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And he has the President of France, puzzling over the question of inequality among races, attribute to the Grand Mufti of Paris the idea that it is "just a question of rotation," with "different ones on top at different times"--as if to imply that it is quite natural for Europe, having expanded outward for the past 500 years, to be overwhelmed in turn by non-Western peoples. Indeed, Raspail claims that in depicting the French armed forces fleeing from confrontation rather than bloodily repulsing the armada, he shows he is no racist, for "I denied to the white Occident, at least in my novel, its last chance for salvation." Yet for much of the rest of the novel Raspail makes plain where his cultural and political preferences lie. Whereas the Europeans all have characters and identities, from the Belgian consul in Calcutta, trampled to death by the crowd, to the French politicians paralyzed by their impending fate, the peoples of the Third World, whether already laboring in the slums of Paris or advancing upon the high seas, are unrelentingly disparaged. "All the kinky-haired, swarthy-skinned, long-despised phantoms; all the teeming ants toiling for the white man's comfort; all the swill men and sweepers, the troglodytes, the stinking drudges, the swivel-hipped menials, the womanless wretches, the lung-spewing hackers; all the numberless, nameless, tortured, tormented, indispensable mass. . . . They don't say much. But they know their strength, and they'll never forget it. If they have an objection, they simply growl, and it soon becomes clear that their growls run the show. After all, five billion growling human beings, rising over the length and breadth of the earth, can make a lot of noise!" Meanwhile, along with Josiane and Marcel, seven hundred million whites sit shutting their eyes and plugging their ears. If anything, Raspail's contempt for sympathizers and fellow travelers in the West is even more extreme. The collection of churchmen who plead for tolerance of the approaching armada; the intellectuals and media stars who think this is a great event; the hippies, radicals, and counterculture people who swarm south to greet the Indians as the panic-stricken Provencois are rushing north--all these get their comeuppance in Raspail's bitter, powerful prose.
The order came from the Sultan of Brunei’s nephew. It was 1994, and Prince Abdul Hakeem, then 20 years old, had inherited two things: access to a $40 billion fortune, and his family’s penchant for spending it. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, the monarchs of this tiny, oil-rich nation in the South China Sea bankrolled a fleet of special custom vehicles, ordering the most coveted cars in the world by the half-dozen or more. Their notorious collection — located in nondescript concrete garages, surrounded by razor wire, and patrolled by armed Nepalese soldiers known as gurkhas — numbered in the thousands. Visitors described rows and rows of warehouses, filled to the brim with luxury cars, sometimes organized by make, model, or even color. In his online newsletter, Ferrari broker Michael Sheehan described one floor dedicated solely to black Mercedes SL500s, another to red Ferrari Testarossas, and yet another to bright yellow Bentleys and Lamborghinis. One particularly star-studded showroom included a Ferrari 288 GTO Evo, F40 LM, F50, and three McLaren F1s. Several of these cars could be found nowhere else in the world Several of the cars in these warehouses were one-of-a-kind, built specifically for Brunei, and could be found nowhere else in the world. For his next order, Prince Hakeem again wanted something special: a Ferrari with a semi-automatic transmission. At the time, the technology didn’t exist on any street-legal vehicle in the world. That didn’t give him any pause. Prince Hakeem was used to getting what he wanted. According to a Fortune article published in 1999, as a teen Prince Hakeem had decided he wanted to learn to play American football, so the Royal Family paid Joe Montana and Herschel Walker to come to Brunei and teach him the game. No one was allowed to tackle the prince, who scored touchdowns every time he touched the ball. On his 18th birthday, he received $1 billion in cash. For a job like this, Prince Hakeem knew just who to turn to: legendary automotive design house Carozzeria Pininfarina, which had already completed one-off versions of Ferraris, Bentleys, Jaguars, and other historic marques for the Royal Family. It’s estimated that in less than a decade, Pininfarina had built more than 50 cars destined for Brunei. The assignment came to Paolo Garella, Pininfarina’s prototype manager. Garella’s team would take the Ferrari Testarossa, a pillar of automotive style and performance, and crank up the adrenaline.
Without defending Zimmerman, who I believe brought everything upon himself by following Martin and then ignoring the police dispatcher's instruction to stop doing so, he was doing what he perceived to be his job by monitoring passersby in a community plagued by burglaries, break-ins and other crimes.Another Facebook friend called Martin's killing a "lynching," a display of hot-headed hyperbole which insults the victims of real lynchings and other hate crimes that, unfortunately, happen with too much frequency even in this supposedly 'post-racial' era.Others pointed to the irrefutable fact that the armed Zimmerman killed Martin, who had no weapon, as proof of the former's guilt. This overly simplistic, black-and-white (no pun intended) analysis is just the sort of thing I'd come to expect from the reactionary right, not my ideological brethren and sistren. It doesn't take much imagination to envision countless scenarios in which an armed person could be acquitted in a court of law for shooting an unarmed person.Yet another friend, this one of the real world variety, compared my stance to recent comments by Geraldo Rivera, who told his Faux News colleagues that the six women jurors "would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did." I am by no means justifying Zimmerman's actions. I am only asserting that the prosecution did not meet the burden of proof required to secure a second degree murder conviction.What part of "beyond a reasonable doubt" do these people not understand?A respected Digital Journal colleague published a scathing op-ed piece this morning in which she blasted the United States as "a nation where killers exterminate the helpless." She also referred to Zimmerman as a "racist.""Exterminate?" Really? Does any reasonable person believe for even a moment that Zimmerman wanted to kill Martin? As I have already said, I believe Zimmerman bears some responsibility for Martin's death because he brought the tragic events of that rainy night upon himself by following him. But using the word 'exterminate' is yet another example of inaccurate hyperbole that damages the credibility of progressives who fight for social justice.As for the assertion that George Zimmerman is a racist, where is there any proof of this? The FBI certainly concluded that he was not.Speaking of allegations of racism, by far the most absurd reply my Facebook status received was this:"Brett, you are a racist. Goodbye.
The remaining variables contributed less than 5%. Response curves of the final ensemble SDM are shown in Supplementary Fig. 1. Figure 2 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Positive records of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and potential distribution of the fungus according to an ensemble species distribution model. Warmer colors indicate higher probability of environmental suitability. Areas exceeding the environmental training range of the SDM are indicated in gray. In comparison with previous SDMs for Bd, our new model employs an ensemble model approach, which has superior performance when compared to single algorithms (Meller et al. 2014). This enables the prediction of both hot spots and cold spots of environmental suitability for Bd. The new SDM predicts that most parts of eastern and western USA, mountainous areas in Central America, the Northern Andes, lowlands of Chile, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, and adjacent areas in Uruguay and Argentina provide suitable environmental conditions for Bd (Fig. 2). Most parts of the Amazon basin are not predicted to be suitable for Bd, most likely because their comparatively high annual mean temperatures exceed the critical thermal maximum of the pathogen. Our results highlight similar hot spots for Bd as those predicted by Rödder et al. (2009) and Liu et al. (2013), but allow more differentiation between suitable and unsuitable sites because of increased sampling efforts and the use of analytical methods that are an ensemble of different algorithms (Box 2). A major difference between this new SDM and the previous projections is the lower suitability for Bd in the Amazon basin and higher suitability for Bd in western North America relative to the earlier model by Rödder et al. (2009). Our model also differs from that of Liu et al. (2013) in showing less suitability for eastern North America. We compared the results of the SDM with the prevalence of Bd at given localities for which we had population‐level data (Fig. 3). Overall, Bd prevalence correlates well with the SDM, but neither picture is able to completely explain the epidemiological patterns observed. For example, eastern US amphibian populations have among the lowest mean prevalence (mean = 12.4%), whereas eastern Brazilian populations display among the highest prevalence (mean = 28.5%) (Fig. 3). Yet, both regions show limited evidence for Bd‐related declines. Figure 3 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and potential distribution of the fungus according to an ensemble species distribution model. Warmer colors indicate higher probability of environmental suitability.
RH-Lang: Visual RIFGm:ROcc 0.60 0.44 0.47 2.704 0.011 0.758 n.s. RH-Lang: Visual RHIP:RIFGm 0.53 0.40 0.44 3.218 0.003 0.749 n.s. RH-Lang within RHIP:RSTGm 0.52 0.44 0.52 2.460 0.020 1.759 n.s. RH-Lang within RIFGi:RIFGm 0.61 0.48 0.53 2.574 0.015 1.073 n.s. RH-Lang within RIFGi:RIFGs 0.57 0.47 0.49 2.629 0.013 0.429 n.s. RH-Lang within RIFGm:RIFGs 0.91 0.74 0.84 2.991 0.006 1.470 n.s. RH-Lang within RIFGm:RSTGm 0.68 0.57 0.55 2.527 0.017 0.511 n.s. RH-Lang within RIFGs:RSTGp 0.45 0.34 0.44 3.297 0.003 2.011 n.s. RH-Lang within D. Regions showing significantly increased synchronization following rTMS but without downregulation during rTMS ROI Pre During Post t
But I haven’t been down there and I don’t think I’d be welcomed.” Although this is your first film, you’ve been around film sets from a young age due to your mother’s work. Do you remember that time? “Yeah. When I was living in England, I lived in a small town where there was nothing to do. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was thrown headfirst into music and film. It was like entering a completely different world and I loved the excitement. There is something very otherworldly about the entertainment business compared with going to grammar school!” David Bowie and Candy Clark in The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Your mother made the costumes for David Bowie’s 1976 movie, The Man Who Fell To Earth. Were you on set at the time? “No. They took off to New Mexico to film it and my mom left me home with this a**hole nanny. I just saw my mom when she was popping back into town. I didn’t see the movie itself until I was probably 11, so just old enough to get it. I always had a crush on [Bowie co-star] Candy Clark! I’d always wonder when she was coming around. You know how little boys are when there are older women around – you kinda lose your mind. I was really distracted by Candy.” Before you got into music you were into comics and horror films, weren’t you? “Yes. I used to go up to Hollywood Boulevard. There were a bunch of great bookshops up there that specialised in Hollywood history and horror history. I spent a lot of time up there and a lot of time in the Wax Museum.” You had your preferred mode of transport: your BMX… “That came a little later. I am very single-minded. Before I started racing bikes, everything I did revolved around art. When I started racing bicycles, all my time was devoted to racing but I’d still draw. I went from drawing horror stuff to drawing bicycles. Then I went straight from bikes to guitars. I’d spend every waking moment learning guitar and listening to records to try and work out how to play things. At that time I was drawing a lot of band-related stuff as a result.”
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So while the party and the media establishment continued to label Smer as leftist or even “red” (which by now had become the party’s official color), Smer represented a “left” bereft of what once was considered essential to any leftism: a notion of solidarity across ethnic and national boundaries. The kind of class politics that might underlie and justify such solidarity had largely disappeared from Slovakia’s political scene.
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In the outcome, today less than 10% of the British isles is forested.In Japan, on the other hand, most mountain areas are too precipitous for agricultural use. So, whereas lowlands were cleared and converted to cropland, logged hillsides were generally left to reforest. And because peat moss fares poorly in Japan's snowy winters, those hillsides have mostly been able to reforest successfully.Farmers' demand for mulch did gradually damage some hilly areas, especially in south-central Japan. Moreover, the steepness of most mountainsides has meant that during deluges denuded woodland could produce ruinous flooding and avalanches. To avoid locally devastating events of that sort, communities customarily have left steep hillsides unscavenged, so that they could retain their forest cover. In consequence, some 70% of the archipelago is wooded even today, about half of that in old-growth stands and half in even-aged plantation forest.. The British Isles -- with their expanses of fertile lowland, their comparatively gentle hillsides, and their year-round rainfall -- have proven very receptive to animal pasturage and dry-field cropping of such grains as wheat and barley.The Japanese archipelago -- with its steep, towering mountainsides, narrow valleys, deep-soiled alluvial plains, and warm, wet summers -- has proven hospitable to wet-rice (paddy) cultivation , especially in its southerly half. But the relative scarcity of arable land has discouraged pasturage and militated against the growing of dry-field crops, whose yield-per-acre is much less than that of paddy tillage. Paddy fields have also been valued because they control run-off efficiently, making nutrient-laden water available for crop growth, while reducing the rate of erosion and risk of flooding.Because animal husbandry yields even less food per acre than do dryfield grains, these differences in agricultural regimen have meant that Japanese farmers extracted a much higher caloric yield-per-acre from their farmland than could farmers of the British Isles, enabling a much larger human population to live on far less arable land.On the other hand, animal waste provides considerable fertilizer material for dry-field use, which has enabled agriculture in the Isles to flourish almost independently of woodland. By contrast (as noted above), most paddy-field farmers -- prior to their 20th-century shift to commercial ("chemical") fertilizer -- depended on mulch, much of it scavenged from nearby woodland floor, as well as on the nutrient-laden run-off from surrounding wooded hillsidesIn short, Japanese agriculture, and hence Japanese society, has remained much more fully tied to a viable natural biosystem than has the agriculture and society of the British Isles..
As a nation, we have to continue to work toward universal, affordable, quality health care for every single American. While all of us must continue to work toward that day and we will do our part, it is going to be up to each of you who graduates today to assume your place as one of the architects of this changing health care world. I'm afraid you can't just be bystanders or kibitzers because you have the information and the experience that all of us need. About 100 years ago, one of your predecessors said, ‘We are very glad to be in the class of 1900 and not 1800, because we confidently believe we shall all witness greater triumphs in the century now dawning.’ I hope each of you feels the same and I trust that in 100 years when your successors look back at the class of 1998, they will say that, given the opportunity, you went far beyond the instructions to do no harm at the patients' bedside. Instead, you worked in the service of your patients and humanity. And you worked to improve the system in which you care for your patients.” [Remarks at Harvard Medical School, 6/4/98] Clinton: “The United States Would Be Better Off If It Provided Universal Health Care Coverage For All Of Its Citizens.” “SCHWAB: In this context, you have hear in front of you many of the CEOs of leading American companies, and you have been a proponent of moving toward the program of universal health coverage. The program to date has met mixed success, and generally little enthusiasm from the business community. So my question would be, why should the business community have this program as a priority? What would you tell the business leaders here in this respect? CLINTON: Well I think your characterization of it meeting with mixed success was too kind. I still believe that economically, politically, socially, and morally, the United States would be better off if it provided universal health care coverage for all of its citizens. […] So there are a number of problems in my view, and I think that there is an ideological opposition among many in the American business community to the American government being any part of providing universal care. But of course we provide universal care to our citizens over the age of 65 through Medicare.
Finally, he rejects the limit of form: he rejects formality in art, dress, sex, work, politics, worship, diction, comportment, station, and so forth; and with them, he rejects beauty, truth, order, goodness, for all of them are revealed to the laser eye of his skepticism as merely conventional, thus false and “inauthentic,” and therefore evil. His art is “transgressive” or aleatory; the great theme of his literature is rebellion, revolution, the outlaw and the pervert—sex, death, and finally death by sex. But the rejection of the patrimonial order leads to radical uncertainty about everything. Life is perilous for everyone, but for the nominalist rebel there is no transcendent order that can be relied upon to govern and set things finally right, just and true, in terms of which the things that now seem so wrong and painful may therefore be understood as falling toward their due and proper Providential order. For the nominalist, as for everyone, nothing in life is really certain; but for the nominalist, nothing in life is reliably good, either. Even worse, the nominalist rebel can rely on no one but himself. So he turns to a program of revolutionary action. He becomes a Pelagian Utopian [one who believes that moral perfection through human action is attainable in this life without the assistance of divine gracc], out to save the world, building proud towers that cannot reach to Heaven. Even nihilist anarchists and atheists, who insist that in reality nothing matters, work to increase the influence of their doctrines. All societies have had to deal with these tendencies toward nominalism, anarchism, and nihilism in their adolescents. Traditional societies dealt with them by forcing all their young through traumatic rites of passage in which they were stripped of their adolescence, and from which they emerged as mature exponents and defenders of their patrimonial tradition—as men, and women. These rites vary greatly from one group to another, but wherever they are effective, it is because the adults all give their own credence to the ontology and morality they have themselves inherited from their forbears. Where adults are confident in their patrimonial Limit, in all its formal expressions, and impose it therefore consistently and rigorously upon their children from an early age, the full-blown adolescent revolt is unthinkable.
