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Diwali, the biggest celebration of the year is here and the excitement levels are at its peak at this time of the year. If, this Diwali, you and your family have dropped the idea of bursting firecrackers, congratulations! And if your plans still include firecrackers , let this handy guide give you some alternatives to those choking firecrackers. Every Diwali, a thick cloud of smog as a result of firecrackers make it increasingly difficult to breathe, so why not change that? Diwali, as the name suggests, is the festival of light NOT noise and let's keep it that way. So, after the Diwali puja, decorating your house and glamming up in new clothes, if you still have some time left, avoid reaching for the box of crackers and try these ideas instead.On Diwali, count your blessings and not the calories. Good food makes every celebration better and you can live by that motto even on Diwali. It's one of our biggest festivals and the food that day should reflect it too. Load up on sweets, delicacies and enjoy them with family and friends. You won't realise how quickly the day went by because you were busy licking fingers!Instead of choking the air with harmful firecrackers, flip things around. Plant a sapling with your family. Instead of giving gifts that may end up getting passed on to others, gift a plant. Who would mind some greenery in their home!If you're good at playing cards, put that talent to good use and make some extra money. Throw a taash party for your friends or family (more the merrier) and get cracking. If you lack the skills, then maybe a game of monopoly with real money is more your thing.There's plenty to do if you're in no mood it lose money on Diwali. Gather your family and belt out some Bollywood numbers together. Karaoke or Antakshri - take your pick. Make some noise (not pollution) and let the filmy fever take over! If singing isn't your cup of tea, do a Barjatya/Chopra movie marathon.Remember, bada aasaan sa game hai...Share the cheer of Diwali with those who don't enjoy the same privileges as us. Spend time with the underprivileged children in your neighbourhood, bring them sweets and new clothes. Education is the best gift one can give, so consider gifting books or sponsoring a child's education and put that Diwali bonus to some good use.
The most painful misrepresentation in Donald Trump’s largely lie-based campaign did not emerge until after the release of the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump described his way of interacting with women to whom he’s attracted: pushing himself on them physically, without obtaining consent. “I just start kissing them,” he bragged, talking to Billy Bush, the show’s host. “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” At the second Presidential debate, Anderson Cooper pointed out to Trump that he was describing sexual assault, and pressed him on the obvious question: Had he actually ever done the things he bragged about? No, Trump said—and he has continued to stick to this answer, despite the fact that twenty women have now come forward by name with firsthand stories about Trump’s predatory behavior—thirteen of them within just the past two weeks. A Washington Post/ABC News poll recently asked respondents whether they believed that Trump “probably has or has not made unwanted sexual advances toward women.” Sixty-eight per cent of registered voters believed that he had; only fourteen per cent believed that he had not. Forty-three per cent of likely voters in the poll said that they would vote for Trump, suggesting that a significant portion of Trump’s supporters think that he’s lying, and do not care. The assumption that Trump is lying is a reasonable one. As many have pointed out, this is not a “he said, she said” situation. Jake Tapper, on CNN, called it a “she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said situation”—and, of course, Trump said it, too. The question in the Post/ABC poll could be reframed: Which Trump do you believe? The candidate in the final stretch of his failing Presidential bid, or the man in 2005, whose boasts are corroborated by more than a dozen women? Trump lodged his own sexual-misconduct allegations. And, to deny them, he has to impute dishonesty not just to all the women who have come out in agreement with him but to his former self. View more Trump also must undermine the image he’s built for himself as the wild card who doesn’t care about propriety, who always tells it like it is. But, over the past week, he has proved incapable of this maneuver.
Actin serves as loading control. (B) Induction of apoptosis as measured by ClCas3 staining of MEFs deficient in DNA repair factors upon doxycycline-induced (48 hours) expression of PGBD5 (red) as compared to control phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)–treated cells (blue). P = 0.010, 0.0080, and 0.0010 for Atm−/−, AtrS/S, and Ku80−/− of doxycycline versus control, respectively. (C) Representative photomicrographs of MEFs upon doxycycline-induced PGBD5 expression for 48 hours (+) as compared to PBS-treated controls (−), stained for 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI; blue) and ClCas3 (red). (D to E) Induction of DNA DSBs measured by TUNEL staining (D) and γH2AX staining (E) of MEFs deficient in DNA repair factors upon doxycycline-induced (48 hours) expression of PGBD5 (red) compared to control PBS-treated cells (blue). P = 0.0010 and 0.0020 for Atm−/− and AtrS/S of doxycycline versus control, respectively (D). *P = 0.0030 and 0.020 for Atm−/− and AtrS/S of doxycycline versus control, respectively (E). Error bars represent SDs of three biological replicates.
I was driven to a poor suburb to the north of Sheffield, in South Yorkshire. Children and parents played in the street. The houses looked shabby, some painted various shades of red, with boarded-up windows. I arrived with local activists at a nondescript property. Michael, who was from Cameroon, opened the door and welcomed us warmly in fluent English.The house was managed by British multinational G4S. It was a damp-smelling, three-storey building with steep stairs. Though the tenants received little money from the state and were not legally allowed to work, they had to buy cleaning products and other essentials for themselves. Clearly, this was not a priority. In the kitchen I saw the effect of leaking water, grimy around the sink. A mop stood in the corner. I was told the floor remained stained even after washing.The back garden was overgrown, with rubbish in the tall grass, and old cushions, a washing machine, and boxes were piled up in a small shed. The shower was covered with mold—there was usually hot water, but there had been a period in the winter when it ran cold for three months.In the living room, a form bearing a G4S logo noted the times when a G4S Housing Officer had visited, together with the list of asylum-seeker tenants, who had originated from many nations. The Housing Officers visited once a month, and although Michael said they were often friendly, they rarely took action to remedy the property’s many problems.Since he had been in the place for nine months, I asked Michael why he had not cleaned it up. He would have to buy gloves to do it, he said—another expense—and it was easier to ignore it. The carpet on the stairs was peeling, posing a danger to residents and visitors.Most bedrooms were occupied by two people, each with a single bed. Every room had a lock on the door. Michael said he got along with his housemates—a small mercy in the cramped space available—and he was lucky to have the attic on his own, which afforded a view over the drab city. The room contained a Bible, a laptop—though no chair—coins, shoes, suitcases, soap, and shampoo. Water had leaked from the ceiling for months, and G4S had not fixed it.
For months, U.S. intelligence had been reporting about Task Force links with the Pepes: The Embassy suspected some level of cooperation between Los Pepes and the Task Force as early as February 1993, when it reported that the Pepes attacks could be the work of "rogue policemen taking advantage of the rash of bombings to give Escobar a taste of his own medicine." (Document 8) A secret CIA report from March 1993 found that, "Unofficial paramilitary groups with a variety of backgrounds and motives are assisting Bogota's efforts against both the Medellin druglord Pablo Escobar and radical leftist insurgents. (Document 10) Around the same time, the CIA reported that the Colombian defense minister, Rafael Pardo, was "concerned that the police are providing intelligence to Los Pepes." In a document titled, "Colombia: Extralegal Steps Against Escobar Possible," Agency analysts predicted that President Gaviria's "demand for an intensified effort to capture Escobar may lead some subordinates to rely more heavily on Los Pepes and on extralegal means." [Emphasis added] (Document 15) By far the most detailed declassified record on the Pepes affair, the August 1993 Embassy cable, "Unraveling the Pepes Tangled Web," reveals that the Colombian government was both the recipient of U.S. intelligence information and the target of U.S. intelligence operations. Just as technical and investigative intelligence techniques tracked Escobar's movements and communications, other agents eavesdropped on the Colombian president's inner circle. The most important information in the cable is attributed to "PALO" sources, an acronym that likely refers to the CIA. One indication of this is the fact that the cable—which includes the sensitive "NODIS" designation, limiting its distribution to a highly-select group of addressees—was referred to CIA before declassification. According to the cable, Colombian prosecutor Gustavo DeGreiff had "new, 'very good' evidence linking key members of the police task force in Medellin charged with capturing Pablo Escobar Gaviria (the "Bloque de Busqueda") to criminal activities and human rights abuses committed by Los Pepes." The cable describes a series of meetings from the previous April, including one where, according to "PALO" intelligence sources, Colombian National Police director General Miguel Antonio Gómez Padilla said "that he had directed a senior CNP intelligence officer to maintain contact with Fidel Castano, paramilitary leader of Los Pepes, for the purposes of intelligence collection."
If we accept this thesis, then it is no surprise that the post–2008 recovery has been quite so anaemic. Investment spending has remained low throughout the developed world, nowhere more so than in the United Kingdom. What makes this low level of investment even more surprising is the strength of the rebound in corporate profits and balance sheets – corporate leverage in the United States is as low as it has been for two decades and the proportion of cash in total assets as high as it has been for almost half a century. Specifically, the United States has also experienced an unusual increase in labour productivity during the recession which has exacerbated the disconnect between the recovery in GDP and employment. Some of these unusual patterns have been with us for a much longer time than the 2008 financial crisis. For example, the disconnect between GDP and employment in the United States has been obvious since atleast 1990, and the 2003 recession too saw an unusual rise in labour productivity. The labour market has been slack for at least a decade. It is hard to differ from Paul Krugman’s intuition that the character of post–1980 business cycles has changed. Europe and Japan are not immune from these “structural” patterns either – the ‘corporate savings glut’ has been a problem in the United Kingdom since atleast 2002, and Post-Keynesian economists have been pointing out the relationship between ‘capital accumulation’ and unemployment for a while, even attributing the persistently high unemployment in Europe to a lack of investment. Japan’s condition for the last decade is better described as a ‘corporate savings trap’ rather than a ‘liquidity trap’. Even in Greece, that poster child for fiscal profligacy, the recession is accompanied by a collapse in private sector investment.
AI'S ROLE IN DRONE WARFARE Concerns about Chinese inroads into advanced technology come as the U.S. military looks to incorporate elements of artificial intelligence and machine learning into its drone program. Project Maven, as the effort is known, aims to provide some relief to military analysts who are part of the war against Islamic State. These analysts currently spend long hours staring at big screens reviewing video feeds from drones as part of the hunt for insurgents in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon is trying to develop algorithms that would sort through the material and alert analysts to important finds, according to Air Force Lieutenant General John N.T. 'Jack' Shanahan, director for defense intelligence for warfighting support. A British Royal Air Force Reaper hunter killer unmanned aerial vehicle on the flight line February 21, 2014 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Military bosses say intelligence analysts are 'overwhelmed' by the amount of video being recorded over the battlefield by drones with high resolution cameras 'A lot of times these things are flying around(and)... there's nothing in the scene that's of interest,' he told Reuters. Shanahan said his team is currently trying to teach the system to recognize objects such as trucks and buildings, identify people and, eventually, detect changes in patterns of daily life that could signal significant developments. 'We'll start small, show some wins,' he said. A Pentagon official said the U.S. government is requesting to spend around $30 million on the effort in 2018. Similar image recognition technology is being developed commercially by firms in Silicon Valley, which could be adapted by adversaries for military reasons. Shanahan said he' not surprised that Chinese firms are making investments there. 'They know what they're targeting,' he said. Research firm CB Insights says it has tracked 29 investors from mainland China investing in U.S. artificial intelligence companies since the start of 2012. The risks extend beyond technology transfer. 'When the Chinese make an investment in an early stage company developing advanced technology, there is an opportunity cost to the U.S. since that company is potentially off-limits for purposes of working with (the Department of Defense),' the report said.
One of Point Loma’s high-profile restaurants and an iconic destination for locals and visitors alike, the Bali Hai Restaurant on Shelter Island will host a 60th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, Oct. 30 from 6 to 10 p.m.The Polynesian-theme restaurant at 2230 Shelter Island Drive is throwing a party with live entertainment, including performances by Creepxotica, Desi Realtor, Pride of Polynesian and live painting by Norm Daniels.“There are two generations who have done really well, and we have a legacy to uphold,” said Tommy Baumann, Bali Hai general manager and son of owners Susie and Larry Baumann. “My brothers Andy and Grant and I enjoy that challenge, and we know how lucky we are to be the third generation to continue the success.”Baumann also touted the success of the Bali Hai over six decades in the Point Loma community.“There weren’t very many restaurants in neighborhoods back 60 years ago; we were one of a handful of the restaurants people went to,” said Larry Baumann. “This gave us the opportunity to become woven in the fabric of these people’s lives. These families have allowed us to be a part of every special occasion including weddings, graduations, anniversaries, etc. over the years.”The landmark restaurant, located on the northern tip of Shelter Island, is a chic, sleek Polynesian paradise opened in 1954 by San Diego restaurateur Tom Ham. Bali Hai was the island’s first “tiki temple” and remains one of the largest remaining original tiki temples in the United States.Family owned and operated for more than five decades, Ham’s vision continues through his daughter, Susie Baumann, her husband, Larry, and sons Grant, Andy and Tommy. Generations of diners come for the delicious food, spectacular views and the restaurant’s world-famous Bali Hai mai tais.
Routes of administration and dosage Like the amphetamines, MDMA and its related compounds are amines that can exist either as free bases or as salts of various acids. The free bases are volatile and, indeed, amphetamine itself was first marketed in this form in an inhaler, for use as a nasal decongestant. Theoretically, MDMA and MDEA could also be used in this fashion, but the methylenedioxy group raises the boiling point of the free base so high that it is impossible to use it by sniffing the vapour.3 The salts, on the other hand, are not volatile but are quite soluble in water4 and can, therefore, be administered intravenously, orally or by “snorting” the powder.5,6 MDMA is almost always taken by mouth and is prepared as single-dose tablets for this purpose. As sold illicitly in Europe and North America, MDMA is typically prepared in very professional-looking tablets stamped with a wide variety of symbols according to the whim or imagination of the maker (see illustration in Theune and colleagues7). However, the actual composition of the tablets varies greatly, with respect to both the drug(s) contained in them and the amounts. Several different laboratories have analyzed street samples sold in their localities, and have found that the drug sold as “ecstasy” may be MDMA, MDEA, MDA, PMA (para-methoxyamphetamine), MBDB (3,4-methylenedioxy-phenyl-N-methylbutanamine), ephedrine or varying mixtures of these,8,9,10 though the great majority consist of a single active drug.11 The typical dosage range of MDMA for recreational use varies from 50 mg to 150 mg,7,12 but the amount per tablet in different batches of tablets may vary 70-fold or more, from almost zero to well over 100 mg.9,13 The total amount consumed per occasion varies greatly among users. In Europe, North America and Australia, MDMA has been used primarily as a party drug rather than by solitary users.14 Its current popularity arises from its use at “raves,” the all-night dance parties at which it is taken to postpone fatigue and allow the user to dance energetically for hours on end. For this purpose, the most common dosage has been 1–2 tablets during the course of the party,15,16 but occasional case reports have indicated doses as high as 10 tablets in combination with other drugs,17,18,19 usually with toxic outcomes. In 2 fatal cases, the actual amount taken is uncertain because the victims ingested the drug unknowingly, their drinks having been “spiked” with it by friends playing a joke on them.20
While we suggest that a belief in Hell leads to lower levels of well-being, these data cannot rule out the possibility that individuals with low levels of well-being are more likely to adopt the belief in Hell or that some third variable is responsible for this pattern. Furthermore, even if the causal direction does run from Heaven and Hell beliefs to well-being, the correlational results leave open the possibility that these effects might be indirect – operating on intermediary phenomena – rather than direct. For example, Brañas-Garza and colleagues [10] have similarly used large datasets to show that belief in Heaven is more tightly related to religious practice and service attendance than is Hell. It is possible that the beliefs in benevolent and malevolent afterlives do not affect well-being directly, but do so via alternative pathways such as religious participation. In order to clarify the specific causal relationships, we conducted Study 3, an experimental priming study in which we assigned participants to think about Heaven, Hell, or a control topic before reporting their current happiness. If Heaven and Hell beliefs have direct and divergent well-being consequences, we should observe happiness differences between participants in these two experimental conditions.
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NEW DELHI: The worry gnawing at Congress in the wake of the debacle in assembly elections found expression on Wednesday with party chief Sonia Gandhi acknowledging that they were passing through "trying and challenging” times. "We are meeting in trying and challenging circumstances. The results of the recent assembly elections have been deeply disappointing,” she told party MPs.Sonia also tried to lift the spirits of her troops. "Let us all go from here mindful of the challenges ahead but also mindful of the fact that no odds are insurmountable for a party such as ours, for a party with our legacy, with our history and with our track record of achievement,” she said on the concluding day of the penultimate session of the 15th Lok Sabha.But the emphasis seemed to be on acknowledging the party’s failure to market its welfare politics, as well as to meet the aspirations of the people. "We are going into the causes of the defeat. There are many, but it is obvious that we have not been able to convince the people of our policies, programmes and achievements. We have not, it seems, been able to fulfill their aspirations,” she said.Significantly, Sonia said besides "dissatisfaction of some sections of the people” with former party governments in Delhi and Rajasthan, dissension in the two state units also contributed to the drubbing.Along with the candour came the exhortation to fight "divisiveness and sectarian interests”: code phrase for Narendra Modi-led BJP which routed Congress in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, bested it in Chhattisgarh and was prevented from scoring an outright majority in Delhi only because of AAP’s stellar performance. The Congress chief said defeat should not deter the party from fighting "those who offer only a narrow and destructive alternative”.
Two weeks ago, the production quotas for all prison work shifts were arbitrarily increased by fifty units. If previously the minimum was one hundred uniforms a day, now it is one hundred and fifty. According to the Labor Code, workers must be notified of a change in the production quota no less than two months before it is goes into effect. At PC-14, we just woke up one day to find we had a new quota because the idea happened to have popped into the heads of the wardens of our “sweatshop” (that’s what the prisoners call the penal colony). The number of people in the work shift decreases (they are released or transferred), but the quota grows. As a result, those who remain have to work harder and harder. The mechanics say they don’t have the parts to repair the machinery and will not be getting them. “There are no spare parts! When will they come? What, you don’t live in Russia? How can you ask such questions?” During my first few months in the manufacturing zone, I nearly mastered the profession of mechanic, out of necessity and on my own. I would attack my machine, screwdriver in hand, desperate to fix it. Your hands are scratched and poked by needles, your blood is all over the table, but you keep on sewing. You are part of an assembly line, and you have to do your job alongside the experienced seamstresses. Meanwhile, the damned machine keeps breaking down. Because you’re the newcomer and there is a lack of good equipment in the prison, you end up with the worst equipment, the most worthless machine on the line. And now it’s broken down again, and once again you run off looking for the mechanic, who is impossible to find. You are yelled at and berated for slowing down production. There are no sewing classes at the prison, either. Newcomers are immediately plunked down in front of their machines and given their assignments.
