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Postwar In June 1948, at the Nuremberg Trials, Kordt testified on behalf of Ernst von Weizsäcker, State Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Nazi Germany, and later German ambassador to the Vatican. Weizsäcker was on trial for his role in Hitler's aggressive foreign policy. Partly as a result of Kordt's testimony, Weizsäcker was acquitted. This aroused the hostility of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who blocked Kordt's return to a career at the Foreign Office. From 1951, Kordt was a professor of international law at the University of Cologne.
The widening inquiries into the IRS are focusing less on why employees singled out small-government groups for scrutiny and more on agency executives who didn't inform Congress earlier. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tax Time Up Next See Gallery Discover More Like This HIDE CAPTION SHOW CAPTION of SEE ALL BACK TO SLIDE
Given how many horrendous karaoke performances we've been subjected to, we weren't at all surprised to learn that the guy who invented the karaoke machine can't sing, can't read music, and plays the keyboards about as well as your average third-grader. Songs in the Off-Key of Life We were, however, surprised to learn that poor Daisuke Inoue has made almost no money from his invention, and that he didn't even give it a try himself until 1999, his 59th birthday. (Photo: lvhrd.org) Inoue's happy-go-lucky ineptitude has been pretty much the driving force of his entire life. In high school he picked up the drums, which he chose as an instrument because, hey, all you had to do was hit them. Eventually, he took his limited talent and started playing with a Hawaiian band that frequented old dance halls from the days of the American World War II occupation. Inoue, shall we say, marched to the beat of a different drummer. Noticing this, the other band members quickly, and somewhat mercifully, realized that he'd be of better use on the business side, and he started acting as the band's manager. But he still served as occasional drummer, particularly on amateur nights playing backup for rich Japanese businessmen. Because Inoue can't read musical notation, he had to reply on watching the singer's lips in order to strike the right beat. One of his clients apparently found his drum technique flattering and asked Inoue to accompany him to a hot springs resort as his personal drummer. But Inoue couldn't go. Time Asia tells what happened next: "[Inoue] obliged by providing him with a tape of his accompaniment. The boss delivered an emotional rendition of Frank Nagai's 'Leaving Haneda Airport on a 7:50 Flight,' Inoue collected his money in absentia and karaoke (a term long used in the industry for house musicians – it literally means 'empty orchestra') was born." Inoue quickly realized he was on to something. With some help from his buddies, he built 11 prototype machines, kitted them out with amplifiers and background music, and then leased them to bars in Kobe. They were an immediate hit. But Inoue made one crucial mistake: He didn't patent his invention. Big companies quickly realized they could make a mint on machines and tapes and made their own.
YOUNG FAMILY SEARCHES FOR CLOSURE The Carbondale Times Geoffrey Ritter Thu, 09/20/2012 [Excerpts] ...“I was awake, and I just felt like Molly was saying to me, ‘Mom, I’m alright. I’m OK. Stop weeping over me so much. I’m OK. I’m happy... I don’t feel your pain, but I’m just allowed to see your weeping, to come to help you be better.’” Kathy continues. “I said, ‘If this is really you, Molly, let there be a feather on your grave when I go.’” Maybe she had just imagined it, but Kathy rushed in the morning to look for the blackbird feather hiding in the dry grass at Molly’s grave. She found nothing. “I was just so devastated,” she said. “I wanted so much for there to be a feather”... Dead from a mysterious bullet wound to her head, Molly left behind a wake of unresolved questions and vast, untended grief, the circumstances clouded by uncertainty but the violence sudden and shockingly obvious... An ambulance responded the morning of Saturday, March 24 to the Carbondale apartment of Molly’s on-and-off boyfriend, Richie Minton. Because Minton works as a dispatcher for the Carbondale Police Department, the Illinois State Police assumed command of the investigation just minutes after it was reported. The death has not been publicly ruled a suicide or homicide. Jackson County State’s Attorney Mike Wepsiec, who has an open file on the Young death, has been waiting since spring on additional evidence to return from the State Police crime lab — some of which the family reports came back just this week. Coroner Thomas Kupferer said in July he expected Young’s death to eventually be the focus of an inquest. For those who knew her, Molly Young is now forever 21, locked in memory as what family and friends describe as, first and foremost, an artist — the only thing she ever really wanted to be... Molly was “just a funny girl with a really messy apartment,” her friend Cullen Stout says. She enjoyed music and movies and walked with a smooth, relaxed gait... “She was never fake just to fit in,” says her sister, Holly Powell. “She didn’t do things to impress others. I respected her for that so much. She had her own style, was a very honest person … She was a logical thinker rather than an irrational thinker”... Holly Young says her sister broke up with Minton shortly before her death and was looking to move on.
The chicken was looking for love. The chicken was running late and took a short cut. The chicken was trying to make a difference. The light turned green. The Moon became conjunct with the chicken's natal Mars in its fourth house. The other chickens dared it to. The other chickens told it to go away. The Spirit moved it. The time had arrived for this chicken to cross this road. This chicken inherited genes predisposing it to cross roads. This was a Mormon chicken and it was setting out on its mission. It got caught up in a scam offering free grain deliveries in exchange for a nude road streak. All events in the chicken's entire life are fixed in 4-dimensional space time and the chicken could not have done anything else at that time (as we see things from within ordinary experience) than what it did; the chicken crossed the road because the chicken's crossing the road has been part of the eternally fixed micro structure of the 4-d block universe from the moment of its creation. It was helping to stamp out bugs. It was bearing the white chicken's burden. It was fulfilling its Manifest Destiny. It was doing God's work. It was helping to make the world safe for chickocracy. It was just following orders. It wanted to prove to the squirrel that it could be done. It wanted to prove to the opossum that it could be done. It wanted to prove to the armadillo that it could be done. What chicken? Because it wanted to be hit by a car. Because it saw the chicken crossing sign. It was blackmailed by a bully goose. Because if it didn't, there would be no question "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and many road-crossing-chicken scholars would not be able to answer their calling in life and would be unsatisfied for their entire lives. It knew something the other chickens didn't. Because of the rupture in the space-time continuum. I think the real question here is why did the road cross the chicken's path? The road crossed the chicken first. Retaliation baby. To go home. He had previously crossed the road to get to the other side, and now he was returning to where he originally came from. To get his pension. You don't get it? Neither did the chicken, he wasn't old enough! Because he thought if a zebra could do it, so could he.
I certainly do not mean to discount in any way the value and importance of training young scientists to go into other excellent science careers including teaching, science writing, scientific journals, consulting, etc. In any case, quality mentoring will of course greatly enable your performance in all of these alternative careers as well. Barres, 2006 Barres B.A. I have previously written about the challenges that talented women still all too often face in their careers (). Sometimes, female graduate students preferentially seek out female graduate advisors in order to obtain a role model for how to balance career and family. While this is understandable, increasingly male faculty also serve as important role models for work-life balance. I would strongly suggest to women students that as they evaluate potential graduate advisors, male or female, they examine to what extent prospective mentors have a good track record of having trained successful women scientists. As you gauge the mentoring environment of a prospective lab, make sure to ask whether the students are generally happy. If not, this is a warning sign. I strongly believe that when a talented student is in the right lab, with a good mentor, that going to lab every day should feel almost like being in summer camp. Someone once told me with great sincerity that he felt that you had not done a real PhD until you hated your advisor and he or she hated you. This is a tragic way of thinking! I have heard of many cases in which a student has been told that they are not working long enough hours in a lab and that the advisor expects the student to work 60+ hours per week. In 20 years, I have never said or implied such a thing to any student. I feel that the advisor’s job is to provide a fun and exciting environment, to set a good example, and the rest must come from the heart of a student. Henry Ford once said, “Hire good people, and then get the hell out of their way.” What great advice! If all is well, doing science will feel like play, and students will freely choose to work long hours because it is fun and exciting (that does not mean there will be frustrating times when your experiments are not working, of course).
If Guttentag and Secord’s (1983) gendered approach to the dyadic power thesis applies to this context, we would expect women on campuses with more women to be more likely to have had sex because of their reduced power within relationships. If the demographic opportunity thesis applies to this context, we would expect women on campuses with more women to be less likely to have sex. The two hypotheses, however, are not necessarily mutually exclusive; both mechanisms (i.e., dyadic power and opportunity) could be operative. If boyfriends are a function of demographic opportunity, as the previous analysis suggests, controlling for boyfriend history may reveal a positive effect of campus percent women on sex in the last month and a negative effect on retaining virginity (i.e., a suppression effect), a finding that would support both theses. Table 5 Had sex in last month Still a virgin Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2 Campus percent women 1.012 1.030+ .962* .950 Individual Characteristics Sophomore 1.134 1.173 .855 .715 Junior 2.683* 2.358 .585+ .748 Senior 1.512 1.431 .678 .846 Black 1.272 1.616 1.161 1.088 Asian .817 1.085 2.755 2.285* Other race .677 .675 2.289* 2.333* Religious service attendance .605* .582* 1.649* 1.594* Traditionalist sex attitudes .847* .778* 1.275* 1.316* Lives off campus .908 .951 .678 .641+ Campus Characteristics Campus in Northeast 1.394 1.766* .801 .788 Campus has <= 5,000 students .956 .836 1.198 1.260 Greek life 1.326 1.663 .860 .789 Private college .812 1.028 1.605 1.469 Conservative Protestant college .222+ .482 5.265 4.222 College acceptance rate 1.008 1.007 .992 1.000 Percent residential students 1.002 1.005 .995 .994 Dating Behavior and Relationship Status Has a boyfriend now 23.356* .182* Past boyfriend in college 2.954 .366 Model Fit Statistics −2 log likelihood 1097.086 879.209 1070.100 1002.804 Pseudo R-square .149 .318 .202 .253 Open in a separate window The first column of reveals the odds of having had sex in the last month by campus sex ratio, individual characteristics, and campus characteristics. Net of individual and campus characteristics, recent sexual behavior does not vary by campus sex ratio. Women on campuses with a higher percentage of women are neither more nor less likely to have had sex in the last month. The second column (Model 2), however, adds the boyfriend history variables. Interestingly, these variables suppress the effect of campus sex ratios on women’s sexual behavior.
Load the save you just made and WALK, not Fast Travel...into the Somerville Place settlement. This will (hopefully) insure the new trailer and exterior objects are properly loaded into your game.6. Activate the load door TWICE, as described above.7. Enter, and enjoy your new digs!The mod is compatible with Fallout: FROST v.41. If you use the Unofficial FROST FPS Fix mod, you are likely to have visual conflicts with the precombined/previs data generated by both mods. Adjust your load order accordingly.There is some very important information in the READ ME regarding the interactive features of the mod. I strongly suggest you read itbefore asking questions or reporting issues.The Somerville Place Trailer Player Home is the fifth in a series of player home mods that add interior cell player homes to Fallout 4 settlement locations.The Better Homes and Bunkers Player Home mod series aims to fill a void in the Fallout 4 settlement system by offering old school, pre-decorated, move-in ready player homes to existing settlement locations. All of the homes in this series will be inspired by the player homes of previous Fallout games.Click the spoiler tag to read more...A comprehensive F.A.Q. is in the READ ME. Live it, Learn it, Love it.Use the mod manager of your choice,Or to install manually:Extract the archive. It contains three files:RRTV_HomesAndBunkers_Somerville.espRRTV_HomesAndBunkers_Somerville – Main.BA2RRTV_HomesAndBunkers_Somerville – Textures.BA2Place all three files into your Data folder and activate the mod with your mod manager.The interior trailer cell is very, very small so the use of room bounds and portals was not required. Even on a low end laptop with a 4700-series i7 with a 2GB GTX860M and 16GM RAM I am able to maintain a solid 60FPS on High and Ultra settings. There are two shadowed light sources in the trailer: the main ceiling light and the “sun” light that comes in through the kitchen window. If the godrays from this light cause you FPS issues, simply close the Venetian blinds using the button on the counter beneath the window. This will help as the godrays are no longer rendered.The mod has been cleaned in FO4Edit.
Say why don't YOU two help me?? "I looked to Fluttershy then back to Pinkie, nodding. "Actually that's what we intended to do! Guide us how to do it, Pinkie! "She gleamed happily, hopping to the kitchen as Fluttershy and I followed. "You ever make icecream before, Fluttershy? "She shook her head. "Nope. ""I guess it'll be a first for both of us." I said, smiling.
(JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) US President Barack Obama plays with a baby after speaking at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 4, 2016, during a Hillary for America campaign event. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Lawmakers watch as US President Barack Obama signs H.R. 2576, the 'Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act at the White House campus June 22, 2016 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the National Park Service at Yosemite National Park, California, U.S., June 18, 2016. (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts) U.S. President Barack Obama tries virtual reality glasses and he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel tour Hanover Messe Trade Fair in Hanover, Germany April 25, 2016. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (L) enter the Oval Office after Obama spoke about the election results that saw Donald Trump become President-elect from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 9, 2016. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) U.S. President Barack Obama hugs his wife Michelle as Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife Jill look on after the President delivered a farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 10, 2017. (REUTERS/John Gress) U.S. President Barack Obama says "Obama out!" at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner in Washington, U.S., April 30, 2016. (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas) Up Next See Gallery Discover More Like This HIDE CAPTION SHOW CAPTION of SEE ALL BACK TO SLIDE
For a long time, economists tended to overlook these dollars, but recently they’ve come to appreciate their importance. Remittances, which totaled $429 billion in 2016, are worth three times as much as all the foreign aid doled out by governments worldwide, and it’s likely the money is more effective dollar-for-dollar. Unlike aid, which is notorious for passing through corrupt middlemen and inefficient bureaucracies, remittances go directly to recipients, where they pay for schooling, medical expenses, and new fridge-freezers. In some poor countries, like Somalia or Haiti, remittances make up more than a quarter of national income. And statistics show that remittances tend to hold up even in times of crisis. After the financial crash of 2007-2008, the intra-family flows continued even as private capital ground to a halt. But that’s not to say that remittances couldn’t be more effective. New startups are aiming to do for international payments what Venmo and others have done for domestic transactions: make transfers mobile, painless, and social. “In 5 years or 10 years, the whole idea of a remittance or cross-border payments will be gone, just like we don’t have cross-border email, or cross-border web browsing. It’s just the internet,” says Jeremy Allaire, CEO and founder of Circle, a blockchain-based service that’s working on the remittance market. Currently, it’s expensive to send money overseas, which is especially damaging for the immigrants sending small savings home to the developing world. The World Bank says transaction fees average 7.45% globally, and, in many remittance corridors, they’re a lot higher than that. Sending money to Africa from the U.S. or Europe sometimes costs an extra 15%, and within Africa, the fees can be stupendous. To transfer 33,000 Angola Kwanza (about $200) from Luanda to Namibia costs about $50, according to the World Bank’s price database. But in the last 10 years the average global fees have fallen by about 2.5%, which equates to about $90 billion in extra love-dollars, the World Bank’s Marco Nicoli says. The D.C. institution works to bring more transparency to remittance pricing (the database lets you compare providers), and it lends money to poorer countries to beef up their payment systems. A further 5% drop in fees would mean $16 billion in extra annual income for recipients, it says.
At that time, the USA was divided into nine Radio Districts so Amateurs were granted calls consisting of their district number followed by letters, the first letter was from A through W, for example, 1AW, 1TS. Recognition was given to certain land stations, X as the first letter for Experimental licenses (e.g. 1XE), Y for School licenses (e.g. 9YY), and Z for Special Amateur licenses (e.g. 8ZZ). 1x3 calls (like 1AAA) was issued to Amateurs beginning in 1914. For a list of early X, Y, Z callsign issues -- see U.S. Special Land Stations: 1913-1921.4 It was not until October 1, 1928, that the W and K prefixes were assigned to Amateurs. Amateurs were relegated to 200 meters and down and shocked the world with making excellent use of these higher frequencies -- see "200 Meters and Down" by Clinton B. DeSoto. 1913 to 1980’s Don Wallace12 W6AM. DX Hall of Fame and early pioneer of Amateur radio. Don has probably done more to promote DX operation and encourage new operators than any other individual. Famous for his antenna farms in Rolling Hills on the Palos Verdes peninsula. N6AW reports Don was first licensed in 1913 as 6OC, and he first appears in Radio Stations of the US, supplement 3 to the first edition, spring 1914. (1st ed. published in 1913). He received 6AM in 1926, W6AM in 1928. 1914 - The ARRL is organized by Hiram Percy Maxim to help relay messages, typical ranges were 25 miles. QST magazine appears in 1915. Hiram Percy Maxim was the son of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim who invented the machine gun (the Devil's Paint Brush), father and son are often confused, although Hiram Percy Maxim did invent a weapons silencer. 1914 Frederick E. Terman 6AE is operating out of Palo Alto, CA. Later he publishes "Radio Engineering" in 1932 and the Radio Engineers's Handbook in 1943, 1955, which becomes the bible for engineers and technicians alike during the vacuum tube era. . He is also famous for persuading young Bill Hewlett and David Packard to stay in California instead of going East to start their electronics business. 1915 Ray Kellog invents the The electric ( moving coil ) loudspeaker. 23 1915 John R. Carson applied for a patent on his idea to suppress the carrier and one sideband.

