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Hillbilly Hell/Heaven (depending on your disposition) The river: - This is where the hillbillies really show their true colors. What happens when you get a bunch of REALLY drunk rednecks together in one spot, take off half their cloths, and put them in an isolated area? They show each other their titties, they let their racist tongues fly, they throw things at each other, etc. - Another reviewer said it best, the river is a "liquidy conveyor belt of debauchery " - All along the river are rope swings, big rocks to jump off (be careful! ), trunks to climb up and jump into the water... a lot of fun, honestly - The current is really nice, you don't need a paddle most of the time. If you loose yours, you can usually find one floating that someone else has lost. - Don't get a canoe!! they're too easy to tip, then all your gear goes in the water (which should be in a dry pack). Get a raft. - Don't bring pot on the river. I can personally attest to the rumor (truth!) that forest rangers will hide in the trees and come out and surprise you with a search. Fortunately we didn't have any on us. I had fishing gear (didn't catch anything) and no fishing license, but they didn't care they just wanted to bust people for weed. - The river was absolutely beautiful! So amazing The camp ground: - On a Friday or Saturday in the summer, it's pretty much a party. - It's loud and crude. The people that come here are hillbillies, drunks, wet college kids, bros, burnouts, meth-heads and red-necks. Already drunk from being on the river, the party continues into the wee hours of the morning. - and if you're into that then it can be a lot of fun! If you're not, then it's not a lot of fun! - That being said, there was no one fighting, the rangers made people turn off their radios sometime after midnight and they broke up the biggest and loudest groups. I was able to sleep nicely, but maybe I was just drunk enough to not hear the noise. We didn't have any trouble finding a place to camp and it wasn't so crowded you couldn't fit a popup tent, so maybe I was there on a less crowded weekend then other reviewers.
The company announced successful safety checks on their Boeing fleet on 29 August 2005 and put them back into service. It later renamed itself from "Helios Airways" to "αjet". However, when authorities in Cyprus detained the company's aircraft and froze the company's bank accounts about a year later, the airline announced that it would stop operating on 31 October 2006. In March 2011, the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States released an Airworthiness Directive requiring all Boeing 737 aircraft from −100 to −500 models to be fitted with two additional cockpit warning lights. These would indicate problems with take-off configuration or pressurization. Aircraft on the United States civil register were required to have the additional lights by 14 March 2014. [40] Lawsuits and criminal proceedings Edit Families of the dead filed a lawsuit against Boeing on 24 July 2007. Their lawyer, Constantinos Droungas, said, "Boeing put the same alarm in place for two different types of dysfunction. One was a minor fault, but the other – the loss of oxygen in the cockpit – is extremely important." He also said that similar problems had been encountered before on Boeings in Ireland and Norway. The families sued for 76 million euros in compensation from Boeing. [41] In early 2008, an Athens prosecutor charged six former employees with manslaughter over the incident. Reports at the time said the suspects were two Britons, one Bulgarian national and three Cypriots. [42] On 23 December 2008, Helios Airways and four of its officials were charged in Cyprus with 119 counts of manslaughter and of causing death by recklessness and negligence. The four officials were former chief pilot Ianko Stoimenov, chairman of the board Andreas Drakos, chief executive officer Demetris Pantazis, and operations manager Giorgos Kikidis. The trial began in November 2009; the state prosecutors finished presenting their case in June 2011. [43][44][45] The case was dismissed, and the defendants acquitted, on 21 December 2011. The panel of judges hearing the case ruled that there was no "causal association between the defendants and the negligence they were charged with for the fatal accident". [46] An appeal was filed by the Cypriot Attorney-general, and in December 2012 the Supreme Court set aside the acquittal and ordered a new trial. Two months later, the retrial was dropped under double jeopardy rules, as the charges had already been heard in Athens.
The cruiser which fired the shot that announced the start of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, now serves as a museum REUTERS 13/16 A monument to Lenin stands in the settlement of Kovylnoye in the Razdolnensky district of Crimea REUTERS 14/16 The USSR coat of arms was found at the dome base of the Cosmos Pavilion behind false panels during restoration works Reuters 15/16 A nameplate with Vladimir Lenin on is seen on the wall of a house in the town of Vetka, Belarus REUTERS 16/16 A cobalt glass mosaic panel with a portrait of Lenin is seen at the Krasnoyarsk hydro-electric power station, second largest in Russia, located on the Yenisei River outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk REUTERS
Methods Mortality from overdoses of paracetamol and salicylates The Office for National Statistics supplied data on drug related deaths (suicides and accidental self poisoning) and deaths from undetermined cause in England and Wales for September 1996 to September 1999. We included deaths from undetermined cause and accidental poisonings because using suicide verdicts alone to assess overall mortality from suicide is problematic.10 We extracted data on deaths of people aged 12 years and over where paracetamol or salicylates were recorded as the only drug involved. We also examined data on deaths where paracetamol or salicylates were part of a compound (excluding co-proxamol) or were taken with another, separate, drug. Data for 1999 are provisional, as some cases are still under coroner's review. The data from 1996 to 1998 indicated that records for 4.5% of cases were likely to be missing. Liver transplantation and referrals to liver transplant units Data on numbers of admissions after paracetamol overdose, patients listed for liver transplantation, and patients receiving transplants were supplied by five liver units in England for October 1996 to September 1999. In most of these units data were obtained from review of routinely kept clinical records. Non-fatal self poisoning with paracetamol and salicylates Data were collected in Oxford (one hospital), Bristol and Bath (four hospitals), and Manchester (two hospitals) on all presentations with self poisoning between 16 September 1997 and 15 September 1999. Figures for self poisoning with paracetamol, paracetamol compounds (excluding co-proxamol), salicylates, salicylate compounds, and other drugs were extracted. Information was not available for Manchester for all salicylate overdoses. The number of tablets taken in each overdose was recorded; where the number was imprecise we used standard approximations (details available from authors). Table 1 Numbers of suicides, undetermined deaths, and deaths resulting from accidental poisoning attributable to paracetamol and salicylates among people aged 12 years and over in England and Wales before and after the change in law on packaging* View this table: In all three centres data were collected on blood paracetamol concentrations and prothrombin times for all paracetamol overdoses where such investigations were requested. Oxford and Bristol also collected data on salicylate concentrations. Where several concentrations were obtained for a patient, we recorded the highest value. Sales data Intercontinental Medical Statistics supplied data for September 1996 to September 1999 on monthly sales of paracetamol and salicylate preparations to pharmacies and other outlets in the United Kingdom.
THE COURT: Today it is pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, it is the judgment and sentence of this Court, based upon his violation of supervised release, that Sonny C. Vleisides is hereby placed on supervised release for an additional term of two years. While on supervised release the defendant shall comply with all the conditions previously imposed in the original judgment dated September 15th, 2010. Further, the defendant shall abide by the following addition -- additional conditions. The defendant shall submit his person, his property, house, residence, office, vehicle, papers, computer, other electronic communication or data, storage devices or media and effects to a search at any time conducted by a U.S. probation officer at a reasonable time ina reasonable manner, based upon reasonable suspicion of contraband or evidence of a violation of a condition of release.Failure to submit to a search may be grounds for revocation. The defendant shall warn any other residents that his premises may be subject to searches pursuant to this condition. The defendant shall file a personal and business tax returns as required by law and provide the probation officer with copies of all tax documents as directed by the probation officer. As I said earlier, Ms. Pierce is going to make some proposed suggestions to the Court related to how we can better supervise you, Mr. Vleisides, and make sure that we have transparence in that supervision. Your job is to make sure that she understands everything, and this -- this business about her not understanding, I don't buy it. Your job is to communicate, create transparencies. Any loan, especially $64,000 or whatever it is, is something she needs to know about before it's made, no matter -- I know you're calling it -- we're calling it an advance today, but I find it's a loan, so we're clear on that part as well. I hope this is successful for you, Mr. Vleisides. I'm -- I'm pulling for you. I hope Butterfly Labs is a legitimate company that enjoys success. But there's a smell, and that's what I'm addressing today.
THE RESUMPTION OF SOMETHING LIKE INTRA-ARMY POLITICS THERE OVER THE LAST YEAR HAS BEEN FOLLOWED VERY CLOSELY BY PARAGUAYANS OF EVERY PERSUASION. FOR THE STROESSNER REGIME, THE Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 EMERGENCE OF THE CRACKS IN BRAZILIAN MILITARY SOLIDARITY AND CALLS FOR DEMOCRACY (EVEN FROM WITHIN THE ARMY) ARE A CAUSE OF ACUTE DISTRESS. FOR PARAGUAYAN OPPOSITIONISTS, THE CHANGES IN BRAZIL ARE WELCOMED AS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE. EVEN MORE DISTURBING THAN CHAOS IN NICARAGUA OR THE REEMERGENCE OF POLITICS IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA IS THE UPSURGE OF INTERNATIONAL RIVALRIES AMONG THE SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES. THE THREAT OF WAR BETWEEN ARGENTINA AND CHILE IS CAUSING DEEP WORRY IN PARAGUAY, ALTHOUGH PRACTICALLY NO ONE HERE EXPECTS WAR OVER THE BEAGLE CHANNEL. IT IS THE BREAKDOWN IN SOUTHERN CONE SOLIDARITY THAT REALLY DISTURBS THE GOP. ARGENTINA'S DECISION TO ADMIT THE IAHRC IS JUST A SYMPTOM OF THE BREAKDOWN AND ANOTHER MARK OF PARAGUAY'S ISOLATION. 6.A SENSE OF NERVIOUSNESS ABOUT NICARAGUA AND BRAZIL IS OFFSET TO SOME EXTENT BY A GROWING CONVICTION AMONG INFLUENTIAL FIGURES IN THE PARAGUAYAN GOVERNMENT THAT TH U.S. IS AT LAST COMING AROUND AND THAT THE PRESSURE TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES IS RELENTING. THIS RAISES A BASIC QUESTION. HOW MUCH OF THIS YEAR'S IMPROVEMENT IS COSMETIC, AIMED AT DISARMING OPINION ABROAD BUT NOT ALTERING THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 ASUNCI 04845 02 OF 04 071932Z THE COUNTRY? THE ANSWER MAY BE THAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT'S TREATMENT OF ITS CITIZENS IS BRINGING INEVITABLE ORGANIC CHANGE THAT MAY PROVE IRREVERSIBLE. HOW SOLID IS THE BASIC STRUCTURE BUILT UP HERE SINCE 1954? DOES IT DEPEND ENTIRELY ON ONE MAN? HOW IS THE REGIME CONSTITUTED AND HOW MIGHT IT SURVIVE IN NEW CIRCUMSTANCES? TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS MEANS IN PARAGUAY REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING THE STROESSNER REGIME, HOW IT CAME TO POWER AND WHY IT REMAINS THERE. 7. WHATEVER THEIR EDUCATION OR POLITICAL LEANINGS, MOST PARAGUAYANS SEEM TO HAVE A LIVELY APPRECIATION FOR THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF THEIR COUNTRY--FOR ITS INVASIONS, COUPS, CIVIL WARS--AS WELL AS FOR ITS YEARS OF ORDER AND RELATIVE PROGRESS.
Another hint that, from a temporal standpoint, we should read the story backwards comes in the middle of it. As usual with Plato, the center of the story holds the key to it. In the myth of Er, the center (Republic, X, 617b-e) introduces the three daughters of Necessity (Anagkè), the Fates (Moiras, whose name also means "shares") about to distribute "models of lives (biôn paradeigmata)" (shares to choose from, not fates to be imposed upon us). The central section splits in two parts : first, the presentation of the three Fates and their place in the overall structure of the universe as a conclusion of the description that preceded ; second, the proclamation of a prophet initiating the choice of lives that is to follow. Both parts are meant to show that men alone, not gods or laws of nature, are responsible for their own fate. This is said in plain words at the end of the prophet's proclamation : "the responsibility is in he who chooses, god is not responsible (aitia elomenou, theos anaitois)" (Republic, X, 617e), but the purpose of the description of the structure of the universe that ends with the introduction of the Fates is to show that the laws of necessity are only meant to maintain order and harmony into the created world (13), not to deny man's freedom. And as if to prove it, the first act of the prophet at the service of the Fates is to "arrange the souls in orderly intervals (en taxei diastèsai)" (Republic, X, 617d, which is almost the exact middle of the myth). In all that order, there is only one slight problem : the role of each of the three Fates doesn't fit with the meaning of each one's name in respect with all that is said everywhere else in the myth ! Lachesis, whose name means "destiny" is telling the past ("ta gegonota, the things that have become") while Atropos, whose name means "unchangeable", is telling the future ("ta mellonta, the things that must happen"). Clotho alone, whose name means "spinster", seems to be at her place, standing in the middle and telling the present ("ta onta, the things that are"). To give each Fate her due role, we only have to reverse the order so that Lachesis, Destiny, who in effect presides over the choices of lives, will tell the future while Atropos seals the past to make it unchangeable.
For the purpose of today's article I'm going to make a broad generalization: the cruiser is a relatively recent invention that was concocted in the boardrooms of at least one major manufacturer. There was once a time when Harley Davidsons and Indians were simply styled in the manner of their era and were just as susceptible to being stripped to their bare essentials and ridden in anger as anything coming out of Europe. Their styling was once current, their performance once competitive, their function never intended for weekend warriors escaping office drudgery in leather-clad road pageants. The overwrought modern cruiser and the carefully cultivated image of its riders were but a distant glimmer in the eye of a clever marketing maven.It could have been different. It should have been different. The cruiser wasn't born in the boardrooms of Harley-Davidson in the 1980s. It was the product of a man with a singular vision, whose work would prove to be under appreciated and his skills as a remarkable designer and craftsman virtually forgotten. These prototypical cruisers weren't created by tacking tassels onto nostalgic throwback machines – they were an optimistic vision of the future welded out of steel tube and beaten out of sheet metal in Orley Raymond Courtney's workshop before being rolled out into an ignorant world in the mid-1930s, and once again in the early 1950s. Courtney's work was bold, innovative, and without peer in the United States, or anywhere else in the world. Above all, it was beautiful. And it is now virtually forgotten, his stunning and forward-thinking designs contributing to a future that never happened.Today we benefit (or, depending on your viewpoint, suffer) from a proliferation of increasingly specialized motorcycles tailored to specific functions. If you want to go slow and munch miles on the Interstate, you buy a cruiser. If you want to go fast, you buy a sport bike. If you want to go fast and ride more than 50 miles at a time, you buy a sport tourer. If you want to go fast and ride more than 50 miles at a time and pretend you can go offroad if you wanted to but you probably never will, you buy an adventure tourer.
Even if Vault B is empty, the treasure in Vault A could radically transform the city of Trivandrum and, indeed, the state of Kerala. If the hoard in Vault A turned out to be worth half the twenty-billion-dollar estimate, it would likely earn enough interest in one year to cover the cost of the major projects in the state’s 2012 budget, including new waste-processing plants, cargo ports, ambulances, office parks, hospital trauma units, and a modern laboratory for monitoring food and drug quality. And there would still be a three-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar surplus, which could be used to help Kerala’s poor. “How much ground do you want to stand?” One morning in October, I visited a Trivandrum slum known as the Chenkal Choola Colony. On the street, old women sorted through mounds of trash, young women sold fish covered with flies, and a child in her underpants hopped on a series of boards, to avoid falling into a deep, viscous mud puddle. I met the owner of a chicken stall, a sixty-year-old man named K. S. Babu. His shop contained a cage of clucking chickens, a picture of the Virgin Mary, a tree stump for poultry butchering, and little else. Babu told me that, poor as the neighborhood was, it had been much worse before Indira Gandhi launched anti-poverty programs, in the nineteen-eighties. “If somebody died here, no one took the body away,” he told me. “And anybody without a house could take over someone’s place and live there. We couldn’t question anyone.” Government could make a big difference in people’s lives, he said. “It is necessary that we use the treasure for the well-being of the public!” Babu went on. Despite his strong feelings, he cautioned me against broaching the topic with other residents of the Colony. “Most of them would explode, saying not to take the treasure out of the temple,” he continued. “If they are Hindus, they will show their rage. You can’t talk to them freely as you talk to me, because I think in the mind-set of a socialist.” Babu was also a Christian. In Kerala, three religions have a strong presence: a quarter of its population is Muslim, roughly another quarter is Christian, and the remainder is Hindu. I asked Babu to introduce me to a Hindu who would consent to be interviewed. “Talk to him,” Babu said, pointing to a slender young man walking past. “Who is he?” I asked.
Indian employers are ahead of their Asia Pacific counterparts in developing strategies to manage work-related stress as one in every three employers instituted stress management programmes last year and an almost equal number plan to do so this year, says a survey.According to the inaugural Asia Pacific edition of the 'Staying@Work' survey conducted by professional services company Towers Watson, stress is the number one lifestyle risk factor, ranking above physical inactivity and obesity.A growing recognition among employers is that the workplace experience can both contribute to and reduce employee stress and an increasing number of employers are planning lifestyle change programmes that were not as prevalent as of now. "Almost 1 in every 3 Indian employers has instituted stress or resilience management programmes in 2013 and analmost equal number plan to follow suit in 2014. With stress being ranked as #1 lifestyle risk factor in India, this number is likely to grow," the report said. "It is noteworthy that Indian employers fared better than their Asia Pacific counterparts in managing employees' work-related stress," Towers Watson India Director, Benefits Anuradha Sriram said.Integrating various initiatives into a comprehensive and robust health and productivity strategy is a gradual process, but the fact that Indian companies have begun taking positive strides in this direction augurs well, Sriram added.According to Indian employees the top three reasons for stress at workplace include unclear or conflicting job expectations, inadequate staffing (lack of support, uneven workload in group) and lack of work/life balance.One of the most common solution adopted by employers to manage employees' stress is offering flexible working hours as 50 per cent of employers resort to this solution.Other top solutions adopted by employers include organise stress management interventions like workshops, yoga, tai chi and undertake education and awareness campaigns to help their employees manage stress.Though Indian employers are ahead of their regional peers in managing stress at workplace, only 38 per cent have identified stress management at workplace as a top priority of their health and productivity programs, signaling a vast scope for improvement in this area. "In a challenging economic scenario, where companies are stretched to balance costs and maximise productivity, employers need to identify specific triggers that impact employee wellness, engagement and in turn productivity," Sriram said.
