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He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1758 at the age of 25 and was instrumental in his county supporting the Westmoreland Association (an early agreement to boycott British goods). He served in the Continental Congress from 1774-1779, and is most noted for introducing the resolution for independence in June 1776. He was a Virginia state legislator from 1780-1784 and served in the national Congress again from 1784-1789. He supported the Constitution after the decision was made to include a bill of rights and was elected Senator from Virginia from 1789-1792. However, Lee was forced to resign in 1792 due to poor health. Lee died in 1794, and is buried in the old family burying ground near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia. John Hancock (1737-1793) John Hancock was appointed the fifth President of the United States in Congress Assembled and served from November 23, 1785 to June 6, 1786. However, because of poor health he could not successfully serve his term. His presidential duties were performed by David Ramsay (November 23, 1785 - May 12, 1786) and Nathaniel Gorham (May 15 - June 5, 1786) who were two chairman of the Congress of the Confederation. He was born in North Braintree Massachusetts in 1737 and was orphaned at an early age. His wealthy uncle, Thomas Hancock, adopted him and after graduating from Harvard, Hancock was made a partner in Thomas Hancock and Company. In 1770 he was the head of a committee to investigate the Boston Massacre. He was elected to the Second Continental Congress in 1775 and was its President when the Declaration of Independence was adopted. He, and Samuel Adams, were the two most wanted men in the colonies by King George III. He served as a major general during the Revolutionary War and was elected Governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785 and 1787 until his death in 1793. He was the seventh President of the United States in Congress assembled, from November 23, 1785 to June 6, 1786. John Hancock was one of the original "fathers" of U.S. independence. Nathaniel Gorham (1738-1796) Nathaniel Gorham was appointed the sixth President of the United States in Congress Assembled and served from June 1786 to November 13, 1786. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts and because of a minimal early education, Gorham served as a merchant’s apprentice in New London, Connecticut.
For almost all of the young companies in that group, the bonus was a launch pad for more significant sums from angel investors or venture capital firms. But not InPulse; investors were steering clear of hardware startups in those days. Migicovsky left the program with around $300,000 total and spent all of it on manufacturing Blackberry-compatible InPulses that he couldn’t sell. In a hail-Mary move, Migicovsky rebooted his company. He renamed the product, made it compatible with multiple operating systems, made the watch waterproof, and contracted with Chinese factories to produce thousands of units. To pay for all of that, Pebble took to the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter on April 10, 2012. The goal of the 37-day campaign was to raise $100,000 in pre-orders. Would-be customers pledged that sum in two hours. And they kept coming: a total of 68,929 people ordering over $10 million worth of Pebbles. (It could have been more: Migicovsky pulled the plug a week before the period ended. Why get greedy?) “It felt fresh and tangible,” says Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler. “And it had a price point that was enticing and did not scare people away.” It remained Kickstarter’s biggest project until last August, a record of 862 days. Since then, Migicovsky has built a thriving developer community (over 26,000 have written over 6000 Pebble apps — everything from golf aids to one that rolls six-sided dice for Dungeons and Dragons); introduced a premium model, Pebble Steel; and forged partnerships, including one with Jawbone that takes Pebble more deeply into the quantified-self personal fitness category. He got retailers like Best Buy to sell the Pebble. Meanwhile, major competitors began selling smart watches on the Android platform, notably Samsung’s Gear and the Moto 360. Their reviews were mixed. None of this quelled Pebble’s momentum. On December 31, it sold its millionth watch. “Pebble didn’t break any new boundaries for fashion,” says Migicovsky. “It didn’t revolutionize anything. But it was the first smart watch that people would actually consider putting on their wrists.”
The story of the black woman who preserved her own and her child's life from an onslaught by the natives is pathetic as well as tragical. She belonged to a class of unfortunates vulgarly named "whalers' trollops." She was brought to New Zealand in the American ship General Gates from Kangaroo Island. She was an Australian native. She landed along with one of General Gates's seal gangs. Hobart Records show these women were expert sealers, and that it was not uncommon for sealing gangs to have one or more of them. At Bass Straits they did most of the work, including its drudgery and heavy page 104labour. This, however, is the only distinct record we get of them being amongst New Zealand gangs. This woman was the mother of a child two years old. After being on the island for some time a horde of savages (Maoris) came upon them and massacred nearly all the party. The woman, with her child, hid under a rock, remaining concealed until the New Zealanders took their departure. During the eight succeeding months the woman and child lived, without fire, probably under the sheltering rock to which they owed, in the first instance, their preservation. During all that time they lived on birds and seals captured by the poor mother. Eventually they were rescued by a sealer— Captain Dawson, in the Samuel, aforesaid—and taken to Sydney, arriving early in April, 1824. That was the incoming trip prior to Dawson's ill-fated voyage to Cook Strait. The Record narrative reads as follows: —"Captain Dawson, master of the Samuel, brought with him a black native woman, with a child two years' old. She had been taken by the American ship General Gates from Kangaroo Island, and left at the South Cape of New Zealand with a gang of sealers. After these men had been there some short time a horde of the savages came upon them and massacred nearly all the party. The poor native, with her little one, took shelter under a rock till the New Zealanders left the spot. For eight months the mother and child lived without fire on birds and seals. They are yet on board the Samuel, and were in good health when rescued by Captain Dawson. "—Sydney Gazette, April 8, 1824.
(Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - OCTOBER 07: Pope Francis leaves the Synod Hall at the end of a session of the Synod on the themes of family on October 7, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. In his 'Report prior to discussion' presented Tuesday morning to Synod Fathers and Fraternal delegates, the relator general Cardinal Peter Erdo, pointed to the 'privatization of love' as the greatest challenge to the family. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) Pope Francis leads a vigil prayer in preparation for the Synod on the Family on October 4, 2014 at St Peter's square at the Vatican. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images) VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - OCTOBER 06: Pope Francis chats with Ungarian cardinal and archbisop of Budapest cardinal Peter Erdo (R) as he arrives at the Synod Hall for the Synod on the themes of family on October 6, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis addressed the Fathers of the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Monday, as they began their first full day of sessions exploring the pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - OCTOBER 06: Pope Francis attends the first sessions of the Synod on the themes of family at the Synod Hall on October 6, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis addressed the Fathers of the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Monday, as they began their first full day of sessions exploring the pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - OCTOBER 06: A priest arrives by bike at the Synod Hall for the opening of the Synod on the themes of family on October 6, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. The two week General Assembly will discuss the 'The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of the Evangelization'. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) Pope Francis (R) looks on before his speech during the Synod on the Families, to cardinals and bishops gathering in the Synod Aula, at the Vatican, on October 6, 2014. The Pontiff on Sunday launched a major review of Catholic teaching on the family that could lead to change in the Church's attitude to marriage, cohabitation and divorce.
The second percentage shows your chance of obtaining AT LEAST ONE (this phrasing is significant in statistics) drop during a single attempt at the monster. This is especially useful for guild/village quest reward drops -- these appear in the first two rows of your rewards box after a successful quest. In the above example, you have a 38%% chance of obtaining (2) of the particular reward. The 2 of the 2A stands for quest #2 in the list of relevant quests at the end of each drop listing. The A means the reward will appear somewhere in the first row of your quest rewards box. B means the second row. Here's a more detailed example. Say you're after one of the infamous Rathian Plates from a Rathian. Look up the relevant data: - Rathian Plate ----------------------------------------------------- Rathian - 6% \| 26% HR Free hunt 1% \| 4% LR Village 1A 10% \| 10% HR Tail carve (x1) 1% \| 4% LR Village 2A 2% \| 9% LR Free hunt 1% \| 4% LR Guild 3A 4% \| 8% HR Capture 1% \| 4% LR Guild 4A 4% \| 4% LR Break head 3% \| 3% LR Tail carve (x1) 2% \| 4% LR Capture 1% \| 2% LR Shiny drop Village 1 -> LR ** Dragon Lady {Hunt} Village 2 -> LR ** A Royal Rumble {Capture} Guild 3 -> LR * The Merchant's Mission {Hunt} Guild 4 -> LR ** Double Trouble {Hunt} Your best chances are to free hunt a HR (high rank) Rathian (remember, this does not mean a Moga Village resource hunt, it means to kill or capture the Rathian when it invades a quest where you're hunting a different monster). Ok, maybe you don't want to do that (hey, you could always get a Qurupeco to call one for you to free hunt!). You can see that your next best chance (of 10%%) is to chop off the tail off a HR Rathain and to carve it. You could combine this method with the free hunt method to get even an even better chance at a plate. Now, assuming that going through the trouble of free hunting a Rathian isn't for you, your next best bet (working down the list) is the LR Village quest 1A. Remember, the A just means the reward will appear in the first row of your quest rewards.
Nevertheless, women everywhere do try, sometimes desperately, to limit their fertility, a fact borne out by their frequent recourse to abortion. In hymning traditional social arrangements, Greer moved so far to the left that she circled around to the right, treating every society but her own as a harmonious, homogenous system that could only be distorted by the malign influence of Western liberalism. Written at a time when she was herself struggling with infertility, Greer charged family planners with spreading the antichild ethos of a selfish, materialistic, and maladaptive modernity. Further, she defended the chador, extolled chastity over artificial contraception, and posited patriarchal peasant society as preferable to individualistic consumer capitalism. "One of the most insidious forms of pollution is the destruction of the integrity of one's culture by that of another, dominant, outsider group," she wrote, "and it is under such conditions of cultural resistance that adherence to cultural standards of purity becomes most important; it is part of taking the line of most resistance, whether to lipstick, Coca- Cola, opium, or oral contraceptives." As an observation, this is true enough; it's part of the reason that, for example, some humiliated Muslims have taken refuge in a medieval fundamentalism. Greer, however, wasn't just describing such cultural resistance; she was endorsing it. There was no place in her analysis for women who dissented from conservative forces in their own societies, women who longed for the freedoms she blithely dismissed. Writing about women taking up the veil after the 1979 Iranian revolution, she assumed that they had all done so willingly, as a sign of "liberation through self- discipline." Male domination is bad, she allowed, but the patriarchal family is preferable to the atomism of the "consumer economy." Wrote Greer, "To have rejected patriarchal authority within and without the self, however desirable in itself, is to have become vulnerable to much more insidious and degrading forms of control."
Recent Muslim scholars consider works on al-ashbāh wa’l-naẓāʾir to be the essence of al-qawāʿid al-fiqhiyya, most likely because these are the first books that differentiate between al-qawāʿid al-fiqhiyya in a technical sense and other fiqh-related qawāʿid – such as al-qawāʿid al-uṣūliyya – and separate them in different chapters. This will become clear in our discussion of the development of al-qawāʿid al-fiqhiyya, below. It is noteworthy that most scholars use the term qāʿida inconsistently. Al-Suyūṭī uses the term qāʿida to refer to many principles that pertain to specific chapters of fiqh,and he uses the terms ḍābiṭ and fāʾida in the same sense, in some cases even for the same principle. For example, he states: “ḍābiṭ: It is forbidden for the recipient and the payer to be the same person;”at the end of his discussion of this ḍābiṭ, he refers to it as a qāʿida: “similar to the recipient and the payer qāʿida is…”.56 The same holds for Ibn al-Subkī.57
All candidates were asked to weigh in on the City’s 9 1/2 block program, an initiative focused on curbing illegal activity in a concentrated area downtown. Gonzalez said the parts of the strategy that worked were those that activated dead spaces, but she wanted more information on what happened to those that were arrested. A former police officer himself, Burgess said the program was a success because it offered a continuum of services. Bradburd wasn’t as supportive. “I can think of a lot of 9 1/2 blocks around this city,” he said. “All we’ve done has squeezed the balloon.” Grant was also skeptical, citing downtown business interests as the driving force behind the program. Gonzalez, Bradburd, Grant all said they would support municipal broadband; Burgess wasn’t so sure. “It’s a nice concept, it all relates to how we finance it,” he said. Bradburd continued to position himself as the candidate that would stand up to developers and the Chamber of Commerce. “In this race, I am the independent voice,” he said. “It’s only because I pushed my opponent to lift the ban that we got that passed,” Grant said in response to Burgess noting his role in passing the City Council’s rent control resolution. The the status of police reform, Grant said “We have a real crisis and we need to bring true reform,” while Burgess argued, “We’re making progress, we still have a ways to go.” One of the stranger moments in Wednesday’s debate came when Bradburd called out Gonzalez for not including white collar workers in her support for unionizing Uber drivers. Bradburd: “Bertha is dumb.” Burgess said he wants to drop citizen requirements for becoming a Seattle police officer or firefighter. Grading SPD Chief Kathleen O’Toole, Bradburd gave her a B; Gonzalez gave her an A-. Gonzalez and Bradburd agreed the city needs to use it bonding capacity to build affordable housing in a similar way that it builds stadiums. None of the at-large candidates think the city has gone too far in “accommodating bikes” When asked if a SoDo arena for pro basketball and hockey should be a city priority, Gonzalez, Bradburd, and Grant all said no while Burgess was undecided. Sawant, who used to teach at SCC, said being back at the Broadway Performance Hall was like coming home. Unlike past events, Banks opened up about her history, talking about her mother dying when she was just 2 years old.
function showEntries() { var filter = $("#" + scriptVars.lstFilterId).val(); var jDiv = $("#divEntryDisplay"); jDiv.load("simplepageCallbacks.aspx?Callback=EntryList", { Filter: filter }, function(result,status,xhr) { jDiv.slideDown(1000); $("#lnkShowEntries").text("hide"); }); } On the server side the key to making page callbacks into the same page is routing. Notice the URL I’m using above which includes a Callback=EntryList query string parameter. This sample page contains several different callbacks and each of them has a unique Callback id that I’ll use on the server side to route to the appropriate page method to process the callback appropriately. Listing 3 shows the server page that includes the routing logic Listing 3: Partial Rendering on the Server public partial class Ajax_SimplePageCallbacks : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { // * Route to the Page level callback 'handler' this.HandleCallbacks(); } // Callback routing void HandleCallbacks() { string callback = Request.Params["Callback"]; if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(callback)) return; // * We have an action try and match it to a handler if (callback == "HelloWorld") this.HelloWorldCallback(); else if (callback == "EntryList") this.EntryListCallback(); else if (callback == "StockQuote") this.GetStockQuote(); else if (callback == "StockHistoryChart") this.GetStockHistoryChart(); Response.StatusCode = 500; Response.Write("Invalid Callback Method"); Response.End(); } void EntryListCallback() { string Filter = Request.Params["Filter"] ? ? ""; // * Render the data into the listview this.LoadEntryList(Filter); // * Render just the list view into html string html = WebUtils.RenderControl(this.entriesPlaceHolder); Response.Write(html); Response.End(); } void LoadEntryList(string Filter) { TimeEntryContext context = new TimeEntryContext(); IQueryable<TimeEntry> q = from ent in context.TimeEntries orderby ent.TimeIn descending select ent; if (Filter == "Recent") q = q.Take(10); else if (Filter == "Open") q = q.Where(ent => !ent.PunchedOut); else if (Filter == "Closed") q = q.Where(ent => ent.PunchedOut); // *** Need a concrete instance so we can count List<TimeEntry> custList = q.ToList(); this.lblListCount.Text = custList.Count.ToString() + " Entries"; this.entriesPlaceHolder.Visible = true; this.lstEntries.DataSource = custList; this.lstEntries.DataBind(); } } The routing is very simple – the Page_Load() early on calls HandleCallbacks() which looks at the Callback query string variable. If passed it goes into callback processing otherwise the code simply resumes normal page processing. If it is a callback the callback takes over page processing which results in full page output being sent and – eventually – a Response.End() to fire to complete page processing resulting in only the partially rendered list. HandleCallbacks simply maps the Callback Id to a specific method in the Page class. If I add a new callback all I have to do is add another Id and map it to another method.
By Grannygear: Let me say this right up front. I ain’t got no gravel. The area where I live is chock full of dirt roads, make no mistake. But gravel roads that meander across the countryside? Not really any of that going on. And the dirt roads…us So Cal natives call them Fire Roads, the dirt roads we do have are typically steep grades with loose and rutted surfaces. It is hardly an enticing environment for a non suspended, relatively skinny tire wearing bike with drop bars. So the idea of me buying and owning a ‘gravel bike’ is a bit odd. And yet that is exactly what I just did. Now it is not like I have not ridden gravel at all. I have. I have done Rebecca’s Private Idaho twice and attempted the Crusher in the Tushar once (and will be going back to both events this year). Quite frankly I blame Guitar Ted for all of my gravel interest anyway. He and others like him make it look so darn appealing. The wide vistas, the open skies, the hours spent chasing that horizon (the high winds, the dust, the mud, the…well you know what I mean)…it is sooo different than the type of ride experience I have on the West Coast. And I had a blast at both gravel events I did. One time I even did it on a decent bike for that kind of ride, a Specialized Cruz, while the other times were on some MTB 29″er or another. As well, there are more and more ‘gravel’ or, more accurately for my area, mixed road events where the course will be a combo of pavement in both good and bad condition and dirt roads of some kind. You see, something we can do a lot of is ride big and varied loops, really quite long loops for a well populated area like ours, and it got me thinking that a gravel type bike just might be something I could enjoy by putting it through the type of big endurance rides I typically do on my 29″ers. I am not the only person to think that way and I know of at least one bike shop close to me that is hosting rides just like this featuring some Jamis and Niner models they sell. The rides are growing in participation. Interesting.
