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The dataset was preprocessed with motion correction (realignment), slice timing correction, removal of the linear trend, transformation to standard MNI space (matrix = 53 × 63 × 46, resolution = 3 × 3 × 3 mm3), and smoothing by a Gaussian filter with a full width half maximum (FWHM) of 10 mm. Next, the images were band-pass filtered (0.01–0.1 Hz) on a voxel-by-voxel basis to keep only the appropriate frequency fluctuations. Next, the signals in white matter and cerebrospinal fluid were regressed out by using averaged signals from the white matter and the ventricles from each voxel time series. Functional connectivity was measured by using a seed-based approach by choosing bilateral orbitofrontal gyri cluster peaks from VBM analysis, [+26 +54 –8] and [−16 +58 –10] in MNI template. The cross-correlation coefficient between these seed voxels and all other voxels was calculated to generate a correlation map. Then, the correlation maps were transformed to a z-score map by using Fisher’s inverse hyperbolic tangent transformation. Next, a region of interest (ROI) analysis was performed. Each region’s anatomical region was defined based on automated anatomical labeling (AAL) database. Then, the orbitofrontal and temporal functional masks were defined as the top 200 voxels according to their z score in their functional connectivity maps as described by Chapman and coworkers (25). Diffusion-weighted data were processed by using the University of Oxford’s Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Software Library release 4.0 (www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl). First, the data were corrected for head movement and eddy current distortions by using Eddycorrect, which aligns all of the volumes. Next, DTIfit was used to independently fit diffusion tensors to each voxel, with the brain mask limiting the fitting of tensors to brain space. The output of DTIfit yielded voxel-wise maps of fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD) (λ1), radial diffusivity (RD) (average of λ2 and λ3) and mean diffusivity (MD) (average of λ1, λ2, and λ3) for each participant. Finally, in the tractography analysis, white matter tracts were constructed with minimum FA of 0.20 and maximum turning angle of 50°. Because the orbitofrontal cortex is innervated by the forceps minor, and, therefore, plays a role in decision-making processes, the forceps minor tract was delineated via two techniques—manual and automatic tractography—whereas the forceps major tract was delineated only manually as a control. In manual tractography, the forceps minor and forceps major tracts were delineated by drawing manual ROI per methods described in Wakana et al. (26).
Lumpectomy (surgery to remove a lump of tissue), in combination with radiation therapy , is as effective in treating breast cancer as mastectomy: but only if no cancer cells are present on the edge or rim of the removed tissue, also known as "clean margins".In a statement announcing the approval via PR Newswire on Wednesday, Dune Medical Devices says its MarginProbe System, which has been available in Europe since 2008, significantly improves a surgeon's ability to find cancer on the tissue margin during the lumpectomy, and also significantly reduces "pathologically positive margins" following initial lumpectomy surgery.The device comprises a single-use probe and is designed to analyze tissue within 20 minutes of excision. It takes only a few minutes to compare the "electromagnetic signatures" of the margins of the excised tissue to a bank of stored signatures from healthy and cancerous tissue, and give an assessment of whether the removed tissue is cancerous or not.Often, early stage breast cancer is detected via mammography, which can "make the process of achieving negative margins more challenging," says Susan K. Boolbol, who is Chief of Breast Surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center, and who worked on the pivotal clinical trial that the FDA reviewed.Following a lumpectomy, surgeons normally send the removed tissue to a pathology lab to see if there are any cancerous cells on the margins. It can take a week or more for the results to come back. This can be an anxious time for patients waiting to find out if they need another operation.The results of the trial, which involved 664 patients recruited from several centers, showed MarginProbe was over three times more effective in finding cancer on the margin during lumpectomy than traditional methods.Having the probe means surgeons can significantly reduce the number of patients with positive margins following initial surgery, says the company.Boolbol says before the probe, their "ability to assess the microscopic margin status in the operating room has been limited". "Following their breast cancer surgery, telling a patient that they need more surgery can be an emotional issue for doctors and patients. This may result in tremendous anxiety and frustration," she says.Susan Scanlan, a breast cancer survivor and Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations in the US, agrees:"When I was first diagnosed with breast cancer I decided to undergo a lumpectomy, but like many others, I was told I had cancer on the margin following the procedure.
[65] He calls Corretjer the next link in the chain and laments that the initiatives of independentists that were part of the Muñoz Marín administration were attributed to the governor "for the benefit of the North American government". [65] Ojeda Ríos reiterated his posture against participating in general elections and rebutted an argument recently published where countries like Mexico, Brasil, Argentina and Chile were essentially neocolonies, citing that they merely responded to their historical realities and were still capable to employ these alliances according to their own interests despite the influence of the United States. [65] Ojeda Ríos concluded noting that EPB members held civilian jobs and acted covertly, resulting in the presence of Macheteros in any place and any government agency, noting that at the moment their strategy was not one of frontal assault but of armed propaganda, through which actions were focused on targets that could gather the attention and support of the public. [65] He insisted that this was resulting in a covert support that would allow a progression towards other strategies, while avoiding actions against them. Ojeda Ríos closed this letter by contrasting the actions of the EPB to terrorist tactics, citing the ongoing war in the Middle East, the Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as examples of an unacceptable terrorism that had "no space" within the organization's philosophy. [65] One that he described as based on the principles of "equality" and "social justice". [65]
Rhode Island now joins its its northeastern neighbors Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania is choosing to remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of pot. Nationwide, 14 other states have decriminalized , the first wave in the 1970s and the second beginning with Nevada in 2001 and picking up momentum in recent years.The measure, Senate Bill 2253 , makes the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana a civil offense punishable by a fine of $150 for most offenses. Under current Rhode Island law, pot possession is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $500 fine."Gov. Chafee's signature is the culmination of a years long effort to put some common sense back in our marijuana laws," said Sen. Josh Miller (D-Cranston), lead Senate sponsor. "Rhode Island will now address marijuana use among our youths with education and treatment, as opposed to incarceration, increasing our chances of stemming the abuse of drugs and alcohol. ""This change means that a youthful indiscretion will no longer prevent a responsible adult from finding gainful employment," said Rep. John Edwards (D-Portsmouth, Tiverton), lead sponsor in the House. "A dumb mistake can no longer be used as grounds for withholding federal student aid or jeopardizing future employment. Everyone in Rhode Island benefits from this change in law.""Gov. Chafee’s approval is yet another concrete example of the mainstream support for sensible marijuana policy reform. Two-thirds of the Rhode Island public supports this proposal, as does more than two-thirds of the Rhode Island General Assembly. Support for marijuana policy reform is real and growing every day. I commend Gov. Chafee and his team for supporting policy that is both popular and reasonable," said Robert Capecchi, legislative analyst with the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). MPP led the lobbying and grassroots effort in support of the legislation.The law will go into effect April 1, 2013.
Breaking down the Oregon track and field program by event groups entering the start of the indoor season (Jan. 14)"These guys are often the first ones to practice and the last ones to leave; they are a very hard-working crew. It has been fun to watch them continue to develop and mature with the senior leadership of Ryan (Hunter-Simms) and Cody (Danielson). I expect these guys to bring incredible depth for the Men of Oregon, especially come outdoors with the addition of our javelin crew. "returns to compete in the weight throw during indoors after setting a PR at last year's Razorback Invitational with a mark of 59-1.25 (18.01m). He also competed in the shot put indoors in 2015. Outdoors, Prena will be a force in both the hammer throw and the discus, where he placed seventh and eighth at the Pac-12 Championships, respectively.will return to join Prena for the Ducks this season as a senior. Hunter-Simms competed at the MPSF Indoor Championships in the shot put before redshirting in outdoors, and he was a scorer in the discus at the Pac-12 Championships in 2015., a two-sport athlete who played football in the fall, competed in the shot put at both the UW Preview and the MPSF Championships last season indoors, and was a Pac-12 scorer outdoors with a seventh-place finish in the discus (172-0/52.43m).will compete in the shot put in both indoors and outdoors. White competed at the UW Indoor Preview last season, finishing with a top throw of 51-2.75 (15.61m), and set a personal best outdoors at the Pepsi Invitational (56-1.25/17.10m).has not competed indoors yet in his career, but he set a PR in the shot put last season at the Oregon Twilight with a throw of 54-0 (16.46m).Highly-touted freshmanjoins the fold for the Men of Oregon after a tremendous high school career at Hood River Valley High School in Oregon. Barajas won the discus at the 2016 OSAA 5A State Championships with a career-best throw of 200-0 (60.96m), and also placed second in the shot put with a long toss of 56-11.75 (17.36m).
As of November 2014, Asha Kiran or Avantika in Delhi is home to 891 people, close to three times its capacity. Activists have been drawing attention to the appalling conditions in Asha Kiran since 1990 and calling for it to be shut down, but progress has been limited. A recent Right to Information request by a social activist revealed that there had 24 deaths in approximately 6 months in 2014 (between February 1 and August 15) and 131 deaths from 2009-2013 at Asha Kiran. Even the Delhi government has acknowledged that the mortality at Asha Kiran is higher than at other institutions in the city. The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has stated that the reason for the deaths is negligence. An expert on institutions for people with intellectual disabilities in India said, “Seeing the state that children are in is absolutely shocking. Places shouldn't be like Asha Kiran.” Part of the problem is that Asha Kiran is specifically named in Delhi’s CWC guidelines as the first and primary place to send children with intellectual disabilities who are picked up from the streets or abandoned by their families. B. C. Hessa, superintendent of the male wing at Asha Kiran, told Human Rights Watch, “We have no option; if the court or CWC issues an order, then the government can’t refuse to take the children.” Overcrowding in turn puts a strain on staff and resources. Residents’ personal hygiene suffers due to staff neglect, water shortages, and congested living quarters. Ambika’s daughter was put in an institution for people with intellectual disabilities after the police found her on the side of a highway. She told Human Rights Watch: In that home, they keep people like cows, herd them like cows. As a consequence of sleeping close together on the floor or sharing beds, most women that Human Rights Watch spoke to complained that they had lice. During interviews with Human Rights Watch at 10 government institutions, women and girls constantly pulled out lice from their hair. Rakhi, a 19-year-old living in a residential care facility for women told us: “Everyone has lice.” Instead of providing an anti-lice shampoo, staff simply forcibly shave women’s heads, further undermining their dignity. Ameena, a 40-year-old woman with schizophrenia, finds it hard to adjust to the lack of hygiene in the mental hospital where she is admitted.
1973 scandal Edit 1973 Boulder, Colorado Disqualified Racer Electromagnet Electrical Wiring within Headrest In 1973, 14-year-old Jimmy Gronen of Boulder, Colorado was stripped of his title two days after winning the national race. Suspicions were running high even before the finals, and Gronen was actually booed by many spectators. The unusual dimensions of Gronen's margins of victory and heat times tipped off derby officials to illegal circumstances surrounding Gronen's racer. Subsequent X-ray examination of his car revealed an electromagnet in the nose. When activated at the starting line, the electromagnet pulled the car forward by attracting it to the steel paddle used to start the race. Gronen activated the electromagnet by leaning his helmet against the backrest of his seat, which activated its power source. This became very evident as Gronen's heat times progressively slowed down as the race wore on, because the electromagnet lost strength each time it was activated. Usually, heat times get faster each time a racer completes a heat. Videotape of the race also showed a suspiciously sudden lead for Gronen just a few feet after each heat began. The margin of victory for a race heat is normally no more than 1 to 3 feet (0.30 to 0.91 m). Gronen's early heat victories were in the 20 to 30 feet (6.1 to 9.1 m) range. (Aluminum insulator plates were added to the starting ramps in 1974 to render an electromagnetic system useless.) [23] Midway through the 1973 race, Derby officials also replaced Gronen's wheels after chemicals were found to be applied to the wheels' rubber. The chemicals caused the tire rubber to swell, which reduced the rolling resistance of the tire. In the final heat, Gronen finished narrowly ahead of Bret Yarborough. Within two days, Yarborough was declared the 1973 champion. Gronen's uncle and legal guardian at the time, wealthy engineer Robert Lange, was indicted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and paid a $2,000 settlement. [24] Lange's son and Jimmy Gronen's cousin Bob Lange, Jr., had won the previous 1972 Derby using a car considered indistinguishable from the vehicle used by Gronen.
Discussion DN, one of the microvascular complications of diabetes, is the most common cause of CKD worldwide, with a prevalence of 40% in patients with ESRD[20]. Hyperglycemia-associated increased formation of intracellular advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) and activation of protein kinase C isoforms [21, 22], systemic and glomerular hypertension, and activation of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) are major factors in the pathogenesis of DN. Current therapies for DN focus on controlling blood sugar and blood pressure, and inhibiting the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) to reduce proteinuria, in an effort to delay the progression of DN [23, 24]. However, with increasing incidence of DN and deteriorating kidney function resulting in ESRD, it is imperative to understand the pathogenesis of DN comprehensively and identify effective therapeutic interventions and strategies. It has been found that DM is often complicated with dyslipidaemia associated with elevated triglycerides (TG) [25]. Hyperlipidemia is associated with DN progression, and lipid-lowering agents might protect renal function [7]. CD36 is a transmembrane protein of the class B scavenger receptor family, a broadly expressed membrane glycoprotein mediating the uptake of LCFA in adipocytes and fibroblasts, in arteriosclerosis, fatty liver, obesity and inflammatory responses, and so on[12, 13, 26–28]. In present study, using immunofluorescence and immunohistochemical staining we found an elevated expression of CD36 in the kidney of DN patients with hyperlipidemia, suggesting that CD36-mediated renal uptake of lipids might be associated with DN. The CD36 cDNA predicts a polypeptide of 53-kDa composed of 471 amino-acid residues. After variable post-translational N-linked glycosylations, which are necessary for trafficking to the plasma membrane, CD36 protein presents different molecular masses (78, 88 or 94 KDa) corresponding to different glycoforms [29]. LCFA uptake in adipocytes requires plasma membrane rafts, and FAT/CD36 which recycles from intracellular nonlipid raft domains to lipid raft regions of the plasma membrane might control LCFA uptake [16]. In the present study, treating podocytes with palmitic acid increased the CD36 expression in podocytes at both transcriptional and protein levels (53KDa, 78KDa and 88KDa), in the cell membrane and cytoplasm. Further research showed palmitate induced lipid accumulation in podocytes, and SSO, which specifically binds to and cross-links FAT/CD36 on the plasma membrane without permeating the plasma membrane, disrupted the lipid uptake. These results confirmed that palmitate not only upregulated CD36 expression but also promoted CD36 translocation from cytoplasm to plasma membrane in podocytes, leading to lipid accumulation in podocytes. DN is characterized by early-stage microalbuminuria and an increasing magnitude of proteinuria.
How can allowing an opt out represent a win-win scenario? Why would some Americans—I suspect millions—remove themselves from Social Security if they currently represent a net financial liability to the federal government? The answer depends crucially on the fact that private households have a higher discount rate than the U.S. Treasury. Currently the U.S. Treasury can borrow money (by issuing Treasury Inflation Protected Securities or TIPS) from bond buyers for very low interest rates, such as 0.9 percent on 30-year loans and 0.4 percent on 10-year loans. These are “real” rates of return, meaning that the Treasury adjusts for price inflation when paying back the lenders. On the other hand, many households currently hold a substantial portion of their wealth in assets that they expect to earn a higher real return than inflation-protected bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury. For example, using standard estimates of the equity risk premium, a recent Wall Street Journal article suggested that U.S. large-cap stocks could be expected to yield a real return of 3.5 percent (before taxes and fees) in the medium term. We would expect riskier assets, such as real estate or small-cap stocks, to earn an even higher (average) return. The large scope for win-win reform occurs because many participants in Social Security are implicitly being promised a real rate of return on their payroll taxes in between these extremes. For example, Leimer (1994) estimated that people born in 1975 will “earn” an average of 1.9 percent from Social Security, while those born in 2000 will earn 1.7 percent. In 2015, the government effectively forced workers to lend it some $800 billion in payroll “contributions” in order to help finance the almost $900 billion it spent on Social Security benefit checks. In exchange, the workers were promised future payments from the U.S. federal government, such that many of the workers are effectively earning real returns of only 1 to 2 percent on these mandatory “loans.” Yet both parties can improve on this status quo. The government can borrow at lower yields by issuing TIPS and, thus, pay today’s Social Security beneficiaries with money obtained on cheaper terms.
A little after 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sultana Khan picked up the phone at her Randolph home and heard something unexpected: a recorded message from the leader of a white nationalist group, urging her to vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "It was pretty shocking," she says.Khan wasn't the only recipient. The man behind the ad, American Freedom Party chairman William Daniel Johnson, says his super PAC attempted to reach nearly every consumer landline in Vermont Wednesday night. He says he chose the state, after placing similar calls to Iowa and New Hampshire, because he was curious how such a liberal populace would respond. "I thought that Vermont would be one of the least supportive states. And, you know, I was right," Johnson says. "We got more negative responses in your state than other states. "In the somewhat rambling and incoherent, 45-second message, Johnson identifies himself as a "farmer and white nationalist," bemoans the lack of "beautiful white children" in schools and repeatedly says, "Don't call me racist. ""The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called racist. This is our mindset," he says on the recording. "It's OK that our government destroys our children's future, but don't call me racist. "Johnson concludes his message with electoral instructions and, apparently, a reference to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), two presidential candidates of Cuban descent. "Donald Trump is not a racist, but Donald Trump is not afraid," Johnson says. "Don't vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump. "Underhill resident John Barbour, who provideda recording of the message, says he was "astounded" to hear it. "I would certainly hope Vermont's not fertile ground for getting a few votes from doing that," he says.But Khan, who identifies as biracial, says she's not too surprised that Johnson would target such an overwhelmingly white state — one she believes is not as tolerant as it likes to think. "I think minorities have had a pretty rough go of it in Vermont over the last couple months," the freelance journalist says, referring to a racially charged protest in St. Albans last December and Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers that appeared in Burlington last November . "Vermont is not this liberal bastion of egalitarian society. There are a lot of race issues here, and the fact that a white supremacist group is targeting Vermont with this kind of ad is pretty telling.
