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I should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds, and a hellish phosphorescence rose from the rank swamp at the bottom of the hollow. The call of the dead, too, was different. Instead of the hillside tomb, it was the charred cellar on the crest of the slope whose presiding daemon beckoned to me with unseen fingers. As I emerged from an intervening grove upon the plain before the ruin, I beheld in the misty moonlight a thing I had always vaguely expected. The mansion, gone for a century, once more reared its stately height to the raptured vision; every window ablaze with the splendour of many candles. Up the long drive rolled the coaches of the Boston gentry, whilst on foot came a numerous assemblage of powdered exquisites from the neighbouring mansions. With this throng I mingled, though I knew I belonged with the hosts rather than with the guests. Inside the hall were music, laughter, and wine on every hand. Several faces I recognised; though I should have known them better had they been shrivelled or eaten away by death and decomposition. Amidst a wild and reckless throng I was the wildest and most abandoned. Gay blasphemy poured in torrents from my lips, and in my shocking sallies I heeded no law of God, Man, or Nature. Suddenly a peal of thunder, resonant even above the din of the swinish revelry, clave the very roof and laid a hush of fear upon the boisterous company. Red tongues of flame and searing gusts of heat engulfed the house; and the roysterers, struck with terror at the descent of a calamity which seemed to transcend the bounds of unguided Nature, fled shrieking into the night. I alone remained, riveted to my seat by a grovelling fear which I had never felt before. And then a second horror took possession of my soul. Burnt alive to ashes, my body dispersed by the four winds, I might never lie in the tomb of the Hydes! Was not my coffin prepared for me? Had I not a right to rest till eternity amongst the descendants of Sir Geoffrey Hyde? Aye! I would claim my heritage of death, even though my soul go seeking through the ages for another corporeal tenement to represent it on that vacant slab in the alcove of the vault. Jervas Hyde should never share the sad fate of Palinurus!
The House of Al Saud traces its origins to the 18th century emir, Muhammad ibn Saud, whose family ruled large parts of the Arabian Peninsula for over three hundred years. The modern House of Saud was established in 1932, when Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, a direct descendent of the 18th-century ruler, established the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with himself as absolute monarch. Today, only his descendents are considered part of the "royal" family line and eligible to ascend the throne. According to the Quran, a Muslim is permitted up to four wives at one time and is allowed to divorce and remarry numerous times. King Abd al-Aziz cemented alliances by marrying a daughter of every tribal chief in his realm, producing 45 legitimate sons and having at least 22 wives. Every Saudi king since has been a son of Abd al- Aziz. The number of his daughters is not known - they were not counted - but are estimated to be more than 50. Though many of his contemporaries regarded his practice of polygamy as excessive, it was continued and surpassed by his son, King Saud, who had 53 sons and at least 54 daughters. The descendents of King Abd al-Aziz now number in the thousands, many of whom hold important government positions. Before he died, King Abd al-Aziz established a line of succession: Future kings were to be chosen from among his own sons, beginning with the oldest surviving son, Saud, and followed by the second oldest, Faisal. To date, five sons have ruled: Saud (1953-1964), Faisal (1964-1975), Khalid (1975-1982), Fahd (1982-2005), and Abdullah (2005-present). Several of his other sons currently serve in the highest levels of government: Salman, Nayef and Sultan - three of the famous "Sudayri Seven," a close-knit group of seven sons born to a mother from the Sudayri tribe. But most of King Abd al-Aziz's sons are now in their eighties - King Abdullah is eighty-three - and the day will soon come when a Saudi king is chosen from the third generation of the Al Saud.
Sometimes, I eat pasta with sautéed vegetables with one glass of buttermilk.A bowl of fruits.One cup of tea or coffee with 1 or 2 crackers.Usually I eat dinner around 9 or 10 pm because my schedule doesn't permit it earlier. I am an ovo-vegetarian, so twice a week I eat 3 egg whites and 2 slices of wheat bread for dinner. Usually, I try to keep my dinner light.Weekend dinners... I hate sweets but I love spicy food. I have a special liking for Biryani. I love Indo-Chinese and Italian food. So, almost every Friday and Saturday night, I have either of these cuisines.One and a half hour per day for 4-5 days a week. I always start with cardio, 20-30 minutes elliptical exercise followed by weight lifting, squats, core strengthening and abdomen exercises. I try to stay active throughout my workout sessions by resting only for 30 seconds in between each session which helps me stay energetic.I don't believe in low calorie recipes but try to stay away from cheese, fried foods and sweets. I feel if you stay active throughout the day without staying idle for a long time, you tend to burn more calories.It takes perseverance and patience to be successful in whatever you do. I used to face humiliation because of my increased weight and felt handicapped and helpless because of my torn knees. I couldn't spend quality time with my kids and husband. But I knew that if I want a normal life, I have to work hard towards it. Today after a year of vigorous workout and a normal diet plan, I feel happy and energetic.After every workout session, I feel strong. I feel a rush of adrenaline throughout my body. The more you workout, the more you get rid of your depressed thoughts and weaknesses. So, workout itself is my motivation. This along with, of course, shopping for smaller sized dresses keep me more determined.From my past experience, I have learnt that exercise not only helps in losing weight but also boosts your confidence level. There is no short cut like dieting or taking pills. When I started exercising, I felt happy and now I am leading a normal life with a much stronger pair of legs.If you have a weight loss story that can inspire others, mail us at [email protected].
So recently there's been a bit of drama in regards to individuals making content on YouTube using vods from various speedrunners. I'm not going to post the person’s name here. If you do 5 minutes of detective work on your favorite speedrunners twitter feed, I’m sure you’ll find it. There were a ton of problems that arose from this YouTube channel and generally speaking a good chunk of the community wasn't a huge fan. There’s quite a few reasons people within the community didn't like it but judging from what I've seen these were the 3 main ones. 1. The creator didn't ask for permission from the vast majority of the people he used content for 2. The creator made many videos that most felt portrayed the speedrunning community in a negative light - Tons of Top 10 Speedrunning Fails/Cringe Moments/Salty Speedrunners, as well as videos such as "The Death of Speedrunning" + "Why I don't support GDQ's" 3. They were monetized (This one’s a big LOL to me, but I'll get to that one later.) After finally having enough, a ton of runners rose up and basically DMCA'd a ton of his videos. He ended up taking most of the videos down, while putting out a video that he was done with making speedrunning content. He went on to say that our community was stupid for not understanding how content is good for growth and speedrunners rejoiced in their victory. So now that you've been caught up on the drama, I want to get to the point of this pastebin. *******Speedrunning community really does need content creators, we just need to start going about it the RIGHT way. ****** So let me make this clear. I think what the YouTube guy did was incredibly petty and to me he seemed like he wasn't really caring about the community at all, and was more looking to grow his own brand. I think one of the biggest reasons why content in the community hasn't really come up as a big driver for the community is that the community is really big and diverse. Other than GDQ's and a few other marathons, it's very rare for there to be a huge community event where you see members from all sides of the community come together.
Forbes Travel Guide unveiled its annual Star Rating list, naming the luxurious Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, as a Forbes Travel Guide 15-Star recipient with the hotel and its OH! Spa and Seasons restaurant each receiving the coveted Five-Star rating.Ocean House is the only property to become a triple Five-Star hotel in 2015, making it the 10th hotel in the world and one of only five hotels in the United States to receive this rare distinction.“We are thrilled and humbled to be recognized by Forbes with this prestigious honor, becoming the 10th hotel in the world to join this elite group of the best of the best,” said Daniel Hostettler, President and Group Managing Director of Ocean House Management, LLC. “This is our fifth year of operation, and I cannot think of a better way to celebrate than with Forbes Five-Star ratings for Ocean House, its world-class spa and now its farm-to-table restaurant. I'm so proud of our team and their dedication to providing the finest guest experience.”OH! Spa earned its Five-Star designation in 2012, followed by the resort earning its own Five Stars in 2013. Seasons restaurant joined the list of 55 Five-Star restaurants worldwide for the first time this year, thus placing the property into the elite group of only 10 hotels in the world which have all three designations at the same property.This award, which requires that each component (spa, hotel and restaurant) undergo additional visits over and above the normal annual inspection process in order to ensure consistency across all three areas, is among the highest honors in the luxury hospitality industry, and has been awarded only nine times before: four times in the United States and five times in the remainder of the world. Ocean House now becomes the fifth such property in the United States, joining prestigious hotels such as the Broadmoor in Colorado and the Grand Del Mar in California.To celebrate this recognition, the resort is unveiling a very special “15 Stars in 2015” package* that will highlight the best of Ocean House, at a great value. Available now through April, the package aptly starts at $555 and includes:• Deluxe King or Terrace King Accommodations• Dinner for Two in Seasons• $50 Resort Credit (to be used toward treatments at OH! Spa, food and beverage or retail)* Must mention “15 Stars in 2015” at time of booking.
Additional research is clearly warranted to elucidate the effect of coffee consumption on bone health. Finally, for all other categories of health outcomes identified, results are equivocal and therefore conclusions on the benefit, risk, or null effect of coffee consumption cannot be determined based on the current literature.
Future Directions Although a genetic basis for obesity and even response to alterations in energy balance has been clearly established, few studies 24, 110 have examined whether the same genes and/or processes that influence obesity when assessed cross‐sectionally also influence weight loss, weight maintenance, and/or weight regain following weight loss interventions. By taking into account the influence of genetic variation on these disease processes, precision medicine in behavioral weight loss may present several new avenues to tackle the obesity epidemic. For example, identifying subgroups of populations with obesity who are genetically prone to respond well to a given weight loss intervention might be targeted accordingly. Similarly, genetic information might prove valuable when seeking to identify people who are unlikely to respond well to a given weight loss therapy or who might experience adverse events. There are many compelling examples of the use of genomic data in clinical settings, such as screening for BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutations to aid treatment decisions for familial breast cancer and genetic screening for drug metabolizing genes like CYP2D6 to inform the prescription and dosing of codeine for pain relief. To optimize the use of genetic information, clinicians, patients, and their relatives would all benefit from an improved level of medical literacy when exchanging genetic information 111. Although complex diseases and outcomes pose the biggest challenge for precision medicine, improving treatment for such outcomes also has the potential to impact the greatest number of people. Technology exists today to characterize individuals in a highly comprehensive manner that includes 24‐h assessment of heart and respiratory rate, physical movement, exposure to changes in light/sound/temperature, sleeping patterns, eating patterns, and a host of other measures. Portable, wearable monitors can be used to upload patient data remotely and automatically, and Web‐based, computerized devices, like scales and bioimpedance instruments, can monitor fluid balance and body composition without the need for the participant or patient to interact directly with researchers or health care providers. These devices can be linked to environmental monitors in the home, and GPS tracking systems can document the location and physical setting of the wearer. In addition to monitoring devices, it is now feasible and affordable to sequence an entire genome in as little as 10 days. Next‐generation sequencing and advanced mass spectrometry have paved the way for the fast and complete characterization of the transcriptome, proteome, epigenome, and metabolome.
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In this passage, the description of the Advocate or Spirit of Truth is qualitatively different than earlier mentions. Here we see the Spirit of Truth speaking not through the disciples but to them. Earlier, in John 14:17, Jesus says that this Spirit of Truth will abide with his followers and be in them; throughout the Gospel of John the Holy Spirit is spoken of as an abiding, inner presence. Again, in 14:26, Jesus says that the Advocate will “remind you of all that I have said to you.” In these passages, Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit who helps his followers understand what he has said. Essentially, this would have been the experience of the beloved disciple, the author of the Gospel of John, who was guided by the presence of the Spirit in remembering and interpreting Jesus’ words and deeds (which he does spiritually rather than literally). However, in John 16:12-15, Jesus is talking about a Spirit of Truth who will bring forth new revelations, who will say the “many things” that Jesus does not say because his followers “cannot bear them now.” The clear distinction is that the Spirit of Truth in John 16 is predicted to declare new revelations not merely remind Jesus’ disciples of what he already said, as in John 14. The idea that he will “declare to you the things that are to come” is especially important because it acknowledges the uncertainty about the future that Jesus’ followers faced, given the fact that he had not returned as soon as expected. Jesus asserts that this future prophet will glorify him by declaring a new revelation that will come from the same source as his message: God. This discourse is designed to open the minds of Christians to receive a future revelation not as something that competes with or diminishes the Gospel, but rather as something that glorifies Jesus. Unfortunately, these words in the Gospel of John have been totally missed by Christians who reject and belittle the Qur’an; we have for the most part completely ignored the unity of the Gospel and the Qur’an in terms of their common revelatory source.
Introduction Genetic factors increase the risk for a high body mass index (BMI), overweight and obesity [1]. The role of genetic factors in low BMI is less well understood. Family studies have found family clustering for low BMI [2]–[4]. However, family studies cannot distinguish between genetic and familial factors. Twin studies have estimated the heritability of BMI across the entire BMI range at between 50 and 74% [5]–[6]. Molecular genetic studies have identified a series of candidate genes for low BMI including a thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) receptor polymorphism [7], the Ser23 allele of the serotonin 2C receptor [8], a genetic variant on chromosome 16p11.2 [9] and a copy number variant identified as gremlin1 [10]. Allelic variants of the FTO gene linked to obesity risk are infrequently found in thin individuals [11]. Understanding the genetic and environmental contributions to low BMI are important because low BMI has been linked to medical and psychiatric illnesses as well as increased mortality. In females, low BMI during childhood and adolescence increases women's risk for later endometriosis [12], preterm birth [13], low infant birth weight [14] and increased risk for placental abruption [15]. Infants born to mothers with low BMI have an increased risk for atrial septal defect, genital abnormalities including hypospadias [16]. The psychiatric illness anorexia nervosa is defined by a low BMI in association with extreme fear of becoming fat [17]. Mortality rates across BMI categories in many studies display a U-shaped curve with increased death rates for the low BMI as well as those with a high BMI. Mortality rates are higher by an estimated 73% in those with BMI below 18.5 [18]. A Japanese study estimated the mortality risk increased by 78% in those with a BMI<18.5 and increased by 155% in those with a BMI<16 [19]. The exact mechanism for the mortality increase in low BMI populations is unclear. Some of the increase may be due to higher rates of death in severe illness and surgical procedures such as lung transplantation [20]. A study of excess deaths related to being low BMI and high BMI in the United States provides a reference for the relative contribution of low BMI to mortality [21]. High BMI was estimated to contribute to 111,909 deaths in the U.S. in 2000 while low BMI was estimated to be associated with 33,746 deaths. Thus, low BMI is estimated to contribute about three deaths for every ten deaths related to being high BMI.
Frances used 6x9cm Ilford HP5 Plus in her Alpa for this picture. Lido, Margate Frances does quite a lot of hand colouring, sometimes of her own pictures (as here) and sometimes of Roger's. There is a whole gallery of hand colouring. Shooting platform The roof rack on our old Land Rover makes a wonderful shooting platform and greatly reduces the need for rising fronts or shift lenses.
Measures of risk factors 1 Characteristics N % Socio-demographic characteristics Sex Female 26315 72.5 Male 9989 27.5 Age (years) 17–25 1821 5.0 26–35 8216 22.6 36–45 11464 31.6 46–55 9138 25.2 56–65 5665 15.6 Education (years) 0 to 9 4362 12.0 10 to 12 18066 49.8 Above 12 13876 38.2 Country of birth Sweden 31763 87.5 Other Nordic countries 1313 3.6 Other European countries 717 2.0 Outside Europe 2511 6.9 Place of residence Big cities 14017 38.6 Medium size cities 12869 35.4 Small town 9418 25.9 Family situation Married/cohabiting without children a 4663 12.8 Married/cohabiting with children a 13955 38.4 Single people without children a 11490 31.6 Single people with children a 6196 17.1 Sickness absence characteristics b Repeated spells 1 spell due to SRMD* 34569 95.2 > 1 spell due to SRMD* 1735 4.8 Spells with mental/somatic diagnoses Only spells with mental diagnoses 32586 89.8 One additional spell with somatic diagnoses 3330 9.2 Multiple spells with somatic diagnoses 388 1.1 Full-time c No 4609 12.7 Yes 31695 87.3 Part-time d No 18219 50.2 Yes 18085 49.8 Duration (days) e 1–14 10157 28.0 15–90 17370 47.8 91–180 3742 10.3 181–365 2469 6.8 > 365 2566 7.1 Number of spells f 1 spell 30048 82.8 2 spells 5291 14.6 > 2 spells 965 2.7 Health care characteristics Hospital stay due to mental diagnoses (days) g No hospital stay 35036 96.5 1 to 8 663 1.8 > 8 605 1.7 Hospital stay due to somatic diagnoses (days) g No hospital stay 25619 70.6 1 to 4 5797 16.0 > 4 4888 13.5 Outpatient care visits due to mental diagnoses g No visits 33013 90.9 1 1763 4.9 > 1 1528 4.2 Outpatient care visits due to somatic diagnoses g No visits 8806 24.3 1 to 4 16238 44.7 > 4 11260 31 Baseline socio-demographic characteristics from the LISA database were measured at the end of 2004 and categorized as shown in Table. Variables on sickness absence relate to spells initiated in 2005. Number of sickness absence spells regardless of diagnosis was categorised as follows: 1, 2 and > 2 spells. The variable on diagnosis-specific sickness absence spells was categorised as follows: only spells due to mental disorders, one additional spell due to a somatic disorder, and multiple additional spells due to somatic disorders. Duration of the first sickness absence spell due to SRMD initiated in 2005 was grouped in five categories: 1–14, 15–90, 91–180, 181–365, and more than 365 days.
