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This article will show some of the many instances of the Free Syrian Army and other "moderate opposition" working alongside extremist groups. It will also make clear that cooperation between these groups is not a recent development. Extremist groups presented in this article include Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa and even ISIS.Moderate rebel groups featured in this article:Harakat Nour al-Din al-ZenkiFaylaq al-Sham- Islamist, but sometimes called moderate.Free Syrian Army Groups:13th DivisionNorthern DivisionCentral DivisionJaish al-TahrirThuwar al-ShamJaish al-NasrJaish al-IzzaFursan al-HaqSuqur al-JabalSuqur al-Ghab101st Infantry DivisionFirst Coastal Division16th DivisionFastaqem UnionLevant FrontSouthern FrontZabadani Hawks BrigadeThe most outrageous example of recent moderate cooperation with extremists occurred during the Battle of Zabadani in the summer of 2015. Zabadani is a small resort town in the Qalamoun mountains that has been a longtime rebel bastion. In mid-2015 the Syrian Army launched an offensive to capture the town, quickly putting it under complete siege. While Zabadani was never fully captured, its ability to serve as a launch pad for rebel offensives was eliminated.The Free Syrian Army "Zabadani Hawks Brigade" defended Zabadani during the 2015 Syrian Army offensive. The FSA was not alone, however. Jabhat al-Nusra (Syrian al-Qaeda branch) and even ISIS also fought alongside the FSA in Zabadani. The FSA had been allied to ISIS until late 2013, however they were willing to cooperate once more for the battle of Zabadani. Pro-opposition twitter activists reported on the cooperation and praised it. ISIS's Amaq news agency posted photos of its fighters in Zabadani, proving their presence in the town.ISIS fighters who fought alongside the FSA in Zabadani. Pictures from the ISIS Amaq news agency.Jabhat al-Nusra also fought alongside ISIS and the FSA. Picture from JaN's Al-Manara al-Bayda news agency.By October 2015 the Syrian had launched an offensive to retake much of Latakia province from the rebels. One of the most prized locations to capture was the town of Salma. Rebels defended Salma Fiercely, but were eventually forced to retreat from the town. Jabhat al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army "First Coastal Division" filmed themselves defending Salma from the Syrian Army advance.Jabhat al-Nusra firing mortars at the advancing Syrian army.The FSA First Coastal Division used TOW missiles on a Syrian Army tank and a BMP attempting to advance on Salma.By January of 2016, the Syrian Army had retaken much of the Latakia province from rebels with the assistance of the Russian air force.
After the summer break the Porsche LMP Team heads to the first 2017 overseas race: The fifth of nine rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) is held on September 3 in Mexico City and the team aims to extend its championship lead. After race wins in Le Mans and at the Nürburgring, Porsche now leads the manufacturers’ standings on 154 points from Toyota (114.5 points). The trio of Earl Bamber (NZ), Timo Bernhard (DE) and Brendon Hartley (NZ) currently tops the drivers’ standings on 108 points, having a 30-point advantage to the best placed Toyota crew. Reigning World Champion Neel Jani (CH) and his partners André Lotterer (DE) and Nick Tandy (GB) with the second Porsche 919 Hybrid currently rank in fourth position (46 points).Fritz Enzinger, Vice President LMP1, says in the run-up to the six-hour race in Mexico: “We continue to follow the clear target of defending both world championship titles. After winning the Le Mans 24 Hours for the third consecutive time despite difficult circumstances, and more recently claiming a hat-trick of wins at the Nürburgring, we want to conclude the 2017 WEC with the third successive constructors’ and drivers’ titles.” Since Porsche’s return to the top category of Le Mans Prototypes (LMP1) in 2014, the Porsche 919 Hybrid has won 15 races.Porsche announced its new motorsport strategy last month (July) which confirmed the end of the LMP1 programme at the end of 2017. “The Porsche 919 Hybrid will not only be remembered as one of the companies most successful race cars”, Enzinger points out, “but it is also a role model of Porsche’s philosophy to take technology to its limits and test future relevant innovations in motor sports. With regard to electrification, hybrid and high voltage technology as well as combustion efficiency, the 919 took on a pioneering task that paid off.”The Porsche 919 Hybrid develops a system power of around 900 HP (662 kW) that comes from a compact two-litre turbo charged V4-cylinder (nearly 500 PS/368 kW) engine and two different energy recovery systems – brake energy from the front axle combined with exhaust energy. The combustion engine drives the rear axle while the electro motor boosts the front axle with an output of more than 400 PS (294 kW).
This is not to say that they don't have counters, but rather, that either everyone runs that Pokemon or everyone runs its counter, which, in the case of some suspects, are often obscure Pokemon which normally would not see the light of day.For example, in XY, Mega Kangaskhan was considered so powerful that people used obscure, highly specialized counters like Sableye who would otherwise be outclassed and/or more or less useless in a battle.Our tiering is based on aggregate usage over 3 month spans. Every 3 months, our tiers are "refreshed", so to speak, and Pokemon rise and drop based on their usage for the past 3 months. With this in mind, there are many Pokemon that can and do work in tiers higher than the tier they are listed under. The reason it isn't OU, or any other tier for that matter, is simply because it didn't obtain enough usage. It says nothing about the power of the Pokemon in question, but realize that people overall tend to use Pokemon that work and are easy to use. Lower tier Pokemon can perform very well in higher tiers, but often require specialized team support. In those cases, there will be analyses detailing the best strategy to use for the lower tier Pokemon.As alluded to in the previous answer, yes, of course! You may not use a Pokemon in a tier lower than the one it is officially listed in, but you can certainly use a Pokemon in a tier higher than the one it is listed in. For posterity, the order of tiers from highest to lowest is: Ubers, Overused (OU), Underused (UU), Rarely Used (RU), and Neverused (NU). Smogon Doubles and Little Cup are tiered independently of these metagames, and VGC is not tiered at all, but rather uses the current rules for that particular season.Tiers for Little Cup and Doubles are entirely separate from the main Level 100 Single Battle tiers that includes Ubers, OU, and the lower tiers. Pokemon that are banned in either Doubles or in Little Cup are not automatically banned in Singles, nor vice versa. The reason for this is simple: Little Cup and Doubles are entirely different play-styles than the normal tiers. Little Cup is played at Level 5, which means stats don't have as much of a range as they would at Level 100. Two Pokemon could have different Base Speed stats but still tie in Little Cup.
I misled my soldiers into believing this rubbish. I feel utterly ashamed of myself. Perhaps we bear even more guilt than these uneducated animals. (An apparent reference to Hitler and his supporting Nazi Party members.)
Jo Cox tributes - in pictures 1/20 Floral tributes and candles are placed by a picture of slain Labour MP Jo Cox at a vigil in Parliament square in London AFP 2/20 Tributes to Labour Party MP Jo Cox are placed on her houseboat in Wapping in London REUTERS 3/20 The Union flag at half-mast on top of Portcullis House in London after Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death PA 4/20 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (2R) and deputy leader Tom Watson (L) light candles as they attend a vigil to slain Labour MP Jo Cox in Parliament square in London AFP/Getty Images 5/20 Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and deputy leader Tom Watson (rear) arrive to leave tributes at Parliament Square PA 6/20 People leave St Peter's Church after a vigil in memory of Jo Cox REUTERS 7/20 Flowers left at Parliament Square opposite the Palace of Westminste, following the death of Labour MP Jo Cox PA 8/20 People react as they look at tributes left for Labour Member of Parliament Jo Cox in Parliament Square, London REUTERS 9/20 A man writes a message at Parliament Square PA 10/20 People stop to look at tributes left at Parliament Square opposite the Palace of Westminster PA 11/20 A woman arrives to lay flowers at a statue to Joseph Priestly in Birstall near to the scene where Labour MP Jo Cox was shot AFP/Getty Images 12/20 Tributes at Parliament Square opposite the Palace of Westminster PA 13/20 A woman places candles in tribute to Labour Party MP Jo Cox REUTERS 14/20 A member of the public signs a memorial for British MP Jo Cox in Parliament Square, London EPA 15/20 People sign messages of condolence for MP Jo Cox during a vigil in Parliament Square in London Getty Images 16/20 Flags at half mast outside Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, after Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death in the street outside her constituency advice surgery in Birstall PA 17/20 People arrive in Market Square with floral tributes after the death of Jo Co Getty Images 18/20 Floral tributes are placed in Market Square next to the statue of Joseph Priestley following the death of Jo Cox Getty Images 19/20 Floral tributes are brought to the scene after the death of Jo Cox Getty Images 20/20 A police officer carries bunches of flowers at the scene of the shooting of Labour MP Jo Cox in Birstall REUTERS 1/20 Floral tributes and candles are placed by a picture of slain Labour MP Jo Cox at a vigil in Parliament square in London AFP 2/20 Tributes to Labour Party MP Jo Cox are placed on her houseboat in Wapping in London REUTERS 3/20 The Union flag at half-mast on top of Portcullis House in London after Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death PA 4/20 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (2R) and deputy leader Tom Watson (L) light candles as they attend a vigil to slain Labour MP Jo Cox in Parliament square in London AFP/Getty Images 5/20 Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and deputy leader Tom Watson (rear) arrive to leave tributes at Parliament Square PA 6/20 People leave St Peter's Church after a vigil in memory of Jo Cox REUTERS 7/20 Flowers left at Parliament Square opposite the Palace of Westminste, following the death of Labour MP Jo Cox PA 8/20 People react as they look at tributes left for Labour Member of Parliament Jo Cox in Parliament Square, London REUTERS 9/20 A man writes a message at Parliament Square PA 10/20 People stop to look at tributes left at Parliament Square opposite the Palace of Westminster PA 11/20 A woman arrives to lay flowers at a statue to Joseph Priestly in Birstall near to the scene where Labour MP Jo Cox was shot AFP/Getty Images 12/20 Tributes at Parliament Square opposite the Palace of Westminster PA 13/20 A woman places candles in tribute to Labour Party MP Jo Cox REUTERS 14/20 A member of the public signs a memorial for British MP Jo Cox in Parliament Square, London EPA 15/20 People sign messages of condolence for MP Jo Cox during a vigil in Parliament Square in London Getty Images 16/20 Flags at half mast outside Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, after Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death in the street outside her constituency advice surgery in Birstall PA 17/20 People arrive in Market Square with floral tributes after the death of Jo Co Getty Images 18/20 Floral tributes are placed in Market Square next to the statue of Joseph Priestley following the death of Jo Cox Getty Images 19/20 Floral tributes are brought to the scene after the death of Jo Cox Getty Images 20/20 A police officer carries bunches of flowers at the scene of the shooting of Labour MP Jo Cox in Birstall REUTERS
Licenses are also available for manufacture. < > Click on the link for a video of the engine below. Water distiller/heater/generator operated by small 2 cylinder steam engine This device produces many gallons of distilled water a day while it charges batteries, makes domestic hot water and heats space. Distilling spirits and food cooking are additional functions for this system. It employs an ordinary household pressure cooker or a small water tube boiler on a low simmering fire. Its closed-loop system recycles the exhaust heat and maintains the water level in the boiler for high efficiency. This model steam engine operates the system on 2.5 to 30 psi of steam pressure. The system is scalable for larger requirements. License is available. Attention! New e-book just published by Robert Green "Steam Age Machines" contains descriptions and 100 fine etchings and drawings of late 1800's industrial machines and steam engines. The beautifully detailed etchings are of framing quality and show the highest point of the technology. The pre-OSHA machines reveal the innermost workings of the gears, flywheels and structure before safety regulations hide them from view. This book also gives a brief history of the steam age and the contribution and legacy that is still in use today. In the last chapter it lays out the possible future of technology and its relevance for future generations of steam power systems. Download it here: Steam Age Machines Licenses are protected by Utility Patents, US patent # 6,647,813 filed 2003. US patent # 8096787 filed 09/08/2008. PCT/US2009/048038, Chinese patent #ZL 200980101659.3, Indian patent filed, 02/2011 (pending). For information about obtaining manufacturing licenses, go to the " Licenses " page. Look on "Licenses" page for FAQ's Do to recent retirement of the present owner, the four patents listed above are now available for purchase. Inquire by sending an e-mail or a phone call to: 949 581 2529, E-mail: mailto:[email protected] See Products Page for Purchase of Patents and Technology For additional information about licensing or purchasing plans, send an email to:mailto:[email protected] Contact information: Robert Green (949) 581 2529 [ Home ] [ Products ] [ Licenses ] Licenses Copyright © 2018 Robert Green
“After that more and more people were going and the press were getting more and more enthused and we were just sat there watching it, waiting for it to come to an end,” recalls one person present. Meanwhile, across the city, pro-Corbyn activists were already in a campaign mode. Momentum had been born out of Corbyn’s ad-hoc and often chaotic 2015 leadership bid, as a holding vehicle for supporter data and as an ongoing campaign to push Corbyn's values and prepare for an expected leadership challenge. Regularly attacked as a party-within-a-party by centrist MPs, at this point it largely was a loose coalition of supporters organised largely around Facebook groups and with only 4,000 paying members and three full-time employees. But this was the moment it had been waiting for.
They didn't know how to fight because they lost their leader."
As well as being hosted by Warwick Davis, the panel also included George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew, and Antony Daniels, as well as a touching tribute to Carrie Fisher, and John Williams playing music from the film with a full live orchestra. The section in question featured plenty from Ian McDiarmid and Hayden Christiansen, but make sure that you stay glued to Cinema Blend over the next few days for further revelations from Star Wars Celebration. This will include numerous revelations from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which will emerge when its panel is held at 11 a.m. ET on Friday April 14. Star Wars IX Title Leak: Is This It? And Where’s the Trailer? Blended From Around The Web Facebook
In September 1814, following the burning of Washington three weeks earlier, a British military force of King's Army commanded by Major General Robert Ross, (1766-1814), landed at North Point (near present-day Fort Howard, Maryland) on the Patapsco Neck peninsula in southeastern Baltimore County and began an advance on the city from the southeast. They was met almost immediately by advance scouts and skirmishers ahead of a detachment from the Baltimore City Third Brigade of the Maryland state militia commanded by Brigadier General John Stricker, (1759-1825), commencing the Battle of North Point. Major General Samuel Smith, (1752-1839), of the Maryland Militia was in overall command of the city's defenses and had sent Stricker forward to probe and slow up the enemy, who just happened to be falling into a trap, facing a series of pre-planned defensive lines dug over the previous year, landing precisely where Smith had expected them to be. After the bloodying and stalwart defense of six regiments, the Americans slowly withdrew back towards town, with the resulting halt of the larger British force to lick their wounds and tend to casualties overnight. This also allowed Baltimore to further organize its eastern dug-in fortifications on Loudenschlager's, Potter's Hills (modern site of Patterson Park) and harbor defenses against a later bombardment and attempted naval barge invasion. It was during this conflict, the Battle of Baltimore, that Fort McHenry was shelled by the British Royal Navy's revolutionary newly-constructed bomb and mortar ketches warships. Although the attacking fleet stayed out of the shorter range of McHenry's artillery, the Americans refused to surrender, and inspired Maryland lawyer and amateur poet from Frederick named Francis Scott Key, (1779-1843), after witnessing the two days' attack with two companions from an American truce ship anchored and guarded along the sidelines of the enemy fleet. Key composed the words of a four stanza poem entitled "The Defence of Fort McHenry" to what later became "The Star-Spangled Banner", when set a few days later to a musical tune popular with an old English gentlemen's society from the 18th century. It gained increasing popularity over the next 117 years, accepted by American armed forces bands by the 1890s and eventually proclaimed the national anthem of the United States by act of Congress, signed by the President, Herbert Hoover in 1931.
Photos: Governors who left office Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber released a statement saying he will resign as of February 18. Kitzhaber, a Democrat, had been facing calls for him to step down amid criticism over a scandal concerning his fiancee's consulting and policy work. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Governors who left office The Illinois state Senate voted unanimously to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office in 2009, shortly after his arrest on federal corruption charges. Authorities alleged, among other things, that he was trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat held by Barack Obama before he resigned to become president. Blagojevich, a Democrat, was convicted in 2011. Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Governors who left office New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation announcement in 2008 came as he faced allegations that he was tied to an international prostitution ring ensnared in a federal investigation. Spitzer, a Democrat, was never charged in that scandal. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Governors who left office Dropping a political bombshell, New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, a Democrat, announced his resignation in 2004 after revealing that he is gay and had an adulterous affair with a man. Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: Governors who left office In 2009, Alaska governor and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told her constituents that she was resigning "to chart a new course to advance the state." Palin, a Republican, also said she wanted to avoid "the unproductive, typical, politics-as-usual, lame-duck session in one's last year in office." Hide Caption 5 of 7 Photos: Governors who left office Louisiana Gov. Richard Leche resigned from office in 1939, when his involvement in a scheme to sell trucks to the highway department was unveiled. Leche, a Democrat, served five years in federal prison and was later pardoned by President Harry Truman. Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: Governors who left office Democrat Janet Napolitano left her post as the governor of Arizona when President Obama named her the third Homeland Security Secretary, the first woman to hold the position. Hide Caption 7 of 7
As US Army veteran Eric Harroun awaits trial in Virginia for allegedly fighting alongside al-Qaeda supporters, the man's father claims he was working for the CIA and was reporting back to the agency from Syria.Harroun, a 30-year-old American from Phoenix, Arizona, has been charged by the US government for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely a rocket propelled grenade launcher) to conduct an attack against the Syrian government. The US Army veteran dubbed by media 'Phoenix jihadist' appeared in numerous videos alongside members of the al-Nusra Front, designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization in December, but which has also been fighting alongside the Syrian opposition to take down the Assad regime. To date, 29 US-backed Syrian opposition groups have linked with al-Nusra, and have signed a petition calling for the support of the Islamist group that the White House believes is a branch of al-Qaeda.According to FBI documents, Harroun traveled to Turkey last November and joined the fight led by the Free Syrian Army shortly thereafter.He referred to his son as a 'patriotic' American who would never get involved with al-Qaeda, and claims he was gathering information for the US government. "I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there," the man's father said. "I know for a fact that he was passing information onto the CIA. "After seeing the documents regarding his son's charges, Harroun told a CBS News reporter that it is all inaccurate and misleading and that the truth will eventually come out, since his son was simply gathering intelligence. "About 99 percent of that stuff that you read on there is a bunch of bull," he said. "I don't think there's any truth in any of this - he's very patriotic"The CIA is known to have contributed to the opposition fighters' initiatives in Syria. Last week, the New York Times published an article describing how the agency has allegedly been helping foreign governments contribute to the Free Syrian Army.With the agency's alleged involvement in the conflict, some believe it is very possible for the CIA to also have sent their own agents into Syria.
