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To identify sex-biased SCNAs, we focused on the most significant SCNAs identified by GISTIC () in each cancer type. The number of region-based SCNAs (including both focal and arm-level amplifications/deletions) we surveyed ranged from 68 in KIRP to 122 in LUAD. At FDR = 0.05, we identified sex-biased SCNAs in LUSC, KIRP, and KIRC, all of which were in the strong sex-effect group. Figure 3 provides an overview of the statistical significance of sex-biased focal amplifications and deletions in these three cancer types, showing a total of 21 significant peaks (FDR ≤ 0.1). Notably, these sex-biased SCNAs cover quite a number of clinically actionable genes (as highlighted in Figure 3 ). Among them, two gene groups are of particular clinical interest. One group is related to the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway, which represents the signaling pathway most commonly activated in human cancer and has been under intensive clinical investigation (), and related genes include PIK3CA, MTOR, PTEN, NF1, and FBXW7. In LUSC, an SCNA (17q11.2) harboring NF1 is more frequently deleted in females, and the inactivation of this gene has been associated with sensitivity to mTOR inhibitors and resistance to MEK inhibitors (). In KIRP, the 4q34.3 deletion containing FBXW7 occurs more frequently in females, and the deletion of this gene may affect the sensitivity to rapamycin treatment and antitubulin chemotherapeutics (). In KIRC, the amplicon 3q26 containing PI3KCA occurs more frequently in females, and PI3KCA activation has been reported to predict the sensitivity to PI3K/AKT/mTOR inhibitors (); and the deletions of 1p36.23 (harboring MTOR) and 10q23.31 (harboring PTEN) are more prevalent in male patients. Another group is several therapeutic targets for cancer immunotherapy, which were detected in KIRC. TNFRSF8 (CD30) and CD52 are more frequently lost in males, and these two genes are the targets of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs for lymphoma and B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, respectively (). The deletion involving PDCD1 (PD-1) shows a similar bias; this gene represents an immune checkpoint and has been a major focus in the development of immunotherapy ().
These stromatolites are known date back as far as 3.5 billion years.These bacteria are the discovery of a team of scientists who were studying stromatolites from the shallow waters of the lake. Known as the Candidatus Gloeomargarita lithophora; they are distinctive in the fact that they form calcified crystal-like granules on the inside of the cell instead of outside. In their thesis geobiologist Karim Benzerara, along with his team of scientists, speculate that this particular strain is a branch of an ancient line of cyanobacteria called Gloeobacterales. They also hypothesize that since the skeleton is in the interior and not on the exterior, it is explainable why there is a lag in between their appearance and the oldest fossils found.As per the thesis proposed by the scientists at The National Centre for Scientific Research the granules formed within the cell are primarily a composition of minerals like calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and carbonate. Since this composition is different from that found in the adjoining waters they believe that this endoskeleton is formulated by the bacterium itself and is constantly transferring vital ingredients within the cell. Robert Riding of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville states in a comment in 27th April issue of Science “It’s interesting and opens up varied prospects, we hadn’t thought about before,”The researchers are yet to tell if these granules formed within the cyanobacteria, dissolve leaving remnants after their death. Since these bacteria are the first of their kind and found only at a single location, it is difficult for the scientists to speculate the precise significance of the discovery. However they are hopeful that this find is going to be another feather in the cap of the ongoing process we call evolution. [redditors, if it's your first time on DigitalJournal.com, thanks for reading this report, feel free check out other articles on our global news network. Also, we wrote about reddit and interviewed general manager Erik Martin recently, check out our profile of reddit here .) More about Cyanobacteria, stromatolites, Bacteria More news from Cyanobacteria stromatolites Bacteria
The inquiry also determined that, between 3 January and 7 July that year, 32 tanks left the Tarragona refinery overloaded, with drivers other than Imbernón.
Little is known about the mechanism(s) responsible for the decline in nutrient concentrations associated with elevated [CO 2 ]. Some authors have proposed ‘carbohydrate dilution’, by which CO 2 -stimulated carbohydrate production by plants dilutes the rest of the grain components26. To test this hypothesis, we measured concentrations of additional elements for all crops except wheat (Extended Data Table 4). Our findings were inconsistent with carbohydrate dilution operating alone. If only passive dilution of nutrients were occurring, we would have expected to see very similar changes in the concentration of each nutrient tested for a given crop. In contrast, we found that elemental changes in the individual crops are distinct from each other. For example, in rice grains (Extended Data Table 4) the decrease in zinc concentrations associated with elevated [CO 2 ] was significantly different from the decreases in the concentrations of copper (P ≤ 0.001), calcium (P ≤ 0.001), boron (P ≤ 0.001) and phosphate (P = 0.010). This heterogeneous response was also observed in recent analyses reviewing possible mechanisms for nutrient changes in both edible and non-edible plant tissues grown at elevated [CO 2 ]27. It also seems that the mechanism(s) causing these changes operate distinctly in different species. In one instance, for example, we found boron to be significantly decreased in soybeans (P ≤ 0.001), whereas it was significantly elevated in rice grains (P ≤ 0.001). Although these differences may, in part, have derived from different environmental conditions, they suggest that the mechanism is more complex than carbohydrate dilution alone. Of all the elements, changes in nitrogen content at elevated [CO 2 ] have been the most studied, and inhibition of photorespiration and malate production24, carbohydrate dilution26, slower uptake of nitrogen in roots25 and decreased transpiration-driven mass flow of nitrogen7 may all be significant.
The only way we could achieve the column torques on the rig was with the column still reasonably intact and thus able to trans-mit torque due to the rotational inertia of the steering wheel — put simply, a completely broken column could not be made to register any steering column torque readings. Now, I am responsible for following that request of Ayrton's to lower the steering wheel slightly to avoid him rubbing his knuckles on the inside of the chassis. I am responsible for giving the drawing office the instruction to that it would then lower it by 2mm, and when they came back to me to say interfere with the FIA cockpit template, I instructed them to reduce the steering column diameter locally by 4mm. What I didn't do was look at the detailed drawing myself or have a proper checking system in place to make sure that it had been done in a safe manner. It's a simple, well-known law of engineering that to maintain stiff-ness and strength you have to increase wall thickness, but that wasn't done. The wall thickness was not increased. It's also a simple, well-known law of engineering that if you have a very sharp corner • a component, that causes an area of very high stress; and because of that stress, the component will eventually crack and fatigue; and that fatigue crack will propagate eventually around the whole component and cause failure. So there were two very bad pieces of engineering in that diameter reduction. Ultimately, Patrick and I were responsible for that. You question yourself. If you don't, you're a fool. The first thing you ask yourself is: Do I want to be involved in something where somebody can be killed as a result of a decision I have made? If you answer yes to that one, the second is: Do I accept that one of the design team for which I am responsible may make a mistake in the design of the car and the result of that mistake is that somebody may be killed? Prior to Imola, stupid as this may sound, I had never asked myself those questions. If you want to continue in motor racing, you have to square that with yourself. You have to be prepared to offer an affirmative to both of those questions because, try as you might, you can never ever guarantee that a mistake will not be made.
The United States and India have held talks about conducting joint naval patrols that a US defence official said could include the disputed South China Sea, a move that would likely anger Beijing, which claims most of the waterway.Washington wants its regional allies and other Asian nations to take a more united stance against China over the South China Sea, where tensions have spiked in the wake of Beijing's construction of seven man-made islands.But the Indian navy has never carried out joint patrols with another country and a naval spokesman told Reuters there was no change in the government's policy of only joining an international military effort under the United Nations flag.He pointed to India's refusal to be part of anti-piracy missions involving dozens of countries in the Gulf of Aden and instead carrying out its own operations there since 2008.The US defence official said the two sides had discussed joint patrols, adding that both were hopeful of launching them within the year. The patrols would likely be in the Indian Ocean where the Indian navy is a major player as well as the South China Sea, the official told Reuters in New Delhi on condition of anonymity.The official gave no details on the scale of the proposed patrols.There was no immediate comment from China, which is on a week-long holiday for Chinese New Year.Neither India nor the United States has claims to the South China Sea, but both said they backed freedom of navigation and overflight in the waterway when US President Barack Obama visited New Delhi in January 2015.Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi also agreed at the time to "identify specific areas for expanding maritime cooperation".More than $5 trillion in world trade moves through the South China Sea each year.In December, the issue of joint patrols came up when Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar visited the US Pacific Command in Hawaii, an Indian government source said. "It was a broad discussion, it was about the potential for joint patrols," said the source, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.India has stepped up its naval presence far beyond the Indian Ocean, deploying a ship to the South China Sea almost constantly, an Indian navy commander said, noting this wasn't the practice a few years ago. Still, the idea of joining the United States in patrols in the region was a long shot, the officer added.
