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Name of shareholder Number of shares Highest value € Today's value € Church Body Church of Ireland 750,000 17.3m 262,500 Rector Monkstown Parish Church Dublin 51,800 1.2m 18,130 The governors for the Claremont trust 43,738 1m 15,308 Irish International Trading Corp Cork 42,899 986,677 15,014 Governors Mercers Hosp 25,000 575,000 8,750 IFA Bluebell 24,740 569,020 8,659 St Fintan's Diocesan Trust Mullingar 19,420 446,660 6,797 Parish Priest Raphoe 16,463 378,649 5,762 Dr Margaret Heffernan* 15,458 170,038 5,410 Frank Dunne* 15,458 170,038 5,410 Jewish Home of Ireland 13,516 310,868 4,730 Co Cavan Protestant Orphan Society 13,323 306,429 4,663 Sir Lingard Goulding Bart 10,635 244,605 3,722 Gov and Guardians Rotunda Hospital 10,368 238,464 3,628 Dublin Working Home and Harding Technical School 10,000 230,000 3,500 Ossory Board of Education 9,271 213,233 3,244 St John of God Convent Kilkenny 9,186 211,278 3,215 Kilmore Board of Education Cavan 7,262 167,026 2,541 St Peters Almshouse Charity South Circular Rd 6,428 147,844 2,249 Archbishop of Dublin St Lawrence 6,133 141,059 2,146 Brian Geoghegan and Mary Harney* 6,000 44,160 2,100 Charlie Chawke the Goat 5,981 137,563 2,093 Bishop ofWaterford and Lismore 4,571 105,133 1,599 Cork DioceseTrustees* 4,520 90,400 1,582 Lady Doris Mitchell Bateman Belfast 4,482 103,086 1,568 Dean St Patricks Cathedral 4,320 99,360 1,512 Co Leitrim Protestant Orphan Society 3,916 90,068 1,370 Council ofAlexandra College Milltown 3,760 86,480 1,316 Irish Medical Association 3,234 74,382 1,132 Irish Ladies Hockey Fund 3,200 73,600 1,120 Wesley Chapel Development Fund Douglas, Cork 2,989 68,747 1,046 St Finians Diocesan, Bishops House, Mullingar 2,880 66,240 1,008 IrishV eteran and Vintage Car Club 2,700 62,100 945 YMCA Cork 2,599 59,777 909 The Clare Heritage and Genealogical centre 2,530 58,190 885 Reverend Lord Bishop of Cork, Diocese of Cloyne 2,454 56,442 859 Dubco Credit Union Dublin 2,073 47,679 725 Rector St Catherine's Parish Church 2,000 46,000 700 Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green 1,895 43,585 663 Co Longford Protestant Orphan Society 1,684 38,732 589 Clare Champion 1,560 35,880 546 Sean Donlon, Killaloe* 1,550 24,149 542 Oxfam Ireland Belfast 1,536 35,328 537 Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 1,532 35,236 536 St Nicholas Church of Ireland Taylors Hill Galway 1,467 33,741 513 Castlerea Credit Union 1,459 33,557 510 Rector andWarden St Lukes Church, Cork 1,259 28,957 440 Governors of the Royal Hospital Donnybrook* 1,206 3,618 422 Archbishop Dermot Clifford, Thurles 1,065 24,495 372 Clonmel Credit Union 950 21,850 332 Archbishop of Dublin 922 21,206 322 Rev P Moore Administrator Mullingar Cathedral 904 20,792 316 Catholic Archbishop of Dublin 766 17,618 268 Richard Bruton 753 17,319 263 Church of Ireland Longford 690 15,870 241 Catholic Marriage Advisory Centre Cork 676 15,548 236 Dermot Desmond 541 12,443 189 St Lukes Parish Church Sth Circular Rd 520 11,960 182 Chairman and friends of Christchurch Cathedral 500 11,500 175 Parish Priest and Archbishop of the Parish of Newport 474 10,902 165 Convent Perpetual Adoration, Wexford 462 10,626 161 Rector and Church Warden Aughadown and Kilcoe Union 400 9,200 140 Ossory Diocesan Board of Education, Co Laois 394 9,062 137 Legion of Mary Dublin 388 8,924 135 Dean and Chapter of Christchurch Cathedral 321 7,383 112 Samaritans Ireland* 321 4,156 112 Rector Killarney Union, St Marys 124 2,852 43 Eugene Sheehy (FormerAIB Chief Executive) 2,760 63,480 966 Dermot Gleeson (FormerAIB Chairman)* 400,000 6m 140,000 *shares purchased after December 2006
by Matt Gersib J.Paks . Joe, the “J” in J.Paks, is also an avid adventure cyclist, so I was keen to learn more about his paks. After several email exchanges, I received three new paks — two SnakPaks and a prototype of the forthcoming GravelPak seat pak. Since my GravelPak was an early prototype, the design has changed considerably, and for that reason I’ll focus this review on the SnakPak models tested. SeatPak v.3 from J.Paks), it’a a great size for a long gravel ride or race. The SnakPak is available in two versions — standard and “fatty”. Both sizes are about 9-inches long and 5-inches high at their highest point, but the fatty tapers from a width of 2.25-inches at the rear, to 3.75 inches at the front. This makes it a good pairing with a full frame bag that tapers (wider) in the front. X-Pak VX21 , a pack material popular for its light weight, toughness and water resistance. A waterproof YKK zipper protects contents from the elements, and light, contrasting interior panels make it easier to locate contents within the pak, especially at night when using a head lamp. The Fatty SnakPak includes a hook-and-loop divider that the standard version omits. That said, if you wanted a divider in your standard SnakPak, I’m guessing it could be accommodated, given the hand made nature of these paks. MOLLE-style fabric loops combined with hook-and-loop straps. The system provides a choice of high or low mounting for the front strap, which attaches around the head tube, and four choices at the bottom, which attach around the top tube. I typically used two lower straps, combined with one front strap. Depending on which frame bag was being used, I could often use the forward strap of the frame bag to also serve as a strap for the SnakPak.I’m happy to report the SnakPak is an excellent performer. In fact, the latest version of the standard pak is currently my favorite top-tube bag. The changes Joe made to the shape, zipper length and stiffening material in the side panels has taken the design from good to great in my opinion. Dirty Kanza 200 , I stuffed nine packages worth of PowerBar Gel Bites (in one Ziploc bag) into it without complaint. And even with this load, it stayed stable and carried its load well.
Sensitivity analyses were conducted excluding cancers diagnosed <2 years after baseline (N = 118) to account for cancers that may have been clinically undetected at baseline. All analyses were performed with STATA version 12.1 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas, USA) with significance set at p < 0.05.
ALBANY, N.Y. New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Wednesday that he's prohibiting the state's $116.5 billion public worker pension fund from doing business with investment advisers who have made political contributions to the comptroller. The executive order also would apply to donations to candidates running for comptroller. DiNapoli's announcement is in advance of an expected ban by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission on so-called pay-to-play donations. "I've met with the chair of the SEC to urge the implementation of a national ban on pay-to-play political contributions, but we don't have to wait for the SEC to finalize its proposed rule," DiNapoli said. Actions in the comptroller's office from before DiNapoli took office have been scrutinized in recent months. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been investigating private equity firms involved in corruption at the state's public pension fund under DiNapoli's predecessor. The new ban applies for two years from the date of the contribution. The New York State Common Retirement Fund has about 350,000 retirees and 650,000 active members. It had $116.5 billion in assets at the close of its last quarter, down from the historic high of $154 billion in spring 2008. Many of the companies Cuomo investigated for their actions in an alleged pay-to-play scheme have paid restitution and are implementing reforms that the attorney general's office developed. Two ex-aides to former Comptroller Alan Hevesi are awaiting trial on charges that they instructed the companies to hire politically connected middlemen, known as placement agents, as a condition of doing business with the state. Hevesi resigned in 2006 and was convicted of using staff for personal purposes. __ Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Ranking Member of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs came out in strong support of the Kurdistan Region's "right to self-determination" on Monday as the Region held a referendum on independence. While the Chairman of Missile Defense Caucus stated the United States “is obligated” to support the independence bid.“I firmly believe in the Kurdish right to self-determination," said Representative Eliot L. Engel in a statement on Monday.The congressman's view differs from that of the State Department, which it was "deeply disappointed" in Monday's referendum. They are also timely, as the US Senate and House of Representatives work to pass the Fiscal Year 2018 Defense budget, in which direct funding is again earmarked for Erbil.Engel, however, sees the referendum as a natural step after Kurdish genocide, persecution, and atrocities.“For decades, the Kurdish people have endured campaign after campaign of atrocities, so it’s no wonder that they seek self-determination to protect themselves in the future," he wrote.Engel also noted the Kurdistan Region's willingness to open its arms to "nearly 2 million refugees from Iraq and Syria. ""Now, with ISIL’s demise in sight," he wrote, "the Kurdish people face additional threats from Shia militias seeking to exacerbate sectarian and ethnic tensions. "Engel encourages Kurdish leaders to use the referendum as a mandate to solve outstanding issues with Baghdad.“With so many urgent issues at hand, including ISIL’s final defeat, the return of displaced people, a recovering economy, and political complications in the KRG, I urge Kurdish leaders to use the mandate created by this referendum to address these important issues," he added.Both Baghdad and Erbil maintain the other has violated the Iraqi constitution on several articles, which was drafted in 2005 with the support of the Americans. "The Constitution of Iraq recognizes the administrative role of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and the Central Government in Baghdad must continue to honor its commitments to the Kurdish people and the KRG," Engel recommended.The congressman made headlines when he refused to shake President Donald Trump's hand after he addressed congress. Engel cited Trump's "attack on the free press. "US Congressman Trent Franks from Arizona expressed in a statement that now is the time to support Kurdish aspirations for independence.“While the Obama administration dithered and fought efforts to arm and support the Kurds, the Trump administration has the opportunity to stand with a noble people in their time of need.
I will give the zebra this credit, as well: she retained composure enough to neither break down nor attempt to flee.My sister then dictated terms of her silence to her. Personal recompense to all those she had wronged in her singleminded pursuit of her prize, and then arrangement to be caughtwith Discretion, to taint any revelations she otherwise might remain tempted to make. In exchange for this humiliation, a major concession, not seen in a generation, and the forced acceptance of leadership of a special new joint Equestrian-Zebran outpost in the Dragon Lands. In other words, a transparent attempt by Equestrian leadership to bury the embarrassment of the Honored Moon's secret lover being caught in a scandalous fling with a foreign national.And so it goes, and so it goes. The fallout is beginning tonight, cementing even further the tale of my disastrously ill-chosen romance. I have been finding it difficult to put on the proper front of outrage, but fortunately, my own part is more convincing the briefer I make my appearances, and my sister is as consummate an actress as one could wish for. (Though she needs little beyond truth, in setting forth the cold wrath she can feel in protectiveness of myself. )One major question remains. We have not yet decided upon appropriate consequences for Discretion's failure of confidences. My sister feels that I am entitled to decide, as the injured party, and I am of two minds about it.On the one hoof, had Variska been less skilled in blackmail or had less instinct for self-preservation, and the information carelessly slipped out, it could have been devastating indeed. I would immediately have lost this connection, and all of you with it, a heartbreak which I scarcely dare contemplate. The consequences for Equestria, in learning of a princess' use of magic long ago made forbidden, would have been equally dire. When dealing with secrets of this magnitude, intentions count for little.On the other hoof, from what I have been able to piece together, he is a victim in this. Variska drugged him with a concoction stimulating trust, and convinced him that maintaining his silence of the truth of our liaison would directly injure both Equestria and myself. He revealed our lack of tryst in the earnest belief that vouching for my chastity was toward my greater good.
Hammer and numerous other transactions like it are based on what are known as Collateral Trading Programs, although many other descriptive names and terms are also used.1 The reason for such programs is to create vast pools of ready money that are earmarked for use in sanctioned (authorised) operations and projects. On the plus side, many beneficial projects throughout the world get funded as a result of program trading. On the negative side, there are more shadowy projects. Included in the latter category are certain black operations. The amalgamated pool of funds created and now held in dormant and orphaned bank accounts runs to trillions of dollars, according to insiders. At the low end of estimates, there is believed to be enough to pay off the US national debt plus some change. At the higher end, estimates range up to hundreds of trillions of dollars. I have been repeatedly told, almost matter-of-factly, that the higher estimates are closer to the truth. I simply don't know how big the sums amount to, but I can document US$12 trillion. This sum is revealed in the late Baron Krupp papers that form part of the exhibits of the companion volume to dossier The Secret Gold Treaty (http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk). Many different sources say that programs are also used to launder money by spinning it through a program cycle until it is pristine clean. Drugs, guns and the usual array of dirty money transactions are said to feature. Since US dollars are the cornerstone of all program activity, Uncle Sam naturally gets a bite of the action. A percentage of the proceeds is collected via private tax treaties negotiated with offshore entities. These treaties also help to shield the reality of these programs from public awareness. There are unsubstantiated rumours that some of the tax take occasionally gets "diverted" for altogether private purposes. It is an allegation that is impossible to stand up, however. London and Zurich are key centres for program activity, although transactions are usually booked through offshore entities. London and Zurich are also gold centres, and more than one credible source confirms that "black" gold forms an important part of program trading activity. There are also good reasons to suppose that part of Uncle Sam's share of trading profits is credited to the Exchange Stabilisation Fund.
In addition to the live airings, ESPN also produces and airs three programs annually from the College Championships on ESPNU: one that features highlights from the four men’s and women’s semifinals and one each recapping the men’s and women’s championship games. As an external media entity, ESPN retains 100 percent creative control over what programs they produce and distribute via their television and digital platforms. This is not unlike any other broadcast, print or internet media company who covers the sport of ultimate. The most important things to broadcasters are ratings and viewership, which directly affects their ability to monetize content and sell advertising. Most often, when faced with a choice, they are going to choose the content that generates the most viewership. And over the course of our relationship with ESPN and the 69 programs they’ve produced since 2013, viewership of men’s games has outperformed that of women’s by an average of 51 percent per game. Where USA Ultimate may have influence is through the continued encouragement of its broadcast partners, like ESPN, to incorporate as much women’s content as possible into their programming, despite not always aligning with their viewership goals. An example of this is even though mixed programming generates an average of 38 percent more viewers compared to women’s, ESPN sacrifices ratings to air a women’s semifinal in lieu of a second mixed semifinal at the U.S. Open and National Championships, primarily because of USA Ultimate’s encouragement. Finally, one of the challenges that contributes to the inequitable coverage by ESPN at the U.S. Open and National Championships has to do with game scheduling. To broadcast all six semifinals (two men, two mixed and two women) on the tournament’s penultimate day would require games to begin as early as 6:30 a.m. or as late as 10:30 p.m. and require additional production crews at a prohibitive expense. Or it would require adding a day to the tournament, which adds significant expense to the participants, or a major change in tournament format, which results in less games played by participants – both options that are not viewed as favorable ones. Fortunately, since the inception of our relationship with ESPN USA Ultimate has ensured that all six semifinals at these two events are recorded and distributed through supplemental relationships with other video providers.
, center, is escorted from the federal courthouse in Houston in 1996. ,He led the Gulf Cartel, which moved a great deal of drugs and money through the Houston region. One member of the organization testified about counting millions of dollars in cash stacked on a bed at a Houston home. Garcia Abrego was convicted at trial and sentenced to 11 life terms. He brought the cartel into the modern drug-trafficking era after taking over for his now deceased uncle, Juan N. Guerra, long-considered the cartel's original godfather. less Juan Garcia Abrego, center, is escorted from the federal courthouse in Houston in 1996. ,He led the Gulf Cartel, which moved a great deal of drugs and money through the Houston region. One member of the , center, is escorted from the federal courthouse in Houston in 1996. ,He led the Gulf Cartel, which moved a great deal of drugs and money through the Houston region. One member of the ... more Photo: BRETT COOMER / Associated Press Image 8 of 25 Osiel Cardenas Guillen was chief of the Gulf Cartel drug-trafficking syndicate that made hundreds of millions of dollars pumping cocaine and marijuana through Texas , including Houston. He pleaded guilty to an array of charges at the federal courthouse here in 2010, and is now locked away in the Supermax prison in Colorado. He once personally held a gold-plated rifle to the head of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, who along with an FBI agent, was surrounded by Cardenas and his men in Matamoros, Mexico- just across the border from Brownsville. Cardenas had a reputation as not being afraid to get his hands dirty. was chief of the Gulf Cartel drug-trafficking syndicate that made hundreds of millions of dollars pumping cocaine and marijuana through Texas , including Houston. He pleaded guilty to an array of charges at the federal courthouse here in 2010, and is now locked away in the Supermax prison in Colorado. He once personally held a gold-plated rifle to the head of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, who along with an FBI agent, was surrounded by Cardenas and his men in Matamoros, Mexico- just across the border from Brownsville. Cardenas had a reputation as not being afraid to get his hands dirty. less Osiel Cardenas Guillen was chief of the Gulf Cartel drug-trafficking syndicate that made hundreds of millions of dollars pumping cocaine and marijuana through Texas , including Houston.
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. In fact it's not so much a country as such, more a sort of thin crust of semi-demented civilisation caked around the edge of a vast, raw wilderness, full of heat and dust and hopping things. Tell most Australians that you like their country and they will give a dry laugh and say 'Well, it's the last place left now isn't it? ', which is the sort of worrying thing that Australians say. You don't quite know what they mean but it worries you in case they're right. Just knowing that the place is lurking there on the other side of the world where we can't see it is oddly unsettling, and I'm always looking for excuses to go even if only to keep an eye on it. I also happen to love it. Most of it I haven't even seen yet, but there's one place that I've long wanted to revisit, because I had some frustratingly unfinished business there. And just a few weeks ago I suddenly found the excuse I'd been looking for. I was in England at the time. I could tell I was in England because I was sitting in the rain under a wet blanket in a muddy field listening to some fucking orchestra in a kind of red tent playing hits from American movie soundtracks. Is there anywhere else in the world where people would do such a thing? Anywhere? Would they do it in Italy? Would they do it in Tierra del Fuego? Would they do it on Baffin Island? No. Even in Japan where national pastimes include ripping out your own intestines with a knife, I think they would draw the line. In between the squalls of rain and trumpets I fell into conversation with an engaging fellow who turned out to be my sister's next door neighbour up there in Warwickshire, which was where the sodden field was. His name was Martin Pemberton and he was an inventor and designer. Amongst the things he had invented or designed, he told me, were various crucial bits of tube trains, a wonderful new form of thinking toaster and also a Sub Bug.