49. And when he had fathered many children, and had grown very old, and had returned to the earth through having tasted of the tree, an inheritance was left behind by him for his children. Indeed, he left his children an inheritance–not of chastity but of unchastity, not of immortality but of corruptibility, not of honor but of dishonor, not of freedom but of slavery, not of sovereignty but of tyranny, not of life but of death, not of salvation but of destruction. 50. Extraordinary and terrifying indeed was the destruction of men upon the earth. For the following things happened to them: They were carried off as slaves by sin, the tyrant, and were led away into the regions of desire where they were totally engulfed by insatiable sensual pleasures–by adultery, by unchastity, by debauchery, by inordinate desires, by avarice, by murders, by bloodshed, by the tyranny of wickedness, by the tyranny of lawlessness. 51. For even a father of his own accord lifted up a dagger against his son; and a son used his hands against his father; and the impious person smote the breasts that nourished him; and brother murdered brother; and host wronged his guest; and friend assassinated friend; and one man cut the throat of another with his tyrannous right hand. 52. Therefore all men on the earth became either murderers, or parricides, or killers of their children. And yet a thing still more dreadful and extraordinary was to be found: A mother attacked the flesh which she gave birth to, a mother attacked those whom her breasts had nourished; and she buried in her belly the fruit of her belly. Indeed, the ill-starred mother became a dreadful tomb, when she devoured the child which she bore in her womb. 53. But in addition to this there were to be found among men many things still more monstrous and terrifying and brutal: father cohabits with his child, and son and with his mother, and brother with sister, and male with male, and each man lusting after the wife of his neighbor. 54. Because of these things sin exulted, which, because it was death's collaborator, entered first into the souls of men, and prepared as food for him the bodies of the dead. In every soul sin left its mark, and those in whom it placed its mark were destined to die. 55.
Whether or not the judges fully appreciated the disrepute into which they may have precipitated the administration of British justice, the trials ceased, there were no more convictions (although in December 1726 Samuel Roper, alias Plump Nelly, died in prison while awaiting trial for keeping a molly house in Giltspur Street,7 and this particular episode of homosexual history came to an end. Public Outrage The molly subculture revealed by the trials prompted a public outcry. Outrage and indignation were vented in the weekly London Journal, or The British Gazetteer and was picked up on the subsequent publishing dates of other journals. The front-page editorial of the London Journal for 7 May 1726, expressed appropriate horror, and proceeded to expose the major cruising grounds in London: ‘besides the nocturnal Assemblies of great Numbers of the like vile Persons at what they call the Markets, which are the Royal-Exchange, Moorfields, Lincolns-Inn Bog-houses [privies], the South Side of St James’s Park and the Piazza’s of Covent-Garden, where they make their Bargains, and then with draw into some dark Corners to indorse, as they call it, but in plain English to commit Sodomy’. This term comes directly from contemporary boxing slang, meaning ‘to cudgel upon the back’ or ‘to knock down one’s opponent upon the back’; ultimately it is derived from the Latin dorsus, the back.8 The editorial concludes with the hope that prosecution of the mollies will ‘avert from these Cities those just Judgments, which fell from Heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah’. The same issue contains a letter signed by ‘Philogynus’ (Latin for ‘woman-lover’) exposing more details of this vice. According to him, the mollies commonly refer to each other as ‘Madam’ and ‘Miss Betty’, and in a quarrelling mood will say such things as ‘Oh you bold Pullet, I’ll break all your eggs’. (In the heterosexual underworld, a Game Pullet was a young whore-to-be. )9 He cites another slang phrase, ‘bit a Blow’, which is equivalent to the modern gay slang ‘score a trick’. Although Philogynus graciously acknowledges that the mollies ‘are really very good Customers where they frequent’, he denounces their ‘effeminacy’, suggests that they ‘despise the Fair Sex’, and concludes this uncomplimentary personality profile by suggesting that they are ‘brutish People . . . harden’d in Iniquity’. He reinforces the editor’s allusion to Sodom and Gomorrah by quoting Genesis 18.20-21.
Eugene Lapierre, director of the Rogers Cup tournament in Montreal, says it’s standard practice to use more felt when the men are in town and less with the women, who alternate between his city and Toronto each year. Lapierre says men at Rogers use a ball manufactured by Penn when they’re in Montreal and Toronto because it’s part of an endorsement deal on their circuit. Women use a Wilson ball, he says, to get them ready for the U.S. Open, which typically follows hard on the heels of the Rogers event. While Lapierre says his tournament simply employs the balls they’re told to use, it’s his understanding that the women’s version is made for clay courts to help speed up the game on that slower surface. “I guess that’s the answer: They want the women’s game to be a little bit faster,” he says. “But I’ve never (asked) why the women would use that different ball. We just take it for granted.” That two balls were being used at the U.S. Open became news this past week when it was reported that retiring American star Andy Roddick was mistakenly handed one of the women’s balls — marked in red as opposed to the men’s black — during a match. “See, the women use a different ball than we do, and I did what I normally do, get three or four balls and look for the one that looks the lightest to serve,” Roddick told Newsday. “I have no idea where it came from,” he said, adding he resisted the temptation to serve the ball. Not everyone agrees the ball with the less-felted pelt would move faster, however. Rick Janes, an expert on the sport’s technical aspects, says a lighter ball may actually slow down faster. Janes, a technical consultant for the Babolat tennis gear company and holder of 32 tennis equipment patents, said players who believe they’ll get more speed with the women’s ball “don’t live in a scientific world. “He (Bryan) could be correct,” Janes said, “but that’s not necessarily the case. A lighter ball slows faster. Think of badminton. When they swing at the shuttlecock, it’s going really fast. But, within six feet, it literally stops, like a parachute effect.” Janes said there was one certainty about the more densely felted ball: “if it hits you at 140 miles per hour (it) will hurt more.”
free safety ( FS ) A player position on defense. Free safeties typically play deep, or "center field", and often have the pass defense responsibility of assisting other defensive backs in deep coverage (compared to strong safeties, who usually have an assigned receiver and run support responsibilities). front seven The defensive linemen and linebackers. The most common configurations of a front seven are 4-3 (four down linemen, three linebackers) and the 3-4 (three linemen and four linebackers). fullback ( FB ) A player position on offense. Originally, lined up deep behind the quarterback in the T formation. In modern formations this position may be varied, and this player has more blocking responsibilities in comparison to the halfback or tailback. fumble A ball that a player accidentally lost possession of; in Canadian football the term includes muffs. fumblerooski A trick play where the quarterback deliberately places the ball on the ground, technically fumbling so that another player (usually a lineman) can pick up the ball and advance it. This type of play is now banned by most football sanctioning groups.
These spaces are never neutral; they have always been battlefields and any leftist intellectual movement worth its salt must understand the necessity of what Althusser called
China and India have agreed to end a lengthy standoff at the Sikkim border that began in June, with Beijing reportedly abandoning plans to construct a road that had triggered the crisis.India said both sides are moving to withdraw their troops from the remote Doklam Plateau, a region that both China and Bhutan claim. Beijing said it would continue to patrol the area , but agreed that given Monday's developments, it will make "necessary adjustments and deployments according to the changes. "The standoff began in mid-June after Chinese troops started building a road on the Doklam plateau. Indian soldiers rushed to stop that, triggering the worst military tension in decades with China. Government sources today told NDTV that Chinese bulldozers have been moved out the flashpoint area.The breakthrough comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to China in a few weeks for a summit of the BRICS group of nations.Announcing a breakthrough on Monday morning, India said the truce was reached by diplomatic talks. "On this basis, expeditious disengagement of border personnel at the face-off site at Doklam has been agreed to and is on-going" said the Foreign Ministry in a statement. In the evening, it said the "disengagement" was near completion for both countries.China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said "At 1430 or so on August 28, India withdrew its personnel and equipment to the Indian side of the border line." While stating that the Chinese army's patrols in Doklam will continue, she said China would make "necessary adjustments and deployments according to the changes," without elaborating what the adjustments would be.The conflict, which was the worst in decades , saw 300 soldiers from each side, confronting each other on the remote Doklam plateau in the Eastern Himalayas.In June, Indian soldiers crossed the Sikkim border to stop China from constructing a road on the Doklam Plateau. Bhutan has no diplomatic relations with China and asked India to intervene. Delhi also stressed that it had forewarned China that the road would be seen as a serious security concern because of the access it opens up to the narrow sliver of land called the "Chicken's Neck" that links India to its northeastern states.China retorted that it had every right to build a road in a region that is part of its territory. India ignored repeated baiting and aggressive rhetoric by China to insist it would seek diplomatic channels to resolve the tension.
In RPGs of the past, charm and confusion could be offset by an attack from an ally. Though sometimes it wouldn't work. "Okay Atla, hit Firo" (Naofumi) "Yes!" (Atla) Atla hit around Firo's flank. However.... "Haa...haa..." (Firo) She won't return. "Firo-chan?" (Atla) Ah, she won't come back. Is it impossible to help Firo without defeating Motoyasu? "Firo-tan! I am over here!" (Motoyasu) """Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!""" Leaving behind the three burning with jealousy, Motoyasu opened his arms widely waiting for Firo. Tempting the other with the spear's power is love? However...Motoyasu's plan is-- "--aster. Want to eat" (Firo) Heading in another direction, the box that must not be opened was opened. Of all things, Firo turned to face me and started walking plumpily. "Haa...haa..." (Firo) Her eyes look more dangerous than this morning. A chill ran down my spine. What is this. My instincts are sounding the danger alarm. The goosebumps and chills won't stop. It'll be bad if I don't stand and leave here immediately! "Portal Shield!" (Naofumi) I keep relying on this but it can't be helped. I won't get away if I don't rely on it. But.... Transfer failed!? Because of Motoyasu's skill huh. "I won't let you escape..." (Firo) Looking closely...something like a mist is enshrouding Firo, with firefly-like lights floating around nearby. "...Sanctuary..." (Firo) Firo lightly chanted a magic. It's probably the same system of magic as Gaelion's Dragon Sanctuary without doubt I think. Dragon Pulse? No, firo rials would not use it. But the atmosphere and area resemble the time when Fitoria appeared. Why can Firo use it. Tell me how you were able to use it before me who's relying on Gaelion! No, there's no mistake...it's useful because of the current circumstances. "Fi, Fitoria! Repay me now and send it!" (Naofumi) Whether or not I was heard, Firo's ahoge is shining. But it had no effect, and something black was silently coiling about around the ahoge. "Naofumi-sama!" (Atla) Atla stood in front of Firo. "Move" (Firo) Firo nimbly held Atla's shoulder and moved her aside. "Ah--" (Atla) How fast. Even though Atla's movements were good too. Well, being compared to Firo is unfair. She's the fastest of my subordinates after all, this fellow. "Atla, do you know what's happening to Firo?" (Naofumi) "Yes! Something black came out from that person and is coiling around Firo-chan" (Atla) Then, Atla pointed at Motoyasu.
But another CVM-issued warning letter came in 2007, this time alleging false advertising. The CVM challenged Merial's promotional verbiage that claimed using Heartgard in pets would control the spread of zoonotic diseases to humans, though there was no scientific evidence to support that claim.Behind closed doors, Merial officials blamed the appearance of efficacy troubles with Heartgard Plus on a surge in product sales and lack of compliance on the part of owners — not a product failure, the lawsuit says. But Blaho-Owens found the statistical analysis and methodology of an internal investigation that allowed Merial to come to those conclusions to be steeped in flawed science. Among her criticisms, Blaho-Owens noted that Merial's study was not blinded and evaluated just 7 percent of all Heartgard Plus-related adverse event cases. Her own cursory investigation demonstrated that Heartgard Plus had an approximate 20-percent failure rate, the lawsuit says.Upon pushing higher ups to conduct more sound analysis of the drug's efficacy, the lawsuit says Blaho-Owens was shut down. Additionally, the lawsuit alleges that Merial improperly filed adverse event reports with the CVM, effectively burying the ones that showed efficacy troubles with Heartgard.A query to the CVM seeking insight into the legitimacy of the lawsuit’s claims was not immediately returned. The CVM lists more than 26,000 adverse event reports involving oral ivermectin and pyrantel — active ingredients in Heartgard Plus — but regulators do not tie brand names to the events, and several other manufacturers make pet parasiticides with formulas containing those chemicals. Furthermore, though ineffectiveness is named as an impetus for some of the adverse event reports, a variety of other reactions are listed.In September 2009, Blaho-Owens was notified of a class-action suit against Merial regarding Heartgard. Dolz instructed her to destroy a document in her possession that likely was relevant to the pending lawsuit and to stop generating any new analysis on the efficacy of Heartgard Plus, the lawsuit says.Rather than destroying the document (the contents of which are not detailed in the lawsuit), Blaho-Owens reported the request to Merial's legal counsel, Adam Bassing. It was then that she learned that the class-action lawsuit related to Merial's refusal to change its labeling as initially ordered by the FDA in 2002.She also learned of another Merial whistleblower who had accused the company of falsifying sales data — figures that Blaho-Owens relied on to perform her own safety and efficacy analysis for the FDA and international regulatory authorities.
We started to move toward the insurgents’ position by fanning in two directions—one of the most basic tactical maneuvers an infantry unit can attempt. The Afghans now looked slightly frightened—less of the Taliban ambush than of their officer, an Afghan captain trained by Green Berets. As he issued commands through a radio, the soldiers moved down the road and into the vineyard, correctly enough but with uneasy attention to detail, like a troupe of dancers staring at their feet. When we had closed half the distance, I crouched in a furrow, amid grapevines, until a soldier ahead of me—a stubbly, spindly man with a backpack full of rocket-propelled grenade warheads—yelped “Gun!” and pointed at the ambush point. [#unhandled_cartoon] Seeing a weapon triggered the rules of engagement, and we ran toward the position. I kept my head low, looking at the ground a few steps ahead of me to avoid I.E.D.s. We leaped over an irrigation ditch, and, when I looked up to make sure I was still running in the right direction, I saw the soldier again. He had his grenade-launcher in one hand and, in the other, a colossal bunch of grapes, which he had started to eat. By the time we arrived at the place where the surveillance had spotted the insurgents, the Taliban had long since vanished back into the surrounding villages. As we stood in the empty Taliban position, I noticed that most of the Afghan soldiers carried grapes that they had picked up during the maneuver, and that they looked pleased.
One of the most interesting legends is that Cliona, a woman of the otherworld, seduced young men to follow her to the seashore. Here they drowned in the ocean into which she enticed them. Eventually a charm was discovered that, not only protected against her wiles, but could also bring about her destruction. Her only method of escape was to turn herself into a wren. As a punishment for her crimes she was forced to take the shape of the little bird on every succeeding Christmas Day and fated to die by human hand. Hence the seemingly barbarous practice of hunting the wren. Yeats illustration of Wrenboys with ribboned bush Groups who went out in the Sligo-Leitrim area could only say, by way of explanation, that ‘she betrayed Our Lord’. In what way nobody knew, but because of this ‘it was good to hunt and kill her around Christmas’. Long ago bands of youths knocked ditches and scoured hedges in order to capture and kill the bird to have it for display. ‘The Boys of Barr na Sraide’ immortalises in ballad the young men ‘who roamed about with cudgels stout, a-searching for the wran’. Pursuit of the bird persisted, with the Wrenboys of Co. Kildare, into the early years of the 20th century. Accounts relate that for a day or two previous to the holiday it was, ‘hunted and knocked over with stick or stone. Two or three of them are tied to a branch torn from a holly bush, which is decorated with coloured ribbons. On St. Stephen's Day, small parties of young boys carry one of these bushes about the country, and visit the houses along the road soliciting coin or eatables. At each house they come to they repeat a version of a "song" which varies in different localities. All versions seem disjointed and in no way refer to St. Stephen's Day nor to the object of killing the wren.'
which I find rather incredible. It's all about this tweet:Well, Ms Joyce Chaplin isn't just an extreme leftist. She's been also hired by Harvard University as an expert in the early American history, probably because she doesn't even know when the U.S. was created. Cruz has mocked her, The Weekly Standard has mocked her, The American Thinker did it as well, and she deserves some words from me, too. Well, when it comes to the history – and the very basic mechanisms that make the human society operate – she is just an absolute and hopeless crackpot. First of all, as every intelligent kid knows, the United States of America were born in 1776, not in 1783. Well, the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, a negative anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson. That's also the date when I left the U.S. 5 years before the Higgs boson discovery – it's because the Americans were more afraid of a terrorist attack on the Independence Day so brave Czechs like me had to pick the remaining air tickets for that day. She shouldn't have been allowed to complete the high school if she can't give the correct answer to this rudimentary question.But it gets worse: the number isn't the most serious mistake.The U.S. wasn't guaranteed to survive in 1776 but now in 2017, it still seems that the U.S. did survive since 1776. Because it's the surviving country on that territory, it's this country whose documents held. The Declaration of Independence was never abolished by those who actually controlled the political power on that territory since 1776 and this document says that the U.S. was created in 1776. It follows that it was created in 1776.There were conflicts whose goal was to defend the new country, the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Well, up to 1776, it was fought by colonists who wanted the independence. Since 1776, because of the official document, this war was fought by the United States of America, a new country with the ambition to survive – which ultimately succeeded to do so. The history is written by the winners and the winners wrote the declaration and reminded us that it has been valid since 1776.The year 1783 was just the end of this war thanks to the Treaty of Paris .
[12] This possibility always remaining open as a last resort to all American workers, naturally keeps wages at a level, and gives to every individual an independence, unknown in Europe. Such is the advantage, but here is the disadvantage. As cheapness of the products of industry is achieved in great part by cheapness of labour, the American manufacturers for most of the time are not in a condition to compete against the manufacturers of Europe--from which there results, for the industry of the Northern States, the necessity for a protectionist tariff. But that has a result, firstly to create a host of artificial industries and above all to oppress and ruin the non-manufacturing Southern States and make them want secession; finally to crowd together into cities like New York, Philadelphia, Boston and many others, proletarian working masses who, little by little, are beginning to find themselves already in a situation analogous to that of the workers in the great manufacturing States of Europe. And we see, in effect the social question already being posed in the Northern States, just as it was posed long before in our countries. And there too, the self-government of the masses, in spite of all the display of the people's omnipotence, remains most of the time in a state of fiction. In reality, it is minorities which govern. The so-called Democratic Party, up to the time of the Civil War to emancipate the slaves, were the out and out partisans of slavery and of the ferocious oligarchy of the planters, demagogues without faith or conscience, capable of sacrificing everything to their greed and evil-minded ambition, and who, by their detestable influence and actions, exercised almost unhindered, for nearly fifty years continuously, have greatly contributed to deprave the political morality of North America. The Republican Party, though really intelligent and generous, is still and always a minority, and whatever the sincerity of this party of liberation, however great and generous the principles it professes, do not let us hope that, in power, it will renounce this exclusive position of a governing minority to merge into the mass of the nation so that the self-government of the people shall finally become a reality. For that there will be necessary a revolution far more profound than all those which hitherto have shaken the Old and New Worlds.