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 27.35 KB Ecuador Senain SENAIN (Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia) bought 0 days exploits to HackingTeam through a Colombian partner Robotec (http://robotec.com). Is well know that president Rafael Correa's government persecute any citizen, journalist or politician that is not in favour of his government and he is using HackingTeam technology to spy on the journalist and politicians critics of his government. Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell Be safe online http://www.hubbardtwppd.org/Homeland/online.htm Robotec Colombia Teléfono: +571 516 9651 [email protected] People related to SENAIN and HackingTeam Hugo Ardila <[email protected]> skype hardila [email protected] Luis Solis <[email protected]> skype beto.solis Cristian Vardaro <[email protected]> Natalia Herrera Monteros <[email protected]> CI 1717743452 RC server data 181.39.56.226 nic-hdl: SEL person: Tomislav Topic e-mail: [email protected] address: Kennedy Norte MZ, 109, Solar 21 address: 59342 - Guayaquil - country: EC phone: +593 4 2680555 [101] created: 20021004 changed: 20100921 Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-07-11 21:32 ART Nmap scan report for 181.39.56.226 Host is up (0.45s latency). Not shown: 97 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 80/tcp open http Lotus Domino httpd 1723/tcp open pptp Clavister (Firmware: 1) 3389/tcp open ms-wbt-server Microsoft Terminal Service Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and 1 closed port Aggressive OS guesses: Microsoft Xbox game console (modified, running XboxMediaCenter) (95%), Vodavi XTS-IP PBX (94%), Samsung SCX-4x24-series printer (92%), 3Com SuperStack 3 Switch 3870 (90%), Crestron XPanel control system (90%), Netgear DG834G WAP or Western Digital WD TV media player (90%), Aastra A510 VoIP phone (90%), Nintendo Wii game console (88%), HP ProCurve 2524 switch or 9100c Digital Sender printer (88%), Motorola SURFboard SB5120 cable modem (VxWorks 5.4) (88%) No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal). Service Info: OS: Windows -- 2012-11-15 13:58:00 [email protected] [email protected] Info RCS To whom it may concern I represent a company based on Querétaro, México that sells all kind of technology to local and foreign government entities. We are very interested in the Da Vinci system; we know you offer it in México thru a local company, however our business is abroad (Ecuador) -- 2012-11-19 09:22:30 [email protected] demo Hello Max: After speaking with the customer - SENAIN- they are looking for the demo monday 26 of November in Quito. So, I am scheduled to go there from sunday. 25 of November.
One complete circle took around 15 minutes in the early opening moves to 30 minutes per move in the middle game or longer in complicated positions.Over double the number registered for the event.GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami varied openings in order for games on adjacent boards to be different from each other. Video cameras recorded the moves. Arbiters (in vests) supervised players as GM Ghaem Maghami approached the boards.Iranian Chess Federation president Mohammed Jaffar Kambuzia (third from left) with officials of the event. Others are, from left: Mohammed Zarei, Asian Chess Federation Deputy President Casto Abundo, Manouchehr Bagheri, Chief Organizer Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh and Iranian Chess Federation Secretary Hadi Karimi.Winners were given cash prizes at closing ceremonies held at the Iranian Chess Federation building. Among the sponsors were Mr. Zare, head of public relations of Ansar Bank, Iranўs biggest private bank, and Engr. Sedeghi, chairman of the biggest Iranian telecom company.For setting a new world record, co-sponsor Mazda gave GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami a new car.The poster of the event.Reported by Casto Abundo
I would find it problematic, given the degree of advertising and power that the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, that Big Tobacco lobbies, big pharma etcetera, have, through advertising, through the media you're studying at SFU, that you're part of the learning process for students, to just reinforce the kind of prejudices that students bring to class That to me, is something that yes, we need to challenge them. And I challenge them with ideas that I don't necessarily believe in in 203, but because their substantiated and my colleagues require me to teach them to prepare students better for third and fourth year. I'm happy to teach those students. I hope it'll make every student, maybe some, rethin what they think. You know they can say what they believe, everyone is entitled to their opinions, but we have a duty as educators, as scholars, as academic, even as public intellectuals, to make sure that we're not furthering, I would call it charlatanism. I think Jordan Peterson, particularly, and I know you're not a fan, but I think that he actually shows a form of charlatanism when it comes to the academy. And he's playing this whole idea about free speech and public debate which is not substantiated by the fact that he has nothing really that is credible in terms of the research. Including his stuff on pronouns. And for me, that's where I find people like Jordan Peterson problematic, because I don't find anything credible. I mean there are other people that teach grammar that could be drawn upon that could perhaps challenge this idea of using "they" around the notion of when you use it. But again, I would say that that strikes me as a little bit different bringin in a debate on a youtube video about something when we're teaching grammar and talking about pronouns Rambukkana: This kind of brings me back to the next point, which was kind of thinking about how to move forward. I can see why you made that choice, because the topic was grammar, but your role as TA is not really to teach about the politics grammar, it's to be teaching grammar, to be teaching punctuation, to be teaching these things. To be adding clarification or discussion in relation to the lecture material, but not to be bringing original content around side issues, does that make sense?
Hi everyone,update 1.1 is incoming at 3pm GMT today. The servers will be down for up to 30 minutes when the update begins. Here is the change log from the last beta build. If you want to see the full list of changes since 1.07 check the links at the bottom of this post.Note that the test servers will be shut down so you cannot access the beta build until we start the 1.2 beta. I'll also close the beta forums until then.Client Changes:- Don't crash if hyperspacing and the ship no longer exists- Don't clear bounties from the player until resurrect; this means other clients know correct bounty amounts when the player's ship explodes- Reduce heat overspill from weapons- Tweaks to Python: it now has a higher max speed and improved boost speeds (to catch those pesky haulers). Also a minor improvement to it's pitch to keep itwell above the Anaconda- Fixed: Controller 'Back' failed on Outfitting Sort Dropdown- Community initiatives: support an optional top rank of N players instead of 1- Fix rank icons on community challenges- Nicer string in community initiative dialog when no rewards available yet- Fix UI weirdness with community initiatives on bulletin board- Fed Dropship cockpit geometry was offset in the model file, cockpit has now been placed back in the centre- Raised health of broadside guns for Fed Capital- Optimisations to landing pad which should help with distortions inside stations- Change supersampling options to store multiplier rather than mode- Change graphics option screen to offer x0.75, x1.5 and x3.0 as well as the existing options- Fix for menu music being too quiet- Localisation text updateChanges during the beta phase can be found here:Beta 1 - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108887 Beta 2 - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109985 Beta 3 - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=110561
Another benefit is that she does not rely on landing her Q that much as she used to. It will also allow people to still pull out the Q+Dash combo; however it won’t be that effective due to lowering her Q damage and Dash damage. It is also ideal to finish low hp targets. Again I think that it is balanced as it has some benefits and opens new routes but at the same time sets up few challenges in front of Diana players, it’s not just clicking on the enemy. Although it would be very useful to dodge some skillshots, position yourself better, move around camps faster and it gives you a ganking tool on early levels (similarly to VI, Lee, Hecarim and any other jungler)/ you don’t have to wait until lv6. I would compare it to VI’s Q, which does not knock enemy back, does not implify passive, however it doesn’t needs to be charged. http://imgur.com/a/4UC3X --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EF0H74TS_F0/VrpDrOUY-5I/AAAAAAAA308/SywP1S8CFUw/s1600/profileIcon1109.png R: Lunar Eclipse _(Obviously this gets brand new icon)_ Diana prays to the moon that starts to shine on an Area of Effect. The light removes all of the CC and the shined area becomes a holy ground and it cannot be corrupted or tainted for 1.5 sec. This means that no enemy skills can be used on that area (similarly to Cassiopeia’s W and dashes or Garen’s Q) or effect that area. However the summoner spells can be used (Flash, Heal etc.). It has a very long cooldown. Diana also gets Blessed by Moon; an aura appears around her and for 4 seconds (or whatever) all of her stats are slightly increased, also it makes her E pierce through targets and it has a cooldown of 0.5 sec. For example if Ezreal will Cast his Ultimate and Diana will cast her new ult, Ezreals ult will have no effect on Diana that is inside the holy ground, if it passes through it. It does not disappear, it just have no effect inside, however if it will pass it and will hit anyone on its way that is not in the holy ground it works normally and applies damage. If Yorick will summon his Maiden and Diana will cast her new ult, **Maiden cannot enter the holy ground as it cannot be corrupted.
As for the 13-megapixel camera itself, it’s pretty run-of-the-mill. Daytime shots are satisfactory, but Asus layers on extra sharpening that can do more harm than good. There’s no optical image stabilization built in, so low-light shots contain some blur unless you use the ZenFone 2’s low-light mode. The resulting images are much brighter and can capture scenes where other modes see nothing but black. Unfortunately, this option downsizes your shots to just 3 megapixels (a process known as pixel binning), and they also contain a healthy dose of noise. Asus has included a swath of other shooting modes, too. There are 18 in all, including a decent HDR option and Super Resolution mode that combines four 13-megapixel images into a single 52-megapixel shot. But the camera’s output doesn’t really justify these extravagant software features, and Super Resolution photos don’t look discernibly better or sharper than what you’d get from Auto mode. While the camera is generally fast and thankfully avoids shutter lag, it can also sometimes take a bit to get you back to the viewfinder between shots. If camera quality is your most important criteria in selecting a new phone, the ZenFone 2 won’t top that list. There's a gross amount of bloatware here But design complaints and camera issues aside, the ZenFone 2 shines when it comes to performance. This $300 phone breezes through every task you throw at it. The ZenFone 2 handled everything with aplomb: multitasking, playing games, and general everyday usage caused no issues whatsoever. It felt no different from many existing Android flagships, a notion that may stir some panic inside Qualcomm and Samsung. If nothing else, this device proves Intel is totally up to the challenge of powering a modern smartphone experience. The ZenFone 2’s abundance of RAM (4GB in the high-end version) probably helps out, too. Call quality, LTE data reception on T-Mobile, and Wi-Fi performance were all perfectly adequate, as well.
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party AAP ) has decided to initiate a campaign seeking the use of voter-verifiable paper audit trail -equipped voting machines in all future elections. Party leaders said the campaign called ‘Save Democracy Movement’ will begin from Thursday.Despite the Election Commission’s assertions that its Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are tamper-proof, the first protest will be held by AAP workers right at the the door step of the Election Commission (EC).AAP’s newly appointed Delhi convenor Gopal Rai added that the party would participate in the all-party meeting called by the EC on the issue on May 12 and will decide the next course of action based on its outcome. While the EC has constantly maintained that its EVMs are ‘tamper-proof ’, Rai said MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj's ‘live demonstration’ in the Assembly had ‘conclusively proven’ that EVMs can be rigged. "The Commission in its response said we used a dummy and not an actual machine in Tuesday's demonstration. We request the EC to arrange a hackathon. We will show how its own machines can be rigged," Rai said, reacting to the EC’s charge made after the demonstration.Apart from demanding that VVPAT-equipped EVMs be used, the party will approach the EC with the request that votes registered in EVMs and paper trails of 25% randomly chosen booths be tallied, Rai added.The VVPAT-equipped EVMs dispense a paper slip which helps a voter confirm that his vote has indeed gone to the candidate of his choice. While demonstrating how an EVM could be manipulated to give out desired results in favour of a candidate and a political party, Bhardwaj claimed that EVM could be manipulated by simply feeding it with a ‘secret code’while casting a vote.He added that an EVM can be rigged by changing the motherboard of the control unit ‘in 90 seconds.’
What would they do if a real disaster did unfold in Europe, sending world financial markets into a deep freeze? Are they content to let monetary policy do the heavy lifting of stimulus? And then there's the real question that faces Labor and the Coalition and which, reading Wayne Swan's statement , is an emerging concern of the government: what happens if there isn't a disaster in Europe, but it merely drags along the bottom for another two years or more, tortured by uncertainty and the impact of the Axis of Austerity's fiscal hairshirt, subduing global growth, keeping the Aussie dollar high and putting significant pressure on government revenues here? What's the Coalition's fiscal plan in an environment where not merely can they not return to the easy years of the pre-GFC era, but they face much lower revenue growth for years to come? Where are those "aspirational" tax cuts and big spending health programs in such a world? The evidence they're doing any thinking about this is thin on the ground. Instead, they want us all to bathe in the warm glow of nostalgianomics.
The good news is all were brought back to us by the increased availability and proliferation of Narcan.” Officials are warning people that fentanyl is becoming more prevalent in heroin. Dr. Dan Carr, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine Program Director, Pain, Research Education & Policy at Tufts Medical Center told Metro in August that the synthetic opioid is roughly 50 times more powerful than regular heroin. “It augments all of the risks that already exist in an opioid,” Carr said. “Unlike morphine, fentanyl can cause muscles to go so rigid, they can’t breath even if they want to”. According to DrugAbuse.org , mixing fentanyl with street-sold heroin or cocaine markedly amplifies their potency and potential dangers. According to their data, Narcan is one of the best ways to prevent an overdose if a responder can administer it in time.
Appeal Charlie’s parents ask three court of appeal judges to consider the case but less than three weeks later their appeal is dismissed. Supreme court ruling Charlie’s parents lose their fight in the supreme court. European court of human rights The case proceeds to the European court of human rights but a week later it is announced that the European judges have refused to intervene. A Great Ormond Street spokeswoman says there will be “no rush” to change Charlie’s care and says there will be “careful planning and discussion”. More time It is thought that Charlie’s life-support is due to be switched off but his parents say that Great Ormond Street doctors have agreed to “give us a little bit more time” with Charlie. They ask for privacy “while we prepare to say the final goodbye”. Interventions Pope Francis and the US president, Donald Trump, intervene; the former calling for the couple to be allowed to “accompany and treat their child until the end”, saying he has followed the case with “affection and sadness”. Vatican hospital Bambino Gesu, the Vatican’s children’s hospital in Rome, offers to take Charlie in. Return to high court Charlie’s parents return to the high court and ask Mr Justice Francis to carry out fresh analysis of the case. The judge says he will consider any new evidence. Dr Michio Hirano The New York neurology professor who offered to treat Charlie travels to London to examine the little boy, discuss the case with Great Ormond Street doctors and other clinicians and examine fresh scans. New scan The lawyer representing Great Ormond Street says the new scan makes for “sad reading”. Abuse Great Ormond Street chairwoman Mary MacLeod says doctors and nurses have been subjected to abuse in the street and received thousands of threatening messages. Charlie’s parents had previously urged people not to send abuse to Great Ormond Street staff. The end of the legal fight The judge’s decision was initially expected the next day but a lawyer representing Charlie’s parents say they are ending their legal fight over his treatment.
Therefore, it is a big mistake for Baghdad to arm the Iraqi Sunni tribes in that region, because they are not well organized. Some of them are working for ISIS, others for Baghdad, some with us and others working just for money. The Arab tribal leaders also cannot control the tribes, so if they arm them instability and violence will continue.We hope Iraq becomes three independent countries: Kurdistan, Shiitestan and Sunnistan. We will be good neighbors and we can help each other. We faced five genocides as part of Iraq; the state is no longer viable. If we continue to stay together it will mean no security, nor stability. Iraq cannot control its borders, cannot control its land or economy. Therefore, it’s better if the Shiite stay in their home, Sunnis stay in their home and we stay in ours. We can work together much better that way.We are planning for future operations against the group, but of course I am not going to talk about the details. We have a good plan. We know what we are going to do and we are sure ISIS has no chance of staying in Kurdistan. We hope the Iraqi Army offensive against ISIS in Makhmour will succeed. We inform them if we become aware of any ISIS attempts to attack their positions.Many of them have entered our territory with displaced civilians. We have arrested more than 50 people who are working for ISIS. Sometimes they even concealed TNT inside soap. They have contacts in the cities with other sleeper cells. We arrested some of them -- two days ago in my sector we arrested one. We’ve also killed other cell members trying to launch attacks against our forces recently.
Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald T. Sterling has agreed to pay a record $2.725 million to settle allegations that he discriminated against African Americans, Hispanics and families with children at scores of apartment buildings he owns in and around Los Angeles. The settlement, which must be approved by U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer, is the largest ever obtained by the Justice Department in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals, officials said. If approved, the settlement would also resolve a pair of lawsuits by former tenants of Sterling who alleged they were discriminated against because of their race. Who’d have thunk it, eh? This is important because it’s a method of implementing deliberate housing discrimination and red-lining against blacks and other minorities who have continued to be segregated into economic deserts, where jobs are scarce and opportunities are limited. "Redlining" just sounds like an an old-timey term, a practice that exists only in history and our re-tellings of it. The word has particular roots in the 1930s, when the government-sponsored Home Owner's Loan Corporation first drafted maps of American communities to sort through which ones were worthy of mortgage lending. Neighborhoods were ranked and color-coded, and the D-rated ones — shunned for their "inharmonious" racial groups — were typically outlined in red. This government practice was swiftly adopted by private banks, too, during an era of massive homeownership expansion in the U.S. And the visual language of the maps became a verb: To redline a community was to cut it off from essential capital. To be redlined was something even worse. The federal government eventually retreated from the practice, and it was outlawed by the Fair Housing Act in 1968. But black communities have warned that it still exists in subtler and changed forms, in bank tactics that have targeted these same neighborhoods for predatory lending, or in new patterns like "retail redlining." Some of the persistent redlining, though, still looks an awful lot like the original. And we have the proof that even African Americans who graduate from college still suffer from double the unemployment rate of others. At age 33 and boasting an Ivy League graduate degree, Kitama Cahill-Jackson never thought he’d end up a security guard. But after years of layoffs and coming in second in job interviews, the Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker took the job. Cahill-Jackson dreamed of a career as a news producer.
