text_trg
stringlengths 0
100k
|
|---|
For example, one individual stated on Day 8 that “We will get on top of this disease, and in a week or two, new cases will be history.” When this clearly did not happen, some people began to suspect that the government was not telling the truth about the numbers of infected people, and perhaps more crucially, whether or not the virus had spread to Kampala. On Day 58, a member of the National Task Force felt obliged to address this issue, stating, “I am on the ground in the whole of Kampala and I am not aware of any Ebola case. If we hide Ebola, we will kill ourselves. We are very open.” Unfortunately, this openness did not in all cases translate to officials wanting to take active responsibility. A row erupted on Day 68 between Kampala City Council (KCC) and the Police over who should remove the corpse of an old man suspected to have died from Ebola. The man had reportedly been bleeding from the nose, eyes and mouth before he died at the entrance to one of Kampala’s taxi parks, and neither group wanted to take responsibility for the case. The Regional Police Commander said “KCC has a dumper and is equipped to handle Ebola cases”, while the KCC task force in turn said that since there was no Ebola in Kampala, it was the police’s responsibility to take the body away. The corpse lay in the road for 36 hours before a team hired by KCC finally picked it up. In accordance with WHO guidelines [22], no special restrictions on travel or trade were imposed at any stage of the epidemic outside the very specific areas where cases had been reported. However, some local officials requested people within their jurisdiction not to travel to affected areas. For example, the Health Secretary of Kalangala District, a sparsely inhabited collection of 83 islands in Lake Victoria, asked fishermen from Gulu who were living on the islands not to travel home. “We have no quarrel with people from Gulu,” he said on Day 32. “We are merely appealing to everyone doing fish business with that district to curtail their visits until the situation clears.” Local officials also played a key role in facilitating the resettlement of stigmatised survivors. As Gulu District Director of Health Services explained after the epidemic was over, “The survivors are not infectious, but the communities took long to accept that.
|
At least 10 studies have been published in the English language on sexual orientation in girls and women with CAH in comparison to female controls [29;44;45;67;82;88;95;103;109;155]. The overwhelming conclusion from these studies is that women with CAH are less likely to be exclusively or almost exclusively heterosexual than are other women. The studies have used varied methodologies to assess sexual orientation and have looked at different age ranges, and these differences appear to influence the results obtained. Reduced heterosexual orientation is more likely to be observed in studies assessing erotic imagery, as well as, or rather than solely, the sex of actual sexual partners [103]. In addition, reduced heterosexual orientation is more likely to be found in studies that are restricted to individuals 16 years of age or older, than in studies that include children. For instance, in one study that reported data for various age groups [29], 20% of females with CAH in the age range 11 to 41 years indicated that they had “had or wished to have a long term/ steady relationship with a female partner”, whereas the comparable figure for those over 16 years of age was 26%, and for those over 21, it was 44%. This age related difference may occur because individuals become more aware of, and comfortable with, their sexual orientation as they develop from early adolescence into adulthood. Severity of the CAH disorder also relates to outcomes for sexual orientation. This has been demonstrated in a study of 143 women with CAH, ages 18 to 61 years, compared to 24 control women who were unaffected sisters or female cousins of women with CAH [103]. Sexual orientation was assessed using interviews regarding both erotic imagery and behavior. Looking at data for lifetime, overall sexual responsiveness, which combines imagery and behavior, among 38 women with the most severe, salt losing form of CAH, 41% were not excusively or almost exclusively heterosexual, whereas the comparable figure for 21 women with the less severe, simple virilizing CAH was 29% and for unaffected controls it was 5%. Figures for actual sexual experience with a partner of the same sex were lower, but showed the same pattern, with 21% of women with salt losing CAH having had experience with same sex partners, compared to 5% of simple virilizers and 0% of unaffected women.
|
Concerning the technical aspects of the FMD measurement, the occlusion position were forearms in 20 studies [13] – [20] , [22] – [27] , and upper arms in the other 3 studies [21] , [28] ; the occlusion duration was 5 min in 17 studies [13] , [15] , [17] – [19] , [21] , [23] , [24] , [26] – [28] , 4.5 min in 4 studies [14] , [20] , [22] and 3 min in the rest 2 studies [16] , [25] .
|
Video ID: 20141112-008W/S Al-Zadeh, the CEO of Newport Convertible Engineering Inc working on a Ferrari 599 GTBC/U Ferrari 599 GTBW/S Al-Zadeh working on a Ferrari 599 GTBM/S Mechanic workingM/S Mechanic working on a Toyota FJ CruiserM/S Mechanic working on a Toyota FJ CruiserC/U BlowtorchW/S Mechanic testing the bonnet of a Toyota FJ CruiserSOT Al Zadeh, CEO of Newport Convertible Engineering Inc (in English): "Kind of the same, you might say, the concept of a person wants to get plastic surgery. Some people, they're already beautiful but they want to be more beautiful - they want to stand out - they want to be more unique. The concept comes from idea, but of course they're two different subjects. "W/S Mechanics working on a Range Rover Supercharged 2014 EditionM/S Mechanic cutting doorW/S Al-Zadeh working with two mechanics on a Range Rover Supercharged 2014 EditionSOT Al Zadeh, CEO of Newport Convertible Engineering Inc (in English): "We're not interested really interested at this time in a TV show because we're pretty busy with our expansion but that would be something we might consider in the future. "W/S Range Rover Supercharged 2012 Edition being modifiedW/S Range Rover Supercharged 2012 Edition being modifiedW/S Range Rover Supercharged 2012 Edition and Mercedes Benz G-Class 2013 Edition in the garageW/S Dodge ChallengerM/S Tesla Model S P85 2014 Edition top being openedW/S Tesla Model S P85 2014 EditionW/S GarageSCRIPTAfter quitting his studies in Medicine, Al-Zadeh founded Newport Converting Engineering Inc. and has being modifying cars in Newport Beach for 35 years, specialising in converting cars not readily available as convertibles on the market. These include select Range Rovers, Jaguars and Rolls Royce automobiles to the latest in Ferraris, with the company also able to convert four door vehicles into two doors.Al-Zadeh has worked on cars for various celebrities including rappers, baseball players and actors, usually spending between 6-8 weeks cutting off the top of the cars and extracting the back doors before converting suburban, sports and classic cars into full-blown convertibles.Prices range from €69,000 ($86,000) to convert a Tesla; €140,000 to convert any four door vehicle into two doors, and a whopping €250,000 to modify a Ferrari 599 GTB. With other countries interested in his ideas, Al-Zadeh has sold them as intellectual property to third parties for for €2.25 million ($2.8 million).Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ruptly Twitter: twitter.com/Ruptly LiveLeak: www.liveleak.com/c/Ruptly Google Plus: google.com/+RuptlyTV Instagram: www.instagram.com/Ruptly YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/RuptlyTV DailyMotion: www.dailymotion.com/ruptly Video on Demand: www.ruptly.tv
|
After 1710, the British military administration continued to utilize the deputy system the Acadians had developed under French colonial rule. Prior to 1732 the deputies were appointed by the governor from men in the districts of Acadian families "as ancientest and most considerable in Lands & possessions,". This appears to be in contravention of various British penal laws which made it nearly impossible for Roman Catholics and Protestant recusants to hold military and government positions. The need for effective administration and communication in many of the British colonies trumped the laws. In 1732 the governance institution was formalized. Under the formalized system the colony was divided into eight districts. Annually on October 11 free elections were to take place where each district, depending on its size, was to elect two, three, or four deputies. In observance of the Lord's Day, if October 11 fell on a Sunday the elections were to take place on the immediately following Monday. Notice of the annual election was to be given in all districts thirty days before the election date. Immediately following election, deputies, both outgoing and incoming, were to report to Annapolis Royal to receive the governor's approval and instructions. Prior to 1732 deputies had complained about the time and expense of holding office and carrying out their duties. Under the new elected deputy system each district was to provide for the expenses of their elected deputies. The duties of the deputies were broad and included reporting to the government in council the affairs of the districts, distribution of government proclamations, assistance in the settlement of various local disputes (primarily related to land), and ensuring that various weights and measures used in trade were "Conformable to the Standard".
|
Wow! What an amazingly thoughtful and fantastic gift! I have had some tough times just recently (I won’t go into details, I don’t want to be that guy, the one who ruins Arbitrary Day for everyone) and was feeling pretty low on Monday when my gift from Super Santy arrived. As soon as I opened the brilliant COYS card and read the lovely note inside I knew this was going to be fantastic and it absolutely was. First off an amazing mystery box of treats (loved the hand drawn nod to Super Mario!) that would put Willy Wonka to shame. Sooo many nice things, even something from Narridge that wasn’t mustard! My children started mentally dividing up the spoils so these have now been safely hidden away out of their grasping reach! We then got to the green level (my favourite colour) topped with another great Spurs picture. Lots of lovely thoughtful brilliant gifts – a cute little chilli plant (I haven’t grown chillies before but I am looking forward to doing that now), an amazing drawing from one of my favourite King Series – The Dark Tower, a couple of great fantasy books that I haven’t read and a brilliant book about making bread with my children - I usually use flour but I will try anything once ;). And I loved all the hand written notes too – made everything really personal and special. Last but absolutely not least a mahoosive list of fantasy books and notes that I know will introduce me to books and authors I have never seen before. Mysteriouscities - you are the Santa to which all other Santas (even the jolly fat red dude from the North Pole) should aspire to be. As my daughter said, its like someone took all your favourite things and put them in a box to cheer you up and it really worked. I have tried to be thoughtful with the secret Santa gifts I have given through Reddit in the past but I realise now I need to up my game. You have made a borderline depressed fat bloke a lot happier (and one step closer to type 2 diabetes with all that lovely stuff!). Thank you x
|
I'm a little anxious contributing to this node. That is because I am entirely white . Three fourths French-canadian and one fourth English. I am a white male at an engineer ing school in New England. I have never been on the receiving end (or, I pray, delivering end) of racism . But I feel it is appropriate to present some opinions from the other side, as to provide some balance for our fellow noders I briefly dated a, as you say, hybrid . (I hope to again in the near future, but that is an aside .) She is half Taiwanese , a quarter Irish , and a quarter German . She has beautiful soft, black, straight hair. When I first met her I couldn't decide if she was Asian or not. She has black hair, after all, but I thought it was pretty much racist to assume on hair alone that her ancestors hailed from the Far East . The fact that she sometimes looks whiter, sometimes more Eastern, does in fact set her apart from the rest, and IWhen she takes off her glasses, a wonderful thing happens. She has very poor eyesight, and without corrective lenses, she has to squint to see anything at all. Furthermore, the frames of her glasses no longer block the light peppering of freckles underneath each eye and bridging her adorable round little nose.These subtle reminders of her mixed ancestry make me weak in the knees Because of her, and her family, I now know how to properly eat with chopsticks and have sampled sushi . Granted itmerely a California roll, but I'm working my way up to actual raw ocean-creature-flesh. Her mother showed us some beautiful pictures of Taiwan. I have been good-naturedly calledI am a slightly less ethnocentric person.I know these little things are probably laughable to someone who has grown up immersed in dual cultures. I'm not trying to say I understand what it is like to be you. I just want you to know that as someone who looks just like everybody else, I find the combination of two very different histories/appearances/philosophies to be a very good and appealing thing. There are people out there who do in fact view you as a member, not an outsider, of both groups.
|
Theme URI: http://www.yogihosting.com/tutorial-on-creating-a-blog-theme-in-wordpress/ Author: Yogi Author URI: http://www.yogihosting.com/tutorial-on-creating-a-blog-theme-in-wordpress/ License: GNU General Public License License URI: http://themeforest.net/wiki/support/legal-terms/licensing-terms/ Tags: pink, translation-ready, editor-style, featured-images, custom-header, custom-menu, right-sidebar, two-columns, theme-options Version: 1.0 */ /*------------------------- Layout styles ------------------------*/ html { background: url(Images/bg-body-top.jpg) repeat-x; } body { margin: 0; background: url(Images/bg-body-bottom.jpg) repeat-x left bottom; } p a { text-decoration: underline; color: #8B8B8B; } h1 { color: #f6008a; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; } h3 { color: #f6008a; margin-top: 0px; } /*------------------------- Header --------------------------*/ .header { width: auto; margin: 0 auto; } .header div { width: 960px; margin: 0 auto; overflow: hidden; } .header div a#logo { display: block; height: 110px; width: 254px; float: left; } .header div a#logo img { border: 0; } .header div div.navigation { float: right; overflow: hidden; height: 30px; width: auto; margin: 0; } .header div div.navigation ul.first { background: url(Images/bg-top-navigation-left.png) no-repeat; height: 30px; padding: 0 0 0 21px; } .header div div.navigation ul.first li { background: url(Images/bg-top-navigation.png); } .header div div.navigation ul li.first a { border: 0; } .header div div.navigation ul { list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; float: left; } .header div div.navigation ul li { float: left; background: url(Images/bg-top-navigation2.png); height: 30px; } .header div div.navigation ul li a:hover, .header div div.navigation ul.first li.selected a, .body .content div.blog div.paging ul li a:hover, .header div div.navigation ul li.selected a { color: #ef0288; } .header div div.navigation ul li a { text-decoration: none; color: #721c49; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff; border-width: 1px; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: #fff; height: 30px; display: inline-block; line-height: 30px; padding: 0 10px; } .header div form.search { float: right; padding-top: 35px; } .header div form.search input { background: url(Images/interface.gif) no-repeat 0 -90px; width: 324px; height: auto; border: 0; float: left; padding: 11px 0 11px 40px; color: #a1a1a1; font-size: 15px; } .header div form.search input#submit { background: url(Images/interface.gif) no-repeat 0 -150px; width: auto; height: 24px; position: relative; margin: 7px 0 0 -355px; font-size: 14px; padding: 0 0 0 30px; box-shadow: none; } .header div#navigation { height: 40px; background: url(Images/bg-navigation.gif) repeat-x; width: auto; } .header div#navigation ul { list-style: none; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 20px; width: 920px; overflow: hidden; } .header div#navigation ul li { float: left; width: 131px; text-align: center; } .header div#navigation ul li.current-menu-item a { font-weight: bold; color: #fff; text-shadow: none; } .header div#navigation ul li.current-menu-item { background: url(Images/bg-menu-selected.gif) no-repeat center top; width: 134px; } .header div#navigation ul li a { font-family: arial; color: #fcddf9; text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 #920052; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 40px; font-weight: normal; } .header div#navigation ul li a:hover { color: #fff; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: none; } /*hover menu*/ .header div#navigation ul li ul { position: absolute; display: none; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: -2px; z-index: 1; background-color: #F6008A; border: solid 1px #FFFFFF; width: 131px; } .header div#navigation ul li ul li { list-style: none; float: none; width: 100%; text-align: left; padding-left: 20px; border-bottom: double 1px #A4DACD; } .header div#navigation ul li ul li a { color: #FFFFFF; } #navigation ul li:hover ul.sub-menu { display: block; } /*End*/ /*------------------------- Body --------------------------*/ .body { width: 960px; margin: 10px auto; height: auto; position: relative; } .body .featured { overflow: hidden; } .body .featured a { float: left; margin: 0 10px 0 0; display: block; } .body .featured a img { border: 0; } .body .featured div.gallery { float: left; width: 790px; } .body .featured div.gallery a { float: none; margin: 0; height: 460px; } .body .featured div.gallery ul.first { margin: 10px 0 0; float: left !important; } .body .featured div.gallery ul { padding: 0; margin: 10px 0 0 10px; float: left; list-style: none; } .body .featured div.gallery ul li { width: 390px; } .body .featured div.gallery ul li a { height: auto; margin: 0 0 10px 0; height: 140px; } .body .featured div.gallery ul li a img:hover { filter: alpha(opacity=80); opacity: 0.8; } .body div.article { width: auto; padding: 15px; font-family: arial; background: url(Images/bg-footer.png); overflow: hidden; height: 1%; clear: both; } .body div.article div.first { width: 525px; margin: 0 55px 0 0; background: none; padding: 0; } .body div.article div.first p a { text-decoration: underline; color: #f6008a; background: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; display: inline-block; } .body div.article div { float: left; width: 325px; background: url(Images/separator-dotted.gif) no-repeat center bottom; padding: 0 0 21px 0; } .body div.article div.first h3 { color: #f6008a; } .body div.article div h3 { color: #2a1500; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; } .body div.article div p { margin: 20px 0; font-size: 13px; color: #918889; line-height: 20px; } .body div.article div h4 { color: #2f1307; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; } .body div.article div a { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat left 3px; color: #f6008a; text-decoration: none; padding: 0 0 0 20px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0 0 0 20px; display: block; } .body div.article div.connect { margin: 0; background: none; padding: 0; } .body div.article div.connect h2 { color: #5c5754; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; margin: 15px 0 21px; } .body div.article div.connect a { text-indent: -99999px; display: block; float: left; padding: 0; } .body div.article div.connect a#facebook { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat 0 -80px; width: 30px; height: 31px; margin: 0 0 0 40px; } .body div.article div.connect a#twitter { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat 0 -261px; width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0 0 0 35px; } .body div.article div.connect a#comments { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat 0 -30px; width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0 0 0 35px; } .body div.article div.connect a#flickr { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat 0 -171px; width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0 0 0 35px; } .body .sidebar { float: left; margin: 0 10px 0 0; background: url(Images/bg-content.png); } .body .sidebar div.first { background: none; } .body .sidebar div { width: 138px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; padding: 15px 11px; background: url(Images/border-top.gif) no-repeat center top; } .body .sidebar div h2 { margin: 0; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; } .body .sidebar div h2 a { text-decoration: none; color: #f6008a; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; } .body .sidebar div ul li a { color: #92898a; text-decoration: none; } .body .sidebar div ul li.selected a { color: #F6008A; } .body .sidebar div ul li a:hover { color: #f6008a; } .body .sidebar div ul li.current-menu-item a { color: #f6008a; font-style: italic; } .body .sidebar div ul { margin: 0 0 60px; padding: 0; list-style: none; } .body .sidebar div ul ul { margin: 0 0 0 15px; } .body .sidebar div ul li { margin: 5px 0 0 0; } .body .content { float: left; } .body .content .figure { height: 260px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; } .body .content .products { margin: 0 0 24px; background: url(Images/bg-content.png); } .body .content .products div.paging { overflow: hidden; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first { height: 20px; float: left; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first h2 { background: url(Images/interface.gif) no-repeat left -50px #ff0090; font-family: Arial; margin: 0 50px 0 0; font-size: 14px; color: #fff; padding: 0 13px 0 20px; line-height: 20px; float: left; font-weight: normal; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first span { color: #948b8c; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; float: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0 5px 0 0; height: auto; width: auto; border: 0; padding: 0; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first ul { list-style: none; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0; float: left; width: auto; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first ul li { background-color: #f0f2f1; width: 20px; height: 20px; text-align: center; float: left; margin: 0 2px 0 0; border: 0; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first ul li.selected { border: 0; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first ul li a { color: #948b8c; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; display: block; text-decoration: none; border: 0; float: none; height: auto; padding: 0; } .body .content .products div.paging div.first ul li.selected a, .body .content .products div.paging div.first ul li a:hover, .body .content .products div.paging div ul li a:hover { color: #ff0090; } .body .content .products div.paging div { float: right; } .body .content .products div.paging div ul { margin: 0; list-style: none; padding: 0; float: left; width: auto; height: auto; color: #a3a3a3; } .body .content .products div.paging ul li { float: left; margin: 0 2px 0 0; width: 20px; text-align: center; height: 20px; background-color: #f1f1f1; } .body .content .products div.paging ul li.selected { height: 18px; width: 18px; border: 1px solid #ff0090; } .body .content .products div.paging ul li.selected a { color: #ff0090; } .body .content .products div.paging ul li a { color: #a3a3a3; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none; display: block; font-weight: normal; float: none; height: auto; padding: 0; border: 0; } .body .content .products div.paging a { height: 18px; width: auto; border: 1px solid #ff0090; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; padding: 0 10px; color: #ff0090; float: left; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; } .body .content .products ul { margin: 22px 0 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; overflow: hidden; } .body .content .products ul li.first { margin: 0; } .body .content .products ul li { width: 170px; float: left; margin: 0 0 0 34px; } .body .content .products ul li a img { border: 0; } .body .content .products ul li a img:hover { filter: alpha(opacity=80); opacity: 0.8; } .body .content .products ul li h4 { margin: 5px 0 0; text-transform: uppercase; color: #f6008a; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; } .body .content .products ul li p { margin: 0; color: #b2a7ab; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; } .body .content .products ul li span { color: #2f1107; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives { margin: 0 0 60px 12px; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li { color: #867669; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li.current-cat a { text-decoration: underline; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li a { color: #f6008a; font-weight: normal; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li span { color: #867669; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li ul { } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li ul li a { color: #86577B; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li ul li a:hover { color: #f6008a; } .body .sidebar div ul.archives li ul li span { color: #a59b8f; font-size: 12px; } .body .content div.blog { background: url(Images/bg-content.png); padding: 10px 20px; width: 750px; margin: 0 0 60px; } .body .content div.blog div { margin: 0 0 20px 0; width: 670px; } .body .content div.blog div div.stats { overflow: hidden; margin: 0 0 5px 0; width: auto; } .body .content div.blog div div.stats div.date { background: url(Images/interface.gif) no-repeat left 0; height: 30px; margin: 10px 0 0; float: left; width: 87px; text-indent: 14px; } .body .content div.blog div div.stats div.date span { font-family: arial; color: #fff; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; } .body .content div.blog div div.stats div.share { background: url(Images/separator-blog.gif) repeat-x left 25px; float: left; width: 75px; height: 40px; padding: 0 0 0 505px; } .body .content div.blog div div.stats div.share a#tweets { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat 0 -311px; height: 20px; width: 20px; display: block; text-indent: 99999px; float: left; margin: 0 5px 0 0; } .body .content div.blog div div.stats div.share a#heart { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat 0 -221px; height: 20px; width: 20px; display: block; text-indent: 99999px; float: left; margin: 0 5px 0 0; } .body .content div.blog div div.stats div.share a#likes { background: url(Images/icons.gif) no-repeat 0 -131px; height: 20px; width: 20px; display: block; text-indent: 99999px; float: left; margin: 0 5px 0 0; } .body .content div.blog div div { margin: 0; } .body .content div.blog div div h1 { font-size: 24px; font-family: arial; color: #86577b; margin: 0; text-indent: 90px; font-weight: normal; } .body .content div.blog div div h2 { margin: 15px 0 0 40px; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 23px; color: #ff0169; } .body .content div.blog div div p { margin: 5px 0 0 40px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; width: auto; color: #89776b; line-height: 24px; } .body .content div.blog div.paging { margin: 80px 0 0; overflow: hidden; width: auto; } .body .content div.blog div.paging a { margin: 0; background: url(Images/interface.gif) no-repeat left -50px #ff0090; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: #fff; padding: 0 13px 0 20px; line-height: 20px; float: left; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; } .body .content div.blog div.paging div { float: right; width: auto; } .body .content div.blog div.paging div ul { margin: 0; list-style: none; padding: 0; float: