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Similarly, of Cambyses’ victory over Psammenithus, English writes (p. 23), “Herodotus tells us nothing that would allow us an attempt at a reconstruction of the battle, save that the Greeks fighting for Psammetichus were slaughtered by their counterparts in Persian service.” Again, the innocent reader might think that this is more or less a paraphrase of Herodotus, but it is not: Herodotus does not say a word about the participation in the battle of Greeks on the Persian side; he does say that Cambyses recruited troops among the Ionians and Aeolians (3.1.1), but the romantic image of the Greeks killing other Greeks is an invention of English’s (or another scholar? See n. 14). Similarly, on the war between Croesus and Cyrus, English states that Cyrus had Greek mercenaries, without any reference to a source – he actually takes it for granted, saying that Greek mercenaries were not the sole cause of Cyrus’ victory. Examples of this sort of problem could be multiplied: most of the narrative parts of this chapter include speculative and/or careless readings of the evidence. On the other hand, well-established facts, like the employment of Arcadian mercenaries by Hippocrates of Gela and by Gelo, have totally escaped English; likewise the employment of mercenaries by Polycrates of Samos. Chapter 3, devoted to the fifth century, opens with a narrative summary of the Persian Wars, based on Herodotus. English acknowledges the limited role of mercenaries in Darius’ and Xerxes’ invasions, although he may still be overestimating: the Saka fighting for the Persians are identified by English as mercenaries without further discussion, in spite of the fact that they show up in the list of Darius’ satrapies (Hdt. 3.93), which would suggest that they, too, like the rest of Xerxes’ army, were serving as subjects of the Achaemenid Empire. In any case, only a few lines of this portion of the book treat mercenaries at all, and one is left to wonder about the utility of this very imprecise narrative of campaigns and battles. The same is true of the second part of the chapter, devoted to the Peloponnesian War. Here again one finds superficial arguments which betray lack of familiarity with the historical circumstances.
In fact, I worked behind the scenes to make sure they didn’t succeed and the bottom line is that the platform section on Israel remained virtually unchanged. It was a strong one that supported Israel’s right to defend itself and opposed any efforts to delegitimize Israel. But in the end, a Schumer spokesperson credited Ellison with “making that happen and persuading others to support it.”Rep. Ellison favors a two-state solution and is sympathetic to the cause of the Palestinians, as am I – and as are the majority of American Jews. They deserve the dignity that our party platform calls for.He has a close relationship with the Jewish Community Action, a St. Paul, Minnesota, group that promotes racial and economic justice, and he stands out among his colleagues when it comes to the battle against antisemitism and Holocaust denial and the fight for religious freedoms. He has strongly condemned the Nation of Islam and other groups that promote antisemitism, intolerance and bigotry.In 2009, Ellison condemned hate crimes in a statement following the shooting at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, saying he was “appalled by reports that the gunman was motivated by racist views against Jews and African Americans.”The following year, he voted to strengthen hates crimes legislation.In 2010, Ellison hosted a briefing on antisemitism and Holocaust denial, inviting a group of Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith leaders who recently had visited the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps. In 2014, he held a briefing for to hear from imams who had visited Auschwitz on a study tour; that briefing was the only event on Capitol Hill that year to honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day.Last year, following a spate of antisemitic incidents in Europe, he joined with Minnesota State Rep. Fred Hornstein to condemn antisemitism. “As a person of the Muslim faith, I urge everybody, not just the leaders, but including the leaders to condemn these antisemitic acts,” Ellison said. “This is reprehensible. This is wrong.”It’s also wrong for the focus to be on Ellison’s Muslim religion. The Democratic Party prides itself on its diversity and on being the party open to people of every (or no) faith.
All of the signatures for initiative 30 (now Amendment 64) were collected by asking voters if they: 1. wanted "to legalize marijuana?" (often with "like alcohol" at the end) 2. wanted "to end marijuana prohibition?" 3. wanted "to give 40 million to schools?" 4. wanted "to legalize hemp?" At the 6-15-2011 title board hearing (http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/audioArchives.html) the author of A64, Steve Fox, A64 attorney Ed Ramie and A64 proponent Mason Tvert argued to have the word "legalization" removed from the title of their Amendment. They insisted at length that they were not legalizing marijuana. After explanation the Title Board agreed it was not legalization or an end to marijuana prohibition, agreed that saying like alcohol would be confusing and misleading to voters, confirmed that the excise tax might not come to fruition and confirmed that hemp could be banned outright by the General Assembly. 6-15-11 2:02pm - Original Title Board Hearing for "Regulate Marijuana" Bill Hobbs -- Deputy Sec of State Dan Dominico -- Attorney Generals Office Jason Gelender -- Senior Attorney Office of Legal Counsel Mason Tvert -- Proponent Steve Fox -- Author of A64, Director of Public Relations Marijuana Policy Project,DC (on behalf of proponent Brian Vicente) Ed Ramie -- A64 Attorney minute 50:55 seconds Mr. Ramie, "I think it would work if we deleted the word, starting on line 1, with legalization." 1 hour, 18 minutes, 11 seconds Mason Tvert, "This notion of using the term legalization, which is incredibly subjective, in fact is highly debated." 1 hour, 21 minutes, 48 seconds Steve Fox, A64 author(on behalf of proponent Brian Vicente), "I mean she made our point better than we have, which is legalization is not what this is. She said it clearly and they are going to propose an initiative regarding the legalization of marijuana. What we are doing is regulating marijuana. It's a significant legal difference and it would be inaccurate to call it legalization." 1 hour, 15 minutes, 46 seconds Mr. Fox, "Tomatoes are legal. You can buy them anywhere. Tomatoes have been legalized. But as you've seen with the medical marijuana system, it is a highly regulated (emphasis added) system by a regulatory agency and that is what we're proposing. I appreciate that you prefer marijuana over legalization because legalization would be truly misleading as a part of the title."
When Sheen received the Facebook message from Cordle on Aug. 9, he responded right away, and the two began talking on the phone. Sheen knew Cordle had a powerful story, but he didn’t know his character. They talked, then talked some more. Phone calls. Skype. As he got to know him better, Sheen decided to test Cordle’s reliability by having him do something completely arbitrary: He told Cordle to record a video blog about anything for seven days straight, and it had to be uploaded by 6 p.m. to a private blog that only Sheen could access. Cordle passed that test. Eventually, Sheen was convinced of Cordle’s sincerity. He believed Cordle was overcome with guilt, that he would plead guilty and that he wanted something good to come out of this tragedy. Sheen laid down two ground rules: 1. They would be completely honest with each other, and 2. Cordle will not directly profit from this. No book deals or movie deals, which would amount to profiting from a man’s death. Once Sheen knew he could trust Cordle, the two became close friends. “I don’t have a connection with anyone else quite like I do with Matt,” Sheen says. But there was something that kept bugging Sheen, something he couldn’t get his mind around. He was risking all of because I said I would on Matthew Cordle. “I kept asking myself, ‘Why is he willing to do this?’” Sheen says. “You’re depressed. You’re 22 years old, already not living a great life. You drink and drive and kill someone. Now you’re going to jail. If you thought at all before that you wanted to kill yourself, that series of events is going to push you a little harder … So I called him and said, ‘This may sound weird, but you have to promise me you won’t kill yourself.’ He said he wouldn’t.” “I hadn’t mentioned anything about it, but that’s the way I was feeling,” Cordle says. “I don’t know how he could see it. In such a short time he was able to understand so much about me. We became a lot closer than I thought possible between two people.” Eventually Cordle and Sheen agreed the best way to make an impact and raise awareness about drunk driving was to share Cordle’s story as a cautionary tale. The “how” question was tricky because the stakes were so high.
He too was hounded out of his job by Chidambaram with numerous false cases filed against him when the UPA [United Progressive Alliance] was in power. His chargesheet has not been withdrawn, he continues to be on “compulsory wait”. The rules permit an officer to draw his salary while on “compulsory wait” but Srivastava continues to be deprived of his posting and salary since April 2013.It is the same story with the promise regarding the return of black money stashed in foreign accounts. This was a major electoral promise of Modi but there is very little follow-up required to fulfil that promise.I think many of the problems arise from the fact that Modi has decided to cocoon himself and become inaccessible. Compare it to how Sonia Gandhi built a power base for herself starting from total scepticism about her suitability for the top job. One of the first things she did was to co-opt several high profile do-gooders as her personal courtiers by creating the National Advisory Council. With this one stroke she managed to tie most of the NGO leaders, left-leaning academics and intellectuals to her apron strings.They became intoxicated by their proximity to the UPA High Command and felt they had high stakes in this government. Even though the NAC was an unconstitutional body, none of the leftist intellectuals or activists objected because she made them stakeholders in the government. They also helped create a halo for Sonia Gandhi as someone who was pro-poor, pro-minorities, pro all good causes. Even though the Congress ran a scam-ridden government, the leftist NGOs and intellectuals remained Sonia’s firm allies.By contrast, far from creating new allies, Modi has studiously distanced himself from old allies like Arun Shourie, the Jethmalanis and numerous others who stood by him. Even his party colleagues do not have easy access to him. And who has he surrounded himself with? Nameless, faceless bureaucrats and a couple of political favourites who are themselves lightweights. If you want to be seen as a tall leader, you can’t afford to be surrounded by political dwarfs. To surround yourself with yes men is a sure shot disaster recipe.Far from it. At the Goa conclave, India Foundation attracted a substantial talent pool of super bright young people eager to do their bit for India. I doubt very much that any of them have been recruited to help the government.
Austin was treated by a renowned expert on XLP2 at a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was joined by his brother Mason, who was also diagnosed as having XLP2. Both underwent bone marrow transplants to help fight the disease, with Raegan serving as the donor for Mason, enduring a procedure that included having her hip bone stuck over 200 times to extract the marrow.“It took a couple of weeks for me to be able to walk right,” said Raegan. “But it was obviously nothing compared to what my brothers are going through.”With her mother, father and brothers required to stay in or near the hospital in Cincinnati, Raegan’s maternal grandparents moved to Downs so she could continue attending school at Tri-Valley.“Coach Ward has been like family through this whole thing,” added Raegan. “She has looked after me and set up all these fundraisers to help our family offset the medical costs. I’m so thankful and don’t know what I would do without her.”Just before the varsity match got underway, Ward announced the winning 50-50 raffle number, but no one in attendance came forward with a winning ticket. Moments later, as the match got underway, the officials took a timeout to clear-up a substitution issue with the table crew. Ward decided to fill the down time by having Raegan pull a new 50-50 number. She read the new number and Sharon, amidst sorting out the substituting issue with her fellow officials, produced the winning ticket from her pocket. She took the microphone and announced that she would be donating her winning sum back to the Spencer family, which drew a raucous ovation from the crowd and a big hug from Raegan.“I was speechless,” said Raegan. “I just kept telling her ‘thank you’ and she told me to come see her after the match.”“I didn’t really know what I was going to do after the match,” said Sharon. “My daughter was one year younger than Michael Collins ( click to read about how Michael’s death became a national inspiration ) in high school and since his accident last year, I have been trying to find more ways to pay it forward.”“I went and found her after the match. I figured she just wanted to talk to me about my brothers,” said Raegan. “Instead, she asked me when our Homecoming dance was and if I was going.
The subject of winglets, or strakes, or whatever you want to call the infernal contraptions, was a big talking point in the Qatari desert. Several riders including Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa, Cal Crutchlow and Bradley Smith voiced their concerns; not so much their worries that a strake may hook a rider and cause a crash, but rather the scary effect they have on motorcycles following in their draft at high speeds. It seems the dirty air behind a winged Ducati moving at over 200mph lifts the front of the chasing motorcycle, causing a severe wobble or worse. Pedrosa had possibly the scariest moment chasing a winged Duke at Phillip Island last year, at around 211mph/340kph. “You lose front [tyre] contact and you lose control, so the front is shaking and you go into a weave. It’s not a good thing.” Smith has also had a few frights. “The bike starts to shake, like it goes light,” said the Tech 3 Yamaha rider. “The bike actually shakes and vibrates, which at 210mph, just before you go for the brakes, isn’t the best thing. It also seems to be that when we’re braking behind a Ducati there seems to be some turbulence, like you get into a pocket of air which hits you back. It just seems bizarre. “I brought this up last year after Aragon and everyone laughed at me; they said they didn’t know what I was talking about, but now they feel it. It feels dangerous, that’s why I brought it up. I know Race Direction have analysed video footage and they’ve deemed the wings to be okay, but with more and more riders complaining, we’ll see what happens. I hope a big accident doesn’t happen, but unfortunately they don’t seem to be doing enough about it. “I think they should get rid of them now. For me it’s one more thing on a motorcycle that could potentially get caught up with another rider, especially with the Ducati having them top and bottom. Riders have complained they’ve been hit by them, so if riders deem them to be unsafe, why not call it now?
TEL AVIV – The head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church declared that Christians love Muslims and no one defends Islam more than Arab Christians, MEMRI reported. In an interview earlier this month with the official Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, Gregory III Laham, the spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, expressed concern over the fate of Christian communities in the Arab world. Gregory III, who is also the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem, is a strong advocate of Christian-Muslim dialogue, but said that these days Christians lack faith that Muslims are willing to accept them. Asserting that there is a “great wound” in Muslim-Christian relations, the Patriarch called upon leaders of both faiths to build mutual trust. “These days I am in the midst of writing a letter to the presidents, kings, and emirs of the Arab and Muslim [countries] in order to say to them, in a letter from an Arab [Church] patriarch to the Muslims, that we love you,” the Patriarch said. The Patriarch lamented the fact that Muslim tolerance of the other has not become more widespread in the Arab street and in schools and curricula. He also berated Muslims who receive aid from the Red Cross and then scratch out the cross because it offends them. He added, “And when they are asked from whom they received [the aid], they say: We got it from some kuffar [infidel].” On the other hand, he said, Christians in the Middle East have always stood up for Muslims. “We, the Arab Christians, always defend Islam and our Muslim brothers – no one defends Islam like the Arab Christians do.” The Patriarch praised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for being a “great president” and said he met with Sisi to ask him to lead the Arab world, a mantle befitting the leader of the Middle East’s biggest Muslim country with the highest number of Christians. Finally, Gregory III called upon the Arab League to present a map for peace in Syria and a plan for defeating the Islamic State, and said the Arab world must not wait for Europe and the U.S. to present a solution.
Existing policies, which Bilek referred to as "best in class," include the Rural Energy for America Program, state renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and voluntary electricity tariff programs by utilities. One policy the report will identify that needs tweaking is the production tax credit, an extension of which is included in the American Workers, State and Business Relief Act.Proposed policies that need a push include a federal RPS, as many in the biomass industry, along with other renewable industries, have repeatedly emphasized. But that might not be the best action for biogas use, Bilek said, adding that a biogas production and incentive act could be the game changer, along with a federal climate bill. "A climate bill would no doubt make an impact on the industry," she said.New policies that need a champion include advanced renewable and feed-in tariffs, and an enhanced RPS, which would expand qualifying renewable resources to include biogas injected into the natural gas pipeline.Nick Nelson, president of Midwest Biogas LLC and Welcome BioEnergy, shared some strategies that Midwest Biogas has identified to optimize centralized anaerobic digestion (AD) systems, making them more appealing to a wider audience. "It's quite daunting how many factors have to be managed for a centralized anaerobic digester," he said. Areas that need to be optimized include substrate blend, procurement and delivery, process flows, construction costs, and delivery of the energy produced, among others.Developers need to consider several factors, such as whether shop-fabricated equipment is better for their specific project, he said. "Will a more expensive name brand component reduce your capital cost?" he asked. Managing substrate delivery routes is optimal, as is testing substrates and determining which kinds to use. "What wastes are others paying to get rid of?" he said. In addition, the end-user of the energy needs to be close to the operation, which also allows for a competitive delivery cost basis.Panelist Douglas Goodale, bioenergy project manager and principal investigator for SUNY Cobleskill, focused his presentation on the research and development of a rotary kiln gasifier. The system, under research and development by SUNY with the help of other partners, could be a solution for using animal waste instead of just throwing it on the land, he said.The rotary kiln, as the name suggests, has a natural rotation providing agitation of feedstock at high temperatures. In addition, the system sits horizontally with a slight slope, contrary to conventional vertically designed gasifiers.
We may not be able to bring back our fallen comrade, we may not even be able to prevent other Anons from being slain by murderous police – but we can sure as hell show them that there will be a steep price to pay when they kill us. “Behind this mask there is more than flesh and blood
contemporaries. [59] And this Creator makes each individual different: “it is the first, the most profound, most secure, and unshaken foundation-stone of physiognomy that, however intimate the analogy and similarity of the innumerable forms of men, no two men can be found who, brought together, and accurately compared, will not appear to be very remarkably different” (p. 16). God as image-maker and man perceiving imaginatively contrast with God as law-maker and man perceived typologically. To the artist’s idiographic eye, differences stand out; while to the rationalist’s nomothetic eye it is similarities, classes, types. Neither Gall and his measurements of skulls, nor Carus and his idealized types or models were able to equal Lavater’s imagistic eye for individual differences. [60] In order to describe these individual differences Lavater insists that one be “inexhaustibly copious in language”. He is forced by the immense subtlety of physiognomic expression to “be the creator of a new language” (p. 65). We are reminded of the 17,953 trait names mentioned earlier. Lavater says that poverty of language makes us unable to grasp what we see, perhaps even to see at all. We see what our language allows us to see, a statement drawing support from experimental studies which show a link between having the ability to be an accurate judge of personality and having artistic and literary interests. [61] I am suggesting that the substitution of clinical language for literary, of mathematical exactness for imaginative precision, the learning of observation through microscopic medicine rather than through bedside portraits and biography, and the reliance upon socio-psychological testing instead of moral-characterological scrutiny, has all contributed to our decline in psychological perception of the individual person, and thus to our age of psychopathy.
