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One plausible explanation for improvement is the use of rescue medications, such as pain-killers, or the introduction of lifestyle modifications, such as diet. Another possible explanation is that patients who were allowed to continue their standard pharmacological treatments throughout the trial might have improved due to better adherence to these treatments when in the trial.
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Richard Heathcote/Getty Images 2/10 Dina Asher-Smith In becoming the fastest teenager in history by running the 200 metres in 22.07 seconds in the World Championships final, in which she finished fifth, Asher-Smith highlighted her undoubted potential. She is continuing to improve ahead of the Rio Olympics. Christian Petersen/Getty Images 3/10 Henry Slade The talented back made his England debut against France in the build-up to the World Cup and made enough of an impression to reach Stuart Lancaster's final squad. He also impressed in his only appearance at that tournament, in the final pool fixture against Uruguay, and continued to demonstrate his progress with Exeter - right up until he recently suffered a broken leg and ankle damage that will keep him out for four months, ruling him out of the RBS 6 Nations. But Slade's ability to play at 10, 12 and 13, coupled with his vision, skill with the boot, and handling, makes him sure to be a stalwart of the England team by the time the next World Cup rolls around in 2019. Ben Hoskins/Getty Images 4/10 Scott Giles The 28-year-old is undefeated since April 2013, and, at the Finn Gold Cup in New Zealand in November, won his third world title. He narrowly missed out on a place at London 2012 to Sir Ben Ainslie, but is on course to win gold next year. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images 5/10 Jolyon Palmer The 24-year-old will make his Formula One debut in 2016 and will drive for Lotus, partnering Pastor Maldonado, as the successor to the Haas-bound Romain Grosjean. He is a former GP2 champion, and was the reserve driver for Lotus in 2015. Crucially, he comes with significant financial backing but is also promising behind the wheel, as he demonstrated when his GP2 title made him the first British winner since Lewis Hamilton in 2006. Mark Thompson/Getty Images 6/10 Callum Smith The youngest of four fighting brothers from Liverpool's Smith family, Callum established himself as Britain's most promising super-middleweight - presently the UK's glamour division - with a devastating first-round knock-out of Rocky Fielding. He is ready to progress to world level in 2016, which promoters Matchroom will no doubt continue to fast-track him to, and even more excitingly can compete with domestic rivals James DeGale and George Groves.
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Archery You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons. Defence While you are wearing armour, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Duelling When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon. Protection When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield. Lethal Focus Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your weapon as a spellcasting focus (found in chapter 5, player’s handbook) for your battlemage spells. Ability Score Improvement When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Arcane Strike Starting at 5th level, your weapon attacks count as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. War Magic Beginning at 7th level, when you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action. Arcane Weapon At 10th level, you can choose any non-magical weapon and cast one spell into it, holding it indefinitely or till changed. This spell must be of a level equal to or less than your intelligence modifier (minimum 1). You can expend spells from this weapon as a bonus action, when you make a melee weapon attack with it. The spells extended must have a total spell slot level equal or less than your intelligence modifier (minimum 1). You regain all expended spell slots from this weapon each day at dawn. None of the spells stored this way can be concentration spells. You must spend 1000 GP and 1 minute, in which you are considered to be concentrating, in order to make a mundane weapon arcane. If you create an arcane weapon, when another you have created is still in existence, then the spell in the previous weapon disappear and loses all of its magical properties. Only you can cast spells out of your weapon in this way.
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34:55 Russ: Let's go to the longer picture. If we go back to 1980, say, or even into the 1970s, your suggestion then is that a lot of the changes in economic prosperity that differed across groups depended on how close you were to that credit increase of various intensities at that time period. Is that accurate? Guest: Yes. There's a real change in the driving forces behind American economic growth after 1980. Before that there is, you could argue, a fairly balanced set of institutional spurs to growth, with the result that you get a growth path which is reasonably steady, both public and private components. After 1980 we become very heavily reliant on the credit cycle and the credit cycles become increasingly intense until you get the great debacle and the end of the last decade. Russ: So, when you say 'credit cycle,' what do you mean? Guest: The growth basically of bank credit and associated private sector venture capital extensions, with the cycle coming when the flow stops. Which it did in 2000 in the tech sector and 2007 in the real estate sector. Russ: So, do you see that--what was going on differently in the pre-1980 credit cycle, then? I'm trying to understand what's going on differently. Is this a statement about monetary policy or other things going on? Guest: A lot of other things going on as well. Monetary policy plays a much smaller role in the 1950s and 1960s than it came to play in the 1970s and 1980s. But in the 1950s and 1960s you have, first of all the growth of the public sector. You have the extension of social welfare programs in the Great Society. You have the Treaty of Detroit--the strong presence of collective bargaining institutions which gave organized labor an increasing claim on resources as time went by. And then you also have the growth of private sector credit. But no one of these phenomena is dominant in this period. Whereas after 1980, basically labor has been neutralized-- Russ: Organized labor. Guest: Organized labor has been neutralized so there's no further increase in collective bargaining settlements. And the welfare state--it's not taken apart, but it doesn't grow except in a few isolated episodes. Russ: Health care being the obvious example. Guest: Well, the Medicare Part D under George W. Bush, for example. But fundamentally the institutional structure isn't expanding after that.
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Aman is a twenty-three-year-old man with schizophrenia. As a child, he moved to Boston from the Caribbean, settling with his mother in the predominantly African-American section of Dorchester. During his teen-age years, he got into gang fights and was stabbed three different times. In his junior year, he dropped out of high school and lived in homeless shelters. He was arrested twice for drug possession, and, at seventeen, he was caught with a sawed-off shotgun and sentenced to eighteen months, the mandatory minimum. Because of his schizophrenia, which first emerged during his incarceration, Aman was transferred from jail to Bridgewater State Hospital, a facility for psychiatric patients with violent tendencies. The conditions at Bridgewater were isolating and harsh, but Aman received antipsychotic drugs that helped regulate his brain function. In 2012, he was released to a secure psychiatric ward at a Boston hospital. His medication had a sedative effect, and he moved slowly down the corridors, speaking just above a whisper. He received a new diagnosis—paranoia—and got into a fight. When Aman’s mother visited they talked about his future, and about the importance of finishing high school, while she braided his hair. I first met Aman in his mother’s apartment, in Dorchester, where he had moved after leaving the hospital. I was there as part of the Boston Reentry Study, a project I began, in 2012, with researchers at Harvard, where I am a sociologist studying poverty and incarceration. We followed a hundred and twenty-two people as they travelled from state prison back into their communities, interviewing them five times over the course of a year. Our subjects were in prison for everything from probation violations to homicides. We wanted to learn how they reconnected with their families and secured housing and jobs—and to find out why, in some cases, they returned to jail. Politicians from both parties agree that the U.S. prison population must be reduced. Many, including President Obama, have called for more lenient treatment of “nonviolent drug offenders.” But drug convictions account for only fifteen per cent of the prison population. In fact, just over half of all prisoners are serving time for violent offenses. Big reductions in prison populations, therefore, will require basic changes in how we respond to violent crimes. It’s well known that people who go to prison are much more likely to have problems with addiction, mental illness, and physical disability.
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Accompanied by a registered lobbyist (in order to have access to the tunnels), I was teamed up with three other web site owners as we rushed from meeting to meeting.On three occasions we actually sat down with a Congressman, and for the most part they did a good job of seeming to show interest in our concerns. The other visits were with senior aides or assistant chiefs of staff, who worked less to appear concerned but usually had one or two good questions.Despite our best efforts of portraying the needs of online small business that are in each congressional district, it became painfully evident that if we weren't speaking in terms of direct benefit to them, there was no real interest in our visit other than ensuring it ended on time or sooner. This was the first very clear up close and personal indication that our republic is broken.It's not difficult to spot the four types of people rushing about in the tunnels below the congressional office buildings. Interns and pages are young and generally are dressed in the best office casual Gap or J. Crew can buy. Congressional staff members are a bit older, and always in business suits from the more expensive selections of Sears or Kohls, or Macy's if they're a more senior staff members. Actual members of Congress are among the best-dressed best-coifed people around, and typically the only ones able to wear a smile. Which leaves us with the lobbyists... who are all wearing dark-colored higher-end business suits, serious expressions, fatigued carriage, and comfortable shoes. Once you can identify the various denizens it becomes obvious this is no longer our republic, and we're in deep trouble.While we here on ATS have always known we're in deep trouble, the picture was clearly painted and readily experienced during lunch. In one the massive cafeterias of the Longworth building, easily 100 (or more) yards long by 60 wide, more than 80% of all the people in the packed room were lobbyists grabbing some lunch. Our companion lobbyist confirmed the guess, and also confirmed that it was this way in all the cafeterias, and has been since he can remember (18-year veteran of DC).So I asked him, "With all these well-paid professional lobbyists representing big chunks of potential money, how do actual constituents stand a chance?" His response, "They don't, they never did.
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. . . (legends, confounded puzzles and riddles, mysticism/devil worship, etc. Our children can learn, but they are being confounded and tempted and even those that do okay academically are being brainwashed with false knowledge). Through television, education, and various means, people are being tempted to sin and are wrecklessly plunging into sin. They are also being taught to despise Christians and to worship the devil through mystical/magician practices. This is preparing the way for the man of sin. Please see the next point. The man of sin, that Wicked, will appear (2 Thessalonians 2) and the great tribulation will occur, a time worse than any other time period (see Matthew 24). Christians will be killed and hated of all nations. [This is not new, the historical record shows that the Roman Catholic "Church" has killed millions of Christians. Her inquisition was instigated and sustained by the popes themselves. You can read further of these things on this index page.] Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. With lightened eyes, one can see today's rabble-makers and rabble-rousers creating and stirring up wrath against the Bible and Christians. Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Don't read blasphemy--the enemies of the gospel are many and sometimes even Christian ministries give too much information as they seek to warn people of what is going on. Some of what is on this website is for those ensnared in sin so that they can be free--I do not want you to read everything that is here, be careful about what you read (I wrote and compiled these things back when I was confronted with certain grievous errors.). Pray, read your Bible, do good, and fall in love with Jesus. You also need to be baptized and learn how to live the Christian life (which includes doing all your daily tasks and housework, spending time with your family not forgetting your children but rather caring for them and enjoying them while working together, praying, Bible reading, walking, doing projects based on the needs of life (e.g. food, clothing, shelter, water, fire, health), etc. Cleave to the scriptures. They will keep you safe. I commit you to the love of God.
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Richard Nash, former head of Soft Skull Press, no longer believes you can sell digital books. Instead, he wants to construct online cities and tax the citizens, creating gated communities of readers and writers who have the same broad preoccupations and aesthetic preferences.From Nash's "Publisher's Weekly" article about his new model , a system he is calling "Cursor":"Were it not for the power of the Internet, all this talk of the social nature of reading and writing might remain just casual, useful little thought bubbles built around books. But especially in the Web 2.0 incarnation, which focuses on communication and sharing, technology has emphasized a simple truth at the heart of my new enterprise: we are what we read, we are what we write, and we organize ourselves around and connect with one another through what we read and write. "In addition to selling books while he still can, Nash wants to offer paid memberships for readers into writer communities, memberships which will let readers upload their own writing, join peer-to-peer writing groups, get access to "recommendation engines," contact established authors online and in person, and get editorial assistance in the form of both professional and peer advice. Just like Amazon's self-publishing model, except with smaller distribution. "Other revenue opportunities include the provision of electronic distribution services to other publishers; fee-based or revenue-share software modules, especially for online writing workshops or seminars for publishers, literary journals, teaching programs; fee-based linking of writers to suppliers of publishing services, including traditional publishers and agents; corporate sponsorships and site advertising; and events and speaking fees. "A contract with a Cursor community as a writer will last three years with an option to renew, and they will get all your rights: your digital rights, your print rights, maybe even your adaptation rights.Getting published by a Cursor imprint will be like getting elected Mayor of Booktown. You will join a community because you like the things they already publish and feel like the members are "your sort of people." Then, you will upload your work, get it reviewed and edited by peers who are also trying to build clout and credibility, and try to win the popular vote of your fellow citizens. If you manage to get elected and secure a publishing contract, then you will have unlimited access to all of Booktown's publishing resources.Your own office! Your own secretary! Hot cha!
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The rate of cosmic expansion is determined by what is known as the Hubble constant. Currently our best measurement of the Hubble constant is about 20 km/s per million light years. This means that two point in space a million light years apart are moving away from each other at 20 kilometers per second. Since all of space is expanding, the greater the distance between two points in space, the faster they move apart. Because of this, if you consider two points far enough apart they will be moving away from each other faster than light. Since the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s, with our current Hubble constant that means that critical separation distance is about 15 billion light years. A galaxy 16 billion light years away is moving away from us faster than light, but that distant galaxy isn’t defying relativity. After all, from that distant galaxy’s perspective we are moving away from it faster than light, speed being relative and all. The key point to remember is that this relative motion is due to cosmic expansion, not galactic motion. Relativity requires that nothing can move through space faster than light. It places no constraint on the expansion of space itself. Image credit: Take 27 Limited / Science Photo Library. Perhaps the most bizarre faster than light interaction involves quantum entanglement. Suppose we have a mischievious mutual friend. She decides to prank us by sending each of us one member of a pair of gloves. She packs each glove in a box and mails one to each of us. We find out about the prank, so we both know that we’re getting one glove of a pair. But until either of us open our respective box, neither of us know which glove we have. Once the box arrives at your door, you open it up, and find you have the left glove. At that exact moment, you know I must have the right glove. This is the basic idea of an experiment known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) experiment. For gloves it isn’t a big deal, because gloves are not quantum things. In quantum theory, however, things can be in an indefinite state until you observe them. It would be as if your boxes contained a pair of something (gloves, shoes, etc.) but it is impossible to know what specific something (left/right, spin up/down, etc.) until a measurement is made.
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One of the nice things about the way we’ve grown is that it wasn’t a million dollar advertising push, there wasn’t a big chunk of money that created this big step up in demand, we’ve never really done advertising so basically each sales guy would gain about one new restaurant a week. Which makes it easier to scale up because you get to a certain point where you know we need this much for just this one cargo van, so we started borrowing our water suppliers truck one day a week and we could fit more beer in that. Then we were eventually able to get our own truck. It made it so we never had a big step up in production, we just got to a point where it was too much work to do it this way so we had to make a small change so we could continue doing it again.
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However, Virginia made a suicide attempt in 1913.
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K: In 2008 I was in Germany at a punk festival "Punk and disoderly", where many bands played. And we had several problems. First was right with Pasha from "Uchitel' truda". When we caught him at some punk concert before the festival and wanted to talk some sense into him. Security stopped that. They said that Berlin is a multicultural city and they don't need any problems at the gig. Later we found a kid who wore Thor Steinar. We told him: "How is that possible?! These are punks-antifascists, we should deal with this". Then we talked with two guys, "skinheads". The began talk shit, that they don't care and they don't want to have any trouble. Well, we jumped them but in the end they ran away. Then we talked with some real SHARP. They told us that in Germany a lot of punks and skinheads are show-offs, but they are not 17-19 year olds like in Russia , they are 25-27. They have many shops with brands, they get tattoos, but they don't take part in any actions and they don't think it's wrong to go to concerts of right-wing groups. Getting back to our own reality. There are many punks and hardcore guys, young skinheads, who were born in lace-curtain, middle class families. Sometimes you'll be surprised, some 16-17 year old with tattoos all over his body, it's not very cheap. All of them wear expensive things and you know that they don't work. And then they make some problems, as part of their drunk fun or even worse - they cut somebody, with no thought of what will happen next. Or they began to ruffle their feathers at a concert, fold their arms across their chests, show who's who. There are some hardcore guys. God forbid if a punk kid who can't dance mosh will enter their circle when they're dancing. Theymight push or kick him. Such disgraceful things occur. For sure, if we see it happening, we stop it, but we can't be in all places at once. Now the skinhead and crust subcultures are quite developed, and among them a small percentage really feels, that it's their life, but the most are show-offs. Because thesituation in our country is so negative, the state puts pressure on subcultures, there are many nazis etc. We pcan't forget about it. It's necessary to exercise out minds. But they don't care about it.
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There are about 2.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank.
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Much of the Arab population in Raqqa and Deir al Zour is disorganized, disoriented and, understandably, fearful of ISIS and resentful of the PYD. The United States is trying to address that by augmenting the Arab component of the PYD-led SDF. This same logic ought to apply doubly in Aleppo, where local fighters with experience and commitment have fought ISIS for years. At the moment, overwhelming Turkish artillery and US airpower are needed to help them push ISIS back, and expand the eastern boundaries of the Azaz corridor. In the longer run, if the corridor survives, this crisis only highlights how much the United States needs a well-armed, well-trained Arab insurgent partner in Aleppo. Faysal Itani is a Resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
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Casper (1995) The character of Casper first appeared in Paramount's Famous Studios 9-minute short film, the ‘Noveltoon’ production of The Friendly Ghost (1945). Casper also appeared in two other Noveltoon cartoons There's Good Boos To-Night (1948), and A Haunting We Will Go (1949). Casper then became a St. John Publications comic book character in late 1949. Harvey Comics purchased the rights to all the Casper products from Paramount Studios in the 1950s, and a series of Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon animations from Harvey Films were made beginning with Casper's Spree Under the Sea (1950). Later, new cartoons were created for ABC's The New Casper Cartoon Show in 1963. The 1995 live-action full-length feature film, the first for Casper, was an expensive comedy updating, on a budget of $50 million (mostly for its special effects). Casper had a $16 million advertising and marketing campaign, and licensing tie-ins with more than 120 companies selling more than 1,000 Casper-related items. This was the first feature-length live-action film with a digitally-created, 3D CGI character that took a leading role (almost 40 minutes of film time). It had a record number of on-screen shots (over 350) with a digital character. The computer-generated, translucent image of the 'friendly spirit' Casper was the first fully-synthetic speaking character or performer with a natural and distinct personality expressing emotion. Many of the effects shots integrated the ghostly semi-transparent characters into live-action backgrounds. It was a 16 week production that required 15 months and 150 staffers at George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) to create the four ghost characters. They could only accomplish an average of five to eight shots a week. The story told about teenaged 13-year-old Kathleen 'Kat' Harvey (Christina Ricci) and her eccentric, paranormal "ghost therapist" and widower father Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman) who was hired to exorcise a haunted house named Whipstaff Manor in Friendship, Maine, inherited by greedy Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty). The resident specters included four spirit creatures - all translucent ghosts that were entirely computer-generated images (CGI): Casper (McFadden) (voice of Malachi Pearson), a harmless boy-ghost - appeared like a see-through Pillsbury Dough Boy with big blue ET-like eyes, who wished for human companionship; he had died due to a late-night sledding incident when he caught pneumonia
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With this information we just need to find out the total size of the header and nuke it: int nuke_mach_header(mach_vm_address_t address) { struct mach_header *mh = (struct mach_header_64*)address; uint32_t header_size = 0; if (mh->magic == MH_MAGIC_64) { header_size = mh->sizeofcmds + sizeof(struct mach_header_64); } else return 1; // we have total header size and startup address // disable CR0 write protection disable_wp(); memset((void*)my_address, 0, header_size); enable_wp(); return 0; } Instead of just zero'ing the header you could fill it with random junk data for fun. You can even mangle data from the other commands (LINKEDIT, LC_SYMTAB, LC_DYSYMTAB, LC_UUID). For example, there are no symbol stubs in kernel - symbols are solved when kernel extension is loaded and calls are made directly to the referenced symbol. This is a problem because it can be used to detect valid code and get hints on what it is trying to do. One can generate a table of all kernel symbols and use it to find cross references in kernel memory and dump that code. Function pointers can help to hide our code - the question is how easy or not it is to bootstrap the rootkit to search the required symbols. One solution can be to use the techniques described before to find the symbols and then mangle the bootstrap code - only leave in memory code using function pointers. Be creative, try to reduce your footprint to the maximum :-). ----[ 6.2 - Attacking DTrace and other instrumentation features Mac OS X has many instrumentation features available. There are at least DTrace, FSEvents, Kauth, kdebug, and TrustedBSD. TrustedBSD's original goal is not instrumentation related but can be used (or abused) for this purpose. Kauth is explored in Section 6.3 with AV-Monster II, while all the others in the next subsections. ------[ 6.2.1 - FSEvents FSEvents is an API for file system notification. Applications register for events that are interested in and receive them via /dev/fsevents. A file system monitor can be built on top of this - the usual suspects [13] and [14] offer a good explanation about its internals and code samples. Jonathan Levin has a "filemon" tool available at his book companion web site. The responsibility to add the events belongs to the function add_fsevent() [bsd/vfs/vfs_fsevents.c]. It is a bit long vararg function and I do not want to spend space and time analysing it.