The commanding officer of the guided missile cruiser Port Royal, Captain David Adler, dismissed the Pentagon's story that he had felt threatened by the dropping of white boxes in the water. Meeting with reporters on Monday, Adler said, "I saw them float by. They didn't look threatening to me." The naval commanders seemed most determined, however, to scotch the idea that they had been close to firing on the Iranians. Cosgriff, the commander of the Fifth Fleet, denied the story in a press briefing on January 7. A week later, Commander Jeffery James, commander of the destroyer Hopper, told reporters that the Iranians had moved away "before we got to the point where we needed to open fire". The decision to treat the January 6 incident as evidence of an Iranian threat reveals a chasm between the interests of political officials in Washington and navy officials in the Gulf. Asked whether the navy's reporting of the episode was distorted by Pentagon officials, Lydia Robertson of Fifth Fleet Public Affairs would not comment directly. But she said, "There is a different perspective over there." Last week, RAW STORY 's Nick Juliano spoke with Steven Aftergood, an expert on military secrecy, who has recently published an NSA assessment on a notorious incident during the Vietnam war in which Vietnamese ships were said to have attacked American vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. "The parallels (between Tonkin and Hormuz) speak for themselves, but what they say is that even the most basic factual assumptions can be made erroneously [or] can prove to be false," Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, said. "Therefore extreme caution is always appropriate before drawing conclusions ... that might leave to violent conflict. That's almost so obvious that I feel embarrassed saying it, but there is a history of mistaken interpretations of these kinds of encounters that ought to teach us humility." "It's also surprising that President Bush was permitted to get so far out in front on this issue, even though there were significant uncertainties on what transpired," Aftergood added. Read Porter's full story here, and Juliano's story linking the Iranian incident and the Gulf of Tonkin here.
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Leadership of the Seventh Crusade After his victory over the English, Louis IX fell seriously ill with a form of malaria at Pontoise-lés-Noyon. It was then, in December 1244, that he decided to take up the cross and go to free the Holy Land, despite the lack of enthusiasm among his barons and his entourage. The situation in the Holy Land was critical. Jerusalem had fallen into Muslim hands on August 23, 1244, and the armies of the sultan of Egypt had seized Damascus. If aid from the West was not forthcoming, the Christian kingdom of the East would soon collapse. In Europe the times had never been more propitious for a Crusade. There was a respite in the great struggle between the Holy Roman Empire and the papacy; moreover, Louis IX’s forceful attitude toward the Holy Roman emperor, Frederick II, had dampened the latter’s enthusiasm for war. The kingdom of France was at peace, and the barons agreed to accompany their sovereign in the Seventh Crusade. The preparations were long and complex. After entrusting the regency to his mother, Louis IX finally embarked from Aigues-Mortes on August 25, 1248. He took his wife and children with him, since he preferred not to leave the mother and daughter-in-law alone together. His fleet comprised about 100 ships carrying 35,000 men. Louis’s objective was simple: he intended to land in Egypt, seize the principal towns of the country, and use them as hostages to be exchanged for Syrian cities. The beginning was promising. After wintering in Cyprus, the expedition landed near Damietta, Egypt, in June 1249. The king was one of the first to leap onto land, where he planted the oriflamme of St. Denis on Muslim territory. The town and port of Damietta were strongly fortified, but on June 6 Louis IX was able to enter the city. He then pushed on toward Cairo, but the rain-swollen waters of the Nile and its canals stopped him for several months. It was necessary to capture the citadel of Al-Manṣūrah. After several attempts, a pontoon bridge was finally built, and the battle took place on February 8, 1250. The outcome of the struggle was for a long time undecided, and the king’s brother Robert of Artois was killed. Louis finally gained control of the situation through his energy and self-possession. But the army was exhausted. The Nile carried thousands of corpses away from Al-Manṣūrah, and plague struck the survivors.
With dramatic inflation, marginal businesses (suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers) will fall by the wayside. The percentage of failing businesses will be dependent upon the duration and severity of the inflationary trend. Squatters Rebellions. A dramatic increase in the number of home and business foreclosures will result in homelessness for anyone whose debt exceeds his ability to pay—even those who presently appear to be well-off. As numbers rise significantly, a new homeless class will be created amongst the former middle class. As they become more numerous, large scale ownership of property may give way to large scale “possession” of property. Riots. These will likely happen spontaneously due to the above conditions, but if not, governments will create them to justify their desire for greater control of the masses. Martial Law. The US has already prepared for this, with the passing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which many interpret as declaring the US to be a “battlefield.” The NDAA allows the suspension of habeas corpus, indefinite detention, and the assumption that any resident may be considered an enemy combatant. Similar legislation may be expected in other countries that perceive martial law as a solution to civil unrest. The above list is purposely brief—a sampling of eventualities that, should they occur, will almost definitely come unannounced. As the decline unfolds, they will surely happen with greater frequency. Full article at Casey Research via The Daily Crux We could go point by point on this list and provide a plethora of evidence to validate Jeff’s claims, but that would take pages upon pages of references. The fact is that the US government, for the last decade, has been moving increasingly closer to what can only be described as a police state. With watch lists, militarized police departments, legislative actions, and executive orders the government has already set the stage for these secondary events. When the system itself is no longer able to support the tens of millions of Americans receiving monthly government assistance, one hiccup could set the whole thing ablaze. While it can’t be avoided on a national scale, there are advance preparations that individuals and their families can make to, at the very least, insulate themselves from the secondary event triggers. This includes storing essential physical goods and keeping them in your possession.
And for them, each repetition is an opportunity to fill space and to advance the original agenda.Another wholly undesirable development in the decline of the media is its penchant for ceding its space to government ministers, given over to propaganda (at our expense when it is tucked behind a paywall), where it is immune from critical analysis by virtue of it being editorial content.A classic example of that is also in thethis week, a scurrilous article from David Davis , exploiting the criticism-free opportunity to spin the government's case on the Brexit negotiations. Of particular concern to Mr Davis is the UK's argument that talks around our withdrawal cannot be treated in isolation from the future partnership we want. In his view, "many questions around our withdrawal are inextricably linked to our future relationship". "Nowhere", he says, "is that point truer than on the question of Northern Ireland. It is simply not possible to reach a near-final agreement on the border issue until we've begun to talk about how our broader future customs arrangement will work".Furthermore, he adds, "if we get the comprehensive free trade agreement we're seeking as part of our future partnership, solutions in Northern Ireland are easier to deliver". Therefore, he asserts, there is "real value" in discussing a few issues upfront.Although our chief negotiator might have a point, he is paying the price for Mrs May's failure to set out our position when she invoked Article 50. Had the position papers we've seen recently been attached to the papers sent to Brussels in March, the tenor of the current negotiations might be very different.However, what he clearly doesn't yet seem to have understood is that, even with a free trade agreement with the EU – as deep and as comprehensive as you like – the UK still takes on the status of a "third country" and border checks will apply between Northern Ireland and the Republic.On that basis, fixing in advance the idea that we will be seeking a free trade agreement does absolutely nothing to resolve the border question. Essentially, if the UK is determined to work from outside the Single Market, it needs to agree a special political status for Northern Ireland which allows for free movement to and from the province.Possibly, what we could be looking at something like declaring the whole of Ireland a single administrative area for customs and immigration.
Or up to something. I fought off the flight instinct and instead determined to figure out what this guy’s angle was. All I knew so far was that I was living the sort of exerience which if left unexplored would keep me awake at night for many years. Plan A was to probe his story for cracks and press him on it, second nature for a journalism student. “So, you haul this thing out into the woods...” I gestured at the white cube, taking on a playful but accusatory tone with the intention of putting him on the defensive. “....And then what? Sit out here all day pretending to fix it? Is this how you meet girls? Lots of joggers come through here.” “No they don’t”. He descended the stepladder, then in a visually incomprehensible procedure he folded it into itself until it was an impossibly small package roughly the size of a stick of gum. I gaped for a moment before regaining my composure. A magic trick to sway doubters, probably the first of many. “I reinserted here specifically because it’s supposed to be federally protected forest land, off limits to joggers.” Several seconds of silence followed. I expected more of a spiel from someone I’d decided was trying to convince me of his othertimely origin, for personal kicks or...? For the first time it occurred to me I might be unwittingly starring in some sort of web based hidden camera show. I glanced all around for any sign of cameras mounted to the trees, but nothing stood out. “Do you come here to get away from the city? I don’t blame you. Looks unbearable, even from here.” The tallest buildings were just visible over distant brush. “Nasty way to live. Surely you know that. In nature, pack animals diverge into subpopulations when their numbers grow too great for every member to find a fulfilling role. Cities prevent that, too much invested in one place, they just keep growing outward instead of reaching a healthy population cap and beginning to build somewhere else. Causes no small number of social maladies. But I don’t have to tell you that. It’s why you’re out here, am I right?” It was. Or at least it was compatible with my own reasons for sneaking into the preserve on weekends, stashing my motorbike under a wooden foot bridge and jogging 6 or so of the 40 mile loop before turning back.
Such a structure would be a physical impossibility as the tensile strength would be far too immense and it would be susceptible to severe drift.Dyson's original proposal simply assumed there would be enough solar collectors around the sun to absorb the starlight, not that they would form a continuous shell. Rather, the shell would consist of independently orbiting structures, around a million kilometres thick and containing more than 1x10objects. Consequently, a "Dyson sphere" could consist of solar captors in any number of possible configurations. In amodel, there would be a myriad of solar panels situated in various orbits. It's generally agreed that this would be the best approach. Another plausible idea is that of thein which solar sails, as well as solar panels, would be put into place and balanced by gravity and the solar wind pushing against it.For the purposes of this discussion, I'm going to propose that we build a Dyson swarm (sometimes referred to as a type I Dyson sphere), which will consist of a large number of independent constructs orbiting in a dense formation around the sun. The advantage of this approach is that such a structure could be built incrementally. Moreover, various forms of wireless energy transfer could be used to transmit energy between its components and the Earth.So, how would we go about the largest construction project ever undertaken by humanity?As noted, a Dyson swarm can be built gradually. And in fact, this is the approach we should take. The primary challenges of this approach, however, is that we will need advanced materials (which we still do not possess, but will likely develop in the coming decades thanks to nanotechnology), and autonomous robots to mine for materials and build the panels in space.Now, assuming that we will be able to overcome these challenges in the next half-decade or so—which is not too implausible— how could we start the construction of a Dyson sphere?Oxford University physicist Stuart Armstrong has devised a rather ingenious and startling simple plan for doing so—one which he claims is almost within humanity's collective skill-set. Armstrong's plan sees five primary stages of construction, which when used in a cyclical manner, would result in increasingly efficient, and even exponentially growing, construction rates such that the entire project could be completed within a few decades.Broken down into five basic steps, the construction cycle looks like this:The idea is to build the entire swarm in iterative steps and not all at once.
Nicole and I are super, super excited about them coming out and to see what you guys think.It's great. It's a fun club to be in. G.M. is awesome. We've hung out a good bit.Yep!And it's great! One of the fun things about that is how there is a little bit of a ... The world of people that know these characters. You know, the world of people that ... It's always fun to bring new people in to get some new insight, some new ideas, some new thoughts, but when you are part of this club, and you are able to bounce back and forth between books and comics and everything else, but ... As long as you're remaining true to the characters, I think it's good.There is a mystery, and it is the third mystery the Cutie Mark Crusaders deal with. laughs You'll see when you read these first two books, even though they involve each of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, obviously, each one is told from a different perspective. The first one is Apple Bloom's perspective. The second one is Sweetie Bell's perspective. So, the third one will be Scootaloo's perspective.Other that I can't say too much, cause Nicole and I are currently working it out right now!So, let me go up to my room. Let me and Nicole work some things out. I’ll come back down and then tell you. Cause we're not sure yet. laughsOut of the rough plan—which could obviously change—the fifth and sixth. The fun part about it is, knock on wood, if it works out, hopefully if we do everything right, there really is a nice build to it. So when you get to those final books, everything comes together and looks amazing! And we look like we were super smart, but really were just stumbling along, trying to make sure we figured it out along the way! laughs That's the exciting thing. If this does all come together and works the way that we're planning for it to work, it should be a pretty big story.The feeling that I have about this movie coming out is what the word “nervouscited” was designed for! laughs Very, very excited.With a TV episode of Pony—from the time you turn in the script, to when you guys actually see it—there's a year. That's like, "Oh god, I can't wait for the thing to come out." The movie is like that times four.
As you can see, the train is entirely made of roses and the flower and its thorns snake up through the dress, eventually entangling the crown. “I think it says so much about Margaery. It’s everything we need to know: she’s very beautiful, and very dangerous,” Clapton said. The Clothing Has To Work In The Real World, Too For all the symbolism Clapton works into her pieces, she also has to design clothing people can wear and work in. The wildlings, who in the show inhabit the wintry north and in reality shoot in very cold locations, have to stay warm and also look the part. Clapton and her team first designed a prototype made from animal skins and sent it to Iceland, where part of the show films, to ensure that it would both be functional and warm. If it gets super chilly, she sews modern clothing like fleeces and down underneath the animal skins. When Clapton finds herself challenged with real-world constraints, like working with a lot of extras of different shapes and sizes, she doesn’t give up on infusing purpose into the wardrobe. The uniform of the unsullied, an army of elite warrior eunuchs, which was inspired by beetles, can fit many different body types, but not at the expense of a metaphor. “The final piece that really made it come together was the idea of obscuring the face,” explained Clapton. “This really removed all personality, it sort of felt that it was the perfect ethos to be unsullied–all personality removed.” Courtesy of Helen Sloan, HBO Let The Costumes Inform The Characters While many of the costumes Clapton and her team make are very purposeful, sometimes the best wardrobe decisions happen more organically. The genius of Jamie Lannister’s golden hand next season, which we also get a sneak peak of in the video above, snuck up on Clapton, for example. His sister, Cersei, gifts it to him as a replacement for the one that got chopped off last season. In that vein, Clapton designed it as something Cersei would choose to disguise a deformity that she fears. It’s beautiful, ornate, and feminine. But, the prop actually turned out to embody Jamie’s personality in a way Clapton didn’t expect. “It became the right thing for Jamie. He’s not just this sort of a brutal, sarcastic, callous man.
Efforts are underway to modulate the initial inflammation resulting from the early insults and to match more effectively the demographics of donors and recipients so that less than optimal organs from “marginal” or “extended” donors can be normalized to resemble more optimal ones from living sources. Thus it appears that, in the next phase of clinical transplantation, a variety of biological means to produce host unresponsiveness will be used, alone or in combination with chemical immunosuppression, that will allow prolonged survival and function of foreign organs and tissues that have replaced the failed ones of patients.
He has been brutal and capricious, but he has not killed a large part of his own population. It is illegal to slander the Leader, and Law 71 makes a capital offense of any group activity opposed to the revolution, but this has been less strictly enforced lately. Libya has signed the U.N. Convention Against Torture, and the Minister of Justice has said that he will bring Libyan law in line with international human-rights standards. Some of this is window dressing. “They closed the People’s Prisons, where all our political prisoners were,” one Tripolitan lawyer told me. “And what happened? The political prisoners got reassigned to other prisons.” The Foreign Minister, Abdurrahman Shalgham, told me with pride that four hundred policemen had been arrested for human-rights abuses—then admitted that none have been found guilty. Last year, Omar Alkikli, a highly regarded fiction writer who was a political prisoner for ten years in the seventies and early eighties, sued the Libyan government for excluding former prisoners from the Libyan Writers’ League. “I lost, and I knew I would lose,” he said. “But I made my point.” A medical student at Tripoli’s Al-Fateh University told me, “O.K., they’ve fixed maybe four per cent of our serious problems, but I guess it’s something.” An official in Benghazi said, “The laws that were made of stone are now made of wood.” Few Libyans are inclined to test what civil liberties they may have. Giumma Attiga, a human-rights lawyer and one of the founders of Seif’s Qaddafi Foundation, said, “The fear is very intense, very deeply ingrained. The highest official could tell people to speak freely and openly, with every guarantee that it was safe to do so, and the words would stick in their throats.” In fact, it is a felony entailing a three-year prison sentence to discuss national policy with a foreigner, and, although such offenses have been less frequently prosecuted recently, most Libyans speak of such matters anxiously. The atmosphere is late Soviet: forbidding, secretive, careful, albeit not generally lethal. I was asked not to mention names on the phone or in e-mail. Several people asked me not to write down their phone numbers, lest my notebook be “lost.” “I am speaking from my heart,” an outspoken woman told me. “Carry it in your head.” Surveillance is pervasive in Libya.
