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It would be preferable not to have five-hour “go-slows”—traffic jams—that force many workers to get up well before dawn and spend almost no waking hours at home. And it would be preferable not to have an economy in which millions of people have to invent marginal forms of employment because there are so few jobs. I asked Paul Okunlola, an editor at the Nigerian newspaper the Guardian, why people kept coming to Lagos, when there seemed so little chance of getting ahead. “They never believe there’s no chance,” he said. Okunlola described the largest market in Lagos: the Mile 12, on the highway heading north out of town, where foodstuff coming into the city is bought and sold wholesale. It is a muddy area—much of Lagos is reclaimed swampland—and workers with buckets of water earn seven cents washing the feet of market women. “That is the kind of entrepreneurship that keeps a lot of people in Lagos,” Okunlola said. “If you took that to my home town, who would wash feet—and who would pay money for it, anyway? That is what drives Lagos.” Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, the chairman of a district on Lagos Island, said that globalization, in the form of mass media, attracts Nigerians to Lagos as a substitute for New York or London. A distorted picture then flows back to the village. “Come Christmas, everybody in Lagos—the successful and the unsuccessful—packs their bags and goes off to the rural areas to show off what they have achieved,” Gbadebo-Smith said. “Some achievements are real, for some it’s just a mirage, but everybody’s there showing off. So the young people in the villages very quickly come to the conclusion that ‘Hey, I’ve got to go to Lagos, make enough to be able to come back here, and to show off.’ ” In this way, the West African countryside is being rapidly depopulated. Adegoke Taylor, a skinny, solemn thirty-two-year-old itinerant trader with anxious eyes, shares an eight-by-ten-foot room with three other young men, on an alley in Isale Eko several hundred feet from the Third Mainland Bridge. In 1999, Taylor came to Lagos from Ile-Oluji, a Yoruba town a hundred and thirty miles to the northeast. He had a degree in mining from a polytechnic school and the goal of establishing a professional career. Upon arriving in the city, he went to a club that played juju—pop music infused with Yoruba rhythms—and stayed out until two in the morning.
The colonial government proceeded to conduct searches throughout the Indochinese countryside to find Eurasian children who had been abandoned by their [End Page 599] French fathers. Government administrators searched areas of former military camps and followed leads reported by French or Vietnamese civilians. Jules Brévié Foundation administrators demanded a “quick, serious track-down of the children before they are 6 years of age,” and instructed its agents to “tear [arracher] [the children] from their mothers, preferably at 2 to 3 years of age” and enroll them in French schools.86 The Jules Brévié Foundation, still dominated by men, hired white women to search for abandoned Eurasian children, and either negotiate with Vietnamese women or coerce them into placing their children in the Brévié orphanages. One of the women, a Madame Aumont, conducted a search for Eurasian children in the Haỉ Phòng area of Tonkin. From 1942–44, Aumont placed Eurasian children in the Jules Brévié Foundation, many of them unwillingly “abandoned” by their mothers. As Aumont reported to the Resident Superior of Tonkin, she deliberately placed the children in orphanages in discreet locations where the mothers would not find them. 87 In one complicated case, a mother with three Eurasian children engaged in a kind of cat-and-mouse pursuit with Madame Aumont. The Jules Brévié Foundation obtained custody of two of the children, Thérèse and Felix, through the efforts of Madame Aumont.88 In 1940, the Brévié Foundation sought to gain custody of the third child, Marc, and offered his mother a subvention of 10 piastres per month. The mother originally complied, then changed her mind and asked to have all three of her children back. The Brévié Foundation refused and moved her children to three separate orphanages so that she would have trouble finding them. The mother did, however, manage to track Marc down and forced the priest in charge of the orphanage to give her back her child. The mother escaped Madame Aumont by frequently moving within the area of Gia Viên and Kiến An. Aumont suspected that Vietnamese village heads in various areas were aiding the mother by sending advance notifications warning of Aumont’s arrival. Aumont also suspected that other mothers went into hiding when they learned of her impending visits.89
Maybe the metaphor could be lined up in different ways; to the genotype, or wherever, or maybe the idea is like the gene and a behavioral action is like an organism. I've tried to find a way to make the metaphor work! No matter how I try, I can't find a reducible sub-strata in the life of ideas to hang on it. If the meme metaphor informs, it should be possible to name this sub-strata. Can you name it? Ideas can be rigorous, so the notion of improvement has meaning. Genes, on the other hand, don't improve; they just adapt to local circumstance. I believe this is both incorrect and a category mistake. Strictly speaking, genes can improve (the rare beneficial mutation, for example) In this case I think you are being confused by putting the meme metaphor into reverse gear, like my Lamarkian students. Surely adaptation is only local, while a mathematical theorem is global. A scientific idea, once falsified, is permanently falsified, while a vanished genetic feature might someday reappear if local circumstances change to once again favor it. And that adaptation is entirely non-intentional and so slow that we learn about it largely from fossils. No problem with your "non-intentional" here, but any bacteriologist, I imagine, can give you what amount to eye-witness accounts of evolutionary adaptation in action. That's one of the nice things about studying the genetics of organisms with short life cycles. You're right on this point. What I meant to say is that the genetic rate of change is far slower than the pace of events in the life of an organism. If the meme metaphor informs, once the "genetic" sub-strata has been named, it ought to change very slowly, relative to the pace of discourse. Or if the metaphor should be lined up differently, and the ideas are the genes, there ought to be a faster moving "organism" equivalent that speeds past our ideas. Evolution is an evil thing. All your genetic features are the result of the pre-reproductive deaths of your would-be ancestors. They were killed in cold blood by your real ancestors, or by micro-organisms, or by cold or hunger. Your features weren't decided by a nice process. If we really want to understand human discourse by making a metaphor with the heart of cruelty, we ought to have a good reason. I'm not saying the meme metaphor never works at all.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul and everything else that ails you! By Kathleen Guagliano ( By Kathleen Guagliano ( Katg ) on May 7, 2010 Chicken soup is International and every culture seems to have their own variation. Not only is it comforting and delicious, Scientists are confirming what Grandmothers have known for years! With Cooler Weather on the way...It's time to start thinking "Soup!" I love Soup! I live in Florida and it doesn’t matter how hot the weather is, I always make Soup. The other day I was craving some Chicken soup and didn’t have any on hand so I decided to open a can of that Campbell’s Select – you know the one advertised on TV where the woman can identify where all the ingredients came from…herbs from Smiths farm, potatoes grown on the east side of a mountain, blah, blah, blah! It’s just not quite what they make it out to be! Okay, I admit it, I’m a Soup-Snob but there really is nothing like a good bowl of home-made soup! Chicken soup is International and every culture seems to have their own variation. Just to mention a few - The Chinese love theirs seasoned with ginger, spring onions and star anise. The French prefer a bouillon or a consommé. Germans may add dumplings or Spaetzle noodles, and in Israel, Chicken soup is a traditional dish of the Jewish kitchen and Shabbat. Lately, Scientists say they have confirmed what grandmothers have known for years -that chicken soup is good for colds. Specifically, it has anti-inflammatory properties that could explain why it soothes sore throats and eases the misery of colds. There’s also that "TLC" factor when you know that somebody prepared soup for you from scratch! Whatever it is, it’s just good stuff! My Mom always made chicken soup using an old hen and boiling it for hours…and it was wonderful. However old hens are hard to find these days (in the fowl form) and I usually use whatever chicken is on sale that week – I’ll usually go for thigh and leg quarters. I was also very fortunate to have travelled to Sicily many years ago and met a woman who made the best chicken stock I’ve ever tasted. She was also gracious enough to share her technique with me. There are a few things that make this stock very different.
package jmodern ; import com.codahale.metrics. * ; import com.codahale.metrics.annotation. * ; import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation. * ; import com.google.common.base.Optional ; import io.dropwizard.Application ; import io.dropwizard. * ; import io.dropwizard.setup. * ; import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom ; import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong ; import javax.ws.rs. * ; import javax.ws.rs.core. * ; import org.hibernate.validator.constraints. * ; public class Main extends Application < Main . JModernConfiguration > { public static void main ( String [] args ) throws Exception { new Main (). run ( new String []{ "server" , System . getProperty ( "dropwizard.config" )}); } @Override public void initialize ( Bootstrap < JModernConfiguration > bootstrap ) { } @Override public void run ( JModernConfiguration cfg , Environment env ) { JmxReporter . forRegistry ( env . metrics ()). build (). start (); // Manually add JMX reporting (Dropwizard regression) env . jersey (). register ( new HelloWorldResource ( cfg )); } // YAML Configuration public static class JModernConfiguration extends Configuration { @JsonProperty private @NotEmpty String template ; @JsonProperty private @NotEmpty String defaultName ; public String getTemplate () { return template ; } public String getDefaultName () { return defaultName ; } } // The actual service @Path ( "/hello-world" ) @Produces ( MediaType . APPLICATION_JSON ) public static class HelloWorldResource { private final AtomicLong counter = new AtomicLong (); private final String template ; private final String defaultName ; public HelloWorldResource ( JModernConfiguration cfg ) { this . template = cfg . getTemplate (); this . defaultName = cfg . getDefaultName (); } @Timed // monitor timing of this service with Metrics @GET public Saying sayHello ( @QueryParam ( "name" ) Optional < String > name ) throws InterruptedException { final String value = String . format ( template , name . or ( defaultName )); Thread . sleep ( ThreadLocalRandom . current (). nextInt ( 10 , 500 )); return new Saying ( counter . incrementAndGet (), value ); } } // JSON (immutable!) payload public static class Saying { private long id ; private @Length ( max = 10 ) String content ; public Saying ( long id , String content ) { this . id = id ; this . content = content ; } public Saying () {} // required for deserialization @JsonProperty public long getId () { return id ; } @JsonProperty public String getContent () { return content ; } } }
Krokodil Krokodil is Russia’s secret addiction. It is believed that over one million Russians are addicted to the drug. Users of krokodil are attracted to the drug due to its low price; it is sold at £20 a gram while heroin is sold for £60. However, krokodil is considered more dangerous than heroin because it is often homemade, with ingredients including painkillers, iodine, lighter fluid and industrial cleaning agents. This chemical make-up makes the drug highly dangerous and likely to cause gangrene, and eventually rotting of the flesh
Barack Obama is the Least Connected More important than the number of followers are the connections between these world leaders on Twitter to allow which allows for direct private interactions. @BarackObama was the first world leader to join Twitter, he is the most followed, the most listed and following a record 661,084 other Twitter users, but he is only following two other world leaders. The U.S. president and the U.S. government accounts might be among the most followed but they are the least connected. @BarackObama, the @WhiteHouse and the @StateDept are followed by 148, 132 and 99 peers respectively, however they only follow four world leaders, namely Russia’s Prime Minister @MedvedevRussiae, the UK government @Number10gov, Norway’s Prime Minister @JensStoltenberg and Chile’s President @SebastianPinera. Interestingly the State Department @StateDept does not follow any other foreign service. Two-thirds (68%) of world leaders have established mutual connections with their peers on Twitter. Swedish Foreign Minister @CarlBildt is the best connected world leader, mutually following 44 peers. The European External Action Service (@eu_eeas), the EU’s Foreign & Security Policy Service led by Catherine Ashton comes second with 36 mutual connections to other world leaders; the Polish Foreign Ministry is third with 31 mutual connections, followed by the UK Foreign Office and the French Foreign Ministry with 27 and 26 mutual connections respectively. Of the 505 accounts analyzed, 161 don’t have any mutual connections on Twitter. Twitter is sometimes used by small nations to increase their global visibility and tweet on a level playing field with other nations. Several governments have recognized the power of Twitter relations, actively seeking to connect with their peers around the world. The Croatian government (@VladaRH) unilaterally follows 195 other world leaders’ accounts. The Foreign Ministry of Iceland, which started its Twitter journey on 19 March 2013, follows 142 peers. The Foreign Ministries of Norway, Sweden and Kosovo unilaterally follow more than 80 other leaders and foreign ministries in hopes that they will return the favour. Twenty-two accounts don’t follow any other world leaders and are not followed by any other world leader. The Pope is only following the other papal accounts. On average, world leaders follow eight other peers. All world leaders combined are following 2,058,109 other Twitter users.
Atherosclerosis-promoting diet. A large proportion of humans have switched from a healthy diet to a Western diet rich in cholesterols, fats, and sugars. Several components of the Western diet can promote inflammation75, and changes in dietary pattern have been linked to metabolic diseases and atherogenesis54. Moreover, saturated fats in the Western diet increase endotoxin activity in plasma compared with a healthy diet, which could be attributed to a change in microbiota composition and/or increased translocation of microorganisms across the intestinal barrier52,76,77. In Ldlr−/− mice, Western diet induces changes in circulating metabolites and inflammatory markers, indicating an altered cholesterol homeostasis and oxidative stress, which could be partly reversed by switching the mice to a fibre-rich chow diet78. Circulating LPS levels and aortic lesion sizes are also partly reduced through a microbial-dependent mechanism78,79, in agreement with the reduced TLR4-dependent proinflammatory signalling discussed above. By contrast, germ-free Apoe−/− mice fed a low-cholesterol diet had increased aortic lesion sizes compared with conventionally raised mice, whereas no difference was found in mice fed a high-cholesterol diet80. Accordingly, atherosclerosis development in germ-free Apoe−/− mice fed a Western diet was similar to that of conventionally raised mice81. Thus, a diet-dependent microbial mechanism might be involved in the development of atherosclerosis but, on the basis of the data discussed above, the microbiota does not have a causal role in atherosclerosis. However, it cannot be excluded that microbiota induces atherosclerosis and CVD indirectly by causing chronic metabolic dysfunction or, as discussed below, by producing proatherogenic molecules from dietary precursors82,83.
Willkommen zum IOTA Developer Meetup in Berlin! Im Zentrum von Berlin findet am 10.04. das Entwicklermeetup in den Räumlichkeiten von WeWork statt. Das Ganze wird unterstützt von IOTAshops.com und dem IOTA Ecosystem. Eingeladen sind alle IOTA und Blockchain Enthusiasten, die einen Einblick in die Welt des Tangle haben wollen. Spannende Projekte aus der IOTA Community werden uns an diesem Abend erwarten. Findet heraus, wie die Projekte realisiert wurden, welchen Herausforderungen die Entwickler gegenüber standen und was noch auf uns zukommen wird. Tretet mit den Entwicklern in Kontakt. Stellt eure Fragen bei den Q&A Runden und tauscht euch im Anschluss in gemütlicher Runde aus. Das Meetup ist der Ideale Ort um Kontakte zu knüpfen, Inspiration zu finden und einen Einblick in eine evtl. noch nicht bekannte Technologie zu gewinnen. [Die Präsentationen werden auf deutsch gehalten] Agenda: 17:25-18:00 – Ankunft / Networking 18:00-18:20 – Begrüßung / Einführung in IOTA (Philipp - IOTA Foundation) 18:20-18:40 – Tanglescout, Tool zur Nachverfolgung von Transaktionen (Sven Feuchtmüller, accessec GmbH) 18:40-18:50 – kurze Pause 18:50-19:10 – delion.io, „Tangle-as-a-Service“ (Malik, delion.io) 19:10-19:30 – IOTA Vending Machine (Hans & Tristan) 19:30-20:00 – Offene Fragerunde / Networking (Es können ggf. noch Änderungen am Ablauf vorgenommen werden.) Bitte erscheint rechtzeitig, da ihr euch am Eingang „anmelden“ müsst. Außerdem wollen wir ja rechtzeitig anfangen :) Im Anschluss an jede Präsentation gibt es eine kurze Q&A Runde, bei der ihr eure Fragen zum Projekt stellen könnt. Fokus des Meetups liegt auf Development/Entwicklung und das Meetup ist auf diese Zielgruppe ausgelegt. Falls du kein Entwickler bist, besteht also die Gefahr, dass du dich schnell langweilen könntest oder nicht viel vom Gesagten verstehst :) Trotzdem bist du herzlichst eingeladen - und wer weiß - vielleicht ist dieses Event der zündende Funke, der dich zum programmieren bringt. Wir freuen uns auf einen entspannten und kreativen Abend mit euch! PS: für einen kleinen Snack wird natürlich gesorgt! Powered by IOTAshops.com & IOTA Ecosystem ____________________________________________________ [english] (Please note that the presentations will be held in german language!) Welcome to the IOTA Developer Meetup in Berlin! The Developer Meetup will take place on 10.04. in the center of Berlin at the premises of WeWork. The event is supported by IOTAshops.com and the IOTA Ecosystem. Invited are all IOTA and Blockchain enthusiasts who want to get an insight into the world of Tangle. Exciting projects from the IOTA community will await us this evening.