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As Inspector General Ethics I directed and coordinated a broad-based attack on the Internal Revenue Service. The purpose of the campaign was to put the IRS into a more amenable frame of mind so that they would relent in their own decades long refusal to grant tax exempt status to the churches. In late summer 1991, when sufficient pressure was accomplished, Miscavige and I directly approached then-IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg to open settlement negotiations. Those negotiations were initiated and conducted over the next two years. Miscavige and I traveled across the country together to meet with the IRS regularly until October 1993 when the IRS granted tax exempt status to all churches of Scientology and related organizations. Miscavige directed large bonuses be paid to Religious Technology Center executives during the first several years of his reign as COB RTC. He justified it based on policy within the church and the Sea Org by the founder L. Ron Hubbard which stated he wished to see the day when Scientology staff were well paid. Accordingly, the fact was not hidden that CSI and RTC executives were well paid in the late eighties and early nineties. Of course, Miscavige’s pay was consistently higher than anyone’s. In fact, he had to have other executives being paid something in the neighborhood of his own pay until tax exemption was attained as the IRS required detailed reports on the pay of RTC highest executives. The IRS record reflects that during the years 89-91 RTC executives received salaries ranging from the low tens of thousands to mid tens of thousands per years. Miscavige reported salaries from the mid tens of thousands to the high tens of thousands. When that issue seemed to be settled to the IRS’ satisfaction, Miscavige canceled bonuses for all RTC and CSI executives. At one point when the IRS wanted some more current information on executive salaries, Miscavige’s wife and Assistant Shelly severely rebuked me for having refused a bonus as I considered it unearned. Under pressure I relented and went ahead and received the bonus so as to “protect COB.” Once exemption was attained, high bonuses for CSI and RTC executives were virtually wiped out. With one glaring exception, David Miscavige and his wife continued to be paid a combined salary upwards of one hundred thousand dollars for years to come. Other RTC and CSI staff executives were for the most part paid fifty dollars per week.
Because the correlation of total cholesterol with heart disease is so weak, many years ago a stronger correlation was sought. It was found that there is so-called “good cholesterol” called HDL, and that the so-called “bad cholesterol” was LDL. HDL stands for high-density lipoprotein, and LDL stands for low-density lipoprotein. Notice please that LDL and HDL are lipoproteins — fats combined with proteins. There is only one cholesterol. There is no such thing as a good or a bad cholesterol. Cholesterol is just cholesterol. It combines with other fats and proteins to be carried through the bloodstream, since fat and our watery blood do not mix very well.Fatty substances therefore must be shuttled to and from our tissues and cells using proteins. LDL and HDL are forms of proteins and are far from being just cholesterol. In fact we now know there are many types of these fat and protein particles. LDL particles come in many sizes and large LDL particles are not a problem. Only the so-called small dense LDL particles can potentially be a problem, because they can squeeze through the lining of the arteries and if they oxidize, otherwise known as turning rancid, they can cause damage and inflammation. Thus, you might say that there is “good LDL” and “bad LDL.” Also, some HDL particles are better than others. Knowing just your total cholesterol tells you very little. Even knowing your LDL and HDL levels do not tell you very much.A mistake that is rarely made in the hard-core sciences such as physics seems to be frequently made in medicine. This is confusing correlation with cause. There may be a weak correlation of elevated cholesterol with heart attacks, however this does not mean it is the cholesterol that caused the heart attack. Certainly gray hair is correlated with getting older; however one could hardly say that the gray hair caused one to get old. Using hair dye to reduce the gray hair would not really make you any younger. Neither it appears would just lowering your cholesterol.Perhaps something else is causing both the gray hair and aging. Even if elevated cholesterol were significant and heart disease (which I question) perhaps something else is causing the elevated cholesterol and also causing the heart disease.Let’s look little more at cholesterol or, as Paul Harvey was fond of saying, “the rest of the story.” First and foremost, cholesterol is a vital component of every cell membrane on Earth.
Schrader’s admiration for Bresson has never been more apparent than in this austerely masterful recapitulation of his core motifs, weighted by affecting portrayals from Hawke, Amanda Seyfried as the activist’s wife and Cedric “the Entertainer” Kyles as a sympathetic mega-church leader.—RDL Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Film, US, RaMell Moore, 2018) Impressionist, verite documentary seeks sublimity in the quotidian as it reveals the lives of a young black family living in impoverished rural Alabama. Makes its way to an emotional punch that justifies the occasional shot of not much going on. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this weekend’s Academy Awards.—RDL The Tale (Film, US, Jennifer Fox, 2018) When her mother (Ellen Burstyn) discovers a story she wrote as a 13-year-old, a documentary filmmaker (Laura Dern) re-examines the childhood sexual abuse she has mentally remythologized as a relationship with an older boyfriend. Innovative storytelling techniques capture the gulf between carefully constructed memory and retrospectively revealed reality.—RDL Good Paradox (Film, HK, Wilson Yip, 2017) Overprotective Hong Kong cop (Louis Koo) goes to Thailand in search of his missing daughter, where he teams up with a local detective (Yue Wu) against a highly connected conspiracy. The latest in the SPL series is more grim than romantically fatalistic, leaving the Sammo Hung action direction as the main point of attraction. Note the distinct combat styles he gives each principal, including and Tony Jaa, who shows up just long enough for a special guest fight scene.—RDL The Wandering Earth (Film, China, Frant Gwo, 2019) Disaffected youth Liu Qi’s (Qu Chuxiao) joyride on the Earth’s frozen surface coincides with a Jovian gravity spike that endangers the “Wandering Earth” mission — to fly the planet to Alpha Centauri to escape the Sun going nova. Based on the Cixin Liu story, this film combines SF blockbuster and disaster-movie tropes with general success, aided by Roc Chen’s metal-fatigue score. Thinly sketched characters emoting amid CGI maybe won’t grab you, but the spectacle provides plenty sense of wonder. –KH
NOTE: This was the first confirmed sighting of SCP-3143-J, during an investigation of SCP-3138 activity in an effected narrative. Mobile Task Force Lambda-8 ("Infowars"), a specialized force comprised of informational narrative constructs, was on the scene and receiving aid from SCP-3143 when the entity manifested. FADE IN: INT. THE JASPER EYE NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT A light-skinned man in a dark trilby stands alone in the normally crowded club, head cocked downward with his jaw tightly wound closed. He's alone because the other three in the room are dead. He's got a gun in his hand, but he didn't kill these men. His name is MURPHY LAW, and he was going to find out who did. MURPHY is also our NARRATOR. His voice sounds like an electric pencil sharpener as it gargles a mouthful of pebbles. It might sound coarse, but nothing as rough as the night these corpses had. NARRATOR Fifth body in three days. Whoever the Chicago Spirit has got dumping corpses is on a hot streak, and you'd better believe I'm going to put that SOB on ice. The front doors swing open with a loud groan, followed by the echoing steps of a band of heavily armed spec ops soldiers- the Foundation's finest. Leading the group is SGT. ASTAIRE, a stout man with a look of unpleasantness on his face. NARRATOR Things were much different now, the science goons had even gone as far as to ask him for help. When the going gets tough, befriend the one who beat you before. SGT. ASTAIRE Yeah, nice to see you too, SCP-3143. MURPHY is silent as he steps around the pool of blood on the floor. MURPHY More bodies. We better end this before the count reaches the double digits. SGT. ASTAIRE You don't have to tell me twice. Any leads so far? MURPHY Actually, I just got here, surveying the damage. SGT. ASTAIRE glances over MURPHY's shoulder. SGT. ASTAIRE Excuse me, ma'am, you can't be here. This is an active crime scene. MURPHY turns to see his ex-wife BARBARA LAW marching up to the group. She looks like she's been through the ringer, arguably one of her better days. MURPHY Barb, what are you doing here? I told you not to bother me while I'm working. BARBARA Don't give me that bullshit, Murphy! Why haven't you been returning my calls? Your last check bounced, I'm being generous not getting Feinberg on your case for this nonsense.
