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Gina Miller, lead claimant in the case, outside the High Court this morning ©Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images What denouement could be more appropriate to a campaign about Taking Back Control than a United Kingdom court ruling that, as a matter of United Kingdom constitutional law, MPs elected in the United Kingdom should decide whether, and under what conditions, to trigger Article 50? That’s what the High Court today decided. But what, in practice, does it mean? In early December the Supreme Court will hear the government’s appeal. And it is possible that the government could change its position. It could advance a case—the exact opposite of that which it advanced before the High Court—that Article 50 is reversible. To do so would give the government better prospects of succeeding in its legal arguments but it would carry a heavy political cost. The government would, in effect, be saying that the referendum campaign is not over. It would be acknowledging we may not, after all, choose to leave the EU. Brexit would no longer mean Brexit. That, even the most ardent Remainer would acknowledge, is an unlikely stance for the government to take. But given the nature of the High Court decision, absent such a damaging volte-face, the government can have little confidence about the outcome of the Supreme Court appeal. The government will know this and so, alongside the Supreme Court appeal, it will be drafting a Bill in readiness for it to go before parliament. That Bill, it is tolerably clear as a matter of constitutional law, would have to pass both Houses: the Commons and the Lords. There would in the Commons be—and I think, rightly—little or no enthusiasm for rejecting such a Bill. The fact that, legally, the referendum was not binding does not have as a consequence that, politically, it can or should be ignored. But it is very possible—indeed it is likely—that MPs will seek to impose conditions on the government’s decision to trigger Article 50. Those conditions are likely to be a mix of procedural and substantive. The procedural conditions may include a requirement that government presents its negotiating strategy to parliament in advance of triggering Article 50; that it regularly reports to parliament on the progress of negotiations; and perhaps even that it gives to parliament the final say over whether to accept the outcome of those negotiations.
Dalio contests this account. He insists that he is but one member of a large team, with Greg Jensen and Bob Prince acting as his co-chief investment officers. He compares the comments of former employees to the carping of ex-spouses. In fact, with the firm prospering, Dalio has been living up to a promise to spend a bit more time away from it, and he has ceded some day-to-day management responsibility to Jensen and McCormick. “I’m stepping back a little: I’m going to a minister/mentor role,” Dalio said, comparing himself to Lee Kuan Yew, the longtime Prime Minister of Singapore, who relinquished his post in 1990 but even today retains great influence. This month, Dalio is formally giving up his co-C.E.O. title in favor of “Mentor.” The managerial changes and Dalio’s lean appearance have ignited some speculation that he is sick, but he insisted to me that he is fine. He said his weight loss was the result of an “intended weight-loss program,” and he said he has absolutely no intention of giving up his role in directing Bridgewater’s investments. In stepping back from day-to-day management and in bringing in senior people, he said he is seeking to preserve the essence of the firm he built while preparing it for his eventual departure. Bridgewater has grown so large that its two main funds are now closed to new investors. Recently it launched a third fund, which is called Pure Alpha Major Markets. Last year, Dalio sold about twenty per cent of Bridgewater to some of its employees in a deal financed by several of the firm’s longtime clients, and he told me that ultimately he would like to sell his entire ownership stake to his colleagues. Unlike certain other hedge-fund managers, though, he has no interest in making another fortune by floating his firm on the stock market. “I don’t want Bridgewater to go public or have it controlled by anybody outside the firm,” he said. “I think people who do that tend to mess up the firm.” Dalio insists that money has never been his main motivation. He lives well, but avoids the conspicuous consumption that some of his rivals indulge in. He and his wife, Barbara, to whom he has been married for thirty-four years, own two houses, one in Greenwich, Connecticut, and one in Greenwich Village, which he sometimes uses on weekends. (They are currently building a new house on the water in Connecticut.)
Here is what this marvelous budget does...I want to go through what it would mean for our country if these cuts were to be spread out evenly. Bear with me, I want to go through this because I don't think people fully appreciate the nature of this budget. The year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financially cut by an average of more than $1,000 each. There would be 1600 fewer medical grants, research grants for things like alzheimer's, cancer and AIDS. There would be 4000 fewer scientific research grants, eliminating support for 48,000 researchers, students and teachers. Investments in clean energy technologies helping us reduce our dependence on foreign oil would be cut by nearly a fifth. If this budget becomes law and cuts were applied evenly, starting in 2014, over 200,000 children would lose their chance to get an early education in the headstart program. 2 million mothers and young children would be cut from a program that gives them access to healthy food. There would be 4500 fewer federal grants at the department of justice and the FBI to combat by the crime, financial crime, and helped secure our borders. Hundreds of national parks would be forced to close for part or all of the year. We would not have the capacity to enforce the laws that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the food we eat. Cut to the FAA would likely result in more flight cancellations, delays, and the complete elimination of air- traffic control services and parts of the country. Over time, our weather forecasts would become less accurate because we would not be able to afford to launch new satellites. That means governors and mayors would have to wait longer to order evacuations in the event of a hurricane. That's just a partial sampling of the consequences of this budget.
To provide such bounds, we consider additional systematic uncertainties in the estimates, including those that are correlated over time and are not included in the discussion above. In the GRACE data, this includes a long-term, secular uncertainty related to the correction for crustal movements associated with the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. This correction is referred to as the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA). Because removal of the GIA signal results in a secular correction to the GRACE observations, GIA uncertainty is correlated over the entire length of the record. For the ocean mass signal inferred by GRACE, the GIA uncertainty has been estimated to be ±0.4 mm yr−1 (ref. 25). In the altimeter data, uncertainties in the stability of the reference frame also limit the accuracy of the estimated trends. Such uncertainty amounts to ±0.5 mm yr−1 in the rate of sea-level rise observed by satellite altimeters26. Assuming the GRACE and altimeter errors are uncorrelated with each other, we estimate the net trend error of the thermal expansion in the deep ocean to be ±0.72 mm yr−1. Therefore, our estimate of deep-ocean contribution to sea level becomes −0.13 ± 0.72 mm yr−1. This yields an upper bound for global mean sea-level rise due to deep-ocean warming below 2,000 m of 0.59 mm yr−1 for the period from 2005 to 2013. To estimate the equivalent change in heat content, we assume that heat content and thermal expansion in the layer from 2,000 m to the bottom of the ocean are related to each other (a reasonable assumption given that actual temperature changes in the deep ocean on these timescales are much less than 1 °C). Assuming that a 1 mm yr−1 steric sea-level rise is equivalent to a heating rate of 0.6 W m−2 for the layer below 2,000 m (see Table 1 from ref. 13), we estimate deep-ocean heat content change to be −0.08 ± 0.43 W m−2. The uncertainty implies an upper bound of 0.35 W m−2 warming. For the decade from 1990 to 2010, previous studies13 estimate a slight warming of 0.068 ± 0.061 W m−2 for the layer below 2,000 m, which is roughly five times smaller than our upper-bound estimate.
… when a coworker told me he was in possession of a homemade anti-evolution textbook that had been given to students of a public school science teacher, I wasn’t sure who to tell about it. After my friend gave me the book, I knew I had to do something about it. … It contained many of the most dishonest, factually-challenged, and intellectually faulty arguments against evolution that are popular with fundamentalist Christians. In sheer volume, it overwhelms the reader with one shamelessly misleading and deceptive assertion after another, for literally hundreds of pages. My friend had borrowed the book from a friend of his who had graduated from John Battle High and had been in Mr. Booher’s science class. He had failed to return it to her, and she no longer lived in the area, so he gave it to me when I asked him for it. I contacted a reporter at the local daily newspaper, The Roanoke Times. I told her about the book and asked that she look into it. I also asked that she not reveal my identity as I did not want the public to focus on the “outsider” who was hurting their reputation by telling the truth about their science teacher, but instead to scrutinize the actions of the teacher himself. A couple weeks later, the story appeared in the Times… Booher admitted to the reporter, and later to the school board, that he had indeed printed and distributed the book. … If the Friendly Atheist blog (or many other similar blogs) had existed a decade ago, it would have been much easier to get the story out; the hardest part was convincing the reporter that the story was newsworthy. And the school would have felt a much stronger direct pushback from members of the atheist community calling and writing to school to protest Booher’s actions. … Here was a science educator, paid with government funds, secretly, consciously subverting his own role as an educator by supplying his students with systematic falsehoods and brazenly dishonest arguments. Here is an alleged role model, who sets an example for the young people he teaches by breaking the law. This disgraceful book may yet help educate students, by presenting an encyclopedia of bad reasoning, unsound arguments, equivocation and dishonesty.
Ever go Number 3? delya drew and immediately that feeling came over me. You know that feeling when your so inspired that you HAVE to make something, otherwise you'll start to smell of taquitos and look like the black guy from Mission to Mars and start having dreams where you turn into an angry robot version Gary Sinise and rampage Rubios? No?I used to think that I would never be more proud of any render I've made than LOVE JUICE , but then I made NIMBUS . And then I was like, there's no way I'll make a render for athat I like more than that one. Then I made this render, and I crapped my pants. I consider it the spiritual successor to Love Juice, except it's coming out the other end!Everything just seemed to fall right into place with this image, starting from the first test render all the way to the final eye-popping wallpaper. I never back tracked, so the image went together in an easy two days. Contrary to Nimbus, there was only one single color idea for this one. It basically from the get-go looked exactly like it does now. I placed a light and two reflection cards and wham I was done with lighting.Credits go to ` delya for helping me edit the final image and giving much needed advice on eyeballs.Made in Maya 2009, rendered with mental ray. Created from start to finish in about 2 days solid work. Everything was created out-of-the-box, with no special tools. Lighting was done with one area light, and that's it! The ambience was accomplished with a pure white environment with a blue colored ground plane, which helped bounce the blue lgiht back onto teh character. The reflections were created with two bright round surfaces, and were set to ignore all final gathering. The edge reflections on the character were simply reflecting the white environment and helped define his shape. The cloud was created with FluidFX in Maya. Render times were very good, and I was able to create several versions of the clouds, hearts etc before deciding on this one. The hearts were stolen directly from LOVE JUICE Much like my recent images, I have started using ambient occlusion (AO) a lot.
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The dynamo surface may also be located using the frozen flux theorem if variation of the magnetic field with time can be detected. The rich harmonic content indicated by Juno’s initial (instrumented) periapsis pass portends a dynamo generation region not far beneath the surface. This may indicate that dynamo generation in Jupiter’s interior—a process that requires electrically conducting fluid in convective motion—may occur in the molecular hydrogen layer above the pressure-induced transition to the metallic state, as first suggested by Smoluchowski (35). Experimental data (36) indicate substantial electrical conductivity in dense molecular hydrogen. Theoretical estimates consistent with these data (37) allow for a conductivity σ ~ 1.5 × 105 S/m at 0.89 R J and σ ~ 1.5 × 103 S/m at 0.93 R J . These values suggest a magnetic Reynolds number of Re m ≡ μ 0 σvL ~ 103 to 10 for these radii, where μ 0 is the permeability of free space, assuming a characteristic fluid velocity v ~ 0.01 m/s and characteristic length scale L ~ 1000 km, both plausible choices for dynamo generation in Jupiter (38).
GGU's superior siege was just too much for Vulcun to overcome and in what seemed like a desperation play they tried to force an engage Bot lane leading to a 4-1 trade in kills in favor of GGU that would also secure them the win. At the end of it all this was a well deserved victory for GGU. Vulcun simply outplayed them in the early game, but with superior team coordination and utilizing the strengths of their team comp they were able to come back. This game proved that GGU had a lot of raw talent, and could easily be a dark horse to break into the top four come the end of the first half of the season. Week 2 for the LCS was somewhat lackluster in terms of quality games. Most of the matches were total stomps or ended with a team throwing away a huge lead. It wasn't until the last round of the week that we were treated to a match with no foreseeable favorite until the very end of the game. For GGU and Vulcun, this was an important game as both teams were looking to pick up their first win. Since the real objective of the first half of the season is to break into the Top Four to guarantee a return spot for the second half of the season, every win is an important one. In theory, a team could quickly reach a point where even if they won the remainder of their games for the season, they still wouldn't break into the Top Four. With that in mind, it makes sense both teams were so desperate for a win.In contrast to many of the games we saw during Week 2, both teams decided to forego a lane swap and instead just have their players lane in their standard positions. The first real action of the game would come around the 4:00 minute mark. GGU had pushed up pretty far to Vulcun's turret but were relying on some early wards to keep them safe. What they didn't consider was some clever play by Xmithe on Jarvan. By performing an EQ combo he was able to position himself in the Bot lane river bush without being seen by any wards. From there, it was just a matter of waiting for his cooldowns to come back.
Say you’ve heard about this mountain bike thing, and maybe you even have a fat-tire bike, and you’ve always wanted to do some singletrack — but the idea of just going out on some trail in what’s pretty much the mountain biking capital of the world scares the living daylights out of you. As well it probably should. But check this out: The Lower Loop in Crested Butte is a gentle introduction to mountain biking, mostly pavement with a few miles of singletrack that can be connected to other trails to make it as long or short as you like. Simply follow Butte Avenue west out of town, taking the trail to the left after the last house. Follow the singletrack, always bearing right at crossroads. When you come to the Peanut Mine, this is the official start of the Lower Loop. All of the spurs reconnect from here. Tony’s Trail, be warned, is a bit harder (it’s a 9-mile loop that gains about 1,200 feet in elevation). But the rest of the trails, including the ride on Slate River Road back to town, are fairly easy. And the views on the upper portion of Lower Loop, which includes Paradise Divide and the Slate River Valley, are spectacular, especially when the wildflowers are in bloom. For more info or to pick up a good guide to the trails around town, stop by the Alpineer (419 Sixth St., 970-349-5210, alpineer.com.). Stay: One of the best deals in Crested Butte is the Pioneer Guest Cabins, about 10 miles outside of town. Surrounded by the Gunnison National Forest, the 1930s cabins are lavishly furnished and pet-friendly. Rates start at $131 per night, minimum stays required depending on season (2094 Cement Creek Road, 970-349-5517, thepioneer.net.). Dine: At the lively Donita’s Cantina, the Mexican fare rocks — especially the shrimp sauteed in butter — and the margaritas are so good it’s hard to stop at just one (330 Elk Ave.; 970-349-6674, donitascantina.com. ).
Given Coulter’s role in Trump’s crusade against Mexican immigration, it’s worth examining her book for clues to that crusade’s future. In particular, it’s worth examining what she says about California. In Adios, America’s acknowledgments section, Coulter notes that many of the people who helped her with the book hail from that state: Ned, Jim, Trish, Robert, Melanie, and Merrill are all Californians, so they have a closeup view of what our new country is going to be like. In fact, nearly all my friends who were willing to be named are Californians. It’s remarkable how quickly people in a state that has been overwhelmed with illegal aliens are able to grasp the fine points of my thesis. If it’s not a hit in 2015, this book will be HUGE as soon as the other forty-nine states become California. Coulter is right. California, where Latinos now outnumber non-Latino whites, offers valuable lessons about what American politics will be like as the share of Latinos grows in the country as a whole. But those lessons suggest that the Trump insurrection will fail miserably. If the Golden State is any guide, the Trump campaign does not herald the beginning of a mass nativist backlash against Latino immigration. It heralds something closer to the end. Although Trump has broken with his party’s establishment on many issues, immigration has been the most central to his rise. His “rapists” comment dominated media coverage of his campaign launch, and his pledge to build a wall along the Mexican border is, by far, his best-known policy proposal. When his events grow “a little boring,” the real-estate mogul told The New York Times’ editorial board, “I just say, ‘We will build the wall!’ and they go nuts.” According to a Pew Research Center poll this spring, the wall divides pro-Trump from anti-Trump Republicans more sharply than any other issue. But Trump is not the first Republican to put illegal immigration at the heart of his presidential bid. Pete Wilson did it 20 years ago. On a late-summer day in 1995, with the Statue of Liberty as his backdrop, the then-governor of California declared that he was entering the presidential race because “there’s a right way to come to America and a wrong way. Illegal immigration is not the American way.
Since what newcomers tend to notice first are unique artists, your questions will probably be easy to answer and it'll only be a matter of time until you yourself can start distinguishing them.Which brings us to the next point: familiarization. If you're lucky you might come across a solo key animation episode which naturally showcases the artist's style; rare instances like Your Lie In April #5 , which was a non-stop display ofcharacter motion and effects. Most of the time however, you will simply learn that a certain animator animated a handful of cuts within an episode you liked. Once you have that name, go look them up on Sakugabooru or check if there's a compilation of their work elsewhere . By watching an animator's work isolated from the rest you will start to notice patterns, the distinct ways in which they draw stuff and everything that composes their personal style. From the detailed and bouncy hair in Megumi Kouno's work to the large amount of sparks and debris on Nozomu Abe's cuts , there's no end to the quirks you will notice. You might want to check their animation frame by frame to have a clearer look at their art, but that is far from necessary and something fans do either to appreciate their work or gain in-depth understanding of it. Once you're used to this process it becomes something you naturally can do, even while watching an episode for the first time; don't worry if you struggle at the beginning. This is just like people who might be scared of being unable to follow subtitled anime rapidly being able to process a bit more information without thinking about it!This shouldn't come as a surprise, but one of the best sources for this sort of knowledge are the creators themselves. Sites like twitter have given them personal outlets where they can share their industry insight, what they've been working on, all sorts of fascinating details. For the most part artists enjoy talking about their work and appreciate fan interaction, so it's common to see things like animators sourcing their own cuts when asked by fans. This is of course quite limited to Japanese speakers (though you also see animators try their best to reply in English to foreigners, that's how much they enjoy people reaching out to them), but there are plenty of people translating those messages into other languages nowadays.
D:\>cpan It looks like you don't have a C compiler and make utility installed. Trying to install dmake and the MinGW gcc compiler using the Perl Package Manager. This may take a a few minutes... Downloading MinGW-5.1.4.1...done Downloading dmake-4.11.20080107...done Unpacking MinGW-5.1.4.1...done Unpacking dmake-4.11.20080107...done Generating HTML for MinGW-5.1.4.1...done Generating HTML for dmake-4.11.20080107...done Updating files in site area...done 1070 files installed Please use the `dmake` program to run commands from a Makefile! cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9600) Enter 'h' for help. cpan> install local::lib Fetching with LWP: ... Running install for module 'local::lib' Running make for A/AP/APEIRON/local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/id/A/AP/APEIRON/local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/id/A/AP/APEIRON/CHECKSUMS Checksum for C:\Perl14\cpan\sources\authors\id\A\AP\APEIRON\local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz ok ... CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AP/APEIRON/local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz * Module::AutoInstall version 1.03 * Checking for Perl dependencies... * Since we're running under CPAN, I'll just let it take care of the dependency's installation later. [Core Features] - ExtUtils::MakeMaker ...loaded. (6.57_05 >= 6.31) - ExtUtils::Install ...loaded. (1.56 >= 1.43) - Module::Build ...loaded. (0.38 >= 0.36) - CPAN ...loaded. (1.9600 >= 1.82) * Module::AutoInstall configuration finished. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for local::lib ... Running make test All tests successful. Files=7, Tests=29, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr + 0.08 sys = 0.14 CPU) Result: PASS APEIRON/local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz C:\Perl14\site\bin\dmake.exe test -- OK Running make install ... cpan> install App::cpanminus Running install for module 'App::cpanminus' Running make for M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.4008.tar.gz ... Running make test All tests successful. Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr + 0.03 sys = 0.06 CPU) Result: PASS MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.4008.tar.gz C:\Perl14\site\bin\dmake.exe test -- OK Running make install ... cpan> exit Lockfile removed. D:\>cpanm Usage: cpanm [options] Module [...] Try `cpanm --help` or `man cpanm` for more options. D:\>
A few outside observers speculated that the real battle was about whether Oxford Nanopore technology would someday displace Illumina in the battle to provide hardware and services in the sequencing market. The lawsuit was settled in August. Others say this kind of litigiousness is par for the course in the life sciences world. Illumina, for instance, was sued by many of its larger rivals in the years that it was the underdog. Large biotech companies are under pressure from stakeholders to expand their businesses and avoid competition from startups snapping on their heels. In its current position, Illumina is either an ally or frenemy to virtually every genomics company that exists. Even those I spoke to that harbored some fears that Illumina would encroach on its territory were reluctant to speak publicly about it.