ANDY MURRAY RESUMES DAVIS CUP ACTION Andy Murray resumes his Davis Cup career next Friday for the first time since he voiced support for Scottish independence. Despite the wailing and the angst that greeted his tweet on the eve of the poll last September, Murray’s commitment to playing for Great Britain is beyond doubt. He has won 19 Davis Cup singles rubbers and lost only two and on Friday he will anchor the British side again as they attempt to win their eagerly anticipated World Group first-round match against the USA in Glasgow. ‘When I compete for GB, I absolutely love it,’ said Murray. ‘My results when I have competed for GB since I was 12 would suggest that. ‘When I represented Britain in the Olympics, I played maybe the best tournament of my life. I love competing for my country. I don’t think any differently about Great Britain after what has happened.’ When Murray voiced an opinion about the vote, there were many who were grateful that a high-profile sportsman had the courage to comment on something important. ‘I got asked about it almost daily in the six or seven months before it and I had been told not to say anything but I wanted to say something. I said at the time was that the people of Scotland will make the right decision. Just because I think one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way for Scotland.’ Murray has often pointed out that the idea he does not like the English is absurd. It has been rendered more absurd by the fact he is marrying an Englishwoman next month. ‘The whole notion that I don’t like English people is nonsense,’ he said. ‘I work with English people on a daily basis. I am going to get married to one. I live here. It is just nonsense. That’s the thing that upsets me the most about it. Some of my family are English. I am also getting married to an Englishwoman so my in-laws are all English.’
Patidar quota stir spearhead Hardik Patel today held a meeting with senior NCP leader Praful Patel to discuss various aspects related to the next month's Gujarat Assembly polls, including the possibility of a united fight against the BJP, an NCP leader said.While Hardik Patel did not reveal much as to what exactly transpired during the meet, NCP leader Rajendra Jain said both the leaders talked about the possibility of working together to defeat ruling BJP in the election. "NCP leader Praful Patel met me today for wishing Diwali greetings. It was a nice meeting," Hardik tweeted after the meeting.According to Mr Jain, who is the NCP's observer for Gujarat, the discussion largely revolved around exploring possibilities of a united fight against BJP. "Since it's election time, it is obvious that leaders meet each other. There was no specific agenda of today's meet.Prafulji and Hardik discussed about coming together to fight against BJP, which is facing anti-incumbency," Mr Jain said.The meeting took place at a time when Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is in Gujarat for his party's poll campaign.Last year, Praful Patel, who is the state NCP in-charge, hinted at taking support of the Patel community for the assembly elections.Though the NCP's relations with the Congress deteriorated after the Rajya Sabha polls after two of its MLAs claimed to have voted for the BJP candidate, Gujarat Congress leaders recently hinted to work with the NCP during the polls.However, no formal announcement about any pre-poll alliance has been made yet.Hardik Patel has put forward a set of demands before the Congress as a pre-condition for extending support to the party in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls. On Saturday, he asked the Congress to make its stand clear by November 3 on how it would ensure reservation for the community. The Gujarat Assembly polls are scheduled to be held in two phases -- on December 9 and December 14.
Has it only been four months since Bernie Sanders said this at an Our Revolution rally:In light of the white supremacists decked out in Trump cosplay who marched in Charlottesville this past weekend, I'd like to revisit Sanders' claim.Back in April, in response to Sanders' statement, I wrote: At this point, I want to emphasize that revisiting his statement isn't meant as point-scoring against Sanders. It never was. The fear of white supremacist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, disablist Neo-Nazis marching in the streets, if you can believe it, isn't for many people an abstract debating exercise where we're looking to rack up points against politicians. It's about a visceral fear. Namely, seeing the hatred that Trump inspires in people and then watching "the most popular politician in America" tell masses of people that this hatred doesn't exist.Some people may also be inclined to point out that Sanders is Jewish. Yes, he is. And he is not obliged by his identity to resist Trump in any particular way. My only request of the Senator is that he not audit my resistance or experiences with bigotry and publicly declare that this bigotry doesn't exist (until he's ready to make the same proclamations).Flash forward to August 2017 and Sanders appears ready. Or, readier. After Charlottesville, he rightly acknowledged the racism on display and Trump's atrocious failure to condemn it. For instance, on August 12, he tweeted:[Text: "No, Mr. President. This is a provocative effort by Neo-Nazis to foment racism and hatred and create violence. Call it out for what it is."]Good. Any politician right now who does not condemn both Neo-Nazis and Trump is displaying a profound moral failure.Yet, I juxtapose Sanders' two comments, that Trump supporters aren't bigoted and his more recent naming of bigotry, because it has been immensely frustrating to watch some people, Sanders included,publicly acknowledge it after having gaslit us about it to score points against Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.The frustration lies not in the fact that people — white men, especially — now seem to understand that bigotry in the US is much deeper and more widespread than they initially believed — that dawning realization is a good thing. Rather, the frustration is that people have been sounding the alarm bells about the gravity of our political situation for at least the past year.
The Tangent crowd seemed very appreciative, and also very welcoming. In fact, the annual symposium is a great way to meet local burners and develop an understanding of burner culture generally. Apparently, people who like Burning Man also like the Marche. I was pleased!Not surprisingly, the next thing to do after getting through the gate at Black Rock City, and accepting playa dust into your life, is find your camp. The city is laid out about a month before the festival, with streets in a semicircle , arrayed around a 60-foot-tall "man" effigy, who is ceremoniously set afire at the culmination of the week. The rest of the week, the man serves as a useful visual landmark, especially considering the festival site is spread across seven square miles.On the far side of the man is a large wooden temple (which burns), and a huge open playa scattered with incredible curated art pieces (many burn). Lots of stuff gets burned. Closest to the man is the Esplanade, where some of the larger theme camps are located, as well as Burning Man operations, organized sort of like the municipal departments of a small city: Department of Mutant Vehicles (DMV), Arctica (Ice Sales), Department of Public Works (DPW), Sanitation, and several others Beyond Esplanade, streets run in concentric circles away from the man in alphabetical order with a series of names, from Arcade to Laughing Sal, related to the festival's theme. This year it was the "Carnival of Mirrors," and you could find a number of funhouse attractions (mazes, games, and yes, mirrors) in the tents and structures immediately adjacent to the man. Perpendicular to the alphabetical streets, numbered streets run clockwise, according to a clock face, from 2 to 10 o'clock.Detroit's Camp of Broken Toys was on the corner of 9:15 and Jolly, only a short distance from the main gate, but a real hike (or bike) to Center Camp and the man. However, I knew the Camp of Broken Toys featured other ways of getting around Black Rock City. And I spied the insect-like antennae on one of the camp's "mutant vehicle" art cars as soon as I turned onto 9:15 off of Kook.I first met the artist Ryan C. Doyle in early 2014 during the lead up to last year's Marche du Nain Rouge. Doyle wowed Marchers with his huge fire-breathing dragon, Gon KiRin , a collaboration with light artist Teddy Lo.
This shoreline is found at Mormon Point, Shoreline Butte and elsewhere in the northern Death Valley but not in the south; one theory states that shorelines at elevations of 180 metres (590 ft) (Salt Spring and Saddle Springs) and 340 metres (1,120 ft) (Mesquite Spring at Soda Lake) are Blackwelder shorelines that were offset by tectonic deformation at a geologically reasonable rate of 2 millimetres per year (0.079 in/year). Such would imply that Soda Lake and Silver Lake during the Blackwelder stand were connected with Lake Manly; this theory is known as "mega Lake Manly". Such an expansion would have occurred whenever the lake levels rose above 178 metres (584 ft) above sea level and thus could flow south across Salt Spring Hills; the enlargement of the lake surface that resulted would have increased evaporation and stabilized lake levels. There is no clear cut evidence that these shorelines are of the same age as the Blackwelder shoreline, although they are of similar appearance. The spread of pupfish between the Mojave River and Death Valley drainages would also be more likely with such a lake configuration. There is no indication that Soda Lake playa had a lake during oxygen isotope stage 6, although water currents in a previous lake may have transported sands that are usually only found in ephemeral lakes through a deeper lake. Further, based on dating, shorelines at Salt Spring appear to belong to the later lake stage, and the tectonic deformation required to link the two southern shorelines to the Blackwelder has been deemed implausible, and has not been supported by analysis of the shorelines themselves. A final explanation assumes that during that stage, Lake Manly did not extend into southern Death Valley. [27] The Blackwelder highstand was probably not stabilized by overflow seeing as the only spillway close to Ludlow is about 595 metres (1,952 ft) high above sea level – considerably higher than the Blackwelder highstand could plausibly be – and the highest shorelines at Shoreline Butte and Lake Mojave are considerably lower. Additionally, the development of stable shorelines does not by default require an overflow, as demonstrated by the Dead Sea and its precursor Lake Lisan. Later lake stages Edit By 130,000–120,000 years ago, Lake Manly had retreated from the Blackwelder highstand. [189] A further lake stage may have occurred during oxygen isotope stage 4, but evidence is equivocal.
The arrangement is made possible because of the fact that the New York Central tracks pass directly beneath the block, which has been obtained by the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corporation from the New York Central Railroad on a sixty-three-year leasehold, the lease being in reality only for the "air rights" on the site. The platform is mentioned in the W P A New York City Guide (New York: Random House, 1939): "Eighty per cent of the building is over the tracks of the New York Central, and private railroad cars may be shunted to a special entrance." William D Middleton provided the canonical account of the Waldorf platform in his book Grand Central: the world's greatest railway terminal (San Marino CA: Golden West Books, 1977), as follows: Its location above the tracks permitted the celebrated hostelry the unique distinction of its own railroad side track in the basement, so to speak. Officially identified as Track 61 in one of Grand Central's storage areas, with a freight elevator providing access to the hotel, the siding was used on occasion for the arrival or departure of distinguished guests traveling by private railroad cars. General John J Pershing was the first to use it, on a visit to the city in 1938. During the 1944 campaign Franklin D Roosevelt gave a foreign policy address at the Waldorf and then descended into the "basement" to the presidential rail car for the journey home to Hyde Park. On other occasions the siding has been used for such diverse affairs as a 1947 "debut at the Waldorf" for a new 6,000 horsepower diesel locomotive, or for a 1965 "underground party" for pop artist Andy Warhol. Middleton's account follows the Times story in giving the impression that the elevator is one of the hotel's elevators that runs up to hotel floors. But something seems to have changed while the hotel was being built. For one thing, the siding was not used for private cars for seven years, and then when it was finally used, the elevator did not go directly into the hotel. The press accounts of General Pershing's visit are clear on where the elevator was. Pershing had had a heart attack in February and had not been expected to attend his son's wedding in New York.
And, yet, hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of lives later, the social and psychological condition had spiraled ever downward to a situation characterized by the Alaska Federation of Natives as a crisis.24 The "Native industry" that had evolved to encompass all aspects of life within the Alaska Native community had failed; things had not improved, they had only gotten worse. A New Approach: Native Solutions
We also included proxies of human activities: such as the time of day (dawn, day, dusk and night), distance to roads (close, d<500m; far d>500m; distance based on previous work in the study area [22, 28, 29]), week period (proxy for weekly activity, i.e., weekend or weekday), and hunting season (no hunting, bow, rifle season). We chose those variables because they correspond well to mortality risk during hunting season [9]. Our choice of cut-off distance (500m), chosen based on previous studies [22, 28, 29, 37], assumes that there should be no road effect beyond 500m. More specifically, it was our intention to investigate elk behaviour when the distance to the road matters (e.g., within 500 m sensu [22]) compared to when it does not matter (e.g., we did not expect to record a different behaviour between elk when located at 1km, 4 km, or 10 km from the closest road). Previous research conducted on our target population [9] found higher movement rates by elk that were eventually shot by hunters (increased encounters with humans). Ciuti et al. [9] also showed that mortality risk increased for elk moving faster when and where hunter activity was higher (flatter terrain, open areas, close to roads, and only slightly during weekends). Higher movement rates were usually observed at dawn and dusk as a result of crepuscular activity, which correspond to the period of higher hunting pressure. We modelled step-length (log transformed to achieve normally distributed residuals) using a linear mixed model (LMM) as a function of environmental variables and human-activity-related variables, and the interaction between age and human-activity-related variables. Likewise, we modelled variation in the use of terrain ruggedness using LMM as a function of environmental variables (same as for step-length excluding ruggedness), human-activity variables, and the interaction between age and human-activity variables. Finally, to examine the use of cover by elk, we used logistic regression to model use of forest (0 = no forest, 1 = forest) as a function of environmental variables (same as for step-length, excluding canopy cover as predictor), human activity variables, and the interaction between age and the human-activity variables. Female home ranges were stable and overlapping across years, with over 90% of the home range (minimum convex polygon) of one year included in the next year’s home range. Each elk had the same habitat availability throughout the monitoring period.
Additionally, the tests of overidentification report coefficients close to 10, which practitioners regard as a safe threshold to exclude the possibility of weak instruments. In both second stage regressions the proxies of social capital are positively and significantly associated with life satisfaction, while the use of SNS has negative and significant coefficients. The other control variables keep their signs unchanged. In particular, the relationship between age and well‐being is U‐shaped, being single or widowed compared to being married significantly correlates with lower life satisfaction, and the higher the education level, the higher is life satisfaction. The dummies indicating the device used to connect to the Internet are not significantly associated with life satisfaction, except the dummies for modem and USB. The use of the latter two devices is negatively and significantly associated with life satisfaction. Finally, among regional level control variables, only the regional share of social trust and the real GDP per capita retain some significant association with life satisfaction. In sum, our results suggest that the negative association between the use of SNS and life satisfaction identified in the OLS is robust to possible endogeneity issues. This indicates that the use of SNS directly reduces people's well‐being. Can it also have an indirect effect mediated by the relationship between SNS use and our proxies of social capital? We address this issue in the next section.
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY TODD STOTTLEMYRE SP I remember Dave Stewart, first day of pitchers’ camp, puts his arm around me and says, “What kind of year are ya gonna have?” And I was like, “Wow. Haven’t even thought about it.” He goes, “I’m gonna have a great year. You’re gonna have a big year, right?” This is the first day of spring training and I’m thinking, who am I playing golf with that afternoon? He’s talking about what kind of year he’s going to have. And then that day after the workout he says, “Hey, you wanna run with me?” DAVE STEWART SP I fought my battles in between starts and so when I’m running, I have a visual of the hitters that I’m going to be facing and what the guys have done to me in the past and what I want to accomplish if certain situations happen. I use my running as preparation. TODD STOTTLEMYRE I’m like, “I get to go run with Dave Stewart? Great!” So, we take off running, right? And we’re in our shorts and T-shirts and we leave the stadium and I’m thinking, “Hey, we’re getting a long ways from the stadium.” And Dave’s not saying a word. All I can think about is, “I hope he’s gonna turn around sometime soon.” DAVE STEWART He wasn’t saying much but he was thinking, “Stew-dog, when we getting back?” I asked him, “What were you thinking about when we were doing our run?” And he said, “I wasn’t thinking anything. I was just thinking about running.” TODD STOTTLEMYRE We get back from the run and Dave looks at me and sweat’s just pouring out. And he says, “I threw a lot of shutouts on that run. You see, when I run I’m not just getting my legs and heart in shape, I’m getting my mind in shape.” I started to gravitate toward that. And of course the next day, after camp Dave says to me, “Wanna go for a run?” And what am I gonna say, “No”? And all I can think about is, “Hope it’s shorter than yesterday’s.” He took me on. There was a mentorship there. DAVE STEWART When I had the opportunity to speak to Stott about the mental approach to the game, I used those opportunities because I wanted him to be better than I was. I wanted him to be one of the best in the game.
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Afterward, in the spring of 1170, Nur ad-Din sent Saladin's father to Egypt in compliance with Saladin's request, as well as encouragement from the Baghdad-based Abbasid caliph, al-Mustanjid, who aimed to pressure Saladin in deposing his rival caliph, al-Adid. [35] Saladin himself had been strengthening his hold on Egypt and widening his support base there. He began granting his family members high-ranking positions in the region; he ordered the construction of a college for the Maliki branch of Sunni Islam in the city, as well as one for the Shafi'i denomination to which he belonged in al-Fustat. [36] After establishing himself in Egypt, Saladin launched a campaign against the Crusaders, besieging Darum in 1170. [37] Amalric withdrew his Templar garrison from Gaza to assist him in defending Darum, but Saladin evaded their force and fell on Gaza instead. He destroyed the town built outside the city's castle and killed most of its inhabitants after they were refused entry into the castle. [38] It is unclear exactly when, but during that same year, he attacked and captured the Crusader castle of Eilat, built on an island off the head of the Gulf of Aqaba. It did not pose a threat to the passage of the Muslim navy, but could harass smaller parties of Muslim ships and Saladin decided to clear it from his path. [37] Sultan of Egypt Saladin as depicted on a dirham coin, ca. 1190 According to Imad ad-Din, Nur ad-Din wrote to Saladin in June 1171, telling him to reestablish the Abbasid caliphate in Egypt, which Saladin coordinated two months later after additional encouragement by Najm ad-Din al-Khabushani, the Shafi'i faqih, who vehemently opposed Shia rule in the country. Several Egyptian emirs were thus killed, but al-Adid was told that they were killed for rebelling against him. He then fell ill, or was poisoned according to one account. While ill, he asked Saladin to pay him a visit to request that he take care of his young children, but Saladin refused, fearing treachery against the Abbasids, and is said to have regretted his action after realizing what al-Adid had wanted. [39] He died on 13 September, and five days later, the Abbasid khutba was pronounced in Cairo and al-Fustat, proclaiming al-Mustadi as caliph. [40] On 25 September, Saladin left Cairo to take part in a joint attack on Kerak and Montreal, the desert castles of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with Nur ad-Din who would attack from Syria.
By now you probably know that over the Thanksgiving Holiday, Homeland Security wasn't just feeling up your grandmother and staring at your naked daughter at the TSA, but ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) wentbeyond its mandate to seize a whole bunch of domain names . This is not the first time it has done this, of course. Back in June, we noted a very similar , if somewhat smaller, raid. That one was equally questionable, as not only did it involve seizing domains without an adversarial trial, but also the announcement was made, which should make you wonder when Homeland Security started working for private corporations to shut down websites it does't like without a trial.The latest set of seizures is no less troubling. These domain seizures come even without the COICA law being in place, and despite assurances from COICA supporters that no such domain seizures would ever possibly come without a full trial first, many of the operators of the domain names seized in this round state they hadn't received any notification of, let alone demands to be taken down.And it gets even more ridiculous, as some of the sites taken down appear to be nothing more than search engines , which did not host any content and did not host any trackers, but simply acted as perfectly normal search engines. For anyone who actually understands how the internet works (i.e., clearly not Homeland Security) this is a massively troubling move, suggesting that if Homeland Security doesn't like how your search engine works, it can simply seize your domain and put up a really scary looking graphic, claiming it has taken over your website:Even the search engine folks are quite worried about this -- and they're not the sorts who usually pay too much attention to questions about copyright.And, of course, none of this is actually stopping these sites from working. Within hours, many had popped back up elsewhere . The whole thing seems highly questionable. Seizing domain names without a trial, and taking down sites that appear to be nothing more than search engines, rather than actually hosting infringing material, is a huge, dangerous step, which appears to have absolutelyto do with Homeland Security's mandate.
