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While important segments of the capitalist class funded Tea Party candidates during the 2010 election, by early 2011, they found themselves endangered by their own creation. Specifically, the Tea Party’s opposition to an immigration reform that would maintain a workforce without citizenship rights and their willingness to risk the global credit of the US state and shut down the government alienated the two most important capitalist-financed and -led policy planning networks — the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. While the Chamber represents a broad cross section of American capitalists and the Roundtable speaks for the largest transnational corporations, both opposed the Tea Party on these issues in 2011 and 2012. Scapegoating immigrants for rising crime, deteriorating public services, and growing unemployment, segments of the middle class and the white working classes support tightening of the borders and blanket deportations, and oppose any form of amnesty or legalization for undocumented immigrants. Capitalists, however, have a very different perspective. Not only do high-tech industries want access to skilled foreign professionals, but labor-intensive industries like agriculture, construction, landscaping, domestic service, child-care, health care, and hospitality rely on low-wage, vulnerable immigrant labor. Capital wants a precarious migrant workforce without legal status, disciplined by selective deportations, to labor for substandard wages in these industries. Both the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable have been leading the fight for an immigration reform that would preserve and regulate a new migratory workforce in the US; and in opposition to wholesale deportations and other policies that reduce the immigrant workforce. The Business Roundtable has long advocated a comprehensive immigration reform that would “strengthen border security,” allow more workers, skilled and unskilled, to enter the US on temporary work visas, and provide a “path to citizenship” for the millions of undocumented immigrants already in the country. In 2010, the Chamber joined the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of United Latin American Citizens in challenging Arizona’s anti-immigrant law (SB 1070) which resulted in thousands of immigrants fleeing the state in fear of arrest and deportation. More recently, the Chamber has argued that comprehensive immigration reform is necessary to “address worker shortages, not only in high-skilled jobs, but also in lesser-skilled industries . . . like home health care, landscaping and hospitality.” The Tea Party’s opposition to any immigration reform that is not based on mass deportations of those in the United States without papers has profoundly alienated US capitalists.
HP: 50/50 MP: 29/29 10397 \| D:9 \| Offered knowledge of Inner Flame by Vehumet. 10435 \| D:10 \| Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon 10493 \| D:10 \| Acquired Vehumet's second power 10908 \| D:10 \| Noticed Zork's ghost (powerful DECj) 10911 \| D:10 \| Killed Zork's ghost 10911 \| D:10 \| Reached skill level 12 in Conjurations 10928 \| D:10 \| Noticed an unseen horror 10933 \| D:10 \| Killed an unseen horror 11537 \| D:10 \| Found a shimmering altar of Xom. 11549 \| D:10 \| Offered knowledge of Conjure Flame by Vehumet. 11553 \| D:10 \| You fall through a shaft! 11638 \| D:13 \| Reached skill level 10 in Spellcasting 12078 \| D:12 \| Reached XP level 11. HP: 54/54 MP: 31/31 12095 \| D:12 \| Reached skill level 13 in Conjurations 12123 \| D:12 \| Acquired Vehumet's third power 12261 \| D:12 \| Found a staircase to the Lair. 12310 \| D:12 \| Offered knowledge of Bolt of Magma by Vehumet. 12311 \| D:12 \| Noticed a cyclops 12504 \| D:12 \| Reached skill level 10 in Charms 12572 \| D:12 \| Noticed a hill giant 12578 \| D:12 \| Killed a hill giant 12745 \| D:10 \| You fall through a shaft! 13510 \| D:11 \| Reached skill level 10 in Hexes 13815 \| D:12 \| Noticed Kalye's ghost (powerful HOAK) 13820 \| D:12 \| Noticed an orc sorcerer 13831 \| D:12 \| Killed Kalye's ghost 13831 \| D:12 \| Reached skill level 14 in Conjurations 13834 \| D:12 \| Killed an orc sorcerer 13848 \| D:12 \| Reached skill level 5 in Stealth 13881 \| D:12 \| Noticed an orc high priest 13885 \| D:12 \| Killed an orc high priest 13951 \| D:12 \| Reached skill level 5 in Dodging 14075 \| D:12 \| Noticed an orc sorcerer 14077 \| D:12 \| Killed an orc sorcerer 14103 \| D:12 \| Offered knowledge of Sticky Flame by Vehumet. 14109 \| D:12 \| Learned a level 4 spell: Sticky Flame 14181 \| D:12 \| Found a roughly hewn altar of Beogh. 14192 \| D:12 \| Reached XP level 12.
In an effort to overcome these limitations, we digitized all weekly surveillance reports of nationally notifiable diseases for U.S. cities and states published between 1888 and 2011. This data set, which we have made publicly available (www.tycho.pitt.edu), consists of 87,950,807 reported individual cases, each localized in space and time. We used these data to derive a quantitative history of disease reduction in the United States over the past century, focusing particularly on the effect of vaccination programs. We obtained all tables containing weekly surveillance data on nationally notifiable diseases that were published between 1888 and 2011 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and its precursor journals from various online and hard-copy sources.21-24 We digitized all data available in tabular format that listed etiologically defined cases or deaths according to week for locations in the United States. Reported counts (weekly tallies) of cases or deaths and the reporting locations, periods, and diseases were extracted from these data and standardized. Then we selected eight vaccine-preventable contagious diseases for more detailed analysis and computed weekly incidence rates, deriving a quantitative history of each disease. We estimated the number of cases that have been prevented since the introduction of vaccines for seven of the eight diseases. (Since there were no data from the era before the introduction of the smallpox vaccine in 1800, we could not quantify the number of smallpox cases that were prevented by the vaccine.) We estimated the numbers of cases of polio, measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis A, diphtheria, and pertussis that were prevented by vaccines by subtracting the reported number of weekly cases after the introduction of vaccines from a simulated counterfactual number of cases that would have occurred in the absence of vaccination, assuming that there were no other changes that would have affected incidence rates. We used the year of vaccine licensure as the cutoff year to separate the prevaccine period from the vaccination period. Counterfactual numbers were estimated by multiplying the median weekly incidence rate from prevaccine years with population estimates for vaccination years.
Kossu strongly cleaves a Troll's right arm and tickles it. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> u Ok. Obbàh stops resting, and clambers on his feet. Arielvic (ariel) slashes Wroom the Cave Troll's left leg hard. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> u Arielvic (ariel) closes the roof. The roof seems to be closed. Wroom the Cave Troll panics, and attempts to flee. Wroom the Cave Troll leaves south. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> The roof seems to be closed. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold>open exit u Ok. Arielvic (ariel) closes the roof. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> u The roof seems to be closed. Arielvic (ariel) closes the door. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> Arielvic (ariel) locks the door. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> Arielvic (ariel) slashes a Troll's body and tickles it. Kossu panics, and attempts to flee. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold>close exit u It's already closed! Arielvic (ariel) opens the roof. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> Arielvic (ariel) panics, and attempts to flee. Arielvic (ariel) leaves up. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> The door to the south suddenly shatters. Kossu panics, and attempts to flee. Kossu leaves up. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> Arielvic (ariel) has arrived from above. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> # $targ set to {wroom}[local] Arielvic (ariel) closes the roof. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> Obbàh stabs a Troll's right hand extremely hard. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> Obbàh swiftly dodges a Troll's attempt to hit him. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> Arielvic (ariel) approaches a Troll, trying to slash him. a Troll leaves south. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold>kt kill troll You slash a Troll's left leg hard and tickle it. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold a Troll:Hurt Obbàh:Hurt> Wroom the Cave Troll has arrived from the south. a Troll has arrived from the south. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold a Troll:Hurt Obbàh:Hurt> Arielvic (ariel) opens the roof. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold a Troll:Hurt Obbàh:Hurt> Arielvic (ariel) panics, and attempts to flee. Arielvic (ariel) leaves up. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold a Troll:Hurt Obbàh:Hurt> Arielvic (ariel) has arrived from above. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold a Troll:Hurt Obbàh:Hurt> a Troll joins a Troll's fight. Kossu has arrived from above. !O CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold a Troll:Hurt Obbàh:Hurt>flee Arielvic (ariel) closes the roof. Obbàh sends a Troll sprawling with a powerful bash. You flee head over heels. You flee south. A Hidden Tunnel Exits: #north#, west. - s:door. != CW HP:Wounded Mana:Cold> north A Fallen Cellar A small campfire burns here, its low flames giving off only a little light.
In connection with these campaigns, in 2006 a South Africa farmworker spoke at the annual general meeting of shareholders of the British retailer Tesco regarding the low wages she received on a farm that supplied fruit to the company. The attention she garnered helped to serve as a catalyst for new ethical trade initiatives by the company and the wider fruit industry, which are described further below. The South African Human Rights Commission in September 2007 again held public hearings on farm conditions; in 2008 it released a report documenting the continuance of a number of problems on farms and noting that the government and industry response, while achieving some improvements, had been insufficient. Among its findings, the SAHRC noted that: “[t]here has been very little progress towards achieving security of tenure for farm dwellers and labour tenants;” despite “[s]teady progress” towards improving adherence to labor and occupational health and safety legislation on farms, “there is still evidence of substantial non-compliance;” and inadequate controls on “handling and storage of pesticides represents a major hazard for workers.” Since then the plight of farmworkers has remained in the spotlight. At the National Farmworker Summit in the Western Cape in July 2010 President Zuma noted that “[i]t is a fact that working conditions for many farm workers still remain far from ideal” and that, “[w]hile the farm worker and the farm dweller are the most vulnerable member of our community; within this group, women and the aged are worse off.” Industry has also remained engaged. For example, the National Agricultural Marketing Council is exploring the feasibility of setting up a new multi-stakeholder body to help promote ethical trade in the agricultural sector. If it does it will join several other such bodies formed over the years to respond to demand for better practices on farms. It is not clear, however, what impact newer initiatives might have on conditions faced by farmworkers and farm dwellers, given the persistent problems they have continued to confront even after intense scrutiny and promised reforms.
As Heimer's main team fight tool is tied into his Ult + E combo it would be very useful to be able to tell your team that this is your intention to use, especially as a lot of players don't seem to recognise Heimer's ult animation as he's rarely in games to have exposure to it. As a side note this could help give Karma a bit more information to her team too as I believe her ult has the same problem but definitely less crucial for her. Curious to hear any thoughts on this and whether we might be able to get it looked into as Heimer would feel a lot better if he could communicate this information to his team - especially as with a relatively unplayed champion like Heimer it would be very useful to be able to supply your teammates with all of the information they need rather than making them guess. {{champion:74}}
But there are plenty of people who make a babies, keep them, and don't take care of them properly; these people should be condemned for mistreating a helpless and innocent human being. But choosing not to make a baby is very different from neglecting or abusing a child. Yet sometimes it seems as though these two behaviors are considered equally bad. I'll conclude now by simply listing some questions that many parents seem to have avoided considering until it was too late. Who really wants kids, and how can they know? People who are happy with their work and hobbies, but still feel a desperate longing for children which babysitting cannot relieve, are probably the kind of people who would be miserable without children. These people should still consider carefully the amount of time, money, mental and physical energy, etc., which children require before they make their final decision. Once the child is here, it is too late. Questions Potential Parents Should Ask Themselves Aside from questions like "Will I keep a Downs' Syndrome baby or put it up for adoption?" there are other, nonstandard questions that I suggest that people ask themselves. Here are some: Do I recognize that each child is an individual with its own personality and preferences, and that I can only influence these to a limited extent? Do I really LIKE children? Do I enjoy playing all levels of children's games? Do I enjoy being with someone who is frequently rambunctious, loud, uninhibited, deliberately trying, and who requires my constant supervision? Do I enjoy the idea of parenting? Specifically, do I enjoy the idea of correcting someone else, feeling like I have to correct someone else, monitoring another person's behavior and finding creative and sensitive ways of expressing the same thing over and over until it is understood? Does a disrupted sleep schedule bother me? Or am I the type of person who gets irritated or ill if my 11:30-8:00 schedule is shifted or interrupted? Do I take the irritation out on other people? How will I feel when the baby cries at 2:00 and th en at 5:00? Would I ever feign sleep while my partner tends to the baby? Is a committed relationship my style, or do I tend to have friends and lovers for a while and then move on when I lose interest?
Shepard, who also sees patients for routine colonoscopies and general GI queries, estimates that he’s done a few hundred fecal transplants since 2010, when he tried it for the first time at a patient’s request. “This has been the most rewarding part of my practice,” he said one afternoon in October, leaning against the exam table in an empty room. “Some of the people who come in are gray — they look like skeletons. If you see them again a month later they’re totally different people, with a smile on their face. It doesn’t take too many of those to see why we do this.” Shepard usually sees four or five cases of C. diff every week. He will initially consult with these patients in the clinic, but fecal transplants happen at one of two endoscopy centers in Tampa, set up to do colonoscopies under anesthesia. He drives there with the freshly made sample stashed in a cooler in the back seat. For patients with any other illness, however, those centers won’t do fecal transplants, complying with FDA rules. So Shepard and his team will show new patients, like Luke’s mom, how to do an ever-so-slightly modified version of the procedure themselves, without anesthesia or colonoscopy, and sell them prepared poop samples. Then the patients go home and repeat the procedure, typically buying fresh supplies every month. Shepard argues that this is not a transplant, but a “tutorial” or “instructional infusion,” and therefore does not violate FDA rules. (Patients entering the clinic sign a form affirming that they, assisted by the doctor or staff, will “self-administer” the procedure.) “The main thing is that we’re teaching, behind the door, we’re teaching,” Shepard said. His clinic is owned by Florida Medical Clinic, a company that runs multiple medical facilities near Tampa. But because of concerns over the regulatory gray zone, Shepard said, he bills his transplant work through a Florida LLC, RDS Infusions, that is separate from Florida Medical Clinic. A colonoscopy for patients with C. diff is $675, plus fees to the endoscopy center, and three office tutorial sessions cost about $1,000. Shepard said that these rates just about cover the costs of testing donors, buying equipment, and paying his staff for the work. Last year’s revenue was “above a break even point, but it wasn’t much over that,” Shepard said. And if the price is too high for a family, he said, he sometimes does the procedures for free.
The Free Software Foundation has released a whitepaper on Microsoft's Secure Boot. It analyzes both Fedora's and Ubuntu's current solutions and offers its own. In particular, it debunks Ubuntu's expressed worry about the GPLv3 license on Grub, a worry that it says is legally unfounded. Apparently Ubuntu never contacted FSF to inquire, which his unfortunate, despite FSF being the copyright holder of Grub and the "primary interpreter of the license in question", as Sullivan puts it: Our main concern with the Ubuntu plan is that because they are afraid of falling out of compliance with GPLv3, they plan to drop GRUB 2 on Secure Boot systems, in favor of another bootloader with a different license that lacks GPLv3's protections for user freedom. Their stated concern is that someone might ship an Ubuntu Certified machine with Restricted Boot (where the user cannot disable it). In order to comply with GPLv3, Ubuntu thinks it would then have to divulge its private key so that users could sign and install modified software on the restricted system. This fear is unfounded and based on a misunderstanding of GPLv3. We have not been able to come up with any scenario where Ubuntu would be forced to divulge a private signing key because a third-party computer manufacturer or distributor shipped Ubuntu on a Restricted Boot machine. In such situations, the computer distributor -- not Canonical or Ubuntu -- would be the one responsible for providing the information necessary for users to run modified versions of the software. Furthermore, addressing the threat of Restricted Boot by weakening the license of the bootloader is backwards. With a weaker license, companies will now have a form of advance permission to obstruct the user's ability to run modified software. Rather than work to make sure this situation does not happen -- for example by enforcing the proper Secure Boot implementation they say they "strongly support in [their] own firmware guidelines" -- Ubuntu has chosen a path which explicitly allows Restricted Boot. No representative from Canonical contacted the FSF about these issues prior to announcing the policy. This is unfortunate because the FSF, in addition to being the primary interpreter of the license in question, is the copyright holder of GRUB 2, the main piece of GPLv3-covered software at issue.
### LABEL : EXPRESSION The LABEL is any sequence of characters up to the first colon. The EXPRESSION is any valid Perl expression, including a simple variable. When active, the comment prints the label, followed by the value of the expression. For example: ### Expected: 2 * $prediction ### Got: $result prints: ### Expected: 42 ### Got: 13 ### EXPRESSION The EXPRESSION is any valid Perl expression, including a simple variable. When active, the comment prints the expression, followed by the value of the expression. For example: ### 2 * $prediction ### $result prints: ### 2 * $prediction: 42 ### $result: 13 ### TEXT... The TEXT is any sequence of characters that end in three dots. When active, the comment just prints the text, including the dots. For example: ### Acquiring data... $data = get_data(); ### Verifying data... verify_data($data); ### Assimilating data... assimilate_data($data); ### Tired now, having a little lie down... sleep 900; would print: ### Acquiring data... ### Verifying data... ### Assimilating data... ### Tired now, having a little lie down... as each phase commenced. This is particularly useful for tracking down precisely where a bug is occurring. It is also useful in non-debugging situations, especially when batch processing, as a simple progress feedback mechanism. Within a textual smart comment you can use the special sequence <now> (or <time> or <when> ) which is replaced with a timestamp. For example: ### [<now>] Acquiring data... would produce something like: ### [Fri Nov 18 15:11:15 EST 2005] Acquiring data... There are also "spacestamps": <here> (or <loc> or <place> or <where> ): ### Acquiring data at <loc>... to produce something like: ### Acquiring data at "demo.pl", line 7... You can also request just the filename ( <file> ) or just the line number ( <line> ) to get finer control over formatting: ### Acquiring data at <file>[<line>]... and produce something like: ### Acquiring data at demo.pl[7]... You can, of course, use any combination of stamps in the one comment.
It’s surprising, given how massive the Tut phenomenon came to be, how modest in physical scale the exhibition was. It totaled a mere 55 objects, most of them on the small side. Hoving later wrote, “I recognized that the finest Tut things were the more intimate objects.” Actually, says Christine Lilyquist, who was then the Met’s young curator of Egyptian art, this was really a practical choice; given the six-city itinerary, the exhibited items needed to be lightweight and easily transportable. “The objects are fragile, mostly wood, pottery, and gold—sheet gold at that, rarely solid,” she says. “With a large item like a coffin, you’d have harmed it every time you moved it.” Still, the pharaoh’s relatively heavy gold mask was a no-brainer. Carter Brown was certain that it should be the show’s capper, the thing to which the exhibition built up. But Hoving, with nudging from Lilyquist, argued that the 55 objects should be displayed in the order in which Howard Carter discovered them, along with blowups of the corresponding Harry Burton photographs—a narrative masterstroke that even Brown acknowledged as such. “Give Tom his due,” he later said. “He and I didn’t agree at the beginning about how you should put the objects, because I felt the gold mask was the big climax and should be at the end. He convinced me that the story—since you don’t have a chronology of the art, the way you do in so many other art exhibitions—the chronology is only the chronology of discovery, and you should put it in the order in which it was discovered. So I really give him credit for that. And it worked.” Of the 55 objects that Hoving and Lilyquist selected, 18 had never before been seen outside of Egypt. Hoving’s favorite was the gilded-wood statue of the goddess Selket, which had guarded the chest containing Tut’s organs, known as the canopic shrine, and no wonder: she is exquisitely and almost erotically rendered, in a transparent sheath that simultaneously drapes elegantly off her shoulders and clings close enough to her body to reveal in detail the shape of her breasts, the indent of her navel, and a slight puffiness to her abdomen, possibly a signifier of fertility. In August 1976, the moment arrived for the 55 items to be transported from Cairo to the Port of Alexandria, where a U.S. naval vessel, the U.S.S.