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In May and June at least some of the four radio-collared members of this pack were located nearby when one calf and 18 sheep were classified as possible wolf kills. These three incidents occurred well outside of the home range used by the Wildhorse Pack during 2000 and 2001. No control actions were authorized. Gold Fork Pack: This pack, which committed three confirmed depredations in 2001, was implicated in four depredation incidents in 2002. All were classified as probable wolf involvement; with three calves killed and one calf injured. The livestock producer operating in the area discovered several additional carcasses, but there was not enough evidence present to determine why the animals had died. B133 and associates: B133, a subadult male, was captured in May at the site of a confirmed wolf depredation on sheep. B133, and as many as three other wolves, were implicated in three additional depredations that resulted in 11 dead ewes/lambs. Following the fourth depredation WS lethally removed two uncollared subadult females, leaving B133 and an uncollared wolf. There were no further depredations after this control action. Lone and Dispersing Wolves: Radio-collared male wolf B105 may have been responsible for two calves killed by an unknown predator in the area south of Riggins, Idaho. B107, a dispersing female from the Moyer Basin Pack, killed a domestic calf in the Sawtooth Valley. A lethal control action was authorized, but was later rescinded when an injunction against lethal control on lands administered by the Sawtooth National Recreation Area was handed down. Three sheep were confirmed killed by wolves in the Big Smoky drainage in late June. Although B133 and wolves associated with him had used this area, it was not determined that they were present at this time. A WS trapping effort did not result in the capture of any wolves. Battlefield Pack (state of Montana): In late April, WS confirmed that wolves had killed one calf, and probably killed another, north of Wisdom, Montana. Wolf B100, a disperser from Idaho, was in the area along with three other wolves. Traps were set, but no wolves were captured. In May, wolves harassed cattle at a night calving pen, causing damage to fences but no mortalities. A mortality signal was received from B100's collar, in the Big Hole River, in early
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Yes, they're very big and powerful everybody around China is keenly resentful of their island-snatching behavior ." *Boy, I'll say. In 2013, the Japanese premier went and stepped on the live wire of Asian politics, twice. Because he went to the local war criminal cemetery, which, for 60 years, has been as bad PR-wise as the Bridge on the River Kwai. *Yet everybody concerned -- Koreans, Taiwanese, Yankees, Vietnamese, whoever -- after this ghastly affront, they were like: "Well, I reckon he had to do that! Better scrape up some live debris from Fukushima, and build some offensive warheads! This is a new China, and we don't like 'em at all. Man up, Japanese guys!" *Maybe it feels good to be aggressively Japanese, yet finally out of the bad odor of World War II. Much like their colleagues the moderns Germans, those champions of free expression and stalwart enemies of wiretapping. Coolest guys around when it comes to modern freedom and dignity, Germans. They're kind of amazing. *What the hell, nobody can remain the picture of evil forever. Especially with the Chinese doing their level best to grab the red-hot crown of Sauron there. ----> "#6 Tea Party guys. Acidheads have had more coherent thinking than these Creationist Randite gold-bar-eating pro-coal zillionaire market fundie people." *The Tea Party did okay in 2013. I don't think they lost any votes. They're even a little more measurably Creationist than they were back in January 2013. They think they'll win the Presidency next time, but after four years of their crazy obstinacy, what's left of American governance? If you think of the Tea Party as useful idiots for larger forces that want to destroy the middle class and the nation-state, they're a wonderfully successful group. A thousand times more effective than Occupy, for sure. *The Tea Party gold-bug contingent lost a heap of money this year. The Tea Party preppers are starting to look like a dress-up fantasy subculture of some kind, rather like steampunks. Still, the Tea Party at least gets the satisfaction of being mulish and spiteful, and that's what they like best. ---> "#7 Qataris. The financiers of Al Jazeera, of the Arab Spring, Egypt, Libya, Syria, etc etc." *Their Qatari zillionaire Renaissance went badly bust in Syria. Back to the drawing board. If you can wipe the blood and nerve gas off a drawing board, that is. ----> "#8 Stacks.
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The father comment Aug 23 15 05:01:24 <+bookittys> i hope brianna wu wins Aug 23 15 05:01:26 <+achilles_last_stand> Original, I thought Wright had some good stories, as long as he didn't get too preachy. Vox is OK, not great, IMO. Aug 23 15 05:01:26 <ustreamer-1377> ppl laughing Aug 23 15 05:01:28 <ustreamer-4750> we are the empty chair Aug 23 15 05:01:30 <ustreamer-4705> HEY -- don't be dissing them SFWA Saints becasue they like their kiddies Aug 23 15 05:01:32 <+rosamystica-1> #robertfingsilverberg #sitdown Aug 23 15 05:01:32 <ustreamer-14111> Silverbob = class. Aug 23 15 05:01:35 <+Baelzar> He is...the Least Interesting Man at the Hugos. Aug 23 15 05:01:36 <ustreamer-17731> I hope Zoe Quinn shows up. Aug 23 15 05:01:44 <ustreamer-4073> Actually when the show started everyone was young, that's how long it's taken Aug 23 15 05:01:45 <ustreamer-3679> Shuttity up up up! Aug 23 15 05:01:48 <+dannybrown-4> so dark Aug 23 15 05:01:51 <ustreamer-1376> I remember Pepperidge Farms... Aug 23 15 05:01:52 <ustreamer-4750> "I remember tying my shoes, and I had new laces..." Aug 23 15 05:01:53 <+RuBro> This award show is awful. Aug 23 15 05:01:54 <+rockumsockum88> what's going on in here? Aug 23 15 05:01:54 <+styxxnstones> is this a joke, it's not very funny Aug 23 15 05:01:57 <+traviskurtz9> I'd rather be waterboarded Aug 23 15 05:01:59 <+PresN> "as long as he didn't get too preachy" I'm not sure you actually read any Wright stories Aug 23 15 05:01:59 <+devorahmerkin> this is a fantastic lullaby Aug 23 15 05:01:59 <+sboger> INTERNETS RIOTS TONIGHTS Aug 23 15 05:02:00 <+tyathompson-1> Yay Baltimore Aug 23 15 05:02:07 <+bookittys> this is like watching moviebobs family reunion Aug 23 15 05:02:10 <ustreamer-5319> We used to keep an onion on our belt Aug 23 15 05:02:11 <ustreamer-6080> we wore an onion on our belts, which was the fashion at the time Aug 23 15 05:02:12 <ustreamer-4073> CHEMTRAILS Aug 23 15 05:02:13 <ustreamer-17731> This is so boring it's almost CIA torture. Aug 23 15 05:02:15 <+devorahmerkin> great bedtime story, get your kids straight to sleep Aug 23 15 05:02:17 <ustreamer-1376> What was I talking about again Aug 23 15 05:02:18 <+OriginalFen> ustreamer, MZB did not defend reactionary or abusive politics in her work. That is why people like rson Scott Card wins: his books are not grotesque as he, personally, is. Vox Day on the other hand, is grotesque in his writing as well as his person. Aug 23 15 05:02:18 <+achilles_last_stand> Helen of Troy?
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(he jumps up and sites on the counter) GRANT No, I'm sorry, that wouldn't be possible. We've just discovered a new skeleton, and - - HAMMOND (pours himself a drink) I could compensate you by fully funding your dig GRANT - - this would be an awfully unusual time - - HAMMOND For a further three years. Grant OOFS as Ellie elbows him hard in the ribs. ELLIE Where's the plane? CUT TO: 11 EXT CAFE DAY DENNIS NEDRY is in his late thirties, a big guy with a constant smile that could either be laughing with you or at you, you can never tell. He sits at a table in front of a Central American cafe, eating breakfast Another Legend: SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA Nedry looks up and sees a man get out of a taxi - - LEWIS (Louis) DODGSON, fiftyish, wearing a large straw hat and looking almost too much like an American tourist. Dodgson clutches as attaché case close to him and scans the cafe furtively. Nedry laughs, shakes his head, and waves to him. NEDRY Dodgson! Dodgson hurries over to the table. DODGSON (as he sites) You shouldn't use my name. NEDRY Dodgson, Dodgson. (loud) We got Dodgson here! See, nobody cares. Nice hat. What are you trying to look like, a secret agent? Dodgson ignores that, sets his attaché case down next to the table, and slides it towards Nedry, DODGSON Seven fifty. Nedry smiles and pulls the attaché closer to him. DODGSON (cont'd) On delivery, fifty thousand more for ever viable embryo. That's one point five million. If you get all fifteen species off the island. NEDRY Oh, I'll get 'em all. DODGSON Remember - - viable embryos. They're no use to us if they don't survive. NEDRY How am I supposed to transport them? Dodgson pulls an ordinary can of shaving cream from a shoulder bag he carries and sets it on the table. DODGSON The bottom screws open; it's cooled and compartmentalized inside. They can even check it if they want. Press the top. Nedry presses the top of the can and real shaving cream comes out. He grins, impressed. While Dodgson talks, Nedry looks around for somewhere to wipe the shaving cream and ends up dumping it on top of someone's Jell-O on a dessert tray next to him. DODGSON (cont'd) There's enough coolant gas for thirty-six hours. Nedry looks at the can. NEDRY What? No menthol?
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After a run of seven straight games scoring in double-figures — including back-to-back outputs of 26 and 24 points against still-alive South Carolina and Kentucky — Allen totaled just 11 points in the two regional games at Orlando. His defense, however, was terrific, as was his decision-making (5 assists, no turnovers).His shot, though, wasn't there, to the point he balked at taking some open ones against the Cavaliers. Exactly no one on the Florida sidelines — player or coach — wants that. Coacheven scolded Allen about his hesitation during practice Monday. "If you don't shoot the ball, KeVaughn, I'm suspending you!" White shouted.Allen went 1-for-11 in the lopsided first-round defeat of East Tennessee State and White was fine with it. More than fine. He actually praised Allen in the post-game interview session, saying he'd rather Allen go 1-for-11 than 1-for-4 and go down aggressively rather than passively.As far as the Gators are concerned, as long as Allen is taking good, open shots, the team will be better for it. "KeVaughn's fine," senior point guard. "We all know what he's capable of. "Opponents do, too.Ever since he got a plastic Penny Hardaway mini-goal for his third Christmas, Allen has had a gift for putting the ball in the goal. From the time he was two, little KeVaughn had a little basketball with him at all times. At the age of four, he was playing with an Under-8 youth team and being scolded daily for dribbling around the house. In sixth grade, Allen was banned from participating in church league because he was so much better than the other kids.The next year, playing as a seventh-grader for his middle school, he stole the ball, went the length of the court and dunked with his mom in the stands.Allen was 13. "Everybody in the gym was like, 'Whoa!' " Curry said. "Me included. "The ensuing years were about Allen starring on the AAU circuit and at North Little Rock High. Regarding the former, he played for Parker's team, the Wings, alongside fellow Arkansan Malik Monk, now the Southeastern Conference's scoring leader at Kentucky, and Skal Labassiere, formerly of Kentucky and a 2016 first-round NBA pick of the Sacramento Kings.
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If anything, the Republican site unmuddies the ACA's muddy waters for the millions of Californians who are confused by the swirl of lies coming from the president and the spin from all of the stakeholders, like this, from Rep. Hahn: The unhelpful website seems to be little more than an attempt by Affordable Care Act opponents to undermine the law's success and prevent people who need health coverage from getting it. I urge all Californians looking for affordable health care to visit CoveredCA.com and be on the lookout for fake sites. And there you have it. Republicans are using a fake site (which it isn't) to undermine the law's success (of which there isn't any) and preventing people from getting health coverage (which they can't access because of a derailed, Democrat-controlled website and, when they can log on, they refuse to enroll after discovering that ObamaCare isn't all it was cracked up to be). Touché to the California Republican Assembly for going on offense and refusing to back down. Let them continue to speak truth to power and fight this socialist mob on behalf of the People. MoveOn.org is homing in on the 25,000 signatures they need. Contact Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway and express your support for this effort and encourage California Republicans to remain steadfast in exposing the realities of ObamaCare and how it affects Californians. If you live outside of California, contact the Republican leaders in your state and urge them to launch similar websites. Below is the wording for MoveOn's petition: In a last ditch attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act -- a.k.a. Obamacare -- California Republicans have launched a fake website (CoveringHealthcareCA.com) designed to capture those interested in the state's real Obamacare site: CoveredCA.com. California Republicans have promoted the fake site with tens of thousands of taxpayer-funded mailers to constituents. It sows fear and confusion by promoting misleading or outright false information and avoiding basic facts and benefits of the law. It's a politically motivated, unconscionable attempt to prevent sick people from getting the care they need. Disagreeing on a matter of public policy is one thing, but actively working to mislead voters and prevent them from accessing healthcare is unacceptable.
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2L&B hybrid seedling leaf was used; each run was replicated and the means are also shown.10 hours: 3.20, 3.23% = 3.22%14 hours: 3.38, 3.41% = 3.40%18 hours: 3.38, 3.47% = 3.43%22 hours: 3.50, 3.52% = 3.51%30 hours: 3.53, 3.58% = 3.56%Straight-line response, with long withering producing the highest caffeine by 0.34% over slow wither.EXPERIMENT 3: Effect of(minutes) on caffeine level (average of four clones).0 minutes: 3.20%30 minutes: 3.02%45 minutes: 2.98%60 minutes: 2.88%75 minutes: 2.80%90 minutes: 2.72%Again, a straight-line response with oxidation, unlike caffeine boosting withering, slightly reducing caffeine level in black tea. Note i) that green tea is neither withered nor oxidized, and ii) white tea is not oxidized but has a very long witherFIELD DATA: Some hard data from published sourcesSeasonal variation in the natural caffeine level ofclones averaged for the four quarters:Here caffeine level is lowest in all the clones during the slow growth period of July. (Note Clone 4 variation of more than 100% from slow growth season to fast growth in December quarter. )Again from Kenya, consider the absolute minimum/maximum caffeine measurements through the year:Clone 1: 1.2 & 3.2%Clone 2: 1.3 & 3.4%Clone 3: 1.7 & 3.9%Clone 4: 1.9 & 5.0%These natural variations across time make it difficult the assess whether a particular tea or tea-type is a high-caffeine or low-caffeine type, particularly with a single 'snapshot' analysis, as is often listed even by enlightened vendors on the Internet. For example, should we consider Clone 4 a high- or low-caffeine type?I have shown here a few of the factors (natural and man-made) that can change and determine caffeine level in a made tea. Other important factors that influence the level are the(which goes up with nitrogen in the soil) and thewhich increases caffeine (though it is applied, in Japan, to increase theanine).All of this goes to show that quoting any particular caffeine percentage for a given tea type, as many people do, should be fringed with caveats, and the exact data provided as toand. At best (using HPLC analysis), a precise and accurate caffeine-content measure is but a snapshot in time. And in the main, none of this information is available to the tea producer, let alone to the seller.Any solvent used to remove caffeine will also remove other chemical compounds from tea. The completely-targeted solvent does not exist, though some are better than others.
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The fact that their records played a crucial role in the advancement of African-American civil rights puts in proper perspective the aesthetic debate about whether or not technology has been “good” for music. I discovered much of my favorite music through LPs and CDs, and I am not about to join the party of Luddite lament. Modern urban environments are often so chaotic, soulless, or ugly that I’m grateful for the humanizing touch of electronics. But I want to be aware of technology’s effects, positive and negative. For music to remain vital, recordings have to exist in balance with live performance, and, these days, live performance is by far the smaller part of the equation. Perhaps we tell ourselves that we listen to CDs in order to get to know the music better, or to supplement what we get from concerts and shows. But, honestly, a lot of us don’t go to hear live music that often. Work leaves us depleted. Tickets are too expensive. Concert halls are stultifying. Rock clubs are full of kids who make us feel ancient. It’s just so much easier to curl up in the comfy chair with a Beethoven quartet or Billie Holiday. But would Beethoven or Billie ever have existed if people had always listened to music the way we listen now?
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V. Academic Poverty We draw on arguments in the capability approach about absolute poverty to discuss what we term academic poverty. Sen (1992/1995, p. 109) has viewed poverty as ‘the failure of basic capabilities to reach certain minimally acceptable levels’. As Alkire (2002) makes clear, the idea is that when there is a lack of or absence of certain basic capabilities, there is poverty. Furthermore, basic capabilities refer to ‘those capabilities which are indispensable to human flourishing but not sufficient for it’ (ibid. p. 166), which is why other capabilities (for example as discussed in Sections III and IV) also matter. For Alkire, a basic capability refers to a ‘capability to meet a basic need’, for example a ‘capability to avoid malnourishment’ (ibid. p. 163). The concept of capability ‘represents a potential for (intentional) choice’ but it does not convey ‘the normative force of need’ (ibid.). Alkire adds the notion of basic need to her discussion of capability ‘to refer to things which are required precisely despite what one chooses, and however hard one struggles against the need’ (ibid. p. 163). She illustrates the point: ‘Thomás keenly desired to subsist on the pineapples he was picking and send his entire wages home, but then he became very ill. The other pickers told him to buy real food from the canteen or he would be too weak to work at all’ (ibid. p. 163). The argument is that Thomás appears to have the potential for (intentional choice), i.e. he seems to have the capability to avoid malnourishment, but he chooses not to properly nourish himself in order to send his wages home (presumably to enable his family to meet their basic needs at the expense of his own well‐being). His choice quintessentially renders him to be in a similar state of poverty as he would have been in, had he not had the basic capability to begin with. In short, his intentional choice (and the possible constraints that influence that choice) causes him to overlook his basic needs and thus lead a life as if he were in poverty, at least at a particular point in time. Analogously, we propose the possibility of basic capabilities in academic research, namely: the capabilities that are necessary but not sufficient for academic flourishing and that, when absent or lacking, render a circumstance of academic poverty.