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With Trending, you will be able to see an up-to-the minute view of what TV shows are most popular on Xbox LIVE. KINECT Q: Why require Kinect with every Xbox One? A: The all new Kinect is now an essential and integrated part of the platform. By having it as a consistent part of every Xbox One, game and entertainment creators can build experiences that assume the availability of voice, gesture and natural sensing, leading to unrivaled ease of use, premium experiences and interactivity for consumers. Q: How much more powerful is the new Kinect sensor? A: We built the new Kinect from the ground up with entirely new technology to increase its performance compared to Kinect for Xbox 360. The Kinect sensor includes improvements in the fidelity of depth vision for better precision in gameplay, 1080P video quality for improved video communication via Skype, an enlarged field of view allowing more players to get in on the fun, and dramatically improved audio fidelity enabling better response to speech commands and cutting through room noise over Kinect for Xbox 360. Q: Which countries will receive voice at launch? A: Our vision is to bring conversational voice control and voice search to every country where we sell Xbox. Today on Xbox 360, we offer voice control and voice search in 13 countries, and we’re working hard to bring voice to new countries. We’ll share specific details for conversational voice control and voice search as we get closer to launch. Voice Control and voice search on 360: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Ireland, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands (voice control only), Austria (voice search only) Q: Can I use the Kinect for Xbox 360 sensor I already have for Xbox One? A: No. We designed the new Kinect sensor and console to work seamlessly together. The new sensor includes revolutionary technology giving it 10 times the performance of Kinect for Xbox 360. With features like full 1080p HD video, an improved microphone array and audio processing for accurate voice control in your living room, the new Kinect is part of what marks a new generation of games, TV and entertainment. Q: Will there be gesture-based games? A: Xbox One is built from the ground up with the new Kinect senso
A former Ranger recalled storming a house, flex-cuffing the tenants, then staying for several hours, risking exposure, while he and his teammates searched behind walls and under mattresses for a single thumb drive—which they found, eventually, in a pipe beneath the kitchen sink. Intelligence operatives would gather information by hacking militants’ computers, intercepting their phone calls, and surveilling them with drones. “We were able to mass so much information against individuals we captured that at some point they realized it was no use lying to us anymore,” Flynn says, in “Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War,” by James Kitfield. On the afternoon of April 8, 2006, American soldiers helicoptered into Yusufiyah, a town outside Baghdad. They raided a suspected Al Qaeda safe house and detained twelve middle-aged men, who were taken to Balad Air Base, the site of the command’s Iraq headquarters, for questioning. Flynn observed some of the interviews. Over weeks of interrogation, the prisoners repeatedly denied knowing anything about Al Qaeda or its leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Finally, two interrogators confronted one of the prisoners about a trip to Amman, Jordan, just before the devastating hotel bombings the previous year. The prisoner started talking, and divulged the identity of Zarqawi’s spiritual adviser and where to find him. Drones tracked the adviser for weeks. One day, the man came out of his house and got into a silver sedan. After two vehicle switches, he pulled into a compound in Hibhib, thirty miles north of Baghdad. A few minutes after the adviser arrived, another man emerged briefly from the house. He matched the description of Zarqawi. As Flynn and his boss, General Stanley McChrystal, JSOC’s commander, watched on a video feed, an F-16 dropped two bombs on the house. A Delta Force squad quickly arrived at the scene and seized Zarqawi, who died soon afterward. Back at Balad, Flynn and McChrystal inspected the corpse, laid out on a tarp, confirming that it was Zarqawi.
In 1933, Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler was approached by a cabal of influential American bankers and industrialists working under the umbrella of the front group, American Liberty League. Their request of Butler: that he lead a 500,000 strong force of rogue veterans in a coup against FDR and the legal American government. The intent of this cabal, already supporting the efforts of Hitler and Mussolini in Europe, was to instill a government not unlike that of Hitler and Mussolini in the United States. Butler went along with the scheme until he was able to ascertain who the participants were. He then blew the whistle on this group before the House Committee on un-American Activities. For his efforts, Butler was ostracized and black-balled by the mainstream media;his testimony before the House Committee on un-American Activities was omitted from the record. The cabal was never brought to justice, but the coup was foiled. Who were the American bankers and industrialists involved in this plot to overthrow the legal government of the United States? According to Wikipedia, while most of the funding came from the Du Pont family, participants included U.S. Steel, General Motors, General Foods, Standard Oil, Birdseye, Colgate, Heinz Foods, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. And among the participants in this coup attempt was one Prescott Bush (who is the father of George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States, and thus is the grandfather of George W Bush, current president of the United States). Prescott Bush was not only instrumental in bringing Hitler to power in Germany, Mussolini to power in Italy, but was also plotting to overthrow the legal government of the United States and establish a fascist state here. Prescott Bush served as a Senator from Connecticut and was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman. US General Smedley Butler wrote in his 1935 classic, "War Is a Racket": "I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914," "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916.
Transcendent Zerg pairings cannot be characterized as teacher-student, or even brother-brother as Reach and Ra happily co-exist. The Zerg master-apprentice relationship is merely a bond forged through common skill, knowledge, and circumstance, crossing team boundaries and player friendships. It is an unforgiving, adversarial link between two individuals who know deep down that ultimately, there is only room at the top for one. And amid the crowd of hungry Zerg players learning from Savior’s triumphs and mistakes, Lee Jae Dong stands above them all.Lee Jae Dong is a Starcraft genius at the age of seventeen. He has the best ZvZ on the planet at an astounding 25-9 (73%), but his play versus Terran draws the most attention. Jaedong’s ZvT produces July-micro, Savior-management, and fourteen game win streaks. In 2007, the difference between his #1 ranked ZvT ELO and the #2 ZvT (Savior) is actually greater than the difference between #2 Savior and theprofessional Zerg. Jaedong is so far ahead of his peers in ZvT that there is Jaedong, and then there is everyone else.That is why the Ever2007 OSL Final is so much more important than Daum, which was more about Savior’s fall than GGPlay’s victory. Before this match, I remember thinking that if Stork won, we would just be watching a solid but unspectacular player (sorry ManaBlue) struggle and finally realize his dream. Stork winning would be a feel-good story, but nothing more. As great as his 2007 has been, I just could not see Stork winning multiple titles or dominating for a long period of time.But if Jaedong won, we would not merely be spectators. We would be witnesses. We would see, with our own eyes, potential become reality. It would be a Zerg coronation and a Bonjwa birthday party.But a Bonjwa has no weak matchups. Jaedong will never attain Savior’s peak status without being dominant versus Protoss. ZvP is the staple matchup for Zerg, the same way PvT is for Protoss and TvZ is for Terran. It should the “easy,” reliable backbone matchup that Zerg players can rely on. To truly surpass Savior, the next great Zerg would have to showcase a ZvP that is at least on par with the Maestro’s.Weak matchups are only weak relative to something. Stork’s PvZ only looks weak because his other two matchups are so strong.
By the way, the reviews ofon iOS are great.Eshiro: You can’t work as a game producer if you can’t tell whether your game is fun or not.Terasawa: Everyone has their own ideas about what is fun or not. But there’s the question of whether what that person thinks is fun will sell or not. Someone who enjoys things that don’t sell, isn’t suited to be a producer. There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’d be very hard for them. But you can only comment on something like this in hindsight. I think that people with interests that fit with the times are better fit to be a producer than even someone with some special ability. And yes, they might not do as well if the times change. But there’s also a bit of luck involved.Eshiro: I think it’s important to be receptive, not just to games. Can you react to even the smallest events? It’s really great to be able to work with something you love. You can combine your hobby with productivity. When I can’t get impressed by anime or games, when I don’t know what’s fun anymore, that’s when I will leave this industry, I think.Terasawa: Honing your instincts is for a part your own sense, for a part study.Eshiro: I think it’d be hard to be working on creative content thinking it’s just a job. I’d be amazed if there are people who think like that but still churn out hit after hit (laugh).Terasawa: For example, an old guy from another industry might be able to create one hit, but it’d be difficult for them to create one hit after another. It’s best to do this when you’re still young.Interviewer: Are there mystery games or series that left an impression on you?Terasawa:(‘’). In my eyes, the roots ofandlie there. When this game was released, I was working with Human. I had never seen a game mechanic before where a gauge would become smaller if you used the wrong item on an utterance in the game. There may have been games like that before, but it was the first time I saw it and it was an eye-opener. It was a good, and very nicely made game for the time considering Human’s reputation.Interviewer: There are really a lot of fans ofboth in and outside the industry.Terasawa: There really are.
Buy two 3/4″ male GHT to female NPT adapters plus plumbing teflon tape. Again, they were cheaper at Home Depot (they use different names for the same items: 3/4″ MH x 3/4″ FIP and thread seal tape). I think all tankless brands use the same standard pipes, but you might want to double check your tankless has two 3/4″ NPT male threaded pipes coming out of it to allow water to enter and exit. Learn more about NPT-threaded pipes here. Turn off the power and water. Unscrew the two water hoses connected to the NPT pipes coming out of the heater and hold a bowl under them to catch draining water. In the case of Tempra heaters, you actually need to remove the left hose in order to clean a small sediment filter, so even if you had a flush kit with garden hose connections you’d need to disconnect the left NPT pipe. Clean off any old teflon tape on the NPT pipes, then tightly wrap new teflon tape 3 times clockwise around the threads on each pipe, leaving the two threads nearest the end of the pipe bare (if you wrap counterclockwise, the tape will try to loosen and bunch up as you screw connections over it). The teflon tape acts as a sealer to make the tiny spaces between threads water tight. Screw the GHT to NPT adapters on over the teflon tape and hand tighten them 4.5 full turns, then 3 more full turns with a wrench. Don’t use too much force and risk distorting the threads, as that will make it harder to keep the joint water tight. Be ready to tighten a bit more if you notice leaks (wrap the joint in rags before starting the pump if you want to avoid a vinegar mess). Screw your garden hoses on to the GHT to NHT adapters, again, not too tight as the rubber in them will take care of sealing without much pressure. Follow the video instructions at this point. Once you’re done with the video instructions, connect your original water hoses to the NPT-threaded pipes on the water heater using a new wrap of teflon tape and the same tightening procedure. Be ready with your bowl and rags because you may need to tighten them a bit more if they leak after turning the water back on.
The lead American negotiator was Ralph Ives, who was promoted to Assistant USTR for Pharmaceutical Policy soon after the negotiations concluded. He was aided by Claude Burcky, Deputy Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property. Less than three months after the Australia agreement was signed, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that both men would take jobs at pharmaceutical or medical device companies. Their new employers stood to benefit from some of the pro-patent-holder provisions of the treaty. Ives took a job at AdvaMed, a trade group representing medical device manufacturers. Burcky moved to the pharmaceutical and medical device company Abbott Labs. Since then, Abbott has hired two other USTR veterans, Andrea Durkin and Karen Hauda, according to the women's LinkedIn pages. Another USTR official, Kira Alvarez, has gone through the revolving door twice over the last 15 years. Her LinkedIn profile indicates that she served at USTR from 2000 to 2003, spent four years at the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, and then returned to USTR in 2008 as Deputy Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property Enforcement. She was there for five years before she took a job at AbbVie, a pharmaceutical firm that spun off from Abbott earlier this year. According to his official biography at the site of the Biotechnology Industry Associaiton, Joseph Damond "was chief negotiator of the historic U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade agreement" during his 12 years at USTR. He then spent five years at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America before moving to BIO. Justin McCarthy went through the revolving door in the other direction. According to a USTR press release, McCarthy was responsible for intellectual property issues at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer from 2003 to 2005 before he was hired at USTR. He now works at a lobbying firm.
(2002) performed a meta‐analysis of studies on the effects of elevated CO 2 on plant reproductive characteristics, including seed N concentration, for several seed/grain crops. They found that growth at elevated CO 2 resulted in significant decreases in seed N for wheat and barley, but not for soybean or rice. Neither of these studies focused exclusively on the effect of elevated CO 2 on crop nutrient composition and both surveyed only a limited number of crops and a limited selection of the available literature on those crops. In order to rigorously address the question of how elevated CO 2 affects the protein composition of food crops, we performed a comprehensive meta‐analysis, attempting to include all available data for all food crop species.
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“This is a set-back for Putin,” McFaul said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “Because in the constellation of senior people making foreign policy around the president, General Flynn was considered somebody sympathetic to the Kremlin, somebody sympathetic to Russia.” “They’ve now lost one of their allies, and the other folks – especially [Defense Secretary James] Mattis – their stars are rising now,” he added. Mattis stated during his confirmation hearing that “I’m all for engagement, but we also have to recognize reality and what Russia is up to. There is a decreasing number of areas where we can engage cooperatively and an increasing number of areas where we’re going to have to confront Russia.” Similarly, U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley addressed wariness towards Russia in her first address to the Security Council. “We do want to better our relations; however, the dire situation in eastern Ukraine is on that demands clear and strong condemnation of Russian actions,” she said, adding the sanctions in response to the annexation would remain in place. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, in a statement on Tuesday, called for a full and independent investigation into the Trump administration’s Russian connections. “The American people deserve to know the full extent of Russia’s financial, personal and political grip on President Trump and what that means for our national security,” she said. “The Trump administration has yet to be forthcoming about who was aware of Flynn’s conversations with the ambassador and whether he was acting on the instructions of the president or any other officials, or with their knowledge,” said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Sec. of State Rex Tillerson is perhaps the sole top Trump administration official who could be considered to have ties to Russia. In his capacity as CEO of ExxonMobil, he traveled to Russia on multiple occasions and met with President Vladimir Putin. Tillerson received the “Order of Friendship” from the Russian government in 2013 after signing deals with the state-owned oil company Rosneft. The top contenders to replace Flynn as national security adviser include former CIA director retired Gen. David Petraeus, retired Adm. Robert Harward and now acting NSC adviser retired Lt. Gen. Joseph Keith Kellogg, Jr. Like us on Facebook – USA Liberty News
It is an immense capital city, a noisy expression of the Indian democracy, not quite the anarchy that at first it appears to be but a conglomeration of countless private worlds. I found myself there last winter at late-night dinners and garden parties among the city's large middle class -- professionals who drove when they might have walked, and inhabited houses like little forts with guarded gates and shard-topped walls. They worried about crime -- partly, I think, because they could defend against it. The larger assaults on a life in New Delhi were simply overwhelming. A friend of mine with a small trucking company was concerned about the progressive failure of the city's infrastructure and what that meant for his business. He took me to visit New Delhi's chief urban planner, a powerful official who sat defeated at an empty steel desk in a big bare office, and out of boredom and loneliness detained us with small talk and offers of tea. After we escaped, my friend said, "It's incredible, no? I wanted you to see this. It's like he's sitting there at the end of the world." But to me it was the pollution in New Delhi that seemed apocalyptic. The streams were dead channels trickling with sewage and bright chemicals, and the air on the streets was at times barely breathable. In the heat of the afternoons a yellow-white mixture hung above the city, raining acidic soot into the dust and exhaust fumes. At night the mixture condensed into a dry, choking fog that enveloped the headlights of passing cars, and crept with its stink into even the tightest houses. The residents could do little to keep the poison out of their lungs or the lungs of their children, and if they were poor, they could not even try. People told me it was taking years off their lives. Yet New Delhi was bursting its seams, because newcomers from rural India kept flooding in. The big port city of Bombay has a reputation for being just as dirty, but on the day I got there, an ocean breeze was blowing, and in relative terms the air was clean. When I mentioned this to Pravin S. Nagarsheth, the shipbreaker I had come to see, he grew excited and said, "Yeah! Yeah!" because relativity was precisely the point he wanted to make to me.
Unless, of course, the US government is using ISIS as a pretext for finishing its 'regime change via phony civil war' in Syria.You can almost hear Soros, Brzezinski, Albright and other Russophobic neoliberal hawks screaming in unison: "NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Don't let Russia escape! We will dominate Russia one way or another! "Whether he fully realizes it or not, Soros senses US world domination slipping away. This is why, for him, a face-saving climb-down from World War III is a "tragic mistake", not a sensible choice.Translation: 'Ukrainian independence is really Ukrainian dependence on the US, and it must be preserved at all costs. The only reason we created the ISIS mercenary monster in the first place was to use it as a bargaining chip to prevent Russian trade encroachment on 'our Middle East', so if the Ukraine crisis is resolved in Russia's favor, then we no longer have any use for ISIS. 'Ukraine never had much independence, and it certainly has none now. The strings are being pulled by the U.S. The best Ukraine can do is to decide which side they want to be dependent on until they recover. Forget its immediate debts: some analysts calculate that Ukraineto rebuild its economy.In other words, the era of US military and financial-economic domination of Europe would be over. The "potent, existential threat" Soros refers to is the threat that Europe will naturally integrate with its neighbours, and forget all about its paranoid, warmongering North American cousins.NATO's "own soil"? Right there you get a glimpse into how US empire-builders perceive US military presence in Europe. It's absurd for Soros to say that if the US gives up the ghost on Ukraine, and simply consolidates what it has already acquired, then it will lose everything in Europe. Just cut your losses and revert to the pre-November 2013 status quo! How difficult would that be?But they can't 'just let go' - they are constitutionally incapable of 'just letting go'. The timeless irony here is that it is precisely because psychopathological Western oligarchs like him are so hell-bent on isolating, regime-changing, and eventually carving up Russia that, with every move they make, the stakes become ever higher for them. The more they give expression to their boundless greed, the more Russia can hold up the mirror, the more Europeans wake up and look east, not west.
I for one have no trouble believing this, especially after reading the recently published book, Wood for Wood - the Riddle of the Wooden Bombs by Pierre-Antoine Courouble.French citizen and researcher Pierre-Antoine Courouble had one source for his belief in this story of British humour and derring-do - one that did not have a written record, was not found noted on a squadron ORB or pulled from the shelf of a musty archive. It was the strong and honest voice of his father, a man he loved and trusted. Here is what Courable says about the first time he heard the story:
Abstract CONTEXT: Lactobacillus reuteri DSM17938 has shown promise in managing colic, but conflicting study results have prevented a consensus on whether it is truly effective. OBJECTIVE: Through an individual participant data meta-analysis, we sought to definitively determine if L reuteri DSM17938 effectively reduces crying and/or fussing time in infants with colic and whether effects vary by feeding type. DATA SOURCES: We searched online databases (PubMed, Medline, Embase, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, and Cochrane), e-abstracts, and clinical trial registries. STUDY SELECTION: These were double-blind randomized controlled trials (published by June 2017) of L reuteri DSM17398 versus a placebo, delivered orally to infants with colic, with outcomes of infant crying and/or fussing duration and treatment success at 21 days. DATA EXTRACTION: We collected individual participant raw data from included studies modeled simultaneously in multilevel generalized linear mixed-effects regression models. RESULTS: Four double-blind trials involving 345 infants with colic (174 probiotic and 171 placebo) were included. The probiotic group averaged less crying and/or fussing time than the placebo group at all time points (day 21 adjusted mean difference in change from baseline [minutes] −25.4 [95% confidence interval (CI): −47.3 to −3.5]). The probiotic group was almost twice as likely as the placebo group to experience treatment success at all time points (day 21 adjusted incidence ratio 1.7 [95% CI: 1.4 to 2.2]). Intervention effects were dramatic in breastfed infants (number needed to treat for day 21 success 2.6 [95% CI: 2.0 to 3.6]) but were insignificant in formula-fed infants. LIMITATIONS: There were insufficient data to make conclusions for formula-fed infants with colic. CONCLUSIONS: L reuteri DSM17938 is effective and can be recommended for breastfed infants with colic. Its role in formula-fed infants with colic needs further research.
