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The inventor Thomas Edison said that humans are “incurably religious.” History certainly bears this out. But why have humans been so religiously inclined across the millennia and civilizations? Neo-atheists Dawkins and Dennett interpret the phenomenon this way: theology is biology. To Dawkins, God is a “delusion”; for Dennett, religious believers are under a kind of “spell” that needs to be broken. Like computers, Dawkins says, we come equipped with a remarkable predisposition to do (and believe) what we’re told. So young minds full of mush are susceptible to mental infections or viruses (“memes”). Charismatic preachers and other adults spew out their superstitious bilge, and later generations latch on to it and eventually create churches and religious schools. Even if there isn’t a “God gene,” humans have a certain religious urge — an apparent hardwiring in the brain that draws us to supernatural myths. Some conclude, therefore that God doesn’t exist but is simply the product of predictable biological processes. One big problem with this statement: it is a whopping non sequitur. It just doesn’t follow that if humans are somehow wired to be religious, God therefore doesn’t exist. This is what’s called “the genetic fallacy” — proving or disproving the truth of a view based on its origin. In this case, God’s existence is a separate question from the source of religious beliefs. We need to sort out the biology of belief from the rationality of belief. There’s more to say here. We could turn the argument on its head: if God exists and has designed us to connect with him, then we’re actually functioning properly when we’re directed toward belief in God. We can agree that natural/physical processes partly contribute to commitment to God. In that case, the basic argument of Dawkins and Dennett could actually support the idea that religious believers are functioning decently and in order. On top of this, we’re left wondering why people would think up gods and spirits in the first place. Why would humans voluntarily sacrifice their lives for some intangible realm? Maybe it’s because the physical domain doesn’t contain the source of coherence, order, morality, meaning, and guidance for life. Humans, though embodied, are moral, spiritual beings; they’re able to rise above the physical and biological to reflect on it and their condition. This can result in the search for a world-transcending God.
By Elias CepedaIn the past few weeks, alone, UFC lightweight record-holder Joe Lauzon has made some headlines for work and words outside of the cage. At the UFC athlete retreat Lauzon spoke truth to power when he called UFC executives to task by pointing out that so far the Reebok apparel licensing deal numbers aren't really checking out.When the deal was announced a couple years ago, the UFC seemed to promise that all of the $70 million, plus, from Reebok would go to paying fighters for having to wear the brand's gear during fight weeks. As Lauzon pointed out, that hasn't even come close to happening, so far.Lauzon went on to tell UFC brass at the retreat in an open forum that such discrepancies highlighted the need for far more transparency. In addition to holding the UFC's feet to the fire a bit with those remarks and subsequent interviews Lauzon gave to media outlets like FloCombat, the fighter has also defended Reebok, offered a balanced view of the benefits and drawbacks of the deal, and criticized other fighters for their tactics in criticizing the sporting apparel company. "I try to be fair. I try to call b.s. when I see it. I try to give people a fair shake when I think it's deserved," Lauzon tells FloCombat this week in an exclusive conversation. "I think people want to embrace the narrative of, 'Fck Reebok,' so the details, they don't really matter. Never ruin a good story with the truth. "Some people don't have all the details. Some people are just blatantly trolling. They're just jumping on the bandwagon. I had a bunch of people tweet at me about what I posted but I had even more people tweet things like, 'oh, it's great to hear a clear, well thought-out perspective. '"Photo Credit: © Joshua Dahl-USA TODAY SportsThough Lauzon has plenty of criticisms of the deal and suggestions for how to improve it, he says he's concerned with the possible and working with stake-holders to bring it about, rather than just venting on social media. "The narrative is, 'Reebok is not paying the fighters nearly enough money. Fck them. If we bitch enough, they're going to go away.' That's just not realistic," he reasons. "It sucks for everyone, honestly. It's not the best deal for anyone, but this is what we're in with.
For some two decades, Raz and his first comrades in the unit didn’t talk about the uglier side of their work, the price exacted on Palestinians, and the price exacted on them. “It all stayed there and deep inside of us,” he said. “As a person, you wake up eventually and discover that you have post-traumatic stress disorder. You realize you are tense all the time, stressed, you aren’t sleeping, you’re on edge, always on alert. I was giving a lecture the other day at some high-tech firm and I clicked the clicker for a snippet of film about ‘Fauda’ and just the sound of the show—the gunfire—set me off. I was suddenly so stressed. I was immediately looking for the door.” He went on, “We live in a post-traumatic society, all of us.” It was only when Raz was in his mid-thirties that he began to grasp why he kept having the same dream, the battle in which his gun would jam or he would fire and the bullet would just dribble out of the barrel and plink on the ground. “You don’t feel the stress when you are in the unit. You are in fighting mode all the time,” he said. “It’s only later, when you are back home, much later, that you feel it in your neck, in your back, in your mind. It takes years to understand the situation. I went to a therapist nine years ago. I was about to get married. I was stressed. I just wanted to be a good husband. After about five minutes of the therapy, he said, ‘You have P.T.S.D., let’s talk about it.’ ” What really put Raz’s mind at ease, however, was setting out to work with Issacharoff writing “Fauda.” “That was my real therapy,” he said.
Too, given the view that “the smallest dinosaur is the bee hummingbird … found only in Cuba,” ( Norell et al. 1995 ), it follows that any bird, flighted or flightless, discovered in Mesozoic deposits, would be classified as a dinosaur. It has become clear that this problem is far more complex that those on either side of the debate had anticipated, and the real challenge now may be to separate out radiations of secondarily flightless birds from true theropods. And, if birds are, as Paul (2002) argues, derived from theropods and then gave rise to secondarily flightless theropods, the problem of convergence is simply transferred to dromaeosaurs and carnosaurs. Such a convergent pattern may be even more formidable than that proposed between flightless birds and theropods. Either way, if birds were initially derived from dromaeosaurs, then the required character transformations involved going from highly derived sickle second claw to primitive avian claw, highly derived stiffened tail to primitive Archaeopteryx-like tail, and highly derived theropod teeth to primitive bird teeth ( Table 1 ). Temporal Paradox Despite Prum's attempt to dismiss the “temporal paradox” as irrelevant to the debate, it is a problem of great concern to most workers in the field and especially the interested public. In 1999, at a special Florida conference on the dinosaur–bird problem, the small, juvenile velociraptorine Bambiraptor was introduced as the then most birdlike theropod ever discovered. Yet, it dates to 70 Ma, that is, some 80 my after the appearance of the earliest known bird Archaeopteryx. As Dodson (2000 :504) points out, “The current cladistic analysis of bird origins posits a series of outgroups that postdate the earliest bird by up to 80 million years.” Going back to 1997, Novas and Puerta announced the discovery of Unenlagia ( Feduccia 1999 ), a theropod later hailed as “a missing link,” but dated at 90 Ma, about the same age of Deinonychus, that is, some 60 my after Archaeopteryx. Many examples exists, but the point is that the group of theropods thought to be avian ancestors is strictly a Cretaceous radiation, and of more concern, they become more and more birdlike as one approaches the latest Cretaceous. This is also true of certain relatives of the dromaeosaurs, the superficially birdlike troodontids, for which there is now a fragmentary fossil (if correctly identified; Xu et al. 2002 ) from the Chinese deposits dating to some 128 Ma (if the date is correct).
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The financing of all public enterprise, the maintenance of stable Government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own Government. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. Some information on the Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve, a Private Corporation One of the most common concerns among people who engage in any effort to reduce their taxes is, "Will keeping my money hurt the government's ability to pay it's bills?" As explained in the first article in this series, the modern withholding tax does not, and wasn't designed to, pay for government services. What it does do, is pay for the privately-owned Federal Reserve System. Black's Law Dictionary defines the "Federal Reserve System" as, "Network of twelve central banks to which most national banks belong and to which state chartered banks may belong. Membership rules require investment of stock and minimum reserves." Privately-owned banks own the stock of the Fed. This was explained in more detail in the case of Lewis v. United States, Federal Reporter, 2nd Series, Vol. 680, Pages 1239, 1241 (1982), where the court said: Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region. The stock-holding commercial banks elect two thirds of each Bank's nine member board of directors. Similarly, the Federal Reserve Banks, though heavily regulated, are locally controlled by their member banks. Taking another look at Black's Law Dictionary, we find that these privately owned banks actually issue money: Federal Reserve Act. Law which created Federal Reserve banks which act as agents in maintaining money reserves, issuing money in the form of bank notes, lending money to banks, and supervising banks. Administered by Federal Reserve Board (q.v.). The FED banks, which are privately owned, actually issue, that is, create, the money we use. In 1964 the House Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, at the second session of the 88th Congress, put out a study entitled Money Facts which contains a good description of what the FED is: The Federal Reserve is a total money-making machine.It can issue money or checks.
Although Warren Anderson, the American then-chairman of the US-based Union Carbide parent group, was named as an accused and later declared an "absconder" by the court, he was not mentioned in Monday's verdict. Compensation Rights groups and NGOs working with the victims of the gas leak said that the verdict was inadequate. BHOPAL'S DEATH TOLL Initial deaths (3-6 December): more than 3,000 - official toll Unofficial initial toll: 7,000-8,000 Total deaths to date: over 15,000 Number affected: Nearly 600,000 Compensation: Union Carbide pays $470m in 1989
"While the governor continues to live in a fantasy world, creating bureaucratic task forces and dodging requests for information, two more of our nation's heroes have tested positive for Legionnaires' disease," Cullerton said Tuesday. "Gov. Bruce Rauner has failed our veterans once again. Our nation's heroes need a solution now. They cannot afford to wait another three years for the governor to finally do his job." Adams County Public Health Administrator Jerrod Welch gave testimony about the response to Legionella bacteria outbreaks during a public hearing in front of lawmakers last week in Springfield. Welch said that before 2015, the community averaged one case of Legionella annually. Additional cases were detected in 2015 in addition to those at the Veterans Home as the Health Department asked local health providers to look out for Legionnaires' disease after the second case was diagnosed at the Veterans Home. "Within that context, we detected additional community-level cases that we were not able to attribute back to the Illinois Veterans Home," Welch said. "In retrospect, after months of investigation, some of those cases were attributed to other outbreaks in other communities. We had what we would say is four cases in the community that we did not have attributable to any specific cause during that time frame." Arnold said Legionella bacteria is ubiquitous. It can cause pneumonia, but the illness can be treated more effectively with medications that might not otherwise be prescribed for pneumonia. "The state has about 300 cases of Legionella throughout the year, but Legionella is probably underreported,"
THESSALONIKI, GREECE—An anthropological team investigating cremated remains found in a royal tomb in Vergina, Greece, has claimed that the remains belong to King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, and an unknown woman warrior. Theodore Antikas, head of the Art-Anthropological research team of the Vergina excavation, suggests that she may have been the daughter of Scythian King Ateas. The tomb was one of three excavated from the same mound in the late 1970s by Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos. This tomb, known as Tomb II, had been intact, and it contained silver and bronze vessels, gold wreaths, weapons, armor, and two gold larnakes, or caskets. Antikas told Discovery News that the identification of the middle-aged, male skeleton was based upon marks on the bones. “The individual suffered from frontal and maxillary sinusitis that might have been caused by an old facial trauma,” he said. Philip II was blinded when his right eye was hit with an arrow during the siege of Methone in 354 B.C. “He had signs of chronic pathology on the visceral surface of several low thoracic ribs, indicating pleuritis,” Antikas added of the warrior’s skeleton, which also showed signs of frequent horseback riding. Traces of an object made of royal purple, huntite, textile, beeswax, and clay had been placed on top of the bones in the gold larnax. A pelvis bone fragment from the other casket indicates that the remains belonged to a woman who died between the ages of 30 and 34. She had suffered a fracture in her left leg that had shortened it. “This leads to the conclusion that the pair of mismatched greaves—the left is shorter—the Scythian gorytus, or bow case, and weaponry found in the antechamber belonged to her,” Antikas explained. To read about the search for Alexander's tomb, see "In Search of History's Greatest Rulers."
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The title carried not only political importance, but also spiritual significance. The leading shaman declared Genghis Khan the representative of Mongke Koko Tengri (the "Eternal Blue Sky"), the supreme god of the Mongols. With this declaration of divine status, it was accepted that his destiny was to rule the world. Religious tolerance was practiced in the Mongol Empire, but to defy the Great Khan was equal to defying the will of God. It was with such religious fervor that Genghis Khan is supposed to have said to one of his enemies, "I am the flail of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
Great quotes from some of the all-time Liverpool FC legends. SHANKLY "We murdered them 0-0." Bill Shankly "When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along." Bill Shankly "Me having no education. I had to use my brains." Bill Shankly "Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool." Bill Shankly "If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP!" Bill Shankly "A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams in Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves." Bill Shankly "The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game." Bill Shankly "If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains." Bill Shankly "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." Bill Shankly "He couldn't play anyway. I only wanted him for the reserve team!" Bill Shankly upon hearing Celtic's Lou Macari had snubbed Liverpool in favour of a move to Manchester United." "I don't believe everything Bill tells me about his players. Had they been that good, they'd not only have won the European Cup but the Ryder Cup, the Boat Race and even the Grand National!" Celtic manager Jock Stein on Bill Shankly "Hold on a minute, John Wayne hasn't arrived yet." Bill Shankly to the awaiting TV crews and journalists for the press conference to announce he was retiring from football "Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves." Bill Shankly "Son, you'll do well here as long as you remember two things. Don't over-eat and don't lose your accent." Bill Shankly to Ian St John "Don't worry Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team!" Bill Shankly to Alan Ball after he signed for Everton "It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against."
I bundled back up, and free-soloed a moderate mixed pitch at the base of Cerro Torre’s north face while mildly hypothermic (it doesn’t work to rappel directly down from the col). Because my rappel rope was so damaged, I had to complete the remaining twenty-or-so rappels rappelling on just my lead line, with my rappel rope being used just as a pull-line. It was an additional hassle on an already difficult descent, but I nonetheless felt very grateful to be able to make 60m rappels at all. I reached the glacier sometime shortly after 2:00am, and descended back to my sleeping bag at Noruegos, arriving something like 26 hours after departing. On the 20th I made my way down the loose boulders from Noruegos to Niponino, and then out the long glacier to Laguna Torre. Not until hitting the tourist trail on the south side of Laguna Torre did I finally allow myself to fully relax and feel joy for my accomplishment. I hiked out with the aid of my iPod, as usual, knowing I had just completed one of the best achievements of my life, if not the best. The same day that I was soloing Torre Egger, my friends Korra Pesce and Tomy Aguilo were climbing “Golden Eagle” on Aguja Desmochada. By lucky chance, Korra happened to be on a climb with a good view of Torre Egger, and happened to have a point-and-shoot camera with a particularly powerful zoom. He was able to capture this cool sequence of photos of me climbing the “Huber-Schnarf” route to the summit of Torre Egger: 7. CERRO HUEMUL, “END OF FAITH,” JANUARY 26 A couple days after I returned from Torre Egger, Alex Honnold arrived in Chaltén for some climbing together, and a day or two later we headed out for his alpine warm-up. The east ridge of Cerro Huemul is a very grand and obvious feature, clearly visible from all around the town of El Chaltén. It is an objective that I had already pondered for a few years, but became a higher priority after getting to see it up close with Andy. Alex and I took a taxi very early in the morning on January 26, from town to Bahía Túnel, starting our hike from the shore of Lago Viedma. After crossing the outlet of the Rio Toro on a well-established tyrolean, we briefly followed a trail, and then soon starting tromping towards Cerro Huemul in the darkness.
In many cases, superiors would give the troops vacation time and other rewards, and authorize payments to fake civilian informants that would actually go to the troops or recruiters. Army officers produced a bevy of official documents substantiating the claim that the killing occurred in combat. Profile of Victims As found by the OTP of the ICC, false positives “were directed against particular categories of civilians, who resided in remote areas and were considered to belong to a marginalized sector of the population.” These victims included farmers, children, unemployed people, homeless people, people who were dependent upon drugs, people with mental disabilities, community leaders, people with criminal records, petty criminals, demobilized guerrillas or paramilitaries, and in some rare cases, supposed guerrilla collaborators or guerrillas who had been detained or surrendered. Organizing, Planning, and Logistical Coordination Required for Killings As evident in the preceding description of the modus operandi in false positive cases, the crimes required significant organizing, planning, and logistical coordination by military officers and soldiers. This included first identifying the victim; detaining him or otherwise recruiting him to go to a remote location; often transporting him in military vehicles between different municipalities or departments; obtaining weapons, camouflage, and other military equipment to put on the victim; and ensuring that each case had official military documents attesting to its purported legality. Military personnel also needed to coordinate to ensure they gave justice authorities a consistent account of the supposed combat kill. Soldiers involved in false positive have described how their military units had established methods—essentially systems in place—for committing the crimes. For example: In a November 2014 hearing, prosecutors pressed charges against two former intelligence officials from the Pedro Nel Ospina Battalion (4 th Brigade) for 24 false positives committed between January 2006 and June 2007. In one case, the prosecutor recounted that a man was lured to Antioquia from a nearby city and then executed by soldiers, who put a pistol on him and reported him as killed in combat.