Masen eventually escapes and helps establish a self-sufficient colony in Sussex… which, unfortunately, is menaced not only by hordes of triffids but by a militarized rival colony! Fun fact: Brian Aldiss singled out The Day of the Triffids as an example of what he called a “cosy catastrophe” — that is, a subgenre of apocalyptic fiction in which a handful of survivors enjoy a relatively comfortable existence. Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters (1951) In 2007, slug-like creatures arrive in flying saucers and begin to take over. It seems they can take control of their victims’ nervous systems, and manipulate them like puppets. Government officials don’t believe in any of this nonsense, until the Old Man, head of a top-secret government agency, infiltrates the affected area with his top agents: Sam (the Old Man’s son), and the beautiful Mary… whom, we eventually discover, was puppetized by these creatures when she was a child colonist on Venus. Even as the Old Man directs government efforts to combat the invasion of these body-snatchers, Sam is puppetized by a slug! The government’s counter-attack fails, and it’s up to Sam and Mary to work out a desperate last-ditch anti-slug effort. An exciting Cold War-inflected thriller (it’s been described as a “not-too-thinly veiled metaphor for the eternal vigilance needed to keep the Communist menace in check”) which I discovered, as a teen, via the 1980 Science Fiction Book Club edition. Fun fact: Originally serialized in Galaxy (September, October, November 1951). In 1990, Heinlein’s widow gave permission for the publication of an earlier — longer, and more risqué — version of the manuscript. Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo (1952; in the UK: Limbo ’90). Limbo is: a sometimes tedious, aggravating work of genius; a post-apocalyptic antiwar treatise that is skeptical of pacifism; and a serious novel of ideas written by an inveterate punster. In 1990, after the cataclysm of WWIII has wiped out Paris, London, Rome, and other cities, the diary of a disillusioned brain surgeon is discovered. Dr. Martine’s irreverent, sarcastic notions — e.g., disarmament taken to a literal, amputational extreme — wind up providing an ideological basis for an absurdist worldwide movement. The disarmament movement has split into two factions: one remains helpless; the other replaces the missing limbs with powerful artificial ones. Martine’s peaceful Indian Ocean island home is invaded by cyborgs from the latter movement, who seek a rare metal — one thinks of “vibranium” — to power their limbs.
It represents how invisible you feel when people treat you like you’re less than a human being. Then by the end of the song I take off the hood and I come back into being myself. That song is always interesting to perform and I think it has a positive impact for a lot of people.”
If that’s not enough, the complaint (which can be read on the following page) suggests that similar bad activity is happening elsewhere — in Florida, Turkey and the Philippines. GUESS WHAT HAPPENS ONLY FOUR DAYS AFTER THE SURPRISE LAWSUIT WAS FILED The same day that the Hollywood Reporter covered this groundbreaking lawsuit, India was struck with the first in a series of crippling tragedies. Four days isn’t too bad for a turnaround time — to destroy a nation’s power grid. You’ve gotta give the Cabal some credit. If this was indeed deliberate, and they could pull this off in such a short turnaround time, these guys are good. But not good enough. July 30: India’s Power Grid Crashes, Affecting 370M People http://bigstory.ap.org/article/major-power-outage-hits-northern-indian-cities While the midsummer outage was unique in its reach – it hit 370 million people, more than the population of the United States and Canada combined – its impact was softened by Indians’ familiarity with almost daily blackouts of varying duration. Hospitals and major businesses have backup generators that seamlessly kick in during power cuts, and upscale homes are hooked to backup systems powered by truck batteries. OF COURSE THERE IS NO CONNECTION… RIGHT? Then, the very next day, a separate incident caused an additional 670 MILLION people in India to lose power. In just two days, in two seemingly unrelated incidents, a total of HALF of all the 1.2 BILLION people in India lost their power. Is it really that hard to destroy a power grid — if you are willing and able to play dirty tricks? India’s woes were not yet over, as we shall see. July 31, 2012: Second India Blackout Cuts Power to 670M http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/uk-india-blackout-idUSLNE86U01G20120731 (Reuters) – Grids supplying electricity to half of India’s 1.2 billion people collapsed on Tuesday, trapping coal miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout in as many days. worst to hit India in more than a decade and embarrassed the government, which has failed to build up enough power capacity to meet soaring demand. Stretching from Assam, near China , to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts of Rajasthan, the outage was theandwhich has failed to build up enough power capacity to meet soaring demand. “Even before we could figure out the reason for yesterday’s failure, we had more grid failures today,” said R. N. Nayak, chairman of the state-run Power Grid Corporation.
And wear underwear.You don’t squat enough.I don’t know, I’m busy lifting weights, not dancing.CrossFit propaganda.Not keeping the bar close enough to your body before you hump it with your you know what.I don’t think they do. I think they go hide the bathroom so they can check their iPhones more.Check his bodyweight.Only a d-bag wouldn’t pause the conversation to train.
Panchayat members who have clearly spelt out roles and responsibilities admitted to feeling a sense of ownership and accountability.The alignment of all spokes of the administrative wheel resulted in service improvements, as we see below:
Dr Kaye Whitley, Sapro One of these barriers, she explains, is that after someone has reported an assault in the US military: "Their command knows, everyone in the unit knows, and it affects 'unit-readiness'." For this reason there is now a new "restrictive reporting option" so that victims who are afraid of reporting an assault can get the medical care and counselling that they need, without their command having to be notified, and without having to participate in an investigation. For those who do decide to report a sexual assault, Dr Whitley says the crime is taken seriously. "We are finding that more and more commanders are referring these cases to court martial," she says. "One of the things that one of our leaders recently said is that we want to get so good at prosecuting these guys that if there's anybody walking around out there that's a predator, they'll think that the military is the last place they want to end up. "So we are working very hard on that, we think we can do better," she says. 'Cultural change' The writer Helen Benedict has been looking into sexual violence in the military for a number of years, and has recently written a play on the subject. She has heard from women whose experiences have ranged from disrespect, to constant sexual harassment, to rape. "There is a culture that if you report someone, you are seen as a weak soldier who failed to defend yourself," she says. But she says this does not mean that women should not be serving in the army. "It is the men who are committing a crime who have a problem. The military has to deal with them and not punish women by shutting them out from this career," she says. Ms Benedict says that economics may help to bring about the cultural change that she says the army needs. "The recession means more women are joining the military then ever before. So as women become less of a minority and rise in the ranks and get more power, hopefully the culture will begin to shift," she says. Meanwhile, Marti Ribeiro is now trying to tackle the issue politically. She is part of the Service Women's Action Network, which lobbies to improve the welfare of US servicewomen and women veterans.
The campaign noted that in 2015, he received 42.5 percent of the total primary vote, as compared to 46 percent of the vote on Tuesday.Two years ago, Craig and fellow Democrat Patrick Arnold received a combined total of 6,418 votes, with Craig receiving 4,557 votes, or 37 percent, and fellow former Alderman Patrick Arnold receiving 1,861 votes, or 15 percent.“I look at tonight with great optimism given that I outperformed my primary performance two years ago,” Gatsas said. "I look forward to the next 40-plus days of hard campaigning, meeting voters, and talking about the issues that matter. This will be a hard-fought general election where the contrast between our visions for Manchester will be clear.”Normand said late Tuesday afternoon that he saw no sign of any problems related to new voter identification and same-day registration requirements of a law passed earlier this year by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Chris Sununu.He said there had been “some Senate Bill 3 anxiety,” but no issues came up as of late afternoon.“It seems to have been going smoothly,” he said.The secretary of state’s office updated its website Tuesday to reflect the new requirements of the law, which is being challenged in court by the New Hampshire Democratic Party.Normand said that the turnout was slow on Tuesday morning, “and I was kind of worried.” But he said that by 1:30 p.m., about 5,600 votes were cast in addition to the receipt of about 800 absentee ballots.“We will probably end up at 10,000 to 11,000 votes, which, he said, would be in the vicinity of a 20 percent turnout.Normand's prediction turned out to be accurate.
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The pedantic side of this patron saint of polymaths has often been overlooked. Most Americans associate Jefferson only with his staggering intellect. As President John F. Kennedy put it at a White House dinner honoring fifty Nobel laureates a half century ago, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” Few are aware that America’s “Apostle of Freedom,” as President Franklin Roosevelt called the most erudite Founding Father, was as consumed by the petty as he was by the lofty. The nonstop doer was not always discriminating in what he did. Jefferson delighted in gathering factoids, regardless of how meaningful they might turn out to be. He was also eager to communicate what he reaped. “[Jefferson] scattered information,” Senator William Maclay of Pennsylvania observed in 1790, “wherever he went.” During his presidency, he kept a long list with the equally long-winded title, “A statement of the vegetable market in Washington, during a period of 8 years, wherein the earliest and last appearance of each article is noted.” As this document reveals, while entrusted with running the country, Jefferson felt compelled to keep constant tabs on the availability of twenty-nine vegetables (and seven fruits) in our nation’s capital. The earliest date on which he could enjoy a watermelon at the White House was July 7; the latest was September 4. And when his eldest grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, who was about to spend a year studying science in Philadelphia, visited him in Washington in 1807, the president immediately asked the fifteen-year-old to empty out his trunk so that he could personally examine every article. Having completed this inventory, Jefferson took out a pencil and paper in order to make a list of other items that he was convinced the adolescent would need.
They included American Conservative blogger Daniel Larison, conservative provocateur Mark Steyn, and C.I.A. veteran Paul Pillar, who warned about the message sent when we whacked “someone who gave up not only terrorism but also his unconventional weapons programs in return for normal relations.” Arms expert Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey was among an even rarer group who warned that North Korea was watching. As it turned out, the dissenters were right. Iran’s leaders took notice, and hard-liners redoubled their efforts to scuttle negotiations over the country’s nuclear program, warning that they could otherwise share Qaddafi’s fate. Similarly, Pyongyang’s news agency laid out its analysis: that the nuclear deal with Qaddafi had been a trap which, using “such sweet words as ‘guarantee of security’ and ‘improvement of relations,’” had caused Libya’s regime to disarm and “then swallowed it up by force.” To which the official U.S. response was something like, “Well, yeah, but . . . we didn’t destroy Qaddafi until he displeased us, and that was, like, eight years later.” To be fair, sentiments here were running strong. If I recall my own thoughts correctly, for instance, I considered the effects of our actions on nuclear proliferation but still, I confess, felt only mildly opposed to the intervention. That was because thoughts about incentives or broken deals or sovereignty seemed legalistic and hypothetical, while the threat of bloody suppression in Libya seemed immediate and visceral. But that’s precisely the problem. After all, what’s theoretical today becomes visceral tomorrow. Qaddafi’s oppression bothered us, but a nuclear exchange with North Korea will bother us even more.
Tuesdays/Weds we would get Seniors bussed in by the county to shop, Thursday County would bring in Assisted shopping for those who are Austic and such. Depends on what kind of Big box store you are, can affect your customer base. Best Buy doesn't have a regular weekly shopping crowd, Where as Sams Club or such would have a routine crowd. Some places already do it, but if yours doesn't, handouts with a map of the store and where everything is No super bright lights. And if using fluorescent lighting, look into getting lights that flicker at a rate that does not bother autistics and epileptics. I don't recall the exact specs, sorry. High frequency ballasts. They're usually above 10kHz. Older ballasts are at the line frequency (60Hz in North America) I'm seeing LED's starting to proliferate in stores these days. There's a discount big box electronics store near me that I can't go in because their color scheme is bright yellow. I've walked out of stores because it was too hot/too loud. So pay attention to that sort of stimuli. Is it the JB Hi-Fi chain of stores?? Acceptance training for staff. This is actually crucial. I was helping out a friend of mine who was doing an online course on ASD for her retail work. Turn down the music I agree with the music thing. I like that Target (at least the one I go to) doesn't play any music at all. Self checkout. And provide a flag or something for "don't bother me". I HATE being asked if I need any help. Seriously rage inducing. They can still watch out for shoplifters or whatever, but I need something to keep people away until I ask for help. Inversely, they could provide flags, pins or something for people who DO want attention but want to focus on finding what they want rather than flagging (no pun intended) down someone at the store. Couldn't there be like buttons to press at an aisle to call for someone to help? This can be handled with training mainly, When I worked in a grocery store, we were "Required" to acknowledge anyone within 5-10 feet of us as we worked. But you quickly learn to just be aware of who is around you and look for the people who look "lost" and trying to find something. We didn't do the "Can we help you" Every time we saw someone.
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Chasseurs had white shako cords, green plume, green piped yellow shoulder straps, green horn on turnbacks. Buttons were gold for officers and brass for other ranks. The remaining items of uniform and equipment were standard light infantry issue. The Regiment received its own flag and an eagle. The flag bore on one side a large gold harp, with the motto: "L'INDEPENDENCE D'IRLANDE". On the other side was the inscription: "NAPOLEON EMPEREUR DES FRANCAIS A LA LEGION IRLANDAIS". In the fall of 1807, the Irish were ordered out for duty. The first battalion of the Irish Regiment was ordered to Walcheren Island, in the mouth of the Scheldt River, to bolster the forces defending the naval base at Antwerp. Just as the British troops that came after them, the soldiers stationed at Walcheren suffered the drastic effects of "Walcheren fever," a form of malaria. In the spring of 1809, the Irish Regiment had a new official name -- the 3d Regiment Etranger (Irlandaise). However, most official correspondence continued to refer to them as the Regiment Irlandaise. On July 30th of that year, the First Battalion received its baptism of fire in battle when English forces landed on Walcheren Island. After a spirited defense, the vastly outnumbered French forces, including the Regiment Irlandaise, retreated into Flushing. On August 1, The English attacked all along the perimeter outside Flushing. The Irish suffered heavy casualties, but performed well and held their assigned position. The Irish regiment remained in an advanced position from the 3d to the 13th of August, and were engaged in almost daily skirmishes. The English were preparing positions and bringing up siege guns. The expected bombardment began at noon on 13 August. At 5 pm the enemy infantry attacked all of the advanced posts. Although elements of the other regiments sought to retreat into the city, the Irish held firm and occupied their original position at the end of the day. In the fighting, the acting Commander of the 1st Battalion, Captain William Lawless, was struck below the right eye by a musket ball that lodged below his ear. This serious wound forced him to seek medical attention, and he was carried into the town. By the evening of the 14th of August, after a terrible bombardment which dismounted many of the town's guns and nearly exploded the powder magazine, it was apparent that further resistance was futile. A truce was called to discuss terms for surrender.
A lawyer for two detainees in Urfa said that one of her clients had told her that when the police took the two detainees for a medical examination the doctor did not even see them; they remained in the car while a police officer picked up the medical examination report from the doctor. On another occasion, a doctor wanted to conduct a proper examination after seeing their condition. The police, however, took him aside and when they came back the doctor signed the medical examination report without any examination. An Istanbul lawyer similarly reported that his client detained in Istanbul had told him she was made to wait in the police bus while the police went into the hospital to collect the medical report. A lawyer in Ankara told Human Rights Watch that he at some point accompanied a client as a legal aid lawyer to a medical examination in the Ankara Police Headquarters. There were around 30 people queuing up outside the examination room, the lawyer said, and the doctor was rubber-stamping medical reports without any real examination. About the medical examination of his client, the lawyer said: The doctor asked him how he was. He said “fine.” And that was it. No medical examination. He was in the room for one minute. The police were going in and out of the medical examination room all the time. It was all an illusion. A woman who was detained in the first few days after the coup attempt told Human Rights Watch that there was no real examination, just questions. There were no police inside the examination room, she said, but they were waiting outside with the door open so they could hear the conversation. The woman said that she told the doctor that the police had given her very little food, but she didn’t think that the doctor noted this in his report. No Access to Medical Examination Reports The Istanbul Protocol also stipulates that a detainee and his or her lawyer should be able to receive a copy of the medical examination report. Emergency decree 668 allows the public prosecutor to restrict the defense counsel’s right to examine the contents of the case-file or take copies of the documents if the prosecutor deems the purpose of the investigation may be compromised.The authorities appear to have decided to make all documents related to the coup investigation secret. This appears to also include the reports of the medical examinations.
It is impossible to say if he will adapt now, return stronger in an hour to win another championship, or if he will need longer. But what Isay for certain is that Life does not lose three times in a row. Parting: 1000 Days Later
The key to answering this is to look at conditions in the early universe, when the infant universe went through a period of exponential expansion, known as. While string theory predicts that a landscape exists, inflation shows how such a landscape can be realized . When and how inflation ends in a patch of spacetime dictates its properties and each patch is a universe in its own right. This gives rise to the multiverse.During the inflationary era, the universe is at its most dynamic; if the universe is ever going to explore the multiverse, this is probably the time. An inflating universe that sits in a valley will be separated by hills from other lower, more stable, valleys. All it has to do to reach them is climb over that hill. But how can it overcome this mountain?It’s possible that the intrepid universe could use a quantum trick to get it to the other side of the hill. In quantum systems, particles often "tunnel" through high-energy barriers that—according to classical physics—they should not be able to cross (see diagram ). Could an inflating universe do the same?Sarangi thinks so. Until now, it was thought that quantum tunneling during inflation was impossible since inflation lasts for a relatively short period and should be over long before the universe has had a chance to tunnel anywhere. But last year, Sarangi and his colleagues found a special corner of the landscape where quantum tunneling happens so quickly that a universe has enough time to tunnel to another part of the landscape while it is still inflating.Bizarrely, it helps if the hill is very large. At first, as you increase the size of the hill, quantum tunneling is suppressed; but then the rate of tunneling dramatically increases, says Sarangi. "We were very excited by this. This is the first example where you can get exponentially fast quantum tunneling, even though your hill has a large size. "So what’s behind this strange effect? Something similar is actually observed in the lab, when you fire an electron at an electromagnetic field that represents a "barrier." Initially the electron cannot get over this hill. But as you increase the size of the barrier, things change. At the top of the hill, there is enough energy for the vacuum to start spontaneously spawning pairs of electrons and positrons. Usually, these electron-positron pairs immediately annihilate each other.