18 PHOTOS Madonna through the years See Gallery Madonna's 'Crazy For You' became a number-one hit, 30 years ago today THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0243 -- Pictured: Host Jimmy Fallon, Madonna and The Roots during the Music Room segment on April 9, 2015 -- (Photo by: Douglas Gorenstein/NBC) NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 24: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Jimmy Fallon and Madonna sign the Facebook wall before their livestream interview at the Facebook offices on March 24, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 24: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Madonna signs the Facebook wall before her livestream interview with Jimmy Fallon at the Facebook offices on March 24, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) X-mas is coming early! Pre order my album and download 6 tracks! Happy Holidays! ❤️#rebelheart US pop diva Madonna sits among Malawian children during a visit to the Mkoko Primary School, one of the schools Madonna's Raising Malawi organization has built jointly with US organization BuildOn in the Kasungu District, Central Malawi, on November 30, 2014. Madonna met Malawi's new president on November 28 after her VIP status was restored in the country where she adopted two children but then fell foul of the former government. Madonna has adopted two children from the country, which officially has more than a million orphans and vulnerable children. AFP PHOTO/AMOS GUMULIRA (Photo credit should read AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Jimmy Fallon/Justin Timberlake Episode 1651 -- Pictured: (l-r) Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon, Cecily Strong -- (Photo by: Dana Edelson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) US star Madonna (L) walks out with Dr. Eric Borgstein(R) after visiting the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) on November 27, 2014 where he launched a new project with Ministry of Health to construct a pediatric surgery and intensive care unit at the hospital in Blantyre. AFP PHOTO/STRINGER (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 05: Editor in Chief WSJ. Magazine Kristina O'Neill, dancer Charles 'Lil Buck' Riley and Madonna attend WSJ. Magazine 2014 Innovator Awards at Museum of Modern Art on November 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 30: (Exclusive Coverage) Kanye West, Madonna and Riccardo Tisci attend Keep A Child Alive's 11th Annual Black Ball at Hammerstein Ballroom on October 30, 2014 in New York City.
Multiple assessment tools are used to understand the extent of suicide thoughts and behaviors collect data on deaths and nonfatal injuries. The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) compiles demographic and causal data on all death certificates filed in the United States. NVSS final mortality data include all fatalities in the United States, but these data provide limited information about the exact nature and circumstances of the injury (13). The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and the Health Care and Utilization Project (HCUP) measure inpatient care and hospital utilization (13). Although they provide detailed information about the nature of injuries, treatment, and discharge disposition, both HCUP and NHDS are limited because not all states require external cause-of-injury coding, which identifies the intent of the injury, on hospital discharge records. In 2004, the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors' Association (now named the Safe States Alliance) reported that only 43.8% of the medical records for which an injury was the principal diagnosis had an accompanying E-code (14). The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) and the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) collect data about all types and external causes of nonfatal injuries and poisonings treated in either U.S. hospital emergency departments (EDs) or hospital outpatient departments. However, although these systems are nationally representative, they do not have state-level samples (15). NSDUH data complement data from these other systems. Community surveys such as NSDUH can obtain data on injuries that do not result in death or severe injury, occur outside the hospital environment, or occur in settings for which vital statistics or hospital-based data are unavailable (16,17).
(Leonard and Sheldon are going upstairs to their apartment after an unsuccessful visit to the "High IQ" sperm bank. They have to use the stairs since the elevator has been broken for at least four years.) Sheldon: Are you still mad about the sperm bank? Leonard: No. Sheldon: You wanna hear an interesting thing about stairs? Leonard: Not really. Sheldon: If the height of a single step is off as little as 2 millimeters, most people will trip. Leonard: I don't care... 2 millimeters? That doesn't seem right. Sheldon: No, it's true, I did a series of experiments when I was 12; my father broke his clavicle. Leonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school? Sheldon: No, that was a result of my work with lasers. (The guys are about to go in their apartment, but they soon realize there is a new neighbor across the hall who has just moved in. She is a young and attractive blonde woman and is reading a magazine.) Leonard: New neighbor? Sheldon: Evidently. Leonard: Significant improvement over the old neighbor. Sheldon: 200-pound transvestite with a skin condition? Yes, she is. (The woman notices the guys.) Woman: Oh, hi. Leonard: Hi. Sheldon: Hi. Leonard: Hi. Sheldon: Hi. Woman: Hi? Leonard: We don't mean to interrupt, we live across the hall. Woman: Oh, that's nice. Leonard: Oh, w..., a..., w..., we don't live together, we..... We live together, but in, separate, heterosexual bedrooms. Woman: Oh, OK, guess I'm your new neighbor. Penny. Leonard: Uh, Leonard, Sheldon. Penny: Hi. Leonard: Hi. Sheldon: Hi. Penny: Hi. Leonard: Hi. (There is a short silence.) Leonard: Well, uh, oh, welcome to the building. Penny: Thank you, maybe we can have coffee sometime. Leonard: Oh, great. Penny: Great. Sheldon: Great. Leonard: Great (silence). Well, uh, bye. Penny: Bye. Sheldon: Bye. Leonard: Bye. (Penny closes her door.)
Although they are similar to red eyed tree frogs, they are sometimes hard to come across in the pet trade, and when you do come across them, they are usually wild-caught (not born in captivity) which makes them hard to acclimate to captivity. [su_list icon=”icon: tag”] Price: $23.99 [/su_list] Vietnamese Mossy Tree Frog The Vietnamese mossy tree frog (a.k.a mossy frog) is probably the coolest tree frog on our list to own. Their unique skin makes them look exactly like a patch of moss when sleeping. Due to their uniqueness, they are sometimes hard to come across at most pet stores. However, if you do come across one, embrace its stunning coloration and skin appearance. It’s definitely not something you’d want to miss seeing. [su_list icon=”icon: tag”] Price: $44.99 – $129.99 [/su_list] Waxy Monkey Tree Frog The waxy monkey tree frog is an awesome amphibian, reaching lengths of only 3 inches. The difference between this tree frog from others is that this frog actually prefers a drier and warmer climate than most other tree frogs. Rather than hopping, they walk in the trees like a monkey, which gives them their nickname “monkey tree frog”. The “waxy” part comes in due to their waxy skin appearance. [su_list icon=”icon: tag”] Price: $69.99 – $109.99 [/su_list] White Lipped Tree Frog The white lipped tree frog’s body is usually a bright leaf green, which contrasts nicely to its solid white lip and lighter green dots on its sides. When hunting, the white lipped tree frog can turn to a brown color to better disguise itself to sneak up on its prey. Reaching 4 – 5.5 inches in length, the white lipped tree frog is one of the largest tree frogs in the world. [su_list icon=”icon: tag”] Price: $250 – $260 [/su_list] Whites Tree Frog The whites tree frog is the most common type of pet tree frog in captivity today. They are quite hardy with a reputation of being one of the easiest tree frogs to care for in the pet trade. If you like a little variety and uniqueness, the whites tree frog can sometimes be bought with blue eyes. Being a little more unique with blue eyes, the price will be a little higher. [su_list icon=”icon: tag”] Price: $29.99 [/su_list]
Person One.”The chairman of the House intelligence committee, Representative Devin Nunes, is also investigating how the Obama White House kept tabs on the Trump transition after the election through unmasking the names of Trump associates incidentally collected in government eavesdropping of foreign officials.Multiple sources tell Fox News that Susan Rice, former national security adviser under then-President Barack Obama, requested to unmask the names of Trump transition officials caught up in surveillance.The unmasked names, of people associated with Donald Trump, were then sent to all those at the National Security Council, some at the Defense Department, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and then-CIA Director John Brennan – essentially, the officials at the top, including former Rice deputy Ben Rhodes.The names were part of incidental electronic surveillance of candidate and President-elect Trump and people close to him, including family members, for up to a year before he took office.The alleged spreadsheets add a new dimension to reports on Sunday and Monday by blogger Mike Cernovich and Eli Lake of Bloomberg News that Rice had asked for Trump aides’ names to be “unmasked” in intelligence reports… part of an alleged political intelligence operation to disseminate reports on the Trump campaign widely throughout government with the aim of leaking them to the press.At the time that radio host Mark Levin and Breitbart News compiled the evidence of surveillance, dissemination, and leaking — all based on mainstream media reports — the mainstream media dismissed the story as a “conspiracy theory.”Now, however, Democrats are backing away from that allegation, and from broader allegations of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, as additional details of the Obama administration’s alleged surveillance continue to emerge.Rhodes and Rice were both implicated in a disinformation campaign to describe the Benghazi terror attack in Sep. 2012 as a protest against a YouTube video. Rhodes also boasted of creating an “echo chamber” in the media to promote the Iran deal, feeding stories to contrived networks of “experts” who offered the public a steady stream of pro-agreement propaganda.What has the corporate-run media done in response to this bombshell news that’s bigger than Watergate?
We had too big a percentage of the market, and we didn’t have the ability to get out of our positions. We were too financially vulnerable to the brokers. I didn’t take account of the fact that I could be squeezed and that customers could withdraw their money. But mainly I didn’t have a proper foundation for my investment there. I had no knowledge of the country. I’d never even visited the country. All I had done was finance a trip by Bo Keeley to the brothels there.’’
Portugal’s successful experiment ANTONIO JIMÉNEZ BARCA During the 1980s, heroin consumption in Portugal and the related increase in AIDS cases were among the highest in Europe. Repressive policies to deal with the problem were not working, and so in 1998, a committee of government-appointed experts recommended decriminalizing use. The law was approved in 2001, and is still in place. Broadly speaking, the law works like this: drug consumption is prohibited, but it is a civil, not a criminal, offense. So if the police find drugs on somebody, whether those drugs are cannabis or heroin, they are taken to the station house. If they are carrying over a certain amount, they will be charged with dealing. If the amount is smaller, they are not charged, but instead must appear before a panel made up of a social worker, a lawyer and a psychologist. The panel will assess the degree of addiction, advising treatment if it considers this necessary. If somebody is detained several times, they can be fined or given community work, or banned from entering certain establishments where drugs are known to be used or suspected of being bought and sold. But the matter remains out of the criminal courts. João Castel-Branco Goulão, the head of the Portuguese Health Ministry's drug-dependence treatment service, says that the aim is to avoid stigmatizing users, giving them time and the opportunity to undergo rehabilitation. "We aim to pursue the illness, not the ill. The Portuguese state is still opposed to the use of illegal drugs. Which is why consumption remains banned. But we are not against drug addicts, which is why they do not enter the criminal justice system. The idea is that once they have undergone rehabilitation they can return to a normal life, because they will not have a police record, which makes it easier to get a job and find somewhere to live." Castel-Branco Goulão says that the statistics support Portugal's approach: "In 1997, there were around 100,000 drug addicts that we could describe as 'tough cases,' most of them heroin users, around one percent of the population, which is a worryingly high figure. But that figure today has been halved. Consumption has developed along the lines of other countries, but there is better access to treatment," he says.
I will return to Smith’s more likely response later. But first, I will examine Schopenhauer’s own argument for the basis of morality found in his essay On the Basis of Morality. In this book Schopenhauer takes another jab at what he perceives to be Smith’s inadequate understanding of the nature of sympathy. He postulates two young men, Caius and Titus, who had each planned to kill their respective rivals in love, but decide against doing so at the last minute. Smith, Schopenhauer states, would say that they did so because they foresaw that their actions would not excite sympathy in those who witnessed it. But this, Schopenhauer states, would not at all capture the real reason for their decisions. Caius’s reasons can be left to the reader to decide, Schopenhauer writes; but Titus, he argued, would say, “When it came to making the arrangements, and so for the moment I had to concern myself not with my passion but with that rival, I clearly saw for the first time what would really happen to him. But I was then seized with compassion and pity; I felt sorry for him: I had not the heart to do it, and could not.” (p.168.) In this fellow-feeling, Schopenhauer argues, lies the very foundation of morality. It is a pure motive, uninfluenced by a desire to appear virtuous in the eyes of others. Rather, Titus has seen a fundamental connection between himself and another suffering being. For Schopenhauer, then, Arturo Bandini has broken through the web of illusion, and has seen the underlying connection between himself and the dying Sammy as a fellow human. Schopenhauer chides Smith and Hume for not seeing this, and would attribute such blindness to their disinclination to explore metaphysics. As Julian Young states in his 2005 book, Schopenhauer: “The reason, I think, for this disinclination to probe any further is that the benign Hume does not see human nature as tilted particularly strongly toward egoism – so he just itemizes the impulses he finds to be there. But for Schopenhauer, with egoism as it were mandated by the human epistemological situation, altruism presents itself as an übermenschlich transcendence of the human situation as astonishing as that of an artistic genius. It is, therefore, something that demands an explanation.” (p.179.)
This defense isn't surprising because Sean Carroll is an eminent example of a physics crackpot who uses philosophy and his personal links with philosophers to suggest that he is something else than a physics crackpot.He lists three valid criticisms that physicists sometimes raise against philosophy and attempts to disagree with them:These criticisms – in one way or another articulated by folks like Weinberg, Hawking, Krauss, Tyson, and others – are true even though Weinberg in particular has stated the problems with philosophy much more crisply and accurately. But let me write down my own – related but not identical – objections against philosophy as a method to learn how the world works.Philosophy is a wrong way to learn how the world works especially becauseTo express the last point differently, philosophy has turned into a social movement where one can hide if his ideas have been falsified – killed by a procedure that is the most important building block of the scientific method. Because philosophy as an institution is a hideaway for people who are wrong, it is a factor that isn't just neutral. Instead, it reduces the efficiency of the scientific method.When Carroll tries to disagree with the claim that philosophy doesn't derive its authority from the empirical data, he says it is a "dopey" claim because philosophers sometimes care about the empirical data, too. Well, maybe, some of them, sometimes – it's hard to summarize the attitude of thousands or millions of people who call themselves "philosophers" to thousands or millions of scientific questions by such a simple-minded slogan.The point is that the partial evidence and even the rock-solid evidence just doesn't have the ultimate power to decide and beat other arguments. The ultimate power comes from people who describe themselves as the philosophers. To a large extent, they treat themselves as infallible and their authority as permanent. This intrinsic dependence on the highly imperfect humans – humans that are not subject to any mechanism that would guarantee that they improve themselves or converge closer to the truth – is the real #1 reason why science works and philosophy doesn't. Carroll writes:Well, philosophers are obviously not thinking enough. It's the good theoretical physicists who are practicing "pure thoughts" well.The theoretical physicists, like string theorists, are also interested in foundational questions and they are much less affected by the latest experiments or fads.
The distributor and carburettor went into the parts box until called for. When I bought the carburettor, I picked up a 113 905 205 AN dual vacuum distributor from the same seller. It was the only distributor in his collection of the right vintage, and the number looked right according to Samba user Glutamodo's list. The base flange number of the carb. is VW325-1, which, while not on the list, would fall immediately before VW325-2, which wants this distributor. The carburettor also has the right hole in the throttle plate for use with a dual vacuum distributor.The distributor had no shaft wobble and the lobes were clean. I couldn't get the diaphragm to resist a pull on its shaft when I plugged the vacuum ports, so I judged it to be no good.I took off the vacuum can, and took out the old points, condenser, and clips for the cap.I drove out the pin with a punch and took off the driving dog from the bottom, freeing the shaft. I had to heat the end of the shaft with a propane torch to get the pin to move at all - it's very tight.Removing the shaft freed the points plate. The mechanical advance unit can be seen in the middle of the shaft.Everything metal had a bath in Chem-Dip and a scrub, except the shaft. The mechanical advance unit was clean and well-lubricated already, so I didn't want to take it apart. I carefully wiped the ends of the shaft and left the rest alone.The felt from inside the body was briefly soaked in oil before being put back in.I put grease back between the two halves of the points plate where they move past one another.The points plate went back together.The washers went back on the bottom of the shaft, followed by the drive dog with its pin and pin retainer.Later, I scrounged another vacuum canister (still with '889' on the shaft) to finish the job.The distributor and carburettor went into the parts box until called for.
To this day, hardly a student arrives at UC Berkeley without hearing at least once Kerr’s observation: "If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life." But it was his comment at a faculty meeting in 1957 that found its way into Time and Playboy magazines and into university lore. Asked what the chancellor was doing about parking, he replied that the chancellor’s job had come to be defined as "providing parking for faculty, sex for the students, and athletics for the alumni." Kerr served as UC Berkeley chancellor from 1952 to 1958, when he was elevated to president of the University of California system. He served in that role until 1967. It was an era of tremendous growth, planning and student unrest. 'He was the dean of the higher education community not only in California, but in America, and we will be forever in his debt for the extraordinary contributions he made to educational excellence and opportunity.'
1. YALE SCIENTISTS FIND STRONG ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VACCINATIONS AND ANOREXIA, OCD, AND ANXIETY DISORDER Temporal Association of Certain Neuropsychiatric Disorders Following Vaccination of Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Case-Control StudyFrontiers in Psychiatry, January 2017, Douglas L. Leslie, Robert A. Kobre, Brian J. Richmand Summary: “Subjects with newly diagnosed anorexia nervosa were more likely than controls to have had any vaccination in the previous 3 months [hazard ratio (HR) 1.80, 95% confidence interval 1.21–2.68]. Influenza vaccinations during the prior 3, 6, and 12 months were also associated with incident diagnoses of AN, OCD, and an anxiety disorder. Several other associations were also significant with HRs greater than 1.40 (hepatitis A with OCD and AN; hepatitis B with AN; and meningitis with AN and chronic tic disorder). This pilot epidemiologic analysis implies that the onset of some neuropsychiatric disorders may be temporally related to prior vaccinations in a subset of individuals.” 2. ITALIAN SCIENTISTS FIND UNEXPECTED CONTAMINANTS IN ALL PEDIATRIC VACCINES, INCLUDING LEAD, STAINLESS STEEL, TUNGSTEN, IRON, AND CHROMIUM New Quality-Control Investigations on Vaccines: Micro- and NanocontaminationInternational Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination, January 2017, Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti, Stefano Montanari Summary: Scientists found contaminants in all vaccines that are not listed on the label of the vaccines. “The analyses carried out show that in all samples checked vaccines contain non biocompatible and bio-persistent foreign bodies which are not declared by the Producers, against which the body reacts in any case. This new investigation represents a new quality control that can be adopted to assess the safety of a vaccine. Our hypothesis is that this contamination is unintentional, since it is probably due to polluted components or procedures of industrial processes (e.g. filtrations) used to produce vaccines, not investigated and not detected by the Producers. If our hypothesis is actually the case, a close inspection of the working places and the full knowledge of the whole procedure of vaccine preparation would probably allow to eliminate the problem.” 3. ISRAELI AND ITALIAN SCIENTISTS WARN THAT VACCINE ADJUVANTS (ALUMINUM) ARE CAUSING A WIDE-RANGE OF AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS, INCLUDING SJOGREN’S SYNDROME Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants and Sjogren’s SyndromeIMAJ VOL 18, March-April 2016, Serena Colafrancesco, Carlo Perricone, Yehuda Shoenfeld Summary: “Several case reports have suggested that both vaccines and silicone may trigger the development of SS [Sjo?gren’s syndrome, a chronic systemic autoimmune inflammatory condition involving the exocrine glands].