More than 10 years ago Paul Hackmann showed us a way to use any analogue PC controller with your CD-i player. Now, in 2016, a fan called "anarterb" (His name is Laurent Berta) created a tool to play CD-i games with an original SNES controller. Arguably the best controller to play with.Anarterb: "Hi all, I released a very similar project called SNEStoCDi. the goal is to use a SNES (Super Nintendo) or SFC (Super Famicom) gamepad on a Philips CDi. I use it with my CDi 470, it works great. SNEStoCDi is an open-source project, based on an Arduino and pretty easy to build.Here is the link : https://github.com/anarterb/SNEStoCDi by the way I'm considering builing a few SNEStoCDi converters and sell them at low price on ebay, to help people who don't feel able to built it by themselves. "SNES to CDiSNEStoCDi is an Arduino-based project that allows to use a Nintendo SNES (Super NES) / SFC (Super Famicom) gamepad on a Philips CDi player / game console. SNEStoCDi requires no more electronic than the Arduino itself. It's a pretty easy project for anyone with basic knowledge about Arduino and soldering.SNEStoCDi is released under Creative Common CC-BY 4.0 licence : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode How to make your own SNEStoCDi adapterFirst of all, you need the Arduino IDE. If you need to, you can download it for free here : https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software You also need an Arduino, of course. I myself use Arduinos UNO and Nano but SNEStoCDi should work with most 5v Arduino versions.To do a good and durable adapter, you will need a SNES/SFC gamepad connector (a simple way is to recycle an extension cable) and a mini-DIN 8 pin male connector.Do the wiring :connect the SNES/SFC connector to your Arduino : please report to wiring.jpg for more informations.connect the min-DIN CDi connector to your Arduino : please report to wiring.jpg for more informations.IMPORTANT :the RTS line from the CDi must be connected to an analog input. if you're curious about that, report to the Tech Stuff part.the Arduino will be powered by the VCC provided by the CDi. do not connect any other power source to the Arduino !Upload the SNEStoCDi software to your Arduino :connect the Arduino to your computer.add the SNESpad library (by Rob Duarte) to the Arduino IDE. the library provided with SNEStoCDi is a modified version of SNESpad, optimized for performances and better compatibility with the current Arduino IDE.
Hide Caption 12 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – Then-President George H.W. Bush with sons George W. and Jeb, right, boating off Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1989. Hide Caption 13 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush pose with their family for their 2000 Christmas portrait. Hide Caption 14 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George W. Bush campaigns during an all-day swing through Florida two days before Election Day in 2000. Hide Caption 15 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – Bush is informed by then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card of the September 11, 2001, attacks while visiting a school in Sarasota, Florida. Hide Caption 16 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George W. Bush speaks to rescue workers, firefighters and police officers at the rubble of ground zero three days after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Hide Caption 17 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George W. Bush tells the nation on March 19, 2003, that U.S. forces had struck "targets of opportunity" in Iraq to begin the Iraq War. Hide Caption 18 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George W. Bush announces on May 1, 2003, that "major combat operations" had ended in Iraq. He made the announcement aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which he had landed on in a Navy jet. Hide Caption 19 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George W. Bush drives his pickup truck at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in August 2002. Hide Caption 20 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George W. Bush surveys Hurricane Katrina damage through the window of Air Force One as it flies over New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 31, 2005. Hide Caption 21 of 23 Photos: George W. Bush's life, legacy George W. Bush's life, legacy – George W. Bush shakes hands with then-Sen. Joe Biden after signing the United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act in July 2008.
California Drying: “We May Have to Migrate” First published at The Daily Impact August 1, 2014 The only category of drought higher than the one now assigned to nearly 60 percent of California (the USDA’s Drought Monitor calls it “exceptional”) is “Biblical.” Three years in, there is no relief in sight — the much-anticipated El Nino pattern of sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, which usually increases rainfall in California, has not materialized. It would take a full year of normal rain and snowfall to restore surface waters to normal levels. A UC Davis study just out finds the amount of surface water available to California agriculture has been reduced by 6.6 million acre-feet(yes, that’s enough water to submerge 6.6 million acres to a depth of one foot). Groundwater has been pumped to replace five million acre-feet, but the shortfall remains a jaw-dropping 1.6 million acre-feet. It is, right now, one of the worst droughts in the history of North America. Bad enough, says Lynn Wilson, chair of the School of Arts and Sciences at Kaplan University and member of a UN delegation on climate change, that “we may have to migrate people out of California.” Which immediately led to a post on the aptly named Lunatic Outpost ( I am not making any of this up) titled “UN panel recommends moving people out of California.” In black transport helicopters, one assumes. (For the record: Dr. Wilson’s UN service is not her day job, and her observation had nothing to do with the UN.) But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you might not have to leave California. “Civilizations in the past have had to migrate out of areas of drought,” says Dr. Wilson, and although heroic measures can be expected before any such decision is reached, she says, “it can’t be taken off the table.” Ominously, heroic measures are already being taken. Californians can now be fined $500 for washing their car or watering their ornamentals. Time to move to Phoenix. Oh, wait…. Like an earthquake far out to sea, the California catastrophe has raised a tsunami of consequences that has not yet reached the doorsteps of the rest of the country. Except for much higher prices for lettuce and, one assumes, arugula. California industrial agriculture produces half of America’s produce — fruits, vegetables and nuts — and to do it sucks up 80 per cent of the available water.
You will (almost) never get the floating point-number 0.12345 (actually, there is no such thing: not a reciprocal power of 2, you know) to "round towards even", because of the garbage data far out down the line, the way things get (or don't) get put into registers or coprocessors, and much else. You're at the mercy of very subtle forces largely beyond your control and understanding unless you put a lot of time into it. No matter what you think your rounding strategy is, stuff way out in never- never land can put you a little under or a little over what it takes to do whatever you've defined the right thing to be, and therefore, sometimes, you just aren't going to get it. Yes, I know: in double precision, or 8-byte floating point, we have only 15 decimal digits in the significand. That's all there is, and you can't wheedle or whine, weasel or whimper any more out them. That what is all that GUNK? And why are they affecting me? I believe the most polite and gentlemanly way to refer to those digits in excess of what the standard guarantees is to call them "garbage". But I can think of plenty of other words for them, and I'm sure you can, too. It seems like the only way to get reliable behaviour is to pay the big CPU-bucks for cycles and abandon all float ye who enter: $ perl -Mbigrat -le 'print(12345 / 100_000)' 2469/20000 $ perl -Mbignum=p,-65 -le 'print(12345 / 100_000)' 0.12345000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Did you realize that there seem to be about 7 floating-point types out there. SEVEN And I'm not counting Vax stuff or old stuff, either. Did you EVER have ANY idea? I sure didn't! And it gets better, because how these map to a float, a double, and a long double varies considerably amongst environments. Digits of C Type Byte Mantissa's Precision Name Size base-10 base-2 short float 2 ~3 11 float 4 6 24 double 8 ~15 53 long double: 80bit ext prec 12 or 16 18 64 binary128 16 ~34 113 Furthermore, many sources concur that long doubles--which could be quite a few different things, as you see--aren't necessarily expected nor guaranteed to behave as doubles do. Some of this is some FP reps have odd numbers of (binary) digits in their mantissa, and others have even numbers of bits. This seems pretty certain to cause otherwise identical values to round differently.
Temperature Increase Terminates the Gastric Mill Rhythm To test the role of circuit extrinsic neuromodulatory inputs for counterbalancing temperature-induced changes on CPG activity, we altered the temperature of the STG motor circuits but kept the CoGs at a constant temperature. The CoGs contain descending projection neurons that provide extrinsic modulatory input to the STG circuits. This approach is fundamentally different from previous studies [3,4] in which extrinsic neuromodulatory input from CoG projection neurons as well as STG motor circuits were affected by temperature changes. Here, we thermally isolated the STG circuits from the rest of the nervous system by building a petroleum jelly well around the STG. Extrinsic input fibers such as the descending CoG projection neurons remained mostly unaffected by these temperature changes. However, the axon terminals of some projection neurons have local synaptic interactions within the STG [11] and may show ectopic spike initiation. Temperature effects on these interactions were not investigated in this study. CPG activity in the STG was recorded extracellularly on three different motor nerves containing the axons of pyloric and gastric neurons (pyloric: PD, LP, and PY on the lvn; gastric: LG on the lgn and DG on the dgn). We found that a moderate temperature increase from 10°C to 13°C had distinct effects on the two rhythms (Fig 1B): the pyloric rhythm was resilient to temperature changes and continued its regular activity, while the spontaneous gastric mill rhythm terminated, as can be seen by the sporadic and nonrhythmic activity of the gastric mill neurons LG and DG on the lgn and dgn (Fig 1B). The pyloric rhythm had previously been shown to be “resistant” against temperature perturbations in vivo and in vitro (although for much larger temperature ranges, up to 26°C or more; [3,18]) in that the phase relationship of the pyloric neurons remains constant while cycle period decreases. In all previous studies, however, temperature affected CPG as well as its input fibers, making it unclear whether extrinsic inputs from other parts of the nervous system are necessary to maintain the rhythm or not. Despite the fact that in our experiments the temperature perturbation exclusively affected the STG, we found similar results for the pyloric rhythm as described previously. In none of our experiments did the pyloric rhythm cease or show any obvious change from its canonical pattern (see S1 Fig). In fact, this was true even when we increased the temperature up to 19°C (N = 6).
In easy Terms is the process where you keep your coins in your OK wallet and keep it open, your coins will start to "stake", meaning after 8-24 hours your wallet will start to mine for more coins according to the quantity of coins that you already have in your wallet, at a rate of 69% for the First Year (% changes the first 4 years) without the need for special equipment. You only need to keep the OKCash wallet running and some Coins in it to start earning more coins. (This nodes help maintain a decentralized, secure and fast network, hence why they get the rewards for trusting and supporting the network/project)Nov 24th 201433,18636,297,000 OKCash105,000,000 OKCashDec 9th 201469% 1st Year (block 531,257)\| 20% 2nd (block 1,022,514) \| 10% 3rd (block 1,523,771)\| 6% 4th Year on wards8 hrUnlimited10 confirmations64 confirmations50-60 seconds average block time.69696970( RPCport 7979 ) ( Port 7980 )OKCash is a new Cryptocurrency that got released in November 2014. Since the start OK has shown a unique interest in the end user and tried to make the coin accessible and easy to use for the community. The launch was a success and a lot of miners participated in the pools that were mining the coin.The mining PoW process lasted 15 days without halving to make it fair for every miner no matter when they started with the coin. After these 15 days of mining, OKCash became a full Proof of Stake coin, fulfilling its goal of hybrid initial distribution. It started a new era in the cryptocurrency environment, where coins continue to be created and distributed via Proof of Stake, which is a more long-term sustainable system and much more energy friendly than Proof of work.OKCash started a new tendency in the cryptocurrency world, by injecting a positive vibe into its design and code. A lot of new coins started to get created following these ideals, some even adding the "positive" into its names just like in OK's previous name. Sadly most of these new coins lasted for only a few months and others lacked the determination to continue with its commitment to the code and its community.
Games come with more accessible price points and time commitments. Going to the movies just takes too long, says Meloni. “You have to make the time, drive there and back, spend two hours sitting down.” TV shows, though they’re increasingly viewable on demand, do take up dozens of hours of couch time. Games, by contrast, are going more and more portable and flexible. Some, like Call of Duty, have introduced lightweight versions meant to be played on mobile devices. Others, like Clash of Clans, offer some of the fun of massive multiplayer games–forming teams, conducting raids–but in much shorter, more manageable chunks. And then there is the absolutely enormous category of casual, puzzle-style games like Jewel Quest and Candy Crush Saga. The latter’s creator, King, is headed for an IPO. “Of course there are games that can be played for hours at a time, but there are a vast number of games that can be played in small increments of time,” says Meloni. “It’s a combination of having a task or storytelling and social networking in a time frame that is defined by the consumer.” Supporting these formats, Della Rocca says, are new business models. More and more games are switching to freemium models, where it is free to play, but you pay for in-game services and upgrades. Could the movie industry steal this concept? Well, short, mobile-optimized videos are a pretty big category already–they’re called YouTube and Vine. Getting people to pay for them–that’s another story. But has anyone really attempted to spend millions of dollars spinning out a Lord of the Rings-style cinematic narrative across multiple platforms? Or offering fans of, say, Judd Apatow films the chance to watch extra clips and bloopers over the web for $1.99 here and 99 cents there? Could be intriguing. Smart gaming companies don’t ignore women. Meloni says an overlooked reason for the rise of gaming is that its core audience is getting wider, not narrower. “For many years the game industry has been seen as a consumer spend for the male dollar, and it really is not that anymore,” she says. “Fifty percent of players are women of all ages.” While big-budget movies continue to shoot for just one audience quadrant–younger men–the video game market is diversifying.
where Scientologists are sent for punishment and training… For crimes that most of us would regard as trivial. Reporter Bryan Seymour at the Base: “Scientology promised us someone would come and talk to us, that hasn’t happened. I couldn’t get through on the phone. More than 50 requests for interviews on camera have been flatly refused. The bottom line is they don’t want people to know what’s going on inside there, those who’ve lived in there like Shane, say it’s like a gulag, a prison and yet it’s in the middle of a suburb, it could be any suburb in Australia. People here would he horrified to know what has been going on in there for so many years and continues to this day.” Shane Kelsey’s mother and father were dedicated Scientologists in Sydney, so they put their son Shane into its highest corps at the age of six — little Shane moved into a tiny room with 11 other children. By the age of seven… Shane: “We’d go down the streets and there’d be eight of us, ten of us, young as and we’d go down and pledge people up to drug free lives.” Seymour: “How old were you when you first started doing that?” Shane: “I first started doing that when I was seven.” At the age of eight… Shane: “I signed my contract when I was eight years old.” Seymour: “And what was the contract for? Shane: “It was a billion year contract.” Seymour: “Billion year contract?” Shane: “Hmm, hmm.” (nods) Seymour: “And what does that mean?” Shane: “It means you’re volunteering or servicing the Church for the next billion years….We used to do marching, close order drilling, things like that.” Seymour: “What for, were you preparing for battle?” Shane: “No, just because it was a form of discipline.” Seymour: “How often were you able to see your parents?” Shane: “I saw them once a week.” Shane’s mother and father would soon separate and his dad Adrian moved overseas then left Scientology. Meanwhile, the work schedule for children was full time, hard and without reward. Seymour: “You were working 35 hours a week when you were eight years old.
Current evidence does suggest possible evolutionary lineages for the origins of the anatomical features of the eye. One likely chain of development is that the eyes originated as simple patches of photoreceptor cells that could detect the presence or absence of light, but not its direction. When, via random mutation across the population, the photosensitive cells happened to have developed on a small depression, it endowed the organism with a better sense of the light's source. This small change gave the organism an advantage over those without the mutation. This genetic trait would then be "selected for" as those with the trait would have an increased chance of survival, and therefore progeny, over those without the trait. Individuals with deeper depressions would be able to discern changes in light over a wider field than those individuals with shallower depressions. As ever deeper depressions were advantageous to the organism, gradually, this depression would become a pit into which light would strike certain cells depending on its angle. The organism slowly gained increasingly precise visual information. And again, this gradual process continued as individuals having a slightly shrunken aperture of the eye had an advantage over those without the mutation as an aperture increases how collimated the light is at any one specific group of photoreceptors. As this trait developed, the eye became effectively a pinhole camera which allowed the organism to dimly make out shapes—the nautilus is a modern example of an animal with such an eye. Finally, via this same selection process, a protective layer of transparent cells over the aperture was differentiated into a crude lens, and the interior of the eye was filled with humours to assist in focusing images. [67][68][69] In this way, eyes are recognized by modern biologists as actually a relatively unambiguous and simple structure to evolve, and many of the major developments of the eye's evolution are believed to have taken place over only a few million years, during the Cambrian explosion. [70] Behe asserts that this is only an explanation of the gross anatomical steps, however, and not an explanation of the changes in discrete biochemical systems that would have needed to take place. [71]
It doesn t provide the highest level of control, this position provides decent protection for counter attacks.Since this position is a foundation for developing a leg lock game here is the full Dean Lister video where he delves into the details of the position, grips, and tips for finishing the straight ankle lock.An outside lockup occurs when the attacker places both his feet outside the defender s legs. This can provide better control than the Single Leg X position, but leaves the feet open for counter leg locks, so careful placement is a must. Traditionally speaking outside lock ups and the single leg X position have been favored by jiu-jitsu players because they are legal in all jiu-jitsu rule sets.The Outside Ashi Garami is similar to the regular Ashi Garami, but in the still above from the BJJ Hacks piece on Eddie Cummings you can see that both Eddie s feet are outside of his training partner s legs. Also notice the leg being attacked not across Cummings body. From this position Cummings has good control of the leg he is attacking and can expose it for an ankle lock or a traditional heel hook, it also provides an easy transition into a toe hold and kneebar attack. It is relatively an easy position to achieve, however it does leave Cummings feet slightly more vulnerable, so keeping his heels pinched tightly into the opponent s hip is a must.Above is a still of Ryan Hall from his 50/50 Guard instructional , one of the best instructional videos for the position. The name comes for the equal nature of the position. Above you can see Ryan Hall with his friend and training partner Seph Smith in the 50/50 position, Hall s legs are locked up on the outside of Smith s left leg, same as the Outside Ashi position, but the key difference is that Seph s left leg is passed across Hall s body. Both Hall s and Smith s left legs are in the same position, across the body, thus the name 50/50, both grapplers have all the offensive and defensive options. The inverted heel hook is available from the position, which is what Hall is attacking in the still, and it is an extremely powerful and efficient joint lock. In addition to that straight ankle locks, toe holds, and leg weave locks are in play in this position for both grapplers.
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This generosity has created a deep trust of the deified Sugiura, as illustrated by a recent trend among students to leave photocopies of their test ID numbers at the temple in the hope that the Flying Tiger will help them pass their entrance exams. Once in the morning, to the tune of the Japanese national anthem, and then again in the evening to the patriotic song “Umi Yukaba” (If I Should Go to Sea), worshipers light cigarettes and set them before the figures of Sugiura. This ritual offering has been carried out each day since 1993. Cigarettes are thought to have been the sole indulgence available to young fighter pilots, who smoked them to calm their nerves before flying into battle. The first time I witnessed this ceremony I was struck by the intense expressions of parishioners as they gazed upon the statues. It was then that I realized just how central General Flying Tiger is in the lives of local residents. In his deification, Sugiura has blurred the border between Japanese and Taiwanese, having been embraced as a full member of the community. Students at a local elementary school study about him in history class and have staged a play based on his life during the school’s art festival. Wu Jinchi says he hopes that learning about Sugiura will teach children to be compassionate.