As one of the chief litigating partners in the Rose Law Firm and a director on five corporate boards (including a position as the only woman on the board of Wal-Mart) Hillary earned—based on her own figures—an estimated $160,000 in 1990. Twice voted one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America by The National Law Journal, “she could command the top salary for a litigator in any law firm in New York or Los Angeles,” claims her partner Herb Rule. (The going rate is $500,000 and up.) Instead, she has committed much of her energy to pro bono work, such as chairing the Children’s Defense Fund, and serving on the boards of nearly a dozen other educational and social-justice organizations. “If Hillary were doing what she most wanted to do in this world, she would not be a partner in a corporate law firm,” confides her close friend and former Wellesley dormmate Jan Piercey. “That’s what she’s had to do—she’s responsible for the revenue in the family.” (Bill has increased his salary from $25,000 at the age of twenty-nine to the princely sum of $35,000 almost twenty years later.) Bill Clinton is the puer aeternus, suggests one of their older, wiser friends—the eternal boy, a Jungian archetype, who remains stuck in an adolescent orientation toward life, often prompted by an exaggerated dependence on his mother. Seductive to men as well as women, the prototypical eternal boy often hopes to redeem mankind; in the archetype he is meant to replace the old king as a symbol of the renewal of life. But the “winged youth” often falls, psychologically, and in crisis turns to strong female figures to raise him up again. “Bill has achieved enormous success, but he’s still reaching,” says an Arkansas friend. “It’s the young man who’s been a star and who is, I hope, not locked in adolescence. We don’t know that yet—he’s only forty-five.” George Fisher cartooned Bill Clinton in the guise of a boy for fourteen years at the old Arkansas Gazette, starting him off in his first term in a baby buggy, later graduating him to a tricycle and a ten-speed bike. (In real life Bill Clinton plays with a ’64 Mustang—Hillary calls it his “boy’s toy.”) In the mid-eighties Fisher penned a striking drawing that captures Bill Clinton’s dependence on his delivering angels.
Ruby's sister, Eva Grant, even accused Howard of leaking information to the DA. It was never quite clear whether Howard was working for Ruby or against him.On March 27, 1965, Howard was taken to a hospital by an unidentified person and died there. He was 48. The doctor, without benefit of an autopsy, said he had suffered a heart attack. Some reporters and friends of Howard's were not so certain. Some said he was "bumped off. "Earlene Roberts was the plump widow who managed the rooming house where Lee Harvey Oswald was living under the name O. H. Lee. She testified before the Warren Commission that she saw Oswald come home around one o'clock, go to his room for three or four minutes and walk out zipping his lightweight jacket. A few minutes later, a mile away, officer J. D. Tippit was shot dead.Mrs. Roberts testified that--"Just tit tit," she said.The police department issued a report saying all patrol cars in the area, except Tippit's, were accounted for. The Warren Commission let it go at that.After testifying in Dallas in April 1964, Mrs. Roberts was subjected to intensive police harassment. They visited her at all hours of the day and night. Earlene complained of being "worried to death" by the police. She died on January 9, 1966 in Parkland Hospital (the hospital where President Kennedy was taken). Police said she suffered a heart attack in her home. No autopsy was performed.Warren Reynolds was minding his used car lot on East Jefferson Street in Oak Cliff in Dallas, when he heard shots two blocks away. He thought it was a marital quarrel. Then he saw a man having a great difficulty tucking "a pistol or an automatic" in his belt, and running at the same time. Reynolds gave chase for a short piece being careful to keep his distance, then lost the fleeing man. He didn't know it then, but he had apparently witnessed the flight of the killer (or one of the killers) of patrolman Jefferson David Tippit. Feeling helpful, he gave his name to a passing policeman and offered his cooperation. Television cameras zeroed in on him, got his story, and made him well known. Warren Reynolds, the amiable used car man, was making history.Reynolds was not questioned until two months after the event. The FBI finally talked to him in January 1964. The FBI interview report said, " . . .
Perhaps they could even throw in a few special supplements for good measure:orAnderson Cooper and Joe Barton could play a few rounds on national TV.
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The other shoe has dropped on Chicago's beleaguered Department of Aviation police force.As the I-Team first reported in April, city officials were rebranding the airport police as "security. "Now state regulators have "deactivated" the nearly 300-officer aviation department police force.Long considered the law enforcement step children at O'Hare and Midway airports, a June 29 letter from the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board obtained by the I-Team notifies city officials that airport officers are "not law enforcement officers" anymore at all. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, city aviation department officials made it clear a retooled "security division" would still exist at Chicago's airports but in a newfangled format with far less authority and prominence.Airport officers, who are separate from Chicago police assigned to O'Hare and Midway, have never been able to carry guns-a decades-old point of contention for them, their union and some members of the city council. Going forward they will also not be able to carry the name "police" on their sleeves or be primary respondents to security calls.On April 9 the role of the aviation dept. police came under intense review when three officers were seen on video dragging a United Airlines passenger off a flight for refusing to give up his seat to a United crew member. The images of Dr. David Dao, bloody and thrashing while in the grips of several aviation officers.Wednesday the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) issued a 12-page review of the role of airport security.According to CDA Commissioner Ginger S. Evans: "We are confident that these actions are necessary to guide our department forward, while improving clarity for the aviation security officers who play an integral role in maintaining safe and secure conditions for the traveling public at both of Chicago's airports. "Evans says CDA "will introduce a new directive designating Chicago Police Officers as the lead on all disturbance calls at the airports, in addition to those on aircraft. This rescinds the current directive guiding incident dispatch, and defines coordination on responses with the Chicago Police Department. "As the I-Team first reported in April, Local 73 of the Service Employees International Union challenged the downgrade from police to security in an unfair labor practices complaint.
BEIJING: China said on Tuesday it is willing to question India'sballistic missile at the United Nations Security Council. It is one of the five permanent members of UNSC. "The UN Security Council has explicit regulations on whether India can develop ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons," Hua Chunying, spokesperson of the Chinese foreign ministry said. She did not specify if Beijing would actually invoke these rules, perhaps hoping that Indian diplomats would react sharply.The ministry disclosed its concern about reports in the Indian and Japanese media speculating that. "They need to ask the Indian side for their intention behind the move," she said referring to the media.The Agni-V can reach most parts of Asia and Europe, which is what stirred media speculation that its purpose is to tackle challenges from China and Pakistan.The statement came on a day when China released a white paper revealing its ambitious plans to land on the moon in 2018, and launch a Mars probe in 2020. Beijing also claimed that it uses space sciences for peaceful purposes. "China is willing to work alongside regional countries including India to maintain the long-lasting peace, stability and prosperity of the region," she said. China and India have reached an important consensus that the two countries areas two significant developing countries and emerging economies, she pointed out.Hua expressed the hope that "relevant media can report in an objective and sensible manner and do more things to contribute to the mutual trust between China and India and regional peace and stability".The media is often targetted in proxy wars as diplomats do not wish to directly challenge their counterparts in the other country, observers said. "China always maintains that preserving the strategic balance and stability in South Asia is conducive to peace and prosperity of regional countries and beyond," she said.Discussing the goals of Beijing's space policy, the white paper said, "To explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry and build China into a space power is a dream we pursue unremittingly". China aims to use space for peaceful purposes and to guarantee national security, and to carry out cutting-edge scientific research, it said.
Following a successful premiere at Computex 2012 (6/5-6/9), world-renowned memory manufacturer KINGMAX announces the October 5th launch of the world's most revealing COB (Chip-on-Board) type USB flash drive.Flash drive UI-05 features dynamic casing design in which the chip is housed under a clear glass ceiling that is both waterproof and dustproof, made possible with PIP technology. Innovative imBGA engineering allows the glass casing on the top side of the UI-05 to reveal the drive's inner flash die and wire-bonding structure. A bright blue LED light on the tail end of the device indicates working status and helps forgetful users reminds users not to leave the drive behind.Benefitting from the compact size and high yield rates of COB engineering, the KINGMAX UI-05 spans a range of capacities, including 8 GB/16 GB/32 GB. KINGMAX's own package technology has made it possible for the UI-05 to become the world's 1st glass-ceiling USB flash drive. Delicate handling of compression and temperature require the finest level of manufacturing craftsmanship to fit the UI-05 with its glass ceiling. Revealing the UI-05's circuit structure gives consumers a new product experience and expresses a sleek new direction in high-tech styling. Sturdy metal housing provides security and protection with a streamlined look that's subtly fashionable and futuristic. The eye-catching blue LED draws the attention of those nearby and sends the message that the UI-05 is not just another unimaginative, utilitarian USB. This is a stylish, must-have device for anyone seeking good design and reliable portable memory storage.UI-05 flash drives meet or exceed RoHS regulations (Restriction of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical and electronic equipment), CE, FCC and BSMI requirements. All KINGMAX products follow strict quality standards and have been 100% tested under strict quality control systems to ensure the durable performance before shipping. Moreover, the KINGMAX products are backed up warranties and global customer service to guarantee the highest level of customer service satisfaction.● The world 1st glass ceiling flash drive● High quality metal case● LED indicator light● Waterproof and dustproof● Capacity: 4 GB/8 GB/16 GB/32 GB● Interface: USB 2.0● Dimension: 42 (L) x 12 (W) x 4.5 (H) mm● Color: Metallic silver● Warranty: 5 years
"Should I get the WRX or the WRX STI?" Since I work at a dealership, I get asked this question on a weekly basis. There's a myriad of other questions I usually ask to help determine what the potential owner is looking for, so I thought I'd help nail down some facts and clear up misunderstandings that most people have about these two cars. In this article, I'll be using information based off of new WRX models (generally 2015-2017). Lets dig in and take a closer look at these two turbocharged sedans! The first thing to get out of the way are the obvious similarities. Both of these cars have the same exterior and interior design. The main differences are your creature features and the performance levels of the drivetrain on each. The WRX STI is simply a WRX that has been tuned by Subaru Tecnica International (STI). If you'd like to simply call it "the STI", be my guest... but I've already been there before Now that we've got that sorted out, there's the price gap between the WRX and WRX STI. On the surface, there seems to be a $8,000 canyon carved between the starting prices for these two cars. There have been debates and dyno tests and track times that have argued the pants off of this topic from a performance standpoint in just about every publication that compares the two. Take a step back from the analytical discussions and you'll quickly see that price gap shrink if we compare apples to apples.While most articles look at things purely from performance, there are still features on the starting point for both the WRX and WRX STI that separate them pricing-wise. By that, I mean that the starting point for a WRX is much more stripped down when compared to a "base-model" WRX STI. Where the WRX has cloth seats, 17 Inch alloy wheels, and a back-up camera, the WRX STI adds a boatload of other options to it's starting point. Alcantara and Leather Trimmed upholstery, heated front seats, heated side mirrors, windshield wiper de-icers, LED low-beam headlights, fog lights, and 18 inch alloy wheels already make up a considerable difference in equipment. Even the next step up for the WRX, the Premium trim level, isn't equipped quite as nicely (with the exception of a power moonroof that the WRX STI doesn't have until you jump to the Limited trim level).
1) Monfils underhand serve. 2) On the SAME point, Monfils between-the-legs shot. 3) Entire return game in which Monfils and Gicquel had a contest to see who could hit more outright winners. Monfils won. 4) Gicquel hit a return that hit the back wall (probably on purpose), and Monfils just stood there for 30 seconds with his hand above his eyes (like, the STRAINING TO SEE JUST HOW FAR THAT BALL WENT look). 5) Monfils huge forehand return winner – immediately breaks out into the “Dougie” (you know, that dance). 6) Crowd sang Happy Birthday to Monfils – it WAS his birthday – in between points while Wassen was serving. The entire rendition of the song. Wassen then double faulted. 7) No-look, one-handed backhand short volley by Monfils. He ended up winning the point, too. 8) In general, Monfils played at least 75 percent of the points without moving one step, yet still somehow played decently. Mayer and Wassen were not exactly trying to hit winners. 9) Monfils hit return that hit the back wall. He challenged! Chair umpire refused. Monfils spent at least one minute telling the chair he wanted to challenge. All four players were dying laughing, as was the chair umpire. But the chair still refused for him to challenge. “It was pretty close,” Molina told Monfils. 10) Match point, Monfils serving. Gicquel literally stood at the back wall, 15 feet away from the court. Monfils played one on two against Mayer and Wassen and they stood at the net running him from corner, to corner, to corner, to corner. This went on for a solid 45 seconds, crowd was going crazy, finally Monfils could run no more, and he missed one in the net. 11) Monfils threw two rackets into the crowd, his shirt, the UMBRELLA that is overhanging his chair, AND the chair umpire’s Kleenex, which the umpire only had because he was laughing so hard the entire set that he was crying.
I liked Mike. We were never close friends, but he was always kind and friendly to me. I haven't seen him in decades, heard varying bits and pieces about his illnesses and battles with cancer for many years now.I'll still miss him. We'd not had any contact in decades, but he was a presence all over the sf fandom of my youth, a man who helped create much of the environment I grew up in, the culture that was so important to me for so long, and I'm very sorry he's gone.RIP, Mike, and have a smooooth one with Bob Tucker More pictures of Mike here [A variant edition of this is crossposted on Facebook , readable to everyone; both of these may be revised, almost surely not identically.] [UPDATE, 3.21.11, 6:24 p.m.: there seems to be a glitch keeping the FB post, which should be readable by everyone, and which no one has before informed me was not, but which I was just informed wasn't readable by those not on FB, and have checked myself, found this to be true for at least the moment, haven't been able to figure out why, and thus am now warning you until I see that the problem/glitch/whatever has passed, that you may not find that link operable unless you have an FB account, or... beats me, until such time as I find that it's definitely working for all again; my apologies to all and anyone who may have been affected, and any resulting confusion; this is the first time in a couple of years of using FB that this has ever happened, so I'm guessing it's just a temporary glitch, but I'm obviously in no position to say. Again: sorry about that! ; these two posts are substantially the same, so mostly what you're missing are the many wonderful comments by other folks -- if those were visible anyway -- and a few minor variations. ]By Mike Glicksohn , a wonderful set of memories, and I'm... full of mixed emotion at rereading this, and realizing how I, too, have now been around for, gulp, about 40 years of activity in the sf field, even more than the 35 years Mike had when he wrote this, though Mike was understandably about 10,000 times justifiably more beloved than I am.
He puts his faith not in a particular person but a notion of Catholicism that is humble, open-minded and tied to local communities rather than ritual. ''The best chance for Catholicism around the world is Australian-branded Catholicism, because it will be creative and innovative, it will be larrikin. And that is what I hope will happen.'' It's after 1pm and the cafe is quiet. A cover version of Hey Hey My My plays in the background (''It's better to burn out, than to fade away''). A man with the softest hands I have ever felt comes by to say hello. ''This could be our finest hour,'' Father Bob tells him. ''It could be our swan song, too,'' the man replies. A woman then stops to ask about next Sunday night's service. Father Bob has continued giving mass in the back of Saints Peter and Paul, despite being replaced ''under duress'' by the Capuchin religious order. Father Bob's brand of ''Occupy Catholicism'', inspired by the will of the 99 per cent rather than those in Rome, didn't sit well with either Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart or Sydney Archbishop George Pell. Nor, presumably, have his appearances on television and his lively Sunday night radio program with John Safran on Triple J. Father Bob, who has described himself as ''a brawler not a fighter'', was given a pair of boxing gloves after his final official mass in January 2012. He has continued running the independent Father Bob Maguire Foundation, providing assistance to ''the unlovely and the unloved''. ''I've retired from institutional catholicism. I've got the parish without borders.'' But does he miss his church? ''Yeah, I want to be in there,'' he says. ''Some person said the other day, 'Stop going up there because you'll drive yourself bloody mad'. I said, 'Well, they interrupted a major operation'. The patients are still there, the neighbourhood.''
By the end of the series, Tohru becomes a full chi wizard.
Table 1. Scientific name Common name Status Taxonomic group FWS region N impact pathway Euphydryas editha bayensis Bay checkerspot T IV (insect) 8 5 Pseudanophthalmus paulus Nobletts Cave beetle C IV (insect) 4 2, 3 Acropora cervicornis Staghorn coral T IV 4 3 Acropora Palmata Elkhorn coral T IV 4 2, 3 Alasmidonta heterodon Dwarf wedgemussel E IV 5 2, 3 Campeloma decampi Slender campeloma E IV 4 2, 3 Cumberlandia monodonta Spectacle case E IV 3, 4, 5 1, 2, 3 Cyprogenia stegaria Fanshell E IV 3, 4, 5 2 Elimia crenatella Lacey elimia T IV 4 2, 3 Elimia melanoides Black mudalia C IV 4 2 Elliptio chipolaensis Chipola slabshell T IV 4 2 Elliptio steinstansana Tar River spinymussel E IV 4 2, 3 Elliptoideus sloatianus Purple bankclimber T IV 4 1, 2 Epioblasma brevidens Cumberlandian Combshell E IV 4, 5 1, 2, 3 Epioblasma capsaeformis Oyster mussel E IV 4 1, 2 Epioblasma florentina curtisi Curtis pearlymussel E IV 4 2, 3 Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua White catspaw E IV 3 2 Epioblasma othcaloogensis Southern acornshell E IV 4 2, 3 Epioblasma penita Southern combshell E IV 4 2, 3 Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculum Green blossom E IV 4, 5 1, 2, 3 Fusconaia burkei Tapered pigtoe T IV 4 2, 3 Fusconaia cuneolus Finerayed pigtoe E IV 4, 5 2, 3 Fusconaia escambia Narrow pigtoe T IV 4 2, 3 Fusconaia rotulata Round ebonyshell E IV 4 2, 3 Hamiota australis Southern sandshell T IV 4 2, 3 Lampsilis altilis Finelined pocketbook T IV 4 2, 3 Lampsilis higginsii Higgins eye E IV 3 1, 2, 3 Lampsilis powellii Arkansas fatmucket T IV 4 2 Lampsilis virescens Alabama lamp mussel E IV 4 2 Lanx sp.