Hey folks. It’s Me, Oscar Black. The guy with the mole mask. The owner of the Red Mole. One of the many “Peaceful Supporters” of 50 Blessings. I’ve never been much of a writer. Writing was always a thing for weird people of society… But I feel like I gotta record my life and how It has gotten to this point. I was born on August 5th 1968, in Miami Florida. My mother was a secretary, and my father was a bartender. He owned this one bar. It was called the Mole and it was In Downtown Miami. He named it this, because all males on my dad’s side of my family have a mole on their chin… Of course… I had this Mole as well. All throughout my life, I was called the Mole. I lived a normal childhood, like everyone else. My favorite color was and still is Red. Every single one of my drawings were in Red when I was a kid… Now let’s fast forward a couple of years. I was in Senior Year of High School when The U.S. and Russia were in conflict. Whilst I was in Senior Year, One of my teachers was actually Professor Langely, or who we know as Jules. He taught classics. I always arrived to his class 1 minute late. I did this because I was busy getting high. One day, I was caught however. I was caught by two cops. One guy with a moustache, and Walter, back when he was a rookie. My Dad wasn’t in the war, as he had to take care of the bar, and I wanted to go to college. Both my Dad and I hated the Russians for occupying Hawaii. It turns out what was shit soon became even more dark and shitty. Those Russian fucks nuked San Francisco. Eventually, the Russo-American pact happened, and the Russian Mafia was everywhere. While the Mole was very successful, we lost customers because of the Russian Bar that opened nearby. That place was filled with Mobsters. Eventually, on April 2nd 1989, That Rat bastard, cleared the bar. I heard he kicked down the door and started shooting everyone. Eventually, the bar was closed and it turned into a Diner. My Dad was chanting in excitement on how the bar was closed, and he was saying things about the Russian Mafia. It turns out… There were Russians in the bar.
The new Shadows of Evil map included with Black Ops 3 is far larger than any other zombie map to date. With so many different areas to explore, vertically and horizontally, it can be tricky to find Jug and the redesigned Pack a Punch.Don't worry though, follow the guide below to understand exactly how to find the Jug machine and get that precious extra health, but also locate the weapon upgrade machine (aka Pack-a-Punch) in Shadows of Evil.Veteran zombie fans will immediately notice that in Shadows of Evil you're given three chances to get hit before being downed. This is contrary to all other zombie maps where the usual two hits and you're down philosophy was implied. This doesn't necessary make the game a lot easier because you can still get cornered, but it does help against those unexpected windmill attacks which were so unfair in previous games.Everyone knows that the Juggernog perk is an absolute life saver in COD Zombies and that's no different in Shadows of Evil. Your usual 3 hit down now becomes 6 after you drink the Jug perk thus giving your more room to takes risks and fend off higher numbers of zombies later in the game.Whether it's still the first perk you should buy is a little debatable now that Gobblegum has been introduced, but outside of Quick Revive in SOLO, Jug is still a high priority perk for any player.Also note that in SoE, there's the option to "Become the Beast" by using the purple cauldrons scattered throughout the map. These are very, very similar to the purgatory mode in Mob of the Dead and some of the same mechanics apply. For example, when playing as the beast you can power up generators using your electrical attack and also grapple to higher (hidden) locations. Keep these tactics in mind when finding Jug.Lastly and most importantly, Jug will spawn randomly in one of three locations: Canal District, Waterfront District and Footlight District. The video link below shows each of the possible locations for Jug, or alternatively you can continue reading about a particular example for the Waterfront District. Once you understand where one of the locations is, you can repeat this similar process for each of the districts.There are several broken bottles on top of crates in the Junction area, each bottle is just outside of the District's gate.
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 9.98 KB [22:56] * SamVib ([email protected]) has joined #reddit [22:56] <SamVib> anyone else having problems signing in? [22:56] <aperson> SamVib↳ it's just you [22:56] <aperson> keep trying [22:56] <SamVib> I tried. [22:56] <pinkfu> SamVib, just you [22:57] <SamVib> you guys trollin' me? [22:57] <justtip> try harder SamVib [22:57] <justtip> like, really hard [22:57] <SamVib> :( [22:58] <SamVib> theres not even an option to sign in. [22:58] <SamVib> just register 01[22:58] <dd-wrt> SamVib, is your browser up to date? [22:58] <SamVib> I click register and sign in [22:58] <SamVib> but yet it doesn't sign me in. [22:58] <aperson> SamVib↳ make sure your computer is up to date [22:58] <SamVib> Its up to date. Chrome 9. 01[22:58] <dd-wrt> probably your browser [22:58] <justtip> SamVib, try refactoring the normals [22:58] <aperson> reddit won't let you log in unless you're up to date for security reasons [22:58] <SamVib> let me try another one. [22:59] <Suaviloquent> reddit's working fine on IE for me, SamVib [22:59] <Suaviloquent> try that. [22:59] <pinkfu> SamVib, did you try rebooting? [22:59] <SamVib> Hmm, I tried IE, won't work. [22:59] <SamVib> I'll reboot now. 02[22:59] * SamVib ([email protected]) Quit (Quit: brb computer issues) [22:59] <Suaviloquent> Weird, IE is the only thing reddit's working for me right now, must be a firefox patch thing. [22:59] <Suaviloquent> lol [22:59] <justtip> SamVib, wait, install netscape navigator [22:59] <Suaviloquent> We're assholes [22:59] <justtip> oh, hes gone [23:00] <Suaviloquent> hi-five guys [23:00] <pinkfu> yes, yes we are 01[23:00] <dd-wrt> bahahahah [23:00] <pinkfu> ahahaha [23:00] <Suaviloquent> when he comes back let's think of other shit to say [23:00] <Suaviloquent> not netscape, how about opera [23:00] <Suaviloquent> or.. safari [23:00] <aperson> I was going to have them change their dns settings [23:00] <Suaviloquent> LOL [23:01] <pinkfu> If he comes back... [23:01] <pinkfu> unplug and wait a min? [23:01] <aperson> then maybe they can try burning a linux livecd and testing reddit from there [23:01] <aperson> could be a windows issue [23:01] <zaapiel> lol linux [23:01] <Suaviloquent> tell them to try on the ipad [23:01] <pinkfu> oh man, we are awful people [23:01] <Suaviloquent> works just fine on the ipad! [23:02] <pinkfu> let's keep doing it 03[23:04] * SamVib ([email protected]) has joined #reddit [23:05] <pinkfu> SamVib, it work? [23:05] <SamVib> nope :( [23:05] <Suaviloquent> SamVib, dude, did you try IE? [23:05] <SamVib> Yep.
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To survey the filmography of 3-D, from the days of “Bwana Devil” to a movie like “Jaws 3-D,” which, in 1983, earned eighty-eight million dollars worldwide, is to trespass upon a mythical land that is both laughed at and lost. It’s like hearing from survivors of Atlantis that the place was a bit of a dump. And yet the myth is untouchable, because we cannot return to inspect it for ourselves. Were I to nourish a fixation with the films of 1954, I could easily buy a DVD of “Rear Window” or “On the Waterfront,” but I can no more grasp what it was truly like to put on my 3-D spectacles and watch “The French Line,” with Jane Russell, than I can spirit myself back among the congregation of St. Thomas’s Church in Leipzig, two hundred and twenty years earlier, to hear a Bach cantata. There was a chance to see “The French Line” four years ago, when it screened as part of a magnificent-sounding roster of films at the World 3-D Film Expo II, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, alongside such gems as “Those Redheads from Seattle” (1953) and “Taza, Son of Cochise” (1954). If you missed the show, however, all that remains of “The French Line” is the poster, with its portrait of Russell, arching her back in a bustier, and supported by the delicate slogan “J.R. in 3D: It’ll Knock Both Your Eyes Out!” There’s no proof that Howard Hughes wrote that line, but it has his paw marks all over it. “Taza, Son of Cochise” is a special case, because it starred Rock Hudson and was directed by Douglas Sirk. Those for whom 3-D is, by definition, doomed to frippery tend to claim that no one of any distinction or sensibility would touch the stuff; yet a trawl through the record reveals any number of first-rate stars and directors who reached into the third dimension. There was “Dial M for Murder,” which Hitchcock shot in 3-D, although he was annoyed by the bulk of the camera.
Monk is a walking bucket and a high level transition athlete, but he'll need the personnel surrounding him to mask some of his shortcomings. One of the most electric players in all of college basketball, Malik Monk is a highlight waiting to happen, and he proved to be the perfect backcourt mate next to Fox thanks to his ability to get buckets off of quick-hitting actions. It's important to know what you're getting in Monk, however, as drafting him as a lead guard of the future could end poorly - his mentality has always been of the score-first and score-second variety, even if he's shown some improvement out of ball screens. He's likely more Zach Lavine , Lou Williams, Monta Ellis than Bradley Beal in terms of style, at least at this stage of his development. Monk is best next to a big point guard who can run the show, and has the size to defend twos, as the Bentonville, Arkansas native lacks the ideal physical tools to check most shooting guards. Elfrid Payton fits that description, and the Orlando Magic are in dire need of shooting, which could make this a decent marriage for newly appointed executives Jeff Weltman and John Hammond. A lineup of Payton, Monk, Ross/Hezonja, Gordon, and Biyombo/Vucevic, while still not ideal, is certainly intriguing, and Monk would give the Magic the potential 20 point per game scorer it currently lacks.Whether the Magic are high enough on Monk to take him at six is definitely in question, however, as it appears that Jonathan Isaac has established himself as a top-six player in this draft. Monk could fit next to a bigger, defensive-minded guard, like Kris Dunn (who has some similarities to Payton), but will he defend enough to stay on the floor for Tom Thibadeau? He's also a bit redundant to a LaVine, who is on the last year of his rookie deal next season. That leaves New York, an unpopular destination for any young player nowadays.Monk would be a fan-favorite next to Porzingis in the Garden, actually fits the Triangle somewhat in that he's best off the ball, and would give the Knicks a perimeter scorer that it's clearly lacking. But for Monk's sake, his lack of point guard skills and so-so decision making could be exploited early on if forced into a high-volume situation, and his defensive habits on a likely losing team don't figure to improve early in his career.
LONDON (March 27 th, 2013) – Square Enix Ltd. , the publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announced that FINAL FANTASY® XI: Seekers of Adoulin™ is now available on Xbox360® and Windows® PC. Marking the fifth major addition to the FINAL FANTASY XI adventure, “Seekers of Adoulin” features two new jobs. Geomancers harness the elemental energies of Vana’diel® to aid their comrades and attack enemies alike. As versatile duelists, Rune Fencers are quick with a blade as well as incantations, and employ the power of arcane runes to sway the tide of battle both offensively and defensively. Other key features of FINAL FANTASY XI: Seekers of Adoulin include: · The additions of the Ulbuka Continent and Sacred City of Adoulin that further expand on the FINAL FANTASY XI storyline · New and stronger monsters throughout the areas that span the Ulbuka Continent · New gameplay systems such as player-built outposts, new contract work, and the introduction of special “power spots” that are hidden throughout the environment for powerful character enhancements Additionally Mr. Kazushi Hagiwara, the internationally acclaimed manga artist, designed the artifact armor and weapons for the new jobs. His artwork brings a fresh, new look that will seamlessly blend into the world of FINAL FANTASY XI. More details on FINAL FANTASY XI: Seekers of Adoulin can be found at: http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/adoulin. About Square Enix Ltd. Square Enix Ltd., a part of the Square Enix Europe business unit, develops, publishes, distributes and licenses SQUARE ENIX, EIDOS® and TAITO® branded entertainment content in Europe and other PAL territories as part of the Square Enix Group. Square Enix Ltd. also has a global network of leading development studios such as IO Interactive™, Crystal Dynamics® and Eidos Montréal. The Square Enix Group boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY, which has sold over 100 million units worldwide, DRAGON QUEST® which has sold over 61 million units worldwide and TOMB RAIDER® which has sold over 35 million units worldwide; and the legendary SPACE INVADERS®. Square Enix Ltd. is a London-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. More information on Square Enix Ltd. can be found at http://www.square-enix.com/eu/en/ FINAL FANTASY XI © 2002-2013 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. Title Design by Yoshitaka Amano.
"All you can do is either pose questions or make truthful observations about human behaviour. The only morality is not to be dishonest.” - Stanley Kubrick prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" ? INTRODUCTION Decades after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” continues to baffle, enrage and entrance audiences. Books have been written, ink has been spilt, websites formed and videos made, all in the hope of untangling the film’s intricate narrative. Other labyrinthal films – Resnais’ “Last Year In Marienbad”, Erice’s “Spirit of the Beehive”, Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” come to mind – have been praised by critics and embraced by film buffs, but few seem to generate the sheer level of conversation, writing and academic interest as Kubrick’s. Indeed, over the past few years countless blogs have arisen, ascribing mystical, mathematical, supernatural and conspiratorial “meanings” to the film. These theories range from the probable to the bizarre to the downright insane, but in a way they’re all valid readings for a film which, in some ways, invites one to investigate, get lost and possibly lose one’s mind within its vast network of corridors. If on the one hand the internet generation has embraced “The Shining” as a film which can be mapped by careful analysis, its ambiguities conquered by DVD replays, high-definition screenshots, youtube videos and forum conversation, then on the other hand, a revived interest in the film has resulted in an abundance of what semiotician Umberto Eco calls “junk meaning”. This is excess chatter in which viewers ascribe to the film everything from Moon landing hoaxes to Mayan Apocalypses in the year 2012. On the other end of the spectrum we have those who don’t venture into the maze at all, shrugging in boredom or disinterest. Of course this is another quite valid response, as in many ways “The Shining” is about the act of either “watching” or “overlooking” “The Shining”. Kubrick invites his audience to “shine”, to navigate his labyrinth, picking, discarding and drawing conclusions as they sees fit. The entrance and exist to his maze are right there on the screen, how far one gets is not his concern. The first stumbling block for most audience members seems to be the question of whether or not the film’s ghosts are “real”.
While he was listing all the things he’d do on his first day in office—swear to uphold the Constitution, defend the Second Amendment, and repeal “every single one of Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional executive orders”—the crowd began chanting, “Mar-co, Mar-co, Mar-co.” “As long as you don’t say ‘Polo,’ ” Rubio said. He smiled. “I hated that game.” He made as if he were returning to his Oval Office to-do list. “When I’m President, we’re banning that game!” Rubio is funny mainly in order to call out his seriousness. He offered another of his one-liners: “Bernie Sanders is actually a nice guy, and he’d be a really good candidate for President—of Sweden.” Then he gathered himself up, turning grave: “Hillary Clinton is no laughing matter.” Rubio says that Clinton is not qualified to be President. The scene in Exeter, uplinked by Liberty and broadcast by Freedom, was captured by a media army composed of artillery (five large video cameras mounted on a stage at the rear of the hall, and a dozen more perched on each of the hall’s balconies) and infantry (reporters propping computers in their laps). But with every third person in the crowd tapping at a phone, sending words and pictures out to the world, it was hard to tell the civilians from the military. Who are the people, and who are the press? “I wasn’t tweeting,” a young long-haired woman in a blue wool coat told me. “I was Snapchatting.” Even before Rubio finished delivering his stump speech, an A.P. photographer plunked down on the floor, opened his laptop, and began cropping a shot. “I can’t talk now,” he said, excusing himself. “I’m filing right now.”
WILMINGTON, 12 mo. 29th, 1854 Esteemed Friend, J. Miller McKim: - We made arrangements last night, and sent away Harriet Tubman, with six men and one woman to Allen Agnew's, to be forwarded across the country to the city. Harriet, and one of the men had worn the shoes off their feet, and I gave them two dollars to help fit them out, and directed a carriage to be hired at my expense, to take them out, but do not yet know the expense.... THOMAS GARRET Harriet Tubman had been their "Moses," but not in the sense that Andrew Johnson was the "Moses of the colored people." She had faithfully gone down into Egypt, and had delivered these six bondmen by her own heroism. Harriet was a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. Yet, in point of courage, shrewdness and disinterested exertions to rescue her fellow-men, by making personal visits to Maryland among the slaves, she was without her equal. Her success was wonderful. Time and again she made successful visits to Maryland on the Underground Rail Road, and would be absent for weeks at a time, running daily risks while making preparations for herself and her passengers. Great fears were entertained for her safety, but she seemed wholly devoid of personal fear. The idea of being captured by slave-hunters or slave-holders, seemed never to enter her mind. She was apparently proof against all adversaries. While she thus maintained utter personal indifference, she was much more watchful with regard to those she was piloting. Half of her time, she had the appearance of one asleep, and would actually sit down by the road-side and go fast asleep* when on her errands of mercy through the South, yet, she would not suffer one of her party to whimper once, about "giving out and going back," however wearied they might be by the hard travel day and night. She had a very short and pointed rule or law of her own, which implied death to any who talked of giving out and going back. Thus, in an emergency she would give all to understand that "times were very critical and therefore no foolishness would be indulged in on the road."