The range of weights was restricted initially to light and medium, but when italic, bold, and others were added, the face we recognize today began to colonize the world. It shows no sign of abating. In the spring of 2010, the big in-store push at the troubled clothing manufacturer American Apparel was for the Unisex Viscose Sexuali Tank, available in dark orchid for $24. This is basically a long vest, with all its sizing and washing details displayed–in Helvetica, of course. American Apparel, which uses more Helvetica per square meter than any other place on earth, had realized a simple truth: it doesn’t need guile or tricksy emotional psychology to sell its wares–not when it has a bold typeface from Europe that came in with our mother’s milk. Lars Müller has called Helvetica “the perfume of the city.” Lars Müller, a Norwegian designer who wrote a book about the font, has called Helvetica “the perfume of the city,” while Massimo Vignelli, who first advocated its use on the New York Subway in the 1960s (more than 20 before it happened), believes its versatility enables the user to say I Love You in a variety of ways, “with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy … with the Extra Bold if it’s really intensive and passionate.” And its appeal is global. In Brussels it is employed throughout the city’s transport system. In London the National Theatre has adopted it too, so comprehensively–on its posters, programs, advertising, and signs–that it rivals Johnston’s Underground as London’s strongest corporate presence.
import akka.actor. {ActorSystem, PoisonPill} import akka.testkit. {ImplicitSender, TestKit} import com.ted.playground.akka.persistence.shopping.ShoppingCartActor._ import org.scalatest. {BeforeAndAfterAll, Matchers, WordSpecLike} class ShoppingCartActorSpec extends TestKit(ActorSystem("ShoppingCartActorSpec")) with WordSpecLike with Matchers with BeforeAndAfterAll with ImplicitSender { override def afterAll: Unit = { TestKit.shutdownActorSystem(system) } "ShoppingCartActor" should { val shoppingItem = ShoppingItem("sku-000001", "Cheap headphones", 42.25, 2) "add an item to the shopping cart and preserve it after restart" in { val shoppingCartId = "sc-000001" val shoppingCartActor = system.actorOf(ShoppingCartActor.props(shoppingCartId)) shoppingCartActor ! AddItemCommand(shoppingItem) expectMsg(AddItemResponse(shoppingItem)) shoppingCartActor ! PoisonPill // creating a new actor with the same persistence id val shoppingCartActor2 = system.actorOf(ShoppingCartActor.props(shoppingCartId)) shoppingCartActor2 ! GetItemsRequest expectMsg(GetItemsResponse(Seq(shoppingItem))) } "update an existing item to the shopping cart and preserve the changes after restart" in { val shoppingCartId = "sc-000002" val shoppingCartActor = system.actorOf(ShoppingCartActor.props(shoppingCartId)) val updatedShoppingItem = shoppingItem.copy(quantity = 5) shoppingCartActor ! AddItemCommand(shoppingItem) expectMsg(AddItemResponse(shoppingItem)) shoppingCartActor ! UpdateItemCommand(updatedShoppingItem) expectMsg(UpdateItemResponse(updatedShoppingItem)) shoppingCartActor ! PoisonPill // creating a new actor with the same persistence id val shoppingCartActor2 = system.actorOf(ShoppingCartActor.props(shoppingCartId)) shoppingCartActor2 ! GetItemsRequest expectMsg(GetItemsResponse(Seq(updatedShoppingItem))) } "remove an existing item from the shopping cart and preserve the changes after restart" in { val shoppingCartId = "sc-000003" val shoppingCartActor = system.actorOf(ShoppingCartActor.props(shoppingCartId)) shoppingCartActor ! AddItemCommand(shoppingItem) expectMsg(AddItemResponse(shoppingItem)) shoppingCartActor ! RemoveItemCommand(shoppingItem.id) expectMsg(RemoveItemResponse(shoppingItem.id)) shoppingCartActor ! PoisonPill // creating a new actor with the same persistence id val shoppingCartActor2 = system.actorOf(ShoppingCartActor.props(shoppingCartId)) shoppingCartActor2 ! GetItemsRequest expectMsg(GetItemsResponse(Seq.empty)) } } }
But even if you believe in what you’re creating, the transition made by the National is still unique enough that the band members haven’t entirely worked their heads around it. “It was interesting to realize — and, exhilarating to realize — that we could do it, and that we had grown, that we had this group of people that worked together with us, helping to create something that does work in those spaces,” Aaron says of their graduation to an arena stage. “But…if you had said that in 1999 or 2003 or even in 2007, I would have been like, ‘Hmm, I don’t know. '” Berninger remembers a turning point when the band went to the Grammys for Trouble Will Find Me. “It was this bizarre thing, to be there and be like, ‘Do we have the same job as Pink? '” He recalls. “I was thinking, ‘These are my colleagues? This is the business I’m in? I have the same job, I just do it differently? '” Whether it’s onstage at Barclays or, more likely, headlining a festival, the National have crafted an arena rock for our era. They’re the closest we have to a Bruce Springsteen for our generation, for kids maybe raised in the suburbs, but pulled back and forth between there and the city, always tempted with some vague promise of something else in some other place but never knowing if the search could really be fruitful. For whom the lines “Tired and wired/We ruin too easy” are more legible than “‘Cause tramps like us/Baby, we were born to run.” This is speaking to a particular slice of America — middle-class, perhaps Middle American but seeking urban enclaves on either coast — and for that slice of America, there hasn’t been a voice more definitive than the National. It’s their whole sound, their whole ethos. The tightly wound tension of Boxer is the aural equivalent of what it felt like to breathe in the air of a post-9/11, post-Recession America. There’s a sense of dejected paralysis, a feeling of “Is that all there is?” — filling music for a generation raised in one version of America and inheriting another. And when they broke out of that sound into the wider expanses of High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me, it was the feeling of something having to break, of beleaguered anthems written for depleted times.
The inner core of Appalachia (of which I count Ashland as a part) has seen, on the whole, about a 19% decline in population from its peak in the 1950s. In other words, Ashland’s decline has been markedly less-severe than the region on the whole. We can also look at the Tristate Area more broadly, covering the whole metro area. Here, we see a story less of decline and more of stagnation. The Tristate Area has seen pretty stable population since the 1980s. While many analysts believe rising population may boost productivity and output per capita, there is no reason why stable population should make things worse. And yet, many in the Tristate Area do seem to think things are getting worse. Why might they think that?
She was also was named to the Knoxville News Sentinel Prep Xtra First Team.MacDonald helped Blessed Trinity win its fifth-straight state title by returning 957 (6.7 average) serves and digging 709 (5.1) balls. She also served for 317 points on 95.7 percent serving with 73 aces and was named first-team all-state 3A.A first-team all-24-5A District choice, Tuttle averaged 4.6 digs and 5.3 serve receptions as George Ranch went 41-8 and reached the state 5A semifinals. She also served for 199 points (33 aces).Named second-team all-state and the Adirondack League MVP, Bennett recorded 318 kills (3.3), 89 aces (238 points), 86 blocks (0.9), 180 digs (1.9) and 291 assists (3.0).A first-team all-league pick, Andaya recorded 68 aces, 312 assists, 231 digs, 165 kills and 20 blocks as Ellensburg finished second in the state in 2A.Severance helped North Branch to a 57-12 season (state runner-up in Class B), with 454 kills, 398 digs, 83 aces and 471 service receptions.
2432-Prime brown rat (Rattus norvegicus foundationi) A subspecies of the brown rat found in SCP-2432-Prime, believed to have been introduced through SCP-2432. Organism fills similar ecological niche to the Hotel dust mite, but little competition has been observed between the two species as they seem to occupy different territories throughout SCP-2432-Prime. “Dunkleowolf” (Canis osteolupis) A lupine organism, and one of the top predators throughout SCP-2432-prime. A pack hunter, Dunkleowolves apparently originate from a dimension where the apparent evolutionary path of mammals has diverged, as noted by exterior armored plating surrounding the head and neck over the fur. Ears are notably smaller than normal wolves, to accommodate the plating. The plating has observed to be similar to the extinct placoderm fish Dunkleosteus, and observation of live specimens in Foundation captivity have proved the similarity. Organism is highly aggressive, preying on rats, dust mites, and shower parrots, as well as engaging in territorial matches with rival packs. Mating behaviors are similar to that of grey wolves, and pups are often raised inside SCP-2432-Prime bathrooms in lieu of dens. “Shower parrot” (Ara kohleri) Similar in behavior to a macaw, this parrot like organism prefers to live in the bathrooms of SCP-2432-Prime. It is an infrequent prey source for the dust mites and a more common prey for the Dunkleowolves. Unlike most parrots, shower parrots seem to originate from a primarily temperate area and display this in their coloration; brown, grey, and green. Some specimens also have mosses or lichen growing on their feathers, similar to the algae in a sloth’s fur, which would aid in camouflage. Prefer to nest in places with running water, earning their nickname. Based on complex predator/prey behaviors noted between these animals, it can be assumed that they originate from the same place of origin as the Dunkleowolves. Lizard-like animal (Cancersaurus mirum) A small reptilian scavenger. They have arthropod-like characteristics, including six legs and a crab-like mandibles, stingers, and eye stalks, but are otherwise similar to reptiles. Opportunistic feeders, they are rarely found in SCP-2432 duplicates but are instead more common in kitchens and swimming pools, for unknown reasons. Have been noted to hunt prey much larger than they are, including Dunkleowolves. "Behemoth" (Prayaoctopus lovecrafti) Rare and highly dangerous large colonial animal similar to a Portuguese Man-o-war, but resembling an extremely large, land-dwelling cephalopod.
then the learner may only be capable of responding by making ad hoc adaptations which modify the output of the mentally represented ideology without altering its fundamental or core structure. This is because the learner does not have (computational) access to all that is going on in the development of a mentally represented ideology (cf. the brilliant work of Henning Andersen 1973; and also Fodor 1983). Underdetermination and inaccessibility identify sources of ideological transformation generated independently of the environmental changes Therborn lists as necessary and sufficient conditions of ideological change. What Therborn has `overlooked' is that the mind is itself an environment for ideology and an environment which is intrinsically creative because necessarily abductive in the sense of C S Peirce: abduction is that kind of thinking, theorising and hypothesising (not necessarily conscious) which takes us beyond the information given. And note that in locating at least part of this creative power in regions inaccessible to introspection and reflexive self - monitoring, the cognitivist approach I am sketching does not equate with a voluntarist theory of subjective agency or individual will. On my account, ideologies are as much things to which individuals are liable as things of which they are capable. It is just that liability is no longer equated with a tendency to reproduce unchanged (Therborn's Newtonian doctrine) but rather with a tendency to reproduce in changed form (the Heraclitean doctrine). Ideology is inherently variable from generation to generation, and individual to individual. This is what so horrifies defenders of all ideologies, whether of religious doctrines or the grammar prescribed by the Academie Francaise Turning now to the second kind of input which a learning generation receives we can ask, What happens on this cognitivist account if we consider not the growth of competence in an ideology from the evidence of accounts and representations, but the inculcation of an ideology as itself a set of rules? (This is what one might call the catechism model of ideology) To be sure, individuals are quite capable of learning and repeating lists, but the moment they try to use their lists (their rules) as a basis for judgement (for giving accounts and producing representations themselves) underdetermination intervenes to make it the case that the rules do not determine the judgement, even though the rules can be perfectly determinate in the mind. How else could casuistry be possible?
But, as citizens specialized (one person farming, one person making chairs to sell to the farmer), it gave the primary benefit of the nation's land resource to only one segment of society. Making everyone else (in non-agrarian trades) dependent upon those who are self-sufficient (acquired at the expense of the politic).Regarding those who were not landed agrarians, Paine wrote:That was 1795. It's wrong to say the founders were stoic, rugged individualists. Civic Republicanism was a strange blend of individualism and communism. Promoting civic virtue in the individual through compulsory service (coercion, which is antithetical to libertarianism) for the "common good" (which translates into the good of the individual).Our "connectedness" and dependence upon each other was a huge part of the founding generation's view. But, it wasn't sustainable in the form they envisioned.We could give Civic Republicanism modern meaning by1. Reinstitute the militia. Not the independent, self-styled "militias." But, the compulsory, universal-participation, state militias.The militia served a larger purpose than opposing bad government. It was a place for individuals of diverse backgrounds and class to deliberate on what constitutes bad government. To see "bad" from various perspectives and understand what is "common good."2. Institute a form of workplace democracy. Not labor and management trying to get the most from each other. But, a framework that promotes ownership across labor and management.The loss of never-ending frontiers and free land for every citizen to be self-sufficient was a huge blow to the goals of Civic Republicanism. The founders would call today's generation "share croppers," working for someone else, entirely dependent upon the resources/property of someone else to meet their day-to-day needs.Promoting greater ownership across the corporation (a socially-created entity which business owners voluntarily choose to operate under) might help instill independence and self-sufficiency which the founders envisioned (made possible by society, and to promote a better society).Mark
I thought I had to really understand what was going on because that's how it had worked for me up until that point. So, all this, just to say that I really had enforced the myth that programming is for math geniuses only. So, I kinda ruled it out from that point on. And then skipping ahead little bit of young adult life. Instead of going to a computer school which I maybe, let's just call it that. Which I maybe would have done if I would have not have this misconception. I instead said, "Hey, let's try Psychology studies." Didn't work out. "Let's try to study Philosophy." Didn't work out. Then I kinda prioritised student life and working instead of studying. And at one point, I panicked to realised that I can't really get job as a Philosopher. So, I went to Ireland and I'm from Norway but I went to Ireland to work for multinational companies. And eventually, all this led to me having a bit of a burn out. I worked in sales, tech support, public transport support and so on. I didn't really work jobs I liked, I just wanted to earn money. And I became a sad panda. And I mean it really because I became a sad panda. Life in Ireland, just working, drinking, eating whatever I wanted and it was not good for me. - Cool, yeah. Now let's go to the learning process. When you start to learn to code, it's like this picture here. My code isn't working and I don't know why. And if the code is working, I also don't know why. So this was always like when I'm working on something, it was always like this. And I guess it's for most of you like that when you started out learning to code. For me, I captured my whole learning experience like in this three pictures here. On the first you see like GitHubGitHub contributions. On the second, you see like cheesecake and coffee because that's like super important when you programme a lot. And down here, that's actually one hour before the gym. It's actually in the gym. But what I wanted to tell what that picture is, that you have to, yeah, you have to fit in or use every time you get. When you are busy, when you have family, studying, working, you don't have time for learning to code your whole day.
After a few months, a missionary came to the church with a special offer for Kim. “Would you like to go to America?” she asked. “My immediate response,” Kim says today, “was ‘NO.’ I was so brainwashed that it came out of my mouth immediately.” He knew little of what was going on in the world. His understanding of 9/11: “I heard that two really tall twin buildings collapsed. I knew it was in America, but I probably didn’t know it was in New York.” Still, Kim was encouraged to reconsider. He was shown a Sylvester Stallone movie and couldn’t believe what he was seeing: “Stallone ... pens the refrigerator and takes out bread and a bottle of wine. He eats the bread and drinks the wine and gets up and leaves. This was astonishing. America was so advanced, he didn’t have to wash his own dishes,” Kim writes. “America was limitless, I decided. I wanted to see what it was like.” Kim was taken to a shelter in Yanji that was partly run by an American non-profit called LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). After two months, a young American man named Adrian introduced himself to Kim and explained that he would be taking Kim and two other boys out of China and helping them get to America. First, Adrian had to make the boys seem more Chinese — aggressive, rowdy, modern — than the deferential and scared North Koreans they were. He taught them how to rough-house, how to use slang. He took them out to fast-food restaurants. He exposed them to Western culture and humour. “You know how you look, Joseph?” Adrian asked one day. “Trendy,” Kim said, gesturing to his suit jacket with cotton pants. “No, you look like a North Korean refugee.” “I was shocked!” Kim writes. “This was my coolest outfit.” Adrian bought the boys new clothes and told them to stand up straight — they had spent months hunched over, trying not to be noticed. And then, suddenly, Adrian hustled them in a taxi; they spent days on the run, hopping from hotel to hotel until finally, one night, Kim found himself driven not to the airport but the US Consulate. He would live there for four months before making to America. If he can make it here … Kim was met by a social worker when he landed and placed with a foster family in Richmond, Va.; Catholic Charities sponsored him.
Shape Created with Sketch. Climate change around the world - in pictures Show all 17 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. Climate change around the world - in pictures 1/17 Greenland Calved icebergs from the nearby Twin Glaciers are seen floating on the water in Qaqortoq, Greenland 2/17 Coastal systems and low-lying areas Flood damaged streets in Queens, New York where the historic boardwalk was washed away due to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The report predicts that by the end of the century “hundreds of millions of people will be affected by coastal flooding and displaced due to land loss” Getty 3/17 Food security Widespread drought devastated a corn crop on a farm near Bruceville, Indiana in 2012. The report forecasts that climate change will reduce median yields by up to 2 per cent per decade for the rest of the century AFP/Getty 4/17 The global economy The Evening Standard headline board showing the words 'Black Friday Shares Crash' in London in October 2008 in London. The report warns a global mean temperature increase of 2.5C above pre-industrial levels may lead to global aggregate economic losses of between 0.2 and 2.0 per cent Getty 5/17 Human health A child suffering from malnutrition and diarrhoea is seen at the Banadir hospital in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu in 2009. Climate change will lead to increases in ill-health in many regions, with examples including an increased likelihood of under-nutrition. Getty 6/17 Human security A Muslim migrant holds his son as they are detained at the Immigration Police Office on the Thai-Malaysian border in March 2014. The report states that climate change over the 21st century will have a significant impact on forms of migration that compromise human security EPA 7/17 Freshwater resources A villager walks through a parched paddy in Tianlin county, China in 2012. The report finds that climate change will “reduce renewable surface water and groundwater resources significantly in most dry subtropical regions" Getty 8/17 Unique landscapes Machair, a grassy coastal habitat found only in north-west Scotland and the west coast of Ireland, is one of the several elements of the UK’s “cultural heritage” that is at risk from climate change Getty 9/17 Greenland A boat navigates among calved icebergs from the nearby Twin Glaciers in Qaqortoq, Greenland. Boats are a crucial mode of transportation in the country that has few roads.