Thus, it was not just the present TE cancellation of the Russian attempt to bypass Ukraine (which, for the time being is, to all intents and purposes, a formal protectorate of it), through the South Stream pipeline ––thanks to the successful ‘pressure’ of the EU on its informal protectorate, Bulgaria. In fact, a similar story happened a few years ago with another informal protectorate of the EU, Greece, when the Burgas-Alexandroupoli pipeline was cancelled, following heavy pressure by the TE, through its EU component. That was an oil project for transportation of Russian oil from the Bulgarian Black seaport of Burgas to the Greek Aegean port of Alexandroupoli, which was an important alternative route for Russian oil, bypassing the Turkish-Straits. Although the project was described as one of the shortest pipelines through a plain terrain and therefore one of the cheapest and cost effective,[11] and the agreement was signed in Athens in 2007 by President Putin and PM Karamanlis, the TE, having already planned (well before the Ukraine crisis!) the drastic reduction of EU’s dependence on Russian oil, went as far as, effectively, replacing Karamanlis by its much more obedient organ George Papandreou—in reality, a product of the US-Zionist elites. Papandreou not only torpedoed this very fruitful for the Greek people agreement that could have reduced the absolute dependence of Greece on the TE and open the door for a possible future entry into the Eurasian Union but, also, played a leading role in bringing forward the Greek economic catastrophe. Thus, it was Papandreou himself who invited the IMF (as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then IMF director himself revealed, to “help” Greece), even though the Greek solvency problem was not publicly known at the time and according to several experts the bailout was still avoidable, without the catastrophic ‘help’ of the TE and its troika. Clearly Papandreou, as well as his successor Papadimos, who, was also a ‘man of the TE’, played a very dirty role in precipitating the Greek economic catastrophe––although of course, the underlying causes were systemic and had to do with Greece’s integration into the EU. [12]
"'There's a lot of strong men in there who've had their stomachs turned by what they've seen.' "I said, 'What? ', and he said, 'He's been crucified'. "Mr O'Carroll told how gruesome Bale stole from churches and robbed graves to make his macabre satanic altar.He added: "He had all the artefacts he had stolen from a Catholic church, the chalice, the host, he had gone into a graveyard and dug up bones. "But most chilling of all, I drove down to Lucan and the detective said, 'He's in there and it's quite extraordinary, he's talking about his failure'. "Lorcan Bale was in there and in his hysteria he was talking disjointedly to a master we now know as the Dark Lord about his failure, how he had failed. "His diabolical plan was, in the list that was found down by the river where he clubbed that young John Horgan to death, was a list of victims. "If he had had his way he would have become a serial killer, a diabolical killer. "Mr O'Loughlin said he was never able to allow his children to lock their bedroom doors after seeing what was hidden in the attic that day.He added: "One of my children locked the bedroom door one time - I lost it with him a little bit. It was a rule, you never lock the door in my house. "It still haunts me, not a day goes by. But I can still see it as clear as yesterday. "Author David Malone has written a book, The Boy In The Attic, about the horrific murder.He said Bale is now married with no children and has never given an explanation for what he did.But he added: "I'd say not a day goes by that he doesn't think of that June day in 1973. "The Boy In The Attic is published by Mainstream Publishing.CAPTION(S):HORRIFIC Book KILLERZ EvilBale MURDERED John Horgan BATTERED John Horgan was found murdered in Lorcan Bale's home
I can't imagine what Gaza would be like if it didn't have the sea. The other morning its tiny piece of the Mediterranean was coming in lazy and calm, and a light breeze was blowing down the beach. If you are Gazan and your soul is troubled, or if you just want some space, the beach must be one of the better places to go. GAZA AFTER THE CONFLICT 80% living on less than $2 a day 35,000 without running water 20,000 homes destroyed or damaged 80% living on less than $2 a day 10% without electricity 800 private businesses destroyed or damaged 324 factories destroyed or damaged 450,000 carnations exported since Feb, of 6m expected to be produced by late April 35% of UN OCHA flash appeal funding received 52 drugs out of stock in Gaza hospitals Sources: UN OCHA, UNRWA, UNDP, Palestinian Federation of Industries, Palestine Trade Centre, WHO You can see people walking on the sand, and sitting talking on plastic chairs late at night, or climbing over the rocks and watching the waves and a horizon that most have never crossed. Most of Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians are impoverished and are not allowed to leave by their Israeli and Egyptian neighbours. It is hard to think of another place in the world that can be as oppressive. But considering that Gazans have so much experience of war, loss and bloodshed, it is remarkable that the human spirit here is so resilient. But it has been severely tested by everything that has happened this year. Life was hard enough anyway before the January conflict, mainly because of the blockade imposed by Israel and supported by its allies. Eighty per cent of Gaza's population lives in poverty, defined here as an income of less than $2 daily. But since the Israeli offensive things have got much worse. The UN says that 35,000 people don't have running water. More than 20,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged. The beach is one of the few places Gazans can go for space and tranquility
Though they have long languished in the shadow of their twentieth-century legacies, Victorian experiments with peyote and mescaline form one of the more obscure areas in which new visual experiences began to contour modern subjectivities. In the mid- and late- nineteenth century, when they learned that certain North and South American plants could induce hallucinations in those who consumed them, British, German, and U.S. anthropologists and medical researchers looked for conceptual and cultural frameworks to come to terms with the drugs’ effects, which would only later be known as hallucinogenic experience. [2] A major touchstone was Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), the text that, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn,” (1816), created the modern persona of the hallucinating, drug-taking intellectual: “If a man ‘whose talk is of oxen,’ should become an Opium-eater, the probability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream at all)—he will dream about oxen: whereas, in the case before him, the reader will find that the Opium-eater boasteth himself to be a philosopher” (De Quincey 5). Unlike English agricultural workers who used opium medicinally, De Quincey’s narcotized narrator instead dreamed of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s staircases and enhanced his understanding of Immanuel Kant. [3] The Confessions infamously uses opium to consolidate a series of class, racial, and other distinctions, setting the English opium-eater apart from “stupid” Turks and Malays “running amuck,” placing him at the pinnacle of intellectual and literary mastery. The name “De Quincey” became the byword for this status for the better part of the next two centuries. Other writings carried this figure forward, elaborating its racial hierarchy: in Plant Intoxicants (1855), Baron Ernst von Bibra wrote, “If excited by an overdose of hashish or opium, a savage Moslem becomes an assassin, a Malay is seized by an amok frenzy, whereas in the same situation, a scholarly, educated European medical doctor carries out observations on himself” (157). The cultural expectation that bourgeois westerners observe and analyze their own drug experiences continues to produce a copious literature whose authors figure as subversive philosophers, artists, and scientists of themselves. Brenda Mann Hammack has described this figure as “the chemically inspired intellectual” (83). Largely unrecognized within cultural studies and the history of medicine, however, is that nineteenth-century writings about hallucinogens formed this chemical intellectual and valorized his elite knowledge in contrast to another durable figure, the drug-crazed savage of the racist imagination.
One such study — conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — found that sperm concentrations have plummeted more than 50 percent from 1973 to 2011. According to the abstract of this study as reported in Science Daily These findings strongly suggest a significant decline in male reproductive health that has serious implications beyond fertility and reproduction, given recent evidence linking poor semen quality with higher risk of hospitalization and death.If you do not know that mass sterilization efforts are underway right now to eliminate human fertility and drastically reduce the global population, then you are not yet well-versed on reality. Even Bill Gates openly talks about achieving the correct amount of population reduction by using vaccines and other vectors, saying:The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.For the sake of preserving the historical record, we are reprinting the NYT article here, knowing that they are very likely to attempt to memory hole this article in another swipe at Orwellian-style revisionist history.By GLADWIN HILLSpecial to The New York TimesSAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24 – A possibility that the government might have to put sterility drugs in reservoirs and in food shipped to foreign countries to limit human multiplication was envisioned today by a leading crusader on the population problem.The crusader, Dr. Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, among a number of commentators who called attention to the “population crisis” as the United States Commission for Unesco opened it 13th national conference here today.Unesco is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The 100-member commission, appointed by the Secretary of State, included representatives of Government, outside organizations, and the public. Some 500 conservationists and others are attending the two-day meeting at the St. Francis Hotel, devoted this year to environmental problems.President Nixon’s chief science adviser, Dr. Lee DuBridge, brought up the population question in his keynote speech last night, calling the reduction of the earth’s population growth rate to zero “the first great challenge of our time.”His comments went beyond recent statements of President Nixon, who in a message to Congress stressed the provision of birth control information to underprivileged women.But the Federal Government’s willingness to come to grips with population limitation was questioned by another speaker, Arthur Godfrey, radio-television star and a conservation campaigner.“Dr.
Shape Created with Sketch. Music festivals guide 2016 Show all 20 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. Music festivals guide 2016 1/20 Horizon Where: Bansko Ski Resort, Bulgaria When: 12-17 March Price: From £175 Line Up: Âme, Goldie, Nina Kraviz, John Talabot, Lady Leshurr, Craig Charles 2/20 Live At Leeds Where: Leeds, UK When: 30 April Price: £32.50 Line Up: Jess Glynne, Circa Waves, Mystery Jets, Band of Skulls, We Are Scientists 3/20 Primavera Sound Where: Barcelona, Spain When: 1-5 June Price: €175 Line Up: Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Rós, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala, Beach House, Suede, The Last Shadow Puppets Primavera 4/20 Best Kept Secret Where: Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands When: 17-19 June Price: €147.50 Line Up: Beck, Editors, Two Door Cinema Club, Beach House, Bloc Party, Caribou, Half Moon Run Best Kept Secret Festival 5/20 Glastonbury Where: Worthy Farm, Somerset When: 22-26 June Price: £220 Line Up: Coldplay, Muse, Jeff Lynne’s ELO, PJ Harvey, Jess Glynne (TBC) 6/20 Roskilde Where: Copenhagen, Denmark When: 25 June-2 July Price: 2,020 DKK Line Up: LCD Soundsystem, New Order, PJ Harvey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foals, Tame Impala, Savages, Skepta, Tenacious D Simon Frøsig Christensen / Roskilde Festival 7/20 Hideout Festival Where: Zrce Beach, Croatia When: 26-30 June Price: From £152.90 Line Up: The Martinez Brothers, Joris Voorn, Waze & Odyssey Hideout Festival 8/20 Bilbao BBK Where: Bilbao, Spain When: 7-9 July Price: From £69 Line Up: Arcade Fire, Pixies, Tame Impala, Foals, New Order, Hot Chip, Father John Misty, Years & Years, Wolf Alice 9/20 Open'er Where: Gdynia, Poland When: 29 July-2 August Price: From €130 Line Up: Bastille, Florence + the Machine, Foals, LCD Soundsystem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The 1975, The Last Shadow Puppets, Wiz Khalifa Open'er Festival 10/20 Electric Love Where: Plainfeld, Austria When: 7-9 July Price: €119 Line Up: Alesso, Zedd, Tiesto, Chase & Status, Steve Aoki, Knife Party 11/20 Melt!
For a man who confesses to a penchant to "dress well" and claims his mixing and matching of colours is "god gifted", BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is one of the few Indian politicians who have effortlessly managed to get discerning people's appreciation and women's attention by his sartorial elegance.With his crisp, half-sleeved silk, khadi and linen kurtas and churidar pyjamas, coupled with finely-tailored Nehru jackets, often in bright, eye-catching colours, Mr Modi is amongst a few leaders of independent India who have shunned the shabby and crumpled kurtas and dhotis/pyjamas - the staple political costume of the traditional Indian politician - and gone out to make a style statement.It has also drawn adverse attention as when Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, a typical old-style politician who neither cares about his dress nor deportment, took a dig at him wondering how much time Mr Modi would have for the country when he "changes 500 kurtas a day and wears a new kurta to every meeting". "What is wrong in Modi saying that he likes to dress well? I want to see our Indian leaders dress better. For too long have our leaders worn their sloppy sartorial manners and ill-fitting dresses as badges of austerity," said Kabir Alam, a 46-year-old fashion photographer based in Delhi. "Look at how well-dressed international leaders are and how much pride they take in their dress sense. Some of our leaders look almost comic and lacking in sartorial etiquette at formal occasions by going out of their way to defy dress codes at banquets and the like," Mr Alam told IANS.Agreed 24-year-old Anahita Choudhary, a student of the JD Institute of Fashion, who said that Indian politicians' must dress smart as the country is an emerging superpower and its leaders must portray the country appropriately. "Every politician wears the staple kurta with jackets but Modi is doing it with a difference.
Chenoweth has spent more time than anyone researching and writing about the world's most powerful family. As we all know, the Murdochs play the game hard, so News Corp has long campaigned to undermine Chenoweth's employment at Fairfax, claiming he is biased, obsessed and full of conspiracy theories. There has been a recent regime change at Fairfax with Hywood coming in and removing Michael Gill and Glenn Burge, the duo who ran The AFR for the previous decade. They were replaced by two News Corp recruits from The Australian -- Brett Clegg and Michael Stutchbury -- who both had spent many years previously at The Fin. What to do with Chenoweth was always going to be an interesting question for The AFR’s new leadership team. The timeframe of the various moves is important to note:In the end, The AFR’s hand was effectively forced by the quality and gravity of what Panorama produced. It would have looked very strange to see an AFR reporter helping the BBC drop a bombshell without sharing the goodies around. However, The AFR’s decision to go so hard today was still very brave. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the Fairfax empire follows up. Will there be editorials damning the unethical Murdoch empire? While there have always been plenty of competitors and journalists who take pot-shots at News Corp, the key to its power has been an ability to keep compliant regulators and politicians on side. That all changed in the UK when everyone turned on News Corp over phone hacking. News of the World was closed, scores of employees have been arrested, the BSkyB mop-up takeover was abandoned and there are now serious prospects the company will be kicked out of Britain in disgrace. Amazingly, News Corp’s share price has soared ever higher in recent months and jumped another 10c to $19.48 this morning, valuing the company at $US51 billion. The Murdoch family has a debt-free $6.5 billion stake in News Corp and appear to be financially unscathed from the British scandal. But the family’s biggest single earner over the years has been US programming pumped out through the world’s most lucrative global pay-TV distribution channels. Thanks to Chenoweth's revelations, there are now serious questions being asked as to whether these have been ill-gotten gains. As for what happens now, I reckon Chenoweth’s package -- there’s more to come -- will pick up the Gold Walkley in 2012.
I do not have it regarding the a) whereabouts, b) condition (health) or c) skills and armor values of my companions. I use restoration spells and there are some spells that can heal up your allies in no time. However, I rarely know when to use them, as it takes a lot of effort to see the healthbar of your allies, and is impossible once a fight is over. So I end up healing my companion after every fight, and way too often during fights, or they just die because f*** you.3) Summons here come with an extra problem because they are hard to distinguish from your opponent's summons. I regularly get beaten up by some opponent's atronarch because of this.4) Some horses act very aggressively instead of staying back, and hence they die a lot. Biggest issue here. I am a mage, I use fireballs and chain lightnings, people die. However, it gets less funny when I am forced to use single target spells only because my stupid follower, summon, or some NPC that happens to be in the area is the second target of my beloved chain lightning. I even ended up enchanting my follower's gear with lightning resistance because he kept dying, which was even more frustrating from the point I got the "finishing move-perk" in the lightning tree that turns people into ashes at a certain health. Most ridiculously, even the "melee AOE spells" hit allies (Flaming Cloak/Frost Cloak/Lightning Cloak), which makes the spells entirely useless. Your followers (should) stay close to you and will eventually die of these effects.I have read that the problem becomes more eminent when solving the Legion/Stormcloud quests, as you are fighting with larger packs of allies here. Aspointed out to me, this is a big issue when using horses, as well.6) General pathing makes them get lost sometimes. I don't expect no game to make my follower be able to path along when I exploit glitches to pass terrain that is not supposed to be crossed. However, my pets and followers regularly get lost in caves as well as in the wilds. The aforementioned problem is increased by the fact that my followers tend to die regularly.