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(Photo: Heard County Sheriff's Office) Police arrested Isaac Lee Johnson for a fatal stabbing at a homeless camp. John Nicholson Anthony Argento Joshua Hughes Donald Ragin Joshua Mascharka Benjamin Passmore David McCormick Joshua Taft Josh Cubas Aron Davis (Fulton County Sheriff's Office) Jonathan Michael Wimbs is accused of striking a police K9 several times with brass knuckles (Fulton County Sheriff's Office) Eugene Lamar Mitchell Travion Terrell Hall Julian Michael Rochester Chad Johnathan Clay mug shot Anthony Hicks Boaz Anthony Fordyce Willis Johnson Kelless Twohearts Lory, 58, faces two life sentences plus 40 years after a jury found him guilty of two counts of aggravated child molestation and two counts of molestation. Todd, a Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy Cadet, is charged with sneaking in drugs, liquor and even a phone to an inmate at the Fulton County Jail. Tory Mack is facing child cruelty charges. (Photo: Gwinnett County Police Department) Elizabeth Mack was charged after authorities said she allowed her husband to beat her child (Photo: Gwinnett County Police Department) Marcus Vick was arrested after allegedly assaulting a police officer in Virginia (WVEC) Autum Bailey Jezlias Masonett Leslie Ford is accused of assaulting his girlfriend. Arielle McMillan Jeri Quezada (Grand Prairie Police Department) Nyree Rapley is accused of firing off a gun during an argument. (Photo: Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office) Marlo Pinnock Richard Perry Daniel Dutton, an assistant basketball coach at Marist School, was arrested on child pornography possession charges. White, Ga. Officer Blake Scheff White Police Chief David King “Katt” Micah Sierra Williams was arrested on a battery charge in Gainesville, Ga. Kevin Harrison is charged in the death of his wife Suspected of drugging and raping a juvenile. Suspected of drugging and raping a juvenile. Quintarious Walker was arrested in the death of a couple whose bodies were found in a Norcross neighborhood. Bernard Benta, 46 Ulysses Clark Clifford Bernard Neal is accused of shaking off a Taser shot and throwing an officer from a moving vehicle Jeremiah Walker, 19
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30% Birdman no no no no yes no no yes yes no won Toronto Film Critics Association award that year? 30% Boyhood yes no no no yes no yes no no no won National Board of Review award that year? 20% NONE no no no no no no no yes yes no won National Society of Film Critics award that year? 10% Boyhood no no no no yes no no no no no
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Now I have two RDAs–one with a known awesome coil on it to ADV for a couple of weeks, and another that I can try new coils in constantly. In my short time with RDAs (less than 2 weeks) ive had everything from single 30g micro coils to twisted coils and handmade clapton coils in there. Vapr: After the initial investment in the mods, RDAs, etc, do you find that vaping is costing less than smoking?
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J. Gajowniczek photo. View from window of our house. J. Gajowniczek photo. And the most important reason why people visit Seiland. J. Gajowniczek photo. After ``checking-in`` we visited unusual local museum owned by a local collector - Gunnar, one of only 5 people leaving on island all year long! J. Gajowniczek photo. Inside the museum. Usually there are only a few visitors per year! What a pity! It is really worth seeing. J. Gajowniczek photo. Showcases with specimens. J. Gajowniczek photo. Huge specimen with "butterfly" twin from Malmberget, Sweden. J. Gajowniczek photo. Another Malmberget calcite with incredible color. J. Gajowniczek photo. Big golden calcite crystal from Malmberget. J. Gajowniczek photo. Different type of calcite from Malmberget. J. Gajowniczek photo. Two genereation calcite from Malmberget. J. Gajowniczek photo. Big anatase crystal from Hyrdangervidda, Norway. J. Gajowniczek photo. Of course in the museum there is a lot of local specimens - big diopside specimen from Seiland. J. Gajowniczek photo. Finally - zircons from Seiland - one of the big specimens. J. Gajowniczek photo. Big specimen with numerous zircon crystals. J. Gajowniczek photo. Another great zircon specimen. J. Gajowniczek photo. Sharp, gemmy zircon crystals. J. Gajowniczek photo. Another zircon specimen from the museum. J. Gajowniczek photo. Another zircon specimen from the museum. J. Gajowniczek photo. Shelf with huge zircon crystals. J. Gajowniczek photo. Probably the biggest crystal in the museum, about 7 cm high. J. Gajowniczek photo. Group of zircons crystals up to about 5 cm. J. Gajowniczek photo. Close-up of the same specimen. J. Gajowniczek photo. In summer sun is visible on the sky 24h long, so in the night we took a walk to see the island. J. Gajowniczek photo. Small harbor. J. Gajowniczek photo. Walking through Seiland island. J. Gajowniczek photo. Walking through Seiland island. J. Gajowniczek photo. Walking through Seiland island. J. Gajowniczek photo. Tom and Erik planning next day trip to the zircon locality. J. Gajowniczek photo. Mushrooms are everywere in Seiland, local people do not pick them - luckily for us. J. Gajowniczek photo. Big mushroom. J. Gajowniczek photo. A lot of mushrooms :-) J. Gajowniczek photo. Dinner is comming. J. Gajowniczek photo. Almost ready! Do you feel the smell? J. Gajowniczek photo. Next day the weather was great again. J. Gajowniczek photo. Asia ready to go for zircons! We expected low temperature and strong wind on the top. T. Praszkier photo. Waiting for the boat. J. Gajowniczek photo. Waiting for the boat. J. Gajowniczek photo.
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The eight people who comprise this inner sanctum of the ACIO are in possession of radical technologies that have been part of the Corteum/Anunnaki TTP. However, there were also other extraterrestrial technologies that had been derived from recoveries of spacecraft or other alien artifacts, including various discoveries contained in ancient texts that had never been revealed before. All of this information and technology has been collected and developed within the ACIO scientific core – all of whom possess clearances of level 12 or higher. This scientific core is called the Labyrinth Group, and consists of both men and women who have utilized the Corteum/Anunnaki intelligence accelerator technologies to their advantage, and have created a secret organization within the ACIO. When Dr. Neruda was explaining this to me, it got so complicated that I asked him if he could draw me a visual diagram of how all of these organizations worked. The Labyrinth Group consists of all the personnel within the ACIO that qualify for levels 12, 13, and 14 clearance. Fifteen is the leader of this most secret organization. It was split from the ACIO to enable secrecy from the NSA and lower ranking members of the ACIO, which would facilitate the Labyrinth Group’s agenda to create its own applications of the Corteum/Anunnaki TTP. The Labyrinth Group is in possession of the pure technologies derived from the Corteum/Anunnaki TTP. It takes these technologies and dilutes them to the point where the ACIO or Special Projects Laboratory will sell them to private industry and government agencies, (which includes the military). This secret organization is the most powerful organization on earth in Dr. Neruda’s opinion, but they do not choose to exercise their power in a way that makes them visible. Thus, their power is only discernible to their members. For about 40 years they have accumulated considerable wealth apart from the NSA’s oversight. They have managed to build their own security technologies that prevent detection from intelligence agencies like the CIA or MI5. They are, for all practical purposes, in total control of their agenda – perhaps this is what makes them a unique organization. Dr. Neruda had a clearance of level 12 and was still kept from vital information that only the Director level was aware. And it was assumed that even Fifteen kept vital information from his Directors, though this was never a certainty. The symbol used by the Labyrinth Group is four concentric circles.
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Organ donation Edit According to some halakhic rulers, organ donation in Jewish law is one classic example of the obligation to violate a commandment because of pikuach nefesh. Saving a life can override the prohibition against desecrating a corpse. However, due to the limitation that a specific life must be in danger, a specific organ recipient must generally be identified before the organ is removed. Organ removal to organ banks for possible future use is generally prohibited by all Orthodox Judaism halakhic decisors. [9][10][11][12][13][14] Shabbat and holidays Edit The laws of Shabbat and the Jewish holidays may be suspended for the purposes of pikuach nefesh. The earliest known example of this took place in 167 BCE, when Mattathias and the Hasmoneans declared that it was permitted for their followers to fight on the Sabbath day to defend themselves from attack. One is allowed to travel in order to save another’s life, and medical care may be provided to critically ill patients (see Driving on Shabbat). According to Moshe Feinstein, it is permissible to travel to accompany a woman in labor to a hospital because the Talmud is especially solicitous of health with respect to pregnancy and childbirth. [15] Shabbat laws can also be bent for a woman who has given birth in the last three days to make sure that she is comfortable and healthy. [15] One is allowed to drive a woman to a hospital on Shabbat to give birth, since birth can be life-threatening without medical supervision. Similarly, one may sign a consent form for surgery on Shabbat if the surgery will otherwise be delayed. [15] If one's close relative is transported to the hospital under emergency circumstances during Shabbat, one is allowed to drive or accept a ride to the hospital in order to provide company to their relative at the hospital, since this may be life-saving. One may also be needed at the hospital to sign potentially life-saving consent forms. [citation needed] Telephone Edit If a medical emergency is known or suspected that warrants placing a phone call rather than transportation in a motor vehicle, the telephone may be used. If the situation has a lower level of urgency, the receiver shall be removed and the buttons pressed in an unusual manner (by using the elbow or the knuckles, or a pencil).
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Adding and removing options We can append and remove values to an option by using the + and - operators. This is illustrated below; first we define a base configuration. >>> write(sample_buildout, 'base.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... parts = part1 part2 part3 ... ... [part1] ... recipe = ... option = a1 a2 ... ... [part2] ... recipe = ... option = b1 b2 b3 b4 ... ... [part3] ... recipe = ... option = c1 c2 ... ... """) Extending this configuration, we can “adjust” the values set in the base configuration file. >>> write(sample_buildout, 'extension1.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... extends = base.cfg ... ... # appending values ... [part1] ... option += a3 a4 ... ... # removing values ... [part2] ... option -= b1 b2 ... ... # alt. spelling ... [part3] ... option+=c3 c4 c5 ... ... # normal assignment ... [part4] ... option = h1 h2 ... ... """) An additional extension. >>> write(sample_buildout, 'extension2.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... extends = extension1.cfg ... ... # appending values ... [part1] ... option += a5 ... ... # removing values ... [part2] ... option -= b1 b2 b3 ... ... """) To verify that the options are adjusted correctly, we’ll set up an extension that prints out the options. >>> mkdir(sample_buildout, 'demo') >>> write(sample_buildout, 'demo', 'demo.py', ... """ ... def ext(buildout): ... print [part['option'] for name, part in buildout.items() \ ... if name.startswith('part')] ... """) >>> write(sample_buildout, 'demo', 'setup.py', ... """ ... from setuptools import setup ... ... setup( ... name="demo", ... entry_points={'zc.buildout.extension': ['ext = demo:ext']}, ... ) ... """) Set up a buildout configuration for this extension. >>> write(sample_buildout, 'buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... develop = demo ... parts = ... """) >>> os.chdir(sample_buildout) >>> print system(os.path.join(sample_buildout, 'bin', 'buildout')), Develop: '/sample-buildout/demo' Uninstalling myfiles. Getting distribution for 'recipes'. zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents... Got recipes 0.0.0. warning: install_lib: 'build/lib' does not exist -- no Python modules to install Verify option values. >>> write(sample_buildout, 'buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... develop = demo ... extensions = demo ... extends = extension2.cfg ... """) >>> print system(os.path.join('bin', 'buildout')), ['a1 a2/na3 a4/na5', 'b1 b2 b3 b4', 'c1 c2/nc3 c4 c5', 'h1 h2'] Develop: '/sample-buildout/demo' Annotated sections output shows which files are responsible for which operations.
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Any doubt that they'll be back? Mr. Priestap. No, sir. Senator King. To our DHS witnesses, have the 21 states that you've mentioned, that we know where we had this happen, been notified officially? Ms. Manfra. Sir, the owners of the systems within those 21 states have been notified. Senator King. How about the election officials in those states? Ms. Manfra. We are working to ensure that election officials as well understand. I'll have to get back to you on whether all 21 states---- Senator King. Have you had a conference of all State election officials, secretaries of state, here in Washington on this issue? Ms. Manfra. I have had at least two teleconferences; and in-person conferences, we will be engaging with them in July, I believe. Senator King. Well, I would urge you to put some urgency on this. We've got another election coming in 18 months, and if we're talking about systems and registration rolls, the time is going by. So I believe this is, as we've already heard characterized, is a very grave threat. It's going to be back and shame on us if we're not prepared. Ms. Manfra. Yes, sir. We have biweekly--every other week, we hold a teleconference with all relevant election officials. The national associations that represent those individuals have nominated bipartisan individuals to engage with us on a regular basis. This is of the utmost urgency for the Department and this government to ensure that we have better protections going forward, and the community, the election community, is similarly committed and has been so for years. Senator King. And just to be clear, nobody's talking about a Federal takeover of local election systems or Federal rules. What we're talking about is technical assistance and information and perhaps some funding at some point? Ms. Manfra. Sir, this is similar to our engagement with all critical infrastructure sectors, whether it's the electrical sector, the nuclear sector, the financial sector, is completely voluntary and it is about this Department providing information both to potential victims, but to all network defenders, to ensure that they have access to what we have access to and can better defend themselves. Senator King. Thank you. Mr. Liles, I'll take issue with something that you said, that we have a national election and it was just too large, too diverse, to really crack. We don't have a national election. What we have are 50 State elections.
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The real presence of Christ under the appearances of bread and wine has the same place in this sacrament as the baptismal character has in baptism: a kind of half-way stage, or middle level, in the sacramental mystery of grace. "[24]
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# File: ex2.py # Date: 05/14/13 # Author: Simon Roses Femerling # Desc: Download picture and extract metadata # # VULNEX (C) 2013 # www.vulnex.com import const from apiclient.discovery import build import pprint import os from PIL import Image from StringIO import StringIO from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS import requests import markup def do_query(istart=0): if istart == 0: res = service.cse().list( q=doquery, cx=const.cse_id, num=10).execute() else: res = service.cse().list( q=doquery, cx=const.cse_id, num=10, start=istart).execute() return res pic_id=1 do_stop=10 cnt=1 page=markup.page() # Set page title page.init(title="ANTPJI OSINT") page.h1("ANTPJI OSINT") # Set output directory out_dir = "pics_gepl" # Your Google Hacking query query='' query_params='' doquery=query+query_params service = build("customsearch","v1",developerKey=const.cse_token) if not os.path.exists(out_dir): os.makedirs(out_dir) res=[] while True: if cnt==1: res = do_query() else: if not res['queries'].has_key("nextPage"): break res = do_query(res['queries']['nextPage'][0]['startIndex']) cnt+=1 if cnt > do_stop: break if res.has_key("items"): for item in res['items']: name="" if not item.has_key('pagemap'): continue if not item['pagemap'].has_key('hcard'): continue hcard = item['pagemap']['hcard'] for card in hcard: pic_url="" if 'title' in card: if 'fn' in card: name = card['fn'] if 'photo' in card: pic_url = card['photo'] if pic_url != "": image = requests.get(pic_url) pic_n = os.path.join(out_dir,"%s.jpg") % pic_id file = open(pic_n,"w") pic_id+=1 try: i = Image.open(StringIO(image.content)) if hasattr(i,"_getexif"): ret = {} info = i._getexif() if info: for k,v in info.items(): decode = TAGS.get(k,v) ret[decode] = v print ret i.save(file,"JPEG") page.p(name.encode('ascii','ignore')) page.img(src=pic_n) page.br() page.br() except IOError, e: print "error: %s" % e file.close() # Set your output filename with open('index_gepl.html','w') as fp: fp.write(str(page)) # VULNEX EOF
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Glass’s would-be parent surrogates wanted only to help make this terribly insecure boy, who would describe a story he wrote as a “piece of shit,” feel better about himself. Those familiar with his early work said he struggled with his writing. His original drafts were rough, the prose clunky and imprecise. The idea for Glass’s breakthrough piece, “Taxis and the Meaning of Work” (published in August of 1996), came from New Republic owner Martin Peretz himself. Peretz had spoken frequently about how black taxi drivers in Washington were being replaced by cabbies from other immigrant groups; he thought it revealed something important about the attitudes of blacks toward certain kinds of work. The piece was a kind of audition for Peretz—a chance for Glass to shine—and he spent months on it. Early drafts were ragged, but from the outset it revealed a talent that Glass had not previously shown: a remarkable ability to weave in anecdotes and colorful detail. “The color saved his ass,” said the former colleague. “People were in wonderment about his ability to find these crazy characters.”
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“It’s not easy to push people to want to be killed, but the President has done that,’’ Hameed said. “When the President starts making chaos in the streets, that will be the point of no return.” “Why did you think the round-trip tickets were only thirty-nine dollars a pop?” In Yemen, the most common assumption about Hameed is that he would try to become Vice-President or Prime Minister, a post that could allow him to wield immense power from behind the scenes. Whatever the case, Hameed seemed to be preparing himself for change. “You don’t know how things will move,’’ he said. “There could be a sudden vacancy. And a need for a strong leader.”
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Their story begins in August 1944 — it is perennially summer in Ferrante’s novels — when Lenù and Lila are born. Their neighborhood is an unnamed corner of Naples, a site of poverty, madness, and casual violence, associated always with images of poison, muck, dirt, odor, grease, “lavas of water and sewage and garbage and bacteria” that fester in an enervating heat. More than a place, the old neighborhood is shorthand for the generations who never escaped it: women “with tight lips and stooping shoulders,” chewed up by men, pregnancy, children, poverty, beatings, and sadness; men ruined by violence and the corruption of neighborhood gangsters, monarcho-fascists with ties to the Camorra who bleed the city dry. “Men returned home embittered by their losses, by alcohol, by debts, by deadlines, by beatings, and at the first inopportune word they beat their families, a chain of wrongs that generated wrongs.” From a young age Elena dreams of escape, investing all her energy and self-worth into her performance in school. She pays attention, does everything with great diligence, takes pride in being the smartest in her class. She likes pleasing the teacher, “pleasing everyone.” But her sense of self is destabilized when the teacher discovers that Lina Cerullo, daughter of the shoemaker and most hated child in the neighborhood — an insolent girl with skinny limbs marred by cuts and bruises — had taught herself to read and write. Lenù is wounded by the demotion, but what haunts her is greater than jealousy; following the revelation of Lila’s brilliance, Lenù begins to fear that she will wake up crippled like her mother, whom she sees as a lopsided collection of flaws: a lame leg, a large body, a wandering eye. To ward off that fate she attaches herself to Lila: “If I kept up with her, at her pace, my mother’s limp, which had entered into my brain and wouldn’t come out, would stop threatening me. I decided that I had to model myself on that girl, never let her out of my sight, even if she got annoyed and chased me away.”
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Jagr is listed at 6’3″ 240 lbs. That is a BIG man. However, the size doesn’t make the player great. Too often you see big players struggle to keep up with the speed of the smaller players that can take quicker strides and can maneuver their bodies more easily in tighter spaces. However, I feel that the circumstances lined up perfectly for Jagr. When he came over to the US in 1990, the man he got to watch was Mario Lemieux, without a doubt the best big man forward to ever play the game. There are stories from his days in Pittsburgh on how Jagr watched Lemieux. Jagr watched everything Lemieux did, from how he maneuvered his hips to how he changed his stride length, to how he used his body to shield defenders from the puck. If Jagr didn’t understand what Lemieux was doing, he asked. He yearned to learn exactly how to use his size to his advantage in the NHL. That made him one of the most devastating big men in the history of the game. Looking back on his career now, you can really admire a few things about Jagr’s skating. First, it’s how he changed his stride length depending on how defenders played him. If defenders tried to close on him, he would take a big stride to get around them and then he would dip his shoulder and protect the puck as he took it to the front of the net (that’s the first video below). Another thing that Jagr did was using the space behind the net so well. Jagr would often come in down the boards and carry the puck on his stick with one hand. From there, he would loop around the goal, using his body and the back of the net to shield the defender. Then he would come out in front and either wheel a pass into the slot or he would throw it on goal himself. There are a couple of videos listed below that show him using the back of the net like this. Finally, the last thing that made Jagr’s skating so unique was his footwork. Now this is going to be tough, but I’m going to put a video of Jagr’s top 10-goals of all time here. What I want you to do is not watch the goal, but watch Jagr’s feet.