Between 1917 and 1935, he published an almost encyclopedic array of short stories, mostly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, that grow from general morbid absurdity to dreamtime hyperballads to detailed, collage-like dispatches of our crooked world's disastrous run-ins with the tentacled elder gods of a vast, highly conceptualized alternate universe. The mythos he created persists to this day in the movies, comic books, novels, video games, RPGs, and, most recently, a Thanksgiving struggle plate that went viral. That Lovecraft was racist beyond even the excessive racism exhibited by other white writers of his time is not in question. The above paragraph is far from an aberration among his over 100,000 pages of letters, and he populates his fictional universe with slithering, swarthy-faced mongoloids and idiot, infanticidal black men (he almost never wrote about women of any race — an erasure that warrants an essay unto itself). As writer Phenderson Djèlí Clark points out in his excellent essay on Lovecraft, "It's always perplexing to watch the gymnastics of mental obfuscation that occur as fans of Lovecraft attempt to rationalize his racism." Responses tend to write off his racism as a product of his times and then be paradoxically surprised that it didn't hinder his success. "In spite of […] his overt racism," biographer Donald Tyson tells us, "he created a mythic world that continues to captivate the imagination of millions of readers." The phrase "in spite of" comes up a lot, as well as allusions to a vaguely presumed-to-be anti-racist, first-person plural that is of course appalled by such bigotry. "Paradoxically," writes French critic Michel Houellebecq in one of the more head-on takes on the H.P. Lovecraft racism issue, "the character of Lovecraft fascinates us partly because his system of values is entirely opposed to ours. Fundamentally racist, openly reactionary, he glorifies puritan inhibition." It is the presumptive we that bothers me most here. This was written in 1991, the year of Rodney King, when black income in the U.S. was 57% of white income and race riots exploded in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as well as the Parisian suburb Val-Fourré. Ten years later, Houellebecq himself will be brought up on charges of inciting racial hatred by the French Human Rights League and a variety of mosques for his novel Plateforme; what magical post-racial we are we dealing with?
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How did we, over hundreds of years, construct massive townships, all the way down to contemporary Gurgaon, without any proper thought to sanitation?Time will tell whether Narendra Modi’s Clean India campaign makes a greater impact than previous sanitation drives and whether his effort to clean the Ganga improve upon Rajiv Gandhi’s Ganga Action Plan launched in 1986 without warning the public to mind the gap between promise and execution. Referring to past failures, Shashi Tharoor, who has been invited by the Prime Minister to be part of the mission, wrote , “The fundamental problem lies in our people's ingrained behaviour patterns ‒ and mindsets are the hardest things to change...we are a nation full of people who live in immaculate homes where we bathe twice a day, but think nothing of littering public spaces, spitting on walls, dumping garbage in the open and urinating and defecating in public, because those spaces are not "ours." It is this individualistic mindset and lack of civic consciousness that makes our country a land of private cleanliness and public squalor.”As early as the 7th century AD, Tsuan-tsang (contemporary spelling Xuanzang) observed something similar. Indians, he stated, “are very particular in their personal cleanliness”, but about Indian towns he wrote, "… the streets and lanes are tortuous, and the roads winding. The thoroughfares are dirty." We aren’t the only nation with squalor and dirt visible everywhere, but filth defines us in a way it doesn’t, say, Cambodia, or Burma, or Burundi, which are poorer and possess fewer resources.I believe the root cause of India’s identification with grime can be expressed in one word: caste. The Rig Veda speaks about a four-fold caste hierarchy, which, some time after the pastoral Vedic people had transitioned into an agrarian society, but some time before Gautam Buddha visited Varanasi, had become a rigid five-level structure, in which certain acts were considered ritually defiling, to be undertaken only by those considered impure by birth.Indus Valley cities show no evidence of caste: they are neat grids that include all citizens. Citywide public works such as complex drainage systems are predicated on such inclusiveness. Within a caste-based society, there simply isn’t enough commonality between Brahmins and ati-shudras for the former to plan anything that takes into account the needs and desires of the latter. Shashi Tharoor was wrong to lay the blame for our lack of civic consciousness at the door of individualism. The blame lies with our caste consciousness.
Since the launch of the original iPhone, Apple has made efforts to hide some of the actual tech specs of the device from consumers. Apple has never advertised or even published the processor speed or amount of RAM found in the iPhone. Arguably, Apple is trying to shield customers from these technical distractions and instead trying to focus on overall functionality.More technically inclined customers, however, still love to know what they have to work with. The original iPhone and iPhone 3G contained 128MB of RAM, while the iPhone 3GS was boosted to 256MB of RAM. Similarly, the iPad contains 256MB of RAM. This discrepancy offers a technical explanation why Apple is not supporting iOS 4 features such as multi-tasking on the original and 3G iPhone -- there simply isn't enough RAM.We have since heard that the upcoming iPhone 4's RAM has again been upgraded. This will bring it to a total of 512MB of RAM, twice as much as the 3GS and iPad. This number actually contradicts tear down photos of a prototype iPhone 4 that was leaked to the internet. An analysis of that prototype device showed it only carried 256MB of RAM. The 512MB figure, however, does agree with a Digitimes report from May 17th that confirmed a 960x640 screen resolution, thinner display, and indeed 512MB of RAM. We had heard that Apple confirmed this 512MB figure during one of the WWDC sessions last week, and have now verified this. The session it was revealed in is now available (Session 147, Advanced Performance Optimization on iPhone OS, pt 2) for registered Apple developers.The added RAM should help overall performance and multi-tasking on the new iPhone 4. It could also explain why the iMovie App that Apple introduced at WWDC will only run on the iPhone 4. Apple has said iMovie will only run on the iPhone 4 and not the 3GS or even the iPad. It seems conceivable that it actually makes use of the extra RAM offered by the iPhone 4.
To summarise, it seems difficult and may be futile to sharply delineate neurpsychiatry, biological psychiatry, organic psychiatry and behavioural neurology. However, it seems important to learn about the biological psychiatry as an approach and practice neuropsychiatry as a subspeciality. The territory is yet unclear from gross organic lesions as stroke to the potential of encompassing entire psychiatry as the arbitary distinction between 'functional' and 'organic' fades away. Perhaps practice will help to shape the domain of the speciality, and imaging will guide it. To date, the number of post-graduate studies are still low in comparison to the need for such speciality, much more board certification may be needed as well as the currently emerging masters and doctoral degrees. This post is previously posted on bmj doc2doc blogs Bibliography Eysenck, H.J., Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, Pelican Series, 1986 German E Berrios, I.S.M., The concept of neuropsychiatry: A historical overview, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2002, Vol. 53, pp. 629-638 Kieran O’Driscoll, J.P.L., “No longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head, British Medical Journal, 1998, Vol. 317, pp. 1637-1638 Perminder S. Sachdev, A.M., Neuropsychiatry: Where Are We And Where Do We Go From Here?, Mens Sana Monographs, 2013, Vol. 11(1), pp. 4-15 Slater, E., The Diagnosis of "Hysteria", British Medical Journal, 1965, Vol. 5447(1), pp. 1395–1399 Thomas Insel, Bruce Cuthbert, R.H.M.G.K.Q.C.S.P.W., Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a New Classification Framework for Research on Mental Disorders, American Journal of Psychiatry, 2010, Vol. 167:7, pp. 748-751 Organic Psychiatry, Anthony S. David, Simon Fleminger, M. D. K. S. L. J. D. M. (ed. ), Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 Neuropsychiatry an introductory approach, Arciniegas & Beresford (ed. ), Cambridge University Press, 2001 Biological Psychiatry, Hugo D’haenen, J.A. den Boer, P. W. (ed. ), John Wiley and Sons, 2010 Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Laurie J. Fundukian, J. W. (ed. ), Thomson Gale, 2008 Biological Psychiatry, M. Trimble, M. G. (ed. ), Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 Textbook of Neuropsychiatry, Moore, D. P. (ed. ), Hodder Arnold, 2008 Textbook of Biological Psychiatry, Panksepp, J. (ed. ), John Wiley and Sons, 2004 The American Neuropsychiatric Association Website www.anpaonline.org The Royal Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Unit Website http://www.neuropsychiatry.org.au/ The British Neuropsychiatry Association website www.bnpa.org.uk The Royal College of Psychiatrists website www.rcpsych.ac.uk The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry website www.wfsbp.org
He told BuzzFeed News that Crawley had accused him of libel and harassment. A photo shared on social media of Crawley giving a talk showed a slide saying “libellous blogs”, with a screenshot of one of Tuller’s posts. In audio of the Q&As of another talk, heard by BuzzFeed News, Tuller asks her how he had libelled her and Crawley can be heard telling him he had been “unbelievably defamatory and unprofessional”. Crawley declined to talk about the issue when asked by BuzzFeed News. Tuller denied to BuzzFeed News that he had been libellous or threatening, although he admitted being rude. “Just because she finds what I've written offensive and obnoxious, that doesn't mean that it's libellous,” he said. “It just means she finds it offensive and obnoxious.” The University of Bristol told BuzzFeed News that “private and confidential communication has taken place at a senior level between the two universities” regarding Tuller’s behaviour. Professor Arthur Reingold, Tuller’s superior at Berkeley, confirmed that this was the case, saying: “Both UC Berkeley and the University of Bristol believe strongly in the principles of academic freedom and the ability to engage in robust scientific debate. The two universities are also interested in seeing that such debates occur in a civil manner so that the genuine issues of scientific discovery and research methods are not lost in arguments of a personal nature.” Tuller says this is an attempt to shut down academic freedom to criticise other researchers’ work. Edwards, a former colleague of Crawley’s, told BuzzFeed News the letter “raises serious concerns about the probity of the University of Bristol”. Bristol said it didn’t feel it was appropriate to comment on this. A freedom of information request by the TYMES Trust revealed that Bristol didn't have any records of harassment against Crawley, although the university stressed that it was aware of such harassment and the lack of records simply reflected that it didn't have a process for recording it.
Missouri lawmakers and state elected officials likely will receive a pay increase after some state Senate Democrats successfully filibustered Wednesday, stalling efforts to block the raise.A state commission in November recommended $4,000 more a year for legislators and 8 percent more for the governor and other state officials in fiscal years 2016 and 2017. That would be a raise of more than $22,000 a year for the governor, upping the office's annual pay to $156,088.Suggested increases will take effect automatically if lawmakers don't block the raises by Sunday. House members voted overwhelmingly, 133-15, in support of a resolution to forego higher pay, but those efforts have met resistance in the Senate.Senate Democrats spoke at length Wednesday in favor of a pay raise. Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal said the current $35,915 a year isn't enough, considering the work lawmakers do, and she raised concerns that the pay might discourage qualified candidates from running for office.Sen. Jason Holsman, a Kansas City Democrat, says lawmakers should get a raise, even though it's politically unsavory and could be used against them in re-election campaigns. "Are we making political decision in what we think is in best interest of our own careers or making a decision in the best interest of the state in terms of recruiting good people to this job?" Holsman asked senators Wednesday.Voters amended the state constitution in 1994 to relieve lawmakers of the politically sticky issue of setting their own salaries. The last time legislators and executive-branch officials got a raise was the 2009 fiscal year.Still, senators from both parties said taking no action and allowing the raises to take effect could reflect poorly on them.Republican Sen. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph headed Senate efforts to block the salary increase, saying lawmakers don't need more money, especially at a time when Gov. Jay Nixon has cited lagging revenues when freezing funds for existing programs.Schaaf said it's "almost embarrassing" for legislators to take a raise when Nixon hasn't proposed upping state employee pay next fiscal year.But Schaaf also said after the filibuster that he doesn't plan to try halting the pay increase again.Although the deadline for lawmakers to act is Sunday, senators effectively have until Thursday, which is the last day they're scheduled to meet this week.
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that never came to fruition. Highway revolts have happened several times in the United States as the first freeways were built. New York City will forever be known as the home of Robert Moses, one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban development in the United States. He had several proposed highways across Manhattan that would've displaced lots of residents if they were built. Atlanta, Georgia saw the freeway revolts in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Had it not been for the revolts of several city neighborhoods that would have been at risk of getting razed, the freeways could've been a lot different. Namely, instead of terminating in Buckhead, the Georgia 400 would have continued south through East Atlanta, approximately 2-3 miles east of the Downtown Connector (which carries I-75 and I-85), and connected with I-675 at the south end of the Perimeter (I-285). There was a planned beltway around the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area, which was to be signed as Interstate 470. It would have been the third auxiliary Interstate in Colorado, after I-225 note a twelve mile highway from the Tech Center to I-70 and I-270 note a connection in the northeast between I-25, I-76 and I-70 . Eventually, a compromise was reached, and three-quarters of the beltway was built, using three different designations: Colorado State Highway 470 (from I-70 in Golden to I-25 in Lone Tree), E-470 (from I-25 in Lone Tree, past I-70 northeast of Buckley Air Force Base, and Denver International Airport, to I-25 in Eastlake to the north of Denver), and the Northwest Parkway (from I-25 in Eastlake to Broomfield). Currently, a gap remains in the northwest part of the beltway, as it stops short of reaching the Denver suburbs of Broomfield and Golden, where fierce opposition to the road continues. Golden is opposed to completion of the beltway; Broomfield supports it, and has been exploring alternate routes.
The first mechanic isn't something explicitly written in the game - it's instead about how the Hearthstone game engine works. Whenever an action occurs in Hearthstone, it's important to know how the game engine prioritizes effects that happen at the same time or how things are displayed in the UI. One of the most important of these to understand is state based checks.Whenever an action is performed (e.g. combat, playing a card, etc.) the game first performs a "check" to see if anything should trigger before the action completes. The most obvious example is how Secrets normally trigger before an attack or spell completes. Those who have played games like Magic: The Gathering will be familiar with the idea of State Based Checks. For those who are new to this mechanic, here's an example of how state based effects might lead to an non-intuitive outcome.andare both minions that let you draw more cards when something happens to your creatures -like to take damage whilewants the creatures you control to die. There's an important but subtle difference between the two however.With, you get to draw a card every time it takes damage. Intuitively, this means no matter how much damage it takes or if it kills the minion, you should draw a card every time damage is dealt. And you'd be right! Whentakes enough damage to kill it and its health value drops to 0 or even negative, the game pauses for a moment and its ability triggers. That's an example of how the game performs a state based check every time combat occurs. It recognizes that once damage is dealt thewill trigger and let you draw a card before it finally resolves the combat sequence. Here, another state based check occurs and the game "sees" thathas 0 or less health so it finally dies.is very different however. Here, you only get to draw a card every time any of your other minions die. But what if your opponent plays an AoE spell likeand kills your entire board in one go?won't trigger on any of the deaths because everything dies at the same time. Thus, the state based checks won't ever get a chance for the dying and's ability to occur at the same time. This is a big difference from the way abilities in Magic: The Gathering "see" creatures dying and is important to keep in mind!
[email protected] Common gender pronouns are words coined to fill a gap in English: the lack of third person singular pronouns to refer to either males or females, or to both males and females, and more recently, to refer to transgender or gender nonconforming persons as well. These new words were also called gender-neutral, doubtful, or epicene, pronouns, and sometimes they’re referred to today as nonbinary pronouns. These pronouns fill a need, but none has been widely adopted, hence they are the words that failed. What has succeeded is singular they, which arose naturally in English hundreds of years ago, and is used both by speakers and writers concerned that their pronouns be inclusive, and also by many who don’t give the matter much thought at all. In the 1850s, English speakers began inventing common gender pronouns to use when the gender of the antecedent—the person referred to by the pronoun—is unknown or irrelevant, as in sentence (1): (1) Everyone loves ____’s mother. There is no way to fill in the blank in sentence (1) that pleases everyone. Here are some of the options: (2) Everyone loves his mother. The generic masculine of (2) derives its authority from the doctrine of the “worthiness of the genders” articulated in grammars of Latin. For example, William Lily states, “the Masculine Gender is more worthy than the Feminine, and the Feminine more worthy than the Neuter” (A Short introduction of grammar, 1567, rpt 1765, p. 41; Lily actually lists seven Latin genders, including two types of common gender, along with the doubtful and the epicene). This idea of gender worthiness was adapted to English grammars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but by the nineteenth century, many grammarians had come to recognize that English gender was different from Latin. There were far too many instances where generic he was not inclusive, where he could never stand for she. In standard English grammars, pronouns are supposed to agree with their referents in number and gender. But some grammarians began to argue that although he in sentence (2) is singular, it’s also clearly masculine, and so it cannot agree in gender with everyone, which is of the common gender. That makes (2) ungrammatical. (3) Everyone loves their mother. Since everyone is technically singular, though it implies more than one person, the singular they of sentence (3) fails the number-agreement part of the pronoun agreement rule.
Information integration We use the state-averaged version of integrated information or [21] of a network of interacting variables (or nodes) as a measure of complexity and relate it to the degree to which these agents adapt to their environment. The state-averaged version of the integrated information measure is defined as the minimal irreducible part of the information generated synergistically by mutually exclusive non-overlapping parts or components of a system above the information generated by the parts themselves. One proceeds by defining a quantity called the effective information (4) where is the whole system and its parts belonging to some arbitrary partition . The subscript indices represent temporal ordering of the states. The function represents the probability of the system making a transition from a state to a state . In other words, indicates the probability that a variable takes a state immediately following . is the Kullback-Leibler divergence or the relative entropy between two probability distributions and , given by (5) The partition of the system that minimizes the effective information is called minimal information partition or MIP. The effective information, defined over the MIP, is thus an intrinsic property of the connectivity of the system and signifies the degree of integration or irreducibility of the information generated within the system. This quantity is called and is given by (6) Note that the effective information minimization has a trivial solution, whereby all nodes are included in the same part, yielding a partition of the entire system into a single part. This uninteresting situation is avoided by dividing by a normalization factor, given by (7) in eq. 4, while searching for a MIP [21]. , however, is the non-normalized as defined in eq. 6. here denotes the number of parts in the partition , while is the maximum entropy.
