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You are pushed forward for double your movement speed while ignoring difficult terrain and at the end of the Deathly Charge, can make a weapon attack or a cast a cantrip spell attack, but the attack must be capable of only targeting one creature. The attack deals an extra 1d8 necrotic damage on a successful hit. Shielded Soul When you reach 10th level, your soul has become precious to your patron. You gain resistance to necrotic damage. Soul Assumption Upon reaching 14th level, you've learned how to use your collected souls as a weapon. As an action, you target a creature with a soul that you can see and release your souls. The target takes 2d10 necrotic damage per soul. You lose your souls when you do this. If the target dies to this attack, however, then you collect its soul. Credit: http://www.giantbomb.com/ New Invocations Crystallized Blast Prerequistes: Eldritch Blast When you cast Eldritch Blast, you can target a surface and create a small crystal there instead. When you chose to do this, you must turn all of your rays from Eldritch Blast into separate crystals, but they can all go onto the same surface in the same 5ft square. As a reaction after the beginning of your next turn, you can cause all of your crystallized blasts to explode. An exploding crystal deals 1d8 force damage in its square and 1d6 force damage in the squares directly next to it. You can only have up to 8 crystallized blasts at a time. Guided Charge Prerequistes: Level 6, Deathly Charge feature When you make use of your Deathly Charge, you can control the path you take instead of being pushed in only one direction. You must still move the full distance.
Most importantly, Berhalter will be hoping that striker Kei Kamara will turn out to be dominant striker that he needs up top. The 30 year old Kamara returns to MLS from the English Championship and brings significant Major League Soccer experience to the number 9 role.
Both Lillie and Velma enjoyed bustling about in the kitchen, making a big turkey dinner along with a variety of rich desserts for their big extended family. Everybody at Grandma Bullard’s house kidded around and laughed, then opened presents. However, Lillie pulled one of her sons aside to talk to him about something odd that troubled her. She had gotten a letter from a finance company telling her that a loan was overdue on her car and it would be repossessed if she failed to promptly pay it. Lillie had not taken out any loan on the car and she owned it free and clear! Her son saw no problem. It was probably just one of those paperwork snafus, nothing to fret about. A couple of days later, Lillie got terribly sick. She was nauseous, then vomiting. That was followed by an awful attack of diarrhea. Her insides felt like they were burning up. She told Velma that she had hideous pains in her belly and upper back. Her arms and legs flailed about her. She threw up again and threw up blood. Velma phoned her brother Olive who immediately drove over. He was appalled to see their mother so sick and called an ambulance. The rescue squad allowed Velma to ride in the ambulance with her mother. Lillie Bullard died two hours after arriving at the hospital. Early in 1975, Velma was once again in hot water with the law. She had written another string of bad checks. She was convicted on seven counts of writing bad checks. The judge sent her to prison for six months. She was released after serving three. Awhile after obtaining her freedom, Velma started to look for jobs as a caregiver for elderly, sick people. In 1976, she was living with and working for Montgomery and Dollie Edwards. Montgomery was 94, bedridden and incontinent. He was a diabetic and had lost his vision to that disease as well as both legs that had been amputated. He could not feed himself. Eighty-four year-old Dollie was in somewhat better shape but she was a cancer survivor who had had a colostomy. At first, Velma seemed pleased to be able to move into their comfortable brick ranch house. She got along well with both Edwardses and found a church she liked attending, the First Pentecostal Church in Lumberton. As time wore on, tensions surfaced between the caregiver and her employers.
India today joined 18 other G20 members to strongly support the fight against global warming by terming the Paris climate deal as "irreversible", leaving the US, which walked out of the pact, isolated.The two-day G20 Summit saw the Indian side making "significant contributions" on resolve to counter terrorism and boost global trade and investment.The Summit, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with top world leaders including host Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump, was however came under the shadow of unprecedented violent protests in this German port city where thousands of anti-capitalism protesters clashed with police and turned this harbour town into a fortress.Unfortunately, the US stand remains against the Paris pact but all other members have shown strong support on climate change, Merkel, the German Chancellor, said.She said the communique clearly mentioned the US dissent and the position of all other members. "Obviously it could not be a fully common position," Merkel told reporters. "All G20 members except the US agree that the Paris agreement is irreversible," she said.Trump in June announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, saying the deal agreed by more than 190 nations unfairly benefited countries like India and China.Trump's decision had drawn sharp criticism from international leaders, business groups and green activists.The objective of the Paris Agreement is to prevent an increase in global average temperature.The Agreement was adopted on December 12, 2015, by 195 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, replacing its predecessor Kyoto Protocol.It was finally ratified on November 4, 2016.In the G20 communique, the leaders said they remained committed to fighting corruption, including through international cooperation and technical assistance.They also resolved to advance effective implementation of international standards on beneficial ownership in domestic and cross border context.The leaders also called for completion of the IMF quota reforms and a new quota formula by 2019.They acknowledged that the malicious use of information and communications technologies can endanger financial stability.The leaders said that digitalisation offered opportunity for creating new jobs but there was a need to impart necessary skills for the future of work.They also called for the removal of market distorting subsidies and sought global cooperation to tackle excess capacity in industrial sectors.The leaders recognised that legitimate trade defence instruments and will promote favourable environment for trade and investment.They also committed to keep markets open and focus on reciprocity, non-discrimination, fight protectionism and unfair trade practices.
But in this new intervention and confrontation women are also expressing that their interests as women are not, as they have been told, separate and alien from the interests of the class. F or too long political parties, especially of the left, and trade unions have determined and confined the areas of working class struggle. To make love and to refuse night work to make love, is in the interest of the class. To explore why it is women and not men who raise the question is to shed new light on the whole history of the class. To meet your sons and daughters at a student assembly is to discover them as individuals who speak among other individuals; it is too present yourself to them as an individual. Many women have had abortions and very many have given birth. We can't see why they should not express their point of view as women first, whether or not they are students, in an assembly of medical students. (We do not give the medical faculty as an example by accident. In the lecture hall and in the clinic, we can see once more the exploitation of the working class not only when third class patients exclusively are made the guinea pigs for research. Women especially are the prime objects of experimentation and also of the sexual contempt, sadism, and professional arrogance of doctors.) To sum up: the most important thing becomes precisely this explosion of the women's movement as an expression of the specificity of female interests hitherto castrated from all its connections by the capitalist organization of the family. This has to be waged in every quarter of this society, each of which is founded precisely on the suppression of such interests, since the entire class exploitation has been built upon the specific mediation of women's exploitation. And so as a women's movement we must pinpoint every single area in which this exploitation is located, that is, we must regain the whole specificity of the female interest in the course of waging the struggle.
During the primaries, Sanders’ campaign was the target of a constant attack coming from liberal feminists supporting Clinton, who claimed that it was anti-feminist to vote for Sanders and that women should unite under the banner of the ‘women’s revolution’ embodied by Clinton. This kind of feminism has utterly failed. At the presidential election the majority of white women, particularly those without college education, preferred to vote for an openly misogynistic candidate rather than voting for the alleged champion of women’s rights, Clinton. Of course, plain racism does explain part of this vote. But there are other factors that should be taken into account, and the question we should ask ourselves is: which women have actually benefitted from the kind of liberal feminism embodied by Clinton? In the Seventies a woman with college education still earned on average less than a man without college education. In the decade 2000–2010 the situation appeared entirely changed: while the average income of working class women and men stayed flat, elite women’s earnings increased faster than elite men’s earnings, and in 2010 a high earning woman made on average more than 1.5 times as much as a middle class man. In a recent piece in The Nation, Katha Pollitt has articulated what liberal feminism is about, while also taking for granted that liberal feminism represents the whole of feminism or what feminism in general is and should be. Reproductive rights and – I guess – the fight against gender discrimination are the only demands clearly identifiable as ‘feminist’, unlike the fight against racism, war, poverty, environmental crisis, etc. Looking at the lived reality of working class, migrant women and women of color, I really don’t see what this brand of feminism has to actually offer to them. Equal pay, for example, seems to be a worthy cause, but if decoupled from demands concerning minimum wage it means nothing to working class women, as wage equality can also be achieved by feminising men’s labour and compressing men’s wages to the bottom. At the end of the day, this brand of feminism turns out to be a project for elite women’s self-promotion. We can of course ally and fight together on unifying issues such as reproductive rights, but other than that I’m afraid we want very different things. As you may guess from what I’m saying, I really do not believe that Clinton’s victory would have been a solution to women’s problems.
object Brainfuck { class Machine ( ml : List [ Byte ], mr : List [ Byte ], mc : Byte , prog : String , at : Int ) { val left = ml val right = mr val current = mc val program = prog val instruction = at def memLeft () : Machine = { val curr : Byte = left match { case x :: rest => x case nil => 0 } val newLeft : List [ Byte ] = left match { case x :: rest => rest case nil => List ( 0 ) } new Machine ( newLeft , current :: right , curr , program , instruction ) } def memRight () : Machine = { val curr : Byte = right match { case x :: rest => x case nil => 0 } val newRight : List [ Byte ] = right match { case x :: rest => rest case nil => List ( 0 ) } new Machine ( current :: left , newRight , curr , program , instruction ) } def codeRight () : Machine = new Machine ( left , right , current , program , instruction + 1 ) def editMem ( f : Byte => Byte ) : Machine = new Machine ( left , right , f ( current ), program , instruction ) final def matchBracket ( brac : Char , depth : Int = 0 ) : Machine = { val otherBrac = if ( brac == '[' ) ']' else '[' val inc = if ( brac == '[' ) 1 else - 1 val machNext = new Machine ( left , right , current , program , instruction + inc ) machNext . program ( machNext . instruction ) match { case `brac` => machNext . matchBracket ( brac , depth - inc ) case `otherBrac` => if ( depth + inc == inc ) machNext else machNext . matchBracket ( brac , depth + inc ) case _ => machNext . matchBracket ( brac , depth ) } } def printChar () : Machine = { print ( current . toChar ) this } def strChar () : Machine = { editMem ( i => Console . in . read . toChar .
I don't see any space appropriate for statues in this illustration, but I put in some type of pillars, I tried to use a marble stone texture, and added some trim to the floor creases.So what are they doing anyway? I needed an excuse to add spheres, so I imagine it is a holiday in this world and they have some bubbles flying around for celebrating the holiday. Kinda like fireworks during a lot of holidays here on Earth.
TROPICO 5'S MULTIPLAYER DID NOT DISAPPOINT WRAP UP: TROPICO 5 MADE ME FEEL POWERFUL IN THE WORST WAY Tropico 5 succeeded in making me feel powerful, and it enabled me to create a world in my image. But the game so entirely lacks compassion that it made me feel like a bully. There's an undeniable tension between the player, in the role of The Dictator, and the citizens. Tropico 5 fails to reconcile that conflict in a mature way, missing its shot at changing the series from a thoughtless getaway to a memorable, meaningful trip. Tropico 5 was reviewed using retail code provided by Kalypso Media. You can find additional information about Polygon's ethics policy here.
7. I feel it necessary to mark this distance from the positions and poetics of To Our Friends to better address the book’s pivotal question, that of organisation understood as common perception (p.17). One doesn’t really criticise a manifesto or a call, especially when it is not addressed to you, but it may be possible nonetheless to make something of the moments of assent and dissent that such declarations elicit. So even if much of this perception is not shared, the terms of the problem – what would it mean to forge a common perception – no doubt must be. For the Invisible Committee, the organisation that the uprisings of 2011 and after lacked is thus not a party, not a union, or a militia, but a perception. (Though the Committee would likely baulk at this, we are not a million miles from Badiou’s translation of organisation as idea, or, in another register, Jameson’s cognitive mapping, both understandable as varieties of class consciousness without a class.) A common perception is the marriage of ethics and strategy. Here it is difficult not to hear the echoes of the later, defeated Debord, weighing up the spectacle’s own conspiracies of reproduction through the lenses of Clausewitz (in Commentaries) and the damage done to life and ethos (in Panegyric). Unlike in Debord, the negativity of To Our Friends is more epidermal. How, otherwise, could one write such disarming sentences as: ‘strategic intelligence comes from the heart’ (p.16)? This desire for another life is also more prophetic than dialectical. In turn, the arche-politics of a planetary ethical revolt risks overwhelming considerations of strategy, or calibrations of tactics. ‘What is at stake in contemporary insurrection is the question of knowing what is a desirable form of life, and not the nature of the institutions that oversee it. But to recognise this would immediately imply recognising the ethical nullity of the West’ (p.48). Surely a form-of-life can’t be pried away from its institutions, at the risk of collapsing into that vitalist immediacy which has always served as romantic anti-capitalism’s abiding temptation. If ‘the West’ (whatever it may be) is an ethical void, then we may just have to be a little careful about carrying on with a political and philosophical discourse which doesn’t just borrow wholesale from a recognisably Western ethical and philosophical grammar, but fails to subject it to determinate negation.
I definitely will not promise that everybody is going to be satisfied; they simply can't all be. But I know Marlene and the writers really do have it all figured out." For a time though, they didn't.
KEY QUOTES FROM PARLIAMENT Prime Minister David Cameron: 'This is about psychopathic terrorists who are trying to kill us. Like it or not they have already declared war on us.' Labour leader Ed Miliband: 'A dismembered Iraq would be more dangerous for Britain in my view not less dangerous... Isil unchecked means more persecution of the innocent.' Foreign affairs select committee chairman Sir Richard Ottaway: 'The border between Syria and Iraq has virtually disappeared. It is a sea of human misery.' The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Justin Welby: 'In the here and now there is justification for the use of armed force on humanitarian grounds to enable oppressed victims to find safe space.' Labour former defence secretary Lord Reid: 'If all we do is limited military intervention, push on with tactical strikes and then look for the so-called exit strategy, then we will achieve nothing, we will go round in the same circle again in another part of the world.' Labour MP Ian Austin: 'Faced with a brutal and murderous organisation that has kidnapped and beheaded victims including British aid workers, which has carried out genocide, enslaves women, buried others alive, crucified, executed and literally butchered Christians, Yazidis and Muslims - anyone who doesn't share their warped and perverted view of Islam.' Labour former minister Pat McFadden: 'Why is it right to carry out such actions against Isis in Iraq but not in Syria? Respect MP George Galloway: 'Isil is a death cult, it's a gang of terrorist murderers. It's not an army and it's certainly not an army that's going to be destroyed by aerial bombardment. This will not be solved by bombing. We've been bombing Iraqis for 100 years.' Labour MP Dennis Skinner: 'How long will this war last and when will mission creep start?'. Green MP Caroline Lucas: 'Killing extremists does not kill their ideas.'
Introduction The scarcity of clean and safe drinking water is one of the major causes of human mortality in the developing world. Potable or drinking water is defined as having acceptable quality in terms of its physical, chemical, and bacteriological parameters so that it can be safely used for drinking and cooking [1]. Among the water pollutants, the most deadly ones are of biological origin: infectious diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or parasites are the most common and widespread health risk associated with drinking water [1], [2]. The most common water-borne pathogens are bacteria (e.g. Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholerae), viruses (e.g. adenoviruses, enteroviruses, hepatitis, rotavirus), and protozoa (e.g. giardia) [1]. These pathogens cause child mortality and also contribute to malnutrition and stunted growth of children. The World Health Organization reports [3] that 1.6 million people die every year from diarrheal diseases attributable to lack of access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. 90% of these are children under the age of 5, mostly in developing countries. Multiple barriers including prevention of contamination, sanitation, and disinfection are necessary to effectively prevent the spread of waterborne diseases [1]. However, if only one barrier is possible, it has to be disinfection unless evidence exists that chemical contaminants are more harmful than the risk from ingestion of microbial pathogens [1]. Furthermore, controlling water quality at the point-of-use is often most effective due to the issues of microbial regrowth, byproducts of disinfectants, pipeline corrosion, and contamination in the distribution system [2], [4]. Common technologies for water disinfection include chlorination, filtration, UV-disinfection, pasteurization or boiling, and ozone treatment [1], [2], [5]. Chlorine treatment is effective on a large scale, but becomes expensive for smaller towns and villages. Boiling is an effective method to disinfect water; however, the amount of fuel required to disinfect water by boiling is several times more than what a typical family will use for cooking [1]. UV-disinfection is a promising point-of-use technology available [1], yet it does require access to electricity and some maintenance of the UV lamp, or sufficient sunlight. While small and inexpensive filtration devices can potentially address the issue of point-of-use disinfection, an ideal technology does not currently exist. Inexpensive household carbon-based filters are not effective at removing pathogens and can be used only when the water is already biologically safe [1].
If I remember correctly, that provision was associated with the proposed Treaty of Annexation, which was not going to pass muster in the U.S. Senate. In a legislative retrenchment move, Texas was instead annexed pursuant to a joint resolution of Congress rather than the treaty proposed earlier, because the joint resolution was something Congress could pass by a majority vote. (There was at the time considerable resistance in Congress to the notion of admitting another state where slavery was still practiced.) The Treaty of Annexation, contrary to popular belief in Texas, was not the vehicle by which Texas entered the Union in 1845.The joint resolution of annexation which eventually passed did not contain a provision permitting Texas to split itself into five states. But it did permit Texas to retain sovereignty over its unpatented public lands, instead of ceding those lands to the federal government, as had been (and would continue to be) the customary requirement for a territory to be admitted to the union as a state.The basis of the bargain for admission to the Union was as follows: Texas was to cede all claim to unpatented lands still in the public domain lying north of the 32nd Parallel and west of the 103rd Meridian to the United States. In exchange, Texas retained sovereignty over the public lands within its new borders, and the United States would assume and discharge the outstanding debt from the War for Texas Independence.In retaining its extensive public lands in West Texas (2.1 million acres) rather than ceding them to the feds, the State of Texas was able to form the corpus of the Permanent School Fund (for the purpose of financing public school education) as well as the Permanent University Fund (for the construction and maintenance of the "university of the first rank" contemplated by the 1876 Texas Constitution. Originally, these lands were to be leased for grazing and farming, with the rentals accruing to the benefit of these funds. In 1923, the discovery in the Permian Basin of oil and natural gas in unprecedented quantities yielded vast sums of money in the form of royalties from production on these state lands, a stream of income that continues to this day.