Team West/AJR/Boardwalk Ferrari to Compete in ALMS GT Sweedler and Bell return with Yokohama PLANO, Tex., TAVARES, Fla.- West Racing and Alex Job Racing are joining forces to compete for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) GT championship in 2013. The team will be known as Team West/AJR/Boardwalk Ferrari starting at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, March 16. Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell will pilot the Yokohama-backed No. 23 Team West/AJR/Boardwalk Ferrari 458 GT in the North American based ALMS. The duo will debut the 458 GT at Sebring where they won the GTC Class in 2012. "I'm happy that we will continue in the GT class of the ALMS through a racing partnership with Eduardo Espindola of West Racing Team," Alex Job, said. "Eduardo has quietly assembled all of the assets required to become a championship contending race team and I'm excited that we are combining efforts to help get the team to the front. I am also excited that Yokohama will be with us again this year as well." "Our efforts to acquire the most competitive car to race for the championship resulted in the acquisition of the Ferrari 458 GT," Espindola, team principal of Team West AJR/Boardwalk Ferrari said. "The car has clearly been one of the all-around leaders in the top echelon of sportscar racing around the world. Alex Job has been one of the top sports car competitors. These are the ingredients that make up front running partnerships. Along with our key sponsors and suppliers, including: Boardwalk Ferrari, Yokohama, William Rast and Motegi this represents a unique new chapter for our combined organizations. Bill and Townsend played the key role in forging this potentially long-term relationship with West Racing. We collectively look forward to racing the Ferrari in the ALMS GT class." "Our Team West/AJR/Boardwalk Ferrari is comprised of a group of consummate racing professionals," Bell added. "Special thanks goes to our great partners at Motegi Racing who made the introductions that made all of this possible. This team is focused on getting to the top of the podium. The combined team has one of the best records in sportscar racing around the world. I am thrilled that I could help put these principals together to create the newly formed team. In addition, having the chance to represent such a great brand like Ferrari is simply awesome. Every driver dreams of driving a car with the prancing horse on the hood.
MastCell - I have asked you to provide diffs so that I can respond to your specific concerns but you have not. I provided a link to my explanations of the diffs that were used to support the allegations against me in my original t-ban but I'll do it again specifically for you, only this time I've added a hashtag to the relevant diffs: User_talk:Atsme/RVW#Explanation_for_above_allegations_presented_in_context_below. Harvard University conducted a study last year that is available for all to download for free here. It's an interesting study. What Harvard published is an academic study, MastCell, not a news source. You are accusing me of wikilawyering when all I'm trying to do is state the facts. Show me the diffs that make you believe I'm on a "misconceived crusade against reliable media sources". Are you talking about discussions years ago at RS/N or NPOV/N, or are you talking about discussions on article TPs, wherein I've exercised caution as it applies to NOTNEWS, RECENTISM and other related PAGs, especially when unidentified informants were used as sources? Please, point me to the diffs that have given you pause, and have led you to say the hurtful things you've said about me, and with what appears to be anger and unyielding distrust. I've never seen this side of you, and I'm truly hurt by the things you've said. Show me the specific diffs that support the following comments you made about me, and I promise you that I will study them, yet again, and will try my best to ease your mind: "The major concern was that Atsme consistently undermined or obstructed reliable sources, dismissed high-quality journalistic sources as "propaganda", and mischaracterized fact as opinion, all in service of an apparent ideological agenda." , and "Atsme's misconceived crusade against reliable media sources , and ...despite Atsme's unwillingness to substantively engage with the issues that led to the original ban . Atsme ✍🏻📧 22:53, 26 February 2019 (UTC) MastCell, you have to read the diffs in the context they were intended, and to do that you have to read the full discussion. Surely you don't expect me to explain their context here, do you? If you're going to repeat AWilley's questions, then you should have included my response to him as well. What I can say unequivocally to you now is that, to my knowledge, I have always adhered to our PAGs. I believe WP:NOTNEWS is very clear in that Wikipedia is not a newspaper.
Figure 2: Nanoparticle characterization and toxicity screening. a, Enhancement factors for several commonly used dyes show a strong dependence on the size of the Ag particle core. Enhancement factors were calculated from the ratio of fluorescence for unetched and etched Ag–NA-dye conjugates. On the x axis is the name of each dye with its approximate peak absorption wavelength in nm. Error bars are standard deviations from replicate wells. OR488, Oregon Green 488; CF dyes from Biotium. b, Etching kinetics for Ag–NA depends linearly on the concentration and the molar ratio of the etchant components thiosulphate:hexacyanoferrate (TS:HCF). The decrease in scattering intensity from the Ag plasmon band on etching was used to calculate a rate, and the time to reach 10% of the initial value is plotted. The molar ratio of etchant components was 1:1 TS:HCF except where indicated. The concentration of Ag–NA (70 nm diameter core) was kept fixed in all conditions. c, PPC-1 cells with RPARPAR Ag–NA (R-Ag) and etching showed no effect on viability at 48 h (resazurin assay) for short-term exposures to etchant. N = 6. Values were normalized to the condition of no Ag, no etchant. Ag–NA without peptide, x-Ag, does not internalize into cells. The etchant concentration and duration of contact with cells is indicated. d, In vivo blood chemistry was evaluated 24 h after the injection of x-Ag-NA or etchant. Marker levels were not significantly different from those for a PBS control injection (see Supplementary Information for additional plots). Error bars are standard deviations N = 3–6 mice. e, The etchant was capable of etching pre-injected Ag in mice. Ag was injected into the tail vein, then 20 min later followed by either etchant or PBS injection, and blood was analysed for fluorescence at 60 min. Values were normalized to the percentage of fluorescence at 5 min. Ag had been labelled with CF555 and PEG for blood etching (see Supplementary Information). Error bars are standard deviations. N = 2. Terms and units in d, GLOB, globulin (g l−1); TP, total protein (g l−1); GLU, glucose (mM); BUN, blood urea nitrogen (mM); CRE, creatinine (μM); TBIL, total bilirubin (μM); AMY, amylase units/L; ALT, alanine transaminase units/L; ALP, alkaline phosphatase units/L; ALB, albumin (g l−1). Full size image
The light pillar and the explosion are purple. Side Special 3: Blue Flames The attack is more powerful, but it has more ending-lag and does recoil damage when released too close to Micaiah (like Roy’s fully charged special). The attack has fire properties and instead of a light pillar, it’s a blue flare (the explosion is blue too). Up Special: Rewarp Micaiah uses a Staff to warp herself in any direction with a decent reach (this can’t do damage, but it can push the opponents slightly). Micaiah is invincible when she is warping. Up Special 2: Instant Warp Rewarp has a shorter reach but Micaiah doesn’t fall helpless (she can do any action other than teleport herself again) and the teleportation is faster. Up Special 3: Powerful Warp Rewarp has a particularly longer reach, but the move has a longer start-up. Down Special: Sleep Staff Micaiah uses the Sleep Staff to create an AoE ahead her, any opponent in the AoE’s range will fall asleep. Down Special 2: Silence Staff Micaiah uses the Silence Staff this time, and the AoE will reflect the characters inside it and block the Special Moves for a brief moment. Down Special 3: Sacrifice Micaiah leans forward to heal a percentage of an ally’s damage in the AoE. Micaiah suffers recoil damage (25% of the recovered damage) if her heal hits the allies. Final Smash: Great Corona and RexAura After she casts a small magic ball flying upwards, Micaiah summons a big light magic sphere from the sky in a diagonal trajectory. If opponents are hit by the sphere they will be pulled inside, and when the sphere hits the floor and explodes they will be sent flying away. Up Taunt Like one of the original Micaiah’s poses, she does a bow-like pose and greets. Side Taunt Yune (a small orange bird) appears and flies around Micaiah. Micaiah lifts her right hand at the height of her upper body and then Yune lands there. Micaiah smiles during the animation. Down Taunt Micaiah’s eyes change their color to red, her hands begin to glow, and then she says something. As soon as she finishes, Micaiah closes her eyes and they’re yellow again. Victory Animation 1 The camera focuses on Yune flying. After a brief moment, a right hand appears. Yune lands on that hand, and then the camera focuses on Micaiah’s upper body.
Google's cookie in your browser, logging into any website, etc). This is because if an identity is attached to a sent transaction (via the lack of IP address obfuscation), then it is known that identity is associated with the sender of that transaction, regardless of the ring signature mixing on chain.Most users have no clue what they are doing and will not likely be anonymous against a high-powered adversary in Monero even if they think they are using an unregistered connection to the internet. And if widely the case, then this can cascade into reduced anonymity sets for everyone thus even destroying the anonymity for those who were careful enough.You see this shit is very complex and it can't be done with such nonchalant attitude. It requires serious technical documentation and analysis.I am not angry at any one per se; we are running out time and we should be working together to solve the problem instead of playing marketing battles here. We need to stop attacking each other. I am not attacking Monero. I am just stating technical facts.You know they added I2P because I mentioned last year in a forum there where smooth et al were present or lurking that IP address wasn't obfuscated. I think fluffypony picked up on my criticism and pushed for adding it, but I am not really sure who did. Ever since then, I've been telling smooth that I2P is not sufficient against a high-powered adversary. It is one year hence and we still haven't solved the problem.As AnonyMint I was the guy in the Anoncoin thread in 2013 (as kLee can attest) making the point their I2P integration lacked high-latency protection against timing attacks. Now 2 years later we are still in the same predicament.Look I am just one guy. You can't expect me to do the work that requires dozens and dozens of highly skilled programmers working for years. I can only do so much. I am working 100+ hours a week and doing my best. I will try to fix all this shit but I won't be able to do it alone.P.S. what got me off on this tangent was searching for a better alternative to Bitmessage, but unfortunately I think maybe there is none when obfuscating the link between sender and recipient.
Virgo HhVY It is not difficult to obtain these permutations. First, write down the signs of the zodiac in order from Aries to Pisces. Aires, being the initiation of the wheel of the zodiac, is assigned the primary version of the Tetragram: YHVh. Then, the first letters for the permutations for Taurus and Gemini are also Y. Keep going down the same column to write H as the first letters of Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. The next three zodiac signs begin with V, and the final three begin with H-final. For the second column of letters, we shift the pattern forward one step. We must begin with the second letter of the Tetragram (H), and it must be written by Pisces (the sign that directly precedes Aires in the sky). The letters are still written in groups of three- so that Pisces, Aries and Taurus are given the H. Gemini, Cancer and Leo are assinged V as their second letter. The next three are given Heh-final, and the final three are given Yod. Shift the pattern forward a step again for column three: begin at Aquarius with the letter V, and assign it also to Pisces and Aries. Continue with H-final for the next three, and so forth until you reach the H-superior of the Tetragram again. Column four is self-explanatory, because it contains whatever letter has not been used in each permutation. It does not follow the same three by three pattern as described above, but it does have a pattern of its own. Begin by writing Y in the fourth column by Pisces Then, simply write the Tetragrammaton in its proper order while moving UPWARD in the column. It will repeat three times, and finally land on H-final at Aries. You can check your work by comparing your results with the above list of permutations. In this way does the Tetragrammaton govern the Wheel of the Zodiac. There are only twelve possible ways for a group of four letters to be arranged, and my feeling is that it is meant to illustrate how the Four Elements combine in differing combinations to produce four Triplicities. From here, we need only discover how the total of 72 relates to this rulership.
Because if the USAF is telling half-truths and creating half-narratives to feed its own political agenda, it is abusing its power. Americans are entitled to know how their defense is being effectuated, how their annual $120B is being spent, and how effectively the leaders to whom they entrust their sons and daughters are performing. They need to be armed with truth to make accurate inputs to their legislators, who control the purse strings of war. This is just part of why transparency matters, and why the Air Force is betraying its most sacred duties by manipulating legal loopholes to sidestep honesty in its dealings with the public. “Grunts in the Sky” (the name given to the finished version of “Hawg”) has still not been published by the Air Force. We don’t know exactly why … which leaves us to draw the conclusions reasonably supported by such a grotesque mutilation of a process that exists to give citizens transparent access to government. Steven Mayne has filed an appeal claiming the Air Force improperly applied FOIA exemptions. Depending on the outcome, consultations with FOIA attorneys and watchdog groups might come next. In the meantime, this unacceptable response, and the story behind it, should be subjects of Congressional interest … and airmen should reserve a tough question or two about trust and integrity for their next mandated VIP tour. © 2015 Bright Mountain, LLC
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So this BBQ inspired me to create a veggie burger that was not only delish, but also looked a bit like those non-vegan burgers.I call this creation "The Contender" aka my Black & Beet Mushroom-Walnut Veggie Burgers. These plant-based babes could easily be placed in the ring with any beef-y burger.These burgers contain a few black ingredients to give the burger appearance some depth. Black rice and black beans. I find that pink beet burgers do not usually have the tone and color contrast to look like a classic non-vegan burger, so the black helps there.Oh, and I know some vegans hate it when bloggers try and create VEGAN recipes that LOOK LIKE MEAT. And I am normally not a big fan of that idea either. BUT the whole point of this is that I wanted to create something that I could actually set on a party table right next to the meat option and maybe someone would be so interested by the similarities of the two, they just might give the vegan version a try. And the best part about this burger is that it is made using WHOLE foods. No processed soy or TVP. Just whole, good, healthy ingredients like. So dive in or serve up a platter of these burgers at your next burger bash.1 1/4 cups canned black beans, drained, rinsed & mashed1 cup cooked black rice, (1/2 cup uncooked)1/4 cup raw beets, grated on a microplane1 1/4 cups fresh shiitake mushrooms. processed until crumbly, thick stems removed1/2 - 3/4 cup walnuts, processed until fine and crumbly1 tsp smoky spanish paprika1 Tbsp spicy brown mustard1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar1/2 tsp salta few pinches of pepperflax liquid: 1 1/2 Tbsp veggie broth + 1 1/2 tsp ground flax seeds1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or grease the pan. I use coconut oil.2. You can do this step beforehand for easiest prep: cook black rice. I use about 1/2 cup of rice and 1 cup of water or veggie broth. Add a pinch of salt if using water. Cover with lid and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer for about 25-35 minutes or until rice is tender. Check on the rice about 20 minutes into cooking and add another splash of water if you the rice looks a bit too dry.3. In a large mixing bowl, add the rinsed beans. Mash them well with a fork.4.
“I think I probably got a lot of my father’s natural security, or ego, or whatever … I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways – I’d like to be more like him when it comes to business – but I think I’m such a different person, it’s hard to even compare us. His work persona is kind of what he is. I have a work face, and then there’s my private life,” – Trump Jr to New York magazine, 2004. They say “It’s a do-anything-you-can-to-win world that he’s part of, and his eagerness to meet with this lawyer, who was very explicitly described as having information that came from Russian government sources – there’s no mystery there. There’s no veil. There’s not even one veil. Her name wasn’t mentioned but everything else was very explicit and he leaps at it. That’s all part of this all-that-matters-is-winning, there’s winning and there’s losing, that’s it. That’s the value system and in that way, he very much echoes his father.” – Gwenda Blair, Trump biographer, to the Guardian, 12 July 2017. “It’s a do-anything-you-can-to-win world that he’s part of, and his eagerness to meet with this lawyer, who was very explicitly described as having information that came from Russian government sources – there’s no mystery there. There’s no veil. There’s not even one veil. Her name wasn’t mentioned but everything else was very explicit and he leaps at it. That’s all part of this all-that-matters-is-winning, there’s winning and there’s losing, that’s it. That’s the value system and in that way, he very much echoes his father.” – Gwenda Blair, Trump biographer, to the Guardian, 12 July 2017.
We have seen a parade of former Israeli military and security chiefs with close ties to the US defense establishment declaring before every available microphone that Israel must not strike Iran and that we can count on Obama to protect us.But we mustn’t believe their assurances or succumb to their pressure. Obama will not change course. He doesn’t have to. So long as he maintains faith with the god of appeasement, the US media will protect him. And so long as they protect him, he will pay no price for his failures. So he will repeat them.Israel cannot countenance a nuclear Iran. So Israel needs to attack Iran’s nuclear installations.No more needs to be [email protected]
Once when he took Karen out to lunch and once when he ran into her at an Island Institute meeting. Each time she was very congenial and chatted about their adventure. He has never heard from Susan. If there’s something to be learned from this experience, it is appreciation for the help you get when you need it most. Ray would like to thank the Rangers at Assateaque State Park, Sea Tow, his son Kent, Rick Dearborn, and all the friends who offered support during Satori’s recovery. " Is it any wonder that yachties and others look at this film again and again?
The Kuomintang (KMT) troops from Mainland China were initially welcomed by local inhabitants, but their behaviour and the KMT maladministration led to Taiwanese discontent during the immediate postwar period. As Governor-General, Chen Yi took over and sustained the Japanese system of state monopolies in tobacco, sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, petroleum refining, mining and cement, just the way the Nationalist treated people in other former Japan-control areas (people nicknamed him robber "劫收"). [9] He confiscated some 500 Japanese-owned factories and mines, and homes of former Japanese residents. Economic mismanagement led to a large black market, runaway inflation and food shortages. Many commodities were compulsorily bought cheaply by the KMT administration and shipped to Mainland China to meet the Civil War shortages where they were sold at very high profit furthering the general shortage of goods in Taiwan. The price of rice rose to 100 times its original value between the time the Nationalist took over to the spring of 1946, increasing to nearly 4 times the price in Shanghai. It inflated further to 400 times the original price by January 1947. [10] Carpetbaggers from Mainland China dominated nearly all industry, political and judicial offices, displacing the Taiwanese who were formerly employed. Many of the ROC garrison troops were highly undisciplined, looting, stealing and contributing to the overall breakdown of infrastructure and public services. [11] Because the Taiwanese elites had met with some success with self-government under Japanese rule, they had expected the same system from the incoming ruling Chinese Nationalist Government. However, the Chinese Nationalists opted for a different route, aiming for the centralization of government powers and a reduction in local authority. The KMT's nation-building efforts followed this ideology based on unpleasant experiences with the centrifugal forces during the Warlord Era in 1916–1928 that had torn the government in China. Mainland Communists were even preparing to bring down the government like the Ili Rebellion. [12] The different goals of the Nationalists and the Taiwanese, coupled with cultural and language misunderstandings served to further inflame tensions on both sides.