left; width: auto; height: auto; color: #a3a3a3; } .body .content div.blog div.paging ul li { float: left; margin: 0 2px 0 0; width: 20px; text-align: center; height: 20px; background-color: #f1f1f1; } .body .content div.blog div.paging ul li.selected { height: 18px; width: 18px; border: 1px solid #ff0090; } .body .content div.blog div.paging ul li.selected a { color: #ff0090; } .body .content div.blog div.paging ul li a { color: #a3a3a3; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none; display: block; font-weight: normal; float: none; height: auto; padding: 0; background: none; border: 0; } .body .content div.blog div.paging div a { border: 1px solid #FF0090; color: #FF0090; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; height: 18px; padding: 0 10px; text-decoration: none; width: auto; background: none; } .body .content div.about, .body .content div.news { width: 730px; background: url(Images/bg-content.png); padding: 20px 30px 200px; } .body .content div.about h2, .body .content div.news h2 { margin: 0 0 20px; font-family: arial; font-size: 30px; color: #F6008A; font-weight: normal; } .body .content div.about h3, .body .content div.news h3 { color: #2f100d; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; margin: 0; } .body .content div.about p { margin: 0 0 40px; line-height: 24px; font-family: arial; color: #89776B; font-size: 13px; } .body .content div.news p { margin: 0 0 20px; line-height: 24px; font-family: arial; color: #89776B; font-size: 13px; } .body .content div.about p a, .body .content div.news p a { color: #f6008a; } /*------------------------- Paging --------------------------*/ .navigation ul { padding: 20px 0; } .navigation li a, .navigation li a:hover, .navigation li.active a, .navigation li.disabled { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; } .navigation li { display: inline; } .navigation li a, .navigation li a:hover, .navigation li.active a, .navigation li.disabled { background-color: #337ab7; border-radius: 3px; cursor: pointer; padding: 12px; padding: 0.75rem; } .navigation li a:hover, .navigation li.active a { background-color: #009900; } /*------------------------- Footer --------------------------*/ .footer { padding: 37px 0 10px; } .footer p { font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: #918889; text-align: center; } /*Tag*/ #post-meta { background-color: #f5f5f5; clear: both; font-size: 11px; padding: 7px 10px 5px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 20px; } .categories { background: url("Images/icon-categories.png") no-repeat scroll left top rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0 0 3px 22px; } #post-meta a, a.more-link { color: #009900; } .tags { background: url("Images/icon-tags.png") no-repeat scroll left top rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0 0 0 10px; padding: 0 0 3px 20px; } /*End*/ /*Wordpress Comment*/ /*End*/ /*WooCommerce*/ #main, .body .woocommerce { margin: 20px auto; overflow: hidden; width: 960px; color: #918889; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; } .wooArchiveProductDiv { float: right; width: 750px; } .wooSidebarDiv { float: left; width: 175px; } .page-title, .woocommerce-result-count, .woocommerce-ordering { float: left; } .woocommerce-result-count, .woocommerce-ordering { margin-top: 18px; padding-left: 50px; } p.form-row { margin-top: 10px; } #order_review_heading { clear: left; padding-top: 40px; } .woocommerce ul.products, .upsells ul.products { list-style: none outside none; margin: 10px 0 1em; padding-left: 0px; } .woocommerce ul.products:after, .upsells ul.products:after { clear: both; content: ""; display: block; } .woocommerce ul.products li, .upsells ul.products li { float: left; margin: 2px 3.5% 2.992em 3px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative; width: 21%; height: 100%; box-shadow: 0px 0px 6px 6px #d4d2d2; text-align: center; } .woocommerce div.related ul.products li { width: 16.50%; } .woocommerce ul.products li.first, .upsells ul.products li.first { clear: left; } .woocommerce ul.products li a, .upsells ul.products li a { text-decoration: none; display: block; } .woocommerce ul.products li a.button, #main .product .summary .cart .button, .upsells ul.products li a.button { background-color: #191919; border-radius: 2px; color: #FFFFFF; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; left: auto; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px; overflow: visible; padding: 6px 10px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11px; } #main .product .summary .cart .button { margin-left: 30px; } .woocommerce ul.products li a.button:hover, #main .product .woocommerce .cart .button:hover { background-color: #7C5C3E; } .woocommerce ul li a img:hover, .thumbnails a img:hover, .upsells ul li a img:hover { opacity: 0.7; } .woocommerce ul.products li a span.onsale, #main .product span.onsale { background: -moz-linear-gradient(center top, #7C5C3E 0px, #D53267 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 20px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 -1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 32px; margin: 0; min-height: 32px; min-width: 32px; padding: 4px; position: absolute; text-align: center; text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 #85AD74; } .woocommerce ul.products li a span.onsale { top: 6px; right: 6px; } #main div.product span.onsale { top: -20px; right: 640px; z-index: 10; } #main div.related span.onsale { top: 0px; right: 0px; } #main div.upsells span.onsale { top: 0px; right: 0px; z-index: 10; } .woocommerce .star-rating, #main .woocommerce-tabs #tab-reviews #reviews #comments .star-rating, .upsells .star-rating { background: url("Images/ico-star.png") repeat-x scroll left 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); height: 16px; width: 80px; margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; } .woocommerce .star-rating span, #main .woocommerce-tabs #tab-reviews #reviews #comments .star-rating span, .upsells .star-rating span { background: url("Images/ico-star.png") repeat-x scroll left -32px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); float: left; height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 16px; } .woocommerce .products h3, .upsells .products h3 { color: #f6008a; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0 0; text-transform: uppercase; } .woocommerce .products h3:hover, .upsells .products h3:hover { color: #7C5C3E; } .woocommerce ul.products li a span.price del span.amount, .woocommerce p.price del span { font-size: 17px; } .woocommerce ul.products li a span.price ins span.amount, .woocommerce p.price ins span { font-size: 20px; } .woocommerce ul.products li a span.price, .woocommerce p.price, .upsells ul.products li a span.price { color: #2f1107; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; } #main .product { background-color: #FFFFFF; position: relative; } .woocommerce-breadcrumb, .woocommerce-breadcrumb a, .woocommerce-message a { color: #7C5C3E; font-size: 14px; } .woocommerce-breadcrumb a, .woocommerce-message a { text-decoration: none; font-size: 17px; } .woocommerce-breadcrumb a:hover, .woocommerce-message a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } .woocommerce-breadcrumb a.home, .woocommerce-message a { font-weight: bold; } #main .product .images img { max-width: 330px; } #main .product .images { float: left; width: 350px; } #main .product .summary { padding-top: 0px; float: left; width: 400px; } #main .product .summary h1 { margin-top: 0px; } .woocommerce .product_meta, .woocommerce .product_meta a { color: #7C5C3E; text-decoration: none; } .woocommerce .product_meta a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } #main .product .summary .cart .quantity .qty, .woocommerce .shop_table .product-quantity .quantity .qty { -moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-top-colors: none; border-color: #C8BFC6 -moz-use-text-color #C8BFC6 #C8BFC6; border-image: none; border-radius: 2px 0 0 2px; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-width: 1px 0 1px 1px; box-shadow: 0 0 2px 0 #F7F6F7 inset; float: left; font-weight: bold; height: 28px; padding: 0; text-align: center; width: 43px; } #main .product .summary .cart .quantity .plus { border-bottom: 0 none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0; border-bottom-right-radius: 0; right: 337px; top: 0; } #main .product .summary .cart .quantity .minus { border-top-left-radius: 0; border-top-right-radius: 0; bottom: -29px; right: 337px; } #main .product .summary .cart .quantity .plus, #main .product .summary .cart .quantity .minus, .woocommerce .shop_table .product-quantity .quantity .minus, .woocommerce .shop_table .product-quantity .quantity .plus { background: -moz-linear-gradient(center top, #F7F6F7 0px, #E0DADF 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 1px solid #C8BFC6; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075) inset, 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); color: #5E5E5E; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; height: 15px; line-height: 13px; margin: 0; overflow: visible; padding: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); vertical-align: text-top; width: 20px; } #main .product .summary .buttons_added, .woocommerce .shop_table .product-quantity .quantity { position: relative; } .woocommerce-tabs { clear: both; padding-top: 5px; } .woocommerce-tabs ul.tabs { list-style: none outside none; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; height: 30px; } .woocommerce-tabs ul.tabs li { float: left; padding-right: 40px; } .woocommerce-tabs ul.tabs li a { padding: 8px 50px; background-color: #9A99FF; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; font-size: 18px; border-bottom: solid 2px #624428; } .woocommerce-tabs ul.tabs li a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } .woocommerce-tabs ul.tabs li.active a { border-bottom: solid 2px #FFFFFF; border-left: solid 2px #624428; border-right: solid 2px #624428; border-top: solid 2px #624428; } .woocommerce-tabs #tab-description, .woocommerce-tabs #tab-reviews, .woocommerce-tabs #tab-additional_information { clear: both; border: 2px solid #624428; padding: 5px; } .woocommerce-tabs #tab-description h2, #main .woocommerce-tabs #tab-reviews #reviews #comments h2, #main .woocommerce-tabs #tab-additional_information h2, #main .woocommerce-tabs #tab-reviews #reviews #comments .add_review a, h3#reply-title { color: #624428; } #commentform p.comment-form-author input#author { margin-left: 33px; } #commentform p.comment-form-email input#email { margin-left: 35px; } #commentform p.comment-form-comment textarea { margin-left: 5px; } #main .product .woocommerce #backgroundDiv { background: url( "Images/itemBackground.jpg" ) no-repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); height: 60px; } #main .product .woocommerce h1 { padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 5px; } #main .product .woocommerce h2 { color: #624428; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 18px; padding-left: 42px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 8px; } .woocommerce table.shop_table { border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-collapse: separate; border-radius: 5px; margin: 0 -1px 24px 0; text-align: left; width: 100%; } .woocommerce table.shop_table th { font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; padding: 9px 12px; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td { border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); padding: 6px 12px; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td a.remove { border-radius: 100%; color: #D53267; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; height: 1em; line-height: 1; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 1em; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td a.remove:hover { background-color: #D53267; color: #FFFFFF; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td, .woocommerce table.shop_table td a { color: #7C5C3E; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td.product-name { width: 140px; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td a { font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } .woocommerce table.shop_table thead tr, .woocommerce table.shop_table td.actions, .woocommerce #payment ul li div, .woocommerce #payment div.form-row { background-color: #F1F1F1; background: -moz-linear-gradient(center top, #FFFFFF 0%, #F1F1F1 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #666666; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #FFFFFF; } .woocommerce table.shop_table tbody tr { background-color: #F1F1F1; background: -moz-linear-gradient(center top, #FFFFFF 0%, #F1F1F1 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); } .woocommerce table.shop_table td a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td.actions .coupon { float: left; } .woocommerce table.shop_table td.actions { text-align: right; } .woocommerce .cart-collaterals { color: #7C5C3E; padding: 10px; border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: #FFFFFF; } .woocommerce .cart-collaterals h2 a { color: #7C5C3E; text-decoration: none; } .woocommerce .cart-collaterals h2 a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } .woocommerce .cart-collaterals button { background-color: #FFAAD4; } .woocommerce .cart-collaterals #calc_shipping_state, .woocommerce .cart-collaterals #calc_shipping_postcode { width: 239px; } .woocommerce .shop_table .product-quantity .quantity .plus { border-bottom: 0 none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0; border-bottom-right-radius: 0; right: 98px; top: 0; } .woocommerce .shop_table .product-quantity .quantity .minus { border-top-left-radius: 0; border-top-right-radius: 0; bottom: -30px; right: 98px; } .woocommerce .shop_table tr.cart_table_item { background-color: #FFFFFF; } .woocommerce p.woocommerce-info { margin-top: 0px; } .woocommerce p.woocommerce-info a, .woocommerce form.login p.form-row a, .woocommerce p.myaccount_user a, .woocommerce .col2-set a { color: #7C5C3E; text-decoration: none; } .woocommerce p.woocommerce-info a:hover, .woocommerce form.login p.form-row a:hover, .woocommerce p.myaccount_user a:hover, .woocommerce .col2-set a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } .woocommerce #customer_details, .woocommerce #order_review, .woocommerce .login, .woocommerce .checkout_coupon { padding: 10px; background-color: #FFFFFF; display: inline-block; } .woocommerce #order_review { width: 98%; } .woocommerce #payment ul { list-style: none outside none; } .woocommerce #payment ul li div p { padding: 10px; } .woocommerce #payment div.form-row { text-align: right; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 { float: left; width: 48%; } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 { float: right; width: 48%; clear: right; } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .form-row-first, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .form-row-last, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 .form-row-first, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 .form-row-last, .woocommerce form.login .form-row { float: left; overflow: visible; width: 47%; } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .form-row-first input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .form-row-last input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 .form-row-first input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 .form-row-last input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .create-account #account_password_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .create-account #account_password-2_field input, .woocommerce .form-row input[type="text"], .woocommerce .form-row-first input[type="text"], .woocommerce .form-row-first input[type="password"], .woocommerce .form-row-last input[type="password"] { margin-top: 5px; width: 202px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; box-shadow: 0 1px 4px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset; height: 20px; } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .form-row, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 .form-row { margin: 0 0 6px !important; padding: 3px; } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 #billing_company_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 #billing_address_1_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 #billing_city_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 #billing_address_2_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 #shipping_company_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 #shipping_address_1_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 #shipping_address_2_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 #shipping_city_field input, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 #order_comments_field textarea, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 .create-account input, .woocommerce form.login .form-row input[type="text"], .woocommerce form.login .form-row input[type="password"] { margin-top: 5px; width: 420px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; box-shadow: 0 1px 4px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset; height: 20px; } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 #order_comments_field textarea { height: 80px; } .woocommerce #customer_details .col-1 #billing_country_field #billing_country, .woocommerce #customer_details .col-2 #shipping_country_field #shipping_country { margin-top: 5px; width: 425px; } .form-row .required { color: #CC0000; font-weight: bold; border: none; } .woocommerce p.woocommerce-info { margin-bottom: 0px; } .woocommerce form.login, .woocommerce form.checkout_coupon { border: 1px solid #E7E7E7; border-radius: 5px; margin: 20px 0; padding: 5px; text-align: left; } .woocommerce ul.woocommerce-error { background-color: #FCD5D5; background-image: url("Images/error.png"); color: #C22A69; } .woocommerce ul.woocommerce-error { background-position: 20px center; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 1px solid; clear: both; line-height: 25px; list-style: none outside none !important; margin: 10px 30px; padding: 25px 20px 25px 70px; width: 60%; } .woocommerce h2 { color: #624428; } .woocommerce .form-row-first input[type="password"] { margin-left: 60px; } .woocommerce .form-row-last input[type="password"] { margin-left: 5px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_country_field #billing_country, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_country_field #shipping_country { margin-left: 50px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_first_name_field #billing_first_name, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_first_name_field #shipping_first_name { margin-left: 35px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_last_name_field #billing_last_name, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_last_name_field #shipping_last_name { margin-left: 37px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_company_field #billing_company, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_company_field #shipping_company { margin-left: 15px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_address_1_field #billing_address_1, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_address_1_field #shipping_address_1 { margin-left: 55px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_address_2_field #billing_address_2, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_address_2_field #shipping_address_2 { margin-left: 120px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_city_field #billing_city, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_city_field #shipping_city { margin-left: 31px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_state_field #billing_state, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_state_field #shipping_state { margin-left: 17px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_postcode_field #billing_postcode, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_postcode_field #shipping_postcode { margin-left: 16px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_email_field #billing_email, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_email_field #shipping_email { margin-left: 15px; width: 239px; } .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #billing_phone_field #billing_phone, .woocommerce #editAddressDiv #shipping_phone_field #shipping_phone { margin-left: 69px; width: 239px; } #editAddressDiv { background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 10px; padding-left: 30px; } p.stars { overflow: hidden; } p.stars span { background: url("images/ico-star.png") repeat-x scroll left 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); float: left; height: 16px; position: relative; width: 80px; } p.stars span a { float: left; height: 0; left: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 16px; } p.stars span a.star-1 { width: 16px; z-index: 10; } p.stars span a.star-2 { width: 32px; z-index: 9; } p.stars span a.star-3 { width: 48px; z-index: 8; } p.stars span a.star-4 { width: 64px; z-index: 7; } p.stars span a.star-5 { width: 80px; z-index: 6; } p.stars span a.active { background: url("images/ico-star.png") repeat-x scroll left -32px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); } p.stars span a:hover { background: url("images/ico-star.png") repeat-x scroll left -16px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); } .woocommerce-pagination ul.page-numbers { list-style: none outside none; overflow: hidden; padding: 20px 0; width: 100%; } .woocommerce-pagination ul.page-numbers li { float: left; margin-left: 5px; } .woocommerce-pagination ul.page-numbers li span.current { font-weight: bold; border-color: #000000; } .woocommerce-pagination ul.page-numbers li span, .woocommerce-pagination ul.page-numbers li a { background-color: #FBCEE1; border: 1px solid #BFBFBF; float: left; margin: 2px; padding: 3px 5px; text-decoration: none; } /*End*/ /*Common Elements*/ .clear { clear: both; } /*End*/ /*Contact Form*/ #cntctfrm_contact_form { color: #918889; } #cntctfrm_contact_form input[type="submit"] { background-color: #191919; border-radius: 2px; color: #ffffff; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; left: auto; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px; overflow: visible; padding: 6px 10px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; } /*End*/
|
Advanced Training: 2 Points You gain the Alert, Athlete, Healer, Medium Armor Mastery, Mobile, Observant, Sharpshooter or Skulker Feat. Waste Not: 1 Point You have advantage on all rolls made to find and harvest food, materials and supplies from plants, animals and monsters, and when creating simple traps. Want Not: 1 Point You have advantage on all rolls made when using the poisoner's kit and herbalist's kit to create poisons, antivenoms, potions of healing, and other simple alchemical creations, and when you would successfully produce a dose this way, you instead produce 1d4 - 1 doses (minimum 1). Field Medic: 2 Points You gain proficiency with the healers kit and medicine skill, and add double your proficiency bonus to all checks made using these. In addition, when you take a long or short rest, you may prepare a number of poultices and disinfected bandages equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). Applying these to a target is a full round action that heals the recipient 1d6 for every 2 of your character levels rounded up. Poison Specialist: 1 Point You have advantage on rolls made to resist poison and resistance to poison damage, and you may apply poison to a weapon as a bonus action. Sting of the Wilds: 2 Points You gain proficiency with the poisoner's kit and herbalist's kit. Using the poisoner's kit, you may make a DC 15 Wisdom check and spend 1d6 minutes creating an injury poison. This poisons effects are: If the target fails a Constitution save (DC 8 + Your Proficiency bonus + Your Wisdom modifier) they take 1d6 poison damage and are poisoned for 1d4 rounds. The target has disadvantage on this save if the poisoned attack was a critical strike. Once applied, this poison must be used in 1 minute or it dries out and is rendered useless. This poison's effects do not stack; instead if a target has already failed a save against this poison and must save against being poisoned again, the DC of the save is increased by 1 for every time it has previously failed. If it fails again, it suffers all poison effects again as normal and the duration of the poison is instead reset to its maximum. Crafting Poisons: A character cannot simply craft a poison out of thin air, they require proper supplies.
|
As Jones and a few others ran around in the game world, the skyscrapers had color overlays. One on the right had a green hue, another magenta. Each color, Jones explained, represents a different server in charge of the building. A little Xbox One logo hovered in the top left corner of the screen. Another special user interface element sat next to the logo: a single horizontal bar about an inch long. Everyone began shooting up the world. As the explosions expanded and debris began to fall, the bar began filling up like a progress bar on a computer. This, Jones explained, represents the total processing power of the machine he was playing on. It was running out of space quickly. Then it ran out of space entirely. "We always have the compute power on demand" At that moment, another horizontal bar bar appeared below it, but without the Xbox One logo. This, he explained, represents a server living in the cloud that automatically kicked in when the local machine reached its limits. They kept shooting, kept causing more destruction, kept chipping away at the dual skyscrapers. The deeper the destruction, the bigger the explosions, the more power Crackdown 3 required. When the server's horizontal bar maxed out, it added another, represented by a progress bar beneath it. And another. And another. The game didn't so much as hitch as the buildings fell and more and more servers made it happen. This is the cloud, and Crackdown 3 is all up in it.
|
Flamethrower Those who build are not always sane or nice people. The firespitter is the perfect example of what those people might build. A weapon that devastates targets with jets of burning, chorosive or chilling liquid. While undeniably effective so is its inhumanity. Firespitter Starting at level 1 you learn to build and use a firespitter. The firespitter produces a 15 foot cone of fire. Any creature who is in the cone must make a dexterity save against your spell save DC or take 1d6 + Intelligence mod in fire damage. They take half damage on a successful save. This move has a high chance to ignite flammable items in the cone and start fires. You can also choose a focused stream. This attack has 30 foot range and targets a single creature. Make a spell attack against the creature they take 1d12 + Intelligence in fire damage if you succeed. This has a low chance to ignite fires. Basic Improvements Starting at level 3 you can expend spell slots as an action to increase the damage your flamespitter deals by one damage dice per level of spell slot spent. The bonus lasts two turns after the turn you used this feature. If you use this feature again while this effect is already active it takes the new effect they do not overlap. Additionally you create an under layer, wearable under armor giving the wearer resistance to damage and effects caused by your flamespitter. The underlayer doubles armor don and doff time. New fuel mixtures Starting at level 9 you can fire off more than just simple flames. You gain access to four new fuels. Fire mixture. Creatures hit by this mixture have disadvantage to hit you with melee attacks until the end of your next turn. This is your default mixture type. Cold mixture. Changes damage type to cold. Creatures hit by cold mixture have their speed halved rounded up. Until the end of your next turn. Acid mixture. Changes damage type to acid. Each creature sprayed by acid has its armor class reduced by 1 until the end of your next turn.. High pressure air. Can be used to extinguish even large fires or push a creature back 20 feet. If you use the extra dice of basic improvements feature it increases the push back by 5 feet per extra die instead of adding damage.
