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The test is not perfect but it showed to be pretty effective to detect normal memory errors, however there are more subtle errors like retention errors that happen if you set some memory cell to a given value, and wait some time, and then retry to read it, that are not detected by this test. But well, apparently most memory errors are simpler than that and can be more easily detected. The quality of the detection also depends on the amount of time the user will let the memory test to run. There are errors that just happen rarely. Anyway this test improved my experience with Redis crashes a lot. Sometimes I see a bug report, I just ask the user to test the RAM, and I get a message where the user acknowledges that there was a problem with a memory module. However users rarely run a more accurate memory test like memtest86 for days, like they should after a crash. Many times it is simply not practical at all. So even when I get a "memory is fine" report I simply accept it as a matter of facts that memory is ok and I investigate the issue closely, but, if I never saw a crash like this reported at least one more time in recent times with different hardware, and there is no way to reproduce such a crash, after some efforts I'll simply stop investigating, taking the issue open for some more time, and finally closing it if no other similar crashes are reported. Testing more memory === Even not considering that there are false negatives, with the current redis-server --test-memory approach there are two bigger problems. 1) Not every user will actually run the test after a crash. 2) Users running Redis using virtualization, possibly using a virtual machine provider like EC2, will never know if they are testing the same phyisical memory pages when they run redis-server --test-memory. The first problem could be addressed simply using a policy: a crash without a memory test is not investigated if it looks suspicious. However this is not good for the Redis project nor for the users: sometimes an user will file a report and will simply have no more time to help us. Some other time it can't stop the server. And we developers may miss the opportunity to track a bug just because of a bad attitude and the possibility of a memory error.
[A]fter hours of debate in which top advisers considered a range of options, including military strikes and increased support to the rebels, the [June 2013] meeting ended the way so many attempts to define a Syrian strategy had ended in the past, with the president’s aides deeply divided over how to respond to a civil war that had already claimed 100,000 lives…. A close examination of how the Obama administration finds itself at this point — based on interviews with dozens of current and former members of the administration, foreign diplomats and Congressional officials — starts with a deeply ambivalent president who has presided over a far more contentious debate among his advisers than previously known. Those advisers reflected Mr. Obama’s own conflicting impulses on how to respond to the forces unleashed by the Arab Spring: whether to side with those battling authoritarian governments or to avoid the risk of becoming enmeshed in another messy war in the Middle East…. In the first high-level discussion about wading into the conflict a few days later, the C.I.A. director, David H. Petraeus, presented a plan to begin arming and training small groups of rebel forces at secret bases in Jordan. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton backed Mr. Petraeus’s plan. She said it was time for the United States to get “skin in the game.” Mr. Obama went around the table asking what his aides thought about the C.I.A. plan. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and General Dempsey backed it. But others thought the proposal by Mr. Petraeus, a former four-star general who championed covert paramilitary operations, offered high risks with few rewards. Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, spoke up by videophone, warning that arming the rebels would draw the United States into a murky conflict that could consume the agenda of the president’s second term and would probably make little difference on the chaotic battlefield.
* sd-bus gained support for a new sd_bus_message_appendv() call which is va_list equivalent of sd_bus_message_append(). * sd-boot gained support for validating images using SHIM/MOK. * The SMACK code learnt support for "onlycap". * systemd-mount --umount is now much smarter in figuring out how to properly unmount a device given its mount or device path. * The code to call libnss_dns as a fallback from libnss_resolve when the communication with systemd-resolved fails was removed. This fallback was redundant and interfered with the [!UNAVAIL=return] suffix. See nss-resolve(8) for the recommended configuration. * systemd-logind may now be restarted without losing state. It stores the file descriptors for devices it manages in the system manager using the FDSTORE= mechanism. Please note that further changes in other components may be required to make use of this (for example Xorg has code to listen for stops of systemd-logind and terminate itself when logind is stopped or restarted, in order to avoid using stale file descriptors for graphical devices, which is now counterproductive and must be reverted in order for restarts of systemd-logind to be safe. See https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc48bd653c7e101.) * All kernel install plugins are called with the environment variable KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID which is set to the machine ID given by /etc/machine-id. If the file is missing or empty, the variable is empty and BOOT_DIR_ABS is the path of a temporary directory which is removed after all the plugins exit. So, if KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID is empty, all plugins should not put anything in BOOT_DIR_ABS.
This was answered in 1982 (the year George Shultz became Secretary of State) by an IMF report which attacked Marcos's projects, demanding debt payment instead: "In the Philippines situation, restraint on public investment could be an effective instrument for securing an improvement in the current account deficit." IMF Director Jacques Delarosière lectured that the country had set "unrealistic growth targets," while the World Bank denounced the Marcos government for supporting national industries. These "softening up" raids were not adequate to control the Marcos government. Shultz visited Manila in the Summer of 1983, overseeing another 20% devaluation of the Philippine peso, thus further increasing the costs of financing the already-illegitimate foreign debt. The full-scale assault began in the Fall of 1983, with the murder of Benigno Aquino. Aquino, an opposition leader whom Marcos had allowed to leave prison in order to get medical treatment in the United States (despite facing a death sentence for murder and subversion), chose to return to the Philippines in August 1983 after three years in the United States. He was gunned down as he emerged from his plane in Manila. Although the actual conspirators were never officially discovered, the assassination was immediately blamed on Marcos, and the economic hit men called in the "jackals" (as Perkins called those whose job was to depose or even kill world leaders who resisted the demands of the economic hit men like himself). In the Philippines, Shultz and Wolfowitz doubled as economic hit men and jackals. As to Aquino's view of the pending threat to his life, he had been asked by the U.S. magazine Mother Jones in January 1983, while contemplating his return to the Philippines: "What do you think Marcos will do?" Aquino replied: "He will keep me alive, because he knows the moment I die, I am a martyr, like Martin Luther King, and he wouldn't want that. Another possibility, he lets me out, and the communists knock me off. They blame Marcos. They have a martyr and they have eliminated a stumbling block." Aquino also understood the actual cause of the economic disaster striking the Philippines: "If you made me President of the Philippines today, my friend, in six months I would be smelling like horseshit. Because there is nothing I can do. I cannot provide employment. I cannot bring prices down." Within two months of the assassination, the remaining credit lines to the Philippines were drastically cut, and another 21% devaluation was imposed.
[103] Psychotherapy Edit Ibogaine has been used as an adjunct to psychotherapy by Claudio Naranjo, documented in his book The Healing Journey. [104] He was awarded patent CA 939266 in 1974.
Because i'm really great at doing things in order.Continuing the set of :and a companion piece to:I ave grown to like the new TB2 quite a bit, yes she is blocky and may not win as many beauty contests as her older sisters, but using the familiar silhouette and applying different shapes helps to rediscover the design in a different way.Seeing her come out of the clouds at the start of "Ring of fire" sent shivers up my spine and I cant help but think people would have been more accepting of her if that was how she was revealed. (as opposed to the turntables that where released that really didn't do the designs justice).I am quite taken with the way the craft can now be remote controlled by the individual Tracy bro's uniform (hence the title of this piece) It helps make the ship feel more like an extension of the character.The thing that has been causing the most controversy on the forum I run (i've actually had to ban like 5 people for fighting) has been the special effects of the new show, particularly the decision to give the fx a deliberate model look. ( decreasing the depth of field and adding wobbles to the cg elements).I must confess while I found it jarring to begin with but I don't mind it now. Looking back on classic Thunderbirds, the fx was exciting, imaginative and told the story but was never quite realistic, but no one cared because it didn't have to be. If I wanted realistic Thunderbirds i'd use my imagination. I'n todays era of photorealistic special effects, people have grown rather desensitised to seeing fantastical things and just pass it off as "bad CGI" (even when it's a model). Thunderbirds are go's technique is engaging and it gives me a chance to use my imagination again which can be no bad thing.Made on and off over a week long run of "Sister Act" to keep me sane.Made in, Blender, Vue 10 Photoshop
European Commission Viviane Reding Vice-President of the European Commission, EU Commissioner for Justice Towards a more coherent enforcement of EU consumer rules European Consumer Summit 2013/Brussels Main Messages Why consumer protection matters – especially in times of crisis: Europe's citizens are also Europe's consumers. They are entitled to have their rights respected. As we saw last week, with the Court's judgment on unfair terms in mortgage agreements in the Aziz case, EU consumer protection rules can make a real difference in the lives of citizens, by protecting the vulnerable party, by protecting David when he is negotiating with Goliath. It is important to know that in these difficult times of financial crisis, EU law is there to ensure fairness. On outstanding challenges: Consumer spending accounts for 56% of EU GDP, but a lack of consumer confidence in shopping across EU borders means we are still not tapping into the full growth potential of the Single Market. Consumers do not fully benefit from the variety of choice and lower prices available in the Single Market. In fact, citizens shopping online across the EU have many more products to choose from. Yet 60% of consumers do not yet use this option. Why? Simply because they feel safer shopping at home. That is the challenge we face. Enforcement matters: Strong rules become weak rules when they can be disregarded with impunity. So enforcement matters. Consumers need to know their rights will be enforced and reputable traders need to know that unfair traders will face appropriate penalties. Progress and work ahead The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive is proving to be a valuable tool to increase consumer welfare But Member States and stakeholders have signalled several challenges: complexity of internal procedures, a lack of resources, and a lack of deterrent sanctions threaten to undermine the proper application of the legislation. In addition, unfair commercial practices that occur cross-border are a real challenge for enforcers to respond to rapidly and efficiently. The travel and transport, digital and on-line, financial services and immovable property markets are major sectors where consumers continue to lose out. In addition, enforcers need to examine closer retailers' environmental claims, which are often very general, vague and not always used Incorrect or misleading information about legal rights and warranties is a recurring problem that we have found.
Click on the red text to pre-fill the form with various values Search for Single Seasons (e.g., most wins in a season between 1979-80 and 1988-89) Search for Combined Seasons (e.g., most total wins between 1979-80 and 1988-89) Type Team Totals Opponent Totals Team Per Game Opponent Per Game Advanced Seasons Any 1946-47 1947-48 1948-49 1949-50 1950-51 1951-52 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 1955-56 1956-57 1957-58 1958-59 1959-60 1960-61 1961-62 1962-63 1963-64 1964-65 1965-66 1966-67 1967-68 1968-69 1969-70 1970-71 1971-72 1972-73 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84 1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 to 1946-47 1947-48 1948-49 1949-50 1950-51 1951-52 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 1955-56 1956-57 1957-58 1958-59 1959-60 1960-61 1961-62 1962-63 1963-64 1964-65 1965-66 1966-67 1967-68 1968-69 1969-70 1970-71 1971-72 1972-73 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84 1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 Any Any • Shot Clock Era • 3-Point Era • 2018-19 • 2017-18 • 2016-17 League NBA/BAA ABA Either Franchise All Franchises - 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THE United States has canceled the sale of 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippine National Police due to increasing concerns about human rights violations in the country, unconfirmed reports said Tuesday. Reports said the cancellation came after US Senator Ben Cardin opposed the sale because of alleged human rights violations in President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on illegal drugs, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives since he came to office.Neither the Foreign Affairs Department nor the US Embassy could confirm the report, however. A Palace spokesman said the administration is ready to procure guns from another source. “It is an issue between the US State Department and Senator Ben Cardin. I will have to talk to the PNP and find out their next move,” Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said. “In any case, I am sure our government can procure [the guns from] somewhere else,” he added. Senator Panfilo Lacson said the Philippines does not stand to lose anything if the US State Department halts the sale. “Since it’s a planned sale of assault rifles by the US to the Philippines, we do not stand to lose anything except one less gun store to choose from,” Lacson said in a statement. The former chief of the PNP noted there are tens of other countries that manufacture better and probably cheaper assault rifles than the US. Relations between the Philippines and the US have turned sour since Duterte began denouncing the Americans for criticizing the high death toll in his drug war.In June, Duterte told the United Nations to “shut up” about his bloody war on drugs, saying it could not “even solve the Middle East carnage.” In August, Duterte called US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg a “homosexual son of a whore,” and accusing the outgoing envoy of meddling the elections. Shortly after that, the US said the $32 million in assistance to promote human rights and security would undergo “vigorous vetting” and called on the Philippines to observe the rule of law and due process in the campaign against illegal drugs. Also in August, UN Special Rapporteurs on Summary Executions Agnes Callamard and the Right on Health Danius Puras urged Duterte to put an end to the wave of summary executions of alleged drug users and pushers. Duterte threatened to pull out of the UN, then later said it was only a joke.
The youngsters roped into battle can face destroyed childhoods, uncertain futures and - for deserters such as Win Sein - a lingering fear of retribution. "I would like to see my mother and sister again but I dare not contact them because I don't want to get them in trouble," he said. "I also don't want them to know what I have been through."
On the flip side of the coin, I’m hoping there’ll be a lot of people into the other side of my sound, people who may not even know my sound, who might come to the Pale Sketcher record and not care for any of the heavier music I make.
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“Despite the attacks that happened, it’s hard for people to wrap their minds around the fact that there are people who go to a place of worship and kill people,” Hindy said. “We don’t want to succumb to the fear, but there’s a lot of concern.”
“I’m going to do everything I can to prevent the why-try spirit.” The principal of Parks, Christopher Waller, knew that he had seen the questions before the test. Waller told me that Lewis was a “star teacher,” a “very hard worker, who will go the extra mile.” When the math portion of the test had been completed, Lewis said that Waller asked him how his students had done. Since Lewis had looked at the questions, it no longer seemed like a big deal to review the answers. Lewis returned to the testing office and opened up the answer sheets of a few students in his class who got average grades. He looked for a hard question and, when he saw that they’d solved it, he moved on, assuming that they had done fine. Then he said that he “piddled” in the room, wasting time. When he felt that he had been in there long enough, he told Waller that it looked as if his students had done O.K. But Waller told him to check the answers of students who weren’t in his class. This time, when he looked, Lewis saw that some of the smartest students at Parks had the wrong answers. At the end of the testing week, Lewis went back to the testing office with Crystal Draper, a language-arts teacher. For about an hour, they erased wrong answers and bubbled in the right ones. They exchanged no words. Lewis couldn’t even look at her. “I couldn’t believe what we’d been reduced to,” he said. He tried to stay focussed on the mechanics of the work: he took care to change, at most, one or two answers for every ten questions. “I had a minor in statistics, and it’s not that hard to figure out windows of probability,” he told me. Many students were on the cusp of passing, and he gave them a little nudge, so that they would pass by one or two points. “Ever wake up and think, No, I did nothing to change the course of human history?” A month later, when the scores came back, Waller told the students to gather in the hallway outside the cafeteria, where there was a spread of ice cream, pizza, and hot wings. A teacher announced, “You did it!
Thiazide diuretics are recommended as first-line therapy for hypertension and are among the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. According to their molecular structure, thiazide diuretics can be divided in thiazide-type (TT) and thiazide-like (TL) diuretics. TL diuretics have a longer elimination half-life compared with TT diuretics and have been shown to exert additional pharmacological effects, which may differently affect cardiovascular risk. In this meta-analysis, we compared the effects of TT and TL diuretics on cardiovascular events and mortality. Randomized, controlled studies in adult hypertensive patients that compared TT or TL diuretics with placebo or antihypertensive drugs and had ≥1 year follow-up were included. Primary outcome was cardiovascular events; secondary outcomes included coronary events, heart failure, cerebrovascular events, and all-cause mortality. Meta-regression analysis was used to identify confounders and correct for the achieved blood pressure reductions. Twenty-one studies with >480 000 patient-years were included. Outcomes were not affected by heterogeneity in age, sex, and ethnicity among included studies, whereas larger blood pressure reductions were significantly associated with increased risk reductions for all outcomes ( P <0.001). Corrected for differences in office blood pressure reductions among trials, TL diuretics resulted in a 12% additional risk reduction for cardiovascular events ( P =0.049) and a 21% additional risk reduction for heart failure ( P =0.023) when compared with TT diuretics. The incidence of adverse events was comparable among TT, TL diuretics, and other antihypertensive therapy. Our data suggest that the best available evidence seems to favor TL diuretics as the drug of choice when thiazide treatment is considered for hypertension.