Just three months after suffering a severe spinal injury, Martyn Ashton, international mountain bike trials legend and ex-World Champion, announces that he has today released his spectacular sequel to Road Bike Party: Road Bike Party 2.Following the 9 million YouTube view success of the original in 2012, Martyn has been secretly working on the sequel, however his accident during a bicycle trials demo on Sunday 1st September at Silverstone’s Moto GP, England – in which he dislocated his T9 and T10 vertebrae, leaving him a paraplegic and a wheelchair user – cast doubt as to whether it would ever be finished.Thanks to some very strong friends – chiefly, Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg – rallying around and committing to help Martyn and videographer Robin Kitchin complete the film, the project is now ready for release.“It’s very different to what I planned but I’m really starting to love it and care for it,” Martyn says of the finished film. “It’s a brilliant collection – you can lose the fact that we’re on a road bike as it just looks like a great piece of riding. The first Road Bike Party was all about it being a road bike but this one, the road bike doesn’t get a chance – the stuff that we do collectively is beyond what would be ‘normal’ for a trials bike. It’s exceptional.”Martyn Ashton started riding motorcycle trials at the age of 11, reaching a high standard by the age of 18 and competing in national competitions. At this age he then ventured into bicycle trials with immediate success seeing him selected for the Great Britain squad to compete at the World Championships. In 1993, the following year, Martyn won the British Bike Trial Championship and continued to dominate the British competition scene for the next 10 years.1995 was a big year for Martyn. He joined the all-conquering Volvo-Cannondale Mountain Bike Race Team and won a World Bike Trial Championship.
However, in Chennai the initial salary of women is more than men in the sector.In Human Resource sector, men with over 15 years of experience earn almost 1.5 times more than women.
[2:19] Instead having whiteboard and lecture format is the best iang [2:19 PM] there ain’t a better one for this sort of discussion. ANy channel will be trolled. Its how it is. jp [2:19 PM] Having a different forum where people can discuss [2:19] A different bitcointalk joeldalais [2:19 PM] i think it has uses, the #general is open to all, so definitely more prone to trolling iang [2:20 PM] In other news, JVP and the drummer in AC/DC look very alike.. joeldalais [2:20 PM] lol [2:20] i've thought that :smile: andy [2:20 PM] hahaha tomothy [2:20 PM] LOL jp [2:23 PM] He looks like Michael Bolton jp [2:23 PM] uploaded this image: ctm_bolton_030613.jpg Add Comment iang [2:27 PM] looks like the chat channel just went hyper-troll jp [2:27 PM] No shit. Cobra joeldalais [2:27 PM] i'm observing it with wild fascination :smile: tomothy [2:28 PM] Sorry, I was sick of all the one sided attacks. checksum0 [2:28 PM] I have never ever seen a slack blow up like that. [2:28] CSW can bring in the crowds for sure jp [2:30 PM] Keep up with the kardashian round 2 tomothy [2:38 PM] We could try to reign it in back to private freetrader [2:38 PM] let the fire burn itself out. iang [2:39 PM] would be good if we could fan the fire in their direction …. tomothy [2:40 PM] Making fun of AQ seems to help travin [2:41 PM] Call him Aquent, he hates that. [2:41] Somewhat, anyway awemany [2:51 PM] hey csw, so to repeat my argument in a less noise environment: do you have pointers on how you extended SHA256(..) to infinite long streams? Upon further consideration, I don't get your double hashing argument anymore. csw [2:52 PM] 256 bits are the output of SHA256. With a single input value of SHA256 to another hash you can only have a limited number of matches. awemany [2:53 PM] yes i get that. but we've been talking in the context of collisions. and SHA256(anything) can you give you lots of collisions, sure. however for any collision SHA256(x) == SHA256(y), SHA256(SHA256(x)) == SHA256(SHA256(y)) holds as well [2:54] so I fail to see what you gain by the double hashing in this context here csw [2:55 PM] But SHA(x) =/= SHA (y) awemany [2:57 PM] i was assuming a collision. and if SHA256(<256 bits>) is anything but bijective, you make it worse in terms of collisions?
When the failure report was officially released, it was even more embarrassing to learn that the spacecraft was equipped with non-space-qualified electronic components that may have led to the failure due to radiation damage. The horrible statistics only fueled concerns that Russia won’t be able to do its main job of the mission, which is launching it. For both ExoMars missions, Proton rockets with Briz-M upper stages were chosen. But the Proton-M rocket is highly problematic and Russia experiences on average at least one Proton failure every year. In 2010 fuel, overloading caused the Proton-M-Block-DM3 with navigation satellites to crash. In 2011, the very expensive Russian communications satellite Express-AM4 was placed into a wrong orbit due to a malfunction of the Briz-M upper stage. In 2012, a Briz-M stage once again failed during the launch of Telkom 3 and Express MD2 satellites. The most embarrassing failure in the history of Proton happened in 2013, when the Proton-M rocket veered off course and crashed next to the launch pad because of wrongly installed angular velocity sensors. In 2014 and 2015, there were two failures because of a third stage defect. For Russian scientists, this is a long awaited return to the field of planetary science. Russian space experts claim, however, that it’s not that the Proton rockets are bad per se. There is a long-term crisis in the Russian space program with many factors contributing to the failures, including work personnel who are not sufficiently qualified and low salaries. Many people have left the sector and those who remain don’t feel inspired, not only because of the insufficient funding but also because of the lack of innovation and cutting-edge projects. Luckily, months after the latest failure in 2015, the Proton rocket returned to flight with several important milestones subsequently met. At long last, Russians flew successfully the newly developed upper stage Blok-DM03 which put the Express AM8 satellite in orbit. Before the launch of ExoMars, the Proton-M with the Briz-M stage flew some important commercial payloads. The launch of ExoMars was also very successful: the Proton-M rocket and the Briz-M upper stage very accurately placed the spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet. An illustration of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. (credit: ESA) And so we have a mission. The big question remains: what does it mean for Russia?
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That is neither a reflection on the justice system, nor can it be decried on the ground put forward.Your report called Bal Thackeray a "virtual General" during the riots. The riots happened on the watch of the Congress-NCP government. No party has made an effort to take action on the findings of your commission. As a judge who probed these riots has that been a matter of immense disappointment and anger to you?Yes, I feel so and I have said so earlier.Can we say justice has been delivered for the 1993 blasts after the Yakub Memon execution or will justice be perceived as selective unless there is also justice for the riot victims of 1992.Justice has been done to the accused as he was found guilty beyond a shadow of doubt and was imposed with the appropriate punishment according to law. Apart from that, no human being can guarantee better justice. Opinions may differ but there has to be a finality and society must accept it.Your report drew a causal relationship between the Babri Masjid demolition, the riots and the blasts. Are those wounds still open or has Mumbai moved on finally more than two decades later? Can there be peace without justice?On the surface, calm seems to prevail. Time only can tell if the wounds have really healed or if they are still festering.Why do you believe this one case of Memon execution created so much debate? Do you think it's because the bigger culprit of the blasts - Tiger Memon, Dawood - remain outside the purview of Indian law and may never be brought to justice?I am not aware of the specific reasons. Perhaps it was whipped by media speculations and debates, none of which was articulated based on reasoning.You have spoken of the dualism in the state's response to prosecuting Yakub and pursuing the riots cases. Is this bias intentional, structural, deliberate? Where does the bias lie?Bias lies in the minds of those wielding state power and affects the state apparatus.
Background: Pain in the World Today Prevalence of Pain Chronic moderate and severe pain is a common symptom of cancer and HIV/AIDS, as well as of various other health conditions. [5] A recent review of pain studies in cancer patients found that more than fifty percent of cancer patients experience pain symptoms[6] and research consistently finds that 60 to 90 percent of patients with advanced cancer experience moderate to severe pain. [7] The intensity of the pain and its effect vary depending on to the type of cancer, treatment, and personal characteristics. Prevalence and severity of pain usually increase with disease progression. Although no population-based studies of AIDS-related pain have been published, multiple studies report that 60 to 80 percent of patients in the last phases of illness experience significant pain. [8] Even though the increasing availability of antiretroviral drugs in middle and low income countries is prolonging the lives of many people with HIV, pain symptoms continue to be a problem for a significant proportion of these patients. [9] Several studies have found that between 29 and 74 percent of people who receive antiretroviral treatment experience pain symptoms. [10] Experts believe that worldwide there are 24.6 million people who suffer from cancer annually, and that more than 7 million people die of it every year. Overall, 12 percent of all deaths worldwide are due to cancer. [11][12] WHO warns that these numbers will continue to grow over the coming years, with 30 million people projected to be living with cancer by 2020. [13] UNAIDS estimates that about 32 million people live with HIV worldwide, that some 4.1 million people are newly infected each year, and that almost 3 million die of the disease. [14][15] The Impact of Pain Moderate to severe pain has a profound impact on quality of life. Scientific research has demonstrated that persistent pain has a series of physical, psychological and social consequences. It can lead to reduced mobility and consequent loss of strength; compromise the immune system; interfere with a person's ability to eat, concentrate, sleep, or interact with others. [16] The psychological consequences are also profound. A WHO study found that people who live with chronic pain are four time more likely to suffer from depression or anxiety. [17] The physical effect of chronic pain and the psychological strain it causes can even influence the course of disease.
A unique bye is also currently scheduled for Michigan State's 2017 season. As things currently stand, Michigan State is scheduled for a bye on Week 1, then 12 games to finish the season. That's also due to the Alabama cancellation in 2013; the Crimson Tide were slated for the Spartans' opening week in 2017 at Spartan Stadium. Hollis said Michigan State is "going through the process of trying to move some things around" on its 2017 schedule. All three of its scheduled non-conference opponents have opening-week conflicts: Notre Dame plays Temple, Bowling Green plays South Dakota and Western Michigan plays at USC. Difficulties in non-conference schedules have arisen in part due to the addition of a ninth Big Ten game, starting this year. That's pushed conference games into weeks that have traditionally been filled by non-conference games. Hollis said the change to Big Ten schedules have "put a challenge on a few schools to make the flow look good." Michigan State's schedule is in flux in part due to the emergence of neutral site games, differing philosophies on them between the Spartans and Alabama. Nick Saban said last year that the Alabama-Michigan State game was canceled because the Crimson Tide prefer to open with neutral site games instead of campus-site games. Alabama hasn't played a home-and-home series since 2010-11, when it played Penn State. Hollis, meanwhile, has avoided playing regular season neutral-site games. Michigan State has played only one in Dantonio's tenure: against Florida Atlantic in 2010 at Ford Field. While neutral site games offer larger payouts compared to home-and-home games, Hollis said he also considers player experience, fan experience and the impact on East Lansing when making a decision to move a game off campus. He said he's not currently in any discussions about future neutral-site games. "I think to move a college game off of a college campus, there has to be a lot of reasons why you would want to do that," Hollis said. "I'm not always an advocate for financial being the only reason to look at." Instead of preparing for Eastern Michigan this week and looking forward to a bye down the road, Michigan State will spend this weekend off the field. While there are several reasons why that is, Dantonio -- at least publicly -- isn't concerning himself with them. "You really can't pick your schedule, at least maybe five or 10 years from now," Dantonio said.
Image Credit: Times Higher Education So, this puts the universities at a serious disadvantage that are focussing more on industry projects, and where undergraduate students get more practical training (or internship). In case of the research-based universities, usually, the graduate students (primarily the Ph.D. students) and the staff (Postdocs and Professors) are doing the research work throughout the year. It is unlikely that an undergraduate student or an MS or MSc student will spend too much of time in research. Undergraduate or Masters Students would be more interested in getting a good quality education and practical training. So, these rankings might not serve their motive completely. How to Refer to the World University Rankings – Advice for the International Students If you are looking for universities on the basis of overall reputation, then the QS table would be better for you. On the other hand, if you wish to judge universities on the basis of research, innovation, industry-income (research earning through patents), international outlook and prestige (academic heritage), then you should refer to the Times Higher Education league table. One of the common factors of these league tables is that the academic reputation is one of the main parameters that decide the standing of a university on the ranking table. You must remember that while reputation is (or can be) important, it won’t be the only thing that makes a university a good fit for you. Similarly, just because a university is less well-known does not make it be less worthy. For example, if you are looking for the top engineering schools in the US for undergraduate studies, refer to the U.S. News rankings. Do you know that colleges like Harvey Mudd or the Cooper Union are placed over Harvard for undergraduate education in engineering in the US (US News)? There is no point of chasing a top-ranked and reputed university with a too much financial burden. Rather you should choose universities on the basis of the course content, affordability, and other important factors. I am not advising you to ignore these rankings completely. My point is that even a university that features in the top 200 (Tier 1) or top 500 (Tier 2) of these rankings tables, is actually a top-tier university, and will serve your purpose very well; especially at the undergraduate level.
Second of all, it looks like maybe he might have served in our military, and we’ve got to respect that. Third of all, he was elderly, and we’ve got to respect our elders. . . . Now, I want you to pay attention. Because if we don’t, if we lose focus, we could have problems.” That night in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump informed his supporters that in Fayetteville Obama had been abusive to the protester: “He spent so much time screaming at this protester and, frankly, it was a disgrace.” Either Trump was retailing an account he’d found online in the alt-right media or he was knowingly lying. In other words, Trump was Trump.
Tanhony - Today at 7:42 PM Kevin walked through the back door and entered the bank. 'This way, sweetcheeks.' Upon entering the building, he looked around to see what his employees were up to. They better not be slacking off. Jack-of-Knights - Today at 7:43 PM Imyarek takes off her balaclava and also hides that. WHOOPS, JACK ALMOST FORGOT DarnellJermaine - Today at 7:43 PM After entering inside, he's greeted by some of the workers huddling in their offices, "Morning, Mr. Williams. Good to see you, Mr Williams-" and so on. The secretary, who Kevin would recognize as his loving wife, seemed a bit angry to see him enter from the back door with another woman, but she just gave him a silent, angry glare before returning to her work. The security room was a straight shot from here. Tanhony - Today at 7:45 PM Kevin stopped walking to the security room, leaving Imyarek where she was standing, and headed over to his wife. 'You okay, honey?' he said, his voice concerned. 'You look upset about something.' DarnellJermaine - Today at 7:46 PM She lets out a heavy sigh, looking dejected. "Nothing. It's just- why are you always with other women? I just- we never spend any time together. Makes a girl worry, you know. I mean- we have kids together for god sake. Is 10 years of marriage nothing to you?" she starts to tear up a bit. Tanhony - Today at 7:47 PM 'Honey, it's for work,' said Kevin, motioning to Imyarek with his head. 'She's an inspector the bigwigs have sent in - make sure we're dealing with security properly. Pain in the ass. You know you're the only one for me, honey. Right?' DarnellJermaine - Today at 7:48 PM "It doesn't feel like that sometimes.... I miss you. Back in high school and college, we would just spend nights together staring out at the stars- we shared secrets, we'd cuddle til dawn. Now it's just day to day work and bills. I miss those days. I miss us. I... I miss you" the waterworks start to fall as the other coworkers awkwardly look away and ignore this scene. Tanhony - Today at 7:49 PM 'Honey,' said Kevin placatingly, trying to calm his wife down. She was embarassing him in front of all his employees, and the inspector too. He seriously didn't need this right now. DarnellJermaine - Today at 7:50 PM "I know, I know.
Expropriation By Peter Kropotkin It is told of Rothschild that, seeing his fortune threatened by the revolution of 1849, he hit upon the following stratagem: - I am quite willing to admit, said he, that my fortune has been accumulated at the expense of others, but if it were divided among the millions of Europe to-morrow the share of each would only amount to five schillings if he asks me for it. Having given due publicity to his promise, our millionaire proceeded as usual to stroll quietly through the streets of Frankfort. Three or four passers-by asked for their five schillings, which he disbursed with a sardonic smile. His stratagem succeeded and the family of the millionaire is still in possession of its wealth. It is in much the same fashion that the shrewd heads among the middle classes reason when they say Ah, expropriation, I know what that means. You take all of the top coats and lay them in a heap, and every one is free to help himself and fight for the best. But such jests are irrelevant as well as flippant. What we want is not a redistribution of top-coats. Besides it is likely that in such a general scramble the shivering folk would come off any better? Nor do we want to divide up the wealth of the Rothchilds. What we do want is so to arrange things that every human being born into the world shall be ensured the opportunity in the first instance of learning some useful occupation, and of becoming skilled in it; next, that he shall be free to work at his trade without asking leave of master or owner, and without handing over to landlord or capitalists the lions share of what he produces. As to the wealth held by the Rothchilds or the Vanderbilts, it will serve us to organize our system of communal production. The day when the laborer may till the ground without paying away half of what he produces, the day when the machines necessary to prepare the soil for rich harvests are at the free disposal of the cultivators, the day when the worker in the factory produces for the community and not for the monopolist-that day will see the workers clothed and fed; and there will be no more Rothchilds or other exploiters.
BBC News, Kabul Karzai's speech contained all the key phrases: corruption, national reconciliation and unity, and security. The international community has demanded the Afghan leader do more to tackle rampant corruption. Mr Karzai said he would host a conference on the issue in the coming months. He promised to take a tougher line and sack officials found to be corrupt. There would be close scrutiny of the individuals he appoints to his cabinet. But perhaps most significant was his call for Afghan security forces to take over control in five years. The US and other allies want Afghans to take the lead (as do the Afghans). While the Afghan army is improving, some experts say it will need continued support for decades to come in areas where the insurgency is at its strongest. But the intention is there - and that will be important in Washington and European capitals. The allies need to tell increasingly sceptical publics this is not a war without end. Promise of a 'new season' The international airport was closed, a holiday was called and people were advised to stay indoors as part of the security lockdown. Dignitaries from about 40 countries were attending the ceremony, including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband. The international community - including the US and Nato - congratulated Mr Karzai on his inauguration, but warned that results were needed on tackling corruption and improving security. In his speech, Mr Karzai said the strength of Afghan security forces had to be bolstered and the role of international forces reduced. He said: "We hope that the Afghan forces will lead the task of security and stability throughout the country in the coming five years." Mr Karzai addressed corruption, saying that good governance came from good management and that he would take care to ensure his ministers were "competent and just". He said corruption was a "dangerous problem", adding: "We will soon organise a conference in Kabul to organise new and effective ways to combat this problem." He added: "We have to learn from our mistakes and shortcomings of the last eight years." Mr Karzai also called for a loya jirga - or national gathering - to help bring peace. He invited his main defeated rival Abdullah Abdullah to work with him "for the prosperity of Afghanistan".