Web: jakedavis.org Twitter: @DoubleJake Email: [email protected] I toyed with disclosing this for some time and have now decided to, given adequate time to see how a "communication ban" on twitter really pans out. There was originally nothing on my parole conditions about not associating or contacting any of my former co-defendants or anyone "linked to" the nebulous worldwide activist collective "Anonymous", until the police called my parole officer - while I was still in prison - and warned him that I had been communicating with Ryan Cleary. They apparently offered no elaboration, only that it must be explicitly clear that I in no way associate with him or others. During the first week of my incarceration (middle of May 2013), I received a deeply heartwarming letter from Mr. Cleary where he - and bear in mind he suffers from autism - empathetically articulated how sorry he was for everything he'd done online, how it had corrupted him, how it had turned him into the type of person that launches DDoS attacks on websites for no apparent reason and neglects the real world for a cyber existence. He asked me to "teach him the ways of real life" because he "just wanted to be a normal person". He enclosed a first class stamp for me to write back. After another week I decided to send him something - there were no conditions at the time stating I couldn't. I wished him the best, told him I understood how the computers had ruined our lives, and that I would try and introduce him to a more creative and stimulating society so that he could improve his general emotional and cultural well-being. We didn't mention the crimes, we didn't brag, we didn't reminisce, we just talked about moving forward, rehabilitating, and putting the past behind us. He sent a letter back thanking me for my response. The handwriting made it look like he'd given it a great deal of thought. This was the only communication I had with anyone "associated to" Anonymous, and it was merely a response to an amazing letter sent by a man that just wanted to become a better, more productive member of society. For this reason, a malicious phone call was made and for the next year I now cannot communicate with 99% of the people that follow me on twitter.
However, there is no independent verification of the same.Suspending the 'e-KYC licence key', UIDAI ordered PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct an audit of Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank to ascertain if their systems and processes are in compliance with the Aadhaar Act.UIDAI may consider revocation of suspension or decide further necessary action upon receipt of the report.The alleged actions of Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank were found to be in violation of different sections of the Aadhaar Act, 2016, which mandates obtaining explicit consent of the individual. Violations are liable to be punished with Rs 1 lakh per day fine and termination of authentication user agreements.Both Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank were appointed as Authentication User Agencies (AUA) by UIDAI and had entered into an agreement with UIDAI in February 2015 and September 2016 respectively for the purposes of availing authentication services provided by the authority.
The changing demographic landscape in the U.S. The long-term rise in U.S. women’s labor force participation, particularly among mothers, has led to an increasing share of infants living in homes where all parents are working. In 2016, 50% of children younger than 1 year of age were living in such an arrangement – 40% with two working parents and 10% with a single working parent. Thirty years earlier, this share was 39%; and in 1976, just 20% of infants were living in a home where all parents were working. Meanwhile, as the elderly population in the U.S. continues to grow, the number of people involved in informal caregiving of older adults is expected to rise. About 15% of the population was ages 65 or older in 2015, and projections suggest that by 2050 about one-in-five (22%) Americans will fall into this category. These older people are more likely to be employed than in the past; in 2016 almost one-in-five people ages 65 or older were still working, up from 12% in 1980, according to Pew Research Center analysis of Current Population Survey data. In recent years, 25 million working people reported that they provided unpaid care to someone with an aging-related condition in the previous three to four months – 16% of the employed civilian population in the U.S., according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) American Time Use Survey data. And for some people family caregiving is a multigenerational endeavor. A 2015 Pew Research Center survey found that about half (47%) of adults ages 40 to 59 had at least one parent ages 65 or older, and were also either raising a child younger than 18, or had given financial support to an adult child in the past year. More than ever, caregiving responsibilities extend to both women and men. While in 1965 married fathers living with their children spent about 2.5 hours a week on child care, that number rose to seven hours a week by 2015. In comparison, moms spent about 15 hours a week caring for their child in 2015. And when it comes to providing care for older adults, men and women are similarly likely to have done so in the prior three to four months. Among the employed civilian population, about 15% of men say as much, as do 18% of women, according to the BLS.
No more injuries – This is always at the top of the list. George Iloka and Shawn Williams have already suffered injuries in camp and preseason, respectively. While deep in some position groups, the Bengals cannot afford to lose any more starters. This is a team that is going to be in a lot of close games, where having your best out there is imperative. The offense finishes a drive in the endzone – Moving the ball has not been an issue for the first team offense. Led by Dalton, they have gotten into the scoring position on three of the four drives they have played together. However, two have resulted in made field goals and the other ended with a turnover. Redzone struggles killed this group a year ago, but much of that is to blame on the losses of Tyler Eifert and A.J. Green. Their skill players are healthy and there is no reason, with the abundance of options, they shouldn’t be putting the ball into the endzone. The defense gets off the field quickly – The Bengals seem to have always relied on a bend-but-don’t-break philosophy on defense. The lack of stops so far though, are almost starting to be concerning. The Redskins project to have a top-10 offense and getting off the field and maintaining field position will be a huge momentum boost heading into the games that matter. John Ross makes his debut – The final decision hasn’t been made, but this could be the weekend that we see the speedster from Washington make his debut. He has been practicing full-go for over a week, and the time seems right. There has not been this much excitement and anticipation to see a rookie play since the team drafted Green and Dalton six years ago. Hopefully, we will get to see some explosiveness from #15 on Sunday. The O-Line continues to make progress – They won’t be great, but they don’t have to be for this offense to have a good year. The revamped offensive line has been much of the talk this summer and for many, the reason why the Bengals won’t get back to playoff contention. However, through two weeks of the preseason, they have looked average. And with the weapons around them, that should be all they need to be. If they can build off that and hold their own again, some optimism may strike through the fanbase and nay-sayers.
For the next few minutes, Toledo watched as people, friends of the family, she supposed, came and went from the second floor. She was so disconcerted that she called her producer again, just to confirm that it was true, that the police had found Ruth Thalía. Her producer assured her it was. Bryan had confessed. “I decided to do the most uncomfortable and perhaps the most morbid thing possible in that situation,” Toledo recalled. She summoned her cameraman and headed up the stairs. “And just as I went up and was about to knock on the door, I hear this cry, something like, ‘No, it can’t be her.’” Toledo’s cameraman urged her to knock anyway, but she refused. “Another reporter might have insisted on an interview with the mother right then and there, but I felt I couldn’t do anything more.” In the segment that aired on ATV, you can hear a dog barking and Vilma’s anguished screams, muffled from behind the door. Toledo stands there, with a microphone in her hands, seemingly unsure of what to do next. Not long afterward, Toledo quit working in television news. That night, Peruvian television viewers saw the alleged murderer, Bryan Romero Leiva, being led away in handcuffs, surrounded by police in riot gear. The death of Ruth Thalía was the lead story on the evening news on every channel in Peru — except Frecuencia Latina. It was a Saturday, and Frecuencia Latina stayed with its regularly scheduled programming: El Valor de la Verdad.
We've been watching you light little campfires with cantrips or break offensive rocks with your spells as you trekked across the steppe." Oh, so this was an ambush. The woman had a perfectly correct stance, too - no way to knock her over or get the sword away. He'd have to talk his way out of this one. "You know this carries the death penalty, right? I am in pursuit of official business and-""Yes, yes. You're looking for war wizards, we know that too. You were quite clear about it in your cups at the taverns. People talk, you know, even to us - relics of a bygone age, was it?" If he hadn't been blushing before, he certainly was now. He'd used that exact phrase when discussing his mission with a tavern wench about a week ago. Of all the things to filter back to his quarry ..."So. You found us. Now, what do you want? I've found I'm less patient in my dotage, so be brief." The scimitar inched away from his neck, but not quite far enough that he could roll out from it without falling back into the mud pit. His mouth was suddenly dry - he could die here if he screwed up too badly, and they'd never find his body under ten feet of drying mud. "I have a - uh, a warrant to search for you, commanding me to report on your, um, traditions and practices, to see if they're - ah ..." he fumbled. What was the rest?"Hmph." The woman's eyes flicked around the landscape. "If this is a trap, they sent the wrong man. Gunt, did you see anyone?"
All of the women were from Ailes’s pre–Fox News days, and some went back to when Ailes was a producer for The Mike Douglas Show, in the 1960s. Ailes responded immediately, through attorney Barry Asen, who released a statement saying that Carlson and her lawyer were “desperately attempting to litigate this in the press because they have no legal case to argue.” It would be understandable if Asen’s ability to move seamlessly from representing Fox News in employment matters to representing Ailes’s personal interests felt natural. Until now, there had been little distinction between Ailes and the news channel he had created. On Sunday, July 10, Ailes spoke with Rudy Giuliani, a senior adviser at the firm Greenberg Traurig, and asked for his help. Ailes had been Giuliani’s media adviser during his 1989 campaign for mayor of New York, and Giuliani had officiated at Ailes’s third wedding, to Beth. Giuliani promptly got in touch with Gerson Zweifach, saying that he was calling on behalf of Ailes. Zweifach had already decided to hire the law firm Paul, Weiss to conduct the internal investigation into Ailes’s behavior. According to two executives close to the investigation, Giuliani said that he wanted to participate actively in the investigation. Zweifach refused, telling Giuliani that any such participation could mean that none of the information gathered in the investigation would be privileged, and it could, in effect, allow Gretchen Carlson’s attorney to obtain, through discovery, the testimony of everyone who participated. (A person close to Giuliani disputed this version of events, but offered no specific corrections.) With Paul, Weiss on board, Zweifach told its lawyers to act fast. There was no time to “get everything off the hard drives, texts, and e-mails,” as one of the executives close to the investigation recalls. The company “wanted to move quickly to preserve the business and do something about the women who may have been victimized.” Moving quickly also had the consequence of limiting the scope of the investigation. This was not to be an open-ended inquiry like the one on Bill Clinton that had produced the Starr Report. It would not look into whether employees at Fox News were regularly spied on and intimidated by superiors; whether demeaning comments about women were something that female employees at Fox News simply had to accept; or whether Rupert Murdoch himself had known anything about Ailes’s behavior.
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And whether after a -- a pretty bad lost decade of interest income growth or fiscal responsibility or other things that like, followed by, you know, a devastating crisis, huge loss of public institutions, people do wonder whether -- whether we have the ability to do things that can help the average sense of opportunity in the country. And I -- and I -- I definitely sympathize with that. I think that's why those of us in -- in Washington carry such a huge burden. You know, we're not just trying to clean up a terrible mess, but we have to try to figure out how to do that at the same time we're trying to restore faith in public institutions and that's an essential thing to do. Because we are having a terrible debate, a huge debate, an important debate about what is the role of government in the economy and economy and society as a whole and what we need to do is restore some basic confidence so that the government is able to perform those critical functions that the market can't provide. So that's -- that's the big debate we're having. BENNET: I think Margaret now I go to you for the good questions? CARLSON: This is well put, this is from the audience. Do you have any key differences with Larry Summers, or are you, Larry and Bob Rubin the same person operating in three bodies? (LAUGHTER) BENNET: Bob Rubin is coming up next. GEITHNER: They'd be -- I'm sure they'd be offended by the comparison. I have huge admiration for them. We're -- they're very different people and I think anybody who knows us and has worked with us, knows that we debated and fought and battled over many, many issues. And really came to any debate -- we all came from different background, different experiences and rarely came to the debate with -- with the same basic framework. But -- but we usually came to pretty good places and I'm very -- I'm very honored to have worked with them so closely and very privileged to have been part of so many things we were able to do together. CARLSON: And I have seen you all in the same room together, so we assume you're not the same person. On the -- in the -- in the ... GEITHNER: I really should say have they met? If they've me, have they met them?
Being able to monitor marker performance or make adjustments to settings or firing modes on the fly shouldn't be a chore and it should never detract from your game. As such the GTEK 160R puts the graphical user interface right were it should be, on the back of the marker, just a glance away from your line of sight in any in-game situation. The black and white OLED packs a punch in terms of detail and information available with everything from Breech Sensor condition, firing mode, shot counter, rate of fire indicator and battery level available in an easy to digest format. The OLED also comes alive when called upon to adjust the marker settings. Using the power button and trigger there are a range of user settings that can be adjusted and optimized for each individual user. It allows the GTEK 160R to be configured to comply with any current league or format on the planet. In late 2015 the Eclipse GTEK launched to universal acclaim. Its rugged reliability combined with true high-end shot characteristics and performance meant it instantly appealed to a huge spectrum of players looking to experience a new Eclipse spool-valve marker at a mid-level price.But from the outset it was clear that the Gamma Core drivetrain utilized in the GTEK was destined for greater things. Its ability to handle super-fragile paint, combined with almost imperceptible barrel-rise, a whisper-quiet sound signature and outstanding efficiency means it was a drivetrain that could compete with any high-end marker out there in terms of on-field performance. That it performs to such a high standard in temperatures as low as -20f and in environments where playing conditions can be in excess of +100f make the Gamma Core even more impressive.The challenge then was to place the Gamma Core into a chassis that it deserved.Cue the GTEK 160R.The 160R takes the GTEK and pushes into the realms of a true high-end. It boasts all-metal billet-machined construction, on-board OLED graphical user interface, hose-less construction utilizing the proven AT Pipe system from the LV1.1 and the Geo3.5, stretched-out stance for an ultra-stable shooting platform with wraparound rubber fore and aft grips for comfort and control. It's everything you need to be competitive at any level, in any format, anywhere on the planet.The beating heart of the GTEK160R is the Gamma Core.
As Labour is starting to realise, fixating in this way on one part of the electorate risks alienating others: perhaps the party’s biggest modern puzzle is how to win the seats it lost in Scotland and at the same time advance again in the English south. Worse still, such language betrays a characteristic of the modern centre left that many of its supporters find distasteful: in place of its old intuitive grasp of “our people,” a patronising conception of the public that makes politicians look like marketing specialists. All this speaks of a politics that is in a constant state of anxiety, and parties which communicate in a thin, transactional vocabulary (“Vote Labour and win a microwave,” as Ed Miliband’s American adviser David Axelrod witheringly put it). For the established centre-left parties of Britain, Germany and many other countries, an emotive politics of hope, common purpose, shared identity and participation seems to be a vain hope. The final element of the centre left’s crisis centres on national finances. The vogue for balanced budgets, lately seen in the tactical games played by George Osborne and Angela Merkel’s drive for pan-European fiscal conservatism is one thing. But by 2050, 37 per cent of Europe’s population will be over 60. In May, the European Commission predicted that across the European Union, spending on long-term care would somehow have to increase by 67 per cent before 2060. Whether fairly or not, many people already associate parties of the left with levels of spending that the 2008 crash rendered untenable. The more people come to understand the financial burdens of an ageing society, the more problems these parties will face. It is no accident that the word “resilience” has entered the modern political vocabulary, particularly at the local level. In 2010, the data company Experian released a “resilience ranking” of English local authority areas that was meant to show their vulnerability to spending cuts. Many councils—including those run by Labour—now habitually use the same word when thinking about how to manage ever-tighter budgets. To some on the left, that might sound like a sign of defeat, but it could also hold out the prospect of political revival. Middlesbrough Working men’s club, 1976. © Magnum/Philip Jones Griffiths For millions of people, the world does not look like the stereotypical left-wing meeting, where four people on a platform drone on ad nauseam and there are 10 minutes at the end for questions.
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What is all this but saying that the government is not at all an institution for “doing equal and exact justice to all men,” or for the impartial protection of all men’s rights; but that it is its proper business to take sides, for and against, a “large variety of diverse and competing interests”; that it has this “large variety of diverse and competing interests” under its arbitrary “control”; that it can, at its pleasure, make such laws as will give success to some of them, and insure the defeat of others; that these “various, diverse, and competing interests” will be “persistently seeking recognition of their claims . . . . in the halls of national legislation,”—that is, will be “persistently” clamoring for laws to be made in their favor; that, in fact, “the halls of national legislation” are to be mere arenas, into which the government actually invites the advocates and representatives of all the selfish schemes of avarice and ambition that unprincipled men can devise; that these schemes will there be free to “compete” with each other in their corrupt offers for government favor and support; and that it is to be the proper and ordinary business of the lawmakers to listen to all these schemes; to adopt some of them, and sustain them with all the money and power of the government; and to “postpone,” “abandon,” oppose, and defeat all others; it being well known, all the while, that the lawmakers will, individually, favor, or oppose, these various schemes, according to their own irresponsible will, pleasure, and discretion,—that is, according as they can better serve their own personal interests and ambitions by doing the one or the other. Was a more thorough scheme of national villainy ever invented? Sir, do you not know that in this conflict, between these “various, diverse, and competing interests,” all ideas of individual “rights”—all ideas of “equal and exact justice to all men”—will be cast to the winds; that the boldest, the strongest, the most fraudulent, the most rapacious, and the most corrupt, men will have control of the government, and make it a mere instrument for plundering the great body of the people?