Start taking the furthest away parking spot and get in a few extra steps between your car and the shopping center.3. Take a "walk break" whenever you can find the time during the day. Taking short 10 minute walks a few times a day will do wonders for your metabolism!4. Play with your kids! This is great attention for the kids and great activity for everyone.5. Choose the stairs over the elevator.6. Choose a restroom that is the furthest away if you have an option.7. Try to choose an active activity right after work. A walk or even gardening or housework is better than just sitting on the couch.8. Walk, jog, or stretch when you are waiting for dinner to cook, the laundry to finish up, or for your child to be finished with an activity.9. It is perfectly acceptable to break up your intense workouts. You want to have at least 30 minutes of cardio every day -- but if you split that 30 minutes into three, ten minute sessions you will find this more manageable.10. Turn your housework into exercise. When vacuuming try to use your arm, back and abdominal muscles to push the vacuum. When loading the dishwasher, maintain good posture as you are bending and straightening and keep your abs tight. Scrubbing floors, cleaning the bathtub, gardening, and mowing the lawn are great ways to burn some extra calories.Jo HartleyWife, Mother of 8, and Grandmother of 2Jo is a 41 year old home educator who has always gravitated toward a natural approach to life. She enjoys learning as much as possible about just about anything! http://loftymatters.com - Current Events http://winemaiden.com - Simply Abundant Living
Copy the source code from the code snippet at the bottom of the page and paste it into the arduino ide.Click the upload button (right pointing arrow icon in the top left corner of the window)Once the program has successfully uploaded, disconnect the arduino and set it aside.Here is the sketch for the arduino:
By an ironic sort of providence, Thomas Mifflin served as George Washington's first aide-de-camp at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and, when the war was over, he was the man, as President of the United States, who accepted Washington's resignation of his commission. In the years between, Mifflin greatly served the cause of freedomand, apparently, his own causewhile serving as the first Quartermaster General of the Continental Army. He obtained desperately needed supplies for the new armyand was suspected of making excessive profit himself. Although experienced in business and successful in obtaining supplies for the war, Mifflin preferred the front lines, and he distinguished himself in military actions on Long Island and near Philadelphia. Born and reared a Quaker, he was excluded from their meetings for his military activities. A controversial figure, Mifflin lost favor with Washington and was part of the Conway Cabala rather notorious plan to replace Washington with General Horatio Gates. And Mifflin narrowly missed court-martial action over his handling of funds by resigning his commission in 1778. In spite of these problemsand of repeated charges that he was a drunkardMifflin continued to be elected to positions of responsibilityas President and Governor of Pennsylvania, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, as well as the highest office in the landwhere he served from November 3, 1783 to November 29, 1784. Most of Mifflin's significant contributions occurred in his earlier yearsin the First and Second Continental Congresses he was firm in his stand for independence and for fighting for it, and he helped obtain both men and supplies for Washington's army in the early critical period. In 1784, as President, he signed the treaty with Great Britain which ended the war. Although a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, he did not make a significant contributionbeyond signing the document. As Governor of Pennsylvania, although he was accused of negligence, he supported improvements of roads, and reformed the State penal and judicial systems. He had gradually become sympathetic to Jefferson's principles regarding State's rights, even so, he directed the Pennsylvania militia to support the Federal tax collectors in the Whiskey Rebellion. In spite of charges of corruption, the affable Mifflin remained a popular figure. A magnetic personality and an effective speaker, he managed to hold a variety of elective offices for almost thirty years of the critical Revolutionary period.
The Heart and Soul nebulae are seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The image covers an area of the sky over ten times as wide as the full moon, and eight times as high (5.5 x 3.9 degrees), in the constellation Cassiopeia. Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula to the right is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart. To the left is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula, IC 1848, or W5. The Perseus arm lies further from the center of the Milky Way than the arm that contains our Sun. The Heart and Soul nebulae stretch out nearly 580 light-years across, covering a small portion of the diameter of the Milky Way, which is roughly 100,000 light-years across. The two nebulae are both massive star-making factories, marked by giant bubbles that were blown into surrounding dust by radiation and winds from the stars. WISE's infrared vision allows it to see into the cooler and dustier crevices of clouds like these, where gas and dust are just beginning to collect into new stars. These stars are less than a few million of years old -- youngsters in comparison to stars like the sun, which is nearly 5 billion years old. Also visible near the bottom of this image are two galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and, at about 10 million light-years away, are well outside our Milky Way yet relatively close compared to most galaxies. Maffei 1 is the bluish elliptical object and Maffei 2 is the spiral galaxy. All four infrared detectors aboard WISE were used to make this image. Color is representational: blue and cyan represent infrared light at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is dominated by light from stars. Green and red represent light at 12 and 22 microns, which is mostly light from warm dust. Caption: WISE Team
About six weeks ago, I visited my local physician to ask if he thought it was worthwhile me taking up some yoga. I have chronic lower back problems, starting in my late teens, via an L4/L5 discectomy (repairing a "slipped" disc) in 1995, and with pretty much constant low-level pain to the present day. The pain means I don't move my back as much as I maybe should, so I'm very stiff, especially on my left side. So I was considering yoga as a way of strengthening my core, and improving my flexibility.I simply dropped in on the physician -- no appointment needed. I was seen within 15 minutes. During the visit, I had the usual obligatory chat with the nurse first, including a BP check, and then I sat for about 20 minutes in a private office watching the telly while waiting for the doc. She arrived and we had a chat. She recommended that since it had been so long (15 years) since I'd seen an orthopedic surgeon, perhaps I should go see one now. She reckoned yoga would be fine, but why not ask the expert.To finish off, she asked me a few other questions, including "do you have any chest pains". "Sure", I replied. She did a double-take and asked more urgently, "chest pains?" "Sure" I said again, "on and off". Within five minutes another paramedic came in and they got ready for a quick EKG. Despite that being clear, she recommended a visit to a cardiologist.So I left the physician's office with the phone numbers of two specialists. I made the calls and got appointments to see them both, within a week. Each required a followup visit -- the orthopedist for an MRI scan; the cardiologist for a stress test. Those were scheduled; again, about another week. Then another week later, back in to see the specialists for their final verdicts. Those were: my L4/L5 disc is pretty much shot to bits (which I knew), and my heart is fine.Summary. In the space of about a month I saw, a physician, two surgeons, several paramedics, over the course of about seven different appointments. All quick, efficient, and on my terms.
Erst vor kurzem hatte der Freispruch von George Zimmerman, der als Mitglied der Bürgerwehr auf seinem Patrouillengang den schwarzen jugendlichen Trayvon Martin ohne jeglichen Grund erschoss, für starke Proteste in den USA gesorgt.Aber Anthony Stokes hat offenbar Glück gehabt. Noch am selben Tag, an dem in vielen amerikanischen Medien über seinen berichtet wird, ändert das Krankenhaus in Atlanta plötzlich seine Meinung. Wieder gibt es von den Verantwortlichen keine nachvollziehbare Begründung für ihre Entscheidung. Anthony Stokes ist auf einmal doch auf der Liste für eine Herztransplantation. Sogar „ganz oben", seine schlechte körperliche Verfassung mache diesen Schritt notwendig. Man sei zu dieser Entscheidung gekommen, nachdem der Fall noch einmal geprüft worden sei, so die Krankenhausleitung. Eine Erklärung, warum es bei einem Fünfzehnjährigen eine Medienoffensive benötigt, um ihm eine lebensrettende Herztransplantation zu ermöglichen, gibt es nicht. Und sollte sie noch folgen, wird sie wohl genau so wenig nachzuvollziehen sein, wie alle vorherigen Entscheidungen.Text: simon-heinrich - Foto: dpa
Scout normally doesn't jump in and flank as hard as they usually do since Viaduct is a fairly confined map. However, this does not mean Scout can't make good plays. Work off the damage your teammates put out and constantly keep pressure on the enemy team.Bombing behind rock or onto the enemy Cliff is typical. Soldier can make great plays, high damage output, and good frags. However, don't roam excessively, as the rest of the team may need you for a push.In addition to keeping the Spy down, you also play a huge part in countering the enemy team's Uber. Your main focus is airblasting Krit projectiles if possible and keeping the Medic away from whoever is being pocketed. The objective is to deny and delay their Uber.Demo is the carry to all KOTH maps. Without a Demo, your team will collaspe extremely quickly. Kritz are devastating and you should be sure to get at least five kills with your Krit Stickies, not including the Medic.Heavy is crucial to pushes. As a huge class that puts out damage, Heavy also denies flank classes (particularly bombing Soldiers). Play clean up with the rest of your team.Engi plays a large role in area denial, whether it be from bombing Soldiers or flanking Scouts. Teleporters aren't as crucial as they normall are, so don't worry about them. Prioritize Dispensers and Minis. Minis should constantly be up, with a max of five seconds between "Sentry down!" and "Sentry going up! "In addition to keeping the enemy Sniper down, focus the Medic (obviously) and Demo the most. Call headshots and enemy sniper if you have eyes on him.Spread the love, Kritz your Demo, stay alive. You can work as a lone pair with your Demo, but the rest of the team can't play efficiently if you're down.Work off of your team providing a distraction, such as during Ubers and pushes. Disguising at the proper place with the proper disguise is also an important part. Disguise as Sniper on the Cliff or China, Scout when sneaking in Concrete, and Engi in House and behind the rock.
china-hacking-group Inside the NSAs ultra-secret China hacking group Wednesday, 12 June, 2013, 4:19pm Mathew M. Aid Last weekend, US President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with Chinas newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic du jour cyber-espionage a subject that has long frustrated officials in Washington and is now front and centre with the revelations of sweeping US data mining. The media has focused at length on Chinas aggressive attempts to electronically steal US military and commercial secrets, but Xi pushed back at the "shirt-sleeves" summit, noting that China, too, was the recipient of cyber-espionage. But what Obama probably neglected to mention is that he has his own hacker army, and it has burrowed its way deep, deep into Chinas networks. When the agenda for the meeting at the Sunnylands estate outside Palm Springs, California, was agreed to several months ago, both parties agreed that it would be a nice opportunity for President Xi, who assumed his post in March, to discuss a wide range of security and economic issues of concern to both countries. According to diplomatic sources, the issue of cyber-security was not one of the key topics to be discussed at the summit. Sino-American economic relations, climate change, and the growing threat posed by North Korea were supposed to dominate the discussions. Then, two weeks ago, White House officials leaked to the press that Obama intended to raise privately with Xi the highly contentious issue of Chinas widespread use of computer hacking to steal US government, military, and commercial secrets. According to a Chinese diplomat in Washington who spoke in confidence, Beijing was furious about the sudden elevation of cyber-security and Chinese espionage on the meetings agenda. According to a diplomatic source in Washington, the Chinese government was even angrier that the White House leaked the new agenda item to the press before Washington bothered to tell Beijing about it. Last weeks revelations about the National Security Agencys Prism and Verizon metadata collection only add fuel to Beijings position. So the Chinese began to hit back. Senior Chinese officials have publicly accused the US government of hypocrisy and have alleged that Washington is also actively engaged in cyber-espionage.
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Let me first say that I'm sure this is not authentic yakisoba. I've never eaten yakisoba on the streets of Japan, but I have seen Mark Bittman make this yakisoba on his show, The Minimalist, and I knew I had to make some.It looked easy, it had tons of vegetables, and the sauce looked like an interesting combination of salty, sweet, tangy, and spicy. I've grown tired of my usual teriyaki sauce that I use on most of Asian dishes, so this was a nice deviation. The sauce contains worcestershire and ketchup, which truly does offer a unique flavor. I used a whole tablespoon of sriracha in my sauce, but as you may know by now, I like things spicy. If you're not into spicy, you can leave that out all together or just add a dash or two of sriracha or any hot sauce. I suggest using at least a little because it does add some flavor and if you use just a bit, the heat won't even be detectable.I will admit that I may have overcooked my vegetables and noodles, but guess what? It was still so freaking delicious that I couldn't wait until I was finished photographing to eat a bowl. You gotta try this stuff!Before you begin, prepare the meat and vegetables for stir frying. Peel the ginger with either a vegetable peeler or the side of a spoon and then grate it with a cheese grater. Peel and grate the carrots with a large holed cheese grater. Remove the core from the cabbage and cut into thin strips. Slice the onion into thin strips. Cut the broccoli into bite-sized pieces. Slice the chicken into thin strips.Begin boiling a medium pot full of water for the noodles. Heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. When the oil is hot, add the grated ginger, saute for about 30 seconds to one minute (its okay if it sticks to the pan but don't let it burn). Add the chicken strips and cook until they are no longer pink (about five minutes).Once the chicken is cooked through, add all of the vegetables. Stir and cook until wilted (about 5-10 minutes). Meanwhile, once the water boils, add the noodles and cook just until tender (2-3 minutes).
Are there plans to have featured players on the front page of War Games (ed's note: War Games is the catch-all conceit for Halo 5's multiplayer component.) On Halo Waypoint blogs, we're definitely promoting these players. The in-game stuff I can't talk to you much about yet. But we do want to promote our players and when they win the HCS, I always like to think of how these players can get their pro card. How do we get them to be stamped Pro? And we've talked a lot to our community team about finding ways to do that. I find that people tend to complain about the things in multiplayer games that keep them from winning, and I'm not immune to those criticisms with all the multiplayer games I play. You've talked about listening to feedback from the players of your games, but are there times where there are really visceral sort of pronounced complaints and criticisms of Halo that you feel like you can't listen to? Absolutely. For a good experience, everyone's going to have a fifty percent win percentage. As you get better, as I get better, I'm going to climb up and play people the same skill level as me, and I should go fifty percent. When matchmaking is working, I should be fifty percent. We want to make sure that whether you're winning or losing, you're having a good time and that's sort of our goal. But we do have players who think they should win a hundred percent of the time, and that's their perception when they go into it. They usually pick on features that introduce randomness, or random number generators, where they're saying "OK, I lost because that guy had better luck on his spread from his DMR, or from that grenade bounce." So we get a lot of that. One of our philosophies was to remove as much of that possible, so our sandbox team is really thinking about how they can make sure that we don't end up with situations like that. Halo 3 is an example of a game that was pretty successful, that found an audience while competing with some pretty strong contemporaries like Gears of War and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and games like Team Fortress. Now, Halo is competing against all of the sort of entrenched console competition that it had, and also this surge of free-to-play multiplayer games with massive audiences.
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9-8-10 "Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases of population, locally, nationally, or globally." Dr. Albert Bartlett www.albartlett.org "A simple look at the upward path of global greenhouse emissions indicates we will continue to squeeze the trigger on the gun we have put to our own head." Eugene Linden, The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the Destruction of Civilization "The ship is already starting to spin out of control. We may soon lose all chance of grabbing the wheel. Humanity faces a genuinely new situation. It is not an environmental crisis in the accepted sense. It is a crisis for the entire life-support system for our civilization and our species." Fred Pearce, The Last Generation: How Nature Will take Her Revenge for Climate Change "At this point, it's almost certainly too late to manage a transition to sustainability on a global or national scale, even if the political will to attempt it existed, which it clearly does not. Our civilization is in the early stages of the same curve of decline and fall as so many others have followed before it. What likely lies in wait for us is a long, uneven decline into a new Dark Age from which, centuries from now, the civilizations of the future will gradually emerge." John Michael Greer, The Long Descent "We are strong and adaptable animals and can certainly make a new life on the hotter Earth, but there will only be a fraction of inhabitable land left. Soon we face the appalling question of who m can we let aboard the lifeboats? And who must we reject? There will be great clamor from climate refugees seeking a safe haven in those few parts where the climate is tolerable and food available. We will need a new set of rules for limiting the population in climate oases." James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A final Warning "Imagine we live on a planet. Not our cozy, taken for granted planet, but a planet, a real one, with melting poles and dying forests and a heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by storms, scorched by heat. And inhospitable place. It needs a new name, Eaarth."
2014 estimate: 2.7 million 4 million 3 2 1 1840 ’60 ’80 1900 ’20 ’40 ’60 ’80 2000 ’14 THE CITY’S CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS The demographic breakdown of Chicago between 2000 and 2010 changed as the population fell. The city lost more than 180,000 black residents during that time, while gaining a fraction of Hispanic and Asian residents. “African-American or white growth for a long time have been either very flat or negative,” Paral said. “We had that growth in the ’90s that was basically due to the Latino growth.” And that Latino growth, along with the growth from undocumented immgrants, has dried up, Paral said. A Pew Research Center report released this month confirmed that immigration from Latin America has slowed since 2000. A second 2015 Pew report said that the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. has leveled off after nearly two decades of growth. Chicago’s population change Race/ethnicity Change, 2000-10 -52,449 (-5.8%) White* Black* Hispanic Asian/P.I. * Other** -181,453 (-17.2%) +25,218 (+3.3%) +20,051 (+16%) -11,785 (-21%) Non-Hispanic. *Includes those identifying as two or more races. Taking a look at the entire metro area Chicago’s meager population increase from 2010 to 2014 wasn’t constrained to the city limits. The metropolitan area increased by about 93,000 residents, or less than a percentage point, from 2010 to 2014. Chicago’s metropolitan statistical area includes the city, suburbs and extends into Wisconsin and Indiana. Meanwhile, the Houston area increased by more than 9 percent. METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA WIS. Chicago ILL. IND. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro area ... 9,461,105 2010 9,554,598, +0.99% 2014 ... compared to Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 5,920,416 2010 6,490,180, +9.6% 2014 A look on the brighter side “There are so many currents in these stories,” says Paral. “It’s not all doom and gloom.” The city has done a good job of attracting educated young adults, Paral says. Though overall population has stagnated in Chicago, the city is growing in some key areas. The number of college-eduated young adults has increased by more than 30 percent from 2000, according to census data. This ranks it in the middle of the ten largest cities.
Rula tells us that, “what happened was barbaric… Farkhunda’s killing shows how violent Afghan society has become after more than 30 years of war.” But not everyone shares this attitude. Following Farkhunda’s murder, a senior Afghan imam addressed hundreds of men at a mosque in Kabul, saying that: “If someone disrespects [the Koran], you cannot expect people to control their emotions and wait for judges to decide the punishment.” He warned the government that attempts to arrest the men would lead to an uprising. His comments sparked outrage among women and human rights campaigners, who ejected him from Farkhunda’s funeral and demanded his resignation. I asked the imam to talk to us about his remarks but he declined, insisting his comments had been taken out of context by the Afghan media. Government officials, including the female Deputy Information and Culture Minister Simin Ghazal Hassanzada and police spokesperson Hashmat Stanikzai, also made comments that were seemingly supportive of the killing on social media. Stanikzai wrote on his Facebook page that Farkhunda “thought, like several other unbelievers, that this kind of action and insult will get them US or European citizenship. But before reaching her target, she lost her life.” Both these officials have been suspended or dismissed from their positions. Later, Afghan authorities who were investigating the incident said there was no evidence that Farkhunda had burned the Koran; it emerged that she was a scholar of the Holy Book. Days after Farkhunda’s murder, the largest women’s protest in Afghanistan’s history took place. Women poured onto the streets of Kabul to demand justice and an end to gender-based violence. The demonstrations became a symbol of widespread discrimination against women and their lack of protection. Sahra Mosawi, a women’s rights activist, broke with tradition and in an unprecedented move carried Farkhunda’s coffin, along with other women. “The men who killed and attacked Farkhunda were mostly those who have lived in Kabul and have grown up as boys in [Hamid] Karzai’s government,” she told us. “They learned how to wear jeans and look modern but their mentality towards women hasn’t changed.” Women break with tradition by carrying Farkhunda’s coffin © BBC Forty-nine suspects were initially charged with Farkhunda’s murder, including 19 policemen. The trial was swift and broadcast live on TV. In May, four men were sentenced to death, and eight others received 16-year jail terms.