While Narendra Modi talks a lot about good governance, his record shows that he, like all who foster personality cults, values complete compliance above everything else. The removal of Venu Vasudevan , the National Museum’s dynamic director general, halfway through his tenure, is a good example of what I mean.I first interacted with Vasudevan in December 2012, while he oversaw a number of museums as joint secretary in the ministry of culture. My colleagues and I were keen to mount an exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi and a window had opened up on the dates we desired. Unfortunately, the show that had previously been allotted the slot was cancelled very late, leaving us little time to get our act together. The culture ministry had to give its assent before we could proceed, and I expected a long wait before that came through. The NGMA director, Rajeev Lochan, who spoke highly of Venu Vasudevan, suggested that I write directly to him, but despite Lochan’s praise and that of others who had worked with Vasudevan, I was sceptical of getting permission in time.As it turned out, he replied to my email the same day I wrote it. He said my proposal looked interesting and he’d forwarded it to Lochan, authorising him to decide. Our show opened in late January 2013, and was very well received. In a land where administrators appear to measure their self-worth by the amount of time they can keep people waiting, it was unthinkable for a senior bureaucrat to respond promptly to a letter like the one I’d sent, and to do so personally rather than through an assistant.I was elated when Vasudevan took over as director general of the National Museum, an institution that had been stuck in the doldrums for decades, and desperately needed a visionary at its helm. He began to turn the museum around soon after he joined, sprucing up galleries, reopening some that had been shut for years, and inviting experts from outside the museum to conceive special exhibitions . Some of these shows, such as Nauras, curated by Preeti Bahadur and Kavita Singh, drew primarily on the museum’s own collection, while others like The Body in Indian Art, curated by Naman Ahuja, which had first been shown in Brussels in 2013 as part of the Europalia India festival, were composed mainly of borrowed artefacts.Vasudevan initiated programmes to digitise the collection and upgrade the museum website.
Users however don't have to care about this one, unless they use programs which take advantage of these features, which there are few of.However regarding wrapper APIs, I did find a few interesting results when testing them in a variety of programs.App -> libao -> OSS API -> OSS Back-end - Good sound, low latency.App -> libao -> OSS API -> ALSA Back-end - Good sound, minor latency.App -> libao -> ALSA API -> OSS Back-end - Good sound, low latency.App -> libao -> ALSA API -> ALSA Back-end - Bad sound, horrible latency.App -> SDL -> OSS API -> OSS Back-end - Good sound, really low latency.App -> SDL -> OSS API -> ALSA Back-end - Good sound, minor latency.App -> SDL -> ALSA API -> OSS Back-end - Good sound, low latency.App -> SDL -> ALSA API -> ALSA Back-end - Good sound, minor latency.App -> OpenAL -> OSS API -> OSS Back-end - Great sound, really low latency.App -> OpenAL -> OSS API -> ALSA Back-end - Adequate sound, bad latency.App -> OpenAL -> ALSA API -> OSS Back-end - Bad sound, bad latency.App -> OpenAL -> ALSA API -> ALSA Back-end - Adequate sound, bad latency.App -> OSS API -> OSS Back-end - Great sound, really low latency.App -> OSS API -> ALSA Back-end - Good sound, minor latency.App -> ALSA API -> OSS Back-end - Great sound, low latency.App -> ALSA API -> ALSA Back-end - Good sound, bad latency.If you're having a hard time trying to wrap your head around the above chart, here's a summary:But wait, where do sound servers fit in?Sounds servers were initially created to deal with problems caused by OSSv3 which currently are non existent, namely sound mixing. The sound server stack today looks something like this:As should be obvious, these sound servers today do nothing except add latency, and should be done away with.
…To head off this larger threat, it was clear to John F. Kennedy’s political advisers that he would have to campaign in Texas, along with Florida, in 1963. Kennedy was interested in revoking the oil depletion allowance, a decision that would have meant steep losses for Texas oilmen, and he continued voicing his support for civil rights, always a contentious issue in the South.… President Kennedy demonstrated his willingness to buck big money during the “steel crisis” of April 1962, when he forced a price rollback by sending FBI agents into corporate offices. But Kennedy’s gutsiest—and arguably his most dangerous—domestic initiative was his administration’s crusade against the oil depletion allowance, the tax break that swelled uncounted oil fortunes. It gave oil companies a large and automatic deduction, regardless of their actual costs, as compensation for dwindling assets in the ground. Robert Kennedy instructed the FBI to issue questionnaires, asking the oil companies for specific production and sales data. “The oil industry—in particular, the more financially vulnerable Dallas-based independents—did not welcome this intrusion. The trade publication Oil and Gas Journal charged that RFK was setting up a “battleground [on which] business and government will collide.” FBI director Hoover expressed his own reservations, especially about the use of his agents to gather information in the matter. Hoover’s close relationship with the oil industry was part of the oil-intelligence link he shared with [CIA director Allen]Dulles and the CIA. Industry big shots weren’t just sources; they were clients and friends. And Hoover’s FBI was known for returning favors. One of Hoover’s good friends, the ultrarich Texas oilman Clint Murchison Sr., was among the most aggressive players in the depletion allowance dispute. Murchison had been exposed as far back as the early 1950s—in Luce’s Time magazine no less—as epitomizing the absurdity of this giveaway to the rich and powerful. Another strong defender of the allowance was Democratic senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, the multimillionaire owner of the Kerr-McGee oil company. So friendly was he with his Republican colleague Prescott Bush that when Prescott’s son, George HW Bush, was starting up his Zapata Offshore [oil] operation, Kerr offered some of his own executives to help. Several of them even left Kerr’s company to become Bush’s top executives. …Lyndon Johnson shared in the prevailing oil belt enmity toward Kennedy.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union last tried organizing the plant in 1997, but the idea was voted down nearly two to one. One reason Americans refused to vote for the union was because it refuses to take a stand on illegal laborers. Another reason was the intimidation. When workers arrived at the plant the morning of the vote, they were met by Bladen County deputy sheriffs in riot gear. "Nigger Lover" had been scrawled on the union trailer. Five years ago the work force at the plant was 50 percent black, 20 percent white and Indian, and 30 percent Latino, according to union statistics. Company officials say those numbers are about the same today. But from inside the plant, the breakdown appears to be more like 60 percent Latino, 30 percent black, 10 percent white and red. Sherri Buffkin, a white woman and the former director of purchasing who testified before the National Labor Relations Board in an unfair-labor-practice suit brought by the union in 1998, said in an interview that the company assigns workers by race. She also said that management had kept lists of union sympathizers during the '97 election, firing blacks and replacing them with Latinos. "I know because I fired at least 15 of them myself," she said. The company denies those accusations. Michael H. Cole, a lawyer for Smithfield who would respond to questions about the company's labor practices only in writing, said that jobs at the Tar Heel plant were awarded through a bidding process and not assigned by race. The company also denies ever having kept lists of union sympathizers or singled out blacks to be fired. The hog business is important to North Carolina. It is a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry in the state, with nearly two pigs for every one of its 7.5 million people. And Smithfield Foods, a publicly traded company based in Smithfield, Va., has become the No. 1 producer and processor of pork in the world. It slaughters more than 20 percent of the nation's swine, more than 19 million animals a year. The company, which has acquired a network of factory farms and slaughterhouses, worries federal agriculture officials and legislators, who see it siphoning business from smaller farmers. And environmentalists contend that Smithfield's operations contaminate local water supplies. (The Environmental Protection Agency fined the company $12.6 million in 1996 after its processing plants in Virginia discharged pollutants into the Pagan River.)
)Since then, researchers have measured the potency of exorphins, showing them to be comparable to morphine and enkephalin (Heubner et al. 1984), determined their amino acid sequences (Fukudome &Yoshikawa 1992), and shown that they are absorbed from the intestine (Svedburg et al.1985) and can produce effects such as analgesia and reduction of anxiety which are usually associated with poppy-derived opioids (Greksch et al.1981, Panksepp et al.1984). Mycroft et al. estimated that 150 mg of the MIF-1 analogue could be produced by normal daily intake of cereals and milk, noting that such quantities are orally active, and half this amount 'has induced mood alterations in clinically depressed subjects' (Mycroft et al. 1982:895). (For detailed reviews see Gardner 1985 and Paroli 1988. )Most common drugs of addiction are either opioid (e.g heroin and morphine) or dopaminergic (e.g. cocaine and amphetamine), and work by activating reward centres in the brain. Hence we may ask, do these findings mean that cereals and milk are chemically rewarding? Are humans somehow 'addicted' to these foods?Discussion of the possible behavioural effects of exorphins, in normal dietary amounts, has been cautious. Interpretations of their significance have been of two types:where a pathological effect is proposed (usually by cereal researchers, and related to Dohan's findings, though see also Ramabadran & Bansinath 1988), andwhere a natural function is proposed (by milk researchers, who suggest that casomorphin may help in mother-infant bonding or otherwise regulate infant development).We believe that there can be no natural function for ingestion of exorphins by adult humans. It may be that a desire to find a natural function has impeded interpretation (as well as causing attention to focus on milk, where a natural function is more plausible) . It is unlikely that humans are adapted to a large intake of cereal exorphin, because the modern dominance of cereals in the diet is simply too new. If exorphin is found in cow's milk, then it may have a natural function for cows; similarly, exorphins in human milk may have a function for infants. But whether this is so or not, adult humans do not naturally drink milk of any kind, so any natural function could not apply to them.Our sympathies therefore lie with the pathological interpretation of exorphins, whereby substances found in cereals and milk are seen as modern dietary abnormalities which may cause schizophrenia, coeliac disease or whatever. But these are serious diseases found in a minority.
They never use any low-technology solutions; can you imagine seeing a bucket or a wrench in Star Trek? When their kids go to the beach, they probably take a portable forcefield generator instead of a bucket and shovel. But in real life, engineers don't always use the most advanced technology. In fact, the most elegant engineering solutions are those that require the least technology, not the most. A good example is a machine gun; it uses a simple, elegant and robust mechanical system to eject each cartridge and load the next, based on gas pressure, springs, rods, and other low-tech principles. The simpler, the better. With modern technology, we could design a machine gun that uses miniaturized robotics instead, but why? The resulting weapon would be far more expensive, and far less reliable. It would require a power source, and software. It would be far more difficult to maintain. But in the world of Star Trek, that's exactly how they would do it. In a world where medical isolation bays use forcefields instead of walls, and where dumbbells have touch-screen controls on them, even the dumbest application of excessive technology is not only approved; it's mandatory. They never follow any sort of prudent testing procedures. One of the best examples of this reckless stupidity was seen in "New Ground", where a "soliton wave" propulsion idea was tested for the first time. Did they test on a miniature test rig? No, they tested it on a full-sized ship. Did they test it in a vacuum chamber? No, they tested it in open space. Did they point it at an uninhabited moon? Of course not. They launched it directly toward a populated colony! The lead researcher explained that "if our theories are correct, the wave will envelop the ship and push it into warp," but if he had done proper testing beforehand, he would have had something to go on besides his "theories", and he wouldn't have been at a loss for words when everything went wrong and the Enterprise had to save the day. This is a fine example of the way that Star Trek insults the engineering profession; in their world, they go straight from pure theory to full-scale implementation with civilian lives at risk: something that no engineer would ever do.
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Inside that mark now The King needs to deal with the little bruiser who is a more compact version of Josh Kronfeld, he’s a grappler and his superior sense of spacial awareness has seen him hit the ball carrier, the ground and then his feet in fluid succession, while he’s been able to get those arms around the ball and contest possession. He looks like he’s been trained by the Gracie family, on the ground he is deadly and it will take some special play to counter his advantage, the upshot of it all has been a resurgent South Africa who are playing the counter-ruck game with incredible intensity. In the first match of the Tri-Nations this year it came down to a destructive ten minute period after the half time break by the All Blacks to pressure the Crooks and finally win some of the collisions, to that point they were firmly in the game. So now this weekend Black people the world over wonder if we can set up the win through the forwards. With the knowledge that Carter and Quadzilla are back in the set up, but relatively green considering where they have been individually the pack will need to really turn up the heat at breakdown and set piece time to give their jewels the time and space to dominate the element. On the other side Rocky Elsom returns for the Criminals and that might be all they need to spark a much needed revival so late in the piece. Robbie needs a win, the Crooked nation demands a win, but the biggest winners of a Crooked win will be the FoxSports Commentary team…
Patients G.N. and F.B. were tested in their homes in Turin and Paris, respectively, while Patient C.G. was tested at University College London. Patients G.N. and F.B. were tested with a Gaussian circular disc presented at different velocities and contrasts in their blind fields (Table 1). Stimuli were presented on a laptop with a liquid crystal display, calibrated for luminance and timing, using an in-house software stimulus presentation programme. Both subjects were asked to maintain fixation on a cross on the screen. Because Patients G.N. and F.B. were tested in their homes abroad, we did not have the eye-monitoring equipment that we would have otherwise used. Instead, in a subset of experiments one of us monitored fixation by facing the subject behind the laptop and observing their eyes throughout each trial. No eye movements were detected during these monitored experiments, confirming that the results described below are not attributable to eye movements or failures of fixation. A mask of maximum intensity was presented in the intact field extending into the blind field by 1–3.5° to prevent detection of scattered light from the blind to the intact hemifield. Each experiment consisted of a block of 20 trials (total number of trials Patient G.N. = 260; Patient F.B. = 180). A moving stimulus was presented in 16 trials and a static one in two; there were two ‘no stimulus’ catch trials. The order of trials and directions was randomized within each block. Separate blocks of trials presented moving stimuli in two or four directions (up/down, left/right or up/down and left/right). Each trial was initiated by the experimenter after establishing that the subject was ready. Stimuli were presented after a random delay (1–3 s). To minimize onset and offset transients, the stimulus faded-in and -out over 200–500 ms (fade time was held constant within an experiment); the stationary stimulus had the same fade-in and -out times. For each block, velocity, contrast, location and trajectory were held constant. The trajectory was also held constant for fast and slow-motion experiments so that an identical region of the visual field was stimulated in the two conditions. For Patient F.B. the target in vertical trajectory experiments started (downward motion) or ended (upward motion) close to the lower margin of the region of spared visual field in the right superior quadrant; however, the fade-in and -out of the stimulus meant that the target did not enter the spared region.
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One group would receive the high-dose B-6 supplement; other participants would receive one of two antiseizure medications or a placebo. Ray of hope. Louise Jilek-Aall and her colleagues have treated thousands of epilepsy patients at the clinic she founded in Mahenge, Tanzania. Her autobiography, Call Mama Doctor, describes her half-century of work in the region. CREDITS (LEFT TO RIGHT): COURTESY OF LOUISE JILEK-AALL
He was very modest in this.” Gil contended that keeping money at home was standard procedure in the Mossad and that he wasn’t using it for anything other than the mission. Danny Yatom disputes this. “Gil was a man of the world who knew a thing or two about the good life,” Yatom said. “That’s why he arranged all his meetings in Paris.” To this Gil responded, “That’s absolute nonsense. The meetings were arranged where they could be held without arousing the suspicions of Syrian internal security.” As soon as the search was completed, Gil was taken to a secret Shin Bet holding facility south of Tel Aviv. He spent a week there before being allowed to go home and explain what he was being accused of to his wife and children. When he arrived home, he gathered his family around him. “If you think what they are saying about me is true,” he said to them, “you can leave me alone without any qualms. You do not have to back me up if you don’t believe that I’m innocent.” His wife, Noa, told me that the repercussions have been hardest on her children, one of whom is a senior officer in the IDF. “They have suffered a great deal,” she said. “I don’t want to tell you what happened after that night, how each one of them fell to pieces.” I asked her how the accusations have affected her, and she said only, “I was born under the sign of Leo. I protect him like a lioness.”