: It gives you control most allied military units if the union declares war. Also the is change of a great final war against a Big Structure Competitor since they wont surrender their military without challenging the world leader vote. Diplomatic domination works better with no big players, but equally weak and states.Objective: Get monopolistic control of all/most resourcesMotto: Free trade is the one sure path for peace. Even more if others prosperity and power depend on me.Historical Example: Colonialism was a race for exclusive access to markets and monopolistic control of resources. British colonialism and trade gave us the example of the larges territorial empire in modern history.Main synergy with Agency and Science: (Money and dependency is required for influence, Money us required to fund sciences).Interesting options: Sovereign debt, get your currency be used as reserve currency by others (vital to all big empires), resources are necessary to run economy and military units.Objective: Send the Ship to Colonize other Alpha CentauriMotto: There are vast treasures in the unknown. If We get first we own it.Historical example: No nation has a colony on Alpha Centauri that we know. But The discovery and colonization of America gave access to Spain to vast land and resources that allowed them dominate European politics. Also if you invent internal combustion first probably you will be the only one selling cars to a great profit for a while.Main synergy with Wealth and Structure: (Science leaderships means that you have unique products to sell to others at a greater profit, Better science means getting tanks before others. )- Big country implodes and some parts of it become independent and start forming their own identity (End of Roman Empire, The Spanish Empire and its American colonies, The Soviet Union)- Religious states becoming a secular ones (State Religions Crusades are over, now big conflict is based on ideologies. Only in few states religion is more political influential than ideology, such as Islam on Iran. Maybe Israel and Judaism.
I’m actually good friends with most of the League casters. I think I could fight and beat all of the league casters except for Joe Miller….old man Brit strength. Sjokz gave me raspberry cheese cake on my birthday last year so I’ll leave her alone in this interview ^^. As has been hinted at for a few days, ESL will be hosting a large Dota 2 event this summer at a German soccer stadium. The event will have a $150,000 prize pool and take place June 28-29 (one week after MLG Anaheim) and use the crowd-funding through ticket sales that we have started seeing in the last year. Though the number of teams is not set yet, the likely figure is 8 in total, with 6 decided through regional qualifiers as indicated in the Kennigit interview belowFrom their press release:We conducted an interview with Product Manager and Dota Stuff Do-er Kennigit from ESL about the tournament and here is what he had to say.So, one of the philosophies at ESL is to do things smart and to not get caught up in momentum of tournaments one upping each other. The way StarCraft 2 was in 2011 with tournaments feeling forced to invite more and more Koreans and driving the prize pool higher and higher without a care in the world about sustainability….If you look at something like IEM which is on its 8th season, then for us it’s about evaluating the space, looking for opportunity to do something unique. If that opportunity isn't there yet, we are okay with waiting and keeping things small until it is.That is really the case of EMS One in 2013 - it was intentionally kept small to evaluate the space, see the direction things were going and see where there were unique opportunities for us in the long run. The problem with Dota right now (and last year too), is that you and I can go to a peripheral partner, get $10,000 and suddenly have the best teams in the world playing in our league without any real unique selling points beyond the branding.
What Apple's display team has managed to produce is beyond impressive. They're calling it the first OLED good enough for iPhone and, while there are individual elements like the off-angle blue shift I can quibble with, overall it's tough to argue with them. Now, you're going to hear a lot of people claim every good thing about the iPhone X display is due to its sourcing. That's straight up bullshit. Even though Apple has never manufactured its own panels — at least not yet — for years the display team has engineered magic from its components and shipped the best large-scale LCD in the industry. I'll wait until the display nerds get their instruments on it to say this unequivocally, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple had just done the same with OLED. And I haven't even gotten to the best part yet.
General John Allen, the head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan says the U.S. will let the facts in the investigation into the killing of 17 Afghan civilians this month quote "take them where they may." U.S. Army Sergeant Robert Bales, a decorated 38-year-old veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was charged last week with 17 counts of murder in the incident. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. MARINE CORPS GENERAL JOHN ALLEN, , SAYING: "I can assure you that the investigators have and will retain my full support to let the facts take them where they may. We must let the investigative and judicial processes play out in their own time, in accordance with our own regulations." At a Pentagon news conference, Allen also spoke of one of the latest "insider" attacks by rogue Afghan personnel against Western troops. On Monday an Afghan army soldier killed two British troops at their headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Monday. The attacker was shot dead by NATO soldiers. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. MARINE CORPS GENERAL JOHN ALLEN, , SAYING: "I'm not saying things are perfect, and much work remains to be done. But for every bribe accepted, and for every insider threat or what is known as a green-on-blue incident - and I think you're aware that, tragically, we had one overnight, as two young British soldiers were killed in the Helmand province - for every one Afghan soldier that doesn't return from leave, I can cite hundreds of other examples where they do perform their duties, where the partnership is strong, the confidence of the Afghan forces is building, and where the trust and confidence we have in them and that they have in themselves grows steadily." Later on Monday NATO reported that another NATO soldier was killed by Afghan police in Eastern Afghanistan. Insider attacks have mounted recently as tension between Afghanistan and its foreign backers rises over a series of incidents, including the burning of Korans at a NATO base. Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.
For one, the Japanese Empire was geographically compact, and most of its colonies were in areas that were relatively close to Japan, that is, the Asian areas to the west of Japan.6 This proximity would make the impact of colonization on the Japanese economy unique. Nakajima addressed this issue, focusing on the independence of Korea from Japan after the Second World War, and found that cities close to the new Japan–Korea border suffered a greater negative impact from the division of Japan and Korea compared with other cities in Japan.7 Nakajima's study was motivated by the literature on spatial economics,8 especially the study by Redding and Sturm on the impact of the division of Germany after the Second World War.9 Because Germany's division was implemented for military and political reasons, this event could be regarded as exogenous to the economy. They interpreted the division as West Germany's loss of access to the East German market, and tested their prediction that the impact of the division would be greater in the areas closer to the new border between West Germany and East Germany. They found that German's division had a negative impact on population growth in the cities close to the new border. In the same vein, some articles have examined the implications of market accessibility by focusing on the division of an economy or the integration of multiple economies.10 After annexation, the Japanese government and the colonial government—that is, the Government‐General of Korea (Chōsen Sōtokufu)—gradually reduced the tariff barrier between Japan and Korea in order to integrate Korea into the Japanese trade area. This tariff reduction provides an opportunity to investigate the implications of market accessibility. There was some economic motivation underlying the integration of the Korean economy, but it was not the primary reason for integration, especially in the early stages of colonization.11 If market accessibility was a basic determinant of economic activity, as the literature on spatial economics indicates, the annexation of Korea in the early twentieth century would have had a greater positive impact on areas close to the former border. This study advances historical research on modern imperialism by introducing a spatial perspective and elucidating the spatial heterogeneity of the impact of colonization within Japan. It also contributes to the literature on spatial economics.
The next morning was like a Saturday morning and my husband and I used to go over and have coffee with my parents on Saturday mornings. And we were over there and my dad said, 'Where did this thing come down now, you say?' I said. 'It was the highest point in the cemetery' and he said, 'Well, why don't we drive up there just in case and look around'. And so my mother, my dad, I, my 21 year old brother and my husband and my baby and I and we went up there and we got to where we thought was the highest point in the cemetery and from where we were we could see a straight shot to my parent's house. Everything was flat up there. It was like there was an intersection, like a cross roads like place. Anyway, we all got out of my father's car and we had been there for maybe thirty seconds looking around. And there was a fresh grave over to the side and you know how they lay the flowers down onto the grave? All these flowers were blown all over the place. All of a sudden, from nowhere, we had no idea from where, appears this car and it's an old black car. My dad said it was maybe an old Packard or something like that, or Dodge or something. But it looked like from that point, this one guy, the guy that was the driver, just got out and stood by the car and the other guy starts coming around and comes over said... it seemed so surreal. And the guy asked us, 'What business do you have here? And my dad said, 'We were just looking around'. And he said, 'If you have no further business here, leave immediately!' They had WW2 clothes on not black suits. They had sunglasses, though. “Since then we have gone up there and that area does not look like it did then,” she told Bell. Apparently somebody 'cleaned' up the graveyard.Source: 1997, Coast to Coast with Art BellArt Bell seemed intent on shutting down her story as he began to interrupt right after she mentioned the cemetery. His interruptions would continue throughout the remainder of her story.
In addition to coming up with the actual floor plan, the software also creates all of the construction drawings and prices out manufacturing so that customers get a full understanding of what a specific design costs. This is all for $250. (After design comes the permitting process, which runs about $20,000.) “We’re taking the traditional design and engineering process of creating several iterations, which typically takes weeks and months, and compressing it into a short period of time with software,” Rivas says. “It makes the process more accessible. There’s a lot more transparency and it’s a more frictionless experience for the client.”
"[46] Paul Haggis, who was labeled "doughy" and "pasty" by the church, likewise felt that the attacks were backfiring: "You don't think that makes you look really bad trying to slander me in that way? I'm an imperfect human being. And I've made many, many mistakes in my life. So you can absolutely publicize any of those. But this, really, (you’re) thinking that makes you look good? "[47] The filmmakers reported receiving "lots of cards and letters" from the church, though in their case it had limited its response to "loads of legal paperwork". [5] HBO had earlier said that it had put "probably 160 lawyers" onto the task of reviewing the film in anticipation of challenges from the notoriously litigious church. [10] Sheila Nevins of HBO commented that she could not believe how aggressive the church had been. Not only did it effectively provide free advertising for the film, but its hostility had made HBO Documentary Films even more determined to produce the film: "I thought, 'They really don't want us to do it. All the reason more to do it. '"[45] Campaign to influence Oscar awards Edit Following the film's success at the Emmys, the church was reported to have mounted an aggressive campaign to deny it recognition at the Oscars. The church's campaign included producing an anti-Gibney film and approaches to members of the Academy's documentary branch, responsible for selecting contenders for the awards. Several members of the documentary branch reported receiving approaches from the Church's magazine Freedom in connection with a planned profile of Gibney. Although the Church denied that its actions had anything to do with the Oscars, Lawrence Wright suggested that its "more feverish attention to the documentary" had to do with it feeling "threatened by the possibility that [the Hollywood] community would examine the church more closely" as the Oscars approached. [56] In January 2016, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the film and Gibney were reported to have been “snubbed” by Oscar voters and not included in the Best Documentary category of the 88th Academy Awards. [57]
My FC is in my profile. Penelo’s Judicer’s Staff, however, is pretty sweet. Its 100 Mag/118 Mind spread is great, but more relevant is that is SB is a Cura-all with Attack +30% stapled onto it. It might not be the best source of Boostga, but having one at all is quite relevant if you plan on doing a physical team.On the odder side of things we have Garnet’s Asura’s Rod. It comes with 116 Magic and 105 Mind, one of the best general spreads for mages we have access to, and a bonus to Holy damage. However its SB is Leviathan, a x9 AoE Water attack with a bonus +20% to Magic for your team. So you have to use an ability to actually take advantage of the bonus to Holy damage despite having an elemental SB (there are plenty of non-elemental SBs with a bonus to a specific type of damage, but very few that are of a different element).Though it’s a bit weaker statistically, Edgar’s Drill is the more relevant of the two physically oriented Spears. Its Attack is 118 and its SB is only a 5.01 multiplier, but it makes up for the latter by giving the far more interesting +50% Defense to your team instead of blinding enemies.In Summary:+ The Valiant Knife is baller. Valiant Strike is the king of the hill when it comes to physically oriented damage against anything that isn’t Cloud’s Fenrir Overdrive. While that may be all it brings to the table, which is relevant in an age where everything is starting to get a million effects tacked on, it’s good enough that it still warrants being called out.+ If you want to make a magical team this is the banner to do so. A very high likelihood of pulling magical gear + having access to a team +Magic buff is excellent.+ Double Medica means that you’re more likely to pull one here than anywhere else.- For months we’ve known about magic relics being worse and worse, and we’re getting to that point in the game. Pulling on a banner that you know that gets effectively less relevant overall in a substantial banner is cause for pause.- Very poor relic synergy. VI is possibly the worst realm to pull for due to just how many good 4*’s come from it, and this banner comes with three relics. On top of that, one of its other SSBs is from IV.
Alternating with blocks of the TNT task, participants also performed the SS task, a well-established procedure for measuring the inhibition of motor actions39, 40 (see Methods section). We included the action-stopping task to contrast the effects of thought suppression with those of another widely studied inhibitory control task that should not rely on modulating hippocampal activity, but rather motor cortical activity. Prior to scanning, participants learned to press one of two buttons with their right index finger in response to differently colored circles. During scanning, participants performed a speeded motor response task that, on a minority of trials, required them to stop their motor action midstream if they received a stop signal. The right DLPFC (approximately Brodmann area 46) is thought to be critical for inhibitory control in a variety of cognitive task contexts54. To test whether this was indeed the case in our within-subjects study, we used an a priori ROI of the DLPFC (defined from a prior TNT study31) to extract BOLD response estimates during No-Think, Think, Stop, and Go trials. Consistent with a broad involvement in inhibitory control, DLPFC was significantly more engaged when either thoughts or actions needed to be inhibited (No-Think > Think, t 23 = 2.38, p = 0.026; Stop > Go, t 23 = 4.32, p < 0.001). To confirm that action-stopping targeted motor processes, we examined BOLD response in the hand lobule of left primary motor cortex (M1; defined with an independent localizer task; see Supplementary Methods). As predicted, when participants stopped a (right-handed) key press, we observed a significant downregulation of BOLD response in left M1 (t 23 = 10.02, p < 0.001; Fig. 1b), consistent with prior findings55. The stopping-induced reduction in BOLD response (Stop < Go) was significantly larger in the left than in the right hemisphere (t 23 = 2.38, p = 0.026), as would be expected, based on a right-handed key press response.
In a speech this week summarizing his administration's economic policies, President Obama grossly overstated the support these policies enjoy by claiming, "economists on the left and right agree that the last thing the government should do during a recession is cut back on spending." There are a great many economists who were surprised to learn that, apparently, they now agree with the President. Reading straight from the Keynesian playbook, Obama justified the creation of multi-trillion dollar deficits by asserting that the government must fill the spending void left by the contraction of consumer and business spending. As one of those mythical economists who do not agree with the President, I argue that it is precisely this type of boneheaded thinking that got us into this mess, and it's the reason we are now headed for an inflationary depression. We do not need, nor should we attempt, to replace lost demand. As Obama himself pointed out in the same speech, Americans have been borrowing and spending too much money. These actions created artificial demand, underpinned by the illusion of real wealth in overvalued stock and real estate markets. Given his intelligence and rhetorical training, it is hard to fathom how President Obama cannot notice the inherent contradiction in his argument. While Obama commended millions of American families for making the hard choices to reduce spending, pay down debt and replenish savings, he later outlined the government's intention to spend every American household deeper into debt, thereby undermining all the good that personal austerity would have otherwise produced. Obama also made the clear-eyed observation that the foundation of our economy was unsound and that a sturdier one needed to be laid. To do this, he even asserted that we need to import less and export more. This has been one of my fundamental points. Our economy is unsound precisely because it is built on a foundation of consumer debt. Instead of spending for today, we need to invest for tomorrow. However, we cannot save more unless we spend less. Production requires capital, which only comes into existence when resources are not consumed. However, by interfering with this process, Obama prevents the very transformation he acknowledges must take place. When the government spends what individuals save, private investment is crowded out. Society is deprived of the benefits such savings would otherwise have brought about. How can we lay a solid foundation if the government takes away all our cement?
; "(EDX) = Event number of the event that was logged". ; ===================================================================== 0727 5A POP DX ; From [BP+00] at 06C3; often 80h. 0728 32F6 XOR DH,DH ; (Only DL matters) 072A EA007C0000 JMP 0000:7C00 ; Volume Boot Record code Jump tocode loaded into Memory by this MBR . 072F CD18 INT 18 ; Is this instruction here to meet ; some specification of TPM v 1.2 ? ; The usual 'INT18 if no disk found' is in the code above at 0632. Note: When the last character of any Error Message has been displayed, the ; instructions at offsets 0748 , 0753 and 0754 lock computer's execution into ; a never ending loop! You must reboot the machine. INT 10, Function 0Eh ; (Teletype Output) is used to display each character of these error messages. 0731 A0B707 MOV AL,[07B7] ; ([7B7] -> 9A ) + 700 = 79A h 0734 EB08 JMP 073E ; Displays: " Missing operating system " 0736 A0B607 MOV AL,[07B6] ; ([7B6] -> 7B ) + 700 = 77B h 0739 EB03 JMP 073E ; Displays: " Error loading operating ; system " 073B A0B507 MOV AL,[07B5] ; ([7B5] -> 63 ) + 700 = 763 h ; which will display: " Invalid ; partition table " 073E 32E4 XOR AH,AH ; Zero-out AH. 0740 050007 ADD AX,0700 ; Add 700h to offsets from above. 0743 8BF0 MOV SI,AX ; Offset of message -> Source Index Reg. 0745 AC LODSB ; Load character into AL from [SI]. 0746 3C00 CMP AL,00 ;/ Have we reached end of message ;\| marker? ( 00 ) If so, then 0748 7409 JZ 0753 ; 074A BB0700 MOV BX,0007 ; Display page 0, normal white on black ; characters. 074D B40E MOV AH,0E ;/ Teletype Output.. displays only 074F CD10 INT 10 ;\ one character at a time. 0751 EBF2 JMP 0745 ; Go back for another character... 0753 F4 HLT 0754 EBFD JMP 0753 ; And just in case an NMI occurs, ; we jump right back to HLT again! ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ; SUBROUTINE - Part of A20 Line Enablement code (see 06C6 ff. above); ; This routine checks/waits for access to KB controller. ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 0756 2BC9 SUB CX,CX ; Sets CX = 0. 0758 E464 IN AL,64 ; Check port 64h. 075A EB00 JMP 075C ; Seems odd, but this is how it's done.