Professor Lynn Rogers As part of the programme, the BBC film crew working with Prof Rogers recorded wild black bears mating for the first time. When the male bear mounts the female, his body shakes in a behaviour that Prof Rogers calls "fluttering". Contrary to popular opinion, mating bears aren't particularly dangerous. In all his years observing the black bears, he has never been threatened by a black bear that is attempting to attract or mate with another. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. In fact, he has never been attacked by any bear. Black bear attacks on humans are incredibly rare, with most happening in the remote parts of Canada and Alaska, says Prof Rogers, who is director of the Wildlife Research Institute and the North American Bear Centre in Ely, Minnesota, US. "In the eastern US, there have been only three fatalities caused by black bears in the last hundred years," he says. A classic depiction of the black bear When Prof Rogers started his research in the 1960s, they had to tranquilise bears to get close to them. But now he has worked out how to get the bears' trust. One bear, which Prof Rogers has named June, is particularly amenable, allowing him to walk and rest with her in the forest. "Everyone warns you never to go near a mother bear with cubs," says Prof Rogers. Yet he is able to sit alongside June and her cubs as they exit their den and play. He is also able to do the same with another bear, named Juliet. Before June hibernates for the winter, the bear allows Prof Rogers to monitor her heart rate on a daily basis. Each day, prior to her entering her den, June's heart rate falls. BEAR FACTS Black bears once ranged over most of the forested regions of North America. Their current distribution is restricted to relatively undisturbed forested regions Their population is estimated at 750,000 Wild males weigh between 125 and 500lbs. Females weigh between 90 and 300lbs Black bears groom each other for parasites as primates do This species does not growl. Black bears make loud blowing noises and clack their teeth when frightened "It is not that she likes me, she trusts me," says Prof Rogers. "For the first half of my life, I struggled to control my fear of bears.
As soon as we got the veto down and everything selected, we were really confident just seeing the three maps. Because we knew they were gonna pick Train, we did a lot of stuff on Train for them; we obviously knew our pick. If they were going to ban Cache we would pick Nuke, and if they banned Nuke we would do Cache. And then, Cobblestone is a very strong map for a lot of us, so really confident going into it. The first map was on Train and we got a really good CT side half. But as soon as we got to the T side, we couldn’t really get anything going at all. Like, every strat that we tried just didn’t work, and we just hit a brick wall; we couldn’t do anything. As soon as we got to Nuke, we felt really good on our T side. We played them in scrims before, and everything we always did worked. Our executes were solid and we had a lot of confidence. We got seven rounds on the T side and that’s insane. Then CT side… I don’t have anything for that…Nitr0 has been a god this whole series, he’s been playing really well this whole major. Everyone has been playing well this whole major, but Nick [E/N: nitr0] especially.So with this roster, like, this is honestly the biggest dream team lineup that we could have ever hoped for. You got me and Nick doing the entry stuff, and we’re really confident with that, and we’re really good at it; we like doing it, it’s our thing. You got Hiko to close out every round. You got Josh [E/N: jdm], best AWPer in North America, and then you got S1mple, who’s just an all-around good player. So, all of us can step up at any moment. If any one of us is cold one day, someone else is gonna pick it up, and it goes for every single map. So we’re confident, just with everything we’re going to do.Actually yes, we practiced a lot of Nuke during our bootcamp. We had two weeks of bootcamp. And we kinda knew that Na’Vi doesn’t play Cache. We practiced against them online on Nuke, and it didn’t seem that they were really confident on it.
However mental illness was not easily Healed with the One Power and many in the Age of Legends believed it could not be done (Use a Pebble).The One Power was shared so none need feel deprived:The ‘standing flows’ made it possible for non-channellers to use almost any ter’angreal (Crossroads of Twilight, A Mark).Life was not only comfortable, but beautiful. Each of the major metropolitan centres was ‘a work of art unto itself’ (The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time ). View-walls could bring a perfect semblance of the natural world into buildings (Winter’s Heart, Wonderful News).Some citizens rejected the advanced technology and One Power usage of the Age of Legends:or at least were much more conservative of what technology they adopted.Since poverty and unequal standards of living had been eliminated, major conflict between groups of classes of people did not exist.Furthermore, financial rewards and high status were earned by serving others, reducing the temptation for political manipulation or financial crime. Crime, including violent crimes and crimes of passion, was not common, but it did occur. The perpetrators of violent acts were bound against repeat offences rather than incarcerated. The binding was done on ter’angreal. Channellers guilty of violent crimes were bound on what is now called an ‘oath rod’ in the Third Age (see Oath Rod section of Ter'angreal article). Once bound, the channeller was unable to repeat their crimes and their lifespan was halved. Multiple bindings were very rare and produced the ageless look (Lord of Chaos, Threads Woven of Shadow).Rehabilitation for criminals was described as “quick and certain” (The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time ). Speculation: Non-channellers and channellers may have been rehabilitated on the Chair of Remorse ter’angreal in the White Tower, which the Third Age Aes Sedai use to make criminals experience carefully selected consequences of their crimes (Winter’s Heart Prologue).In the Age of Legends, they spoke the language that is called the Old Tongue in the Third Age. The Old Tongue is like Hebrew, in having shades and layers of meaning in one word.Paaren Disen was the main city in the Age of Legends. Its name is an allusion to Paradise, so let’s examine possible paradisiacal parallels to the Utopian Age of Legends.The Greek philosopher Plato described an ideal Republic based on ethics.
Soot is assumed to be produced by global fires ignited as debris from the impact falls through the atmosphere at high velocities and heats up to very high temperatures. We assume that fine soot is lofted to the upper troposphere in pyrocumuli (14), and we thus place it in a Gaussian distribution centered on the local tropopause. The remaining, coarse soot particles are placed in a half-Gaussian at the surface. Both fine and coarse soot are injected over 24 h. The coarse soot is removed rapidly (Fig. S1) and plays a negligible role in forcing climate change; therefore, in the remainder of the paper, we refer to the various simulations by the amount of fine soot injected. See Soot Emission and Removal and Toon et al. (8) for a detailed discussion of the soot emissions. Table S1. Simulations carried out for this study Fig. S1. Evolution of soot burden (black) and cumulative wet (blue) and dry (red) deposition for the simulation with 15,000 Tg of fine soot and 41,000 Tg of coarse soot, including injections of H 2 O, CO 2 , and heat from fires for (A) 1 wk using hourly data and (B) 1 y using monthly average data. The soot is emitted over the first 12 h to 36 h and is followed by rapid wet and dry removal. After 1 y, the remaining soot burden is 4% of the total 56,000-Tg emission, with 57% removed by wet deposition and 38% removed by dry deposition. There are many other materials that plausibly might have been injected along with the soot (8). The K−Pg layer is dominated by spherules about 200 µm in diameter (15). These particles likely ignited the global wildfires, but they could have remained in the atmosphere only a few days and would not have impacted climate directly. In addition, clastics were clearly produced in the impact and extend over much of North America. However, the submicron fraction that could have been part of the global aerosol layer is subject to debate, difficult to determine from theory, and not detectable in the K−Pg global layer because of chemical weathering of the clastics. Vaporized impactor and target material would not only have condensed to form the large spherules but may also have left behind a large mass of rock vapor (16).
