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They can also cause damage to the digestive tract, as is common in autistic children.What's really happening today with children being harmed by vaccines is nothing less thanbeing carried out in total secrecy with strong-arm enforcement accomplished by a gang of corporate-sponsored "science" goons collaborating with pro-business mainstream media to smear, attack and denigrate all who oppose toxic chemicals in vaccines. You are witnessing-- and yet you're not supposed to even ask questions about why it's happening!Even the call tois viciously attacked by the medical mafia. Mercury, you see, is a "desirable ingredient" by vaccine-pushing zealots, many of whom quite literally demonstrate the kind of psychotic behavior caused by exposure to mercury. In other words, the medical mafia is largely made up of people who are damaged by the very same brain-damaging toxins they're trying to push onto others. Mercury makes people not just crazy, but also violent and psychotic -- and that's the perfect description of the medial mafia trolls you see on social media or writing crazed, inflammatory opinion pieces in mainstream business magazines.Chili's is just the latest victim of the media mafia's thought police and their vicious attempts to shut down awareness of autism itself. What could possibly be wrong with merely supporting mothers of autistic children; women who struggle daily with trying to raise children damaged in ways that even modern scientists don't understand?In canceling the autism awareness event, Chili's posted this message on their Facebook page: Click here to go straight to the Chili's page and post something in support of autism awareness right now! Spread the word and help Chili's realize they are being victimized by an organized online mafia of vaccine trolls and chemical child abusers!Kudos to Chili's, by the way, for evento help families of autistic children. Too bad they caved so easily to the medical mafia's typical intimidation tactics.As you read the comments there, note carefully that; they are religious zealots who worship the religion of vaccines. Their "belief" in vaccines is based purely on faith; all evidence be damned! Anyone who studies autism is immediately ostracized and discredited even if their research only hints at a link between autism and vaccines.
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One of the pleasures of reading backwards into the dissentient discussion of modernity is the discovery of contrarian judgments, such as Berdyaev’s concerning the Florentine revival of classicism, that stand in refreshing variance with existing conformist opinion. Will Durant sums up the standing textbook view of the Renaissance in Volume 5 (1953) of his Story of Civilization. When “the humanists captured the mind of Italy,” as Durant writes, they “turned it from religion to philosophy, from heaven to earth, and revealed to an astonished generation the riches of pagan thought and art.” Having accomplished all that, according once again to Durant, the umanisti reorganized education on the premise that “the proper study of man was now to be man, in all the potential strength and beauty of his body, in all the joy and pain of his senses and feelings, [and] in all the frail majesty of his reason.” The tone of Durant’s prose implies something beyond mere description; it implies laudatory approval. Before turning back to Berdyaev, it is worth remarking how obviously wrongheaded Durant is in so few words. Insofar as the umanisti adopted Platonism – or rather late Neo-Platonism – they cannot exactly be said exclusively to have “turned” the general attention “from heaven to earth.” Rather, they refocused that attention from the transcendent God of the Bible and the Church Doctors to the celestial powers of Porphryian cosmology, the ones who might be manipulated by magical formulas to serve their earthy masters. Now in adopting Protagoras’ maxim that, man is the measure, the umanisti did, in fact, “terrestrialize” thinking. They achieved their end, however, only at the cost of swapping a cosmic-teleological perspective for an egocentric-instrumental one. It was an act of self-demotion. Had Berdyaev lived to read Durant’s Renaissance, he himself would inevitably have remarked these easy-to-spot misconceptions.
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during the Clinton Administration, and six other staffers. Geithner had a line he often used that summed up how he and his colleagues at Treasury would prevail: “Plan beats no plan.” The meeting lasted seven hours. Obama’s advisers were so divided that he left them in the Roosevelt Room after the first two hours, saying, “You guys work this out, and when I come back I want you to tell me what your agreed-upon approach is.” Romer believed that the banks wouldn’t lend again until they were well capitalized. For banks in severe stress, she favored creating a government-backed “bad bank” to take the toxic assets off the banks’ books and then recapitalize them with government funds—essentially a version of nationalization, and what the Swedish government had done during that nation’s financial crisis of the early nineties. This argument was quickly rendered moot because of the cost. There wasn’t much money left in the TARP kitty, and any chance of getting more from Congress had ended with that morning’s news: A.I.G., which had received a hundred and seventy billion dollars in federal money, had handed out multimillion-dollar bonuses to the executives responsible for the company’s demise. Axelrod said, “The one thing that was absolutely clear was, we were not in a position to go back to Congress.” Summers played the role of “the ultimate murder board,” according to Sperling, making the Treasury officials defend their ideas the way a Ph.D. student must defend a dissertation. He challenged and provoked Geithner to make sure that he had thought through every aspect of the plan. They argued back and forth, as they had done in the Clinton Administration, and their intensity was often jarring to the other Obama advisers. Summers didn’t trust the regulators, and was particularly worried about whether the stress tests designed by them were sufficiently tough on the banks. He pointed out that, in the days before Lehman, Bear Stearns, and Washington Mutual crashed, the same regulators had said that capital at those institutions was more than adequate. In the end, though, Summers acknowledged that there were no better options, and Geithner’s plan survived intact. On March 31st, Summers sent the President a page-and-a-half memo outlining the reasoning behind the decision not to nationalize any banks. Obama was on his way to the G-20 meeting in London, and he wanted to be prepared with the best case against it. The memo was divided into four sections.
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From 1971 to 1974, Van Dyke starred in an unrelated sitcom called The New Dick Van Dyke Show in which he portrayed a local television talk show host. Although the series was developed by Carl Reiner and starred Hope Lange as his wife, and he received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance, the show was less successful than its predecessor,[24] and Van Dyke pulled the plug on the show after just three seasons. [25] In 1973, Van Dyke voiced his animated likeness for the October 27, 1973 installment of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke," the series' final first-run episode. The following year, he received an Emmy Award nomination for his role as an alcoholic businessman in the television movie The Morning After (1974). Van Dyke revealed after its release that he had recently overcome a real-life drinking problem. He admits he was an alcoholic for 25 years. [26] That same year he guest-starred as a murderous photographer on an episode of Columbo, Negative Reaction. Van Dyke returned to comedy in 1976 with the sketch comedy show Van Dyke and Company, which co-starred Andy Kaufman[27] and Super Dave Osborne. Despite being canceled after three months, the show won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety Series. [23] After a few guest appearances on the long-running comedy-variety series The Carol Burnett Show, Van Dyke became a regular on the show, in the fall of 1977. However, he only appeared in half of the episodes of the final season. For the next decade he appeared mostly in TV movies. One atypical role was as a murdering judge on the second episode of the TV series Matlock in 1986 starring Andy Griffith. In 1987, he guest-starred in an episode of Airwolf, with his son Barry Van Dyke, who was the lead star of the show's fourth and final season on USA Network. In 1989, he guest-starred on the NBC comedy series The Golden Girls portraying a lover of Beatrice Arthur's character. This role earned him his first Emmy Award nomination since 1977. [28]
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The fact that this is the first light mech we've gotten in over a year confers a certain value to it already, but of course how you personally feel about the mech is subjective.At the end of the day, there's not much more I can say about whether or not it makes sense to buy the pack. The question is more about whether or not to buy the Reinforcement pack and Hero. Of those, I'd say the Reinforcements look much more attractive, with the JVN-11B being a nasty-looking assassin, and the JVN-11A being a relate-able energy boat. The Hero, though, does not appeal much to me. At any rate, I'd wait until we see quirks to pick either up, since I don't think you actually miss out on anything by doing so.The Javelin will be a pretty decent light mech, maybe even Tier 2. While the mech won't be considered a power-house, it will have a bit of the Spider's ability to be a real nuisance and do more damage than you'd think. And if it gets decent quirks and a small stature, it could be the replacement for the over-sized 35 tonners.GMan129 is an officer of the Steel Jaguar competitive team, he is the owner of and writer for MetaMechs , and he does some writing for NGNG as well. He has been playing MechWarrior Online since the early days of closed beta, and has spent far too much time and money on this crap. If you're interested in supporting his self-destruction, consider checking out his Patreon « Last Edit: 19 Jan 17 by SeanLang » Print
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Spears wanted to experiment with her sound. "Chaotic," which became the theme song for her 2005 UPN reality show of the same name, was described by Bell as "animated." "(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun" sounded like a Britney-fronted No Doubt song, and "Falling" was country-influenced. She also wanted to try to record more R&B-sounding songs. "I think she wanted to go in an R&B direction like Justin was doing with 'Cry Me a River,'" Bell said. Spears' "Me Against the Music," which became the lead single for her 2003 album, In the Zone, bore more than a passing similarity to Justified's lead single, "Like I Love You," with its funked-out acoustic guitars and tight drum tracks. Hunte called many of the songs that came out of these sessions "empowering." In regards to "Do Somethin'," Hunte recalled Spears thinking, "'I don't have to be unclothed to say what I'm thinking, I can just say it with these words. Leave me alone. I just want to do me.' I think what she meant by that is, I can just say what I feel. I don't have to be anything extra." On "Take Off," Spears sang about tolerance, love, and peace. Bell called it her version of Michael Jackson's "Black or White." "It was about being tolerant about gay people. It was gay people, discrimination, basically loving yourself and being connected," Bell said. "I think it was ahead of Lady Gaga. I think people would have looked at her and thought she had something to say. It was ahead of its time. She talked about war and how war is wrong." In 2013, Bell tweeted some lyrics from the song: "They say get ready for the revolution / I think we oughta find some sorta solution." But Jive wasn't impressed. "I think maybe they thought it was not close enough to her brand," Bell said. She called In the Zone "the filtered-down version of Original Doll, or the more pop version." She "wanted to make a record that was more vibey and more personal and honest," Bell said. Ultimately, Spears still hoped her songs would have their day. "I think she knew, I can come back to these songs later," Bell said.
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Dimapur is the only railway station in Nagaland and is on the Guwahati-Dibrugarh rail section. Since the region is culturally rich, instructions had been issued to design all future railway stations reflecting the local culture and heritage of the region. the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) would be advised to explore the possibility of marketing the handloom and handicraft products of the state. This project was sanctioned by Railway Board in 2007-08. Considering its importance, it was declared a National Project in 2007. The new line will take off from the existing railhead at Dhansiri railway station, 19 km from Dimapur, and reach Zubza which is 16 km short of Kohima. Railway: North East Frontier Railway[89] Broad gauge: 12.84 kilometres (7.98 mi)
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You’re now one of the most famous people in the country—much more famous than I ever was.” He quoted Mark Twain—“You surprised everybody, and astonished the rest”—and urged me to “wipe the slate clean, start over.” “You think the slate is dirty?” I couldn’t look at him. We walked along for a while. Then he said, “It’s none of my business. Dirty or not—and I don’t know what ‘dirty’ would be—the fact is you’re caught up in something you may not really want.” That was as direct as he got that day. “Sometimes I think you’re having a lot of fun, other times you seem sad. I think turning your back on all of it might make you really happy.” Tears came. “Dad,” I said, “I’m sorry, but it’s just not possible.” “Why not possible?” “I’m afraid there’s no way out anymore. In a way . . . I think I’d like to have done what you describe. As far as fame is concerned, you know as well as I do that celebrity isn’t the same as fame.” Finally, I said, “Oh, shit, Dad, I wish I were . . . free to do this.” My father and I never talked about it again.
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We've seen Company of Heroes 2 couple of times this year, and each time we've walked away saying to ourselves, "Yep, that's definitely a Company of Heroes game!" While some games would love to have that distinction, I worry it could backfire for CoH 2. Has there really been enough innovation to warrant a sequel? Should it have been released as an expansion pack? Will we get panzerschreck-armed donkeys ? We're still a year away from playing the final build so these answers will have to wait. For now we can admire how good it looks with some newly released screenshots. Click on any of the screens below to go to the Company of Heroes 2 gallery to see these images and others in higher resolution.While this battle looks great with machine gun fire, mortars, and awesome tanks it's also one of the worst displays of how to actually engage in battle. Why aren't any of these soldiers in cover? Meanwhile, in the background, you have a couple of guys firing rifles at a damn tank. Yeah, this isn't representative of abattle of CoH, but it still looks awesome.The IL-2 Sturmovik is one of my favorite WWII aircraft and I'm pretty damn excited to see it in CoH 2. It's designed to assist with not only helping to punch a line through enemy forces, but it will continue to fly around the map revealing enemy positions for a short period of time as well.Tanks and soldiers will be able to travel faster if they stick to the roads in CoH 2. Otherwise their movement speed will be impaired if they try and navigate through the thick snow. This will make for some tough decisions in battle since you can be assured that roads like this one will be well-guarded.I believe that's a heavy armor KV-1 tank on the left and aT-70 light armor tank on the right (thanks, HornyGoblin). But the fact that we'll be able to commandeer abandoned vehicles, like these tanks, might be one of those big innovations that helps it stand apart from its predecessor. But we'll have to wait to see how frequently this happens in a normal battle. Either way we can look forward to playing around with new vehicles.Okay, this battle looks to be shaping up much better than the first screenshot.
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THESE are the several courts of common law and equity, which are of public and general jurisdiction throughout the kingdom. And, upon the whole, we cannot but admire the wise economy and admirable provision of our ancestors, in settling the distribution of justice in a method so well calculated for cheapness, expedition, and ease. By the constitution which they established, all trivial debts, and injuries of small consequence, were to be recovered or redressed in every man’s own county, hundred, or perhaps parish. Pleas of freehold, and more important disputes of property, were adjourned to the king’s court of common pleas, which was fixed in one place for the benefit of the whole kingdom. Crimes and misdemeanors were to be examined in a court by themselves; and matters of the revenue in another distinct jurisdiction. Now indeed, for the ease of the subject and greater dispatch of causes, methods have been found to open all the three superior courts for the redress of private wrongs; which have remedied many inconveniences, and yet preserved the forms and boundaries handed down to us from high antiquity. If facts are disputed, they are sent down to be tried in the country by the neighbors; but the law, arising upon those facts, is determined by the judges above: and, if they are mistaken in point of law, there remain in both cases two successive courts of appeal, to rectify such their mistakes. If the rigor of general rules does in any case bear hard upon individuals, courts of equity are open to supply the defects, but not sap the fundamentals, of the law. Lastly, there presides over all one great court of appeal, which is the last resort in matters both of law and equity; and which will therefore take care to preserve an uniformity and equilibrium among all the inferior jurisdictions: a court composed of prelates selected for their piety, and of nobles advanced to that honor for their personal merit, or deriving both honor and merit from an illustrious train of ancestors; who are formed by their education, interested by their property, and bound upon their conscience and honor, to be skilled in the laws of their country. This is a faithful sketch of the English juridical constitution, as designed by the masterly hands of our forefathers. Of which the great original
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You include too much shit work. Get rid of the weaker pieces. Stop thinking quantity over quality matters — only accountants and stupid “creative recruiters” think in numbers. You and I both know the logo for your uncle’s limo service you did in 11th grade sucks. Banish it. Show me your strongest work on every page, and cap out between 12 to 15 pieces. You emphasize the personal filler too much. If the work was a personal side project, it needs to be really good, and it must show a dimension not present in anything else. I want to see stuff that was created for clients — the solutions you created to achieve their vision — because that’s what I am going to pay you for. No flaming grungy skull graphics for your Twitter page. No covers for the album a web label “released” of your GarageBand noodling. No photography of cemeteries. And jeebus no personal logos. You’re not showcasing the actual finished product. If it’s a printed piece, a real sample would be ideal. You know, as opposed to the crappy print of the scan of the fax of the low-rez comping PDF you bribed your former art director to unearth from the bowels of his e-mail archive last night. You pretend every piece is the immaculate concept. Sketches are almost as important as the work itself. Include them. The design process is tenfold better shown, not told. You provide zero context. Who was the client? What were the project limitations? What was the budget and timeline? When was it first published? Be prepared to do a lot of talking if this stuff is not included, because it all matters. You don’t have an actual book. I want a real live actual physical holdable book whose real live tangible turnable pages are filled with high quality prints that do not require squinting into the hellish white glare of my LCD . A printout of your PDF does not count. You clearly have no sense of organization. I want a thematic arc to the order of the work. A logic of placement. A beginning, a middle, and an end, with a compelling storyline that keeps me turning pages. Don’t play 52-card pickup with your work. Show me organization, consideration, and (gasp) creativity. Your excuses and apologies are annoying. Your job is to explain your thought process, strategy, and creative problem-solving.