Which element of it he said he said with Donald Trump this morning he delivered his long awaited speech on illegal immigration last night. Saying there will be no amnesty he also renewed a promise. To build a wall and saying Mexico. Will pay for just hours earlier in Mexico trump said he didn't discuss payment with Mexican president. Pain and yet Dylan now of the Mexican president says he did discuss with Donald Trump saying he won't. Pay for the lost and Hillary Clinton's campaign meanwhile responding by mocking trump and his last minute trip to Mexico calling him. The quote great negotiator who choked and lied about it. But this morning a new national poll shows Clinton lead over trump or shrunk to just two percentage points now when the third party candidates to Gary Johnson and Joseph Stein. Are included in the pool and that two point difference is within the margin of error ABC's Kenneth button joins us now from Washington Kenneth good morning. Good morning Diane in DeVon yes it was certainly a he said he said case. After Donald Trott met with Mexico's president but overnight. Trop worked to clear up some of that lost in translation by delivering a forceful speech on immigration. This morning Donald trumps the signature campaign promise. In the southern. Mexico. Will pay for the law. In Phoenix it was back to the poor and tough immigration status that propelled the GOP nominee day and my friend. In office. I am going to create a news studies show. Deportation. Task force drove. Out amid to show he's not shifting. We're just hours before that typically tough talking trump. Was much softer as he met with Mexican president and retaken a nieto. Who was compared trumpet to Hitler we did discuss the wall we didn't discuss payment of the wall but later Kennedy after disputed that tweeting at the beginning of the conversation would Donald Trump. I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall and along the Hillary Clinton Campaign released a new video when the great negotiator actually went to Mexico. He choked and Clinton took the stage and Ohio to say trump is not a leader. Takes more than trying to make up for a year or insults and insinuations. By dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours. And then flying home again that is not how it works.
Do you think players unfamiliar with the Fear Effect franchise would be able to pick up and play Sedna and still able to understand the story and have fun? If not, what would you suggest they do to get acquainted? It is our goal to revive the franchise, and to enlarge the audience to new players. Players who were 5 to 10 years old back then are now 20-25; we’d like to convince them that the story, the characters are still good, maybe even better. That’s one of the reason we chose to change the gameplay. That apart, if they want to give a try to the 2 first episodes, they should! They are still excellent games, not in today’s standard in terms of difficulty and manageability, but the story remains strong and deep, even today. If this Kickstarter goes as planned, do you plan on continuing your relationship with Square Enix Collective? Of course! You know, working with the Collective team is an incredible experience. For me they have all the advantages of a big publisher, in terms of marketing, aura, and communication. But being a small team, they are also responsive, easy to join, ultra-motivated, so that’s really perfect for indie teams like us. No matter what happens later, they’re part of Sushee’s history now, and we’re very proud of that. We’d love to work with them as long as they want it! Can you explain why you went over to an isometric view as opposed to the 3rd person fixed camera angles from the original games? What do you think this new perspective will add to the series? We saw an interview from John [Zuur Platten] recently, with a French journalist, and he was saying that one of the main reasons they chose this gameplay is that it perfectly fit with the story they wanted to tell. That’s exactly the same for us. In Sedna, we want to focus on team work, to show how these very different people work and fight together. It’s neither a default choice nor a budget question, what we show in the campaign is really the game we want to create. And if both Square Enix, and at least 3 of the former members of Kronos (John Zuur Platten, Matt Furniss and Ted Warnock: who are all supporting us) believe in our concept, I think we can’t be making a mistake. But now it’s up to the players to tell us!
It next followed, necessarily, that they should instruct mortals by divine teaching, regarding rational creatures, both those of heaven and the happier ones of earth; and also (should explain) the differences among souls, and the origin of these differences; and then should tell what this world is, and why it was created; whence also sprung the great and terrible wickedness which extends over the earth. And whether that wickedness is found on this earth only, or in other places, is a point which it was necessary for us to learn from divine teaching. Since, then, it was the intention of the Holy Spirit to enlighten with respect to these and similar subjects, those holy souls who had devoted themselves to the service of the truth, this object was kept in view, in the second place, viz., for the sake of those who either could not or would not give themselves to this labour and toil by which they might deserve to be instructed in or to recognise things of such value and importance, to wrap up and conceal, as we said before, in ordinary language, under the covering of some history and narrative of visible things, hidden mysteries. There is therefore introduced the narrative of the visible creation, and the creation and formation of the first man; then the offspring which followed from him in succession, and some of the actions which were done by the good among his posterity, are related, and occasionally certain crimes also, which are stated to have been committed by them as being human; and afterwards certain unchaste or wicked deeds also are narrated as being the acts of the wicked. The description of battles, moreover, is given in a wonderful manner, and the alternations of victors and vanquished, by which certain ineffable mysteries are made known to those who know how to investigate statements of that kind. By an admirable discipline of wisdom, too, the law of truth, even of the prophets, is implanted in the Scriptures of the law, each of which is woven by a divine art of wisdom, as a kind of covering and veil of spiritual truths; and this is what we have called the body of Scripture, so that also, in this way, what we have called the covering of the letter, woven by the art of wisdom, might be capable of edifying and profiting many, when others would derive no benefit.
'Only a disciplined people can build a nation': North Korean Mass Games and Third Worldism in Guyana, 1980-1992 「鍛錬された民のみぞ国づくりに役立つ」ガイアナにおける北朝鮮のマスゲームと第三世界主義 1980-1992 Moe Taylor January 26, 2015 Volume 13 \| Issue 4 \| Number 2 Abstract: As the 1970s drew to a close, Forbes Burnham (1923-85), Guyana's controversial leader of 21 years, received Pyongyang's assistance in importing the North Korean tradition of Mass Games, establishing them as a major facet of the nation's cultural and political life during the 1980-92 period. The current study documents this episode in Guyanese history and seeks to explain why the Burnham regime prioritized such an experiment in a time of austerity and crisis, its ideological foundations, and how Guyanese interpreted and responded to Mass Games. I argue that the Burnham regime's enthusiasm for Mass Games can in large part be explained by their adherence to a particular tradition of socialist thought which holds education and culture as the foundation of development. While such a conception of socialism has roots in the early Soviet Union and, in the case of Guyana, was greatly influenced by the North Korean model, it was also shaped by local and regional contexts. The deep aversion of parents to their children losing class time to Mass Games training, along with ethnic division and Indo-Guyanese hostility to the Afro-Guyanese dominated government in particular, proved the central obstacles to widespread public support for the project. Despite these contradictions, Mass Games, which took on a local flavour distinct from its North Korean progenitor, did in fact resonate with those who believed in Burnham's promise of a brighter, socialist future, while also appealing to a certain widespread longing within Guyanese culture for a more "disciplined" society. Introduction In the final months of 1979, while the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan dominated international headlines, the approximately 750,000 citizens of the South American republic of Guyana (formerly British Guiana) were informed by state-owned media about the coming arrival of a strange and mysterious new thing called Mass Games, a spectacle event that would be, according to one editorial, "the most magnificent in the history of our country. "1 It would require the mandatory participation of their children in primary and secondary school, parents were told, and would take place at the National Park auditorium on 23 February 1980 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Co-operative Republic, as part of the broader Mashramani celebrations (Guyana's version of Carnival).
Of the 386 persons only in BCBST, 123 were randomly sampled; 106 medical records were reviewed; only 4 (3.8%) met the case definition (2 confirmed, 2 probable). Extrapolating the proportion of true cases (3.8%) identified from this sample, we believe that ≈14 additional cases would have been identified through review of BCBST claims data during the 2.5-year study period. Adding 14 additional cases to the 24 confirmed and probable cases already reported to TDH among BCBST-insured persons, 38 cases would have been identified. Only 19 of the 38 cases would be identified through review of BCBST data (sensitivity 50%). Of 391 BCBST-insured persons with >3 ICD-9 codes for Lyme disease, 19 met the national case definition (positive predictive value 5%). Of 102 BCBST-insured persons selected for review whose conditions did not meet the case definition, 22 were subsequently ruled out by laboratory testing after the visit in which the diagnosis was coded. For 27, evidence was insufficient to determine case classification, and 53 had a history of Lyme disease (23/53 [43%] had been prescribed antibiotic medications to treat Lyme disease). Nineteen BCBST-insured persons met the case definition and were reported to TDH as having Lyme disease but were not identified as such in BCBST claims data during the study period. In all instances, no ICD-9 code for Lyme disease was coded in billing records, despite the diagnosis in the medical record and subsequent reporting to TDH. The 4 most frequent ICD-9 codes used for these persons were fever (21%), myalgia/myositis (21%), malaise and fatigue (16%), and gynecologic examination (16%).
The audience has set a new bar for the year to come, as gamers begin demanding game experiences where their own will is the star.
Speaker Philip Gunn also refused an HRC request that he meet with the LGBT community before yesterday's final vote on the discriminatory bill. Under this new law, religion could be used by most any individual or organization to justify discrimination against LGBT people, single mothers, unwed couples and others. Tax-payer funded faith-based organizations could: refuse to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples for provision of critical services including emergency shelter; deny children in need of loving homes placement with LGBT families including the child's own family member; and refuse to sell or rent a for-profit home to an LGBT person — even if the organization receives government funding. It would also give foster families the freedom to subject an LGBTQ child to the dangerous practice of "conversion therapy," and subject a pregnant unwed girl to abuse, without fear of government intervention or license suspension. It would even allow individuals to refuse to carry out the terms of a state contract for the provision of counseling services to all eligible individuals, including veterans, based on the counselor's beliefs about LGBT people or single mothers. Furthermore, schools, employers, and service providers could refuse transgender people access to appropriate sex-segregated facilities consistent with their gender identity — all in direct conflict with the U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement of federal law. HB 1523 even legalizes Kim Davis-style discrimination by allowing government employees to abdicate their duties and refuse to license or solemnize marriages for LGBT people. Mississippi's HB 1523 is the third stand-alone anti-LGBT bill signed in law in 2016. The attack on fairness and equality are part of an onslaught of anti-LGBT bills being pushed in 2016 by anti-equality activists around the country, including nearly 200 anti-LGBT bills in 34 states. As of today, at least half of these bills have been beaten back around the country.
Opponent (Euroleague) Home/Away 2pt makes 2pt shots 2 pt % 3pt makes 3pt shots 3 pt % total makes total shots % W/L At Rim makes At Rim Shots At Rim % Away from rim makes Away from Rim Shots Away from Rim % Laboral Kuxta A 24 38 0.632 6 22 0.273 30 60 0.500 L 19 26 0.731 6 13 0.462 KK Crvena Zvezda H 21 38 0.553 15 28 0.536 36 66 0.545 W 7 7 1.000 14 31 0.452 Lokomotiv Kuban A 24 47 0.511 5 17 0.294 29 64 0.453 W 17 32 0.531 7 15 0.467 Lietuvos Rytas A 19 34 0.559 8 18 0.444 27 52 0.519 W 12 22 0.545 7 12 0.583 Panathinaikos H 18 36 0.500 7 19 0.368 25 55 0.455 W 11 11 1.000 7 25 0.280 Laboral Kutxa H 22 37 0.595 4 19 0.211 26 56 0.464 L 7 9 0.778 15 28 0.536 KK Crvena Zvezda A 23 33 0.697 7 18 0.389 30 51 0.588 W 19 24 0.792 4 9 0.444 Lokomotiv Kuban H 18 36 0.500 11 26 0.423 29 62 0.468 W 5 5 1.000 13 31 0.419 Lietuvos Rytas H 28 50 0.560 2 15 0.133 30 65 0.462 W 5 6 0.833 23 44 0.523 Panathinaikos A 15 29 0.517 10 27 0.370 25 56 0.446 W 11 14 0.786 4 15 0.267 Galatasaray A 25 42 0.595 10 20 0.500 35 62 0.565 W 16 23 0.696 9 19 0.474 Lokomotiv Kuban H 26 40 0.650 9 27 0.333 35 67 0.522 W 2 3 0.667 23 37 0.622 Zalgiris A 21 42 0.500 11 25 0.440 32 67 0.478 W 14 27 0.519 7 15 0.467 KK Partizan H 28 46 0.609 6 19 0.316 34 65 0.523 W 13 16 0.813 15 30 0.500 Real Madrid A 15 29 0.517 9 25 0.360 24 54 0.444 L 5 6 0.833 10 23 0.435 FC Bayern Muenchen H 18 34 0.529 6 20 0.300 24 54 0.444 W 5 6 0.833 13 28 0.464 CSKA Moscow A 14 26 0.538 8 25 0.320 22 51 0.431 L 11 18 0.611 3 8 0.375 Galatasaray H 20 30 0.667 16 28 0.571 36 58 0.621 W 8 8 1.000 12 22 0.545 Lokomotiv Kuban A 20 35 0.571 7 18 0.389 27 53 0.509 L 9 15 0.600 11 20 0.550 Zalgiris H 19 44 0.432 10 24 0.417 29 68 0.426 W 6 8 0.750 13 36 0.361 KK Partizan A 17 34 0.500 8 26 0.308 25 60 0.417 L 14 21 0.667 3 13 0.231 Real Madrid H 22 40 0.550 6 26 0.231 28 66 0.424 L 7 8 0.875 15 32 0.469 FC Bayern Muenchen A 20 34 0.588 13 18 0.722 33 52 0.635 W 13 21 0.619 7 13 0.538 CSKA Moscow H 20 39 0.513 8 13 0.615 28 52 0.538 L 8 12 0.667 12 27 0.444 EA7 Emporio Armani Milano A 26 48 0.542 7 14 0.500 33 62 0.532 W 19 33 0.576 7 15 0.467 EA7 Emporio Armani Milano A 21 34 0.618 5 22 0.227 26 56 0.464 L 16 27 0.593 5 7 0.714 EA7 Emporio Armani Milano H 24 43 0.558 6 18 0.333 30 61 0.492 W 6 10 0.600 18 33 0.545 EA7 Emporio Armani Milano H 22 43 0.512 11 19 0.579 33 62 0.532 W 10 13 0.769 12 30 0.400 CSKA Moscow (final 4)* A 19 42 0.452 9 22 0.409 28 64 0.438 W n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Real Madrid (championship)* A 23 55 0.418 9 22 0.409 32 77 0.416 W n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 21.1 37.9 0.558 8.3 21.3 0.389 29.3 59.2 0.496 10.5 15.4 0.739 10.5 22.5 0.465 *Not included in avgs
Either way, the fact that Japan is now a big part of the TPP, and wants to help "lead" the discussions to finalize that agreement should be seen as worrying -- since it may seek to put in clauses that would limit the abilities of countries like the US to roll back copyright terms.
Shopper The store closures follow a clearance sale which saw stock and fixtures and fittings being sold at discount prices. Customers were able to buy items such as staff lockers and the metal baskets they were filling up with bargains. As Glasgow's Argyll Street store closed one shopper said she had picked up bottles of water for 4p, with another saying that despite buying some DVDs and CDs for "pennies" it was a "sad day". Professor Alan Wilson, from the city's Strathclyde Business School, said one reason Woolworths did not survive was because it didn't offer the quality of some other stores. "And it couldn't offer the prices that the discount stores such as Primark, Lidl and others could actually offer," he added. In the Lichfield store Patricia Douglas, 58, said shoppers had squabbled over the final bargains. Mrs Douglas, from Hopwas, Staffordshire, said: "It is so sad to see the shop like this. Many devastated staff had worked for Woolworths for years "Woolworths used to be the heart of Lichfield. It was the heart of every high street. "We are all happy while we are getting the bargains but we won't be so pleased when all the other shops are wiped out too," she added. The administrator would not confirm how much money had been raised by the sale but many stores have been cleared out by shoppers. The chain's first British store was opened by American Frank W Woolworth in Liverpool in 1909. The city's branch shut at midday on Tuesday, as the manager said there was nothing left to sell. Empty shelves Edna Sherman, 62, from Everton, Liverpool, was one of the last customers allowed inside. She said: "People in there are fighting to get at empty shelves, there is nothing left. "I've been shopping at Woolies all my life. I remember going to the pick and mix when I was a girl and lately I would buy clothes for my grandchildren. "There was always a bargain to be had at Woolies, I just don't understand where it all went wrong." Woolworths is the most high-profile UK High Street casualty of the economic downturn and ran into trouble this year after struggling under the weight of its debt. Its problems were compounded when it was forced to pay cash while buying goods from suppliers because trade credit insurers were no longer prepared to cover its suppliers.
Many ads have a date on them ( the page they're on or the date of the publication you find them in) and are an excellent reference tool as well as looking great themselves in your collection. Other point-of-sale (POS) advertising, particularly die-cut cardboard, may also provide dates. Another source of information could be a merchandise catalog. As an example, Sears, Roebuck & Co. sold many products years ago and you may be able to date an item by its appearance in the catalog. Some collectors shy away from collecting tins with paper labels, but besides being very attractive, they can provide the name of the label's printer or lithographer. Labels were not always printed in the same location (city or state) as that of the manufacturer or distributor so you may have to make some long distance phone calls or write some letters to learn about the printing company's history. The date of manufacture (printing) may appear on it or sometimes be stamped on the backside. This can only be determined if you're willing to remove the label from the tin. Numbers on labels such as "553" may indicate the year made. "553" is May, 1953. These numbers may also identify a label stock number but most likely would be identified as No. 1227. Note: Early paper labels may not have listed or pictured the product within the tin or can. Your tin may have graphics or text that can be attributed to a particular time period. Match clothing, furniture, table settings, automobile make, and slogans (ex. war slogans-BUY Bonds), etc., to other known advertising items. Advertisers tended to use the most modern fashions on their labels. Look for historical events and important people in the advertising. Much of it was used only for a short time, usually no more than five years, after the event or person was significant. There are some exceptions to this; images of Abe Lincoln and Ben Franklin have endured for hundreds of years in advertising. You may need to invest in some good history books, encyclopedias, and old product sales catalogs for reference sources. (Note: In our time of nostalgia advertising- this may not be entirely applicable, but other clues will provide more identification information.) The construction of your tin may also provide clues to its age. In the 1930's/40's tins were constructed of rather thick steel sheet.
In addition to marketing electronic cigarettes, Electronic Cigarettes Central is an outspoken advocate for the use of ecigarettes as an alternative to smoking tobacco. This advocacy is founded in the personal experience of the owner and creator of Electronic Cigarettes Central who stopped a 37 year tobacco smoking habit by switching entirely to ecigarettes.It was with total dismay that the ECC founder read the unfolding news of FDA actions against 5 domestic ecigarette companies. In a move strikingly similar to the beginning of the attempted prohibition against alcohol, the FDA has asserted it's presumed regulatory authority over electronic cigarettes by sending warning letters to the 5 different companies demanding that they correct all product 'violations' cited by the FDA and submit to regulation of their products. The FDA has given the companies 15 days in which to comply. Failure to comply will subject them to seizure and shutdown at any time without any prior notice. In addition, the FDA has sent a letter to the Electronic Cigarette Association wherein it is stated that the FDA will commence regulation of Electronic Cigarettes as drug delivery devices and as such, the products will have to undergo years of trials and testing, costing many tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, to be considered to be approved as a regulated drug product.This is certainly the death-knell for these companies in particular and for the ecigarette in the US in general. The ECA is a small consortium of ecigarette companies with no significant funding. The ecigarette companies themselves are nowhere near the size, nor do they have the resources to have any possible chance of being able to comply with the FDA demands. Were this the end of the story it would be bad enough. But what is worse is that the FDA is systematically and strategically removing any possible competition for the tobacco companies. In effect, the FDA and the government itself is ensuring that...1) Tobacco will continue to be sold.