References Aiello, Annette (1985). "Sloth Hair: Unanswered Questions," in The Evolution and Ecology of Armadillos, Sloths, and Vermilinguas, edited by G. Gene Montgomery, pp. 213-218. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Beebe, William (1926). "The Three-toed Sloth," Zoologica vol. 7, pp. 1-67. Bortoft, Henri (1996). The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature. Hudson NY: Lindisfarne Press. Bourlière, Francois (1964). The Natural History of Mammals. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 252 ff. Britton, W. S. (1941). "Form and Function in the Sloth," Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 16, pp. 13-43, 190-207. Goethe, Johann W. von (1995). Goethe: Scientific Studies (Collected Works, vol. 12, ed. Douglas Miller). Princeton: Princeton U. Press. Grzimek, Bernhard (1975). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11 (Mammals II). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Holdrege, Craig (1998). "Seeing the Animal Whole: The Example of Horse and Lion," in Seamon and Zajonc 1998, pp. 213-32. Holdrege Craig (2004). The Flexible Giant: Seeing the Elephant Whole. Ghent NY: The Nature Institute. Holdrege Craig (2005). The Giraffe's Long Neck: From Evolutionary Fable to Whole Organism. Ghent NY: The Nature Institute. Kranich, Ernst-Michael (1995). Wesensbilder der Tiere. Stuttgart: Verlag Freies Geistesleben. Kranich, Ernst-Michael (1999). Thinking Beyond Darwin. Great Barrington MA: Lindisfarne Press. Montgomery, G. G. and M. E. Sunquist (1975). "Impact of Sloths on Neotropical Forest Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling," in Tropical Ecological Systems, edited by Frank. B. Golley and Ernesto Medina. New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 69-98. Goffart, M. (1971). Form and Function in the Sloth. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press. McNab, Brian K. (1978). "Energetics of Arboreal Folivores: Physiological Problems and Ecological Consequences of Feeding on an Ubiquitous Food Supply," in The Ecology of Arboreal Folivores, edited by G. Gene Montgomery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 153-62. Mendel, Frank (1985). "Adaptations for Suspensory Behavior in the Limbs of Two-toed Sloths," in The Evolution and Ecology of Armadillos, Sloths, and Vermilinguas, edited by G. Gene Montgomery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 151-62. Mendel, Frank (1985b). "Use of hands and Feet of Three-toed Sloths (Bradypus variegatus) during Climbing and Terrestrial Locomotion," Journal of Mammalogy vol. 66, pp. 359-66. Mendel, Frank, David Piggins and Dale Fish (1985c). "Vision of Two-toed Sloths (Choloepus)," Journal of Mammalogy vol. 66, pp. 197-200. Montgomery G. Gene and M. E. Sunquist (1978). "Habitat Selection and Use by Two-toed and Three-toed Sloths," The Ecology of Arboreal Folivores, edited by G. Gene Montgomery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp.
To be able to fight the bureaucracy, the proletariat needed freedom: freedom to organize, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly. But that led to the argument of freedom to choose one’s party, upheld by Myasnikov, and condemned formerly by Lenin, by Trotsky, and by the Decemists. And even then the major part of the Decemists and almost all the Trotskyists continued to consider that “freedom of party” would be “the end of the revolution”. “Freedom to choose one’s party – that is Menshevism,” was the Trotskyists’ final verdict. “The proletariat is socially homogenous and that is why its interests can only be represented by a single party,” the Decemist Davidov wrote. “And why should not democracy within the party be coupled with its dictatorship outside?” the Decemist Nyura Yankovskaya wanted to know. “The Paris Commune succumbed because over there they had too many parties. But with us there is only one. How, then, has it happened that our revolutions too, has succumbed?” Dora Zak retorted to Davidov. The young Decemist Volodya Smirnov even went so far as to say: “There has never been a proletarian revolution, nor a dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia, there has simply been a ‘popular revolution’ from below and a dictatorship from above. Lenin was never an ideologist of the proletariat. From beginning to end he was an ideologist of the intelligentsia.” These ideas of Smirnov were bound up with the general view that the world was steering straight towards a new social form – State capitalism – with the bureaucracy as the new ruling class. It put on the same level Soviet Russia, Kemalist Turkey, fascist Italy, Germany on the march to Hitlerism, and the America of Hoover-Roosevelt. “Communism is an extremist fascism, fascism is a moderate communism,” he wrote in his article, Comfascism. That conception left the forces and perspectives of socialism somewhat in the shade. The majority of the Decemist faction, Davidov, Shapiro, etc., considered that young Smirnov’s heresy had gone beyond all bounds, and he was expelled from the group, amid uproar.
Table 1 Year, Organization Recommendation (text) Recommended minimal levels 1996, Surgeon General's Report Guidelines13 ‘The report recommends a moderate amount of physical activity equivalent to physical activity that uses ~150 kcal of energy per day, or 1000 kcal per week.’ 150 kcal/day, or 1000 kcal/week 2004, United Kingdom Chief Medical Officer's Report Guidelines14 ‘For general health benefit, adults should achieve a total of at least 30 minutes a day of at least moderate-intensity physical activity on 5 or more days of the week. The activity can be lifestyle activity or structured exercise or sport, or a combination of these.’ 150 min of moderate-intensity physical activity per week 2007, ACSM-AHA updated Guidelines for Adults15 ‘30 min of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity 5 days per week or 20 min of vigorous-intensity physical activity on 3 days per week, or a combination of moderate- and vigorous activity. Moderate-intensive activity can be accumulated towards the 30 minimum from bouts lasting 10 or more minutes. This activity is in addition to the light intensity activities performed during daily life.’ 150 min of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity per week or 60 min of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week 2008, Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans16 ‘Adults should do at least 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity. For additional and more extensive health benefits, adults should increase their aerobic physical activity to 300 minutes a week of moderate-intensity or 150 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity.’ 150 min of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity per week or 75 min of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week Year, Organization Recommendation (text) Recommended minimal levels 1996, Surgeon General's Report Guidelines13 ‘The report recommends a moderate amount of physical activity equivalent to physical activity that uses ~150 kcal of energy per day, or 1000 kcal per week.’ 150 kcal/day, or 1000 kcal/week 2004, United Kingdom Chief Medical Officer's Report Guidelines14 ‘For general health benefit, adults should achieve a total of at least 30 minutes a day of at least moderate-intensity physical activity on 5 or more days of the week.
As sadness is an emotion that is usually marked by slower speech rate, the BG may be most sensitive to slowed down speech (see also [50] for a review). Finally, the idea that the left BG do not play a mandatory role during early, implicit emotional speech processing is reinforced by recent data from our labs. Previously, we have reported unimpaired processing of emotional salient acoustic cues with different stimulus material in the same patient group [7]. In particular, emotional prosodic expectancy violations elicited a comparable positive ERP component (prosodic expectancy positivity, PEP) for healthy controls and patients. Taken together, the present results suggest that the left basal ganglia are not critically involved in early emotional salience detection during implicit emotional task instructions.
GCC has generalized lvalues. You can take the address of a lot of strange things: int x, y, z; return &(x ? y : z) - & (x++, x); See the CIL output for this code fragment GCC lets you omit the second component of a conditional expression. extern int f(); return f() ? : -1; // Returns the result of f unless it is 0 See the CIL output for this code fragment Computed jumps can be tricky. CIL compiles them away in a fairly clean way but you are on your own if you try to jump into another function this way. static void jtab[2]; // A jump table static int doit(int x){ static int jtab_init = 0; if(!jtab_init) { // Initialize the jump table jtab[0] = &&lbl1; jtab[1] = &&lbl2; jtab_init = 1; } goto jtab[x]; // Jump through the table lbl1: return 0; lbl2: return 1; } int main(void){ if (doit(0) != 0) exit(1); if (doit(1) != 1) exit(1); exit(0); } See the CIL output for this code fragment A cute little example that we made up. What is the returned value? (Answer: 1); return ({goto L; 0;}) && ({L: 5;}); See the CIL output for this code fragment extern inline is a strange feature of GNU C. Can you guess what the following code computes? extern inline foo(void) { return 1; } int firstuse(void) { return foo(); } // A second, incompatible definition of foo int foo(void) { return 2; } int main() { return foo() + firstuse(); } See the CIL output for this code fragment The answer depends on whether the optimizations are turned on. If they are then the answer is 3 (the first definition is inlined at all occurrences until the second definition). If the optimizations are off, then the first definition is ignore (treated like a prototype) and the answer is 4. CIL will misbehave on this example, if the optimizations are turned off (it always returns 3).
"7 I informed the American Heart Association about Dr. Millward's position, but so far they have chosen to remain silent—and annually, 1.25 million people in the USA alone suffer with heart attacks—an often fatal condition entirely preventable by following a low-fat diet based solely on plant foods—all of which contain all of the essential amino acids in ideal amounts for humans. Plants--the Original Sources of Protein and Amino Acids Proteins are made from chains of 20 different amino acids that connect together in varying sequences—similar to how all the words in a dictionary are made from the same 26 letters. Plants (and microorganisms) can synthesize all of the individual amino acids that are used to build proteins, but animals cannot. There are 8 amino acids that people cannot make and thus, these must be obtained from our diets—they are referred to as "essential." After we eat our foods, stomach acids and intestinal enzymes digest the proteins into individual amino acids. These components are then absorbed through the intestinal walls into the bloodstream. After entering the body's cells, these amino acids are reassembled into proteins. Proteins function as structural materials which build the scaffoldings that maintain cell shapes, enzymes which catalyze biochemical reactions, and hormones which signal messages between cells—to name only a few of their vital roles. Since plants are made up of structurally sound cells with enzymes and hormones, they are by nature rich sources of proteins. In fact, so rich are plants that they can meet the protein needs of the earth's largest animals: elephants, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and cows. You would be correct to deduce that the protein needs of relatively small humans can easily be met by plants. People Require Very Little Protein The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that men and women obtain 5% of their calories as protein. This would mean 38 grams of protein for a man burning 3000 calories a day and 29 grams for a woman using 2300 calories a day. This quantity of protein is impossible to avoid when daily calorie needs are met by unrefined starches and vegetables. For example, rice alone would provide 71 grams of highly useable protein and white potatoes would provide 64 grams of protein.8 Our greatest time of growth—thus, the time of our greatest need for protein—is during our first 2 years of life—we double in size. At this vigorous developmental stage our ideal food is human milk, which is 5% protein.
What if the exception is still thrown in some special case but he just didn't think of it? The code after the try/catch may do the wrong thing in that situation. The exception will go completely unnoticed. The code can be made much more reliable by throwing a runtime exception in the case. This works like an assertion and adheres to the "crash early" principle. The developer will notice if his assumption was wrong. The code after the try/catch will not be executed if the exception occurred against all honest hope and expectation. If the exception really never occurs - fine, nothing changed.Log objects are not serializable. The programmer knew this and correctly declared thefield as transient so it is not serialised. However the initialisation of this variables happens in the class' initialiser. Upon deserialization initializers and constructors are not executed! This leaves the deserialized object with a nullvariable which subsequently causes ain. Rule of thumb: never use class initialization with transient variables. You can either solve this case here by using a static variable or by using a local variable:This programmer used to code in C. So naturally he wants to make sure every variable is properly initialized. Here however it is not necessary. The Java language specification guarantees that member variables are initialized with certain values automatically: 0, null, false. By declaring them explicitly the programmer causes a class initializer to be executed before the constructor. This is unnecessary overkill and should be avoided.This section was edited and before actually suggested not to store log instances in static variables. Turns out I was wrong. Mea culpa. I apologize.Store the darn log instance in a static final variable and be happy.Here is why:This code uses the class loader that loaded the current class. getClass() might return something unexpected, like a subclass, or a dynamic proxy. Something out of your control. This is hardly ever what you want when you dynamically load an additional class. Especially in managed environments like Application servers, Servlet engines or Java Webstart this is most certainly wrong. This code will behave very differently depending on the environment it is run in. Environments use the context class loader to provide applications with a class loader they should use to retrieve "their own" classes.This programmer is struggling with the reflection API. He needs a way to check for inheritance but didn't find a way to do it.
In the case of voice hearing, culture may also play a role in helping people cope. One study conducted by Luhrmann, the anthropologist, found that compared to their American counterparts, voice-hearing people diagnosed with schizophrenia in more collectivist cultures were more likely to perceive their voices as helpful and friendly, sometimes even resembling members of their friends and family. She adds that people who meet criteria for schizophrenia in India have better outcomes than their U.S. counterparts. She suspects this is because of “the negative salience” a diagnosis of schizophrenia holds in the U.S., as well as the greater rates of homelessness among people with schizophrenia in America. The influence of social context was part of what motivated Corlett and Powers: The two were interested in whether the support of a social group can help them understand where disorder and difference intersect. When they set out to design their study, they needed an otherwise healthy group of people who hear voices on a regular basis, and whose experiences are accepted in their social group. Next, they needed to find some psychics. Corlett told me he got the idea to reach out to a Connecticut-based organization for psychics after noticing the ads for psychics and tarot-card readers on his daily bus route. When the two interviewed those participants, they noticed something striking: The psychics described hearing hearing voices of similar volumes, frequencies, and timbres as the patients. Powers and Corlett took this to mean that the psychics were actually hearing something. The two also vetted their participants with the same techniques that forensic psychiatrists use to determine whether a person is pretending to experience psychiatric symptoms, giving them more reason to believe what they were told.
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Räikkönen began the season by qualifying 17th for the Australian Grand Prix after making a mistake on his last flying lap. However he recovered his weekend during the race the next day, as he made a good start to move up to twelfth, before making it into the top ten. He took three places on the last lap of the race, to finish in seventh place. [86] In the dry qualifying session for the Malaysian Grand Prix Räikkönen qualified in fifth place. He started the race from 10th place because of an unscheduled gearbox change. In the race he had the opportunity to try Pirelli's wet-weather tyres for the first time. He finished the race in fifth despite being inexperienced with Pirelli's wet-weather tyres compared to most of the other drivers. At the Chinese Grand Prix he was 14th after running second before being overtaken by 10 cars in the space of one lap, due to a mistake in tyre strategy, expecting the Pirelli tyres to last longer in the last stint. At the Bahrain Grand Prix he finished second starting from 11th position on the grid. It was his first podium and his best finish of this comeback. Three weeks later, Räikkönen finished third at the Spanish Grand Prix, after having qualified in fifth place, which had been promoted to fourth as a result of a penalty given to Lewis Hamilton. In Monaco Räikkönen qualified in eighth but finished one place lower in ninth place. For the 2012 Canadian Grand Prix Räikkönen again had a bad qualifying session finishing 12th. He was able to finish eighth in the race taking, as he stated, "important championship points". In the European Grand Prix at the Valencia Street Circuit he finished second behind Fernando Alonso. [87] In the 2012 British Grand Prix he finished fifth, after having qualified in sixth place. During qualifying for the German Grand Prix, Räikkönen had good pace in Q1 with the harder set of tyres and was looking good for a potential shot at a higher grid place. At the start of Q2 the rain was already heavy meaning that Räikkönen lost the advantage he had in dry conditions. In the wet Q3 session he qualified in 10th place. Good pace in dry conditions from the qualifying session was proven in the race as Räikkönen succeeded to finish fourth, and eventually gaining the last podium spot after Sebastian Vettel was penalised for an illegal overtaking manoeuvre.
He and his parents were only pretending to be nobodies, the sole Protestant family from the suburb nicknamed St. Jewish Park. In truth, they were emissaries from another world, sent to reclaim the landscape from the intrusions of the human species. He alone was orchestrating the blade, which shot out to lop off each electrical pole and road sign, and retracted to spare as many trees as possible in the effort. Houses, and other cars, it sliced through mercilessly. His fantasy even included an alibi-providing element of delay, which explained both his not getting to see the glorious destruction he’d wreaked and why no human authority was able to locate and neutralize the mysterious force that tore through his surroundings: the sliced objects fell apart five minutes after his family’s car passed by. By this method, the earth would be returned to the flora and fauna. Lately the image of the invisible blade had returned to Pending Vegan. It would come at the sight of some architectural abomination, or a roadside blighted with billboards. SeaWorld, however, was impervious to the fantasy. Had he begun slicing up this labyrinth of discord, he’d merely murder the creatures trapped within it. By the logic of his childhood fantasy the blade would free the tortoises and the sharks and the porpoises from their tanks, to pour out and die gasping in sunlight on the concrete walkways.
It is not enough to make the old Marxist point about the gap between the ideological appearance of the universal legal form and the particular interests that effectively sustain it; at this level, the counter-argument (made, among others, by Claude Lefort [9] and Jacques Rancière) [10] that the form, precisely, is never a "mere" form, but involves the dynamics of its own which lets its traces in the materiality of social life, is fully valid (the bourgeois "formal freedom" set in motion the process of very "material" political demands and practices, from trade unions to feminism). Ranciere's basic emphasis is on the radical ambiguity of the Marxist notion of the "gap" between formal democracy (the rights of man, political freedom, etc.) and the economic reality of exploitation and domination. One can read this gap between the "appearance" of equality-freedom and the social reality of economic, cultural, etc. differences either in the standard "symptomatic" way (the form of universal rights, equality, freedom and democracy is just a necessary, but illusory form of expression of its concrete social content, the universe of exploitation and class domination), or in the much more subversive sense of a tension in which the "appearance" of egaliberte, precisely, is NOT a "mere appearance," but evinces an effectivity of its own, which allows it to set in motion the process of the rearticulation of actual socio-economic relations by way of their progressive "politicization" (Why shouldn't women also vote? Why shouldn't conditions at the working place also be of public political concern? etc.) One is tempted to use here the old Levi-Straussian term of "symbolic efficiency": the appearance of egaliberte is a symbolic fiction which, as such, possesses actual efficiency of its own - one should resist the properly cynical temptation of reducing it to a mere illusion that conceals a different actuality. (Therein resides the hypocrisy of the standard Stalinist mocking of the "merely formal" bourgeois freedom: if it is merely formal and doesn't disturb the true relations of power, why, then, doesn't the Stalinist regime allow it? Why is it so afraid of it?)