But it is similar -- in my mind, from what I read this morning, it is similar to what Apple and Microsoft went through years ago because you're talking about, according to the article, how the apps are aligned on the screen, the corners of how the screen looks. There is supposedly a smoking gun, which is an e-mail that a Samsung employee, or consultant, wrote internally that said, "Boy, we need to make this look a little bit differently. It looks too much like the Apple product." In my mind, that doesn't hold any water. There is companies that -- THE COURT: Mr. Tripiano, I'm sorry, let me interrupt you one more time. Would you be able to keep an open mind in this case? PROSPECTIVE JUROR: Here's the other aspect of this. This is the third kind of legal proceedings that I've gone through. One was a, a trial. The other one was an arbitration. THE COURT: Were you a party in those cases? PROSPECTIVE JUROR: I was a party in one, I was a juror in the other. THE COURT: Okay. PROSPECTIVE JUROR: And the one where I was a juror, I really didn't feel like justice got done. I mean, between the twisting and the convoluted logic that we got from the attorneys and then the instructions, it was like our hands were tied. and so you said several times that, you know, based on what we heard and based on your instructions, what you're telling me is I can't -- I can't use my -- THE COURT: You can't substitute your own views of what the law should be. PROSPECTIVE JUROR: Not views of the law. THE COURT: Okay. PROSPECTIVE JUROR: But just my own sense of right and wrong, my own sense of justice. You know, it's all -- it seems, in this setting, it seems to get all twisted up. Did this man nail it or what? Of course, he was excused. Mr. DePriest, it turns out, worked for one of the parties, and he was honest enough to say he wanted his employer to win. So he is excused too.
Do you opt for a balance? Do you select midfielders who break forward and score or opt for a solid defence? There is one piece of advice: homework, homework and homework! Tip: remember, no matter how much you research, Ange Postecoglou and Tony Popovic hold zero thought for your fantasy team and this will add a few grey hairs. The basic rules and scoring: Select a Fantasy A-League squad of 15 players, consisting of: 2 Goalkeepers 5 Defenders 5 Midfielders; and 3 Forwards You select a captain and a vice captain; captain’s weekly points double, and should he not play, your vice-captain will receive this treatment. Teams must be selected with a Captain and Vice Captain prior to the “game week lockout”. Game week lockout occurs fifteen minutes before the first game of that round. For example, round one lockout starts at 19:15 October 11th 2013 and runs for the duration of the round. Points will calculate and tally upon completion of the round; all points and substitutions will take place and results are finalised for each week. No changes can be made during this lockout period. Scoring How do my players score and what for? Playing in a match (or part of a match e.g. at least 60 minutes) Scoring a goal Making an assist (the pass or touch leading to the goal) Keeping a clean sheets (goalkeepers, midfielders and defenders only) Saving a penalty Goalkeeper saves 3 shots or more As well as the above, points can be deducted for some or all of the following: Conceding a goal (goalkeepers and defenders only)
If a customer is short, I shouldn't have to have paid for that and for that, he didn't know I was underringing by still putting it in the register for let's say a large coffee that was $1.08 back then, but hey, he wanted to play unfair, I played his game back. STEALING he was from us, so that's not fair or legal.
Activation of NR2B-containing NMDARs by CaMKIIα triggers a Ca2+ imbalance that dramatically alters cellular properties and leads to delayed cell death. This at the same time also lowers PP1 activity [21]. Consistently, we demonstrate that increased PP1α activity counteracts the Ca2+ overload similarly to CaMKIIα inhibition and NR2B-containing NMDAR blockade. Further, the inhibition of PP1 prolongs Ca2+ influx, suggesting that endogenous PP1 can restore a normal concentration of intracellular Ca2+ upon excitotoxic insult. In vivo, the mechanisms leading to PP1 activation or inhibition in the hippocampus are not fully understood but may involve inhibitory targeting partners or inhibitors such as inhibitor-1 [56]. The contribution of NMDARs to excitotoxicity contrasts with the positive role of the receptor in normal excitatory neurotransmission, synaptic plasticity, and memory processes [57]. Such dual functions may be mediated by different populations of NMDARs coupled to distinct interacting partners and/or signaling cascades. NMDAR-dependent pro-death signaling involves NR2B coupling to the stress-activated protein kinase p38 in neurons [58]. Blockade of NR2B and p38 interaction reduces excitotoxic neuronal death without affecting NMDAR-mediated Ca2+ influx and synaptic plasticity, suggesting a specific role of NR2B-containing NMDAR downstream signaling in neuronal death. For some forms of synaptic plasticity such as LTP, NR2B-containing NMDARs associate with CaMKII following the recruitment of the kinase to the receptor [59]. In contrast, synaptic depression such as LTD induces the recruitment of PP1 to NMDARs [20], [21], most likely to extrasynaptic NR2B-containing NMDARs which are negatively regulated during LTD in the hippocampus [60]. Together with these findings, the present data suggest that PP1 may promote LTD by lowering NR2B-containing NMDAR activity, and operate extrasynaptically [61]. Finally, these findings strengthen previous reports showing that signaling through extrasynaptic NMDARs promotes cell death [48], and provide novel perspectives for its blockade by PP1. They underscore the potential of pharmacological approaches targeting protein phosphatases rather than approaches based on NMDAR antagonists, which have severe side effects [62], for the treatment of excitotoxicity in pathologies such as ischemic stroke. These data together with a previous report showing that PP1 inhibition improves memory in aged mice [36] support the therapeutic potential of PP1 modulation in brain disorders and aging.
He is trolling the waters seeing what's out there. Engine idling slowly, he's waiting to see if he gets any bites.He has options. Murray ALWAYS has options, doesn't he?He already has signed UFA's Bobby Sanguinetti, Carlo Colaiaocovo, and Matt Donovan. All are lefties. Presumably, Colaiaocovo will stick and stay with the Sabres as a seventh D option.NHL teams can operate at 10% over the NHL salary cap during the summer months. However, when training camp breaks, it is time for all teams to be cap compliant. Murray can sit and wait for the end of the summer to roll around to wait for the next Nick Leddy or Johnny Boychuk trade to present itself. The NY Islanders lurked in the weeds and pounced on Chicago and Boston, respectively last September when those teams had to dump salary in order to become cap compliant at $71.4 million.Murray and Dan Bylsma just got a birds eye view of Jake McCabe during the weeklong development camp. They no doubt like what they say of the 21 year old former captain of Team USA's World Juniors squad. Prior to this past week, Bylsma had never seen McCabe play live in person. He was effusive in his praise for the University of Wisconsin product after Friday night's scrimmage. McCabe may be the short term solution to Buffalo's left D opportunity.Murray has options. Oduya is one of them.In the meantime, Oduya is taking the Stanley Cup home to Stockholm on August 18 to share with his family and friends for the third time in the past five summers. I want a guy who has hoisted the Cup multiple times to mentor and teach my youngsters and veterans. ***
1) Learn from cautionary tales (without becoming one) The initial reception is good. Our client is pleased with the product and the users don’t really care about how secure our application is or is not. The technical choices we made to get to this point don’t affect the user directly, as the product has the same features it would have had otherwise. Our good friend Dr Emmett Lathrop Brown, Ph.D. explains the concept of causality A few months pass. Maybe we roll into the summer, and the kids are off school. It’s vacation season, and the office is emptying out over July and August. We’re also into the conference season, so DEF CON and blackhat are coming up. An innocuous-sounding demo is tentatively pencilled in to the schedule, and our team is unaware because they’re: A) on vacation and B) have never heard of either of the events I just mentioned. The demo presents a flaw on the level of a heartbleed or ETERNALBLUE. In other words, a really severe 0-day exploit. It’s foolish to take for granted that the folks that find these flaws have noble intentions or conform to the principles of responsible disclosure, but let’s assume optimistically that they do. So, well before the announcement these merciful folks have discreetly disclosed this issue to the major vendors, and the maintainers of the major frameworks. Patches have been issued along with advisories explaining the severity, but not the specifics, of the attack vector. The third-party security framework we shunned four months ago has already been updated and an emergency patch has been pushed out to affected projects, and they’re safe. We are not. We’re on vacation, enjoying the sunshine with friends and family, and our phone buzzes in our pocket. We remember that we’re on call this week. It’s Joe, the junior developer from work who is holding the fort. Did he forget his domain password again? The website keeps crashing when people try to sign in. Joe is stumped. That’s weird. We don’t do releases without people on hand. Did someone push a breaking change to live? At first we assume the database is offline, so we check the status monitor. Everything is green, so it’s not a connectivity problem. We bounce a few calls around to get permissions approved so we can inspect the live data for problems. We get our access, and try to connect — but the schema won’t load in our client.
Fathers perceived that they were at a disadvantage because of a bias toward the mother having custody. Because of this, in the 1980's more fathers than ever started showing up at parenting classes to make sure that their skills were state of the art. This is when these issues were first called to my attention. Most parents were able to share custody of their children, and they worked out childcare issues in an amicable way. A large number of women were even relieved to have fathers share in the childcare, which enabled them to pursue their personal life goals involving their education and career. However, when there was not a friendly resolution to custody, fathers found themselves with a greater opportunity to gain joint or primary custodial status by litigating (going to court). The stakes got even higher when the legal system was used to resolve these difficult problems. In extreme cases, the alienation of a child's affection against a targeted parent became a bizarre escalation of the intensity of the conflict.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.00663 aerodynamic lift in an atmosphere have been explored by biological evolution, and the characteristic airfoil shape needed to produce a low-pressure region above a wing has been finely honed (figure 2 evolutionary sculpting is not enough to lift many insects whose bulky bodies require extra help. Over the past 20 years, research has revealed how insects manage to garner every bit of lift and thrust from their tiny wings. One such mechanism is called clap and fling. As the wings are pushed into their back stroke, they are clapped together, a maneuver that forces air out from between them and provides additional thrust. The wings are subsequently flung apart as they begin their front stroke; the air that rushes in to fill the gap enhances circulation over the wing surface and thus improves lift. Another form of locomotion offers witness to the unyielding barriers of physics. Theof insect flight is now an exquisitely developed subject in biophysics.The simple laws that underpinlift in an atmosphere have been explored by biologicaland the characteristic airfoil shape needed to produce a low-pressure region above a wing has been finely honed (figure). However, thatsculpting is not enough to lift many insects whose bulky bodies require extra help. Over the past 20 years, research has revealed how insects manage to garner every bit of lift and thrust from their tiny wings. One such mechanism is called clap and fling. As the wings are pushed into their back stroke, they are clapped together, a maneuver that forces air out from between them and provides additional thrust. The wings are subsequently flung apart as they begin their front stroke; the air that rushes in to fill the gap enhances circulation over the wing surface and thus improves lift. Advances in high-speed photography and computer modeling have only in the past two decades allowed researchers to understand the fine-tuning that enables insects to exploit every nuance of the physics of aerodynamics. 5 5. A. K. Brodsky, The Evolution of Insect Flight, Oxford U. Press (1994). evolution, but convergent evolution is often just a biologist’s way of saying convergence via physical laws. The ways in which a wing can be engineered to provide sufficient lift in Earth’s atmosphere derive from physical constraints that radically narrow the number of solutions observed in the natural world.
OSEN via Nate1. [+1,038, -33] What if they just tossed em a trophy because a Laboum member is the 'Music Bank' MC ㅋㅋㅋㅋ this seriously doesn't make sense at all. How can some nugu group that no one's even heard of win on a public broadcast music show...2. [+975, -36] So I took a listen to the song and it was just ridiculous... the PD may as well have given the trophy to Kim Young Chul.3. [+932, -29] ㅋㅋ How is a song ranked at #300 winning #1 ㅋㅋ is this some joke? Just get rid of the charts completely if handing cash over the PD Is what gets you on it4. [+63, -6] TEEN TOP screwed IU over and now Laboum is doing it a second time ㅋㅋ It's not that big of a deal because IU has achieved all of the honors she could ever deserve but even veterans like EXID hasn't won #1 yet and there are still up and coming rookie groups like Oh My Girl and Lovelyz who haven't won theirs but Laboum just randomly gets one... ㅡㅡ the members are great and they have a few good songs but they've gotten themselves into a huge scandal with sajaegi suspicions galore.5. [+54, -1] Don't know who they are and they won... that's a bit much6. [+52, -0] The article missed the most important part: their sajaegi suspicions. Their previous album sold 3,000 copies but how is it that their new album sold 30,000 copies in just a week?7. [+40, -0] I wonder if the PD got any favors from them8. [+39, -0] I guess their stats make them one of the top 3 album sales of the year for female idols, #1 being Twice, #2 being Red Velvet, and #3 being Laboum... I honestly like Laboum and I'm a fan but this is all wrong. They only have 10,000 fans on their fancafe so how have they managed to sell 28,000 copies of their new album... over a weekend, no less..9. [+37, -0] No, it's not "okay"10. [+36, -2] How can Lovelyz and Girlfriend sell less copies than Labou? ㅋㅋㅋ They're playing so dirty
DailyMail All looked lost when this young and lone buffalo was attacked by two lions in a South African national park. But the pair had not bargained on the buffalo’s friends coming to his rescue, and moments later they were tossed several feet in the air before being chased away. The dramatic scene was captured on camera in the Mjejane Reserve on the border of the Kruger Park.It was witnessed by Oliver Matheson, 16, and his two friends Yaseen Majal, 17 and Alex Raubenheimer, 17. They had joined Oliver’s father Ian, 52, on an early morning game drive and didn’t expect to witness a ‘kill’, let alone a battle between a hungry lion and a buffalo that had other ideas.’We had seen the two young lions on the prowl and were already quite excited to witness nature in action, but nothing could have prepared us for what we saw next’, said Oliver. The two young lions had been silently stalking the buffalo for about 45 minutes before the incident occurred. In a flash they pounced and began to take down their prey. The buffalo put up a brave fight, but ultimately looked destined to succumb to the ruthless attack. ‘It looked like it was game over, he really looked finished’, said Oliver. ‘Then we saw two of the original herd coming back to investigate and we didn’t really know what to expect’.As the young buffalo fell to the ground, a large bull from the herd sized up the situation, seized his opportunity and attacked the young lion. ‘It was insane, he flipped the lion about 5 metres into the air. I had never seen anything like it,’ said Oliver. ‘We visit the park two to three times a year,’ said Oliver’s father, Ian. ‘In all the years we have been coming to the reserve, we have never seen anything close to what we saw that morning’. ‘We really felt privileged to have witnessed such a rare occurrence’. Amazingly all of the animals walked away without any injuries, except perhaps, some bruised egos.
Open in a separate window Filters likely discourage many smokers from making the quit attempt because they still cling to the belief that filtered cigarettes are protective of their health; thus, filters may have overall a detrimental effect on population health. Filters are a rod of about 12,000 fibers, and fragments of this material become separated from the filter during the manufacturing process and may be released during inhalation of a cigarette. It has been reported in tests on 12 popular brands that fibers are inhaled and also ingested, and filter fibers have been reportedly found in the lung tissue of patients with lung cancer [7]. Furthermore, consumer preference for filtered cigarettes may have been associated with a histological shift in predominant lung cancer type from squamous cell to the more aggressive adenocarcinoma cell type [8]. Currently, cigarette manufacturers are contemplating and test marketing additional “reduced harm” products, including new types of filters that may reduce toxic constituents in cigarette smoke (these new filters also contain cellulose acetate as well as new filter materials) [9]. Nonetheless, filters continue to be primarily a marketing tool to help sell cigarettes.
True Detective season two episode eight watchthrough: Omega Station Ani and Ray in the motel After sleeping together, Ani tells Ray about her abduction and molestation. She remembers trees, the woods again, a cave. Four days she thinks she might've gotten out. She remembers she got in a car, that the man who abducted her didn't force her. The scene unfolds in the present and intercuts with the moments they spent alone the night before as the other slept. "Baby, you made it all mean something, everything before we met. If they came to me through you, if they hurt you, I couldn't, I wouldn't deserve to live. If you love me — I cannot do the things I have to do unless I know you're safe. If I don't think you're safe, I'm lost. They got me. Nails has two tickets. Venezuela out of Oregon." "He didn't force me. He didn't even get near me. He called me pretty. I remember. I remember it made me feel — I liked," she trails off. "I got in the van with a stranger. Every time I remember that feeling, like pride, I get sick to my stomach. I could lie to myself, but I felt proud. I was proud that he thought I was pretty. Makes me sick." "None of that was your fault," Ray says. Next, Ray confesses. He tells the story of his worst moment when he killed the man he thought raped his wife. "I walk up behind him," he says. "It's him. It's the guy. I've been thinking about him, picturing him for months. I'm not sleeping. Passing strangers, wondering. He turned his head right as I was up on him. I planned to say it, but I didn't say anything. I got sick, and to keep from being sick, I raised up," he pauses, "right when he was turning. And I —" In a flashback to the night before, Ray looks at pictures of Chad, the son he left willingly, on his phone, as Ani sleeps. "It didn't make anything better," he says. "Made it worse. And I know now: the act, it described a trajectory." In other words, the act of murder — even if he believed he had a right to do so — foreshadowed Ray's life, which he lived thereafter as a man who acted like a murderer. "People," Ani says, "whole cultures wouldn't blame you. I don't." "It wasn't him.