Global Insight’s model projected that after 20 years the economy would be about 0.6 percentage points smaller as a result of the additional defense spending. Slower growth would imply a loss of almost 700,000 jobs compared to a situation in which defense spending had not been increased. Construction and manufacturing were especially big job losers in the projections, losing 210,000 and 90,000 jobs, respectively. The scenario we asked Global Insight [recognized as the most consistently accurate forecasting company in the world] to model turned out to have vastly underestimated the increase in defense spending associated with current policy. In the most recent quarter, defense spending was equal to 5.6 percent of GDP. By comparison, before the September 11th attacks, the Congressional Budget Office projected that defense spending in 2009 would be equal to just 2.4 percent of GDP. Our post-September 11th build-up was equal to 3.2 percentage points of GDP compared to the pre-attack baseline. This means that the Global Insight projections of job loss are far too low… The projected job loss from this increase in defense spending would be close to 2 million. In other words, the standard economic models that project job loss from efforts to stem global warming also project that the increase in defense spending since 2000 will cost the economy close to 2 million jobs in the long run. The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has also shown that non-military spending creates more jobs than military spending. So we’re running up our debt – which will eventually decrease economic growth – and creating many fewer jobs than if we spent the money on non-military purposes.
The old couple raised the boy with an easy hand and he adored them in return, although he envied his friends for having both a mother and a father. It was his grandpa who first impressed upon him the importance of learning. "Get your educa- tion. Thomas," the old man told him, "it's the one thing they can't take away from you." "At the lime I didn\ know who 1hcy' were," Philpott says, "but of course 'they' were the British, Grandpa thought just like an Irishman," _H_tiona both real and fictional: Chief Joseph , R. P. McMurphy. Cool Hand Luke, Bobby Kennedy, lash- forward; It's a wintry after- noon in early 1982. Philpott is giving a lecture on Ireland as part of the UT student union's Interna- tional Cultures Week. "I was born in \| the U.S., but I'm an Irishman," he tells the 25 or so listeners drawn up in a circle on (Continued on page 212) MAY !«ajTEXAS MONTHLY 1S5 . THE TEXAS "TEA" SHIRT GENUINE TEXAS OIL PUMPER a available in men's and women's sues S t M, L, and XL. •Red Lt, Blue •White Navy •Yellow •Cream •Burgundy SALE $19.95 +$2.00 postage and Handling Allow 4-fi wwb for delivery T«xm Resident* Add 5* S1wTh MAIL TO: <3 TEXAS SPORTS SYSTEMS M ail orders: A ttn. Bill Sthober 1 122 West Fuller Ft Worth, Texas 76115 PHONE M817) 926-7771 THE FIRST AUTHEMTIC SZECHUAN CUISINE IN HOUSTON SHANSfW EAST RESTAURANT FROM NEW YORK ENJOY HOT, SPICY PROVINCIAL SPECIALTtES from WEST CHINA MANDARIN DELICACIES from NORTH CHINA COCKTAILS • WINES * LIQUEURS THE GALLERIA, Third Roof Houston 627-3662 The Case of the Campus Crusader (Continued from page 165) sofas and chairs. The Irish have a history terrible among the peoples of the world." he says solemnly. "Irish symbols reek of loss. And yet the Irish carry a great burden of guilt, because in fighting British desecra- tions they have committed atrocities of their own. Only an Irishman could have said, "It is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most who will conquer.' "The Irish boast of little in their culture, but they do have one telling conceit: their capacity for love. Irish blood gives the warmth that keeps the human race from freezing over. Only an Irishman could also have said: "The strength of a man is in his sympathies/ That statement is as alien as is conceivable to American culture.
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as a faithful, life-long Mormon, the same secrets that all good Mormons have vowed to keep secret, even though their life depended on it. And why does Romney (and his church) want to keep people from knowing those secrets? Most Mormons will claim that they are not "secret," but merely so "sacred" that they cannot be discussed. That is a quibble, since Mormons hold any number of other aspects of their religion to be "sacred," and yet they don't hesitate to discuss them (for example: baptism, conferring the gift of the Holy Ghost, ordination to the priesthood, etc.). In my day, when Mitt and I were initiated into the secrets, we were specifically instructed that we were under "the greatest obligations of secrecy." Nowadays, the Mormons simply take a solemn oath that they will "never reveal" anything about the rituals. That sounds like a secret to any ordinary person, doesn't it? All right. I am going reveal those secrets, since nobody else seems willing and able to do so. The biggest secrets involve the special lengthy rituals (the Mormons call them "ordinances") that take place outside of public view in the Mormon temples. The most important of these rituals is called the "endowment" - lasting several hours and taking the Mormon through symbolic washings and anointings (in my day they were actual washings and anointings on the entire naked body), then clothing the Mormon in special clothing and robes (including the notorious "magic underwear," which Mormons call "the garment"). The Mormon then watches and participates in long dramatizations of key events in the coming of the gospel, beginning with the creation of the world, showing Adam's fall, the coming of the Christian gospel (but not the crucifixion and resurrection), and ultimately the Mormon's being admitted into heaven, represented by "passing through the veil (of the temple)." When Romney and I first went through this ceremony, it was a ritualized dramatization with live temple personnel. Nowadays it's a movie.
The discoveries on Crete are still roiling the field, with critics arguing the researchers’ conclusions have leapt well ahead of what they actually found. Because most of the tools were discovered on the surface, rather than buried in layers of sediment, the artifacts have been difficult to date definitively. “It’s not enough. They have to find better pieces, more pieces,” said Albert Ammerman, an archeologist who worked on Cyprus. Better and more pieces is exactly what Tristan Carter’s team is after. Even for those who can envision seafaring hominins, it takes more than one site to overturn a long-standing paradigm. Two years ago, Carter and project co-director Demetris Athanassoulis obtained permission to excavate the formerly French site on Naxos, known as Stelida. “I had always had a sneaking feeling, having visited Stelida a few times during my PhD many moons ago, that maybe this site fit into these new discoveries.” The site is challenging. The researchers believe it was a quarry, where people came to retrieve the material to make stone tools for hundreds of thousands of years. “It’s like going to a factory and only seeing the stuff they threw out,” Carter said. After years of work, Carter’s team has found loads of artifacts, including distinctive tool types that on mainland Greece have been exclusively associated with Neanderthals and Homo heidelbergensis and could be more than 250,000 years old. But that won’t be enough to convince the skeptics: they need artifacts buried in clearly defined layers of soil that can be accurately dated. “A lot of people are going, “Aha! You have proven you have Neanderthal seafarers,’” Carter said. “We’ve always said, first of all, we’ve got to wait until we’ve got really, really good scientific dates.” Carter is relying on a method known as optically stimulated luminescence. Unlike radiocarbon dating, optically stimulated luminescence works on extremely old soil deposits, but takes months to process. Early lab results have dated some of the Stelida artifacts to at least 50,000 years ago. But the team is still waiting for results from the lower layers of the site, where the pre-Neanderthal-looking tools were found. Solid dates are important to estimate sea levels. Unlike Crete and Cyprus, Naxos is not a “true” island: when sea levels fell, it was connected to its neighbours to form one mega-Cycladic island.
Alternate Lighthouse convo with Rachel and Chloe: VO_E3_S09_CHLOE_020=I failed you. VO_E3_S09_CHLOE_022=What? That's the truth.I've failed you. I couldn't save your mom. I'm so sorry. VO_E3_S09_CHLOE_027=We've got time VO_E3_S09_RACHEL_023=Don't say that.You've done so much for me. VO_E3_S09_RACHEL_021=Chloe... stop. VO_E3_S09_RACHEL_024=You're my hero more than you think. You went through so much shit for me more than I deserved. VO_E3_S09_RACHEL_025=So stop blaming yourself. VO_E3_S09_RACHEL_026=No matter what I... I love you. I can't wait to see the day until we leave this town. In LA, you and me together. VO_E3_S09_RACHEL_028=All the time in the world. Frank Cut Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/daapbqd1a4aqaif/Frank_Cut_Audios.rar?dl=0 Sera Cut Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0cqmiy45hz2duvs/Sera_cut_conversations.rar?dl=0
Elections have been taken out of the hands of the American people by an alliance of 12 tricky and seditious Election Night Gatekeepers, agents of the coalition of money interests behind them. The purpose of this article is to explain how this happened, how we can maybe stop them from falsifying the election results to install Hillary Clinton as President in 2016, and how we can reverse the situation and restore transparent, honest elections. The fact is that only 3 mega-election vendors have the power to install Trump or Hillary Clinton into the Presidency in the 2016 Presidential election. And the 5 Big TV Networks enable these three privately owned corporations (ES &S, Hart, Dominion) to have this power by hiding their very existence from the American people, as well as their KEY and DOMINATING role on Election Night. Have you ever heard of ES &S, Hart, or Dominion? Probably not. These three mega-corporations could make the election computers say that Trump “won” 99% to 1%, or they could make the election computers say that Hillary Clinton “won” 99% to 1% – or anything in between. But what they and the other Election Night Gatekeepers announce MUST be believable, so that the American people accept the results, whether true — or whether grotesquely falsified by the Election Night Gatekeepers. “Making the computer-generated election night results believable” is the purpose of the endless, mysteriously-done “black box” public opinion polls treated so reverently by the 5 Big TV Networks in the months and weeks leading up to election day. And it is also the purpose of the mysteriously-done exit polls taken on election day by another one of the Election Night Gatekeepers (National Election Pool, owned by the 5 big TV networks and AP wire). For starters, since at least as far back as 1988, a handful of private corporations have totally controlled the “count” of 96% of the ballots in the USA for the November elections. Election officials in 98%+ of our counties have effectively stepped aside and turned over our elections to one of these few mega-election vendors. Furthermore, local election officials in each county which use election computers sign contracts that they are forbidden to look at the source codes of the privately owned computer software which tell the county computers what to do on election night. (!!!)
With Rogue One providing Death Star-sized proof that the standalone Star Wars movie model can work, it's full speed ahead for the next anthology film, the one everyone wants to see: the untitled Han Solo prequel. With Donald Glover playing Lando Alden Ehrenreich playing Solo himself , the casting has already started building excitement, along with the claim that the movie will be a kind of futuristic Western/heist film The official movie is set to release on May 25th, 2018, but a bunch of fans have already beaten them to the punch by making their own seedy, brawling tribute to the most dashing smuggler, card-player, and heart-breaker in the galaxy (and his giant Wookiee friend). And surprise, surprise, it's legitimately awesome. Check it out:From the casting (Han Solo and the creepy Jedi-fetishist definitely look the part) to the dialogue (the right mix of cocky, witty, and dramatic) to the special effects and cinematography (damn it looks pretty! ), this short film is head and shoulders above those half-assed lighstaber duels inevitably filmed in some fan's backyard forest. One of the things it does particularly well is strike the balance between sci-fi and fantasy that Star Wars is famous for: aside from the blasters, speeders, and holographic maps, Han Solo has to travel through a vast, beautiful wilderness, meet with a wizard-looking guy, and give him an ancient artifact (a lightsaber) to save his friend—it's an old-school quest.Plus, it gives an excuse to put a lightsaber in Han Solo's hands.When it comes to fan passion projects, this film is up there with some of our favorites, including Raiders! and Blade Runner 9732, the VR project that lets you walk around an amazingly detailed version of Rick Deckard's apartment from Blade Runner. To Keith Allen and the rest of the crew for "Han Solo: A Smuggler's Trade"—we salute you!
[1] Pepper realized that the method could be modified to make it easy to incorporate into existing theatres. Pepper first showed the effect during a scene of Charles Dickens's The Haunted Man, to great success. Pepper's implementation of the effect tied his name to it permanently. Dircks eventually signed over to Pepper all financial rights in their joint patent. Though Pepper tried many times to give credit to Dircks, the title "Pepper's ghost" endured. [6] The relationship between Dircks and Pepper was summarised in an 1863 article from Spectator: This admirable ghost is the offspring of two fathers, of a learned member of the Society of Civil Engineers, Henry Dircks, Esq., and of Professor Pepper, of the Polytechnic. To Mr. Dircks belongs the honour of having invented him, or as the disciples of Hegel would express it, evolved him from out of the depths of his own consciousness; and Professor Pepper has the merit of having improved him considerably, fitting him for the intercourse of mundane society, and even educating him for the stage. [7]
The choice will be the British people’s to make, and theirs alone. Europe must not reform because it hopes to bring the UK back to the fold: it must embrace reform because its future and its survival depend on it; because reform is as urgent as it is vital.
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Germany’s most notorious postwar neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence agent working for the British, according to both published and unpublished German sources. The alleged agent – the late Adolf von Thadden – came closer than anyone to giving the far-right real influence over postwar German politics. Under his leadership, the National Democratic party (NPD) made a string of impressive showings in regional elections in the late 60s, and there were widespread fears that it would gain representation in the federal parliament. Yet, according to a report earlier this year in the Cologne daily, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the man dubbed “the New Führer” was working for British intelligence throughout the four years he led the NPD, from 1967 to 1971. However, a former senior officer in German intelligence told the Guardian this week that he had been informed of a much longer-standing link between Von Thadden and British intelligence. His recollection raises the question of whether the German far-right-winger was under the sway of M16 when he and others founded the NPD in 1964. Dr Hans Josef Horchem, who was the head of the Hamburg office of the Verfassungsschutz – the West German security service – from 1969 to 1981, said he received regular visits from British intelligence liaison officers. “We held general discussions on security. At one of these – I think it was towards the end of the 70s- they said, ‘Adolf von Thadden was in contact with us’, and that was in the 1950s”. Mr Horchem did not know whether the links between the German and British intelligence had continued into the 60s and 70s. According to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, whose report passed virtually unnoticed when it was published, the neo-Nazi leader met his British contact at a hotel in Hamburg. (No pagination)
Trump’s transition team is identifying executive orders issued by Obama, which can be undone. “That’s a problem I don’t think the left really understood about executive orders,” Moore said. “If you govern by executive orders, then the next President can come in and overturn them.” That is partly exaggeration; rescinding an order that is beyond the “rulemaking” stage can take a year or more. But signing executive orders starts the process, and Trump’s advisers are weighing several options for the First Day Project: He can renounce the Paris Agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions, much as George W. Bush, in 2002, “unsigned” American support for the International Criminal Court. He can re-start exploration of the Keystone pipeline, suspend the Syrian refugee program, and direct the Commerce Department to bring trade cases against China. Or, to loosen restrictions on gun purchases, he can relax background checks. But those are secondary issues; whatever else Trump would do on January 20th, he would begin with a step (“my first hour in office”) to fulfill his central promise of radical change in American immigration. “Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation,” he told a crowd in Phoenix in August. After more than a year of candidate Trump, Americans are almost desensitized to each new failing exhumed from his past—the losing schemes and cheapskate cruelties, the discrimination and misogyny—much as they are to the daily indecencies of the present: the malice toward a grieving mother, the hidden tax records, the birther fiction and other lies. But where, in all that, is much talk of the future? By mid-September, Trump was in the final sprint of his campaign, having narrowed the gap behind Clinton in the popular vote from nine points, in August, to reach a virtual tie. His victory is no longer the stuff of dark comedy or fan fiction. It is fair to ask: What would he actually be like as a President?
causes AIDS, calling it a “harmless passenger virus.” It’s a theory derived from Peter Duesberg, a professor of molecular and cell biology at Berkeley, who has been widely criticized. Duesberg has been a guest on Fischer’s program. (Fischer told me, “He has a seven-hundred-page book—I read that thing through from the beginning to the end of it, and was persuaded.”) Fischer returned to a favorite theme: that homosexual behavior is “always, always, always a matter of choice.” He told his listeners that a scientific study had shown the concordance of homosexuality between identical twins to be only six per cent. “If one of them is gay and it’s genetically caused, the other one ought to be gay one hundred per cent of the time!” he said. Fischer cites such evidence with ease; he has impressive recall for everything from Bible quotations to academic articles. Yet he draws his information almost exclusively from like-minded sources, and ignores contrary statistics. For instance, in 2003, psychologists at the University of London performed a meta-analysis of six studies involving the concordance rate of homosexuality between identical twins, and reported a range from thirty to sixty-five per cent—far greater than the average occurrence of homosexuality in the population at large. The evidence, they concluded, strongly suggested a “heritable component.” Fischer has similarly cited a 2001 study by Robert Spitzer, the retired Columbia psychiatrist, suggesting that homosexuals could successfully undergo “reparative” therapy. But Fischer has not mentioned that the American Psychiatric Association publicly disavowed the study at the time. Spitzer himself recently renounced the paper, and apologized for making “unproven claims.” (Fischer dismissed this, saying, “He just caved to the gay lobby.”) To make his case that Grenell posed a national-security risk, Fischer presented a prurient scenario: “What if he’s travelling for Mitt Romney on government business?. . . He’s overseas somewhere . . . he’s got top-secret information in his hotel room, and he just can’t help himself? He’s gotta have an anonymous tryst with some homosexual?” A caller pointed out that straight people also take sexual risks. (Indeed, the recent Secret Service scandal involved male agents consorting with female prostitutes in Colombia.) Fischer was unfazed, maintaining his view that Romney’s choice of Grenell was “a very disturbing appointment.” By the end of the week, two prominent social conservatives had joined Fischer’s campaign.
According to this second reading, the casting (shaping, fashioning) by white and black men of the (racial-wealth) bucket is enabling because each has robbed the other of plenty and left both impoverished and impotent. If blackness is to become publicly productive, it only becomes so where the two activities of casting overlap, in that a utilitarian devotion to profit is mutually binding, and “the opportunity to earn a dollar … is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar” (114).
In the context of this exceptionally persistent planetary imbalance, studies suggesting a role for reductions in net forcing as driving the hiatus (16) only heighten the challenge for hypotheses that the hiatus is evidence for a strong negative feedback. Is such behavior surprising? Not really. As early as 2011, a study demonstrated that the NCAR CCSM4 reproduced periods analogous to the current hiatus, with such periods accompanying changes in the vertical redistribution of heat driven by winds at low latitudes (17). Subsequent work has shown that similar behavior is evident across a wide range of GCMs and recent observations have only reinforced the likelihood that the current hiatus is consistent with such simulated periods. The main question that persists relates mainly to the broader context for the hiatus, given the uncertainties surrounding internal variability, and just how unusual such an event may be. Nature As An Ensemble Member, Not An Ensemble Mean Fig. 2: The range of decadal trends in global mean surface temperature from the CESM1-CAM5 Large Ensemble Community Project (LE, black and grey lines, 18) along with an observed estimate based on the NOAA-NCDC Merged Land and Ocean Surface Temperature dataset. Also shown are the mean (circle) and range (lines) of simulated planetary imbalance (right axis) from 2000 through 2010 for the 10 members of the LE with greatest cooling (blue) and warming (red) The NCAR CESM1-CAM5 Large Ensemble Community Project provides a unique framework for understanding the role of internal variability in obscuring forced changes. It currently consists of 28 ensemble members in simulations of the historical record (1920-2005) and future projections (2006-2080) based on RCP8.5 forcing. At 4.1 C, the ECS of the CESM1-CAM5 is higher than for most GCMs. Nonetheless, decadal trends from the model track quite closely with those derived from NOAA-NCDC observations (red line), with the model mean decadal trend (thick black line) skirting above and below observed trends about evenly since 1920. In several instances, decadal trends in observations have been at or beyond the LE ensemble range including intervals of exceptional observed warming (1945, 1960, 1980) and cooling (1948, 2009). The extent to which these frequent departures from the LE reflect errors in observations, insufficient ensemble size, or biases in model internal variability remains unknown. Nonetheless, there is no clear evidence of the model sensitivity being systematically biased high.