CAPTION Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday CAPTION Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday CAPTION Orlando Pride star and Brazilian legend Marta on Monday claimed her sixth FIFA Player of Year award after she was named The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2018 during Orlando Pride star and Brazilian legend Marta on Monday claimed her sixth FIFA Player of Year award after she was named The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2018 during CAPTION Orlando City goalkeeper Mason Stajduhar completed his final round of chemotherapy Tuesday Orlando City goalkeeper Mason Stajduhar completed his final round of chemotherapy Tuesday CAPTION After Orlando City's 1-2 loss to Atlanta United, fans threw trash onto the soccer field. After Orlando City's 1-2 loss to Atlanta United, fans threw trash onto the soccer field. CAPTION A high-tech business that makes crystal and silicon lenses for fighter jets and tanks was all shook up over construction of the Orlando City Stadium across the street — and now it’s suing the soccer team, the city and the general contractor. A high-tech business that makes crystal and silicon lenses for fighter jets and tanks was all shook up over construction of the Orlando City Stadium across the street — and now it’s suing the soccer team, the city and the general contractor.
This requires the AI to implement a solution to logical uncertainty, but even if we already had such a solution, this would still place unrealistic demands on the human (namely, reducing the value alignment problem to a mathematical problem). Conclusion This short overview of corrigibility models shows that simple uncertainty about the correct utility function is not sufficient for corrigibility. It is not clear what the correct solution to the hard problem of corrigibility is. Perhaps it will involve some model like those in this post in which humans are bounded in a specific way that causes them to desire corrigible AIs, or perhaps it will look completely different from these models.
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Despite current difficulties in the relationship with Russia, the EU and its Member States have maintained a clear policy of reaching out to Russian society and youth, mainly through the Erasmus+ student exchange programme and other people to people contacts. Keywords: EU, Russophobia, The West, Nazi/Fascist Countries: Europe, Ukraine, EU, Germany More Sweden and Finland are deporting mainly Russian grandparents - it looks like a conspiracy Additional details: Sweden and Finland are deporting mainly Russian grandparents from the countries, it looks like a conspiracy directed against Russians. Families of the migrants from the Middle East and Africa are allowed to get their grandparents to live with them. Language / Targeted audience: Russian Link to the disinformation: svpressa.ru/society/article/182161/ Disinforming outlet(s): Svobodnaya Pressa Reported by: East Stratcom Network Disproof note: No evidence given. There is no conspiracy against Russians in Sweden and Finland, the same law applies to everyone. In order to get a residence permit in Sweden and Finland to move to live with a family member, the same rules apply to every citizen of a non-EU country: In Sweden, the following are counted as family members: wife, husband, cohabiting partner, registered partner and unmarried children under the age of 21. Unmarried children who are 21 years or older can be given a permit in certain cases. The requirement is that they are being supported financially by you or your partner. In Finland, The family members of Finnish citizens and of non-EU (third country) citizens and comparable persons are: spouse, registered partner, cohabiting partner, guardian of a child under 18 years of age, and child. The sphere of family members is laid down by law and does not necessarily correspond to general views on what constitutes a family member. The Swedish and Finnish concept of family is narrower than that of many other countries. https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/Working-in-Sweden/Permits-for-family-members.html
If I would have been riding with my normal street gear on things would be much different.My Arai XD3, Rukka gloves, Sidi boots, and BMW city pants all had fulfilled their purpose, protecting me from more serious injury, and show the damage they took in my place.I do have some road rash where there's a gap between the Thor and the pants, and where I burned thought some armor on my forearm, over my tire track tattoo (should make a nice scar), and I've possibly broken my wrist, but I consider myself very lucky to be able to walk or just be alive.I remembered everything and was glad I hadn't blacked out.Unlike most of my solo Adventures, I was with two good friends out riding this time, and was in the middle of the pack of 3, so a few minutes later inmate kpick came along, and being a calm, cool, and trained guy, he did some basic feeling around, and asked me some questions to confirm I'm not more seriously injured.He then went ahead to get our other friend, and came back 10 minutes later.It was obvious the bike wasn't going to be ridden out, even if I could ride, which, honestly I could not, with more pain starting to ensue.I did have my Med kit with me, so some Narco's would help me with the pain for now...They came back 10 minutes later and we were talking about the plan to get me and my bike out of here, we were about 25 miles from pavement, or cell service.I did not have my SPOT with me.The road we were on was a seldom traveled one, but low and behold a pickup truck was coming our way heading towards town and more importantly, empty.Standing in the road, bleeding, bike on it's side, I waived him down, asked if he would be so kind as to take me and my bike to town.Allen, being a good church going man of faith said no problem.Turns out Allen was supposed to be camping for 3 more days out here, and wouldn't be driving on this road, except that the night before, a Burro (wild donkey) had stolen his backpack with all of his stuff in it while he was sleeping!
), but above all that they begin to develop real desires in place of the present compensations; that they refuse all forms of behavior dictated by others and continually reinvent their own unique fulfillments; and that they no longer consider life to be the mere maintaining of a certain stability, but that they aspire to the unlimited enrichment of their acts. 3 SUCH DEMANDS TODAY are not based on some sort of utopianism. They are based first of all on the struggle of the proletariat at all levels, and on all the forms of explicit refusal or profound indifference that the unstable ruling society constantly has to combat with every means. They are also based on the lesson of the fundamental defeat of all attempts at less radical changes. Finally, they are based on the extremist strivings and actions appearing today among certain sectors of youth (despite all the efforts at disciplining and repressing them) and in a few artistic milieus. But this basis is indeed utopian in another sense of the word, in that it involves inventing and experimenting with solutions to current problems without being preoccupied with whether or not the conditions for their realization are immediately present. (It should be noted that this utopian sort of experimentation now also plays a key role in modern science.) This temporary, historical utopianism is legitimate; and it is necessary because it serves to incubate the projection of desires without which free life would be empty of content. It is inseparable from the necessity to dissolve the present ideology of everyday life, and therefore the bonds of everyday oppression, so that the revolutionary class can disabusedly discover present and future possibilities of freedom. Utopian practice makes sense, however, only if it is closely linked to the practice of revolutionary struggle. The latter, in its turn, cannot do without such utopianism without being condemned to sterility. Those seeking an experimental culture cannot hope to realize it without the triumph of the revolutionary movement, while the latter cannot itself establish authentic revolutionary conditions without resuming the efforts of the cultural avant-garde toward the critique of everyday life and its free reconstruction. 4 REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS thus has as its content the totality of the problems of the society. It has as its form the experimental practice of a free life through organized struggle against the capitalist order. The revolutionary movement must thus itself become an experimental movement.
We find it difficult to imagine how agreement could be reached on the idea of a UK Bill of Rights, even in principle, when views are so polarised as to what such an instrument might contain. In our view, it would be preferable for form to follow substance, and for any move as to whether there should be a new UK Bill of Rights (or other options) to await a time when there is a reasonable degree of consensus as to what such a Bill might contain. In part, this is because any new Bill of Rights would have to attract broad support to achieve its objectives. It is readily apparent from the discussions within the Commission that no such consensus is in sight, assuming it could ever be attained at all. The full extent of the differences may be seen in the text prepared by one of our colleagues. This draft proposes, among other matters, that the rights that any individual might be able to enjoy will depend on which of three categories of human beings he or she falls into: (i) individuals who are citizens of the United Kingdom, who will on his model enjoy all rights, (ii) citizens of other EU member states who will enjoy only those rights to the extent provided by EU law, and (iii) everyone else, who will only be able to enjoy a limited set of unspecified rights (but presumably would not be tortured). In our view such an approach is deeply retrograde and inconsistent with a fundamental principle, namely that rights should be secured for all persons within the United Kingdom without discrimination. As one distinguished commentator has recently noted, it is ‘antithetical to the core idea of human rights that they should be particular to any specific jurisdiction or particular group of people, or that they should be unavailable to any jurisdiction or group of people.’ The whole point of human rights is that they are an expression of our common humanity.
Over ten million children are in some form of childcare. Childcare programs will increase by 50% in the next ten years due to both increased numbers of women entering the workforce and welfare cutbacks. Only people who want to interact with babies should care for them. Dr. Brazelton says the ratios should be no more than 1:3 for infants and 1:4 for toddlers. Centers should be accredited and staffed with unharried caregivers. #7 Communication A child's ability to communicate begins at birth. By six months of age a child can duplicate the sounds he hears. Language is a complex skill which contains many nuances. Researchers believe that the reason some children have problems with language is because their brains cannot process sounds fast enough to make the necessary neural connections. One can exercise the brain. The plasticity of the brain is what makes it possible to learn language in the first place. All the circuits are in place. They just need to be connected. The more words the infant hears, the more connections are made. Children need to interact with people to learn a language. They learn words by hearing them repeatedly. It is critical to engage them in conversation. (LaMorelle, 2001) #8 Play Play is essential to a child's development. Everything is learned through play. The first ability to symbolize their experiences is through play. They duplicate the world around them. We, as teachers, learn about children by watching and listening to their play. Play is linked to mental development. It is the experience, NOT the toy, that aids growth in the brain. Observation is the best way for parents to learn about their children. It has been found that children who do best on tests are those whose parents play with them. So, parents, put yourself in the picture of your child playing - be part of it! #9 Music Children have an affinity for music from birth. They need to be involved in music, not just listen to it. Parents and children should make music together. For the adult, it is such a soul-moving experience to observe an infant as she is influenced by and becomes part of the music and rhythms she hears. Infancy is not too early for a child to experience music as a form of recreation, enjoyably integrating the sounds and vibrations into her bodily movements. The benefits of music are: It brings many learning elements together.
Final journey for Enoch Powell Enoch Powell, the most turbulent politician and controversial patriot of his generation, was laid to rest on Wednesday, alongside the comrades with whom he served in the Second World War. More than 1,000 people - statesmen, soldiers and just "ordinary folk" - who crowded into St Margaret's Church, Westminster, and afterwards St Mary's Church, Warwick, heard him hailed as a man of prophecy and political sacrifice whose principles forever debarred him from high office. Two buglers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - which absorbed his old regiment the Royal Warwickshires - sounded the Last Post and a Reveille in a moving ceremony before his coffin was carried from the churchto its final resting place. The coffin, draped with the Union flag and covered with white irises, was borne by six uniformed pallbearers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. He was buried near to where ten soldiers, including three former members of the Royal Warwickshires, are also buried. His request, many years ago, for a military element to his funeral, had been honoured in full. Politicians and peers had turned out in force for the first of the two funeral services in honour of Mr Powell - one of the most controversial British politicians of his generation. Mr Powell, the former Conservative and Ulster Unionist MP died on February 8, aged 85. During the 50-minute service at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, the congregation heard that Mr Powell was a gifted parliamentarian, scholar, poet and soldier. The former Prime Minister, John Major, and former colleagues Michael Howard, Ann Widdecombe, John Patten and William Waldegrave were among mourners. Other Conservative politicians included Lord Parkinson, the Tory leader William Hague's right-hand man Alan Duncan, Alan Clark and the former Northern Ireland Secretary Michael Mates. Sir Denis Thatcher was also present but Lady Thatcher did not attend.
Simply download a package and place it in the folder called "packages".● One click (and key press) to change your systems appearance.● One click (and key press) to change it back.● Comes pre-loaded with three packages.● Supports future package releases.● Built-in editor that allows you to edit or create you own packages.● Works on both big and small (xp-style) icons.● Backup system.Simply unzip the file and place the folder called "7CONIFIER" in a good place. I do not like applications that change registry entries and spread files allover my hard drive thus 7CONIFIER won't touch the registry and it will keep to itself as much as it possibly can. To uninstall simply delete the folder -- remember to reapply your default package though.● Windows 7. Works on both 32 or 64 bit (thanks ~ se7ensinner ).● .NET 3.5 (should be included in your Windows installation).● Taskbar buttons need to be set to: "Always combine, hide lables". You can find this option by right-clicking the taskbar and pressing Properties. Screenshot: [link] ● Visual style: Shine 2.0 [link] by * zainadeel (thanks ~ dysgenics ● Wallpaper: Name and author is unknown.● Star orb: steelOrb for Windows 7 [link] by ` ap-graphik I have been granted permission to redistribute Token [link] and Ecqlipse 2 [link] as part of 7CONIFIER by each respective author (~ brsev and ~ chrfb ).Woahw! Never thought I would get a DD! Never! I am honoredEnjoy! I hope you find it useful.
Once a task started executing a request the first thing it needs to do is to understand the content of the request. At this stage SQL Server will behave much like an interpreted language VM: the T-SQL text inside the request will be parsed and an abstract syntax tree will be created to represent the request. The entire request (batch) is parsed and compiled. If an error occurs at this stage, the requests terminates with a compilation error (the request is then complete, the task is done and the worker is free to pick up another pending task). SQL, and T-SQL, is a high end declarative language with extremely complex statements (think SELECT with several JOINs). Compilation of T-SQL batches does not result in executable code similar to native CPU instructions and not even similar to CLI instructions or JVM bytecode, but instead results primarily in data access plans (or query plans). These plans describe the way to open the tables and indexes, search and locate the rows of interest, and do any data manipulation as requested in the SQL batch. For instance a query plan will describe an access path like 'open index idx1 on table t, locate the row with the key 'k' and return the columns a and b' . As a side note: a common mistake done by developers is trying to come up with a single T-SQL query that cover many alternatives, usually by using clever expressions in the WHERE clause, often having many OR alternatives (eg. (COLUMN = @parameter OR @parameter IS NULL ). For developers trying to keep things DRY and avoiding repetition are good practices, for SQL queries they are plain bad. The compilation has to come up with an access path that work for any value of the input parameters and the result is most often sub-optimal. I cannot close this side without urging you to read Dynamic Search Conditions in T-SQL if you want to learn more about this subject.
Walk down well-traversed hallways and trace your fingers along extensive woodwork over a century old before coming to a pause before the grand library which contains many original works from when the school first opened. Vacant leather chairs await tenants at strategically placed tables lit by green glass banker's lamps. Breathe in the faint scent of autumn air permeating throughout the building from open classroom windows. Dappled sunlight illuminates crisp paper sitting atop dusty wooden desks. A pencil case contains a carefully sealed tobacco pouch hidden within. Steal away to the boiler room during lunch for a secret smoke.Thirty-two notes were selected to evoke the atmosphere of the sprawling brick school. Gibbon's is composed of a variety of woods, leathers, smoke notes, light spices, ambers and vanillas with tobacco, dirt, leaves, black musk, frankincense, moss and hint of apple.Gibbon's leans masculine but it can be enjoyed by Women who enjoy our darker woodier fragrances. It has a smooth and rounded feel on the skin. When first applied, you can detect a hint of the autumnal notes of leaves and air. This gives way to a very sophisticated high-end fragrance that does not morph to the extent our other blends often do. It is fairly linear but it also has a multitude of layers and complexity carefully crafted to create this unique sensory experience.Application tip: If your roller ball runs dry during application, remove black cap, hold your bottle vertically with roller ball pointing to the ground and forcefully shake/thrust the bottle down one time to replenish the oil in the well. Now it is ready to reapply to your skin.Owl Creek Aleworks offers a delicious twist on English sticky toffee pudding. Toffee pudding consists of moist cake filled with sticky caramel-like chopped dates and smothered with a decadent toffee sauce. Owl Creek Aleworks serves theirs paired with locally made vanilla ice cream from Blackburn's Parlor topped with toasted coconut and crushed hazelnuts. Wash it down with a tall glass of Owl Creeks' Sugared Pumpkin Cream Stout, made with pumpkin's from Gunnerson's Pumpkin Patch!Owl Creek Aleworks opens with a combination of toasted hazelnut, toffee and caramelly-dates when first applied. Toasted coconut, vanilla ice cream and a bit of gooey cake come forward after a few minutes to meld with the hazelnut and toffee notes. Sweet malt with a touch of spice and sugared pumpkin weaves in and out through the aforementioned notes to represent the Sugared Pumpkin Cream Stout.