Figure 1 Gut Microbiota Variations across Different Age Groups Show full caption PCoA based on unweighted UniFrac distances of the fecal microbiota of the enrolled young adults (green), elderly (turquoise), centenarians (light blue), and semi-supercentenarians (dark blue). SEM-based ellipse around the centroid is plotted. Samples are identified by filled triangles. The first and second principal components (PCo1 and PCo2) are shown, explaining 6.6% and 4.0% of the variance in the dataset, respectively. For each group of subjects, a pie chart based on the average relative abundance at family level is shown; colors for each family are reported in the legend. The biplot of the average bacterial coordinates weighted by the corresponding bacterial abundance per sample was superimposed on the PCoA plot to identify the bacterial genera or families contributing to the ordination space (black arrows). Only the bacterial groups showing a highly significant correlation with the sample separation (p < 0.005) were considered. See also Figure S1 and Table S1 The four age groups showed a good separation on a principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) based on the unweighted UniFrac distance ( Figure 1 ); indeed, corrected p values obtained by permutation test were <0.05 for all possible comparisons with the exception of groups C versus S. PCo1 separated young subjects (Y) from elderly (E) and long-living individuals (groups C and S; Pearson’s r = −0.61; p < 0.001). As noticeable in the pie charts in Figure 1 , the fecal microbiota in all age groups was dominated by just three families: Bacteroidaceae, Lachnospiraceae, and Ruminococcaceae, but their cumulative relative abundance decreased along with aging (77.8% ± 8.5% in Y; 71.1% ± 12.3% in E; 58.7% ± 11.8% in C; 57.7% ± 15.0% in S), highlighting an age-dependent increasing contribution of subdominant families. Seventy-year-old people (group E) showed similarities with young adults, such as the cumulative abundance of Bacteroidaceae, Lachnospiraceae, and Ruminococcaceae, but started to show also some of the age-associated features observed in centenarians, as demonstrated by the partial overlapping of the samples of the two groups in the PCoA.
Perhaps this is my fastidious analysis of off-season minutiae talking, but this past summer was riveting. From the time Daniel Alfredsson left Ottawa because the Senators didn't offer him enough money, to that time we all talked about how the Senators don't have enough money, it's been an off-season full of rich and varied storylines. Remember back when "Jared Cowen RFA Contract Watch" was a thing? I haven't been on the edge of my seat like that since the Patrick Weircioch negotiations.And the preseason? Don't get me started! As memorable as all the games were in their own way, there's no doubt in my mind that the best preseason game the Senators played was the Breaking Bad finale. It's just a shame Mika Zibanejad went down the way he did. Damn you, Vince Gilligan!Anyway, as fun as it's been to deconstruct the percentage values Erik Karlsson was assigning to the health of his foot , we don't have to do that anymore because Erik Karlsson and the rest of the Senators are about to start playing actual regular season hockey games. Way to survive the off-season, everyone! Well, mostly everyone... Ottawa's first regular season foes are the Buffalo Sabres. This year's Sabres team is trying to follow Ottawa's blueprint for success from last year i.e. ride a squad of AHLers, depth players, whatever it is Patrick Kaleta is supposed to be, God-mode goaltending, and their one remaining star player to an improbable playoff berth. Can they pull it off? Maybe, but to be more specific, probably not With the opening day lineup pretty well set, let's take a look at the line combinations Paul Maclean is likely to send out tonight.This line promises to be the "Pizza Line" sequel everyone's been waiting for, but the critics are reserving judgment so far. Michalek's Magic German Knees are on notice, and Spezza's been dealing with a niggling groin injury, but as my father used to say, "The lower body is a long way from the heart, son! Well, actually, it might not be. 'Lower body injury' is such an ambiguous term, it could mean practically anything. You know what, maybe we better get that looked at." My father's caution aside, this line will crush it this year assuming everyone stays healthy, which is a little like saying, "Nuclear power is awesome, assuming you don't explode. "The chemistry between the players on this line in the preseason has been palpable.
Materials and Methods Sea level rise in the 21st century is the combined response of highly inert systems to a common forcing. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the near-future response can be extrapolated from the past contributions, assuming the historical relationship between global mean warming and individual contributions remains the same. We use a pursuit curve to estimate the near-future sea level rise for each component as shown in Eq. 1. The applied long-term sensitivities S eq are detailed below for each contribution. Thermal expansion long-term sensitivity S eq,te can be inferred from long-term integrations of Earth system models of ntermediate complexity and be approximated as S e q , t e = α t e ⋅ Δ T [2] with the commitment factor α te and the deviation from preindustrial global mean temperature ΔT (5). Our estimates of α te are based on six of such models and range from 0.2 m to 0.63 m per degree of warming (see Supporting Information for details). For mountain glaciers, we apply a set of distinct functions S eq,gic,i . Two different models (20, 50) have been used to estimate the glacier equilibrium sea level sensitivity globally (5). Forced by atmospheric data from 4 and 15 different climate models, respectively, they provide 19 different sensitivity curves for six levels of global warming, as shown in Fig. S4. As we are only interested in the ice loss that can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, we remove the fraction caused by natural variability from the observational datasets and from the equilibrium sensitivities based on the data of ref. 23 (see Supporting Information for details). The Greenland ice sheet is subject to an SMB feedback that leads to thresholds in the equilibrium response of total ice volume with respect to the surface air temperatures (51, 52). For sea level projections on centennial timescales, we rate the millennial (but not equilibrium) sensitivity to be a better approximation, as derived from refs. 5 and 52 and roughly of the form S e q , g i s , s m b = α g i s , s m b ⋅ Δ T 2 [3] where α gis,smb ranges from 0.05 to 0.21 m °C−2 and ΔT denotes the global mean temperature anomaly above preindustrial. An estimate of the long-term sensitivity of Greenland's SID to global warming is not available. We thus modify the approach for this contribution following ref. 53.
Music's digital revolution may not be your father's vinyl shop but it's not only a youth quake anymore. The takeover has spread so widely that in 2012, for the first time in history, digital stores became the primary outlet for buying albums, eclipsing mass merchants that had been the leading sales sector for the previous five years. And booming digital sales this month suggest the shift is broadening more dramatically. "As the days tick by, more people get accustomed to experiencing music digitally," says Keith Caulfield, Billboard's associate director of charts, retail. "At the beginning of January, we used to see a huge surge of physical album sales. Now everyone has iTunes gift cards, and moms and grandparents got their first iPads and iPhones. So grandma is downloading that Susan Boyle album." In the album format, digital jumped 6% in 2012, though fans still favor the physical version. Last year, 193 million CDs were sold versus 118 million digital albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan's yearend data report. The breakdown in total album sales: Digital services such as iTunes and Amazonmp3: 37% Wal-Mart, Target and other mass merchants: 29% Best Buy and similar chains: 15% Nontraditional outlets such as Amazon physical sales, mail order, venue and fan club sales: 10% Indie stores: 7% Adele's 21 was the year's top-selling digital album with 1.04 million copies, trailed by Taylor Swift's Red with 863,000 and Mumford & Sons' Babel with 778,000. Digital sales fell far short of CD sales: 21 sold 3.37 million copies, and Red sold 2.24 million. CDs, costlier than downloads, have been allotted less shelf space at Best Buy, Target and other chains, speeding digital's rise, Caulfield says. "Digital has been consistently growing, and that's to be expected as we progress away from physical purchases and further into streams and music that nobody actually owns," Caulfield says. "It's a natural transition. Nobody's buying eight-tracks anymore." And yet the LP comeback is flourishing. While only a sliver of the musical pie, vinyl rose 19%, reaching 4.6 million copies in 2012, breaking the 2011 record of 3.9 million. "The most old-fashioned way of experiencing music continues to grow every year," Caulfield says. "A lot of people still want something tangible."
MSRs, especially those with the fuel dissolved in the salt differ considerably from conventional reactors. Reactor core pressure can be low and the temperature much higher. In this respect an MSR is more similar to a liquid metal cooled reactor than to a conventional light water cooled reactor. MSRs are often planned as breeding reactors with a closed fuel cycle – as opposed to the once-through fuel currently used in U.S. nuclear reactors. Safety concepts rely on a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity and a large possible temperature rise to limit reactivity excursions. As an additional method for shutdown, a separate, passively cooled container below the reactor can be included. In case of problems and for regular maintenance the fuel is drained from the reactor. This stops the nuclear reaction and acts as a second cooling system. Neutron-producing accelerators have been proposed for some super-safe subcritical experimental designs. [67] Cost estimates from the 1970s were slightly lower than for conventional light-water reactors. [68] The temperatures of some proposed designs are high enough to produce process heat for hydrogen production or other chemical reactions. Because of this, they are included in the GEN-IV roadmap for further study. [69] Advantages Edit MSR offers many potential advantages over current light water reactors:[4] Inherently safe design (safety by passive components and the strong negative temperature coefficient of reactivity of some designs). In some designs, the fuel and the coolant are the same fluid, so a loss of coolant removes the reactor's fuel. Unlike steam, fluoride salts dissolve poorly in water, and do not form burnable hydrogen. Unlike steel and solid uranium oxide, molten salts are not damaged by the core's neutron bombardment.
Ok, I’ve thought about it for awhile, and I will now try to present my argument. First of all, I want to say that I would love if not only child rape, but all rape was universally immoral. Unfortunately, not only in our culture in the USA, but all around the world, rape of women is somewhat acceptable. In the USA, we have a ridiculously high rate of blaming the victim or not even believing the victim. In other parts of the world, the victim is completely blamed and often times put to death. Now if morals are objective and created by God, then what is God’s (not Jesus in the New Testament) stance on rape? Here is Deuteronomy 21:10-14,”When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive’s garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion.” While one can argue that this constitutes a marriage by God, it is still rape, and it is ordered by God. This isn’t even the worst part. There are Bible verses that claim God tells Israeli soldiers when they conquer places to throw babies off the city walls. How is that moral? This may be the Old Testament, but Christians still claim this is the inspired and perfect Word of God. Well, at one point in history, your God condoned and ordered both rape and child murder. These are not moral values you have now, and these are not moral values I have. They are your Objective Moral Values and Duties, though, since they are God’s Word and Law. Isn’t that where you said Objective Morals come from? I can’t accept the morals of a god that orders baby murder.
Searle's identification of meaning with interpretation in this passage is important. Searle's point is clearly true of the causally inert formal systems of logicians. When we move from formal systems to computational systems, the situation is more complex. As many of Searle's critics (e.g. Cole 1984, Dennett 1987, Boden 1988, and Chalmers 1996) have noted, a computer running a program is not the same as “syntax alone”. A computer is an enormously complex electronic causal system. State changes in the system are physical. One can interpret the physical states, e.g. voltages, as syntactic 1's and 0's, but the intrinsic reality is electronic and the syntax is “derived”, a product of interpretation. The states are syntactically specified by programmers, but they are fundamentally states of a complex causal system embedded in the real world. This is quite different from the abstract formal systems that logicians study. Dennett notes that no “computer program by itself” (Searle's language)—e.g. a program lying on a shelf—can cause anything, even simple addition, let alone mental states. The program must be running. Chalmers (1996) offers a parody in which it is reasoned that recipes are syntactic, syntax is not sufficient for crumbliness, cakes are crumbly, so implementation of a recipe is not sufficient for making a cake. Dennett (1987) sums up the issue: “Searle's view, then, comes to this: take a material object (any material object) that does not have the power of causing mental phenomena; you cannot turn it in to an object that does have the power of producing mental phenomena simply by programming it—reorganizing the conditional dependencies of transitions between its states.” Dennett's view is the opposite: programming “is precisely what could give something a mind”. But Dennett claims that in fact it is “empirically unlikely that the right sorts of programs can be run on anything but organic, human brains” (325–6).
Then started cooking, setting the smoker to 225F. After a couple of hours, our faux briskets are coming along nicely: And here is the temperature plot: Note how the fat hunk continued to rise in temperature over time, while the sponge1 stalled- just like the brisket! Since there was a deep, glistening pool of rendered fat in the smoker, that particular hypothesis is busted (more detail here). And, we achieved "the stall" without the complexities of protein depolymerization- apparently its a physical, rather than chemical, effect2 (for that matter, even flour dough will "stall"). The most plausible explanation is a phenomena called "porous bed free expansion cooling", which is nearly as big a mouthful as a whole pulled hog. But the concept is actually quite simple. We are all familiar with evaporative cooling- soak a bandana in water on a hot day, and it will cool your forehead. Microscopically, what is happening is the faster moving water molecules in the bandana have the most energy, so most easily "freely evaporate" into the air by breaking through the water's surface tension (curiously, the hotter the water the faster the evaporation, because there are more hot molecules). Since the fastest water molecules escape the bandana, what is left behind are the slower molecules. That is, the colder molecules are left behind, which is why you feel refreshed. Evaporative cooling continues until the bandana dries out- just like the sponge dried out after five hours3 and quickly warmed to match the smoker's internal temperature. We can watch the cooling effect work its way from the surface to the interior, by monitoring not just the central temperature but also a mm below the surface. The exterior begins stalling an hour BEFORE the interior. And, it surface STOPs cooling an hour before the center, as the flow of juices wanes. In otherwords, meat stalls from the evaporating surface inward to the cooler center: Conversely, fat doesn't evaporate, it simply melts. And contains too little latent heat of melting to delay cooking. So it can't be the origin of the stall (see this link for a simple Newton's Cooling Law model of the fat). "Free" evaporation means evaporation into still, unmoving air. The alternative is "forced evaporation", enhanced by the cooling effect of moving air (as from a fan in a convection oven).
Celebrated for a cerebral, Oscar-winning script by Charlie Kaufman () and surreal visual touches by French director Michel Gondry (), this sci-fi-tinged romance should not be missed. Jim Carrey delivers a very human performance as a man who decides to undergo an experimental scientific procedure to rid his memory of all traces of his ex-girlfriend (Kate Winslet) after learning that she too has had the procedure done. But, as his memories are erased, he realizes that he still loves her and tries to reverse the process. Co-stars Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst, and David Cross.Directed by Michael Gondry, U.S.A., 2004, 35mm, 108 mins.Compared to the inescapable doom ofand the cultural melancholy of, Sofia Coppola'scomes across as pure confectioner's sugar. Like her father's version of, the film is all about sets, costumes, and musicnot actors. This is not to say that Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman don't admirably convey the awkwardness of having to perform socially (and sexually!) in front of the entire French court. What are most memorable and enjoyable in this arty biopic, however, are the anachronistic New Wave soundtrack (The Cure, New Order, Bow Wow Wow), Lance Acord's beautiful location shooting around Versailles, and the ostentatious costume designs of Milena Canonero. This film was not considered great cinema upon its release, but it is certainly cool cinema, and it's due for reconsideration. With Rip Torn, Marianne Faithfull, Steve Coogan, Molly Shannon, and Asia Argento.Directed by Sofia Coppola, U.S.A., 2006, 35mm, 123 mins.Based on Gustav Hasford's novel, Stanley Kubrick's harrowing look at the Vietnam War is a two-act drama that begins with basic training which leads to madness, and then turns to the hardened violence of the Tet Offensive. Overlooked when it was released in the shadow of, Kubrick's gripping film has grown in stature with each passing year.was filmed entirely in England, although the meticulous production design has made many believe otherwise. Starring Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Arliss Howard, Dorian Harewood, and real-life military veteran R. Lee Ermey as the frighteningly intense drill sergeant.Directed by Stanley Kubrick, U.S.A, 1987, 35mm, 141 mins.Sean Connery and Tippi Hendren star in Hitchcock's psychological thriller about a habitual thief (Hendren) and her employer (Connery), who is determined to help her.
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As Danny Sullivan writes about this latest lawsuit, the true hypocrisy is apparent in the fact that the German newspapers, supposedly so upset about Google listing them without paying, have not only done nothing to remove themselves from Google's index (as can be easily done), but have actually made use of Google's tools to enhance their appearance within Google.As Sullivan notes, these newspapers aren't being "swept up into Google's results against their wills," but rather appear to be "actively trying to gain more placement and visibility in them." And that's why this move for a cut of the revenue is so ridiculous and cynical. Basically, they're getting an incredibly valuable service from Googleand are now demanding to
There was even a report about a Kashmiri-origin youth living somewhere else (Australia) having joined," he said.In such a scenario, Saha said, security agencies have "to be conscious of any indicators" about the ISIS ideology finding takers in Kashmir as the ISIS ideology "also has a potential of creating sectarian divide".He said that it cannot be entirely ruled out that there is no movement on the ground about ISIS.Asked what steps need to be taken to pull youths away from the lure of ISIS, the army officer said that "the biggest counter is to ensure that the youth are positively engaged". "There have to be concerted efforts to secure the future of the youth ... ensure their right to prosperity. Once this is done, they will be dissuaded from the temptations of this propaganda," Saha said.
* How to avoid peer pressure Sex Education After Marriage This article is not intended to be a sex manual for married couples, though I may write such someday. I just wanted to remind the reader a short verse in Qur'an and then elaborate. "They are your garments, and you are their garments". Thus husbands and wives are described as garments to each other. A garment is very close to our body, so they should be close to each other, a garment protects and shields our modesty, so they should do the same to each other, garments are put on anytime we like, so should they be available to each other anytime, and a garment adds to our beauty, so they should praise and beautify each other. For husbands I should say this. Sex is an expression of love and one without the other is incomplete. One of your jobs is to educate her in matters of sex especially in your likes and dislikes and do not compare her to another woman. For wives I want to say this. Man's sexual needs are different from woman's. Instead of being, a passive recipient of sex, try to be an active partner. He is exposed to many temptations outside the home. Be available to please him, and do not give him an excuse to make a choice between you and the hellfire. 1. The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 39, Verse 9 (A. Yusuf Ali Translation). 2. Sahih-Al-Bukhari - Collection of Ahadith -, Volumn I Book of Knowledge, Page 97, Translated by M. M. Khan. 3. Time Magazine, Report On Sex Education, Nov. 24, 1986. 4. Gordon, Sol and Dickman, Irving R "Sex Education - The Parents Role." Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 549. 5. Richard, D. "Teenage Pregnancy and Sex Education In Schools What Works and What Does Not work" - San Antonio Pregrnancy Center, 1986. 6. Mast, C.K. "Sex Respect: The Options of True Sexual Freedom." Bradley Illinois, Respect Line. 7. Zamichow, Nora et Al. "Teenage Sex" - Ladies Home Journal, Oct., 1986. 8. "Children Having Children" - Time, Dec. 9, 1985. 9. Hatcher, Robert and J. Adams - "Solving The Teenage Pregnancy." Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, March 1980. 27. Mahmoud Abu Saud "Sex Roles In Muslim Families of USA" ATP publication, 1979. 28. The Holy Qur'an: Chapter 77, Verse 20-24. 29. The Holy Qur'an: Chapter 86, Verse 5-7. 30. The Holy Qur'an: Chapter 23, Verse 12-14. 31.