(another thread)I DO USE DOG LANGUAGE to help Buddy stay calm. This has to be donea reaction, AT FIRST SIGNS of reaction. So far, for me, it’s fairly useless once Buddy is in the middle of a full reaction, but PRIOR to a reaction, it’s very effective.I ask for a “look at me” and when Buddy looks at me, i give him SLOW BLINKS, and a noise-y yawn. THE, but once he has SEEN your slow blink and the Yawn, theafter that for this exercise.I learned this trick from Tx_cowgirl, and it's also in a book, "On Talking Terms with Dogs/Calming signals" by Turid Rugass, and from Kikopup on youtube, LIKE THIS:Often, Buddy will yawn or slow-blink back. Sometimes Buddy turns his head away, that is good, too.THIS really helps my dog. a lot.I've even got a handful of miracles to report using those calming signals…yes I do!I told a pal to try this YAWN/SLOW BLINKS, and she did, BUT, SHE DID THIS FROM BEHIND HER DOG and her dog had no idea she'd slow blinked or yawned, and i busted out laffin when she told me.SO IT WILL NOT HELP IF your dog doesn't SEE you slow blink/yawnIf you ever do this, and your dog then stands and starts to fake-sniff the ground, with his side towards 'enemy dog'----------- leave your dog alone, wait silently, he IS doing the right thing.Just waitYOu will know it is a fake sniff,cuz,~they do it when they see an oncoming dog~they don't inhale deeply,~they don't blow out their nostrils to re-sniff~and they don't move about to follow the sniff, not even one step.posing with their noses in the grass, not moving, not breathing deep, = a fake sniff.when he is TRYING to do the right thing here. So DO watch for the FAKE SNIFF, and be very happy about this “answer” to your yawn. When my dog does his fake sniff, he can even calm down OTHER reactive dogs, if i do not interrupt it.It means "i'm just over here minding my own business, i'm no threat".All nearby dogs calm down, and me and my dog just walk by calmly then. Often, Buddy will walk by still in a sniffing position, as he passes by the other reactive dog.
“According to that fat fella in the delicatessen, their technique is to give us the cold shoulder until we run away in a huff. But this dame acts friendly. She’s . . . she’s—” He stopped while he sought for a suitable word, found it and said, “She’s un-Gandian.” “Not so,” Harrison contradicted. “They’ve the right to say, ‘I won’t.’ She’s practicing it.” “By gosh, yes! I hadn’t thought of that. They can work it any way they like, and please themselves.” “Sure.” He dropped his voice. “Here she comes.” Resuming her seat, she primped her hair, said, “Seth will serve us personally
Democrats across the state recently got something in the mail that many people consider startling. It’s a flier that uses historic images of the civil rights struggle.Mobile users tap here to watch videoSome believe the flier is intended to make the point that unless you vote for Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, you risk going back to the days of segregation.Mailer critics contend the message is: If you don't vote for Anthony Brown, Jim Crow laws will make a comeback.Not so, says the Maryland Democratic Party. They said it's a reminder of the hard-fought battle to vote and designed to energize the Democratic base."Lt. governor, if elected you would become the first African-American governor in this state’s history. Does race matter in this race?” WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Deb Weiner asked during a recent debate.The short answer given by both candidates is no.But some voters contend that the Maryland Democratic Party is now playing the race card. The mailer landed in the mailboxes of hundreds of thousands of Democrats across the state.It's filled with historic images of the Civil Rights Movement with the caption: It's our turn. They've placed road blocks in our path at every turn and history is watching to see if we vote. "My sense is it wasn't directed at race," said professor Michael Higginbotham, with the University of Baltimore Law School.Higginbotham is a law professor and author of a critically-acclaimed book "Ghosts of Jim Crow." He believes the mailer serves three purposes. "One is to analogize current voter ID restrictions with what happened with Jim Crow in the 1950s with restrictions on voters. Two, I think it is to remind voters of the close relationship between the Democratic Party, and the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King. And I think third, it is to note the historical significance of Anthony Brown’s campaign," Higginbotham said.Brown said the mailer is a reminder that voting is a hard-fought privilege and responsibility. "A responsibility born on the shoulders of so many who worked so hard to ensure all Americans have this right," Brown said.The mailer also includes photos depicting signs of current times. "There is real concern about the support of voter ID laws, really restrictive voter ID laws and early voting practices," Higginbotham said.Race came up during the Democratic primary. Attorney general and then-candidate for governor Doug Gansler told a group of volunteers his take on the issue. "I mean right now, his campaign slogan is, 'Vote for me.
The buyers will have to pay a VAT of 5.5% in addition to the hammer price, for which buyers from outside the EEC will be able to be reimbursed on presentation of export documentation within a time limit of one month after the sale, failing which it will not be possible to obtain reimbursement of such VAT.<br /> <br /> The buyer has the burden and the exclusive responsibility for the change of registration of vehicles, notably within the time limit set forth by law. <br /> The removal of vehicles must absolutely take place on the day after the auction sale, at the latest. Beyond this time limit, they will bestored at the costs and risks of their owner.
And if you ask the question, 'Well, what can I do for the poor in my own country, and other countries?' the answers will be to work really hard; try to innovate; save a lot; contribute to highly productive organizations. I do think we should feel a greater compulsion to do those things than we do now. So, I'm willing to bite that bullet. But, that to me is the moral dilemma. You know--not the ice cream cone. If the ice cream cone is what motivates people to produce value because they love ice cream, I say, 'Full steam ahead' with the ice cream cone. I'm worried that we are not innovating enough. Russ Roberts: Yeah. For me, the argument is, is really a failure to understand, I think the other side--that people would say--I think the example I remember from, I think it's from Will MacAskill, or he might be taking it from Singer, is: How can you throw a birthday party for your kid? That's just the most selfish thing in the world, because that amount of money could have an enormous impact on the wellbeing of a person elsewhere in a poorer society. And I guess the problem I have with that is: I don't think we have a very good understanding of how to make people's lives better who aren't living in our society. And, all these conundrums, all these puzzles and clever hypotheticals--they ignore that. They always assume: Oh, you can take this money and transform this person's life. As if there's just a box you could put the money in. We don't have that box. You know, people would say to--I love it when people say to me, 'Do you think we should give money to help education in poor countries?' and I'd say, 'No,' and they'd say, 'You are a selfish person.' And I said, 'We can't even figure out how to use money in the United States to make people's lives better in education. Why would I be so presumptuous to think I could do it in a different society, where the governance structure, the political institutions are designed often to steal that money?' I just don't see any evidence that there's such a mechanism. And to then--I'm willing to--the bullet I'd bite is to try and find mechanisms that will actually work.
Turkey is looking to drum up support for a ground operation in neighboring Syria together with its international allies to end the five-year-old civil war that has cost the lives of at least 260,000 people, an official has said.“We are [telling] coalition partners that there should be a ground operation. We are discussing this with allies,” the official told reporters at a briefing in Istanbul, according to Reuters.“There is not going to be a unilateral military operation from Turkey in Syria,” the official said, according to Agence France-Presse, but added: “Without a ground operation, it is impossible to stop the fighting in Syria.”Tensions have escalated over Russia’s air war in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with Ankara branding it “vile, cruel and barbaric” and European Union President Donald Tusk saying it “leaves little hope” of a solution.Turkey sees the ouster of al-Assad as essential to ending the conflict that has killed more than 260,000 people, and is highly critical of Iran and Russia over their support for Syria’s internationally recognized government.“That is what we think. And we are the closest ones to Syria so we feel the negative effects [from the fighting] more than the others,” the official said.“This has been voiced many times by us but we could not come to a conclusion” with allied states, he said.The official was speaking after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on the weekend that Turkey and its ally Saudi Arabia could launch a ground operation in Syria, putatively against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).But the official said such a move needed to be made in concert with Turkey’s allies in the international coalition against ISIL, including the United States.“Of course it is difficult to reckon what could happen in 10 days. If the conditions change there might be some options. But right now, we do not have such a plan,” the official said. “Our plan is to act in accordance with the international coalition.
Celkový podíl zaměstnanosti (neplést s mírou nezaměstnanosti) klesá výrazně od r. 2000, tedy již dlouho před „krizí“. Jde zde o úplně jiný trend. Budeme-li nadále používat podobné „míry nezaměstnanosti“, bude za 10 let většina Američanů bez práce, ale míra nezaměstnanosti se přiblíží k nule – k všobecné potěše všech ještě zaměstnaných politiků.Ve finanční oblasti to není o nic lepší. Globální ekonomika je, díky státním intervencím, zaplavena levnou a nepoužitelnou hotovostí, která nachází své uplatnění jen ve spekulacích, algoritmizovaném „rychloinvestování“, zadlužování, korupci a inflaci. Finanční nestabilita celého bankovního systému se tak stále prohlubuje. To je nejlépe vidět i na růstu (zadlužených) burzovních a spekulačních trhů při současném propadu reálné ekonomiky: tatofinanční a reálné ekonomiky může vyústit pouze vesoučasných finančních systémů.Jediným východiskem je návrat k teorii a principům svobodného trhu a relokalizace bankovních služeb do regionálních a lokálních podmínek přímého spojení se zákazníkem, transparentnosti, a spolupráce při rozvoji daného regionu.Růst HDP v EU byl -0,3 v 2012 a (optimistický) odhad je 0,1 pro 2013. V ČR jsou stejné údaje na hodnotách -1,1 a 0,0. ČR patří mezi nejsilněji se propadající ekonomiky EU, spolu se Španělskem a Nizozemskem. ČR chudne, spolu s Itálií, Španělskem, Maltou, Kyprem a Slovinskem. Podle CONSEQ, patří ČR v EU mezi skupinu zemíToto zvláštní postavení ČR je dáno bizarním charakterem české ekonomiky (od původního „nastavení“ v 90. letech). I když jsmeekonomika, tak jako(Irsko, Rakousko a Švédsko) anebo(Estonsko, Malta, Slovensko, Bulharsko, atp. ), jsme přitom ekonomikoumístnímu podnikání (národním malým a středním podnikům), neautonomní, závislou a(outsourcing), zvláště od ekonomiky německé. Když Něměcko kýchne, ČR dostane zápal plic. Navíc jsme ekonomika, tj. „vyvážíme“ převážně kontrahované služby (jako montáže a skladování) a součástky, ne konečné výrobky. Většina ekonomiky nám nepatří.Ukazateléčs. průmyslu jsou vždy silně kolísající, ale od r. 2011 také silně deprimující poklesem -7% v závěru r. 2012. Tento kontrast s mýtem „exportní“ ekonomiky je dán vysokou hodnotou vývozu (která nám nepatří) a nízkým procentem tržeb, které za nízkou přidanou hodnotu svých služeb realizujeme.I když výrazně chudneme, iracionálně „optimistické“ zalhávání politiků a medií o dočasnosti a hloubce české krize, vede občany, místní samosprávy a podniky ke katastrofickému zadlužování a spekulativním investicím právě v době, kdy je růstový režim odsunut do nedohledna a finanční bublina je na prasknutí. Nikdo neví co jsou „prorůstová opatření“ (kromě snad jeskynních „vševědů“) v současném kontextu EU.
In some countries like India, Pakistan and Thailand, it was the poorer section who had to bear the brunt of corruption and pay a bribe.Nearly 73% of those who paid a bribe in India were from the poorer section of society, in Pakistan and Thailand this percentage was 64% and 46% respectively.Surprisingly a reverse trend was found in some countries – such as China, where the richer sections were more likely to pay a bribe – perhaps to get a quicker or better quality of service.“Governments must do more to deliver on their anti-corruption commitments. It’s time to stop talking and act. Millions of people are forced to pay bribes for public services and it is the poor who are most vulnerable,” said José Ugaz, chair of Transparency International.As many states in India, already have in place the ‘Right to Public Services Act’ cutting across a number of services, which require that services be delivered within a stipulated time period, the survey results point out the need for further improvement.In India, respondents reported the highest bribery incident in procuring government healthcare services and even identification related documents. Nearly 59% of the respondents had paid a bribe for such services. Bribes paid for education were next on the list with 58% having reported doing so.Speaking to TOI, Ilham Mohamed, regional coordinator, South Asia & Mongolia at TI said: “At the state level, anti-corruption policies must be focussed on catering to the poor. Uniform best practices for state levl lokayuktas must be agreed upon and any overlaps with other law enforcement agencies must be resolved at the earliest. "She adds that at the national level, “India needs to urgently align its foreign bribery laws with its UNCAC (United Nations Convention against Corruption) obligations. Signing OECD anti-bribery commission is key in this process. The legal infrastructure for public procurement in India falls under the remit of the General Financial Rules. TI recommends that a national procurement law that incorporates international best practices including debarment, appeal processes and a review processes be enacted. This will substantially reduce fraud in public contracting which will in turn affect the quality of public service delivery. For grand corruption, a key step would be to set up effective enabling regulations and institutions for the LokPal.” Across the region, people thought that reporting corruption (22%) followed by refusing to pay bribes (21%) were most effective.
Bioassays Wagner and Oehlmann (2009) employed two bioassays to investigate the estrogenicity of water within PET bottles. First, they used a yeast estrogen screen, employing a strain transfected with the human estrogen receptor α. They evaluated 20 brands of mineral water, nine of which are available both in glass and in PET bottles. Three of nine brands sampled in glass demonstrated significant estrogenic activity in this bioassay, compared with seven of nine brands of water from PET bottles. However, one cannot say with certainty that the estrogenic substance or substances necessarily leached from the bottles; the contaminant may have been introduced into the water before bottling. The second bioassay by Wagner and Oehlmann (2009) addressed this concern. These investigators emptied the bottles of their contents, then filled the empty PET bottles and glass bottles with a defined culture medium (pH 8.0 ± 0.5) and incubated New Zealand mudsnails, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, for 56 days. Production of embryos was significantly enhanced among snails incubated in the PET bottles compared with snails incubated in glass bottles, across all brands (p < 0.001). For example, production of embryos incubated in PET bottles of brand D was roughly double the production of embryos incubated in glass bottles of brand D; curiously, on the yeast estrogen screen, this same brand showed no difference in estrogenic activity between PET-bottled water and glass-bottled water. This finding suggests that the in vivo snail bioassay might be more sensitive than the in vitro yeast estrogen screen. Regarding the snail bioassay, Wagner and Oehlmann (2009) concluded that “it is obvious that the observed effects can only be attributed to xenoestrogen leaching from these plastic bottles. Moreover, the compounds released by the PET material were potent [enough] to trigger estrogenic effects in vivo similar to those of E 2 [17α ethinyl estradiol] at a concentration of 25 ng/L.” The maximum estrogen activity that they detected in any brand of water was equivalent to 75 ng/L of ethinyl estradiol. Pinto and Reali (2009) also employed a yeast bioassay to investigate estrogenic activity in samples of water obtained from PET bottles. Like Wagner and Oehlmann (2009), they found large variations among brands of water obtained from PET bottles: In ethinyl estradiol equivalents, their results ranged from a low of 0.9 ng/L to a high of 23.1 ng/L. Pinto and Reali explained this variation by noting that “not all PET materials are of the same chemical quality.
On the same night as the screening of Almost a Dynasty, 150 other Bills fans were meeting a couple blocks away, again at the main bar of the Hotel Lafayette. They were there as part of the Buffalo Fan Alliance, a group of businessmen, politicians, and other local powerbrokers who had organized to keep the Bills in Buffalo. Brian Cinelli, a 36-year-old trial lawyer, and Matt Sabuda, a 30-year-old real estate investor, had been talking in the offseason about the looming uncertainty created by Ralph Wilson’s silence when they realized there had to be thousands of Bills fans like them — professional types. There had to be a way to monetize the depth of their love. The NFL no longer allowed equity ownership of teams, having grandfathered in the Green Bay Packers model. So Brian and Matt had the idea to create a fund, contributed to by regional businesses and fans, that would lend money to the owners of the Bills, whoever they might be, on extremely favorable terms. The money might be loaned well below market interest rates, or with the potential of debt forgiveness, but it would come as well with restrictions on relocation. Buffalo would never top other cities’ revenue streams, but a stay-put buyer could justify a highest bid by showing these savings on the debt side. With the nonagenarian Wilson in and out of the hospital, Brian and Matt wasted no time forming a board consisting of executives from various local institutions, and the group had already retained a national law firm that specializes in deals with the NFL. They were introducing their plans that night at the Hotel Lafayette, where they were joined by a U.S. Representative Brian Higgins, who said he “represents a Bills constituency,” as well as by scores of other young professionals. Matt said, “We sent out word, and people told us, ‘This is the Bills. What can we do to help? We’ll give whatever you need. '”
“Oh, well those sound delicious too.” She replies, her gaze passing right through you. You portion out a generous bite for the erstwhile party radar, holding your plate under her beak lest anything drip onto the carpet. “Open wide.” You ask, feeding yet another bird by hand for the night. “Oh wow, this is really good. Freddy’s cooking?” She asks, getting an eager nod from you in return before you correct your stupidity. “Yes, it is.” You respond, thankful she is incapable of seeing you blush. “You’ve become quite popular around these parts, Mike.” She says softly, her wing draped across your upper back now. Her sightless eyes regard the crowd for a moment before she speaks again. “You really need to stop leading us ladies on.” “Beg your pardon?” You sputter. “Mike. You're a really nice guy, and you've been so good to us all. But you've never so much as asked any of us out on a date. Beginning to wonder if you're gay at this point. Not that there's anything wrong with that.” She hastily corrects. “What's to say I haven't?” You ask, defensively playful. “I'd have heard, I'm sure.” She assures you. “I'm just not sure I could choose, Goose. A guy like me likes having his options open.” You offer up, a certain swagger in your words that is transparent bullshittery of the highest order. “A guy like you…” she begins, pausing for effect more than needing to find her words, “is scared to death of disappointing anybody. So you work yourself to the bone trying to keep everyone happy except yourself.” She says softly, her message carrying the volume her voice never needed to. “Mike, you're a really good guy, and a real catch, no matter who holds the net. We're all big girls,” she says with a warm smile, just as Cheeky whoops from the kitchen at Freddy’s flambée skills, “some of us bigger than others. At the end of the day, you're going to break some hearts, no matter what. Better to do it and be done with than to leave us all hanging.” “And what are your thoughts on the matter?” You ask, digesting everything she's already given you. “I think you're the nicest guy I know, Mike. And despite, in fact maybe even because of my history...I know that dating the bad boys never ends well.
