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I wrote SLICE (System of Languages for Implementing Languages) 1969 to 1974. SLIC is based on CWIC. Including it's SYNTAX and lisp 2 based GENERATER language. The generate changed to produce macro like PSEUDO code. PSEUDO istructionz are appended to lists. CWIC uses the terms planting and flushing. Planting is the forming of instructions. Instructions are planted into named sections. In CWIC instructions are formed with numeric expressions and placed into memory blocks associated with a section. A FLUSH statement wrote out the memory block. SLIC appends pseudo instructions to a list assimilated with a section. The pseudo instruction is a proceedure. It's entry and arguments form a plant object that is appended to the sections list. On flushing the pseudo list is executed calling each pseudo procedure. Actual machine code is produced by MACHOP proceedures called by pseudo procedures. MATCHOPs define target machine instructions and pseudo data instructions. The define a machine instruction or instruction family. It assembly format name and operands. Their transformation into numeric bit fields. Machine instructions are defined as a sequence of bit fields in a bit addressable memory. Modulo arithmetic is used to get target machine addresses. .MORG modular org is used to align to an addressabke boundry. With SLIC a compiler for different computer systems could easily be produced by coding the pseudo instructions and MACHOPs. One simply linked the SYNTAX,GENERATOR module with PSEUDO and MACHOP modules. An ISO could be directed to run on PSEUDO instructions when FLUSHING. ISO is a transforming language that looks for pseudo instruction pattern sequences and replace's them. These are all compiled languages. The compared to other compilers of the day as improving on lines compiled per time unit. Man years of development was substantialy less. Man years reduced to man months.
59 At length tha time arrived fo' obtainin tha plates, tha Urim n' Thummim, n' tha breastplate. On tha twenty-second dizzle of September, one thousand eight hundred n' twenty-seven, havin gone as usual all up in tha end of another year ta tha place where they was deposited, tha same heavenly messenger served up dem up ta wit dis charge: dat I should be fo' them; dat if I should let dem go carelessly, or all up in any of mine, I should be cut off; but dat if I would use all mah endeavors ta them, until he, tha messenger, should call fo' them, they should be protected. 60 I soon found up tha reason why I had received such strict charges ta keep dem safe, n' why dat shiznit was dat tha messenger had holla'd dat when I had done what tha fuck was required at mah hand, da thug would call fo' dem wild-ass muthafuckas. For no sooner was it known dat I had them, than da most thugged-out strenuous exertions was used ta dem from mah dirty ass. Every stratagem dat could be invented was resorted ta fo' dat purpose. Da persecution became mo' bitta n' severe than before, n' multitudes was on tha alert continually ta git dem from me if possible. But by tha wisdom of God, they remained safe up in mah hands, until I had accomplished by dem what tha fuck was required at mah hand. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! When, accordin ta arrangements, tha messenger called fo' them, I served up dem up ta him; n' dat schmoooove muthafucka has dem up in his charge until dis , bein tha second dizzle of May, one thousand eight hundred n' thirty-eight. 61 Da excitement, however, still continued, n' rumor wit her thousand tongues was all tha time employed up in circulatin bout mah father’s crew, n' bout mah dirty ass. If I was ta relate a thousandth part of them, it would fill up volumes. Da persecution, however, became so intolerable dat I was under tha necessitizzle of leavin Manchester, n' goin wit mah hoe ta Susquehanna county, up in tha State of Pennsylvania.
Naturalmente Bagnai non spiega cosa sia la teoria delle Aree Valutarie Ottimali. Magari qualche lettore si è pure impressionato, leggendo il "riferimento alla dottrina". Ora, però, pur senza entrare nei dettagli, vale la pena di spiegare cos'è questa teoria delle Aree Valutarie Ottimali, per far capire al lettore che c'entra poco o nulla con la crisi dell'Euro. L'analisi tradizionale di aree valutarie comuni ne considera costi e benefici in un contesto relativamente statico (non poteva che essere così, Mundell scriveva all'inizio degli anni '60 e ragionava con modelli keynesiani classici). In questo contesto, ai vantaggi ovvi in termini di semplificazione e sviluppo del commercio, riduzione del rischio di cambio, etc., si devono associare altresì i costi, soprattutto quelli dovuti al mancato aggiustamento di shock asimmetrici attraverso il meccanismo del cambio. Per shock asimmetrici si intendono shock alla domanda o all'offerta che colpiscono un paese più di un altro e che quindi variazioni del cambio aiuterebbero a sostenere limitando i costi di aggiustamento. Un crollo della domanda di mozzarella di bufala sarebbe meno dannoso per l'economia campana se, mentre il mondo si rende conto di cosa perde, o nel corso dell'aggiustamento verso altri processi produttivi (se il crollo della domanda non dovesse risultare temporaneo), l'economia campana potesse svalutare la propria moneta rispetto a quella lombarda. In un'area valutaria comune, della Lira o dell'Euro, questo non è possibile e comporta dei costi. L'idea è che questi shock non sono prevedibili, capitano a paesi diversi, in modo casuale, una volta qui e una là. È cruciale che siano imprevedibili e che capitino una volta qui e una la, altrimenti se gli shock colpiscono sempre un paese solo in modo prevedibile, non sono shock, il cambio nulla può, è il paese ad avere problemi economici strutturali da risolvere. Non che in questo caso un'area valutaria sia cosa buona, ma è problema di secondo ordine, la questione di prim'ordine sono i problemi strutturali.
Added server-side death messages. (for now) Added ability to take map-wide orthographic picture in editor pause menu. (Saves to Map.png in level folder.) Added ability to access inventory regardless of current action. Added any mode filter to server list. Improvements: Improved underwater vehicle respawning. Tweaks: Disabled skills on menu until they're implemented to avoid confusion. Reduced footstep volume slightly. Menu music doesn't play if it's already played. Modified Unity's terrain shader to disable annoying black shading on grass. The server console shows chat commands as well. Water extends to the skybox limit. Map size labels are descriptive rather than measurements. Reduced vertical offset for exiting surrounded vehicles. Fixes: Fixed getting into a vehicle freezing the player. Fixed inventory animation when sitting. Fixed some file storage issues. Fixed navigation sticking to water. Fixed attempting to swap stance when standing in water. Fixed entering water in a non-standing stance. Fixed game mode on loading screen. Fixed ping box color on the server list. Fixed navigation flag editor colliding with itself. Fixed impact effects being ridiculously large. Fixed bottom of chopped tree on highest level of detail. Fixed (hopefully) the crazy rubberbanding issue caused by the last update. Fixed resources spawning underground. 3.2.8.0: Additions: Added crafting. Added ammo boxes for refilling magazines. Added material variants of every barricade and structure. Added several crafting items. Added slight physics movement when hitting items and corpses. Improvements: Zombies get bored of players who swim underwater. Improved editor selection interface visibility. Tweaks: Increased head swivel distance when looking out vehicle window. Increased zombie damage on hard, reduced on easy. Increased weapon damage on hard, reduced on easy. Increased detection radius on hard, reduced on easy. Changed the way game tags are requested. Might break server browser? Fixes: Fixed invisible inventory when equipping. Fixed km/h spelling. Fixed a server error with headlights. Fixed teleporting players while in vehicles. Fixed death messages in dedicated server. 3.2.9.0: Additions: Added all new wooden structure models to give a really authentic feel to your base. Added height numeric values beside sliders. Added physics destruction effects to structures. Added physics destruction effects to wheels. Added sound for crafting magazines. Improvements: Improved several server commands to use the recent list rather than the overall histroy. Improved singleplayer gold mode option to show a lock. Improved serverside player movement collision. Improved vehicle death effects and fire only shows up at health = 0, not health < 10.
Our information on the place of Carneades in this tradition would probably be much better if we still possessed the lost part of Cicero's de fato.
But in combat there is no better player, and it has made Maru a champion.In his last three tournament runs, Maru has defeated top caliber players of every race. In his run to the Auction OSL finals, he took out sOs and INnoVation, the two finalists of the WCS Season 1. Once he reached the finals stage, he took out the defending champion Rain by a 4 - 2 score. In the following Code S tournament, he handily defeated Flash, Kangho and a reformed Jjakji. At the Season 3 Finals in Canada, he defeated Code S finalist soO and two WCS EU champions in duckdeok and MMA. Maru is done proving himself against top players—he's the top player others must prove themselves against.However, there is one player who has survived Maru's rampage, a player who has prevented Maru from walking into Blizzcon as the #1 player in the world. The sole exception, the Soul Survivor:Twice now Maru and Dear have fought in the semi-finals, once in the WCS Korea, and once at the Season Finals. Both times, Dear defeated Maru 3-1 in matches that eclipsed the eventual grand-finals in terms of sheer excitement. Just as Maru has pushed the boundaries of what we thought was possible with Terran, Dear has done for Protoss. On defense his units were positioned perfectly, second and third waves of templars were always hidden, and his compositions were always changing to confuse Maru. At the same time, a precise number of zealots and templars could always be spared for a counter-attack, enough to gain Dear an advantage but not so much as compromise his defenses. If Maru was able to shatter Rain's wall of ice with blunt force, then going up against Dear has been like punching a wall of water.Looking at the Blizzcon bracket, there is a very realistic possibility that these two will meet once more in the semi-finals. Should they meet again happen, it will surely be Maru's most difficult challenge of the tournament. But in the end, Maru must know that Dear is just another old player, looking to enjoy his long delayed time in the sun. To begin his reign, Maru must bring the legacies of these old men to an end.
If we’re lucky, perhaps the Saudi religious police chief (yes, they have one) who went on a rampage against Twitter a couple of years ago, will be available to head up the project. What a joke. In Liberty,
The importance of this case is highlighted by the amicus curiae brief filed by James Watson, co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 (along with Maurice Wilkins for related work.) Watson makes his views plain from the start: what the Court misses, I fear, is the fundamentally unique nature of the human gene. Simply put, no other molecule can store the information necessary to create and propagate life the way DNA does. It is a chemical entity, but DNA’s importance flows from its ability to encode and transmit the instructions for creating humans. Life’s instructions ought not be controlled by legal monopolies created at the whim of Congress or the courts. Watson recalls discussions on the topic during the $3 billion Human Genome Project to sequence human DNA as completely as possible: Even at the early stages of the project, we were concerned about the issue of patenting human genes. Most, although not all, eminent scientists recognized that human genes should not be monopolized by patents. I believed at the time -- and continue to believe -- that the issue of patenting human genes went to the very crux of whether the information encoded by human DNA should be freely available to the scientific community. Some twenty years ago, I explained that patenting human genes was lunacy, and I was not a lone voice. He also points out some concrete problems with gene patents in terms of their impact on assays (tests) that involve multiple genes: If each of the human genes used in a new multi-gene assay are subject to patents, I fear that useful tests requiring multiple human genes will be unnecessarily delayed, become prohibitively expensive, or, worse yet, never be made available to patients at all. For a new assay using hundreds of human genes, the sea of patents and patent applications would create hundreds, if not thousands, of individual obstacles to developing and commercializing the assay. The best way, in my view, to resolve this problem is to eliminate the unnecessary patenting of human genes. As this makes clear, if gene patents are permitted, patent thickets are likely to develop, which will delay new tests, and make them more expensive.
"You learn how to respond to conservatives, and not just to respond but to go on the offensive and get the message out in every possible way," he says. "That takes organization and will." "You never speak to conservatives using conservative language," he adds. "'The issue is jobs'—No. Freedom is an issue. Freedom from wage slavery is an example. To get that we need good paying union jobs, where you get paid fairly, and you are treated like a human being, where you get not “benefits” but health care that is part of your salary. That’s good for everybody—it’s good not to have employees that are sick, its good to have a population that is healthy . . . this is not rocket science. Everything I say is what you already know. My job is to tell you what you already know but are not saying." Wittkopf is energized by Lakoff's work in Wisconsin. "We have never had collaborative messaging before," he says. "That's where the conservatives are really beating us up." "Wisconsin is the laboratory" Wittkopf adds--for progressive politics starting a century ago, and for the rightwing takeover of civil society, which gained traction with Scott Walker's attack on public employee unions, voter I.D., the privatization of public schools, and the rest of the attacks on basic democratic freedoms. "That's why Lakoff took an interest in Wisconsin," says Wittkopf. "We are at the center of it." Plus, Wittkopf adds, "Any scientist will tell you that it is a life goal to see your work put into practice. Lakoff's work has not generally been put into practice by a lot of progressives or Democrats." That's another area where Wisconsin could lead the way, as a laboratory for resurgent progressive politics. —Ruth Conniff George Lakoff's public schedule for this weekend includes: Saturday, March 22 8:30-4:14 pm--Wisconsin Grassroots Festival at Mazomanie High School Sunday, March 23 2:30-4:30 pm--Lecture workshop at the Pyle Center 702 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin Monday, March 24 7:00-9:00 pm--Lecture hosted by the Havens Center at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison Here is a complete schedule of George Lakoff's public events: George Lakoff Public Schedule in Madison Saturday, March 22 Wisconsin Grassroots Festival at Mazomanie High School (8:30–4:15) – Register at http://www.wisconsingrassroots.net/2014_festival - Professor Lakoff to lead two breakout sessions and give opening keynote remarks at the event. Grassroots dinner with George Lakoff at The Feed Mill restaurant in Mazomanie (5:30 – 6:00pm approximate start time) http://oldfeedmill.com/.
Firefly consists of a two-hour pilot and thirteen one-hour episodes (with commercials). The series originally premiered in the United States on Fox in September 2002. The episodes were aired out of the intended order. Although Whedon had designed the show to run for seven years,[69] low ratings resulted in cancellation by Fox in December 2002 after only 11 of the 14 completed episodes had aired in the United States. [70] The three episodes unaired by Fox eventually debuted in 2003 on the Sci Fi Channel in the United Kingdom. [71] Prior to cancellation, some fans, worried about low ratings, formed the Firefly Immediate Assistance campaign whose goal was to support the production of the show by sending in postcards to Fox. After it was canceled, the campaign worked on getting another network such as UPN to pick up the series. [72][73] The campaign was unsuccessful in securing the show's continuation. [5] The A.V. Club cited several actions by the Fox network that contributed to the show's failure, most notably airing the episodes out of sequence, making the plot more difficult to follow. [74] For instance, the double episode "Serenity" was intended as the premiere, and therefore contained most of the character introductions and back-story. However, Fox decided that "Serenity" was unsuitable to open the series, and "The Train Job" was specifically created to act as a new pilot. [13] In addition, Firefly was promoted as an action-comedy rather than the more serious character study it was intended to be, and the showbiz trade paper Variety noted Fox's decision to occasionally preempt the show for sporting events. [70] Fox remastered the complete series in 1080i high-definition for broadcast on Universal HD, which began in April 2008. [75] On March 12, 2009, the series was the winner of the first annual Hulu awards in the category "Shows We'd Bring Back". [76] The Science Channel began airing the series on March 6, 2011. [77] All episodes aired in the intended order, including episodes "Trash", "The Message" and "Heart of Gold", which were not aired in the original Fox series run. Along with each episode, Dr. Michio Kaku provided commentary about the real-life science behind the science fiction of the show. [78]
It is in the cool of the early morning that the greater part of the business of the village is transacted. Most of the women repair, soon after six, to their plantations, where they work until noon, a few of them remaining in the village to attend to culinary and other domestic matters. Large earthen pots, containing fish, banana, or manioc, are boiling over wood fires, around which cluster the young boys and girls and the few old men and women enjoying the heat until the warm rays of the morning sun appear. Meanwhile the fishermen gather up their traps, arm themselves, and paddle off to their fishing grounds; the hunters take their spears or bows and arrows and start off to pick up tracks of their game; the village blacksmith starts his fire; the adze of the carpenter is heard busily at work; fishing and game nets are unrolled and damages examined; and the medicine man is busy gesticulating with his charms. As the sun rises the scene becomes more and more animated; the warmth of the fire is discarded, and every department of industry becomes full of life--the whole scene rendered cheerful by the happy faces and merry laughter of the little ones as they scamper here and there engaged in their games. At noon the overpowering heat of the tropical sun compels a cessation of work, and a lazy quietude prevails everywhere. Then all the shady nooks of the village are filled with groups who either sleep, engage in conversation, or pass their time in hairdressing or in attending to some other toilet matter which native etiquette demands, such as shaving off eyebrows or pulling out eyelashes--an operation which is also extended to all hairs on the face except those on the chin, which are plaited in the form of a rat's tail. The closer the finger nails are cut, the more fashionable is it thought. At the finger ends the nails are cut down to the quick, and any one posing as either beau or belle always has some of the finger and toe nails pared entirely off. The midday meal is now eaten, the whole village assuming an air of calmness, broken only by the occasional bursts of boisterous mirth from groups engaged in discussing the merits of the native wine. All mankind have the same weakness in requiring at times drink stronger than water.
The First World War, when it came, altered all of these coordinates. But it did not eliminate any of them. For another twenty years, they lived on in a kind of hectic after-life. Politically, of course, the dynastic states of Eastern and Central Europe disappeared. But the junker class retained great power in post-war Germany; the agrarian-based Radical Party continued to dominate the Third Republic in France, without much break in tone; in Britain the more aristocratic of the two traditional parties, the Conservatives, virtually wiped out their more bourgeois rivals, the Liberals, and went on to dominate the whole inter-war epoch. Socially, a distinctive upper-class mode of life persisted right down to the end of the 30’s, whose hallmark—setting it off completely from the existence of the rich after the Second World War—was the normalcy of servants. This was the last true leisure-class in metro-politan history. England, where such continuity was strongest, was to produce the greatest fictional representation of that world in Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time, a non-modernist remembrance from the subsequent epoch. Economically, mass production industries based on the new technological inventions of the early 20th century achieved some foothold in two countries only—Germany in the Weimar period, and England in the late 30’s. But in neither case was there any general or wholesale implantation of what Gramsci was to call ‘Fordism’, on the lines of what had by then existed for two decades in the USA. Europe was still over a generation behind America in the structure of its civilian industry and pattern of consumption, on the eve of the Second World War. Finally, the prospect of revolution was now more proximate and tangible than it had ever been—a prospect that had triumphantly materialized in Russia, touched Hungary, Italy and Germany with its wing just after the First World War, and was to take on a new and dramatic immediacy in Spain at the end of this period. It is within this space, prolonging in its own way an earlier ground, that generically ‘modernist’ forms of art continued to show great vitality. Quite apart from the literary masterpieces published in these years but essentially nurtured in earlier ones, Brechtian theatre was one memorable product purely of the inter-war conjuncture, in Germany. Another was the first real emergence of architectural modernism as a movement, with the Bauhaus.
I had great difficulty in passing the guard, and only succeeded at last in having the doctor introduced, admission being refused to myself. I returned to Willard's, it now being about 2 o'clock in the morning, and remained there until between 3 and 4 o'clock, when I again went to the house where the President was lying, in company with Mr. ANDREWS, late Surveyor of the port of New-York. I obtained ingress this time without any difficulty, and was enabled to take Mr. ANDREWS in with me. I proceeded at once to the room in which the President was lying, which was a bedroom in an extension, on the first or parlor floor of the house. The room is small, and is ornamented with prints -- a very familiar one of LANDSEER's, a white horse, being prominent directly over the bed. The bed was a double one, and I found the President lying diagonally across it, with his head at the outside. The pillows were saturated with blood, and there was considerable blood upon the floor immediately under him. There was a patchwork coverlet thrown over the President, which was only so far removed, from time to time, as to enable the physicians in attendance to feel the arteries of the neck or the heart, and be appeared to have been divested of all clothing. His eyes were closed and injected with blood, both the lids and the portion surrounding the eyes being as black as if they had been bruised by violence. He was breathing regularly, but with effort, and did not seem to be struggling or suffering.
And so-- Russ: It's okay. We'll put up something eventually that gets these numbers more precise. But the point is, that population is relatively large; the number of people serving on these juries is relatively small. But the proportion of people in any one jury is relatively high compared to the people that could be drawn on.