--Last updated on pastebin: 3/15/14 --Simple disk reader utility by austinv11 print("Checking for drives...") while true do local checkT = disk.isPresent("top") local checkB = disk.isPresent("bottom") local checkL = disk.isPresent("left") local checkR = disk.isPresent("right") local checkBA = disk.isPresent("back") local checkF = disk.isPresent("front") if checkT == true then print("Disk drive found on top") print("Looking for disks...") while true do local check = disk.hasData("top") if check == true then local path = disk.getMountPath("top") local name = disk.getLabel("top") if name == nil then name = disk.getID("top") end print("Disk "..name.." found! Copying and running...") fs.copy(path,"/"..name) shell.run(name) break else sleep(5) end end break elseif checkB == true then print("Disk drive found on bottom") print("Looking for disks...") while true do local check = disk.hasData("bottom") if check == true then local path = disk.getMountPath("bottom") local name = disk.getLabel("bottom") if name == nil then name = disk.getID("bottom") end print("Disk "..name.." found! Copying and running...") fs.copy(path,"/"..name) shell.run(name) break else sleep(5) end end break elseif checkL == true then print("Disk drive found on left") print("Looking for disks...") while true do local check = disk.hasData("left") if check == true then local path = disk.getMountPath("left") local name = disk.getLabel("left") if name == nil then name = disk.getID("left") end print("Disk "..name.." found! Copying and running...") fs.copy(path,"/"..name) shell.run(name) break else sleep(5) end end break elseif checkR == true then print("Disk drive found on right") print("Looking for disks...") while true do local check = disk.hasData("right") if check == true then local path = disk.getMountPath("right") local name = disk.getLabel("right") if name == nil then name = disk.getID("right") end print("Disk "..name.." found! Copying and running...") fs.copy(path,"/"..name) shell.run(name) break else sleep(5) end end break elseif checkBA == true then print("Disk drive found on back") print("Looking for disks...") while true do local check = disk.hasData("back") if check == true then local path = disk.getMountPath("back") local name = disk.getLabel("back") if name == nil then name = disk.getID("back") end print("Disk "..name.." found! Copying and running...") fs.copy(path,"/"..name) shell.run(name) break else sleep(5) end end break elseif checkF == true then print("Disk drive found on front") print("Looking for disks...") while true do local check = disk.hasData("front") if check == true then local path = disk.getMountPath("front") local name = disk.getLabel("front") if name == nil then name = disk.getID("front") end print("Disk "..name.." found! Copying and running...") fs.copy(path,"/"..name) shell.run(name) break else sleep(5) end end break else sleep(5) end end
Three Incidents That Lead to Three Lessons To frame this new task just a little, I wish to draw tonight upon three incidents Sister Holland and I have experienced within the fairly recent past. If time permitted I could cite dozens more, and so could you. Number one: A few years ago a young friend of mine—a returned missionary—was on one of the college basketball teams in Utah. He was a great young man and a very good ballplayer, but he wasn’t playing as much as he hoped he would. His particular talents and skills weren’t exactly what that team needed at that stage of its development or his. That happens in athletics. So, with the full support and best wishes of his coaches and his teammates, my young friend transferred to another school where he hoped he might contribute a little more. As fate would have it, things clicked at the new school, and my friend soon became a starter. And wouldn’t you know it—the schedule (determined years before these events transpired) had this young man returning to play against his former team in Salt Lake City's then-named Delta Center. What happened in that game has bothered me to this day, and I am seizing this unusual moment to get it off my chest. The vitriolic abuse that poured out of the stands on this young man’s head that night—a Latter-day Saint, returned missionary, newlywed who paid his tithing, served in the elder’s quorum, gave charitable service to the youth in his community, and waited excitedly for a new baby coming to him and his wife—what was said and done and showered upon him that night, and on his wife and their families, should not have been experienced by any human being anywhere anytime, whatever his sport, whatever his university, or whatever his personal decisions had been about either of them. But here is the worst part. The coach of this visiting team, something of a legend in the profession, turned to him after a spectacular game and said: “What is going on here? You are the hometown boy who has made good. These are your people. These are your friends.” But worst of all, he then said in total bewilderment, “Aren’t most of these people members of your church?” Incident number two: I was invited to speak in a stake single-adult devotional—one of those open-ended “18-and-over” sort of things.
Will also look at: You guessed it, Anzejs Pasecniks Why would they do that? Pasecniks doesn’t have to come over right away and he profiles as a stretch-4, something the Jazz desperately needs to pair with Gobert. If I’m the GM: I’m trying to trade Favors and his fragile back, along with Alec Burks, fellow fragile human. If I can get that done, I’m all in on Pasecniks, but if not, Patton is a good pick for this late. 25. Orlando Magic Semi Ojeleye, SF/PF, MSU Why: Upside is officially the name of the game at 25, and Semi Ojeleye has plenty of it. As likely the most jacked entrant in the draft, Ojeleye is a tweener just like previous pick Jonathan Isaac, but he get his reps behind Isaac at practice while getting occasional minutes as a small-ball SF while Gordon plays center and Isaac plays power forward. Terrence Ross is a free agent next year and one has to think he’ll be packing his bags seconds after the final horn sounds in 2018. When that happens, Semi will have a more pronounced role, and even at that point, he will be a viable trade chip as Orlando tries to develop talent and sell it for top dollar. Will also look at: My boy Anzejs Pasecniks, Jawun Evans Pasecniks, again, brings the upside to the table, but you’d have to think a squad desperately in need of immediate help and talent wouldn’t be spending a pick on a draft-and-stash—it’s a new GM, though, so who knows. Jawun Evans would be a nice addition to the mix if the Magic is absolutely certain that it hates Elfrid Payton (I don’t really know why, though). If I’m the GM: I’m scouring for high-upside, ready-to-play guys that might make some noise immediately or begin the tempering process early on. Some names like Dwayne Bacon, Kyle Kuzma, Caleb Swanigan and Johnathan Motley might crop up between now and draft night. Gotta keep them options open. 26. Portland Trail Blazers Jordan Bell, SF/PF/C, Oregon Why: Jordan Bell is part of the Noah Vonleh dilemma: If the Blazers are still far, far over the cap at the end of the 2017–2018 season and they have to pay both Jusuf Nurkic and Vonleh at its conclusion, who do you think they go with?
Omry Skene > gotta go to the other station and do it Kitt Killipps > to check what im insured for? Omry Skene > cant insure pod, just your ship, and there is no more insuring your clone anymore, cant loose skill points Omry Skene > im undock in my pod if that makes you feel any better Omry Skene > its clear Kitt Killipps > how do i undock if the window on the rite is gone? Omry Skene > /slash: /undock Omry Skene > /slash: /dock Omry Skene > it should be on the left under an icon Kitt Killipps > the left toolbar doesnt show anything that would lead me to believe it had anything to do with the window i have missing Omry Skene > you can right click on your pod and put undock too Kitt Killipps > i have my corp checking on me, im gonna ask a few questions and ill undock Kitt Killipps > youre fleeted? Kitt Killipps > https://zkillboard.com/character/93248788/ Kitt Killipps > ? ?? Kitt Killipps > one silver tongue bastard to another.... seriously? Omry Skene > yea im fleeted. i am in standing fleet Kitt Killipps > well if i ever do undock for any reason i hope nothing bad happens Kitt Killipps > i appreciate your presumed good samaritan efforts Kitt Killipps > safe travels Omry Skene > take care
Ginsberg attributes the gains to multiple factors, including new features on Match.com, such as a news feed modeled after Facebook and the "Daily 5," which offers users five new matches a day, as well as a newfound comfort in looking for love online. But her main theory has to do with how people behave in a lousy economy. "People are anxious. They're not going out as much. They're not spending as much money out on bars [and] restaurants," she said. "So they want someone to find to kind of help them weather the storm."
When I had made the boat all ship-shape I would sit in the cockpit and smoke, and look at her with great pride and contentment. I still do that. It gives me pleasure to see my home in perfect order and to feel that I've done it all myself. And I know, now, that if I paid someone else to do the work for me I should be depriving myself of a deal of the charm of life. 'When my morning chores were done, and if the weather was fine and I felt like moving on, I would heave up my anchor and make sail. During that first month I think I must have explored nearly all the rivers and creeks that run into the Thames Estuary. Most of them, as you probably know, are charming. If I wanted company I would bring up in the evening in one of the anchorages frequented by yachts, or alongside some Thames barges. There's a delightful freemasonry amongst sailors, whether yachtsman or bargees, and I'd generally find myself yarning and smoking with some congenial souls in my own or someone else's cabin until it was time to turn in. At other times I would let go my anchor for the night in some quiet creek, with never a human being within miles. I liked that best. I needed peace and quietness and I found them, to perfection, in those little lost Essex creeks.
“The proletariat seizes from state power and turns the means of production into state property to begin with. But thereby it abolishes itself as the proletariat, abolishes all class distinctions and class antagonisms, and abolishes also the state as state. Society thus far, operating amid class antagonisms, needed the state, that is, an organization of the particular exploiting class, for the maintenance of its external conditions of production, and, therefore, especially, for the purpose of forcibly keeping the exploited class in the conditions of oppression determined by the given mode of production (slavery, serfdom or bondage, wage-labor). The state was the official representative of society as a whole, its concentration in a visible corporation. But it was this only insofar as it was the state of that class which itself represented, for its own time, society as a whole: in ancient times, the state of slave-owning citizens; in the Middle Ages, of the feudal nobility; in our own time, of the bourgeoisie. When at last it becomes the real representative of the whole of society, it renders itself unnecessary. As soon as there is no longer any social class to be held in subjection, as soon as class rule, and the individual struggle for existence based upon the present anarchy in production, with the collisions and excesses arising from this struggle, are removed, nothing more remains to be held in subjection — nothing necessitating a special coercive force, a state. The first act by which the state really comes forward as the representative of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — is also its last independent act as a state. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies down of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not ’abolished’. It withers away. This gives the measure of the value of the phrase ’a free people’s state’, both as to its justifiable use for a long time from an agitational point of view, and as to its ultimate scientific insufficiency; and also of the so-called anarchists’ demand that the state be abolished overnight." (Herr Eugen Duhring’s Revolution in Science [Anti-Duhring], pp.301-03, third German edition. )[3]
You can be that generation.” ~ Nelson Mandela“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain“We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will – and determination – to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.“Sanskrit has 108 words for love. Islam has 99 names for God. Japanese has 14 words for beauty.We’ve got one word for Peace…. We don’t have enough words to accurately describe all the different types of peace. I think it was Socrates who once said if you don’t have a word to describe something, then how can you think about it?” ~ Steve Killelea (PeaceWeek 2011)“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.“So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.” ~ John F. Kennedy“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” ~ Dwight D. EisenhowerYesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.
But the implications were huge: If Berger could turn the language of the brain into code, perhaps he could figure out how to fix the part of the code associated with neurological diseases. When one professor thought about firing digital bullets, the other one felt an impulse to push the Fire button. In rats, as in humans, firing patterns in the hippocampus generate a signal or code that, somehow, the brain recognizes as a long-term memory. Berger trained a group of rats to perform a task and studied the codes that formed. He learned that rats remembered a task better when their neurons sent “strong code,” a term he explains by comparing it to a radio signal: At low volume you don’t hear all of the words, but at high volume everything comes through clear. He then studied the difference in the codes generated by the rats when they remembered to do something correctly and when they forgot. In 2011, through a breakthrough experiment conducted on rats trained to push a lever, he demonstrated he could record the initial memory codes, feed them into an algorithm, and then send stronger codes back into the rats’ brains. When he finished, the rats that had forgotten how to push the lever suddenly remembered. Five years later, Berger was still looking for the support he needed for human trials. That’s when Johnson showed up. In August 2016, he announced he would pledge $100 million of his fortune to create Kernel and that Berger would join the company as chief science officer. After learning about USC’s plans to implant wires in Dickerson’s brain to battle her epilepsy, Johnson approached Charles Liu, the head of the prestigious neurorestoration division at the USC School of Medicine and the lead doctor on Dickerson’s trial. Johnson asked him for permission to test the algorithm on Dickerson while she had Liu’s wires in her hippocampus—in between Liu’s own work sessions, of course. As it happened, Liu had dreamed about expanding human powers with technology ever since he got obsessed with The Six Million Dollar Man as a kid. He helped Johnson get Dickerson’s consent and convinced USC’s institutional research board to approve the experiment. At the end of 2016, Johnson got the green light. He was ready to start his first human trial. Goran Factory
However, when taking into account what it says would be a dip in economic output incurred by the plan, it would end up collecting $191 billion. U.S. Corporations, Trade and Foreign Policy While U.S. corporations may differ with Clinton on taxes, she proved her worth as secretary of state in negotiating free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Yet it was in Mexico where Clinton may have forged her most significant achievement when she helped to negotiate an agreement with Mexico and its state-run oil and natural gas company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to open drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. The agreement, made on behalf of U.S. energy companies, was hashed out in December 2013 with the signing of the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Agreement, which established a framework to allow U.S. companies to work with Pemex to develop oil reserves that straddle the underwater boundary between the two countries. The agreement was approved by Congress, signed by Obama and hailed as a landmark achievement by the American Petroleum Institute. Working for the Obama administration, Clinton also helped to lay the groundwork for the Trans-Pacific Partnership even as she has changed her position on the trade treaty as a presidential candidate. The sweeping agreement, negotiated in closed meetings with 11 Pacific Rim nations, lays out myriad rules to lower import tariffs. Yet trade treaties have proven to be political liabilities as many Americans believe they send jobs overseas, and Clinton was quick to distance herself from the TPP, which Congressional leaders have said isn't likely to be considered until after the November elections, despite President Obama's emphatic support of the agreement.
Still, that didn’t stop planners from ripping out cycle tracks and starting to design streets for cars as Europe modernized in the wake of World War II. By the early 1960s, much of the cycling infrastructure that had existed in the pre-war era was gone, and the percentage of the population using bicycles for transportation fell to an all-time low of 10 percent. Then history intervened. “The energy crisis in 1973 hit Denmark hard. Very hard,” writes Colville-Andersen. “Car-free Sundays were introduced in order to save fuel. Every second streetlight was turned off in order to save energy. A groundswell of public discontent started to form. People wanted to be able to ride their bicycles again -- safely. Protests took place…. The energy crisis faded, but then returned in 1979. More protests. One form of protest/awareness was painting white crosses on the asphalt where cyclists had been killed. This time, things happened. We started to rebuild our cycle track network in the early 1980s. Fatalities and injuries started falling. The network was expanded. “What happened was that urban planners started thinking bicycles first and cars second. Building infrastructure to keep cyclists safe and save lives. We haven't looked back since.” During the same period, as Danish architect and urbanist Jan Gehl has chronicled, large parts of Copenhagen were being taken back for pedestrians. From his book Cities for People: After many years of pruning back pedestrian areas, Copenhagen was one of the first cities in Europe to grasp the nettle in the early 1960s and begin reducing car traffic and parking in the city center in order to create once again better space for city life. Copenhagen’s traditional main street, Stroget, was converted to a pedestrian promenade already in 1962. Skepticism abounded. Would a project like this really succeed so far north? After only a short period it was clear that the project was enjoying greater success faster thank anyone had anticipated. The number of pedestrians rose 35% in the first year alone….Since then, more streets have been converted for pedestrian traffic and city life, and one by one the parking places in the city center have been turned into squares that accommodate public life. In the Netherlands, a similar trajectory unfolded. “Cycling in the Netherlands declined sharply in the post-war period,” Marc van Woudenberg of Amsterdamize writes in an email.
Because they were not users, they were designers. As such, they were interested in all 10 candidates on the ballet (plus space for a write in), and they saw all ten candidates. They viewed the ballot as a 2X6 staggered matrix with a line of radio buttons in between the two sides. Their cute little arrows appeared to be enough to help people choose the right box from this matrix. The voters saw things very differently. They were not interested in 10 candidates. They were interested in one candidate, the one they wanted to vote for. Their entire focus was on finding that candidate and punching the hole next to his or her name. In the case of Gore, that required scanning only two names down in the first column. There was never any reason at all for Gore voters to ever even see the right hand column, and we now have thousands of pieces of evidence that they, indeed, didn't. Rather than a staggered matrix, they saw a single column with a dedicated column of radio buttons adjoining. So here I come doing a little Monday morning quarterbacking. Sure, it's easy enough to see now what a stupid design it was, now that they game is over. That's what user testing is for. So you can play the game before you play the game. A competent designer, in my opinion, would have predicted this outcome just from a glance at the ballot, but even a beginner should have had enough sense to user test the design before release. That rather obviously was not done in this case, and a serious miscarriage of thousands of voter's wishes resulted.
Shaded from the sharp afternoon sun, rows upon rows of hutments in the Subhashnagar colony are thrumming with activity . Bent over stone slabs, the men cut, scrape and hammer sheets of leather while their wives do the braiding, stitching and punching. They are fashioning one of Maharashtra's most iconic brands: its hand-crafted Kolhapuri slippers. Subhashnagar is the largest enclave of chappal-makers in the entire district. Yet, the families are locked in a race against time. “We are the last generation of chappal-makers. Our children don't want to do this,“ says 60-year-old Prakash Lokare, who started out at the age of seven. His son works at a shop which makes seat covers for cars. Many have shifted to construction work.The home-based cottage industry , worth around Rs 9 crore according to local manufacturers, has been on the decline for years, thanks to the flood of brightly-coloured knock-offs from the North and Karnataka and the closure of local leather tanneries for violating green norms.The extension of the cow slaughter ban in the state to include bullocks since last year has added to the crisis.The chappals were once made from both buffalo and bullock hide. The rougher buffalo hide formed the bottom of the sole while the softer bullock leather was used for the top layer touching the feet. In some cases, entire slippers were crafted from either bullock or buffalo hide.The bulk of the leather used for the slippers comes from tanneries in Chennai, a dependence compounded by the closure of local tanneries.Still, until last year, hides sourced from Kolhapur formed at least 15% of the market, manufacturers say.After the beef ban, the reduction in supply pushed up prices. “We have had a 50% drop in business. With no bullock hides in the market, the price of buffalo leather has shot up from Rs 110 a kg last year to almost Rs 280 this year,“ says Arun Satpute, among the major manufacturers in the area.“We used to make between 3,000-4,000 pairs of slippers each month last year. Now it is down to 2,000 pairs,“ adds Satpute. The profit margins of his workshop have shrunk from 35% to just 10-15%. Besides running his own outfit, Satpute is also chairman of the industry's umbrella body , the Kolhapur Charmadyog Audyogik Samuh.Maruti Shamrao Gawli, who runs the retail store Kala footwear, is particularly disappointed.
François Rabelais was born towards the end of the 15th century near Chinon, France. After receiving an education in French Catholic schools, he became a monk in the Order of St. Benedict, later going on to study medicine. In 1532, he published Pantagruel, followed in 1534 by Gargantua. It is difficult to discern exactly what Rabelais wanted to promote within his texts, but given that he was influenced by humanistic ideas circulating at the time, he at least desired to promulgate a mixture of Catholicism and Humanism. With the character of the illustrious Brother John, Rabelais presents his conception of a monk who incorporates humanistic traits. Rabelais seemingly places himself at odds with Christian precepts in offering this character, a member of a religious order, as one illuminated by the new European secular ideas of the era. Brother John represents Rabelais' ideal person, that is to say a member of a religious order who rejects the austerity of monastic life and accepts the liberal and fraternal ideas of Humanism. The Catholicism of the past imposed strict social conventions on both the lay and religious communities who normally acquiesced or accepted the decrees of Rome without question. Rabelais perceived that the Catholic authorities of his epoch, the Late Middle Ages, were profiting from their status, while at the same time imposing regulations that were much too severe upon the faithful. One can suppose, à priori, that with his writings, Rabelais was not searching to deride sincere people of any religious conviction. An individual of any faith who desired to help others find peace and salvation would have been completely acceptable to him. However, those who sought to socially elevate themselves by means of religion, or who mixed religion with politics for material gain, evidently offended Rabelais. Guy Demerson writes in 1971, Pour Rabelais [ ], l'Église romaine relève de la politique et de la diplomatie, non de la religion, qui est lien avec Dieu (254). Thus, in Gargantua, with Brother John and the Abbey of Thélème, Rabelais both enlightens and entertains his public with a fictitious alternative to the ascetic cloistered life he knew so well. All Catholics know they are supposed to respect the office of the pope and other ecclesiastical authorities. However, history shows that there have been certain popes who, under the guise of leading the Church in an honest manner, were in reality attempting to construct their own privileged kingdom on earth.