Initialize our counter, fCount . fCount = 0 ; Create a window BRect frame ( 100 , 100 , 500 , 400 ); BRect comes from the Interface Kit and is used to create various buttons and windows and widgets. The BeBook Overview of BRect has an excellent explanation with pictures. To be brief, we’re calling a function that takes (left,top,right,bottom) coordinates. The origin is at the top left corner of the screen. Integer coordinates are located in the centers of pixels. Our frame is a 400x300 pixel rectangle. myWindow = new BWindow(frame , "My First App" , B_TITLED_WINDOW , B_ASYNCHRONOUS_CONTROLS \| B_QUIT_ON_WINDOW_CLOSE); We’re creating a BWindow using this constructor: BWindow(BRect frame, const char * title, window_type type, uint32 flags, uint32 workspaces = B_CURRENT_WORKSPACE); “My First App” is the window title. B_TITLED_WINDOW means this is just a normally-styled Haiku window. According to the BeBook, B_QUIT_ON_WINDOW_CLOSE does nothing and B_ASYNCHRONOUS_CONTROLS should be used on any window that contains controls: Tells the window to allow controls to run asynchronously. All windows that contain controls should include this flag (it’s off by default because of backwards compatibility). Create a button and put it in the window BButton * button = new BButton(BRect( 10 , 10 , 11 , 11 ), "button" , "Click Me!" , new BMessage(M_BUTTON_CLICKED)); This creates out new button. It has not yet been added to the window, so this is just the idea of a button. The constructor we’re using is: BButton(BRect frame, const char * name, const char * label, BMessage * message, uint32 resizingMode = B_FOLLOW_LEFT \| B_FOLLOW_TOP, uint32 flags = B_WILL_DRAW \| B_NAVIGABLE); The BRect frame tells the button how big and where it should be. "button" is the name. "Click Me!" is the text that will appear on the button. A BMessage whose what is M_BUTTON_CLICKED will be sent each time this button is clicked. We don’t mess with the optional arguments resizingMode and flags . The name does not seem to matter for the purposes of this program. We can provide a name because BButton is a BControl, which is a BView, which is a BHandler, which uses a name to register with the messaging system. According to BView, we don’t need to specify a name: assigns the BView an identifying name, which can be NULL. button -> SetTarget( this ); The first thing we’ll do is tell the button where to send it’s messages. By default, that would be it’s window.
Ever been the victim of sexual abuse? “Some stuff happened but I don’t know if it counts. When I was 12 a school janitor would regular talk to me in hushed tones and tell me I was beautiful when no one was looking. I knew it was weird but didn’t know how to say no so I sort of played along.” By the way, parents who minimize what their children are feeling and don’t really listen to them and don’t nurture their independence and their voice, this is one of the ripples, the potential for things like this to happen where kids are cornered by adults and don’t know how to advocate for themselves. Just my two sense, anyway... “Things escalated and he started giving me hugs. At one point he kissed me on the cheek and got me to lay down with him on the floor. Nothing further happened that day but it could have gotten worse if I didn’t tell my brother. He told our mom that we were going to play baseball in the park and he took me to school after hours with a bat. He threatened to beat him up in a very dramatic fashion. The janitor looked like has going to cry and swore never to touch me again. He never even looked at me again. I reported him to the school the following year. After being questioned over whether or not I was lying, they fired him.” Always nice to grill a child over whether or not their lying. “But I don’t think it was ever reported to the police and the school never told my parents. It’s a secret between my brother and I ever since. I always blame myself for enticing him.” You did not entice him. “And getting him fired since he didn’t technically do anything bad.” Oh no, he did something bad. That was completely wrong what that guy was doing, and just because he didn’t touch your genitals doesn’t mean that that wasn’t abusive. That was... Yes, you did nothing wrong. She writes: “As an adult I know he did something wrong but as I look back I still feel like a dirty little slut.” Isn’t that fucking amazing the lengths that we will go to, to beat ourselves up?
A) There is no single “completely artificial” or “completely natural” language. Even “level 1” languages, which develop new terms and syntax mostly from their continuated use (and not from outside), have a need for “artificial” or “imported” terms and sentences: like Spanish “hardware”, “software”, “mouse”, “te llamo de vuelta” (a literal translation of Eng. I call you back), or invented terms like “telefonear”, “televisión”, “ordenador/computador”, etc. Even within terms of Latin origin, innovation is often artificially generalized as the standard: as in Spanish “murciélago”, which was in Old Spanish “murciego” (from Lat. mus-caecus, lit. “blind mouse”, “bat”), extended to “murciégalo”, then metathesized to “murciélago”; now, the Royal Spanish Academy Dictionary (which ‘rules over’ the Spanish ‘normative’ or formal language) states that the innovative murciélago is the formal or correct word; usually parents correct children who say “murciégalo”, and the common use of that word is today generally considered a sign of vulgar speech. That is an example of what language regulation artificially adds to seemingly natural languages, just like Classical Latin or Classical Greek norms did impose artificial (or innovative) terms over traditional (i.e. native or more natural) ones. In fact, language regulation in international languages like English, Spanish or Portuguese makes the formal language still more artificial to its speakers, and innovative trends looking for a more natural language emerge: hence the Brasilian push for its own writing rules (and minority calls for being recognized as a different Galician-Portuguese language, like Galician), or US English, Argentinian and Mexican Spanish dialectal proud, expressed in writing and pronunciation, adopting their own standards of formal speech different from the historical one. And even level 20 languages are ultimately based on human perception, so they are necessarily based on nature, and thus never fully artificial, however artificial they might look like…
[120] This reduces the incentive that permit-liable firms have to cut back their emissions. On the other hand, issuing too few permits can result in an excessively high permit price. [202] This an argument for a hybrid instrument having a price-floor, i.e., a minimum permit price, and a price-ceiling, i.e., a limit on the permit price. However, a price-ceiling (safety value) removes the certainty of a particular quantity limit of emissions. [203] Permit allocation versus auctioning Edit If polluters receive emission permits for free ("grandfathering"), this may be a reason for them not to cut their emissions because if they do they will receive fewer permits in the future. [204] This perverse incentive can be alleviated if permits are auctioned, i.e., sold to polluters, rather than giving them the permits for free. [202] Auctioning is a method for distributing emission allowances in a cap-and-trade system whereby allowances are sold to the highest bidder. Revenues from auctioning go to the government and can be used for development of sustainable technology[205] or to cut distortionary taxes, thus improving the efficiency of the overall cap policy. [206] On the other hand, allocating permits can be used as a measure to protect domestic firms who are internationally exposed to competition. [202] This happens when domestic firms compete against other firms that are not subject to the same regulation. This argument in favor of allocation of permits has been used in the EU ETS, where industries that have been judged to be internationally exposed, e.g., cement and steel production, have been given permits for free). [207] This method of distribution may be combined with other forms of allowance distribution. [4] Distributional effects Edit The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO, 2009) examined the potential effects of the American Clean Energy and Security Act on US households. [208] This act relies heavily on the free allocation of permits. The Bill was found to protect low-income consumers, but it was recommended that the Bill be made more efficient by reducing welfare provisions for corporations, and more resources be made available for consumer relief.
In 2011, Kim Veal , president of the Black Non-Believers of Chicago and head of the influential Black Freethinkers podcast series, founded her group after being exasperated with participating in predominantly white groups where she was treated like an “enigma.” Echoing the sentiments of other non-believers of color who have been turned off by the vibe of all-white groups, she says, “this was disenchanting; you don’t know if they are truly interested in getting to know you or are trying to pick the brain of their new token.” Mandisa Thomas started the Black Non-Believers of Atlanta as a safe space for non-believers in the heavily evangelical South. Thomas and Ayanna Watson of Black Atheists of America partnered to sponsor the Blackout Secular Rally , a gathering of atheists of color that was held in July in New York and attended by nonbelievers from across the country.Earlier this year, my group , Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA) spearheaded a scholarship fund for undocumented, homeless, LGBTQ and foster care youth. BSLA, BNO Chicago and BNO Atlanta have prioritized social justice issues like homophobia in the Black Church, HIV/AIDS prevention, reproductive justice, and homelessness. Debbie Goddard and Jamila Bey of African Americans for Humanism, and Bridgette Gaudette Executive Director for the Humanists of Florida are also part of a new wave of women of color who have assumed leadership roles within atheist organizations.So the myth that Black folk don't do atheism is partly untrue. We atheists don't need your blessings, prayers or shout-outs to Jesus, because if God is Black America’s co-pilot then what does that say about the landscape of 21st century United States, where Black wealth has been decimated , residential segregation has become more entrenched and Trayvon Martin was twice lynched by the U.S.' criminal injustice system?Sikivu Hutchinson is the founder of Black Skeptics Los Angeles and the author of the newly released Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels and Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
Not Schatz. His game-designing career once revolved around the veritable Noah's Ark of inspirations around his home. His one-man design shop, Pocketwatch Games, turned out two well-received "wildlife tycoon" sim games in the '00s: Venture Africa, an Independent Games Festival Awards finalist in 2006, and Venture Arctic. The games' zeal about ecosystems borders on religious — and made him enough of an indie favorite to host the IGF Awards a staggering five times, including last month's ceremony — but that didn't translate into sales success. In 2009, low on cash and high on frustration, Schatz played around with a lark of a game idea — at first, little more than a Pac-Man clone — as a last-ditch attempt before giving up his indie status and getting "a corporate job." That single-week lark turned into 15 weeks. At the end of it, he had a playable prototype of Monaco, a stealthy, four-player heist adventure that turns Pac-Man into Ocean's Eleven. At the end of it, he had a playable prototype of Monaco, a stealthy, four-player heist adventure that turns Pac-Man into Ocean's Eleven. It came out of nowhere to win two IGF awards — including the IGF's Seamus McNally Grand Prize — beating the likes of Super Meat Boy and Joe Danger. The game was unfinished, but its potential was clear: Monaco was a magnificent return to the four-player couch madness of '90s console games, and the formula still works. It just needs to come out. And, well ... these crows. Schatz is soft-spoken when he curses at his computer, but the "fuck"s and "shit"s take aim at the code in the crows. These birds serve as another reminder that it's been a long time — 3 1/2 years, Tierney is quick to confirm — since Schatz has gone on the kind of international trip where he might find new, beast-inspired crafts for his floors and walls. Not while he's busy making the game. But after years of blown deals, business missteps, medical scares and control freakdom, Schatz has finally finished Monaco — three years after it blew the IGF away — by ignoring the wisdom of the game's heist plot and trusting his unlikely accomplices.
He would say out loud (knowing I was right there), "where is that girl, goodness sakes, better go back and get her before her food gets cold." I would wait for him to walk past and then run to the kitchen table and sit - I would be eating my breakfast already by the time he got back to the kitchen and every time, he would always seem so surprised and impressed. "How did you get to the kitchen without me seeing you? Was it magic??" And I would shrug and we would laugh. We lived in a single story family home on a circle-drive, on the lot that had the biggest back yard. The house was nice and always very clean. I would later figure out that my grandmother was a bit OCD about cleaning and other things. There was a back porch with a tall privacy fence around the outdoor sitting area. That gated area held my grandmother's garden. It was so beautiful. As a child, I would play in the small patch of grass in front of the garden while she worked in the garden. She was ALWAYS in the garden and it was so peaceful. Flowers and bushes perfectly kept. Not a single blade of grass made it past her busy fingers. Past the privacy fence, there was a back yard that was very large with many trees and a playground for my brother and I. There was honeysuckle, berry bushes, pecans... a feast for kids! Past the main back yard was a separate smaller fenced in yard for the dog and my grandfather's work sheds. Grandma didn't want the dog freely in the big back yard because of the messes he could leave for kids to play in. I would make mud pies and she would say, "now what lady plays in mud! Come inside and get cleaned up!" My grandmother LOVED to dress me up because at that age, I looked like a perfect little doll. She would brush my hair 100 strokes - then curl it - and dress me in adorable floral dresses. Always a miniature doll at her side. Her favorite thing about me was my hair - strawberry blonde and long. My mother also loved to curl my hair and later told me that at two years old, she gave me a perm because she thought I would look like an angel.
A strong and powerful pair of pincers is very useful at gripping but also tearing or ripping. Many scavenging xanthid crabs closely related to Lybia use their pincers to pull apart food into manageable chunks. Lybia’s pincers are not strong enough to do this and should they try it would mean putting down their anemones and rendering themselves extremely vulnerable to predation. As a result the boxer crab has adapted to use its second pair of legs, the first pair of walking legs in this role and they are very effective at ripping off small pieces of food from larger chunks and manipulating them delicately towards the mouth. Observations have also shown that the anemones themselves can have a role in food capture for the crab. In this instance the crab uses the cnidarians as “mops” in which they are wiped along the substrate. The particulate material collected in the sticky tentacles is then removed by the mouthparts of the crab. Either feeding method will lead to the nourishment of both the crab and its anemones. In an aquarium situation a variety of foodstuffs will be accepted including chopped mussel, cockle, prawn and shrimp. However, boxer crabs are elusive creatures and any aquarist prepared to stock this fascinating animal must be prepared for very sporadic sightings unless it is the only individuals housed in a small aquarium. Many aquarists report sightings as infrequent as once a year or less! This is likely to be the case in a large reef aquarium with plenty of busy fish but hopefully more often in smaller systems. Of course, it all depends upon where the crab takes up residence and its subsequent growth and development. When choosing an individual make sure that it has hold of one anemone in each pincer. Although it can seemingly replace one if it becomes damaged or lost (the exact mechanism for this is unclear but may involve the crab taking a cutting from a healthy individual) the first moments after introduction will be when this crab is at its most vulnerable and it may need both its stingers to repel any over-inquisitive species. Needless to say this is not a crab for an aquarium containing any fish species likely to bother crustaceans and is best suited to coral rich aquaria with peaceful fish in residence. Occasionally you will see boxer crabs for sale with a bright red-orange mass on their underside.
Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: The rise of Ukip Show all 8 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: The rise of Ukip 1/8 1993: Alan Sked forms Ukip History professor Alan Sked had been active in anti-EU politics for a while beore he founded Ukip in 1993. He resigned from the party after the 1997 election, concerned that it was attracting far-right members, and has been critical of Ukip since. Picture: Reuters Reuters 2/8 2005: Kilroy defects Former TV presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk founded Veritas in 2005, after a failed bid to become leader, and took many of Ukip's elected members with him. But the party slowly lost its popularity and didn't put forward any candidates in the last election. Picture: REUTERS/Kieran Doherty REUTERS KD/RUS 3/8 2010: Farage becomes leader, again Farage had led Ukip from 2006 until 2009, when he stood down to fight against the Speaker, John Bercow, for his Buckingham seat. He failed to win the election and returned to lead the party in November 2010. Picture: REUTERS/Kieran Doherty REUTERS/Kieran Doherty 4/8 2010: Ukip fights for election Nigel Farage was injured in a plane crash on polling day in the 2010 general election, but his party increased its success in the votes. It fielded 572 candidates and took 3.1% of the vote, though failed to win any seats. REUTERS/Darren Staples REUTERS/Darren Staples 5/8 2013: Eastleigh gains Ukip's candidate Diane James got the highest ever number of votes for any candidate from the party, but was beaten by the Liberal Democrats. The surge in support gave Ukip confidence ahead of local and European elections later in the year. Picture: Reuters 6/8 2013: Bloom kicked out Godfrey Bloom, who served as an Ukip MEP from 2004 to 2014, had the whip withdrawn in 2013 after sexist comments and an attack on a journalist. He sat as an independent MEP until 2014, when he ended his term in office. Picture: REUTERS/Luke MacGregor 7/8 2014: European election success Ukip got a higher proportion of the vote than any other party in 2014's European elections, adding 11 new MEPs and taking its total to 24. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor 8/8 2014: Carswell defects Douglas Carswell defected from Ukip at the end of August, and was followed by Mark Reckless at the end of September, who resigned from the Tories amid rumours of many more defections to come.
It should be noted that some qawāʿid fiqhiyya are specific (khāṣṣa), i.e. they apply to one or more, rather than all, of the fields of fiqh; an example of these is al-Karkhī’s qāʿida: subsequent permission is as [authoritative as] previous authorization (al-ijāza al-lāḥiqa ka’l-wakāla al-sābiqa).23
Obama will now implement various measures to fight what he believes is the threat of "climate change". Among those are his "Cap and trade scheme" that he for example explicitly mentioned in is remarks to the joint session of Congress An alternative approach to "cap and trade" is a straightforward carbon tax. As I've already pointed out, "cap and trade" is simply a euphemism for an alternative form of carbon tax. What is then the real difference between "cap and trade" and a straightforward carbon tax? The difference lies in what element is fixed and what is variable (what will fluctuate).It is a basic truth within macroeconomics that monetary policy makers can only fix one target at the time. If they try to fix exchange rates, then they'll have to let consumer price inflation and money supply growth fluctuate. If they try to target consumer price inflation, they'll have to let money supply growth and the exchange rate fluctuate. If they target money supply growth, they'll have to let the exchange rate and consumer price inflation fluctuate.This conflict also exists for politicians that try to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through economic incentives (taxation). Either they'll have to fix the amount that emissions will be reduced and let the incentive fluctuate. Or they'll have to fix the incentive abnd let the emission reduction fluctuate.In a "cap and trade" scheme the emission reduction is fixed, so fluctuations in demand for emissions will result in fluctuations in the tax on emissions. In a straightforward carbon tax, the tax rate will be fixed so fluctuations in demand for emissions will result in fluctuations in actual emissions.Which scheme is preferable, or which scheme is the lesser evil? "Cap and trade" is the worst of the two because they create an unnecessary (artificial) economic cost. Leaving aside the issue of whether really emission reductions are a worthwhile goal, we have to ask which scheme produces the greatest economic cost. While uncertainty about prices is necessary in many cases in order to avoid excess surpluses or shortages of goods and services, it is nevertheless always a bad thing in itself, which is why artificial uncertainty (that do not fill any function) is a bad thing, period. "Cap and trade" creates such an artificial uncertainty for market participants. Remember, the difference between "cap and trade" and straightforward carbon taxes lies in what is uncertain, the price (tax) or the amount of emission reductions.