Figure 8 View largeDownload slide Modulation in EMG activity during volitional assistance during stepping with epidural stimulation by an individual with motor complete spinal cord. Coordination and amplitude of EMG was modified by the intent to step. (A) Left and right activity during continuous stepping (40% body weight support, 1.07 m/s) with epidural stimulation and manual assistance. Initial steps show EMG pattern while the subject (Patient A45) is not thinking about stepping. Section within the red dashed lines show the period of steps while the subject is consciously thinking about stepping and facilitating each step (with voluntary intent). (B) Plot of linear envelope of the EMG signals of the soleus (SOL) versus tibialis anterior (TA, top) and rectus femoris (RF) medial hamstrings (MH, bottom) (filter: second-order Butterworth 500–100 Hz). Black plots represent both the steps before and after the voluntary intent to assist; red plots represent all steps within the dashed lines during voluntary intent to assist from A. (C) Similar data from Patient A53 during continuous stepping (40% body weight support, 0.36 m/s) with epidural stimulation and manual assistance. Plot of linear envelope of the EMG signals of the soleus versus tibialis anterior (top) and rectus femoris versus medial hamstrings (bottom) (filter: second-order Butterworth 500–100 Hz). Black plots represent both the steps before and after the voluntary intent to assist, while red plots represent steps in which Patient A53 is consciously thinking about stepping and facilitating each step. Electrode representation denotes the stimulation configuration used. Grey boxes are cathodes and black boxes are anodes, white boxes are inactive electrodes. Stimulation frequency was 40 Hz for Patient A45 and 30 Hz for Patient A53. Note Patient A53 was using three interleaved configurations. Muscles: soleus (SOL), medial gastrocnemius (MG), tibialis anterior (TA), medial hamstrings (MH), vastus lateralis (VL), and rectus femoris (RF). EMG data are presented in mV. Hip, knee and ankle are sagittal joint angles (degrees). The break in kinematic data is the result of a brief interruption in the recording. Ground reaction forces (FSCAN) reflect stance and swing phase (N).
While Bosnian Rainbows issued their self-titled debut album earlier this year, it should come as no surprise that the band's always active prog explorer Omar Rodríguez-López has another couple of releases to get him through the year. One is a live set from the outfit, and another finds Rodríguez-López jamming it out with Krautrock pioneers Faust . Both arrive November 8 through German imprint Clouds Hill was recorded live at the Clouds Hill premises in Hamburg in 2012, and the 10-inch release features an improvised performance divided into two parts. The track apparently utilizes, among other things, "a chain saw and a jack hammer." The recording is available as a 10-inch on white vinyl and comes with the, which features full-length performances from Bosnian Rainbows, Faust & Omar Rodríguez-López, Gallon Drunk, the Ape, Léonore Boulanger, the Building and Scams.You can watch some of the session with Faust and Rodríguez-López at the bottom of the page.As for the Bosnian Rainbows record, simply called, it features seven live songs recorded on the same day, though the band had then been going under the banner "the Omar Rodríguez-López Group." It's also being pressed up as a 10-inch on white vinyl and comes with the DVD. "These are very much shorter, more to-the-point songs [than the Mars Volta's]," Rodríguez-López had said in a statement of Bosnian Rainbows. "They still have spaces that stretch out, but what I mean to say is that it's all the same influences that have been in most of my writing and all the people in my bands' writing — Can is there, Siouxsie and the Banshees is there, Gang of Four is there, all the Led Zeppelin, whatever... all those things are there, it's just different elements of those things. "You can pre-order both releases here and see the tracklistings below.Thanks to Modern Vinyl for the tip.1. This Is Not Music, This Is Not Us And We Are Not Here (Part 1)2. This Is Not Music, This Is Not Us And We Are Not Here (Part 2)1. Worthless2. I Cry For You3. Dig Right In Me4. Torn Maps5. Always On The Run6. Red7. The Eye Fell In Love
Thus, the new era arrives not with a flourish but with a sense of dread. Better days are ahead but will come after some travail. Home
Results In 2000, we observed the puff-blowing technique in three adult individuals [49] and none of the offspring. Since the technique is not performed reliably before the age of three, several gorilla infants during that study period were too young to use it. The throw-kiss-display was recorded in a single silverback. Due to the foci of our studies being on gestural communication [64], [65] and thus distinct individuals, we were not able to systematically investigate puff-blowing across all individuals and groups. It is therefore possible that we may have missed the performance of skilled animals, who used the technique relatively infrequent during feeding and/or searching for grain. Nevertheless, with our focal samples we were able to capture an accurate representation of the animals' behaviors, including their food processing techniques. In 2010, we observed puff-blowing in 15 individuals but did not record a single instance of the throw-kiss-display. By the start of our second study period, 13 additional individuals had acquired the puff-blowing technique and were performing it on a regular basis (two of the original three puff-blowers from 2000 were still alive and were still using the technique). While the throw-kiss-display was a common element of silverback Kouillou's display in 2000, it was never observed in any other animal during that observation period. In 2010, neither Kouillou nor any other individual were observed to perform the throw-kiss-display. When analyzing the puff-blowing technique in detail, we found that it consists of several subroutines (see Figure 1). Except for two idiosyncratic variants, all animals performed puff-blowing according to the same sequential pattern and with relatively similar manual elaboration. puff-blowing spread from three to 15 individuals during one decade and the behavior appeared cumulatively in mothers and their offspring. In the observed groups in 2000 and 2010, only offspring of puff-blowing mothers used the technique, whereas none of the offspring of non- puff-blowing mothers did. There were three offspring who, despite having puff-blowing mothers, were never observed to perform the technique. Concerning the adult puff-blowers (i.e. mothers) in the groups, we do not have information concerning their learning of the technique. PPT PowerPoint slide
Typing on it was akin to working on my MacBook Air, and I rarely made mistakes because of the size of the keyboard or the positioning of the keys. It really was a joy to use. I do have two issues with the accessory, however. The first is that it's a bit uncomfortable to use when it's wrapped around the back of the device; feeling keys under your fingers is just not reassuring. Secondly, a handful of times I had keys pop up slightly off of their retainer, making for missed presses and the need to realign and replace the key where it should have been. It's not a huge deal, and it's certainly something that happens on laptop keyboards from time to time, but with all of the action this accessory will see, it is a little worrisome. Both covers are relatively expensive ($119 for the Touch Cover and $129 for the Type Cover), and both have plusses and minuses — but I do think they make the Surface a more attractive device, and I think it's somewhat incomplete without at least one of them. Microsoft seems to agree, hence its $599 bundle that includes the Touch Cover. One caveat — you don't get to pick your color, so you might want to spend that extra $20, buy the pieces separately, and show off your wild side.
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Along Comes Bitcoin Now that Bitcoin is here, this idea is completely feasible. Every Bitcoin already records every single transaction it has been in, every single wallet it has passed through. All it takes to go from Bitcoin as it is today to a cash-boycott is a registry that maps Bitcoin wallets to their owners in the real world. Such a list is not hard to compile: many addresses are already public. For instance, the Bitcoin donation address for virtual-notary.org is right on the web page itself. If you're one of the people who hates me for whatever reason (and there are some. Ever since we showed that the Bitcoin protocol is broken, there have been some unhinged commenters intent on killing the messenger, who somehow have not caught onto the fact that we also offered the best known fix and have been working to make the currency more robust), you could put that address on your personal blacklist. Similarly, every corporation that sells something will typically have a public address that can be harvested. From there, it's mostly a game of keeping a blacklist containing addresses and associated timestamps (encoded as positions in the blockchain), such that all coins that pass through that address after that position in the blockchain are considered null and void. You'd ask the vendor to issue you a new one, just as you would if he were to hand you a tattered, damaged US banknote. As we see more Bitcoin adoption, I can imagine companies emerging that provide Bitcoin reputation scores for different Bitcoin addresses, though I would much rather have this collection and classification be performed organically, by users. And thinking about which companies ought to be on one's blacklist is a fun exercise. Yes, AT&T, I'm looking at you. I have not forgotten your practice of jacking my long-distance calling plan every six months. "Oh I'm sorry sir, the Friends-And-Family plan has had a tenfold rate hike; our new competitive plan is called Family-And-Friends." Nor have I forgotten how you kept charging me exorbitant fees for a phone line that did not belong to me, and kept sending me to a phone-menu hell that would inevitably hang up on me because I was not calling from the phone line that did not belong to me. You knew it would do that, but you forced me to explore every twisted turn in that phone menu anyway.
PALIN: I think you are a cynic, because show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any affect, or no affect, on climate change. Pitiful. Gibson simply moved on at that point, letting this groaner stand. Palins denial was typically slippery. No, she has never said theres absolute proof about the causes of climate change. But she did offer that standard snark about the views of Stupid Old Gore, and there are one or two other past statements which sound a good deal like it. Many pundits criticized Tim Russert for playing gotcha with pols past statements. (We dont think weve ever voiced that generic complaint, though Russert played that card quite hard.) But in this matter, Gibson failed to present Palins past statements at a time when he clearly should have. Gibson was either unprepared, or unwilling to challenge a fairly clear misrepresentation by Palin. The Post also cited Gibsons lack of follow-up on Palins statements about abortion. They were right about that as well. In her 2006 gubernatorial debates, and in this interview, Palin has tended to be slick and slippery when questioned about such topics. Gibson let her slip-slide away, much as the Post describes. He cant ear you: The Post complained about Palins disappointingly shallow discussion of earmarks. But this criticism could have been aimed at Gibson as well: WASHINGTON POST: Even on the domestic issues about which she could have been expected to have more familiarity, Ms. Palin's responses were disappointingly shallow. Defending her state'sand her ownrecord on earmarks, Ms. Palin suggested that the problem was not shoveling money toward pet projects but the failure to make this shoveling transparentseemingly not recognizing that this is far different from the more fundamental complaint of her running mate, John McCain. The "Bridge to Nowhere," after all, was no secret. Duh. But Palin got away with this disappointingly shallow presentation because Gibson failed to note this distinction. Her presentation wasnt just shallowit was slick and slippery. Gibson didnt seem to now and/or care. At times, Gibsons fumbling cut against Palin. As we noted on Friday, he misrepresented a past statement by Palin about Iraqand in the foreign policy segment, ABC omitted a chunk in which Palin said, We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies (see page 2).
In a later book, Hagee has described a terrible, permanent divine curse upon Jews for worshiping idols. To work and to sweat, explains Hagee, are the curses of men while menstruation and childbearing are curses of women. [...] America is also collectively cursed for specific reasons, such as legalized abortion and a Supreme Court decision against sectarian Bible classes in public schools but also, more generally, for rebelling against God. As a consequence of America's disobedience and rebellion, according to McCain-endorser John Hagee, God's has cursed America and that curse has caused American military defeats, in Korea and Vietnam, plagues such as AIDS and social blights like violent crime. God's curse on America has also led "hundreds of thousands" to secretly sacrifice children to the devil."
An interfaith group of religious organizations held a rally at the state Capitol Monday, calling on Governor Tom Wolf to halt natural gas development. About 50 people attended the event and asked the governor for what they called a “moral-torium” on unconventional gas development and related infrastructure, such as pipelines.“We are calling on our legislators to listen to science and protect public health,” says Rev. Dr. Leah Schade of the United in Christ Lutheran Church in Lewisburg. “This is one area where science and religion are actually in agreement.”She pointed to climate-damaging methane emissions and water contamination from the drilling boom.At the same time, the House Democratic Policy Committee was meeting in another part of the Capitol to discuss whether the state should be incentivizing the use of natural gas.“There’s a difference between whether natural gas production is good and whether it should be incentivized by the state,” says Rep. Greg Vitali (D- Delaware), who hosted the hearing.The hearing’s panelists included members of the Wolf administration in the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), as well as climate scientists and representatives from environmental groups. Vitali invited UGI and the gas trade group, the Marcellus Shale Coalition to testify, but he says both declined.Professor Don Brown of Widener University told the committee the world faces catastrophic warming if governments fail to quickly curb greenhouse gas emissions.“Most mainstream scientists are screaming ‘We have an emergency here.’” says Brown. “The harms from Pennsylvania emissions are not simply to Pennsylvanians, they are to the rest of the world. Pennsylvania should be carbon neutral no later than 2040. That means we’ve got to substitute non-fossil fuels for all fossil fuels, including natural gas.”Professor Robert Howarth of Cornell called gas “disastrous.”“Yes, natural gas is a clean-burning fuel,” he told the committee. “But natural gas is overwhelmingly composed of methane, which is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas.”Howarth sparked controversy several years ago when he published a paper which found– from a climate perspective– natural gas is worse than coal. He was criticized by fellow academics and the oil and gas industry.
You can also listen to this feature below, thanks to Polygon Longform. Links to subscribe in iTunes, in your podcast player of choice or to download the episode as an MP3 are also available below. One loading screen later, the missile is airborne. The player must chaperone their little white capsule of doom through what’s intended to be the Israeli port city of Haifa, strafing past enemy jet fighters, nabbing glowing power-ups and activating what might be a nitrous boost. And when this soaring payloaded projectile approaches an obelisk circumscribed with the Star of David? Cue explosion. The Azadi Tower in Tehran In recent years, this game — Missile Strike — as well as Attack on Tel-Aviv and others with an ideological bent have made headlines and helped give rise to Iran’s public persona. Sources say they’re developed to obtain funds from conservative elements within Iran’s ruling establishment who dislike the West and Israel. The developers, meanwhile, say they’re only responding to what they see as provocation from the governments of Israel and the U.S., two countries often conflated in Iranian politics. "The reason we explicitly depict an attack on Israel in this game is that they too are explicitly depicting [attacks], in Battlefield for instance," said Missile Strike developer Mehdi Atash Jaam in an interview with Iranian news outlet, Fars. He’s referring to the simulated ground invasion of the Iranian capital in Battlefield 3, developed by Stockholm-based DICE but published by California-based Electronic Arts. But within Iran, various people interviewed for this article say they've never played Missile Strike or its headline-grabbing brethren. One Tehran-based game journalist who asked not to be named, fearing government reprisal, says incendiary fare like this misrepresents Iran’s budding gaming community. "If you ask gamers here, they don’t even consider these things games," he says. "[They] aren’t even from the game development community," he adds before writing them off as "mods." Many games made in Iran have little to do with politics and ideology, even as their country of origin is locked in a perpetual news cycle over its nuclear program, Middle East proxy wars and those burning American flags dating back to the 1979 revolution (one that a former Grand Theft Auto developer is making a game about). That year, Iranians overthrew their monarchy and emerged with an Islamic republic.
What else would you like to see? Is there a good template of a road map people like? Any more information? One of the things that was brought up a couple of times when I started to talk about Project64 on Pateron ( http://www.patreon.com/Project64 ) was the road map for Project64.here is my rough list I had down for my self, this the starting point of the road map (in no particular order). * D3d version of glide64 (this is actually using a library Angle as a DX wrapper around OGL es)* General Improvements to glide64* CFB improvements to glide64* Redo the website here* Create test roms. * Improve Cycle Accuracy* Add netplay* Low Level emulation* Improve speed and stability on android* Refactor/Clean up RSP* 100% open source* Native 64bit versionSome more detail about some of the itemsAt the moment glide goes glide->OGL wrapper or Glide->OGL es wrapper. I am looking at being able to remove the OGL wrapper, so that it is glide->ogl es->d3d. I know this puts another layer in but it removes a massive amount of duplicated code and another code path. Once this is working the next step is to strip all things related to glide out. So it will be a open gl es direct (which will work for android directly) with Angle wrapping it to d3d.mostly cleaning it up more, fix bug, get CFB effects working better, the lle version will help with thisThese will be sort of like unit tests, making sure the emu is exact. I will be creating them so I can run and validate them on real n64 hardware. It will part research & development, part validation. Things like what is Round(0.5) on the n64, I do not know what the results are.Project64 was always designed to be cycle accurate, I just never had the time to research it on the n64 to get the correct timings, it was ignored since it worked well enough. I would like to get it to be 100% cycle accurate. (this is related to the test roms)I want as an option to be able to have pixel accurate gfx, while it will be to slow for general use it give great ability for testing and to make sure things are accurate.