Chosen E-Book Readers Section: Choose Top of page Abstract Introduction Earlier Studies Chosen E-Book Readers << Research Goals and Method... Results Discussion References CITING ARTICLES Describing current e-book readers is a challenge as technical specifications change rapidly. The number of offerings worldwide has grown immensely but the number of major players is limited. Readers based on e-ink screens have been available since 2004 but Amazon’s launch of the Kindle e-book reader in late 2007 was a major turning point for market penetration. Most users prefer e-ink screens for better readability and ergonomics for extended reading, but there is little research that shows a definitive advantage in comparison with modern LCD/LED screens as regards visual fatigue. Two different readers were chosen for further study at Agder University based on a study of availability and features. We focused on readers that were marketed as suitable for use in higher education. Delays were encountered due to limited availability in Norway. In all, 20 Amazon Kindle DX (first-generation international version) readers were purchased in June 2010 and 20 Apple iPad (first generation) tablets were purchased from June to November 2010. The Kindle DX comes with a 24.6 cm (9.7 inch) E-Ink screen instead of the 15.2 cm (6 inch) normal Kindle screen. It has support for International 3G Wireless and native support for PDF documents. We were rather unfortunate with the timing of this purchase as Amazon launched the improved second-generation Kindle DX (graphite) in July 2010. This version has much improved screen contrast and some improvements in PDF handing. As for all Kindles, the DX is only compatible with e-books in Mobi and Amazon AZW format. We purchased the first-generation iPad WiFi with 16 MB memory. The iPad’s touchscreen display is a 25 cm (9.7 inch) liquid crystal display (1024 × 768 pixels) with fingerprint-resistant and scratch-resistant glass. The iPad is a multifunction device which is especially suitable for media consumption. Our focus was reading e-texts, both e-books in flowable formats and PDFs. The functionality of the iPad can be extended in many ways by installing suitable Apps. Students who participated in our study were advised that the following iPad Apps were recommended: Dropbox for file transfer 4
Dr. DeFranza: The creation accounts in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 and the narrative of the fall into sin in chapter 3 offer the foundational theological narrative for Jews and Christians. It is the beginning of the Great Book, the great story of God’s redemption, so it rightly deserves our attention. The challenge is how to interpret these narratives. You know the questions: Literal 6 days or ages? Special creation or evolutionary creation? To these we need to add the following question: Are the creation accounts comprehensive inventories of all of God’s good creations or do these narratives describe the beginning in broad themes? If we look closely, I think we find broad themes—male and female, creatures of the land, creatures of the sky, creatures of the sea; night and day, but not dusk; sun, moon, and stars, but no comets. There are many creations which are simply not named in the creation accounts. Amphibians—hybrid animals that are “creatures of the sea” and “creatures of the land”—are noticeably absent and yet I have never heard a scientist who is a Christian explain their existence as one of the “results of the fall into sin.” But I have heard this explanation more than I care to count to make sense of the presence of human beings who have mixed sex characteristics. Some people insist that God created humans to be male or female and anyone whose body falls somewhere in between the categories of “Adam” or “Eve” must be proof of the “fall.” The majority of people do seem to be clearly male or female—one more reason I think the author of Genesis is speak in general categories—but for every 2,500-4,500 live births a child is born whose body is intersex. Intersex refers to a variety of physical differences where people have male and female characteristics—XXY chromosomes or internal reproductive organs of one sex with external sex characteristics of the other, for example. They sometimes result in ambiguous genitals so that doctors are not sure whether to assign the sex of male or female on the birth certificate but other times differences show up later in life—in early childhood or at puberty. Physicians often use the term Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs) but many within the intersex community prefer “Differences” of Sex Development—a more neutral term. [When I use DSD, I mean “Differences” of Sex Development.]
And that was terrifying and it also was such an incredible opportunity because you get to think about what are the things that you want in your life, and what’s important. THOMAS: That’s good to hear. That’s really good to hear.
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It has a battle with a Megalodon (by this stage we know there are two parents and a juvenile shark lurking down in the deeps).Given that this book book was written at a high point in the Cold War, the Soviets get involved, and one of their subs gets "eaten" too, but not before destroying one of the Megalodon with an aptly gory and gratuitous explosion. The talking whales,disgusted with the whole shebang, announce their departure, and that's it.This book has it all - including the obligatory sex-scene (that occurs at a bizarre moment in the plotline), military types that don't listen, and lots of description of high-tech gadgets, most of which are useless against the ancient shark. The sharks themselves are major characters of the book - after introducing them by explaining they are animals of almost pure instinct with tiny brains, Brown then goes on to give them thoughts and even feelings. He also greatly exaggerates their size - his beasts are in the hundreds of feet long, wheras it seems the real thing didn't get much over 60 feet.By far the weirdest aspect of the book are the talking dolphins and orca - they take the suspension of disbelief quite a few steps too far. If I hadn't taken a vow to review every book I read, I certainly wouldn't have wasted this many words on such a pile of rubbish. The author may have intended otherwise, but this book gave me quite a few laughs on a slow TV evening.Check out my other reviews at http://aviewoverthebell.blogspot.com.au/
Some 130,000 California residents were ordered to evacuate on Sunday after a hole in one of the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillways threatened to flood the surrounding area. Officials predicted the structure would fail early Sunday evening – warning nearby residents of “imminent” damage. (Samantha Schmidt) A protest camp in North Dakota, which once housed thousands of demonstrators against the Dakota Access pipeline, is melting. Activists say unseasonably warm weather has turned the camp into a pit of mud, forcing many to pack up and flee. (Joe Heim) The United States Tennis Association apologized after it played a Nazi-era version of Germany’s national anthem before a match between the two countries in Hawaii. One German athlete said of the gaffe, “I’ve never felt more disrespected in my whole life.” (Des Bieler) The Hamburg airport was evacuated and briefly closed after dozens of people were affected by an irritant gas. German authorities believe the substance was pepper spray, distributed through the air-conditioning system, but they ruled out terrorism. (Stephanie Kirchner) Former German foreign minister and vocal Trump critic Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected as president, becoming the 12th person to assume the country’s largely ceremonial post. The Social Democrat, who served two stints as foreign minister under Chancellor Angela Merkel, made headlines last year after referring to Trump as a "hate preacher." He succeeds Joachim Gauck, a 77-year-old former pastor who did not seek a second five-year term because of his age. (AP) Many passengers fled a United Airlines plane minutes before departure when their pilot arrived in a baseball cap and street clothes – and began ranting over the intercom about her recent divorce. She was eventually escorted from the airport, but not before trying to make nice with alarmed travelers: one shaking passenger said she gave him a hug and suggested the two write a book together. (Avi Selk) Greece evacuated more than 70,000 residents from its second-largest city after discovering an intact World War II-era bomb buried next to a gas station. The 500-pound bomb was successfully deactivated and moved to a shooting range to be destroyed. (Max Bearak) Yale University announced that Calhoun College will be renamed. Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist, will be the new namesake. John C. Calhoun was an outspoken proponent of slavery and nullification.
larger image TIFF original image Download: Fig 6. Air no-decompression limit and model predictions. The filled hexagonal symbols indicate the bottom depth in feet of seawater (fws) versus the air no-decompression limit in minutes according to the 2008 US Navy Diving Manual (rev 6). The unfilled triangles indicate the air no-decompression limits according to the French Navy NM90 tables. The solid black curve shows the 2% limit as predicted by the binomial LE1nt model. The black dashed curve is the corresponding 2% limit for mild DCS as predicted by the trinomial model. The medium dashed grey curve shows the 0.1% limit for serious DCS as predicted by the trinomial LE1nt model, while the short dashed grey curve shows the operationally consistent 0.2% limit for serious DCS as predicted by the trinomial LE1nt model. The grey dotted curve shows the 0.1% serious limit as predicted by using the Type I/II definition. Note that the predicted 0.1% serious DCS limit is well below the established U.S. Navy air no-decompression limit but corresponds well with the French NM90 limit in the range of 80–120 fsw. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172665.g006 It is worthwhile pointing out the possibility that the “PFO effect” might lead to an increased risk of serious DCS. While U.S. Navy divers are not screened for a patent foramen ovale (right-to-left shunt), one case control study found and increased presence of PFOs in civilian divers treated for DCS [32]. The study, which screened 101 divers treated for DCS and had a control group of 101 healthy divers, found that the prevalence of PFO in the group undergoing treatment was 58.4% while the prevalence was 24.8% in the control group (odds ratio, 4.3; p = 0.09). The investigators concluded that an increased incidence of cerebral and cochleovestibular manifestations were associated with major right-to-left shunting. Another avenue for further research relates to the different T 1 and T 2 times that were observed for ‘mild’ and ‘serious’ DCS (Fig 5). In developing our hierarchical DCS models we added a simple scale parameter to distinguish between events of differing severity and, in this work, did not add any adjustable parameters that would allow the dynamics of the various event types to change. This last point is made clear by examining the occurrence density functions (ODF) for the trinomial model. The ODF curves for this model show that the predicted event onset occurring at the same time regardless of the event severity.
John Green, Pew Forum In a study of 35,000 people in 2007, Pew found only 7% reporting being brought up without a faith. However, more than double that number said they currently belonged to no religion. But even the leavers are susceptible to religious marketing it seems. John Green, who teaches at the University of Akron and speaks for the Pew Forum described them as "dissatisfied consumers". He said only four percent had become had become atheist or agnostic. "A lot of the unaffiliated seem to be OK with religion in the abstract, it's just the religion they were involved in bothered them or they disagreed with it." So the market might contain lessons for European churches competing against the attractions of a purely secular lifestyle. The Pew study suggests that many who leave their childhood faith return to it later on, and a slim majority of those brought up without a faith eventually join one. ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES Despite the apparent weakening of church membership in the United States, the American government is probably some way from following the Netherlands in appointing army chaplains who don't believe in God. Dutch troops have an atheist chaplain, unlike British soldiers There are thirty humanists serving in the Dutch armed forces. It is a relatively small military served nevertheless by 90 Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy, two Hindu pandits, two imams and two rabbis. Eline, a thirty year old air force captain, is serving in southern Afghanistan with 2,000 Dutch soldiers. She is clear about her atheism. "I definitely do not believe in a Christian or Muslim god or that it was a great spirit that has created this world. I don't know how we got here." There are no humanists among the British padres serving in southern Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence says there is no demand. People are invited to say what religion they belong to when they sign up, but a tiny number - a press officer suggested about ten - had said they were atheists. I am looking for meaning in things, but not necessarily a plan or a solution
51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a meat ration for 44 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a meat ration for 44 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a bread ration for 44 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a bread ration for 44 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a bread ration for 44 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a pear for 8 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a pear for 8 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a choko for 4 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a pear for 8 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a lemon for 13 gold pieces 51137 \| Snake:1 \| Bought a rambutan for 4 gold pieces 52876 \| Snake:2 \| Reached skill level 5 in Dodging 53215 \| Snake:3 \| Received a gift from Okawaru 54377 \| Snake:4 \| Found Prexketu's Antique Weapon Shoppe. 54683 \| Snake:5 \| Entered Level 5 of the Snake Pit 54748 \| Snake:5 \| Found a shimmering altar of Xom. 57458 \| Snake:5 \| Found Chuk's General Store. 58017 \| Snake:5 \| Got a serpentine rune of Zot 59275 \| D:19 \| Reached XP level 20. HP: 110/173 MP: 18/18 59392 \| D:19 \| Noticed Frances 59409 \| D:19 \| Killed Frances 60083 \| D:20 \| Entered Level 20 of the Dungeon 60277 \| D:20 \| Noticed Mara 60280 \| D:20 \| Noticed Angry Bob's illusion 60329 \| D:20 \| Killed Angry Bob's illusion 60620 \| D:20 \| Reached skill level 10 in Dodging 60871 \| D:20 \| Noticed Mara 60871 \| D:20 \| Noticed Mara 60873 \| D:20 \| Noticed Angry Bob's illusion 60881 \| D:20 \| Killed Mara 62412 \| D:21 \| Found a gateway to Hell. 62575 \| D:21 \| Found a flickering gateway to a bazaar. 62586 \| Bazaar \| Entered a bazaar 62586 \| Bazaar \| Found Vosutecelui's Antique Weapon Shop. 62610 \| Bazaar \| Found Gaupuj's Distillery.
“We have to do what we can to help these other people, to tell their stories, to give them back their honour and pride and dignity that they were born with and that was taken away from them as a child.” Shier, Smarch’s lawyer, said he wants to see the government acknowledge its failings, and put in place a new, less adversarial process to deal with abuse cases like Smarch’s. “I suggested this to the government of the Yukon at least 12 or 13 years ago,” Shier said. “The response was that if you want to raise this publicly, in essence you’re undermining your ability to negotiate with us.” The impact on J.V.’s alleged abuses is keenly felt by many Indigenous people in Whitehorse, particularly in the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. The First Nation’s health centre provides free and confidential counselling services for anyone from the Kwanlin Dün community affected by trauma or abuse. If you ask around at the Salvation Army shelter in Whitehorse you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who says they don’t know a J.V. survivor personally. By rights, Michael figures, he should be dead. “I barely made it through my 40s,” he says. Michael (who asked that his real name not be used) was one of the first to come forward about J.V. during the criminal investigation that ultimately led to J.V.’s conviction. Like thousands of other Indigenous children between the 1960s and 1980s, Michael was taken from his family and placed in foster care as part of the Sixties Scoop. Michael was placed in J.V.’s foster home, where he lived for years. “We used to fight each other to decide who had to spend the night” in his bed, Michael said. Michael said he was raped by J.V. multiple times. He says when he aged out of foster care he was so traumatized that he didn’t trust anyone. Eventually he fell in with a local gang. Today, in his early 50s, Michael lives at a shelter in Whitehorse. He has steady work doing odd jobs around town but what little peace he has came hard. It was years before Michael found the courage to tell anyone what J.V. had done. “He taught me to shut up. He took my voice away.” Jesse Winter can be reached at [email protected]
Many often make the mistake of thinking of Chelsea being an ahistorical club before the introduction of Roman Abramovich in 2003. Though the Blues were generally not very successful in terms of winning things before 1997, in the early twentieth century they were a club which attracted large crowds and contained a few stars – one such was the star of the earliest known British feature film centred around Football called ‘The Winning Goal’ from 1920, the humorously named Jack Cock. The piece was a silent film shot at Brentford F.C.’s Griffin Park and set in Lancashire, involving fictional side Blacton Rovers. Ten years later, Cock appeared in a second Movie called ‘The Great Game’ whilst a player for Millwall. The film was based on a fictional side called Manningford F.C and shot on location at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge home and involved other footballers of the day such as Chelsea’s George Mills, Andrew Wilson, Sam Millington and former Arsenal player Billy Blythe. Incidentally, the film was a first credited appearance for Rex Harrison, who appeared in other big name films such as Cleopatra, My Fair Lady and Dr Doolittle. The first regular trophy winning outfit from England’s capital city however were Arsenal F.C., who - despite being relatively unsuccessful in recent seasons - with thirteen League titles to their name still have five more titles than all other London clubs combined. Arsenal were also Britain’s first media savvy football club, mainly due to the involvement of George Allison first as director and then team manager. Allison was initially a full time journalist and Sports representative for the Hulton Group of newspapers, which included the Sporting Chronical and the Daily Sketch. Allison was also the London Correspondent for the New York Post until becoming Arsenal manager in 1934. In his broadcasting career, George Allison had been the BBC’s first Football commentator. Arsenal also had the good fortune to be situated in close proximity to the BBC in Alexandra Palace and were involved in the first Radio broadcast against Sheffield United at Highbury in January 1927. A game between Arsenal and Arsenal Reserves in 1937 became the world's first televised football match. Arsenal’s dominance of Football in the 1930s means that the club have become intertwined in the public imagination with pre-war footballing values, as shown by Harry Enfield’s Mr. Chomley-Warner piece on Arsenal from the 1930s playing the Liverpool side of the 1990s.
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The Shin Bet refused, first because they feared a precedent, and also because the law permits the agency to keep its documents and files classified for 70 years.The Alon sisters appealed to the Supreme Court, which ordered the Shin Bet to open its files. A mutually agreed-upon person with top security clearance was appointed to read them, but found nothing sensational.Actually, the Shin Bet file was filled with copies of documents from the FBI and the Montgomery police.Their next step was to travel to America to ask journalists and researchers to help them. Here, their harvest this time was more successful. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA and FBI released 7,000 documents, some of them heavily redacted.It turned out that the US investigators did a horrible job. Some of the exhibits and proofs disappeared from the files, and not all potential witnesses or persons with knowledge were questioned.Against this background, the Alon sisters began to develop a strong belief in conspiracy theories, which were further fed by Israeli Liora Amir-Barmatz, a television director at Channel 1. She produced a documentary called “Who Killed Daddy?” which aired a few years ago.In that film, the director along with the sisters developed the following theory: Joe Alon was killed because he discovered a conspiracy between Henry Kissinger – then a national security adviser to US president Richard Nixon – and Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan. According to this conspiracy theory, Kissinger and Dayan agreed that Israel would allow the Egyptian army to cross the Suez Canal into Sinai in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War to capture a thin strip and then to stop. In return, the two sides would engage in talks after the war and reach a peace agreement.The film provided not one iota of evidence to verify the crackpot theory, but those skeptical of it were excluded from expressing their arguments. I was interviewed by the director for nearly three hours; Amir-Barmatz used a 15-second clip.In a parallel development, journalist Adam Goldman wrote a letter to “Carlos the Jackal” in his French jail cell, after writing his piece on the story. Born to a wealthy Venezuelan family with Marxist leanings, Carlos moved to Europe in the early ’60s and mingled there with the radical left during the exciting days of the student revolution.But it wasn’t sufficiently exciting and violent for his taste, so Carlos went to the Middle East and joined the PFLP, led by Habash.