Vicki and Shane Feeney had a wild encounter near their Mount Penn home over the Labor Day weekend that highlights just how difficult it is for young raptors to make it in this world. "My husband on Labor Day saved a red-tailed hawk that was shocked by a wire," Vicki writes. "He pulled him from the shrubs and laid him on the ground," she continues. "We made several calls but were told just to leave him there and that he should be OK, but my husband didn't want to leave him near the road, so he picked him up and moved him to safety. "Immature birds have a tendency to find themselves in fatal situations.Fortunately, this one turned out well for the young bird. "We are always reading about people hurting animals," Vicki says, "and here is someone helping even a wild animal. The hawk was even holding on to his finger. Shane went back a little later, and the hawk had flown away.
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We've always wanted to make Ignite grant vision of the target so you can slowly watch them burn but this also better clarifies Ignite's use as either a signal to focus fire your target or a end-spell to help finish off your targets as they run by ensuring they can't evade you by dodging into a brush. {{summoner:3}} Exhaust * Movement Speed Reduction: 30% --> 25% * Damage Reduction: -30% --> -50% * Cast Range: 550 --> 650 Tentative numbers on Exhaust right now. Exhaust has traditionally been powerful on initiators, mostly because the short cast range demands that you close the distance with some other spell before using Exhaust. Exhaust is center-to-center cast, so the 550 cast range actually falls short of most AD Carry attack ranges or other burst initiation ranges. This makes using Exhaust defensively against carries somewhat awkward, as you typically have to walk forward to Exhaust the target that is actually inflicting all the preventable damage incoming. We've reduced the slowing power of spell because you can cast it from a longer distance and we've made the spell much more powerful as a preventative reactive measure against the engagement burst so that casting Exhaust before the impact happens is more rewarding. Note: Probably won't be responding to this thread tonight in full vigilance - I'll hop on this thread more when I get confirmation that these changes are on PBE. Otherwise, again - this is just a quick heads up on what you'll seen soon on PBE.
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Not to be confused with ISSN, the serial number used by the Library of Congress used to register magazines. JAYAWARDENE, JANAKA- Sri Lankan immigrant who helped catch the Phantom Dialer. JAPAN [Nippon]- Country code ".ja;" East Asian nation, population 125.2 million, which is the subject of many cyberpunk novels due to an odd history and its high technology. Pursued a highly hierarchal samurai society until the mid-1800s, yet retained a strong Imperial culture until 1945, when they were totally defeated in the Second World War. Now an extremely successful producer of consumer goods, particularly electronics. (This doesn't have too much to do with hacking, but Japan is a notable country from an electronics standpoint, as well as the fact that much of SF currently involves Japan, and its preponderance of zaibatsus.) JOHNSON, ROBERT- see THE PROPHET JOLT [Cola]- Soft drink famous for having twice the caffeine of any other major soft drink (still less per pound than coffee, though), invented and distributed by the Jolt Company, Inc. By the way, did you know you can type on average five words a minute faster than normal if you drink two bottles of MegaJolt in succession? JSZ- Collaborator with Phantom Dialer. Supposedly created the first packet sniffer. JUDGE DREDD- British comic book character currently published by DC that has some cyberpunk concepts; it's about a semi-fascist anti-hero in the 23rd century. Sylvester Stallone made a flop movie from it that the sets and special effects were cool, but not much else. There was a hacker in the early 1990s with this handle, as well as another one (who may be the same guy) who was a member of the 2300 Club. KRACK- see CRACK K-RAD- ("A thousand points of rad" -one of the Count Zeros) Extremely cool; very rad. [From one thousand times- "k," standing for kilo-; and "rad"- short for "radical," skateboarder-type slang term in the 1980s meaning cool.] KAPOR, MITCHELL- Co-founder of the EFF. Ex-hippy, founder of Lotus, and original programmer of Lotus 1-2-3. KARL MARX- Handle of James Salsman. Phreak and ex-member of the Legion of Doom and the Farmers of Doom. Former sysop of Farmers of Doom BBS. [Handle came from a mention in the comic strip "Bloom County" about Communists, which was itself obviously a reference to the German nineteenth century historian and economist who originated socialism and communism in the seminal work _Das Kapital_.]
BUSY BUSY BUSY- I'm running around the studio firing up cameras before Michelle's haircut. I leave the room for a minute to get a battery, and unbeknownst to me, Michelle says to her boyfriend "I'M LITERALLY HAVING A HEART ATTACK," and declares "I CAN'T GO BALD." I came back in the studio, not knowing about Michelle's heart attack, asked if she was nervous- she said "Yeah, just a little," and I proceeded to shave her head with my own brand of RUTHLESS ENTHUSIASM! Two days later, while watching the video, I discovered Michelle's HEART ATTACK in the moments before her haircut. PRICELESS!! Michelle is a 25 year old hairstylist who is about to receive the ULTIMATE HAIRCUT- a SMOOTH N' SEXY SHAVED HEAD!! Michelle is more than a little nervous, but goes through with the haircut, making lots of "SCRUNCHY" faces along the way. Mirror mirror on the wall. Who's the HOTTEST HAIRSTYLIST BALD BABE of them all? Michelle's boyfriend Eric becomes the first customer of the newly bald Michelle. With equal parts of RUTHLESS and ENTHUSIASM Michelle gave Eric the same haircut he had watched her receive moments before- The couple that shaves together stays together!! Michelle has shaved lots of boys' heads, especially in the summertime. "Five minutes to being cool," she says. She has never shaved a girls' head, but we suspect that will change in the days to come. Both Michelle and Eric love their new haircuts, and are glad they did it!! We think a lot of Michelle's customers will soon be BALD and BEAUTIFUL at the hands of the BALD BARBERETTE!! We hope Michelle will be back in the studio soon to give more haircuts!! FOLLOWUP 2 DAYS LATER- Michelle confirms that her new haircut is "growing on her" and she's enjoying all the attention when she walks down the street showing off her BALD BEAUTY!! Please purchase a subscription on the sub site- support our efforts and watch unlimited videos 24/7 open 365 days per year. CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE SUBSCRIPTION SITE
His insights were soon being sought by, and all too often delivered to, a plethora of organizations feared by conspiracists – Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, World Economic Forum, Pilgrims Society – although perhaps such groups should be feared more for their narcoleptic than their necromantic powers. … Whilst Chairman, BP signed a £545m oil deal with Libya, and he was present on the notorious 2007 occasion when Tony Blair was photographed embracing Colonel Gaddafi. … His reserve was not resented by the Gaddafi family, because subsequently the Colonel’s son graciously accepted a PhD from the London School of Economics (Chair of Council: P. Sutherland) and gave the School £1.5m. A £2.2m government contract with the LSE to train the Libyan civil service may not have been entirely unconnected with these transactions. Perhaps this mutually agreeable but officially frowned-upon alliance might have continued to this day had not Libya’s liberal idealists meted out rougher-than-strictly-necessary justice last year in Sirte. Sad to record, in the last two years of Peter’s BP chairmanship (he left in 2010) ungrateful shareholders even argued he was not qualified for the job, as he had been a member of the board of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and on the RBS remuneration committee which was so generous to Sir Fred Goodwin and other equally deserving recipients – ‘resigning’ only when ‘asked’ by the government. Suchlike perils of greatness were thankfully always counterbalanced by acknowledgements of his usefulness to that cosy world where law, liberalism and lucre meet – with even the un-liberal Vatican clamoring for his services (he has the resounding title of Consultor of the Extraordinary Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See). To add to this sacerdotal seal of approval, there have always been plentiful profane rewards – such as the £125 million he reportedly ‘earned’ from Goldman Sachs 1999 flotation. But the money was always incidental to the greater aim of getting rid of all those pesky prehistoric frontiers, traditions and identities which impede the global flows of capital, commodities, human rights lawyers, pictures of celebrities in thongs, and humans in throngs. As he remarked almost angrily in 2007, opposition to greater globalisation is ‘morally indefensible’.
Because we have now calculated most of π 4 (S 3 ) (see below; the “most of” disclaimer is why these squares are shaded white in the table), this gives most of π 4 (S 2 ). The grey shading on the remainder of the S 2 /S 3 rows indicates that while we have not calculated any of these groups, we know that the two rows are equal.
When a combustible compound is present, then the released active oxygen is capable of igniting the combustible material at once. This reaction is very violent and often leads to explosive decomposition of remaining manganese heptoxide. The brown smoke, released in the beginning of the experiment is finely divided MnO 2 , in a later stage, when the material cools down somewhat, it does not decompose anymore and the purple vapor of Mn 2 O 7 can be observed.
/// <summary> /// The service session. /// </summary> public class SessionService : ISessionService { private readonly IApplicationDataService _applicationSettings; private readonly IFacebookService _facebookService; private readonly IMicrosoftService _microsoftService; private readonly IGoogleService _googleService; private readonly ILogManager _logManager; /// <summary> /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="SessionService" /> class. /// </summary> /// <param name="applicationSettings">The application settings.</param> /// <param name="facebookService">The facebook service.</param> /// <param name="microsoftService">The microsoft service.</param> /// <param name="googleService">The google service.</param> /// <param name="logManager">The log manager.</param> public SessionService(IApplicationDataService applicationSettings, IFacebookService facebookService, IMicrosoftService microsoftService, IGoogleService googleService, ILogManager logManager) { _applicationSettings = applicationSettings; _facebookService = facebookService; _microsoftService = microsoftService; _googleService = googleService; _logManager = logManager; } /// <summary> /// Gets the session. /// </summary> /// <returns>The session object.</returns> public Session GetSession() { var expiryValue = DateTime.MinValue; string expiryTicks = LoadEncryptedSettingValue( "session_expiredate" ); if (! string .IsNullOrWhiteSpace(expiryTicks)) { long expiryTicksValue; if ( long .TryParse(expiryTicks, out expiryTicksValue)) { expiryValue = new DateTime(expiryTicksValue); } } var session = new Session { AccessToken = LoadEncryptedSettingValue( "session_token" ), Id = LoadEncryptedSettingValue( "session_id" ), ExpireDate = expiryValue, Provider = LoadEncryptedSettingValue( "session_provider" ) }; _applicationSettings.LocalSettings[Constants.LoginToken] = true ; return session; } /// <summary> /// The save session. /// </summary> /// <param name="session"> /// The session. /// </param> private void Save(Session session) { SaveEncryptedSettingValue( "session_token" , session.AccessToken); SaveEncryptedSettingValue( "session_id" , session.Id); SaveEncryptedSettingValue( "session_expiredate" , session.ExpireDate.Ticks.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); SaveEncryptedSettingValue( "session_provider" , session.Provider); _applicationSettings.LocalSettings[Constants.LoginToken] = true ; } /// <summary> /// The clean session. /// </summary> private void CleanSession() { _applicationSettings.LocalSettings.Remove( "session_token" ); _applicationSettings.LocalSettings.Remove( "session_id" ); _applicationSettings.LocalSettings.Remove( "session_expiredate" ); _applicationSettings.LocalSettings.Remove( "session_provider" ); _applicationSettings.LocalSettings.Remove(Constants.LoginToken); } /// <summary> /// The login async. /// </summary> /// <param name="provider"> /// The provider. /// </param> /// <returns> /// The <see cref="Task"/> object. /// </returns> public async Task< bool ?> LoginAsync( string provider) { Provider = provider; Exception exception; try { Session session = null ; switch (provider) { case Constants.FacebookProvider: session = await _facebookService.LoginAsync(); break ; case Constants.MicrosoftProvider: session = await _microsoftService.LoginAsync(); break ; case Constants.GoogleProvider: session = await _googleService.LoginAsync(); break ; } if (session == null ) { return null ; } Save(session); return true ; } catch (Exception ex) { exception = ex; } await _logManager.LogAsync(exception); return false ; } /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the provider. /// </summary> /// <value> /// The provider. /// </value> public string Provider { get ; set ; } /// <summary> /// The logout.
Ive never been on Twitter, Abedin says. I couldnt tell you the first thing about how it works. And Anthony had told me in the past that there were these sort of trolls on the Internet who were trying to damage him, take him down. And so, thats the mind-set I came with to this conversation. It wasnt such an implausible theory; after all, it was the not entirely reputable right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart who broke the story. Um, no. It needed no "breaking" apart from the initial RT. Dana Loesch happened to retweet it. The Times is just making stuff up here. Also note that this spin protects the Times, as well-- because they bought into the "hacked" claim right away. This is the New York Times explaining to you why its perpetual credulousness about the claims of liberals caught in scandals is defensible, and even, when you think about it, rather righteous. Breitbart pushed the story, certainly, to a media that decidedly was not demanding answers from Weiner. The media's take was Howard Kurtz' -- why, obviously this was a hack. Only "twerps" would think otherwise. The question about Weiner not contacting investigators over an alleged hack didn't originate with "reporters." I should know. It originated with me. And I retweeted that question to every reporter whose Twitter handle I knew. In fact, it wasn't until the Tuesday after the Memorial Day weekend dick-pic that reporters ran any stories on this at all. I know this, because I, and a few others, were blogging and tweeting about it all Memorial Day weekend, trying to keep the story alive and put relevant questions like "If it's a hack, why haven't you contacted the FBI?" in front of clueless reporters. So, Weiner besieged, possibly set-up by right-wing hacker Andrew Breitbart, all these reporters all over him. Except they weren't. Not at first, and really, not even later either. It was absolute smoking gun proof offered by Andrew Breitbart that did Weiner in on June 6th, and not "questions from reporters," that compelled Weiner to confess. I'm getting to that. The New York Times is about to lie to you about the sequence of events, and credit for exposing the story, in order to polish up Weiner's post-"hacked!" behavior. And to credit "reporters" for a story that Andrew Breitbart owned-- and took to completion.
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Harry Potter was the highest grossing UK film last year UK cinema admissions in 2009 were at their highest level since 2002, the Film Council has revealed. Box office attendances have varied in the past seven years, peaking in 2002 with a total of 175.9m admissions and dipping to 156.6m in 2006. Last year, UK cinemas admitted 173.9m customers, with takings at a record £944m. Blockbuster movies such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Avatar helped entice people back to the cinemas. Strong performance The total UK gross box office of £944m was up 11% on 2008. TOP 10 FILMS RELEASED IN UK AND IRELAND, 2009 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - £50.72m 2. Avatar - £41.00m 3. Ice Age III - £35.02m 4. Up - £34.42m 5. Slumdog Millionaire - £31.66m 6. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - £27.08m 7. Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen - £27.06m 8. The Hangover - £22.12m 9. Star Trek - £21.40m 10. Monsters Vs. Aliens - £21.37m Source: Nielsen EDI, UK Film Council Combined with takings made in the Irish Republic the box office exceeded £1bn for the first time. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the highest earning release of the year with takings of nearly £51m. James Cameron's movie Avatar, although it was only released in December, is continuing to perform strongly in its fourth weekend on release and could go on to exceed this figure. Last year was also the second best year on record for money spent on production in the UK, with a total spend of £956.9m, 56% higher than 2008. Chief executive officer of the UK Film Council John Woodward said the film industry is "weathering the recession well". He added: "Taken together, these box office and inward investment numbers show how film in the UK has moved from the margins back to the mainstream, helping sustain jobs and promote the UK's place on the international stage. "British cinemagoers are voting with their feet - they want to see big event movies, many of which depend on outstanding British talent and are made in the UK thanks to our reliable film tax credit."
The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to 124 laureates — to 100 individuals and 24 organizations till now.Since the International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded three times and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded twice there are 100 individuals and 21 organizations that have been awarded the Nobel peace prize.The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) — an international organization working since 1997 to convince countries to give up chemical weapons besides checking and confirming the destruction of existing chemical weapons had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.OPCW had been tirelessly monitoring activities in the chemical industry to reduce the risk of commercial chemicals being misused for weapons purposes, providing assistance and protection to member countries if they are attacked or threatened with attack by chemical weapons, including by terrorists and promoting international cooperation for the peaceful uses of chemistry.OPCW is presently overseeing the destruction's of Syria's arsenal and aim to help destroy Syria's chemical weapons production facilities and weapons-filling equipment.
Sacagawea had yet to see the ocean, and after willfully asking Clark, she was allowed to accompany the group to the sea. As Captain Lewis wrote on January 6, 1806, [T]he Indian woman was very impo[r]tunate to be permited to go, and was therefore indulged; she observed that she had traveled a long way with us to see the great waters, and that now that monstrous fish was also to be seen, she thought it very hard she could not be permitted to see either. During the expeditions return journey, as they passed through her homeland, Sacagawea proved a valuable guide. She remembered Shoshone trails from her childhood, and Clark praised her as his pilot. The most important trail she recalled, which Clark described as a large road passing through a gap in the mountain, led to the Yellowstone River. (Today, it is known as Bozeman Pass, Montana.) The Corps returned to the Hidatsa-Mandan villages on August 14, 1806, marking the end of the trip for Sacagawea, Charbonneau and their boy, Jean Baptiste. When the trip was over, Sacagawea received nothing, but Charbonneau was given $500.33 and 320 acres of land. Six years after the expedition, Sacagawea gave birth to a daughter, Lisette. On December 22, 1812, the Shoshone woman died at age 25 due to what later medical researchers believed was a serious illness she had suffered most of her adult life. Her condition may have been aggravated by Lisettes birth. At the time of her death, Sacagawea was with her husband at Fort Manuel, a Missouri Fur Company trading post in present-day South Dakota. Eight months after her death, Clark legally adopted Sacagaweas two children, Jean Baptiste and Lisette. Baptiste was educated by Clark in St. Lous, and then, at age 18, was sent to Europe with a German prince. It is not known whether Lisette survived past infancy. During most of the 20th century, several generations of Americans have believed a theory that originated in 1907 by Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, Librarian, University of Wyoming. According to Dr. Hebards theory, a person who lived to age 100 on the Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyoming) was the Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Alleged to have been Sacajawea, which was interpreted to mean boat launcher, that woman died and was buried on the reservation on April 9, 1884.