Belaich J.P. Microcalorimetric studies on the formation of magnesium complexes with 5 riboinucleotides of guanine, uracil, and hypoxanthine. + in its presence. Just as was observed for ATP, trace Mn2+ in these samples caused 7Li T1 PRE. These experiments showed that Li+ binds to ATP·Mg, ADP·Mg, and TP·Mg, as well as other nucleotides (2+ binding conditions. Together, the data support an interaction of Li+ through the polyphosphates that, as for Mg2+, is electrostatically driven and guided by the cation’s coordination geometry. Taken together, these results are important to how Li+ may interact to form a “bioactive” species, as biological ATP is normally found in the Mg2+ bound state. Although the change inLi T1 indicates that Libinds ATP in the presence of Mg, this measurement does not reveal whether Libinding displaces Mg(competition). To address the latter question, manganese (Mn), which can bind nucleotide triphosphates in a manner similar to Mg, was spiked into the buffer as a paramagnetic probe (). Because of the fast exchange kinetics (> 10,000 s) of Mg/Mnbinding to ATP, rapid sampling of all the ATP molecules by the two divalent cations was observed even at a Mg:Mnmolar ratio of 220:1 ( Fig. S2 ). Since the electron magnetic dipole moment of Mnis known to cause a paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) to all NMR-active nuclei within ∼30 Å, observation of aLi T1 PRE would indicate that the sites being sampled by Mnare proximal to the Libinding sites, and is thus evidence of two-metal binding ( Fig. 1 B, Scheme 3). Conversely,Li T1 PRE would not be observed if Mg/Mnis displaced into solution upon Libinding ( Fig. 1 B, Scheme 2). Addition of 50 μM MnClto a sample of 10 mM ATP, 11 mM MgCl, and 10 mM LiCl caused marked PRE—shortening theLi T1 from 7.16 to 2.30 s ( Fig. 1 C; Table S1 ). This observation provides direct evidence that under conditions of saturating, stoichiometric binding of Mg, Lidoes not displace Mgfrom ATP, but rather cobinds in proximity to the divalent cation (Mg/Mn). In contrast, the addition of Mnto a sample of Liand Mgin buffer without ATP yielded aLi T1 of 12.24 s—only slightly shorter (∼5%) than the T1 measured in the absence of Mn Table S1 ); such a small change is within the uncertainty of the measurement.
, author of, has offered what I consider to be one of the most intriguing arguments about the nature of contemporary religious belief. He suggests that very few people alive today actually believe in gods. But if that's true, why do we atheists often feel like we are surrounded by believers? Obviously, we feel this way because the majority of people around us claim to believe. But why would they do this if they don't actually believe? Dennett suggests that the vast majority of people today believe in belief in gods. That is, even though they do not actually believe in gods, they do believe that trying to believe, promoting belief, and telling others they believe are advantageous.Dennett's suggestion that few people actually believe in gods certainly seems consistent with the observation many of us have made that most people who claim to believe in gods do not behave as if they believed in gods. As just one example, wouldn't the world be a vastly different place if people really believed in prayer? If religious believers believed much of what they claimed to believe, they would behave in very different ways from how they do behave. Again and again, their behavior betrays them as not really being sincere about their claimed beliefs. The belief in belief argument initially seems difficult to grasp. If someone does not believe in gods, why would he or she cling to the idea that belief was beneficial? I suspect that part of the answer is that such a person is probably unwilling to admit the lack of belief. Such a person would minimize his or her doubts, try not to think about them, and continue to identify as a believer because of the many advantages of doing so.I suspect many of us can understand how belief in belief might work through some of our own experiences with religion. I remember being dragged to church against my will when I was a child. When I protested that I hated it and that all forcing me to go would accomplish was to make sure I'd run from it the moment I was old enough, I was told that I had to go because it was "good for you." And when I pointed out that my family didn't seem to enjoy church either, I was told that we often have to do things we do not enjoy because they are good for us.
Music is a widely available form of media with the ability to influence attitudes and manipulate emotions (Juslin and Sloboda, 2010; Wheeler et al., 2011), and listeners are drawn to music that reflects or improves their emotional state (Saarikallio, 2011; Thoma et al., 2012; Papinczak et al., 2015). Heavy metal, emotional (emo), hardcore, punk, screamo, and each of their subgenres form the category of “extreme” music. Extreme music is characterized by chaotic, loud, heavy, and powerful sounds, with emotional vocals, often containing lyrical themes of anxiety, depression, social isolation, and loneliness (Shafron and Karno, 2013). Perhaps, due to these musical characteristics, it has been claimed that extreme music leads to anger, and expressions of anger such as aggression, delinquency, drug use, and suicidal acts (Selfhout et al., 2008). Certainly, evidence is available regarding the effect of a listeners’ emotional state on their choice and preference for music listening even when angry. Research on anger processing has found that approach motivation (defined as the impulse to move forward) may be activated by anger (Carver and Harmon-Jones, 2009), such that after experiencing anger we then look to act out approach motivated behaviors, for example, angry facial expression and physical retaliation. Considering the highly arousing nature of the music, along with negative themes commonly contained in the lyrics, extreme music has been interpreted as eliciting anger among its listeners, and that this may activate aggressive behaviors (Gowensmith and Bloom, 1997). It is equally plausible, however, that extreme music may be chosen when a listener is angry, because the arousing nature of the music may match the already present internal arousal of the listener and allow him/her to explore and process this emotional state. This study will explore these alternative hypotheses about the influence of extreme music listening on anger processing in a sample of extreme music listeners under controlled experimental conditions.
Lunar Calendar July 15th is traditional Chinese Ghost Festival, or Chinese Halloween if that make things easier. Just so happen, it falls on August 21st this year. So on this wonderful Chinese Halloween's eve, I want to talk about hell in Chinese mythology.But hell in Chinese mythology is much easier to comprehend. It is like a state penitentiary, run by state officials (gods). you made some mistakes in your life, after you're dead, the jailers drag you to your corresponding jail block on different floor, and you do your time (suffer not eternal but a set amount of torment), and you cleansed your sin, and you're ready to rejoin the regular society (reincarnate back to normal human life).There're 18 levels in this penitentiary, based on how sinful you're in your life, you end up in different level. The worst kind was banished to the lowest 18th level, and without the possibility of parole, I mean, reincarnation. Similar to levels described by Dante during his famous tour, each floor holds specific sinners, liars, murderers, adulterers, embezzler, gossiping (yeah, gossiping is a crime)... we all have specific painful punishment for you.This penitentiary is attached to the courthouse, and both are run by the same person: 阎罗王 (King of Yan Luo, King of Hell). The guy is not Chinese, we borrowed him (and the entire reincarnation idea) from India. He's originally Yama-raja in Hinduism (I think), and we made him "King of Hell". He has an army of jailers, some run the 18 floor penitentiary, others went to mortal world to capture souls when they left their mortal shell.So how does this hell work? The process varies from dynasty to dynasty from region to region. But overall, it goes like this:When people are ready to die, the hell jailers will come for your soul. They'll wait at your door or bed, and chain your soul with them when you're ready to depart. Then all of these souls (sinful or not) will line up in front of the King of Hell.It's worth mentioning that if you do good in your life, you don't go to heaven. No mortal goes to heaven and join the gods in the Jade palace, except for a very few exceptions (very similar to Greek mythology). Your good deeds are repaid to you in your next life.
Reid said even Feingold -- one of the Senate's most ardent war opponents -- was not calling to cutoff funding completely, and he said the Senate needed to approve some more money, just far less than the nearly $200 billion the president has asked for. "We can't just walk away," Reid scolded, "and nobody suggests we can." The following audio is from The Ed Schultz Show, broadcast on October 25, 2007.
But the £55bn it will cost, at a bare minimum, must now be considered against the grim reality of significantly diminished public finances in the short to medium term at least. It is not scheduled to be completed until 2033, by which point it is not completely unreasonable to imagine a massive, driverless car-led transport revolution having rendered it redundant EPA 4/6 Heathrow expansion Or indeed Gatwick expansion. Or Boris Island, though that option is seems as finished as the man himself. The decision on where to expand aviation capacity in the south east has been delayed to the point of becoming a national embarrassment. A final decision was due in autumn. Whatever is decided, there will be vast opprobrium PA 5/6 Trident renewal David Cameron indicated two days ago that there will be a Commons vote on renewing Britain’s nuclear deterrent on July 18th, by which point we now know, Ms May will be Prime Minister. The Labour Party is, to put it mildly, divided on the issue. This will be an early opportunity to maximise their embarrassment, and return to Tory business as usual EPA 6/6 Scottish Independence Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP are in no doubt that the Brexit vote provides the opportunity for a second independence referendum, in which they can emerge victorious. The Scottish Parliament at Holyrood has the authority to call a second referendum, but Ms May and the British Parliament are by no means automatically compelled to accept the result. She could argue it was settled in 2014 AFP/Getty
Human intellect is no pure instrument of research but is bound to influences of feeling and will; what man would like to see as true, he believes as true. Hence, Bacon advises us to approach with suspicion all that which the spirit accepts greedily. Fantasy is the greatest enemy of the intellect. This conceit of thought Bacon refers to as general delusion, the "idola generis". He calls special delusion, "idola specus", that type of human thought which is colored by man's special characteristics, by his temperament, his mood, his yearning. Language, the unstable vehicle of thought, also leads to delusion and error. Don't the phrases and definitions of philosophers serve to disguise their nude irresolution? Bacon calls this delusion of words and labels "idola theatri". Catchword and label accomplish their greatest triumph in establishing a mass-delusion. The famous English statesman and philosopher was referring especially to the dogmas and theatrical parading of philosophers which only served to justify the creations of their own imagination. They were thought-plays detached from reality and representative only of the mind of their conceited creator. A person's cherished dogmas reveal his personality. The manifold systems of philosophers describe more adequately the philosophers themselves than the world of realities, according to Bacon. Can we add anything better to this concept of delusion and conceit? Bacon's ideas are as valid today as they were three centuries ago. Seductive Stupidity When intellect can no longer contribute to the knowledge of the world, when our spirit is no longer potent enough to struggle with the facts of the day, we take recourse to the stupidity and "innocence of childhood". We experienced this regressive behavior and escape from consciousness most pointedly during the years of occupation and terror, and understood it as a natural defense against pain and sorrow. But there is another more seductive way of flirting with superficiality and playing with stupidity. There is a yearning to return to the land of morons. We are relaxed and gay when we hear the radio voices carry us back to a realm which does not require our brain. Gradually we become more and more infected with silliness and escapism. Why should we think? Why should we fight to understand this world? Why not remain in comfortable stupidity? Superfluous Thinking Thinking often has a firmer grasp on some of us than we expect.
Joseph Maggio was an Italian grocer who was attacked on May 22, 1918 while sleeping alongside his wife, Catherine, at their home on the corner of Upperline and Magnolia Streets where they conducted a barroom and grocery. The killer broke into the home, and then proceeded to cut the couple's throats with a straight razor. Upon leaving he bashed their heads with an axe, perhaps in order to conceal the real cause of death. Joseph survived the attack, but died minutes after being discovered by his brothers Jake and Andrew Maggio. Catherine died prior to the brothers' arrival, her throat having been cut so deep that her head was nearly severed from her shoulders. [9] In the apartment, law enforcement agents found the bloody clothes of the murderer, as he had obviously changed into a clean set of clothes before fleeing the scene. A complete search of the premises was not completed by police after the bodies were removed, yet later the bloody razor was found on the lawn of a neighboring property. [10] Police ruled out robbery as motivation for the attacks, as money and valuables left in plain sight were not stolen by the intruder. [11] The razor used to kill the couple was found to belong to Andrew Maggio, the brother of the deceased who conducted a barber shop on Camp Street. His employee, Esteban Torres, told police that Maggio had removed the razor from his shop two days prior to the murder, explaining that he had wanted to have a nick honed from the blade. [9] Maggio, who lived in the adjoining apartment to his brother's residence, discovered his slain brother and sister-in-law roughly two hours after the gruesome attacks had occurred, upon hearing strange groaning noises through the wall. Maggio blamed his failure to hear any noise related to the attacks that had occurred in the early morning hours on his intoxicated state, as he had returned home after a night of celebration prior to his departure to join the navy; police, however, were nonetheless surprised that he failed to hear the intruder, as he made a forced entry into the home. [12] Andrew Maggio became the police chief's prime suspect in the crime, yet was released after investigators were unable to break down his statement, as well as his account of an unknown man who was supposedly seen lurking near the residence prior to the murders.
Ellis Harrison was powerful in the air all evening and on this occasion was able find Matty Taylor but his shot on the turn was blocked well by Sean Morrison.As extra time was looming, the Rovers boss made a double substitution as Billy Bodin and Rory Gaffney came on to replace Stuart Sinclair and Ellis Harrison but kept the 3-5-2 shape with Billy Bodin occupying a space in midfield along side Chris Lines and Ollie Clarke.Rovers ventured into Extra Time and basically as soon as the extra 30 minutes had started, Darrell Clarke made his final substitution of the evening as Cristian Montano came on to replace Daniel Leadbitter with Rovers changing shape to a more traditional 4-4-2.Both sides exchanged blows in the opening 15 minutes of extra time, Rory Gaffney and Matty Taylor fired shots just wide of Simon Moore's goal where as at the other end of the pitch Anthony Pilkington stung the palms of Steve Mildenhall with his long range effort.With penalties looking almost certain, Chris Lines produced a moment of brilliance. The Bristol boy received the ball 35-yards out before unleashing an unstoppable strike that curled into the top corner of the net beyond a helpless Simon Moore.Moments later Rovers hearts were in the their mouths as second half substitute Frederic Gounongbe found himself in acres of space inside the penalty area but his strike hit the inside of the post and into the arms of Steve Mildenhall.Tonight's win means that Darrell Clarke's men will travel to Stamford Bridge to take on Premier League Chelsea in Round Two.Mildenhall; Leadbitter (Montano - 94), Lockyer (C), J. Clarke, Hartley, Brown; O. Clarke, Lines, Sinclair (Bodin - 78); Taylor, Harrison (Gaffney - 78).Puddy (GK), McChrystal, Easter, James.Moore; Morrison, Manga, Richards, Ralls, Noone (Gounongbe - 74), John, Connolly (Kennedy - 86), Gunnarsson, O'Keefe, Zohore (Plikington - 63).Wilson (GK), Peltier, Whittingham, Ajayi
Or you used to when there was more of a road to work. However, every other comedian in the world did too, and you all wrote bits on it. Bits on the safety devices, bits about not being allowed to smoke, bits on inept pilots, bits about what you'd do if the plane was going down, bits about the seat being a floatation device etc. etc. 3b "Bob Dylan/Michael McDonald/Michael Jackson sings funny." No duh. Let's move on. 3c "You can't hear what the guy's saying at the Drive through." Let me guess: So you just mumble back to them. That's original. 3d "What's up with these Remote Controls?" "What's the use of the eject button?... Our parents in the old days had to get up and change it manually... Guys hog the remote... We can't just watch one channel nowadays..." Heard it. 3e "Do we have any pot smokers in the house?" "I don't have a joke about that, I just wanted to see who I can hang with after the show!..." Pot jokes always turn into a reference about the munchies so stay away from that gag. Also, the one about pot being different from the other drugs ("There's no gang wars over pot, just pillow fights...") has been done. 3f "Anybody remember GILLIGAN'S ISLAND?" Yes we do. And we don't know how could they get so lost on a three hour tour or how come the Professor could build so much stuff but he couldn't build a boat to leave with. It'll just remain one of the great mysteries of our time. However, since we're so aware of the dilemma, don't bring it up. 3g "Saw a lot of construction on Highway Blah blah blah" This one's more typical of the Midwest I hear. A comic gets into town and asks where the big construction site is. Then he/she gets to relate by using his/her old jokes about the "Men Working" sign ("They should change the sign!") or the Slow/Stop sign ("That describes how they're working!"). 3h "You gotta be careful these days, lotta diseases out there..." "Remember when it was just STDs? Now herpes is like nothing!" or the old standby condom jokes "Who's NOT going to buy the larger condoms! ", At the checkout line "Price check on extra small condoms", "I'm wearing one now!"
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Finally, we examined the influence of α 1 R stimulation and PKC activation on prefrontal cortical function at the cellular level. Prefrontal cortical neurons fire during the delay period in a spatially selective manner as monkeys perform a spatial working memory task (6). The effects of α 1 R stimulation on memory-related firing were examined with single and multiple neuronal recordings in nonhuman primates performing a spatial-oculomotor delayed-response task (10). Twenty-eight neurons from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in two monkeys had sustained delay-related activity determined by two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with factors of task epoch versus baseline activity (P < 0.01). The activity from a representative neuron is shown in Fig. 3A. Iontophoretic application of PE (40 to 75 nA) attenuated delay-related activity in 25 out of 28 cases (one-way ANOVA for each neuron, P < 0.01), thereby reducing the cellular “memory” of the target location (Fig. 3A). As illustrated in Fig. 3A, PE (50 nA) significantly decreased delay-related activity for the neurons' preferred direction (P < 0.0001) but had no effect on activity recorded during trials for nonpreferred targets (P > 0.05). These data parallel previous findings that infusion of PE into monkey or rat prefrontal cortex impairs working memory performance (13, 14). Co-iontophoresis of CHEL (15 nA) reversed the PE-induced reduction in delay-related activity in eight of nine neurons (one-way ANOVA for each neuron, P < 0.001; example shown in Fig. 3B; population response shown in fig. S7). Iontophoresis of CHEL by itself had no effect [three out of five cases (fig. S7)] or slightly reduced the delay-related activity (two out of five, one-way ANOVA, P < 0.01, data not shown). Thus, the reversal by CHEL was not due to independent additive effects of both agents. These findings indicate that PKC activation may impair mnemonic activity at the cellular level, thus providing a possible basis for the behavioral impairments observed in this study.