During the Apollo project there has been no experiment with plant growth on the moon. However experiments on earth have been carried out with the brought back moon material. These experiments did not include growth of plants on moon soil. Instead plants were exposed to moon stones by rubbing them and even small amounts were added to growth medium. These experiments indicated that there were no toxic effects of moon soil on short term plant growth [18], for an overview see Ferl and Paul [19]. Ferl and Paul [19] also provide pictures of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana grown on a moon regolith simulant (JSC1a). Studies with moon rock simulant (anorthosite) were carried out with the model plant Tagetes patula [20], [21]. These studies revealed that these plants were able to grow with and without the addition of bacteria [20], [21], and that plants were able to blossom [20]. There have been plant growth experiments with Mars regolith simulant as well. Experiments with bacteria on Mars soil simulant revealed that growth is possible, including nitrogen fixing bacteria [22]. Our goal was to investigate whether or not species of the three groups wild plants, crops and nitrogen fixers (Table 1), would germinate and live long enough to go through the first stages of plant development on artificial Mars and moon regoliths. If this would be the case it is conceivable that plant growth is possible within an artificial surrounding on Mars and moon surface, although our experiment was conducted on Earth with its deviating gravity. Moreover, we assumed that plant cultivation will be carried out in closed surroundings with Earth like light and atmospheric conditions. PPT PowerPoint slide
Marcus Christian’s “Spring in the South” is a remarkable poem, for it does not treat lynching directly, but the urgency of the voice betrays the subject’s terror at being in the South: once the imagery has done its work, it is apparent that the poem is deeply invested in lynching, for the poem recapitulates the entire ritual of lynching through its vocabulary and imagery: the “resurrection” in the first line suggests the spiritual ascent of McKay’s sonnet, “The Lynching.” Pain grips the subject’s body in line five. Most telling, however, is the suggestion of burning in “warm” (ln. 2), “flames leap up” (ln .3), “fire” (ln. 7), “kindling” (ln. 8) and the wordplay in which “kindlier” (ln.12) echoes kindle. We also are confronted with the familiar motif of the victim’s inarticulacy — “Song inarticulate damns up the mouth” (ln. 6). A subsequent innovation in the anti-lynching discourse was to allow the lynchers to speak directly to the reader. One particularly noteworthy instance of the development of this approach is an anecdote in Jenkins’s long poem, Trumpet. The Southerners are presented through indirect discourse, and like Sterling Brown’s “Let Us Suppose” (1935) the sophisticated use of an ironic and magisterial voice entertains the reader at the expense of producing an emotional reaction. There was an eminent foreigner visited our Country To observe and study our manners and customs. Was told of certain Creeds and Laws and Restrictions That held the two races in separate compartments. Was told that the Noose and the Rack and Faggot Are oftimes evoked to maintain these Restrictions. The visitor listened in grave and respectful silence, Then asked: “Whence so many octoroons and quadroons and mulattoes?” Was told of a ship leaving port at a certain hour: And that we were grieved he so soon must be going. (Trumpet lns. 272 -284) The culmination of the anti-lynching discourse in the black poetry of the 1930s came about when it became possible for a new voice to be heard. The persuasive possibilities of this voice were made apparent in poems that presented African-American children as foils to the demonic children that so tellingly make an entrance in McKay’s sonnet, “The Lynching” — “And little lads, lynchers that were to be, / Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee.” (lns.
So, overall their defense should still be one of the best in the league.
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a really great and detailed look by BuzzFeed's Chris Hamby into "investor state dispute settlement" (ISDS) provisions in international trade agreements -- something we refer to as corporate sovereignty , because it enables companies to effectively force countries away from certain regulations. Hamby's piece was about how rich corporate execs were using corporate sovereignty provisions to get out of criminal prosecutions . That was only part I of his investigation. Part II of the series may have been the most useful, because it detailed how the mere threat of an ISDS case could pressure countries into changing regulations. This is, because one of the key talking points from defenders of corporate sovereignty provisions is to point to stats on actual cases. But if the threats are really effective, the stats on cases really is only showing a portion of what ISDS is doing.The article quotes ISDS defenders saying "where's the proof" of such problems -- which most people can't show, since it all happens behind closed doors and no one wants to talk about it. But then it goes on to show clear examples of it happening, and it's somewhat frightening, where mere threats basically wiped out important regulatory policies.Part III of Hamby's report goes on to detail how some giant Wall St banks basically bled Sri Lanka dry , selling it complicated derivatives, and then going ballistic -- via ISDS corporate sovereignty provisions -- when the government stepped in to investigate the deals and whether they were legit or just a scam. Basically, the banks sold Sri Lanka derivatives that were a bet on the price of oil (just like a lot of the housing bubble was driven by bets on the prices of mortgages, where people were basically buying "insurance" on assets they didn't own), and the bet went way, way bad. But, the banks didn't want the government sniffing around to see if the sale of these derivatives had been legit:As you can see from the quote above, the corporate sovereignty case over Sri Lankan derivatives lit up a bunch of lightbulbs in law firms. And it's why they'rethat ISDS is necessary today, even in things like TTIP. If you understood the reasons given for ISDS originally, this makes no sense.
This isn't an article, this is a rant. Hopefully that should be obvious from the title.That title again.What the Fucking Fucking Fuck JK Rowling. I mean reallyUnless you've been distracted by little trivial details like the disintegration of Afghanistan and the US Presidential election, you're probably aware that JK Rowling announced some months ago that Dumbledore Is Gay.Okay, fine, whatever you say you stupid, sanctimonious hack. Dumbledore's gay, I'll file that with "Harry is a Hero" and "It's all about choices" under "Shit I've been told about Harry Potter which is totally unsupported by the text".Her latest statement on the subject goes like this:Where to begin. I mean seriously, where to begin.Okay, let's start from the beginning.In fact, let's go through the execrable bullshit line by fucking line.By "always seen Dumbledore as gay" she presumably means "had always seen Dumbledore as fundamentally asexual, and like all middle class fucktards I assume that anybody who isn't married by the age of thirty is a woofter."Seriously. Look at the quote again. Notice how she says that she had "always seen Dumbledore as gay" but then makes it clear that she had never intended for him to actually be involved in any variety of homosexual relationship. More than that, until she pulled Gridelwald out of her arse in order to explain how Dumbledore could possibly have made a mistake, she clearly had no intention of his ever havingin a homosexual relationship.So what can she possibly mean by "I had always seen Dumbledore as gay"? It's simple really. She means she'd seen him as having no sexual life whatsoever, as being without sexual desire or motivation. As not fancying women. Of course she'd also seen him as rather funny, rather quirky, somewhat outrageous in a non-threatening kind of way. An eccentric old duffer with a funny line in velvet suits. The fact that JK Rowling characterises all of these personality traits as "gay" is profoundly, profoundly offensive. You are a hack, JK Rowling, a small-minded, bigoted hack.A couple of people, after the announcement came out, suggested that they "should have guessed after they saw him in that purple velvet suit". It's a joke, of course, but it's a joke based on an offensive homophobic stereotype. An offensive homophobic stereotype which appeared to be at the heart of JKR's conception of Dumbledore as a gay man.Right. On to the next line then.Okay, where to begin with this little section.
Kuhn Loeb's Jacob Schiff, for instance, was issued a Japanese Royal Order for his role in financing Japan's war with Russia in 1905, a war fought in part over areas of control within China. The House of Morgan, functioning as an arm of British imperial policy within the United States, first became seriously involved with the formation of a bankers' Consortium for China, in 1909, consisting of banking interests from the United States, Britain, France, and Germany. The British, under Hongkong and Shanghai Bank chief Sir Charles Addis, took overall direction of the Consortium, with a J.P. Morgan representative leading the American Group. Although the Consortium did finance a Shanghai-to-Canton rail line, their primary task was to prop up the decayed Ching dynasty against the mounting republican revolutionary pressure. When President Woodrow Wilson took office in 1913, one of his first acts was to pull the United States out of the Consortium, labeling it a tool of imperial policy interests in China. Wilson appointed Professor Paul Reinsch as United States emissary to China. Reinsch was the leading China scholar of the day, and a co-founder with Wilson of the American Political Science Association. Reinsch came from the circles of Robert LaFollete in Wisconsin, and, although inexperienced in diplomacy, or in dealing with colonialist and synarchist machinations, he believed in America's dedication to nation building, through its leadership in science and industry, as the necessary basis to end the colonial exploitation of China, and to help build a modern and prosperous sovereign state. He embraced the Open Door policy first put forward by John Hay, Secretary of State in the McKinley Administration in 1899, as a means of breaking the colonial spheres of interest which divided China. Reinsch's student, Stanley Hornbeck, would serve the same cause from within the State Department over the next decade. Reinsch negotiated contracts for literally dozens of great projects in China between 1913 and 1919. These included a massive flood control and irrigation project called the Huai River Conservancy; a national plan to unify the rail system and add 10,000 miles of rail lines over 20 years; a military and commercial shipbuilding project with Bethlehem Steel; oil exploration with Standard Oil; reconstruction of the Grand Canal; several agricultural programs; and more. Unfortunately, all but a few of these projects never came to fruition. [5] Reinsch never overcame (or even understood) the power of the synarchy over global finance.
While Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group has been seizing lots of domains under questionable legal theories, it has been slow to follow through on any sort of actual lawsuits. However, with one of the domains seized a month ago, channelsurfing.net, ICE has now arrested someone and charged him with criminal copyright infringement , such that he's now facing five years in jail (as well as fines). This is interesting, because when that domain was seized, we had noted that channelsurfing did not appear to host any content itself, but merely embedded content from other sites. That raises an awful lot of serious questions: specifically, what part of copyright law is infringed here. The site does not host any of the content. It does not make any copies. It does not distribute the content. All it does is put in a snippet of code that athen uses to request content from another site.About the only thing that could be claimed is some sort of "inducement" claim -- but as we discussed recently, there's simply no such thing as criminal contributory infringement , so if that's the claim, then it would appear that ICE (yet again) is simply making up what it wants the law to be, rather than what the law actually says. Now, there may be more to this than has been made clear to date. Perhaps there's evidence that the site actually did host content, but that was not clear from what I saw earlier. Some have said that there's an "aiding and abetting" charge to be made under criminal law, but as we pointed out in the link above, the standard for aiding and abetting are much, much higher, and there's little evidence that ICE has enough to meet the aiding and abetting standard.On top of this, there are serious questions about why this should be a criminal claim, rather than a civil claim. ICE appears to be using the fact that the guy, Bryan McCarthy, made some money, from ads on the website, as the basis for the criminal charges. But that seems like a stretch (at best). While we still question why there should even be such a thing ascopyright infringement, even if we accept the idea that it does exist, isn't it supposed to be focused on those doing significant behavior where the connection between the infringement and the money making is clear and direct?
You can argue about whether or not those business models are fair, but to argue that these companies don't try to build great products for their users is simply incorrect.And, because of that, when there are issues where the interests of the public and these tech companies align -- those on the other side may discover just how difficult it is to play the same old lobbying game. When the public gets moving on an issue, old style lobbying games get steamrolled. Whether or not that happens with net neutrality remains to be seen, but many of the same initial ingredients are certainly in place.Mucking with a functioning internet is just not a good idea.
State Opening of Parliament 2017 - In pictures 24 show all State Opening of Parliament 2017 - In pictures 1/24 The Queen at the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster BBC 2/24 Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Ford (centre) carries the Imperial State Crown as it arrives at the Palace of Westminster and the Houses of Parliament through the Norman Porch for the State Opening of Parliament ceremony PA 3/24 The Queenand The Prince of Wales during Queen's Speech in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London PA 4/24 Yeoman of the Guard prepare for the ceremonial search ahead of the State Opening of Parliament by The Queen in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London PA 5/24 Prime Minister Theresa May and leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn walk through the House of Commons to attend the state opening of Parliament AP 6/24 The Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales arrive in the House of Lords at Houses of Parliament Carl Court/WPA Pool/Getty Images 7/24 Prime Minister Theresa May and leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn walk through the House of Commons to attend the state opening of Parliament AP 8/24 Jeremy Corbyn at the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster BBC 9/24 Yeoman of the Guard carry out the 'ceremonial search' ahead of the State Opening of Parliament REUTERS 10/24 The Queen's crown is carried into the State Opening of Parliament Reuters 11/24 Reuters 12/24 The Queen and Prince Charles are driven to the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament Reuters 13/24 The Queen leaves driven in the Royal Bentley car from Buckingham Palace AFP/Getty Images 14/24 Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Ford accompanies the Imperial State Crown as it leaves Buckingham Palace AFP/Getty Images 15/24 Guards make their way to form up ahead of the State Opening of Parliament PA 16/24 Guardsmen arrive outside Buckingham Palace for the Changing of the Guard Reuters 17/24 Armed police patrol as part of the major operation for the state opening of Parliament PA 18/24 Members of the Household Cavalry prepare ahead of the State Opening of Parliament AFP/Getty Images 19/24 Members of the Household Cavalry arrive for the State Opening of Parliament Reuters 20/24 Gathered public look on as guardsmen parade in front of Buckingham Palace AFP/Getty Images 21/24 Baroness Mone (centre) ahead of the State Opening of Parliament PA 22/24 Crowds gather at Buckingham Palace ahead of the State Opening of Parliament Chris Jackson/Getty Images 23/24 Police on patrol in Westminster Jeremy Selwyn 24/24 Police check down sewers outside Parliament today Jeremy Selwyn
Montgomery can establish himself as a flex play for the remainder of the 2016 season starting tonight against the Bear’s if produces. If Montgomery excels in this role tonight well than the sky is the limit. Well maybe a comparable career to Randall Cobb, but I’ll take that too. Outlook When I initially profiled Ty Montgomery I was less than enthusiastic about his fantasy prospects. Quite frankly weeks 1-5 showed no reason to revisit my thoughts on the matter. But fantasy football is all about adjusting your thinking when situations change. Ty Montgomery’s situation has certainly changed and it’s time to adjust my thought process regarding him. He holds his fate in his hands. Fate has conspired to present him with an supreme opportunity to change his fortunes. Excel with the opportunity given and Montgomery can change his entire career trajectory as well as the fantasy fortunes of anyone who held onto during his mostly unproductive first season and half of his career. Thank you for reading. You can find me on Twitter @DFF_Shane
Some guys are calling me “DP” for my initials, and Getzy sometimes calls me “P.” It’s going to sort itself out. With Pears being here, it makes things tougher [laughs], but we’ll see how it goes.I’ll read different things for general knowledge. Now with the internet, there is so much to read, so I haven’t bought many books recently. I actually went to the bookstore yesterday to get my kid some books. I got him Dr. Seuss’and some tongue-twisters. It’s good for them and good for me because it helps me practice my English. [Laughs].She was extremely excited. We’ve been in different cities with different weather and cultures, and – for her to come here – there are so many things to do. The beach is right there, there’s Fashion Island [The Perrons reside in Newport Beach], and LA isn’t too far. It makes it a lot easier on her not having to dress the little one [they have a seven-month-old baby, Mason] every morning like it’s winter outside. She can enjoy it maybe a little bit more, not that she wasn’t enjoying it anywhere else.It was given to me in training camp during my first year in St. Louis. I ended up making the team. Initially, I didn’t really like the number, but it wasn’t because it was a high number. It was more because it felt like the higher numbers were training camp numbers. I couldn’t wait for them to ask me to change it. And then three or four months later they asked me if I wanted a different number. By that time a few people bought my jersey, so I felt bad. I actually started to like the number more and more because it was unique and no one really had it.I love it. I think team speed is everywhere in the league now. It’s not that we play that much different. Teams out west just like to grind it out in the offensive zone and make it tough to get knocked off the puck. It’s really hard for the defenders when they know it’s not going to be an easy game to take the puck away from you. With the guys we have, we can make plays at any time in the game. That’s the thing I like the most about being here.Kevin Bieksa has really helped me out a lot. We’ve been out to restaurants on the road.
ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: watr ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: hold on ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: http://silver-fox.ca/images/motherboard_I-O-portss.jpg FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: Ik what my motherboard is and everything is plugged in.... ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: No ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: Plug the thing from your monitor ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: into the matching hole on your mobo FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: Mobo? FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: I think your just saying stuff ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: Motherboard ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: = mobo FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: Because all the ports on my mobo are fine I get a screen it's the installation it's ok to say you don't know ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: Holy fuck ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: listen ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: plug it in ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: Your asking me for help ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: plug it into your motherboard, not your GPU ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: your gpu has no drivers ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: so it wont work FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: You saying to plug my via into my mother board when clearly it is.... FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: Vga ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: omg ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: Plug the fucking cable from the monitor ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: into the mobo FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: What other cables are there to my monitor FUZZY KITTENS MEOW: Like I said if you don't know just say you don't ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: I know ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: just plug your VGA ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: into your motherboard ShadowWolf43 \| Lost all on Orbit: match cable with the hole
Back in those ancient times when people had to use typewriters, due to computers being nonexistent. The Qwerty keyboard was invented to intentionally force people to type slower. Because in 1875 (when the qwerty keyboard was invented), the first radios didn't even exist yet (invented 1886), a good typewriter could handle only 25-30 Words Per Minute (WPM) communication was limited to 8 WPM. The quality of a typewriter was measured by it's (WPM) without jamming up capabilitity. To put this in to perspective, even in the 1980's high quality typewriters claimed to be able to handle a maximum of 55-75 WPM. However in truth the authenticity of that number is debatable, most typewriters couldn't come near that number. To compare Qwerty to Dvorak, as concerns about typewriters jamming became obsolete, the Dvorak keyboard was designed to make it so that a person could type as fast as humanly possible. Long story short, while Qwerty keyboards are designed to make typing twenty times harder than it needs to be, Dvorak keyboards are designed to make typing easy and as quick as possible. Look at the letters in the top left section of your keyboard. If those letters spell the word Qwerty, then unfortunately for you, you have been mentally conditioned to use a qwerty keyboard instead of a Dvorak keyboard your whole life. It will take about two to three weeks for you to adjust to the Dvorak keyboard layout. However once you have adjusted, your maximum typing speed will be 50% faster. Example 80 becomes 120, 120 WPM will become 180 WPM. I know a person that went from a max of 150 WPM on a good day, to typing 220 WPM on a good day. The time spent adjusting to a Dvorak keyboard can be a rough couple of weeks, however typing the alphabet repeatedly will help speed up the process. During that time some people fear that they won't be able to temporarily revert back to using the primitive qwerty keyboard when or if they need to use it. However, if you have used the qwerty keyboard your whole life, it will only take a few seconds to mentally switch between using qwerty and dvorak keyboards after adjusting to the Dvorak keyboard.