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Memory Hole: On September 9th, James Clapper Testified It Was a "Huge Concern" That Terrorists Could Smuggle Themselves Into the US Amidst Waves of Refugees This was news, once, but now Obama and the Government-Media Complex needs it to no longer be news, so it isn't. It is now an Unfact. It is now an Unfact. America's top spy said Wednesday that U.S. intelligence officials have a "huge concern" about Islamic State�s ability to infiltrate waves of Syrian war refugees flowing into Europe and potentially the United States as pressure mounts on Western nations to take in a growing number of people fleeing the conflict in the heart of the Middle East. "As they descend on Europe, one of the obvious issues that we worry about, and in turn as we bring refugees into this country, is exactly what�s their background?" Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said. "We don't obviously put it past the likes of ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees." AllahPundit points out something important: While terrorists-smuggled-in-with-legitimate-refugees is a risk, it's not the highest risk. AllahPundit points out something important: While terrorists-smuggled-in-with-legitimate-refugees is a risk, it's not therisk. The highest risk is simply terrorists flying over from Europe with no visa. Europeans don't need a visa -- and we're of course learning some of the most vicious terrorists in the world are those who've been permitted to fester in Europe's slums. The highest risk is simply terrorists flying over from Europe with no visa. Europeans don't need a visa -- and we're of course learning some of the most vicious terrorists in the world are those who've been permitted to fester in Europe's slums. Abdelhamin Abaaoud wouldn't have needed a visa to fly from Belgium to the US. Now, he was on watch lists, so he couldn't have come in on his own passport; but someone just like him, who had no known record and who was thus a "cleanskin," could have come over just by buying a ticket. Abdelhamin Abaaoud wouldn't have needed a visa to fly from Belgium to the US. Now, he was on watch lists, so he couldn't have come in on his own passport; but someone just like him, who had norecord and who was thus a "cleanskin," could have come over just by buying a ticket.
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National Geographic made films too, and at my school these would be run through an old Bell and Howell projector by the geography masters to keep us quiet and to give them time to beetle off and pursue their amorous liaisons with matron or the whisky bottle, depending on which teacher it was. ‘Fry, you’re in charge,’ they would never say on their way out. But what strange films they left us to watch. I seem to recall that the subjects were usually logging in Oregon, the life cycle of the beaver or the excitements to be found in the National Parks of Montana and Wyoming. Very blue skies, lots of spruce, larch and pine and plenty of plaid shirtings. The unreliable speed of that hot and dusty old Bell and Howell rendered the soundtrack and its music flat then sharp then flat again in rolling waves of discord, but it was the commentators that gave me raptures with their magisterially rich and rolling American rhetoric. What a peculiar way with language they had, employing poetical tricks that had been out of date a hundred years earlier. My favourite was the ‘be-’ game. If a word usually began with the prefix ‘be-‘ it was taken off . Thus ‘beneath’ became ‘neath’ and so on. But the ‘be’ of ‘beneath’ wasn’t simply thrown away. No no. It was recycled by adding it to words it had no business being anywhere near. Which would result in preposterous declamatory orotundities of this nature: “Neath the bedappled verdure of the mighty sequoia, sinks the bewestering sun,” and so forth. And what is the proper name for this rhetorical trope, also much deployed? It would start with the usual ‘be-‘ nonsense: “Neath becoppered skies bewends …” but then this “the silver ribbon of time that is the Colorado River.” The weird and senseless maze of metonym and metaphor that was National Geographic Speak in all its besplendour was a great influence on me, for where others had rock and roll music, I had language.
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For example, choosing to DPS down a negative KDA, full AD Lee Sin, over a fed Riven, because you can kill the Lee in about 2 seconds while the Riven is both tankier and more mobile, so takes a fair while longer to kill.Another important aspect about team-fighting again starts before you ever get into the team-fight; it starts when you're buying items at the shop. You should be looking towards the enemy team's composition and their items and adapting your purchases accordingly.That's it for myguide. I hope you found this helpful and learn to playas well as you want to. I think he's the most fun ADC in the game and hopefully you'll share this opinion!If you enjoyed this guide you may also enjoy Vapora's Guide To Tristana , my guide to my other favourite ADC. They have very different playstyles but I findequally as fun to play whenever the meta's in her favour. Otherwise you may still want to read it if you're wanting to improve your ADC skills because it's kind of like a general ADC guide as much as it is aguide.Special thanks to Janitsu and Hoppermh for helping out with the coding and doing the banners!If you're interested to see me play, follow my stream!If you still have any further questions after reading the guide, feel free to ask in the comments, I'll try to answer them as soon as possible and consider addressing them in the guide so future readers may not have the same questions.And once again I would like to remind you that if you enjoyed the guide, upvotes are always appreciated and help very much!
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There was even a drinking game based around his anecdotes. Nobody had ever won, as it required to stay sober until Eggen ran out something to say about either his abilities as a combat pilot or the virtues of the Vulture. Most people either suffered severe ethylic poisoning while trying to soldier through his tales, or ran away in order to conserve their sanity. I liked Eggen. In the end, he was mostly harmless. No one had actually seen him in combat (or anywhere other than this bar for that matter), and the only people hurt where those that took part in the drinking game, but they had only themselves to blame. He was a warm, friendly face in an otherwise cold and cruel environment. I noticed he was seated with what looked like two members of Elysium Corp, recounting one of his highly improbable encounters. This was a well-known story of how he faced off with a couple of pirates from The Code, and how he had managed to send them out running with their tails between their legs. Every time I heard the story it grew in danger and drama. It had started with him facing two Eagles, and turned into fighting and beating two heavily armed Pythons, all thanks to his incredible fighting skills and the Vultures superior maneuverability. I made my way to another table and nodded to the group as I took a seat not too far from them. Eggen did not break his stride and kept on going, acknowledging me from a distance. I had heard that story many times before, and after my latest run, found myself more in the mood for a bit of peace and quiet, a stiff drink and then off to my cabin to dream of credits and illicit goods. A few hours later, a loud banging noise and the dissonant ringing from the intercom made me feel like I was being interdicted from my pleasant dreams. I rose, grogginess dissipating fast as my mind ran all possible scenarios. None of them were good. You don’t get abruptly woken in the middle of the night for good news. Could it be an old debt come to collect? Had someone placed a bounty on me? Did it have to do with my latest smuggle? With only one door and no room to hide, I had little choice but go to the door.
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Yeah you are right, it just uses TWBT and TWBT_LEGACY because it can't use STANDARD to just differentiate those 2 modes.Evrett33 I'm guessing you don't like overrides? If so you can find overrides.txt in the data/init folder and delete it. I've no idea, if you posted a screenshot with what you dislike it'd be clear but I've no idea what you mean by chair and bookcase without it. Idk what you mean by twbt buttons? Are you using the starter pack or something? That'd be the best place to ask if you are and then PeridexisErrant should have all that stuff already documented. I know the wiki more or less has all that info besides twbt printmode because that's just what text will be text uses to differentiate between those two modes. The legacy one allows the graphics font tileset to be used on the map instead of the text font that is usually used with Twbt as the text font is more or less clearer on it but pretty maps are better.Ah for not acii world map you could run twbt_legacy in capitals until you embark then exit out and switch back to twbt since legacy mode is suppose to be laggier or something. It could have been changed who knows, it was really just left in for those who wanted the pretty map I believe plus less obscure reasons. You can make tilesizes bigger with twbt tilesize ## ## in extra_dfhack_init.init for example. FONT is clearly the font that is used for text while Graphics font is the main tileset that is used for the ingame map and other stuff that uses it, it's much better to read the wiki for that. The printmodes for everything but twbt is already explained on the wiki and the above should have told you whatever you wanted to know about twbt printmodes. It just allows people to use more than one tileset for map items/stuff otherwise graphics font/ font used is the same unless you use truetype text.
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Sarah Brown has joined the campaign to defend the NHS Gordon and Sarah Brown have joined a Twitter campaign to defend the NHS, which is under fire in the US. The prime minister posted a message on the welovetheNHS page after critics of Barack Obama's health reforms dubbed it "Orwellian" and "evil". Mr Brown said the service "often makes the difference", and added "thanks for always being there". Meanwhile, a Tory MEP who told US TV he "wouldn't wish" the NHS on anyone, has been rebuked by the party. Conservative officials said Daniel Hannan had done the NHS a "disservice" by giving Americans "such a negative and partial view". The Twitter campaign has attracted more than a million followers and thousands of messages of support - including tweets from Sarah Brown, who wrote welovetheNHS "more than words can say", Health Secretary Andy Burnham and former deputy prime minister John Prescott. Rationing On Wednesday evening a message was posted on it from the Downing Street Twitter feed, saying: "PM: NHS often makes the difference between pain and comfort, despair and hope, life and death. Thanks for always being there". Many of the tweets in support of the NHS are from members of the public saying they owe their families' or their own lives to its care. Professor Stephen Hawking has also hit back at claims in American newspaper that NHS rationing would mean he "wouldn't have a chance in the UK", saying on a visit to Washington to collect an award: "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS". The NHS has been held up by opponents of Barack Obama's health reforms as an example of an overly bureaucratic "socialized" system which rations care and denies treatment to the elderly. Mr Obama's critics claim he would set up "death panels", a reference to the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which decides which drugs receive funding. Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin said such a system was "downright evil". I find it incredible that a free people living in a country dedicated and founded in the cause of independence and freedom can seriously be thinking about adopting such a system
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For centuries, missionaries have been the humanitarian lubricant for imperial violence. Today the American center-left will be likely to consent to any application of military violence if it can be portrayed, however implausibly, as a charitable endeavor. Any war that can have “humanitarian” or “human rights” slapped on it will be easy to swallow for Democratic media and intellectuals. This explains how the conservative Sen. John McCain and the liberal Rev. Jesse Jackson are as one in wanting to send Marines into Nigeria to search for and rescue those kidnapped schoolgirls. It also explains the popularity of waging war to “help” Libya by toppling its government. (That Libya is now “drowning in a swamp of terrorism, darkness, killing and destruction,” in the words of Libyan former interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, is not something liberal interventionists care to discuss.) On a larger scale, missionary zeal is how American liberals easily convinced themselves that our long Afghan war campaign is, at heart, a feminist Peace Corps project. Blinded by the sugar rush of good intentions behind the night raids, the checkpoint shootings, the aerial bombardment of wedding parties, liberals have by and large supported Barack Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan. (So too, of course, did most conservatives.) We’ve been here before. For many Cold War liberals, the Vietnam War was a philanthropic project, a way of saving a third world country for liberal democracy. The chief hawks of the JFK–Lyndon Johnson war effort were dynamic philanthropists: Walt Rostow was a leading development economist; national security adviser McGeorge Bundy went on to helm the Ford Foundation; Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later took charge of the World Bank. Today, similarly, USAID is often an tool of economic domination and interventionist skullduggery. The civilizing mission, for all the fine feelings involved, has a way of shading into bellicose militarism.
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We had two daily highscore submissions, one from tickbite and one from MbraY. Tickbite got a $262k run on the August 3rd Daily, and Mbray got a $296k run on the same daily. Nice improvements, guys! PolPotNoodle got a $1.08mil run on the this daily, as well! Next up, we saw bootsthatshoot getting some motivation for score runs again! He improved his PB to $1.641mil already, too. I think we will see more from him in the near future here. Good luck, boots! Another score PB came from CamoNinjazz. He is nearing the 1 million mark already, and currently has an $895k run. Looking good already, Camo! Until next time, -Kinni
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Photograph Copyright Israeli Defence Force / Air Force. enter for a pass and I see the MiG diving, turning sharply and presenting his entire back across my windscreen. I configure the gunsight; estimate the range. Just as I am about to fire, the MiG twists forcefully and drops even lower. Damn!! Screwed up my pass, that Man! !, and I pull out. Amos enters. The Man in the MiG takes advantage of the short respite to drop closer to the valley floor and to gather some airspeed, which he will need to continue the fight. I see the MiG break again just in time, flying practically on the deck, successfully frustrating Amos's pass. I am on my way in. I pull above him, stronger and faster but I am still unable to get a good shot. He flies, that Man! Lower than I have ever seen, knows where to look and when, has excellent vision, and has the concentration and the attention to think clearly, to judge correctly when to do what and not to make any mistakes. I am beginning to understand that we have found a real adversary, and that this battle will be quite different. I could almost visualize the Syrian casting away all the approved rules -- rules only applicable to the pilots not as good, and the situations not as desperate. This is not the way to fight. One must not fly at such levels of risk that only success separates them from recklessness. But something told me with great certainty that today, with this Man, this was the only way. The entire periphery is etched in my memory as an express tunnel of eight and a half minutes with the series of entries and pullouts; three volleys which missed, and extremely hard physical effort. I remember him at least once at the bottom of my gunsight, which I could not lower further even one millimeter because we were already among the treetops and he was a couple of agricultural terraces lower than I was. I remember the Syrian pulling up after me once, and both of us climbing out of the valley in cold rage. I remember Amos saying, "Watch Out! He is coming after you!" and I more alive and aware then I had ever been, knowing exactly how much speed the Man in MiG had on his gauge and that he was bluffing!
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This is meant to deal with the problem of distinguishing imagining from hallucinating (51 n27) since imaginings are made of mental simulacra of possible but not actual perceptions, whereas hallucinations are made of mental simulacra that are taken by consciousness to be of actual perceptions when they are not really actual (otherwise one would be perceiving not hallucinating).
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So sometimes we see code snippets that interleave expressions like new DirectoryIterator($path) with if (! ($f = fopen($p, ‘w+’)) … in a jarring way.
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is the head chef and co-owner of multiple Manhattan mainstays, namely Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko, Momofuku Ssäm Bar, and Má Pêche. Famous for his pork buns and soft serve ice cream, Chang has a few house rules. One, if you want fortune cookies or karaoke, try down the street. Any street. Two, he takes no reservations, except for parties of six who order a whole pork belly or two triple-fried Korean chickens. And three, Pavement is the world’s greatest band. He is the author of the Momofuku cookbook and has appeared in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2010. The Recipe Project (a gift book and CD package) features 10 recipes by celebrity chefs transformed—word for word—into singable, danceable, riotously delightful songs. Think: 100 Sweet Tomatoes by Mario Batali sung as whimsical Italian melody. Or Creamless Creamed Corn by Tom Colicchio sung as a classic rock tune.The book itself contains recipes by the same chefs (Mario Batali, David Chang, Michael Symon, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Tom Colicchio and more) as well interviews with the culinary stars, restaurant playlists, and essays by acclaimed food writers such as Melissa Clark, JJ Goode, Christine Muhlke, Michael Harlan Turkell John T. Edge. This excerpt is an interview with David Chang, and the book is available for sale in our online store. is the head chef and co-owner of multiple Manhattan mainstays, namely Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko, Momofuku Ssäm Bar, and Má Pêche. Famous for his pork buns and soft serve ice cream, Chang has a few house rules. One, if you want fortune cookies or karaoke, try down the street. Any street. Two, he takes no reservations, except for parties of six who order a whole pork belly or two triple-fried Korean chickens. And three, Pavement is the world’s greatest band. He is the author of the Momofuku cookbook and has appeared in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2010.
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====================== FIRE EMBLEM: AWAKENING SUPPORT GUIDE V.1.2 ====================== [insert snazzy ASCII art here] ============ INTRODUCTION [BEG] ============ My username is StreetPasWantr (I prefer the name Leo), and welcome to my first FAQ EVER. This will cover supports in Fire Emblem: Awakening. Note that since this is an early version of this FAQ, it won't be as in-depth as it will in be in future installments. For now though, I will list all the possible supports in Awakening and a strategy to get 100% in supports. Later I might add more content, such as dialouge. I hope this will be a helpful guide for all of you. Enjoy! DISCLAIMER: Please note that there is a possiblility I've made a mistake in the making of the FAQ. I'm only human, after all. If you find any mistakes or want to make suggestions, please email me at [email protected]. Don't worry about annoying me, I actually like getting emails from you guys! :) ================= TABLE OF CONTENTS [TOC] ================= Use Ctrl + F to search. Insert the letters inside the [ ] to go to that section of the FAQ. Introuduction [BEG] Table of Contents [TOC] Legal Stuff [LGL] Change Log [CLG] Basics of Supports/FAQ [SPB] List of Supports [LOS] 100% Support Plan (Contributed by Charlie Linington) [SPP] Support Conversations Dialouge (COMING SOON!) Contacts/Thank You [CTY] =========== LEGAL STUFF [LGL] =========== - If you want to post this FAQ on any website, you can do so. However, please credit me with either my stupid username, StreetPasWantr, or my nickname, Leonardo. - You may use this FAQ for private purposes, such as printing it, sending it to friends, editing it, etc. - Please don't plagiarize this FAQ, or use it for profit. Fire Emblem (TM) Series © by Nintendo This FAQ, layout and ASCII Art © 2005 - 2012 Pham Hong Quan All trademarks and copyrights in this FAQ belong to their respective owners.