It’s also a subculture, or, as Lewis says, a club. There are books on GD (), herbal tonics and tablets intended to influence a child’s sex, and a handful of fertility specialists who have no qualms about taking all the guesswork out of baby making. “Why not?” asks Jeffery Steinberg, MD, an Encino, California–based reproductive endocrinologist who specializes in the use of in vitro fertilization for sex selection. “We’re not producing monsters; we’re producing healthy babies.”Much of the talk on the GD message boards revolves around sex selection methods, ranging from various folk remedies to sperm-sorting and spinning methods (MicroSort, Ericsson) to the holy grail: in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), a technique in which a doctor determines the gender of the embryos and transfers only those that fit the parents’ request. The most popular at-home option is the Shettles method, named after the doctor who developed it and involving the exquisite timing of intercourse relative to ovulation. You’ll also see lots of homegrown recipes for conceiving daughters that turn sex into a kind of kinky mad-science experiment: “Have your [partner] give you a ‘sample.’ Catch it in a cup or condom. Add warm lime. Do not warm lime in microwave—warm in hot sink. Then layer egg white (with a pH of 9 to 9.9) on top. You then incubate it for an hour…and insert it into yourself with medical syringe. Lay with hips raised.”Some women go as far as to label their own boys as “failed sways” or “Shettles Opposites.” The mother of little Caleb, writing on In-Gender, wants it known that her apple-cheeked son is “living as a MicroSort statistic”: He is the unexpected result of a 92.9 percent girl sort probability that doctors gave her.It’s easy to dismiss the GD crowd as a bunch of heartless nutcakes. Yet it’s undeniable that a kind of free-floating girl lust has entered the public consciousness.I experienced it myself several years ago. I loved having a boy. But each time I visited my sister, I found myself drifting through my nieces’ rooms, mooning over the high-perched canopy beds and dollhouses and Lip Smackers lined up like little toy soldiers: Watermelon, Grape Crush, Berry Peach.On impulse, I bought my three-year-old son an expensive Swedish dollhouse, so clean-lined and modern that it could pass for unisex.
Mr. Russell : We have our reliability engineering department, who is responsible to complete the monthly problem report, and in addition to that we have our monthly problem review board telephone conference with NASA and the contractors, of which we are a part, and the monthly problem review or the monthly problem report that reliability prepares, they get the information from engineering or from the office as necessary to complete their status of what has happened during that month, whether the problem originated that month or what has been done to close the problem out, and that is submitted every month, and I for one do review that before it is submitted to the Marshall Space Flight Center, and so much of the information that I would read in these reports would be the same information that we had given in that monthly problem report or over the telephone on the teleconference. Chairman Rogers : Mr. Russell, when you say close the problem out, what do you mean by that? How do you close it out normally? Mr. Russell : Normally, whether it takes engineering analysis or tests or some corrective action, a closeout to the problem would occur after an adequate corrective action had been taken to satisfy those on the problem review board that the problem had indeed been closed out. That is the way that that happens; for example, we had found a loose bolt on the recovery one time, and we had to take corrective action in our procedures and in the engineering to make sure that that wouldn't happen again, and then to verify that corrective action, and at that point that problem would be ready to be closed out. It generally involves a report or at least a mention by the review board stating what had been done to adequately close it out, and then it is agreed upon by the parties involved. . Question : What do you understand a launch constraint to mean? Mr. Russell : My understanding of a launch constraint is that the launch cannot proceed without adequately-without everyone's agreement that the problem is under control. [ 143 ] Chairman Rogers : Under control meaning what? You just said a moment ago that you would expect some corrective action to be taken.
A good contemporary example of intersectionality in the context of social movement practice is Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. Incite! is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and our communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing (Incite! 2009). One reason Incite! stands out against other anti-violence organizations is their systemic analysis. They see women of color who have experienced violence as living in the dangerous intersections of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and other oppressive structures and institutions. Rather than simply reducing the experiences to the individual, they recognize the systems that oppress and exploit people and have structured their approach in such a way that calls for the recentering of marginalized folks, as opposed to a method of "inclusiveness" based on one single identity or social location. Incite! argues that inclusiveness simply adds a multicultural component to individualistic white-dominated organizing so common in the United States. Instead, they call for recentering the framework around the most marginalized peoples. This push is to ensure that their organizing addresses the needs of those historically overlooked by feminism, with the understanding that all people benefit from the liberation of their more marginalized peers--while focusing on the more privileged elements within a given social category leaves others behind (as in the examples we gave in the struggle for the vote and the legalization of abortion). Incite! makes a point to focus on the needs of the working class who have generally been neglected (i.e. sex workers, the incarcerated, trans folks and injection drug users). By centering these people in their organizing, they are focusing on the people standing at more dangerous intersections of oppression and exploitation, therefore tackling the entirety of the system and not just the more visible or advantaged aspects. Additionally, Incite! views the state as a major perpetrator of violence against women of color and seeks to build grassroots organizations independent of and against it. Anarchists could learn a lot from Incite! about the importance of addressing the needs of ALL sections of the working class and their attempt to check the tendency of the Left to ignore or dismiss the concerns, needs, ideas and leadership of people living in the dangerous intersections of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, etc. And What Can Anarchism Provide the Theory of Intersectionality? We firmly believe that this learning process is a two-way street.
We used either a 1 or 5 % solution of sodium carbonate and a 12 volt battery charger and continued electrolysis for about 2 hours. The iron piece was dried under an oxygen free atmosphere (nitrogen). The loose black deposit on the iron surface was removed by sticking it to a piece of tape and it was analyzed by X-ray diffraction. We found that the deposit was magnetite. No iron was detected and no ferric oxides were detected in the black material that readily came off on the tape. Therefore, under our conditions, all the rust was reduced, but the reduction of what had been loose rust did not proceed all the way to iron metal. Perhaps it would have if we had continued electrolysis for a longer time. We had no way of determining whether the rust at the surface of the iron object reduced all the way to iron. We expect that at least some iron was formed at the surface, because after reduction the iron surface rapidly forms red rust (ferric oxide) if it is not quickly dried. Magnetite does not rapidly rust, but finely divided iron will form rust in just a few minutes if it is wet. We conclude, based on our work and that of Virtanen, that rust reduction under the conditions normally used for cleaning, results in the formation of magnetite and possibly some iron metal. The other chemistry that occurs is the electrolysis of water. At the anode water is oxidized according to this equation: 2H 2 O = O 2 + 4H+ + 4e- The H+ formed is quickly neutralized by the carbonate to make carbon dioxide. So, some of the bubbles at the anode may be carbon dioxide as well as oxygen. At the cathode water is reduced: H 2 O + 2e- = H 2 + 2OH-
Episode 14: Notorious The question of whether Hitchcock is a noir director remains open. What is certain is that by 1946 noir aesthetics began to inflect every genre from the Holiday picture ("It's a Wonderful Life") to the espionage/thriller film. Like "The Third Man," "Notorious" is best described as the latter, for its political and geographical scope exceed what is typical of noir, and justice is defined and done in unambiguous terms. Nevertheless, at crucial moments a noir camera vision is manifest. More importantly, Hitchcock has his stars play their darkest roles: Bergman is the alcoholic tramp daughter of a convicted Nazi; Grant plays the cold-hearted and sadistic spy who is her only hope. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards of www.noircast.net. To leave a comment on this episode, or make a donation to the podcast, please visit "Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir" at outofthepast.libsyn.com. The question of whether Hitchcock is a noir director remains open. What is certain is that by 1946 noir aesthetics began to inflect every genre from the Holiday picture ("It's a Wonderful Life") to the espionage/thriller film. Like "The Third Man," "Notorious" is best described as the latter, for its political and geographical scope exceed what is typical of noir, and justice is defined and done in unambiguous terms. Nevertheless, at crucial moments a noir camera vision is manifest. More importantly, Hitchcock has his stars play their darkest roles: Bergman is the alcoholic tramp daughter of a convicted Nazi; Grant plays the cold-hearted and sadistic spy who is her only hope. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards of www.noircast.net. To leave a comment on this episode, or make a donation to the podcast, please visit "Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir" at outofthepast.libsyn.com.
1982-1989 Significant features Road jerseys go from light blue to solid dark blue. 1990 Significant features Road jersey becomes standard gray, what exists today. 1991-1993 1994-1996 Significant features New bear head logo design, new script logo on road jersey. 1997-1999 Significant features New walking bear shoulder patch. 2000-2003 2004-2006 Significant features Full-length option pants start to appear around this time. 2007 2008-2015 2016 Significant features Cubs 100-years-at-Wrigley commemorative shoulder patch.
Snow S 472 Support for indexing with keyword arguments Borini, Martinot-Lagarde S 473 Adding structured data to built-in exceptions Kreft S 480 Surviving a Compromise of PyPI: The Maximum ... Kuppusamy, Diaz, Stufft, Cappos I 482 Literature Overview for Type Hints Langa I 483 The Theory of Type Hints GvR, Levkivskyi S 487 Simpler customisation of class creation Teichmann S 490 Chain exceptions at C level Stinner S 491 The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.9 Holth I 496 Environment Markers Polley P 497 A standard mechanism for backward compatibility Schofield S 499 ``python -m foo`` should bind ... 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Hammond SF 314 Metadata for Python Software Packages v1.1 Kuchling, Jones SF 318 Decorators for Functions and Methods Smith SF 322 Reverse Iteration Hettinger SF 324 subprocess - New process module Astrand SF 327 Decimal Data Type Batista SF 328 Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative Aahz SF 331 Locale-Independent Float/String Conversions Reis SF 338 Executing modules as scripts Coghlan SF 341 Unifying try-except and try-finally Brandl SF 342 Coroutines via Enhanced Generators GvR, Eby SF 343 The "with" Statement GvR, Coghlan SF 352 Required Superclass for Exceptions Cannon, GvR SF 353 Using ssize_t as the index type von Löwis SF 357 Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing Oliphant SF 358 The "bytes" Object Schemenauer, GvR SF 362 Function Signature Object Cannon, Seo, Selivanov, Hastings SF 366 Main module explicit relative imports Coghlan SF 370 Per user site-packages directory Heimes SF 371 Addition of the multiprocessing package to the ... Noller, Oudkerk SF 372 Adding an ordered dictionary to collections Ronacher, Hettinger SF 378 Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Hettinger SF 380 Syntax for Delegating to a Subgenerator Ewing SF 383 Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces v. Löwis SF 384 Defining a Stable ABI v. Löwis SF 389 argparse - New Command Line Parsing Module Bethard SF 391 Dictionary-Based Configuration For Logging Sajip SF 393 Flexible String Representation v. Löwis SF 397 Python launcher for Windows Hammond, v. Löwis SF 405 Python Virtual Environments Meyer SF 409 Suppressing exception context Furman SF 412 Key-Sharing Dictionary Shannon SF 414 Explicit Unicode Literal for Python 3.3 Ronacher, Coghlan SF 415 Implement context suppression with exception attributes Peterson SF 417 Including mock in the Standard Library Foord SF 418 Add monotonic time, performance counter, and ... Simpson, Jewett, Turnbull, Stinner SF 420 Implicit Namespace Packages Smith SF 421 Adding sys.implementation Snow SF 424 A method for exposing a length hint Gaynor SF 428 The pathlib module -- object-oriented filesystem paths Pitrou SF 435 Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library Warsaw, Bendersky, Furman SF 441 Improving Python ZIP Application Support Holth, Moore SF 442 Safe object finalization Pitrou SF 443 Single-dispatch generic functions Langa SF 445 Add new APIs to customize Python memory allocators Stinner SF 446 Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable Stinner SF 448 Additional Unpacking Generalizations Landau SF 450 Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library D'Aprano SF 451 A ModuleSpec Type for the Import System Snow SF 453 Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations Stufft, Coghlan SF 454 Add a new tracemalloc module to trace Python memory ... Stinner SF 456 Secure and interchangeable hash algorithm Heimes SF 461 Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray Furman SF 465 A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication Smith SF 466 Network Security Enhancements for Python 2.7.x Coghlan SF 471 os.scandir() function -- a better and faster ... Hoyt SF 475 Retry system calls failing with EINTR Natali, Stinner SF 476 Enabling certificate verification by default for ... Gaynor SF 477 Backport ensurepip (PEP 453) to Python 2.7 Stufft, Coghlan SF 479 Change StopIteration handling inside generators Angelico, GvR SF 485 A Function for testing approximate equality Barker SF 486 Make the Python Launcher aware of virtual environments Moore SF 488 Elimination of PYO files Cannon SF 489 Multi-phase extension module initialization Viktorin, Behnel, Coghlan SF 492 Coroutines with async and await syntax Selivanov SF 493 HTTPS verification migration tools for Python 2.7 Coghlan, Kuska, Lemburg SF 3101 Advanced String Formatting Talin SF 3102 Keyword-Only Arguments Talin SF 3104 Access to Names in Outer Scopes Yee SF 3105 Make print a function Brandl SF 3106 Revamping dict.keys(), .values() and .items() GvR SF 3107 Function Annotations Winter, Lownds SF 3108 Standard Library Reorganization Cannon SF 3109 Raising Exceptions in Python 3000 Winter SF 3110 Catching Exceptions in Python 3000 Winter SF 3111 Simple input built-in in Python 3000 Roberge SF 3112 Bytes literals in Python 3000 Orendorff SF 3113 Removal of Tuple Parameter Unpacking Cannon SF 3114 Renaming iterator.next() to iterator.__next__() Yee SF 3115 Metaclasses in Python 3000 Talin SF 3116 New I/O Stutzbach, GvR, Verdone SF 3118 Revising the buffer protocol Oliphant, Banks SF 3119 Introducing Abstract Base Classes GvR, Talin SF 3120 Using UTF-8 as the default source encoding von Löwis SF 3123 Making PyObject_HEAD conform to standard C von Löwis SF 3127 Integer Literal Support and Syntax Maupin SF 3129 Class Decorators Winter SF 3131 Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers von Löwis SF 3132 Extended Iterable Unpacking Brandl SF 3134 Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks Yee SF 3135 New Super Spealman, Delaney, Ryan SF 3137 Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer GvR SF 3138 String representation in Python 3000 Ishimoto SF 3141 A Type Hierarchy for Numbers Yasskin SF 3144 IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python ... Moody SF 3147 PYC Repository Directories Warsaw SF 3148 futures - execute computations asynchronously Quinlan SF 3149 ABI version tagged .so files Warsaw SF 3151 Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy Pitrou SF 3154 Pickle protocol version 4 Pitrou SF 3155 Qualified name for classes and functions Pitrou SF 3156 Asynchronous IO Support Rebooted: the "asyncio" Module GvR Historical Meta-PEPs and Informational PEPs PF 2 Procedure for Adding New Modules Faassen PF 42 Feature Requests Hylton IF 160 Python 1.6 Release Schedule Drake IF 200 Python 2.0 Release Schedule Hylton IF 226 Python 2.1 Release Schedule Hylton IF 251 Python 2.2 Release Schedule Warsaw, GvR IF 283 Python 2.3 Release Schedule GvR IF 320 Python 2.4 Release Schedule Warsaw, Hettinger, Baxter PF 347 Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion von Löwis IF 356 Python 2.5 Release Schedule Norwitz, GvR, Baxter PF 360 Externally Maintained Packages Cannon IF 361 Python 2.6 and 3.0 Release Schedule Norwitz, Warsaw PF 374 Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project Cannon, Turnbull, Vassalotti, Warsaw, Ochtman IF 375 Python 3.1 Release Schedule Peterson PF 385 Migrating from Subversion to Mercurial Ochtman, Pitrou, Brandl PS 438 Transitioning to release-file hosting on PyPI Krekel, Meyer PA 449 Removal of the PyPI Mirror Auto Discovery and ... Stufft PA 464 Removal of the PyPI Mirror Authenticity API Stufft PA 470 Removing External Hosting Support on PyPI Stufft PF 3000 Python 3000 GvR PF 3002 Procedure for Backwards-Incompatible Changes Bethard PF 3003 Python Language Moratorium Cannon, Noller, GvR PF 3099 Things that will Not Change in Python 3000 Brandl PF 3100 Miscellaneous Python 3.0 Plans Cannon Deferred PEPs SD 211 Adding A New Outer Product Operator Wilson SD 212 Loop Counter Iteration Schneider-Kamp SD 213 Attribute Access Handlers Prescod SD 219 Stackless Python McMillan SD 222 Web Library Enhancements Kuchling SD 225 Elementwise/Objectwise Operators Zhu, Lielens SD 233 Python Online Help Prescod SD 262 A Database of Installed Python Packages Kuchling SD 267 Optimized Access to Module Namespaces Hylton SD 269 Pgen Module for Python Riehl SD 280 Optimizing access to globals GvR SD 286 Enhanced Argument Tuples von Löwis SD 312 Simple Implicit Lambda Suzi, Martelli SD 316 Programming by Contract for Python Way SD 323 Copyable Iterators Martelli SD 337 Logging Usage in the Standard Library Dubner SD 349 Allow str() to return unicode strings Schemenauer SD 368 Standard image protocol and class Mastrodomenico ID 396 Module Version Numbers Warsaw SD 400 Deprecate codecs.StreamReader and codecs.StreamWriter Stinner SD 403 General purpose decorator clause (aka "@in" clause) Coghlan PD 407 New release cycle and introducing long-term support ... Pitrou, Brandl, Warsaw SD 419 Protecting cleanup statements from interruptions Colomiets ID 423 Naming conventions and recipes related to packaging Bryon SD 426 Metadata for Python Software Packages 2.0 Coghlan, Holth, Stufft ID 444 Python Web3 Interface McDonough, Ronacher SD 459 Standard Metadata Extensions for Python Software ... Coghlan SD 501 General purpose string interpolation Coghlan SD 521 Managing global context via 'with' blocks in ... Smith SD 628 Add ``math.tau`` Coghlan SD 3124 Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, and ... Eby SD 3143 Standard daemon process library Finney SD 3150 Statement local namespaces (aka "given" clause) Coghlan Abandoned, Withdrawn, and Rejected PEPs PW 3 Guidelines for Handling Bug Reports Hylton PW 9 Sample Plaintext PEP Template Warsaw IS 102 Doing Python Micro Releases Baxter, Warsaw, GvR SR 204 Range Literals Wouters IW 206 Python Advanced Library Kuchling SW 209 Multi-dimensional Arrays Barrett, Oliphant SR 210 Decoupling the Interpreter Loop Ascher SS 215 String Interpolation Yee IR 216 Docstring Format Zadka IR 220 Coroutines, Generators, Continuations McMillan SR 224 Attribute Docstrings Lemburg SW 228 Reworking Python's Numeric Model Zadka, GvR SR 231 __findattr__() Warsaw SR 239 Adding a Rational Type to Python Craig, Zadka SR 240 Adding a Rational Literal to Python Craig, Zadka SR 242 Numeric Kinds Dubois SW 243 Module Repository Upload Mechanism Reifschneider SR 244 The `directive' statement von Löwis SR 245 Python Interface Syntax Pelletier SR 246 Object Adaptation Martelli, Evans SR 254 Making Classes Look More Like Types GvR SR 256 Docstring Processing System Framework Goodger SR 258 Docutils Design Specification Goodger SR 259 Omit printing newline after newline GvR SR 265 Sorting Dictionaries by Value Griffin SW 266 Optimizing Global Variable/Attribute Access Montanaro SR 268 Extended HTTP functionality and WebDAV Stein SR 270 uniq method for list objects Petrone SR 271 Prefixing sys.path by command line option Giacometti SR 275 Switching on Multiple Values Lemburg SR 276 Simple Iterator for ints Althoff SR 281 Loop Counter Iteration with range and xrange Hetland SR 284 Integer for-loops Eppstein, Ewing SW 288 Generators Attributes and Exceptions Hettinger SR 294 Type Names in the types Module Tirosh SR 295 Interpretation of multiline string constants Koltsov SW 296 Adding a bytes Object Type Gilbert SR 297 Support for System Upgrades Lemburg SW 298 The Locked Buffer Interface Heller SR 299 Special __main__() function in modules Epler SR 303 Extend divmod() for Multiple Divisors Bellman SW 304 Controlling Generation of Bytecode Files Montanaro IW 306 How to Change Python's Grammar Hudson, Diederich, Coghlan, Peterson SR 310 Reliable Acquisition/Release Pairs Hudson, Moore SR 313 Adding Roman Numeral Literals to Python Meyer SR 315 Enhanced While Loop Hettinger, Carroll SR 317 Eliminate Implicit Exception Instantiation Taschuk SR 319 Python Synchronize/Asynchronize Block Pelletier SW 321 Date/Time Parsing and Formatting Kuchling SR 325 Resource-Release Support for Generators Pedroni SR 326 A Case for Top and Bottom Values Carlson, Reedy SR 329 Treating Builtins as Constants in the Standard Library Hettinger SR 330 Python Bytecode Verification Pelletier SR 332 Byte vectors and String/Unicode Unification Montanaro SW 334 Simple Coroutines via SuspendIteration Evans SR 335 Overloadable Boolean Operators Ewing SR 336 Make None Callable McClelland IW 339 Design of the CPython Compiler Cannon SR 340 Anonymous Block Statements GvR SS 344 Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks Yee SW 346 User Defined ("``with``") Statements Coghlan SR 348 Exception Reorganization for Python 3.0 Cannon IR 350 Codetags Elliott SR 351 The freeze protocol Warsaw SS 354 Enumerations in Python Finney SR 355 Path - Object oriented filesystem paths Lindqvist SW 359 The "make" Statement Bethard SR 363 Syntax For Dynamic Attribute Access North SW 364 Transitioning to the Py3K Standard Library Warsaw SR 365 Adding the pkg_resources module Eby SS 367 New Super Spealman, Delaney SW 369 Post import hooks Heimes SR 377 Allow __enter__() methods to skip the statement body Coghlan SW 379 Adding an Assignment Expression Whitley SR 382 Namespace Packages v. Löwis SS 386 Changing the version comparison module in Distutils Ziadé SR 390 Static metadata for Distutils Ziadé SW 395 Qualified Names for Modules Coghlan PR 401 BDFL Retirement Warsaw, Cannon SR 402 Simplified Package Layout and Partitioning Eby SW 406 Improved Encapsulation of Import State Coghlan, Slodkowicz SR 408 Standard library __preview__ package Coghlan, Bendersky SR 410 Use decimal.Decimal type for timestamps Stinner PW 413 Faster evolution of the Python Standard Library Coghlan SR 416 Add a frozendict builtin type Stinner SW 422 Simpler customisation of class creation Coghlan, Urban SW 431 Time zone support improvements Regebro SS 433 Easier suppression of file descriptor inheritance Stinner SR 437 A DSL for specifying signatures, annotations and ... Krah SR 439 Inclusion of implicit pip bootstrap in Python ... Jones SR 455 Adding a key-transforming dictionary to collections Pitrou SW 460 Add binary interpolation and formatting Pitrou PW 462 Core development workflow automation for CPython Coghlan SW 469 Migration of dict iteration code to Python 3 Coghlan PW 474 Creating forge.python.org Coghlan PW 481 Migrate CPython to Git, Github, and Phabricator Stufft SR 500 A protocol for delegating datetime methods to their ... Belopolsky, Peters SW 504 Using the System RNG by default Coghlan PR 507 Migrate CPython to Git and GitLab Warsaw SR 666 Reject Foolish Indentation Creighton SR 754 IEEE 754 Floating Point Special Values Warnes PW 3001 Procedure for reviewing and improving standard ... Brandl SR 3103 A Switch/Case Statement GvR SR 3117 Postfix type declarations Brandl SR 3122 Delineation of the main module Cannon SR 3125 Remove Backslash Continuation Jewett SR 3126 Remove Implicit String Concatenation Jewett, Hettinger SR 3128 BList: A Faster List-like Type Stutzbach SR 3130 Access to Current Module/Class/Function Jewett SR 3133 Introducing Roles Winter SR 3136 Labeled break and continue Chisholm SR 3139 Cleaning out sys and the "interpreter" module Peterson SR 3140 str(container) should call str(item), not repr(item) Broytman, Jewett SR 3142 Add a "while" clause to generator expressions Britton SW 3145 Asynchronous I/O For subprocess.Popen Pruitt, McCreary, Carlson SW 3146 Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython Winter, Yasskin, Kleckner SR 3152 Cofunctions Ewing SS 3153 Asynchronous IO support Houtven
I saw a beautifully sung a capella song the other day of Facebook. It was about the Nativity, the incarnation of Christ. One of the lines in the song really struck me, the profound nature of what God did summed up in a single sentence: Glorify, with the angels and the shepherds, Him who by His own will has become a newborn child, yet is our God before all ages. Let that sink in for a moment before reading this excerpt from one of John Chrysostom's sermons on Christmas (something else I saw shared on Facebook which I think sums up this day in better words than I could muster): "What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the hands of men. He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infant's bands. But He has decreed that ignominy shall become honor, infamy be clothed with glory, and total humiliation the measure of His Goodness. For this He assumed my body, that I may become capable of His Word; taking my flesh, He gives me His spirit; and so He bestowing and I receiving, He prepares for me the treasure of Life. He takes my flesh, to sanctify me; He gives me His Spirit, that He may save me.Come, then, let us observe the Feast. Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the Nativity. For this day the ancient slavery is ended, the devil confounded, the demons take to flight, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error driven out, truth has been brought back, the speech of kindliness diffused, and spreads on every side, a heavenly way of life has been ‘in planted on the earth, angels communicate with men without fear, and men now hold speech with angels.Why is this? Because God is now on earth, and man in heaven; on every side all things commingle. He became Flesh. He did not become God. He was God. Wherefore He became flesh, so that He Whom heaven did not contain, a manger would this day receive.