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This character is defined by the relative absence (concealment) of divine light in much the same way that a projected movie image is defined by the relative absence or concealment of the light emanating from a film projector i.e. For the Kabbalists the Tzimtzum assures that all finite presence is constituted by an absence. Derrida’s notion of the trace can be understood as an articulation of the nature of this absence in the heart of temporal presence. For the Kabbalists, the very nature of finite, temporal existence is that it is imbued both with an absence. The Kabbalists equated this absence (Tzimtzum) with din, the trait of God that brings judgment and distinctions into a finite world. For the Lurianists, time is both the vehicle and result of the Tzimtzum. Full presence is only possible for an atemporal God. Understood in terms suggested by Derrida, because man is a creature of time, it is necessary that presence for the individual will always be constituted by an absence. What I am at any given time is constituted by what I am not (the past and the future). My very identity is constituted by a past which is no longer and a future, which is not yet. It is in this way that we can understand the Lurianic suggestion that Tzimtzum, Shevirah and Tikkun are all present in each thing and in every moment in time. It follows from the very essence of Tzimtzum as the origin of both finitude and limitation, that Tzimtzum conditions both death and ignorance. Indeed, the very subsistence of finite things is a species of both death and ignorance. Was finitude not estranged from and ignorant of the fullness of the living God, it could no longer function as an independent thing. It follows, then, that a certain “unconsciousness” is written into the very essence of finitude. Freud Derrida suggests that both Freud ]implicitly recognized differance and placed it at the center of his thinking, but failed to recognize the radical implications of this notion. For Freud differance, in the sense of deferring pleasure is at the core of the psychic economy. Derrida, however, proposes that the deference of pleasure spoken of by Freud is ultimately an impossible presence, an “irreparable loss of presence,” which Derrida associates with the death instinct and the “totally other” that disrupts every economy.
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Quick Swaps can now be performed without transitioning to a separate screen.• The Synergy Details screen is now visible in the Collection search results when performing player substitutions to further enhance the team building mechanic.• The highlight animation has been updated in all HUT screens to improve visibility.• Added new Jersey items to some of the team collections.• Fixed an issue where players who have a playable injury and are scratched lose morale.• Note: if a player is fully healed and is scratched they will lose morale.• Fixed issue where no captains were being assigned in Franchise Mode.• Fixed multiple arena capacities.• Fixed multiple teams merchandise images in the set prices screen.• Improved overall stability within the mode.• Fixed issue where a User would keep getting the doctor's approval to play popup each time they returned to the bench.• Fixed issue where no captains were being assigned in Be a Pro.• Improved overall stability within the mode.- Increased User goalie precision movement speed- Increased goalies ability to control rebounds- Tuned AI passing decision weights in EASHL so that it decreases the chance they will consider passing near/towards their own net- Tuned deflection accuracy and added more weight to player ratings in the final result- Tuned how much impact the re-direct angle on deflections has on puck speed so that more speed is lost the more extreme the deflection.- Tuned down puck carriers reaction speed to reacquire a puck after losing it and increased the weight on player ratings.General:- Improved game stability online and offline based on some crash issues seen by the communityGameplay:- Improved functionality to stick lifts in the open ice and during net battles.EA Sports Hockey League:– Addressed issues with EASHL Drop-in’s where captains on the Class Select screen couldn’t change player class or jersey selection.- Added a roster download check on entry into EASHL to fix an issue where Creation Zone in EASHL wouldn’t load newly added jerseys or equipment.- Resolution to a jersey issue seen by some users after they switched from custom uniforms to stock.- Resolved issue where EASHL teams were not able to match up in regular season games after winning an EASHL Playoff Championship.HUT:- Reduce the chances of the HUT Infinite load issue from occurring.- Added additional telemetry logging to help us gather more information about the HUT infinite load issue.GOALIES• Fixes to conditions around goalie interference for more accurate penalty calling.• Added better ability for user goalies to resolve a save attempts on deflections.• Add functionality for users to press the cover puck button when controlling the goalie with possession of the puck on his stick or in his glove.• Updates to performance when playing from the new goalie Fixed Camera.• Updates to human goalie save logic so that goalie won’t go into desperation saves unless they are already moving or really need to stretch out to make the save.
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This is also an example of the use of authority, in this case of the leadership of the Bioconductor project, to facilitate and coordinate the activities of the community; if the leadership were not prepared to insist on this set of rules, the rate of growth, and utility of the project, would be expected to suffer. 5. Whenever possible, make your communications open and transparent Open communication is important for building trust within the group. Giving everyone access to the information on which decisions have been made, and for what reasons, goes a long way to avoiding misunderstandings and distrust amongst community members. The Bioconductor project [9] is strongly focused on a shared vision of open source and open development, both of which make a major contribution to the transparency and openness of interactions within the project. Openness and transparency in reporting structure was also emphasized as important for the ISCB Student Council and RSGs [22]. An example of the policy and utility of such openness is HUB [24], where the minutes and agendas of all planning and other meetings associated with the project are posted for all to read on the HUB wiki. 6. Make it easy and enjoyable to participate in the activities of the community Participation increases the amount of activity of the community, and at the same time fosters a sense of ownership that is a key motivator for further participation. An essential component of the success of the Bioconductor project [9] is that everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in the project by contributing to discussions on mailing lists, code, code documentation, and joining courses and conferences linked to the project. The H3ABioNet project also makes a concerted effort to welcome and make it easy for a wide range of different people to contribute and remain active within the project, thus harnessing the good will and expertise available to the project and giving participants a feeling of ownership of and belonging to the network. The Galaxy project [7,8,26] also focuses considerable efforts on enabling and empowering the community to contribute to code, documentation, and discussions associated with the project. To achieve this, Galaxy and its web resources are designed to promote and facilitate sharing analyses, data, tools, and curation. 7.
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* Hope @adjani czy czytałeś wszystkie za i przeciw, które były omawiane przez 3 h? * eternal Jestem za niejawnością. Trzeba przedstawić zalety niejawności i wady jawności oraz dać duże limity DV, tymczasowo, żeby nikt tego nie nadużywał i zachęcić do testowania. * eternal Problem może być przy spamerach, żeby nie było tak, że ludzie nie mogą dać DV spamerom. Żeby nie przesadzić też z limitami. * Adjani @Hope Tak, rozumiem je, ale to nie znaczy, że rzesza użytkowników chce je zrozumieć. * kaso @Xytonick: Zielone konta - nie powinny wrócić, chodzi o większą równość, wszyscy wiemy jak zielone konta oddziałują na część społeczności. Jeżeli nierówność to tylko merytoryczna, czyli właśnie reputacja globalna i w strimach. * Hope Adjani chciałem się tylko upewnić. * FartAtPlay Co do jawności głosów: rozumiem, że głównym argumentem przeciwko jawności są bany za downvoty. Z tego co zaobserwowałem: 1. Nie zdarzały się one często 2. Spotykały się ze sprzeciwem społeczności 3. Zostały ostatecznie ogrnaniczone do małych strimów, poletek które organizowały sobie pojedyncze osoby głównie dla wpisowni (istnienie takich także wynikało z istnienia mikrobloga). Doszło do sytuacji, gdzie osoby banujące za dv, większe strimy moderowały stosunkowo prawidłowo i zgodnie z ogólnymi założeniami strims. Dlatego moim zdaniem jawność głosów była dobrym rozwiązaniem i pozytywów takiego rozwiązania było znacznie więcej. * eternal Chodzi też o straszenie banami, banów dużo nie było, bo ludzie bali się dać DV. W wielu dużych strimach nie można było ich dawać w ogóle, np. s/FotoHistoria. * Adjani @FartAtPlay podpisuję się * FartAtPlay Za to problemem były bany "globalne" na wszystkie moderowane strimy za ogólną działalność na strimsie bez uwzględnienia strimów w jakich to się odbywało * Hope @FartAtPlay kaso już tłumaczył, że ludzie uciekali, ze strimsa po banach za DV. Więc to nie była taka mała sprawa. * Adjani Ale nie na tyle duża, żeby nie pójść na kompromisy ze społecznością. * ap Cześć. W kwestii kolejności wiadomości w konwersacji i miejsca pola tekstowego to raczej powinno być tak jak jest z tą różnicą, że powinna być szybsza opcja na dotarcie do nowych wiadomości jak i pola. IMO lepiej czyta się z góry na dół. Wyjściem mogłoby być zawieszenie pola odpowiedzi u dołu przeglądarki albo dodanie gdzieś z boku po prostu przycisku, który przewiną by stronę do jego pozycji. Kolejną kwestią jest dodanie bezpośrednich linków do odpowiedzi - np. kotwica #id-odp. Niby są podświetlone, ale co muszę przewinąć to moje. Też można by bezpośrednio linkować do jakiejś wypowiedzi.
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Referring to the pot that will be sold at I-502 stores, he said, “I heard out in the hallway that you were going to put a limit on how high the THC will go.” “Rumors abound,” Foster said. Dickinson noted that some countries, like the Netherlands, had considered banning strains whose THC content exceeded fifteen per cent. “Is there any word about limiting the THC level?” he asked. “No,” Foster said. “Good!” Dickinson exclaimed, smiling. “Because I was going to share with people the strongest marijuana in the world.” He held aloft a baggie of weed, to laughter and applause. “It’s twenty-nine per cent!” Another speaker was Linzy Burton, a drug-treatment counsellor for young people. A middle-aged black man, he stood out in the crowd. The proponents of legalization in Washington appear to skew white and middle class, but the population of users is considerably more diverse. “My family has a history of drugs and alcohol,” Burton began. “Everybody knows that marijuana is one of the gateway drugs.” This claim has been comprehensively debunked, and there were some groans of protest. But Burton persisted. He said that in the south end of Seattle, where he works, there was already a heavy concentration of medical-marijuana establishments, many of them near schools. “How many more storefronts will be allowed to open up in our community?” he asked. One of Foster’s colleagues assured him that I-502 would not permit many stores to open in a single neighborhood. Burton had more to say, but Foster reminded him that there were many others waiting to ask questions. He pointed out that prior speakers had been permitted to ramble, and that he was one of the few attendees who represented “the youth.” He began to shout. “There’s people here who want to make money on this! People like me will be dealing with the fallout.”
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I first read a piece in the "New York Times" about prison guards beating mental health inmates while they were strapped to a gurney, even as mental health workers in the prison begged the guards to stop. Then I read about the Obama administration's decision to send children who are fleeing Central American drug gangs back to their countries rather than accept them as refugees. I flipped through pages of bad news about Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine, and finally turned my attention to the situation in Gaza. And none of this included pieces about the destruction of the environment-a looming cataclysmic disaster. And yet, staying in bed is not an option because there is work to do: work to change the world, to put forth and bring into the mainstream a different discourse-a discourse of love, kindness, and compassion rather than separation, "other-ing" and hatred. With each story about suffering and destruction, I am pulled to try to do something, and often when that happens I think I might want to join a local movement that focuses on one of the issues about which I am so deeply concerned (there are hundreds of them). And yet I notice that as those issue-focused groups work to stop some specific part of the harm that is occurring, things continue to deteriorate and more new struggles and issues arise. This is why I left the comfort and safety of my law practice to spend my time, energy, and life work focusing on a broader agenda-the transformation of our current bottom line to a new one, as put forth by the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP). Unlike local or issue-focused efforts, what the NSP offers is a worldview that promotes a New Bottom Line-one that judges the efficiency, rationality, and productivity of our institutions, government (and its policies), and corporations based not on the old bottom line of whether they maximize money and power, but instead assessing them on the extent that they maximize love and caring, kindness and generosity, empathy and compassion, social and economic justice, peace and nonviolence, and environmental sustainability, as well as encourage us to transcend a narrow utilitarian approach to nature and other human beings. The reasons I am focusing my energy on this broad vision are many.
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“Not only would this designation have a grave, even fatal, impact on the (Children’s Aid Society) custody process of her niece, it was particularly detrimental to Sim who made deliberate decisions at greater personal sacrifice to avoid allegations of criminal misconduct and impropriety, and instead dedicated herself to her family, her church, and volunteerism,” the statement reads. In an email to Toronto police the next day, she wrote that she was “utterly shocked and angered” by the false accusations. Frayne has volunteered with the deaf community, in seniors’ homes, with her church and spent 18 months of a religious mission abroad. She has no criminal record, the statement reads. Earlier this year, she was awarded permanent custody of her niece after a long court process. But her ongoing efforts to clear her name with Toronto police have been met with resistance, delays and outright denials, the statement of claim reads. The Toronto officer who initially responded to her complaint said “no errors had been made, and that the designation ‘won’t be cleared’ on the file and nothing further would be done to change her status as a ‘person of interest,’ ” the statement reads. “When Sim inquired as to the basis for this conclusion, (the officer) advised that ‘we are the police, you can trust us.’ ” Frayne’s response that the nonconviction record was “tantamount to treating her as a criminal” was met with no response from the officer, the statement claims. Her further complaints produced a letter approving the suppression of the records the following month. But after reviewing the details of the false allegations against her in the original police report she obtained through freedom of information, she decided suppression wasn’t enough. She wanted her record expunged entirely, the statement reads. “She stated that these were false accusations and expressed her concerns about the possibility of her being profiled as a criminal,” the claim reads. Being listed as a “person of interest” in a death in police computers means something as simple as a traffic stop by police could affect how she is treated by officers, said her lawyer. “She could end up in custody while they tried to work out what these charges or potential charges may have been,” Crystal said.
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The DA portrayed the La Biancas as a nice middle-aged couple who owned a chain of grocery stores, enjoyed water-skiing and watching late-night television in their pajamas. Subsequently the La Biancas' story turned out to be somewhat different. He was deeply in debt and Rosemary, a former biker chick, was running amphetamines. As was Charles Manson. There has been some question as to whether the murders at Sharon Tate's didn't somehow involve drugs, too. Then came the clincher. From a locked file he pulled out some bound photo albums, not unlike the ones you put family snapshots in. Except that these were photos of blood-splattered bodies taken by the County Coroner's Office of the murders. The moment of truth came for me when I saw "HELTER SKELTER" written in blood on the La Biancas' refrigerator. I now knew the Mansons had done it. I may have thought that the LAPD storm troopers were capable of almost any kind of sleazy frame-up but daubing Beatles lyrics in blood on a refrigerator was a little beyond their imagination. Faces Come Out of the Rain... When You're Strange
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The flag was the centrepiece of an agreement-signing ceremony The government has said it regrets displaying the Union flag upside down at the signing of a trade agreement. A plastic flag was flown incorrectly for a ceremony involving Gordon Brown, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and Trade Secretary Lord Mandelson. The Flag Institute said it was "concerned" about the mistake and Tory MP Andrew Rosindell called it "an unbelievable flaw in protocol". BBC News website readers got in touch to point out the error. The Union flag - more commonly described as the Union Jack - has been in use since the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland came into force in 1801. Complaints There is a specific way of hanging it, with the thick white parts of the diagonal cross nearest the flagpole being placed above the thinner white parts. But, at the treaty-signing ceremony in Downing Street on Monday, a flag was displayed upside down. Close-up view of the flag as displayed by Downing Street Mike Kearsley, director general of the Flag Institute, said: "My first reaction is 'here we go again'. "One part of me is concerned that we don't recognise and understand our own flag but another part of me is amused that it's a terribly British thing to do. "You would think people in Downing Street would recognise it because they see the flag so often. Many places in government these days have people working from overseas and maybe they don't understand. The flag as it should be displayed "If we had flown the Chinese flag upside down it could have been quite a diplomatic problem." Mr Kearsley added: "I'm surprised that people of the calibre of Mandelson and the prime minister could allow such as mistake. "They were just little plastic flags on wooden sticks, which you could easily take off and put back the right way up. "In some parts of Europe you will see four flags flying from public buildings - the national, EU, district and town flags. They seem to get it right. So should we." The term Union Jack specifically refers to the flag flown at the front of Royal Navy ships when in port. 'Distress' But it has become synonymous with the Union flag, with many experts now regarding the terms as interchangeable. Mr Kearsley said: "Having the flag upside down historically was a sign of distress.
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Wealth of Nations was written, but I suspect that kind of thinking becomes less tenable the more people and less resources there are. Regardless, most of us want to see a future that is better than the present, and teaching gives you an opportunity to enact that change. Becoming a teacher is an act of investment in the future of the world; you don’t create a product, you don’t sell anything, you don’t try and persuade people, you don’t create legislation that tells people how to live. Rather, you try and give people the tools they need to make informed, rational decisions about themselves and about the world they live in, an act that simultaneously gives them the power to change the things they don’t like. Let’s be honest here: climbing is pretty selfish. And that’s ok. We all need to have something in our lives that we do purely for ourselves; that is an entirely natural thing. That said, it is my opinion that a lot of the problems we have these days stem from the “What is good for the one is good for the all” mentality. That may have been true when there were less than a billion people on earth, as there were withwas written, but I suspect that kind of thinking becomes less tenable the more people and less resources there are. Regardless, most of us want to see a future that is better than the present, and teaching gives you an opportunity to enact that change. Becoming a teacher is an act of investment in the future of the world; you don’t create a product, you don’t sell anything, you don’t try and persuade people, you don’t create legislation that tells people how to live. Rather, you try and give people the tools they need to make informed, rational decisions about themselves and about the world they live in, an act that simultaneously gives them the power to change the things they don’t like.
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By By Abigail Prendergast Mar 19, 2012 in Science Helium, an element commonly used in party balloons, has become so scarce that scientists are worried it will be gone within the next 30 years. Researchers are blaming party patrons for squandering the element which cannot be made artificially. The world's second-lightest element, which is crucial to the usage of equipment such as MRI scanners and neutron beams, is disappearing so fast that experts are warning it could be gone as soon as 2025. Due to a law passed in 1996, helium has become "too cheap to recycle" and the sharply declining stock of the gas could ultimately spell doom for the medical industry says According to Earth by no means has an infinite supply of helium, in fact it is highly limited on this planet despite it being the second-most abundant element in the universe. It was first discovered in 1868 by French astronomer, Pierre-Jules-César Janssen, when he noticed a This line, the wavelength of which measured 587.49 nanometers, was named helium by English astronomer, Sir Norman Lockyer. The name was taken from the Greek god of the sun, Helios. The earth's atmosphere is 0.0005 percent helium and the element is often times taken upwards into space as gravity cannot pull it down. The second element on the periodic table is formed on this planet by a lethargic yet steadfast process of radioactive terrestrial rock decay. It is extruded from gas deposits most often in places such as Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. In addition to party balloons, helium also allows blimps and scientific balloons; it is also utilized to protect welders, pressurize the fuel tanks of liquid-fueled rockets as well as supersonic windtunnels. At the United Kingdom's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, researcher Oleg Kirichek had the unpleasant surprise of discovering he could not conduct his experiments as planned due to running out of the element. "It costs £30,000 a day to operate our neutron beams, but for three days we had no helium to run our experiments on those beams," said Kirichek Since helium is an inert gas that does not react with other chemical substances, it is safe to work with as well as vital to scientific research due to the fact it doesn't freeze even at extremely low temperatures. It can even be converted into liquid in order to accomplish such tasks as cooling nuclear reactors and NASA uses it to purge fuel from rockets, among other purposes.