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Introduction Pneumonia is one of the major public health problems in children under five years of age. It is an infection of lungs and most commonly caused by viruses or bacteria and spreads by direct contact with infected people [1]. The risk factors include poverty, lack of measles immunization, indoor air pollution, overcrowding, malnutrition/poor nutritional practices, lack of exclusive breastfeeding, and low birth weight [2], [3]. Pneumonia kills more children under five years of age than any other illness in the world [4]. Globally, every year, it kills an estimated 1.2 million children under five, making up 18% of all deaths of this age group [5]. According to World Health Organization (WHO) [6], “more than 150 million episodes of pneumonia occur every year among children under five in developing countries, accounting for more than 95% of all new cases worldwide”. The estimated incidence of pneumonia in children under five in the South-East Asia is 0.36 episodes per child, per year [2]. In Nepal, according to the recent annual report of Department of Health Services (DoHS), Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), out of total 2,752,266 ARI cases among children under five, 822,352 (30%) were reported as pneumonia from July 17, 2010 to July 16, 2011 [7]. The report further states that the incidence of pneumonia per thousand under five year children was 246. Dhaulagiri Zonal Hospital (DZH), a public hospital located in Baglung (a rural district of western Nepal) is a major healthcare provider and a referral center for the other hospitals/health facilities of Baglung and the surrounding districts (Parbat, Myagdi, Mustang). The Baglung district lies between 28°16′ northern latitude and 83°36′ eastern longitude and is at an elevation of 3,350 feet above sea level. The annual average rainfall of the district is 2200 ml and a minimum rainfall is about 10.9 ml. Rainfall is heavily affected by the Monsoon and most of it occurs during the months of June through September. Rest of the year the district is mostly dry and sunny. The temperature ranges from a minimum of 6.5°C to a maximum of 37.5°C. Over the past few years, several attempts have been made to raise the profile of childhood pneumonia as a public health priority [6] but much more needs to be done.
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BENGALURU: Swirling rain waters flooding various localities across the city over the past one month not only entered houses and damaged furniture and electronics, but also rendered many swanky cars useless.Vehicles of residents of ST Bed Layout , Koramangala, HSR Layout and Gottigere among other areas affected by the incessant downpour are yet to come back from garages where they were sent for repair. Some high-end cars worth over Rs 50 lakh were also damaged, owners of which had to spend anywhere between Rs 10 to Rs 15 lakh for repairs.Several residents of south and southeastern Bengaluru said that despite spending lakhs on repairs, they are still waiting for their cars.ST Bed Layout resident NS Chandrashekar's both cars were damaged in the heavy downpour on August 15. "I have a Honda City and my son owns a Swift Dzire. Engines of both the cars needed complete overhaul. We first went to a popular garage which told us that the repair bill would be up to Rs 4 lakh for both the cars and that they would be delivered only after three months. We then went to a small garage on Bannerghatta Road which gave us an estimate of Rs 2 lakh for the job.We don't know how much money we can claim from the insurance company . They said it would take three weeks to repair the cars, it has been close to a month and they are still seeking more time," he said.Almost all the residents of ST Bed Layout, which has got flooded more than five times in the past one month, face a similar plight. Another resident Kailas Nadkarni said, "Even a week ago, no cars were seen on any of the streets here. Most were damaged and sent for repair," His two vehicles returned from the garage just two days ago. "Only the electrical circuits in the car engines were damaged. This is despite the cars being parked in the garage which is a little above the ground level. The repair cost Rs 50,000 but I could claim only Rs 16,000 for one of them from the insurance company .My son works in Electronic City and has been taking a cab every day since the past 20 days.
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NYT: 14 Out of 22 Top Terrorist Plots Hatched by the F.B.I. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts. But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested. When an Oregon college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud , thought of using a car bomb to attack a festive Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving, with Mr. Mohamud in the passenger seat. To trigger the bomb the student punched a number into a cellphone and got no boom, only a bust. This is legal, but is it legitimate? Without the F.B.I., would the culprits commit violence on their own? Is cultivating potential terrorists the best use of the manpower designed to find the real ones? Judging by their official answers, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are sure of themselves — too sure, perhaps.… 14 OUT OF 22 TOP PLOTS WERE DIRECT FBI PROGRAMS As we now head to the end of the article, we find out just how comprehensive — and shocking — this problem really is. NYT: 14 Out of 22 Top Terrorist Plots Hatched by the F.B.I. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& Reading hundreds of pages of transcripts of the recorded conversations [between the F.B.I. and their would-be terrorist James Cromitie] is like looking at the inkblots of a Rorschach test. Patterns of willingness and hesitation overlap and merge. “I don’t want anyone to get hurt,” Mr. Cromitie said, and then explained that he meant women and children. “I don’t care if it’s a whole synagogue of men.” It took 11 months of meandering discussion and a promise of $250,000 to lead him, with three co-conspirators he recruited, to plant fake bombs at two Riverdale synagogues.
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Mystic Quartz Color As mentioned above, mystic quartz has a very interesting rainbow color, which changes as it is tilted. This is what sets it apart from other stones, since every single color can be seen in one kaleidoscopic and magical stone. The quality of mystic quartz gemstones is dependent on the quality of the raw material; in this case a clear quartz gem. Therefore, quartz gems with high clarity and luster will yield the best results. Mystic Quartz Clarity and Luster Only the highest quality, transparent, eye-clean quartz is used to produce mystic quartz gemstones. Mystic quartz exhibits an attractive vitreous (glassy) luster after it has been cut and polished. Mystic Quartz Cut and Shape Quartz is a very versatile material. Therefore it can be fashioned into a great variety of shapes, such as square, round, octagon, pear, oval, heart and other fancy shapes. Strongly colored gemstones are usually scissor cut whereas weakly colored stones are generally brilliantly cut. This best shows off the brilliance and clarity of the gems. Since mystic quartz is strongly colored, the clear quartz can be brilliantly cut in preparation for the color enhancement. Mystic quartz should not be re-cut, since this would remove the coating and expose the colorless quartz beneath. Many mystic quartz gems are given interesting cuts, such as concave cuts and diamond-cuts. Mystic Quartz Treatment Colorless quartz, the raw material, is always untreated. In order to convert eye clean colorless quartz of fine quality into mystic quartz, a process known as thin film deposition is used. The cut and polished quartz is coated with an extremely thin titanium film that bonds with quartz at the molecular level. This is not a permanent treatment, since it only affects the surface of the stone.
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The preeminent example is our use of combustion or oxidation in our machines.. Combustion is the spontaneous reaction of carbon-containing substances like wood, coal, gas or oil with oxygen — after the reaction has been initiated with a flame or spark. Because it is spontaneous according to the second law, in addition to the new lower-energy chemical compounds formed (mainly carbon dioxide and water), oxidation dissipates a great deal of energy in the form of heat (that is actually very rapidly moving molecules of the carbon dioxide + water + air) and some light. Then comes the payoff: our use of the second law for our human goals. Today, it is not just diverting some of that dissipating energy from the burning wood of a campfire in a cave for warming ourselves and cooking our food as has been done for millennia, but diverting the energy flow of fossil fuel to our activities that make engines and machines which function to transform our material world. Obviously, if we think of being grateful for natural phenomena such as the glory of the warm sun each day and the benefit of rain on fertile soil, we should be grateful indeed for the second law. How could we overvalue the enormous diversion of energy that we are able to achieve from the dispersal of energy that the second law favors when we burn fossil fuels? Coal, and especially petroleum-sourced fuel in cars, planes, trucks, earth-movers, trains, ships and electrical power plants are the life-blood, arms, and legs and support of the nervous system of modern society. Of course, we are not able to divert more than a portion of the energy obtained from combustion for our use. Some of any energy dispersion continues immediately on its way to complete dissipation in the environment and ultimate loss to outer space. Most energy not "dammed" by synthesis of new higher energy long-lived compounds (as in photosynthesis) but just used in moving cars or similar temporary functions is merely dispersed later than the waste heat lost from the tailpipe following the initial explosion of the fuel. The second law is often delayed but it is never violated.
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And, as part of its charm offensive aimed at securing a fair passage, the Government has published a 58-page explanatory memorandum , to which I've already referred.In the time I've had since its publication, I've been able to take a closer look at it and, in particular, the worked examples of how specific pieces of EU legislation would be amended in order to render them workable as UK law.One of those examples takes in the 1,355-page Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures – the CLP Regulation (see page 53). This is the EU law which implements the UN's Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (known as GHS).Those familiar with the Regulation will know that its primary purpose is harmonisation – not at an EU level (which has long since been achieved) but globally. The legislation represents the European end of a global initiative which included input from UNECE and many global bodies.Its underlying logic is sound. In implementing the global standard, it facilitates the free movement of chemicals: as long as the products comply with the regulation, access to foreign markets cannot be excluded on the grounds of non-conformity of labelling with any differing local standards.Given the purpose of the Regulation, it is hardly surprising that this is specifically stated in Article 1, in terms of ensuring "a high level of protection of human health and the environment as well as the free movement of substances, mixtures and articles …". This is to be achieved by: "harmonising the criteria for classification of substances and mixtures, and the rules on labelling and packaging for hazardous substances and mixtures".It is then somewhat ironic that the suggested UK amendments, set out in the memorandum, omit "the free movement of substances, mixtures and articles …". Then, where reference is made to "harmonising" the rules, this is deleted and the word "establishing" is substituted.The new text in the UK regulation will thus read that the objective of the regulations is achieved by: "Establishing the criteria for classification of substances and mixtures, and the rules on labelling".By this means, in one fell swoop the main purpose of regulation is removed, and with it the mechanism for ensuring convergence with EU and global standards.
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The content of more recent tool kits for activism posted on the site would indicate that their activism may be in conflict with that of Invisible Children. As a Catholic organization, there is no doubt that their interests conflict with the NAR. The Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative includes both Muslim and Christian leaders from several different denominations and promotes an interfaith approach to peace in the region. For many religious leaders, the goal is peace and stability for the nation and the promotion of religious pluralism, as opposed to exploitation of the conflict for proselytizing. A similar dynamic can be seen in Sudan, where the conflict is generally portrayed in the American press as Muslim vs. Christian, despite the fact that there are some Muslims working to promote secular government and a pluralistic society, as Frederick Clarkson reports in Religious Dispatches.
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Hardly There (Simple Property) While you are attuned to this rune, you have advantage on stealth checks Sure Footed (Simple Property) As an action, you touch an area of difficult terrain and scribe the tezlik rune within it with a hand motion. This causes the difficult terrain to immediately become normal terrain for the purpose of navigating and speed. This affects a 50-foot radius around you. You can extend this distance by expending a spell slot when using the tezlik rune in this manner. The radius extends by 50 feet per level of the expended spell slot. Shadow Step (Complex Property) While you are attuned to this rune, you can cast Pass Without a Trace as a bonus action. You regain this ability after a short or long rest. Evasive Maneuvers (Complex Property) While you are attuned to this rune, you gain the Evasion trait from the rogue class, except you still take full damage from a failed save. If you already have the Evasion trait, you instead gain advantage on dexterity saving throws affected by this trait. Hasted Movement (Complex Property) Over the course of a short rest, you inscribe this rune onto the soles of a pair of shoes or onto the soles of your feet. An affected creature gains a +10 bonus to their movement speed. In addition, you can expend a spell slot to grant the shoes an additional movement speed bonus equal to the spell slot's level divided by two times 5 (e.g. a level nine spell slot would be 4*5 = 20 bonus to speed). This effect lasts for 24 hours or until you use this property again. Bowl of the Asam Rune Master Rune, Very Rare (Requires Attunement) A small glass bowl that always sounds like it contains a liquid, but no sign of one can be found. It gives off a faint sizzling sound as though something were being dissolved inside it. The asam rune—the rune of acid—can be found on the bottom of the bowl as though it had been dissolved into the bowl with acid. Upon grasping the rune, you feel a wave of acid wash over your body and feel as though you are being dissolved, but this causes no damage and the sensation quickly fades, allowing you to handle the bowl as normal. 2
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But now we must give you an account of our stay at Cagoxima. We put into that port because the wind was adverse to our sailing to Meaco, which is the largest city in Japan, and most famous as the residence of the King and the Princes. It is said that after four months are passed the favourable season for a voyage to Meaco will return, and then with the good help of God we shall sail thither. The distance from Cagoxima is three hundred leagues. We hear wonderful stories about the size of Meaco: they say that it consists of more than ninety thousand dwellings. There is a very famous University there, as well as five chief colleges of students, and more than two hundred monasteries of bonzes, and of others who are like coenobites, called Legioxi, as well as of women of the same kind, who are called Hamacutis. Besides this of Meaco, there are in Japan five other principal academies, at Coya, at Negu, at Fisso, and at Homia. These are situated round Meaco, with short distances between them, and each is frequented by about three thousand five hundred scholars. Besides these there is the Academy at Bandou, much the largest and most famous in all Japan, and at a great distance from Meaco. Bandou is a large territory, ruled by six minor princes, one of whom is more powerful than the others and is obeyed by them, being himself subject to the King of Japan, who is called the Great King of Meaco. The things that are given out as to the greatness and celebrity of these universities and cities are so wonderful as to make us think of seeing them first with our own eyes and ascertaining the truth, and then when we have discovered and know how things really are, of writing an account of them to you. They say that there are several lesser academies besides those which we have mentioned.
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When we sink into what’s really, really important and meaningful in our lives, we’re usually going to come back to love and all of the things that love and connection invite in our lives.
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In the many hundreds of interviews I gave, I only ever had one candidate who quoted a number so high that it made sense to stop the interview process, as nearly everyone gave a range that covered our target compensation.
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A third of undocumented immigrants aged 15 and older have at least one child who is a U.S. citizen by birth. The ripping apart of such families has tragic consequences for those involved, as I have seen first–hand. “ Many of the people being targeted [for deportation] have for decades lived lawful, safe, and productive lives here.” 60% of the undocumented have lived in the U.S. for at least a decade Antonio, whom I interviewed in Tijuana in 2013, had lived for many years in Las Vegas, where he worked in construction and his wife cleaned hotels. Having had no encounters with U.S. law enforcement, he risked going back to Mexico to visit his ailing mother in Sinaloa. But he got nabbed trying to sneak back into the U.S. After a legal ordeal, which included being handcuffed and shackled and a degrading stay in a U.S. detention facility, he was dumped in Tijuana, where I met him shortly after his arrival there. He dreaded being forever separated from his wife and their two little boys, who had been born seven and five years before. But Sinaloa is a poor, tough place to live, strongly under the sway of the narcos, and Antonio did not want his loved ones to sacrifice themselves in order to rejoin him. As Antonio choked back tears talking about how much he missed his family, I asked him whether they might travel to San Diego to speak with him across the bars of Friendship Park. But Antonio wasn’t sure how long he could stay in Tijuana. He was afraid he would be arrested again, this time in Mexico, because in order to please U.S. law enforcement officials by appearing diligent in combating crime, Tijuana’s police force had gotten into the habit of arresting, for the most minor of infractions, Mexicans and Central Americans deported from the United States. Sweeping homeless poor migrants and deportees off the streets made Tijuana’s city center appear peaceful, bustling, and clean again, after years of a cartel bloodbath. Mexican businesses were pleased by the orderly look of the city center, the U.S. was gratified by Mexico’s cooperation, and tourists were returning, with U.S. college students again partying and getting drunk in Tijuana’s cantinas and clubs. If harmless victims of U.S. deportation policies like Antonio had to pay the price for these benefits, so be it.