Just stop everything for one minute here, and let's try something that makes sense. Everybody pays-- through withholding-- a small payroll tax (FICA) to fund Social Security, providing benefits for retirees, the disabled, and minor children of deceased workers. This is the major portion of income tax forAmericans-- like over 75% of us. But this tax is not paid on any income over $106,800 (gross) and not paid on any income from stocks or bonds. If someone makes $20,000,000 a year they pay the same percentage as someone who makes $20,000 a year: 6.2% on $106,800-- $6,621.60. If a more typical American family with two incomes-- a husband making $53,000 and a wife making $53,000, say-- they pay the same thing as the guy making $20,000,000 a year. If Rchie Rich were paying his fair share ($1,240,000) there would be no crisis, That's why rich people hire lobbyists and buy corrupt politicians-- whether we're talking about virtually the entire GOP, but especially the wheeler-dealers like John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Raul Ryan, and Joe Barton, or Democrats like Rahm Emanuel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Blue Dogs and Steny Hoyer who operate just like them-- and whose careers they finance. Let's end the $106,800 cut off on taxes and let the wealthy pay their fair share, see if that works out and then talk about austerity and budget deficits after that.
Though aimed at children we passed several enjoyable minutes exploring Neptun's Wasserwelt, a gentle flowing stream on a stone surface with a variety of water wheels and adjustable dams that could be used to change the direction of flow. As the name suggests the entire area was guarded by a statue of the Roman god holding a trident and wearing an expression of good natured constipation. Directly next door was the Drachenhöhle, a cave populated by Dragomir Schwefelstein, a friendly green and purple creature who spoke enthusiastically to us in the local patois before spraying us with water. We dried off by climbing across Römerfallen, a ropeway leading to a carefully hidden treehouse that (oddly enough) wasn't designed with adults in mind. The first worthwhile coaster of the day became Götterblitz, an extended version of Pegasus at Europa Park with an elaborately sculpted station building. As with its parent ride this was very good indeed, delivering a smooth thrill that made a complete mockery of the more common family coaster designs. The only criticism of the design I have, and it's a serious nitpick, is that the enormous figurehead on the front car blocks the view for smaller riders; it'd be nice if that could be scaled back a bit on future installations. There was nobody waiting in the queue when our train returned and given that the operator gave us all a second lap. Megan had been itching to try a Gerstlauer Sky Fly since we'd missed the new one at Duinrell by a few days. I decided to keep my feet firmly on the ground while she practiced her aerobatics on Leonardo's Flugmachine, and she apparently liked it, completing four rides at various stages of the day and describing it variously as her new favourite flat ride and one of the most intense rides I've been on. The park added its fourth roller coaster last year in the guise of Herkules, one of six installations (to date) of the Gerstlauer Kiddy Racer, pictured below. As its dimensions suggest this is a ride that is only available to small children, thanks to a height limit of 1.2m (~4ft) and a weight limit of 40kg (~88lbs). The only coaster counters ever likely to have these rides in their track records are those with really cool parents, though one suspects it'll be a few years before any of those start showing up on Coaster-Count.
Default Settings luminance (cd/m2) 296 Black Point (cd/m2) 0.26 Contrast Ratio 1120:1 Initially out of the box the screen was set in the default 'Racing mode' preset. The colour temp setting was on the 'user mode' as well with RGB channels all available but set at 100% each to start with. You could tell the screen was using a standard gamut backlight and the image looked pretty good, but too bright for comfortable use. Colour balance felt good although a little warm, and the image quality was decent. We went ahead and measured the default state with the i1 Pro. The CIE diagram on the left of the image confirms that the monitors colour gamut (black triangle) is roughly equal to the sRGB colour space. There is some minor over-coverage, mostly in blue and green shades but not by anything significant. Default gamma was recorded at 2.2 average, leaving it with a 0% deviance from the target which was excellent news, especially since the OSD menu does not offer any gamma adjustment settings. White point was measured at 6107k being slightly too warm from the target of 6500k but with a low 6% deviance. The screen was set in the default 'user mode' colour temp mode incidentally. We again tested the other modes which returned the following colour temperature results: Colour Temperature Modes OSD option Measured white point Cool 8508k Normal 6948k Warm 5977k User Mode 6134k The white point was probably best at the default 'user mode' out of the box, and closest to our target of 6500k. It does also give you access to the RGB channels to calibrate the screen yourself which should allow for fairly simple correction of that colour temperature, as shown in the calibration section that follows. Luminance was recorded at a very bright 296 cd/m2 which is too high for prolonged general use. The screen was set at a default 80% brightness in the OSD menu but that is easy to change of course to reach a more comfortable setting without impacting any other aspect of the setup. The black depth was 0.26 cd/m2 at this default brightness setting, giving us a very good static contrast ratio (for an IPS-type panel) of 1120:1. Colour accuracy was also good out of the box with a default dE average of 2.4, and a maximum of 5.7.
For example: # "But we have some interesting ideas about Akali's connection to Zed in particular. Food for thought: Akali's passive is 'Twin Disciplines', her title 'the Fist of Shadow' ... hmmmm. : )" And then he goes on to mentioning [the following](http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=31124440#post31124440), answering a question if Zed has any successors, apprentices, etc., and I quote: # "He may have had a "favorite student" at one point... but this particular student is no longer a part of his Order. :O" As we can see, the use of the emote ":O", shows that it's confirmed that Zed is Akali's longlost uncle... XD just teasing. Seriously, though, it seems quite obvious that Akali was once Zed's apprentice. I mean, they weren't even teasing. They were out right telling us that Akali was connected to Zed. This is practically confirmed. Her title being "The Fist of Shadow" is obviously related to Zed's "The Master of Shadows" and his powers, as pointed out by RiotRunaan. And her passive being named "Twin Disciplines" could reference the fact she uses both Kinkou and Shadow techniques. Her "Twilight Shroud" even seems to be a Shadow technique. Maybe, she learned it from Zed. Looking through her lore though, it says that Akali was trained by her mom, as soon as she could make a fist, to join the Kinkou at the age of fourteen, succeeding her mother has "the Fist of Shadow". This doesn't seem to fit with her being Zed's favorite student and leaving the Order of Shadows to join the Kinkou. Especially because Zed's lore says that the Order of the Shadows was only founded after the Kinkou Order had to be rebuilt by Shen. But... what if she wasn't Zed's apprentice after all...? What if their connection was something else...? I'll get to that later on. --- "Embrace the shadow... or die in darkness! " http://i.imgur.com/gtNR6IB.jpg Another relationship hinted at, is one between Zed and Nocturne. And the "Zed IS Nocturne" theory is a very popular one at that! The only official hint to this though is this: # "Zed and Nocturne, hm? That could be very interesting! " That just tells me that at the point of Zed's release, Zed wasn't yet meant to be related to Nocturne, but his splash update was a year after that! Still, the splashes being similar **does not make the theory be more than a theory.
NEW DELHI: The spate of spooky unnatural deaths of those linked to Vyapam recruitment scam in Madhya Pradesh has stopped completely since the Supreme Court ordered CBI probe into it and decided to monitor the investigations.Petitioners – ex-chief minister Digvijaya Singh and Anand Rai – had alleged that 42 persons linked to the scam have died mysteriously during the investigations by state police, which had prompted the bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu to handover the probe to CBI and observe on July 9: “We do not want the number of deaths to go up even by one more.”On Friday, a bench of Justices Dattu, S A Bobde and Amitava Roy remembered what it had said on July 9 and said it had not read about any further deaths of persons linked to the scam.The CJI said: “I was wondering that from the time the court had ordered CBI probe into the case and decided to monitor the investigations, how come not a single death has been reported.”Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, who appearing for Shivraj Singh Chouhan had volunteered on July 9 for handing over the probe to CBI, said the petitioners had alleged 42 deaths and that he had personally found it to be strange.“It worried me also,” the AG said recounting that the CM had instructed him to inform the apex court that the state government had no reservation in a CBI probe into the scam.Appearing for the CBI, solicitor general Ranjit Kumar and additional solicitor general Maninder Singh informed the court that the petitioners have provided information about 34 deaths and the agency has taken up investigations into these cases to ascertain the cause and circumstances of the deaths and whether the these were in any way linked to the scam.Kumar also informed the court that as directed by it, the agency has taken over all 184 Vyapam cases, including the 72 cases in which the state police special task force had filed charge-sheets, for investigation purposes as well as conducting the trial through its public prosecutors.The agency submitted a 5-page probe status report to the court detailing the tasks undertaken by it so far after senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Digvijaya Singh, appeared to snipe at CBI’s lethargy by informing the court that though three months have passed since the agency took over the investigations, there had been no action on the ground as not a single arrest has been made.After going through the status report, the bench said: “The CBI has detailed how it has examined many voluminous documents, questioned so many persons and conducted raids in various places.
Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
Tuesday, September 28, 1999; Page B1 RICHMOND, Sept. 27The 19-year-old mother of an infant found dead in a microwave oven in rural Virginia last week was charged today with first-degree murder. The arrest signals that authorities are skeptical of the possibility that Elizabeth Renee Otte put her 1-month-old baby into the microwave because she was confused after an epileptic seizure, as friends say she told her family. "As we look at it, there was unlawful killing," said C. Linwood Gregory, commonwealth's attorney in New Kent County. "It's for the court to decide . . . what type of crime was committed and whether it was committed under some type of disability." Some epilepsy specialists today raised doubts that an epileptic condition could lead to such an accident. Joseph Lewis Martinez, born Aug. 18, was found in the microwave by his aunt early Thursday after relatives had searched the home in Lanexa, a small community along the Chickahominy River, about 35 miles east of Richmond. Otte's parents took her to Williamsburg Community Hospital after the baby was found, and on Friday she was committed by court order to a secure psychiatric facility, Gregory said. He would not name the facility. Such commitments can be ordered in cases in which a person is determined to be a threat to herself or others, or cannot care for herself, Gregory said. The New Kent County Sheriff's Department arrested Otte this morning and brought her before a magistrate, who ordered her held without bond at the psychiatric facility. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday morning. State medical examiners have not released a cause of death, though Chief Medical Examiner Marcella F. Fierro has said the baby had burns consistent with microwaving. The baby had blisters and red patches, according to those who saw his body. Friends said Otte, who was on medication for epilepsy, told her family that a seizure caused her to mistake her baby for a bottle of milk that needed warming. The claim is both a potential legal defense for Otte and a possible explanation for an act friends and neighbors call incomprehensible. Epilepsy experts held open the possibility that disorientation after a seizure could have contributed to the alleged crime, but they called it unlikely. The Epilepsy Foundation, based in Landover, said any comment on the connection between a seizure and the baby's death would be "highly speculative."
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In the creation the Gods entered into an agreement about forming this earth, and putting Michael or Adam upon it. These things of which I have been speaking are what are termed the mysteries of godliness but they will enable you to understand the expression of Jesus, made while in jerusalem, "This is life eternal that they might know thee, the ony true God and jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." We were once acquainted with the Gods and lived with them, but we had the privilege of taking upon us flesh that the spirit might have a house to dwell in. We did so and forgot all, and came into the world not recollecting anything of which we had previously learned. We have heard a great deal about Adam and Eve, how they were formed and etc. Some think he was made like an adobe and the Lord breathed into him the breath of life, for we read "from dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." Well he was made of the dust of the earth but not of this earth. He was made just the same way you and I are made but on another earth. Adam was an immortal being when he came on this earth; He had lived on an earth similar to ours; he had received the Priesthood and the keys thereof, and had been faithful in all things and gained his resurrection and his exaltation, and was crowned with glory, immortality and eternal lives, and was numbered with the Gods for such he became through his faithfulness, and had begotten all the spirit that was to come to this earth. And Eve our common mother who is the mother of all living bore those spirits in the celestial world. And when this earth was organized by Elohim, Jehovah and Michael, who is Adam our common father, Adam and Eve had the privilege to continue the work of progression, consequently came to this earth and commenced the great work of forming tabernacles for those spirits to dwell in, and when Adam and those that assisted him had completed this kingdom our earth[,] he came to it, and slept and forgot all and became like an infant child.
No citizen objects to the vibrant, loud, violent ideological debates on TV, but please, please, please stop pretending that you represent India and what happens in Delhi is an All India issue. Stop branding the rest of us in your India view!Delhi is not India, what happens in Delhi is not representative of India, nor Indians outside Delhi. (Mohandas Pai was the CFO and then the head of HR at Infosys. He is now Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners.)
The ways in which we respond to infants, even when we do value them, suggests that we do not know how to convey to them that they are valuable. We are simply not friendly to the life we create. Our ways of caring for infants and children are actually sociopathic in that they are aggressively antisocial and asocial. It is common practice to force infants to spend long periods of time alone in their cribs, to sleep alone, and to ignore their crying, so that they will leave us alone and learn to accept being alone. Spanking, hitting and punishing children are widely accepted methods for teaching children to behave. If we treated another adult the way we commonly treat our children, we would be subject to criminal and/or civil action. Imposing one's will on another person is considered a crime in our society. Yet with children, it is actively encouraged. The only conclusion is that children are not seen as persons. In our efforts to get children to behave in the ways we want, we utilize methods of control which are culturally condoned forms of violence. Based on our long-standing traditional belief that children are a form of property, we treat them as objects to be manipulated and molded in directions that will be comfortable for us. Peter and Judith Decourcy have expressed our societal perception of children in the following passage: In many ways we do not think of children as people with the rights and privileges of adults. Physical punishment and psychological harassment are considered acceptable methods of controlling a child. Children are often punished in a variety of unusual and ingenious ways that would not be tolerated in the most backward adult prison, and the parents are not subjected to social censure or legal interference. It is as if children were objects, bits of property belonging to the parents, to be used in any way the parents see fit.2 The strangest and most unrealistic part of our child-rearing beliefs is that our antisocial behavior toward them is supposed to make them become caring social beings. We are blind to the fact that the parent-child relationship is the first and most formative social relationship and the model for the child's interaction with others. Our children are chiefly influenced in their development by who we are in relation to them, not by who we think we are or pretend to be.
Closer to the topic of this article, although also distinct, is the design of presumably fail-safe products automated for safety as with the "dead man's switch" on a train or the protective shield on a table saw which are intended to transcend human will. Engineering is also present in the non-automated situations designed to persuade or guide behavior (but with choice remaining) as with advertisements to discourage smoking; advice to political candidates to present themselves as competant and warm and rather than denying the claim of a negative advertisement, affirm an alternative positive idea; a waiter reporting the kinds of beers offered by moving from the least to the most expensive—anticipating that the customer will be prone to opt for the most recently mentioned beer; manufacturers increasing the nicotine or sugar content of cigarettes and food; or providing uncomfortable seating in fast-food restaurants to encourage rapid turnover. Also related are strategic efforts that permit, or even facilitate, rule violations as—with deception or reverse engineering. Consider police undercover opportunities, spoofing computer security or creating situations that permit blackmail. While sharing strategic logic, the above efforts are distinct from rule enforcement efforts. Six Strategies Six engineering (primarily machine or material based) efforts to eliminate or limit violations by control of the physical and social environment, rather than mere appeals to doing the right thing (or at least what an agent desires) are considered. This is followed by discussion of some social and ethical implications of such efforts. The six ways of controlling persons and/or environments emphasize protection/alteration of the victim or of what is desired in the violation making it impossible, more difficult or less inviting for the potential offender to act; or should prevention fail, tactics are intended to increase the likelihood of identification and apprehension. Some engineering efforts involve traditional notions of target hardening. But the engineering of control may also involve the idea of suspect softening or weakening. Strategy 1 (and sometimes 4 and 5 below) are primary direct prevention efforts. These are designed to eliminate or increase the difficulty of carrying out the offence. With the primary engineering strategy it is not necessary to affect the will or calculation of the potential rule breaker. The subjective orientations of the actor (whether based on calculation, a content-filled socialization, or a contentless discipline) are simply ignored. The emphasis is on altering opportunity structures and capabilities rather than the person's conscious choices.
Then examination showing the breath as impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self, and the subsequent non-attachment, is the arising of wisdom. Thus the practice of mindfulness of breathing can be said to be a course for the development of morality, concentration and wisdom. They all come together. When morality, concentration and wisdom are all developed, we call this practicing the Eightfold Path which the Buddha taught as our only way out of suffering. The Eightfold Path is above all others because if properly practiced it leads directly to Nibbana, to peace. We can say that this practice reaches the Buddha-Dhamma truly and precisely. Benefits from Practice When we have practiced meditation as explained above, the fruits of practice will arise in the following three stages: First, for those practitioners who are at the level of "Buddhist be faith," there will arise increasing faith in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. This faith will become the real inner support of each person. Also, they will understand the cause-and-effect nature of all things, that wholesome action brings wholesome result and that unwholesome action brings unwholesome result. So for such a person there will be a great increase in happiness and mental peace. Second, those who have reached the noble attainments of stream-winner, once-returner or non-returner, have unshakable faith in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. They are joyful and are pulled towards Nibbana. Third, for those Arahats or Perfected Ones, there will be the happiness free from all suffering. These are the Buddhas, free from the world, complete in the Faring of the Holy Way. We all have had the good fortune to be born as human beings and to hear the Teachings of the Buddha. This is an opportunity that millions of other beings do not have. Therefore do not be careless or heedless. Hurry and develop merits, do good and follow the path of practice in the beginning, in the middle and in the highest levels. Don't let time roll by unused and without purpose. Try to reach the truth of the Buddha's Teachings even today. Let me close with a Lao folk-saying: "Many rounds of merriment and pleasure past, soon it will be evening. Drunk with tears now, rest and see, soon it will be too late to finish the journey."
Still, even if an assault weapons ban is never passed, even if Alex Jones continues his talk-radio reign of terror forever, at least Morgan can comfort himself with the validation he seems to prize most: benedictions from celebrities. As he notes in Shooting Straight, his newfound purpose has won him a thumbs-up from Kiefer Sutherland (“It’s one of the bravest things I’ve seen anyone do on American television for a very long time”) and a tweet from Rosie O’Donnell (“U are doing a great job”). It’s nice to have endorsements from famous friends, but U can’t really call that progress. Laura Bennett is a staff writer at The New Republic.