“I want the American people to know this truth: The FBI is honest. The FBI is strong. And the FBI is, and always will be, independent,” Comey tweeted, along with a collage of photographs of various FBI teams. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, former acting attorney general Sally Yates, and others jumped to the FBI’s defence as well. “The FBI is in ‘tatters’? No. The only thing in tatters is the President’s respect for the rule of law,” said Yates, who has been a frequent recent critic of Trump on Twitter. “The dedicated men and women of the FBI deserve better.” Trump fired Yates in January for refusing to defend his ban on travel from six majority-Muslim countries. In May, Yates testified that she expected White House officials to “take action” on her January warning that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia. Holder, who served as attorney general under the Obama administration, also fired back at Trump, saying, “You’ll find integrity and honesty at FBI headquarters and not at 1600 Penn Ave right now.” Read more: Russia says Michael Flynn didn’t affect response to U.S. sanctions ABC suspends investigative reporter for ‘serious error’ in report on Michael Flynn Trump brushes off Russia investigation, says ‘we’re unbeatable’ in 2020 Trump seized on reports that a veteran FBI counter-intelligence agent was removed from special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s team last summer after the discovery of an exchange of text messages that were viewed as potentially anti-Trump. The agent, Peter Strzok, had also worked on the investigation of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Peter Carr, a spokesperson for Mueller, said Mueller removed Strzok from the team “immediately upon learning of the allegations.” He would not elaborate on the nature of the accusations. The person who discussed the matter with The Associated Press was not authorized to speak about it by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. Trump tweeted Sunday: “Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI ‘agent’s role in Clinton probe under review.’ Led Clinton Email probe.” In a separate tweet, he wrote: “Report: ‘ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE’ Now it all starts to make sense!” Strzok’s removal almost certainly reflected a desire to insulate the investigators from any claims of political bias or favouritism.
The World Health Organization reports that in low- and middle-income countries, 76-85% of people with mental disorders receive no treatment for their disorder. There are a range of reasons for this, from a lack of awareness about mental illness to limited access to professional help and the cost of treatment.Wysa, YourDOST, Lean On Me and other new digital ventures in mental health are able to harness technology to leap over one of the biggest reasons people don’t seek treatment — stigma. The anonymity and privacy these apps and websites offer goes a long way in removing the inhibitions those grappling with mental health issues might have in seeking professional help. "Yes, there is a shortage of mental health professionals in India but it is not as if the ones that we have are overbooked, unlike in a country like the UK, where there is a one-year wait-list to see a psychologist," says Aggarwal, who terms Wysa a "fire extinguisher" that can be in everyone’s pocket.Stigma is also a reason CR Chandrasekhar, a former professor of psychiatry at NIMHANS in Bengaluru, opened free counselling centres away from the mental health hospital so that people might be more at ease. "There is less stigma with the word counselling, as opposed to terms like mental disorder or treatment," says Chandrasekhar, a well-known psychiatrist and the author of numerous books on mental health in both English and Kannada. He has also been instrumental in training volunteer "lay counsellors" through three-month courses, who lend an empathetic ear at the counselling centres and direct those who need it to professionals. Though their interventions would be limited, Chandrasekhar sees lay counsellors’ services in the nature of psychological first aid. "The idea is that anybody can reach out and help these people. This is their first port of call." Many people often go to "faith healers" and others of the ilk before they finally turn to psychiatrists and psychologists, he says.There are other initiatives as well that are looking to break down the walls of misconception around mental illnesses, or even just offer a safe space to listen and be listened to. One of them is Living Stories, started by Sanchana Krishnan, a 24-year-old who has been struggling with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder since she was very young. Krishnan calls it "a space to talk and gain knowledge and awareness" because talking, she believes, is acknowledging, which will lead to action.
Input values characterizing present day US home video viewing of both DVDs and internet streaming content were entered into the CLEER model. For many of these inputs, ranges of values were applied to provide a high, low, and base-case input value, and to serve as a sensitivity analysis range. The base-case input values are derived from literature estimates and are intended to represent a typical or median value across a possible range of values within the US. As such, the base-case represents the authors' best estimates of US average energy use and CO 2 (e) emissions per viewing hour. When scaled up by total viewing hours, the base-case provides a best estimate of total national energy use and CO 2 (e) emissions attributable to each viewing method. Given that US average values for each modeling parameter are best estimates with appreciable uncertainties, high and low cases for each modeling parameter were also established. The high and low case values are meant to provide a plausible range for the US average value chosen for each parameter in the base case. As such, the high and low cases should not be interpreted as extreme bounds on the technically-possible values for each parameter; rather, they should be interpreted as plausible uncertainty ranges for the US average point values chosen for each parameter in the base-case. A summary of all high, low, and base-case input values used in this analysis is presented in the Supporting Online Material (SOM). Results normalized by viewing hour were also compared with a scenario in which all 2011 US DVD viewing is shifted to a streaming video service, to shed light on the potential primary energy use and CO 2 (e) emissions implications of the ongoing trend from DVDs to streaming video. Streaming video in this study is limited to content typically found on DVDs, such as full-length movies or television programs, while short internet video clips, such as those found on YouTube, are excluded since they are assumed to not represent a direct replacement of viewing content from physical DVDs. The term DVD is used to describe both regular and high definition (i.e., Bluray) discs throughout this article.
The news that Apple dual sourced its A9 chips for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has been a point of discussion over the past few weeks, especially when new battery tests on the phones pointed towards the TSMC chips outperforming those made by Samsung. Following the news, several YouTubers have begun creating videos to compare the dual sourced chips in both battery-straining tests and basic real-world scenarios.In the first video, Austin Evans compared identical models of the iPhone 6s -- one with the Samsung chip and one with the TSMC chip -- and calibrated their screens so they had the exact same brightness. After running the GeekBench 3 battery test until they both ran down to 50 percent battery life, Evans discovered that the TSMC iPhone 6s lasted fifty minutes longer than the Samsung version, "resulting in a nearly 1.5 times difference in battery life." Thermal imaging also showed the Samsung device running hotter than the TSMC version.Evans also ran a lighter battery test, playing the same hour-long YouTube video on each device to see how a more day-to-day scenario would affect each chip. In the end, he saw only a one percentage point difference in battery drain, noting that while heavy-use cases could see the TSMC chips come out on top, highlighting the differences between benchmarks and real-world usage.The next video is from Jonathan Morrison , who compared each chip by running a 30-minute timelapse with all the same settings and brightness running on each device. After the test, the Samsung iPhone 6s was down to 84 percent battery, while the TSMC version came in on top with 89 percent remaining. Morrison continued testing the battery strength of each chip with a ten-minute 4k video test, exporting the video file in iMovie, and finishing off by running GeekBench 3. At the end of the full set of tests, the iPhone with the Samsung chip was at 55 percent battery while the TSMC device was at 62 percent.The takeaway from Morrison and Evans' videos today seems to be that while intense cases like synthetic Geekbench tests designed to push devices to their limits revealed as high as a 22% difference in battery life between devices using the two chips, real-world impacts may be much smaller depending on the mix of activities. In these specific usage patterns shown above, battery life differences between the two processors ranged from 6% to 11%.
We were the ones who toiled behind the scenes while straight people got married: the photographers and bakers and florists, working like Negro porters settling spoiled passengers into the whites-only section of the train. “Oh, Christopher,” a bride might sigh as her dressmaker zipped her up. “What would I have ever done without you?” What saved this from being tragic is that they were doing something we wouldn’t dream of: guilt-tripping friends and relatives into giving up their weekends so they could sit on hard church pews or folding chairs in August, listening as the couple mewled vows at each other, watching as they’re force-fed cake, standing on the sidelines, bored and sweating, as they danced, misty-eyed, to a Foreigner song. The battle for gay marriage was, in essence, the fight to be as square as straight people, to say things like “My husband tells me that the new Spicy Chipotle Burger they’ve got at Bennigan’s is awesome,” and “Here it is, Valentine’s Day less than a week behind us, and already my wife is flying our Easter flag!” That said, I was all for the struggle, mainly because it so irritated the fundamentalists. I wanted gay people to get the right to marry, and then I wanted none of us to act on it. I wanted it to be ours to spit on. Instead, much to my disappointment, we seem to be all over it.
It may come to pass that while your fleet is roaming, or undertaking the objective you formed the fleet for, that you receive intel of a superior enemy fleet (in number or by composition) approaching your location at speed. As the FC you make the decision, based on your fleet composition, to flee rather than fight. However, your opposition chases you relentlessly, trying their very best to catch you. If in null sec and confident they lack the ability to bridge (jump or titan) ahead of you, then have interdictors drop bubbles on every gate your fleet passes through – this will slow the hunters down considerably. Trust me, once I was leading a ragtag fleet consisting of Navy hulls and we got chased around 30 jumps by a considerably more organised fleet. Using the bubble trick combined with killing their forward tackle helped us get away with minimal losses. If your enemy can use bridges to get ahead of you to try and box you in, you need to play smarter than simply running. Only align yourself, have your fleet approach you as you do so, then warp as soon as you can; never call an align openly (walls have ears!). Utilise tools like dotlan effectively and whenever possible minimise who engages whom. Have frigates focus down interdictors or tackle, while cruisers hit that lone heavy interdictor that is trying to block your way out. Eventually you will get away from a group that is trying to pen you in while they will be spread over multiple systems, considerably thinning their firepower vis a vis your own. When making a strategic withdrawal, you will at some point decide to stand and fight. Your rear scouts could for instance report that the opposition has thinned out, maybe the battleships they have are lagging behind, or their capital support has gone. Form up on a ground of your choosing and let them come in, then following my guide to what to target and when , start the fight. Stay focused, keep your troops on target and you may well emerge victorious. Do not be afraid to engage and focus on smaller, flimsier targets, then withdraw again. In this manner you can keep up a running engagement across many systems until the enemy gives up or overwhelms you.
Moreover, that he was never commended by any man, as either a learned acute man, or an obsequious officious man, or a fine orator; but as a ripe mature man, a perfect sound man; one that could not endure to be flattered; able to govern both himself and others. Moreover, how much he did honour all true philosophers, without upbraiding those that were not so; his sociableness, his gracious and delightful conversation, but never unto satiety; his care of his body within bounds and measure, not as one that desired to live long, or over-studious of neatness, and elegancy; and yet not as one that did not regard it: so that through his own care and providence, he seldom needed any inward physic, or outward applications: but especially how ingeniously he would yield to any that had obtained any peculiar faculty, as either eloquence, or the knowledge of the laws, or of ancient customs, or the like; and how he concurred with them, in his best care and endeavour that every one of them might in his kind, for that wherein he excelled, be regarded and esteemed: and although he did all things carefully after the ancient customs of his forefathers, yet even of this was he not desirous that men should take notice, that he did imitate ancient customs. Again, how he was not easily moved and tossed up and down, but loved to be constant, both in the same places and businesses; and how after his great fits of headache he would return fresh and vigorous to his wonted affairs. Again, that secrets he neither had many, nor often, and such only as concerned public matters: his discretion and moderation, in exhibiting of the public sights and shows for the pleasure and pastime of the people: in public buildings. congiaries, and the like. In all these things, having a respect unto men only as men, and to the equity of the things themselves, and not unto the glory that might follow. Never wont to use the baths at unseasonable hours; no builder; never curious, or solicitous, either about his meat, or about the workmanship, or colour of his clothes, or about anything that belonged to external beauty.
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Get out while you still have time to enjoy your life and spend time with your family. The current society and culture does not appreciate you. Run to urgent care. Take out a classified ad telling the world that you are shutting down. If the medical board does not like the way you did it, get your 15 minutes of fame and tell them why....Gabrielle, good to see you back, but sorry under such circumstances.I know exactly where you are. There are many of us in the same place. You are one of the braver ones, willing to get out with your sanity intact.Think about teaching, either at a college level or at a residency program. You may find some joy in that (albeit with a different set of problems) and you may be able to do some private practice on your own terms on the side.Whatever you do, good luck and know that you have our support.Very sad but the reality is that many physicians feel exactly this way. There is no end in site for us other than to unify and quit playing the game as it is currently. Until enough physicians figure out that we have all the power as we deliver the service, we will be stuck on this merry go round and continue to wallow in our own self pity.I completely understand your frustration, I have felt this process progressing over the past ten plus years and now we are being attacked on all sides. It is difficult to find a quick answer to what to transition towards, changing specialties might do something but still SOS in the end, teaching is OK if you have a propensity for it, slaving one self out if another as long as the terms of employment are strickly defined, finding a business to get involved in is another possibility. Just take the time to research your choices well, don't worry about the money- in the end that will work it's self out. best of luckI feel exactly as you do and am in a similar situation. I'm in my 50s now, and just finishing paying off my own school debt as my daughter gets ready for college. Being a salaried physician has helped keep me sane. I don't have anywhere near the headaches of someone who owns their own practice.
Rhonda Dormeus said she was on a Facebook call Monday with her daughter, Korryn Gaines, 23, as Gaines sat with her 5-year-old son on the floor of her Randallstown... "Well, I can hear how upset you are about that. And I am so sorry that you —" the negotiator began, before Gaines interrupted. She sounded like she was crying. She said she was not a criminal. "I believe that you're not looking to hurt anybody," Greenbeck said. "And I don't need anybody here to hurt me, either," Gaines said. Police, she said, could never convince her that "50 guns surrounding my home" were necessary. Gaines also told the negotiator about Courtney spending time in prison in the past — he has a criminal record in Baltimore, including for attempted murder — and its effect on the family. "Those are moments that you can never get back," she said. In documents, police say Gaines repeatedly hung up on Greenbeck during their conversations. Gordon, the Gaines' family attorney, described the footage as "chilling." "What I saw is a very frightened person, a person who's filled with anxiety and a lot of distrust," he said. "At the end of the day, she just wanted to feel safe." Negotiation breakdown Throughout the day, police were gathering information from Gaines' family. Courtney told them that she had mental health issues and had been off her medication. At one point, they learned that Kodi's father was a former county police officer. They considered having him contact her, but learned they were no longer close. Gaines' father recorded a message that police planned to play for her over the phone, but Gaines never got it. Police wrote in documents detailing the incident that negotiations broke down before they could deliver the message. It's unclear what the message said. Police said they wanted to avoid talking about the March traffic stop, believing it was "one of her triggers" to becoming emotional. About 2 p.m., police asked Facebook to shut down Gaines' account but didn't immediately hear back. They also asked the company to shut down her Instagram account. Police officers consulted with a psychologist about their decision to make the request, according to their notes. "We've never done it before," an officer said on the radio.
The blunt question that community gatekeepers should ask clients or friends who seem troubled: Is there a gun in your home? Community “Gatekeepers” Psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers have begun trainings on how to talk with suicidal patients and their families about reducing access to firearms at home. Unfortunately, people contemplating gun suicide are not always in treatment and often don’t display clues in advance–not even to themselves. According to Catherine Barber, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center’s Means Matter campaign, “They may think: ‘It’s not my assessment of the world that’s the problem, it’s the world. I’m headed back to jail, my girlfriend’s broken up with me, I’ve got no hope for the future.’” Even when deep despair prompts people to seek help, theirclinicians often fail to ask about guns or feel uncomfortable broaching the topic, in part because they lack suicide prevention training. All of which suggests that informal contacts, outside the familiar channels of mental health care, may serve as a stronger safety net. In public health lingo, these potentially lifesaving friends and colleagues are known as “gatekeepers.” They include teachers, school psychologists, truant officers, sports coaches, pediatricians, emergency department doctors, defense attorneys, court-mandated batterers’ counselors, social workers, rehab clinicians, employee-assistance staff, divorce attorneys, marriage counselors, and clergy. According to Barber, “It’s those people who need to get the message, because that’s where suicidal people intersect with the system.” The blunt question these gatekeepers should ask clients or friends who seem troubled: “Is there a gun in your home?” Barber believes that most efforts to keep a firearm away from a suicidal person should be based on conversation, not confiscation. Though some situations–such as with delusional individuals–may be too dangerous to allow guns to remain nearby, in most cases an engaged and respectful approach is more effective. “You want to bring about safety through conversation,” she says. “Very rarely do you want to take control away from a person at risk of suicide.”