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"It is hard to disguise that the purpose of the proposal is to deny low-income families vital short-term temporary financial assistance necessary to support themselves, and especially their children." If the bill passes, it would allow for more more narrow drug testing than Scott's original promise, which broadly applied to all applicants. Still, it has several more hurdles to clear before it can reach Scott's desk, including more hearings and a full vote in the House and Senate. We are watching this promise, but for now it remains Promise Broken. Sources: Florida House, HB 1117, 2017 National Conference of State Legislatures, Drug testing for welfare recipients and public assistance, March 14, 2017 Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times, "In need of public assistance? You might need $40 and a drug test to get it," March 13, 2017 Interview, Rochelle Finzel, National Conference of State Legislatures group director, March 14, 2017 Interview, Lauren Schenone, Gov. Rick Scott spokeswoman, March 14, 2017 Interview, Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida executive director, March 14, 2017
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The current collective storage of 18.83 TMC is not only higher than last season's collective storage, it can also fulfill the city's water demand for the next one year. The city's annual water demand is pegged at 14 TMC. Last year, the collective storage in four reservoirs was 3.74 TMC (12.84% of total capacity) which means reservoirs have about 15 TMC more water this year.On Saturday evening, water storage in Panshet was 8.10 TMC (76% of total capacity) followed by Khadakwasla (68.77%), Varasgaon 7.46 TMC (58%) and Temghar 1.91 TMC (51.5%). Among the four, Temghar registered the highest rainfall on Saturday at 32mm. Panshet and Varasgaon each registered 19mm rainfall while Khadakwasla registered 10mm rainfall.Officials of the irrigation department said continuous rainfall has increased water storage in all four reservoirs. The catchment areas have received fairly good rainfall when compared to last year. Since June 1, Temghar has registered 1,562mm rainfall followed by Varasgaon 1,311mm, Panshet 1,305mm and Khadakwasla 374mm. Last year, none of the dams had touched 500mm mark during the same period.The officials further stated that water storage in Panshet and Varasgaon need to reach their maximum capacity as both the reservoirs have more storage capacity compared to Temghar and Khadakwasla. Besides releasing water for the city, the water from these reservoirs is released for agriculture in Pune and Solapur districts, officials said.Meanwhile, the water storage in the reservoir of Pavana dam that supplies water to Pimpri Chinchwad reached 6.69 TMC (78.6% of the total capacity). Pavana dam so far has registered 2279mm rainfall, which is highest among all dams located in the Mula Mutha sub-basin.Khadakwasla 1.36 TMC (68.7%)374 mmVarasgaon7.46TMC (58.18%)1311 mmPanshet8.10 TMC (76.04%)1305 mmTemghar1.91TMC (51.5%)1562 mmTotal 18.83 TMC (64.58% of total capacity)
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Sounds like a daily tabloid headline, right? Its actually a court case dating back to May 22, 1307 in Youghal, Cork. I stumbled upon this entry years ago when doing research for my thesis but didn't have a place for it.What happens is this - John Don (Dunne) of Youghal, Cork, discovers his wife, Basilia, is seeing her lover (Stephen le Clerk) when he's away on business. Full of rage and wanting to trap the adulterous pair he enlists his friends' help and pretends to go away on a business trip. The lovers fall for it and endeavor to spend the night together. His friend, John Caane the taverner, tips him off that Stephen is with his wife for the night and John (the husband) along with some mates storm the house where they waylay Stephen attempting to escape, tie him down and castrate him. Stephen duly brings a court case against John Don et alia (bodily trespass) which is heard by jury. On May 22, 1307, the jurors bring a verdict of compensation for Stephen against John Don and accomplices who are sentenced to be imprisoned. One week later, on May 29, 1307 another entry records that John Don has sued Stephen le Clerk for destroying and taking away, "wines, linen, vessels and other goods to the value of 100L and did him other injuries." Although Stephen denies these claims a jury finds against him and awards John to recover 40s and for Stephen to go to gaol for trespass.I have not yet been able to determine if both men did in fact bare out their sentences in gaol at the same time.The entire entry as found in the Calendar of Justiciary Rolls is below. Please note I have kept the spellings as they would have existed in the original document. Don is (probably) Dunne, Caane is Cane and Yoghel is Youghal. The sheer detail in this entry is fantastic.Trial by country = trial by jury. Enjoy!Calendar of Justiciary Rolls Ireland, James Mills ed. (His Majesty's Stationery Office, Dublin 1914), pps 376-377Membrane 391307May 22 Yet of Pleas and Plaints at Cork, Before John Wogan Justiciar on Monday the Morrow of Holy TrinityCorkJohn Don, Robert Mey, Ric. Fox, Stephen le Jeofne, Elena Ryng, John Caane taverner, and Adam Don were attached to answer Stephen Oregan clerk, of a plea that they with Roger Porpeys, Ric. Carweynt, John Tyrel, Nich.
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(Photo: Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Chef Junnajet Hurapan served the lobster signature dish at Gigi's Asian Bistro in the Galleria on July 09, 2009. (Photo: Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Photo: Mayra Beltran / Houston Chronicle Image 10 of 17 Image 11 of 17 Gigi Huang poses on the outdoor patio in her new Galleria restaurant Gigi's Asian Bistro and Dumpling Bar on Thursday, June 12, 2008, in Houston. (Photo: Sharon Steinmann / Chronicle ) Gigi Huang poses on the outdoor patio in her new Galleria restaurant Gigi's Asian Bistro and Dumpling Bar on Thursday, June 12, 2008, in Houston. (Photo: Sharon Steinmann / Chronicle ) Photo: Sharon Steinmann / Houston Chronicle Image 12 of 17 Chef Junnajet Hurapan served the lobster signature dish at Gigi's Asian Bistro in the Galleria on July 09, 2009. (Photo: Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Chef Junnajet Hurapan served the lobster signature dish at Gigi's Asian Bistro in the Galleria on July 09, 2009. (Photo: Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Photo: Mayra Beltran / Houston Chronicle Image 13 of 17 Dumplings at Gigi's Asian Bistro & Dumpling Bar in the Galleria. (Photo: Steve Ueckert / Chronicle) Dumplings at Gigi's Asian Bistro & Dumpling Bar in the Galleria. (Photo: Steve Ueckert / Chronicle) Photo: Steve Ueckert / Houston Chronicle Image 14 of 17 Chef Junnajet Hurapan signature dish a lobster at Gigi's Asian Bistro in the Galleria on July 09, 2009. (Photo: Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Chef Junnajet Hurapan signature dish a lobster at Gigi's Asian Bistro in the Galleria on July 09, 2009. (Photo: Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Photo: Mayra Beltran / Houston Chronicle Image 15 of 17 Image 16 of 17 Cherry Blossoms dangle over restaurant at Gigi's Asian Bistro in the Galleria on July 09, 2009. Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Cherry Blossoms dangle over restaurant at Gigi's Asian Bistro in the Galleria on July 09, 2009. Mayra Beltran / Chronicle ) Photo: Mayra Beltran / Houston Chronicle Image 17 of 17 Gigi's Asian Bistro closes in Galleria 1 / 17 Back to Gallery
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These shields overlapped those in front of them, creating a shield roof over the entire unit's head. The soldiers at the end of each rank held out their shield sideways to complete the shell of shields. This and other formations were used to assault walls. [243]
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That would most likely not mean that all their operations would end, but shareholders would lose all their money, and creditors would lose some of what they have lent, while the excessive UAW contracts could be thrown out.Scenario number 2 now looks most likely to become reality
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Register on our website and subscribe to ouron Twitter Read more about SoG and the BitCrystals Token Sale The Token Sale will take place on Swarm BitCrystals are tradable Counterparty assets which act as the game-fuel and premium currency in EverdreamSofts upcoming free-to-play mobilegame Spells of Genesis (SoG) and flagship trading card game Moonga . They can be used to enhance gaming experience like buying card packsor unlocking new features.The BitCrystals Token Sale is a crowdfund. When you buy BitCrystals, you become a backer of the project. This means you get rewarded with thegames premium currency while fundingits development. You can then use your BitCrystals to purchase new card decks and game items or tradethem on Counterparty.The Token Sale will start this summer on Swarm and will last for one month. To be initially offered at the rate of 15,000 BitCrystals per BTC($0.016 per BitCrystals), the price of the BitCrystals will increase every 5 days. The Token Sale ends after 30 days or when all the BitCrystalsare sold, whichever occurs first. Unsold BitCrystals will be burned afterwards.As an extra guarantee to our contributors we want to receive funds raised during our token sale ONLY if we deliver Spells of Genesis and itsfeatures as planned. All the funds raised will be held in a multisig wallet. The key officers are: Toni Lane Casserly, CEO at CoinTelegraphand Jeremy Johnson, founder of CoinDaddy.io.We are looking for a third candidate and we will announce the last key officer in due course. Funds will be released by the officers ONLYon satisfactory completion of each of the three milestones below. (release 33% of funds raised)Alpha version of Spells of Genesis with 10 different game levels. The game will allow to connect a Counterwallet and transfer card assets.Extra levels will be available. For example if a player owns 100 GEMZ a special GEMZ level will be playable. A player will be able to viewtheir assets on Counterwallet as digital game items. (release 33% of funds raised)Fully featured beta version of the game with all components present. Several levels will be playable, the game interface and story will becomplete. The game will have a wallet and payment method. (Feb 2016)(release 34% of funds raised)Final development of the game with over 100 game levels and 150+ cards. With the ability for players to play in groups (guilds), to createtheir own levels, characters as digital asset, and also trade them. (Apr 2015)
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However, Professor Pro will not be the only one representing Great Britain. Although his tournament attendance has slowed down this year, British fan favorite Fuzzyness will be playing at Dreamhack. He seems to be semi-retired, but he has shown he can go head to head with the best. Alpha Dash will be proving himself as the top Ice Climbers main at Dreamhack Winter. Getting 13th at Dreamhack London, the solid ICs only looks to repeat his success. Additionally, Britain's best Peach Vanity Angel will continue his success at DreamHack Winter after a strong 13th place finish at DreamHack London.France will be coming in strong at DreamHack Winter. Leading the pack is the rising Jigglypuff main, Tekk. He had a deep run at DreamHack London, defeating reaper, Android, and Amsah to get 4th place. Additionally, he beat Zhu at HFLAN Melee Edition and even took a game off Lucky at Heir II the Throne. Many eyes will be on Tekk as he will be looking to replicate his DreamHack London success on a much larger international stage. Joining Tekk are top French Smashers Mahie, Baxon, and Aether. Mahie and Baxon have both had strong showing recently as the two got 9th at Heir II the Throne and DreamHack London respectively. On the other side, Aether plays a very unconventional character - Link. Despite the fact that Link isn't the an amazing pick in Melee, Aether is a master of the character and will be looking to show his Link prowess at DreamHack Winter.Solely representing Spain's top players, Overtriforce will be competing with the world's best once again at DreamHack Winter. The Spainish Sheik suffered a surprising upset to Iori's Donkey Kong at Tipped Off 11, but Overtriforce has had very strong performances otherwise. He has remained consistent in Europe, placing 4th at Helix and 5th at DreamHack London and Eclipse. DreamHack Winter may just be the tournament where Overtriforce will get to show that he is still an international threat.Given recent results, teams at DreamHack Winter will be very interesting. Typically Armada and Android would be the favorite to win, considering their excellent synergy and their 1st place finish at The Big House 5. However, they finished 3rd at Eclipse, losing to Plup/Axe and Leffen/Ice. Arguably considered the best team in the world, the Lindgren Brothers will have many challengers at DreamHack London. Fellow Europeans and top team Leffen and Ice are aiming for 1st place.
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When data were analyzed separately for men and women, we found that the effect was mostly driven by women (P = 0.10). Table 2. Regression of risk aversion on digit ratio As expected, women showed a significantly higher percentage of correct responses in the Baron-Cohen test than men did. There was no significant correlation between individual scores on the Baron-Cohen tests and digit ratio (r = −0.0629, P = 0.1796) (21). Table 3 reports the linear regression of our measure of risk aversion on the Baron-Cohen proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure. The estimated coefficient was positive and statistically significant (P = 0.01) in a two-tailed t test. This result suggests that higher levels of prenatal testosterone are negatively correlated with risk aversion. As with digit ratios, however, this effect was small. The regression coefficient did not change when we inserted a gender dummy in the analysis (column II in Table 4). When data were analyzed separately for men and women, the Baron-Cohen proxy for prenatal testosterone had a significant positive effect on risk aversion in women, but not in men. This result was not due to the greater left tail of the distribution of men's scores. When we reduced the sample by dropping the observations below the 10% of men's scores (equal to 22 right answers), the results were essentially unchanged. Table 3. Regression of risk aversion on Baron-Cohen ″Reading the mind in the eyes″ test scores Table 4. Risk aversion and career choices Risk Aversion, Testosterone, and Career Choices. In Table 4 we report the results of a probit model examining the relation between the choice of a risky career in finance and salivary testosterone. There was a positive correlation between salivary testosterone and the choice of a finance career, but this correlation became nonsignificant after the analysis was controlled for gender. When only individuals with testosterone concentrations <83.30 pg/mL were used in the analyses, however, salivary testosterone levels were positively correlated with career choices, but significance was reduced at 10%. Most importantly, after we controlled for salivary testosterone, the likelihood of entering the finance field did not differ between men and women. This effect was not limited to salivary testosterone. As column IV shows, the digit ratio, which is negatively correlated with prenatal testosterone, was negatively correlated with the probability of starting a career in finance. In contrast, the other proxy for prenatal testosterone, the Baron-Cohen test, was not correlated with career choices (column V).
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Psychological Preparation –The aggressor state conducts assessments of and employs information operations (formerly psychological/propaganda operations) designed to influence the population of a target country. These steps are necessary to determine the suitability for and set the initial conditions to initiate an insurgency. Initial Contact – Intelligence agents or special operations forces from the aggressor state meet with key leaders of the insurgency to begin cooperation and arrange for follow-on support from the aggressor state to the insurgents. Infiltration – Agents of the aggressor state and/or indigenous insurgent forces enter, either covertly or clandestinely, into the operational area in order to begin efforts to undermine, coerce, or overthrow the established authority (either a government or occupying power). Organization – Agents from the aggressor state assess the composition and capabilities of the insurgency and then advise the insurgent leadership on changes designed to maximize effectiveness of the insurgency. Organizational design is intended to achieve optimal balance between leadership (underground), support personnel (auxiliary), and fighters (guerrillas). Buildup – Agents train and advise insurgents while generally avoiding contact with forces from the targeted authority (government or occupying power). This phase is designed to develop insurgent forces and increase the capabilities of the insurgency before undertaking full-scale combat operations. Some limited guerrilla operations can be conducted against lightly-defended targets (“confidence targets”) to build the morale of the guerrilla force and validate training previously given by the agents to the guerrillas. Combat Utilization – Insurgent forces conduct guerrilla warfare under the advisement of aggressor state agents. The goal is to gradually increase the frequency and intensity of guerrilla attacks in order to achieve operational objectives while preventing a massive retaliation from the targeted authorities (government or occupying power). These guerrilla operations are designed to achieve insurgent objectives but can also be coordinated with objectives of the aggressor state. Guerrilla operations can facilitate the introduction of conventional forces from the aggressor state or continue without assistance to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow the government or occupying power. Transition/Demobilization – Upon the achievement of the aggressor state’s national objectives, the indigenous insurgent forces can either be transformed into the new legitimate authority (in the event of an overthrow of the previous regime) or demobilized (as might be the case if the objective was simply to coerce or disrupt a targeted regime or occupying power). Members of the insurgency can transition into legitimate government, military, or law enforcement entities thereby ensuring the continuation of control within the targeted country.
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USA Today: So some of the recent polls show you attracting a lot of Millennial support, and taking away votes from Hillary Clinton. Are you comfortable with, if we get to late October, and you're still in the sing— Johnson: I'm-I'm com—I'm, yeah— USA Today: —and it's still in the single digits, are, do you have a preference between Clinton and Trump? Johnson: No, absolutely not. I'm offering a first choice for a lot of people. And if what you're inferring, Bill, is that I should drop out and allow people to have their second choice? Ah, no, I would not be comfortable with…I would not be comfortable having people to have to go to their second choice. USA Today: Now some people are comparing you with Ralph Nader, who in 2000, they say, drew enough support from Al Gore to elect George W. Bush— Johnson: Like I say, like I say, I just, I reject that— USA Today: —what do you say about the spoiler label? Johnson: —I reject that, reject it, reject it totally. I am giving people a first choice. I'm believing that everybody that is voting for me is voting for me on the basis of first choice. The fact that I have proven myself to be fiscally conservative over the top, socially inclusive over the top; stop with the bombs, stop with the support of regime change that has resulted in the mess that we have in this world. Support among active military personnel—I am the number-one choice among active military personnel. And then support for free trade, something that neither Clinton or Trump are supporting. USA Today: There have been reports that your running mate, former governor Weld, is less sanguine about the prospect of a Trump presidency than you are, and would if push came to shove at the end of the campaign possibly endorse Secretary Clinton. Is that true? Johnson: That is bullshit. USA Today: (pause) We are on Facebook Live.