The Obama machine's singular goal: to keep the president in his job by raising and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to recreate the momentum of 2008. There are now close to 700 hundred full time employees, an entire floor of office space, thousands of volunteers in well over 100 field offices across all 50 states, and the most impressive digital team a presidential campaign has ever assembled. There's been experimentation—the tech team figured out a way to make the Obama website display perfectly on any device, a feat that wouldn't have been possible even a year ago—and the entire office was designed to resemble a Silicon Valley start-up. The digital department is the largest in headquarters. Messina even consulted with Palo Alto execs to find the "best practices," says an Obama official, including carpets (quieter), mixing the staffs on the floor into teams rather than departments, bouncy balls, and communicating with instant messages and Twitter. "We ensure maximum collaboration so people don't sit with their departments, they sit in teams," Messina told BuzzFeed. (Messina insisted on speaking off-the-record in an interview at the Chicago headquarters, and subsequently agreed to be quoted on some, though not all, of what he said.) There's a small warehouse of cool Obama gear for sale to the staff, all made in America, with an iPhone cover running for $40 (discounted to $35 for staff). A Ping-Pong table, state flags, ironic mementos on desks. The office does have sights that are more familiar to an old school campaign, too, like the speechwriters' office, where a bar well stocked with Jack Daniels sits in front of the window. The 1.8 million donors, 50 percent of them new, according to Obama officials, have given $157 million through the end of February, with hundreds millions more to come.
In the ring, at least, he exerts a civilizing influence on boxing; his virtuosic, punctilious style can make the sport’s old blood-and-guts ethos seem obsolete. At the end, he called for the emerald-encrusted championship belt that had been created for the event. “Strap me up!” he shouted.
So, we were like ‘Okay, if helicarriers are going to crash in the third act, what kind of story would you tell to get there?’ and that kind of generated the whole inside program in the story." Handling The Strangest Stuff Comics Have To Offer Looking back on the last 75 years of Marvel Comics, you discover that there is a lot of really strange stuff. Not only are there some massively convoluted cross-over stories and bizarre costumes, but there are also characters who are just
KOLKATA: The Narendra Modi government is considering a proposal to make lion India’s national animal, pushing out the tiger that has had the coveted status since 1972. The idea has triggered a furore among wildlife activists who called it bizarre, saying it would dilute the campaign to save tigers and pave the way for clearance of industrial projects near tiger sanctuaries.It was Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand Parimal Nathwani, an industrialist, who sent the proposal to the environment ministry. It was then passed on to the National Board for Wild Life (NBWL), which functions under the ministry. It is packed with members from Gujarat, say sources.A standing committee of the board, chaired by environment minister Prakash Javadekar, discussed the issue in March. “The committee requested the ministry to consider wider consultations on the matter,” said Raman Sukumar, a member of NBWL.The fact that the proposal to make the lion India’s national animal is now with the board indicates it has generated significant interest in the administration, say sources.However, NBWL member H S Singh said several issues have to be taken into account before considering the proposal. “Tigers are found across 17 states in India, whereas lion is found in only one,” said Singh.MP Nathwani had made the same proposal in 2012, but the then forest minister, Jayanthi Natarajan, said in Rajya Sabha that it was not even under consideration. In December last year, he again put a question in Parliament (No 2861) whether there was a proposal to make lion the national animal.Union environment Prakash Javadekar replied there was no such proposal. In spite of this, the issue was discussed at a committee meeting, chaired by Javadekar, on March 14, 2015, where it was listed as agenda item No. 4.In a recent countrywide assessment, it was found that India is home to more than 2,200 tigers, whereas the Asiatic lion population, estimated at 411, is confined to Gujarat’s Gir.Tiger was adopted as the national animal at a meeting of the Indian Board for Wildlife (now NBWL) in 1972 in view of its “worldwide importance, existence in the entire country and the need for its protection”.“Tiger is our national glory. India is the only place where you can get to see a tiger in the wild. After Taj Mahal, tiger is the second biggest attraction among foreign tourists visiting the country every year.
[9] Following mechanical digestion, the digestive tract of the Philippine flying lemur, especially the stomach, is specially adapted to break down and process the large number of leaves and vegetation they ingest. [6] Colugos also have a brownish grey-and-white pelage they use as camouflage amongst the tree trunks and branches, which allows them to better hide from predators and hunters. [4]
import java.util. ; public class PegSolitaireSolver { private static final HashSet<Long> seenBoards = new HashSet<Long>(); private static final ArrayList<Long> solution = new ArrayList<Long>(); private static final long GOAL_BOARD = 16777216L; private static final long INITIAL_BOARD = 124141717933596L; private static final long VALID_BOARD_CELLS = 124141734710812L; private static final long[][] moves = new long[76][]; private static void printBoard(long board) { for (int i = 0; i < 49; i++) { boolean validCell = ((1L << i) & VALID_BOARD_CELLS) != 0L; System.out.print(validCell ? (((1L << i) & board) != 0L ? "X " : "O ") : " "); if (i % 7 == 6) System.out.println(); } System.out.println("-------------"); } private static void createMoves(int bit1, int bit2, int bit3, ArrayList<long[]> moves) { moves.add(new long[]{(1L << bit1), (1L << bit2) \| (1L << bit3), (1L << bit1) \| (1L << bit2) \| (1L << bit3)}); moves.add(new long[]{(1L << bit3), (1L << bit2) \| (1L << bit1), (1L << bit1) \| (1L << bit2) \| (1L << bit3)}); } private static boolean search(long board) { for (long[] move : moves) { if ((move[1] & board) == 0L && (move[0] & board) != 0L) { long newBoard = board ^ move[2]; if (!seenBoards.contains(newBoard)) { seenBoards.add(newBoard); if (newBoard == INITIAL_BOARD \|\| search(newBoard)) { solution.add(board); return true; } } } } return false; } public static void main(String[] args) { long time = System.currentTimeMillis(); solution.add(INITIAL_BOARD); ArrayList<long[]> moves = new ArrayList<long[]>(); int[] starts = new int[] {2,9,14,15,16,17,18,21,22,23,24,25,28,29,30,31,32,37,44}; for (int start : starts) { createMoves(start, start + 1, start + 2, moves); createMoves((start%7) 7 + start/7, (start%7 + 1) * 7 + start/7, (start%7 + 2) * 7 + start/7, moves); } Collections.shuffle(moves); moves.toArray(PegSolitaireSolver.moves); search(GOAL_BOARD); for (long step : solution) printBoard(step); System.out.println("Completed in " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - time) + " ms."); } }
This formula can cure one additional type of condition when you reach certain levels in this class: 3rd level (one disease), 5th level (paralyzed), 7th level (charmed), 9th level (petrified), 11th level (one level of exhaustion), 13th level (one effect reducing the target’s hit point maximum), 15th level (any reduction to one of the target’s ability scores), and 17th level (one curse, including the target’s attunement to a cursed magical item). At 9th level, you can administer the draught to an adjacent creature as part of the same action that you use to pull it from the Alchemist’s Satchel. At 19th level, this alchemical formula cures all conditions that it can cure in a single dosage. Stink Bomb. As an action, you can reach into your Alchemist’s Satchel, pull out a vial of putrid, green liquid, and hurl it at a creature or point within 30 ft (the vial disappears if you don’t hurl it by the end of the current turn). The vial shatters on impact and releases a horrid, stinking miasma that quickly disperses. Any creature within 5 feet of the point of impact must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1d4 rounds. Creatures that don’t need to breathe or are immune to poison automatically succeed on this saving throw. Thought Speak Draught. As a bonus action, you can reach into your Alchemist’s Satchel and pull out a vial filled with a thick, purple liquid. As an action, a creature can drink it. Doing so grants the creature telepathy with a 120 ft range for 1 minute, and the vial disappears. If not used, the vial and its contents disappear after 1 minute. After using this formula, you can’t do so again for 1 minute. The Wonders of Alchemy Alchemical concoctions take many forms. Alchemical fire is considered one of the most basic recipes known to all alchemists. It might resemble a small vial of glowing, red liquid that erupts into flame once the vial shatters while alchemical acid is in a larger, bulbous flask of bubbling, green ooze. Once shattered, the ooze takes effect immediately, corroding anything it comes into contact with before seemingly evaporating into nothing after a few seconds. Were it not for the properties of the satchel, an acid of such potency would hastily erode a simple glass container.
Call for the People’s Summit: Building the Political Revolution At a time of tremendous turmoil and progressive opportunity, we invite you to participate in a historic convening of organizations and individuals committed to social, racial and economic justice. On June 17-19, in Chicago, after the party primary season and before the party conventions, we seek to bring together activists committed to a different kind of agenda: a People’s Agenda that can enhance and expand issue campaigns and hold all elected officials accountable to popular demands for justice, equality and freedom. We envision this Summit as further deepening the relationship between participating organizations rooted in principled anti-corporate politics, development of community leaders, direct action not based on partisan identification, and strategic organizing to build power. The Summit itself will include plenary and workshop sessions devoted to key issues such as the Fight for 15, mass incarceration and criminal justice reform, voting rights and expanding democratic participation, a tax on Wall Street speculation to fund human needs and jobs, climate justice toward a sustainable economy, improved Medicare for All, the fight for free and debt-free higher education, secure retirement through expanding social security, ending HIV/AIDS, achieving Constitutional pay equity for women, and ending deportations and support for DREAMers, among others. We will take action in Chicago against the big money system of politics that expands the power of the wealthy and corporations at the expense of the people. We will also celebrate with music and a “festival of joyous rebellion.” And we will plan how to move our People’s Agenda nationally and locally to help build the broad movement for people and the planet.
Former and potential future presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, for instance, will campaign for Cavanaugh.
Then, Putin said that he was worried the Crimean Tatars would wind up entangled in "bloody misadventures," and warned that Ukraine had been taken over by "fascists," Dzhemilev said. "I told him, 'Listen. We are very proud that we fought for our homeland all those years without spilling a drop of blood, ours or anyone else's. But when a foreign soldier shows up on your land and starts imposing the order of a foreign country, then there's no telling what's going to happen." The conversation ended there. "I can't go to Moscow now, so there's no way I can reach him on that phone," Dzhemilev said.
Vulnerability to silvered weapons. At 1st level, you can choose the fur of your Animal Form to be any color. You can also choose if you want the fur to be scruffy, puffy, spiky, or smooth. Attacks Bite Melee Weapon Attack: Attack Bonus: Strength + Proficiency, Reach 5 ft., One Target. Hit: 7 (1d12 + Strength Mod) Piercing Damage. Claws Melee Weapon Attack: Attack Bonus: Dexterity + Proficiency, Reach 5 ft., One Target. Hit: 12 ( 2d10 + Dexterity Mod) Slashing Damage. Multi-Attack At 5th level, when you take the attack action and hit with a Claw attack, you may also make a Bite attack. Unique Breed Features Werewolf's Guile At 7th level, you become used to being a Werewolf, you can now use a bonus action to channel some power from your Lycanthrope Breed. You gain a +10 bonus to Stealth checks in dark or dimly lit areas. Lasts for 10 minutes. You can only use this ability once per long rest. Charge At 14th level you gain the ability to make the following attack: You make a charge forward in a straight line, going 100 feet or until you've hit with this attack one Large creature, two Medium creatures, or three Small creatures. Any creatures hit by the charge must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or be knocked away 5 feet. If you hit more than one creature with this attack in the same attack action, every attack you make against a creature other than the first creature you attacked with this attack has disadvantage. Attack Bonus: Strength + Dexterity + Proficiency, Reach 100 ft., Any Targets In Straight Line. Damage: (3d12 + Constitution Mod) Bludgeoning Damage. Fearful Presence At 17th level, you can use a bonus action to emit a terrifying aura. Enemy creatures that enter a 10 foot radius must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or be terrified. If they fail, they must use their action to flee as far away as they can. Creatures that succeed the Wisdom saving throw cannot be terrified by you again.
Guess you don’t need me anymore, huh?”Obviously you won’t lie to the trainee, but if you’re a good coach, then they are going to squat well; the point is that you let them know they are.You will also have long-term trainees that develop this attitude. They feel that since they have worked with you, they should be perfect. This is the time when you remind them where they came from.“Remember when you got here you were just squatting 50 pounds? Now you’re doing 135, AND you’re tracking your knees properly.”“You forget that it was a struggle to do 65 pounds, and now you’re doing 95 pounds with rock solid form.”“You’ve really come a long way. A year ago you were soft and weak, and now you’re lean and strong. Sure, we’re having trouble with 200, but it’s a hell of a lot more than any of the girls you work with can do.”All of these comments are things I’ve said to female trainees before. When a trainee is kicking themselves for “not being good enough”, it gives them perspective on where they are at and how much they’ve improved.One of the coach’s jobs is to reduce the amount of thinking a trainee needs to do and act as their brain to improve technique. The other is to maintain a positive outlook, show perspective, and give credit when it’s due. Sometimes a trainee loses sight of all the impressive progress they have made. But what if you don’t have a coach or you aren’t a coach?Most trainees are the “type A” personality that actively wants to improve and get shit done. They want to do something, be good at it, and be the best at it. They lack perspective in that they think they will be excessively awesome at everything they do just because they jump into it with fervor. But things like squatting, snatching, and cleaning are simple to learn, but hard to master. If they were easy to master, then coaches wouldn’t exist and we’d have a lot more competitors (people often don’t compete because they think they aren’t good enough, an unfortunate fallacy). There aren’t many people who can easily replicate movement patterns by viewing them. And if they can, it doesn’t mean that they will be flawless. The first step to reducing the desire to be perfect is accepting that you aren’t.Trainees should also avoid comparing themselves to others.
Two of his four faces are not peaceful, but instead express greed and wrath. But above all his destructive attitude is emphasized by the symbols which the “Lord of Time” holds in his twenty-four hands. Of these, six are of a peaceful nature and eighteen are warlike. Among the latter are the vajra, vajra hook, sword, trident, cleaver, damaru (a drum made from two skull bowls), kapala (a vessel made out of a human skull), khatvanga (a type of scepter, the tip of which is decorated with three severed human heads), ax, discus, switch, shield, ankusha (elephant hook), arrow, bow, sling, prayer beads made from human bones as well as the severed heads of Brahma. The peaceable symbols are: a jewel, lotus, white conch shell, triratna (triple jewel), and fire, so long it is not used destructively. Finally, there is the bell. His consort, Vishvamata, also fails to make a pacifist impression. Of the eight symbolic objects which she holds in her eight hands, six are aggressive or morbid, and only two, the lotus and the triple jewel, signify happiness and well-being. Among her magical defense weapons are the cleaver, vajra hook, a drum made from human skulls, skull bowls filled with hot blood, and prayer beads made out of human bones. To signalize that she is under the control of the androcentric principle, each of her four heads bears a crown consisting of a small figure who represents the male Dhyani Buddha, Vajrasattva. As far as the facial expressions of the time goddess can be deciphered, above all they express sexual greed. Both principal deities, Kalachakra and Vishvamata, stand joined in union in the so-called at-ease stance, which is supposed to indicate their preparedness for battle and willingness to attack. The foundation is composed of four cushions. Two of these symbolize the sun and moon, the other two the imaginary planets, Rahu and Kaligni. Rahu is believed to swallow both of the former heavenly bodies and plays a role within the Kalachakra rituals which is just as prominent as that of Kaligni, the apocalyptic fire which destroys the world with flame. The two planets thus have an extremely aggressive and destructive nature. Beneath the feet of the time couple two Hindu gods are typically shown being trampled, the red love god Kama and the white terror god Rudra. Their two partners, Rati and Uma, try in vain to rescue them.
A study based on data from 11 European countries estimated that 60% of deaths from all causes could be attributed to behaviour-related risk factors. Furthermore, the importance of health behaviours for the prevention of chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer, is widely acknowledged. Smoking, physical inactivity and obesity are among the top 10 behaviour-related risk factors for burden of diseases in developed countries, and they have also been shown to be associated with shorter health expectancy and life expectancy (LE). The cumulative impact of multiple behaviour-related risk factors on health expectancy is of interest because studies show that people who engage in multiple risk behaviours have higher mortality, increased risk of chronic diseases and poor cognitive and lower physical functioning compared with people who have no or only one behaviour-related risk factor. Previous studies have estimated healthy years and disability-free years separately for smoking and obesity. In addition, there are at least two large studies that used information on past trends or current levels of obesity and smoking to estimate the combined effect of obesity and smoking on quality-adjusted LE and disability-free LE. Of the two risk factors, obesity appeared to be the main driver for shortened disability-free LE. However, neither of these studies considered low physical activity among the risk factors. This is a limitation, as regular physical activity is known to be associated with reduced risk of several chronic diseases, better physical and cognitive functioning in old age and higher longevity. To address some of these limitations, we examined the extent to which the co-occurrence of three modifiable behaviour-related risk factors, namely smoking, physical inactivity and obesity, predicted healthy LE and chronic disease-free LE in a large dataset of older men and women in England, Finland, France and Sweden. In addition, we estimated the associations of individual risk factors with these outcomes. Compared with men and women with at least two of the smoking, physical inactivity and obesity risk factors, people with no risk factors could expect to live on average 8 years longer in good health and 6 years longer free of chronic diseases between the ages of 50 and 75 years. The reduction in healthy and chronic disease-free LE was greater for those with multiple behaviour-related risk factors than those with a single risk factor, a finding observed in all four cohorts.