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Avoiding The Eye - Ships Free Today! This is just like the 9/11 issue in that most people can agree on the existence of these camps and programs like the civilian inmate labor program. This is because these claims can be backed by irrefutable government documents. However, when we move into the realm of conjecture, division and argument, we lose any and all effectiveness in spreading a message. I can present irrefutable evidence of Fusion Centers and FEMA detention centers to anyone who cares to look; however, I cannot say with any amount of certainty when or how exactly they will be used. Just like 9/11, I cannot say with 100% certainty I know exactly what happened that day and who is behind it. Therefore, I will listen to anyone and everyone, giving all who care to voice their opinion equal credence. I will not, however, stand for people who sit around pointing fingers at every other person in the truth movement because they do not agree with them. Why is it necessary to agree upon these small facts when most people do not even know what a Fusion Center is or that the federal government engages in massive domestic surveillance operations? The people who I think are actual counterintelligence are those who rabidly decry anyone who disagrees with them on these types of points. I do not have to name specific people, as I’m sure my readers know these types of personalities when they crop up. When someone calls into their show challenging their beliefs they scream, threaten and insult. How do you think that makes every other person who might agree with the caller feel? It isn’t farfetched to see that these tactics divide and isolate people who otherwise could unite under a common set of goals. I think that the truth movement is in desperate need of a unifying element, a cohesive issue on which we can all agree and actively campaign for. This could be the illegal and inhumane wars in the Middle East, it could be the manipulation of the markets by Wall Street, it could be the private Federal Reserve’s deliberate devaluation of the dollar and their corrupt loaning practices, or any number of issues. We must all accept that we will not agree, and get over it. If someone disagrees with your belief that the ills of the world are due to the Freemasons, so be it.
[ Indistinct conversations ] All right, parents and students,please take your seats. Okay, okay. Now, as you know, there was an incidentat the school last week involving a studentreferring to rape as a "hot Cosby." M'kay? [ Snickering ] Listen, listen! Principal Victoriahas been fired. -Whoa.-What? -Fired? Really?-Sweet, dude! And a new personhas been appointed to try and makeSouth Park Elementary a more progressive placethat fits in with today's times. M'kay? So, please welcomeP.C. Principal. All right, listen up.My name is P.C. Principal. I don't know about you,but frankly, I'm sick and tired of how minority groups aremarginalized in today's society. I'm here because this placeis lost in a time warp! Students who still usethe word "retarded," a teacher who saidwomen without wombs should get an AIDS test. Oh, I was a lesbian then. A chef person of color who the childrenhad sing soul songs, and who the children droveto kill himself. No, he got brainwashedby a cult. And that's two days detentionfor you, young man. -We'll see you at 4:00.-What? Let me ask you this.We're in Colorado, right? Where are the Hispanic kids?Huh? Where are the ethnicand racial minorities? Well, we have Token.He's black. And that's two days detentionfor you, Mackey. Congratulations. Wha-- I got detention? I Googled South Parkbefore I came here, and I could not believe the shityou are getting away with. People claiming to be advocatesof transgender rights, but really just wanting to usethe women's bathroom. A white manwho thinks he's Chinese, and built a wallto keep out Mongolians. Ooh, I hate-a Mongolians! What the [bleep] is this?Are you [bleep] kidding me? I'm telling you all,this is done. Like it or not, P.C. is back,and it's bigger than ever. Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!You hear that? That's the sound of 2015pulling you over, people. Suck it.
As a sophomore in 2015, he ranked first in the NCAA with a 38.3-yard kickoff return average and was named a First Team All-American by Walter Camp, Sporting News and Sports Illustrated. For his career, Berry has returned 49 kicks for 1,677 yards, a UT-record 34.2-yard average and four touchdowns. His 34.2-yard career kickoff return average is the best mark of any current player in the NCAA, regardless of division. Berry is also likely to break Tennessee's all-time record for kickoff return yards this year as he enters the season just 177 yards shy of Willie Gault's program record of 1,854.On top of his Preseason All-SEC accolades, Daniel is also on the preseason watch list for the 2017 Ray Guy Award, awarded annually to the nation's top punter. In 2016, Daniel posted a 44.6-yard average with 28 of his 70 punts inside the 20, 29 fair catches and 21 punts of 50 or more yards. His 44.6-yard average ranked third among SEC punters and his 70-yard punt against South Carolina was the longest in the SEC in 2016. Daniel was a candidate for the Ray Guy Award in both 2015 and 2016. Daniel's 45.1-yard career punting average ranks fourth among active NCAA punters, regardless of division.The Big Orange begin the 2017 season in less than two weeks with a showdown against ACC foe Georgia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game on Labor Day (Sept. 4) at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The game will feature an 8 p.m. ET broadcast on ESPN.The Vols' home opener is slated for Sept. 9 against Indiana State, with kickoff set for 4 p.m. Tickets for that contest are still available. Fans can purchase tickets on AllVols.com or by calling or visiting the Thompson-Boling Arena box office (1-800-332-VOLS).
Run around a spaceship delivering pods to one of three locations depending on whether they're alive, dead, or zombies. Zombies eventually break out and try to kill you. The same resource is used for combat and preservation of pods, making them gradually transform from shields to liabilities. Currently the game's unbalanced because of the gigantic maps and widely-varying distances between drop-off points. With a more consistent challenge, some more varied enemies, and perhaps an active role for rescuees, this could become an excellent coffeebreak roguelike.
Investors should also be wary of Research in Motion ( RIMM News ), which is often mentioned in the same breath as Nokia. Research in Motion, which has a new upgrade of its flagship BlackBerry operating system on the way, remains a favorite of enterprise customers, due to its more robust security protocols in comparison to Android or iOS. Several analysts believe RIM could stage a dramatic, unforeseen turnaround in 2013 with the January release of BlackBerry 10. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft employee, managed to slow Nokia's rapid descent by simply admitting that the company had to change. The Finnish company's first non-Finnish CEO's first moves - to abandon Symbian and partner with his former employer Microsoft - were all initially met with widespread criticism and derision. Yet as a result Nokia has emerged leaner and more cost effective, and its shareholders have been rewarded with a small vestige of hope that didn't exist before. Although some financial journalists and some analysts have speculated that Nokia may sell its mobile handset division to Huawei, Microsoft or Google ( GOOG News ), Nokia management has denied all these rumors, and adamantly stated that it plans to stay active in the mobile business throughout 2013. No one is expecting Nokia to stage an immediate recovery in 2013, but a low price-to-sales ratio of 0.3 and a strong dividend yield of 6% should tempt patient value investors. In addition, the company still owns strong core assets, such as its mapping business and patent portfolio. Nokia's stock price cannot be reliably measured with price-to-earnings, since the company posted six consecutive quarters of losses, but it trades at 0.98 times book value, which means that further downside is extremely limited unless its cash flow completely dries up. Windows Phone Store Doubled in Size During 2012 Despite trailing Apple and Google, Windows Phone Store doubles in size. Will Nokia Corporation Leave Mobile Industry In 2013? Rumors circulate regarding Nokia's future in the mobile industry. Apple Wins Top Score for App Store Apple's App Store remains the top choice for smartphone users. Starbucks Announces Much Anticipated Entry into the Dynamic Vietnam Market Starbucks expands into Vietnam.
The reason the government didn’t make Phenethylamine a controlled substance is because you’re technically always in “possesion” of it as your brain is produced, and there was no loophole in the controlled substance act that would allow it to be listed as a scheduled substance. Methamphetamine is just as safe as Phenethylamine, but it is MUCH easier to overdose on it. It would be much cheaper and more efficient to use methamphetamine over Phenethylamine because all of the methamphetamine you take will be able to break the blood-brain barrier.
The mid game saw the two players fighting over board control before Realz finally gained a board advantage on turn 10. In a moment of greed, Kisstafer decided toRealz instead of thefinishing it off with the. This left 2s on Realz side of the board and with a couple of quick hits from the totems, a couple more from abuffed, Realz deals 24 damage to finish off game 2.This Priest deck is a mix of mid range creatures and late game power. It uses the early game removal spells available to Priest to try to get the player into the mid game without being behind where minions likeandgains the board control back. Rounding out the deck is aandfor some super late game power.Realz races away to an early lead withdrawing him a card and forcing Kisstafer to remove it with. Every Shaman's dream is to playfollowed by many spells that Overload to grow the Unbound to monstrous proportions and with Kisstafer using the, he had no way of dealing with Realz's. From there it quickly snowballed away as Realz continued to deal damage to Kisstafer and dealt with Kisstafer's attempt to gain any semblance of board presence with ease. 3-0.For his final deck, Kisstafer uses a control warrior deck full of early game removal. The deck has good utility cards such asandto either finish off minions, set upkills or draw cards off. For much of the game, the Warrior will sit back and attempt to keep the board clear until the late game where his array of late game threats come out and deal the finishing blows.As expected of the decks, most of the early and mid game saw a lot of removal cards from both sides and a lack of minions staying on the board. The game heats up when Realz, looking a little worse for wear, finally places a threatening board that Kisstafer did not have an efficient way to remove. In a choice between using Alextrasza to bring Realz down to 15 and, Kisstafer chose the latter and cleared the threats off Realz's board. In a bold play, Realz used the last charge of histo take out an enraged- taking 10 damage int he process - instead of using.
EU monitors have not been allowed into S Ossetia to verify reports Russia says EU monitors have helped stabilise the situation in Georgia since last year's war, but has rejected any similar role for the US. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the peace plan brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy "continues to be a most serious stabilising factor". He accused Georgia of trying to "drag the Americans into Georgia" and put them up against the Russian military. Russian troops ousted Georgian forces from South Ossetia nearly a year ago. Mr Sarkozy, acting on behalf of the EU, brokered a ceasefire after five days of fighting in and around the breakaway territory, where separatists are backed by Russian troops. Russia has beefed up its military presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia - another breakaway region in Georgia - and has recognised both territories as independent. Click here for a map of the region The Georgia-South Ossetia boundary remains tense, with both sides accusing each other of cross-border shooting. Russia has heightened its forces' state of alert in South Ossetia. The Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister, Giga Bokeria, said Russia was escalating the situation by its actions and rhetoric. Russia criticises Biden The 225 EU monitors are spending more time keeping watch along the boundary, but so far have been unable to find evidence for any of the claims of violations, the BBC's Tom Esslemont reports. Speaking in a Russian television interview on Wednesday, Mr Lavrov said the Georgia conflict had had "no effect whatsoever" on the decisions reached during US President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow last month. He said the position of Russia's Western partners towards Georgia had changed and "there are no longer emotional outbursts, they are just going through the motions, I would say". But he criticised a recent interview that US Vice President Joe Biden gave to the Wall Street Journal, in which he described Russia as a weakened nation because of the economic crisis. Mr Lavrov said that was "reminiscent of speeches by leading officials in the George Bush administration". Mr Biden voiced support for Georgia on a recent visit to Tbilisi, but he resisted Georgian pressure to send US monitors to the region. The EU has urged Russia and Georgia to show restraint as the anniversary of the war, on 7 August, approaches. The EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) is the only organisation now monitoring the boundary line.
PARAMOUNT, Calif. (KABC) -- A Long Beach family described a horrifying ordeal at a KFC restaurant in Paramount where a man stole food off their table and then tried to snatch their 7-year-old girl.The incident happened on Tuesday around 3:40 p.m. at the restaurant near Alondra and Paramount boulevards. Authorities received a call regarding a man who was arguing with customers.But when they arrived, they learned the suspect had tried to kidnap a little girl from her family. "All of the sudden he lunged, he lunged forward and grabbed Gigi's other arm and pulled her. I pulled her and he pulled her and Heather started screaming, 'Don't take my babies! You don't touch my babies,'" grandmother Deborah Marlow said.Another customer grabbed the man. The women and two kids fled to the kitchen and said when they saw the man begin to hop on the counter, they looked for a way to get the children out. "My mom made the suggestion that there is a woman outside and hand them your kids," mother Heather Graesch said.So that is what they did. They passed the 7-year-old girl and 3-year-old girl out the drive-thru window to a woman, who put them in her car and drove to the front where Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrived in force.The sheriff's department said it took several deputies, with the help of customers and employees as well as the use of a Taser, to subdue the suspect.The girl suffered only bruises in the encounter, and much of that came from her scared and protective grandmother.The family said they weren't happy with the help they received from the employees at the KFC. According to a press release from the sheriff's department, a 45-year-old employee was another person who came in between the suspect and family.The restaurant released a statement in response. "The restaurant employees immediately called local law enforcement, and the alleged perpetrator was restrained until he was arrested. We are cooperating fully with local law enforcement on this investigation," it said.The suspect was identified as 35-year-old Lorenzo Ray Traylor, who is a transient in the area. He was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, battery on a peace officer and burglary.The investigation was ongoing.Anyone with more information about the incident was asked to call the L.A. County Sheriff's Department Lakewood Station Detective Harris at (562) 623-3500. Those wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477. null
The USTreasury Bond market is held together by QE brute force (almost no valid buyers) and the Interest Rate Swap derivative (to create phony bond demand). The evidence of broken market is the Failures to Deliver in USTBonds. The financial press prefers to mention it like part of a rabid demand for the USGovt debt securities (of Third World type), a certain contradiction. The reality is that Interest Rate Swap devices create artificial demand for USTBonds, which the big US banks scurry to meet in forced purchases, thus the observed Failures to Deliver. The only problem is that not bond supply enough exist, floating about in the traded open market. So a shortage is exposed, an embarrassment to the informed who observe the IRSwap machinery. Fortunately for the USDept Treasury crime bosses, the majority of financial professionals, fund managers, and bank analysts are morons to the derivative world. The big banks are nothing but tall hollow reeds which stand as banners to a past robustness that has long ago faded away. The natural consequence to outsourcing industry is for banks to lose equity. Nowadays, the big banks are derivative casinos. They are bond carry trade arenas. They are narco money laundering houses. They are hollow pillars of corruption. They are political control centers, along with some energy firms. ISOLATE THE WORLD A sick almost comedy is in progress. The USGovt plans to impose sanctions on any nation which intends to diversify away from USTreasury Bonds, or which intends to work toward a non-USD alternative, or which actively strives to install the Gold Standard, or which stands in the way of putting a ring fence around Russia (despite its 12 time zones, and dominant commodity supply chain). Any and every USGovt sanction initiative has backfired, blowing a hole in the chest of Uncle Sam, even blowing off his testicalia. The new Reformed Rubin Doctrine should read: if it does not work, double the volume. The original Rubin Doctrine still reads: wreck the future to win another year of status quo. No sanctions have succeeded as intended by design. All have resulted in the United States being painted as a nasty partner, identified as a warmonger, exposed for deep criminality, and seen as a fascist operator. The USGovt will succeed with a series of new sanctions in isolating the majority of world nations. In doing so, it will isolate itself.
It might not be as tall as the other peaks we crossed in Ladakh, but not lying in the rainshadow region, it is exposed to unpredictable snowstorms and blizzards.We didn’t take too long to sleep that night, all but Rajesh skipping even dinner which had come rather dearly.After a rather too adventurous night we started our journey for Delhi fairly early. By now most of us had gotten worn out and some had to report to office, so we skipped the stay at Manali. With any luck, we should be able to cover the ~590 km (Marhi-Manali-Delhi) by 10:00 pm-3:00 am.The route would be much different than what we had encountered most of our route. Apart from the greenery that was introduced into the scene sometime before Keylong, we could also observe a surge in the traffic. Where we had been waving to almost every biker we met, the practice stopped as frequency of meeting local residents increased. We’d be seeing far more cities: Manali, Kullu, Mandi and Bilaspur, before we get to Chandigarh, post which the road is almost same as day 1 till that place.You couldn’t tell it was late afternoon because of the tall steep hills and the cooling water of the river along the road. The beauty of the scene simply overwhelms you. Normally in India one doesn’t think twice before throwing garbage right in the open, but to do it here feels like an outright heresy. Throughout that day I had been envious of the guys at IIT-Mandi.Beyond the natural charisma, there is also quite a lot of development visible in Himachal. There’s a bridge just before Kullu that, just like the one we saw after Jammu, made us feel like we’re in some developed country. Sometime before Mandi is when we came across the second tunnel of our journey. It was not ventillated like the Jawahar tunnel, and was much more winding, but a marvel nonetheless. Right at the tunnel's exit was a hydroelectric power station (which I can’t seem to find; someone who knows please point out).All the surroundings were fine, but we still had to reach Delhi. It was taking far longer than anticipated, particularly due to the winding roads. This should be ending sometime soon as we exit the hills and reach the plains, which, according to Rajesh, was supposed to happen sometime after Bilaspur. Unfortunately we didn’t get that privilege since apparently we took a wrong road.
As someone who never got into the books and the movie this is adapted from Ghost in the Shell (2017) is simply a game changer Anyone who loves Blade Runner go out of your way to see Ghost in the Shell If you have a home 3D set-up get the 3D version . In many ways it's actually better then Blade Runner visually it's one of the best films in the last 20 years the 3D is on the same league as Dredd 3D as a film it's a massive game changer (Much like The Matrix was) Hands down a close to perfect film that could easily be the sequel to the Original Blade Runner How it only hit number 3 speaks volumes to how bloody stupid the movie going public is in 2017 Even if you have no clue about the original source material you'll enjoy it if you love HQ Sci-fi I'm more impressed with this film overall then i was with Logan The Cast is almost perfect Scarlett Johansson i find super overrated in almost everything I've seen her in until now In this film she is fantastic and carries the film wonderfully as Major I'm pretty sure she watched BBC's/AMC's Humans and studied how those actors/actresses play Synths and tried to copy that interpretation of A.I./cyborgs I've seen some critics blast Johansson for her performance I just don't think those "so-called" Professional Critics understood what she was doing she really can act who knew!
"I know that the government is bloated and that there is an immense amount of waste or fat that can be trimmed. And it would be intellectually dishonest of me to not recognize that if my principles say that the government needs to be cut, then I have to accept that, even though it hurts me personally." Walking through the Shaw neighborhood in D.C., Maryak is approached by two homeless men. They turn out to be vets, and the three men get to talking. One of them mentions that a nearby church is organizing day work for veterans and other job opportunities. Maryak gives them each a cigarette and a few bucks. "I see guys like them and I realize my situation really isn't that bad … we're meeting people on the street who have so much worse," he said. "It makes it hard to bitch about my situation." So Maryak is doing what he can. He keeps applying for deployments and he says he has friends in the service that are looking out for opportunities for him. He's eliminating as many expenses as he realistically can. His father, Joe, shares his anti-spending politics, but finds the situation a bit more directly infuriating on his son's behalf. "It's just not fair," the elder Maryak said. "They came up with this sequester idea because they don't want to act; the American people are getting hurt." And the cuts hit his son without warning. "At least give Jeff some kind of time frame," he said.