Two thoughts for discussion: 1. There may be some real upside to going specific on risk fee. Even though I realize that goes against the grain as it is more HRC detail and builds on an Obama proposal: except for this: it will lead to lots of estimates of how much it will cost the major banks that our fee focuses on. So with detail you could get discussion like will HRC's proposal mean Goldman and JP owe $8 billion or $18 billion. Worse things for us. Worth considering. 2. As you guys know, I was for doing a broad thin FTT for Middle class retirement savings or Social Security as a major Wall Street pays for Main Street proposal and a way to blunt the critique that an FTT would hurt stock market and thus retirement savings, and HRC had seemed open to that formulation. As it would clearly help in primary - I am glad we will discuss again. Though I do worry about Shapiro's worry that at this point, we may look like we are just copying Bernie -- so would have to add it to the calculation. But either way, I think it is may be to our upside to consider details to what is clearly our proposal -- Wall Street Risk fee. (Added other Mikes and David) Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Feb 2016, at 12:17 pm, Jake Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nope. Not sure what this is. > > > >> On Feb 13, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Neera Tanden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Happy to ignore this but are we rolling out something related to finance on Monday? >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Neera Tanden <[email protected]> >> Date: Saturday, February 13, 2016 >> Subject: Fwd: HRC financial proposal >> To: Neera Tanden <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: "Jennifer Epstein (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:)" <[email protected]> >>> Date: February 13, 2016 at 2:45:58 PM EST >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Subject: HRC financial proposal >>> Reply-To: Jennifer Epstein <[email protected]> >>> >>> Hey Neera, >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> We heard that HRC has some new financial regulatory proposal coming Monday. Can you point me in the right direction on what it's about? Is it housing or something more like setting up rules for who she'd appoint? Even a tiny amount of guidance would be great.
6 Results In order to test the validity of this proof‐of‐concept architecture for estimating the magnetic vectors within CMEs, a total of eight CME events have been investigated. By using the same technique as Figure 1, the solar disc in 171ÅAIA and projected CME volume of influence for these events between 2010 and 2014 are displayed in Figure 6. Their predicted magnetic vectors are displayed in Figure 7, along with the measured L1 in situ data. Spherical coordinates are used to display the magnetic field rotation over the Cartesian system as the orientation components remain independent of the magnetic field strength component. The angular rotation (B ϕ and B θ ) in the predicted magnetic field closely follows the broad rotational structure seen within the in situ data, with a negative B θ indicating a southward magnetic field excursion. The deviations in results between the estimated and measured values are discussed below. Figure 6 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint (a–h) Solar source of eight CME eruptions between 2010 and 2014. The Sun is shown as a 171 (Fe IX/X) image from the AIA instrument onboard the SDO spacecraft and in the same format as Figure 1 Figure 7 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint (a–h) Predicted (red) and observed (L1; blue) magnetic vectors for eight CME events, where B θ is the angular magnetic field direction out of the Sun‐Earth plane. For the events investigated, it has been noticed that if the overlying magnetic field arcade displayed in solar imagery (e.g., within 171ÅAIA) traverses two active regions in close proximity, an adjustment to the standard scheme is required. In particular, if the solar arcade is between two active regions, the leading polarity is reversed and the initial magnetic structure is defined by the Bothmer‐Schwenn scheme from the previous solar cycle. The scenario of this more complex behavior is shown in the case study event of this article (January 2014, Figures 6g and 7g), as well as in an event on September 2012 (Figures 6f and 7f). Therefore, we suggest that the ubiquitous use of the Bothmer‐Schwenn scheme with a simplistic flux rope model is capable of generating a zeroth‐order characterization of the rotating magnetic field topology with a flux rope CME.
Join the conversation: Religion, spirituality & ethics \| Reader forum: Your beliefs @FAITH_REASON ON TWITTER @FAITH_REASON ON TWITTER GENEVA (AP) (AP) The Vatican has failed to send the United Nations a report on child rights that is now almost 13 years overdue, the head of a U.N. panel has told The Associated Press. Like all countries that have signed the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Vatican is required to submit regular reports on its efforts to safeguard child rights. FAITH & REASON: Vatican's rules: Right steps or baby steps? SEX ABUSE: Experts see no major changes in Vatican rules revision But the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, despite sending repeated reminders, has received no explanation from the Holy See for why it missed a 1997 deadline, according to the committee's chairwoman Yanghee Lee. In the years since, the Vatican has come under intense scrutiny over its handling of child sex abuse allegations around the world and recently admitted that up to one in 20 priests may be implicated. "I've made contact with the Holy See on several occasions," Lee said in a recent telephone interview. "I haven't received anything." Officials at the Vatican's mission in Geneva declined comment Thursday, saying the Catholic city state's envoy to the U.N., Silvano Tomasi, was unavailable. Tomasi refused to discuss the report last month, saying he was "only the messenger," not the author of the report. A Vatican representative told the U.N. last year that the report was being "finalized as we speak." Appearing before the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in September, Hubertus Matheus Van Megen said "a paragraph will be dedicated to the problem of child abuse by Catholic clergy." The Vatican has faced claims that it has covered up clerical sex abuse around the world, such as by not investigating allegations or transferring accused priests to other duties without punishing them. Van Megen told the Geneva-based council that the church was "very conscious of the seriousness of the problem" but insisted critics had misrepresented the situation. "While many speak of child abuse as pedophilia, it would be more correct to speak of ephebophilia, being a homosexual attraction to adolescent males," he told the rights council. "Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80-90% belong to this sexual orientation minority, which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the age of 11 and 17 years old."
But perhaps this explanation is flawed, and BDHPX stands for Brian's De Havilland Philharmonic 10th symphony.But I've played the Moffat-and-Gatiss game with you long enough: the true solution is 34, because the numeric sequence is based on Fibonacci . Begin with 2, a Fibonacci number. Double it to get 4. Take the third Fibonacci number from 2, which is 8. Double it to get 16. Take the third Fibonacci number from 8, which is 34. Double it to get 68. Take the third Fibonacci number from 34, which is 144, and so on. The sequence revealed is 2, 4, 8, 16, 34, 68, 144… Such an explanation does violence to Occam's Razor Charney declares 31 is the right answer because, "the answer we're looking for is 31." A finer example of begging the question might be difficult to imagine, and it comes from the man who accuses Doyle of unfairly setting Holmes up for success. "Because Holmes' fate was in the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Charney criticizes, "he was set up to always succeed." Unless you count the multiple occassions when Holmes failed. And what of the real-life cases of George Edalji or Oscar Slater, wherein Doyle proved the innocence of two falsely accused men? Who are we to believe set Doyle up to succeed -- the pre-incarnate Benedict Cumberbatch?How would Holmes have replied to Charney's number puzzle? Possibly he would have commented on "how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data." [SPEC] Holmes, according to Charney and Bryant, should consider "all the various ways in which a theft could occur without the guard dog barking." Was this kind of reasoning foreign to the detective who said, "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would cover the facts as we know them"? [COPP] After all, Holmes's theory about the dog's behavior is supported by a host of other clues that fairly shout "Inside job!" Notable among them are the curry, the cataract knife, the sheep, and the receipt in Straker's pocket, but these conveniently go unmentioned.Says Charney: "Look at the problem from one angle only, and you risk getting it wrong. That is the most frequent logical pitfall into which Sherlock Holmes falls.
If you're not required to file, what do you care whether they say you owe sixty dollars or 60,000 dollars. If you are not required to file, the amount doesn't matter. Don't argue the amount--that is a fact issue. In most instances, when you get a Notice of Deficiency, it is usually for some fantastic amount. The IRS wants you to run in and argue about the amount. The minute you say "I don't owe that much", you have agreed that you owe them something, and you have given them jurisdiction. Just don't be shocked at the amount on a Notice of Deficiency, even if it is ten million dollars! If the law says that you are not required to file or pay tax, the amount doesn't matter. By arguing the amount, they will just say that you must go to tax court and decide what the amount is to be. By the time you get to tax court, the law issues are all decided. You are only there to decide how much you owe. They will not listen to arguments of law. So I went to see the agent and told him that I wasn't required to file. He said, "You are required to file, Mr. Freeman." But I had all these supreme Court cases, and I started reading them to him. He said, "I don't know anything about law, Mr. Freeman, but the Code says that you are required to file, and you're going to pay that amount or you're going to go to tax court." I thought that someone there ought to know something about law, so I asked to talk to his superior. I went to him and got out my Supreme Court Cases, and he wouldn't listen to them. "I don't know anything about law, Mr. Freeman...." Finally I got to the Problems Resolution Officer, and he said the same thing. He said that the only person above him was the District Director. So I went to see him. By the time I got to his office, they had phoned ahead, and his secretary said he was out. But I heard someone in his office, and I knew he was in there. I went down the elevator, around the corner to the Federal Building and into Senator Simpson's office. There was a girl sitting there at a desk, and she asked if she could help me. I told her my problem.
He was required to get a shot once a month of Vivitrol, a drug that treats alcohol dependence. Dent also was ordered to wear a SCRAM device around his ankle. It measures his perspiration every 30 minutes for blood alcohol levels. Authorities shackled Dent to an electronic monitor to keep track of him. None of it lasted for long. At one point, his attorney in the Williamson County case wrote the court that Dent “apparently removed his electronic monitor, and that the last signal from that monitor was detected somewhere near the Mexican border.”
"We kind of know that OKC is a test for us, we failed it miserably but there are other, better days ahead." The Bobcats opened with their worst offensive quarter of the season, scoring just 12 points while committing seven turnovers on their 20 possessions, and it only got worse. Oklahoma City broke it open with a 22-3 run, scoring the final 10 points of the first quarter and then 12 of the first 15 to start the second. Eric Maynor and Kevin Martin hit 3-pointers on consecutive possessions, and Durant followed that by setting up back-to-back two-handed dunks by Hasheem Thabeet and Nick Collison to make it 40-15 with 8:23 left before halftime. The Thunder shot 60 percent from the field in the first half while limiting Charlotte to 22 percent and forcing 11 turnovers. The Bobcats made only 3 of 20 shots in the second quarter while getting outscored 36-12. The biggest concern for Dunlap, though, was a 28-15 disadvantage on the boards that he said comes down to "nothing more than raw bone effort." "We're obviously better than last year. That shows," said ex-Thunder center Byron Mullens. "But tonight, they just got our number. I don't know what else to say. They got us tonight." Dunlap said the Bobcats are "too young to throw the tape away" and just act like the game never happened. "You have to take it serious. You have to look at it definitely seriously and you have to take it as a learning experience," Haywood said. The last five players on the Thunder bench played the entire fourth quarter but Charlotte still couldn't avoid the most lopsided loss in the franchise's history, despite pulling within 38 twice in the fourth quarter. It didn't come close to the NBA record for margin of victory - from Cleveland's 148-80 rout of Miami on Dec. 17, 1991. "You can overreact in these situations, but we need to react and respond to it, no doubt," Dunlap said. It still wasn't a Thunder franchise record for a halftime margin. When the team was based in Seattle, the SuperSonics held a 75-31 lead at Boston on Nov. 23, 1967 - the second-largest margin in the shot clock era, which started in the 1954-55 season. Westbrook playfully dodged giving an explanation of his open-court flub, simply taking credit for it as "two points."
[27] In a 1922 convention address, Rutherford retrospectively defined 1918 as the time when Christ "entered the temple for the purpose of judgment". [30] He later wrote that it was only after 1918, when the Lord came to the temple, that it could be understood that 1914 had also marked the time when the heavenly part of God's kingdom was established and when a "New Nation" was born. [31] From that time the Bible Student group was able to view itself as more than just an agency for completing the ranks of the 144,000 who would rule with Christ. With the "New Nation" already born, members were given a clear twofold purpose: (1) to recruit and train a "Great Company" who would be carried through Armageddon to live in the earthly kingdom and (2) to expose the machinations of the devil in trying to obstruct the kingdom's earthly establishment. [5]
When Milliken saw the numbers from Bell’s appraisal, she realized that the house wasn’t just a psychological burden but a financial one. After comparing it to other houses in the neighborhood and other stigmatized properties, Bell determined that, due to the lingering stigma of the Koumboulis tragedy, Milliken’s house had depreciated 10 to 15 percent from its value when she purchased it. Were she to sell the house, she would likely have to accept offers between $61,000 and $91,500 beneath what she paid for it in 2007. (Of course, she noted ruefully, that was only if she disclosed the murder.) Its value, in fact, was even lower, as the housing market was still depressed from the recent crash. The only way she would be able to leave the house without losing much of her investment would be to have the sale rescinded.
“The Flick” is an elaborate tribute to a fading art. As a teen-ager, Baker was an avid cinephile: at thirteen, she begged her mother to let her see “Pulp Fiction”; when she was in high school, the walls of her bedroom were covered with posters of films by Truffaut. Over time, though, she became disenchanted with what she found in the movie theatres—it seemed pale and controlled beside the live immediacy of the stage. Today, Baker doesn’t watch much TV. (She originally started taking some screen assignments mostly for the Writers Guild health insurance; her one idea for a cable series, about life on a commune in Bolinas, California, became a pilot script that never got made.) About five years ago, Baker went to the IFC Center to watch one of her favorite films, Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander,” and noticed something weird going on with the screen. “I was like, There’s something wrong, there’s something wrong! I’m not enjoying this; something’s wrong!” She realized that the movie, originally shot on 35-mm. film, was being projected digitally. “To me, it changed the whole phenomenal experience,” she says. “The Flick” draws from the disorientation she felt that day, but it plays formally with the idea of the theatre audience, too. Baker’s plays tend to be set in odd places: a community center in “Circle Mirror Transformation,” the house a divorced mother shares with her midlife lover in “Nocturama” (written in 2006), a trash area behind a coffee shop in “The Aliens” (2010). “The Flick” takes place in a small movie theatre in Worcester County, Massachusetts, but the vantage is the opposite of the moviegoers’. Here, the audience sits where the movie screen would hang; rows of cinema seats climb the stage, facing outward. One Saturday morning, Baker, Gold, their actors, and the play’s main crew met for a rehearsal, on an upper floor of the Playwrights Horizons building. “The Flick” has three main characters: Rose, who’s a projectionist; Sam, a thirty-five-year-old usher (played by Matthew Maher); and Avery (Aaron Clifton Moten), a young, fastidious cinephile who is Sam’s new protégé with the mop and the broom. Most scenes in the play take place in the witching hour between screenings, as Sam and Avery pass through the empty theatre with their dustpans, gabbing about movies and life. The play, Baker and Gold quickly realized, was a nightmare to stage.