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""But at the same time we suppose that the organisation's attitude to the bids will be worded at the Ufa summit," the SCO secretary general added.On June 3, foreign ministers from the SCO member countries held a Council's meeting after which a joint statement was issued saying, "a decision to launch a procedure of India's and Pakistan's accession to the SCO as member countries will be crucially important."
The possible early representations of a rail chariot are attested on a seal from Aghia Triada Crete dated around 1400 BC, and larnax from Kavrochori Crete dated around LM IIIB. Another early representation of a rail-chariot is from a krater from Mycenae dated LH IIIB (about 1300 BC), even if the stylization of these early representation does not allow the identification of further details. Rail-chariots are more likely also represented in this achaean krater from Pyla-kokkinokremos Cyprus dated LH IIIB. Even if this type of chariot is usually thought to be direct copy of an Egyptian design, several major differences lead to the conclusion that the Aegean rail-chariot was more likely not directly copied from the Egyptian, it may have been related to Egyptian chariots, as the box and quadrant chariots were, but ultimately the rail chariots has an indigenous development. . Another representation of a rail-chariot is from this krater fragments from Tiryns dated LH IIIC (about 1200 BC). The late Helladic IIIB and IIIC depictions of rail-chariots, dual-chariot, and four-wheeled chariots were the last pictorial representations of wheeled vehicles until the mid-eighth century, when the chariot again became a popular subject for Geometric artists. A rail-chariot is probably also represented in these krater fragments from Tiryns dated LH IIIB2 (about 1250 BC). The warrior on chariot is more likely wearing a chest embossed cuirass. These other krater fragments clearly reprenting a rail-chariot are also from Tiryns dated LH IIIB2 (about 1250 BC). Two small rail-chariots probably pulled by a single horse and probably involved in a race or some kind of games are depicted in these krater fragments from Tiryns dated LH IIIC (about 1200 BC). A rail-chariot seems also represented in this krater fragment from Tiryns dated LH IIIC (about 1200 BC). Two small rail-chariots probably also pulled by single horse are depicted on this krater found in a warrrior grave from Elis dated LH IIIC (about 1200 BC). Though it is not entirely clear because the representations are somewhat sketchy, the frame of the rail-chariot probably also run along the sides of the cab. In some representations the two occupants seem placed one behind the other and not abreast, as is the usual convention in Achaean depictions and also attested in the Iliad (*6). The rail extends beyond the second occupant and behind the wheel.
Redevelopment plans for the site are still in the works. The Joliet Area Historical Museum wishes to preserve the prison and open it for tours, though developers have submitted other plans that would require demolition of many of the historic structures. Joliet Correctional Center opened in 1858, originally built to replace Illinois State Prison in Alton. Inmates were brought in from Alton to build the new prison, using limestone that was quarried on site.By the late 1800s, the prison population had grown to a record-breaking high of 1239. In addition to overcrowding and concerns over the compound's aging infrastructure, exhaust from the nearby Joliet Steel mill was becoming a problem. Smoke often rolled in and covered the prison grounds in a thick haze, causing health problems for inmates and prison staff. One warden even resigned and moved away due to health concerns.In 1910, the prison commissioners decided the facility needed to be replaced. Stateville Penitentiary opened in 1925, intended to replace it, but Joliet Prison remained open.The facility has held quite a few notable inmates, including prisoners of war during the Civil War. The infamous murderers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were incarcerated there. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy also spent time in Joliet Prison before being sent to Stateville Correctional Center.Joliet Correctional Center has been featured in several movies, including The Blues Brothers and Let's Go to Prison. Since its abandonment, it served as the setting for Season One of the T.V. show Prison Break and an episode of Bones.The prison was also mentioned in songs, including "Percy's Song" by Bob Dylan, "Joliet Bound" by Memphis Minnie, and "Lincoln Park Pirates" by Steve Goodman.Joliet Correctional Center closed in 2002 due to budget cuts and the aging of its buildings. Most of the inmates and employees were transferred to Stateville Correctional Center.Redevelopment plans for the site are still in the works. The Joliet Area Historical Museum wishes to preserve the prison and open it for tours, though developers have submitted other plans that would require demolition of many of the historic structures.
(d) Any person found in possession of a firearm shall be presumed to have transported such firearm in interstate commerce contrary to the provisions hereof, unless such person has been a bona fide resident for a period of not less than sixty days of the State wherein he is found in possession of such a firearm, or unless such person has in his possession a stamp-affixed order therefor required by this act. This presumption may be rebutted by competent evidence. SEC. 11. The Commission of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall make all needful rules and regulations for carrying the provisions of this act into effect. SEC. 12. This act shall not apply to the sale, assignment, transfer, gift, or other disposal of firearms (1) to the United States Government, any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or to any political subdivision thereof, or to the District of Columbia; (2) to any peace officer or any Federal officer designated by regulations of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. SEC. 13. Any person who violates or fails to comply with any of the requirements of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $_____ or be imprisoned for not more than _____ years, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 14. The taxes imposed by paragraph (2) of section 600 of the Revenue Act of 1926 (U.S. C., Supp. VII, title 26, sec. 1120) and by action 610 of the Revenue Act of 1932 (47 Stat. 169, 264), shall not apply to any firearm on which the tax provided by section 3 of this act has been paid. SEC. 15. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after the date of its enactment. SEC. 17. This act may be cited as the "National Firearms Act."
Origins The plague bacteria is thought to have spread from the arid plains of central Asia. The plague generally left untouched the indigenous nomad population, because rat fleas do not like the smell of horses, with which the nomads lived in close proximity. However, from the mid-thirteenth century, increased commercialisation in Europe opened up silk routes through the steppelands, and the trading posts set up to service this trade formed convenient stepping-stones for infected fleas to break out of the area. The first known victims of plague were probably a community of Nestorian Christians at Issyk Kul, south of Lake Balkash, whose cemetery explicitly records three plague victims in 1338-9, a year in which there were unusually heavy mortalities. In 1343, it had reached the Black Sea port of Kaffa (Theodosia) in the Crimea. There, a Genoese colony was under siege from a khan of the Golden Horde named Yannibeg, when his army was decimated by an outbreak of plague. Determined to make his enemies suffer the torments of his men, he ordered that bodies of plague victims be catapulted into the city. The Genoese hurriedly dumped these into the sea, but the plague spread anyway. Taking to their ships, the fleeing Genoese carried the plague far and wide. His army was decimated by an outbreak of plague. The dead bodies of plague victims were hardly likely to be infectious: they would have been abandoned by fleas in favour of living hosts, and they were in no position to cough up infectious pneumonic phlegm onto their enemies. Like Gloucester after it, the locked gates of Kaffa were undoubtedly penetrated by questing rats, carrying infectious fleas on their backs. No amount of hasty corpse-dumping was likely to save the already doomed town. The plague was now set to sweep through the whole of Europe with only a few isolated pockets escaping the disease. Top
By By Tim Sandle Jun 3, 2015 in Environment A new concern has been expressed about the presence of large numbers of antibiotics in wastewater. Here treatments to "clean up" wastewater may be modifying the antibiotics and, by doing so, triggering a rise in antibiotic resistant bacteria. This concern has been raised by Professor Olya Keen, of UNC Charlotte. The antibiotic that Keen has been studying most closely is doxycycline. What seems to be happening with doxycycline is that the chlorine used to treat wastewater is altering the chemical composition of the antibiotic, leading to an altered structure. Keen has shown this via chemical analysis, such as the use of a spectrophotometer. The problem is that some bacteria have become resistant to this altered structure and the risk is that this fuels a new form of antibiotic resistant organism and this organism becomes prevalent in the general environment. The issue of Keen’s research was presented at Antibiotics enter sewage system through people not breaking down antibiotics properly or with the dumping of unused antibiotics into water systems. Another factor is the waste run off into the sewage system from pharmaceutical companies.This concern has been raised by Professor Olya Keen, of UNC Charlotte. Keen has noted that there is a wide variety of different antibiotics found in wastewater and that these are not removed through the water treatment process. In fact, the process of treating water appears to be chemically altering the antibiotics and creating new forms.The antibiotic that Keen has been studying most closely is doxycycline. Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, often sold under the brand name Vibramycin. It can be used as a defense against anthrax.What seems to be happening with doxycycline is that the chlorine used to treat wastewater is altering the chemical composition of the antibiotic, leading to an altered structure. Keen has shown this via chemical analysis, such as the use of a spectrophotometer. The problem is that some bacteria have become resistant to this altered structure and the risk is that this fuels a new form of antibiotic resistant organism and this organism becomes prevalent in the general environment.The issue of antibiotic resistance is of great medical and social concern. The problem is that diseases that were once readily treatable are now no longer so, leading to an increased risk for people especially within the hospital environment.
RedHat - The Betrayal RedHat had all potential in the world to be great. But in a number of ways it just didn't live up to that potential. There were three different things that ended up pushing me away from them. First, we used to sell a specially licensed version of RedHat that shipped with a legally licensed version of SSL. This was before RSA patent wore off. It started out as a small product. But we grew and so did sales of the product. Here's the rub. We had to buy physical boxes for the SSL OS. I tried to get RedHat to just sell me license keys. But they were to busy to sort that out. So I had a corner of my office dedicated to stacks and stacks of boxes of unopened SSL disks. Second, RPM hell. I started out as a staunch opponent of packages. I thought that things should be compiled to your specification. As a matter of fact, I believed this so completely - that if you were an early customer of my hosting company you got a stock RedHat server with a custom compiled version of Apache. Yup - we compiled it every time. I am stuck trying to think of an analogy that could express how stupid this was. Especially because we just straight up compiled it. Which means it sort of broke the package system. This is the sort of dumb idea that seems like sound technical thinking at the time. Let me just say this. I'm sure there is some case where compiling from source all the time is a great idea (Gentoo is built on that idea). It is certainly a maintainable practice when you have a couple of boxes to admin. But when you start talking about 1,000s of boxes it's crazy. Actually, I've become such a believer in packages that I go out of my way to use software and versions that are already packaged. I converted over to using RPM - and once I saw how great it could be at scale - I loved it. There were a couple of things that bugged me. Often times, no rpm existed for the software I wanted. Not a big deal - I ended up learning RPM and built a lot of them. Including an tweaked version of Apache so we didn't have to compile it. Fine - so there are packages you have to build yourself.
Future versions of Gramps may> address this.> Q5: Will Gramps run faster with the new backend?> A5: Some operations may run faster, but other operations may actually> run slower. Gramps 5.0 is largely about just making SQL compatible> with Gramps. Tests have been performed to make sure running times are> very close. Future versions of Gramps could focus on speed.> Q6: Will there be an easy way to convert my Berkeley DB to the new> sqlite/DB-API?> A6: Yes. There is a "Convert" button in the Family Tree Manager. More> details and documentation will be available.> If you have additional questions or concerns, please let us know.> References> [1] - https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Database_Format > s#Detailed_Changes> [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB > [3] - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ > [4] - https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html > [5] - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/#id54 > [6] - https://docs.python.org/2/library/bsddb.html > [7] - https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/sqlite3.html > [8] - http://jessenoller.com/2008/09/04/stirred-up-dem-bees-should-bs > ddb-be-removed-from-python/> [9] - https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_042:_Multi > -user_record_locking_and_editing> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Harvey Nimmo < [hidden email] > wrote:> > Does anyone know what the roadmap is for Gramps version 5?> >> > Cheers> > Harvey> >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------> > -----------> > Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees> > who> > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition> > of MDM> > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only> > the> > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data> > untouched!> > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > > _______________________________________________> > Gramps-users mailing list> > [hidden email] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > >
Turing Pharmaceuticals chief executive Martin Shkreli found himself in the middle of a media firestorm last month as he adamantly defended his company's 4,000 percent drug price hike as "altruistic. "Daraprim, which treats a life-threatening infection in patients with HIV/AIDS and other immune problems, was increased to $750 a pill, a move resoundingly decried, even by presidential candidates.Now, another company will offer a Daraprim alternative, at just $1 a pill.It's not an exact replica of Daraprim. San Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals announced Thursday that it is selling pills containing a "customizable compounded formulation" of pyrimethamine and leucovorin, both ingredients in Daraprim.Imprimis chief executive Mark Baum specifically referenced the price hike by Turing, saying the company has a right to charge patients "whatever it believes is appropriate. ""It is indisputable that generic drug prices have soared recently," Baum said in a statement. "While we have seen an increase in costs associated with regulatory compliance, recent generic drug price increases have made us concerned and caused us to take positive action to address an opportunity to help a needy patient population. "Daraprim has been on the market for 62 years; Turing purchased the rights to the drug in August.Shkreli had defended the price increase, arguing that it wasn't just good for business; he said profits would be used for researching new treatments, which ultimately would benefit patients.Turing Pharmaceuticals had previously explained in a statement that "there have been no significant advances or research into this disease area in decades. ""For toxoplasmosis and other critical, under-treated diseases, the status quo is not an option," the company said in a statement. "Turing hopes to change that by targeting investments that both improve on the current formulation and seek to develop new therapeutics with better clinical profiles that we hope will help eradicate the disease. "Shkreli had also promised the price would be lowered; it hasn't, according to The Associated Press, which noted that company said it would cap patient co-payments at $10.The Food and Drug Administration doesn't approve compounded drugs, such as this one offered by Imprimis. Typically, compounded drugs are prescribed to patients who can't take FDA-approved drugs, such as for those who are allergic to an inactive ingredient.Compounded drugs are no stranger to controversy; a compounding pharmacy was at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012 that killed 64 people and sickened more than 600. Federal legislators subsequently tightened regulations over such companies.And compounded drugs can be very pricey, too.
Ortolan was the first hip restaurant to open in Bloordale, offering $11 glasses of ripe red Mencia and European farmhouse dishes with flair . There were always restaurants in the area, beloved spots like the 22-year-old South Indian Dosa Mohal Restaurant (1262 Bloor St. W.) with its vegetarian curries and delicious coconut chutney. Now, the second wave has arrived. The Whippoorwill (1285 Bloor St. W.) opened Nov. 11, serving updated comfort foods like a spot-on $9 caldo verde that must please local Portuguese residents. “Bloordale is coming back to life. It went through a period where it lost its lustre but now people from the neighbourhood are opening restaurants that represent their communities,” says Whippoorwill chef and co-owner Tyler Cunningham. Co-owner Shawn Creamer lives around the corner. The Emerson (1279 Bloor St. W.) also opened in November, trying a bit too hard, perhaps, by hanging bicycles on the wall for art and sending out a scattershot collection of side vegetables for $20. Karelia Kitchen (1194 Bloor St. W.) is a friendly Scandinavian café with fetching open-faced sandwiches, ridiculously buttery cookies and some of the strongest French-press coffee in the city. (Sorry, nearby Haven Espresso Bar and Holy Oak Cafe . “There’s a lot of stuff happening on our little stretch of Bloor,” laughs Donna Ashley, who with husband Leif Kravis opened Karelia Dec. 8. They live just north of Bloor. “When we bought our house 15 years ago, our friends laughed at us and asked, ‘What are you doing?’ Even with the elements of sketch, it’s a good neighbourhood,” Ashley says. Across from Karelia’s bright orange facade lies another harbinger: The Intergalactic Travel Authority (1165 Bloor St. W.), where since July each $3.75 latte helps fund communication workshops for local children in Grades 1 to 12. “Starbucks is coming,” predicts Popper. [email protected] www.twitter.com/amypataki Correction: This article was edited from a previous version that mistakenly said Toronto Free Gallery opened in Bloordale after Mercer Union. In fact, Toronto Free Gallery opened in Bloordale area in 2008.