24 1 In view of these things Marius was summoned to Rome. When he had arrived there, it was the general expectation that he would celebrate the triumph which the senate had readily voted him. But he refused to do so, either because he did not wish to deprive his soldiers and comrades-in‑arms of their due honours, or because he would encourage the multitude in view of the present crisis by entrusting the glory of his first success to the fortune of the state, in the hope that it would be returned to him enhanced by a second. 2 Having said what was suitable to the occasion, he set out to join Catulus, whom he tried to encourage, while at the same time he summoned his own soldiers from Gaul. When these had come, he crossed the Po and tried to keep the Barbarians out of the part of Italy lying this side of the river. But the Barbarians declined battle, alleging that they were waiting for p529 their brethren the Teutones and wondered why they were so long in coming; this was either because they were really ignorant of their destruction, or because they wished to have the appearance of disbelieving it. 3 For they terribly mishandled those who brought tidings of it, and sent to Marius demanding territory for themselves and their brethren and enough cities for them to dwell in. When Marius asked their ambassadors whom they meant by their brethren, they said they meant the Teutones. At this, all the other Romans who heard them burst out laughing, and Marius scoffingly said: "Then don't trouble yourself about your brethren, for they have land, and they will have it forever — land which we have given them." 4 The ambassadors understood his sarcasm and fell to abusing him, declaring that he should be punished for it, by the Cimbri at once, and by the Teutones when they came. "Verily," said Marius, "they are here, and it will not be right for you to go away before you have embraced your brethren." Saying this, he ordered the kings of the Teutones to be produced in fetters; for they had been captured among the Alps, where they were fugitives, by the Sequani.
Photo: Paul O\'Driscoll / BLOOMBERG NEWS Image 1 of / 26 Caption Close Image 2 of 26 <p><b>No. 3 Sinopec Group (China)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $457 billion</p> Profits: $8.9 billion <p><b>No. 3 Sinopec Group (China)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $457 billion</p> Profits: $8.9 billion Photo: PAUL HILTON Image 3 of 26 <p><b>No. 4 China National Petroleum (China)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $437 billion</p> Profits: $18.5 billion <p><b>No. 4 China National Petroleum (China)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $437 billion</p> Profits: $18.5 billion Photo: ERIC PIERMONT / AFP/Getty Images Image 4 of 26 <p><b>No. 5 Exxon Mobil</p></b> <p>Revenue: $407 billion</p> Profits: $32.5 billion <p><b>No. 5 Exxon Mobil</p></b> <p>Revenue: $407 billion</p> Profits: $32.5 billion Photo: Gene J. Puskar / Associated Press Image 5 of 26 <p><b>No. 6 BP (U.K.)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $396 billion</p> Profits: $23.4 billion <p><b>No. 6 BP (U.K.)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $396 billion</p> Profits: $23.4 billion Photo: Charles Dharapak / Associated Press Image 6 of 26 <p><b>No. 11 Total (France)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $227 billion</p> Profits: $11.2 billion <p><b>No. 11 Total (France)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $227 billion</p> Profits: $11.2 billion Photo: Balint Porneczi / Bloomberg Image 7 of 26 <p><b>No. 12 Chevron</p></b> <p>Revenue: $220 billion</p> Profits: $21.4 billion <p><b>No. 12 Chevron</p></b> <p>Revenue: $220 billion</p> Profits: $21.4 billion Photo: David Paul Morris / Bloomberg Image 8 of 26 <p><b>No. 17 Gazprom (Russia)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $165 billion</p> Profits: $35.7 billion <p><b>No. 17 Gazprom (Russia)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $165 billion</p> Profits: $35.7 billion Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko / Associated Press Image 9 of 26 <p><b>No. 19 Phillips 66</p></b> <p>Revenue: $161 billion</p> Profits: $3.7 billion <p><b>No. 19 Phillips 66</p></b> <p>Revenue: $161 billion</p> Profits: $3.7 billion Photo: Lisa Poole / Associated Press Image 10 of 26 <p><b>No. 22 Eni (Italy)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $154 billion</p> Profits: $6.8 billion <p><b>No. 22 Eni (Italy)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $154 billion</p> Profits: $6.8 billion Photo: Katherine Feser / Houston Chronicle Image 11 of 26 <p><b>No. 28 Petrobras (Brazil)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $141 billion</p> Profits: $11.0 billion <p><b>No. 28 Petrobras (Brazil)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $141 billion</p> Profits: $11.0 billion Photo: VANDERLEI ALMEIDA / AFP/Getty Images Image 12 of 26 <p><b>No. 30 Valero Energy</p></b> <p>Revenue: $137 billion</p> Profits: $2.7 billion <p><b>No. 30 Valero Energy</p></b> <p>Revenue: $137 billion</p> Profits: $2.7 billion Photo: David Paul Morris / Bloomberg Image 13 of 26 <p><b>No. 36 Pemex (Mexico)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $125 billion</p> Profits: -$13.3 billion <p><b>No. 36 Pemex (Mexico)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $125 billion</p> Profits: -$13.3 billion Photo: Susana Gonzalez / Bloomberg Image 14 of 26 <p><b>No. 43 Lukoil (Russia)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $119 billion</p> Profits: $7.8 billion <p><b>No. 43 Lukoil (Russia)</p></b> <p>Revenue: $119 billion</p> Profits: $7.8 billion Photo: ALEXEI DRUZHININ / New York Times Image 15 of 26 <p><b>No.
That's the attraction, I think, of, you know, protectionist trade legislation; it's the attraction of requiring, you know, car fuel economy. It's the attraction of all kinds of things. And you just sort of tell people what they ought to do. And, when you do that you are then in this world where you are interfering in the production side of things for distribution-type reasons. And without really taking costs and benefits into account. And it's--in some cases it works out okay. But it's a constant danger to keep an eye on. Russ: Yeah. And the other part of it, of course, is it's fairly politically dangerous to take money away from people, compared to, say, giving money to people, as a way to earn support. So if you wanted to institute an anti-poverty program at the scope that the Earned Income Tax Credit might lead to, you'd say, 'Well, here's how I'm going to fix that. I'm going to make Social Security means-tested'--which I personally believe it should be. I think it's absurd that we give rich people the benefits that--and then there's redistribution built into Social Security--put that to the side--I don't think it's strange that rich people have lots of savings and get paid substantial amounts by the government. And people will say, 'But they earned it. They put their money in'--well, that's kind of a sham and a hoax. [?] Guest: [?] Russ: Yeah. [?] I think most of us who are blessed and fortunate enough to be financially successful would be very happy to give up some of our Social Security benefits that we have been "promised". They've already gone out the door, our money--it went out to pay for all kinds of things, not Social Security, but that was put in a lockbox--sorry. And so, I think that would be a good thing. But politically, that's not a good thing. I think politicians would be very vulnerable to the charge that they don't care about old people, if they cut Social Security benefits in any way, even if it was just for the rich. Now that may change. I think when budgets and demographics are such that will be the first thing that gets cut. But I think one of the reasons that the status quo is so powerful is for that reason. And it's very hard to innovate and use money for new things at the government level. Guest: Yeah.
In the film the maze appears in four sequences: when Wendy and Danny run inside it to play; when Jack looks at the model of the maze in the Colorado Lounge; when again mother and child are shown walking among its paths; and when Mr Torrance follows his son with an axe to kill him. During the first, the third and the fourth sequence mentioned above, guessing where the protagonists are inside the labyrinth and following their movements become impossible for the montage, the characters’ movements and the use of the Steadicam. Indeed often between the shots there seems to be no continuity. The characters move quickly and quickly change direction. The use of the Steadicam allows the spectators to follow and repeat all the characters’ movements at their height thus forbidding a wider view of the maze and of the characters’ position inside it, and, what’s more, when the characters enter in another path, the Steadicam follows their circular movement to reach the new path without any cut. Therefore the strict geometry of the maze becomes confused and incomprehensible. In the second sequence mentioned above, when Jack looks at the model of the Maze, the last two shots are: a plain américain of Jack who looks down at the model of the maze; and a medium shot of Jack whose gaze hasn’t changed direction and therefore should be staring again at the model. The first shot of the next sequence is an extreme long shot of the maze and the camera tilts down on Wendy and Danny who have reached the middle of the maze. Uncertain is the relationship between the last shot of the former sequence, in which Jack stares at the model of the maze, and the first shot of the latter one, in which Wendy and Danny walk in the maze. If the spectators believe in the supernatural powers of Mr Torrance they could interpret the latter shot as a point of view shot, otherwise they could read it as a false point of view shot. In any case this choice left to the audience increases, once more, in the order of the montage, of the construction of the plot, the disorder of two different choices and renders the known, familiar laws of the montage, unfamiliar and thus uncanny.
Thanks for the compliment on Spectator Mode. The team worked for a long time to deliver that awesome feature for you guys - and it was not easy to scale that to support such a large number of viewers in all of our global environments.Evelynn unfortunately suffers from our "stealth remake" problem, where we are committed to figuring out a great solution to make her and Twitch viable. Our current solutions haven't worked in internal testing, but we'll keep on iterating until we get it right.Riot needs to work on LOTS of things - and in fact, we do a huge amount of work in parallel. We are constantly working on great content such as awesome champions or events for you guys, as well as lots of features and behind the scenes work such as scaling our "backend" technology and improving the tools of our developers so we can deliver more awesome even faster for you all.I play a ton of ranked and currently sit around 1600 - I think that often times people can get some rough streaks and bad luck, but over time, the best players always rise above the fray.Any updates in "Achievements" and Summoner Icons? Thanks for the AMA.We really want to do both of these, but we wanted to focus on things that you guys wanted even more - like Spectator Mode. And thanks for being here for the AMA!As a mac user, I've got to ask: does Riot plan to provide support for a mac client in the near future? Or, possibly make Boompje's iLoL client officially supported?We know this is a pain point for all of our mac users. Our original mac beta we had, simply didn't cut it. We've said in the past that we remain committed to the Mac - and we still are - and we think what Boompje and his team are awesome.Look forward to talking more with you guys about this "soon(tm)".What kind of (potential) plans/partnership does Riot plan to have with the Reddit community in the future?We're big fans of Reddit and want to figure out other great ways to interact with the community. Let us know if you have cool ideas!What is your favorite months-in-development feature released in the last week?Hahayou, or does Riot, plan to develop any other game beside LoL? Or will you stick to LoL and Riot will cease to exist once this game is gone?
NYC District Attorney databases on case histories Information about participants' interaction with law enforcement agencies as either victims or potential culprits Open in a separate window Timeline In order to provide longitudinal data that maximize the power of the study, it is essential that any such project has a relatively long time horizon. At a minimum, a five-year horizon would allow one to begin to realize the potential of such an undertaking. But in keeping with the goal of building a truly revolutionary resource, we believe that a 20-year study duration would be required to capture the long-term impact of environmental features like education, chemical exposure, and the human lifecycle. Sample group Many recent large-scale studies have focused on gathering data from “samples of opportunity,” groups of participants selected because they have a particular disease (or set of diseases) or are members of a particular social group. Far more powerful would be the generation of a statistically representative sample that allowed the study to capture data about our society rather than about a subgroup. While building a representative cohort is more complicated and more expensive, we believe that it would be essential if the undertaking were to achieve its potential. The minimum size for such a study would be approximately 10,000 individuals from approximately 2,500 family units. We believe that this represents a reasonable compromise between the desire for a large sample for reasons of statistical and social power and the high costs of subject recruitment, retention, and bio-behavioral measurement. Sample quality and volume The study would have to ensure the highest attainable sample quality and volume by employing several key measures. The corner stone of the data strategy would have to be to recruit a sufficiently large and representative sample of subjects. To do that, the study could begin by focusing on a single urban area where data of particularly high quality are already available at low cost. We believe that an ideal initial venue would be a cross-sectional, demographically representative assessment of residents of the city of New York. (Although data of sufficient quality should soon be available in several other urban centers in the United States.) It is worth noting that many large-scale U.S. studies fail over this issue. In addition, one needs to approach data quality with close consideration of the specifics of each information domain.
Jason and I met in 2007, at an audition for a tragedy. I was 22 and wanted the role of Medea. He was 18 and didn’t know what the play was about. We were paired as scene partners, and although I remember hardly anything of our actual audition in front of the director, I remember the rest of the night in acute detail: what his mouth looked like blowing Marlboro smoke in the cold when we stood outside the theater, the texture of his suede coat, the snowball fight we had in the parking lot, my wet socks when I removed my boots at his apartment, drinking a pitcher of Kool-Aid he made, and making out on the couch while the Oscars played on the TV and we pretended to watch. The Departed won that year. I drove myself home in the middle of the night, and in the morning there was a voicemail from Jason: “Leigh, I don’t actually hate spending time with you. We should go out sometime. OK, bye.” Neither of us got cast in Medea, but it didn’t matter — we kept seeing each other. I was anxious, bookish, living back at home with my parents in the Chicago suburbs for the third time, after my life in New York had collapsed and my sublet in Chicago had run out. Jason was the magician, the vision of what my dull, directionless life could become. He was tall, an All-State athlete, with golden skin and pale green eyes. He’d grown up in the South and said “pin” for “pen” and called me "darlin," without the "g." Even in retrospect, I don’t think I can overemphasize Jason’s charisma; he literally turned heads when we went out together. Strangers would stop us on the street to ask what movie they recognized him from. And he had his own one-bedroom apartment near the community college he attended, which meant I went from early evenings with Mom and Dad in front of the TV to late nights driving around the suburbs with Jason, getting drunk and high, talking in his bed until dawn, feeling like my real life had finally started. As much as I felt Jason was saving me, I also wanted to save him: He was troubled, neglected, and volatile. A child of divorce, he’d grown up getting shuffled around the South for his stepdad’s career and spending summers with his dad in Illinois.
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'There is something going on here and it's not physical. There is something going on that I can dominate eight minutes of a fight, seven minutes of a fight, nine minutes of a fight and find a way out time after time after time in the same round with the same move.' So, I went and got help. I went and got professional help and I sought out a doctor, Ed Versteeg. I hate talking about this because this was a real secret. This was a real turning point for me was when I went in, worked on sports psychology and got hypnotized. I was never the same. I was never the same in practice, my attitude was different. Controlling my diet, being discipline, falling asleep, the way I approached battle, the way I approached the second round. Everything changed, and it changed to the point where, I hate to say what I just said and now it's too late because I felt like it was my secret. I discovered something and I don't want other people to know. I will write about it someday in a book, I will talk about it you know, when I'm retired , but I'm not going to tell anybody because it's competitive edge. So when I started seeing a sports psychologist and I finally came clean, it's like being an alcoholic, before you can get help, you have to admit you have a problem. When I finally admitted I got a problem, when I finally said, it, when I finally could acknowledge it and look somebody in the eye and tell them this is what's going on, I'm finding a way to lose as opposed to win. I work harder than these guys. I been at this longer, I know how to stop submissions, I'm finding my way into them, I'm finding a way out and that's what's happening. I had to acknowledge that and once I did it, I never lost again. I lost to Paulo which was the controversial one and then I lost to Anderson after dominating him, I've never been beat since I saw this doctor."
In short, content from any supporting app can be found by Google.The feature is available now as an update to the Google app on Android. It is currently compatible with Gmail, Spotify and YouTube. Confirmed future additions include Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn, Evernote, Glide, Todoist and Google Keep, keeping you on top of conversations, business relationships and notes from a single unified search bar.Google has sought to avoid any privacy scares that In App searching could create. It said that all searching of personal data and installed apps occurs entirely on your phone. The feature does not send any of your data to Google's servers. This enables In App searching to work even when you're offline, allowing you to find personal results from apps wherever you are.Initial user comments on the feature are mixed. In comments on Google's blog post , users noted that it currently takes several taps to get to In App searching, reducing its usefulness. You need to open the Google app, start a search, tap "Search phone" and then swipe over to "In Apps" to see results. However, other people appear pleased with the addition, praising it as an easier way to find local content. Google hinted that In App searching could become more prominent in the future. It said that the upcoming LG V20 , the first smartphone to launch with Android 7.0 Nougat, will include a dedicated shortcut to In App searching on its home screen and Second Screen. That will certainly make the feature easier to access.Google suggested this shortcut will expand to other devices in the future, describing the V20 as "the first" phone to support it. It suggests the company will more tightly integrate searching for on-device content into a future version of the Google app, making it easier to find personal files instead of lists of web results.The feature should be available now, although it may take some time to rollout to all users. It seems to be another step in Google's commitment to making Android easier to navigate, begun with the integration of services such as Google Now and Android 7.0's new Google Assistant. More about Google, Google Search, google app, Apps, Mobile Google Google Search google app Apps Mobile Smartphones
On Friday, a UC spokeswoman told WLWT the officers will remain on paid administrative leave, until the internal investigation is complete.Previous: UC: 2 other officers in Sam DuBose case put on administrative leaveWhile the DuBose family declined an interview request from WLWT, the family's lawyer Mark O'Mara provided the following statement to WLWT, "While we are still concerned with the initial rendition of facts given by the officers who witnessed the shooting of Sam DuBose, we are grateful that the grand jury conducted a serious review, and we respect the decision they reached. ""There was, what appears, a very full and complete effort to look to see if there was some kind of a conspiracy at play here, and apparently the evidence didn't support it, and the grand jury came back with what they did," said Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune.He and Cincinnati City Coucilman Kevin Flynn said they respected the grand jury's decision and the prosecutor's handling of the case.After all, they said, the same system produced a murder indictment for Tensing and a strongly worded announcement of it by deters. "It seems inconsistent to say, 'Well it was that strong on the one hand and then weak on the other hand.' Doesn't make sense. It's not consistent," Flynn said.Aaron Roco, with Black Lives Matters, released the following statement to WLWT after the announcement, "We're extremely disappointed that the officers who colluded to cover up the murder of Samuel Dubose were not charged in this case, something we have specifically called for. We believe these police officers are receiving special protection from justice by the Hamilton County prosecutor. "The coroner released preliminary autopsy findings Friday and said DuBose died from a single gunshot wound to the head. The bullet entered the left temple and exited the right scalp, the coroner said.The bullet has not been recovered.Toxicology results on DuBose are still pending.Meanwhile, a grievance has been filed over Tensing’s firing.Related: Union files grievance over UC officer's firing after murder indictmentTensing's next court appearance is set for Aug. 19.The Dubose family has added to their legal team. They've hired attorney Michael Wright with the Cochran Firm OHIO. Wright also represents the family of John Crawford, III, who was shot by police inside a Beavercreek Walmart.
Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin. In that order.After Brexit and Donald Trump's "shock victory" in the US presidential elections, there are few who dare come with absolute predictions. Anything can happen in the three important elections that are now in store for Europe.It could be the first time that right-wing populist parties gain power in the heart of Europe. Currently, this type of parties have primarily gained power only in Europe's periphery.It is the Netherlands who is first out. In polls, Geert Wilders and his strongly immigration critical party PVV clearly has most support - in December, with a response rate of 35 percent, an entire 10 percentage points ahead of the VVD, the party of sitting Prime Minister Mark Rutte.Wilders has clear ambitions. The goal is to become prime minister and "drain the swamp," like Trump, after the "multicultural elites" who have ruled until now. The Dutch will be in charge of their own country again, money should no longer be given away to "Brussels and Africa," and there should be "an end to the tsunami of immigrants who do not belong here," says Wilders, who is chosen as the politician of the year in the Netherlands.That a court has recently found him guilty of racism of Moroccans, worries him very little.- The Dutch people will absolve me. We will win on March 15, said Wilders recently in an interview with the newspaper De Telegraaf.Like politicians of the far right in France and Germany, PVV has a sharp sting towards the EU. People want less integration, not more, and if politicians do not soon understand this, a Dutch withdrawal from the EU - a "Nexit" - only becomes more relevant, warns the party.The warning is equally clear from Marine Le Pen, leader of the party Front National, who now wants to become president of France.She gets a response rate of around 25 percent in the polls and is thus well ahead to advance from the first round of presidential elections in April to the second and decisive round in May.Le Pen's promise is a separate French referendum on withdrawal from the EU, Frexit.Last among the three countries is Germany, which holds elections to parliament in the autumn, in October.CDU, the Christian Conservative Party of Prime Minister Angela Merkel, mysteriously is still by far the largest with a response rate that fluctuates between 32 and 36 percent.
The Hasan Family Foundation paid McInnis $300,000 over two years to give talks on water issues and write original, monthly articles on the topic. The plagiarism detailed by Post reporter Karen E. Crummy is extensive. McInnis says he hired a consultant to serve as an expert for the writings. Yet the foundation hired McInnis as the expert, and McInnis' work never mentioned the help of anyone else. It was presented as his own. The written work he submitted to the foundation included numerous instances of passages that were copied, with few changes, from scholarly work originated by Gregory J. Hobbs, who is now a Colorado Supreme Court justice. The former congressman was paid handsomely for work that he said was "original and not reprinted from any other source." It was McInnis' obligation to ensure that was true. Unfortunately, this is not the first time we've had questions about McInnis' judgment. During his final term in Congress, he paid his wife $37,000 to be his campaign manager ‹ even though he already had decided he wasn't going to run for re-election. As we said in 2004, the arrangement "smacks of bad judgment." More recently, we were taken aback by McInnis' refusal to release tax forms, even though Colorado's gubernatorial candidates since 1998 routinely have done so. What is he hiding? McInnis' financial records are pertinent information. Detractors have characterized him as a "lawyer-lobbyist," and we think voters have a right to know how he has made his money. We've also been puzzled by McInnis' inability ‹ or refusal, it's difficult to know which ‹ to provide detail on his philanthropy even though he claims to have been generous to individuals down on their luck. The best specific example he could come up with was having given the meat of a dead elk to a family in need. Equally odd was his failure to recall being a member of an advisory board for a pro-choice GOP group. The plagiarism and other issues have cumulatively so damaged McInnis' credibility that we do not believe he can be an effective governor. Even though McInnis acknowledged he made a mistake, he still spent part of Tuesday blaming a research assistant for the failure to credit the work.
Across the city, Yemeni owned bodega and grocery-stores will shut down from noon to 8 p.m. to protest President Donald Trump's Executive Order banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Yemen. It is expected that over 1000 stores will be closed in protest with workers and owners participating in an afternoon rally in Brooklyn. Spencer Platt/Getty
Some of the more significant works by Russell not mentioned above are The Principles of Mathematics (1903), The Problems of Philosophy (1912), Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916), Mysticism and Logic (1918), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), The Analysis of Mind (1921), What I Believe (1925), On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926), An Outline of Philosophy (1927), The Analysis of Matter (1927), The Conquest of Happiness (1930), Freedom and Organization, 1814-1914 (1934), In Praise of Idleness (1935), Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits (1948), Authority and the Individual (1949), Unpopular Essays (1950), Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), Portraits from Memory (1956), Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays (1957), Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959), My Philosophical Development (1959), and Has Man a Future? (1961). Anthologies of the writings of Russell include Robert E. Egner and Lester E. Dennon, eds., The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (1967); Louis Greenspan and Stefan Andersson, eds., Russell on Religion (1999); and Charles Pigden, ed., Russell on Ethics (1999). Russell wrote a three volume autobiography (1967, 1968, and 1969). Biographical works include Allan Wood, Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Skeptic (1958); Rupert Crawshay-Williams, Russell Remembered (1970); G. H. Hardy, Bertrand Russell and Trinity (1970); Katherine Tait, My Father Bertrand Russell (1975); Ronald W. Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell (1976); Alan Ryan, Bertrand Russell: A Political Life (1988); Caroline Moorhead, Bertrand Russell: A Life (1992); Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921 (1996); and Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970 (2000). Material on the relationship between Russell and T. S. Eliot can be found in Lyndall Gordon, T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life (1998). There are many books on Russell's mathematics and philosophy. A few of them are: Alfred J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell (1972); Stefan Andersson, In Quest of Certainty: Bertrand Russell's Search for Certainty in Religion and Mathematics up to The Principles of Mathematics (1903) (1994); Anthony C. Grayling, Russell (1996); and Ray Monk, Russell (1999).
I even allow the part 3 extra minutes in the oven just to be 100% that the chrome powder is fully cured. It is very important that you only start your timer after the entire part itself has reached the required temp, confirm part temperature with an Infrared Thermometer 4. Using clean gloves, remove part from oven and allow it to cool to room temperature. Reapply masking if necessary. Any handling of the part with bare hands can cause issues in the following coat. If you use air to blow off the part at this time, it can cause a static charge that causes the second coat to adhere in odd patterns. If air must be used to blow off the part, or if you wipe the part down, you can dissipate this static charge by heating up the part in the oven for a couple of minutes at 150 degrees F. I try to avoid any need to blow off or wipe the part in between coats.5. Before spraying the second coat, make sure that your ground connection is still attached to bare metal. If your part is grounded through a hook, use a file to remove a tiny area of powder where hook makes contact so that the ground is still touching bare metal.6. Reduce the KV on your powder coating gun by about 50% if possible and spray the second coat.7. If the second coat is the final coat of powder you will be applying to the part, then it is time to put it in the oven and do a full-cure following the second powders curing instructions. Again, remove any masking after the part reaches 200 degrees for best results. If you plan to spray additional coats, do another partial cure and repeat steps 4 through 7 until you reach your final coat and then do a full cure following instructions for the last powder applied.If you are shooting a two-tone part with multiple colors, the instructions above also apply. The only difference is how you apply the masking. The order in which you shoot the colors really depends on how easy it is to mask one area as opposed to the other. Raised areas are much easier to mask off than recessed areas. The only definitive rule to keep in mind is that red should always be shot last if possible as it tends to bleed through lighter colors, especially white.
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Another MDC official, Nelson Chamisa, said the party considered the crash to have been an accident, but that it had been decided to increase security around Mr Tsvangirai, the BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg reports. In the face of personal tragedy, Mr Tsvangirai now faces a mammoth task in consolidating his role as Zimbabwe's new prime minister in a power-sharing government, our correspondent says.
Alexander Nestor Haddaway (born January 9, 1965 in Trinidad) is an early nineties eurodance singer who hailed from the unusual location of Trinidad & Tobago. Haddaway's 1993 self titled debut CD spawned several hit singles, most notably the No.1 smash 'What is Love?'. His second album 'The Drive', released in 1995, was more of the same. Further releases found only marginal success.The son of a Dutch oceanographer and a Trinidadian nurse, Haddaway moved from Trinidad to Europe in the early 1970s with his father when his parents separated. After spending his formative years at boarding school, he moved to the United States to be with his mother.His high school years were spent in Maryland City, Maryland, where he graduated from Meade Senior High School in 1983. While at Meade, he was very active in the school's jazz, marching, symphonic, and stage bands.Discovering a love for music, Haddaway performed small engagements with a cover band called "Chance" while he studied political science and history at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.In 1989, then aged 24, Haddaway returned to Europe and settled in Cologne, Germany, where he started playing American football for the Cologne Crocodiles in the German Football League, as well as working as a choreographer, selling carpets and making music in his spare time.Haddaway's break came in 1992 when he was signed by German label Coconut Records. His first single "What Is Love" rapidly became popular across Europe, reaching number 2 in Germany and in the United Kingdom, where it sold more than 500,000 copies. It later reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.His second single "Life" hit number 2 in Germany, number 6 in the UK and number 41 in the USA; "I Miss You" and "Rock My Heart" were also top 10 smashes across Europe and established him as a successful Eurodance artist. His first LP The Album was also a multi-million seller.In 1995, he released his second album The Drive, which spawned the UK top 20 hit "Fly Away", as well as "Catch a Fire" and "Lover Be Thy Name".Subsequent albums are more soulful, but since 1998, Haddaway has struggled to repeat the mainstream commercial success of his early hits.Haddaway appeared on the Comeback reality television show in Germany in 2004. He appeared on a similar UK show, Hit Me Baby One More Time, in 2005 and subsequently appeared on the U.S. version.
Print This Email This Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said Monday he wouldnt accept a vice presidential slot should his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, defeat him in securing the Democratic partys nomination for president. Im not running for vice president, he said. I dont have intentions of being on the ticket as vice president. The candidate made his remarks during the webcast of a presidential dialogue co-sponsored by MTV and the website MySpace, which allowed Obama to field instant messages from viewers watching online. One question was about his willingness to run with Clinton. After initially saying it was too early to make those kinds of determinations, the senator was pressed by the events co-moderator, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, who specifically asked if he would serve as the vice presidential half of a Clinton-Obama ticket. No, he said. Im not running for vice president, Im running for president of the United States. The online discussion came as Obama seeks to turn up the pressure on Clinton, who continues to hold commanding leads in national polls. In recent comments to the New York Times, the candidate said he would be taking a harder line against his opponent, and admitted that his lack of assertiveness played a part in Clintons polling success. In an interview on Friday that was initiated by his campaign to signal the change of course, Mr. Obama said now is the time for him to distinguish himself from Mrs. Clinton, reported the Times. While he said that he was not out to kneecap the front-runner, because I dont think thats what the country is looking for, he said she was deliberately obscuring her positions for political gain and was less likely than he was to win back the White House for Democrats. Obama was also sharply critical of Sen. Clinton in an article published today in the Des Moines Register, in which he derided her for voting to approve a recent Senate resolution on Iran a measure Obama says mirrors Clintons vote to authorize military action in Iraq. "I think it's important that we not provide any additional support for blank checks to a president and vice president that have shown no restraint whatsoever when it comes to our foreign policy," Obama told the paper. "I think Senator Clinton has tried to straddle the line at times."
(If the little flowers only knew how deeply my heart is wounded, they would weep with me to heal my suffering, and the nightingales would sing to cheer me, and even the starlets would drop from the sky to speak consolation to me: but they can't know, for only One knows, and it is she that has torn my heart asunder.) Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen (Heine no 20). (There is a blaring of flutes and violins and trumpets, for they are dancing the wedding-dance of my best-beloved. There is a thunder and booming of kettle-drums and shawms. In between, you can hear the good cupids sobbing and moaning.) Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen (Heine no 40). (When I hear that song which my love once sang, my breast bursts with wild affliction. Dark longing drives me to the forest hills, where my too-great woe pours out in tears.) Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen (Heine no 39). (A youth loved a maiden who chose another: the other loved another girl, and married her. The maiden married, from spite, the first and best man that she met with: the youth was sickened at it. It's the old story, and it's always new: and the one whom she turns aside, she breaks his heart in two.) Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (Heine no 45). (On a sunny summer morning I went out into the garden: the flowers were talking and whispering, but I was silent. They looked at me with pity, and said, 'Don't be cruel to our sister, you sad, death-pale man.') Ich hab' im Traum geweinet (Heine no 55). (I wept in my dream, for I dreamt you were in your grave: I woke, and tears ran down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, thinking you had abandoned me: I woke, and cried long and bitterly. I wept in my dream, dreaming you were still good to me: I woke, and even then my floods of tears poured forth.) Allnächtlich im Traume (Heine no 56). (I see you every night in dreams, and see you greet me friendly, and crying out loudly I throw myself at your sweet feet. You look at me sorrowfully and shake your fair head: from your eyes trickle the pearly tear-drops. You say a gentle word to me and give me a sprig of cypress: I awake, and there is no sprig, and I have forgotten what the word was.)
The GST Council in its 23rd meeting on November 10, 2017 recommended widespread changes in the Goods and Services Tax (GST). The council has decided to keep the highest 28% tax on on luxury and sinful items as a result 177 items have been shifted to the 18% bracket. GST on many items have also been reduced.The government has categorised items in five major slabs - 0%, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%.Here is the updated list of goods and services taxed under various GST slabs:GoodsNo tax will be imposed on items like jute, fresh meat, fish chicken, eggs, milk, butter milk, curd, natural honey, fresh fruits and vegetables, flour, besan, bread, prasad, salt, bindi. Sindoor, stamps, judicial papers, printed books, newspapers, bangles, handloom, Bones and horn cores, bone grist, bone meal, etc. ; hoof meal, horn meal, Cereal grains hulled, Palmyra jaggery, Salt - all types, Kajal, Children's' picture, drawing or colouring books, Human hair, Khadi purchased from Khadi and Village Industries stores, Clay idols, brooms, Cotton seed oil cake,Charkha, Guar meal, hop cone, certain dried vegetables, unworked coconut shell and fish, and bangles of lac/shellac.ServicesHotels and lodges with tariff below Rs 1,000, Grandfathering service has been exempted under GST.
During the next five to eight weeks, as the beer ages in tanks and then in bottles, potential customers will call the abbey's "beer phone," which has a recorded message that tells them when the beer will go on sale (36 times a year, for as long as stock lasts). On the first day the beer goes on sale, cars start lining up at the abbey at 5:15 a.m., says Brother Joris. The gates open at 10 a.m., and buyers are limited to two cases per car. "Not to be resold" is stamped on the receipts, but customers regularly disregard the monks' wish, and the coveted beer is exported, unlabeled and without permission, to America and elsewhere. While the machinery is more modern today — it was last updated in 1989 — the philosophy is the same. "As monks, the rule is pray and work. These are the two pillars of a Trappist life," Brother Joris explains. "If you prayed 24 hours a day you'd go nuts. So there has to be a balance between work and monastic life. So that balance is there. We earn our living. There's no reason to change that, or make more money." St. Sixtus brews just 60,000 cases of beer a year. The famous Westvleteren 12 sells for about $33 a case, the blond 6 is the cheapest at $23 for 24 bottles. That makes enough money to cover the costs of maintaining the abbey, where 28 monks work. There's also a little extra to help the needy. The brewery currently is running at maximum capacity. And the monks are not interested in raising prices or production, because that would require hiring more outside workers (they have three) and working with distributors. "At that moment it would cease to be what it is now, an integrated part of our existence," he explains. Brother Joris, 45, joined St. Sixtus 12 years ago. Before that, he was a captain in the Belgian police force. "We are separated from the world, but we encounter the world in ourselves," he says. "You do not become a saint by entering a monastery." A tradition of beermaking There are six Trappist monasteries in Belgium making beer and one in The Netherlands. Several of them rank in RateBeer's top 50. Only the abbey of Achel brews less than St. Sixtus, while the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Scourmont, which makes the Chimay beer, is the largest.