Play as Jason Voorhees! For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to play as Jason Voorhees, the most famous killer in horror. Stalk your prey, ambush them whenever you see fit and strike fear in the hearts of so many hapless victims as you become the legend himself! Friday the 13th: The Game will include a variety of kills, new and familiar, that will help you set the tone for the Jason Voorhees that you want to be. You’ll even get to unlock various Jason incarnations from the movies! Jason will be equipped with a terrifying array of abilities, giving you the control of a hunter at the height of his game. These are his woods, and he knows them all too well. Jason will not only feed off the fear of his victims, but will become stronger as the night progresses. The darker the night, the more terrifying Jason becomes! Fans of the movies will be able to play as various versions of Jason, including:  Friday the 13th, Part II  Friday the 13th, Part III  Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives  Friday the 13th, Part VII: New Blood  Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan  Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday How Will You Survive? The entire focus of Friday the 13th: The Game is multiplayer. Survival is entirely up to you, the player, as you either stealthily hide from Jason or work together as a team to escape or bring the fight to Jason. Playing as a counselor is all about risk and reward, giving players multiple means of triumph over Jason! Want to hide in the woods as you wait for the police? Perhaps you want to band together and try to take on Jason as a group? Maybe you and a friend decide to fix the boat on the lake and escape while leaving everyone else to their fate? There are endless opportunities to survive the night, but every choice has a consequence. Friday the 13th: The Game will continually set the pace of change, giving you unfamiliar surroundings while Jason Voorhees looks for his latest victim. No single strategy will ever be reliable, forcing players to adapt and change each time they begin their long night in Camp Blood! Be wary, you never know when or where Jason is going to strike! Play as the Counselors!
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CHENNAI: Football is a beautiful game but it turned ugly on Thursday when a man, seemingly a Chennaiyin FC fan, harassed a few women from the northeast at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here. It went on to mar CFC's first win in the season in the ISL The video of a hooligan dancing and making obscene gestures at a couple of female fans surfaced on social media on Friday. Despite attempts from a man sitting next to the women to stop the man, he went on to harass them. Disgusted, a woman tried to push him away, but it was a futile effort.A victim, on conditions of anonymity, said recalled the incident. "In the beginning we were cheering for NEUFC . We were quite loud than CFC fans. After a while, a large crowd of CFC members came and surrounded us. After the second goal, they started mocking us. It intensified after Abhishek Bachchan went around the stadium during half-time. One of the harassers asked us to wave CFC flags. We had to feign ignorance and remain calm so that nothing worse happened to us," the victim told TOI.Chennaiyin said they will take strict action to prevent such mishaps from occurring in the future. "Chennaiyin FC has a very strict and firm policy against racism and any unbecoming behaviour in the stadium. The club strongly condemns any such act. We are looking into any such incidents and will take strong action against it," the club said in a statement.NEUFC owner and actor John Abraham, who was deeply disturbed with the incident, said he wanted to apologize to the victim personally. "To the girl who was victimized by these insensitive and thoughtless people, we stand with you and you'll never feel alone as you must've felt in that moment.I will personally meet you and make sure you are ok. I know that (CFC co-owner) Abhishek Bachchan or I would never condone this behaviour from our own true fans. I will find you and make sure you are punished and apologise for your behaviour," Abraham said in a statement.
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The rebellion was primarily an armed peasant revolt against first the region's feudal land owners and then the princely state, but it also helped deepen the region's sense of identity. "This is a moment I have been waiting for since I became a student leader in 1969, when the agitation for statehood began," he said over the phone from Hyderabad, referring to the passage of the bill enabling the creation of Telangana state.Rao has been actively involved in generating and disseminating knowledge about the culture of Telangana, contemporary and historical. He is the lead editor of an encyclopaedia on the culture of Telangana, which he expects will be published early next year. He and his co-editors have already commissioned various people to write the encyclopaedia's 200 entries.Rao is also helping produce a book describing the life and work of 150 post-Independence artists of the region and has already booked a stall at next year's India Art Fair in Delhi that will showcase 42 artists from Telangana.Already a cultural force in Andhra Pradesh, the multi-faceted Rao, who is also a painter, is likely to play an even more central role in the intellectual life of India's newest state.Here is his film Maa Bhoomi.FINE ARTS: Laxma GoudLike Narsing Rao, Laxma Goud is a native of Medak district. He was fascinated by the region's various crafts, such as those of leather puppetry and terracotta jewellery-making.He studied art first in Hyderabad and then in Baroda, at the MS University's Faculty of Fine Arts, where he studied mural painting under KG Subramanyan and developed a lifelong love of printmaking.After graduating, he returned to his village, whose life and mores became the focus of his paintings, particularly the more open sexuality he discerned there. Both his explicitly erotic paintings and those that depicted other aspects of rural life reflected the distinct culture of Telangana.He himself declined to be interviewed over the phone. "Long-distance conversations don't make a dent," he said. "You should come here and talk to me." But gallery owners in Mumbai who have worked with him said that he was deeply committed to Telangana as a distinct cultural entity, as were many other leading artists from the region, such as Thota Vaikuntam and Laxman Ailay. "Day-to-day village life is a recurring theme in his work," said Dadiba Pundole, who owns an eponymous gallery in Mumbai and has exhibited Goud's work several times.
Row 4: Slip the first stitch and purl across to the stitch before the unworked stitch. Wrap and turn. Repeat Rows 3 and 4 until 8 (9) of the toe stitches are wrapped and on left side, 14 (14) stitches are "live" in the middle, and 8 (9) are wrapped and on the right. At this stage, you should be ready to work a right side row. Your toe is half done. Note: How many stitches you leave unworked in the middle depends on how wide you want your sock toe to be. If you want it a bit wider, do a couple fewer short rows. If you want it a bit narrower, do a couple more short rows. Now you'll work the second half of the toe: Row 1: Knit across the 14 live stitches across to the first unworked, wrapped stitch. To work this stitch, pick up the wrap and knit it together with the stitch. Wrap the next stitch (so that it now has two wraps) and turn. Row 2: Slip the first (double-wrapped) stitch and purl across to the first unworked, wrapped stitch. Pick up the wrap and purl it together with the stitch. Wrap the next stitch and turn. On subsequent rows you will pick up both wraps and knit or purl them together with the stitch. Continue until you have worked all the stitches and you once again have 30 (32) "live" stitches. When all 30 (32) stitches are once again "live," divide those stitches over 2 needles. Unzip your provisional cast-on and divide those 30 (32) stitches over 2 more needles. On your first round, you may want to pick up an extra stitch or two between the "live" stitches and the stitches you've picked up from the cast-on, to close up any holes there might be there. On the next round remember to decrease back down to 15 (16) stitches per needle. Note: Insert the tip of your needle into the stitch you knit up from the provisional cast-on before you unzip the chain – this will make it much easier to pick up the loops of the stitches. I usually insert my needle through four or five loops at a time, unzip the chain from them, do the next four or five loops, unzip, until I’ve picked them all up. When you unzip your provisional cast-on, you will have one less stitch than the total you picked up and knit.
TABLE 5 Caffeine intake quintile First Second Third Fourth Fifth P-trend HPFS Median caffeine intake, mg/d 3 18 42 76 162 Cases, n 170 179 213 187 147 Person-time, y 55,964 56,542 55,858 55,668 56,371 Age-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.05 (0.85, 1.30) 1.18 (0.96, 1.45) 1.05 (0.85, 1.29) 0.77 (0.62, 0.97) 0.006 Multivariate-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.00 (0.81, 1.24) 1.07 (0.86, 1.32) 0.97 (0.78, 1.21) 0.74 (0.58, 0.94) 0.004 NHS I Median caffeine intake, mg/d 5 44 95 183 393 Cases, n 176 200 242 191 147 Person-time, y 122,053 135,386 144,028 159,828 165,000 Age-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.00 (0.81, 1.22) 1.10 (0.90, 1.34) 0.80 (0.64, 1.00) 0.65 (0.50, 0.84) <0.001 Multivariate-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 0.96 (0.78, 1.18) 1.07 (0.87, 1.31) 0.82 (0.65, 1.04) 0.79 (0.58, 1.08) 0.13 NHS II Median caffeine intake, mg/d 6 26 59 113 187 Cases, n 209 222 277 234 213 Person-time, y 122,400 123,479 122,517 121,868 123,806 Age-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.03 (0.85, 1.24) 1.31 (1.09, 1.57) 1.10 (0.91, 1.33) 0.95 (0.78, 1.15) 0.34 Multivariate-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 0.94 (0.78, 1.14) 1.18 (0.98, 1.42) 1.02 (0.84, 1.23) 0.90 (0.73, 1.11) 0.34 Caffeine intake quintile First Second Third Fourth Fifth P-trend HPFS Median caffeine intake, mg/d 3 18 42 76 162 Cases, n 170 179 213 187 147 Person-time, y 55,964 56,542 55,858 55,668 56,371 Age-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.05 (0.85, 1.30) 1.18 (0.96, 1.45) 1.05 (0.85, 1.29) 0.77 (0.62, 0.97) 0.006 Multivariate-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.00 (0.81, 1.24) 1.07 (0.86, 1.32) 0.97 (0.78, 1.21) 0.74 (0.58, 0.94) 0.004 NHS I Median caffeine intake, mg/d 5 44 95 183 393 Cases, n 176 200 242 191 147 Person-time, y 122,053 135,386 144,028 159,828 165,000 Age-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.00 (0.81, 1.22) 1.10 (0.90, 1.34) 0.80 (0.64, 1.00) 0.65 (0.50, 0.84) <0.001 Multivariate-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 0.96 (0.78, 1.18) 1.07 (0.87, 1.31) 0.82 (0.65, 1.04) 0.79 (0.58, 1.08) 0.13 NHS II Median caffeine intake, mg/d 6 26 59 113 187 Cases, n 209 222 277 234 213 Person-time, y 122,400 123,479 122,517 121,868 123,806 Age-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 1.03 (0.85, 1.24) 1.31 (1.09, 1.57) 1.10 (0.91, 1.33) 0.95 (0.78, 1.15) 0.34 Multivariate-adjusted HR (95% CI) 1.00 (Ref) 0.94 (0.78, 1.14) 1.18 (0.98, 1.42) 1.02 (0.84, 1.23) 0.90 (0.73, 1.11) 0.34 View Large
16 PHOTOS Lessons still to be learned from Spanish Civil War See Gallery Lessons still to be learned from Spanish Civil War Ruins of a building are seen in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 13, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. The entrance to the ruins of the old village of Belchite is seen in northern Spain, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Visitors walk past ruins in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Tomas Ortin, 94, survivor of the Belchite battle, poses for a picture at the ruins of his former home in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. The sun sets over ruins in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 13, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Visitors walk past the Cross for the Fallen in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 13, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Windmills are seen behind the ruins of the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 13, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. The moon rises behind the San Martin de Tours church in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Sky is seen through the holes of the San Agustin church ceiling in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Bullet holes and the remains of a street sign are seen on a building in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, November 13, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas SEARCH "SPANISH RUINS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. A graffiti is seen on the entrance door of San Martin de Tours church in the old village of Belchite, in northern Spain, October 3, 2016.
By LYNNLEY BROWNING 12/08/08 " New York Times " -- - Two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005, according to a report released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. The study, which is likely to add to a growing debate among politicians and policy experts over the contribution of businesses to Treasury coffers, did not identify the corporations or analyze why they had paid no taxes. It also did not say whether they had been operating properly within the tax code or illegally evading it. The study covers 1.3 million corporations of all sizes, most of them small, with a collective $2.5 trillion in sales. It includes foreign corporations that do business in the United States. Among foreign corporations, a slightly higher percentage, 68 percent, did not pay taxes during the period covered — compared with 66 percent for United States corporations. Even with these numbers, corporate tax receipts have risen sharply as a percentage of federal revenue in recent years. The G.A.O. study was done at the request of two Democratic senators, Carl Levin of Michigan and Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota. In recent years, Senator Levin has held investigations on tax evasion and urged officials and regulators to examine whether corporations were abusing tax laws by shifting income earned in higher-tax jurisdictions, like the United States, to overseas subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. Senator Levin said in written remarks on Tuesday that “this report makes clear that too many corporations are using tax trickery to send their profits overseas and avoid paying their fair share in the United States.” But the G.A.O. said that it did not have enough data to address the role of what some policy experts say is a crucial factor in profits sent overseas. That factor, known as transfer pricing, involves corporations’ charging their overseas subsidiaries lower prices for goods and services, a common move that lowers a corporation’s tax bill. A number of corporations are in transfer-pricing disputes with the Internal Revenue Service. Either way, the nearly 1,000 largest United States corporations were more likely than smaller ones to pay taxes. In 2005, one in four large United States corporations paid no taxes on revenue of $1.1 trillion, compared with 66 percent in the overall pool. Large corporations are those with at least $250 million in assets or annual sales of at least $50 million.
Military research Although dispassionate scientific research on whether homosexuality should be viewed as an illness was largely absent from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine during the first half of the twentieth century, some researchers remained unconvinced that all homosexual individuals were mentally ill or socially misfit. Berube (1990) reported the results of previously unpublished studies conducted by military physicians and researchers during World War II. These studies challenged the equation of homosexuality with psychopathology, as well as the stereotype that homosexual recruits could not be good soldiers. A common conclusion in their wartime studies was that, in the words of Maj. Carl H. Jonas, who studied fifty-three white and seven black men at Camp Haan, California, "overt homosexuality occurs in a heterogeneous group of individuals." Dr. Clements Fry, director of the Yale University student clinic, and Edna Rostow, a social worker, who together studied the service records of 183 servicemen, discovered that there was no evidence to support the common belief that "homosexuality is uniformly correlated with specific personality traits" and concluded that generalizations about the homosexual personality "are not yet reliable." .... Sometimes to their amazement, [researchers] described what they called the "well-adjusted homosexuals" who, in [William] Menninger's words, "concealed their homosexuality effectively and, at the same time, made creditable records for themselves in the service." Some researchers spoke in glowing terms of these men. "The homosexuals observed in the service," noted Navy doctors Greenspan and Campbell, "have been key men in responsible positions whose loss [by discharge] was acutely felt in their respective departments." They were "conscientious, reliable, well-integrated and abounding in emotional feeling and sincerity." In general, "the homosexual leads a useful productive life, conforming with all dictates of the community, except its sexual requirements" and was "neither a burden nor a detriment to society." Fry and Rostow reported that, based on evidence in service records, homosexuals were no better or worse than other soldiers and that many "performed well in various military jobs" including combat (Berube, 1990, pp. 170-171, footnotes omitted). Today, a large body of published empirical research clearly refutes the notion that homosexuality per se is indicative of or correlated with psychopathology. One of the first and most famous published studies in this area was conducted by psychologist Evelyn Hooker.
http://deadman.i2p OUTPROXIES: ExitProxy - Run by Russians. Multiple IPs available. http://exitproxy.i2p Meeh's Tor outproxy - "I have a outpoxy free for use. With this you should be able to access both .i2p/.onion and clearnet sites." http://meeh.i2p/?p=services&sp=other PASTEBINS: PasteThis.i2p - Has been up for at least a year. Stable and actively used. http://pastethis.i2p ZeroBin - "ZeroBin is a minimalist, opensource online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES." http://zerobin.i2p TUTORIALS AND INFORMATION: Salt Wiki - The main I2P Wiki as of writing. A valuable resource with a big and broad variety of information. Also available as a Tor hidden service http://salt.i2p/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Satori - "This is a wiki dedicated to cryptographic, anonymity, and security information." http://satori-wiki.i2p The Darknet Wiki - Seems underdeveloped and deserted. http://darknet-wiki.i2p wiki.meeh.i2p - Good resource with information not found elsewhere. "This is a wiki for i2p and how to use its functions and services." http://wiki.meeh.i2p rus.i2p - Main Wiki for Russian I2P users. http://rus.i2p Прогроморье - Another Russian Wiki. This one seems oriented towards more technical subjects. http://progromore.i2p WikiI2p-ES - A wiki for latinos. http://lawiki.i2p/wiki-es I2P Tutorials - Tutorials in German. http://tutorials.i2p I2P/Tor Workshop Notes - "By the less than anonymous Adrian Crenshaw". http://irongeeks.i2p PrivacyHawk - A useful resource for tutorials on a variety of topics. "Welcome to PrivacyHawk's Growing List of Tutorials". http://privacyhawk.i2p ADDRESSBOOK SERVICES: stats.i2p - The oldest and most popular addressbook service of I2P. Curated. http://stats.i2p I2P Name Registery - Second most popular addressbook service. "Domain name registrations will not be rejected based on content." http://inr.i2p I2Host- Yet another jumper service. http://i2host.i2p COMMUNICATION SERVICES: Postman's mail service aka mail.i2p. Has been online since 2004 with no breaks. Solid email provider. http://hq.postman.i2p Mumble server by TronDev. Voice chat for the darknet. http://salt.i2p/wiki/index.php/TronDev_Mumble_Server i2p-bote - Distributed secure email - http://i2pbote.i2p or http://plugins.i2p/i2pbote Inscrutable XMPP - Also available as a Tor hidden service. Includes information on connecting to Inscrutable XMPP with various clients. http://inscrutable.i2p Salt XMPP - See the wiki for a tutorial, configuration, client list, etc. Also available as a Tor hidden service. http://salt.i2p/xmpp.html + http://salt.i2p/wiki/index.php/Salt_xmpp Inscrutable and Salt have S2S (between one another) and multi-user chat. Haste XMPP - Also available as a Tor hidden service and on the clearnet http://haste.i2p I2P Chat - A web chat run by who.i2p. Almost only Russians in here. http://who.i2p/chat/ Salt NNTP - Text only NNTP server. Also available as a Tor hidden service.
This was proved by four letters - copies of which are with Mumbai Mirror - written by the founder to Edward Carpenter, English socialist, philosopher and gay activist, between August 19, 1891 and June 5, 1892.A close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, Edward Carpenter was also a founding member of the Fabian Society, a leading Socialist think tank of its time. These letters prove that the commune functioned out of Matheran, the neighbourhood hill station, and Tulsi Lake, which supplies parched Mumbai with water even today.The club boasted of only three members: C.E.G. Crawford, an English widower, and Andrew and Kellogg Calderwood, the sons of a missionary. While one woman did express a desire to belong, she never gathered the gumption to engage with it.It is the club’s philosophical connect to the sepia-tinted beginnings of the queer movement in Victorianthat makes it even more exotic. Sample this correspondence between Crawford and Carpenter:“Andrew Calderwood and I were up at Matheran having two days’ holiday to spend naked from breakfast to evening. But that was only by shutting ourselves up tight in our room... Being indoors at our FNT meetings does not of course employ quite the same shutting up as it does in England.The room where we have “met” in this house is upstairs, lofty and spacious, and full of windows. In June, Andrew Calderwood and I had a grand day. We went away to a bungalow in the Tulsi Lake without servants and spent from dinner time Saturday till 5 pm Sunday in nature’s garb.Servants are the great difficulty, because they are everywhere. At Tulsi, where we were quite isolated, we were able to stroll about in the verandah and round the house. I am writing this in “uniform” and we have retired to a secluded room for the purpose of spending a few hours so.”The club required members to go stark naked, but accessories such asand false teeth were permitted.Carpenter, in his replies to Crawford, suggested that FNT develop women's branches, an idea the founder welcomed. However, one of the Calderwood brothers had issues with this since “he did not want to encourage timidity too much.” Women would have to wear their hair loose without ribbons, combs or hairpins. The use of rouge or powder was prohibited.The FNT required members to be plainspoken when discussing sexual taboos. Anyone could be admitted if nominated by two members. Despite the radical nature of the club, sectarian and political discussion was forbidden.C.E.G.