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Among the acts spoken of Dr Luff mentions a propensity to set fire to furniture, houses, etc. All this, though written in 1895, might serve as a commentary on the Suffragette agitation of recent years. The renowned French professor, Dr Paul Janet (Les Hysteriques, 1894) thus defined hysteria:
00:01 We are not like sports events and similar events, 00:04 where groups of fans are hostile towards each other, fight each other. 00:10 That’s true. —Please. 00:13 When can we expect a first assessment by the police? 00:16 We don’t know. I can only recommend that you 00:20 address your questions to the Interior Minister, to the police. 00:26 Ask the police how much time they need, 00:30 if overnight is sufficient. There is still daylight now, it is still daylight at the site. 00:35 They can send bomb detection dogs. They have 1,200 officers here. 00:39 I think if that is not enough to declare a site safe, 00:43 then how could a football game by Borussia Dortmund take place on the next day? 00:50 I ask myself, how can an international match take place? 00:53 Why are the police willing to back the decision? 00:56 Why is this possible when it is about football? Why is this possible in other situations? 01:00 Why are we the scapegoat in this situation? 01:04 And I have always unmistakably spoken out against terrorism. 01:10 And I am of the opinion that there must be an end now to “This is not my Islam” 01:14 and “This is not my sh**” and “This is not my whatever”. 01:18 Every single person has to speak out against this now. 01:21 I want to finally see demonstrations against these violent thugs. 01:25 I have yet to see Muslims take to the streets by the tens of thousands 01:29 to ask, “What the hell are you doing?” 01:33 And I want to see something finally happening in this country! 01:36 Terror risks being arrested, for example. That those risks don’t walk free. 01:41 We are paying the price for the Amri scandal. That is what I am saying here and now! 01:49 We are used as stopgaps. — (applause) 01:58 And I don’t want to be misunderstood — I back it [the decision to cancel the festival]. 02:05 The safety and the well-being of every visitor is more important than our commercial interest. 02:15 But there should not be different rights for us. 02:19 And I always have the feeling that we are the scapegoat 02:24 for a situation that we have not brought upon ourselves. 02:27 We are just doing large peaceful cultural events. 02:32 They should ask themselves: is this a culture worth keeping?
By By JohnThomas Didymus Mar 28, 2012 in World Karachi - Fakhra Younus, 33, former Pakistani prostitute or "dancing girl" has committed suicide, 12 years after a vicious acid attack that left her severely disfigured. She jumped to her death from her sixth floor apartment in Rome this weekend. Younus was attacked with acid in May 2000. Her former husband Bilal Khar was charged with attempted murder and accused of entering Younus's mother's house and pouring acid on her face while she slept. The attack occurred in the presence of Younus's son who was then five years old. Khar, the son of influential and wealthy Pakistani governor of Punjab Ghulam Mustafa Khar, was granted bail within months of his arrest and was eventually acquitted. But it is widely believed his father's influence and connections helped him escape conviction. Younus's facial disfigurement was extensive. She was often unable to breathe, and her facial features melted and fused together into a single bulbous tangled mass, with her nose and left ear melting completely, her lips fused, one of her eyes blinded, and her breasts melted. She underwent 39 separate surgical operations to repair the damage without success. She once lamented her condition, saying, "My face is a prison to me," while her son, Naumar, who is now a teenager, was unable to believe the transformation his mother had gone through after the attack. He said: "This is not my mother." Younus's case was only one of thousands of similar cases in Pakistan until she came to the notice of Pakistani writer and activist Tehmina Durrani, author of According to Durrani says an Italian professor who counseled Younus, said: “I tried to mend her physical scars but was unable to heal her soul.” Durrani, according to After the news of Younus's death, Durrani explained that her case shows the Pakistani government needs to do more to fight cases of violence against women. She said: "I think this whole country should be extremely embarrassed that a foreign country took responsibility for a Pakistani citizen for 13 years because we could give her nothing, not justice, not security." Her former husband Khar, continues to deny he was involved in the attack in spite of the widespread belief that he is guilty. Khar claimed that another man carried out the attack. He also said Younus killed herself because of her financial problems and not because of her injuries.
The panelist’s words echo those of the new OIC Secretary General, Iyad Amin Madani, who tweeted earlier this year following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris, that “freedom of speech must not become a hate speech and must not offend others.” In other words, truth about Islam is designated as hate speech. Furthermore, OSCE panelist Victor Khroul, correspondent for Rossiya Segodnya, a Russian state-owned international news agency, questions why the mainstream media throughout the world still refer to the “self-proclaimed self-established state in the Middle East” as the Islamic State. His words echo those of Madani, who proclaimed last year that the Islamic State has no connection with Islam. Khroul claims it’s a mistake for these people to be called Muslim and their state Islamic, which only “confuses the audience with this correlation with Islam.” He maintains that it’s still possible “to find other words to describe this so-called state and its activity,” discounting the facts that Islamic State is what ISIS named itself and its state, and that ISIS clearly credits its motivation to Islam and its acts to Allah. The name Islamic State does not have to be rectified because it accurately reflects reality, defines the organization in question, and is therefore a correct term that would sit well in the world of Confucius and his doctrine on rectifying names. Major Stephen Coughlin, an attorney, former U.S. Army intelligence officer, and the Pentagon’s leading expert on Islamic law and jihad (until he was dismissed in 2008 for linking Islam with terrorism with his Red Pill Briefings), stresses the urgency of defining the enemy as he defines himself: “you cannot target what you will not define...if I can’t use the concepts of Jihad that Al-Qaeda say they rely on, then I can’t understand what they are going to do.” Author of Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad, Coughlin attended the OSCE May session and responded to the OSCE jargon as follows: “Once you decide that facts on the ground as they present themselves, can be considered hate speech, this is no longer about truth...you are subordinating facts that the public has a right to know when they formulate their decisions, and replacing them with narratives to keep them from coming to the understanding of events that can be articulated and verified. That can never be considered hate speech. We’re not talking about speech at all.
A Brief History of Economic (Mis)measurement The GDP has been the touchstone of economic policy for so long that most Americans probably regard it as a kind of universal standard. (In 1991 the government switched from the old GNP to the GDP, for reasons we will discuss later.) Actually the GDP is just an artifact of history, a relic of another era. It grew out of the challenges of the Depression and the Second World War, when the nation faced economic realities very different from today's. Through history economic measurement has grown out of the beliefs and circumstances of the era. As Western economies went from agriculture to manufacturing to finance and services, modes of measurement generally evolved accordingly. But during this century, and especially since the war, the evolutionary process has slowed to a crawl. The market economy has continued to change radically. In particular it has penetrated deeper and deeper into the realms of family, community, and natural habitat that once seemed beyond its reach. But even as this change has accelerated, the way we measure economic health and progress has been frozen in place. The first estimates of national accounts in the Western world were the work of one Thomas Petty, in England in 1665. Petty's scope was fairly broad; he was trying to ascertain the taxable capacity of the nation. In France, however, a narrower focus emerged. The prevailing economic theory was that of the Physiocrats, who maintained that agriculture was the true source of a nation's wealth. Not surprisingly, their economic measurement focused on agricultural production. There was a great diversity of viewpoint, however, even in France. In England, a more industrial country, Adam Smith articulated a broader theory of national wealth that included the whole swath of manufactures as well. But one of many important points overlooked by his ardent followers is that Smith excluded what we today call the entertainment and service economies, including government and lawyers. Such functions might be useful or not, he said. But all are ultimately "unproductive of any value," because they don't give rise to a tangible product. That view was certainly debatable. But Smith was asking a crucial question--one that has pretty much disappeared from economic thought. Is there a difference between mere monetary transactions and a genuine addition to a nation's well being? By the end of the nineteenth century England's economic center of gravity had shifted significantly from manufacturing to trade and finance.
If you are looking for more detail than can be gathered on our site, check this out:Lots of folks have either downloaded or purchased a hard copy of "Pantry Full of Sunshine", Larisa's book based on many of the questions she fielded at workshops about her unique solar food dryer and her other energy-saving food preservation methods, like steam-juicing and steam-canning.Our latest co-authored book, "Feeding Ourselves", now in its second edition, includes all of "Pantry's" information plus it is greatly expanded to show how food preservation fits into our overall scheme of nourishing ourselves year-round in a fairly harsh climate. And once again it has been updated to better reflect our most recent dietary changes, including entirely gluten-free, whole-food grain recipes and more about harvesting and using local nuts, with additional information on growing and processing home-grown foods of all sorts. If you liked "Pantry", or the first edition of Feeding Ourselves, you will love this one!From the back cover of Feeding Ourselves: This book came about after many decades of trial and error in the quest for real, homegrown, organic local cuisine throughout the entire year. We've been gardening and preserving food to fuel our off-grid homestead lifestyle since the 1970's, determined to sever our reliance on the petrol-fueled American food system. Some of our explorations led to us to rediscover and integrate old methods, like root-cellaring, into our routines. Other experiments resulted in the design of our solar food dryer. Our approach to this effort is from a vegan, gluten-free perspective. Over the years, Larisa taught workshops on food preservation, including many summers at the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair. In 1997, she decided to write a small book, "A Pantry Full of Sunshine", which she self-published to answer the frequently asked questions that couldn't be covered in an hour-long workshop. Now, over a decade later, this little book's limited scope became evident and we felt that there was much more to reveal about how we put food on our table. This seasonal guide features down-home advice from Minnesota. There is a focus on energy efficiency, both in cooking and food preservation. Whether you want to grow and eat vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, nuts, seeds, herbs, spices, or sweeteners, we hope our approach will inspire you to explore feeding yourself, from the ground up. We intend this book to be merely a source of ideas and food for thought.
SCANDAL, who are currently holding their first Toumeihan arena tour ＜SCANDAL ARENA TOUR 2015-2016 「PERFECT WORLD」＞, held a performance on the same tour at Nippon Gaishi Hall on 12/23 in HARUNA and MAMI's hometown of Nagoya.Mobilizing 40,000 people, ＜SCANDAL ARENA TOUR 2015-2016 「PERFECT WORLD」＞「We want you to see a life-sized performance of SCANDAL who have come back grown up from our world tour」 . The tour started on 12/9 in TOMOMI's hometown at Kobe World Memorial Hall, making this Nagoya performance the second one of the tour.SCANDAL's four members that were middle and high schoolers who had dreams of "wanting to become artists" met at a Osaka・Kyobashi dance school in 2006, and in August 2016 they will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of their band's formation. HARUNA and MAMI who were high schoolers at that time commuted via train every week, with a one-way trip taking about 3 hours, from their hometown of Nagoya to Osaka while having rehearsals. They had their major debut, and in 2014 they successfully performed 2 consecutive days at Yokohama Arena. In 2015, they matured into artists that traveled around the world on a world tour. They amounted to deeply moving lives, and for HARUNA and MAMI this live at Nippon Gaishi Hall in their home town of Nagoya meant a triumphant return for the pair who talked about their joy and gratitude during the live in front of 10,000 people.「In a place that my parents took me to to see countless artists before I became old enough to understand what's going on around me, being able to come back to stand on this stage like this makes me very happy」──MAMI「I first came to Gaishi Hall in kindergarten to watch ice skating. After becoming a student I practiced dance at a glassed-in place outside of Gaishi Hall...it's a place with very profound memories. It feels odd to be standing here right now, but I'm really happy that this many people assembled here today!」──HARUNAProceeding with the live, they spotted fans in Christmas cosplay, turning it into a talk about Christmas; then, they started talking about the Christmas present exchange between the members that they've done every year without fail since their formation.「Today, we jumped ahead to our present exchange. We've been doing this every year since our formation...this year is the 9th year of our present exchange. Thinking "I'll give something that'll make the members happy!
Business protection is essential where the death of company owners can put the entire business at risk. There must be an exit strategy for every critical individual, so that should they leave the scene unexpectedly there are facilities in place to ensure the continuing smooth operation of the business. An experienced financial advisor can help you navigate this. Even the potential disability of principals of the company should be catered for by means of a disability buyout policy. When important directors or business owners become disabled and are unable to continue their normal work, disability buyout insurance will help ensure that they will be given a fair payout for their share of the business. Not only that, but all business co-owners will feel more secure that buyout insurance is covering their financial liability for the fixed buyout price offered to the owner, and that it has been agreed through a legal buy/sell agreement. Life Insurance and Buy/Sell Agreements Life insurance policies may be taken on the lives of all company owners and directors in order that the costs of buy/sell agreements are covered in the event of the death of any directors or co-owners. Such agreements help prevent less capable heirs from taking their place on the board. The loss of key employees is often devastating to businesses, and life insurance can be used to help make up for any loss of profits until a suitable replacement is found for the deceased. Inexperienced heirs insisting on their position on the board can be disruptive to business plans and co-owners that inherit their positions can cause untold difficulties by insisting on liquidating their share of the company to competitors. Executive Bonus Another form of business protection is to help ensure the loyalty of existing directors and key employees by offering them an attractive and very competitive financial package. Most other businesses also recognize this, and the executive bonus market is becoming almost as competitive as the general remuneration package itself. By offering an attractive executive bonus to key personnel, a company can help retain those employees that are regarded as critical to the business's continued profitability. The three Rs: reward, retain, recruit, are the cornerstones of the success of most enduring businesses, and prudent business owners are aware of what is needed to maintain each of these factors in a way that is beneficial to their company. Some even maintain a fund to finance executive bonus and employee reward schemes.
She'd also done several things that today's society would put her in a statistical grave for.She'd had a child out of wedlock while still in high school, a failed marriage, and she'd moved from state to state as a single mother on what appear to be nothing more than random flights of inspiration.Her life's journey, which included mountain peak highs and gutter lows, defies everything that we're told we're supposed to be and do. Be stable. Settle in to one career. Find one place to call your home.What we all can learn from Maya Angelou's timeline is that there is no penalty for doing many things well or for having more than one dream that you want to pursue.Instead of finding one career and sticking with it, Maya said, 'I think I'll dance today. Tomorrow I may write a book, or join a social movement, or work at a club, or maybe I'll just sing.' Instead of settling in one place she traveled the country and the world, creating many homes away from home along the way.Black woman, yes, you should be mindful that time is of the essence. But also know that you--and only you--have the right to determine what's written on your timeline.As for me, today, I think I'll write some more. Tomorrow, who knows?Photo Credit: ShutterstockQueen Muse is a freelance writer whose passion for journalism is inspired by the interesting lives of everyday people. Her stories have been featured in several local publications including the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Business Journal, and on NBC10.com.Ever the sponge, Queen has participated in numerous educational opportunities and internships including a recent internship in the Office of Communication at The White House. Queen has a B.A. and M.A in communication from La Salle University. She does it all to make her 5-year-old daughter, Aniyah, proud.
The Committees recommend that the Government states in its Response: a) whether it agrees that it is of the utmost importance that all defence and security equipment exhibitions licensed or facilitated by UK Government Departments, organisations and bodies do not display, promote or market Category A goods including goods that could be used for torture; and b) whether it is satisfied with the adequacy of its legal powers to enforce the legislation relating to defence and security equipment exhibitions licensed or facilitated by UK Government Departments and also with the sufficiency of the BIS Guidance on the Impact of UK Trade Controls on Exhibitions and Trade Fairs. (Refer to Volume II, paragraphs 132-138.) E NFORCEMENT 55. The Committees recommend that the Government states in its Response whether it considers that enforcement by the UK Border Force with HMRC of compliance with the terms of all arms export licences is fully satisfactory and, if not, what further enforcement action it will take. The Committees conclude that the Government's continued publication of individuals and companies convicted of arms export offences and their sentences is essential. (Refer to Volume II, paragraphs 139-145.) C OMPOUND PENALTIES 56. The Committees recommend that the Government in its Response: a) states what improvements to the compound penalties system it has identified and when it will implement them; and b) clarifies whether the Government is using compound penalties as an alternative to civil penalties only, or as an alternative to both criminal and civil proceedings. (Refer to Volume II, paragraphs 146-148.) C ROWN D EPENDENCIES 57. The Committees conclude that the Government's statement that "UK Strategic Export Control legislation has already been applied in the Crown Dependencies by the Crown Dependencies themselves" is welcome. 58. The Committees recommend that the Government monitors enforcement by the Crown Dependencies of the UK Government's arms export controls and policies and notifies the Committees of any breaches (Refer to Volume II, paragraphs 149-154.) C OMBATING BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION 59. The Committees recommend that the Government in its Response: a) states the names of the individuals and companies against whom it has taken action under the provisions of the Bribery Act 2010 in relation to their arms export dealings; and b) provides its assessment as to whether the provisions of the now concluded Arms Trade Treaty will be of any practical help in combating bribery and corruption in the international arms trade. (Refer to Volume II, paragraphs 155-159.)
“There is no doubt that Struan’s efforts have helped to improve the lives of a great many people,” he said. “In our view, he is a humanitarian hero.”
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of April 30, 2009 the El Centro area had a 25.0% unemployment rate, the highest for a Metropolitan Area in the country. [18] By August of that year, El Centro's unemployment rate was 27.5%, three times the overall United States unemployment rate of 9.7%. The Economist stated that the city is not the "centre of the Great Recession" like the figure would appear to indicate. While El Centro has a seasonal farming economy, there is still a fixed "baseline" unemployment at 12%. Timothy Kelly, the head of the Imperial Valley Economic Development Corporation, estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 residents of Mexicali work in El Centro. The Economist added that there are likely many El Centro residents who work in Mexicali and collect unemployment benefits in El Centro; Ruben Duran, the city manager of El Centro, said that if the Mexicali jobs were factored into the employment rate, El Centro would have a normal employment rate. The manager of a job search agency called One Stop, said that about 3,000 people per month come into her agency; she says that some make a genuine effort to find jobs, while many do not have motivation to actually find a job, but to instead show proof that they tried to find a job. Kelly stated that unemployment fraud does not account for all of the issues with the El Centro area; he said that many residents have a lack of education and a lack of English language proficiency, so some of them cannot find jobs. The Economist added that the collapse of the housing market eliminated some construction jobs; the magazine countered that the scenario is true in many places in the United States. [16] In December 2008 listed as No. 5 on Forbes.com's list of "The Top 10 Places in America Where Homes are Losing their Value Fastest" with 31.4% of homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. [19] A national report on the effects of the "Great recession" of 2008/09 has found El Centro and the Imperial Valley in the top 5 poorest medium-sized cities in the U.S. in poverty and unemployment rates. [20]
After he married, in his late twenties, his wife, Noreen, whom he’d met at a police fund-raiser, would bring him clothes and food as he worked double and triple shifts. In 1995, Forcelli was promoted to detective and assigned to the N.Y.P.D.’s Forty-seventh Precinct, which stretches from Woodlawn Cemetery, in the western part of the Bronx, to the New York State Thruway, in the east. Its main roads are flanked by malnourished trees and low-rise buildings with faded awnings—storefront churches, transmission-repair shops, dollar stores. The year that Forcelli began working there, the precinct was the city’s most dangerous, with more murders than anywhere else in the five boroughs. Almost every day, officers were confronted with knifings, shootings, disembowelments, and “dump jobs”—bodies that showed up in parks or rivers. Three weeks into the job, he got his first fresh case as a detective, the murder of a retired cop named Oswald Potter.