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The African rainforests span the equatorial region by nearly seven degrees from north to south, but some forested regions such as in West Africa have extensive cloud and aerosol contaminations, as can be inferred from optical remote products such as MODIS NDVI and EVI. We chose our study region and study period after carefully assessing the EVI data quality (Extended Data Fig. 1). First, the MODIS land cover classification and percentage forest cover data were used to define intact forest canopies in the Congo basin. Only forested pixels at 0.05° resolution that have a forest cover exceeding 80% and have no land cover/use change detected during the period 2001–2012 are considered. Second, the quality assurance flags of each monthly EVI composite were checked to count the total number of high-quality EVI composites on every pixel at 0.05° resolution for the 13-year period. A high-quality EVI composite was defined as one without the presence of clouds (adjacent clouds, mixed clouds and shadows) and aerosol loadings that typically corrupt EVI (climatology and high aerosols)6. The three-month period of April–May–June shows the highest percentage of high-quality EVI pixels (or the least contamination of aerosols and clouds) over the 13-year period and also coincide with the first peak season of EVI and rainfall, so we focus our study period on April–May–June only. Third, the quality assurance statistics were used to create a high-quality EVI mask at 0.05° resolution. The masked pixels contain only those pixels having at least 80% of monthly composites in April–May–June (or at least 31 of the total 39 monthly composites) for the 13-year study period, which represent at least ten years of high-quality data. Only the masked high-quality pixels are considered so that the same group of EVI pixels is analysed for the entire study period. Fourth, for each of the masked pixels, a monthly high-quality EVI anomaly time series in April–May–June was first created by removing the monthly high-quality EVI climatology for the period 2000–2012 and then aggregated into one single April–May–June high-quality EVI anomaly image for each year. Fifth, the 0.05° April–May–June high-quality anomaly images were spatially aggregated into coarser resolution images at 0.25° to enhance the pixel-level signal-to-noise ratio and also match the spatial resolution of TRMM rainfall.
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[7][16][22][23] The accusation that the FISC is a "rubber stamp" court was also rejected by Robert S. Litt (General Counsel of Office of the Director of National Intelligence): "When [the Government] prepares an application for [a section 215 order, it] first submit[s] to the [FISC] what's called a "read copy", which the court staff will review and comment on. [A]nd they will almost invariably come back with questions, concerns, problems that they see. And there is an iterative process back and forth between the Government and the [FISC] to take care of those concerns so that at the end of the day, we're confident that we're presenting something that the [FISC] will approve. That is hardly a rubber stamp. It's rather extensive and serious judicial oversight of this process. "[24]
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First, experiment 5 addressed possible differences in name familiarity by using a male name that was less popular than the female one, Victor (#103 boy’s name) and Victoria (#25 girl’s name). Two hundred seventy-four participants read a scenario about Hurricane Victor (male), Hurricane Victoria (female), or a Hurricane (control) and reported intentions to follow the voluntary evacuation order and perceived risk. Results suggested that name familiarity did not impact the hurricane gender effect. Consistent with the previous findings, Hurricane Victor elicited greater intentions to follow the evacuation order than did Hurricane Victoria and an unnamed hurricane [M victor = 5.861, SD = 1.275 vs. M victoria = 5.391, SD = 1.614 vs. M hurricane = 5.278, SD = 1.552; F(2,268) = 3.796, P = 0.024, ɳ2 = 0.027]. Similarly, Hurricane Victor was perceived to be riskier than Hurricane Victoria and an unnamed hurricane (M victor = 5.808, SD = 0.985 vs. M victoria = 5.340, SD = 1.296 vs. M hurricane = 5.423, SD = 1.283; F(2,268) = 3.660, P = 0.027, ɳ2 = 0.026]. The fact that female-named and unnamed hurricanes yielded similar results replicates experiment 2. As noted earlier, historical naming conventions may lead unnamed storms to be more strongly associated with female than male names. Although it is possible that negative associations with male names, as opposed to positive associations with female names, drive the effect given that males are strongly associated with danger (24), this is an issue for future research. Because there is no unnamed condition in the actual practice of hurricane naming, our focus is on the comparison between female- and male-named hurricanes. To further examine potential confounds in our name stimuli, we directly assessed whether the male and female names used across all of our experiments varied in their age, perceived intellectual competence, and perceived likability (29) (Table S3). Ratings of perceived masculinity-femininity, intellectual competence, and likability of the 18 names we used in the experiments were obtained from 109 participants. The perceived masculinity-femininity of the names was not correlated with either their attractiveness or their intellectual competence. The male vs. female names used in experiments 2, 3, and 6 were seen as more likable and competent, but for experiments 4 and 5, it was the reverse. Moreover, using data derived from the Social Security Office’s Name Popularity Database, we determined that the ages of our names did not track with their gender.
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The winners of five competitive categories were voted for by readers and another 14 honorary prizes were handed out. Manic Street Preachers were presented with the maverick award Blur, making their first public appearance together ahead of their forthcoming reunion gigs, collected the inspiration award. The Manic Street Preachers won the maverick award and bassist Nicky Wire said it was an achievement to have spent 20 years signed to the same major label and still be regarded mavericks. Johnny Marr said he was "very honoured" to receive the trophy for classic songwriter from former Suede guitarist and Duffy producer Bernard Butler. Mott the Hoople entered the Mojo Hall of Fame, Joy Division won the vision award and the Pretty Things picked up the hero award. Phil Lynott, the late lead singer of 1970s rock gods Thin Lizzy, won the icon award. Island Records founder Chris Blackwell was decorated with the Mojo Medal, rock 'n' roll pioneer Joe Brown was recognised for his outstanding contribution to music and The Zombies received the classic album award.
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Under what alternative legal system can Special Operations Forces fly into Detroit, and take someone away without court oversight?” According to Kate Martin, the director of the Center for National Security Studies, in Washington, the military can’t simply grab suspects inside the U.S. and hold them without charge or a hearing. “It violates the Constitution, which extends to everyone inside the U.S.,” she said. “You can’t be seized without probable cause. You have the right to due process, and to a trial by a jury of your peers—which a military commission is not.” Confusion on this point may derive from the Bush Administration’s controversial handling of two suspected terrorists, José Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri. Both men were arrested in the U.S. by law-enforcement officials, and indicted on criminal charges. But Bush declared Padilla and Marri to be “enemy combatants,” which, he argued, meant that they could be transferred to military custody, for interrogation and detention without trial. (Neither suspect provided useful intelligence.) The cases provoked legal challenges, and in both instances appeals courts ruled that Bush had overstepped his power. The Administration, not willing to risk a Supreme Court defeat, returned the suspects to the civilian system. For all the tough rhetoric of the Bush Administration, it prosecuted many more terror suspects as criminals than as enemy combatants. According to statistics compiled by New York University’s Center on Law and Security, since 2001 the criminal courts have convicted some hundred and fifty suspects on terrorism charges. Only three detainees—all of whom were apprehended abroad—were convicted in military commissions at Guantánamo. The makeshift military-commission system set up by Bush to handle terrorism cases has never tried a murder case, let alone one as complex, or notorious, as that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who will face the death penalty for the murder of nearly three thousand people. The Bush Administration obtained life sentences in the criminal courts for two terror suspects arrested inside the U.S.: Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber, and Zacarias Moussaoui, who was planning a second wave of plane attacks. (Reid was read his Miranda rights four times.) When the Bush Justice Department obtained these convictions, the process was celebrated by some of the same people now criticizing Holder. Giuliani, after the Moussaoui trial, said, “I was in awe of our system.
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The connection between Lone Star ticks and meat allergies in America first came to light in 2008. At the time, Thomas Platts-Mills and Scott Commins, both allergy specialists at the University of Virginia Health System, were trying to understand why some of their patients had developed a severe allergic reactions to cetuximab, an intravenous cancer-fighting drug. The doctors eventually learned that Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies in their patients were reacting with a sugar in the drug called alpha-gal. It was peculiar, since nearly everyone produces these antibodies, but not every patient reacted poorly to the drug. Commins and Platts-Mills discovered these strange reactions occurred in patients who all hailed from the same place: the southeastern United States. So a lab technician Googled for medical conditions that fit geographically with the allergy they were seeing. Sure enough, they found that Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever—a tickborne disease—affected the same areas. “We went back to our patients and started asking them about ticks,” says Commins, who, along with Platts-Mills, published their findings in 2008 in The New England Journal of Medicine. “It became clear over a series of months that this tick theory fit better than anything else we could find.” “I've always said I think it’s karma, because my family have been cattle ranchers for generations.” Around the same time, more and more healthy patients began reporting meat allergies (one of them being Abley). The symptoms began three to four hours after eating meals that contained beef or pork. Like the patients allergic to cetuximab, these patients were also predominantly from the Southeast, a region crawling with ticks. It didn’t take long for Platts-Mills and Commins to figure out the allergies were connected—and that the link was alpha-gal sugar. Alpha-gal is a major component of cetuximab, but it’s also found in a far more common, natural source: non-primate mammals such as pigs, sheep, and cows. Humans don’t make the sugar, and we all have some form of immune response to it. In fact, alpha-gal is the main barrier preventing cross-species organ transplants; the sugar, found in the animals’ organ tissues, triggers rejection in humans. Yet most people have no biological reaction to eating livestock, which makes the tickborne meat allergy so surprising. Moreover, the patients of Commins and Platts-Mills weren’t born with the condition, and they reportedly showed symptoms much later in life—a unique trait for an allergy.
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Never doubt the power of motion picture studios. The US government is moving ahead with plans to smack around North Korea for the Sony Pictures hack. That this is seemingly based on nothing more than a strong hunch by the FBI doesn't seem to matter. The wheels are rolling and the scapegoat will be properly chastised. Symbolic actions and symbolic words are being handed down by the administration , under the unlikely moniker of "a proportionate response." Sanctions are being levied against ten North Korean officials, even as other unnamed administration officials admit there's no evidence those named were behind the attacks in any form. Let's all enjoy this quote, which shows the US government is willing to defend the honor of Sony Pictures even at the expense of its own reputation.There you have it. There will be more symbolic stupidity in the future, if only for consistency's sake. The next question is: if the goal is to deliver a knockout blow, how effective are continued head punches when the target has already lost consciousness?The North Korean government doesn't really care if more sanctions are handed down. It hasn't made many attempts to ingratiate itself with the US. It is resolutely its own evil empire and appears to be happy being one of the world's villains.Once you get beyond the futile administrative shouting, there's the reality of the situation: there's really not much evidence pointing to North Korea's involvement in the Sony hack. So, even if the sanctionseffective, they're likely misguided.The link between the hacking and the North Korean government's public damnation of "The Interview" is extremely tenuous. The hackers behind the attack never linked their actions to the film untilthe press did. Additional information points in various directions , but nothing directly at the North Korean government. The evidence the FBI was willing to part with only indicates that the malware used resembles malware used in previous NK hackings -- which is really just saying malware that works well tends to resemblemalware that works well. It's not a smoking gun. It's not even a gun in a safe with the clip removed. It's a finger in a coat pocket -- something that only looks slightly dangerous/damning when hidden, but completely ridiculous when out in the open.But the US government has decided North Korea is to blame and the North Korean government is only too happy to alternate between evil empire and unfairly besmirched world citizen.
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(2:52pm) 1/18/2015: Jenny is still talking on the phone, Carly has joined her outside and they are taking turns talking. My brother is racing to get a couple cameras set up. This will be close. (2:54pm) 1/18/2015: Friends called and asked if I'm still gonna join them to watch Football in a few hours, not sure if I should decline or continue. I'll think it over. (3:00PM) 1/18/2015: They got their bags and it looks like they checked out of the hotel. They're in the car now getting ready to pull out. PI is getting ready to tail them if they drive off. To everyone asking how Carly texts, she has a replacement phone (Warranty). (3:02pm) 1/18/2015: Bank came through and as requested yesterday afternoon, joint bank account is frozen. I will be notified about any withdraws from my personal account (in case info was stolen) for the next 2 weeks. (3:07pm) 1/18/2015: I guess they love talking in coffee shops and in cars, because they're still in the car talking. I don't know who they were speaking to on the phone. I have the Seahawks-Packers game on TV to my left with brother watching, surveillance up on my right computer monitor and this post up on my left monitor, and checking phone for written updates from PI. This is getting hectic. (3:15pm) 1/18/2015: They've pulled out of the hotel, isn't clear where they're going, PI is tailing. Brother is trying to hide the recorders. (3:20pm) 1/18/2015: We only have two recorders in the house, we'll need to run out and get one or two more. If Jenny and Carly drive home, we won't have time. They are driving towards a familiar area, it includes a grocery store, a few buildings, and the gym I go to. (3:23pm) 1/18/2015: It's too risky to go out for more recorders, looks like we'll just stay with the two that we have. They're getting closer to the gym/grocery store area. (5:44pm) 1/18/2015: Shit is going down. I can't type for more than a minute right now. Nobody has gotten hurt or anything, just a lot of shit. I'll update when I get the chance, maybe at my buddy's place. I'm probably getting out of here to watch the game. This isn't a pleasant place to be :( I'm trying to get through this. Tears were shed, anger, grief, yelling, my goodness. Nothing physical at all.
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of Persons % All participants 20,144 44.5 10,803 23.9 7,459 16.5 6,874 15.2 Age at entry, years 59.5 (9.6) 61.2 (9.9) 61.1 (9.8) 60.1 (9.5) Body mass indexa (n = 42,975) 25.6 (3.2) 25.6 (3.3) 25.9 (3.4) 26.4 (3.6) Height, m (n = 43,190) 1.77 (0.07) 1.77 (0.07) 1.77 (0.07) 1.77 (0.07) Dietary intake Energy, kcal/day 2,511 (789) 2,583 (772) 2,749 (798) 3,129 (914) Milk, g/dayb 64.7 (68.3) 267.5 (59.4) 467.3 (49.3) 909.1 (372.4) Yogurt, g/day 181.4 (237.6) 165.7 (222.1) 177.9 (245.2) 185.6 (286.8) Cheese, g/day 72.8 (59.8) 70.6 (54.9) 75.0 (57.7) 85.8 (66.1) Fruit, g/day (n = 44,870) 182.1 (140.6) 182.5 (133.0) 173.8 (137.3) 162.1 (131.3) Vegetables, g/day (n = 45,110) 184.2 (125.0) 181.2 (123.6) 173.0 (118.3) 163.5 (118.7) Fruit and vegetables, servings/day 4.2 (2.5) 4.2 (2.4) 3.9 (2.4) 3.7 (2.3) Oxygen radical absorbance capacity, µmol/day 14,218 (5,376) 14,740 (5,354) 14,834 (5,563) 15,153 (5,708) Red and processed meat, g/day 101.9 (63.8) 102.3 (63.8) 103.3 (59.2) 108.8 (61.4) Protein, g/day 98.3 (14.7) 102.1 (13.9) 105.4 (14.0) 111.3 (15.1) Total fat, g/day 89.6 (15.5) 89.3 (14.6) 89.2 (14.9) 89.0 (15.6) Saturated fat, g/day 40.3 (9.5) 40.6 (9.1) 41.2 (9.5) 42.0 (10.0) Calcium, mg/day 1,247 (386) 1,450 (370) 1,640 (386) 1,945 (483) Vitamin D, μg/day 6.1 (3.0) 6.7 (2.9) 7.0 (2.9) 7.7 (3.0) Phosphorus, mg/day 1,922 (294) 2,063 (282) 2,185 (292) 2,387 (350) Retinol, mg/day 1.19 (0.96) 1.25 (0.85) 1.28 (0.71) 1.35 (0.74) Alcohol, g/day (n = 40,493) 17.0 (22.9) 13.7 (17.6) 13.1 (18.7) 14.2 (26.8) Physical activity, MET-hours/day (n = 34,812) 41.2 (4.8) 41.5 (4.8) 41.8 (5.0) 42.3 (5.3) Leisure-time physical activity, hours/week (n = 40,496) <1 3,988 22.1 1,940 20.0 1,452 21.7 1,488 24.6 1 3,470 19.2 1,845 19.0 1,295 19.4 1,078 17.9 2–3 5,691 31.5 3,127 32.2 2,064 30.9 1,792 29.7 4–5 2,315 12.8 1,256 12.9 876 13.1 728 12.1 >5 2,592 14.4 1,547 15.9 999 14.9 953 15.8 Education, years (n = 45,129) ≤9 13,072 65.1 7,437 69.0 5,502 74.1 5,308 77.5 10–12 3,151 15.7 1,526 14.2 884 11.9 710 10.4 >12 3,775 18.8 1,764 16.4 1,021 13.7 800 11.7 Otherc 80 0.4 46 0.4 23 0.3 30 0.4 Smoking status (n = 44,858) Never smoker 6,996 35.0 4,152 38.7 2,718 36.9 2,301 33.8 Former smoker 8,191 41.0 4,028 37.6 2,694 36.6 2,488 36.6 <20 pack-yearsd 4,884 25.8 2,381 23.6 1,535 22.3 1,337 21.0 ≥20 pack-years 2,656 14.1 1,277 12.6 895 13.0 900 14.1 Current smoker 4,786 24.0 2,539 23.7 1,954 26.5 2,011 29.6 <20 pack-years 1,763 9.3 933 9.2 712 10.3 653 10.2 ≥20 pack-years 2,599 13.8 1,352 13.4 1,027 14.9 1,188 18.6 Living alone 3,317 16.5 1,831 16.9 1,311 17.6 1,376 20.0 Charlson comorbidity indexe 0 17,102 84.9 8,892 82.3 6,182 82.9 5,667 82.4 1 2,152 10.7 1,314 12.2 883 11.8 838 12.2 ≥2 890 4.4 597 5.5 394 5.3 369 5.4 Current use of calcium-containing supplements (regular or occasional) 2,912 14.5 1,526 14.1 976 13.1 837 12.2 Ever use of antioxidant-containing supplements 6,395 31.7 3,380 31.3 2,250 30.2 1,978 28.8 Ever use of aspirin 6,500 32.3 3,585 33.2 2,397 32.1 2,255 32.8 Ever hypercholesterolemiaf 8,967 44.5 4,704 43.5 3,221 43.2 3,145 45.8 Ever use of cortisone 843 4.2 449 4.2 309 4.1 310 4.5
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By that year, expensive spans had been completed over the Pascagoula, Mobile, Escambia, Biloxi, and Bay St. Louis bays, along with a 22-mile long seawall protecting the highway and the coastal resort towns of Biloxi, Gulfport and Pass Christian, Mississippi. Ayres called its completion one of the epics of American construction enterprises. In all, the completion of the highway eliminated 35 ferry crossings, leaving only two great water barriers, the Mississippi and Berwick Bay at Morgan City, Louisiana, to cross both completed several years later under Huey Longs administration. Of equal accomplishment was constructing the highway across West Texas. Although a dry climate with few rivers to span, the rough terrain and sparse population made it a difficult section to complete. At the end of 1929, the OSTA boasted that it took more than $80,000.000 to construct the Trail. Along its barrier sections, the highway could be calculated to cost roughly $100,000 per mile, an incredibly high price for highway construction during the era. End of the Trail To celebrate Old Spanish Trails completion, St. Augustine hosted a three-day gala, including the dedication of a six-foot diameter coquina stone monument marking the beginning of the trail (figure 9). A representative of the King of Spain dedicated the trail and later honored Ayres with the title of Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Isabel la Catolica. At the dedication Ayres gave a speech praising the work of the Association, and challenging people to go on with this work and keep this far-southern land a joy for travelers for years to come and a memorial to all that is good in that age of art and chivalry and adventure and great mission works. Members of the OSTA then departed on a motorcade to San Diego, a promotional technique used since the highways inception to increase interest in the project. The original OSTA ceased to exist as a dues paying organization after 1929. In Ayres mind the highway was finished, with the celebration in St. Augustine the final effort to tie the west and east together. In a May 11, 1929 response to an inquiry about the OSTs future, Ayres recapped his frustration in building the highway, stating, Individually, these ten years have exhausted me financially. I had no business gambling with my old age that way but no crying about that. I must go somewhere now.