LAST UPDATE: JANUARY 15On January 6, residents of several indigenous towns in the war-torn state of Guerrero followed the example of Cherán in Michoacan and took up arms to defend themselves against organized crime.The following is meant to be a primer on the uprising and provide the background needed to understand the context.Guerrero's indigenous were the hardest hit by Mexico's Dirty War in the 1960s and 1970s. Guerrero is the only state to be under continuous military occupation since the Dirty War. The effects of this military occupation are painfully obvious: the rape and torture of indigenous women at the hands of soldiers, the murder of human rights defenders , and the murder and torture of students protesting for the right to study. It was, then, to be expected that when former president Felipe Calderón declared war on drugs, Guerrero's Dirty War would dovetail into the Drug War with disastrous consequences.Guerrero has a rich history of armed, autonomous, and social movements. It was where one of Mexico's most beloved guerrilla leaders, Lucio Cabañas, organized and fought until the military murdered him in 1974. Guerrero, like Oaxaca, has a strong democratic teachers union, one of the most powerful social-political organizations in the state. It went so far as to go on strike against organized crime in 2011, something few workers have been valiant enough to do when threatened with extortion. Guerrero is also home to the autonomist Community Police , a citizens crime-fighting initiative based on indigenous governance that pre-dates the drug war and ardently supports the Zapatistas.As their legal advisor explains in the second article below, they are wary that the Guerrero state government is attempting to co-opt the young movement, much as it does with indigenous groups in Chiapas in order to prevent them from allying themselves with the Zapatistas . The Community Police argue that the government wants to use this uprising and the well-intented peasants who are participating in it in order to militarize, paramilitarize, and infiltrate communities who belong to the Community Police.
Table 4 No difficulties Occasional difficultiesa Frequent difficultiesa n (%) n (%) ORb (95% CI) ORc adj (95% CI) n (%) ORb (95% CI) ORc adj (95% CI) Sexual function difficulties, overalld Uncircumcised 367 (21) 1116 (63) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 296 (17) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 21 (21) 54 (55) 0.85 (0.51–1.43) 0.73 (0.42–1.27) 24 (24) 1.46 (0.78–2.72) 1.29 (0.66–2.53) Unknowne 5 (17) 14 (47) 11 (37) Premature ejaculation Uncircumcised 670 (39) 890 (52) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 162 (9) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 38 (41) 44 (47) 0.86 (0.55–1.35) 0.86 (0.52–1.41) 11 (12) 1.20 (0.60–2.39) 1.23 (0.58–2.60) Unknowne 4 (18) 13 (59) 5 (23) Erectile difficulties Uncircumcised 1062 (60) 572 (33) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 125 (7) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 59 (61) 28 (29) 0.93 (0.57–1.52) 0.92 (0.54–1.58) 10 (10) 1.57 (0.72–3.45) 1.46 (0.62–3.46) Unknowne 9 (31) 15 (52) 5 (17) Orgasm difficulties Uncircumcised 1094 (65) 537 (32) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 63 (4) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 57 (60) 28 (29) 1.05 (0.65–1.68) 0.94 (0.55–1.61) 10 (11) 3.21 (1.55–6.66) 3.26 (1.42–7.47) Unknowne 12 (52) 10 (43) 1 (4) No difficulties Occasional difficultiesa Frequent difficultiesa n (%) n (%) ORb (95% CI) ORc adj (95% CI) n (%) ORb (95% CI) ORc adj (95% CI) Sexual function difficulties, overalld Uncircumcised 367 (21) 1116 (63) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 296 (17) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 21 (21) 54 (55) 0.85 (0.51–1.43) 0.73 (0.42–1.27) 24 (24) 1.46 (0.78–2.72) 1.29 (0.66–2.53) Unknowne 5 (17) 14 (47) 11 (37) Premature ejaculation Uncircumcised 670 (39) 890 (52) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 162 (9) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 38 (41) 44 (47) 0.86 (0.55–1.35) 0.86 (0.52–1.41) 11 (12) 1.20 (0.60–2.39) 1.23 (0.58–2.60) Unknowne 4 (18) 13 (59) 5 (23) Erectile difficulties Uncircumcised 1062 (60) 572 (33) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 125 (7) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 59 (61) 28 (29) 0.93 (0.57–1.52) 0.92 (0.54–1.58) 10 (10) 1.57 (0.72–3.45) 1.46 (0.62–3.46) Unknowne 9 (31) 15 (52) 5 (17) Orgasm difficulties Uncircumcised 1094 (65) 537 (32) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) 63 (4) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 57 (60) 28 (29) 1.05 (0.65–1.68) 0.94 (0.55–1.61) 10 (11) 3.21 (1.55–6.66) 3.26 (1.42–7.47) Unknowne 12 (52) 10 (43) 1 (4) No difficulties Occasional or frequent difficultiesa n (%) n (%) ORb (95% CI) ORc adj (95% CI) Dyspareunia Uncircumcised 1543 (91) 152 (9) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 85 (90) 9 (10) 1.07 (0.53–2.18) 1.31 (0.61–2.83) Unknowne 17 (77) 5 (23) No difficulties Occasional or frequent difficultiesa n (%) n (%) ORb (95% CI) ORc adj (95% CI) Dyspareunia Uncircumcised 1543 (91) 152 (9) 1 (ref) 1 (ref) Circumcised 85 (90) 9 (10) 1.07 (0.53–2.18) 1.31 (0.61–2.83) Unknowne 17 (77) 5 (23) View Large
The release of an opinion letter by attorney Roger M. Olsen dated September 30, 2008, has stirred up the pot once again about the accuracy of Sarah and Todd Palin’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns. Not only that, but Mr. Olsen’s letter raises a couple of new issues. This paper focuses on five problems: three raised in the tax returns and two new ones raised by Mr. Olsen’s letter. Here’s a summary of the five problems and my conclusions, for those who want to cut to the chase. My analysis will follow. The Palins did not report as income some $17,000 that Governor Palin’s employer (the State of Alaska) paid her as an “allowance” for her travel. Can they do that? Yes, most likely. The Palins did not report as income some $43,000 that the State of Alaska paid the Governor as an “allowance” for her husband and children’s travel. Can they do that? No, most likely not. The Palins deducted $9,000 on their 2007 return, claiming it was a loss from Mr. Palin’s snow machine racing activity. Can they do that? Most likely not, but more info could make the deduction OK. If any of the above issues goes against the Palins they then risk getting hit with the section 6662 penalty for “negligence or disregard of rules or regulations.” Can the Palins avoid the section 6662 negligence penalty by claiming that they reasonably relied either (a) on the W-2’s sent to them by their employer, which did not reflect either the $17,000 or the $43,000, or (b) on their tax return preparer H&R Block, or (c) on Mr. Olsen’s opinion letter dated September 30, 2008? The three reliance defenses are unlikely to succeed, but more info may make the (b) defense a good one. Does Mr. Olsen have any exposure to sanctions by the IRS because of his letter? I believe Mr. Olsen’s letter probably violates 31 C.F.R. section 10.35. If so, he would be exposed to possible sanctions from the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility.
Any person's infringement of any rights stipulated herein is subject to lawful prosecution by the victim of this infringement or his agent in accordance with all relevant due process and contractual commitments, and is actionable in accordance with generally recognized common law principles of the proportionality of punishment, strict liability, and restitution. Jury trials are to be utilized in all criminal proceedings or any legal proceedings wherein an arbiter and arbitration method were not specifically stipulated contractually by all relevant parties beforehand. No person shall be convicted, sentenced, or imprisoned without due process of law, including the right to trial and habeas corpus, and there shall be no detention without trial, nor shall any person either before or after trial be held incommunicado. An accused person shall be assumed innocent until proven guilty. At every stage of criminal process, an accused shall be informed of the charges against him or her. No person shall be tried more than once for the same crime. No individual, collective, or firm shall be able to compel either jury service, discovery, or witness testimony during the proceedings of a criminal trial. Coercive detention shall not be exercised arbitrarily but only upon probable cause that the detainee (a) has committed or (b) is committing a criminal offence, or that he or she has been made, or is soon to be made, a subject of a court order regarding (c) a medical isolation on the account of a highly contagious and deadly disease, (d) an in-house care of a Minor, or (e) an institutionalization in a mental health facility. A person who has been arrested, detained, imprisoned, tried, or sentenced either illegally or in error shall receive full restitution. Restitutive compensation may be obtained coercively if necessary. The prosecution, arbitration, and enforcement of any and all disputes may be performed by any arbitration or protection agency formed and operating voluntarily under the purview of this Constitution. Any arbitration resolution binding parties to this Constitution that may be reasonably construed to be in contravention of any provision of this Constitution is null and void. This Constitution ratifies and adopts the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, as adopted by a United Nations diplomatic conference on 10 June 1958 and entered into force on 7 June 1959.
They point out that the iPhone needs a to offer Enterprises more control over the devices themselves for software upgrades, auditing, enforcement, tracking, remote wipe functions, monitoring, troubleshooting, etc. The leader in this space is Blackberry's Enterprise Server solution. Without a doubt this would be a venerable addition to the iPhone's feature list, but I'd argue that for all but the largest enterprises this is not a showstopper. Given the superiority of the iPhone interface vs. other Smartphone devices, if Apple does have this in development then we might see a enterprise Smartphone monopoly coming. What features do you think the iPhone still needs for mass adoption in the Enterprise market? Do you think the latest release is enough?
“As a result of the policies the Governor has supported over the past six years, the renewable energy industry has grown dramatically in Nevada, including more than $5 billion in new renewable projects. In addition, thousands of Nevadans have installed rooftop solar on their homes as a result of his support of increases in net metering caps. The Governor also supports Nevada’s aggressive and progressive 25 percent by 2025 renewable portfolio standard. Nevada’s renewable energy potential and portfolio are national leaders and the State is a leading exporter of green energy. In 2016, voters overwhelmingly approved energy choice and are likely to do so again in 2018. As a result, any discussion surrounding current energy legislation must consider how the energy choice initiative would affect the current renewable portfolio standard, new and existing renewable energy generation and new and existing rooftop solar installations and the homeowners who have them. Thus, any measure in the 2017 legislative session must consider the potential consequences on energy policy that result from voter approval of energy choice. The complexity of these issues is why the Governor formed the Committee on Energy Choice, so that all stakeholders could consider these issues in a careful and deliberative manner. At this time, the Governor is monitoring the energy policies being debated in the Legislature. Energy consumption, transmission and generation are complex issues that affect every Nevadan and our economy. The Governor will decide how proposed policies will promote continued growth in renewable energy and their effect on Nevadans in a new energy choice environment. The Governor’s Office of Energy and his staff have met with bill sponsors and stakeholders as an informational resource only.”
Sunastian Falconer - 3RG - Legendary Creature - Human Shaman - 4/4 - T: Add CC to your mana pool. Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. 2RW, T: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Sunken Ruins - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. U/B, T: Add UU, UB, or BB to your mana pool. Sunseed Nurturer - 2W - Creature - Human Druid Wizard - 1/1 - At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may gain 1 life. T: Add C to your mana pool. Svogthos, the Restless Tomb - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. 3BG: Until end of turn, Svogthos, the Restless Tomb becomes a black and green Plant Zombie creature with “This creature’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.” It’s still a land. Swarmyard - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. Tainted Field - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Add W or B to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control a Swamp. Tainted Isle - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Add U or B to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control a Swamp. Tainted Peak - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Add B or R to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control a Swamp. Tainted Wood - Land - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Add B or G to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control a Swamp. Talisman of Dominance - 2 - Artifact - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Add U or B to your mana pool. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you. Talisman of Impulse - 2 - Artifact - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Add R or G to your mana pool. Talisman of Impulse deals 1 damage to you. Talisman of Indulgence - 2 - Artifact - T: Add C to your mana pool. T: Add B or R to your mana pool. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.
- Hybrid spinning. Hybrid spinning tries to combine advantages of both approaches. That is, do active spinning for some time (to account for the case when the condition is satisfied soon by a thread running on another processor), then switch to passive spinning to not burn too much CPU cycles aimlessly. Below is an example of how hybrid spinning may be implemented on Windows: void do_ backoff ( int & backoff ) // backoff is initialized to 0 { if ( backoff < 10 ) _mm_pause (); else if ( backoff < 20 ) for ( int i = 0 ; i != 50 ; i += 1 ) _mm_pause (); else if ( backoff < 22 ) SwitchToThread (); else if ( backoff < 24 ) Sleep ( 0 ); else if ( backoff < 26 ) Sleep ( 1 ); else Sleep ( 10 ); backoff += 1 ; } Note that we generally want to increase delay during successive failures to find the condition satisfied. It helps to reduce contention and/or improves overall system's efficiency. Hybrid spinning must be considered as a default option, because it's all things to all men. However there are some exceptions: - On single-core/single-processor systems passive spinning should be employed. - If a system is completely dedicated to the application (that is no other noticeable work to do), and processors are not oversubscribed with threads, then pure active spinning may be used – there is no useful to do anyway, so we can burn CPU cycles right and left. Such situation is usally the case in the context of HPC (high-performance computing). However, there is still little sense in active spinning for more than, let's say, several milliseconds. - In ultra low-latency systems active spinning may help to reduce latecy of a critical path. - If a really long waiting is expected than one may use pure passive spinning. No need to bother yourself with implementation of hybrid spinning.
Mr. Mendez: "None of us can really hold our breath while we wait for the USG to live up to its obligation to investigate, prosecute and punish every act of torture committed by its agents. The lack of delivery on the promise to have a day of reckoning is truly disappointing. But again, experience shows that issues of accountability do not go away. Of course, it is preferable to have accountability in real time. But justice, even if it comes late, will come and be welcome." The comments by the United Nations' chief torture investigator follow a release of additional information from PFC Manning's lead counsel, David Coombs, about the witnesses the defense team plans to call. He posted a partially redacted witness list on his blog: http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2011/12/defense-witness-list.html In recent days, Manning's defense team has emphasized that prosecution officials have withheld evidence that would support his case. These materials include assessments by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the White House that the leaked documents never posed a threat to national security.
Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal Nepalese police officers clear debris from Durbar Square in Kathmandu on Sunday, May 3. A magnitude-7.8 earthquake centered less than 50 miles from Kathmandu rocked Nepal with devastating force Saturday, April 25. The earthquake and its aftershocks have turned one of the world's most scenic regions into a panorama of devastation, killing and injuring thousands. Hide Caption 1 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal An injured Nepalese woman is carried by villagers toward an Indian army helicopter to be airlifted from Philim village in Gorkha district in Nepal on May 3. Hide Caption 2 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal Members of the Tsayana family warm themselves next to a fire outside their damaged house on May 3 in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Hide Caption 3 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal A woman receives comfort during the funeral of her mother, a victim of Nepal's deadly earthquake, on Friday, May 1, in Kathmandu. Hide Caption 4 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal Hindu priests perform rituals during the cremations of victims at the Pashupatinath Temple on the banks of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu on May 1. Hide Caption 5 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal People await aid from an Indian army helicopter in front of damaged homes in Kulgaun, Nepal, on May 1. Hide Caption 6 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal An injured woman gets carried on a stretcher at Kathmandu's airport after being evacuated from Melamchi, Nepal, on May 1. Hide Caption 7 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal A member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department guides his sniffing dog through a collapsed building in Kathmandu on Thursday, April 30. Hide Caption 8 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal A teenage boy gets rushed to a hospital April 30 after being rescued from the debris of a building in Kathmandu days after the earthquake. Hide Caption 9 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal A man is freed from the ruins of a hotel by French rescuers in the Gangabu area of Kathmandu on Tuesday, April 28. Reuters identified the man as Rishi Khanal. Hide Caption 10 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal Nepalese military police search through rubble outside Kathmandu on April 28. Hide Caption 11 of 64 Photos: Powerful earthquake hits Nepal People rest April 28 in a temporary housing camp in Kathmandu.
France mourns the victims of the Nice attack A moment's pause Church bells tolled across the country as France held a minute of silence on noon Monday to honor the victims of the Nice truck attack. Thousands gathered in the city at the site of the attack. France mourns the victims of the Nice attack National mourning The attack will serve to "strengthen the resolve of international allies to combat violent extremism, " US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Brussels. But the lethal use of an easily obtainable vehicle as a weapon by a man who had no history of radicalization highlights the challenge intelligence and security officials face in stopping such attacks. France mourns the victims of the Nice attack Third big attack Holding a minute of silence is becoming a grimly familiar ritual after France's third big terror attack in 18 months. The Nice attack comes eight months after jihadists went on a killing spree across Paris, and 18 months after the terror attacks at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket, also in Paris. France mourns the victims of the Nice attack Sick of the carnage People's anger and frustration was palpable in some of the messages left among the many flowers and candles on the city's seafront: "Enough with the speeches" and "Sick of carnage in our streets". France mourns the victims of the Nice attack Shock and grief Mourners laid flowers and candles on the bloodstained Promenade des Anglais to commemorate the victims of the grisly truck attack on Bastille Day. The attack left 84 people dead, and injured 308, many severely. France mourns the victims of the Nice attack Teddies and toys Many of the dead and injured were children watching the traditional Bastille day fireworks display with their families in the idyllic Mediterranean city. At least 10 children were struck and killed by the speeding vehicle. France mourns the victims of the Nice attack Sea of flowers France's interior minister says investigators have no evidence that the truck driver had links to terrorist networks. While the Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the Bastille Day attack, Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday the driver may have merely been motivated by IS messages. He was not previously linked to jihadist groups.
Despite the central role of bendability and confinement, we expect that other morphologically relevant parameters will be required to characterize instabilities that are induced by substrate stiffness and boundary effects. Examples include the folding in floating sheets (8, 21), period-doubling (7), and n-tupling (6) in sheets attached to elastomers, a subcritical creasing instability in neo-Hookean solids (22, 23), and multiscale wrinkling cascades (24, 25). As far as we are aware, our study provides a unique experimental scenario that exhibits a controlled transition between wrinkled and crumpled shapes. This second instability is associated with a primary symmetry breaking of the stress field. The data indicate a continuous transition determined by the inherent frustration of the geometry rather than by mechanical forces. Analogous studies of 2D crystals on droplet surfaces (26, 27) show that point and line lattice defects may also resolve geometric frustration. The relationship between those defects and the localized structures emerging from a continuum remain to be explored. Although our motivation in choosing a spherical substrate was to frustrate the sheet at all points in space, it is not clear that the spherical geometry was a necessary ingredient to achieve crumpling. One-dimensional patterns do not appear to crumple, and neither do all 2D geometries (17, 19, 20). It remains a puzzle as to what the generic conditions are under which a wrinkled state gives way to crumpling.
There’s a recurring romantic idea in world sports of the team that would not die: Bankruptcies staved off by fan coalitions. Teams broken up by wars or regime changes, then reuniting as history changes course. In the United States in particular, teams have been revived decades after playing their last game and found their new incarnation adopted by newcomers and sentimental veterans alike. But few teams have lurched toward death amid such widespread indifference, if not outright hostility, as Chivas USA. The team, which at one time heralded the start of Major League Soccer’s slow emergence from a painful contraction in 2002, was launched as a branding exercise on the part of Mexico’s most storied team, Chivas Guadalajara, in 2005. It spent much of the next decade limping from crisis to crisis as many onlookers shook their heads and wondered how — and sometimes just as pertinently, why — they were still around. This year, MLS, whose recent bullish expansion drive had begun to stand in sharp contrast to the sight of empty Chivas USA stands, emphasized by a frequently televised advertising tarpaulin covering the seats at one end of the stadium, finally stepped in. The owners, Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes, were forced to sell the team, though at an admittedly very handsome reported $70 million “market value” markup on the $7.5 million buy-in fee they and their former partners, the Cue brothers, paid in 2005. After the league buyout, former MLS official Nelson Rodriguez was installed as an interim president, charged with running the team for its last season while the league searched for a buyer. “Team LA,” as the players began to refer to themselves in the locker room, or “Chivas TBA,” as Twitter soon christened them, would play one final year in the iconic red-and-white stripes of Guadalajara before the team’s assets would be sold to someone who believed they could make a second L.A. team work. Whoever buys the team has plenty to learn from.
In 2017, to commemorate the franchise's 55th anniversary, Topps released a sequel series to the original 1962 55-card series called Mars Attacks: The Revenge!, which takes place five years after the events in the original series and chronicles a second invasion by the Martians that escaped the explosion of Mars simply due to the fact that they were not there when it happened, but instead were still on, and above, Earth. Using a giant ray gun (probably designed by Martian technology that was captured by the humans during the first Martian war and adapted for their use by combining it with then-current Earth technology), Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon (which, according to the story, is the same size and diameter as Mars) is pulled into Mars' former orbit (Mars is now a second asteroid belt that was made by its destruction) and renamed Mars II in order to restore balance to the Solar System which had been disrupted by the explosion of Mars. The surviving Martians, after discovering that the new planet's atmosphere is breathable to them, colonize Mars II secretly and, unknown to the humans, for the next five (Earth) years prepare to wage a second Martian war against Earth for revenge, probably blaming the humans for killing their people. Five years later, the second Martian war begins, with the Martians just as cruel and sadistic as they were before. In the end, when all is said and done, the humans win this war as well and again defeat the Martians, who flee back to Mars II in order to fight another day. It contains 110 cards-the story itself (cards #1-55) and rough pencil art for the story cards (cards #P-1-P-55). No promo cards were released for this series. It was sold as a complete boxed set containing only the unwrapped 110 cards. As with the reboot version, it remains to be seen whether any new series in the original version will be released in the future.
