 6/8/10 -Mushroom max ammo count up from 3 at all ranks to 3/4/5 Thanks, Riot Jag https://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/9.2.1/img/champion/Kaisa.png
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MOOC pros and cons Developing my ‘useful’ genetics course as a MOOC offered many advantages. I would have the flexibility to develop a completely new course from the ground up, using a course management system optimized for online learning. I could try out my ideas on a large population of students with a range of backgrounds and interests. Vitally, I would have the technical and pedagogical support of my institution. However, there were also many issues to worry about. On the course-content side, were my ideas of utility really a workable guide for a college genetics course? Once I had discarded the content that I viewed as outdated and overly specialized, would there be enough material for a college-level course? Would the best students be turned off by the new nonresearch material? There was (and still is) no suitable textbook for the course that I wanted to teach; would it be possible to teach genetics without a textbook? Without end-of-chapter problems from a textbook, could I develop all the test problems that the course would need? The MOOC side of the project also raised concerns. I had never created a video, but now I would need to produce a whole course's worth. Given that Coursera is for-profit, I would need to scrupulously abide by copyright restrictions in my lecture materials. My face-to-face teaching evaluations were not that great; would my lecture videos be sufficiently engaging? The massive audiences of MOOCs require automated grading of problem sets and exams; could multiple-choice questions require the rigorous thinking I wanted to assess, and would I be able to tell from the answers whether students really understood the concepts? Could students get enough support from online discussion forums, especially if the primary source of help was fellow students? MOOCs attract a diverse student population: how could one course serve both those with no preparation and those with strong backgrounds? MOOCs are also notorious for very high drop-out rates: how big a problem would student motivation be? Finally, even if my ideal course was practical as a MOOC, could it work as a university course?
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One is reminded of a story, which may well be apocryphal, but is fairly apposite and bears repetition. The Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, wanted to hold an open air reception in Simla and sought, and received, the assurance of the weather bureau that there wouldn't be any showers on that day. But while strolling on the mall, he encountered a farmer and his donkey. Proletarian as he pretended to be, he struck up a conversation with him and made the same enquiry. The farmer looked at his donkey and said, "Whenever my mate's ears shake the way they are doing now, it just pours." The Viceroy made light of the donkey signal, but his evening party was a big fiasco. In anger, he had the weather station removed to faraway Pune as punishment. I hope the media will never again mess with Narendra Modi or Gujarat elections. Modi won a landslide victory, which even he and his followers could not have imagined or hoped for. I congratulated him for his brilliant victory, but I sincerely advised him that he should wear a look of absolute humility; he should publicly own that something had seriously gone wrong and that he should loudly proclaim that India could never go forward and retain its independence and sovereignty unless Hindus and Muslims were locked in an embrace of love and mutual understanding. He must declare his firm resolve to bring back to the minorities a feeling of absolute security and an assurance of every kind of protection by the powers of the state. Modi thought out and reasoned his strategy and since then his stature has risen manifold to heights rarely attained before. Today, vast sections of civil society see in him the next Prime Minister of India. I hope he will plant more visible footprints on the international seashore. He has to speak of peace and a durable solution to the Kashmir problem with the rulers of Pakistan. He must project himself as a great democratic leader of the world and a fighter for human rights and justice the world over. On the domestic front, I am proud to see him winning Muslim hearts by presenting to them the real Hindutva, which even the Supreme Court had to acknowledge and admire. Let not the real Hindutva be confused with its counterfeit version, which unfortunately gains currency during the course of electoral battles.
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Although reliable statistics are difficult to come by, it's probably safe to say that hypothermia is one of the most significant risks faced by anyone who ventures into the wilderness. Drownings, cardiac events, heat stroke, lightning strikes, avalanches, falls, illnesses, and even animal attacks cause backcountry deaths every year, but hypothermia is almost universally cited as the leading cause of fatalities. Several factors, including low temperatures, high winds, dehydration, insufficient calorie intake and exhaustion levels can contribute to the development of hypothermia, but perhaps the most dangerous is being wet. Many years ago, as a novice backpacker, I had my first opportunity to observe hypothermia at work during an autumn trip into the High Sierras. I was traveling with two more experienced hikers, one of whom, as it turned out, was conspicuously unprepared for the conditions we encountered. Temperatures unexpectedly fell into the mid-30's and the skies opened up with a multi-day barrage of rain, snow, and sleet. During a soggy bushwhack down a manzanita-choked canyon, this man, who was wearing only a light shirt and plastic poncho for upper body protection at the time, began behaving strangely. My other companion and I noticed that he was shivering uncontrollably, that his lips had turned blue, and that his speech had become slurred and nonsensical. It was clear he was in serious trouble, so we stopped to make an emergency camp. Unfortunately, the jacket in his pack was soaked, as was the sleeping bag that was carried in a leaky stuff sack. So we pitched our tent and hustled our stricken companion into my sleeping bag (which had been well protected) and built a fire to help dry out some of his saturated gear. It required several hours (which included a period of delirium), along with the gradual administration of warm drinks and a bit of food, to slowly bring him around. The following morning, the sun came out and the three of us went on to complete the remainder of our trip. To this day, however, I have no doubt that if he'd been hiking alone, he would have died that afternoon. I've had my own brushes with hypothermia over the years, all of which have been highly unpleasant. If there's any lesson I've leaned, it's that hypothermia is an insidious adversary.
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Technically, it never exceeded the state's 85 ppb standard. "I don't understand the numbers. I'm not a scientist," said Pate, a maintenance worker at the nearby Scio Farms mobile home park. "I'm pretty sure I wouldn't miss something telling me not to drink the water." Rayer, who owns a number of rental properties in the Jackson Road area, argues the test results provided to his tenants are self-explanatory. He took issue with Bicknell going and talking to his tenants about the dioxane in their water. "I don't want him over there bothering my tenants," he said. "They're all well aware what's in the water." Bicknell said multiple tenants with dioxane-contaminated wells told him they weren't aware. Rayer said he was hesitant to rent the house at 5005 Jackson to the family. He said he had never rented to anyone with children before because there was dioxane in the water, but Pate and his wife said they just drink bottled water anyway. Pate acknowledged he and his wife have been drinking bottled water most of the time because they don't like the smell or taste of the well water, which they noted has left the kitchen sink discolored, but they said they and their children still consumed the contaminated water sometimes and used it for other day-to-day needs. On Wednesday afternoon, Pate and his wife said the family hadn't bathed or washed any clothes since finding out on Monday the water was contaminated. They're considering throwing out everything they own that might have come in contact with dioxane. "I think I'm past freaked out," Pate said. "My kids and my wife are my first priority. It's the whole reason I wake up every morning and start my day." They said they're worried about potential long-term health impacts from their children's exposure to dioxane. "What if they have something that can't be reversed? Or what if they don't have a cure for it? And what if they live the rest of their lives sick? Or God forbid, what if one of them dies?" Heather said. They said the basement of the house is leaky and damp and has experienced significant flooding, with water coming up through the sump pump pit. They're concerned dioxane might have entered the house that way, too, or through vapor intrusion, and they also believe there might be mold spores in the air.
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Some experts suspect they could have some connection to the Indian underworld. Domestic intelligence agencies don’t back the theory.In similar incidents, two big Indian banks were hacked recently by cyber criminals. ET couldn’t confirm whether any payment was made to them. One senior bank official said no money had been paid.