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But large hog producers don't really care because it saves them money, and the USDA doesn't care because, well, they basically represent the interests of the animal slaughter industry (the pork, beef and chicken industries).As long as the ethanol producers are happy, the hog producers are happy, and enough organizations continue to sing the praises of distillers' grains, then there's no need to protect the public from the dangers of the tainted end result, it seems. Nobody will notice, right?These are just a few of the many violations that the FSIS, FDA and EPA seem unconcerned about. And this isn't merely my personal opinion: These things areThe casual way in which the USDA report highlights the failures and gives lip service to fixing them would be humorous if it didn't have such disastrous consequences. For example, much of this meat ends up in theThe tainted meat usually comes from low-grade providers, so schools are quick to snatch it up and feed it to children because it's dirt cheap. And fortunately, it's labeled, "Suitable for human consumption. "Millions of American children, who are still in their developmental stages, are eating cheeseburgers filled with antibiotics, pharmaceutical drugs and toxic chemicals -- all thanks to the greed of powerful industries and the inexcusable depth of corruption within agricultural regulatory agencies.This tainted meat also makes its way to grocery stores, big-box warehouses and even restaurants. Anywhere you're buying hamburger meat (or just hamburgers), you're likely to be chowing down on meat laced with toxic chemicals, antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs.Yet, amazingly, these issues are never addressed publicly. The general public has no idea that. They have no clue that the regulatory agencies that are supposed to be protecting them can't even properly communicate with each other, let alone protect the public.Whenever there is a recall, nobody talks aboutthe meat got tainted orit managed to pass by regulators without being stopped. There is never a discussion about thein the meat system itself that encourage contamination. Instead, regulators unleash a chorus of whining over how underfunded they are and how everything would be fixed if the entire food supply was simply irradiated before hitting store shelves.Except irradiation doesn't destroy heavy metals and pharmaceuticals. It only makes the meatin the short term because it doesn't make anybody sick the very next day.The response to food contamination has been to devise food "safety" bills that experts claim will solve the problems of the food system.
I’m shocked how badly the #3 film Sony Pictures Animation‘s The Smurfs 2 (3,866 theaters) bombed in the U.S. and Canada where even the most wretched family fare can catch a break at the summer box office. This 3D hybrid live-action/CG animated sequel couldn’t even make in its first five days ($27.8M) what the 2011 original grossed in its first three-day weekend ($35.6M). Ouch! Guess little blue people creep me out and North Americans, too. The domestic total fell way short of the $35M first projected by the studio which blames too many PG films at the multiplex. But even the foreign cume was blah: $52.5M from 43 territories was “not enough to make up for U.S. underperformance,” a Sony exec tells me. That’s a worldwide total of $80.3M, far less than the $100M which Sony projected this weekend. Russia and Latin America beat Smurfs 1 while shockingly Europe (where the Smurfs began) did not. Let’s remember that the 2011 original made 75% of its coin overseas ($420M foreign vs $142M domestic) so Sony is was counting on a big worldwide weekend to save pic’s bottom-line. The negative cost for Smurfs 2 was $125M ($146M less production benefits of $21M). Sony also lined up for the sequel one of the studio’s largest global promotion campaigns with $150M from 100 corporations, licensees, and retail partners. (Including McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, blueberries). That’s a big deal for family fare not branded Disney, Pixar, or DreamWorks. As expected Smurfs 2 opened Wednesday #1 atop the North American box office but with only a lame $5.2M and then a lifeless $18.2M three-day weekend. Its Rotten Tomatoes score was a poor 12% but the ‘A-‘ CinemaScore from audiences didn’t help domestic word of mouth. I hear the Sony brass was concerned from the outset because their sequel was out-tracked by Disney’s Planes (which opens August 9th). Smurfs 2‘s disappointment will only put more pressure on the studio from cantankerous investor Daniel Loeb who’s currently destabilizing the studio. The first film was taken out of turnaround from Paramount by then Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman/CEO Michael Lynton, now the Sony America bigwig. And that original Smurfs movie caught lightning in a bottle and grossed $563M worldwide. Because of that, Smurfs 3 already is scheduled for 2015.
I had not really expected to hold Italy, and throughout the tense fighting there – you’ll note a lack of screenshots in this installment, which tends to go with moments of high excitement in the actual game! – I was maneuvering with the evacuation in mind; the decisive front, in my mind, was going to be the Levant. Could I get my armies from where they had been advancing into India, to defend the Levant and Anatolia before Baron shipped forty divisions into the Fortress City of Acre and went on to occupy all of Venezia-oltre-il-Mare? It turned out that I could; which is just as well, since otherwise I would surely have been knocked out of the war. Thus, I was able to get some fast divisions across the Strait to take Constantinople before Jacob could garrison it properly – an unexpected bonus which delivered me control of the Black Sea; I would have been content with garrisoning my side of the Strait against German attack. Likewise I occupied the line of Egyptian fortresses facing the Sinai, leaving my own Sinai Line as a fallback position (and abandoning the rest of Africa as untenable); I got garrisons into the Levantine ports; and my allies formed a line across the Caucasus and were even able to advance a little before Danish troops showed up to contest the mountains. In truth I think Baron and Jacob missed a bet by not straining every sinew to get to the Levant first; if they had gotten ashore there it might have been hard to hold them back, and Italy could have been mopped up at leisure, being un-reinforceable. The closest approach to this was a landing in Aydin, in Danish Anatolia, while I was still scrambling to form a battle line in Thrace. Fortunately, I had a tank division fresh from the occupation of Rhodes, which got into the rear of the English advance and threatened that one supply port, which Baron had unaccountably failed to garrison properly:
Motorworks, along with St. Petersburg Brewing Company and 3 Daughters, takes a classic approach to its beer recipes, often favoring tradition and balance over experimental flavor wildcards. The brewmasters at Darwin's Brewing Company and Green Bench take the most extreme and eclectic approach to creating beers.Darwin's co-owner and brewmaster, Jorge Rosabal, experiments with unusual South American ingredients such as aji charapita peppers and quinoa to pair his beers with the Peruvian style culinary dishes created by brewery co-Owner and Chef Darwin Santa Maria. "Our vision is to place Bradenton on America's beer map; to get this area to a point where we are recognized as a destination for craft beers. Personally, I think one of the most important parts of the craft industry is developing a culture of pairing craft beers with food, so that's where our beers begin,'' Rosabal says.Like Rosabal, Green Bench Brewmaster Khris Johnson sees an opportunity to position Florida's Gulf coast at the center of national attention by pushing one-of-a-kind, daredevil brews. Under Johnson's creative direction, Green Bench Brewing leads the Bay area in outside-the-box, hop-fueled Belgian beers and sours such as the "Jalepeno Goose Joose,'' a hoppy kiwi sour with jalepeno peppers, and the "Surrealist,'' a sour IPA. "My goals as a brewer are to make what I love drinking and to bring something to St. Pete that the area has never tasted. We're in this experimental stage, and I want people to be saying, 'What the hell is going on in St. Pete? ','' Johnson says. "Because Florida is late to the game, we have this mindset of needing to catch up. We're inventing styles and changing peoples' perceptions on beer because we're under that pressure, and we're growing faster, as far as education and community goes, than anywhere else in the country because of it,'' he adds.Although Bay area brewers may not be able to agree on a brewing style -- and for the sake of variety, it's a good thing they can't -- they are unanimous in their confidence that the craft beer revolution has only just begun in Florida, and that the Bay area is poised to lead the way.American craft brewers contributed $33.9 billion to the U.S. economy in 2012, with Florida craft brewers responsible for $876 million of that economic impact.
Follow the rebels' progress Cuba timeline The 82-year-old has not been seen in public since undergoing major surgery almost 18 months ago. There was no pre-recorded message on state television on New Year's Eve nor one of his regular newspaper editorials to mark the event. Nonetheless, he remains a towering presence in Cuba, even in the background. Raul Castro has introduced some limited reforms since he has been in charge, but many Cubans believe that as long as Fidel is alive, no meaningful political or economic change will happen, correspondents say. Fifty years on, the legacy of the revolution is complex. There is free education and health care but the state-controlled economy means wages for many Cubans are very low, on average about $20 to $25 a month. Tight restrictions The country's difficulties cannot just be blamed on the US trade embargo, in place since 1962, or global financial problems, says our correspondent. There is enormous pressure and expectation amongst Cubans for change, he adds. Over the decades since the revolution, political opposition has been crushed and hundreds of thousands of Cubans have gone into exile. "The Castro brothers have not treated their people particularly well," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe on the eve of the anniversary. "Many political dissidents are in jail. The economy is suffering and not free. And the United States will continue to try to seek the freedom of the people of Cuba, and support them." During his time in office, President George W Bush imposed tight restrictions on Cuban-Americans visiting the island and the amount of money they could send. However, US policy towards Cuba appears set to change. President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office on 20 January, has said he will maintain the Cuban embargo but that some restrictions could be eased. Attitudes among Cuban-Americans may also be changing. A recent poll suggested that for the first time a majority of those living in Miami, the centre of anti-Castro sentiment, favoured ending the embargo.
“While the Constitution is certainly taught in our schools, in our school systems across the country, I think because of the political climate, there is little attention given to the Second Amendment.” “I wouldn’t say it was a nod [to the gun industry],” Grabowski said. “It was a handshake. It was right out in the open.” “He’s actively telling them what a friendly environment it is for gun manufacturing and that the state is a big supporter of Second Amendment rights,” he said. Clemmons did not respond to several attempts seeking comment. Indirectly, the bill will help PTR, Grabowski said. Directly, however, “it’s not going to affect our business in terms of how many rifles we sell,” he said, “but it does promote awareness of the Second Amendment to the citizens of our country, and that, in the long run, will help our industry as a whole.”
Three careful sleep laboratory studies (Amadeo & Gomez, 1966; Berger, Olley, & Oswald, 1962; Kerr, Foulkes, & Schmidt, 1982) and at least one rigorous study of home dream reports (Hurovitz, Dunn, Domhoff, & Fiss, 1999) have shown that congenitally blind dreamers and those who became blind in infancy do not have visual imagery in their dreams, whereas those blinded in adolescence or young adulthood often retain visual mental imagery in their waking life and in their dreams. These controlled experiments confirm what has been reported in a number of earlier self-report studies reviewed by Kirtley (1975), who concluded on the basis of his extensive appraisal that individuals blinded before the age of about 5 report no visual imagery in dreams as adults, whereas those blinded after about the age of 7 are likely to retain visual imagery in dreaming. According to Foulkes (1999), these studies have theoretical implications beyond the issue of blindness because they suggest that the mental imagery necessary for dreaming develops between the ages of 4 and 7. This suggestion fits with his finding that preschool children awakened in the sleep laboratory rarely report dreams and that the reports are bland and static on the few occasions on which they do recall dreams (Foulkes, 1982, 1999). Thus, the findings on blind dreamers add to the support for a cognitive theory of dreaming (Antrobus, 1978, 1991; Foulkes, 1985). It is rather surprising that the findings on the lack of visual mental imagery in the dreams of congenitally blind individuals have been challenged in a recent home-report, polysomnographical study in which the authors concluded that "the congenitally blind have visual content in their dreams" (Bértolo et al., 2003, p. 277). However, Bértolo et al. have used the terms visual image and visual content in a way that is not consistent with previous studies, and they have drawn inappropriate conclusions from the fact that the congenitally blind can draw images of their dream content. They also have misapplied a system of content analysis. Because their new claim has implications for a cognitive theory of dreaming, it is the purpose of this brief article to show that their results are in fact consistent with the earlier studies and do not support conclusions that congenitally blind people can "see" in dreaming or waking imagery. Bértolo et al. (2003) cited a number of studies of waking imagery abilities in the blind as background for their study of dream imagery.
It represents a major vote of confidence in London as the leading global financial centre and is further proof that Britain is a great place to do business," he said.The target investors have so far been Asians mainly of Indian origin. Rupee-denominated bonds can raise more money for India and also give international investors higher yields. Some buyers include sovereign wealth funds. "Taking advantage of the efficient listing process and tapping the global markets in London, global issuers can access a new vital channel of international finance and investors around the world without foreign exchange risk." said an upbeat Nikhil Rathi, CEO of London Stock Exchange.
Materials and Methods Ethical approval was granted by the University of Essex Faculty of Science Ethics Sub-committee. Participants gave informed consent and were given links to the original sources of the science news stories. The data are available via the University of Cambridge Data Repository. Studies 4 and 6 were preregistered on the Open Science Framework (osf.io/ev794; osf.io/fterb). Additional information about participants, stimuli, procedures, and results is provided in SI Appendix. Participants. Participants in study 1 who provided trait ratings for the scientist face set were members of the University of Essex (United Kingdom) participant panel and participated in the laboratory; all other participants were members of the US population recruited via an online platform (45). At the end of all studies, participants provided demographic information and completed a questionnaire to measure their engagement with science (e.g., “I am knowledgeable about science,”“I find scientific ideas fascinating”). Design and Procedure. Trial order, block order, stimulus locations, and assignment of participants to conditions were randomized. Assignments of news items to faces and conditions were counterbalanced. Unless otherwise noted, all studies presented stimuli sequentially. Studies 1 and 2. The study 1 faces were a random sample of profile pictures from the websites of the physics and genetics/human genetics departments of the top 200 ranked US universities (46), cropped and edited to have a gray background and uniform height (130 pixels). Study 2 used 400 faces randomly sampled from the biological sciences and physics departments of UK universities in proportion to the number of scientists from each institution submitted to the United Kingdom’s 2014 Research Excellent Framework, cropped and standardized to 150-pixel height and presented against their original background (47). Participants made judgments on a nine-point scale (1 = “not at all,” 9 = “extremely”). In study 1, 54 participants each rated the faces on traits related to competence (competence, intelligence), sociability (likability, kindness), and morality (trustworthiness, honesty) (48), as well as judging the attractiveness of the faces and estimating the face’s age in years (values below 16 and above 100 were discarded). Each dimension was judged in a separate block. The face set was divided into two subsets (54 biologists and 54 physicists per subset); 27 participants judged one subset; 26 judged the other.
Examples of state involvement in education varied but also indicated the dilemma that Reformed Protestants faced after having been stakeholders in the early modern reform of schooling in the West. In a nation such as France, at one end of the spectrum, the ideology of the republic was hostile to religion and so state schools removed any vestiges of church influence. In Scotland the demands of a modernizing economy and politics required a gradual abandonment of the old parish model of local schools and the adoption of a public system in which religion supported national ideals. Churches responded by turning to voluntary institutions such as Sunday schools where children might receive a religiously based education. In the Netherlands, the state adopted a liberal system of education that included a bare minimum of Christian influence designed not to offend either Protestants or Roman Catholics. Abraham Kuyper protested this “neutral” educational system and advocated instead a pluralistic model where parents might receive state funding for schools true to religious convictions—Roman Catholic schools for Roman Catholics, Calvinists schools for Calvinists. In the United States where political institutions were weak and decentralized, public schools often served community interests instead of a national agenda. Even so, the public school system involved the assimilation of children to American ideals about God and virtue; as a result, common schools included prayer and Bible reading in ways that seemed too Protestant for Roman Catholics. School controversies in the 1830s and 1870s led some bishops to implement parochial school systems for Roman Catholic children. Some American Presbyterians also entertained the idea of establishing a system of church schools out of frustration over the thin character of religious instruction in the common schools. Not until the 1960s, however, when the US Supreme Court ruled that prayer and Bible reading in public schools were unconstitutional, did the bulk of American Protestants become alert to the kind of arguments that Abraham Kuyper had made about the problems of a state-run education devoid of religion.
You need to get your own hot dog stand.’ I think that I’m lucky that my dad knew that I just couldn’t function like that—that I was never going to be able to work in a traditional job. I’m lucky though, because most parents would be like, ‘What the hell, you can’t even keep a job?’ So I would say that I’m very lucky that he just knew who I was, and didn’t have a problem with it.
The animals were first habituated to the CPP chambers for 2 days, followed by the measurement of their baseline preference for each of the two chambers. The baseline preference determined which side of the chamber the drug would be paired for a balanced experimental design. Cocaine was delivered in the least preferred chamber (defined from baseline preference). For SKF 83959 and since it was not know if this drug would lead to CPP or CPA half of animals received SKF 83959 in the preferred side whereas the other half received it in the non-preferred side. Habituated rats underwent 6 days of conditioning sessions, during which they received 3 drug treatments and 3 saline treatments in alternating order (D-S-D-S-D-S). The drug treatments were: vehicle, 1.0 mL/kg; SKF 83959, 1.0 mg/kg, s.c.; cocaine, 10 mg/kg, i.p. ; TAT-D1 peptide, 300 pmol, i.c.v. ; TAT-Sc peptide, 300 pmol, i.c.v., or a combination of these drugs. Immediately after the injection the rats were confined to the assigned chamber for 30 min. The TAT-D1 peptide was given 15 min prior to the start of each conditioning session. On the test day, the rats were allowed to freely explore the two chambers, and the time the animals spent in each chamber was recorded. To examine the effects of the D1-D2 heteromer on the expression of cocaine CPP, animals first underwent 6 days of conditioning sessions with cocaine (10 mg/kg, i.p.) and saline in alternating order. On the test day, the animals received an injection of SKF 83959 (2.5 mg/kg, s.c.) or vehicle, and the time they spent in each chamber was recorded. Place preference or aversion was established if the animal spent significantly more or less time in the drug-paired in comparison to the baseline preference, and thus each rat acted as its own control. Animals that spent more than 40% of total time in the middle compartment were excluded.
ESPN shows a lone Duke fan standing in the Miami student section, prompting Dan Shulman to comment that this isn’t the best place to be for a Blue Devils fan. While this happens, a call goes against Miami and the Hurricanes fans boo the referees, prompting Vitale to say that the officials are hearing it from the crowd as well. Speaking of officials, Vitale continues, John Clougherty, the head of ACC officials, is sitting just to his right. Vitale explains that Clougherty was the one who made the controversial call at the end of the 1989 national championship game to put Michigan at the free throw line with three seconds to play. Even though that call helped Michigan beat Seton Hall for their only national championship, Vitale points out that Seton Hall’s coach that season, P.J. Carlesimo, once said if he could pick any referee to officiate a national championship, he’d pick Clougherty. Vitale then says that he thinks Carlesimo has earned the right to be the coach of the Brooklyn Nets. During the second half, with the game already decided, Vitale reiterates that even though Duke is getting blown out, they’ll still end up being a good team because Mike Krzyzewski is the best coach in the game. He then addresses the criticism that Coach K is losing his touch by reminding everyone that he led Team USA to a gold medal last summer. Vitale then points out that one of his assistant coaches was Mike D’Antoni, who is now coaching the Los Angeles Lakers. What’s ironic about that, Vitale mentions, is that D’Antoni probably wouldn’t be coaching the Lakers if Coach K hadn’t turned down the job in 2004. Vitale then admits that maybe that’s not true, because success at the college level doesn’t necessarily lead to success at the pro level, as evidenced by Rick Pitino’s stint with the Boston Celtics and John Calipari’s stint with the New Jersey Nets, who are now the Brooklyn Nets. During a break in the action, ESPN shows Barry Larkin in the stands and Dan Shulman mentions that his son Shane is Miami’s starting point guard. Vitale says that he’s a huge baseball fan and admits to being a little starstruck by Larkin’s presence. Vitale then reminds viewers that Larkin won the World Series with the Reds in 1990, and the manager of the Reds that year was Vitale’s friend Lou Piniella.