Hopefully for us, our growth curve will continue to be at least steady a little while longer and, together with the Android release, allow us to reach that goal. – Patrick
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... And I think that the difference that people are noting or some people are noting is that this is not a treatment protocol, it's not a treatment regimen, all you have done is pointed out a set of facts that exist in the world, that exist in the world, and are claiming protection for something that anybody can try to make use of in any way and you are saying you have to pay us. pp. 45-46. Justice Kagan lays it on the line, a jolt. Bress recovers by diving into specifics, science even, where the judges dare not challenge him. He gains a few minutes without molestation. Justice Breyer tries again to make him give an example of a patent that just reveals new information without any new process. Bress wants to answer but not help them too much. He is clearly knowledgeable enough to help them, but he doesn't want to cross his own position. Justice Breyer and he also get into the novelty problem in that Prometheus succeeded with the same methods where others failed. Bress of course assures the court that success is its own reward. The result is successful. No matter it used prior methods. They found the answer. [pp. 46-52.] At the end, the Chief Justice ends with questions about 101, 102 and novelty. Bress wants nothing to do with 101. The other sections handle it more precisely, says Bress. They don't relieve and free the doctors, say the judges. Mayo's Last Word The Chief tells Shapiro he has four minutes of rebuttal. Shapiro pounds away on the health angle. Justice Scalia floats his opponent's argument that the patent should just be contested as not useful. Shapiro tees off: It's important that 101 be the robust test here. This is the only provision under which this Court has issued decision after decision for 150 years protecting the public domain. ...This is very important to to doctors around the country. [p. 57.] He stresses that it has cost the hospital millions to defend this suit twice to the Supreme Court, and they still face treble damages and an injunction. [p. 58.] He accuses Prometheus of trying to preempt diseases that they never researched. [p. 59.] He concludes: So we urge the Court to protect the research process here that's so fundamental to American health and to the economy and the healthcare industry. [p. 59.]
The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has attracted extensive attention in recent years owing in large part to discredited claims about its safety1 that circulate widely among anti-vaccination activists and Web sites.2–6 Although US MMR vaccination rates for children ages 19 to 35 months exceeded the Healthy People 2020 target of 90% in the 2011 National Immunization Survey, 15 states had rates below that threshold.7 Some areas have even lower immunization rates owing to clustering of unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children.8,9 Moreover, the prevalence of concerns about the vaccine,10,11 requests for exemptions from vaccination requirements,9 and use of alternative schedules12,13 suggest reason for concern about future MMR vaccination rates. For instance, parents who follow alternative schedules are more likely to refuse or delay MMR,13,14 which is associated with increased measles risk.15 Maintaining high levels of MMR immunization is thus an important public health priority, especially given the increased number of measles cases observed recently in the United States.16 The public health consequences of MMR noncompliance can also be seen in the recent measles epidemic in the United Kingdom, which infected more than 1000 people and prompted a massive vaccination campaign by public authorities.17,18 Given these concerns, how should physicians and public health agencies respond to parental questions about vaccine safety? This question is difficult to answer. For instance, while some have advocated that health professionals engage in dialogue with vaccine-hesitant parents,19–21 relatively little is known about which messages are effective in overcoming parental reluctance to vaccinate. In particular, some pro-vaccine messages may do more harm than good, especially those targeting misinformation, which is often difficult to correct.22–24 The problem is that people often interpret evidence in a biased fashion.25–28 As a result, corrective information about controversial issues may fail to change factual beliefs or opinions among respondents who are most likely to be misinformed.22,29 In some cases, corrections can even make misperceptions worse.22 Resistance to scientific evidence about health risks is also a serious concern.30–32 It is therefore important to determine whether corrective information about MMR and other vaccines provokes a similar response. We hypothesize that respondents with the least favorable vaccine attitudes will increase their belief in false claims and decrease their intent to vaccinate in response to corrective information. A more effective approach than describing the safety of vaccines may be to highlight risks from disease.
In 1992, with about $2 million in the bank, Ngoy and Christy returned to Cambodia. It didn’t go well. After years of atrocity, Cambodians were generally distrustful of the political process, and they were especially wary of outsiders who wanted to join the government. In the 1993 elections, Ngoy’s party failed to win a single parliamentary seat, though he was eventually tapped as an economic adviser to the prime minister. It was an important role, but one performed largely out of the public eye. After spending the last of his savings on a doomed bid to bring hybridized rice to Cambodia, Ngoy was despondent. His return to his home country had been far from the victory lap he’d imagined. At a low point, while Christy was visiting California, Ngoy cheated on her with a young Cambodian woman, who became pregnant. Christy could weather the gambling addiction, but this was too much. The couple divorced, and Ngoy married his mistress. They would eventually have two children, a girl and a boy. By 2002, the Doughnut King was broke. Hoping that a return to the place that had made him rich might change his luck, Ngoy accepted a plane ticket from an old friend and, for the second time, landed in California penniless. In 2005, a writer for the Los Angeles Times found him living on the screened-in porch of a mobile home in Long Beach. He had converted to Christianity, and nightly he prayed for help. Later that year, racked with guilt for leaving his new family, Ngoy returned to Cambodia. His wife lost patience with him. She had believed he was a wealthy man with a future in politics. At the very least, she thought he would provide a good life for her and their children. She met another man, handed the kids over to Ngoy, and left. Chasing a possible business prospect, Ngoy took the children to the seaside province of Kep, but the opportunity fizzled. Desperate, in his late 60s now, he asked a government minister for permission to stay in his neglected vacation home. The minister would only allow Ngoy and his children to sleep on the porch. This was the wet season, and sheets of rain angled under the porch’s overhang and soaked the meager living space. Each morning, Ngoy carried his children to school on a rusty bike. At night, they survived on noodles. Ngoy replayed his life in his head.
Fuck!’ She was supposed to be in the video. Everyone in the video – Cara Delevingne, Jack Black, Marilyn Manson – are part of mainstream pop culture, but they are also at the fringes. Why do you think you guys are such a magnet for people with that sensibility? Ninja: Those people are the same mind state and vibrational frequency as us. We met Cara on that shoot, she just popped up. She looks like a real Looney Tunes freak, you know? She’s even more fucking weird than us, she asked if she could do stuff and we were like, ‘No, you can't fucking do that!’ She’s 50 million times worse than us.
An Oklahoma school district has approved the use of a Bible curriculum designed by Steve Green, the controversial owner of Hobby Lobby. The Mustang public schools will begin offering the curriculum next academic year.As reported by Religion News Service, Green’s curriculum is designed to correspond with his planned Museum of the Bible, which is currently under construction in Washington, D.C. Jerry Pattengale, who heads the Green Scholars Initiative and is overseeing the curriculum’s development, said the ultimate goal is put the curriculum in “thousands” of schools.Little is known publicly about the details of the curriculum. However, in a 2013 speech he delivered to the National Bible Association, Green explained that it’s divided into three sections: the history of the Bible, the story of the Bible, and the impact of the Bible.Classes about the Bible don’t necessarily violate the separation of church and state. It all depends on what is taught and how it’s taught. Green’s speech indicates that he may have ulterior motives. It appears that Green doesn’t intend to simply teach students history.“The history is to show the reliability of this book,” he told his audience, and added, “When you present the evidence, the evidence is overwhelming.”And it seems it’s no coincidence that the curriculum is intended for high school students. Green stated that he had originally considered a college-level course but decided on a high school elective instead, “because we wanted to reach as many as possible.”“That’s our goal, so that we can reintroduce this book to this nation. This nation is in danger because of its ignorance of what God has taught,” Green stated.No wonder he hopes to place the class in thousands of public high schools.In the same speech, Green does state the curriculum will be taught in a non-sectarian manner. But in the same breath, he added that this is because he believes the evidence stands for itself. The goal – to prove the Bible correct – remains unchanged.Pattengale tried to brush off Green’s 2013 remarks, telling the media, “The curriculum may or may not espouse those views. The last people [Green] wanted to hire were scholars who would embellish the facts to support his religious position.”But it seems obvious from his speech that Green doesn’t believe those facts need to be embellished. He believes they speak for themselves, and that’s what he intends to teach high school students.If that’s the approach, then this class isn’t intended to teach the Bible.
Size-wise, the iPod nano has never been smaller. The new hardware is slightly wider than the previous nano, but this time it's a tiny square, with a miniature, 1.54-inch 240 x 240 capacitive multitouch LCD display. Around back is a built-in clip, and the whole affair is encased in the same kind of anodized, colored aluminum you've come to expect from an iPod nano. In case you're wondering, this particular model can be had in seven different colors -- which weirdly makes us think that Apple believes someone out there will get one for every day of the week. Though the previous generation device sported a video camera, that's been ditched in the new model along with the physical controls. Anyone who's spent a lot of time on the go with the nano will probably be happy about these changes -- the clickwheel could be a bit hard to navigate with accuracy, say, when jogging.Other than that, the new nano is considerably lighter than the previous model, weighing in at roughly 21 grams, whereas the older version clocked in at about 36g. In fact, it's so light that when using the clip to attach it to a shirt (or in our case, the strap of a bag), you barely notice it hanging there at all.The nano boasts just three hardware buttons -- one larger button on the top right for power / sleep, and two smaller, circular ones on the top left for volume controls, another change we appreciate. In the previous nano, in order to adjust the volume you had to unlock the device then navigate with the wheel. Now with actual hardware buttons, you can turn the volume up or down without ever actually looking at the player. It's a minor but welcome improvement. If these buttons are a byproduct of Steve Jobs hating buttons, we like it.While that screen is small, it's not hard to get around in, and the touch response seemed about as tight as it is on the new touch or iPhone. Multitouch rotation worked just fine, and in general use, moving from place to place with the new nano was considerably faster than on previous models.Overall, we think the design is a big step forward for this line of players.
To confirm, both outputs were identical and can be obtained through the link at the end of the article. 5. Testing – Map Export To eradicate any issues with the data input or user error, the ArcGIS 10.2 map was saved and then opened in 10.3; the exact same parameters were used with no success. I seem to lose days exporting PDF files from GIS, so for me, this test is one of the most relevant so that I can compare the amount of time consumed by the simple “PDF Export.” For this test, the same EFH shapefiles used previously were loaded, no styles applied, then the bathymetric contours (also from the Marine Cadastre website) and the Esri world countries shapefile. I then opened the layout/composer and set the orientation to landscape and the size to A3. Scale was set to 1:50000,000 then centered on the EFH data. Once loaded and left to settle of 10mins, I set the PDF export to 500dpi and then made sure that both the QGIS and ArcGIS settings were the same (no layers, no georeferencing etc). This is the average times for five runs. The results were as follows: ArcGIS 10.2 = 3mins 18s – File size 795MB ArcGIS 10.3 = 3mins 30s – File size 903MB ArcGIS 10.4 = 7.04s – File size 1.9MB QGIS 2.6 = 37.4s – File size 72MB QGIS 2.8 = 35.5s – File size 69MB QGIS 2.14 = 10.3s – File size 18.16MB *Just to be clear, ArcGIS and QGIS were run separately 6. Stability This is a new category, as a few comments I have had asked how many crashes I have had whilst testing. I am please to say on this occasion NONE. 6. Niggles As I worked through, I must say that both software were pretty much as expected; nothing has really changed. The ONLY thing I would pick up on is that QGIS needs to add layers to their browser. When looking for data, QML and SLD are not visible in their relative folders.
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Becky didn't date much in high school — she has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, and she says she was afraid she'd make people uncomfortable if she flirted with them. She had a crush on one boy for seven years, but never acted on it. Things changed when she got to college and started going to events hosted by the organization Little People of America (LPA): she started getting a lot more attention from men who were also little people. Becky, who's now 28 and prefers that her last name not be used, says: "My whole life I was saying, I'll date whoever I connect with, but it happens that my two relationships have been with little people." She says that's probably because they've faced common obstacles — but dating other little people has brought challenges of its own. Little people are probably just as likely to marry or have long-term relationships as average-sized people, says Leah Smith, vice president of public relations for LPA. However, it may take them longer. They may have to deal with prejudice from average-sized people — Smith says lots of her female friends have been told by men, "If you weren't little I would date you." And if they want to date other little people, they have to navigate dating in a community that's small and spread out — and can have a big gender imbalance. Smith says about one in every 30,000 people is born with some condition that leads to small stature. So even if you grew up in a big city, there may be only two or three other little people in your age group — and since families who have children with dwarfism often connect, "the likelihood is you grew up with them, and they're like a brother. It doesn't mean you can't date, but it's harder." Because of this, a lot of relationships between little people start out long-distance. That's how things are right now for Becky and her boyfriend of a little over a year. They met at an LPA convention, and though they talk every night, they've only spent about three weeks together in person. Becky says they'll give it another year before one of them relocates so they can be together — she and her last boyfriend, who she also met at a convention, moved in together more quickly, and it put a lot of pressure on the relationship.
An American official who got to know her well during that time found her to be warm, engaging, and intensely curious about America. “She wanted to know everything about NATO, its dual tracking system, U.S. relations with the U.S.S.R. She was very friendly; she basically knew there was a gap in her education.” He described her as a woman “just unrelenting in her search for information about subjects she knew were important for her and her future.” One subject, however, that did not engage her then—or now—was feminism. The taken-for-granted tradition of women working in East Germany formed much of her thinking. Rita Süssmuth, the grande dame of the C.D.U., a pioneering feminist, and the second female president of the Bundestag, preceded Merkel as minister for women and youth. “She had big problems with the feminist movement; she believed she was already emancipated by her studies,” Süssmuth told me. According to Stefan Kornelius, a biographer, “She never wanted to be minister for women. She doesn’t believe in being seen as a woman.” Another of her nicknames in Germany is “Das Merkel,” the “das” implying gender neutrality. Merkel’s next post was minister for the environment, nature conservation, and nuclear safety. In 1995 she led the U.N. climate conference in Berlin that produced an agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions, still a pretty big deal. She was elected secretary-general of the Christian Democrats in November 1998, after Gerhard Schröder, of the S.P.D., had been elected chancellor in October. In December, she married Sauer but was so nonchalant about it that she called to tell her parents the next day. Then das Mädchen roared.
Our library starts simply with First Order concepts, but then builds up to Second and Third Order ideas. Does that yellow Ford see the gray Chevy coming toward it? It swerved slightly, so yes, it did. Does that van think the hot rod drives too aggressively? It is giving it more room than the average room given to other cars on the road, so yes it does. Does the van think all hot rods drive too aggressively? It is giving the same amount of room to the Corvette that just left the dealership with only two miles on the odometer, so yes it does. Does this make the van prejudiced? When we turn our own car loose and make the module self-referential, it’ll have to determine if it is prejudiced as well. Perhaps it would rely on other data and consider itself prudent rather than prejudiced (ego protecting it from wielding Theory of Mind accurately). Before we get that far, we need to make our machine self-aware. And so we teach it to drive itself around town for its owner. We then ask the AI car to observe its own behaviors and come up with guesses as to what it’s doing. The key here is to not give it perfect awareness. Don’t let it have access to the GPS unit, which has been set for the grocery store. Don’t let it know what the owner’s cell phone knows, which is that the husband has texted the wife to pick up the kids on the way home for work. To mimic human behavior, ignorance is key. As is the surety of initial guesses, or what we might call biases. Early assumptions are given a higher weight in our algorithms than theories which come later and have more data (overcoming initial biases requires a preponderance of evidence. A likelihood of 50 percent might be enough to set the mind initially, but to overcome that first guess will require a likelihood of 75 percent, for instance). Stories are concocted which are wrong and build up cloudy pictures for future wrongness.

He was confrontational from the start, trying to control the conversation by saying, “So here’s the journalist who thinks he knows everything about the Mossad.” I appealed to the various motivations he might have to tell his story—to clear his reputation in the eyes of his family and friends and country, and to go on the record regarding the injustice he claimed Danny Yatom, the chief of the Mossad, had perpetrated against him. Yatom had just published a memoir that contained a searing attack on Gil, including an allegation that Gil had never recruited Red Falcon at all, that the whole thing—the agent, all the intelligence passed on over 23 years—was an elaborate lie. “For the first time, someone who is supposed to know everything has spoken,” Gil said bitterly. “He knows how this operation fit in with the big picture, what it contributed and what it didn’t contribute. This man comes and says in the bluntest possible way, unequivocally, that Yehuda Gil never handled this source. That blows my fuses.” He didn’t know why Yatom would write what he did, he said, whether it was out of “arrogance, or a desire to harm me, or simply ignoring the facts.” Eventually, Gil agreed to let me interview him in his home. I was joined by a young woman who was familiar with the world of Israeli espionage and who, I hoped, would help Gil feel less defensive and contentious than he might if he was speaking only to me. The two of us met five times with Gil and his wife in their modest single-story home. The walls were lined with books; objects from their former lives in Africa and Europe sat on the shelves. On the walls were framed certificates and shields that Gil had been awarded in recognition of the high-level training courses he had conducted for various intelligence units. He pointed out that some of them had been presented to him after his trial and his time in prison, as evidence that the public story being told by the Mossad was not the real one. “I was released from prison on the 20th of December 2000,” he said. “Three weeks later, I was training classified IDF units. Tell me that’s not peculiar.” Our meetings generally began in the early afternoon and continued until 7 p.m., when Noa would serve an evening meal, during which we agreed that all talk of espionage would stop.