For my sake they are dear in the sight of God, beloved of their friends and honoured by the country of their birth. When the appointed goal is reached they lie not down in oblivion with dishonour, but bloom afresh—their praise resounded on the lips of men for ever. Toils like these, O son of noble parents, Heracles, it is yours to meet with, and having endured, to enter into the heritage assured you of transcendant happiness. '” This, Aristippus, in rough sketch is the theme which Prodicus pursues in his “Education of Heracles by Virtue,” only he decked out his sentiments, I admit, in far more magnificent phrases than I have ventured on. Were it not well, Aristippus, to lay to heart these sayings, and to strive to bethink you somewhat of that which touches the future of our life? Source: The Memorabilia Recollections of Socrates
The entire outer perimeter of the office is sealed off by a wall of green fire. Natasha's army of drones stalks towards me in perfect goose-step formation. Natasha's drones bear all the hallmarks of her style: brutalist fashion, perfect synchronization, elegant in the way they simply hijack the normal functions of a human body. She loves summoning and charming automatons. She was trying to enchant a giant mecha. And with my powers? She probably has. But she prioritizes form over function. I'd recognize that bulletproof enchantment anywhere. Hell, I'm the one who came up with it. It's a basic kinetic energy redirector — efficient and practically unnoticeable to the naked eye, but easily cracked by a sufficiently powerful banishment glyph. "I don't believe this!" I snap. "Chappell Wraith Securities? Fucking security guards? You stole my heart and sold out?" I dive through a nearby doorway into a conference room and lock the door behind me. I pull a pocket knife out of the backpack and start carving symbols into the bat. Natasha's drones beat at the windows of the room. "It pays to suck corporate dick, huh?" I shout. "I thought you were better than this.” The glass makes a popping sound. "Gosh," the drones say. "I wonder what coulda changed. It's not like you stole my magic and crippled me completely. Oh wait!" The glass cracks and bulges. "Me, right now? Everything I've done in the past five years? All you, Ruku." The glass disintegrates. The drones begin to pour in. "All. Your. Fault." I drop the knife, wrap both hands around the bat and swing. The enchantment is a Sanksrit prayer to the Hindu god, Ganesha; remover of obstacles. As a result, my enchanted bat now removes obstacles. There's a sharp crack and a smell like burnt hair as the blessing of Lord Ganesha blows out the kinetic energy redirector and shoves the excess force right back into Barnard Sachs's skull. He goes flying, taking a dozen drones with him and clearing a path for me. A home run. "Get stuffed," I snarl. A secretary with a baton takes her swing. I parry it and crack her in the gut. Her vertebrae shoot out her back and she crumples bonelessly to the ground. "I can't stay mad at you though," the other drones say breathily, strutting towards me. "You know, you're suuuuuuuuper hot when you're angry." "Christ," I say.
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Well, for a short time, it makes an enemy hero see their friends as enemies. He can damage them with abilities, he can not heal them. Imagine the possibilities! It's upgrade is Compelling Orb, based on Diablo 2. It's either makes this a global ability, affecting every hero, or It places a Compelling Orb that affects enemies in a large radius to see everyone as their enemies. I haven't decided yet, which one is better...Also there are a few talents to mention:Foul Blood: It is mentioned two times in the lore, and it sounds so creative for me, that I had to implement it somehow. Let's see the lore first: "One of the angels managed to draw blood, causing it to spill onto the ground. This led to the creation of the Magma Demons, who rose up to defend their master and drove the angels back." This talent will create this demon every few second you are damaged, and it seeks out the nearest enemy, and explodes, dealing small area damage. Oh, and the demon can't be killed. So if you take this passive aggressive talent, the enemy should consider if it worth attacking you while they are low on health.The other one is Release your Hatred. Its a level 20 which also gathers a percent of your allies damage, stores them (up to a 1000 at lvl20) And you can unleash this stored damage at any point on one of your enemy. It's based on the D2 boss fight, where he could unleash a powerful blazing white orb, that killed your mercenary immediately or took a hefty chunk out of your health pool. If you'd want to talent him for more damage. It's kinda the go to talent.
"Clearly, Nieuwendyk believes it is possible for Whitney to help the Stars not only on the power play, but in all areas -- or he wouldn't have given him a two-year deal.Whitney said the term of the contract was the biggest reason he chose Dallas. "They were the one team that didn't see anything in my game that would make them afraid of giving a second year," he said. "That's what I was most appreciative of. "Nieuwendyk didn't see it as a risk. "At some point there may be a drop off, but if you look at the last five years this guy always plays between 80 and 82 games and his numbers are pretty consistent," Nieuwendyk said of Whitney, who has averaged 66.9 points per season since the work stoppage. "He's a quality person. I know him and he's going to fit in well in our locker room. "Whitney has 1,003 points in 1,229 career games played. He understands why general managers across the League would be hesitant to give a 40-year-old a two-year contract, but he also believes with modern medicine and the way players take care of their bodies 40 is no longer the end of the road for players going forward. "I wonder what makes everybody think I shouldn't be productive at that age," Whitney said. "I mean, just because you're at an age doesn't mean you're supposed to decline or you're supposed to all of a sudden not be able to play the game. It's been frustrating for me to have to deal with it. For most of my career it was my size, I was too short to play the game. I battled that after 18 years. Now it's the age, people question the age. There is nothing saying you can't play into your 40s. "You figure out that if you keep training throughout the year and watch what you do with your body that you can continue on playing for as long as you want. Eventually father time will catch up to you, I understand that, but with today's modern medicine, the way surgeries are, the way players are being taken care of by doctors, there's nothing saying players from now on can't play into their 40s easily. "Whitney plans to prove it in Dallas. Nieuwendyk is looking forward to watching him do it. "He's coming off a 77-point season.
Elf Gnomes 2005 Cloe the Holiday Clown (2nd Version), Strawberry/Pistachio Ice Cream Cone (Third Version) 2006 80th Anniversary Hot Air Balloon, Macy's Yellow Stars, Chocolate/Strawberry Ice Cream Cone, Handprint Balls, Green Candy Cane 2007 Beach Ball Clusters, Planet Earth, Artie the Pirate (Recreation of 1940s Pirate balloon), Soccer Ball 2008 150 Years Golden TriStar, Green Believe Star 2009 Geometrics, All Star Basketball (second version), Big Man Santa, Red Believe Stars 2010 Virginia O'Hanlon 2011 Harold the Police Officer (recreation of 1940's "The Police Officer" balloon), Gazor Elf (Winner of the Design an Elf contest that was held on the Macy's website) 2012 Novelty pumpkins (third version), Soccer Ball (Second version), Happy Dragon (Recreation of older Happy Dragon balloon) 2013 Happy Hippo (Second Version), Football (Second Version) 2015 Macy's Yellow Stars (Second Version), Red Believe Stars (Second Version) 2016 Trixie the Dog, Felix the Cat (Second Version, re-creation of Felix Balloon from the 1931 parade) 2017 Macy's Blue Stars (Second Version), Harold the Baseball Player (Re-creation of 1946 "The Baseball Player" Balloon), Macy's Gold Starflakes 2018 Americana Spheres (Second Version), Netflix's The Christmas Chronicles (4 separate balloons of Fleck, Bjorn, Jojo and Hugg), Nutcracker (From Universal's Holiday Parade featuring Macy's), Sunny the Snowpal
Massive infusion of money isn’t crucial to a good transportation program. “The infrastructure for walking and cycling is very inexpensive,” Penalosa says. “Compared to any infrastructure for cars, it’s nothing.” All that’s needed for a working bike line is a physical separation between cars and bikes, which can be done with plastic pylons or planters. A city like Buenos Aires, Argentina, is broke, Penalosa says, but in the past 30 months it built 130 km of protected bikeways. Only two things increase cycling: lowering speed limits in neighbourhoods to 30 km/h, so people are safe cycling on residential roads, and setting up a minimum grid of bikeways in protected lanes connecting all areas of the city. Lower limits have been accepted in other cities and can be in Edmonton, especially if people become aware of public health issues and their own biases, Penalosa says. “When you say, ‘Do you want the speed limit in front of your house to be 30 km/h?’ 90 per cent of people say, ‘Yes.’ When you say, ‘Do you want the speed in front of everybody’s home to be 30 km/h, they say, ‘Oh, no, no, no, not everybody’s home, just my home.’ “ Buses are the best system of mass transit, even if they’re not sexy. LRT can provide excellent movement of people, but Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, is a much better investment, giving four times the coverage in a city for the same cost as LRT. The key, Penalosa says, is to provide dedicated lanes for BRT so the buses can move smoothly and rapidly. “What provides speed is not if the wheels are rubber or metal or whatever. What makes speed is if you have dedicated lanes or not.” Most people are, in fact, open to cycling, Penalosa says. Only 30 per cent of the population will never bike. One per cent are fearless cyclists, who will bike in traffic. Another five per cent are confident cyclists and will eventually bike if you only paint lines, as Edmonton tried. But the remaining 55 to 60 per cent will bike if segregated bike lanes are built. We need more walkable and bikeable neighbourhoods for our mental and physical health. Sixty per cent of us are obese or overweight. Walking and cycling every day are great for fitness, Penalosa says, and also great for your mood.
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In the essay “Toward Perpetual Peace”, Kant offers a set of six “preliminary articles” which aim to reduce the likelihood of war, but cannot by themselves establish permanent peace (8:343–47). These are a ban on making temporary peace treaties while still planning for future wars, the prohibition of annexation of one state by another, the abolition of standing armies, the refusal to take on national debts for external affairs, a ban on interference by one state in the internal affairs of another, and a set of limits on the conduct of war that disallows acts that would breed mistrust and make peace impossible. These six articles are negative laws that prohibit states from engaging in certain kinds of conduct. They are not sufficient by themselves to prevent states from lapsing back into their old habits of warring on one another. To institute an international order that can genuinely bring about perpetual peace, Kant offers three “definitive articles”. The first of these is that every state shall have a republican civil constitution (8:348, discussed in section 4 above). In a republican constitution, the people who decide whether there will be a war are the same people who would pay the price for the war, both in monetary terms (taxes and other financial burdens) and in flesh and blood. Republican states will therefore be very hesitant to go to war and will readily accept negotiations rather than resort to war. This consideration is Kant’s most important contribution to the debate about securing peace. He believes that when states are ruled in accordance with the wishes of the people, their self-interest will provide a consistent basis for pacific relations among states. The second definitive article is that each state shall participate in a union of states (8:354, discussed in the previous paragraph). The third definitive article advocates a cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality (8:357, discussed in section 9 below).
“This is now sought to be decisively curbed.”General penalty provisions prescribe taxes of 50% for under-reported income and 200% for misreported income.“The concern was that if a taxpayer were to voluntarily declare unaccounted income in the ongoing fiscal year and include such unaccounted income as ‘unexplained’ income in the tax return for the year, there may not arise any penalties as there would be no question of under-reporting or misreporting,” Kapadia said.However, the current general penalty provisions on under-reporting and misreporting will stay on the statute books as these will continue to apply in other situations.The revenue secretary said deterrent provisions were necessary to persuade people to declare their black money. He said the proposed amendment cannot be termed retrospective as the financial year is still on and people have not filed returns.“We have seen that some people were trying to convert black money to black again by using new currency. So we have amended the 75-85% provision,” he said. He said search and seizure provisions have been amended to ensure that people don’t fear income-tax raids.
We observed bright green particles, mostly in proximal dendrites, but some also distributed in distal dendrites (movie S11). They were much brighter than the fast diffusing single proteins (visible at high power). These were bona fide TLSs because puromycin treatment abolished them within 2 min (fig. S7). We focused on RNA in the distal dendrites because they showed dynamic behavior and were sparsely distributed. We tracked the TLS for 2 hours. The position and integrated intensity of TLS were determined with a tracking algorithm in order to generate the spatial trajectory and intensity trace of the sites (23). TLSs were mobile in a time scale of minutes (Fig. 6A and movies S11 to S13). The mRNA sampled several anchoring sites in dendrites while undergoing active translation. This is in contrast to the hypothesis that the RNA was translationally repressed during transport (34). The TLS intensity over time encoded the translation dynamics of the mRNA (Fig. 6B). To extract the kinetic parameters from these observations, it was necessary to deconvolve the effect of multiple ribosomes generating NAPs. We adopted a fluctuation analysis approach that was developed for transcription (5). The translation dynamics was described by an autocorrelation function G(τ) (Fig. 6C and supplementary text). We observed that many translation events occurred in a bursting fashion (movies S11 to S13): The translation was “on” or “off” with interspersed long periods of no translation at all. We modeled translation as the random telegraph model used for describing transcription kinetics. When the RNA is on, the translation is described by a stochastic process, with constant initiation and elongation rate. The autocorrelation function for this scenario has been worked out previously for modeling transcription (5). The autocorrelation function depends on the initiation rate c and a total dwell time T of NAP at TLS determined by elongation speed and the length of the coding region. When the mRNA is in the off state, there is no translation. The two states interchange randomly and have lifetimes τ on and τ off , respectively. We further assumed that translations were correlated in the same on state but statistically independent between successive on states. Fitting the theoretical function to the experimental data yielded a dwell time of an individual NAP (T = 170 ± 50 s, which is consistent with the length of the reporter) and an average translation initiation rate of c = 2.1/min.
For instance, Dahr Jamail, an unembedded reporter who collected the testimony of refugees from the city spoke to a doctor who had remained in the city to help people, encountered numerous reports of civilians suffering unusual burns. One resident told him the US used “weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud” and that he watched “pieces of these bombs explode into large fires that continued to burn on the skin even after people dumped water on the burns.” The doctor said he “treated people who had their skin melted.” Jeff Englehart, a former marine who spent two days in Fallujah during the battle, said he heard the order go out over military communication that WP was to be dropped. In the RAI film, Mr Englehart, now an outspoken critic of the war, says: “I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it’s known as Willy Pete … Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone … I saw the burned bodies of women and children” . . . . Napalm was used in several instances during the initial invasion. Colonel Randolph Alles, commander of Marine Air Group 11, remarked during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003: “The generals love napalm – it has a big psychological effect.”
Hundreds were left dead following the operation 9/10 India Member of Sikh radical groups fights with Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) supporter at the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines in Amritsar 10/10 India The sword brandishing among the SGPC supporters and Sikh radical group men 1/10 India Members of Sikh radical groups clash with Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) supporters, after a prayer and remembrance meeting for the Sikh separatists who lost their lives during Operation Blue Star in 1984 at the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines in Amritsar 2/10 India A member of Sikh radical groups clashes with Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) supporter 3/10 India Clashes broke out between sword-wielding Sikhs at the Golden Temple in northern India on the 30th anniversary of a notorious army raid on the site. At least 12 people were wounded in the violence at the temple in the city of Amritsar, which is the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion 4/10 India Sikh activists hold posters as they protest during commemorations for the 30th anniversary of Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar 5/10 India Hundreds of Sikhs had gathered at the shrine to pay their respects to those killed in the 6 June1984 raid of the temple by Indian troops aimed at flushing out armed separatists demanding an independent Sikh homeland 6/10 India Sikh activists pull hair of the member of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee ( SGPC) during the clashes at the Golden Temple in Amritsar 7/10 India Sikh activists protest against members of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee ( SGPC) during commemorations for the 30th anniversary of Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar 8/10 India Operation Blue Star, that took place from 3 to 8 June 1984 saw the Indian Army storm the Golden Temple to flush out Sikh separatists and arrest Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale a Sikh leader and his followers who had initiated a movement for a separate Sikh state. Hundreds were left dead following the operation 9/10 India Member of Sikh radical groups fights with Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) supporter at the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines in Amritsar 10/10 India The sword brandishing among the SGPC supporters and Sikh radical group men
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As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadowlands, the rich fields of wheat, rye, buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchard, burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness. His busy fancy already presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but low-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front. From the piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the center of the mansion. Here, rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun; ears of Indian corn and strings of dried apples and peaches hung in gay festoons along the walls; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors. Mock oranges and conch shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various colored birds' eggs were suspended above it, and a corner cupboard, knowingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china. < 6 > From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these regions of delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to win the heart of the peerless daughter of Van Tassel. In this enterprise, however, he had to encounter a host of rustic admirers, who kept a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but were ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
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Given the multiple romance options in Mass Effect, it meant that things had to move a bit quicker and basically any time you said nice things to the person it instantly moved you closer to romance. For Mass Effect: Andromeda they want different characters to have different responses, allowing players to hop into the space sack early or engage in more foreplay leading up to the big moment later on. According to Walters, some characters may not even be interested in romance. Options is the name of the game. They also wanted to focus more on friendships as well... so not every relationship you establish has to be about romance and bed-mating. They cite Garrus from Mass Effect 3, saying that some moments were just about establishing a friendly bond and they do want that sort of element to be present with some of the characters in Mass Effect: Andromeda. This way you don't have to worry about always saying nice things and then eventually you choose one last nice thing to say and mistakenly end up having inter-species relations with someone you only wanted to be friends with. Blended From Around The Web Facebook
Wages are up, but so are prices for food and gas. Exports are rising, but the housing market has declined. And at kitchen tables across our country, there is concern about our economic future. In the long run, Americans can be confident about our economic growth. But in the short run, we can all see that growth is slowing. So last week, my Administration reached agreement with Speaker Pelosi and Republican Leader Boehner on a robust growth package that includes tax relief for individuals and families and incentives for business investment. The temptation will be to load up the bill. That would delay it or derail it, and neither option is acceptable. This is a good agreement that will keep our economy growing and our people working. And this Congress must pass it as soon as possible. We have other work to do on taxes. Unless the Congress acts, most of the tax relief we have delivered over the past 7 years will be taken away. Some in Washington argue that letting tax relief expire is not a tax increase. Try explaining that to 116 million American taxpayers who would see their taxes rise by an average of $1,800. Others have said they would personally be happy to pay higher taxes. I welcome their enthusiasm, and I am pleased to report that the IRS accepts both checks and money orders. Most Americans think their taxes are high enough. With all the other pressures on their finances, American families should not have to worry about the Federal Government taking a bigger bite out of their paychecks. There is only one way to eliminate this uncertainty: make the tax relief permanent. And Members of Congress should know: If any bill raising taxes reaches my desk, I will veto it. Just as we trust Americans with their own money, we need to earn their trust by spending their tax dollars wisely. Next week, I will send you a budget that terminates or substantially reduces 151 wasteful or bloated programs totaling more than $18 billion. And this budget will keep America on track for a surplus in 2012. American families have to balance their budgets, and so should their Government. The peoples trust in their Government is undermined by congressional earmarks special interest projects that are often snuck in at the last minute, without discussion or debate.