'What happens is they start to crave it. If they play it for more than a couple hours, they get into this addictive mode. The dopamine in their brain starts to react to it, and then when they come off of it, they have a crash from the decrease in dopamine. Basically, that makes them angry, irritable, withdrawn,' Roberts said. The World Health Organization has, for the first time, designated gaming disorder as a mental health condition. That is something St. Pierre said she is seeing, firsthand with Aiden. 'He just really needs to get off of it because his behavior and his attention span have just gone by the wayside,' she said. Karlson recommends limiting a child's screen time to two hours per day. If your child shows signs of isolation or depression because of “Fortnite,” seek professional help. You can also regulate your child's playtime, as well as in-app purchases, via parental controls on phones and most devices.
In the years leading up to L.A. women's marathoning worldwide matured rapidly, most of its growth driven by American women who, like the men, led the way in the early 80's. 's gold medal in L.A. resonated around the world, but while women in the rest of the world took it as a starting point for over 30 years of progressive development American women's marathoning came to a standstill after L.A. With some generational fluctuation along the way, for the 20 years after L.A. the average level among women in the U.S.A. showed no overall improvement, even regressing slightly relative to where it had been at the time of L.A.There were signs of improvement around the time of the 2000 Sydney Olympics but nothing outside the range of what had come before. The real turning point came four years later in Athens with's bronze medal. The fastest year in U.S. women's history up to that point, 1989, had a top ten average of 2:30:40. In 2004 this went to 2:30:15 and continued to trend faster with almost every year since then averaging under 2:32:00. 2011 saw the average go under 2:30 for the first time to 2:29:24, and a year later with the 2012 London Olympics it went to 2:27:18. The average is still well behind the world standard, but the American women's rate of improvement over the last 12 years has been significantly faster than the worldwide rate.So the question is, with both American men and women going in the right direction, will this year's U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials mark another turning L.A.-based point? If L.A. does win the 2024 Olympic bid, will American marathoning be ready to represent? U.S. women are already better than they've ever been and have a solid group of talent at the top instead of just one star runner as in years past. If the trend continues or accelerates they look set to become a global power for the first time in over 30 years.For men the challenge is tougher. Keflezighi pulled off a miracle in L.A. and made the Rio Olympic team at age 40, but none of the other top four at the Houston Trials, Hall,, and Ritzenhein, all runners who played large roles in the improvements since Sydney, were factors in L.A., Hall retiring, Abdirahman a DNS and Ritzenhein a DNF.
Pathophysiology of endothelial dysfunction The endothelium is a major regulator of homeostasis and exerts a number of vasoprotective effects such as vasodilation, inhibition of inflammatory responses and suppression of smooth muscle cell growth. Dysfunction of the endothelium thus causes reduction or abolition of these vasoprotective effects. Factors that lead to reduction of vasodilation in ED include a reduction in nitric oxide (NO) production, increased oxidative stress, a decrease in NO bioavailability, and a reduction of hyperpolarizing factor. Inflammatory responses are initiated in ED by up-regulation of adhesion molecules, generation of chemokines and production of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, and these also lead to a prothrombotic state. Levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine, vasoconstrictor peptides such as angiotensin and endothelin-1, and hypercholesterolemia and hyperglycemia all contribute to mechanisms of ED. Full discussion of the pathophysiologic mechanisms of ED is complex and outside the scope of this review. We hereby focus on some of these factors. Nitric oxide Vascular tone is maintained by release of numerous dilator and constrictor substances [3], nitric oxide (NO) being the major vasodilative substance. The hallmark of ED is impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation. NO is formed by endothelial cells from l-arginine via the enzymatic action of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS), which is located in caveolae. The protein caveolin-1 binds to calmodulin to inhibit activity of eNOS. The binding of calcium to calmodulin displaces caveolin-1, activating eNOS and leading to production of NO, which diffuses to vascular smooth muscle and causes relaxation by activating guanylate cyclase, thereby increasing cyclic guanosine monophosphate. Cyclosporin-A-induced ED and hypertension has recently been suggested to be caused by decreasing cholesterol content in caveolae by cyclosporin. Lungu et al. [11•] demonstrated that exposure of cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells to 1 µM cyclosporin for 1 hr significantly decreased cholesterol content in caveolae and displaced eNOS from caveolae. Treating bovine aortic endothelial cells for 24 hours with 30 µg/ml cholesterol blocked the cyclosporin effect and restored eNOS phosphorylation in response to flow. Sindhu et al. [12] documented that chronic renal failure (CRF) induces changes in caveolin-1, soluble guanylate cyclase, and Akt expression, three proteins important in regulating eNOS functionality. CRF was induced in Sprague-Dawley rats via 5/6 nephrectomy. After 6 weeks there was elevation in BP and plasma creatinine with increase in caveolin-1 in aortic, liver, and renal tissues, a reduction in urinary cyclic guanosine monophosphate levels indicative of guanylate cyclase dysfunction, and a depression of Akt abundance in aorta, heart, and liver tissues.
Though my father only ever knew a tenth of the trouble I’ve been in, I was still his least favorite child, and the last person he wanted taking care of him when he got very ill. But every one of my sisters was pregnant—one very much augmented and on purpose, and the other two accidents of fate. How they celebrated the coincidence, and then rued it when it forced them to bully me back to Florida from San Francisco. I was in clinic when they called, and it’s a testament to their power-of-three invincibility that they were able to blow through the phone tree and the two receptionists who routinely deny my existence when patients try to find me. “Dad is sick,” Charlotte said. “He’s been sick,” I said, because this had been going on for a year, and though nobody gets better from metastatic small-cell lung cancer, he’d been holding his own for months and months. “Dad is sicker,” Christine said, and Carmen added, “Much sicker!” She is the eldest and the (barely) most pregnant. “He’s in the hospital,” Christine said. “There’s an infection.” “In his bladder,” Charlotte said. There are two years between each of them, but they’ve always seemed like triplets, all with their furrowed brows and disapproving hatchet mouths, all as tall and fair as I am short and dark, all with the same blue eyes that seem just the right color for staring a person down. My eyes, like my father’s, are nearly black, and Carmen says I can hide anything in them. “A little cystitis,” I said. “So what?” “Dr. Klar says he’s very ill,” Christine said. “She doesn’t know if he’ll come out of the hospital,” Charlotte said. “She always says that,” I said. “She never knows. She’s an alarmist. She’s a worrier.” “You have to go!” they said all together. “You have to go,” I said. “You go, if it matters so much.” “We’re pregnant!” they said. And then the individual excuses: mild preëclampsia for Charlotte and Christine and a clotty calf for Carmen. They can’t travel from New York, where they live within waddling distance of one another. “People travel when they’re eight months pregnant,” I said. “People do it all the time!” Though I knew that they didn’t, and now the angel was sitting on my desk and shaking her head at me.
My father always told me that you risk losing a few years in your development if you stay too long, because the training of players and the methods used are often more advanced in Europe.“If you leave when you are older, you maybe miss out on that development. So I think the best age for Uruguayan players go to Europe is at 18 or 19.”After signing for Palermo in January, 2007, Cavani initially competed for a first-team place with Fabrizio Miccoli and Amauri and was forced to play out of position.But after 18 difficult months, the Salto-born striker became his club's first choice up front and earned a €17 million move to Napoli in 2010.“I would say the most difficult moment in my career came when I arrived at Palermo,” said Cavani. “I had just started getting called up to the national team and - playing as a number nine – I had been top scorer the previous domestic season and for the Uruguay Under-20s.“But the coach thought I would be a good wing-back, a player who could get up and down the flanks – and the same thing happened in the national team too! It was a sacrificial role. It was difficult because I had to do something I was not used to and that is hard.“But things changed and now I look at it as a life experience. It took a lot of sacrifice to change things and I had to prove myself whenever I played in my true position.”At centre forward, Cavani became one of the most feared goalscorers in Europe. In his three seasons at Napoli, he netted 33, 33 and 38 goals before PSG paid €64.5m for his services.Back-to-back Ligue 1 titles followed - Cavani’s first league championships in Europe - as he scored over 50 goals in two seasons, but ‘El Matador’ does not know what his future holds.“I like playing football wherever I can,” he said. “Football is my passion and who knows where I will play in the future – you cannot foresee that. As long as I am playing football, I am prepared to play wherever I have to.”
For example, we may wish to state the types of the implicit arguments in the following definition, which defines a predicate on vectors (this is also defined in Data.Vect , under the name Elem ): data IsElem : a -> Vect n a -> Type where Here : { x : a } -> { xs : Vect n a } -> IsElem x ( x :: xs ) There : { x,y:a } -> { xs : Vect n a } -> IsElem x xs -> IsElem x ( y :: xs ) An instance of IsElem x xs states that x is an element of xs . We can construct such a predicate if the required element is Here , at the head of the vector, or There , in the tail of the vector. For example: testVec : Vect 4 Int testVec = 3 :: 4 :: 5 :: 6 :: Nil inVect : IsElem 5 Main . testVec inVect = There ( There Here ) Important Implicit Arguments and Scope Within the type signature the typechecker will treat all variables that start with an lowercase letter and are not applied to something else as an implicit variable. To get the above code example to compile you will need to provide a qualified name for testVec . In the example above, we have assumed that the code lives within the Main module. If the same implicit arguments are being used a lot, it can make a definition difficult to read. To avoid this problem, a using block gives the types and ordering of any implicit arguments which can appear within the block: using ( x : a, y : a, xs : Vect n a ) data IsElem : a -> Vect n a -> Type where Here : IsElem x ( x :: xs ) There : IsElem x xs -> IsElem x ( y :: xs ) Note: Declaration Order and mutual blocks¶ In general, functions and data types must be defined before use, since dependent types allow functions to appear as part of types, and type checking can rely on how particular functions are defined (though this is only true of total functions; see Section Totality Checking).
By this time in the argument, I believe that the State had passed the 15 minute mark and started going into its reserve time, which is not uncommon. If the Court continues to pose questions, then the attorney will remain at the podium to answer them. The Court may also permit an attorney to go over his time at its discretion. Toward the end of his argument the State made a remark that stood out to me. The State said that the only evidence that Mr. Syed went to the public library was Asia McClain. The State was attempting to explain how the potential testimony of McClain was inconsequential, not enough to tip the scales and that the lack of corroboration made it unreliable. Up until this point, the State had spent the entirety of its time with the Court discussing whether Gutierrez rendered deficient assistance on the alibi issue. My notes don’t reflect an explicit question on prejudice- was this mistake so serious that there was a substantial possibility that the result would have been different? To me, the State’s remark actually underscored the potential prejudice of Gutierrez’s failure. If McClain’s account was now the only evidence that Syed was in the library, her testimony was all the more critical, assuming it was credible. In the same way that a defendant may be convicted based on the word of one witness, if believed, so might he be exonerated by the word of one witness. Moreover, though this is mere speculation and thus cannot meet the Petitioner’s burden of persuasion in post conviction, if the McClain alibi had been properly investigated at the time, there very well may have been additional information that would have substantiated the alibi, but that opportunity would erode with the passage of time. On the other hand, the State would argue that it’s just as likely that evidence contradicting the alibi would develop. The State took its seat without ever discussing the issue the State raised on appeal and the basis for the post conviction court’s grant of a new trial, whether Gutierrez was ineffective for failing to cross examine the State’s expert with the fax cover sheet disclaimer.
BENGALURU: The Sanatan Sanstha, a Goa-based Hindutva outfit, and its affiliate Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) on Thursday condemned theand reiterated they had no role to play in the killing.“Ideological differences between Hindu activists and Leftists cannot be denied. However, to conclude that Hindu activists have carried out the murder is unfair. Sanatan Sanstha has always fought ideology with ideology and taken the legal route in a democratic fashion, “Sanstha spokesperson Chetan Rajhans told reporters here. Rajhans said Sanstha is open to co-operating with the(SIT) probing the Gauri murder and investigators were welcome to visit their headquarters in Ponda. He said no SIT official has so far questioned anyone from Sanstha in connection with the murder.Rajhans alleged that a few politicians, pseudo-liberals and journalists were accusing Hindutva organizations of being involved in Gauri murder without any evidence.Sanjiv Panalekar, an advocate and national secretary of Hindu Vidhidyana Parishad, alleged that HJS leader Dr Veerendra Tawde and Sanstha activist Sameer Gaikwad were falsely implicated in the murders of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and Communist leader Govind Pansare.“In the Gauri case, the SIT needs to investigate Naxalism, family dispute, property dispute, local fights, and source of funding for her activities. That two bike-borne men pumped bullets from a 7.65mm pistol and killed her, should not be ground to conclude that the murders are committed by a certain group for ideological reasons. There are thousands of 7.65mm pistols sold illegally and hundreds of murders have been committed using them.All these murders are not connected to a single gang. Making an allegation to this effect against Sanstha and HJS is not fair, “Panalekar said.“There were contradictory reports about the weapons used in the killings of Dabholkar, Pansare and MM Kalburgi.Initially, police said the weapons used to kill Dabholkar and Pansare were the same. Later, a report said a pistol used to kill Pansare and Kalburgi was the same, “Panalekar added.The Sanstha is a trust and there is no membership, but we have saadhaks (volunteers). Till now, SIT officials have not come to our premises. We welcome them as we need to share something with them. But we are aware SIT is collecting information about Sanstha with help from local police, who have called a few saadhaks and are questioning them about our organization, “Sanjiv Panalekar, an advocate and national secretary of Hindu Vidhidyana Parishad, said. SIT officials collected details about the press conference held by Sanstha and HJS on Thursday.
One year ago this week, Elon Musk took to a stage to unveil his most important vehicle yet: the $35,000 Model 3 . The electric five-seater accelerates as fast as the the best-selling luxury sport sedans in America—the BMW 3 Series and the Mercedes C Class—and costs about the same.The value proposition was the best ever for an electric car , and the crowd ate it up.But none of his pronouncements that night were as audacious as those to come. After taking in about 400,000 deposits at $1,000 a piece, Musk ramped up production plans. And then he ramped them up some more.Now, three months from the official start of production, the billionaire Tesla CEO seems to think he can not only match the performance of those top luxury brands, but outsell them in the US, too—in just one year.Tesla has a number of tricks in store for the Model 3 launch, but first it's worth taking a moment to appreciate just how high Musk has set the bar: With unusual specificity for an automaker, he disclosed detailed production targets in a call with investors last month that begin to paint us a picture.First, Musk said the company is placing orders with suppliers for, "1,000 cars a week in July, 2,000 a week in August, and 4,000 a week in September." Tesla then plans to increase production to 5,000 cars a week by the end of the year, and 10,000 a week by the end of 2018. For context, the company is currently able to make about 2,000 Model S and Model X cars a week. Here’s what the Model 3 ramp begins to look like.For Musk to hit all of his targets, Tesla would need to build about 430,000 Model 3s by the end of next year. That’s more than all of the all-electric cars sold planet-wide last year. The rollout will begin in California and move east, focusing on US reservation holders. Even if half of the Model 3 inventory shipped to other countries, US sales under Musk’s targets would outpace the BMW 3 Series and the Mercedes C class—combined.Another forecast Musk reiterated is that Tesla thinks it can build 500,000 total cars next year. Model S and Model X growth would continue, but at a slowing rate.
The goal here is to develop an image-to-triangle projection function, much like the 3D to 2D function we developed, so that when we want to color a triangle on-screen, we can look at the assigned texture and figure out what pixel color we should be using. First, we have to define how 3D models relate to 2D textures, since this behavior is different than projections of 3D points to 2D pixels. First, we let each 3D vertex on our model have a position in the 2D texture-space. We let these coordinates, out of a common convention, be referred to as UV-variables and the texture space is named UV-space. We use the variable-pair UV simply because they are the two previous letters in the alphabet to the commonly-used XYZ point/vertex convention. These variables will be normalized floating-point values that map to a texture using the cartesian coordinate system where, much like our Canvas coordinate system, defines its origin as (0,0) in the top-left, and the maximum value as (1,1) in the bottom right. U, which maps to the texture variable X, grows positive to the right of the image. V, which maps to the texture variable Y, grows positive to the bottom of the image. UV coordinates are always normalized for the sake of consistency and to help with texture pixel-source computation: this means that UV values always range from 0 to 1, inclusive. This allows us to let UV (0.5, 0.5) always be the center of the image, regardless of how big, small, wide, or thin the source image is. By letting each triangle's vertex be associated with a UV point, we can fill the rest of the triangle by interpolation! Let's try to map our cube to a simple texture we have have. We'll have to first define how our cube will maps to the texture, using the above-described UV-coordinate system, then in JavaScript load our source texture, and finally implement our new pixel-texture mapper function. Our "test" image will be a 128 by 128 pixel image that has two empty, but colored, squares of 64 x 64 pixels each, and another two pair of squares that have Reddit's "coat-of-arms" and the Reddit alien itself. Our texture is particularly small to help with performance issues. Modern graphics hardware can load massive images and other texture resources. First, we have to load the texture itself.
این وقایع و حوادثی که برای ملت ایران پیش آمد، طبعاً موجب شد که مقداری از آثار ایران قدیم در گیر و دار حوادث از میان برود و عده زیادی از افراد مردم ما در گیر و دار وقایع نابود شوند و ضمناً چیره‌گران مقداری از زحمات ما را بنام خود درآوردند و این امر ضرری از لحاظ تحقیق و مطالعه و استنتاج از مطالعات درباره تمدن ایران را ببار آورده‌است. بطور مثال عرض میکنم بعد از حمله عرب و در نتیجهٔ غلبه تمدنی یعنی (تمدن اسلامی) بر تمدنی دیگر (یعنی بر تمدن ایرانی عهد ساسانی) بسیاری از سرمایه‌های تمدن قبلی باسم تمدن بعدی درآمد و حتی اگر خود این تمدن نخواسته باشد، عملاً اینطور شده‌است و عملاً در تاریخ این امر صورت گرفته‌است. در این مورد میتوان از راههای مختلف مطالعه کرد، یعنی از راه ادبیات و از راه علوم و از راه صنایع و حرف و امثال آنها، مثلاً موقعی که مسلمین بر ممالکی در خاور و خاور نزدیک غلبه پیدا کردند، در این ممالک مقدار زیادی مراکز علمی وجود داشته‌است، مخصوصاً در شهرهایی مانند نصیبین و رها و حران و تیسفون و سلوکیه و شهرهای خوزستان مثل جندی شاهپور تا حدود سمرقند، عده زیادی مراکز علمی وجود داشته‌است و این مراکز یا بزبان سریانی کار میکردند و یا بزبان پهلوی و بزبانهای محلی دیگر و آثاری داشتند. علمائی که در اینجاها کار میکردند بعد از غلبه اسلام و بعد از مرکزیت و قدرت سیاسی و اقتصادی بغداد، غالباً باین شهر منتقل شدند و زبان عربی را بعنوان زبان علمی اختیار کردند. چه بر اثر تسلط اسلام زبان عرب طبعاً یک زبان سیاسی و علمی شد و در نتیجه آثاری که این علما قبلاً بزبانهای سریانی و پهلوی مینوشتند، بعد از دورهٔ منصور دوانیقی معمولاً بزبان عربی نوشته شد. مثلاً تمام آثاری که علمای معروف جندی شاهپور بسریانی داشتند و همه آثاری که در مراکزی مانند اهواز و غیره بپهلوی نوشته میشد بزبان عربی منتقل گردید و یا اگر خواستند بعد از آن چیزی بنویسند بزبان عربی مینوشتند. نتیجه چه شد؟ نتیجه این شد که حاصل زحمات مردمی که پیش از تسلط اسلام در مراکز مختلف سرگرم مطالعه در علوم مختلف بودند بنام تمدن اسلامی و بنام عرب درآمد.