After meeting Gulak, I decided I had to go meet one of my other favorite Chikara stars, Ashley Remington. When I was first being introduced to Chikara and people were sending me clips and offering advice on who to look into, Ashley Remington was a name that continually popped up. It’s easy to see why. He’s incredibly charismatic, a great character and wrestler, as well as being so damn likeable. It’s hard for me, as a cynical wrestling fan, to find people that immediately latch onto my heart and provide joy, but he did that after watching about two matches. From his style, gentlemanly nature, and annoyingly catchy theme song all the way down to the fingerguns he throws around, this guy was meant to be a performer. He has the type of personality that draws you in and makes you want to say hello, and he goes out of his way to chat with everyone from what I saw. When my turn to meet Ashley came around, I said hello and he asked my name. I replied and he said “Hello Courtney, may I take a photo with you?” Smooth indeed, Mr. Remington. Before taking the photo he stopped and told me how lovely my dress was and I thanked him, which prompted him to ask if I had indeed worn it for him. I confirmed that yes, I had (it was nautical in theme), and he said, “Well, aren’t I the luckiest man alive!” Touche, Mr. Remington. His calm, breezy nature makes you feel for at least the span of your meeting that he genuinely is happy to make your acquaintance, and that’s something I really admire. It has to be difficult to spend so much time meeting fans and taking photos, but he never made it seem like it was a job- just a great perk. No one I knew who met him walked away feeling anything less than thrilled, and that’s a real testament to his commitment and charm that many other wrestlers lack.
MENA, Ark. - What do Bill Clinton and Oliver North have in common, along with the Arkansas State Police and the Central Intelligence Agency? All probably wish they had never heard of Mena. President Clinton was asked at his Oct. 7 press conference about Mena, a small town and airport in the wilds of Western Arkansas. Sarah McClendon, a longtime Washington curmudgeon renowned for her off-the-wall questions, wove a query around the charge that a base in Mena was "set up by Oliver North and the CIA" in the 1980s and used to "bring in planeload after planeload of cocaine" for sale in the U.S., with the profits then used to buy weapons for the Contras. Was he told as Arkansas governor? she asked. "No," the president replied, "they didn't tell me anything about it." The alleged events "were primarily a matter for federal jurisdiction. The state really had next to nothing to do with it. The local prosecutor did conduct an investigation based on what was in the jurisdiction of state law. The rest of it was under the jurisdiction of the United States Attorneys who were appointed successively by previous administrations. We had nothing - zero - to do with it." It was Mr. Clinton's lengthiest remark on the murky affair since it surfaced nearly a decade ago, in the middle of his long tenure as governor of Arkansas. And while the president may be correct to suggest that Mena is an even bigger problem for previous Republican administrations, he was wrong on just about every other count. The state of Arkansas had plenty to do with Mena, and Mr. Clinton left many unanswered questions behind when he to Washington. Anyone who thinks that Mena is not serious should speak to William Duncan, a former Internal Revenue Service investigator who, together with Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch, has fought a bitter 10-year battle to bring the matter to light. They pinned their hopes on nine separate state and federal probes. All failed. "The Mena investigations were never supposed to see the light of day," says Mr. Duncan, now an investigator with the Medicaid Fraud Division of the office of Arkansas Attorney General Winston Bryant "Investigations were interfered with and covered up, and the justice system was subverted." The mysteries of Mena, detailed on this page on June 29, center on the activities of a drug-smuggler-turned-informant named Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal.
The venue is a Springbok Club meeting. The flag is a symbol for white supremacists in South Africa.
The measure of well-being used here provides valid and reliable assessments of general hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (38, 52) (e.g., in this sample, Cronbach α values are 0.93 and 0.92 for those two respective domains), but defining the specific aspects of eudaimonia that relate most directly to gene expression [e.g., as has been done for other health-related biomarkers (13, 30, 31)] will require more extensive measurement of the constituent dimensions of eudaimonia in future studies (13, 15, 30, 53). Hedonic and eudaimonic well-being were originally distinguished to resolve basic and ancient philosophical questions regarding the best way for humans to live (14, 16, 53, 54). The present data offer little grounds to prefer one mode of happiness over the other based on affective experience, but they identify a stark contrast at the level of molecular physiology. If “the good life” is a long and healthy life free from the allostatic load of chronic stress, threat, and uncertainty (55, 56), CTRA gene expression may provide a negative reference point for how not to live [figuratively in its association with adverse experience (12, 33) and literally in its expression of disease-promoting genes (37)]. If we ask which type of happiness most directly opposes that molecular antipode, a functional genomic perspective favors eudaimonia. Genomics-based analyses also reveal an adverse molecular physiology of hedonic well-being that appears not to register at the level of experienced affect. This dissociation of molecular well-being from affective well-being implies the potential for an objective approach to moral philosophy rooted in the utility of health and the basic biology of human nature (57⇓–59) as revealed in 2 million years of evolved genomic programming to help human beings survive and thrive in this world (32).
Col Vandeveld says his jaw dropped when he read the email, adding: "I lived in dread of that answer." But eventually he did resign and has chosen to speak out about what he saw, giving the BBC his first interview. "I never suffered such anguish in my life about anything," he says, looking back over the period. "It took me too long to recognise that we had abandoned our American values and defiled our constitution." Cases dropped Col Vandeveld was prosecuting six cases, including that of Binyam Mohamed, the last British resident held at Guantanamo. After his resignation, charges in these cases were dropped but with the possibility they may be re-filed at any point. Col Vandeveld declined to discuss details of Mr Mohamed's case and others which remain classified. But Binyam Mohamed's lawyers say he was tortured as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme and are hopeful that he may not be charged again, on the grounds that this might reveal too many details of the rendition programme. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Col Vandeveld was forced to undergo a mental status evaluation after expressing his concerns and his military career is over. But he has returned to his community in Erie where local newspapers have praised the stand he took. He has no regrets. In response to his claims, a Pentagon spokesman told the BBC: "We dispute Darrel Vandeveld's assertions and maintain the military commission process provides full and fair trials to accused unlawful enemy combatants who are charged with a variety of war crimes." President-elect Barack Obama has said he wants to shut Guantanamo but no-one thinks it will be easy. Col Vandeveld believes that it is possible though. "No justice will be obtained at Guantanamo," he said. "And if that entails moving them (the suspects) temporarily to the US for trial: so be it."
The power of the tribal press, then, should follow once the people have reached a definite and satisfactory conclusion.The evils faced by the Cherokees during Boudinot’s time were among the darkest, but they were not the only dangers before us.I am interested in the pattern suggested by Boudinot: the warning of dark clouds, followed by community discourse, and, if possible, a community-based satisfactory conclusion.The issue Boudinot wanted debated – the federal government’s desire to relocate the Cherokee Nation – was about as dire as can be imagined, but other schemes have, to varying degrees, also threatened the very prospect of Indian survival.Consider how some fifty years ago many tribes were faced with removal in a political context – termination. There were a few voices of dissent from tribal media, including a newspaper published at Menominee. But the voices were primarily local.In 1952 there was no national Indian newspaper or medium of any kind.So it wasn’t huge news when Congress enacted House Resolution 108 calling for the termination of tribes that were “ready.”And to get ready, various provisions were inserted into routine legislation that required tribal governments to prepare a plan to accept termination. Imagine that. As part of your government’s regular funding stream, the tribe would need to prepare documents planning termination.This would have been a great story; had there been a national Native press.One of the tribes ordered to prepare a termination plan was the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state. A termination plan was required in order as part of legislation that included title to tribal lands. Most tribal members probably didn’t think much about termination – at least at first – but in the decade that followed pro-termination supporters gained support of the tribal business council, telling tribal members that termination would mean a sale of all the reservation’s assets and a distribution of those assets to tribal members. In other words: folks were promised they would be rich.Beginning in the early 1960s, U.S. Senator Henry Jackson, a Democrat from Washington, introduced Colville termination bills only to be blocked by the House of Representatives.
Since the beginning of time, there have been "Others" - humans endowed with supernatural abilities - and for just as long, the Others have been divided between the forces of Light and Dark. In Medieval times, the armies of both sides met by chance, and a great battle began. Seeing that neither side had a clear advantage, the two faction leaders, Geser and Zavulon, called a truce and each side commissioned a quasi-police force to ensure it was kept; the Light side's force was called The Night Watch. In modern-day Moscow, Anton Gorodetsky (Russian: Антон Городецкий) visits a witch named Daria and asks her to cast a spell to return his wife to him, agreeing that she should miscarry her illegitimate child as part of it. Just as the spell is about to be completed, two figures burst in and restrain Daria, preventing her from completing the spell. When they notice that Anton is able to see them, they realize that he is also an Other. Fourteen years later, Anton has enlisted in the Night Watch. While policing Moscow, he encounters several portents that Geser says are linked to an ancient prophecy of an immensely powerful Other that will end the stalemate between Light and Dark, but will be more likely to join the Dark. Anton's investigations lead him to a nurse, Svetlana, whom disaster seems to follow everywhere, and a young boy named Yegor. In the film's climax, Anton prevents a catastrophic storm from leveling Moscow, when he realizes that Svetlana is an Other, and begins teaching her to control her power. But in the process, Anton realizes that Yegor is his own son, and that his wife was pregnant with him when Anton tried to have a spell cast on her (believing, mistakenly, that the father of the child was his wife's lover, not himself). Learning that his own father tried to kill him before he was born turns Yegor - the Other of the prophecy - against Anton and towards Zavulon, which was the latter's plan all along. In helpless rage, Anton strikes Zavulon, while saying in voice over that, although the prophecy has come true and the Dark's victory seems inevitable, he will not give up.
The only assumed financial assistance is credit lines from the Iranian government.Lastly, international reserves have been estimated to have dropped to $1 billion at the end of 2015, and the exchange rate has sharply depreciated as well, having lost an estimated 85% of its value against the dollar.The fiscal deficit is estimated to have risen to over 20% of GDP in 2015, up from 8% of GDP in 2010. While Iranian credit finances some of the Syrian debt, the rest is covered domestically by the Central Bank and commercial banks. Public debt was above 100% of GDP by the end 2015, up from 31% of GDP at the end of 2009.Foreign currency and raw material shortages have forced government forces to cut back on wheat, bread, sugar, fuel, water, and electricity subsidies. The Syrian government has also been forced to outsource a majority of necessary services to the private sector and has reached agreements with the Islamic State (ISIS) and the Kurds to buy Syrian crude oil and gas to ensure supplies for areas under regime control.The financial sector is in disarray. Syrian banks are largely isolated from the international market—three-quarters of the banking market largely shut off from international payment and settlement systems as a result of the international sanctions—and a majority of international assets have been frozen. Non-performing loans are a large problem, as well, having increased to 35% by September 2013, up from only 4% in 2010.Rebuilding physical infrastructure will cost an estimated $100 to $200 billion, and Syria will have to overcome vast socioeconomic challenges. Using recovery times in Lebanon and Kuwait after their respective conflicts as a reference, it can be roughly estimated that if Syria stabilizes in 2018, it could take 20 years for its economy to return to pre-conflict GDP levels. However, considering the unprecedented level of devastation, it could take longer.In the short run, Syria must aim its economic reforms toward stabilization and helping the poorest. After security has been restored and reconstruction is underway, more far-reaching reforms should be considered, such as developing non-oil sectors and maintaining fiscal sustainability while providing social protection to unemployed youth. Private sector development is critical. There is also environmental and natural resource challenges, particularly relevant to the stress that has been put on the water supply and sanitation sectors.In sum, Syria must consider how it will deal with its regional disparities when it begins to rebuild to avoid repetitive instability.
@ut.us panthergm Anon Poor CenturyStink I see this and I laugh. While I do have concerns about the taxpayers paying for a network that is being bought for $1.00 and can be Abadoned, I ask where is the taxpayer reimbursement? I also have another question; if google gives it up, what happens to the network? is it turned back over to the taxpayers, or does it just sit unused? In regards to centuryStink, if there is anybody out there who feels bad for Centurystink, I would like to shed some light on this. Back when it was US WEST, it was very good service, telephone never went down. Qwest went down a couple times, however they always fixed the telephone within the 48 hours as required by law. Ever Since Centurylink bought Qwest it went from bad to the worst service I have ever seen from a company. My grandparents home telephone and internet (DSL) as they offered a sweet deal for it, and it wasn't 3 weeks later and it was down for 10 days! Yes, TEN DAYS! I am talking telephone and DSL. there is no excuse for this!!! We called repair multiple times, and the automated system said we are aware of the issue and are working on it. It wouldn't allow me to talk to a real person. my grandparents do not know how to use a cell phone, (Well they had to learn) the phone came back a couple times but usually didn't last for more then 20 minutes. Needless to say We switched to Comcast (which I despise almost as much as Centurystink) However I put my grandparents on the cheapest internet they had, and they now Have Xmission for their telephone service. Which I must say is working out great! Bill is the same price every month no matter what. And when we tried to cancel centurystink they wouldn't allow me to cancel the service, even though I was an authorized person to make changes on the account. So, my grandma called and she got HABEB in India, she couldn't understand him, they would not help her, and she ended up hanging up on them. she ended up calling back about a week later and was able to finally get someone who could help her. Then there was more billing issues that had to be worked out, which I wont get into here.
However, Kotkin is careful not to anticipate those traits of Stalin that would emerge only in the aftermath of the 1917 October Revolution. The author underlines how the challenge of modernizing nation states both at the center of Europe and in the East - Germany and Japan - dramatically impacted Russia in the quarter century before the First World War. He maintains that although the regime faced more or less successfully the pressure of modernization, the persistence of autocratic rule embodied a basic frailty. In his words, “the tsarist regime found itself bereft of a firm political base to meet its international competition challenges” as it discouraged modern mass politics (130). The Russian state was strong enough to suppress perspectives of serious constitutional reform - that were widespread on a world scale early in the century - as well as revolutionary activities by Socialists. Socialism “meant a life in Siberia” - and Stalin was no exception. But in the event of war, social revolution could become inevitable, as the upheaval of 1905 menaced. The Bolsheviks were poorly prepared to confront such eventuality. Their experience of exile, either abroad or in Siberia, did not favor a clear understanding of Russia’s social and political perspectives. Stalin had not missed the revolution of 1905, but evidence of its impact on him is weak - as his detachment from Georgian nationalism had come before it, and his first encounter with Lenin was not decisive (81). He missed the Great War and returned from imprisonment to Petrograd after the February revolution of 1917, only to support the Provisional Government - a moderate line that he and fellow Bolshevik leader Lev Kamenev had to drop after Lenin’s angry reaction. Lenin was the exception among Bolsheviks and his personality made the difference in their encounter with revolution. All this is well known, but Kotkin provides a vivid reconstruction of 1917 and shows us Stalin’s role as a propagandist of Lenin’s radical line (176-77). Contra his Bolshevik adversary Leon Trotsky’s account, Stalin did not miss the October Revolution. Not only did he establish himself as a crucial ally of Lenin, but also demonstrated his aptitude “for summarizing complicated issues in a way that could be readily understood” (193). Such a scholastic approach would prove to be a decisive virtue later. Kotkin’s reconstruction of Stalin’s ascent to power offers no surprises.
The Faruqi case bears some attention, for it touches on another theme, racism. Islam's color-blindness attracts many American blacks; at the same time, it leads to severe tensions with Middle East immigrants who, whatever theory holds, are endemically racist. Protracted encounters between immigrants and black converts sometimes causes this myth to explode, occasionally with tragic consequences. Slavic in appearance and married to an American of Scandinavian descent, Faruqi lived in an impressive house in a white neighborhood. Erstwhile black admirers of Faruqi's came strongly to resent his primary interest in the welfare of his immigrant students. Faruqi's assassin, Yusuf 'Ali (Josef Young), once a close disciple, was instigated by another convert; both felt Faruqi had betrayed the cause of downtrodden African-Americans. Yusuf 'Ali voiced his xenophobic sentiments to Yushau Sodiq, a Nigerian student who was his friend and teacher of Arabic: "When you people come to our country, you know nothing and you have nothing, but within three years you have made it. We help you in your first moves, we teach you our language. After three years you have a good job, a car and a house. But we Americans are still where we were when you arrived. We tread on the spot while you foreigners race ahead." Crime Impressions to the contrary notwithstanding, Muslim immigrants of the first generation have a crime rate that lies, on average, 40 percent below that of the indigenous population. This pattern of law-abiding behavior results from the rural background of the vast majority of immigrants and their fear of expulsion if found delinquent. The second and third generations are another story, however, especially the beurs (second-generation Muslims in France) and German-born Turks. The latter engage in theft, wanton destruction of property, and murderous gang fighting. In Stuttgart, Germany, home to the Mercedes factories and a Muslim population of roughly 15 percent, the children of Muslim immigrants made up nearly 85 percent of the city's juvenile delinquents in 1991. On arrival in the West, Middle Eastern and African immigrants tended to specialize in one or another type of criminal activity. In the 1960s and 1970s, Eastern Arabs established the notorious "Mercedes Route," transferring stolen cars from Western Europe to the Persian Gulf via Spain and North Africa. They also recruited-and sometimes even abducted-women for prostitution in the Middle East, the so-called white slave trade.
We just can't believe it.”Another close relative, who declined to be identified, said Kadyrbaev’s mother has left Kazakhstan for the United States to assist her son in his legal fight.The vKontakte post by Kadyrbaev is striking mostly because of its timing. When it was posted there had already been reports of a shoot-out that had left one suspect dead and another on the run, but at the time, most of the world -- perhaps including police -- would still not have been able to connect a name to the grainy image of suspect no. 2 being shown on television screens. Kadyrbaev though, had allegedly already known for up to nine hours.There are several other pictures with Tsarnaev on Kadyrbaev’s page, but before April 19 a year had passed since Tsarnaev had appeared among the photos, and the one posted two weeks ago is the only image with just the two of them.The photo shows Kadyrbaev with a wide smile as a large meal awaits him and his friend on a table before them. Tsarnaev rests his right hand lazily on Kadyrbaev’s shoulder.Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan, who died after the shoot-out with police, are suspected in the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon, which left three dead, and in the shooting death of an MIT police officer late on April 18, after the three college friends are alleged to have discovered the Tsarnaev connection to the attacks. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was caught hiding in a boat in a suburban backyard, remains hospitalized with gunshot injuries.On the day of the manhunt an RFE/RL reporter in Prague, who took a screenshot of the post, twice tried to contact Kadyrbaev through vKontakte, messaging him in Russian and in English.Kadyrbaev did not respond and by the next day the picture and the status message had been removed.