Apple today released watchOS 4.1, the first major update to the watchOS 4 operating system that runs on the Apple Watch. watchOS 4.1 comes more than a month after Apple released the new watchOS 4 to the public and it follows several weeks of developer beta testing.watchOS 4.1 can be downloaded through the dedicated Apple Watch app on the iPhone by going to General -> Software Update. To install the new software, the Apple Watch needs to have at least 50 percent battery, it needs to be placed on a charger, and it needs to be in range of the iPhone.The watchOS 4.1 update introduces support for streaming Apple Music content directly to LTE-equipped Apple Watch Series 3 models, allowing Apple Watch owners to listen to Apple Music even when an iPhone isn't nearby. A new Radio app that offers access to Beats 1 and other Apple Music radio stations is also included.The Music app on the Apple Watch looks largely unchanged, offering up access to the Music Library, recently played songs, playlists, and Apple Music mixes, but now all Apple Music content can be streamed over an LTE connection and doesn't need to be downloaded to the device.watchOS 4.1 also introduces a new Wi-Fi toggle for turning off Wi-Fi to force the Apple Watch to use an LTE connection and it displays the Wi-Fi SSID when connected to Wi-Fi os users can see which network the watch is using. The update also brings GymKit, allowing the Apple Watch to pair with supported gym equipment for information sharing purposes.Along with these features, today's update introduces a range of new Unicode 10 emoji characters that include vomiting face, head exploding, mermaid, zombie, hedgehog, fairy, broccoli, and more. The new emoji are also available on iOS 11.1 and macOS High Sierra 10.13.1.There are also several bug fixes and security improvements, including a fix for a serious vulnerability in the WPA2 Wi-Fi standard that protects many modern Wi-Fi networks. Full release notes for the update were released early and are below:For more information on watchOS, including the new watchOS 4.1 update, make sure to check out our dedicated watchOS 4 roundup
He's equally adept at standard and unorthodox strategies, as long he doesn't get hit by a stray arrow.While he wasn't exactly known for his strategic prowess, Zhang Fei was one of the most feared generals during the Three Kingdoms era. Unfortunately, he was also rather heartless and hardheaded, which eventually led to his assassination by his subordinates. Much like the famed warrior, TooDming is one of those zergs that just knows how to smash an army. His roach donut against Scarlett is the stuff of legend, but his inability to transition and think of a plan B cost him a famous upset against Bomber. LotV may fit the Chinese roach king's style, however.When Bunny realized that foreign terrans were doing it wrong, he decided to take up the mantle and show them how to do it right. At Gfinity G3, he became one of the only foreigners to win a Major tournament where Koreans had competed. Tycho Brahe, on the other hand, spent his life correcting Copernican tables to create some of the most accurate celestial observations before the telescope was even invented. The two juggernauts showed that even with a slight 'handicap'—Bunny, the foreign terran; Brahe, the astronomer without a telescope—one can achieve great things with enough talent and hard work.Contrary to popular belief, SpaceMarine actually plays protoss. That's a little confusing considering he named himself after the quintessential terran unit, but I guess he figured out he was better as protoss. Unfortunately, that hasn't resulted in much success. For team Denmark, he's going to be playing between the sticks, catching the outliers that go before or get past Bunny. Like Kasper Schmeichel, who played youth for Manchester City as opposed to his dad's club Manchester United, they'll have to do more to get out of their peers' shadows.Once upon a time Lillekanin and Lord Bendtner had some potential. They were doing okay and slowly finding their footing. Lillekanin even managed to reach Challenger League for the first time at the end of 2014. Then everything came crashing down when they did... some less than acceptable things. Lillekanin was banned from a season of WCS, and Bendtner was shuttled around on loan before being sold to Wolfsburg.
Law professor Eugene Volokh on The Volokh Conspiracy provides his usual invaluable legal perspective in blogging: Future Legal Action Against the Texas Polygamists? I should stress that many of the Texas FLDS members may still be in huge legal trouble, despite the conclusion that the raid was illegal (and likely unconstitutional) as to many of the children. He proceeds to elaborate on the possible legal challenges facing the FLDS sect. Indeed, although the appeals court ruling means that hearings on the childrens' custody were suspended, it is not at all clear that the children will be returned. It all depends on the next move by the State of Texas. Damn the soul of each and every individual who collectively are known as the Texas Child Protective Services.Meanwhile, I am disturbed to see some "libertarians" seem disappointed by the (probably) foiled kidnapping attempt by the state. Yesterday, Timothy Sandefur wrote of the appeal court's ruling, It looks pretty devastating, and correct. This is really the worst possible outcome. The clumsiness of the state's actions has already made many members of the public sympathize with the FLDS, and see them as a persecuted, if somewhat idiosyncratic group of harmless folk. They are in reality something much more sinister than that, but incidents like this make it harder to police their activities. As the correspondent who brought Sandefur's comments to my attention cynically said, "It's always great when a self-described libertarian bemoans a defeat for the police state. "But, for the record, I will reiterate. I don't like the FLDS religious sect. I think the ideology that they inculcate into children is worse than drek -- it is dangerous to their intellectual and emotional well-being. But how is this different from families in which the parents are fundamentalist Christian or raving Marxists or radically Muslim? Are we going to have a State-imposed purity test for ideology before allowing parents to raise their children? Unless and until there is clear evidence of physical abuse, no third party has any business using force to step between a parent and a child. PERIOD.The FLDS is one of those litmus tests by which you can separate true libertarians (who believe that rights apply to ALL individuals) from those who believe rights apply only to the nice people of the world. You know, OUR sort. Well...the FLDS is not my sort. It is not in the next county from being my sort.
The party at Shepard’s apartment is one of the strangest sequences in the entire series. It doesn’t follow the rhythms and structuring of the combat sections, the exploration sections, or the majority of the dialog sequences. It’s broken up into a few sections where the player can freely roam around the apartment, and join conversations with groups of their teammates. The participants in each conversation shifts during each segment, and Shepard can overhear different parts as she walks by, or join in the conversations for an occasional cutscene or non-interactive dialog sequence. Some sequences are laugh-out-loud hilarious, like Grunt standing at the door and reveling in turning people away from the party in the rudest way possible, or EDI confronting Traynor about her sexual attraction to her voice, but most of them are casual conversations that just make you laugh or smile a lot. And it is the casual tone of the entire encounter that I found so enjoyable, but also so unique. I can’t think of too many other games where you can get drunk at a party with your friends, talk for an hour about life, then pass out and wake up the next morning for some breakfast. I’ve seen similar sequences before, but none as focused as this. The creators clearly set out to create a party sequence, and nothing else. that was the focus of design and narrative, and it never gets distracted from it. Want to have a section where Joker laughs for thirty straight seconds when Shepard claims (falsely) that she can dance? Throw it in! want to walk in on Grunt sitting in the shower, so drunk that his words are incoherent mumblings? Do it! The pacing of the sequence is so laid back, letting the developers include parts that they never could have while having to deal with the narrative requirements that come with, “Save the entire goddamn galaxy”. But Citadel doesn’t care, it wants to let you say goodbye.
Arrest of five youths Edit Map of Central Park and its attractions The police were dispatched at 9:30 p.m. and responded with scooters and unmarked cars. They apprehended Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson along with other teenagers at approximately 10:15 p.m. on Central Park West and 102nd Street. [4][10][11] Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise were brought in for questioning later, after having been identified by other youths as participants in or present at some of the attacks. [10][11] The five juveniles were interviewed for hours. Santana, McCray, and Richardson all made video statements in the presence of their respective parents or guardians. [39] Wise made a number of statements on his own, in accordance with the law. [39] Salaam told the police he was 16 years old and showed them identification to prove it. If a suspect had reached 16 years of age, his parents or guardians no longer had a right to accompany him during police questioning, or to refuse to permit him to answer any questions. [39] After Salaam's mother arrived, the police stopped the questioning, but Salaam's admissions were admitted into testimony. [39] Additionally, before the raped jogger was found, one of the other boys the police had rounded up, sitting in the back of a police car, blurted that he "didn't do the murder" and named Antron McCray as the perpetrator. Kevin Richardson, who was sitting beside him, immediately agreed, saying "Antron did it". [39] Later, after Raymond Santana was interrogated about the rape and while he was being driven to another precinct, he on his own exclaimed: "I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel her tits. "[39] Normal police procedure stipulated that the names of criminal suspects under the age of 16 were to be withheld from the media and the public. This policy was ignored when the names of the arrested juveniles were released to the press before any of them had been formally arraigned or indicted, including one 14-year-old who was ultimately not charged. [26] The media's decision to print the names, photos, and addresses of the juvenile suspects while withholding Meili's identity was cited by the editors of the City Sun and the Amsterdam News to explain their own continued use of Meili's name in their coverage of the story.
“Basically dealing with this system has been horrific, she said. “It’s intimidating, it’s difficult to get answers, and they are untrained for dealing with mental stress.” “The impact is financial, it’s emotional, and it’s social,” adds John Bartolomeo of the Workers’ Health and Safety Legal Clinic, one of the signatories of the complaint. Two years ago, a nurse who endured a decade of harassment by her supervisor resulting in anxiety and depression successfully challenged the WSIB’s refusal to award her benefits. According to the board’s independent tribunal, her constitutional right to equality was violated by the decision to deny compensation, which the board was forced to overturn. Two subsequent rulings on separate appeals in 2015 and 2016 reached the same conclusion. But tribunal rulings are only binding in the specific cases before them — so the board has continued its policy of denying benefits for chronic mental stress, according to the ombudsman complaint. That means workers are forced to launch lengthy legal battles to win their entitlements. “The cost of mounting a Charter challenge, both financial and emotional, are simply too high for many workers to bear,” the letter to the watchdog says, noting that severe backlogs mean it takes years to get a tribunal hearing. “That is very stressful,” said Toronto workers’ compensation lawyer Anthony Singleton. “People feel very betrayed by the system. They are stuck in the system.” The ombudsman complaint also faults government for failing to fix the loophole in its current legislation, arguing the Ministry of Labour is “aware that parts of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act have been deemed unconstitutional but has taken no remedial action.” According to Ron Ellis, who served for over a decade as chair of the WSIB’s independent tribunal and is the author of Unjust by Design. Canada's Administrative Justice System, a government would usually either challenge a tribunal decision finding its legislation unconstitutional — or change the law in question. In this case, the Ontario government has done neither. “The question is why,” says Ellis. “It gives the appearance of being a tactical decision to stymie the constitutional challenge process in order to prevent the board having to assume the financial obligations implicit in the chronic stress benefit entitlement.” This is the second time this year advocates have demanded an investigation into the WSIB.
I'm trying not to use his name here on the post out of respect for him, but I can definitely confirm that he's being a wonderful sport about all of this!!! :)
This is what happened when we went from X 1 = "ba"Y 1 to "b"X 2 = "ba"Y 1 to X 2 = "a"Y 1 . Here s was "ba" and s' was "a". If s is a prefix of some code word, say ss' = c, then we can also put s' on the queue. This is what happened when we went from X 2 = "a"Y 1 to "abba"X 4 = "a"Y 1 to "bba"X 4 = Y 1 . Here s was "a" and s' was "bba". If we encounter some queue item that we have seen before, we can discard it; this will prevent us from going in circles. If the next queue item is the empty string, we have proved that the code is not uniquely-decodable. (Alternatively, we can stop just before queueing the empty string.) If the queue is empty, we have investigated all possibilities and the code is uniquely-decodable. Pseudocode Here's the summary: Initialization: For each pair of code words c 1 and c 2 with c 1 s = c 2 , put s in the queue. Main loop: Repeat the following until termination If the queue is empty, terminate. The code is uniquely-decodable.
Capturing Installed Python Packages with Requirements Files Developers get in the habit of freezing requirements every time that a package or a dependency gets installed on their projects. We do that by running the following pip command: $ pip freeze > requirements.txt This dumps the output of pip freeze into a requirements.txt file on the working directory. Let’s assume now that for some reason we need to install MarkupSafe version 0.11. Let’s assume also that we have gotten ahead, installed it, tested it, and that our app behaves as we expect it to. Let’s run pip freeze , which would only output our two packages, as shown below: $ pip freeze emoji==0.4.5 MarkupSafe==0.11 To continue with our learning, let’s go ahead and install Flask , a popular web microframework. We’ll grab the latest version of it by running pip install flask . I get the following output (if you are following along, yours might differ a little bit, for my computer had cached the files from a previous install): $ pip install flask Collecting flask Using cached Flask-0.12.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting itsdangerous>=0.21 (from flask) Collecting Jinja2>=2.4 (from flask) Using cached Jinja2-2.9.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting click>=2.0 (from flask) Using cached click-6.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting Werkzeug>=0.7 (from flask) Using cached Werkzeug-0.12.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting MarkupSafe>=0.23 (from Jinja2>=2.4->flask) Installing collected packages: itsdangerous, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, click, Werkzeug, flask Found existing installation: MarkupSafe 0.11 Uninstalling MarkupSafe-0.11: Successfully uninstalled MarkupSafe-0.11 Successfully installed Jinja2-2.9.6 MarkupSafe-1.0 Werkzeug-0.12.2 click-6.7 flask-0.12.2 itsdangerous-0.24 Flask , being a more complex package, has some dependencies ( Werkzeug , itsdangerous , etc.) which are installed with it automatically through the pip install command. I want to call your attention to the following lines, extracted from the above listing: ... Found existing installation: MarkupSafe 0.11 Uninstalling MarkupSafe-0.11: Successfully uninstalled MarkupSafe-0.11 ... Take a close look… You’ll see that pip doesn’t have a way of reconciling conflicting dependencies. Without even warning us, it went ahead and replaced version 0.11 with version 1.0 of our MarkupSafe package. And that could be trouble for our application. At that point in time, we run our app tests (assuming that have them), and dig into our application to make sure that the changes between 0.11 and 1.0 of the MarkupSafe package don’t break it. If I were to face this situation in real life, I would roll back the changes first by uninstalling Flask and its dependencies and restore the packages that I had before.
And were you concerned that divulging the information early might jeopardize a soldier's safety?' GEN. KELLY: 'First of all, we're at the highest level of the U.S. government. The people that will answer those questions are the people at the other end of the military pyramid. I'm sure the Special Forces group is conducting – I know they're conducting an investigation. That investigation, of course, under the auspices of AFRICOM. Ultimately it will go to the Pentagon.' 'I've read the same stories you have, I actually know a lot more than I'm letting on, but I'm not going to tell you. There's an investigation being done. But as I say, the men and women of our country that are serving all around the world – I mean, you know, what the hell is my son doing back in the fight? He's back in the fight because, working with Iraqi soldiers who are infinitely better than they were a few years ago to take on ISIS directly so hat we don't have to do it. Small numbers of Marines where he is, working alongside those guys. That's why they're out there. 'Whether it's Niger, Iraq or whatever. We don't want to send tens of thousands of soldiers and Marines in particular to go fight. 'I'll take one more. But it's got to be from someone who knows – all right.' REPORTER: 'General, when you talk about Niger, sir, what does your intelligence tell you about the Russian connection with them and what – the stories coming out now?' GEN. KELLY: 'I'm not in a position to know that. That's a question for NORTHCOM or for – not NORTHCOM, for AFRICOM or D.O.D. So thanks very much. 'As I walk off the stage, understand there's tens of thousands of American kids, mostly, doing the nation's bidding all around the world. They don't have to be in uniform. You know, when I was a kid, every man in my life who was a veteran – World War II, Korea, and there was the draft. These young people today, they don't do it for any other reason than their selfless, sense of selfless devotion to this great nation. 'We don't look down upon those of you that haven't served.
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You need to have enough alternative suspects, so to speak. I think we actually trimmed out quite a lot of that, but at the end of the day you keep what you need and not what you want. Cecilia, if you read the book, has a much bigger part. If you ask me it's not much of a role. She sleeps with [Blomkvist] and has fights with him, they break up, they get together. To me that was an easy lift.Yeah, it's crazy. It just doesn't seem right. That's funny for me to say, it worked great in the book, but I didn't think it was going to work in the movie.Yeah, it does shift back and forth, the point of view. And it has to be balanced. If you look at the first half of the book, because they don't meet for the first half of the book, just like the movie, I would say that there's probably 70-30 in his favor, if you counted up the pages it's probably his story, and I knew that couldn't be. I knew we had to share the story 50-50 until they met. So more of his stuff came out than hers. All of her stuff stayed. There's certainly nothing that came out.I'm going to put her in the second one.It was very tricky, because there is going to be a second one and a third one, and how much of the back story to dole out. We didn't feel it was really important in this one to know anything about her mother or father or anything. There was a lot of talk about "Do we reveal anything about why she was locked up from the time she was 12?" There's that little scene in the movie where they're in bed, when she explains what happens with her father, and it's almost thrown away-- they could be talking about the weather. And that's it, we're done with that.I really feel that people need to know all the information they need by the end of the story, not by the beginning. I know that sooner or later Mikael is going to say, "So, why do you have a guardian? Why are you a ward of the state?" It will get answered. And that's something that I have been conscious of, when I do this, of not putting a bunch of back story into a film before we need it.