In a letter to his wife on September 29, Patton indicated that he was, in a way, not unhappy with his new assignment, because "I would like it much better than being a sort of executioner to the best race in Europe." On October 22 he wrote a long letter to Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, who was back in the States. In the letter Patton bitterly condemned the Morgenthau policy; Eisenhower's pusillanimous behavior in the face of Jewish demands; the strong pro-Soviet bias in the press; and the politicization, corruption, degradation, and demoralization of the U.S. Army which these things were causing. He saw the demoralization of the Army as a deliberate goal of America's enemies: "I have been just as furious as you at the compilation of lies which the communist and Semitic elements of our government have leveled against me and practically every other commander. In my opinion it is a deliberate attempt to alienate the soldier vote from the commanders, because the communists know that soldiers are not communistic, and they fear what eleven million votes (of veterans) would do." In his letter to Harbord, Patton also revealed his own plans to fight those who were destroying the morale and integrity of the Army and endangering America's future by not opposing the growing Soviet might: "It is my present thought . . . that when I finish this job, which will be around the first of the year, I shall resign, not retire, because if I retire I will still have a gag in my mouth . . . I should not start a limited counterattack, which would be contrary to my military theories, but should wait until I can start an all-out offensive . . . ." http://gatorpress.com/?p=1664 General George S. Patton was seriously injured on December 9th, 1945. He was riding in a jeep when it was apparently struck by another Army vehicle. The driver of the large truck that struck Patton and the details of the crash were never disclosed. Patton did survive the crash. On the way to the hospital, Patton’s vehicle was then struck again by a second two-ton US Army truck. This time he was injured much more seriously, but still clung to life. Neither of these two truck drivers were arrested nor even had their names disclosed. In June 1998, an elderly veteran stepped forward and claimed that he had witnessed the second accident.
-- p. 253 Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations The major landmarks in this process of expolitation were: in the sixteenth century, the arrival of 'treasures' (gold and silver ingots) from America; the brutal opening-up of India after the battle of Plassey (23 June 1757), at which the British defeated the nawab of Bengal; the forced expolitation of the Chinese market after the First Opium War in 1839-42; and the partition of Africa at Berlin in 1885. -- p. 388 Susan Spano, Revealed: Muslim Traveler Who Rivaled Marco Polo I had studied medieval Europe ethnocentrically but now can only conclude that during Battuta's time, it was a cultural, political and technological sideshow. In the 14th century, the main event was Dar al-Islam. John Edwards, History Today On the second day of January [1492] I saw Your Highnesses' royal banners placed by force of arms on the towers of the Alhambra . . . and in the same month . . . Your Highness, as Catholic Christians and princes devoted to the holy Christian faith and the furtherance of its cause, and enemies of the sect of Mohammed and of all idolatry and heresy, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the . . . regions of India. -- vol. 42
Hardliners on the up? Where once there was certainty that the monarch would intervene, there is now concern about the health of the 82-year old King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The protesters say Abhisit Vejjajiva came to power illegally Old lines of authority and allegiance are fracturing. Police have been seen joining the protesters, government ultimatums have been ignored, peace talks have fallen apart. Mainstream red-shirt leaders and some government figures appear united in their wish for a negotiated settlement. But hardliners on each side appear to have gained ascendancy. And a violent, almost paramilitary, edge has come to the streets in recent days - whether aligned to either side is unclear. It is helping to create more bloody pictures for the protesters to get angry about. And it is confirming that just another crackdown and another election will not be enough to bring peace to Bangkok.
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 2.91 KB The Official Constitution of the People of the Teal Republic Preamble In the event in which Tealstone has grown to the point in which it cannot sustain itself, it must have a solidified and clear government to rule over its own people and in addition, its allies as well. This Constitution will hereby lay all laws and otherwise common rules down for her people and the people she cares for. ARTICLE 1 - GOVERNMENT In the event which the Nation will grow to which this Constitution must be altered, the People of Tealstone may do this. The event of this will go in this order: Firstly, a bill will be created for the amendment of the Constitution. Secondly, it must receive at least 60% of a vote. In the case of receiving over 90% of a vote, the amendment will come into place immediately. If the vote comes below 60% approval by the People, the amendment will not come into place. If the vote comes between 60% and 90% approval, the Elected Senate, of 3 people, will vote either to Veto the amendment or let it pass. Each month, on the 27th, elections for the Senate will be held. All citizens votes count as the same. The candidate with the most votes will become Main Senator. The Main Senator has high reign over all of the Teal Republic. The candidate with the second most votes becomes the Secondary Senator, who will vote on vetoes and become Main Senator in event of a pearling or resignation of a Main Senator. ARTICLE 2 - LAWS All nations require a civil code, and Tealstone will hold its own to be highly respected. The following are banned internally in the nation: Theft, murder, grief. Any citizen who is caught doing any of these activities will be given at first a warning for theft and grief, but pearled with a trial with murder. Second offenses of these will be given a pearling and trial secondly, and a pearling and trial for murder. These laws also apply to foreigners, and if a foreigner is pearled in Teal Republic lands, diplomatic laws will go into effect with the nation of the member. ARTICLE 3 - CITIZENS’ RIGHTS All citizens have right to complete privacy. However, if it comes under expectation that the citizen has committed a crime, a Senator may write and sign an official Search Warrant.
Hunter was literally all around us now, a destroying angel whooping it up with one final Rebel Yell. I glanced at Hunter's compatriots: Kerry looked curious, McGovern sad, Lovett silent. "I have never seen an event like this," whispered Harry Dean Stanton. "And I'm old. Very old." Afterward, when the moment came to sing "My Old Kentucky Home," the performers discovered that no one knew the lyrics. George Tobia, Hunter's friend and attorney, whipped out his cell phone and managed to find someone to pull the words off the Internet. Struggling to hear over the blare of the music, he wrote the lyrics out in longhand by the light of the moon. Lovett and Amram then took the stage to perform the song, with Depp on guitar and Hunter's brother Davison on vocals. Depp, bouncing on his heels, had a wicked grin on his face. He -- along with Juan and Anita -- had a right to celebrate. They had bucked the tiger and won. Everybody knew the tower and its ghostly beacon were temporary. But for the moment Hunter's family and friends indulged in a well-earned collective pride. They, better than anyone, knew that Hunter was no saint. Far from it. Not even close. At times, in fact, his veins seemed to fill with snake blood. But he was always bursting with kinetic passion and an indomitable prankster vision. Somehow it was hard to mourn his wildly vibrant sixty-seven years with a one-ton Gonzo fist in the sky and Lovett onstage singing "If I Had a Pony" and raw oysters and Gonzo-emblazoned chocolates being handed out like Halloween candy. The party lasted until dawn, with Bill Murray cutting a fine figure on the pavilion's dance floor and others serenading an inflatable sex doll until the sun finally rose and fatigue settled in and everybody drifted out of Owl Farm full as ticks from food and booze. As I left the farm with George McGovern and Anita Thompson to deliver a tape of the ceremony to an Aspen bar where hundreds of Hunter's fans were convened, we stared out the bus window, and there it was, from three miles down the valley -- the green orgiastic fist, lighting up the mountain. Jay Gatsby's green light at the end of the pier had moved west to Hunter S. Thompson Territory.
Under the current law, students whose birth is not recorded can be taught in schools at the discretion of the principal.After the school examined her scholastic ability, Seo-hyeon was placed in the fourth grade and is attending school starting on Thursday.The elementary school teacher in charge of the fourth grade requested by phone that the school not be identified and refused to be interviewed, saying that if the girl’s identity were revealed it could impede her adjustment at the school.“I regret not having more actively searched for ways to help Seo-hyeon,” said her mother, tears pouring down her cheeks. “I feel so sorry for my child.”BY SEO JUN-SEOK, SHIN SOO-YEON [[email protected]]
As reported in the Times-Picayune : James Derham, the top assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, recently stated the official position: “Though roadblocks and pockets of instability and violence remain, Latin America has seen its politics and its business environment stabilize and prosper in ways that would have been unthinkable a quarter-century ago . . . The political liberalization we've seen there would not have been possible without economic modernization and that, in turn, would not have been possible without NAFTA". Under a Kerry regime, nothing will change. Mr Derham could retain his post! Now compare the damage that CAFTA will reap. “ Trade officials enthuse that at least four textile companies are interested in moving to Nicaragua as well as a US company considering whether to base its prefabricated housing production in the country. Chiquita (United Brands) has said it is interested in moving its pineapple production to Nicaragua”. Do you really think that ‘John Boy’ Edwards would keep those textile jobs in his home state? According to Toni Solo - Fortress Western Hemisphere - consists of the Global Energy Development Plc transnational vision. It is a subsidiary of Harken Energy, with the same Houston, Texas address and all but one of its directors, all long time cronies of George W. Bush. He see it as European and US corporate investment buzzards just waiting to strip the natural resources of Central America prize for their own greedy gain. In contrast the Fair Trader appreciates the mutual benefit that comes from commerce, when wealth creation is the paradigm. Investment with the prospects for an equitable return is essential for a free enterprise system to function. Moreover, that wealth creation entails more than a bottom line entry in a financial report. The economic independence for a society is crucial to the protection and preservation of individual civil liberties. The only beneficiaries from NAFTA have been the financiers on Wall Street. Main Street suffers under the exodus of jobs, record trade deficits and a plunging dollar. The promised idealistic improvement for Mexicans has produced an epic rush to cross the borders and settle in your neighborhood. If this is progress, one would need to be a fool to support such a policy. Do you really believe that CAFTA will be any different? American jobs, with viable living wages is good business for our country.
ShhhWorldChamp: slowpon: yeah, possibly by trying to emphasize certain parts of her personality through her delivery HerpDerpHooves: DementedMan: > The DEVICE goes ding and launched a TEACUP at the wall. HerpDerpHooves: Slowpon: she did say something yesterday that there was a little of herself in all the roles she plays HerpDerpHooves: >Just get the fuck out of there. >Leave DementedMan: > TWILIGHT sees you can recognise a TEACUP FLINGER when you see one! +5 Social! HerpDerpHooves: Wow. Just Slowpon: someone asked a question kind of along the same lines HerpDerpHooves: Slowpon. Did Did you just read that Slowpon: but I'll see if I can ask her these in the autograph line read what HerpDerpHooves: Nevermind. DementedMan: > TWILIGHT can now JOIN THE PARTY! DementedMan: > Add TWILIGHT to PARTY? HerpDerpHooves: >Y DementedMan: > TWILIGHT IS NOW PART OF YOUR PARTY HerpDerpHooves: >GIVE PONY SOCKS to TWILIGHT DementedMan: > TWILIGHT equips the PONY SOCKS. She gains an AURA OF ADORKABLE. HerpDerpHooves: Alright >SAVE DementedMan: > SAVED. HerpDerpHooves: > TALK to TWILIGHT DementedMan: > What would you like to talk about? HerpDerpHooves: >CHECK SPEECH OPTIONS DementedMan: > Choose a subject HerpDerpHooves: >Subject Options? DementedMan: > You strike up a conversation about ANAL LUBE. HerpDerpHooves: I'll just let this run its course. >Astroglide. DementedMan: > TWILIGHT doesn't believe in ANAL LUBE. She's a frisky one this one! HerpDerpHooves: lol >Subject: VAGINAL LUBE DementedMan: > TWILIGHT is disgusted by your obscene subject choice. -2 Social. HerpDerpHooves: lol CruelNoise: http://i.imgur.com/fULE0.jpg HerpDerpHooves: >Subject: VAGINAL LUBE ingredients and compound mixtures DementedMan: > TWILIGHT is much happier with such an INT subject. +2 Social! HerpDerpHooves: Eeyup. DementedMan: > You gain +2 Silliness. DementedMan: > Silliness is vital for FUCKING PINKIE PIE STUPID HerpDerpHooves: FUCK YEAH DementedMan: > By which I mean making cupcakes >Lol pervert HerpDerpHooves: FUCK NO lol pervert he says HerpDerpHooves immediately regrets backtalking the game. DementedMan: > You should. HerpDerpHooves: >Subject: The rest of the MANE 6 DementedMan: > TWILIGHT blathers on about her friends and magic and other GAY SHIT. Your CON goes up by 1! HerpDerpHooves: lol >Subject: Pinkie Pie DementedMan: > PINKIE PIE is the pink one who likes parties and taking it in the ass in the dark and her friends and other such GAY SHIT. HerpDerpHooves: ... "taking it in the ass in the dark" DementedMan: > There is no TAKING IT IN THE ASS IN THE DARK here.
This approach can be updated in line with Keynes S=I identity, but it reveals problems. At one interest rate ex ante planned savings and planned investments are equal. After a change in interest rates planned investment increases. If you assume loanable funds then the stock of savings hasn’t yet been formed to fund the increased level of investment at the changed interest rate, if the investment (from whatever source) does go ahead then through the Kahn-Kaldor multiplier process this extra unit of money passes through several hands according to the holders liquidity preference, only after the stock of money declines to an asymptote or is fully exhausted by a consumer having complete illiquidity preference does planned savings then match planned investment. It is quite possible to hold a view of the multiplier where S=I as an identity at every moment, if one assumes the Kahn-Kaldor process generates both the additional savings and investment (a point Basil Moore did not grasp). What the loanable funds approach cannot explain is how savings change to maintain this identity at all times before these savings have been made. Here the loanable funds theory ties itself in knots as if you assume there is additional savings and less consumption due to a change in interest rates (a liquidity preference induced change) how can this square with the investment causing increased consumption from which the savings are made? Stock-flow confusion is at the heart of it – of investment comes solely from a fixed stock, and if investment proceeds at a steady pace so that the stock is immediately exhausted then a change in interest rates cannot lead to an increase in investment until that stock has been enlarged. Of course for banks investment does not take place from a fixed stock but from accounting of future income flows. This is to turn on their head the critique of early reviewers of the General Theory such as Myrdal and Robinson who though that the General Theory was incompatible with loanable funds – it is so loanable funds must go.
Results: Muscimol administration causes to reduce the symptoms of neuropathic pain, noticeably. As shown in thermal hyperalgesia, mechanical hyperalgesia, cold allodynia and mechanical allodynia decreased after 15 minutes. Except thermal hyperalgesia (df: 24, 5; F=1.1; p=0.12), other neuropathic pain symptoms had significant improvement after one hour and three hours of muscimol administration. Table 1 Type of test Before administration After 15 minutes The first hour The third hour Thermal hyperalgesia (second) 0.01µg 10.4 (0.12) 12.8 (0.4)* 10.2 (0.4) 10.1 (0.4) 0.1µg 10.5 (0.3) 13.04 (0.5)* 9.6 (0.35) 10.4 (0.55) 1µg 10.2 (0.4) 12.9 (0.8)* 10.1 (0.5) 10.2 (0.4) Mechanical hyperalgesia (gram) 0.01µg 5.2 (0.2) 6.9 (0.2)* 5.8 (0.25)# 5.7 (0.2)# 0.1µg 5.1 (0.1) 6.6 (0.3)* 5.8 (0.2)# 5.9 (0.1)# 1µg 5.2 (0.3) 6.8 (0.2)# 5.7 (0.2)* 5.9 (0.1)# Cold allodynia (%) 0.01µg 87.5 (13.9) 52.5 (10.3)# 65.0 (13.9)# 72.5 (5.9) 0.1µg 97.5 (10.3) 62.5 (7.0)# 68.8 (10.8)# 76.3 (1.8)# 1µg 96.3 (5.9) 62.5 (11.5)# 71.3 (5.8)# 77.5 (4.9)# Mechanical allodynia (gram) 0.01µg 8.8 (0.55) 14.75 (0.25)* 13.4 (1.1)# 12.2 (1.8)# 0.1µg 9.3 (0.7) 14.6 (0.3)* 14.3 (0.4)# 13.1 (1.4)# 1µg 8.5 (0.8) 14.9 (0.1)* 14.4 (0.5)# 13.0 (0.2)# Open in a separate window Using muscimol with the dose of 0.01 µg/kg in 15 minutes caused to improve the thermal hyperalgesia (df: 24, 5; F= 6.6; p<0.001), mechanical hyperalgesia (df: 24, 5; F= 7.8; p<0.001), cold allodynia (df: 24, 5; F= 6.96; p<0.001), and mechanical allodynia (df: 24, 5; F= 15.7; p<0.001). Muscimol with a dose of 0.1 µg/kg also led to improve the thermal hyperalgesia (df: 24, 5; F= -5.9; p<0.001), mechanical hyperalgesia (df: 24, 5; F= -7.2; p<0.001), cold allodynia (df: 24, 5; F= -7.03; p<0.001), and mechanical allodynia (df: 24, 5; F= -13.4; p<0.001) after 15 minutes of administration. The significant effect was also seen with a dose of 1 µg/kg ( ). The analysis of covariance showed that the efficiency of various muscimol doses was similar in reducing the symptoms of pain in different times. Based on this result, the efficacy of different doses of muscimol did not have difference on thermal hyperalgesia (df: 24, 5; F= 1.52; p= 0.24), mechanical hyperalgesia (df: 24, 5; F= 0.3; p= -0.75), cold allodynia (df: 24, 5; F= 0.8; p= -0.56), and mechanical allodynia (df: 24, 5; F= 1.75; p= 0.86) ( ). Open in a separate window Open in a separate window
Jeffrey Lovitky, an attorney for the American Council of the Blind, said he would ask the appeals court to reject the government's arguments and allow the case to go forward with a January hearing where the government is scheduled to provide testimony to aid Robertson in deciding what remedies should be adopted. Christopher Gray, president of the council, said that while his group has been lobbying for changes to help the blind since 1995, the government has yet to conduct any feasibility studies of what those changes might cost and has instead moved ahead with a number of design changes to thwart counterfeiters. "We would be happy to wait until the next change in the bills and build accessibility in at that time," Gray said. "Surely, if you did it that way, the costs can't be anything like what is being claimed by Treasury." Tara Cortes, president of Lighthouse International, another advocacy group for the blind, said the government's decision to fight making changes in the currency could end up being harmful to millions of Americans. There are 1.3 million people in the United States currently who are legally blind, but it is estimated that number will double by 2030 and millions more will have vision problems as the baby boom generation ages and more people fall victim to macular degeneration and other diseases, such as diabetes, that can affect vision. "While the government may argue that changing the dollar bill will cost billions, it will pale in comparison to the costs of the vision loss epidemic," Cortes said. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Enlarge AP file photo U.S. currency, on the right, uses bills that are all the same size. Euros, on the left, use different sizes for different denominations.