You’ll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Well first, there’s the video of him burning 127 copies of the book because he had received emails asking him where the books were. And the threat he will continue to burn copies with every email, tweet, facebook message etc he receives. Don’t believe me? I shipped about 75% of kickstarter rewards to backers. I will not be shipping any more. I will not be issuing any refunds. For every message I receive about this book through e-mail, social media or any other means, I will burn another book. Let’s have some more. If you would like a refund, please contact a fan of my work directly for your money. This is where the money would come from anyway. I am cutting out the middle man. I refunded some of the preorders I received through paypal in addition to the kickstarter orders, but I will not be refunding any more. The backers who gave me the most money received the least “reward” from me. After shipping costs, I “lost money” on most of the books I sold at the $25 level so, backers at the higher levels, you could perceive of yourselves as having “paid for” the books that the “lower” backers currently have, and you could try to get those books that you “paid for” somehow. You could try to obtain refunds through kickstarter or paypal, through your bank or credit card company. You could try to harass me or inconvenience me or tell other people negative things about me or this kickstarter in the hope that this will affect me negatively. Be aware that each attempt to contact me about this book will individually result in the burning of a book until the books are gone. There’s a lot of psychobabble which makes Shia Labeouf look like Andy Capp. But let’s skip past that to find what he does want. I want direct funding for my living necessities. I want to establish relationships with a group of people who can pay for my baseline needs like food and rent. I am looking for people who do not feel they need to see any “return” on their “investment.” I am looking for people who understand that money is a bad joke we use to hurt each other.
Although persuasive cause‐and‐effect is clearly difficult to establish in cross‐section data, the simple answer according to these GSS data is one sexual partner. In this sense, our work has conservative implications. After some experimentation, we report this monogamy result, in Table 3, simply as the variable “single sexual partner”. Table 4 looks in more detail at the type of sexual partner. We find, for instance, that people who say they have ever paid for sex are considerably less happy than others. Those who have ever had sex outside their marriage also report notably low happiness scores. Does the nature of someone’s sexuality affect their chances of being happy? In Table 4, columns 3 and 4 reveal that homosexual activity has no statistically significant effect in a happiness equation. Table 4.
- First appeared in Trese #1 Case 1. A strong, independent, modern woman with an old soul deeply attached to the Underworld. Alexandra Trese, or simply Trese, is a private detective who specializes in crimes perpetrated by supernatural beings of the Underworld. She is the proprietor of , a night club that serves the best in the street where it stands, just like the time when it was once a simple cafe run by Trese's grandfather. She is usually dressed in black garb and is often seen working in her trademark outfit a black button-down Chinese-inspired trenchcoat. For weapons, Trese uses guns and a magical kris called 'Sinag', a short sword having wavy edges, used by the old Muslim tribes such as the Maranaw. Trese seems to have a very complex relationship with her father, Anton. She has a twin that died after their birth. Anton used the baby's soul to create Sinag to be given to her. She was revealed her psionic potential at her young age,aiding her father in investigating the mysteries.In her initiation,she finished it within 3 years. Kambal - First appeared in Trese #1 Case 1. "Kambal" literally translates to "twins" in English and they are Alexandra Trese's mysterious and imposing personal bodyguards. It is not known as to what matter of creature the Kambal are, whether they are human or some Underworld species. It is not until the third book that the creators finally explained who the Kambal really are. These handsome, half-bred [16] men are often seen floating, wearing black suits and strikingly unique diamond-shaped masks, one bearing a happy face and the other a sad face. To tell them apart when they don't have their masks, Kajo gave the happy-faced Kambal a long haircut and the sad-faced Kambal, a short hairstyle. The Kambal with the short hair and the sad-faced mask is Crispin, [ citation needed ] the eldest of the Kambal. The one with the long hair and the happy-faced mask answers to the name Basilio, the younger Kambal who is the more playful of the two. It was revealed the Kambal was born from a female human and a Bukidnon war god.Their father must consume these twins to achieve stronger power. And they have superior power,killing a whole pack of Sigbin with their bare hands. Anton spared them
If the content of a replay event can be altered by the presentation of an auditory cue during non-REM sleep, we should observe differences between sound R– and sound L–related replay activity. For each place cell, we first computed the rate bias, for which the mean firing rate during non-REM sleep replay events (see Online Methods) occurring after sound L's onset and before the onset of the next acoustic stimulus (between 5.8 and 10.8 s later) was subtracted from the corresponding events after sound R. A positive value indicated a sound R bias, that is, a place cell had a higher firing rate during replay events that occurred after sound R than after sound L, whereas a negative value indicated a sound L bias. We observed that the majority of right-sided place fields had a positive rate bias and left-sided place fields more commonly had a negative rate bias (Fig. 3; r = 0.29, P < 1.1 × 10−4, Pearson correlation; Fig. 4a; binomial test: left, P < 1.9 × 10−4; right, P < 0.003; Fig. 4b). Furthermore, the mean rate bias was significantly different between right-sided and left-sided place fields (P < 7.8 × 10−5, one-way ANOVA; Fig. 4c), with a mean positive bias for right-sided place fields (sound R preference) and a mean negative bias for left-sided place fields (sound L preference). We observed a similar significant difference in mean rate bias between right- and left-sided place fields using alternative methods of calculating the rate bias (P < 5.0 × 10−4, one-way ANOVA; Supplementary Fig. 1) and each place field's side-of-the-track preference (P < 1.2 × 10−4, one-way ANOVA; Supplementary Fig. 2). Three out of four subjects showed a significantly greater sound R bias for right-sided place fields than for left-sided place fields (P < 0.05, one-way ANOVA; Supplementary Fig. 3).
We get to Sam's house, then lock the doors, sighing in relief as we do so. Although there was no danger out for us, its still nice to be safe. "And now we have the problem of who's sleeping where. Any ideas?" "Well you two lovebirds could sleep in your room, While I turn the living room into my room" "First of all, 'lovebirds'? Where the fuck did you get that idea? And second of all, You can sleep on the couch" "The way you look at Voro some of the time, make that most of the time. It's like you're dreaming of him whenever no-one else is looking" I remember Sam looking at me when I wasn't looking, then quickly turning away when I spot her doing so. Does she have feelings for me? Am I really that attractive to a human? "Oh, bullshit. Like, look at him, he's an alien. Who would fall in love with an alien?" Sam says, blushing a little. She embarrassed, I think David may have a point. But what do I do if he's right? I mean, she's pretty, really good looking even- No, stop. Just stop. No thinking about it, no making it worse... "Well if I have the couch, then where is Voro going to sleep? He can sleep on the floor, right?" "Not so much any-more, as he cannot sleep if he does. He sleeps on the couch, now" "Then why don't I sleep in your room, since you don't want him in there?" "Look, just sleep on the couch, Mr. Touchy touchy. We'll discuss this further after dinner" Dinner didn't take long to make, as its a simple recipe and there are three of us cooking it. Maccaroni and Cheese, as it's called. It tastes pretty good, but is a bit hard to eat. I go to take a spoonful, but all the pasta keeps falling off, and the cheese sauce is very hot, so I burnt the end of my lower left lip. It's still really hard to see outside with all the smoke, but I can now see the fires in the tower. It burns rather brightly, brighter than most fires I've seen. What did they use, magnesium? It doesn't matter though, as they blew up a building which keeps people safe at night. And day. And whenever someone tries to invade, which was proven pointless during the Great Schism.
[15] Plot Edit Fireteam Osiris is deployed to Jul 'Mdama's splinter Covenant faction-controlled planet of Kamchatka to retrieve the rogue Dr. Halsey, who claims to have information on a series of devastating attacks on several human worlds, during a battle between Covenant forces and the Prometheans. While the team is successful in retrieving Halsey and eliminating the Covenant leader Jul 'Mdama, Halsey informs them that a new threat is about to emerge. Elsewhere, the Master Chief leads Blue Team on a mission to secure a derelict ONI research station known as Argent Moon. The arrival of a Covenant fleet forces Blue Team to scuttle the station instead. During the sabotage, the Chief receives a cryptic message from Cortana, directing him to the planet Meridian. John is ordered to return to Infinity upon destroying Argent Moon, but he and Blue Team disobey orders and set out after Cortana, forcing Captain Lasky to list the rogue Spartans as AWOL. This causes consternation aboard Infinity, as Halsey believes that Cortana's survival through the use of Forerunner technology makes her unpredictable and untrustworthy. Lasky gives Fireteam Osiris the aim of finding and capturing Blue Team. Osiris is deployed to Meridian to pursue Blue Team, where they find a human colony under attack by Promethean forces. During their pursuit, they encounter the Warden Eternal, a Promethean serving as Cortana's enforcer. After temporarily defeating the Warden, Osiris catches up to Blue Team, ordering them to stand down and return to Infinity. Chief bests Locke in hand-to-hand combat and flees with the rest of Blue Team as they board a Guardian, one of several colossal Forerunner constructs built as enforcers of entire worlds. Osiris barely escape the colony's collapse as the Guardian activates and disappears. The Guardian emerges on the Forerunner planet Genesis, where John and Cortana reunite. Cortana says her terminal rampancy was cured by the same Forerunner technology that saved her. Osiris is deployed to the Sangheili homeworld of Sanghelios, where they plan to use a dormant Guardian that resides there to travel to Blue Team's location. However, the planet is engulfed in civil war; the remaining forces of the Covenant have chosen to make their last stand there. To hurry their mission, Osiris joins forces with the Arbiter and help him strike a crucial blow at the Covenant remnant. Osiris boards a Guardian with the help of Commander Palmer while the Arbiter finishes off the last Covenant troops.
There is good reason for doing this in a series on wind energy. First, if one spends any amount of time looking into the claims of those who advocate for so called “renewable energy” one will quickly see that for many of the advocates for this expensive, and thus far essentially useless form of energy, are often less interested in replacing dangerous fossil fuels than they are in displacing nuclear energy. (In Part 5 we will look at some prominent academics associated with this tragic anti-nuclear, pro-“renewable energy” rhetoric, focusing mainly on Mark Z. Jacobsen, Professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford University.) Since nuclear energy remains, despite much caviling, the world’s largest, by far, source of climate change gas free primary energy, easily outstripping all others, we should suspect that these advocates are spectacularly uninterested in climate change and other forms of air pollution, which I assure you, are far more dire catastrophes than the reactor failures at Chernobyl and Fukushima that so obsess this sort. Secondly, if nuclear energy is safe, clean, and infinitely or nearly infinitely sustainable, the rationale for constructing truly massive numbers of wind turbines collapses. As we have seen in parts 1 and 2, wind turbine construction involves digging up huge amounts of increasingly rare elements, as well as vast quantities of elements that are not yet rare but nonetheless involve significant environmental impacts to refine. Historically, as we shall see, uranium mining has been as problematic as the mining of other ores, probably not as odious as coal mining or petroleum mining, but, given that it occurred in an era – the last half of the 20th century – featuring a “once through,” waste mentality, nevertheless, leaving a scar on a future generation, specifically our generation. Herein we will suggest approaches to healing this scar and preventing new such scars.
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The winner of the fight should then split in the mines to gather the rest of the skulls as fast as possible, since early death timers are very short and the enemy team will be back soon. At that point the team should retreat from the mines. Going straight to the golem is a bad decision since the team will not have full health and mana and the other team will be going down to capture the golem.Let's assume your team was the one to win the fight at the mines. As we said it is risky to go straight to the golem, so you retreat, but you are faced with another decision to make: Do you go to heal and don’t risk it grabbing some mercenary camps, or do you go back to the mines after healing? Well, since we are talking about the first mines, if your team thinks they can get to the golem in time to steal some skulls I’d say do it. You might think it's greedy, but frankly your team would have almost nothing to lose. You won the fight at the mines, and if you did it right it means you got at least fifty skulls. Going there and starting a team fight for the chance of getting a stronger Grave Golem is totally fine early game. Even if one of your teammates die in the fight, one dead in exchange for getting eight to ten skulls that could make your Grave Golem 60 or 70 skulls strong is totally worth it. Obviously this doesn’t mean you should go kamikaze and feed the enemy team; if the fight is going wrong, retreat, it's alright. Getting back to the mines fast is the reason not drinking from the healing fountain before the mines is a good idea, since you’ll be able to just tap it and get back inside faster than if you used your Hearthstone.Now, in case you think you won’t be able to steal some skulls, maybe because someone got picked off and you are outnumbered or maybe because it’s too late and you won’t get there in time, taking mercenary camps is a good option.A common misconception is believing Bruiser camps are better, or of higher priority than the Siege Giants.
Basically, we don’t want someone to max a skill and then have the xp go to waste, so we will allow raising the skill above 10 in the unlikely event of someone going over 10 via extreme specialization.Evasion is a DEX & PER based skill. It doesn’t give you a chance to avoid attacks like AoD Dodge but rather makes you harder to target, reducing THC against you. Each rank reduces THC by 5% up to 50% at slvl10. Against melee attacks Evasion is twice as effective (i.e. 10% THC reduction per rank).In most cases the implants won't give you direct bonuses (cellular regeneration and subdermal armor are the only combat implants) but will assist with "gated content", either allowing to bypass stat checks or unlocking extra content in the first place (like interfacing with the ship's systems via a bridge officer's datajack). Basically, the implants are closer to what we did in AoD than to Shadowrun, in case anyone's wondering.General reputation will be checked in dialogues, but it will also give the players a better idea of what they missed via low ranks. Personal beliefs will be shaped by your decisions and checked in dialogues. We’ll start the game with 10 "old-school" questions which will both introduce the setting and define your character a little bit (the starting values).You will never feel the sun’s warmth under a blue sky, never hear the wind in the branches of a tree, and never swim in the ocean, because you had the misfortune to be born on the Ship. You have never seen Earth, and you’ll never see Proxima Centauri either, your past and future both sacrificed by some dim and nameless ancestor to the greater good of the Mission.Starfarer, they called her, a pretty name for a retrofitted interplanetary freighter. She had already been twenty years in service when she was rechristened, and showing every minute of it. No one is certain the Ship will actually reach its destination, and nobody much cares, since no one alive now will live to see it. Fatalism is the prevailing philosophy of the shipborn. Make the best life you can and consign all your what-ifs and might-have-beens to the void.Continue.The Ship was launched by a neo-Christian conglomerate dedicated to establishing a religious colony on a distant world. The original fifty thousand passengers, the so-called First Generation, were true believers in the Mission.
Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X30. webERP Replaces NetSuite Particularly suited to wholesalers and distributors, webERP offers browser-based ERP and accounting functionality. Downloaded an average of 5,000 times per month, it can run on any Web server and supports multiple themes and multiple languages. Operating System: OS Independent31. EdgeERP Replaces NetSuite An offshoot of WebERP, EdgeERP offers the same basic functionality with a more community-oriented approach. It's designed to be extremely reliable, accessible, and flexible. Operating System: OS Independent32. Orange HRM Replaces iVantage Targeted at small to medium sized enterprises, Orange provides a comprehensive set of HRM capabilities, including tracking payroll, time and attendance, and benefits. A hosted version, support, training, customization and add-ons are available for a fee. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X33. WaypointHR Replaces iVantage Although not quite as mature as Orange or the commercial HR solutions on our list, Waypoint includes all the basic functions you would expect in a Human Resources Management System. It's also available in a commercial on-demand version. Operating System: OS Independent34. JStock Replaces StockMarketEye If you prefer to track your investments separately from the rest of your finances or if you need some advanced features, JStock might be right for you. It lets you track a watch list and your current investments in 24 global stock markets. Key features include advanced starting capabilities, alerts, stock-picking filters, optional cloud storage and online chat with other JStock users. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X35. Chartsy Replaces StockMarketEye A fairly new project, Chartsy makes it easy to view the trading history for your favorite stocks. The site includes links to a YouTube tutorial, as well as plug-ins to help you analyze your stock picks. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X36. Buddi Replaces: Quicken This “personal budget software for the rest of us” requires very little financial knowledge on the part of the user, and with the help of the quickstart tutorial, you can be up and running in as little as five minutes. However, it does not offer as many advanced functions as the commercial programs it can replace. Operating System: OS Independent37. Grisbi Replaces: Quicken Home and Business Grisbi provides standard personal finance software features, like tracking multiple accounts, reports, budgeting and a scheduler. In addition, it also includes a few more advanced features suitable for organizations, such as multiple currency management, multiple user management, fiscal year tracking, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux38.