Say Google is 50ms slower than Bing. Is this because of the ISP, or the routers and myriad server and path differentials between the ISP and Google, vs. the ISP and Bing? Can’t tell, it’s all conflated. We have to normalize the connection between the two sites, to measure if the ISP is using policy to alter QoS. Here’s how we do this with n00ter. Start with a VPN, that creates an encrypted link from a Client to a broker/concentrator. An IP at the Broker talks plaintext with Google and Bing, who replies to the Broker. The Broker now encrypts the traffic back to the Client. Policy can’t differentiate Bing traffic from Google traffic, it’s all encrypted. Now, lets change things up — let’s have the Broker push the response traffic from Google and Bing, completely in the open. In fact, lets have it go so far as to spoof traffic from the original sources, making it look like there isn’t even a Broker in place. There’s just nice clean streams from Google and Bing. If traffic from the same host, being sent over the same network path, but looking like Google, arrives faster (or slower) than traffic that looks like it came from Bing, then there’s policy differentiating Google from Bing. Now, what if the policy is only applied to full flows, and not half flows? Well, in this case, we have one session that’s a straight normal download from Bing. Then we have another, where the entire client->server path is tunneled as before, but the Broker immediately emits the tunneled packets to Bing spoofing the Client’s IP address. So basically we’re now comparing the speed of a full legitimate flow to Bing, with a half flow. If QoS differs — as it would, if policy is only applied to full flows, then once again the policy is detected. I call this client->server spoofing mode Roto-N00ter. There’s more tricks, but this is what N00ter’s up to in a nutshell. It should work for anything IP based — if you want to know if XBox360 traffic routes faster than PS3 traffic, this’ll tell you.
1 rival, the University of Minnesota, Sandelin is the only Bulldog coach to possess a .500 or better record and is 7-1-1 in his last nine meetings with the Gophers.
I accused him again of being evil and he just goes "yeah" and laughs out loud and brags how he raped me twice and his friends watched the second time." I continue with Amy's narration. "After I was in his power I'm so worried about what is in my vagina. I'm in a shock, denial state and having suicidal thoughts and he is still following me around and trying to take control of my hands and throwing things around." "I'm very sick, disoriented, nauseous, headache, blurry vision. I feel like part of him is still in me. When we had sex he literally went into my body and we were one. My hands keep moving without me telling them to. I can't even think." "Should I go to a doctor? I don't want to die. I can't cope - can't let myself believe this is reality. They really are evil and went through all that pretense just to make it seem legitimate. The deceit was the thrill not the violence. Now I have firsthand understanding why the Indians called them "trickster Gods." "The nasty reptile caused me to want to have sex with him. What kind of illness could I get from what he has done? I can't go to a doctor and have my mother find out. I can't tell anyone but you." Amy's terrible ordeal continues. "He is standing here shrugging his shoulders and saying, "Maybe you are going to die" Things like that. The energy form that tricked me into having sex with him continues to follow me. At night time I saw him pretty vividly. I saw his reptile form now that he did not try to disguise himself." "They are very tall, muscular on top, kind of small average sized heads, a little different shaped than humans, eyes shaped like a human's but I think they are red and yellow colored, very long pointed fingers. He looked like a reptile, like a human lizard, alligator skin, snake-like face and features. A mix of them all." "He turned into a ball of blue-white energy. I am embarrassed to say they are very seductive and have this mind control. I was in bed and I knew he wanted sex so I just didn't even try to resist. I just thought he is much more powerful than me so I might as well give him what he wants."
He is personally overseeing a review of the so-called New Veterans Charter — the 2006 document that outlines services, compensation and benefits for the injured — and he said various other committees and government advisory panels are examining the necessary fixes. “My big concern is that, because of the way the charter has been written, it requires so much legislative change, and that’s slow,” he said. A speedy response from the government, which he said has been lacking so far, is of the essence. Of the 1,500 soldiers already injured, an estimated 100 have suffered serious wounds and about two dozen soldiers have had limbs amputated, most after encountering a roadside bomb blast. “We’re talking about guys that are already hurting,” Dallaire said. “We’re just not getting that speed of response.” Topping the list of changes demanded to the veterans’ charter is that Ottawa replace the lump sum payment now awarded to injured soldiers with the monthly pension that had been in place to those injured before April 2006. Wounded soldiers have complained the switch to a lump sum leaves them shortchanged financially. NDP MP Peter Stoffer said the system must become “more efficient and more generous” if injured veterans are to get the help they truly deserve. It also needs to be faster to respond to soldiers in need. “It needs to get to the point where a guy coming back from Afghanistan says ‘I need help’ the only question should be ‘how can we help you’,” he said. “We need the system to fight for the veteran, not the veteran to have to fight the system. We have to turn it on its head,” Stoffer said. So far, the government has allowed bureaucrats to make the vital decisions when veterans seek help. “Unfortunately the bureaucracy is set up to say ‘no’,” Stoffer said. One battle that injured soldiers may not win is the one to continue on with their military careers, even though Dallaire said it is relatively easy to resolve. Trauner, who lost both legs on a foot patrol in December 2008, is able to complete 7 kilometres of the 13 kilometre rucksack march that all soldiers must complete to remain in the force. But if he and others like him can’t meet the army’s physical tests, they are merely biding their time until the Canadian Forces ushers them out under a medical release process.
GUWAHATI: Prime minister, Narendra Modi on Saturday said Centre has approved a new Central Sector Scheme , North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme which will fill the gaps in creation of infrastructure in two sectors.Modi who was in Mizoram said, “One sector is physical infrastructure relating to water supply, power, connectivity and especially projects promoting tourism. The other is social sector projects of education and health. The new scheme has been designed after due consultations with State Governments.However, to ensure continuity, all ongoing projects under NLCPR (Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources) will be provided funds for completion by March 2022.The prime minister added that the new Scheme will be 100 percent centrally funded as against the NLCPR, where 10 percent contribution had to come from the State Governments. The Central Government will be providing Rs 5300 crore to North Eastern States under the Scheme over the next three years.“As a result of the efforts of the Union Government, schemes for the benefit of the North-Eastern region have been gained momentum. Projects stuck for years, are now progressing. I am told, the Ministry for Development of the North-East Region is also supporting the activities of the North Eastern Handicrafts and Handloom Development Corporation; and the North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation.” Modi added.Modi dedicated of the 60 Mega-Watt Tuirial Hydro-power Project to the nation. This comes 13 years after the last major central sector hydro-power project in the North-Eastern Region--the Kopili Stage-II.Tuirial Hydro-power project is the first major Central Sector Project to be successfully commissioned in Mizoram. It is the first large hydro-power project in the State. It will produce 251 Million Units of electrical energy every year, and boost the socio-economic development of the State.With the commissioning of this project, Mizoram becomes the third power-surplus State in the North-East, after Sikkim and Tripura. The project was first declared and cleared by the Union Government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, way back in 1998, but got delayed.Modi said, “The completion of this project is a reflection of our commitment to complete on-going projects and usher in a new era of development in the North Eastern region. I see no reason why Mizoram cannot become a net-power exporter. Our aim is not just to make the North Eastern States power surplus. We also aim to develop a state-of-art transmission system which ensures that surplus power is transferred to other power deficient parts of the country.