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NEW DELHI: Wholesale prices plunged for the ninth consecutive month in July on the back of a decline in food and fuel prices, raising prospects of a cut in interest rates to give a push to growth. This was the lowest level of the inflation based on wholesale price index (WPI) since 1976 and, according to economists, is the longest stretch of negative wholesale prices in the country since 1975. WPI inflation was in negative zone for 12 months between July 1975 and June 1976.Data released by the commerce ministry showed the wholesale inflation fell 4.05% in July compared to a decline of 2.40% for the previous month and 5.41% during the corresponding month of the previous year.The sharp dip in WPI comes close on the heels of the significant moderation in retail inflation in July and together the two data sets have fuelled expectations of a cut in interest rates.“Coupled with continuous negative prints in WPI, we think the recent drop in CPI (consumer price index) inflation will assuage the inflationary concerns of the central bank,” said Barclays economists Sidharth Sanyal and Rahul Bajoria.“We believe that the central bank is on course to deliver another 25 basis points repo rate cut in H2 2015, unless incoming figures — for example, the monsoon — spring major negative surprises in the coming months. Monsoon trends will be clear completely by September. On the balance of risks, our expectation is tilted towards a rate cut at the RBI’s next meeting at end-September, while the risk of another inter-meeting cut cannot be completely ignored,” they said.But Sanyal said the recent rupee volatility due to the weakening of the Chinese currency is likely to be a hurdle for an early delivery of the rate cut.Food inflation fell 1.16% year-on-year in July, while vegetable prices fell 24.52% during the month. The price of pulses continued to remain a worry as it rose 35.75% in July.India Inc stepped up its call for a reduction in interest rates, citing sharp decline in both WPI and CPI inflation data. “The distinct downturn in both retail and headline inflation and soft inflationary scenario makes a strong case for RBI to resume its accommodative policy stance,” CII said.
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And when I found comic books I loved them and continued to read those for years. AW: I know you’ve done some work in Hollywood over the years. Have you ever thought of working or adapting something for a Batman franchise or something similar? GM: Well, you know I have my own Wild Card series, which is sort of my own version of Super Heroes, but you can’t just adapt whatever you want for Hollywood. You have to wait for a studio to hire you and I had interviews for some Super Hero type jobs, but I never actually got any. They’ve done some good adaptations in recent years. The X-Men and the Spiderman franchises in particular have done good work. My first publication in a professional magazine, I wasn’t paid for it, but it was Fantastic Four #17. It was a letter. (Laughs). It said something like, "Stan Lee, better than Shakespeare." AW: Which writers do you most admire? GM: It would be a long list. Writers had the biggest impact on me when I was young; you’re more impressionable. You have less life experience, you’re more likely to be wowed. I read science fiction, fantasy, horror, all interchangeably, I didn’t make sharp genre distinctions as other people do these days. Robert A. Heinlein certainly was my favourite writer. I was given, by a friend of my mother, a hard cover copy of, Have Spacesuit - Will Travel - Scribner’s Juveniles. It was the first actual science fiction book I read, and was for many years the only hard cover book I owned because we couldn’t afford hard covers. But, it hooked me on science fiction, so instead of buying four comic books, I’d buy one paperback book for 35 cents. In junior high I read Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and that’s still a book I admire vastly. I re-read it every few years, or at least dip into it. H.P. Lovecraft had a great impact on me at a certain point. Horror, his stories scared the hell out of me. Robert E. Howard - you know, Conan the Barbarian is great for a 13-year-old boy. It’s a good age to discover Conan. Certain writers you have to read at certain ages. AW: I agree completely. GM: Like, I missed Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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III.4 Spatial Components Our benchmark analysis relies on evidence from conventional OLS analyses. However, since our argument of corruption levels in neighboring countries derives from a geographical aspect (such as a shared border), it is interesting to see whether our results remain robust when applying spatial econometric techniques. For example, it is possible that our results from the NCI are spurious in the sense that another, non‐spatial aspect is driving the derived coefficient. Indeed, a pure test for global spatial dependence of the FFC shows that the null hypothesis of spatial independence is rejected on the one percent level. 5 Thus, global, country‐level corruption data exhibits a persistent spatial component. Thus, global, country‐level corruption data exhibits a persistent spatial component. To test whether spatial elements of corruption prevail in a regression analysis, columns (4) and (5) display the corresponding results. First, column (4) re‐estimates our baseline cross‐sectional regression from column (1), incorporating a spatial matrix. This matrix W is obtained by assigning a weight wij to each country i (rows) and each neighbour j (columns). The corresponding weights represent the spatial relationship between i and j, taking on a value of zero if i and j do not share any common land borders. We calculate a spatial lag model, expressed as (3) X i represents a vector of control variables and ε i constitutes the familiar error term. Further, ρ 1 becomes the parameter of interest related to the spatial relationship. whererepresents a vector of control variables andconstitutes the familiar error term. Further,becomes the parameter of interest related to the spatial relationship. Column (5) then returns to our full sample with annual observations. Employing the Stata package provided by Belotti et al. (2014), we consider the following spatial autoregressive model for country i and year t: (4) ai and γt are incorporated. Specifically, we employ a balanced panel for all our variables, which is required in this particular spatial methodology. where country and time fixed effects in the form ofandare incorporated. Specifically, we employ a balanced panel for all our variables, which is required in this particular spatial methodology. 6 The derived results in columns (4) and (5) confirm a positive and statistically meaningful coefficient for the FFC, reinforcing the existence of spatial components in global corruption data.
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Level 2: The Undercity The Undercity is built into the ground underneath the Middle Guilds Town Districts. This area is the bulk of the Undercity, with several compounds and many different living and working areas. Infested Tunnels Some ancient tunnels, built for unknown reasons years ago, have become infested by various undead. In reality, this is the lair of the Dead Man’s Grace cultists, who have an intricate network of tunnels they control along with the undead allied to them. Few are aware of this, except the Claws of Tiamat who were once their allies and are not only knowledgeable of their lairs location, but many of them also have maps. Nard Market Located on the north side of the lake, the Nard market is where the dwarves go to buy, sell, and trade amongst themselves. Outsiders are welcome, but their racism and “belittling” attitude towards the Nards is not received well there. As long as they come with good intentions, they will find the gruff dwarves are friendly and excellent hosts. Most of the stone work has been done in the last 50 years and they are still in the process of renovating their new home. Nard Undercity Next to the Nard Market, many Nards live and work in this area. For them it is predominantly safer than above ground, although nearby undead in the dark tunnels keeps them sharp and on their toes. Being refugees, they accept almost anyone into their city, except the town Guard who they will only let in reluctantly. 7
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This photograph shows the isolation of the camp. When the government said they would build internment camps, many politicians who wanted to be rid of Japanese Americans objected, and said they didn't want the camps located where they were. So the camps were all sited in desolate areas, places where there really weren't very many people—in the desert, in swamps, places where people didn't want to live. Manzanar was one example. You can see it looks beautiful with the mountains in the background, but that beauty comes with a harshness, a tough physical environment. The closest towns to Manzanar, Bishop and Lone Pine, were dwarfed by Manzanar. When Manzanar opened up it was much larger than any of the little tiny towns nearby. That was true of many of the camps because the effort was made to locate Japanese Americans as far away as possible. When the camps opened up they transformed the local economy, for once people were able to find jobs by working in the camps—if they weren't of Japanese background. When you look at this photo, you also see barracks, the housing that was built. This was built by the Army in some instances; sometimes by volunteers, people who were themselves Japanese Americans—usually men—who went before the families came and helped to build these structures that you see with thin wood walls and tar-paper roofs. These structures where families would be all cramped together, where they would be issued numbers and identified in that way, and then they would have a specific block that they would live on. Everything was very orderly, because this was originally run by the Army, it was a military effort that was eventually transferred to a civilian government agency. Never before had the U.S. government tried to confine this many people on a mass basis because of race and ethnicity. When you look at the orderly rows here you can get a sense of the confinement, a sense that this was a project undertaken by the government, the sort of thing where people were made to live there. As beautiful as the background is, this isn't the sort of place that anyone would volunteer to move, losing everything that they had. These photos capture for us a sense of the environment on the one hand, and the loss of liberty on the other hand. This photograph is a wonderful, poignant photograph that captures for us how assimilated Japanese Americans were.
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So you go on, you move on, you go into the cold night and you sing and drink and smoke against it about it and then keep going, because if in the back of your mind, there is something at the end: if it is art or it is love or it is freedom: if that, then there is life in your moving forward, and not just drudging reaction and frozen-fingered refusal to die on principle. Principle, hell: a line of ideas; life is many days, but are they good days? I just look for something I want to be in a few months, and keep it in mind - something a headmaster once frowned upon, literally, his mouth downturning into a bitter lemon smile when I said I didn't like rules, but I knew what I wanted, and what I wanted not to do. He said I'd learn to like them. I never got sense of it; Spike, who has been to jail, says that sometimes those words have a truth to them which makes you feel like cold concrete sweating in the basement noone goes into, except every six months to throw down strychnine to kill the rats in twitching potency. Carnival House: a massively failed carnival ground left for exploration into which opened a bar, and then a series of underground businesses. Almost anything available there, however absent ascendant antagonism celebrated. The penalties of financial failure the burdens of those who pass, and those who squat and stay in the space created by the ruins become possessors of the night. The area wasn't safe enough for a carnival; now we have a festival. Lights string angular through the place, weird Christmas gig setup. Spike thumbs up at a few. I guess I'm hazy from the blunt some streets back, a quick clutched smoking of the honeydew bud we'd gotten from the pig. Erik has joined us; I turn to see him behind me, grinning a bit at me (realizing I had no idea he was there? realizing I'm too stoned?). Into the carnival. Good cover until we can hit the road, but more good cover for our stressed brains. Spike is way fucked, legally speaked. I'm not so bad off and I trust in luck: perhaps out of all the papers there, they'll lose mine.
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“If anyone at Apple did something like that, we’d try to put them in jail.” A year later, an appeals court decisively agreed with Wozniak, creating an oft-cited piece of case law called Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp. that allowed software to be copyrighted in all cases. Apple actually lost the first round in a lower court, but the appeals court ruling was pretty hard to ignore. A January 1984 analysis of the case in the Golden Gate University Law Review points out that the legal decision helped to redefine our relationship with computer software, by ensuring that copyright laws made for the print era would still matter even when paper wasn’t the original medium. The Third Circuit's decision in Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corporation is significant because it held that all computer programs, whether expressed in object code embedded in ROM or expressed as an operating program, are copyrightable subject matter. Thus, by granting copyright protection to all programs, the Franklin opinion has helped stabilize copyright law in relation to computer software and has allowed copyright to become the most effective, most easily obtainable, and most preferred form of legal protection· for computer programs. "I know, let's get a Ben Franklin lookalike to hold six loaves of bread while standing behind a computer and call it a baker's dozen. Makes total sense." And while Franklin Computer eventually cut a deal with Apple, it was not forced to immediately stop selling its machines, a partial victory in its own right, and one that gave the company time to comply with the order. By 1986, however, around the time Franklin had legitimately started reverse-engineering products, Apple’s legal pressure forced Franklin out of the PC market for good. Unfortunately for Apple, another competitor had figured out how to clone its Apple II platform the right way.
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The report said Canada Post’s current business model, which reflects the 20th century, needs to be realigned with the rapidly changing technological realities and the changing postal usage of Canadians. Even with drastic changes, the report added: “Canada Post will not be positioned to operate in the future on a financially self-sustaining basis over the long term,” pointing to the steep drop in letter mail and flyers. Even though demand for parcel delivery has soared, it can’t make up the shortfall. And the post office faces huge pension liabilities. The report said the crown corporation could take different actions to cut costs and raise revenues, including hiking prices, considering alternate day delivery or levying annual fees to maintain door-to-door delivery. Other ideas include turning postal outlets into community hubs, possibly handling government services or offering Internet access in rural and remote communities. It also suggested lifting a ban on closing or franchising rural outlets. Or it could sell advertising on its delivery trucks and in its postal outlets. In 2014, Canada Post began switching customers to community mailboxes, though it received some complaints, especially from groups representing seniors and disabled Canadians. But last October, just as the federal Liberals, who campaigned to restore door-to-door delivery, were set to take power in Ottawa, Canada Post suspended conversions. In all, 830,000 households out of 5 million were switched over. The report estimated that to restore those customers back to door-to-door delivery would cost $1.2 billion. The task force was appointed by Public Services Minister Judy Foote to develop an initial discussion paper that would then be submitted to a House of Commons committee for the second phase of the review, which will include public consultations that begin later this month. In a statement, Canada Post said it welcomes the report, adding that it has reaffirmed the challenges facing the postal system and the path the corporation was taking to secure its future for Canadians.
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</font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Lloyd D. Lindley:</i> [13:13] In Portland we’ve tried to get as much out of our streets as we possibly can, for example, developing streets that do more than just drive and park cars. So what we’ve tried to do is create a hybrid street that functions for cars, functions for parking, but at the same time can be conveniently closed off and function as a small piazza, a small plaza for festivals and functions that the local neighbourhood can engage in. Some of the things that get in the way with a standard street are things like curbs, light poles, fire hydrants, all kinds of utilities. And those kinds of things typically get in the way of a really clean pedestrian environment. What you might also see here that you don’t see on a typical intersection is a very flat open area. What this does is provide a very pedestrian oriented kind of intersection for people who may have maybe wheelchair bound, they have an easy way to access this place. And it also creates an even transition from the street into the inner plaza area. Right over here these are large plinths and what these are going to be for are art installations. They also function to direct traffic and control and slow down traffic as it enters this place. The plantings are actually an extension of the Chinese garden. Some years ago we opened our classical Chinese garden and what we’ve tried to do is bring the plant material such as palm trees out into the street.</font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[music]</font> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Ellen Vanderslice:</i> [14:51] This is really an experiment for the Portland Office of Transportation and if it goes well I think there are a lot of people around this city that would like to see this implemented in other places. I think that any time you make a space that doesn’t say right off the bat first of all I’m for cars, that you make a place that really says I’m for people, that that in itself contributes to the liveability.
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Students, singles and childless couples can often make do with less space to compensate for the luxury of being close to the city or walkable distance to both transport and shops. However single mothers, low-wage families, retirees or disabled tenants understandably require something a little more substantial than a one-bedroom flat to adequately fulfil their basic needs. They'd be hard pushed to find anything suitable for less than $500 per week unless they move to the outskirts of the capital city. And due to poor public transport facilities in many fringe locations, such a move simply isn't feasible for a large majority of renters -- though many are forced in that direction. Is it any wonder reports of "crowded houses" -- with three or more families sharing accommodation -- rose nationally by 64% to 48,499 in the last census? Furthermore, other data from the ABS shows from 2009-10, 42% of renter households received some form of housing assistance, once again emphasising the growing crisis in this sector of our marketplace. Pressure on the rental market is unlikely to ease in the near to far future. The ABS estimates almost two-thirds of "new residents from overseas" are long-term property renters -- this is compared with half new residents from "within Australia" who now class themselves in the same bracket, which is a robust figure in itself. Economic conditions such as wage growth, unemployment, consumer confidence and frequent changes of work placements all reduce the likelihood of a strong owner-occupier market over the next decade. Current policy is built around the general assumption that renting is a "step" on the road to ownership -- but it's fair to suggest unless the trend takes an about turn, tomorrow's generation will hold a growing percentage of residents for which renting is "for life". We need to consider their welfare. No one should be fooled into thinking private rental accommodation is affordable accommodation; residential investors are looking for strong yields and solid returns. In a heated market, vendors will understandably go for as much rent as they can achieve (regardless of tax benefits and lower interest rates, which are rarely passed onto the tenant.) The National Rental Affordability Scheme, which was designed to go some way in bridging the "affordability gap" for low income workers sitting on the rental ladder is also flawed in its design.