|
The University of Florida women's lacrosse team (10-2, 4-0) put away the Marquette Golden Eagles (4-8, 2-2) with ease on Wednesday afternoon, 21-7.Nine different Gators scored a goal, and Florida's defense limited Marquette to 19 shots while forcing 16 out of 22 Golden Eagle turnovers.The Gators would utilize a 7-0 run early in the game, and a 9-0 run between the first and second half to build a commanding 17-4 lead before beginning to bring in second and third-lines. Wednesday's game was the second game in a row that every Gator who was available to play saw playing time.Sophomore attackertied her career-high with seven points (five goals, two assists), while(two goals, four assists) and(three goals, three assists) each contributed six points. Burgess tied her career-high and tied the Florida single-game record with four assists, all in the first half. Kittell's three goals and assists were both career-highs.The seven goals scored by Marquette were its fewest in conference play this season. Entering Wednesday's contest, the Golden Eagles ranked first in the BIG EAST in scoring (17.33 goals per game).With five caused turnovers, seniorset a career-high and tied the Florida single-game record. Fellow defendersandboth added a pair of caused turnovers, with Bresnahan also compiling three ground balls and two draw controls.Sophomore goalkeeperearned her 10th victory of the season, with seven saves and a .583 save percentage.The following Gators either set or tied their career-highs against Marquette:= Tied the Florida single-game recordNo. 3 Florida: 10-2 (4-0)Marquette: 4-8 (2-2)"A true team effort today. Everyone who was eligible to play saw time on the field. It is never easy traveling such a distance mid-week, but our team stepped up and played very well. I'm really proud of our effort on the defensive end, especially being able to force turnovers without fouling. Everyone worked hard in our ride and we had quite a few players see success on the offensive end. A great day for Florida Lacrosse. "The Gators return home to Donald R. Dizney Stadium on April 8 for a noon tilt with the Cincinnati Bearcats (5-6, 1-2).#FLax
|
While looking at various statistics for this article, I noticed a few interesting numbers.First on my radar was Nature's Prophet. Nature's Prophet was the most picked hero of the Dreamhack Invitational, being picked in 15 games and winning 10 of them (a 67% winrate). This takes us back to the era when Nature's Prophet was the most popular hero in the game, being always banned or first-picked when available. So what is the cause of Nature's Prophet's return? I believe we can find the reasons by looking for differences between good teams and great teams. Please remember - our intention is not to bash and flame Nature's Prophet players, but to discuss and learn more about the game from the statistics available to us. Teams have started to place more focus on having an overall gameplan, and this article intends to show an aspect of their game that still needs to be developed.Nature's Prophet can be played in several lanes and even in the jungle, and his presence in the game grows stronger as time passes and he's allowed to farm. He has the freedom of following different item builds, and thus is a true all rounder for the team. And yet, he is usually built in only one way: Midas, into Mekansm, into Scythe of Vyse. By getting Midas, on average, around the 10th minute, players follow a very greedy path with Nature's Prophet; if left unchecked, the surge of farm and experience will naturally allow him to grow stronger. However, if the other team decides to react, the Hand of Midas gives nothing but attack speed and in the long run the chances are that Nature's Prophet will offer next to nothing. In such a situation, he will end up putting a lot of pressure on his own team.From DHI numbers, we see that Nature's Prophet's average game time (in wins) is 34 minutes. That means a lot of teams are allowing Nature's Prophet to execute the greedy Midas-Mekansm-Scythe of Vyse build, and are not punishing him in the window where he is weak. Why are they not doing it?This leads us to an analysis of different playstyles and the difference between individual play and teamplay. Individualistic teams have a limited understanding of early game plans, timings and goals. They don't have a clear idea of the relation between the items they must get and the goals they must reach.
|
Table I Phthalate Metabolite Geometric mean (95% CI) Percentiles Limit of detection (LOD) %> LOD Sample size 50th 75th 90th CDC1 UW2 Diethylhexyl (DEHP) Mono-2-ethylhexyl (MEHP) 1.93 (1.76, 2.11) 2.00 4.70 9.20 0.5 1.0 66.4 753 1.39 (1.21, 1.60) 1.30 3.00 6.49 Mono-2-ethyl-5-oxohexyl (MEOHP) 4.22 (3.84, 4.63) 4.40 9.90 19.9 0.2 1.0 96.9 753 7.09 (6.17, 8.14) 7.35 15.2 27.1 Mono-2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl (MEHHP) 6.04 (5.49, 6.64) 6.10 14.0 29.7 0.2 0.2 or 1.0 97.2 753 11.0 (9.58, 12.8) 11.6 22.5 71.0 Mono-2-ethyl-5-carboxypentyl (MECPP) 8.12 (7.42, 8.89) 8.60 18.00 37.6 0.2 0.2 or 1.0 97.6 753 18.5 (16.2, 21.0) 18.8 34.7 79.2 ΣDEHP4 71.7 (65.6, 78.3) 75.0 165.0 333 NA NA NA 753 Diethyl (DEP) Mono-ethyl (MEP) 28.4 (25.3, 31.9) 26.0 81.0 213 0.6 1.0 99.1 753 67.8 (60.3, 76.4) 59.6 164 548 Butylbenzyl (BBzP) Mono-benzyl (MBzP) 3.31 (2.98. 3.68) 3.10 9.00 23.0 0.3 1.0 87.4 753 6.04 (5.38. 6.77) 6.36 15.3 29.3 Dibutyl (DBP) Mono-n-butyl (MnBP) 6.36 (5.77, 7.00) 7.00 16.6 30.4 0.4 1.0 or 2.0 92.4 753 14.7 (13.1, 16.5) 16.4 32.7 57.7 Di-isobutyl (DIBP) Mono-isobutyl (MiBP) 3.97 (3.60, 4.38) 4.40 10.6 21.7 0.2 0.2 96.9 753 7.50 (6.68, 8.43) 8.07 16.4 29.1 Di-n-octyl (DnOP) Mono-3-carboxy-propyl (MCPP) 1.91 (1.72, 2.13) 1.60 5.00 14.6 0.2 1.0 75.2 753 2.72 (2.29, 3.22) 2.79 5.78 12.6 Di-isodecyl (DIDP) Mono-carboxy-isononyl (MCNP) 2.03 (1.80, 2.29) 2.10 4.80 12.1 0.2 NA 95.9 4643 2.66 (2.32, 3.04) 2.60 5.21 11.6 Di-isononyl (DINP) Mono-carboxy-isooctyl (MCOP) 14.5 (12.5, 16.8) 13.2 45.2 121 0.2 NA 100 4643 11.4 (9.17, 14.1) 10.6 29.6 70.4 Phthalate Metabolite Geometric mean (95% CI) Percentiles Limit of detection (LOD) %> LOD Sample size 50th 75th 90th CDC1 UW2 Diethylhexyl (DEHP) Mono-2-ethylhexyl (MEHP) 1.93 (1.76, 2.11) 2.00 4.70 9.20 0.5 1.0 66.4 753 1.39 (1.21, 1.60) 1.30 3.00 6.49 Mono-2-ethyl-5-oxohexyl (MEOHP) 4.22 (3.84, 4.63) 4.40 9.90 19.9 0.2 1.0 96.9 753 7.09 (6.17, 8.14) 7.35 15.2 27.1 Mono-2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl (MEHHP) 6.04 (5.49, 6.64) 6.10 14.0 29.7 0.2 0.2 or 1.0 97.2 753 11.0 (9.58, 12.8) 11.6 22.5 71.0 Mono-2-ethyl-5-carboxypentyl (MECPP) 8.12 (7.42, 8.89) 8.60 18.00 37.6 0.2 0.2 or 1.0 97.6 753 18.5 (16.2, 21.0) 18.8 34.7 79.2 ΣDEHP4 71.7 (65.6, 78.3) 75.0 165.0 333 NA NA NA 753 Diethyl (DEP) Mono-ethyl (MEP) 28.4 (25.3, 31.9) 26.0 81.0 213 0.6 1.0 99.1 753 67.8 (60.3, 76.4) 59.6 164 548 Butylbenzyl (BBzP) Mono-benzyl (MBzP) 3.31 (2.98. 3.68) 3.10 9.00 23.0 0.3 1.0 87.4 753 6.04 (5.38.
|
State Department Expenditures. The State Department reports that 69,926 refugee were admitted to the United States in 2013. While the State Department also helps refugees overseas, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) within the State Department spent $310 million on resettling refugees in the United States in 2013. This means that an average of $4,433 was spent per refugee in 2013. These figures include costs for the “overseas processing of refugee applications, transportation-related services, and initial reception” and “housing, furnishings, clothing, food, medicine, employment, and social service referrals”. In this analysis we assume the amount spent by PRM per Middle Eastern refugee is the same as for refugees from the rest of the world. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The ORR spent nearly a billion dollars in 2013, but a significant share went to help the resettlement of unaccompanied minors and their families from Central America. Expenditures on new refugees and other related groups such as Cuban/Haitian entrants and asylees were $613,963,000 in 2013. Asylees and Cuban/Haitian entrants are essentially eligible for the same programs as refugees. Dividing this amount by the 128,000 individuals that ORR reports are covered by its programs (excluding unaccompanied minors) means that $4,797 was spend per refugee by ORR in 2013. In general, ORR only provides assistance to local communities, charities, and the refugees themselves in the first year after they arrive in the country or are awarded asylum. After a year, charities and state and local social service agencies are expected to care for them. Refugees and Welfare. Unlike other new legal immigrants, refugees are eligible for all welfare programs upon arrival. Further, there are several short-term programs, such as Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and Refugee Medical Assistance (RMA), for which only refugees and other humanitarian immigrants are eligible. Refugees have the most generous access to welfare programs of any population in the country. The ORR conducts the Annual Survey of Refugees each year and the 2013 survey provides a detailed profile of the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of refugees who entered the country in the prior five years, including use of many of the nation’s major welfare programs by sending region. We use information published by ORR on Middle Eastern refugees’ welfare use as the basis of our cost estimates. Welfare Use Rates.
|
17:08 < ploo> no interview but know that we won the vote 17:08 < Dooooge> hahaha 17:08 < redplanks> aw, no interview 17:08 < A_Delicious_Soda> Josh Wise winning the vote 17:08 < dogeyDoge> danica wasnt even in the top 3 17:08 < Quarpc> NEW PROJECT: DOGETRUCK 17:08 < TimStark> They'll likely interview him tomorrow 17:08 < Anoa> And now they're not! :D 17:08 < loveprofusion87> #ShoesNation™ @danicasshoes 4m 17:08 < loveprofusion87> We have proof dogecoin has cheated the fans the series and Josh wise releasing the cheating scandal to 2 medias tonight 17:08 < A_Delicious_Soda> Almost reaching 85,000 shibes 17:08 < TimStark> DOGETRUCK! 17:08 < A_Delicious_Soda> THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER 17:08 < cypher-raige_> Probably tomorrow 17:08 < TimStark> LOL CHEATING SCANDAL 17:08 < TimStark> yes 17:08 < foragerr> EVAHHHH! 17:08 < TimStark> do it 17:08 < cypher-raige_> There will be a trophy 17:08 < Sgtmt> if you asked josh if he thought he would be the fan vote winner a month ago im sure he would laugh 17:08 < TimStark> do it butthurt fans 17:08 < Anoa> beandip4all: Last year the video was at night, so either later tonight or tomorrow. 17:08 < Dooooge> DOGESTERTRUCK 17:08 < cypher-raige_> maybe after the truck race 17:08 < beandip4all> anoa you are right. 17:08 < TimStark> Guys, why stop there? 17:08 < MaximaxII> Come on, skip the stupid NHL flashbacks 17:08 < cypher-raige_> idk 17:08 < TimStark> I'm thinking DOGETANK 17:08 < Grantuh> This is fantastic! 17:08 < Grantuh> Good job guys 17:08 < Grantuh> we did it 17:08 < gero90> ! !! 2,831 boarding the rocker!! 17:08 < gero90> lol 17:08 < cypher-raige_> There was a ceremony when Danica won 17:08 < Quarpc> DOGEPLANE 17:09 < Quarpc> DOGEROCKET 17:09 < Compleks> wow 17:09 < gero90> rocket* 17:09 < Grantuh> with the streams, with the enthusiasm! 17:09 < TimStark> Bah, they're just pissed the internet won 17:09 < Dooooge> DOGECRAFT CARRIER 17:09 < foragerr> and a blanket reveal 17:09 < TimStark> WE WON 17:09 < Compleks> I can't believe it 17:09 < SupaShibe> can someone link the interview(s)? ?___________________________________________________ 17:09 < TimStark> WE. BEAT. DANICA. 17:09 < JoKOR_> mumble://109.201.148.199:20080/counter%20strike/Playing?title=nlpg+idg&version=1.2.0 17:09 < Compleks> someone pinch meh 17:09 < NoahRiffe_> all abord the rocket 17:09 < redplanks> dogebot 17:09 < Thiazzy> #ShoesNation™ @danicasshoes 14m Terrible fuck you wise and dogecoin fuck you @NASCAR 17:09 < dogevote> Did they ever show josh coming through the door?
|
In the past, the investment appeal of the Dallas-Fort Worth area has more often been a side attraction at political or cultural exchange events, Chun said.But Friday's summit, he said, will put trade opportunities front and center. "The purpose is to provide the platform between the U.S. and China," he said. "It's very important to make this platform higher and let people get closer, especially for the D-FW area. "The summit -- which will include panels on logistics, entrepreneurship, investment and education, as well as a slate of high-profile economic speakers, such as Steve Papermaster, a former adviser to President George W. Bush -- comes in the midst of a Chinese investment boom in the U.S.As the Chinese economy has slowed, the government has encouraged Chinese business leaders to get involved in foreign transactions, according to Bloomberg.And last year, Chinese investors put more than $15 billion into U.S. deals, Bloomberg reported , contributing to the creation of 13,000 full-time jobs for Americans.Texas was among the top recipients of that investment.Its membership, Chun said, has grown from 10 or 20 to more than 400.John Bloom, a member of the chamber's advisory board, said that the chamber has been working with city governments in the Dallas area to pitch business parks, particularly in Dallas' suburbs, as great places to expand operations. "Public incentive is part of the way we're hoping to attract some of these businesses," he said. "Whether that's tax incentives or preferential treatment" in choosing spaces.On the flip side, he said, local officials in China have rolled out the red carpet for American businesses.When a delegation from the chamber visited Guiyang recently, Bloom said that the group saw a new technology park, "which is basically ready to go for [U.S.] companies to come in to fill out the facilities, whether they're going to move their base of operations from somewhere else in China or add operations. "Improving connectivity between China and the U.S. is also a top priority for the Chamber, Bloom said.He said chamber members and Chinese business officials hope to see more direct flights to more Chinese destinations from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.Cities such as Chengdu, where American tech companies have a large presence, might someday be able to support routes, Bloom said.And, he added, Chinese tourists spend more per capita than any other foreign tourists, in large part because of the country's recent explosion in spending power and taste for luxury brands.
|
I’d like to say I never looked back but I definitely have. I’ve shaved a few times since, normally because I’ve still been unable to shake the ridiculous feeling that I won’t be able to look feminine in a ball gown with armpit hair. I’ve been self-conscious when people glance or whisper or make a comment to me. I’m ashamed to say I’ve apologised to a few people about it, feeling embarrassed and nervous and wanting to make a point of excusing it before anyone else can comment. I have still sometimes covered them up in summer, and definitely made an effort to hide it during my year of working behind a bar. I didn’t think tipsy, overly forward folks (usually men) would withhold comments on them when I reached up to get a wine glass. However, during this year, I was contacted by Ben Hopper, and eventually and slightly cautiously agreed to let him photograph me for his Natural Beauty series. The experience completely changed my feelings towards my armpits and my overall confidence increased massively. The cat was out of the bag to all of my friends and a rather wider audience than I ever imagined (over half a million!!). After reading the comments on the Facebook post I felt proud to be an example of how beautiful women’s bodies are, no matter what they choose to do with them. I felt indignant about the nastier comments, and developed an ‘if you don’t like it, I don’t give a shit because it’s not for you, and your opinion on my or any woman’s body is irrelevant’ attitude. I’ve now realised that underarm hair acts as a really great asshole deterrent – just another reason to love and appreciate it. I do love it now. I may still shave from time to time, just as I may wear lipstick, or dye my hair – but like the latter two, it would be for the sake of personal choice and expression, rather than to conform to a standard I have no interest in upholding or contributing to in any way.
|
Text of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech to the Israeli parliament The following is a condensed version of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s remarks to the Israeli Knesset on Monday: Shalom. And thank you for inviting me to visit this remarkable country, and especially for the opportunity to address the Knesset. It truly is truly a great honour. And I also thank you for the honour of the key to the Knesset, so now I feel I can come and go whenever I choose. And if I may, Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my wife Laureen and the entire Canadian delegation, let me just begin by thanking the government and people of Israel for the warmth of your hospitality. You have made us feel extremely welcome. (You) have made us feel immediately at home. Ladies and gentlemen, Canada and Israel are the greatest of friends and the most natural of allies. And, with your indulgence, I would like to offer a reflection upon what makes the relationship between Canada and Israel special and important. Because the relationship between us is very strong. … The friendship between us is rooted in history, nourished by shared values, and it is intentionally reinforced at the highest levels of commerce and government, as an outward expression of strongly held inner convictions. There has, for example, been a free-trade agreement in place between Canada and Israel for many, many years, an agreement that has already proven its worth. The elimination of tariffs on industrial products and some foodstuffs, has led to a doubling in the value of trade between our countries. But this only scratches the surface of the economic potential of this relationship. And I look forward to soon deepening and broadening our mutual trade and investment goals. As well, our military establishments share information and technology. This has also been to our mutual benefit. For example, during Canada’s mission to Afghanistan, the use of Israeli-built reconnaissance equipment saved the lives of many Canadian soldiers. All such connections and I could mention many more, science and technology, all build strong bridges between us…. However, to truly understand the special relationship between Israel and Canada, one must look beyond trade and institutions to the personal ties of friendship and kinship. Jews have been present in Canada for more than 250 years. In generation after generation, by hard work and perseverance, Jewish immigrants, often starting with nothing, have greatly prospered.
|
- Several other people in the /b/ thread then apparently logged in using this new password, and they all attempted to reset the password at once, causing a security trap at Yahoo to automatically put a 24-hour lockout on the account. THE AFTERMATH: - Sarah Palin was likely notified of the breach by morning, as she had then deleted both the [email protected] address (the one subject to the disclosure controversy in the media) as well as the [email protected] address (the one that was hacked). - The outright deletion of the accounts can be verified by attempting to pull up the public profile on both addresses, which both existed during the incident. SOURCE: http://profiles.yahoo.com/gov.palin SOURCE: http://profiles.yahoo.com/gov.sarah - Both accounts were deleted simultaneously, thus linking the publicly-known e-mail address "gov.sarah" and the private e-mail address "gov.palin". - This outright deletion may have the potential to be viewed as destruction of evidence, considering that the e-mails in the now-deleted accounts are the subject of several legal controversies. SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303210_pf.html - Several ZIP, RAR, and 7Z compilations of the downloaded screenshots, contacts, and photos were made available by anonymous individuals. - 4chan is actively (some say over-actively) banning and deleting any posts of the screenshots of Palin's account, contacts, or family photos. - An anonymous poster to 420chan, using information from the e-mail account's contact list, attempted to call Bristol Palin's cellphone number using the AT&T phone relay service. Several others allegedly called the cellphone number itself and got Bristol's voicemail. These posts were quickly deleted by 420chan moderators. - A poster on /b/ did a lookup on the cellphone number which returned this information: Type: Cell Phone Provider: Dobson Cellular Systems Location: Palmer, AK - An anonymous individual has uploaded some of the screenshots to a photobucket account. SOURCE: http://s405.photobucket.com/albums/pp134/anoncrack/ - A poster in /r9k/ e-mailed the compilations to ABC News producer Eamon McNiff who he/she claims is a personal contact of his/hers. - Someone submitted a summary to Digg. As of this writing it has only 12 diggs. SOURCE: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_Incident_Did_4Chan_Anon_Hack_Palin_s_Yahoo_Email - As of right now the media related to the incident sits mostly confined to 4chan and rapidshare, and thus either deleted, censored or under the radar.
|
Ouvrir la section: AZUR will be travelling during off-peak hours August 25 : AZUR will be travelling during off-peak hours An important milestone has been reached AZUR is finally showing up on the Orange line. If we have reached this major phase of testing, it’s because AZUR has undergone a full range of tests. Now, its performance must be validated in its actual operating environment, in other words, in our tunnels, our stations and alongside our other trains. In attendance for the start of daytime testing (L to R): Pierre Gagnier, STM board member and borough mayor of Ahuntsic-Cartierville; Philippe Schnobb, STM board chairman; Denis Coderre, mayor of Montréal; Robert Poëti, Québec minister of transport, minister responsible for the Montréal region; and Luc Tremblay, STM chief executive officer. Keep your eyes on the Orange and Blue lines In coming months, AZUR will be travelling on the Orange and Blue lines during off-peak hours. Two trains Don’t be surprised if you see two different trains: the prototype is loaded with various measuring instruments, while the other is fully outfitted. This last train will be used to perform the tests that require a fully-equipped interior. Testing without passengers This new phase of testing is essential to assessing the train’s performance under various operating conditions. You cannot board this train. The operator will sound the horn to inform you the train is entering the station. You will also notice that signs will be posted in the door windows. These indicate the train is being tested and that you cannot board. So who are all these people on the train? They are a group of STM experts and CBA consortium team members who, together, are validating all parameters and test results. When will the train begin passenger service? According to the latest schedule from CBA, the first train should be put into passenger service by the very end of 2015, if all required testing is successfully completed. And testing at night? So far, over 900 tests have been performed at night. Your browser does not support iframesSee Testing at night on YouTube. See Testing at night on YouTube Close
|
It is also interesting to note that there was a tremendous global uproar over Kennedy's actions. Many allied governments, while publicly supportive, were privately appalled by what they saw as an overreaction. Crowds in European cities — not to mention the communist world — demonstrated against U.S. aggression and portrayed Kennedy as a simplistic cowboy, irresponsibly playing with the lives of millions. Khrushchev's perception was quite different. Realizing that he had miscalculated, he sought a line of retreat. Khrushchev realized too late that however unsophisticated Kennedy might have appeared in Vienna and Berlin and during the Cuban missile crisis, there was no escaping the physical threat that Soviet missiles in Cuba posed to the United States. The physical danger to the United States, more than any other factor, focused Kennedy's mind. Kennedy knew that there was room for error on everything but the physical security of the country. He understood that, geopolitics aside, Khrushchev had crossed a threshold when he introduced the threat, and crossing that threshold changed the entire equation. That Europeans thought him a cowboy was immaterial once the direct security of the United States was at stake. Kennedy's actions were seen as extreme and disproportionate to the threat. He struck many in the world as reckless and incautious. Countries worldwide pointed at the nuclear threat the United States posed to the Soviet Union and argued that the Soviets were simply balancing things. Kennedy didn't want the threat to be balanced. He wanted the Soviets to remain at risk and the Americans to be safe. As he famously said in connection to other matters, "Life is unfair." It wasn't great philosophy, but it made sense to Americans. The United States threatened overwhelming force but actually used very little. In the end, Kennedy negotiated a settlement with Khrushchev and then lied about it. In a private deal with the Soviets, the United States agreed to exchange its missiles in Turkey for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Kennedy's rationale for this was sound. The missiles were obsolete. However, he also understood that — given his record of weakness in foreign affairs — he needed to appear to win even if he only tied. Therefore, holding open the possibility of invasion and even nuclear war as the threat, he extracted a concession from the Soviets that made the withdrawal of the Turkish missiles a secret part of the agreement, which would be void if it were publicly revealed.