Using the setup and analysis (detailed below) we are projecting a continued bullrun with support towards 300k, with a new trading channel between 130kand 170k(the .618 and .382 Fib). The 7hr average is currently on an explosive upwards trend as it has punched past the downwards (orange line)compression and the 77/343 averages, with increased trading volumes assiting the rise.CURRENT SETUP & EXPLINATION OF SIMPLIFIED CHARTI use a 7/77/343 hour of trends (7-white, 77- purple, 343 - white cloud).1) 7/77/343 IntersectionsFirst intersection: 4/22/2017 172k-0.25%Second intersection: 7/28/2017 75k-0.25%Third intersection: 10/8/2017 75k-0.25%2) Line Setups- Upwards Trends (green lines): Using the intersections from above, plotting the first upwards trendline (from 1st intersection to the peak), duplicating these lines through the other two intersections- Downwardscompression (Orange line). From the top of thedown through last crossing of 7/343/7.3) FIB setup and support- From firstto, we see that PIVX rose to around 170ks (1), then corrected to .786, before fnally settling into a trading channel between .618 and .382 (green lines). Support for this period was consistent at the .236 (blue bottom line). We drew a blue dotted horizontal line to demark the prior, and a red dotted line at the top (1.618) line. This is (interestingly) come into play in a few more snapshots :)4) Intersection Trendlines (Purple)- Using the priorand tracing a downwards line from this peak through the next intesection of 7/77/343 (Purple line, and then duplicating this line placing the same slope through the NEXT 7/77/343 intersection, we can (interestingly) see this intersects...almost exactly at the 1.618 fib line from above and the upwards green trend line from the nexus seperation. Highlighted with circle. Also notice the second upwards green line intersects this upwards purple line and prior. This indicates a potential level of resistance, but if passed, will indicate a level of future support.5) Newand trading channel- Fib from current position to the top (prior 1.618 line), we see a newaround 275-300k, with a new .618 line close to the priorof 170k, a new trading channel between the .618 and .382 at 170kand 130k, and a new baseline .236 support around 90k-100k
can they fall on something/someone and cause damage or do they just clip through?7.Can you explain a little more about the situation in the third trailer? Some people around the community seem a little confused.8.Is it possible to avoid contact altogether with the mutants? And if you kill mutants without any others watching, will they automatically know that youre messing with them?9.Can wildlife ques such as birds flying away prove as an early warning that some mutants are nearby?10.When venturing into the caves, Will we be able to sneak our way through mostly unnoticed or are there often points where fighting is the only option?11.Is it a common occurence to see the bigger mutants above ground? or is this one of the instances where later on in the game the player has brought this on because of agressive behavior ?12. Is it safe to say that there are still other mutant types we haven't seen?13. Is there a variation in size and height in the humanoid mutants? It seemed like the mutant that first jumped the fence in the third trailer was bigger than normal.14. We see a mutant explode near the end of the trailer, was that an explosive tossed by the player? or a trap?15. do the mutants travel in a variety of group sizes?16. Can the larger walls in the trailer be built upon/upgraded?17. Can the player build structures more than one level high?18. Those snare like traps, do they keep the mutant alive or do they die when they get pulled upside down? And do we have to clear the bodies from the traps and reset them manually?19. Will mutants try to help their friends out of traps if they're still alive?20. Can you accidentally trigger your own traps?21. Can you explain to us how the dead bodys will work? Are they persistent? do they rot like the animals? can you drag/burn them, etc?22. Can you pick up and use the weapons the mutants use?23. Is there dismemberment?24. Do strikes with sharp weapons create some type of visual wounds? Is dismemberment limited to corpses or is it possible in combat?25. Are there weapon specific finishing moves? like the final blow with the rock?26. I was doubtful of this one, but a few people asked if you could eat the mutants as well :/27.
Enlarge By Shannon Stapleton, Reuters When international passengers enter the United States, they are fingerprinted. Here, a security officer is seen with a fingerprinting machine at JFK International Airport in New York in March 2008. Before they can enter the USA, virtually all non-U.S. citizens 14 to 79 have their fingerprints screened at the airport or seaport to confirm their identity and make sure they're not a security threat. But what if you don't have fingerprints? That was the dilemma faced by a Singapore cancer patient whose chemotherapy drug caused severe peeling of the skin on his hands and feet, which erased his fingerprints. His oncologist describes the case in a letter published online today by the Annals of Oncology. The 62-year-old man was taking capecitabine, sold in the USA as Xeloda, for head and neck cancer that had spread to his bones, chest and abdomen (in the USA, Xeloda is approved for the treatment of breast and colorectal cancer that has spread). He developed hand-foot syndrome, a drug side effect that causes the skin on the hands and feet to peel. After taking capecitabine for more than three years, the man, who wasn't identified by doctors, flew to the USA to visit relatives. He was detained at the U.S. airport by Customs and Border Protection officers for four hours because they couldn't detect his fingerprints, his doctors, from the National Cancer Centre Singapore, write. Finally, the officers were satisfied that he wasn't a security threat and allowed him to enter the country. They told him to travel with a letter from his oncologist explaining his lack of fingerprints. Two years ago, Spanish cancer doctors reported a similar story about a 39-year-old flight attendant detained for several hours at a U.S. airport until her doctor faxed an explanation that the capecitabine she'd been taking for breast cancer had erased her fingerprints. Many other drugs can cause hand-foot syndrome, but there is little information about whether they lead to fingerprint loss, Su-Pin Choo, one of the co-authors of the new letter, said in an e-mail. "Hand-foot syndrome is more common with capecitabine than with most other drugs," Choo wrote. Fingerprint loss probably is also related to how long a patient takes a drug that causes hand-foot syndrome, he said, and he added that patients receiving a continuous infusion of 5FU, a common cancer drug, also should consider carrying a letter attesting to that if they travel to the USA.
Ken and Robin Consume Media: Lee, Jenkins, Mulaney, and Joaquin Phoenix with a Ball-Peen Hammer Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we’ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More. Recommended BlacKkKlansman (Film, US, Spike Lee, 2018) While still a rookie, the first black police officer in Colorado Springs (John David Washington) picks up the phone to initiate an investigation into a local KKK chapter, enlisting a colleague (Adam Driver) to adopt his persona for face-to-face encounters. Lee harnesses the pleasures and forward-moving structure of the undercover cop film to the essay style he previously explored in the underrated Bamboozled.—RDL If Beale Street Could Talk (Film, US, Barry Jenkins, 2018) Young woman in 70s Harlem (Kiki Layne) discovers she is pregnant as she tries to get her man (Stephan James) exonerated on a false rape charge. Measured, reverent adaptation of a James Baldwin novel focuses on the suffocating pressure of lives lived under omnipresent oppression.—RDL John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (Stand-up, John Mulaney, 2018) The man who made self-effacing Midwestern-ness funny again, John Mulaney kills in a series of beautifully constructed, dizzyingly cantilevered metaphors and sketches from a horse in a hospital to the uselessness of college (“a hundred … and twenty … thousand … dollars”) to the immortal “Street Smarts” stranger-danger lectures of the Chicago PD’s own J.J. Bittenbinder. Architecturally laughing at crime, that’s the Chicago way. –KH You Were Never Really Here (Film, US/UK, Lynne Ramsay, 2018) Suicidal skullcracker (Joaquin Phoenix) faces deadly blowback when he accepts an assignment to rescue a politician’s underage daughter from a brothel. Arthouse take on the urban avenger genre featuring an intense performance from Phoenix and subjective visuals from an unreliable point of view.—RDL Good Glass (Film, US, M. Night Shyamalan, 2019) Mastermind Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson) orchestrates the showdown between David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and the Horde (James McAvoy). Unifying the casts and storylines of his two most recent successes, Unbreakable and Split, Shyamalan turns his gift for gorgeous lensing and piebald scripting to lo-fi superheroics.
H-61 evidently paid the freight and the Smokey's logo is prominently displayed on the front fenders. If you're looking for historical accuracy, this diecast falls a bit short. If you're looking for a high quality image of those great and legendary Hornets, I'd say the stock versions are better done. Viewed entirely on its own, I'd have to give this piece 3 of 5 stars. Having already seen and appreciated the best features of H-61's Hudson lineup, I may be dwelling too much on this particular model's shortcomings. Hudson (1909-54): In 1909, four former associates of Ransom E. Olds (Roy Chapin, Howard Coffin, Frederick Bezner and James Brady) began building a line of cars that became known for solid engineering, performance and value. Each of the founders had put up $1,500, not much by auto industry standards, even in those days. The big bankroller was Joseph L. Hudson, of Detroit department store fame. Roy Chapin, who emerged as the leader of Hudson Motor Car Co. and whose son, Roy Jr., would later run American Motors -- the result of a merger of Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson -- prudently decided to name the car after the man who put up most of the money. In 1919, the company decided to bring out a smaller, less expensive "companion car" to the Hudson and found a name for it on a map of England -- Essex, selected for its snob appeal. Hudson built the Essex through a separate corporation and in 1922 the Essex was the lowest-priced closed coach car in America and selling well. By 1929, the Essex was selling so well that it was merged into the Hudson line and enabled Hudson to finish third in sales among American nameplates. The Terraplane was introduced in 1932 as a model of Essex and in 1933 Hudson dropped the Essex name and called its companion car the Terraplane Hudson built the Terraplane as a separate car until 1938, when it made the Terraplane a model of the Hudson, then dropped it in 1939, apparently because it felt the Terraplane tail was beginning to wag the Hudson dog and Terraplane was overshadowing Hudson.