It's right out of the horse's mouth. "Clair claims Flores was not with him that night.In 2005 Flores recanted her testimony and signed a declaration, acknowledging shortly before the murder she suffered a near-fatal head injury.Her best friend at the time, Barbara Brown, was with her when she suffered the accident, and said Flores could not even recognize her, let alone describe anything such as jewelry in detail. "She had a bicycle accident, her mentality was a 2 year old," said Brown, who was never called to testify at trial.In a May 30, 2005 taped interview with investigator C.J. Ford, Flores said: "If I couldn't remember my own family I probably messed up on my timeline quite a bit. "In a 2001 declaration, Flores stated: "I had an outstanding bench warrant for my arrest when I offered to try to tape record a statement from Kenny...The detectives took care of my warrant in exchange for me wearing the tape recorder. "The defense alleges if she was accurate in her declaration this benefit was never disclosed to the jury.Santa Ana police told Eyewitness News Flores never had a bench warrant and investigators did nothing to assist Flores in clearing up any legal matters she may have had.Prosecutors also said they are not aware of any benefits Flores received.Flores passed away in 2011.Prosecutors say her secret recording of Clair helped prove his guilt. They won't pursue renewal of the death penalty given the age of the case, but continue to maintain he's guilty. "My mom was very sweet and loving," recalled Kristy Rodgers. "If he (Clair) would've just taken 5 minutes or 1 minute and thought about what he was about to do, turned around and walked away, none of us would be here right now. "The motion for a new trial is expected to be heard Friday. Re-sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 13.
^ Ibn Kutayba, Ukasha, Tabari, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Ishaq, Masudi, Kisa'i, Balami, Thalabi and many more have all recognized Ezekiel as a prophet ^ 2743: "If we accept "Dhul al Kifl" to be not an epithet, but an Arabicised form of "Ezekiel", it fits the context, Ezekiel was a prophet in Israel who was carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar after his second attack on Jerusalem (about BCE 599). His Book is included in the English Bible (Old Testament). He was chained and bound, and put into prison, and for a time he was dumb. He bore all with patience and constancy, and continued to reprove boldly the evils in Israel. In a burning passage he denounces false leaders in words which are eternally true: "Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken ...... etc. (Ezekiel, 34:2–4)." The greatest depth to the figure is given by Abdullah Yusuf Ali , in his commentary; his commentary's note: "If we accept "Dhul al Kifl" to be not an epithet, but an Arabicised form of "Ezekiel", it fits the context, Ezekiel was a prophet in Israel who was carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar after his second attack on Jerusalem (about BCE 599). His Book is included in the English Bible (Old Testament). He was chained and bound, and put into prison, and for a time he was dumb. He bore all with patience and constancy, and continued to reprove boldly the evils in Israel. In a burning passage he denounces false leaders in words which are eternally true: "Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken ...... etc. (Ezekiel, 34:2–4)."
Mr Yar'Adua never did this, but senate leader David Mark said that an interview Mr Yar'Adua carried out with the BBC's Hausa service on 12 January had effectively provided the assembly with the notice it needed. But some analysts have suggested that the assembly's motion is not legally binding and could face court challenges.
If they don’t lower lances, pull them back and try again.Even in a successful charge, your Scouts will take some losses. Therefore it’s best to reserve them for crucial moments in battle rather than charging them into the enemy’s flanks just because you can. Aim their charge at the enemy general’s bodyguard (since, as lancers, they are effective against other riders), or wait until you suspect a charge into the back will break the enemy and cause a mass rout.You begin the game with a fair mix of units in Tharbad and Greyholm, as well as the forts; assemble them under any likely commander(s) in the area and train a few units to fill out the ranks – another unit each of Merchant Scouts, Mariner Bowmen, and Mariner Swordsmen will allow you to have a nicely balanced line. But whom should you attack first, Adunabar or Dunland?Adunabar offers the greater benefits. Their neighboring settlement, Threeways, is a rich province that will help pay for your development and recruiting. It is also rather isolated from Adunabar’s core northern territories which can be found off to the northeast. If you can seize Threeways before Adunabar takes Bree, you can establish trade with the RK (and perhaps go some way to mollify the hurt feelings of your self-declaration of independence).Threeways shares your Dunedanic culture, but its allegiance to the Cult will require some conversion. Once you bring it to heel, you may consider helping the RK defend against Adunabar … or you may cynically eye the progress of the war and snatch up whatever settlement you can. Wait for Adunabar to assault Bree, and then, when their army moves off to do battle near Fornost, move in and take it. Or assault Weathertop’s stronghold to use as a distraction while you raid the northern Adunabar towns.Adunabar is the larger of the Dunedanic powers, so it is a better long-term strategy to continue attacking them and deny them momentum. By the time you have taken Threeways, they may already have taken Fornost and put Annuminas under siege. This dispersal of their forces to the northwest will allow you to deal with any armies they have in the area and aim straight for Lastbridge – a Chief City northeast of Threeways that protects the only crossing east toward the Misty Mountains.
The reigning champions will have their steel tested against a team that is admittedly on a higher level than their first opponents Xenics Blast, while Reapered's squad will take the stage in their new Greenwings uniforms for the first time in an effort under the watchful eyes of their new sponsors. Both teams are highly regarded, making this match - the first true clash of titans in Champions Summer - a potential spectacle. Rookies Shine Too! Seeking the Royal Road!
Rather than cite the much-cited Oven of Akhnai story or any of the others, I’d mention a matter close to my own area of research, the calendar. There was this great calendar that some Jews used in Second Temple times: it worked automatically on the basis of the solar year—30-day months with an extra 5 or 6 days added to keep pace with the sun, hence no need for witnesses to go to Beit Yaazek and testify before the beit din that they had seen the new moon, no need to intercalate a whole month at irregular intervals,, and the hagim were never, as we say, “early this year” or “late this year,” because they were basically in sync with the sun. Was this calendar not a better representation of the passage of time than the calendar of Hazal? After all, it was G-d who set the sun in the sky and it was that solar year that had to be followed if Pesah was to occur in the spring and Sukkot in the fall; why play around with lunar months and all the difficulties they entailed? (If you read the words of the Torah alone, there is no indication that the months it speaks of are lunar months, dependent on sightings of the new moon.) But Hazal gloried in the idea that the sacred calendar was NOT automatic, that it required human beings as witnesses and a beit din to interrogate them (“Hakhazek ra’ita o khazeh—did it look like this, or did it look like that?”). And they made sure to stress the point by having us say the berakhah “mekaddesh yisrael ve-rashei hodashim” which means: You gave us the authority to determine the calendar, having us establish not only when each new month starts, but also when all the holy days within it occur, hence “mekaddesh yisrael ve-ha-zemenaim,” and even “mekaddesh yisrael ve-yom ha-kippurim.” This is a striking instance of the principle, “Lo ba-shamayim hi,” what starts in Heaven is given over to humans to interpret and apply.
We thank all Voices writers who shared their views on the management of free-roaming chickens and take this opportunity to clarify the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority position. One of the AVA’s responsibilities is to ensure that Singapore is kept free from associated animal and plant diseases that pose a threat to public health. In this regard, the AVA must do surveillance work to detect and control diseases well before they can potentially spread to Singapore. There is clear scientific evidence that chickens are very susceptible to the bird flu virus and can in turn transmit the disease to humans. This was what happened when bird flu struck the region in 2004. That is also why the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization, in a joint statement in 2004 about battling bird flu, mentioned the need to manage free-range chickens: To control bird flu at source. Keeping poultry in a bio-secured environment is one of the OIE’s recommended measures to prevent bird flu incursion. The risk of free-roaming chickens in Singapore being exposed to bird flu is real and significant, as we are a stopover node for migratory wild birds. This means that chickens on our island can catch the disease through direct contact with wild birds or even through their droppings. In a recent bird flu outbreak in Denmark, investigations found that it started because of contact between wild birds and free-roaming chickens. There have also been cases of outbreaks around the world where the primary risk factor for human infection was linked to direct or indirect exposure to infected poultry. For example, in recent months, there had been reports of human infections in China and Vietnam owing to close proximity to infected chickens, such as in live poultry markets or during preparation of meals using free-roaming chickens. Various media reports may have given the impression that the AVA is taking action solely because of complaints about noise. But that is not the case. Our concern is not about noise but about public health and safety. The noise issues only serve to bring attention to the relatively high numbers of free-roaming chickens in certain areas, which in turn raise the risk of exposure to bird flu in these localities. We recognise the views expressed by different stakeholders and will continue exploring various options to manage the free-roaming chicken population.
^ Keats' share would have increased on the death of his brother Tom in 1818. ^ The original plum tree no longer survives, though others have been planted since. ^ The Quarterly Review. April 1818. 204–08. "It is not, we say, that the author has not powers of language, rays of fancy, and gleams of genius – he has all these; but he is unhappily a disciple of the new school of what has been somewhere called 'Cockney Poetry'; which may be defined to consist of the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language ... There is hardly a complete couplet enclosing a complete idea in the whole book. He wanders from one subject to another, from the association, not of ideas, but of sounds." ^ Endymion .... It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the [apothecary] shop Mr John, back to 'plasters, pills, and ointment boxes' ". Extracts from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 3 (1818) p519-24". Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts, Part 4. Retrieved 29 January 2010. "To witness the disease of any human understanding, however feeble, is distressing; but the spectacle of an able mind reduced to a state of insanity is, of course, ten times more afflicting. It is with such sorrow as this that we have contemplated the case of Mr John Keats .... He was bound apprentice some years ago to a worthy apothecary in town. But all has been undone by a sudden attack of the malady ... For some time we were in hopes that he might get off with a violent fit or two; but of late the symptoms are terrible. The phrenzy of the "Poems" was bad enough in its way; but it did not alarm us half so seriously as the calm, settled, imperturbable drivelling idiocy of.... It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the [apothecary] shop Mr John, back to 'plasters, pills, and ointment boxes' ". ^ Tennyson was writing Keats-style poetry in the 1830s and was being critically attacked in the same manner as his predecessor. ^ Bate p581: "Each generation has found it one of the most nearly perfect poems in English."
Of course, transformations in the Self can induce transformations in the ego. Instead of a continued repression of the collective shadow, the process of complementation can make the dark Self proximate to personality as a self-sufficient aspect of Self, moulded by conscientious caution and forethought, unshackled from an instinctual and archaic unconscious. As the two Self aspects aren’t integrable, the former must recede in the background while the latter becomes dominant. In such a model two kings are ruling interchangeably, as it were.This is reminiscent of a regulation that occurs in military organizations. Military companies may have a company commander for peacetime and another for wartime. Since war and peace put quite different demands on the commander, it is not enough to change uniform, that is, to change persona. Diarchy, when two individuals are the heads of state, is one of the oldest forms of government, occuring in Sparta, Rome, Carthage, as well as in Germanic tribes. The Inca empire had two rulers of different prestige, one hanan (upper) and one hurinBy analogy, it could at times be necessary to let the Self undergo a dramatic shift, in face of altered circumstances in the inner or outer world. When personality undergoes complementation, attention is turned to the transcendental Self, and the individuant adopts the stance of the recluse. I have discussed ternarius and quartarius (alchemical number symbols) as complementary aspects of the Self. It is a more comprehensiveWhen Horus carried off with Isis’s head, he took refuge in an oasis, where he fell asleep. It took place in the Western Mountains, the realm of the dead. Seth discovered him and tore out his eyes. He buried them and they soon took root as two lotuses. This event would signify a shift of Self following a process of complementation. The dark ternarius, in the form of Isis’s head, was stolen away from the goddess and adopted as a complementary aspect of Self. This does not mean that the dark Self passes into a content of consciousness. Rather, it is removed from unconscious autonomy. Thus, Isis could no longer interfere in an haphazard way, which is what had caused Horus’s rage. Horus made his way to the shadow land where his eyes were torn out. It denotes the death of a god, analogous with the death of Narcissus, which gave rise to a beautiful flower. By acquiring the head of Isis, Horus gathered enough energy to pass the border of temporality.
Questa la formazione dell’Italia: 15 Edoardo PADOVANI (Zebre Rugby, 6 caps)* 14 Giulio BISEGNI (Zebre Rugby, 5 caps) 13 Tommaso BENVENUTI (Benetton Treviso, 37 caps)* 12 Luke MCLEAN (Benetton Treviso, 84 caps) 11 Giovanbattista VENDITTI (Zebre Rugby, 38 caps)* 10 Carlo CANNA (Zebre Rugby, 15 caps) 9 Edoardo GORI (Benetton Treviso, 56 caps)* 8 Sergio PARISSE (Stade Francais, 121 caps) – capitano 7 Maxime Mata MBANDA’ (Zebre Rugby, 3 caps)* 6 Abraham STEYN (Benetton Treviso, 6 caps) 5 George BIAGI (Zebre Rugby, 14 caps) 4 Marco FUSER (Benetton Treviso, 16 caps)* 3 Lorenzo CITTADINI (Aviron Bayonnais, 53 caps) 2 Ornel GEGA (Benetton Treviso, 8 caps) 1 Andrea LOVOTTI (Zebre Rugby, 9 caps)* a disposizione 16 Leonardo GHIRALDINI (Stade Toulousain, 82 caps) 17 Sami PANICO (Patarò Calvisano, 6 caps)* 18 Pietro CECCARELLI (Zebre Rugby, 5 caps) 19 Joshua FURNO (Zebre Rugby, 36 caps)* 20 Francesco MINTO (Benetton Treviso, 31 caps) 21 Giorgio BRONZINI (Benetton Treviso, 3 caps) 22 Tommaso ALLAN (Benetton Treviso, 27 caps) 23 Michele CAMPAGNARO (Exeter Chiefs, 25 caps)* *è/è stato membro dell’Accademia FIR “Ivan Francescato”
“It was like, “We’ve heard this story and we’re pretty sure that it’s without basis … And their reaction was, ‘What? You can’t be serious. '” For the record, Adm. Mike Boorda, the chief of naval operations, released no such transcript on Oct. 10. Or any other time, said Cmdr. John Carman, a spokesman for the admiral. “It’s a joke,” Carman said, chuckling in disbelief. “And not only that, I’ve been told it’s a real old joke. Like 30 to 40 years ago, that old.” Of the many flaws in the recent version, the most glaring is that there is no longer a radio crew — or any crew, for that matter — on any lighthouse on the U.S. coastline. The last one was automated 10 years ago, said Lt. j.g. Ed Westfall, the lighthouse program manager for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Fifth District, based in Portsmouth. Westfall said he, too, had heard the story for years, but he had a different understanding of its origin. “I always thought,” he said, “it was just something one of us Coasties had made up to poke fun at the Navy.”
The tax incentives that Ireland and other EU states have granted to some corporations (which the EU now wants to claw back in order to save the German banks, yet again) have been known for a very long time, especially for people that are in the know! This “Tit for Tat” vendetta (using the judiciary in one country to fine or penalise a corporation or the bank of another country in order to repatriate (launder) money) had started by the intelligent “Comedian-In-Chief”. The world has been in the midst of wars (financial, political, military, etc. just name it), since 2009. The EU Commission is right to ask Ireland to rectify the situation with Apple and with other corporations, if needs be. Times have changed since the 90s’ and Apple would not have grown and outpaced other corporations if it was not for all this “Indirect Funding”. Many corporations have become financially much stronger than many countries. This just cannot continue and is neither fair nor right. This “Inequality” in treatment, whereby one state within the EU offers better fiscal / funding terms than others to X or Y, has got to stop and this non-sense of the “Comedian-In-Chief” must stop as well (luckily he has only very few weeks left in office). If the leadership of Greece, and I personally have the greatest respect and sympathy to the people of Greece and to Greece itself but none to the leadership, they should have been the first at introducing such schemes in Greece in order to attract investors. I myself gave several examples on PS, one of them was about A. Papandreou who back in the 80s’ offered tax incentives to companies willing to set up business and invest in Greece (Law 89 is one of them). You mentioned Ireland, how about Bulgaria that has taken most businesses from Greece due also to their accommodating laws and tax regimes. In this world it is the rule of the fittest and not only with the look or words but with real and true actions.