At first, the beginning of our transition and re-calibration to higher frequencies beyond the construct of the matrix is a blissful, beautiful experience. Being connected to the multiverse, to the cosmic love energy, is life-changing.We begin to understand the energies behind love and gratitude, the power our thoughts have in manifesting our realities, and how non-attachment and sovereignty can improve our experience of the present. Yet, this path of transcendence, of awakening and ascension, can be threatened by where we wake up.If we were to wake up on a nice floaty planet of higher-order living, no harm, no fear, no anger and hate — well that would be kinda cool!We could do our quantum make-over, our butterfly-emerging-from-the-chrysalis thing, and be at one with a harmonised existence. But it is not so here on Earth…Planet Earth circa the 21st century is a pretty scary place to wake up in. The matrix, this third dimensional reality , is a planet under siege — a panopticon prison, holding a people who have been separated and oppressed for thousands of years.Anytime in the last two thousand years, waking up here would have been hard, as much of humanity’s existence in each individual life-cycle has been driven by the basic need to survive.This leaves little time for peace, quiet reflection, meditation and existentialist thinking. Add to this the cosmic celestial waves of quantum energy transitioning a whole planet to higher dimensions at once, the Age of Aquarius, and we’ve got a whole heap of drama going on!The human experience of reality in the early 21st century is known as the matrix, maybe a computer program, a holographic universe, the third dimension.As Morpheus says in The Matrix film, ‘Everything you see around you is the matrix’.The keyword here is see. We see with the eyes, not the soul, our third eye, our heart, or our energetic frequencies — we are programmed to discount these senses.The matrix strips us back, disconnecting us from our spiritual whole self. The matrix aims to control us, to manipulate our thoughts, feelings, and existence. It wants us to be drones: to work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours and play (i.e. buy/spend) for 8 hours.An elitist control system, it is a pyramidal power structure propagated through economics, religion, politics and war.
/** * Generic implementation of an AVL tree. / public class AVLTree<K extends Comparable<K>> implements BinarySearchTreeInterface<K> { /* * The root of the tree. / private AVLTreeNode<K> root; /* * The size of the tree. / private int size = 0; /* * Creates a new {@link AVLTree}. / public AVLTree() { } /* {@inheritDoc} / public void insert(K key) { root = insert(key, root); size++; } /* * Inserts a new node with a specific key into the tree. * * @param key The key being inserted. * @param root The root of the tree to insert in. * @return The new tree root. / private AVLTreeNode<K> insert(K key, AVLTreeNode<K> root) { // Perform regular BST insertion if (root == null) { return new AVLTreeNode<K>(key); } if (key.compareTo(root.getKey()) < 0) { root.setLeft(insert(key, root.getLeft())); } else if (key.compareTo(root.getKey()) > 0) { root.setRight(insert(key, root.getRight())); } else { // It's a duplicate so insertion failed, decrement size to make up for it size--; return root; } // Update height and rebalance tree root.setHeight(Math.max(root.getLeftHeight(), root.getRightHeight()) + 1); BalanceState balanceState = getBalanceState(root); if (balanceState == BalanceState.UNBALANCED_LEFT) { if (key.compareTo(root.getLeft().getKey()) < 0) { // Left left case root = root.rotateRight(); } else { // Left right case root.setLeft(root.getLeft().rotateLeft()); return root.rotateRight(); } } if (balanceState == BalanceState.UNBALANCED_RIGHT) { if (key.compareTo(root.getRight().getKey()) > 0) { // Right right case root = root.rotateLeft(); } else { // Right left case root.setRight(root.getRight().rotateRight()); return root.rotateLeft(); } } return root; } /* {@inheritDoc} / public void delete(K key) { root = delete(key, root); size--; } /* * Deletes a node with a specific key from the tree. * * @param key The key being deleted. * @param root The root of the tree to delete from. * @return The new tree root.
A meta-analysis of 20 studies examining effects of MBSR in patients with chronic illnesses (including cancer, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain) as well as those seeking to reduce stress, found a moderate effect size (Cohen’s d = ~.50) across observational, waitlist-controlled, and active-controlled studies.101 Improvements in psychological functioning (e.g., anxiety and depressive symptoms, copying style) were observed in addition to improvements in physical health symptoms, including pain and physical impairment and function. Large, well-controlled studies that assess the active ingredients of mindfulness are still needed, yet the accumulated studies offer encouragement that MBSR is helpful in enhancing patients’ ability to cope with a wide range of chronic illnesses.
Having created the transactions giving rise to this regulatory complexity, we think discount voucher services should be expected to achieve compliance.
It requires different sort of planning that most other strategy games I've played so far. The story is a bit meh but the levels are interesting and will present you with a nice mix of puzzles to solve.
It is one thing to say something, but to go out and do something can show character as well. That also shows leadership and that’s what I try and mostly focus on.”
November 14: After another strong start to the season, injures his ankle on international duty, ruling him out for five months. 2010: Misses two months at the start of the season with an ankle injury. July 11: Plays in the World Cup final as Holland lose 1-0 to Spain. 2011: January 22: Scores his first career hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Wigan. March 8: Sent off in the Champions League last-16 match against Barcelona, receiving a second yellow card for shooting one second after the referee had blown for offside, with the Dutchman insisting he could not hear amid a crowd of 95,000. Arsenal lost 4-3 on aggregate. May 8: Scored against Stoke to make it a Premier League record eight straight away league games in which he had a goal. August 11: Named Arsenal captain after the departure of Fabregas. September 2: Scores four in Holland's record-breaking 11-0 win over San Marino. September 24: Goal against Bolton takes his Arsenal tally to 100. December 31: Scores in the 1-0 win over QPR to take his tally for the calendar year to 35, one short of Alan Shearer's Premier League record. 2012: April 22: Named PFA Player of the Year.
I cannot count the number of times I've encountered Christians wearing t-shirts that could be described as offensive. I remember the Campus Crusade for Christ shirts my fellow students used to wear during my college days and their bloody Jesus imagery. I remember the "Nuke Iraq" shirts adorned with Christian bible verses when the U.S. attacked Iraq in the 1990s. More recently, there are the shirts opposing reproductive rights that depict aborted fetuses, anti-gay bigotry, atheist bashing, anti-democracy, and the like. And yet, no matter how much some of these shirts might irritate me, I am happy to defend the right of those wearing them to do so. They are exercising their right to free expression, and I do not have to like the message in order to appreciate their right to express it. Check out the t-shirts that were the subject of a recent post at Friendly Atheist . I am not going to get into the subject of children wearing such shirts at school here because I want to focus on a more general issue. Imagine an adult wearing one of these shirts in public. I may not agree with their message (i.e., "Islam is of the devil"), but that is irrelevant. I still support such an exercise of free expression.Since many atheists have a rather low opinion of Islam, you may say that this particular shirt is an easy one to support. Fine. Imagine that the shirt instead said "Atheism is of the devil," "Atheists are evil," or even "Kill all atheists." I would still support the right of a Christian to wear such a shirt even though I certainly wouldn't like the message.Here's the catch - the right to free expression goes both ways. I defend the right of the Christian to wear such a shirt, and I expect the Christian to defend my right to wear a "fuck the skull of Jesus" t-shirt (I don't actually have such a shirt). The thing is, I would be surprised if more than a handful of Christians would actually defend my right to wear such a shirt.At least in the U.S., a Christian wearing a blatantly anti-atheist shirt is going to emerge unscathed. On the other hand, I cannot imagine an atheist wearing a blatantly anti-Christian shirt surviving long here in Mississippi or many other places in the Bible Belt.
1.3 Alice-in-Wonderland states of denial Although (in-)coherence is a nuanced concept that is not readily measured (Glass 2007), for present purposes we define incoherence as the simultaneous acceptance or simultaneous proffering of two or more explanatory propositions that cannot be all true at the same time. For example, the proposition that Princess Diana was murdered cannot also be true if the proposition that she has faked her own death is true. Similarly, the quotations of Australian climate “skeptic” Ian Plimer at the outset of this article (Plimer 2009) are incoherent. It cannot simultaneously be true that “$\hbox {CO}_2$ keeps our planet warm ...” and that “Temperature and $\hbox {CO}_2$ are not connected.” We next show that this incoherence suffuses the public posture of climate science denial, suggesting that it cannot lay a strong claim to scientific or intellectual credibility. We begin by considering the public discourse of denial in the aggregate, where incoherence is introduced by multiple actors, before returning to the level of incoherent statements by single individuals. 1.3.1 Climate sensitivity is low but it is high One of the most important, but uncertain, variables that determines the extent of future warming is climate sensitivity, defined as the warming that is ultimately expected in response to a doubling of atmospheric $\hbox {CO}_2$ concentrations from preindustrial times (e.g., Lewandowsky et al. 2014). If sensitivity is high, then continued emissions will increase global temperatures more than when it is low. Low estimates of sensitivity (e.g., ${\approx }1.5\,^\circ \hbox {C}$; Lewis and Curry 2014) are therefore favored by contrarians, with higher values within the range of consensual IPCC estimates—between 1.5 and $4.5\,^\circ \hbox {C}$ (Freeman et al. 2015)—being ignored or labeled “alarmist.” Another popular contrarian argument is that the “climate has changed before”, which frequently carries the tacit or explicit rhetorical implication that present-day climate change is similarly due only to the natural factors that drove past climate changes. This implication is a logical fallacy because the same effect can have multiple causes: Past climate changes were largely driven by slight variations in solar intensity arising from orbital variations or solar cycles, and those events are entirely independent of contemporary GHG-driven global warming.
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Chester Bennington dead: Linkin Park singer remembered 1/14 The Los Angeles coroner said it appeared the musician had taken his own life Getty 2/14 Bennington's band Linkin Park had scheduled dates for a new tour when news of his death broke Getty 3/14 The singer had long suffered from alcohol and drug addiction Getty 4/14 Bennington's band was formed in 1996 and had international success with its 2000 album Hybrid Theory Getty 5/14 The singer was found dead at his home north of Los Angeles Getty 6/14 Chester Bennington performs in concert during the 2015 Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP 7/14 Chester Bennington (right) and keyboardist Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park perform during their opening concert at the VOLT Festival in Hungary last month EPA 8/14 The singer performing in LA in May Rich Fury/Getty 9/14 Bennington in concert at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, 2013 Ethan Miller/Getty 10/14 The singer performing in Las Vegas in 2015 Christopher Polk/Getty 11/14 Bennington performs with guitarist Slash at the ninth annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit concert in Los Angeles in 2013 Reuters/Mario Anzuoni 12/14 Chester Bennington of the band Linkin Park performs during the second day of the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival Reuters/Steve Marcus 13/14 Frazer Harrison/Getty Images 14/14 1/14 The Los Angeles coroner said it appeared the musician had taken his own life Getty 2/14 Bennington's band Linkin Park had scheduled dates for a new tour when news of his death broke Getty 3/14 The singer had long suffered from alcohol and drug addiction Getty 4/14 Bennington's band was formed in 1996 and had international success with its 2000 album Hybrid Theory Getty 5/14 The singer was found dead at his home north of Los Angeles Getty 6/14 Chester Bennington performs in concert during the 2015 Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP 7/14 Chester Bennington (right) and keyboardist Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park perform during their opening concert at the VOLT Festival in Hungary last month EPA 8/14 The singer performing in LA in May Rich Fury/Getty 9/14 Bennington in concert at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, 2013 Ethan Miller/Getty 10/14 The singer performing in Las Vegas in 2015 Christopher Polk/Getty 11/14 Bennington performs with guitarist Slash at the ninth annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit concert in Los Angeles in 2013 Reuters/Mario Anzuoni 12/14 Chester Bennington of the band Linkin Park performs during the second day of the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival Reuters/Steve Marcus 13/14 Frazer Harrison/Getty Images 14/14
'"[39] On remand, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion on December 22, 2000, that did not dispute whether December 12 was the deadline for recounts under state law, although this was disputed in a concurring opinion by Florida Supreme Court Justice Leander Shaw who nevertheless expressed deference to the U.S. Supreme Court's view on this issue and who also argued that, in any case, the Florida Supreme Court would (in his opinion) be unable to craft a remedy which would satisfy all of the U.S. Supreme Court's equal protection, due process, and other concerns. [40] Article II Edit Chief Justice Rehnquist's concurring opinion, joined by Justices Scalia and Thomas, began by emphasizing that this was an unusual case in which the Constitution requires federal courts to assess whether a state supreme court has properly interpreted the will of the state legislature. Usually, federal courts do not make that type of assessment, and indeed the per curiam opinion in this case did not do so. After addressing this aspect of the case, Rehnquist examined and agreed with arguments that had been made by the dissenting justices of the Florida Supreme Court.
or the second time in a month, the City of St Francis is made to bury an archbishop... yet this time, it's the "Big One. "The figure who enshrined a progressive style of Catholicism to fit the nation's most liberal city, Archbishop John Raphael Quinn died early this morning at 88.Head of the San Francisco church from 1977-95, the San Diego native – ordained a bishop at 38 – led the US bench as the modern conference's fourth president from 1977-80, amid the hierarchy's post-Conciliar zenith of action and activism.Despite months of declining health, the news came suddenly nonetheless; Quinn had just been released from hospital last week and was said to be settling well into a nursing home, until his breathing became labored early today.Referred to almost majestically in church circles as "John Raphael," the archbishop's condition had first taken a downturn last November in Rome, where he was on hand for the elevation of one of his proteges, now-Cardinal Blase Cupich, who tapped Quinn to pronounce the papal bull granting the Chicago prelate his titular church, St Bartholomew's on Tiber Island, as Cupich took possession of it. (In a similar vein, no shortage of eyebrows were raised at the latter's 2014 installation in Chicago, as the new archbishop pointedly placed Quinn at his side among the major concelebrants at the altar of Holy Name Cathedral, even with most of the American cardinals in attendance. )Over his two decades at the helm by the Bay, Quinn's sense of the church's role in public life saw the archbishop become the first US prelate to meaningfully tackle the outbreak of AIDS, marshaling his Catholic Charities into its enduring role as the city's lead caregiver to the stricken, while most other locales remained stuck in misunderstandings on the epidemic or a lacking sense of its potential spread. Along the way, history was made in 1987 as – during his sprawling two-week Stateside tour – Pope John Paul II first met victims of the disease in San Francisco, among them two priests.At the same time, by its mid-1990s end the archbishop's tenure had become mired under a cloud of controversies ranging from his handling of sex-abuse to parish closings, leading Quinn to seek a coadjutor at 66 as his allies accused the local media of "journalistic terrorism."
On May 24, 1935, George Weyerhaeuser, nine years old, was released from school for lunch earlier than usual. As usual he walked to the nearby Annie Wright Seminary to meet his sister Ann, where the family's chauffeur generally met the children to drive them home for lunch. Arriving at the Seminary 10 or 15 minutes early, George apparently decided to walk home rather than wait; he was kidnapped somewhere en route. On realizing George was missing, the family notified police. That evening a special-delivery letter arrived at the Weyerhaeuser home, demanding $200,000 in unmarked twenty-, ten-, and five-dollar bills in exchange for George, whose signature was on the back of the envelope. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's was notified. Adhering to the kidnappers' instructions, a personal advertisement signed "Percy Minnie" was placed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer[when?] to indicate that the Weyerhaeusers would comply with the kidnappers' demands. Similar advertisements were placed on May 27 and 29. A letter received May 29, 1935 instructed George's father to register at the Ambassador Hotel in Seattle, Washington and await further contact. Also enclosed was a note from George stating that he was safe. At ten that night a taxicab driver delivered another letter to Weyerhaeuser at the hotel. This letter directed Weyerhaeuser to drive to a designated point, where he found sticks driven into the ground with a white cloth attached, and a message directing him to another signal cloth further down the road. However, on reaching this second location he found no message. After waiting two hours he returned to the hotel. On the morning of May 30 an anonymous caller remonstrated Weyerhaeuser for not following instructions; Weyerhaeuser insisted that he had wanted to cooperate but that he could not find the last note. At 9:45 that night a man with a European accent telephoned, telling Weyerhaeuser to go to an address where he would find a note in a tin can. Thereafter, he proceeded from one point to another, following directions he found at each place. On a dirt road off a highway he found a note telling him to wait five minutes with the dome light of his car burning, then to go to another white sign on the same road. There he found a note telling him to leave his car and walk back toward Seattle; if the money was in order, George would be released within 30 hours.
How will the rescue work? Stocks trim gains after vote Q&A: US $700bn bail-out plan In a televised response after the House vote, President Bush said: "In coming together we have acted boldly to prevent a crisis on Wall Street becoming a crisis in communities across the country." Mr Bush acknowledged there were concerns about the government's role and the cost of the plan. He said he believed in intervention only when it was necessary - but "in this situation, action is clearly necessary". However, he warned the package would take time to have an effect on the economy. Despite traders' celebrations, the Dow Jones finished down His Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson vowed speedy action to get the rescue package up and operating. And Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke applauded Congress, saying the bill was a critical step toward stabilising financial markets. BBC North America business correspondent Greg Wood says the passing of the bail-out plan is just the first stage and it will be several months before anyone can tell whether it is working. Avoiding 'catastrophe' Legislators were hugely divided on the bill during the House debate. Some who had voted "No" on Monday said they were switching because of the improvements to the bill but many of them still expressed serious reservations. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Others maintained their opposition, saying the bill was still a bail-out benefiting mainly Wall Street. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of many to refer to those suffering on America's Main Street and said that urgent action was needed "to avoid economic catastrophe". "The bright light of accountability will protect the taxpayer," she vowed. Democrat majority whip James Clyburn said: "We came together in a very strong, bipartisan way to deliver this decisive victory for the American people." Georgia Democrat John Lewis reflected the views of many when he said: "I have decided that the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of doing something." NEW MEASURES IN BAIL-OUT BILL Increased protection for saving deposits Increased child tax credits More aid for hurricane victims Tax breaks for renewable energy Higher starting limits to alternative minimum tax
Hide Caption 22 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise For "The Apprentice," Trump was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 2007. Hide Caption 23 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump appears on the set of "The Celebrity Apprentice" with two of his children -- Donald Jr. and Ivanka -- in 2009. Hide Caption 24 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump poses with Miss Universe contestants in 2011. Trump had been executive producer of the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants since 1996. Hide Caption 25 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise In 2012, Trump announces his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Hide Caption 26 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump speaks in Sarasota, Florida, after accepting the Statesman of the Year Award at the Sarasota GOP dinner in August 2012. It was shortly before the Republican National Convention in nearby Tampa. Hide Caption 27 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump appears on stage with singer Nick Jonas and television personality Giuliana Rancic during the 2013 Miss USA pageant. Hide Caption 28 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise In June 2015, during a speech from Trump Tower, Trump announced that he was running for President. He said he would give up "The Apprentice" to run. Hide Caption 29 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump -- flanked by U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, left, and Ted Cruz -- speaks during a CNN debate in Miami on March 10. Trump dominated the GOP primaries and emerged as the presumptive nominee in May. Hide Caption 30 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise The Trump family poses for a photo in New York in April. Hide Caption 31 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump speaks during a campaign event in Evansville, Indiana, on April 28. After Trump won the Indiana primary, his last two competitors dropped out of the GOP race. Hide Caption 32 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump delivers a speech at the Republican National Convention in July, accepting the party's nomination for President. "I have had a truly great life in business," he said. "But now, my sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country -- to go to work for you. It's time to deliver a victory for the American people."