They have authorized the use of this.There was a meeting between the Pleiadians and some of the top brass of the Russian military, and the Pleiadians have authorized the use of those devices simply because the electronic harassment went to the level that they said, “Something needs to be done about it.”And they have clearly displayed that technology to certain negative factions within the U.S. military that if this electronic harassment continues on that level, action will be taken. And after that, this electronic harassment has decreased to a certain degree. : Okay. : Not completely, but, yes, to a certain degree. : Okay, thank you. I'm kind of curious . . . You know from my understanding, and since Nagasaki, very, very few nuclear bombs have been allowed to be used on the surface of the planet, and you've talked about them getting away with a little bit, but I'm kind of curious . . . Do you feel that . . . there . . . and I guess I should also say that there have been many attempts, according to my sources, to initiate nuclear attacks in the past, . . . : Oh, yes. Oh, yes. : And they have been consistently denied by the extraterrestrials. So why does the Earth-based military continue to threaten this? They know that none of this will ever be allowed, or do they actually believe that, you know, Kim Jong-Il [Kim Jong-Un] or anyone would be able to affect a nuclear strike anywhere, including the U.S.? : You need to understand that the existence of the real proof of extraterrestrial races is highly classified information, and you need to be in the right position – very high up in the military – to get to the actual proof.I would say the most high ranking generals in the U.S. Army do not have access to that kind of proof. So they can speculate, but speculation is not good enough when it concerns military doctrines. So they have to continue developing those nuclear weapons from their perspective because they simply cannot affirm or deny the existence of Pleiadians, for example. : Okay. I'm kind of curious in regards to the North Korean situation.
So long as they tramp the streets, whose stones they lay, whose filth they clean, whose sewers they dig, yet upon which they must not stand too long lest the policeman bid them “move on”; as long as they go from factory to factory, begging for the opportunity to be a slave, receiving the insults of bosses and foremen, getting the old “no”, the old shake of the head, in these factories they built, whose machines they wrought; so long as they consent to herd like cattle, in the cities, driven year after year, more and more, off the mortgaged land, the land they cleared, fertilized, cultivated, rendered of value; so long as they stand shivering, gazing thro’ plate glass windows at overcoats, which they made, but cannot buy, starving in the midst of food they produced but cannot have; so long as they continue to do these things vaguely relying upon some power outside themselves, be it god, or priest, or politician, or employer, or charitable society, to remedy matters, so long deliverance will be delayed. When they conceive the possibility of a complete international federation of labor, whose constituent groups shall take possession of land, mines, factories, all the instruments of production, issue their own certificates of exchange, and, in short, conduct their own industry without regulative interference from law-makers or employers, then we may hope for the only help which counts for aught–Self-Help; the only condition which can guarantee free speech, (and no paper guarantee needed).
What is taper? It's just the ratio of the resistance already passed as the pot turns to the total resistance of the pot, described as a curve. For instance: we want to make a variable power supply with an adjustment pot that smoothly varies the voltage from one to ten volts, so we want a control that lets us do that. We have no idea whether we'll want mostly low voltages or high voltages, so we want to adjust it equally well anywhere in the range. In this case, it's most natural for the control pot to have an equal change in resistance or voltage divided per unit of rotation - we want the control to feel linear. This much of a turn is one volt, no matter whether it's near 0V or near 10V. Volume controls are different. The human ear does not respond linearly to loudness. It responds to the logarithm of loudness. That means that for a sound to seem twice as loud, it has to be almost ten times the actual change in air pressure. For us to have a control pot that seems to make a linear change in loudness per unit of rotation, the control must compensate for the human ear's oddity and supply ever-increasing amounts of signal per unit rotation. This compensating resistance taper is accurately called a "left hand logarithmic taper" but for historical reasons has been called an audio or log pot. In these pots, the wiper traverses resistance very slowly at first, then faster as the rotation increases. The actual curve looks exponential if you plot resistance or voltage division ratios per unit of rotation. If you used an audio/log taper pot for the control of the power supply we mentioned, the output voltage would increase very slowly at first, creeping up to maybe 10% of the final output at 50% of the pot rotation. It would then blast the other 90% in the last half of the rotation - very hard to control. Likewise, if we used a linear pot for volume control, the volume would come up dramatically in the first half of pot rotation, and then do very little change in the last half. The dark horse taper is reverse audio, or more strictly "right hand logarithmic" taper. This taper traverses resistance very quickly at first, then more slowly as it is turned further. It's the inverse of the audio taper.
Voltaire rejected the biblical Adam and Eve story and was a polygenist who speculated that each race had entirely separate origins. [193][194] According to William Cohen, like most other polygenists, Voltaire believed that because of their different origins blacks did not entirely share the natural humanity of whites. [195] According to David Allen Harvey, Voltaire often invoked racial differences as a means to attack religious orthodoxy, and the Biblical account of creation. [196] His most famous remark on slavery is found in Candide, where the hero is horrified to learn "at what price we eat sugar in Europe" after coming across a slave in French Guiana who has been mutilated for escaping, who opines that, if all human beings have common origins as the Bible taught, it makes them cousins, concluding that "no one could treat their relatives more horribly". Elsewhere, he wrote caustically about "whites and Christians [who] proceed to purchase negroes cheaply, in order to sell them dear in America". Voltaire has been accused of supporting the slave trade as per a letter attributed to him,[197][198][199] although it has been suggested that this letter is a forgery "since no satisfying source attests to the letter's existence. "[200] In his Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire endorses Montesquieu's criticism of the slave trade: "Montesquieu was almost always in error with the learned, because he was not learned, but he was almost always right against the fanatics and the promoters of slavery." Zeev Sternhell argues that despite his shortcomings, Voltaire was a forerunner of liberal pluralism in his approach to history and non-European cultures. [202] Voltaire wrote, "We have slandered the Chinese because their metaphysics is not the same as ours ... This great misunderstanding about Chinese rituals has come about because we have judged their usages by ours, for we carry the prejudices of our contentious spirit to the end of the world. "[202] In speaking of Persia, he condemned Europe's "ignorant audacity" and "ignorant credulity". When writing about India, he declares, "It is time for us to give up the shameful habit of slandering all sects and insulting all nations! "[202] In Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations, he defended the integrity of the Native Americans and wrote favorably of the Inca Empire. [203]
Abstract Metabolomic markers associated with incident central adiposity gain were investigated in young adults. In a 9-mo prospective study of university freshmen (n = 264). Blood samples and anthropometry measurements were collected in the first 3 d on campus and at the end of the year. Plasma from individuals was pooled by phenotype [incident central adiposity, stable adiposity, baseline hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) > 5.05%, HbA1c < 4.92%] and assayed using GC-MS, chromatograms were analyzed using MetaboliteDetector software, and normalized metabolite levels were compared using Welch’s t test. Assays were repeated using freshly prepared pools, and statistically significant metabolites were quantified in a targeted GC-MS approach. Isotope tracer studies were performed to determine if the potential marker was an endogenous human metabolite in men and in whole blood. Participants with incident central adiposity gain had statistically significantly higher blood erythritol [P < 0.001, false discovery rate (FDR) = 0.0435], and the targeted assay revealed 15-fold [95% confidence interval (CI): 13.27, 16.25] higher blood erythritol compared with participants with stable adiposity. Participants with baseline HbA1c > 5.05% had 21-fold (95% CI: 19.84, 21.41) higher blood erythritol compared with participants with lower HbA1c (P < 0.001, FDR = 0.00016). Erythritol was shown to be synthesized endogenously from glucose via the pentose-phosphate pathway (PPP) in stable isotope-assisted ex vivo blood incubation experiments and through in vivo conversion of erythritol to erythronate in stable isotope-assisted dried blood spot experiments. Therefore, endogenous production of erythritol from glucose may contribute to the association between erythritol and obesity observed in young adults.
Get ready for upcoming work – In complex products, not being able to make and keep commitments creates delays that are very costly. Rather, than writing code that can’t be tested in the sprint developers should be figuring what they need to understand for the next (or future) sprint(s). They are going to have to figure it out at some point, anyway. Figuring it out ahead of the sprint improves the ability to make commitments, so it is a better choice than figuring it out in the sprint. Help finish work in progress – Developers can (and should) pair with testers to find and fix bugs, or pair with developers to finish other work that the team committed in the sprint. Expand capability and future capacity – There are often scarce skills or knowledge sets that only a few people on a team can do. Rather than writing code that can’t be tested, developers can pair with someone to develop team capability and capacity. Even if the new person isn’t as productive as the old person at this scarce skill or knowledge set it is still, a better economic investment than writing code that can’t be tested. Increase testing capacity – Leveraging their unique skills, developers can dramatically increase testing capacity by improving test automation, establishing test data management tools, working on build automation or cleaning up environments. When testing is the constraint – this is a great investment for the team. It can create permanent capacity increases by raising throughput at the constraint. Refactoring difficult code – If there are sections of code that are tricky to work on or are frequently the source of unintended errors, developers can work to refactor this untested code. It might make sense to combine this effort with increasing the ability to test the code being refactored. Refactoring is particularly compelling when focused on a section of code related to work the team is getting ready to do. Practice – Increase the capacity and capability of the team by practicing new skills using code katas. There is a craft to being a productive developer. The body of knowledge is large, including patterns, new features of programming languages, new testing and development techniques, and the API’s or interfaces that developers work with. Finding the time to practice new skills on code that will never go into production is valuable when it results in improved capability of the developers.
"Oedipus, Castration and Archetypes of the Otaku Unconscious: 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' as a Postmodern Simulation of the Fairytale" http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85192141/2013-terletskyi.pdf , Oleksandr Terletskyi 2013; abstract: > This research analyzes Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion in the light of Carl Gustav Jung's The Archetype and The Collective Unconscious. First, the research diagnoses the main characters in accordance with Jungian and classical psychoanalysis in this way explaining the premise of the series. Second, it maps the psyche of the protagonist, referring to the basic set of Jungian Archetypes. Third, it specifies and interprets various narrative stages of NGE as stages of the individuation process, which the protagonist undergoes on his path. The goal of this research is to establish NGE as the modern simulated fairytale which, by being such, illustrates the psychical structure of the dominant post-modern character, namely otaku or geek and ultimately conveys the notion of fairytale and the psychological processes that are encrypted within it in the terrain of the hyperreal. I ran into this on Scribd (http://www.scribd.com/doc/134877860/Evangelion-Thesis) when it triggered one of my alerts due to his heavy use of the Eva resources I've compiled on my site (http://www.gwern.net/tags/NGE), particularly my excerpt collection in http://www.gwern.net/otaku ; I despise Scribd, so I jailbroke the PDF to Dropbox, and then began to read it. The introduction starts out promisingly enough, prefaced with an apt Oshii quote: > "The other thing I thought of was about copying. Quite aptly, Anno declared himself a copy, saying, I'm a copy of a copy. But this is a copy of a copy of a copy. In the future, there will undoubtedly be a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, and undoubtedly, this chain of copies will continue..." (Oshii) Terletskyi's awkward English aside, he then doesn't say anything outright wrong about _Nadia_ or Gainax or otaku. As one might guess from the Jungian focus, he immediately launches into Anno's depression: > At this point, the perspective animator and director Hideaki Anno had broken and retreated into the four years long clinical depression, during which as he himself states:"... all I was doing was simply not dying. "(Anno 1995) In one American interview he reveals that these four years was a serious struggle against his own cowardice.
NEW DELHI: Pharmaceutical industry’s machinations to interfere in a country’s policymaking to protect their interests have been exposed yet again, this time in South Africa.The leaked plans of a public relations firm hired by the American and South African pharmaceutical multinational companies revealed how pharma planned to launch a campaign to discredit and subvert the proposed reform of South Africa’s patent laws.The leaked nine-page document of the PR firm, Public Affairs Engagement, titled, Campaign to Prevent Damage to Innovation from the Proposed Draft National IP Policy in South Africa, was prepared for Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the Innovative Pharmaceuticals Association of South Africa (IPASA). It expressed the fear that if the reforms were adopted, South Africa would become less friendly to so-called “innovator companies” and that this “may also provide the model for other developing nations, inside and outside Africa, including such important aspiring economies such as India and Brazil. "It went on to say that South Africa was ground zero for the debate on strong intellectual property (IP) law and that “if the battle is lost here the effects will resonate”. It recommended that the most effective focus of the campaign against the reforms in IP law ought to be on how important strong IP laws were to the country’s economy as investments would stop without strong IP and new treatments would not be available to patients. It also stated how it had to be projected that patent protections were not the reason for poor healthcare in the country, but substandard public health policy, and inadequate delivery system and poverty.It clearly stated that the “immediate mission” was “to delay the finalization of the IP policy by the cabinet” and its further passage through parliament till after the elections as “delay would provide time to develop a third stage of the campaign” to develop a strong IP policy.The document elaborates a strategy which would include mobilizing voices “inside and outside South Africa to send the message that the proposed IP reforms would threaten continued investment and thus economic and social wellbeing”. “The mobilization will occur through an energetic campaign which will feel like a political campaign”, it adds.
By comparison, a 2002 City University of New York study found that just 0.4 percent of all Americans say they're atheists. It's one thing not to profess a belief in God, or gods, or whatever. It's something else to be as in-your-face about it as the delegates to the American Atheists convention, with their angry denunciations of the religious outburst that followed 9/11. For a typical Unitarian Universalist with a vaguely spiritual orientation, militant atheism such as that professed by the American Atheists represents a different, and more difficult, intellectual challenge than we're accustomed to. Denunciations of the religious right, and of its influence on such issues as reproductive choice and the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, come easily to us. So does criticism of institutions such as the hierarchical, secretive culture in the Roman Catholic Church that did so much for so long to protect priests who sexually abuse children. By contrast, atheism especially the outspoken brand fostered by American Atheists forces Unitarian Universalists to look to our left rather than to our right. Unitarian Universalists appeal to reason; atheists say we are only slightly less superstitious than traditional believers. The atheists issue press releases denouncing plans to erect a cross at the site of the World Trade Center, and call the "under God" phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance "as inappropriate as declaring our secular nation 'under Zeus,' Vishnu, or any other deity." Such fire-breathing rhetoric makes Unitarian Universalist skepticism sound wimpy by comparison. I went to the American Atheists convention in March warily, furtively, no-I'm-not-one-of-them-thank-you-very-much to listen and to learn. And to get some sense of what it would be like, for the first time in my life, to be the most religious person on the premises. Ellen Johnson is a carefully groomed, soft-spoken, self-described "soccer mom" from New Jersey who comes across more as a lobbyist than a rabble-rouser. She is also a second-generation atheist and the successor to the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the founder of American Atheists, by some accounts "the most hated woman in America," and a plaintiff in the 1963 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared school prayer unconstitutional. [See "A Victory for the Heretics."] Despite Johnson's persona as the antithesis of her colorful predecessor, her rhetoric was unsparing.
Although I would like Na`Vi.NA to do well.I don't think I have fans but thanks if I have any. Shoutout to Karthik for an awesome event. Shoutout to AFK Gaming for all the work they did for that event and made it so entertaining. Shoutout to my friends [email protected] , Krowaz and the Living Legend Zaaa. Also shoutout to Funn1k (FearUnleashed)
Cloe. I am begging you honey. None of that Jello crap. No one eats it and the garbage stinks for a week after I throw it out. You and Jello are like Palin and McCain. How many times before you learn no one wants seconds much less firsts. Jennifer. Your children are cute. We all can agree on that. Your husband’s video camera capturing every runny nose and bowel movement– not so much. Keep this up honey and you’ll have one posing for Playgirl before you know it. It’s just not natural to be that comfortable in front of a camera. Ten minutes of video when you first arrive and then the camera goes back into the camera bag. Trudy. If your brother and sister want to come, they can be on time like everyone else. If they are late again this year, they can eat what the dogs don’t finish. Rhonda. It’s my oven and once again I’ll be using it right up until mealtime. If you can’t bring something that doesn’t require heating, then don’t bring anything at all. Mary. Your kid’s dirty shoes and my clean sofa have never met. Let’s keep it that way. If you are a meat-eater, try a vegetable for your health. If you are a vegetarian, try the stuffing for the bacon. Either way, you’ll be cured of what ails you. If I see one grandchild doing that texting stuff, there will be no pie for dessert. If I see one parent checking email… scratch that – new rule. Leave your cell phone in your car. They used to be called mobile phones for a reason. Now-a-days the only thing mobile about your phone is your thumbs. Trust me. Skinny thumbs and a fat ass are not a good look. Jonathan. How a Republican ended up in this family is beyond me, but we love you all the same. That said, Reagan is dead darling. Get over it. I cooked the meal. Your grandfather paid for it. You can clean the kitchen and we’ll call it even. Honestly, if you insist on bringing anything, bring some butter. I go through about 20 sticks to get this meal on the table and I might as well start stocking up for Christmas now. Marshall. I am sure you believe that your children sing beautifully. Don’t put me in a situation where I have to make you question your beliefs.
The reaction of the "real" REM group to McGrath's pain speaks to us a very important truth that Harlan seems to have realized while writing these stories: By not allowing ourselves to let go, to move past the pain, we hurt those around us who, seeking to lessen our pain, feel all the worse when we will not let them help us. McGrath does not realize this, and will not look within himself for the release he needs, turning instead to the dark Le Braz. At first glance, Le Braz seems an older, darker reflection of the abortionist from "Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine", but there is more here. Le Braz is not simply a more sinister avatar of Doctor Quintano; rather, he is a twisted man, a butcher, but a butcher who, after committing the obscene most of his atrocities, has recanted and now lies locked in a prison made of his own guilt. As I see it, there is a dual moral to this story: Not only do we have to learn to let go of pain, of loss, we have to make ourselves ready to mourn and thenourselves let go. To hold onto the pain only causes it to deepen, which ends up hurting not only the mourner but also those around him. I wonder just how long it took Harlan to realize this; of course, he did have Susan to shore him up--or, considering what he has written of this woman, slap him back to his senses. As I can only guess at what it took Harlan to put himself back together in the face of the loss chronicled in this book--and I've guessed at far too much in this group of reviews--I'll simply leave it at this: It works.