All these abilities, its very deftness, the method has prepared for in the stalemate; yet its deftness is active and the furthest from stalemate, it is the narcotic and the high of war. To avoid stalemate or deftness is to avoid both; to avoid method at all is to resign oneself to courting whatever unworthy thought occurs when one is in repose; to avoid repose is to avoid the nourishment that allows thoughtful method to be deft when deftness is required. At the proper times method is required if thought is to maintain its precision and its love for the outside world; at the proper times method must be in stalemate and thinking must lie in repose for method to be nourished. That we see mystery in method’s function and that we see opposition and contradiction in method’s beginnings and ends is essential to the proper use of method. This proper use is neither constant nor consistent nor stable; this proper use is not knowledgeable nor technical nor practical. The proper use in method does not properly lie in any region where method is enacted; the propriety of method rests in the passage of thought from its consideration of method’s stalemate towards an applied methodology.
Personal life It is no secret that spouses of open source software developers generally consider we spend too much time in front of the computer in our hobby. What does your wife think of your involvement with KDE? Well, she came with me to the Akademy in Belgium, uses KDE on Linux herself and so normally she is quite OK with it. Are you involved in other open source projects? I have some small personal projects, but they all are linked somehow to KDE, so no. Apart from KDE, what other hobbies do you have? In the winter, I am trying out my cross-country skiing skills and in summer I enjoy a little biking; when I was younger, I was also rowing for several years, but due to the rather small river here in Leipzig, I am not doing that often anymore. When I find the time, I also like some crafts: crochetting, sewing and such stuff, but this directly competes with programming time... Where do you see yourself (and family), KDE and KDE on Windows in 5 years? Well, I see at least two kids running around myself still working on Qt and KDE related projects. Also I see a smoother start for KDE Platform 5 on quite a lot of platforms, mobile platforms, desktop platforms etc. KDE on Windows will be an equal platform to the rest with more and younger developers. Thanks Is there anything you want to add? I want to say thanks to all those people I have met in KDE in the past 4 years, that included me into their group and let me make my mistakes and get their programs running on this "weird"platform, and of course I also want to thank my wife for supporting me all those years. Patrick, thank you very much for your time. Congratulations on your work.
Fixed Points And Recursion The ideas involved in the definitions of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and the basic algorithm shown in the previous section for calculating them, are instances of a much more general idea, that of functions and their fixed points. As a bit of an interesting tangent (this post has been full of tangents, hasn't it? ), let's delve into this generalization a bit here and see how it's related to both eigenvalues, and also recursively defined functions. We will then briefly use these ideas to solve a classic computer science puzzle, that of defining anonymous recursive functions. Dynamical systems are mathematical models of systems that evolve over time according to a fixed set of rules, allowing the changes in the system to be studied as iterative applications of the rules. In the previous section, we looked at iterative transformation of a set of points on the two-dimensional plane. This basic system can be seen as an example of a dynamical system, in which the rule of change is given by the matrix transformation. We then looked for fixed points (up to scalar multiplication) of this dynamical system, promising that they will allow us to understand the asymptotic behaviour of the total number of domino tilings. Generalizing a dynamical system to be any function from a set to itself (e.g. from the set of points on the plane to the set of points on the plane), we can look at recursively defined functions as fixed points of a dynamical system too. To understand this, consider the Fibonacci recursion given by F ( n ) = F ( n − 1 ) + F ( n − 2 ) F(n) = F(n - 1) + F(n - 2) F(n)=F(n−1)+F(n−2) . Instead of thinking of it as a function that given a number outputs another number, we can instead generalize and consider a meta-function ( G ( F ) ) ( n ) = F ( n − 1 ) + F ( n − 2 ) (G(F))(n) = F(n -1) + F(n - 2) (G(F))(n)=F(n−1)+F(n−2) where G G G is a function which takes F F F as a parameter and returns a function that is based on F F F .
When the surrounding illumination is brighter than the plasma, the plasma absorption may be greater than its emission, making it look darker or hazy." -- Hill, p.54 So, the indefinite profile and the "wavy, like heat haze" shimmering effect often reported for UFOs are probably the result of the ionized atmospheric gas (a.k.a. "plasma") surrounding the craft, which lights up the surrounding air like a neon sign. Plasmas in addition to radiating light, also absorb light at the same frequencies. Light from the edges of the craft must pass through a greater region of plasma to reach the eye or camera. If the plasma is particularly dense, the light is fully absorbed by the plasma and randomly re-radiated or scattered. As a result, the edges of the craft are indefinite, appearing fuzzy and luminous, or the "cotton ball" effect. The more central region, however, has a shorter path length to the eye, and may thus be visible through the plasma, though still distorted. Darkened regions could conceivably be the result of plasma absorption of light in the visible spectrum, with re-radiation primarily in the non-visible, such as ultraviolet and infrared, but this is more speculative. In daylight: UFOs in the air range from a dull aluminum with just an aura of dark orange, to bright "metallic" polished silver / chrome / "like mirror in the sun" (when brilliant plasma reflects off the UFO's surface). Flat-bottomed disks are often darker underneath, in a central circular area or in an annular ring near the rim. Note: It has been noticed in UFO sightings that the object when stationary gives out less light than when in motion. This rule, of course, is not invariable. UFOs emanating no (visible) light at all have been seen moving, while others glowing brightly have been seen to hover and even to land. Empirical observation results suggest that luminosity changes during acceleration or direction change. (ref: color changes related to motion)
METHODS Patient Population This study was approved by the ethics committee of our university, and written informed consent was obtained from the parents of each patient. MRI was performed between December 2002 and June 2004 for 60 children with suspected neonatal brain injury. We performed fiber-tracking in these 60 cases before selecting the cases that met our inclusion criteria for PVL. This was performed to minimize bias from operator-dependent processes in the fiber-tracking technique. Only 10 of the 60 patients met the following inclusion criteria: (1) history of hypoxia in the perinatal period and (2) diagnosis of PVL based on both clinical and imaging findings (Table 1). Because clinical symptoms of PVL usually are difficult to detect until the neurologic sequelae become apparent in later infancy, MRI played a crucial role in diagnosis. Imaging diagnosis of PVL was based on focal necrotic lesions in the periventricular white matter and/or more-diffuse white matter damage. The mean age at the time of scanning was 19 ± 9.5 months (range: 9–41 months). Motor functions were assessed at a mean age of 28 ± 14.5 months (range: 15–63 months). TABLE 1 Clinical Features and MRI Findings of Patients Clinical history and present illness findings for this group are summarized in Table 1. Five children (patients 1, 4, 5, 7, and 9) displayed severe complications, characterized by CP (spastic paraplegia or quadriplegia), mental retardation, and/or epilepsy (patients 1 and 4). These patients constituted the CP group. The remaining 5 children had almost-normal development, without paralysis or seizures. Functionally nonimpaired patients with PVL constituted the non-CP group. CP is defined as a nonprogressive disorder of posture and movement, often associated with mental retardation, epilepsy, and abnormalities of speech, vision, and intellect, resulting from a defect or lesion of the developing brain. Imaging Methods DTI data for fiber-tracking were obtained in 264 seconds. DTI was performed at the end of the routine child protocol used at our institute. Images were obtained by using a 1.5-T, whole-body scanner (Gyroscan Intera; Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands) with a gradient strength of 30 mT/m. A single-shot echo-planar imaging technique was used for DTI (repetition time: 6000 milliseconds; excitation time: 88 milliseconds), with a motion-probing gradient in 15 orientations, a field of view of 230 mm, b values of 0 and 1000 seconds/mm2, and image averaging over 2 measurements. Recorded data matrix were 128 × 37, with the parallel imaging technique.
This album only presents the Highlight Reel, but there are more from the archive. There were multiple calls for the use brigadiers if necessary, and against a poll - a bare standard for democratic procedure. Notable is /u/Ayy_Howzit_Braddah's wavering stance on how to gain the changes he seeks. He claims that if changes on /r/socialism do not come, he will move on to another subreddit. This contradicts a major element of his petition - that it is of, for, and by /r/socialism users. Additionally, the continued attemps at collaboration with /u/cometparty isn't compatible with the will of those who won't stop until a "clean sweep" is done. The above constitutes a prima face case against the first petitioners, so the committee examined more thoroughly. It is insufficient to know what happened, but who was doing it and what they wanted. The first question shall be answered with some reference to the Highlight Reel, as some clemency must be granted to those caught in the scheme. Let's start with what was already known: It is known that /u/Ayy_Howzit_Braddah was the de facto leader - the petition post, the accompanying public server, [the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nEqLmp3A1I) of the discussion between him and current /r/socialism moderators, and now the planning server eliminate all doubt. Yet, he was not alone, and not the sole person implicated. A one Xexizy, from beginning to end, contributed to planning, even going so far as to decide which moderators to collaborate with, and comment on the benefits and limitations of any tactics proposed. These contributions are in addition to providing airtime for the Reddit Revolution [not once](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWThp4EMQRE), but [twice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBTcA6OxQcA). By his side was /u/dragonnninja1001, who insisted on multiple occasions to use brigadiers as a strategy. Of course, other users - /u/SabotTheCat, /u/base_model_android (aka jailbot), etc. - significantly participated in the planning stage. Now - what does everyone want? We can look to the planning server, petition, [its thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/5nwxph/meta_petition_regarding_the_moderation_of/?limit=500), public discussion server, and the recording as sources. In the style of the petition, let's enumerate the demands: > #1: The removal of all current /r/socialism mods is neither clear nor universal. From the start, in the thread, there were calls to keep the staff as is, or at least to avoid a clean sweep. Moreover, AHB, on multiple occassions in the recording and on the public server, advocated for the current mods to step in and assist new elected moderators.
Governments have been implementing staff cut-backs in an attempt to "save money" so as to not get sucked into the pit of economic doom. I'm not sure if anyone has told them this, but firing 54000 people only means that 54000 families (see link above for full story on how Whitehall in Britain has fired 54 000 civil servants in 18 months) are now less able or even completely unable to support themselves financially, which will cost the government much more than keeping the employees on.The less people earning an income, the more strain it puts on a government to provide welfare services. When one person is fired, it does not only affect that one person, it affects many: the family of the person, the businesses earning money from this person and his/her family, the families of the employees of the suffering businesses, the government no longer receives income tax, the government must support the now unemployed person and his/her family if applicable, and so on and so forth.So imagine, ifhas dismissed 54000 people, what effect does this have? The families of these 54000 people lose a source of income, which would then increase the number of people directly and greatly influenced fourfold (on average). The government will no be receiving income tax from 54000 people. The government may need to provide welfare support to as many as 54000 families. The businesses who had customers from the 54000, now unemployed, people are losing the regular income they would normally have received, which in turn would have an effect on their own families and spending habits. This is just the tip of the iceberg for the consequences of one government's layoffs in one country - this is happening in governments and countries across the globe.UBS is cutting thousands of jobs. Research in Motion is cutting thousands of jobs. Opel is cutting thousands of jobs. GM is cutting thousands of jobs. Comet is cutting thousands of jobs. What happens to all the thousands and thousands of people affected by these job losses? Yes, some may find another job - but many will not, mostly due to that fact that the job losses are affecting most businesses to some degree.The governments that run the countries of the world are supposed to be ensuring dignified rights and a "good life" for all their citizens - how could job cuts possibly be seen as a "good thing"?
I go to school with a smile on my face.” * Names have been changed to protect the individual’s identity Shelter 4/8 Homeless this Christmas Maria* and her two daughters (15 and 5) lived in a B&B for more than 9 months, before being moved out of area in October. Her oldest daughter is a wheelchair user and had no access to a bath as the bathroom was on a different floor. Maria had to bathe her in a tub in the bedroom. * Names have been changed to protect the individual’s identity Shelter 5/8 Homeless this Christmas Nicola and her three children have spent the last 9 months in temporary accommodation. She said: “We're so squashed in this cold, damp place. I say place because neither myself nor the children call this 'home'. It's full of mould and the kids are constantly ill from the damp. I'm trying to do the best that I can with what I have. I'm training to be a teacher, attending counselling sessions and trying to be the best mum I can to my babies but living like this is getting too much.” Shelter 6/8 Homeless this Christmas Nathan, 28, has been homeless for three months, and until recently was living in a Travelodge on the side of a motorway with his 16-month old son, where he only had access to a kettle: “There’s milk and stuff, but there’s no microwave. It’s pretty hard to make food. I’ve got to get the jars and stick it in the kettle, and then put the kettle on to warm it up, so that’s the best way to feed him.” Shelter 7/8 Homeless this Christmas For Geraldine, 45, and her 13-year-old daughter Hannah, living in an emergency B&B has taken a huge toll on their mental and emotional wellbeing: “My daughter has felt very suicidal. I took her to the GP. They’ve referred her to the psychologist. She’s constantly breaking down crying. I had to take her to A&E on two occasions because she’s having problems, she keeps getting palpitations. She shakes.” Names have been changed to protect the individual’s identity Shelter 8/8 Homeless this Christmas Mariam, her two teenage sons and 4 year old daughter Zara were living in a B&B for nearly three months, before being moved to temporary accommodation in November. Both places have been extremely cold and Mariam is concerned for Zara’s health, as she suffers from asthma and anaemia. Shelter
It was a mind-bending experience, and it makes me profoundly glad that IDEs have been improved upon as much as they have in the past 16 years.It was around this same time that I got my first taste of the Internet, and more specifically of the fledgling World Wide Web. (Remember when people knew the difference? God I feel old. )I immediately knew that this thing was going to be huge. I remember sitting in front of some crusty old excuse for a search engine (yes, kiddies, there was a time before Google) and typing in "Star Wars." Several minutes later, as the 36.6 modem churned data across the phone lines (I feel old again), I got back an exhilarating list of funny quotes from the movies. No images, mind you - it was still too expensive to download pictures all over a standard web site, so everything was still textual - but just seeing some of my favorite lines from the films was a virtually religious experience.Not long after, our family got some Internet access of their own, and I stumbled across some of the early programming communities on the web. I wish I could remember them, because they were a phenomenal part of my development as a programmer; alas, my memory stopped working right around the time I discovered that I could look up any information I needed to know just by typing at the computer.Needless to say, exposure to other programmers via the internet was probably the best thing that ever happened to my career. I quickly realized just how much I had to learn, and discovered that people were plenty willing to teach. I merrily burned a few years learning all the ins and outs of 32-bit virtual mode programming in C. I learned how to write Windows programs in C, using the Win32 API that seemed comfortingly familiar after my Visual Basic days. I learned to do some more real-mode stuff, too, but that was falling by the way-side.DirectX was looming in the future, and once again my call to make games surged up inside. At long last, it seemed like I could find a way to do all the graphical stuff that had eluded my lone-wolf self for so long, and do it just like the "real programmers" did.Somewhere in there, I spent a few years freelance consulting.
What if youdon't think that Social Justice Warriors of the leftthe right should be employing the tactic of shutting down speech, instead of simply confronting it with,, more speech? Ben Shapiro makes the charge that anyone who got okey-doked by his silly rhetorical gambit of not revealing the name is guilty of tribal thinking. Ben Shapiro makes the charge that anyone who got okey-doked by his silly rhetorical gambit of not revealing the name is guilty of tribal thinking. But who's actually doing the tribal thinking here? Who's actually guilty of saying "Let him speak if I consider him respectable or at least acceptable enough to speak, but shut that shit down if I don't?" But who's actually doing the tribal thinking here? Who's actually guilty of saying "Let him speak ifconsider him respectable or at least acceptable enough to speak, but shut that shit down if I don't?" Let me quote Shapiro on this point: Let me quote Shapiro on this point: If you did not answer that the story provided too little information for you to judge, it's time to check your biases. Perhaps I ought to check my privileges while I'm down there as well. Perhaps I ought to check my privileges while I'm down there as well. What if I felt I did have enough information, Ben? What if I felt before the reveal, and felt after the reveal, that I object the left's (and now the right's) acceptance of #NoPlatforming and pressure groups creating barriers to the marketplace of ideas? What if I felt Ihave enough information, Ben? What if I felt before the reveal, and feltthe reveal, that I object the left's (and now the right's) acceptance of #NoPlatforming and pressure groups creating barriers to the marketplace of ideas? What then? What then? Did you decide that the speaker was on the right because the protesters were on the left? Did you decide that the speaker had something valuable to say if he ticked off the Left enough, if he melted enough snowflakes? Unfortunately, many conservatives have embraced this sort of binary thinking: If it angers the Left, it must be virtuous. Undoubtedly, that�s a crude shorthand for political thinking. It means you never have to check the ideas of the speaker, you merely have to check how people respond to him. That's dangerous. That's dangerous? That's political thinking? That's dangerous?political thinking?
I've > maintained this code base for over 10 years now and I'd like to think > I've only merged > something for semi-political reasons once (initial exynos was still > more Linuxy than DC), > and that thing took a lot of time to cleanup, I really don't feel like > saying yes again. > > Given the choice between maintaining Linus' trust that I won't merge > 100,000 lines > of abstracted HAL code and merging 100,000 lines of abstracted HAL code > I'll give you one guess where my loyalties lie. The reason the > toplevel maintainer (me) > doesn't work for Intel or AMD or any vendors, is that I can say NO > when your maintainers > can't or won't say it. > > I've only got one true power as a maintainer, and that is to say No. > The other option > is I personally sit down and rewrite all the code in an acceptable > manner, and merge that > instead. But I've discovered I probably don't scale to that level, so > again it leaves me > with just the one actual power. > > AMD can't threaten not to support new GPUs in upstream kernels without > merging this, > that is totally something you can do, and here's the thing Linux will > survive, we'll piss off > a bunch of people, but the Linux kernel will just keep on rolling > forward, maybe at some > point someone will get pissed about lacking upstream support for your > HW and go write > support and submit it, maybe they won't. The kernel is bigger than any > of us and has > standards about what is acceptable. Read up on the whole mac80211 > problems we had > years ago, where every wireless vendor wrote their own 80211 layer > inside their driver, > there was a lot of time spent creating a central 80211 before any of > those drivers were > suitable for merge, well we've spent our time creating a central > modesetting infrastructure, > bypassing it is taking a driver in totally the wrong direction. > > I've also wondered if the DC code is ready for being part of the > kernel anyways, what > happens if I merge this, and some external contributor rewrites 50% of > it and removes a > bunch of stuff that the kernel doesn't need.
A seven-foot Catalonian with wild hair, Gasol redeemed Bryant’s penchant for excessive shooting by gathering rebounds so effectively that the chunked fadeaways and leaners could almost be considered passes. Thus was born a new statistical category, the “Kobe assist,” meant to credit missed shots that seemed more than randomly to beget success. An intellectual rather than a rival alpha male, Gasol preferred opera to rap—he even read Roberto Bolaño’s nine-hundred-page novel “2666,” a gift from Jackson—and enjoyed Bryant’s cleverness and sarcasm, as well as his efforts to speak Spanish with him on the court. They won two championships together, in 2009 and 2010, bringing Bryant’s ring count to five, surpassing O’Neal’s. As his body broke down, Bryant became a more efficient player, refining his volume game with better shot selection and distribution, and people began to speculate that he might stick around long enough to surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the league’s all-time leading scorer. He even flirted with a new nickname, suggested by his friend the adman Brian Ford: Vino, which he sometimes appended as a hashtag in his tweets. (Bryant still plays a volume game when it comes to hashtags.) Like wine, the idea went, Bryant was getting better with age. “Last year was the best basketball I’ve played in my entire career,” Bryant said. “I’ve never worked so hard in my life to prepare for a game, in film study, quarterbacking on the floor, putting everybody in the right position, and then having to take care of my body. It was literally no life, because my body was hurting so much. I had to ice-bath, stretch, massage, elevate my legs, stretch, and then go out and play. But the results were irrefutable.” He added, “It doesn’t stop. That’s what I’m saying. It becomes life, you know? To be at that level, that’s what you have to do.”