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Even at this early stage, executives at DC, The CW, and Warner Bros. (the studio that produces the show), are eyeing a third character who could possibly lead another show. "There are discussions going on," said Mark Pedowitz, the president of The CW, in a recent telephone interview, "but I can't tell you what they are." In addition to Arrow and The Flash, television currently has a number of comic-book-based shows — AMC's The Walking Dead, Fox's Gotham, ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and NBC's soon-to-premiere Constantine — but let's face it: It's a hard row to hoe. Especially when the genre gets further whittled to superhero TV. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. struggled to find itself creatively in its first season, and Gotham, three episodes in, is making those attempts now. The fanboy community, once won over, is among the most loyal pop culture consumers — but first you have to drag them, screaming, from throwing the project off a precipice of knee-jerk hate. "When the project got announced, there was a lot of cynicism we were met with online — which, by the way, I totally get," Guggenheim said. "Green Arrow is a character that hasn't always had the most success in comic book form. So the idea of bringing him to a TV show is really hard." Arrow, as first imagined by Berlanti — the television writer/producer behind Everwood and Brothers & Sisters, among many others — when he got an overall deal with Warner Bros. three years ago and they asked him whether he was interested in developing any DC properties, is an origins story. The show is set to run for five seasons, each flashing back to a year of Oliver's captivity. By the end of the show, Oliver will have evolved from the Hood to the Vigilante to the Arrow — to Green Arrow.
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By political rule of law we understand that the referendum will be fair and democratic and that campaigns in favor of the new draft as well as those opposing it should be allowed. If these conditions are not fulfilled, then the difference in majority rules will not be able to make a sufficient impact. An elite that is able to tamper with the results of a referendum will not be constrained by a higher threshold in that referendum. An autocrat aiming to increase the legitimacy of his regime might use a referendum to give his citizens a feeling of participation. One example of a regime potentially staging such a referendum is the 2003 constitutional referendum of Qatar, where official results gave nearly 97% agreement for the draft constitution supported by the Emir. The next sections analyze the arguments for and against simple and qualified majority rules for the constitutional referendum.
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Aight, since I love my Battlemasters (got it on my sig, even), I am gonna share my CW sniper BLR-1G build. With the BLR-2C losing its +10% energy range quirk, I believe BLR-1G is now undisputed Battlemaster for sniping. It naturally shines on large open maps such as Alpine, Polar, and Frozen City. *edit* I played several matches with this setup and I am very happy with its performance as you can see below.This BLR-1G build is relies on the power of 6xERLLs, with the mobility of 375XL engine, with 20 DHS to keep the beast running. Here is the build.You can see the bonuses I got from the skill tree, as well as quirks in that picture, but lemme help you to break down my skill node choices.First, is the Weapons tree. I went for laser duration, heat generation, and range. They are all needed for effective sniping, and sustaining it. Had to take cooldown nodes to progress though, which is not needed. My ERLLs now have +25% range, -9% heat gen, and -15% duration.Second, is the Mobility tree. I went for accel/decel bonuses as well as twist speed. Snipers specialize in poking so good accel/decel is very important to minimize exposure. I took twist speed because it can help me to twist and spread any counter sniping damage. A total of +21% accel/decel rate, and +14% horizontal torsi twist speed was gained, with a bonus of +8% torso twist angle. I didn't go all the way with this tree because I needed the other trees more.Third and fourth, are Operations and Sensor trees. I maximized the heat containment and heat dissipation nodes because 6xERLLS put out helluva heat, and cannot even fire two alphas without shutting down. I chose hill climb over speed retention while progressing this tree because Assault mechs have problems with navigating terrain, and sniper mechs frequently need to position themselves on hills. Hill climb reduces the speed penalty when hill poking, which translates to less exposure. Speed retention is useless because if you are getting legged as a sniper then your positioning skill sucks more than a pornstar.For Sensors, just grab Advanced Zoom. That's all you need. Radar related stuff are useless since you will be shooting from beyond radar range most of the time. Raderp too is useless since you will be shooting from beyond LRM's maximum range most of the time.Fifth, is the Misc tree, where you can boost your consumables.
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It is normally used as clinical hemostatic and wound healing agent in both gauze and granules. Chitosan appears superior to PEG: Chitosan in sterile saline (or otherwise nanoengineered nano/micro particles) can act as a potent membrane sealer and neuroprotector, being endowed with significant targeting ability. [12] Chitosan is capable of forming large phospholipid aggregates by inducing the fusion of small dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers, a major component of the plasma membrane. Combining the actions of both chitosan and PEG leads to a newly developed hydrogel based on photo-cross-linkable chitosan (Az-C), prepared by partial conjugation of 4-azidobenzoic acid (ABA) to chitosan. [3] Chitosan hydrogel is attractive for use in GEMINI, due to its simplicity of application, tissue adhesiveness, safety, and biocompatibility. The Az-C network is reinforced by adding PEG (Az-C/PEG gel). Low-molecular-weight PEG with a nonreactive terminal group would be best. This gel can be applied as a viscous liquid that flows around the damaged cord temporarily held together. The gel precursor solution can be quickly cross-linked in situ by short-term UV illumination, covering the tubular part of the nerves and providing a reliable linkage during the healing process. The composite gels of PEG and Az-C have higher storage moduli and shorter gelation times than an Az-C gel or fibrin glue, and nerves anastomosed with an Az-C/PEG gel tolerate a higher force than those with fibrin glue prior to failure. These effects are likely due to the formation of a semi-IPN network, where PEG interpenetrates the covalent Az-C network and physically reinforces the network. Az-C/PEG gels are compatible with nerve tissues and cells. PEG is slowly released over a prolonged period, providing additional fusogenic potential. A possible objection to GEMINI involves the supposed need for proper mechanical alignment (abutment) of the severed axons. The behavioral results of the PEG experiments, however, make a strong point that, while the number of axons reconnected to be expected is unknown, the results are nonetheless clinically meaningful, as highlighted by Bittner et al. [6] It is relevant to note how as little as 10% of descending spinal tracts are sufficient for some voluntary control of locomotion in man. [4] It is equally important to remark how the gray matter in this paradigm remains basically unscathed and functional. Here, interneuronal chains can function as a relay between the supraspinal input and the lower motor circuitry, given proper active training and provision of sensory cues in order to promote plasticity.
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EgyptAir Flight 804 “Did Not Lose Altitude … Just Vanished” May 20, ’16 Update 13 So far nothing points to (muslim) terrorism but that is not holding ITV from blindly jumping on “the terrorists did it” bandwagon, and to publicly show intense dedication and loyalty to the Zio Sector, ditto for Jonathan Edwards MP (UK). The community is stunned that someone from Carmarthenshire has been killed in this terrorist atrocity. Our thoughts and sympathies are with his family – especially considering that Mr Osman was a new father. I’m sure the authorities will be urgently investigating how an explosive device has been delivered onto a plane from one of Europe’s busiest airports. – Jonathan Edwards MP Update 12 Anthee Carassava (The Times): “GReek MoD confirms bodies, #MS804 plane parts and backages found 5 miles south of spot where #EgyptAir flight went off radar” Update 11 Allegedly… “Passenger belongings and parts of the aircraft were found 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of the coastal city of Alexandria, according to a statement from the armed forces.” – posted at 5:11 a.m. ET by CNN Update 10 They are, allegedly, already searching for the black boxes now among the debris that was, allegedly, found. Update 9: Israel to Share Expertise on Anti-Terror Measures We have officially entered the Zio Sector their false “terrorists did it”narrative. Why else would The Telegraph publish the following (note that there is no official reason to assume yet that terrorism of any kind is the cause of EgyptAir’s flight 804 disappearance): The Telegraph The steeplechase of security checks at Ben Gurion International Airport begins long before an erstwhile passenger reaches the terminal building. At the airport entrance – over two miles from the check-in desks – armed guards screen every arriving vehicle and briefly question those inside. By the time a traveller is finally allowed to board a plane departing from Israel, he or she will have cleared no less than 12 layers of security. The disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804 after its departure from Paris has raised more questions about the ability of European airports to protect their passengers. Next month, Ben Gurion airport will share its expertise with aviation security officials from 33 countries, including Britain and France. Israel has suffered decades of terrorism, but no-one has been killed or wounded inside Ben Gurion airport – or on board an aircraft departing from its runways – for the last 44 years.