Most creationists believe that the Noah’s ark story is historical fact. Never mind that there are actually two different stories in Genesis 6 from different sources that don’t even agree with one another, or that large parts of both flood myths are cribbed almost word-for-word from the much older Sumerian and Babylonian accounts in The Epic of Gilgamesh. Never mind that creationists must explain why one verse has seven pairs of clean animals on the ark, while another only has one. Creationist books are full of incredible mental gyrations needed to make the Noah’s ark story remotely believable. However, as I found out from my debate with Duane Gish in 1983, they will avoid discussing it if it is brought up in debate, since it sounds foolish and ruins their credibility with most audiences. First, let us start with what the Bible says and delve into the world of “arkeology”. McGowan (1984, Chapter 5) and Moore (1983) discuss the logistical details of the Noah’s ark story at length, so I will not repeat their entire analysis here. A whole series of questions and problems come up when you look at the ark story in detail. First of all, naval engineers learned long ago that wooden boats longer than about 300 feet cannot work, because there is no kind of wood in a boat that size that can stand up to the stresses and torques of the open ocean. Only with the invention of iron hulls was it possible to build longer boats. Then there is the issue of volume. McGowan (1984, p. 55) calculates that the Biblical dimensions give a boat with about 55,000 cubic meters of internal volume. Depending upon whose estimate you follow, there are at least 1.5 million species on earth today, which gives us only about 0.0367 cubic meters per species, or about one-third the capacity of a small shoebox—and these animals would have to be packed like shoeboxes stacked on top of one another to make this solution work. Clearly, this is not enough space for most large animals. The pair (or is it seven pairs?) of elephants, rhinos and hippos would take up much of the ark all by themselves. The problem gets even worse if we realize that the true estimate is about 4 or 5 billion species on earth.
1 - Is this that bug? : http://i.imgur.com/lLgXSkO.png If it is, then I am aware of it. I'm not sure why that happens, and I've tried multiple solutions. I'll find it eventually...2 - Could you post a screenshot? The new player movement features gravity. The player moves down one card every 3rd of a second, if there is no solid cards below it. To check if there is a solid card below it, it checks the very top-left of the below card to see if it is solid. Maybe you glitched the below card by moving it one pixel to the right or down.3 - I found this bug as soon as I finished and uploaded the recent version (0.1.3). I know why it happens and I fixed it already. When a new world is generated, the player is spawned randomly according to the number of x-coordinate cards (horizontal), which is currently 36. Sometimes, the player went to 37. This was fixed with simple math! (xcards - 1)4 - I was thinking of that before. It does get annoying to keep pressing it. I might actually incorporate that into 0.1.4!5 - The idea is built on Minecraft. But not the details. I'm trying to be as different and creative as I can! Currently I'm working on a crafting system. The game is called Card Craft, so there's no getting around that! At first there's going to be a 2x2 grid to the right of your inventory, and you can craft a crafting table. I literally just started before I'm posting this. I have the sprite editor up editing the inventoryI think I'm going to trash the inventory sprites, and recreate them to be a little more representive of the cards they were mined from. I like how the wood log came out though, so I'm keeping that! I guess I can tell you one more thing without ruining the surprises of 0.1.4......sooo......oresThanks for your reply! All comments, positive or negative, are greatly appreciated! I'll try my best to get to each reply at least as long as this one.P.S. You mentioned that you realized I'm not using a ds_grid. I was going to in the beginning, but now I'm not. EVERYTHING in the game took a lot of math and logic to figure out. I spent a few all-nighters staring at one line of code to find a solution.
The students were being misled. The C.I.A. is part of the executive branch. Its director reports to the President; its operations and expenditures are subject to congressional oversight. The director of the C.I.A. during the nineteen-fifties, Allen Dulles, was the Secretary of State’s brother. The notion that the C.I.A. was running its own foreign policy, or that it was a “rogue elephant,” as one senator later called it, is absurd. After the revelations of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, when many of the C.I.A.’s undercover operations were exposed, people began talking about the agency as though it were some kind of underground cell, an organization with no accountability, up to its own dirty tricks. But a report on the C.I.A.’s covert operations made immediately after the 1967 revelations concluded that the agency “did not act on its own initiative.” In 1976, a more critical congressional report, which was never officially released, stated, “All evidence in hand suggests that the CIA, far from being out of control, has been utterly responsive to the instructions of the President and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.” It’s true that the C.I.A. did not always fully inform Administrations about what it was up to, but the agency had reason to believe that there were some things Administrations preferred not to know. Deniability is a crucial ingredient of covert operations. The C.I.A. used the N.S.A. to further the policies of the American government. If it had been found doing anything contrary to the wishes of the President, its plug would have been pulled very fast. So what, exactly, was the N.S.A. useful for? This is where things get murky. According to Paget’s account, the N.S.A. was apparently not used for what the C.I.A. called “political warfare.” The agency did create a front organization called the Independent Research Service (inventing titles that are as meaningless as possible is part of the spy game) for the purpose of recruiting American students to disrupt Soviet-controlled World Youth Festivals in Vienna, in 1959, and Helsinki, in 1962. The person in charge was the future feminist Gloria Steinem, who knew perfectly well where the money was coming from and never regretted taking it. “If I had a choice I would do it again,” she later said. “What is friendship if not constant amateurish psychoanalysis?” But that operation did not involve the N.S.A. Nor was the N.S.A.
(a) In General.--Section 2010(c)(3) <<NOTE: 26 USC 2010.>> is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ``(C) Increase in basic exclusion amount.--In the case of estates of decedents dying or gifts made after December 31, 2017, and before January 1, 2026, subparagraph (A) shall be applied by substituting `$10,000,000' for `$5,000,000'.''. (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (g) of section 2001 is amended to read as follows: ``(g) Modifications to Tax Payable.-- ``(1) Modifications to gift tax payable to reflect different tax rates.--For purposes of applying subsection (b)(2) with respect to 1 or more gifts, the rates of tax under subsection (c) in effect at the decedent's death shall, in lieu of th
* * @param $savePath * The directory to download the images to. */ private function downloadAllImages ( $savePath ) { $total = count ( $this -> downloadList ) ; foreach ( $this -> downloadList as $num => $id ) { $this -> outputFilter -> output ( "Loading post " . ( $num + 1 ) . "/ $total ... " ) ; $page = $this -> connection -> getRequest ( self :: PB_HOST . self :: PATH_POST . $id ) ; $this -> outputFilter -> output ( "Loaded. " ) ; $this -> delayFlood ( ) ; $matches = array ( ) ; if ( preg_match ( "/<img id=(? : \" \|')main_image(? : \" \|') src=(? : \" \|')(.+?)(? : \" \|')/" , $page , $matches ) ) { $this -> outputFilter -> verboseOutput ( "
If you lose, you are punished, so let's reward the person that wins even more. People that are at the top of arena have always got the best gear. People that do the BGs they want to do, don't get squat, because they don't get the bonus, and they don't get conquest points, so they'll be hundreds of days behind (literally) on gear if they play the way they want to.It's just bad PVP philosophy. Unfortunately, it looks like their only potential future competitor (Guild Wars 2) has decided this is an awesome idea, and they've thrown out the idea of balancing PVP on large scale battles. Just terrible.I don't want more vehicle combat.I want a huge war-field, jam packed with people, and sure, throw in some NPCs.I want to be a part of an ongoing war against the other faction.I don't want to run back and forth waving little flags at each other.I want a war, not a relay race.Go dig up the guy that made classic AV, and throw a truck load of money at him, and ask him nicely if he'll restore AV to its glory days as a separate queue, with scaling NPCs that remain a hard fight regardless of the gear levels. Then if he's really in a good mood, ask him to make a few more AV maps. Say Orc vs Night Elves, a real fight over Ashenvale and the Barrens instead of playing with flags. Maybe actually put the real Battle for Gilneas in.Murderball.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE just flat out copy Mourkain Temple. Steal it. Please. Just copy it exactly. Don't break murderball. PLEASE don't break murderball. I beg of you, don't break murderball.
Activision's making a vocal show of support for the game industry in the upcoming Supreme Court case surrounding California's violent video game legislation. The publisher joined a growing list of media, research and other groups filing amicus briefs in the case, claiming the 2005 law creates "an unprecedented exception for unprotected speech. "According to the company's statement, the California law, which would provide government-mandated legal penalties for the sale of violent video games to minors, is "dangerous, unnecessary, and misguided, and could undermine freedom of speech protections under the First Amendment for the entire nation. "The company suggests that should this particular legislation receive the court's approval, it could open a legal route for broader-ranging media censorship. Other media organizations from the world of literature, film and television, and music have already filed their own amicus briefs in the case, as have several attorneys general and over 80 scholars and researchers.Favoring the industry's existing self-regulatory rating and enforcement efforts -- which have been praised by the FTC -- Activision's brief is emphasized by accompanying statements from CEO Bobby Kotick. "Our First Amendment has survived intact for 219 years amid far greater technological, historical and social challenges," says Kotick. "The argument that video games present some kind of new ominous threat that requires a wholesale reassessment of one of our nation's most treasured freedoms and to take that freedom away indiscriminately from an entire group of our population based on nothing but age is beyond absurd. ""These are the same attacks Americans have witnessed against every previous emerging entertainment medium and genre including books, comics, rock n' roll, movies, TV and the Internet. In each case, freedom prevailed," Kotick continued. "We are thrilled to be able to be an important part of this historic effort to protect our Constitution and to ensure that video games remain vibrant form of expression for every gamer in our constituency. "Calling California's pursuit of its law "tampering with the nation's Constitution and wasting taxpayers' money," Kotick suggested the state would have been better served investing its resources in parental education and use of the game ratings system and on how to judge appropriate content. "Video game industry is a homegrown California economic success story providing thousands of highly paid skilled jobs at the time of economic crisis," Kotick adds.California senator Leland Yee is the bill's original author, and state Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger originally signed it into law in 2005.
What Happened After: Production was initially shut down, and all involved assumed the movie would simply be cancelled. After letting the tragedy sink in, however, Gilliam reached out to Ledger's friends Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell and asked if they would help him complete the movie. The script was rewritten so Ledger's character would alter his appearance and take on various disguises, and the end result wound up grossing more than $60 million. The three new actors were also all kind enough to donate the money they were paid to Ledger's daughter. : Fresh off shooting, a role that would later win him an Academy Award, Ledger decided to go a little less mainstream and boarded a Terry Gilliam film called. Between a third and halfway through filming, Ledger tragically died from an overdose of prescription medication. His passing at just twenty-eight-years-old was relentlessly covered for weeks and inspired an outpouring of emotion from all over the world. : Production was initially shut down, and all involved assumed the movie would simply be cancelled. After letting the tragedy sink in, however, Gilliam reached out to Ledger's friends Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell and asked if they would help him complete the movie. The script was rewritten so Ledger's character would alter his appearance and take on various disguises, and the end result wound up grossing more than $60 million. The three new actors were also all kind enough to donate the money they were paid to Ledger's daughter. Natalie Wood In Brainstorm What Happened: Former child star Natalie Wood's career slowed down a little bit following the birth of her children in the early to mid 1970s, but she was still a huge name when signed on to play one of the two leads in Douglas Trumbull's Brainstorm. She was able to complete most of her scenes without issue, but during a break in production in November of '81, she had a few drinks with husband Robert Wagner and co-star Christopher Walken and tragically wound up falling off the side of a boat and drowning. The exact circumstances around her death are very unclear, and it's still a very
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is the prototypical psychedelic drug, but its effects on the human brain have never been studied before with modern neuroimaging. Here, three complementary neuroimaging techniques: arterial spin labeling (ASL), blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) measures, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), implemented during resting state conditions, revealed marked changes in brain activity after LSD that correlated strongly with its characteristic psychological effects. Increased visual cortex cerebral blood flow (CBF), decreased visual cortex alpha power, and a greatly expanded primary visual cortex (V1) functional connectivity profile correlated strongly with ratings of visual hallucinations, implying that intrinsic brain activity exerts greater influence on visual processing in the psychedelic state, thereby defining its hallucinatory quality. LSD’s marked effects on the visual cortex did not significantly correlate with the drug’s other characteristic effects on consciousness, however. Rather, decreased connectivity between the parahippocampus and retrosplenial cortex (RSC) correlated strongly with ratings of “ego-dissolution” and “altered meaning,” implying the importance of this particular circuit for the maintenance of “self” or “ego” and its processing of “meaning.” Strong relationships were also found between the different imaging metrics, enabling firmer inferences to be made about their functional significance. This uniquely comprehensive examination of the LSD state represents an important advance in scientific research with psychedelic drugs at a time of growing interest in their scientific and therapeutic value. The present results contribute important new insights into the characteristic hallucinatory and consciousness-altering properties of psychedelics that inform on how they can model certain pathological states and potentially treat others.
Giving players 'coaches' that can fill in knowledge gaps allows a second party to essentially adapt for them. So mid-set coaching, where a player is taught what to do in situation X, Y, or Z,Now, some of you may be saying to yourselves, "well who cares? Both players can have coaches, after all." This may be true, but it doesn't make it fair. Coaching becomes doubly problematic when you realize that. Regular player Joe Schmoe's friends don't have a lot of great advice to give him; an elite player's training partners, on the other hand, are likely able to tell them exactly what to watch for. As an example, take ZeRo. He is the undisputed best at Smash 4. Nobody doubts his talent, and he will likely be at the forefront of his game for years to come, coach or no. But let's say some new player appears out of nowhere, challenging him for his spot. Should that player have to play against ZeRothe minds of his top-level friends? Or should he be afforded the opportunity to beat, or be beaten, by the best in the world in a true battle of wits?Don't get me wrong: this all makes sense. Smash 4 is a new game, and even the best players have a lot to learn before they can claim full mastery of it. Knowledge is far from uniform, and a Rosalina player may notice things about a certain matchup that a Diddy Kong player wouldn't. Everyone wants to share knowledge and help their friends win, and I'll admit that's a noble cause. But at the end of the day, once a set starts, it's a competition between two players - not their posses. Add in the amount of time it wastes throughout a tournament, and you have an issue that not only cheapens competition, but keeps tournaments from running at a consistent pace.Part of the competitive meta right now is the amount of knowledge you bring into a match. Let's get rid of coaching once and for all, and treat game knowledge like the part of the competition it deserves to be.
With the 2003 release of the fifth entry in the series, Underground, the developers used storytelling and exploration to distance their product from the plotless, task-based format of previous Tony Hawk's games, which led Neversoft president Joel Jewett to describe Underground as an adventure game. [28] The game was created with a theme of individuality: it stars an amateur skater in a true story mode, whereas each previous Tony Hawk's game had starred professional skaters and had lacked a plot. [28] One reason for only allowing the player to use a custom character was that certain criminal acts completed in the plot would not reflect well on real-world skaters. [29] Previous games in the series had included character-creation features as well, but Neversoft expanded customization in Underground by implementing face-scanning for the PlayStation 2 version. [28][30] Regarding the customization options, especially the park editor, producer Stacey Drellishak stated that Neversoft was "trying to create the most customizable game ever". [29] Levels in the console versions of Underground were significantly larger than those of earlier Tony Hawk's games. Neversoft expanded each level until it ceased to run correctly, then shrunk it slightly. [30] Most of the levels were modeled closely after real-world locations; the designers traveled to locales representative of each city in the game and took photographs and videos as reference. [31] Neversoft wanted the player to become familiar with the basic game mechanics quickly and to notice Underground's differences from previous Tony Hawk's titles, who all stuck to roughly the same pattern, immediately. To accomplish this, they introduced the player to foot travel and the ability to climb along ledges in the first few missions of the game. [32] While Neversoft wanted to keep Underground realistic and relatable for the most part, they added driving missions as an enjoyable diversion and to push the boundaries of freedom in skateboarding games. [31] However, these missions were intended not to take away from the main experience of skateboarding. [32] Because Pro Skater 4 had received criticism for its difficulty, Neversoft added four difficulty settings to Underground's story mode. [33] Tony Hawk's Underground 2, released a year after its predecessor, was the only direct sequel in the series. While it still featured a story mode, it took a stark departure from Underground and focused on a "World Destruction Tour" orchestrated by Tony Hawk and Bam Margera.
A woman has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal intentional hit-and-run, killing a woman and a baby and injuring a 7-year-old girl in west Baltimore, police said.Baltimore police said late Wednesday night that 28-year-old Lucresha Mints was arrested in connection with the case.Mobile users tap here for videoDetectives said the incident happened at Franklin and Monroe streets just after 9 p.m. Tuesday following an argument between Mints and 25-year-old Latoya Skipwith.Police said the fight got so heated that Mints got into her car, aimed it at Skipwith and floored it, driving down the sidewalk and striking Skipwith, 2-year-old Joshua Carter and an unidentified 7-year-old girl.Witnesses told 11 News the victims ended up in a nearby stairwell, where on Wednesday, the boy's father sat in shock. He was nearby when the incident happened. "I got the word and ran around the corner, and once I came, I seen my son a mess. It just hurt me so bad, I just broke down," father Joshua Carter Sr. said. "I just snapped. "Skipwith was killed, and police confirmed Wednesday that Joshua also died as a result of his injuries. Relatives of the victims told 11 News that Skipwith and Joshua were cousins.The 7-year-old girl was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police said she is expected to survive.Police told 11 News that family members said the hit-and-run was sparked by an argument and that Mints knew her victims. Police said they recovered the vehicle Mints used in the hit-and-run -- a gray Acura -- a short time after the incident. "She took two lives from one family -- two babies. That's my youngest sister and my little cousin. He was only 2 years old," said Skipwith's sister, Rhonda Bryant, through tears. "My little grandbaby -- he was the love of my life," said Helen Virginia Whitfield, Joshua's grandmother, who was still trying to comprehend Wednesday how someone could do something like that.Police have not yet provided details on what the argument between Skipwith and Mints was about.Earlier Wednesday, relatives were upset with police because of what they called a lack of communication from detectives about whether the suspect was in custody or not. "Somebody’s got to give us some answers. They owe it to us," Joshua's great-grandmother Elissha Jefferson said.Police said at the time that they were doing everything they could. "In this case, we definitely empathize with the families.
That save file is right back where it was before I deleted it, at the Stone Tower Temple with the moon almost crashing. I turned the game off at that point. I'm not superstitious, but this is WAY too fucked up - even for me. I haven't played it at all today. Hell, I didn't even get any sleep last night. I kept hearing the reverse Song of Healing in my head and couldn't get past that sense of dread I felt while exploring Clock Town. I drove back to the old man's house today with a buddy of mine (no way was I going there alone) to ask him some questions, only to find there's a for sale sile in the front yard. When I rang the doorbell, no one was home. So now I'm back here, writing down the rest of my thoughts and recording what happened. Sorry if some of this has grammatical errors and whatnot; I'm running on no sleep here. I'm terrified of this game, even moreso now that I relived it a second time just writing this down. However, I feel like there's still more to it than meets the eye and there's something calling me to investigate this further. I think "BEN" is something in this equation, but I don't know what. If I could get hold of the old man, I would be able to find some answers. I need another day or so to recuperate before tackling this game again, however. I feel it's already taken a toll on my insanity, but next time I do this I'm going to record the entire thing. The idea to record only came to me toward the end, so you only see the last few minutes of what I saw (including the Skull Kid and Elegy statue), but it's on Youtube here.
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Recent aircraft disappearances in the area include: a Puerto Rican owned aircraft carrying 12 people that went missing in December last year; and a Piper type aircraft on a medical transport run which was lost from the radar in April 2007 6/10 New World Order Theories abound that the world's power and financial systems are actually controlled by occult secret societies including the Bilderberg group and the Freemasons. This theory seeks to expose collusion between businessmen and politicians in these societies promoting its secret agendas. Theorists claim that there are many "signs" confirming such claims, including Masonic symbols on buildings, and pagan symbols such as pentagrams worked into planning regulations in New York Getty Images 7/10 Tin foil hats Reuters 8/10 Paul is dead There is an urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney of The Beatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. Theorists say that clues have been planted in Beatles' lyrics ever since, including some "mumbling" by John Lennon recorded between the songs I'm So Tired and the next song Blackbird, which when played backwards allegedly sounds like 'Paul is a dead man. Miss him.' He was supposedly replaced by William Campbell- the winner of a look-alike contest Getty Images 9/10 Princess Diana's death Getty Images 10/10 The Roswell cover up Many believe that the US military covered up the crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico, on July 8, 1947 by claiming that the "flying disc" it recovered was a weather balloon Getty Images 1/10 Apollo Moon Landing The Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were staged by NASA with the aid of other organisations Getty Images 2/10 9/11 Pentagon conspiracy There's a theory that no plane actually hit the Pentagon on September 11 and that the explosion (pictured) was actually caused by a missile fired from inside it by the Americans. Theorists claim that no wreckage from the American Airlines Boeing 747 was actually found at the scene and that first accounts of the explosion were later doctored by the government. Other allegedly tell-tale signs, such as several windows surviving the crash intact, indicate that the blast was smaller than you’d expect from an aeroplane crashing in to a building Getty Images 3/10 Shakespeare is “Sheik Zubair” Some claim that William Shakespeare is actually Sheikh Zubair from Basra, Iraq.