According to NaturalNews, the BLM is actually in the business of raking in millions ofdollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies that engage infracking operations. What's also evident is that oil has been found innearby areas and possibly even within the Gold Butte area itself.Standard practice for the United States government is to bring armedsoldiers to an oil dispute. Oh, you want proof? Please Google OperationIraqi Freedom for an example.
Many of the rooms of the hospital were not connected to each other, making the hospital a maze and a deathtrap. As the defenders became hemmed in, Private Williams used a pickaxe to chop holes in three separate walls, allowing the defenders to drag themselves and 8 patients to safety. Private Hook took on the Zulus in desperate hand-to-hand combat, prevailing time and again. Eventually, they escaped the conflagration to join the other defenders in the now-shortened perimeter, as the hospital burned to the ground. [Each of these four men were awarded VCs for their bravery. The conflagration also help light up the night, allowing the British to see their foes more clearly as the fighting continued past sundown (about 7 p.m. local time). The Zulus launched several more attacks throughout the next several hours, keeping the defenders busy, allowing them no rest. Actual fighting stopped around 2 a.m., with Zulu sniping ending about 2 hours later. At dawn on the 23rd (around 5:30 a.m.), the hospital was burnt completely, and the defenders had been fighting for nearly 10 continuous hours. At that time, Lt. Chard sent men out to search for Zulu survivors (which were shot, clubbed or bayoneted), gather weapons, and count bodies. About 370 Zulu bodies were calculated, but it was speculated that more were carried off by their comrades. As the British finally started to relax, a lookout spotted a force of Zulus in the distance, causing the men to “stand to” once more. By this point in the battle, the defenders had less than 900 rounds left to them. However, this group of Zulus had apparently been involved in the fight and wanted no part of further conflict. Many of the Zulus were seen taking snuff, as they had no food or water close at hand. After about an hour, the Zulus moved off to east, back towards their homeland. An hour later, another force of men was spotted approaching the mission station, but it was a British relief column. The battle of Rorke’s Drift was over… The final result? An estimated 500 Zulu dead; 17 British killed, 13 wounded. As a result of their defense of Rorke’s Drift, a total of 11 Victoria Crosses – the highest award given by the British military – were awarded. It was the single largest number of VCs given for a single action in the history of the British army.
I try to host an apocalypse game every year, usually coinciding with my birthday. I'm like a little kid, I want all my friends to come over and play toy soliders!Our gaming club had been running a campaign for the last few months, and we used the campaign rankings to pick sides. Tommy (tbrassf2) and I were the points leaders, and Tommy suggested that this year, we do a fortress defense game. I then began a 6-week project to build a fortress (only for him to say he meant a couple of bastions and an aegis line...) I've got a thread detailing the fortress construction over here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/556090.page As the game got closer, people got called off on random duties, work and families, but some new friends joined in, and on the day of the game, our teams looked as follows:Team Hive Fleet Controlling the Ultramarines (!? )Tommy (tbrassf2) - 3k Tyranids.Dave (colpicklejar) - 3k UltramarinesShawn (SparkeyG) - 3k UltramarinesGrace - 2k Dark EldarBig Fortress - 3kTeam Chaos-Tau-NecronsAlex (Redbeard) - 3k TauPhil - 3k TauChris - 3k Chaos DaemonsArt - 3k NecronsKathleen - 2k Chaos DaemonsFormations and Interesting units:Shawn fielded Marneus Calgar and a full Space Marine CompanyTommy ran the Living Fortress, with the Swarmlord leading itKathleen ran Zarakynel and An'ggrath (she likes just running the big models around)Chris had noformations, but ran 10, most of whom flewGrace ran a Kabalite Web StrikePhil ran a Rapid Insertion ForceArt ran a Nightshround bomberI ran a Riptide Wing, Skysweep Missile Defense, a Tigershark AX-1-0, and the new R'Varna suitThe Fortress was using our custom rules:We played "The Final Assault" mission from the newbook. This put three objectives in each deployment zone, with the attackers starting 12" outside of the defenders deployment zone. We said the fortress was the defenders zone, leaving a little space on either side to start attackers.Notably, the defenders objectives are worth double points, and they're protected by a big wall...The narrative for the battle revolves around a possible attack against the planet. The planet is defended by a series of force shields, and the generators are protected by fortresses. In order to attack the planet, the attackers must destroy these force shields, allowing their fleet to commence bombarding the planet. As such, until the force shield is down, no orbital strategic assets can target the fort. The defenders also have a fleet, but it's on the far side of the planet.
Again, the lack of competition dampens the repercussions for this kind of behavior. Pai began his tenure as new FCC boss by breathlessly promising to wage war on the digital divide. He then immediately proceeded to do the exact opposite of what he promised, having Pai began his tenure as new FCC boss by breathlessly promising to wage war on the digital divide. He then immediately proceeded to do the exact opposite of what he promised, having prohibited 9 already-approved ISPs for helping the poor , killed an FCC plan to bring competition (and lower rates) to the cable box, blocked attempts to prevent prison phone monopolies from ripping off inmates , and killed an agency inquiry into zero rating -- in what's believed to be the first steps toward killing net neutrality overall. You can now add hurting broadband consumer privacy to his roster of early accomplishments.
"[39] Given this history of cultural xenophobia and the popularity of the aforementioned books, it is very likely that the vocabulary used by the National Socialists was a familiar one not only among the intellectual elite, but the bourgeoisie as well. National Socialist propaganda made sure that the discourse surrounding the notion of the "unhealthy" in a people became a common concept among the general populace as well and could then be easily directed at intellectuals, artists, Jews, Communists and all opponents to the Reich’s philosophy. And, very soon after the rise of Hitler, the hatred at all that was "other" extended from a purge of the museums to the removal from society of all "outsiders"; impurities removed from a perceived culturally and racially pure Volk. As mentioned earlier, the chaos that preceded the Great German Art Exhibition can be contrasted with the swift assembly of prohibited "degenerate" art from the German state museums. On the same day that he received Hitler’s approval for the "degenerate" art show, June 30, 1937, Goebbels signed a decree as president of the Reich Chamber for the Visual Arts and sent it to 101 museums in Germany. It was to give access to all museum holdings to Professor Ziegler and his committee in order to examine and secure works of German "decadence" from 1910 onward for a show to be held in conjunction with the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung. Within a period of less than two weeks, Ziegler’s committee confiscated 5,238 works of art. [40] During their zealous sweep through the museums, the newly appointed "art connoisseurs" confiscated works by international "degenerate" artists such as Picasso, Mondrian and the French Post-Impressionists, thus overextending the authority given to them by Goebbels. Most of the works by non-German modernist artists were ultimately not shown in the "Degenerate Art" exhibitions, but instead sold to the highest bidder at the Fischer auction in Lucerne, Switzerland, in June and August of 1939. The way that the commission proceeded in securing the works deemed ‘degenerate’ was simple. Lists had been compiled of all the artists mentioned in avant-garde periodicals, such as Das Kunstblatt, Die Aktion, Der Sturm. Any books written by liberal museum directors were scrutinized for names. A comprehensive guide to identifying the avant-garde was Carl Einstein’s richly illustrated volume Die Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, published in 1926. It became a quick source for the uninitiated "art specialist" to locate defamed works.
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MR. SCOTT: That was after I retired, and I was not involved in 02. MR. BEN-VENISTE: Will you accept that the exercise involved a simultaneous hijacking scenario? MR. SCOTT: I was not involved in 02. GEN. MCKINLEY: Sir, I do have some information on 02, if you would allow me to read it for the record. MR. BEN-VENISTE: Please. GEN. MCKINLEY: Amalgam Virgo in general, 02, was an exercise created to focus on peacetime and contingency NORAD missions. One of the peacetime scenarios that is and has been a NORAD mission for years is support to other government departments. Within this mission falls hijackings. Creativity of the designer aside, prior to 9/11, hijack motivations were based on political objectives -- i.e., asylum or release of captured prisoners or political figures. Threats of killing hostages or crashing were left to the script writers to invoke creativity and broaden the required response for players. MR. BEN-VENISTE: Well, isn't that a bit fatuous given the specific information that I've given you? It wasn't in the minds of script writers when the Algerians had actually hijacked the plane, which they were attempting to fly into the Eiffel Tower. And all of the other scenarios which I mentioned to you. I don't mean to argue with you. But my question is, sir, given the awareness of the terrorists use of planes as weapons, how is it that NORAD was still focusing outward protecting the United States against attacks from the Soviet Union or elsewhere, and was not better prepared to defend against the hijacking scenarios of a commercial jet laden with fuel used as a weapon to target citizens of the United States? When you say our training was vestigial, I think you said it in capsulated form. But would you agree that on the basis of the information available that there could be, could have been better preparedness by NORAD to meet this threat? GEN. MCKINLEY: In retrospect, sir, I think I would agree with your comment. MR. BEN-VENISTE: With respect to the bases that were available for protecting the East Coast, you -- and Colonel Scott has gone through the scrambling of aircraft -- I wanted to focus just on one flight, Flight 77, and then Secretary Lehman will ask you some more specific questions. With respect to Flight 77, sir, you testified previously before the House Armed Services Committee, and General Eberhardt was questioned -- you are familiar with his testimony?
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Today I share two things. In the spirit of feeling like I am 'getting back to things I love,' I share a simple, sweet recipe for a big bowl of my. But really, this post is about my dad. I share a few personal thoughts regarding my life this past month and what I have gone through losing him to Alzheimer's Disease. I hope that me sharing, brings some comfort to those going through something similar. We are never alone. We are in this life together. Community meant a lot to my dad, so sharing his story here feels right. I am trying to stay positive in this post, even though it is hard.So, a smoothie. Banana ice cream, really. Always a good idea. Always a comforting big bowl.Swirl. Vitamix bliss..January is the season of green smoothies, healthy habits and putting your Vitamix front and center in your kitchen for that 'start the year off right' kind of glow. And while I know it is WINTER and many of you think I am nuts for suggesting you cozy up to a big bowl of frosty banana ice cream - with peaches too! I just couldn't help but share this recipe because it is so lovely, and kinda calming and soothing in itsway.And deep down inside I thinkSo while I am not really into the whole "January diet craze" thing, I do love thepart of this month. Obviously. And I do loveare little twinkles of HOPE in our lives. Giving yourself a fresh start is a way of being kind to yourself. And being kind to yourself is a really great idea for 2016.Not just January.So today's recipe is a lovely, super simple banana ice cream recipe. It has a light and creamy texture and peachy flavor with subtle hints of ginger and vanilla bean. You can eat a giant bowl of this stuff and feel great about it.In each spoonful, vitamin C, potassium, fiber and zero added sugar.Those of you who follow me on social may have noticed a lack of posts the past few weeks. For good reason.You see, three days before Christmas, my father died. The funeral a few days later, was on what would have been my parents 45th wedding anniversary.
The limits are not really known. References: The Effect on the Chimpanzee of Rapid Decompression to a Near Vacuum , Alfred G. Koestler ed., NASA CR-329 (Nov. 1965) Experimental Animal Decompression to a Near Vacuum Environment , R.W. Bancroft, J.E. Dunn, eds, Report SAM-TR-65-48 (June 1965), USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks AFB, Texas. You would probably pass out in around 15 seconds because your lungs are now exchanging oxygen out of the blood. The reason that a human does not burst is that our skin has some strength. For instance compressed oxygen in a steel tank may be at several hundreds times the pressure of the air outside and the strength of the steel keeps the cylinder from breaking. Although our skin is not steel, it still is strong enough to keep our bodies from bursting in space. Also, the vapor pressure of water at 37 C is 47 mm Hg. As long as you keep your blood-pressure above that (which you will unless you go deep into shock) your blood will not boil. My guess is that the body seems to regulate blood pressure as a gauge, rather than absolute pressure (e.g. your blood vessels don't collapse when you dive 10 feet into a pool). The saliva on your tongue might boil, however. For more information and references, see http://www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis/vacuum.html Hope this helps!
The term " counterfeit trademark " does not include any mark used in connection with goods for which the person using such mark was authorized to use the trademark for the type of goods so manufactured or produced by the holder of the right to use such mark or designation, whether or not such goods were manufactured or produced in the United States or in another country, and does not include imitations of trade dress or packaging such as color, shape and the like unless those features have been registered as trademarks as defined in subdivision one of this section. 3. The term " traffic " means to transport, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, to another, as consideration for anything of value, or to obtain control of with intent to so transport, transfer, or otherwise dispose of. 4. The term " goods " means any products, services, objects, materials, devices or substances which are identified by the use of a trademark. S 165.71 Trademark counterfeiting in the third degree. A person is guilty of trademark counterfeiting in the third degree when, with the intent to deceive or defraud some other person or with the intent to evade a lawful restriction on the sale, resale, offering for sale, or distribution of goods, he or she manufactures, distributes, sells, or offers for sale goods which bear a counterfeit trademark, or possesses a trademark knowing it to be counterfeit for the purpose of affixing it to any goods. Trademark counterfeiting in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor . S 165.72 Trademark counterfeiting in the second degree. A person is guilty of trademark counterfeiting in the second degree when, with the intent to deceive or defraud some other person or with the intent to evade a lawful restriction on the sale, resale, offering for sale, or distribution of goods, he or she manufactures, distributes, sells, or offers for sale goods which bear a counterfeit trademark, or possesses a trademark knowing it to be counterfeit for the purpose of affixing it to any goods, and the retail value of all such goods bearing counterfeit trademarks exceeds one thousand dollars. Trademark counterfeiting in the second degree is a class E felony. S 165.73 Trademark counterfeiting in the first degree.
Donor Year Amount Recipient Donor links Wang Zi Chun 2013-14 $850,000 Labor Party Ever Bright Group says Wang is an employee, but AEC records do not show who the ultimate donor was. The address in Shijiazhuang is also used by a centre for retired Communist party officials. Chau Chak Wing 2013-14 $650,000 Labor Party (federal) Chau has ties to former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr, who is Honorary President of Chan's Association of Australia China Friendship and Exchange. Chau Chak Wing 2013-14 $540,000 Liberal Party Chau has ties to former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr, who is Honorary President of Chan's Association of Australia China Friendship and Exchange. Chau Chak Wing 2013-14 $100,000 National Party Chau has ties to former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr, who is Honorary President of Chan's Association of Australia China Friendship and Exchange. Chau Chak Wing 2013-14 $65,000 Labor Party (NSW branch) Chau has ties to former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr, who is Honorary President of Chan's Association of Australia China Friendship and Exchange. Yuhu Group 2013-14 $425,000 Liberal Party (various branches) Former NSW treasurer Eric Roozendaal joined the group in 2014. It is also donated $20,000 to the Liberal Party the following year. Yuhu Group 2013-14 $100,000 Labor Party (federal) Former NSW treasurer Eric Roozendaal joined the group in 2014. It is also donated $20,000 to the Liberal Party the following year. Anna Wu Meijuan 2013-14 $50,000 Liberal Party (WA branch) Wu is the company secretary for Yuhu Investment Holdings Xu Jingui 2013-14 $400,000 Labor Party (NSW branch) The email addressx used for donation belongs to Clifton Wong, a former Hurstville Councillor Zhaokai Su (Ken Su) 2013-14 $130,000 Labor Party (federal) Uses the same email as Huang Jiebo (who has the same listed address as Fiona Huang Jiefang). Mr Su is recorded as an agent for Yuhu Investment Trust. Zhaokai Su (Ken Su) 2013-14 $70,000 Labor Party (NSW branch) Uses the same email as Huang Jiebo (who has the same listed address as Fiona Huang Jiefang). Mr Su is recorded as an agent for Yuhu Investment Trust.
>>> >>> >>> Sanders, whose campaign has engaged in an increasingly bitter feud with the DNC chairwoman during his presidential bid, said in an interview set to air on CNN's "State of the Union" that he favors Tim Canova in Florida's 23rd congressional district. Canova is supporting Sanders. >>> >>> >>> "Well, clearly, I favor her opponent," Sanders told Tapper. "His views are much closer to mine than as to Wasserman Shultz's." >>> >>> Sanders added that if he's elected president, he wouldn't reappoint Wasserman Schultz to head the DNC. >>> >>> >>> Sanders' campaign has long been critical of Wasserman Shultz's performance as head of the committee, claiming that the DNC has favored his presidential primary challenger, Hillary Clinton. Sanders and his supporters have complained about the nomination process and ways they believe it has helped Clinton, including debates held on Saturday nights, closed primaries in major states such as New York, and the use of superdelegates -- essentially free-agent party and union stalwarts who are overwhelmingly backing Clinton. >>> >>> Canova, who teaches at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Fort Lauderdale, was asked in 2011 to serve on Sanders' Wall Street reform advisory panel. He has called for greater regulation of Wall Street, writing on his campaign website that "we are now in a new Gilded Age." Like Sanders, he also opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. >>> >>> "Time and time again, (Clinton) has voted to protect the pools of dark money in politics," Canova recently told the New Times newspaper of Broward-Palm Beach. >>> >>> While Sanders has a strong ability to raise money and thus could impact the race, he did not fare well in Wasserman Schultz's congressional district during the March Florida presidential primary, scoring 30.1% of the vote compared with Clinton's 68%. >>> >>> >>> RELATED: Sanders campaign manager: DNC chairwoman 'throwing shade' on Bernie >>> >>> On Wednesday, Jeff Weaver, Sanders' campaign manager, slammed Wasserman Schultz after she told CNN the Vermont senator did not do enough to condemn his supporters' behavior at the party's raucous Nevada convention last week. >>> >>> "We can have a long conversation about Debbie Wasserman Schultz just about how she's been throwing shade on the Sanders campaign from the very beginning," Weaver told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." >>> >>> >>> "It's not the DNC," Weaver added. "By and large, people in the DNC have been good to us.
I found an old hockey board game while on vacation, which got me wondering about other old hockey board games. Here's a look at what I have found, with an emphasis on older games only.From 1933-34 here is a rare hockey game called Apple Leaf Hockey:From 1937 here's All Star Hockey. It is simply a board (rink) is marked off in squares and the pawns used to represent players move from square to square depending on a die roll.In 1941 Milton Bradley dreamed up Ice Hockey: The game comes with 1 wooden disc and two wire hockey "crooks". You play the game by first placing the disc on the center spot on the boards and then each player takes a wire crook and then trying to draw or knock the wooden disc (puck) through the goal to the players right. The opponent plays at the same time, each player trying to get the puck into their goal. The game is started by one player tapping 3 times and then calling 'GO!" The game is played to a predetermined number of gaols. The player reaching that pre-determined number wins.Here's a Lester Patrick endorsed hockey board game from the 1940s. This game came in two formats one that used a die but earlier versions came with a spinner for randomization. The players are printed on the board and movement is the puck from square to square. There are printed squares on the board that if you take the puck to will can cause penalties to the opposing player in various ways including giving you a penalty shot on goal from a designated spot on the board that is also resolved with a die roll.Harley Productions came out with He Scores! in 1955. This game combines all the thrills of real hockey and is played on a board representing the ice surface. Players are shown in both Red and Blue. The game has two dice and a puck which is moved through squares in the direction and by the distance of what was rolled on the dice. Game appears to feature pictures of both the Montreal Canadians and the Toronto Maple Leafs.In 1959 Negameco came out with this stat-driven game for simulating professional hockey matches.From the 1960s, here's Pass And Score, fun for the whole family:This following game is so old, you needed something called a VCR. I had this game when I was a kid.