K: And I have the longest history, so I’ll be abbreviating a lot. I appreciate very much Aragorn!’s distinction between red anarchism and green anarchism, because I would say that kind of encompasses my trajectory. So I was born in 1950, female, United States of America, my father was military. I grew up moving throughout my childhood... I think I attended twelve schools or something. I was in Puerto Rico before Cuba, stopped in Guantanamo of all things on my way to Puerto Rico with my family to be a good child of a colonialist in Puerto Rico for three years. Came back to the U.S.; was in Georgia’s civil rights movement; where we were considered northerners and federal-agents because the military was integrating. So I started having contradictions with the society I lived in, and being an outsider... my last high school was in Colorado Spring, CO; the Vietnam War was raging, it was ‘68. I was a good military girl and believed in America and freedom, the communists were the enemies and that kind of thing. I had two older brothers, one ended up in Berkeley, the other in Milwaukee marching with Father Graupee against the war. I went to Oregon University of Portland, started questioning the war, went from doing draft resistance and legal activity to helping people get out of the country, to joining an autonomous Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.) that was probably my first experience with working with other people in an anarchist fashion. We didn’t have connections to national S.D.S., they’d had the split with Weather Underground then. Anyways, it’s a long history. At University of Oregon I was arrested, and the lovely government that I believed in... it was really in my face, the contradiction was really in my face: the good Catholic girl was looking at 25 years in prison for inciting to riot. And I felt like I was being a good girl, I was doing the right thing. S.D.S. was a local group at University of Oregon, not connected with the national group. In 1970 I was arrested. There was a centralized organization in the Bay Area that was Maoist and expanded to Eugene, O.R., and my lovely group of people I trusted and who I had worked with all year, we all became secret members of R.U.
Heavy crude remains contentious issue for Enbridge, Michigan In 2015, the State of Michigan pushed Enbridge to go on record that it has no plans to transport heavy sands oil — called bitumen — through its pipelines running under the Straits of Mackinac. The state and Enbridge ended up signing a memorandum to clarify the issue, though the agreement did anything but that. In the memorandum, Michigan stated that it wanted heavy crude banned from the Straits after a state pipeline task force report “found that because heavy crude oil has different properties from light oil, it is more likely to sink if released into open water.” That report also noted that the Coast Guard had gone on record that it had no effective means to capture that sinking heavy crude. Enbridge balked. “Enbridge does not agree with the task force report’s conclusions regarding the properties of heavy crude oil and notes that the issue of whether the transport of heavy crude oil raises any unique safety or environmental concerns is currently being studied by the National Academy of Sciences,” reads the memorandum signed by both sides. “Enbridge does not concur that transporting heavy oil raises any unique safety or environmental concerns.” A National Academies report, released in late 2015 after the memo was signed, concluded that heavy oil is indeed more likely to sink — and that oil on the bottom of an ocean or a Great Lake is harder to clean up than oil floating on the surface. As for shipping heavy crude across the Straits of Mackinac, the memo between Enbridge and Michigan states that Enbridge has never run heavy crude through the Straits. Though the company has no plans at the moment to change that, the memo says Enbridge does reserve the right to pursue pumping heavy crude through the Straits, provided the company appropriately fortifies the lines and meets all relevant laws. If Enbridge does one day decide to pump heavy crude through the Straits, the memo states Enbridge will give the state 180 days’ notice of its intentions, and that it will not start pumping the oil until it gets the state’s approval — or until it gets a “final resolution” if there is a dispute. Show More
Etude House's Bling Me Prism collection has just been released here in September, and these are very summery bright pops of colour! Two of the products that seem to be getting a lot of attention are the Bling Me Prism Eyes, which are cream eyeshadows, as well as the Bling Me Prism Color in Liquid Lips, which are a lipgloss-liptint hybrid.As is always the case with Etude House, the packaging for this is uber-cute, and super girly and princess-y to boot. I'm not sure if the shades are added to the permanent collection, but the packaging is usually a limited edition thing. So if you're eyeing any of the items for the packaging, you probably might want to get them earlier, rather than later.Anyway, enough of my chatter - let's get to the swatches!There are 5 shades of Bling Me Prism Eyes, and most of the shades are warm, although there is a neutral shimmery pearl white shade, and a deep cooltoned brown. These have a metallic finish for the most part, and come in a tube with a doefoot applicator.is a warm shimmery bronzey brown with a metallic-looking finish. It looks like a copper penny.is a tangerine orange shade with a shimmery finish. This is also a warmtoned shade, and very summery.is a warm pink shade with a metallic finish. It's pretty bright, and almost looks like a lipcolour.is a very shimmery metallic white with visible sparkles inside. This would be great in the inner corner of your eye, or on the browbone. This would be a workhorse shade for me - I could imagine using this (lightly!) as a base eyeshadow.is perhaps my favourite shade in the bunch. It is a lovely cooltoned deep brown with the slightest hint of taupe and a gorgeous shimmery finish. Great for blending out for a smokey eye.Although the Bling Me Prism Eyes come in a cream eyeshadow format, and have a doefoot applicator, I was told that for best effect, you should wait until the shadows are dry and then blend them out - and ideally, you should apply the shadow on the back of your hand, wait for it to dry up a bit, and then use your fingers or a brush to pick up the product, and then smudge it out on your lids. The rationale for this is that it makes the shadows easier to blend by giving you more time (i.e.
Several other cultures such as Egyptian, Indian and Sumerian have references to 'Primal mounds' which were all said to have emerged from the watery chaos of the 'First time'. In the Egyptian mythology, Atum was considered both the creator and the destroyer and the primal mound itself, represented by the 'Ben-ben' and later through Obelisks and Pyramids. The most significant 'Primal' mounds in Uk - such as Silbury, Glastonbury and Maes Howe all share an association with water. It is now a common belief that Silbury Hill was built deliberately so as to be permanently surrounded by water. Similarly, Glastonbury was surrounded by water when it was first in use during the Neolithic. The Passage mound of Maes Hill offers another interesting aspect of these purported mounds which is that they are commonly associated with one or two prominent nearby stone circles. Examples of this include Newgrange (surrounded by a stone circle), Gavr'inis in France (With the twin circles of Er-Lannic directly in front), and Ggantija on the island of Gozo (Malta). Silbury Hill lies directly south of Avebury, and less than a kilometre away. (More about Primal Mounds and Stone circles) Silbury as the Earth-Mother: The main advocate of this theory is Michael Dames, who wrote in the 70's of his theory that Silbury hill was constructed to represent the pregnant figure of the Earth-mother itself. Dames became aware that the outline formed by the moat surrounding Silbury resembled other prehistoric images of the Earth-mother. In order to support his claim, Dames presented evidence of other examples of Earth-mother profiles in ancient construction. In particular he mentions both the Maltese temples and the dwellings on the Orkneys, which have been noted for their anthropomorphic outlines. Perhaps even more significant is that recent discoveries have revealed that dwellings near Silbury were shaped anthropomorphically too. The Maltese Temples show a distinct similarity to the outline of the Earth-Mother (More about the Earth-Mother-Earth) Silbury as a Geodetic Marker: Silbury Hill was built on a latitude with a geometric significance, as were several other prominent prehistoric structures. In Egypt, it is now realised that the temple complexes were located according to 'geodetic' principles, an it appears that the same can be said of many of the European megalithic complexes. Both Karnak (Thebes) and Giza/Heliopolis in Egypt were located on latitudes which can be shown to have a geometric foundation. If one divides the northern hemisphere into seven equal units (i.e.
People benefit from fundamental values Do you consider yourself a conservative? Many well intentioned but misguided souls like to maintain a fallacy that they are part of the right-wing; especially when they support Republicans. These bewildered partisans have bought into an illusion that a conservative is a supporter of the status quo. They often believe that any politician who proclaims they are a champion of a GOP regime are really traditionalists. Some even go so far as to consider it impossible for any Democrat to hold any sentiments that could possibly resemble a conservative viewpoint. While it is difficult to speak well of any Democrat over the last century, it is becoming exceedingly routine to reject Republican party loyalists as just camouflaged clones for socialist policies. Calling yourself a conservative, doesn’t mean you walk the walk . . . Excluding political positions that are inconsistent with conservative principles is the best method to identify phony yuppies that seek the label of respectability. Let’s list a few essentials - that establish if one is a real conservative: 1) Accepts the principle of states rights, limited central government, “federalism” separation of powers and constitutional law. 2) Proponent of honest money, balance budgets and free enterprise; while, foes of the federal reserve, deficit spending and state/capitalism. 3) Defenders of individual civil liberty and restrains upon arbitrary interpretations of natural rights by the legislature, executive bureaucracy and the courts. 4) Protection of borders and a pro America First foreign policy that resists entangling engagements, internationalism and “policeman for the world” intervention. These are the basics. Now ask yourself what ‘so called’ conservatives support when they attain positions of power? 1) Strive to strengthen the central government, increase budgets and expand jurisdiction; while never abolishing superfluous agencies, reduce public employment and costs or scale back the role for the State. 2) Support the madness of Free Trade with the exodus of viable jobs, inducements to special interests and the extension in the merging of the corporate/government economy. 3) Restriction upon Bill of Right protections, using the excuse of contrived emergencies to implement additional people control measures - like the Patriot Act. 4) Encourage open door immigration, while erecting a neo-colonialism that requires a permanent garrison worldwide involvement. If this record is truly compatible with traditional conservatism, the earth must really be flat! The prevalent understanding of populism is that it seeks involvement of government to intercede on behalf of ordinary people.
The near complete overlap with ostensibly “anarchist” anticiv discourse almost goes without saying. The widespread love of Stirner among nearly every fascistic current paralleling talk of natural aristocracies and disdain for the “lowest common denominator” is present in the most rotten sections of the post-left. When modern fascists like Pierre Krebs declare, “We are not interested in political factions but attitudes to life,” one can’t help but get chills. And what attitudes indeed. When one remembers among endless other connections that John Zerzan and the n-word throwing Bob Black shared their publisher Feral House with Nazis, and that Aragorn’s anarchistnews.org repeatedly published “national anarchists” despite widespread condemnation, the chill should turn to ice. Not because such people are racists or undercover Nazis — most clearly aren’t — but because they often seem to be circling the same edgelord drain, caught by some of the same attractors and uninterested in resisting the pull. Since the publication of Against The Fascist Creep, Ross has published a rather soft spoken examination of fascist creep in these currents of the post-left: far more nicely and diplomatically put than I would ever be and I have long identified as post-left, often in the sharpest possible terms. (Of course the post-left is far bigger than the followers of a small number of old edgelords from Northern California, and is probably more widely characterizable in the anarchist movement by projects like Crimethinc and The Curious George Brigade). Ross’ article was — naturally — met with denunciation of an outsider’s attack upon the tribe rather than concern at the dangers of fascist corruption. Part of this is the fault of his language, which was sloppy on Stirner and lent itself to sweeping narrative interpretations, but it’s disappointing to witness the wagon-circling and in-group defending that we, ostensible individualists, have leaped to rather than taking his provocations seriously. Indeed, variants of ‘fascism’s not that bad’ permeated the response in the nihilist milieu and the eco-extremists were happy to clarify that in their desire to kill all of humanity they see Hitler as a half measure. Surely, even if Ross was a disingenuous ideologue — opportunistically slandering and scoring points against those he disagrees with — these sorts of responses deserve our concern as well.
Retention rates for future years were then imputed using year-to-year retention rates (Y2YRR) from the earlier available data. We then estimated the numbers of authors who would be expected to have uninterrupted, continuous presence for 16 years (UCP-16-births) using these imputed Y2YRR rates. For example, the number of authors starting their 16-year UCP in 1999 was estimated by taking the known value from 2011 (n = 23,941 authors publishing each and every year for the 13 years between 1999 and 2011) and multiplying that by the Y2YRR rates for years 14–16 (92% each year). A similar analysis was carried out using scientists who ceased publication in a particular year. Ending year is defined as the year in which an author published which was immediately followed by a year in which that author did not publish. This is a proxy for the UCP-death end year. UCP rates for earlier years were estimated by extrapolation using Y2YRR from the more recent data. Comparison of various characteristics of scientists We compared the different groups of author identifiers in terms of the main scientific field of the authors. We used a previously developed classification that allocates each paper to a separate scientific discipline and then each author is allocated to a specific discipline depending on what is the most common discipline of the papers he/she has authored – for details see references [14], [15] The resulting 13 scientific fields are Mathematics/Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Earth Sciences, Biology, Biotechnology, Infectious Disease, Medical Research, Health Sciences, Brain Research, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Computer Sciences/Electrical Engineering. We also compared the different groups of author identifiers in terms of region of Scopus-listed address (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Africa, Middle East, unknown), and sector (academic, hospital, government, industry, society/academy, non-profit, unknown) by in depth evaluation of 10,000 randomly selected author identifiers from each group. Region and sector data are based on our own analysis and curation of the affiliation data associated with the publications of each author. Comparisons of groups used the Fisher-Freeman-Halton exact test with Bonferroni correction of the p-value for the number of comparisons. UCP with multiple papers published each and every year We estimated the number of author identifiers that would fulfill the criteria for UCP during 1996–2011, if the minimum of publications published in each and every year in this period were 2, 3, 4, or 5, instead of just 1.
[i] There are many misconceptions about transgender people and identity. In one discussion, Forced Sterilization and Mandatory Divorce: How a Majority of Council of Europe Member States’ Laws Regarding Gender Identity Violate the Internationally and Regionally Established Human Rights of Trans* People, Rebecca Lee provides a clear overview: The term “transgender” is “generally used to refer to individuals whose gender identity or expression does not conform to the social expectations for their assigned sex at birth.” By contrast, people whose gender identity corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth are referred to as “cisgender.” The trans* community represents a small but meaningful proportion of the population: one recent study, for example, suggests that as many as 1 in every 250 people in the United States (or 0.4% of the population) may be trans. Although statistics regarding the prevalence of trans people in [Council of Europe] countries are limited, existing data suggest that the United States estimate of 1 in every 250 persons is likely an accurate reflection of the prevalence of trans* people in other communities. The transition process usually includes a social transition, which primarily involves altering one’s external gender expression to conform to one’s gender identity, including changing one’s hairstyle, makeup, accessories, and clothing. Transition may or may not also include taking hormones and/or undergoing gender-confirming surgery, either on one’s secondary sex characteristics or on one’s external and/or internal genitalia. Despite society’s misconceptions about the subject, “there is no such thing as a ‘sex change’ surgery or a ‘sex reassignment surgery’ that … [can convert] a woman into a man or a man into a woman.” In reality, there are a series of potential surgical interventions that trans* people may elect to undergo so that their external appearance conforms more closely to their gender identity. Though a significant number of trans* people do undergo or hope to undergo such surgeries, many trans* people do not wish to have surgery. Other trans* individuals are unable to access gender-confirming surgeries due to a lack of resources or because of medical conditions that contraindicate such surgeries. In fact, “the vast majority of trans people do not undergo surgery” at all. Moreover, even those trans* people who do desire some gender- confirming surgery may not wish to or are not able to undergo the complicated, expensive, and potentially dangerous procedures that would be required to leave them irreversibly sterilized.
This caused delays and bandwidth spikes and various problems related to it, the most important issue was the delay it takes for a block to reach the entire world. And compact blocks improves on this by using short hashes to refer to the transactions that most nodes on the network already know and have already validated. So this is a big step.
When Justin Trudeau named four Sikhs to his cabinet — Navdeep Bains, Bardish Chagger, Harjit Sajjan and Amarjeet Sohi — the prime minister boasted that he had more Sikh ministers than the federal cabinet in India. That ill-advised remark rankled New Delhi, which has also kept a wary eye on several Canadian Sikhs, including Jagmeet Singh. He has been a vocal critic of India’s handling of the 1984 Sikh killings. He has said that the euphemism “riots” is “a misnomer for what happened. These were not riots between the two (communities — Hindus and Sikhs). It was a state-sponsored massacre.” In 2014, he was denied a visa to India, with Indian spokesmen accusing him of “fomenting contempt” against India. He responded that India “continues to use visa denial as a form of silencing its critics.” In April this year, he voted for a motion passed at the Ontario Legislature describing the 1984 killings as “genocide.” Singh’s rise to the leadership of the NDP clearly changes the Canadian political calculus. Sikhs used to vote overwhelmingly for the Liberals. The Conservatives have made inroads in recent years. The NDP less so, partly because Sikhs tend to be socially conservative, as seen in their objections to the changes in sex education curriculum in Ontario schools, something that Singh initially opposed. But with his new national status, “there’ll be much interest in the NDP among the Sikhs, in a big way, especially in Brampton and Mississauga, and out west in Surrey and Delta in B.C., and in Edmonton,” says Harinder Takhar, MPP for Mississauga-Erindale. Takhar ran for the leadership of provincial Liberal party in 2013, losing to Kathleen Wynne. To delegates at that convention, he made a poignant personal observation: one of his greatest regrets was to have cut his hair and beard in the 1970s to get a job — “I ended up losing a part of myself.” He sees the rise of Jagmeet Singh, the unapologetic observant Sikh, as “a great leap forward in multicultural Canada.” In an interview, Takhar said that Singh’s ascendance has “serious ramifications for all parties at both the federal and provincial level” — beyond the voting patterns in the Sikh community, now estimated at 750,000 across Canada. “His greater impact would be on policy,” given his social justice agenda. Singh, a frequent victim of racial profiling — he says he has been pulled over 11 times by police — has long campaigned against carding.