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Disease and Other Forces of Destruction To make these observations more concrete, let us look at what happened in the place where Columbus first landed, the Caribbean. Given the common narrative of Europeans bringing destructive microbes, it is perhaps surprising that Columbus’s first voyage did not result in the transmission of epidemic disease to Caribbean Indians, but, of course, groups of Europeans who encountered Indians did not always include people who were sick and contagious. The situation was different on Columbus’s second voyage (1493–1496). Soon after landing, some of the crew became ill, probably from influenza, and infected the Native populations of Hispaniola, Cuba, and Jamaica. The severity of the epidemic was probably related to the prior lack of exposure of Indians to the pathogens in question, though the epidemic cannot be separated from other forces of destruction. The expedition’s goal was not to kill Indians, but as its leaders and men pursued their main objective—acquiring gold—they did exactly that. To obtain gold, Spaniards needed Indians’ knowledge and labor and so enslaved them, using violence to secure Native peoples and keep them in chains. Some accounts, such as one by Bartolomé de Las Casas of Spaniards making bets “as to who would slit a man in two, or cut off his head at one blow” or tearing “babes from their mother’s breast by their feet, and dash[ing] their heads against the rocks,” suggest a genocidal mentality, though such accounts may imply that these actions were the product of particularly depraved men and unrelated to the purposes of the expedition. In fact, however, the expedition’s leaders saw violence as essential for achieving their goals. To create and maintain slavery and to suppress real and imagined insurrections, the Spanish regularly maimed, murdered, and waged war against Native people. The purpose was not to kill every single Indian (some were needed to work) but to terrorize them into submission. Rape, evidently common, did not simply reveal individual or group pathologies, it functioned as a tool of terror. Violence, then, was central to Spanish colonization in the Caribbean, although far more Indians died from disease, malnutrition, and starvation.5 Little evidence is available for the death toll for the first few years of Spanish colonization. It is clear, however, that as the Spanish colonizing project expanded in the early sixteenth century, its destructive impacts escalated.
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The event will begin with an exclusive presale at 8 a.m. for 2016-17 Canes Season Ticket Members and will open to the general public at 9:15 a.m.The sale includes used and non-used sticks, skates, hockey pants, pads, goalie gear and more. Most of the equipment has been used by past and present Canes players (not autographed), and there will be a few hundred items for sale (while supplies last). Equipment is bought as is, prices are non-negotiable, no bulk purchases (select items will have a purchase limit) and all sales are final. Cash and credit cards (American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa) will be accepted.General Pricing:In conjunction with Summerfest, the team will host a season ticket open house on Saturday, July 9, in which fans can view available full season seat locations and receive information on all ticket packages for the coming season. This offers interested fans a chance to “test drive” seats with no obligation, and ticket representatives will be on hand. For information regarding 2016-17 Carolina Hurricanes ticket packages, please visit www.CarolinaHurricanes.com/STM , email [email protected] or call 1-866-NHL-CANEs (1-866-645-2263).Carolina Hurricanes Elite Camp, the premier experience for high-level players, is returning for a fourth year at PNC Arena the week of July 6-10. The camp will be held on NHL ice and will use the NHL facilities at PNC Arena, the home of the Canes. Players will receive instruction from Hurricanes coaches and receive the same meals as NHL prospects and players!Also back in 2016 is the Power Skating Camp, with popular instructor Dusan Kralik, who brings with him a training background working with premier NHL players. Click here for the full overview of and to register for the Elite Camp and Power Skating Camp. The camps have reached capacity the last few years and are expected to again in 2016.If you would like additional information, please contact Shane Willis at (919) 861-5425 or email him at [email protected] The Hurricanes are hosting a school supply drive from Wednesday, July 6 through Saturday, July 9 to benefit Families Together and Triangle Literacy Council. Click here for more information.
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Further to your article ‘Driver not required…’ in the Jan/Feb edition of ITS International which gave some great background to autonomous road vehicle (ARVs), I feel that the bigger picture is needed to aid understanding. There is a ‘technology freight train’ heading our way that is going to transform our roadways but we don’t seem to be aware of it and, therefore, are in no hurry to react.The ITS community is well acquainted with the Connected Vehicle and that it has major implications on how our road networks operate. But the ARV will have an even greater impact and has the potential to transform society; just as the last paradigm shift on our roads did some 130 years ago when the modern motor car was invented.This impending paradigm shift to which I refer appears at first to be unremarkable: it simply occurs when an ARV is certified safe to travel unmanned. But when we start to unravel this novel concept then we find that it has profound and remarkable implications for society:But again, this initial examination doesn’t reveal the breadth of the impact of the autonomous vehicle. So allow me to sketch out a possible implementation scenario that will unravel the new paradigm a little more.When the autonomous vehicle is certified safe for unmanned use a number of industries will be poised to purchase this technology to gain a competitive edge over their competitors (i.e. to stay in business themselves):You will note a common theme is emerging - that early adopters all run fleets. However, the average person will also be able to buy ARV technology and could hire their vehicle out to third parties using an internet-based service. Third party users would then rent the private ARV through their mobile devices. So rather than pay for the privilege of having their car depreciate in value for the 95% of the day that it is sitting idle, it can be hired out to recoup its cost, or even make a small profit.What will happen is that (apart from the trucking industry) these business models will converge – they will then be competing against each other: private individuals with low overheads and low profit expectations will be competing against business-based autonomous vehicle fleets. The competition will be brutal and the average cost of autonomous taxis will plummet to the point at which for many individuals it will not be worth owning their own ARV.
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What we need to be thinking about instead is the development of an ecosystem, infrastructure, and a space economy.” Does SpaceX’s Interplanetary Transport System fit into that? On the one hand, Musk claims that it will create “a tremendous amount of entrepreneurship” for those who make it to Mars. On the other hand, it requires very little infrastructure in space: the boosters and tankers shuttle up and down, while the spaceships head to Mars and back. Infrastructure like fuel depots, orbital habitats, and the like seem unnecessary in this approach, so focused on getting as many humans to Mars as quickly as possible. If that’s all you want to do in space—at least until you’re ready to head to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, as Musk suggested was possible by “planet-hopping” through refueling—then this system might well be the way to go. Those wanting to establish a human presence closer to home, like the Moon or cislunar space, might find it less attractive. Less than a week after his speech, it’s far too soon to either declare his vision the one true path to Mars, or write it off as unworkable or unaffordable. It has, at the very least, stimulated a new discussion about how to go to Mars, and by whom. Home
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Many recent launches of extended range Scud and Nodong missiles, rather than being developmental in nature, have been undertaken as operational tests at relevant military units' training grounds Taken together, these trends make the clear and disturbing point that North Korea has been conducting launch exercises, consistent with the regime’s probable intent to nuclear weapons to missile units throughout the country. The Abandonment of Tonghae North Korea’s totalitarian regime releases propaganda rather than facts about its missile capabilities. Analysts at CNS estimate the evolution of the regime’s true capabilities by locating every test site and examining open source evidence about the tests, from regime propaganda to satellite imagery. [1] This information helps to determine the purpose of each launch, and how well developed each missile system is. For example, if North Korea only tests a missile at a site from which it conducts developmental tests, it is highly likely the missile remains purely under development. Tests elsewhere suggest North Korea is trying to achieve some other goal than seeing whether the missile works. North Korea established the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground, near Musudan-ri, as its first missile testing site in 1984. Tonghae was North Korea’s primary developmental test site for its first generation of . Because North Korea doesn’t disclose the names and types of its missiles, outside analysts named them after nearby locations – the villages of No-dong, Taepo-dong, and Musudan. Of the fifteen known missile launches carried out under Kim Il Sung, all but one was conducted at Tonghae. At least one-third of these developmental tests, in which North Korea experimented with different designs and attempted to perfect its reverse-engineered missile technology, ended in catastrophic failure. [2] Developmental testing of new missiles paused for four years after Kim Jong Il succeeded his father in 1994. Kim Jong Il restarted missile testing with an attempted Taepodong launch in 1998. The missile made it off the ground and over Japan before exploding spectacularly and splashing down into the Pacific. The immediate international outcry prompted talks between the United States and North Korea, which resulted in a ballistic missile testing moratorium. [3] After abandoning the moratorium in 2006, North Korea resumed missile testing. By then, it had converted the Tonghae facility entirely into a space launch facility, which the regime used for two more space launch attempts in 2006 and 2009 (both of which failed).