Again, very curative without the high that many fear will drive everyone into "reefer madness" (sarcasm intended).So while licensed medical researchers waffle and stall, the Medical Mafia and Big Pharma are working madly to produce CBDs synthetically to obtain patents, potentially allowing them to get the big bucks while keeping marijuana illegal.The(JAMA) published a report by Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health showing that at least 106,000 patients die annually fromThis figure did not include over the counter (OTC) pharma drugs, and in recent interviews, Dr. Starfield admitted her figures were conservative. Include the fact that the year 2000 was only the beginning the five year Vioxx genocide -- which added an admitted 50,000 dead bodies -- pushes the numbers higher.More recently, Dr. Carolyn Dean, author ofmentioned that she had derived a count of 300,000 annual for prescribed pharma drugs in 2008. Then she discovered that a half-million died from prescribed sleeping pills in 2010.Many more died from Vioxx than previously admitted, perhaps 10 times more.Meanwhile,has been testing MS patients with cannabis successfully for years. But their work has gone mostly unnoticed.The Medical Mafia's crime against humanity is keeping us from safe cures while dispensing poisons posing as cures. http://www.reuters.com (Original source article)
Although, in some cases, results can be achieved in this test series, which under certain circumstances may not be satisfactory for the manufacturers, it should not be presumed that the device does not fulfil its specific purpose. Under certain circumstances, the performance capacity of the water purification unit may not be completely covered by the range of examinations, but the device itself may prove its performance in other areas. Therefore, it cannot be concluded from this final evaluation whether the device has a specific value, or not. This must be determined individually in each case according to the specific circumstances. Nevertheless, this study does provide a conclusive statement to help any end users understand the quality performance capacity of the water purification unit. It is intended as a guide to aid decision-making when selecting the most suitable device on an individual basis. This often requires a further, more individual consultation. And within the scope of this study, it may also be considered as a guideline to allow manufacturers to compare their own performances with each other. In any case, the objective of such testing is to improve overall water quality and provide the manufacturers with an opportunity to give their feedback, which enables them to continue working towards better quality standards, and even improve their own current ones. The qualitative factors were determined from the crystallization analysis and compared with the following chemical parameters for an overall assessment: oxygen measurement, pH measurement, conductivity in mS/cm, dry residue in mg/litre, nitrate content in mg/litre and redox potential, as well as all the parameters of the German Federal Drinking Water Regulations (TVO). The appraisement of the two main factors: Crystallization analysis and chemical parameters is 1:1. In the crystallisation analysis the purely qualitative aspects are shown, while the chemical parameters the measurable quantitative values are highlighted. During the crystallization analysis the evaluation is carried out in accordance with the following 5 parameters: Formation, shape, dispersion, angle structures, as well as crystallization intensity, each of equal importance. All the parameters are evaluated together and the rating of each of the samples was obtained in accordance to a specific Point System. Each of the 5 parameters of the two main factors are given a value between -3 and +3 points, resulting in a minimum value of -30 points, and a maximum of +30 points, while the grading is based on points, with the highest rating being 1, and the lowest rating being 6.
[Content Note: Fat-shaming; body policing; bullying; gaslighting. ]Last night, in the comments to Big Fat Love , Shaker rvh asked , in response to a line in my piece:This is a particular issue for women, since "diet/weight talk" and body policing are so central to much of female communication—it's a source of solidarity or contention (or both) between mothers and daughters (and sisters, etc. ), a means of bonding between female friends and colleagues, a competitive frame between women, a means of auditing inclusion and exclusion in female groups—and is thus the source of a lot of good feelings and bad feelings among women. It is not, however, exclusive to women. One of the worst examples of ongoing, explicit, and profoundly harmful body policing around weight that I know is between a father and a son.First, a caveat: Fat people police one another, too. (See Brian's great post, " Fat Isolation ," which addresses some of the ways in which fat people engage with fat-shaming narratives.) This post isn't about how fat people are perfect saintly victims of meany thin people: Some of the most vicious fat-shaming ever directed at me has been by fat people whoand boy howdy was their fragile self-esteem wrapped up in simply not being the fattest person in the room. And fat people even have their own special narratives of shaming one another, like the old "at least I'mfat!" chestnut, used to shame anyone whose fat body is fatter on the bottom, or on top, or in the torso, or the limbs, or some variation on failing to be a perfectly plump version of a thin person.But, what we don't have is thin privilege, of the sort that gifts one the luxury of never having to consider the ways in which our language, and our public participation in the culture of weight-obsessed "diet/weight talk" and body policing, can inadvertently hurt and dehumanize the (other) fat people around us.
He's only seeking $2,200 ($2k for the lawyer plus $200 for indiegogo fees). Two bits of good news: 1) he's cleared that with several hours left to go and 2) he seems to have found himself an excellent attorney $2,000 is good start but expenses could increase significantly if Duncan is unable to get the case tossed.Now, some people can find Carlos Miller's tactics to be a bit on the aggressive side. But even those who find he somehow crosses the line in his pursuit of strengthening the First Amendment rights of American citizens have to find the above ridiculous, at the very least. This all began with BPD officers intimidating a photographer using false claims that his actions were illegal. Now, due to the BPD's insistence on compounding its errors, a blogger in Florida is facing felony witness intimidation charges in Massachusetts.The longer this bizarrely wrongheaded crusade against the First Amendment continues, the longer the Boston Police Dept. will have to deal with irate citizens from all over the nation contacting itsphone numbers to complain about its intimidating actions. A simple apology and an offer to drop charges would have done wonders for the PD several days ago, but now, it's far too late. Detective Moore's actions -- basically declaring that contacting BPD's public numbers is a criminal act -- have put him and those involved in a position that only allows them to actively make things worse. The bells have been rung and no amount of additional LEO blustering will un-ring them.
You can just work a bit, climb up the ladder and boom: Finish the season highlier, easy == more powerful.I'm not claiming that a race can't be overpowered. I'm just saying that the concept of not being overpowered, but being easy does not make sense. If a race is easy it is more powerful. On the assumption that the game is balanced (I am not saying that assumption is true) every race is as easy as every other race. Everyone will have to be stretched to the limits to the compete. Unless of course you believe that "Players of race X (my race, of course) are just better! ", a fallacy which is trivially disproven by the fact that many top Koreans play all races pretty much as well as their main race. If Terrans were just better, then MC would not have a Terran offrace that is pretty much as good as his main Protoss. If Protosses were just better, then Taeja would not have a Protoss offrace that is pretty much as good as his main race. I find it hard to believe that one race would just attract "better" players, it's not true. Even a mid range foreign ladder hero like Minigun has shown that no race is harder than any other by mastering the other two races at a nigh even level as his main.As a random player myself. All three races are very close to 50% and which one is statistically my best really differs from season to season and is most statistically significant. Last season I finished with Zerg at 52%, Protoss at 50% and Terran at 49%. The season before that it was Terran at 51% and Zerg and Protoss both at 50%. What you just said above does rely on the assumption that the skill ceiling is infinite though
RHP Dae-Eun Rhee was once one of the Cubs top SP prospects and the team is holding out hope that he can still reach his potential. His velocity has been down a bit this past season and in the fall league, as he throws more 88-91 these days. He has good secondary stuff, especially his change. RHP Tayler Scott is an athletic pitcher who played a lot of soccer early on in his native South Africa. He has a fresh arm with a projectable body that can generate low 90s heat right now as well as the makings of a plus curveball. Right now Scott doesn't miss a lot of bats and he's more of a back of the rotation type, but could be more as he matures and learns the nuances of pitching, though he shows an advanced feel for someone at his level of experience. RHP Carlos Martinez-Pumarino has good size and a solid fastball but is inconsistent with his secondaries. He blew away the competition in AZ but at 21, that should be expected from a pitcher of his physical maturity. The real test comes this year when he likely starts at Kane County. LHP Gerardo Concepcion was the first big splash international signing by the new front office but disappointed with his velocity and command, then missed the rest of the season with mono. When I went to see the last week of instructs, Concepcion still wasn't pitching in live games. He'll try to regain his strength and be ready for the spring. One pitcher who impressed in my time in AZ was RHP Jose Arias. He's an intimidating presence on the mound and was overpowering the competition at instructs with a mid 90s fastball and an improved curve and change. He looks the part, but Arias needs to be consistent with those secondaries. If he doesn't, then his destination is the bullpen. RHP Jose Rosario doesn't have the physical presence that Arias does but his stuff may be nastier. He fanned 11 batters in one game that I attended, much of it with a slider that had hitters lunging helplessly. He showed good control all season. He's slightly built and there is some concern whether he'll have the durability needed for the rotation and those concerns resurfaced when he missed the second half of the season with an arm injury.
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So, one day I decided to make a Portal gun. It turns out the internet really likes Portal, and also really likes my gun.UPDATE: I have a new entry for a rebuild of this project, which goes into more detail. Click HERE for that write up!I made this for my girlfriend Emily, who will be cosplaying as an Aperture Science test subject at DragonCon 2009. I have been approached by many people about making duplicates, and I will be making 5 more.Truthfully, a LOT of people want these things, and as much as I could just make a never ending string of portal guns, it would diminish the uniqueness of the piece. It would be a stretch to call my work art, but it is a very accurate replica, and keeping the production numbers low will make the existing models even more rare and unique to their owners. The final gun, #5, will be auctioned off to the public upon its completion. Gun #2 may also be available for auction, but this will depend on whether or not the charity organization I've offered it to gets back to me or not. The reason these are being auctioned is to make sure that anyone who wants a shot at getting one has that opportunityThe 5 replicas will be finished in early October, as I have a lot of other commissions ahead of them right now. When guns #2 and #5 go up for sale, I will be posting a blog entry as well as a link to their auctions.For anyone that's curious about how I did it, follow along:I started with 3" and 4" sizes of PVC pipe and cut them into the shape of the black "barrel" of the gun. Both pieces got U-shaped cut outs on the top and were epoxied together. The gaps were filled in with apoxie sculpt and sanded to shape. After some bondo work and a lot of sanding, I had this:This gives a better idea of the shape of the cuts, this is after another guide coat and a small application of bondo to fix some other smoothing issues:And sanded down from the above stage:The center chamber was made out of a mail-order lexan tube and an acrylic plunger handle. The black discs are cut from ABS and have more ABS plastic wedges epoxied onto them to give the texture you see inside the gun chamber:The circuitry was a little annoying.

There are two pretty serious bugs in the PS4 version right now that affect anyone who bought the game. For me and a lot of other players these are game breaking bugs and makes the game unplayable until they are fixed. I'm putting this review up to let people know about them, and you can decide how important the bugs are to you. Again, these only affect the PS4 version. Once these bugs are fixed I will update my rating to be 5 stars because without these bugs this game is awesome, it has a great battle system, sphere grid leveling system, amazing story, unforgettable characters, so many things to do, 200+ hours. Here's the first major bug: The RNG is broken in the PS4 version of this game. This means that if you die against a boss and have to restart the game the boss will do the same exact attacks for the same damage no matter how many times you die, this makes the fights very predictable and therefore easy since you know what is going to come next guaranteed. This same RNG bug also affects random enemy encounters, for normal enemies if you restart the game you will get the same enemies in the same order, and they will do the same attacks, for the same damage, no matter what. Again this makes them very easy and predictable. The RNG bug reportedly also affects drops, but I didn't play enough to find out. Second major bug: The background music will restart from the beginning of the track after every enemy encounter so you are stuck in a constant loop of the first 10 seconds of the song. Very frustrating for a game with such an amazing soundtrack. Like I said in the beginning, this is an amazing game without the bugs, easily on my top 5 games of all time, I'm positive they will eventually patch the game to fix the bugs, but until then it's unplayable to me and I am leaving this 1 star up to let people know so you don't waste your money. I believe in you Square Enix!
It will be optional for them to disclose their identity to the police or medical personnel.The minimum fine for drunk driving has been increased from Rs 2,000 to Rs 10,000.The fine for rash driving has been increased from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000.Driving without a licence will attract a minimum fine of Rs 5,000 as against Rs 500 at present.The fine for over-speeding will go up from Rs 400 to Rs 1,000-2,000.Not wearing seatbelt would attract a fine of Rs 1,000 as against Rs 100 at present.Talking on a mobile phone while driving will attract a fine of Rs 5,000, up from Rs 1,000.A Motor Vehicle Accident Fund will provide compulsory insurance cover to all road users in India for certain types of accidents.It will be mandatory to alter vehicles to make them suitable for specially abled people.Contractors, consultants and civic agencies will be accountable for faulty design, construction or poor maintenance of roads leading to accidents.A time limit of six months has been specified for an application of compensation to the Claims Tribunal with regard to road accidents.The Bill removes the cap on liability for third-party insurance. The 2016 Bill had capped the maximum liability at Rs 10 lakh in case of death and Rs 5 lakh in case of grievous injury.The time limit for renewal of driving licence is increased from one month to one year before and after the expiry date.The government can recall vehicles whose components or engine do not meet the required standards. Manufacturers can be fined up to Rs 500 crore in case of sub-standard components or engine.
And with Winston banged up, it's doubtful there will be many deep shots to Jackson down the field.
In fact, our whole field is infused with a passion for doing the right thing.”He says every member working on the project has to sign an agreement not to do what he calls “bad things” with it.Experts note that this is not the first time researchers have built a big chunk of genome from scratch. A group at the J. Craig Venter Institute synthesized an entire bacterial genome in 2008.Ventner’s group was funded entirely with private money. Boeke’s group relied on a single, relatively small government grant. Virginia Tech professor Jean Peccoud notes that undergraduate students did much of the actual work.“There is a lot of significance in terms of engaging students and using a research project like this as a training opportunity," he said. "But in terms of the kind of infrastructure and the kind of intensity you need for a project like this, is it really something that is fundable through public sources, or is it something that is going to be in the hands of commercial interests?”Peccoud notes that Craig Venter also used private money to sequence the human genome faster than the publically-funded project.Meanwhile, researchers have 15 more chromosomes to build in order to reach their goal of constructing an entirely custom-made yeast genome.The work appears in the journal Science
5 Extreme‐Value Geomagnetic Activity The time series of waveform amplitudes {b x ,b y } are autocorrelated—the amplitude at one instance in time t i is similar to the previous and subsequent value at t i − 1 and t i + 1 , for example. But to properly perform a statistical analysis, autocorrelation must be substantially removed. We follow Love et al. [2016, section 4] and “decluster” the amplitudes using a simple algorithm that gives for each observatory time series the largest waveform amplitudes within 1 day windows of time. In Figure 3a we show the cumulative probability Λ of declustered waveform amplitudes {b x ,b y } for FRD, 1982–2014. In modeling related data sets, power‐law functions are often used [e.g., Riley, 2012]. We have found, however, that lognormal functions provide better fits to the {b x ,b y } data. And we note that since a lognormal function has a lighter tail than a power‐law function, a lognormal fit to data will tend to provide a more conservative extrapolation for the cumulative number of extreme events than that provided by a power law. In Figure 3a, we show maximum likelihood, lognormal fits to the {b x ,b y } amplitudes. From these functions, we estimate, as extrapolations, exceedances with an average return rate of once per century (for FRD b x , the extrapolation is to 178.8 nT; for b y , it is to 186.7 nT). Figure 3 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint b x ,b y } for the Fredericksburg, Virginia, magnetic observatory, 1982–2014, giving probability of the number of days per year in which activity exceeds a given threshold. (b) Once‐per‐century cumulative exceedances for waveform amplitudes {b x ,b y } from 32 observatories and functional fits to these values {p x (λ),p y (λ)}; dotted lines show (proportional) one standard deviation dispersion. Constructed using the methods described in Love et al. [ 2016 (a) Cumulative for declustered waveform amplitudes {} for the Fredericksburg, Virginia, magnetic observatory, 1982–2014, giving probability of the number of days per year in which activity exceeds a given threshold. (b) Once‐per‐century cumulative exceedances for waveform amplitudes {} from 32 observatories and functional fits to these values {),)}; dotted lines show (proportional) one standard deviation dispersion. Constructed using the methods described in].
"We're very sad," he said.Fourteen-year-old Berkin Elvan was shot by a tear gas canister during last year's Gezi Park protests and died March 11 at the age of 15 after spending 269 days in a coma, becoming a symbol of police violence in Turkey.According to reports , important leads have been found in the investigations into the deaths of Elvan and Burak Can Karamanoğlu, who was killedby unknown assailants after Elvan’s funeral in Istanbul's Okmeydanı neighborhood March 12.