She mis- dials, starts over. Then stops as she hears the bedroom door open. Terminator stands at the head of the stairs. His hand is bloody where he grasped the dead woman's shoulder. He starts down the stairs. The mother stands paralyzed, unable to breathe. He reaches the main floor and walks toward her. She edges into a corner, eyes wide. He reaches out. And wipes his hands clean on her apron. Terminator walks out, without expression, leaving the woman to sag to the floor in a faint. CUT TO: 34 INT./EXT. SERVICE TUNNEL - DAY 34 TIGHT ON KYLE REESE'S HANDS as they make the last few strokes with a hacksaw to sever the wooden stock from the riot gun. It clatters to the ground, leaving a short stump, like a pistol grip. CUT WIDER as Reese hefts the weapon. He is crouched in an underground service tunnel below a busy street. Shadows of people walking across a grating in the sidewalk above him flicker past. They can't see him in the darkness below their feet as he checks the gun's action carefully. He slips it under his overcoat where it hangs from a jerry- rigged sling. CUT TO: 35 EXT. STREET - DAY 35 Reese emerges from a stairwell behind a service station, his overcoat done up to the top button. He walks through the sparse morning crowd on the cluttered, overbuilt commercial street. He is out of sync. A stranger in a strange land. He holds himself tightly reined, cautious and feral as he moves among the unconcerned pedestrians. His eyes flick rapidly about. He is seeing this Babylon for the first time. Reese stops at a hole-in-the-wall take-out stand. He watches people walk away with food. Moves closer. Scrutinizes the next man as he orders. TAKE-OUT CUSTOMER Gimme a falafel with yogurt dressing and, uh, Baco-bits. The counterman hands him his food and change wordlessly as Reese steps up. REESE Gimme a falafel with, uh, yogurt and Baco-bits. The counterman barely looks up as he passes the mess through the window. COUNTERMAN That'll be one-sixty. He glances up and Reese is gone. He leans half out the window. COUNTERMAN (continuing) Hey! Son-of-a-bitch. CUT TO: 35 EXT. ALLEY - DAY 35 Reese crouches in an alley, out of sight of passersby, wolfing his food. The sauce runs down his sleeve but he doesn't notice. CUT TO: 35A INT.
Introduction Climate change has been implicated in shifts of the geographic distribution of many species[1], enabling some taxa to increase their distributions into northern latitudes [1], [2]. Thus, changes in climate can potentially alter the spatial range of vector-borne diseases through shifts in geographical distributions of their vectors [3], [4], [5]. Despite some positive developments such as better access to clean drinking water, lower exposure to insect vectors, and higher-quality housing, the projected changes in climate over the next decades may exacerbate infectious disease incidence even in developed regions such as North America [6]. Habitat changes, alterations in water storage and irrigation habits, pollution, development of insecticide and drug resistance, globalization, tourism and travel are additional factors that may help to aggravate this threat [4]. The southern United States is highly vulnerable to outbreaks of vector-borne diseases due to many factors, including poor housing conditions, suboptimal drainage, lack of electricity in some areas, the presence of feral dogs, and human migration [7], [8], [9]. Moreover, that some southern states, such as Texas, share a legacy of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs [9]) with Mexico, increases the urgency of the development and deployment of active surveillance programs necessary for optimal management and control of vector-borne diseases including Chagas disease [7], [9] and leishmaniasis [5]. Chagas disease is a zoonosis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a flagellated protozoan parasite. Trypanosoma cruzi is transferred from mammalian reservoirs (e.g., Neotoma woodrats) to humans through a triatomine vector [7]. These vectors are insects from the family Reduviidae, sub-family Triatominae [7], [10]. Trypanosoma cruzi is most characteristically transmitted by infected feces of triatomines entering the human bloodstream. However, it can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplants and ingestion of infected food; congenital parasite transmission has also been demonstrated [7]. After contamination with the parasite, Chagas disease develops from an acute phase (period during which the parasites can be found easily in the blood) followed by an asymptomatic period of varying length; this stage is called the indeterminate phase. During the indeterminate phase, the parasites disappear from the blood. A chronic phase can be followed after 5 to 40 years, and ∼30% of infected people develop the disease [11], [12]. Chagas disease kills approximately 45,000 people annually [13] and affects 10 million people in several countries of Latin America [14]. In the United States around 300,000 individuals could be infected with T. cruzi, causing a considerable disease burden [15].
Such a strategy would partly obviate the need for the much-abused 457 visa scheme. Here, employers' groups and chambers of commerce could play a critical role. Instead of lobbying for Work Choices-style legislation, they could act as a conduit between government, vocational education providers, unions and business. Outside of economics, a post-liberal politics would devolve the control of services to allow families and communities a real say. Education is ripe for devolution. The ultimate goal ought to be creating schools that are not merely tailored towards churning out more productive, high-income earning units, but which yield more rounded, resilient students and stronger, more cohesive communities.
It has no past because – and it is particularly typical in the Ukrainian case – nothing about Ukraine’s own real history is ever considered, named or described. Who cared about Ukraine before last week? Many people did not even have much idea where it was… Ukraine, champion of European freedom, suddenly takes to the stage of History; and this is possible because what is taking place there can be described in terms of the static contradiction between Europe, motherland of freedom, democracy, free enterprise and other such splendours, and then all the rest, including Putin’s barbarism and the despotism that goes with it. It has no past because we do not know where all this is coming from, for example the fact that Ukraine is a component part of what was for centuries called Russia; that only very recently did an independent Ukraine take shape, within the framework of a very particular historical process: the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Similarly, the fact that Ukraine has always had separatist tendencies and that these have constantly been reactive: that is, backed by strongly reactionary powers and even worse. The Ukrainian Orthodox clergy, whose sacred city is Kiev, has played a determining role in all this, and it goes without saying that it is the most reactionary on Earth, a megalomaniac centre of Imperial Orthodoxy. This separatism at certain moments reached extremes that no one could forget, particularly not the Russian people, knowing that the vast mass of the Nazi-armed and organised armies coming from Russian territory were Ukrainian. The Vlasov army was a Ukrainian army. Today we can even read the history of Ukrainians turning entire villages to blood and fire, including French ones. A good part of the repression of the maquis in central France was carried out by Ukrainians. We are no identitarians, we are not going to say: ‘What bastards, those Ukrainians!’, but all this does constitute a history, the history of a certain number of the political subjects in Ukraine.
“Many of these buildings were built 20 years ago and they’re already starting to fall apart.” Mr Olivier said the Ordos Museum, which looked beautiful on the outside but falling apart or empty on the inside, was symbolic of the entire city. “When I visited there was only a plastic dinosaur and some weird Christmas tree and a chocolate bar stand,” he said. “It was super pathetic really. ‘The ceiling was rotting, and pieces of plaster were falling off.” The photographer who runs his own agency in Shanghai, said he has always had a keen interest in urban development and Asia was especially interesting. He is also planning a photography trip to Pyonyang, North Korea, in July to capture its own unique urban development. KANGBASHI NEW AREA, ORDOS Known as the world’s “largest ghost city”, developers began work on the new urban centre of Kangbashi just outside of the existing city of Ordos in 2003. The Mongolian city was meant to be the shining light of China and a massive symbol of wealth and progression. But things didn’t quite go to plan. City authorities were struck by a range of problems such as investors pulling out a series of unpaid loans. The cost of living was also high so the government began offering incentives for people to move there or in some cases even relocated schools and facilities. While indicators appear to show the population is increasing it remains far off the intended government target.
And it's great having on the team of course everyone's looking forward to any. And you know I see is there's a lot we learn from you guys just by the way you treat each other by the attitude you have when you do squad do would you do. So it's I don't know all the reports say the teams falling apart. Yeah I heard Harold fighting wage and you're throwing desks until I pass on. Is well. It's Laden's distorted I mean I could I could believe what the media says or I could believe despite talking to a guy he seems like everything's okay with them maybe I'll go with that guy you like any good dusk it was it's. I offices in similar items I was doing this. So really the Scottish just problems with the Austin continues okay toll in Iraq with us he had a sixty. The masons is so amazing. They should get members early thanks also for Brian it's a lot of fun on Sundays and I'm I am looking forward to seeing. How you guys do this year because I DST is right I mean you know it was toss you 'cause Roy already has my first year in the NFL and hopefully we you know we can get this done a measured yeah and so it's nice to you know why he got a whole year under your belt and you're in your healthy recovered and that's that's good businessman thanks for coming in sort of Pigram. Bigs mornings. And now nine point nine KI DS tells you.
Post-Relay show, I ended up doing a Google Hangouts-based iMore Show with Rene directly on the iPad—with, yes, default audio. In all honesty, I was mostly curious to see if I could join a Hangout On-Air from iOS and have it work reliably.
We have a research group that sees things through its own eyes, and the eyes of university professors and academics, because there are eyes and ears out in the academic community. We have the eyes and ears of our finance group, which is out talking to start-up companies, venture capitalists, private equity, alternative business models, what's coming, what's on the horizon. We get our customers' perspective. And you can get that pretty unfettered. It doesn't mean we always do everything right. Really understanding the power of advertising as an Internet business model we came to later than I wish we had. That's the No. 1 thing I regret. We underinvested in some opportunities for a while. So, it doesn't mean we get a perfect outcome at all times, but we certainly have a lot of formal checks and balances in our system that push us along. Q: One of the interesting things about your career is that you and Bill Gates have really been kind of married all these years. A: Longer than I have to my wife, that's correct. (Laughter.) Q: And marriages go through their ups and downs. Have there ever been times when you felt like throttling the guy? A: Sure, and vice versa; both are true. Q: How do you deal with it? A: We were learning to find a pattern of interaction that would let us be partners and be married, but we changed the state of affairs. When I came to Microsoft, I was a friend. We had never worked together. We had a crisis after a month, but because it was important enough and we're dear enough friends, we worked through it. At the end of the first year, we really had to say: Is this permanent? And there were some things we had to work through. And then for many, many years, Bill was kind of the senior partner and I was the junior partner. He asked me to become CEO in '99, and I said, "Do you really want me to be CEO? If you do, I'll do it. But don't ask me to be CEO if you really still want to be CEO." He says, "No, I still really want you to be CEO." And neither one of us really kind of knew what to do differently.
The Calverts lost control of their Maryland holdings, and Maryland was declared a royal colony. Penn’s ownership of Pennsylvania and the Lower Three Counties was also suspended from 1691 to 1694. The Calverts did not regain their proprietorship of Maryland until 1713 when Charles Calvert, the fifth Lord Baltimore, renounced Catholicism. Penn revisited America in 1699-1701, and reluctantly granted Pennsylvania and the Lower Three Counties separate elected legislatures under the Charter of Privileges. He also commissioned local surveyors Thomas Pierson and Isaac Taylor to survey and demarcate the twelve-mile radius arc boundary between New Castle and Chester counties. Pierson and Taylor completed the survey in ten days using just a chain and compass. The survey marks were tree blazes, and once these disappeared, the location of the arc boundary was mostly a matter of fuzzy recall and conjecture. Geodetic science was in its infancy. Latitude could be estimated reasonably accurately with sextant and compass, but longitude was largely guesswork. As England’s naval power and colonial holdings continued to expand, the demand for better maps and navigation intensified. Parliament set a prize of £20,000 for a solution to the "longitude problem" in 1712. The challenge was to determine a longitude in the West Indies onboard a ship with less than half a degree of longitude error. Dava Sobel’s book Longitude (1996) details how clock-maker John Harrison eventually won the prize with his "H4" precision chronometer. Penn died in 1718, disinheriting his alcoholic eldest son William Jr., and leaving the colonies to his second wife Hannah, who transferred the lands to her sons Thomas, John, Richard and Dennis. Thomas outlived the others and accumulated a two-thirds interest in the holdings. In 1731, the fifth Lord Baltimore petitioned King George II for an official resolution of the boundary dispute. In the ensuing negotiations the Calverts tried to hold out for the 40th parallel, but Pennsylvania colonists had settled enough land to the west and southward of Philadelphia that this was no longer practical. In 1732 the parties agreed that the boundary line should run east from Cape Henlopen to the midpoint of the peninsula, then north to a tangency with the west side of the twelve-mile radius arc around New Castle, then around the arc to its northernmost point, then due north to an east-west line 15 miles south of Philadelphia. It was a bad deal for the Calverts.
WWE may be looking for more opportunities to turn around the WWE Films boondoggle through closer partnerships with a network that could air some of this content.WWE hasn't said much about how many networks they are negotiations with. They have given some broad timelines - exclusivity negotiations with NBCU ended in February, open negotiations with many networks in March, want to complete details by early April. Most of the details on which Networks might be interested has come from media articles in Variety LA Times and Bloomberg Businessweek
(NaturalNews) Pressure is building on Harvard Medical School to better regulate the massive gifts and consulting fees that faculty members regularly receive from drug companies, with increasing attention being drawn to the great potential for conflict of interest in such relationships. "Before coming here, I had no idea how much influence companies had on medical education," said first-year medical student David Tian. "And it's something that's purposely meant to be under the table, providing information under the guise of education when that information is also presented for marketing purposes. "A student movement has recently taken form at Harvard Medical School, demanding widespread reform of the school's conflict-of-interest policies. The movement was sparked by a number of high-profile scandals in which Harvard medical faculty were revealed to have concealed hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical company gifts, sparking a Senate investigation. This was followed by the American Medical Student Association giving the school an F grade for its conflict-of-interest disclosure policies.The University of Pennsylvania, in contrast, received an A, while Columbia, Stanford and New York Universities received Bs.The student movement has had at least one victory so far, with the school agreeing to require all professors and lecturers to tell students of any financial ties to the drug industry. In one case, a professor was required to disclose 47 financial relationships. A full 1,600 of 8,900 teachers have reported at least one financial relationship in an area related to their teaching, research or medical practice.Other student demands, however, have met more resistance. Harvard does not own its affiliated teaching hospitals, for example, making it harder to impose regulations on them. Meanwhile, medical school Dean Jeffrey S. Flier says that given the current economic downturn, he does not want to jeopardize one of the school's major sources of funding.The students are not giving up, however. "Harvard needs to live up to its name," said first-year student Kirsten Austad. "We are really being indoctrinated into a field of medicine that is becoming more and more commercialized. "Sources for this story include: www.nytimes.com
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REACT: Roger, stand by this frequency. Shivering in the thin high-altitude air, he finally used his pellet gun to start popping balloons, in order to lower his altitude. Descending, he aimed, as best he could, to land at the Virginia County Club in Long Beach. But, he descended short of the golf course, and headed into a residential neighborhood in Long Beach. "The part that was scary was the last 300 feet (before landing), with the rooftops and telephone poles coming up so fast," Walters said. "I was praying that I wouldn't hit one of those power lines and be fried or sizzled." Walters said in a interview shortly after landing. He dumped the gallon jugs of water tied to the chair to slow the gadget's landing but, on the way down, his balloons draped over a set of power lines. Left dangling five feet off of the ground, the police had to shut down electricity in the Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes in order for Walters to safely egress his wounded wonder, down and into the backyard of a house in Long Beach. "By the grace of God, I fulfilled my dream. But I wouldn't do this again for anything." Afterwards... He was immediately arrested by waiting members of the Los Angeles Police Department. When asked by a reporter why he had done it, Walters replied "a man can't just sit around." The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was initially baffled by the incident. The regional safety inspector, Neal Savoy, reportedly said "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, some type of charge will be filed. If he had a pilot's license, we'd suspend that. But he doesn't." But Walters had been catapulted, unexpectedly and unprepared, from obscurity to national fame. For a time, Walters hired an agent to handle the deluge of interview requests. But for unexplained reasons, he decided that was a bad idea. "No more agents," he said. "I am on my own. Everything happened so fast and so many people came to me saying, 'We're looking out for you.' I'm going to handle everything on my own now, one to one. To me, that's fair."
In fact, I am worried that it could set us back significantly in the image we are presenting and in our ability to interest a wide range of people in our message about the Restored Gospel.
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But if your business model supports it, it might be worth moving it up to be the second arrow in your quiver.When you’re looking at your own lifecycle campaigns in the context of the post-welcome email, consider the following questions:Sending out a casual, plaintext greeting because you feel like it’s the “startup” thing to do, or sending an aggressive coupon code campaign every day because that’s the prevailing approach to building revenue — these are just different iterations of a grab bag strategy. Instead, tailor your post-welcome email to your business model and what you’re trying to accomplish. You only have one chance to make a second impression. It’s up to you! What successes or failures have you seen with post-welcome emails? Share with us in the comments below!