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It’s no secret that traditional China is disappearing. A certain China -- an inherited culture, a shared history, a traditional heritage that stretches back generations -- is disappearing. Consider the Starbucks moving into an ancient temple; the hip new speakeasy cocktail bar renovating and replacing a traditional shikumen laneway; the mini mall that stands where an ancient city gate once stood. As China races ever headlong towards modernity, a new, internationally-minded generation supplants the last and a certain China continues to disappear forever.If you were to ask me, one aspect of traditional China that’s fast disappearing that I’m very much going to miss is the whole “hungover white dudes getting paid to do ridiculous white dude stuff in a movie or TV show or whatever” thing.Ahhh, the art of the hungover white dude doing white dude stuff for a TV or a movie or whatever for a few red bills… It’s a disappearing art form, it really is! With changing market climates and shifting consumer expectations, our opportunities are drying up, and our chances to express our chosen craft are diminishing by the day.Where will you go now, totally hungover white guy pretending to be a bouncer at a some gala event for the? What shall you do, completely hungover white guy who pretends to DJ while a pre-recorded mix plays at a club opening in a third tier city? What shall become of you, savagely hungover white guy in some TV advertisement for some inscrutable traditional Chinese medicine playing on a loop in a metro station?Who will speak for the brutally hungover white guys in suits, posing for a photograph that’s going to be used on the front of a pamphlet for a sketchballs business English teaching school and probably most of their online material?The whiteness -- *gasp*, the whiteness -- it wanes. It wanes. It grows dim. It grows murky. A dying light. It flickers softly… briefly for a moment… before being extinguished forever.I will speak. I will speak for the white faces in the background, lending the scene a little bit of that “international credibility” that used to play so well with clients and potential investors circa 2007.
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She said she was awaiting word on her other family members.Ward said she did not attend services on Sunday because of her troubled knees and a bad hip. “I just started praying for everybody who was there” when she learned of the shooting, she said.Multiple helicopters have left the scene to transport victims to area hospitals. At least 10 victims were transported to Connally Memorial Medical Center in Floresville, said spokeswoman Megan Posey. She could not speak to their age or gender, but said there are multiple victims with gunshot wounds, and some have had to be taken by helicopter to a different treatment center.According to a Twitter post, University Hospital's trauma team is caring for nine of the patients from the Sutherland Springs shooting, 4 children, 5 adults. The hospital reported one more victim is on the way.The Texas Rangers within the Texas Department of Public Safety is the lead investigating agency, assisted by law enforcement officers from Wilson County, Bexar County, the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, among others. "We're looking at a pretty horrific scene that'll take several days to process," one official said. President Donald Trump, who is away in Japan, said he is monitoring the situation. "May God be the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene," the president said. Speaking to U.S. and Japanese business leaders in Tokyo on Monday during his Asian trip, Trump expressed his sorrow over what he called a “horrific shooting” at a “place of sacred worship.”Trump said that “our hearts are broken but in dark times — and these are dark times — such as these, Americans do what they do best.” He said Americans will pull together to help the suffering and he pledged to continue monitoring the investigation during his lengthy Asian tour.Texas' U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn both released statements on the shooting, with Cornyn calling the situation "heartbreaking. ""Truly heartbreaking news in #Sutherland Springs. Please say a prayer for First Baptist congregation, first responders & the community there," Cornyn said. "Keeping all harmed in Sutherland Springs in our prayers and grateful for our brave first responders on the scene," Cruz said. San Antonio Express-News contributed to this report.
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The clergy, however, balance all the real ills of this life with the expected joys of the next. We are assured that all is perfection in heaven, there the skies are cloudless -- there all is serenity and peace. Here empires may be overthrown; dynasties may be extinguished in blood; millions of slaves may toil 'neath the fierce rays of the sun, and the cruel strokes of the lash; yet all is happiness in heaven. Pestilences may strew the earth with corpses of the loved; the survivors may bend above them in agony -- yet the placid bosom of heaven is unruffled. Children may expire vainly asking for bread; babes may be devoured by serpents, while the gods sit smiling in the clouds. The innocent may languish unto death in the obscurity of dungeons; brave men and heroic women may be changed to ashes at the bigot's stake, while heaven is filled with song and joy. Out on the wide sea, in darkness and in storm, the shipwrecked struggle with the cruel waves while the angels play upon their golden harps. The streets of the world are filled with the diseased, the deformed and the helpless; the chambers of pain are crowded with the pale forms of the suffering, while the angels float and fly in the happy realms of day. In heaven they are too happy to have sympathy; too busy singing to aid the imploring and distressed. Their eyes are blinded; their ears are stopped and their hearts are turned to stone by the infinite selfishness of joy. The saved mariner is too happy when he touches the shore to give a moment's thought to his drowning brothers. With the indifference of happiness, with the contempt of bliss, heaven barely glances at the miseries of earth. Cities are devoured by the rushing lava; the earth opens and thousands perish; women raise their clasped hands towards heaven, but the gods are too happy to aid their children. The smiles of the deities are unacquainted with the tears of men. The shouts of heaven drown the sobs of earth.
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I would like to clarify definitions for the following technologies:These terms are, surprisingly, often used interchangeably and yet technically and historically they represent very different products and serve different, sometimes very different, use cases.It’s also important to note that there’s no specifications or industry standards on what cache, or data grid should be (unlike java application servers and JEE, for example). There was and still is an attempt to standardize caching via JSR107 and JSR 347 but it has been years (almost a decade for JSR 107) in the making and they are both hopelessly outdated by now (I’m on the expert group for JSR 107).First of all, let me clarify that I am discussing caches and data grids in the context of in-memory, distributed architectures. Traditional disk-based databases and non-distributed in-memory caches or databases are out of scope for this article.Chronologically, caches and data grids were developed in that order from simple caching to more complex data grids. The first distributed caches appeared in the late 1990s, and data grids emerged around 2003-2005.Both of these technologies are enjoying a significant boost in interest in the last couple years thanks to explosive growth in-memory computing in general fueled by 30% YoY price reduction for DRAM and cheaper Flash storage.Despite the fact that I believe that distributed caching is rapidly going away , I still think it’s important to place it in its proper historical and technical context along with data grids and databases.The primary use case for caching is to keep frequently accessed data in process memory to avoid constantly fetching this data from disk, which leads to the High Availability (HA) of that data to the application running in that process space (hence, “in-memory” caching).Most of the caches were built as distributed in-memory key/value stores that supported a simple set of ‘put’ and ‘get’ operations and optionally some sort of read-through and write-through behavior for writing and reading values to and from underlying disk-based storage such as an RDBMS. Depending on the product, additional features like ACID transactions, eviction policies, replication vs. partitioning, active backups, etc.
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But because the company failed to achieve its hiring goals, Mondelez no longer plans to pursue EDGE credits related to the Naperville agreement, spokeswoman Laurie Guzzinati said Friday. Schultz, the state's commerce director, said he was unaware of such deals until he learned about them from the Tribune. He will honor the existing agreements but doesn't condone them, he said. Democratic Rep. Jack Franks, a longtime EDGE critic from Marengo, called the incentive program "deeply flawed." "We have no idea what we're getting in return in for our investment, and we don't even know if anything works," said Franks, who sponsored the 2003 corporate accountability law and last year co-chaired a House study of state tax policy. Firms keep taxes for themselves A fortunate few of the state's largest and most influential companies can pocket taxes paid by their workers thanks to "special" EDGE deals. Instead of their taxes helping to fund public services, thousands of Illinois workers at these companies help subsidize their employers with money withheld from their paychecks. These special EDGE agreements, designed with legislative backing to mend a state hit hard by the Great Recession, flourished under Quinn.
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4. Discussion The effect of lean beef coupled with resistance exercise on MPS is a new topic in sports nutrition. This was previously investigated in young, middle-aged and older subjects [10,11]. The studies available are very interesting, but as any other acute design study, they do not report possible changes in body composition and/or muscle strength. The aim of our experiment has been to evaluate whether consuming meat after exercise could result in an increase of LM during an eight weeks exercise program. In our study we tried to understand if FM, FFM, LM and muscle strength could be affected during a resistance training program using meat protein instead of whey protein or commercial amino acids formulation. In order to intake the typical post-workout protein serving size (20 g), we used 135 g of tinned beef with a low fat content (1.7 g), about 10 g of EAAs, 4.8 g of branched chain amino acids and more than 2 g of leucine. Leucine has been targeted as a key factor in translation initiation and the regulation of muscle protein synthesis [17]. The results showed in indicate a significant decline of FM from week 0 to week 8 in FG group and an increase of FFM. The increase of FFM is a consequence of a change in FM, because no differences were found in LM during the trial. These effects are more likely to be due to an increase of protein intake rather than the temporal aspects of consumption. A link between daily protein intake and the loss of FM has been well established [18]. LM did not change in our study and this is probably due to two main reasons: (1) a low daily protein intake in the all subjects. As we know, in order to produce muscle hypertrophy, the daily effective diet should contain ~1.8–2.0 g of protein per kilogram of body mass [5]; (2) the peak plasma concentrations of EAAs after 135 g of beef ingestion occurred more slowly (approximately equaling to 120 min), as recently reported [19], compared to that of more rapidly digested and absorbed free amino acids or whey protein supplements. This certainly reduces the rapid availability of EAAs soon after the exercise session, leading to a partial miss of the anabolic window and therefore the “temporal” effect of the meat supplementation on the development of muscle mass.
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The depiction of the mission in Somalia is not accurate because there are too many concrete buildings visible. Given that Somalia is so unbelievably and tragically poor, the capacity to build or maintain concrete buildings is very limited, so most buildings are composed of materials like clay, crude plywood, and thin corrugated metal. Also there are no civilians caught in the war zones anywhere in the game, and this is extremely unrealistic.The depiction of a fictional successful hijacking of a US Navy aircraft carrier, by Abu Sayyaf terrorists from the Philippine Islands, is also extremely unrealistic. This fictional counter-terrorist mission supposedly takes place in 2008, but the aircraft carrier that has been seized is referred to as USS Constellation -- even though the only aircraft carrier by that name was taken out of service in the year 2003! Further, the game character Alice speaks of the Abu Sayyaf, literally the Sword Bearer Group, as "one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations in the world" but this is incorrect. It is true that they are affiliated with the Usama bin Laden organization, but they were never the all-powerful bugaboos suggested in the game. After they kidnapped many people from the Dos Palmas resort in 2001, including two Americans, they were very severely punished by the clandestine Philippine Marine Corps unit called "MC-2," working in close cooperation with the CIA. The charismatic rock-star type leader of Abu Sayyaf, who called himself Abu Sabaya, "Bearer of Captives," was killed in an ambush along with most of his men. It is said that today, Abu Sayyaf may even have less than 100 combatants. It is therefore preposterous to suggest that Abu Sayyaf could seize a US aircraft carrier -- much less do so in 2008.Lastly, the aircraft carrier captain in the game makes a big deal about the fact that there are nuclear weapons aboard the ship -- as if this were not obvious -- and he claims that the terrorists intend to blow them apart in a suicidal conventional explosion of the ship, in effect attacking Manila with a giant dirty bomb. In reality, the core function of an aircraft carrier is to project stability and control, and when necessary to enforce that control through fear and the capability for destruction. For this reason, they *always* have nuclear weapons aboard in case of need.
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To analyze housing values, Zillow used Census data to categorize ZIP codes by racial or ethnic groups that make up a plurality of the population and estimated the median home value within each area. . . . Many housing specialists, however, see the uneven housing recovery breaking down not by race, but by immigrant status. “They were basically the most innocent consumers on the marketplace,” said Eloise Lawrence, a staff attorney at Harvard Legal Aid Bureau who works with struggling Lynn tenants and homeowners. “They knew the least about what was happening, and they were the most eager to climb onto the first rung of the American dream.” . . . As disconcerting as it is that Hispanic homeowners were hurt so much by sagging home values, Lawrence, of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, said the recovery of home values in white and black communities is almost as worrisome: “We may be in another speculative bubble.”
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Indulge me with the pleasure of your voice.” … “Not even a ‘Hello, how are you, how was the trip?’ or anything?” “Gl-cck.” “What?” He takes the knife away from my throat. Finally, he stopped gagging me. “Go.” “Go? YOU’RE telling ME to GO? Who do you think you are, bitch?” “The train home…the last one leaves in half an hour. That’s how far we are from the train station. Unless you’re staying in town, you’ll be stranded here.” “I wasn’t planning on leaving this room.” “You should. They do checks after curfew.” “No.” “Yes. It would all backfire on you. So go before you miss it.” He heads out the doorway, giving me one of the dirtiest looks. “This isn’t over.” Until I hear his footsteps down the stairs and out the door, I can’t breathe for what feels like hours. All the tears I couldn’t shed before come gushing out. Is this what my life has been reduced to: drama after drama after drama? Am I just a means to an end for people like Shizune and Susumu and Megumi? Is there no value in me? I need to go somewhere to think. Somewhere I can be alone. The roof. I’ll go to the school roof. It’s getting close to the end of classes anyway, so I can blend in with the other students. I should leave a note or something… “Went to think, might be back later. -Aiko” There. In case anyone comes looking for me. They won’t, though. No one ever does. Not on a stormy day like this. Everyone is trying to run for cover in the rain. They don’t even see me. Typical. Up the stairs, past the classrooms, this place is foreboding in the evening. I just hope the lock doesn’t work on the doors. It’s wet out here. Dark and wet, interspersed with lightning in the distance. As stormy as I am. Now that I’m here, how do I do this? I know how to think, but to think things like this out seems like a special case. I’m being stalked and threatened by a guy who tried to rape me not even 24 hours after I had a concussion and the nurse tried to molest me. How is anyone supposed to cope with that? What does it mean? The people around me seem to see me as a tool; something to be used.
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public abstract class StaticResourceServlet extends HttpServlet { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private static final long ONE_SECOND_IN_MILLIS = TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(1); private static final String ETAG_HEADER = "W/\"%s-%s\""; private static final String CONTENT_DISPOSITION_HEADER = "inline;filename=\"%1$s\"; filename*=UTF-8''%1$s"; public static final long DEFAULT_EXPIRE_TIME_IN_MILLIS = TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(30); public static final int DEFAULT_STREAM_BUFFER_SIZE = 102400; @Override protected void doHead(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException ,IOException { doRequest(request, response, true); } @Override protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { doRequest(request, response, false); } private void doRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, boolean head) throws IOException { response.reset(); StaticResource resource; try { resource = getStaticResource(request); } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST); return; } if (resource == null) { response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND); return; } String fileName = URLEncoder.encode(resource.getFileName(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name()); boolean notModified = setCacheHeaders(request, response, fileName, resource.getLastModified()); if (notModified) { response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_MODIFIED); return; } setContentHeaders(response, fileName, resource.getContentLength()); if (head) { return; } writeContent(response, resource); } /** * Returns the static resource associated with the given HTTP servlet request. This returns <code>null</code> when * the resource does actually not exist. The servlet will then return a HTTP 404 error. * @param request The involved HTTP servlet request. * @return The static resource associated with the given HTTP servlet request. * @throws IllegalArgumentException When the request is mangled in such way that it's not recognizable as a valid * static resource request. The servlet will then return a HTTP 400 error. */ protected abstract StaticResource getStaticResource(HttpServletRequest request) throws IllegalArgumentException; private boolean setCacheHeaders(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String fileName, long lastModified) { String eTag = String.format(ETAG_HEADER, fileName, lastModified); response.setHeader("ETag", eTag); response.setDateHeader("Last-Modified", lastModified); response.setDateHeader("Expires", System.currentTimeMillis() + DEFAULT_EXPIRE_TIME_IN_MILLIS); return notModified(request, eTag, lastModified); } private boolean notModified(HttpServletRequest request, String eTag, long lastModified) { String ifNoneMatch = request.getHeader("If-None-Match"); if (ifNoneMatch != null) { String[] matches = ifNoneMatch.split("\\s*,\\s*"); Arrays.sort(matches); return (Arrays.binarySearch(matches, eTag) > -1 || Arrays.binarySearch(matches, "*") > -1); } else { long ifModifiedSince = request.getDateHeader("If-Modified-Since"); return (ifModifiedSince + ONE_SECOND_IN_MILLIS > lastModified); // That second is because the header is in seconds, not millis. } } private void setContentHeaders(HttpServletResponse response, String fileName, long contentLength) { response.setHeader("Content-Type", getServletContext().getMimeType(fileName)); response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", String.format(CONTENT_DISPOSITION_HEADER, fileName)); if (contentLength != -1) { response.setHeader("Content-Length", String.valueOf(contentLength)); } } private void writeContent(HttpServletResponse response, StaticResource resource) throws IOException { try ( ReadableByteChannel inputChannel = Channels.newChannel(resource.getInputStream()); WritableByteChannel outputChannel = Channels.newChannel(response.getOutputStream()); ) { ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(DEFAULT_STREAM_BUFFER_SIZE); long size = 0; while (inputChannel.read(buffer) != -1) { buffer.flip(); size += outputChannel.write(buffer); buffer.clear(); } if (resource.getContentLength() == -1 && !response.isCommitted()) { response.setHeader("Content-Length", String.valueOf(size)); } } } }
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In the second part of this series, I’ll focus on financial privacy, including “mixers” and ring signatures. Each of these topics could warrant their own full post, so I’ll stick to the high-level capabilities of each rather than diving too deep. If you’re looking for privacy in cryptocurrency today, there are a few practical options, including mixing services, often called “mixers” or “tumblers”, and privacy-centric cryptocurrencies, like Monero and Zcash. Let’s discuss mixers and Monero, and save Zcash for a more detailed post on zero-knowledge proofs. Mixers The basic idea behind a mixing service is nearly as old as finance itself. A group of people want to keep their financial transactions private from some observer. To do that, they combine their funds into one pool, keeping track of who is owed what on a private ledger. Think “a second set of books”. When those mixed funds are spent, the origin of a each payment is obscured — observers see the amount paid and the recipient, but don’t know which person or persons in the group authorized the payment. Now, there are clearly some issues with a scheme like this. Who keeps the ledger? Who can be trusted with the pooled funds? Let’s take a closer look at how Bitcoin users have dealt with these issues. Centralized services BitMixer was a popular mixing service. Launched in 2014, it was a fairly literal implementation of the above scheme. Users would deposit funds directly with the service. BitMixer then broke deposits into smaller pieces, mixing them with other users’ funds, as well as BitMixer’s own reserves. Users could then withdraw “new” outputs, unconnected on the blockchain to their original deposits. In the middle, of course, BitMixer took a significant fee. So, who held the funds, and who kept the ledger? Both were controlled by the same centralized party — a disaster waiting to happen. Exit scams are common in Bitcoin, with a rich history of exchanges and other service operators walking away with customer deposits. Even if an operator is honest, trusting a centralized party with your financial privacy means trusting them to defend your privacy from governments, hackers, and internal threats. Refreshingly, the owner of BitMixer opted for an orderly shutdown — no hacks or funny business. In a post on BitcoinTalk, he (she? they?) explained that he was shutting down the service because he no longer believed privacy on the Bitcoin blockchain was an achievable goal.