|
In a way, bank-lending arguments are perhaps at the core of the racism debate in America, a fact which Shapiro likely understands and disingenuously straw-mans. That’s because while Shapiro keeps his assertions to the present day, this is a non-starter since urban life in the 1920s was more integrated (despite greater racism) in many places than it’d ever be again. From the 1930s on, redlining was codified in a series of New Deal programs that, although in some ways progressive, nonetheless targeted mixed neighborhoods for break-ups and explicitly promoted both physical and economic segregation. This meant that whites would be cordoned off from blacks in the cities, then get their ticket to the suburbs via discriminatory mortgage loans which still excluded non-whites well after World War II. Meanwhile, blacks- having already been shuffled around a few times- were invited to the only places they could now afford: the functionally ‘white’ housing projects and ghettos whites had just escaped, quickly dropping property values even before these neighborhoods had become violent and ill-serviced and thus (by Shapiro’s own logic) helping precipitate both. In response, investment into these communities dropped, further isolating them, driving up the prices on basic goods like food and gas in newly-minted ‘food deserts’, increasing crime, immobilizing residents, and generally making such neighborhoods even less desirable to investors, a cycle which continues to this day. Couple this with lower wages for blacks – i.e., an inability to save – plus the lack of return on their rock-bottom property values, and a huge swath of black Americans were back to a similar position they’d already climbed out of half a century before! In short, it’s not simply that we had a ‘failure’ in desegregation, but that re-segregation was a semi-official policy for decades, turning otherwise stable and desirable mixed and black neighborhoods into the voids which- by never being properly addressed- could safely be blamed on their residents. Unless Shapiro is prepared to blame the Civil Rights movement for some mysterious degeneration of black culture, the above narrative remains the most widely accepted explanation for black poverty:
|
For a child born into the bottom five percent, it is one in five - 200 times higher. It is the increasing ghettoisation of Britain that leads Martin Innes, professor of the Police Science Institute at Cardiff University to conclude: "We are approaching a point where we can either come back from the brink or we're sailing over the abyss." There is no reliable statistical evidence about long term youth crime trends. But from his own research Professor Innes believes there is something more random and brutal about youth violence. And that was certainly my impression from a comparison of crime stories in every edition of the Daily Telegraph in 1968, with every edition in 2008. There was a marked contrast both in the numbers and nature of violent crimes by young people. For example, the appalling story of two boys who repeatedly stamped on the head of a girl in Lancashire because she was dressed as a Goth. There are a number of stories like this from 2008 and in recent years. But nothing quite so casually cruel from 40 years ago. It surely does not much matter whether we say Britain is "broken" or "breaking" or "fragmenting around the edges". What matters is whether we recognise there are trends in behaviour and values that are taking us in the wrong direction. Part One of The Death of Respect will be on BBC Two at 2320 BST on Thursday, 16 July.
|
from django.conf import settings from django.db.models import Model , ForeignKey , ManyToManyField , OneToOneField def get_all_models (): all_models = set () for app in settings . INSTALLED_APPS : try : models = __import__ ( app + '.models' , {}, {}, 'models' ) except ImportError : continue for attr in dir ( models ): obj = getattr ( models , attr ) if isinstance ( obj , object ) and \ hasattr ( obj , '__bases__' ) and \ Model in obj . __bases__ : all_models . add ( obj ) return all_models def get_relns ( all_models ): foreignkeys = [] one_to_one = [] many_to_many = [] for model in all_models : for field in model . _meta . fields : if isinstance ( field , OneToOneField ): # must come before FK to = field . rel . to if to not in all_models : raise ValueError print " %s o2o to %s " % ( repr ( model ), repr ( to )) one_to_one . append (( model , to )) elif isinstance ( field , ForeignKey ): to = field . rel . to if to not in all_models : raise ValueError print " %s fk to %s " % ( repr ( model ), repr ( to )) foreignkeys . append (( model , to )) elif isinstance ( field , ManyToManyField ): to = field . rel . to if to not in all_models : raise ValueError print " %s m2m to %s " % ( repr ( model ), repr ( to )) many_to_many . append (( model , to )) return foreignkeys , one_to_one , many_to_many def class_name ( cls ): name = repr ( cls ) name = name [ name . index ( "'" ) + 1 :] name = name [: name . index ( "'" )] return quoted ( name ) # A lot of code below this line is copied from some stuff I wrote for my paper. # Should probably be cleaned up.
|
Gainesville became the first city in the nation to have a solar feed-in tariff ordinance which meant owners of new solar photovoltaic systems were eligible to receive 32 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity produced by the system over the next 20 years Getty Images
|
Francois Gouget (5): dmusic: Make DMUSIC_CreateDirectMusicDownloadedInstrumentImpl() static. d3drm: Remove a no longer used debug channel. ntdll: Remove an unused debug channel. d3dx9_36: Add a trailing '
|
Morris infers from this that if a large massacre of civilians had occurred, the woman who reported the rape would probably have reported that as well—though not necessarily that she would have reported other atrocities, like the killing of prisoners of war. “In all civil wars (as in all wars) both sides commit (what are today regarded as) war crimes,” Morris wrote me later, in an email. “In 1948, this appears to have been fairly common after villages that had resisted were conquered by the Jewish forces. For both sides, you need to take account that until mid- or end of May 1948, neither side had proper facilities to hold prisoners (PoW camps)—and Britain was the sovereign until 15 May so neither side could openly set up and run such camps. This of course resulted in the practice of killing prisoners (the alternative was to let them go—and they would return to the fray the next day).” At the hummus place, I told him about the man I had met in Fureidis, and the story he told about the soldier executing his former host. Morris knew immediately whom the man had most likely been describing. “He may have killed people. I don’t know.” Morris shook his head. “There’s a lot of things where you just will never know.”
|
It's hard to find a professional football franchise that gives less of a shit about its football team than San Diego. The owner couldn't really be bothered to face glaring flaws in his GM and the spoiled child-like treatment of the players and coaches. The Spanos family is happy with underachieving, which is fantastic considering his son and grandson are already being groomed to keep up the family legacy of extreme mediocrity. Speaking of their (former) GM, holy shit AJ Smith. If you know nothing else about his handling of the Chargers, know this: Smith called Norv Turner "The right coach at the right time." No one should ever say that about Norv Turner. Ever. Despite having the greatest running back of his generation (Tomlinson), the greatest tight end of his generation (Gates), and having Brees and Rivers at Quarterback, they have constantly disappointed in the playoffs. Let's recap using the "How many Jaegermeister shots it took to Cope" scale: 2004: Nate "The Little Engine That Couldn't" Kaeding misses a 40-yard field goal. Jets go onto win. (But the field was wet, you guys) Jaeger scale: Four Shots. 2006: Nate "Hey, How About My Regular Season Percentage?" Kaeding strikes again, missing a game-tying field goal. But this game will always be remembered for intercepting Brady, then Troy "Mr. Patriot aka Black Welker" Brown strips the ball loose. Brady goes on to win. Jaeger Scale: "Just leave the bottle." 2007: Jaeger Scale: Three Shots. Fuck Tom Brady. 2008: Jaeger Scale: Two Shots. 2009: Nate "Seriously you guys, how the FUCK IS HE STILL ON THE TEAM" Kaeding misses not once, not twice, but THREE times. 36-yards? Jaeger scale: "Hey gang, what happened last night and how come I woke up with wet pants?" This is a team that fired Marty Schottenheimer after going 14-2 (seems like a legit thing to do) and couldn't be bothered to pay Vincent Jackson at a franchise tag-level, but found a way to accept a just-over 50% career postseason kicker? Seriously, we don't deserve to win. Let's just go 7-9 forever and be done with it. P.S. I hope we ban the Powder Blue Unis. They may look sexy, but no amount of on-the-field visual aesthetics are worth having to witness Chris Berman blow his load every time he calls a highlight of their games.
|
As Fable development shot through the arrival of the new millennium, its creators neared exhaustion. "We were like, for fuck's sake, would this game please just end?" Glaswegian John McCormack, who moved over to Lionhead alongside others from Big Blue Box, says. Lionhead's culture was a blessing and a curse. The freedom to experiment, coupled with a lack of structure, or even design documents, meant Fable was packed with interesting features but lacked cohesion. It was an interesting sandbox, but it was a role-playing without a story. It was a giant world with hundreds of fantastic creatures and characters, but nothing to tie it together. "If you know Peter's games, they don't do story," McCormack says. "They're simulation. They're god games. They're sandboxes. So none of the guys involved in the development of Fable knew how to do that. And that's why it was slipping. They were trying to put all these bits together and they didn't know how to do it. That went on for a long time." Some had grown frustrated by the seemingly never-ending development. When Fable was first touted, it looked spectacular. But as time wore on its visuals began to show their age as other games caught it up. "The art was ready to go at the start of the Xbox's life," McCormack laments. "The engine was done. It was looking great. And we were like, we are the best-looking game out there. "And then we had to wait three years for the gameplay and the story to catch up, which was frustrating for everybody, because you're watching a whole load of other games come out and catch up. "By the time it shipped, everything had passed it," Most of the people interviewed for this feature who worked on Fable credit Microsoft with saving the project. The company did not interfere with the design of the game. Rather, it offered support, resources and production assistance. "We got proper resources," McCormack remembers. "We went from a team of about 15 in Godalming, to a team of about 90. Lionhead just went, this is the game, and Microsoft went, here's the money, and it just went, boof." Microsoft's support helped save Fable - even if its marketing department perhaps didn't quite get the game's unique prospect. After Big Blue Box moved over to Lionhead, Microsoft sent a crack team of engineers and a couple of producers over to help with development.
|
Until very recently in U.S. history, filibusters were rarely used. Half of all filibusters of executive-branch nominees have occurred under President Obama, and it was obvious from the first day of his presidency that Republicans would use the tactic to hamstring the government and block Obama. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, then, had every right to push for changes to filibuster rules four years ago, when GOP use of the filibuster was already out of control. But instead, Reid offered deal after deal to Senate Republicans. They accepted some. They honored none. Instead, the delaying tactics have continued. Frequently they have been used to block the implementation of laws the Senate had passed -- the two-year filibustering of the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for example, just because Republicans didn't like the law. And Republicans have paired judicial nullification with legislative nullification, blocking a record number of Obama's judicial appointees -- a power the Constitution actually mentions, unlike the filibuster -- for no real reason other than that they were Democratic nominees, not Republican ones. (Democrats were guilty of this under President George W. Bush as well, it must be noted, and deserve criticism for that, even if the number of filibusters was lower.) [...] [The GOP] could have stopped the unprecedented number of filibusters of presidential nominations, given that the president has a clearly defined constitutional responsibility to appoint people. They could have stopped blocking duly passed laws. But they didn't. So Republicans decrying filibuster reform as "dictatorial" or "a day to be sad" or other hyperbolic claims should look in the mirror. No one forced them to turn filibusters from a rarity to an oft-used tool for nullification and unprecedented obstruction. They have only themselves to blame. [The Washington Post, 11/21/13]
|
And now my friends, let us cease to be guided by the influence of a wild and beguiling passion—the wicked and foolish fantasies of pride, folly and lustful ambition—the alluring the detestable examples of despotism and governments—the sickly sensibility of those who from false notions of honor, attempt to promote the ends of justice, by placing “righteousness under their feet,” and are at all times ready to imbue their hands in a fellow creature’s blood, for the purpose of satisfying their voracious appetites for crime, murder and revenge. I say from them let us turn away, for a terrible retaliation must shortly await them, even in this life. The moral powers of this nation and the world is fast wakening from the sleep of ages, and wielding a swift besom, that will sweep from the fact of the earth error and iniquity with the power of a whirlwind. But a few years ago and dueling was considered necessary to personal honor, and the professional Christian, or the most upright citizen might barter away the lives and happiness of a nation with his guilty traffic in ardent spirits, with impunity. But now a regenerated public sentiment not only repudiates their conduct, but consigns them with “body and soul murderers.” Though the right to be free has been deemed inalienable by this nation, from a period antecedent to the declaration of American Independence, yet a mental fog hovered over this nation on the subject of slavery that had well nigh sealed her doom, were it not that in the Providence of God a few noble spirits arose in the might of moral power to her rescue. They girded on the power of truth, for their shield, and the principles of peace for their buckler and thus boldly pierced through the incrustrations of a false and fatal philosophy, and from the incision, sprang forth the light of glorious liberty, disseminating its delectable rays over the dark chasms of slavery, and lighting up the vision of the vision of a ruined world. And the effect has been to awaken the nation to her duty with regard to the rights of man—to render slaveholders despicable and guilty of robbery and murder—and in many places, those that profess Christianity have been unchurched, denied the privilege of Christian fellowship. And the same moral power is now awakening in the cause of peace, and will bring disgrace and dishonor on all who engage in wars and fighting.
|
It is my great honor to be invited all the way from Japan to this memorial seminar and conference in honor of Tan Ajahn Buddhadasa’s 111th birth anniversary. I am grateful to the organizer for finding my book, Modern Thai Buddhism and Buddhadasa, and calling me back to my starting point, the place where for the very first time I found an interest in Buddhism and contemporary Thai history. In the early 1990s, I read for the first time Tan Ajahn Buddhadasa’s book in Dr. Swearer’s English translation in Canada, where I studied as an exchange student from a Christian university in Japan. I thought something similar to the Protestant Reformation was going on in Thai Buddhism. I had little knowledge or experience of Thailand, so my hastily formed impressions did not easily convince the professors at my university. Their encouraging criticism drove me to retrace Tan Ajahn’s life and his teaching in the context of Thailand in his time. My book was the result of my field research in Thailand, done mostly during the late 1990s — unfortunately, it was after Tan Ajahn’s passing, so I never had an opportunity to meet the great Buddhist sage of Thailand. Nevertheless, my research was benefitted not only from his sermons, but also from interviews with many people who were active when Tan Ajahn was alive and learned from his teaching. I owe so much to all the people who kindly related to me their amazing experiences of obstacles, struggles, passions, and inquiry, experiences which were essential sources of inspiration for my attempt to write an alternative history of the people who lived in the time of modern Buddhism in Thailand. Before I begin my talk, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all those people who introduced me to the exciting new world of Thai Buddhism.
|
There's only one cop-out more disgusting than using tiers, and that's separating players by position. Does it make way, way more sense than mashing everyone into a single ranking? Yes. Is it way, way more lame? Also yes. — ( Link PVPLive’s team rankings begin with a tongue-in-cheek introduction, where every single sentence has a footnote making an inane joke about the inherent inaccuracy of power ranks. Despite devoting the entire introduction to making excuses, the ranking still employs the cowardly “tier” system instead of ranking the teams outright.There are a couple of redeeming factors to be found. There’s one instance of incredible bravery, daring to rate TSM as a middling team despite this guaranteeing the article’s utter failure on /r/LeagueofLegends. Furthermore, the article argues that structural imbalances condemn International Wildcard teams to perpetual failure—a point that should concern anyone who enjoys watching Worlds.Though I found some portions I enjoyed, the inexcusably dull use of tiers forces me to put this ranking in last place.— ( Link Like PVPLive, Korea’s Inven also employs a tier system that defeats the primary objective of a power rank: getting people to fight over arbitrary numbers given by writers who can’t possibly have watched every league.Inven does manage to offer one, very tasty morsel by ranking TSM at #3 over SKT at #4. Korean fans are about as aware of NA LCS as NA LCS fans are aware of LMS (if not less), making this a supremely bold choice.Additionally, Inven scores points by cutting down their analysis down to two, context-void bullet points on “strengths/weaknesses.” In some instances, they go as far as to substitute memes for actual insight. In a media environment where everyone obsesses over credibility, this was an oddly refreshing lack of effort.— ( Link As in their team ranking, Inven resort to the criminally bland tier system. However, compared to the team ranking, Inven do a slightly better job at stirring the pot with players.Uzi and Meiko—shoo-ins on other rankings—are conspicuously missing from Inven’s list. Instead, we see LPL mercenaries Mata and Looper elbow their way in. In fact, Clearlove is the only Chinese-born player who is ranked at all.
|
The first diagram shows a schematic picture of the spectrum for a particular configuration of the vocal tract filled with air. The solid line is the spectral envelope; the vertical lines are the harmonics of the vibration of the vocal folds. The second diagram shows the effect of replacing air with helium, but keeping the tract configuration the same (i.e. trying to pronounce the same vowel as before, but with a throat full of helium). The speed of sound is greater, so the resonances occur at higher frequencies: the second resonance has been shifted right off scale in this diagram. The flesh in your vocal folds still vibrates at the same* frequency, so the harmonics occur at the same frequency. What does this sound like? Well if you listen for the pitch, you will hear that it is the same note as previously (it is easier to hear the pitch if you sing rather than speak, because in speech we are much less conscious of the pitch). If you do the experiment with someone who has a bit of experience with singing, (and if s/he doesn't laugh too much on hearing helium voice) then the pitch will be the same in the two cases. The pitch is determined by the frequencies of the harmonics and these have not changed*. The speech does however sound 'like Donald Duck'. There is less power at low frequencies so the sound is thin and squeaky. This alteration to the timbre changes vowels in a spectacular way. Although we can understand whole sentences (using contextual clues) we find that individual vowels are very difficult to identify. (By the way, an articulate but otherwise standard duck would have a shorter vocal tract than ours so, even while breathing air, Donald would have resonances at rather higher frequencies than ours.) * If you keep the muscle tensions the same, that is, the frequencies will not change much. There could be a small change because the less dense He loads the vocal folds a bit less than the air, but this effect is slight. The effect on the resonances is large, however. Its size depends on how pure the He in your vocal tract is.
|
Four ways population rise takes its toll Environmental degradation. Unprecedented global threats such as climate change and decreasing biodiversity have been building and will become more severe as populations, economies and consumption grow. Crucial local environmental problems — including shortages of fresh water and arable land, mounting waste, and air, water and soil pollution — adversely affect health and threaten the expansion of food production required to feed more people a better diet. Economic stagnation. In poor societies, populations often double in size in two or three decades. Industries, offices, housing, schools, health clinics and infrastructure must be built at least at the same rate. Many communities are unable to keep up — as is evident from high unemployment rates, explosive growth of slum populations, overcrowded schools and health facilities and dilapidated public infrastructure (such as roads, sewage systems and power grids). Furthermore, in rapidly growing regions, about half1 of the population is aged under 20. The low ratio of workers to dependents depresses living standards and makes it more difficult to invest in the physical and human capital needed. The size of the formal labor force is also limited when women remain at home to care for large families. Political unrest. Youth unemployment becomes widespread when economies are unable to provide jobs. Vigorous competition for few jobs leads to low wages, which in turn contribute to poverty. Large numbers of unemployed and frustrated young men, in particular, fuel socio-economic tensions, high crime rates and political instability. What can be done Since the 1960s, the main policy response to rapid population growth, alongside investments to improve education and health, has been the implementation of voluntary family-planning programmes3. To make contraception accessible, these programs train staff, subsidize costs and develop distribution schemes — for example, clinics, drug stores and other delivery systems. Equally important, they provide education about the health and the socio-economic benefits of using contraception and having smaller families. The key reason for these programs is to address the substantial level of unwanted and unplanned pregnancy, as well as an unsatisfied demand for contraception. About 74 million unplanned pregnancies occur each year in the developing world (39% of annual developing-world pregnancies). About half of these end in induced abortions4. Among the reasons for unwanted and unplanned pregnancies are low levels of female education, a lack of knowledge about and access to contraception, insufficient supplies and services, cost and fear of side effects.
|
LUCKNOW: UP government may have been making effort to improve power situation by wheeling in power from external sources, its own proposed power plants have come to find their fate in doldrums. On Friday, the deadline for completing the construction of as many as six power plants with a total installed capacity of over 5000 Mw expired, almost seven years after they were conceptualized during the Mayawati government.The projects, proposed under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) route in 2009 have been a non-starters. The projects were given three extensions June 2012, December 2013, and June 2015 by the Akhilesh government. But this did not make any difference as the fate of the projects remained uncertain in the absence of coal linkages. Sources in energy department said the state government had to provide land, while the Centre had to provide coal linkages. "The state government provided the land, but none of the projects got the linkages. This has now put a question over the fate of these projects," said a senior official.The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission is now expected to decide the fate of these projects. UPERC chairman Desh Deepak Verma told TOI that the commission will soon take a decision about the future of these projects. In all, eight power projects were proposed during the BSP rule in 2009. But expect for 1,980 MW Lalitpur power plant, all seven have remained a non-starter. The count came down to six projects after Torrent backed out of the agreement for setting up a 1,320 MW power plant in Sandila (Hardoi).The projects have been given extension by the Samajwadi Party thrice in the past -- in June 2012, December 2013 and finally in June 2015. But that hardly made a difference even as the fate of the projects remained uncertain in the absence of coal linkages.Power consumer associations like UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhogta Parishad claim the private companies given these projects were only interested in getting the land resources. "We have already asked CM Akhilesh Yadav not to give any further extension to the projects," said Upbhogta Parishad president Avdhesh Verma.
|
An artificial increase of unprocessed material in the nest should shorten the length of foraging periods, while a decrease of cache volume should lengthen foraging periods. Such manipulations could be effected in laboratory colonies by directly introducing substrate to, or removing it from, the nest. Manipulations in field colonies would be more difficult, but additional substrate can be artificially supplied at the nest entrance and should result in a faster cache build‐up, and thence shorter foraging periods. Inversely, removal of substrate carried by returning foragers over several hours (cf. Burd, 2000) should slow the build‐up and produce longer foraging periods. Most importantly, alteration of leaf and fruit caches should have independent effects on a colony harvesting both resources. Manipulation of one should change the foraging cycle for that resource without affecting the period of the other. Such independence would be a strong indication of the presence of the proposed mechanism.
|
[consume] => [active] => [unique_active] => [is_deprecated] => 0 [is_deleted] => 0 [is_buildable] => 1 [is_published] => 1 [comment_count] => 9 [last_comment_ts] => 2018-01-21 16:10:30 ) [3] => Array ( [item_id] => 86 [display_name] => Boots of Mobility [url] => boots-of-mobility [client_id] => 3117 [icon] => /content/item/312e302e302e37302d33313137.gif [is_consumable] => 0 [is_summoners_rift] => 1 [is_twisted_treeline] => 1 [is_howling_abyss] => 1 [is_crystal_scar] => 0 [is_classic] => 1 [is_dominion] => 1 [available_in] => Classic,Dominion [tier] => Advanced [description] => UNIQUE Passive: Enhanced Movement 2 Passive: When out of combat for 5 seconds the effect of these boots is increased to Enhanced Movement 5. [recipe_cost] => 500 [total_cost] => 900 [sell_value] => 630 [category] => Movement,Boots [health] => 0 [health_regeneration] => 0 [health_multiplier] => 0 [dodge] => 0 [armor] => 0 [magic_resistance] => 0 [attack_damage] => 0 [attack_speed] => 0 [critical_strike] => 0 [critical_strike_chance] => 0 [critical_strike_damage] => 0 [life_steal] => 0 [spell_vamp] => 0 [tenacity] => 0 [mana] => 0 [mana_regeneration] => 0 [ability_power] => 0 [armor_penetration] => 0 [lethality] => 0 [magic_penetration] => 0 [cooldown_reduction] => 0 [attack_range] => 0 [gold_generation] => 0 [movement_speed_multiplier] => 0 [movement_speed_rank] => 0 [energy] => 0 [energy_regeneration] => 0 [experience] => 0 [unique_movement_speed_rank] => 25 [unique_movement_speed_multiplier] => 0 [unique_armor] => 0 [unique_magic_resistance] => 0 [unique_attack_damage] => 0 [unique_health_regeneration] => 0 [unique_mana] => 0 [unique_mana_regeneration] => 0 [unique_magic_penetration] => 0 [unique_armor_penetration] => 0 [unique_lethality] => 0 [unique_life_steal] => 0 [unique_spell_vamp] => 0 [unique_tenacity] => 0 [unique_attack_speed] => 0 [unique_cooldown_reduction] => 0 [unique_ability_power] => 0 [unique_critical_strike_chance] => 0 [unique_critical_strike_damage] => 0 [unique_dodge] => 0 [unique_gold_generation] => 0 [unique_health] => 0 [unique_death_time_reduction] => 0 [unique_energy] => 0 [unique_energy_regeneration] => 0 [unique_experience] => 0 [unique_health_multiplier] => 0 [aura] => [passive] => [unique_passive] => Enhanced Movement: +25 Movement Speed. Increases to +115 Movement Speed when out of combat for 5 seconds.