The Knicks opened a seven-point lead in the second but the Cavs came back to tie it before Novak's 3-pointer with 13 seconds remaining sent New York to halftime with a 48-45 advantage. The Knicks scored the first seven of the second half, opening a 55-45 lead on Felton's 3-pointer a little more than 2 minutes into the third quarter. Cleveland didn't let them get any further away, getting the deficit down to two late in the period before trailing 78-73 going to the fourth. NOTES: The Knicks were also without reserve forward Rasheed Wallace because of a sore left foot. ... Longtime Knicks TV and radio announcer John Andariese was honored with the fifth annual Dick McGuire Knickerbocker Legacy award, given by the family of the Hall of Fame player and team employee to a person who "exudes the qualities of what it means to be a Knickerbocker." Andariese retired before the season after more than 35 years of broadcasting the Knicks.
Discussion Creation of the neophallus is one of the most difficult parts in treatment of female to male transsexuals. There is a variety of available surgical techniques but their results are not equally acceptable to all the patients 1, 2. Metoidioplasty is a technically demanding and challenging surgical procedure used in female transsexuals who want a gender reassignment surgery without a complex, multistaged surgical creation of an adult‐size phallus. It is feasible in the cases where clitoris seems large enough after hormonal treatment to provide a phallus that will satisfy the patient's wishes 3, 13-16. Reconstruction of a competent neourethra that allows voiding in a standing position was one of the main goals in metoidioplasty 4, 9. Lebovic and Laub reported good results in the appearance of external genitalia, with a more male‐like configuration. In their series, as the urethral plate remained intact, the neophallus was usually small and curved 5. Hage published a modification of metoidioplasty characterized by urethral lengthening. The neourethra was created from labia minora flaps and the urethral plate, which was divided at the level of the female urethral opening 6. As the course of dissection was from proximal to distal, it could compromise the vascularization of the mobilized urethral plate. In long‐term follow‐up, Hage and Turnhout reported high complication rate related to the reconstruction of the urethra and concluded that in 70 treated female transsexuals, an average of 2.6 procedures per patient were needed for complete genital reassignment 7. Our previously reported results showed lower complication rate of urethral reconstruction based on tubularization of the clitoral skin flap 8. To overcome the disadvantages of this urethroplasty, we continued searching for a better solution. Our familiarity with buccal mucosa graft in adult urethral reconstruction gave us the idea to use the same material in metoidioplasty. Harvesting of the graft is simple and safe without special morbidity 17, 18. Graft material with a robust, evenly distributed microvasculature and the spread fixation achieved when the graft is quilted to the recipient bed contribute to the success of this technique because this is conductive to imbibition. Our goal was to straighten and lengthen the clitoris as well as to create a urethra with a minimal complication rate. Short and undeveloped urethral plate should be divided for lengthening and straightening of the clitoris. To avoid the described complications following tubularized urethroplasty, buccal mucosa graft was used as dorsal half of neourethra.
Indeed, although content domain is not often a subject of inquiry in integrative complexity research, topic domain has been shown to influence integrative complexity in some lines of research (Conway et al., 2008; Conway et al., 2011; Conway et al., 2012; Pancer et al., 1995; Suedfeld, 2000; Suedfeld, Bluck et al., 1994; Suedfeld & Wallbaum, 1992; Tetlock, 1986; Tetlock, Peterson, & Lerner, 1996). In all this work, the specific content domain that people wrote or talked about mattered for the ultimate complexity they produced. Thus, it is worth considering more fully the possibility of ideology × topic domain interactions on integrative complexity. Our Focus on Dialectical Forms of Integrative Complexity Recently, a new scoring system for parsing integrative complexity scores into different types of complexity has been scientifically validated (Conway et al., 2008; Conway et al., 2011). In particular, some integrative complexity scores are driven by dialectical complexity, which is complexity achieved by giving legitimacy to two opposing viewpoints. On the other hand, some integrative complexity scores are driven by elaborative complexity, which is complexity achieved by defending or expanding upon one particular viewpoint (see Conway et al., 2008; Conway et al., 2011). All materials in studies 2–4 in the present article were scored for integrative complexity and the two subtypes outlined in Conway et al. (2008). However, we here opt to present results in those studies on dialectical forms of complexity. Our reasons for doing so are three‐fold. First, almost all of the prior work on integrative complexity cited in meta‐analyses by Jost et al. (2003) and Van Hiel et al. (2010) comes from Tetlock. When scoring integrative complexity, Tetlock has only coded dialectical forms of complexity in his work (see Conway et al., 2008, for a review). As a result, the best direct comparison with prior work showing conservative simplicity is dialectical complexity. Second, this focus makes conceptual sense, because dialectical forms of complexity most clearly map on to the “rigidity of the right” idea. It is in their inability or unwillingness to think about things from different points of view that conservatives are supposed to be lacking: And dialectical complexity best captures that aspect (see Conway et al., 2008). Third, our results are inferentially stronger and more consistent using dialectical forms of complexity, and thus we acknowledge that part of our decision to present this set of results is ad hoc.
Last week, I spoke on a panel at Stanford Law School concerning SOPA. There were two lawyers representing the MPAA's views, and at one point one of them said that he hoped that Hollywood just wanted to "meet in the middle" with those opposed to SOPA and find "a solution" that worked. Lawyer Andrew Bridges got up and asked a rather reasonable question: when, in the past, has the entertainment industrybeen willing to "meet in the middle" on copyright issues? He began listing out every single expansion to copyright law from the past 30 years. In 1976, we got the Copyright Act of 1976, which flipped copyright on its head and expanded it massively. Not only did it switch from an opt-in system with registration and renewals to an "everything is automatically opted-in," but it also massively expanded the length of copyright. You might think that the industry would be satisfied from that point forward. In fact, as key SOPA supporter Steve Tepp from the US Chamber of Commerce recently claimed : "To me if I get what I ask for, I stop complaining. "So, did the entertainment industry "stop complaining"? No. Since the Copyright Act of 1976 went into effect (in 1978), we've expanded copyright lawon issues related to "stopping piracy" (and many, many more if you look at all copyright law expansions -- beyond just anti-piracy efforts -- such as expanding coverage to semiconductor chip designs, boat hulls and other things). It really started in 1982, meaning that we've had 15 new anti-piracy laws in just 30 years. If SOPA/PIPA had passed, it would have been 16 -- or more than once every two years. Let's take a look:But apparently we're told that the internet is a "lawless wild west" when it comes to copyright issues? I think not. All we've seen is expansion after expansion after expansion, always using questionable claims of rampant infringement that is supposedly destroying industries. Each time, the various industries would create a moral panic about whylaw was absolutely needed. Forgive us for being a bit skeptical. We've seen this game pretty damn frequently. To claim that there are no laws, or that we need to "meet in the middle" seems pretty bizarre. As Bridges noted at Stanford last week, if they want to "meet in the middle," are they willing to give up half of these laws to get SOPA/PIPA?
2014's The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett was the fifth Eels album in five years, and the 11th since the 1996 indie rock landmark Beautiful Freak. It was also the first record to put Mr. E—he of the "Beautiful Blues"—front and center, his name and visage there for all to see. The resulting tour was an intimate, career-spanning affair that built to a monumental performance at London's Royal Albert Hall, captured in high-def detail on a new DVD and two-CD release available this week. To celebrate, E spoke with me about his fear of bumming out the audience, heavily reworking his songs over and over, and how he managed to tour an album about cancer and suicide. Our conversation spanned the seven—seven!—live releases the Eels have put out in the last 15 years. Tell me about the hugs. The DVD ends the same way every show on the tour did—with you walking through the audience and hugging basically every single person you could. I came up with the list of songs I wanted to play that year, last year, and when we started rehearsing it became apparent to me—"Oh my god, this is just, like, a bummer-fest. This is a lot of sad songs." So I started to slowly try to figure out a way to structure a show that would gradually lift the spirits of the audience, so that by the end of it you would leave happy, like you'd been through something really positive. And the thing that really made it work, I think, was the hugs. At the end of the proper set, I would say—and I really meant this, it was really heartfelt—"Thank you so much for your years of interest, I don't know what I would've done without it; gimme a hug!" Touching idea, but maybe scary to pull off? It was fascinating because every night was a different experience. And it was an extremely dangerous, stupid thing to do, and that's why it appealed to me. I don't advise any singers to actually do this, and I'll never do it again [laughs]. Most nights I wouldn't get very far before there would just be a pile of people on me. Some nights people would take advantage of me being in such a vulnerable position and grab my hair or something. I got into a couple fistfights, which was ironic, when I'm trying to thank the audience and hug them.
No team gets to impact all three game modes equally – it’s not possible to guarantee avoiding your worst map, or the opponent’s best, across the entire series. All in all, an appropriate map veto system should give teams a further degree of control, thereby eliminating the potential for random bias in preset maps, while adding an additional element of tactical consideration. It should offer an equal platform to both teams, but also reward those that are smarter about how they choose to approach it and how much consideration they give to their opponent. Ultimately, the inclusion of such a system should also improve the viewer experience, by adding another layer of depth to the competition and giving analysts an additional point of discussion. It doesn’t have to be this exact system, this is merely an example, and while immediate investigation seems to suggest it’s functional, it hasn’t been thoroughly checked for any possible avenues of exploitation. It does seem possible, however, that a system built on similar principles is a possibility for Call of Duty in spite of the complications that multiple game modes brings. It’s definitely too late to apply such a system to Infinite Warfare, but the maps here are merely used as a demonstration. Assuming a map pool of equal size for Call of Duty: WWII, with Uplink replaced by a different game mode in all likelihood, it would apply equally. In the period between the Call of Duty Championships and the release of WWII, there should be time to thoroughly test this or any other potential system, such that it can be deployed immediately at events upon the game’s release.
Second, I have no relation to the Silk Road, nor have I ever. This second allegation has been made by two cryptographers, Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir from the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, performing paid research for the Citi Foundation. Their recently released “research” paper identifies a Bitcoin address with supposed links directly to other Bitcoin addresses that were controlled by William Ulbricht, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts, who operated the Silk Road marketplace until its recent seizure by the FBI. Ron and Shamir seem to have used flow analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain to reach these conclusions, as they did in their first paper on the subject, however without doing the required research into the actual identities of the Bitcoin address owners, using flow analysis among them to determine relationships between them is fundamentally flawed. Ron and Shamir’s paper does not explicitly identify the Bitcoin addresses they are referring to, however the paper provides enough detail about the addresses such as balances and transfer dates that it is trivial to identify the addresses in question from the blockchain data, which is a public record, and many in the Bitcoin community have done so. Had Ron and Shamir done even rudimentary research into the identities of said addresses, such as a search on the Bitcoin-OTC site, Bitcoin Talk forums, or even via a simple Google search, they could have easily found that the original very early source address in question (12higD) is, very publicly, one of mine and not one of Satoshi’s as they insinuate in their paper. This has left many people on the Bitcoin Talk forums, Reddit, and elsewhere to speculate regarding the identity of the subsequent addresses that Bitcoins were sent to from my addresses, and the owners of such addresses, as Ron and Shamir’s paper insinuates that they are related to Silk Road.
Gender differences in emotional experience, emotional expression, and nonverbal communication behaviors relating to emotion are among the most confirmed disparities between males and females [34]. Both differential socialization [35], [36] and evolutionary processes (e.g., [37]) may contribute to gender differences. Females have greater ability than males to perceive facial expressions of emotion as early as three years of age, but there may be various sociocultural moderator factors [38], [39], [40]. There may also be qualitative differences between the genders in which regions of the brain are activated during the perception of emotional expressions [41], [42]. Furthermore, literature reviews [43], as well as more recent studies (e.g., [44]), suggest a modest female advantage in accurate emotion recognition. Although some well-designed and substantial studies have failed to show any gender difference in facial emotion decoding [45], it is highly probable that some uncontrolled causes were responsible for the lack of gender effect (e.g., ceiling effect in the Hoffman et al. 's study [45]).
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I bought a propane torch, a respirator, a fire extinguisher, and a large metal pan. I drove to a clear-cut (lots of those in British Columbia!) and found a part of that clear-cut where the topsoil had totally been removed leaving just a big sandy pit. I think they had been using it to setup their camp or something - there was a bunch of trash in a pile there as well, and signs of previous fires: ! [Clearcut Trash](/assets/2016-11-14/clearcut-trash.jpg) I completely took apart the laptop and separated all electronic and non-electronic components (in particular, that means all the plastic components were removed). While technically "electronic", I removed the actual lithium battery cells from the battery control electronics in the battery pack - I had no desire to start a lithium fire! With respirator on and cameras running, the electronic components were all put in that big metal pan, and the blowtorch was used to methodically heat the electronics completely piece by piece until everything was blackened. This was done in entirely in the metal pan, against a rather absurd backdrop: ! [Compute Node Remains](/assets/2016-11-14/compute-node-remains.jpg) If anyone can recover data off these RAM chips, I'll be very impressed: ! [Compute Node Ram Remains](/assets/2016-11-14/compute-node-ram-remains.jpg) Finally, all of the electronics were removed from the site. Afterwords I bagged them all up to preserve them as evidence; other than the lithium battery cells I haven't actually thrown any part of the laptop away yet. ## Post-Ceremony So what's next? A lot more work! For me personally, after I finally destroyed the compute node I sealed up all the evidence left over - the DVDs, the electronics used, the shielded box for the compute node, etc. - for future forensics. I can think of a ton of questions to ask, and I'm sure others have questions I haven't thought of. I've also got hours worth of video footage and photos that I need to decide if and how to release with potential privacy and maybe even legal issues to think about. There's also lessons to be learned: I went into the ceremony knowing very little about it, and having never done anything quite like it. If people make use of zk-SNARKs, for the foreseeable future we're going to end up doing more of these crazy ceremonies, so hopefully we can do a better job next time.
Thomas Lee White, arrested for public drunkenness two days before the storm hit, was imprisoned for a year without getting a single court hearing. By mid-2006, most judges, lawyers, and city officials agreed that the criminal justice system could not move forward without an overhaul. After the devastation and the horror, after the waters receded and the people prepared to push their lives forward, there was hope. Locals talked of how the rot and corruption and power structure, hardened over decades, had washed away with the trees and the cars. “The turmoil was instrumental to reforming the public defender’s office,” said Tessier. “When people started to come to after the devastation, they decided that this was an opportunity. Something bad had happened, and maybe something good could happen now.”
Yes, Moore showed a bit of poise and sense of on-field calm that hasn’t yet always presented itself for Cutler, who has sometimes scrambled just to get plays off on time. But things had been seeming a bit less frenetic for Cutler-Gase over the last four quarters. And in the end, we believe Gase will eventually give Cutler another chance to prove that Gase was right — that he, not Moore, provides the best chance for a longer and more successful 2017 story. [RELATED COLUMN: You really need to trust Adam Gase with Dolphins quarterback decisions] Enduring Cameron Wake still accelerates like a Lamborghini and pounces like a Tiger. There are times that what Cam Wake does, as he closes in on 36 years of age, defies logic and common sense. In the first quarter, on a 2nd-and-9 at the Jets’ 40, Josh McCown escaped the pocket and began to roll right. Wake had McCown in his sights, but was a full six yards away. Wake then accelerated like a Lamborghini and pounced on McCown like a tiger, spinning McCown down the ground by the waist. That Wake is able to create that type of torque and speed and power and generate it at the drop of a dime is truly remarkable. In the fourth quarter, essentially three generations of NFL players descended on the Jets. Wake, 35, Ndamukong Suh, 30, and Charles Harris, 22, all combine to created a critical pressure and a sack. Let’s think about that again. Wake is 13 years older than Harris, who actually prompted the havoc. Harris chased McCown into a prone position and set up McCown to be simultanously crushed by Wake and Suh. (Think Bryce Petty, but in the pocket, closer to the sideline.) It was a phenomenal combination of speed and power displayed by Miami’s defensive line. It’s almost unfair what Miami is putting on tape in the front seven this season. And it’s almost unfair that Harris has a perfect mentor, in Harris, his eventual successor. Rey Maualuga and Lawrence Timmons are savvy, technically-sound, tackling monsters. When a linebacker goes to sleep, he likes to think about shedding blocks and moving piles the way middle linebacker Maualuga does. When a linebacker goes to sleep, he likes to think about what Fox broadcaster Chris Spielman described in Sunday’s game — eyes up, head up, wrap up, run through the ball carrier — the way Timmons so often does.
T wo facts well- known to linguists for many years are that Ancient Greek orthography represented speech much more closely than does modern English orthography, or practically any other modern European orthography, and that speech, unlike writing, is full of hesitations, false starts, and meaningless expletive utterances which are not recorded in writing. For instance, In English, a typical spoken text might be: Well, it’s the, umm... you know, the one that, uh, you got from the store across the street. We can make a number of interesting observations about the meaningless expletives in the above and in similar texts, of which the interested reader can collect many more examples, if he is so inclined. The comments in this paper are based on a collection of 327 naturally occurring English texts ranging from 3 seconds to 118 seconds in length. The first observation concerns the syntactic positions in which such expletives occur. In brief, expletives occur immediately before major syntactic constituents, or immediately following the first word of a major constituent. Thus, we often find particles inserted at the beginning of an utterance, or after the first word, as in (2) and (3) below; at the beginning of a noun phrase, or after the article, as in (4) and (5); or at other constituent boundaries, as in (6) and (7). Ahh.. no, I don’t think so. John, um, went to Liberia yesterday. Hildegarde swallowed, yeah, an entire disk drive. Did he surrender the...wha...fish? Eric and the man with no nose...uhh...slew the werewolf with a bazooka. There’s a situation with, you know, the ringmaster. Of course, expletives can be inserted at many points during one speech utterance, and may be iterated at any of these points, as seen in (1) above. In fact, sometimes so many expletives are used that the entire communicative function of speech fails. Consider example (8), taken from the Watergate tape transcripts submitted by the Nixon White House to the independent counsel. The conversants are discussing the advisability of paying hush money to the burglars. N IXON : But then we’d have a problem with the...with the...
I suppose it's time to let that dream die.Such a tiny issue is but a drop in the Ogir-Yensa Sandsea compared to the myriad improvements the team is making to bring FFXII into the modern age. Katano-san explained the main tenets of the game's development philosophy thus: first and foremost, they are taking advantage of the PS4 to bring Ivalice to life in ways not possible with the PS2's limited hardware. The original game used a combination of low-poly and high-poly models to create an illusion of visual fidelity scarcely realized in other games of that era. The team is now implementing high-poly models throughout the entire game, as well as re-texturing objects with new visual assets. A high-resolution UI, including a crisp font and new map overlay, has also been added. This is truly the definitive version of the game, finally backed by the processing power necessary to fully realize its gorgeous art direction. Composer Hitoshi Sakimoto returns to compose the score, which is being completely re-recorded with a combination of synthesizer and live orchestra in full 7.1 surround sound. My time with the game on the slow floor assured me that these compositions retain the spirit of the originals while sounding better than ever. The new recording of The Skycity of Bhujerba, alight with flute and delicate strings, is lush and crystal-clear. Katano-san even teased that some new music might be in the works, and when I asked about the possibility of Angela Aki returning to re-record her theme song, Kiss Me Goodbye, his coy reaction gave me the impression that he yet has something up his sleeve. There's even an option to select between the original score and this new version, as well as the inclusion of both Japanese and English audio tracks. Everyone wins!More than anything, the team is stressing playability in The Zodiac Age. Katano-san notes that the very nature of gaming has undergone a change in the decade since FFXII first released. With the advent of smartphones and increasingly powerful consoles, players have more ways to game than ever, and in turn, more devices demanding their attention. With a smartphone, Katano-san says, a player can start a game and suspend it at any time, returning to it at their convenience. Console RPGs, on the other hand, are usually designed around save points, making them harder to pick up and play.