Methods Cell lines The cell lines SH-SY5Y (ATCC CRL-2266) and SK-N-BE(2) (ATCC CRL-2271) were chosen for the xenograft studies. SH-SY5Y is a TP53 wild-type, non-NMYC-amplified cell line that shows no chromosome 1p loss of heterozygosity and is sensitive to chemotherapy. The SK-N-BE(2) cell line shows high resistance to a wide range of chemotherapeutic agents and is characterized by NMYC amplification, TP53 mutation (p.C135F) and chromosome 1p loss of heterozygosity [48]. Cells were grown in a 1:1 mixture of Eagle's Minimum Essential Medium and Ham’s F12 (Sigma), supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (PAA), Glutamax (Gibco), non-essential amino acids (Sigma) and penicillin/streptomycin/amphotericin (Sigma). Animal models and sample preparation All in vivo experiments were performed in accordance with protocols approved for this study by the Salzburg Animal Care and Use Committee (Study approval No. 20901-TVG/44/7-2011). Animals were maintained under specific pathogen-free conditions and care conformed to the Austrian Act on Animal Experimentation. Xenografts were established by subcutaneous injection of a 200 μl matrigel (BD Bioscience) / serum-free medium suspension of NB cells (2.7×107) on the right flank of 5- to 6-week-old female CD-1 nude mice (Charles River). After reaching a tumor size of 150 mm3, the mice were randomized to four dietary therapy groups (n = 8–11). Tumor volumes were measured two times weekly using calipers and calculated with the formula widthheightlength/2. Body weight, blood glucose and ketone body levels (beta-hydroxybutyrate) were monitored twice weekly after a two-hour fasting period in the ad libitum fed groups or before feeding in the calorie-restricted groups. The applied technique is widely used in clinical routine diagnostics and utilizes enzymatic based methods for quantification (Precision Xceed, Abbott) [49–51]. After inducing sevoflurane anesthesia mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocation at predetermined days (day 22 SH-SY5Y and day 33 SK-N-BE (2)) or when termination criteria were met (health status, tumor ulceration or volume of 3000 mm3). Cancer tissue was snap frozen in liquid nitrogen for OXPHOS measurements and determination of mtDNA copy number. One 0.5-cm tumor slice each was formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded for histological analysis. Food composition and energy content Mice were fed according to four different regimens: standard diet ad libitum (SD), calorie-restricted standard diet (CR-SD), long chain fatty acid based ketogenic diet ad libitum (KD) and calorie-restricted ketogenic diet (CR-KD). The metabolizable energy contents were as follows: SD (kcal: fat 9%, protein 33% and carbohydrates 58%) and long chain fatty acid based KD (kcal: fat 78%, protein 14% and carbohydrates 8%) (No. V1535-000 and No.
Many long-term Ubuntu users(including me) overlook at the fact that, there are plenty of good quality applications available free of cost in Ubuntu Software Center already. If you look at our reviews of applications here, a good number of them require adding and updating third party repositories. Not that those apps are somehow inferior, but we will, for a change, list the most highly rated applications which are available for free installation from Ubuntu Software Center.We have talked in detail about the limitations of Ubuntu Software Center in its current form. But that was a discussion strictly from a functionality and design point of view. What about the hundreds and thousands of open source applications available in Ubuntu Software Center? Below, we will list 20 of the most highly rated and downloaded applications of the lot.Stellarium is a free and open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It boasts of a star catalogue with over 600,000 stars. No wonder why Stellarium is one among the most favored applications for Astrnomy enthusiasts in Linux Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. Chromium browser is like the bleeding edge of the Chromium project while Google Chrome is the more user focused version, rebranded version ie. Also, Chromium browser is available as an installation candidate in default Ubuntu while Google Chrome is not. Learn how Chromium is different from Google Chrome in greater detail.SMPlayer is my most favorite multimedia player for Ubuntu. SMPlayer is basically a Qt based MPlayer front-end. SMPlayer remembers the settings of all files you play. So, when you restart a video after quitting SMPlayer, it will start from the exact same position.GnuCash provides accounting functions suitable for use by small businesses and individuals. It can track finances in multiple accounts, keeping running and reconciled balances. There is support for customer, vendor and employee processing.Blender is one of the most popular open source applications ever. Blender is basically a free and open-source 3Dmodelling and rendering application which is also cross platform. Short films and animations created using Blender has been an instant hit across the web.We have talked in detail about Guake Terminal Emulator before. Guake is a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment(originally inspired from KDE's Yakuake).
The Armenian government finds itself between the proverbial rock and a hard place, a political Scylla and Charybdis. The official policy that it has followed since independence, which it termed "complementarity," is a delicate balancing act meant to take advantage of Western and Russian support, or at least not overtly take sides. The idea is to avoid the fate of neighboring Georgia, whose one-sided, pro-Western orientation eventually led to that republic losing key territory to Abkhazians and South Ossetians after Russia bombed it into submission in 2008 during what is now referred to in the West as the Russian-Georgian War. And Vladimir Putin has recently flexed his muscles and is more or less forcing Armenia to join the Eurasian Customs Union (which it sponsors) rather than that of the European Union -- against almost everyone's better advice. Armenia has seen what happened in Georgia and the Ukraine, former republics that have chafed at Russian concerns and angered the Great Bear Up North. As with all small countries, the obvious answer for Armenia is to become truly self-sufficient. But in contravention to the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres and Woodrow Wilson's "Mandate for Armenia," the country was carved out by Lenin and Ataturk in 1921 after the Armenian Genocide, with only 10 percent of its historic homeland, and in such a way that it is now a long, almost indefensible sliver of land lacking a coastline. Natural resources are scarce, so, like Israelis or Singaporeans, Armenians must rely on their brain power -- and they have plenty of it -- and a powerful diaspora as its primary resources. As one might expect, these aren't exactly the strongest bargaining chips when compared with Baku's huge oil reserves. Like Jews, though, Armenians seem hellbent on survival and won their most recent conflict with the Azeris over the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno Karabagh.
The global genetic structure of C. pentagona, in contrast, appears to be largely driven by an isolation-by-distance pattern. In both the mtDNA and TBP loci, the highest pairwise F′ ST values are associated with the two most geographically isolated populations, BB and TV (figures 1 and 6). Mantel tests confirm that there is a significant relationship between genetic isolation and geographical distance (mtDNA: R2 = 0.5025, p < 0.0459; TBP: R2 = 0.5435, p < 0.0495). However, there is no correlation between geographical distance and estimates of genetic structure using the microsatellite loci (R2 = 0.02, p = 0.25). Instead, almost all population pairs have significant pairwise F′ ST values with the two populations at the end of the sampling range having the highest levels of genetic isolation from all other populations (see electronic supplementary material, figure S4). The microsatellite pairwise F′ ST values are more consistent with a pattern of local/regional genetic isolation in C. pentagona that matches well with the genetic and spatial clustering results. On the other hand, these populations may also not fully be in migration-drift equilibrium, and the larger effective population size of microsatellite loci, compared with the mtDNA marker, and the higher chance of homoplasy compared with the nDNA sequence marker, may reduce the power to detect an emergent isolation-by-distance population structure. Considering all three datasets, the genetic connectivity of C. pentagona most likely follows an isolation-by-distance pattern, but not all loci, especially those with larger effective population sizes, are in migration-drift equilibrium. Figure 6. Cryptasterina pentagona pairwise F′ ST values using (a) TBO and (b) mtDNA loci. For all non-zero values p < 0.05 except for BO/AB2 and DB/AB2, which are non-significant.
Fine and Take Legal Action: This suggestion is last because it’s unlikely Apple will do it. There’s currently no incentive not to build scam apps. The worst that can happen is getting your account deleted — which doesn’t matter, because you still keep the ill-gotten profits, and you can still make a new account and do it again. Create a deterrent effect by fining and taking legal action against the worst offenders.
Slater may also have elected to gloss over grisly particulars as a narrative strategy, so as not to foreclose any identification between his reader and his subjects; Ishmael Beah describes killing as a “daily activity” but similarly refrains from graphic elaboration. Or perhaps, for Cardona and Beah alike, such specifics are lost in the fog of war. When a CNN interviewer asked Cardona how many people he had killed, he laughed nervously and said, “I have no idea.” (Prompted to estimate, he put the number between twenty and thirty.) One theory about why we may be prepared to forgive child soldiers in foreign conflicts while harshly punishing children who kill in this country has to do with the identity not of the killer but of the victim. Mark Drumbl, a law professor at Washington and Lee, observes that “whereas the child perpetrator targeting Africans tends to be held as a mindless captive of purposeless violence, the child perpetrator targeting Westerners tends to be held as an intentional author of purposeful violence.” Eventually, Miguel Treviño made a fateful decision to deploy Cardona, along with Rosalio Reta, across the border to Texas, with a list of Americans to kill. In Laredo, a police investigator named Robert Garcia began to pursue the young killers, so Treviño decided that they should kill Garcia as well. * Before they could do so, both boys were taken into custody. After their capture, a prosecutor said in court, Laredo’s murder rate dropped by half.
The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills was tucked away on one of those quiet back streets ... After a cursory interview Dr. Hartman asked, 'Are you ready?' I answered with a fervent, 'Yes!' He led me to a small room in the back. It was darkened with blackout drapes ... He gave me five little blue pills with a glass of water and told me to lie down and close my eyes. 'Now I'm leaving you alone for two hours. Let it take you wherever you want it to take you. Don't be afraid.' Then he closed the door behind him. I was about to take the most amazing journey of my life ... I felt my tension and resistance ease away as the hallucinogen swept through me. Then, without warning, I went right to the place where the pain lay in my psyche. The first thing I saw was my father's face the day my brother Stanton died. My brother had been just sixteen when it happened; I was only eight ... At the end of the session, Dr. Hartman ... warned ... that some afterglow would stay with me, and that it wouldn't be until the next day that the drug would be out of my system. This LSD trip ... explained so much about my life's script ... [It was] such a breakthrough for me."
If you've ever been in a destructive relationship and finally made the decision to use your personal power, take action and change your life, it was probably because you hit a level of pain you weren't willing to settle for anymore. We've all experienced those times in our lives when we've said, "I've had it— never again— this must change now." This is the magical moment when pain becomes our friend. It drives us to take new action and produce new results. We become even more powerfully compelled to act if, in that same moment, we begin to anticipate how changing will create a great deal of pleasure for our lives as well. This process is certainly not limited to relationships. Maybe you've experienced threshold with your physical condition: you finally got fed up because you couldn't squeeze into an airline seat, you couldn't fit into your clothes, and walking up a set of stairs winded you. Finally you said, "I 've had it!" and made a decision. What motivated that decision? It was the desire to remove pain from your life and establish pleasure once again: the pleasure of pride, the pleasure of comfort, the pleasure of self- esteem, the pleasure of living life the way you've designed it. Of course, there are many levels of pain and pleasure. For example, feeling a sense of humiliation is a rather intense form of emotional pain. Feeling a sense of inconvenience is also pain. So is boredom. Obviously some of these have less intensity, but they still factor in the equation of decision-making. Likewise, pleasure weighs into this process. Much of our drive in life comes from our anticipating that our actions will lead to a more compelling future, that today's work will be well worth the effort, that the rewards of pleasure are near. Yet there are many levels of pleasure as well. For example, the pleasure of ecstasy, while most would agree is intense, may sometimes be outweighed by the pleasure of com- fort. It all depends on an individual's perspective. For example, let's say you're on your lunch break, and you're walking past a park where a Beethoven symphony is playing. Will you stop and listen? It depends, first of all, on the meaning you associate to classical music. Some people would drop anything to be able to listen to the valiant strains of the Eroica Symphony; for them, Beethoven equals pure pleasure.
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Jason Guida, meanwhile, is a veteran of 49 professional fights with appearances in Bellator MMA, World Extreme Cagefighting, and KSW, among others, but has not competed in more than two years.“We’re not trying to f---ing fight,” Buchholz said. “I’m not sure what the hell happened.”
Stay there for a couple of years and earn "African residency". From there, if the economy floundered or it became politically unstable, you could then move to another participating country, such as Namibia.Not only could this potentially bring much needed skills to Africa, the potential economic benefits could help to stabilize countries that have seen much upheaval over the past couple of centuries. It would be an exciting experiment, though clearly there would be many challenges and it would take years to see the benefits. However, instead of the rest of the world traveling to Africa to exploit it, it could be a partnership to help Africa.
She also said that the flesh is often weak and craves something physically that the spirit wishes to resist, but this was in reference to people's eating habits…diabetics, obesity, etc. This game is real. I met JonBenet’s ghost on several occasions. We talked about a few other things, but that would be a lot of writing to do. But suffice it to say, JonBenet is happy and proud of my accomplishments and realizes the necessity of what Pasty and I had to do. This is where we get to my theory…I invented this one. This is not to say it is original, but I did not copy it. Maybe someone else has invented it. Anyway, I am taking credit for the invention. I will get to the theory, but first some background information: We (just a bunch of people in general, no one specific) were at a nearby friend's house. This was in the years back when we drank and had sex parties, so that explains some of what we used to do down there. Amongst the conversation, The Voice says that, “To have the idea to do something bad is just as bad as to do the thing.” I said, “I am not sure: People all have all kinds of ideas, but TO DO represents a CHOICE. Thinking something is just thinking something, but when they take action that represents choice, and I believe action is the true reveler of guilt.” OK…in the sense of perfection of the soul and character within, thoughts do count, but while we are still imperfect, we need a law to govern the imperfect man…govern spiritually. I can think to hit someone when I get mad out of anger and frustration, but I can CHOOSE not to act upon that knee-jerk instinct…hopefully, I have that restraint for without, I would be no more than automaton or animal. Hopefully, I grow in reason to come to believe that such behaviors are not the way of a being capable of reason and thought. But then I realized not doing what we thought was to be dead, so I am more alive than those men of inaction. So, let's say that an opportunity for sexual gratification comes to me. I can CHOOSE a few different things.
Last Monday,premiered to 5.7 million viewers. This time, the bachelorette is Rachel Lindsey, a 31-year-old attorney from Dallas. She is the first black person in the role, and this change in tone interested around a million fewer viewers than the previous two season premieres.Beyond the obvious elevation per grace and likability that Lindsey brings to the role of Bachelorette, many have hailed the casting as a necessary and important change in a show that has been too white and sometimes difficult for black viewers to stomach. But a Black Bachelorette is limited progress and the spoils go to white America.I have always watched The Bachelor/ette with the same pro-Black competitive hope as I watch the Olympics. A mix of sociological, psychological, and personal curiosity. I want to see how many of us qualified, how we play the game, how we interact, and, ultimately, how we fare in the competition.It must be mentioned that although the cast is far more diverse than every other season of the show, only 11 out of the 31 suitors in the first episode are Black. There’s a bit more representation from South Asian and East Asian men, but overall, only 14 out of those 31 suitors were discernibly ethnic, while two others looked like white guys, but spoke a different language at some point during the premiere.The first night, Rachel sent 10% of white guys home, 0% of those who looked white, but spoke another language home, and 29% of the men of color home. Black and brown contestants are still dismissed with relative ease.A Black Bachelorette is a victory for representation, but what good is representation itself in this scenario? In a Post-Obama era, having seen blacks ascend to the highest offices in the world, the highest platforms of representation possible, we should predict that Bachelorette uplift will be ineffective.It may inspire some to see themselves as more deserving of fairy tale (read: fake) romance, and this might engender a sort of self esteem in some, I’d imagine, but it doesn’t do anything to combat white antagonism -- rather, it seems to do the opposite.Representation stokes racist fires, but fails to push back the tide of material white privilege. Representation allows white people and white television networks to disburden themselves, to believe that their deeply embedded racism is absolved. And the representatives?
TRANSCRIPT: "Here are a few examples from the revelations of WikiLeaks, which expose the subservient of the rulers of the Muslim world for their master America. The tyrant of Yemen tells Obama's assistant secretary for homeland security, "The door is open for what you want in your fight against the mujahedeen." He tells General Petraeus that he will continue to lie to his people, telling them that it is his missiles that killed them not America's. Thirdly, when the Americans ask for permission to participate in the war against the Muslims of Yemen with their ground forces, he said, "I fear that the American forces will be exposed harm and their will be causality amongst their ranks." As for the Saudi kind, who cannot even speak clearly, he demanded from the Americans that they plant tracking devices similar to those planted inside wild animals inside the bodies of the prisoners in Guantanamo so that it may be possible to monitor them once they are released. Similarly the family of Saud offered to assist America in the occupation of Lebanon in the same way that they assisted them in the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq earlier. Among the endless scandals of the tyrants of the Muslim world is the compliance of the Pakistani government to kill and displace millions of Pakistani Muslims on the orders of the American ambassador in Islamabad, the real ruler of Pakistan. The WikiLeaks documents expose the competition between [inaudible] of [inaudible] and Kayani to please the Americans. In fact, some of those who portray themselves as opposition also compete with the rulers in showing servitude to America. These documents also expose the free concerts organized by American consulates in Pakistan which aim at spoiling the minds of the youth and ruining their religion and morals so that they may not divert their energies to rescuing their unmah from the catastrophic state it is in. WikiLeaks exposed the free concerts organized in Jetta by the American consulate. Officials belonging to the department of promoting virtue and prohibiting vice turn a blind eye to these events because they enjoy the patronage of the family of Saud through the participation of its members in these events. These documents also reveal that most of the wealth of the Muslim world is stolen through corruption and bribery, while million of Muslims live in abject poverty.