Back in New York and Washington, Mrs. Clinton has a packed schedule this month to raise money for Democratic candidates; she headlined a reception Friday to benefit the Democratic Governors Association that cost $10,000 to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton are not slowing down on delivering paid speeches, at around $200,000 each. A presidential campaign would limit those opportunities to make money. Mrs. Clinton is getting in better physical shape, a necessity for any potential candidate who faces the rigors of the campaign trail. Friends said she has more energy and has also been practicing yoga. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton dismissed any suggestion that the former secretary of state is preparing to run. “You caught us,” said Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton. “These are all definitive signs of a person” who is “simply living their life.” Mrs. Clinton spent August in the Hamptons, a working vacation that gave her plenty of time to interact with donors without the glare of the news media. Liz Robbins, a Washington lobbyist with a home in East Hampton; the investor Dan Neidich and his wife, Brooke Garber Neidich, an arts executive; the hedge fund manager Richard C. Perry and his wife, Lisa Perry, a fashion designer; and Susie Tompkins Buell, a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, are among the friends and donors who hosted events for the Clintons. Amid the small talk, Mrs. Clinton would offer telltale signs that she intends to run, said several people who crossed paths with the former first lady on the shores of Long Island. She would pose political questions and field thoughts on policy, asking, for example, Wall Street executives and business leaders what they thought of Mr. Obama’s efforts to eliminate inversions. Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story Mrs. Clinton has a small personal staff that she recently relocated to New York to be closer to her office at the Clinton Foundation. Several aides who worked on Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 campaign, and hope to work for her again, often discuss logistics like where a campaign headquarters would be located, with New York State and Little Rock, Ark., floated as options. Fledgling efforts to develop a message are quietly taking place, said the people close to Mrs. Clinton. Without discussing her 2016 plans, she has talked to friends and donors in business about how to tackle income inequality without alienating businesses or castigating the wealthy.
Photos: Donald Trump's rise Photos: Donald Trump's rise President-elect Donald Trump has been in the spotlight for years. From developing real estate and producing and starring in TV shows, he became a celebrity long before winning the White House. Hide Caption 1 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump at age 4. He was born in 1946 to Fred and Mary Trump in New York City. His father was a real estate developer. Hide Caption 2 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, left, in a family photo. He was the second-youngest of five children. Hide Caption 3 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, center, stands at attention during his senior year at the New York Military Academy in 1964. Hide Caption 4 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, center, wears a baseball uniform at the New York Military Academy in 1964. After he graduated from the boarding school, he went to college. He started at Fordham University before transferring and later graduating from the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania's business school. Hide Caption 5 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump stands with Alfred Eisenpreis, New York's economic development administrator, in 1976 while they look at a sketch of a new 1,400-room renovation project of the Commodore Hotel. After graduating college in 1968, Trump worked with his father on developments in Queens and Brooklyn before purchasing or building multiple properties in New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Those properties included Trump Tower in New York and Trump Plaza and multiple casinos in Atlantic City. Hide Caption 6 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump attends an event to mark the start of construction of the New York Convention Center in 1979. Hide Caption 7 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump wears a hard hat at the Trump Tower construction site in New York in 1980. Hide Caption 8 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump was married to Ivana Zelnicek Trump from 1977 to 1990, when they divorced. They had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. Hide Caption 9 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise The Trump family, circa 1986. Hide Caption 10 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump uses his personal helicopter to get around New York in 1987. Hide Caption 11 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump stands in the atrium of the Trump Tower.
Shape Created with Sketch. The Worst Tattoos in football Show all 14 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. The Worst Tattoos in football 1/14 Daniele de Rossi Midfield dynamo Daniele De Rossi kindly alerted opposition players of his sharp-tackling reputation by brandishing a bright yellow warning tattoo that looks more like a slipping hazard sign than anything else (perhaps Arjen Robben should book himself in with the same artist). Sadly, however, the ink is on his calf and gets hidden by his socks during games. As a result, the joke is somewhat wasted. Getty Images 2/14 Mauricio Pinilla Why would the Chile striker want to re-live this moment, every single day for the rest of his life? In the 119th minute of the World Cup last-16, Pinilla smashed ha shot against the crossbar against hosts Brazil. Had it gone in, Chile would have made the quarter-final against Colombia. The inscriptions reads: 'One centimetre from glory'. 3/14 Wayne Rooney England striker Wayne Rooney has the title of the Stereophonics third studio album etched on his arm, although the tattoo has also been interpreted as a humorous personal reflection of his own academic failure. Rooney famously didn’t achieve any GCSE’s, but given his £300,000 a week contract he probably doesn’t care too much. Getty Images 4/14 Mario Balotelli The Italian troublemaker had a quote from the Mongolian war-machine Genghis Khan written on his chest to celebrate his first goal of the 2012/13 season for Manchester City. It says “If you had not committed great sins/ God would not have sent/ A punishment like me upon you”. While the behaviour of the Italian could indeed be seen as a “punishment” to those around him, comparing himself to one of the greatest war leaders in history seems excessive… yet completely in-character. Getty Images 5/14 James Rodriguez Arguably the player of the tournament so far, James Rodriguez’s sweet left foot has no doubt been inspired by the strange image of Jesus on his lower leg. With five goals and two assists already, the Colombian winger will be praying that his religious icon can smite Brazil in the quarter-finals and propel Columbia to the title. Getty Images 6/14 Arturo Vidal The midfield ace, strongly linked to Manchester United this summer after his impressive performances at the World Cup, has a selection of body art that is equally as eye catching and somewhat perplexing.
The move offers no invincibility, only a sphere that cancels ki and knocks foes away on contact, so if someone does a large area of effect evasive after you, you will be knocked away. A lot of skills that has continues hits, like perfect kamehameha, will also penetrate, even if you hold it down. But sphere attacks that don’t “move” (like super spirit bomb) will be cancelled or fly straight through or stuck in mid air. Another weakness is, that moves that “appear” will bypass the shield, like “evil eyes”, “flash strike” or “giant storm” or things with multiple phases like “burning attack” “burst attack” and “father son kamehameha”. Builds: no, preferably melee and anti melee 27: Dimension Cannon(blast) Tags: VERY short invincibility, decent damage, medium duration, stationary Description: absolutely do NOT use this evasive. If “maidens burst” is a poor mans victory cannon, dimension cannon is a beggars maiden burst. The move lasts about 3 seconds, but only has invincibility the first split second, so you can easily interrupt it. It does decent damage, but only in a small reach straight in front of you and knocks away on last hit. Meaning that anyone hitting you from the back or using a ranged attack on you will essentially cancel any attempt you may have at performing an evasive. On top of that you are completely stationary, unlike rolling bullet that at least rose a little vertically. Builds: none. Preferably anti melee. 28: High Tension Turn(strike) Tags: gets you closer to enemy, medium invincibility Description: this move is like a beggars “psychic move”. You first go backwards shortly, to quickly thereafter charge at the enemy, having full invincility, except for the split second in the end where it’s supposed to knock the targeted foe away by charging at them. Meaning it is an absolutely useless evasive. You can both punch or super or ultimate to catch them before the evasive hit reaches you. Builds: none. Least defenseless against full melee builds. 29: Spinning Blade(strike) Tags: VERY short invincibility, gets you close to foe Description: a very quick and short “evasive” that acts more like an attack than an evasive.
This method is not capable of relaying large amounts of data, as it must go through a human thaumaturge, and is most suited to the transcription of text logs, which were displayed by Joyeuse personnel for the thaumaturge to perceive and transcribe. All personnel within the Joyeuse engage in extended hibernation for the majority of the voyage. Most flight operations are automated, although the commencement of deceleration at the journey’s halfway point necessitated a full wake sequence due to the complexity of the maneuver. The complete journey of the Joyeuse took 2051 days from Earth's perspective, before the craft arrived at Proxima Centauri and established an orbit above SCP-3000. + Addendum B: Exploration Log 3000-1 - Close Addendum B The following is a transcript of a message received from the Joyeuse after attempting an exploration of SCP-3000. Three days have passed since the Joyeuse attained orbit around SCP-3000. Advanced observation has indicated that the surface of the planet, apparently a form of red rubber, is either anomalously denser than currently known forms, or is merely a shell over a more dense internal structure. The recon vehicle is a pod capable of transporting four people at once to a planetary surface. It is also capable of rapid extraction back to orbit. This recon pod is used to transport four members of MTF Xi-4, designated LY-Alpha through Delta, to the planetary surface. The landing pod touches down approximately 1km from the edge of a cluster of 15 immense spires on the planet’s equator. Spires are of variable width, ranging from 100 to 500 meters in diameter, and reach over 2km above the planet’s surface. LY-Alpha: Touched down. Command: Roger that. LY-Alpha: Squad, check pressure on suits. LY-Beta: Check. LY-Gamma: Check. LY-Delta: Check. LY-Alpha: Roger. Free to engage airlock, command. Command: Roger. Engaging. LY-Alpha: Existing capsule now. LY-Alpha: Ground is stable. Bit of a squish to it. Gravity is slightly stronger than back home, as expected. The terrain is flat, too flat. Let's take a ground sample. LY-Gamma: Roger. LY-Gamma: Yeah, it looks like rubber. Analysis will verify, of course. It's got… look at the ground, there's little protrusions. Regularly spaced, few centimeters apart, like anti-slip marks. LY-Beta: So whoever built this was afraid of slipping. If someone did build this. LY-Gamma: Planet-sized kickballs don't appear naturally. Not in any nature we’re aware of, at least. LY-Alpha: Oxygen is limited. Let's get going. LY-Alpha: Pathing to the nearest spire now.
The concentration of huge authority in the hands of Eurasianist military men after 1977 posed a threat to the Atlanticist clan. For the KGB and other servants of the “Dancing Death” within the Soviet leadership, some kind of urgent response became extremely important. It is appropriate to note that some data suggest that the Afghan war was instigated by the KGB in order to discredit the army over the course of a protracted and pointless conflict, and provoke the Atlanticist interference by the United States in the internal political situation [of Afghanistan]. Specialists in occult Sovietology such as Pierre de Villemarest and Jean Parvulesco consider the Afghan conflict to be a provocation against the Soviet army and, more broadly, against the entire Eurasianist lobby. Conscious of the geopolitical projects of General Shtemenko and in particular the geopolitical value of Afghanistan, the people from the Lubyanka decided to provoke an armed and violent intervention in Afghanistan’s internal political situation. (It should be noted that Shtemenko himself ruled out such an intervention and insisted on peaceful integration and the gradual economic penetration of Afghanistan in accordance with the normal logic of any organic and natural economic and cultural expansion along the North-South axis). Not only the very beginning of this senseless war, but also its indecisive, uncertain, and dismal conduct were the results of the KGB’s intervention in the affairs of the army. The Atlanticists needed the USSR to lose a war which would lead to the final destruction of the Eurasianist bloc. Therefore, special divisions of the KGB staged terrorist acts against the peaceful Afghan population, something which would have been a complete absurdity iced Soviet troops genuinely wanted to integrate Afghanistan and turn it into a geopolitical vassal. From the top through the party and the Atlanticist politburo, they strove to restrain the most reasonable military operations, sometimes interrupting them when they started to succeed. Pierre de Villemarest claims that this war was lost only because the highest Soviet leadership wanted it to be lost. Be that as it may, this war was fatal for the army, the GRU, and the Eurasianist Order.
The 28 chief ministers matter more to India’s talent supply chain and job creation than one prime minister,” says Manish Sabharwal, chairman of Teamlease Services, a staffing firm.According to the study, just 34% of the students assessed were found employable, a fact well known by now. But some streams fared better than others. B Pharma students fared the best, with 55% being employable against 52% for engineers, 47% for ITIs, 19% for BAs and just 12% for polytechnic students. Overall, northern states (surprisingly) fared better than the south.Women (42%) on an average scored better than men (33%). And among the cities, Delhi/NCR emerged as the most preferred city for young men, and Chennai for women, seeking work. Mumbai finds no mention among the top cities.The employers’survey reveals another side of the story. First their monthly hiring outlook, with 2014 projected to be slightly better than the year gone by. Sectors like engineering and infrastructure, hospitality and travel expect a substantial pick-up in hiring. Others like banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), IT and IT-enabled services can expect only a slight pick-up (up to 10%) in hiring. But the real bad news is from the pharma and healthcare sector which is expecting to see a big drop of 24% in hiring.In a fast-changing world, the thrust on domain expertise is weakening as demand for MBAs is rising vis-à-vis engineers, even in sectors like engineering and telecom with a historical bias. The internet is playing a big role in companies’ hiring plans — 34% of them are hiring via job portals and 7% via social media. About 16% of them use consultants to fill strategic positions. And once popular print ads have predictably declined to just 4%.“Companies are clearly moving from a B2B platform [using consultants] to a B2C platform for their people needs. It significantly reduces the time and costs,” says Rumjhum Chatterjee, group MD and head (human capital) of Feedback Infra.According to the report,students from the north fare better than those from the south. Those from northern states — Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, UP — as well as West Bengal are more likely to pass the employable grade (with an overall score of 60%-plus). The southern states Andhra Pradesh (AP), Karnataka, Tamil Nadu — figure among the top nine. (All students were tested on maths, English and computers besides their own domain knowledge and behavioural skills.
Ideologically, it believes governments must provide for the greatest good for the greatest number of people. It opposes concentrated wealth, demagogy, and despotism, and supports democracy, human and civil rights, and social justice - an ideology the 19th century People's Party and 20th century Progressive Party endorsed without majorities. Until recently, faint echoes remained, sadly silenced after Senator Bernie Sanders and sole House populist capitulated. Former Kucinich for president consultant, David Swanson, said "he gave in to the power of a false narrative, and that he ought to have said so....I think the corporate media has instilled in people the idea that presidents should make laws and the current president is trying to make a law that can reasonably be called 'healthcare reform' or at least 'health insurance reform.' " I don't excuse Kucinich flipping....I just want to find the right explanation for it." The web site singlepayeraction.org, ("everybody in. nobody out.") called the Democrats (like Republicans) "a corporate party, rotting from the core." SPA called Kucinich's "flameout....spectacular" in support of a bill he and progressive Democrats strongly opposed until they flipped, including Congressman Danny Davis, representing this writer's 7th Illinois District. Kucinich said "I've taken a detour supporting this bill." For SPA, it's one "that will condemn millions of Americans to ongoing suffering and death" because insurers make money by denying care, why real reform requires their removal and assuring everyone of universal single-payer coverage. Everyone in. Nobody out. What your senator and House representative get, you get. What congressional Democrats won't enact. On March 17, Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced the following: "I have carried the banner of national health care in two presidential campaigns, in party platform meeting, and as co-author of HR 676, Medicare for All. I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer." On November 7, 2009, despite enormous pressure, he voted against HR 3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act," asking "Is this the best we can do" in a prepared text titled, "Why I Voted No," saying: "We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care."
It is of the upmost importance to any modern democracy that parliamentarians are able to communicate with constituents and advisers in complete confidence.” The MP's comments came as the home secretary, Theresa May, made last-minute concessions on the Investigatory Powers Bill to strengthen the Wilson Doctrine. Under revisions announced on 1 June, the prime minister must in future give explicit approval for law enforcement agencies to hack into MP’s computers and phones or to access their communications data.
But even if he were an important politician, I can't imagine how a scientist could seriously argue that a target becomes scientifically defensible if a politician mentions it in the speech.To accumulate these apparent jokes, Rahmstorf also says that the Cambridge University Press has published a book or booklet where the 2 °C target appears somewhere on Page 187. Cute, quite an "argument". Some people in the UNFCCC have paid lip service to this insanity, too. OK, I won't honor these particular "arguments" with a reaction going beyond a sound of derision.There is a funny exchange between the writers in Nature and Rahmstorf when it comes to the future released heat that got hidden in the ocean. The Nature writers wrote:While the evolution of the ocean-based temperatures could be less fluctuating than the surface temperatures, the particular extra arguments above in favor of the "ocean standards" are of course mostly silly. The ocean's heat capacity is much larger than the heat capacity of the atmosphere, so if some heat makes it to the "bulk of the ocean", it effectively gets hugely diluted. The second law of thermodynamics allows heat to get diluted, but it doesn't allow the heat to spontaneously concentrate itself again!What it means is that if the extra heat from a one-degree-like warming of the atmosphere makes it to the ocean, the bulk of the ocean gets warmer by something comparable to 0.01 °C, and the only thing that this warmer ocean may do to the atmosphere is to warm it (more precisely, to increase the expected equilibrium temperature) by the same 0.01 °C sometimes in the very far future, thousands of years from now. Physics just doesn't allow the energy to be transformed from "diluted heat" to some more concentrated forms of energy.Rahmstorf knows this piece of classical physics so he corrects them. There is no thermal threat waiting in the deep ocean.But what he's missing is that the writers in Nature talk about this non-existent threat because they've been misled by lots of intense propaganda about dangers related to the climate change. They were able to figure out that no noteworthy threat may be linked to the global mean surface temperature – the expertise of an astrophysicist and even the common sense of a political scientist are enough for that.
As it settles, the head of a new Friend appears. She looks similar to Bottlenose Dolphin but her hair's lateral fins are larger, and her smooth skin darker. She also wears glasses and a much mellower expression. SERVAL - Whaaah ! What was with that huge splash ? KABAN - I thought it was something much bigger than a Friend for a moment ! You did say you had found something big... B. DOLPHIN - Ha ha ha ! She is big. A big help ! She's my friend, Blue Whale ! Blue Whale is shown more closely as she comes on board. The Bus seems to dip a bit when she does, but stabilizes. In contrast of Dolphin's youthful attire, Blue Whale is wearing a thick, white sweater and black leather boots. Order : Artiodactyla Family : Balaenopteridae Genus : Balaenoptera Blue Whale BLUE WHALE - You seem to have found some interesting people, Dolphin-chan ! B. DOLPHIN - This is Kaban and Serval ! They made this strange boat to travel between islands, but the last big storm swept them here. BLUE WHALE - Oh, how terrible ! We're quite far away from the closest land... KABAN - Do you know where the closest is, Blue Whale-san ? BLUE WHALE - I'm afraid not. I like the open waters, approaching land has always been a bit scary for me. SERVAL - Oh, no...How are we going to find our way back ? Dolphin stares into the air, deep in thought. The eyes of the other Friends turn to her. B. DOLPHIN - Maybe there is something that could help on the boat with the Japari Buns ? SERVAL - You get Japari Buns all the way into the ocean ? Sugoi ! KABAN - Looks like we didn't need to worry about going hungry after all ! And there might be a map. How do we get there ? BLUE WHALE - Normally I wander around until I find it, but with Dolphin here, we should be able to find it in a flash ! B. DOLPHIN - Hey now ! My clicks don't reach that far ! But there's no need to worry. We have Blue Whale's song ! The Friends turn to Blue Whale, who bashfully buries her mouth behind the cuffs of her sweater. BLUE WHALE - Wh-what about my song ? B. DOLPHIN - It's amazing and reaches really far !