|
He was a player I was looking closely at even before I went to do my military service, and after he transitioned to StarCraft 2, he reached the finals through a ton of hard work. Unfortunately, he's left us with regrets because he couldn't win a championship. He's the heart and soul of the team ever since Fantasy has left, and I want to help him win a championship trophy in a big tournament.Q: What's your outlook on the 2016 Proleague season?A: Instead of looking at other teams, I'm thinking about how we can run our team in order to win consecutive titles. Because all of the players who played so well for us last year remained, I think it's possible, but we won't let our guard down. There's 2~3 players I'm looking at as prospects, and if they can play their supporting roles well, then I think we can win consecutive championships. Administrator Hey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
|
she does a lot of damage and can engage a lot --- https://imgur.com/TXooEo3 **frosty the snowwoman:** ok u might not know this but her ice isn't ice it's actually a type of ice that doesn't melt so u can put it in ur pillow and it makes ur pillow always cool and then u don't have to flip it. --- https://imgur.com/PsXuPPG **[CENSORED BY BOARDS PPL SRY NO FUNNY JOKE :(]** --- https://imgur.com/7NDiRrt **egirl #4:** fuck ardent censer. --- https://imgur.com/TqJ5moC **egirl #5:** don't build sightstone bc u need to carry ur team with ap items. ur adc is actually just an ad support. --- https://imgur.com/TUMrmqu **dwayne:** ur a rock. do rock stuff. --- https://imgur.com/3rSlzPs **space aids man:** use ur space aids on guys to give them space aids and then they will die bc they have space aids and space aids kills people because it's space aids. --- https://imgur.com/pxUwo3u **maoguy:** u don't die so if u want to u can tape down the mouse button to move top lane while u leave the computer. he keeps healing 100% of his hp back. when u come back u should have a victory showing on screen. --- https://imgur.com/LouN4Rq **mister yi:** just like maoguy u can tape down the mouse button and win the game. u have lots of eyes so u can see a lot of stuff. --- https://imgur.com/JZD6LHv **jessica rabbit:** do the bang bang bang bang with your guns and laugh like a maniac while doing it. and also [CENSORED BC I WILL PROBABLY GET BANNED SRY NO FUNNY JOKE :(] --- https://imgur.com/d3nsYEj **heavy metal band guitar player:** all his moves are named after metal music. this is why you have a lot of metal stuff in ur kit. u can also catch the dragon and get a big spooky ghost dragon to kill everyone until it dies after it's already dead. --- https://imgur.com/7NBRnD9 **morgana freeman:** only call her morgana freeman if ur an unfunny person that can only make overused jokes to try and desperately entertain people. --- https://imgur.com/atUIsCD **egirl #6:** fuck ardent censer. --- https://imgur.com/8eO1h99 **good boy:** whos a good boy u are oh yes ur a good boy you you wanna go out 4 a walk u wanna go for a walk yea? ok lets go for a walk good boy heres a treat --- https://imgur.com/ViGbKH4 **sea man**: u come from the ocean and have lots of sea powers.
|
We’ll figure it out.”White was right about one thing: Affliction’s time was limited. However, “The Last Emperor,” despite raising his stock to an all-time high with first-round victories over former UFC champions Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski while fighting for the short-lived promotion, would never set foot inside an Octagon. White was never able to see eye-to-eye with M-1 Global, Emelianenko’s management team.“He got offered a [expletive] assload of money,” White said in June 2009. “A ton of money, everything he wanted. He can go fight in sambo every [expletive] Thursday night if he wants to. He can do everything he wanted to. We showed them nothing but respect.”Instead, Emelianenko went to Strikeforce and eventually suffered a string of losses that resulted in his release -- after the company was under Zuffa ownership, no less. Couture, who had relinquished his title to Brock Lesnar in November 2008, competed once more at heavyweight -- aside from his freakshow bout with James Toney -- before returning to 205 pounds. He retired in 2011, while Emelianenko called it a career earlier this year.“I wish [I could have fought Emelianenko] when we were both kind of at our peak; if it would have happened it would have been something special,” Couture told The Score. “The cards didn’t just come out that way.”
|
“This government has come out very strongly in saying we want to support women and girls,” said McArthur. “And obviously there needs to be a dollar figure associated to that.”
|
I hope I am able to finish all the paperwork by then,” he said.Animal welfare activists, who have been lobbying for the ban of rampant breeding, said the ban should be sensibly imposed. “We welcome the government’s import ban, but it should not harm genuine pet owners," said Nilesh Bhanage, founder of PAWS, an animal welfare organisation.
|
BACKGROUND PROFICIENCY Sometimes a situation may occur in which your prior training and experience can be applied. When making an ability check, if you can explain why your character's background should apply to the check, and the DM agrees, you can add your proficiency bonus to the check, even if you aren’t normally proficient in that skill. For example, a character with the noble background could reasonably argue that the proficiency bonus should apply to a Charisma check to secure an audience with another noble. Or a sage who spent their life studying dragons might add their proficiency bonus to a Wisdom check to track one, despite not being proficient in Survival.
|
BP has scheduled its so-called top kill procedure for Wednesday during the daytime andin halting the leak at its runaway Macondo exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP executive Doug Suttles said Monday.chief operating officer for BP Exploration & Production, during a press conference Monday to provide an update on the company's effort to kill the leak that has been threatening the Gulf Coast since the April 20 blowout at the well. Suttles said engineers would know when top kill works because "the well would stop flowing. "Top kill is the name for the procedure that would inject heavy drilling fluids into the choke and kill lines of the well's malfunctioning blowout preventer to clog the flow of crude that had been estimated around 5,000 b/d, a figure largely discredited. "It shouldn't actually make the leak worse," Suttles said when asked about the risk for attempting the top kill procedure.If the top kill fails to halt the Macondo flow, Suttles said the company would look next at what he called a "lower marine riser package," cutting the riser and placing a new containment device over the leak. He again stressed the unprecedented nature of all options at these water depths and said the company has to carefully consider the timeline for its maneuvers to ensure that failed attempts with some options do not block attempts with other options.Suttles also said the company's riser insertion tube continues to divert oil from the leak at a rate of about 2,000 b/d. BP successfully inserted that tube a week ago and has been measuring the flow of oil siphoned to a vessel on the surface.Suttles said in reference to independent research that has speculated the flow could be as high as 120,000 b/d. Suttles also dismissed a suggestion that explosives might ultimately be used to collapse the well, calling it "not an option that we believe we would ever use" because "we couldn't control the damage." Quoting: SHR
|
The boulder deals 333% weapon damage as Physical every second and rolls toward nearby enemies, knocking them up Passive: A mystic ally fights by your side that increases your Life by 20% Mantra of Evasion Skill has been reworked Costs 50 Spirit Active: You and nearby allies gain an additional 17% increased Dodge Chance for 3 seconds Passive: You and your allies within 60 yards gain 17% increased Dodge Chance Only one Mantra may be active at a time All Skill runes now affect Mantra of Evasion's Passive ability Skill Rune - Wind through the Reeds Movement speed increased from 8% to 10% Mantra of Retribution Skill has been reworked Costs 50 Spirit Active: Increase the amount of damage dealt to 202% for 3 seconds Passive: You and your allies within 60 yards deal 101% of your weapon damage as Holy to attackers when blocking, dodging, or getting hit Only one Mantra may be active at a time All Skill runes now affect Mantra of Retribution's Passive ability Skill Rune - Retaliation Increased damage reflection bonus from 60% to 202% weapon damage Damage type changed from Holy to Fire Skill Rune - Transgression Attack speed increased from 8% to 10% Skill Rune - Indignation Increased chance to stun from 10% to 20% Increased stun duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds Skill Rune - Collateral Damage Increased chance for feedback blast from 30% to 75% Increased Holy damage done from 45% to 101% Mantra of Healing Skill has been reworked Costs 50 Spirit Active: Shroud you and your allies with a mystical shield that absorbs up to 9554 damage for 3 seconds. Absorb amount is increased by 15% of your Health Globe Healing Bonus Passive: You and your allies within 60 yards gain 1012 increased Life regeneration.
|
Death on an Ice Bridge - A Story of Love & Valour 1936 - The winter of 1935 - 1936 was noted for an extended period of extremely cold temperatures. This caused an ice jam at the eastern tip of Goat Island which reduced the water flow over the American Falls to a mere trickle. The American Falls ran dry. Soon hundreds of people were crossing the dry river channel on foot from the mainland to Luna Island only feet from the precipice of the American Falls. 1938 - On January 25th 1938, a south-west gale force wind sent an enormous amount of ice from Lake Erie down the length of the Niagara River and over the both the Horseshoe Falls and American Falls. Quickly two ice bridges developed. The first ice was located at the base of the Horseshoe Falls and extended downstream to the area of the Ontario Power Company Generating Station. The second ice bridge developed downstream of the Whirlpool and extended to the mouth of Lake Ontario. Ice began mounting higher and higher. Soon the river banks disappeared from sight. The rock talus at the base of the American Falls began to disappear under the cover of the ice as well. The river bed rose 30 feet at the Queenston Power Plant (Sir Adam Beck Generating Station) and the river water level rose a record 9 feet. The docks of the Maid of the Mist were crushed by the massive onslaught of ice. Ice and water quickly began pouring into the Ontario Power Company Power Station. The Generators became buried in ice and the generating station was brought operations at this plant to a sudden halt. The mounting ice began enveloping the abutments of the Falls View Steel Arch Bridge. The enormous pressure being applied to the girders of the bridge was causing the bridge to become unsafe despite the efforts of workers trying to remove the ice at the base of the bridge. At 9:15 a.m. on January 26th, all vehicle and pedestrian traffic was stopped from crossing the bridge. The ice had caused irreparable damage to the bridge and it was now only a matter of time before it would collapse. Crowds of people came to the Falls and lined the river banks in a death watch for the bridge. Finally, at 4:10 p.m. on January 27th 1938, the Falls View Bridge collapsed into the Niagara Gorge and onto the ice bridge below.
|
Hide Caption 20 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten observes a moment of silence after signing a condolence book in The Hague on July 18. Hide Caption 21 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – Candlelight prayers honor the victims at a church outside Kuala Lumpur on July 18. Hide Caption 22 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – Floral tributes adorn the entrance to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Hide Caption 23 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – A Dutch flag flies at half-staff in The Hague on July 18. Hide Caption 24 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – People place flowers in front of the Dutch Embassy in Moscow on July 18. Hide Caption 25 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – Students attend a prayer July 18 in Central Java, Indonesia. Their teacher John Paulissen was a passenger on Flight 17. Hide Caption 26 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and members of his government observe a moment of silence on Thursday, July 17. Hide Caption 27 of 28 Photos: Photos: Reaction to MH17 World reacts to MH17 crash – People pay tribute to the victims outside the Dutch Embassy in Kiev on July 17. Hide Caption 28 of 28
|
Name Symbol Conversions Notes Thermochemical calorie cal th ≡ 7000418400000000000♠ 4.184 4.184 J ≈ 7000418224139978567♠0.003964 BTU ≈ 7000418319999999999♠1.162×10−6 kWh ≈ 7000418328280755700♠2.611×1019 eV the amount of energy equal to exactly 4.184 joules [4][a][6][7] 4 °C calorie cal 4 ≈ 4.204 J ≈ 7000420439757269069♠0.003985 BTU ≈ 1.168×10−6 kWh ≈ 2.624×1019 eV the amount of energy required to warm one gram of air-free water from 3.5 to 4.5 °C at standard atmospheric pressure. 15 °C calorie cal 15 ≈ 4.1855 J ≈ 7000418551207292880♠0.0039671 BTU ≈ 1.1626×10−6 kWh ≈ 2.6124×1019 eV the amount of energy required to warm one gram of air-free water from 14.5 to 15.5 °C at standard atmospheric pressure. Experimental values of this calorie ranged from 4.1852 to 4.1858 J. The CIPM in 1950 published a mean experimental value of 4.1855 J, noting an uncertainty of 0.0005 J. [4] 20 °C calorie cal 20 ≈ 4.182 J ≈ 7000418224139978567♠0.003964 BTU ≈ 1.162×10−6 kWh ≈ 2.610×1019 eV the amount of energy required to warm one gram of air-free water from 19.5 to 20.5 °C at standard atmospheric pressure. Mean calorie cal mean ≈ 4.190 J ≈ 7000418962679075402♠0.003971 BTU ≈ 1.164×10−6 kWh ≈ 2.615×1019 eV 1⁄ 100 of the amount of energy required to warm one gram of air-free water from 0 to 100 °C at standard atmospheric pressure. International Steam table calorie (1929) ≈ 4.1868 J ≈ 7000418677813995194♠0.0039683 BTU ≈ 1.1630×10−6 kWh ≈ 2.6132×1019 eV 1⁄ 860 international watt hours = 180⁄ 43 international joules exactly. [note 1] International Steam Table calorie (1956) cal IT ≡ 4.1868 J ≈ 7000418677813995194♠0.0039683 BTU = 1.1630×10−6 kWh ≈ 2.6132×1019 eV 1.163 mW·h = 4.1868 J exactly. This definition was adopted by the Fifth International Conference on Properties of Steam (London, July 1956). [4]
|
"The flood situation in UP and Bihar and recent heavy rains and cloudburst in Uttarakhand were also reviewed with the state governments," the statement added. (A view of the marooned village in Bahraich on Saturday. )In Bahraich, around 470 villages of Balha, Mihipurwa and Shivpu blocks are submerged under water following damage to the Saryu canal. District administration feared several hundred people might have got swept away in the flood and were untraceable until Saturday evening. Six people along with two girls too went missing after a boat capsized in Ghaghara in Dhaurahra, Lakhimpur Kheri. The district administrations of Bahraich and Shravasti could not confirmed the death toll as a result of the floods.Flood waters have caused damage worth crores of rupees with crops, cattle and 'kachcha' houses washed away. Flood waters blocked the Bahraich-Bhinga (district headquarters of Shrawasti) road and affected rail traffic on the Gonda-Mailani line. On Saturday, nine schools in Lakhimpur Kheri were ordered shut after being submerged in the flood waters. Waters also entered into five branches of Allahabad bank and 16 branches of Lucknow regional rural banks affecting banking services in the low-lying areas. (With inputs from Bipin Chandra Agarwal in Bahraich, Swati Mathur in Lucknow and Vishwamohan in New Delhi)
|
For his full portfolio, please visit www.scottnathanphoto.com. What is your background? What type of photography do you specialize in? I’ve been an enthusiast my whole life. I got my first darkroom at nine years old, but didn’t turn pro until my late 30’s. While my clients and assignments have been all over the place, ranging from landscape architecture and Playboy to the U.S. Marines. My bread & butter though has always been beauty: hair & makeup campaigns for Dita Von Teese, Urban Decay, Too Faced, Schwarzkopf, Sultra, Bio Ionic and many more. Throughout your career, what has been your favorite shoot? It’s tough to pick a favorite shoot. In hindsight, the ones that have touched the most people feel great. For example, Katy Perry’s first ever advertising job when I discovered her and introduced her to Too Faced Cosmetics before she had a record deal. Or all the work I’ve done over the years with Dita stands out too. The work I enjoy the most involves storytelling. Color, comedy & irony are always in my mind. Creating a world that exists nowhere else but my imagination is always appealing. At the moment, I’m enjoying the opposite of all that. It’s a still and video portrait series I’m doing for a museum & gallery installation. It is two 10 minute video portraits of people in my life. Austere lighting, minimal hair and makeup. Eyes directly to camera. They were all shot with K5600’s Evo Kit. Between one and three lights. Having come up in the studio business with 2400 and later 3200 watt second strobe packs, I wasn’t sure 200 Watts of continuous light would cut it, but these lights are powerful and the quality is breathtaking. Why do you choose to use continuous light/HMIs? To heavyweights in film & photography, HMI needs no introduction. It’s textured intangible quality is magical and undisputed. Trouble was, in the past, they were big, hot and blindingly expensive. How do you like to use your Jokers? I use all the go-to dozen or so light modifiers that I owned already. Beauty dishes, grids & reflectors and the occasional softbox. I love that K5600 makes adaptors for anything you could ever want providing limitless options for light shape and texture. I love the Fresnel lens and use it a lot, along with the rest of the lens kit. The scrims offer me tons of control over output. They’re super efficient.
|
(Warning: This was typed by a very sleep deprived man)Last month, the court case that removed my ability to get a passport came to an end. I assumed that at that point, I was allowed to do all the things that had been legally kept from me. Drive a car, use my bank account, get a passport, etc.In June, Danielle and I took a ferry (I live far away from everything and must take a ferry into the city for many things) to the passport office to order passports at $90 each so we could go to ConnectiCon. Just to be sure, we paid the extra $30 each to get the "express" treatment so we'd be sure to have them in time for the convention. We were assured that if there were any problems, they'd call us. If we received no phone calls, we could pick up the passports on the very day that we were scheduled to catch a plane into the USA. Talk about cutting it close!For two weeks, I jumped every time the phone rang, hoping that it wasn't the passport office. After all, our plane tickets came to $1,500 and were non-refundable. The day before we were meant to leave for the convention, we received a letter from the passport office, telling me that my passport application had been denied because there was a "flag" on my name. The letter was sent the date after we applied for the passports.I quickly called up the FMEP (who were my old "friends" from the court case who were supposed to remove the flag on my name) and asked what was up. The man I spoke to told me that it was all cleared up weeks ago and perhaps the files at the passport office were just slow to update.Danielle and I woke up at 4:15am the next day in order to catch the first ferry into the city and be at the passport office as soon as they opened. We brought with us, all our ConnectiCon luggage just in case there was something that could be done and we could dart off to the airport with passports in hand. Once at the office, we waited in line to get a number, then waited for that number to be called at which point we spoke with Gordon, a passport office employee.After hearing about our situation, he looked me up and discovered that the evil flag wason my name!
|
“But because the stakes are so high and it’s moving so fast, no one doubts that if you don’t get a handle on this battle in the Atlantic, then the immediate consequences will be really grave. So they’re willing to do this kind of pragmatic trial and error. They start to see that ‘I can’t dig in my heels–I need this other person to learn from.’” In the face of a common enemy, Americans worked together in a way they never had before. …
|
If there's a surefire way to bring a Colorado town together, it's with craft brews and music.That's the plan for Truth in Brewing in Broomfield, where Microbrew Maps is bringing local breweries and bands on the first Saturday of every month. From July to October, The Old Man on W. 120th Avenue will host bands like the Jeff Brinkman Band, Policulture and Blue Krewe while serving up their barbecue and drinks. Local home brewers will be around to share their beer along with Oskar Blues, Big Choice, UpSlope, Twisted Pine, Asher Brewing Co. and 303 Vodka. "We kind of wanted to promote community in Broomfield because there isn't really anything along these lines, as far as a beer fest or music fest," co-founder and operations director Nathan Manning said. "We're kind of regulars at The Old Man bar. It's kind of Broomfield's version of Cheers. The wait staff knows not just your name, but what kind of beer you drink. "The beer tasting runs from 2 to 5 p.m. for the price of a $40 ticket. Once that's over, everyone and anyone, including non-ticket holders, can continue the party at The Old Man, where the music will be coming live from the backyard. The bar isn't very big on the inside, but out back there are fire pits, picnic tables and another bar. Kristy Mulvania, a bartender there, says there's plenty of room for a band and 200 people. "I'm excited. This is the first huge event we've had back here with live music and beer vendors and bringing in our neighbors to serve their product," Mulvania said.If the cost of a ticket seems steep, consider this: Proceeds are going to the Progressive Health Center, a non-profit integrative healthcare center in Englewood, and Love Hope Strength, a cancer charity that's also supported by singer/songwriter Jeff Brinkman. The latter will be taking cheek swabs at Truth in Brewing to add people to a bone marrow donor list.And there's one more important partnership: Yellow Cab. After a day and evening of beer, Truth in Brewing wants to make sure revelers get home safe. Manning said they'll be doling out promos, which should encourage locals to grab a cab, and also hopefully encourage visitors from other cities on the 36 corridor.This Saturday, the festivities kick off with Brinkman and Policulture, a Boulder-based reggae band that formed out of CU-Boulder.
|
Within a decade, simply because it had more people than the rest of the Federation put together, China assumed an economic, political and cultural leading role which she has kept ever since.At this point, despite a number of temporary setbacks, the position of world Communism seemed unassailable. When Lenin finally bit the bullet in '28, the SSF, now headed by the troika of Trotsky, Chen and Luxemburg, was the world's second greatest power: a formidable bloc stretching from the Rhine to the South China Sea, barely hemmed in by increasingly shaky fascist France and Italy, an Imperial Japan staring collapse in the face and seething British India, with America watching in fearful resignation tempered by apocalyptic desperation. The Wall Street Crash of the same year signalled, even to conservative commentators, the final death agony of capitalism.The Bolshevik insurrection had counted on European revolution for its own survival. Indeed, internationalism was the basic principle of the Communist movement. The economic plan which welded together the Central and East European and Asian economies, found its parallel in the intermingling of the Soviet cultures, and the union of the various Communist Parties with a minimum of conflict. National culture was not stuffed into a bureaucratic straitjacket but encouraged to enrich itself and others in free union. The majority opinion, although far from unanimous, was that socialist culture had to be built not from scratch, from a "clean sheet", but on the basis of the massive cultural body developed under capitalism and previous class society, in the same way as socialist technique and thought. This was seen as the stepping stone to a peaceful, progressive federation of the world under a democratic planned economy.The Chinese and Persian revolutions posed with renewed force the questions of an all-Soviet second language and a new, rational-secular system of timekeeping to replace the Christian and Islamic calendars. Fierce debate raged in the Communist International and in Soviet society at large. The two major linguistic contenders were Esperanto and Ido, the latter of which won out after Lenin's promotion of Ido as "Esperanto with the chinks ironed out". Taught to Soviet children from preschool on, this fully regular, streamlined, "Spanish-sounding" planned language rapidly became the world's most spoken. This was helped by its being an order of magnitude easier to pick up than, say, English. Today it is spoken by more than 96% of humanity, with 59% listing it as their 'second first language'.