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using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; using System.Linq; // used for Sum of array public class AssignSplatMap : MonoBehaviour { void Start () { // Get the attached terrain component Terrain terrain = GetComponent(); // Get a reference to the terrain data TerrainData terrainData = terrain.terrainData; // Splatmap data is stored internally as a 3d array of floats, so declare a new empty array ready for your custom splatmap data: float[, ,] splatmapData = new float[terrainData.alphamapWidth, terrainData.alphamapHeight, terrainData.alphamapLayers]; for (int y = 0; y < terrainData.alphamapHeight; y++) { for (int x = 0; x < terrainData.alphamapWidth; x++) { // Normalise x/y coordinates to range 0-1 float y_01 = (float)y/(float)terrainData.alphamapHeight; float x_01 = (float)x/(float)terrainData.alphamapWidth; // Sample the height at this location (note GetHeight expects int coordinates corresponding to locations in the heightmap array) float height = terrainData.GetHeight(Mathf.RoundToInt(y_01 * terrainData.heightmapHeight),Mathf.RoundToInt(x_01 * terrainData.heightmapWidth) ); // Calculate the normal of the terrain (note this is in normalised coordinates relative to the overall terrain dimensions) Vector3 normal = terrainData.GetInterpolatedNormal(y_01,x_01); // Calculate the steepness of the terrain float steepness = terrainData.GetSteepness(y_01,x_01); // Setup an array to record the mix of texture weights at this point float[] splatWeights = new float[terrainData.alphamapLayers]; // CHANGE THE RULES BELOW TO SET THE WEIGHTS OF EACH TEXTURE ON WHATEVER RULES YOU WANT // Texture[0] has constant influence splatWeights[0] = 0.5f; // Texture[1] is stronger at lower altitudes splatWeights[1] = Mathf.Clamp01((terrainData.heightmapHeight - height)); // Texture[2] stronger on flatter terrain // Note "steepness" is unbounded, so we "normalise" it by dividing by the extent of heightmap height and scale factor // Subtract result from 1.0 to give greater weighting to flat surfaces splatWeights[2] = 1.0f - Mathf.Clamp01(steepness*steepness/(terrainData.heightmapHeight/5.0f)); // Texture[3] increases with height but only on surfaces facing positive Z axis splatWeights[3] = height * Mathf.Clamp01(normal.z); // Sum of all textures weights must add to 1, so calculate normalization factor from sum of weights float z = splatWeights.Sum(); // Loop through each terrain texture for(int i = 0; i<terrainData.alphamapLayers; i++){ // Normalize so that sum of all texture weights = 1 splatWeights[i] /= z; // Assign this point to the splatmap array splatmapData[x, y, i] = splatWeights[i]; } } } // Finally assign the new splatmap to the terrainData: terrainData.SetAlphamaps(0, 0, splatmapData); } }
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Still, things like his ensuing loss to puCK in Austin or his matches against PandaBearMe, PtitDrogo and Elazer stop him from showing up as a promising force for a region that hasn’t done well in this foreign WCS system. In short, good progress, but not enough yet. : 5th-8th, EU Server QualifiersIt’s a shame, really. I was all ready to get up here with a list of people he beat to qualify for Dreamhack Austin and this event, say how good he was for beating Nerchio (easily one of the best ZvZers around) and give him a healthy dosage of hype alongside an optimistic placing. Then, Guru was dumped out of the competition by a dismissive Hydra 3-0. It’s a run that shines light on the questionable nature of his experience and his consistency, which are only going to be bigger problems going into an event as big as Tours. While Guru does still have a better online showing under his belt than many of the players around him, he lacks proof that he’ll be able to bring something similar to the stage at the Spring Championship. : 1st, Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau Regional ChallengerThe Prince of Darkness has arrived once more. Vengeance was swift against Bunny, as well as in game one against FireCake, but Has still seemed to have the same problems as before. Wonderfully entertaining style, bad macro. However, considering his matches against Harstem in Shanghai and Snute in Austin, he might actually be onto something. Not only has he had previous success in WCS Winter, but he’s also pushed that dominance into further results. As such, Has serves as the barrier between those too inexperienced to be favoritesand those who are honestly promising going forward, largely due to his gimmicky style that doesn’t hold up well to experienced players . Consider anyone below Has a fringe candidate for a decent run and anyone above someone who has legitimate potential that you should watch out for. Has himself? Who the hell knows. Just watch and grin. : 5th-8th, EU Server QualifiersSimilarly to Strange, SortOf’s name seems to reflect his style—he’s always half there. He managed to beat Lilbow at WCS Winter, and even take Nerchio to some pretty odd games, but didn’t even take a game off the Polish zerg before falling out.
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early in the Great Depression. Click for slide show. What made this depression great was it length and the way it touched so many in a devastating way. Over six thousand bank that had financed the Wall Street boom of the 1920's went bust and with them went the savings of a nation. Millions of Americans who had left the farm for an urbanized , mechanized society lost their job. Reported unemployment reached 25% though some thought it much higher. Henry Ford, who put 75,000 men out of work and on the road as '"hoboes" in search of work. President Hoover, a conservative, thought any too much government assistance was Socialistic eve and Communistic. The situation was made worse in 1930 as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff to keep foreign goods out failed because European countries enacted their own tariffs. By 1931, Europe and "most ominously Germany were sucked into a violent whirlpool of massive unemployment and inflation." The summer of 1932 saw an army of 25,000 unemployed WWI veterans descend on Washington from all around the entire country in search of early payment of their 1945 WWI bonus. Hoover responded by sending General Douglas MacArthur and his young aid Dwight Eisenhower to push them out of town. This was easily accomplished and their village set ablaze to make sure they did not return. The Bonus Army suffered 4 dead, 1,117 injured. There were 689 police injured. Bonus Army (left) confront police. Click for show. The turmoil in Europe lead to German Fascism which was a military dictatorship built on racisms and powerfully nationalistic foundation with support of the business class. War eventually seemed inevitable and FDR got around an isolationist congress with a Lend-Lease program in which the U.S. lent food and war materials to any country whose defense was deemed vital. The materials could be returned in kind after the war. Eventually we entered what became known as WWII. It ended when President Truman made the very difficult and complicated decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan. The war cost over 50 million lives. Russia lost the about 7.5 million soldiers and about 23 million civilians. Germany's "final solutions" killed 6 million Jews and millions of Slavs, Eastern Europeans, Gypsies, and homosexuals. U.S. solders deaths amounted to 300.000 with nearly 700,000
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To try and slow down growing support for Title-II based neutrality rules , AT&T last month engaged in some fairly typical pouting for the telco, insisting the company would be freezing its " GigaPower " branded fiber investments until it gets what it wants (namely wimpier rules under Section 706). Of course as we noted at the time, AT&T has already been cutting back fixed-line network investment for many years to focus on wireless, and what fiber deployments it is engaged in are predominately what I like to call "fiber to the press release" -- or scattered, cherry-picked deployments dressed up to give the illusion the company is honestly and seriously competing with the likes of Google Fiber.After the FCC's DirecTV merger review team uncharacteristically pressed AT&T to see its math , AT&T walked back the statement slightly -- insisting that the company was simply being misunderstood by the FCC. This week AT&T made it clear that no, the "we're going to freeze investment that barely existed in the first place" argument is in fact going to be the cornerstone of its fight against Title II. press release by the company announced this week that it would be delivering 1 Gbps "Gigapower" connections to an unspecified number of North Carolina locals in the Winston Salem area. Like most of AT&T's other fiber to the press release announcements, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single detail on the number of customers this deployment will reach, or any specific build locations listed. You will however find a cute little comment about how Title II will be to blame if this ambiguous deployment doesn't wind up being very big:In short, AT&T's press release says it's pausing all of its fiber investmentsthe 2 million additional customers it's promising if the government approves its $48 billion acquisition of DirecTV.One, that actually contradicts what the company just said to the FCC in a letter -- namely that its threat didn't include the company's 25 Gigapower geographical target markets. Two, because AT&T never actually bothered to say how many users its Gigapower upgrades would cover in the first place, it was able to pull two million of those already planned deployments aside (most affluent development communities or college campuses where fiber is already in the ground) and use them as regulator bait to get its DirecTV deal approved.
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Most European movie releases seem to be authored properly as 1080p24 although I do see some strange American TV releases where they've butchered the framerate to 25 fps for some reason like the That '70s Show German Blu-ray releases. Those are 1080i50 releases. I don't know what's the deal with that shit. tyrant_
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We all stayed in a funky little cabin, sleeping at weird hours of the day on tiny bunks and odd shaped couches. The riding was sick because the jumps were always perfectly lit with rental tower lights. You never had to worry about the magic hour fading.When Jonathan Schramm (Anthill cinematographer) dropped in at Post Office and showed everyone up.The Utah segment. I wanted to be on that trip so bad but had to pull out to get my shoulder fixed. Luckily, RDog was able to take my place and we all got the chance to see him shred on the big screen. Such awesome style.We did two big shoots about a year apart. I was able to ride during the first shoot and that was when we did that big train on the middle trick jump. Getting that shot was the coolest experience. It had the vibe of a normal PO session because we were riding together and trying to push it, but it was enhanced because we knew we were filming the banger shot for a major film segment. We all looked at each other on the roll-in, decided to all try our hardest trick and we somehow nailed it on the first take. It was one of the all-time highlight moments from 13 years of Post Office riding.If you took all the jumps that have ever existed at Post Office and had them there at the same time, then yes. It has evolved from forty-foot gappers on DH bikes to steep and deep rhythms on hardtails and there has been everything in between. To fully appreciate that place, you would have to be there since the beginning…or get a time machine.Shooting with the Ants is pretty much the same as shooting with The Collective, only difference is that we aren't running it quite as loose as back then.We had a rental Suburban vs. Ford Anger food fight on the Cariboo highways and backroads while filming the Williams Lake segment in, it was an endless battle with many intense ambushes and different projectiles. I'll never forget the laughs.We were celebrating on our last night of the shoot and Wade decided to take a Swiss Policeman's bike for a spin...Aptos. The history and action of those guys shredding their home jumps was perfect. Great tune too.The logs were just an idea I had, it ended up working really well and it was super fun to ride!
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It is at this point women can graduate to the role of femme pot-au-feu, which is basically a stay-at-home wife who prepares authentic home cooked meals for her man. And as the novel progresses, thanks to the joys of polygamy, the very hottest women may temporarily avoid their cooking role, but eventually all women are expected to submit to the tyranny of their man’s (and family’s) stomachs. This is clearly a novel in which Roissy would find very little to disapprove of concerning gender roles. Jews are definitely treated kindly in the novel, even if they do tend to disappear from the storyline as Islam takes power. Early in the novel, Jacques cynically comments on how certain colleagues try to get ahead by taking outlandish pro-Palestinian political lines. He also recycles girlfriends each year (he compares them to doing year-long internships), but last year’s fling Miriam, a very hot and sexually talented Jewish girl, has not yet met someone new (as usually happens after the summer break) and so there are still occasional extra-circular activities ongoing between them. After one such session, Miriam even defends the Front National against claims it is still anti-Semitic. But as events evolve and it becomes clear political Islam is coming to power, Miriam’s Jewish family decides to move to Israel. There is a scene in which she is very upset about moving and claims she only feels French, etc. to counteract any thoughts of disloyalty or dual allegiances that might creep up into the reader’s mind. Jacques comes as close as he is able to actually loving this girl but she eventually departs, and she of course ends up facing even more terrorist violence in Israel. But as time goes on, one ominous sign for Israel is that as the new Muslim leader in France slowly reconstructs the Roman Empire by adding one Mediterranean country after another to an ever expanding European Union, and even as Lebanon and Egypt are being mentioned as potential new members, Israel never comes up for discussion about joining the EU. Implicitly this shows a future Israel surrounded by hostile nations that are aligned not to backwards camel herders in Riyadh, but to sophisticated politicians in an ever more powerful European Union. Houellebecq is also very generous towards the Front National, even if they also tend to disappear in the second half of the book.
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When it came tovitamin D insufficiency, or vitamin D deficiency, the correlations were similar 23% of PD patients were deficient in the vitamin, compared with 16% of AD patients and 10% of healthy people.One interesting finding was that PD patients had less vitamin D than AD patients. According to the study team, this suggests that lack of vitamin D may be linked specifically to Parkinson's, rather than to neurodegenerative diseases in general.It is premature to conclude that lack of vitamin D is a precursor to the development of Parkinson's Disease. In fact, between the two factors, we cannot even be clear about which is the cause and which is the consequence. For example, people with restricted movements would largely be confined to indoor areas, and the subsequent lack of sun exposure could then havetheir vitamin D insufficiency. In fact, the connection could even work both ways.In any case, there is already a long list of reasons for us to ensure that our bodies have sufficient amounts of vitamin D. And, as many experts agree, an adequate and commonsensical amount of time spent in open sunshine (without any sunscreen, of course) is the best way to get our fix of vitamin D. When we do that, we will enjoy better health all round.As for Parkinson's and even Alzheimer's patients, this study also reminds them of the need to boost their levels of vitamin D. Otherwise, other health complications may result.Prevalence of Vitamin D Insufficiency in Patients With Parkinson Disease and Alzheimer Disease ( http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abs... Reuben Chow has a keen interest in natural health and healing as well as personal growth. His website, All 4 Natural Health , offers a basic guide on natural health information. It details simple, effective and natural ways, such as the use of nutrition , various herbs herb remedies , supplements and other natural remedies , to deal with various health conditions as well as to attain good health. His other websites also cover topics such as depression help omega 3 fatty acids , as well as cancer research and information
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Within about a century, physicians, biologists, and chemists around the world elucidated the physiology of the ovary, manipulated its function, and triggered a global experiment, which influenced our society. At the end of the 19th century, anatomists concluded from histological sections that the corpus luteum in the ovary is a gland secreting a factor into the blood relevant to pregnancy (Frobenius and Fraenkel, 1999). In the early 1920s, the Austrian physician, Ludwig Haberlandt (1885–1932), published his findings on temporary sterilization of the female body. He realized that transplantation of ovaries from pregnant to non-pregnant animals prohibits pregnancy in the receiver. In a translational approach, Haberlandt suggested hormonal contraception also in women and collaborated with the company of G. Richter in Budapest (Hungary) to develop contraceptives for women (Haberlandt, 2009). In 1923, Edgar Allen and Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893–1986) published a bioassay, which used the vaginal epithelium response in castrated rodents to identify the bioactive component among corpus luteum factors as well as other sex hormones (Frobenius and Fraenkel, 1999). In the 1930s, progesterone was isolated from glandular extracts independently by four research groups, and its chemical structure was characterized by the chemist Karl Heinrich Slotta (1895–1987) (Frobenius and Fraenkel, 1999; Hawgood, 2001). In 1944, the Germans, Bickenbach und Paulikovics, published that progesterone (20 mg, daily) suppresses ovulation in women (Ludwig, 2011). Because progesterone is metabolized during the entero-hepatical passage, synthesis of chemically modified gestagens was a major challenge. Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-American chemist (born in Vienna in 1923), synthesized norethindrone, the first oral contraceptive, in the early 1950s. In the late 1950s, the American biologist, Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967) proved in a large scale study that oral application of hormonal contraceptives prevents pregnancy in women. In 1960, the “Food and Drug Administration” in the USA legalized the first contraceptive (Enovid®), a combination pill containing 10 mg of the progestogen, norethynodrel, and 150 μg of the estrogen, mestranol. In 1961, the pill (Anovlar®, Bayer Schering Pharma AG) was legalized in Europe. The minipil, a progestine-only pill, was introduced into the market in the 1960s.
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RESTORING INTERNATIONAL CONFIDENCE IN AMERICAN MBS/CMBS/ABSINVESTMENT SYSTEMBY: CHRISTOPHER JARED WARRENA. ResumeBefore diving into the heart of what is wrong, why its wrong, and what is needed to fix it, I mustspeak on my qualifications for this dissertation to substantiate my arguments. My name isChristopher Jared Warren, and in 2001 I was hired as a 19 year old to become a sales AccountExecutive for ACC Capital Holdings subsidiary, the now infamous Ameriquest MortgageCompany. Over the next three years of employment, I became the shining star of portfolioretention, a predatory division that would specialize in refinancing home owners who JUST gotloans from Ameriquest in the last 24 months. I was the number one producer in the region over60% of the time I was there, the company sent me to management training in Orange CA twice,trips to the Super bowl twice, Hawaii and Las Vegas based on my large production statistics andpaychecks. Most moths I would individually sell more then $5,000,000 in volume and bring inover $30,000 in net income typically ore then 15 loans with more then 3 points and all rateshigher then 7.00% - much higher then industry standard at the time and not to mention not badfor a 19-22 year old kid with no degree. As a19 then 20 year old boy, my managers and handlerstaught me the ins and outs of mortgage fraud, drugs, sex, and money, money, and more money.My friend and manager handed out crystal methamphetamine to loan officers in a bid to keepthem up and at work longer hours. At any given moment inside the restrooms - cocaine and methwas being snorted by my estimates more than a third of the staff, and more than half the staffmanipulating documents to get loans to fund and more then 75% just completely made falsestatements on 1003s regarding stated income etc to get loans funded. A typical welcome aboardgift was a pair of scissors, tape, and white out, three things a loan officer or financial professionalshould never need.. Of course no where in training OR in management training did this 20 yearold ever learn that false statements on a 1003 were a federal offense.