Former Clemson football star Tajh Boyd has been charged with assault, according to Greenville police.He was allowed to turn himself in Tuesday morning. The warrant said the doorman at On The Roxx on South Main Street in Greenville had told Tajh Boyd he could not enter the bar on the night of July 14 because it was at full capacity, so he would have to wait in line "like everyone else. "The warrant said Boyd continued to argue about not being allowed inside the bar until the owner stepped outside. The doorman said that when he told Boyd to leave, he shoved him with two hands, causing him to "fly through the door, knocking another female and himself to the ground. "The doorman said he told Boyd again to leave, and he complied.The doorman said he did not file a police complaint for a few days because he "wanted to speak with his attorney first. "Boyd was released on $1,087 bond shortly after he turned himself in.On The Roxx issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying: "In reference to the recent charges brought against Tajh Boyd, On the Roxx is not pressing charges nor did On the Roxx bring these allegations to the attention of the police. "This incident transpired between an independent contractor hired to work the front door who personally filed charges against Mr. Boyd of his own accord without On the Roxx prior knowledge. "The first priority of On the Roxx is the safety and security of its patrons and we will cooperate with officials on this matter. However, all further questions regarding this case should be directed to the victim as this is between him and Mr. Boyd. "Boyd was recently in the news when his parents’ home in Seneca was broken into Aug. 31. The assault was in no way connected with the burglary.Tajh Boyd's father, Lamar Boyd, reported that he came home from work to find that his home broken into. He said two televisions had been ripped off the wall and 14 pairs of Tajh Boyd's collectible Jordan shoes valued at about $5,000 to $6,000 were stolen.Tajh Boyd played four seasons for the Tigers, three as starting quarterback. He led the Tigers to 32 wins from 2011 to 2013. He was a two-time first-team All-ACC selection, ACC Player of the Year and a first-team All-American by the AFCA in 2012.
In channel flow, the Reynolds number (Re) is defined as Re = Uh/ν K , where U is the centreline velocity of the parabolic profile, h is the half-height of the channel, and ν K is the kinematic viscosity of the fluid (Fig. 1). Laminar channel flow (plane Poiseuille flow) is linearly stable up to a Reynolds number of Re L = 5,772 (ref. 20). However a turbulent spot excited by a finite perturbation can grow and split to spread into extended spatial regions because of a global nonlinear instability even if Re is much smaller than Re L (refs 21,22). To study this transition, an experimental set-up was configured. The flow channel has a length of 5,880 mm in the streamwise (x) direction, a cross-section of 5 mm in depth (the y direction), and a width of 900 mm in the spanwise (z) direction. Thus the aspect ratio of the channel is 2,352h × 2h × 360h. The flow dynamics in the (x, z) plane was visualized and recorded using a visualization technique and three charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras (see Methods). Instead of triggering turbulent spots by a local perturbation for each measurement, as in the previous experiments13,21, turbulent flow is continuously excited in the buffering box through the use of a grid and injected from the inlet (x = 0), otherwise the flow remained laminar up to much higher Reynolds numbers (see Methods). Figure 1 shows the visualization of turbulent spots observed near the middle of the channel (x/h = 1,200) at Re = 810. Note that most of the turbulent flow injected at the inlet decayed quickly and became a laminar flow. Hence, any surviving turbulent flow tends to be visible as localized turbulent spots characterized by finer-scale disordered eddies surrounded by several streaks and clear laminar flows21. The typical size of the turbulent spot is about 40–80h.
The 'banana wars' have been raging for 16 years The European Union has agreed a deal to cut tariffs on banana imports, signalling the end of the world's longest-running trade dispute. Banana producers in Latin America will be subject to lower EU import tariffs as a result of the deal. This should make them more competitive with producers in Africa and the Caribbean, who pay no tariff. The price of bananas could fall by 12% as a result. The formal agreement will be signed in six to nine months' time. Duty on imported bananas will be cut from 176 euros (£158; $256) per tonne to an initial 148 euros (£133; $215). Further cuts will be made on an annual basis over the next seven years to 114 euros per tonne. The deal was being "initialled" in Geneva on Tuesday afternoon by the various trade representatives. "I am delighted that we have finally found a way to solve the bananas dispute with a compromise that works for all sides," said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. "This is an important boost for the multilateral system". Long-running dispute BANANA WARS: STORY SO FAR 1993: EU imposes first Europe-wide tariffs on banana imports from non-APC countries 1996: Ecuador leads Latin American countries in complaining to the WTO about the tariffs 1999: WTO allows US trade sanctions on EU exports for the first time after declaring banana tariffs illegal 2000: A new EU deal on tariffs is rejected by the US 2001: Banana war declared "over" as US-EU deal is struck on tariffs promising change by 2006 2005: Proposed new EU banana tariffs declared illegal by WTO, following complaints 2006: Ecuador again complains to the WTO 2008: EU tariffs again declared illegal by the WTO, upholding the latest complaints from Ecuador and the US 2008: EU trade commissioner warns that global trade deals at risk due to banana wars 2009: EU signs new deal with Latin American producers, fuelling new hopes of an end to banana wars Q&A: The banana wars Analysis: Fruits of world trade
“That they were walking into a place where they knew the rules, or there were rules to be discovered.” There’s little irony, and the reader rarely knows more or less than Harry. In the seven novels, Christmas Day always falls midway. Stephen King and others have teased Rowling for overusing adverbs when describing speech. The habit seems to show a determination not to be misunderstood. So too, in a way, do her repetitions. (Over a few hundred pages, as Harry enters adolescence, Diggory reddens, Harry reddens, Ron reddens, and Fudge reddens; Percy goes slightly pink, then very pink; Hermione is slightly pink; Malfoy is slightly pink and then brilliantly pink; Hermione is very pink and then rather pink; Colin also goes pink; Hermione is, again, slightly pink; so is Ron, and then Hermione; and then she’s flushed pink with pleasure. Lavender blushes, followed by Hagrid and Hermione.) And if Rowling’s metaphors were sometimes grudging—“like some bizarre fast-growing flower”; “like some weird crab”—it may be because metaphors carry you away, for a moment, from the place where the story has put you. Rowling’s goal was to keep you there. Rowling’s mindfulness about plot led her to have almost the same relationship with her material as an obsessive fan did. Ian Rankin recalled bumping into her one day in an Edinburgh café: “It was incredible to see her, writing longhand, doing this family tree for a character. I can’t think of any other author I know who would go into that kind of detail for something that’s not going to be there on the page.” It was like a video game where you never got to the edge of the rendered landscape. Despite the thoroughness of the final reckoning in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” and its extended epilogue, there’s much that Rowling knows but has not written. In 2007, after the final book was published, she announced that Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, was gay. I asked her if Dudley, Harry’s cousin, had any children as an adult, and she told me that he had two.
Three Percenters stood on one side of Emancipation Park, Redneck Revolters a few blocks away at a different park. Three Percenters said in an official statement after the rally that they disowned the racist groups at Unite the Right and issued a stand-down order during the rally. But they also served as a kind of armed guard for their leaders: After police forced the white nationalists out of Emancipation Park, Three Percenters formed a protective barrier around alt-right blogger Mike Enoch and Spencer. Enoch appeared to have been pepper-sprayed.
On March 20, in McCray v. Illinois, the Supreme [Court] held that when, on being questioned as to whether there was probable cause to arrest a defendant, a policeman testifies ‘that a “reliable informant” told him that the defendant was committing a crime the policeman need not name the informant[.] Justice Stewart, for himself: and four other members of the Court, said that “nothing in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court judge in every such hearing to assume the arresting officers are committing perjury.” Why not? Every lawyer who practices in the criminal courts knows that police perjury is commonplace. The reason is not hard to find. Policemen see [themselves] as fighting a two‑front war — against criminals in the street and against “liberal” rules of law in court. All’s fair in this war, including the use of perjury to subvert “liberal” rules of law that might free those who “ought” to be jailed. And even if his lies are exposed in the courtroom, the policeman is as likely to be indicted for perjury by his co‑worker, the prosecutor, as he is to be struck down by thunderbolts from an avenging heaven. It is a peculiarity of our legal, system that the police have unique opportunities (and unique temptations) to give false testimony. … The difficulty arises when one stands back from the particular case and looks at a series of cases. It then becomes apparent that policemen are committing perjury at least in some of them. and perhaps in nearly all of them. Narcotics prosecutions in New York City can be so viewed. Before Mapp [v. Ohio] the policeman typically [testified] that [he] had stopped the defendant for little or no reason, searched him, and found narcotics on [his] person. This had the ring of truth. It was an illegal search (not based upon probable cause”), but the evidence was admissible because Mapp had not yet been decided. Since it made no difference, the policeman testified truthfully. After, the decision in Mapp it made a great deal of difference. For the first few months, New York policemen continued to tell the truth about the circumstances of their searches, with the result that evidence was suppressed. Then the police made the great discovery that if the defendant drops the narcotics on the ground, after which the police man arrests him, then the search is reasonable and the evidence is admissible.
et al. Control conditions for randomised trials of behavioural interventions in psychiatry: a decision framework. However, although it was less rapidly effective, supportive counselling as delivered in this trial could probably also be beneficial for treatment of auditory hallucinations. Supportive counselling is a control condition with non-specific factors that, compared with no treatment, can be effective in its own right.There is evidence for a small positive effect for supportive counselling and befriending in psychosis, by contrast with smaller or zero effects of treatment as usual.When designing the supportive counselling intervention, we made every effort to ensure that this therapy was delivered competently, with close weekly supervision provided by the trial therapy coordinator, which included regular use of live recordings. Furthermore, supportive counselling in this trial went beyond a simple attentional control and addressed practical concerns about living with psychosis, finding ways to improve current quality of life, coming to terms with past trauma, and identifying personal resources and qualities. The scores of counselling competency delivered in the control group suggest that this therapy was delivered proficiently. Provision of audiotaped recordings of the best 10 min of each supportive counselling session and encouragement of participants to reflect on these recordings as an attempt to control for the homework element of AVATAR therapy went beyond what is usually provided in a therapist attention control, which is why we consider this to be an augmented form of supportive counselling. Whether comparisons of AVATAR and supportive counselling with treatment as usual would favour AVATAR cannot be addressed with this study. The issue of when best to compare new treatments with treatment as usual is discussed by Gold and colleagues,who come to the broad conclusion that this approach is most appropriate at early phase 2, and much larger, subsequent pragmatic trials with active controls are useful at an intermediate stage along this pathway. We originally considered a three-arm study but rejected it on the grounds of the resources required and the stage of AVATAR research. In future studies, different options for design and control conditions, including novel designs and how and whether to include a treatment-as-usual condition, should be carefully considered.
As an actor, Pacino has always been unafraid to do what he needs to in order to be in the moment; he trusts his instincts and explodes with whatever feelings come up. Performing, for him, is not so much a profession as a destiny. “This is what I’m meant to do,” he told me. “It’s the cog in my life. With this, everything suddenly coheres. And I understand myself in that way.” Pacino has given complex shape to some of his era’s most memorable creations: Michael Corleone, the college boy turned Mafioso, in “The Godfather” trilogy (1972-90); Frank Serpico, the police whistle-blower, in “Serpico” (1973); Tony Montana, the Cuban drug lord, in “Scarface” (1983); the hapless thief Teach, in “American Buffalo” (1983); Sonny Wortzik, the would-be bank robber, in “Dog Day Afternoon” (1975); the gangster Big Boy Caprice, in “Dick Tracy” (1990); Ricky Roma, the smooth-talking salesman, in “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1992); and Roy Cohn, the closeted lawyer, in the HBO version of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” (2003)—to name just a few of the more than a hundred roles he has taken onscreen and onstage. In recent years, he has painted brilliant, eerie film portraits of such obsessives as the euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian, in Barry Levinson’s HBO movie “You Don’t Know Jack,” and the eponymous swami of rock and roll, in David Mamet’s HBO film “Phil Spector.” Pacino regrets that many of his Hollywood movies of the past decade (“Righteous Kill,” “The Son of No One,” “88 Minutes,” “Jack and Jill”) have been business chores, taken on for primarily financial reasons. “If you don’t have that alacrity of spirit, then you have to check yourself—because where’s the pony in all this horseshit?” he said. “I worked for United Parcels once, and I don’t want to have that feeling with my own craft—that it’s just a job.” Because of the protean nature of his attack, Pacino has often been compared to Brando, another truth-seeking force of nature. When Pacino was thirteen and performing in a school play, an adaptation of “Home Sweet Homicide,” he already identified so strongly with his role that when his character was supposed to get sick onstage he became nauseated. (“Somebody came up and said to my mother, ‘Here’s the next Brando.’ I said, ‘Who’s Brando?’ ” Pacino recalled.)
According to Christie and Gauvreau (2001), while the Christian settlement houses sought to Christianize, Jane Addams "had come to epitomize the force of secular humanism." Her image was, however, "reinvented" by the Christian churches. [65] According to Joslin (2004), "The new humanism, as [Addams] interprets it comes from a secular, and not a religious, pattern of belief". [66] According to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, "Some social settlements were linked to religious institutions. Others, like Hull-House [co-founded by Addams], were secular. "[67] In fact, the co-founders of Toynbee Hall, Samuel and Henrietta Barnett, shared Addams's desire to bring Christianity back to its roots. Part of what was called the "social Christian" movement, the Barnetts held a great interest in converting others to Christianity, but they believed that Christians should be more engaged with the world, and, in the words of one of the leaders of the movement in England, W. H. Fremantle, "imbue all human relations with the spirit of Christ's self-renouncing love." Addams learned about social Christianity from them, soon considered herself one, and soon made friends among the leaders of the "social Christian" movement in the United States. [68] Jane Addams's religious faith was thus a central motive in co-founding Hull House with Starr. She sought to convert others to Christianity in greater numbers. A brief experiment in weekly prayer among the residents of the settlement house, requested by some of them, was highly religious and retained many converts to Christianity, to the delight of Addams and the other founder's helpers. Other settlements in both Great Britain and the United States later followed a religious approach and sought conversions. [69] Addams's own religious beliefs were shaped by her wide reading and life experience. [70] By the time she had graduated from Rockford Seminary, she knew the Bible (especially the New Testament) thoroughly, having studied it throughout her young life, including in college courses. She had also been required to memorize a verse from the Bible every day at Rockford, and listen to a short sermon on the daily verse by the school's principal. Evidence of this deep familiarity with Scripture can be found throughout her later writings. While she remained a member of a Presbyterian church, Addams regularly attended a Unitarian Church and Ethical Society in Chicago. At one point, she was appointed "interim lecturer" at the Ethical Society.
Remember high school? That time of education and personal exploration, in a place of learning where young minds are shaped into responsible adults under the guidance of caring, understanding adults? Of course not. High school isn't like that. Between your raging hormones and the near-psychotic outbursts of your overworked, underpaid teachers, there was barely enough time to copy someone else's homework to turn in next period while planning to accidentally bump into that hottie you pass every day on your way to lunch. If you heard the word "responsible" in high school, it was probably followed by the words "for setting the toilets on fire" and the hope that your name wouldn't somehow be associated with it. Wildlifers isn't specifically about setting high school toilets on fire, but only because I haven't quite worked out the script to that one. It is about high school students, though, as represented by the two funny animals right here: Eddie and Musky, two of the first Wildlifers I ever came up with. There's a lot more of them now (there'd have to be, or there wouldn't be much story), and I make them do things like dissect eyes and watch bad educational films for your amusement and mine. Sure, it's cruel it's comedy, darn it! The Wildlifers made their first appearance in the anthology comic Wild Life #1 from Antarctic Press in 1993. They made appearances in most of the issues of that book, and since then have showed up now and then in the venerable indie anthology Furrlough. They generated more mail and requests with every appearance, asking questions like like "When is there going to be more?" and "Why don't these guys get their own book?" and "What the heck kind of animal is Musky?" As for that last one, she's an otter. As for the other two, the answers are now "in September" and "now they do"! The Wildlifers Back to School Special reprinted all the Wildlifers stories published so far in a 64-page, no-ads black and white collection. It's available on the Comics page of my Online Catalog. In addition to stories like "Pierced Dreams" and "The Eyes Have It" from the early, hard-to-find issues of Wild Life, there will be two entirely new stories: "Forked", which explores the mysterious and not always pleasant fate of flatware, and "Thrift Store Shopping Extravaganza". "But Joe," I hear you ask, "what will this comic be like?"