Theosophy knows man and Christ only as capsizings within cosmic life, within the cosmic evolution. In the cosmic evolution everything is formed and decomposes, and nothing unique and unrepeated comes about. The unique and unrepeatable countenance dwelleth in God, and not in the world. It is in God, and not in the world that there mustneeds be seen both Christ, and man. And truly man through Christ -- the Absolute Man -- dwelleth within the very bosom of the Holy Trinity. Man is primordial and prior to the world, he is greater than the world and cannot be but its implement-tool. In the evolution of the world there forms and decays only the outward envelopings of man, and not his solely unique and unrepeatable facial-countenance, not his image of God. Thus ought a Christian theosophy to teach, one very distinct from that, which is expounded in the contemporary theosophic books. But God they all shun and separate off from the theosophic consciousness, He is to be attainable at the end of the cosmic evolution, which is not to have an end. The theosophic consciousness, totally oriented towards cosmic evolution, does not know of an end, does not know of Divine eternity. The knowledge of the end or of the actual infinity is indeed that knowledge, which is knowledge of the uniquely-personal. Bad infinity and bad repetition -- are of nature alone. Theosophy credibly teaches about the complexity and manifold-composition of man, about the connection of his fate with the cosmic evolution, about the envelopings of man. But the deficiency is in this, that for theosophy I as an human appear ultimately at the end of a long evolutionary process, and it is subjoined to other component parts. Theosophic immanentism does not liberate man and does not bring him nigh to God; God is not at all immanent for man, not in his depths, God is separated off from man by the cosmic evolution. And thus there appears a new transcendent, transcendent for man, -- the infinite and remote cosmic evolution.
P olish auteur Krzysztof Kieslowski’s third feature film “Camera Buff” aka “Amator” (1979) is one of the important, transitional works in his oeuvre. Unlike Kieslowski’s previous films and documentaries, here there was less of overt social commentary and the focus is more on ethical dilemmas faced by an individual. The ideas in “Amator” depart from distinct political and cultural perspective to showcase universal emotional struggles. Kieslowski’s moral and metaphysical exploration of individuals later resulted in some of his greatest acclaimed works like “Dekalog”, “Three Colors” trilogy (screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz and producer Marin Karmitz played an important role in bringing these works to fruition). The great film scholar M.K. Raghavendra in his book “Director’s Cut” explains the absence of ‘private space’ in communist state: “Since politics is not a dominant concerning the West, its film-makers can explore ‘private life’ independent of history and politics……… when Polish film-makers like Kieslowski and Zanussi embark upon exploration of the personal in films they are less convincing perhaps because ‘private life’ is still a recent habit and their films are left without a credible subject”. From that perspective, “Amator” could be seen as a film well within the framework of East European political cinema, but at the same time it also explores how individual transformation happens, irrespective of sociopolitical factors. Like all of Kieslowski’s works, this earlier work too contains a lot of autobiographical elements and the film mostly reflects the question the auteur himself faced in the late 70’s: whether objective truth could be portrayed through images under an oppressive regime? olish auteur Krzysztof Kieslowski’s third feature filmaka(1979) is one of the important, transitional works in his oeuvre. Unlike Kieslowski’s previous films and documentaries, here there was less of overt social commentary and the focus is more on ethical dilemmas faced by an individual. The ideas indepart from distinct political and cultural perspective to showcase universal emotional struggles. Kieslowski’s moral and metaphysical exploration of individuals later resulted in some of his greatest acclaimed works liketrilogy (screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz and producer Marin Karmitz played an important role in bringing these works to fruition). The great film scholar M.K. Raghavendra in his bookexplains the absence ofin communist state:. From that perspective,could be seen as a film well within the framework of East European political cinema, but at the same time it also explores how individual transformation happens, irrespective of sociopolitical factors.
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a little manga merely four volumes long that manages to squeeze in so much goodness in such a short time span, because unlike what you’d normally find, in this series something actually HAPPENS essentially all the time.Sore wa Totsuzen Unmei no Aite ga (roughly translated to "Suddenly, the marriage partner showed up") is a compilation of four separate short stories, each focusing on its own coupling. The common factor is that these couples are selected not by themselves, but rather via a genetic test performed by the government in order to help people find their absolute perfect matches when it comes to producing offspring, and the results are delivered to both partners once the younger of the two has had his/her 14th birthday.Because of this, every story is already starting out with the characters as potential fiancés which cuts away a lot of the boring initial phase, but more importantly the actual stories themselves are SUPER cute! Instead of the ordinary cliché and generic male and female leads you’d normally see, each and every one of the characters in this manga are extremely likable and also feel very realistic. Every story has a ton of variation and theme, but they all succeed with their respective settings and purposes absolutely flawlessly. And the art style is beautiful as well to boot.To make a quick rundown of the various stories in order, we have:1) Yuuichi x ManamiStarting out with what is by far the shortest story of the bunch, we have a mostly lighthearted incest coupling between a quite ordinary, average boy and his younger sister who is more of a perfect girl envied by all. There isn’t really very much to say about this one; it serves more as a longer pilot chapter to the other stories but it’s still cute and funny in its simplicity.2) Jun x MaiA coupling between the school idol and the friend of her younger brother. This story was probably the most ecchi one out of the four, but it was done in a tasteful and realistic way that was very nice to see. It also showcased the process of the girl using her real life experiences over the course of the relationship development as basis for writing her own romantic novel, which brought with it some quite humorous and interesting consequences.3) Nobuyuki x MiyukiThis… was not what I expected at all but it was AWESOME.
SPIDEY leaps again, bigger! The acrobatics get more and more dramatic as CRUSHER COLE works himself up into a theatrical rage. Taunts erupt from the CROWD. OLD LADY Kill the sucker, Crusher! SPIDEY, really getting into it now, begins playing for the CAMERAS. HIPSTER (between two blondes) Whatsamatter, Crusher, can't you crush that bug? CRUSHER (to Spidey) Okay, Web Face, this is it! He misses SPIDEY again! HIPSTER Hey, Crusher, you need a insecticide! (his blondes titter) INT. LIZ/KIM'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT LIZ'S side is all schoolwork. KIM'S side is all ROCK POSTERS and STUFFED ANIMALS. LIZ is curled up doing homework. FLASH and KIM sit on the edge of the bed watching the "SLAMMIES" on MTV. FLASH Will you look at this Spider-Man guy! He is absolutely incredible! KIM Liz, get a load of this outfit! I wish I had it for the Halloween party... it's quite sexy. LIZ Will you two shush. I'm trying to work. INT. RING - NIGHT The match continues in an increasingly spectacular choreography. CRUSHER bellows at the SCREAMING CROWD. But there's a gleam in his eye. This is it! He charges. SPIDEY, playing the CAMERAS for all he's worth, leaps way, way up. But this time CRUSHER stops dead in his tracks. SPIDER-MAN comes back down into a forearm SMASH that sends him reeling into a corner. CRUSHER does a flying pin. 300 pounds. WOMP! The air leaves SPIDEY in a rush as CRUSHER covers him, smothering him. The CROWD goes WILD. REF One...! REISS Get up...! Get up...! REF Two...! Not realizing his own strength and panicky about being squashed, SPIDER-MAN throws CRUSHER COLE off him and up into the air. Way up! Reiss cheers... Spider-Man comes down and knocks CRUSHER for the first time. CRUSHER flies away and out of the arena, eight rows back! The HIPSTER sees CRUSHER coming at him and bolts from his seat. CRUSHER lands on it, in between the TWO BLONDES who break into utter hysterics. SPIDEY, surprised at his own strength, watches CRUSHER land. SPIDER-MAN (whispers to himself) Wow... REF Ladies and Gentlemen, history is made today, we have here the first man to win a thousand dollars against the mighty Crusher. The REF raises his hand in victory. The CROWD BOOS and DEBRIS rains down. But some in the CROWD CHEER wildly, recognizing the new sensation. SPIDER-MAN steps down from the right as REISS leads the CHEERS. PETER Max!
The S.C. Department of Health and Human Services is still reviewing whether he might qualify through a vocational rehabilitation program. If so – and if he can find a surgeon who takes Medicaid – South Carolina taxpayers will share the cost with the federal government. Last week Lang went back to Dr. Edwards, who had previously provided injections to control the bleeding in his eyes at a discounted rate. That’s when he learned that his problem had worsened, including the detached retina. “He’s in a very bad situation,” Edwards said after Lang signed a privacy release. “The longer he waits, the poorer his results will be.” Edwards said he would provide care at no cost, but Lang now requires surgery and follow-up treatment that is beyond his expertise. His Eye & Laser Center has a network of specialists who work on a sliding scale and organizations that sometimes help with donations. But Lang requires such extensive and ongoing work that there’s no way to guarantee there won’t be significant bills, Edwards said. Lang says he has called charities that work with diabetes and blindness, but he doesn’t seem to fit anyone’s cause. “I’m either too young or too old,” said Lang, who has launched a GoFundMe.compage in hopes of garnering donations. He has put out fliers and called various news outlets, but as of Monday he had nothing. There’s a lot of talk about personal responsibility in health care reform, so it’s probably fair to note that Lang is a smoker who has, by his own account, been inconsistent in his efforts to control his diabetes. Edwards says it’s not uncommon to see patients who don’t take the treatment regimen seriously until they’re facing major problems. Bleeding in the blood vessels of the eyes often foretells similar problems with the kidneys and feet, he said.
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Economic decline During the 1960s and 1970s, the main parties competed to reverse Britain’s relative economic decline. There was a growing awareness that the economic league tables showed that Britain was at the wrong end for figures regarding strikes, productivity, inflation, economic growth and rising living standards. Virtually all European countries, except for Britain, had so-called 'economic miracles'. Britain was often described as the 'sick man of Europe'. The targets for blame included: failure to invest in new plant and machinery; restrictive working practices and outdated attitudes on the shop floor ('us and them'); amateurish management; loss of markets; and rise of competition. It seemed that the UK was ungovernable and that no government had an answer to inflation. Britain appeared to be the weak link in the international liberal capitalist economic system, plagued by high inflation, low growth and irresponsible trade union power. Governments of both parties turned to incomes policies as an answer to inflation. They tried to agree a 'norm' for annual wage rises with the unions. This was always difficult for the unions, for their purpose is collective bargaining. This policy managed to keep prices down for a time, but collapsed when powerful groups broke the 'norm'. They failed dramatically with the Edward Heath government in 1973-1974 and again with the Labour government in 1979. Measures to boost economic activity and reduce unemployment sucked in extra imports, thereby worsening the trade balance, and seemed to lead to unacceptable rises in inflation. The financial markets’ loss of confidence meant a sharp slide in the value of sterling, which in turn led to the International Monetary Fund's 'rescue' in 1976. The IMF granted a loan to the British government in return for spending cuts and continued anti-inflation policies. That this happened at a time of high unemployment seemed to signal the end of the era of following Keynesian economic policies. The 'Winter of Discontent' in 1979 was a key event. The rash of strikes in crucial public services against the Labour government’s income policies seemed to show that the country was ungovernable and that no government had an answer to inflation. It destroyed the government’s reputation for prudent economic management and its ability to gain the cooperation of the unions.
Medibank, one of Australia's biggest health insurers, has announced it will dump its holdings in fossil fuel companies amid concern over the health effects of climate change. In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange on Monday morning, Medibank said it would transition to low-carbon investments in its international portfolio within the next year, to reflect the global transition to clean energy. "We are also committed to exploring a similar approach with our domestic equity portfolio, and so we will be actively encouraging fund managers to develop a suitable product for us that is socially responsible, cost effective and delivers a sustainable investment return," the statement said. The announcement by chairwoman Elizabeth Alexander preceded the company's annual general meeting in Melbourne on Monday. "We understand that the health of the environment has an impact on the health of the community ... Medibank acknowledges the science of climate change and the impacts on human health," the statement said. "We also recognise our role as a corporate citizen, and the increasing expectations the community has of corporate Australia." Divestment from fossil fuel companies has emerged as a key front in the fight against climate change, helped by major institutions that have started to divest, including Norway's government pension fund. Since about 2011, institutions across Australia - which is among the world's highest per person emitters of carbon dioxide - have been under pressure to offload their stakes in mining and non-renewable energy companies. Campaigns have targeted universities, churches, local councils, superannuation funds and banks. Environmental finance group Market Forces said the announcement by Medibank, which has 3.8 million members, means all of Australia's major health insurers have now agreed to shift their money from fossil fuels. "It's extremely positive that Medibank has ended its unhealthy addiction to fossil fuels," campaigner Pablo Brait said. "The medical profession has long understood that climate change has a devastating effect on people's health, so it stands to reason medical insurers should not be invested in the industries which drive it." Climate action group 350.org Australia said the Medibank decision was critical in the absence of strong federal government action on the issue. "At a time when we are seeing no federal leadership on climate change, Medibank's decision to drop polluting, high-carbon investments, and instead invest in low carbon alternatives, shows that the health sector is stepping up to fill the void," chief executive Blair Palese said.
Here is a revealing story. Iran doesn’t menace America. It does annoy the fat, brutal, vicious despotic king of Saudi Arabia and of course, Netanyahu so, Will Congress take Iran diplomacy off the table? – The Hill’s Congress Blog . Eighty-percent of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed on to the “Iran Threat Reduction Act” (HR 1905, sec 601) which would prohibit U.S. government employees in any “official or unofficial capacity” from contacting anyone who is affiliated with the Iranian government and who “presents a threat to the United States or is affiliated with terrorist organizations.” . As New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote, “loony schemes like the Orwellian ‘Iran Threat Reduction Act’ before Congress that would make contact with Iranian officials illegal only foment a dangerous jingoism.” The bill would heighten the threat of war by decreasing the likelihood of a diplomatic resolution of the conflict with Iran, which would give hardliners in Iran greater incentive to race for a nuclear weapon in an effort to deter a U.S. attack. . So, a bill that supposedly will cripple our already quadriplegic State Department further is EXTREMELY popular in Congress? Why is that? Do note that the Hill can’t tell us this information! So, the bill will ‘heighten the threat of war…with Iran’? Well, duh! That is the entire reason AIPAC demanded all of Congress pass it! The Congress has been heavily bribed by these foreign interlopers so of course, they complied with this demand that we pave the road to war. Israel wants this and demands this and the Junior Knesset delivers. . Suddenly, people who refuse to talk to each other when the topic is saving American citizens are shouting in unison. Here is the real marching orders from Israel: ‘Time has come’ to act on Iran, Israel says. So far, Israel boasts about being the only democracy in the Middle East but it is a neofascist state and increasingly, is aping Nazi Germany. Here is one example from thousands, from today’s news: Israel Shuts Down Radio Station for Criticizing Regime — News from Antiwar.com .
Bacterial overgrowth does not explain increased intestinal neutrophil response sox10 mutants exhibit a wide range of intestinal neutrophil populations (Figs 1D and 2A) as well as variation in bacterial load (Fig 1B). Therefore, we asked whether intestinal neutrophil abundance corresponded to increased bacterial abundance. We used transgenic sox10 mutant hosts expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) under control of the neutrophil-specific mpx promoter to quantify both neutrophil population and intestinal bacterial load in individual fish (Fig 3A). When we compared sox10 mutants that fell in the bottom half of neutrophil response (“sox10- low”) or in the top half of neutrophil response (“sox10- high”) to WTs, we found that all sox10 mutants, regardless of neutrophil level, carried significantly higher bacterial loads than WTs (Fig 3B). Thus, impaired intestinal clearance (S1 Fig) leads to an increased bacterial load; however, the bacterial overgrowth per se in sox10- does not drive an increased intestinal neutrophil response. We further characterized the pro-inflammatory signature of the sox10- high- and low-neutrophil subsets by monitoring expression of a panel of immune genes in the intestine (Fig 3C). These results aligned with our observations of the neutrophil population, as the sox10- high-neutrophil subset had elevated levels of mpx, saa, and tnfα expression compared to WT and the sox10- low-neutrophil subset (Fig 3C); however, the increase in saa transcription was the only one to reach statistical significance. Consistent with the significantly elevated intestinal neutrophil response in these samples, saa is known to mediate intestinal neutrophil behavior stimulated by microbes [31]. Collectively, our results suggest that a pro-inflammatory compositional change occurs in the microbial community of a subset of sox10 mutants. PPT PowerPoint slide
Epidemiologic features of four successive annual outbreaks of bubonic plague in Mahajanga, Madagascar , Emerg Infect Dis , 2002 , vol. 8 (pg. 311 - 6 ) , vol.(pg. 13 Lowell JL Wagner DM Atshaber B , et al. Identifying sources of human exposure to plague , J Clin Microbiol , 2005 , vol. 43 (pg. 650 - 6 ) , vol.(pg. 14 Margolis DA Burns J Reed SL Ginsberg MM O'Grady TC Vinetz JM Case report: septicemic plague in a community hospital in California , Am J Trop Med Hyg , 2008 , vol. 78 (pg. 868 - 71 ) , vol.(pg. 15 Gupta ML Sharma A Pneumonic plague, northern India, 2002 , Emerg Infect Dis , 2007 , vol. 13 (pg. 664 - 6 ) , vol.(pg. 16 Li M Song Y Li B , et al. Asymptomatic Yersinia pestis infection, China , Emerg Infect Dis , 2005 , vol. 11 (pg. 1494 - 6 ) , vol.(pg. 17 Bin Saeed AA Al-Hamdan NA Fontaine RE Plague from eating raw camel liver , Emerg Infect Dis , 2005 , vol. 11 (pg. 1456 - 7 ) , vol.(pg. 18 Ratsitorahina M Chanteau S Rahalison L Ratsifasoamanana L Boisier P Epidemiological and diagnostic aspects of the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar , Lancet , 2000 , vol. 355 (pg. 111 - 3 ) , vol.(pg. 19 Begier EM Asiki G Anywaine Z , et al. Pneumonic plague cluster, Uganda, 2004 , Emerg Infect Dis , 2006 , vol. 12 (pg. 460 - 7 ) , vol.(pg. 20 Kool JL Risk of person-to-person transmission of pneumonic plague , Clin Infect Dis , 2005 , vol. 40 (pg. 1166 - 72 ) , vol.(pg. 21 Parkhill J Wren BW Thomson NR , et al. Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague , Nature , 2001 , vol. 413 (pg. 523 - 7 ) , vol.(pg. 22 Achtman M Morelli G Zhu P , et al. Microevolution and history of the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis , Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A , 2004 , vol. 101 (pg. 17837 - 42 ) , vol.(pg. 23 Marketon MM DePaolo RW DeBord KL Jabri B Schneewind O Plague bacteria target immune cells during infection , Science , 2005 , vol. 309 (pg. 1739 - 41 ) , vol.(pg.