Covers can't protect gear from submersion, nor from the sometimes copious perspiration that can soak through the back of an internal frame (or frameless) pack. They also tend to snag easily on trail obstacles and can be difficult to keep in place during high winds. And once in camp, covers are not very useful for protecting items that have been removed from the pack.
Returning themes of notable impact in Season Four include the Life and Death theme reprised nicely in "Locke'ing Horns" and "Ji Yeon," Desmond's theme finally fleshed out in full in "The Constant" and "Lying for the Island," the Traveling theme churning full blooded action propulsion in "Timecrunch," and the dreaded continuation of the Revelation motif to end the album in "Hoffs-Drawlar." The scores for the Fifth Season of "Lost" are good, and they well represent part of a general maturation of Giacchino's ideas as a whole, but they're not as strong as those for Season Four or Season Six. The opening tracks on the corresponding single-CD album highlight bass string variations on existing themes ("Making Up For Lost Time," "The Swinging Bendulum," and "Locke's Excellent Adventure"), and the material for Locke understandably receives significantly weightier exploration in subsequent cues. A fresh love theme in "La Fleur" and "Sawyer Jones and the Temple of Boom" returns to softer romantic elements from earlier in the series.The Fifth Season cue "Follow the Leader" is a point of interest as it expertly juggles more than half a dozen themes; such quick maneuvers would become more common in Season Six. The action core of the latter half of the season conveys more impressive muscularity, eventually merged very effectively with the Juliet and Life and Death themes in "The Incident." Of the four new themes in Season Five, only one is truly important to the rest of the series. This identity for the protector of the island, Jacob, is a heavily downbeat, extremely slow waltz-like theme for strings that initially lacks much gravity. Fuller renditions in "Blessings and Bombs" yield to diluted performances in "Jacobs Stabber." A Destiny theme is also new, employed as a harmonic momentum builder in "Sawyer Jones and the Temple of Boom." The Oceanic Six theme and main theme are the notable veterans on the album, the former given full treatment at the end of "Together or Not Together" and the latter really worked well into the action and suspense material in "Crash and Yearn" before its three-note phrases are twisted around in "Jacks Swan Song" and "Dharma vs. Lostaways." The Sixth Season is where Giacchino really starts intertwining the themes with expert detail, with several tracks parading out ideas (or merging them) at will.
“When a nurse is suspected of substance abuse or stealing meds an investigation is initiated,” a senior long-term-care official said in an email to the Star’s Theresa Boyle. “It is very hard to prove it and it takes quite a bit of time.” Linda Haslam-Stroud, president of the Ontario Nurses Association, the union that represents registered nurses at Caressant Care, declined an interview request on whether Wettlaufer had ever been the subject of complaints, and on the reporting of performance concerns to the college. Laura Jackson and Don Martin were good friends with Maurice Granat, 84, Wettlaufer’s second alleged victim. They visited the long-time auto body shop worker at Caressant Care at least once a week. On Dec. 23, 2007, they received a call at about 4 a.m. from someone at the Woodstock facility saying Granat — known to them as “Moe” — was not well. They rushed to the nursing home. Martin entered the room and saw Granat struggling with a nurse he says he recognized as Wettlaufer after seeing photos of her arrest. Granat’s arms were flailing and he was making strange noises. Martin held his hand and Granat calmed down. To Granat’s friends, the nurse appeared gruff. “She just said, ‘Get out of my way. Get out of my way,’” Jackson said. She left the room and returned moments later with a needle. She shoved Jackson aside and said, “This will soothe him now.” About 20 minutes later, Granat gasped his final breath. Jackson and Martin have no idea what medication was administered and there is no evidence it led to the death. Neither Jackson nor Martin thought often about that day, until they saw Granat’s name on the front page of the Star. They were “gobsmacked” and “floored.” And they can’t stop thinking about it. “It’s spinning in my mind,” Martin said. “I never heard (before) what he sounded like that day. He was struggling with her. Was he fighting her? What was going on before we’d been there?” Caressant Care is a sprawling, for-profit nursing home with 193 beds on a quiet street in Woodstock. In the busy front foyer, a television wishes patients happy birthday through a slide show of smiling nurses with happy residents. Taped to the wall are “certificates” trumpeting government inspections that gave clean bills of health. Wettlaufer usually worked the night shift, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Earlier today, SJWs on Twitter managed to get their demands for a gay Captain America to trend.Here's an article I was actually aware of this campaign in the morning, but didn't expect it would actually generate news articles. It happens so frequently and is so transparent you would think the media would be ignoring it at this point, but they're in on the agenda too.The thing about these "let's make this super hero gay" campaigns is that 99.99 percent of everyone calling for it doesn't actually read or watch Super Hero stuff anyway. We're talking about the most neurotic people on Earth who are literally offended by. These are the people I met at university who would randomly tell me that they wished their own parents would die. These people merely keep pushing and pushing their bizarre agenda to the point that they manage to convince major companies that they actually represent some kind of mainstream consensus. Then that company, utterly deceived, panders to these people only to see their sales plummet. The social justice warriors don't care since they don't read comic books anyway. They readand complain about their therapists. (I'm not joking. I've met a large number of them. )There are dozens of gay super heroes already, it's just that none of them are very good or as popular as the "white cisgender males" like Superman or Batman. Well, Superman reads like Super-Obama lately--which doesn't seem to be very well received-- but they're planning to kill him and replace him with the classic Superman version anyway. (In the DC universe, classic and "modern" Superman are two distinct individuals.) The obvious reason: sales are awful.Let's face it. Teenage boys--which is what these comic books are geared to-- don't want to read about a gay Captain America or a social justice Superman, no matter how much the cultural Marxists shove this material down their throat. That's why sales of both DC and Marvel Comics have been plummeting , while their relatively unmolested (by social justice ideology) films are the only things making substantial money now.The only positive thing to take away from this is that the in-your-face agenda pushing has served to only drive away the viewing public. Perhaps we've reached a point of saturation where all the old methods of social subversion, which have successfully made gay marriage an acceptable thing for half the country, are now starting to backfire like never before.
Greetings guys! I'm back at work today and I'm definitely regretting staying up the past three days until 5 a.m. I'm a total and complete night owl. Only two of work and then I'll have off once again for a few days. I'll admit this schedule is making me wish I could work only three days a week. But then I wouldn't be able to afford my crazy nail polish addiction, haha. Oh yeah, and bills. Can't forget about those. But let's talk about something a little more exciting shall we? Like the return of CDB Lacquer! Tomorrow Friday August 1st, CDB Lacquer is back in business as the store relaunches with a complete makeover. The Celestial Trio that was released in limited quantity before the relaunch will be back in stock. Today I'll be showing you swatches of these three polishes a long with a quick overview.Let's take a closer look at the trio that will be in stock tomorrow.Poison Wishes is a teal blue crelly filled with teal, dark blue, white glitters and white star glitters. I'll start off by saying it's my favorite one from this trio! I love the unique shade of teal blue, there is just something about the color that's very stunning. It suits my skin-tone so well. Swatched over a clear base coat, used two thin coats, and sealed with a fast drying topcoat. I decided for the swatches I would use two coats for a cute semi-sheer look. You'll definitely achieve full opacity if you opt for the third layer. Formula was great and consistent with what I'm used to from CDB Lacquer.Additionally Poison Wishes can also include white skull-shaped glitters, which you can use for placement like I did here.Everyone's A Star is a light fuchsia crelly filled with purple, pink and light teal circle glitters as well as pink star-shaped glitters. It's really hard to pin-point the shade, it's a definite mix between light purple and light pink. The glitter combination is pretty cute, the teal circles draw me in. My only wish is that it would be a little more lilac in color. Swatched over a clear base coat, used two thin coats, and sealed with a fast drying topcoat. I found this beauty to be really opaque with only two coats but it is recommend you use three. Formula was great and had a equally good consistency. I experienced no glitter fishing or clumping with the application.
After a year on estrogen and progestin, my body was not responding as expected. Other than some minor things, like the production of more vaginal fluids, my body was the same. No period. No breasts. While my body hadn’t drastically changed, my emotional state had. For the first time, I experienced a deep, confusing sadness. But clearly there were several contributing factors beyond the hormone replacement therapy: It was senior year of high school; I had received almost all rejection letters from colleges; my basketball career, to which I had dedicated my entire youth, was ending; and I was worried I had no way to pay for college. Through all of this I felt very alone. My body took a backseat — it was a medical matter beyond my control. My body belonged to the experts, and with the right medicine, everything would sort itself out later. Give me a pill and let’s move on. My concern was getting a higher education. Once admitted into college, I did whatever it took to stay there. I took out student loans and picked up jobs at school. Then, second semester of freshman year, I met Tommy. Tommy and I were together for all four years of college; our relationship became serious quickly. It became so serious, in fact, that during my second year he helped me take out a student loan. His credit was better than mine. I told Tommy I couldn’t have kids and that I had never menstruated. After all, we were in college, and we weren’t planning to get married anytime soon. At that point, I had always openly talked about my body with most people because it didn’t take away from my desirability. Tommy was into psychology so we would spend long hours in his dorm room, talking about my body and my chromosomal makeup and the fact that I never got a period. In one our many conversations, Tommy was the first person to tell me aloud, “You are a hermaphrodite.” My immediate response was a hesitant, combative no...but maybe? We would also have long talks about where my femininity resided. He thought my face was very feminine, the way I moved, my gestures, my hands, my thighs... none of our conversations seemed to hinge on the size of my breasts. This was comforting. Nonetheless, for many months into our relationship I hid the fact that I hadn’t developed them.
These examples illustrate how the US Deep State operates as the chief regulator of a global Deep System, in which seemingly legitimate international financial flows have become increasingly enmeshed with transnational organized crime, powerful corporate interests who control the world’s fossil fuel and raw materials resources, and the privatization of the military-industrial complex. The Deep State faction behind Trump Trump fits into this system snugly. Among his draft executive orders is one that would open the door for US corporations to engage in secretive corrupt and criminal practices to buy conflict minerals from the Congo — which are widely used in electronic products like smartphones and laptops. From this broader perspective, it’s clear that far from representing a force opposed to the Deep State, the Trump regime represents an interlocking network of powerful players across sectors which heavily intersect with the Deep State: finance, energy, military intelligence, private defense, white nationalist ‘alt-right’ media, and Deep State policy intellectuals. According to Scott, this reflects a deepening “old division within Big Money — roughly speaking, between those Trilateral Commission progressives, many flourishing from the new technologies of the global Internet, who wish the state to do more than at present about problems like wealth disparity, racial injustice and global warming, and those Heritage Foundation conservatives, many from finance and oil, who want it to do even less.” So rather than being a nationalist ‘insurgency’ against the corporate globalist ‘Deep State’, the Trump regime represents a white nationalist coup by a disgruntled cross-section within the Deep State itself. Rather than coming into conflict with the Deep State, we are seeing a powerful military-corporate nexus within the American Deep State come to the fore. Trump, in this context, is a tool to re-organize and restructure the Deep State in reaction to what this faction believe to be an escalating crisis in the global Deep System. In short, the Deep State faction backing Trump is embarking on what it believes is a unique and special mission: to save the Deep State from a decline caused by the failures of successive American administrations. However, what they are actually doing is accelerating the decline of the American Deep State and the disruption of the global Deep System.
To my dearest Killer Instinct friends, I give the greatest thanks to you all for your incredible support and trust with this kick-ass fighting game. I’ve been a devoted fan of Killer Instinct for 22 years and it has been a dream, an honor and great privilege to be involved in the reimagining of the Ultratech universe. The opportunity to dabble in the world laid down by Robin Beanland, Graeme Norgate and the rest of the exceptional team at Rare has been an absolute dream… Friends, I’m sad to say that the time has come for me to move on to something new. I’d like to shout out a massive heart-felt thanks to Double Helix Games, Microsoft and Iron Galaxy for allowing me to share in this truly amazing experience. These passionately dedicated teams have been an endless source of inspiration and they all share a deep, infectious love of the Killer Instinct universe. Speaking as a fan, we’ve all been incredibly lucky to have these groovy people behind the development of KI. And to you, the fans that have made all this hard work and late-nights worthwhile, I thank you from the bottom of my linker-parry-windkick-quartercircle-monster-combo-heart. I’ve absolutely adored every tweet, forum post, email, FB message, letter, handshake, hug and fistbump. Your endless support and encouragement is the driving force behind the Killer Instinct sound. We do this for you. There would be no KI without you. Thank you. Keep blocking, spot those lights/mediums/heavies, trick a lock-out and go in for Ultra. I’d also like to give a shout out to my fabulous team of collaborators, musicians, singers, lyricists, translators and engineers. Thanks to you all for lending your fabulous skills and knowledge to the Killer Instinct soundtrack! I wish Iron Galaxy and Microsoft the very best with the future of KI and I’m incredibly excited to see (and play!) what’s in store for Season 3!!! Party on, dudes! ULLLLTRRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! !
ER stress and the unfolded protein response can uncouple mRNA and protein synthesis ( 54 ); thus, we investigated the expression of genes associated with these processes in diaphragms from sham and 4-week TAC mice ( Fig. 6I ). qPCR analysis revealed increased expression of heme-oxygenase 1, Perk, XBp1, and XBp1 splice variant—indicative of ER stress ( 55 – 57 ) in 4-week TAC diaphragms ( Fig. 6I ). Perk, an ER-transmembrane protein kinase that couples ER stress to the inhibition of protein translation, was increased by about twofold ( Fig. 6I ). The downstream target of Perk, eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (EIF2α), inhibits the initiation of protein translation when phosphorylated by Perk and was unchanged ( Fig. 6I ). Furthermore, expression of Chop, which promotes protein synthesis by dephosphorylating EIF2α, was significantly reduced ( Fig. 6I ). Together, the unfolded protein response molecular profile suggested a net increase in EIF2α phosphorylation as the molecular mechanism causing diaphragm atrophy. This molecular mechanism was strengthened by being treatable with propranolol but not atenolol ( Fig. 6J and fig. S6) and was further corroborated in the absence of TAC (fig. S5). For further confirmation at the protein level, we examined total and phospho–Ser 51 -EIF2α levels in the diaphragm from 4-week TAC mice. Although EIF2α protein levels were reduced ( Fig. 6K ), absolute levels ( Fig. 6L ) and the relative ratio ( Fig. 6M ) levels of phospho-Ser 51 were significantly increased, about four- and fivefold, respectively. Furthermore, 4 weeks of propranolol treatment normalized Perk expression and EIF2α protein and phospho-Ser 51 levels ( Fig. 6 , J to M) along with normalization of diaphragmatic CSA and preservation of inspiratory strength (P Iocc ; Fig. 6D ). Collectively, gene expression analysis revealed that diaphragm atrophy, preventable with chronic propranolol (but not atenolol) treatment, was the result of impaired protein synthesis induced by increased Perk expression and EIF2α Ser 51 phosphorylation. Together, our data show that, in HF, a central neurohormonal increase in ventilatory drive acutely enhances diaphragmatic function yet, when chronically activated without resolution, inhibits protein synthesis, causing diaphragmatic atrophy and weakness.
We cannot just close ranks around them, justify them, nor even less so make a virtue of them and close our eyes to the impeccable "leadership" of the leaders.The people today cannot be a passive agent nor nothing more than government shock troops: they must take back their capacity for political action, for acting themselves, with their own agenda, because socialism will not be built by the State. Decentralization, the autonomous development of the organs of people's power and social control is an essential task in the present moment. There must be a transfer of power from the State apparatus to the popular movements and their organization. The old power class survives in the State and the newcomers are developing the same bad habits. It will not be from there that the egalitarian society will be built, since by definition the State actively reproduces inequality and asymmetry in power. As journalist Iain Bruce puts it, analyzing the Bolivarian process, "how do you get around the existing apparatus, when you first came to power through it ( )? ( ) it has also become increasingly clear that a number of those inhabiting the old edifice ( ) are very happy with their new home and are quietly inclined to thwart anyone who suggests it should be torn down and replaced with a wholly different kind of construction"[2].Today, the discussion cannot be reduced to smashing coup tendencies. We also have to crush inertia, bureaucratism and the cult of the State. They mutually reinforce each other. We must struggle for a socialist, libertarian alternative, because half-victories are nothing more than eventual defeats.Translation by FdCA International Relations Office[1] "Desactivar el Fascismo", 22 February 2014[2] Iain Bruce, "The Real Venezuela", 2008, p. 184 Digg this del.icio.us Furl Reddit Technorati Facebook Twitter << Back To Newswire
power conditioning and distribution center I'm not even going count up the resonance platforms, speaker cable, interconnects, and power cords for all. I understand that many components do not have stand alone power supplies, but at this price level it is not uncommon. Subwoofers are not loved by all, but I have seen more and more in some very sophisticated systems. When used, two subwoofers are almost the norm these days. It's also not unusual to see a couple pairs of optional front ends from the list above—separate CD and SACD players, two turntables, etc. All I can say is OUCH! My wife's comments are unprintable for this family periodical. I kind of like the looks and sound of this current configuration under review. Check out the pictures below. One pair of speakers that handle the entire frequency spectrum like the Q7s. One integrated amp like the RI-100. A one box CD/SACD/DAC solution like the Playback Designs MPS-5. If I fall in love with any new wire products or resonance control devices, I will not have to go nuts worrying about purchasing them for the entire system (each box). Or, grinding away thinking about that one $3K power cord that I did not have the funds to implement and match to the rest of the system. I can't quite give up yet on my turntable as it still warms my soul like nothing else. As discussed below, the RI-100 now has an optional integrated phono stage (one less box). However, the day may come that if the budget or space will not allow, I can be a very happy camper with only one digital front end. I say this based on the amazing killer sound emanating from several new DACs, DSD, and double DSD music files that are now hitting the market. This includes the Playback Designs MPS-5 with the latest software upgrade that I am using for this review. I know. I know. Yowzer! Even more sacrilegious words! Have an open mind and some long term vision! I recently enjoyed a wonderful presentation by Peter McGrath at Audio Consultants in Libertyville, Illinois. Thanks to Simon Zreczny and his crew for hosting such an enlightening event. Mr. McGrath never fails to entertain and delight. He was using a simple laptop music server and all Ayre components driving a pair of the new Wilson Audio Alexia speakers.