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Yellowstone in the State of Wyoming last erupted some 600,000 years ago and more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of ash and lava filled the atmosphere – about 100 times more than the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines in 1982, a significant period of global cooling was brought about. Although the South African ministries of foreign affairs and science and technology, have been fully informed of the U.S. plan, together with the large amounts of money that would pay for temporary housing for Americans in the Karoo and the Kalahari to establish where they could survive, the Cabinet decided to reject the request by the U.S. The R100 billion would be from 2014 every year for ten years to pay South Africa, after which the plan would be reviewed. It may take up to ten years for printing in the magma chamber of the super volcano to build. According to Dr.Jean-Philippe Perrillat of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Grenoble, France, “it is the difference in density between the molten magma in the caldera and the surrounding rock big enough for the magma from the chamber to the surface to increase “. “The effect is the same as the extra buoyancy of a soccer ball under water filled with air, after which ,it rises to the surface,” said dr. Perrillat. “If the magma volume is large enough, it should go to the surface to rise and explode like a champagne bottle cork.” According to Dr. Sipho Mathetwe, the South African government has great “sympathy for the American challenge (challenge) to Yellowstone, but we have our own challenges in South Africa. There are 200 million white people in America, and if too many of them to South Africa flights, it is a big problem, even though there is enough housing and infrastructure available. It will destabilize the country and may even bring back apartheid. South Africa is not for sale. “ The U.S. ambassador in Pretoria was not available for comment. PRAAG
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“But every component bolted inside that battleship for sure could be built this way.” “The DoD serves a very important mission, protecting the United States and her citizens. There are a lot of people that are interested in working on that problem,” says Brandon Tseng. “But in the past there were barriers. You’d have to work in a large defense contractor, and people weren’t sure what problems the DoD was dealing with. With DIUx, they’ve opened that opportunity up to many young startups.”
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The intro cinematic for the Greenhouse has been slightly adjusted. Players should now experience an increase of at least 10% excitement upon watching it. Farside Taxis will no longer clip through terrain. Dominion Explorers can now plumb the depths on Captain Spigo's crashed ship and try to find his lost datachron. Explorers clicking the datachron's mission entry in “Staking Claim” will see a direction arrow leading them between the Biodomes, Alpha Complex, and the surface." Challenges should now all have directions while the challenge is active. Challenges should now be properly sorted in the challenge tracker/codex. Fixed issue with visuals, they now display as expected The Ikthian elevators should now reach all the way to the ground. Just in case your space bar isn't handy. Challenges should no longer refer to killing "groups" or "clusters" of enemies. Taxis should now work similar to other zone's taxis Gossip strings that exceeded character limits have been pared down. Deathclaw will now leash. Times and waves have been adjusted for the holdout “Ikthian Landing Site” (Both Exile and Dominion) Galeras Fixed some typos in the challenge Imbuement: Antidote. Renamed the Murgh Village to Mudraker Roost. Explorers will now receive kill credit for terminating Underseer Mogo during Down the ‘Chua Hole’. 'Deadly Gas' prisoners are no longer visible after completing the quest. ICI Prison Camp is now Noxbane Prison Camp. The Crimson Mobile AA Cannons visual effects have been updated. Challenges should now all have indicator locations! All challenges should now sort correctly in the challenge codex. Lowered the number of Whim Fibers you have to collect for the quest "Out on a Whim". Updated the art assets used in the quest "This Little Land of Mines". The objective to Kill Groundswell Sappers and to Kill Groundswell Demolitionist was merged together for the quest "Beyond the Barricades". Gave the Secret Doors in Tempest Refuge new interact text. Gave the Secret Dominion Plans new interact text. Changed the kill objective for the quest "Check on Windward Notch" to a collect objective The quest Ammunition Reloaded no longer turns in via comm call. The entrance to the Chua Tunnels beneath Tempest Refuge is now a Reinforced Chua Tunnel instead of an empty hole in the ground for the quest ‘Down the Chua Hole’. Non-Explorers can no longer interact with the Reinforced Chua Tunnels, unless an Explorer does first. Chua Tunnel Entrances now disappear after you destroy them for the quest "Defense Breach".
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There was at the time he wrote the book and he became such a powerful philosophical voice in Germany lots of confusion about what was happening to the world – liberalism had already been unleashed, a new middle class was being created, dynasties were being overthrown, people had new kinds of mobility, families were being defused, because people had new choices and options, and the dynasties and hierarchies of history were giving way to new forms of social engagements, new forms of enterprise, and new levels of mobility. And there was a great deal of concern by 1820-or-so, where we are heading. Everyone had a sense that we are heading somewhere, there was a sense of a new direction to history, and Hegel stepped forward and tried to define how that looked like. He created a sort of historiographical map of the way history works. And it just so happens that his map was independent of human action and human choice. It was as if he created a meta-narrative for how we might imagine our place within the structure of this bigger thing called the wave of history. And in his vision – and all Hegelians think that there’s some kind of wind blowing in the structure of history, we are just carried along by it. That’s an appealing idea for people who don’t like the idea of just freedom, just life unfolding according to human choice. They want to believe that there’s some kind of logic, some sort of grand vision at work. And in his vision there’s a culmination point of history – because history can’t have a direction unless it has an end point, and so the end point in the Hegelian point of view was – and it’s always this way – “All powers to the Prussian state, the Prussian Church” – that’s it. Because somehow the state always ends up being this magical thing that people think is going to solve all our problems. The left-Hegelians took his vision further and said: “Well, this is right, there is a direction to history. But it’s not just in Prussia, it’s all over the world, it’s humanity itself that’s being buffeted by these giant winds.”
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Hundreds of underage Egyptian girls are entering temporary marriages with rich tourists during the summer in return for money for their families, The Independent reported yesterday.The temporary wedlocks, dubbed "summer marriages," were not legally binding and terminated when the foreigners returned to their own countries.A recent U.S. State Department report titled "Trafficking in Persons" found that wealthy men from the Gulf region, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, traveled to Egypt to purchase temporary marriages with Egyptian females, including girls under the age of 18.The "marriages" were often facilitated by the girls ' parents or marriage brokers, the report said, with " bride prices" ranging between $450 and $4,500.The State Department's report said the children involved in temporary marriages suffered both sexual servitude and forced labor as servants to their "husbands. "Egypt has laws to prevent trafficking, which makes it illegal for a foreigner to marry an Egyptian citizen if there is an age difference of more than 10 years, the Independent said. However, traffickers have determined ways to circumnavigate the legal restraints through forged documents to make brides appear older or the husbands appear younger.The head of Alliance for Arab Women, Dr. Hoda Badran, said poverty was the main factor behind the phenomenon. "If those families are in such a need to sell their daughters you can imagine how poor they are," she was quoted as saying. "Many times, the girl does not know she is marrying the husband just for the short term. She is young, she accepts what her family tells her. "Some men chose to take their "summer brides" to their home countries to serve as maids for their first wives in conditions comparable to slave labor. The ones left in Egypt were often shunned by society, "finding it difficult to marry in the traditional way, especially if their temporary marriage resulted in children,” the Independent's report said.