Furthermore, Rosy-faced Lovebirds in the Phoenix area are sufficiently numerous and widespread that any control or eradication program would presumably be unsuccessful, and surely misguided. Indeed, to our knowledge lovebirds have shown little to no negative impact on native bird populations or habitats. Their colonial nesting habits and propensity to nest in palms in urban areas reduce any widespread competition for nest sites. Even widespread trimming of palms has had no appreciable effect on numbers, as birds readily move to adjacent areas to roost following local trimming, only to return to these same palms several months later. Lovebirds have also shown resilience to environmental conditions: Phoenix area lovebirds have survived temperatures ranging from -4˚C (January 2007) to 50˚C (June 1990). Given the relatively mild climate in the greater Phoenix area, sufficient food and water sources throughout the year, and the fact that birds may produce two or three broods per year, the number of offspring produced is sufficient to maintain and likely increase the Rosy-faced Lovebird in saguaro cavity at Gilbert Water Ranch, 2008. Photo by Brendon Grice population. The typical lifespan in captivity of Rosy-faced Lovebird is 15 to 25 years. The typical lifespan in the wild is unknown but expected to be shorter than in captivity (De Grahl 1984), still giving each pair ample opportunity to replenish and expand populations. Furthermore, adult lovebirds appear to be fairly wary and swift on the wing, with few reports of their being caught by likely urban predators such as raptors or outdoor cats.
Below is an indicative timeline for the Senate count. After the first preferences are counted on election night, an additional Senate count is undertaken at the office of each Divisional Returning Officer in the days following election day. The ballot papers are then sent to a central location for what is known as Central Senate scrutiny. When all preferences are captured, a computerised scrutiny system is used to calculate the quota, distribute preferences and determine the results. The quota for a Senate contest cannot be calculated until the state or territory-wide total of all votes is known. This must include at least 13 days after election day, which is the timeframe provided by legislation for the AEC to receive postal votes. Indicative timeline for Senate counting process diagram
1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; State Archives. * Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt. * Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen. * In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture * Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. * Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941. * Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938. * Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world. The following information comes directly from the United States Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film encouraging and instructing 'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the war effort: '...(When) Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East. For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails.
. There are numerous large private insurance companies providing private health insurance to those who’d like to have it (or whose companies want to offer it). There are private hospitals up and down the country. Most specialists practice both within the NHS and also privately (they split their weeks). You can pretty much get your healthcare however you’d like — on the NHS, through private insurance, or paid out of your own pocket. I hear people in the US saying that with in the British system, you can’t see anyone but your government-assigned doctor, but that is totally untrue. And you can chop and change your care as it fits your life — I’ve had my care for an medical issue start on the NHS, and then switched my care to my private insurance if it suited my needs better. I’ve had other medical issues that I stayed with the NHS for the whole way. And when my husband had an elective medical procedure done that was covered by neither the NHS nor insurance, we simply paid for it out of pocket. It’s a flexible system and the private sector has not been quashed by the fact that there is a comprehensive, free public system running alongside it. Because healthcare is not tied to employment, companies are free to focus on their core business and people are free to make career decisions (and life decisions) based on what is best for them instead of what preserves their healthcare . Brits never worry about keeping their healthcover — they never worry about pre-existing conditions; they never worry about continuity of care if they change jobs; they never get trapped into a bad-fit job because they have to keep their healthcover. They are much freer to be entreprenuers than Americans, because their only worry is whether their business will succeed, not how they’re going to provide healthcover for their families when they’re self-employed. Companies, particularly small companies, are free to focus on their core-business because they not burdened by the administration of healthcare for their employees — they never have to pay someone in HR to manage health benefits; they don’t have to juggle insurance companies and negotiate lower premiums; they don’t lose employees because their healthplan isn’t as good as some other company; they don’t see their bottom line rocked by a sudden rise in premiums.
What you DON'T want is to get faster at sending poorly. Fast and poor are an awful twosome. Practice sending well, at a speed which is comfortable for you. You WILL make mistakes, just correct them and move on.As many have suggested, by writing down the parts of a typical exchange/qso, you will be better able to get through a qso. Its really funny how few comments are directed to spelling. Spelling slows us down and trips us up in many qso situations. When you practice off-air, its fine to use a sheet of text, but I find that sending as if in a qso is much more helpful. Practice this by sending out of your head. You'll get used to sending off the cuff and your spelling will improve tremendously.If ragchewing is your goal, keep your exchanges short, at first. Don't try to say too much in one exchange. That way, it will give you time to think about what you'll say next, and will slow the other op down as well. That will make his transmissions easier to copy. Keep it casual, and don't let it become hard work.Keep a hand towel at your operating desk. My palms sweated on my first date too but, it didn't stop me. Remember, no one can see you! Try PRETENDING you're as calm as a cucumber. Think of yourself as a "take charge" op who can handle any situation. As an op thinkest, so shall he be on the air.One particular activity that improved my confidence and ability to handle most situations was learning traffic handling on the Maryland Slow Net. Net speed was maximum 10 wpm (and flexible), the instructors were patient and considerate. That training gave me the confidence I desperately needed. I'm now an Instructor and Net Control Station on that Net and watch the transformation of new ops from tentative and unsure to ops who would be welcomed on NTS traffic net throughout the country. Its easy and painless and proceeds at the new op's own pace. Even if you don't become an active traffic handler, the training is invaluable for learning general operating practices.Bull Crap!!! Everyone expects new / inexperienced CW ops to be somewhat tentative, make some mistakes and miss some copy. They expect it because THEY PERFORMED THE SAME WAY WHEN THEY WERE NEW / INEXPERIENCED.
After last week’s madcap mayhem with Missy and devious deceptions involving Davros our team are off to the Highlands. In a seemingly deserted subaquatic base in Caithness circa 2119, to be specific, which is where the TARDIS has decided the Doctor is supposed to be, rather than the more daring chasing monsters and looking for things to ‘blow up’ on alien planets that Clara craves.There’s rather more going on than first meets the eye however, this is no ordinary underwater scientific post. There’s an alien space ship lying in its dock, ghosts haunt its labyrinth of corridors, and the crew are under attack. You may have noticed the Star Trek themed mural on the wall in the dining room in one of the sneak peeks (and there are other Easter Eggs you may spot too), so it won’t come as a surprise that some of the guest stars are fated to become Redshirts. Although being dead in this tale isn’t necessarily the end of your story, which is something Moran (Colin McFarlane), the base’s commanding officer, discovers early on.andbrings together director Daniel O’Hara and writer Toby Whithouse, who have built up a successful working relationship together after collaborating on Whithouse’s shows The Game and Being Human. Although the episode takes place in a fairly confined structure - complete with reused corridors for characters to run down, of course - between them they have created an adventure that quickly pulls you into the action. Murry Gold’s music too is a real stand-out this week, ramping up the scary moments and sense of urgency at times to a point that some of the very youngest viewers may find it a tad nerve-racking in places.There are a few niggles I have with the episodes, though most of my issues come with the follow up next week rather than this one admittedly. Some scenes or lines are played for a quick gag, most of which are funny, though aren’t always necessary or perhaps needed from a character prospective. The one that really didn't work for me however is when one of the characters from the 22nd century referenced a film from 2012 in order to describe the situation they are in.
"[6] Modern negative reaction Edit There are also negative reactions that focus on 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016, which all resulted in the candidate who came in second in the popular vote winning the majority of the votes in the Electoral College. [7]
The Norwegian part of the scene is really alive these days, not only do we have Offence bringing us 8-bit wonders but we also have seen the recent return of the old group Hoaxers to the world of demos. Their most recent digital pornography was executed nicely through Naked Grinder, which gained 4th position in the Kindergarden 2011 Mixed Competition. I wanted to see what PAL's opinion would be, as they are his neighbours: "From the legendary Abnormal and Hoaxers they gather once again and release something as unusual as a C64 demo... The story of their return started with BHF getting interested in the C64 scene all over again (like so many do! ); maybe it had something to do with his friends in Offence doing demos for real in a big way? The demo starts of with an interesting image created by Joe (above), really cool colour pixeled patterns and also a great framing... with scrollers and sprites together and some moody music. Transition and music fades and another part emerges... it is a super music score of old school videos and nice graphics and then a twister sprite scroller that is cool but could have been executed in a better way as it the scrolling is so fast, still very nice! It almost resembles Maduplec of Nato's type of screen but with graphics too, I like it. Then we are presented by an old effect we think, but really it is more than just DYCPs... it holds some weird colour and pattern fillings that must be real-time as they are different on all letters, and that is not a pixeled filler, it is done on the fly with colours. Scrolling logos on top and bottom makes it a cool demo part that could have been a winner back in the day. We see some weird out of proportion baby resembling a church window type of art, it is interesting. Then we get the last part, it is some type of graffiti looking art with some characters that could have been a children's TV cartoon show if they were animated, great... and there is cool music and to compliment the whole with a simple scroller holding scene love text. A blast from the past, may there be more! We want hurricanes!"
Unlike the rest of the team, he has a somewhat cynical nature.Height: 159cmWeight: 45kgMeasurements: 83, 57, 84Peerlessly Cute Fairy Tale GirlKomari is a girl who loves picture books, fairy tales, and sweets. She is so careless and clumsy that she often messes things up and ends up bringing herself to tears. She lives her life seeking "wonderful things" and "keys to happiness." Komari is, in short, an optimistic airhead.Height: 153cmWeight: 43kgMeasurements: 77, 54, 80Prideful Kitten who Doesn't Easily Take to OthersRin is Kyousuke's little sister. She is rather unsociable, having grown up under the protection of her brother. She tends to act before she thinks. She is often seen using high kicks when a particular person does or says something silly.Height: 163cmWeight: 49kgMeasurements: 81, 59, 82Easygoing Noisy GirlHaruka is not in the same class as Riki, but for some reason can always be found in his classroom. Where she goes, trouble always follows. She either gleefully involves herself, or gets caught up in the mess. She basically flies by the seat of her pants without taking anything seriously.Height: 145cmWeight: 37kgMeasurements: 69, 51, 72Exotic (Self-Proclaimed) MascotKudryavka has a very Japanese personality, influenced by her Japanophile grandfather, despite having been born and raised outside Japan. She doesn't like that fact and forces herself to speak English. She is actually younger than the rest of the team. Everyone around her adores and picks on her as a mascot. Her friends call her "Kud. "Height: 170cmWeight: 55kgMeasurements: 90, 60, 89A Tad Mischievous AnegoYuiko is one of Riki's classmates, the very personification of an "Anego." Everybody around her counts on her because of her confidence bordering on arrogance and keen insight. She also loves cute girls.Height: 153cmWeight: 41kgMeasurements: 75, 55, 79Parasol-Holding Silent BeautyMio is a quiet girl who spends every recess reading by herself. She is diligent in everything she does but sometimes goes off into her own little world after getting the wrong idea about things. She never forgets to take her parasol with her when going out.Height: 156cmWeight: 44kgMeasurements: 83, 55, 82Invincible AirheadOne side of Saya is a cute girl liked by everybody in her class. The other side is a mysterious spy who at night searches the school grounds for the "treasure" hidden and protected by the Darkness Executives that she occasionally engages.Height: 163cmWeight: 47kgMeasurements: 80, 57, 82Blunt, Unsociable, and Tactless PrefectKanata is the head prefect at school. She is inflexible, unfriendly, and doesn't hesitate before showering people with insults.
So if this is loose, the filling material will be loose, and ultimately the seal will be broken and lead to infection,” he said.There is no reason to believe any of Pollina's patients suffered infections after having paper clips inserted in their mouths. Pollina is now suing Dishong and the state's dental expert who recommended that charges be filed against him. That's the case in which he gave the deposition admitting he used paper clips. Pollina declined to comment beyond his deposition.An Food and Drug Administration spokesperson says in general the agency does not consider paper clips to be medical devices. But it does not regulate the practice of dentistry.The state dental board says it has never ruled on whether paper clips are appropriate in root canals.

Print This Email This Part two of a Raw Story Investigates series on the architects and the execution of backroom Republican politics In Part II of the RSI special investigation, The Permanent Republican Majority, the daughter of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman sits down for an exclusive interview about the familys ordeal and her fathers case. To fully understand what the Don Siegelman case is about, please see Part I The Political Prisoner of this series. Pictured at center in the above photograph with her mother Lori and father Don, 22 year old Dana Siegelman is passionate and idealistic. Theres a charming innocence in the way she sees the world, despite her familys troubles. Throughout a week of phone and email discussions, Ms. Siegelman spoke and wrote about her fathers conviction and imprisonment on bribery and conspiracy charges and about the continued harassment of the family and those around them. The family home was broken into. Her fathers attorney had his office ransacked. Even the key whistleblower in the case Dana Jill Simpson had her house burned down and her car run off the road. She maintained throughout all of these communications that Karl Rove the former White House Chief of Staff helped engineer her fathers fate with the help of two judges and two US Attorneys. Indeed, Republican attorney and whistleblower Simpson testified that Bush-appointed Federal Judge Mark Fuller, who presided over Siegelman's trial, was selected in advance by Alabama Republican operatives working in concert with the US Justice Department. That department was then headed by Alberto Gonzales, who has recently resigned in disgrace. The other federal judge with an involvement in the case is Judge William Pryor, who as Alabama attorney governor began the investigation of Governor Siegelman that eventually led to his indictment. Then there are the two US Attorneys whose offices brought charges against Siegelman, Leura Canary, who was appointed by George W. Bush in 2001 as the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Alice Martin, another 2001 Bush appointee, who is the US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Leura Canary is the wife of Bill Canary, an Alabama political operative with strong ties to Karl Rove who has worked as a campaign advisor to both Alabama's current governor, Bob Riley, and former Attorney General Pryor.
Toward the end of that winter, in Grand Rapids, Walter’s mother collapsed with a pulmonary embolism on the floor of the ladies’ dress shop where she worked. Barrier Street knew Mrs. Berglund from her visits at Christmastime, on the children’s birthdays, and on her own birthday, for which Patty always took her to a local masseuse and plied her with licorice and macadamia nuts and white chocolate, her favorite treats. Merrie Paulsen referred to her, not unkindly, as “Miss Bianca,” after the bespectacled mouse matron in the children’s books by Margery Sharp. She had a crêpey, once-pretty face and tremors in her jaw and her hands, one of which had been badly withered by childhood arthritis. She’d been worn out, physically wrecked, Walter said bitterly, by a lifetime of hard labor for his drunk of a dad, at the roadside motel they’d operated near Hibbing, but she was determined to remain independent and look elegant in her widowed years, and so she kept driving her old Chevy Cavalier to the dress shop. At the news of her collapse, Patty and Walter hurried up north, leaving Joey to be supervised by his disdainful older sister. It was soon after the ensuing teen fuckfestival, which Joey conducted in his bedroom in open defiance of Jessica, and which ended only with the sudden death and funeral of Mrs. Berglund, that Patty became a very different kind of neighbor, a much more sarcastic neighbor. “Oh, Connie, yes,” her tune went now, “such a nice little girl, such a quiet little harmless girl, with such a sterling mom. You know, I hear Carol has a new boyfriend, a real manly man, he’s like half her age, which is so great, after all these lonely years. I’m really happy for her. Wouldn’t it be terrible if they moved away now, with everything Carol’s done to brighten our lives? And Connie, wow, I’d sure miss her, too. Ha-ha. So quiet and nice and grateful.” Patty was looking a mess, gray-faced, poorly slept, underfed. It had taken her an awfully long time to start looking her age, but now at last Merrie Paulsen had been rewarded in her wait for it to happen. “Safe to say she’s figured it out,” Merrie said to Seth. “Theft of her cub—the ultimate crime,” Seth said. “Theft, exactly,” Merrie said.
References Latex products are derived from the latex sap of commercially grown rubber trees, Hevea brasiliensis. The sap is extracted and heated while chemical preservatives, primarily ammonia, are added to enhance the rubber's structural qualities. Latex contains low-molecular-weight soluble proteins, which are the cause of IgE-mediated allergic reactions. At least 10 different proteins have been implicated.7 Added accelerators and antioxidants may also be significant mediators of type IV or allergic contact dermatitis, and may cause or exacerbate irritant contact dermatitis. Latex products are made either by pouring the rubber into molds or by forming a coating in a dipped process, as is done with gloves, balloons and condoms. Dipped, or very soft, rubber products appear to have the highest content of latex proteins and, therefore, have the greatest allergenic potential. Cornstarch powder is applied to latex gloves during the manufacturing process to prevent stickiness and give the gloves a smooth feel. Latex protein particles have been shown to adhere to the surface of these cornstarch particles and to aerosolize on removal of the gloves.8 High-exposure areas, such as operating rooms and labor and delivery suites where powdered latex gloves are used, contain sufficiently elevated concentrations of aerosolized latex to produce significant symptoms in sensitized persons. Based on manufacturer, lot number and type of gloves, considerable variation exists in the antigenicity of latex gloves and the potential for aerosolization of latex by the “snap” of gloves on removal.9,10 Latex proteins are water soluble. Manufacturing processes including washing, chlorination and other treatments can reduce the burden of latex protein antigen. Low protein, powder-free gloves have minimal potential for sensitization in those who have not yet become sensitized to latex.
msi: Add the ability to delete multiple users' component keys. msi: Forward MsiEnumPatchesA to MsiEnumPatchesW. msi: Implement MsiEnumPatchesW. msi: Add tests for MsiEnumPatches. msi: Forward MsiGetProductPropertyA to MsiGetProductPropertyW. msi: Implement MsiGetProductPropertyW. msi: Add tests for MsiGetProductProperty. msi: Add a stub implementation of MsiGetPatchInfoEx. msi: Forward MsiGetPatchInfoExA to MsiGetPatchInfoExW. msi: Add the ability to query a specific context for a product key. msi: Add the ability to query a specific context for a patch. msi: Add the ability to query a specific context for install properties. msi: Implement MsiGetPatchInfoExW. msi: Publish the patch information. msi: Set the property specified by the Source attribute of the Media table when applying a patch. msi: Add tests for MsiGetPatchInfo. Jeff Zaroyko (2): msadp32.acm: Make the szFormatTag the same as windows. imaadp32: Report the same driver details as windows. Jeremy Drake (1): oleaut32/tests: Fix double GlobalFree in olepicture tests. Jonathan Ernst (7): wordpad: Updated French translation. winhlp32: WINE->Wine. winhlp32: Updated French translation. shell32: Updated French translation. crypt32: Updated French translation. cryptdlg: New French translation. oleacc: New French translation. Juan Lang (57): crypt32: Remove unnecessary casts. crypt32: Allow setting CERT_KEY_PROV_HANDLE_PROP_ID if CERT_KEY_CONTEXT_PROP_ID has not previously been set. wintrust: Add stub for WVTAsn1SpcSpOpusInfoEncode. wintrust: Add tests for WVTAsn1SpcSpOpusInfoEncode. wintrust: Implement WVTAsn1SpcSpOpusInfoEncode. wintrust: Add tests for WVTAsn1SpcSpOpusInfoDecode. crypt32: Add tests for CryptQueryObject. crypt32: Validate input arguments to CryptQueryObject. crypt32: Don't claim to have queried an object as a serialized context when reading it has failed. crypt32: Downgrade a fixme to a warn. crypt32: Support base64-encoded context objects in CryptQueryObject. crypt32: Split querying PKCS messages into helper functions. crypt32: Support base64-encoded PKCS messages in CryptQueryObject. crypt32: Implement CryptStringToBinaryW. crypt32: Support wide character base64-encoded PKCS messages in CryptQueryObject. cryptui: Ignore additional prop sheet pages when calling CryptUIViewCertificateW from CryptUIViewCertificateA. cryptui: Call WinVerifyTrust if the caller has not. cryptui: Show (empty) certificate dialog. cryptui: Show subject, issuer, and validity period for a cert in the properties dialog. cryptui: Show icon and text representing trust state of certificate. cryptui: Show valid policies for a cert. cryptui: Show issuer statement in cert properties dialog. cryptui: Add a (empty) details page to the cert properties dialog. cryptui: Add selections to field selection list in details page. cryptui: Show the X.509 v1 certificate fields in the details page. cryptui: Show detailed value of a field when it's selected in the details page. cryptui: Show the certificate extensions in the details page. cryptui: Show the certificate properties in the details page. cryptui: Remove unnecessary check.