The Midianite parents would have been legally/ethically responsible for this situation falling upon their children—NOT the Israelites; This situation was forced upon the Israelites by the unprovoked treachery of the Midianites; No ANE land-based and/or blood-succession-based civilization had means for assimilating foreign males into them, except as severely constrained/debilitated slaves (e.g., “prisoners were often blinded en masse. When brought to their captors’ land, they could still perform certain tasks, such as carrying water from a well or canal with a bucket and a rope” [ OT:DLAM: 237]); All ANE civilizations recognized the military threat/risk that male slaves (even children) of foreign stock represented. Even the case in which David ‘served’ the Philistines, the Philistine leaders were sensitive to the issue—that David might ‘turn on his Philistine masters’ in the heat of battle (1 Sam 29); There were no ‘social relief’ institutions in this world [only the largest of empires could afford to take in destitute women and children as temple ‘personnel’—see OT:CANE: 445], and the land in which this event occurred was depopulated . (“Those who were able to flee from their conquerors often died of exposure, starvation, or thirst” [ OT:DLAM: 237]) propensity of pastoral nomads for raids , or razzias , both against one another and against sedentists is well attested in the near eastern historical record.” [ There would be no practical way to transport these boys to their ‘next of kin’ down south, and there was no guarantee that they would take them in anyway. Even the Kenites, generally loyal to Israel, were divided in policy, as Heber the Kenite’s alliance with Syria in Judges indicates. “The, or, bothand against sedentists isin the near eastern historical record.” [ OT:CANE: 251] (similar to ‘euthanasia’, perhaps, which was also considered the ‘most humane’ way of doing this, according to ANE testimony—see the discussion/documentation in the case of the Amalekites, at rbutcher1.html ) As in the case of the Amalekites, Israel was forced--by the Midianite atrocity--into the difficult situation of selecting the ‘most humane way’ of dealing with the boys, which, in most situations in the ancient world, was killing them very quickly(similar to ‘euthanasia’, perhaps, which was also considered the ‘most humane’ way of doing this, according to ANE testimony—see the discussion/documentation in the case of the Amalekites, at
It is this which recovers My guts the strings of my eyes and the indigestible portions Which the leopards reject. The Lady is withdrawn In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown. Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness. There is no life in them. As I am forgotten And would be forgotten, so I would forget Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. And God said Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen. And the bones sang chirping With the burden of the grasshopper, saying Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends. Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shining We are glad to be scattered, we did little good to each other, Under a tree in the cool of day, with the blessing of sand, Forgetting themselves and each other, united In the quiet of the desert. This is the land which ye Shall divide by lot. And neither division nor unity Matters. This is the land. We have our inheritance. III At the first turning of the second stair I turned and saw below The same shape twisted on the banister Under the vapour in the fetid air Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears The deceitul face of hope and of despair. At the second turning of the second stair I left them twisting, turning below; There were no more faces and the stair was dark, Damp, jaggèd, like an old man’s mouth drivelling, beyond repair, Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark. At the first turning of the third stair Was a slotted window bellied like the figs’s fruit And beyond the hawthorn blossom and a pasture scene The broadbacked figure drest in blue and green Enchanted the maytime with an antique flute. Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown, Lilac and brown hair; Distraction, music of the flute, stops and steps of the mind over the third stair, Fading, fading; strength beyond hope and despair Climbing the third stair.
I responded by telling her that the Middle East has hated America way before George Bush, and I began giving her some historical facts such as the bombing of the USS Cole, Khobar Barracks and the World Trade Center in 1993. She angrily snapped at me and said, “I know my foreign policy!” I then sarcastically responded, “Then why don’t you try to become the next U.S. Secretary of State.” She then turned and walked away. It was obvious that she did not expect a black woman to know any historical facts. Another incident occurred in Manhattan one afternoon while I was sitting on a bench eating a hot dog. A white lady came and sat by me and asked me who I was voting for in the upcoming election. When I told her that I was voting for John McCain, her smile quickly turned into a frown. She then began to tell me how black people needed Democrats to help them and that Republicans did not care anything about them. She said that I was lucky that I had a good job (in a condescending voice), but others blacks are not so lucky. I told her that all anyone needed was jobs and education. That really made her angry! She then sarcastically said, “Well why don’t we just line them all up an exterminate them,” and she got up and walked away. I was standing in front of a Richard Nixon exhibit at The City Museum of New York when a young white man walked up and stood next to me. We started discussing President Nixon’s history and I could tell that he was shocked that I knew so much history. He started asking me about the upcoming election and for whom I was voting. I told him that I was a Republican and that I was voting for John McCain. He wanted to know why I (a black female) would not support candidate Obama. I told him that for one, I disagreed with his position on abortion. He told me to my face that abortion was a good thing because he used to be an inner city school teacher (he had since quit) and that we needed to abort as many of them as possible. I was exiting the subway carrying the book The Conservative Mind by Edmund Burke.
I ask Lewis if he was alleging that Woodland had been killed to shut him up. There is a long pause. “I don’t have any doubt that that was the reason for him being murdered,” he says. “Why would somebody murder a bloke like that, or any person like that, that’s harmless?” But gay men get bashed at beats all the time, I point out. Lewis pauses again: “It’s well documented and not only in the case of Robert Woodland, but in many other such instances, they’re bashed to shut’em up, and if that doesn’t shut’em up, then bash ’em a bit harder and they won’t ever be able to stand up, let alone walk up, and talk up, again.” As part of the investigation into Robert Woodland’s murder, police went looking for another one of the guys who’d made the same allegations of paedophilia to Lewis, Shaine Moore. In February 2005, the police knocked on his door, went into his house, had a look around but couldn’t find him. Friends reported Moore missing. It wasn’t until 10 days after he was last seen that a forensic team was sent to examine Moore’s bedroom and the truth was revealed. Shaine Moore was lying under his doona, bulked up with pillows, with a red line around his throat where he’d been strangled with a shoelace. This death had an even greater impact on the team, says researcher Wendy Utting. “Our reaction was more so utter disbelief when Shaine was found ... It became rather surreal at the time. And even then, I don’t think any of us were in there saying this is definitely connected. We did not know.” Another of Lewis’s informants, Craig Ratcliff, leaked the story of the link between the two deaths to the media and the frenzy was on. The police were surprisingly quick to publicly dismiss the paedophilia allegations, especially considering that they hadn’t even seen the information that Lewis and his team had gathered.
If some radicals may be slow to associate so-called quality-of-life-assurance and service-provisioning by the State with pacification, with the defeat of social struggles which may have had more ambitious elements [ed. – see Return Fire vol.1 pg48], the powers that be with their police and military certainly are not, and see the above as a vital tool in their 'weeding and seeding' approach. To this end they find a ready partner in the non-governmental organisation (NGO) sphere, as some of the many institutions which can be weaponised. “The Rand study Networks and Netwars outlines "a range of possibilities" for the military's use of international nonprofits: “from encouraging the early involvement of appropriate NGO networks in helping to detect and head off a looming crisis, to working closely with them in the aftermath of conflicts to improve the effectiveness of U.S. forces still deployed, to reduce the residual hazards they face, and to strengthen the often fragile peace.” One result of this perspective is that aid money, and thus NGO attention, increasingly follows the state's priorities – and its military's priorities in particular. For instance, in 2010 the U.S. awarded $114 million to aid groups working in Yemen, with the stated goal of "improving the livelihood of citizens in targeted communities and improving governance capabilities". This supposedly humanitarian assistance came alongside $1.2 billion in military aid, clandestine military and intelligence activity, and a CIA assessment that the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen represents the largest threat to United States' global security. Meanwhile, the Defense Department now controls 20% of the U.S. government's budget for Official Development Assistance. "[D]evelopment priorities follow the battle space," David Rieff writes in The New Republic. "[D]evelopment is a continuation of war by other means" ” (Kristian Williams).
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 3.04 KB Initial commit after converting project to SQLAlchemy and Pyramid I'm not happy about this but ultimately django's lack of support for custom database schemas had caused too serious problems for it to be worth the effort. Django is clearly not made to be able to comfortably interact with a mildly complicated preexisting relational database. Django's ORM is little more than an object persistence layer that looks at the relational database backend as an implementation detail. Composite primary keys are plain not supported at all. Certain structure is expected and anything else is badly supported. Many-to-many relationships that are not implemented like the ORM expects are hard. Each object represents exactly one row in one table and it is not supported to deviate from that. These and many other issues have cost a lot of time and productivity. It was my conclusion that django's ORM had to be replaced with SQLAlchemy. Much of django, including: the authentication framework flatpages and the other "batteries included" the admin interface most reusable apps are tightly coupled to the django ORM and thus we would lose those if we tried to replace it with SQLAlchemy. Additionally, there is little published experience on using django with SQLAlchemy so that option might be full of surprises. Django's admin interface also proved too inflexible for the data, most notably due to inlines not being nestable and inlines are required for basic things like a (normalized, thus using a table for itself) list of names inside a model. Thus facing inability to use almost all of django's good features and having to convert the whole project anyway, I decided to leave django out of it for good. I picked pyramid to fill it's place due to it being perhaps the biggest and best supported project to use with SQLAlchemy and having roots in repoze and Zope, it is well structured for the kind of flowing organization data where the data is more important than the application. The new template system is jinja2 which is basically a better designed almost-compatable version of django's templating system and most our templates work with minimal modifications and the cost of that part of the conversion is practically zero. Dispatch was also chosen instead of traversal even though traversal might suit this project better due to dispatch being almost a drop-in replacement for django's url configuration and traversal requiring major architectural changes.
We just return again and again to the present, and as we retain the basic practice of uncontrived naturalness, whatever arises we don’t interfere, we don’t block, we don’t develop, we let it come and go. Every thought is, as is said in the Dorje Chang Thungma prayer, its nature is newness; we that confidence, we do not need to do anything to the thoughts. If we can practice like that then gradually the stillness comes back, the gap between thoughts comes back again and again and, as it does, we realize that the moving thoughts are not so disturbing anymore. Even when the mind is moving, there is the beginning of a feeling of relaxedness, a kind of unhurriedness, a kind of non-agitation. In other words, it is not just when our mind is still that it is peaceful, but even when the mind is moving; the movement does not agitate us anymore, it does not have the power to disturb us so much anymore. This is how shine is beginning to develop.
To do this, we used the 220 samples from the healthy Malawian twin cohort to generate two RF-based models. One regressed the 30 most weight gain–discriminatory OTUs shown in Fig. 2D against WHZ; the other regressed the 30 most lean mass gain–discriminatory taxa described in fig. S2 against this metric. We then evaluated how well the models were able to predict WHZ scores in the 259 members of the iLiNS-DYAD-M cohort across all time points surveyed (6, 12, and 18 months old for each individual). During this brief 12-month window, there were significant and positive correlations between predicted and observed WHZ using either the weight gain– or lean mass gain–discriminatory taxa (weight gain–discriminatory model, ρ = 0.12 and P < 0.0008; lean mass gain–discriminatory model, ρ = 0.11 and P < 0.002; P < 0.0001 for both models in a permutation test with 999 permutations). In both models, B. longum was the most discriminatory taxon, with F. prausnitzii OTUs following as the second or third most discriminatory in the weight gain and lean mass gain models, respectively (fig. S10). The increasing ability to assemble the genomes of bacterial strains from shotgun sequencing of fecal community DNA (20) should allow these types of analyses to be further developed in Malawian and other populations that are surveyed longitudinally at frequent intervals over extended periods of time. This approach would also provide direct information about the representation of the strains that we cultured and subsequently characterized in our preclinical model.
Can they see? No, worms dont have eyes. However, they must have some kind of light sensor. They are very sensitive to bright light. They will try to hide as soon as exposed. Its odd that anglers use a flashlight to catch night crawlers, since they retract in their burrows if you shine lights on them. Worms are less sensitive to red light. You can observe worms with red light. Placing a red cellophane between the light source and the worm box allows you to watch the worms. Where is the mouth? The worms mouth is in the first anterior segment. There is a small protruding lip just over the mouth, called prostomium. When the worm is foraging, this lip is stretching out. The prostomium is for sensing food. Do they have teeth? Worms have no teeth for chewing food. They grind food in their gizzard by muscle action How do they grind food? Worms can only take small particles in their small mouths. Microorganisms soften the food before worms will eat it. Worms have a muscular gizzard. Small parts of food mixed with some grinding material such as sand, topsoil or limestone is ingested. The contractions from the muscles in the gizzard compress those particles against each other, mix it with fluid, and grind it to smaller pieces. What happens to food once it leaves the gizzard? The ground up food is mixed with enzymes in the worms intestine. This mixture breaks down the food, molecules pass through the intestine wall into the bloodstream for use where needed. Undigested material, including sand soil, bacterial and plant residues passes out of the worm as a worm casting. If a worm is cut in to, will it grow back? It depends on where the cut took place. If a worm is cut at the posterior end, sometimes a new tail will grow back on. Sometimes a second tail will appear next to a damaged tail. However, the posterior half of the worm cant grow a new anterior (head.) Do worms die in the box? Its hard to find dead worms in a worm box, but they do die in the box. Dead worm bodies decompose very quickly, because their bodies are between 75%-90% water. If you find many dead worms you should find out the cause. High heat (above 84 degrees) is fatal to them. Too much salt or acidic food waste can kill them.
We here used the Greyson NDE scale (Greyson, 1983) to retrospectively assess the characteristics of 190 self-reported NDEs precipitated by a non-life threatening event or coma. The Greyson NDE scale is a widely used and validated tool to assess the intensity and content of NDEs (Greyson, 1990, 2003a,b; Parnia et al., 2001; Schwaninger et al., 2002; Nelson et al., 2006; Lai et al., 2007; Klemenc-Ketis et al., 2010; Hoepner et al., 2013; Hou et al., 2013) and, in contrast to the Weighted Core Experience Index (WCEI; Ring, 1980), provides a cut-off score permitting a standardized identification of NDE experiencers (NDErs). As for other retrospective studies on NDEs (Greyson, 1990; Lai et al., 2007), the interval between the age at study enrollment (mean age 56 ± 13 year) and the occurrence of the NDE (mean age 32 ± 15 year) was several decades (mean 24 ± 15 year). Our study sample did not show a significantly higher proportion of female NDErs. In the “real NDE” coma-survival group, the most frequently reported features (i.e., occurring >75%) include the feeling of peacefulness, out-of-body-experiences, seeing a bright light, alerted time perception. Conversely, precognitive visions (e.g., seeing the future) and the experience of life review were among the least frequently reported core features (i.e., occurring <30%). These results corroborate previous reports on NDE studies using the Greyson NDE scale (Greyson, 1990, 2003a; Parnia et al., 2001; Schwaninger et al., 2002; Nelson et al., 2006; Lai et al., 2007) or the WCEI (van Lommel et al., 2001). According to the etiology of coma, a recent prospective study reporting interview transcripts of post-traumatic coma survivors with a NDE revealed that the most frequently reported elements were the sight of an intense light, feelings of astonishment, pleasure and sense of helplessness (Hou et al., 2013). Although the well-being component is one of the most often reported features in classical NDEs, it is important to note that distressing or hellish experiences can also occur. In line with previous estimations (Lindley et al., 1981; Gallup and Proctor, 1982; Sabom, 1982; Ring, 1984), we recorded an incidence of 1.4% (2/140) of our “real NDE” group that reported to have had a negative NDE.
I’m confident that I’ve put in the most hours and effort, and I feel like it’s a nice reward after all that hard work.A: I never really played in Proleague; I don’t know what it’s like to play for a Proleague team. Prior to this, all the fans, everybody in this industry, saw those players on KeSPA teams as having stable jobs, a much better environment for practicing, whereas I was never really given that opportunity. For the past two years, I’ve been playing from home, practicing by myself, and I was able to get this far. Now I’m comfortable with it. I don’t feel that having a team or a stable environment necessarily gives you an advantage. It might for others, but for me, I’ve never experienced it and I’ve been able to come this far, so I don’t really think I need it. I give my sincere good luck to all those guys there. Now you’re going to be coming out of that shell, you’re going to be alone without a team, your future will look very dark [Note: Interpreter confirms at this point that this was not an intentional pun]. It’s going to be tough, but you’re going to have to carry it out.A: I was really hoping that they would announce the schedule for WCS 2017 at BlizzCon, so I’m a little disappointed that the news didn’t come out here, but obviously I’ll hear about it soon enough. Regardless of what the schedule is, I’ll stay in Korea. Hey, I won in Korea—there’s no need for me to move somewhere else.A: When I got here, I felt like the Round of 8 was by far my toughest match. I was about to go up against TY, who’s known for great TvT and is a great player overall. When I got here though, luckily INnoVation was here. Although he wasn’t here for BlizzCon itself, he was here to play in SHOUTcraft. He was sitting right beside me, so I peeked over and I asked him, “Hey, can you give me a hand in practicing for this matchup?”. Surprisingly, he said yes. He really helped me through, one by one, so I thank him a lot for that. Also, even though it was super late in Korea, people like Maru helped me out a lot.
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And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail. This great community of nations has something else in common: In every one of them, it is the people, not the powerful, who have always formed the foundation of freedom and the cornerstone of our defense. The people have been that foundation here in Poland — as they were right here in Warsaw — and they were the foundation from the very, very beginning in America. Our citizens did not win freedom together, did not survive horrors together, did not face down evil together, only to lose our freedom to a lack of pride and confidence in our values. We did not and we will not. We will never back down.