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I just felt sharing this experience might help keep the potential risks of drug use real. Perhaps this can help someone be a little more cautious in their use. But ultimately, I wrote this for me. It was a very cathartic process. By writing this all down and sharing it, I feel I have unloaded baggage and can finally move forward.So thanks to anyone who reads this. Hopefully it can help someone, but if not, at least it saved me.
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These forests are loaded with downfall so the bushwhacking can be gruesome, to say the least.The last place you want to be is stuck in the dense tree cover without a GPS read. It’s easy to lose your sense of direction in these trees, so the potential for a navigational nightmare is real.I call them “the big four.” If you spend anytime in the LCW, you need to spend your time attaining the summits of the big four. These peaks include Bison Peak, McCurdy Mountain, Windy Peak and Peak X. I would attempt them in that order as well. All four have expansive plateaus and offer huge scenery that will represent the area well. Next, get your tail up into McCurdy Park and Lake Park and visit the “Catamount” and “Tarryall Peak.” Windy Peak (11,970-ft.) is a singular mountain, resting only 30 feet short of 12,000-ft. just outside of Bailey Colorado. The small town of Bailey is only a 45-minute drive from Denver on Hwy 285 and it only takes an hour and 15 minutes to get to the Rolling Creek Trailhead. Windy Peak can easily be viewed from the steep "Crow Hill" on hwy-285 that descends to Bailey.This large mountain is somewhat isolated from the continuous bulk of the Kenosha Range. Although separated by the vast Wigwam Creek Drainage, Windy Peak still holds true to the Lost Creek Wilderness form with its giant granite boulders and immense summit plateau.As of August 1st, 2004 the West Ridge Route on Windy Peak falls into the “must do” category for the Lost Creek Wilderness. Having enough LCW experience to make such a bold statement, I place this route with the North Plateau Route “loop” Route on Bison Peak and a few different routes on McCurdy Mountain and McCurdy Park.Having completed two routes on Windy, i enjoyed the West Ridge Route more so than the standard North Ridge Route. I believe that most whom summit Windy Peak, do it from the Rolling Creek TH, so expect total solitude.The West Ridge Route on Windy Peak is close to 9 miles RT with only 2,500-ft of vertical gain. You will not have access to a trail for the entire route. A good topo map is essential, without one; expect to get lost in a place where it may take a while to be found. A GPS unit would be a good idea. Expect 5.5 miles of tree laden, nondescript terrain.
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Dodge is America’s mainstream performance brand and SRT is positioned as the ultimate performance halo of the Dodge brand, together creating a complete and balanced performance brand with one vision and one voice.For more than 100 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge, who founded the brand in 1914. Their influence continues today. New for 2019, the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye is possessed by the Demon. Its 797-horsepower supercharged HEMI® high-output engine makes it the most powerful, quickest and fastest muscle car reaching 0-60 miles per hour (mph) in 3.4 seconds and the fastest GT production car with a ¼-mile elapsed time (ET) of 10.8 seconds at 131 mph. It also reaches a new top speed of 203 mph. Joining the Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye is the 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with its more powerful 717-horsepower engine, the Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody, which features fender flares from the SRT Hellcat Widebody and adds 3.5 inches of width to Scat Pack’s footprint, as well as and the new Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320. Infused with exclusive drag strip technology from the iconic Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, the Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 is a drag-oriented, street-legal muscle car and a blank canvas for the serious grassroots drag racer. The 2019 Dodge Durango SRT, America’s fastest, most powerful and most capable three-row SUV with a best-in-class tow rating of 8,700 lbs. fills out the brands’ performance lineup. These visceral performance models join a 2019 brand lineup that includes the Durango, Grand Caravan, Journey, Charger and Challenger — a showroom that offers performance at every price point.Company blog: http://blog.fcanorthamerica.com Media website: http:// media.fcanorthamerica.com Dodge brand: www.dodge.com Dodge blog: blog.dodge.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/dodge or https://www.facebook.com/FiatChrysler.NorthAmerica/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/dodgeofficial or www.instagram.com/FiatChrysler_NA Twitter: www.twitter.com/dodge or www.twitter.com/FiatChrysler_NA YouTube: www.youtube.com/dodge or www.youtube.com/fcanorthamerica
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In addition to the usual post-drive imaging, Mastcam will again look for spots on the "back" side of the Sun. Overnight, SAM will complete a calibration activity. On Sol 1043, ChemCam will take some calibration data, Navcam will search for clouds near the northern horizon, and Mastcam will take another pair of Sun images. Finally, late that night, CheMin will perform its own calibration activity. So the science team is very busy today, with activities planned for every science instrument on the rover! Sol 1044-1045 update by Ryan Anderson: Finishing the Drive (13 July 2015) The drive over the weekend stopped a bit early (~17 meters instead of the intended ~25 meters) because the software that the rover uses to monitor its drive progress was being extra cautious. The rover is fine, and in the sol 1044 plan we will keep driving. Before the drive, ChemCam has observations of targets of varying textures named “Edith”, “Sheffer”, and “Finley”. Mastcam will take some documentation images of the same targets, along with a stereo mosaic of some interesting layered rocks and a complementary 4x3 mosaic of the nearby “Apikuni Mountain” area. After the drive, we will take routine post-drive images, and then on sol 1045 ChemCam has some calibration measurements and Navcam has some cloud monitoring observations. On both sols, Mastcam will also continue its sun-spot monitoring campaign, and REMS, RAD, and DAN will do their routine measurements. Meanwhile, many of us on the rover team are eagerly waiting along with the rest of the world to see the results of the historic New Horizons Pluto flyby that is happening right now. The pictures that New Horizons has sent back already are weird and fascinating, and everyone is looking forward to seeing more! Sols 1046-1047 update by Ken Herkenhoff: Wheel imaging (15 July 2015) The 8.5-meter Sol 1044 drive completed as planned, leaving the rover in a relatively flat and smooth area that is suitable for imaging of the wheels. Wheel imaging is done periodically to assess wear, and it's time to acquire new data, so the Sol 1046 includes 5 sets of MAHLI, Mastcam, and MARDI images separated by short rover bumps to allow the entire surfaces of the wheels to be viewed. Today I helped pick targets on a nearby outcrop for ChemCam observations.
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It'll be a language with a dedicated development team and a great marketing department.That narrows the field from 200+ languages down to maybe three or four: JRuby, Groovy, Rhino (JavaScript), and maybe Jython if it comes out of its coma.Each of these languages (as does Perl 6) provides mechanisms that would permit compression of a well-engineered 500,000-line Java code base by 50% to 75%. Exactly where the dart lands (between 50% and 75%) remains to be seen, but I'm going to try it myself.I personally tried Groovy and found it to be an ugly language with a couple of decent ideas. It wants to be Ruby but lacks Ruby's elegance (or Python's for that matter). It's been around a long time and does not seem to be gaining any momentum, so I've ruled it out for my own work. (And I mean permanently – I will not look at it again. Groovy's implementation bugs have really burned me. )I like Ruby and Python a lot, but neither JVM version was up to snuff when I did my evaluation three years ago. JRuby has had a lot of work done to it in the meantime. If the people I work with weren't so dead-set against Ruby, I'd probably go with that, and hope like hell that the implementation is eventually "fast enough" relative to Java.As it happens, though, I've settled on Rhino. I'll be working with the Rhino dev team to help bring it up to spec with EcmaScript Edition 4 . I believe that ES4 brings JavaScript to rough parity with Ruby and Python in terms of (a) expressiveness and (b) the ability to structure and manage larger code bases. Anything it lacks in sugar, it more than makes up for with its optional type annotations. And I think JavaScript (especially on ES4 steroids) is an easier sell than Ruby or Python to people who like curly braces, which is anyone currently using C++, Java, C#, JavaScript or Perl. That's a whooole lot of curly brace lovers. I'm nothing if not practical these days.I don't expect today's little rant to convince anyone to share my minority opinion about code base size. I know a that few key folks (Bill Gates, for instance, as well as Dave Thomas, Martin Fowler and James Duncan Davidson) have independently reached the same conclusion: namely, that bloat is the worst thing that can happen to code.
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My Christmas list for 2014 included Stephen King’sand Santa came through, but his assistant, my elfin book goddess tossed in another, Lamott’s(or as it might be referred to in some parts of my home borough, Boid by Boid) as well. I will be getting to King’s book in time. I had read BbB many years ago. My ambitions were different then. I expect there are times when certain books and certain readers converge. You can read a great book and not appreciate it because of where you might be in your life, but connect with it totally if you catch it at the right time. I may have incorporated a bit of this book way back when but now was definitely a propitious time for a refresher.- image from SalonOf course, you will be at diverse stages inwriting interests, if you indeed have such urges at all. Not everyone does. There are many ways to transport the inner to the outer and writing may not offer the right means for most. But, as you are reading this, I expect there is a good chance you like to write, and maybe want to kick it up a notch. If so, Lamott’s book is a wonderful place to find a helping hand. In fact, it is a masterpiece of the genre, rich with wisdom, offering a host of ideas about how to get from not-writing to writing, in manageable, small pieces. One thing about this book is that it is very funny. I laughed out loud a lot while reading it, which can be awkward on crowded subway cars. Hopefully some of the techniques here will provide some bandages for the Hemingway quote at the top.She offers advice on how to get moving when you are stuck, provides cheerful, uplifting support for trying times, and permission to allow your creative process to work through its issues, up to a point. She lets us all know that, which is very, very good to know. There are chapters on plot, character, and dialogue. Some explanation of technique. Lamott is echoing in print the writing class she teaches.The book is eminently quotable. My personal favorite, however second hand it might be, isAlthough this does ignore the obvious, that in making that trip one already is aware of the destination, and the route, still, it gives me hope.
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421); (2) technical or specialized national intelligence collection and processing systems that, if disclosed in an unauthorized manner, would substantially negate or impair the effectiveness of the system; (3) the details of: (A) the nature, contents, algorithm, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system or; (B) the design, construction, functioning, maintenance, or repair of any cryptographic equipment; but not including information concerning the use of cryptographic equipment and services; (4) particularly sensitive special access programs, the disclosure of which would substantially negate or impair the effectiveness of the information or activity involved; or (5) especially sensitive nuclear weapons design information (but only for those positions that have been certified as being of a high degree of importance or sensitivity, as described in section 145(f) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended). (b) An employee may not be granted access, or hold a position designated as requiring access, to information described in subsection (a) unless, as a condition of access to such information, the employee: (1) files with the head of the agency a financial disclosure report, including information with respect to the spouse and dependent children of the employee, as part of all background investigations or reinvestigations; (2) is subject to annual financial disclosure requirements, if selected by the agency head; and (3) files relevant information concerning foreign travel, as determined by the Security Policy Board. (c) Not later than 180 days after the effective date of this order, the Security Policy Board shall develop procedures for the implementation of this section, including a standard financial disclosure form for use by employees under subsection (b) of this section, and agency heads shall identify certain employees, by position or category, who are subject to annual financial disclosure. Sec. 1.4. Use of Automated Financial Record Data Bases. As part of all investigations and reinvestigations described in section 1.2(d) of this order, agencies may request the Department of the Treasury, under terms and conditions prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, to search automated data bases consisting of reports of currency transactions by financial institutions, international transportation of currency or monetary instruments, foreign bank and financial accounts, transactions under $10,000 that are reported as possible money laundering violations, and records of foreign travel. [[Page 40248]] Sec. 1.5. Employee Education and Assistance.
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The first rule was the need to pay debts. The deal-making was pervasive. Prisoners decided between them who would sleep where. The best cells were considered owned, and were bought and sold and rented. The main business, however, was in drugs. The principal drug was cocaine, which people injected into their veins, or smoked in the form of crack. The price was twice that of the street. Varella said, “The law was very strict. If you didn’t pay, you died. Because if I sold you crack and you didn’t pay me back, if I did nothing, nobody else would pay me, either. And I had to pay my supplier, because he had to pay his own supplier. So I had to kill you. This usually happened on Mondays, because the sellers gave the weekends for families to bring money.” In each cellblock the acknowledged boss, according to Varella, was the chief of the inmate janitors, known as the Cleaner. Varella said, “If you wanted to kill me, you had to talk to him first. You had to go to the Cleaner and say, ‘I have to kill Drauzio Varella.’ “ ‘Okay, why?’ “ ‘Because back in the neighborhood he raped my sister-in-law.’ “ ‘Do you have any evidence?’ “ ‘I have a police report of the rape.’ “ ‘So bring it to me.’ ” Varella went on with his story. He said, “The Cleaners were the judges of the cellblocks. Very smart guys. Silent. They knew how to listen. Very calmly. They would talk economically. They were interesting types. Usually they were not physically strong. Sometimes they were very small guys. But strength had no role at Carandiru, because people had to sleep. And if you gather 20 guys, even Mike Tyson wouldn’t stand a chance. So you would bring your evidence to the Cleaner, and he would read it and say, ‘Okay, you can kill Varella. But I’ll tell you which day.’ Not just any day, because it might conflict with other plans, like a drug deal, another killing, or an attempted escape. The Cleaner would say, ‘Okay, you can do it on Friday morning.’ And then you really had to follow through. If you went back to the Cleaner and said, ‘I thought a little bit more, and I decided after all that I don’t need to do this,’ then you were not a serious guy.
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O utright D iscrimination The situation for women in philosophy has been changing over the past several decades and every woman's experience is different. I was in graduate school at Berkeley from 1979 to 1985. I have held tenure‐track or tenured positions in five schools. I am now a full professor. But the rank of full professors is broad and there are many women, such as my wonderful colleague and role model, Judith Thomson, who entered the profession decades before me when the situation was very different from and, to my mind, much worse than mine. So, there has been progress. However, there are trends that have continued throughout my time in the profession, because I see evidence of them today. Why aren't there more women of my cohort in philosophy? Because there were very few of us and there was a lot of outright discrimination. I think a lot of philosophers aren't aware of what women in the profession deal with, so let me give some examples. In my year at Berkeley and in the two years ahead of me and two years behind me, there was only one woman each year in classes of eight to ten students. Eventually, the other four women dropped out, so I was the only woman left in five consecutive classes. In graduate school, one of my teachers told me that he had “never seen a first rate woman philosophy and never expected to because women were incapable of having seminal ideas.” I was the butt of jokes when I received a distinction on my prelims, since it seemed funny to everyone to suggest I should get a blood test to determine if I was really a woman. In a seminar in philosophical logic, I was asked to give a presentation on a historical figure when none of the other (male) students were, later to learn that this was because the professor assumed I'd be writing a thesis on the history of philosophy. When I was at Penn as a junior faculty member and told a senior colleague that I was going to be married (to another philosopher, Stephen Yablo, then at the University of Michigan), his response was, “Oh, I'm so sorry we'll be losing you.” That was in 1989.
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I remember sitting down in my studio and thinking ‘I have to write a tune that gets a rewind, I have to write a tune for the dance.’ And every time I heard it after it got released, I was like ‘why did I ever let it off? Why did I make it? That’s not true.’ If you compare it to “Ruffage,” which I wrote in – I think – 2004, and I remember when I first played it people didn’t get it but eventually people came round to it. I wont play a set without “Ruffage” now, that’s my tune, that I love. It’s the one tune that I heard in my head and some how managed to translate it.It’s healthy Loe, I’m really excited.I’m excited, listening to what you just said.The more you guys assert this element, not just on record but at DMZ – the most important very large club in dubstep – it reminds people what’s possible, that what was done in Forward>> and 3rd Base can be translated onto a big scale. Because that’s the real tragedy of the wobble stuff, it’s that people have got scared to play stripped back halfstep on a big scale, when actually people will enjoy stuff if you lead them into it the right way.We played in Holland recently at Dub Infusions in Patronaat, and the moment I realised it was a really, really good gig was we played “One of Us” an hour in, at peak time and took the set straight downwards: and they stayed with us. It was like ‘this is it, this is the gig I’ve been waiting for.’We’re looking to do the launch party in the third room at Fabric, because no-where in the world has that 3rd Base vibe.Are people aware of what’s happened to 3rd Base?It’s not there anymore. Part of Mass is still a church, 3rd Base is their church hall and they used to rent it to Mass to make money that they needed. They don’t need to make the money anymore so they don’t do it. So there’s no more 3rd Base.
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But in that sentence was my mother’s sense that one might want to capture the extraordinary, her grasp of children’s love of the absurd, her striking physical presence—in my memory, she was leaning toward me, backlit, her black hair falling forward—and her intuition that my seriousness needed to be leavened with playfulness.
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Version: 0.1 School of the Hand The school of the Hand primarily focuses on learning about the bodies way of moving and acting, and ways of enhancing these abilities or even affecting those around you. It is a study of muscles and cartilidge, Bones and the various ways the body is constructed and moves. Nimble Fingers At seond level your study of the hand and various exercises have improved your actions. You gain proficiency with the Sleight of Hand skill. If you already have proficiency you can double the proficiency bonus to checks. You can also use a bonus action to Plant or Conceal an obect, or pickpocket an individual. Arcane Aura: Reactionary Haze When you gain the Arcane Aura Feature you also gain this additional aura. Enemies within the area have their alertness and physical abilities slightly dulled. They are unable to take reactions and their movement speed is halved. Dark Tincture: Red Rage When you gain the Dark Tincture Feature you also gain access to this extra Tincture. You enhance the bodies speed, strength and agility for a time and gains an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action. Their movement is also doubled for the duration. Once the effect ends you suffer three stages of exhaustion for one round. Accomplished Artisan At 9th level you gain an extra tool Proficiency of your choice. You can also pick a single tool to improve your ability with. Your proficiency bonus is now doubled for any ability check you make that uses the specified tool. Hastened Movement at 13th level you have perfected a certain stimulent that you have now imbided that has quickened and improved your physical abilities. You now have an extra attack and are able to dash and disengage as a bonus action School of Sight The study of the eyes, the senses and methods of percieving the world around. Through experimentation and testing you have devised certain means of both shielding yourself from the eyes of others while also seeing the world more clearly. Illusory Annoyance At 2nd level you are able to use your reaction to distract a creature attacking you, or another that is within 10ft with various dancing lights and effects. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once).
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Nor am I prepared to accept the excuse that this branch of research is still very young: Sir William Petty, the founder of econometrics, was after all a somewhat senior colleague of Sir Isaac Newton in the Royal Society!