Three years after their wedding, in June 1189, Marguerite and Bela received the Emperor Frederick [Barbarossa] who was heading with his impressive army to the Holy Land to take part in the Third Crusade. The meeting took place in the palace at Esztergom (Gran) on the Hungarian frontier, which, shortly before, had been rebuilt by French masons. Marguerite must have had a hand in the renovation of what was to become known as one of the first major building in early Gothic style erected in central Europe. With all probability she was also responsible for development of St Thomas Becket's cult in Hungary, for next to the aforementioned royal residence a religious chapter dedicated to the martyr was established. The chapter house stood on a small hill dedicated to Thomas (Szent Tamas-hegy).The building must have been begun during the reign of Bela and he and Marguerite must have been the founders. Also at the time we find the first mention of Hungarians studying at Paris. Many Hungarian intellectuals went there to study and later, after return to their native land, use their knowledge to form the administrative organs modeled on Western ones, especially a chancery. In the History of Hungary by E.L.Godkin I have come across a very interesting information. According to the author after Bela's death in 1196, emperor Henry VI sent an army to aid the Crusade, and- here let me quote- “at the head of the quota furnished by Hungary, Margaret, a youthful widow, set out in person. What was her motive for this strange undertaking we know not, unless it were that weary longing for rest and consolation in another world, which finely-wrought natures then thought purchasable only by privation and toil in this.” I always thought it was a pilgrimage that she set out for. I cannot tell whether we can rely on the highly romanticized portrait of the queen given by Mr Godkin, who, for instance, calls her a youthful widow, although she was thirty-nine or forty at the time. One thing we can be sure of: Marguerite died in the Holy Land, probably in August/September 1197. A wife throughout the greater part of her life she was buried alone in the cathedral of Tyre, far from both Rouen and Szekesfehervar, the resting places of her husbands.
"Although people may deride IPL and T20 format because of which they think cricket has been commercialised, thanks to the money in it, access to facilities are better," he said, citing the recent Ranji match between Karnataka and Hyderabad held in Shivamogga.He said youngsters were able to learn cricket by watching legends like Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri on television screens teaching skills.Three legendary cricketers from Karnataka - Syed Kirmani, EAS Prasanna, and B S Chandrashekhar- were part of the audience and the highlight of the session was when Sardesai called them on the stage and paid them glowing tributes.Referring to the classy cricketers from Bengaluru, Sardesai said: "Like the Bengaluru weather, these are the most decent people I have ever met."
Google's in a little bit different shape, but when they came to me, I said, "I would not wait to build the second phase." Well, the developer said they're only building the first phase. So now there's another phase out there. Q: Google can afford pretty much whatever Boulder puts in. A: Well, if they had come up with a number, if they had said it was so much per square foot, at least you could say, "OK, we can still afford that," or "We can't afford that; we'd better sell the property and move on." I don't think there is a council member supporting either of the ballot initiatives. You can check. Q: So why have you decided to step down? A: This is by far the best thing I've ever done in my whole life. And my life has been filled with lots of great things along the way. I believe this has been a challenge for me. I'm not challenged a lot just in general business. I've had to step outside of my usual pattern of making my own decisions and if I screw it up, it's my decision. I've had to learn, and I'm not the most patient person in the world, I mean, you watch meetings. You know how long they are. A lot of people say, "George, how do you do it?" And I say, "I don't know." The length of the meetings; I can't do it anymore. I can't. I have been fighting since the day I went on council, you can look back, "We can't have meetings this late. It's not fair to the staff, it's not fair to the public, and it's not fair to us!"
I've confirmed that most of my Estonian haters (more like stalkers) aremen and not feminists. They did everything they can to prevent me from banging Estonia, sending their emails and warnings. The climax was when the police pulled me out of a club one night, a story I will share in future. They forced me to adopt a lower profile, but in the end I successfully completed my research and stayed longer than I had planned. This data sheet is dedicated to all of them, a victory over censorship, xenophobes, and racists. I (and we) won't be stopped. I've been in Estonia for the past 6 weeks (many missed when I announce it ). I haven't talked about it much because local knowledge of my whereabouts has the potential to compromise my sex research, especially since Estonians were hating on me before I arrived, something I describe more in depth at the end of this breakdown.First on to the good stuff...They are similar to Latvian girls but maybe a tad better (it's hard to call), though both Estonian and Latvian girls are not as attractive as Russian girls.As with Latvia, Estonian girls are overweight. Each night I see a handful of American sized whales, and a whole bunch of chubby girls. But if the girl is thin and has a nice face, she can easily be an 8 without trying. There are lots of randomly placed hotties, but less common than chubby average girls. If I came from America, I probably wouldn't have noticed the obesity. I wonder if I'm just being picky, though the problem is obviously worse in Tartu than Tallinn.I've seen Skrillex haircuts and ugly stupid hipster glasses. It's not pronounced but I can see where the future is headed. Estonian girls can be more granola with their style compared to Russian girls.It's like night and day. I didn't feel a pronounced sex tourist stain like in Latvia, either in Tallinn or Tartu. But unfortunately there is still some attitude in girls whose attractivness doesn't warrant it. It will really depend on where you go, but on a couple nights I thought I was dealing with American girls.. In my first week two girls said I was "very handsome" and one girl said I was "hot." It's happening much more here than Latvia, and possibly even Poland. Girls check me out regularly. No surprise I'm seeing a lot of male Spanish students here..
Back in the Census and Excise office, a gaunt man stands before you. He’s worked here forever, his name is Socucius Ergalla and he wants to know all about you.Class selection in RPGs is a staple, but in Morrowind class means more than how you’re going to 'win'. As with your name, it defines who you are and how you’re going to handle not just the quests, but also the world. You can pick a pre-defined class from Socucius, or you can make up one from scratch - selecting which weapons or magics you’re going to be good with, or setting up your class to be good at pickpocketing and trap disarming. Or, you can tell him how you feel and he’ll suggest something.When you’ve answered all his questions, Socucius gives you a package and asks you to take it to an old man in a nearby town. Then he boots you out the door, casting you into a world with nought but a map that needs filling in, a couple of skills and a tiny bit of cash. Off you go. It’s a game of exploration and experimentation, and each person's path through it will be personal. You can sell that package, throw it into the sea or dump it into a barrel and never worry about it again. You can do whatever you like.There are seemingly endless quests and places to find and explore. You can join the Fighters guild, Mages guild, Assassins guild, Temple guild, Imperial Guard or Spy Guild. You can join one of three noble factions that constantly war with each other, and complete hundreds of side quests as you stumble upon them. And this is discounting the plethora of incidental quests and details and lore to discover. It’s huge, but it’s all so intricate and embedded into the world that it’s a path of endless discovery, rather than a checklist of tasks.Crucially, everything you discover is interesting and presented within the world. There aren’t any codex entries or an encyclopedia of everything - there are books. You read them. Properly. Some are short stories, hundreds of words long, others small descriptions. Some form a series of books, creating an anthology of history. They describe the background of Morrowind, sharing its tales that people on the streets talk about in detail. Some books are hidden, of course.
“The pyramids are proof that our ancestors knew and worked with an energy technology that we are now finally able to measure, but are still short of fully understanding.” Coppens along with Klaus Dona of Austria and dozens of speakers attended the International Conference Bosnia Pyramid in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina which is held annually to release findings to the public. The team’s findings also reveal an energy beam, 13 feet in radius that transmits an unexplainable electromagnetic signal measuring 28 kilohertz coming from the center of the Pyramid of the Sun. This phenomenon has been independently confirmed by physicist Dr. Slobodan Mizdrak, Ph.D. from Croatia, professor Paolo Debertolis, anthropologist from University of Trieste in Italy, sound engineer Heikki Savolainen from Finland and electrical engineer Goran Marjanovic from Serbia.The energy beam is theorized by Dr. Osmanagich as the reason the pyramids were built; to provide ancient civilizations a powerful source of clean energy. This is already a widely supported theory set forth by the book “The Giza Power Plant” by Christopher Dunn published in 1998. The Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun is 30% larger than the largest pyramid at Giza and recent excavation has uncovered an extensive pre-historical underground labyrinth system, further evidence supporting the power plant theory.Is it possible that the fossil fuel based energy system we now rely on could have been prevented if inventor Nikola Tesla’s work on free energy hadn’t been suppressed? Why did the FBI seize his papers upon his death? Tesla’s (1856-1943) patented free energy methods were rejected due to their inability to be metered and monetized. “We urgently need to change our mistaken point of view that our ancestors were stupid and accept that they had an advanced understanding of the fabric of nature and the universe, just like Nikola Tesla, whose ideas were suppressed as they did not and do not fit in the reigning economic model,” states Phillip Coppens, author and investigative journalist.“The pyramids are proof that our ancestors knew and worked with an energy technology that we are now finally able to measure, but are still short of fully understanding.” Coppens along with Klaus Dona of Austria and dozens of speakers attended the International Conference Bosnia Pyramid in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina which is held annually to release findings to the public.
For my graduation present my dad got me a car! Its pretty cool and it runs well but it needs a few things for it to be to my liking, they arent needs just wants that i plan to pay for but i have no idea how much they would all cost. Ok so i can give u a good image in your head its a green Daewoo, Nubria and its year is 2000 so i hope with this info youll know how to answer my question. 1) Air conditioner. if u look at the inside you would see the air conditioner and u would think that if u turn it on it would work but it doesnt so i need to get that fixed especially in a state like ARIZONA where its always hot lol 2) New radio. I need one installed bcuz the one it has in there doesnt have sound and u need a code to use it. 3)Wheels and Rims. It has wheels but no rims and i kinda want new wheels lol whats a good size wheels for this type of car and what kind of rims should i buy is there rims for this type of car with the daewoo symbol? 4) Paint job. Ok so this is important my car is a dark green like spinach leaves lol i like it but it has white scratches all over the left and right side and the roof looks pretty worn out so i want it to be spray painted you know like in pimp my ride lol idk whats a good reasonable price for that but just write down a good estimate. 5) The front bumper. on your left side of the front bumper you know right below the headlites and the grill its broken and it dangals a little. Its perfect on the right side but scratched up quite a bit. So i want to get this old bumper off and install a new one. how do i go about doing that do i have to order the part or what exactly do i do keep in mind it doesnt have insurance yet but if it did could the insurance company do somehing about that? Ok so thats it thanx for reading and i want this answered in numerical order you know just line them up like this.
/* Creates the VerifierDlls value and sets it to the verifier dll name / bCreatedVerifierDlls = (ERROR_SUCCESS == RegSetKeyValueW(hIfeoKey, pcwszProcessName, VERIFIER_VERIFIERDLLS_VALUE_NAME, REG_SZ, pcwszVrfDllName, dwVrfDllNameLenInBytes)); / * Creates the GlobalFlag value and sets it to FLG_APPLICATION_VERIFIER * Read more: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff542875(v=vs.85).aspx / bCreatedGlobalFlag = (ERROR_SUCCESS == RegSetKeyValueW(hIfeoKey, pcwszProcessName, VERIFIER_GLOBALFLAG_VALUE_NAME, REG_DWORD, &dwGlobalFlag, sizeof(dwGlobalFlag))); / * The key creation might fail because some antiviruses protect the keys of their processes under the IFEO * One possible bypass is to rename the IFEO key name to a temporary name, create the keys, and restores the IFEO key name / if ((FALSE == bCreatedVerifierDlls) \|\| (FALSE == bCreatedGlobalFlag)) { / Renames the IFEO key name to a temporary name / if (ERROR_SUCCESS != RegRenameKey(hIfeoKey, NULL, VERIFIER_IMAGE_FILE_EXECUTION_OPTIONS_NAME_TEMP)) { DOUBLEAGENT_SET(eStatus, DOUBLEAGENT_STATUS_DOUBLEAGENT_VERIFIER_REGISTER_REGRENAMEKEY_FAILED); goto lbl_cleanup; } bKeyRenamed = TRUE; / * Opens the temporary IFEO key * The key is reopened because some antiviruses continue monitoring and blocking the handle that opened the original IFEO / if (ERROR_SUCCESS != RegOpenKeyExW(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, VERIFIER_IMAGE_FILE_EXECUTION_OPTIONS_SUB_KEY_TEMP, 0, KEY_SET_VALUE \| KEY_WOW64_64KEY, &hIfeoKeyTemp)) { DOUBLEAGENT_SET(eStatus, DOUBLEAGENT_STATUS_DOUBLEAGENT_VERIFIER_REGISTER_REGOPENKEYEXW_FAILED_TEMP_IFEO); goto lbl_cleanup; } if (FALSE == bCreatedVerifierDlls) { / Tries again to create the VerifierDlls value / if (ERROR_SUCCESS != RegSetKeyValueW(hIfeoKeyTemp, pcwszProcessName, VERIFIER_VERIFIERDLLS_VALUE_NAME, REG_SZ, pcwszVrfDllName, dwVrfDllNameLenInBytes)) { DOUBLEAGENT_SET(eStatus, DOUBLEAGENT_STATUS_DOUBLEAGENT_VERIFIER_REGISTER_REGSETKEYVALUEW_FAILED_VERIFIERDLLS); goto lbl_cleanup; } bCreatedVerifierDllsTemp = TRUE; } if (FALSE == bCreatedGlobalFlag) { / Tries again to create the GlobalFlag value */ if (ERROR_SUCCESS != RegSetKeyValueW(hIfeoKeyTemp, pcwszProcessName, VERIFIER_GLOBALFLAG_VALUE_NAME, REG_DWORD, &dwGlobalFlag, sizeof(dwGlobalFlag))) { DOUBLEAGENT_SET(eStatus, DOUBLEAGENT_STATUS_DOUBLEAGENT_VERIFIER_REGISTER_REGSETKEYVALUEW_FAILED_GLOBALFLAG); goto lbl_cleanup; } bCreatedGlobalFlagTemp = TRUE; } }
The meeting in New York was not announced to the media by either the UNSG or the Sri Lankan government. "The panel members took part in a discussion along with an officer named Lynn Pascoe (United States as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs), where Attorney General and the secretary to the ministry of External Affairs represented Sri Lanka" the Minister told BBC Sandeshaya. Attorney General Mohan Peiris, Secretary to External Affairs Ministry at the time Romesh Jayasinghe, Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative at the United Nations Palitha Kohona and his deputy, Major General Shavendra de Silva meeting the panel in February was first revealed by the Sunday Times published in Colombo. Progress Minister Peiris said that the Sri Lanka delegation informed of the progress of the work carried out by the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and other measures of reconciliation. The delegation had discussions with General Secretary Ban Ki Moon prior to meeting the panel. UN panel appointed by the Secretary General is chaired by Marzuki Darusman (Indonesia). Yasmin Sooka (South Africa) and Steven Ratner (United States) are the two other members of the panel. Investment opportunities Addressing a press conference at the Sri Lanka High Commission in London, Minister Peiris said that he is in Europe to promote the investment opportunities in Sri Lanka and to counter false propaganda against the country. He said that it is important to look at the situation in an objective manner. A recent delegation from European parliament who had visited the North had commented the image they had a bout post war Sri Lanka was false. "the bleak picture which had been painted in the west does not correspond with reality on the ground", The minister said quoting the European delegation. International probe The minister also admitted that there are around three thousand suspected Tamil Tigers still in custody without being charged. Replying to a question on the comments made by Robert O. Blake, Jr. United States Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Minister GL Peiris said the US government had not threatened to establish an accountability mechanism on alleged human rights violations. Our strong preference is that the Sri Lankan government establish its own transparent process that meets international standards. However, in the absence of such a mechanism, there will be mounting pressure for an international mechanism
Drunk with it. I'll sing and shout it forth at the top of my lungs. In my idiotic heart, idiocy is singing its head off. I HAVE PREVAILED! Bataille, BN, p. 24 Credo quia absurdum. In this last passage from Part One, Bataille is speaking, all at once, in a sudden burst, as Bataille, maybe as Troppmann, through the interpreted voice of his father, as a continuation of the Father. Through this polymorphous voice, Bataille allows for an ecstatic accessing of the condition humaine. Man is blinded by his attempts (in project or science) to prevail against nature (death and sex) . It is only through his blindness, his idiocy, that man can congratulate himself for adhering to the order of law. Resistance to this ordering is futile, as vain as the construction of order itself is. If one is not aware of this constructed illusion, if one does celebrate it "with a happiness that defies all reason," then one seals his conception of the world within the closed lines erected through the trial and error of those devoted to the project of preservation. In this passage, the blindness being described is two-fold; on the first order, it exists as a rejection of nature that privileges order and project; on the second, it is seeing the first order through the blurred focus of transgression. Through drunkenness, sexuality, and other expenditures of energy categorized as being consumptive and non-productive, the characters of Bataille's narrative seem to aspire to a constant state of transgression. From the beginning to the end of the novel their actions attest to this (in the Introduction of the novel Troppmann and Dirty retreat very drunkenly to a prestigious hotel, where Dirty proceeds to vomit and shit in the presence of an elevator attendant and a maid). More importantly, Bataille's use of language in The Blue of Noon is a rejection of an explicit subjectivity, which allows him to go beyond simply describing his characters acts of transgression, and in turn, participate in an authorial transgression of his own. Bataille is the author of the narrative, but the characters he constructs are woven from his interpretation of the autobiographies of multiple subjects. His narrator is speaking in a perpetual out of body experience, like someone who is dead, or watching his life unfold with a conscious disregard for the consequences. Troppmann knows he is already already a corpse and lives his life accordingly.