|
Q: If the skill of every player is represented by two numbers, how is it possible to rank players in a leaderboard? A: The TrueSkill ranking system uses the so-called conservative skill estimate which is the 1% quantile of the belief distribution: it is extremely likely (to be precise, with a belief of 99%) that the player’s actual skill is higher than the conservative estimate. Have a look in the detailed description. Q: Who is the better player: Someone with a large μ and a large σ or a small μ and a small σ? A: The answer to this question is not straightforward. For someone with a large σ the TrueSkill ranking system is still uncertain about the skill. Thus, the player with the large μ and a large σ may be better. The best way to find out is to ask the player with the large σ to play more. Q: I am a level 30 player with a σ of 5 and my friend is a level 28 player with a σ of 2? Why does the TrueSkill ranking system claim that my friend is better; at the end of the day, my level is higher? A: That is correct. But, you have not played enough games yet for the TrueSkill ranking system to confidently know that you are better; so conservatively speaking, your level is probably 15 = 30 – 3 * 5 whereas your friend’s conservative estimate is level 22 = 28 – 3 * 2. Q: A couple of days ago I managed to get into the top 350 (in PGR 3 online career) after winning probably 25 of 30 races and that brought me up about 120 spots. Now tonight I have had 5 races: 2 wins,1 second,5th (got spun twice) and a 4th on one of the Vegas tracks. Because of this pathetic record (that is how the TrueSkill formula sees it) I have gone down 115 spots. How is it fair that 2 bad races basically dropped me down almost as many points as 25 wins out of 30 races took to gain all those places ? A: There are two reasons that can cause this problem (although the latter is probably more responsible for this “phenomenon”): Ranks displayed in PGR 3 are the position in the total leaderboard. That means, if you are rank 659 then there are 658 gamers with a higher skill (estimate) than you.
|
Based upon these hearings it is apparent that enforcement tactics made possible by current federal firearms laws are constitutionally, legally, and practically reprehensible. Although Congress adopted the Gun Control Act with the primary object of limiting access of felons and high-risk groups to firearms, the overbreadth of the law has led to neglect of precisely this area of enforcement… The Subcommittee received evidence that BATF has primarily devoted its firearms enforcement efforts to the apprehension, upon technical malum prohibitum charges [that is, charges of procedural violations that cause no actual harm to anyone], of individuals who lack all criminal intent and knowledge. Agents anxious to generate an impressive arrest and gun confiscation quota have repeatedly enticed gun collectors into making a small number of sales–often as few as four–from their personal collections. Although each of the sales was completely legal under state and federal law, the agents then charged the collector with having “engaged in the business” of dealing in guns without the required license. Since existing law permits a felony conviction upon these charges even where the individual has no criminal knowledge or intent numerous collectors have been ruined by a felony record carrying a potential sentence of five years in federal prison. Even in cases where the collectors secured acquittal, or grand juries failed to indict, or prosecutors refused to file criminal charges, agents of the Bureau have generally confiscated the entire collection of the potential defendant upon the ground that he intended to use it in that violation of the law. In several cases, the agents have refused to return the collection even after acquittal by jury. … The rebuttal presented to the Subcommittee by the Bureau was utterly unconvincing. Richard Davis, speaking on behalf of the Treasury Department, asserted vaguely that the Bureau’s priorities were aimed at prosecuting willful violators, particularly felons illegally in possession, and at confiscating only guns actually likely to be used in crime. He also asserted that the Bureau has recently made great strides toward achieving these priorities. No documentation was offered for either of these assertions. In hearings before BATF’s Appropriations Subcommittee, however, expert evidence was submitted [by Vernon Acree, former US Customs Commissioner, who had been hired by the NRA to investigate the ATF’s conduct] establishing that approximately 75 percent of BATF gun prosecutions were aimed at ordinary citizens who had neither criminal intent nor knowledge, but were enticed by agents into unknowing technical violations.
|
The Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen was Preysing's cousin. A conservative nationalist, in January 1934 he criticised Nazi racial policy in a sermon and subsequent homilies. He equated unquestioning loyalty to the Reich with "slavery" and spoke against Hitler's theory of the purity of German blood. [157] Often Galen directly protested to Hitler over violations of the Concordat. When in 1936, Nazis removed crucifixes in school, protest by Galen led to public demonstration. Like Presying, he assisted with the drafting of the 1937 papal encyclical. [157] In 1941, with the Wehrmacht marching on Moscow, denounced the lawlessness of the Gestapo, the confiscations of church properties and the cruel program of Nazi euthanasia. [146][147] He protested the mistreatment of Catholics in Germany: the arrests and imprisonment without legal process, the suppression of the monasteries and the expulsion of religious orders. But, his sermons went further than defending the church. He spoke of a moral danger to Germany from the government's violations of basic human rights: "the right to life, to inviolability, and to freedom is an indispensable parts of any moral social order". He said any government that punishes without court proceedings "undermines its own authority and respect for its sovereignty within the conscience of its citizens". [206] His three powerful sermons of July and August 1941 earned him the nickname of the "Lion of Munster". The sermons were printed and distributed illegally. [147] Hitler wanted to have Galen removed, but Goebbels told him this would result in the loss of the loyalty of Westphalia. [147] Documents suggest the Nazis intended to hang von Galen at the end of the war. [28] Von Galen was among the German conservatives who had criticised Weimar Germany, and initially hoped the Nazi government might restore German prestige, but quickly became disenchanted with the anti-Catholicism and racism of the Hitler administration[146] According to Griech-Polelle, he believed the Dolchstosslegende explained the German army's defeat in 1918. [207] Hamerow characterised the resistance approach of senior Catholic clergy like Galen as "trying to influence the Third Reich from within". While some clergymen refused ever to feign support for the Hitler government, in the Church's conflict with the state over ecclesiastical autonomy, the Catholic hierarchy adopted a strategy of "seeming acceptance of the Third Reich", by couching their criticisms as motivated merely by a desire to "point out mistakes that some of its overzealous followers committed" in order to strengthen the government.
|
While it’s a flimsy gesture, some have distributed their bonuses to their employees. “The move toward co-ops and the change in consciousness I’ve witnessed in workplaces and among my students are the two mechanisms of transformation that are now underway globally, and I’d like to say–it’s more a wish than anything else–that it’s too late to stop them,” Wolff says. “And the sheer beauty of this is that nothing fuels this movement more than capitalism’s own troubles, and the displeasure, disaffection, and anxiety it produces.” Of course, the thought currents and little blooms of democratic workplaces are not enough to engineer a new economic system. These developments are all happening outside of the political system; in the White House and in Congress, the presence of big capitalist businesses continues as strong asever. But the fact that local governments like New York City and Austin have launched incubator programs for worker-owned cooperatives indicates that they’re not incompatible with the current political system.
|
Tengo sensed from the beginning that this was the role he was expected to play, and he absolutely hated it. But he also felt that he had to perform it as cleverly as he could in order to please his father. If he pleased his father, he would be treated kindly that day. He might as well have been a trained monkey. Tengo’s one consolation was that his father’s beat was fairly far from home. They lived in a suburban residential district outside the city of Ichikawa, and his father’s rounds were in the center of the city. At least he was able to avoid doing collections at the homes of his classmates. Occasionally, though, while walking in the downtown shopping area, he would spot a classmate on the street. When this happened, he ducked behind his father to keep from being noticed. On Monday mornings, his school friends would talk excitedly about where they had gone and what they had done the day before. They went to amusement parks and zoos and baseball games. In the summer, they went swimming, in the winter skiing. But Tengo had nothing to talk about. From morning to evening on Sundays, he and his father rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses, bowed their heads, and took money from whoever came to the door. If people didn’t want to pay, his father would threaten or cajole them. If they tried to talk their way out of paying, his father would raise his voice. Sometimes he would curse at them like stray dogs. Such experiences were not the sort of thing that Tengo could share with friends. He could not help feeling like a kind of alien in the society of middle-class children of white-collar workers. He lived a different kind of life in a different world. Luckily, his grades were outstanding, as was his athletic ability. So even though he was an alien he was never an outcast. In most circumstances, he was treated with respect. But whenever the other boys invited him to go somewhere or to visit their homes on a Sunday he had to turn them down. Soon, they stopped asking.
|
I did it for myself. I did it for Terry Brands. Terry Brands has been known for Henry Cejudo. Now he’s known for Tony Ramos. Thanks for showing up here. I’m glad I put on a show for you,” said Ramos.Cejudo is coming into this match just days after his March 14 fight at UFC 185 in Dallas, where he beat Chris Cariaso in a flyweight fight. The last time Cejudo wrestled was at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, held in Iowa City, Iowa, where he lost in the semifinals of the Challenge Tournament at 55 kg to Nick Simmons, took off his shoes and retired.In his first full year wrestling Senior freestyle, Ramos has been very active. He won a gold medal at the Grand Prix of Paris, and competed in the Freestyle Clubs Cup in Iran and the Yarygin Grand Prix in Russia. He also won a belt in the Global Wrestling Championships earlier this season with a win over Sam Hazewinkel.At 57 kg, another very popular Hawkeye star, two-time NCAA champion Matt McDonough, defeated another past NCAA champion, Angel Escobedo, who won his title for Indiana, by a 6-2 margin. The first period ended at 2-2, with McDonough scoring first on the edge, and Escobedo getting a counter takedown in the closing seconds. McDonough scored a pushout in the second, and an Escobedo protest was denied, making it 4-2. McDonough scored again with a counter bodylock takedown for the final score.Escobedo was fifth at the 2013 World Championships. McDonough placed third in the 2014 World Team Trials, to secure a spot on the freestyle national team. There is some local rivalry as well, since Escobedo has joined the coaching staff at in-state rival Iowa State.“It’s fun. It’s awesome. I haven’t wrestled in Carver for over a year. This sure feels like it, so I love this. I am next going to LA with Tony Ramos and Brent Metcalf as backup at 61 kg at the World Cup,” said McDonough.In a rematch of the 2013 NCAA finals at 157 pounds, national runner-up Jason Welch of Northwestern edged Iowa national champion Derek St. John, 12-10 at 70 kg. The first period was wide open, with the lead going back and forth, but Welch finished with a 9-6 lead. Welch stretched it to 12-6 with a pushout and a crotch lift.
|
positional scoring averages chart, by position, at my blog. In addition, all scoring numbers are based on a 16 week/15 game season. Easy to see quarterbacks are the top dogs when it comes to points scored. However, if it were all about points, I wouldn’t have needed to do any research, or write this article, and you wouldn’t be here reading it. Instead, it’s about value, which isn’t as cut and dry for comparison’s sake. Positional Comparison Figuring out how to compare one position in fantasy football to another is no easy task. Sure, you could try to utilize VBD (Value Based Drafting), but I’m of the opinion that VBD is flawed. I’m not going to get into VBD beyond pointing out what I feel is its biggest flaw – baselines. With VBD you have to set baselines, and it doesn’t matter what method you use – average starter, worst starter, or top 100 – the point is, YOU are assigning a value to one player (zero baseline) at each position and then basing values off of those pre-set values. Think about it in these terms; is QB12 really worth the same as say RB24, WR36, TE12, K12 or D/ST12? There is one principle to VBD that is spot on, and that is the fact that VBD isn’t about total points but the distribution of points among each position. All I had to do was find a better way to measure the distribution of points for each position, which is kind of like trying to find the Holy Grail of fantasy football. Even though I feel that VBD is flawed, I figured it would be wise to look at the VBD values – using the last starter method – to see if anything jumped out at me. Since I already was of the mindset that QB value is overstated, I decided to see how quarterbacks compared to the kicker and D/ST positions. After all, those two positions are the least valuable of all fantasy football positions. Just looking at VBD, you see that quarterback value is much greater than kicker, and D/ST value. At first blush, it might seem that this was a wasted exercise…it wasn’t.
|
America: Republic or Democracy? by William P. Meyers Lately, from politicians, radio-talk show hosts, and other commentators, we have heard that we should forget about democracy, because the U.S.A. is a republic. But some questions are being posed by democracy advocates: What is a republic? What is a democracy? Should the United States be a mere republic, or a genuine democracy? Republicans and other democracy detractors point to the U.S. Constitution and bits of history, and say, "See, the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution gave us a Republic. They believed democracies were dangerous and unworkable." On that, they are partly right, but they fail to mention that democracies and republics overlap. They are not opposites. And they fail to account for the history of American government since 1788, much less the debates that took place in America prior to 1788, when the U.S. Constitution was substituted for the Articles of Confederation. Democracy means rule of the people. The two most common forms of democracy are direct democracy and representative democracy. In direct democracy everyone takes part in making a decision, as in a town meeting or a referendum. The specific rules may vary: perhaps everyone must agree, perhaps there must be consensus, perhaps a mere majority is required to make a decision. The other, better known form of democracy is a representative democracy. People elect representative to make decisions or laws. Again, specifics vary greatly. And, surprise, a representative democracy is a kind of republic. What distinguishes a republic is that it has an elected government. Representative democracies are, therefore, a kind of republic. Self-appointed governments such as monarchies, dictatorships, oligarchies, theocracies and juntas are not republics. However, this still allows for a wide spectrum. The classic is the Roman Republic, in which only a tiny percentage of citizens, members of the nobility, were allowed to vote for the Senators, who made the laws and also acted as Rome's supreme court. Most people would say that Rome was a Republic, but not a democracy, since it was very close to being an oligarchy, rule by the few. Although the Roman Republic was not a dictatorship (until Augustus Caesar grabbed power), it did not allow for rule of the people. In both theory and practice the Soviet Union, that late evil empire, was a republic (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) because the lawmakers were elected, if only by the Communist Party members.
|
No sexy thoughts were going on inside his head, eh? Pull the other one." But hold on a moment. In his testimony, Chris Langham pointed out that he, himself, had been sexually assaulted at a young age, and that his desire to view such material was related to his inner need to understand the situation from an adult point of view. millions of people by books on 'abuse' - women mostly Is this really so far fetched? Well, why should it be? - given that millions of people buy books on 'abuse' - women mostly - allegedly in order to come to terms with events that they, themselves, have experienced. Or so we are told. Indeed, there are nowadays whole sections to be found in libraries and book shops that are solely devoted to tales of child sexual abuse; so popular has such material become. So why is it so far-fetched to believe that Chris Langham was simply using images to do whatever it is that, for example, women claim to be doing when they immerse themselves in tales of sexual abuse? Or is it, in fact, the case that people who read such books do actually turn themselves on sexually when they wade through book after book describing child sexual abuse? And, if so, then why are they not also being vilified - and prosecuted - for what is going on inside their heads to do with child sexuality? The child-abuse hysterics surely cannot have it both ways. The child-abuse hysterics surely cannot have it both ways. Either people who flock to buy books on abuse are turning themselves on - in which case why are they not vilified and, possibly, prosecuted? - or they are using such books to resolve their personal issues (not for sexual reasons) which is exactly what Chris Langham says he was doing. So why is Chris Langham being given such a hard time for doing what millions of people do? - with public approval. And the answer to this question is that, quite simply, Chris Langham is a man. Had he been a woman, you would not have heard much in the way of outrage from the media or from the public.
|
We were very close during his playing career," Brendle said.In the 14 games so far,{}Hendren's team has racked up a 10-4 record, a strong start for the junior college. "We're young and inexperienced, but the way we've played has surprised a lot of people and I'm happy with where we're at,"{}Hendren{}said.It's clear this coach and his players -- all born in the 1990s -- are already well on their winning ways.Hendren{}believes he's the youngest head coach in college basketball. But instead of focusing on the novelty, he says he wants to win as many games as possible at home send his players on to four-year colleges to finish their degrees and basketball careers.
|
Evaluation Of The T-34 And Kv Tanks By Engineers Of The Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Submitted By Firms, Officers And Members Of Military Commissions Responsible For Testing Tanks The tanks were given to the U.S. by the Soviets at the end of 1942 for familiarization. The condition of the tanks The T-34 medium tank after driving 343 km, became completely disabled and that could not be fixed. The reason: owing to the extremely poor air filter system on the diesel, a large quantity of dirt got into the engine and a breakdown occurred, as a result of which the pistons and cylinders were damaged to such a degree that they were impossible to fix. The tank was withdrawn from tests and was to be shelled by the KV and American 3" gun of the M-10 tank [M10 "Wolverine" SP antitank gun]. After that, it would be sent to Aberdeen, where it would be analyzed and kept as an exhibit. The heavy tank KV-1 is still functional. Tests were continued, although it had many mechanical defects. The silhouette/configuration of the tanks Everyone, without exception, approves of the shape of the hull of our tanks. The T-34's is particularly good. All are of the opinion that the shape of the T-34's hull is better than that of any American tank. The KV's is worse than on any current American tank. Armor A chemical analysis of the armor showed that on both tanks the armor plating has a shallow surface tempering, whereas the main mass of the armored plating is made of soft steel. In this regard the Americans consider that by changing the technology used to temper the armored plating, it would be possible to significantly reduce its thickness while preserving its protective ability. As a result the weight of the tank could be decreased by 8-10%, with all the resulting benefits (an increase in speed, reduction in ground pressure, etc.) Hull The main deficiency is the permeability to water of the lower hull during a water crossings, as well as the upper hull during a rain. In a heavy rain lots of water flows through chinks/cracks, which leads to the disabling of the electrical equipment and even the ammunition. The Americans liked how the ammunition is stowed. Turret The main weakness is that it is very tight.
|
^ [3] Buddy remarried a woman named Connie (not to be confused with Corinne, Fischer's biological mother). Both of them held executive roles at KEMET Corporation ^ [5] Another source spelled her name as Christina. ^ [7] He graduated from the [8] His office was at 640 E. Price Road and he lived at 1545 Oriole Lane with his wife in Brownsville. [9] Local media sources described David Cisneros as a "prominent" surgeon from Brownsville.He graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) School of Medicine in 1966.His office was at 640 E. Price Road and he lived at 1545 Oriole Lane with his wife in Brownsville. ^ [3] According to his friends, Fischer admitted that he was frustrated with Cisneros and that he "told her off" after she kept calling him. He said he had never insulted an adult before. ^ Another source stated he was shot three times—once in his back and twice in the head. According to the autopsy, Fischer died almost instantly. The pathologist stated that Fischer might not have known what struck him. ^ [18] Property records showed that Fischer's family bought the home on August 1, 1990, at US$108,000. On July 23, 1993, a couple bought the home for US$90,000. They told the press that the murder incident did not influence their decision to purchase the property. ^ [23] Besides fortune telling and folk healing, she owned a second-hand clothing store, La Chuparosa, on 713 E. 11th St. in Brownsville. [24] Martínez was a native of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and a long-time Brownsville resident.Besides fortune telling and folk healing, she owned a second-hand clothing store, La Chuparosa, on 713 E. 11th St. in Brownsville. ^ [5] Garza was also initially told by Martínez that Cisneros wanted Fischer beaten up. By January or February 1993, Martínez told Garza that Cisneros had changed her request and now wanted him dead. ^ The New Yorker, and cousin of Fischer's father, in Mexican folklore, some people believed that killing the man who took a woman's virginity can bring restore her virtue. [3][30] According to Marie Brenner , a former writer forand cousin of Fischer's father, in Mexican folklore, some people believed that killing the man who took a woman's virginity can bring restore her virtue. ^ [32][33] Olivarez's last name was sometimes spelled as Olivares. He was also known by his aliases Israel Bazaldúa Zepeda, Rafael Mata Soto, El Cabezón, and Chutaro.
|
Go through the hole you made and run to the end of the corridor, place C4 on the northern wall at the end of this corridor (you can also explode the end of the corridor with C4, but it only leads to a Ration and more C4 and you have to use a Chaff Grenade in the process to get past the Gun Cameras). Anyway head up through the hole you made, you will find the ARMSTech President Kenneth Baker who is literally wired to C4. Revolver Ocelot will suddenly appear and after you have a talk with him, you will begin a dual with the old man (who has a love of guns second to old Moses himself Charlton Heston.) R e v o l v e r O c e l o t ---------------------------- For god's sake don't touch the wires around Baker or Snake, Baker & Ocelot will go BOOM-BOOM! Anyway there are two ways you can go about beating Ocelot. You can be aggressive and chase Ocelot then shot him when he: stops to shoot you, stops to reload, gets confused (a ! will appear over his head) or if you just have a clear shot. This is fast & clean if you can dodge his bullets well, but otherwise you will end up as dogmeat. The other "safer" way is to hide from him then when he begins to shoot you must begin to run to avoid his bullets, then when he has fired 6 bullets go after him and shoot as many bullets into him as you can, then repeat until he's out of health. ---------------------------- Anyway after a fairly long gunfight Ocelot will go to shoot you then suddenly his arm will fly off in a spurt of blood like it has been chopped off, then the wires around Baker will suddenly get sliced and the C4 will go off sending Baker into the ground and Ocelot against the wall. Then the stealth apparition reveals itself as a Cyborg Ninja. After Revolver runs off un-armed (haw haw) and the cyborg Ninja malfunctions then leaves, Baker will begin to have a very long talk with Snake explaining many things. He then gives Snake a SONY MiniDisc with the launch data of Metal Gear Rex and a Level 2 Key Card, but then Baker suddenly has a strange heart attack like Anderson did. Baker's last words raise many questions.
|
Whatever the intention is behind the control structures, it is obvious that it is not in harmony with the well-being of mankind or the planet.Icke ends his seminar with a glimpse of hope for humanity, stating that its time for humanity to get up off of our knees and to take matters back into our own hands,“What if vast numbers of people say ‘well we’re not doing it’? They’d have no power whatsoever. Their power comes in our acquiescence. What we need isn’t compliance, what we need is a global non-comply-dance. [They] cannot grant our freedom, nor can [they] take it away.”David Icke’s theories may be difficult to grasp for some, but what is undeniable is the fact that when you listen to his propositions, he makes a damn good argument with his case. In the end it is up to you to decide what truth you wish to believe.We encourage you to do your own research. This is a time of great change in the world. The people have begun to wake up, deciding for themselves what resonates as truth and what doesn’t.We live in an era of mass information sharing, thanks to advent of the internet. People are connecting from all over the world to share knowledge and create change on a massive scale. The most important thing for each of us to do during this time is to become informed as much as possible.Ultimately it is we who have the power to create what we want as a society. When we tune into our true potential, anything is possible.Fear will not create this change; it will only feed the old systems which the ruling class have already established. Love will be the forerunner for the fast approaching new Earth. *For more information on David Icke ’s theories, make sure to read his mind-blowing books.