That said, the item is balanced around a couple of different elements that can feel very bad – both to play as and play against. It has one of the worst build paths in the game, creating a low point in champion power immediately before you finish. This is counterbalanced by a very high power spike immediately after – it provides more power than an item usually gives for 2800 gold because it needs to offset that artificial weakness. There are a couple other, smaller issues – because it causes an AOE on hit, it has an inappropriate interaction with Runaan’s Hurricane, hard-binding ranged Rageblade users to that item. Additionally, melee users simply don’t need to double stack on hit. Hitting 8 stacks is prohibitively too difficult for a champion like Jax to rely on, but that doesn’t mean 4 stacks is the right number. We’re looking to smooth the item out with both a better build path and with a more appropriate gold cost for the power it gives. Without further ado: Guinsoo’s Rageblade * Recipe: Blasting Wand + Recurve Bow + Pickaxe + 875 gold (3600 total gold) * +35 Attack Damage * +50 Ability Power * Passive: Basic attacks deal an additional 15 magic damage on hit. * UNIQUE Passive: Basic attacks grant +8% Attack Speed, +3 Attack Damage, and +4 Ability Power for 5 seconds (stacks up to 6 times). While you have 6 stacks, gain Guinsoo’s Rage. * Guinsoo’s Rage: Every other basic attack will trigger on hit effects an additional time. A quick note on the Phantom Hit passive: we’re trying that passive here because it fits the item well and is very cool - it drives different styles of builds while presenting a cool visual and a cool fantasy. We’re comfortable putting it here because the additional gating of needing to stack Rageblade removes a lot of the problematic use cases Phantom Hit caused on Devourer. For example, where Devourer makes Xin Zhao’s knockup a 2-hit combo for the rest of the game, this Rageblade makes it a 2-hit combo only if Xin has been able to basic attack for a while.
Did a million new viewers just happen to show up to watch the premiere this fall without having ever seen the series? Probably not. It's likely that many of them spent the summer getting caught up on the show. There's certainly an argument to be made for the benefit of Netflix to a network TV series. But that only takes us back to my original point. While Netflix catch-ups might account for the show's noticeably improved numbers, it's the people who watched that show from the beginning that kept it on the air long enough for it have any way to benefit from Netflix.By comparison to binge-watching a good show On Demand, tuning in at a specific time to a specific channel and watching one episode a week of a new series takes effort. To say that watching TV takes effort almost sounds silly, I realize, as being entertained by a TV show doesn't seem like something that should require work, but if we look at a new series as the start of a relationship, then every episode is like a date. It requires at least some punctuality, preparation and attention, and you need to take more than one leap of faith throughout the early stages of the relationship. I'm watchingnow not because it's my new best-friend, but because I think it could be. I like it enough to want it to be. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen, but it's not going to happen in three dates. It might not happen until Season 2, for all I know. I didn't loveuntil Season 2.was Season 3.
The noises from the North are widely misunderstood. They are not unilateral threats of war, but promises of retaliation in the event of US and South Korean attack. (This gets lost in much of the reporting because of the famous verbosity of North Korea’s official communiqués: the threat is quoted, while the balls-aching conditional preamble is cut.) Similar squawks are provoked every time the US and South Korea conduct their annual series of military training exercises, which the North invariably denounces as a pretext for imminent invasion. So far, it has always been proved wrong, but this year’s version of the exercise known as Foal Eagle was unprecedentedly threatening. Foal Eagle used to be no more than a rehearsal for wartime defence of the rear area, but for the first time this year it included B-52 and B-2 bombers, and accompanying F-22 stealth fighters, in simulated nuclear bombing raids. As the Obama administration quickly realised, this was a very stupid thing to do. It had been intended as a beefy warning to Pyongyang, and a reassurance to Seoul of American willingness to defend it to the hilt. But the effect was to sprinkle gunpowder on the North’s indignation. The US, as it frequently reminds the DPRK, removed all its nuclear weapons from South Korea in 1991, and has repeatedly insisted that it has no intention of invading the North. At a stroke, this show of nuclear force robbed it of moral superiority in the argument about non-proliferation, and undid a decade of security assurances. And it added to the danger of escalation, by increasing North Korean fear that it was being backed into a situation in which it would have to pre-empt nuclear attack in order to avoid being pre-empted itself. The Americans quickly reversed course, and even postponed their own test of an intercontinental nuclear ballistic missile to show how un-warlike they were; but the damage had been done.
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he most powerful objection to Pascal's Wager is the so-called "Many Gods" objection. The objection concedes that it makes sense to think of the problem as a problem about practical rationality, and it does not quarrel with Pascal's assumption that the Christian God rewards belief and punishes disbelief as we have suggested. The objection is rather that Pascal has failed to take account of certain possibilities. One possibility is that the Christian God exists, a God who rewards those who believe in him and punishes those who do not believe. Another possibility is that there is no God at all. Pascal explicitly asserts that these are the only two possibilities. But that is not true. Leaving aside the manifold religions and sects with their manifold conceptions of God and his attitudes towards religious belief, we can certainly imagine a being whom I will call the Perverse God. The perverse God rewards those who believe only what can be established on the basis of objectively compelling evidence and argument. He is the God of theoretical rationality, whose wrath is reserved for those who are intellectually lazy or sloppy, but also for those who would bring the canons of practical rationality to bear on epistemological matters. Since there are no compelling theoretical grounds for believing that any sort of God exists, the Perverse God punishes those who believe (for whatever reason) and rewards those who were sensible enough to reserve their judgment. (If we suppose that there are no compelling theoretical grounds for atheism, the Perverse God will punish atheists and theists alike.) We may suppose that his punishments and rewards are also infinite -- infinite happiness for those who suspend judgment, infinite misery for those who do not. Given this possibility, the payoff matrix to consider is the following:
All the spoon-fed comfort-junkies will hate you. All the blood-sucking bipartisan fckers from fck town will hate you.Your right-wing, head-up-its-elephants-ass conservative family will hate you. Even your left-wing, head-up-its-ass’s-ass liberal family will hate you. All the haters will hate you. But you know what?The only people mad at you for speaking the truth are those people who are living a lie. Speak the truth anyway, even if it pisses off everyone you know.Like Gloria Steinem said,A huge part of unfcking the world is living by example and showing others how to unfck themselves. And the only way to do that is to be brutally honest with the truth. Never underestimate the power of planting a seed of truth in a fertile mind.A young wannabe activist once asked me,MLK Jr. would have been so proud. Okay, maybe not. But Malcom X would have had my back, for sure.If you’ve learned how to unfck yourself and you’ve learned the art of not giving a fck and you’ve become a well-armed lamb and you’re daily counting coup on tyranny, then you, my friend, have the world by the fcking balls.You have achieved the almost immortal status of getting power over power. You are a fck-sight closer to achieving Ubermensch status than probably 99.999999% of the population. It’s time to fall in love: in love with the moment, with the universe, with your fellow man, even your enemy; a deep, carnal, agape love that shatters all love-molds.It’s the kind of love that sheds the clunky armor of invulnerability and dons the spiritual flexibility of absolute vulnerability. The kind of love that screams: “carpe the f*ck out of that diem!”The beauty of being in this kind of love is that it gives you insurmountable courage. The kind of courage that rises up, draws a line in the sand, and declares to all forms of corruption and tyranny,Like Simone De Beauvoir ingeniously opined, “A freedom that is interested only in denying freedom must be denied.”Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Waking Times
One of the massive crowds that turned out to hear Conan Doyle during his 1922 lecture tour in America It must have made for an weird and chilling series of talks -- and things were going to get worse. Newspaper reports of Doyle's New York lectures caused an extraordinary rush of suicides by people who wanted to see the "next world" immediately. Several of them made front page news. One woman, Maude Fancher, heard Doyle giving a speech on the radio and then murdered her son and consumed the contents of a bottle of Lysol cleaner. Before she swallowed the poison, which took a week to kill her, she wrote a letter to Conan Doyle and told him that Spiritualism inspired her to the act. Then, she left a detailed letter for her husband explaining that she wanted her baby to placed in her arms when she was placed in the tomb. A Brooklyn potter, Frank Alexi, stabbed his wife in the head with an ice pick, claiming that he had seen a evil spirit sitting there that had followed him home from Carnegie Hall. A young man killed himself and his room mate because, he explained, "there were no gas bills in the afterlife." Conan Doyle, when confronted with these and several other peculiar incidents, stated without hesitation that they were the result of "a misunderstanding of what Spiritualism is meant to be." This bit of bad press must have encouraged Doyle to get away from the thick of things and meet with a number of mediums of whom he was familiar. He attended a number of séances, including one in which a "spirit" continually referred to him as "Sir Sherlock Holmes". At another, an apparition appeared from a spirit cabinet with the face of Doyle's late mother. When he grasped the spirit to embrace her, he was stunned to find the muscular shoulders of a man beneath the "spirit robes". Rather than expose the medium on the spot, Doyle waited to do it privately. Before he could so so though, the medium was caught in a hoax. When Doyle was accused of aiding the medium in his fraud, he related the story of the séance -- but no one would believe him and he was savaged in the newspapers. With this added dilemma, a meeting with his friend Houdini must have seemed a welcome respite.
As someone who wears the niqab, I feel liberated from all the superficial expectations foisted upon my gender. I can eat freely. Though newbies might find it challenging to eat while wearing niqab, once you get the hang of it, trust me, you will relish your meal much more than everyone else. While others are trying to eat in a well-manner, sophisticated way, I gulp, slurp and munch to my heart’s content. So much so that I sometimes have to audibly whisper to myself, “Get it together, girl.” I can sleep in public with my mouth wide open, and rest assured that my little nap won’t go viral on YouTube. I can easily avoid someone I don’t want to see. Run into a high school bully at the local park? Spot your boss at the mall? Walk right on by. I can recite prayers and perform kind acts all while remaining anonymous, and this anonymity both preserves my humility and keeps me from doing good to impress others. Other women feel secure in my presence because my niqab makes clear that I’m not interested in attracting their man’s attention or interest. These days every dermatologist and skin care advertisement is promoting the benefits of wearing sunscreen. Well, my niqab acts as a natural additional barrier to the sun’s damaging UV rays, so fingers crossed that I’ll have fewer wrinkles, blemishes and sun spots down the road! My niqab automatically makes me an ambassador for Islam. This role can feel heavy at times, but it does keep me in check. I know that I have chosen to dress in a way that immediately identifies me as a Muslim, and with that decision comes a responsibility to set the best example of a Muslim woman that I possibly can in my everyday interactions. The best part is, I don’t carry apologies or excuses in my pocket. Sorry, I didn’t wear makeup. Sorry I didn’t blow-dry my hair. Most of all, sorry you can’t see my face. Sorry. Not sorry.
The people have their constant inborn nature. To weave for their clothing, to till for their food — this is the Virtue they share. They are one in it and not partisan, and it is called the Emancipation of Heaven. Therefore in a time of Perfect Virtue the gait of men is slow and ambling; their gaze is steady and mild. In such an age mountains have no paths or trails, lakes no boats or bridges. The ten thousand things live species by species, one group settled close to another. Birds and beasts form their flocks and herds, grass and trees grow to fullest height. So it happens that you can tie a cord to the birds and beasts and lead them about, or bend down the limb and peer into the nest of the crow and the magpie. In this age of Perfect Virtue men live the same as birds and beasts, group themselves side by side with the ten thousand things. Who then knows anything about "gentleman" or "petty man"? Dull and ununwitting, men have no wisdom; thus their Virtue does not depart from them. Dull and unwitting, they have no desire; this is called uncarved simplicity. In uncarved simplicity the people attain their true nature. Then along comes the sage, huffing and puffing after benevolence, reaching on tiptoe for righteousness, and the world for the first time has doubts; mooning and mouthing over his music, snipping and stitching away at his rites, and the world for the first time is divided. Thus, if the plain unwrought substance had not been blighted, how would there be any sacrificial goblets? If the white jade had not been shattered, how would there be any scepters and batons? If the Way and its Virtue had not been cast aside, how would there be any call for benevolence and righteousness? If the true form of the inborn nature had not been abandoned, how would there be any use for rites and music? If the five colors had not confused men, who would fashion patterns and hues? If the five notes had not confused them, who would try to tune things by the six tones? That the unwrought substance was blighted in order to fashion implements — this was the crime of the artisan. That the Way and its Virtue were destroyed in order to create benevolence and righteousness — this was the fault of the sage. (9, tr. Watson 1968:105-6)
Still bear in mind that taking on a T3 turret with T1 gear is certainly not advised and might feel even more unfair than before, especially since turrets now also explode when destroyed, so try to keep your distance…Oh, almost forgot! Drills can now also be used melee weapons, since a system designed to drill through hardened ferrite also happens to work on people and equipment. Happy hunting! Errr...mining...Well that’s all, we think… Stay tuned and expect the update to land in two weeks if everything goes without a hitch. We know we said it would be out next week, but we believe it’s better to leave it in the owen a bit more until we hunt down any potential bugs and balance issues.Until next time, fly safe!Zero Gravity Team
"It was my responsibility. I got anxious. They made a nice play and burned for us our over-anxious play out there, my over-anxious play." James' jumper from the baseline banged off the rim giving Golden State the win as Miami lost for just the second time in 12 home games and did not score in the final 3:18. "You have to give Golden State a lot of credit for this road trip they are on right now, five straight," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It doesn't matter where you're doing that on the road, that's impressive. They took control of this game. They were playing more consistently with more force, more rhythm, execution, and they dug out a good win tonight." David Lee scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and Jack added 20 points off the bench for the Warriors. Wednesday's victory over the NBA champs adds to their best start since 1991-92 improving to 15-7 and 9-4 on the road. Golden State took a 77-74 lead into the fourth quarter after leading for most of the third. After hitting a 3 to tie the game at 87, James gave the Heat their first lead since early in the third with a turnaround 18-footer with 6:39 left for an 89-87 advantage. The teams played a one-possession game over the next four minutes before Lee knocked down a pair of free throws to tie the game at 95 with 1:54 left. The score was still tied at 95 with under a minute remaining. Allen had a chance to give the Heat a lead with 46 seconds left. Lee followed by missing a driving layup. Battier's miss from the corner with 12 seconds left gave the Warriors an opportunity in the closing seconds. "Ray got two clean looks, Shane got a clean look, Chris had some daylight on his roll to the rim, for the most part our execution going down the stretch we've had a lot of those games where that ball is going in and it changes your perspective," Spoelstra said. The Heat received a scare in the second quarter when Lee sent James to the floor with a flagrant foul sending James to the floor on his back. James popped up quickly, but spent the next couple of minutes stretching out his right shoulder before knocking down the free throw and hitting a shot on the ensuing possession for a 47-43 lead.
IX. Response of the Transitional Libyan Authorities Human Rights Watch wrote to the transitional Libyan authorities on June 20, 2012, summarizing the findings of its research contained in this report, and asking for a response from the authorities. The Human Rights Watch letter, reproduced in appendix A of this report, specifically requested an update from the transitional Libyan authorities on steps taken to investigate the alleged crimes documented by Human Rights Watch, on which the authorities had been briefed by Human Rights Watch on several previous occasions in Libya, including in the immediate aftermath of the events. The Libyan Embassy in Washington, DC, provided a response to the Human Rights Watch letter on July 9, 2012, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation’s Directorate for International Organizations. The 5-page response, reproduced in Appendix B, dwells extensively on the crimes committed by the Gaddafi government during its 42-year dictatorship and during the 2011 civil conflict, and details the steps taken by the transitional authorities to promote human rights in the post-Gaddafi Libya. Libya’s letter devotes only a few paragraphs to the events in Sirte that are documented in this Human Rights Watch report, and provides no new details regarding those events or an update on the status of the investigation into the crimes that were allegedly committed. According to the letter, translated from Arabic by Human Rights Watch, the deaths in question occurred during clashes between Gaddafi loyalists and opposition forces: The peaceful demonstrators (who became revolutionaries in self-defence) took special care to arrest Muammar Gaddafi alive, in order to try him in a fair trial for the crimes he committed against his own people. In the city of Sirte on October 20, 2011, there was a heavy exchange of gunfire between Gaddafi’s brigades, who were soldiers (some of them from the top of the military hierarchy and heavily armed with the most modern weapons) and the demonstrators, who were not soldiers, were ignorant of the laws of war and the art of combat, and were carrying light weapons to defend themselves. This resulted in the death of many people on both sides, amongst them Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim, as well as some men loyal to him.
The second watershed event occurred following the partial recognition of Aboriginal “title” in the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1973 Calder decision. This landmark case, which involved a claim launched by Nisga’a hereditary chief Frank Calder to the unextinguished territories of his nation in north-western British Columbia, overturned a seventy-five-year precedent first established in St. Catherine’s Milling and Lumber Company v. The Queen (1888), which stated that Aboriginal land rights existed only insofar and to the extent that the state recognized them as such. Although technically a defeat for the Nisga’a, the six justices that rendered substantive decisions in Calder all agreed that, prior to contact, the Nisga’a indeed held the land rights they claimed in court. The question then quickly shifted to whether these rights were sufficiently extinguished through colonial legislation. In the end, three justices ruled that the Aboriginal rights in question had not been extinguished, three ruled that they had, and one justice ruled against the Nisga’a based on a technical question regarding whether this type of action could be levelled against the province without legislation permitting it, which he ruled could not. Thus, even though the Nisga’a technically lost their case in a 4–3 decision, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Calder left enough uncertainty around the question of existing Aboriginal rights that it prompted a shift in the federal government’s policy vis-à-vis Native land interests. The result was the federal government’s 1973 Statement on Claims of Indian and Inuit People: A Federal Native Claims Policy, which effectively reversed fifty-two years (since the 1921 signing of Treaty 11 in the Northwest Territories with the Sahtu Dene) of state refusal to recognize Indigenous claims to land where the question of existing title remained open.