In the great transcendental thinkers of the West, most notably Ralph Waldo Emerson and Johannes Eckhart, the desire to merge these two seemingly disparate mental operations was the foundation of a spirituality based, as is Buddhism and ancient Christianity, on a quietude of the soul and a mystical state of mind in which one was "in" Nirvana or Heaven, a state of clarity both regarding life as suffering and a purpose and vision of what can give life meaning. All Romantic philosophies and art have this basis as well, and are equally mystical, as such states of mind cannot be achieved through linear description. Nihilism can be seen as a spiritual device for achieving this quietude of soul by abrading the meaningless and insignificant facts of physicality in order to clearly see the Idea, much as a philosopher leaving Plato's cave would stand in reverent silence at the first glimpse of the sun. It is thus despite its primal origins as a "going under" through removal of meaning, a reevaulation of meaning and value, and a dramatic opposition to philosophical materialism, or the doctrine that the physical world and individual comfort are of overriding importance and thus outrank thought and idea. Materialism is the essence of every destructive action taken by humanity, even though most who practice it would have no knowledge of it by that name. Most people, being well-meaning but misinformed and physically unable to undergo the cognitive process of holistic vision, drift toward materialistic ideas and strive toward what gives them personal physical comfort and wealth. In the modern time, materialism manifests itself in three primary fronts: Democracy Social popularity Consumerism Commerce is the picking of the most popular product; oversocialization the organization of society according to who is most popular (usually he who promises alcohol, sex, and money); democracy is leadership not by what is right but what is popular. Materialism encourages the individual to think only of their own preference, and to limit thought at that which directly impacts individual comfort, and thus is blind to thinking for the whole of humankind and environment. When one thinks on that level, self-interest replaces finding the right answer according to the structure of the external world, and humans become solipsistic. Further, because materialism is an opposite to idealism, it causes the Crowd to gather and tear down whatever idealists dare rise among them.
Again, Saturday or Shanivar, the day named after Saturn, is considered unlucky and a month that has ﬁve Saturdays is especially inauspicious.The Hindu calendar too has twelve months, but they are aligned differently from the Gregorian calendar and some months are considered unlucky. The twelve Hindu calendar months have a solar month name and a lunar month name – Mesha or Chaitra (March-April), Vrishabha or Vaisaka (April-May), Mithuna or Jayeshtha (May-June), Karka or Ashada (June-July), Simha or Sravapa (July-August), Kanya or Bhadrapada (August-September), Tula or Ashvina (September-October), Vrishika or Kartika (October-November), Dhanu or Margasirsha (November-December), Makara or Pausa (December-January), Kumbha or Magha (January-February), Mina or Phalguna (February-March).There are six ritus or seasons in the Hindu calendar and each ritu has two months – Vasanta/spring (March and April), Grishma/summer (May and June), Varsha/rains (July and August), Sarad/autumn (September and October), Hemanta/ winter (November and December) and Sisira/cool (January and February). In some regions, the rainy season covers the four months from Ashada-sukla to Kartika-sukla (June-September).In the Hindu calendar, the dark half of the year (Dakshinayana), between summer and winter solstices, is less auspicious and seen as the ‘night’ of the gods. The light half (Uttarayana), when the sun’s warmth and length of days are increasing, represents the ‘day’ of the gods. The bitter months of Dhanu (15 December to 14 January) and Mina (13 March to 13 April) are also ashubh. Similarly, Adik mas (leap year month in the Hindu calendar) is inauspicious since it is believed to have pollution accumulated over a three-year period. The month of Ashada (June-July) is also considered inauspicious.As we know, Hindus look for a ‘good date’ for all activities, including marriage, consummation, thread ceremony and cutting a child’s hair for the first time, all of which are considered life cycle events. Auspicious dates must be selected for moving into a house and opening a store. Agricultural commencements like ﬁrst ploughing and first planting too need a good date.
The differences in utility are mathematically represented, but it makes no difference.
5–7 a b c d Mearns, The Search for the Sydney, p. 7 ^ Frame, HMAS Sydney, p. 17 a b c Mearns, The Search for the Sydney, p. 8 ^ Gill, The Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 58 ^ Gill, The Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 59 a b c d Frame, HMAS Sydney, p. 20 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 92 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 103 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 110 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 113 a b c Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 134 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 135 ^ Grove, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy in World War II, p. 39 a b Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 156 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, pp. 156–7 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 157 a b c Frame, HMAS Sydney, p. 21 a b c Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 160 a b ANAM, Flying Stations, p. 27 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 162 a b Mearns, The Search for the Sydney, p. 10 a b c d e Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 165 a b Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, pp. 172–3 a b Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 173 a b c Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 174 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 175 a b Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 176 a b c Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 177 ^ Grove, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy in World War II, p. 40 a b c d Cassells, The Capital Ships, p. 151 a b Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 184 ^ Goldrick, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy, p. 112 a b Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, pp. 185–6 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, pp. 186–8 ^ Mearns, The Search for the Sydney, p 14 ^ Cassells, The Capital Ships, pp. 149–50 a b Cassells, The Capital Ships, p. 150 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 192 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 193 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, pp. 194–5 ^ Gill, Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942, p. 191 ^ Frame, HMAS Sydney, pp. 23–4 ^ Winter, H.M.A.S.
Those that ran from the base of the A-pillar to the wheel well were described as 'everted' (lit., 'turned outward') to provide more room for the front seat occupants[citation needed]. To further simplify construction, the hinges for the doors and boot lid were mounted externally. Production models differed from the prototypes by the addition of front and rear subframes to the unibody to take the suspension loads, and by having the engine mounted the other way round, with the carburettor at the back rather than at the front. This layout required an extra gear between engine and transmission to reverse the direction of rotation at the input to the transmission. Having the carburettor behind the engine reduced carburettor icing, but the distributor was then exposed to water coming in through the grille. The engine size was reduced from 948 to 848 cc (57.9 to 51.7 cu in); this, in conjunction with a small increase in the car's width, cut the top speed from 90 to 72 mph (145 to 116 km/h). In 1959, BMC and Alec Issigonis won the Dewar Trophy, for the design and production of the Mini. The Mini shape had become so well known that by the 1990s, Rover Group – the heirs to BMC – were able to register its design as a trademark in its own right.
Vijandyei Rana, who has 1,800 women working with her at a self-help group, echoes Pushpa on the ESZ. “Why didn't they consult us? Women here do 90% of the farming, are responsible for water and forest produce too,“ Rana says. She cites the example of a canal closed after the 2013 flash floods leaving 10 to 12 villages without irrigation support, consequently burdening women farmers.
Relationships were similar across racial/ethnic groups, except that among Hispanics chronic conditions were more strongly associated, and low income was less strongly associated, with major depression. Finally, we conducted sensitivity analyses using the more stringent criterion of a CIDI-SF score of 5 or above, recommended by some researchers as the cutoff for clinical relevance.33 When this criterion was used, the overall prevalence estimate of major depression was reduced to 5.5% (5.2% among Whites, 6.8% among African Americans, and 7.3% among Hispanics), but the relationships of other depression risk factors with racial/ethnic differences were similar.
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Although Feuerbach is most often associated with the slogan underlying The Essence of Christianity, according to which “theology is anthropology” (insofar as the predicates attributed by Christians to God are in fact predicates of the human species-essence), in a number of works on religion published in the 1840s and 1850s Feuerbach advanced explanations of the origin of religious concepts and beliefs that are strikingly different from, and apparently at odds with, the more familiar position put forward in that book. The primary works in which Feuerbach advanced these new theoretical proposals are the previously referenced Luther book (1844), a short book entitled The Essence of Religion (1846), the essay, “Belief in Immortality from the Standpoint of Anthropology” (1847), the Lectures on the Essence of Religion originally delivered in 1848–9, but first published in 1851 (hereafter Lectures), and the Theogony (1857). The question of the relationship between the account of religion contained in The Essence of Christianity and the views put forward in these later writings is a complex one, the most penetrating analysis of which is to be found in Harvey (1995). Here Harvey identifies five distinct “explanatory principles” employed by Feuerbach in The Essence of Christianity, among which he distinguishes those that are conceived along Hegelian lines from those that tend instead toward the “existentialist-naturalist” themes which predominate in Feuerbach’s later writings on religion (Harvey 1995: 68–69). Harvey’s thesis is that, in those later writings, Feuerbach in fact develops a new, bipolar model of religion that is both incompatible with, and more compelling than, the earlier one, which relied too heavily on abstract Hegelian conceptions that are no longer viable. Whereas, in The Essence of Christianity, the emphasis was on God as an alienated projection of the human species-essence, and on the infinity and perfection of the species, the new bipolar model sees religion as meeting deep-seated psychological needs resulting from the contingency and precariousness of the finite, embodied existence of individual human subjects seeking to preserve themselves and expand their natural powers.
Do you know what I want to know? WHEN will Marvel let others see this footage? It has played the two major Comic-Con events now, and is ready to be shown. Avengers: Age of Ultron doesn’t NEED marketing. People know it’s coming, and it’s going to be humongous. So let the fans see it, Marvel. Let them go over it frame by frame, cherishing each morsel. Don’t hold back. Fans are ready. Give them what they want! There’s antrailer floating around out there. We have known about it since July, when Marvel brought footage from Joss Whedon’s wildly anticipated sequel to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. And now, footage screened over the weekend in New York City as part of that city’s Comic-Con presentation. So, what did you miss? Stitch Kingdom was present for a Marvel Unlimited Plus members-only event, held Sunday at New York Comic-Con. And according to their report, Marvel brought bothandfootage to screen for fans. Of the latter, the site described it as "a hilarious scene" involving the different members of the Avengers team trying to lift Thor’s hammer following a battle. The way they lay out the footage, it sounds exactly like the scene that was shown in Hall H. Seeing as how I witnessed that footage , I can chime in that it’s an incredibly entertaining sequence that really plays off the chemistry of the team – and dials into what we know about each of the heroes. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) try to lift the hammer with Iron Man assistance. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), sipping off of a beer bottle, doesn’t need such macho competitions. And Captain America (Chris Evans) moves the hammer an inch… much to Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth) dismay.I am DYING for all of you to see it.Stitch Kingdom goes on to report that the second half of thetrailer is the same montage of fighting footage that also was shown in San Diego. They run through the things that were shown, and seeing as how it’s fresh in their memory, I’ll list what they recall:- The footage is set to a haunting rendition offrom, which we reported on back in July.- We see Hulk fighting different members of the Avengers, from Iron Man to Vision. (That last part might be new, as I do not recall Vision being part of any of the footage in San Diego.
I must have viewed hundreds of Golden Age comic books in Jerry's microfilm files. It was around this time that I first met Roy Thomas (who took over "Alter Ego" after Jerry Bails), whose energy and enthusiasm was always contagious, and Roy would later become a big booster of my work and was responsible for my more significant early assignments when he went on to become Editor In Chief at Marvel Comics.Around that same time (I was around 17-18 years old) I met comic book fan and publisher Mike Tuohey by first writing him a letter. I found his address on a printed letter in a comic book--that's how we "networked" back in those days. It was the printed letters in the comics that helped initially in getting comic book fans together as a collective. It's how I came to meet Marty Greim and Tony Isabella and most of the "fan boys" that I hung out with and corresponded with by mail and contributed artwork to).Anyway, I ended up taking over "Super-Hero," Mike's fanzine, since he was packing up and shipping out to college at the time. I additionally published a fanzine of all new amateur comics called "Intrigue" (which included my art and writing, and featured the work of other talented people--all of us worked for free).These early fan publications were printed on ditto machines (a primitive process using blue ink, carbon paper masters, messy and really smelly chemicals that were probably toxic). I published out of the living room of my home, collated and stapled and stamped them all myself. I had about one hundred fifty subscribers then, which was at the time considered pretty respectable. When I think now about how much work was involved for this literal one-man operation, I am amazed that any of it actually happened--and I'm sure I would never try to do it again! It just goes to show how much love and devotion for comics went into all of the amazing fan publications that were coming out at that time.I thought, back then, that for sure the really "big-name" fan artists would definitely make it to the professional ranks before me. Guys like Ron Foss, John Fantuccio, Biljo White and Richard "Grass" Green-- but it didn't happen for them.
We see it in nations that are torn asunder by tribal lines.
Our dying girl, with wide imploring eyes and outstretched hands, is not part of our tribe and we would derive no benefit from helping her. She has no money to pay us, and can offer us nothing in return for our help. And as for the perspective of supposedly having some inherited tendency to help others, we know from history and our own societies that no such genetic compunction exists. So, we would just pass by.
While this civil war was going on the Roman general Marcus Aemilius Scaurus went to Syria to take possession, in the name of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, of the kingdom of the Seleucids. The brothers appealed to him, each endeavouring by gifts and promises to win him over to his side. At first Scaurus, moved by a gift of four hundred talents, decided in favour of Aristobulus. Aretas was ordered to withdraw his army from Judea, and while retreating suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Aristobulus. But when Pompey came to Syria (63 BCE), a different situation arose. Pompey, who had just been awarded the title "Conqueror of Asia" due to his decisive victories in Asia Minor over Pontus and the Seleucid Empire, had decided to bring Judea under the rule of the Romans. He took the same view of Hyrcanus' ability, and was moved by much the same motives as Antipater: as a ward of Rome, Hyrcanus would be more acceptable than Aristobulus. When, therefore, the brothers, as well as delegates of the people's party, which, weary of Hasmonean quarrels, desired the extinction of the dynasty, presented themselves before Pompey, he delayed the decision, in spite of Aristobulus' gift of a golden vine valued at five hundred talents. The latter, however, fathomed the designs of Pompey, and assembled his armies. Pompey defeated him multiple times however and captured his cities. Aristobulus II entrenched himself in the fortress of Alexandrium; but, soon realizing the uselessness of resistance, surrendered at the first summons of the Romans, and undertook to deliver Jerusalem to them. The patriots, however, were not willing to open their gates to the Romans, and a siege ensued which ended with the capture of the city. Pompey entered the Holy of Holies; this was only the second time that someone had dared to penetrate into this sacred spot. Judaea had to pay tribute to Rome and was placed under the supervision of the Roman governor of Syria:
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Movie maker of Yamana My nephew Laurent (world traveller) with his daughter Jeanne 1 year aound Europe "Oliv & Zac" & their family at home with Jean Bardet & Momo (Alternative Side-Car) (L>R) Zac, Virginie, Valerie, Marine, Olivier, Vanille, Jean, Momo. (Melissa was in the air).Not only Bernard bake the best bread man can do but he is also a poetic baker:"What a beautiful death for a 'Coulommiers' (french cheese) to end it's life on such a good bread ! ! !My good friends from Geneva, Giorgio, Claude and Pierrot.Nobody can say as many stupid things in one minute as them ! !! (;+>For the TGV train ride to Geneva I tested the food I collected for Giorgio's birthday:- Foie Gras frais from Auvergne I got from my Sister Marie France- Saucisse à Tatiner Alsacienne I bought at Schmidt Gare de l'Est in Paris with mustard de Dijon fine et forte- Coulommier de Brie offert by Frederic for my sister Marie France but will end in Giorgio's mouth- Faisselle Rians 60% with Cristal Suggar- Galette des Rois amandine- Crispy Baguette & BadoitDinner with Frederic in his new house. He is as crazy about Mongolia as me and is may be the best cook I know...lunch with my sister Marie France and our friend Pascal...Landed in Paris with Nico always happy of himself...I left Sacramento for Seattle to spend a day with Ilya and Madina the owners or Ural.They are indefatigably working on improvement in performance an reliability of our beloved machines.An amazing surprise: Brigitte (Francoise' sister) Denis, Gaelle, Stephanne, Nina & Martin who weresupposed to be in Houston Texas for the holidays came in California, Peddle Beaach in the house we rented fora week and surprised me in the living room as I came back from food shopping. I love you all, thank you so much.Wow!After watching the 'submarine' Ural sidecars in the video belowI had to find out how they did it ? !?!