Now, what seats to pick? I started with cheaper lower level seats, picked two and when the price came to seven-hundred-and-something dollars, freaked out a bit. Mr Springsteen, I love you and all but you have enough of my money. The Chancellor was a willing Springsteen victim when it was a large group going out for a good time but 2 hours of Bruce intimacy at seven-hundred-something dollars?No way.I dumped the lower level tix, went for the balcony and to my surprise I got two. One hundred sixty something bucks and I could stay married. Winner.I texted the biggest Bruce fan I know, Gail. Gail is The Chancellor's best friend and the sister of a high school friend - way back when we all lived back in PA. Yes, the Chancellora bit like Oprahhas best friend named Gail. Gail's a little, uh, passionate about these things. When it's an E Street concert, she usually gets Philly AND NY tickets. I told her to save the date as she was my second choice after the Chancellor.Later that night when I told the Chancellor how lucky we were, the first things she said was "well, you have to to take Gail"And we were set. Gail and I would go and the Chancellor and Mr Gail would do something New Yorky at Christmas.Mr Gail wasn't all that happy about it - mostly because for some reason Gail, Bruce's Number 1 Fan in Mt-La-La, neglected to sign up for verified fan ticketing. He wanted to go to the show too but there wasn't much I could do at that point.It never occurred to me that Gail and I would have to explain our "relationship" until the day of.Now, not many know this but Gail is a bit of a Springsteen Psychic since he speaks to her in dreams. It started in '99 when she dreamed he would play "Factory" and of course he did. The night before this show she had a dream where we end up on stage.How would I explain our relationship to Bruce if he asked us when we on stage?Well, she my wife's best friend and ... Well she really likes You and ... Well my wife, she really doesn'tyou. She wanted to go but that whole Verified Fan thing freaked out a bit.... Anyway, we did not get on stage and it never came up, thank God.The day arrived.The whole day seemed like a race against time.
It’s not milky, it’s almost a little brittle in the mouth, it’s not chalky but it has this really kind of pebbly texture and the flavor is just really intense. You know a lot of times like canella which is like their cinnamon. It’s not like the hard, curled cinnamon sticks that we think of. It’s very papery pale brown cinnamon that has a different flavor. I mean it’s still cinnamon but the flavor profile is really different. That flavor is added to their chocolate and made these different drinking chocolates. So chocolate is a big thing and then you have all these different salsas, fresh tortillas. I mean if anything I would love to be able to teach myself how to make like fresh tortillas, steam some fresh tamales. I haven’t ventured into that realm yet and Mexican food was definitely something I fell in love with when I lived in LA and I miss it. I miss it all the time but it’s one of those things just teaching yourself an entire new cuisine and it’s just a long process. So there’s definitely some steps in there you know like okay, start with tortillas, start with tamales but I haven’t really gotten there yet.
Otherwise, LEGO is printing a lot of unique bricks for this one set thus increasing the set’s cost. However, application of the stickers adds a level of complexity to the set so it’s not just the build but how well you apply the stickers to complete the build. However, I have a request for LEGO: Dear LEGO, If you’re going to produce stickers with writing, I suggest doing what model makers do – the stickers with writing should have a clear background. This way the sticker does not modify the look of the piece it is covering. By coloring the background of the sticker, the sticker becomes more obvious, especially when the white of the sticker is a bright white but the white LEGO piece is not and will eventually fade at a different rate than the sticker. Just a thought. Pros: Excellent rendition of Rogue Two’s T-47 Snowspeeder from The Empire Strikes Back. The stickers add a level of detail not otherwise achieved inside and out. The harpoon gun looks great. The movement of the gun also moves the gunner’s handles inside the cockpit - very cool. I do wish there was a “harpoon” of some kind loaded into the end of the gun. The mounting and angle of the main guns is great and looks very authentic to the movie. The mounting is very stable. Movable air brakes on the top and bottom are very nice for display purposes. To open the top, turn the engines – very cool. The addition of a landing gear adds to the authenticity, even if it is not as usable as I would have liked. Two minifigures with unique printing on their arms. The new helmet for Zev is very nice. Although it is debatable if it is actually blackish or just a very dirty white, it’s a nice shout out with a unique helmet. Cons: I found the chairs a little on the flimsy side when I was installing them. It’s too bad there isn’t more room to reinforce their backing. Installation took a couple of tries to get it right without them coming apart. Although, this might have been just me forcing them in place. They do have a tight fit, which is nice. I’m not sure if the landing gear is really a con or not. It’s not as usable as I hoped, but it looks very realistic.
WASHINGTON--Sen. Ted Cruz prides himself on having few friends in Washington, and it looks like he lost another.Sen. Rand Paul, a fellow 2016 presidential candidate and former Cruz ally, said the Texan is doomed in the Senate after months of railing against Republican leadership and violating Senate rules.“Ted has chosen to make this really personal and chosen to call people dishonest in leadership and call them names," said Paul in a scathing Fox News Radio interview. "He is pretty much done for and stifled and it’s really because of personal relationships, or lack of personal relationships. "Cruz has been ostracized by Republican leadership for months, but Paul's criticism is an unprecedented rebuke from a fellow conservative stalwart. Even so, the former allies have drifted apart as the presidential campaign unfolded.In May a pro-Paul super PAC called Cruz the "Capitulating Canadian" in ad about an upcoming Senate showdown on NSA surveillance legislation. Cruz was the co-sponsor of a compromise bill, while Paul pushed more aggressive limits on surveillance.A month later in his autobiography, Cruz accused Paul of subverting his 2013 his effort to defund Obamacare by asking unhelpful questions during his filibuster. Paul said he was surprised by Cruz's claim and said he got a thank you card from the Texan.Paul's attacks on Cruz also come as their presidential campaigns veer in different directions. While Cruz has held steady in polls and jumped forward in fundraising since the second GOP debate, Paul is lingering toward the bottom and holding two fundraisers for his Senate reelection campaign. If Cruz doesn't win the presidency, he could be in for a difficult remainder of his Senate term, which ends in 2018. Republican leadership boxed out Cruz from making a play to defund Planned Parenthood that could cause a government shutdown, and the Senate's top Republicans dismissed Cruz's Senate acts as an extension of his presidential campaign.“Avoiding disruption was the goal, and so that’s why that happened,” Sen. John Cornyn, his fellow Texan and the No. 2 Senate Republican, told Politico. “It’s easy to make Washington and the establishment and leadership a punching bag. I don’t think there’s much mystery” behind his motives.
"Simon obviously had an association with (former Team Penske driver) Gil (de Ferran) back in the sports car days when they were running the ALMS program, and that's where we took notice of what his capabilities were. Really, this has been the opportunity that we've had to bring him on board. "If that meant changing to a four-car program, that's what we were prepared to do. We feel like any time you can expand an organization, certainly it's satisfying to know that we can continue to add to the Team Penske heritage, and bringing Simon on board was certainly an added plus to that. So we're certainly looking forward to the challenge ahead. "Cindric itemized some of the specific challenges. "Personnel is the first challenge that you have, and logistically, how do you place four cars, how do you put them under the tent? How do you debrief? How do you put together what you need for our overseas trip at the Brasilia race and those sorts of things? It's certainly a logistical challenge, but more importantly the personnel is always what makes the difference, so that becomes your biggest focus. "I think you see it, whether it's IndyCar or NASCAR, what you have in terms of car count obviously raises your odds in some ways. But if you don't do it right, it can also be a distraction, and we've seen that within our NASCAR program. We've been a stronger team with two guys than we were when we ran three cars. So I think it really depends on when you add those cars and what your capabilities are. "I think if there was a time for us to add a fourth car, it was now. I think what we learn from the NASCAR side of it is if you don't have the two cars right, it's hard to add a third car. When we brought back the two cars in NASCAR, it benefited us in terms of our approach. So we felt like if we were going to add a fourth driver there really there wasn't another guy to consider. "To have four cars, there is efficiency in doing that. The first car costs the most, and then each one after that costs a little bit less. That's not always the case for the driver, but it is the case for the sponsor in a way.
Surviving the destruction of Shurima's capitol within the lamp, Freesia was transformed into a genie, a being of magic and ageless grace. Freed from her prison by the explorer Ezreal, Freesia now wanders the desolate sands she once called home, seeking to find purpose in the midst of an impending war of Ascended Beings. >Lore Jot Notes - Freesia was, as a slave, given to Xerath by Azir to serve as the mage's consort. Freesia wasn't overly fond of the arrangement at first, but eventually came to appreciate being Xerath's servant, with the two eventually becoming lovers. _(Yes, she slept with Xerath. )_ - Freesia eventually stumbled upon Xerath's plans to kill Azir and take the power of the Ascended Ritual for himself. Xerath implored her to aid him in his endeavor, but Freesia refused and tried to dissuade Xerath from his goal. Xerath, angry at what he perceived was Freesia's betrayal, imprisoned her in an oil lamp (the kind genies come from in most other fantasies) and had it sealed in an underground vault. - Freesia ended up being transformed within the lamp into a genie, a magical being with great spiritual powers and an endless lifespan. But despite her changes, she couldn't break out of the lamp herself, and could do nothing to stop Xerath from destroying Shurima. - Centuries later, Ezreal stumbles upon the vault on one of his excursions and finds Freesia's lamp. He rubs the lamp, accidentally touching it with his Ascended Talisman (his gauntlet) and breaking Xerath's spell. This released Freesia from the lamp. - Freesia was devastated to hear about Shurima's fall and that she now existed hundreds of years in the future. Ezreal did his best to bring Freesia up to speed, but the two soon parted ways as Freesia went to try and find a purpose to her new life. - Freesia eventually learned of the return of Azir and Xerath, and now is at a crossroads of whether to aid Azir or return to Xerath, who she still holds a torch for. #Quotes (suggestions are appreciated) >Ideal Voice Actor: Julie Ann Taylor Selection Follow my steps to victory. Match Start Let's begin, shall we? And here we go. The curtain has parted. Movement The spirits guide my step. Fluidly. Even running is a kind of dance. Eyes on the prize? Which one? Shurima must survive as it always has. Can you feel the rhythm?
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Soda companies don’t want sugary drinks to be cast as the next tobacco. They spent millions in three Bay Area cities this November trying to prevent just that. But election results in Oakland, San Francisco, and Albany to levy a penny-per-ounce tax on sodas and sugary drinks indicate they have good reason to worry.Measure HH in Oakland passed 61 to 39 percent. Proposition V also passed in San Francisco, as did Albany’s Measure O1.The three regional cities—in addition to Boulder, Colo. — join Berkeley and Philadelphia as a small but growing coalition leading the charge against the beverage industry. Officials in other cities are expected to follow suit. "We are being watched very closely by the entire country," said Oakland Councilmember Annie Campbell Washington, who helped write Oakland's Measure HH.The councilmember said her office has been getting texts from other public officials across the nation who are interested in taxing soda to pay for public health programs designed to reduce sugar consumption.With major victories in the Bay Area and Boulder, the beverage industry should expect to see soda taxes on several local ballots in the future. But if the amount of money poured into the Oakland and San Francisco measures by "Big Soda" are indicative of anything, it's that future cities that want to pass similar taxes are in for a dirty — and expensive — fight.The American Beverage Association spent over $30 million to oppose the taxes in Oakland and San Francisco, while tax proponents, funded primarily by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, were able to put up over $20 million. Beverage companies like Pepsico and Coca-Cola attempted to brand the sugary drink tax a "grocery tax," and targeted ads to minority groups concerned about rising food prices.But public health experts who have studied the impacts of Berkeley's soda tax say that food prices haven’t been increased there, and that the tax is having its intended effect. "Our study was done in low income neighborhoods and we saw a larger decline that predicted," said Kristine Madsen, a doctor and professor of community health sciences at UC Berkeley who co-authored a study exploring the impact of soda tax legislation on soda consumption in Berkeley. "I think the tax will have the biggest impact in these communities. That means that people are responding to taxes by drinking less soda which means that they’re not paying the tax. "The Berkeley soda tax has also raised an estimated $2 million for public health efforts.
The Self-Made Species The appeal of Darwin's theory of evolution — and the horror of it, for some theists — is that it expunges from biology the concept of purpose, of teleology, thereby converting biology into a mechanistic, canonical science. In this respect, the author of The Origin of Species may be said to be the combined Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler of biology. Just as these astronomers gave us a view of the heavens in which no angels were required to propel the planets in their orbs and the earth was no longer the center of the celestial system, so Darwin showed that no God was needed to design the spider's intricate web and that man is in truth but another animal. That's how the standard story goes, and it is pretty much what I used to believe, until I read Darwin's later book, his treatise on the evolution of the mental life of animals, including the human species: The Descent of Man. This is the work in which Darwin introduces one of the most powerful ideas in the study of human nature, one that can explain why the capacities of the human mind so extravagantly exceed what would have been required for hunter-gatherer survival on the Pleistocene savannahs. The idea is sexual selection, the process by which men and women in the Pleistocene chose mates according to varied physical and mental attributes, and in so doing "built" the human mind and body as we know it. In Darwin's account, human sexual selection comes out looking like a kind of domestication. Just as human beings domesticated dogs and alpacas, roses and cabbages, through selective breeding, they also domesticated themselves as a species through the long process of mate selection. Describing sexual selection as human self-domestication should not seem strange. Every direct prehistoric ancestor of every person alive today at times faced critical survival choices: whether to run or hold ground against a predator, which road to take toward a green valley, whether to slake an intense thirst by drinking from some brackish pool. These choices were frequently instantaneous and intuitive and, needless to say, our direct ancestors were the ones with the better intuitions. However, there was another kind of crucial intuitive choice faced by our ancestors: whether to choose this man or that woman as a mate with whom to rear children and share a life of mutual support.
In gratitude, he made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, and at the Council of Nicea established the Nicene Creed of the Catholic Church. In one respect, you could say that Britain was the birthplace of Roman Catholicism. Its loss was the first ominous death knell of Rome. In AD 410, the civitates of Britain sent a letter to the emperor Honorius, asking him to come to their aid against the Saxon invaders. He wrote back telling them to 'look to their own defences', and Roman influence in Britain was officially ended. The very fact that the citizens of Britain appealed to the Roman emperor for help says much about their self-perception as citizens of the empire, and the fact that the emperor could not oblige says much about the pressure he was under. Britain had already 'looked to her own defences' in AD 259 under the Gallic Empire and AD 284 under Carausius, and both times she had been brought back into the fold. Britain had been conquered to satisfy the need of an individual Roman emperor. Once taken, the imperial image required that it should be held onto tenaciously. Its loss was the first ominous death knell of Rome. Top
ZIMBABWE AND ITS NEIGHBOURS Zimbabwe's opposition wants neighbouring countries to persuade Robert Mugabe to step down. So how are relations changing? South Africa's leader Thabo Mbeki remains the key mediator. He has not criticised Mr Mugabe, despite pressure from the ruling ANC. Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa called Zimbabwe a "regional embarrassment", before suffering a stroke on 29 June. Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is one of Robert Mugabe's closest allies. He has urged Mr Mugabe to end the violence. Botswana said Zimbabwe's 27 June run-off vote was so flawed by violence that it could not be considered legitimate. Namibia is an ally of Robert Mugabe. It wants to re-distribute white-owned farms to black villagers. It has not criticised the violence. Mozambique has hosted some white farmers forced out of Zimbabwe when their land was seized. It is seen as sympathetic to the opposition. Tanzania's ruling party has a history of backing Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party. Its foreign minister has condemned the violence. DR Congo's President Joseph Kabila is an ally of Robert Mugabe who sent troops to help his father, Laurent Kabila, fight rebels. Malawi is seen as neutral. But 3m people from Malawi are in Zimbabwe and many were badly hit by the farm invasions. BACK NEXT 1 of 9 Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said that if Mr Tsvangirai was looking for safety at the diplomatic mission, he was welcome. "We've seen the last weeks a new low in the tortured history of Zimbabwe and I think that Mr Mugabe no longer has any moral legitimacy in the eyes of the people of Zimbabwe," he told the BBC. Mr Tsvangirai blames supporters of President Mugabe and the ruling Zanu-PF party for the death of 86 of his supporters in the run-up to the second-round, due to be held on Friday. On Monday, more than 60 supporters of Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party were arrested at its Harare headquarters. MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said those arrested were women and children who had fled political violence. Zimbabwean police told AFP news agency they had only moved 39 people from the building for "hygiene reasons". President Mugabe and Zanu-PF blame the opposition for political violence across the country. The MDC won the parliamentary vote in March, and claims to have won the first round of the presidential contest outright. In the official results, Mr Tsvangirai led but failed to gain enough votes to avoid a run-off.
It is easy to make out a case for the view that opinion is omnipotent, and that all other forms of power are derived from it. Armies are useless unless the soldiers believe in the cause for which they are fighting, or, in the case of mercenaries, have confidence in the ability of their commander to lead them to victory. Law is impotent unless it is generally respected. Economic institutions depend upon respect for the law; consider, for example, what would happen to banking if the average citizen had no objection to forgery. Religious opinion has often proved more powerful than the State. If, in any country a large majority were in favor of Socialism, Capitalism would become unworkable. On such grounds it might be said that opinion is the ultimate power in social affairs. But this would only be a half-truth, since it ignores the forces which cause opinion. While it is true that opinion is an essential element in military force, it is equally true that military force may generate opinion. ... ... We thus have a kind of seesaw; first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority, then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary... ...There are, however, some important instances of influence on opinion without the aid of force at any stage. Of these the most notable is the rise of science... ...It is customary nowadays to descry Reason as a force in human affairs, yet the rise of science is an overwhelming argument on the other side. The men of science proved to intelligent laymen that a certain kind of intellectual outlook ministers to military prowess and to wealth; these ends were so ardently desired that the new intellectual outlook overcame that of the Middle Ages, in spite of the force of tradition and the revenues of the Church and the sentiments associated with Catholic theology... ...All this effect on opinion has been achieved by science merely through appeal to fact; what science had to say in the way of general theories might be questionable, but its results in the way of technique were patent to all... From this example, something may be learnt as to the power of Reason in general.