|
You can see the difference in preparedness,” chief meteorologist at Skymet Mahesh Palawat said.According to former RMC director YEA Raj, the situation today is far removed from the guess work of the 1950s when ships on the high seas would relay weather information which would then be compared with wind surface data collected from instruments installed in islands like Port Blair. Weathermen would look for swells along the coast to find if the storm was approaching. “This was the situation in the IMD from 1875 to the 1950s,” Raj said.In the 1960s, India borrowed satellite images from the US. Weathermen would acquire these by keying codes and take printouts. “But today we not only get images that have a high resolution of one to four kilometres, but our satellites can provide information on radiation and wind data,” Raj said.
|
[MC-27904] - The Hindi, Malay and Norsk (Bokmål) language appear 2 times [MC-28400] - Breeding animals gives xp even if doMobLoot gamerule is false [MC-28405] - The saddle equip sound effect does not play when equipping a pig with a saddle. [MC-28478] - Successful hit sound effect does not match the sound in the assets sound folder [MC-28625] - The horse armor equip sound does not play when replacing others [MC-28768] - Horse Breeding Doesn’t Produce Markings Correctly on Foal [MC-29088] - Shearing sound does not play when shearing a mooshroom [MC-29279] - Bug: the command block can be damaged by the explosion of Blue Wither Skulls [MC-29321] - Jukeboxes play at the sound volume for effects until you change the music volume [MC-29361] - Oceans are too big [MC-29424] - Players appear offset for other clients after going through nether portals [MC-31031] - Spawn eggs can be used on top of water, but not lava [MC-31065] - Villages not generating? (snapshot 13w37b) [MC-32250] - Typo on “Unable to Load Worlds” screen [MC-32534] - piston extention givies tile.nill.name [MC-32679] - Spawned in enderportals are not nameable
|
Six weeks before the leader died, Pfauth hesitantly related, Hubbard called him into the bus. He was sitting in his little breakfast nook. “He told me he was dropping his body. He named a specific star he was going to circle. That rehabs a being. He told me he’d failed, he’s leaving,” Pfauth said. “He said he’s not coming back here to Earth. He didn’t know where he’d wind up.” “How’d you react?” I asked. “I got good and pissy-ass drunk,” Pfauth said. “Annie found me at five in the morning in my old truck, Kris Kringle, and I had beer cans all around me. I did not take it well.” I mentioned the legend in Scientology that Hubbard will return. “That’s bull crap,” Pfauth said. “He wanted to drop the body and leave. And he told me basically that he’d failed. All the work and everything, he’d failed.” I had heard a story that Pfauth had built some kind of electroshock mechanism for Hubbard in the last month of his life. I didn’t know what to make of it, given Hubbard’s horror of electroshock therapy. Pfauth’s eyes searched the ceiling as if he were looking for divine help. He explained that Hubbard was having trouble getting rid of a body thetan. “He wanted me to build a machine that would up the voltage and basically blow the thetan away. You can’t kill a thetan but just get him out of there. And also kill the body.” “So it was a suicide machine?” “Basically.” Pfauth was staggered by Hubbard’s request, but the challenge interested him. “I figured that building a Tesla coil was the best way to go.” The Tesla coil is a transformer that increases the voltage without upping the current. Pfauth powered it with a 12-volt automobile battery, and then hooked the entire apparatus to an E-Meter. “So, if you’re on the cans, you can flip a button and it does its thing,” Pfauth explained. “I didn’t want to kill him, just to scare him.” “Did he try it?” “He blew up my E-meter. Annie brought it back to me, all burnt up.” This was just before Christmas, 1985. Hubbard died a few weeks later of an unrelated stroke. The believers are still waiting for his return.
|
thcst8's P2Pool - http://www.japool.com Solo Pool - http://mining.securepayment.cc/pools/teacoin/ x3 Pool - http://tea.dsync.net becausepool - https://becausepool.com/index.php?coin=tea xGuild Pool - stratum multicoin pool: http://xguild.net/tea/ (1% Fee)ethought's Pool - https://www.miningpool.co ViMal's pool - http://sha.mine-pool.net/tea @iSpacePools - http://ispace.co.uk (0% Fee)Market Cap - Coin Market Cap - http://coinmarketcap.com Market Cap - World Coin Index - http://www.worldcoinindex.com/coin/Teacoin Market Cap - Coin Finance - http://coinfinance.com/currencies/TEA Market Cap - Moola - http://moola.io Create your own Price tickers and calculator widget - https://www.cryptonator.com/widget Best coins to mine - http://www.cryptocoinrank.com/Teacoin Online Portfolio - http://cryptofolio.info Charts: http://crypto-prices.com/TEA Online address portfolio - Addie - http://addie.cc Cryptocurrency calculator and altcoin monitor - COUNT MY CRYPTO - http://www.countmycrypto.com Alt Coin Index - http://com-http.us/coins/tea/ Alt Coin Index - altcoindb - http://altcoindb.com/coins/tea-coin Coin Rank - Coins Sourse - http://www.coinssource.com/crypto-coins/teacoin Coin Rank - Crypto Coin Rank - http://www.cryptocoinrank.com/Teacoin Coin Rank - AnyCrypto - http://anycrypto.com/en/coins/teacoin CryptOTC - http://cryptotc.us/market#TEA http://cryptsy.com - Submitted https://vircurex.com - Submitted https://mcxnow.com - Submitted http://vox-exchange.com - Submitted https://poloniex.com - Submitted http://crycurex.com - Submitted http://newchg.com - Submitted https://www.coinmarket.io - Submitted https://coin-swap.net - Submitted http://bter.com - Submitted http://www.btc38.com - SubmittedTwitter - @TeaCoin_Net - https://twitter.com/TeaCoin_Net IRC Freenode #teacoin https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/?nick=Tea_Guest|?#dsync-pool,#teacoin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teacoin/487737691337693 subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/TeaCoin auctions buy / sell goods and services with TeaCoin[/li][/list] http://teacoin.net/images/TEAaccepted.png (larger version)Chelmsford Tea - http://www.chelmsfordtea.com First tea traded with Teacoin (26,500 TEA worth of Tea)Android - Crypto Currency Converter - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=za.co.fuzz.onlinecurrencyconverter 1. Promote a coin that promotes a long life and healthiness2. Promote small tea shops around the world3. Exchange - Please vote on your favorite exchanges4.5.6.7.8.Faucet - http://teacoin.altcoinfaucet.net Faucet - http://faucet.securepayment.cc/tea Faucet - http://www.faucliner.com/coins/index.php?coin=Teacoin By gjericBy ASIWaller papers - http://teacoin.forumotion.com/t13-tea-arts-thread OpenSSL 1.0.1g - http://teacoin.net/dl/teacoin-qt_new.zip Old Windows WalletLocation 1: http://teacoin.net/dl/teacoin-qt_win.zip Location 2: http://www.mediafire.com/download/mded6d96kkaxpxl/teacoin-qt_win.zip OSX Wallet (Thank you intastacash 10k TEA bounty for you)Location 1: http://teacoin.net/dl/Teacoin-Qt-MacOSX.zip Location 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/czg6ayaphz1qfdf/Teacoin-Qt-MacOSX.zip We encrypt all passwords in our database, any hacking attempts would be pointless.Secure desktop wallets are available for download at teacoin.netThe low 0.5% transaction fee goes toward paying for domain, server, & bandwidth costs.Your deposit address is how others send Teacoins to your wallet.anon 5000 TEAcaspar 54,321 TEAasi 666 TEAReverb 41,000 TEAanon 10,777 TEAanon 2100 TEAanon 200 TEAanon 1,000 TEAanon 10,000 TEAPaid - ethought's poolPaid - thcst8's poolPaid - RENDERING's poolPaid - becausePoolPaid - Minbig poolPaid - RobRoy's pool- Otaku- gjeric - Portfolio: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330240.0 - Altcoinfaucet - http://teacoin.altcoinfaucet.net
|
- return to FW after middle key, cracked wall is key#3 - I also guess the jump to the highest water level wasn't known either, so uses a key to get up. - hammer dark link - still goes long way around to boss key (I think this wasn't found for quite awhile) - 1 cycle morpha like the 5:25 PART 10 - wasteland splice. again. - another splice equipping dins PART 11 - splice entering shadow temple - kills the dead hands, js/backflip strat not known / no mashing out either ? - pushes block - pushes other block again - 1 cycle bongo (quickspins) PART 12 - more cheating blah blah - no flame storage in child spirit - throw bomb at iron knuckle LOL - still doesn't know about 2nd phase of iron knuckles PART 13 - cheating again - samsim's BK strat was used. - no hookshot strats on twinrova - 2 cycle twinrova (quickspins) PART 14 - cheating again - slow forest, water trials PART 15 - 1 cycle dorf w/ quickspins - map splice - no jumpslashes on mr ganon adult route hookshot (no shield) -> goron tunic -> bolero -> fire temple -> lw warp -> minuet -> forest temple -> lw warp to ZR -> ice cavern -> serenade -> water temple -> gerudo's card -> requiem -> play bolero -> nocturne -> prelude -> shadow -> child spirit -> --- http://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/zelda_speed_run_schedule.html TSA jan 09 2005 1. I know on my Ocarina of Time run, the initial rupee collection path can be improved, the Deku Stick gathering can be spaced out to incorporate different locations to save time, and I know there are, of course, the route mistakes. That would be not using the block to jump over the moat, not drawing the Master Sword and going to the Spirit Temple when I was getting the Prelude of Light, and a wrong hookshot maneuver to the opposite side of Goron City. Again, the thing I stated was in a single segment run, I doubt anyone could beat my time by any significant margin unless a new major breakthrough came out. Segmented runs, of course, could gain mins on my time, but really don't show as much overall skill, in my opinion. 2. Skipping the Blue Mail in ALttP is the most obvious thing to do to beat my time.
|
SCP-3703-A Drone reactivation log Date: ██/██/████ Vehicle: Solar Battery Powered Gyroscopic Drone with Jet Propulsion Modifications. Subject: SCP-3703 Region of exploration: SCP-3701-A Forword: Foundation officials reestablished communication with the drone 2 weeks after loss of contact. [BEGIN LOG] The drone's camera reactivates, displaying the blue sphere as seen before. The humanoid figure within is unconscious, and shows signs of injury around the nose and temples. Initial analysis indicates the damage is superficial. The sphere is cracked along the top, and is no longer emitting rays of blue light. It turns in a 90 degree arc. The cloud of mist is no longer present. In its place is a humanoid figure, roughly 20 km in height, possessing black pigmented skin. Red, white, and purple luminescent bands run along the entity's form. It is visibly restrained in space by the presence of 3 circular stone rings, where each ring is lined with series of monolithic stone columns oriented in the form of a henge, all possessing signs of serious damage, located at the groin, the chest, and the center of the forehead. Additional stone structures appear to pin the entity's left hand, and legs in a prone position. Each location emit combinations of blue, pink, green, and yellow luminescent light. The right arm is unrestrained, approaching both the drone and the sphere at significant speed. The remains of a shattered stone structure are visible on top. Propulsion and maneuvering the vehicle were impossible at this time. The hand strikes the blue sphere, shattering part of the surface. The sphere flies out of frame in the 0.5 seconds between the strike, and the destruction of the drone. Post Word: Approximately 2 minutes following destruction of the drone, the blue sphere was ejected from the same SCP-3703 instance the drone entered. It ceased motion upon collision with the wall of the adjoining chamber. The humanoid, hereby dubbed EoI-3703-1, remained in suspended animation within the sphere and was unharmed other than the previously obtained minor injuries. They have been moved to SCP-████ for treatment of a severe concussion, questioning, and anomalous properties evaluation. The entity observed in this recording has been designated EoI-001-02. Efforts are currently underway to counteract a potential HK-class deific subjugation scenario.
|
Because no new vessels are formed, there are no feedback signals to shut off vascular activation endothelial cells. In AD reversible endothelial activation becomes irreversible endothelial dysfunction. The vascular products of a permanently dysfunctional endothelium could cause neuronal injury. A diagram of this hypothesis is shown in Figure Results of epidemiological studies suggest that some drugs purported to have beneficial effects in AD inhibit angiogenesis [122–125]. The idea that vascular inflammatory changes that promote angiogenesis have functional consequences in AD is supported by data suggesting that some of the beneficial effects of NSAIDs are linked to anti-angiogenic activity [126–128]. NSAIDs might inhibit angiogenesis through several mechanisms. These drugs can directly inhibit angiogenic signaling pathways such as mitogen-activated ERK2 in endothelial cells [129]. NSAIDs can also inhibit endothelial growth factor expression and subsequent migration [130]. Also, the enzymes COX-1 and COX-2, targets of NSAIDs, are important regulators of angiogenesis [131]. The efficacy of COX-2 selective inhibitors in AD treatment may be related to the inhibition of prostaglandins, NO and TNFα, all of which are important to both inflammation and angiogenesis [131]. Thalidomide, another anti-angiogenic drug which blocks endothelial cell activation and suppresses release of VEGF and TNFα, appears protective in animal models of AD preventing memory impairment induced by Aβ [132, 133]. Also, statins, purported to have beneficial effects in AD, have anti-angiogenic effects [134–136].
|
: This surgical procedure is performed using plasma to remove the tonsils. Coblation technology combines radiofrequency energy and saline to create a plasma field. The plasma field is able to dissociate molecular bonds of target tissue while remaining relatively cool (40-70 °C), which results in minimal or no damage to surrounding healthy tissue. A Coblation tonsillectomy is carried out in an operating room setting, with the patient under general anesthesia. Tonsillectomies are generally performed for two main reasons: tonsillar hypertrophy (enlarged tonsils) and recurrent tonsillitis. It has been claimed that this technique results in less pain, faster healing, and less post operative care. However, review of 21 studies gives conflicting results about levels of pain, and its comparative safety has yet to be confirmed. This technique has been criticized for a higher than expected rate of bleeding presumably due to the low temperature which may be insufficient to seal the divided blood vessels but several papers offer conflicting (some positive, some negative) results. More recent studies of coblation tonsillectomy indicate reduced pain and ostalgia; less intraoperative or postoperative complications; lesser incidence of delayed hemorrhage, more significantly in pediatric populations, less postoperative pain and early return to daily activities, fewer secondary infections of the tonsil bed and significantly lower rates of secondary hemorrhage. Unlike the electrosurgery procedure, Coblation Tonsillectomy generates significantly lower temperatures on contacted tissue. Long term studies seem to show that surgeons experienced with the technique have very few complications. Harmonic scalpel : This medical device uses ultrasonic energy to vibrate its blade at 55kHz. Invisible to the naked eye, the vibration transfers energy to the tissue, providing simultaneous cutting and coagulation. The temperature of the surrounding tissue reaches 80 °C. Proponents of this procedure assert that the end result is precise cutting with minimal thermal damage.
|
[MARK] The PRO 49, along with its slightly larger brother the , could be one of the most “iconic” shaving brushes on the market. It is reasonably well built but many people are initially disappointed with its performance–the boar “funk,” prickly feel, and the comparatively poor water-holding ability make a lot of people question their choice. The funk disappears after a week or so of use though, and with regular use and care the brush softens pleasantly and can perform as well as a much more expensive brush. The Professional 10049 shaving brush by Omega, often referred to as the PRO 49 , is considered one of the best value brushes on the market. I purchased one for about $12 USD excluding shipping charges. It is a large boar hair brush with approximate measurements of 128 mm in total height. Its loft is 63 mm and the knot size is 27 mm. The handle is plastic and comes in three color choices, Red, White and Black. The handle is very spartan yet easily to grip and use. With most boar brushes there is some time to break in and to remove some of the boar scent but once the break in is complete, this brush will make quick work in grabbing soap and generating lather. This brush is excellent for head shaving since the size allows the shaver to cover a lot of skin with lather quickly. Now if you have a smaller face this brush with its size might not be for you. As to the knot, it is also a knot of choice of many who choose to create a customized boar brush so the quality of the product is well established in the Traditional Shaving arena.With its price and overall quality it is no wonder that many traditional shavers have this brush in their arsenal and use it quite often.The PRO 49, along with its slightly larger brother the PRO 48 , could be one of the most “iconic” shaving brushes on the market. It is reasonably well built but many people are initially disappointed with its performance–the boar “funk,” prickly feel, and the comparatively poor water-holding ability make a lot of people question their choice. The funk disappears after a week or so of use though, and with regular use and care the brush softens pleasantly and can perform as well as a much more expensive brush.
|
Near the end of the narrative, in the match’s third set, Wallace experiences what a cab driver had earlier promised: “a bloody near-religious experience.” But it does not result from Federer’s beauty alone; rather when Wallace contrasts that sublimity with Caines’ fragility he experiences “literally, for an instant ecstatically” a sensation that is “hard to describe” and “like a thought that’s also a feeling.” The physicality of these two bodies, though not in equipoise, are nonetheless connected, causing a sort of transcendence in Wallace, as he concludes: “But the truth is that whatever deity, entity, energy, or random genetic flux produces sick children also produced Roger Federer, and just look at him down there. Look at that.” This double imperative underscores a genuine sense of wonderment, and yet, as he did in “Consider the Lobster,” Wallace buries this conclusion in the second paragraph of a late footnote. What initially seems like an unorthodox finish to the feature actually sets up a larger conclusion in the main text. Wallace counters conventional wisdom about modern tennis by saying that the “speed and strength of today’s pro game are merely its skeleton, not its flesh.” The game’s grace—for Wallace, its flesh—has been “re-embodied” by Federer, and it is with this understanding of Federer’s seeming otherworldliness—“on the sacred grass of Wimbledon,” no less—that Wallace ends the main text, telling readers “Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform—and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.” What is restored in this moment at the end of the story is nothing short of faith. The reconciliation of sacred and profane causes Wallace to come to terms with his own powerlessness and existential insignificance. [viii] He feels redeemed, and this is the religious experience promised by the cab driver and offered as the initial title of the piece.
|
I’ve had pain with the temple since the very first time I went through for my endowments. I thought my annointing was cool and yet uncomfortable. I loved to see priesthood power being exercised by women, but having aversion to being touched by others, especially people i didn’t know, I felt very uncomfortable the whole time and wished that i could have been warned of the “touching” i would undergo. During the endowment session it was all so knew and foreign for me to take note of any of the wording that first time, but i did once again experience discomfort when it came time to veil myself. Not only did i hate having the veil in my face and feel like i was going to suffocate, I hurt that i had to veil myself while the males in the room did not. ON subsequent visits i experienced intense pain every time i was reminded that my covenants were made unto my husband and not unto God. Other wordings, or lake of female inclusion also pained me. After 3 years of attending the temple almost monthly (sometimes bi-monthly) and hating it every time i got to the point where i was choking back tears every time i tried to go through a temple session. The last time i went it was to accompany my sister who was taking out her endowments. When they asked for those who were not ready to make the covenants to leave (as they do at the start of every session) i wanted to grab my sister by the arm and spring from the room. But i didn’t. I hated myself for not having warned her of the covenants she would be making. I regretted not giving her at least an inkling of the promises she was about to make, the information i wished i had been given prior to my taking out my own endowments. While in the celestial room my father brought up how wonderful it was that women didn’t promise to obey their husbands in all things, but simply to hearken unto their husbands as they do unto God, and how though they didn’t actually say it, he believed men made the same covenant unto their wives. I said that was a very nice thought, but also asked why he thought that wording wasn’t actually included in the covenants if he felt it was so important and thus implied.
|
They have good equipment and are extremely friendly & helpful.
|
If Britain leaves the European Union as expected, we will—as the slogan on the bus proclaimed—“take back control.” But what then? Once the UK has full control of its own borders, what sort of immigration policy should it have? The Brexiteers claim they have a ready-made model in Australia. Barely a day went by during the referendum campaign without the phrase “Australian-style points-based system” passing the lips of Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson. The appeal of Australia to those angry about immigration is clear: this is an old Commonwealth nation with historic ties to the UK and—something which shouldn’t be overlooked—a majority-white population. It has also built a reputation as a nation that goes to extraordinary lengths to prevent would-be refugees from reaching its shores. The topic has swung elections—Tony Abbott’s successful campaign in 2013 owed much to the three-word slogan, “Stop the Boats.” Perhaps it is this image of a nation that literally sends out gunboats to stop people arriving that appeals to Ukip and the Conservative right. It may be because pro-immigration politicians in Britain have been stuck in a defensive crouch that it never occurred to them to find a model of their own. But should they try to do so, they could do a lot worse than look towards another giant land of the old Commonwealth. On paper, the Australian and Canadian systems have much in common—they both operate points-based systems. But the political (not to mention cultural) emphasis between the two nations could not be more different. Where Australia gives the impression it is closed, Canada presents itself as open; while many Australians still view their nation as monocultural, Canada is comfortably multicultural. With freedom of movement very possibly coming to an end, there is surely an opportunity for those who believe that immigration—properly managed—can be a force for good. Liberal politicians have struggled to champion an alternative. Is it time for them to start endorsing the Canadian model? One of Canada’s big advantages is that it has been thinking in a serious way about the subject for a lot longer than we have. The very first law Canada passed after it became a democracy in 1848 was on immigration; one of the first ministries created in 1867, when it became a self-governing colony, was a ministry of immigration and citizenship.
|
On Alabama's first possession of the fourth quarter, Jake Coker found ArDarius Stewart in single man coverage for 38 yards. This gain, however, did not translate into a touchdown as the offense was stalled by good secondary play from Clemson. Alabama settled for a field goal from 33 yards to tie the game (24-24). On the ensuing kickoff Alabama gambled on a surprise onside kick, executed to perfection by Adam Griffith and caught by Marlon Humphrey. Alabama capitalized almost immediately with another 50+ touchdown pass to a wide open OJ Howard (31-24). Clemson pulled within 4 once again. However, Alabama's defense held in the red zone and forced a field goal from Clemson (31-27). On the ensuing kickoff, Alabama RB Kenyan Drake stunned Clemson by taking the ball 95 yards for an Alabama touchdown (38-27). Deshaun Watson quickly answered with an 8 play 75 yard touchdown drive which culminated in a 15-yard touchdown pass to WR Artavius Scott. In attempt to pull within three points of Alabama (and thus within a field goal of tying the game), Clemson attempted a two-point conversion with what morphed into a naked bootleg QB run by Deshaun Watson which was stopped short (38-33). On Alabama's next possession QB Jake Coker passed the ball in a checkdown screen to OJ Howard who, getting good blocking, ran for 63 yards. With less than 3 minutes left in the game, Alabama ran the ball up the middle to convert downs. After a key third down scramble for a first down by Jake Coker, Derrick Henry, on third down, broke the touchdown plane with the nose of the ball over the top of the goal line pile of players for a 1-yard TD run (45-33). A stellar performance by Deshaun Watson on a 55-second drive culminated in a 24-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Leggett with 12 seconds left on the clock (45-40). Clemson attempted an onside kick but the ball was recovered by Alabama sealing Alabama victory. This was the fourth Alabama national championship win in seven years, first of the CFP era, and Head Coach Nick Saban's fifth overall.