The fear here is that, under the guise of ‘national security’ the government is actually allowing corporations to avoid scrutiny by and accountability to the taxpaying public that is, in effect, paying for the critical infrastructures. Come to think of it, perhaps Enron was getting a head start by shredding documents in the name of homeland security to avoid anyone discovering how it really operated large parts of America’s critical energy infrastructures?The attempt to provide national security by obscuring corporate information has resonance in the information security world. It brings to mind the full disclosure debate, which pits the security community’s need to know about problems as quickly as possible against corporations’ interests in maintaining positive public perception and market share. Without the real-time information-sharing ventures that full disclosure enables, system administrators are placed in a ‘holding pattern’, and are kept in the dark until (umm, errr, if…) a vendor decides to acknowledge and address a reported problem.Both the attempt to circumvent the FOIA and to muzzle full disclosure sound very effective at thwarting evil, but in reality neither effectively enhances public security. The community in general – be it computer users or society at large – must be able to obtain raw information about issues that potentially affect their well-being, whether that means chemical spills or the latest Windows exploits. The general public cannot be solely dependent on any one entity for information. Going down that path creates an environment of security through ignorance.Despite the sensational management hype calling for this approach, it rarely works in reality. People quickly forget that anything that a person can use (from a knife to airplanes to automobiles and knowledge) can be used to endanger others, provided malicious intent is present. However, dealing with the tiny number of people capable of such malice should not mean forcing the remaining majority into a society in which information of public interest is withheld out of fear. Law abiding citizens in a healthy democracy should not be destined to live in ignorance that is encouraged by corporations and enforced by governments.In the United States, and elsewhere in the world, the public has a right to know information that may directly affect their lives. If a GAO report says airport security is bad, travelers should know about it. If a safety report says that it’s too easy for someone to break into a chemical plant and cause an accident, the local residents should know about it.
architectural details When people used to have pride in their buildings, a great deal of ornamentation would be found. Fancy brickwork, bargeboards and detailing can be quite hard to make. Luckily, folks like Langley Miniatures and Scalelink have an excellent range of details in white metal castings and brass etchings. Details are available from many other sources too. You will start to have problems if you decide to accurately model an actual building. Details such as those shown above are very challenging to make. This is when you have to blast into the 21st century and use some new technology. For computer Luddites, give up at this point and go buy a kit! Flat bed lasers can accurately cut certain materials with extraordinary accuracy. They are also capable of engraving. They usually work with a material called Rowmark, which is a bit like Plasticard but stronger. Companies such as York Modelmaking will happily take on special commissions. They prefer that drawings are produced in vector (CDR, AI, DXF or DWG formats) but for a further charge will convert a normal drawing to this format. Dimensions must be given on the drawing of course. Below are examples of their work. Rowmark can be glued with MEK and takes paint easily. They also supply a comprehensive selection of doors and windows that will cover most needs. Langley Miniatures supply an extraordinary range of white metal cast details such as carved stone windows, porticos and corbels. If you wish to model a specific prototype and require several, you are going to have to make a pattern and cast them in resin. I start off by carving the pattern in modelling clay and then follow the methods described by Nigel Lawton. Sometimes you may even have to produce guttering of a shape that is not commercially available. It is possible to manufacture a die and form aluminium foil to the shape you require. The result is good but delicate. Your other alternative is to make masters have cast in resin. Chimneys can also be challenging, particularly if you have a lot to make. Again, you may very well have to consider making a pattern and cast in resin. painting You can have the best possible model but it will look dreadful unless properly painted. At times, I take longer to painted than I have taken to scratch build the model! Painting is covered in the next chapter.
In mid August 2007, Israeli commandos from the Sayeret Matkal reconnaissance unit covertly raided the suspected Syrian nuclear facility and brought nuclear material back to Israel. Two helicopters ferried twelve commandos to the site in order to get photographic evidence and soil samples. The commandos were probably dressed in Syrian uniforms. Although the mission was successful, it had to be aborted earlier than planned after the Israelis were spotted by Syrian soldiers. Soil analysis revealed traces of nuclear activity. [25][31][32] There was disagreement between CIA director Michael Hayden and Mossad director Meir Dagan about whether the site should be bombed. Hayden was fearful that this would cause an all-out war, but Dagan was sure that Assad would not react, so long as the bombing was done covertly and not publicized. [27] Anonymous sources reported that once material was tested and confirmed to have come from North Korea, the United States approved an Israeli attack on the site. [22] Senior U.S. officials later claimed that they were not involved in or approved the attack, but were informed in advance. [33] In his memoir Decision Points, President George W. Bush wrote that Prime Minister Olmert requested that the U.S. bomb the Syrian site, but Bush refused, saying the intelligence was not definitive on whether the plant was part of a nuclear weapons program. Bush claimed that Olmert did not ask for a green light for an attack and that he did not give one, but that Olmert acted alone and did what he thought was necessary to protect Israel. [34] Another report indicated that Israel planned to attack the site as early as 14 July, but some U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, preferred a public condemnation of Syria, thereby delaying the military strike until Israel feared the information would leak to the press. [35] The Sunday Times also reported that the mission was "personally directed" by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. [22]
Longo realized early on that what would make plasma gasification marketable was a machine that could handle anything. Some of the most noxious chemicals, he knew from his decades in the garbage industry, are found in the most mundane places, like household solid waste. Startech has an edge over some of its competitors because its converter doesn't have to be reconfigured for different materials, which means operators don't have to presort waste, a costly and time-consuming process. To achieve this adaptability, Startech converters crank the plasma arc up to an extremely high operating temperature: 30,000˚F. Getting that temperature just right was one of Longo's key developmental challenges. "You can't rely on the customer to tell you what they put in," Longo says. "Sometimes they don't know, sometimes they lie, and sometimes they've thrown in live shotgun shells from a hunting trip. That's why it's imperative that the Plasma Converter can take in anything." A video camera mounted near the top of the converter at the Bristol plant gives me a glimpse of the plasma arc doing its dirty work. At a computer station near the converter, Lynch taps a few commands into a keyboard, and a loud hiss fills the room, the sound of steam being released from behind a pressurized valve. "You can use that steam to heat your facility and neighboring buildings," he says proudly. Next to him is an LCD monitor with a live video feed from inside the reactor. A vivid magenta glow fills the screen as I watch the plasma torch vaporize a bucket of cellphones and soda cans. A hopper at the top of the vessel dumps another load into the plasma reactor, and seconds later, it vanishes too. "The idea," Lynch says, "is that regardless of what you put in the front end, what comes out will be clean and ready to use for whatever you want." I've watched him operate the converter for nearly an hour, and I'm still stunned to see no smoke, no flames, no ash, no pollution of any kind—all that's left is syngas, the fuel source, and the molten obsidian-like material.
Víctor Hugo Ornelas is never without his camera. It’s a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, which he carries on a shoulder strap and swings silently into focus on garbage piles, flooded roads, bad potholes. He’s a tireless blogger (he is also a stringer for Milenio, a national daily), and these shots go up with notas (short articles) about derelictions, hazards, and other small outrages around Tlajomulco. Most will make it into La Verdad (The Truth), a weekly paper for which he covers politics, writes a column, and does investigations. He photographs corpses, too, and writes those notas. Unlike many papers, La Verdad doesn’t publish blood and gore, but Hugo’s laptop contains a stomach-turning archive of headless torsos, hacked-off limbs, heads on poles with narcomantas attached. “The bodies are messages,” he told me. “If it’s missing a finger, it means you pointed to somebody. Missing legs means you changed groups. Missing the tongue means you said something you shouldn’t have. A hand cut off means it was a thief.” We were driving around western Tlajomulco, a sunbaked miscellany of ranches, factories, subdivisions, and rough hills. I parked in a patch of shade. Hugo wanted to check out a scruffy warehouse that had caught his eye. This was on the main highway running south from Guadalajara. An old couple appeared. They lived next to the warehouse, and told us that stinking water ran out of the building. They didn’t know the name of the company that used it, but they thought it produced condiments. “They burn their trash, and we breathe the nasty smoke,” the woman said. It was hard to hear her over the roar of trucks. Hugo leaned in, took notes. He wore a dress shirt, jeans, and boots. He had beaded leather bracelets on both wrists. He is slender, thirty, with a severe face—high cheekbones, wide-set eyes. We watched him hobble off to snap pictures of the warehouse. He has used a cane since February, when he suffered a severe fracture of his left leg playing league soccer. “They pasted me,” he said. Many people would like to paste Hugo. He was once studying a strange-looking house, figuring that it was a meth lab, when a pickup truck suddenly wheeled out of the driveway and blocked his path. Four armed men jumped out. They threw him and a female companion on the ground.
MMA was the only route for these champions to provide for themselves. The opportunities that MMA provided elite jiu-jitsu athletes was too good to pass up.But in 2017, the landscape has changed. Now MMA is seeing its sponsorships dry up, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu is enjoying a revolution that is working toward paying its athletes better than it ever has before. For example, Fight to Win Pro will pay out $1 million to its athletes this year -- a reality that Werdum couldn't dream of 10 years ago.Garry Tonon faces off with his nemesis Dillon Danis Photo: Attack The BackDespite this growth, the top stars in MMA are without a doubt still earning more than the top BJJ players. And it's not to say we'll never see Tonon or Dern compete in BJJ again, but certainly we'll see less of them as each ascends the ladder of MMA stardom (as we know both will).While moving from grappling to MMA does seem like a natural progression for some fighters, what if our athletes didn't need to leave the sport they love?Mixed martial arts can be a violent and barbaric sport that almost certainly leaves its participants with some sort of lasting harmful effects. Getting punched in the face is bad for your brain, no matter how you cut it. Although even I have an extended appetite for such violence, is it acceptable that our sport's biggest stars are willing to pay that price?What if grappling could sustain the stars it produces and launch them into the upper echelon of sports notoriety without the risk of long-term damage to their brains?It's a nice thought, but until that day, jiu-jitsu won't be able to penetrate the mainstream if it can't get stars like Tonon and Dern to stick around.
Stockbyte/Thinkstock Standardised tests – whether to evaluate student performance, to choose among college applicants or to license candidates for various professions – are often marathons. Tests designed to evaluate knowledge of coursework typically use the canonical hour; admissions tests are usually 2–3 hours, and licensing exams can take days. Why are they as long as they are? The first answer that jumps immediately to mind is the inexorable relationship between a test's length and its reliability, which is merely a standardised measure of the stability and consistency of test results, ranging between a low of 0 (the score is essentially a random number) and a high of 1 (the score does not fluctuate at all). Although a test score always gets more reliable as the test generating it gets longer, the law of diminishing returns sets in very quickly. In Figure 1 we show the reliability of a typical professionally prepared test as a function of its length. It shows that the marginal gain of moving from a 30‐item test to a 60‐ or even 90‐item one is not worth the trouble unless such small additional increments in reliability are required. Figure 1 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Spearman–Brown function showing the reliability of a test as a function of its length, if a one‐item test has a reliability of 0.15 But perhaps there are other uses for the information gathered by the test that require this additional length and accuracy. Here, the US Census provides an example. The last decennial population count cost $13 billion, or approximately $42 per person, to estimate the number of people in the country at 308 745 538, give or take 31 000. If all the Census gave us was that single number it would be a colossal waste of taxpayer money. However, the constitutionally mandated purpose of the Census is far broader than that. It must also provide small‐area estimates and answers to questions such as “How many households with two parents and three or more children live in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York?”. Such small‐area estimates are crucial for the allocation of social services and for other purposes. It is wasteful (and perhaps unethical) to continue to administer tests that take more examinee time than is justified by the information yielded In tests, the equivalent of the small‐area estimate is usually called a subscore. On a high school mathematics test there might be subscores on algebra, arithmetic, geometry and trigonometry.
Ladies and gentlemen of the esteemed Global Unreal community, the second season of capture the flag is upon us. With arguably the strongest captain list in the history of instagib drafting leagues, there is no room for error come draft night, October 21st. Despite lacking some star players such as sorn, JYB, krazyaim, and Morpheus*, the free agency list is surprisingly stacked with talent from around the globe. The arrival of timmy boy's miraculous UTProMod has successfully put the eastern and western hemispheres of UT on a level playing field ; the competition has never been more fierce.Over the past couple of weeks I have diligently studied recent pug statistics and spectated dozens of pugs first hand. Factoring in pug performances, competitive playoff history in MLIG, GU, and CB, reliability, and CTF clutch factor, I have compiled a ranking of the best 34 players currently signed up for GU.ICTF II.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Notorious draft-league dominator, titles in both MLIG and GU as a captain. Gold Trophies in both instagib and sniper premiere leagues on Clanbase. Last season's top salary player. Reigning and defending Global Unreal champion. Very few players can match the impressive resume of the number one player in the league,. An absolute brick wall defender and anchor for many championship teams already, rain is simply looking to add to his trophy rack. I have heard that he only signed up as captain this season to specifically make sure that I don't win it. If that's true, all i can say is I'm sure you'll make a valiant effort ;] (ooo jab).rain's consistent fragging combined with his superior defensive positioning see him excel particularly on high-fragging, control dependent maps such as Duku and Spirit. Like many instagib players rain loves to play offense, which he is no doubt capable of playing at a very high level. However, his defensive prowess and impeccable comms make it almost wasteful to put him anywhere except locking down the base. As average accuracy and overall gameplay continues to improve over the years, rain is still brickwalling elite attackers consistently.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Coming in just behind rain is the #1 overall free agent in the draft,. For some of the North and South American players who are unfamiliar with uenz, this ranking may come as a surprise. However, those that have played against him on clanbase over the years know that he has been a sleeping giant in the GU scene for some time.
p. 218 circumstances, he denounced in the strongest terms the injustice of the proceedings. In this we fully agreed. Petitions were gotten up for the unconditional pardon of the Morrisites, which were signed by all the Gentiles, including the two associate justices and the rest of the Federal officials, and all the officers at Camp Douglas. Not a Mormon signed them: but several called at my quarters, always after dark, and by the back way, to say they hoped mercy would be shown the poor creatures but they dared not let it be known they had taken any part in the matter. Scores of the wives and mothers of the condemned came and fell on their knees and begged with tears and sobs that I would show mercy to their sons and husbands. Many and angry threats were made on the other side in case I favored them, and one Bishop Woolley came to urge me against it, saying he could not answer for my safety in case I pardoned those men. Meanwhile the condemned, who were mulcted in fine and costs, remained in jail, and the others toiled by day on Brigham's road, and came back at night to brief seasons of misery and troubled dreams in their allotted cells. The petitions came to me at last, too late to be acted on that night. I had sunk to sleep, when a voice was heard outside, calling for the Governor. My son, who slept below, with a six-shooter always in reach, inquired, "Who is there?" The reply came back, "Bill Hickman. Let me in; I have business with the Governor." He was admitted, and spoke: "Governor, did you think Brigham had sent for you when you heard my voice, and was you afraid?" I replied with the slang phrase, "Not enough to do any hurt." He grasped me by the hand, and said: "Governor, I'll bet on you, and you may bet on me." He then stated that he had lain awake that night, thinking about the petitions, and added: "I have been in bed awhile, got up, and rode fourteen miles to sign them. Has any Mormon signed?" I answered that they had not. He called for them, took up a pen, and wrote across both in letters as large as John Hancock signed to the Declaration, his name "BILL HICKMAN."
The conversation ended, and Mr Kishor placed a call: "Tell Madam to change to the other car. The open car. "For the next few hours, as Mrs Gandhi's convoy crawled, this is how Mr Kishor would auteur the attempted hacking of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency. Through a series of short calls, video briefs, offering virtually no instructions and soliciting no information except an occasional estimate of the crowds.By about 2 pm, a number in double digit thousands was tossed up for consumption to the media. Authenticate as needed. A section of the Congress was also seeking verification. "They wanted Allahabad, Lucknow, any place else," Mr Kishor reportedly revealed to the very few within the party who backed his endeavor at the design stage. "I said either Varanasi or forget it. "That Go-Big-Or-Go-Home theme is what the 39-year-old strategist has bet on with everything he has: his credentials as an agent of the victories of first the PM in 2014 and then Nitish Kumar in Bihar, and far more compellingly for the Congress, the political capital of 24X7 access to the Gandhis. "Look in all media for the last 30 days...the last 60 days...tell me which party has got more coverage than Congress," sources say he declared at a recent review meeting, claiming a crowding out of the party's far heftier opponents in Uttar Pradesh.To aides who are trained to test what they describe as field work against substantial amounts of data, Mr Kishor has said that by December, he hopes to have the Congress miraculously placed as the runner-up in Uttar Pradesh with the support of Brahmins, upper castes, non-Jatav Dalits (the Jatavs are Mayawati's supporters traditionally) and other non-Yadav backward castes. After that, he is convinced, the Muslims in the state will align with the Congress, providing the last mile in India's largest state. His calculation is based on landing 37% of the vote share with a campaign tightly wound around those groups. "There is a feeling in the Congress that take everyone along," he said at a party meeting recently. "The idea should be you appease select groups and then govern for all. Congress does the opposite - it tries to appeal to all and then if it's elected, it starts appeasement. "That sort of messaging can take time to permeate. For now, his mission is just to get the party started, to have the Congress beat its traditions and instincts by being an early mover.
Bourgeois elections allow the population to decide every few years which representatives of the ruling class will repress working people and the oppressed. Fundamental change will never be won at the ballot box. The capitalist profit system must be swept away and replaced with a planned, collectivized economy under a workers government. For that, we need a party modeled on the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, which made the only successful workers revolution in history in Russia in November 1917. Because the Republicans are viewed as the party of big business and white racism, the Democrats can mobilize wider support for war and repression, particularly among workers and black people. There is a very long list of bloody atrocities carried out by U.S. imperialism under Democratic Party presidents. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vietnam War. Bill Clinton launched the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia. Now we have Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama and his drone presidency. Under Obama, millions of people have fled their devastated home countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia—thanks to the savagery of the American imperialist masters. It is in the interest of the working class, particularly in the U.S., to oppose all the wars, occupations and depredations of the imperialist bloodsuckers. Any force, however unsavory, that attacks, repels or otherwise impedes U.S. forces strikes a blow in the interests of the working and oppressed masses of the world. For that reason, in the U.S. war against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, we have a military side with ISIS against the U.S. and its proxies—including the Syrian Kurdish nationalists—despite the fact that we abhor and reject everything that the ISIS cutthroats stand for. (The anti-woman reactionaries of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS are all first- or second-generation offspring of the U.S.-sponsored “holy war” against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the ’80s.) We say: U.S. out of the Near East now! The Myth of the 1 Percent This summer I went with my comrades to intervene with our communist press at the People’s Convention in Philadelphia, one of the events around the Democratic National Convention. We met a lot of disappointed supporters of Bernie Sanders who were “feeling the Bern.” Sanders passed himself off as a socialist for however long he was around in the race for president.
However, for each transaction, there is both a buyer and a seller, and their world views must be opposite for the transaction to occur. Markets work only because there is a plurality of views. To assign single or dominant cause to most market moves is to ignore the multitude of market outlooks and to fail to recognize the nature and dynamics of the temporary imbalances between the numbers of traders who hold these differing views. Similar misconceptions abound elsewhere in public debate and the sciences. For example, are there single causes for diseases? In some cases, such as Huntingdon's disease, the cause can be traced to a unique factor, in this case extra repetitions of a particular nucleotide sequence at a particular location in an individual's DNA, coding for the amino acid glutamine. However, even in this case, the age of onset and the severity of the condition are also known to be controlled by environmental factors and interactions with other genes. The web of causation has been for many decades a well-worked metaphor in epidemiology, but there is still little quantitative understanding of how the web functions or forms. As Krieger poignantly asked in a celebrated 1994 essay, "Has anyone seen the spider?" The search for causal structure is nowhere more futile than in the debate over the origin of organismal complexity: intelligent design vs. evolution. Fueling the debate is a fundamental notion of causality, that there is a beginning to life, and that such a beginning must have had a single cause. On the other hand, if there is instead a web of causation driving the origin and evolution of life, a skeptic might ask: has anyone seen the spider? It turns out that there is no spider. Webs of causation can form spontaneously through the concatenation of associations between the agents or active elements in the system. For example, consider the Internet. Although a unified protocol for communication (TCP/IP etc) exists, the topology and structure of the Internet emerged during a frenzied build-out, as Internet service providers staked out territory in a gold-rush of unprecedented scale. Remarkably, once the dust began to settle, it became apparent that the statistical properties of the resulting Internet were quite special: the time delays for packet transmission, the network topology, and even the information transmitted exhibit fractal properties. However, you look at the Internet, locally or globally, on short time scales or long, it looks exactly the same.