But here’s an equally pathetic farce you don’t hear about much: Democrats are just as conned, only in politer tones. Ask a group of liberals what they want in a candidate, and you’ll get a sketch of a champion who will fight for income equality, rein in big banks, defeat ruinous trade agreements, restore our battered civil liberties, look to diplomacy before war, and stop the devastation of our climate. Sure enough, in every election year Democratic candidates come along peddling such wares as these, and the winners go off to D.C. and sock it to the suckers who sent them—shipping their jobs abroad with NAFTA and TPP, deregulating the banks that are screwing them, gutting welfare, ignoring calls for a living wage, logging old-growth forests, drilling the Arctic, spying home and abroad with abandon, beating back calls for universal healthcare, canning whistleblowers, fighting endless wars, torturing prisoners, and much, much more. Like the Republican con men, their Democratic counterparts will defend the worst assaults on Roe v. Wade (and avert their eyes as the states whittle Roe to nothingness—parental notification, anyone? waiting periods? admitting privileges? ), will pass a family medical leave bill (unpaid, naturally, and applying only to businesses with 50 or more employees), will make the most token of gestures against global warming (must “nonbinding” precede every international “agreement”? )—in a word, scraps. This program, like the beast, goes by many names: triangulation, the Third Way, “reaching across the aisle,” “getting things done.” But its true name should be the Northern Strategy, for it’s the Dems’ own version of the Southern. Any leftist who wonders why her voice isn’t heard in Washington shouldn’t be asking what’s the matter with Kansas. She should be asking what’s the matter with New York.
I think we're on the early stages of just major, major changes in media that are going to be really great for consumers. And I think Apple can be a part of that.Bachman: Okay, thanks Tim.
This isn't terrible, especially for a difficult game, but I'd like to see people playing longer and sharing it on social media more.
The Central Bureau of Investigation says that it probing five audio recordings recovered from Chief Minster Arvind Kejriwal's principal secretary Rajender Kumar's email, purportedly carrying his oral instructions to allegedly influence contracts in favour of a private company.CBI sources say that Mr Kumar had initially refused to share his email password to during his detailed examination had later provided the details.They claim that scrutiny of his email account resulted in discovery of five audio recordings pertaining to the period of 2011-13 which carry his purported instructions to the officers handling tenders and contracts to allegedly manipulate and favour Endeavour Systems, which is also named in the First Information Report.The voice samples of Mr Kumar, a 1989-batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre, have been taken as per legal procedures and matched forensically, the sources claimed adding that the said conversations could bring more people into scrutiny.The CBI said that it has registered a case against Mr Kumar and others on allegations against the officer that he abused his official position by "favouring a particular firm in the last few years in getting tenders from Delhi government departments".Mr Kumar has been booked under 120-B of Indian Penal Code (criminal conspiracy), and 13(2), 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct etc). "The accused allegedly facilitated award of contracts worth Rs 9.50 crore (approx) to the said company through ICSIL and misused his official position as public servant. The accused were instrumental in award of projects to the said private company in Delhi Transco Ltd; Health and Family Welfare Department, GNCTD; Delhi Jal Board and Department of Trade and Taxes, GNCTD," CBI had said in the statement after the registration of the case.
Much of its funding comes from contributions from evangelical Christian groups in the United States and the South, according to reports.The school was inspired by the Yanbian University of Science and Technology in China and its inaugural class consisted of 160 undergraduate and master’s students picked by the government.Some analysts say North Korea, which maintains its power in part through its tight control on outside information, is wrestling with how to advance technologically while maintaining control over the flow of information, and ultimately, the populace.Though it remains in question to what extent the new regime will pursue badly-needed reforms, the North has made some efforts towards modernization including renovations in its capital. It has also pushed a system of computer-aided manufacturing called “Computer Numerical Control” in the name of Kim Jong-un, which analysts say is code for modernization.Recently there have been other small signs of possible advancement including a recent paper published in the newspaper of Kim Il-sung University that emphasized the need for e-banking services. The paper also mentioned the use of credit cards, seen as a sign of capitalism.Park said the Internet would contribute to the university reaching its targets.“The goal of PUST is to make a globalized university and the Internet is contributing to achieving this,” Park said.Pyongyang has said it will emerge this year as a strong and prosperous state in time for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country’s founder Kim Il-sung in April.
I would like to move to New York City and work at Skadden . I'm not paid very well here—just $15 an hour. I think I would be an excellent corporate attorney. "If you think I am joking, you would be wrong. This happens to every law firm administrator that is unfortunate enough to have to post a job publicly.The law firm administrators sifting through this onslaught of resumes start becoming unbelievably picky. Law firm administrators (some with zero to little college) start acting like low-paid bureaucrats and weeding out resumes that only have 2.5 and not "exactly" three years of experience. As an aside, many law firm recruiters are exceptional. Some are former lawyers from top firms. The issue is that many law firm administrators without legal experience or training in their job do not understand what makes a good candidate.We typically do a very good job explaining why our candidates are good to law firms. This sort of advocacy usually pays off. I have had multiple candidates contact the major law firms in a given city on their own to get zero interviews. I come along a few months later and contact the same firms and the candidates are able to get interviews—and hired—by several of the firms that rejected them when they contacted the law firms on their own. Here, the recruiter trusted me and my opinions about a candidate, but did not trust the candidates' own opinions about themselves (because they could not see the strength of the candidate).However, sometimes recruiting coordinators and others have not listened to me. They become so literal they are completely black and white.I once called a law firm administrator who had rejected a few of my candidates and said: "You've rejected three candidates of mine who I've placed at great firms. One is at Gibson Dunn , the other is at Covington & Burling and the third is at Sidley & Austin . I would like to meet you for lunch and go over why those were good candidates. "I took her to an expensive lunch. It turned out she had been a secretary at the law firm after high school and promoted to being a recruiting coordinator.
I thought it allowed for a nice amount of flexibility in the flow of the story and I appreciated the end result even if I got it all in one package at the end.Aside from interest in the method of delivery, I was very excited to read The Human Division for the story itself. I hadn't enjoyed Scalzi's last sci-fi outing, Redshirts and was really looking forward to his return to my favorite universe he has created. The Old Man's War series, fitting into the military sci-fi genre, has of course brought many comparisons between Scalzi and Heinlein. I imagine part of the enjoyment I get from Scalzi's books are that he does have some commonality with R.A.H. who is one of my favorite authors. But really Scalzi does have his own voice, style and message and this comes more and more to the fore as the series moves on. The Human Division has all of the excitement, action and wit that makes reading Scalzi so fun. I think his ability to put together strong dialogue is unparalleled. And it is still military sci-fi, with our main protagonist being a soldier. Yet the world is so much more complex and rich than a simple kill or be killed scenario that moves from one point of action to the next. And even what would be slow points in a book that used action to carry a lack of plot, are full of rewarding interaction. We get to know and care about characters, lose some all too quickly and feel a sense of real people engaging one another as opposed to cardboard cutouts.I wouldn't put the Old Man's War books into the hard sci-fi category but they aren't just fantasy dropped into space either. Scalzi obviously gives some thought to settings and technology and so I find it easy to overlook some of the issues that are skipped over for the sake of story. In the end it is entertainment and interesting questions about people and society that draw me to these books, more than a desire to learn more about physics or astronomy.I did read follow on comments after the series was complete and noticed a few people who felt that there was a cliffhanger ending. While the book does end with some larger scale issues unresolved, I think that to call it a cliffhanger is not really accurate.
Майкл повесил картину на стену. Michael hung a picture on a wall. Цвет этой стены красный. The color of this wall is red. На дальней стене находится телевизор. There is a TV on the far wall. Вчера мы клеили обои на стены. Yesterday we glued wallpaper onto the walls. У этого дома очень прочные стены. This house has very strong walls. На прошлой неделе рабочий разрушил стену этого коттеджа. Last week the worker destroyed a wall of this cottage Через это окно открывается прекрасный вид на сад. Through this window there is a fine view of the garden. Первые лучи солнца проникают в дом через окно. The first rays of the sun enter the house through a window. Это окно красили прошлым летом. This window was painted last summer. Том разбил окно футбольным мячом. Tom broke the window with a football. Миссис Грин любит сидеть у окна и пить чай. Mrs. Green likes to sit at the window and drink tea. В этом доме пол сделан из дерева. The floor in this house is made from wood. Вчера Ник рассыпал карандаши на пол. Yesterday Nick scattered pencils on a floor. Собака любит спать на холодном полу. The dog likes to sleep on a cold floor. Из чего сделан этот пол? What is this floor made from? Катя разбила свою любимую чашку об пол пол года назад. Katya broke her the favourite cup on the floor half of year ago. Прошлым летом Сара любила смотреть телевизор сидя на полу. Last summer Sara watched TV sitting on the floor. Этот потолок покрасили в белый цвет. This ceiling is painted in a white color. Какая высота от пола до потолка у вас дома? What does the height from floor to ceiling in your at home? Джон красит потолок каждую весну. John paints a ceiling every spring В этом старом доме на потолке трещины. There are cracks in the ceiling of this old house. Маша открыла дверь и вошла в школу. Mary has opened the door and entered the school. Скажите, пожалуйста, какая дверь мне нужно использовать, чтобы попасть на улицу. Tell me please, which door do I use to get onto the street Вы можете выйти на улицу через эту дверь. You can go out onto the street through this door. Вор тихонько прокрался через заднюю дверь. The thief quietly crept through the back door. Эта дверь старая, поэтому она скрепит. This door is old, therefore it creaks.