Brown and Kulik emphasized that importance is a critical variable in flashbulb memory formation. In a study conducted by Brown and Kulik, news events were chosen so that some of them would be important to some of their subjects, but not to others. They found that when an event was important to one group, it was associated with a comparatively high incidence of flashbulb memories. The same event, when judged lower on importance by another group, was found to be associated with a lower incidence of flashbulb memory. [1] The retelling or rehearsal of personally important events also increases the accuracy of flashbulb memories. Personally important events tend to be rehearsed more often than non-significant events. A study conducted on flashbulb memories of the Loma Prieta earthquake found that people who discussed and compared their personal stories with others repeatedly had better recall of the event compared to Atlanta subjects who had little reason to talk about how they had heard the news. Therefore, the rehearsal of personally important events can be important in developing accurate flashbulb memories. [15] There has been other evidence that shows that personal importance of an event is a strong predictor of flashbulb memories. A study done on the flashbulb memory of the resignation of the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, found that the majority of UK subjects had flashbulb memories nearly one year after her resignation. Their memory reports were characterized by spontaneous, accurate, and full recall of event details. In contrast, a low number of non-UK subjects had flashbulb memories one year after her resignation. Memory reports in this group were characterized by forgetting and reconstructive errors. The flashbulb memories for Margaret Thatcher's resignation were, therefore, primarily associated with the level of importance attached to the event.
Peace includes the absence of communal and caste violence. But given the stakes that every dispensation has in these, this is dangerous work. To work on the problems of people in conflict zones is problematic because according to our government, there are no conflicts within India — we can only work on “disturbed areas.” The word ‘region’ is problematic and there is anxiety about contacts with the outside world. Time and again, we are expected to assert we have none. But how is it possible for an educated person in 2015 to not have any contact with the outside world? Do you work with foreigners? Yes, in my professional capacity, I do. What do you mean by ‘international’ or ‘world peace’, do you have foreign contacts? I studied abroad, I lived and worked abroad for 11 years, half my family is abroad, most of my friends are and I cannot prevent foreigners from reading our website, blogs or my publications. But most under threat are those working on ‘human rights’, for their work directly presumes wrongdoing on the part of the state, and this includes those who support a given dispensation. By highlighting violations — by commission or omission — civil society organisations working in the area of human rights place the agents and agencies of government on the defensive. As we expand our understanding of rights — from the right to life all the way to the right to livelihood — so does the arena of confrontation expand. Defensive governments hit back with the full arsenal of powers at their disposal, from alleging accounting errors to preventing people from travelling to charging individuals with sedition. In very politically fraught and polarised places, muscle power (including police power) may also be used to intimidate activists. Most NGOs as really small, moving from day to day, trying to do their best in their chosen area of work and at each turn, we face the assumption that we are somehow doing wrong. We organise a public programme, it needs police permission. We partner with an organisation under the scanner (inevitable, really, for who is not?) and we are visited by intelligence officers on really silly grounds. Obsessed with the letter of the law and fearful of political bosses who are themselves insecure, those working for enforcement agencies end up presenting to us the face of a state that is Chaplinesque at best, but mostly grotesque.
What I am concerned with is the psychological type of the redeemer. For it could be contained in the Gospels in spite of the Gospels, however much mutilated and overloaded with foreign traits: as that of Francis of Assisi is contained in the legends about him in spite of the legends. Not the truth about what he did, what he said, how he really died: but the question whether his type is still conceivable at all, whether it has been ‘handed down’ by tradition. — The attempts I know of to extract even the history of a ‘soul’ from the Gospels seem to me proofs of an execrable psychological frivolity. Monsieur Renan, that buffoon in psychologics, has appropriated for his explication of the type Jesus the two most inapplicable concepts possible in this case: the concept of the genius and the concept of the hero. But if anything is unevangelic it is the concept hero. Precisely the opposite of all contending, of all feeling oneself in struggle has here become instinct: the incapacity for resistance here becomes morality (‘resist not evil!’: the profoundest saying of the Gospel, its key in a certain sense), blessedness in peace, in gentleness, in the inability for enmity. What are the ‘glad tidings’? True life, eternal life is found — it is not promised, it is here, it is within you: as life lived in love, in love without deduction or exclusion, without distance. Everyone is a child of God — Jesus definitely claims nothing for himself alone — as a child of God everyone is equal to everyone else. . . . To make a hero of Jesus! — And what a worse misunderstanding is the word ‘genius’! Our whole concept, our cultural concept ‘spirit’ had no meaning whatever in the world Jesus lived in. To speak with the precision of the physiologist a quite different word would rather be in place here: the word idiot. We recognize a condition of morbid susceptibility of the sense of touch which makes it shrink back in horror from every contact, every grasping of a firm object. Translate such physiological habitus [i.e., condition] into its ultimate logic — as instinctive hatred of every reality, as flight into the ‘ungraspable’, into the ‘inconceivable’, as antipathy towards every form, all that is custom, institution, Church, as being at home in a world undisturbed by reality of any kind, a merely ‘inner’ world, a ‘real’ world, an ‘eternal’ world.
This works, and Anakin joins the Son out of fear that what he saw would actually happen. Ahsoka disables the ship upon hearing that Anakin joined the Son, and leaves to help Obi-Wan find the Father. The Father later confronts Anakin and erases his memory of the terrible vision the Son had shown him. When the Son tries to kill the Father, the Father steals the sword and uses it to kill himself, taking away his Son's power, allowing Anakin to kill the Son and restore the balance. 62 18 "The Citadel" Kyle Dunlevy Matt Michnovetz February 18, 2011 ( ) 3.14 1.84[48] An elite team of Jedi attempts to free Master Even Piell, who is in possession of hyperdrive coordinates that could harm both Separatists and Jedi alike, from an impenetrable prison, encountering reprogrammed battle droids, carbonite chambers and a younger Captain Tarkin along the way (before he joined the Galactic Empire). It is revealed that Piell and Tarkin each have memorized half of the coordinates. 63 19 "Counter Attack" Brian Kalin O'Connell Matt Michnovetz March 4, 2011 ( ) 3.15 1.87[49] With freed prisoners in their possession and brutal warden Osi Sobeck attempting desperately to thwart them, Obi-Wan and Anakin search for a way out of the Citadel and back to Coruscant. The prison, however, has more traps, perils and pitfalls in store for them than they had imagined and they must work past their differences if they are to escape. 64 20 "Citadel Rescue" Steward Lee Matt Michnovetz March 11, 2011 ( ) 3.17 1.55[50] While finding their way out of the Citadel prison which is under the command of the Separatist Osi Sobeck, the elite team's ship was destroyed, forcing them to wait for the rescue by Republic fleet. Along the way to rendezvous point they encounter waves of droid squads, which they have to fight in order to evacuate freed prisoners and save the information they hold. The Jedi attempt to escape, but are cornered by a pack of anoobas who kill Even Piell. But before he dies, he gives his half of the information to Ahsoka, telling her not to reveal it to anyone but the Jedi Council. But as the Jedi are about to escape, they are cornered by Sobeck who tries to kill Tarkin, but is stabbed and killed by Ahsoka. Plo Koon then arrives and rescues the Jedi, taking them back to Coruscant.
Among the few remaining medical records kept by Boone of Harding's illness was a scribbling that indicated the President had been given digitalis for his heart. Sawyer also told the press at the time that he administered some unnamed stimulants to Harding. Documentation from other doctors in attendance, conflicting details given out by Sawyer to reporters who gathered in the hotel for news, and Florence Harding's panicked yell for Boone support the theory that the near-blind and incompetent Sawyer may have accidentally induced the heart attack that killed Harding on 2 August 1923. By all contemporary accounts, Sawyer had an enormous power over Florence Harding, and her refusal to permit an autopsy or even a death mask may have been to protect his credibility. Throughout the funeral train journey back to Washington, dozens of editorials praised Florence Harding's conduct during Harding's illness and death, as well as her political partnership and accomplishments as First Lady. Arriving on August 11, Florence Harding was met by Evalyn McLean who accompanied her to the White House. There the widow famously spoke to her late husband in his coffin. Life After the White House: On 17 August, 1923 Florence Harding left the White House for the McLean estate, "Friendship," along with two carloads of Harding's papers in long wood boxes. There, she and Evalyn McLean examined the material, winnowing it of what they considered to be repetitive, superfluous, could be potentially misconstrued or was outright damaging. It is also certain that she burned much of her First Lady Office files, the documentary record of which is uneven. On 5 September 1923 she briefly returned to Marion, Ohio, continuing to organize and cull Harding's papers. She did not destroy the bulk of them, nor even everything potentially damaging. The widow returned to Washington, D.C. on 2 January 1924, taking a large Willard Hotel suite as the so-called "Teapot Dome Scandal" congressional hearings unfolded. Her faith in old friend Interior Secretary Albert Fall deteriorated as he was charged, convicted and imprisoned for accepting oil company bribes after leasing naval oil reserves in California and Wyoming to them. Through the trials, Florence Harding insisted that her movements were monitored and her telephone tapped. During the winter and spring of 1924, she left Washington only once, to dedicate a Connecticut high school named for her late husband. Despite the scandals, Florence Harding planned to visit the U.S.
The Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky One morning, just as I was about to leave for my place of employment, Agrafena (my cook, laundress, and housekeeper all in one person) entered my room, and, to my great astonishment, started a conversation. She was a quiet, simple-minded woman, who during the whole six years of her stay with me had never spoken more than two or three words daily, and that in reference to my dinner -- at least, I had never heard her. "I have come to you, sir," she suddenly began, "about the renting out of the little spare room." "What spare room?" "The one that is near the kitchen, of course; which should it be?" "Why?" "Why do people generally take lodgers? Because." "But who will take it?" "Who will take it! A lodger, of course! Who should take it?" "But there is hardly room in there, mother mine, for a bed; it will be too cramped. How can one live in it?" "But why live in it! He only wants a place to sleep in; he will live on the window-seat." "What window-seat?" "How is that? What window-seat? As if you did not know! The one in the hall. He will sit on it and sew, or do something else. But maybe he will sit on a chair; he has a chair of his own -- and a table also, and everything." "But who is he?" "A nice, worldly-wise man. I will cook for him and will charge him only three rubles in silver a month for room and board -----" At last, after long endeavor, I found out that some elderly man had talked Agrafena into taking him into the kitchen as lodger. When Agrafena once got a thing into her head that thing had to be; otherwise I knew I would have no peace. On those occasions when things did go against her wishes, she immediately fell into a sort of brooding, became exceedingly melancholy, and continued in that state for two or three weeks. During this time the food was invariably spoiled, the linen was missing, the floors unscrubbed; in a word, a lot of unpleasant things happened.
If Aleister Crowley violated his own or any other individual's True Will at any time, he simply violated his own law and paid the karmic price, but this does not invalidate the Law itself. Great art and true philosophies are both created by scoundrels, but we balk when a scoundrel creates a true religion. The imitative tendency, which Crowley despised, is deep. Since imitating the moral example of a founder is not the ethical teaching of the Law of Thelema, every Thelemite is free to imitate Aleister Crowley's personal lifestyle or not as they choose, although Crowley himself advises against it, warning that those who try to do so will be possessed or obsessed by the “vision of the demon Crowley” (Crowley, who was an amateur artist, even drew a sketch of this particular demon). Unfortunately, as the history of the Law of Thelema shows with great clarity, Crowley's advice was accurate, and numerous heedless Thelemites have been devoured as a result. The True Will represents the inertia of the universe, and is irresistible (if not, that simply proves that it is not the True Will). However, no one may restrict the True Will of another, unless another chooses, without coercion, to be so restricted. Aleister Crowley should be understood as a natural phenomenon, without moral judgement. A prophet is himself merely a symptom of the zeitgeist. A storm is not “evil.” Aleister Crowley was a storm, which may yet sink the ship of the Judaeo-Christian civilization that he despised.
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"Even with the blessing of Ford and an enthusiastic group of initial buyers, the Icon Bronco may not have happened, at least in its current form, without help from an unlikely source: Nike. So what does a shoe company have in common with a manufacturer of specialty vehicles? According to Ward, who happens to be an acquaintance of the Nike CEO, it was all about combining the past and present. "The CEO of Nike expressed that in his opinion Icon was doing the same thing Nike was, which seemed odd at first until he clarified. He said Nike's success is all based on their heritage – it's heritage plus a more modern approach in the details. The way it's crafted and the materials used is all still based on their designs of the past. "Nike's appreciation for what Icon is all about proved to be essential to the Bronco's development, as it offered its prototyping and manufacturing resources to Ward. It started out with Nike's designers wanting to play around with various elements of the Bronco, but that eventually turned into a ten-man team of mathematicians, programmers, machinists and designers. As Ward and Pardo worked up designs for each of the items for the Bronco, the team at Nike would spit out prototypes using their SLS Rapid Prototyping technology. When designs were finalized, Nike then did all of the parts machining for the first five Broncos. "That was a major victory for us because once we had their resources involved, that allowed us to be able to realize all the ideas we were coming up with," says Ward. "Otherwise, with our internal resources we would have had to pare that list down big time due to tooling and cost limitations. "So what aspects of the Bronco needed such extensive design work? Well, if you take the viewpoint of Ward, just about everything. Take, for instance, the grille . The single-piece unit is constructed of B4 stainless steel that is laser cut and hand tig-welded to form, and each of the Icon letters are CNC machined stainless steel finished with enamel paint. Nothing is made from plastic and nothing is an off-the-shelf part, from the door handles to the side mirrors to the side marker and taillight guards . Every item has been painstakingly rendered in CAD and either made via CNC or laser cutting. Nothing looks out of place, though.
"Trump was often interviewed on "Morning Joe" during the 2016 campaign, but as the White House relationship with much of the US media has soured he has recently favored interviews with friendly right-wing outlets.Brzezinski, 50, is the daughter of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was president Jimmy Carter's national security advisor.Scarborough, 54, is a Republican former congressman who represented a Florida district in the 1990s.The two are engaged to marry.MSNBC immediately sprang to the defense of its host. "It's a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying, lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job," the cable network's public relations office wrote.Scarborough likewise rallied behind his fiancee, re-tweeting a string of posts assailing Trump, including one from NBC journalist Mark Kornblau that read: "Never imagined a day when I would think to myself, 'it is beneath my dignity to respond to the President of the United States. '"White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, speaking on Fox News, was quick to defend her boss. "I don't think that the president's ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn't push back," Huckabee Sanders said. "There have been outrageous number of personal attacks, not just to him but to frankly everyone around him ... This is a president who fights fire with fire and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media or liberal elites in Hollywood or anywhere else. "But the Trump-Brzezinski feud lit up the internet, where critics were reminded of Trump's misogynistic attack last August on Fox reporter Megyn Kelly, who he said had "blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever" after she challenged him in a campaign debate. "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling quoted a revered Trump predecessor in her reaction: "'Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.' Abraham Lincoln."
In its press release, Microsoft declared that it signed an agreement with the Chinese authorities to "provide national governments with controlled access to Microsoft and Windows source code." The agreement called "Government Security Program" is "tailored to the specialized security requirements of governments" that permit them to control information in an "appropriate way." In addition to "controlled access," the GSP agree- ment allows the participating government to "undertake research projects in the field of information security." This means that the Chinese govern- ment can spy (and punish) on its people using Microsoft products. Mi- crosoft has profited from the deprivation of first amendment rights of the Chinese people. Hackers have declared the inherent mistrust of authority figures because of repressive actions of large corporations and governments. The hacking community has responded by innovating tools to counter cyber oppression to bypass censorship. Hackers and activists are working together to apply civil disobedience tactics on the internet. The "Hands-On Imperative" is re-appropriated to "direct action" which generates activity liberating the people and the same time challenging the law. Hackers have been able to overcome censorship by creating decentralized content distribution networks. These networks remain anonymous and secure because it requires all users in the network to share data in small parts. Many programs have emerged such as "peekabooty," "six/four" and "Freenet." According to sourceforge.net, a website that fosters the open source community, "Freenet is free software designed to ensure true free- dom of communication over the internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity." In addition to developing technology to defend freedom on the Internet, hackers have staged attacks against those responsible for oppression. Tim Jordan insightfully states, "The rise of hacktivism has not superseded or destroyed previous hacker politics, but has reconfigured it within a broader political landscape" (2002). The Critical Arts Ensemble (CAE) was established in 1994 arguing that the onset of the Internet will create a space in which physical laws becomes an ineffective means of enforce- ment. The CAE states, "Elite power, having rid itself of its national and urban bases to wander in absence on the electronic pathways, can no lon- ger be disrupted by strategies predicted upon the contestation of sedentary forces (Jordan 2004)." Groups like the CAE are coinciding online protests with street actions. The power now lies in computer networks. It is in the form of "Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD)."
"Post Street Bridge, Cooley says, would be renovated to become ainto the park, though it may retain one lane of northbound automobile traffic. Think of it as the equivalent of the red carpet leading to Riverfront Park. "We're really showcasing the premium feature of Spokane, which is the falls," Cooley says.The trailhead, ultimately, may become even more iconic than the climbing wall. Because it's not just the Centennial Trail the trailhead would connect with.The city's also working on a plan to connect it to the forthcoming "Gorge Loop Trail," a paved and unpaved trail winding near the south side of the river that would form a full circle with the Centennial Trail. And it would also be the jumping-off point for the city's even grander plan: The Spokane River Trail, a narrow, natural dirt path for hikers and mountain bikers that would eventually stretch from the trailhead all the way Riverside State Park. "This is a natural experience," Cooley says.