“Norwegian has leading edge aircraft technology but now so do many other airlines, thus first mover advantage is reduced,” Strickland, the airline analyst, tells me. The Boeing purchase, he continues, “was a really smart decision. But at the same time, there is a lot of supply of aircraft coming into the market.” In total, Boeing has sold 3,000 of its 737-MAXs. After I spoke with Strickland, United Airlines announced that it placed an order for 100 of the new planes. Norwegian Hits Turbulence According to Strickland, Norwegian also faces increasing competition in the low-cost long-haul market. In addition to young companies like WOW Airlines in Iceland, legacy carriers like International Air Group (IAG)—which owns British Airways—want in. On March 17 of this year, IAG announced a new low-cost long-haul airline, LEVEL. “We decided to launch LEVEL because the low-cost market is expanding from short-haul into long-haul and we believe this market segment will see a significant growth,” an IAG official told me. “It is clear from Norwegian that passengers are prepared to pay for the services that they want. This is a business model that we believe is profitable.” Added pressure from competitors and increases in operating costs has led many investors to start short selling Norwegian’s stock. By the end of July, five million of the company’s shares (15% of total capital) had been taken out by investors as shorts according to Reuters data. Since the beginning of the year Norwegian’s stock price has dropped 38%. This has led to tension between Kjos and investors. Large shareholders like Leif Eriksroed, head of Norwegian equities at asset manager Alfred Berg, the 11th largest investor in the airline, have spoken out against the company’s strategy. After a pilot shortage at the beginning of the summer that led to numerous delays, Eriksroed told Reuters, “They should improve their backup plans to avoid the enormous extra costs when they experience delays on new planes and technical or personnel problems.” But the company’s executives remain confident. When asked about the increased competition Ramdahl says, “It’s difficult to come from a high cost side and then make a low-cost model.” He continues, “I think they will struggle on the low-cost long haul. Renaming some part of your fleet you don’t get to be low cost. You need to be thinking cost every day.” Kjos echoed the sentiment.
Yet while Westerners are free to debate the merits of arguments put forth by New Atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, Israelis don't seem as eager to engage the topic – a strange phenomenon considering the fact that Jews are known for their willingness to butt heads on virtually anything ("for every two Jews, there are three opinions," etc. )Why aren't atheists in Israel – a Western democracy that accords its subjects freedom of speech and freedom of the press - part of the national discourse? "Atheism is perceived as something that is not Jewish," said Shahar Ilan, the vice president of Hidush – For Religious Freedom and Equality, an NGO that seeks to integrate ultra-Orthodox Jews into the workforce while advocating for greater separation between religion and state. "When you say that you are secular, you still haven't said that you rule out Judaism or Jewish culture, but when you say that you are an atheist, there's an inference of something that is distant from Judaism," he said.Since atheism is looked upon in Israel as inherently anti-Jewish, and disengagement from Judaism is not looked upon favorably, the logical conclusion – at least according to Ilan – is that nonbelievers in a deity are pushed to the margins. "I'm not saying that this is correct," Ilan said. "In fact, I don't see any problem in creating a sort of Jewish atheism. But because of the perception of atheism as something distant from Judaism, Israelis are not as forgiving. "This widespread attitude is all the more surprising given that Israel's most revered historical figures – from Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl to its first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, to many of the framers of the Declaration of Independence – were declared atheists.Ilan said that atheism has become a fringe topic in Israel that nobody even bothers to oppose it. Instead, his focus has been on cultivating a cogent Jewish secularism that "can compete in the marketplace of ideas. ""This is important for two reasons," he said. "Firstly, I have no intention of cutting ties to my roots. Secondly, the only way to compete in the marketplace of values in Israeli society is to say, 'What I have to offer is something that is good for the Jews and good for Judaism'.
Or maybe not. Because fuck these people. This new philosophy has freed me of more emotional angst that I can describe. Literally nothing the left says or does matters to me anymore. I don't care about their tantrums. I don't care about their accusations. I don't care if they say Trump is lying. I don't care if Trump is lying. This new philosophy has freed me of more emotional angst that I can describe. Literally nothing the left says or does matters to me anymore. I don't care about their tantrums. I don't care about their accusations. I don't care if they say Trump is lying. I don't care if Trumplying. They created this Frankenstein. They own it. I am free of all obligation. I will never play defense again. I will attack, attack, attack, attack using their own tactics against them until they learn their lesson. They created this Frankenstein. They own it. I am free of all obligation. I will never play defense again. I will attack, attack, attack, attack using their own tactics against them until they learn their lesson. What I will not do is let them play my values against me ever again. I don't need to prove that I'm better than them. I already know it. What I will not do is let them play my values against me ever again. I don't need to prove that I'm better than them. I already know it. Posted by: Open Blogger at 08:23 PM
BANGALORE: A Mumbai-based NGO has successfully tapped the power of the social media to raise funds to help high jumper Sahana Kumari so that her Russian coach Evgeny Nikitin could accompany her to the London Olympics Sahana Kumari, a resident of Kotekar village in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, is the first high jumper after Bobby Aloysius to qualify for the Olympics. "We came to know about her plight through one of the trustees of the Anandashram school in Mangalore where Sahana studied. It was the father-son duo of Mahesh-Vikram Bondal who brought this matter to our notice," Jaymin Panchal, a founding member of NGO Ek Aur Prayas told STOI.The NGO began 'Project High Jump for Olympics' through their website, facebook and twitter on July 13 and managed to raise few lakhs in just a few days. "The financial part of the campaign is closed now. We have raised the few lakhs required for the coach's trip to London. The Karnataka government's gesture of awarding Rs 5 lakh also helped," Panchal said.The NGO published the Canara Bank account number of Sahana on their website and asked well-wishers to directly make contributions. "Some of the people contributed through us but there must be other donors who must have directly transferred the money into her account," he said.Panchal said the focus is now on getting her the right equipment and processing the visas. "The Athletics Federation of India AFI ) told her on July 19 that she has to get the UK visa on her own. She has been running around since then. Even now she hasn't got the visa," he said. "Ek Aur Prayas conveys its heartiest thank you to all especially the Karnataka government and ND Agarwal for their substantial contributions, along with various individual donors who across the demographic borders came forward and made this campaign, to financially support Sahana, a great success," the NGO said in a new post on its website.The entire statement of accounts on donations received and the expenses will be uploaded on the website once Sahana returns from Olympics, the NGO added. "It is the first time we are taking up a project to help a sportsperson and I am happy we have succeeded," said Panchal, who along with Anil Kohli, are running the NGO.
Finally, the facilitatory effects of MIMO stimulation on target selection and execution were strongly supported by a significant decrease (F (4,401) = 9.14, p < 0.01) in the latency to make the match response (figure 5(D)) as a function of trial difficulty (number of images) on MIMO stimulation versus nonstimulation trials, which is consistent with figure 3(B) for differences in time of response execution on correct versus error trials. Figure 6. Lack of DMS facilitation by control stimulation paradigms which were not synchronized to MIMO-extracted PFC neuron firing. Mean (±SEM) DMS performance summed across all animals (n = 5) on trials with stimulation parameters and patterns (shown in (B) and (C)) that differed or were administered differently from those generated by the MIMO model (figure 5). (A) Left: mean DMS performance on trials with three different types of non-MIMO stimulation patterns (in (B)) delivered at the same intensity and pulse duration as MIMO stimulation (30–40 µA, 1 ms pulses) was decreased compared to control (no stimulation) performance. F (1,239) > 7.31, p < 0.01; *F (1,239) > 12.56, p < 0.001 decrease versus no stimulation (No Stim). Right: DMS performance across animals on trials receiving the same non-MIMO stimulation patterns shown at left with reduced current levels (≤ 20 µA). Dotted green curve shows performance on trials with MIMO stimulation (figure 5)(B). (B) Prior stimulation pattern: the pattern consisted of the same stimulation channels and interstimulus intervals as the MIMO-derived stimulation pattern (MIMO Stim, top); however the early and late epochs of stimulation were inverted temporally such that stimulation that normally occurred synchronous with the match phase response was now delivered prior to the match response (prior stimulation, bottom). The illustration shows stimulation on a single trial in the match phase, contrasting MIMO stimulation patterns at the top in green starting 1.0 s after match phase onset (−2.0 s), with the control MIMO stimulation pattern starting at 0.25 s after match phase onset (bottom, in green) and terminating 1.0 s prior to the match phase response (0.0 s). (C) Scrambled stimulation with randomized MIMO coefficients and the same overall frequency and number of stimulation pulses as MIMO stimulation delivered in the same match phase time interval; (D) Saccade stimulation refers to stimulation associated with saccade generation with fixed frequency (100 Hz) delivered at the same intensity in the same match phase interval as MIMO stimulation (figure 5). Download figure: Standard image Export PowerPoint slide
Fix it in place, and grab the bar far enough away from the pulley so that the dumbbells or plates do not get in your way!Picture 1: Me doing a pulley assisted one arm chinLoop the metal ring over the perpendicular bar and attach the "S" hook to it. Put a pin in the weight stack to select the desired assist. Pull the grip on the weight stack down which lifts the weight stack, and wedge a bar under the weight stack to hold it in place so that the cable coming off the top pulley has slack. Thread this cable over the pulley(in your hand) and then hook the pulley onto the hanging "S" clip. Remove the wedge and as the weight stack lowers, the cable is pulled tight against the pulley. It can't slip through because the snap at the end of the cable is too big. Stand under the pulley, pull down the cable, and attach it to the buckle of your weight belt. You're ready to do pulley assisted one-arm chins.Assisted right hand and left hand chins are done separately, but identically. Hang from the chinning bar with your right hand only, facing the end of the bar. The pulley is just in front of your right hand, no more than a few finger widths away. The cable(or a soft, strong rope) is attached to the buckle of your weight belt and runs vertically upward, over the pulley, and away from you towards the end of the bar. Pull up until your chin is higher than the bar, and drop down again to a dead hang. Repeat as desired. When finished with the right hand set, do a left hand set. Balance is very important. Use your free arm and legs for balance. Experience has taught me that it is best, for me, to try to maintain a position where my body is almost perpendicular to the bar, from start to finish. My head remains facing the end of the bar. Extend your free arm forward and parallel to the ground, with you hand out in front of the center of your collarbone. Your legs should be slightly bent at the knees but lifted in a comfortable position. Try to keep yourself from rotating outwards or inwards because rotating may put severe unwanted stress on your elbows. Despite my suggestions, It is important to find out what works best for you!
In his team's favor. He could be lollygagging up the court trailing on a fast break but will, with great conviction, declare that the ball was dribbled on the baseline or went out off an opposing player 60 feet ahead of him. The probability of one of these bullshit calls increases logarithmically as game point nears. "From clicc916 : "Assuming you're playing in a full-court game, this is the guy who makes a half-ass effort to get back on defense (when really, he's just tooling around near half-court line). He's going to wait for his teammates to get the rebound then demand it be passed to him cause he's, like, totally open. He could be considered a lay-up all-star, just don't make him play defense. "From an anonymous reader: "I play in a league with some interesting dynamics. The Escaped Prisoner is a product of one local Native American Crime Family. Every once in while one of the family gets outta jail after knifing somebody or stealing fish from the fish ladders. They hone their bball skills every day and pack on a ton of muscle while locked up. The Escaped Prisoner delights in punishing us softies and releasing their years of frustration on the court in violent fashion. If you want to win you must shoot jump shots. Going in the lane means losing teeth. "From an anonymous reader: "When you go thru the whole game getting everyone involved making sure theyre actively engaged, then when game point comes, you drop everything, full court press old ladies, undercut priests and prepare to eat everyone's children if that's what it takes to seal the 'W'." See also Pickup Martyr From an anonymous reader: "Kind of like the Stranger in a Strange Land but instead you stop playing to your strengths and continuously try to do all the things you don't normally do to either a) display your well-roundedness and/or b) because some ahole said you couldn't do those things and you hate stereotypes. "From TransINSANO: "Think Kobe Bryant when he's doing his Black Mamba act. This guy takes things way too seriously, basketball is his way of life and he is super focused at it, or at least he wants you to think so. Even if his friend suffers a bad ankle sprain and can't play anymore, instead of offering to help or take him home, he'll just say, "you ok?" and keep playing.
Donald Trump may be willing to give $1 billion of his own money to his presidential campaign, it was revealed Wednesday afternoon.During an appearance on Fox News' "The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson," Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson said the presumptive GOP presidential nominee could shell out a truckload of his own money — even if that means dipping into his real estate business. "As Mr. Trump has already said. He'd be willing to commit a billion dollars of his own money to make America great again," Pierson told Carlson. "Like he said, he would sell a building. He would definitely do that for the country. He's talking about helping out senate races, congressional races. The Republican Party doing fundraisers for the RNC, definitely. It's going to be a joint effort. "Pierson was referencing Trump's comments on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning, in which he seemingly joked about selling some of his real estate to continue funding his campaign. Trump did say, however, that he would likely have to raise money for his general election campaign as well. "We'll have to sell a building," Trump said. "I think that probably I'm looking — I'm not looking for myself. I'm looking for the party, where the party is going to receive a lot of money so the party can compete, including at Senate races, including at congressional races. You know, I think that's a big part of it. That's a big part of what I want to do. "Trump has spent roughly $36 million of his own money during this primary season, reported the Boston Globe last week. Judging by his comments and the remarks made by his spokeswoman Wednesday, it's still unclear whether Trump will continue to self-fund, solicit donations, or employ a combination of both should he become the Republican nominee.Trump's convention manager Paul Manafort said last week his boss has not decided whether to accept money from big Republican donors moving forward.
"Gaming 3" by Dave James and Michael Craig from Vsauce 2 - Chronesthesia "Moon Men [instrumental]," "Natty Sci," "Yo," "Sunday," "Ascention," "Carlin Dream," "Cover Me," and "Going Down" by Jake Chudnow from Showing My Desk to Adam Savage "Moon Men," and "Flan" by Jake Chudnow, "Walkabout" by Terry Devine-King, "Conversation 2" by Bob Bradley / Matt Sanchez / Steve Dymond / Sarah Wassall, and "Spook" by Matt Hill from Is Earth Actually Flat? "It's Good to be D" by Jake Chudnow from How Hot Can It Get? "Atlas" by Jake Chudnow from Mind Field (The theme song!) "Dustin Grieber," "Hydrogen," "Moon Men [Instrumental]," and "Lions Tigers and Apes Part II" by Jake Chudnow from Vsauce 3 - Can You See Me? "Moon Men [Instrumental]," "Dream Sequence," "Prelude to Shona," and "Olive" by Jake Chudnow, "Caminho Do Mar (1 + 2)" by Jair C Rodrigues Jr. / Guilherme L Rodrigues / Pablo Love / Campbell E Browning from The Banach–Tarski Paradox "Turquoise" by Jake Chudnow from Vsauce 2 - The Human Bridge Of Musicality "Dream Sequence," "Button," "Moon Men," "145 (Poodles)," "Moon Men," and "Cover Me" by Jake Chudnow from Some Surprising Things "Expanse" by David O'Brien from The Zipf Mystery "Button," "Buildings and Bikes," and "133" by Jake Chudnow, "One Day In August" by Marc Teichert, and "Like a Boss" by The Lonely Island from Websites For When You're Bored At Work -- DONG "Moon Men," "Carlin Dream," and "Dream Sequence" by Jake Chudnow from A Defense of Comic Sans "Moon Men," "Going Down," "Muff Mittens," and "Lions Tigers and Apes Part II" by Jake Chudnow from Names "Moon Men," "Philadelphia," "Hanami," and "Rainstorms and Rainbows" by Jake Chudnow from _ (blank title)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold discussions in Washington on May 16 at a delicate time for bilateral ties after U.S. President Donald Trump authorized the direct arming of Syrian Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units (YPG).Erdoğan will meet Trump for the first time since the latter assumed office, with the talks “to be in the format of a point rather than a comma” in terms of the allies’ future ties, according to the Turkish leader.Syria will dominate the agenda as the Turkish leader tries for a final time to try to convince the American president to change his mind about cooperating with the YPG ahead of a massive military campaign in Raqqa with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are dominated by Kurdish fighters.The Pentagon has identified the Syrian Kurdish militia as the local partner best-placed to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) out of Raqqa. The U.S. will deliver small arms, ammunition, machine guns, armored vehicles and engineering equipment to the YPG. The shipments were pre-positioned and could be delivered to the Kurdish militia “very quickly,” according to U.S. Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad.Erdoğan blamed Trump’s decision on civil servants from former President Barack Obama’s administration. “There are Obama’s men in lower positions [in the current administration]. He [Trump] is looking at the situation in Iraq and Syria through the information fed by them. And I say there is no need for the YPG or the PYD [Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party]. These are terrorist organizations. Considering cooperation with the YPG as a condition to fight Daesh is in fact destroying the reputation of the U.S. and the [U.S.-led anti-ISIL] coalition,” Erdoğan told a group of journalists in Beijing on May 14.The Obama administration previously provided arms to the SDF, while deploying hundreds of U.S. special operations troops to northern Syria to train Syrian Kurdish fighters.Turkey and the U.S. are at odds over the designation of the YPG and PYD. Turkey has entirely attempted to portray the two groups as terrorists since Ankara sees the Syrian Kurdish fighters as an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and complains that the American arms will eventually reach the PKK.