When an individual makes theto share information in such a manner, it should be their decision, well aware of what they're sharing, why and what benefits there are with it. The concern that most people have is how these things are done in a sneaky fashion, with no transparency, and often for little or no benefit. To put a blanket "eh, don't worry about it" because ofinand then ignoring the abuses by saying "eh, probably won't happenbecause no one's that interested in" is ignorant in the extreme.Either way, it seems flat out ridiculous that an internet security company would publish an article. I could see it as a silly Slate pitch or something, but on a security company's website? As Aral Balkan joked , next on Kaspersky's website, perhaps we'll see an article on "viruses aren't that bad... why can't we all just get along?"
(2) As a condition of probation for any violation of this subdivision, the court may order a defendant convicted of a violation of this subdivision to perform community service as follows: (A) For a first conviction under this subdivision, community service not to exceed 100 hours over a period not to exceed 90 days during a time other than his or her hours of school attendance or employment. (B) If the person has a prior conviction under this subdivision, community service not to exceed 200 hours over a period of 180 days during a time other than his or her hours of school attendance or employment. (C) If the person has two prior convictions under this subdivision, community service not to exceed 300 hours over a period not to exceed 240 days during a time other than his or her hours of school attendance or employment. (f) Violation of any provision of this section is a misdemeanor. Upon conviction of any person under this section, the court may, in addition to any other punishment imposed, if the jurisdiction has adopted a graffiti abatement program as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 594, order the defendant, and his or her parents or guardians if the defendant is a minor, to keep the damaged property or another specified property in the community free of graffiti, as follows: (1) For a first conviction under this section, for 90 days. (2) If the defendant has a prior conviction under this section, for 180 days. (3) If the defendant has two or more prior convictions under this section, for 240 days. Participation of a parent or guardian is not required under this subdivision if the court deems this participation to be detrimental to the defendant, or if the parent or guardian is a single parent who must care for young children. (g) The court may order any person ordered to perform community service or graffiti removal pursuant to subdivision (e) or (f) to undergo counseling. 594.2. (a) Every person who possesses a masonry or glass drill bit, a carbide drill bit, a glass cutter, a grinding stone, an awl, a chisel, a carbide scribe, an aerosol paint container, a felt tip marker, or any other marking substance with the intent to commit vandalism or graffiti, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Marvin Gaye gave a soul-influenced performance at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game and Whitney Houston gave a soulful rendition before Super Bowl XXV in 1991, which was released as a single that charted at number 20 in 1991 and number 6 in 2001 (along with José Feliciano, the only times the national anthem has been on the Billboard Hot 100). In 1993, Kiss did an instrumental rock version as the closing track on their album, Alive III. Another famous instrumental interpretation is Jimi Hendrix's version, which was a set-list staple from autumn 1968 until his death in September 1970, including a famous rendition at the Woodstock music festival in 1969. Incorporating sonic effects to emphasize the "rockets' red glare", and "bombs bursting in air", it became a late-1960s emblem. Roseanne Barr gave a controversial performance of the anthem at a San Diego Padres baseball game at Jack Murphy Stadium on July 25, 1990. The comedian belted out a screechy rendition of the song, and afterward, she attempted a gesture of ballplayers by spitting and grabbing her crotch as if adjusting a protective cup. The performance offended some, including the sitting U.S. President, George H. W. Bush. [42] Sufjan Stevens has frequently performed the "Star-Spangled Banner" in live sets, replacing the optimism in the end of the first verse with a new coda that alludes to the divisive state of the nation today. David Lee Roth both referenced parts of the anthem and played part of a hard rock rendition of the anthem on his song, "Yankee Rose" on his 1986 solo album, Eat 'Em and Smile. Steven Tyler also caused some controversy in 2001 (at the Indianapolis 500, to which he later issued a public apology) and again in 2012 (at the AFC Championship Game) with a cappella renditions of the song with changed lyrics. [43] In 2016, Aretha Franklin performed a rendition before the nationally-televised Minnesota Vikings-Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game lasting more than four minutes and featuring a host of improvizations. It would be one of Franklin's last public appearances before her 2018 death. [44] Black Eyed Peas-singer Fergie gave a controversial performance of the anthem in 2018. Critics likened her rendition to a jazzy "sexed-up" version of the anthem, which was considered highly inappropriate, with her performance compared to that of Marilyn Monroe's iconic performance of Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
This wasn’t the first time when Wyspiański turned to Planty for inspiration. At the beginning of his artistic practice, in 1894, he created two works dedicated to the park, which the art historian Wojciech Bałus has interpreted as a diptych: the pastel Planty nocą (Planty by Night) and an oil painting Planty o świcie (Planty at Dawn) – in the 1990s, the latter was reproduced on the reverse of a ten-thousand złoty bill. The former is a nocturne illuminated by a mysterious, surreal light reminiscent of the Eye of Providence; the latter shows the same fragment of the park at sunrise. The ‘Eye of Providence’ turns out to be a tacky modern gas lamp, which Wyspiański displayed sarcastically against the background of Wawel Hill. Bałus interprets these paintings as unveiling the ordinary reality hiding behind a poetic vision. Chochoły, painted four years later, doesn’t try to explain reality, but instead focuses on the extraordinary and the inexplicable. The composition of the drawing is also unusual. When trying to answer a seemingly simple question about the position of the observer, Bałus concluded that this spot simply doesn’t exist and also didn’t exist when Wyspiański was alive. We see the scene from the level of approximately third floor of a nonexistent house. It is therefore a painting viewed literally from a bird’s eye view, a perspective that is inaccessible to human eyes, which, according to Bałus, is supposed to intensify the extraordinary effect of the ‘dream vision.’ In comparison to other works by Wyspiański, where landscapes almost always have a clearly defined existing observation point, this is an exceptional situation, highlighting the strangeness and uniqueness of the artwork. Is it just that? The figure of a chochoł (a straw wrap) almost immediately refers the viewer to The Wedding, Wyspiański’s play from 1901. Thus, it is also possible that the circle of swaying shrubs in Planty is an anticipation of the Chochoł dance in The Wedding. This interpretation seems to be supported by other elements: the same time of day and the location of the scene – at the foot of the way to Wawel, so a place carrying special connotations with national history. The most thorough and enlightening interpretation placing Chochoły in the context of The Wedding was written by Agnieszka Morawińska.
For Toyota, it means sitting back and relying on the Prius name to sell cars isn’t going to work anymore. That’s why the company has totally revamped the 2016 Prius to appeal to more than the environmentally conscious. It has a new interior that’s clean and fresh. The sharp, angled exterior is lovely (though some, including my photographer, will still have their doubts), especially from the back. And the driving experience, long shoved to the wayside by a Toyota engineering department maniacally focused on optimizing MPG, has been greatly improved. The driving experience is greatly improved To show how confident they are in the new chassis’ performance, Toyota even set up an autocross cones course on the tarmac at an abandoned Marine Corps airfield south of Los Angeles (where the LA Auto Show is happening this week, not coincidentally) so the assembled journalists could try out the new car. As you can imagine, autocross with a Prius was gloriously absurd but proved the point: it performs well not just as a Prius, but also as a car. One caveat: the eco-focused tires aren’t great, but they're not for driving hard, they’re built to provide great fuel economy — so we’ll give them a pass. Sitting in the driver’s seat gives one a commanding view of the road ahead. Huge windows provide great visibility and a minimalist, center-mounted dash at the base of the windshield provides insights into what the hybrid battery system is up to. It’s the same basic setup as the old Prius — all the instrumentation is center-mounted — and it takes a little getting used to. A heads-up display showing speed and fuel economy info in-line with the driver’s vision wouldn’t be a bad addition. A center console made of what appears to be white refrigerator plastic seems out of place, until you imagine how easy it would be to clean after dumping your too-full coffee into your cup holders by accident. It’s also a little reminiscent of similar interior detail on the last-generation Volt, which could be optioned with a pearly white plastic center stack. Our tester car had lovely two-tone leather seats that were very comfortable (albeit we were only in the car for a couple hours), but overall it was a pleasant place to be. The infotainment system is the same as in many Toyotas over the past few years, adequate if uninspiring.
Click above to browse nearly 500restrictive covenants and see King County neighborhoods affected by restrictive covenants W.E. Boeing Neighborhood Developments A pamphlet cover advertizing the Blue Ridge “restricted” neighborhood as “a beautiful place to build and own your home.” Blue Ridge was one of several neighborhoods developed by Bill and Bertha Boeing. This Blue Ridge list of “protective restrictions” is included in the same pamphlet that described the Blue Ridge area as “a beautiful place to build and own your home.” Lake Ridge was developed by the Goodwin Company and sold to the public as a “restricted” community. Click above to see the 1930 promotional brochure for the south Lake Washington neighborhood. Restrictive covenants were a source of big profits for powerful real estate interests. Capitol Hill Covenant Campaign Capitol Hill Racial Restrictive Covenant. 27 property owners signed this 1927 petition to restrict property use on their block. Plat map of Capitol Hill showing some of the blocks covered by the restrictive covenants filed by homeowners after 1927. A letter from the Capitol Hill Community Club petitioning Capitol Hill residents to donate the funds necessary to protect Capitol Hill’s racial restrictive covenants. The Campaign Against Racial Restrictive Covenant The Christian Friends for Racial Equality (CFRE) Committee Against Discrimination appointed a cemetery committee to combat the problem of cemetery discrimination. The Civic Unity Committee (CUC) issued this fact sheet on racial restrictive covenants in 1948 to educate others about the abuses of restrictive housing covenants. This Christian Friends for Racial Equality (CFRE) Resolution to condemn Restrictive Covenants. Carl Brooks, an outspoken civil rights activist, labor leader, and member of the Communist Party (CP), speaks out against racial restrictive covenants. Civic Unity Committee (CUC) Meeting minutes from one of several meetings organized to combat racial restrictive covenants. This January 1948 article from the New World argues that the race bans in Seattle’s restricted housing areas created the “ghetto” in the city. Katharine I. Grant Pankey’s Report, “Restrictive Covenants in Seattle: A study in Race Relations.” Windermere racial restrictive covenant. Because restrictive covenants often pushed black people out of restricted communities, the National Association of Real Estate Boards gathered to discuss housing provisions for “Negroes.” Realtors advertised housing developments to Nisei, even though they were restricted from purchasing housing in those developments. With the help of the Seattle Urban League, one residential community sought to prevent an elderly Black woman from purchasing a home, all in the name of democracy.
For instance, both share an animus bordering on hatred for Christianity and Judaism, with the secular progressives trying to expunge Christians from public life, while Islamists yearn to annihilate Jews. Certainly, academic progressives do nothing to discourage the anti-Semitic hatred of Muslims from being expressed on American campuses, as David Horowitz recently pointed out. Why, he wonders, do prominent American universities, such as Brandeis and UCLA, permit offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood to have free rein on their campuses? "Any other group that preached hatred of ethnic groups or supported barbaric terrorists who slaughter men, women and children as part of a demented mission to cleanse the earth of infidels would face campus sanctions, disciplinary action, and be charged with conduct code violations." But apparently this doesn't bother secular progressives, who dominate American higher education. Quite the contrary: progressives luxuriate in moralistic narcissism whenever presented with the opportunity to condemn "primitive thinkers" for "Islamophobia," sometimes even after radical Muslims have perpetrated some horrific attack, as in the Fort Hood massacre. And other times, it just takes a youngster falsely accused of bringing a bomb to school, which turned out to be a homemade clock, to trigger progressive sensibilities: "Finally," crowed The Daily Beast, "the Muslim hero America has been waiting for." In fact, Ahmed Mohamed's little exercise earned him a visit to the White House and a note of encouragement from Hillary Clinton. He later departed with his family for the apparently more agreeable clime of Qatar, a Muslim country. Perhaps officials are more tolerant there. They're not, of course, nor are secular progressives in America or radical Islamists everywhere. Neither believes in free speech, as progressives put clamps on expression wherever they can, especially in higher education, by forbidding outside speakers to lecture and by doubling down on trigger warnings, microaggressions, miniscule free speech zones, and "safe places" for suffering souls overcome with a case of the vapors after being exposed to a dissident thought. Meanwhile, Islamist punishments for blasphemy are unforgiving, brutal, and nefarious. Further, secular progressives and radical Islamists hold America in contempt, and they favor rule by an unaccountable elite – an administrative-bureaucratic class of experts, in the progressive case, a vision that has lurked in the progressive imagination since Teddy Roosevelt's days, while Muslims insist on obeisance to sharia enforced by religious overseers. Both aspire to totalitarian rule under dictatorships of those who are self-selected by political or religious criteria.
While net neutrality may have recently found its way into the Merriam Webster dictionary , it still hasn't managed to find its way to Europe. Most assumed that the EU would have passed net neutrality protections long before the States, so the FCC beating the EU to the punch surprised more than a few people. That was especially true if you'd been watching some of rhetoric coming out of the EU over the last few years. Like that of former EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, for example, who urged startups to flock to Europe after Verizon defeated the FCC's original, wimpy neutrality rules last year:That was then, this is now. The U.S. now has some tough net neutrality rules thanks to a new consumer friendly FCC Boss . Meanwhile, Kroes' new job is trying to lure startups to The Netherlands , ironically as the net neutrality rules she championed (sometimes inconsistently ) remain bogged down in committee at the EU she left behind.The EU's net neutrality bill began in 2013 when Kroes introduced a proposal for a Telecoms Single Market (TSM), or a single piece of regulation covering all telecom issues across the EU. That proposal was slowly but surely boiled down to just two major proposals: one aimed at eliminating wireless roaming between EU nations to reduce consumer rates, and one focused on enshrining net neutrality into law. Like initial efforts in the States, however, this proposal was packed with all manner of loopholes pushed for by major telecom carriers, worried their ability to abuse limited last-mile competition would come to an end.While there has been at least some success at getting net neutrality defined, loopholes have remained, and (like in the States ) there's been a lot of debate over whether zero rating should be included in the final neutrality rules. Many member state governments also worry the net neutrality rules will hinder their ham-fisted ability to try and purge the Internet of its naughty bits using over zealous filters While the EU Commission, the EU Parliament, and the Council of the EU have been meeting nearly every week for a "trialogue" to try and hammer the rule wording out, there's now indications that there's a very strong push afoot to kill net neutrality rules entirely .
Taken together, the panicolytic effects of the OX1R antagonist used here lends further support that OX1R antagonists may be more effective than OX2R antagonists for treating anxiety and fear associated disorders in the absence of sedative effects.
By the time I was done with him, he was fired from the Chicago Tribune. That's a terrible thing to do, to destroy someone's career; but I did it. And I didn't care. It didn't bother me one iota, because he was in my way. Get rid of him, destroy him...and I was able to do it. He got called on his honeymoon to be informed that he had been fired from his job...a terrible thing. But, as I said, I had no moral sense of right or wrong. If something was in my way, I got rid of it. A woman friend of mine in college came up to me one day and said, "I have bad news I'm pregnant." I said, "That's not bad news; abortion's legal in New York. Why don't you get rid of it? I'll help you; I'll arrange it for you." So I arranged for the destruction of that unborn child. It didn't bother me at all. Something was in the way...I was getting rid of it. That was my atheistic mindset: completely focused on achieving my goal of success at the Chicago Tribune. My wife was agnostic. She had virtually no experience with church growing up. She never really thought much about God. Then, one day we moved into an apartment building; and the woman downstairs was a Christian. And she built a friendship with my wife, and they became best friends. And they would talk and spend time together. It was very natural in their conversations for Linda to share her faith with my wife, Leslie; and Leslie was fascinated. No one had ever told me about Christianity before. Not really. Here we are in our late twenties at the time. She just soaked it up. So Linda said a very interesting thing to herself. She said, "Okay, I'm stuck here. I've shared my faith with Leslie who I can't get to cross the line of faith. I don't know what to do, but I know instinctually what not to do: I should not bring Leslie to church (because Linda had a very traditional church, and she knew that if she brought Leslie to her church it would be so disorienting...Leslie wouldn't know when to sit, when to stand or when to open a Bible. She wouldn't have a Bible, she wouldn't know an Ephesians from a Philippians, and she would feel like a fish out of water.
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