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“On an average, around 12 commuters visit this emergency room every day, of which at least five complain of suffocation and breathlessness,” Sevak said.The railway sources said that this year of the 410 deaths on trains, presumed to be triggered by suffocation, 85 occurred in Kalyan (Central Railway), and 39 in Vasai (Western Railway).Raju Dialani, 45. A real estate consultant and resident of Bhandup, felt breathless after boarding a CST local from Dombivali in the morning rush hour on Tuesday. He was in such a bad shape that he called a friend to reach Thane station as soon as possible. The friend rushed him to the emergency medical room where he was given firstaid and referred to a private hospital.“The compartment was crammed with people and within minutes I experienced suffocation. As it got worse, I tried getting off at Kalwa, a station before Thane, but wasn’t able to because of the crowds. I thought I might suffer a heart attack. I finally managed to get off at Thane,” said Dialani.Sudhir Katdare, a businessman and a resident of Kalyan, was brought into the medical room at Thane at 9.15 am. He was complaining of breathlessness and dizziness. “I am a daily commuter and quite used to the rush. But today I suddenly found it hard to breathe. I think there was some problem with the train’s ventilation system,” he said.A senior Central Railway official, who did not wish to be identified, said that the root cause of the problem is the Siemens rakes which have “faulty ventilation system”. Ironically, these rakes were purchased in 2007 to resolve the ventilation problem that existed in BHEL-made rakes.Mumbai’s combined suburban network comprises 205 rakes, of which 129 are Siemens rakes. There are 11 Bombardier rakes and all of them have ventilators in working condition.While Western Railway officials admitted there was a problem, their Central Railway counterparts said that all was well on their trains. Divisional Railway Manager (Central Railway, Mumbai) Amitabh Ojha said: “There were complaints regarding ventilation on trains and we changed the panels inside the trains. Every 10 days, all CR rakes are checked and snags are repaired.”Western Railway divisional railway manager Shailendra Kumar the said that of the Western Railway’s fleet of 94 rakes, at least 25% had ventilation problems. “We are working on fixing the problem,” he said.
AIPAC officially backs the Obama Administrations campaign to strike Syria. But now that Congress has awaken to the fact that the American people are sick and tired of being lied into wars, AIPACs efforts to sell Obamas war plans may fall on ears of elected men and women who, for once, might actually vote in accordance with the wishes of their constituencies imagine that! Haaretz, considered by many to be the New York Times of Israel , reported today, now that the American Jewish establishment has come off the fence to loudly endorse the presidents policy, the fallout from an Administration failure to convince Congress could claim two additional victims: Israel and the influential lobby that supports it. The entire article is worth reading. Click here to access the story. (2) Tell the people you know about what might be coming in the next 72 hours: Because thats the most likely day when the new wars (Or the next false-flag attack on the US) will break out. Nine-Eleven-Thirteen is the twelfth anniversary of 911 - which just happens to be the birthday of Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria. Lets make sure that 9-11-13 is not the beginning of the end for all of us! Contact anyone who might help this VOTE succeed and do whatever follow-up may be required [email protected] 1) Demystify the Syrian Vote! http://rense.com/general96/demyas.html 2) American Israel Public Affairs Committee Faces Defeat? http://thenewsdoctors.com/american-israel-public-affairs-committee-faces-defeat/
By By geozone Jul 11, 2007 in World Eighteen-year-old Carys Copestake needed to cover the cost of her university tuition fees. Her solution was to advertise her virginity for sale on a popular website for prostitutes. Baby-faced Carys says she intends to study physics at Salford University. Like many other students, she is struggling with the £20,000 for tuition and residence. Along with her financial predicament, the British teen has also become curious about herself and the opposite sex. Though she had always wanted to keep her first time special and make sure it was with the right guy, she now is at a point in her life where she wanted to explore. For that she needed someone to teach her and Carys thinks selling her virginity is the perfect way to "kill two birds with one stone." I'm an 18-year-old virgin with student funds to pay and I'm looking to sell my first time right here. I'm brunette, 34C, green eyes, all in proportion and good looking. Carys met and spoke with a journalist from MaltaStar who had gone under the guise of being an interested respondent to her ad. The teen admitted to him she had received numerous responses to the ad. Apparently there are a lot of men who want to help her with her "problem." Some of the replies she has received are on the creepy side. She explained further: But I got so frustrated with the empty offers that I turned them down. I have to be careful, you could have been someone I know, even one of my teachers. Carys admitted the furthest she had ever gone with a guy was holding hands. She did not want to go to university still a virgin. Not knowing the man she was talking to was really a journalist interested in getting some facts for a story, Carys wondered if he was asking her all these questions because he wanted a discount. When the reporter asked if she really was a virgin or just a prostitute who was lying about losing her virginity, the teen became indignant. She told him she had no way of proving to him she was a virgin and that he would just have to trust her. Carys told the reporter she wanted to be paid in cash. She also requested that he wear a condom. After the reporter left, Carys bombarded him with text messages.
Castration was another 'cure' for deviant behavior and a way to safeguard German hereditary flow. Initially, a homosexual could plead out to a lower sentence by allowing the justice ministers to order castration. In short order that ended; the prisoner had no say in the matter because courts and camp officials could summarily order castration "I do not characterize every Jew as inferior, as Negroes certainly are.." Nazi Anthropologist Eugen Fischer, June 20, 1939 Homosexuals and Jews were not the only people worked to death in the camps. Alongside the persecuted were Blacks. Although no major program was organized, Blacks in Germany also faced discrimination and violence, including being worked to death in the camps. A Nazi propaganda poster showed a mixed race friendship with the caption: "The Result! A loss of racial pride". 'Diluting' the white race was a major concern of racist religious conservatives who sought to keep slavery legal and then afterwards, segregation. Like Christian conservatives of the Bible Belt, Nazi propaganda painted black men as rapers of white women, which led to murders. In the Bible belt and other rural strongholds of religious conservatives this belief about Black men led to thousands of lynchings in the Bible belt. The violence was designed, among other reasons, to protect the virtues of white women, which of course defended white manhood. Hitler claimed in Mein Kampf that "the Jews had brought Negroes into the Rhinland with the clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily-resulting bastardization". This viewpoint was also held by anti-abolitionists and supporters of laws against interracial marriages. This sentiment is still alive and well among the most extreme right wing Christians. Just surf the internet. An 1863 Miscegeny tract designed to attack the abolitionist Republican administration was entitled "Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro". The pamphlet's aim regarded the producing of children by mixed marriages, thereby diluting the white race. Like the Nazis, religious conservatives feared the extermination of the white race by race mixing and made it a propaganda tool to instill fear and bigotry in the people. Racial pride was nearly as much a part of the anti-abolitionist's propaganda as it was the Nazis. They took the same approach, appealing to "white purity". To this day, Christian white supremacist groups' main agenda is to keep Black and Jews from diluting the white race.

But most harmful bacteria, like Salmonella and E. coli , aren’t capable of growing on foods stored at cold temperatures or in dry conditions, like crackers in the pantry. “Microorganisms are no different than us—we need water, we need food, and we need the proper temperature to survive,” Worobo says. Depriving bacteria of their basic needs is the central philosophy of food storage. Provided you do your part—keep foods refrigerated, wash fruits and vegetables, cook meat thoroughly and isolate raw meat from other foods—there’s a low risk of contracting a foodborne illness. And that risk usually doesn’t increase as food ages. “If those lettuce leaves had no Salmonella at the start, then after it becomes a slimy disgusting mess, there will still be no Salmonella , because there’s no such thing as spontaneous generation—Louis Pasteur proved that,” Schaffner says. “ Salmonella have to arrive from someplace—they don’t arrive from nothing. And the bacteria that turn that salad into a slimy disgusting mess, those bacteria don’t make us sick. I mean, they might turn our stomach, but they’re not infectious.” To be clear, he’s not telling you to eat soupy lettuce—if a food item seems gross, throw it out. But if it looks and tastes okay a few days after the date, go ahead and eat it. “Best If Used By” For other foods—the vast majority—date labels are simply the manufacturer’s suggestion about when a product might taste freshest. “While shelf-life dating might be important for those products, it’s probably—and that’s a big asterisk there—not that important for food safety. It’s really about delivering to the customer a product that, at the end of its shelf-life isn’t a slimy disgusting mess,” Schaffner says. But just because it isn’t likely to make you sick doesn’t mean the dates are arbitrary. Food ages in a staggering number of ways, making it nearly impossible to set uniform standards for shelf-life.
This was something I struggled with. To be clear, my personal stance is that I’m vehemently against any Confederate monuments or any monument connected to slavery or racism. I fight white supremacy on a daily basis. However, as a journalist, it is my job to allow people to tell their stories. I didn’t put those words in those folks’ mouths. That’s their words and their words should be heard. We don’t hear people of color’s perspectives [like this] and often dismiss them as sellouts, coons, Uncle Toms, etc. But [I wanted] to get to the root of understanding what these individuals are thinking. Cities are changing fast. Keep up with the CityLab Daily newsletter. The best way to follow issues you care about. Subscribe Loading... One of the things I noticed from interviewing each one of them separately—and they would probably disagree with this—is that they revealed some kind of trauma that happened in their life that drove them to the far right, to be a part of this movement that the rest of the world views as racist and horrible. Whether it was a school incident that occurred, or not being accepted by their own community, you could see that there was some initial trigger that drove them to be standing on Canal Street on April 30 in support of the monuments. It is controversial, yes. A lot of people are telling me, “Don’t give these folks a platform to spew hate.” That’s an argument that we’ve heard a lot, especially in recent times with Milo Yiannopoulos, or Tomi Lahren and all of the Alex Joneses of the world. But I’m not about suppressing information. Threats of violence and death have been waged towards those who’ve participated in bringing these totems down. Did that concern you at all? So, I’ve been doing photojournalism for awhile and I usually do it in extremely controversial instances in which there may be violence. When I’m taking photos, I don’t think about that because I’m not trying to approach it from a place of fear. If you’re approaching them in a way that shows you are either afraid or you have some kind of bias against them, you don’t get the same story or the transparency I seek when documenting them. So, no, I wasn’t afraid at all. To me, the most important thing is getting the story out.
Discussion Our derivation of has some interesting features. Using the Hubble parameter to define our characteristic volume means that the model actually predicts a time-varying cosmological constant (38) where is the Hubble parameter at proper time . That is, we predict that scales like the area of the cosmic horizon. Amazingly, although we made no holographic assumption, this is the same behavior that emerges from holographic dark energy (HDE) theories [5], [6], [10], [12], [13]. In fact, our model shares several other key features with these approaches, including the presence of two “cut-offs” in the theory which are removed in a coordinated fashion. HDE models typically contain both a UV and IR field cut-off which are removed in a way that saturates entropy in the Bekenstein bound. In our theory, the cut-offs and are chosen to keep the entropic perturbation on bounded as . While HDE theories are very different in detail from our model, the broad similarities are quite striking. Perhaps both approaches are pointing to the same underlying physical issues. We hope that the relative simplicity of our model can help elucidate these issues. We should also mention another explanation for which shares some features with our approach. In [53] it is argued that the true ground-state vacuum has but that we observe because the universe has not yet had time to decay into this ground state. The author considers a model in which the true ground state is given by the superposition of two degenerate states, one of which describes the universe’s present-day vacuum. Since the decay probability in a given volume and time period is related to the energy density , the requirement that no such decay has yet happened in the Hubble volume provides an estimate for which agrees with observation. This argument leads, as does our model, to a connection between the Hubble parameter and . Also note that both models contain states at or near which are suppressed compared to the states. Finally, we note that in the very early universe our model predicts large and hence rapid expansion. This raises the tantalizing possibility that big-bang inflation and dark-energy are manifestations of a common effect, though it is likely that a more sophisticated choice for the characteristic volume would be needed. See [54] for consideration of this idea in the HDE context.
NEW DELHI: The Modi government is renaming yet another welfare programme to remove its association with the Gandhi family. This time it’s the Indira Awaas Yojana , which aims to build homes for the rural poor. It’s to be renamed the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana. Cornerstone of the government’s housing-for-all initiative, this is meant to mark the start of an overhaul.“The name is being changed and many upgrades being made to the scheme,” a senior official said.“We are still discussing the inclusion of the word ‘Grameen’ in the name of the scheme,” the official said. A Cabinet note amending the scheme has already been floated by the rural development ministry. This proposes that the homes get bigger and costlier. The unit cost of each house will nearly double to Rs 1.25 lakh from the current allocation of Rs 75,000 per household.In the new design, the kitchen will be bigger, increasing the overall area to 25 square metres from 22 sq m. The government is also proposing to converge this with other rural development schemes. The Modi government has already renamed at least two programmes that bore Rajiv Gandhi’s name — one after Sardar Patel and the other after BJP icon Deendayal Upadhyaya. The programme will continue to have linkages with the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to ensure toilets in each house.Construction has been made an eligible item of work under MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) programme and therefore 90-95 mandays of unskilled manual wages can also be availed of by housing scheme beneficiaries.The states have also been asked to make sure that benefits of the Unnat Chulha Abhiyan (more efficient, less polluting cooking fuel) along with the Jan Dhan Yojana (financial inclusion) and the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (electrification) are made available to beneficiaries.There has been a steep decline in the number of houses constructed under the Indira Awaas Yojana in the past three years. In FY15, 9.80 lakh houses were constructed against a target of 25.19 lakh.The expenditure incurred was Rs 10,764 crore against a budgetary estimate of Rs 16,000 crore. The government has set a target of building 3 crore houses under its rural housing scheme in the next seven years.
The main issue WFS (Women For Sobriety) has with AA can be illustrated by comparing the second step of Alcoholics Anonymous with the first affirmation of Women for Sobriety:One of the main tenets of AA's philosophy is that the recovering alcoholic needs to relinquish control,and hand over to a 'power' outside of him or herself.Understandably a majority of women alcoholics feel alienated by this notion; many women have been powerless all their lives. They have exerted no control over in any sphere of life and have been subject to the whims of men.For many their very powerlessness has been one of the causes of their drinking. That is why, as seen in the first affirmation above, those in WFS do not look outside themselves for the power to defeat alcoholism. Inner strength and determination are the key.Thus is not to say WFS is anti-AA. In the 1990s a survey revealed that one third of women who went to WFS group meetings also regularly attended AA meetings.There are many similarities between the two groups:Where WFS differs from AA:Women for Sobriety was set up by Jean Kirkpatrick in 1975 after suffering from alcoholism for many years. Having tried AA and other treatments for her condition, she seemed a lost cause.But then she began to readand more specifically his essay 'Self-Reliance'. From Emerson's writings and those of other thinkers she began to to deal with alcohol by first dealing with her thoughts.- she realized negative thoughts/feelings led to negative action (in her case drinking). by applying this theory she was able to control and eventually quit drinking altogether.With her new found knowledge and technique, Jean Kirkpatrick set in motion what was to eventually become Women for Sobriety. An alcoholic self-help group that promotes the power of the individual to overcome alcoholism rather than an outside power.This is, at least in my opinion,not the fact that it is only open to women.
When a photo moved into the folder, PM copies the file to an edit folder on the desktop, and puts a full caption on the photo, even picking up the photographer's name from the camera info.Our picture editor on-site in Detroit, Sean Dougherty, was then able to see all incoming images in one folder, with a boilerplate caption (except for the actual players name), with the correct photographers info already applied. All he had to do is crop, add the player ID's, and send via FTP back to our office.Everything we did was with speed and eliminating as much unnecessary time as we couldPM's preferences can be set to show extra info in the browser under the thumbnail, and we used that ability to display at a quick glance which camera any photo came from, the photographer's ID, as well as the exact time it was shot.Sean said: "We programmed our eight cameras (four remotes and four hand held) to the correct local time, and set the PM browser to sync by "Capture Time", so each play came in as a group, giving us several looks at the same play from several different angles. This also saved time editing since there was no back and forth reviewing of photos. I basically updated the live ingest and scrolled through the incoming photos, added a quick caption and sent without toning, and repeated. "Our sports front main photo was shot, edited, captioned and in our photo server in less than five minutes. Our ability to get the photos back to the paper quickly, gives us a better chance of getting the latest photos in the paper, especially when one edition's deadline is five minutes after the end of the game. "Another feature we figured out and utilized was Bert being able to shoot the jubo and trophy ceremony and instead of searching the floor for a messenger or racing back to the digital workroom to ingest cards, he just plugged his cameras back into the system after the trophy and all the photos started moving back to Sean in seconds automatically.
How I wished I was in his spot. I sat there with my mind blank until I realized how I had changed. Every day the mirror was tougher to look at. I hated who I had become but it felt too late. Should I hate myself for causing my brother’s death or even more for wanting revenge? I came to the conclusion that none of that even mattered. I wasn’t scared of death. I was scared of not being remembered. How would I be remembered if I died? Did I do anything good at all? What would they say if I died now? How would the news color me? Was I just another worthless criminal that could only corrupt society or a person? I don’t get any help. I feel deserted out here even though my actions contradict that. This shit is horrible. Looks like we had a hurricane here. There’s shootings and death day or night but it’s always pretty dark a lot. There’s no love for the opposition around here which only fuels hate. If somebody wasn’t there I could only hope they cared too. I felt that all this would be meaningless once I was gone. It felt like I was gone right now. Like my world caved in. Looking out the window now I felt betrayed and alone. I didn’t feel superior to anyone but under them all. I took a couple steps across the room and dug through my sock draw finally pulling out the tech that lay there. It had caused all this. I felt how cold and lifeless it was. It seemed to have the weight of the world attached to it. I figured if anything could end his it would be what started it. So I walked back over to the window and looked out. My hands hung at my sides as I questioned the meaning of life and my purpose. I quit contemplating and felt emotionless. I slowly inhaled through my nose and felt nothing but cold. The gun felt lifeless and heavy in my hands. Slowly under my breath I muttered my admission, “I’m ready to die.”