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I still think that we can have an opinion," Kendall Garland of Windham said.Clinton supporters said they hope she is the one who will represent Democrats in November even if Sanders wins Maine. "I think that he has done a good job of poking the side of the establishment but has little to present as accomplishments," Lee Nicoloff of Portland said.The last person in line cast their vote just before 6 p.m., and only a handful of people stuck around for the caucus speeches.Sanders rallied his supporters this past week in Portland, telling them he'll win if there's a large turnout.Unlike Saturday's GOP caucuses, the results are not binding.The votes will be used to select a slate of delegates to the state convention, where national delegates will be elected.Maine will send 25 delegates and five super delegates to the national convention in Philadelphia.Get the WMTW App
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Once preferences are distributed, we’ll see these quotas change – but the closer you can get to a full quota, the more likely you are to be elected. The Greens’ Cath Blakey is a probable at the moment in Ward 2, with 19.7 per cent of the vote – or 0.98 of a quota. Ward 3 Wow, Labor has done VERY well in the southern Wollongong suburbs. With just under 20,000 votes counted, they’ve got 48 per cent of the primary votes. What a change from 2011. That’s a 2.4 quotas – which means Vicky King and Chris Connor will easily get over the line. Third-listed Labor candidate Ann Martin, who was not hopeful about her re-election chances, is unlikely to be elected. Gordon Bradbery was also running as a candidate in Ward 3, and he’s done well here. He’s got 1.09 quotas, so enough to be elected as a councillor for sure. The big question will be whether he is elected mayor – in which case his votes will flow to former Port Kembla Port Corporation CEO Dom Figliomeni, who is second on his ticket. As for the Liberals, it’s not looking great for them, but they are likely to get elected if votes stay the same. They’ve got a quota of 0.91 per cent, or 18.26 per cent of the vote. That would mean Cameron Walters would take the spot held by young retiring councillor Bede Crasnich. 9.45pm Marianne Saliba to be re-elected as a councillor Alright, there’s about 12000 votes counted in our southern city now, so here’s a rough look at what’s happening. To be elected in Shellharbour, candidates need to get to a quota, which is 12.5 per cent of the vote. Right now, Labor is sitting on 33.56 per cent of the vote, which is 2.68 quotas – so if the votes stick to a similar trend, we’re likely to see Marianne Saliba and Robert Petreski elected, and possible Moira Hamilton as well. The Liberals have got 21 per cent of the vote, or a quota of 1.68. So that means lead candidate Nathan Cattel will likely get over the line, and there’s a question mark about Zachary Fitzpatrick. (Edit, 10.49pm: Former Liberal Kellie Marsh will also be elected. She has a quota of 1.16 per cent.) After that – and this is only if nothing changes, and it’s early days – it’s really going to be about preferences.
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« First < Back ---Wanna see more? ?--- #1 - In Such A Savage Economy #2 - Billy Mays Was Right... Dead Right #3 - A Proportionate Response #4 - Or Perhaps John Denver? #5 - Fighting Against Censorship #6 - The E! True Devil's Point Story #7 - Sordid Confessions #8 - A tall tale -- three apples tall #9 - Peaceful Protest #10 - Ridiculous Accusations #11 - A Tactical Victory #12 - It's like rope, but from space. Space-rope. #13 - One of the perks of the job #14 - "So what's the deal with that big guy, anyway?" #15 - Please don't read, Sony Pictures execs #16 - Like High School Algebra All Over Again #17 - Spider, He Is Our Hero #18 - Insert "Poker Face" Joke Here #19 - The quickest route to becoming a Grandpa #20 - A Grisly Illness #21 - Aged to Perfection, Pt. 1 #22 - Aged to Perfection, Pt. 2 #23 - Aged to Perfection, Pt. 3 #24 - B is for Bulimia #25 - Of Chups and Cups #26 - Shrine On, Crazy Diamond #27 - God Shave The King #28 - Tit for Tat #29 - It Smells Like Victory #30 - For Just Pennies A Day #31 - Tuesdays With Muriel #32 - Only Chumps Work On Thanksgiving... Oh. #33 - A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood #34 - The Few, The Proud, The Space Marines #35 - It's Harder Than It Looks #36 - Smells Like Team Spirit, Pt. 1 #37 - Smells Like Team Spirit, Pt. 2 #38 - Smells Like Team Spirit, Pt. 3 #39 - The Half-Chubbed Prince #40 - Fight The Real Enemy #41 - Don't Be One Of Those #42 - The Pencil Is Mightier #43 - Stop Having a Boring Santa, Stop Having a Boring Life #44 - You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid.
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Philadelphia, PA It looks like a smoke stack with a lid on top, but it's really America's first shot tower built in 1808. Shot towers revolutionized the making of musket balls and other solid projectiles based on the principal that molten lead will form perfect round balls when poured from a high place. Until this discovery, gun shot was made by pouring the lead into wooden molds. Plumber Thomas Sparks and a partner created a 142-foot-high brick tower with a 30-foot circumference at its base tapering to 15 feet at the top. It stands along the Delaware River waterfront at Carpenter Street in South Philly and is easily seen from Route I-95. The molten lead was poured through a mesh with different sized holes for different sizes of shot. The balls fell into a large container of water. The tower produced tons of ammunition during the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Four generations of the Sparks family kept the tower in operation until 1903. The tower is now part of a city playground with a recreation center at the base. It's a prime example of Philadelphia's reputation for superb brickwork It looks like a smoke stack with a lid on top, but it's really America's first shot tower built in 1808. Shot towers revolutionized the making of musket balls and other solid projectiles based on the principal that molten lead will form perfect round balls when poured from a high place. Until this discovery, gun shot was made by pouring the lead into wooden molds. Plumber Thomas Sparks and a partner created a 142-foot-high brick tower with a 30-foot circumference at its base tapering to 15 feet at the top. It stands along the Delaware River waterfront at Carpenter Street in South Philly and is easily seen from Route I-95. The molten lead was poured through a mesh with different sized holes for different sizes of shot. The balls fell into a large container of water. The tower produced tons of ammunition during the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Four generations of the Sparks family kept the tower in operation until 1903. The tower is now part of a city playground with a recreation center at the base. It's a prime example of Philadelphia's reputation for superb brickwork
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The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia posits that dopamine dysregulation plays a key role in the etiology of schizophrenia. In line with this hypothesis, repeated amphetamine (AMPH) exposure has been shown to alter dopamine systems and induce behaviors reminiscent of positive-like and negative-like symptoms in both human and nonhuman primates. The mechanisms by which AMPH produces disturbances in brain function and behavior are not fully understood. The present study has employed a novel AMPH regimen, 12 weeks of intermittent escalating low doses of AMPH, to produce a nonhuman primate model for the purpose of elucidating the behavioral and neural consequences of excessive dopamine exposure. Behavioral responses to acute AMPH challenge (0.4-0.46 mg/kg) were assessed prior to and following the chronic 12-week treatment regimen, and, at present monkeys have been followed out to 28 months post-treatment. After chronic treatment, enhanced behavioral responses to AMPH challenge were readily apparent at 5 days postwithdrawal, and, were still present at 28 months postwithdrawal. The enhanced behavioral responses to low-dose AMPH challenge that were observed in the present study resemble closely the behavioral profile that has been described for chronic high-dose AMPH treatment in monkeys; i.e., hallucinatory-like behaviors, static posturing, and fine-motor stereotypies were all exacerbated in response to AMPH injection. In some animals, acute challenges after chronic AMPH evoked aberrant behavioral responses that lasted for 4 days. AMPH-treated monkeys also exhibited a significant decrease in the incidence of motor stereotypies in the off-drug periods between challenges. The present results are the first to document persistent long-term behavioral effects of intermittent exposure to repeated low-dose AMPH treatment in nonhuman primates. These findings may lay the groundwork for the development of a primate mode of psychosis with possible positive-like and negative-like symptoms.