Endangered Sponges Of the over 8500 sponge species in the World Porifera Database, 20 are listed as endangered or threatened and all are from the temperate northern Atlantic and Mediterranean and are marine species. There are no sponges on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List (accessed January 2014). Cliona patera (also known as Poterion neptuni) is the only sponge thought to have become extinct in the early 1900s as a result of overfishing in the Indo‐Malay Archipelago (Dawydoff 1952); however, individuals were rediscovered about 30 years ago and continue to be captured in northern Australia as fisheries efforts move into new grounds (e.g., Gulf of Carpentaria and Arafura Sea) (J. Hooper, personal communication). In the Mediterranean, Templado et al. (2004) recognized Geodia cydonium aegagropila, Tethya aurantium, Axinella polypoides, Ircinia pipetta, and Aplysina cavernicola as being protected by legislation and Spongia (Spongia) agaricina and S. officinalis as being under regulated harvest as a result of earlier overexploitation. Barea‐Azcón et al. (2008) also recognized the same species as being threatened along with Calyx nicaeensis in Andalusian waters. These authors also expressed concern for the status of Aplysina aerophoba, C. nicaeensis, Petrosia ficiformis, and Scopalina lophyropoda. In Northern Ireland, 13 sponge species are priority conservation species (see Supporting Information for details), although little is known of their ecology, and their inclusion on threatened species lists is primarily based on their apparent restricted distribution ranges. Given that so little is known about most of the described sponge species, care should be taken in the interpretation of the low numbers of threatened species because most are data deficient with respect to endangered status assessment. Even though the list of protected individual sponge species is small, the conservation importance of entire sponge assemblages has been recognized in some countries. For example, in United Kingdom waters “fragile sponge and anthozoan communities” and ”deep‐sea sponge communities” are recognized as Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Habitats and afforded protection under the Habitats Directive (www.jncc.gov.uk). Deep sea sponge assemblages have also recently been highlighted as globally important and in need of conservation by Hogg et al. (2010). Despite this, there are currently no marine protected areas (MPAs) specifically designated to protect sponges, although efforts are underway to create an MPA to protect the glass sponge reefs of Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada).
HRC took three or four q's. Sounds like it went well. Hopefully we will see soon on msnbc or cnn. Varun will transcribe. Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fallon <[email protected]> wrote: They concede the pt and will fix On Friday, May 22, 2015, Jennifer Palmieri <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian - I think we should push back. It is not "document" not > "documents." > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 22, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Tyson Brody <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > > Should someone push back on politico with regards to "now classified > documents?" It's 23 words out of one single email. > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Josh Schwerin < > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> First batch of Hillary's State Department emails released >> >> By LAUREN FRENCH, JOSH GERSTEIN and BRYAN BENDER >> >> 5/22/15 12:13 PM EDT >> >> http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clinton-emails-release-118214.html >> >> The first batch of emails >> <http://foia.state.gov/Search/results.aspx?searchText=*&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=20150522&publishedEndDate=20150522&caseNumber> from >> Hillary Clinton’s four years running the State Department was released >> Friday. >> >> Even before the emails were made public, the State Department argued that >> the nearly 900 pages of documents do not fundamentally alter the findings >> of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board that probed the >> Benghazi terrorist attacks. >> >> >> “The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our >> understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks, which >> have been known since the independent Accountability Review Board report on >> the Benghazi attacks was released almost two and a half years ago,” wrote >> the department’s deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf. >> >> These highly anticipated emails, some of which have already leaked out, >> give insight into Clinton’s tenure as the top U.S. diplomat. They’re also >> serving as fodder for critics of the Democratic presidential front-runner, >> who is still dogged by questions about a 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi >> that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens. >> >> >> And they are sure to raise more questions about the administration’s and >> Clinton’s response to what quickly became a political scandal.
How Chelsea’s summer signings have fared so far 6 show all How Chelsea’s summer signings have fared so far 1/6 Cesc Fabregas: A Eight assists already and transformed Chelsea's attacking play. Formed a great understanding with Costa, his experience in the dressing room has helped fill void left by Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole's departures. Chelsea are more entertaining to watch with the Spaniard in the side, and he is already staking a claim for signing of the summer. GETTY 2/6 Mario Pasalic: N/A Early days for the 19-year-old on loan at la Liga club elche and has yet to make a major impact. Chelsea will be pleased he has made five appearances so far, three of which from the bench, although the most notable contribution was when he fouled Cristiano Ronaldo to give away a penalty in 5-1 defeat to Real Madrid last month. Still has a lot of potential and earned his first cap with Croatia against Cyprus in September. @chelseafc 3/6 Diego Costa: A Nine goals in seven league games says it all. Top scorer in the pl and is everything Torres wasn't, hungry, deadly in front of goal, full of effort and work rate for the team. Runs superbly off the ball, defenders don't know where he is. Been coping with hamstring problems too which raises the scary prospect he can get even better. Getty 4/6 Filipe Luis: B Has been restricted to a support role so far due to form of Ivanovic and Azpilicueta, but is beginning to apply pressure for a regular first team place. Has started to look fitter and sharper and noticeably started both of Chelsea's Champions League group games so far. Has a great work rate and looks a great weapon to attack too, with superb crossing ability with his left foot. 5/6 Didier Drogba: C It has been a dream return for the Chelsea legend so far. A nagging ankle injury has restricted his appearances, while at 36, there are question marks whether he can be the player he once was. He has yet to add to his 157 goal tally accrued between 2004-12, but can claim an assist in Costa's fine start as he has been working closely with him. Drogba is also enjoying an inspirational role to the younger players in dressing room.
A WOC, with a kid, taken captive? Too many echoes there. It's not like black women have ever been taken captive before in this culture. Pat Tilman was killed by his own men, and coincidentally, a huge liberal who'd had disagreements with fellow soldiers before. It's a tragedy—but is it deliberate? When you look at the information the military suppresses, it's not merely fear of exposure that they're afraid of. In case after case, the investigators go to some effort to suppress, deny, and cover up. This is not the Army way of doing things, this is not what they tell you to do in Basic, what you look up to when you find yourself with military bosses who look out for you before you even know there's a problem.This is a betrayal of everything everyone who loves the military loves most.If the military were eager to avoid shame and repercussions, here's the way to do it. Announce what happened, punish the wrong doer severely, and care for the victim. Investigate fully and openly. Make sure the changes take. If you want an honorable military and stand-up soldiers, that's what you do.However, this is a new military. It's still all-volunteer, but it's been run into the ground by two wars, and it's hurting for bodies. The military needs women to fill gaps, and even so they're still accepting recruits with criminal records. Add to that the unreconstructed sexism of our culture, which is intensified in a macho, nearly all-male environment, and you have a recipe for rape and harassment, and, yes, even murder.Maybe especially murder, because these guys have sat through the same briefings I have, where rape accusations are discussed as if 15% of the soldiers—the women—were committing fully 50% of the assaults, and where lots of time is devoted to false accusations and those lying whores who make them. The military briefing urges 'people' to avoid alcohol, but it states that 52% of rapes 'happen' when alcohol is a. 48% is nothing to sneeze at—it's well within the margin for error—but that brings up the specter of the cold, calculating sober rapist, while everyone knows that soldiers drink and hahaha you should just keep to your barracks room if you don't want trouble. When soldiers (men, that is) drink, they just get a little excited.
The affinity-group program at Fieldston is a way of forcing the issue. It requires children, at a tender age, to break ranks with the unexamined silences of their parents and to speak, as the school says, “with their voices” — about the fact that they have a race, that they think and talk about race in a particular way, that they have questions that merit answers. The first step is a kind of enlightened segregation — separating the children to create safe spaces in which, at 8, 9, and 10, motivated by their natural curiosity yet unfettered by the social sorting that goes on in middle school, they are able to engage with these issues. These conversations are very different from learning about race in, say, a social-studies class. Even when studying civil rights, “it was never how you feel about race,” says an 11-year-old girl in one of the white groups at Ethical. In academic classes, “it’s easy to separate what’s right and wrong, what’s good and bad. But in real life there isn’t that definition. In real life, there’s a lot of gray area … I’ve always felt really conscious about what to say about race. It’s often a subject that’s sort of controversial — touchy isn’t the right word. And people can take offense even when it’s not meant that way.” In the white group, she says, she can talk about the assumptions she sometimes makes about other people without worrying she’s hurting anyone’s feelings. “The truth isn’t always this wonderful thing. Sometimes it’s hard to realize, and hard to understand. It’s nice to have a group of people who can comprehend what I’m saying.” George Burns likes to compare the program to sex education. If you teach children the clinical terms early and divide them into same-gender groups to enable frank talk, then by the time they’re ready to explore sex for real, they’ll have words for what they do and don’t want to do, causing minimal damage to their self-esteem.
WOW ! Large WW2 Battle-Damaged German PIONIER 655 Brücken-Bau-Bataillon Kubelwagen or Sd.Kfz. Armored Vehicle Panel Shield with TACTICAL SYMBOL and UNIT DESIGNATION - ( Recovered from STALINGRAD ) Unique Stalingrad Bunker Find ! An original Armor Side Panel Plate Shield from a blown apart armored vehicle painted with the bridge construction pionier battalion symbol with unit markings. The 655 pionier battalion was destroyed and encircled in Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it is often regarded as one of the single largest (nearly 2.2 million personnel) and bloodiest (1.7–2 million killed, wounded or captured) battles in the history of warfare. It was an extremely costly defeat for German forces, and the Army High Command had to withdraw vast military forces from the West to replace their losses.The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The fighting degenerated into house-to-house fighting; both sides poured reinforcements into the city. By mid-November 1942, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones along the west bank of the Volga River. On 19 November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the weaker Romanian and Hungarian armies protecting the German 6th Army's flanks. The Axis forces on the flanks were overrun and the 6th Army was cut off and surrounded in the Stalingrad area. Adolf Hitler ordered that the army stay in Stalingrad and make no attempt to break out; instead, attempts were made to supply the army by air and to break the encirclement from the outside. Heavy fighting continued for another two months. By the beginning of February 1943, the Axis forces in Stalingrad had exhausted their ammunition and food. The remaining units of the 6th Army surrendered.The battle lasted five months, one week and three days. HOLD
Americans were stunned to learn of the State Department rogue Shadow Government which operated in secret from the 7th floor. They were behind the corrupt handling of the Clinton documents.announced thatPolicy will be controlled by the White House, not professional diplomats, CBS stated.CBS bemoans the loss of the shadow government's policy-making expertise.In October of last year, aUndersecretary Patrick Kennedy even offered the FBI a quid pro quo for changing the classification of the Clinton emails.Kennedy asked assistance in altering the email's classification in exchange for a 'quid pro quo,' " an FBI summary says. "In exchange for marking the email unclassified, State would reciprocate by allowing the FBI to place more agents in countries where they were presently forbidden. "It gets worse.Former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell told the House Select Committee on Benghazi that Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to "separate" damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya,When he got to the room, he faced boxes of documents and a State Department office director whom Maxwell described as close to Clinton's top advisers. "She told me, 'Ray, we are to go through these stacks and pull out anything that might put anybody in the [Near Eastern Affairs] front office,'" says Maxwell. "I asked her, 'But isn't that unethical?' She responded, 'Ray, those are our orders.' "Two other high-ranking State Department officials and confidants of Clinton's entered and stayed for a brief time.One was Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff and a former White House counsel who defended President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial. The other, Chaffetz said, was Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan, who previously worked on Hillary Clinton's and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns.
AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) Victims wait to be evacuated during the annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill at Biola University in La Mirada on October 16, 2014. About 10.3 million Californian's registered to take part in the annual drill that asks participants to 'drop'' to the ground, take 'cover'' under a desk, table or other sturdy surface, and 'hold on'' for 60 seconds, as if a major earthquake were occurring. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) Victims are evacuated during the annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill at Biola University in La Mirada on October 16, 2014. About 10.3 million Californian's registered to take part in the annual drill that asks participants to 'drop'' to the ground, take 'cover'' under a desk, table or other sturdy surface, and 'hold on'' for 60 seconds, as if a major earthquake were occurring. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) Victims are evacuated during the annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill at Biola University in La Mirada on October 16, 2014. About 10.3 million Californian's registered to take part in the annual drill that asks participants to 'drop'' to the ground, take 'cover'' under a desk, table or other sturdy surface, and 'hold on'' for 60 seconds, as if a major earthquake were occurring. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) Victims wait for treatment during the annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill at Biola University in La Mirada on October 16, 2014. About 10.3 million Californian's registered to take part in the annual drill that asks participants to 'drop'' to the ground, take 'cover'' under a desk, table or other sturdy surface, and 'hold on'' for 60 seconds, as if a major earthquake were occurring. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) Students Michelle Acosta (L) and Jenna Golden (R) endure a simulated earthquake in the Ready America 'Big Shaker'' during the annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill at Biola University in La Mirada on October 16, 2014. About 10.3 million Californian's registered to take part in the annual drill that asks participants to 'drop'' to the ground, take 'cover'' under a desk, table or other sturdy surface, and 'hold on'' for 60 seconds, as if a major earthquake were occurring.
'Covert deal' Sometimes it is important not to ask the "March 2003 question" but the "2010 question", said Mr Blair, arguing that if Saddam had been left in power the UK and its allies would have "lost our nerve" to act. Anti-war protesters were out in force near the Chilcot inquiry building He also stressed the importance of taking a "tough line" with Iran, accusing the country of colluding with al-Qeada to destabilise Iraq in the aftermath of the invasion, rejecting claims the UK had taken a "cavalier" attitude to post-war planning. Earlier witnesses to the inquiry have suggested he told Mr Bush at their April 2002 meeting at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, that the UK would join the Americans in a war with Iraq. But Mr Blair denied striking a "covert" deal with the US President, saying he had been "open" about what he had told Mr Bush in private that "we are going to be with you in confronting and dealing with this threat". Pressed on what he thought Mr Bush took from the meeting, he went further, saying: "I think what he took from that was exactly what he should have taken, which was if it came to military action because there was no way of dealing with this diplomatically, we would be with him." But he also confirmed that a year later, on the eve of war, the Americans had offered Britain a "way out" of military action, which he had turned down. ANALYSIS Peter Biles, BBC World Affairs correspondent: Tony Blair adopted an almost evangelical tone as he mounted a robust defence of his decision to take Britain to war in Iraq. He remains a "true believer". There was barely a hint of contrition or regret, in spite of the fact that bereaved families who lost loved ones in Iraq, were among those sitting behind him in the public gallery. As Sir John Chilcot concluded the session, the chairman appeared to try to elicit a response from Mr Blair that might go some way to ease the anguish and anger felt by the families. Mr Blair did not take up the opportunity. Although he did say he was sorry about the war proving divisive he did not refer directly to the loss of Britons in Iraq.
Chief among them that—and I mean this without irony—she seemed quote sincere in a way that may in fact have been smug naïveté but was powerful and very attractive in the context of listening to her encounter with the psychopath, in that I found it helped me focus almost entirely on the anecdote itself and thus helped me imagine in an almost terrifyingly vividly realistic way what it must have felt like for her, for anyone, finding yourself by nothing but coincidence heading into a secluded woody area in the company of a dark man in a dungaree vest who says he is your own death incarnate and who is alternately smiling with psychotic cheer and ranting and apparently gets his first wave of jollies by singing creepily about the various sharp implements he has in the Cutlass’s trunk and detailing what he’s used them to do to others and plans in exquisite detail to do to you. It was tribute to the—her odd affectless sincerity that I found myself hearing expressions like fear gripping her soul, unquote, less as televisual clichés or melodrama but as sincere if not particularly artful attempts to describe what it must have felt like, the feelings of shock and unreality alternating with waves of pure terror, the sheer emotional violence of this magnitude of fear, the temptation to retreat into catatonia or shock or the delusion—yield to the seduction of the idea, riding deeper into the secluded area, that there simply must be some sort of mistake, that something as simple and random as getting into a 1987 maroon Cutlass with a bad muffler that just happened to be the first car to pull over to the side of a random interstate could not possibly result in the death not of some other person but your own personal death at the hands of someone whose reasons have nothing to do with you or the qualities of your character, as if everything you’d ever been told about the relation between character and intention and outcome has been a fiction from start to—
Mvp: I didn't see it then either, but now I understand that one should really listen to their parents when one is younger. Translated from http://s.163.com/12/0909/17/8AVPQKV500314D0E.html and http://s.163.com/12/0909/17/8AVPQKV500314D0E_2.html (Chinese)Original article at http://sports.news.nate.com/view/20120831n10872?mid=s1201 (Korean)[T/N: I wasn't able to translate the entire opening segment of the article because the Chinese translation gave a weird summary of it haha. But the interview is there in its entirety, subject to translation skillsEdit: Haha I changed the name of the interview to reflect her real name. She's a stargirl, and her name is Seo Yeon Ji. Just felt a bit bad to just label her as "stargirl" since there're quite a few of themMvp: I never made it to the actual OSL when I was at Woongjin, so it's the first time I'm seeing you too (laughs). When I heard you were coming to interview me today, I was really looking forward to it. You're beautiful indeed.Mvp: When I was in Woongjin, the players would talk about you after they came back from OSL. They'd talk about how pretty Stargirl is (laughs). I guess they'd probably be quite jealous that I got interviewed by you.Mvp: What if it doesn't go as you hope, and there're no new topics to talk about (laughs). But either way, it is an honour to be the first amongst the GSL players to be interviewed. I guess I've already succeeded (laughs).Mvp: I'm really glad that there are people who think of me like that. Whenever I think of it, I feel like it was a right decision to go into gaming.Mvp: I'm not a genius (laughs). I really liked playing games, and not just Starcraft 1, but all the different games. I wanted to try all the games that were released.I guess I first came into contact with Starcraft 1 when I was in the sixth grade of elementary school. I played about 2 games with a friend and found it really fun and interesting. After that, when I was in middle school, I bought the CD for Starcraft 1 and I was able to play it at home too. I would play until I'd forget the time. It was really fun.When I went head to head against my friends, it was quite clear that I was better than them (laughs). But I don't think I'm really a genius. I just adapt to games better and have a better understanding.