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Whoa. After dinner, I did a quick look around the web to see if anything interesting was going on, and saw someone mention that the Double Fine Adventure project on Kickstarter had raised over $100,000 in just a few hours . I clicked to open the page, but then went off to do some other things, take my dog for a walk, tuck my son into sleep, chat with my wife, etc. Then I came back to my computer, and someone else mentioned that it had now raised over $200,000. And as I write this, it's getting mighty close to $300,000. Who knows where it'll be by the time you read this. Either way, the basic story is that popular game development shop Double Fine wants to create a new point-and-click adventure game, but says that no publisher will pay for such a thing (even though they have Ron Gilbert -- the creator of the originalgames on staff).So they decided to go to Kickstarter. And, as a part of that project, they're also planning to create a documentary film about the making of the game... using the same filmmaking team,, who have also been working on a documentary about video game maker Notch (who you hopefully know already). But they wanted to raise $400,000. $300,000 for the game, and $100,000 for the documentary. That's still a significant chunk to raise over Kickstarter... but clearly the public thinks it's worth it. You should check out the awesome video that Tim Schafer, Double Fine's boss, put together, embedded here:The video is quite awesome.Separately, Double Fine wanted to offer some super premium tiers which were simplyfor Kickstarter to handle, so they had to post them to their own website . These include the following:There are plenty of interesting things to discuss about all of this, but one of the key points is that this shows how content creators sometimes can read a market much better than the traditional gatekeepers. Double Fine knows that no publisher would give them money for this game because the "experts" at those publishers (gatekeepers) don't think there's a real market for them.
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Some ex-Hazm affiliates are now part of a new northern coalition, the Army of Revolutionaries (Jaish al-Thuwar) which also include ex-SRF affiliates, the Kurdish Front (Jabhat al-Akrad), and the Northern Sun Battalion (Shams al-Shamal, an FSA group operating in the Kobani Canton). Al-Nusra captured a number of TOW missiles from Regiment 46, which were later used by them in the Battle of Idlib City. Social Media: YouTube; Twitter; website.
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This often leaves only the headliner's gratitude as any sign of appreciation.In fact, the biggest reward an opener receives is the opportunity to explore musical territory a headliner often cannot. Playing opening sets "gives justification for buying records that you know will only sound right at certain times," says Craig Richards. "The chance to hear these records loud was and still is my driving force. Playing deep, quirky, delicate tunes at a time when they make sense is an utter pleasure to the man who seeks the truth for the music not the limelight." Successful venues and events have always recognized what a proper opener provides: The atmosphere that is the foundation of any event.
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TRUMP ON MUSLIM SURVEILLANCE “And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Donald Trump’s Muslim problem isn’t restricted to people traveling to the United States. It includes about 3.3 million American Muslims. In the aftermath of high-profile attacks in Europe and the United States, Trump has put forth counterterrorism proposals that wrongly stigmatize American Muslim communities as suspect and are grounded in discrimination. Trump told NBC News last November that “we should have a lot of systems” to track American Muslims. They would be obligated, for example, to register with a special database for Muslims in the country. When asked by Yahoo News whether he would support requiring Muslims to carry a special ID card, he didn’t rule it out, noting “we’re going to have to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” To that end, Trump would monitor mosques and American Muslim communities across the country. “We’re going to have to look at mosques,” he told the reporter. “We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.” In response to the Brussels attack in March, Trump agreed “100 percent” with Sen. Ted Cruz’s statement that U.S. law enforcement must have the power “to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.” If a President Trump acted unilaterally — or somehow convinced Congress — to implement a surveillance program explicitly targeting Muslims because of their faith, he would face an impossible task of defending such a policy as constitutional in court. This is because the discriminatory profiling and surveillance of American Muslims would violate the First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. Thanks to the right to equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, courts are rightly very suspicious of any law or government policy that singles out groups of people united by a core characteristic, like race or religion. Therefore any law passed or policy pursued by a Trump administration that specifically subjects Muslims to heightened suspicion, surveillance, or special registration because of their religion would be met by the courts with a heightened degree of scrutiny. Judges do so with good reason. It’s worth remembering that the New York City Police Department program didn’t just alienate people from law enforcement — it also made for bad policing.
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Washington state; for instance, has one of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the country, but CDC officials said most of the children who have come down with whooping cough were vaccinated.Pertussis is caused by bacteria that infect the top of the throat (pharynx), where it meets the nasal passages. The bacteria cause irritation in the throat, which in turn causes coughing that can sometimes be so violent as to injure ribs. The name "whooping cough" comes from the sound children make as they try to gasp for air during coughing episodes.The illness spreads easily between people; when someone afflicted with pertussis coughs, sneezes or otherwise spews forth little droplets of fluid, the bacteria are put into the air and are easily inhaled. After the bacteria infect someone, symptoms appear in one to two weeks.There are a number of indicators that suggest there could be a problem with the vaccine.For one, health officials in Washington say they are alarmed to see high rates of whooping cough among youngsters who are 13-14 years old.For another, whooping cough cases - once a common threat but which fell dramatically following the introduction of a vaccine in the 1940s, nearly to the point of becoming an afterthought in history - began to climb again in the 1990s. For about a quarter century before then, there were only about 5,000 cases reported each year.And in 2004 and 2005 cases rose to more than 25,000. After dipping for a few years, they rose to more than 27,000 in 2010, a year which saw the incidence of pertussis rise most in California.All of those factors have some investigators wondering if the vaccine thought to be safer is actually less effective.
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According to an article from 2014 the annual total global money production energy costs are in the vicinity of 5 TWh. To that, we can add the global numbers of hungry ATMs which consume between 3–6 TWh of electrical energy annually. By some estimates, there are some 25,000 banks worldwide. We can use one of the biggest German banks, which uses around 40 GWh/year, as an example. Let’s assume some numbers. Let’s say there are 15,000 banks worldwide where each one uses about a tenth of the above mentioned 40 GWh (a very conservative estimate). That would bring us to 60 TWh/year in total, without the money creation and credit card services. Pile those numbers on top, and we get over 70 TWh. That’s significantly more than Bitcoin or Ethereum although these are networks much larger in size and use than the two combined. A less energy-intensive future But there has to be a solution for blockchain to become more eco-friendly, you might say. In a twist of fate blockchain holds the solution to the problem it creates. There are several aspects to this. While Bitcoin is stuck with energy-intensive proof-of-work mining model, Ethereum is a different story. A long term vision for Ethereum is to transition to a mining model called proof-of-stake (PoS). This way Ethereum’s energy requirements would collapse by more than 90%. Other cryptocurrencies are experimenting with PoS as well, take Dash for example, and new blockchain networks are emerging, like Cardano, that have PoS built-in from the bottom up. Unfortunately, full PoS implementation is still somewhere in the undefined future. Where blockchain can already bring change is the way electrical energy is produced and distributed. This doesn’t lower the intense energy usage but it can alleviate the troubles it creates. As mentioned above energy production these days relies heavily on three sources. Along with energy distribution it’s highly centralised and burdened by extensive regulation and significant overhead. Blockchain technology has the potential to break up the centralised model. It’s already enabling individuals to produce and sell electrical energy from renewables to their peers, or back to the grid, more efficiently and with significantly lower transaction costs. This way renewable energy technologies can get a boost in reaching an even wider circle of customers reducing the dependency on coal, gas and nuclear.
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MUMBAI: Dharavi , spread over 557 acres and housing nearly three lakh people, is no longer Asia’s largest slum . Mumbai has at least four larger contenders for the dubious distinction, some of them three times the size of Dharavi. Though, the island city is now largely free of slums.The erstwhile smaller slums in the suburbs have metamorphosed into contiguous, larger slums. The Kurla-Ghatkopar belt, the Mankhurd-Govandi belt, the Yogi and Yeoor hill slopes stretching from Bhandup to Mulund flanking the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on the east and Dindoshi on the western flank of the National Park have all eclipsed Dharavi.While the profile of the suburban slum sprawls is still to be established, the Mankhurd-Govandi slums that have sprung up at the base of the Deonar dumping ground are known as a “dumping ground” for the city’s poor. It has the lowest human development index in the city and is constantly in the news for malnutrition deaths. Moreover, following earlier trends, the slums have come up on hill slopes and mud flats.The island city is largely clear of slums except on the fringes, like Dharavi in the north, Antop Hill in the east, Geeta Nagar and Ambedkar Nagar in the south and Worli village in the west. Since 2005, the BMC’s action against slumdwellers, as part of its road widening projects, seems to have had a transformative effect. Significant initiatives were the clearing of slums along Senapati Bapat Marg from Mahim to Elphinstone and P D’Mello road from the General Post Office, Mumbai CST, to Wadala.The exercise of mapping the slums was done by architect and civic activist P K Das, who has been involved with the rehabilitation and resettlement of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park slum-dwellers through the Nivara Hakk Sangharsh Samiti.Data from the 2011 census shows there are 3.1 crore people in the island city and 9.3 crore in the suburbs, while nearly 78% of the city’s population lives in slums. Population density in the suburbs is the highest in the state, at 20,925 persons per sq km, whereas it is 20,038 person per sq km in the island city.Official sources said while the government wants to ensure housing for the urban poor, there are legal issues as the Slum Redevelopment Act mandates free housing for structures protected up to 1995.
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* Grants gold equal to the kill to your ally, but does not grant the additional +5 on live. * 4 Max Charges, 30 second CD *Unchanged* **Active:** * No longer costs Health to activate * Damage now scales based off of 150% of the **target's** total Attack Damage **Notes:** We want to position Targon's as for the all-in characters but we also wanted to provide a bit of healing for the user as going to last hit a minion exposes yourself to serious threat. Looking at this initial stat pass - HP/5 values are most likely off by a bit. The additional bonus gold scaling was initially put on there to smooth the transition as we feared Targon's would have a hard acceptance rate but currently is deemed unnecessary for its future. Probably over-simplified on the tier 1 a little. It probably needs some of the HP/5 back but we've been streamlining. {{item:1028}} **Ruby Crystal** 475 Total Gold cost --> 400 Total Gold cost 180 Health --> 150 Health Most items that build out of Ruby Crystal have been adjusted to keep the same total cost and total statistics. **Notes:** We don't expect Ruby Crystal to suddenly be a good option to start with. This is mostly a cleanup change as Ruby Crystal is a bit too large of an item to work with as a basic component. Although I have heard of some theorycrafters out there attempting to make this work. {{item:2049}} **Sightstone** 925 Total Gold cost --> 850 Total Gold cost 180 Health --> 150 Health Items that build out of Sightstone have been adjusted to keep the same total cost and total statistics. **Notes:** We just want to chip away at Sightstone's cost a little, while keeping the overall flow of Sightstone intact. We'll probably look at Ruby Sightstone in the near future in terms of slot efficiency and make it more of a worthwhile upgrade. {{item:1054}} **Doran's Shield** 100 Health --> 80 Health 10 HP/5 --> 5 HP/5 Block Passive *Unchanged* **Notes:** I'm just reiterating the current DShield nerfs that I posted a while earlier. I suspect that HP/5 nerf is too harsh, but I just wanted to bring it up again so that it fits better within the overall context. Full context can be found in this earlier thread: [Doran's Shield](http://community.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/fbA0jHAe-dorans-shield)
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Here in the States, most phone companies have been forced to shift their attention from ham-fisted troll tolls to more subtle, clever ways of abusing market power , whether that's interconnection, usage caps or zero rated apps.Still, Ed Whitacre's viral meme that phone companies have the inherent, god-given right to double or triple dip is the gift that just keeps on giving.
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AppleInsider first covered iRing earlier this year at CES and with the units shipping now, we set out to see if the kit is as much fun as we remembered from the show floor.The concept is simple enough: plastic rings that fit between fingers on hands of any size with two patterns of three dots each. The three-dots-in-a-triangle and three-dots-in-a-row are recognized by the front-facing camera on an iOS device and apps that know how to use iRing assign a control to the patterns. By determining the orientation of the rings and their position relative the camera, the system outputs music or MIDI control messages to compatible apps.So far, apps that are capable of receiving iRing input include iRing Music Maker DJ Rig for iPad , the iRing FX/Controller , and GrooveMaker 2 We started with the iRing Music Maker, which is perhaps the easiest way to understand how to use the product. The app starts you out with some loops and beats, the number of which can be increased or decreased by manipulating the triangle-pattern ring. Effects like volume or an envelope filter can then be added and controlled with the iRing showing a linear dot pattern.Various gestures and ring positions like show/hide, "punch," push/pull and rotate change the tone and effects produced by each app.IK Multimedia is a big believer in in-app purchases. All of the apps that work with iRing allow in-app purchases and have bundles for sound patches, effects, and loops (depending on the app) ranging in price from $1.99 all the way up to $19.99 for a Total Bundle in iRing Music Maker.For iRing FX/Controller, it's less clear what the purchases specifically buy. There are eight effects at $0.99 and two bundles, one priced at $7.99 and the other at $4.99. The iTunes App Store description doesn't mention what's in either bundle, so it's possible to purchase one and then have buyer's remorse over intending to purchase the effects bundled in the other.The same can be said for GrooveMaker 2. There are effects bundles at $4.99 to $7.99, a Song Megapack for $29.99, and an "upgrade to full" for $9.99. Nowhere could we find —in the App Store and on IK's webpage —a clear listing of what's in each bundle. More information would be very helpful.Despite the lack of clarity on in-app content, the iRing is a powerful tool with broad appeal, even for professional music makers.
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In a press conference after the raids, New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said it was "perplexing" that a tiny minority of young people would "choose death and terror and the values of ISIS over the freedom, choices and lifestyle that is [sic] available to all Australians". We know now why Scipione was perplexed -- his men had just raided Dirani and his friends on the basis that they supported a group that wanted to kill them. Did ASIO, an organisation with an annual budget of nearly half a billion dollars, really think that Shiites would belong to an organisation dedicated to massacring Shiites? Or were they simply happy to let the Diranis be swept up in the hysteria that, predictably enough, resulted in extraordinary new powers for ASIO? It’s hard to know which option is more disturbing.
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We are the Generation of Irony. And by irony I don’t mean the relatively harmless, absurd attitude of the hipster subculture. Rather, I’m referring the deep cynicism and distrust that comes from too much knowledge and too little control. We have more access to more information than at any other time in human history; it tells us that disillusionment abounds in an absurd world and there’s little we can do about it. Lies, half-truths, broken promises, and ignorance are prevalent at all levels of society. Sarcasm in this case is self-defense. It protects us from judgment, commitment and the pain of ruined expectations. This attitude leaks into everything, even our little beloved microcosm called the SC2 scene.Take for examplegames at the WCS America Finals. Pay the slightest bit of attention and you’ll hear the loud “USAUSAUSA” chants in the background. Usually that mantra is saved for all the good foreigners, the ones thatfrom the U.S. After all, that’s the joke. Real enthusiasm for our local players would require us to acknowledge the serious hurdles for them to be good: paltry competition, meager resources for cultivating up-and-coming recruits, a lack of a strong tournament scene, poor internet infrastructure to cover the entire country, etc. Even as new players like Scarlett and Suppy are proving themselves, the overall strength of the North America scene has been falling behind Korean and Europe for a while. The depressing reality would be enough to make any non-Korean player palatable if only he/she could break their monolithic hegemony. Of course such enthusiasm would be a clear acknowledgement of the sad desperation in the first place…unless it was delivered with a wink.Yet here we are, the chants drowning out everything except the commentators. They aren’t limited to victory cheers after Polt walks out the booth. They start randomly when his name is announced at the beginning of the game, after he wins a decisive engagement, as he is preparing for the next series. Roars of real enthusiasm accompany him after every win.Even the cheerfuls and memes are coming out in full force.It’s another strange twist in the life of Choi Sung Hun. Few players have transitioned into so many roles or resisted the change that normally comes with such change. He started out as a former WC3 semi-pro, a micro Terran with some innovative builds and a mysterious ability to demolish MC at every turn.