Last week this column concluded with the following questions: “Whether or not Mr. Abadi proves magnanimous in his victory will say a lot about what kind of man Rex Tillerson and Brett McGurk have sided with…. Will Mr. Abadi and others in Baghdad feel sufficiently appeased by the surrender of the disputed territories, or will they decide to try and forcefully assert Baghdad’s authority in pre-2003 Kurdistan as well?”With numerous attacks now being reported on territory that the Iraqi constitution recognizes as indisputably part of the autonomous Kurdistan region, it seems that Baghdad and Iran chose the latter course of action. Iraq’s constitution forbids the entry of Iraqi military forces into Kurdistan without the approval of Kurdistani regional authorities, yet those forces now claim to be engaged in an offensive “to impose the law” in Kurdistan and “to reclaim Fishabur.”Fishabur and Ibrahim Khalil are the border crossings to Syria and Turkey, respectively, in a small strip of land where the borders of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey meet. The problem for Baghdad is that this small strip of land happens to be squarely within the recognized territory of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq, preventing Baghdad from accessing the Turkish border without going through Iraqi Kurdistan. Baghdad wants to export oil to Turkey without going through Kurdistan. Baghdad would also like to prevent Iraqi Kurdistan from enjoying access to Syria – or more accurately, Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) on the other side.To send military forces and artillery to attack the Kurds and attempt to conquer their recognized autonomous areas flies in the face of Iraq’s constitution and every law currently on the books there, yet in Orwellian newspeak the Shiites describe this as “imposing the law.”After the peaceful retreat of Kurdish forces from the disputed territories last week, the Shiite authorities in Baghdad and Iran probably thought they could simply coerce the Kurds more and ignore the law, protests from Washington and Europe, and all semblance of decorum. The factions within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) that apparently cut a side deal with Baghdad and Tehran last week and began the Kurdish retreat should have known that appeasement to such forces most often only whets their appetites for more.Now the Kurds in Iraq will have to choose between total subjugation – the loss of their autonomy, dignity and whatever rights they secured in post-Saddam Iraq – or a painful military campaign.
Last updated: February 25, 2017 Quik the Thunder Rabbit is a platforming game that was part of the early 90s glut of "fast animal" platformers, aka Sonic The Hedgehog clones. The SNES version of Quik the Thunder Rabbit was previously unknown until "TheRealPhoenix" posted the ROM image on the Assembler Games forum. The ROM image he released is not a clean version. He edited in the title screen from the Amiga game (the original version just started on the first level), and hacked the header. TheRealPhoenix will not release the unedited version because is concerned about protecting his source of the ROM image: Since I don’t know the legal status of the project (told you I don’t know much about the game) but I know how can strict devs/publisher deal can be. I don’t want to put my source in trouble. Slightly editing the rom can a bit hide that. As a technical note, the header information identifies it as a NTSC game. However, after playing this a bit, I think the game is clearly optimized for a PAL console. This is apparent in the third level, which is an auto-scroller. At NTSC speeds, the level is essentially not beatable, because you die if you cannot keep up with the scrolling. At PAL speed, it is still hard but not impossible. The game also controls a lot smoother in PAL mode. In the download, I have included a Higan compatible folder that allows you to play the game in PAL mode. As a technical note, the header information identified as a NTSC game. However, after playing this a bit, I think the game is clearly optimized for a PAL console. This is apparent in the third level, which is an auto-scroller. At NTSC speeds, the level is essentially not beatable, because you die if you cannot keep up with the scrolling. At PAL speed, it is still hard but not impossible. The game also controls a lot smoother in PAL mode. In the download, I have included a Higan compatible folder that allows you to play the game in PAL mode. The game This prototype is clearly not close to competition. It lacks music, and only the first couple of levels appear to be complete. If you press "R", you can skip ahead to the next level.
All of this strongly suggests that to optimize our emotional well-being, we should pay at least as much attention to where our minds are as to what our bodies are doing. Yet for most of us, the focus of our thoughts isn’t part of our daily planning. When you wake up on a Saturday morning and ask, “What am I going to do today?” the answer is usually about where you’ll take your body—to the beach, to the kids’ soccer practice, for a run. You ought to also ask, “What am I going to do with my mind today?” A related stream of research examines the relationship between mind-wandering and productivity. Many managers, particularly those whose employees do creative knowledge work, may sense that a certain amount of daydreaming is a good thing, providing a mental break and perhaps leading people to reflect on related work matters. Unfortunately, the data so far suggest that, in addition to reducing happiness, mind-wandering on the job reduces productivity. And employees’ minds stray much more than managers probably imagine—about 50% of the workday—and almost always veer toward personal concerns. Managers may want to look for ways to help employees stay focused, for the employees’ and the company’s sakes. The data are also beginning to paint a picture of variations in happiness within an individual and from one individual to the next. The most striking finding here is that happiness differs more from moment to moment than it does from person to person. This suggests that it’s not the stable conditions of our lives, such as where we live or whether we’re married, that are the principal drivers of happiness; it could be the small, everyday things that count the most. It also suggests that happiness on the job may depend more on our moment-to-moment experiences—our routine interactions with coworkers, the projects we’re involved in, our daily contributions—than on the stable conditions thought to promote happiness, such as a high salary or a prestigious title. A priority of my current and future research is to deploy this tracking technology in the workplace and, I hope, at last reveal what actually makes employees happy. A Focused Mind Is a Happy Mind Participants were queried about mood and mind-wandering during 22 activities. The balls represent their activities and thoughts. The farther to the right a ball is, the happier people were, on average.
Along with our regular updates of the Android platform, we like to build example applications that showcase best practices for UI features and behavior patterns, to help our 3rd party developers create even richer applications.For example, the Twitter for Android application that we worked with Twitter to design gives you, the 3rd party developer, a working example of how you can customize and build an application that’s both fun and highly functional. This blog post is meant to showcase these patterns along with some recommended implementations as you start to develop your applications around them.Let’s get started and explore these patterns in more detail now. One of the most important intents we added to Twitter for Android was the ability to sync your Twitter contacts into the phone. This integration also allowed us to give Twitter users with an Android phone the use of the QuickContact widget, which gives users a choice of ways to contact their followers.The good news for developers is you get this highly functional contacts feature for free if users choose to sync contact information into your app. QuickContact for Android provides instant access to a contact's information and communication modes. For example, a user can tap a contact photo and with one more tap launch a call, SMS, or email to that person. Other applications such as Email, Messaging, and Calendar can also reveal the QuickContact widget when you touch a contact photo or status icon.The dashboard pattern serves as a home orientation activity for your users. It is meant to include the categories or features of your application. We recommend including an Action bar on this screen as well.The dashboard can be static or dynamic. For example, in the case of our dashboard for Twitter, we used the goodness of Live Wallpapers introduced in 2.1 to create an animated dashboard complete with real-time trend bubbles and the Twitter bird silhouette.The Action bar gives your users onscreen access to the most frequently used actions in your application. We recommend you use this pattern if you want to dedicate screen real estate for common actions. Using this pattern replaces the title bar. It works with the Dashboard, as the upper left portion of the Action bar is where we recommend you place a quick link back to the dashboard or other app home screen.The Search bar pattern gives you a fast way to switch between resources that are searchable by your application.
Katrina blew in from the Gulf, bringing a storm surge across Lake Pontchartrain. Water squeezed through the city’s navigation canals like a fire hose through a funnel, breaching the levees and flood walls that had been built to protect the city’s low-lying neighborhoods. Pontchartrain Park and New Orleans East, where so many African-Americans had settled since the nineteen-sixties, were flooded. So were Treme and Central City. Campanella pointed to two spots along the Industrial Canal, which bisects the Ninth Ward. “The deepest floodwaters, the highest-velocity floodwaters, coming in from a two-hundred-foot-long breach right over here, and a nine-hundred-foot-long breach over here,” he said, pointing to a flood wall that ran along the canal. “So the surge came in this way, from these man-made navigation canals as well as from the lake. It’s piling up. It’s putting pressure on these walls, and overtopping the levee and pouring in. In the canal, the water was fourteen feet above where it normally is. This land right here is four feet below sea level. So you have eighteen feet of head suddenly released.” By a combination of geography, history, and meteorology, Katrina disproportionately hit black New Orleans. These were the people whose homes were flooded, who camped out in the Superdome, who were evacuated to Baton Rouge or Lafayette or Houston—many of whom have never returned. The Lower Ninth had twenty thousand people before Katrina. Five years afterward, there were six thousand. In Mid-City, there are still abandoned houses and empty lots. Many of these people may have wanted to come back right after the storm. But the public schools were shut down, the city’s main public hospital was a wreck, and the city’s public-housing projects were shuttered. Campanella then switched to an identically constructed map, only this time based on 2010 census data, and in bits and pieces on the screen there was a simple and arresting picture of what Katrina meant. In the neighborhoods that were once a dense black, many of the little squares had thinned and turned gray. The sharp lines that once separated the teapot from Central City were now blurry: the white areas of the city were pushing north, into the vacuum left by the exodus. The Bywater was graying, as it gentrified still further. “Before Katrina, an American Community Survey estimate of New Orleans Parish population was four hundred and fifty-five thousand, and about sixty-eight per cent black,” Campanella said.
Be secure enough in who and what you are that you aren’t offended when another guy compliments you. What’s your problem? Do you see a gay guy throwing chairs across the room when a woman comes onto him? I’m so elated anyone finds me attractive, I couldn’t care less what type of plumbing they have. Take a compliment, dude. Be like Jack Nicholson’s character in As Good as It Gets after his gay neighbor informs him he “loves” him (after Jack’s character does a huge string of wonderful things to help him get back on his feet): “I tell you, buddy… I’d be the luckiest guy alive if that did it for me.” If your boy wants to wear a pink tutu, buy him the pinkest tutu you can find. When your daughter wants to play with a tractor or a chemistry set, get them for her!
(may be related to Rufus Scrimgeour, above) Selwyn- A Death Eater who gave his wand to Voldemort and was later seen at Xenophilius Lovegood house when he claimed to have captured Harry. The Selwyns are a well-known pureblood family. Shacklebolt, Kingsley- A tall black aurora who has a deep voice and in the Order of the Phoenix. He was in charge of the hunt for Sirius Black, leading them on saying that he was hiding somewhere far away (where he knew he was in Grimmauld Place). He was part of the Advanced Guard that came to get Harry from the Dursley’s house in Book 5. Fought in the Department of Mysteries in Book 5, and is the muggle Prime Minister’s secretary (for safety of him). Was made the temporary, then permanent Minister for Magic at the end of Deathly Hallows. His lynx patronus saved many people at Bill and Fleurs wedding when he warned of the Death Eaters approaching. Shimpling, Derwent- A wizard comedian who ate an entire Venemous Tentacula as a bet and survived. Shingleton, Gaspard- Inventor of the Self-Stirring Cauldron. Shunpike, Stan- Conductor of the knight bus who pretended to be the youngest minister of magic he wasn’t to impress a veela. He was arrested in Book 6 on charges of working with the death eaters. Sinistra, Aurora- The female Astronomy teacher at Hogwarts. Skeeter, Rita- A reporter for the daily prophet who wrote horrible stories about Harry in Book 4. She was banned from Hogwarts, but still got stories from it. She was discovered by Hermione Granger to be an animagus as a beetle. Hermione told her that if she wrote any more stores she would tell the Ministry that she was an animagus. Hermione forced her to write a good story about Harry in Book 5, which changed the view of many wizards about Harry. Skively, Harold- Wrote to the Daily Prophet, and suggested that the Wizarding community celebrate a day to honor Merlin, because he could use an extra holiday in August. Slinkhard, Wilbert- Author of Defensive Magical Theory that was assigned for Umbridge in Book 5. Slooper, Jack- Replaces one of the Weasley twins position of beater on the Gryffindor team after they are given a lifelong ban on playing by Umbridge. Slughorn, Horace- The potions teacher in Book 6 after Snape becomes Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
The mask itself went halfway around Vader's head. The mask's appearance was given a similar appearance to a skull in order to enhance the fear factor of the Dark Lord of the Sith. The top of this mask was crowned with a circular interface dotted with an array of square slots around a disc of silver. This disc served as an interface between the mask and the helmet. Made of black durasteel, these components were hermetically sealed and connected with a flat backpack that cycled air to Vader's lungs. The air pump itself was located inside the top of the mask, which, via a ventilator, supplies a distinctive rasp. An implanted enunciator linked to an electronic voice processor enabled Vader's scorched vocal cords to produce speech. Around the part of the mask covered by the helmet was the external neural sensor array. Also hidden beneath his mask were four red heat dispersion vents, accented by yellow wire. The face of the mask was somewhat exaggerated and angular, with two ridges above his eyes that fit in with those of his helmet. The optical lenses appeared bulbous. This front part of the mask was of a more highly polished black material than that of the back, being the more flexible of the two. The ridged bridge of the nose seemed lost in the largeness of the eyes, but jutted out in a manner similar to a bare Human skull. The mask's cheekbones were generally angular, curving slightly to join the nose at its base. The base of the nose was a silver multipurpose detector that acted as the suit's primary environmental sensor, and could measure radiation, temperature, and atmospheric toxicity and displays the information in the HUD, was rounded in shape,[10] with a triangular grill growing out from beneath it that served as an air filter,[5] further contributing to its skull-like appearance. [15] The optical lenses served as visual filters, allowing for Vader to detect infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths, while also blocking out excess light, due to the inability to repair Vader's damaged retinas. In addition, the lens also came equipped with a HUD that supplied critical data automatically as an overlay if Vader entered new environments, including information about atmospheric composition, nearby bio-signatures, and others, which could also be selected via the mouth or tongue controls (by pursing the lips, or extending the tongue).
Introduction Detection of new information is crucial for adapting behavior to the present circumstances - therefore the human brain is tuned towards novelty [1]. Novel stimuli often receive priority over other stimuli by reflexively attracting attention [2], [3], evoking the so-called orienting reflex or orienting response [1], [4], [5], [6]. The allocation of attentional resources to novel information is also reflected by the electrophysiological response commonly found to novel stimuli; the novelty P3 event-related potential component [7], [8]. Auditory novelty has been shown to have an effect on early event-related potential components: Strikingly, deviance can be detected as early as 30–40 ms post-stimulus [9], [10], [11]. Despite, or maybe because of, these automatic attentional mechanisms novelty is known to affect several cognitive processes. For example, words presented in deviant (novel) fonts are better remembered than words presented in standard fonts [12]. Novelty can also boost motivation to explore the environment, resulting in the so-called exploration bonus [13]. However, so far no benefit has been found of novelty on perception, which would be expected if novelty has a role in preparing us for changing circumstances. There is another reason to expect novelty to affect perceptual processing. Emotional stimuli are known to enhance early perceptual processing (for a review see [14]). In cueing paradigms emotional stimuli have been reported to enhance early visual perception [15], [16], [17]. For example, Bocanegra and Zeelenberg (2009) found that the presentation of a fearful face improves sensitivity for low-spatial-frequency stimuli: immediately after presentation of such a face, participants can detect such stimuli at higher rates than after presentation of a neutral face. Bocanegra and Zeelenberg (2009), and others using similar paradigms, explained this by assuming that emotional significance enhances the attentional response generated by the cue, benefiting subsequent stimuli. The orienting response to novel stimuli has been linked to the activation of fundamental motivational circuits also associated with the attentional processes related to emotional stimuli [18]. Furthermore, novel stimuli are known to activate brain regions also related to emotional processing, specifically the amygdala [19], [20], [21], [22], a nucleus in the medial temporal lobe believed to have a crucial role in the evaluation of emotional significance [23]. Possibly, the enhancing effects that emotional stimuli have on perception are also present for novel stimuli activating the same emotional system. To investigate this hypothesis we investigated novelty’s effects on visual perception in a cueing paradigm.
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Such complexities are part of the reason why it is too simple to just denounce the neoreactionaries as racists—though probably most of them are. Their rejection of the Enlightenment comes out of a “self-consciousness” that has not yet grasped a unified concept of its contradiction. Rather than confront the difficult fact that their God never existed, the neo-reactionaries set about trying to kill Him by sabotaging the Cathedral and pursing absolute deterritorialization. The will towards such radical change leaves them with the illusion of a beautiful story on the other side of the world, and with elaborate speculations about a superintelligence that will save human beings from politics. For example, Land’s celebration of Asian cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore is simply a detached observation of these places that projects onto them a common will to sacrifice politics for productivity. Political fatigue often causes the West to be drawn to East Asia’s promises of depoliticized techno-commercial utopia; sinofuturism becomes the model for radical change. By “sinofuturism” we mean the idea that China has been able to import Western science and technology without resistance, while in the West, the fantasy goes, any significant technological invention or scientific discovery will always be limited and decelerated by the political correctness of the Cathedral. It is not surprising that Milton Friedman, who regarded Hong Kong as a neoliberal economic experiment envisioned by himself and the Scotsman John Cowperthwaite (the financial secretary of Hong Kong in the 1960s), had the same observation, writing in his essay “Hong Kong Experiment” that the economy of Hong Kong outstripped that of the US thanks to its ability to function without any “vagaries of politics.”