Hide Caption 56 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – Palestinian medics carry a body in Gaza's Shaja'ia district on July 20. Hide Caption 57 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – Israeli soldiers give medical care to soldiers who were wounded during an offensive in Gaza on July 20. Hide Caption 58 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – A Palestinian boy injured during an Israeli airstrike is taken to the hospital by his father in Gaza City on July 20. Hide Caption 59 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – Palestinians flee their homes as Israeli troops focus their firepower on the Gaza town of Shaja'ia on Sunday, July 20. The shelling and bombing killed at least 60 people and wounded 300, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Hide Caption 60 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – Smoke rises after an Israeli missile hit Shaja'ia on July 20. Hide Caption 61 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – A Palestinian child walks on debris from a destroyed house following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya on Saturday, July 19. Hide Caption 62 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – An explosion rocks a street in Gaza City on Friday, July 18. Hide Caption 63 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – Israeli ground forces move to the Gaza border on July 18. Hide Caption 64 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – Israeli soldiers patrol near the Israel-Gaza border on July 18. Hide Caption 65 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – A relative mourns July 18 during the funeral of Rani Abu Tawila, a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City. Hide Caption 66 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – A Palestinian demonstrator, protesting Israel's military operation in Gaza, runs through smoke July 18 during clashes with Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the Ofer prison in the West Bank village of Betunia. Hide Caption 67 of 73 Photos: Photos: Israel-Gaza crisis Israel-Gaza crisis – This image, made from video shot through a night-vision scope, was released by the Israeli military on July 18. It shows troops moving through a wall opening during the early hours of the ground offensive in Gaza.
Video game technology has come a long way. We've gone from pointy boobs to round ones. It's taken us from polygonal hands to fully-modelled fingers. Most importantly however, we've seen a great variety of long, flowing, manly beards. In the spirit of Movember, here's the top ten best beard I could think of.In spite of the zombie apocalypse, Wyatt manages to maintain an impressive beard, though still a bit unruly. Perhaps not the greatest beard in gaming history, but noteworthy nonetheless.Straddling the line between murderous hillbilly and drunken hobo, Trevor grows his manly mane on demand at any local barber shop. Though the "default" Trevor is clean-shaven, I feel it goes without saying that bearded Trevor is the best Trevor.At least half of the budget for this game went into Max's beard. Fact.Say what you will about the sequel to Dragon Age: Origins. Most of those things are probably true. However, if one of those things you said was that it's hero didn't have an epic beard, you'd be wrong. When it comes to character creators, I always custom craft my own personal hero. This game is the exception, because none of the other facial hair options matched up to the default protagonist's.His beard is blue. I don't think I need to say anything else.Francis York Morgan is one hell of a man. When he's not solving crimes Twin Peaks style, he's kicking undead monster ass. His best feature though, is his beard. What makes this stubble so remarkable is that it must be grown at the expense of extra agent honor. Even whilst working for the FBI, he still manages to fight the system... with his beard.His beard is augmented.Let's not beat around the bush here. Captain John Price is a badass. Even if you're not a particularly big fan of the Call of Duty franchise, you have to admit that much. He goes into battle wearing mutton chops, you got to respect that.Just look at it. It's beautiful. Ellie wishes she could grow a beard this awesome.The first time Big Boss and his big beard made their d�but over twenty years ago on the MSX home computer, he appeared to us as a scruffy Connery-esque old man. In the prequel, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, we get to see the beard from the beginning. With subsequent sequels, we get to see its evolution, from stubble to epic mane.
In the field, "She exposes the disturbing Nazi and Vichy attachments of a few European correspondents. "[3] While back in New York, Sulzberger's bias was shared by other Jewish staffers: "Between them and influential Catholics among the crucial night editors, who decided where to place news items, the imperiled Jews of Europe had no advocate in the newsroom." [4]
SHREK (holdz up a mug of brew) Can't our laid-back asses just settle dis over a pint? CROWD Bust a cap up in tha beast! SHREK No, biatch? All right then. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch. (drinks tha brew) Come on! Dude takes tha mug n' smashes tha spigot off tha big-ass barrel of brew behind his muthafuckin ass. Da brew comes rushin up drenchin tha other pimps n' wettin tha ground. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! It aint nuthin but like mud now, nahmeean, biatch? Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Shrek slides past tha pimps n' picks up a spear dat one of tha pimps dropped. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! As Shrek begins ta fight Donkey hops up onto one of tha larger brew barrels. Well shiiiit, it breaks free of itz ropes n' begins ta roll. Donkey manages ta squish two pimps tha fuck into tha mud. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! There is so much fightin goin on here I aint goin ta go tha fuck into detail. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Suffice ta say dat Shrek kicks butt. DONKEY Yo, Shrek, tag me biaaatch! Tag me! Shrek comes over n' bangs a manz head up against Donkeys. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Shrek gets up on tha ropes n' interacts wit tha crowd. SHREK Yeah! A playa tries ta sneak up behind Shrek yo, but Shrek turns up in time n' sees his muthafuckin ass. WOMAN Da chair playa! Give his ass tha chair! Shrek smashes a cold-ass lil chair over tha muthafuckas back. Finally all tha pimps is down. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch. Donkey kicks one of dem up in tha helmet, n' tha din soundz tha end of tha match. Da crew goes wild. SHREK Oh, yeah! Ah! Ah! Nuff props, nahmean biiiatch, biatch? Nuff props straight-up much! I be here till Thursday. It make me wanna hollar playa! Try tha veal! Ha, ha! (laughs) Da laughta stops as all of tha guardz turn they weapons on Shrek. HEAD GUARD Shall I give tha order, sir? FARQUAAD Fuck dat shit, I gots a funky-ass betta idea. Muthafuckaz of DuLoc, I hit you wit our champion! SHREK What? FARQUAAD Congratulations, ogre. Yo ass is won tha honor of embarkin on a pimped out n' noble quest. SHREK Quest, biatch?
* teamd: add CAP_NET_RAW capability for LACP packet sockets* teamd: lacp: update actor state before sending LACP frames==== libwnck ====Version update (3.14.0 -> 3.14.1)Subpackages: libwnck-3-0 libwnck-devel typelib-1_0-Wnck-3_0- Update to version 3.14.1:+ WnckWindow: Add a new 'type-changed' signal.+ Don't use deprecated style properties.+ pager: use correct state flags.+ selector: avoid warnings from GtkStyleContext.+ tasklist: avoid warnings from GtkStyleContext.+ Back to dependency on gtk+-3.0 >= 3.10.+ Updated translations.==== libzypp ====Version update (15.21.1 -> 15.21.2)- installSrcPackage: trigger progress callback (bsc#580902)- version 15.21.2 (19)- Update zypp-po.tar.bz2==== linuxconsoletools ====Version update (1.4.8 -> 1.4.9)- Update to 1.4.9* inputattach supports a new mouseman4 mode for 4-button Logitechmice* inputattach supports EETI eGalaxTouch touchscreens* inputattach can provide a "ready" notification to systemd* js-set-enum-leds no longer uses hotplug.functions.- Spec file cleanups and dependency updates==== lmdb ====Version update (0.9.16 -> 0.9.17)- Renamed patches0002-Add-extra-tools-and-CFEngine-modifications-for-LMDB.patch- > 0001-Add-extra-tools-and-CFEngine-modifications-for-LMDB.patchautomake.diff- > 0002-Autoconf-files.patch0003-Optimization-Define-correct-cacheline-size-on-HPUX.patch- Dropped patch (upstream)0001-Patch-for-LMDB-to-use-robust-mutexes.patch- Update to 0.9.17Fix ITS#7377 catch calloc failureFix ITS#8237 regression from ITS#7589Fix ITS#8238 page_split for DUPFIXED pagesFix ITS#8221 MDB_PAGE_FULL on delete/rebalanceFix ITS#8258 rebalance/split assertFix ITS#8263 cursor_put cursor trackingFix ITS#8264 cursor_del cursor trackingFix ITS#8310 cursor_del cursor trackingFix ITS#8299 mdb_del cursor trackingFix ITS#8300 mdb_del cursor trackingFix ITS#8304 mdb_del cursor trackingFix ITS#7771 fakepage cursor trackingFix ITS#7789 ensure mapsize >= pages in useFix ITS#7971 mdb_txn_renew0() new reader slotsFix ITS#7969 use __sync_synchronize on non-x86Fix ITS#8311 page_split from update_keyFix ITS#8312 loose pages in nested txnFix ITS#8313 mdb_rebalance dummy cursorFix ITS#8315 dirty_room in nested txnFix ITS#8323 dirty_list in nested txnFix ITS#8316 page_merge cursor trackingFix ITS#8321 cursor trackingFix ITS#8319 mdb_load error messagesFix ITS#8320 mdb_load plaintext inputAdded mdb_txn_id() (ITS#7994)Added robust mutex supportMiscellaneous cleanup/simplificationBuildCreate install dirs if needed (ITS#8256)Fix ThreadProc decl on Win32/MSVC (ITS#8270)Added ssize_t typedef for MSVC (ITS#8067)Use ANSI apis on Windows (ITS#8069)Use O_SYNC if O_DSYNC,MDB_DSYNC are not defined (ITS#7209)Allow passing AR to make (ITS#8168)Allow passing mandir to make install (ITS#8169)==== luasocket ====- fix 'undefined symbol: luaL_checkint' in socket/core.soadd luasocket-3.0-rc1.patch==== lzop ====- Add lzop-1.03-gcc6.patch to fix undefined behavior in its ACC testuncovered by GCC 6.==== motif ====- motif-2.3.4-implicit-fortify-decl.patch: fix bad use of reservedidentifier==== mutt ====- Fix patch-1.5.24.sidebar.20151111.patch to shortenimaps://imap.example.com/INBOX correctly to INBOX, not to NBOX.
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"We're certainly supportive of the Medical and Pharmacy boards taking these periodic looks and making sure people are in compliance, but it's really a checks-and-balances kind of thing," Reggie Fields, an association spokesman, toldHe added that the medical community understands the size and scope of the opiate addiction epidemic in Ohio, and he says he supports the rule requiring tracking of prescription painkillers.The Food and Drug Administration, on its web site , acknowledged the opioid epidemic and said it has developed "a comprehensive action plan" to reduce opioid over-prescribing and abuse. Part of that plan includes gathering data on painkiller prescriptions. "As part of this plan, the agency is committing to work more closely with its advisory committees before making critical product and labeling decisions; enhancing safety labeling; requiring new data; and seeking to improve treatment of both addiction and pain," the agency said.Dr. Mark Hurst, the medical director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addition Services, said the problem of opioid abuse won't be solved "unilaterally" by a single entity or agency. "It requires communities, it requires families, it requires individuals, it requires schools," he said,reported in a separate story . "If we're really going to make good progress and sustain progress on this, we need all hands on deck."
Original post: http://www.jorosar.com/2015/01/gaming-esports-2015/ -------------------------------Happy New Year and may 2015 bring you health, happiness and prosperity! :-) I'm pretty excited about the possibilities that the new year brings and watching eSports continue to grow bigger than ever.Personally, I don't have so much of a year in review as a 3-years in review. I played games semi-competitively at points growing up (Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and CS 1.5 for anyone curious) as well as enjoying others (Red Alert, AoE up to The Conquerors, WarCraft III & DotA) but I waded into talking about them in 2012 after using my microphone (that was supposed to be for singing!) for some YouTube videos as an experiment. To my pleasant surprise I was then happily on Playhem three nights a week about as fast as you can say 'two rax'.Long story short: I fell in love. I had so much fun working alongside and chatting with people that were also passionate about gaming that it was basically a dream come true when later in the year I was travelling and meeting them in person. You might recognise a few of Kibbelz, Robin (now Trikslyr), Frodan, Zoia, Lyrlian & Schamtoo to just name a few.Later on I became the first commentator to shoutcast StarCraft II offline at all of the below events, 'completing the set' at the time:I'm still not sure how that happened and it wasn't known to me until it was pointed out much later. I was self-employed back then so could put a lot of my time into eSports but I definitely wasn't full-time so to achieve something like that was really awesome and pretty humbling.Elsewhere in life things were moving professionally for me and in 2013 I took an opportunity to start working in media while continuing commentating whenever I could. As someone who was technically trained as an engineer and used to work at a race winning Formula One team this was obviously a big step, but like with eSports I relished the opportunity to jump into something new and do as well as I possibly could.I have seen the StarCraft world move pretty quickly in the time since then.
Genetic variability in drug metabolism Of the pharmacokinetic phases (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion), metabolism is most subject to interpatient and interethnic variability, although interethnic differences can exist in all phases.11 Human oxidative enzymes associated with drug metabolism belong mainly to the cytochrome P450 (CYP450) families, and CYP450-dependent metabolism is 1 area in which ethnic variants have been best characterized.11 Differences between East Asians and Caucasians are particularly noteworthy in the activity of CYP450 2D6 and the CYP450 2C subfamily, in which functionally significant polymorphisms are common.11,12 Polymorphic variants in the genes affecting these enzymes may reduce or eliminate them or enhance them, resulting in varying rates of metabolic clearance. For CYP450 2D6, for example, approximately 1% of East Asians have the poor metabolizer phenotype, compared with >7% of Caucasians. 11,12 However, the CYP450 2C19 slow metabolizer phenotype is present in approximately 16% of Asians and in only about 3% of Caucasians.12 CYP450 3A4 metabolism is particularly important because 3A4 is the predominant CYP450 isoform; approximately 50% of commonly prescribed drugs are metabolized through this pathway.11,13 Although differences in the allelic frequencies of CYP450 3A between Asians and whites have been noted, related differences in drug metabolism have not been observed consistently.11,14 However, a recent study of simvastatin therapy in dyslipidemic Chinese patients found that CYP450 3A4*4 was associated with a functional decrease in the enzyme’s activity, resulting in significantly greater reductions in total cholesterol and triglycerides, but not for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.15 Among the statins, lovastatin, simvastatin, and atorvastatin are metabolized primarily by CYP450 3A4, whereas fluvastatin is metabolized through CYP450 2C9, as is rosuvastatin to a minor extent. Pravastatin is not metabolized through the CYP450 system. Another determinant of drug disposition is the trans-membrane protein P-glycoprotein, a drug efflux pump that is believed to decrease the bioavailability of many drugs and also affect drug distribution in the body.16–18 P-glycoprotein shares a substrate overlap with the CYP450 3A4 subfamily,19 and drugs that undergo efflux by P-glycoprotein and metabolism via CYP450 3A4 are most likely to show ethnic differences in bioavailability.20,21 Lovastatin, simvastatin, and atorvastatin alter P-glycoprotein transporter activity, whereas pravastatin and rosuvastatin do not.22,23 Organic anion transporting polypeptides (OATPs) have also been shown to play a role in the uptake of statins in the liver.
"The government has promised me they will keep this house and this village," said Huang. "I was so happy and thankful. "Officials say they are seeking to make the "Rainbow Village" a designated cultural area. "Tourism is one of the reasons to keep it, but the main reason is that veterans' villages are very special to Taiwan," says Huang Ming-heng, chief secretary of Taichung's cultural affairs bureau. "Unfortunately most of them have been knocked down, so it's important to keep this historical memory. "On a scorching Tuesday morning, tourists of all ages take selfies in front of the murals. "I think they are amazing graphics -- this place should be preserved," said Hsiao Chi, 19, a student from Taipei. "The colour and the drawings are very special," added Ivy Ng, 30, from Hong Kong, who was visiting Taichung with her family.Originally from Hong Kong, Huang joined the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army in 1946 to fight communist troops in mainland China during the civil war there.When the KMT was defeated in 1949, many troops followed its leader, Chiang Kai-shek, as he fled to Taiwan.They were given temporary housing in hundreds of dedicated military villages across the island, a stop-gap while the nationalists regrouped.But as the communists tightened their grip on the mainland, these temporary homes became permanent.The Ministry of National Defence says many of the villages have been knocked down because residents wanted better living conditions.But some bemoan the loss of the old communities. "When they move out, people feel isolated," said Kang Han-ming, a former marine who manages the thriving Rainbow Village business and campaigns to protect the remaining settlements. "They feel they have no roots. That's why a lot of older veterans who move to new buildings get sick. "The defence ministry has now pledged to preserve the last 13 villages as cultural areas.Artist Huang says he never tires of the early morning regime that served to save his home -- a bungalow crammed with paints, marker pens and memorabilia.The Rainbow Grandpa sits back on a chair in the shade and watches the crowds. "I like speaking with them and they tell me the paintings are beautiful. I'll never get lonely with all these visitors."
When laws are established by the people who then have to obey them, both law and democracy are served.Reprinted from the National Constitution Center The Framers considered the rule of law essential to the safekeeping of social order and civil liberties. The rule of law holds that if our relationships with each other and with the state are governed by a set of rules, rather than by a group of individuals, we are less likely to fall victim to authoritarian rule. The rule of law calls for both individuals and the government to submit to the law's supremacy. By precluding both the individual and the state from transcending the supreme law of the land, the Framers constructed another protective layer over individual rights and liberties. --Reprinted from U.S. Dept. of StateIn an unprecedented degree of 'abuse of power' judges decreed themselves absolutely immune from civil suit when they are "acting maliciously and corruptly." In 1996 the 104th Congress passed the Federal Courts Improvement Act amending the Civil Rights statute to give further immunities to malicious and corrupt judges. "Immunity applies even when the judge is accused ofacting maliciously and corruptly." -- United States Supreme CourtSee Harlow v. Fitzgerald , 457 U.S. 800, 815-819 (1982) Pierson v. Ray , 386 U.S., at 554, Mireles v. Waco , 502 U.S. 9, 9-10, 112 S.Ct. 286, 287, 116 L.Ed.2d 9 (1991).Public Law 104-317, 104th CongressSec. 309. Prohibition against awards of costs, including attorney's fees, and injunctive relief against a judicial officer.28 USC 2412 note.>> for Costs.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no judicial officer shall be held liable for any costs, including attorney's fees, in any action brought against such officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, unless such action was clearly in excess of such officer's jurisdiction. (b) Proceedings in Vindication of Civil Rights.--Section 722(b) of the Revised Statutes ( 42 U.S.C. 1988(b) ) is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof "except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity such officer shall not be held liable for any costs, including attorney's fees, unless such action was clearly in excess of such officer's jurisdiction". (c) Civil Action for Deprivation of Rights.--Section 1979 of the Revised Statutes ( 42 U.S.C.