(E and F) Genes from each of the major hepatic drug metabolism pathways were expressed in liver seed grafts at levels similar to those of the human liver. (G and H) Mice with liver seed grafts were injected with rifampin solution (25 mg/kg, intraperitoneally) or vehicle control daily for 3 days and, again, 1 hour before sacrifice. (I) Rifampin induced greater CYP3A4 expression in expanded liver seed grafts compared to mice injected with vehicle control. P < 0.05, **P < 0.001 (Student’s t test). To gauge the potential utility of liver seed grafts for studies of drug metabolism, we characterized the expression and induction of human drug-metabolizing enzymes and other key liver-specific proteins in expanded grafts implanted into FNRG mice. We first collected RNA for RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis from liver seed grafts explanted from injured host mice, as well as from control samples comprising healthy human liver, primary human hepatocytes, HUVECs, and NHDFs. We then looked at the expression of 50 genes representing different hepatic gene classes that were expressed in both control human liver and primary human hepatocyte RNA samples. These gene groups included CYP3A4 and CYP2B6 for cytochrome P450 activity, SULT1A1/2A1 for sulfotransferase activity, SLCO1A2/1B1 for anion transporter activity, ABCB/ABCG for adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP)–binding transporters, APOB/APOE for lipoprotein biosynthesis, albumin for biosynthesis, and HNF4A/G encoding key transcription factors. Read counts across groups were normalized to human primary hepatocyte control RNA samples to create an expression heat map (Fig. 3D). A total of 47 of 50 of these liver-specific genes were expressed in explanted liver seed grafts, compared to 18 of 50 genes expressed in unexpanded HUVEC and NHDF RNA samples. Genes from each of the major hepatic drug metabolism pathways were expressed in liver seed grafts at similar levels to the human liver, including cytochrome P450 enzymes (Fig. 3E), sulfotransferases (Fig. 3F), and anion transporters and ATP-binding transporters (Fig. 3, G and H). In addition to hepatic gene expression studies, we tested the ability of liver seed grafts to up-regulate key drug metabolism enzymes in response to a known human CYP450 inducer (21). We administered rifampin or vehicle control to FNRG animals treated with NTBC bearing expanded liver seed grafts, euthanized the animals, and collected RNA from explanted liver seed grafts. We found that rifampin induced CYP3A4 expression in liver seed grafts, a highly liver-specific phenomenon indicative of mature hepatocyte function (Fig. 3I).
Mahendra Swarup Tyagi, 75, wonders how a one-time loan waiver will end his misery, as he is forced to sell his potatoes at just four rupees a kilogram, less than it costs him to grow his crop.“We want the right price for our produce,” said Tyagi, who has a loan of 150,000 rupees. “If the government wants to help farmers, it should give us more assistance on electricity, diesel, fertilizer and seed.”Outstanding countrywide agricultural loans as of Sept. 30 were at 12.6 trillion rupees, as farmers struggle with a decrease in land holdings, deteriorating soil quality, high input costs and low prices for their produce.“Farmers are virtually on their death bed, so some booster dose will be helpful, but I don’t know for how long the farmers will be kept alive,” said P. Chengal Reddy, chief adviser to the Consortium of Indian Farmers Association, arguing the need for a loan waiver. “If BJP wants to retain power the first thing they have to do is to appease the farmers. Pleasing farmers through a loan waiver is a very big political advantage.”In Uttar Pradesh, the government will lose 274 billion rupees or 8 percent of its total revenue when the loan waiver is implemented for small and marginal farmers, according to a March 20 State Bank of India research paper, which notes the total outstanding credit for the state’s agricultural sector is around 862 billion rupees. “This will definitely cause some amount of stress for the state’s fiscal arithmetic in the coming year,” it said.Several states had requested farm loan waivers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told parliament last week, adding the federal government won’t adopt a selective approach to any particular state bearing the debt burden. The chief ministers of Punjab and Maharashtra have issued a public plea for farm loan waivers for their states, however the government has not indicated whether it will consider a nationwide waiver program.At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, an 18th-century observatory and traditional rallying point, more than 30 farmers from southern state of Tamil Nadu staged a protest last week holding the skulls of farmers who had committed suicides in their region. They were demanding farm loan waivers, saying they are not in a situation to repay their debts because of severe droughts.“We’ve come all the way from Tamil Nadu to protest against this government’s indifferent attitude towards farmers,” said A. John Mekioraj, 51, farmer from Nagar village in Tiruchirappalli.
void UShowDebugComponent::BeginPlay() { Super::BeginPlay(); //If want to use custom tick interval set the Tick interval if (isUsingCustomTickInterval) { PrimaryComponentTick.TickInterval = CustomTickInterval; } //create UWidgetComponent component object WidgetComponentRef = NewObject<UWidgetComponent>(this); //Sets UWidgetComponent User widget class to display WidgetComponentRef->SetWidgetClass(ShowDebugWidgetClass); //Set UWidgetComponent draw size WidgetComponentRef->SetDrawSize(FVector2D(2000, 500)); //This will work only in 4.11 - setting widget space to screen not world WidgetComponentRef->SetWidgetSpace(EWidgetSpace::Screen); //Make sure widget don't have any collision WidgetComponentRef->SetCollisionEnabled(ECollisionEnabled::NoCollision); //Add created component to the Owner. GetOwner()->AddComponent(FName("ShowDebugWidgetComponent"), false, GetOwner()->GetRootComponent()->GetComponentTransform(), WidgetComponentRef); //Attach component to the root WidgetComponentRef->AttachTo(GetOwner()->GetRootComponent()); //Register component. Without this it won't be visible WidgetComponentRef->RegisterComponent(); //After registering store reference to the User Widget object (User Widget) ShowDebugWidgetRef = Cast<UShowDebugWidget>(WidgetComponentRef->GetUserWidgetObject()); } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 void UShowDebugComponent :: BeginPlay ( ) { Super :: BeginPlay ( ) ; //If want to use custom tick interval set the Tick interval if ( isUsingCustomTickInterval ) { PrimaryComponentTick . TickInterval = CustomTickInterval ; } //create UWidgetComponent component object WidgetComponentRef = NewObject < UWidgetComponent > ( this ) ; //Sets UWidgetComponent User widget class to display WidgetComponentRef -> SetWidgetClass ( ShowDebugWidgetClass ) ; //Set UWidgetComponent draw size WidgetComponentRef -> SetDrawSize ( FVector2D ( 2000 , 500 ) ) ; //This will work only in 4.11 - setting widget space to screen not world WidgetComponentRef -> SetWidgetSpace ( EWidgetSpace :: Screen ) ; //Make sure widget don't have any collision WidgetComponentRef -> SetCollisionEnabled ( ECollisionEnabled :: NoCollision ) ; //Add created component to the Owner. GetOwner ( ) -> AddComponent ( FName ( "ShowDebugWidgetComponent" ) , false , GetOwner ( ) -> GetRootComponent ( ) -> GetComponentTransform ( ) , WidgetComponentRef ) ; //Attach component to the root WidgetComponentRef -> AttachTo ( GetOwner ( ) -> GetRootComponent ( ) ) ; //Register component. Without this it won't be visible WidgetComponentRef -> RegisterComponent ( ) ; //After registering store reference to the User Widget object (User Widget) ShowDebugWidgetRef = Cast < UShowDebugWidget > ( WidgetComponentRef -> GetUserWidgetObject ( ) ) ; }
12 Hope International University Fullerton, CA Cost: $$$$$ Graduation Rate: 40% Founded in 1928 in Fullerton, CA, Hope International University (HIU) is non-denominational online Christian university in the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ tradition. Today the school serves more than 2,000 students on-campus and online from many different Christian denominations. HIU offers five undergraduate degrees online, including an associate of arts, and bachelor’s programs in four areas of liberal studies: teacher preparation, business administration, Christian ministry, and human development. The associate of arts program introduces students to the fundamentals of arts, sciences, and biblical ethics, and graduates transfer seamlessly into any of HIU’s bachelor’s programs. The bachelor’s degree in teacher preparation builds a base of knowledge for future educators, and juniors and seniors may enroll in graduate level education courses, earning up to nine credits that count toward a bachelor’s and a master’s degree. The Christian ministry program prepares graduates for church leadership roles with courses in theology. Students in the business administration program may complete their degree in a unique accelerated format that allows them to finish in just three years, rather than the typical four. The human development degree emphasizes Christian values in the counseling and helping professions, with two concentrations available in either community mental health or family studies. HIU offers several graduate degree programs in education, counseling, business administration, and church music, among others. Some programs -- such as general management and counseling psychology -- are available fully online. Others use a hybrid format that requires students to complete some coursework on-campus in addition to online classes. Degree candidates who are unfamiliar with online learning can sample a free online demo course through the HIU website. The demo provides a general sense of online course structuring and helps students determine their preparedness for online work. Basic Info
Conclusions The Medical Library Association's vision of providing ‘quality information for improved health’2 is complicated by the abundance of misinformation published in the popular media that over time becomes erroneously deemed a medical fact. Armed with the knowledge of how unsubstantiated and/or embellished health information becomes part of the vernacular, health science librarians will be well positioned to create solutions to both reduce the effects of health misinformation and promote the dissemination of accurate and reliable health information. This systemic review was therefore undertaken to depict the pathway of a common health myth, the ‘Freshman 15’, within the research and popular literature. The concept of freshmen ubiquitously gaining weight during their first year of college was first introduced in a peer‐reviewed article in 1985 where American freshmen were reported to gain slightly less than nine pounds of body weight.12 This was followed 4 years later by an unrelated piece in the popular magazine, Seventeen,13 where the term ‘Freshman 15’ appears to have first been coined. It was not until the late 1990s that the ‘Freshman 15’ gained further media attention, with an increase in articles appearing in university newspapers in the USA and Canada. The surge coincides with the publication of articles in 200114 and 200215 in the Journal of American College of Health and in 20043 and 200616 in the International Journal of Obesity. Also gaining the attention of the newspaper articles in 2006 is a report on freshman weight gain presented at the 2006 meeting of the Obesity Society in Boston and the publication of Daphne Oz's how‐to book, The Dorm Room Diet.17 It appears that journalists are striving to report medical research findings that are of particular interest to their audience and, in the case of the ‘Freshman 15’, this is especially true of those writing for American and Canadian university newspapers. Examination of the scholarly research on freshman weight gain indicated that, although American and Canadian first‐year college and university students do gain weight, it is less than the purported ‘Freshman 15’. This finding is reflected with accuracy by 42% of the articles published in magazine and newspapers. Although the other approximately 150 popular press articles warn readers of the fateful 15 pounds, it was surprising to observe that the information presented was not entirely alarmist in nature. The majority of articles serve as vehicles of consumer health information by providing sound weight control suggestions drawn from the research literature and experts in the field.
Redguards are around Argonians in height, with long slender limbs and an athletic physique.To reflect their speed and warrior nature, Redguards now have broad shoulders, narrow waists, and powerful arms and legs.They lean more towards a sprinter's physique than the burly nords or orcs.The female have a similar appearance but with a narrower waist and large hips. (They are more sexually dimorphic. )Dunmer: The dunmer are a proud and long lived race, intelligent and well balanced, they can historically adapt well to any class.I've given the dunmer a more idealized physique, longer legs, narrow waists and a more gracile appearance compared to the more stocky races like Nords and Imperials.They remain of average height, albeit slightly taller than Imperials and Khajiit due to slightly lengthened limbs.They are fit to their mixture of Magic, stealth and small bit of warrior skills and abilities they possess.Khajiit: Khajiit are stealthy and agile, with a larger focus on stealth than any other race. Alongside their agile nature they're also fierce at hand to hand combat, using powerful claws to tear foes to shreds.To represent these traits the Khajiit have been given a sleek and slender frame, with long, uniquely shaped legs with a slight curvature(Not digitigrade), and long arms ending in much larger claws than in vanilla. They look a lot better imo, and don't suffer from oversized heads and dumpy figures like they did in vanilla.Imperial: Imperials have no height change on males and a ratio height change on females, making the women slightly shorter. They are sexually dimorphic, due to the fact that the imperial legion is populated predominately by men.Unlike the Imperials of Oblivion, the Imperials in Skyrim have lost their diplomatic streak, and have experienced years of siege and strife in their homelands. They've lost their bonuses to speech in favour of skills with shield, sword and heavy armor.A tough race, determined to see their empire survive, the imperials are now stockier, with broader shoulders and a sturdy appearance.
But, he added, “it is however true that the pope has invited the Brazilian bishops on more than one occasion to seek and propose with courage the pastoral solutions that they believe to be suitable for addressing the major pastoral problems of their country.”In another area of Latin America, Chiapas, in the south of Mexico, the pressure for a married clergy has been made concrete in recent decades with the ordination of an exorbitant number of indigenous deacons, several hundred, in the vast diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, in which there are a few dozen priests and almost all of them are elderly.The mass ordination of these deacons, all of them married, had its culmination in the forty years of the episcopate, from 1959 to 2000, of Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who became famous for his proximity to Subcomandante Marcos, in the long conflict in Chiapas between the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación and the Mexican federal government.In 2000, however, with the retirement of Ruiz Garcia, Rome ordered a suspension of ordinations to the diaconate. It banned the practice of calling them “indigenous deacons,” as if this constituted a new and different kind of ministry in the Church. It enjoined the wives not to call themselves “deaconesses” or represent that they too had received sacramental ordination, on account of the practice of imposing hands on them as well during the ordination of their husbands. It demanded that the deacons already ordained state publicly that their ordination ended there and did not constitute in any way a stage toward a subsequent priestly ordination, as married priests:But after Bergoglio’s election as pope, the ban was revoked. In May of 2014, Rome again authorized the successor to Ruiz Garcia, Bishop Arizmendi Esquivel, to resume diaconal ordinations. And the bishop promptly announced that he had around a hundred of them planned:Meanwhile, in Rome, Pope Francis was proceeding with a profound reorganization of the management and personnel of the Vatican congregation for the clergy, where the greatest resistance to the introduction of a married clergy lay.But there’s more.
Until now, the multiple language flavors of Angular 2 were written as TypeScript source, and then automatically compiled to both JavaScript and Dart. We're happy to announce that we’re splitting the Angular 2 codebase into two flavors – a Dart version and a TypeScript/JavaScript version – and creating a dedicated AngularDart team.This is amazing news for Dart developers because:This is equally great news for our TypeScript and JavaScript developers, by the way. Cleaner API, performance gains, easier contributions. Read more on the Angular blog.Angular 2 for Dart is used by many teams at Google. Most famously by the AdWords team, but many other Google teams build large, mobile-friendly web apps. Some of the top requests from these teams were: make the API feel like Dart, provide a faster edit-refresh cycle, and improve application performance.That’s exactly what we aim to do. We believe we can significantly improve both the performance and usability of AngularDart. For example, in the 2 weeks since we started work on the purely Dart version, we were already able to unleash strong mode on the code and were able to significantly improve the code quality (fixed 1000+ warnings).We're also happy to announce plans to release our. These components are built purely in Dart, and they’re used in production Google apps. Watch news.dartlang.org for updates.Here’s just one of the many Angular 2 Dart components we plan to release:Dart was designed "batteries included" – it’s not just a programming language, but also a set of stable libraries solid tools , a great framework — and soon, a repository of battle-tested UI widgets.The components aren’t ready to be publicly released yet, but if you were thinking about learning Dart, now is a good time to start . By the time you’re ready to build production apps, you’ll have the building blocks at your disposal.is now available on the pub site . You can look at the source, file issues and create pull requests at dart-lang/angular2 . If you already use AngularDart in a project, you can usenow to get the latest version. Please join the AngularDart gitter to ask general questions.
Duplicates being far better would make this card near-worthless if not for that, but the Bodyguard does have some real utility and I expect it to be a commonplace card for protecting Lords and Ladies - aka, the characters that can actually win you games in the current cardpool.mnBroncos - 4 out of 5Now that attachments can be set up it opens a whole new layer for them. Any deck with 4 or more lords/ladies will like this card, it is a one cost save.Oktarg: 3 out of 5[review pending]rave - 4 out of 5Despite its cost, it feels at least on par with how it used to be, maybe better, because of it’s ability to be set up, and the fact it now saves from discard.scantrell24 - 4 out of 5I like that you can setup Bodyguard on a cheap Lord/Lady like Shireen or Viserys, then bounce it to hand when they die and re-marshal the following turn to protect a more important Lord/Lady. That additional flexibility moves Bodyguard from a 3 to a 4.VonWibble - 4 out of 5Its an extra copy of any lord or lady you have in your deck. Unless you are playing Night’s Watch, that’s pretty much any important character.Old Shrimp Eyes - 4 out of 5Nothing more to add to everything that's just been said. The changes to attachment make this card well worthy of inclusion and in a core set only environment it's an auto include for nearly everyone.emptyrepublic - 3 out of 5Only of value to decks with low amount of intrigue characters. No doubt a likely attachment for Ned or Robb Stark.Ire & WWDrakey - 3 out of 5Asha and Eddard already sent in their orders for an urchin.Istaril - 3 out of 5Tears of Lys protection, mostly, and a couple factions with an intrigue hole make this one worth considering. Might maintain some value in the long run, as having it bounce to hand and almost guarantee you an intrigue icon on the valar turn has some potential.JCWamma - 4 out of 5Intrigue icons are both important in this core environment (see Tears of Lys later on) and also missing from some large characters, particularly outside of Lannister and Martell.
[17] From Heidelberg, Wangemann first made a side trip to Frankfurt am Main, where Edison had already promised the phonograph to the local Electrotechnical Society. This exhibition-the first in Germany before a broader public audience-was held on 20 September in a large, fully occupied hall. However, Wangemann cut a poor figure by repeatedly treating his Frankfurt audience condescendingly and implying that they were backwards and provincial ("hinterwäldlerisch"). He also gave them excessive indications that he was eager to catch the night train and hence pressed for time. [18] The invitation of Emperor William II to the New Palace in Potsdam on the evening of 23 September was a great honor. The Emperor, who was enthusiastic about the phonograph, had the apparatus precisely explained and caused astonishment with his gift for quick learning. Among other recordings, Wangemann played the cylinder of the Tacianu sisters, which particularly pleased the Empress. However, he made no recordings and was asked to pay a further visit to the castle two days later. [19] The extra engagements-to which was added an invitation from the Russian Czar, who was staying in Berlin-increasingly threw Wangemann's travel and financial plans into disarray: Shall need until end of october three thousand marks more cannot have passage before then moltke bismarck emperor promised records russian emperor invited [20] Despite his promise-see the above telegram-Emperor Wilhelm II once again failed to speak into the phonograph during the second meeting in the New Palace on 25 September. Instead, a cylinder was recorded of the German Crown Prince Wilhelm, then seven years old, and of his younger brothers Eitel Friedrich and Adalbert. [21] In the case of the cylinder of the Hungarian-born piano virtuoso Emanuel Moór, only the year of recording-1889-is known. On the basis of the light ochre cylinder color, the lack of a string core, and the German announcement, we can rule out Paris as a recording location with a high degree of certatinty. It is therefore presumed to be a recording made in Germany or Austria-Hungary between September and December 1889. The "Hungarian Melody," according to the announcement, might be identified with Moór's Opus 24, "Variations and Fugue on a Hungarian Theme. "[22] "Hungarian Melody" - EDIS 93947
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement At least 75 people are dead and thousands are trapped under rubble after a strong earthquake shook western Indonesia, officials say. Buildings, including at least two hospitals, were brought down by the 7.6 magnitude quake, centred about 50km (30 miles) off the coast of Sumatra. Officials say the death toll is expected to rise. It comes hours after a tsunami from a separate quake killed more than 100 people in the South Pacific. A tsunami watch issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in the wake of the Indonesian quake has been lifted. Aid 'on the way' The coastal city of Padang, capital of West Sumatra province, is among the areas hardest hit. ANALYSIS Karishma Vaswani, BBC News, Jakarta We've heard that some of the roads to these areas have been cut off and there are concerns about communications - phone lines and electricity have also been cut off. Indonesia is no stranger to disasters of this sort - the ability to reach people is often criticised and one of the hospitals nearest the epicentre has also collapsed, so there are real concerns about how to get to the places most affected. At least six disaster management teams are on their way to the city of Padang. We've been told it will take up to 10 hours to get to the areas most affected. Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said the death toll was likely to continue to rise sharply, as so many buildings including schools, shops and hotels had collapsed. "We don't know the identity of the victims yet, it's night-time now so it's dark. People are trapped, hotels have collapsed, schools have collapsed, houses have collapsed and electricity has been cut off," he said, quoted by AFP news agency. Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said the quake was one of the biggest in Indonesia in recent years. "This is a high-scale disaster, more powerful than the earthquake in Yogyakarta in 2006 when more than 3,000 people died," he said. Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, said a major city hospital was among the collapsed buildings. At least six rescue teams were on their way to Padang from neighbouring provinces, he said, but would not arrive for at least 10 hours. Local media reported the roof of the city's airport had also collapsed.