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Accused of being an "outlaw outfit," they are quickly thrown out of the competition by Sheriff Singer (Jay C. Flippen) and told to "Hit the road...get goin'," but not before stealing the second-place prize trophy (the first place prize trophy was too big to carry and "two feet high"). The prize is handed to the swaggering leader Johnny, who stashes the trophy inside his jacket - and later has it strapped to his handlebars. When the Sheriff asks where the gang is from as they speed away, a race official replies: I dunno - everywhere. I don't even think they know where they're goin'...Ten guys like that give people the idea everybody drives a motorcycle is crazy. What are they tryin' to prove anyway? The Sheriff answers: "Beats me. Lookin' for somebody to push 'em around so they can get sore and show how tough they are...They usually find it someplace, sooner or later." They invade the next small, sleepy California town of Wrightsville. Their arrival is greeted by waves and star-struck gazes of young boys. Various locales in the town that become important later on are identified - Mildred's Beauty Salon, Bleeker's Cafe, Hannegan and Thomas' Hardware, and the Ace Gasoline Station. The opportunistic owner-merchant of the local bar/cafe, Uncle Frank Bleeker (Ray Teal) is pleased with the gang's arrival and instructs his elderly dishwasher/bartender helper Jimmy (William Yedder): Jimmy, you better put some more beer on ice. The gang continues to cause havoc by dragging on the main street for beers. One of the gang members tells everyone to race for Bleeker's: "Last guy to the door of that joint buys beers. Last guy in buys." During the drag race, they force old man Art Kleiner's (Will Wright) car to careen out of control, and one of the bikers breaks his ankle when he collides with the car. The town's weak-willed Sheriff Harry Bleeker (Robert Keith) is overwhelmed by the disturbance and ineffective at stopping the escalating rowdiness ("It was an accident, I saw it"). In fact, Johnny confronts the Sheriff and demands that the law officer arrest the reckless, elderly driver: There were guys all over the street tryin' to miss him...and he's alright, but he's got one of my boys all busted up.
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Thus Tylenol #4 w/ codeine (the most desired one) contains 325 mg of acetaminophen, 60 mg of codeine and no caffeine. Another Rx product is the 222, 292, 293, 294 series. They are identical to the Tylenol w/ codeine series, except aspirin replaces the acetaminophen. The Rx products are good sources of codeine for recreational use except most of us don't have sources that can obtain these drugs, therefore this FAQ contains a procedure so that one can easily obtain large amount of codeine from OTC products.Codeine is mainly used as a pain reliever, but is also used for the relief of a non-productive cough, and as a anti-diarrheal agent. 120 mg of codeine administered SC (subcutaneously, injected under the skin) provides pain relief equal to 10 mg of morphine administered by the same route. Doses used to relieve cough or diarrhea range from 5 mg to 30 mg.Codeine is absorbed quickly from the GI tract and it's first pass through the liver results in very little loss of the drug. This contrasts with morphine in which over 90% of the drug is metabolized in the first pass through the liver resulting in a considerable loss of potency when administered orally. This is why codeine is a common opiate in the relief of pain, the ease of oral administration.Codeine can be administered by many routes, this includes, SC, IM (intramuscularly), as an enema, and orally. Note, codeine can't be administered safely by IV (intravenously) injection as it can result in pulmonary edema (fluid in lungs), facial swelling and other life threatening complications.Codeine is converted to morphine during hapatic metabolism (see Pharmacology & Drug Interactions below). This of course will result in a positive result in a drug test for the opiates. It is not known whether or not the drugs heroin, morphine or codeine can be separately determined on a drug test. In other words it isn't likely that the drug tester can determine which of the three above drugs you have taken, he just knows you've taken one or more of them.Note! Addiction to codeine can occur. Tolerance is also seen with chronic use. Although the withdrawal is minimal with codeine, it is not a fun time. Please be cautious in your use of the drug.Some common side effects from codeine include drowsiness, light-headedness, dry mouth, urinary retention (difficulty in urination), constipation and of course, euphoria. Adverse effects can include itchiness (common), confusion, nausea and vomiting.
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But this too is becoming unsustainable as public debt mounts and the equity of tax systems are eroded by the political influence and use of tax-avoidance strategies by top-tier income earners. Wealth has become securitized as well as globalized, as finance capital and institutional investors continue to play Russian roulette by blowing a series of speculative bubbles: first the high-tech industry, then real estate and now food supply are being manipulated in this way. Overlay this with a series of dire but mostly accurate predictions about the fate of the global ecosystem and what emerges is a perfect storm of instability. The one thing that many, perhaps most, people have lost in this process is a sense of personal security—along with any real optimism about the future. For many people it’s a life under pressure: living on credit and holding down more than one job. Pension entitlements in both public and private sectors are under attack, making old age a potential nightmare. Addictions, family breakdown, unstable communities and the rise of religious cults—the list of symptoms of insecurity is sadly familiar. The World Health Organization continues to predict an epidemic of serious depression, estimating that 121 million people currently suffer from depression that is often related to issues of personal insecurity. Every year nearly 10 per cent of the US population aged 18 and over are diagnosed with a serious depressive disorder. The political contenders and movements that offer some kind of renewed hope for a secure future are the ones most likely to hit a resonant chord. The danger here is that the politics of nostalgia will take hold. Such notions have purchase across the political spectrum. Many on the radical Left still fantasize about a night of the barricades to settle all accounts or a return to traditional working-class politics. Others dream of a centrally planned state socialism. For the US Tea Party and others of the libertarian Right, it is the return to a simpler time of small government and pure market relations that of course never existed. For the European populist Right, it’s a reassertion of national cultures and identities besieged by an influx of criminal immigrants who will work cheap. Thoughtful politics is further impeded when political cultures infantilize their citizenry and promote strong ‘father figure’ leaders as the hope for salvation.
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It *should* work with mod-added settlements as it uses the list automatically maintained by workshopscript but that's no guarantee (I don't have any settlement mods to test with), make sure you double check those.Uninstaller: See Below.I've included the uninstallation section and holotape ONLY because I know that some people won't listen to these warnings and I'm inclined to at least give them at least some chance above 0% of their save not being damaged - if you use it you are solely responsible for what happens. Don't complain to me, don't complain to Bethesda, don't say you weren't warned, don't take this as any sort of endorsement of the practice. Uninstallers are not reliable, they are not perfect, and you should not and cannot uninstall mods willy-nilly, scripted or otherwise.The uninstaller will not fix previously broken uninstalls. Always check the robot workbench is functioning correctly (categories working right, things not able to be used with stuff they shouldn't be) and look around for any invisible/broken robots when you load up a save after uninstalling.To be clear, none of this is needed for updates (where you uninstall one version and install a new one without loading/saving a game in between), or when repairing an installation that hasn't installed all of the files. It is only needed when you are loading a save that was made with the mod installed without having the mod active. If you have to test mods via process of elimination, back up your save first!Some lovely people have been kind enough to make some lovely videos about my mod. Here's a small selectionNow that I've changed to scripted formlist edits, the mod should be compatible with most other Automatron mods in terms of things showing up right, unless their mod's edit timing clashes with mine. Mods that edit the vanilla assets it references (projectiles, any eyebot files, etc etc) may cause problems if they're really drastic, but generally shouldn't.Also, mods that add arms and hands may cause issues where the hands remain in the inventory after changing to the EyeBot thruster, causing it not to attack due to lacking animations for those weapons.
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One of the biggest sources of methane emissions in natural gas production is gas that is purposely vented from pneumatic devices which use pressurized methane to open and close valves and operate pumps. They typically release or “bleed” small amounts of gas during their operation. Such equipment is widely used throughout natural gas extraction, processing, and transmission process. A recent study by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimates natural gas driven pneumatic equipment vents 1.6–1.9 million metric tons of methane each year. The figure accounts for nearly one-third of all methane lost by the natural gas industry, as estimated by the EPA. A natural gas distribution facility “Low-bleed” or “zero-bleed” controllers are available, though they are more expensive. The latter use compressed air or electricity to operate instead of pressurized natural gas, or they capture methane that would otherwise be vented and reuse it. “Time and time again we see that we can operate this equipment without emissions or with very low emissions,” Hamburg says. Increased monitoring and repair of unintended leaks at natural gas facilities could reduce an additional third of the industry’s methane emissions according to the NRDC study. Environmentalist organizations have come out in strong opposition to the lack of mandatory regulations for existing infrastructure, which will account for nearly 90% of methane emissions in 2018 according to a recent EDF report. While industry groups oppose mandatory regulations on new infrastructure, at least one industry leader isn’t concerned. “I don’t believe the new regulations will hurt us at all,” says Mark Boling an executive vice president at Houston-based Southwestern Energy Company, the nation’s fourth largest producer of natural gas. Boling says leak monitoring and repair programs his company initiated starting in late 2013 will pay for themselves in 12 to 18 months through reduced methane emissions. Additionally, he says the company has also replaced a number of pneumatic devices with zero-bleed solar powered electric pumps. Southwestern Energy is now testing air compressors powered by fuel cells to replace additional methane-bleeding equipment Boling says. In November, Southwestern Energy launched ONE Future, a coalition of companies from across the natural gas industry. Their goal is to lower the industry’s methane emissions below one percent. Based on the EPA emissions rate of 1.8% and fixes identified by EDF and NRDC, their goal seems attainable. But what if the actual emissions rate is significantly higher, as Howarth and Ingraffea have long argued and recent studies seem to suggest?
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Figure 2 View largeDownload slide Functional connectivity differences between the voxels that are significantly different in the depressed and the control group, separated by the AAL2 region in which the significant voxels were located. (A) Links with increased functional connectivities in patients are shown in yellow-red, and decreased connectivities are in blue. The colour bar shows the –log 10 of the P-value for the difference of the functional connectivity. Entries in the matrix are provided where P < 0.05 (FDR correction). The matrix itself contains rows and columns for all cases in which there were 10 or more significant voxels within an AAL2 region. (B) The links are shown in red if they are significantly stronger in the patient group, and in blue if they are significantly weaker in the patient group. The thickness of the lines indicates the degree of alteration of the functional connectivity. The anatomical abbreviations are for the areas in the automated anatomical atlas, with abbreviations shown in Supplementary Table 1. The brain regions in the left hemisphere are in the left semicircle of the diagram. Figure 2 View largeDownload slide Functional connectivity differences between the voxels that are significantly different in the depressed and the control group, separated by the AAL2 region in which the significant voxels were located. (A) Links with increased functional connectivities in patients are shown in yellow-red, and decreased connectivities are in blue. The colour bar shows the –log 10 of the P-value for the difference of the functional connectivity. Entries in the matrix are provided where P < 0.05 (FDR correction). The matrix itself contains rows and columns for all cases in which there were 10 or more significant voxels within an AAL2 region. (B) The links are shown in red if they are significantly stronger in the patient group, and in blue if they are significantly weaker in the patient group. The thickness of the lines indicates the degree of alteration of the functional connectivity. The anatomical abbreviations are for the areas in the automated anatomical atlas, with abbreviations shown in Supplementary Table 1. The brain regions in the left hemisphere are in the left semicircle of the diagram.
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What Orgad is doing is very simple, and, in fact has been argued for at CEC against Kymlicka and Charles Taylor , but from an Alt-Right perspective, namely, that the members of majority cultures also have a deep need to have their culture recognized.I have never read a single positive statement by Kymlicka on the Anglo culture in Canada, except deracinated descriptions about the majority culture being the "societal culture" of Canada, the one with the flag, national anthem, and other emblems, in charge demographically of the modern Canadian infrastructure and media; never described as a vibrant, affirmative, proud culture, but always as a culture that needs to become multicultural and eventually overcome its particular cultural attributes and simply celebrate values that are deemed to be for all human beings, secular, and without any national distinctiveness.In his main work,(1995), Kymlicka even muses over the fact that in Canada "many state symbols such as flags, anthems, and mottoes reflect a particular ethnic or religious background" and that it would only be fair for other ethnic groups to demand "that their identity be given the same recognition as the original Anglo-Saxon settlers" (1995: 115). As a possible solution he proposes "redesigning public holidays, uniforms, and state symbols. It is "easy", he says, to "replace religious oaths with secular ones, and so we should". It would be "more difficult but perhaps not impossible, to replace existing public holidays and work-weeks with more neutral schedules for schools and government offices".This brings me to my main objection against Orgad's take on majority cultural rights. Although Orgad makes this majority culture the focus of his attention, he too has a rather limited view of this majority culture, reducing it essentially to its liberalism, which is itself construed as containing values that hold true for all humans, and which portray European nations as civic nations without ethnic origins. It all starts rather badly in Orgad the moment he says that "majorities are largely imagined and socially constructed — majorities are made, not born". This leads Orgad to advocate a civic conception of the majority cultures of Europeans, what he calls an "idea-based" conception" defined by "a society's core constitutional identity...its language, holidays, symbols, values, and institutions".He is not critical of the decades-old diversification of Europeans but is simply calling for "restrictions" or, really, assimilation of immigrants to a majority culture that is fundamentally defined not by its particularities but by its supposed universal principles.
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Saturday, August 20 marks the start of an incredible 2-day event for Japan’sscene. Umebura: The Second Anniversary Tournament (Umebura S.A.T.) is celebrating the legacy of the premier Kanto tournament series. As usual, it will be held at the Ota City Industrial Plaza in Pio, Tokyo and streamed by SHI Gaming . However, this entry has proven to be the most stacked one to date.Expect to see fearsome Kanto regulars such as Yuta “” Kawamura, EVO 2nd place finisherand Yuta “DNG|Nietono” Uejima compete against Tri State greats Nairoby “” Quezada and Samuel “” Buzby. Not only that, but the arguable #1 Sheik main Ramin “” Delshad will be flying in from the Netherlands! While these international invites were made in advance of last weekend’s Super Smash Con, it just so happens that Nairo, Dabuz, and Mr.R comprised its top 3. And iflevel of competition wasn’t enough, Kansai is also showing up in full force, withandboth registered as well. A glimpse of a scene at its best, Umebura S.A.T. is practically guaranteed to provide legendary matches._____________________________________________________________________________________________________As implied by this event’s name, the Umebura series is now officially two years old. The very first Umebura was a Brawl event organized by renowned Peach main. From the very beginning, he and his staff were able to attract some of the best Smashers in Kanto. Part of its success here comes from its connections to Piosuma, the previous tournament series hosted at the same venue. Many of the same people involved in organizing Piosuma are now Umebura staff members. If you want to watch sets from Piosumas and early Umeburas, you won’t find them on SHI-G; the primary livestreaming and video-releasing crew for Japanese Smash didn’t yet exist. Fortunately, they are still available to watch on the Numeburamovie YouTube channel Competition at early Umebura events was fierce, but by the end of the Brawl area, Kansai could edge out Kanto in terms of talent. Not only was Kansai ICs mainwas largely considered the best Japanese Smasher, but other greats such asandestablished themselves as well. In tournaments where both regions attended, it was not uncommon to see Kansai come out on top. And whiledisrupted this trend in the early months of Smash 4, his loss to Ranai and the subsequent Kansai vs. Kansai finals at KSB 2015 proved that may have been an anomaly.Hosted in September of last year, last year’s anniversary tournament set the bar quite high for the present installment. Umebura F.A.T.
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Methods Data on a maximum of 1687 adults from six studies were available for analysis. These studies will be briefly described, followed by the definition of AR and the statistical procedures employed. More information on each study is available in Information S1. HERITAGE (Health, Risk Factors, Exercise Training And Genetics) Family Study The sample, study design, and exercise training protocol of HERITAGE have been described elsewhere [7]. Briefly, 473 adults from 99 families of Caucasian descent and 250 Blacks from 105 families or sibships completed the 20-week endurance training program. Parents were 65 years of age or less while offspring ranged in age from 17 to 41 years. Dose Response to Exercise in Women (DREW) Study A complete description of the DREW design and methods and details of the study participants have been published [8]. In brief, it was a randomized, dose-response exercise trial with sedentary, high-normal blood pressure, postmenopausal, overweight or obese women (N = 326: 63% White) assigned to either a nonexercise control group or to endurance exercise groups that expended 4, 8, or 12 kcal/kg of body weight per week for a period of 6 months [6]. Inflammation and Exercise (INFLAME) Study Sedentary men and women between the ages of 30 and 75 years who had an elevated plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration (≥2.0 mg/L but <10.0 mg/L) were randomized to an endurance exercise or a control group [9]. Completers (70% Whites) exercised a mean of 204 minutes per week. Studies of a Targeted Risk Reduction Intervention through Defined Exercise (STRRIDE) STRRIDE (84% Whites) includes two complementary studies [10], [11]. STRRIDE was composed of 40- to 65-year-old, sedentary, overweight or class 1 obese (BMI 25–35 kg/m2), dyslipidemic men and women. They were assigned to one of three aerobic exercise groups and exercised for 6 months. The STRRIDE aerobic training versus resistance training (AT/RT) cohort was very similar to STRRIDE, but only those who were enrolled in endurance exercise programs are included in the present report. University of Maryland Gene Exercise Research Study (MARYLAND) Briefly, 160 men and women (100% Whites) ages 50 to 75 years who were sedentary, nondiabetic, and nonsmoking, with no prior history of cardiovascular disease but with one National Cholesterol Education Program lipid abnormality or blood pressure in the prehypertensive range, exercised three times per week for a period of 6 months [12]. University of Jyväskylä Study (JYVASKYLA) Healthy, sedentary 40- to 67-year-old men and women were recruited [13].
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One defining reality about the cartoonists was that although their characters—Beetle Bailey, Snoopy, Prince Valiant, Blondie—were known worldwide, they themselves passed through life more or less anonymously. Unlike actors or sports figures or reality-TV stars, they were never stopped on the street. They didn’t have a “gal” to protect them or “people” to speak for them. Semi-domesticated, they depended heavily on their families, especially wives, who in many ways held the entire enterprise together, from basic finances to rudimentary social cues. (Joan Browne would say “Xyz” to Dik whenever he emerged from the bathroom—“Examine your zipper.”) Life was interrupted mainly by mundane chores. More than a few collectors have bought original comic strips and found notations like “prescription ready” or “diapers, bologna, Chesterfields” in the margins. The working environment of the studio was a private place that tended to take on the idiosyncrasies of the occupant. There was always a lot of headgear strewn about. Mort Walker kept his old army helmet on a shelf, and on the wall hung a map of the United States with pins for all the papers that published “Beetle.” Dik Browne sometimes wore a papier-mâché Viking helmet made by one of his sons (and he looked like Hägar even without the helmet). Those who drew dramatic strips, like “Rip Kirby” or “Brenda Starr,” as opposed to the humorous bigfoot strips like “Hägar” and “Barney Google,” generally kept a lot of costumes around, along with filing cabinets full of scrap—pictures, torn from magazines, of cars, horses, swords, Arabs, sportsmen, guns, swank apartments, and memorable faces (Auden, Arendt, Dirksen, Hepburn) or extreme states of emotion (anger, agony, insanity, sorrow). To capture specific poses of people in action, my father bought a Polaroid Land camera in 1949—the sole instance in his life when he was an early adopter. He took thousands of pictures of himself, his family, and any neighbor you’d look twice at, directing each tableau like a backyard auteur. (“That’s not ‘happy.’ I want to see ‘happy.’ Let’s do it again. HAPPY!”) There was a common smell to the studios. A parfumeur would identify traces of wood and graphite particulate, from pencils’ being sharpened (by hand with razorblades, and brought to a point by abrasion on fine sandpaper); notes of resin and paint; the lingering residue of some form of tobacco; and hints of spilled scotch. Over time, the studios seemed to harden around their occupants, like a carapace.
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