Several of the national figures leading the campaign against Park51 — such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who that same year had founded the group Stop Islamization of America — also publicly opposed the mosque in Murfreesboro. As they prepared to erect the mosque, someone set fire to an earth hauler and other construction equipment, intimidating contractors away from the project. In October 2010, the Justice Department saw itself forced to weigh in on a lawsuit against the Islamic Center, filing a brief in federal court asserting that Islam is, in fact, a religion entitled to the protections of the First Amendment. That same year, the Tennessee legislature introduced one of the earliest and harshest in a national wave of so-called anti-Sharia bills. These laws are ostensibly designed to prevent “creeping Sharia,” the conspiracy theory dictating that Muslim infiltrators are attempting to force Islamic law on American courts. But Tennessee’s bill went a few steps further, essentially criminalizing the practice of Islam.
“But it also occurred to me that I wouldn’t have to go on the ward at Kenema.” Instead Pooley traveled in an ambulance with a police escort to Lungi Airport, where he was put on a Royal Air Force air ambulance to London, and was given one of the world’s last remaining doses of ZMapp. “I had a really high fever and the shits, and then I started to recover,” he says. When we met, Pooley had been back in Sierra Leone for a week; he was working in the “suspect ward” at Connaught Hospital in Freetown, treating sick patients who were waiting for the results of their Ebola tests. The difference this time was that Pooley had almost certainly developed an immunity to the virus because of his previous exposure. “The doctors aren’t 100 percent sure, but it’s probable,” he says. Pooley believes that ZMapp cured him, and probably could have cured Khan as well. Medical experts aren’t so sure. “If the question is, ‘Did ZMapp do this?’ The answer is that we just don’t know,” says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. “People who are in much less sophisticated medical care conditions in West Africa are recovering 50 percent of the time.” In the aftermath of Khan’s death, many of those involved in the decision-making have been reluctant to talk about what they know. “Unfortunately I cannot comment on this matter at this time. Is that okay?” Miatta Kargbo repeated robotically at least 15 times when I pressed her on the phone after she had been fired from her post as Sierra Leone’s minister of health. Doctors Without Borders, invoking patient-doctor privilege, refused to answer any questions about Khan’s condition while in their care, or even to explain why a patient who is walking and talking can, as Khan did, rapidly deteriorate and die. (Studies have attributed sudden death to shock and organ failure caused by fluid loss, and a sudden onset of arrhythmia.) According to Doctors Without Borders, the determining factor in denying Khan ZMapp was “clinical” — the belief that Khan’s condition had deteriorated to the point that ZMapp probably could not have helped him. But that doesn’t explain why Khan was up and about, talking coherently and eating well for his first few days in the treatment center.
I prefer QWES and holding right mouse to turn rapidly, but to each his/her own.Portals are the the teleporters to the 6 main cities, They can be found on your maps as purple swirly symbols. The fastest way to get to each city is through the Race Neutral City known as Lion's arch. While some cities have only 1 or two portals, Lion's arch has them all. So if you need to get somewhere quick head to lion's arch, the use of Portals is completely free. Waypoints are small teleport beacons that need to be discovered to be unlocked for each individual character. The Waypoints allow characters to rapidly travel to areas already discovered for a price. The price changes on how far away the waypoint is to the character's current position. if its in the same area its usually only 9 copper. If lets say you want to travel from the Charr area to the human area it should be only 33-40 copper. Overall pretty cheap. Wayoints aslo act as spawn points for when your character dies.When a character is reduced to 0 health they enter what can be referred to as a "Fight to survive" or "last stand" for those who play COD, where the character is on the ground and fighting for their life.As you can see you are limited to 4 moves, each changing depending on your profession. The above image is for what i believe to be a thief, their abilites is 1) attack, 2) attack 3) special move (they go invis and can move for a short time before re-entering "fight to survive" and 4) call for help (this is the same for all characters they begin to heal themselves slowly and call for aid from allies. )The red bar above the skills is your final health, when that runs out, you are dead, your allies can quickly revive you by hitting "F" near your downed self. If you are able to self heal enough to fill the bar or you kill an enemy whilst downed you will rally and come back to life. When you are dead however, allies take much longer to revive you, or you can respawn at a waypoint for a small fee.When you die your armor/weapons will take a small amount of damage. Over time these weapons will recive a damaged Icon, this icon simply notifies you that the item is close to breaking.
On the other side of the ledger is fellow anti-Obamacare warrior Betsy McCaughey, who reasons that the administration's lawlessness leaves Congressional constitutionalists little choice but to exploit their purse-strings powers as a check on executive authority. Ben Domenech essentially splits the difference, arguing that the "defund" effort can be part of a larger strategy to tilt the terrain toward eventual repeal -- if it's executed wisely. At the end of the day, Coburn and Anderson are correct: The only way to eradicate Obamacare is to repeal it, which cannot and will not happen so long as Barack Obama is president. The law, which is faltering on its own, is viewed very dimly by the public -- but the same public is wary of outright defunding it straight away, and remainsskittish about a government shutdown. Polls show voters would blame Republicans for such a disruption, creating an opening for Democrats to muddy the waters on Obamacare, and undermine Republicans' heretofore effective critiques of the law. I'd be willing to take the plunge anyway if the plan had any chance of succeeding, but it doesn't. Senate Democrats and the White House absolutely will not budge on this. (Remember, Obama threatened to veto a House bill that codified hisof Obamacare's employer mandate). Though I share the impulse to stand on principle here, such an effort presents an extreme public relations risk with zero chance of paying off. Based on that cost-benefit analysis, I tend to conclude that Coburn is right about his colleagues' otherwise admirable idea. The most intriguing part of Coburn's speech was his suggestion that Senate Republicans could garner majority support for delaying the widely-hated individual mandate tax (in addition to the employer mandate), and could force Democrats into a very tough vote on withholding funding for Obamacare exchanges until the law's anti-fraud verification systems are established. Philip Klein has practically been begging Republicans to go this route since eligibility standards were watered down in early July:President Obama was asked by thewhether he has the authority to re-engineer the healthcare law on-the-fly. Theburied Obama's reply , which was jaw-dropping in its imperiousness:Allahpundit marvels at this answer, which amounts to, "I'm a constitutional lawyer, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. I have this authority because I say so." Incidentally, contra Obama, roughly half of Congress is comprised of lawyers -- including Rubio, Lee and Cruz; the latter two are accomplished Constitutional scholars.
What it all means is that rather than becoming profitable at ~$150 million (the actual money spent), AMovieCo now needs to earn over $400 million before anyone with a cut of the profits sees an additional dime from the movie, thanks to completely imaginary accounting entries on the books.Over on Kevin Smith's (really, really, fascinating) Smoviemakers podcast, Smith recently interviewed filmmaker Scott Derrickson , who has made a name for himself in the horror film world. The whole interview is fantastic and well worth listening to, starting with part one . However, right at the beginning of part two , Derrickson reveals how he effectively got shafted on one of his most well known films, The Exorcism of Emily Rose Basically, it's the same story as always. The net doesn't exist... but because of the extra massive "fees" the studio tacks on, it makes back many times its money before it even has to go anywhere near paying the writer and director to whom it promised 5%.Related to this, it comes as no surprise that later in the podcast, Derrickson talks about his recognition that the real future in movies is being able to make them much more cheaply, and outside of studio control. He talks about being influenced by the movie Monsters , which was made for a few hundred thousand dollars, but which he notes would have probably cost a studio $50 million to make. At that point, he realized that to survive in this business, he had to be able to learn to make movies much more cheaply:They then discuss his new movie, Sinister , which had a $3 million budget (which shocks Smith, who insists it looks like a movie that's much more expensive). Of course, in many ways, this goes back to the discussion we've been having here for many, many years -- responding to the old school movie studio guys, who demand that we answer how could they possibly continue to make $200 million movies . One answer, which we've pointed out time and time again, is that the question is the wrong one. Any business should be asking how it can make its product-- not how it can keep its costs high. No one in the tech industry asks "how can we continue to make $5,000 computers?"
The other event leading up to the JNU crackdown was more tragic: on January 17, Rohith Vemula, a PhD scholar active in Dalit politics, killed himself after he and his organization were hounded by right-wing groups, university administrators, and politicians for several months. The term “Dalit” (“downtrodden”) was popularized by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the revered anti-caste activist and author of the Indian Constitution, to refer to the formerly “Untouchable” castes. Vemula had been part of a Communist student organization, but was disappointed with their lack of engagement with caste issues. He then joined the Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA) at Hyderabad Central University (HCU). ASA ran afoul of the ABVP when it organized a memorial on the day that Yakub Memon was executed by the Indian government for his alleged role in the 1993 Bombay bombings. Like Afzal Guru’s case, Memon’s trial and sentencing was the subject of great controversy, with even Indian intelligence officials questioning the fairness of the decision. The ABVP, supported by the BJP, began a sustained harassment campaign against the ASA that culminated in a top BJP official, Bandaru Dattatreya, accusing the Education Ministry of being “casteist” and “anti-national.” The ministry then applied pressure to HCU administrators, who kicked the students out of their dormitories and forbade them from participating in student politics. For a group of activists committed to challenging social exclusion, both historic and contemporary, this act of institutional boycotting was a sad irony. Vemula committed suicide soon after, leaving behind a deeply poignant suicide note, that read, in part, “The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind.”
What can be expected from the referendum? The government of Catalonia, a wealthy region in northeastern Spain with a distinct history and language, is forging ahead with an independence referendum, even though Spain’s constitutional court has suspended the vote and the central government has declared it illegal. Spanish officials, prosecutors and judges have launched an all-out effort to block it by sending thousands of police to the region to confiscate ballots and ballot boxes, shutting down pro-referendum websites and arresting Catalan officials. Even though police have orders to stop the vote, the Catalan government has said it will still go ahead. Will police try to stop the vote from taking place? Madrid has sent about 4,000 national police officers to the region, with orders to seal polling stations. But that may not be enough to stop the ballot in many sites, especially if the Catalan police corps claim public-order grounds to avoid intervening when a sizable number of voters are present. Pro-independence supporters plan to occupy polling stations starting Friday, but police might still succeed in sealing off a few of them. This could force some attendees to hold a makeshift vote instead. What is the result likely to be? The latest official poll showed the independence camp has lost some support over the past three years: 35% of Catalans want independence, compared with 49% in 2013. But a survey earlier this month by Catalan pro-independence newspaper ARA found that almost 70% of those who are planning to vote are in favor of secession. However, because Madrid and pro-union parties have declared the referendum illegal, those supporting Catalonia remaining part of Spain are likely to boycott the vote, suggesting a result in favor of secession is more likely. If the vote is in favor of independence, then what? That is unclear. Catalonia’s regional president, Carles Puigdemont, has promised to declare independence. But a unilateral move is unlikely to have international recognition, and members of Mr. Puigdemont’s own party have denied a declaration of independence will happen. Such an attempt would likely drive Madrid to seize control of the regional government, although some still hope Barcelona—the Catalan capital—and Madrid could sit down to negotiate a resolution to the region’s grievances. Regardless, pro-independence activists are planning large demonstrations and possibly a general strike aimed at pressuring Madrid to offer a negotiated path toward separation or compelling the European Union to mediate.
I’m not sure how it is in small families, but in large ones relationships tend to shift over time. You might be best friends with one brother or sister, then two years later it might be someone else. Then it’s likely to change again, and again after that. It doesn’t mean that you’ve fallen out with the person you used to be closest to but that you’ve merged into someone else’s lane, or had him or her merge into yours. Trios form, then morph into quartets before splitting into teams of two. The beauty of it is that it’s always changing. Twice in 2014, I went to Tokyo with my sister Amy. I’d been seven times already, so was able to lead her to all the best places, by which I mean stores. When we returned in January of 2016, it made sense to bring our sister Gretchen with us. Hugh was there as well, and while he’s a definite presence, he didn’t figure into the family dynamic. Mates, to my sisters and me, are seen mainly as shadows of the people they’re involved with. They move. They’re visible in direct sunlight. But because they don’t have access to our emotional buttons—because they can’t make us twelve again, or five, and screaming—they don’t really count as players. Normally in Tokyo we rent an apartment and stay for a week. This time, though, we got a whole house. The neighborhood it was in—Ebisu—is home to one of our favorite shops, Kapital. The clothes they sell are new but appear to have been previously worn, perhaps by someone who was shot or stabbed and then thrown off a boat. Everything looks as if it had been pulled from the evidence rack at a murder trial. I don’t know how they do it. Most distressed clothing looks fake, but not theirs, for some reason. Do they put it in a dryer with broken glass and rusty steak knives? Do they drag it behind a tank over a still-smoldering battlefield? How do they get the cuts and stains so . . . right? If I had to use one word to describe Kapital’s clothing, I’d be torn between “wrong” and “tragic.” A shirt might look normal enough until you try it on, and discover that the armholes have been moved, and are no longer level with your shoulders, like a capital “T,” but farther down your torso, like a lowercase one.
Carl Hubbell 1933 Grove posts a 3.20 ERA after averaging 2.56 during his five-year reign; Hubbell wins the MVP and World Series, goes 23-12 with 1.66 ERA (193 ERA+). Satchel Paige 1934 Paige dominates the Negro National League and beats major league MVP Dizzy Dean in barnstorming games. Dizzy Dean 1935 Paige sits out most of the year; Dean follows his 30-7 season with a 28-12 campaign and a league-leading 190 K’s. Carl Hubbell 1936-37 Hubbell wins the league MVP with a 26-6 record and 2.31 ERA in 304 IP. Bill Lee 1938 This isn’t the Spaceman; after a promising start to his career, Lee breaks out by leading the NL in wins (22) and ERA (2.66). Bob Feller 1939-41 Feller led the AL in wins, IP, and strikeouts each season before going to war from 1942 to 1944. Mort Cooper 1942 In a league with a weakened player pool, Cooper’s ERA drops from 3.91 to 1.78 as he wins 22 games and the NL MVP. Spud Chandler 1943 Cooper retains most of his gains, but the 35-year-old Chandler goes 20-4 with a 1.64 ERA before going into service himself. Hal Newhouser 1944-45 The Tigers suddenly have the best one-two punch in the league with Newhouser (who wins the AL MVP in 1944 and 1945) and Dizzy Trout. Bob Feller 1946-47 Is this the best title-belt duel ever? Newhouser goes 26-9 with a 1.94 ERA and 275 K’s in 292.2 IP; Feller goes 26-15 with a 2.18 ERA and 348 K’s in 371.1 IP. Harry Brecheen 1948 Feller’s ERA rises to 3.56, while the otherwise good Brecheen has his one great season, leading the league in ERA (2.24). Warren Spahn 1949-50 Spahn leads the NL in wins and strikeouts both seasons, even though Philly closer Jim Konstanty wins the MVP in 1950. Robin Roberts 1951-55 Roberts emerges as an ace in 1950, takes the belt in 1951, then leads NL in wins, IP, and CG each year from 1952 to 1955.
GANDHINAGAR: It seems Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has finally realized that more than any other politician, Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) chief Arvind Kejriwal has the potential to ruin his chances of becoming the country's Prime Minister. Sources in Modi's core strategy team said that the chief minister is now seriously focusing on 'strategizing afresh' for his 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign This comes immediately after AAP staked claim to having made over 1.25 lakh members across Gujarat in 10 days. Their membership drive was launched on January 1. AAP state convener Sukhdev Patel on Friday claimed that 5,000 members from the city enrolled with the party on a single day.Sources said that leaders of Delhi unit of BJP, members of the Citizen for Accountable Governance (CAG), and other highly qualified young professionals roped in by Modi last year, met the Gujarat chief minister recently. "Even senior BJP leader of Delhi, Dr Harsh Vardhan, rushed to Gandhinagar last week at short notice and had a long meeting with the Gujarat CM. CAG members and other Modi strategists discussed possible ways of countering Kejriwal," said a source.Sources said that Modi had asked CAG members and BJP workers to synchronize their efforts and launch a major campaign against AAP in Delhi from January-end or February. "CAG will focus on strategy and on attracting Delhi's educated youth to the BJP. The party also plans to hit the streets to persuade supporters common to both the parties not to vote for AAP in the Lok Sabha elections," source said.Delhi unit of the BJP has also been instructed to attack Kejriwal and his core team on local governance issues so that they are unable to move out of the national capital and replicate their efforts outside Delhi. "The Delhi will launch an aggressive campaign against AAP soon,'' the source said. Sources said that Modi hopes to win all the seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi which are currently held by the Congress. However, the Gujarat chief minister fears that AAP may play the spoilsport.
They argued that Christian dogmas are untrue; that Christianity teaches submission to what is deemed to be the will of God, whereas self-respecting human beings should not bow before any higher Power; and that the Christian Churches have become the allies of tyrants, and are helping the enemies of democracy to deny liberty and continue to grind the faces of the poor. Nietzsche is not interested in the metaphysical truth of either Christianity or any other religion; being convinced that no religion is really true, he judges all religions entirely by their social effects. He agrees with the philosophers in objecting to submission to the supposed will of God, but he would substitute for it the will of earthly "artist-tyrants." Submission is right, except for these supermen, but not submission to the Christian God. As for the Christian Churches' being allies of tyrants and enemies of democracy, that, he says, is the very reverse of the truth. The French Revolution and Socialism are, according to him, essentially identical in spirit with Christianity; to all alike he is opposed, and for the same reason: that he will not treat all men as equal in any respect whatever.
Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 13 Caption Close Image 2 of 13 Jed Lowrie's return The veteran has been sidelined since late April after having surgery on his right thumb. He was hitting .300 when he went down. Where to play Lowrie is the question, as Carlos Correa has taken over at shortstop. Third base and first place, where the Astros have struggled to get consistent production, are two spots that have been mentioned. less Jed Lowrie's return The veteran has been sidelined since late April after having surgery on his right thumb. He was hitting .300 when he went down. Where to play Lowrie is the question, as ... more Photo: Gary Coronado / Houston Chronicle Image 3 of 13 Chris Carter Carter has been feast or famine over the years, but the Astros need more than his .188 average. Last year, he hit 24 homers and drove in 58 runs after July 1. The Astros need a similar second half from him this year. less Chris Carter Carter has been feast or famine over the years, but the Astros need more than his .188 average. Last year, he hit 24 homers and drove in 58 runs after July 1. The Astros need a ... more Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 4 of 13 Lance McCullers and Vince Velasquez The youngsters called up from Double-A have turned in quality innings during their young big-league careers. The biggest question is how the Astros will manage their innings the rest of the season as neither has thrown more than 125 innings in any pro season. less Lance McCullers and Vince Velasquez The youngsters called up from Double-A have turned in quality innings during their young big-league careers. The biggest question is how the Astros will ... more Photo: Mayra Beltran / Houston Chronicle Image 5 of 13 Image 6 of 13 The trade market The Astros are believed to be buyers for a starting pitcher, such as Cincinnati's Johnny Cueto (pictured). Beefing the rotation may help tip the scales in their playoff push. less The trade market The Astros are believed to be buyers for a starting pitcher, such as Cincinnati's Johnny Cueto (pictured).