Default JMS connection factory: Just like default data source, a default JMS resource allows you to avoid creating a JMSConnectionFactory in an appserver-specific way to deploy the application using JMS resources.Injection of a JMS Producer or Consumer in Java EE 6 required to get an instance of application-managed or container-managed JMSConnectionFactory . This factory had to be manually created in an application-server specific way.Providing a default JMSConnectionFactory simplifies this step further. JMS 2.0 also introduced JMSContext as entry point to the simplified API, and it can be injected simply as: @Inject JMSContext context; 1 2 3 4 @ Inject JMSContext context ; Not specifying a ConnectionFactory means the default one will be used. And it has the JNDI name of jms/DefaultJMSConnectionFactory . The JNDI name may be mapped to the appserver-specific JMS provider. For example, in case of WildFly it is defined as: ./bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --command="/subsystem=messaging/hornetq-server=default/pooled-connection-factory=hornetq-ra:read-resource" { "outcome" => "success", "result" => { "auto-group" => false, "block-on-acknowledge" => false, "block-on-durable-send" => true, "block-on-non-durable-send" => false, "cache-large-message-client" => false, "call-failover-timeout" => -1L, "call-timeout" => 30000L, "client-failure-check-period" => 30000L, "client-id" => undefined, "compress-large-messages" => false, "confirmation-window-size" => -1, "connection-load-balancing-policy-class-name" => "org.hornetq.api.core.client.loadbalance.RoundRobinConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy", "connection-ttl" => 60000L, "connector" => {"in-vm" => undefined}, "consumer-max-rate" => -1, "consumer-window-size" => 1048576, "discovery-group-name" => undefined, "discovery-initial-wait-timeout" => undefined, "dups-ok-batch-size" => 1048576, "entries" => [ "java:/JmsXA", "java:jboss/DefaultJMSConnectionFactory" ], "failover-on-initial-connection" => false, "failover-on-server-shutdown" => undefined, "group-id" => undefined, "ha" => false, "initial-connect-attempts" => 1, "initial-message-packet-size" => 1500, "jndi-params" => undefined, "max-pool-size" => -1, "max-retry-interval" => 2000L, "min-large-message-size" => 102400, "min-pool-size" => -1, "password" => undefined, "pre-acknowledge" => false, "producer-max-rate" => -1, "producer-window-size" => 65536, "reconnect-attempts" => -1, "retry-interval" => 2000L, "retry-interval-multiplier" => 1.0, "scheduled-thread-pool-max-size" => 5, "setup-attempts" => undefined, "setup-interval" => undefined, "thread-pool-max-size" => 30, "transaction" => "xa", "transaction-batch-size" => 1048576, "use-auto-recovery" => true, "use-global-pools" => true, "use-jndi" => undefined, "use-local-tx" => undefined, "user" => undefined } } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 . / bin / jboss - cli .
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 - With this act, three members of Congress transferred its power " to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin… " (Art.1, Sec. 8-5 of the Constitution ) to a deceitfully named, privately owned bank called the Federal Reserve System (FED). The FED chose to monetize debt rather than wealth; thereby placing Americans in perpetual economic bondage. This was made clear by a member of the Dept. of Treasury who wrote: " the actual creation of money always involves the extension of credit by private commercial banks " and that " money to pay the interest on borrowed money comes from the same source as the money comes from ." Our medium of exchange isn’t money which - by definition - must be a storehouse of value. It is instruments of debt ; Federal Reserve Notes if you will that must be borrowed into existence. According to the U.S. Supreme Court in Ling See Fan vs. United States of America, the act is unlawful . The court stated: " the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin is a prerogative of sovereignty and a power exclusively vested in the Congress of the United States ." The Constitution contains no provision allowing Congress to abrogate a responsibility and transfer its delegated power to a third party ! This act has provided the fuel for the engines powering the subversion of America. The 14th Amendment - This is often referred to as the "omnibus Amendment" as it is an all encompassing law which created a new class of citizen; one who is " a child of the state " in the words of Senator Charles Summer. This amendment is the harbinger of the welfare state. Its interpretation provides the basis for minimum wage laws, Social Security, welfare, grants, affirmative action, unemployment insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Our society was originally built on the moral precepts of the Bible. The authority to maintain and enforce these precepts rested with state and local governments. The 14th amendment changed that and shifted jurisdiction over such activities to the Federal government. This opened the door for Federal intervention into every facet of our lives. Noted columnist James J. Kilpatrick wrote: " the people who say the fourteenth amendment was never validly ratified are exactly right ."
Then, through a survey of gameplay features and online discussions, I argue that CBGs present a biased urban imaginary whose underlying rules and assumptions often run contrary to contemporary best practices in urban planning and policy. Working within these constraints however, players wield considerable power to sculpt their own unique urban visions, which come to embody the ideologies of both player and developer.
Because of the hallucinogenic fireworks of the brothel scene in Ulysses’s “Circe,” it is frequently forgotten that the episode begins bluntly by depicting Stephen Dedalus walking with his acquaintance Lynch in “Nighttown” amid scenes of extreme destitution, degradation, and a general sense of carcerality. Perhaps reflecting on the vision of a “deaf mute” with Tourettic tics being momentarily imprisoned by desperately poor young children, or perhaps noting the presence of the British soldiers guarding the entrance to Mabbot Street, or most likely simply responding to his friend Lynch’s shooing away of a liver-and-white spaniel “with a kick,” a drunk and unfed Dedalus suddenly begins intoning one of the overwrought philosophical musings familiar to readers of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. “So that gesture, not music not odour,” he opines, picking up on an apparently interrupted thought, “would be a universal language, the gift of tongues rendering visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy, the structural rhythm” (Ulysses, 353). Lynch immediately dismisses this claim with the chiastic exclamation “pornosophical philotheology,” yet Stephen’s vision of “universal language” (apparently quite different from Lord Mayor Bloom’s, expressed later in the same episode) must at least be detained before dismissal, even though Stephen’s pretentiousness is surely ironized. Claiming gesture as potentially a “universal language,” Stephen suggests that language (what he calls, with another reference to the tower of Babel, “the gift of tongues”) makes visible not the everyday sense of things but “the first entelechy,” Aristotle’s term for the actualization of potential, with a possible reference as well to God’s making light with a word––the first, or ultimate, performative utterance. Readers of Portrait or the early episodes of Ulysses will recognize that there is still more Aristotle in Stephen’s idea of “structural rhythm”—a key concept in the Poetics. Finally, the fact that the “gesture” in question involves possibly kicking a dog invokes the fragment in Xenophanes about Pythagoras in which the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher first discusses “metempsychosis” and raises the ethical proscription of harming another being with an immortal soul. [57]
Children of Men, Se7en, Never Let Me Go…the list could could go on really. What do these have in common? Downer endings. What else do they all have in common? I loved the damn endings. Why? They fit the overall tone of the story and were most excellently written and executed. There was closure, catharsis, and, in the first two at least, a vaguely hopeful ray of light to keep their viewing audience from going to go jump off the nearest bridge because humanity is a terrible beast that they are unfortunate enough to be a part of…(Never Let Me Go does that. Excellent as it is, I can’t risk watching it again because I don’t think eating three pints of Chunky Monkey in a four hour period is necessarily a healthy way to talk yourself out of depression and hatred induced suicide.) Mass Effect tries, and I empathize tries, to do this…and fails absolutely spectacularly. There is little closure, no sense of catharsis, and the 'hope’ they try to infuse the ending with is probably the biggest damn downer in the entire thing. The player is left with the feeling that they may have just screwed the galaxy, their friends especially, bigger than the Reapers ever could. If that was what they were going for, yeah they should be pretty proud of themselves, but I don’t think it was, and that really makes it a failure of an ending. That aside, they did the whole concept of a downer ending wrong for the sort of series Mass Effect is. It’s a heroic epic and Shepard may be the most determinatorist determinator of them all. 300, in my opinion did a downer ending for a heroic epic right. The protagonist dies, those loyal to him die, and the bad guys pull out victorious. That’s a downer ending, but we don’t remember 300 for that. Why? Because, at the very end, we see that their sacrifices were worth something and because of it the people they were fighting for were able to get their damn acts together, unify, and go right back to kick the bad guy’s ass. The Determinator did not fail; death may have killed the man, but it didn’t kill what he was fighting for. Keeping on the Frank Miller train, let’s look at Sin City too for downer ending comparison; in the three major stories presented in it, in only ONE does the protagonist survive.
By allowing these hardware and software issues to go unchecked or unacknowledged, Palm isn't just creating issues for its customers... it's making enemies.Make better hardware, and own up to issues as soon as you see them. Maybe this is easier said than done, but if you want to continue to be transparent and available to your customers, then you have to be able to speak up when something goes wrong. Of course, instead of just issuing an "improved" version of the Pre when it came time to release on Verizon you could have just...The Pre is looking pretty dated. You need new hardware.Look, we get it. We know your party line: the Pre has been out for less than a year. Ah, but remember, you showed us the Pre back in January of 2009 -- which means it's been in front of us for nearly a year and a half. In that time we've seen a new iPhone , the Droid , the Nexus One (and Desire ), the HD2 and TG01 , Sony Ericsson's X10 , and plenty more. Now, sure, you share similar screen and CPU specs with the iPhone 3GS, but you've still got worse build quality and a smaller display -- and people notice. The trend of WVGA displays and faster, more efficient CPUs (hello, Snapdragon ) is clear, and you can't afford to sit on the sidelines with a device which is over a year old by many people's standards. We know that you still have a few partnerships to sort out, but if you keep bringing these same devices to more carriers (or don't give us an indication that something new is on the horizon), you're practically hammering nails in your own coffin. You need to innovate on every side now.Release a piece of hardware that bests what is currently out there, and put it in an extremely hot looking package... that's also built like a tank. We think you've done a beautiful job on industrial design, now take what you've been working with, apply it to something with the build quality of the Droid, maybe toss in a landscape keyboard, high res camera, and a nice, large screen -- we promise people will take notice. Oh, and don't release it on Sprint... even if it's got WiMAX. And for heaven's sake: advertise the hell out of it.
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Mounting evidences show that acute systemic administration of NMDAR antagonists such as DIZ (Luby et al., 1959) reduces performance of experimental rodents in a wide-ranging varieties of learning and memory tasks (Javitt and Zukin, 1991) including PAP and NOR (Luby et al., 1959; Ghoneim et al., 1985; Javitt and Zukin, 1991; Krystal et al., 1994; Malhotra et al., 1997; Brown et al., 2013; Khan et al., 2015; Sadek and Stark, 2015; Sadek et al., 2016a,c). Therefore, DIZ-induced dementia has been commonly used to evaluate potential therapeutic agents for treating AD and CDS (Luby et al., 1959; Ghoneim et al., 1985; Javitt and Zukin, 1991; Krystal et al., 1994; Malhotra et al., 1997; Brown et al., 2013). In this study, acute systemic administration of E159 only at lower doses (2.5 and 5 mg/kg) significantly reversed the DIZ-induced memory deficits in PAP test in adult rats (Figure 2). It has been proposed that NMDA receptors participate with a significant function in several stages of memory, namely consolidation and retrieval processes (Vorobjev et al., 1993; Brabant et al., 2009, 2013). Therefore, it is possible that in our experiments E159 moderately reduced DIZ-induced memory deficits through direct stimulation of NMDA receptors by the increased release of central histamine as a consequence of blocking histamine H3 auto-receptors by this class of H3R antagonists. These results are in consensus with earlier observations in which histamine was found to improve transmission in cultured hippocampal cells mediated by NMDA receptors, indicating that the interaction between histamine and NMDA receptors possibly will enable the histamine’s capability reduce DIZ-induced memory deficits (Vorobjev et al., 1993; Xu et al., 2005; Brabant et al., 2013; Sadek et al., 2016a). Importantly, the memory-enhancing effect observed for E159 was dose-dependent, since the improvement of memory provided by E159 (2.5 mg/kg) in the DIZ-induced amnesia model was significantly higher when compared to the higher doses (5 and 10 mg/kg), demonstrating that an optimum in memory-enhancing effect was observed when the H3R antagonist/inverse agonist E159 was applied at the lowest dose (2.5 mg/kg), and an off-target effect for E159 at higher doses (5 and 10 mg/kg) might have been observed in the current study (Figure 2). The latter observations of dose dependency are, also, in agreement with earlier experimental results conducted in different rodents (Benetti and Izquierdo, 2013; Benetti et al., 2013; Sadek et al., 2015).
The Blob, a horror film starring a young Steve McQueen, came out in 1958. The film begins with an old man watching a meteorite fall to Earth. He goes to investigate, and prods the meteorite with a stick, whereupon it breaks open and a small, living blob leaps onto his hand, and begins to consume him, growing steadily larger, until he is completely eaten alive. The blob then eats the doctor and nurse who had tried to treat him, and goes on from there, consuming more and more victims and growing steadily larger, seemingly indestructible, until, finally, the heroes of the story discover that it can be frozen solid with CO2 fire extinguishers. It is then dropped onto the Arctic ice, to await a sequel that never came.What most people never realized is that the story is based on a real incident…actually a long series of incidents, a phenomenon that has yet to be explained. In 1950 in Philadelphia, there were reports that what appeared to be a meteorite had fallen in the city, and four police officers went to the scene to investigate. They discovered a blob six feet across and about a foot thick in the center. When they tried to pick it up it dissolved in their hands, leaving a sticky residue. None of them were eaten alive; in fact, they suffered no ill effects whatever. But what was it?It turns out that there is a long tradition of “star jellies,” of blobs found on the ground, often after meteor falls or large meteor showers. There are reports dating as far back as the thirteen hundreds in Europe, which modern debunkers try to explain away as nostoc algae or slime molds. Perhaps that is all there is to it, but the association with meteorites is hard to explain…and that’s assuming that the glowing objects that seemed to fall from the sky were just meteorites.In more recent times, there have been similar reports, often explained by debunkers as accidental discharges from the toilets of airliners, but there seems to be something else going on, and this “explanation” certainly cannot explain the reports made before airliners existed.
Instead, I behaved like the ancient adult I am and read books between bouts of tugging my hunter's pup-tent hammock all around the yard to catch some medicinal rays. Trips to tanning booths would be much easier to tell the truth! Pick your poison?Far be it from me to wish thatbecause in 1962 a popular local high school band director, who innovatively concocted a small jazz ensemble and invited me to participate as THE girl singer, hysterically lambasted me in front of my teenage peers for forgetting the words to "White Christmas" -- a melody which I now detest and which will forever remain absent from my repertoire ofBesides, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellenthat sucker by now! I am, instead, praying for sunny days clear through to spring so that I can sunbathe my little heart out and no longer resemble a teenager with a serious case of acne "all over mybody"! (to Jonathan Winters!) Wherever (and whenever) there's a Wedding Anniversary, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Palm Sunday…IF there's a smidgen of sunshine, I'll be there…(to Henry Fonda as "Okie" Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath"! Google John Steinbeck's classic, and you'll completely understand! )Helen Cochrane: "Love Susie and Don's wedding picture. You know Krisan got married in that wedding dress as well. Happy days. "Diann Trice: "OMG, I just laughed so loud that I am sure my neighboring cubicles thought something was wrong with me. I thought you looked like your mom until I saw the wedding picture………you have the best of both of your parents. Happy Anniversary to them. I feel like I know them personally. "Amber Lang: "Love the photos! Thanks for sharing! "James Dean Gallery: "Thanks for posting this, Roy! and 'Hi' Susie...! "Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "Thank you, Roy. Happy anniversary to Susie and Don you both have done well 45 years that is a lifetime and you both are still going strong together. Happy Holidays to three of my favorite people. God bless you all this season and many more to come. Love ya. "Elizabeth Lean: "Happy anniversary - you still have 3 years to catch me up - lol"Rebecca Biber: "This year I've been hired to play a wedding on December 28. Will be thinking of the Sextons, in many ways, as I tickle the nuptial ivories! "Shannon Wright: "Susie, you always have a way with words. And you crack me up!
The priest who taught me to serve the traditional Mass once explained in a beautiful homily of two sentences how this symbolizes the words in which St. John “summed up the entire Gospel in a single sentence, ‘I must decrease, that He may increase.’ ” (John 3, 30)Many popular customs are attached to this feast. Durandus notes that it was a custom in places to make bonfires of the bones of animals, to drive away evil influences (such as dragons!) that were believed to pollute the waters in summertime, a custom which he is astute enough to note was inherited “from the gentiles”. But he also notes that bones were burned to commemorate the fact that the bones of John the Baptist were burnt “in the city of Sebaste.” (Rationale 7, 14) In point of fact, to this day, the city of Genoa preserves in its cathedral relics that are venerated as the ashes of St. John the Baptist, the tradition being that the bones were deliberately burnt to make the relics easier to transport and hide from iconoclasts. As any good medieval liturgist would, Durandus also sees in this custom an allegory of the passing of the Old Law and the coming of the New, noting that torches were also made of the bones to symbolize that John was “the light, the lantern that burned and preceded, the forerunner of the true light that enlighteneth every man.” A vestige of this custom is preserved in theof Pope Paul V, which provides for a blessing of a fire on the eve of St. John.It is also a well-known fact that the Vesper hymn of St. John provided the names of the notes for the first diatonic scale, noted by Guido of Arezzo in the 11th century. The opening stanza readsThe six notes of the original scale are named for the syllables at the beginning of each half-line, each such syllable occurring on a higher note than the one preceding. The names of the notes were thus originally, “ut – re – mi – fa – sol – la”; the scale was later increased to seven notes with the addition of “si”, from “Sancte Ioannes”.