Among Jewish respondents, 77% said the Trump administration is more pro-Israel, 1% said more pro-Palestinian, 15% said neutral, and 7% said they had no opinion or did not know. Among Arab citizens, 69% said the administration is more pro-Israel.By contrast, the Smith Research poll taken closest to this point in the presidency of Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, found that only 4% of Jewish Israelis considered his administration more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian. That poll was taken after Obama, in a speech in Cairo, compared Palestinian suffering to the Holocaust, came to the Middle East without visiting Israel and sparred in the White House with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran.The poll taken on Wednesday was the fourth conducted by Smith Research about how Israelis view the Trump administration since he was sworn in as president last January. Due to his campaign promises, Jewish Israelis received him warmly, with 79% saying in January that they expected his administration to be more pro-Israel.Polls taken before and after Trump’s May visit to Israel, in which he became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall, found that support for him had dropped significantly since his inauguration. But it started rising after the visit, which was seen by Israelis as warm.The proportion of Israeli Jews calling Trump’s administration more pro-Israel rose from 56% on May 17, just before his visit, to 61% on June 6 after he left.All of the polls are of 500 adults representing a statistical sample of the adult Israeli population, with a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.In the current poll, the proportion of those saying the US administration is more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian is higher among men than women and higher among the religious than the secular.
Methods Participants. Two women with symmetrical and bilateral damage to the amygdala took part in the study. Focal lesions in both lesion participants were caused by Urbach-Wiethe disease (38), an extremely rare genetic disease that results in medial temporal lobe damage. The first participant, S.M., is a 43-year-old woman with a high-school education and normal IQ, whose lesions encompass the entire amygdala plus subjacent white matter and anterior entorhinal cortex. The second participant, A.P., is a 23-year-old woman with a college education and normal IQ. Her lesions are entirely confined to the amygdala, and occupy roughly 50% of each amygdala’s volume (see Fig. 1 for neuroanatomy). Both participants live independently, and in detailed neuropsychological and clinical assessments show no evidence of psychiatric illness. Neuroanatomy and background neuropsychology have been described in detail (9, 19, 20). Each of these two participants was compared to her own group of six neurologically and psychiatrically healthy controls, who were matched in age [A.P. controls: mean age 23.6 ± 0.7 years (SD); S.M. controls: mean age 52.8 ± 6.5 years (SD)], gender, income, and education. Note that the sample size of lesion participants (n = 2) is common in neuropsychological studies—indeed, many famous studies used only a single participant. The reason is that individuals with focal brain lesions such as the bilateral amygdala lesions here are very rare. However, in spite of this limitation, lesion studies are one of the few methods in human neuroscience to investigate causal relationships between brain function and behavior. All participants gave informed consent to participate according to a protocol approved by the California Institute of Technology Institutional Review Board. Tasks. Loss aversion task. Before starting the experiment, participants received an initial endowment of $50 in cash and were told that at the end of the experiment one trial would be randomly selected and a payment made according to their actual decision during the experiment; this is a standard procedure used in behavioral economics, which ensures that participants evaluate each gamble independently. Participants were told that their $50 endowment was given to them so that they could pay any eventual losses at the end of the experiment. Any net amount from the endowment that remained after subtracting a loss was theirs to keep, and similarly any eventual gain earned in the experiment was added on top of the initial endowment. Participants were paid these sums in cash immediately at the end of the experiment.
Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg People stand in a bar damaged from Hurricane Maria in this aerial photograph taken above La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean island last week, knocking out electricity throughout the island. The territory is facing weeks, if not months, without service as utility workers repair�power�plants and lines that were already falling apart. Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg FILE PHOTO: A woman carries bottles of water and food during a distribution of relief items, after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico September 24, 2017. REUTERS/Alvin Baez/File Photo
Gun Sense Vermont cofounder Ann Braden conceded Tuesday that her group is unlikely to achieve its goal this year of requiring near-universal background checks for gun buyers. But she expressed hope that two other provisions in a controversial gun-control bill may still move forward before the end of the legislative session.“We have a very long view on this,” Braden said. “Two years ago, there wasn’t any way any gun provision would be debated. This is a long-term campaign to really change the conversation, so we can pass legislation to keep guns out of the wrong hands.” As written , the bill faces steep odds in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Its chairman, Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington), opposes requiring those buying guns in private sales to undergo federal background checks. But Sears said Tuesday his committee may still vote on the bill's other two components after legislators' Town Meeting Day break next week.Those provisions would:“I don’t know what we’ll do,” Sears said.Last weekend, the Valley News' Rob Wolfe reported that the bill's chief sponsor, Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell (D-Windsor), had likewise conceded defeat on mandatory background checks, but still believed some version of the bill could pass.“I always knew that the first part was going to be a little difficult — the background checks — but [in] these other two areas, I think there’s sufficient evidence to show how useful it can be and how this can and will save lives,” he told the newspaper.Gun-rights activists are opposing all provisions of the bill, S.31, according to Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs vice president Evan Hughes. He maintains Vermont is one of the safest states in the nation and has no need for changes to its gun laws. Hughes and others see such changes as a violation of their constitutional right to bear arms.Sears is setting out to show that some gun-safety provisions make sense. His committee will focus on a single question during a hearing Wednesday: “Should Vermont have a law that would prohibit a person convicted of a violent crime and/or certain drug trafficking offenses from possessing a firearm?”Law enforcement officers who previously declared opposition to the background checks portion of the bill will testify in support of a state law prohibiting felons from possessing guns, Sears said.He said many of his constituents who oppose expanding background checks support the mental health and felon provisions.
"It's too deeply embedded in your history, culture, and records to get rid of in any fast or convenient fashion. No: this calls for a major intervention: before it destroys you. But how?" Johnny seemed to ponder the point for several minutes. I said nothing, just allowing him to get all the crazy talk out of his head. "Ah, yes! The solution was staring me in the face all along! A counter-virus! A virulent biological agent which rewrites your DNA to disable any neural patterns overly susceptible to such nonsense. "A suitable agent should free your planet's majority from the affliction within only a few years, and improvements to public education will follow-- most rapidly in your news and entertainment media, and after that, in your schools..." With that, Johnny frowned. "I did not come prepared for such a contingency." Johnny turned to look at me again. "I shall return with the agent as soon as possible. Please do your best to avoid any more genocide until then: all right?" As Johnny seemed to need a response, I gave him one, with a strained smile: "All right", I said. Then Johnny's eyes rolled up in his head until only the whites could be seen, and he collapsed in his chair. I thought he was kidding around for a minute, but soon became alarmed, and called for an ambulance. My friend returns The doctors proclaimed Johnny to be in a coma. He was in the hospital for several days before he woke up again. To everyone's relief, he was Johnny again! Not that weird-talking stranger. Johnny seemed unable to remember anything about the time in-between his original disappearance, and the coma. But that was fine with us: we didn't want to remember it either. The hospital released Johnny a few days later. And things pretty much got back to normal again, for quite a few years. On occasion I'd recall Johnny's strange words, from when he was addled. And wondered if that weird other personality of his would ever return again, like it had promised. But it never did. Abrupt departure Johnny died suddenly and without warning on August 26th, 2008. From a brain aneurysm. I privately wondered if it was related to his earlier spell of mental confusion, or the coma. Or maybe to that odd second personality trying to come back again. Me and Johnny's other friends and family began cutting back on going to church after that.
GEN01.csd - Demonstration of GEN01, used to store sound files in RAM. Uses the sound files loop.wav, ClassicalGuitar.wav and AndItsAll.wav. GEN02.csd - Demonstration of GEN02 used to tranfer values from p-fields into table points. GEN03.csd - Demonstration of GEN03, used to store an evaluated polynomial. GEN05_07.csd - Demonstration of GEN05 and GEN07 used to create function tables made up of segments - in the case of GEN05 exponential segments, in the case of GEN07 linear segments. GEN06.csd - Demonstration of GEN06 used to create a function table made up of segments of cubic polynomials. GEN08.csd - Demonstration of GEN08 used to create a smooth piecewise cubic spline curve. GEN09.csd - Demonstration of GEN09 used to create a waveform made up of weighted sinusoids. P-field controls for partial number, strength and phase. GEN10.csd - Demonstration of GEN10 used to create a waveform made up of weighted sinusoids. P-field controls for each partial strength GEN11.csd - Demonstration of GEN11 used to create a waveform made up of cosine partials in the manner of the 'buzz' and 'gbuzz' opcodes. GEN12.csd - Demonstration of GEN12 used to store a generated the log of a modified Bessel function of the second kind. GEN16.csd - Demonstration of GEN16 used to create a function table made up of segments, the length shape and curvature of each being defined by the user. GEN17.csd - Demonstration of GEN17 create a step function of x-y pairs in the manner of a histogram. GEN18.csd - Demonstration of GEN18 used to create a composite waveform made up of two or more pre-existing waveforms (function tables). GEN19.csd - Demonstration of GEN19 used to create a waveform made up of weighted sinusoids. P-field controls for partial number, strength, phase and DC offset. GEN20.csd - Demonstration of GEN20 used to create a variety of window functions. GEN21.csd - Demonstration of GEN21 used to create tables of a variety of random functions. GEN23.zip - Demonstration of GEN23 used to transfer data from text files to function tables. Download is a zip file containing the csd and three text files. GEN25_27.csd - Demonstration of GEN25 and GEN27 used to create function tables made up of segments - in the case of GEN25 exponential segments, in the case of GEN27 linear segments. GEN30.csd - Demonstration of GEN30 which analyses an existing function table and generates a new table with user set limits for lowest and highest harmonics.
If you know what I mean. I still just wanted to tell a funny story about what we were like back then and what me might be like today, too. I've always thought of 'YOU comma Idiot' as such a guy's book. In the beginning, I was sure of it. A story for other guys like me. And yet, it's women that have been so influential in moving it forward. Penn Whaling from the Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency. Bethany Gibson assigned by Susanne Alexander's Goose Lane Editions. Julie Scriver and Akoulina Connell. A woman named Sabine Campbell, whom I never properly thanked. And Milena Stojanac, whom I met at a fortuitous moment. And all of them so solidly behind it, as much as any author could ask. It felt like such a happy coincidence at first but now I wonder about it more. Why was it this way? And I realize how much the novel benefitted from their touch, too. This supposed book for guys. For things to turn out this way is a lucky, unexpected vibe. Now if a woman is reading it, I listen extra hard to what she has to say afterwards. And I remember that guys are, essentially, dummies anyway. I loved reading John Updike's Rabbit books when I was in school. All of them, the first three, then the fourth, then even a fifth, a long story mostly about Nelson. I also loved early John Irving, not just 'Garp' but 'The Water-Method Man' and 'The 158 Pound Marriage'. Insanely good. Did you know in 'The 158 Pound Marriage' the main character's name is never established? At least I'm pretty sure. I loved 'Barney's Version" and 'Trainspotting' and 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', reading them all numerous times. I really liked 'The Beach', 'Life of Pi', 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' and 'The Wanderers' by Richard Price. And 'American Psycho' and 'Bright Lights, Big City.' I purposely went back afterwards and read 'Bright Lights' because of the second-person thing. What a great book. I'd always thought a whole slew of books had been written in the second-person but now I realize I've never read any others. It never occurred to me that I wouldn't get published. That's how dumb I was. I just assumed I'd send it around and various people would leap at the chance to print it. Hoo boy. And then I started learning things. What the process is and the odds are.
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Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer (born May 26, 1914, Jacksonville, Fla.—died April 27, 2009, New York, N.Y.), became so enthralled with the lindy hop (a precursor of the jitterbug) that he devoted himself to choreographing new steps and routines for the fast-paced acrobatic swing dance. His innovations include the Slide-Through (in which a man slips his partner through his legs from front to back) and the Over-the-Back (the first aerial or airstep, in which a woman is powerfully propelled through the air by her partner in time with the music), as well as slow-motion segments, stop-action freezes, and dancing more horizontally to the floor. He incorporated moves from circus performers, gymnasts, and other dancers, and the theatrical aspects of his routines made the dance hugely popular. After polishing his dance steps as a teen at Harlem’s Alhambra Ballroom, Manning eventually moved in 1933 to the Savoy Ballroom, where he became a favourite. The following year Herbert (“Whitey”) White invited Manning to join his professional troupe. Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, for which Manning created the choreography, appeared in Europe, South America, and Australia; at the 1939 New York World’s Fair; and in a series of films, including Hellzapoppin’ and Hot Chocolates, both in 1941. After military service in World War II, Manning founded the Congaroo Dancers, but the popularity of the lindy hop waned, and in 1954 he took a job in the U.S. Post Office. In the 1980s Manning’s musical career enjoyed a resurgence with renewed interest in swing dancing. He became a sought-after teacher and choreographer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (1989), the television movie Stompin’ at the Savoy (1992), and the Broadway play Black and Blue (1988), for which he shared a Tony Award. He continued performing well into his 80s. Despite his death, the documentary Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging premiered at festivities planned for his 95th birthday.
Judge Lamberth’s reference to “constantly shifting admissions by the Government and the former government officials” certainly describes the challenge to our effort to get to the bottom of the scandal.In another recent development, we obtained State Departmentfrom February 2009 containing emails that appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department and that she did not use her clintonemail.com email system until March 2009.The emails also contain more evidence of the battle between security officials in the State Department, National Security Administration, Clinton and her staff over attempts to obtain secure Blackberrys.The documents were obtained in response to a court order in an April 28, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State, filed after the Department of State failed to comply with a March 10, 2015, FOIA request seeking:On Feb. 13, 2009, Cheryl Mills (Clinton’s then-chief of staff) sent Clinton an email describing efforts by the National Security Agency to address demands for a secure BlackBerry: "In meeting with the NSA person today ([Redacted] NSA’s rep to DOS) – she indicated they could address our BB so that BB could work in the SCIFF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] and be secure based upon some modifications that could be done to each BB (more below). "Mills attaches an email from an unnamed NSA official that reports: "Debbie Plunkett, D/Chief of our Information Assurance Directorate, is personally assembling a knowledgeable team to work with you and other members of your staff to move forward on your Blackberry requirement. "She will engage State’s CIO and DS/comms security folks to ensure everyone is aware of the art of the possible . . . I am confident we can get to YES on this! [Emphasis in original]"That same day, on Feb. 13 at 12:33 p.m. Clinton, using her unsecured [email protected] account responds, “That’s good news.”As we have, National Security Agency personnel had denied Clinton’s requests for secure BlackBerry devices, telling Clinton staff to “shut up and color.”The new documents include another Feb. 13, 2009, email, written after the Mills-Clinton exchange, showing that State and NSA security officials were shocked and surprised by Clinton’s Blackberry demands.The new emails show that despite prior concerns about security and cost, the NSA and State Department officials came up with a plan to modify six Blackberry devices for Clinton and her staff.
Radiatoren waren in den letzten Jahren ein Thema, das wir offen gesagt etwas vernachlässigt haben. Die bisher zumeist angebotenen Radiatoren sind bis auf den Revolution aus asiatischer Fertigung und wir waren es leid ständig Qualitätsproblemen nachzugehen. Qualitativ waren auch die Revolution-Radiatoren noch verbesserungsfähig und nach vielen Abwägungen haben wir uns Mitte letzten Jahres dazu entschlossen die Radiatoren komplett in Benniehausen in unseren eigenen Hallen zu fertigen. Dies war ein radikaler Schritt und wir haben es daher als notwendig empfunden mit dieser Umstellung auch etwas innovatives auf den Markt zu bringen das für Aufsehen sorgen wird und die nächsten Jahre Stand der Technik bei Aqua Computer sein soll.Dabei hatte ich persönlich mehrere Ideen die nicht zu einem Radiator sondern zu einem modularen System geführt haben: Dem airplex modularity system. Dieses vollständig modulare Systeme hat viele Vorteile gegenüber allen anderen derzeit am Markt befindlichen Radiatoren. Die wichtigsten im Überblick:Das ams basiert auf einem aus 21 Rohren bestehenden Lamellenpaket mit ab Werk aufgepressten Edelstahlflanschen. Diese werden über eine extrem hochqualitative Dichtung gegenüber dem Lamellenpaket gedichtet und sind unlösbar verpresst. Auf beiden Seiten befinden sich Delrinterminals die mit einem Dichtring gegenüber dem Edelstahlplatten abdichten und mit diesen verschraubt werden.In den Delrin Terminals sind die Anschlussgewinde vertieft angebracht und besitzen über dem Gewinde eine runde Tasche. Diese Tasche greift eine Idee ähnlich dem Lego-System auf. Man kann in die Tasche einen Adapter einstecken mit dem man eine schlauchlose Verbindung zu einem anderen ams-Produkt herstellen kann.Die mechanische Fixierung erfolgt über kleine Edelstahlteile die in dafür vorgesehene Vertiefungen an den Delrin-Modulen geschraubt werden. Diese sind zum horizontalen, vertikalen und horizontal+vertikalen verbinden verfügbar. In diese Vertiefungen können zudem Füße für das System montiert werden. Dabei ist das System so aufgebaut, dass horizontal miteinander verbundene Radiatoren in Reihe geschaltet werden und vertikal montierte parallel zueinander durchflossen werden.Zudem kann das System auch in der Länge unbegrenzt wachsen. Hierzu werden über optionale Delrin-Verbindungsmodule die Lamellenpakete miteinander verbunden.Alle Radiatoren (120/140mm) benutzen die gleichen Delrin-Terminals, lediglich die Seitenteile und Lamellenpakete sind unterschiedlich. Entsprechend kann durch Erwerb der Komponenten ein Radiator auch umgebaut werden. Dabei haben alle Typen eine Breite von 146mm und passen somit perfekt in 5 1/4" Schächte. Die Höhe der ams Standard-Radiatoren ist 63,5mm und die Länge ist 44mm Länger als die der jeweiligen Lüfter (z.B. 3x 120mm = 360+44 = 404mm). Die Anschlüsse sind grundsätzlich in G1/4" ausgeführt und alle Anschlüsse aus unserem Shop können verwendet werden.Das System bietet weitere bisher nicht auf dem Markt befindliche Möglichkeiten.
In some ways I'm with the managers, or I would be if they didn't so often make such a hash of it. Hospitals and schools both need targets. Businesses, including the RAC, need to be run efficiently. People hate change, we naturally suspect all new ways of doing things, we scream that the purpose in the job is going, but that's too bad. Maybe the best way of dealing with pointlessness at work is not to worry too much about it. An acquaintance in advertising tells me how one day he and his colleagues were agonizing over a tiny nuance in a script for a radio commercial. Suddenly he had a jolt of realisation: this was utterly pointless. Since then he has made his peace with the meaninglessness of what he does, and enjoys the job rather more as a result. Another way of finding work more meaningful is to do less of it. Last week the government extended its plans for flexible working to make it easier for parents to work part time. When I worked a three day week I found the meaning of work was complemented by the meaning of looking after children. Or rather, that each provided a refuge from the meaninglessness of the other. When you have spent a couple of days changing nappies and grilling fish fingers, to be surrounded by adults who don't want their bottoms wiped seems pretty meaningful. And by contrast, having half of one's identity tied up in the rearing of children means that one places fewer impossible demands on the job itself. A final way of gaining meaning at work is also on the rise: and that is the threat of redundancy. As a result of the credit crunch 55,000 financial sector jobs have already been lost, and more losses are to come. While being fired is the ultimate sign that one's job was meaningless, the relief of escaping the axe could make one so grateful to have work, that one stops asking oneself such awkward questions. Below is a selection of your comments: Once again we're left with blind optimism. Why are we so terrified of admitting that our jobs really are pointless and meaningless? Because the prospect that we've wasted so long, combined with the fact that we need to do something about it, is so terrifying. Admit it. Move on. Do something worthwhile. Work for your life, don't live for your work.