The one part of the fingerprint sensor experience that's faded on me is having it positioned on the front of the phone in the home button, which I've decided is a second-choice location after using the Nexus 6P for a few months (and of course the Nexus 5X and Honor 5X). While the layout takes out two birds with one stone, it can often be awkward to reposition your hand to get a proper read on the sensor. Battery life Some will never be happy about the fact that Samsung dropped the removable battery from the Note line with this fifth generation, but from day one I've had no issue with battery life on the phone. The Note 5 is continually capable of a full day's use even when I'm pushing things hard, but I have noticed over time that it seems to drain pretty consistently no matter what I'm actually doing with it throughout the day. Whether I had a hard day on the phone with lots of cellular data use, screen-on time and app switching or I've had a more casual day at home on Wi-Fi, the battery life is roughly the same. Functionally the fingerprint sensor is solid — I just haven't enjoyed the placement as much Whether it's just how Samsung's system is set up or me being generally spoiled by the battery-saving prowess of Marshmallow's Doze on the Nexus 6P, I'm bothered by the standby battery drain I experience on the Note 5. The fact that it's not considerable enough to have a meaningful depletion of the 3000 mAh battery through the course of the day is important, but I wish that when I set down the Note 5 for an hour it didn't continue to drain the battery at a rate more consistent with regularly using it. Of course the wireless charging and fast charging are still welcomed additions here for those days where I need extra juice — particularly when traveling — and I still don't have any issue with the lack of a removable battery. The bottom line, six months on
It took almost five years of wrangling with the city. Opponents accused him of being an imperialist disguised as a do-gooder, with vague plans for distant profits. Last year he finally was able to buy 1,350 city-owned properties, plus 450 others, scattered over a one-square-mile area on the lower East Side. He cleared 500 lots, including more than 2,000 tires, and with 1,400 volunteers, planted 15,000 trees. The four million dollars he has spent, he says, already pays him “psychic income.” Most of his trees are saplings that look like yardsticks. But on several lots he planted 30-foot sugar maples so neighbors could imagine the future. With that, says Hantz, “we saw the pride open up like a flower.” BUT PRIDE AND TREES are not enough. The city still struggles to provide the most basic services, such as on-time buses, speedy police and fire responses, and lighting. The problem is so basic but so daunting: Many of Detroit’s people are poor and widely dispersed. In 1950 the city housed 1.8 million people, about 84 percent white. By 2013 its population had fallen to 689,000, about 83 percent black. Half its households live on less than $25,000 a year. Newcomers tweet about music and cocktails, but crime and lousy schools remain serious obstacles to a sustainable recovery. Homicides are falling, but among cities with a hundred thousand people or more, Detroit still tops the nation for violent crime. The city’s schools, called “a national disgrace” by the U.S. education secretary, are a target for improvement by civic leaders. Once, men and women flocked to Detroit from the cotton fields of the South for well-paying automobile factory jobs. My grandfathers—one a fourth-grade dropout—came from the steel mills and coal mines of Pennsylvania to establish us for generations as a “Ford family.” Blue-collar jobs can still be had in the city’s three remaining auto plants, but most require advanced skills. Scores of tech start-ups in the new city do too. That leaves Detroit with a big obstacle to its rebound: the highest unemployment rate among the nation’s 50 largest cities. EVERY WEEK, IT SEEMS, a new business opens in Detroit—grocery stores, juice bars, coffee shops, even bicycle makers. The only thing new about Robert “Lil Grady” Long’s business is its lightbulbs. He came back to Detroit to take over his late father’s Grand River Avenue barbershop.
In particular, if the distance is beyond a threshold of approximately 4.2 kilometres (about 2.61 miles), then the band of the copper wires is not wide enough to allow a fast Internet connection (Grubesic, 2008; Czernich, 2012). This happens, for example, in most Italian rural areas, which represent more than half of the Italian territory. In 2007, a large part of these areas were characterized by a high length (≥ 4.2 kilometres) of local loops, which ultimately is the result of the imperviousness of the territory. Therefore, in most cases, these areas lacked the necessary infrastructures for the diffusion of the DSL broadband (Ciapanna and Sabbatini, 2008; Agcom, 2011). Since our data do not allow to measure the length of the local loops, we build our instrument as the DSL coverage at the regional level, which depends on the regional structure of local loops. 1 We find reasonable to assume that subjective well‐being in 2010, 2011, and 2012 is not directly correlated with the distribution of DSL infrastructures in 2008 because this instrument strictly depends on local loops, whose location and length were determined by the orographic features of the territory before the rise of the Internet. The arguments supporting the assumption of the orthogonality of the share of the population covered by DSL are even more compelling for the second instrument. When the broadband connection cannot be implemented through pre‐existing copper wires, it is necessary to turn to an optical fibre‐based technology. The possibility and the costs of installing this type of infrastructure, however, strongly rely on the exogenous characteristics of the natural environment. Differently from DSL, in fact, optical fibre entails the installation of new underground cables. This involves excavation works, which are expensive and generally delay or even prohibit the provision of broadband in the area. Hence, orographic differences can be considered as a “natural” cause of the digital divide. The latter generated a variation in access to fast Internet across regions that is exogenous to people's well‐being and cannot be driven by their preference for SNS use. The assumption of orthogonality of the instruments is supported by the tests of over‐identifying restrictions we run in the context of IV estimates (reported in Section IV).
It took me a very long time to lead the last 40' or so of 5.9 to the anchor as I waited for recovery that didn't seem to be coming. Luke methodically cruised it, climbing with a pack on in an impressive display, and began racking up for the next.This next pitch is the gorgeous dihedral to roof that you've all probably seen pictures of. Luke quickly climbed to just below the roof commenting that it was a little pumpy with some steepish wide hands. Now I'd heard stories from multiple friends that this is the sleeper hard pitch on the climb, with the roof at the very end being pretty stiff for 10d. After placing a couple pieces, Luke pulled into a lieback at the roof, got about halfway around it and started shopping for a good hold/lock. I think a "watch me" came out right about here and like flipping a switch you could see the decisiveness take hold. He pasted a foot high and wide and then bang-bang-bang made a couple rapid fire lieback moves to the finishing jug. I was able to conserve energy pretty well on the lower portion, and with the benefit of a TR and knowing there was at least one good lock lurking above the roof, moved on through.Ahh, now the OW. But first...what's this? The 10c traverse to get to the wide is FUNKY. There are plenty of holds...but they all face the wrong way, you need to stem pretty wide and there appear to be about 4 or 5 options of sequences, all chalked. I try the high version, downclimb, try the middle version, downclimb, try the low version, downclimb, go back to the low version and finally just suck it up and make it happen.Having done plenty of wide crack climbing (though none recently), I still had a total sh#t-show leading this pitch. The first half went easily enough since you're sort of stemming with one leg and there are lots of helper holds.But once you lose the stem it becomes pushing a purple camalot and knee locks with either stacking or arm-barring. The geometry of this pitch is a little awkward since it's sort of a wide flare and I was not having success getting into good stacks because I couldn't rotate my shoulders/torso enough. So I resorted to armbarring and knee locking and about halfway up just got too gassed from the arm bar. "Take" again.
The use of pre-integrated mechatronic modules allows a functionally oriented installation of the factory and, therefore, an early testing of interconnected partial areas and, specifically, an early start of the commissioning of the automation. It is not necessary to integrate completely mechanics and electrics before commissioning the automation, but it is possible to combine and test small functional units such as, for instance, a material handling circuit that is able to move boxes while additional integration still occurs around it. Reconfiguration Even in existing plants, reconfiguration procedures occur. They generally require extensive engineering processes. If, for instance, additional diverts shall be included in the automatic transport system mentioned above in order to be able to move to different locations, an entire engineering process needs to be performed for such a change. Then, the mechanics of the transport system must be separated at the plant locations in the context of the commissioning, the diverts must be mechanically installed, and subsequently, the electrics and the automation system must be installed and newly commissioned. In the case of the decentralized mechatronic system, these activities are supported by the “Plug&Play” functionality of the modules. Modules can be removed from the overall system without causing far-reaching changes to the automation system (dynamic adaptation to changed topology) as shown in Fig. 11. In terms of automation, new modules, to a large extent, are autonomously integrated into an existing plant. The required extent of the engineering depends essentially, in this example, on the requirements for actuality and consistency in the plant documentation, such as, for example, the updating of the plant layout. Predevelopment of Mechatronic Modules In order to keep the project specific effort for the use of these modules as low as possible, they must be defined and specified as far as possible in advance, also for the intralogistics system as described in Chapter 5.2. This means the creation of mechatronic module building blocks that are defined independent of specific projects. These modules provide all involved disciplines with their particular views using a consistent model. The building block approach supports the top down proceeding during the design phase by the provisioning of module descriptions based on which the initially still rough plant layout can be refined successively. Therefore, standardized means of descriptions must be applied. They contain required module information related to the different disciplines or to the proposed (transport) services, for instance.
Bernie Sanders’s Presidential race ended a year ago, but his campaign never did. Since the election, he has staged events in Michigan, Mississippi, Maine, West Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Montana, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, and Illinois. At every one, he speaks about the suffering of small-town Americans, and his belief that the Democrats can help them. When I caught up with him recently, his shirt was a little untucked, his head hung down, and he carried a printed copy of his remarks. Sanders was catching a late-night flight to Chicago, and was taking a moment to record a message for Snapchat. The central illusion of a Presidential campaign is that a candidate can, through constant motion and boundless energy, meet countless people and, in the end, give voice to the experience of the country. After the election, Sanders seemed to adopt the illusion as an ethos. Hillary Clinton’s loss gave his efforts a new urgency. The electoral map, with its imposing swaths of red, pointed to a crisis confronting American liberalism. Donald Trump may have lost the popular vote, but, as he likes to point out, he won 2,626 counties to Clinton’s four hundred and eighty-seven. Many of these counties are in states that Sanders won last year, campaigning on a platform of economic populism—Medicare for all, tuition-free college, and a fifteen-dollar minimum wage. Sanders told me that Trump was smart enough to understand that the Democratic Party had turned its back on millions of people: “He said, ‘Hey, I hear you. I’m going to do something for you.’ And he lied.” Sanders, who is seventy-five, may be too old to run again in 2020, but his barnstorming has a purpose—to deepen the connection to progressive ideas in rural America, to develop an attachment that might outlast him. At recent events, one of his biggest applause lines was that the “Republicans did not win the election so much as Democrats lost it.” Progressives do not have much of a foothold in this country. What they have is Bernie Sanders. Sanders, who has represented Vermont in the Senate for the past decade, and served in the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, has always had a complicated relationship with the Democrats. He caucuses with them and ran for their Presidential nomination, but he is an Independent.
Jaitley, who protested to former PM Manmohan Singh against Shah's arrest, said police of states were brought into the picture only when the IB concluded that it was possible to arrest Sohrabuddin who was charged under TADA after Madhya Pradesh police recovered 40 AK- 56 rifles and hundreds of cartridges from his premises in Ujjain district.Significantly, Jaitley also dwelt on the roles of law officers of UPA after Sohrabuddin's brother approached the Supreme Court to demand a probe into the encounter. The finance minister said the then additional solicitor general "in a pre-conceived and planned move" appeared in the case on the very first day to volunteer to take instructions for the Centre. Gopal Subramaniam went on to "designate himself" as the amicus curiae in the case even when court had not appointed him. The then Attorney General made it a point to attend each hearing even when case did not concern the Centre in a formal way.Jaitley further said even though the SC after hearing amicus curiae Subramaniam handed over the investigation to CBI on the ground that the case had inter-state ramifications there. CBI never probed the angle concerning Andhra Pradesh which was then ruled by Congress.The finance minister also said CBI's case against Shah was built on the fake testimony of two known land grabbers --Ramanbhai Patel and Dashrathbhai Patel-- with criminal antecedents who were later felicitated at a function presided over by Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela. Jaitley said the two witnesses against Shah had alleged that they were asked to pay Rs 75 lakh to the BJP chief in order to secure their release from preventive detention, whereas the fact was that the conduit through whom Shah allegedly collected money in three installments was not present in India on any of the three dates mentioned by them.When the Gujarat HC granted Shah bail saying that there was no evidence against him, CBI challenged the order in SC which asked the BJP chief to stay out of Gujarat as a condition for bail.Jaitley said Shah was made an accused in the case concerning the "encounter" of Tulsidas Prajapati merely because he was in telephonic contact with one of the accused police officers.
No women ever got cuckolded into unknowingly raising an out of wedlock baby mothered by her husband’s lover. Technology gave us the tools to reach equality: we should make sure no man ever has to raise an out of wedlock baby of his wife’s lover. And nowadays we have the technology to guarantee this gender equality! Require mandatory DNA testing at birth. So paternity is as certain as maternity! Mother can be sure of maternity. “Mother’s baby, father’s maybe.” Equal rights requires to assure daddy of the paternity. Right? No unfaithful father ever deceived a woman into rearing an out of wedlock baby, thinking she is the mother! Then we need no more double standard. Women can have as much sexual freedom as men do. They will be responsible for the consequences, and their lovers will have to pay child support. Feminists want to hide the truth about paternity from men, to protect children and family peace! Notice that the law restricts genetic testing with the intent to keep families intact and tu guarantee that children are reared in a functional family. Even if it is at the cost of cuckolding the father. Prevent father from knowing the truth, for the sake of the family. So, men can demand the same: as we see how families get torn apart by revelations of men’s infidelity (Tiger Woods for example), let us hide male infidelity. In the past, there was an honor code to hide male infidelity from the wife. Let us codify this honor code. Let us keep male trysts secret. So families are protected from des-integration due to cheating scandals. Equal rights: hide the truth about men’s sexual infidelity from women, to protect children and family peace! Make laws to ascertain secrecy about men’s sexual infidelity (to maintain family peace and protect children’s well being ) Let us make 3 year jail sentences for telling wives about their men’s trysts and infidelities. You see how this destroyed Tiger Wood’s family? The women should be punished for having spoken in public. They distroyed Tiger’s family! Isn’t it strange? Feminists always manage to apply the most convenient logic that suits their own interest.
The Republicans still have a 5-4 majority on the Court, and judges like Scalia and Thomas are now openly partisan in their actions and comments. The Republican Party will send battalions of lawyers into the swing states to set up lawsuits where they may have a chance of reversing an Obama win with a court decision. Friendly federal courts, with Reagan, Bush and Bush II appointees, will move the cases along in favor of the Republicans with a final call by Republicans on the Supreme Court.
If you work in a 24 hour joint, you rarely see a good tip. It is more an issue of quantity over quality, serve three hundred people on your shift and you may get to go home with enough money to pay the rent, get drunk and buy a bag of weed. Sadly, Sunday church people are a whole different breed of restaurant patron. They haul in armies of self righteous, coffee swilling, neck bent, babbling zealots that flood through the doors, take up your section for hours drinking java and leave you with a poor to non-existent tip. To add insult to gratuity, every damned table would have, as part of the tip, a book or pamphlet that was meant to bring you to the lord. During this portion of my life I was not yet an Atheist, let’s say I was mostly dressed but hadn’t yet put on the hat. In a way I gotta thank people like this for helping me make the final leap of no faith because those pamphlets and bad tips helped push me away from the possible pursuit of religion. Why even consider religion if it means being that cunty? One of the pamphlets that really stands out to this day was from a table I was serving on a typical post church Sunday morning. A table of thirteen came rolling in, six adults and their demon seed, wanting a to be seated immediately even though there was a wait. “We are with our Pastor”, shouted a corpulent she-beast in a flowery tarp. After the impatient lot had been seated they immediately began to demand more coffee than the pots that were placed at their table. They spurted out orders for foods that they felt should be on the menu and complained about the quality of everything they received. A side note, it always amazes me when people who look like they are gold medalists in a heart disease competition sit and bitch about the quality of food that wasn’t squeezed from a tube. This table was not out of the ordinary for any given Sunday, that is until the Pastor had a heart attack. Old fuck just seized up and fell off his chair, needless to say, everyone at the table and the surrounding area lost their shit. Walking over, the restaurant phone in hand, I rang the local ambulance delivery system, which was on speed dial, it had to be.
Mother so wanted him to be a success, and I’m afraid she died without knowing that he ever would be.” Actually, Fuller came rather close to a major success in 1933, the year before his mother died. His first three-wheeled Dymaxion car, built by a team of hand-picked mechanics in Bridgeport, had stopped traffic in New York and other cities and drawn considerable publicity nationally, and some engineers believe that it might very well have revolutionized the automobile industry if it had not suffered a stroke of exceptionally bad luck. Just outside the main gate of the Chicago World’s Fair, the Dymaxion car was rammed by a conventional vehicle, which happened to belong to a city official. The Dymaxion was overturned and its driver was killed. The other car was immediately towed away from the scene, and its involvement completely escaped the notice of reporters, who subsequently ascribed the accident to the Dymaxion car’s “freak” design. (“THREe-WHEELED CAR KILLS DRIVER,” ran a headline in one paper.) A later investigation disclosed the true facts, but the stigma remained, and in order to erase it, Fuller put his whole inheritance from his mother’s estate into the production of two more automobile prototypes. Unfortunately, when the two new Dymaxion cars had been completed and sold—one to a racing driver, the other to Leopold Stokowski—two of the subcontractors whom Fuller had engaged presented a bill for a great deal more than the sum he thought they had originally agreed on, and then sued for the difference. Fuller, dead broke, was unable to pay. He held a one-eighth interest in Bear Island, and the two men then came to Maine and pressed a claim to it. A local judge awarded it to them. Several years later, Mrs. Kenison managed to buy back her brother’s share, and Fuller paid her back as soon as he could. During my talk with Mrs. Kenison after dinner, the whole family gathered in the living room of the main house to watch Fuller put on a visual demonstration of his mathematics. He went upstairs to his room and returned with a bag full of bright-colored plastic rods and rubber elbow joints, which he had had a toy manufacturer make up for him, and proceeded to construct out of them five geometrical shapes—a dodecahedron, a cube, a tetrahedron, an octahedron, and an icosahedron.