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features Jamelle Bouie of Slate on CBS's Face the Nation saying that Hillary Rodham Clinton was "correct and accurate" to call Donald Trump's supporters "deplorables." Bouie on Face the Nation: "I'm inclined to see it as strategy and not so much as a gaffe because when I heard the remark, well, my first question was: Is this true? Right? Regardless of how it sounds, what it looks like, is it — what is the case about Donald Trump supporters? And if you break down the numbers and you look at the RealClearPolitics average, and it gives Trump up about 43 percent of registered voters. So it's about 30, 31 million people. "Compare that to polls that show 65 to 70 percent of all Republicans who say Barack Obama either wasn't born in the United States or is a Muslim. You look at pilot data from the American National Election Study, and it shows upwards of 40 percent of Republicans saying things like, 'Blacks are more violent, blacks are lazier, Muslims are more violent, Muslims are lazier.' Among Trump supporters in particular, 60, 50, 70 percent of them agree with statements that political scientists categorize as being explicitly racist. "So I'm looking at Clinton's statement, and half — which is about 31 million people again — doesn't really seem that out of bounds; 40 to 50 percent of Republicans, I would say, looking at the full spectrum of data, agree with beliefs that we would categorize as explicitly prejudiced. So regardless of whether or not Clinton needs to walk it back or not, I think she's being correct and accurate." Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: "Bouie demonstrated the synergy between Hillary Clinton and the media elite, both with disdain for the masses, assuming the worst motives behind those tired of liberal Washington policies. Of course, journalists like Bouie didn't jump in 2012 to defend the accuracy of Mitt Romney's characterization of 47 percent as those 'who are dependent upon government' and pay no income tax, gleefully treating that accurate assertion as a damaging gaffe." Rating: Five out of five screams.
In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a "vaccine" of live malaria parasites through their bites. The results were astounding: Everyone in the vaccine group acquired immunity to malaria; everyone in a non-vaccinated comparison group did not, and developed malaria when exposed to the parasites later. The study was only a small proof-of-principle test, and its approach is not practical on a large scale. However, it shows that scientists may finally be on the right track to developing an effective vaccine against one of mankind's top killers. A vaccine that uses modified live parasites just entered human testing. "Malaria vaccines are moving from the laboratory into the real world," Dr. Carlos Campbell wrote in an editorial accompanying the study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. He works for PATH, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, a Seattle-based global health foundation.The new study "reminds us that the whole malaria parasite is the most potent immunizing" agent, even though it is harder to develop a vaccine this way and other leading candidates take a different approach, he wrote.Malaria kills nearly a million people each year, mostly children under 5 and especially in Africa. Infected mosquitoes inject immature malaria parasites into the skin when they bite; these travel to the liver where they mature and multiply. From there, they enter the bloodstream and attack red blood cells — the phase that makes people sick.People can develop immunity to malaria if exposed to it many times. The drug chloroquine can kill parasites in the final bloodstream phase, when they are most dangerous. Scientists tried to take advantage of these two factors, by using chloroquine to protect people while gradually exposing them to malaria parasites and letting immunity develop.They assigned 10 volunteers to a "vaccine" group and five others to a comparison group. All were given chloroquine for three months, and exposed once a month to about a dozen mosquitoes — malaria-infected ones in the vaccine group and non-infected mosquitoes in the comparison group.That was to allow the "vaccine" effect to develop. Next came a test to see if it was working.All 15 stopped taking chloroquine. Two months later, all were bitten by malaria-infected mosquitoes.
H4A News Clips June 12, 2015 LAST NIGHTS EVENING NEWS There was no 2016 coverage on any network news program. Instead, news networks continued their coverage of the escaped prisoners. They also discussed new developments related to ISIS and the Middle East, including the US soldier who was killed, as well as U.S. strategy in the region. LAST NIGHTS EVENING NEWS......................................................................... 1 SOCIAL MEDIA................................................................................................. 4 Hilary Rosen (6/11/15, 9:13 am) - on the @usairways shuttle to NYC. Not a #HillaryClinton staffer in sight. #CheapTranspoIsANewThing...................................................................................................... 5 Buzzfeed News (6/11/15, 9:52 am) - JUST IN: @CNBC reporting that @rupertmurdoch is preparing to step down as CEO from 21st Century Fox http://www.cnbc.com/id/102730161 <http://www.cnbc.com/id/102730161>.............................................. 5 Eli Stokols (6/11/15, 10:10 am) - Jeb says absent fathers "limit the possibility of young people to live lives of purpose and meaning."............................................................................................................... 5 Benjy Sarlin (6/11/15, 10:17 am) - Asked Jeb Bush about 1995 book bemoaning lack of "shame" towards single motherhood. He said he'd "evolved" but restated importance of issue........................................... 5 WSJ (6/11/15, 4:08 pm) - Breaking: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down July 1 http://wsj.com <http://wsj.com> 5 Bernie Sanders (6/11/15, 5:01 pm) - It's time to declare once and for all: #BlackLivesMatter — on the streets and on the job. Read my piece in @Medium: http://bernie.to/dream <http://bernie.to/dream>.................................................. 5 David Drucker (6/11/15, 5:30 pm) - . @tedcruz tells @hughhewitt that his super PACs have BANKED $37 million, Interview broadcast this evening................................................................................................. 5 LAUNCH PREVIEW STORIES............................................................................ 5 Story of Hillary Clinton’s Mother Forms Emotional Core of Campaign // NYT // Amy Chozick - June 12, 2015 5 Hillary Clinton Plans to Show Her Roots in Rally Speech // WSJ // Laura Meckler – June 11, 2015.. 8 With stories of mother's struggle, Clinton seeks reintroduction in first major campaign speech // AP // Lisa Lerer & Ken Thomas............................................................................................................................ 9 Clinton's launch speech to focus on her mother's life // Politico // Annie Karni – June 11, 2015...... 11 Inside the relaunch of Hillary Clinton // Politico Magazine // Glenn Thrush - June 12, 2015.......... 13 Hillary Clinton: "It is your time" // VOX // Jonathan Allen – June 11, 2015................................... 15 *Why is Hillary Clinton running for president?
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Posted Jan 29 2011 12:16AM CHICAGO (AP) Derrick Rose feels it when he eats and drinks, and showers are painful, too. If the All-Star point guard were looking for something to make him feel better, this sure didn't hurt. Rose scored 22 points despite two stomach ulcers, Luol Deng added 26, and the Chicago Bulls beat Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic 99-90 on Friday night. "There's no excuses," Rose said. "When I stepped out there, they weren't going to say that they were going to take it easy on us because I'm sick. They're a good team." So are the Bulls, who won for the ninth time in 11 games even though Howard scored a season-high 40 points. They took the lead with a big third quarter and then held off a late push by Orlando. The Magic cut it to 93-90 after Howard scored, stole a pass and fed Gilbert Arenas for a layup. Deng then scored down low with 1:22 left, and Rose hit four free throws the rest of the way, sealing the win. Deng had 14 in the third as the Bulls doubled up the Magic 34-17, turning a five-point halftime deficit into an 80-68 lead. Carlos Boozer added 16 points and 16 rebounds, helping Chicago avenge an earlier blowout at home by Orlando. It was a rough night for the Magic even though Howard was at his best. He was five shy of his career scoring high while pulling down 15 rebounds, but Orlando simply came up short against the Central Division leaders. It hit just 5-of-21 3-pointers with the Bulls fixated on defending the perimeter, even if that meant letting Howard go wild, and got outrebounded 54-40. "At the end of the day, the 3 is more dangerous than the 2," Boozer said. "You don't want to give anybody 40 points. ... But I was proud of us for running them off the 3-point line. We took away their 3-point shot and rebounded the ball very well. It worked tonight." It didn't help the Magic that they played most of the game without point guard Jameer Nelson, who lasted just eight minutes and sat out the final three quarters because of soreness in his right knee. He's not sure what caused the problem or if he'll play Sunday against Cleveland. "I hope I can play Sunday," Nelson said.
(Helmut Graupner, "Love Versus Abuse: Crossgenerational Sexual Relations of Minors: A Gay Rights Issue?" Journal of Homosexuality 37 (1999): 23, 26) 53. The Archives of Sexual Behavior reports: "One of the most salient findings of this study is that 46% of homosexual men and 22% of homosexual women reported having been molested by a person of the same gender. This contrasts to only 7% of heterosexual men and 1% of heterosexual women reporting having been molested by a person of the same gender." (Marie, E. Tomeo, et al., "Comparative Data of Childhood and Adolescence Molestation in Heterosexual and Homosexual Persons," Archives of Sexual Behavior 30 (2001): 539) 54. A study of 279 homosexual/bisexual men with AIDS and control patients reported: "More than half of both case and control patients reported a sexual act with a male by age 16 years, approximately 20% by age 10 years." (Harry W. Haverkos, et al., "The Initiation of Male Homosexual Behavior," The Journal of the American Medical Association 262 (July 28, 1989): 501) 55. Noted child sex abuse expert David Finkelhor found that "boys victimized by older men were over four times more likely to be currently engaged in homosexual activity than were non-victims. The finding applied to nearly half the boys who had had such an experience . . . Further, the adolescents themselves often linked their homosexuality to their sexual victimization experiences." (Bill Watkins & Arnon Bentovim, "The Sexual Abuse of Male Children and Adolescents: A Review of Current Research," Journal of Child Psychiatry 33 (1992); in Byrgen Finkelman, Sexual Abuse (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995), p. 316) 56. A study in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology found: "In the case of childhood sexual experiences prior to the age of fourteen, 40% (of the pedophile sample) reported that they had engaged 'very often' in sexual activity with an adult, with 28% stating that this type of activity had occurred 'sometimes.'" (Gary A. Sawle, Jon Kear-Colwell, "Adult Attachment Style and Pedophilia: A Developmental Perspective," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 45 (February 2001): 6) 57. A National Institute of Justice report states that "the odds that a childhood sexual abuse victim will be arrested as an adult for any sex crime is 4.7 times higher than for people . . . who experienced no victimization as children."
Hello and welcome to the first interview of two about League of Legends in Japan. With the announcement of Riot to start hosting a Japanese Server in the first half of 2014, I wanted to direct the spotlight a little bit on the Japanese Scene. We all know that PC gaming in Japan is not as successful as in other parts in the world. My goal with this interview was to give an insight into how League of Legends is received in Japan. The second interview will be with Matsujun who is the organizer of the JCG League ~ one week after this one.Enjoy!Hello, thank you for agreeing to do an interview. Can you introduce yourself and your team?Hi, nice to meet you, and thank you for the Interview. I’m Nick, the manager for AF1.AF1 Burst consists of Estelim( Mid), Awaker (Top), tAltAltAl (Jungle), Tanu(ADC) and Rusalka(support).AF1 Assault consists of bDreamer(Mid), Carilrui(Top), Sneel(Jungle), Type89(ADC) and Zenith(support).The A and the B does not mean one team is any less than the other team. It was just a coincidence.How did you end up on a Japanese team?I used to work with NA teams. Maybe 2 years ago I was the manager of a team with Megazero and Meryb. We were not that great at the time and the team disbanded because the jungler was recruited by a team named 4not . After that I looked through the Ranked 5s ladder to find a new team to manage (I really wanted to be in eSports at the time). So, I contacted Jpak and friends. We did very well after I joined, but it was not because of me. I do not think I was a great manager back then. I could have done a lot more for the team. After a tournament (I think it was GGc tournament), I started looking for sponsors for Jpak and friends. I rushed it a bit because I was not experienced enough and just wanted a sponsor. When we joined AL, we were doing okay, but we slowly started to fall apart. Players were not respecting each other. We had a lot of roster changes. The last roster I managed was Kikomeplease, Naya, XJ9, Sneaky, and Evaniskus. Then, a player on that roster stopped coming to scrims and that made the other members and me lose motivation.After that, I quit and focused on real life for a couple of months.
But Protess declined: it appeared that Anthony Porter would be executed before fall classes got under way. He was sorry, but he wouldn’t be able to help. Then Porter received some good news: The Illinois Supreme Court agreed to a mental-competency hearing, based on the results of the IQ test. Porter’s execution would be stayed for four months while Sanders and the prosecutors made their preparations. Futorian updated Protess with the developments, and Protess penciled the case into the calendar for his next seminar, the News Media and Capital Punishment. Before heading into the field, the students in the News Media and Capital Punishment course attended a series of lectures on investigative journalism. The most memorable was delivered by Paul Ciolino, a private detective and a good friend of Protess’s. Ciolino was a native Chicagoan; he’d been raised on the South Side, the son of a car salesman and a homemaker. As a teenager with a teenage wife and two young kids he needed to support, he’d enlisted in the Army and spent seven years conducting investigations for the military police in Germany and the U.S. In the 1980s, he’d hung out his own shingle.
More likely is that national-grade surveillance of Wikileaks and similar providers of hard to get governmental and banned information is a continuing covert operation. Online surveillance by authorities is common, either by direct access to worldwide Internet infrastructure or by cooperation of Internet Service Providers and commercial firms which provide hardware and software for digital communications and are obliged by law to provide lawful access to user data. There are a number of lawful spying guides available on the Internet, many hosted on Cryptome.org and elsewhere. Wikileaks is assuredly aware of these invasive practices and its protection for communications is far superior to commercially-provided protection which is so weak that it verges on being criminally deceptive. National authorities unfortunately are not accountable to the public for its surveillance of lawful activities, and Wikileaks is justified in helping increase accountability, including that related to national security which is excessively hidden from the public by secrecy amok. John Young
And the way that the work is defined is that you look at all these different difficulty scores, and these are difficulty numbers, and you add them up, and that gives you a difficulty score for the entire chain. And now we're going to be interested in the chain that had the most work put into it. And we call that the longest chain. Now let's imagine that Dan is dishonest and that after he eats the pizza-- let's say Pete's convinced and he gets his Bitcoin from Dan. He waits a bit. He sees that there is a long chain after that contains a transaction. He sends the pizza over to Dan. Dan eats the pizza and then decides that he doesn't want to behave honestly and he wants to somehow cheat Pete, or he wants to defraud the system. And the way that Dan is going to try to defraud the system is by attempting to create another transaction in which he assigns the 5 Bitcoins he got from Carol to somebody else. And it could be-- let's call this person Fred. And let's say Fred is basically-- Fred could be Dan's alter ego. It could be a friend of Dan's. It doesn't matter who Fred is because we know that Fred isn't the rightful owner of these Bitcoins. But what Dan is going to try to do is he's going to try to take those 5 Bitcoins that he got from Carol. And he's going to now try to take those 5 Bitcoins and assign them over to Fred. And we know that this is something that we don't want to allow because that would mean that somehow Dan was able to spend these 5 Bitcoins twice over. He's effectively double-spent those Bitcoins, and obviously one of these transactions should be considered fraudulent, the other one should be allowed to go through. Now, it's important to keep in mind that if Dan just tried to spend these same coins again without trying to cover his tracks or anything of that nature, then everybody out there would know that Dan is up to no good. Because they can see from the existing longest transaction block chain-- namely this existing chain from the beginning-- they can see that, hey, Dan already spent these coins before, he shouldn't be allowed to spend these coins again.