Most of us men already know this, but some of us really need to get over ourselves.Okay, maybe you’re not the dumb one. Maybe it’s a friend who only opens his mouth to swop feet. Well, great news: you can help. Don’t let your friends get away with slut shaming, making excuses for rapists or victim blaming, simply because they’re your friends. Call them out on it, and because they’re only embarrassing themselves, consider it an act of charity. Or, if you need a selfish reason, remember that people judge each other by the company they keep.Slut shamers come from all backgrounds, genders and cultures, but they have one thing in common: they’re all poisonous, yellow-bellied toads who would make the world a better place by drinking bleach. Because they’re cowardly, thin-skinned oxygen thieves, they mostly take to the internet to vent their bile, so unfortunately,we can’t manage the situation with a well-deserved punch in the throat.But we can gang up on them. Publicise their most obnoxious and misogynist statements, and invite your friends to respond. Reverse-shaming can be extremely effective.You might not change the shamer’s mind, but it’s surprisingly easy to make them go away (and don’t tell anyone I said this, but it’s also kind of fun).The three golden rules are: a) listen; b) empathise c) don’t be a horse’s ass. And that’s pretty much it. Victim blamers like to nitpick around the circumstances of the rape to find fault with the victim. Don’t even go there. Remind yourself that rape is not only reprehensible, but illegal. Wearing a tank top isn’t.Now if you don’t agree with any of this, and think that some women are “asking for it”, or that men are being unfairly treated, you can still help. All you need to do is read up on the subject, and keep on reading until you realise that you’re wrong.Because trust me, you are. All the clever people say so. Until then, please shut the fuck up. It’s the least you can do.
I could easily say the Islamic Jihadi are crazy or that the Zionist Jews are crazy, but that would be a disservice to the Truth. More accurate, I believe, is to say they are devout. They are fully committed to their cause and they have resources and intelligence with which to execute their plans. The effect of this is that the tail is wagging the dog (the world). However, step back one bit and consider another possibility. What if this extreme behavior is being fed (inspired) by the warmongers, the war profiteers, the Military-Industrial Complex? They did this to America and the Soviet Union for years. They did this to America with regard to Vietnam and many other wars and they did it repeatedly to keep our military spending high --- now as high as the rest of the world combined! After the Soviet Union fell (or shortly before) they must have felt their party was coming to a close and that they needed to start another conflict. Well, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been raging since WWII and the feelings were intense (they still are). That's when they turned Saddam Hussein into an enemy. War war war, profits profits profits. And, since when have the American people cared who gets killed in our name in some 'God-forsaken part of the world'? The Jews and Muslims are perhaps being played for fools, all to make money for someone else. We were beginning to break the habit with the Clinton administration and then boom, right back to the Global War on Terror and war war war. Maybe George W. Bush's nickname should be 'boom boom' for something more fitting for war. Sibel Edmonds is amazingly courageous. But, perhaps she felt she had to act now to avoid catastrophe. I hope she stays safe and we get all the bastards. This also ties in to the John Edwards campaign for the presidency. The 'powers that be' don't want him anywhere near the presidency and they're happy to turn Obama into a mediocrity or worse yet, a puppet. This is one reason I believe we must elect Edwards --- justice sometimes requires great courage, strength and force, even if it comes from the mighty pen in the hand of a fragile woman. Go Sibel!
Hi all, Pharo Launcher 1.6 has just been released! It is available from http://pharo.org/download. This new version introduces two major changes: the list of template sources is now externalized as a Ston file. Pharo Launcher will check regularly (at startup and each day) if there are changes between your local source of templates and the one hosted in Pharo file server. If so, Pharo Launcher will propose you to update your template sources. It is a way to automatically get new official sources or to keep stable, dev versions up to date. a small UI is now available to manage VMs of PharoLauncher (update, remove, list). Also, this is the first release done with all sources coming from GitHub (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher). Big thanks to all contributors, including issue reports. Here is the changelog: Pharo Launcher v1.6 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/releases/tag/1.6> New features: #283 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/283> Template sources should be editable without modifying PL code #172 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/172> Provide a way to update / remove VMs #131 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/131> Display date for "Last Modified" on the form of "X day/month/year ago" Improvements: #295 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/295> Pharo 7 marked as (development version) #290 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/290> Add "latest" to indicate dynamic version development versions for Pharo 7.0 #299 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/299> About hot (more recently used) coloring schema #287 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/287> Launch button is enabled despite no Current image being selected (or present) #274 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/274> Copy and Rename command should not add a "-01" Bug fixes: #293 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/293> zipfile from 85bebb7 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/commit/85bebb7dc75e7e78fac0f2cb02fde3ec384edbf0> has no source file #291 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/291> FileDoesNotExist error at Launcher startup #286 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/286> Buttons (Import > Launch an image...) are cut off in Windows 10 #281 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/281> Pharo Launcher does not go beyond Pharo 7 #1384 image Regards, The Pharo team.
That this was a factor in getting them onto the sanctions list, the US Treasury admits in its discussion of Yakunin:The US Treasury calls Kovalchuk a member of Putin's "inner circle" - apparently again on the strength of Kovalchuk's membership of the Ozero Dacha Cooperative and because of allegations made against him by the whistleblower Sergey Kolesnikov (see below) - whilst Kovalchuk's bank - Bank Rossia - was also also placed on the sanctions list and linked by the US Treasury to the Ozero Dacha Cooperative with the US Treasury saying this about it:As will become clear this can have serious implications for those involved.Rumours of an opulent construction built on a gigantic scale began to circulate in Russia around the time the allegations against Timchenko and Gunvor were falling apart. Judging from aerial photographs the reality is astonishing enough.- located on the Black Sea in Russia's Krasnodar region and done in a pastiche Italian baroque style complete with three helipads -. Inevitably rumours quickly began to spread that it was beingand before long - in December 2010 -Kolesnikov's story is very complicated. Probably the best summary of it in English is one that was provided in November 2011 by The Financial Times in an article with the portentous title A Realm Fit for a Tsar. Essentially Kolesnikov's account is that in the early 1990s, when Putin was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg and headed the city's foreign economic relations committee, he helped through his committee to set up a business called Petromed with two St. Petersburg businessmen - Nikolay Shamalov and Dmitry Gorelov - to buy medical equipment for St. Petersburg's hospitals.According to Kolesnikov (who had a role in the management of Petromed) on Putin's instructions after he became Presidentfrom donations provided to buy the medical equipment- again on Putin's instructions - by Shamalov and Gorelov, a St. Petersburg bank whose CEO was Yury Kovalchuk, a former scientist.As a result of these share purchases Shamalov and Gorelov each came to own 10% of Bank Rossia's shares, with Kovalchuk owning 25% of the shares.- according to Kolesnikov -, Gazprom's insurance arm of which Gazprom was divesting itself as part of a government supported restructuring of its business., a management company that manages(Gazprom's pension arm) which as a result of an asset swap then acquired control of Gazprombank, Russia's third biggest lender.
// the trait import org . scalaquery . session . Database trait RepositoryBase { val db = Database . forURL ( "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/dutch_gis?user=jos&password=secret" , driver = "org.postgresql.Driver" ) } // simple implementation of the bidrepository package org . smartjava . scalatra . repository import org . smartjava . scalatra . model . Bid import org . scalaquery . session . _ import org . scalaquery . ql . basic . { BasicTable => Table } import org . scalaquery . ql . TypeMapper . _ import org . scalaquery . ql . _ import org . scalaquery . ql . extended . PostgresDriver . Implicit . _ import org . scalaquery . session . Database . threadLocalSession class BidRepository extends RepositoryBase { object BidMapping extends Table [( Option [ Long ], Long , Double , Double , String , Long , Long )]( "sc_bid" ) { def id = column [ Option [ Long ]]( "id" , O PrimaryKey ) def forItem = column [ Long ]( "for" , O NotNull ) def min = column [ Double ]( "min" , O NotNull ) def max = column [ Double ]( "max" , O NotNull ) def currency = column [ String ]( "currency" ) def bidder = column [ Long ]( "bidder" , O NotNull ) def date = column [ Long ]( "date" , O NotNull ) def noID = forItem ~ min ~ max ~ currency ~ bidder ~ date def * = id ~ forItem ~ min ~ max ~ currency ~ bidder ~ date } /** * Return a Option [ Bid ] if found or None otherwise */ def get ( bid : Long , user : String ) : Option [ Bid ] = { var result : Option [ Bid ] = None ; db withSession { // define the query and what we want as result val query = for ( u <- BidMapping if u . id === bid ) yield u . id ~ u . forItem ~ u . min ~ u . max ~ u . currency ~ u . bidder ~ u .
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
Before you can eat, however... “OH MY GOD!” A scream rings out from someone near you. You turn your head up and meet the gaze of a familiar white colored fur fox wearing the restaurant’s uniform, eyes widening. Fuck. They found you. “M-Mangle?” She’s taken aback by your question, eyes fluttering as she seems to snap back into the real world. “That’s your name? Nice to meet you Mangle, I’m Fatima!” Well that’s some good news I guess. “Oh. Uh I thought you were someone e-” “Hey! Are you a Humie too?! “Uh, well I-” “Hey that’s super cool! I haven’t met one in this side of town for a while, where’d you buy your skinsuit?! It looks so good!” She approaches you and puts her hand on your face. “Very smooth too! It’s unlike anything I’ve ever-” she pinches and tugs at your face. “seen. Oh my god.” She lets out another loud squeal. “Oh my god this is actual skin! You’re really real!” She pinches so hard it starts to hurt. By now the few people there are in the restaurant have stopped doing their business and are now staring awkwardly at you and the screaming fox. “Uh, hey could you maybe uh… quiet down a little bit?” She stops tugging at you to look around her, realizing the audience you’ve gathered. “Oh uh. Sorry about that.” She lets go. She takes the seat in front of you and leans in to whisper.“Seriously though, what’s your secret? How is your skin so smooth?” She rubs her own fur. “I got laser surgery once and that hurt! Never again, heh.” “He-heh..” “So uh, nice to meet you! Tell me about you Mangle, what do you do?” Oh boy. “Well, my name’s not actually Man- It’s Mike. I just thought you were someone else. I’m sorry. I don’t have a job.” “Oh. Well. I work here! I’m actually the janitor. It’s a little embarrassing, but it’s a job.” Somehow, you aren’t surprised. Fatima continues. “I’m actually on my shift right now but I just HAD to talk to you. I need to know your sec-” You stop her.. “Wait, did you just say you’re supposed to be working?” The fox’s ears pin back as she notices the change of tone in your voice.
The suggestions and comments of the two anonymous referees were also of great assistance. Notes For a discussion of this historiographical approach see, for example, Skinner (1988, pp.246-7); LaCapra (1980, p.275). See also arguments which advocate an anti-foundational anthropological epistemology as playing an important role in prescribing the forms of explanation appropriate to the history of ideas (Bevir 1999, p.218). The word ideology as used in this paper reflects the Marxist insight, expressed clearly by Schumpeter: peoples ideas are likely to glorify the interests and actions of the classes that are in a position to assert themselves and therefore are likely to draw or to imply pictures of them that may be seriously at variance with the truth. Of course, truth itself is a variable, but ideology essentially represents the wielding of power (Schumpeter 1972, p.35). For strong support of Polanyis historical and anthropological analysis of the embeddedness of the economy, see Stanfield (1989, pp.267-9). See also Halperin (1994) especially Ch.1 and Ch. 2, for her development of a generic model of the economy based on Polanyis anthropological insights. See also, for example, Stanfield (1986); Hodgson (1999); North (1977); Tezel (1996). For an early version see, for example, Palgraves Dictionary of Political Economy, (1925) p.38; more recently, see Williams (1988) p.38. Corcoran (1983, p.14) notes: It can be widely demonstrated that early French socialist thinkers developed ideas later claimed as original with Marxian historical materialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was very much the ancestor of much Syndicalist and Anarchist-Communist thought , despite his being often labelled a socialist - which today implies state socialism. See also Cole (1965) pp.202, 214. Enrico Ferri, for example, an Italian criminologist and Deputy, in 1894 wrote Socialism and Positive Science: Darwin-Spencer-Marx, which also incorporated elements of Kropotkins anarchist communist thought (Ferri 1909); Emile Vanderveldes Collectivism and Industrial Evolution claimed to have reconciled the apparent contradiction of principles between anarchist communism and collectivism, and cited Kropotkins anarchist ideas as an ideal for society (Vandervelde 1907). Both books were published by the British Independent Labour Partys (ILP) The Socialist Library, edited by J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P. This type of material was feeding directly into the mainstream of socialism at the end of the century. Ferris book was first published in 1894, translated into French, German, and Spanish in 1895, published in England and America in 1901, then produced in three editions by the ILP, in 1905, 1906, and 1909.
The elections this week for the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American nation in the United States, are in crisis over whether presidential candidates must be fluent in Navajo. But the dispute goes far beyond language requirements and gets to the heart of a growing mood of socially conservative approaches to identity and cultural maintenance that has been the mainstay of Navajo politics for more than 20 years. On Oct. 23 the Navajo Supreme Court decided to postpone the nation’s presidential election and have new ballots made without the name of candidate Chris Deschene, who was disqualified because he was found to be not a native speaker. As the court wrote, “This is a matter of our sovereign right to exist as a nation with its own language. Our sacred language defines us as individuals and as a nation.” On Oct. 28, the tribe’s President Ben Shelly vetoed a last-minute effort from the Navajo Nation Council to amend fluency requirements and keep Deschene on the ballot, claiming changes to the fluency law must “go back to the people” in the form of a referendum for approval. Interestingly, the legislation Shelly vetoed kept fluency requirements intact but added that “the people” (that is, voters) determine Navajo fluency. Three days later, the Navajo Supreme Court found the Board of Election Supervisors in contempt and reaffirmed the postponement of the presidential election until new ballots without Deschene's name could be created. The implications of the court’s approach are narrowing opportunities for younger Navajos to engage in Navajo politics. Although the court ruled in the context of requirements to run for president, language fluency requirements exist throughout tribal law and for virtually every electable position in the Navajo Nation. Deschene, a former representative in the Arizona legislature, with a degree in law, advanced to the final round of elections in early August despite his lack of fluency. His candidacy has sparked a passionate debate on the importance of the Navajo language in public life. Many in the Navajo Nation are asking whether it is reasonable to require elected officials to speak the language fluently.
Four major global firms like Singapore Technologies Kinetics, Israeli Military Industries, Rheinmetall Air Defence, Zurich, and Corporation Defence, Russia, for instance, are blacklisted till 2022.Similarly, the Army has not inducted a single advanced 155mm artillery gun for 30 years, first due to the infamous Swedish Bofors scams of the mid-1980s and then scandals around South African firm Denel and Singapore Technology Kinetics in later years. In effect, almost all the top artillery manufacturers around the world were banned at some time or the other.The virtual blacklisting of Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica and all its subsidiaries after the VVIP helicopter scandal has also derailed several acquisition projects, ranging from new 127 mm naval guns to short-range missiles. The Rs 1,200-crore proposal to buy Black Shark heavy-weight torpedoes from a Finmeccanica subsidiary for the six Scorpene submarines under construction at Mazagon Docks, for instance, was scrapped.
Sciatica is often debilitating but, in most cases, the pain abates with conservative therapy. NONSPECIFIC BACK SYMPTOMS Some patients have symptoms primarily in the back that suggest neither nerve root compromise nor a serious underlying condition.1 Mechanical low back pain is in this category. These patients also usually improve with conservative treatment. With this clinical classification, the examiner can use the history and physical findings to specify the type of back pain affecting the patient and properly treat patients who have potentially serious spinal conditions.
He’ll do it five plays in a row, on national TV, in front of the world. And he loves nothing more than humiliating you. Because I know this: he humiliated me. It’s a hell of a system they have, and he is the greatest trigger of our lifetime. Look at him! He’s snapping these plays off before the Jets are ready. You can be as multiple as you want on defense, but, when you play Tom Brady, he regulates you. He turns you into [whispered] trash. It seems likely that Gruden spends more time watching tape than the average N.F.L. coach; certainly he spends more time talking to other coaches, because he has no secrets to protect. From one perspective, this might seem like a waste: one of football’s sharpest minds, watching all the teams without coaching any of them. But, from a different perspective, it is football’s complexity and secrecy that seem wasteful: all that intelligence and effort devoted to delicate, multivariable contingency plans that the vast majority of fans will never notice, let alone decipher. Football strategy, an arms race between offenses and defenses, is a bit like Beane’s moneyball: it doesn’t necessarily make the sport more entertaining, and may indeed make it less so. Tim Tebow, of the Denver Broncos, became one of the year’s biggest stories precisely because he counters this trend: he is a much maligned quarterback, dogged but crude, who has thrilled fans—and converted Gruden, a former skeptic—by reviving a violent and risky offensive scheme called the option, which was supposed to have been rendered obsolete by the speed and aptitude of modern N.F.L. defenders. Tebow throws less and runs more: instead of looking calmly downfield, he might scuttle toward the sideline, daring a linebacker to try to tackle him. John Madden, the ultimate coach-turned-commentator, discovered that, after twelve years of coaching professional football, he was burned out; his thirty-year second act, as an analyst and a lovable celebrity, eventually came to define him, and he never seemed to question his decision to abandon the sidelines. Gruden is still widely perceived as a potential coach—his name is mentioned, online and on sports radio, whenever there is a quivering team in need of defibrillation. But executives at ESPN won’t say whether his new contract includes a provision that would allow him to return to coaching, and, for now, Gruden considers himself lucky to have one of football’s best jobs.