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+++ b/ diff --git a/src/mainboard/lenovo/t430/hda_verb.c b/src/mainboard/lenovo/t430/hda_verb.cnew file mode 100644index 00000000000..02f433f3c18--- /dev/null+++ b/ src/mainboard/lenovo/t430/hda_verb.c @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +/* + * This file is part of the coreboot project. + * + * Copyright (C) 2017 Patrick Rudolph <[email protected]> + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. + * + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + * GNU General Public License for more details. + / + +#include <device/azalia_device.h> + +const u32 cim_verb_data[] = { + 0x10ec0269, / Codec Vendor / Device ID: Realtek / + 0x17aa21f3, / Subsystem ID / + + 11, / Number of 4 dword sets / + / NID 0x01: Subsystem ID. / + AZALIA_SUBVENDOR(0x0, 0x17aa21f3), + + / NID 0x12. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x12, 0x90a60140), + + / NID 0x14. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x14, 0x90170110), + + / NID 0x15. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x15, 0x03211020), + + / NID 0x17. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x17, 0x411111f0), + + / NID 0x18. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x18, 0x03a11830), + + / NID 0x19. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x19, 0x411111f0), + + / NID 0x1a. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x1a, 0x411111f0), + + / NID 0x1b. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x1b, 0x411111f0), + + / NID 0x1d. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x1d, 0x40138205), + + / NID 0x1e. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x0, 0x1e, 0x411111f0), + 0x80862806, / Codec Vendor / Device ID: Intel / + 0x80860101, / Subsystem ID / + + 0x00000004, / Number of 4 dword sets / + / NID 0x01: Subsystem ID. / + AZALIA_SUBVENDOR(0x3, 0x80860101), + + / NID 0x05. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x3, 0x05, 0x18560010), + + / NID 0x06. / + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x3, 0x06, 0x18560020), + + / NID 0x07. */ + AZALIA_PIN_CFG(0x3, 0x07, 0x18560030), +}; + +const u32 pc_beep_verbs[0] = {}; + +AZALIA_ARRAY_SIZES;
One of his favorite physicians pressured him to tattoo the right side of his face to give the appearance of stubble, which had been erased by the burns. "And then I found out I was going to be the third patient in the paper," Ariely says, and that the doctor needed a critical mass of volunteers in order to publish his research. "This was an amazing physician who took great care of me for 3 years, … but at that moment, he wanted the paper out." This week, Fang and Casadevall published their latest missive in mBio: With Joan Bennett, a prominent microbiologist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, they analyzed ORI reports to determine whether men were found guilty of misconduct to a disproportionate degree. At the senior level, the gender imbalance was dramatic. The three reviewed the ORI files of 72 faculty members, and only nine of them were women. That's one-third of what one would predict based on female representation in the life sciences. Among trainees, the gap narrowed. Fang and Casadevall speculate that the inclination of male principal investigators to cheat tracks the increased likelihood of men to engage in risky behavior, well documented in the social science literature. Younger scientists—male and female—may cheat to please their boss, or because of pressure to arrive at certain results. "Scientists love to think that they are totally objective," when in fact they're often not, Bennett says. "I think it's very important to look at these questions." Fang and Casadevall admit that they're trapped in the system that troubles them. "I think it's crazy to focus so much on impact factors," Fang says. "But I have a postdoc right now who has a great story, and we're going to try to submit his paper to Nature. … I see the rules as they are, and I'm not going to sacrifice his career." At the same time, the two are trying to modulate how they run their labs and mentor their students. Casadevall, ever the broad thinker, urges lab members to read widely outside their field. Fang has postdocs working on multiple projects at once, with the hope that something will pan out and they'll be under less pressure. Fang's partnership with Casadevall has also changed how he'd react to fraud in his own lab.
The aim is for the player to work their way up the ranking system, from 99th place to first. The player vehicle is pitted against a wide range of computer controlled competitors, in locations such as cities, desert, airport, funfair and even an aircraft carrier. Levels can be beaten in one of three ways: Each level has a time limit, but more time may be gained by passing through checkpoints, collecting PowerUps, damaging/destroying the competitors' cars, and by running over pedestrians (with bonuses awarded for style). These actions also reward the player with Credits, which can be used to make instant repairs or recover the car (after falling down a chasm, for example). They can also be used to upgrade Armour, Power and Offense stats in the Parts Shop between races. This is also the time to switch which car to drive if others have been obtained. As well as opponents partaking in the 'race', some levels also contain a number of Cop Cars, which will activate their sirens and hound the player when provoked. They can be attacked and destroyed, but do not count as opponents. A single "Super Squad Car" exists in one level, and it can be claimed if destroyed. An Action Replay with multiple camera viewpoints is available at any point during a race. Originally released for the PC in November 1998, Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now was an instant hit and the Carmageddon series sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Here’s what a sample of the gaming press thought at the time: - Christopher Allen "Enjoyment" 4.5 stars - Joe Ottoson "Enjoyment" 4.5 stars - Dr.Moo B+ - Greg Kasavin 8.3 av. User Score - 9.5 Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now is the second of a series of graphically violent driving-oriented video games. It was conceived and developed by Stainless Games, published by SCi and released November 30, 1998 on PC & Mac. The Carmageddon series of games was, and remain, a poster child for video game controversy. The controversy surrounded the game's central premise; that of earning reward for running down innocent pedestrians. The game was notable for its realistic and ground-breaking physics, and for its in-game action replay features. It was also one of the earliest examples of a sandbox 3D driving game, and may have influenced other later games including the Driver and Grand Theft Auto series.
Table 1 Study n Mean (range) age (years) Sex Observation time (years) Comments Forette et al.41 191 80 (61–100) F 5 High t-C did not predict coronary morbidity Framingham40 753 60 MF 30 High t-C did not predict coronary mortality. Decreasing cholesterol associated with increased coronary mortality Siegel et al.42 551 72 MF 4 High t-C did not predict coronary mortality. Nissinen et al.43 867 (65–74) M 10 High t-C did not predict coronary morbidity or mortality Steering Committee28 75 (60–74) MF 4 Familial hypercholesterolemia. All cause risk of death 0.69; risk of coronary death 0.44 compared with the normal population Krumholz et al.44 997 78.8 (> 70) MF 4 High t-C did not predict coronary morbidity or mortality Weijenberg et al.45 272 (>64) MF 17 High t-C did not predict CHD mortality in men Simons et al.46 2627 (> 60) MF 5 High t-C did not predict coronary mortality Weijenberg et al.47 885 (64–84) MF 5 High t-C did not predict coronary morbidity Räihä et al.48 347 (> 65) MF 11 High t-C and LDL-C did not predict coronary mortality Simons et al.49 2805 (> 69) MF 11 High t-C and LDL-C did not predict coronary disease Abbott et al.50 4614 (65–93) M 26 High t-C did not predict coronary disease Study n Mean (range) age (years) Sex Observation time (years) Comments Forette et al.41 191 80 (61–100) F 5 High t-C did not predict coronary morbidity Framingham40 753 60 MF 30 High t-C did not predict coronary mortality. Decreasing cholesterol associated with increased coronary mortality Siegel et al.42 551 72 MF 4 High t-C did not predict coronary mortality. Nissinen et al.43 867 (65–74) M 10 High t-C did not predict coronary morbidity or mortality Steering Committee28 75 (60–74) MF 4 Familial hypercholesterolemia.
The repellent activity of the essential oilof the catmint plant, Nepetacataria (Lamiaceae), and the main iridoid compounds (4aS,7S,7aR) and (4aS,7S,7aS)-nepetalactone, was assessed against (i) major Afro-tropical pathogen vector mosquitoes, i.e. the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae s.s. and the Southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, using a World Health Organisation (WHO)-approved topical application bioassay (ii) the brown ear tick, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, using a climbing repellency assay, and (iii) the red poultry mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, using field trapping experiments. Gas chromatography (GC) and coupled GC-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of two N. cataria chemotypes (A and B) used in the repellency assays showed that (4aS,7S,7aR) and (4aS,7S,7aS)-nepetalactone were present in different proportions, with one of the oils (from chemotype A) being dominated by the (4aS,7S,7aR) isomer (91.95% by GC), and the other oil(from chemotype B) containing the two (4aS,7S,7aR) and (4aS,7S,7aS) isomers in 16.98% and 69.83% (by GC), respectively. The sesquiterpene hydrocarbon (E)-(1R,9S)-caryophyllene was identified as the only other major component in the oils (8.05% and 13.19% by GC, respectively). Using the topical application bioassay, the oils showed high repellent activity (chemotype A RD(50)=0.081 mg cm(-2) and chemotype B RD(50)=0.091 mg cm(-2)) for An. gambiae comparable with the synthetic repellent DEET (RD(50)=0.12 mg cm(-2)), whilst for Cx. quinquefasciatus, lower repellent activity was recorded (chemotype A RD(50)=0.34 mg cm(-2) and chemotype B RD(50)=0.074 mg cm(-2)). Further repellency testing against An. gambiae using the purified (4aS,7S,7aR) and (4aS,7S,7aS)-nepetalactone isomers revealed overall lower repellent activity, compared to the chemotype A and B oils. Testing of binary mixtures of the (4aS,7S,7aR) and (4aS,7S,7aS) isomers across a range of ratios, but all at the same overall dose (0.1 mg), revealed not only a synergistic effect between the two, but also a surprising ratio-dependent effect, with lower activity for the pure isomers and equivalent or near-equivalent mixtures, but higher activity for non-equivalent ratios. Furthermore, a binary mixture of (4aS,7S,7aR) and (4aS,7S,7aS) isomers, in a ratio equivalent to that found in chemotype B oil, was less repellent than the oilitself, when tested at two doses equivalent to 0.1 and 0.01 mg chemotype B oil. The three-component blend including (E)-(1R,9S)-caryophyllene at the level found in chemotype B oilhad the same activity as chemotype B oil. In a tick climbing repellency assay using R. appendiculatus, the oils showed high repellent activity comparable with data for other repellent essential oils (chemotype A RD(50)=0.005 mg and chemotype B RD(50)=0.0012 mg).
'A little later, when the stars come out to envy the beauty of the City of Marvel, the King walks to another part of the garden and sits in an alcove of opal all alone by the marge of the sacred lake. This is the lake whose shores and floors are of glass, which is lit from beneath by slaves with purple lights and with green lights intermingling, and is one of the seven wonders of Babbulkund. Three of the wonders are in the city's midst and four are at her gates. There is the lake, of which I tell thee, and the purple garden of which I have told thee and which is a wonder even to the stars, and there is Ong Zwarba, of which I shall tell thee also. And the wonders at the gates are these. At the eastern gate Neb. And at the northern gate the wonder of the river and the arches, for the River of Myth, which becomes one with the Waters of Fable in the desert outside the city, floats under a gate of pure gold, rejoicing, and under many arches fantastically carven that are one with either bank. The marvel at the western gate is the marvel of Annolith and the dog Voth. Annolith sits outside the western gate facing towards the city. He is higher than any of the towers or palaces, for his head was carved from the summit of the old hill; he hath two eyes of sapphire wherewith he regards Babbulkund, and the wonder of the eyes is that they are today in the same sockets wherein they glowed when first the world began, only the marble that covered them has been carven away and the light of day let in and the sight of the envious stars. Larger than a lion is the dog Voth beside him; every hair is carven upon the back of Voth, his war hackles are erected and his teeth are bared. All the Nehemoths have worshipped the god Annolith, but all their people pray to the dog Voth, for the law of the land is that none but a Nehemoth may worship the god Annolith.
I'm not sure how well you can see this, but there are tons of tiny white dots suspended in the sleeping pack. These are not bubbles or microbeads, but tiny capsules of... something. I think they might be Vitamin E, but don't quote me on that. In any case, they're moisturizing and they dissolve when you rub the cream into your skin.So now that we're past all the basic facts, I guess you might be wondering if I liked it better than the first time I tried it? Well yeah, yeah I do. But after using it a number of times I think it may be too light for my skin type. It's definitely moisturizing and I feel like my skin looked "brighter" after regular use, but I also feel like it absorbs before I even fall asleep, which is too soon for my tastes. I want a sleeping pack that will sit on top of my skin a bit longer during the night, because I feel think helps trap in the moisture from the other serums and creams I so desperately need on my poor, dried-out husk of a face.With that said, this sleeping pack might be the ideal choice for someone with oily skin or combination skin, because the kind of sleeping packs I favor might be too heavy for those folks and cause them to break out. (Different people's skin is... different. )One final thing to keep in mind: The whole Green Tea Pure skincare line is heavily fragranced. It's a nice fragrance (green tea mixed with a bit of something fruity), but if strong scents make you sneeze then you probably don't want this sitting on your face all night.Innisfree Green Tea Pure Sleeping Pack is a decent option for folks with oily or combination skin. People who experiencedry skin may find this too light for their tastes. Steer clear if you're sensitive to fragrance.I got mine from cosmetic-love on Amazon (whom I would consider to be a reputable reseller) They also have a shop on eBay , with the green tea pack available here . This product is available from most Korean resellers though, so I recommend doing a bit of price comparison. Just make sure to do your research and read seller feedback carefully before ordering!
Tomae, Plains Commonly Used Weapon: Katana Special Forging Material: Ligau Steel Main Occupations: Martial Artist Targets of Worship: (none) [Climate] A Unique Environment and Wildlife -------------------------------------------- A volcanic island located to the east of South Bafal. Ligau Isle is an independent territory that is not part of any other nation. But because of the unique environment of the island, it's not suited for living, so not many people actually settle down here. The only town is Jelton which is located at the island's northern shores. On this island which has become estranged from the other nearby regions, the plains are home to unique specimen, such as the dinosaurs that live there. These rich green plains breed many other types of plants and monsters too, so entering here is not a simple task. Mt. Tomae is a symbol for the island, and the smoke billowing out from the active volcano can be seen from Jelton. The area surrounding the volcano is covered by barren rocky lands with cave openings leading to demons' nests. Legend has it that a corridor leading from one of these caves end up at the core of the volcano, and it's said that in the middle of it is a god of death that rules over the dead people. [History] Adventurers Actively a Part of the History ----------------------------------------------------- A long time ago, Ligau Isle was a part of Bafal Empire. But people who were resisting the heavy taxation gathered together and, taking advantage of the decline of the Empire, rebelled against it and won their independence around 750. As of today, the only connection with the Empire that remains is the sea route due to the trading. The adventurers that come in plenty using this sea route have a leading role at Ligau Isle. Searching for hidden treasure scattered on the Plains, they venture out from Jelton once a day as a basis. Jelton is the base for the adventurers heading out to the Plains, and the businesses that can be seen there are crowding the town. [Culture] The Source of a Unique Culture ----------------------------------------- Ligau Isle has had its own culture from before they came under the rule of the Empire. Even today, the style of the buildings, the Katanas, and the Ligau Steel are there to see. The Katana's in particular, with the unique form of their slender long single blades, are not being made similarly anywhere else in the world.
Over two hundred years ago the Terran Transit Authority was formed. We were once given a monumental task: create the first transit gate and save our dying system. This, of course, took incredible amounts of resources and materials as well as the coordinated effort of the seven member planets (& satellites) of the Solar Union. A full history of the Terran Transit Authority can be found starting on page 112 of your employee manual. Even today the Terran Transit Authority subsidizes the building and administering of transit gates by providing funds and tax breaks to the companies that want to help grow our system. As you can imagine, there are immense amounts of rules and regulations to follow during the pre-planning, planning, construction, post-construction, staffing and administration of a transit gate so that there are no terrible accidents like that of the Gliese 667 transit gate. It is absolutely deplorable and completely unforgivable that a company such as the Murdoch Gates LLC would allow the use substandard materials in the building of a gate. At no point in time should the activation of an Einstein-Rosen bridge shunt the gate through itself. Every November 11th we hold a paid minute of silence to remember the day where over 700 Murdoch employees and 76 Terran Transit Authority employees lost their lives. As you can see on page 658 section 12 of your employee handbook, it is now completely illegal to open up bridge construction to the standard construction bidding process and construction of gates must be performed by a certified and licensed Bridge Construction Corporation of which a list can be acquired by mailing the “Request for Updated List of Certified and Licensed Bridge Construction Corporations” form to our mailing address on either Earth, Mars or Venus. This is an example of one of the many rules that our Terran Transit Authority Construction Auditors must know and be able to recite from memory.
Either way, it can NOT stop Tears of Lys or Tyene Sand and as someone who doesn’t play Stark, I think that’s funny.Barnie25 - 3 out of 5Good icons with upside, being able to become a beefy renown character is very solid. Helps the Tyrell Knight deck that seems like it will be viable in the future. But in a regular Tyrell deck I don’t see it finding a true home.Kidohearts - 2 out of 5I think he’s decent and will see play, but I’m not sure if he’s better than the Armies, mostly the Wardens. What I like about them over him is the No attachments. It seems like Ward is being played either in Stark or banner Wolf. It would suck to get like 2-3 power on him and lose in Marshalling when he gets taken. Also you have to have MORE Summer than Winter so with the new agenda there will be tons of Winter plots for some time.Scantrell24 - 4 out of 5Yet another 4 gold Mil Pow character for Tyrell…. When will it end!? Renown is good though, and depending on how the Summer vs Winter dynamic shakes out, Knights of Summer could be an improvement of Wardens and Roseroad Patrol. He might be even better in a year or two when newer Agendas have pushed Winter out of the meta. Also, in Melee he’s a rockstar.JoefromCincinnati - 3 out of 5A good solid body that will work wonderfully in Summer decks. Since Bitterbridge Encampment is out and wants Tyrell to use Summer plots anyway, the Knight of Summer will fit right in. On Summer plot turns (assuming there is no Winter plot revealed), he’s a 4 for 5 bicon knight with renown. Efficient, useful and strong. His overall impact will depend on how rampant winter plots are. Lots of winter plots means this character will rarely get the strength and renown, and that would make it a bad card.PatrickHaynes - 3 out of 5I’m sensing a pattern in this pack so far...He’s a pretty solid dude, Tyrell Knights like Summer plots and they like renown so they’ll probably like him. He’s still terrible against the Wintery choke that is the hard counter to that deck though so he’s nothing to write home about. Pro-tip: rip up all of your opponent’s copies of Ward before playing this card.Barnie25 - 1 out of 5Why does this card exist?
This doesn't imply confusion, since both chains continue to operate under the rules of their nodes. The only confusion arises from people wanting to transaction across both chains. It is only in this context that replay becomes an issue. > The idea behind orphaning the blocks of non-upgraded miners was to > serve as a wake-up call to upgrade, to reduce the chances of a > minority chain emerging in the first place, similar to what happens > automatically with a soft-forking change. If one's worry is a > chain split, then this seems like a reasonable way to reduce the > chances of that worry materializing. The Level 3 anti-split > protection takes this idea one step further to ensure that if a > minority branch does emerge, that transactions cannot be confirmed > on that branch. Stopping people from transacting on the old chain due to an ongoing 51% attack (again, using proper terminology) is one way to make it hard for people to transact on both chains. But if you don't care that people are able to transact on both chains, there's no reason to spend the money on the attack. So let me point to the elephant in the room. The proposed 51% attack is more obviously an attempt to transfer economic activity from BTC to BTU, not a benevolent measure to prevent confusion. It can clearly be viewed as elimination of competition through an electronic attack on BTC operations. Given that they are all regulated entities, I'm not sure how the envisioned large miner collaborators (or others who might fund it) will feel about participation in the scheme. > This is not a fight about “Core vs. BU”; Bitcoin’s future is one > of “genetic diversity” with multiple implementations, so that a bug > in one doesn’t threaten the network as a whole You are right that this is not about Core and BU. These are implementations, not protocols. However, please do not presume that other implementations are enlisted in your scheme, or that this is about making the network more bug-resistant. > To me it seems this is largely a fight about whether node operators > should be easily able to adjust the size of blocks their nodes > accept. BU makes it easy for node operators to accept larger > blocks; Core doesn’t believe users should have this power (outside > of recompiling from source, which few users can do).
The momentum will be with us and we can win UP.”Rajnath Singh had accompanied the Prime Minister during his rally in Saharanpur last month, to mark two years of the Modi government. While Modi presented what amounted to a report card of the past two years, Singh sounded the poll bugle for the state. He said, "For UP, 14 years of 'vanvaas' (exile) are over. Now is the BJP's time."
The relationship between theology and revelation is no different, and it takes this problem to the highest level because the work is so difficult and the stakes so high, and because it is so easy for us to fall prey to distractions.