38 PHOTOS Brazil Amazon rainforest in danger, deforestation through the years See Gallery Brazil Amazon rainforest in danger, deforestation through the years ARCOS FALLS, PRESIDENTE FIGUEIREDO, AMAZONAS STATE, BRAZIL - 2015/09/09: Cachoeira das Arcos ( Arcos Falls ) at Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas State, Brazil - ecotourism at Amazon rainforest. (Photo by Ricardo Siqueira/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) BRAZIL - 2015/08/28: Transportation of timber logs, Amazon rainforest deforestation, Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) ANCHIETA HIGHWAY - SERRA DO MAR, SAO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL - 2015/11/01: Rodovia Anchieta (Anchieta Highway, official designation SP-150), a highway connection between Sao Paulo city and the Atlantic coast, the cities of Cubatao and Santos, in Brazil. In the plateau, the highway traverses a picturesque region of dams and rain forests. It is a major pride of the Brazilian engineering, because it was built with a great number of bridges and tunnels along the steep cliffs of Serra do Mar. (Photo by Ricardo Siqueira/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) SANTUARIO FALLS, PRESIDENTE FIGUEIREDO, AMAZONAS STATE, BRAZIL - 2015/09/09: Santuario Falls ( Cachoeira do Santuario ) in the municipality of Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas State, Amazon rainforest, Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Siqueira/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) ATLANTIC RAINFOREST, BRAZIL - 2015/08/28: Wooly spider monkey, Muriqui or mono-carvoeiro, (Brachyteles arachnoids) the acrobat of the Brazilian forests, the largest primate of the Americas, an endangered species, Atlantic rainforest, Brazil. Former latin name: Brachyteles arachnoids. New latin name: Brachyteles hypoxanthus. EstaÃ§Ã£o BiolÃ³gica de Caratinga, Fazenda Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State. (Photo by Jose Caldas/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) ATLANTIC RAINFOREST, BRAZIL - 2015/08/28: Wooly spider monkey, Muriqui or mono-carvoeiro, (Brachyteles arachnoids) the acrobat of the Brazilian forests, the largest primate of the Americas, an endangered species, Atlantic rainforest, Brazil. Former latin name: Brachyteles arachnoids. New latin name: Brachyteles hypoxanthus. EstaÃ§Ã£o BiolÃ³gica de Caratinga, Fazenda Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State. (Photo by Jose Caldas/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) BANANAL ISLAND, TOCANTINS STATE, BRAZIL - 2015/07/30: Flooded dense forest by the JavaÃ© River, high biodiversity, Bananal Island, Tocantins State, Amazon, Brazil. (Photo by Jose Caldas/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) AMAZON, ACRE STATE, BRAZIL - 2015/06/30: Amazon rainforest burning, forest clearance for cattle raising in Acre State, Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Funari/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images) AMAZON, BRAZIL - 2015/06/24: Thorns at TucumÃ£ palm tree ( Astrocaryum aculeatum ), Amazon rain forest, Brazil - this plant has edible fruit which may be used for production of biodiesel.
Relevant here is the story of Weyl's mathematical formulations, which tried to reconcile electromagnetism with relativity. Rejected at first (by Einstein) because it was thought to conflict with experimental evidence, it came subsequently to be accepted but only after the advent of quantum mechanics, which led to a new interpretation of Weyl's equations. Hence the perceived beauty of his mathematical formulations ultimately predicted truths even before the full facts were known.
The diaries kept by Elaine Tyree mentioned certain personal entries that can corroborate the fact that I saw the diaries, that they exist, and that the information contained within them is accurate. There were numerous entries relating to Elaine Hebb Tyree's family in Maryland and her friends in the army. 54. Jan. 1978 entry: "Rosemary got a job with the FBI and has to be in Washington D.C. by Jan. 31, 1978. Cindy and Edie got out of the hospital today (Thursday)." 55. From reading the entry on Cindy and Edie I suspect the actual date of their release from the hospital was 12 Jan. 1978. But no specific date was given, nor was the hospital named that they were admitted to. 56. Jan. 1978 entry: "Rosemary will be leaving for Wash. D.C., on Sunday. I may ride back with her." 57. From reading the entry on Rosemary driving to Washington, I suspect the actual date Rosemary left the Hebb family home in Cumberland, Maryland to travel to Washington, possibly with Elaine Tyree, was 29 Jan. 1978. No actual date was given in the diaries, nor was there further mention whether or not Elaine Tyree actually rode `back with her.' 58. Nov 1978 entry: "SP5 Scott had a little baby girl. She was due in July. I remember her back before she came to Ft. Devens." 59. From reading the entries on SP5 Scott which begin to appear in the diaries around April 1978, I suspect this female was a member of a unit Elaine Tyree was assigned to either at Ft. Lee, Virginia, or at Ft. Mc Clellan, Alabama. In either case, this is an intimate fact obviously known only to elaine Tyree, as no one else would need or knowledge about when another female friend gave birth, and the gender of the baby born to that female friend. 60. Jan.-Feb. 1978 entries. "I've been running around with Heidi Urban. We go all over together when I don't have duty. Oh, yeah, Diary, Pat Imbu left in mid-January." 61. From reading the entries on Heidi Urban the main fact appears obvious is that Elaine Tyree is then at Ft. Lee, Virginia. That Pvt. William Tyree is not present as he is at Ft. Devens. Mass. Other that Elaine and Heidi, no one, specifically not Pvt.
file, that translators would read to understand what to write in for instance. missing translations would display meaningless keys on screen ( top_menu.welcome instead of Hello there, User! on the said untranslated French page). That is good it as would force translation to be complete before publishing - however, bad as translation issues would be remarkably awful in the interface. Some libraries, though, include an option to specify a given language as “fallback”, having a similar behavior as the other approach. The Gettext manual favors the first approach as, in general, it is easier for translators and users in case of trouble. That is how we will be working here as well. However, the Symfony documentation favors keyword-based translation, to allow for independent changes of all translations without affecting templates as well. Everyday usage In a typical application, you would use some Gettext functions while writing static text in your pages. Those sentences would then appear in .po files, get translated, compiled into .mo files and then, used by Gettext when rendering the actual interface. Given that, let’s tie together what we have discussed so far in a step-by-step example: 1. A sample template file, including some different gettext calls <?php include 'i18n_setup.php' ?> <div id= "header" > <h1> <?= sprintf ( gettext ( 'Welcome, %s!' ), $name ) ?> </h1> <!-- code indented this way only for legibility --> <?php if ( $unread ) : ?> <h2> <?= sprintf ( ngettext ( 'Only one unread message' , '%d unread messages' , $unread ), $unread ) ?> </h2> <?php endif ?> </div> <h1> <?= gettext ( 'Introduction' ) ?> </h1> <p> <?= gettext ( 'We\'re now translating some strings' ) ?> </p> gettext() simply translates a msgid into its corresponding msgstr for a given language. There’s also the shorthand function _() that works the same way;
Taken from the Autumn 2015 issue of Dazed: In Atlanta, Georgia, the heat is astringent. To step into daylight without sunglasses is an act of masochism. Nature is encroaching; the rolling hills, peppered with wealthy estates, are lush with trees. The days are long, the temperatures high. Everything’s bright. It’s a region of extremes – extreme wealth, poverty, politics, violence, community, faith and family. Reality television has become a booming local business due to the outsize personalities found roaming the city’s 242 neighborhoods, NeNe Leakes, Joseline Hernandez and Waka Flocka Flame among them. In a city of misfits, 23-year-old rapper Young Thug might be the most truly outre of them all. On a sweltering summer’s day, the Peach State’s eccentric new prince of rap stands in a deluxe rental mansion, wearing a fetishistic plastic tunic that declares ‘WARNING: EXPLICIT BEAUTY’. Switching up one diamond-encrusted bauble for a weed leaf pendant in between glugs of codeine-laced lean, he shares his style philosophy. “Me and Travi$ Scott tour our shit like a rodeo, so it isn’t about clothes,” Thug explains. “We played 29 shows, and I brought, like, 32 Balmains. I switch clothes every set. He don’t. That nigga wear the same shoes, boxers, pants, every fuckin’ day. I’m like, ‘Bro. Hell no. I’m a man. I have a girl. I have kids. My girl notice.’” In hip hop, Thug’s knack for self- accessorising has earned him plenty of attention: on any given day, he could be wearing leopard-print dresses, pleather baby tees, miniskirts, circular Elton John sunglasses or draped, unconventional tunics. His personal style comes across one part rock star, two parts Cockette, with hints of hip hop mallrat and Venice Beach stoner dude rolled into one ceaselessly entertaining package. “I was like, ‘This nigga is on another level,’” said Nicki Minaj last year after remixing Young Thug’s mixtape cut “Danny Glover”. “He’ll just say the most reckless shit.” In a recent interview, Thug claimed that Kanye West compared him to Bob Marley, even gifting him a pair of Yeezy Boost trainers from eBay, where they fetch a premium of $10k. For an artist with such a far-out attitude when it comes to dressing, it comes as a surprise when an altercation erupts over an outfit on set. “Take it off!” a woman’s scream announces, bouncing off the mansion’s marble walls.
The article is illustrated by - you guessed it - a photo of a Panasonic still video camera (apparently displayed behind closed curtains) at Photokina 1984. The prototype is also mentioned in a 1985 article in Popular Mechanics and other sources. The Panasonic electronic still camera looks slightly different than the Nikon prototype, but both are made by Matsushita Electric and undoubtedly have a lot in common. Mr. Kenji Toyoda's thoughts: «I have seen this one, but in magazines. I agree with you that it may contain a lot in common with the Nikon prototype.» Further reading Discuss the SVC and other early models in the Vintage DSLR forum
: Besides being accident partners, the Ferrari LaFerrari and the Volkswagen Golf have something else in common - the airbas were deployed in both vehicles. From what we can see in the adjacent images, the Prancing Horse saw its steering wheel bag infalte, while both the driver and the passenger front airbags in the Golf were summoned.We're feeling all this has gotten a tad of a dark note, so we'd like to cheer you up a little bit - the clip below shows how this particular example of the LaFerrari likes to spend its time on the French Riviera.
quote: The compromise that Mr. Wheeler plans to circulate among the commissioners, and which was still being refined late last week, is expected to borrow heavily from an alternative proposal floated in June by a coalition of mostly cable and satellite-TV companies. It would allow device makers to incorporate cable apps, but would leave programming under the companies’ control. But the Journal notes that cable operators still aren't happy with the proposal, worrying that it opens the door to the FCC dictating terms of contracts between cable companies and device makers (something the FCC likely feels is necessary to prevent the "new" system from being as closed and punitive as the existing cable box): quote: Cable operators and media companies also are suspicious of a proposed new FCC process for licensing their apps to device makers, viewing it as a chance for the FCC to meddle in their contracts.The FCC’s “updated proposal will unequivocally fail if there is a possibility of governmental or other third-party intervention in the programming rights, obligations and restrictions negotiated by program suppliers, broadcasters and [cable firms],” the National Association of Broadcasters said in written comments to the agency Friday. In short the cable industry would prefer nothing change at all, since the current closed cable box ecosystem not only gives them additional control, it helps them collect $21 billion in cable box rental fees annually. The FCC is rumored to be circulating the proposal this week, and it should be revealed to the public shortly. Now according to The Wall Street Journal the FCC is pushing a new compromise plan that would more heavily focus on requiring cable operators simply provide their content via apps, something the cable industry itself had suggested (since many already do this anyway):But the Journal notes that cable operators still aren't happy with the proposal, worrying that it opens the door to the FCC dictating terms of contracts between cable companies and device makers (something the FCC likely feels is necessary to prevent the "new" system from being as closed and punitive as the existing cable box):In short the cable industry would prefer nothing change at all, since the current closed cable box ecosystem not only gives them additional control, it helps them collect $21 billion in cable box rental fees annually. The FCC is rumored to be circulating the proposal this week, and it should be revealed to the public shortly.
On March 27 1945 one of the last V2 rockets of the war landed on Hughes Mansions, a block of low-cost housing in London’s East End. Among the 134 people killed, 120 were Jews. Last Sunday [10 April 2005], survivors of the blast and relatives of those killed came back to Hughes Mansions for a memorial service. I was there along with much of my family, including my mother. Her own mother, Feige, and aunt Rivvy were among those killed 60 years ago. It took a full day to find them in the rubble. People were choked with emotion from the start; they had come back to the spot where they had seen brothers, sisters, parents and friends die. They were expecting to feel sorrow. What they did not bargain for was fear. Within minutes, the mourners were pelted, first with vegetables, then with eggs. Some said they saw stones; others said they had been spat at. Gathered in old age to remember their dead, they felt under siege. Looking around, it was difficult to spot individual culprits. All that were visible were groups of young Asian [i.e. Bangladeshi] men, standing on the balconies of the rebuilt block. Among the dignitaries at the service was the local MP, Oona King. When she spoke, she attacked the “ignorance” of the assailants and insisted that their real target was her. … Most of those there thought it much more straightforward. They believed this was an attack by Muslims on Jews. After all, the men wore skullcaps, the prayers were in Hebrew. There was no doubt who they were. Pre-war Jews, like today’s East End Muslims, also lived in unforgiving poverty. They too were herded into the cramped streets of East London as the first stop for new immigrants. They too were reviled as outsiders, branded as parasites on the indigenous society. And they too were feared as a potential fifth column, suspected adherents of a violent, supranational ideology. The “Jewish menace” was said to be first anarchism and then Bolshevism. Today’s “Muslim peril” is jihadism. This is what grieved some of those mourners most. As they huddled together in fear, one spoke for all when she said: “This is so wrong. We should be on the same side.” (Reviled as outsiders, The Guardian, 16th April 2005)
Then, finally, recently he began playing back prePlex all the way through without stopping, for himself, and for others, and after a few minor adjustments, he decided it was working like accelerating clockwork, and ready to be heard by the world. That's the version we're posting an excerpt of here. It's slightly different than the vinyl version on the vinyl and plexiglas releases. Praise for Plexure : About 13 years ago John Oswald gave us his masterwork of audio collage, Plexure, which wove together minute fragments of the greatest hits of the previous 10 years into a brilliant sound tapestry (Detritus) The result is, in my opinion, one of the greatest and most amazing works of audio art ever, albeit quite challenging to listen to... (Steev Hise) Starting with 'rapmillisylables', it then progresses through the material according to tempo. Hard to describe because the material moves so fast (there are thousands of fragments). It is jaw-droppingly complex, at the same time as being nothing but glossy hits exploding into a million shards (harmless when whole, exploded this stuff is lethal). This piece works on so many levels it's better to leave it to you the listener; indispensible (Chris Cutler ReR) Highly recommended. Imagine playing "name that tune" at 5 times the speed of your ears' ability to recognize familiar sounds. This composition, made up entirely of pop music samples, deserves five stars because of its meticulous organization of disparate and familiar sounds into an exciting new composition, one that stands on its own whether or not the listener is familiar with each artist being "plundered." The piece never descends into disorganized noise, each sound is clearly placed where the composer intended. This is the mailbomb you want to send to pop culture. (xmw) Plexure. The most in-demand Avant CD [...]. Oswald's most dense and crushingly heavy assemblage. Spectacular confusion via his most extreme stunning Plunderphonic. "His most rigorous and complex work to date, slices, chops, and blends literally hundreds of thousands of sound bites from musics known and unknown into a dizzying sonic whirlwind. You have never heard anything quite like Plexure, and you are likely never to forget it. (forced exposure)
So that's an example of the way that progressives harnessed eugenic thinking in defense of something as anodyne as a minimum wage. The idea it was not merely raising wages but it was also performing this incredibly important and valuable eugenic social service. Russ Roberts: 'But now no one puts forward a minimum wage now as a racist. They are just trying to help poor people.' Thomas Leonard: Well, that's certainly how the rhetoric goes. There's two parts to this. If we were giving the textbook version, Russ, we'd talk about the scientific or positive claims; and then the normative claims. What's interesting in retrospect is that the original progressives, unlike their namesakes today, saw potential job loss as a feature, not as a bug, right? Whereas today it's the other way around: Folks who are honest about, say, a $15 minimum will acknowledge that, at least at that level we start to lose jobs and/or hours. And the irony, of course, is we see this, if we see it correctly today, as a cost of minimum wage set too high rather than a benefit, which is how the original progressives saw it. And I must say: I'm very sympathetic to your position at least as you sketched it. It's entirely possible to be a proponent of the minimum wage in the 21st century without subscribing to the hateful views of your namesake's ancestors. That's quite right. But I think what we need to do, though, is to step back from the sensational aspects of eugenics and racism and look at the very idea of an administrative state and expertise in the first place. So, I quite agree that 21st century progressives, those who call themselves progressive in the American political context today, do not, and thank goodness, share the views of their intellectual namesakes. And that's all for the good. But I do think, though, that a couple of notions--and we're not talking here about racism or eugenics--have carried over from a century ago. And here's what they are. One we've touched on, and that's this idea that, I think if you really sat down over a glass of wine with a thoughtful progressive, you'd find that they still hold to progressivism's core faith, is that: If smart, well-intended people are put in charge, the best and the brightest, then progress--economic progress, social progress--will inevitably follow.
NEW DELHI: It may sound ridiculous at first blush, but the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine whether Sikhs were a "minority group in homeland Punjab" — saying it had far reaching importance and consequences.A constitution bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and justices FMI Kalifulla, AK Sikri, S A Bobde and R Banumathi initially countered the plea by senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi for treating Sikhs as a minority in Punjab by asking, "Can Muslims be treated as minority in Jammu and Kashmir? "For that matter, can Christians, who are the majority in the states of Nagaland and Meghalaya, be also treated as a minority community in these two northeastern states? Sikhs may be a minority in other states but can they be treated as a minority group in Punjab? "But Dwivedi pointed out that another constitution bench judgment had erroneously fixed twin criteria — whether the group was numerically minority and whether they were dominated by other groups — for declaring a community as minority while taking the state as the geographical entity for such determination.He said numerical strength of a community within a state should be the criteria and not whether they were dominated by other communities. "A minority community may be affluent and not dominated in a state. This does not mean they can be denied the right to protect and further their cultural and educational rights as a minority group guaranteed under the Constitution," he said.Dwivedi said Sikhs were those who owed allegiance to Guru Granth Sahib and were enlisted as voters with Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committe . "The sub-sects and followers of Dera Sacha Sauda , Radha Soami and similarly placed persons are not considered Sikhs even though they were born to Sikh parents," he said.When the bench was deliberating whom to appoint as amicus curiae for assistance in adjudication of this tricky and complex constitutional issue, senior advocate KK Venugopal said it surely presented an issue that had far reaching consequences for many states. "In Kerala, Christians are in minority but own majority of the educational institutions. If Christian-owned educational institutions turn into minority educational institutions, then it will have a telling effect," he said and agreed with the bench that former solicitor general T R Andhyarujina would be best suited to discharge duties as amicus curiae in this issue.The bench issued notice to the ministry of minority affairs and sought its response within four weeks.