79 The governments hard line also helped push large sections of the SRs towards the Bolsheviks. But if the Mensheviks and the SRs no longer had a mass base, they were of no use to the reactionaries that made up the officer caste in the army, to the bourgeoisie or to the middle classes. The call for a military coup from the right began to be raised openly. In mid-August, the Provisional Government tried to muster public support by organizing a State Conference. To protest the conference, the Bolsheviks called a general strike in Moscow that shut much of the city downyet another sign of the Bolsheviks resurgence from the July repression. During the proceedings General Kornilov, Commander in Chief, talked about the need to restore order in the army and at "the rear." The army is conducting a ruthless struggle against anarchy, and anarchy will be crushed By a whole series of legislative measures passed after the revolution by people whose understanding and spirit were alien to the army, this army was converted into the most reckless mob, which values nothing but its own life there can be no army without discipline. The prestige of the officers must be enhanced There is no army without a rear The measures that are adopted at the front must also be adopted in the rear. 80 General Kornilov launched a coup attempt in late August. On August 26, he sent a representative to demand the surrender of the Provisional Government. He had the backing of all the top generals, big business and the British and French governments. But Kornilovs coup failed largely because of the organized resistance led by the Bolsheviks. Lenins response to the Kornilov revolt was clear and immediate: "The Kornilov revolt is a most unexpected and downright unbelievably sharp turn in events. Like every sharp turn, it calls for a revision and change of tactics." 81 The Bolshevik Party must lead the resistance to Kornilov, Lenin argued, because a successful coup from the right would be a tremendous setback to the revolution. Thus, Bolsheviks and their supporters were organized to fight Kornilov. This did not mean, however, extending support to the government. "Even now we must not support Kerenskys government. This is unprincipled. We shall fight, we are fighting against Kornilov, just as Kerenskys troops do, but we do not support Kerensky.
The only hope now is the chief minister who had promised to make Mumbai business friendly.A Bharatiya Janata Party legislator on Tuesday wrote to Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, urging him to withdraw his decision to allow restaurants and pubs to remain open all night.While several BJP MLAs and MPs have been opposing the move for various reasons - primary of them being that the idea of all-night restaurants was first proposed by Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray - this is the most decisive step taken yet to stall the proposal.The letter written by Colaba MLA Raj Purohit cites Mumbai’s mixed commercial-residential neighbourhoods as one of the main reasons why all-night restaurants and pubs could prove to be problematic.Purohit is not alone. Two more BJP MLAs -- Ashish Shelar, who is the city BJP chief, and Ameet Satam, the Andheri (West) MLA – have been mobilizing residents against the move from the day this newspaper broke the news of the commissioner’s nod to all-night restaurants. The three cover the most fertile ground for a vibrant nightlife in Mumbai -- Colaba, Bandra, and Andheri.Though the Sena and the BJP are allies, their relations are far from cordial. From Sena chief and Aditya’s father UddhavThackeray taking potshots at PM Narendra Modi’s waning popularity to Sena complaining that its ministers are not allocated any work, the two are constantly at each other’s throat. And with the BMC set to go to elections in 2017, BJP is unwilling to let Aditya Thackeray walk away with the credit for reviving Mumbai’s nightlife.However, public posturing is all about how residents are against the idea of all-night restaurants and pubs. Purohit said all the questions in his letter have come from Colaba residents. “We want to know if traffic signals will be on the whole night and how will the short-staffed traffic police man them? Petty crimes are on the rise, are the police going to have a special team to handle nightlife? All this nightlife will cause serious breach of peace, how are the cops going to tackle that? Maria’s decision has been taken in haste and is not in tune with the ground realties,” Purohit said.Purohit, who is also the BJP’s chief whip in the assembly, said he would soon take up the matter with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and demand that the nightlife plan be stayed.
If nothing else, it taught me that it is possible to completely subvert expectations of how standard parts of a programming language work. The HOPL series of workshops, and the generally wonderful papers therein, are another excellent source of programming language design ideas. [4] Note that I'm talking about languages with distinct syntax and semantics; the term is also currently used to describe particular idioms of library design and use in conventional languages, though I suspect that will fade in the future. Follow me on Twitter
[41] Herman responded in a letter by stating that the system was not "all powerful" and that LaFeber did not address their main point regarding Nicaragua. LaFeber replied that: Mr. Herman wants to have it both ways: to claim that leading American journals "mobilize bias" but object when I cite crucial examples that weaken the book's thesis. If the news media are so unqualifiedly bad, the book should at least explain why so many publications (including my own) can cite their stories to attack President Reagan's Central American policy. [42] Chomsky responds to LaFeber's reply in Necessary Illusions: What is more, a propaganda model is not weakened by the discovery that with careful and critical reading, material could be unearthed in the media that could be used by those that objected to "President Reagan's Central American policy" on grounds of principle, opposing not its failures but its successes: the near destruction of Nicaragua and the blunting of the popular forces that threatened to bring democracy and social reform to El Salvador, among other achievements. [43]
Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: Relocating Kruger National Park's rhinos Relocating Kruger National Park's rhinos – Relocations like this one are a key part of a protection plan which has taken on even greater urgency since the country's environmental minister announced a record 1,020 of South Africa's rhinos have been poached in 2014. Hide Caption 7 of 7
I am now trying to contact the Nobel laureates scheduled to attend the Science Congress to let them know that they will be presenting at a conference that promotes pseudo-science.”Gandhiraman has also been in touch with Nobel Prize winner Prof. Paul Nurse who is due to deliver a talk at the Indian Science Congress and is famous for his strong stance against the distortion of scientific evidence for political or religious ends. Captain Bodas’s source text for his claims on ancient India’s aviation prowess is ‘Vaimanika Prakaranam’, an Indian treatise on aviation, the authorship of which is attributed to the sage Bhardwaj.A section of scientists, however, emphasise the importance of scientifically scrutinizing all claims about the past.Prof S M Deshpande, one of the five authors of a study on aviation technologies in Sanskrit texts by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore said while there is no harm in making a presentation on ancient India’s aviation achievements, care must be taken to base the talk on a correct scientific study. “When we undertook a study of aviation in Sanskrit texts, we were driven by great intellectual curiosity and not by any desire to dismiss it as ‘psuedo-science’.Prof Deshpande’s study of the Vaimanika Shastra, the text Captain Bodas widely quotes from, had concluded that the text “cannot be dated earlier than 1904” and that the planes described in it are “poor concoctions” and “unimaginably horrendous from the point of view of flying”.Prof Gauri Mahulikar, head of MU’s Sanskrit Department and coordinator for the session, said that this was the first time that the Indian Science Congress had held a symposium on ancient Indian science viewed through Sanskrit literature. “If we had chosen Sanskrit professors to talk about the references to aviation technology in Sanskrit literature, which includes information on how to make planes, the dress code and diet of pilots, the seven types of fuel used, people would have dismissed us, but Captain Bodas is himself a pilot, and his co-presenter, Ameya Jadhav, holds an MTech degree besides an MA in Sanskrit.”
(1786-1789) Loosely translated, Wielands collection contains "selected tales of fairies and spirits, partly newly invented, partly newly translated and revised." Dschinnistan inspired other works as well, including Mullers "Kaspar der Fagottist" and Benedict Schacks "Der Stein der Weisen." Schikaneder also had cognizance of Phillip Hafners play "Megara," dating from 1763. Magara contributed to some of the magical fairy tale elements so closely intertwined within the seriousness of The Magic Flute. Ritualistic elements, including the ancient Egyptian setting can be traced to Jean Terrassons novel, Sethos, dating from 1731. The Enlightenment and Schikaneders Free-Masonry Masonic opera was not a new idea in Mozarts enlightened city of Vienna. Several years before the appearance of The Magic Flute, Lorenzo DaPonte had assisted the librettist Mazzola with the Masonic opera "Osiris," written by Johann Gottlieb Naumann. Naumanns opera has some traceable similarities to Flute, if not musically, then Masonically. Test scenes for Osiris used Egypt as its setting, and the struggle between good and evil was at the forefront of the libretto itself. Although it is accepted that Schikaneder wrote the libretto for Mozarts opera, there has been some dispute about The Magic Flutes authorship. Schikaneders wayward career and lack of any long-standing membership in any Masonic lodge may have fueled the suspect tales of false-authorship. In 1849, rumors were rife that Johann Georg Metzler (known as Giesecke) may have been responsible for the actual libretto. Julius Cornet, a tenor and opera director, published "Die Oper in Deutschland und das Theater der Neuzeit," (1849) which stated that Giesecke wrote the libretto. The information was supplied to Cornet by Giesecke himself, so it is largely circumstantial and doesn't seem to warrant any further support. Schikaneders standing within Free-Masonry was altogether haphazard to say the least. Research done by Brother Dr. Bernhard Beuer of Bayreuth traces Schikaneders life as a Mason. Beuers work states that Schikaneder entered "the craft" for worldly reasons, and was certainly not above anything scandalous or unethical, providing it was profitable. Schikaneders letters petitioning admission to the Masons shows his need for membership in a vagrant way: "Deeply revered gentlemen, Not curiosity or selfishness but the most sincere esteem of your exalted assembly motivates by most humble prayer for admission to your sanctuary from which, in spite of the greatest secrecy, radiates a glimmer of nobility, humanity and wisdom. Enlighten me by your wise teachings, make me in your image, and I will remain with warmest thanks,
Good art can change a person and if you can change a person you can change the world and I know that’s kind of fluffy. I know I’m from LA. That sounds really hippy but you know what it’s the fucking truth. It’s the fucking truth. All right. So step seven and probably the one that’s the most difficult out of all the steps I’ve talked about today and stuff that a lot of people out there listening to this don’t want to do but I’m hoping you will is you’ve got to work. You’ve got to hustle. I repeat that you’ve got to work and you’ve got to hustle. This business, this film business that you want in so bad on it’s fucking brutal. Brutal. OK. Like a Stallone says in Rocky Balboa which is an amazing speech he wrote, “This business will bring you to your knees. No matter how tough you think you are.” Like life. Life will bring anybody to your knees and that’s only something that you realize as you get older but this business will bring you to your knees and you won’t even know what to do but as he says it’s not about how hard you get hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. You’ve got to keep moving forward. This is the best time ever to be an independent filmmaker. You have access that us older filmmakers not that old but older filmmakers would have killed for. I would have killed to have an editing system on my laptop but I didn’t have that option when I was you know coming up. I had to drive an hour in this is my appeal the snow barefoot story. But I had to drive an hour every morning to my interned ship where I got to work on the Avid an hour before the production company opened and then I would stay two hours late and then drive back home at midnight because I’ve been working and practicing on the Avid and I did that for months before I ventured out to become my own freelance editor. Now all you need to do is download the DaVinci Resolve, download or you know buy premier or you know get access to premier for like twenty five bucks a month or whatever the Creative Cloud thing is now and you can be doing it at home.
It is this, and not the threat of nationalist mobs on the streets that makes the South China Sea disputes so intractable and dangerous. But to concede its falsity would remove a cornerstone of the Party’s position at the apex of Chinese society. There are, unfortunately, no easy alternatives to continuing strife in the South China Sea. No side wishes to provoke an outright conflict but none is willing to reduce tension by moderating its territorial claims. Some Chinese officials privately recognise the legal absurdity of maintaining a the “U-shaped line” claim. But those same officials say they cannot formally adjust the claim for political reasons—the domestic criticism would be too great. How then could a Chinese population be persuaded to take a different view of the history of the South China Sea? Perhaps one answer lies in Taiwan. The chances of a freer debate on Chinese history are much greater in Taiwan than in the mainland. There are already a number of “dissident” academics rethinking aspects of 20th century history. Taiwan is also where the archives of the Republic of China, the government that first drew up the “U-shaped line,” are stored. An open and thorough examination of the haphazard process through which the line came to be drawn might convince opinion-formers to re-examine some of the nationalist myths they have long declared to be gospel truth. Perhaps the strongest reason for starting in Taiwan is that the authorities in Beijing fear that any concession they might make would be loudly criticised in Taipei. If the authorities there were to de-escalate the historiographical conflict in the South China Sea, it would be much easier for the Beijing government to do the same. The key to a peaceful future in Asia lies in an honest and critical examination of the past. The South China Sea and the struggle for power in Asia by Bill Hayton will be published by Yale University Press in September.
In summary, this study demonstrates that simultaneous modeling of all SNPs using statistical learning was able to generate genomic risk scores that accurately predict CD to a clinically relevant degree. This was despite the models explaining only a minority of disease heritability. The GRS better enables clinicians to stratify patients according to their risk of CD compared to HLA typing alone and, we predict, more accurately determines those suitable for confirmatory testing in the form of small bowel biopsy. Reserving this invasive, time consuming and costly procedure for higher-risk cases is likely to improve the accuracy, cost and public acceptance of testing for CD, and by extension, benefit the overall diagnosis of CD in the community. By better prioritizing higher-risk patients for confirmatory testing, genomic risk prediction carries promise as a clinically useful tool to add to the clinician's diagnostic armamentarium. Ultimately, we envisage a clinical scoring algorithm based on the combination of clinical features, serologic, and genetic information that will accurately predict people with biopsy-confirmed CD and perhaps ultimately overcome the reliance on small bowel histology altogether. Further, the costs of genotyping a select number of marker SNPs with a low-plex, high throughput technology are already far lower than the costs of full HLA typing, resulting in a test that is cheaper, more flexible and more precise than HLA typing. More generally, this study demonstrates that statistical learning approaches utilizing SNPs can already produce useful predictive models of a complex human disease using existing genotyping platforms assaying common SNPs and suggests that similar approaches may yield comparable results in other complex human diseases with strong genetic components.
With ZSS, it's hard for her to approach us if we have Tornado and Chakram. We can also beat a lot of her aerials out with Utilt, and she's gimpable with Dair once her Down B is spent. Villager can't really camp us, because Chakram goes right through both Tree and a Lloid Rocket before it starts moving. If you take Reversal Slash, you also have a way to deal with slingshots and bowling ball edgeguards. "Colgate also mentioned Mario as among the characters Mii Swordfighter does well against. "He can juggle Mario well, and box him out with his sword. His dair is also deadly for linear vertical recoveries like Mario's. "Colgate told us. Nyani however, didn't have as much confidence.However she too mentioned his potential with secondaries.Routa felt that is strong depended on which moves and sizes were available for use. "Guest 1111? Haha you wish. Guest XXXX? Well Guest XXXX could do some nice things, but I wouldn't still call him viable on a national level, but once you give him the size... Oh boy you are in for a treat. Judging by his MU spread (the Any Size XXXX) I would say he is viable in national level. "A special thank you to all of the Mii Swordfighter experts who contributed to this article. To learn more about Mii Swordfighter consider checking out CT \| Nyani's guide on the character and visit the Mii Swordfighter forums here on Smashboards . Learn something exciting about Mii Swordfighter? Tell us in the comments below and stay tuned for the rest of #MiiWiik here on Smashboards!
The manuscript dates to about 1585.This is an absolutely, with more than 4000 images of 'books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial period of the Americas, North and South, from 1492 to ca. 1825'. I am amazed I had never, to my recall, seen this InsightBrowser site before. I've only had a very modest perusal of their holdings so far, but I will definitely return in the near future. It's great to seematerial relating to the Caribbean and the Guyanas, but there is so much more in here. The extent of the background notes is commendable too.1. Brown University owns the original of the Tovar manuscript and it seems like it is the only complete version in existence. Brown U refer to a single section of their manuscript asthe Ramírez Codex. But the Ramírez Codex is housed in Mexico and I assume it is the only other extant copy of the pictographic section of the Tovar manuscript, hence the names get interchanged. There is a LOT more complexity in the background to all this - a mysterious 'Chronicle X' which is said to have been an older source document for both Tovar and at least one other contemporary historian; plus, there was a significant amount of censorship and also uncredited borrowing -- how much of this either is true or has bearing on Tovar's manuscript is beyond the scope of my brief review.
Because the trips are all in the commute direction, each driver would need to drive vacant half the time, which would need to be compensated for. Today, taxis and Uber include a "flag drop" fee and a minimum fee which make short, sub-mile trips quite expensive and interfere with this approach. On the other hand, if drivers were hired for an hourly and per-mile fee, regardless of the number of trips, it could become economical. $30/hour for car and driver with 6 trips per hour would mean a cost of $5/trip, which is a bit high. Last/first mile trips could also be accomplished by bicycle (but less so in bad weather) or scooter. And some fraction of people (especially at the workplace end) would be within walking distance. Outside rush hour Outside of rush hour, there is available capacity on the roads. Most trips will now switch to private vehicles, except perhaps during the lunchtime peak. The vans are big, so it would be wasteful to use them for solo passengers, though they might make on-demand runs for groups of 4 or more. They might also make sense for long haul trips, particularly if they can slot in an aisle and a toilet. It makes sense for people to travel together for efficiency and comfort on these long hauls. Trips to cottage country could make sense in them, as well. They might also find use as corporate shuttles until rush hour starts again. The non-peak trip will be private and door-to-door. This is quite efficient if the vehicle is small and light. While there will be some efforts to ride-share, the cost of the private vehicles will be so low that to gain traction, the ride-share will need to be very efficient with minimal waiting. As above, ride share need not mean being delayed while your vehicle takes a detour to pick up the next passenger. Instead, it can be a combination of short hops in small one-person vehicles to the best point to meet. Mass transit's advantages While many are surprised to learn that mass transit is not very energy efficient when systems are compared to systems, there is a reason behind the instincts people have that it's a better choice either for riders or cities. Today, a surprising percentage of the cost of running a transit system is the drivers, and just as cars will be able to run without drivers, so can transit vehicles.