Whom can you trust? How strong is your faith in The System? Within this mist of fear and speculation, the vain grasping after answers that will remain forever cloaked under 'national security', there is at one extreme the blinkered denier who refuses to smell the coffee it's all lies', he says, with his hands over his ears, 'nothing this bad can possibly be happening.' At the other is the shrieking doomsayer pointing with trembling fingers at the three sets of six letters in Ronald Wilson Reagan. J Edgar Hoover, the long time chief of the FBI once said about the threat of communism: "the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." Hoover would know the architect of COINTELPRO, the FBI's counterintelligence program during the sixties, to monitor and disrupt centres of activism, Hoover used all manner of dirty tricks to subvert the Black Panthers, and he sanctioned the wiretapping and surveillance of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X until their assassinations. Little wonder that few black commentators dismiss the crack conspiracy as readily as might their white counterparts. But conspiracy transcends colour in the US. Just as the class struggle motors the British psyche at some deep and rumbling level, America is driven by the sense that its pawns are systematically deceived by giants, by corporations in cahoots with Orwellian government. The CIA-Contra-crack conspiracy continues a tradition that includes the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Agent Orange and Iran-Contra. And from the outset, the war against terror has spun its own outlandish webs of allegation 9/11 tipped the conspiracy theorists into overdrive which is why there is no riper time to recall Ross' story. The CIA is as powerful and well-funded as ever, and in Afghanistan, it has already been embroiled in the regime change of a major drug producing country (heroin). Like 'drugs', 'terror' is sufficiently vague a threat to warrant a vast range of long-term coversion, and already the twin campaigns are being fused lately, pundits have been treating the public to the news that drug dealers actually are terrorists and that Americans who take drugs are funding them. And throughout, an obedient press, for fear of flying a tainted flag, is withholding the tough questions. Ricky Ross is a quintessentially American tale, you can tick the boxes up and down.
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- The game is played in teams of at least two players - a describer and a guesser - From the grid of named politicians, cut out each and fold them up - Place all the names in an appropriate receptacle (a mock ballot box if you have one, a hat or bowl if you don't) - The describer picks out a name at a time and attempts to describe it to their guesser without saying the name itself - After a correct guess, they pick out another name, and so on - After a minute, the hat is passed to the next team - The winning team is the one which guesses the most names - For even more fun, fold them all up again and describe each with just one word, and finally with no words - just actions 4. LEADERS' MASKS Ever wanted to fool/scare your friends and family into thinking they're talking to a political titan? (Requires scissors and elastic.) - Cut out any of the masks, including the eyes - Attach a piece of elastic or string to each and hey presto, you can instantly channel the personality of a party leader 5. 10 THINGS It's not just TV anchormen who can wow others by lobbing in a factlet or two... you can as well. (Requires forgiving friends) - Place the 10 things crib sheet in a discreet place where you can still see it - Sprinkle a fact or two in the conversation at appropriate juncture and hear the assembled company gasp in admiration
Despite the near-absence of verifiable complaints, the document is larded with serious second-hand accusations delivered via Zinck and Pignatiello’s interview subjects — the sorts of charges which aren’t normally tossed about casually given that they can lead to potentially serious professional censure, or even legal action. In the review, anonymous clinicians who say they’ve worked with former GIC patients claim that many of those former patients “report traumatic experiences related to their assessment and have persistent, internalized shame about their gender identity and desires to express it that are related to their treatment”; that GIC clinicians performed cognitive and psychological testing without obtaining proper consent; and that they took photos of patients without consent, and, in one case, displayed photos of a client’s painted nails at a transgender health conference. There’s no evidence any of these claims were fact-checked — neither CAMH nor Zinck and Pignatiello responded to my emails asking about this, and according to two attendees at a recent internal CAMH meeting, an administrator there told staffers that the hospital did not think it would have been appropriate to fact-check any of the report’s claims given that it was conducted independently. And because CAMH insisted that many participants in the review be rendered anonymous, the claims feel watered-down: Zinck and Pignatiello are reporting that an anonymous clinician reported that an anonymous former patient reported that… (According to Pignatiello, the final version of the document they sent in was published on the website untouched by CAMH. There had been one or more prior rounds of edits starting around late August, but he said those mostly involved CAMH’s requests that many names be redacted, and that the hospital didn’t try to intervene editorially beyond that).
Photos: The week in politics U.S. President Barack Obama stands beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, front right, at the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Friday, September 30. Peres, who shared a Nobel Prize for forging a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, died Wednesday at the age of 93. Hide Caption 1 of 16 Photos: The week in politics Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton shake hands at the end of the first presidential debate, which took place in Hempstead, New York, on Monday, September 26. It was the most-watched debate in American history. Hide Caption 2 of 16 Photos: The week in politics An American flag is suspended from the ladders of two fire trucks in Washington on Wednesday, September 28. Congress had just voted to override a presidential veto on legislation that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. Hide Caption 3 of 16 Photos: The week in politics A woman holds a magazine with Hillary Clinton on the cover before the presidential candidate appeared at a campaign event in Durham, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, September 28. Hide Caption 4 of 16 Photos: The week in politics Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump casts a shadow Wednesday, September 28, as he speaks at the Polish National Alliance in Chicago. Hide Caption 5 of 16 Photos: The week in politics Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders during a campaign stop in Durham, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, September 28. Sanders, Clinton's main rival in the Democratic primaries, urged the crowd to get behind Clinton. Hide Caption 6 of 16 Photos: The week in politics Military members watch U.S. President Barack Obama speak during a town-hall event in Fort Lee, Virginia, on Wednesday, September 28. Obama answered questions from service members during the forum, which was hosted by CNN. Hide Caption 7 of 16 Photos: The week in politics Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate, makes phone calls at a Republican Party office in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, September 27. Hide Caption 8 of 16 Photos: The week in politics U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, left, joins former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, at a memorial site for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. They made the visit on Monday, September 26 -- more than two months after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
floating around out there dated May 27, 2008. Darryl LeVert and his boys are in the driveway. The clip, filmed by an aunt, opens with dad -- tall and fit and smiling -- swooping toward the basket and dunking a hand-sized ball. One after another, Caris and young Darryl run and jump, trying to reach their father’s heights. Time after time, each comes up just short. All these years later, both can reach the rim -- and more. Caris talks about his father with dry eyes. This is no sob story. Nearly four years after that dark Easter, he’s not left asking why. He’s too busy being thankful for who his father was and what his father gave him. “I’m OK with it now, at peace, I guess,” Caris says. “I feel like I got everything I needed to know from him. He taught me so much. His big thing was keeping a level head -- never get too high or too low. Just be calm, be smart. "I still think about him all the time.” Walking across the cafeteria at Connors State two weeks ago, Darryl LeVert was stopped by a baseball player. He’d seen a thin kid that looked an awful lot like Darryl on ESPN’s SportsCenter that morning. “It was just crazy to me that someone in this tiny town in Oklahoma saw my brother on TV,” Darryl LeVert says. Little brother watches all of big brother’s games. “He reminds me of my dad,” Darryl LeVert says. "He does all the same moves as my dad and his shot looks just like my dad’s.” Caris LeVert says his willingness to speak now of his father's death doesn't stem from his success on the court. Rather, his success on the court stems from the confidence he's gained from dealing with his father's death. Kim LeVert recently asked Caris, “What do you think your dad would think about this year you're having?” “I don’t know,” her son answered. Kim knows. "My husband would be so proud," she says, "but he wouldn't be surprised. None of us are."