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How do write complete songs from separate bits and pieces? They'll just show up. I keep them on file in my brain and then add them together. Like, I'll be brushing my teeth and all of a sudden a prechorus will come, and I won't know why. Then a bridge came about a year ago. Six months ago another part came. Last night a whole intro came. When I was writing it, I wasn't planning on putting it with this song, but all of a sudden it just flowed. The 'G n' R Lies' EP surprised a lot of people because of it's emphasis on acoustic material. Aren't you afraid that some people may be turned off by the band straying from the sound that got them on top? We're not getting away from hard rock. Our basic root is hard rock, a bit heavier than the Stones, more in a vein like Aerosmith, Draw the Line- type stuff. We love loud guitars. George Michael was telling me he really loved our melodies and wondered why we covered so much of it up with loud guitars, and I said because we love that. I told him he should put some more loud guitars in his music. He has such beautiful melodies, and it'd be nice to hear some loud guitars in there. At the same time, I have my favorite symphony pieces, orchestra pieces if you will. I've always looked at things in a versatile sense because of Queen, ELO, Elton John, especially early Elton John and groups like that. With Queen, I have my favorite: Queen II. Whenever their newest record would come out and have all these other kinds of music on it, at first I'd only like this song or that song. But after a period of time listening to it, it would open my mind up to so many different styles. I really appreciate them for that. That's something I've always wanted to be able to achieve. It's important to show people all forms of music, basically try to give people a broader point of view. Speaking of versatility, you're known primarily as a singer, but you've been playing piano quite a bit lately. I've been playing piano my whole life. I took lessons, but I only really played my lesson on the day of the lesson. All week long, I'd sit down at the piano and just make up stuff.
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& inasmuch as [you] will follow counsel & act wisely & do right these blessings shall rest upon you so far as I have power of with God to seal them upon you I am your servant. Joseph Smith Diary, 13 April 1843. Recorded by Willard. Richards. See The Words of Joseph Smith: 190. Every blessing the Lord proffers to his people is on conditions. These conditions are: "Obey my law, keep my commandments, walk in my ordinances, observe my statutes, love mercy, preserve the law that I have given to you inviolate, keep yourselves pure in the law, and then you are entitled to these blessings, and not until then." Brigham Young, August 31, 1873. Journal of Discourses 16:162. But I want to tell you that there would be very few Patriarchal blessings unfulfilled, if those who received them would remember that no blessing can be vouchsafed unto the children of men, excepting through their faithfulness in keeping the commandments of God. John W. Taylor, Conference Report, October 1900: 32 ...here is a truth that should be always present and clear to the minds of the Latter-day Saints: that the blessings which are promised them, whether it be in holy ordinances or in the words of the servants of God, or in the revelations direct from the Most High, they are all predicated upon this great thing; that we shall do the things which are commanded. Charles W. Penrose, Conference Report, April 1924: 12 But all of these blessings are contingent upon this mandate given to us in the 107th Section and the 99th verse of the Doctrine & Covenants: "Wherefore, now let every man learn his duty and to act in the office in which he is appointed, in all diligence." Joseph L. Wirthlin, Conference Report, October 1952: 83 All these blessings are contingent upon remembering the sayings and walking in obedience. Spencer W. Kimball, October 1973 conference, The Church News, Conference Issues 1970-1987: 15 All of these sources are found on the LDS Collector's Library '97 CD-ROM. In his critique, Mr. Farkas chastised me for not having references dated before the year 1900. This revision contains three earlier references, two of which go back to Joseph Smith in 1843. Mr. Farkas tries to discount one of these, D&C 130, by stating: This alleged revelation was received April 2, 1843. Does it apply to the blessings given to apostles in 1835.
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For if it is found that Pastor McConnell was wrong to say what he said about Islam then the implication is that we as Christians will be unable to freely proclaim what the entire Bible makes as its central claim – that we can be saved only by Jesus, that there is no other name on heaven or on earth by which people can be saved.
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He is active in the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and works as a blood-donor recruiter at Robertson Blood Center, at Fort Hood, in Texas. “It is hard to hear in a bar or restaurant, hard to discern certain words, and I have to turn up the TV,” he told me. At times, the high-pitched drone of his tinnitus wakes him in the middle of the night.
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My own team is likely to repurpose our own 55nm gear as home heating units. We believe there are ways that we can use this shift in the mining market to put more gear on the reservations. Of course, this will take time to secure gear, and put distribution in place. We want to ensure that this is not any kind of a handout, but provides real skill building opportunities. The mazacoin development team is committed to putting mazacoin into the hands and control of the people it serves.We also need to consider, in the specific case of the Oglala Lakota, reservations are often large, remote, and under-served by public utilities. Telecommunications and power can be less than ideal in many homes and businesses, and this definitely increases the challenges we see in bringing mining, and cryptocurrency in general, to the average reservation. Again, the Mazacoin Development Team is committed to finding solutions that bring cryptocurrency within the reach of even the most remote villages. We believe this is necessary even the the proper adoption of bitcoin, worldwide, and we intend to be leaders in making crypto serve every tribe. This is what is needed to make real change happen in this world. While mazacoin was created with the Oglala Lakota as our first Tribal Partner, we do not intend to stop there. We intend to make mazacoin the currency that supports bootstrapping a new inter-tribal economy.We are committed to doing everything necessary to make this happen.
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Penick's Analysis: It's a good thing that they've got something set up for U.K. fans to catch the event, but there are still a lot of people left without the TV option, and that's unfortunate. Still, they were able to get something together in a quick amount of time, and that's better than nothing, but I'm sure it won't be enough for some people. Still, it's there to view for fans that want to seek it out online for free, and anyone staying up that late to watch it live will be a fan likely to search it out themselves anyway. Some fans in the U.K. are going to be able to watch Sunday's UFC on Versus 5 event on television after all, as the UFC has secured a last minute television deal with Premier Sports TV channel 433 to air the four fight card.It appeared on Thursday that there would be no television outlet for the event, as the UFC's current main television partner in ESPN UK would not pick up the license to carry this card. The Versus events fell out of the scope of the deal that the UFC had with ESPN, and as such the two sides needed to come to an agreement to air the Versus card, which they did not do by Thursday.One negative for some fans, however, is that Premier Sports TV is only available on the Sky television carrier, and those who customers who are with Virgin or Freeview will not have the opportunity to watch it on television. Still, they will have access to the UFC's UFC.TV stream of the fight card, which is being made available for free for all fans in the U.K.The main card begins live in the U.K. at 2AM Monday morning with the time difference, and is headlined by British welterweight Dan Hardy in his fight with Chris Lytle.It's a good thing that they've got something set up for U.K. fans to catch the event, but there are still a lot of people left without the TV option, and that's unfortunate. Still, they were able to get something together in a quick amount of time, and that's better than nothing, but I'm sure it won't be enough for some people.
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For example, leading up to Caucus night, all these false polls had one particular candidate at 3%. When the precincts started reporting and posting to Liberty News Network, the MSM were reporting the same numbers as Liberty News Network ! This candidate was getting between 12-14% It kept them honest! . We believe the MSM eventually saw they did not have all the precincts covered and after a few hours, this particular candidate’s numbers started to drop, but he still finished with 10% instead of 3% ! This year we need 1,750 volunteers to cover ALL of the precincts, officially documenting (with photo) and uploading the total results, precinct by precinct, transparent for everyone to see." All well and good... if we can get more than 13 people out of 1700+ sites to bring their damn cell phones and snap a picture of tallies. B) Why the hell do we need citizens to take cell phone pictures to verify votes? Is it crazy to think that the GOP might actually bring a freaking camera to each caucus and take a picture of the tallies? If they aren't... isn't this some sort of implicit desire to continue "wiggle room" when need be? "If Paul's folks have evidence the system was gamed, where is it? If they haven't produced any, I'm guessing it didn't happen, because they were at every caucus site and the public count allows them to show any disparities NOW. But they haven't, to date." So far, the only "supposed" evidence I've found was in this article: http://www.reddirtreport.com/Story.aspx/20926 And, unfortunately (for wishful Paulbots like me), the tally picture and the results in the PDF you linked to line up EXACTLY. So, I've seen no real evidence yet either. "Sure. But it's a pretty risky thing to do when you know you've just openly counted at each site and announced the results at each of them. If the GOP gamed it, why has nobody but True so far spoken up?" Point taken. Which leads me to one last question (and one last chance to be depressed)... According to you and most of the other "accountability" advocates that I've read, the weapon of choice for "keeping them honest" seems to be documenting the results of caucus type situations. But, these are the vast minority of voting situations are they not?
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In the previous experiments ( Fig. 2 ), larval aggregation peaked in late-second and early-third instar (approximately 40–80 hours after hatching). In these experiments, this roughly corresponded with the onset of larval digging and burrowing behavior, when larvae break the surface of the food and spend less time crawling. We tested whether this ability of larvae to burrow into the food substrate affected their tendency to aggregate. We predicted that, if larvae aggregate in order to improve burrowing, when the food is harder and therefore more difficult to penetrate, we would see increased aggregation. Conversely, we predicted that when the food is softer and easier to dig, we would see decreased aggregation. We modified the hardness of the food substrate by altering the concentration of agar in the recipe. In this and all subsequent experiments, we used Canton S strain larvae. Food hardness had a significant overall effect on aggregation (GEE, effect of food hardness: χ 2 2 = 17.8, N = 36, p<0.001; Fig. 3A ), with larvae on harder food forming significantly greater aggregations than larvae reared on standard food (p<0.001) and softer food (p = 0.002). Larvae on hard food reached an average maximum aggregation index of 4.4±0.5 (N = 12), corresponding to ∼6 out of 9 larvae in one quadrat. Larvae in both standard and soft food treatments formed smaller but significant aggregations (compared to random distribution; Fig. 3A ), which did not differ from one another (p = 0.801), reaching average maximum aggregation indices of 2.6±0.2 (N = 12) and 2.7±0.3 (N = 12), respectively, corresponding to ∼5 out of 9 larvae in one quadrat. There was a significant interaction between food hardness and time (χ 2 22 = 165.4, N = 36, p<0.001), but in all three food conditions: hard, standard and soft, there was a significant effect of time (all p<0.001), and a significant quadratic trend (all p<0.001; Fig. 3A ), just as in previous experiments.
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The Soviet state was still barely holding on, and it could ill afford to leave such a hostile force organized in the Ukraine. Regardless, with the threat of the White Army ended, the bulk of Makhno’s support came from peasants angered at grain requisitioning. When the policy of war communism was replaced with a limited market system for the peasants known as the New Economic Policy (NEP), much of Makhno’s base dissipated. 108 Conclusion This article could not cover all the controversies that swirled around Makhno, nor could it examine all the activities of the Makhnovists. Instead, I focused on those activities most relevant to understanding the political nature and limits of Makhno’s movement. Ironically, while condemning Bolshevism and ignoring the incredibly unfavorable situation it faced, Arshinov excuses all the problems of the Makhnovists by citing the same “exceptional” circumstances: The basic shortcoming of the movement resides in the fact that during its last two years it concentrated mainly on military activities. This was not an organic flaw of the movement itself but rather its misfortune—it was imposed on the movement by the situation in the Ukraine. Three years of uninterrupted civil wars made the southern Ukraine a permanent battlefield…. These conditions tore the Makhnovists away from its healthy foundation, away from socially creative work among the masses, and forced it to concentrate on war…. When speaking about the military character of the movement we should not begin with the fact that Makhnovists devoted a great deal of time to artillery and cavalry combats; we should rather ask how the Makhnovists began, what goals they pursued and what means they had to realize them…. The movement obviously had to undergo great changes in its strategy in its ways and means of action and was forced to devote a large part of its forces to the military side of the struggle for freedom. But as we said, this was not its fault, but its misfortune.109 Change the names and this roughly describes the trajectory of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. The difference is that the Bolsheviks had an understanding of human liberation that was connected to the real world. The Makhnovists never had a realistic plan for transforming and organizing society. The only reason they were able to operate at all was because the Russian working class overthrew the tsar and bourgeoisie. But almost ninety years later, Makhno is still revered by anarchists.
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So we can start applying machine learning to this data to start driving inferences. Maybe what we should be doing is detecting when the classroom gets noisy, and then we could have the head of the school, who is also an educator, stop by your classroom and participate and help.”
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You really tried to run that route, homie? You really tried to use a rubber/glue defense? You really tried to Stargate your way out of this shithole? Who told you to say that out loud to a reporter, my dude? Shoot your publicist, son. You really tried to M. Night Shyamalan your way out of two and a half years of development by suggesting there is no spoon? Like WAYYYYYY after the fact? Bruh, I’m about to transform into a nine-foot tall golden pair of Timberlands and stomp the shit out of you for that. You have officially taken me to what Uncle Remus affectionately refers to as “my Laughin’ Place.” Even the studio didn’t go that far in their apology. Proyas could try this shit so long as no one had seen it. But I’ve seen it, and I’m telling you that he’s not going to fool anyone with this logical feint. He set out to make a movie on par with the other epic cinematic mythological offerings – Clash of the Titans, Thor, Hercules, Immortals, Jason and the Argonauts, Excalibur – and he did it in earnest. This is not a bad thing. Egypt has an amazing mythology; a run of ideas, concepts and images that influenced the science, commerce and religion of countless nations after it. FOREVER. It deserves to be told in spectacular summer movie fashion. But to turn around and obfuscate what it is after the fact is corny. You got busted. You apologized. You didn’t say anything in your apology about the gods not really being Egyptian gods or Egypt not conceptually being Egypt. The “spaceship” in the movie isn’t a spaceship; it’s an artistic rendering of the mythology of Ra’s chariot as it’s been understood for thousands of years. That’s why the “spaceship” is dragging the sun on a chain across a flat Earth. It’s called cosmology. The Egyptians were the shit at it, and this movie takes its best parts directly from it. He tried to turn it into a whitesplaining escape pod.
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The first and third are the crux of the Constitutional issue, but the second one is the really important one from a policy standpoint. We've argued that a rather serious problem with ACTA is that it will severely limit Congress' ability to fix certain aspects of copyright law. The example used by Wyden is a good one. There's a very strong argument to be made that statutory damages in copyright law are ridiculous, disproportionate and out of control. Fixing them would be a big help in making sure that copyright law isn't used regularly as a nuclear weapon against people who simply can't defend against the possibility of ridiculous damages awards. Another example would be if Congress decided to walk the courts back on their made up idea of "inducement" being a form of copyright infringement. Under ACTA, either of these moves would put the US in violation. So while it may not require legal changes to implement today, it may significantly prevent Congress from making those changes. And shouldn't Congress have the right to weigh in on that?
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Templates (Views) In this section we will see how to create a very simple view in Angular. The front end of an Angular app is the view, or the template. In Angular, a template is just an ordinary HTML5 file (caveat - in a component it may be a string containing HTML, more later). Angular takes this HTML file, scans it for directives and template commands, and compiles it to produce your finished application. Essentially Angular Compiles your DOM. Treating the DOM as a template like this lets us do several things: We can be radically productive. We just write HTML, and assume the presence of data. We can include special attributes and elements which act as instructions to the compiler. We can write Angular script right into the page. We can use the nested structure of the DOM to provide variable scope. Models can be scoped to particular parts of the DOM. No Way! We can include additional templates on the page really easily. Downsides Of course there are several downsides to this approach Your HTML5 file is no longer semantic. Without JavaScript your page will not work. You will need to do some work to make your site work with search engines (edit - this is no longer the case). A Simple Template An Angular template looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <script src= "angular.js" ></script> </head> <body ng-app > {{"Hello" + "World"}} </body> </html> There are three things to notice here: Notice we're importing Angular, and no other scripts We can import Angular in the head of our page, or at the bottom of the body. In these examples I'll import Angular in the head. If you're going all out for speed you should import it at the bottom of the body. I'm not importing anything else here. I don't need any more code than this because the template itself is code. Notice the ng-app attribute. The ng-app attribute is a "directive". It tells Angular to do something. In this case, it tells Angular to treat the contents of the body element as an AngularJS app and turn on the compiler. You can put the ng-app directive on any DOM element you like, and you can have multiple ng-app directives on the page. Typically you would put the ng-app directive on the <html> element or the <body> . We will see more directives shortly.
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