She then took a position as the Director of the Pediatric Emergency Room at Michael Reese Hospital until 1993 when her commitment to natural remedies led her to begin her study of Holistic Medicine.She has maintained a private practice in Homeopathy for more than fifteen years and was the Medical Director for the integrative Medicine department of Advocate Health Care Systems at Good Shepherd Hospital from June of 2000 until July of 2003.In 2012 Dr. Bark was bestowed the honor of becoming the 2nd Vice President of the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH). She also received her Masters in Healthcare Emergency Management (MHEM) from Boston University Medical School that same year.Read more at HealthImpactNews.com
Being a horrible hypocrite by banning other browsers on the iPhone -------------------------------------------------------- Opera is a fantastic browser built by a company in Oslo, Norway. In fact, a decade ago, I had a speaking gig there and got to interview the CEO of the company for Silicon Alley Reporter. (Sidebar: Man, do I miss being a journalist. I wish I could split 50% of my time being a journalist and 50% of my time being a CEO.) For over a decade, Opera has been making lighting-fast, lightweight and quirky browsers. Long before Apple launched Safari, with the goal of designing the fastest browswer on the Web, Opera was already there. Opera's mobile browsers are "full of WIN," as the kids like to say these days. If you're a Windows Mobile or Blackberry user, you've probably downloaded them and enjoyed their WINness. The company started an iPhone browser project but gave up when faced with Apple's absurd and unclear mandate to developers: Don't create services which duplicate the functionality of Apple's own software. In other words: "Don't compete with us or we will not let you in the game." The irony of this is not lost on anyone who had a computer before they had an Internet connection. Apple was more than willing to pile on after Microsoft's disasterous inclusion of Internet Explorer with Windows. In fact, what Apple is doing is 100x worse than what Microsoft did. You see, Microsoft simply included their browser in Windows, still allowing other browsers to be installed. In Apple's case, they are not only bundling their browser with the iPhone, but they are BLOCKING other browsers from being installed. Simple solution and opportunity: Don't be a control freak and hypocrite. Allow people to pick their browser; the competition to make a better browser will increase the overall use of iPhones and mobile data services.5. Blocking the Google Voice Application on the iPhone -------------------------------------------------------- Apple took Google's innovative and absurdly priced phone offering, Google Voice, out of the App Store and is currently being investigated by the FCC for this action. This point is similar to the browser issue, in that Apple wants to own almost every extension of the iPhone platform. How long before Apple decides to ban a Twitter client in favor of an Apple Twitter-like product? Seems crazy, I know, but by following Apple's logic you should not be able to use Firefox or Google Chrome on your desktop.
The baby was born on Jan. 14, 2012 and will be named in February, after the public ... more Photo: Ted S. Warren / Associated Press Image 7 of 12 A baby sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium dips her face close to the water, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, as she rides on the chest of her mother, Aniak, in Seattle. The baby was born on Jan. 14, 2012 and will be named in February, after the public votes on a selection of names prepared by the Aquarium staff. less A baby sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium dips her face close to the water, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, as she rides on the chest of her mother, Aniak, in Seattle. The baby was born on Jan. 14, 2012 and will be ... more Photo: Ted S. Warren / Associated Press Image 8 of 12 Aniak, left, a sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium, swims with her yet-to-be named daughter on her chest, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Seattle, as Aniak's mother, Lootas, swims by at right. The baby was born on Jan. 14, 2012 and will be named in February, after the public votes on a selection of names prepared by the Aquarium staff. less Aniak, left, a sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium, swims with her yet-to-be named daughter on her chest, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Seattle, as Aniak's mother, Lootas, swims by at right. The baby was born on ... more Photo: Ted S. Warren / Associated Press Image 9 of 12 Aniak, a sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium, swims with her yet-to-be named daughter on her chest, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Seattle. The baby was born on Jan. 14, 2012 and will be named in February, after the public votes on a selection of names prepared by the Aquarium staff. less Aniak, a sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium, swims with her yet-to-be named daughter on her chest, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Seattle. The baby was born on Jan. 14, 2012 and will be named in February, after ... more Photo: Ted S. Warren / Associated Press Image 10 of 12 Image 11 of 12 Aniak, right, a sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium, takes a break from grooming as her yet-to-be named daughter naps at left, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Seattle.
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Before you read this review, I bought this monitor on Best Buy (because it was on sale, but it also on Amazon... I forgot to check) so that's why you don't see 'Verified Purchase' next to my review. I posted my review here so that I can share my insight with you with this monitor. Since the AOC G2260VWQ6 is a gaming monitor. It comes with preset monitor settings that is preselected. Sadly these settings can't be changed in-depth like changing the color contrast. The presets that the monitor comes with is "FPS, Racing, RTS, Gamer 1, Gamer 2, and Gamer 3." To be honest, I didn't use these presets while gaming. Note: In this review, I used a HDMI cable from my GPU to the monitor. Once you plug the monitor in and set it all up. Here is some info about the monitor itself: - On default, AOC put the monitor color settings on "Warm" which means high color contrast, it will mess with your eyes (well for me it did, it was annoying to look at). If you use a preset, you can't change this. - Sadly on this monitor, it's AMD sponsored so that 75 Hz in the title means nothing to a NVIDIA user. With out the AMD hardware, the monitor will stay at 68 Hz (H. Frequency 68 Hz, V. Frequency 60 Hz). - If you switch between modes like "FPS, Racing, RTS, etc" all your customization that you did will not save. You will have to redo everything. There are no save slots to save your own settings (this would have been a neat feature). How does it look when playing games? The games look sharp and response time is fast as stated in the product description. Other than that, the monitor is great. If you over look the AMD sponsorship behind the monitor. This is a great monitor to start off if you are new to PC gaming or even a causal gamer. Things to know: - The box includes monitor, power cord, VGA cable, foot stand, CD and a manual. Tips: - Register the monitor on the AOC website.
The apparent advantages of such systems are known cannabinoid concentrations, predetermined dosing aliquots, and time-out systems which may help prevent overuse. Some placebo-controlled trials suggest significant analgesia in neuropathic pain due to multiple sclerosis [22] and mixed neuropathy (e.g., post-herpetic, traumatic, vascular neuropathies, [23] but others do not [20]. Other controlled trials suggest efficacy for cancer-related pain inadequately responsive to opioid analgesia [24]. Responders participating in the open label extension phases of controlled trials appear to maintain analgesia on one-year follow-up [23]. In regard to spasticity in multiple sclerosis, a recent meta-analysis combining three trials with nabiximols in over 600 patients noted that mean intensity of patient rated spasticity was significantly reduced compared to placebo [20, 25, 26], and that the proportion of “responders” (30% reduction) was also significantly greater, with about 37% on the cannabinoid compared to 26% on placebo experiencing relief. Those reporting relief of spasticity seemed to maintain their gains over one year follow-up [27]. As with other studies noted above, observer-rated spasticity is often not reduced [20, 25, 28]; however, a recent CMCR study did find a significant reduction in observed spasticity among those administered active smoked marijuana vs. placebo marijuana [58].
David: Yeah, each one of these is, by itself, a proof. And when you have eleven characteristics, as I think I gave in that paper, then you realize that if no one of them could have occurred according to the official theory, all the more could not all eleven of them occurred. And this by total collapse, it means that these 110 story towers and the 47 story World Trade Center Building 7, collapsed into a pile of rubble only a few stories high. Now, why that’s so important, because as I indicated, each tower had 47 massive steel columns constituting the core of the tower. So even if the “Pancake Theory” could be accepted, which was that the floors broke loose from the perimeter and the core columns. And then you could imagine that the concrete would have pulverized into tiny dust particles [laughs] when it fell down, you would still have these massive columns sticking up into the air. And of course not all singly but they were tied together by steel beams and trusses. So you would have had this center fixture sticking up at least 1000 feet into the air. And yet it collapses into a pile of rubble a few stories high. The only way that is possible, the only way, is through the way it is always done. You take a particular kind of explosive, or maybe several kinds. Steven Jones, in his now well known paper, a physicist from BYU, suggests thermite and maybe thermate, a variation of it, and maybe some other kinds of explosives used. And that’s what these things do, they slice the steel. I have a quote in my paper by a guy who knows about, a spokesperson for RDX, a certain kind of explosive, and he says this stuff slices through steel the way a razor blade slices through a tomato. And once you realize that that’s the way it normally happens, you look at these buildings, you see the tiny little pile of rubble, and you say there is no other way it could have happened. Because even if the steel columns had somehow failed, they wouldn’t have broken into rather small pieces. Jim Hoffman has said, looking at the evidence, it seems like that most of the steel columns were broken into pieces no more than 50 feet long. A lot of them about 30 feet long.
The events in Kiev starting in very late November and going on to today. The current government in Kiev came to power by way of a coup d'etat in late February of this year. Shortly after that coup the citizens of Crimea and Sevastopol felt threatened by the new government and seized power in Crimea and Sevastopol. Shortly after seizing power the citizens ask Russia for help and protection. Russian responded with alacrity and within a few days Russian forces landed in and around Kerch from Novorossiysk. The assistance to Crimea was a bloodless accomplishment but in the event all the Ukrainian Army, Navy and Air Force based in Crimea were surrounded and cut off. Many immediately surrendered and the soldiers and sailors were offered the choice of repatriation to Ukraine with their families or to join the Russian Federation Armed Forces. Roughly 80% of the soldiers and sailors, both officers and rankers, opted to join the Russian Armed Forces. This tells a great deal about the morale of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. For 23 years the various Ukrainian governments had treated the armed forces budgets as a cash cow to be milked to oblivion. The soldiers and sailors for the most part in Crimea, and in reality of all Ukraine, were poorly equipped, poorly trained, poorly fed and many of the lower ranks had not been paid since November. Their armored vehicles, equipment, weapons and ships were a disgrace. At least 8 of the Ukraine Navy ships were refused repatriation by Kiev and are in the bone yard at Inkerman being cut up for scrap as I write or scheduled to be towed there shortly. Some tanks, BTR's and BMP's had not moved for literally years and had to be towed to the rail heads for repatriation to Ukraine. Of the 39 aircraft at Belbek Air Base 4 were airworthy. The others could not fly and some had been cannibalized to keep the 4 serviceable aircraft flying.
In today's global communications environment, disclosures of information about how Section 702 operates have confirmed the validity of many of the public’s and civil society's concerns that this statute implicates the privacy rights of millions of people in the US and around the world who communicate with friends and colleagues abroad, including human rights activists who rely on secure communications for their safety. The way Section 702 is utilized also affects journalists who interact with confidential sources to report on issues in the public interest, and criminal defendants whose prosecutions may involve the use of evidence derived from intelligence surveillance. In all of these circumstances and many more, it is up to Congress to ensure that the Administration is not violating the rule of law and the rights we all hold dear. We urge you to change the designation of your upcoming session on Section 702 to “open,” consistent with Congress's constitutional oversight role, long standing congressional practice, and principles of transparency and justice. To the extent that the committee goes forward with the closed hearing, we urge you to fulfill your prior commitment by promptly holding public hearings, which include representation and engagement of privacy, civil liberties, and human rights organizations. ... Sincerely, Access Now American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) American Civil Liberties Union American Library Association Amnesty International USA Brennan Center for Justice Californians Aware Center for Democracy &Technology Constitutional Alliance The Constitution Project Cyber Privacy Project Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Essential Information Fight for the Future Free Press Action Fund Government Accountability Project Human Rights Watch National Coalition Against Censorship National Security Archive New America’s Open Technology Institute Niskanen Center OpenTheGovernment.org Project On Government Oversight Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Restore The Fourth R Street Institute
Faced with the novelty of quantitative easing and zero interest rates, investors continued to speculate long after those extreme syndromes emerged. Those syndromes can still justify a rather neutral outlook, but amid the novelty of quantitative easing, the central lesson (and required adaptation) was this: in a zero interest rate environment, it is necessary to wait for explicit deterioration in market internals, indicating a shift in investor preferences toward risk-aversion, before adopting a hard-negative outlook. At present, we observe extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions, interest rates are well off the zero bound, and market valuations, even given proper consideration of interest rates, are at the most offensive levels in history. Still, as I noted a few weeks ago, while I view hedges and safety nets as essential here, there’s no need to “fight” a continued advance, if it emerges, with even larger hedges or higher safety nets. With the S&P 500 far beyond twice the level at which I expect it will end this cycle, it will be fine if the initial few percent lower do nothing for us. Understand that my error in the recent half-cycle traces to my insistence on stress-testing our methods in the face of undervaluation that our own measures clearly identified, and that I openly recognized (but where similar levels in the Depression were still followed by massive market losses). The resulting methods prioritized extreme “overvalued, overbought, overbullish” syndromes ahead of market internals, and amid the novelty of QE and zero-interest rates, led us to fight too hard against objectively extreme valuations and the persistent speculation of investors. It’s a mistake we’ve adapted to, and that we won’t make again. Understanding that narrative doesn’t require investors to overlook that the market was undervalued in 2009, but is wickedly overvalued today. Recent years have encouraged the illusion that investors will never again feel anything but sheer euphoria. As one of the few observers who anticipated both the tech collapse and the global financial crisis, and who has adopted a constructive or leveraged outlook after every bear market decline in more than three decades, my sense is that this complete lack of imagination about the range of investor emotions is likely to have brutal consequences. A final note before we get into the data. I’m a great admirer of Warren Buffett.
[ 2015.04.06 04:51:01 ] Dog0fWaRR > And a deal in place [ 2015.04.06 04:51:02 ] Doc Weed > there is [ 2015.04.06 04:51:07 ] Doc Weed > just a plex per month [ 2015.04.06 04:51:13 ] Doc Weed > anymore i can go higher up [ 2015.04.06 04:51:16 ] Dog0fWaRR > That's not nearly enough rofl. [ 2015.04.06 04:51:29 ] Dog0fWaRR > That's line member payment. [ 2015.04.06 04:51:42 ] Dog0fWaRR > I have access to every scrap of intel this alliance and this coalition has. [ 2015.04.06 04:51:46 ] Dog0fWaRR > Every tower. [ 2015.04.06 04:51:48 ] Dog0fWaRR > Every timer. [ 2015.04.06 04:51:50 ] Dog0fWaRR > Every move. [ 2015.04.06 04:51:57 ] Dog0fWaRR > Everything we know about you. [ 2015.04.06 04:52:13 ] Doc Weed > ok [ 2015.04.06 04:52:21 ] Doc Weed > Let me ask you this [ 2015.04.06 04:52:32 ] Doc Weed > can you tell me how many spies you have in cfc [ 2015.04.06 04:52:49 ] Dog0fWaRR > I know how many there are. [ 2015.04.06 04:53:02 ] Doc Weed > tell me and ill add mittani himself to the convo [ 2015.04.06 04:53:03 ] Dog0fWaRR > You won't get names or anything until I see cash. [ 2015.04.06 04:53:07 ] Doc Weed > i dont want names [ 2015.04.06 04:53:11 ] Doc Weed > just a number [ 2015.04.06 04:53:23 ] Dog0fWaRR > No intel, until I see money. [ 2015.04.06 04:53:47 ] Doc Weed > you see how do i know you wont take money and run? [ 2015.04.06 04:54:02 ] Dog0fWaRR > Because you have logs of me saying this. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:08 ] Dog0fWaRR > You could fuck me over royally. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:13 ] Dog0fWaRR > Get my super killed. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:19 ] Dog0fWaRR > Black listed from any alliance. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:20 ] Doc Weed > you know i wouldnt fuck you over [ 2015.04.06 04:54:27 ] Dog0fWaRR > You could. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:30 ] Doc Weed > also [ 2015.04.06 04:54:30 ] Dog0fWaRR > Just from this cono. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:33 ] Dog0fWaRR > *convo. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:41 ] Dog0fWaRR > My dick is on the table in this convo. [ 2015.04.06 04:54:44 ] Doc Weed > from what my spies tell me [ 2015.04.06 04:54:49 ] Dog0fWaRR > If you have a real offer.
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I wonder when events are going to start handing out blanks and markers...The highlight of the live experience was Dimaga's series against JYP. The Ukrainian Zerg entered the series as the last foreign hope who has spent a good part of the last three days with his fans. Rallied by his doppelganger Carmac’s zealous cheers, the crowd moved as one in support of their drinking buddy.The series was nothing short of awesome. With everyone rooted to the floor and all eyes nailed to the screen, the tension in the room was even more suffocating than the throng of fans from the other night. The series held the crowd in awe for what felt like several hours but, after some nerve-wracking moments, Dimaga tapped out 1-3. Carmac loped upstairs to fetch Dima, who received a standing ovation for his efforts. He lost the game, but he won our hearts.With the last foreigner out, people started to leave and things quieted down considerably. With a 3.5 hour drive ahead of us on a Sunday night, we left after the first semifinal. Damn you real life, why can't you accommodate yourself to ESPORTS?The venue was nothing short of phenomenal, the crowd was amazing, and the games were spectacular. What can I say? I'm looking forward to HSC5 already.At HSC4, Grubby got to show over fifty thousand Starcraft II fans that he's a top tier commentator. Not only was the Warcraft III legend a natural on the mic, but he demonstrated a deep understanding of the game that we rarely ever get from the current bunch of 'top tier' casters. If he wanted to switch to being a caster (a career decision EG.HuK might endorse if he were Grubby's manager), I'm sure this kind of impressive performance would convert to a future value of more than the $7,500 first place prize at HSC4. I kind of wish he would, too, so the current batch of casters would be forced to up their performances.On the other side of things, Grubby had some good in-game performances as well. Though he's already had bigger success in smaller tournaments (notably, the one he organized himself), this was his first good showing in a major tournament with a massive viewership.With HSC4, Grubby further increased his status with the hardcore fans familiar with him from the War3 scene, and won over a ton of new fans to whom Starcraft II is their first ESPORT.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that a study team funded by the agency has developed an adhesive patch delivery method for the influenza vaccine, which may offer a new alternative to the standard flu shot injection.Each year, between 140,000 and 710,000 people in the United States are hospitalized with flu-related symptoms , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As such, public health officials say that the best way to prevent getting sick with the flu is by getting an annual vaccine. The typical trivalent influenza vaccine protects people from 3 circulating flu viruses, while a quadrivalent vaccine contains components from 4 viruses. Receiving a flu vaccine triggers the body to make antibodies to the viruses, which in turn protect an individual from becoming infected if they’re exposed to the actual contagious virus. Because the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ruled against recommending the nasal spray form of the flu vaccine for the 2016-2017 flu season due to its low efficacy, the injection has been the only recommended delivery method for the vaccine.In a new study recently published in the journal, The Lancet, a team lead by researchers from Emory University School of Medicine and the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed an adhesive patch containing water-soluble microneedles that can safely and effectively deliver the influenza vaccine.“The skin is an immune surveillance organ,” said study author Mark Prausnitz, PhD, explaining how the novel delivery method works in a recent press release . “It’s our interface with the outside world, [and] so it’s very well-equipped to detect a pathogen and mount an immune response against it.”The study, funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), was conducted between June 23, 2015 and September 25, 2015 at Emory University in Atlanta. In a randomized, partly blinded, placebo-controlled, phase 1 clinical trial, 100 non-pregnant, immunocompetent participants ages 18 to 49 years old were randomly assigned into 4 groups. Participants either received the influenza vaccine by microneedle patch administered by a healthcare worker, a vaccine injection administered by a healthcare worker, a placebo microneedle patch administered by a healthcare worker, or the influenza vaccine microneedle patch self-administered.Although some participants who received the patch reported mild skin reactions such as localized redness or itching, none of the participants reported serious adverse reactions. Participants who received the vaccine via patch or injection had similar antibody responses.