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Although Helmholtz’ philosophical work was not particularly well-received by professional philosophers like Hermann Cohen, co-founder of the Marburg School of neo-Kantians, it exerted a powerful influence on physicists (Cohen 1885, 202–204). In particular, Max Planck was an early supporter of the sign-theory. But Planck never interpreted the sign-theory causally, like Helmholtz had in his earliest writings. Rather, Planck recognized that “our perceptions provide, not a representation of the external world” but, rather, “measurements furnish the physicist with a sign which he must interpret” (Planck 1960, 53; Planck 1933, 84). Furthermore, Planck generalized the sign-theory, arguing that it is not objects, in and of themselves, which are known, but the structural relations in which they stand to one another. His fundamental idea was that what is known are not the natures of ‘things’ but complex structures of relations connecting ‘things’ to one another (Planck 1933, 84ff. and 1960, 53). Thus, the ‘objects of knowledge’ are not objects at all but, rather, what is known are the relata of the structural networks of relations in which they stand to other relata. And, as recent developments have increased the level of abstraction of scientific thought, it has become further removed from its anthropomorphic origins. So the unification of the scientific world-picture is achieved through increasing abstraction which, in turn, drives structural representation, thus reducing the anthropomorphic elements in the scientific image of the world (Planck 1949, 105). The result of Planck’s effort is a theory of knowledge which is structuralist, generalized from Helmholtz’ sign-theory of perception, but which nonetheless preserves the themes of unification and objectivity derived from Kant.
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Gingrich was lauded by the group for his conversion and even gave his “Christian testimony” regarding his leaving the Southern Baptist denomination to become a convert to “Holy Mother Church.” His new wife—his third—was on hand.
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Fusion evaporation Physics Today, researchers have artificially created 26 new elements and hundreds of isotopes, all by using nuclear reactions to modify the properties of existing nuclei. Attempts to change the nuclear properties of materials are not new. Historically, the hope of creating precious metals like gold out of more common ones like tin or lead drove such alchemical ambitions. Since the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 (see the article by Michael Pearson, June 2015, page 40 ),have artificially created 26 new elements and hundreds ofall by usingto modify theof existing nuclei. Attempts to change the nuclearof materials are not new. Historically, the hope of creating precious metals likeout of more common ones like tin ordrove such alchemical ambitions. nuclear reactions. 7 7. G. Münzenberg, M. Schädel, Moderne Alchemie: Die Jagd nach den schwersten Elementen, Vieweg (1996). Ge 32 74 ) projectile with a tin-124 ( Sn 50 124 ) target. When the Ge 32 74 has a kinetic energy of 300 MeV, which corresponds to about 9% of the speed of light, a Pb * 82 198 nucleus is created in the nuclear fusion. The dreams of medieval alchemists have nearly come true in the modern era of accelerators andFor example, one can fuse two metallic atoms, a germanium-74 () projectile with a tin-124 () target. When thehas a kinetic energy of 300 MeV, which corresponds to about 9% of the speed of light, anucleus is created in the nuclear fusion. That initial Pb * 82 198 nucleus has a mass number equal to the sum of the Ge projectile’s and the Sn target’s mass numbers. The asterisk indicates that the nucleus—which is created “hot” with an excitation energy of about 50 MeV, corresponding to a temperature of more than 1010 K—is a compound nucleus, one that is not fully bound. It promptly evaporates several neutrons to cool down, and different Pb isotopes, called fusion-evaporation residues, are created in the process. In the Pb * 82 198 example, the evaporation of four neutrons to produce Pb 82 194 accounts for about 60% of the evaporation residues. Within a few tens of minutes, beta decay transforms the Pb 82 194 into thallium-194 ( Tl 81 194 ). Then a second beta decay turns Tl 81 194 into mercury-194 ( Hg 80 194 ), a nucleus with a 520-year half-life.
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West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1333 Dear Rick, Congratulations on the 50th Anniversary of LSD issue of the MAPS newsletter, I think it is the best ever! I would like to comment on Ralph Metzner's letter concerning entactogen & empathogen as possible names for a novel drug class to describe MDMA and related compounds. My Ph.D. dissertation examined the use of another amphetamine/mescaline-like phenethylamine, MDA, in the treatment of neurosis. I believe that characterizing a psychedelic as having a specific emotional property as though it were a chemotherapeutic effect is a misunderstanding. For example, when MDA hit the streets it was immediately called a "love drug." MDMA seems to have replaced MDA to become the love drug of the 90's. These are lay descriptions and confusions, researchers need to be more precise. I believe that clues to the unique properties of the phenethylamine family can be garnered from the structural similarity between MDA/MDMA and amphetamine/methamphetamine as well as their similarity to mescaline in another aspect of their molecular structure. I see both drugs has having varying amounts of classical psychedelic, i.e. mescaline-like, activity. What is unique about this family is that unlike classical major psychedelics the mind- manifesting properties of these two compounds are colored by the euphoric properties of the stimulant/euphoriant side of their molecules. MDA seems to have a stronger classically psychedelic property which is modified by the moderate euphoria induced by the amphetamine-like side of its molecule. MDMA appears to have a quite modest psychedelic property and a very pronounced euphoric property due to the methamphetamine-like side of its molecular structure. Many observers and commentators on MDMA appear to confuse its propensity to induce a profound sense of well-being with the complex experiences of love and empathy. What is most amazing is that even an experienced psychedelic raconteur like Ralph Metzner, who helped pioneer the set and setting hypothesis, is quite willing to discard his hard won insights about the pivotal role of set and setting by characterizing MDMA as an empathogen. The research on MDA done at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in the early '70's characterized its effects in a preliminary way: Dynamically, the drug seems to reduce the need to defend or aggrandize the ego.
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This increase in the Government's burden of proof, along with the addition of a civil injunctive remedy similar to that in the securities laws (See Section 8(f) of the Act), and the "Rule 2" advisory opinion mechanism, wherein the Department provides statements of its enforcement intentions regarding proposed activities which may require registration under the Act (See 28 C.F.R. § 5.2), drastically reduced the incidence of criminal FARA prosecutions and increased civil and administrative resolution of FARA questions. Since 1966 there have been no successful criminal prosecutions under FARA and only 3 indictments returned or informations filed charging FARA violations. The three criminal cases post 1966 were: United States v. Park Tong-Sun (D.D.C. 1977), which was dismissed as part of a plea bargain; United States v. John P. McGoff (D.D.C. 1986), which the Department lost because of a statute of limitations problem; and United States v. Sam H. Zakhem, et al. (D. Colo. 1992), which was dismissed by the Government after the principal AUSA responsible for the case resigned. In addition, there have been 2 other grand jury investigations that did not result in criminal charges. One was a grand jury investigation in Chicago in the late 1970's into Government of Iran funding of massive pro-Shah demonstrations at the time of his state visit to then President Carter. At the conclusion of the investigation, a recommendation was made to proceed with an injunctive action, but that recommendation was rejected by the Assistant Attorney General. In the second, a grand jury in Connecticut developed information that became the basis for a civil consent decree against the advertising firm Young and Rubicam in 1992 for failing to report a fee splitting agreement with a Jamaican firm associated with a Jamaican Government official. By way of contrast, there have been 17 civil cases in that period, of which 10 were successfully litigated and 7 ended by consent decree. The number of administrative resolutions is much greater.
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Therefore, over a period of time and without too much inconvenience, you will get all your major documents and records changed thus making your new middle name part of your legal name.
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Just this past year, some within the city have proposed cracking down even harder on the homeless with a re-vamped panhandling ordinance that would carry the threat of jail time – even though leveling hundreds or even thousands of dollars in fines against someone who clearly can't pay them is already just an arrest warrant waiting to happen.The whole conversation has been incredibly frustrating for people like Cheever, who insist the city needs to readjust its approach toward homeless people if it ever wants to truly solve the problem. "It feels like a couple steps forward, then many, many steps backwards," she told the. "Now, it seems we’re at this point where maybe the chief needs to focus on giving some lessons on compassion to members of the San Antonio Police Department. They should be kinder to the people who are on the lowest rung of society."