The themes of Counter-reformation Catholicism were strenuously promoted by the Jesuits, who enthusiastically took up the cult of Guadalupe in Mexico. [91][92]
“They know they can go there.” What’s appealing about UGM, he said, is that every night you slept on clean sheets that you don’t have to share with bedbugs. If you have dirty laundry, it’s cleaned and folded and placed at the end of your bed so that it’s ready in the morning. One of his worst days came during his second week. After being given a sleeping bag at UGM, he planned to spend his first night outside at what he thought would be relatively safe place at Water and Abbott. That’s when he met Noble who convinced him that it wasn’t a good idea. He invited Barton to share the loading dock near Main and 5th. But Barton chickened out. “I woke up Saturday and felt like a big failure,” he said. “I hadn’t stuck to my plan. I was really down. I said to myself: ‘Jay, don’t look at staying out for a week. Take it one day at a time. If you can’t handle it after one night, you can go back to a shelter.’”
I will take my anguish and lay it upon the roots under the beech trees. I will examine it and take it between my fingers. They will not find me. I shall eat nuts and peer for eggs through the brambles and my hair will be matted and I shall sleep under hedges and drink water from ditches and die there.’ ‘Susan has passed us,’ said Bernard. ‘She has passed the tool- house door with her handkerchief screwed into a ball. She was not crying, but her eyes, which are so beautiful, were narrow as cats’ eyes before they spring. I shall follow her, Neville. I shall go gently behind her, to be at hand, with my curiosity, to comfort her when she bursts out in a rage and thinks, “I am alone.” ‘Now she walks across the field with a swing, nonchalantly, to deceive us. Then she comes to the dip; she thinks she is unseen; she begins to run with her fists clenched in front of her. Her nails meet in the ball of her pocket-handkerchief. She is making for the beech woods out of the light. She spreads her arms as she comes to them and takes to the shade like a swimmer. But she is blind after the light and trips and flings herself down on the roots under the trees, where the light seems to pant in and out, in and out. The branches heave up and down. There is agitation and trouble here. There is gloom. The light is fitful. There is anguish here. The roots make a skeleton on the ground, with dead leaves heaped in the angles. Susan has spread her anguish out. Her pocket-handkerchief is laid on the roots of the beech trees and she sobs, sitting crumpled where she has fallen.’ ‘I saw her kiss him,’ said Susan. ‘I looked between the leaves and saw her. She danced in flecked with diamonds light as dust. And I am squat, Bernard, I am short. I have eyes that look close to the ground and see insects in the grass. The yellow warmth in my side turned to stone when I saw Jinny kiss Louis. I shall eat grass and die in a ditch in the brown water where dead leaves have rotted.’ ‘I saw you go,’ said Bernard. ‘As you passed the door of the tool- house I heard you cry “I am unhappy.” I put down my knife.
The 1968 Tasman Series and Australian Grand Prix would prove to be his last major wins before his untimely death. He is remembered for his ability to drive and win in all types of cars and series, including a Lotus-Cortina, with which he won the 1964 British Touring Car Championship; IndyCar; Rallying, where he took part in the 1966 RAC Rally of Great Britain in a Lotus Cortina; and sports cars. He competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1959, 1960 and 1961, finishing second in class in 1959 driving a Lotus Elite, and finishing third overall in 1960, driving an Aston Martin DBR1. He took part in a NASCAR event, driving a 7-litre Holman Moody Ford at the American 500 at the banked speedway at Rockingham on 29 October 1967. He was also able to master difficult Lotus sportscar prototypes such as the Lotus 30 and 40. Clark had an uncanny ability to adapt to whichever car he was driving. Whilst other drivers would struggle to find a good car setup, Clark would usually set competitive lap times with whatever setup was provided and ask for the car to be left as it was. He apparently had difficulty understanding why other drivers were not as quick as himself. When Clark died, fellow driver Chris Amon was quoted as saying, "If it could happen to him, what chance do the rest of us have? I think we all felt that. It seemed like we'd lost our leader. "Jim Clark is buried in the village of Chirnside in Berwickshire. A memorial stone can be found at the Hockenheimring circuit, moved from the site of his crash to a location closer to the current track, and a life-size statue of him in racing overalls stands by the bridge over a small stream in the village of his birth, Kilmany in Fife. A small museum, which is known as The Jim Clark Room, can be found in Duns. The Jim Clark Trophy was introduced in the 1987 Formula One season for drivers of cars with naturally aspirated engines but was discontinued after turbo-charged engines were restricted in 1988 and dropped for 1989. The Jim Clark Memorial Award is an annual award given by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers to Scots who have contributed significantly to transport and motor sport. [19] The Jim Clark Rally is an annual event held in Berwickshire.
He maintains this false distinction for the period between the Roman Republic and the late 20th century, when he suddenly admits of a “civil war of words,” wherein it could be said that the words one chooses to use to describe a conflict could be said to be part of the conflict itself (e.g. with Libya and the UN above). He even calls to mind multiple other forms of civil or internal conflict that don’t necessarily include violence, namely, in addition to stasis, the Chinese nei zhan, and the Arabic fitna, saying nothing about the former, but adding that the latter can mean discord, temptation, anarchy, civil strife, or division, before excluding any further consideration of either due to their “obscurity.” Armitage is not ignorant to the fact that war or strife need not be the internecine catastrophe marked by physical force, swords, guns, or killing. If he had chosen a broader, less militaristic notion, perhaps he would have included passages using war language in novels of the infidelity of wives (the civil war of the family and lovers), in memoirs of mental illness (the civil war of the mind set against parts of itself), in histories of religious heresies (the civil wars of Christianity, Judaism, Islam), in fearful letters written between slaveowners worried about an uprising (the civil war concerning the humanity of slaves). For Armitage, these can only be metaphors derived from Caesars heroic battles, but, if civil war originally means conflict, strife, division, or discord, then we can unproblematically proclaim that these are civil wars in the original sense, and the armies duking it out in the city are in this light an appropriation of civil war, merely one possibility among many. But the colonial, civilized mindset is lacking creativity; because the colonizer achieved his goals through spilling blood and enslaving his enemies, he cannot see that his generalized aggression and hostility towards living things represents one way of living in the world and handling conflict among others.
This one trips up students (and colleagues -- see No. 3) all the time. For some reason, students assume that because we don’t belittle or demean them, because we don’t write harsh comments, because we have open-door policies, because we smile a lot, because we bake cookies, we won’t make them work hard. No. No. And no. I hold very high standards for my undergraduate and graduate students as well as for the teachers whom I supervise. You cannot do slipshod work for me and get good grades or good references. A comment I hear from students after a semester is over is that I am “tricky” or “sneaky” because I make them work really hard but they don’t always notice they’re doing it. I don’t believe I have to have the reputation of being the meanest in order to get the best out of my students or those whom I supervise. Because we are nice, we never get angry, tired or frustrated. If you prick us, do we not bleed? We are human. We react to stimuli the way humans react to stimuli. If we are overworked, underpaid, underappreciated and not respected, we will get angry and frustrated. Just because we may not lament our circumstances at every chance we get (see No. 1) does not mean we contain superhuman reserves of power and grace. Shit gets to us. Bad behavior gets to us. Injustice, incivility, disrespect, selfishness, people who don’t pull their own weight -- all these things affect us as much as the next person.
II. Support for Same-sex Marriage Direction of the Country and Ohio Ohio voters are evenly divided in their views on same-sex marriage. Forty-seven percent of voters favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, compared to an equal number (47%) who are opposed. Support is essentially unchanged since the 2012 presidential election, when PRRI post-election polling found Ohio voters evenly divided on the legality of same-sex marriage (45% favored, 46% opposed). (1) There are strong fissures in support for same-sex marriage by political and religious affiliation. About 6-in-10 (61%) Ohio Democratic voters favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, as do 51% of independent voters. In contrast, only 28% of Republican voters favor same-sex marriage; nearly 7-in-10 Republican voters (69%) and Tea Party voters (68%) oppose same-sex marriage. The issue of same-sex marriage also divides Ohio voters along religious lines. More than 7-in-10 (71%) religiously unaffiliated voters favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally. A slim majority (51%) of white mainline Protestant voters also favor same-sex marriage, compared to 43% who are opposed. Two major religious groups are closely divided: Catholic voters (46% favor, 49% oppose) and minority Protestant voters (45% favor, 47% oppose), a category that includes black and Hispanic Protestants. An overwhelming majority (70%) of white evangelical voters oppose same-sex marriage. Ohio Voters Less Supportive of Same-sex Marriage When Offered Civil Unions Option While Ohio voters are evenly divided on the issue of same-sex marriage when presented a binary choice, when voters are offered a three-way choice between marriage, civil unions, and no legal recognition, a more nuanced picture emerges. When presented a three-way question, 41% of Ohio voters support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, 23% say same-sex couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not marry, and 30% say there should be no legal recognition of a same-sex couple’s relationship. Thus, while nearly two-thirds of Ohio voters say they support some form of legal recognition of same-sex couples’ relationships, that support is divided between support for marriage and civil unions. Compared to the binary question, in the three-way question support for same-sex marriage drops 6 points, from 47% to 41%. On the other side of the spectrum, opposition to same-sex marriage declines 17 points, from 47% in the binary question to 30% in the three-way question.
(in The Furry Future, FurPlanet Productions; January 15) Shreddy and the Carnivorous Plant, by Mary E. Lowd. (in The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats, FurPlanet Productions; September 24 ) Shreddy and the Dancing Dragon, by Mary E. Lowd. (in The Dragon’s Hoard; June 4 ) Songs of Fish and Flowers , by Mary E. Lowd. (in Lakeside Circus, Year 2, Issue 1; March 15 ) Ernest , by Lyn McConchie. (in ROAR volume 6, ed. by Mary E. Lowd; Bad Dog Books, July 9 ) Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk , by Ken Scholes. (in ROAR volume 6, ed. by Mary E. Lowd; Bad Dog Books, July 9 ) Crepuscular , by Clement Sherwin. (Self, May 2015) Pocosin , by Ursula Vernon. (in Apex Magazine #68; January 6) Tow , by Watts Martin (in The Furry Future, FurPlanet Productions; January 15) Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work Other Earth, Other Stars , by Marian Allen. (Per Bastet Productions, short story collection; September 1 ) Rikki Venix Does New York City , by James L. Brandt. (Second Ed, illustrated short story collection; September 1 ) Mature Audiences. The Wild Piano, by Fred. (TOON Books, graphic album; May 5 ) Rescued: The Stories of 12 Cats, Through Their Eyes, ed. Janiss Garza. (FitCat Publishing, anthology; January 26) The Book of Lapism , by Phil Geusz. (Legion Publishing, collection; May 13) Last of the SandWalkers , by Jay Hosler. (First Second, graphic novel; April 7) Furries Among Us: Essays on Furries by the Most Prominent Members of the Fandom , edited by Thurston Howl. (Thurston Howl Publications, essay anthology; July 4) The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats , by Mary E. Lowd. (FurPlanet Productions, collection; September 24) ROAR Volume 6 , edited by Mary E. Lowd. (FurPlanet Productions, short story anthology; July) The Furry Future , edited by Fred Patten. (FurPlanet Productions, short story anthology; January 15) Review of Bête by Adam Roberts , by Fred Patten. (Dogpatch Press; April 28) Inhuman Acts: A Collection of Noir , edited by Ocean Tigrox (FurPlanet Productions, short story anthology; September 24) Best Anthropomorphic Graphic Story Ask King Sombra, by Jordan “Wiggles” Mullaney. (Internet (Tumblr), January to December) Beatriz Overseer , by Walter “Chochi” Gomez. (Internet, January 10 to November 18) Chevalier: The Queen’s Mouseketeer , by Darryl Hughes and Monique MacNaughton.
We used Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values as a metric of vegetation greenness. We downloaded NDVI maps from the USGS Famine Early Warning Systems Network data portal (http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews). This portal provides access to the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center’s satellite-derived vegetation products generated from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer where NDVI maps are composited in 10-day intervals. We selected six NDVI maps representing the approximate time periods during which we collected our field observations for wildebeest detections. Using bilinear interpolation in ArcMap, we downscaled the maps from their original ~260 m to 30 m to match the resolution of our other grids. In order to analyze wildebeest resource selection according to the relative greenness of vegetation at the time of the survey, the spatial NDVI data for wildebeest locations were matched to the time period in which the location data were collected. We scaled NDVI values by subtracting the NDVI for each wildebeest location from the mean NDVI for all pseudoabsence locations for that month. Thus, the anomaly indicated relative greenness of vegetation available during each survey period. We included distance to permanent water sources and two anthropogenic covariates representing distance to human structures in our models. Permanent settlements were clusters of concrete structures, whereas Masai homesteads (bomas) comprised one or more temporary structures made of natural materials such as wood, mud, and grass, and were encircled by fencing of cut thorny branches. We mapped all settlements and bomas using Google Earth (Mountain View, CA, USA) aerial imagery from June 2014. We created grids representing the Euclidian distance to bomas, permanent settlements, and water sources using the same 30-m spacing as our elevation and slope grids. We defined permanent settlements as polygons and calculated the distances from their edges, whereas bomas were smaller features approximately 100 m across that were defined as a point in the center of the boma. We hypothesized that wildebeest would avoid permanent settlements (Stabach et al. 2016), but be unaffected by bomas because pastoralist people from the Masai tribe have built such structures in this region over the past several hundred years and do not normally hunt wild ungulates (Reid 2012). We also included quadratic terms for each of the distance covariates to test for non-linear relationships.
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The believers will gather together on the Day of Resurrection and will say: Should we not ask [someone] to intercede for us with our Lord? So they will come to Adam and will say: You are the Father of mankind; Allah created you with His hand, He made His angels bow down to you and He taught you the names of everything, so intercede for us with your Lord so that He may give us relief form this place where we are. And he will say: I am not in a position [to do that] - and he will mention his wrongdoing and will feel ashamed and will say: Go to Noah, for he is the first messenger that Allah sent to the inhabitants of the earth. So they will come to him and he will say: I am not in a position [to do that] - and he will mention his having requested something of his Lord about which he had no [proper] knowledge (Quran Chapter 11 Verses 45-46), and he will feel ashamed and will say: Go to the Friend of the Merciful (Abraham). So they will come to him and he will say: I am not in a position [to do that]. Go to Moses, a servant to whom Allah talked and to whom He gave the Torah. So they will come to him and he will say: I am not in a position [to do that] - and he will mention the taking of a life other that for a life (Quran Chapter 28 Verses 15-16), and he will feel ashamed in the sight of his Lord and will say: Go to Jesus, Allah's servant and messenger, Allah's word and spirit. So they will come to him and he will say: I am not in a position [to do that]. Go to Muhammad (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), a servant to whom Allah has forgiven all his wrongdoing, past and future. So they will come to me and I shall set forth to ask permission to come to my Lord, and permission will be given, and when I shall see my Lord I shall prostrate myself. He will leave me thus for such time as it pleases Him, and then it will be said [to me]: Raise your head. Ask and it will be granted. Speak and it will be heard. Intercede and your intercession will be accepted.
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The steady state concentration of excited state pyruvic acid, [PA], can be inferred by balancing out its measured initial rate of production with an upper limit set by the measured loss of PA,[PA], against the loss of PA by thermal processes in reaction R2 and from its bimolecular reaction with ground state PA by reaction R3 ( Scheme 1 ). For practical purposes, there is no difference if the (indistinguishable) photoinduced bimolecular process represents a hydrogen atom transfer, an electron transfer, or PCET. Thus, from[PA][PA] +[PA] [PA], it is possible to obtain at variable [PA]Figure S8 ( Supporting Information ) shows that the photolytic rate in eq 4 [PA], depends linearly on the photon absorption by aqueous PA solution () with a slope of ∼2. Indeed, Figure S8 indicates that Φ≈ 2 or that each PA* produced per photon absorbed consumes an additional molecule of PA in a highly efficient bimolecular process. The Φshould not be confused with the photodecarboxylation quantum yield of aqueous PA, Φ= 0.78. (21) While Φaccounts for ∼50% of the evolution of CO(g) from the primary decomposition of Xper photon absorbed, the secondary decarboxylation of the oxo-Cproduct must contribute the other ∼28% of this gas. Thus, the missing ∼22% of produced Kradical must recombine to produce DMTA, which does not emit CO(g). For experiments with [PA]≥ 4 mM,is given by (2) only varies with [PA], because the incident photon rate,= 1.14 × 10M s, the molar absorptivity of PA (ε = 11.3 Mcm), (28) and the optical path length of the NMR tube (= 0.424 cm) are constants. Therefore, by substituting[PA]≈ 2in eq 3 Assuming this simplified reaction scheme, for each photolyzed molecule of PA generating the stoichiometric amount of ketyl and acetyl radicals, PA +→ K+ Y, provides a means to solve the steady state concentration of ketyl radicals, [Kin the system. Thus, balancing out the measured initial rate of PA loss to the initial rate of generation of product consuming K(observed from the channels R6 + R8 + R9 in Scheme 1 ) indicates thatThe initial rate of generation of product and loss of PA are presented in Figure S9 ( Supporting Information ) for a ≤ 20% conversion.
Before making your for social nudist outing spend as much time as you can undressed at home. Take time to get to know your body, and get comfortable with what you look like. At a genuine nudist experience there will by all kinds of bodies so the only thing you need to worry about is how you feel about your body. Do ordinary activities undressed. We have been conditioned to associate the nude body with sex. Doing natural everyday activities nude at home can help break that connection and imitate the natural non sexual atmosphere you will find in social nudism. So eat nude, sleep nude, do the laundry nude, watch t.v., read the paper nude, all the privacy and comfort of your own home. Make your first time clothing optional. Nothing creates more tension that feeling rushed or pressured into undressing socially and exposing your body before you are ready. Take your time and ease into it. No one should force you into a nudist experience it should be your choice your timing. Find an activity you like and do that. No only does it take your mind away from thinking about being nude it also reinforces the association of being nude while doing something non sexual you enjoy. If you like sports try playing volleyball which is a big thing at nudist resorts. Or go for a hike and focus on the beauty of nature. Swim laps in the pool, play frisbee golf, mini golf, learn Pétanque or ride your bike. Bottom line focus on staying active and not focused on being nude. Talk to other more experienced nudists and ask questions. Use Twitter or a register on a genuine naturist/nudist web site. There is no stupid question just ask, true nudists are always willing to help a newbie have a good experience. Do some research about the place or experience the more you know the fewer the surprises. Fewer surprises means less stress and more relaxation. At your social nudist experience. Don’t be afraid to seek out others who may be in your situation. I know my first time was made easier by seeing other people of color as well as talking to folks who were also there for the first time. Women talk to other women by and large nudists are very friendly and helpful folks.

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