It's one thing, and it's one thing only -- to have a winning organization. Just qualifying for the playoffs cannot be our goal or our standard. Not for this team, not for this organization. This organization going forward must set its sights on competing for the game's ultimate prize every season, and no lesser standard should be accepted. "Gauthier had held his current position since Feb. 8, 2010, when he replaced Gainey. The Canadiens finished eighth in the Eastern Conference that season, but led by goalie Jaroslav Halak , they upset the Presidents' Trophy-winning Washington Capitals and defending Stanley Cup-champion Pittsburgh Penguins to advance to the conference finals, where they lost in five games to the Philadelphia Flyers Last season, the Canadiens finished sixth in the East with 96 points, and after taking a 2-0 series lead against the Boston Bruins in the first round, they fell in seven games to the eventual Stanley Cup champions.Molson said the process of finding a new GM with Savard's help begins immediately, and that it will remain entirely confidential. However, when hiring a GM in Montreal, the question of language is impossible to ignore. When asked numerous times whether the next GM will need to speak French, Molson appeared to place the emphasis on winning. "The priority is to find the best person possible to help us win," Molson said in French. "Having said that, it is important that the new GM be able to speak French. But the No. 1 priority is to find the best person for the job. "However, just after Molson finished speaking to reporters, Savard was far more adamant about the language criteria of the new GM in speaking with several media outlets. "Let's be clear on one thing -- he'll speak French," Savard told French-language all-sports station TV network RDS. "I think it is absolutely essential in a market that is 80-percent Francophone that the next GM not necessarily be Francophone -- because we can't place that limitation on it -- but that he at least be able to speak an acceptable level of French. "Thursday's announcement is the latest entry in what has been a tumultuous season in Montreal.It began last summer when Gauthier decided to give top defenseman Andrei Markov a three-year, $17.25 million contract even though the health of his reconstructed knee was a source of serious concern.
I would hope that if you are staying you join up with Toonlad to give him, Dante and Patricio your support. If you feel you want to join any of the other corporations, it is after all your choice, just let me know if you need help getting into them and we will see what we can do to help. If / when things go south for SMA you are all welcome to re-join us, I am not being facetious when I say that. I just have some knowledge of what is coming SMA's way. Fly Dangerous Martyr Dienekes Corp CEO Saaj Vrikul Corp Co-CEO PS. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter PPS. If this does leak, for all the pilots we have flown with in SMA, the CFC and later the Imperium we thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ X Early exit From: Martyr Dienekes Sent: 2016-05-03 21:11:00 To: Internet Terrorists So after getting Shalazan, Elsemus and Lord Voras transfered to a SMA corp with thier supers, Shalazan stole the remainder of the corp assets (I had moved all valuables and left 4 cynabals and 2.5bil in the master wallet, in case something like this happened) We were then removed of all roles and booted from SMA. If anyone logging in wants to stay with the alliance after that, I urge you not to. Super classy and the reason IWI is after them. just be careful if you are in 4c or Saranen. Please start purging API's now. Martyr

Therefore, to propose any restriction, or God forbid, a moratorium on immigration for any reason, is "racist," and the one making the proposal is a "racist" who automatically is beyond the pale of polite discussion and deserves to be consigned to oblivion. He certainly will never see the inside of a CBC studio.Well, I'm an environmentalist and I have chosen to make a lot of noise about immigration. In doing so, as one could predict, I am just about as popular as flatulence in an elevator. I talk loudly about the ugly "I" word because I would rather be right than politically correct. I know that if we grow our population by 18% we can't expect to cut our GHG emissions by 3%. It can't be done. And I know that if we have covered 20% of our Class 1 farmland in sprawl with this kind of growth that we haven't a hope of feeding ourselves if immigration rates persist and affordable oil runs out.Greenfield acreage cannot be adequately preserved by land-use planning (ask Portland, Oregon). We have the highest growth of any G7 country and with Australia, the highest per capita immigration intake in the world. Biodiversity is on the ropes, especially in the killing zones on the perimeter of our bursting cities. It cannot coexist with the tens of millions of extra consumers that Ottawa plans to import in coming years.In advocating an immigration moratorium, I find myself in the same predicament I did while working in a theatre in a largely Chinese Vancouver neighbourhood. The movies were often times so popular that there were more people waiting on the sidewalk to get in than there were seats available to sell to them. One of my unhappy duties was to close the door when the theatre was full.Canada is such a theatre. It has a limited carrying capacity, not established by a fire marshal, but by ecologists and biologists who have offered educated guesses as what it might be. Now a theatre manager or owner might propose that more people be admitted off the street and be accommodated as standing-room patrons. He may even propose that newcomers sit on the laps of those already seated.
NASA says more than half a billion people watched on television as Armstrong climbed down the ladder to the moon and proclaimed: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Hide Caption 7 of 25 Photos: The American men who went to the moon Armstrong took most of the photographs during his historic moonwalk, so you don't see many pictures of him -- this was before the age of the selfie. This rare shot from Aldrin shows Armstrong near the lunar module Eagle. Hide Caption 8 of 25 Photos: The American men who went to the moon Aldrin was lunar module pilot and the second man to walk on the moon. On each lunar landing mission, one crew member stayed in orbit in the command module. On this mission that was Collins. Hide Caption 9 of 25 Photos: The American men who went to the moon The crew of Apollo 12, from left, were Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean. Conrad and Bean walked on the moon. Gordon stayed on the command module. The mission launched November 14, 1969, landed on the moon November 19 and returned to Earth on November 24. Hide Caption 10 of 25 Photos: The American men who went to the moon Bean carries equipment on the moon during the Apollo 12 mission. Hide Caption 11 of 25 Photos: The American men who went to the moon Conrad examines the Surveyor 3, a spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1967. The Apollo 12 crew touched down about 600 feet from the older spacecraft. They collected its television camera and several other pieces and brought them back to Earth. Hide Caption 12 of 25 Photos: The American men who went to the moon The crew members of Apollo 13 -- from left, Fred Haise, James Lovell and John Swigert -- are seen after splashdown in April 1970. Apollo 13 was scheduled to be the third lunar landing mission. The crew launched on April 11, 1970, but two days later and about 205,000 miles from Earth, the service module oxygen tank ruptured, crippling the spacecraft. "Houston, we've had a problem," Lovell said. Instead of landing, the crew did a flyby and came home, safely splashing down on April 17. Lovell's book "Lost Moon" became the basis for the motion picture "Apollo 13."
Then they hop into a cab and send the driver to Seventh Avenue and Forty-second Street, in search of a computer.
Temperature activation Ca2+ imaging assays Temperature sensitivity of TRPV channels was examined at a hyperthermic (40°C) temperature in neural crest cells or HEK293T cells transfected with GCAMP6 and either TRPV1FeRIC or TRPV1ΔTFeRIC, using Lipofectamine LTX Plus reagent. Twenty-four hours later, transfected cells were identified by the expression of both GCaMP6 and TRPV1 channels (mCherry+). Primary GCaMP6+ chick neural crest cells were also generated as described above to examine the thermosensitivity of endogenous TRPV channels. For Ca2+ imaging, neural crest cells or HEK293T cells were placed on a recording chamber in the stage of a Nikon Eclipse Ti-S inverted microscope. Cells were epi-illuminated using a blue filter and continuously perfused with the imaging buffer solution through a gravity-driven perfusion system (~2 ml/min). Drugs were applied using the same gravity system. The temperature was controlled with a CL-100 temperature controller (Warner Instruments) and a SC-20 dual in-line heater/cooler (Harvard Apparatus). During experiments, temperature was monitored with a thermistor (TA-29, Warner Instruments) within the recording chamber. Heat stimulus was delivered stepwise to increase the temperature from 25° to 40°C over a 3-min period. After the removal of the heat stimulus, cells were exposed to TRPV channel agonists such as pH 5 or 1 μM GSK101. Neural crest cells were exposed to TRPV4 channel inhibitor 10 μM RN1734 for 10 min and then imaged for changes in intracellular Ca2+ with heat or GSK101 exposure. GCaMP6 green emission was collected from cells at 1 frame/s. Images were analyzed off-line using Nikon Element software; ROIs were placed over those cells that coexpressed GCaMP6 and TRPV channels or over the GCAMP6-positive neural crest cells for endogenous TRPV channel analysis. GCaMP6 fluorescence intensity was measured for each image of the time-lapse acquisition. Data were analyzed using Microcal Origin 7 software (OriginLab). Responses are presented as ΔF/F 0 , and plots correspond to average ± SEM.
Recently, the University of Southern California came under fire for allegedly failing to comply with the act by misclassifying sexual assaults. The university is now facing potential fines of up to $35,000 per violation. Although the officer who completed Melanie's report for Morehouse plainly wrote the incident type was "rape" — and Houston investigated her claim as one of "sexual assault" — the college's crime log classifies the incident as “simple battery.” According to Morehouse spokesperson Cathy Tyler, the college's police department reclassified Melanie's case "based on the fact that the elements found did not fit the crime." It’s as if it never even happened at all. Melanie came to Spelman from a small, predominantly white town expecting to join a community where black women would be not only supported, but also in control. Yet throughout Melanie’s case, the college has deferred to Morehouse. Although Spelman offered Melanie counseling, her adviser for her case — Spelman’s then-dean of students, Kimberly Ferguson — and the college never challenged how Morehouse handled it. (Ferguson did not respond to requests for comment.) “At that point, I felt like I was sold a fake dream,” Melanie said. “Because the person who did that to me was [my friend’s] Morehouse brother.”
While US officials who act in good faith reliance upon official statements of the law generally have a defense under US law against criminal prosecution, this does not mean that the Justice Department should embrace the sweeping view that all officials responsible for methods of torture explicitly contemplated under OLC memoranda are protected from criminal investigation. Indeed, for the Justice Department to take such a position would risk validating a legal strategy that seeks to negate criminal liability for wrongdoing by preemptively constructing a legal defense. If such a strategy is seen to have worked, future administrations contemplating illegal actions will also be more likely to employ it. In assessing the good faith of those who purported to rely on OLC guidance, the Justice Department should critically inquire, on a case-by-case basis, whether a reasonable person at the time these decisions were made would be convinced that such practices were lawful. It seems doubtful that cases of the most serious abuses would pass this test. It is especially unlikely that senior officials who were responsible for authorizing torture will be protected under this calculus, particularly if they were instrumental in pressing for legal cover from the OLC, or if they influenced the drafting of the memoranda that they now claim protect them. For the Justice Department to look primarily into the actions of low-level interrogators would also be a mistake: it would reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of how and why abuses took place. Whether it was the coercive interrogation methods approved by the Defense Department or the CIA’s secret detention program, these were top-down enterprises that involved senior US officials who were responsible for formulating, authorizing, and supervising abusive practices. Grounds for Investigation Over the past several years, more evidence has been placed on the public record regarding the development of illegal detention policies and the torture and ill-treatment of detainees in US custody. Thanks in particular to FOIA lawsuits brought by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which have yielded over 100,000 pages of government documents concerning the treatment of detainees, the public record now includes most of a report by the CIA’s inspector general into detention practices, as well as CIA background papers, other government reports, and the infamous "torture memos" that provided the administration’s legal justification for abusive interrogation techniques.
Nevertheless, we do not reach in the Post-redemptionists, conceived purely from the point of view of this element of their thought, the lowest possible, or the lowest actual, variety of Calvinists. Post-redemptionists may differ among themselves, if not in the position in the order of decrees of the decree of election (for still further to depress its position in that order would be to desert the whole principle of particularism and to fall out of the category of Calvinists), yet in their mode of conceiving the nature of the work of the Holy Spirit in applying redemption, under the government of the decree of election; and as to the role of the human spirit in receiving redemption. A party has always existed even among Calvinists which has had so large an interest in the autonomy of the human will, that it has been unwilling to conceive of it as “passive” with respect to that operation of God which we call regeneration, and has earnestly wished to look upon the reception of salvation as in a true sense dependent on the will’s own unmoved action. They have, therefore, invented a variety of Calvinism which supposes that it is God indeed who selects those who shall savingly be brought to Christ, and that it is the Holy Spirit who, by his grace, brings them infallibly to Christ,(thus preserving the principle of particularism in the application of salvation), but which imagines that the Holy Spirit thus effectually brings them to Christ, not by an almighty, creative action on their souls, by which they are made new creatures, functioning subsequently as such, but purely by suasive operations, adapted in his infallible wisdom to the precise state of mind and heart of those whom he has selected for salvation, and so securing from their own free action, a voluntary coming to Christ and embracing of him for salvation. There is no universalism here; the particularism is express. But an expedient has been found to enable it to be said that men come voluntarily to Christ, and are joined to him by a free act of their own unrenewed wills, while only those come whom God has selected so to persuade to come (he who knows the heart through and through) that they certainly will come in the exercise of their own free will.
PS4 allows us to preview our captures before sending them for a second-generation re-encode at Facebook. Here we compare original captures with grabs of the capture preview and then finally, the Facebook result at the end. Suffice to say, the option to grab clips straight from the PS4 is sorely missed - the quality's not bad at all. PS4 allows us to preview our captures before sending them for a second-generation re-encode at Facebook. Here we compare original captures with grabs of the capture preview and then finally, the Facebook result at the end. Suffice to say, the option to grab clips straight from the PS4 is sorely missed - the quality's not bad at all. PS4 allows us to preview our captures before sending them for a second-generation re-encode at Facebook. Here we compare original captures with grabs of the capture preview and then finally, the Facebook result at the end. Suffice to say, the option to grab clips straight from the PS4 is sorely missed - the quality's not bad at all. PS4 allows us to preview our captures before sending them for a second-generation re-encode at Facebook. Here we compare original captures with grabs of the capture preview and then finally, the Facebook result at the end. Suffice to say, the option to grab clips straight from the PS4 is sorely missed - the quality's not bad at all. PS4 allows us to preview our captures before sending them for a second-generation re-encode at Facebook. Here we compare original captures with grabs of the capture preview and then finally, the Facebook result at the end. Suffice to say, the option to grab clips straight from the PS4 is sorely missed - the quality's not bad at all. PS4 allows us to preview our captures before sending them for a second-generation re-encode at Facebook. Here we compare original captures with grabs of the capture preview and then finally, the Facebook result at the end. Suffice to say, the option to grab clips straight from the PS4 is sorely missed - the quality's not bad at all.
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Not long ago, Stephen Bradley, a New York tech entrepreneur, was looking to expand his company, AuthorBee, which aggregates tweets and Instagram posts and puts them together in story form. Instead of following people, readers can follow their interests—“Breaking Bad,” for example, or the New England Patriots. Bradley is not a stereotypical startup founder, a hoodie-wearing college dropout; he’s been working in tech and media for decades. To launch AuthorBee, he raised three-quarters of a million dollars from angel investors and hired programmers in Pakistan and Bangladesh to build a prototype. Now he wanted to build a bigger, better version of the site, so he had to find someone to write the code that would form AuthorBee’s DNA. The guys in Pakistan and Bangladesh were O.K., but the cultural differences and the language barriers slowed things down. He needed “one really good developer” with a mastery of all the coding languages and frameworks that AuthorBee uses: Python, Django, Angular, JavaScript, the Twitter A.P.I. The search for programming talent was the part of building a startup that Bradley most dreaded. “It is a nightmare,” he told me. “And I’m as plugged in as you can be to the New York tech scene.” He put up a job posting on the Web site AngelList, and was immediately flooded with calls from headhunters and e-mails from offshore companies wanting to set up a “short online telephonic meeting.” “I could have had two hundred résumés on my desk,” Bradley said. But he knew that the people behind those résumés weren’t the ones he was looking for. His dream developer might be buried in there somewhere, but Bradley had come to think that developers were like social media itself: “Ninety-nine per cent of them suck.” He added, “The entire problem is wading through the noise.” Finally, Bradley received an e-mail from 10x, a talent company. 10x was started by two music and entertainment managers, Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, who for the past nineteen years have represented rock stars, including John Mayer and Vanessa Carlton. Recently, in the wake of the digital revolution and the music industry’s implosion, Solomon and Blumberg have begun serving as agents for technologists. 10x claims to represent digital “rock stars”; the company’s name comes from the idea, well established in the tech world, that the very best programmers are superstars, capable of achieving ten times the productivity of their merely competent colleagues.

Authors noted that participants with a low EBR benefited from alpha binaural-beat stimulation, whereas those with high EBRs were either unaffected or impaired by alpha and gamma binaural-beat stimulation. In this study, background white noise was also added to each stimulus in order to amplify the binaural-beat percept (46). Attention In a pilot study, Kennel et al. investigated the potential use of binaural-beat stimulation to reduce the symptom of inattention in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (5). ADHD is a developmental neuropsychiatric disorder diagnosed in children and adolescents. Individuals affected by ADHD exhibit the core symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity in varying degrees of severity (47). Participants were either required to listen to commercial recordings of binaural beats embedded in natural sounds or a sham recording containing pink noise for 20 min, three times a week for 3 week duration. The Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA) and the Children’s Color Trails Test 1 and 2 (CCTT1 and 2) were performed to measure changes in attention over time and course of treatment. For this study the binaural-beat stimulation did not have a significant impact on attention, but participants reported subjectively experiencing less problems associated with inattention during the study period (5). Unfortunately, one of the main limitations of this study was that the beat stimulation parameters of the audio program administered were not reported.

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