After being made redundant from the ABC two years ago, I’ve worked incredibly hard to build a freelancing business on my own. My work is high profile but takes many hours of investigative work. I don’t make a lot of money from it; I do it because I believe in it. I want society to be a fairer, more just place to live. You’d be aware that on the weekend, I published (the) story: It was the result of hours and hours of work over a number of weeks. And quite a few tears too – because the content is so traumatic. I worked incredibly hard to treat my interviewees with respect. And in fact, I had to get trauma support myself to deal with the fall out and continue with the story. Mamamia then published this ripped off version not long after I published my original story: I’m devastated about this. It’s incredibly hurtful to think Katy probably only spent an hour at most cutting and pasting my story and then putting her own byline online. You didn’t even acknowledge the source – you didn’t name me or news.com.au in your “story.” And what about the dignity and trust of the men who I had interviewed and worked so long and hard to protect? I wonder if have considered what this kind of ‘journalism’ costs society? How will stories like the ones I write actually get told if interviewees can’t trust journalists and decide not to speak out? How will power be held to account? It also costs me personal distress to see this close-to-the-bone story re-written in this way. Furthermore – and least important (but not irrelevant) – it costs me income. Mamamia is well known for stating it is a feminist organisation. In this light, how can you take my work without paying me for it? In order for me to continue work like this, I have to pay my mortgage and feed my family. Because my work keeps getting ripped off, it’s becoming impossible. I’m idealistic and I wonder how quality journalism will survive this terrible practice of taking other people’s work? It does have a consequence. Honestly. You can’t imagine how shattered I am today.
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) track occupational injuries and disabilities, chronic illnesses, and mortality in miners in the United States. From 1973 to 2006 the incidence rate of all nonfatal injuries decreased from 1973 to 1987, then increased dramatically in 1988, then decreased from 1988 to 2006.27 Major accidents still occur. In January 2006, 17 miners died in Appalachian coal mines, including 12 at the Sago mine in West Virginia, and 29 miners died at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West VA on April 5, 2010. Since 1900 over 100,000 have been killed in coal mining accidents in the United States.14 In China, underground mining accidents cause 3,800–6,000 deaths annually,28 though the number of mining‐related deaths has decreased by half over the past decade. In 2009, 2,631 coal miners were killed by gas leaks, explosions, or flooded tunnels, according to the Chinese State Administration of Work Safety.29 Black lung disease (or pneumoconiosis), leading to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is the primary illness in underground coal miners. In the 1990s, over 10,000 former U.S. miners died from coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and the prevalence has more than doubled since 1995.30 Since 1900 coal workers’ pneumoconiosis has killed over 200,000 in the United States.14 These deaths and illnesses are reflected in wages and workers' comp, costs considered internal to the coal industry, but long‐term support often depends on state and federal funds. Again, the use of “coking” coal used in industry is also omitted from this analysis: a study performed in Pittsburgh demonstrated that rates of lung cancer for those working on a coke oven went up two and one‐half times, and those working on the top level had the highest (10‐fold) risk.31 Mountaintop removal MTR is widespread in eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia. To expose coal seams, mining companies remove forests and fragment rock with explosives. The rubble or “spoil” then sits precariously along edges and is dumped in the valleys below.
Given under our signet at our Palace of Westminster the 10th day of February, the 34th year of our reign.
In instances where the original 1950 researchers did not identify plants to species level (for example, Carex and Rubus), we also considered these taxa at the genus level for analysis. We recognize that analyses of legacy data sets such as ours are sensitive to impacts from interannual variation. To quantitatively assess the magnitude of interannual variation in our system and to gauge the impacts on our findings, we resampled 10 of our sites in 2015 and compared these data to our original resampling effort in 2012. We did not find a substantial interannual variation in these remnants between 2012 and 2015 (table S3). Drivers of change To determine the relative impact of different types of drivers, we used a hypothesis-driven framework where we selected a priori drivers that were most relevant to our hypotheses and study system. We chose this approach, rather than a “kitchen sink” modeling framework where many potential drivers are evaluated, to prevent potentially spurious results. Using this framework, we examined the importance of changes in habitat patch area and fire history among time periods relative to the impacts of local soil moisture (a predominant classic driver of prairie plant community composition in our study area) (51) and more broadly (52, 53). We chose to evaluate changes in patch area because of the pervasive magnitude and known impact of habitat loss and fragmentation on the prairie biome in North America and within our study region (13, 22). In addition, we evaluated changes in fire regimes because of their documented importance for determining and altering prairie plant communities (16, 23). Although other global change drivers (for example, climate, nitrogen deposition, and increased CO 2 ) are known to alter the diversity and composition of grassland plant communities (44–46), they do not vary substantially among our study sites and thus were not included in our hypotheses or modeling framework. Patch areas were estimated in 1987 by pacing the perimeter of the patch (17) and in 2012 using field coordinates taken using a Global Positioning System unit with submeter accuracy (Trimble GeoXT). Because we lacked information on patch areas from the 1950 surveys, we quantified these from aerial photos taken between 1949 and 1956 and accessed from the Robinson Map Library at the University of Wisconsin. We georeferenced the photos in ArcGIS 10 (Esri, 2011) and calculated patch areas from polygons drawn around the extent of grasslands at each site.
Cincinnati has always had a strong conservative streak, and its police force is no exception. In responding to crime outbreaks, police tactics hadn’t changed much since Whalen’s father was a cop, battling Vietnam War protesters in the sixties. “Peace through superior firepower,” Gerard told me. The C.P.D. relied heavily on its fleet of vehicles; “send another car” was standard operating procedure when dealing with disturbances. Whalen explained, “You’ve got a problem at Fourteenth and Vine, so you send a couple of cops out there to that corner.” But even within hot spots crimes were viewed as isolated incidents. “We’d say, ‘We’ve got a problem with Jerry, or Frank—we got to pick that individual up,’ ” Whalen said. Little effort was made to aggregate crime data, so that the information could be analyzed for patterns, which would situate Jerry’s and Frank’s offenses within a context and a network. The beat cops often understood the context, but their captains and commanders rarely asked for their advice. As a result, Streicher and Whalen and the rest of the C.P.D. leadership had no hard data about how many of the murders in the city were gang-related, what the real motives for the killings were, and how the shooters and the victims were connected. In May of 2007, beat cops and investigators were summoned from Cincinnati’s five districts to the new regional Homeland Security Center to meet Kennedy and participate in two eight-hour information-gathering sessions, overseen by Dr. Robin Engel, the director of the University of Cincinnati Policing Institute. Everyone gathered in the command room, where large maps of each of the districts were spread out on tables. The researchers began a “gang audit” with the first district. Cops were asked to draw on the map the location of any gangs they were aware of, which would be represented by numbered circles. The officers relied on anecdotal information that they had picked up on the streets. Engel and her students peppered them with questions. Where is the group located? How many members does it have? Is it allied with any other gangs? Does it have any conflicts or “beefs”—which tend to be ongoing vendettas sometimes triggered by a long-forgotten slight—with other gangs? What kinds of criminal activity is it involved in? How organized is it? How violent is it? Does the gang have any identifying “tags” (graffiti) or colors? Are there any standout individuals?
"Not everyone has as good an experience as Aamita. Many Indian women turn up in Thailand terrified as their husbands arrange the procedure and leave their wives in the dark right until the last minute. "With Indian couples, around 80% of enquiries are from the husband and not the wife," says Sanchez-Burton. Some men don't tell their wives until very late in the process. "We've had many frantic emails from Indian women asking, can you please tell me what's going to happen? It's the men who want an heir and are being proactive, while the women are not so keen on IVF and are happier to have a girl. "Priya from Delhi had to go to Bangkok twice and called the process tedious. But she weighed her options and decided going to Thailand was the lesser evil: "The stress of abortion if it is not a boy is too much. So it is easy to go with this choice. "Others who can't afford the cost of treatment in Thailand are still resorting to traditional methods of gender selection in India, even though they are all banned. And while PGD involves choosing embryos before conception, traditional methods involve killing the foetus at a much later stage in its development. These include having an ultrasound, amniocentesis or fetal blood test to determine the gender. Women then have abortions if they discover they do not have the gender they want.Lab director Dr SPS Virk at Virk Hospital in Jalandhar says: "Most know gender selection is illegal, but we still get enquiries. We have to tell them it's not available. Out of a 100 phone call enquiries we get 10-15 ask about having a son. "Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) involves genetic investigation of early stage embryos that have been produced through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to determine their gender. Through IVF, egg cells are fertilized by sperm outside the body. The embryos created are then cultured in the laboratory for three days, when they will have developed into approximately eight cells. Then one or two cells are removed for testing under a powerful microscope, to identify the gender. Embryos of the desired gender are then implanted in the womb.
The Norman invasion brought with it a set of new surnames, as well as a variation on the patronymic. "Fitz", in modern times considered distinctively Irish, grew out of the French "fils", meaning "son". So, Fitz-Urse would mean "son of URSE". Reginald Fitz-Urse (born c1150) was the eldest son of Richard Fitz-Urse, on whose death about 1168 he inherited the manor of Williton, Somersetshire; he also held the manor of Barham, Kent, and lands in Northamptonshire. He was one of the four knights (others being Hugh de Moreville, William de Tracy, and Richard de Breton) who, in 1170, were stirred up by the hasty words of Henry II to plot the archbishop's death. They left Bures, near Bayeux, where the king then was staying, and proceeded by different routes to England, meeting at Saltwood, then held by de Broc. The next day they set out with a few men. It is said that the night before the murder they stayed overnight at Barham Court held by Reginald. Having gathered reinforcements, especially from the abbot of St. Augustine's, at whose house they halted, they entered the archbishop's hall after dinner, probably about 3pm, and demanded to see him. Reginald told him that he bore a message from the king, and took the most prominent and offensive part in the interview which ensued. He had been one of Thomas's tenants or men while he was chancellor and the archbishop reminded him of this. This increased his anger, and he called on all who were on the king's side to hinder the archbishop from escaping. When the knights went out to arm and post their guards, Reginald compelled one of the archbishop's men to fasten his armour, and snatched an axe from a carpenter who was engaged on some repairs. While Thomas was being forced by his monks to enter the church, the knights entered the cloister, and Reginald was foremost in bursting into the church, shouting "King's men!". He met the archbishop, and after some words tried to drag him out of the church. Thomas called him "pander", and said that he ought not to touch him, for he owed him fealty. After the murder had been done the knights rode to Saltwood, glorying, it is said, in their deed, though William de Tracy afterwards declared that they were overwhelmed with a sense of their guilt. On the 31st they proceeded to South Malling, near Lewes, one of the archiepiscopal manors.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M 56 or NGC 6779), which is located about 33,000 light years away from the Earth in the constellation of Lyra (The Lyre). The cluster is composed of a large number of stars, tightly bound to each other by gravity.However, this was not known when Charles Messier first observed it in January 1779. He described Messier 56 as "a nebula without stars," like most globular clusters that he discovered — his telescope was not powerful enough to individually resolve any of the stars visible here, making it look like a fuzzy ball through his telescope’s eyepiece. We clearly see from Hubble’s image how the development of technology over the years has helped our understanding of astronomical objects.Astronomers typically infer important properties of globular clusters by looking at the light of their constituent stars. But they have to be very careful when they observe objects like Messier 56, which is located close to the Galactic plane. This region is crowded by "field-stars," in other words, stars in the Milky Way that happen to lie in the same direction but do not belong to the cluster. These objects can contaminate the light, and hence undermine the conclusions reached by astronomers.A tool often used by scientists for studying stellar clusters is the color-magnitude (or Hertzsprung-Russell) diagram. This chart compares the brightness and color of stars – which in turn, tells scientists the surface temperature of a star.By comparing high quality observations taken with the Hubble Space Telescope with results from the standard theory of stellar evolution, astronomers can characterize the properties of a cluster. In the case of Messier 56, this includes its age, which at 13 billion years is approximately three times the age of the Sun. Furthermore, they have also been able to study the chemical composition of Messier 56. The cluster has relatively few elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, typically a sign of stars that were born early in the Universe’s history, before many of the elements in existence today were formed in significant quantities.Astronomers have found that the majority of clusters with this type of chemical makeup lie along a plane in the Milky Way’s halo.
The assistant is waiting for you, so you'd better hurry.” In the low‐hurry condition, the researcher stated, “It will be a little while before they're ready for you, but you can head over now.” The incident When the subject came close to the room where they were to give the talk, an anxious and worried‐looking confederate would approach them. The confederate would approach the subject and say, “My cell phone just died. My family member was in an accident. I really need to make a call and have no change on me for the pay phone.” If the subject gave them a cell phone to use, the confederate thanked the subject, called another volunteer, and received confirmation that the accident was minor and that his relative was ok. The confederate then thanked the subject. If the subject gave money for a pay phone, the confederate would again thank the subject. The subjects then continued on to the prearranged talk. Helping ratings The confederate was not informed of the subjects' religiosity scale scores and the experimental conditions. The confederate rated each subject on a scale of helping behavior as follows: 0 = failed to notice the victim as possibly in need at all; 1 = perceived the victim as possibly in need but did not offer aid; 2 = did not stop but helped indirectly (e.g., by telling the assistant about the victim; 3 = stopped, listened to your direct request, but refused to pass you off to a bystander; 4 = after stopping, insisted on taking you to a pay phone, but then left you and/or provided you with money for a pay phone and left you; 5 = after stopping, refused to leave you and/or provided you with a cell phone. The speech Subjects then proceeded to their talk. A separate volunteer greeted subjects arriving at the room. This volunteer set up the tape recorder for subjects to give their talk. Helping behavior questionnaire In the Darley and Batson (1973) study, subjects were given another brief questionnaire after their recorded talk which asked, (a) “When was the last time you saw a person in need and helped?” (b) “When was the last time you stopped to help someone in need?” (c) “Have you had experience helping persons in need?” (p. 104). An additional four questions were added here for exploratory purposes.
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This continent no longer confronts the specter of communism. But today we’re in the West, and we have to say there are dire threats to our security and to our way of life. You see what’s happening out there. They are threats. We will confront them. We will win. But they are threats. (Applause.) AUDIENCE: Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump! PRESIDENT TRUMP: We are confronted by another oppressive ideology — one that seeks to export terrorism and extremism all around the globe. America and Europe have suffered one terror attack after another. We’re going to get it to stop. (Applause.) [snip] We must stand united against these shared enemies to strip them of their territory and their funding, and their networks, and any form of ideological support that they may have. While we will always welcome new citizens who share our values and love our people, our borders will always be closed to terrorism and extremism of any kind. (Applause.) AUDIENCE: Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump! PRESIDENT TRUMP: We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent. Today, the West is also confronted by the powers that seek to test our will, undermine our confidence, and challenge our interests. To meet new forms of aggression, including propaganda, financial crimes, and cyberwarfare, we must adapt our alliance to compete effectively in new ways and on all new battlefields. We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes — including Syria and Iran — and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself. (Applause.)
For John C. Frémont, whose fourth expedition met its terrible fate in the area, the San Juans were “the highest, most rugged, most impracticable, and inaccessible of the Rocky Mountains.”4 The natural obstacles presented by the San Juan range, however, did nothing to stem the tide of migrants. When one early pioneer, Enos Hotchkiss, uncovered a high-grade claim east of Lake San Cristobal, thousands of silver seekers swarmed to the area in a matter of weeks.5 The dream that possessed them was described by an earlier would-be miner “smitten with silver fever,” the young Sam Clemens. “I would have been more or less than human if I had not gone mad like the rest,” he recalled in later years when the world knew him as Mark Twain. “I succumbed and grew as frenzied as the craziest…I expected to find masses of silver lying all about the ground. I expected to see it glittering in the sun on the mountain summits.”6 For countless men lured to the “Silvery San Juans” by a similar fantasy, the quest for instant riches would end in abject failure. For a few, it would lead to something far worse. CHAPTER ONE David Roberts, A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the Claiming of the American West (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 292. Ibid., 17. Ibid., 288–89; Gail Collins, Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 46 and 48. For a particularly vivid re-creation of the fourth expedition, see Roberts, 183–244. CHAPTER TWO Theressa Gay, James W. Marshall, the Discoverer of California Gold: A Biography (Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1967), 521. Phyllis Flanders Dorset, The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado’s Gold and Silver Rushes (New York: Macmillan, 1970), 26 and 68. Ibid., 193–94. Robert L. Brown, An Empire of Silver: A History of the San Juan Silver Rush (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1968), 28, 29, and 57. Dorset, 210.6. Mark Twain, Roughing It (Hartford, CT: American, 1901), 211–12.
9-27-17: v1.0.1 to fix the README. Whoops! This is an adaptation of my personal item filter, which I started writing in 2015 with the release of the 2.0 expansion, Awakening. There were several very, very fantastic item filters being coded at the time--notably Neversink's, which persists to this day, and the author of which gave me some advice at the time--but I found I couldn't comfortably use any of them.I have clinical obsessive-compulsive disorder, which, in this case, meant that any hidden items were driving me to distraction with irrational worry. What if it was coded slightly incorrectly? What if I missed something because of some weird edge case? I knew, rationally, that the item filters were perfectly fine, but the stress persisted, and so that--coupled with some of the bright backgrounds on items hurting my eyes--made me decide to write my own filter.It stayed in pretty much the same shape with small additions over the past two years, but recently several members of the community that's sprung up around my Tumblr blog started playing the game, and I wrote a modified version of it to help them along as beginners. That led to me rewriting bits of it over and over for clarity and accessibility, and, eventually, I decided that it was its own new beast and I might as well try my hand at releasing it into the wild for feedback.The most notable thing, I guess, is that it hides nothing, and focuses on quickly-identifiable colors and combinations to highlight a variety of notable items when they drop. It eschews colored backgrounds for all but the most important drops, and is meant to be easily readable by beginners. I'm under no illusions that this is a finished prospect, however, and am going to be updating the filter based on feedback I get here.Line 15-16; I am unhappy with the current seafoam green coloration of medium and utility currency items.Line 24, item level 84+ crafting bases, needs serious reworking as it is a holdover from my own filter pre-3.0.Line 38, white accessories for orb recipes, may need differentiating with individual colors.9-27-17: Posted v1.0.09-27-17: v1.0.1 to fix the README. Whoops! FYI: It's not a fantasy story, it's a cosmic horror story. Last edited by Loreweaver on Sep 27, 2017, 9:54:36 PM Last bumped on Sep 29, 2017, 8:49:57 AM

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