In his syndicated newspaper column Buchanan demanded, "Conservatives who worship at the altar of an endlessly rising GNP should tell us: What is it they any longer wish to conserve?" The two camps have converged in opposing the so-called "takings" bills, which would require the taxpayers to compensate property owners for restrictions on the use of their property. The Reverend Donald E. Wildemon, the president of the American Family Association, in Tupelo, Mississippi, has called such a proposal in his state the "porn owners' relief measure," because it could restrict the ability of local governments to control such things as topless bars. Environmentalists of course worry about the implications for the protection of wetlands, open space, and the like. The two camps agree that "growth" is not an end in itself but must serve larger values that are not economic in the usual sense. We may be witnessing the opening battles in a new kind of politics that will raise basic questions about growth--questions that defy the conventional left-right divide. Where the old politics was largely concerned with the role of government--with the relation between public and private sectors--the emerging one will be more concerned with such issues as central versus local, market culture versus family and community culture, material accretion versus quality and values. The new politics will not be anti-growth, because to be categorically against growth is as nonsensical as to be categorically for it. Rather, it will begin with Luttwak's sane observation that when your goal is simply to increase GDP, then "what you increase isn't necessarily good." It will insist that growth--and economics generally--must be a means to an end, and not an end in itself. This is not to suggest that such a new alliance is around the corner. But although the differences between the social-conservative and environmentalist camps are still large, they are probably etched more sharply among leaders in Washington than in the nation as a whole. These groups are converging on one crucial issue--namely, the ends of economic life. In their different ways they are expressing the feeling, widespread among the public, that the pronouncements from economic experts are fundamentally out of sync with the experience of their own lives; that economics must be about more than just the production and consumption of stuff; and that we need larger goals and better ways to measure our achievements as a nation. Of course, this instinct could play out in many ways.
As we mentioned last week, Comey recently refused to answer questions from House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz regarding the existence of any Clinton Foundation-related investigations. Fox News' Catherine Herridge reported months earlier that one branch of the Bureau's broader email investigation was tied into the Clinton family's "slush fund." Fox followed-up on the Daily Caller piece on Friday, drawing a 'no comment.' A subsequent DC story again asserted the multi-pronged probes are in fact happening, highlighting the anti-corruption record of the US attorney allegedly leading this charge. Preet Bharara put away two powerful New York politicians in this past May, one from each major party; he's also looking into the dealings of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. As a former top aide to Chuck Schumer, Bharara has been a partisan Democrat in the past, but he's built a reputation leading a fiercely independent and relentlessly tenacious US attorney's office in New York's southern district. That particular office boasts "a tradition of independence...that has often led to tension with the Justice Department,” according to a former prosecutor and judge quoted in the New Yorker's May profile piece on Bharara. In other words, if it's true that he's the tip of a prosecutorial spear aimed at the Clinton Foundation, that's a very big deal. For now, though, that's an unconfirmed if. Bharara's office is also declining comment, for what it's worth. Meanwhile, here's a testy exchange between a State Department spokesperson and an Associated Press reporter last week, wherein the latter finally lost his patience over the former's repeated obfuscations in response to questions surrounding apparent conflicts of interest between State and the Clinton Foundation. "Am I not speaking English?"
When a mainstream press that isn't always good at what it does meets technology it doesn't understand, the end result is often frustrating, if not comedic. Hacking is certainly no exception, given it's a realm where perpetrators are difficult to identify, hard proof is often impossible to come by, and hackers worth their salt either leave false footprints -- or no footprints at all. Throw in a press that's incapable of identifying and avoiding its own nationalism, and often all-too-gullible to intelligence industry influence, and you've got a fairly solid recipe for dysfunction when it comes to hacking-related news coverage.Some of the resulting coverage has been highly entertaining -- such as CNN using a screen shot from the popular game Fallout 4 in a story about hacking and hoping nobody would notice. Other examples have been decidedly more troubling, such as the Washington Post's epic face plant over the holiday break.Last Saturday the Post ran a story claiming that Russia was responsible for the hacking of Burlington Electric, a Vermont utility. According to the original Washington Post story, government sources claimed that code "associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe" was detected at the utility. The story was stuffed to the gills with all manner of pearl-clutching and outrage among politicians convinced Putin was actively trying to bring down the grid:Unsurprisingly, the story quickly gained traction in the media, with numerous reports pouring gasoline on the idea that Russia has escalated its cyber offensives to include targeting sensitive American infrastructure. Many broadly speculated that other utilities had been compromised and that we were at the brink of war.And while it's true that the power grid is vulnerable to hackers (increasingly so courtesy of the internet-of-not-so-smart things ), it turns out that Putin had nothing to do with the particular "attack" on the Vermont utility. In fact, in a follow up story and corrections made to the original report , the Post ultimately had to acknowledge that the malware in question was only found on one laptop, had nothing to do with the Russian government, and was never actually in contact with the grid itself That's obviously a pretty far cry from the hysteria bouncing around the news wires as the new year arrived.
Classification and content of recommendations Two reviewers (VL, KO) independently watched each randomly selected episode to document the topics discussed and the specific details surrounding recommendations. Further information on data extraction is included in the data supplement. To focus on stronger or clearer recommendations for the evidence review portion of the analysis, the reviewers attempted to delineate the more definitive recommendations. This was based on both the strength of the wording (for example, “Get your kids vaccinated” was considered a strong recommendation, whereas “Prescription retin-A helps with ear and other types of acne” was not) and the context in which the recommendation was made (for example, a recommendation may have been classified as strong if it was repeated multiple times). After independent review, data extraction was compared, disagreement of coding and classification was resolved by consensus or third party adjudication (CK, MRK, or GMA), and overall agreement was calculated. We found some of the initial classification of topics and recommendations included categories that were too broad. Therefore, two investigators (CK, JMcC) reclassified all topics and recommendations, again with a third investigator (GMA) resolving any uncertainties. After preliminary review of the data, it was determined that more specific detail was needed to better quantify the type of information provided for all recommendations. Two new reviewers (CC, CF) independently watched the same randomly selected episodes and focused on the recommendations to identify if a benefit was described (such as “heart healthy”), if the benefit was specific (such as “reduces heart attacks”), if a magnitude of benefit was given (such as “reduced 5%”), if costs were mentioned (such as “this supplement costs $5 a month”), and if potential risks or harms were mentioned. In addition, the observers recorded any mention of potential conflict of interest with each recommendation or acknowledgement of potential conflicts of interest at any point during the show. After independent review, data extraction was compared, disagreement was resolved by consensus or third party adjudication (CK, MRK, or GMA), and overall agreement was calculated.
It was Dan Morrill's first time out of the country, and that made him a little nervous. But as he gathered his bags in the Munich airport on a surprisingly warm January morning earlier this year, after the last leg of a long, exhausting flight from San Francisco, he looked up to see a Paul Bunyan-sized BMW grill fixed to the wall. If you're looking for engineers, he thought, there are worse places to go than a city that welcomes you with an oversize Beemer. Rise Of The Smartphone With sales of smartphones booming, 56 percent of US owners are using their device to surf the Web daily. Morrill is a software engineer turned "developer advocate." He's a roving evangelist to the coder world. But that's just his cover. Morrill's real mission is to make sure Android triggers a full-on network effect — that mystical melding of passion and self-interest that fueled the growth of behemoths like eBay and Facebook. Google wants developers to build cool programs that can draw huge numbers of users, creating an expanding market that attracts more developers to build more cool programs to attract more users. If the $10 million prize is the spark, Morrill's job is to make sure there's ignition. Google had dispatched him to Germany to meet with a small group of local mobile programmers. The morning of his talk, Morrill dresses in his usual uniform, an untucked button-down over a silk-screened T-shirt, this one with the image of a friendly green robot, the Android icon. He walks into the conference room of the Innside Hotel and stops. There are almost 200 people, more than twice what he expected. A dozen developers are sitting on the floor in the back of the room, computers propped on their knees. There are hobbyists, chief technical officers, indie programmers, and students. Morrill runs through his prepared remarks then starts taking questions. They want to know about Android programming, of course, but they also ask why Google is doing this, what the company's expectations are, and what the criteria will be for awarding the prize money. At one point, hotel management shows up to warn Morrill that the size of the gathering violates the fire code. The virus was spreading. At an event the next day in Israel, the local Google office had to switch locations to handle the overflow crowd. In London, registration for the developer's conference filled up in two hours.
A 14-year-old boy died Wednesday after he was severely beaten over bad grades by his parents, officials said.The boy’s parents, Furnell and Terri Daniel, were rebooked on a count of second-degree murder in the death. The two were initially booked on charges of second-degree cruelty to a juvenile.Officers were called to the scene Saturday on Clifford Court in Waggaman on a call that a boy, identified as Jalen Daniel, fell in the bathtub and hit his head. The boy’s father, Furnell Daniel, was identified as the caller. The boy was breathing but not conscious when medical personnel arrived at the scene, according to a news release from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.Jalen was taken to the Ochsner Main Campus Hospital on Jefferson Highway, where Furnell Daniel told investigators that he paddled the boy for having poor grades. He told authorities that he thought the boy complaining of serious pain was a ruse to avoid discipline.“After speaking to the father, patrol officers were told by ER staff of the severity of the injuries and that the injuries were consistent with abuse, not a fall,” Col. John Fortunato, with the JPSO, said. Fortunato said the boy’s injuries consisted of numerous bruises, contusions, lacerations and abrasions on the legs, arms, torso and also to the head.It was later discovered that there was a splinter of wood inside a wound above the victim's right eye, officials said. Investigators learned that the victim, along with his 15-year-old brother, “would often get paddled by their father due to poor grades.” “The victim was extremely scared of his father and ran when the father attempted to administer this discipline,” the news release said.
Within two weeks, en route to the US on June 4 (today), Modi was flying to Herat in western Afghanistan to inaugurate the Salma dam that India has been building at least since the late 1970s.By putting India's money where his mouth is, and vice-versa, Modi was displaying India's potential as a player to reckon with, at least in this part of Asia. "Chabahar may be India's response to China's activity in Gwadar, next door in Pakistan. There is no reason why China's One Belt, One Road initiative (which connects key Chinese centres across the heart of Eurasia) should be the only game in town," Trenin said.Certainly, over the last two years, Modi has put the world on notice that India's time is coming. Whether it is beating a Japanese drum in Kyoto, checking out the circa 200 BC terracotta soldiers of China's first emperor in the company of Xi Jinping, or filling up stadiums in New York, London and Sydney with raving NRIs - which has had foreign leaders like David Cameron and Tony Abbott wondering why their citizens of Indian origin are flocking to treat an ordinary politician like a rockstar - Modi's extraordinary drive and ambition has caught the attention of the big and middling powers.Tellis explained the difference between Modi and India's former Prime Ministers. For Modi, he said, "Foreign policy has to be anchored to the domestic reform agenda. He wants to constantly know how you can leverage the external to aid the internal. "In contrast, Atal Behari Vajpayee was so "private and personal, one never really knew what he actually thought," while Manmohan Singh was much more focused on "how he should strengthen the geopolitical agenda and eliminate the constraints that India has been struggling with for several decades," Tellis added.But he acknowledged Modi's inheritance of both Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh's legacy, especially regarding India's standing as an equal on the high table. While the nuclear tests were conducted during Vajpayee's tenure in 1998, Manmohan Singh persuaded the US to sign not only a bilateral nuclear deal but also an IAEA waiver of India's non-NPT status.Insiders say that Modi doesn't care to read the detailed briefs that his diplomats place in front of him, much preferring to have them brief him orally or through power-point presentations.
"Whereas, The [Mormon] citizens of Caldwell county have borne with the abuse received from you, at different times, and on different occasions, until it is no longer to be endured; neither will they endure it any longer, having exhausted all the patience they have, and conceive that to bear any longer is a vice instead of a virtue. We have borne long and suffered incredibly; but we will neither bear nor suffer any longer; and the decree has gone forth from our hearts, and shall not return to us void. Neither think, gentlemen, that in so saying we are trifling with either you or ourselves, for we are not. There are no threats from you -- no fear of losing our lives by you, or by anything you can say or do, will restrain us; for out of the country you shall go, and NO POWER SHALL SAVE YOU. And you shall have three days after you receive this communication to you, including twenty-four hours in each day, for you to depart with your families, peaceably; which you may do, undisturbed by any person; but in that time, if you do not depart, we will use the means in our power to cause you to depart: for GO YOU SHALL, We will have no more promises to reform, as you have already done, and in every instance violated your promise, and regarded not the covenant which you had made, but put both it and us at defiance. We have solemnly warned you, and that in the most determined manner, that if you did not cease that course of wanton abuse of the [Mormon] citizens of this county, that vengeance would overtake you sooner or later, and that when it did come it would be as furious as the mountain torrent, and as terrible as the beating tempest; but you have affected to despise our warnings, and pass them off with a sneer or grin, or a threat, and pursued your former course; and vengeance sleepeth not, neither does it slumber; and unless you heed us this time and attend to our request, it will overtake you at an hour w^hen you do not expect, and at a day when you do not look for it; and for you there SHALL BE no ESCAPE; for there is but one decree for you, which is: Depart, depart, or a more fatal calamity shall befall you."
ABC11 has learned the owner of the Carolina Railhawks is among the officials with FIFA who were indicted in connection with an international federal corruption investigation.Aaron Davidson who is president of Traffic Sports USA Inc., which is the majority owner of the Cary-based Railhawks, and is chairman of the North American Soccer League's (NASL) Board of Governors, the league the Railhawks play in, was among the defendants listed in the 47-count indictment.According to a statement released by the NASL, Traffic Sports will continue to operate the Railhawks and the team's management will remain in charge of day-to-day operations.The indictment was unsealed early this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, in connection with the defendants' participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer. The guilty pleas of four individual defendants and two corporate defendants were also unsealed today.Triangle Soccer Fanatics, the independent nonprofit group that promotes soccer in the Triangle, released the following statement:"We support the players, coaches, and administrative staff of the Carolina RailHawks Football Club. As we see them work tirelessly, on and off the field, with minimal budget and resources, to grow the game of soccer here locally and entertain their fans, it angers us to learn of these corruption charges and admission of guilt within our very ownership group. "Meanwhile, Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings into FIFA's awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested Wednesday pending extradition to the U.S. in a separate probe of "rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted" corruption.FIFA, meanwhile, said Friday's presidential election would go ahead as planned with Sepp Blatter going for a fifth term. Blatter was not named in either investigation.FIFA also ruled out a revote of the World Cups won by Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022.The Swiss prosecutors' office said in a statement they seized "electronic data and documents" at FIFA's headquarters on Wednesday as part of their probe. And Swiss police said they will question 10 FIFA executive committee members who took part in the World Cup votes in December 2010.The Swiss investigation against "persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering" again throws into the doubt the integrity of the voting.
Iain Wright, Schools Minister The Conservatives said ministers were to blame for the thousands of students who may miss out on a university place. Shadow education spokesman David Willetts said: "I congratulate all those who have received their A-level results. Their success reflects an enormous amount of hard work. "It is tragic that ministers are now blocking the path to university for so many of them. "The government first reduced the number of university places, then offered only unfunded places and are now threatening to fine universities that over-recruit. They said they wanted half of all young people to go to university by 2010, but now they are blocking progress towards their own target." Liberal Democrat spokesperson for universities, Stephen Williams, said students applying to study arts subjects would not benefit from the extra places announced. "The irony is that while a record number of students are likely to get the top grades, more young people than ever are going to be disappointed as they fail to get a place at university." Schools Minister Iain Wright said the government had expanded university education. "This September will see more young people than ever before starting higher education. This is a transformation in education participation and attainment which should be a cause for celebration not criticism." "The entrance into university is always a competitive process. We've provided more resources, we've provided more money, which contrasts to the Conservatives point of view, which wouldn't provide a single additional place for university students. "There are 10,000 additional places in addition to the massive investment in higher education that we've provided over the last decade. I would say to students, don't give up hope, there is options available there."

Meta game might set in at some point (though I still think build orders and/or loadouts will greatly vary) but constant addition of new elites in future content patches/expansions will solve that problem. What I can't stress enough though is this: at its heart, Dawn of War 3 is still an RTS, much like Dawn of War 1. Micro-management of your army is absolutely essential and crucial to the game's outcome. Dawn of War 3 also has numerous flaws such as very few maps and odd looking UI elements (sometimes ugly even, to give you some examples: certain icons are really pixelated, player profile looks mediocre etc.). Not being able to change your keybinds can also be frustrating but I believe all those quirks (some more annoying than others) will eventually get fixed. I'll be honest, in some ways the game feels rushed. At least that is the impression I got after playing it for 30+ hours. Like mentioned before, lack of certain features can be quite frustrating (to give you an example, as of right now it is not possible to surrender when playing online). The game is not perfect but at the same time it is not as bad as people make it out to be. Pros: - Solid, well designed single player campaign (most definitely an improvement over the Dawn of War 1's campaign, the 2nd game had a much better single player experience tho). - 3 one of a kind races with unique gameplay mechanics such as the orc with their scraps, space marines with the drop pod system etc. - Innovative, fast-paced (yet still very tactical) multiplayer mode with a complex progression system. - Feels very 40k-like (killing hundreds of orcs and eldar with an imperial knight is just epic). - Outstanding soundtrack. - Good optimization. Cons: - Few maps. - Only one gameplay mode (hopefully more will be added in future patches). - Sometimes UI feels just... off. - Lack of a ranked multiplayer mode. - Annoying small features that are lacking such as not being able to assign your own keybinds. - Pathfinding can be awkward at times. - The game just feels slightly rushed and could have been MUCH better. Final Score: 7/10. If you're a fan of the series and the 40k universe, ignore the mixed reviews and buy the game, it is my belief that you will immensely enjoy it.
Over the course of several months, the air sacs deflate, and the lung shrinks in size, clearing the way for the diaphragm to return to normal function.Perry Waldrop, who started smoking at an early age, was quick to agree to be the first U.S. patient.“I just couldn’t do anything,” Waldrop said. “I had no energy, I couldn’t even walk. When you can’t breathe, anything is worth a try.”The procedure, which takes about 45 minutes, is done under light anesthesia. Patients typically stay in the hospital overnight to monitor their reaction. Three months after his injection, Waldrop said he sees improvement, but it will be another couple of months and the arrival of drier weather before he is truly able to gauge the benefit.Dransfield said his expectation is that the procedure will prove to be much safer than surgery, with similar results.“We don’t yet know the balance of risks and benefits for this procedure as well as we do for surgery,” Dransfield said. “Certainly the hope is the risk will be far lower, and the preliminary data from Europe indicates that that is true. The risk of major cardio- or pulmonary complications is quite low. I think having a safer option that is as effective or almost as effective as surgery will greatly improve our ability to take care of these folks.”So far, the major complication is an immune system inflammatory response with flu-like symptoms that typically resolves over the course of two or three days.Waldrop, who is on supplemental oxygen, would like to one day leave that oxygen tank at home.“I want to play golf,” he said. “I’d like to just be able to go play golf, or just enjoy something every once in a while and not have to worry about running out of energy. Quality of life is everything, and I’d like my quality of life to come back up to where I can do things and not have to worry so much – and not have my wife worry about me so much.”UAB is part of an international phase III trial of the AeriSeal System treatment aiming to enroll 300 patients in Europe, Israel and the United States.

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