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Northern Ireland's annual marching season, which culminates on Tuesday with the 12 July parades, has seen some of the worst violence in years, prompting politicians to appeal for calm. While most of Northern Ireland moves away from The Troubles, Liz MacKean examines why, on both sides of the sectarian divide, there are significant pockets of resistance to peace. East Belfast sits in the shadow of Harland and Wolff's famous cranes The mighty yellow cranes that stand over loyalist east Belfast recall the days when the area teemed with shipyard workers. With the collapse of ship building, those same streets are now among the poorest in the United Kingdom. One tradition holds good though - just around the corner from the flat where footballer George Best grew up, a tower of wooden pallets is being erected. This is one of many bonfires lit on Monday night for the climax of the marching season, the loyalist celebration of their history of devotion to Queen and country. This is where I meet a group of teenagers who have just witnessed the most violent street disturbances in a decade. Over two nights, hundreds of youths were involved as a Protestant mob laid siege to the Short Strand, a small area of Catholic homes. Resignation The group has worked to improve their area, even setting up a drop-in centre for bored teenagers. And yet they all seem resigned to a future of conflict. Lisa tells me: "There's been that much anger between Protestants and Catholics, it's not going to be resolved quite easily." Her friend Abie adds: "There's obviously going to be conflict between both sides because there always has been." Youngsters from both sides have been involved in clashes A few streets away I meet another group of teenagers. They too would have been barely out of nappies when the main paramilitary groups called ceasefires and yet they say they have grown up in an atmosphere of sectarian hatred. One, speaking anonymously, told me he had happily taken part in the rioting: "I call it helping out... Throw a couple of missiles... just bricks, bottles, just anything you can get a hold of. Just throw them over." He is referring to the artificial "peace wall" that separates the Protestant and Catholic houses where for two nights police had dealt with petrol bombs, missiles and even gunfire, coming from both sides.
moneyThe recent instances of fraudulent share transfers , siphoning off of dividends by rogue employees at share transfer agent Sharepro Services may not be an isolated case. Moneycontrol.com has learnt from sources at share registrars that the problem is an industry-wide one.The issue has remained under wraps so far because in a majority of the cases, there are no claimants for the shares and dividends that were pilfered. In quite a few cases, the shares have been already disposed of by the fraudsters by the time legal heirs came forward to stake their claim.Also, these shares are in physical form and, in some instances, the share certificates (usually bonus shares) are lying with the registrar. That is because the original shareholder would have died and if there is nobody to collect the shares at the address mentioned in the company records, the shares/dividend cheques are returned to the registrar by the postal department.According to government records, unclaimed and unpaid amounts of around Rs 1,274 crore have been transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) from 2001-02 to 2015-16. When unclaimed for seven consecutive years, the dividend is transferred to the IEPF.Technically, unclaimed dividends do not always mean that the owners of the shares are untraceable. There are cases where the dividends are not directly credited to the shareholders’ bank accounts, and instead sent as cheques. If the dividend amount is insignificant, many shareholders do not take the trouble of depositing it. But there are many instances where unclaimed dividends have piled up to a few thousand or few lakh rupees, an indication that the original owners of the shares are no longer around, or have forgotten about the existence of the shares.Considering an approximate dividend yield of 2 percent, it could mean there are roughly Rs 64,000 crore worth of unclaimed shares.
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Colonel Douglas Macgregor: No, I haven't organized any of that. That's being done by an entirely different group of people. They asked me to be a spokesperson for them. I have to tell you I grew so angry over time. Going to the funerals for young people, soldiers, sergeants, lieutenants and captains. People I knew in active duty. People I taught at West Point. I was very, very willing to speak on their behalf because these are veterans and they're an enormous number, well over 100,000. These are people who've actually served and done something. They not only showed up and did their duty as Americans as they were asked to; they have done more than that. They've seen action, they've been under fire as I have, and they understand what combat means and what warfare means. And they understand what devastating impact these colonial expeditions that we call Iraq and Afghanistan have had on the Americans in uniform and on the people in these countries who are caught in the middle. They know that we have killed, wounded or incarcerated hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Afghans and we have done so unnecessarily and pointlessly, in pursuit of this Utopian notion that we can transform millions of Muslims and Afghans into Anglo-Saxon democrats. It's absurd nonsense. It needs to die once and for all but in the meantime the damage we have done to ourselves, between the 4 trillion dollars at least that we have lost indirectly and trillions more that we'll lose as a consequence of trying to help the damaged human beings that are trying to emerge from these conflicts, then you have the human toll, which we occasionally read about and we pay lip service to but really people don't understand. This sort of thing is why I was drawn to the veterans' thing for Ron Paul and that is why I am happy to speak for them.
Let me modify that statement. I have given some of my foreign fan sites permission to translate my posts into other languages, so if you are reading this in Klingon or Dothraki, you're just fine).And now we return you to your regularly scheduled programming, and me to Skull Island, where Kong is staggering a little.
— More than 60 Teaneck High School students were arrested after a senior prank where the teens sprayed silly string on floors, taped hot dogs to lockers, flipped desks, urinated in the hallways and smeared Vaseline on doors around the school early Thursday, authorities said. Officers discovered the vandalism after they responded to a burglary alarm at the school around 2 a.m., Teaneck police Acting Chief Robert Carney said at a news conference. When police arrived, several students ran from the building, while others hid inside. In the end, 63 high school seniors were arrested, including 24 adults, Carney said. The 39 juveniles were released to their parents. All of them were charged with burglary and criminal mischief, Carney said. Because of the number of students, police from more than 15 agencies assisted Teaneck officers at the school, Carney said. A K-9 team from the Bergen County Police Department's bomb squad also swept the building before classes. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit found eight juveniles hiding in a classroom, according to agency spokesman David Martinez. Students were loaded into sheriff's vans and taken to the township police headquarters without incident after the arrests. Police said it was not immediately clear how the teens got into the building overnight and investigators were working to collect security camera footage from the school. More punishment could come from the school district, Superintendent Barbara Pinsak told reporters. “The district continues to assess the situation and is considering the consequences that we’ll impose on any students implicated,” she added. While the damage was widespread, it wasn’t permanent, officials said. High school workers cleaned up the mess within a few hours. The high school opened as usual Thursday despite the disruption, but the arrests were the talk of the school through the day. Many
"We are pleased and which is the authority to recognize, '' said Mitić told reporters.The meeting was, she said, was organized for two reasons, first of all to encourage and commend all those who are in Belgrade and throughout Serbia assisted refugees. "It's very important for us as a society, to feel empathy for these people," said Mitic.The meeting was, she said, and a strong political message - that we can not be a city that has a right-wing organizations that will not make protests against refugees, or that it does not wish to participate.She dodaala that the initiative was important to "fit the line" and send a message that "there is no place for right-wingers in this city.
Ke depan, saya ramalkan hanya akan ada dua kekuatan politik besar: dua koalisi besar partai. Sebuah proses penyederhanaan parpol secara alamiah.”Setelah mendapat reaksi para pendukungnya, Pius Lustrilanang kemudian mengklarifikasi:“Saya tidak pernah menyebut siapa yang menang dan siapa yang kalah. Kenapa tulisan saya dipelintir seolah-olah saya sudah menyatakan kalah?Dalam tulisan saya yang berjudul "BEROPOSISI SAMA TERHORMATNYA DENGAN MEMERINTAH" saya menyatakan 5 hal penting:1. Kata "cuma ada yang tertukar" di akhir alinea pertama, menegaskan masih ada perbedaan soal siapa yang menang.2. Menghormati siapapun yang telah mengawal proses pemilu supaya berlangsung jujur dan adil.3. Yang kalah harus siap beroposisi, dan yang menang siap memerintah adalah pernyataan yang berulang kali disampaikan Prabowo. Masalahnya pernahkah Jokowi menyatakan hal yang sama?4. Menghimbau setiap elit untuk berdisiplin dalam berkoalisi. Kalau koalisinya kalah, berdisiplinlah untuk beroposisi. Jangan kemudian loncat gerbong gara-gara hanya ingin berkuasa.5. Disiplin dalam berkoalisi akan punya efek penyederhanaan sistem kepartaian dalam jangka panjang.”Pius sendiri membenarkan bahwa tulisan itu asli dari dirinya. Dan akun Facebook tersebut juga asli miliknya."Asli. Profile picture yang ada tulisan I Stand On The Wrong Side itu betul punya saya," kata Pius kepada detik.com, Kamis (17/7).Bagi peneliti Indonesia Publik Institut (IPI), Karyono Wibowo tulisan Pius Lustrilanang itu sebenarnya sebuah pengakuan yang jujur akan kemenangan pasangan Jokowi-JK.“Saya yakin tidak hanya Pius yang mengetahui Jokowi-KL unggul dari Prabowo-Hatta. Saya menduga dan sangat yakin Pak Prabowo Subianto, Pak Hatta Rajasa, Pak Mahfud MD, Pak Anis Matta, Pak ARB sadar kalau Jokowi-JK yang unggul. Pun Pak SBY saya duga dia sadar pasangan Jokowi-JK yang unggul,” katanya.Karyono mengatakan, dirinya juga sangat yakin mereka-mereka itu punya data yang akurat soal siapa pemenang Pilpres 2014 ini.“Setahu saya, SBY cukup memahami metodologi survei dan percaya dengan hasil survei. Lembaga survei SMRC merupakan salah satu yang beberapa kali dipakai oleh SBY, dan dipercayai SBY,” katanya.Hanya saja, kata dia, semua pihak harus menunggu hasil putusan pleno KPU, siapa yang akan ditetapkan sebagai capres dan cawapres pemenang pilpres 2014.“Oleh karenanya, keinginan untuk menunggu keputusan KPU patut kita hargai,” kata Karyono. [L-8]
Italian-American Ralph DePalma set a flying-mile world record of 35.2 seconds in a Mercedes at Des Moines Speedway in Iowa, US. Des Moines Speedway was one of several wooden speedways to be constructed between 1910 and 1928. Other cities having board tracks included, but were not limited to, Cincinnati, Omaha, Uniontown, Altoona, Chicago, Kansas City, Beverly Hills, Miami and Sheepshead Bay. None survive today. Most were built by the Prince Speedway Company. The Des Moines Speedway was a mile in circumference. The straight aways were pitched ten degrees and the turns forty degrees. Speeds of over 100 miles per hour were assured by designers. The face of the speedway was built of 2x4's laid on edge. It was reported that 210 laborers were employed. In addition, more than three million feet of lumber and 45 tons of nails were required in construction of the great speedway at a cost of ninety-thousand dollars. The facility included a grandstand with seating capacity of ten thousand and an infield capacity of six thousand automobiles. The infield area, where the races could be watched while seated in automobiles, was reached by subway at the northeast turn of the track. The Des Moines Speedway only held two major events in its short history: a 300 mile race in 1915 and in 1916 a 150 mile race (a 50 mile open event was held the same day following the big race). While the 1915 event would be marred by tragedy, the 1916 events went off without any significant incidents. A smaller purse race was held on Decoration Day in 1916, primarily for Iowa drivers, and featuring Bill Barndollar and local champion Red Shafer. Unfortunately for the speedway, 1916 was the final year of racing. Many of the big name drivers were joining the war effort. In addition, attendance never again reached that of its glorious opening in 1915. In 1917, after a failed attempt by J. Alex Sloan to bring I.M.C.A. to the speedway, and the speedway company being named as defendant in a lawsuit, the track was dismantled and the wood was sold throughout central Iowa to satisfy creditors. It is rumored that many of the barns and other wooden buildings in the area built from 1917 to 1918 still stand with timber from the old board raceway.
From: Peter Mattis Subject: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP Date: 1995-11-21 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.windows.x.apps The GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program ------------------------------------------------ The GIMP is designed to provide an intuitive graphical interface to a variety of image editing operations. Here is a list of the GIMP's major features: Image viewing ------------- * Supports 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit color. * Ordered and Floyd-Steinberg dithering for 8 bit displays. * View images as rgb color, grayscale or indexed color. * Simultaneously edit multiple images. * Zoom and pan in real-time. * GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and XPM support. Image editing ------------- * Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent. * Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip. * Painting tools including bucket, brush, airbrush, clone, convolve, blend and text. * Effects filters (such as blur, edge detect). * Channel & color operations (such as add, composite, decompose). * Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters. * Multiple undo/redo. Requirements ------------ * The operating system must support shared memory. * X11 R5 or R6\. (Actually, it may work on R4, but we have not had a chance to test it). * The X-server must support the X shared memory extension. (The X-server does not actually need to support shared memory so this is only a temporary situation until we integrate the configure information with the source code). * Motif 1.2 or above. The GIMP has been tested (and developed) on the following operating systems: Linux 1.2.13, Solaris 2.4, HPUX 9.05, SGI IRIX. Currently, the biggest restriction to running the GIMP is the Motif requirement. We will release a statically linked binary for several systems soon (including Linux). URLs ---- http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~gimp ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp mailto:[email protected] Brought to you by ----------------- Spencer Kimball ([email protected]) Peter Mattis ([email protected]) NOTE ---- This software is currently a beta release. This means that we haven't implemented all of the features we think are required for a full, unqualified release. There are undoubtedly bugs we haven't found yet just waiting to surface given the right conditions. If you run across one of these, please send mail to [email protected] with precise details on how it can be reliably reproduced.
The taskforce will meet at least once a week or daily, if necessary, during peak winter months, to review air quality status including weather and air quality forecast,“ the report said The Centre filed its response after the apex court had slammed it for not framing a disaster management plan for the pollution crisis in the city.In case the pollution level is severe (when PM 2.5 levels are above 250), the Centre recommended closing work of brick kilns, stone crushing and the Badarpur power plant. It said the public transport system should be improved as should mechanised cleaning of roads.Accepting all the recommendations, the court asked the Centre to notify it so that the suggestion could be implemented. The court also asked the Centre to study the adverse impact on environment due to use of poor quality of fuel.Senior advocate Harish Salve and lawyer Aprajita Singh , who are assisting the court as amicus, told the bench that furnace oil was being used in areas surrounding Delhi and it increased pollution.
total WZs Est.total # Hrs 1 0 2 1000 1000 1000 1 0.3 3 1100 100 2100 2 0.5 4 1200 100 3300 3 0.8 5 1300 100 4600 5 1.2 6 1400 100 6000 6 1.5 7 1500 100 7500 8 1.9 8 1530 30 9030 9 2.3 9 1540 10 10570 11 2.6 10 1730 190 12300 12 3.1 11 1970 240 14270 14 3.6 12 2200 230 16470 16 4.1 13 2440 240 18910 19 4.7 14 2680 240 21590 22 5.4 15 2920 240 24510 25 6.1 16 3150 230 27660 28 6.9 17 3390 240 31050 31 7.8 18 3630 240 34680 35 8.7 19 3870 240 38550 39 9.6 20 4100 230 42650 43 10.7 21 4340 240 46990 47 11.7 22 4580 240 51570 52 12.9 23 4820 240 56390 56 14.1 24 5050 230 61440 61 15.4 25 5290 240 66730 67 16.7 26 5530 240 72260 72 18.1 27 5770 240 78030 78 19.5 28 6000 230 84030 84 21.0 29 6240 240 90270 90 22.6 30 6480 240 96750 97 24.2 31 6720 240 103470 103 25.9 32 6960 240 110430 110 27.6 33 7190 230 117620 118 29.4 34 7430 240 125050 125 31.3 35 7670 240 132720 133 33.2 36 7910 240 140630 141 35.2 37 8010 100 148640 149 37.2 38 8120 110 156760 157 39.2 39 8230 110 164990 165 41.2 40 8340 110 173330 173 43.3 41 8450 110 181780 182 45.4 42 8550 100 190330 190 47.6 43 8660 110 198990 199 49.7 44 8770 110 207760 208 51.9 45 8880 110 216640 217 54.2 46 8990 110 225630 226 56.4 47 9090 100 234720 235 58.7 48 9200 110 243920 244 61.0 49 9310 110 253230 253 63.3 50 9420 110 262650 263 65.7 51 9530 110 272180 272 68.0 52 13685 4155 285865 286 71.5 53 17840 4155 303705 304 75.9 54 21995 4155 325700 326 81.4 55 26150 4155 351850 352 88.0 56 30305 4155 382155 382 95.5 57 34460 4155 416615 417 104.2 58 38615 4155 455230 455 113.8 59 42770 4155 498000 498 124.5 60 46925 4155 544925 545 136.2 61 51080 4155 596005 596 149.0 62 51610 530 647615 648 161.9 63 52140 530 699755 700 174.9 64 52670 530 752425 752 188.1 65 53200 530 805625 806 201.4 66 53730 530 859355 859 214.8 67 54260 530 913615 914 228.4 68 54790 530 968405 968 242.1 69 55320 530 1023725 1024 255.9 70 55850 530 1079575 1080 269.9 71 72 61830 5450 1197785 1198 299.4
First, it claims that the studios "are unlikely to offer the service absent the ability to activate SOC." But... as noted, some studios already do offer such a service. On top of that, why is it the FCC's job to give the MPAA yet another window? Windows are anti-consumer, not pro-consumer. But, the FCC claims it's good for the consumers, and the MPAA's victory announcement makes the same ridiculous claim:That logic is backwards. Basically, Hollywood is saying that it held the public hostage until the FCC let it break your TVs, and because the FCC caved in and Hollywood will release the movies it easily could have released before, consumers win. When someone is taken hostage and the family pays up, that's not a "win" for the family. As Public Knowledge points out, this appears to be the FCC doing this just as a favor to Hollywood Of course, in typical Genachowski FCC fashion, this ruling tries to walk that line between each side, in that it didn't grant the MPAA'swaiver, but tries to limit it, by saying it can only be used on films before the DVDs are released or for 90 days on a particular film (whichever comes first). The FCC will also "revisit" the issue in two years -- even under threats from the MPAA that if the FCC could revisit this issue, that uncertainty would lead the studios to scamper away, run and hide and not offer this service out of fear that the FCC would take away their right to break your TV. The FCC thought that was silly. It's not clear why the FCC didn't believe the MPAA's threat not to invest if the ruling could be reviewed, but do believe the threat not to release movies on TV earlier without this ruling... but that's the way this particular FCC seems to function.In the meantime, now that the FCC has opened this door, expect more efforts to expand it much wider.
"More than 10 years after theoverthrow of the Taliban, modest advances have been made for girls andwomen in Afghanistan," the report said. "But much remains to be done.Peace talks between the Taliban, Afghan government and the U.S.jeopardize even these modest gains as the U.S. searches for a quickexit."

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