This oscillation between boosterism and gloom is evident from a glance at some of the titles of influential books published over recent years: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter; Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think; The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. Now we have three new books by academics—The App Generation, Status Update, and It’s Complicated (all published by Yale University Press)—each of which tries to bring some much-needed clarity to the discussion. These three books strive for a more balanced approach. Each comes at the question of what the internet is doing to our minds and social lives from an empirical, social-scientific point of view. But while they mostly avoid the extremes of jubilation and despair indulged in by so many other writers on the subject, all of them are limited by their own parameters as academic studies. They raise big questions while proposing partial, cautious answers. With the exception of It’s Complicated—whose title signals its more nuanced approach—the books fail to draw big conclusions. The App Generation was written by two professors of education: Howard Gardner of Harvard, famous for his theory of multiple intelligences (verbal, visual, bodily-kinesthetic), and his student Katie Davis, now at the University of Washington. To discover what the internet is doing to human consciousness and society, they have studied its effect on children. They begin with an assertion: that today’s young people are so immersed in technology “they’ve come to think of the world as an ensemble of apps.” What does this assertion mean? It’s never quite clear. The App Generation doesn’t dwell on which particular apps are shaping children in their image. As the authors define it, an app is any software program that runs on a smartphone. Apps also provide an overarching metaphor for many other aspects of life. Prayer is an app because it only works if “carried out according to… specified procedures.” Religion is a “super-app.” Of course, prayer and religion are not downloadable; they are “human choreographed,” as the authors put it. Yet young people, the argument goes, have come to understand these things as formally and functionally analogous to genuine apps such as RunKeeper (which tracks your fitness) and TonePad (which allows you to make music on your iPhone).
RS: [omission] We’re back with Joel Whitney, and the book is called “Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers.” So, Joel, let me ask you a question that I was about to ask when we took our break. I’m going to talk a little bit about the CIA, because the [sub]title of your book is “how the CIA tricked the world’s best writers.” And there we get into a pretty sinister cast of characters. And I just want to bring up one who shows up a lot, because I know something about him from my own Freedom of Information files, because I was the editor of Ramparts and I was involved in some of this stuff. And that’s James Jesus Angleton. And I am the proud possessor of a record in which J. Edgar Hoover, at one point after all the Ramparts stuff, exonerated me and said he’s going to close the Scheer case—I was the last, well, not the last, but I was the editor of Ramparts at a critical moment. And he had investigated me at the behest of the CIA and, largely, James Jesus Angleton. And he said, there’s no there there; this guy likes to have a good time, he wants to meet women, he wants to have good meals [Laughter], but the fact is we’ve been investigating him for, I don’t know what it was, five years around the clock and there’s no there there. OK. And James Jesus Angleton, and others in the CIA, denounced him! And said, you can’t do this. You know, and so forth; I wasn’t the only one they wanted to go after. But you know, these guys were playing hardball. And they wouldn’t mind, when you traveled to another country—because I found myself getting harassed in different countries. I was in jail briefly in Mexico and I was in jail briefly in Lithuania, you know, and other places, Algeria and so forth; I didn’t want to get paranoid about it, but they had a reach worldwide where they could make your life really rough, or end it, for that matter. So what about James Jesus Angleton? What have you learned about this guy?
Just the one season. I probably got there around March time, kinda right at the very end of preseason. Most of the team was set and I was 24 at the time so I was like a 24 year old rookie of the USL, but I’d been playing professionally since I was 17 so it was kinda weird. But straight away I went in and played, started the whole season. The team finished third in the table, we’d lead the table for a lot of the year so it was a real good year. We had a really really good squad, just kinda faded towards the end and were unlucky in the semi-finals. But it was a short season and that was a lot of the reason I decided to do it because I thought worst-case scenario, the season finishes in August, I’d just go sign with a team at home. And then at the very end of that season, it was the day after our semi-final I got a phone call from Austin Aztecs, who are now Orlando, to go there. So I went to Austin, I trained there for a couple of weeks and they were going on a tour of Stoke, cuz the Stoke owner in England owns both teams. There was supposed to be a new manager potentially taking over and things like that. So I went to Austin and played the last little bit of the season and then signed a two-year contract. I went home in the offseason thinking I was going back to Austin, and then I don’t know what happened, but they decided they were going to go the route of Orlando, and the coach that was leaving decided to stay, and all of the sudden they got rid of everyone! They started almost from scratch apart from two guys I think. So although I’d only signed maybe a month before, I was one of the ones that they said “we don’t need you anymore”. And I was kinda like “alright, what am I going to do?” When this happened it was late January so the window was closed at home and at that point I wanted to be in the States. So that was a crazy first year of professional in the States!
And Pikmin, a game featuring tiny creatures that have stalks protruding from their heads and that live and travel in pods called Onions, arose out of his time puttering in the garden. When he turned forty, he decided to give up cigarettes and pachinko and get in shape. He took up swimming and jogging, and began weighing himself every day on a digital scale. He hung graphs of the data, down to the gram, on the bathroom wall. “Once the graphs I’d recorded started to pile up, I started to feel a strange fondness for them—regardless of whether I was gaining weight or losing weight,” he said a few years ago, in a Q. & A. with Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata. All this became, for his wife and his daughter, a source of curiosity and amusement, and an idea occurred to him. “This could be a nice trigger for conversation,” he told me. “If I could make it into a game, it could probably help isolated fathers get more association with their daughters.” He brought the notion to the team of designers developing games for the Wii. They were skeptical, but eventually they came out with Wii Fit, a fitness game, which has since sold thirty-seven million copies worldwide. It suits his view, and the industry’s, that introducing an element of play to a transaction or a task can get people to do things they might not normally do. In the commercial sphere, this is called “gamification,” or, more gratingly, “funware”: make something a game, in a supermarket or on a social network, and Homo ludens will play it. “It’s a shame if we narrowly limit the definition of video games,” he said. This tendency for his personal fixations to become platinum-selling video games has given rise to an obsession, among gamers, with whatever Miyamoto says he’s up to. When I asked him, to that end, what he did for pleasure these days, he said, “I like changing the interiors of the house, or sometimes even the exterior of the house. Sometimes I’m called the Sunday carpenter. Even at midnight or at some early hour in the morning, I will change the location of the sofa in the living room. That’s me. Something tells me that by changing it my life is going to be more enjoyable.
“In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, Kanye West appeared on live TV during a celebrity fund-raiser for victims of the disaster and said, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” This wasn’t based on intimate knowledge of Mr. Bush’s racial views, but rather on his treatment of black people in a time of crisis. … From the start of his 2016 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders was prickly about race, uncomfortable with an outspoken, demanding blackness, resistant to letting go of his preference for discussing class over race. He made efforts to improve the way he spoke about the realities of racial discrimination. But Mr. Sanders seemed to remain at heart a man of the people, especially if those people were the white working class. Since the election, Mr. Sanders has sounded an increasingly familiar theme among liberals that they should “go beyond identity politics.” He warned that “to think of diversity purely in racial and gender terms is not sufficient,” and that we need candidates “to be fighters for the working class and stand up to the corporate powers who have so much power over our economic lives.” …” Now we hear again the cry that the neglected white working class is the future of American progressive politics. The tragedy is that much of the professed concern about the white working class is a cover for the interests of white elites who evoke working-class solidarity to combat racial, sexual and gender progress. … Identity has always been at the heart of American culture. We must confront a truth that we have assiduously avoided: The most protected, cherished and nurtured identity of all has been white identity. After all, the needs of the black and brown working classes, which are not exclusively urban, are, again, even in progressive quarters, all but forgotten. Mr. Trump, and to a degree, the liberals and progressives who advocate a vision of America that spurns identity politics, make one thing clear: The real unifying force in American political life is whiteness, no matter its party, gender, region or, at times, even its class.”
I wonder if some of the issues with my particular phone freezing more often than I would like stem from the fact that there is something wrong with the SIM card in my phone- it seems that all of the time I get a message "that I should not remove the SIM card while the phone is on", or something to that effect (as if the card were loose and is popping in and out). This seems to have occurred less frequently as time has gone on. (Wonder if it's something wrong with my individual phone?) Let's see what else can I say that's positive now that I've listed some negatives... (I mean other than it being $20 and quite serviceable!!!)... The audio quality seems pretty decent to me when wearing headphones. The Wi-Fi signal seems pretty strong on it (like it has a good antenna or receptor on it, compared to other devices I've had around). It seems pretty sturdy for an all plastic phone. I like the small size- fits easily in your palm. That could be a drawback to some. I put down that I would recommend this to a friend because it's inexpensive, but then again I might try something else the next time around if I had $20-$30 to spend on a similar device. Happy shopping!
As Barack Obama prepares for the challenge of the mid-term elections next month, Kevin Connolly considers whether the president is losing his magic touch, or whether the US political system means all presidents are doomed to fail. President Obama was back on the road at a series of huge rallies across the United States doing what he does best - rallying the troops, steadying the ship, and cajoling the sceptical. Obama's popularity has fallen despite the elation following his election I think I may have got that habit of writing in triplets from listening to his speeches where he is fond of employing them to clarify, to explain and to persuade. At his best he is an electrifying speaker. The voice is still an instrument of beauty and flexibility even when it sounds a little tired, but somehow the folksy metaphors clunk these days when once they soared. The American economy is a car for goodness' sake, and last time they were in power the Republicans drove it into a ditch. He has just got it backed out and up on the road again, and now here they are demanding the keys back. The crowds are still there, of course, but some of the magic and momentum that swept Obama to power in 2008 are largely gone. He is not the first president to find that wielding power in this country is even harder than winning it. Of all the possibilities that seemed likely on that glitteringly cold January morning when he was inaugurated, the one that very few seemed to consider was the simplest of all - that the man whose election represented an extraordinary break with the racial divisions of the past might turn out to be no more than an ordinary president. 'Too much' democracy? Now less than two years into his first term - which of course may be his only term - he finds himself back on the campaign trail again, this time propping up Democratic Party candidates in the mid-term congressional elections. I used to live in countries where there clearly was not enough democracy: communist Poland, for example, and the Soviet Union. Obama has the job at a moment in history when it may be on the point of becoming impossible
Discussion This study demonstrated that, relative to their fellow students, economics students offered less in a third-party punishment game; they were about equally likely concerned with fairness, and they had a similar understanding of what was fair. However, economics students expected to receive smaller offers from others, which in turn mediated their own smaller offers. Moreover, economics students were less willing to veto unfair allocation of others. Taken together, the results suggest that economics students’ more selfish behavior is not due different fairness standards but to social norms. Several limitations to this investigation and the conclusions that may be drawn from it warrant consideration. Foremost, economics students’ expectations only partly mediated the offers they made, which suggests that their greater skepticism is not the only explanation for their more selfish behavior. Further, participants may have decided how much to offer before forming expectations about others. If this were the case, causality would be reversed, with decisions informing expectations (in the sense “If I do B in the situation of class A, expect B to be the rule for situations of class A”). Reverse causality was addressed primarily through the study design: expectations were measured before participants decided on an offer. Nonetheless, it cannot be completely ruled out that participants made a hypothetical decision immediately after reading the instructions [48]. Moreover, offers in the third party punishment game cannot be unequivocally interpret as due to non-selfish motives only. As suggested by some of the participants’ comments, high offers can be due to strategic motives, to avoid vetoing. Although studies suggest that offers in the third party punishment positively and strongly correlate with established measures of selfishness [46] and the proposer’s offers primarily served as a replication of economics students’ greater propensity to behave selfishly, a combination of experimental games would have been preferable to directly test the economics students’ more selfish motives. Such combination of experimental games could also shed light on differences in the motives to veto. In the particular version of the third party punishment game vetoing always caused judges to earn less than what one or both other participants would earn. However, third party punishment in general can be motivated not only by norm enforcement but also by spiteful motives [49].
Differences in conditioned response topography depend on the CS Another line of evidence against the proposition that respondent or classical conditioning is the transfer of the control of a reflex from a US to a CS, is that the nature of the conditioned response (CR) depends in part on the nature of the CS. This was first demonstrated in a dramatic fashion by Timberlake and Grant (1975). Rats received a conditioning procedure in which food served as the US. The CS for the impending presentation of food was the introduction of another rat. The conditioning procedure increased responding to the CS rat but the responses were not like the handling and ingestive responses that occurred when the rats received food pellets. Rather, the conditioned responses were increased social affiliative behaviors such as orientation, approach, sniffing, and social contact (see also Timberlake, 1983). If the CS was a rat‐sized wood block, only the orientation CR developed. Notice that orientation, approach, sniffing, and social contact are not “reflexive” responses like an eyeblink or a knee‐jerk response. Following the Timberlake and Grant study, numerous other instances have been found of differences in conditioned behavior as a function of the nature of the CS. Holland (1977) demonstrated that with rats conditioned with food as the US, a light elicits rearing as the CR whereas a tone elicits a head‐jerk movement. In the sexual conditioning of male quail, if the CS is an environmental context, the CR is increased preference for that context (Akins, 1998) and increased responsiveness to female cues (Hilliard, Nguyen, & Domjan, 1997). If the CS is a light or a three‐dimensional object, the CR is approach to the CS (Burns & Domjan, 2000). If the CS has a shape and texture that will support copulatory behavior, the CR will include grabs, mounts, and copulatory thrusts (e.g., Köksal et al., 2004; Çetinkaya & Domjan, 2006). Another important CS dimension is the extent to which the CS is a natural precursor of the US in the ecology of the organism (Domjan, Cusato, & Krause, 2004). More ecologically relevant CSs elicit a wider range of conditioned responses and become conditioned more rapidly.
William Friedkin's Cruising opened in early February 1980 to resoundingly negative critical reaction, and vocal protests from gay-rights groups. The story centered on the very underground leather and S&M bars of NYC, a world of anonymous pick-ups and rough sex (a world that was foreign even to most gay people who actually lived in the city), and arrived at the end of a decade that saw tremendous strides made in the cause of homosexual rights, and the beginning of one that would become synonymous with the AIDS epidemic. The production and release of Cruising galvanized New York's gay community in a way that had not been seen since the Stonewall uprising 11 years earlier. An early draft of the screenplay had been leaked, and newspapers like The Advocate lead the charge to bury the film under a mountain of bad press. The eventual box office receipts of nearly $20 million can be credited mostly to the publicity department at MGM, who sold the film as a standard police thriller (Indeed, the notion of the director of The French Connection returning to the mean streets of New York with a gritty police thriller starring Al Pacino would have easily loosened the purse strings of most movie-goers back in 1980) but the film quickly disappeared from the public eye. 25 years after Cruising's initial release, its rediscovery is severely hindered by both its M.I.A. status on DVD, and the fact that the film's star still refuses to publicly discuss it. But when a 140min director's cut was mentioned in an interview with Friedkin during the re-release of The Exorcist a few years ago, many who had never even heard of the film began to seek it out, and like any reviled work of art, the ranks of its defenders began to grow. Is Cruising a homophobic lapse in judgment from an erratic filmmaker, or a misunderstood masterpiece that might have met a very different fate had it been a subtitled, European effort?
It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta. Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions-a-minute flyers, and mixed with half a ton of other meat, no odor that ever was in a ham could make any difference. There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and white—it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it. It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together. This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shovelled into carts, and the man who did the shovelling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid economy which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste-barrels.