Warning that decisions like the European Parliament’s motion calling the mass killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as a “genocide” will lead to enmity and prejudice against Turkey and Muslims, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu also asked about the fate of the Aborigines in Australia and Native Americans in the United States.“If a contribution is to be made to peace, if European culture is to preserve its multicultural and multi-religious structure, it must not make decisions that will cause enmity against any religious or national group on the basis of history. This is a situation which will provoke anti-Islam and anti-Turkish [sentiments], which have been on the rise recently in Europe. From now on, the ‘Turkey-Armenia’ [issue] has moved beyond the ‘Turkish-Armenian’ issue. It is a reflection of racism in Europe,” Davutoğlu said on April 17, responding to reporters.The European Parliament’s motion came on April 15, only a few days after Pope Francis triggered fury in Turkey by using the same term.The prime minister argued that both the European Parliament’s resolution and the pope’s statement were “a new reflection of racism.”Davutoğlu went on the offensive as he mentioned Aborigines and Native Americans. “I told [European Parliament President Martin] Schulz yesterday. If we are to open the history of Europe, what was done in Africa during colonialism? What was done in Asia? What was done in Australia and where have those authentic tribes disappeared to? Where are the Aborigines, where are the Redskins?” he said.Referring to American Indians, "redskins" is a term still widely used in Turkey despite the fact that the English-speaking world stopped using it over its racial connotations. Changing the name of the Washington Redskins NFL franchise remains a matter of debate in the United States due to the objections of Native Americans.Noting that the resolution and the statement about history delivered by a spiritual authority were both invalid, Davutoğlu then said, “We could open files of Catholic history and bring up an issue by talking about those who fled the Inquisition, came to our country and how they have lived in peace here for centuries.”His quote refers to the arrival of the Sephardic Jews, who were exiled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition and found refuge in the Ottoman Empire in 1492.
Grung Grung are the smaller jungle-dwelling cousin of the Bullywug. Their vibrant skin colors helps them fit in with exotic, foliage heavy environments. Their caste system shapes their culture. For more information on grung culture see Volo's Guide to Monsters pg. 156. Alignment. Grung are superstitious and tribal creatures. They rarely seek out higher order than their basic skin color caste system nor will they work against this system. They are typically neutral or lawful neutral. Climb. You have a climbing speed of 25 feet. Size. Grung are smaller than their larger swamp-dwelling cousins growing only to 2 and a half to 3 feet tall. Your size is Small. Poisonous Skin. As a bonus action on your turn, you secrete a thin layer of poison that lasts for one minute. For the duration, any creature that grapples you or otherwise comes into direct contact with the your skin must succeed on a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with you can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Once a creature passes the save, it becomes immune to this trait for 24 hours. Once you use this feature, you cannot again until you complete a short or long rest. Languages. You speak Common and Grung. Variant Feat: Colored Grung Poison Optionally and with DM approval, you can take this variant feat. Prerequisite: Race: Grung. Your poisonous skin trait grows more potent. Choose one of the following colors: Green, Blue, Purple, Red, Orange. Gold. In addition to being poisoned, creatures that fail the Constitution saving throw are subjected to the effects of the grung poison of the specified color as detailed in Volo's Guide to Monsters pg. 156 within the Variant: Grung Poison sidebar. Half-Fey Half-fey come into the world from a fey creature taking interest in a beautiful humanoid. The relationships are normally lustful and fleeting, and rarely will result in the birth of a half-fey. These lost souls are stuck between the world of the fey and the mundane life of man. One trait almost all share is their captivating beauty. Half-Fey Traits Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2. Alignment. Heritage coming from the feywild creates an internal spark of chaos.
The issues: Mr Huckabee supports tax reform and often touts the FairTax, which would eliminate income and payroll taxes in favour of a uniform sales tax. getty images 7/9 Rand Paul Who he is: Mr Paul has served as a US senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is a libertarian and son of former US Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. The issues: Mr Paul supports balanced spending by the government, unlike some of his peers in the Republican Party who oppose most government spending. He has been called an isolationist by some political pundits. AP 8/9 Scott Walker - OUT Who he is: Mr Walker has served as the governor of Wisconsin since 2011 and has long been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate. Mr Walker this week launched a PAC to prepare for a presidential run. The issues: Mr Walker opposes compromise with Democrats on key issues and would encourage increasing the fight against Isis. AP 9/9 Rick Perry - OUT Who he is: Mr Paul has served as a US senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is a libertarian and son of former US Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. The issues: Mr Paul supports balanced spending by the government, unlike some of his peers in the Republican Party who oppose most government spending. He has been called an isolationist by some political pundits. Getty 1/9 Jeb Bush Who he is: Brother of former President George W. Bush and son of former President George H. W. Bush, Mr Bush has formed a Political Action Committee and is exploring a presidential bid. He was the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. The issues: Mr Bush has indicated that his campaign would focus on the economy, foreign policy and energy. He is also known as a proponent of education reform. Getty 2/9 Marco Rubio Who he is: Mr Rubio is a US senator from Florida who has served since 2011. He is an early favourite to receive heavy donations from ultra-rich donors the Koch brothers. The issues: Mr Rubio has said the biggest issue facing the US in the near future is foreign policy and dealing with threats from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. AP 3/9 Ben Carson Who he is: Dr Carson is a retired neurosurgeon, who became one of the most prominent physicians in the US. He has no political experience, but has formed a PAC to consider a run for president.
The LUX experiment, its light sensor shown here, searches for a type of dark matter known as a WIMP. But WIMPs have failed to turn up in recent years, leading physicists to consider alternative dark matter models. Image courtesy of Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility.
With my own leaning being towards data showing that scales may not be ancestral to ornithodirans, but also knowing that some dinosaurs are mosaics of filaments and scales, I decided to partially enfluffen my, while leaving their snouts, tails and limbs scaly. I'll leave you with the revised image.Production of the imagery and article seen here was sponsored by my awesome Patrons, who back me at Patreon . As a bonus, they're getting to see the full version of thatimage, along with other rewards and benefits including more exclusive content, discount print prices and other neat stuff. If that sounds like something you're interested in, you can get involved for as little as $1 a month. A huge thanks to those who have signed on already!
Cavuto's segment featured an interview with Charles Key, an Oklahoma legislator who has been similarly involved with Patriot-movement radicalism since the 1990s. For instance, Key was heavily involved in promoting conspiracy theories in the 1990s that claimed that the federal government was actually behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that was in reality perpetrated by an adherent of Patriot movement ideology. He even convened a grand jury to investigate the matter, and when the resulting investigation completely debunked his theory, he denounced it: The county grand jury orchestrated by a conspiracy-minded former state legislator and the grandfather of two bombing victims has concluded that there was no evidence of a larger conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. Even before the report was made public in December, former state Rep. Charles Key was attacking the body he helped to create by leading a petition drive, claiming jurors had ignored evidence of a government coverup. The grand jury found no evidence that federal agents had prior knowledge of the plot; that members of a white supremacist compound in eastern Oklahoma were involved; or that two bombs, rather than one, were used — all key conspiracy theories. The state attorney general and the local district attorney, who both had opposed formation of the grand jury, welcomed the results, as did the grand jury's presiding judge, William Burkett. As it happens, these activities were underwritten by a rich right-winger who subscribed to the conspiracy theories. Now, it's one thing to point out the radical origins of these "constitutional theories." But it's also important to understand where they want to take us -- to a radically decentralized form of government that was first suggested in the 1970s by the far-right Posse Comitatus movement. They essentially argue for a constitutional originalism that would not only end the federal income tax, destroy all civil-rights laws, and demolish the Fed, but would also re-legalize slavery, strip women of the right to vote, and remove the principle of equal protection under the law.
As it is difficult to find a boundary between real and virtual, it is impossible to limit the art. I don´t know what a painting thinks about itself if it does think anything at all, nor I know if form is important for art. Supposing there is no form, energy, which can be turned into form, remains ......... Boundaries don´t exist...............
The Cultural Revolution decade, roughly the last decade of Mao’s life from 1965 to 1976, has still not been fully understood. What exists is a swamp of conflicting and incomplete narratives that span the last decade of Mao’s life. And, the Lin Biao episode is at the heart of it all. The Lin Biao incident is arguably the most important, single event of the Cultural Revolution decade. It is possibly even more important than Mao’s own death in 1976. Yet Lin Biao’s death raises more questions than answers. The incident is shrouded by state-sponsored mystery and sectarian interests. Like any controversial political event, there is no consensus among scholars about what happened and its meaning. The “official” history has been re-written several times as political winds at the top shifted in China. Today, another rewriting is happening. This time it is from the bottom-up. Scholars are taking a new look at the events now that time has allowed the topic to cool. Also retired, aged participants or the relatives of those disgraced hope to clear their family names by seeking to lessen their own or family’s participation in events, to shift blame away from themselves or their relatives. Recent accounts have shed some light on the Lin Biao event, but just as earlier narratives were colored by the interests of the regime’s police apparatus and the contending political factions, recent narratives are colored by another set of obvious biases. Some hope their own, or at least their family’s, fortunes can be reversed if Lin Biao is acquitted criminally and politically. This is the case with Lin Biao’s Air Force Chief Wu Faxian’s daughter Jin Qiu’s account of events, for example. It is also the case with Wang Li’s account of the Cultural Revolution. The case against Lin Biao was never simply a question of whether he is guilty of the charges, the individual actions, that he is accused of. Did he plot to kill Mao, for example? The other question is the political one. What politics led Lin Biao to his demise? Whether Lin Biao had acted as an assassin or not is not as important than the question of whether or not the politics he was pushing were treasonous and counter-revolutionary or revolutionary. It is this latter question that fired Chinese political debate from Lin Biao’s death to the show trial under the Deng Xiaoping regime in 1980 and 1981.
In 2015, researchers at Tel Aviv University reported that Egyptian fruit bat pups isolated from their parents are slow to develop mature, adult-like vocalizations, suggesting the babies rely on some form of learning. In fact, when isolated pups were exposed to recordings of select low-frequency adult calls, the pups developed a bias toward low-frequency vocalizations (13). But such subtle changes fall short of demonstrating vocal learning, at least according to stricter standards. “I’m not yet totally convinced that they’re full-fledged vocal learners,” says Jarvis. According to Jarvis, the evidence so far suggests bats’ imitative abilities may not be as advanced as those of songbirds. Yartsev hopes to settle these questions by teaching his bats to converse with computers. In the first stage of the project, Cooper and his fellow bats have learned to winnow their spontaneous chatter down to a single call that they produce consistently to receive a reward. (Yartsev says each animal naturally settles on a preferred call after playing with the computer for a few weeks.) The exact call doesn’t matter, as long as each animal reliably reproduces the same sound. In the next phase, the bats will hear their own call played back to them, and will be rewarded for “I really want to have another model system that's in between birds and humans.“ —Sonja Vernes answering the computer’s call with theirs. The researchers will then gradually distort the computer’s side of the conversation, doling out smoothie only when the bat matches the altered calls. Ultimately, Yartsev hopes to elicit sounds that no longer resemble “normal” bat calls, but are rather totally novel, learned vocalizations. Yartsev thinks bats could offer something songbirds don’t. Whereas zebra finches learn and sing a single song over and over, some bats appear to develop a vocabulary of sounds that they use flexibly in different combinations (14), similar to how human speech works. And there’s another potential advantage, he says: zebra finches stop learning new vocalizations around puberty, but early evidence suggests that like humans, some bats exhibit certain types of vocal learning into adulthood (2). To understand how this works, Yartsev’s laboratory is beginning to map the brain areas and neural signals involved in the Egyptian fruit bat’s social calls. And as Yartsev pursues neural circuits, Vernes, with whom he collaborates, is tracking down the genetic underpinnings of bat vocal learning.
From his study of history they'd been a problem ever since the Dark Emperor's death and they had managed to gain some prominance during the time of the Third Empire but even so they'd never been so powerful as they'd been in the last. Trade was a useful thing to have and for that reason House Ferlis had a few investments and merchant vassals. The problem was that the merchants built their fortunes around dealings with lesser beings and so they lost the stomach to do what needed to be done. Leaving aside naval campaigns with The Eternal Foe every few decades Valnothron had gotten into one major war in the last two and a half centuries. There would be the occasional brief campaign against the Allergonian Empire, brief wars to force some trade concession or reprisal, mercenary work, hunting down tribals across the sea and formalized show battles. None of that was real war, the kind that forged true strength and culled the weak from the herd. Cannons and Janissaries had their place, but the merchants had made them to dependent on them. They were content to forever postpone the coming War of Ascendancy when the Dark Elves would cleanse Illvanas of the corrupted ones and take their rightful place as masters of the world. The Warrior houses needed to retake control and put House Valcas and it's like in it's place sooner than latter lest the rot of degeneracy run to the core, even though the opportunity to do so was still a long way off.As such while it may have been a bit incongruous with his general position there was little surprise that Zenrith firmly backed Valnothron striking the 'Infrastructurals' in what would become the Escort War. Even though the rise of that state in the frozen end of the world hurt the merchant families more than anyone else, they still dared to cross the Drow as a whole. When that collection of avarice cowards could be pushed towards taking up the sword he pushed them as hard as he could to take up the sword and cut down those fire-lock obsessed upstarts. He'd assumed that this would break them free of complacency and end with a reaping of snow covered waste.
Avoiding The Eye - Ships Free Today! Independent Media Runs With the Story There is, however, plenty of news coming out about Fukushima and plenty of conversation taking place about the impact on the environment and on human health. It’s just not to be found in the mainstream media, who is unquestionably strongly influenced by the nuclear energy industry and the government, and apparently involved in one of the greatest media cover ups of all time. We know that the mainstream media has the power to rally the golden hordes into action, as is evident in their promotion of a race war and sensationalized coverage of ISIS and other government created threats. In fact, recent news events in the US prove just how malleable public outrage is when the elite wish to make a major pubic policy change or cause a major stir in our social fabric. Take for example the media’s efforts to shove non-issues like the Bruce Jenner sex change in our face. When it comes to nuclear radiation and the impact it is having on life and our food supply, the dumbing down of events in the mainstream media is exceptional, suggesting that they simply do not wish for the public to know the severity of the crisis, or that they don’t care for us to be forewarned enough to take precautionary measures. Learn More A quick search of the web will reveal many independent organizations who are reporting on the facts and impacts of the Fukushima disaster. For starters, visit ENENews.com, FukushimaUpdate.com and more, and for an excellent primer on nuclear radiation, the nuclear energy industry and the impacts of Fukushima, watch this informative talk by Dr. Helen Caldicott, M.D. : Terence Newton is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com, where this article first appeared. He is interested primarily with issues related to science, the human mind, and human consciousness.
National Socialism Hitler defined his own national socialism as a uniquely German movement: The National Socialist doctrine, as I have always proclaimed, is not for export. It was conceived for the German people. (Hitler-Bormann Documents, Feb. 21, 1945) In other words, German National Socialism arose at a specific time in a specific place under the pressure of a unique set of historical circumstances, none of which could ever be precisely replicated elsewhere. In particular, the autocratic Führer state, central to NS Germany, would never be acceptable to Americans; our republican political culture and belief in individual rights are, thankfully, far too strong. Hitler was a dictator and his government authoritarian; Americans prefer their political and civil liberties. Which doesn't mean that NS Germany was a police state. It had in fact fewer policemen per capita, and far fewer secret police, than either modern Germany or the United States, despite the misleading image most of us have of legions of sinister Gestapo agents kicking down doors in the middle of the night. The basic principles of national socialism are, nevertheless, universal: that God (or Nature) has assigned each of us to a racial group and has endowed each group with distinct qualities; that a nation is not simply a geographical concept, a set of lines arbitrarily drawn on a map irrespective of the people living within them, but instead derives (or should derive) its political institutions and national objectives from the character of the people themselves; that a nation organized to preserve a race and develop its distinctive character is therefore "natural"; that the strength and social cohesion of a nation derives from its sense of a common identity, of which race is the most important determinant; that in addition to our individual rights we have larger social obligations, not only to the present generation of our nation but to its past and future generations as well; that the primary purpose of a nation is not economic, but the preservation and advancement of its people, economics being subordinate to the volkisch (racial/national) objectives that should be a nation's core reason for existing. "The [Nation-] State in itself," Hitler wrote, "has nothing whatsoever to do with any definite economic concept or a definite economic development. It does not arise from a compact made between contracting parties, within a certain delimited territory, for the purpose of serving economic ends.
Moreover, the present experiments do not allow us to distinguish between the extra mechanical load or some other aspect of NMES as the trigger of beneficial effects in AIA muscles.
"The date that was picked, today, to stop all future DACA extensions is so arbitrary, unfair and it's unworkable. Why, 50,000 more youth 3who have DACA now missing the deadline, what happens to them?" said Maria Elena Durazo, national vice presidident of the organization, Unite Here.Cedillo says he will push to keep them in the U.S. even though their futures are uncertain. "We've invested in them. They've succeeded at the highest levels at our best universities and colleges, and we want to keep that investment here in California, here in Los Angeles," Cedillo said.In November, the L.A. City Council's Immigrant Affairs Committee is set to meet Indivisible Highland Park.
There is no art or discipline for which the nature of reality is a matter of indifference, so one ontology or another is always being assumed if not articulated. Great questions may be as open now as they have been since Babylonians began watching the stars, but certain disciplines are still deeply invested in a model of reality that is as simple and narrow as ideological reductionism can make it. I could mention a dominant school of economics with its anthropology. But I will instead consider science of a kind. The study of brain and consciousness, mind and self—associated with so-called neuroscience—asserts a model of mental function as straightforward, causally speaking, as a game of billiards, and plumes itself on just this fact. It is by no means entangled with the sciences that address ontology. The most striking and consequential changes in the second of these, ontology, bring about no change at all in the first, neuroscience, either simultaneous or delayed. The gist of neuroscience is that the adverbs “simply” and “merely” can exorcise the mystifications that have always surrounded the operations of the mind/brain, exposing the machinery that in fact produces emotion, behavior, and all the rest. So while inquiries into the substance of reality reveal further subtleties, idioms of relation that are utterly new to our understanding, neuroscience tells us that the most complex object we know of, the human brain, can be explained sufficiently in terms of the activation of “packets of neurons,” which evolution has provided the organism in service to homeostasis. The amazing complexity of the individual cell is being pored over in other regions of science, while neuroscience persists in declaring the brain, this same complexity vastly compounded, an essentially simple thing. If this could be true, if this most intricate and vital object could be translated into an effective simplicity for which the living world seems to provide no analogy, this indeed would be one of nature’s wonders.