import { Component } from '@angular/core'; import { NavController } from 'ionic-angular'; import { Camera } from 'ionic-native'; import firebase from 'firebase'; @Component({ selector: 'page-home', templateUrl: 'home.html' }) export class HomePage { public myPhotosRef: any; public myPhoto: any; public myPhotoURL: any; constructor(public navCtrl: NavController) { this.myPhotosRef = firebase.storage().ref('/Photos/'); } takePhoto() { Camera.getPicture({ quality: 100, destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL, sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA, encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.PNG, saveToPhotoAlbum: true }).then(imageData => { this.myPhoto = imageData; this.uploadPhoto(); }, error => { console.log("ERROR -> " + JSON.stringify(error)); }); } selectPhoto(): void { Camera.getPicture({ sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY, destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL, quality: 100, encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.PNG, }).then(imageData => { this.myPhoto = imageData; this.uploadPhoto(); }, error => { console.log("ERROR -> " + JSON.stringify(error)); }); } private uploadPhoto(): void { this.myPhotosRef.child(this.generateUUID()).child('myPhoto.png') .putString(this.myPhoto, 'base64', { contentType: 'image/png' }) .then((savedPicture) => { this.myPhotoURL = savedPicture.downloadURL; }); } private generateUUID(): any { var d = new Date().getTime(); var uuid = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx'.replace(/[xy]/g, function (c) { var r = (d + Math.random() * 16) % 16 \| 0; d = Math.floor(d / 16); return (c == 'x' ? r : (r & 0x3 \| 0x8)).toString(16); }); return uuid; } } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 import { Component } from '@angular/core' ; import { NavController } from 'ionic-angular' ; import { Camera } from 'ionic-native' ; import firebase from 'firebase' ; @ Component ( { selector : 'page-home' , templateUrl : 'home.html' } ) export class HomePage { public myPhotosRef: any ; public myPhoto: any ; public myPhotoURL: any ; constructor ( public navCtrl: NavController ) { this . myPhotosRef = firebase . storage ( ) . ref ( '/Photos/' ) ; } takePhoto ( ) { Camera . getPicture ( { quality : 100 , destinationType : Camera . DestinationType . DATA_URL , sourceType : Camera . PictureSourceType . CAMERA , encodingType : Camera . EncodingType . PNG , saveToPhotoAlbum : true } ) . then ( imageData = > { this . myPhoto = imageData ; this . uploadPhoto ( ) ; } , error = > { console . log ( "ERROR -> " + JSON .
-- -- Example: sort by number of aspects: -- -- jars:sort(function(a, b) -- return a:getAmount() < b:getAmount() -- end) -- -- To sort in the other direction, simply switch the comparitor. function Essentia : sort ( fn ) table.sort ( self . jars , fn ) return self end -- Sort by name. -- See Essentia:sort to sort in a different way. -- Note: sorting is done via prettyName, so empty jars and void jars also sort properly. function Essentia : sortByName ( ) self : sort ( function ( a , b ) return a : prettyName ( ) < b : prettyName ( ) end ) return self end -- class Jar Jar = { } Jar . __index = Jar function Jar . new ( id ) local self = setmetatable ( { } , Jar ) self . id = id self : refresh ( ) return self end -- Refresh the information. Run this whenever you -- want to check the current situation. function Jar : refresh ( ) self . peripheral = peripheral . wrap ( self . id ) self . type = self : fetchType ( ) if self : isJar ( ) then self . name = self : fetchName ( ) self . amount = self : fetchAmount ( ) end end -- Returns the name of the aspect stored in this jar. -- Returns nil if there is nothing in it. function Jar : getName ( ) return self . name end -- The technical type of the peripheral function Jar : getType ( ) return self . type end -- Returns the amount of essence in the jar. -- Returns zero when nothing is in the jar. function Jar : getAmount ( ) return self . amount end -- Helper method to check for the name. function Jar : hasName ( name ) return self : getName ( ) == string.lower ( name ) end -- Checks if the jar is a real jar.
When distressed sales are excluded, CoreLogic's Home Price Index shows a 4.9% rise in U.S. prices from this February through next February. While some economists expect home prices to weaken, they don't expect a major drop. "I wouldn't expect anything like the meltdown we've had over the past couple years," says Jay Feldman, senior economist at Credit Suisse. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more
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Domdaniel : <Boomie> 8.Nf5 may be rare in the Spanish, but here it actually transposes into a reasonably normal line of the Scotch Game. There are dozens of games in the database(s) with the position after 8.Nf5, but reached via the move-order 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 etc -- eg, S Sulskis vs Campora, 2003 A couple of other general points -- many kibitzers (over the past few years) have pointed out various 'mistakes', 'blunders' and even 'losing moves'. It's rarely so simple, though I can definitively refute one suggestion: whoever said that black was winning a pawn after 19.Bf4 Rxe2 20.Rxe2 Rxe2 21.Qxe2 Qxf5?? may have overlooked 22.Qe8#, when a fine positional grip is ruined by an awkward checkmate. (Although, in fact, 19.Bf4 seems to lead to rough equality -- but it's not a nice move to have to make, and if it's white's best then he's already gone badly wrong). I agree that the key move is white's 19th, and that 19.Qb7 turns out badly. Is it necessarily a 'mistake', though? Let alone a blunder? I previously let an engine (probably Fritz 11) grind away at that position, and it had to reach roughly 24-ply before it saw that there was anything seriously wrong. A human player OTB, even a future world champion, would be even less able to calculate all the way to a decisive advantage for black. 19.Qb7 (or the alternative Qc6, which can transpose) is precisely the sort of gamble that many strong GMs would make at the board. It seems to offer winning chances, with risks attached. White will pick up queenside pawns, gain tempo with the attack on the Nb6 (albeit an illusory tempo as the knight is so strong on d5/f4) and bring about a position where he will have a won ending if he can withstand black's kingside counter-attack. Some players would fall at the first hurdle (me, I suspect, included) by underestimating 20...Qe6 -- if I was white, trying to decide on my 19th move, I'd probably have focused on 20...Nd5. But the queen semi-zwischenzug is very strong, increasing the power on the e-file and opening the way for the f-pawn, among other things. I'd expect a GM (or an engine) to anticipate it at move 19. More subtly, I'd have expected black to push the f-pawn quickly, with ...f5-f4 aimed at the blockading bishop and ultimately the king.
Besides Tice and Foley, at least two other American journalists have been kidnapped and are missing in Syria. So are two journalists from Spain, four from France, two from Sweden, one from Britain, one from Denmark. Most of them are freelancers. All told, more than 30 journalists are missing in Syria. Add in foreign-aid workers and assorted adventurers and the figure climbs even higher. Some of the families, including that of the journalist who was traveling with Foley, have been persuaded by their advisers and governments that the best course of action is to keep quiet (and I will say nothing about those journalists here). The dangers in Syria are increasingly acute. In the summer of 2013, I phoned a Syrian fixer in rebel-held Aleppo who sounded scared out of his wits. He’d just been released from two weeks in a jihadi prison, and the journalist he had ferried across the border was still being held captive; he himself was only at his desk to advise journalists against coming to Aleppo. “Don’t come to Aleppo” was all he kept saying. “Do not come.” Around the same time, I was talking to a Spanish freelance journalist, Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, who’d spent a few days with Foley and Tice in the suburbs of Homs and had been arrested by Islamic militants before, when he surprised me with the news that he was shortly heading back inside. Two weeks later he was again in the custody of the same group; at the time of this writing, he still is. The Business of Kidnapping
Even before he turned his focus to warehouses, Benzeevi had been cultivating Moreno Valley’s city council members, lunching with some often, three of them said, at town favorites such as Chili’s and Olive Garden. Benzeevi also ramped up his Moreno Valley political contributions. Way up. And he did not hesitate to pour money into campaigns against those who questioned his new plans. “It’s a sad state of affairs that money can practically buy a city,” said former Councilman Frank West. Records show that a Benzeevi-backed political action committee spent more than $60,000 against West and for his opponent. West said he had disappointed Benzeevi by surveying his constituents about whether they wanted a mega-warehouse in their neighborhood. West posed the question as the shoe company Skechers’ national distribution center, developed by Benzeevi, came before the council. Benzeevi said that he dumped money into the 2008 campaign because the town was “stagnating” and to counter “myths.” Residents, he said, had grown weary of West “cashing in at City Hall while little if anything was happening in Moreno Valley, except for rising crime.” “We participate in our American democratic process,” he declared, and “the voters make the choices.” West lost the election. Those still on the council, he said, could hardly miss the point: “If there wasn’t total compliance with Benzeevi’s plan, he had the resources to remove you.” The Skechers warehouse was approved, and then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the 2010 groundbreaking. The governor mused out loud that he wished Skechers would “create some maybe alligator cowboy boot running shoes.” The warehouse, which city officials touted as the largest certified green building of its kind in the United States, is more than half a mile long. In 2008 alone, campaign finance records show that one of Benzeevi’s companies, Highland Fairview, donated or loaned more than $260,000 to local races that, for years before his arrival on the scene, had been won with far lower expenditures. Another big contributor was a land broker close to Benzeevi, Jerome Stephens, who kicked in more than $100,000. The men did not give their money directly to candidates. Instead, they donated it to a political action committee. In the close-knit ways of small-town politics, that committee had multiple connections to city power brokers.
Mass Shooting vs. Active Shooter vs. Targeted Attack \| What Happens When Someone really IS Trying To Kill You \| Change Drivers \| When Someone IS Shooting \| So you got shot Shot Shooting Back \| Cover vs. Concealment The most accurate answer to the question of 'What do I do ...?' is "It depends" By that I mean it depends on where you are, who you are, who is doing the shooting, why the shooting is happening, who's with you, what options you've chosen and most of all your mindset. Does that sound complicated? It's not. Those are pretty simple questions. Where it can get complex depends on the answers. With most combinations of answers, the solution is simple: Run fiercely. Other times that's not exactly an option. Still other times you're going to have to fight for that option. Worst are the times where you'll have to stay and fight. What we're going to cover here are the factors to determine which is the best option for the circumstances you can find yourself in. Let me start with some good news and some bad news. First the good: Unless you live a particular lifestyle and behave a certain way, the odds of someone trying to shoot you (personally) are rare. The bad news is the most common way to find yourself at a shooting is being in the same area as a person who is being shot at. Basically, it's not personal, it's proximity to the target. At the back of the line of possibilities is you're somewhere that someone is shooting at everyone. Still even knowing that, there are factors and combinations you have to be able to assess to come up with the best solution. Starting with being able to determine if you THE target, a target or just in the wrong place at the wrong time. How do you do that? Well, this is a long page. So get yourself a cup of coffee. Mass Shooting, Active Shooter and Targeted Attack.
Introduction Vertebrate limbs show a wide range of morphological variety ranging from fins to limbs. The developing tetrapod limb is made up of three skeletal elements: the stylopod (humerus/femur), zeugopod (ulna/tibia, radius/fibula), and autopod (carpals/tarsals; metacarpals/metatarsals; phalanges) [1,2]. Autopods are highly specialized, composed of different numbers and lengths of digits, and exhibit varying degrees of interdigital soft tissue (webbing). Autopods are a hallmark of tetrapod diversity and are essential for adaptation to life on land, in the sea and in the air. Bats are an extreme example of this. To form a wing, bat forelimbs have gone through three major changes: elongation of digits II-V, retention of membranous tissue forming the inter-digital patagia (chiropatagium) and a relative reduction in the diameter of the ulna [3–5]. These morphological innovations are clearly apparent in bat fossils from 52.5 million years ago [6,7]. The genetic changes that led to the development of these specialized limb structures and mammalian flight are likely to have occurred prior to the radiation of the Chiroptera, one of the most diverse mammalian orders. Enhancers can regulate spatiotemporal gene expression during vertebrate development [8] and nucleotide changes within them can lead to phenotypic differences, such as limb malformations [9]. For example, regulatory regions in the 5’Hoxd locus have been implicated in digit specification during mammalian autopod development and loss of interactions with these regions can result in limb phenotypes, similar to Hoxd10-Hoxd13 deletions [10]. Nucleotide changes in enhancers have also been linked to morphological differences between species [11]. One such example is the Prx1 limb enhancer. The replacement of the mouse sequence of this enhancer with the homologous bat Prx1 sequence resulted in mice with longer forelimbs [12]. The recent availability of several bat genomes (Myotis lucifugus, Myotis davidii, Pteropus vampyrus, and Pteropus alecto) [13–16] now make it possible to identify specific nucleotide changes in the bat lineage, as compared to other mammals, that could have a role in the development of the unique limb morphology of the bat. Various computational approaches have been used to identify regulatory elements that could be involved in species-specific morphological changes [17–21]. These include human accelerated regions (HARs) and human accelerated conserved noncoding sequences (HACNSs), which are highly conserved sequences that have acquired a disproportionate number of nucleotide substitutions since humans diverged from our common ancestor with chimpanzees [20,22,23]. Based on epigenetic marks, Capra and colleagues predicted that at least 30% of these noncoding HARs are developmental enhancers [24].
The Sight 9.2 tested here comes in at $4,999 USD, with a build kit that includes a 1x11 Shimano XT drivetrain, a RockShox Pike RC, and wide Race Face rims shod with a Schwalbe Magic up front and a Nobby Nic in the back, all components that are in line with the bike's aggressive trail / all-mountain designation.The Sight's yellow and British racing green paint scheme works much better than I would have expected – my preferences lean towards a more subdued palette, but given how dark and gloomy this past winter was, the bright color served as a welcome reminder that the sun would one day return. Underneath that glowing paint is a carbon front triangle and seatstays that are joined to aluminum chainstays.Technically, it is still possible to run a front derailleur on the Sight, but Norco wisely chose to spec all three models with 1x drivetrains and a small upper chainguide from OneUp instead. The brake, derailleur, and dropper post housing are routed internally, save for the portion of shift housing that loops under the PF92 bottom bracket, and the brake housing that runs along the chainstay.The new Sight still uses Norco's take on a Horst link suspension design, but the rocker link now sits in a more horizontal position than before, with a trunnion mounted RockShox Deluxe RT3 serving up 130mm of travel.The previous Sight had a fairly high level of anti-squat, enough to cause the rear shock to move rhythmically under hard pedaling, especially during out-of-the-saddle climbing. That issue has been addressed on the new model by reducing the amount of chain growth, which Norco says should improve the bike's pedaling performance and also allow the shock to more easily absorb impacts.I ran five pounds less than my body weight in the rear shock, which equated to a little under 30% sag. Up front, I stuck with the stock 2-token configuration of the Pike due to the softer trail conditions that persisted during the test period. For drier conditions, I'd probably toss in another token in order to gain a little more bottom-out resistance and mid-stroke support.The last few seasons have seen more and more do-everything 29ers hit the market, and the Sight falls squarely into that category.