In that last four clash Portugal “paid the price” for their exertions against Korea DPR, according to Simoes, and were defeated 2-1. Portugal saw off the Soviet Union to finish third, and Eusebio would go on to grab the Golden Boot, with nine goals in six games. It was all down to his lucky No13 – according to an anecdote relayed by his good friend Simoes.
"The ad hoc nature of refugee policy in India and the absence of a robust domestic legal framework has led to uncertainty and arbitrariness in the treatment of asylum-seekers and refugees," says Shailesh Rai, senior policy advisor, Amnesty International India.There is also a big difference in the way refugees from different countries are treated. "Tibet and Sri Lanka are linked to India by peculiar historical connections and circumstances which permit those refugees to enjoy a better position. But those who come from countries like Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iran or Somalia have had to bear serious disadvantages owing to technical and legal issues," writes parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor in his book India Shastra.Refugees registered with the UNHCR are given a card that protects them from forced deportation or detention. The card also gives them access to education in government schools and free medical care at government hospitals. But as Tharoor writes, "The pressure of India's domestic population on basic amenities such as transport, health, education etc means that refugees must also join the queue and hope to get lucky. "The competition often brings out the worst in locals. "A few days back my daughter had an attack of asthma. At the government hospital, I got pushed back by an Indian lady who had come after me. 'Look at yourself. How can you go before me?' she said," recalls Abida, who puts up with racial slurs every day. Refugees who have fled their country to escape racial, religious or political persecution find Indian attitudes particularly difficult. "Most Indians think all Afghans are Talibans," says Salim (16), an Afghan refugee. Refugee women are also vulnerable to sexual harassment and abuse. "My landlord tries to take advantage of me. Men try to molest me. At the guest house in Gurgaon where I work, life is a daily risk. Refugees have to do work that most Indian girls won't. They make us work late nights unlike Indians," says Ching (27) from Myanmar.Most work in the informal sector or are jobless. This includes those who have worked as teachers or doctors or held government jobs in their home countries. Discrimination is rife. "Till May, I worked at a herbal drug making unit in Delhi and got paid `4000 a month. My Indian colleagues earned Rs 7000," says Naomi (20), a Chin refugee from Myanmar. Education might have brought better opportunities, but the lack of awareness among government agencies means even primary schooling is tough.
The origin expansion mechanism is recycled for use in LD_AUDIT support, although an attempt is made to prevent it from working, it is insufficient. LD_AUDIT is intended for use with the linker auditing api (see the rtld-audit manual), and has the usual restrictions for setuid programs as LD_PRELOAD does. However, $ORIGIN expansion is only prevented if it is not used in isolation. The codepath that triggers this expansion is _dl_init_paths() -> _dl_dst_substitute() -> _is_dst() (in the code below DST is dynamic string token) http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=elf/dl-load.c;h=a7162eb77de7a538235a4326d0eb9ccb5b244c01;hb=HEAD#l741 741 /* Expand DSTs. / 742 size_t cnt = DL_DST_COUNT (llp, 1); 743 if (__builtin_expect (cnt == 0, 1)) 744 llp_tmp = strdupa (llp); 745 else 746 { 747 / Determine the length of the substituted string. / 748 size_t total = DL_DST_REQUIRED (l, llp, strlen (llp), cnt); 749 750 / Allocate the necessary memory. / 751 llp_tmp = (char ) alloca (total + 1); 752 llp_tmp = _dl_dst_substitute (l, llp, llp_tmp, 1); 753 } http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=elf/dl-load.c;h=a7162eb77de7a538235a4326d0eb9ccb5b244c01;hb=HEAD#l245 253 if (__builtin_expect (name == '$', 0)) 254 { 255 const char repl = NULL; 256 size_t len; 257 258 ++name; 259 if ((len = is_dst (start, name, "ORIGIN", is_path, 260 INTUSE(__libc_enable_secure))) != 0) 261 { ... 267 repl = l->l_origin; 268 } http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=elf/dl-load.c;h=a7162eb77de7a538235a4326d0eb9ccb5b244c01;hb=HEAD#l171 202 if (__builtin_expect (secure, 0) 203 && ((name[len] != '\0' && (!is_path \|\| name[len] != ':')) 204 \|\| (name != start + 1 && (!is_path \|\| name[-2] != ':')))) 205 return 0; 206 207 return len; 208 } As you can see, $ORIGIN is only expanded if it is alone and first in the path. This makes little sense, and does not appear to be useful even if there were no security impact. This was most likely the result of an attempt to re-use the existing DT_NEEDED resolution infrastructure for LD_AUDIT support, accidentally introducing this error. Perhaps surprisingly, this error is exploitable. -------------------- Affected Software ------------------------ At least the following versions have been tested 2.12.1, FC13 2.5, RHEL5 / CentOS5 Other versions are probably affected, possibly via different vectors. I'm aware several versions of ld.so in common use hit an assertion in dl_open_worker, I do not know if it's possible to avoid this. -------------------- Consequences ----------------------- It is possible to exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code as root. Please note, this is a low impact vulnerability that is only of interest to security professionals and system administrators. End users do not need to be concerned. Exploitation would look like the following.
“I respect your authority as commander in chief and support our troops as they carry out their mission,” Boehner wrote . “But I and many other members of the House of Representatives are troubled that U.S. military resources were committed to war without clearly defining for the American people, the Congress and our troops what the mission in Libya is and what America’s role is in achieving that mission.“In fact, the limited, sometimes contradictory, case made to the American people by members of your administration has left some fundamental questions about our engagement unanswered.”The Speaker noted that Obama sought and won support from the United Nations and the Arab League, but he said: “A United Nations Security Council resolution does not substitute for a U.S. political and military strategy.”Boehner said it was “a contradiction” for the military mission to exclude removing Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi from power even as it remained official U.S. policy that he step aside.“In light of this contradiction, is it an acceptable outcome for Gadhafi to remain in power after the military effort concludes in Libya?” Boehner asked. “If not, how will he be removed from power? Why would the U.S. commit American resources to enforcing a U.N. resolution that is inconsistent with our stated policy goals and national interests? "The Speaker asked several other questions regarding the U.S. mission, including about the planned transfer of authority to an international coalition and how the U.S. would respond if the coalition broke apart.
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway announced the arrest and indictment of a former chief of police in Falmouth.A Franklin County grand jury indicted Mark Lane Posey, of Cynthiana, Tuesday on one count of abuse of public a trust over $10,000, one count of theft by unlawful taking, one count of theft by deception under $500 and 70 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument.Watch this storyAccording to the indictment, from March 2008 to December 2014, Posey, 47, took $10,000 in funds from a drug task force account. He also solicited donations from businesses for drug cases and deposited funds into one account, court documents said.The indictment said Posey forged the signature of the co-signer on the account.When pressed for comment, Falmouth Mayor Elonda Hinson referred WLWT News 5 to the attorney general's office and said she had no comment. But people in Falmouth had plenty to say. "I think he needs to be locked up and throwed away. He has no business being in the law enforcement whatsoever," Viola Magee said. "We just don't need that kind of law enforcement in here. We need somebody that's actually going to do something. ""I think it's insane for the city of Falmouth, and especially a police chief, to take money from a drug task when there's an epidemic here," Tabitha Roark said. "I think if you’re in power, you need to lead by example and definitely catching felonies is not leading by example. "According to the indictment, Posey also purchased a gun with Falmouth Police Department funds approved by the City Council and sold it to a friend for a higher amount.Posey was hired in March 2008. He was suspended Jan. 29 and resigned Feb. 5.Posey was the chief of police from March 2008 until his resignation in February after a city investigation into his office. "Our local law enforcement officers need all the resources to do the jobs they need to do, particularly in communities like Falmouth, and other communities across the state that are battling the resurgence of heroin and opiate addictions,” attorney general’s office spokeswoman Allison Martin said. "These task forces are more important than ever before. "Posey was held at the Franklin County Regional Jail. He was released on a $10,000 bond Wednesday night and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if convicted on all charges.Posey will be back in court April 10.
"That's been the story of my career in mixed martial arts, but I keep proving them wrong time and time again. And that's what I'm going to keep doing. "I've learned from some great people around me how to take tips and advice from people. I've been very blessed to always be surrounded by great people, and that's such a key factor. You surround yourself with good people and amazing things can happen. That's what is happening with me right now. We are doing the right things and the success I'm experiencing is the result. "Middleweight staples Tim Kennedy and Vitor Belfort recently learned such lessons in brutal fashion. Gastelum smashed the Jackson/Winkeljohn product at UFC 206 on Canadian soil then made a trip to the Southern Hemisphere to dismantle "The Phenom" in front of his countrymen and women in the main event at UFC Fight Night 106.In what was arguably the biggest fight of his career, Gastelum entered the Octagon with supreme confidence and earned a first-round stoppage over the MMA legend.Mar 11, 2017; Fortazela, Brazil, USA; Kelvin Gastelum (blue gloves) fights Vitor Belfort (red gloves) during UFC Fight Night at Centro de Formacao Olimpica de Fortaleza. Mandatory Credit: Jason Silva-USA TODAY Sports"This is what we expected, to be honest. I went in there against Vitor very, very confident if anybody saw," Gastelum laughed. "I went in there extremely confident in my abilities and my preparation to the point where I knew I was going to come out with the win. What I felt getting my hand raised was satisfaction. "Getting the victory in a fight proves every time why I do what I do. What we do is so hard, and I'm sure I'm not alone and a lot of fighters question why we put ourselves through what we do. Once you get your hand raised, it's the best feeling in the world because it reminds us why we go through what we do every single day, the grind and the hustle--whatever you want to call it--is very real. "I think MMA fighters are the most hard-working and underpaid fighters in the world.
In addition to Brown and Franken, Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy Patrick Joseph LeahySenate plots to avoid fall shutdown brawl Booker wins 2020 endorsement of every New Jersey Democrat in Congress The Hill's Morning Report - Can Bernie recapture 2016 magic?
For example, with a global penetration of over 95% (ITU, 2014) (including 75% access among those making $1 per day or less (Naef et al., 2014 2009 2013 2010 2010 2011 Big Data is often accessible in real time. One of the most common real‐time sources for Big Data is the incessant chatter in online social media. This source is especially important in developing countries, considering the acceptance of social networks in developing countries (see above) and the wide array of content they provide. The language content of Twitter microblogs has been used to approximate cultural identities, international migration and tourism mobility in such disparate countries as Malaysia, the Philippines, Venezuela and Indonesia (Mocanu et al., 2013 2012 Big Data merges different sources. The often messy and incomplete digital footprint left behind by digital conduct can be compensated for by data redundancy from different sources, often referred to as ‘data fusion’. For example, Thomson Reuters MarketPsych Indices (TRMI) distils over 3 million news articles and 4 million social media sites every day through an extensively curated language framework (MarketPsych, 2014 2014 The full name of Big Data is Big Data Analytics. The notion of Big Data goes far beyond the increasing quantity and quality of data, and focuses on analysis for intelligent decision‐making. Independent from the specific peta‐, exa‐ or zettabytes scale, the key feature of the paradigmatic change is that analytic treatment of data is systematically placed at the forefront of intelligent decision‐making. The process can be seen as the natural next step in the evolution from the ‘Information Age’ and ‘Information Societies’ (in the sense of Bell, 1973 1986 2009 2010 2009 2014 2012 2014 2014 This fifth characteristic of Big Data has two main implications. First, Big Data Analytics are different from traditional statistical analysis because the quantity of data affects the choice of the analytical model. Machine‐learning and data‐mining methods, which enable algorithms to learn from data (Shalev‐Shwartz and Ben‐David, 2014), were often belittled during the 1990s and early 2000s, but have proved their worth forcefully during the 2010s on being applied to vast amounts of data. It is often the case that more sophisticated models work better for smaller datasets (given the small scope of the dataset, the pattern has to be partially coded in the model, increasing the complexity of the model), while quite simple (machine detected) models work very well for larger datasets (often even better).
Nutrient transporters are critical gate-keepers of extracellular metabolite entry into the cell. As integral membrane proteins, most transporters are N-glycosylated, and the N-glycans are remodeled in the Golgi apparatus. The Golgi branching enzymes N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases I, II, IV, V and avian VI (encoded by Mgat1, Mgat2, Mgat4a/b/c Mgat5 and Mgat6), each catalyze the addition of N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) in N-glycans. Here, we asked whether N-glycan branching promotes nutrient transport and metabolism in immortal human HeLa carcinoma and non-malignant HEK293 embryonic kidney cells. Mgat6 is absent in mammals, but ectopic expression can be expected to add an additional β1,4-linked branch to N-glycans, and may provide evidence for functional redundancy of the N-glycan branches. Tetracycline (tet)-induced overexpression of Mgat1, Mgat5 and Mgat6 resulted in increased enzyme activity and increased N-glycan branching concordant with the known specificities of these enzymes. Tet-induced Mgat1, Mgat5 and Mgat6 combined with stimulation of hexosamine biosynthesis pathway (HBP) to UDP-GlcNAc, increased cellular metabolite levels, lactate and oxidative metabolism in an additive manner. We then tested the hypothesis that N-glycan branching alone might promote nutrient uptake when glucose (Glc) and glutamine are limiting. In low glutamine and Glc medium, tet-induced Mgat5 alone increased amino acids uptake, intracellular levels of glycolytic and TCA intermediates, as well as HEK293 cell growth. More specifically, tet-induced Mgat5 and HBP elevated the import rate of glutamine, although transport of other metabolites may be regulated in parallel. Our results suggest that N-glycan branching cooperates with HBP to regulate metabolite import in a cell autonomous manner, and can enhance cell growth in low-nutrient environments.
But naval artillery needed about an hour of daylight to bombard the coast before the landings. Therefore, lowhad to coincide with first light, with the landings to begin one hour after. Airborne drops had to take place the night before, because the paratroopers had to land in darkness. But they also needed to see their targets, so there had to be a late-rising Moon. Only three days in June 1944 met all those requirements for “D-Day,” the invasion date: 5, 6, and 7 June. A 6-meter tidal range meant that water would rise at a rate of at least a meter per hour—perhaps even faster due to shallow-water effects. The times of low water and the speed of the tidal rise had to be known rather precisely, or there might not be enough time for the demolition teams to blow up a sufficient number of beach obstacles. Also, the low-water times were different at each of the five landing beaches (from west to east, they were code-named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword). Between Utah and Sword, separated by about 100 km, the difference was more than an hour. So H-Hour, the landing time on each beach, would have to be staggered according to the tide predictions. Tidal currents, the along-shore flow due to the changing tide, were another important consideration. Strong tidal currents could easily push amphibious craft down the beach, away from their intended landing spots. But tidal currents were much harder to predict than the tides themselves, because they were much harder to measure. tide and tidal-current predictions for the war effort were produced by Arthur Thomas Doodson at the Liverpool Tidal Institute. The 53-year-old Doodson was at that time the world’s leading authority on tide prediction. He used two tide-predicting machines: the Kelvin machine, built in 1872 but overhauled in 1942 (shown in figure 2 All the Admiraltyand tidal-current predictions for the war effort were produced by Arthur Thomas Doodson at the Liverpool Tidal Institute. The 53-year-old Doodson was at that time the world’s leading authority onprediction. He used two tide-predicting machines: the Kelvin machine, built in 1872 but overhauled in 1942 (shown in figure), and the Roberts-designed machine, built in 1906. The two machines were put in separate rooms at the observatory to minimize the chance of a bomb destroying both. That was a very real possibility.