“One item that was an issue: on the B.Q.E., they started renumbering the exits. They did some but didn’t do others, so for a while there were two Exit 41s.” After lunch, Arcari and Singh were due back at the central office, in Syosset, to download their findings. They offered to drive me back into Manhattan, but we agreed that it would make more sense for me to take the subway. None of us knew where to find it, though. Subway stations are not attributes; Navteq honors the primacy of the automobile, promulgated by the makers of road maps of a century ago, whose mandate was to promote auto travel and, with it, the purchase of gasoline, cars, and tires. We pulled into a gas station, and I ran inside to ask for directions.
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During intromission the pubic bones of the men and the women did not approach each other closely: the female pubic bone stayed about 4 cm cranial to that of the male. The uterus was raised by 2.4 cm. The changed configuration of the bladder was caused by penile stretching of the anterior vaginal wall during intromission, plus the raising of the uterus and the increase in bladder size as it filled. The subjective level of sexual arousal of the participants, men and women, during the experiment was described afterwards as average. Eight women had a complete sexual response during sexual stimulation (experiments 4-11) and these women described their orgasm as “superficial.” The sexual response of one of these women is shown in figure 4. In the pre-orgasmic phase the anterior vaginal wall lengthened by 1 cm and the uterus rose within the pelvis. This is a typical response in all experiments except one (experiment 10). During sexual arousal without coitus, the position and size of the uterus hardly changed. It was not possible on these magnetic resonance images to distinguish between the vaginal wall, the urethra, and the clitoris These images did not show widening of the vaginal canal, structures suggesting a Gräfenberg spot, or a separate reservoir of fluid indicating “female ejaculation.”
The lawsuit asserts that Campeau-Laurion's constitutional rights were violated under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth amendments. Defendants are NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the NYPD, the New York Yankees Partnership, the City of New York and the two police officers who participated in Campeau-Laurion's ejection. Campeau-Laurion, the director of Web productions for a media company, attended the Aug. 26 Yankees-Red Sox game with a friend, who had a ticket package for 11 games at Yankee Stadium during the 2008 season. Campeau-Laurion had attended several of these games with his friend. Campeau-Laurion quietly watched the game, ate a bag of peanuts and drank two beers. He decided to use the restroom at the start of the seventh-inning stretch – a period when fans often choose to use the restroom. He got up and made his way down the aisle as “God Bless America” began playing. A police officer blocked his path and indicated that he could not leave during the song. Campeau-Laurion explained that he needed to use the restroom and was not concerned about “God Bless America.” Then he attempted to walk past the officer. Before Campeau-Laurion could take a step, the police officer grabbed his right arm and twisted it behind his back. A second officer twisted Campeau-Laurion's left arm behind his back, and the two officers then marched him down several ramps to the stadium's exit with his arms pinned behind his back. The officers refused to ease their grip, even though Campeau-Laurion was not resisting them. The encounter ended with one of the officers telling Campeau-Laurion to leave the country if he didn't like it. The Yankees began playing “God Bless America” during games following 9/11, as did all Major League Baseball teams. Unlike most teams, the Yankees also instituted a policy of seeking to prevent fans from moving during the playing of the song. It did so to promote patriotism amongst those attending Yankees games.
Each one of us needs to talk about our work at one point or another in our career. If no other time, then when we apply for a new job. How can you be better at that? Job Interviews One of the common questions in job interviews for some kind of Software developer position is asking the candidates about their most recent or most interesting software project. The interviewer lets them talk about the project. Then ask what kind of problems have they encountered during the development and how did they solve them? Not only will this show the understanding of the project, it will also allow the interviewer to see the communication skills of the candidate. Being able to fluently talk about your projects will give a clear advantage in job interviews. Being able to do that in English, especially if your mother tongue is some other language, will give you extra points. Public Speaking Going further, if you give presentations about a project you've been involved in will also help you land those job interviews in the first place. Every person who hear you talking will be able to recommend you in their company. You can also brag about your public appearances in your CV. Improve your chances So, how can you practice talking about your project and what if you only worked on proprietary projects none of which you can talk about? Let's start with the second part. You can, of course, start contributing to an Open Source project. That would also improve your knowledge. Even if you don't have time for this, you can do something about it. You surely have used some kind of an Open Source project in your work. Maybe an Open Source programming language? An Open Source library of that languages? Maybe a framework. A public API or specification? You can talk about any of these. But how to start? Especially if you are anxious? What if you make a mistake when giving a talk? There are quite a few things you can do to help with that. Confession of a Public Speaker You can start by watching this video of Scott Berkun talking about his book Confession of a Public Speaker. Better yet, buy and read that book. I even took the liberty and took some notes during another Scott Berkun presentation about the Confession of a Public Speaker.
In vivo Toxicity study Male and female BALB/c mice (18-20 gm), acclimatized for 7-10 days with standard food and water ad libitum, housed in polypropylene cages in Animal House facility were used in accordance with the OECD guidelines accepted by the Committee for the purpose of control and supervision on experiments on animals (CPCSEA), Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, India and as per the approval of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Approval No: 367/01/C/CPCSEA). When required, the surgical procedures performed under Ketamine hydrochloride (100 mg/kg i.m.) anesthesia, and all efforts were made to minimize suffering. For acute toxicity studies, different concentrations of the test compound were administered orally to healthy 7-week-old BALB/c male or female mice, three times daily for 7 days, while for subacute toxicity study the animals were feed with the daily doses of the compound for 28 days. The control group (n=10) received normal saline, whereas the experimental groups (six groups, n=6) were administered with different doses of (25-150 mg/kg body weight) of the test compound and observed continuously for 72 h and then daily upto 30 days to record any change in weight, behaviour, sign of clinical toxicity or morbidity, and the LD 50 of test compound was calculated by the method of Reed and Muench [34]. During the acute toxicity study, when required cervical dislocation was used to euthanize animals and the criteria for euthanasia were (i) severe illness or the animals in a moribund state (ii) severe pain and respiratory distress (iii) abnormal vocalisation, aggressiveness, posture and movements (iv) self-induced trauma (v) rapid weight loss, severe dehydration and significant bleeding. The mortality was calculated on the 30th day, using weights and mortality data. Moreover, fresh blood was collected for the estimation of hematological and serum biochemical parameters by cardiac puncture, and then sacrificed to collect liver spleen and kidney for histopathological examination.
On Ceres, the occurrence of ammonium salts, as well as the unexpectedly high proportion of carbonates in Occator bright materials, points to a formation mechanism that is distinct from that which produces meteoritic carbonates. On Earth natrite is a magmatic mineral in certain carbonatites, but this origin is improbable on Ceres. Alternatively, natrite is found in terrestrial alkaline hydrothermal and evaporitic environments, and it has also been detected in Enceladus’ plumes5, along with NaHCO 3 and NaCl. For the case of CI-chondritic type bodies, models for ammonia-free water-chondrite interaction19,20 suggest that Na-carbonate may be formed, but that the abundance of the latter is dominated by that of NaCl. In this respect, we note that NaCl is featureless in the spectral range observed by VIR, but that if present in the bright deposits of Occator, its abundance is small compared to that of carbonate. For this reason, we consider the role of ammonium that is known to compensate the acidifying action of dissolved CO 2 , keeping pH high enough for the stability of carbonate or bi-carbonate ions in the fluids. Indeed, if sodium carbonate dominates sodium chloride in the deposits on Ceres, as suggested here, a chemical pathway similar to that used to produce industrial Na 2 CO 3 on Earth (the Solvay process) may be at work, where dissolved NaCl, CO 2 , and ammonia are used to precipitate sodium bicarbonate, producing ammonium chloride and/or bicarbonate as possible reaction products. Support for this sort of chemical scenario on Ceres is provided by the ubiquitous presence of ammonium-bearing minerals on Ceres6, the presence of minor ammonium salts in Occator, and the fact that abundant carbon is expected on bodies that resemble carbonaceous chondrites in bulk composition.
It's not like he's doing a strength test hanging off a pole over a pool of piranhas and hand strength can vary from individual to individual. However he certainly needs to have the strength to push into the steering wheel to hold himself in place in high-speed corners. That was a technique I used. I'd lean my elbow on the side of the cockpit and use that as a sort of leverage anchor point. You would force your thumb and hand up into the steering wheel to lock it into position, because making small adjustments to the steering at 160mph through a corner like Spa's Pouhon is extremely difficult to do. That's because there is so much movement within the tyre and the car itself, you just want to get it on to the right trajectory. If you need to make a small adjustment it would be with the throttle so, in the high-speed corners, it's about committing and holding on. The big steering inputs come in the medium and slow-speed corners, where it's about being able to feel what the car is doing and being able to make those fine adjustments. Kubica suffered severe hand injuries as well as arm and leg fractures You hold the car in the palm of your hand, the fingers are there to maintain the hand in place and it's the sense of load on your hand that's important. You need to be able to feel the weight of the steering, because that becomes a guide as to how much grip there is. When you're controlling the car on the limit, there will be a feeling in your hands and arms; you expect it to feel a certain weight. If you hit a patch of oil, say, that steering weight reduces significantly and even before the car has started to understeer or oversteer you have started to make a correction. A racing driver also needs his finger tips for adjusting the knobs and dials on the steering wheel and pulling the gear-change paddle - although there is nothing in the regulations that says it has to be knobs and dials and a paddle, it could be any kind of mechanism that the driver uses to initiate a gear change.
I do not believe that we are so lacking in stability that we will lose faith in our own way of living just because we seek to find out how to make that way of living work more effectively. This program should appeal to the honest common sense of every independent businessman interested primarily in running his own business at a profit rather than in controlling the business of other men. It is not intended as the beginning of any ill-considered “trust-busting” activity which lacks proper consideration for economic results. It is a program to preserve private enterprise for profit by keeping it free enough to be able to utilize all our resources of capital and labor at a profit. It is a program whose basic purpose is to stop the progress of collectivism in business and turn business back to the democratic competitive order. It is a program whose basic thesis is not that the system of free private enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried. Once it is realized that business monopoly in America paralyzes the system of free enterprise on which it is grafted, and is as fatal to those who manipulate it as to the people who suffer beneath its impositions, action by the government to eliminate these artificial restraints will be welcomed by industry throughout the nation. For idle factories and idle workers profit no man. 02/24/06 Translate this page (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Information Clearing House has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is Information Clearing House endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
I would draw the reader’s attention to the host’s quote in Latin, a reference to Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War, which opens with the cited phrase, translated as “Gaul is a whole divided into three parts.” The choice of this particular phrase is of particular interest: in prior essays we have discussed the alchemical trinity and the quaternity into which it resolves, as represented by the classic Axiom of Maria (‘One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth’); we have also described the hidden quaternity available in plain view of the Christian cross; we have also discussed, in brief, Jung’s thoughts on the ‘whole’ as being a symbol unto itself, as the stone, as the microcosm, etc. We have also discussed previously the appearance of the Spirit Mercurius in works of art— Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World, Goethe’s Faust— as being largely that of a kind of psychopomp, that which both guides the process of transformation and its prima and ultima materia. While it is possible that Shirley Jackson was not necessarily conscious of the magical workings of the written Word, such a thing is unlikely; Jackson, in an early dust cover, referred to herself as a ‘practicing amateur witch’. Her interest inspired by The Golden Bough lead to tarot card readings and facetious claims that she caused publisher Alfred Knopf to break his leg in a skiing accident, but the reportedly tight-lipped author was doubtless (looking at only The Lottery collection and her final book, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, as well as The Bird’s Nest and the apocalyptic flood imagery of The Sundial), more deeply involved with working with her unconscious than all that; indeed, she put great stock into the act of writing, believing it to be a kind of power by which one could write away one’s ills. How well she understood that power, however, is another question entirely.
Game 6 had Mvp play for the mid game as he pulled out the bio tank strat, but instead of playing defensively as he did against Naniwa, he went on the offensive and very nearly crushed his opponent, but Squirtle at the very edge of his rope held on.And this is the glory of Mvp’s game 7. He had slowed down the pace of the game again in game 4. In game 5 he threw a massive surprise that ramped up the pressure, and anyone other than Squirtle would have cracked. In game 6 he changed the pace again and tried to end it in a fast paced mid-game that didn't work. He had done the best possible of creating an atmosphere where Squirtle was likely to forget the very existence of the 11/11. And he had done it while still maximizing his chance for victories from games 4-6. Yet as expected, it wasn't enough. What makes Mvp’s 11/11 on game 7 so amazing is four things. First, he had gone 6 games without using a single 11/11. Second, Atlantis Spaceship was the worst map in the pool for 11/11 as it had the largest rush distance. Third, it was at game point, with all the glory on the line. Fourth, it was right after a very intense game that could have left Squirtle jittery. And even with all of the psychological warfare, all of that preparation, Squirtle was still aware enough and smart enough to scout and see that Mvp's base had no raxes. And he pushed back the initial push. If this was anyone else the game would have been over, but it was Mvp. The choice Squirtle had always made with his early stalker was to move out. It is a smart move; Squirtle's micro is better than his opponent's so he did not have to fear their marines. Doubly so after a failed 11/11 attempt. But Mvp knew this and had abused it earlier in map 3 by circumventing it. This time Mvp ambushed Squirtle. Mvp used the map architecture to his advantage (putting units behind vision barriers), created a small flank and pulled his SCVs to take the game from Squirtle’s hands and make it his own.The last thing to talk about when considering Mvp style is what I like to call the Mvp paradox. It isn't something that has only ever happened in SC2.
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(NaturalNews) Environmental activists, like all activists, can sometimes be overly disruptive and a little bit kooky in what they choose to protest, but one thing that they generally are not are. But apparently some police departments and federal law enforcement officials would beg to differ.Indeed, according tomagazine, many activists have been subject to arrest in the past - but never for being enemies of the state. Until now:[December 13]What?According to the magazine, Stefan Warner and Moriah Stephenson, both members of an environmental organization called Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, were part of a larger group of about 12 activists demonstrating at Devon Tower, HQ of Devon Energy, one of the largest U.S.-based independent natural gas and oil producers.The protestors were opposing the company's use of fracking and its role in the mining of Canada's tar sands, as well as the firm's ties to TransCanada, the energy company planning the Keystone XL pipeline. As reported by, "As other activists blocked the building's revolving door, Warner and Stephenson hung two banners - one a cranberry-colored sheet emblazoned with'mockingjay' symbol and the words 'The odds arein our favor' in gold letters - from the second floor of the Devon Tower's atrium. "Soon after, responding police arrested Warner and Stephenson, as well as two other protestors. The latter two activists were charged with trespassing, but Warner and Stephenson were nailed with additional charges - staging a phony bioterrorist attack, a charge that, if convicted, carries a prison term of 10 years in Oklahoma.According to OKC Police spokesman Capt. Dexter Nelson, Devon Tower security officials were concerned that an "unknown substance" falling from the two banners could be toxic due to "the covert way [the protestors] presented themselves...""A lot were dressed as somewhat transient-looking individuals," Nelson continued. "Some were wearing all black. Inside the banners was a lot of black powder substance, later determined to be glitter. "In their report, Nelson said cops who responded described the incident as a "biochemical assault. ""Even the FBI responded," Nelson toldAn attorney for the activists, Doug Parr, told the magazine that he has never seen "terrorism hoax" charges, defined by Oklahoma as "the willful conduct to simulate an act of terrorism," filed against activists. "I've represented any number of political activists in Oklahoma for 35 years," he said. "This is the first time I am aware of that anyone has been arrested on terrorism-related charges for protest activity.
On the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today put in the public domain, for the first time, 100 secret files on the freedom fighter whose disappearance 70 years ago remains a mystery.Flanked by Union ministers Mahesh Sharma and Babul Supriyo, PM Modi pressed a button, making public digital copies of the files that were on display at Delhi's National Archives of India (NAI) where twelve members of the Bose family were present. "We welcome this step by Prime Minister wholeheartedly. This is a day of transparency in India," Chandra Kumar Bose, a grand nephew of Netaji said.PM Modi had, in his meeting with members of the Bose family in October last year, announced that the government would declassify the files relating to the leader.Two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945. A third commission of inquiry and many people, including some of his relatives, have fiercely contested that theory. "I don't believe the air crash theory . We may not get all the answers today but I do hope that some indications will be given," Chandra Bose had told NDTV earlier today.There are several other theories about Netaji's disappearance. Two of the recurrent ones - the leader fled to the Soviet Union to continue to fight for India's independence but was killed. The other says that Netaji returned to India as an ascetic, 'Gumnami Baba', and continued to live in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad till 1985. "So here's a man. He is a holy man. He is able to write in the handwriting of Subhas Bose in English and Bengali for 30 years. So these are factors which are on record which makes me feel there is something in the Faizabad angle which cannot be ignored," said author and researcher Anuj Dhar.The National Archives of India plans to release digital copies of 25 declassified files on Netaji in the public domain every month. The first lot of 33 files were declassified by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and handed over to the the National Archives in December last year.
They argue that Obama’s policies have hindered the economic recovery.House Republican Leader(R-Ohio) blasted Democrats Friday evening for pushing a job-killing agenda after the House narrowly passed a bill to toughen offshore oil drilling rules and lift liability caps on the oil industry for spills.“This legislation will have devastating consequences for the American people because it establishes a new tax on American energy, imposes a job-killing de facto moratorium on offshore drilling, and includes $30 billion in unrelated spending that will be piled onto the backs of our kids and grandkids,”said.During a Thursday speech, Senate Republican(Ky.) accused Obama and the Democrats of compiling “a record of job-killing taxes, burdensome new regulations, massive government intrusions, and record deficits and debt.”Obama returned fire at McConnell, blasting Senate Republicans for blocking legislation that would help thousands of small businesses around the country.Obama said he could not imagine anything more “common-sense” than giving tax breaks and lending assistance to small business.He noted that Republican-allied business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business have praised the small business bill pending in the Senate.He also noted the bill includes many provisions supported by Democrats and Republicans, such as a $30 billion small business lending fund co-sponsored by Sens.(D-La.) and George LeMieux (R-Fla.).“The Republican leaders in the Senate once again used parliamentary procedures to block it,” Obama said. “Understand, a majority of Senators support the plan. It’s just that the Republican leaders in the Senate won’t even allow it to come up for a vote.”“That isn’t right,” he said. “And I’m calling on the Republican leaders in the Senate to stop holding America’s small businesses hostage to politics, and allow an up-or-down vote on this small business jobs bill.”Democratic political strategists hope to portray Republicans as opposed to helping small business, flipping the GOP’s long cherished self-identification as strong supporters of small business owners.Senior White House political advisor David Axelrod told Democratic senators in a private meeting Thursday that it would help them politically to cast Senate Republicans as anti-small business.“It was a good thing if we could be perceived the champions of small business and if the Republicans were holding that up it would inure to our benefit,” said a senator who described the meeting with Axelrod.