But perhaps no moment was as striking as Trump’s vow to abuse the powers of the presidency. As part of the discussion of his record of abusive conduct, the Republican candidate Traditionally, the point of presidential debates has been fairly straightforward. Candidates and their campaign teams saw the events as opportunities to demonstrate a command of the issues, tout the strengths of their platforms, knock the flaws in their opponents’ platforms, all while appearing presidential on a national platform.Donald Trump neither knows nor cares about the traditional point of presidential debates, and the result was a genuinely bizarre spectacle unlike anything Americans have ever seen.Given Hillary Clinton’s obvious advantages – on competence, stature, coherence, etc. – it’s tempting to describe this year’s second presidential debate as an example of chess vs. checkers, but that would understate matters. Last night was a more an example of chess vs. professional wrestling.It started with a ridiculous photo-op with several ’90s-era Bill Clinton accusers ahead of the debate, only to intensify during the debate itself. Trump ignored questions, whiffed on substance, lied repeatedly, delivered gutter attacks, all while trashing democratic norms in ways fair-minded observers should have found terrifying.Trump has apparently earned some pundit praise for delivering a “spirited” performance, which is true, though hardly admirable. A toddler throwing a tantrum may appear spirited in the midst of a meltdown, but Americans shouldn’t want the child making life-and-death decisions from the Oval Office. Others have lauded Trump’s willingness to be “aggressive” during the debate, which is also true, but more worrisome than impressive. A blind-folded person swinging a stick at a pinata may also appear aggressive, but it’s not a qualification for international leadership.There was an obvious cloud hanging over the debate, which is inevitable when one of the candidates is heard bragging about sexual assault. Asked about the 2005 recording, Trump insisted it was “locker-room talk,” before trying to change the subject to ISIS.He eventually said he didn’t do the things he claimed to have done. It’s a curious defense when a candidate says, in effect, “Don’t worry, I was lying.”But perhaps no moment was as striking as Trump’s vow to abuse the powers of the presidency. As part of the discussion of his record of abusive conduct, the Republican candidate turned his attention to Clinton’s emails.
A part of the beauty of this film, in fact, lies in this very quality: Persona can’t be stripped down to a single, unambiguous truth, something that Bergman himself understood all too well. “On many points I am unsure, and in one instance, at least, I know nothing,” he stated when asked what the exact theme and message of the film really was.
MR. SUPINSKI - We are audited. CALLER - Why is there a current House Resolution 1486 calling for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve by the GAO and why is the Federal Reserve resisting? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know. CALLER - Does the Federal Reserve regulate the value of Federal Reserve Notes and interest rates? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Explain how the Federal Reserve System can be Constitutional if, only the Congress of the US, which comprises of the Senate and the House of representatives has the power to coin and issue our money supply and regulate the value thereof? [Article 1 Section 1 and Section 8] Nowhere, in the Constitution does it give Congress the power or authority to transfer any powers granted under the Constitution to a private corporation or, does it? MR. SUPINSKI - I am not an expert on constitutional law. I can refer you to our legal department. CALLER - I can tell you I have read the Constitution. It does NOT provide that any power granted can be transferred to a private corporation. Doesn't it specifically state, all other powers not granted are reserved to the States and to the citizens? Does that mean to a private corporation? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't think so, but we were created by Congress. CALLER - Would you agree it is our country and it should be our money as provided by our Constitution? MR. SUPINSKI - I understand what you are saying. CALLER - Why should we borrow our own money from a private consortium of bankers? Isn't this why we had a revolution, created a separate sovereign nation and a Bill of Rights? MR. SUPINSKI - (Declined to answer). CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court? MR. SUPINSKI - I believe there has been court cases on the matter. CALLER - Have there been Supreme Court Cases? MR. SUPINSKI - I think so, but I am not sure. CALLER - Didn't the Supreme Court declare unanimously in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. US and Carter vs. Carter Coal Co. the corporative-state arrangement an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power? ["The power conferred is the power to regulate. This is legislative delegation in its most obnoxious form; for it is not even delegation to an official or an official body, presumptively disinterested, but to private persons."
Over the following year, Nathan tried everything to get Kylie back; he called, he emailed, he wrote letters. He visited Donges's home, into which Kylie had moved. He went to the police, who told him they were powerless. He consulted Kylie's parents and siblings, whom she had also disowned. (Kylie was supposed to be a maid of honour at the wedding of her younger sister, Briony, in February 2009, but never showed up.) On Christmas Day, 2009, Nathan called Kylie and pleaded with her. "I said, 'Where are you? We miss you.' She said, 'I'm with my real family now.' " Kylie had long since lost her job at Nepean Hospital and assumed the name Hope - that of her six-year-old "alter". She had also been seen by a Blue Mountains psychiatrist, who after just two sessions confirmed a diagnosis of DID. In 2010, Kylie signed an enduring power of guardianship, giving the "Bible study group" the right to make medical decisions on her behalf. Her contact with Liam, meanwhile, was sporadic. Once, at a meeting mediated by Nathan's mother, Helen, Kylie turned up with another member of the group, who instructed Kylie to manifest one of her "alters", which they called "The Dark One". "It was creepy, like some bad B-grade horror movie," says Helen. "Liam was extremely upset." (Liam has been in Nathan's sole care since February 2011.) Any spare time Nathan had was spent looking into the Bible study group, the name of which, he discovered, was the Springwood Faulconbridge Home Group. Small, amorphous and without any fixed place of worship, the group is what is known as a "house church", one that is thought to have begun 20 years ago. "In the beginning, it was all pretty normal," says Blue Mountains-based Wendy Morton, who with her then husband and two children attended meetings in the mid-1990s. (Donges was not yet a member, but other current members were.)
Angela Carter was born in May 1940 (the month of the Battle of Dunkirk) to loving middle-aged parents whose eccentricities — particularly her father’s — she describes in her essays. (“When we all lived in London […] he would come home on the last tube and walk, chirruping, down the street, accompanied by an ever-increasing procession of cats, to whom he would say good night at the front door.”) He was a Scot; Carter’s mother was from south Yorkshire; both places and sets of ancestors provided young Angela with a stock of stern, witchy childhood images. (“[A]mong the tips where we kids used to play were strange pools of oleaginous, clay-streaked water,” she writes. “A neighbor’s child drowned in one of them.”) A teenage bout of anorexia (“attempted suicide by narcissism”) preceded her matriculation to the University of Bristol and her entry into journalism, encouraged by her father. “It took me twenty years more of living,” she later wrote, “and an involvement with the women’s movement, to appreciate he was unusual in wanting this for his baby girl.” Starting with her first pieces for the student magazine at Bristol University in 1964, she built a full-time writing career that came to include essays and criticism for such publications as The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The New York Times, and writer-in-residence positions at universities in England, Australia, and America. Two years living and writing in Japan (with a “very good-looking bastard” of a Japanese boyfriend) marked the end of her first marriage: “I became a feminist,” she remarked, “when I realised I could have been having all this instead of being married.” In 1977, she married her second husband, Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son, Alexander, and settled with them in London, where she lived for the rest of her life. In 1992, she died of lung cancer, aged 51.
Jenkins-Bey, a by-the-book officer who grew up in the city and patrolled and supervised police in his old neighborhood in East Baltimore, where his mother still lives, cites the department’s General Orders reflexively when asked about what could have happened to Gray, who appeared to be conscious and ambulatory when he was loaded into the transport wagon, but was near death 45 minutes later when he came out. Two other former city officers who left the department also cited the police manual. “The General Orders clearly state all prisoners ought to be secured. Locked in, tied down” when placed inside the transport wagon,” Jenkins-Bey says.“They have seat belts inside. The police have acknowledged that Freddie Gray was not wearing a seat belt when we was detained. “Policy is to do that,” he continues. “What is the common practice? The common practice is to throw them in the back of the wagon and get to the next call.” “The seat belt is very loose,” according to Joseph Crystal, a former officer who says he was hounded out of the Baltimore Police department last year after blowing the whistle on fellow officers who beat up a drug suspect. Neither of these officers has direct knowledge of any policy or practice of roughing up prisoners on the ride to Central Booking, they say. Crystal, who is Hispanic, is suing the department for not protecting him from the officers who refused to aid him when he called for backup and infamously placed a dead rat under his car’s windshield wiper, says some of the older police he worked with may have talked about events from decades before. “Way back, back in the olden days,” he says, “the term I may have heard would be ‘rough ride.’” Michael A. Wood, who is white and retired from the Baltimore Police as a sergeant in 2014, wrote an email. “I know you have heard stories in the past of things like brake checks, drop offs, bumpy roads, et cetera, so you know that has occurred,” he writes. “Nothing can realistically change the possibility of someone exhibiting the callous behavior of using that vehicle as a weapon against the helpless or to stomp a boot into the neck of someone who flees.” Rough rides are a long tradition in Baltimore. In 1992 Kenneth B. Mumaw, a white man then in his 60s, was falsely arrested and banged up in the transport van.
The many eyes with the access and capabilities to peer into the lives of millions of people seems rather abstract compared to a one-on-one confrontation. But the dangers posed by both are equally real.
Lesbians are women, and women are taught that we’re supposed to be sexually available objects of public consumption. So we spend a lot of time saying “No.” No, we won’t fuck or partner with men; no, we won’t change our minds about this; no, this body is a no-man’s land. Lesbian, straight or bi, women are punished whenever we try to assert a boundary. Queer as a catchall term makes it really hard for lesbians to assert and maintain this boundary, because it makes it impossible to name this boundary. Meanwhile, lesbians (people who are, legal or not, discriminated against in housing, suffer with fewer job prospects and tend to make less money than straight men, will have one less cheap housing option because the str8s are in here taking up space. Oh but A is for Ally in Queer Land, right?). Yet again, space created by and for people marginalized by their sexuality is colonized by people who enjoy all of the benefits of heterosexual privilege. It’s really hard to talk about privilege — who has it and who doesn’t — in the paradigm of queer theory, because one’s self-perception is the basis of one’s standpoint, rather than one’s membership in a broader social class like man, woman, gay or straight. I witnessed a woman in a heated Facebook argument weaponizing her queer identity as the standpoint for why her word on queerness and queer rights should be the last. A gay man asked “does your queer identity include sleeping with someone of the same sex?” She responded angrily that her queerness was spiritual and deeply personal, and that she didn’t need to share the many ways in which she was queer. That’s fine, although no one asked you for a play by play of how you reach orgasm. While my lesbianism is also deeply personal and spiritual, it’s impossible for me to hide behind “well I don’t need to tell you in what ways I’m a lesbian.” I can’t walk down the street without some man telling me that I look unfuckable. I can’t hold my sweetie’s hand in public without some man yelling “Why don’t you let a real man try? I could fuck you straight, girl.” It was a choice to come out, but I come out again every day.
"We have all kinds of birds, ibis, deer," he said.He made time for an act of kindness, helping an anti-Assad, anti-Islamic State activist from Palmyra - an old friend - smooth relations with the group. The friend, Khaled al-Homsi, who also uses a nom de guerre for safety, said that bought him enough time to escape.After his marriage, Abu Bilal communicated less with female reporters - though when he did, he still sometimes called them by poetic nicknames, like "Mother of Eyes." But he assiduously courted his old friends from Homs, trying to recruit them to the Islamic State and offering to help them pay to be smuggled to the group's territory. "He was especially persistent last time," said Bebars al-Talawy, Jalal's brother, in hindsight, "as if he wanted me to replace him when he died. "The last signal they got from him was cryptic. His status changed on his social media accounts. It now said, "Forgive me. "His sister and parents, financially struggling refugees in a neighboring country, refuse to talk about him. "What do you want to write, to give advice to others not to be like him?" his sister said bitterly over the phone. "My brother was martyred, and he was still normal," she said. "May God accept him."
CAPTION Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday CAPTION Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday Nani, the winger, was born in Cape Verde and represents the Portugal national team. He was officially introduced as Orlando City’s new designated player on Monday CAPTION Orlando Pride star and Brazilian legend Marta on Monday claimed her sixth FIFA Player of Year award after she was named The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2018 during Orlando Pride star and Brazilian legend Marta on Monday claimed her sixth FIFA Player of Year award after she was named The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2018 during CAPTION Orlando City goalkeeper Mason Stajduhar completed his final round of chemotherapy Tuesday Orlando City goalkeeper Mason Stajduhar completed his final round of chemotherapy Tuesday CAPTION After Orlando City's 1-2 loss to Atlanta United, fans threw trash onto the soccer field. After Orlando City's 1-2 loss to Atlanta United, fans threw trash onto the soccer field. CAPTION A high-tech business that makes crystal and silicon lenses for fighter jets and tanks was all shook up over construction of the Orlando City Stadium across the street — and now it’s suing the soccer team, the city and the general contractor. A high-tech business that makes crystal and silicon lenses for fighter jets and tanks was all shook up over construction of the Orlando City Stadium across the street — and now it’s suing the soccer team, the city and the general contractor.
Previous experimental research has suggested that chimpanzees may understand some of the epistemological aspects of visual perception, such as how the perceptual act of seeing can have internal mental consequences for an individual's state of knowledge. Other research suggests that chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates may understand visual perception at a simpler level; that is, they may at least understand seeing as a mental event that subjectively anchors organisms to the external world. However, these results are ambiguous and are open to several interpretations. In this Monograph, we report the results of 15 studies that we conducted with chimpanzees and preschool children to explore their knowledge about visual perception. The central goal of these studies was to determine whether young chimpanzees appreciate that visual perception subjectively links organisms to the external world. In order to achieve this goal, our research incorporated three methodological objectives. First, we sought to overcome limitations of previous comparative theory of mind research by using a fairly large sample of well-trained chimpanzees (six to seven animals in all studies) who were all within 8 months of age of each other. In contrast, previous research has typically relied on the results of one to four animals ranging widely in age. Second, we designed our studies in order to allow for a very sensitive diagnosis of whether the animals possessed immediate dispositions to act in a fashion predicted by a theory of mind view of their psychology or whether their successful performances could be better explained by learning theory. Finally, using fairly well-established transitions in preschool children's understanding of visual perception, we sought to establish the validity of our nonverbal methods by testing predictions about how children of various ages ought to perform. Collectively, our findings provide little evidence that young chimpanzees understand seeing as a mental event. Although our results establish that young chimpanzees both (a) develop algorithms for tracking the visual gaze of other organisms and (b) quickly learn rules about the configurations of faces and eyes, on the one hand, and subsequent events, on the other, they provide no clear evidence that these algorithms and rules are grounded in a matrix of intentionality. Particularly striking, our results demonstrate that, even though young chimpanzee subjects spontaneously attend to and follow the visual gaze of others, they simultaneously appear oblivious to the attentional significance of that gaze.
Cast PfMW and the Shade Lord will ignore you and look for another, unprotected target.. Yes, I could take out Thax now but I want to get more variety in our spellbooks in order to experiment on him. Stay tuned.. Exploring Firkraag's dungeon will result in high XP yield due to the thugged out encounter design; for example:x3 (15k XP ea),x6 (8k ea),x3 (10.5k ea),x3 (12.5k ea),x2 (16k ea),x6 (8k ea), and one).◦ Itemization is underwhelming, though. You won't find any items of lasting significance to an arcane party other than a Ring of Fire Resistance; even the spell scrolls are nothing to write home about. Indeed, an arcane party has no use forand only Jan can wieldby virtue of UAI (not that you'd want to). : Vampire swarm (Elders & Ancients). Scout them out, cast Web, and follow up with a bombardment of Skull Traps and Sunfires to vanquish them. : Adamantite, Juggernaut and Stone golem pack. Note that Adamantite Golems sport 90% resistance to physical damage in addition to 100% MR. Aerie tanked it with the Flail of Ages (on-hit MR-bypassing no-Save 33% Slow and rainbow dmg) while everyone else hurled MMM. This epic tank will stand against such a barrage longer than anything you have encountered thus far. It makes Torgal seem squishy. Note also that it's too big to get out of the chamber it's in. Thus, you can take potshots at it from outside of the chamber, if you need to.If you're keen, you can nerf their MR with multiple castings ofand• There is a lot of other crap to kill, too. You can take out Conster, Tazok and Samia's crew, if you like. Don't forget to loot Tazok's corpse for the: it's how we gain access to the dreaded illithid lair and the Alhoon - a. If you want to take on Firkraag I would suggest waiting until you can cast eighth circleand(i.e, 16th caster level). The following notes and pics are from an incomplete test run I undertook, in which we faced off against Firkraag at 16th level. I only post it here as an aside; in this run I will take on Firkraag with spells other than basic stuff like Skull Trap/ADHW. But not until post-Underdark/Chapter Six; it's just more climactic that way. Your party should look something like this now :

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