Which brings us to...After spending January re-writing the finale script--and February and March designing and storyboarding it--we are currently editing the animatic for what will be aWhich is another reason why we won't be premiering until August. And why the finale probably won't air until December. But hey--that's an extra half an hour of Venture-y goodness for your patience, right? What we take away with one hand, we give back with the other...Meanwhile, we've received rough cuts of the first three episodes of Season 4.5 from our overseas studio so far. The screen-grabbed evidence of which is strewn about this entry. We get a new one every two weeks and then spend about 4-5 days reviewing every frame for mistakes, during which we yell at our monitors and each other and compile a list of retakes to send back.So yeah, that's where we're at in production right now. What else?It's probably not news to anyone by now, but we have indeed struck a deal with Bif Bang Pow! to produce a line ofaction figures (and bobbleheads). At Toy Fare in February, Bif Bang Pow unveiled several prototypes.I say again.... These are not the final figures. Since those photos were released, we've been working closely with Jason Lenzi to get the head sculpts, outfits and proportions just right. We're even contributing to the packaging...Some of you--most likely those of you born after 1978--will never be happy with our choice to go with a retro "Mego style" design, but Doc and I think it's pretty fucking funny. And what is this whole Venture Bros. business about if not a doomed attempt to re-live our childhoods? So there.Anyway, I'm told the first wave of figures will hit the streets right around the time of the San Diego Comic Con...so start saving your pennies now. And then, in July, go to the bank and get them changed to $20 bills...because we hate pennies, and we will not accept them.We were originally going to hold off on producing any DVDs of Season 4 until all 16 episodes were complete and we could release one massive boxed set, but given the massive amount of time between seasonal halves, that's pretty unlikely now.
So really my self was a false self, it was a working self for dealing with the world, and behind that wall was total chaos, just this sort of swirling blackness, and I just found it totally unbearable, second by second, being me. So I thought, I have to stop it or get some help.” He called Oliver James, and asked if James’s father, the analyst—whose own psychoanalyst had been Anna Freud—would see him. “The next day, I went into psychoanalysis,” St. Aubyn said. In the first session, he told Dr. James about the sexual abuse. St. Aubyn saw him five times a week for several years; under the conventions of analysis, he and Oliver cut off contact during that period. “And as you can see, my beautiful assistant has disappeared . . . months ago . . . with my brother.” In 1988, St. Aubyn took heroin for the last time. (He later gave up alcohol, for a long while, largely in response to a liver crisis; subsequently, he started drinking to excess. He now seems to drink in an amiably social way. “Self-destruction is obviously a defeat,” he said. “But terrorized abstinence is also a defeat.”) That year, he started a new novel, under an extreme contract with himself. “It was ‘Either I write a novel which I finish and get published, and is authentic, or I’ll kill myself,’ ” he said. The thought was not melodramatic, or hysterical, he explained. “It was just ‘If I don’t, there’s nothing so far in my life that I’m not ashamed of, and horrified by. But if I wrote a decent novel, that would change the game.’ ” The contract, “written in blood,” stayed in place for twenty years. Even if St. Aubyn’s memories of his earlier life, shaped by trauma, are not perfectly accurate, he seems to take care to transmit his memories accurately. But he was drawn to fiction, not memoir. He imagined a trilogy, whose third-person narrative would center on an alter ego but have access to the minds of others. “I wanted the freedom and the sublimatory power of writing a novel,” he told me. “And I wanted to write in the tradition which had impressed me most.” Nabokov’s “Speak, Memory” was the only impressive memoir he could remember reading. “I don’t know if you’ve tried reading Rousseau, but that’s pretty unbearable,” he said.
Astronomical Answers The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch next year, could test Proxima b’s atmospheric retention abilities. As the exoplanet orbits, viewers on Earth will see different parts of it illuminated, much like the moon changing phases in the night sky. JWST’s infrared capabilities will be able to capture the combined thermal emission from both the star and planet, which should vary sinusoidally as the little world goes through phases during its 11-day orbit. An airless body will show wild temperature swings; the sunlit side of the moon can reach 117 °C, whereas its dark side remains at –179 °C. In contrast, an atmosphere will efficiently move heat around: day–night temperature differences on our planet can be as little as a few degrees. The signal would be a good proxy for atmospheric thickness; a tenuous Mars-like atmosphere wouldn’t redistribute heat as well as a denser Earth-like one. Like any world, Proxima b is reflective. As starlight bounces off its surface, it could pass through a hypothetical atmosphere, imparting information about the gases present. The trouble is that Proxima Centauri is about 10 million times brighter than its planetary companion, so the planet’s reflected light is completely washed out in the star’s glare. Working with astronomer Ignas Snellen, of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, Lovis came up with the idea of using a two-part system at the VLT to tease out Proxima b’s secrets (5). First, the researchers will use a sophisticated adaptive optics instrument called Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE), which corrects for the turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere that blurs telescopic images, creating a much clearer picture of the star and planet together. “Instead of having a planet that’s 10 million times fainter, we will have a planet that’s 1,000 times fainter,” says Lovis. “Which is still 1,000 times, but it’s already much better.” The data will then be passed through the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) instrument, which can disentangle the planet’s light from the star’s using an ingenious trick. When a body emitting radiation moves, the radiation’s wavelength will grow longer as it travels away from an observer and shorter as it comes closer, an effect known as a Doppler shift.
Herbicides are essential to today's high-production agriculture, and in many areas, herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops broaden the utility of these products. Since the mid 1990s a dominant HT system has enabled widespread use of glyphosate across multiple crops. However, the continuous use of glyphosate without accompanying resistance management best practices has led to an increase in glyphosate-resistant weed species that threatens the future use of glyphosate and the benefits it has enabled. Dow AgroSciences is developing the Enlist™ Weed Control System which is based on a new family of herbicide tolerance traits, innovations in herbicide formulations, and novel approaches to technology stewardship. This system will add greater diversity to weed management programs and help sustain the gains made with glyphosate-tolerant crops by enabling more flexible use of an innovative form of 2,4-D and other herbicides in maize, soybean, and cotton. Field studies have confirmed >90% control of a wide range of weed species (including many biotypes that are resistant to glyphosate) with a combination of a new 2,4-D plus glyphosate. Crops containing Enlist™ traits can withstand over twice the amount of 2,4-D plus glyphosate required for weed control with no significant impact on yield. New weed management technologies such as Enlist™ will require proper stewardship, including resistance management best practices, to ensure they remain viable over a long period of time. Effective resistance management programs must be based on scientific principles as well as compatibility with established production systems. Factors influencing the development of best management practices will be discussed. (™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow. Regulatory approvals are pending for the Enlist™ herbicide solution and crops containing Enlist™ herbicide tolerance traits. The information presented here is not an offer for sale. Always read and follow label directions. ©2013 Dow AgroSciences LLC)
KE: And I’m walking up the side block to the seven-five precinct, there’s Mike standing at the front door. And we sorta—from my perspective, I didn’t know if we were going to hit each other or hug each other. But when I got close enough and saw his eyes, and sort of the smirk on his face, we just grabbed each other, gave each other a big hug. And that was it. AS: Why do you think you hugged each other? KE: We were best friends. God, we were like brothers. You know. And I guess time heals all wounds? From what I could see, he’s still a little bitter, somewhat, but for the most part, we’re all good. AS: When you think about your time as a police officer, with Dowd...when you think about your time as a cocaine dealer, what are you most ashamed of? KE: Absolutely everything I did with Dowd while I was a cop. You know, cops have a hard enough time with the public eye, and how they’re perceived. I could have not done any of it. I was greedy. You know. When that money comes into the car, I could’ve said, "All right. I’m gonna turn him in." I didn’t do that. I didn’t do the right thing. So there’s no justification for it. It’s, that’s, I’m just really stating the facts of how it is and what went down. Hopefully, for me, I would love some young cop to come across that and say, holy shit, I really don't want to go down that path. They see how it screwed up our lives, and they won't make that decision. AS: Do you feel ashamed about dealing coke after you were a police officer? KE: At that time? No. Everyone...Everyone...mailmen...all types of people were doing drugs. Everyone did cocaine back in the '80s. AS: Are you still receiving money from your time as a police officer? Are you still receiving your pension? KE: A pension is for life. AS: So despite having told the federal government that you were stealing money, protecting drug dealers as a police officer you still received— KE: —During my time on the job. Yes. There was a big discussion about that when we were first arrested. AS: Does that...Does it feel at all shameful, to cash those checks knowing what you did on the job? KE: Uh...what I did, I feel more shame over.
10 No-Input Mixer Tips and Tricks 1: When starting out with the No-Input Mixer, it is perhaps best to not use headphones in case of any unpleasant surprises. With speakers, start off at a low volume until you are comfortable with how it all works. However, a limiter can always be used to reduce the risk of any unwanted audio nightmarescapes! 2: Keep things simple to begin with. A single channel feedback loop with no effects can produce plenty of great source material to work with and is the simplest way to get acquainted with the mixer being used as an instrument. 3: Use very short movements when tweaking your mixer controls, the smallest increment may produce a fantastic sound which could be missed if you are a little too quick on the knob or fader. 4: It is a good idea to have an EQ in the signal path as your mixer’s EQ controls will no longer be operating in their usual way due to the feedback loop. Tweaking the EQ as you go can help you sculpt a huge range of sounds from a raw feedback loop. 5: If you come across a sustaining sound that you like, let it run for a while without changing any of the mixer controls. The feedback will sometimes just stop by itself, but can often evolve into some really nice (or nasty) variations of the initial sound. 6: For a variety of drones, consider using an octaver, or simply pitch down an octave or two with software afterwards. Adding distortion will create harsher drones, which can easily be toned down and shaped with some filtering and EQ. 7: Science Fiction effects and atmospheres come easy with the No-Input Mixer, particularly, when delay units are included in the signal path. Try using a high feedback setting on the delay and experiment with the device’s settings, manually tweaking the delay time often brings a decent array of sounds, too. It’s also worth noting that when using a stereo delay, a feedback loop within a feedback loop can be created by connecting one of the delay’s outputs to its input. 8: When using battery powered guitar effects pedals, don’t worry if batteries are running low as this adds sonic artefacts which won’t be there when the power is at full, which is a nice little bonus! 9: Record everything!
A proper investigation would clearly take months, if not years. Only then could we be confident of an estimate of 6 million.Oddly, this is not what has been done. Far from it. In fact, nearly the opposite of the above has occurred. The victorious Americans relied heavily on biased Jewish and Soviet sources, and on captured and abused Nazis. They conducted no forensic investigations, no autopsies, and no unearthing of mass graves. The Americans thus relied strictly on hearsay evidence to establish the all-important Jewish death toll. And they never took a single action to confirm the number. Their position seemed to be: If the Jews say 6 million, 6 million it is.All this would be bad enough, but the story gets much stranger still. It turns out that the world was told of 6 million Jewish victims not only in the immediate aftermath of the war, but during the war, at the start of the war, and even before the war—in fact, decades before the war. The seemingly-impossible history of the ‘6 million’ constitutes a fascinating subtext to the larger Holocaust narrative.Perhaps the earliest published connection between Jews and ‘6 million’ dates all the way back to 1850. The newspaper Christian Spectator (Jan 16; p. 496) printed a short article on “Spiritual statistics of the world.” They list the global population as 1 billion, of which “6,000,000 are Jews.” Two decades later, the New York Times reported similarly:10[10] “there are now living about 6,000,000 Israelites, nearly one half of whom live in Europe” (12 Sep 1869; p. 8).11 [11]One may speculate that it was around this time that the number ‘6 million’ came to represent ‘all the Jews.’ Henceforth, whenever ‘all the Jews’ were under threat, the standard figure came up—as we shall see.Just a few years later, there were already signs of trouble. The NYT reported in 1872 on the “persecution of Jews in Roumania” (Mar 23; p. 4). Gentile mobs were attacking them, and it appeared that “the blood-thirsty assailants would stop short of nothing but Jewish extermination”—an early precursor of claims of German extermination that would come some 70 years hence.Or perhaps just eight years hence. In 1880 we read a striking report on “pleas for German Jews” (Dec 20; p. 2).
[118] By this time, the Shah's marriage was under strain as Queen Soraya complained about the power of Mohammad Reza's best friend Ernest Perron, whom she called a "shetun" (an insulting Persian term that translates roughly as a "piece of shit") and a "limping devil". [119] Perron was a man much resented for his influence over Mohammad Reza and was often described by enemies as a "diabolical" and "mysterious" character, whose position was that of a private secretary, but who was one of the Shah's closest advisors, holding far more power than his job title suggested. [36]
There's not much else to say about her since she hardly gets any screen time in the second half of the anime.Rem surprised me the most out of all of the characters. In fact, I believe that she's much more developed than the "main girl," Emilia, and is simply a superior character. The first few times that we see Rem, she humorously makes fun of Subaru with the assistance of her sister Ram. However as the story progresses, we get to learn so much more about Rem. I don't want to spoil any particular moments, but I will say that she has a badass yandere mode where she slaughters practically everything with her spiked mace in an epic fashion. Rem also develops feelings for Subaru, who she becomes admirably loyal to and saves numerous times, that lead to some really adorable moments between the two. Rem is also super cute and she just looks stunning, especially when she smiles. The sexy maid outfit is also a plus. Re:Zero really showcases a rare gem in Rem, who is the best anime character that I've seen in awhile.Re:Zero also boasts a strong supporting cast. This group of characters includes the cute and sarcastic maid Ram, the adorable and magical loli Beatrice, and the utterly insane and slothful antagonist Petelgeuse. While obviously not as much as the lead cast, many of these characters receive adequate development and possess unique personality traits that make them more likable and entertaining to watch.Enjoyment: 8.5/10This show combines the best aspects of different genres to create something that is very entertaining to watch. It has fun characters and settings that kept me entertained. I was constantly on the edge of my seat in excitement hoping for Subaru to succeed and tensely waiting to see the repercussions of his failures. Cliffhangers were effectively used at the end of multiple episodes that left me craving more, though they were a bit excessive. While some episodes focused on dialogue and lacked any "excitement," I still enjoyed watching them because they helped to flesh out the characters and gave me valuable insight on the characters' emotions, thoughts, etcetera. My main issue is that I feel like the anime peeked at around episode 15, and while the latter half of Re:Zero remained pretty good, it didn't quite reach the level of greatness that the mid episodes had. Nonetheless, this was definitely an entertaining anime from beginning to end.Overall: 8.6/10Re:Zero impressed me.
Iressa isn’t usually the first option; it’s typically given to lung cancer patients who haven’t responded to chemotherapy. Iressa and Tarceva are part of a relatively new class of drugs known as targeted drugs, which are different from traditional chemotherapy drugs because they are designed to specifically hit cancer cells. Unlike chemotherapy drugs which kill healthy and cancerous cells, targeted drugs are supposed to kill only cancer cells. The vision for these types of drugs was that they would be “magic bullets” against cancer, but they’ve had their ups and downs. Iressa didn’t work in most people in clinical trials, but it had marvelous, undeniable benefit for a small percentage of people, and for this reason the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it in May 2003. It’s approved for patients with the most common type of lung cancer, non-small-cell lung cancer, which is also the biggest killer among cancers in the United States with 140,000 new cases each year. AstraZeneca makes Iressa. It took a year for researchers to begin to unravel the reasons behind Iressa’s erratic success. Two groups of Harvard researchers painstakingly sequenced the EGFR gene, for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, in lung tumors from patients who responded to Iressa and those who did not. Most responders had the mutations. Non-responders did not. Both Haber and Lynch were researchers on the study from Mass General. The other study was done by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “The studies generated significant buzz,” says Daniela Gerhard of the Office of Cancer Genomics at the National Cancer Institute. “It was very important and encouraging for everyone who was trying to use genomics to develop new targets for cancer treatments.” It was a buzz for some patients too. After the studies were published, the scientists received calls from patients trying to find out if their tumors had mutations and whether Iressa would work for them. The problem was the scientists did not have the time or the facilities to do the sequencing. That’s when Harvard Partners stepped in. Harvard Medical School-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics (HPCGG) is a Harvard-affiliated institute with DNA sequencers, and they developed a genetic test that could be done “at cost” for doctors at Massachusetts General and Dana-Farber. The test was up and running in August, and the center now screens up to 50 tumors a month for roughly $850 per sample.
The earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering a series of huge waves called tsunami, "was possibly" caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which "Israeli and American nuclear experts participated," an Egyptian weekly magazine reported Thursday. According to Al-Osboa', India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has lately received sophisticated nuclear know-how from the United States and Israel, both of which "showed readiness to cooperate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind." Since 1992, the magazine argued, leading geological centers in Britain, Turkey and other countries, warned of the need "not to hold nuclear experiments in the region of the Indian Ocean known as 'the Fire Belt,' in which the epicenter of the earthquake lies. Geologists labeled that region 'The Fire Belt' for being "a dangerous terrain that can move at anytime, without human intervention," Al-Osboa' wrote. Despite warnings not to carry out nuclear experiments in and around the 'Fire Belt', "Israel and India continue to conduct nuclear tests in the Indian Ocean, and the United States has recently decided to carry out similar tests in the Australian deserts, which is included in the 'Fire Belt', the Egyptian weekly magazine wrote. "Last year only, Arab and Islamic states have asked the United States to stop its nuclear activities in that region, and to urge Israel and India to follow suite," Al-Osboa' reported. Although Al-Osboa' does not rule out the possibility that the tsunami could have been caused by a natural earthquake it speculates however that, "while it has not been proved yet, there has been a joint Israeli-Indian secret nuclear experiment [conducted on December 26] that caused the earthquake." The Egyptian weekly magazine concludes in its report that "the exchange of nuclear experts between Israel and India, and US pressure on Pakistan which is exerted by supplying India with state-of-the-art nuclear technology and preventing Islamabad from cooperating with Asian and Islamic states in the nuclear field, pose a big question mark on the causes behind the violent Asian earthquake." Incitement against Israel and Jews in Egyptian media is usually limited to the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict yet exceptions are known to occur. In August 2002, the Paris Supreme Court summoned Ibrahim Naafi', editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, for having authorized the publication of a controversial article entitled 'Jewish matza is made from Arab blood' in the October 28, 2000 edition of the paper.
Further, about 75% of the smartphones sold online in the October to December quarter were LTE enabled.Since only 40% of mobile phone users own a smartphone, it makes the Indian market very attractive for hundreds of brands to enter every year and generate scale, compared to other developed and mature economies. With advent of e-commerce platforms such as Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon, PayTM and others, the barriers to scale for new entrants have been reduced as they cut out the middle-men.However, the country remains a challenging market to scale from offline distribution and go-to-market perspective.
Yet, for some reason both my grandma and mother went near full uberdub regarding control, and wanted to tighten my 'leash' way too much, opposing me every single time, trying to punish me if i so much as arrived home a few minutes past 10 pm (my physical size was a good deterrent from physical abuse though, as at 15yo i was well over 1.70m tall, so, even though it may have been considered, it was never carried out). During this time, my father played 'the faustian Devil' he would offer me his support, as he was still the father, the one who sustained the whole family and had the last word in some stuff. The price? Help cover up his affairs as just going on errands or just 'hanging out' ourselves. In exchange I would be pretty much never punished/grounded and was free to hang out with my friends and arrive at least past midnight (he did point out that later than that was likely dangerous, being Mexico and all). Another thing my grandma tried to do was to close the locks (we lock the house at night) to keep me ouut for arriving 'late' so, I was granted immunity from this too. I knew it was wrong, but I also knew my mother and grandma's behavior was totally uncalled for, and decided to play this part. I basically served as a 'double agent' since my mother wouldn't ever suspect I was now on my father's side (Due to his affairs, he can't be trusted with the car alone, so I'd always be sent with him to 'keep him under control' but now, he was enabled to use the car as he pleased as I wouldn't stop or tell on him) This facade only lasted about one year because of two things, one, my conscience kept bitching at me, and two, after such prolonged conflicts with both me and my father, my mom and grandma decided to drop the stuff on me and trust my judgement. Helping my father became no longer necessary so I did eventually tell my mom a lot of what he had been up to (without giving myself away as being quite an active accomplice though) which further sparked more fights between them and also meant I was more free than before.

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