Maintain frame; no matter how hard you think it may be. Setting Boundaries I mentioned setting boundaries above, but to clarify, this doesn't just involve how colleagues interact with you, it also involves how they interact with each other. I once worked under a short female executive. One day, one of my colleagues (another short woman) made a height joke in the presence of the said executive. Without me responding to the joke, she said politely but sternly said, "no, we will not be insulting people for their physical attributes here". Make Boundaries Clear And Model Them When Necessary \| Source: Heat My boss was an older woman who grew up during the Civil Rights era and the Vietnam war. She smiled often, but ruled with an iron fist with regards to how employees treated one another. My colleague quickly retreated in shame. A similar situation happened when a male colleague made a suggestive comment about a woman's outfit. No write-ups were necessary in these cases. A stern talking-to and swift action served as effective reality checks (though I'm sure she took notes for future reference). The point here is not to be a dictator (authoritative leadership styles can certainly alienate), but by setting boundaries and modeling behavior, you can establish strong organizational culture norms which will ensure an environment of respect and rapport, which can translate to a staff who is content and full of pride. Remember Maslow's pyramid, those who feel like they belong are more likely to perform. Listening & Observing Frequently over the course of a day which could literally consist of dozens of social interactions, seldom do we listen. Let me clarify - we hear the words coming out of their mouths but many of us spend time focusing on our response rather than processing the bigger JPEG with them as the focus. Listening goes beyond a person's vocal contribution to a conversation. What does their body language convey? What is the background behind their current mental model? How does your relationship with that person affect their demeanor while in your presence? All of this matters and should affect the trajectory of a conversation once you get into the driver's seat. Listen, think, think again and then react, but with strengthening your professional relationship and keeping that person self-assured and productive in mind.
Meanwhile, Ingram ended up being ordered to pay the $500 fine for violating Sections 2-1 of the Illinois Bees and Apiaries Act. According to Kocal: "There are 2 questions that Ingram wants answered: 1) Did the IDofA, a state agency, have the right to enter Ingram's property and confiscate a suspected "nuisance," before Ingram had his day in court? 2) Where are his bees? The "evidence" has disappeared, and the IDofA refuses to tell Ingram where they are, before, during, and after the hearing. "I have been keeping bees for 58 years," Ingram said during an interview at his home and apiary. "I am not a newcomer to beekeeping, and I definitely know what I am doing. I have been teaching beginning beekeeping classes for 40 years..." At the April 4 hearing, Ingram said he felt he was able to show the court that the inspector could not tell the difference between "chilled brood" and foulbrood. He also proved to the court that the inspectors did not know the symptoms of foulbrood."
The iconographical analysis allows the dating of this image to the 6th century at which time there are Etruscan models. The coin shows that the triple goddess cult image still stood in the lucus of Nemi in 43 BCE. Lake Nemi was called Triviae lacus by Virgil (Aeneid 7.516), while Horace called Diana montium custos nemoremque virgo ("keeper of the mountains and virgin of Nemi") and diva triformis ("three-form goddess"). [15] Two heads found in the sanctuary[16] and the Roman theatre at Nemi, which have a hollow on their back, lend support to this interpretation of an archaic triple Diana. [17] As goddess of crossroads and the underworld Edit The earliest epithet of Diana was Trivia, and she was addressed with that title by Virgil,[18] Catullus,[19] and many others. "Trivia" comes from the Latin trivium, "triple way", and refers to Diana's guardianship over roadways, particularly Y-junctions or three-way crossroads. This role carried a somewhat dark and dangerous connotation, as it metaphorically pointed the way to the underworld. [6] In the 1st-century CE play Medea, Seneca's title character calls on Trivia to cast a spell, evokes the triple goddess of Diana, Selene, and Hecate, and specifies that she requires the powers of the latter. [6] The symbol of the crossroads is relevant to several aspects of Diana's domain. It can symbolize the paths hunters may encounter in the forest, lit only by the full moon; this symbolizes making choices "in the dark" without the light of guidance. [6] Diana's role as a goddess of the underworld, or at least of ushering people between life and death, caused her early on to be conflated with Hecate (and occasionally also with Proserpina). However, her role as an underworld goddess appears to pre-date strong Greek influence (though the early Greek colony of Cumae had a cult of Hekate and certainly had contacts with the Latins[20]). A theater in her sanctuary at Lake Nemi included a pit and tunnel that would have allowed actors to easily descend on one side of the stage and ascend on the other, indicating a connection between the phases of the moon and a descent by the moon goddess into the underworld. [6] It is likely that her underworld aspect in her original Latin worship did not have a distinct name, like Luna was for her moon aspect.
However this leaves Nestea’s Iron Squid 1 and 2 runs where he played Top 5 terran, Top 5 zerg, Top 10 terran, Top 5 terran again, a Top 3 protoss, a top foreigner and a Top 10 terran in both those tournaments compared to Zest’s lone Toronto run where he beat a Top 3 terran, a top foreigner, a Top 10 terran, another Top 10 terran, and a top 5 zerg before losing to Flash. Even given the increase skill of today, Nestea’s double Iron Squid runs edge out Zest’s 2nd run at IEM Toronto.Overall, looking at their paths, I ended up favoring Nestea slightly in terms of difficulty. He had played in more varied formats over a longer period of time. Yet you could still make the argument that in terms of raw skill today, Zest should be ahead. Yet there are two factors you have to include.Adversity and Innovation. These factors are things I've mentioned before but have never had to bring up before this. But as we close towards the top, you need to nitpick every single factor for and against why the rankings land where they do. Put bluntly, Zest was dominant in an era where protoss was dominant. Of course this doesn't diminish his results as he ruled in an era with a large number of top tier protoss, but look at his tournament paths and how his runs have ended. More often than not he’s died to terrans. Because of how the meta worked, he nearly avoided that matchup for the entirety of his 2014 run.Now look at Nestea. Zerg was at its weakest from 2010 all the way to the queen patch (which happened in mid 2012). While Zest has done great work for his race, in terms of innovation and refinement, Nestea very much built his race.In the end it’s more than just the numbers, more than the stats, more than raw skill when talking about the greatest. It is about the impact the player has made on the game, the adversity they had to face.
The proliferation of embedded mining will take hold once it transitions from the current proof of concept full-stack “Bitcoin Computer” to System on a Chip design. It is at this point that it will make economic sense to deploy embedded mining to the Internet of Things, with mining capability added to phones, routers, and perhaps even fridges. The reason I find embedded mining to be such a powerful concept is that if it catches on we will be incentivizing the general public to mine at a net loss in fiat terms. If this sounds illogical, consider the perspective that the miner will essentially be paying for some other sort of utility, but they will be doing so by “spending” electricity. That is, you can sidestep setting up a billing relationship with a new service provider and instead just add a slight bump to your electricity bill - this reduction in friction can be valuable. If a sufficient number of devices are mining a sufficient portion of the global hashrate at a net loss, this could put for-profit industrial scale miners out of business. To be clear, “a sufficient number” is the big question — it would no doubt require a deployment along the scale of tens of millions of devices. But, if successful, embedded bitcoin mining may “buy” us re-decentralization of mining by subsidizing the cost of mining across the entire user base rather that concentrating it in industrial miners who must use economies of scale to remain competitive.
Everything is racially divided here. Where you eat, when you work out, where you sit, what TV you watch, who cuts your hair, who you live with, who you play games with. For me this was super difficult at first because it felt like a betrayal of who I was. There isn’t any bucking this, it’s shitty and gross but it’s real and VERY serious. No one is going to make an exception and disrupt prison order for the one anti-racist. Having good politics doesn’t make you exceptional or above the others. Being antifascist doesn’t make you a teacher, a preacher, a savior, this horrendous system will not make room for our differing beliefs. You will hear all day long people bashing every race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality, everything that isn’t white-American-straight-male. I had to learn very quickly how to bite my tongue. Calling people out will get you nowhere but hurt. If your beliefs and views are known, that provides more weapons for the maggots to use against you, and some will without a doubt use them. I got called up for this MANY times. I have the word ANTIFA tattooed on my face. I’ve had to learn how to NEVER take the bait, to keep your ideas to yourself and those you are close with. At the end of the day bro-ing out does less than taking conscious action. I’ve been very lucky that early on some old heads took a liking to me. It’s a very thin line between being tolerated and being battered. Screaming, “kill whitey!” and flipping off Trump, expressing yourself, these small things and big things will catch you some wreck, meaning these bigots will beat you off the yard. The other non-racist whites will NOT risk helping you, the other races won’t want to start a race war that gets hundreds hurt to help this one person. Then the folks that get hurt are the folks you are trying to support. There have been times where my ideas got me in a lot of trouble; very many confrontations and disciplining. We must learn how to walk that line of being true to yourself without putting yourself or others in a situation where you’re getting transferred, getting put in the hospital, put in the secure housing unit, or SHU. We will never end the fascism of and within the prison walls and system without dancing in the ashes of the prisons.
Ben Affleck Has The Perfect Response To The Sad Affleck Meme By Adam Holmes Random Article Blend Although Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has a dedicated fanbase, when the movie was released to the masses at the end of March 2016, it was met with many negative reviews. Among the fallout from this was Sad Affleck, where a YouTuber laid Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" over an interview where Ben Affleck looked depressed as Henry Cavill talked about Batman v Superman's poor reception. Almost 10 full months after that video hit the internet, Ben Affleck has learned a valuable lesson: have plenty to say whenever he's in an interview alongside Cavill. Batman v Superman came up during Ben Affleck's recent interview with BBC Radio 1, and the interviewer asked the actor if working on the superhero movie taught him anything as an actor and director. This was his response: It taught me not to do interviews with Henry Cavill where I don't say anything and they could lay Simon and Garfunkel tracks over it, that's one thing I learned. The general idea behind the Sad Affleck video is because Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's less-than-stellar reception hit him harder than most, hence why he looked so glum and only responded with "I agree" after Henry Cavill gave his response in that interview. "Sound of Silence" just happened to be the most fitting track to lay over the footage. A few months later, it was reported that Affleck felt "humiliated" after spending so much time during the press tour saying that Batman v Superman would be better than his previous superhero outing, 2003's Daredevil. Okay, now it's more legitimately sad than funny. Although Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice didn't do as well as Ben Affleck and Warner Bros hoped, it did take in over $870 million worldwide, making it the seventh highest grossing movie of 2016. So there's one silver lining. Another one is that Affleck knows to be on guard whenever he's in an interview with Henry Cavill so he isn't targeted by another Simon and Garfunkel song. After indirectly addressing Sad Affleck, Ben Affleck stated that he did indeed learn a lot from his time on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, as he'd never worked on a movie of that scale before and wasn't familiar with what the new technology being used in blockbusters was capable of doing.
Print This Email This Resolution to be read by Clerk of House Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will formally introduce another article of impeachment against President Bush Tuesday as House leaders indicate they're willing to convene a hearing to consider the Ohio Democrat's arguments. Kucinich will move for a vote on a privileged resolution Tuesday, which likely will result in the impeachment article being referred to the Judiciary Committee. The lawmaker warned he would keep coming back with the resolution if the House voted to dismiss it. The House Clerk will read the resolution into the record Tuesday before the vote by the full House. "If it is tabled, I will bring another impeachment resolution back this week," said Kucinich. "Our Constitution is being destroyed. We are losing our nation to a war based on lies. I am determined to get this bill to committee for a hearing," he said. "The President has conducted the affairs of the nation in a manner which cries out for justice and it is the Constitutional obligation of Congress to check his wanton abuses of U.S. and international law. We have troops whose lives were put on the line because the President told them Iraq was a threat to the United States and it was not. The loss of lives of our troops and of innocent Iraqi civilians is a direct result of the lies this president told to Congress. He must be held accountable." Earlier this week, Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said he would let Kucinich discuss his arguments for impeachment during a hearing later this summer, but he indicated the committee likely would not act on impeachment. Were not doing impeachment, but he can talk about it, the chairman said. The Article of Impeachment alleges that President Bush falsely told the nation that it had no other choice to go to war because Iraq was an imminent threat in possession of weapons of mass destruction, and that the President had repeatedly implied that Iraq had abetted al Qaeda in its devastating attack of 9/11. Kucinich, in his Article, cited documents which assert the White House knew the statements were false at the time they were made.
And he’d sign them, or he’d say, ‘Offer them forty per cent.’ Or ‘Offer them fifty per cent.’ ” This was a cost-saving measure, not unheard of among developers. “It was, Why pay someone a hundred per cent when you could pay a lot less?” Charlie and his wife, Seryl, had four children—Dara, Jared, Joshua, and Nicole—whom they reared in the Orthodox Jewish tradition that Seryl grew up in. The family kept kosher and observed Shabbos; the children went to religious schools. Those who did business with Charlie remember that he often brought along young Jared and, later, Josh, both of whom watched their father’s every move. The former New Jersey senator Robert Torricelli told me, “I would often meet with Charlie to spend some social time or discuss some major issue”—Torricelli was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—“and it was not unusual for him to bring Jared simply to listen.” He described Jared as reserved. “He was not necessarily as gregarious as his father,” Torricelli said, “but I think what he got was the same high level of focus.” As with the defense industry and the financial industry, success on a large scale in real estate often depends on government connections. Tax incentives, licenses, and inspections come more easily that way. As Trump has said, explaining his contributions to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaigns, “I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me.” From 1996 to 2004, Charlie Kushner gave more than $1.4 million to Democratic politicians, including Jon Corzine, Frank Lautenberg, and Charles Schumer. After Clinton won the 2000 Senate race, she made a pilgrimage to the Kushners’ house on the Jersey Shore for Shabbos dinner. In the late nineties, Kushner met James McGreevey, who at the time was the mayor of Woodbridge Township. Kushner began financing his subsequent campaigns, a partnership that culminated in McGreevey’s victory in the 2002 gubernatorial election. A month after the inauguration, McGreevey nominated Kushner to be the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a position that would have put the developer in charge of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, controlling billions of dollars in state contracts. It was bad timing: the family had started to unravel. Charlie’s older brother, Murray, filed a lawsuit, accusing him of mismanagement.
Rhodes-Hughes, now 78, points to the creamy, pale beige carpet in her condo, “That was the colour of my dress.” Her voice is clear and sure as she describes that night at the Ambassador hotel, as if it were all happening again: The night had been euphoric, filled with laughter and joyous celebration. Balloons bobbed through the air and people were chanting: RFK! RFK! Kennedy was onstage, his back to her. To her right was the Pierre Salinger press room, where Kennedy was slated to go after his speech. To her left, through a kitchen pantry, was another press room called the Colonial room. Went the wrong way Rhodes-Hughes was waiting — she had been asked to “get” Kennedy and direct him to the Salinger press room as he came offstage. But the entourage swept him the other direction, through the kitchen toward the Colonial room. She waved and called out: “No, no, that’s the wrong way, he’s supposed to come over here.” She ran after them as he was moved offstage, down a ramp toward the kitchen. She could see the back of the senator’s head, surrounded by his entourage, and ran down the ramp toward him. “He turns to his left a little bit and starts to greet some of the kitchen staff,” she says. “Suddenly, he turns to his right and went straight ahead towards the Colonial, the other press room ... then, as I’m looking at him, I heard ‘pop, pop.’ ” For a split second, she thought they were flashbulbs. Then, to her left, ahead of the senator, she saw him, Sirhan Sirhan, standing on top of a steel kitchen table. “He was higher, he was standing up on a steam table, not floor level.” Kennedy didn’t have a lot of security that night, but Rafer Johnson, a decathlete, and football player Rosey Grier were there to escort him. They reacted instantaneously. “I see Rafer Johnson and Rosey Grier running toward Sirhan Sirhan to tackle him.” Rhodes-Hughes was six to seven feet behind the senator, to his left. She saw Sirhan twist and crouch as Johnson and Grier lunged to tackle and subdue him. Only two shots had been fired. As they brought him down, more rang out to her right, close behind senator Kennedy. “The shots are pop, pop, pop, pop, pop ....” Rapid gunfire, 12, maybe 13 in all.
Have you had an app update rejected or noticed new trends emerging in chart positions?Mail us at keith[dot][email protected] and we'll be in touch.UPDATE: We've managed to speak to some developers who have encountered Apple enforcing clause 2.25
What people seem to forget is that this is all by design. As is now being revealed by Tristan Harris, an engineer who has worked at Apple and Google, the whole business model of tech companies centres on making their phones and apps as addicting as possible. Harris states that unbeknownst to much of the public, “There is this war going on [between tech companies] to get as much attention as possible … It’s a race to the bottom of the brain stem to get people’s attention at all costs.” An example of this comes from the CEO of Netflix, who recently stated that it sees its biggest competitor as not YouTube or Facebook, but sleep. We should be especially concerned about Snapchat, which is considered by many experts to be the most addicting app, as research from Harvard has shown that Snapchat use can produce alarmingly high levels of anxiety among teens. And while technology use is often cast as an issue of personal responsibility, Harris reminds us there are thousands of the smartest people in the world working at these tech companies, employing principles of behavioural psychology precisely to overcome your willpower. Can any high school student or teacher really be expected to compete with that? What is especially galling is that while tech executives make billions of dollars pushing tech onto the masses, when it comes to their own children, they try to raise them in explicitly low-tech environments. Many Silicon Valley execs send their children to technology-free Waldorf schools, which emphasize human interaction and hands-on learning. When asked about how his own kids had responded to the iPad, Steve Jobs told the New York Times: “They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” The Times later found this to be a common theme among many high-powered tech executives, including those associated with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

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