Haha.. the best McCain ad parody I've seen anywhere.. including MadTV, SNL, Daily Show, Colbert Report or Real Time with Bill Maher. Ever think about writing comedy? :) Posted by: Vince B. at October 13, 2008 12:51 PM Too black. Too strong. Posted by: Lala at October 13, 2008 1:20 PM Wait, Obama’s black? I gotta re-think some stuff. Posted by: Paul D. Waite at October 13, 2008 1:38 PM Is calling Obama black (black dominating his ethnic identity as opposed to "mixed" or "black and white") an example of how this country has not progressed? Posted by: C.A.S.H. at October 13, 2008 1:48 PM haha... you used bloodhound gang lyrics ("we don't need no water..."), but they are white. Posted by: jay at October 13, 2008 1:52 PM Who is Barack Obama? And what of his relationship with Raj from 'What's Happenin'? Posted by: G.D. at October 13, 2008 1:54 PM Killed it Jay. Absolutely killed it. And guy above me, the other Jay, that's actually a George Clinton lyric. Learn your roots man!! Posted by: Mike at October 13, 2008 2:44 PM Awesome. Posted by: Benjamin at October 13, 2008 3:18 PM bloodhound gang lyrics..... seriously? goes to lay down Posted by: miss info at October 13, 2008 3:21 PM this nailed it! and I love the "I just don't care anymore" thing at the end, it is starting to seem that way with McCain, isn't it? Posted by: Miriam at October 13, 2008 3:23 PM Thanks again Jay, after I watched it I went back to the posts you did in January when you were hitting on the politics really hard, quote from your piece on tolerance fatigue - "every voter always says they don't like negative campaign ads but historically negative campaign ads have ALMOST always worked". With the bad week the GOP ticket just had it would be good to get your view on tolerance fatigue part 2. Posted by: guyfromtrinidad at October 13, 2008 3:43 PM This strategy may be based on legitimate scientific inquiry. Posted by: DJStylus at October 13, 2008 3:50 PM Definitely killed it Jay. I have officially resigned from attacking idiotic right-wing supporters of McCain. The research I've done, and the news I've been reading as of late indicates a strong victory for Obama. Evidently, the electorate is nearly an overwhelming majority in support of Barack Obama.
Why did you decide on 2fort to artpass instead of Upward? I mean we could have had a Sarlacc pit! I actually worked on an Upward artpass along with 2fort, but we scrapped it for various reasons, one of them being, for what we wanted to achieve visually we needed to add more geometry to the map, upward is an open area map so the player's sight line is constantly filled with lots of geometry and separate objects to render, so adding to it was having a really bad impact in terms of performance, loosing a lot of FPS just for adding a bit more geometry, 2fort is mostly interiors and just the middle area being open but still simple, so it wasn't so much of an issue there. This artpass would add on top of the original map artpass, as we're having aliens invade and destruction models, I actually ran quite a few tests early on to see if the map could have more geometry, I added some high poly spheres around the map to see how it impacted the frame rate, and unfortunately it was dropping the frame rate by twice or more than the original map. I spent more time trying to replace original models with lower detail version, or simply remove some of the original details, such as rocks in the 3D skybox which would be mostly covered by a mist layer anyways, to compensate for the new props we were adding, unfortunately this didn't make much of a difference, the way the map is and was originally built didn't allow to add much more geometry. We wanted to have saucers flying around, the mothership, building debris floating over the map, the problem with this is that not only does it add geometry to the map, but it has to be constantly rendering since it's in the 3D skybox, it cannot have levels of details as you move further away from it, since it's actually in the skybox AND covering the whole map, only 3 levels of detail for your graphical setting, low, medium, high model detail but that doesn't cut it either.
They told me that the subsidiaries were co-owned by the Silk Road Group and secret partners. The source at one subsidiary told me he suspected that Tatishev—who repeatedly participated in company meetings—was a hidden owner. Tatishev, who is estimated by Forbes to be worth half a billion dollars, left B.T.A. Bank in 2009. He insisted to me that, while he was there, he had no personal financial involvement in the Silk Road Group. But he acknowledged that he “developed a strong friendship” with George Ramishvili, the company’s C.E.O., and “offered to advise him.” He added, “It was the right thing to do, and this is my definition of friendship.” But is it true that Tatishev merely advised the Silk Road Group? The Web site of Tatishev’s company, the Kusto Group, declares that it has been “an outstanding partner for the Silk Road Group” since 2006, noting, “Together we have successfully invested in various sectors of the Georgian economy.” Whenever I pointed out such contradictions to Tatishev, he came up with new answers. In an e-mail, he said that the joint investments were simply “charity/heritage projects.” After he told me that he never served on the committee of B.T.A. Bank that oversees lending, I checked, and confirmed that this was false. He then insisted that he “did not recall” participating. If, as the Web site suggests, Tatishev financially involved himself in businesses funded by the B.T.A. Bank loans, then he and the Silk Road Group may well have committed bank fraud. When bank executives have a personal financial stake in projects that their own bank is financing, it is known as “self-dealing,” and it is a crime in nearly every country, including Kazakhstan. I recently spoke with Sergei Gretsky, a professor at the Catholic University of America, who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the Kazakh banking sector. When I asked him if it would be illegal for the deputy chairman of a Kazakh bank to have personal investments in a project that his bank was funding and withhold that information from investors, he laughed and said, “Yes, of course.” Richard Gordon, the director of the financial-integrity unit at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, explained that self-dealing represented a central cause of the 1997 global financial crisis. Banks in Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, and Taiwan failed, in part, because bank executives and board members kept lending money to themselves and to their cronies.
Kennedy chose to meet the religion issue head-on. In radio broadcasts, he carefully redefined the issue from Catholic versus Protestant to tolerance versus intolerance. Kennedy's appeal placed Humphrey, who had championed tolerance his entire career, on the defensive, and Kennedy attacked him with a vengeance. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., the son of the former president, stumped for Kennedy in West Virginia and raised the issue of Humphrey's failure to serve in the armed forces in World War II. Roosevelt told audiences, "I don't know where he [Humphrey] was in World War Two," and handed out flyers charging that Humphrey was a draft dodger. [94] Historian Robert Dallek has written that Robert F. Kennedy, who was serving as his brother's campaign manager, came into "possession of information that Humphrey may have sought military deferments during World War Two ... he pressed Roosevelt to use this. "[95] Humphrey believed Roosevelt's draft-dodger claim "had been approved by Bobby [Kennedy], if not Jack". [95] The claims that Humphrey was a draft dodger were inaccurate, because during the war Humphrey had "tried and failed to get into the [military] service because of physical disabilities". [95] After the West Virginia primary, Roosevelt sent Humphrey a written apology and retraction. [94] According to historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Roosevelt "felt that he had been used, blaming [the draft-dodger charge] on Robert Kennedy's determination to win at any cost ... Roosevelt said later that it was the biggest political mistake of his career. "[96] Short on funds, Humphrey could not match the well-financed Kennedy operation. He traveled around the state in a rented bus while Kennedy and his staff flew in a large, family-owned airplane. [97] According to his biographer Carl Solberg, Humphrey spent only $23,000 on the West Virginia primary while Kennedy's campaign privately spent $1.5 million, well over their official estimate of $100,000. [98] There were accusations that the Kennedys bought the West Virginia primary by bribing county sheriffs and other local officials to give Kennedy the vote, but that was never proven. [99] Humphrey later wrote, "as a professional politician I was able to accept and indeed respect the efficacy of the Kennedy campaign. But underneath the beautiful exterior, there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting. "[100] Kennedy defeated Humphrey soundly in West Virginia with 60.8% of the vote. [101] That evening, Humphrey announced that he was leaving the race.
Meanwhile over at Commentary they assume that whatever the meaning of Pagliano’s immunity deal, Attorney General Loretta Lynch (and her boss) will never permit an indictment, and that Lynch’s recent slippery interview on FOX is just part of a slow walk to nowhere, designed to outlast the election cycle. This is a realistic though cynical view based on the Obama administration’s past inaction on numerous other scandals, ranging from the IRS to Fast and Furious. But for those that hope the justice system might still work, that the FBI and its Director may be trying to do the right thing, and that regardless of what Lynch ultimately does, the evidence will undo Clinton, there is still arguably some good news in the Pagliano tale. While I tend to believe that a grand jury has not yet been convened, a grant of immunity in any federal case is a pretty big matzo ball and not given out lightly. The question of immunity is only relevant where criminal activity is afoot, and given only when a witness’s testimony can incriminate other people. Such grants can be utilized as fishing expeditions by prosecutors, but they are not supposed to be, and in a closely watched case like this one, it is highly unlikely. So Pagliano’s immunity is almost certainly connected to what the FBI considers real criminal wrongdoing by bigger fish -- at a minimum Clinton’s personal aides and likely the former Secretary of State herself. Even more compelling is the fact that Pagliano’s testimony is not necessary to prove the basic case against Clinton for violating either federal record laws, or those pertaining to handling classified material. In either case the evidence already on the record is sufficient to secure convictions on multiple counts on the basis of gross negligence. But politically, mere negligence is perhaps not sufficient to support a prosecution -- thus Clinton’s legally irrelevant and untrue but persistent statements that she never sent any emails marked classified at the time. Pagliano’s testimony might well show conscious intent on Clinton’s part, which while not technically necessary to the case against her, makes it stronger, and thus more politically persuasive. Finally, the most damaging potential testimony that Pagliano might offer, and perhaps the reason it has taken this long to do an immunity deal, is that he offers the FBI a chance to make a case on the basis of obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
She championed Republics, which could be created only by virtuous people, supported the American Revolution, opposed Catholic emancipation, and justified the execution of Charles I by claiming that when a King becomes a tyrant he forfeits every right to government. Her views became more and more radical as the years went on, losing her many supporters.Even more of her friends dropped her when she remarried in 1778 to William Graham, a man about 30 years younger than her. William was the younger brother of James Graham, a Scottish quack-doctor she had met in Bath. His cures seemed to work for her, prompted the historian to endorse his services. James fell for her and proposed marriage twice, and Catherine may well have accepted if she hadn't discovered he was already married. Apparently, he told her "the excess of his passion had made him forget that circumstance!" Instead, she tied the knot with his brother.In 1784, Catherine and William, who had become an Anglican minister, went to America, where they stayed with George Washington at Mount Vernon for a while. He also furnished her with a lot of material to write a history of the American Revolution, but nothing came of it. Instead, she started writing a History Of England From The Revolution To The Present Time, but only completed the first volume. Catherine and her husband were back in England in 1785. She would die here, in Binfield, on 22 June 1791.
From the latest JP stream for Khepri Descended on 8/25:Images from pazusoku* Another PAD Cross tourney for buffing farmable dungeon cards. * Dengeki Online's Mugichan ended up winning, so Ishtar will be receiving a reincarnation evo.=====JP collab info, upcoming Kinnikuman REM cards:TerrymanAttacker / PhysicalActive: Delays enemies for 1 turn. 2x ATK to Attacker types for 1 turnLS: Increases ATK as HP drops, ATK scales up to 4x ATK. Halves damage taken when below 50% HP.WarsmanMachine / BalancedActive: +1 combo count for 1 turn. Enhances Dark orbs.LS: 3.5x ATK for 5 connected 1 enhanced orb.Brocken Jr.Attacker / DevilActive: Changes 2nd row from bottom into Wood orbs. +1 combo count for 1 turn.LS: 2x ATK with 6+ connected Wood orbs.Robin MaskPhysical / AttackerActive: 1.5x Physical type ATK for 3 turns. Small damage reduction for 3 turns.LS: 3x ATK and 1.5x RCV to Physical type cards.AsuramanDevil / AttackerActive: 1.5x Devil ATK for 1 turn. Changes Jammer and Poison orbs into Water.LS: 1.5x to all stats, but can no longer match 3 connected orbs. 2x ATK when attacking with 3 attributes, 3x ATK for 4 att.KinnikumanPhysical / AttackerActive: Changes Wood, Jammer and Poison orbs into Fire. 1 turn haste.LS: 2x to all stats, but can no longer match 3 connected orbs. 4x ATK for 2 Fire combos, 5x ATK for 3+ Fire combos.SoldiermanPhysical / AttackerActive: Changes Dark orbs to Wood. +2 combo count for 1 turn.LS: 1.5x ATK/RCV to Physical and Attacker types. Increases ATK after 3+ combos, scales up to 5x ATK.Akuma ShogunDevil / AttackerActive: Changes Fire, Wood, Jammer and Poison orbs into Dark. +1 combo count for 1 turn.LS: 2x to all stats, but can no longer match 4 or less connected orbs. Increases ATK with 5+ connected Dark orbs, scales up to 6x ATK.=====Some buffs:* High Dragons will be able to skill up Mitsuki, Ruka, Kano, Fuu, and Kurone* Tans will be able to skill up 6* gala exclusives. Napolean, Barbarossa, Robin Hood, Yang Guifei, and Nobunaga* Ganesha active will enhance all orbs* Durga active enhance effect will last 2 turns. * Awoken Izanagi LS cross heal will reduce 50% damage instead of 35%=====Ult Sanada (sub)God / AttackerUlt Sanada (leader)God / DevilLS: 2x ATK with Fire+Dark combo. 4x ATK for 5 connected 1 enhanced orb.Ult Mori (sub)God / PhysicalUlt Mori (leader)God / AttackerLS: 2x ATK with Fire+Water combo.
You can do this without it hurting your economy or setting you back or even dying to a 2 base timing.Early roaches also if you are completely not ready for a push by the terran or he's doing some funky thing you can make more roaches if you need it. They are a great early game unit for defensive purposes and don't take a ton of larva like early game lings do so you can get drones out if you are forced to make a few more roaches.So now to the build order! --------Build order--------
Diarrhea. Oh yes, endless gallons of diarrhea. If liquid feces was flammable there would be no energy crisis thanks to India. The first time I got sick my brother and I were at an internet cafe and I suddenly realized there was a hydroplane race brewing in my lower intestine. The internet cafe had no bathroom, so I left my brother to go search for one. After going into various restaurants and hotels with no luck, a man approached me trying to sell me something. He asked what I was looking for and I said I needed to use the toilet. He laughed and asked: "big or little?," gesturing at my crotch for little and my butt for big. "Big," I said, resulting in an eruption of even more laughter from this little Indian man. Soon I was being led from one hotel to the other, all of which resulted in him speaking Hindi to the owner asking if I could use the toilet. After a few failed attempts and a loss of dignity on my part, he eventually led me down a dark alley full of half-naked indian kids who were bathing in a broken water spout. I ended up being led into a bathroom that looked like a small meat locker with a giant latch on the outside. "Spectacular," I thought, "he's going to lock me in here and then fill it with cobras, perhaps demanding 100 rupees per cobra to be removed." After taking the most awkward, nervous dump of my life, I quickly wiped and ended up chafing my butt really bad. I left the scary toilet-meat-locker to find the indian man waiting for me. I gave him 100 rupees for helping me out, and he led me out of the alley, but stopped short at a small room. "Come inside the room," he said, "I want to have a nice chat with you." At which point another man came up behind me and tried to block the door so I would be forced to step inside. "Hell no," I said, and ran with the speed and determination only a man riddled with chafed butt-cheeks and terror is capable of.
This is why we say that it is important that you limit you indulgence in the news, and things that continue to hold you in the old consciousness. Instead, when you become aware of issues, use them to trigger an awareness of truth; “Yes, I see this, I do not deny it, but the truth is…”Intention is always the key in any action. When an individual states his intention to awaken, the journey begins and will unfold by Grace as the Higher Self begins to draw whatever experiences may be necessary for spiritual evolution. Some of these experiences are not the happy “light and love experiences” a new truth student often expects, but eventually every soul graduates from needing “wake up calls” to learning from inner guidance .You are ready to embrace and integrate completeness and wholeness because you now understand that Divine Consciousness is all that exists, and that therefore IT must be the essence of who and what you are. Separation and discord cannot exist within ONE. The spiritual evolutionary journey is the gradual attainment of this state of consciousness though meditation, study, practice, and life experiences.Many still believe that at a certain level of awareness the spiritual journey is complete. Ascension is a shift into higher dimensional energy, but there is never completion. The ascension continues into the higher dimensions because Source is Infinite; eternally expressing Itself in new and infinite ways. Man, God’s expression of Itself, is thus also ever seeking new awareness of the One Self.The human condition with its worship of the intellect, is in actuality the bottom wrung of a very high dimensional ladder.In the human belief system, there are always goals, the drive to attain some physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual goal in order to then cross it off the list and move on to another goal. The spiritual evolutionary journey is ongoing, each new facet of awareness building upon what has already been attained.There is no point at which you will no longer experience new and higher ways of understanding truth if you are open to it. Abundance/multiplication is Divine law and thus manifests on all levels (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) which is why resistance to change acts to block its expressions as well as spiritual evolution..This is often a problem for spiritual teachers, leaders, experts, and even individuals well along the spiritual path.
It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.7. Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.8. When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as a top guard.9. INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAMWORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.10. Go in quickly - Punch hard - Get out!All that was 70 years ago, but historians say if the battle had gone the other way, Nazi Germany might have won the war, or at least been far harder to defeat. Even so, it took another five years for that war to end. More about Britain, Germany, South Africa, Canada, Poland More news from Show all 6 britain germany south africa canada poland new zealand australia
In one bizarre passage, he pondered if men had become the ‘new niggers’: ‘Blacks were forced by slavery into society’s most hazardous jobs, men are forced by a socialisation into society’s most hazardous jobs… When slaves gave up their seats for whites we called it subservience, when women give up their seats for women, we call it politeness.’ Today, Farrell’s US acolytes orbit around A Voice for Men, a website set up and run by former addiction therapist and trucker Paul Elam. The site reflects a mixed bag of men’s issues ranging from reasonable gripes, surrounding lopsided parental rules and the watering down of legal standards in sexual-assault cases, to peculiar obsessions. One of which is the fact that US men still have to register for the draft. Despite the fact there’s vanishingly little chance they’ll ever be drafted, this, according to the Farrell school of thought, is proof that men remain the ‘disposable sex’, the only section of society that can wilfully be submitted for ‘genocide’. As, apparently, does the fact that men still dominate professions – such as construction – that have high on-the-job fatality rates.
We're adding an additional left hand turn lane from 518 onto 288 northbound," said Leech.Improvements that commuters like Davis are happy to see coming. "I would like to feel a lot safer just going across the street," said Davis.
Bruce Payette, one of the language designers, once said that the lifespan of 99 percent of PowerShell scripts starts with the command prompt and ends with the carriage return. PowerShell supports a wide range of scripting styles, starting from interactive one-liners at a command prompt to Bash-style functions using $args, to more formal scripts where parameters are named, typed and decorated with validation, data binding and help attributes. The reason we took this approach stems from my many years as a Unix developer, when I wrote tons of shell scripts. As people used my scripts and requested more features, I found myself throwing them away and rewriting in Tcl or Perl. Often I’d end up throwing those away as well and rewriting it all in C. It struck me that, while different problems require different levels of formalism and performance, it was insane that there wasn’t a single tool that could span this wide range of scripting needs. That way, people could invest in becoming an expert in that tool versus being sort of competent in a large set of tools. It took awhile, but I finally got around to producing a tool that would do just that. I hope you enjoy PowerShell. — Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server

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