The U.S. Army's top enlisted soldier said the number-one readiness problem facing the service is that the active component -- the most deployable force -- has 50,000 soldiers who can't deploy. That figure represents the largest number of non-deployable soldiers in all three components of the service. The National Guard has 28,000 non-deployable soldiers and the Reserve component has 25,000, according to Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel Dailey's office. Having 50,000 non-deployable, active soldiers is comparable to three of the Army's 10 active combat divisions, Dailey told a group of sergeants recently at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to an Army press release. "That's huge. That's three out of the 10 divisions," he said. "If you will not or cannot fight and win, then there's no place for you in the Army. We have to become unemotional about this. We have a job to do." Dailey's comments come at a time when President Barack Obama is under enormous pressure to commit some type of ground force to the Middle East to fight extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Just days after ISIS attacked multiple civilian targets in Paris, Republican Sen. John McCain and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham made a renewed push for committing thousands of U.S. ground forces to lead a ground war against ISIS forces occupying large portions of Iraq and Syria. The active Army is on a path to reduce its size from 490,000 to 450,000 by fiscal 2018. In total, the Army's active, Guard and Reserve force 102,499 soldiers from all ranks that were non-deployable for medical, legal, or other administrative reasons as of mid-August, according to Master Sgt. Michelle Johnson, spokeswoman for Dailey, adding that that number is about 10 percent of the total force, Johnson said. This group of non-deployable soldiers does not include soldiers who are transients between duty stations, trainees or students who make up approximately another 10 percent of the force, Johnson said. Total Army non-deployable numbers have been steadily declining over the past five years. In September 2013, approximately 14 percent of the then-total Army was non-deployable, Johnson said. As a possible solution, Dailey is proposing to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley that in the future, there should be a box to check on the soldier's evaluation form, indicating if that soldier is deployable, according to the Army release.
She’s only even mentioned twice briefly, but the most powerful moment comes from Magic Man discovering her photo after Finn tosses it aside. In a rare moment of Magic Man acting completely straightforward and honest, he quietly acknowledges the location of his Martian transporter. It’s a moment that feels so real and genuine, and doesn’t at all feel like it’s forcing me to care about a relationship that we barely know anything about. All we know by this encounter is that Magic Man had a significant other, who he tragically lost. But it’s how it personally affects Magic Man that makes it so much more interesting. The heartwrenching promo art sets up this unseen relationship, and amazes me at just how vaguely emotion is conveyed in this one without going into too much detail about what happened in the past.
Whether or not anarchists and communists can work together, because we recognize that the current state is the state of capital, is an open question. If non-affiliated communists can build themselves into a party, or proto-party, that is strong and attractive enough, it would draw the schismatic parties into a kind of divided alliance—an alliance that uses its divisions to strengthen itself. Let’s face it, though: We’re not Greeks. We don’t have a radical history of hundreds of thousands of people in the streets in the last fifty years in the United States. We don’t have it as part of our regular practice that folks can throw firebombs at the police and the police just stand by. So given where we are, it makes infinitely more sense to ask what we can pragmatically do to organize against capitalism, and replace it with something more egalitarian. RW: As with Žižek, the history of political Marxism you draw upon has a kind of cutoff point with Lenin’s death, after which Stalinism took hold. Beyond that point, the versions of Marxism that migrated or took shape outside of the sphere of Soviet Marxism—Trotskyism after Trotsky’s exile, Western Marxism with the Frankfurt School and elsewhere, Maoism after the Sino-Soviet split—appear to be orphaned in the account you trace in The Communist Horizon. Discourse on the party ends with Lenin. JD: Yeah, that is a totally fair point, and I think it is totally true. Where I would like to go next involves studying the German Communist Party toward the beginning of the 20th century. They were advocating forms of horizontal participation in small political structures. \|P
(THE MAKING OF) THE DIGITAL SCANNING STAGE AND OTHER MODIFICATIONS TO THE MICROSCOPE: Below you can find more information on the parts that are added to the microscope including the parts for the Digital photography scanning stage. The Control board & enclosure:
Awards is proud to announce the following nominees for this year’s awards: BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM Sponsored by Moët & Chandon ’71 Calvary Mr Turner Pride The Imitation Game BEST DIRECTOR Sponsored by AllCity & Intermission John Michael McDonagh – Calvary Lenny Abrahamson – Frank Matthew Warchus – Pride Mike Leigh – Mr Turner Yann Demange – ’71 THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] Sponsored by 3 Mills Studios Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe – Catch Me Daddy Hong Khaou – Lilting Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 20,000 Days on Earth Morgan Matthews – X+Y Yann Demange – ’71 BEST SCREENPLAY Sponsored by BBC Films Graham Moore – The Imitation Game Gregory Burke – ’71 John Michael McDonagh – Calvary Jon Ronson, Peter Straughan – Frank Stephen Beresford – Pride BEST ACTRESS Sponsored by M.A.C Cosmetics Alicia Vikander – Testament of Youth Cheng Pei Pei – Lilting Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game Sameena Jabeen Ahmed – Catch Me Daddy BEST ACTOR Sponsored by Movado Asa Butterfield – X+Y Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game Brendan Gleeson – Calvary Jack O’Connell – ’71 Timothy Spall – Mr Turner BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Dorothy Atkinson – Mr Turner Imelda Staunton – Pride Maggie Gyllenhaal – Frank Sally Hawkins – X+Y Sienna Guillory – The Goob BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sponsored by St Martins Lane Andrew Scott – Pride Ben Schnetzer – Pride Michael Fassbender – Frank Rafe Spall – X+Y Sean Harris – ‘71 MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER Ben Schnetzer – Pride Cara Delevingne – The Face of An Angel Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle Liam Walpole – The Goob Sameena Jabeen Ahmed – Catch Me Daddy BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION ’71 20,000 Days on Earth Catch Me Daddy Lilting The Goob BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT Chris Wyatt – Editing – ’71 Dick Pope – Cinematography – Mr Turner Robbie Ryan – Cinematography – Catch Me Daddy Stephen Rennicks – Music – Frank Tat Radcliffe – Cinematography – ’71 BEST DOCUMENTAR Y 20,000 Days on Earth Next Goal Wins Night Will Fall The Possibilities Are Endless Virunga BEST BRITISH SHORT Crocodile Emotional Fusebox Keeping Up With The Joneses Slap The Kármán Line BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM Blue Ruin Boyhood Fruitvale Station Ida The Babadook THE RAINDANCE AWARD Flim: The Movie… Gregor Luna Keeping Rosy The Beat Beneath My Feet THE RICHARD HARRIS AWARD (for outstanding contribution by an actor to British Film) To Be Announced THE VARIETY AWARD To Be Announced THE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Announced at the Moët British Independent Film Awards on Sunday 7th December Now in its 17th year, the Awards were created by Raindance in 1998
With healthy adrenals, and particularly healthy levels of the hormone "aldosterone," your pupils will constrict, and will stay small the entire time you shine the light from the side. In adrenal insufficiency, the pupil will get small, but within 30 seconds, it will soon enlarge again or obviously flutter in it’s attempt to stay constricted. Why does this occur? Because adrenal insufficiency can also result in low aldosterone, which causes a lack of proper amounts of sodium and an abundance of potassium. This imbalance causes the sphincter muscles of your eye to be weak and to dilate in response to light.So, here's the connection.And:So, when I discovered that aldosterone insufficiency was easy to test with the pupil reflex test, and that aldosterone was also indicated in piracetam's mechanism of action, it was not hard to infer that the reason Piracetam can work wonderfully for a few months and then seem to have negative effects in the same person may be directly connected to the function of that person's adrenals, and specifically, their levels of aldosterone.I believe that Piracetam places an extra strain on the adrenals, and this explains the paradoxical brain fog and drowsiness that so many users report: and the mystery of its unreliability/inconsistency. When a person's adrenals are already strained, be it from lack of sleep and too much stress, or something more sinister, like hypothyroid or addison's disease, the use of a -racetam places extra stress on levels of aldosterone and corticosterone, and when these hormones are already in shortage, usage only exacerbates negative symptoms of aldosterone deficiency.So far, a few of the treatments I am exploring include, but are not limited to:-L-Tyrosine-Vitamin C-Iodine-Adrenal Cortex (Isocort or Hydrocortisone)-Dessicated Thyroid-Ashwagandha, Rhodiola Rosea, and/or Panax Ginseng-Ferritin (Iron), B6/B12-Pregnenolone-Tribulus Terrestrius-Vinpocetine and Ginko Biloba (vasodilation)-Phosphatidyl Serine-DHEA-Maca Root-Borage Oil/Cod Liver OilThese are all aimed at improving the function of the thyroid/HPA Axis. I believe that when the HPA axis is restored to healthy functioning, piracetam will have a consistent positive effect in the user.On November 24th I'm seeing an endocrinologist to have a full panel of tests. Of course, by then I hope to have restored my adrenals as much as possible by supplementation, healthy stress reduction and sleep management, diet and exercise, but the results will still be valuable.For now,. It will tell you a lot about your body and it will help the greater community.Thank you.
Until recent years, a mission to Mars seemed quaintly anachronistic — cue a sizzle reel of 1960s scientists in white lab coats, families gazing into fishbowl TVs, Brezhnev in his overcoat. Now, everyone wants to go. The Dutch organization Mars One received more than 4,000 applications for its proposed reality-show-funded Mars colony. The Russians announced plans to send a crew of rhesus monkeynauts in 2017, and the Chinese, a rover equipped with ground-penetrating radar by 2020. (Experts have deemed the latter highly likely, the former not.) But the U.S. remains the only country with the experience and infrastructure necessary to send an actual human. Within the next five years, NASA hopes to send astronauts aboard the new Orion spacecraft deeper into space than any human has ever traveled. The agency’s current plan suggests a manned mission to Mars could depart as early as 2030. SpaceX, the private organization largely responsible for making Mars buzzy again, has a major NASA contract and intends to conduct its first crewed rocket tests in 2018 (so far it has only committed to transporting NASA astronauts). Nonetheless, Musk has vowed to beat NASA’s timeline and reach Mars by 2025. With billionaires promising cities on Mars and The Martian crushing it at the box office, NASA received a record-smashing 18,300 applications for its astronaut program in 2016 — more than triple the number of submissions received during its last recruitment call in 2012. The requirements haven’t changed much over the past 30 years: a B.A. in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics discipline; the fitness required to pass NASA’s legendary Astronaut Long-Duration Spaceflight Physical; and a height no taller than Elon Musk’s (6 foot 2). But many hidden shoals can sink an otherwise strong applicant. For example, the Astronaut Candidate FAQs claim that “there are no age restrictions for the program.” Then they go on to state that in the past, successful applicants “have ranged between the ages of 26 and 46, with the average age being 34.” That pretty much rules out the Sjogrens, who are both 57. But the fine print hardly matters: Only some ten individuals will survive the 18-month selection process to join the current class of 45 NASA astronauts eligible for space flight, making for a maximum acceptance rate of .005 percent. There is a growing conviction among some, however, that NASA has already lost its monopoly on who gets to be an astro-pioneer.
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By Matthew Brunwasser At Sunday morning services at the Pentecostal Juba Christian Center in South Sudan, similar to American-style Christianity, the preacher says "the holy spirit is moving in this nation, a lot of prayers are being poured…" It's not unheard of for politics and pulpit to mix. But in relations between states, faith usually takes a backseat to realpolitik. In the case of the 2005 peace treaty between northern and southern Sudan, though, it was the opposite. Douglas Johnston, with the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy in Washingon, says American Christians essentially drove the politics. "Because a lot of them were doing missionary work down there and they had seen a lot of the very bad stuff going on," Johnston said. "They would report back and then the churches got involved. Had it not been for that element, I don't think we would've ever gotten involved in Sudan. Nor do I think anyone would have ever cared about Darfur. " President Bush appointed retired senator and ordained Episcopal priest John Danforth as his Sudan envoy. There was war between north and south, and the Sudanese Council of Churches was lobbying for peace in the US and Europe. "They were to collect the data of every bomb dropped in the south by the Sudan government air force, by location, by time, by whatever injured the people, all this information proved useful, when John Danforth came, he got that information, and he used it to press the parties, both sides, the Sudan government in particular, to agree to stop killing civilians," said Enoch Tombe, the Episcopal Bishop of Rejaf, was at the time head of the council whose monitors documented human rights abuses. The story of the suffering Sudanese Christians resonated loudly with American Christians. Aaron Shapiro works in the juba office of Samaritan's purse, run by Franklin Graham — Billy's son – one of the biggest faith based organizations in Sudan. "I think it was probably a very easy story to sell, for better or for worse," said Shapiro. "Arab Muslims versus black Christians. It definitely goes over as a good headline and a good story, within the Christian community. It's much more complex than that. " Political bedfellows There was a strange coalition of political bedfellows pushing for action in Sudan: conservative Christians, the congressional black caucus and human rights groups.
Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Cuba Gooding Jr. surprises Ben Affleck onstage at the end of the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday, January 18. Hide Caption 1 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Bradley Cooper and the cast of "American Hustle" accept the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. Cooper, practically yelling his approval, paid tribute to director David O. Russell for the film. Hide Caption 2 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – For Oscar watchers, the SAG Awards offer a key indicator of which way the wind is blowing among members of the Motion Picture Academy. Hide Caption 3 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Meryl Streep, left, and Julia Roberts co-star in "August: Osage County," which was nominated for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. Hide Caption 4 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Matthew McConaughey, left, embraces Jared Leto after winning the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for "Dallas Buyers Club." Leto won best supporting actor for his role in the film. Hide Caption 5 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Jennifer Lawrence presents McConaughey with his award. Hide Caption 6 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Robert De Niro presents Cate Blanchett with the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for "Blue Jasmine." Hide Caption 7 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Lupita Nyong'o accepts the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role for her part in "12 Years a Slave." Hide Caption 8 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Nyong'o embraces director Steve McQueen after winning her award. Hide Caption 9 of 20 Photos: 2014 SAG Awards: The show 2014 SAG Awards: The show – Emma Thompson and Ewan McGregor present the award for male actor in a TV movie or miniseries.
The experimental window into the self-organization of behavior was a paradigm introduced by S. Kelso (1981; 1984). HKB is the theoretical model that explicitly accounted for Kelso's observations and in turn predicted additional aspects. First the basic empirical facts are described; then these observations are mapped onto an explicit model; then the model is derived from a level below, namely the interacting subsystems. Kelso's original experiments dealt with rhythmical finger and hand movements in human beings. Many studies in humans and monkeys up to that time studied single limb movements. The Kelso experiments required the coordination between the index fingers of both hands. This precise coordination of the hands requires the coordination within and between the hemispheres of the brain, later studied using high density EEG and MEG arrays to record cortical activity (such work will not be described here, but see Kelso, et al. (1992) for original MEG work; Wallenstein, Kelso & Bressler (1995) for EEG correlates, and Jirsa, Fuchs & Kelso (1998) for cortical modelling thereof). The kinematic characteristics of bimanual movements were monitored using infrared light-emitting diodes attached to the moving parts and were detected by an optoelectronic camera system. On occasion the electromyographic activity of the muscles was also recorded using fine-wire platinum electrodes (e.g. Kelso & Scholz, 1985), thereby allowing a detailed examination at both kinematic and neuromuscular levels. Subjects oscillated their fingers rhythmically in the transverse plane (i.e., abduction-adduction) in one of two patterns, in-phase or anti-phase. In the former pattern, homologous muscles contract simultaneously; in the latter, the muscles contract in an alternating fashion. Subjects may increase the speed at which they perform these movements or they follow a pacing metronome whose oscillation frequency was systematically increased from 1.25 Hz to 3.50 Hz in steps of .25Hz that lasted up to 10 sec. Subjects were instructed to produce one full cycle of movement with each finger for each beat of the metronome. The following features were observed:
A week before the Liston fight, Clay stretched out on a rubbing table at the Fifth Street Gym and told Lipsyte and the rest of the assembled reporters, “I’m making money, the popcorn man making money, and the beer man, and you got something to write about.” Clay’s uncanny sense of self-promotion didn’t stop at his daily monologues. The next day, Lipsyte heard that the Beatles would be dropping by the Fifth Street Gym. The Beatles were in Miami to do “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Liston had actually gone to their studio performance and was not much impressed. As the Beatles ripped through their latest single, the champion turned sourly to the public-relations man Harold Conrad and said, “My dog plays drums better than that kid with the big nose.” Conrad figured that Clay, and the younger reporters, would understand better. Lipsyte was a card-carrying member of the rock-and-roll generation, and he saw that, for all its phonyness, a meeting between the Beatles and Clay was a meeting of the new, two acts that would surely mark the sixties. The older columnists passed, but Lipsyte saw a story. The Beatles arrived. They were still in their mop-top phase, but they were already quite aware of their own pop status and appeal. Clay was not in evidence, and Ringo Starr was angry. “Where the fuck’s Clay?” he said. To kill a few minutes, Ringo began introducing the members of the band to Lipsyte and a few other reporters, though he introduced George Harrison as Paul and Lennon as Harrison, and finally Lennon lost patience. “Let’s get the fuck out of here,” he said. But two Florida state troopers blocked the door and somehow kept them in the gym just long enough for Clay to show up. “Hello, there, Beatles,” Cassius Clay said. “We oughta do some road shows together. We’ll get rich.” The photographers lined up the Beatles in the ring, and Clay faked a punch to knock them all to the canvas: the domino punch. Now the future of music and the future of sports began talking about the money they were making and the money they were going to make. “You’re not as stupid as you look,” Clay concluded. “No,” Lennon said, “but you are.” Clay checked to make sure Lennon was smiling, and he was. The younger writers, like Lipsyte, really did see Clay as a fifth Beatle.
You must have detected a strong accent of fear, whenever the West has discussed the possibility of the rise of an Eastern race. The reason of it is this, that the power, by whose help she thrives, is an evil power; so long as it is held on her own side she can be safe, while the rest of the world trembles. The vital ambition of the present civilisation of Europe is to have the exclusive possession of the devil. All her armaments and diplomacy are directed upon this one object. But these costly rituals for invocation of the evil spirit lead through a path of prosperity to the brink of cataclysm. The furies of terror, which the West has let loose upon God's world, come back to threaten herself and goad her into preparations of more and more frightfulness; this gives her no rest and makes her forget all else but the perils that she causes to others, and incurs herself. To the worship of this devil of politics she sacrifices other countries as victims. She feeds upon their dead flesh and grows fat upon it, so long as the carcasses remain fresh,—but they are sure to rot at last, and the dead will take their revenge, by spreading pollution far and wide and poisoning the vitality of the feeder. Japan had all her wealth of humanity, her harmony of heroism and beauty, her depth of self-control and richness of self-expression; yet the Western nations felt no respect for her, till she proved that the bloodhounds of Satan are not only bred in the kennels of Europe, but can also be domesticated in Japan and fed with man's miseries. They admit Japan's equality with themselves, only when they know that Japan also possesses the key to open the floodgate of hell-fire upon the fair earth, whenever she chooses, and can dance, in their own measure, the devil dance of pillage, murder, and ravishment of innocent women, while the world goes to ruin. We know that, in the early stage of man's moral immaturity, he only feels reverence for the god whose malevolence he dreads. But is this the ideal of man which we can look up to with pride?