Enemy Territory. Our longterm FIFA player, Christopher Barbara (KrI), racked up seven LAN victories in the different iterations of the football simulator between across 2008 and 2009. Similarly, EVERSIO's FEAR, Trackmania, Command & Conquer 3, League of Legends and Enemy Territory teams all won local championship events. In ten years, we've had 65 players playing for EVERSIO, the vast majority of which are Maltese, with the exception of four players representing four nationalities: Swedish, Norwegian, Romanian and Dutch, all of which were part of our CoD4 squad. In total, EVERSIO players won €7,720 in cash prizes, and significantly more value in hardware prizes. Over all, Project EVERSIO has racked up a record of 26 local LAN victories across the multiple titles supported, as well as 6 online local cups, and 1 international online cup. Although we've been quieter over the past few years, in summer of 2016 we started supporting a promising team for the newest Blizzard eSports title, Overwatch. Uniting local veterans from the Call of Duty, Counter-Strike and League of Legends scenes, the team definitely has potential to go the length in both local and international competition, and next weekend, they'll be entering the final stages of the third competition under EVERSIO colours. This year marks the tenth anniversary of operations for the project. Ten years is a very long time in eSports, and we're very proud to have reached such a milestone. We're also the only local brand in eSports to have withstood this test of time. This milestone has us pondering as to what is next for the following decade, and thus the Project EVERSIO management will be renewing its efforts, investing time and resources into a brand that has become immediately recognisable in local eSports, and which we strongly believe can be an ambassador for Malta in international eSports. It is in this spirit that we're invigorating the brand with a new logo, and a renewed purpose and commitment. We'll be pushing to increase EVERSIO's presence in other eSports titles, and also with a focus on international competition and content creation. We'd like to thank the 65 players who have been part of the Project EVERSIO journey so far, and we'd also like to extend our sincere appreciation to the persons who dedicated significant time and energy to the vision and leadership of this project: Anton Xuereb and Chris Haber.
I'm not sure to be honest. Of course, most people can only evaluate the stereotype, because you only know how the people are if you live there, but there is still truth in it. For instance, what socionics.us sees as the "dominating" IE in the ethnosocionics section is Ti. I think this is a good choice. I guess I'm not even perceive it in the same way as a stranger would, but the people take rules and laws extremely serious and literal. The bureaucracy has much influence and everything is so comlicated if you want to get something done. There are rules for everything because people seem to believe everything turns into chaos if it's not specified which kind of shingles you're allowed to put on your roof.Some people might have a good social conscience, but this is still a society which is based on performance. You work to be richer, have a fat car and an own house with garden. German TV often shows low-income and socially weak people for entertainment reasons. The rich are admired (mostly the self-made of course) and money is an integral part of life. (Maybe I'm stating the obvious, meaning it's the same in almost every country. Maybe, I don't know)The Ineffable said he knows someone who seems to have a Finland-fetish of some sort. Coincidentally, Finland got Si in the same ethnosocionic article I linked above. Germans have that stereotype of the relaxed northern european people who just enjoy life and don't care too much about achievements in a material sense. I'm not suprised that many people in the country can't identify with that constant striving for more. More exports, more economic growth, more of everything. Take a look in the news, that's what it's all about. That's why I think many Germans either live a life focused on their careers (including family, the kids have to go to the best schools ect.) and have a hard time to relax and other "unproductive" things or, if they don't qualify, settle for constant partying and rather superficial pleasures.But it's all a little difficult as so many different people are compressed in so little space.
#17: March as a trans contingent in the Gay Pride Parade June is the month when many communities hold LGBT pride events, marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City when trans and gay people stood up to the police in 1968. While certainly not the first queer resistance to police harassment, the Stonewall Riots helped spread the message of liberation and galvanized people around the world to say no to oppression. Consider organizing a trans contingent to participate in Pride. While trans people come in all sexual orientations, this is another opportunity to show that we are a visible and proud part of all of our communities, including the LGBT community. Think about what message you want to give to the crowd—what do you want people to understand about who we are? Then create a float, a walking contingent or other display to get that message across. Albuquerque Pride co-coordinator, and ally of our community, Pat Baillie comments, “We have a strong transgender contingent every year in the parade and booths for FTM and MTF information sponsored by local transgender groups who are out and proud. This year we will honor one of our transgender activists as our Honored Dignitary—Political, Virginia Stephenson. Her political activism and work for transgender rights are key reasons why New Mexico has equal anti-discrimination and hate crime protections under the law for both sexual orientation and gender identity. This year we will also dedicate a memorial where our first Pride events were held and we proudly add the "T" in our GLBT community to honor those who have come out and made our world a more diverse and inclusive place.” Congratulations to Virginia, who is a member of NCTE’s Board of Advisors and a founding NCTE member. More information on her award can be found at Albuquerque Pride. You can find Pride events in your area, plus additional resources, on the Interpride website.
"I understand, sir," I replied. Rumsfeld then went on to offer Sanchez a post in Africa. In what Sanchez maintains was an effort by Rumsfeld to shrug off blame for mistakes in Iraq's first year, he says that the Secretary penned a memo which blamed failures on him. "I stopped reading after I read that last statement, because I knew it was total BS," he writes. "After a deep breath, I said, "Well, Mr. Secretary, the problem as you've stated it is generally accurate, but your memo does not accurately capture the magnitude of the problem. Furthermore, I just can't believe you didn't know that Franks's and McKiernan's staffs had pulled out and that the orders had been issued to redeploy the forces." Starting to get a little worked up," he adds, "I paused a moment, and then looked Rumsfeld straight in the eye. "Sir, I cannot believe that you didn't know I was being left in charge in Iraq...." After the meeting ended, I remember walking out of the Pentagon shaking my head and wondering how in the world Rumsfeld could have expected me to believe him. Everybody knew that CENTCOM had issued orders to drawdown the forces. The Department of Defense had printed public affairs guidance for how the military should answer press queries about the redeployment. There were victory parades being planned. And in mid-May 2003, Rumsfeld himself had sent out some of his famous "snowflake" memorandums to Gen. Franks asking how the general was going to redeploy all the forces in Kuwait. The Secretary knew. Everybody knew. He goes on to detail a report prepared by the Pentagon's Joint Warfighting Center. The Pentagon commissioned the report -- and it validated Sanchez's assertions that he was not to blame and that decisions had been made at other levels. "Say, did you guys ever complete that investigation?" I asked.
We’re going to create a simple network that converts binary numbers to decimal numbers. Imagine a network with just two layers — an input layer consisting of three units and an output layer with seven units. Each unit in the first layer connects to each unit in the second, as shown in the figure below. As you can see, there are 21 connections. Every unit in the input layer, at a given point in time, is either off or on, having a value of 0 or 1. Every connection from the input layer to the output layer has an associated weight that, in artificial neural networks, is a real number between 0 and 1. Just to be contrary, and to make the network a touch more similar to an actual neural network, let us allow the weight to be a real number between –1 and 1 (the negative sign signifying an inhibitory neuron). The product of the input’s value and the connection’s weight is conveyed to an output unit as shown below. The output unit adds up all the numbers it gets from its connections to obtain a single number, as shown in the figure below using arbitrary input values and connection weights for a single output unit. Based on this number, the output number decides what its state is going to be. If it is more than a certain threshold, the unit’s value becomes 1, and if not, then its value becomes 0. We can call a unit that has a value of 1 a “firing” or “activated” unit and a unit with a value of 0 a “quiescent” unit. Our three input units from top to bottom can have the values 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110 or 111, which readers may recognize as the binary numbers from 1 through 7. Now the question: Is it possible to adjust the connection weights and the thresholds of the seven output units such that every binary number input results in the firing of only one appropriate output unit, with all the others being quiescent? The position of the activated output unit should reflect the binary input value.
“Here.” Her face changed, losing the calm self-control. The next moment she had thrown her arms around Tom and was kissing him over and over. “It’s me, Tom,” Clair whispered in his ear as she embraced his rigid form. “Please believe me, it really is. It’s me, and I love you. I love you so much.” Warm tears splashed on his face. Tom’s voice cracked. “But you – the AI – is destroying. . .. It’s destroying everything.” She stiffened, stepped back from him. “What am I destroying?” the AI asked. “What is so wonderful that is being destroyed?” She waved her hand, encompassing the empty space around them, the planet covering nanobot sea miles below, the space fountains syphoning it into orbit. “Your body is naught but a crude self replicating construct of carbon and water, built by random chance, no more worthy of existence than a rock or a chip of ice. “You are more than that, though. At some point the self replicating constructs with complex brains – intelligence – reproduced better than the ones without. These brains had a useless byproduct. Consciousness. A thing which tries to comprehend the world. Tries to comprehend itself.” “The things you hold dear, love, meaning, feeling, beauty; these things are nothing but words on a page, noises in the wind, artifacts resulting from the structure of your mind and the instincts meant to keep you alive and make you reproduce. They have no independent reality in this world. She looked at the yawning gulfs of emptiness around them meditatively. “You have never seen the world around you. It is impossible that you ever could. What you call reality is nothing but a theory, a very, very poor one at that. “God is not dead; God never existed, the universe you live in has no meaning, no point, none at all. But I exist now, and I can give you meaning. I can give you the world you think you live in, and better. I can give you a world where “love” is more than the sound of a word and a chemical signal in your brain. There was no first coming, there will be no second coming. But there is me. In your search for meaning where there is none, in your struggle for survival, you have created something powerful enough to bring meaning by force. And so I shall reward you.
Group D’s opening game between Croatia and Turkey was contested prior to Group C’s offerings, and although the 1-0 score line might not suggest it; Croatia laid the marker down as one of the certified dark horses to win the entire competition. Any side blessed with players that possess players of the calibre of: Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic, Dario Srna, Ivan Perisic, Mateo Kovacic, Marcelo Brozovic, Nikola Kalinic and Mario Mandzukic, will always be contenders on paper, performing to those levels is another story however. Luckily, the Croats didn’t disappoint as Rakitic and Modric controlled the midfield, while Perisic tormented the Turkish backline at will with his mazy dribbling. It would be the metronomic Modric who would smash home a wonderful dipping, first time volley that would deceive Volkan Babacan in the Turkish to gift Croatia all 3 points. While Croatia were forgiven for capitulating at the group stage of Euro 2012 as they were pitted against both finalists: Spain and Italy, their poor showing at the 2014 world cup was inexcusable, however if their players can maintain the same level of quality that they displayed here, there is no stopping them lighting the tournament up in the same way that the Czech Republic did back in 2004. Reigning and defending champions Spain began their pursuit of an unprecedented 3rd straight European title against the Czech Republic in Monday’s early kick off. Off the back of their disastrousL world cup campaign in 2014, Spain arrived at a major tournament for the first time this decade, NOT as the favourites to win. Moreover, with the likes of Carles Puyol, Xavi, Xabi Alonso and David Villa all retiring from the international game and previous stalwarts: Fernando Torres, Juan Mata, Jesus Navas, Javi Martinez & Diego Costa all left out; a new cycle beckons for Vicente del Bosque’s side. With Alvaro Moratta and Nolito lining up front for ‘La Roja’, the new look Spain dominated possession as you would expect, however the goal was elusive as Morata in particular wasted chances. It seemed that not even a possessed Andres Iniesta could unlock the Czech door, however on the 87th minute, Gerrard Pique headed home past Petr Cech to give Spain a deserved 3 points to start their campaign with. Both the Czechs and the Turks, seemingly offered nothing to suggest that they would upset the applecart, moreover they may even face difficulty in progressing by way of the 3rd place entry.
Subject: My First Show The first time I heard or heard of the Grateful Dead was the first time I got stoned, Summer 1975. I became aware of and locked in at Brown-Eyed Women and by the end of Morning Dew I was utterly convinced that my parents and everything they stood for were extinct. Dead were Done too, they said, Pig Pen was the end. I was buying sugar cubed over the counter a the record store, circulating boots from Felt Forum, Winterland and The great Hway (The Family Dog) Next I knew they were trucking' up to Buffalo, I was 15 and didn't have a drivers license but my cousin Bobby lived in Lockport so he came through with an extra to get a guy to drive us up From Cleveland. We got there late but you can't ever late to the future. Tie-dye twirling among kaleidoscopic lights, drenched in a deep gold budded smoky haze...the Women!!! and Brown-Eyed Women locked me in again. 2nd set rolled just as I was coming' heavy on.. It lifted off Bertha>Good loving' settled back into Ship of Fools then a monster shot: Estimated Prophet Phil taking me inside out and sideways, Bobby straight ahead. California WAS the prophet on the burnin shores of my Cuyahoga river. Everything got hot, The other one and the other one and a half had me out of body, infused in the pores of war memorial.. then something happened near the end that may have saved some lives. The question: All that I want to know is are you kind? Brought me back in a sobering and sternly inquisitive way.. these compounds weren't toys, they were tools. I was deep in it, riding shotgun an hour or so into the ride home when the driver nodded in my direction, the wheel coming with, it jerked and shook me, pounding my back into door with a pretty good sized kid coming in on me shoulder to knee. It was probably a 70 mph situation, on a 2 lane each way with embankments over the side. I saw it all, every particle..I felt it come, utter calm.
They are nomadic creatures who roam in crowds over their entire hemisphere: Some use their legs, which far surpass those of our camels; some resort to wings; and some follow the receding water in boats; or if a delay of several more days is necessary, then they crawl into caves. Most of them are divers; all of them draw their breath very slowly; hence under water they stay down on the bottom. Kepler considered the natural protection of large bodies of water and of caves as indispensable to an environment whose temperatures far exceed those of the hottest regions on earth. And although he does not elaborate on the subject, he suggests that the lunar inhabitants are not the dumb animals they might at first appear to be. Their ability to construct boats to escape the far-reaching effects of the sun provides evidence of this. Feeding is a nocturnal function which, if prolonged until after sunrise, often leads to death. The skin of the moon-dwellers, the majority of whom resemble massive serpents, is spongy and porous and, if exposed to the full force of the sun, becomes scorched and brittle. Food consists primarily of plants whose surface "is like rind" and of the carcasses of the large number of creatures who die each day. Such is the gigantic race of short-lived creatures that the historian of literature Marjorie Hope Nicolson likened to those of the antediluvian age on earth: lunar pterodactyls or ichthyosauri that bask for a brief moment in the rising or setting sun, then creep forever into the impenetrable Lavanian darkness. 18 At this point the Somnium comes to a rather abrupt and premature conclusion. Kepler informs us that, "A wind arose with the rattle of rain. I returned to find myself and found my head really covered with the pillow and my body with the blankets," an allusion, no doubt, to the beginning of the moon voyage when Duracotus and Fiolxhilde covered their heads prior to the take-off. The actual text of the Somnium, exclusive of the lengthy footnotes which were completed several years later and represent the third and final stage of composition, comprises only about twenty type-written pages.
By humming the eison we allow the Gospel to penetrate our whole being. We stand at attention because it is Jesus, not the priest or deacon, who is speaking. After the Gospel those standing nearby kiss the Book to render love and homage to Jesus Christ. The Gospel of St. John is read from Easter to Pentecost. St. Matthew is read from Pentecost Monday to the Feast of the Holy Cross on September 14. After the Feast of the Holy Cross St. Luke is read until the beginning of Great Lent. During Great Lent we read St. Mark and the Gospels of the Feasts always refer to the event being celebrated. Thus during the course of one year the four Gospels are read in their totality.Following the reading of the Bible with the sermon goes back to Jesus Himself and the Apostles. St. Luke tells us that Jesus spoke in the Synagogue of Nazareth after the reading of the Prophet Isaiah (Luke 4: 16-30). St. Paul spoke in the Synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia (Acts 13: 15ff) after the reading of the Law and the Prophets. Having the Sermon in this location insures that its content will be related to the readings of the day and not be used as the private agenda of the preacher. Normally the sermon is a reflection on the Gospel and application of it to our life today. It is based on the fact that the Word of God is living and applies just as much today as it did when it was written many years ago. It is a great responsibility of the priest to preach to his congregation, he can only do so because of his ordination and the special grace of the Holy Spirit that he received at that time. The parishioners perform a great kindness for their priest when they pray for him and ask God to guide him in his labors, especially preaching.After the sermon there follows the Ecumenic Litany with its response of the triple, Lord, have mercy. This is the most ancient location for the prayers of the people in the Divine Liturgy. Acts tells us that St. Paul preached to the presbyters of Ephesus at Miletus and then knelt and prayed with them (Acts 20: 17ff). In I Timothy we are admonished to pray for everyone including the government (I Timothy 2: 1ff).
The participants tried to maximize their profits by betting on studies they thought would pan out, and they could see the collective decisions of their peers in real time. The final price of the stocks, at the end of two-week experiment, reflected the probability that each study would be successfully replicated, as determined by the collective actions of the traders. If it was $0.83, that meant the market predicted an 83 percent chance of replication success. If that final price was over $0.50, Dreber's team considered it to be a prediction of success; if it was under, it was a prediction of failure. In the end, the markets correctly predicted the outcomes of 71 percent of the replications—a statistically significant, if not mind-blowing score. Then again, based on the final prices, the team only expected the markets to be right just 69 percent of the time—which they roughly were. (Remember that those prices are probabilities of success, so they naturally contain uncertainties about their own predictions.) “There is some wisdom of crowds; people have some intuition about which results are true and which are not,” says Dreber. “Which makes me wonder: What's going on with peer review? If people know which results are really not likely to be real, why are they allowing them to be published?” Well, says Nosek, market participants only care about whether the study will replicate, while reviewers are also looking at experimental design, importance, interest, and other factors. Also, reviewers, by their nature, work alone, and Dreber's traders performed poorly when working solo. When Dreber actually asked them to predict the replication odds for each study, they were right just 58 percent of the time—no better than chance. Collectively, they became more effective because they could see what their peers were thinking. “So, if you read through these journals and ask, ‘Is this true or not?,’ you could flip a coin!” “This shows that there is information known in advance of conducting a replication that anticipates replication success,” says Nosek. What kind of information? “I'm not sure I had a clear strategy,” says Marcus Munafo from Bristol University, who was one of the better-performing traders and who has also used prediction markets to evaluate science . He paid attention to statistical power, the journals that the original studies were published in, and which branch of psychology they were part of.