In the summer of 1936 Spanish workers had taken up arms and aligned with loyal Republican forces in order to prevent a Fascist takeover by units of the professional army and police. In Catalonia these actions were accompanied by the spontaneous collectivization of farms, businesses, and local government. What had begun as the prevention of an army coup d’état therefore, turned into a full-blown revolution, a revolution made conscious by the myriad anarchist, socialist, and trade-union organizations—the PSUC, UGT, CNT, FAI, PCE, POUM, and so on—who steered it. A ‘plague of initials’, Orwell called them. Then, within a year of these momentous events, the USSR was trying to run the show according to its own ends, which were not (necessarily) those of the Republic or the revolution. Which is to say, according to Orwell at any rate, all that had been won in 1936 was being lost in 1937. His specific charge was that, under the new dispensation, the Republic was actively suppressing revolutionary groups and dismantling revolutionary achievements in order to reconstitute a bourgeois ‘popular front’ able to defend itself from Franco on the one hand while attending to its own (and Soviet) worries about the prospect of an extreme-left popular government on the other. Because this involved disarming and imprisoning men he had fought alongside, in Orwell’s eyes the government, and especially the Communists who were increasingly influencing the government, were little better than the enemy. ‘The point to notice is that the people who are in prison now are not Fascists but revolutionaries . . . and the people responsible for putting them there are . . . the Communists.’
For discussion, A significant fraction of hashrate currently mines blocks without verifying them for a span of time after a new block shows up on the network for economically rational reasons. This otherwise harmful behavior can be made a beneficial to the whole network; but only if it is communicated. This BIP proposal suggests a communication channel and describes its use and the motivations for it. I wrote it in response to suggestions that Bitcoin Core add explicit support for this kind of mining, which could also implement best in class risk mitigations. I believe signaling the behavior is a necessary component for risk mitigation here. ----------------------------------------------------------------- <pre> BIP: draft-maxwell-flagverify Title: Blockchain verification flag Author: Greg Maxwell <greg at xiph.org> Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Created: 2015-12-02 </pre> ==Abstract== This BIP describes a flag that the authors of blocks can use to voluntarily signal that they have completely validated the content of their block and the blocks before it. Correct use of this signaling is not enforced internally to the network but if used it can act as a hint allowing more intelligent risk analysis. If deployed and adhered to, this mechanism turns otherwise harmful validation skipping by miners into a behavior which benefits the public. ==Summary== The version field in a Bitcoin block header is a 32-bit signed integer. The most significant bit (30) of the block version is defined to signal that the author of the block has validated the whole chain up to and including the content of the block. Conforming miners MUST NOT set this flag when they have not completely validated the prior block(s) or the content of their own block. Miners should continue to try to minimize the amount of time spent mining on a non-validated chain. Blocks which extend an invalid chain will continue to be rejected and ultimately orphaned as validation catches up. It is recommended, but not required, that miners also not set the flag on blocks created by the same device which created the block immediately prior. This will reduce the incorrect implication of independent validation when the two most recent blocks are both the product of the same, single, faulty system. The set state for the bit is defined as verified so that that un(der)maintained systems do not falsely signal validation. Non-verifying clients of the network may check this bit (e.g. checking that the version is >= 1073741824) and use it as an input to their risk modeling.
The less-welcome habit began a few weeks after she arrived on the boat - suddenly, as though a lightswitch had been thrown, Alice decided that she needed to nurse on us. No body part was safe - we'd awaken in the night to find Alice suckling on our necks, or arms, or ankles. We were as firm as possible in trying to curb this behaviour - it wasn't damaging or painful in any way but hey, creepy. Eventually Miya offered up her favourite ultra-soft blanket, and somehow Alice decided that this would be her new suckling target - the blanket went into a shoebox and Alice began sleeping in that shoebox almost exclusively. The suckling on our necks and arms stopped overnight. The end came quietly and without warning. We had sailed to the Isla Espiritu Santo with our friends Tom and Dan, and there was an incident on a Thursday in which Alice discovered a wedge of 'Laughing Cow' spreadable cheese and absconded with it. She was chased down, and when we attempted to take the cheese from her, she flipped - she went completely feral, with gutteral growls and all four paws flailing like windmills with claws outstretched. Taking this tiny wolverine by the scruff of the neck, I dropped her in the kitchen sink and turned on the water - she was shocked, and immediately stopped fighting and dropped the cheese. Alice spent the next few hours cuddling up to us, as though trying to apologize for her horrible behaviour. Days later, on the Saturday morning, she seemed somewhat lower-energy than usual. She wasn't yowling, but she seemed mostly normal, if a little tired... we let her go back to bed and went about our day. When we returned at 4pm however, she was noticeably weak and shaky, not at all herself. When Miya realized that her food bowl was at the same level, she asked when I'd last fed Alice... I hadn't fed her in two days, and neither had Miya, and so Alice hadn't eaten in at least a day, possibly more. Kittens need to eat about every three hours, so this was a very bad sign! We took her immediately to the vet from whom we'd adopted, and the vet told us that Alice had some kind of blockage.
I could now see they were 109's. They had black spinners and there appeared to be a black ring behind the propeller. I went after them and I attacked what appeared to be the No. 1 of the section. I came in from the starboard side and fired from about 300 yds., but my first burst was behind. My angle of deflection had been about 35°. I pulled the stick back hard and my next burst of about 1 1/2 seconds from 200 to 250 yards. at an angle off of 25-30° hit him. I saw strikes all over the wings and the fuselage. The e/a broke left and the other broke right. The one I had attacked was wobbling very badly. I nearly overshot as he broke and I got above him. I could see the machine wobbling, the pilot had the hood open, there was smoke coming from the starboard side and I could see the holes in the wings where I had hit him. I broke away to the left as the No.2 was now attacking and I climbed away into cloud.
Typically four batteries are supported by single acquisition radar, variants of the YLC-2V being most commonly cited, and observed in published imagery.A similar arrangement is likely for the HQ-12 system, with 6 two round TELs clustered around the H-200 engagement radar to form a single battery. To date there have been no specific disclosures on what acquisition radars are employed with the HQ-12, but there are no good reasons to assume that HQ-12 batteries are not supported by the same acquisition radar package used with the HQ-9.Not unlike the HQ-9 batteries proper, the three new acquisition radars displayed are built for trueoperations, with hydraulically deployed supports, and hydraulically powered antenna deployment.All three radars are carried on the ND1260, a 6 x 6 military variant of the North-Benz / Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Corporation 2629 series 15 tonne payload truck, which is a legally licenced derivative of the German designed short cabin Mercedes-Benz “New Generation” NG 80 series. These truck chassis are available with either liquid or air cooled diesel powerplants.The 6 x 6 ND1260 series will not provide the off-road mobility of the HQ-9/FD-2000 chassis, which is based on the Taian TA-5380 series, built by the Taian Special Vehicle Co., Ltd. It is interesting that the PLA did not opt to install these radars on the heavier 8 x 8 North-Benz NG 80 military chassis variants , which have better cross country capabilities, and have been used in other PLA military applications.Technical analysis of each of these five radar types follows under individual entries.
Filter all the solids out and dump them into about 200ml of dH2O and heat. The solids will dissolve and the resin will melt collecting in a puddle at the bottom of the water. Let this cool until the resin solidifies then filter. You'll have only the resin left, now proceed with the purification. You used a propane torch to boil the acetone during the wash. The acetone boiled over and caught fire from the torch. You tried to pat out the fire, but only managed to set your shirt on fire also. Now the fire department is pulling up in the driveway with a police escort. Well, I suggest you wrap a towel around the burned arm and put another around the blistered hand and run! Method 3: This was done by a different chemist than the above, so not as many mistakes were made. The voice for this is The Alchemist. 10g of anthranilic acid was dissolved in 30mL of acetic anhydride in a 100mL RB flask, at which point the flask became very hot and the reaction was apparent as small amounts of the anthranillic dissolved and acetic anhydride became a pinkish tint. To this was added a stirbar (better do this before you add chemicals or stirring will become difficult) and a distillation setup was attached without vacuum. The flask was set spinning and the temp raised progressively to 190°C. Around 160°C the acetic anhydride and acetic acid began to distill over. Do this until almost all the acetic anhydride has distilled over. Turn off the heat and wait until the temp reaches 70°C. When the flask cools off, you may get some wet solid looking material in the flask (N-acetylanthranilic acid). It gets pretty hard so you might want to break it up with a spatula or something so it can stir. Once the temp has reached around 70°C, add 10g of o-toluidine(9.9mL). Replace the distillation setup and raise the temp once again to 190°C. Hold it there for three hours. The appearance of water coming over the distillation setup will be apparent during the first half of the reaction. Turn off heat. When temp reaches 80°-90°C, dump resin into 150mL of distilled H20. Basify the soln. from 9-12. Stick it in the freezer to make it more solid. When it sits in the freezer for about 20 min, take it out, dump off the water and wash it with a little distilled water.
Michele Bachmann’s father, a former Air Force staff sergeant, was an engineer who worked at a bomb factory in Iowa. He travelled around the country and to China, made his own wine, ground his own grain, and drove a gray Volkswagen bug. He was a Democrat and a student of the Civil War. “He didn’t appreciate it if any kind words were said about the South,” she said in a eulogy for him, in 2003. But he was also an “authoritarian.” In a Christmas letter to friends and family that year, she wrote, “He was a man of faults, and he was perhaps the most dominant human figure in my life.” Her parents separated in 1968, and in July, 1970, when Michele was fourteen, their divorce was finalized. The following month, in Las Vegas, her father married a woman twelve years his junior and moved to California. Bachmann, who has three brothers, says that the split devastated her and left the family impoverished. “We had to sell our home and sell most of the things that we had and move into a little apartment,” she told me. Her mother soon married a widower with five children. In a speech in Minneapolis in 2006, Bachmann spoke of growing up with “the emotional struggles of not having a strong father in my life.” Two years after her father left, Bachmann joined a high-school prayer group. She had been brought up a Lutheran, but she knew little about the Bible. With the help of the members of the prayer group, she explained in the speech, she became a born-again Christian: I didn’t know I wasn’t a believer. But they knew I wasn’t a believer, and they started praying for me. And all of a sudden the holy spirit started knocking on my heart’s door and I could hear the Lord tug me and call me to Himself, and I responded on November 1st of 1972, and I knew that I knew that I knew that I had received Jesus Christ as my lord and savior and that my life would never be the same after I made that commitment, because I knew what darkness looked like. I knew it from my home life. I absolutely understood sin, and I wanted no part of it. When Jesus Christ came in and cleaned out this dark heart, that was light. That was rest. That was peace. It was refreshment.
The experience is not drastically different to that of an observation tower and the throughput is limited by the fact that each cycle takes at least five minutes to complete, but that can be solved (as it has been here) by installing more than one unit! Our second stop was at La Tyrolienne, a swing on a rail similar to the Telepherique at Parc Saint Paul. Each of us in turn pulled the small seat to the highest point of the ride before climbing on board and coasting our way back to ground along a layout not altogether different to the top level of a Wild Mouse. Though officially suitable for those between five and fourteen we nevertheless enjoyed the ride immensely, not least because our adult weights ensured swinging that was far more aggressive than the original designers would have intended. The highlight of the morning for me was Aerobar du Buveur. At its most basic level, this "ride" consists of a fifteen seats around a table that are lifted to a height of thirty-five metres. There is space for a "bartender" in the middle, though he is there as a tour guide, as food and drink is sold at a shop in the queue. Each position at the table has a dedicated bottle holder, though the experience is sufficiently smooth and steady that items placed on the table are not likely to fall under normal circumstances. (We'd missed out on a similar attraction earlier in the year during our Morocco trip, so it was nice to finally experience one today.) With everything more interesting out of the way it was finally time to ride Serpent (#2336), a brand new Zierer Force Two and the second version of the type in France. This ride was as perfect as any production family coaster could be, with smooth tracking and a mid-course tunnel (complete with mist machine) that was themed to look like a hollowed tree trunk. Megan said her only complaint was that the ride wasn't longer, but that was easily fixed by going back for a second lap. We were just about to leave for our next destination when we spotted signage for the Volcano of Passion, and with a name like that we simply had to take a look. The first thing we found inside the door was a set of toilets, an ever present help in times of trouble.
In terms of its narrative, Gamer is entirely a genre film: everything that happens in the course of the plot is something that we have seen before, and that we have come to expect from other movies. Specifically, Gamer could be described as a combination of Running Man, Escape From New York, and The Matrix. The movie presents an oppressive virtual reality, within which an ultra-macho protagonist has to fight his way out of a situation in which everything has been rigged against him. The working-out of this plot is entirely formulaic and as-expected, up to and including the requisite happy ending and triumph of the macho figure. However, the movie’s adherence to these genre norms is so perfunctory as almost to be sarcastic. The macho action protagonist, Kable, is played by action star Gerard Butler (best known for his starring role as Leonidas in 300). But in Gamer, Kable is sketched out so minimally that Butler can barely be bothered to go through the motions required for the part; he is so inexpressive as to make Clint Eastwood look like a wild overactor in comparison. (Or perhaps I should say, to make Jean-Claude Van Damme look like a miracle of thespian subtlety in comparison; except that we now know that Van Damme really is such a miracle). Gamer‘s adherence to genre norms, both in terms of the plot and in terms of the requisite displays of jiggling breasts, loud explosions, and hyped up macho insults (such as those that one crazed killer — who of course is black — addresses to the white Kable at one point), seem to be little more than a framework upon which Neveldine and Taylor are able to hang their delirious inventions. Or better, it is as if the film’s genre normativity (in terms of plot, character, gender, etc.) expresses and exposes the way that neoliberal ideology explicitly forecloses any possibility of social change. As the neoliberal mantra puts it, “There Is No Alternative”; any alteration of social arrangements is literally unthinkable. Gamer’s strict adherence to genre norms is its way of deliberately figuring (and thereby calling our attention to) this foreclosure.
It's not clear if this means that NARI is actually financially supporting Dietz's lawsuit, but either way, "supporting" Dietz's misguided lawsuit still doesn't seem like a particularly smart stance, for reasons we'll get to below. NARI could do a lot more good for contractors by teaching them how to properly deal with negative reviews.That same page includes a couple different reports from other contractors, insisting that contractors need to support Dietz and stop this scourge of people saying bad stuff about them. There's one post that insists the lawsuit is a good thing , saying it will take a "perfect storm" to lose (unlikely), while also mocking review sites claiming most of his customers have never heard of them. Then there's another one that mocks both review sites and the ACLU for daring to think that this was an important case.I can certainly understand why contractors areabout negative reviews -- just as lots of other businesses are worried about negative reviews. It's no secret that not all reviews are accurate, and it really does suck, emotionally, to see a negative review that's not true. But thereways to deal with negative reviews that don't make the situation worse. Jumping straight to defamation lawsuits generally are the opposite of that. They do make the situation worse. SearchEngineLand has a great post in response to this very case, in which they point out that there are much better ways to deal with negative reviews online . Suing only creates news about those negative reviews -- and having it become widely public news that you sued a customer about their negative review seems likely to have a lot more damaging impact on a business than those negative reviews might have had in the first place.Yes, we live in a legalistic society, where it is the first response of many people to "go legal" when they feel wronged, but in a world where information is widely available, there are often much better ways to respond to "negative" information than going legal. If these contractors really wanted to "support" Dietz, they should encourage more of their colleagues to read the SearchEngineLand article, rather than supporting a dangerous lawsuit that could undermine key principles of free speech or secondary liability.