: Well I think Collin’s experience is really emblematic of what the historian Richard Bushman has talked about as the dynamics of people who are both “switched off and squeezed out.” People are in a sense switched off because they learn a number of things about the church’s history, the First Vision being one of them, and the historicity of the Book of Mormon the translation of the Book of Abraham , polygamy is a big one, Joseph Smith’s involvement in polygamy , and race and the priesthood , the restriction on African Americans that ended only in 1978. There’s a long list of about 10, 12, or 15 issues that we see coming up quite often. But then also this sense of feeling “squeezed out” that Collin said. Just feeling like that he doesn’t feel comfortable in his congregation anymore. And there are lots of Mormons like this and this generally correlates with social issues, with a sense of feeling like the church is overwhelmingly conservative, especially in the United States and in the American West, but they perhaps don’t necessarily share these same cultural or social views. So they just don’t feel comfortable anymore in their local wards and with their local leaders. We see a lot of people like that stepping away, oftentimes really regretfully, and this brings a lot of pain. But they feel, out of their own integrity, that’s the only option they have.In my colleague Peggy Fletcher Stack’s story that appeared over the weekend, Fiona Givens you were quoted as thinking that maybe men and women experience faith crisis in a different way. Can you articulate that?Well I’m not sure that they do, necessarily, there are certainly topics that affect women, I think, in a much more personal way, than perhaps men: polygamy, gender roles, women’s roles in the ecclesiastical structure of the church. Those things are definitely coming up. I think it’s not coincidental that the conversations, the internet web conversations on Heavenly Mother and women’s role in priesthood are circulating at the same time. But I do actually want to go back to the history because I think that’s where it all started. Remember that Patrick and I are historians and quite honestly we both know that if we are looking at a squeaky clean history then something is really wrong with it.
It's unquestionable that Spain has violated this article – an article numbered as the second most important sentence underlying the whole European Union. It's another can of worms to decide whether the European Union may and should actually intervene – and whether, when, and how it should start a process according to the Article 7 , recently threatened against Poland and Hungary although they did nothing that would be even remotely comparable to what the Spanish government did.But long before we actually think about the enforcement or the absence of it, the European Union officials should immediately acknowledge that Spain has violated absolutely basic principles of the European Union. A technical decision of a Spanish judge about a would-be referendum simply cannot be considered a sufficient excuse for the police terror. The judge hasn't ordered and couldn't have ordered police terror against peaceful citizens because such terror violates the EU treaty – an international treaty that stands above the Spanish laws. Some folks, including the "EU President" Donald Tusk, have said that the violence is wrong, things shouldn't escalate, and so on. But a majority of the EU officials have remained silent and/or supported PM Rajoy's heavy-handed actions.The European Union simply doesn't defend the European values on the European continent. It is the most potent tool to promote the fascist habits and policies all over the Old Continent.I have also read that Catalonia has nothing to do with Brexit. I realize that the typical Catalan people's opinions about ideological issues differ from the typical British ones. But this is not a conflict in which one flavor of ideology fights against another flavor of ideology. The expansion of the central EU power is about the very question whether freedom and democracy will survive on the European continent. The Spanish government has clearly shown that it wants the answer to be No – and that is the actual reason why PM Rajoy has basically gotten the needed support in Brussels. In a speech, Rajoy bragged that "everyone in the EU fully supports his crackdown". It's not quite as bad but what he said is appromately true, indeed.The European Union is full of fascist scum that is enthusiastic about these methods to deal with the different opinions held by millions of citizens of European countries – with whole nations living in territories whose radius is measured in hundreds of miles.
The zone returns are a great way to handle teams that like to cross their players to confuse the man scheme and it is recommended to have both schemes in place.What do you do when dealing with the bunch attack? This is pretty simple, and is handled by the front eight as well as the two upbacks. The upbacks and wings drop back 10 yards off the ball, the wings are centered between the hash mark and the top of the numbers,while the upbacks are inside the hash marks. The front eight, will align over the ball, but now the guards and tackles will be inside the hash marks, with the ends aligning on the hashes.If the kickoff team then spreads out, the kickoff return team will simply align as they normally would against a regular kickoff. It should be noted that when facing teams that do this type of kickoff scheme, it is better suited for a zone blocking scheme rather than man.Some concerns many coaches have about the 8-2-1 is all the open field that it presents when you look at it on paper. Many coaches elect to sky or pooch kick to try and put the 8-2-1 in a bind, however this is easily negated. First, the upbacks handle all sky kicks, and they do so by giving a "sky" call to the front line. Once a sky call is heard by the front line, they quit dropping and put their foot in the ground and begin to block. Now the returner does not have a defender bearing down on him while trying to receive the football. When in doubt the upback should always fair catch any sky kick. I made this mandatory last season, and it worked quite well for us. Later in the season, I gave my guys a bit more freedom to do what they wanted with the ball and it worked quite nicely. One thing to note is that when an upback gets the football, the returner should replace him in the blocking scheme.Players seem to "fit" better into this scheme more than any other I've run. I always seem to have a bunch of leftover defensive back/wide receiver type players who one way or the other don't get much playing time. Here is a way to get those guys on the field. Remember the blocks are the greatest and all they have to do is "be in the way".
He was Gary’s right-hand-man, and to be that close to someone like Gary takes time. About 35 years, to be specific. TCU is the fifth school that has seen Patterson and Bumpas coach together. First it was Kansas State (1981-82), then it was Tennessee Tech (1983-84), after which it was Utah State (1992-94), followed by Navy (1995). The past 11 seasons have forged that bond into something formidable, a friendship and working relationship enviable in any workplace. It will not be easily replaced. Safeties coach Chad Glasgow and linebackers coach DeMontie Cross were promoted to co-defensive coordinators prior to spring practices, and Dan Sharp- former special teams coach- takes over the defensive line. While Patterson surely trusts them all, there’s no one there that has the same kind of bond, same kind of understanding that Patterson had with Bumpas. So this season more than any other can help cement Patterson’s legacy as a defensive savant. Replacing talent is never easy. When you have to do it in droves both on the field and on the sideline, things get exponentially harder. It’s easy to take for granted everything Gary Patterson and his family have done for TCU and this city, but between the on-field success and community outreach, stop and take a few moments to reflect on just how lucky we are to have him. Statistics provided by cfbstats.com and GoFrogs.com - Scott Boase & Jamie Plunkett
Fallacy #3: If circumcision is going to be done, it is most ethical to do it during infancy, so the person won’t remember it. I’ve heard many circumcised men remark that they sure are glad the procedure was done when they were babies so that they don’t have to remember it. While I agree that having a piece of my penis cut off without anesthesia is a memory I would prefer to avoid, there is a better way to avoid it-leaving those kids alone! As I become more educated about circumcision and find myself discussing it with others it seems that for every man who, with bravado, claims his circumcised member is exactly to his liking, there is at least one humble fellow who admits, sometimes with great emotion, that he wishes such important decisions about his body had been left to him-he would have chosen to spare himself a traumatic experience during his first moments and live life with a complete, intact penis. I am glad that so many circumcised men are as satisfied with their penises as I am with mine. I am also glad that so many wives and partners are equally pleased. However, I know some men and women who grieve the loss of the foreskin from their relationship and wonder how things would be different. When a baby boy is born he, obviously, can’t consent to the procedure and by the time his opinion can be known, it is often too late. Parents must make many choices about their children without their consent, it’s true, but choosing a cosmetic genital surgery is, in my mind and many others’, taking that liberty way too far. If there is a chance your son wouldn’t want it done to his penis, why would you take the risk? At the end of the day, if you decline to circumcise your son, he always has the option to do so himself later in life. But if you consent to the procedure, everyone’s hands are tied. There is no way to fully restore what has been lost.
In fact, modern postural yoga is a product of a 20th-century response to transnational ideas and movements, including military calisthenics, modern medicine, and the Western European and North American physical culture of gymnasts, bodybuilders, martial experts, and contortionists.Nothing like modern postural yoga appeared in the historical record up to that time.There is no evidence that yoga will make you convert to Hinduism, self-destruct, have a schizophrenic breakdown, or worship Satan.The more legitimate fear should be that yogaphobia has become so ubiquitous that even otherwise innocuous comments by powerful, high-profile people, such as the Pope, can be co-opted and put in service of a conservative agenda. This can prevent experimentation with widely popularized fitness-oriented yoga, even though there are many evidence-based claims regarding its physical and mental health benefits.And when powerful, charismatic religious leaders are publicly cited insisting upon apparently irreconcilable differences between them (that is, Hindus) and us (that is, Christians), we can also expect real social consequences.This article was originally published on qz.com
Shape Created with Sketch. People news in pictures Show all 9 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. People news in pictures 1/9 US President-elect Donald Trump and musician Kanye West pose for media at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City Reuters 2/9 Anna Wintour apologises for criticising Donald Trump on a train. Fashionista was reportedly heard saying the President-elect would use the Presidency 'to sell himself and his brand' Getty 3/9 Ivanka Trump and her husband might be joining the next administration. The couple is plotting a move to the nation's capital Getty 4/9 Samuel L Jackson calls Muslims 'the new black kids in America' 'People perceive them as a threat before even saying hello,' actor says of Muslims in the US Getty 5/9 Former JLS star Oritse Williams denies rape allegation The singer has not been charged Getty 6/9 Bill Gates announces $1bn investment fund for clean energy technology Team-up with Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and others aims to fight climate change - and reap 'super' rewards Getty 7/9 Donald Trump's aide worked for anti-immigation extremists Poll was used by President-elect during campaign to justify banning Muslims from the US Reuters 8/9 Henry Kissinger tells Nobel Peace Prize forum to give Donald Trump a chance More than 7,000 people called for the 'mastermind of war' to be arrested while visiting Norway EPA 9/9 John Travolta dismisses new Scientology documentary by former member Leah Remini The actor defends the church and says it was a source of support for him when he lost his girlfriend, mother and son Getty 1/9 US President-elect Donald Trump and musician Kanye West pose for media at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City Reuters 2/9 Anna Wintour apologises for criticising Donald Trump on a train. Fashionista was reportedly heard saying the President-elect would use the Presidency 'to sell himself and his brand' Getty 3/9 Ivanka Trump and her husband might be joining the next administration.
NASA plans to use Odyssey and the newer Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as communication relays for the Mars Science Laboratory mission during the landing and Mars-surface operations of that mission's Curiosity rover.Odyssey is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft. JPL and Lockheed Martin collaborate on operating the spacecraft. For more about the Mars Odyssey mission, visit: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey
Photos: Donald Trump's rise Photos: Donald Trump's rise President-elect Donald Trump has been in the spotlight for years. From developing real estate and producing and starring in TV shows, he became a celebrity long before winning the White House. Hide Caption 1 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump at age 4. He was born in 1946 to Fred and Mary Trump in New York City. His father was a real estate developer. Hide Caption 2 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, left, in a family photo. He was the second-youngest of five children. Hide Caption 3 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, center, stands at attention during his senior year at the New York Military Academy in 1964. Hide Caption 4 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, center, wears a baseball uniform at the New York Military Academy in 1964. After he graduated from the boarding school, he went to college. He started at Fordham University before transferring and later graduating from the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania's business school. Hide Caption 5 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump stands with Alfred Eisenpreis, New York's economic development administrator, in 1976 while they look at a sketch of a new 1,400-room renovation project of the Commodore Hotel. After graduating college in 1968, Trump worked with his father on developments in Queens and Brooklyn before purchasing or building multiple properties in New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Those properties included Trump Tower in New York and Trump Plaza and multiple casinos in Atlantic City. Hide Caption 6 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump attends an event to mark the start of construction of the New York Convention Center in 1979. Hide Caption 7 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump wears a hard hat at the Trump Tower construction site in New York in 1980. Hide Caption 8 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump was married to Ivana Zelnicek Trump from 1977 to 1990, when they divorced. They had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. Hide Caption 9 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise The Trump family, circa 1986. Hide Caption 10 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump uses his personal helicopter to get around New York in 1987. Hide Caption 11 of 37 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump stands in the atrium of the Trump Tower.
That roster has no quality legitimate big men (other than the injured Varejao) and bears little resemblance to the previous two rosters.For those who cannot be bothered to compare/contrast the data in the previous three paragraphs, the 2011 Cavs' eight man rotation contained just three players from the 2010 squad's eight man rotation: the inconsistent Hickson--now thrust into the role as the team's leader in minutes played--plus the injured Varejao and Williams, who was limited by nagging injuries before being traded to the Clippers. The 2011 Cavs' eight man rotation also included just three players from the 2009 squad's eight man rotation: Gibson (a non-starting three point specialist in 2009 who started 15 games in 2011) plus the aforementioned Williams and Varejao. If Jamison, Williams and Varejao had been the 2011 Cavs' top three players in minutes played (instead of fifth, seventh and eighth respectively) the Cavs would have posted a much better record. James' departure probably cost the Cavs about 20 wins but the rest of the decline stemmed from the upheaval involved with changing the team's front office/coaching staff combined with the injuries and roster moves that drastically changed the eight man rotation.It is fine to rhapsodize about LeBron James' greatness as a regular season performer-- I picked him as the 2011 MVP --but James' abilities are proven by what he accomplished in Miami, not by the sagging fortunes of a rebooted franchise plagued by injuries, bereft of depth and lacking a legit big man. I fully realize that the Cavs' 2011 season will likely be used indefinitely as an easy punchline to "confirm" James' value but I sincerely hope that at some point people will eventually come to their senses and appreciate the logical points stated in the preceding paragraphs; the discussion of NBA basketball should not forever be dominated by wrongheaded "stat gurus," misinformed media members and amateur writers plucked out of nowhere for 15 minutes of fame as part of the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Leader's" blogging network. The sport--and the writing profession--both deserve much better than that.
3) Employ Joule calibration after the test when the operating regime has been determined. The internal sense control thermocouple (whose data are missing from the report) could easily be re-inserted after the products have been removed and then re-bonded into place for calibration. The inability or unwillingness to do one or all of these things is a glaring deficiency in the thermal output record. That is not to say that this record is incorrect, but we cannot be certain that it is correct and the measurement uncertainty is undefined. In the absence of calibration suitable and sufficient for accurate quantification, what can we learn qualitatively using the experimental data from the active run as its own “self-calibration”? On page 7 of the report the authors state: “Subsequent calculation proved that increasing the input by roughly 100 watts had caused an increase of about 700 watts in power emitted.” This is interesting. The shape of the output vs. input power curve is observed (or implied) to strongly curve upwards in a manner completely inconsistent with the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiative heat loss. It is also inconsistent with simple convective heat transfer but several issues need to be addressed before we can claim this as a qualitative or even “semi-quantitative” measure of excess heat production: 1) The issue of alumina emissivity is adequately handled in the report (it is needed to calibrate the temperature measurements) but not the issue of transparency. Without getting too technical, the rate of radiant heat release is determined optically. At issue is the extent to which the camera measures directly the temperature of the heating wires and the putative source of the “fuel” directly transmitted through the alumina container, rather than the surface as assumed in the heat calculations. This is not an area of my expertise. The arguments are subtle and may result in under, over, or accurate measurement of radiant heat loss rate.
When it comes to defections by members of legislative assemblies, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have dominated headlines. The MLAs of the ruling party — the Congress in both states — broke ranks and backed the chief opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), putting the future of the state governments in jeopardy.This has led many to question the efficacy of the anti-defection law. Intensifying the debate over the law are the defections by opposition MLAs to the ruling parties in Telangana — which was carved out of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh less than two years ago — and more recently, in Andhra Pradesh itself.The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) won 63 out of the 119 seats in the 2014 assembly election. But its strength in the present assembly is 83, including 12 legislators who have defected from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and four from the Congress. This has left TDP with all of three MLAs in Telangana.The TDP, however, is a beneficiary of defections in Andhra Pradesh, where eight MLAs from YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) joined it in over a month and three more are expected to follow suit. (See chart. )J Musaliah, a professor of political science at Osmania University, says a common reason for the defections in both states could be the opposition MLAs’ belief that the ruling parties are likely to get another five-year term in the 2019 polls.A TDP legislator in Telangana, who defected to TRS after a year of resisting its lures, says he was helpless. “Apart from freezing developmental projects in my constituency, the TRS brass also targeted my businesses,” he says, pleading anonymity.“I had to join the ruling party as my political career was at stake and TDP leaders weren’t coming to my rescue.” One of the problems for the TDP and the YSRCP — which has lost two of its three MLAs to the TRS — in Telangana is that they are seen as Andhra parties that were opposed to the creation of Telangana.Moreover, Musaliah believes that K Chandrashekar Rao, TRS president and Telangana chief minister, has managed — despite being an upper-caste Velama — to garner the support of different caste groups, including Reddys, other backward classes and scheduled castes.The Reddys, who are dominant in Telangana and the Rayalaseema region of Andhra, had the most to lose from the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
The bright radio synchrotron luminosity of N 132D and the tentative claim of x-ray synchrotron emission from this source (48) also raises the possibility that the γ-ray emission is caused by inverse Compton scattering of low-energy photons. In and around N 132D, the radiation energy density is dominated by the bright infrared flux from dust inside the SNR and can be roughly estimated to be at least u rad ≈ 1.0 eV cm−3. This leptonic scenario requires that the average magnetic-field strength needs to be ∼20 μG, somewhat lower but still consistent with the equipartition value (see S1.3). However, this leptonic scenario critically depends on whether the 4 to 6 keV x-ray continuum emission indeed contains a substantial synchrotron component. Whatever the emission mechanism for the γ-ray emission from N 132D, it is an exciting new γ-ray–emitting SNR, because its age lies in the gap between young (<2000 years) TeV-emitting SNRs, and old (≳10000 years) TeV-quiet SNRs. The latter can be bright pion-decay sources, but their spectra appear to be cut off above ∼10 GeV. N 132D provides, therefore, an indication of how long SNRs contain CRs with energies in excess of 1013 eV.

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