Sean Whitton: > [..] > > Here is an updated patch addressing these. I reworded it to use > 'recommended' and changed the tone to better suit policy. > > Thank you Ximin, Russ and Johannes! > >> "precisification" -> "more precise version" > > Our definition is not actually a /version/ of the > reproducible-builds.org definition -- that would imply that our > definition could replace the reproducible-builds.org definition, like > upgrading a package. > > 'precisification' means roughly "filling out the missing specification > when it is appropriate to fill it out", which is what the r-p.org > definition instructs distributors to do. > > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst > index 127b125..6e32870 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst > @@ -661,6 +661,28 @@ particularly complex or unintuitive source layout or build system (for > example, a package that builds the same source multiple times to > generate different binary packages). > > +Reproducibility > +--------------- > + > +Packages should build reproducibly, which for the purposes of this > +document [#]_ means that given > + > +- a version of a source package unpacked at a given path; > +- a set of versions of installed build dependencies; > +- a set of environment variable values; > +- a build architecture; and > +- a host architecture, > + > +repeatedly building the source package for the build architecture on > +any machine of the host architecture with those versions of the build > +dependencies installed and exactly those environment variable values > +set will produce bit-for-bit identical binary packages. > + > +It is recommended that packages produce bit-for-bit identical binaries > +even if most environment variables and build paths are varied. It is > +intended for this stricter standard to replace the above when it is > +easier for packages to meet it. > + > .. [#] > See the file ``upgrading-checklist`` for information about policy > which has changed between different versions of this document. > @@ -790,3 +812,7 @@ generate different binary packages). > often creates either static linking or shared library conflicts, and, > most importantly, increases the difficulty of handling security > vulnerabilities in the duplicated code. > + > +.. [#] > + This is Debian's precisification of the `reproducible-builds.org > + definition <https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/>`_. > > Thanks! Seconded. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
# lib/capistrano/tasks/letsencrypt/obtain_certificate.rake namespace :letsencrypt do task :obtain_certificate do on roles ( :app ) do certificate_request_domains = fetch ( :letsencrypt_certificate_request_domains ) \|\| raise ( 'Missing certificate request domains' ) letsencrypt_dir = fetch ( :letsencrypt_dir ) \|\| raise ( 'Missing letsencrypt directory' ) certificate_dir = " #{ letsencrypt_dir } /certificate" private_key_path = fetch ( :letsencrypt_private_key_path ) \|\| raise ( 'Missing private key path' ) endpoint = fetch ( :letsencrypt_endpoint ) \|\| raise ( 'Missing letsencrypt endpoint' ) cert_privkey_path = " #{ certificate_dir } /privkey.pem" cert_path = " #{ certificate_dir } /cert.pem" cert_chain_path = " #{ certificate_dir } /chain.pem" cert_fullchain_path = " #{ certificate_dir } /fullchain.pem" # ensure certificate dir exists execute :mkdir , "-p #{ certificate_dir } " if test ( "[ -f #{ cert_fullchain_path } ]" ) && test ( "[ -f #{ cert_privkey_path } ]" ) info "Certificate already exists." else info "Missing certificate. Let's create a new certificate request." private_key = OpenSSL :: PKey :: RSA . new ( capture ( :cat , private_key_path )) # Initialize the client require 'acme-client' client = Acme :: Client . new ( private_key: private_key , endpoint: endpoint ) # We're going to need a certificate signing request. If not explicitly # specified, the first name listed becomes the common name. csr = Acme :: Client :: CertificateRequest . new ( names: certificate_request_domains . split ) # We can now request a certificate. You can pass anything that returns # a valid DER encoded CSR when calling to_der on it. For example an # OpenSSL::X509::Request should work too. certificate = client . new_certificate ( csr ) # => #<Acme::Client::Certificate ....> # Save the certificate and the private key to files upload! StringIO . new ( certificate . request . private_key . to_pem ), cert_privkey_path upload! StringIO . new ( certificate . to_pem ), cert_path upload! StringIO . new ( certificate . chain_to_pem ), cert_chain_path upload! StringIO . new ( certificate . fullchain_to_pem ), cert_fullchain_path info "Certificate created." end info "Creating symlinks for existing certificate." # #{shared_path}/ssl_private_key.key is a path where nginx is looking for ssl certificate sudo "ln -nfs #{ cert_privkey_path } #{ shared_path } /ssl_private_key.key" sudo "ln -nfs #{ cert_fullchain_path } #{ shared_path } /ssl_cert.crt" end end end
Introduction Recombination in RNA viruses is a source of genetic diversity and rapid evolutionary change and may result in the emergence of new strains by facilitating shifts in cell tropism, antigen profile and pathogenicity. The mechanism of RNA virus recombination can proceed through re-assortment of genome segments, as is the case for the Influenza A virus, or through the generation of chimeric viral genomes during replication for non-segmented viruses. This recombination is frequent in the wild with different recombinant genotypes rising to dominance and declining over a timescale of only a few years [1]. Sequencing of large numbers of viral isolates has revealed instances of intra-species recombination in many human-infecting RNA viruses with major public health implications, including norovirus [2], astrovirus [3], flavivirus [4] and at least eight species of picornavirus [5]–[10]. Rare inter-species recombinants, such as the enteroviruses HEV90 [11] and HEV109 [12], have also been described. Viral recombination not only impacts public health by the evolution of new viral strains, but may also undermine live-attenuated vaccines by producing a pathogenic strain derived from the attenuated strains. The oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) is the most famous example, where three attenuated serotypes of poliovirus are typically administered simultaneously. One week after inoculation, over a third of Sabin-2 and Sabin-3 viruses shed are recombinant [13]. In the worst case, recipients can develop vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis, potentially through a recombined strain. Vaccine derived polioviruses (VDPVs) may also recombine with other circulating strains of enterovirus to create pathogenic chimeras [14]. Such events have caused outbreaks in numerous locations [15]–[18] and remain an ever-present consideration for newly designed live attenuated vaccines, such as the recently proposed tetravalent Dengue virus vaccine [19]. For engineered vaccine strains, a greater understanding of the underlying molecular determinants influencing recombination in RNA viruses has the potential to mitigate unwanted outcomes. Besides its global health importance, poliovirus has also long served as a model RNA virus and in particular as a model system for the study of recombination. Viral recombination was first demonstrated in poliovirus [20], subsequently confirmed biochemically [21] and there have been extensive studies since in cell culture examining the timing and topology of recombination between different serotypes and between nearly identical construct strains [22]–[26]. A genetic map of poliovirus using temperature-sensitive mutants first determined the location of the capsid and polymerase genes [27]. Recombination among poliovirus strains in the wild have been readily observed and provide further opportunity for post hoc genetic analysis [17].
I don't like them, you don't like them, so why bother and review another one ? Well, I recently watched a classic game video on Youtube, which was recorded using this particular box and I found the quality to be rather pleasing - at least for a processor of this price range. And since I like new gadgets after all, I quickly ordered one and gave it a shot. The box in question doesn't get any more generic. I couldn't find any information on a manufacturer and the box appears to be available from different distributors, differently labeled depending on the country where you buy it. The one you see above, saying "HD Video Converter Scart / HDMI" is a version I got from a european eBay seller. In the USA there's a at least one version available which runs under the tag "HDV 8S", so I chose that descriptor for this little review. If you're shopping for this box, just go by the looks. If the converter looks identical (except for the label on top), it should be identical inside. The boxes go for EUR 45-50 over here and maybe US$60 stateside. The upscaler features a single RGB-enabled Scart input (European layout of course, no matter where you buy the converter from) and a single HDMI output. In addition you get a HDMI input (just for passing through signals) and two audio outputs (digital coax and analogue stereo).
The following description is from what I believe was a 1954 press release from the American Museum of Atomic Energy: "One of the most popular exhibits in the American Museum of Atomic Energy is a "dime irradiator." To date, more than 250,000 dimes have been irradiated, encased in plastic and returned to their owners as souvenirs. The irradiator works as follows: A mixture of radioactive antimony and beryllium is enclosed in a lead container. Gamma rays from the antimony are absorbed by the beryllium atoms and a neutron is expelled by the beryllium atom in the process. These neutrons, having no electrical charge, penetrate silver atoms in the dime. Instead of remaining normal silver-109, they become radioactive silver-110. After irradiation, the dime is dropped out through a slot in the lead container and rests momentarily before a Geiger tube so that its radioactivity may be demonstrated. It is then encased in the souvenir container. Radioactive silver, with a half-life of 22 seconds, decays rapidly to cadmium-110 (In 22 seconds, half of the radioactivity in each dime is gone, in another 22 seconds half the remainder goes, and so on until all the silver-110 has become cadmium). Only an exceedingly minute fraction of the silver atoms have been made radioactive." The irradiated dimes were 90% silver and 10% copper. The silver consisted of equal amounts of Ag-107 and Ag-109. The absorption of the neutrons by the silver converted some of the Ag-107 to Ag-108m (400+ year half-life) and Ag-108 (2.39 min half life). Similarly, a few atoms of the Ag-109 were converted to Ag-110m (250 d half-life) and Ag-110 (25 s half-life). The bulk of the activity that was produced was due to the Ag-110 and, to a lesser extent, the Ag-108. Both of these radionuclides decayed away very quickly, within minutes. By the time the visitor was leaving the Museum, there was almost nothing left. The only activity that might be detected today would be due to trace quantities of Ag-108m, but it would require long counts and relatively sophisticated equipment. I could not detect any in the three coins in the collection. Approximately two thirds of the copper was Cu-63 and one third was Cu-65. The neutron exposures converted them into Cu- 64 (12.7 h half-life) and Cu-66 (5 min half-life) respectively. The contribution of the activated copper to the total activity would have been relatively small. As indicated in the above quoted press release (?
Mom Hopes Mystery Boy Is Her Son 'Silly Season' Begins in 2004 White House Race Lowly Fruit Fly's Amazing Flight Secrets The so-called fruit salad tree sprouts as many as seven varieties of fruit in one tree. The combinations aren't quite as diverse as bountiful fruit bowls apples and peaches, for example, can't mix. But the trees combine several members of fruit families into one. A citrus version grows oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, tangelos, lemonades (a rounded fruit that's sweet like lemonade) and grapefruit. A stone fruit tree yields peaches, apricots, plums, nectarines, peachcots (a cross between peaches and apricots) and peacherines. The trees can be planted outside in small back yards (depending on their climate requirements), or kept in a pot. Most are self-pollinating so no partner trees or pollinating bees are needed. "Houses are getting bigger and lots are getting smaller," said Lisa Bradford, a sales associate with Tsugawa Nursery in Woodland, Wash. "We think that's what's making these multiple fruit trees more popular." New Trees, Old Concept Tsugawa Nursery offers stone fruit salad trees, which it buys from Dave Wilson Nurseries in Hickman, Calif. Durling Nursery of Fallbrook, Calif. offers multiple citrus fruit trees. And James and Kerry West of the Fruit Salad Tree Company offer an ambitious line of mixed fruit trees through their orchards, based in Emmaville in New South Wales, Australia. The Wests have just begun marketing their trees to the United States through online shipping. Not only do the trees offer a variety of fruit in one batch, the fruits' different harvesting times prevent a glut in produce at one period. That may be impractical for large fruit producers who need to harvest rows of trees at once, but it's tailor-made for those who simply want to pluck the fruit for their own eating. Fruit salad trees may be growing more popular now, but the technique used to craft them grafting is nearly as old as fruit tree growing itself. Grafting can involve a number of different styles, but the basic idea is to cut a shallow layer of bark on a base tree, peel it back and insert a small twig or single bud from another tree. The grafted section is then sealed with tape. "Grafting is not just a science, it's an art," said Ian Greig of Greig Associates, an agricultural consulting company in Tampa, Fla. "I've seen some graft and everything take.
In the pre-dawn darkness of today’s presidential inauguration day, I faced a choice, as a lifelong liberal feminist who voted for Donald Trump for president: lace up my pink Nike sneakers to step forward and take the DC Metro into the nation’s capital for the inauguration of America’s new president, or wait and go tomorrow to the after-party, dubbed the “Women’s March on Washington”? The Guardian has touted the “Women’s March on Washington” as a “spontaneous” action for women’s rights. Another liberal media outlet, Vox, talks about the “huge, spontaneous groundswell” behind the march. On its website, organizers of the march are promoting their work as “a grassroots effort” with “independent” organizers. Even my local yoga studio, Beloved Yoga, is renting a bus and offering seats for $35. The march’s manifesto says magnificently, “The Rise of the Woman = The Rise of the Nation.” It’s an idea that I, a liberal feminist, would embrace. But I know — and most of America knows — that the organizers of the march haven’t put into their manifesto: the march really isn’t a “women’s march.” It’s a march for women who are anti-Trump. …To understand the march better, I stayed up through the nights this week, studying the funding, politics and talking points of the some 403 groups that are “partners” of the march. Is this a non-partisan “Women’s March”? …By my draft research, which I’m opening up for crowd-sourcing on GoogleDocs, Soros has funded, or has close relationships with, at least 56 of the march’s “partners,” including “key partners” Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump’s anti-abortion policy, and the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump’s environmental policies. The other Soros ties with “Women’s March” organizations include the partisan MoveOn.org (which was fiercely pro-Clinton), the National Action Network (which has a former executive director lauded by Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett as “a leader of tomorrow” as a march co-chair and another official as “the head of logistics”). Other Soros grantees who are “partners” in the march are the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. March organizers and the organizations identified here haven’t yet returned queries for comment. Read the full story: NYT
A key North Korean human rights activists now says his story that's captivated millions has a few inaccuracies.Shin Dong-hyuk's apparent years-long torture, the execution of his brother and mother and his eventual escape from a harsh North Korean concentration camp was the subject of best-selling 2012 book "Escape from Camp 14" - authored by former Washington Post writer Blaine Harden.While Shin does say his story is mostly true, he admits there are a few inaccuracies in it.Shin said via The Washington Post , "When I agreed to share my experience for the book, I found it was too painful to think about some of the things that happened. So I made a compromise in my mind. I altered some details that I thought wouldn't matter. I didn't want to tell exactly what happened in order not to relive these painful moments all over again. "Shin was actually transferred to a different camp, Camp 18, when he was about 6 years old. In the book, Shin recalls all the events taking place in Camp 14. He also admits he escaped from camp twice before, but was caught. He also says he was held underground, burned and tortured at age 20 for escaping - not at age 13 as the book states.Shin has received numerous awards for his bravery and has also spoken on United Nations panels about the atrocities of North Korean prison camps. The New York Times writes this admission could hinder an already difficult campaign to get a formal International Criminal Court investigation of North Korea's prison camps. An unidentified former Camp 18 prisoner also tells the outlet Shin is still lying: "You just cannot escape a North Korean prison camp twice, as he said he did, and is still alive and manages to escape a third time, this time from the total-control zone. "North Korea's government has already tried to discredit Shin's claims, posting a video titled "Lie and Truth," which features Shin's father saying his son was lying and never lived in a prison camp. The Washington Post attributes Shin as being "the only person known to have escaped from one of North Korea's total-control zones" and is sticking by Shin, quoting a human rights executive director as saying, "The critical points of the book remain true. "The revelations come after Harden heard Shin had told friends a different account of his time in the camps and his escape.
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Nor have the Dolphins goosed their own GWP with a bunch of junk-time scores. Miami has run 47 offensive plays with a two-possession fourth-quarter lead this year, fourth-most in the league, but they have somehow not scored a single point in those situations. That would suggest some legitimacy in their wins, as they are staking out to leads and playing their best while the game is still in doubt.When I wrote about the Dolphins in the Week 4 version of this column, I noted how an elite defense was propping up their ranking. That remains true, as Miami possesses the second-ranked defense in terms of efficiency, led by the best pass defense in the league. However, while All-Pro level talents like Cameron Wake and Brent Grimes are safe propositions to bank on, I also argued that Miami's offensive inconsistencies made for an unsustainable long-term formula. Adequate quarterback play is arguably the only indispensable ingredient in a winning team, and Ryan Tannehill needed to move the Dolphins out of the extreme "Good Defense/Bad Offense" EPA quadrant to take Miami seriously.For the season, Tannehill still ranks just 26th in EPA per play and 31st in adjusted yards per attempt. However, those low rankings stem mostly from a poor start, as it is clear that he has shown significant improvement in the three games since I last talked about the Dolphins:This is essentially night and day. Among players with at least 90 passing attempts over their past three games, Tannehill's 8.34 adjusted yards per attempt ranks seventh . Conversely, over the first three weeks, Tannehill ranked 20th out of 21 qualifiers in that stat under the same minimum pass-attempt criteria. It's been a timely turnaround for a quarterback whose job security was precarious just a month ago All together, that has left Tannehill with a seasonal mark of 6.4 AY/A, almost exactly in line with his career averages. These types of brief streaks aren't exactly new for Tannehill—he has had five previous three-game streaks of an AY/A of at least 6.26, which is the run he is currently on. That includes four last year alone, one of which culminated in arguably Tannehill's best career performance in a Week 15 win over the Patriots.Of course, the Dolphins would lay eggs in their final two contests, and Tannehill's ghastly 2.55 AY/A mark over that fortnight was the worst in the league .
[Editor's note: Apple told Business Insider that it conducted 34 audits covering Pegatron workers, including 29 at facilities in China, including 16 at the ChangShou factory. Apple found 99% compliance with a 60-hour workweek.] Leswing: Did you notice any negative effects from people working too many hours besides just sleep. Zeng: I don't think you give workers enough time to do other stuff. The time left in your life is very, very limited. It's just a couple of hours. And then there's not much you can do. I consider that a problem. In the new report, they said a lot of workers get opportunities for training in some programs — they can develop their careers and stuff like that. But when you are working 12 hours, you are exhausted. And the only thing you want is some rest, and there's not enough time for that. Leswing: What if someone wanted to take a vacation? Zeng: My friend said that when it's busy season, you can't take it. They just don't allow it. And even if it's not a busy season, when you request it, they will ask, "So what are you doing?" But when it's not very busy, they sometimes grant it. I would say that the attitude is not very good. It's always like you are trying to make trouble for them, whether you're asking for overtime or to not work overtime or are asking for leave. They will have a very bad attitude towards you. Leswing: Who was your boss? Zeng: In the assembly line, the power structure is very clear. The person you receive direction from the most is your group leader. They give you demands. They are the ones who hold meetings after work to summarize today's performance. They are the ones who keep pushing you, saying, "We have 500 pieces left, keep working!" The person you receive direction from the most is your group leader. They give you demands. They are the ones who hold meetings after work to summarize today's performance. They are the ones who keep pushing you, saying, 'We have 500 pieces left, keep working!' The capacity of the whole campus, I think, is 100,000 [workers]. When I was there, there were about 70,000 workers. In Pegatron, they are building new buildings. They are expanding. Leswing: Why don't Pegatron workers unionize? I understand obviously China has a different union system than the United States. Zeng: There are a couple of reasons.
(voiced by Frank Welker) - Once a fellow gladiator of Megatron's back on Cybertron, Soundwave is an expert spy and hacker who transforms into a blue UAV drone aircraft resembling an MQ-9 Reaper. For most of the series he never speaks, preferring instead to record and play back things said and done around him. His only spoken line of dialogue is in the third season episode , in which he says "Soundwave Superior, Autobots Inferior" (a quote from ). He is armed with a pair of probing tentacles, has the ability to open ground and space bridges anywhere, and commands a bird-like surveillance drone named Laserbeak, which detaches from his chest. He also briefly possessed the sound weapon called the Resonance Blaster. Megatron's most loyal follower, he's the only one of Megatron's inner circle that didn't even attempt to disobey him, going so far as to battle Airachnid in , when she ordered to leave Megaton behind. Soundwave ends up trapped in the Shadowzone in the series' final episode by the human children. He reappears briefly with Laserbeak in in one episode of season 2. Soundwave returns in the "Combiner Force" season as a major antagonist where he dispatches the Mini-Cons Stuntwing, Trickout, Hi-Test, and Goldgear to steal Decepticon Hunters from Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Strongarm which would be part of his "project." In "Collateral Damage" he escapes to the Shadowzone once again with Laserbeak and launches his "project" : a beacon generator used to try to summon Megatron while Soundwave was unaware that Megatron had left the Decepticon business to start a new life. He is defeated by Bumblebee, Hi-Test and Optimus Prime, and put into a stasis pod to be sent back to Cybertron. Shockwave (voiced by David Sobolov) - The most intelligent Cybertronian scientist with hundreds of top-secret labs hidden across Cybertron, Shockwave is an emotionless one-eyed Decepticon, Megatron's first lieutenant on scientific endeavors, and the creator of the Predacons, whose vehicle mode is a purple Cybertronian tank resembling his third live-action Transformers film counterpart. Despite being introduced in the series' second season, Shockwave only appeared in Arcee's flashbacks to the war and did not become part of the series' main story until the third season. During Season 3, Shockwave creates Predaking, the ultimate Autobot hunter to deal with said Autobots. Shockwave then creates an entire Predacon army for Megatron but destroys them on Megatron's orders upon Predaking's demonstration to transform.