On the night of April 16, 1988, Israeli commandos landed silently on a beach in Tunis. Agents of the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, were waiting for them. The Israelis drove to an apartment building that was the home of Khalil al-Wazir, the second-ranking official, after Yasir Arafat, in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israel believed that al-Wazir, who was better known as Abu Jihad—the Father of Holy War—was coördinating, from Tunis, the first Palestinian intifada, which had begun four months earlier. The commandos found Abu Jihad in his apartment and shot him to death. As they turned to leave, Abu Jihad’s daughter surprised them. One of the commandos told her, in Arabic, to go to her mother. Then they left, and were at sea in a matter of minutes. In Israeli security circles, it is believed that the man who led the assassination team up the stairs into Abu Jihad’s apartment was Moshe Ya’alon, who is now a lieutenant general and the chief of staff of the Israeli Army. He is also the overseer of the assassins who killed Yassin and Rantisi. Ya’alon, who was born in 1950, has a mild, bookish, and unimposing manner, possessing little of the brashness one associates with Israeli generals such as Moshe Dayan or even Ehud Barak. In the course of several interviews, in his office at Army headquarters in Tel Aviv, and on West Bank Army bases, Ya’alon, who is known by his nickname, Boogie, talked about his war on terror. I asked him if he thought it had been a mistake to assassinate Abu Jihad, who, unlike Arafat, had a reputation for realism. “I don’t know,” he answered. He paused, and added, “It was a mistake not to kill Arafat.” He believes this fervently; he is convinced that Arafat, like the leaders of Hamas, is unwilling to grant any legitimacy to the idea of Israel. The heart of the conflict, Ya’alon said, is this: it is not Jewish settlements that Palestinian leaders find objectionable but Jews. He doesn’t regret the assassinations of the Hamas leadership. These were all men with Jewish blood on their hands, he said. Before Ya’alon Hebraized his name, he was Moshe Smolansky. His parents raised him in a town in northern Israel that was a bastion of the Labor Party.
Season Twelve 40 October 29, 2013 N/A N/A Back to Degrassi, New Kids on the Block, Shooting the Opening Sequence, 300th Episode Celebration, A Day with the Ice Hounds, Goodbye Uniforms, Inside Fiona's Birthday Brawl, Say Cheese: Photoshoot with Demetrius, Vanessa and Justice, The Making of Romeo & Jules, Bloopers, The Inside Look and The Table Read - Bitter Sweet Symphony, Graduation Day, Prom Night, The One and Only - Dylan Everett, Eli's Short Film - LIFE, Eli's Short Film - NYU Portfolio, Video Yearbook, and Episode Commentary. Season Thirteen 40 N/A N/A N/A N/A To Be Announced Season Fourteen 28 N/A N/A N/A N/A To Be Announced
The licentious conduct of the British troops greatly offended the puritanical values of the Afghan men who had always disapproved of premarital sex and were especially enraged to see British infidels take their womenfolk to their beds. [36] In his official history, Sir John William Kaye wrote he sadly had to declare "there are truths which must be spoken", namely there were "temptations which are most difficult to withstand and were not withstood by our English officers" as Afghan women were most attractive and those living in the zenanas (Islamic women's quarters) "were not unwilling to visit the quarters of the Christian stranger". [36] Kaye wrote the scandal was "open, undisguised, notorious" with British officers and soldiers openly having sexual relationships with Afghan women and in a nation like Afghanistan where women were and still are routinely killed in "honour killings" for the mere suspicion of engaging in premarital sex which is seen as a slur against the manhood of their male family members, most Afghan men were highly furious at what they saw as a national humiliation that had questioned their manhoods. [37] A popular ditty among the British troops was: "A Kabul wife under burkha cover, Was never known without a lover". [38] Some of these relationships ended in marriage as Dost Mohammad's niece Jahan Begum married Captain Robert Warburton and a Lieutenant Lynch married the sister of a Ghilzai chief; the fact that both women were very beautiful added to the humiliation of the Afghan men who did not like to see their women fall in love with infidels. [38] One Afghan nobleman Mirza 'Ata wrote: "The English drank the wine of shameless immodesty, forgetting that any act has its consequences and rewards-so that after a while, the spring garden of the King's regime was blighted by the autumn of these ugly events...The nobles complained to each other, "Day by day, we are exposed, because of the English, to deceit and lies and shame. Soon the women of Kabul will give birth to half-caste monkeys-it's a disgrace!"". [39] Afghanistan was such a desperately poor country that even the salary of a British private was considered to be a small fortune, and many Afghan women willingly become prostitutes as an easy way to get rich, much to the intense fury of their menfolk.
So my mom must have seen that trait and nurtured it with my Sunshine Family.I loved the house, the baby, and especially the gardening tools that I could pretend to make the mom use. She was so sweet, just like my mom was to me.Melissa1965This memory was added on: January 21, 2007It is so much fun to read these posts...what I see most is the memories we all seem to have of using our imaginations to turn a STYROFOAM Big Mac box (okay, I know, I am dating myself here!) into a lovely arm chair and ottoman for Steve and Stefie! I think we were just about the last generation that enjoyed the true innocence of childhood. Yes, they were shorter than "Barbie", and yes, Steve's leg seemed to fall off very easily, and YES, once the head came off Stefie never looked the same, but that we didn't notice until we were reminded 20 years later!Erica1970This memory was added on: January 7, 2007Oh the Sunshine Family, my favorite.. I loved the baby most (I couldn't remember her name until I read these posts and then it all came back to me). I think I received the family and house/camper for Christmas 1975. Maybe I remember these so well, because I found them hidden before Christmas and played with them, but when I put them back I left everybody in the camper! oops.. Needless to say I got caught. I love thinking back to those days, I just don't think kids really enjoy their toys like we did back then. I no longer have these toys, but I always think about them.Nikki1970This memory was added on: January 4, 2007I just about remember these dolls but was told that I used to guard them with my life from my sister. I wish I still had them. I do have a brown dog and a cat that my mom says was a part of this family. I'm not sure though. Maybe someone out there knows?? ?Carol1972This memory was added on: January 4, 2007Oh my gosh, memories! I am 38 years old and turning to sites like this is such a wonderful gift to me as I lost alot from my childhood and have nothing to remember it by, so finding photos of toys I had, and hearing others talk about how they enjoyed these things makes me smile. I do recall this family, I always thought the father was.....creepy?
People call him Joey Amazing for a reason. A lot of reasons, really, and not just the movie star looks or his insane challenge performance skills. He’s also an affable guy, always wearing a friendly face, even when he has a little bit of a nasty streak in his heart. In fact, that nastiness might come out here in Cambodia more than ever before. Joe tells me that he’s considering taking a cue from the Dirty 30 nickname, rolling up his sleeves and presenting himself in a little bit of a darker light than we saw in Worlds Apart. “Do I change my strategy? Should I be the same kind of person?” he tells me about the kinds of questions he’s asked himself ahead of the new game. “Do I be mean? Should I be a little rough around the edges?” Joe paints a clearer picture of what “mean” means: “I feel like I was myself last time, and that’s really all you can be. You are who you are out there. You’re stripped of everything and your true colors come out. But I was still too nice, and I didn’t have to be too nice. It definitely hurt me.” As a for instance of what Joey Antagonistic might look like, he points to the early portion of his first season, and the early conflicts that arose between himself and Vince Sly, the truth-seeking people-hugger who wanted a louder voice in their No Collar tribe’s decision making process. “It was a battle between me and Vince in the beginning,” he recalls, “not for leadership in the tribe — but I did feel like every tribe needs a leader, whether you want to be or not, and I had the most survival skills. I felt I had that. I’ve played team sports all my life.” That was an instance of Joe sticking to his guns and making sure his voice was the one that was heard, not one that broke or bended for anyone else. And that’s the approach that Joe is considering taking right now. “This time, I’ll still be nice and still be myself,” he says, “but there will be a different level of having my walls up and not letting people in.” Except one person has already scaled the walls and infiltrated this plan: Shirin Oskooi, the only other person from Joe’s home season on the Second Chance cast.
Shiro Games: Something that will be coming in the future. More info at a later date.Shiro Games: This is a bug and we are working on fixing it.Shiro Games: During the development process Ragnarok always seemed like the theme we could really bring to life. It is also one of the better known events in Norse mythology.Shiro Games: We don’t want every clan to be focused around military. We like to have some clans that are better at other things. We have updates coming that will improve how these clans play.Shiro Games: We are always monitoring clan balance and will continue to adjust things as we feel necessary.Shiro Games: Yes for sure! More information coming soon!Shiro Games: There will! More news on this at a later date!Shiro Games: We think this would be a great feature and has the potential to add another dimension to the gameplay, Trying to work out the best way of implementing a feature like this.Shiro Games: We’re on it.Shiro Games: Upgrade your towers on the coast and have a few warriors to help out.Shiro Games: We don’t plan on it. We want to keep some of the enemies specific to the campaign to make them feel epic and special.Shiro Games: It’s not something that we are currently working on.Shiro Games: Similar to the defensive buildings question. We like the idea but we need to make sure the implementation would bring something to the game.Shiro Games: This is something we are looking into.Shiro Games: This depends on the bonus. Military bonuses are additive and generally the gathering bonuses are multiplicative.Shiro Games: Numbers will be either rounded up or down depending on the decimal. The rounding only affects the displayed number. The number after the decimal is the true value.Shiro Games: Yes we will be adding more abilities in the future.Shiro Games: Is not on the cards right now.Shiro Games: We don’t want the game to become all about APM but we are planning improvements to the hotkey system and the unit selection.Shiro Games: We are!
The uphill battle Senate Republicans face is that even assuming they pick up Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia, and just for a moment assuming that they hold onto both McConnell and Chambliss’s open seats (neither are safe assumptions), the GOP would still have to defeat two out of the four incumbent Democrats (Begich, Hagan, Landrieu, and Pryor) and win the open Michigan seat. If they fail the latter, the GOP will have to beat three out of the four Democratic incumbents. This challenge to overcome inertia comes into play for the GOP in two ways. First, over the past five elections (2004-12), Democrats have unseated 11 Republican Senate incumbents, while Republicans have only defeated three Democratic incumbents: Tom Daschle (South Dakota), Russ Feingold (Wisconsin), and Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas). Depending upon Michigan, the GOP must beat two or three incumbents at minimum, something that has been very difficult for the party as of late. Keep in mind that one of those five election years, 2010, was one of the best GOP years in modern history. The other way to look at it is that even if Republicans win Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia, they still need to win five out of the seven races that are notably expected to be the closest. Even in 2010 when Republicans picked up a net gain of six seats, most of those were foregone conclusions. The GOP lost five of the seven seats that The Cook Political Report had rated as Toss Ups going into Election Day that year. Last year, of the 10 races we had rated as Toss Up, Republicans lost eight of them. So Senate Republicans have had trouble defeating incumbent Democrats and, for that matter, winning the close races. In 2014, they have to do both.
After the presentation at the Metropolitan Museum, the exhibition will be shown at the Corning Museum of Glass (May 15October 19, 2015). Glassmaking originated around 2500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, and by the mid-first millennium B.C. it had spread throughout the ancient world. The number of vessels made from glass remained limited, however, until the introduction of two important technical advancesthe use of the blowpipe and closed multipart moldsin the late first century B.C. and the early first century A.D., respectively. These advances revolutionized the glass industry under the Roman Empire, making glass vessels accessible to all and allowing producers to create a wide range of shapes, sizes, and usages. Some of the earliest vessels made by mold blowing bear the names of the craftsmen who signed the molds.In the early first century A.D. the most outstanding examples of Roman mold-blown glass were made by a craftsman called Ennion, and products of his workshop are the focus of the exhibition Ennion: Master of Roman Glass, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art . This is the first exhibition of ancient glass organized by the Metropolitan, which has one of the finest collections of this material in the world.Glasswareprimarily jugs and cupssigned by Ennion was traded throughout the entire Mediterranean world and has been found during archaeological excavations at sites from Israel to Spain. Of the 37 complete or fragmentary vessels in the exhibition, 24 are by Ennion, including the Metropolitan Museums three signed pieces. Examples by other named glassworkers of the periodincluding one of only two intact works by Ennions closest rival, Aristeas, as well as examples of beakers signed by Jason, Neikais, and Megesalso are presented. A selection of unsigned blown glass that illustrates Ennions profound influence on the nascent Roman glass industry also is on view.The exhibition features works from museums and private collections in Europe, Israel, and the United States. Lenders to the exhibition are The Corning Museum of Glass; Israel Antiquities Authority and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; The British Museum; the Louvre; Museo di Antichità, Turin; Musei Civici del Castello Visconteo, Pavia; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria; Yale University Art Gallery; Newark Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; the Yunwai Lou Collection, New York; and the Strada Collection, Scaldasole, Italy.
In retrospect it seems clear that Penkovsky was just another key element in Khrushchev's own game of deception. The Soviet Premier wanted the Americans to know exactly what type of missiles were supposedly placed in Cuba, their presumed range, and the danger they apparently posed. Penkovsky gave them all the "information" they needed.112 But Khrushchev's carefully conceived plans had not counted on the unexpected and apparently irrational behavior of President Kennedy. All reports received in Washington about the strange developments in Cuba seemingly aroused less suspicions than Khrushchev thought they should provoke. Even the CIA, which is often denounced as unnecessarily alarmist, seemed, in this case, rather unimpressed. Finally, Soviet developments in Cuba were so blatant and political pressure in the U.S. so strong, that Kennedy was forced to act. But, when he announced the blockade of the island, he unexpectedly stated that the American actions were not directed against Cuba, but against the Soviet Union. Kennedy's behavior was so surprising that Khrushchev was caught completely off balance and panicked before the possibility of a nuclear confrontation which he had not anticipated and was not prepared for.113 Khrushchev's sixth sense, which had always told him just how far he could safely go, was now telling him that his Cuban gambit must end. When he realized that he had deceived himself about Kennedy's response, he retreated and called it a day. Fortunately for the world, Khrushchev was enough of a political realist to recognize when a gamble had been lost, and knew how to employ all of his demagogic arts in patching up the failure. Nikita Khrushchev never undestood why Kennedy had acted in such an irrational and foolish way, by not attacking Cuba and, thereby, allowing Castro to stay in power. But the hypothetical Soviet Angleton suspected that the American President was no fool, but rather a clever, tough politician who knew a lot more than he claimed to know. In addition, Kennedy's actions during the Cuban missile crisis deepened our Soviet Angleton's worst fears about Castro even more. The Cuban missile crisis was a further irritant to Khrushchev's already risky political situation. Though the state of the Soviet economy was the main factor in his demotion in October, 1964, undoubtedly his Cuban misadventure contributed to his fall. A few days after Khruschev's departure from the scene, our hypothetical Russian Angleton followed in his steps.
A few weeks ago, we wrote about influential appeals court Judge Richard Posner, who was slumming it down in a district court for fun (appeals court judges do that sometimes) and gave a brief statement about his plans to dismiss a major patent lawsuit between Apple and Motorola Mobility (now owned by Google). The patent dispute was over smartphones, so given the Google/Apple battle, it was seen as a fight over whether or not Apple's iPhone-related patents might stop Android. After Posner initial announcement, Apple sought a further chance to convince Posner he was wrong, leading to a followup. However, late last week, Posner came out with his full ruling (embedded below) and it's pretty devastating.The ruling itself is a bit technical, but basically, the companies did a horrible job trying to show any "damages," so Posner noted that the evidence on damages was inadmissable, but without that, what kind of case is there? Apple then tried to claim that they should be able to get "nominal damages," which is basically a tiny (meaningless) sum of money because there was no clear actual damages (or any statutory damages), but a "wrong" was still committed. In other words, Apple really really badly just wanted the court to say that Motorola infringed, even if it meant getting a dollar for it. Posner, while noting that there can be nominal damagesby a judge, it makes absolutely no sense to-- and thus chastised Apple:Motorola, for its part, doesn't get off easy either. Its own damages expert (on its counterclaim) made some outrageous claims that Posner calls out as well, including a ridiculous claim that a single patent taking out of a much larger portfolio could get a license of "up to" 40 or 50% of the entire portfolio. Posner mocks the use of "up to" noting that it "covers a lot of ground." Then, Motorola's "expert" tries to change his story, claiming40 to 50%. Posner notes that this is just as vague, but now vague on the upside, rather than down, and then chides the expert for giving no actual basis for this estimate, before bringing it back around to the obvious real reason for the crazy damages estimate:Finally, with both sets of damages requests dismissed, there's the question of injunctive relief (blocking each other from making the product). There again, Posner finds the whole thing to be a waste of time.
Japan Wars on U.S. and Britain; Makes Sudden Attack On Hawaii; Heavy Fighting At Sea Reported Guam Bombed; Army Ship Is Sunk By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES RELATED HEADLINES Congress Decided: Roosevelt Will Address if Today and Find it Ready to Vote War: Conference Is Held: Legislative Leaders and Cabinet in Sober White House Talk Tokyo Acts First: Declaration Follows Air and Sea Attacks on U.S. and Britain: Togo Calls Envoys: After Fighting Is On, Grew Gets Japan's Reply to Hull Note of Nov. 26 Japanese Force Lands in Malaya: First Attempt Is Repulsed -- Singapore Is Bombed and Thailand Invaded Tokyo Bombers Strike Hard at Our Main Bases on Oahu Hull Denounces Tokyo 'Infamy': Brands Japan 'Fraudulent' in Preparing Attack While Carrying On Parleys Entire City Put on War Footing: Japanese Rounded Up by FBI, Sent to Ellis Island -- Vital Services Are Guarded Lewis Wins Captive Mine Fight; Arbitrators Grant Union Shop Washington, Monday, Dec. 8.--Sudden and unexpected attacks on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, and other United States possessions in the Pacific early yesterday by the Japanese air force and navy plunged the United States and Japan into active war. The initial attack in Hawaii, apparently launched by torpedo-carrying bombers and submarines, caused widespread damage and death. It was quickly followed by others. There were unconfirmed reports that German raiders participated in the attacks. Guam also was assaulted from the air, as were Davao, on the island of Mindanao, and Camp John Hay, in Northern Luzon, both in the Philippines. Lieut. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commanding the United States Army of the Far East, reported there was little damage, however. [Japanese parachute troops had been landed in the Philippines and native Japanese had seized some communities, Royal Arch Gunnison said in a broadcast from Manila today to WOR- Mutual. He reported without detail that "in the naval war the ABCD fleets under American command appeared to be successful" against Japanese invasions.] Japanese submarines, ranging out over the Pacific, sank an American transport carrying lumber 1,300 miles from San Francisco, and distress signals were heard from a freighter 700 miles from that city. The War Department reported that 104 soldiers died and 300 were wounded as a result of the attack on Hickam Field, Hawaii. The National Broadcasting Company reported from Honolulu that the battleship Oklahoma was afire. [Domei, Japanese news agency, reported the Oklahoma sunk.]