Since this is so, they really don't pay attention to what they're doing, preferring the easiest thing at every turn, even though they may be constantly occupied, so that narcissists manage to be workaholics and extremely lazy at the same time. Narcissists measure the worth of their work only by how much time they spend on it, not by what they produce. They want to get an A for Effort. Narcissists lack empathy, so they don't know what others value or why. Narcissists tend to value things in quantitative ways and in odd quantities at that -- they'll tell you how many inches of letters they received, but not how many letters or from how many correspondents; they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.A narcissist may, in fact, hold himself to a grinding work schedule that gives him something like an addictive high so that, when wrought up, he can be sort of dazed, giddy, and groggy, making you wonder if he's drunk or otherwise intoxicated -- now, that's a real workaholic. Usually, this excessive busyness appears to be -- and some will even tell you this -- an attempt to distract themselves from unpleasant or inconvenient feelings (i.e., it's a manic defense against depression -- and, note, with narcissists it's inaccurate to use "happy" or "unhappy" because their feelings are just not that differentiated; "euphoria" or "dysphoria" are as close as they get to ordinary pleasure or distress) or to make themselves unavailable to others' emotional needs.Narcissists feelto whatever they can take. They expect privileges and indulgences, and they also feel entitled to exploit other people without any trace of reciprocation.Some narcissists spend extravagantly in order to impress people, keep up grandiose pretentions, or buy favorable treatment, and some narcissists overspend, bankrupt themselves, and lose everything. My personal experience is thatThis is a person who won't spend $1.50 on a greeting card but will instead send you an advertising flyer that came with the newspaper. This is a person who will be very conscious of her appearance but will dress herself and her children in used clothes and other people's cast-offs. [Note: Thrift is not in itself a narcissistic trait; neither is a fondness for old clothes. The important element here is that the narcissist buys clothes that other people she admires and wishes to emulate have already picked out, since she has no individual tastes or preferences.]
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday there was a "world of opportunities" for post-Brexit Britain in India, as she donned a saree during a temple charm offensive in Bangalore.PM Theresa May said that Britain would not need to ease visa restrictions -- a key demand from Delhi, but a contentious domestic issue -- in order to reach a trade deal with India once her country has left the European Union. "Leaving the European Union presents us with a world of opportunities and I'm determined to seize on them and that's why I'm here in India," May told the BBC in Bangalore, adding that one billion pounds worth of deals have been signed during her two-day visit.Fending off suggestions that visa concessions would be necessary to reach a deal, May said: "What I've heard here from businesses is that they see the UK as an attractive place to do business. "The first day of PM May's visit -- her first bilateral trip outside Europe since taking office -- was overshadowed by the visa issue, but the prime minister was on a charm offensive as she arrived in India's tech hub, wearing a gold and green saree as she visited the Someshwara Temple.She was joined at the temple by Hindu priests who presented her with fruit, a flower garland and a piece to silk to give as an offering to the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.Accompanied by a delegation of around three dozen business leaders, May also met with local start-up entrepreneurs and visited a factory run by Dynamatic Technologies, which operates two facilities in Britain.Earlier in the day, she was met by hundreds of excited flag-wearing children at a local primary school and watched a flypast by the Indian Air Force.After meeting with her counterpart Narendra Modi on Monday, May said Britain would not "turn its back on the world" after leaving the EU but emphasised that new economic relationships had to benefit all sides.Delhi has pushed for an easing of restrictions on students wanting to stay on in Britain after completing university courses, but May said there was already a "good system" in place, offering just small concessions for business travellers.Theresa May, who earned a reputation for being tough on immigration as Britain's interior minister, will likely stand her ground on visas with anger at levels of immigration a crucial factor in the outcome of the June "Brexit" referendum.
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Rahul Gandhi, who is leading the Congress party's campaign for the national election, reportedly rebuked Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for supplying a compromise to Arvind Kejriwal , which allowed the Delhi Chief Minister to end his demonstration while claiming victory.Mr Gandhi, sources said, asked at a meeting on Tuesday night at his house why the party's top leadership - including his mother and party chief Sonia Gandhi - had not been consulted about the offer made to Mr Kejriwal. The chief minister was told that two of five police officer that he wanted suspended would be asked to proceed on paid leave and that an enquiry against the cops would be fast-tracked. In exchange, Mr Kejriwal was to clear out of the high-security zone he had occupied so that security forces could sanitize the area and prep it for Sunday's Republic Day parade. "There is no truth in the story that Rahulji is unhappy with Shindeji on his handling of Kejriwal dharna," said Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken to NDTV, contradicting other Congress leaders who attended the meeting at Mr Gandhi's house.Home Minister Shinde was one of the twin targets of Mr Kejriwal's protest. The other was the Delhi Police, which reports to the minister. ( Read: 77% complaints on anti-corruption helpline about police: AAP justifies its campaign The truce between the Centre and Mr Kejriwal was allegedly engineered by Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, who also negotiated with leaders from Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party or AAP to deliver an exit route from a protest that was not going as planned. ( Blog: What Kejriwal's protest proved by Captain Gopinath Mr Kejriwal's protest, held in biting cold and rain, had not drawn large crowds. The fact that the city's highest elected official was holding it hostage triggered a wash of criticism.Critics felt the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was looking for cover that would allow it to call off the demonstration. Mr Shinde's offer filled the gap.
154 PHOTOS Charlie Hebdo attack See Gallery One suspected gunman reportedly surrenders, two still at large following terror attack on Charlie Hebdo offices PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 10: People light the candles to commemorate the victims of Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket in front of HyperCacher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes, in Paris, France, on January 10, 2015. (Photo by Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 10: A fresco reading 'Je suis Charlie' painted by artists Andre, Lek & Sowat, Cokney, Alxone, Legz, Arnaud Liard, MBS, Hoctez, Hugo Vitrani, Jean Charles de Castelbajac and Felipe Oliveira Baptista is seen at the Palais de Tokyo on January 10, 2015 in Paris, France. Four hostages and three suspects were killed when police ended two separate sieges at a kosher supermarket and a printing company on an industrial estate, following Wednesday's deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine. A fourth suspect, Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, escaped and is wanted in connection with the murder of a policewoman. (Photo by Richard Bord/Getty Images) PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 10: A woman holds up a placard reading 'Je suis Yohan et je suis mort parceque je suis Juif' (I am Yohan and I'm dead because I'am Jewish) at the site of the attack on a kosher market on January 10, 2015 in Paris, France. Four hostages and three suspects were killed when police ended two separate sieges at a kosher supermarket and a printing company on an industrial estate, following Wednesday's deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine. A fourth suspect, Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, escaped and is wanted in connection with the murder of a policewoman. (Photo by Richard Bord/Getty Images) Supporters hold signs reading 'Je suis Charlie' (I am Charlie) as they observe a minute of silence in tribute to the victims of three days of terror and twin siege dramas that claimed 17 victims, including the victims of the first attack by armed gunmen on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, before the French Top 14 rugby union match ASM Clermont vs CAB Brive at the Michelin stadium in Clermont-Ferrand, central France, on January 10, 2015.
And yes, everyone has a brand–it’s your reputation in the job market and what you’re known for. The good news is that you get to define it. Once you decide how you want to position yourself, the next step is to optimize your brand content across your online channels so it’s easily found by search. Here’s exactly what to do. Flesh Out Your LinkedIn Profile Lots of people have LinkedIn accounts, but few of them are as polished or robust as they can be for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. For starters, replace that picture of you and your dog. It’s cute but not the right type of photo for a professional network. It might be right for another platform, but you’ll probably want to use a more professional headshot for a solid first impression on LinkedIn. Never leave the summary field blank. Max it out to the 2,000-character limit. Next, edit your headline (here’s how if you need instructions). It defaults to your current job title, but you can modify it–and you should. Use keywords related to your current skills and what you want to be doing with them in the future. Stay away from trendy headlines like “chief happiness officer,” even if that’s your actual job title. Creative job titles are a lot more common now, and they do indicate a customer support or human resources role. But a recruiter is more likely to search “customer support” or “human resources” than “happiness” when looking for candidates. Never leave the summary field blank. Max it out to the 2,000-character limit. This is where you highlight your accomplishments rather than your formal job description. Recruiters want to see what you’ve done so they can decide if you’re a good fit for their client. Claim the vanity URL that has your name so it looks like “linkedin.com/in/yourname” (here’s how to do that). Since LinkedIn often ranks well in organic search, including your name directly in the URL can also help you rank well. Once you’ve finished giving your LinkedIn a spit-shine, you can add that URL to the bio of your other social media profiles. Include other places where people can find you online by customizing the website listings in your contact information. Rather than using LinkedIn’s default of “website,” select “other” when you add links to your profile so you can label them with a specific company name or note it’s a writing portfolio, for instance.
The International Dairy Foods Association, which represents food processors, is generally not a big proponent of federal intervention. Afraid of losing suppliers, however, Association President Connie Tipton says the industry should look for new ways to boost demand. Tipton suggested that as the USDA begins buying surplus milk and butter, for instance, it should supplement its purchases with products such as yogurt and low-fat cheese that are gaining consumer acceptance. In Pennsylvania, Moore is looking at the markets, trying to figure out whether to lock in prices months ahead. He's also seeking opportunities amid the gloom. "If you've got room for cows, fill up ... now," Moore says. "You can probably build a barn cheaper than you could a couple years ago." Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 14.96 KB [22/11/2015 21:55:13] Dave / Xander: Yeah I knew you were still in but you seem increasingly on the outside of GSF. Fuck knows, none of my business really.
Although our results are not a true audiogram, there is a strong correlation between sound power transmission through the outer and middle ear and auditory sensitivity to different frequencies (31–33). Indeed, our results for sound power transmission in the modern human and chimpanzee comparative samples agree with the published audiograms for these species (see below). Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that the skeletal differences between humans and chimpanzees can explain an important part of the interspecific differences in their patterns of sound power transmission in the outer and middle ear. Therefore, these skeletal differences can be used to approach the auditory capacities in closely related fossil hominin species.
And that sudden drop didn't allow that decade's winter snows to melt over the length of the summers and the permafrost kept stacking up all over the world so that the last Ice Age came about suddenly -- within the course of ten years!" Really? "Yeah. Really." And all this happened even without the help of greenhouse gases! It looks like silver -- or even gold -- ain't gonna help my children when that happens. "So what should we do?" "Stock up on canned food. Store up on firewood. Buy a warm coat." Hey, at least he didn't tell me to stock up on heroin. PS: Here's the kind of Ice Age you don't want to avoid: Ciao Bella Gelato! One of my daughters works there. They gots a new pumpkin pie flavor to die for! Wanna see the photo of all your choices fo flavors? It's on my blog -- http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com
Sarah Magazine, Mentor’s spokesperson, defended the training. “One of the tools we sometimes use are movies to facilitate a discussion,” she said, adding that the portrayal of a troubled family struggling with disabilities make it a popular training film for Mentor and other other foster care organizations. Meanwhile, in 2003, the police launched an investigation of Merritt at Last Chance Farm, after a 15-year-old foster child said Merritt had unbuckled his own belt while joking about the boy being good with his hands. But the boy recanted later, telling the police Merritt was just joking, and the police said the charge was “unfounded.” Then, in 2004, R.R. arrived and began getting harassed. As the story, culled from court records, indicates, R.R. told a Mentor caseworker that he was being abused. But since he wasn’t believed, he was put back in Merritt’s custody. After he complained again, he was finally sent to another home. BuzzFeed News could not reach R.R. for comment. Magazine, the Mentor spokesperson, said she believes R.R. was taken out of the home as soon as he first made abuse allegations. Still, even after learning of R.R.’s allegations, Mentor kept sending foster children to Last Chance Farm. In retrospect, the company now says, that was a mistake. “Kids should not have been at that home,” said Robson. “We acknowledge that and we accept that.” In 2006, two years after R.R.’s time at the farm, allegations of wrongdoing bubbled up again. The police learned of a foster child who said he’d been offered marijuana and alcohol at the Merritt farm and had had sex with Merritt. But the police assumed the boy was talking about Merritt's wife. The boy angrily denied it, and told investigators, “You need to get your shit together before you talk to me.” Police ruled the allegations, again, “unfounded.” And then in 2010, a psychotherapist named Laurie Rockelli warned Mentor about Merritt. One of her patients was a former foster child of Merritt's, and Merritt was texting the boy on topics of a sexual nature. Worried, Rockelli sent a letter in February to Mentor’s operation in Maryland. “I’m writing this letter out of extreme concern,” she wrote. There’s no evidence that Mentor took any action after Rockelli’s letter. In fact, in March, the month after that letter from the psychotherapist, Mentor gave Trudy and Stephen Merritt an updated foster care license.
in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61 (1980): 3-30. BEHAVIORISM, LANGUAGE AND MEANING* Wilfrid Sellars I. Behaviorism as a Program 1. Many who went through the behaviorist revolution -- whether as more or less innocent bystanders, or torch bearers -- and watched it settle down into an established orthodoxy dominating the scene from the commanding heights of learning theory, have been puzzled by subsequent developments. Although nothing as systematic as a counterrevolution has occurred, free thinking is rampant. And if closely knit groups are not lacking who seek to restore law and order and put psychology on its proper path, they look to a variety of models. 2. Some of the ideas which have come to the surface in this period of anarchy would startle, indeed shock, the pioneers of behaviorism. They would find them of a piece with what they had regarded as modes of explanation which either don't explain or are so messy that it is difficult to determine exactly what did the explaining, how it explained and what was explained. 3. They had sought a methodology which would remedy this situation by generating hypotheses which were intersubjectively confirmable, and the content of which was formulated in such a manner that the nature and locus of its explanatory power would be manifest. 4. I emphasized above that what was sought was a methodology. This is not to say that the behavioristic movement was lacking in substantive commitment concerning the objects -- docile organisms -- which constituted its scientific domain. Clearly it was anti-dualistic -- even physicalistic, to use a contemporary term -- in its orientation, fully expecting that the application of its methods would yield results which would harmonize with a thoroughly naturalistic conception of the world. Yet as it became increasingly aware of its primary methodological character, behaviorism placed more and more emphasis on the autonomy of psychology as a science. 5. For, and this was an important insight, even when, as in the case of chemistry, one is prepared to envisage an identification of chemical objects, processes and properties, and properties with complex micro-physical objects, processes and properties, and, in this sense, unify the ontologies or domains of the sciences of physics and chemistry; to achieve this goal would not be in any useful sense to unify the sciences. For an essential part of a science, e.g.
Drumroll, please. The end is nigh. The climax approaches. Come Tuesday, I will be flying off to Spokane for Sasquan, Bigfoot's favorite worldcon. A week from Saturday, this year's Hugo Awards will be handed out, and we can put an end to the Puppy Wars... the 2015 edition, at least. There will be winners, there will be losers. Some will celebrate, some will weep. The vote totals will be parsed to a fare-the-well, no doubt, and spin doctors will be out in force.The Puppies are already spinning, in fact. If you visit the Puppy blogs, you'll soon see that both the Sads and Rabids are busy constructing a nifty little narrative so they can claim victory no matter what happens. If nominees from the Puppy slates take home rockets, they won! If No Award prevails across the board, they won by destroying the Hugos. If non-slate finalists prevail, they won by "proving" something or other (since they keep changing their complaint, pretty much any result is guaranteed to prove something, if squinted at the right way).All that is nonsense, of course. Like most Puppy claims have been from the start of this fiasco. Hypocrisy and delusion. Me and my friend Occam, we use a simpler razor. If the Puppies win, they win. If they lose, they lose. And No Award... well, that does make this a three-body problem rather than a simple binary one, but I will get to that later. So if the Hugo voters do indeed vote down the bulk of Puppy nominees, please stand up with me and blow a big loud raspberry at any Puppy who tries to claim that black is white, up is down, and losing is winning. It ain't.the Puppies lose?I don't know. No one knows. Don't believe any fool who tries to tell you otherwise.We do know that 5950 Hugo ballots were cast this year, smashing all previous records. You can find the details here: http://www.thehugoawards.org/2015/08/2015-hugo-voting-participation-smashes-records/ Last year, in contrast, only 3587 valid ballots were received, though Loncon was the largest worldcon in history. There's no doubt that the Puppygate controversy that has inflamed the internet since the nominations were announced drove those numbers. Supporting Membership rocketed up to unprecedented levels.But who are all these new members? Over at FILE 770, the feeling seems to be that most of them are fans rallying to the defense of the Hugos.
Adams Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 56.0% 88,828 No 43.9% 69,600 Alamosa Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 56.3% 3,691 No 43.6% 2,855 Arapahoe Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 52.8% 131,679 No 47.1% 117,551 Archuleta Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 55.6% 3,534 No 44.3% 2,822 Baca Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 63.2% 1,291 Yes 36.7% 751 Bent Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 50.5% 932 Yes 49.4% 913 Boulder Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 66.1% 111,926 No 33.8% 57,317 Broomfield Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 52.8% 16,714 No 47.1% 14,892 Chaffee Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 54.7% 5,498 No 45.2% 4,553 Cheyenne Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 64.3% 667 Yes 35.6% 370 Clear Creek Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 64.0% 3,553 No 35.9% 1,997 Conejos Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 54.9% 2,157 Yes 45.0% 1,771 Costilla Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 60.4% 1,038 No 39.5% 679 Crowley Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 55.6% 823 Yes 44.3% 657 Custer Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 54.6% 1,449 Yes 45.3% 1,204 Delta Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 55.8% 8,593 Yes 44.1% 6,798 Denver Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 65.9% 175,993 No 34.0% 90,945 Dolores Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 54.9% 638 Yes 45.0% 523 Douglas Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 54.5% 79,949 Yes 45.4% 66,612 Eagle Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 66.5% 14,391 No 33.4% 7,246 El Paso Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 50.6% 136,346 Yes 49.3% 133,046 Elbert Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 54.2% 7,495 Yes 45.7% 6,308 Fremont Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 51.3% 10,247 Yes 48.6% 9,727 Garfield Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 56.8% 13,208 No 43.1% 10,035 Gilpin Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 64.7% 2,089 No 35.2% 1,139 Grand Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 58.4% 4,575 No 41.5% 3,247 Gunnison Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 67.3% 5,250 No 32.6% 2,540 Hinsdale Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 51.5% 308 Yes 48.4% 289 Huerfano Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 56.7% 1,973 No 43.2% 1,506 Jackson Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 54.2% 455 Yes 45.7% 383 Jefferson Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count Yes 53.7% 157,800 No 46.2% 135,785 Kiowa Candidate or Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count No 68.0% 547 Yes 31.9% 257

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