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How dependent are our fundamental values—values such as decency, reason, and compassion—on the fellow we’ve elected President? Maybe less than we imagine. To be sure, the country voted for a leader who lives by the opposite code—it will be a long and dark winter—but the signs are that voters were not rejecting these values. They were rejecting élites, out of fear and fury that, when it came to them, these values had been abandoned. Nearly seventy per cent of working-age Americans lack a bachelor’s degree. Many of them saw an establishment of politicians, professors, and corporations that has failed to offer, or even to seem very interested in, a vision of the modern world that provides them with a meaningful place of respect and worth. I grew up in Ohio, in a small town in the poorest county in the state, and talked after the election to Jim Young, a longtime family friend there. He’d spent thirty-five years at a local animal-feed manufacturer, working his way up from a feed bagger to a truck driver and, in his fifties, a manager, making thirteen dollars an hour. Along the way, the company was sold to ever-larger corporations, until an executive told him that the company was letting the older staff go (along with their health-care and pension costs). Jim found odd jobs to keep him going until he could claim his Social Security benefits. In the end, Jim said, he didn’t vote. Last year, his son, who was born with spina bifida, died, at the age of thirty-three, after his case was mismanaged in the local emergency room. Jim has a daughter in her forties, who works at Walmart and still lives at home, and another daughter trying to raise three kids on her husband’s income as a maintenance man at a local foundry and her work at an insurance company. Jim lives in a world that doesn’t seem to care whether he and his family make it or not. And he couldn’t see what Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, or any other politician had to offer that would change that. But he still believes in our American ideals, and his worry, like mine, is that those now in national power will further betray them.
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it will never end 2:35:38 AM redria7 :D 2:35:43 AM cptsmalls how could it be the largest stay group? I heard there were bigger chats than this... 2:35:44 AM aiden_sullivan aidensullivan 2:35:46 AM anon11510 Stealthy was my original pair! glad we've made it this far :) 2:35:46 AM stealthyx @Redria top g! 2:35:48 AM NotConfirmed CURRENT COUNT: STAY - 12, GROW - 26 2:35:49 AM Nicole_P Max is 3000 I think 2:35:52 AM NEHOG 21:37 2:35:52 AM [robin] RATELIMIT | you are doing that too much. try again in 3 seconds. 2:35:52 AM Yh anon ;') 2:35:52 AM pulchernator voted to GROW 2:35:55 AM nat2r GROW 2:35:56 AM JustCallMeDerek I want to share with you all, my favorite song; it's a modern classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpUblDP9dQ 2:36:01 AM bpd-canine babes we must stay so the friends can stay 2:36:01 AM slykitteh you either stay or grow so eventually they would get a sub, no? 2:36:02 AM stealthyx Yh anon ;') , you ain't snapcaht tho ! !! 2:36:02 AM alistairjh redria7, you're a legend 2:36:03 AM PapaEmeritus-III bigger chats dissolve 2:36:04 AM Simonov voted to STAY 2:36:06 AM redria7 lol 2:36:07 AM pulchernator voted to STAY 2:36:10 AM raisuchan voted to STAY 2:36:12 AM Nicole_P I saw red, Lol! 2:36:13 AM MahoganyRhino There were many, many bigger chats than this. But they never have stayed. 2:36:15 AM aiden_sullivan IS IT LIT 2:36:17 AM pulchernator the stay revolution is starting 2:36:18 AM redria7 just in case 2:36:19 AM slykitteh wdy mean? 2:36:21 AM bpd-canine or just create a friend sub 2:36:21 AM NotConfirmed The largest chat was 4401, but the majority didn't voted to stay, the chat fell down because a lot were afk 2:36:28 AM slykitteh oohhhhh 2:36:29 AM redria7 Use it to grab good people 2:36:31 AM aiden_sullivan voted to STAY 2:36:38 AM Nicole_P But admins are in on the big ones 2:36:38 AM aiden_sullivan voted to GROW 2:36:39 AM MahoganyRhino It becomes impossible, the stay bots and the afk'ers take control. Stays can't happen past this size. 2:36:42 AM stealthyx NotConfirmed you're really got with statistic handling o.o 2:36:43 AM Haroids [Robin Autovoter 1.9] 63 in this room! Voting will end in approximately 26 minutes 2:36:48 AM ThyBeekeeper if you dont repost this in the chat in 10 seconds doggo will not bless you with eternal lloyalty 2:36:50 AM slykitteh voted to ABANDON 2:36:51 AM NoGoodNamesAvailable So, make history or die in the dust.
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The Boston College Eagles struggled throughout Olivier Hanlan 's three year collegiate career, going just 4-14 in ACC-play the past two seasons and 7-11 prior to that, but Hanlan found plenty of individual success, becoming one of the best scorers in college basketball. He ending his collegiate career averaging 20.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per 40 minutes pace adjusted while playing 37.6 minutes per game. This was enough to place him on the ACC All-Conference 1st team a year after garnering All-Conference 3rd team honors. The 22 year old Canadian turns his eyes toward the NBA draft now, hoping to show scouts his skills can translate to the NBA level.While Hanlan has decent size for a combo guard, measured at 6'3.5 with a 6'5 wingspan at the 2013 Lebron James camp, his athleticism is average compared to most NBA guards. He doesn't have blazing speed but is capable of pushing the ball in transition and changes speeds well to beat defenders. He is a skilled offensive player which helps him overcome his lack of superior athletic tools, and he will need to demonstrate his skill set can help him succeed at the next level.For the Eagles, Hanlan either had the ball in his hands or was working off screens to get it. With the ball in his hands, he ran through ball screen after ball screen, as pick and roll offense made up 26.5% of his possessions according to Synergy Sports Technology. He was comfortable using ball screens to generate offensive opportunities for both him and his teammates. He reads the defense well, either attacking the rim when he has an opening or finding his teammates when he draws the defense and is forced to pass. He's a great finisher around the rim, averaging 68.1% according to Synergy Sports Technology, fourth highest among players in our top 100 among players with at least 90 such shots, behind Jahlil Okafor, Richaun Holmes and Sam Dekker.While his 4.5 assists per 40 minutes pace adjusted and his 0.34 pure point rating both rank near the bottom of point guards in our top 100, this does not completely define Hanlan's ability to find open teammates.
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Who deserves being extended condolence is the people," Demirtaş said, noting how Sedat Peker, a well-known convicted criminal was able to hold a rally in a Black Sea province with all official measures having been provided.Peker said during the Oct. 9 meeting in Rize that “blood will flow generously” if the security forces “fall tired” in fight against terrorism, also saying he will lead crowds by then. "There are AKP executives who have openly said that we have bombed ourselves. We are a party who defend living together, but there is no place to such treacherous ones like you in that life together," Demirtaş said, pledging that those who are responsible for such brutality will eventually pay account before the law.