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If all the studies are methodologically identical and the subject samples are very similar, then I 2 will be small (< 25%) and a fixed-effect model analysis is justified; otherwise a random-effects model is used ( Borenstein et al., 2009). A fixed-effect model assumes that all the studies using a particular protocol have the same true effect size and that the observed variance of effect sizes across the studies is due entirely to random error within the studies. The random-effects model allows for the possibility that different studies included in the analysis may have different true effect sizes and that the observed variation reflects both within-study and between-study sampling error. Bayesian analysis A model comparison Bayesian analysis of an experiment pits a specified experimental hypothesis (H 1 ) against the null hypothesis (H 0 ) by calculating the odds that H 1 rather than H 0 is true— p(H 1 )/ p(H 0 )—or the reverse. The analysis assumes that each person comes to the data with a subjective prior value for these odds and then adjusts them on the basis of the data to arrive at his or her posterior odds. A Bayesian analysis can be summarized by a number called the Bayes Factor (BF), which expresses the posterior odds independent of any particular individual’s prior odds. For example, a BF of 3 indicates that the observed data favor the experimental hypothesis over the null hypothesis by a ratio of 3:1. The posterior odds for a particular individual can then be calculated by multiplying his or her prior odds by BF. For example, a mildly psi-skeptical individual might initially assign complementary probabilities of .2 and .8 to H 1 and H 0 , respectively, yielding prior odds of .25. If BF = 3 then the Bayesian formula indicates that this individual’s posterior odds should be .75. If BF were to exceed 4, then the posterior odds p(H 1 )/ p(H 0 ) would exceed 1, implying that this individual now favors the experimental hypothesis over the null. Jeffreys (1998) has suggested the following verbal labels for interpreting BF levels of p(H 1 )/ p(H 0 ): BF = 1 – 3: Worth no more than a bare mention
One of the unique features of the AMX-30 was the Obus à Charge Creuse de 105 mm Modèle F1 (Obus G) HEAT projectile and its main gun,[37] the Modèle F1, a monoblock steel 105-millimeter (4.1 in) cannon. [42][43] HEAT warheads suffer when spin stabilized, a product of rifled barrels,[44] causing the French to develop the Obus G,[34] (Gresse). [15] This projectile was composed of two major parts, including the outer shell and a suspended inner shell, divided by ball bearings. This allowed the projectile to be spin-stabilized, and therefore more accurate than a normal fin-stabilized HEAT-round, while the inner shell did not move, allowing the warhead to work at maximum efficiency. The warhead, containing 780 gram hexolite,[45] could penetrate up to 400 millimeters (16 in) of steel armour and was effective against tanks at up to 3,000 meters (3,300 yd). As it combined a good accuracy with a penetration that was independent of range, it has been considered an "ideal round" for its day[34] The AMX-30 was also designed to fire the OCC F1 Mle.60 high explosive projectile, the SCC F1 training warhead and the OFUM PH-105 F1 smoke round. [46] The main gun was coupled with a 380-millimeter (15 in) recoil brake, which had a maximum extension of 400 millimeters (16 in), and could depress to −8 degrees or elevate to 20 degrees. The turret's firepower was augmented by a coaxial 12.7-millimeter (0.50 in) M2 Browning machine gun. The tank commander also made use of a 7.62-millimeter (0.300 in) anti-aircraft machine gun on the turret roof. [47] The vehicle carried 50 105-millimeter (4.1 in) projectiles,[47] 748 12.7-millimeter (0.50 in) rounds and 2,050 7.62-millimeter (0.300 in) bullets. [48] The tank commander was issued a cupola which offered ten all-around direct-vision episcopes, and a binocular telescope with 10x magnification. The commander was also given an optical full-field coincidence range finder. The gunner was given a telescoping gun sight and two observation periscopes. [37]
Sure, I was with that foreigner unit and we had gotten further into the city than anyone on our front had. Well.. firstly I wasn’t happy about only having a Glock, 15 rounds and 1 grenade on me during all my clearing… So Sehid Amed crossed the road first. Not a sound. I followed suit as 2nd man. My guess now is that the bad guys nearby got an alert reaction being able to hear Amed cross. And by the time the 2nd man went out (me), sights were trained and I was doomed. Once I hit the middle of this back alley street, a tornado of ricochet went off in my little concrete kill box. Btw I’m sure some of my rounds were ricochet rather than directs. Felt like somebody poking me with a hot stick in the hip and leg, fell on my face for what felt like a lifetime but was in reality probably about half a second. Got up and sprinted inside the doorway and had two bad guys with their backs to me. Was able to put them down in some quick adrenaline high with double taps center mass. I saw movement in the right corner of my vision and turned to engage but before I could get my barrel all the way rotated I felt a brick wall smack me into the stairwell. I dropped my weapon and as I was reaching for it he (the ISIS fighter) sprayed maybe 6-8 rounds at me. I don’t know if his weapon jammed or he ran out of ammo, but he fiddled with his rifle for a moment then charged at me. Before he got to me some hard charger from across the street put two into him from outside the building. I remember one slicing through his arm extended toward me and another through his neck. So after that all I could hear was one of the other Americans shouting, “come back! come back!” I got up and sprinted back across the street, taking another round I think, and made it down the long hallway where I found a backroom that I could just fall down in. Ha Ha I ran past the guys covering the doorway who were still in a firefight with the bad guys and in that selfish, shitbag moment I had no care in the world for what was going on with everyone else.
I believe for many volunteer departments the bar is set entirely too low. An excuse Iâ€™ve heard from some volunteer chiefâ€™s for their acceptance of failure is, â€œWell if they can just show up every once in a while and drive a tanker then thatâ€™s alright.â€ Itâ€™s not alright. It is not alright to suck. Period. Furthermore this attitude of acceptance of mediocrity only breeds more mediocrity and places undue stress on those company officers and senior firefighters who will have to deal with those individualsâ€™ PPP (Piss Poor Performance) on a regular basis. Look I get it, they wanted the bugles but letâ€™s not add unnecessary bullshit to their plates when theyâ€™re already overflowing. In response to the aforementioned statement, I believe for the most part that people are far more capable than we give them credit for. I also believe that higher standards will breed a higher level of performance. A rising tide lifts all boats. Most people gravitate towards excellence and those who donâ€™t will get the picture real quick. If my children donâ€™t meet the standard I set for them should I lower the standard? Hardly. If I am a father worth my salt I will work tirelessly to bring my children up to the standard rather than just lowering the bar to meet their current level of performance. Likewise should we be lowering the bar to whatever depths we find the boat anchors sinking to? I think you can answer that one. If you can identify that you have a problem with unqualified volunteers then donâ€™t just stand around with your hands in your pockets, shoulders shrugged saying, â€œWell gaaaaawlee, I just donâ€™t know what to do about this.â€ Start taking steps to remedy the situation, for your community and for your firefighters. Along with keeping proficient with skills, your company officers should be conducting trainings that promote decision making. If your station is out together ask questions that relate to different structures and your operational guidelines.
Samsung already launched the beta test for the version for some US consumers in June.There were mixed responses among the US consumers toward the beta test due to some unsatisfactory results in terms of responding to requests and questions, Samsung said.London-based consultancy firm Ovum predicted in its May report that Bixby would grow to become the second-largest voice assistant service by 2021.Google Assistant will dominate the market with a 23.3 percent share, followed by Samsung’s Bixby (14.5 percent), Apple’s Siri (13.1 percent), Amazon’s Alexa (3.9 percent) and Microsoft’s Cortana (2.3 percent), according to Ovum.It also said the digital assistant installed base is set to exceed 7.5 billion active devices by 2021, which is more than the current world population.Samsung acquired the US startup Viv Labs -- the developer behind Apple’s Siri -- in October last year. Their AI technology has not yet been applied into Bixby. It will be used later when Bixby becomes more complete, Samsung said.By Shin Ji-hye([email protected])
The value of mining production, as measured by GVA, increased 98% between 2002-03 and 2015-16 (Figure 3). Over the same period, energy use by the mining industry increased 262%, mainly due to large increases in the use of natural gas for transformation. Greenhouse gas emissions increased 56%, and water consumption increased 16% over this period (although water consumption has dropped 14% between 2014-15 and 2015-16).The value of production generated by the agriculture industry (including forestry and fishing), as measured by GVA, increased 43% between 2002-03 and 2015-16 (Figure 4). Over this period agricultural energy use increased 46%, while greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 59%, and water consumption declined 29%. The decline in water consumption largely occurred over the drought period between 2005-06 and 2010-11. All measures showed decreases between 2014-15 and 2015-16.Total gross value of irrigated agricultural production (GVIAP), excluding forestry and fishing, for Australia in 2015-16 was $15.0b, up 26% from 2008-09. The three commodities with the highest GVIAP in 2015-16 were fruit and nuts ($3.8b, up 59% from 2008-09), vegetables ($2.8b, up 7% from 2008-09 and dairy production ($2.1b, down 8% from 2008-09) (Table 3).Manufacturing production, as measured by GVA, fell 7% between 2002-03 and 2015-16 (Figure 5). Over this period, energy consumption dropped 20% and greenhouse gas emissions decreased 19%. Water consumption was fairly consistent (1% increase over this period).The notion of environmental assets used in this publication is consistent with the(SEEA) definition and can include: subsoil assets, both mineral and energy; land; soil resources; timber resources, both plantation and native forest; aquatic resources (e.g. fish), both cultivated and natural; water resources, comprising surface water, ground water and soil water; and other biological resources. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) produces estimates of the value of subsoil, land and timber assets. While the ABS does not separately identify the value of water resources on the national balance sheet, ABS research in this area is described in a recent feature article Experimental estimates of the value of water resource stocks, Australia (cat. no. 4655.0).The value of Australia’s environmental assets in 2016-17 was $6,412.8b (in current prices), an increase of 10% on 2015-16 (Figure 6). This compares with Australia's produced capital, which was valued at $5,943.4b in 2016-17, an increase of 4% on 2015-16.Figure 7 breaks down Australia's environmental assets into type of asset.
Format is another consideration. The format of a typical Hollywood cartoon is seven minutes of uninterrupted motion. The animation is always active and, when the stars align, always engaging. By contrast, even the most tricked-out sakuga anime will have moments of downtime: stills, pans across background art, flapping mouths. Most of the time sakuga fans are fishing standout scenes from largely uninvolved productions; even Naruto has moments of inspired animation here and there. That doesn’t negate the great work that still gets turned out but to Western eyes this is seen as an abdication of the medium’s demands – “I like my animation animated.” Moreover, this difference in format puts American animation at a unique advantage. Because the corpus of American animation is relatively small and complete, fans know their field inside and out. Watching the same handful of shorts over and over again makes the subtleties of great animation easier to discern, even for non-experts (“Rank heresy it may be to say, the list of animated cartoons that warrant a length greater than thirty minutes is minuscule” Thad Komorowski). This means the theoretical core behind the Hollywood cartoon is extremely robust, bolstered by multiple decades of back-and-forth between professionals and historians. It’s easier for the Americans to dismiss alternative styles because the rules they follow have been thoroughly tested; any objection you might think of has already been accounted for. On the other hand because animation quality in anime is generally diffuse, sakuga fans tend to take a pluralistic tack on style. Movement, dynamism, panache of any kind is welcome since it loosens up normally stiff drawings. That isn’t to say there isn’t rigorous, theoretically dense writing on sakuga out there, but most of it is in Japanese or spoken between friends on chat rooms. It’s rarely committed to accessible, English-language text.
Their intelligence adds to their playfulness. They can play games and with toys more complicated than those that cats and dogs can, and they need to so they stay in shape. The most important decision a raccoon owner has to make near the beginning is if the pet will live inside or outside. Outside raccoons need large cages with both the tops and the bottoms fenced in, as they can both climb and dig. Outside raccoons are recommended to have at least one companion animal, or they'll become lonely; in fact, in Germany, it's illegal to keep a lone raccoon without a companion. Inside animals need to be house trained and taught the word no, much like domestic dogs and cats, as they'll often get into things with their curious attitude. Raccoons are omnivores, and need to be fed a mix of fruits, vegetables, chicken, turkey, and fish. They only need to be bathed once or twice a year, and it's actually harmful to do it more often, as it destroys their natural body oils. The most common problem with domestic raccoons is that they don't get enough exercise and the raccoons become overweight, so it's important to exercise them regularly. The good news is, it isn't hard to keep them lean; in fact, all you have to do is play with them regularly. Considering how energetic they are, it isn't too hard for a good owner to make sure their raccoon is well taken care of. Despite the fact that they are often viewed in a negative light, Raccoons can make good pets. This is evident to hundreds of owners of pet raccoons across the country, and more worldwide. They make incredible companions given their high intelligence and curious, loving nature. They can continue to exist in nature while also being kept as pets, and they aren't hard to care for despite being uncommon. Raccoons are relatively easy to tame, compared to some creatures, even though they're seen as wild animals. Due to these traits, Raccoons can make good pets. References Davis, H. B. (1907). The Raccoon: A Study In Animal Intelligence. The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 18(4), 447-489. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1412576 Rabies Fact Sheet (Sept, 2012). World Health Organization. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs099/en/
Results Regression analyses, which control in various ways for precipitation, technological change, soils, and location-specific unobserved factors, all show a similar nonlinear relationship between temperature and yields. Additional results and sensitivity checks are given in the SI Appendix. Yield Growth Increases Gradually with Temperature up to 29–32° Celsius, Depending on the Crop, and then Decreases Sharply for All Three Crops. Estimates and standard errors of temperature effects for all three crops are displayed in Fig. 1. The figure has three frames, where each column represents one crop. Different specifications of the link between temperature and yield growth are indicated by the color of the estimated curve. The blue line shows the most flexible specification, a step function that fits a separate growth rate for each three-degree temperature range. The black line shows the specification where yield growth is modeled as an eighth-order polynomial function of temperature and the 95% confidence band after adjusting for spatial correlation is added in gray. The red line shows a piecewise linear specification that follows the agronomic concept of degree days. Each specification shows the same characteristic shape, increasing modestly up to a critical temperature and then decreasing sharply. For corn, the critical threshold temperature is 29° C; for soybeans it is 30° C; and for cotton it is 32° C. Fig. 1. Nonlinear relation between temperature and yields. Graphs at the top of each frame display changes in log yield if the crop is exposed for one day to a particular 1° C temperature interval where we sum the fraction of a day during which temperatures fall within each interval. The 95% confidence band, after adjusting for spatial correlation, is added as gray area for the polynomial regression. Curves are centered so that the exposure-weighted impact is zero. Histograms at the bottom of each frame display the average temperature exposure among all counties in the data. The vertical axis in each figure marks the log of yield (bushels per acre for corn and soybeans and bales per acre for cotton) with the exposure-weighted average predicted yield normalized to zero. The horizontal axis is temperature. In comparing two points on any curve, a vertical difference of 0.01 indicates an approximately 1% difference in average yield for the year.
When Zionism had its first beginnings, in the early 19th century, there were about 200,000 Arabs living in all of the land, mostly concentrated in the countryside of the West Bank and Galilee, and mostly lacking in national sentiment. Palestine was, in Western eyes, a country without a nation, as Lord Shaftesbury wrote. Early proto-Zionists did not trouble themselves at all about the existing inhabitants. Many were heavy influenced by utopianism. In the best 19th century tradition, they were creating a Jewish utopia, where an ancient people would be revived. They envisioned a land without strife, where all national and economic problems would be solved by good will, enlightened and progressive policies and technological know-how. Herzl's Altneuland was in in fact just such a utopia. Jewish population grew, but Arab population grew more rapidly. By 1914, there were over 500,000 Arabs in Palestine. At the same time, Zionist pronouncements and outlook were often frankly colonialist, especially when addressing leaders of foreign powers. The plantations sponsored by Baron Rothschild were modeled on plantation settlement in Algeria and other colonies. Colonialism was fashionable and "progressive," and early Zionist leaders saw nothing wrong in assimilating this idea to Zionism along with other "modern" ideas such as socialism, utopianism and nationalism. Later Zionists were heavily influenced by socialism and embarrassed at the colonialist aspects of the Zionist project. They were also aware, of course, that Palestine was already occupied by Arabs. Many however, including the young David Ben--Gurion, who headed the Executive committee of the Zionist Yishuv (Jewish community) in Palestine and was later the first Prime Minister of Israel, initially thought that the Arabs could only benefit from Jewish immigration and would welcome it. Others, such as Eliezer ben Yehuda, frankly envisioned removal of the Arabs from Palestine. One of the earliest warnings about the Arab problem came from the Zionist writer Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsberg), who wrote in his 1891 essay "Truth from Eretz Israel" that in Palestine "it is hard to find tillable land that is not already tilled", and moreover From abroad we are accustomed to believing that the Arabs are all desert savages, like donkeys, who neither see nor understand what goes on around them. But this is a big mistake...

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