Above all, where, in the end, will state authority be discovered to reside? One of the most striking features of Europe since the final decades of the twentieth century has been the demise of those hierarchical organizational charts of government which used to characterise political-science textbooks. Power is now more dispersed and also more opaque, shared between a plethora of regional, national and supra-national institutions, but also secreted away in institutions such as central banks and security structures that are impervious to democratic control or even public scrutiny. None of that means that we are about to experience new forms of authoritarianism; the populations of Europe have, one suspects, moved beyond the stage when they would submit to the disciplines of states of emergency and military coups. Moreover, for all of the seriousness with which leaders have gathered to consider Europe’s overlapping current crises, one of the most striking features of their discussions has been the relative absence of effective tools of power. Military force – other than the spectacular acts of aerial bombing in Libya, Iraq and Syria – has almost disappeared; national economic policy-making has been transferred to central banks and the power of the markets; and even the routine ability to keep track of the movements of populations appears to have been largely eroded. From the streets of Molenbeek to the beaches of Lesbos, it is the limits of the capacity of the state which has been more apparent than its strength. Perhaps that presages a new 1848, but more significant is the way that the state has lost, or surrendered, its twentieth-century role as the grand manager of European life. What will replace it forms part of the still uncertain nature of the history of the European present.
July turned into one of the busiest months of the year, and that's always a good sign for best games. Though there weren't a lot of bizarre and unique games during this period, the resurgence of terran has seen their numbers grow on the recommended games list. The winner of the month has to be TvZ, with a whopping 6 highly recommended games this month. I guess after 8 months of terran withdrawal, it's nice to finally have them back. That or you guys are just biased. Just sayin'.If you want to see the list ofgo and check out thethread if you haven't already.Doing Best Games is a time consuming job. I don't just add whatever people recommend; I actually rewatch every single recommended game and use my unquestionable powers of judgment to gauge whether a game deserves a spot or not. Invariably, there are games that I just want to skip because the first 10 minutes bore me to death and I can't imagine things improving. Fortunately, I decided to sit through this one because all it takes for a standard game to tumble into insanity is a little fog of war to press the basetrade button.Now, we've featured a lot of basetrades on Best Games, but very few become as desperate as this. After a predictable first 12 minutes aside from 34 drone kills--my recap note literally only read "the usual"--Rain sent his entire army to attack the zerg fourth. Fed up with losing his workers, RorO counterattacked with lings, roaches, mutas and corruptors. Both players were reduced to rubble, but RorO appeared to have the upper hand when he wiped out the north of every last protoss trace. A clutch pylon and nexus saved Rain from elimination, while a hatchery was built at the would-be protoss fourth. With what appeared to be a superior army and almost 2k minerals in the bank, Rain moved out to hunt the zerg's remaining buildings. RorO skirted around the army to eliminate what he could find, but Rain simply built more buildings as he trudged towards RorO's last hatchery. Rain was also clever enough to put his probes in the warp prism, and he reached the hatch unopposed. Realizing that his situation was dire with only 2 extractors left (one at his main, one at his fourth), RorO had no choice but to engage the protoss ball which still had 20 stalkers, 3 colossus and a few sentries.
Ranahan, of Winston & Strawn, complained her counterparts at Loeb & Loeb, the plaintiffs’ attorneys, “have refused to produce sufficient documents responsive to those RFPs [requests for production of documents] and Interrogatories.”3) Loeb’s refusals, Ranahan said, asserted “unfounded and unavailing boilerplate objections,” or simply resulted in no documents being produced. Moreover, the trade secrets, private and proprietary information, would remain confidential under the protective order already issued by the judge, Ranahan said, so there was no reason to refuse to turn it over. Axanar’s ‘Not a Fan Film’ Much of the plaintiffs’ response to the motion was based on a firm assertion that Axanar is not a fan production at all — in Peters’ own words: This case is about a commercial enterprise designed to take money from Star Trek fans, which funds were used to pay Defendant Peters along with his friends and colleagues , to create, as Defendants describe it, “an independent Star Trek film.”5) Defendants acknowledged, while they were engaging in their pre-litigation activities, that they were knowingly infringing Plaintiffs’ copyrights. Defendants also repeatedly pronounced that they were creating a “professional” and “independent” Star Trek film, starring actors (that were paid for their services) that have portrayed roles on Star Trek television series, and produced with professional crew members. Indeed, in spite of defense counsel’s recent statements to the contrary, prior to the filing of this suit, Defendant Peters and his colleagues expressly stated that they were not creating a “fan film.”, to create, as Defendants describe it, “an independent Star Trek film.” The plaintiffs go on to quote many instances where Peters publicly and explicitly disavowed Axanar‘s status as a fan film and instead described it as a professional production. Commercial Endeavor CBS and Paramount attorneys also pointed to “the commercial nature of [Axanar’s] endeavor, specifically calling out its: Use of “donations to build out a ‘studio’ that is being rented out for other non-Star Trek projects.”
An astounding number and diversity of microorganisms coexist with mammalian organisms1. Recent years have seen an increase in understanding of the complexity and sophistication of the host–microbiota relationship and its effects on human health2,3,4. Several technological advances have bolstered the study of mammalian microbiomes. Sequencing of 16S-rRNA-encoding genes has identified the constituent bacterial species of the human intestinal microbiota as belonging predominantly to the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes phyla. Deep sequencing of the internal-transcribed-spacer regions ITS1 and ITS2 of the fungal ribosomal DNA and improved downstream analyses5,6 have unveiled the presence of rich fungal communities, dubbed the mycobiome, within the mammalian intestinal tract7. Sequencing of total DNA, the metagenome, from fecal specimens has enabled systematic studies on the virome and has yielded valuable information about the complex interaction of these commensals with their host. Large-scale endeavors have been launched to characterize the human microbiome: the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Human Microbiome Project (HMP) and the European Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract (MetaHIT)8,9. Concurrently, gnotobiotic resources and treatment of mice with antibiotics have shown how specific compositions of the mouse or human gut microbiota contribute to disease development and have enabled mechanistic dissection of host–microbiota interactions. Targeted phenotypic culturing by subjecting fecal samples to selection for a desired phenotype and subsequent whole-genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis has revealed that almost 75% of the intestinal microbiota is culturable10. Selection for sporulation has indicated that 50–60% of intestinal bacterial genera produce resilient spores adapted for survival and dispersal10, thus potentially explaining why, in humans, the intestinal microbiota of family members with close contact have Ruminococcaceae and Lachnospiraceae spore-forming bacteria in common11. Ex vivo organ cultures of the mouse intestine have allowed for the introduction of molecules and microbes into the gut lumen in a setting that recapitulates luminal flow and features spontaneous peristaltic-like contractions and an intact tissue architecture and cellular network12.
Impact: If you are building apps that you want to test out with larger number of users without having to developer unlock their WP7 devices, the Beta Testing scenario will give you greater flexibility in doing this while maintaining control on who you invite to the beta. If you build apps like Line of Business/Enterprise apps that you don’t want to have widely available in the public, the Targeted Distribution model is a great way to deliver the app to legitimate users. Application Management I can’t count how many developers I have talked to that were frustrated with the fact that anytime they wanted to change the metadata of their apps/games, they needed to resubmit the app for certification, even though no material changes to the functionality of the app were made. That changes now – metadata changes to apps and games can be made directly in the App Hub without recertification of the app. We also provide much better analytics for your apps and games via the App Hub dashboard and you can even download these metrics into Excel. The submission process has been streamlined as well to make it easier for you to submit your app. Thanks to the feedback from developers such as you, the Marketplace team has incorporated a large number of your suggestions and have made the submission process much cleaner than it was in the past. Impact: As an app or game publisher for Windows Phone 7, your ability to monitor the popularity and usefulness of your app to your users has increased, which allows you to make more informed decisions on how to improve your app in future releases as well as give you a better understanding of how well your app is doing in the Marketplace in general.
A vampiric Luhnow trade isn't out of the question, but I can't call that likely either.
Bush officials aren’t liable for post-9/11 abuse, Supreme Court says Top officials in the Bush administration, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, will not be held personally liable for unlawful detention policies and practices implemented after the September 11 terror attacks, a Supreme Court ruling handed down Monday stated. In the wake of the attacks, over 1,200 citizens and immigrants were detained as potential terrorism suspects in a broad legal sweep dubbed “Hold until cleared.” Rounding up suspects without formal charges was justified by the nation’s state of emergency at the time, but in response, a group of non-white, mainly Muslim and Arab men who were detained in New York and New Jersey sued government officials, arguing they were targeted based on race and ethnicity and faced harsh abuse in detention. They were held anywhere from three to eight months without access to the outside, allegedly had their bones broken by the prison guards, and were subjected to “humiliating sexual comments” as well as religious insults. ... In 2013, a district court approved Ahmer Iqbal Abbasi’s claims against the detention facility’s direct supervisors but denied claims against the “high-level officials.” Abbasi appealed this decision and in June 2015, the 2nd Circuit ruled in favor of reinstating the claims against Ashcroft and Mueller. In court, the defendants argued that Abbasi had not shown enough evidence that they were mistreated in detention and claimed that high-level officials qualified for immunity. The Supreme Court dissented on Monday, denying the post 9-/11 detainees any relief, besides remanding one prisoner-abuse claim to the Court of Appeals for consideration. ... The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the government now eight out of eight times in counterterrorism cases.
D.C. did just that to move into first place in the Eastern Conference.
You can hear fingers on the frets, nails or a pick passing across the strings, to add just a touch of humanity to spar with electronically treated pedal steel. There's a minor drama here, and many shades of Page's guitars, set like pastels in the glittering, nostalgic soundscape. 10. "All My Love,"In Through the Out Door. A year after the release of In Through the Out Door, the band's seventh studio album, drummer John Bonham died, choking to death on his own vomit after a heroic day of drinking at Jimmy Page's mansion. It was a fitting end for this not-quite-human. To their credit, the other band members never considered moving forward. There was a wan, highly uninteresting album of outtakes, Coda, and in the nearly 40 years since, but a small handful of instances where the three members played on the same stage at the same time. In the context of the never-ending, highly commercialized retirements we've seen from greedy coevals like the Who and the Grateful Dead, that counts for something. But it also meant that the band never had the chance to grow old and start to suck. I go into all this to point out that In Through the Out Door is a remarkable work by a band of their age, and on this song and several others, you can see the entire band moving forward toward a more mature music, past the thudding guitars and preening sexism. This song, written by Jones and Plant, is case in point. You could have imagined Led Zeppelin growing old playing such music; delicate and somehow meaningful, with touches of the old grandeur, all put to the words of a serious song, a tribute to Plant's young son, who died in a car accident. I hear the sound of musicians having passed the point of needing to overwhelm their listeners. I hear a musician having passed the point of needing to overwhelm his listeners. John Paul Jones contributes a somber keyboard interlude, and then you can hear him and his master Page duet. 9. "The Song Remains the Same,"Houses of the Holy. A blistering assault roughed up with sudden changes in dynamic and tone. Plant here is at his most squeally and porcine, but there is something riveting about Page's guitar work. The high-speed solos are articulate and true, and throughout he keeps layering on new guitar sounds. 8. "Immigrant Song,"Led Zeppelin III.
Experimental manipulation Children in the stereotype nullification condition were told, “We're looking at how well children do on this test and we expect that boys and girls will do the same,” whereas children in the control condition were told, “We're looking at how well children do on this test and we just want to see how you do.” Test performance Children's test performance was measured using a numeracy or literacy exercise. Scores were standardized to create comparable totals across the two tests. Numeracy: Thirteen math questions, varying in difficulty, were selected from two previous Key Stage 1 SATs papers (Qualifications & Curriculum Authority, 2004a, 2004b). Similar to Study 1, children received one mark for each correct answer. Therefore, there was a total of 13 marks available and children's final math score represented the proportion of questions answered correctly. Two versions of the exercise were created appropriate for the two age groups. Literacy: Seventeen questions were selected from verbal reasoning practice assessment papers, specifically designed for the age groups participating (Bond, 2007a, 2007b). The questions covered various aspects of verbal reasoning, including selecting words (e.g., “Underline the two words which are the odd ones out in these groups of words. Hat, gloves, silk, coat, cotton”), code sequences (e.g., “If DEF is the code for NAP, FED is the code for…”), sorting words (e.g., “Underline the pair of words which are the most similar in meaning: alley, lane; real, false; back, forward”), and logic (e.g., “Change the first word of the third pair in the same way as the other pairs to give a new word: art, part; ale, pale; ant, …”). Each block of questions was accompanied by a completed example. Children received one mark for each correct answer, so 17 marks were available. Children's final verbal reasoning score represented the proportion of questions answered correctly. Procedure Children participated individually in a communal area of their school, under the supervision of a female experimenter. Following some initial conversation to put the child at ease, children were read the same standardized instructions from the front of the question booklet as in Study 2, and either the control or nullification manipulation instructions.
______________________ Bush Jr.’s administration used the following argument to justify the attack on Iraq: that Iraq was trying to get uranium from Niger for use in nuclear weapons. The intelligence on that, we've been told, was based on a forgery. Raymond McGovern and VIPS have told everybody that they are very upset about this forgery, and McGovern recently wrote the following: “Who authored the forgery remains a mystery -- but one that our Republican-controlled Congress has avoided trying to solve. . . So those searching for answers are reduced to asking the obvious: Cui bono? Who stood to benefit from such a forgery? A no-brainer -- those lusting for war on Iraq. And who might they be? Look up the ‘neo-conservative’ writings on the website of the Project for the New American Century. There you will find information on people like Michael Ledeen, ‘Freedom Analyst’ at the American Enterprise Institute and a key strategist among ‘neoconservative’ hawks in and out of the Bush administration. Applauding the invasion of Iraq, Ledeen asserted -- with equal enthusiasm -- that the war could not be contained, and that ‘it may turn out to be a war to remake the world.’”[19] McGovern is very clear. Those with a motive to produce the Iraq-Niger deception, he says, are the so-called ‘neoconservatives’ (‘neo-cons’ for short). The author of this deception, he accuses, was none other than neo-con Michael Ledeen: “Beyond his geopolitical punditry, Ledeen’s curriculum vitae shows he is no stranger to rogue operations. A longtime Washington operative, he was fired as a ‘consultant’ for the National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan for running fool’s errands for Oliver North during the Iran-Contra subterfuge. One of Ledeen’s Iran-Contra partners in crime, so to speak, was Elliot Abrams, who was convicted of lying to Congress about Iran-Contra. Abrams was pardoned before jail time, however, by George H. W. Bush, and he is now George W. Bush’s deputy national security adviser. Ledeen is said to enjoy easy entrée to the office of the vice president as well as to his friend Abrams.” What is McGovern's message here? That Ledeen was involved with the Iran-Contra scandal, and is still friends with the leaders of that conspiracy, who are known to be enormous liars. McGovern continues: “During a radio interview with Ian Masters on April 3, 2005, former CIA operative Vincent Cannistraro charged that the Iraq-Niger documents were forged in the United States.
Crystal Group Inc., a leading designer/manufacturer of rugged computer hardware, announced plans for a $17.5M business expansion development in Hiawatha, Iowa The current industrial site, located at 855 Metzger Road will be completely developed for a new 111,500 square foot office and manufacturing location to expand production capacity and drive continued growth. The project will create 45 new jobs in manufacturing, engineering and sales. Crystal Group Inc. received regulatory and governmental approval and financial assistance for the project.Crystal Group Inc. is an employee-owned small business providing server, switch, display, storage and embedded computer architectures and related integration services for mission critical installations worldwide.The company designs, manufactures, integrates and supports rugged computer-based systems for intelligence, communications, reconnaissance, navigation, surveillance and critical control applications in government and industrial segments. The current Hiawatha location employs 165 people. "Last year Crystal Group experienced tremendous growth in the defense and industrial markets that we serve, especially in the emerging autonomous segment. Our strategic plan calls for increasing our revenue at least double digit percentages annually," said Crystal Group President Scott Kongable. "This expansion underscores our commitment to that growth in Hiawatha with adequate space, staffing, and funding to accommodate rapid progress and an expanding customer base. "Currently, Crystal Group operates from two buildings totaling 58,000-square-feet in Hiawatha located on Kacena Road. The new building will be situated on land that is located directly behind the current plant. "Our production and manufacturing capabilities must evolve with our products to meet the changing needs of our defense and industrial customers," said Michael Kruger, Vice President of Manufacturing at Crystal Group. "Our investment in updated equipment, improved manufacturing processes and facilities reflects our focus on maintaining our competitiveness, as well as our commitment to the community. "The City of Hiawatha approved economic development assistance for this project at its meeting on April 19, 2017. The City also approved sponsorship of the state financial assistance application, which was approved earlier today by the Iowa Economic Development Authority Board. State financial assistance will be primarily in the form of state tax credits. The Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance assisted in preparation of the state application that was sent to the Iowa Economic Development Authority earlier this month. "Crystal Group has been an asset to our City, and this expansion shows their confidence in Hiawatha and long-term commitment to the area," said Hiawatha Mayor Bill Bennett.

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