Your campaign rode on a clarion call against corruption and crony capitalism. You have said your government has tried to counter this through transparent bidding procedures for natural resources such as mines and coal. However, how truly fair or transparent or accountable are these systems to the millions who stand to be affected? Transparency is being able to communicate these complex norms to all those who will be affected by them. Fairness is ensuring that all stakeholders are involved in the process, duly informed, given notice of decisions and compensated. Accountability is involving all stakeholders in decision-making processes through conducting assessments and cost-benefit analyses and arriving at a way forward together. It arises from being able to honestly communicate back to companies these deliberations and what is at stake. However, by removing safeguards on social impact assessment and acquiring the consent of affected communities’ for a series of different projects, you say that businesses don’t have the time to meaningfully consult with stakeholders, ignoring your obligations to protect citizens from human rights abuses. Especially after the arbitrary allocation of our natural resources that you have sought to confront in your role as a custodian, doesn’t it become even more important to have community and civil society checks and balances for those seeking to acquire these resources? Instead, we have been repeatedly portrayed as obstructionists in the path of our own interests, and told that these are not exercises worth investing in. Science tells us that it takes millennia of matter under pressure to produce the minerals we seek to extract to propel our growth story. Yet, it has also taken us millennia to arrive at a point where our rights and guarantees are recognized by law, where some have the privilege and means to express ourselves and possibly be heard. The language of our laws, let alone an assumed alphabet of SIAs (Social Impact Assessments) and PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships), has still not trickled down to millions who are yet to have teachers in their schools regularly enough or trainings in their own languages to ensure they know how to exercise their rights. Your Mann Ki Baats, chai pe charchas and online transparency initiatives are great signs that our government is open to engagement. Then why do away with public hearings, gram sabhas and social impact assessments? Why fear people exercising their right to stand up and be counted, consulted and compensated?
DISCUSSION Past studies provided some initial information consistent with the notion that variation in the genes encoding IL-2 or the IL-2R in mice and humans reduces the activity of T regs (21, 24, 26), but little is understood regarding how this genetic variation represents a risk for autoimmunity. Here, we directly reduced IL-2Rβ signaling in T cells and showed that modestly, but chronically, reducing IL-2 responsiveness by about 2.6-fold accelerated diabetes in male and female NOD mice. Our findings demonstrate that accelerated diabetes occurs because of a multiplicity of effects on T regs that affect their homeostasis and function. Altered T reg homeostasis by IL-2RβY3 was evident because T regs from NOD-Y3 mice were broadly characterized by having increased amounts of Ki67 but decreased Bcl-2 abundance. This phenotype is consistent with T regs that undergo increased proliferation to counterbalance enhanced cell death. Reduced IL-2R signaling affected T reg homeostasis in two distinct ways. First, cT regs (as defined by high expression of CD62L) were found at a reduced proportion under several different experimental conditions when they expressed IL-2RβY3, and this effect may reflect impaired survival because IL-2 promotes the survival of this T reg subset (11). Second, the development of more highly activated eT regs [identified on the basis of the expression of CD103 and Klrg1 by CD62Llo T regs (38)] was less efficient for T regs with reduced IL-2R signaling. This was most obviously seen in experiments with mixed bone marrow chimeras and the direct development of eT regs from purified adoptively transferred cT regs . The expression of Klrg1 by eT regs represents a terminally differentiated state of activation and occurs only after more than eight or nine cell divisions as cT regs develop into eT regs (12). The observation that reduced IL-2R signaling led to fewer Klrg1+ eT regs is likely explained by eT regs that die before reaching this state of activation. In other systems, blockade of IL-2R signaling destabilizes T regs so that they become IFN-γ+ and IL-17+ Teff cells; this process is most evident for peripherally derived T regs (42, 43). Our experimental design did not enable us to directly assess this process, and some of the decrease in T reg number that we noted might be due to their development into Teff cells. However, several observations suggest that this mechanism does not fully account for the accelerated onset of diabetes in NOD-Y3 mice.
Needing a potion and not knowing the ingredients, or even if you've got the level required, can be a hassle. DGSweeper will tell you the minimum level, and the ingredients needed, for a door that requires a boost. Sometimes the Enigmatic hoardstalker may supply a riddle that you may not know or remember the answer to. By simply entering part of the riddle, DGSweeper will instantly give you all possible solutions. The options is where you'll customize your dungeoneering experience to work for you and your computer. Computers running version of Windows newer than XP may be using a theme which includes Aero. While this is a great feature, it can slow down DGSweeper significantly and cause higher resource usage. Therefore, DGSweeper gives you the option to temporarily disable it. Hotstrings are terms that act as triggers. They operate very similar to hotkeys. DGSweeper has many of these for things such as quickly searching riddles. However, if you choose to, you have the option to disable them. The navigation bar is the optional bar displayed at the top of your RuneScape applet. For DGSweeper to properly capture your map, your navigation settings must match your in-game settings. Sometimes while dungeoneering, RuneScape throws you an odd layout. Some players use previous maps to study pathing. DGSweeper gives you the option of saving your maps to be viewed later, whether it be to share with friends or study to better your dungeoneering abilities. One of the many great things about DGSweeper that makes it stand out amongst other applications is it's fast and reliable support. Clicking the support button will take you to the DGSweeper support board. Bugs get fixed and resolved quickly. Since it's creation back in May of 2011, DGSweeper has through over 45 updates of which many have been bug fixes. If you find a bug, or if a feature isn't working as expected, we can't fix it unless we know about it. Report it! DGSweeper was built on the ideas and requests of the RuneScape community. Not all ideas and suggestions make it into development, but there's nothing to say you can't try. If you think of something you'd like to see implemented, don't hesitate to let me know! Return to Top Hotkeys DGSweeper has built in hotkeys to help make things easier and faster while you're dungeoneering.
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As the Feminist Majority Foundation’s duVergne Gaines pointed out, they were on one hand “advocating the defiance of federal law, which police officers also enforce” and on the other hand “attempting to ingratiate themselves” with the Wichita police department, even as they had cost the city a large amount of money and staff time in providing police coverage of their week-long protest.
The observed data favors restoration of inhibitory circuitry, yet further experimentation will be required to resolve this question. To further investigate the impact of P7C3 on hippocampal circuitry, we used immunohistochemistry to visualize the expression levels of synapsin proteins 1 and 2. Synapsins are major phosphoproteins in synaptic vesicles that modulate neurotransmitter release. Immunohistochemical staining assays revealed P7C3-dependent normalization of synapsin 1 and 2 protein levels in the dentate gyrus molecular layer of npas3-/- mice (Figure S3C). P7C3-mediated normalization was also observed for synaptobrevin 2, another marker of synaptic vesicle abundance (Figure S3D). Relative to vehicle controls, prolonged P7C3 administration did not affect the health of mothers, embryos, weanlings or young adult mice. Gross histology of brain tissue was normal in both compound- and vehicle-treated animals, and there was no evidence of neuronal cell loss or degenerative changes (cytoplasmic eosinophilia, vacuolization or nuclear pyknosis). The only morphological change, other than normalization of dendritic arborization of dentate gyrus granular neurons, was a compound-dependent increase in the thickness of the granular layer itself. The thickness of the granular layer of the dentate gyrus is roughly 40% less in npas3-/- mice compared to wild type littermates. Prolonged administration of P7C3 significantly corrected this deficit without affecting thickness of other hippocampal layers in npas3-/- mice (Figure S3E). Recognizing that reduced thickness of the npas3-/- dentate gyrus granular layer could be attributed to increased apoptosis of proliferating neural precursor cells, we examined the effect of P7C3 treatment on apoptosis in the hippocampus of npas3-/- mice through immunohistochemical staining of CCSP3. After 12 days of orally delivered P7C3 (20 mg/kg) to adult npas3-/- mice, a statistically significant reduction in CCSP3 staining was observed in the dentate gyrus ( ). We thereby propose that P7C3 facilitates repair of the granular layer of the dentate gyrus in npas3-/- mice by overcoming a genotype-specific enhancement in apoptosis. Open in a separate window
She put Sam Kim's 15 minutes of effort to shame, that's just how rude she was. She acted like she was above him and "knew the answer" after one bite ㅡㅡ Ugh8. [+72, -4] Whatever, she looks like a married woman in her late thirties who works out a lot anyway..
He was the example that if black people would just comply and follow the police’s orders — which is an argument of All Lives Matter proponents, because blacks were quickly stereotyped, throughout all these shootings, to be “more likely’ to resist arrest and escalate the situation — they would still be shot by police.Just as “all men are created equal” before it, All Lives Matter carries the same underlying message of “but only if you are a white man” because all lives haven’t mattered when Syrian refugees initially looked to U.S. shores for asylum. Granted, that has changed a bit this year, but when a presidential candidate has a platform for building walls, restricting “illegal immigrants,” and tries to set who can become a U.S. citizen, it doesn’t seem like all lives matter.The government siding with the oil companies to allow those oil companies to displace Native Americans from their land, while they build this pipeline, and blocked the Native Americans’ protest of the construction of a pipeline — that could destroy fertile land and pollute rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water — through “wildlife areas, sacred Native American sites” and major water sources through four states really makes a great case that all lives matter.A perfect example of the differences between All Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter is the polarizing views on Colin Kaepernick and others in the NFL. There are social media posts about how these “niggers” should all be shot or hung because they won’t stand up for the National Anthem. We are told how unpatriotic it is, but not why he is doing it.All Lives Matter garners hate because you overlook your everyday prejudice and your everyday fear. Racism is not always overt. Black Lives Matter wants to change the narrative on black lives. The movement means to bring attention to the injustices we all face, but is exponentially greater amongst our community. Black Lives Matter wants to show the country, and the world, that black lives shouldn’t be feared and, thus, taken. All Lives Matter is a politically-correct scheme to steer the conversation back towards a fear of the black life and away from the social problems faced by the community.
"No... What the hell is that?" I asked. He grinned and stood up, mumbling something along the lines of "Be right back." Before sprinting upstairs. While he was gone I took a peak behind the chair. Yep, more boxes and bags. Nothing but boxes and bags. What the hell, where was this guys stuff? His books? His magazines? Newspapers even? Then I remembered a past conversation... "News? Man, fuck the news! A bunch of propaganda and bullshit let me tell you!" He took a deep puff from the gnarled ancient cigar clasped between his knuckles. "It's impossible to be an unbiased journalist unless the reporter was every single persona at the event and somehow figured out how to report all of it at once! Otherwise stuff is gonna get missed out no matter how hard you try!" "Oh?" I raised an eyebrow. "Well I suppose you do have a point there." "Exactly man! Fuck the news! It's all sad stories now too!" He took another puff before lying down on his porch. We were sitting outside together, beers in hand, watching the sunset and testing out Nigel's latest product. "Yeah you're kinda right. What the fuck happened man? When did everyone get so miserable?" I asked. "I know exactly what happened and brother? Let me fucking tell you." He gestured with his cigar sprinkling ashes everywhere. "The fucking Sixties ended man... The sixties ended, then we all got pulled out of Vietnam so there was nothing left for the hippies to protest. So everyone became boring and miserable again." "Huh... Makes sense." I sighed and took a swig of my beer. It tasted ashy. "Eg-fucking-xactly" He shook his Cigar with each syllable.
Discussion Across two experiments, we found evidence for a reputation-based account of uncalculating cooperation: People are more likely to engage in uncalculating behavior when their decision process is observable. Furthermore, we presented evidence that people perceive uncalculating cooperators (but not defectors) as more trustworthy than calculating cooperators in our paradigm, and that uncalculating cooperators (but not defectors) really do behave in a more trustworthy way than calculating cooperators. Our key result, that people engage in less calculating behavior when their decision process is observable, provides the first evidence, to our knowledge, that people use uncalculating cooperation for reputational benefits, and not merely as a useful way to reduce the nonsocial costs of calculating (32⇓⇓–35). Although a theory of uncalculating cooperation as merely an efficient decision-making strategy can explain our second and third results (individuals who cooperate across contexts to reduce the nonsocial costs of calculating will end up cooperating more, and thus should be perceived as, and should actually be, more trustworthy), it cannot explain why uncalculating decision-making should decrease when it is not observable. Based only on decision-making efficiency, acting in an uncalculating way should be equally valuable, regardless of who is watching. Thus, the fact that uncalculating decision-making is sensitive to observability suggests it represents a costly strategy that risks making a suboptimal choice, but has the benefit of signaling trustworthiness. This result has important implications for our understanding of the function of uncalculating cooperation, implicating reputational motives. It also suggests boundary conditions for when uncalculating cooperation should be observed. For example, when uncalculating cooperation serves as a reputation strategy, it should be particularly likely when trust is relatively important, as opposed to when the maximum cost of cooperation is relatively small or when the cognitive and temporal costs of calculating are relatively large. Of course, our reputation-based account is not mutually exclusive with the idea that people are sometimes uncalculating cooperators because they are willing to pay even the maximum cost or because calculating has nonsocial costs; these accounts may help explain why some subjects cooperated in an uncalculating manner even when their decision process was hidden.
Moreover, as indicated in the previous post, in its unrelenting pursuit of anti-revisionism and the eradication of all ideologies that resembled the Khrushchevite betrayal, the anti-revisionist ML movement often unconsciously and uncritically adopted aspects of the problem that led to the CPSU's revisionism––the party monolithism that we can call the Stalinist phenomenon. Hence the reason why I quoted, in the last part of this series, the WCP's assessment of its collapse. We can cite other analyses, such as Tom Clark'sthat were pointing out similar problems that, though reducible to a "Stalinism" because they were aspects that emerged during Stalin's tenure as chairperson of the Soviet Union, were possibly due to broader problems with the simply Leninist concept of the revolutionary party.So, above all, this series has been about drawing a distinction between the way in which Stalinism is fully conceptualized in other traditions while, at the same time, arguing that Maoism needs to make sense of this phenomenon, as it sometimes does but not always thoroughly, rather than just dismiss it altogether because of potential problems with its naming. After all, there tends to be a knee-jerk reaction amongst those who come from an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist tradition, even if it now bears a third theoretical designation, to adopting any critique that resembles the revisionist complaints of Stalin/Stalinism that were a hallmark of the CPSU under Khrushchev. For some, simply hearing the word "Stalinism" is a reminder of every collaboration with cold war propaganda, every rejection of revolution, and every dismissal of armed movements on the periphery that chose to uphold Stalin's legacy in the face of anti-communist ideology and a collaboration with the capitalist status quo.Still, there is a reason why the Maoist movement has chosen as its facialized signifier the three-headed Marx-Lenin-Mao rather than the five-headed Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin-Mao. The latter symbol was indeed the symbol of the anti-revisionist movement that declined in the early 1980s that went by the rubric of Mao Zedong Thought; you can find it in the first pages of nearly every party programme that aligned itself with the Chinese Revolution.
Critics of cap-and-trade, such as Al Gore and NASA’s James Hansen(20), have argued for a simpler, more transparent, direct approach that supposedly cuts out all the profiteering – a flat carbon tax: No more lobbying. No more loopholes. In Hansen’s words: “All sweet deals will be wiped off the books by a uniform carbon fee at the sources, which will affect all fossil fuel uses.”(21) But carbon taxes are no more a solution to curbing greenhouse gases than cap-and-trade. Contradictions abound. For a start, green taxes have proven no more immune to “sweet deals” than the cap-and-trade schemes. Dozens of countries and local governments have introduced carbon taxes since 1990, but these have not led to significant declines in emissions in most of these countries. That’s because, everywhere, industries lobbied to keep taxes low (instead of caps high); various groups demanded exemptions; unions resisted taxes that could cost jobs; consumers resisted new taxes. So when finally introduced, after all the negotiations, carbon taxes have been too low to effect much change: Pollution is taxed, but not enough to stop it or even reduce it by much. The French case illustrates all of these problems: Nicolas Sarkozy sought to push France into the lead of the fight “to save the human race” (after all, this is France) by implementing a carbon tax in 2009. But days before the tax was to take effect, a French court ruled it unconstitutional because it would have let off most industrial polluters entirely – plus it allowed generous discounts and exceptions to various sectors such as truckers, farmers and fishing fleets, while placing a disproportionately heavy burden on ordinary households. The court said that more than 1,000 of France’s biggest polluters could have been exempted from the charges and that 93 percent of industrial emissions would not have been taxed. (22) But even if Sarkozy had successfully imposed his carbon tax, this tax would have raised the price of gasoline by just 25 cents per gallon. Given that the French already pay nearly $9 per gallon for gasoline, it’s hard to see how an additional 25 cents would seriously discourage consumption, let alone “save the human race.” Hansen proposes a carbon tax of $1 per gallon of gasoline in the United States.
Under the 2nd Amendment, as interpreted by Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court, in his landmark 2008 majority-decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, there is no Constitutional way to restrict any person’s right to any weapons at all: “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” That is the Amendment’s second and final clause. Scalia said that the Amendment’s first clause, which states that this Amendment’s purpose was “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,” is irrelevant — that, instead, this Amendment’s right is a right that any American possesses, regardless of whether or not that person is a member of a well-regulated militia. Scalia then contradicted himself (as he routinely did) by saying that “nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.” The Second Amendment does not limit itself to some people and not others, but says simply (and if we ignore the Amendment’s purpose, as he did, then it does say this without any reference to a “militia”) that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The 2nd Amendment doesn’t say “the right of sane people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” It doesn’t say that “the right of people who have no criminal record, to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” (But it does say that the right of any member of a “well regulated” — which in that time meant state-controlled — militia, to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed; but Scalia ignored that restriction, entirely.)
5. Chronic Urticaria Urticaria is a common disorder, occurring in 15–25% of individuals at some point in life [67]. It is characterized by recurrent, itchy, pink-to-red edematous lesions that often have pale centers. The lesions can range in size from a few millimeters to several centimeters in diameter, and are often transient, lasting for less than 48 hours [68–71] ( ). Approximately 40% of patients with urticaria also experience angioedema [68]. Open in a separate window Urticaria is generally classified as acute (AU) or chronic (CU) depending on the duration of symptoms. AU refers to lesions that occur for less than 6 weeks, while CU to lesions that occur for more than 6 weeks; it is usually assumed that the lesions are present most days of the week [72]. Most cases of urticaria are acute; however, approximately 30% go on to become chronic. AU and CU are also distinguished by the prognosis, as AU can generally be easily managed and is associated with a good prognosis, while CU is often associated with significant morbidity and a diminished quality of life [70]. In 1987, Hautekeete et al. first described the association between CD and CU [71], although this is a matter still under debate [73]. Indeed, the relationship between the two diseases is not clear [74], but it can be speculated that autoimmunity induced by gliadin or by other unknown antigens may link CU and CD. The increased permeability of intestinal mucosa allows the passage of antigens that are responsible for CU pathogenesis by the formation of circulating immunocomplexes [75]. Both CD and urticaria are immune-mediated disorders, but they have a different pathogenesis. In fact, while CD is a Th1-mediated autoimmune response to gluten, urticaria could be supported by different mechanisms that range from Th2-driven response to allergens to Th1 autoimmunity [76]. In particular, autoimmune urticaria is related to autoantibodies against the α subunit of the high-affinity IgE receptor FcεR1 or against the α subunit of IgE. These antibodies are able to induce the mast cells degranulation and the consequent formation of anaphylatoxin [76]. However, the only epidemiologic study assessing the prevalence of CD in a population of adult idiopathic CU (ICU) patients was published in 2005 by Gabrielli et al. [73] without demonstrating an increased risk of CD in patients with ICU.

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