|
Eyewitness Peter Lacey, who was in the restaurant with his wife, told BBC News: "There were three explosions. It is my impression they sounded more like gunshots than a bomb, like a lightbulb exploding. "They came from a locked toilet." The £230m Princesshay development officially opened last September. The scheme has been heralded as the biggest single investment in regeneration in the city's history. It contains a mix of shops, restaurants and apartments. Are you in Exeter? Did you witness the explosion or the aftermath? If you have any information you would like to share with the BBC you can do so using the form below: You can also send pictures and video to: [email protected] or text them to 61124. If you have a large file you can upload here.Click here to see terms and conditions At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. Name:
|
3, B and C; see Supplementary Materials), indicating that the steepness of the hierarchy increases as prestige falls. Furthermore, male and female faculty experience similar but not equivalent rank change distributions (KS test, P < 10−3; figs. S5 and S6), with the median change for men being 21 to 35, whereas that for women being 23 to 38. Differences by gender are greatest for graduates of the most prestigious institutions in computer science and business, where median placement for women graduating from the top 15% of units is 12 to 18% worse than for men from the same institutions. That is, the hierarchy is slightly steeper for elite women than for elite men in these disciplines. In contrast, we find no gender difference in median placement for history. The strength of the extracted hierarchies suggests that individual faculty placement may be predictable from doctoral prestige alone, without directly modeling the characteristics or preferences of individuals or institutions. We test this hypothesis by quantifying and comparing the placement accuracy of doctoral prestige to that of alternative measures, including both authoritative rankings and network-based measures. Each of these measures represents a ranking of institutions, from which we calculate a distribution of rank changes relative to doctoral rank for each faculty in our sample. The predictive accuracy of each measure is then quantified by its area under the curve (AUC) score (16) for the placements of the assistant professors in our sample. The AUC represents the probability that a uniformly random true positive (correct placement) is ranked above a uniformly random false positive (incorrect placement). The closer the AUC is to 1.0, the better that measure predicts placement, whereas a value of AUC = 0.5 represents accuracy no better than chance. Across disciplines, prestige hierarchies make the most accurate predictions of faculty placement, with AUCs ranging from 0.58 to 0.67 (see Supplementary Materials; fig. S9). All other single measures, including the authoritative rankings from the U.S. News & World Report and the NRC, have lower accuracies, sometimes substantially so. Furthermore, the relative ordering of alternative measures by their accuracies is not consistent across disciplines, indicating poor generality. In contrast, prestige is always the best predictor. The modest overall accuracy (AUC < 0.7) indicates that other factors may play substantial roles in particular placements, for example, the contingency of a particular department hiring in a particular field in a particular year.
|
Jose Manuel Barroso, right, said he was encouraged by the talks President Barack Obama has said it is "imperative" the US and EU redouble efforts to achieve success at next month's climate summit in Copenhagen. Speaking after talks in Washington with EU officials, he said they agreed they should create a framework for progress. The Copenhagen talks are aimed at negotiating a follow-on agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile, former US Vice President Al Gore says he believes President Obama will attend the talks in Copenhagen. He said the president would want to emphasise his administration's commitment to safeguarding the environment. But Mr Obama's allies in Congress are struggling to push through legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and it is unlikely that any bill will be passed before the December talks. 'Potential disaster' Mr Obama said climate change had been discussed "extensively" with EU leaders on Tuesday. "All of us agreed that it was imperative for us to redouble our efforts in the weeks between now and the Copenhagen meetings to ensure that we create a framework for progress in dealing with what is a potential ecologic disaster," he said. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the talks with Mr Obama had made him more confident about progress. Campaigners say the world's poorest are most at risk from climate change "With the strong leadership of the United States we can indeed make an agreement," he said. The Kyoto Protocol required 37 industrial nations to cut carbon emissions by an average 5% from 1990 levels by 2012, when it expires. However, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said world leaders are unlikely to agree on a comprehensive treaty in Copenhagen. He said it was more likely there would only be agreement on principles. UN officials have also recently declared there is no chance of agreeing all elements of a new legally-binding UN treaty before the end of the year. But Mr Gore, a leading environmental campaigner, said it wouldn't be a disaster if the conference produced only a framework agreement, and not a binding deal.
|
Their repeated, consistent use of the mark along with some of > the world’s most creative advertising has imbued that bitten apple logo > with meaning but no one would look at that mark standalone and say it means > Apple is the leader in human-centered designed, electronic devices with a > vision for the future. > > And non-corporate examples are similarly rich in learnings. The Human > Rights Campaign simply uses the equality sign. It’s compelling, simple and > speaks to their core — being a relentless champion of equal rights for > humanity. There are plenty of other attributes that are associated with > HRC, but equality is their unassailable brand truth. > > So, here’s the point. We want to create a visual representation for > Secretary Clinton that is equally as compelling, interesting, exciting and > inviting as Obama’s mark was eight years ago. And to use techniques that > some of the best brands have done and continue to do around the world. And > again, the mark is simply one aspect of a bevy of connection points > (messaging, speeches, PR, advertising, web, etc.) > > And this leads me to explain, if I’ve failed to so far, why the H window > approach is so compelling to us. > > This approach will represent in 2015 what the Obama approach represented > in 2007. > It literally resets the benchmark for political branding, if not all > branding. > It is of and for the times leveraging the massive and important shift to > customization, personalization and co-creation. > And, more importantly, while meeting this marketplace shift the mark is, > at the same time, anchored on the unassailable truth of Secretary Clinton’s > life and career — being in service of others. It’s not about her, it’s > about you. It also meets our brief of fresh yet familiar, it shows > creativity and empathy. > > Now, we have work to do. > While this direction is immediately compelling and will fuel advocacy from > her fans and drive conversation and content around and for the campaign, we > have yet to effectively land its core manifestation. > And while we’re likely to use it in numerous variations and iterations as > it is so flexible to do, we have to have an anchoring point.
|
LMV is inspired by the music of Santos De Los Angeles. Art direction will be designed and created by Dominguez, consisting of a giant, three dimensional paper mache altar as the stage, a perfect setting to combine the elements of Paper Mache, Theatre, Live Music and Dance. Animated art (piñatas and puppets) will come to life contributing to the performance. The play will be narrated with music composed by Los Angeles based artist – Santos De Los Angeles (debuted on American Latino show on ABC.) Santos will take you on a journey exploring the significance of the festive Mexican Holiday Traditions of Dia De Los Muertos s. Using the famed style of Mariachi Tenors, Santos will guide the audience to the very heart and soul of these cultural traditions, through a night of Teatro, Cabaret, Spoken Word and Story Telling, culminating in a full musical Latin Rock Concert. With special community performances and displays that feature an interactive art display, with works by Tony Dominguez and nationally acclaimed muralist Ricardo Estrada. The Performances and Displays will be open to the public daily. The event’s VIP After Party will be hosted by Raul Diablito Martinez and will take place in Downtown Los Angeles. The partnership between The Million Dollar Theatre enables the cast to perform a larger more spectacular event, in a historical theatre setting; the launching point of a U.S tour in 2011. Event Page Link WHEN: November 2nd 2011 ( Dia De Los Muertos), Door opens (exhibits) 3:00 p.m. Event will end at 11pm. This Event Will Sell Out! WHERE: The Historic Million Dollar Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles Broadway Theater Dist. Day of the Dead At SPARC SPARC presents a traditional “Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead” ceremony to honor the dearly beloved/departed with the annual ritual of Calling the Spirits to come to their celebration. The traditional community ceremony will start at 6:30 P.M. and is open to the community. UCLA instructor and SPARC’s Artist in Residence, Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and UCLA’s César E. Chávez Chicana/o Studies Department students will guide the ceremony. After an intermission, guests will enjoy an ensemble featuring two traditional performers, Ruben Izquierdo and Alfredo Lopez who will be performing Mexican, Cuban, and South American music. Ruben Izquierdo, studied classical guitar at the University of Mexico City and graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
|
… when one of our professors writes an article accusing Providence College of having “Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult,” he is protected by academic freedom and freedom of speech. But it must be understood that he speaks only for himself. He certainly does not speak for me, my administration, and for many others at Providence College who understand and value diversity in a very different sense from him. Universities are places where ideas are supposed to be brought into conflict and questioned, so let us robustly debate the meaning of “diversity.” But we must also remember that words have an impact on those who hear or read them. When a professor questions the value of diversity, the impact on many students, faculty, and staff of color is to feel that their presence is not valued and that they are not welcome at Providence College. I have heard from many students about the pain that this causes. When student activists are described as “narcissists,” they understandably feel demeaned and dismissed. We need to be able to disagree with each other’s ideas without attaching labels to them or imputing motives that we cannot know. At the same time that we value freedom in the pursuit of truth, let us value even more our fundamental imperative on a Catholic campus: to be charitable to one another. We may deeply disagree on any number of topics, but we should do so in such a way that respects those with whom we disagree. Our Catholic mission at Providence College calls us to embrace people from diverse backgrounds and cultures as a mirror of the universal Church and to seek the unity of that Body in the universal love of Christ. Pope Francis has likened this communion to the weaving of a blanket, “woven with patience and perseverance, one which gradually draws together stitches to make a more extensive and rich cover.” He reminds us as well that what we seek is not “unanimity, but true unity in the richness of diversity.” Finally, Francis reminds us that “plurality of thought and individuality reflect the manifold wisdom of God when we draw nearer to truth with intellectual honesty and rigor, when we draw near to goodness, when we draw near to beauty, in such a way that everyone can be a gift for the benefit of others.” Amen.
|
In 1937, The Vancouver Sun was forced out of its 125 West Pender location by a fire. It bought the building across the street and moved in there. The paper stayed there for the next 28 years. Forty-two years after the paper moved out, locals still call that building the Old Sun Tower. In 1925, a Vancouver branch of the Ku Klux Klan, the racist organization that had originated in the Southern U.S., used the Tait Mansion in Shaughnessy as its headquarters. Rent was $150 a month. Today, that building is the children’s hospice, Canuck Place. In 1934, a 20-year-old named Foncie Pulice set up a camera on the sidewalk on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver and began taking pictures of passersby. He would continue doing that for 45 years. It is said Foncie may have taken pictures of more people — millions — than anyone else in the world.
|
Department of Education Dear Chairman Cochran, Vice Chairwoman Mikulski, Chairman Blunt, and Ranking Member Murray: I am writing on behalf of myself and my fellow students, whose names are listed below as a pledge of support, to express our strong disapproval for Senator Gillibrand and her colleagues’ request for $137.7 million in FY 2017 for the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education (OCR). We believe that no further funding should be provided to this department until OCR revises its illegal and immoral guidance to our colleges and universities. Through its 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter (DCL), OCR has severely threatened students’ rights to free speech and due process on our college campuses. The DCL fails to explicitly differentiate offensive speech from sexually harassing conduct. This was not always the case with OCR guidelines. In OCR’s 2001 Guidance, acceptance of the Supreme Court’s Davis v. Monroe delineation between free speech and sexual harassment was unequivocally stated. In 2003, OCR’s DCL once again clearly substantiated the separation between offensive expression and sexual harassment. However, these protections were lost with the issuance of the 2011 DCL, which lacked any substantial speech protective directives. This lack of safeguarding free speech enabled OCR’s 2013 Findings Letter with the University of Montana to further jeopardize our rights. This document created a broad definition of sexual harassment by defining it as unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that does not have to be objectively offensive. Though expressed as non-binding, this definition has still been widely adopted by our campuses all across the country. By allowing vague and far-reaching restrictions on speech to be incorporated into sexual harassment policies, DCL’s directives have led to the deprivation of our constitutional and contractual rights to free speech and expression. Equally as important is the fact that the mandates set forth in the 2011 DCL have forced our schools to enact policies which effectively deny us of our due process rights when we are accused of violating sexual harassment policies and face disciplinary proceedings. By mandating a preponderance of the evidence standard for vague and far-reaching sexual harassment codes, DCL promotes a standard of evidence that is inconsistent with the severity of alleged conduct. Colleges and universities have responded to the mandates of OCR by establishing biased procedures with no regard to due process protections or a presumption of innocence.
|
The Mongolia-flagged vessel that sank earlier this month in waters off South Korea while sailing from the North to China was owned by a company in Hong Kong, Seoul officials said, raising suspicion that the ship could be part of the regime’s attempt to evade UN sanctions banning any illicit trade of weapons, luxury goods or other related material.On April 4, the Grand Fortune 1, a 4,300-ton cargo ship flying the Mongolia state flag, sank in international waters off the coast of Yeosu in the southwestern part of South Korea.The vessel was carrying 16 North Korean crew members, 50 metric tons of heavy fuel oil and 6,500 tons of iron ore and copper powder, according to the Korea Coast Guard, which would have earned the Communist state hard-sought foreign currencies amid crushing international sanctions on its economy.The ship was bound for Jiangdu Port, eastern China, from the North Korean port city of Cheongjin.The South Korean coast guard rescued five North Korean crew members, though two later died from their injuries. It also uncovered the body of a dead North Korean crew member during its search. South Korea repatriated the three crew members and the bodies via the border village of Panmunjom.The fact that the vessel flew a Mongolian flag when all its crew members were North Korean nationals sparked suspicions that Pyongyang was using the Mongolian ship to avoid South Korea’s scrutiny. Questions remain over the ship’s owner, reportedly a company based in Hong Kong, Seoul officials told the JoongAng Ilbo yesterday.According to officials from South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the owner is believed to have registered the ship in the Mongolian government’s database to evade taxes and hired North Korean crew members for their cheap labor.Under international law, it is not illegal for a commercial vessel in a state to be registered to a country different than that of its owner. A practice called “flag of convenience,” the system is often employed to evade regulations in the owner’s country of origin or to lessen operating expenses.Panama and Liberia, for instance, have some of the largest open shipping registries in the world by deadweight tonnage, according to the International Transport Workers’ Federation, and flags the most foreign-owned vessels.The system has been criticized by a number of international organizations, however, for its substandard practices, poor safety and training.Although Mongolia is a land-locked country, it has accepted dozens of foreign vessels to be flagged under its system since 2003.
|
“No one is happy to see Azaria go to jail, but pardoning him will make a mockery of the legal system in the army.”Joint List MK Yousef Jabareen responded to the sentencing, stating that the punishment did not fit the crime.“It sends a message that the blood of Palestinians is worthless,” Jabareen said.“The incident with Azaria is not an isolated case, it is a much larger problem within the army, which is supported by the political echelon and fueled by a lack of prosecution of soldiers.”Jabareen added that he had asked Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called for Azaria’s pardon shortly after his conviction.Jabareen called Netanyahu’s comments an obstruction of justice, claiming that they influenced the court’s decision.Zionist Union MK Omer Bar-lev, a former head of the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal, called on his fellow politicians to respect the principle of separation of powers and refrain from heating tensions with calls to pardon Azaria.Jeremy Sharon contributed to this report.
|
He also suggests that the animosity towards the 15th-17th dynasty Hyksos may have been caused by the experience of the 4th dynasty Hyksos. It is a little peculiar that the changes at that time 'coincided with the ascendancy of the priests of Heliopolis as a major political force in Egypt. Their domination over the power of the pharaoh had certainly become fully established in the fifth dynasty' (10) . And yet most authors seem to avoid the idea that these priests and the Hyksos and the change in design and religion, (Sun worship instead of animal-totem-multiple-god worship), (and the change in name) might all be related. It was suggested by Garnier, that 'Shufu', is a soubriquet meaning ' Long Haired' , indicating that both these kings possessed that peculiarity, which distinguished them from other Pharaohs. He also notes that Apepi, the pharaoh under whom Josephus was ruler, although a pure Egyptian, and at first a supporter of the Egyptian gods, was also called a shepherd king, because he afterwards rejected idolatry. We are told that pyramid building began before the Hyksos invasion. However, the history of 'memphite' pyramid building was a short lived one (5) , and it may yet turn out that the proximity of the timing with the Hyksos is not such a co-incidence. For while the pyramids were, in probability, constructed at the time of Khufu and Khafre, there are still important questions such as when that was and the extent of the Hyksos influence on the country (specifically pyramid building), after they arrived. It is necessary to create a clear picture of pre-dynastic Egypt, in order to determine what changes occurred. 'Most Egyptologists are inclined to think that at about 3,400 B.C. a large-scale invasion of Egypt took place the invading dynastic race which was to usher in the pharaohic civilization of Egypt called themselves the followers of Horus...' (5) . Could this be the first Hyksos invasion? Glyn Daniels (1) , response to the question of the 'spontaneous' emergence of Egyptian civilisation, was that it is reasonably accepted that this process did not take place without some direct influence from Mesopotamia (Sumeria). Evidence includes:- Three Mesopotamian cylinder seals of the later Uruk or proto-literate period have been found in Egypt: One was from Naqada. From then onwards the Egyptians used the cylinder seal - a Mesopotamian invention. Mesopotamian motifs appear in Egyptian art.
|
Due to it’s concave design, sunlight is reflected into a very localised point in the early afternoon, creating a pool of light, with temperatures above the immediate ambient environment, according to local media. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEALLEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images City workers walk through the shaft of intense sunlight reflected from the glass windows of the new “Walkie Talkie” tower in central London on August 30, 2013. Due to it’s concave design, sunlight is reflected into a very localised point in the early afternoon, creating a pool of light, with temperatures above the immediate ambient environment, according to local media. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEALLEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images A man reacts to a shaft of intense sunlight reflected from the glass windows of the new “Walkie Talkie” tower in central London on August 30, 2013. Due to it’s concave design, sunlight is reflected into a very localised point in the early afternoon, creating a pool of light, with temperatures above the immediate ambient environment, according to local media. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEALLEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images A young couple kiss as they stand in a shaft of intense sunlight reflected from the glass windows of the new “Walkie Talkie” tower in central London on August 30, 2013. Due to it’s concave design, sunlight is reflected into a very localised point in the early afternoon, creating a pool of light, with temperatures above the immediate ambient environment, according to local media. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEALLEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images A general view of the “Walkie-Talkie” building, taken from Eastcheap in the City of London, where sun light reflected from the building melted part of a Jaguar car. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday September 3, 2013. Developers of the “Walkie-Talkie”, so-called for its distinctive shape, are investigating reports of the damaging glare, while a number of nearby car parking spaces have been suspended, City A.M. said. Local businessman Martin Lindsay said he was distraught when he returned to his high-spec Jaguar XJ parked on Eastcheap on Thursday afternoon to find warped panels along one side. See PA story INDUSTRY Skyscraper. Photo credit should read: Andy Scofield/PA Wire
|
"This is not just about adding subscribers, but also strengthening the relationship with loyal readers of the website and papers. If you are going to try this [charging] then the model they have chosen is the best way," she said. News Corp owns the Wall Street Journal, which has one of the most successful paid-for sites with about 407,000 electronic subscribers. But some analysts point out that the WSJ offers specialist content, and that charging for general news is a different business model. The editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, is a leading sceptic of paywalls and has vowed to keep most of the content of his newspaper free online. In January he described the move towards paywall business models as a "hunch". Unlike some commentators, Ms Enders does not expect any of the major UK newspaper groups to follow suit quickly. Nor does she believe that Mr Murdoch's strategy represents the last throw of the dice for some of his loss-making papers. "If it fails, Murdoch will think of something else. He has been supporting his loss-makers for years." Newspaper circulation for print and online editions, Feb 2010 Publication Print Online Daily average circulation Year change (%) Daily average unique browsers Year change (%) Daily Mail 2,111,204 -3.1 2,265,623 68.2 The Daily Telegraph 685,177 -9.8 1,548,059 9.7 The Guardian 284,514 -16.4 1,869,448 36.6 The Independent 183,547 -10.9 465,346 3.6 The Sun 2,972,763 0.6 1,388,831 -9.9 The Times 505,062 -16.9 1,215,446 -1.8 Source: ABC. Express Newspapers' websites and the FT website are not audited by ABC. Separate figures for the Daily Mirror online are not available, only aggregate figures for Mirror Group Digital.
|
As documented, among others, by Hodgson and Hoyland using Muslim sources such as al-Tabari and al-Balādhuri, the early Arab conquerors had little interest in creating a new civilization, or in converting the conquered populations to Islam. Rather, they saw these populations mainly as a source of labor, goods, and revenue, which was consistent with the practices of the time. The Arab soldiery – which included Christians as well as Muslims – lived in separate garrison towns and had limited contact with the local populace. People of all faiths in the conquered regions – including Zoroastrians, Buddhists, and later Hindus – were recognized as “People of the Book” so that they could be subject to the poll tax (jizya), which formed a critical part of the Muslim state's tax base. Indeed, when the locals did begin to convert under social and financial pressures, it became something of a fiscal crisis for the Muslim state, prompting drastic changes in tax law to ensure that conversion could occur without loss of revenue. Even so, non-Arab converts typically needed to find an Arab Muslim patron before they could fully join the Muslim community. It took well over three centuries for most of the Middle East and Persia to become Muslim majority regions. All these things indicate that the original Muslim state's conception of itself was very different than that promoted by later revisionist thinking, and was more along the lines of traditional control over conquered peoples rather than the creation of a radically new egalitarian polity. This is reflected in the fact that the poll tax was often imposed on all adults in the conquered lands, implying that they were considered a single class regardless of their religious affiliation. A polity rooted in an Islamic identity only emerged as non-Arab Muslims acquired greater power and sought to erase the memory of their subservient status.
|
!Overall I can say that you can fix all of the major issues in like 20 mins of ur time and requalify this. Theres not that much to cry about but still you got to make this a bit more readable.I know there are no standards in regards of slider art but...00:00:618 (1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1) - how do the reflect the song? they are completely random, doest correlate with each other. Hello its 2017 you can make more simplistic and at the same time more nice stuff.00:46:743 (1) - you could make this look way better, since you started that grid:01:01:368 (1) - and this 00:49:368 (1) - i honestly think you should kinda choose what kind of pattern you use for that sounds. I Still think that escalating distance is better than double-jump-double-jump.03:30:618 (1) - I mean... 03:27:618 (1) - 03:29:118 (1) - 03:24:618 (1) - 03:26:118 (1) - and suddenly a cringed something 03:30:618 (1) - and 03:32:118 (1) - 03:33:618 (1) -03:35:868 - here shud be an NC I guess?01:37:180 - I think it should be 1/2 instead of 3/4, since it lacks the clap like 01:37:930 - here.02:05:118 (4) - 02:02:118 (4) - this might be a slider end? just like in top diff? youre mapping vocals there, that drum sound implied to be on slider end. (i removed custom hitsounds):02:28:180 - 02:28:368 - 02:28:555 - 02:29:305 - 02:29:680 - etc what happened here?02:24:618 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - turn off the custom hitsounds and listen.like... youre making rhythm from claps on 02:25:368 -but ignoring the normal-hitnormal 02:27:243 - which is referring to 02:25:743 - 02:26:493 - so I guess it might be like02:24:993 - here might be a normal-hitnormal02:26:868 (7) - might be a copy of 02:25:368 (3) - (add/normal, clap+whistle)02:27:618 - from here we got 02:28:180 - 02:28:368 - 02:28:555 - suddenlywhy? I mean I know Im not supposed to ask that but, explain please why did you do that in that way. Its just irregular and wrong (in my opinion).02:59:868 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - sounds nice but, is this a proper reflection of objects?
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.