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And if they effectively don't support RBF (I'm guessing they using the BU change that won't broadcast the 2nd RBF), then it's painfully easy to taint with that, regardless of fee rate or throughput. Somehow not surprised about this. No matter, RBF still works to taint. Either anything but a 0xFFFFFFFF input sequence is invalid on their chain and you are guaranteed to create unreplayable tx on the main chain by virtue of that change, or they simply made RBF non standard (just won't broadcast the double spend), which makes the move even easier, as you can double spend the tx on the main chain without waiting for a conf on the split! This change basically guarantees a taint in a single hop with RBF.I wish they did, but they have not been in touch with me at all, nor other people that have approached me about this. Not to make myself seem important but Armory is one of the few fullnode wallets out there, therefor one of the easiest to support a split with. You'd imagine they at least approach me for support, since it is infinitely less work for me to implement support than it is for the likes of Coinbase (who outright turned them down) or Electrum.That wasn't a criticism of any one service in particular, rather making a case that a 1 year activation period is actually sane and desirable for an opt in feature, let alone a HF. But naaaah, changing a 1 to a 2 is so simple, what could go wrong?I would still push on ABC first then Core. If ABC gets miners, it will be hashing power lost from the main chain which will slow down, whereas ABC intents on retargeting the difficulty manually for their HF. With that, their 2 MB block size (plus the 8MB default EB lmao) and the most likely meek adoption, fees on the split should be dirt cheap whereas they will spike on the main chain at least until the next retarget.And if they effectively don't support RBF (I'm guessing they using the BU change that won't broadcast the 2nd RBF), then it's painfully easy to taint with that, regardless of fee rate or throughput. https://btcarmory.com
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Late Dec – Dewgal (Diafarabé, Mali) – If Maker Faire is a big demonstration of the future of Africa, then Dewgal is a cultural representation of its past. Also called the “Crossing of the Cattle,” this event is basically a celebration of the time the Niger River’s banks are low enough that the herdsmen of the area can safely cross the river, thus reuniting them with their families for the season. It’s a big feast with dancing and music, and while you’re not gonna see a splendor on the scale of any other festivals, it’s definitely more emotional. Note that because it’s based on the river’s size, the dates are never really set. If you want to see it, just be in the area and wait. 29-31st – Vic Falls Carnival (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe) – I’ve seen music festivals taking place in national parks before, and they usually just make me sad. More often than not, they’re simply cool backdrops. And don’t get me wrong, as far as cool backdrops go, national parks are cool as shit, but it’s hard to focus on having a good time when you see people trashing a place you love. So Vic Falls Carnival may not be any different, but they are at least making the most of their setting – helicopter rides, bungie jumping, rafting, and more along with the music. It’ll be hard to treat the backdrop like shit when it’s in your face the whole time. 31st – New Year’s Eve (Dubai, UAE) – If you want to avoid the whole protest thing that Hong Kong has going on, then Dubai is your next best bet, up in the United Arab Emirates. Actually, it might be your first best bet. I mean, this is the city that built the Burj Khalifa, the World Islands, and whatever other batshit crazy project they could think up next. The city is the architectural equivalent of a dude driving a hummer. Living, breathing overcompensation. I met a dude there who had an actual lion for a pet. Which means that their New Years celebrations are bound to be bonkers – they’re the most expensive in the world. When they launch all those fireworks out of the Burj, it’ll be the most explosions you’ve seen a bunch of middle-easters send out of a skyscraper since the last offensive joke you heard.
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larger image TIFF original image Download: Fig 2. Bogus score, ranking, and normally distributed diagrams that were presented to participants of Experiment 2 in the “performance-approach goal with average feedback” (Fig 2a) and in the “performance-approach goal with positive feedback” (Fig 2b). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137629.g002 Post-manipulation performance. Then, participants in all three conditions were informed that they would now have to solve a second block of arithmetic problems for which their performance would this time be recorded. In order to make the information carried by the previously manipulated bogus feedback relevant for this next phase, we explicitly mentioned that both tasks (the OSPAN and the modular arithmetic task) were part of the same experiment and relied on similar abilities, that is, “working memory and mental calculation”; this specification was given in each experimental condition. This explains why the OSPAN task had to be inserted between the baseline and the post-manipulation measure of the modular arithmetic task. Participants of the three conditions then read explicit instructions that aimed at activating performance-approach goals, which were similar to those used in Experiment 1. Participants next started solving the second set of problems. Similarly to the first block, they had to solve 12 low-demand and 12 high-demand problems that were randomly presented. Lexical Decision Task. Upon completion of the second set, participants were introduced to the lexical decision task [44], which was presented as a verbal task designed to assess word recognition. This task involved words and non-words that were individually displayed on the center of the screen; participants were simply asked to indicate—as quickly and accurately as possible—whether the items that appeared on the screen were words or non-words, by pressing two different keys on the keyboard. This task actually aimed at measuring the accessibility of words related to status compared with filler (neutral) words (a variable we will now refer to as accessibility of status). Hence, forty items were randomly presented, among which 20 were non-words and 20 were existing French words. More specifically, 10 words were related to the concept of status (e.g., hierarchy, privilege, influence) and 10 were filler words (e.g., itinerary, lunch, nature). It is important to note that words related to status had been pilot-tested: a sample of 13 students from the same population had been asked to generate words that were related to the concept of status.
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Seamus Harnedy added to the Leesiders' wides tally and former Dublin footballer Conal Keaney made them pay when he thumped over a fourth point for Anthony Daly's charges in the tenth minute.Midfielder McLoughlin levelled the scores for the third time, 0-4 each, and the Cork No.8 then made the most of an ordinary Lehane pass to slot his team in front with twelve minutes gone. When Nash's free from inside his own half got held up in the wind, the Dublin defence stood firm to prevent Horgan from bearing down on their goal.It was intense and frenetic stuff as July's Hurler of the Month Ryan tied the scores up from a '65' before McLoughlin stroked over his third: 0-6 to 0-5. This time it was David Treacy who supplied the equaliser. On the run, Sutcliffe nailed a sensational lead point for the Dubs at the end of a brilliant opening quarter; instantly, Lehane had the teams level for the sixth time, 0-7 apiece.Magnificent Dublin play culminated in a Joey Boland point; Horgan replied with a tidy point from play … level again with 16 points shared inside the first 20 minutes! Midfielder Daniel Kearney went for goal at the end of a lung-bursting solo run but his shot deflected wide off the head of Liam Rushe, with Horgan surprisingly missing the resultant '65'.Harnedy edged the winners back in front from an acute angle in the 23rd minute and Treacy dropped an effort shot onto the hurl of the ever-vigilant Nash. Substitute Shane Durkin's shot went to the right of the posts and wide before Lehane put two points between the teams for the second time. Blink and you'd miss it: O'Callaghan replied - 0-10 to 0-9 after 27.Six minutes shy of the short whistle, Horgan floated over a free but then came a brilliant Dublin goal: Ryan's vision was excellent as he picked out Treacy and the Dublin No.15 improvised wonderfully to boot a close-range effort to the net with his right foot, having knifed through two tackles.Horgan (free) and Dublin captain Johnny McCaffrey swapped overs and Harnedy tied the scores up with his second point: 0-13 to 1-10 after 31 minutes.
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What YOU and a bunch of Patriots like you need to do is form a coalition to: Form a base “Committee on State Sovereignty” (which is, at this point anyway and likely hopefully never, for secession). Create a framework of communication “nodes” and a communications HQ which will be the Chairperson of the Committee. There shall be a “node” in each State Senate and Assembly voting district in the State. Each “node” leader shall procure 20 – 25+ callers who stand at ready to make calls to their State Senator and Assemblyman upon a signal from HQ to make very well timed and coordinated requests to sponsor and pass initiatives starting with the State Sovereignty Resolution. Produce a very constitutionally crafted State Sovereignty Resolution with Arrest Provision. The Arrest Provision makes it “binding”, in every sense of the term and more than just “feel good” words that are more shallow than a politicians promise. I would highly recommend using the Alternate State Sovereignty Resolution we are, altered for your state, because it is as Constitutional as you can get, no court can rationally argue against it, as it has largely been drafted by the authors of The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution, Messrs. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and has been specifically drafted for NULLIFICATION of any unlawful Act of Congress or the Executive branch which usurps powers, size, scope or spending that exceeds the eighteen enumerated powers under Article I Section 8 of The Constitution in accord with the 9th and 10th Amendments. This version of State Sovereignty will specifically facilitate the defense to any Federal court challenge of any properly nullified Federal usurpation made by the State, specifically BECAUSE of the wording and the language. If anybody asks me I will forward a copy of ours to you. The State Sovereignty Resolution shall have a provision for a delegation of Senate and Assemblymen to travel to assemble with all the other States; From the coalition muster a delegation of 2 – 4 persons who will be able to lobby, mostly together as is best, the State Senators and Assemblymen and provide valuable feedback from the happenings at the Capitol.
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