Relevent Sports, a division of RSE Ventures announced that top international clubs Real Madrid CF and Inter Milan will face off at Kabam Field at California Memorial Stadium on the University of California, Berkeley campus on Saturday, July 26, as part of the Guinness International Champions Cup. Kickoff for the contest, which will be broadcast internationally in more than 150 countries and domestically on Fox Sports 2, is set for 3 p.m. PDT. “It’s a unique opportunity to bring two of the world’s biggest soccer clubs to the world’s leading public university,” said Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance John Wilton. “It's part of our strategy to diversify revenues, and financially support our athletics programs and our core mission of excellence and access in academics and research. As part of the agreement, 25 percent of the soccer match guarantee will be dedicated to academic scholarship support. The match will also give us a chance to share a beautiful part of our campus with soccer fans across Northern California and will have a positive economic impact on the city of Berkeley.” Exclusive presale tickets for the Real Madrid v. Inter Milan match will be available Monday, May 12, at 9 a.m. PDT for pre-qualified fans, while the general public will have access to tickets beginning Friday, May 16, at 9 a.m. PDT through the Cal Athletic Ticket Office by clicking here. Tickets for this game will start as low as $45. Additionally, fans will have the opportunity to purchase an Ultimate Fan Pack, which includes one supporter’s section ticket, team gear and priority access to select team training. Also available are VIP Team Travel Packs that allow fans to experience the games alongside their favorite teams, including Real Madrid and Inter Milan, providing VIP tickets, charter travel and world-class accommodations to all of their teams’ Guinness International Champions Cup games. All tickets and packages are available at www.internationalchampionscup.com.
Add former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association to the list of fighters in Conor McGregor's crosshairsSt-Pierre, along former UFC champions Cain Velasquez and TJ Dillashaw as well as fighters Tim Kennedy, Donald Cerrone and former Bellator MMA promoter Bjorn Rebney, announced their roles in the MMAAA in a press conference last NovemberThe main goal of the association is the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement that includes a 50 percent share of UFC revenue and a settlement payout for current and past fighters.In the past, St-Pierre revealed it would take a fighter of McGregor's status to really get the movement off the ground, claiming the Irishman could make even more money with the MMAAA.But speaking in front of a crowd of 5,000 fans, McGregor revealed the much talked about press conference, along with St-Pierre's comments, surrounding the MMAAA puzzled him more than anything else. "I'm watching this union thing, it like a press conference, and I'm like, what the f-ck is going on here?" McGregor said during an hour-long interview in Manchester. "They're standing up, they're all wearing the same t-shirt. They're saying, 'Conor, please. Conor, please, you know what's right. Help us out, Conor.' And Georges is saying, 'Conor's a good person. I know he gets paid well, but he doesn't get paid enough.' And I'm like, what the f*ck are you talking about? "In terms of competition, St-Pierre (25-2) has not competed since defending his 170-pound title against Johny Hendricks at UFC 167 in November 2013. Immediately after his win, he announced he would be taking an indefinite hiatus from competition.But after three years away from the sport, the French Canadian revealed he was looking to return to the Octagon. Specifically targeting the upcoming UFC 206 in Toronto, the St-Pierre made it known his team was working with the UFC on a new deal. But these talks fell apart when the UFC was sold to WME-IMG in July, according to St-Pierre.McGregor was quick to call out St-Pierre on his past negotiations with the UFC along for his role in the association. "The only reason you're standing in the middle of that union is because you (St-Pierre) couldn't get the deal you want," said McGregor. "You're the fakest of everyone up there. "St-Pierre has yet to respond to McGregor's comments.
(Women I know say that this began to happen to them when they passed fifty.) When I mention the phenomenon to anyone around my age, I get back nods and smiles. Yes, we’re invisible. Honored, respected, even loved, but not quite worth listening to anymore. You’ve had your turn, Pops; now it’s ours.
If this had happened 45 years earlier, Boyd would not have bothered to stop and count. He would’ve been too busy dodging bullets. Tellers in those days kept pistols in their money drawers. After getting out of prison in 1966, Boyd headed west with his new identity and $1,700 he had earned in prison pay. He took a job transporting people in wheelchairs on their daily routines. That’s how he met Marjorie, whom he later married. He invited me to his home, where I shared a can of Lipton’s tomato soup with the aged pistolero. What I saw in that house choked me up. Canada’s most notorious bank robber had spent the past 35 years of his life looking after two paraplegic women — his second wife, Marjorie, and their friend and housemate, Pearl. The only one of the three who could walk, Boyd did all the housework, cooking and cleaning and driving them to shopping and medical appointments in a van modified to handle the wheelchairs. He had rigged the small bungalow they shared with fishing line running from their bedrooms to different sounding bells in the kitchen. A ring of a bell would send him hurrying to their bedsides, ready to pour a cup of tea, fluff a pillow, or settle a blanket. Boyd, a war veteran and son of a Toronto policeman, says he embarked on his bank-robbing career reading a newspaper story about how a teenager had made off with $64,000 in a bank robbery. “After that, I said, ‘What am I doing working?’” Despite the lengthy criminal record, contrition was not a word in Boyd’s vocabulary. He relished the fame his bank-robbing days brought him. Regrets, he said, he had just one. “I should’ve stayed on my own,” he said, lamenting that he had picked “a bunch of idiots” as partners. “I was doing quite well on my own. The first time I took a partner I got caught.” Edwin Alonzo Boyd died on May 17, 2002, after being hospitalized with pneumonia. He was 88. The cache of guns in Lake Wilcox turned out not to belong to his gang after all. How the Star found a disgraced CSIS mole in the neo-Nazi movement Reporter Dale Brazao remembers how a fence, a post and a smokestack led him to alleged agent provocateur Grant Bristow in 1995. Find the fence. Follow the fence. Find the spy.
Funding for “awareness raising, education, online media and information literacy… [to empower] citizens to critically analyze media content in order to identify propaganda… [and to help develop] their awareness as media consumers;” Creation of a black list of “propaganda” news outlets via the compilation of a “shared set of definitions” outlining what is and is not propaganda; Creation of an “international [regulatory] framework” for the media; Exposure of funding sources of news media outlets blacklisted by the EU; Reinforcement of an artificial “European identity” - and associated “European values” - by increasing funding of its own propaganda news media outlets such as Euronews; Advocacy on behalf of the EU’s supposed indispensability via “positive messaging” of the superstate’s “successes”; Advocacy on behalf of the EU’s continuity via “positive messaging” of the EU as a “successful model of integration which continues;” Restrictions on free speech and expression to prohibit by force of law what it describes as “hate speech” and “incitement to hatred;” Preserving “independence of the media” by increasing its own funding of propagandistic news media operations under its control such as Euronews; Counterterrorism operations to combat Islamic terrorism in the form of wealth redistribution, nebulously described as a “comprehensive regional strategy that combines diplomatic, socio-economic, development and conflict-prevention tools;” Define legitimate Islam by countering Islamist messaging from “preachers” - said to be “theologically corrupt” - via “ideological delegitimization;” Promotion of “objective information” and “ethical journalism” per its own definitions; Establishment of “best practices” for journalism and funding of “educational” and “training” programs via multilingual “think tanks” and “NGOs” towards the end of spreading such standards; Define the “difference between propaganda and [legitimate] criticism [of the EU];” Further restrict free speech and expression by amplifying its fight against the “advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred;” Increase resentment towards Russia in Eastern European states “through public campaigns and educational systems” targeting the region’s states regarding its former subjugation under the Soviet Union;
I have seen what I would term strange doctrines pop up in the Denver movement. For starters, people believing that their inspiration trumps scriptures. And using misunderstood scriptures to prove that. To show one example of a scripture being construed to prove this. Is Nephi and Laban. There are multiple things to remember with this event. First, Nephi was told to slay Laban. In Hebrew, the commandment is thou shalt not murder, as opposed to the English version of thou shalt not kill. The little change makes a world of difference. Second, Laban had falsely accused him of being a robber and a thief and had pronounced the judgment of death. Then, in an ironic twist, he himself became a robber and thief. As such “judge not lest ye be judged” was enacted upon his own head. Not to mention the punishment in the scriptures for the acts that Laban did against Nephi and his brothers. God didn’t command Nephi to break the commandments, he commanded Nephi to exact righteous punishment on the head of Laban. under the Law of Moses, the penalty for falsely accusing your neighbor, combined with theft and attempted murder, was death. Now I don’t believe all the strange doctrines are coming from Denver but I do believe some of them are. But because of these strange doctrines one has to be careful and test everything that is being taught to the scriptures, like the Corinthians did with Paul. One example at least once there was a guy going among privately with people talking about we should be meditating about Jesus putting fairy dust on us to make us feel better. I personally heard that with my own ears from a guy after having sacrament at a friends house. In addition I also believe there are people in the movement who are only there to deceived others. I and some of my friends have seen other strange activities happening in the Denver movement, one of my friends will refer to the Denver movement by Mormon Woodstock, being funny and serious at the same time. On one doctrine I’ve had DSites that the words in the BoM don’t mean what the 1828 dictionary http://webstersdictionary1828.com/ states that they mean to get it to fit what they wanted.
They have been indicted on a number of charges, including distributing an illegal organization’s materials, support for a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a crime and illegally exiting the country.Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon declared Islamic State an illegal organization last September.According to the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the six suspects, all from the Negev, held secret meetings in which they discussed Islamic State ideology and watched propaganda videos and speeches by the group’s leaders.In addition, some of the six planned to join the fighting in Syria on behalf of the terrorist organization, the Shin Bet said.According to an indictment presented against one of the defendants, from the end of 2013 until June 2015 the cell met once or twice a week next to a mosque in Hura. Present at one of their meetings in April 2014 was Othman Abdelkayan, a doctor who was planning to do a residency program at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba before he left for Syria to join Islamic State and died soon after.The suspects include Bashir Jabrin Salim abu Alkiyan, 26, an elementary school teacher in Hura; Akram Alab Ahmed abu Alkiyan, 30, an elementary school teacher in Rahat; Muhammad Alab Ahmed abu Alkiyan, 27, a high-school teacher in Hura; Khader Hassan abu Alkiyan, 27, from Hura; Sharif Shahada Rezek abu Alkiyan, 23, from Atir; and Hamza Abed Ali Alkiyan, 27, a teacher from Hura.The Shin Bet said other people questioned included a school principal and teachers suspected of having known about the men’s activities and failing to report them to authorities.Bennett responds to arrest of 'ISIS teachers' in Negev‏Other members of the cell already have left Israel to fight in Syria, it said.“Over the last few months, Beduin teachers in Hura have been advancing the ideology of Islamic State among their pupils,” said Education Minister Naftali Bennett.“Teachers will not be terrorists in Israel. I asked them to be fired for educating for terror.
But questions remain over who exactly has the authority to approve such contracts, our correspondent says. Many companies fear politics could get in the way of business, especially with parliamentary elections looming in January. BP was thrown out of Iraq in 1972 when Saddam Hussein nationalized the oil industry. The British company will hold a 38% stake in the venture, compared to CNPC's 37% share, while Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization will control the remaining 25%, the Associated Press reported. The fields up for auction in June contained about 43bn barrels of Iraq's proven oil reserves of 115bn barrels.
The same case goes with this subject, considering that Celestia petrified a character only ONCE, and not only she did it with the E.O.H., but she did it with Luna's help, which could prove that it's probably very difficult(maybe impossible) for Celestia to do this on her own, and since she lost connection to the E.O.H., i guess it makes it pretty clear.Now the reason why she decided to put his statue in the garden is rather unknown. In my imagination, it would be so that it would make it easier for her(and probably Luna) to keep an eye on him. Since he's overpowered and if he happen to escape his "prison", he could use his powers to reach Canterlot almost instantly, so throwing him in a deep dark dungeon or anywhere alike would be a stupid idea.I also imagine that Celestia(or a royal employee, guard, etc.) put him in the garden because he's (possibly)a VERY old enemy of Celestia, who's believed to be defeated forever, so putting him in the garden to everyone else to see would cause no harm.After all, it's a statue. And there's no better place to put a statue than with other statues. Now there's something that should be said and known: that the "troll" term that is frequently and repeatedly used on Celestia is seriously misplaced, not only in the show, but several times on the web, also consider that it's an internet slang like said below:Additionally, trolling consists on unfriendly, aggressive and crude jokes/pranks that is usually meant to anger/frustrate/offend someone and/or hurt their feelings. Unlike trolling, Celestia's pranks are in fact friendly and are usually meant calm and/or lighten up the mood of everypony around by showing her friendly and playful nature. Saying that her pranks should be considered trolling is almost the same as saying that every person in the planet is a troll. If you still think that she's such, there are some arguments below that could clearly explain her true nature. Also note that most of the time, Celestia doesn't know what's happening with the mane six. I know Celestia is frequently described as a "god"-like character, but she's a physical being, her form has defined limits, which means she can't see everything at once and there's no proof in the show that she can be anywhere/everywhere instantaneously, and there's no proof that she can see everything/the future.
the desire to excel. When it comes to winning and when thinking about the future, we consider even the tiniest detail: every part of the vehicle, every single screw, and every second of every lap. A lightweight construction is clearly imperative. At 1,245 kg, the 911 RSR adheres precisely to the minimum weight specified by FIA World Endurance Championship regulations. From the very start, the vehicle was designed to be suitable for long-distance racing. A new body structure with a longer wheelbase and new intake air ducting provides a platform for pure power that is just waiting to be unleashed. That is supplied by a water-cooled, horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine with a four-litre capacity. In figures this translates as 346 kW (approx. 470 hp) – limited by a restrictor. Output is transferred to the rear axle by a new six-speed sequential Porsche GT racing gearbox. Paddles deliver faster, more comfortable gearshifts. To control the 911 RSR’s undeniable forward thrust, the brake system has six-piston monobloc fixed brake calipers at the front and four-piston units at the rear. Featuring a double-wishbone suspension at the front and multi-link rear axle, adjustable shock absorbers and anti-roll bars, the chassis superbly handles any manoeuvre – on straights as well as chicanes. The axle geometry further optimises aerodynamics for even greater efficiency. Less drag coupled with increased downforce reduces the tendency to understeer and allows higher speeds when cornering. From the development process onwards, another aspect has also received particular attention: safety. Our engineers’ uncompromising approach on this extreme interpretation of sportiness is evident from the weld-in roll cage, the overhauled FT3 safety tank and the optimised fire extinguishing system. Clear evidence of the importance that Porsche attaches to safety in motorsport, irrespective of the emphasis on lightweight construction. 2015 Porsche 911 RSR (991)
IFN-γ and TNF-α secretion after stimulation with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) antigen, a measure for adaptive immune response towards viral antigens, was altered (14, 64).
When assayed in vitro at nanomolar concentrations, PRO140 was able to block HIV strains belonging to different clades, both in primary macrophages and in PBMC [106]. PRO140 and another mAb, HGS004, have been tested in HIV-infected subjects [107,108]. PRO140 was able to inhibit HIV without blocking CCR5 response to chemokines, whereas HGS004 prevented both viral infection and chemokine signaling. Notably, antibodies and small molecule antagonists do not share the same mechanism and site of action; therefore, their activity may be synergic or contrasting, and no cross-resistance has been observed [2]. 6.3. Engineered chemokines Natural chemokines have been found to prevent HIV binding to its coreceptors, due to steric hindrance or competition for binding sites or to receptor internalization. Conditions which induce sustained production of beta chemokines (CCL3/MIP-1alpha, CCL4/MIP-1beta, CCL5/RANTES) have been associated with a lower risk of HIV transmission; similarly, natural mutations that enhance production of SDF-1, and therefore increase competition for the CXCR4 coreceptor, were shown to play a protective role in HIV infection [72,83]. Due to the short half-lives (<10 min) of natural chemokines, various N-terminally modified chemokines have been synthesized and tested for the ability to prolong or shorten CCR5 internalization [2]. AOP-RANTES (aminooxypentane-RANTES) inhibits different HIV strains infecting PBMC through the induction of gamma-IFN and the parallel reduction of IL-10 expression [109]. Its mechanism of action relies on coreceptor internalization and a long-lasting inhibition of CCR5 recirculation [110]. PSC-RANTES ([N-nonanoyl, des-Ser1[L-thioproline2, L-cyclohexylglycine3]) is a strong CCR5 agonist and a highly potent inhibitor of HIV entry in vitro; it confers full protection from R5-mediated infection in an animal model of vaginal transmission, due to long-lasting receptor internalization. However, CCR5 binding by CCL5/RANTES derivatives is also associated with mucosal inflammation, a phenomenon which would enhance HIV infection [111]. Pharmaceutical research and development is presently striving to identify new derivatives that can be produced in inexpensive expression systems by the fermentative industry without requiring post-synthetic chemical modifications. Moreover, ideal CCL5/RANTES derivatives should also separate HIV-inhibition activity from CCR5 signaling, in order to prevent in vivo potentially harmful pro-inflammatory activity [111,112]. It should also be remembered that engineered chemokines, similarly to small molecule inhibitors, were shown to exert selective pressure on CCR5-tropic viruses, with consequent development of R5 inhibitor-resistant HIV strains and finally, leading the way to dual-tropic or X4-tropic virus shift [113]. 6.4.
It can’t be, simply because of math. Even taking the most liberal (in the mathematical sense) estimate of gays constituting 10% of the population, that doesn’t put enough gay kids in a given school for them to comprise the majority of bullying victims. Way more kids get bullied than that. Yes, the majority of bullies are straight males. But the majority of bullying victims are also straight males. This, in a nutshell, is why identity politics is not the solution to every problem. And I’m not saying this to cry “liberal agenda” or some nonsense. I’m saying it because I don’t want any bullying victims to get pushed to the sidelines. I don’t want a repeat of the discourse on teen self-esteem in the 90s, where everybody focused on depressed girls and either ignored or flat-out denied the existence of depressed boys. The way I saw it, all depressed kids needed help, not just the girls. And like self-esteem, bullying is—and must be treated as—an individual problem, not a group problem. It is not about a powerful group and a powerless group. Some individuals are assholes, and those individuals bully other individuals of all stripes. The scene in Bully that churned my gut the most—by a wide margin—concerned a boy named Cole, who had just physically defended himself against a bully. We don’t see the fight, but we do see a female school administrator make the two boys (insincerely) shake hands and then condescendingly lecture Cole as if he had been complicit in his own bullying. When this happens to a girl, we call it “blaming the victim.” When it happens to a boy, we call it “school policy.” This is never addressed in the film, but in my old school—and from what I can tell, in most high schools—there is a standing policy that everyone who was involved in a fight gets in the same amount of trouble. The school does not even want to hear “who started it,” as if who started it is some sort of juvenile or outdated concern that kids need to learn to get over (whereas, in adult law, “who started it” is appropriately treated as the central concern). The unwritten—but always observed—corollary to this policy is “as long as everyone in the fight was male.” If a boy attacks a girl and the girl fights back, the girl does not get in trouble, obviously. And this is as it should be.

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