Natural selection may be behind many psychiatric problems. Mental illnesses, many researchers claim, are the byproducts of an over-functional brain.As humans improved their gathering, hunting and cooking techniques, population size increased and resources became more limited (in part because we hunted or ate some species to extinction).As a result, not everyone could get enough to eat. Cooperative relationships were critical to ensuring access to food, whether through farming or more strategic hunting, and those with blunt social skills were unlikely to survive, explained David Geary, a researcher at the University of Missouri. And thus, a diversity of new mental abilities, and disabilities, unfurled.It might seem as though modern man should have evolved to be happy and harmonious. But nature cares about genes, not joy, Geary is quoted as saying byTo explain our susceptibility to poor mental health, Randolph Nesse incompares the human brain with race horses: Just as horse breeding has selected for long thin legs that increase speed but are prone to fracture, cognitive advances also increase fitness - to a point.People with aggressive and narcissistic personalities are the easiest to understand evolutionarily; they look out for number one. But even if 16 million men today can trace their genes to Genghis Khan (nature's definition of uber-success can be measured by his prolific paternity), very few potential despots achieve such heights.Perhaps to check selfish urges, in favor of more probable means to biological success, social lubricants such as empathy, guilt and mild anxiety arose.For example, the first of our ancestors to empathize and read facial expressions had a striking advantage. They could confirm their own social status and convince others to share food and shelter.But too much emotional acuity - when individuals overanalyze every grimace - can cause a motivational nervousness about one's social value to morph into a relentless handicapping anxiety.Natural selection also likely held the door open for disorders such as attention deficit. Quickly abandoning a low stimulus situation was more helpful for male hunters than female gatherers, writes Nesse, which may explain why boys are five times more likely than girls to be hyperactive.Similarly, in its mildest form, bipolar disorder can increase productivity and creativity. Bipolar individuals (and their relatives) also often have more sex than average people, Geary noted.Sex, and survival of one's kids, is the whole point - as far as nature is concerned. Sometimes unpleasant mental states lead to greater reproductive success, said Geary, "so these genes stay in the gene pool".
As this court explained during the parties last round of deposition requests, at the heart of these discovery disputes is Apples motion for a permanent injunction, which is an extraordinary remedy that should be evaluated in light of the full available record.21 Permitting Samsung to explore in 5 depositions new assertions by Apples experts allows full development of the record in advance of the parties hearing before Judge Koh. Apple also suggests Samsung was not diligent in moving for the depositions. Samsung brought this motion within one week of the date Apple filed its reply with the declarations at issue.22 Although Apple suggests that one week shows a lack of diligence, a careful review of the meet-and-confer emails shows that Samsung raised the issue with Apple only three days after Apple filed its reply, and that the parties engaged in negotiations regarding the depositions and expedited briefing.23 The emails show that Samsung was diligent in pursuing recourse after Apples reply was filed. The emails also reflect that Apple participated in determining the dates for the motion, so it can hardly claim now to be prejudiced by a late filing date. Because Samsung was diligent in seeking the amendment to the scheduling order and because the court believes a full record is important to this case, Samsungs motion to compel depositions of the three experts is GRANTED. As an alternative to its primary position, Apple asks that if Samsungs motion for depositions is granted, it should be permitted to take depositions of Dr. R. Sukumar and Corey Kerstetter because they are the Samsung declarants to whom Hauser and Robinson responded. Again, in light of the need for a full record and the well-recognized legal doctrine of what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, the court will permit Apple its additional deposition requests as well. Samsung also seeks to file a supplemental brief addressing the depositions it plans to take. Apple opposes, but likewise seeks a supplemental brief if Samsungs motion is granted. As the court stated in its October 29, 2012 order and as it repeats here because they relate to matters 6 before Judge Koh, page limits, supplemental briefing, and deadlines are not issues for the undersigned to determine. Judge Koh has set a briefing schedule and the court advises the parties to heed her directions regarding briefing for the preliminary injunction motion.
It is the story where Ben-Hur has its first and biggest stumble, now I can’t tell you how close it is to original book because I have never read it myself, but there are a lot of changes from the 1959 movie, and none of them are good. They all make the story far more complicated than it needed to be. In the original film Ben-Hur and Messala are besties that fall out because they are from two different worlds but they both like the same girl Esther (Nazanin Boniadi), a simple clear motivation, here they are adoptive brothers for some reason, that lived in the same house, who like different people, so it makes little sense Messala would be so callous to kill off his mother and sister. Also in the 2016 movie, Ben-Hur is sent away after a young Zealot he is hiding attacks the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate (Pilou Asbæk) by firing an arrow from Ben-Hur’s house, at which point Ben-Hur sends the boy away and confesses to the crime. One, that is the stupidest thing Ben-Hur could have done in that situation, two it makes no sense that the Romans would not have immediately punished him with death for trying to kill the Governor when later in the film 20 random citizens were killed just because one soldier was assaulted. In the original film, it was some loose tiles that fell off the roof that spooked the Governor’s horse, and that leads to a much more realistic response. Also, the back-half of the film is really truncated making Ben-Hur’s appearance in the final (and only) chariot race feel more than a little dubious as the only sense we get that he know how to ride a chariot is a short training montage. Also as he is not freed by a Roman in this version, there is no reason why Pilate does not simply just arrest and kill Ben-Hur, as he is for all intents and purposes a runaway prisoner, in fact, it would be his obligation to arrest Ben-Hur. Oh, and they go for the Hollywood cop-out ending that undercuts both the book and 1959 movie narrative. All of these changes are just unnecessary, they add nothing to the movie bar making it more complicated, and just make the narrative quite boring.
For example, he will expect Claire to abandon the puzzle in which she is completely absorbed, in order to eat lunch. In his mind, he's made her food and it's time to eat. She likes to know what's coming. She can struggle with transitions. If you think about it, adults do too. Kids appreciate a heads-up about what's coming next on the agenda, just like us.We tend to forget that kids want the same thing that we want a lot of the time. They want their experience validated and to feel like we understand them. My interactions with Claire tend to be more peaceful, when I acknowledge her feelings and encourage her. "I know its hard to wait for breakfast to be ready. Sometimes, I don't like waiting either. You're doing a great job waiting". Not only am I trying to show my child that I see her, I am putting into words what she probably can't yet.I want Claire to learn how to pick up her toys, not generally something that she wants to do. When I dangle the park in front of her, she's more apt to acquiesce. I will say, "It's time to go to the park, but we have to pick up our toys before we go". Works like a charm every time. Of course, eventually I want her to pick up her toys on her own. She isn't there yet. The "carrot" strategy is what we would call "scaffolding" in the educational world. It's a support used in a new area of learning. When she's had enough practice, we will take the scaffold away and see how that goes.Instead of saying, "I want you to eat breakfast" or asking, "Do you want to eat breakfast? ", I say, "It's time to eat breakfast". Really, this tweak is a minor sleight of hand. I don't know why it works so well. But blaming your request oninstead oftakes away the personal element, and, hence, the power struggle. It was one of the first things someone told me as a new teacher. If you go into any class in any part of the country, you will probably see teachers employing this one.When we make a request of a kid, we often assume that he needs to do it right away or we will lose face with him somehow. It's not necessarily true.
Trump put Stone on speakerphone and Stone told him that he had communicated with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and that "within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign," according to Cohen. Trump responded by saying "wouldn't that be great," Cohen says. That month, WikiLeaks released thousands of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee's server. "A lot of people have asked me about whether Mr. Trump knew about the release of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of time," Cohen says in the prepared testimony. "The answer is yes." Cohen says he does not have direct evidence that Trump colluded with the Russian government during the election, but that he has "suspicions." Of a meeting in Trump Tower between campaign advisers, including Trump's oldest son, and a Russian lawyer, Cohen says that Trump had frequently told him that Donald Trump Jr. "had the worst judgment of anyone in the world" and he "would never set up any meeting of any significance alone — and certainly not without checking with his father." Cohen, once Trump's loyal attorney and fixer, has turned on his former boss and cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. He begins a three-year prison sentence in May after he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 and committing campaign finance violations while he was working for Trump. He met Senate intelligence committee for more than nine hours behind closed doors on Tuesday. Cohen said in brief remarks afterward that he appreciated the opportunity to "clear the record and tell the truth" to the Senate committee after acknowledging he lied to the panel in 2017. It was the first of three consecutive days of congressional appearances for Cohen. After the public hearing Wednesday, he will appear before the House intelligence panel Thursday, again speaking in private. Republicans are expected to aggressively attempt to discredit Cohen, given that he has acknowledged lying previously. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement Tuesday it was "laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies." One Republican House member did more than just question Cohen's credibility. Florida Republican Matt Gaetz tweeted Tuesday that the world is "about to learn a lot" about Cohen and suggested he knew of disparaging information that could come out during the hearing.
It's getting ridiculous just how frequently this sort of thing is happening. We had the so-called Twitter joke trial in the UK, in which Paul Chambers was arrested and tried for making a joke on Twitter about airport closures in which he (very obviously jokingly) "threatened" to blow the airport "sky high" if it wasn't reopened by the time he had to fly. We had the story of Joe Lipari, who was arrested for paraphrasing Fight Club on Facebook in expressing his annoyance with employees at his local Apple store. More recently, we wrote about high school kid Cam D'Ambrosio who was arrested and held without bail for making "terroristic threats," where those "threats" turned out to be some immature boastful rap lyrics that, when actually put in context, didn't actually suggest any threats at all.The latest one involves Justin Carter, a teenager in Texas who made a joke on Facebook where he and some other kids were hassling each other over the video game. One of the kids said something to Justin along the lines of, "Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head." In response, Justin said:In context, there is nothing surprising or odd at all about this conversation. It's how teenaged boys communicate. They get on each other and mock each other and the response was actually pretty reasonable. One kid called him insane, and he responded by effectively mocking the claim that he was insane. And then immediately followed it up with lol and jk to cement the fact that he was kidding -- which should have been obvious to everyone anyway, even without the caveats.But... apparently it was not obvious to the police, or to some very confused woman in Canada who called the police.It turns out that Justin's mother actually posted a comment on our last story about Cam D'Ambrosio, which I didn't see until just now, explaining much of his story as well, and linking to a Change.org petition trying to get her son released from prison.Once again, this situation is insane. We've reached a point where media hype and moral panics are leading law enforcement toto anything they think is a threat. We have no problem at all with law enforcementon situations like this, but they should quickly realize what it is and move on.
*** Отец Григорий в приюте появляется нечасто — опасается обвинений в прозелитизме, стремлении обратить в свою веру. За шесть лет существования приюта католичкой не стала ни одна его жительница. Желающие были, но отец Григорий строг: сначала год занятий катехизисом. С младенцем на руках это сложно. В приют при этом берут женщин любой веры и без всякой веры тоже. Наша идея — чтобы ребенок был с мамой. В крайнем случае, чтобы мама его родилаТвитнуть эту цитату Заботятся о девушках те, кто с ними живут, — няня, администратор. В приюте есть правила: нельзя курить в помещении, запрещен алкоголь, нельзя скандалить и материться. Десять замечаний, и договор расторгается. Отец Григорий говорит: «Если мама не выполняет своих обязанностей, мы расстаемся. Наша идея — чтобы ребенок был с мамой. В крайнем случае, чтобы мама его родила. Был случай, когда девушка на девятом месяце воспользовалась нашим доверием, сказала, что хочет ребенка, но родила и оставила его в роддоме. Но хотя бы ребенок остался жив». В приюте нет повара и уборщиц, мамы сами готовят и поддерживают порядок. Есть психолог и юрист, которые помогают бесплатно. Раз в неделю приходит медсестра из местной поликлиники. Могут навещать родственники и отец ребенка — по предварительной договоренности. В девять вечера дверь приюта закрывается. Сюда берут на любом месяце беременности и разрешают жить, пока ребенку не исполнится полтора года. Обеспечивают одеждой, лекарствами, памперсами. Подгузниками все шесть лет приют полностью обеспечивает польская фирма «Белла». Сейчас в приюте живут две девушки, Таня М. с дочкой Ариной и Таня Н. со своими четырьям детьми. Еще три девушки, которым «Вифлеем в Вятке» помог пережить тяжелые времена, тоже рассказали свои истории. Таня М., 22 года
It might seem strange for a city that was only recently the epicenter of two, but a new survey by the NewsEffector website claims that Grozny is nowWith nearly 27,000 respondents polled across the Russian Federation, the Chechen capital edged out Siberia's Tyumen and the Tatar capital, Kazan, to top the list as the most blissed out city.For a town that has only started to find its feet after suffering repeated bombardments andover the past two decades, Grozny's newfound happiness may come as a surprise to many. "The Chechen capital's first place on the index of happiness among the Russian regions was quite unexpected," said NewsEffector's director, Sergei Moroz. "This is due mainly to the fact that in recent years it has changed tremendously for the better. "Respondents in the survey had to answer six questions: How happy are you with your financial situation? Are you satisfied with the state of the environment in your city? Do you feel safe in your city? Are you satisfied with how your city is developing? How happy are you with the development of urban infrastructure? and Do you feel happy in your city?Although only 23 percent of Grozny's denizens felt they had enough money in their pockets, the city scored highly among the other criteria, getting scores of around 70-80 percent in other categories, such as its environmental state, rate of development, and feelings of happiness.Thefortress city's high-ranking performance in the poll may have a lot to do with the fact that it is finally beginning to enjoy a certain amount of stability after decades of near chaos.Chechnya's, Ramzan Kadyrov, has spent huge amounts of money in rebuilding Grozny since he came to power in 2007. He is also credited with having restored order in the once-lawless city, although there are many who would argue that he has achieved this throughSomewhat surprisingly, Moscow fared quite badly in the survey. Although most of the Russian capital's citizens were happy with their finances, they were less than enthused about the city's environment, safety levels, and rate of development.
He’s run four marathons (three more than I have) while raising a lot of money and awareness for a great charity. I wish more celebrities would do the same. Will Ferrell – Boston Marathon We’re going streaking! To the quad…through the gymnasium… everyone’s doing it! Ferrell ran clothed (thank God) and ran a respectable 3:56, which actually impresses me a lot considering he was pretty overweight in the latter years of his Saturday Night Live career. One thing is for sure, you can definitely turn your fitness around and go from chubby to marathoner in a relatively short amount of time. Freddie Prinze, Jr. – LA Marathon I haven’t seen much of Freddie these days, which is a shame since I am a proud fan of She’s All That (don’t make fun of me). His marathon time is…well, awful: 5:50. Yikes. It’s probably a good thing that he used the psuedonym “Freddie James” to register for the race. Not too many lesson to be learned from Freddie, except train more. P Diddy – New York Marathon Oh P Diddy. This is one of my favorite celebrity marathons for two reasons. First, Diddy’s goal was to beat Oprah. He narrowly succeeded by running 4:14, less than 15 minutes faster than Oprah. He must have been sweating during that last 10k! Next, he had some great things to say about his training program: I’m avoiding alcohol and sex right now. To indulge, I take a bath, do some aromatherapy, with some lavender scent. I get a massage once a week. The discipline! The self-sacrifice! The complete misunderstanding of what actually constitutes effective training and recovery! As I type this I’m drinking a glass of wine. Now if these celebrities can run marathons, so can you! And if you’re a Strength Running reader, you can definitely run a lot faster (and are probably more good looking) than most of these celebs. The next time you’re struggling to finish a marathon workout, just remember: if Mario Lopez can do it, so can you!
Furthermore, in the making of wares there should be some of the spirit of the handicraftsman, whether the goods be made by hand, or by a machine that helps the hand, or by one that supersedes it. Now the essential part of the spirit of the handicraftsman is the instinct for looking at the wares in themselves and their essential use as the object of his work. Their secondary uses, the exigencies of the market, are nothing to him; it does not matter to him whether the goods he makes are for the use of a slave or a king, his business is to make them as excellent as may be; if he does otherwise he is making wares for rogues to sell to fools, and he is himself a rogue by reason of his complicity. All this means that he is making the goods for himself; for his own pleasure in making them and using them. But to do this he requires reciprocity, or else he will be ill-found, except in the goods that he himself makes. His neighbours must make goods in the same spirit that he does; and each, being a good workman after his kind, will be ready to recognize excellence in the others, or to note defects; because the primary purpose of the goods, their use in fact, will never be lost sight of. Thus the market of neighbours, the interchange of mutual good services, will be established, and will take the place of the present gambling-market, and its bond-slave the modern factory system. But the working in this fashion, with the unforced and instinctive reciprocity of service, clearly implies the existence of something more than a mere gregarious collection of workmen. It implies a consciousness of the existence of a society of neighbours, that is of equals; of men who do indeed expect to be made use of by others, but only so far as the services they give are pleasing to themselves; so far as they are services the performance of which is necessary to their own well-being and happiness.
Father Superior hides his pain with a dry choke, but the litter which is now no longer in one piece cannot be carried further. We decide to wait until Brother Kinjo can bring a hand cart from Nagatsuki. He soon comes back with one that he has requisitioned from a collapsed house. We place Father Superior on the cart and wheel him the rest of the way, avoiding as much as possible the deeper pits in the road. About half past five in the morning, we finally arrive at the Novitiate. Our rescue expedition had taken almost twelve hours. Normally, one could go back and forth to the city in two hours. Our two wounded were now, for the first time, properly dressed. I get two hours sleep on the floor; someone else has taken my own bed. Then I read a Mass in gratiarum actienem; it is the 7th of August, the anniversary of the foundation of our Society. We then bestir ourselves to bring Father Kleinserge and other acquaintances out of the city. We take off again with the hand cart. The bright day now reveals the frightful picture which last night's darkness had partly concealed. Where the city stood, everything as far as the eye could reach is a waste of ashes and ruin. Only several broken skeletons of buildings completely burned out in the interior remain. The banks of the river are covered with dead and wounded, and the rising waters have here and there covered some of the corpses. On the broad street in the Hakushima district, naked, burned, cadavers are particularly numerous. Among them are the wounded who still live. A few have crawled under the burnt-out autos and trams. Frightfully injured forms beckon to us and then collapse. An old woman and a girl whom she is pulling along with her , fall down at our feet. We place them on our cart and wheel them to the hospital at whose entrance a dressing station has been set up. Here the wounded lie on the hard floor, row on row. Only the largest wounds are carefully dressed. We convey another soldier and an old woman to this place but we cannot move everybody who lies exposed in the sun. It would be endless and it is questionable whether those whom we can drag to the dressing station can come out alive, because even here nothing really effective can be done.

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