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(Juan Sebastian Baron \| courtesy Sundance Institute) John Cho plays a father who uses his daughter's laptop to find clues to track her after she goes missing, in Aneesh Chaganty's Search, which will screen in the Next program of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute \| photo by Ryan Parilla) A film still from Skate Kitchen by Crystal Moselle, an official selection of the NEXT program at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute \| photo by Elan Bogarín and Jonathan Bogarín) A film still from 306 Hollywood by Elan Bogarín and Jonathan Bogarín, an official selection of the NEXT program at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Zak Mulligan \| courtesy Sundance Institute) Raul Castillo and Evan Rosado appear in Jeremiah Zagar's We The Animals, which will screen in the Next program of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Daryl Wein \| courtesy Sundance Film Festival) Vivian Bang plays a Korean-American performance artist in Daryl Wein's White Rabbit, which will screen in the Next program of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. <
HANNITY: What did you think of the criticism of those, though, in the Jewish community about the use of that term? I know others came to your defense, but what did you think about the critics? PALIN: I think the critics, again, were using anything that they could gather out of that statement. And I'm, you know, you can -- you can spin up anything out of anybody's statements that are released and use them against the person who is making the statement. But, no, I appreciated those who understood what it is that I meant, that a group of people being falsely accused of having blood on their hands, that is what blood libel means. And just two days before I released my statement, an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal" had that term in its title and that term has been used for eons, Sean.
At the present time, for example, even though the US economy is in full recovery, white-collar job reductions by the thousand are being announced by one famous corporation after another. They call it ‘restructuring’ or, more fancifully, ‘re-engineering the corporation’, and duly decorate the proceedings with the most recently fashionable management-consultant verbiage, those catchy, suggestive yet profoundly shallow slogans coined by the authors of the latest business-book bestsellers, who proclaim them expensively and with evangelical insistence on the corporate lecture circuit, with the result that they are then repeated with great solemnity to audiences of deferential, bewildered employees in corporate briefings, ‘workshops’ and ‘retreats’. But the real economies that Wall Street anticipates by bidding up the shares – thereby hugely rewarding mass-firing top executives who have stock options – come not from the background music of the management-consultant verbiage but rather from the displacement of telephone-answering secretaries by voice-mail systems, the displacement of letter-writing secretaries by computer word-processing and faxboards, the displacement of filing secretaries by electronic memories, and the consequent displacement of clerical supervisors; as well as from the displacement of junior administrators by automated paperflow processing and the consequent displacement of their administrative supervisors; as well as from the displacement of all the middle managers who are no longer needed to supervise the doings and undoings of both clerical and administrative employees. That is why corporations whose sales are increasing are nevertheless not adding white-collar positions; corporations whose sales are level are eliminating some white-collar positions; and corporations in decline are eliminating very many – tens of thousands in the case of the sick giants IBM and GM.
Această unealtă de manipulare inovatoare, „internet trolls”, se dovedește foarte eficientă pentru că mesajele antieuropene sau proruse ajung și la persoane care nu sunt de acord cu ce face Federația Rusă, dar care pică în campania manipulării. Cum este posibil? Simplu, în primul rând, o dată cu creșterea popularității rețelelor sociale, fluxul de informații la care are acces omul de rând a crescut enorm, iar oamenii nu mai pot face diferența între o sursă sigură și un site de știri false (fake news). În același timp cu evoluția tehnologiei, este mult mai ieftin să îți înființezi un site pe care să scrii orice dorești și să le diseminezi public sub ambalajul unei știri. Un template care să imite un site de știri profesionist costă doar 50 de dolari, iar găzduirea lui pe un server online costă tot circa 50 de dolari pe an. Astfel, cu 100 de dolari, oricine poate să scrie orice dorește pe un site de știri și să promoveze textul, apoi, pe rețelele sociale, sub pretenția unei știri. Astfel de false articole de presă pot fi distribuire masiv pe conturi ale unor rețele de socializare, într-o primă instanță de „internet trolls”, iar, ulterior, chiar de simpli oameni care cred cu sinceritate că este adevărat ceea ce scrie în articolul respectiv și care nu reușesc să-și dea seama că acesta este un articol fals și că afirmațiile pe care le cuprinde nu sunt adevărate și că nu au trecut prin filtrul rigorilor jurnalistice, așa cum trece orice știre adevărată. S-a dovedit că astfel de site-uri administrate de persoane sau companii anonime nu sunt înființate doar de apropiați ai propagandei ruse sau ai unui grup de interese care are drept scop manipularea. Sunt și persoane private care au descoperit că un astfel de canal pe care scrii știri false conspiraționiste – de exemplu, despre forțe oculte care vor să ne conducă țara sau lumea – prinde la o anumită categorie de public sensibilă la astfel de subiecte, uneori mai puțin educată și care este tentată să le creadă și să le promoveze prin distribuirea lor pe propriile conturi ale rețelelor sociale. Astfel, site-ul respectiv obține vizualizări și, deci, și bani din reclame. Aceste site-uri contribuie, vrând-nevrând, la campaniile coordonate de manipulare și, deși nu sunt parte directă din rețeaua de propagandă rusă, contribuie din plin la decredibilizarea sau chiar destabilizarea unor instituții democratice naționale sau europene.
"For the first eight months of his detention, Esquivel-Hernandez was under the jurisdiction of the Philadelphia ICE field office and was only transferred to the Detroit field office in late December 2016.After a seven-month campaign, during which advocates for Esquivel-Hernandez held rallies; received support from politicians like Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and Congressman Mike Doyle (D-Swissvale); and participated in prayer circles with faith-leaders , Esquivel-Hernandez’s lawyer Sally Frick was able to negotiate a plea deal that would lessen his initial felony charge to a misdemeanor and give him the best chance at avoiding deportation “This case was resolved in a way to avoid deportation consequences for [Esquivel-Hernandez],” says Perez. “The U.S. attorney [Soo Song] and district judge [Donetta Ambrose] are with us, that he should not be deported.”During Esquivel-Hernandez’s sentencing hearing in December, Ambrose said “[Esquivel-Hernandez shows] nothing that threatens society in any way. I believe [his] motives were pure in coming here.”In response to the news Esquivel-Hernandez could be deported Jan. 10, a group of Pittsburghers are pulling out all the stops to get ICE Detroit field officer Rebecca Adducci to drop the detainer against Esquivel-Hernandez and allow him to return to his family in Pittsburgh. Dozens of phone calls have flooded the voicemail of Adducci.“We are racing against the clock,” says Perez. “We are trying to show the best that we can that [Esquivel-Hernandez] should not be deported. I don’t know what else we can do.”Perez says LCLAA has submitted a request for prosecutorial discretion to Adducci that details how Esquivel-Hernandez doesn’t fit into the current ICE guidelines for priorities for enforcement. (He has not been convicted of a felony, has been present in U.S. since before 2014, and was not discovered near the border. )Esquivel-Hernandez's advocates fear his fate may be sealed due to Seneca County Jail's bad reputation in terms of how they treat ICE detainees; according to stats from Syracuse University, the facility deports immigrants at a higher rate than the national average However, Perez says that people should not give up the fight. He says people can still call Adducci at 313-568-6036 or sign a petition and ask her to drop the detainer. “Now is the time, to sign the petition, and call Rebecca Adducci and demand that we need Martín Esquivel-Hernandez back," Perez says. "Now is the time.”
It didn’t need to be this way. While Clinton sought to copy Barack Obama, his example in fact suggested a more nuanced approach. Even though many on the left have come to consider him an avatar of the neoliberal establishment, Obama ran two of the most populist campaigns in recent American history. In 2008, he presented himself as a figure untainted by the prevailing political culture; he would arrive in Washington carried by a transformational gust, a prefiguring of Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp.” In 2012, his campaign mercilessly pummeled Mitt Romney as the coldhearted representative of plutocracy. And where Clinton found herself bogged down in the quagmire of a culture war, Obama had stepped around such debates. Confident that his campaign would generate overwhelming African American turnout, he celebrated a vision of “one America” that seemed carefully designed to assuage racist anxieties that he would favor one group at another’s expense—and more generally to reassure whites, particularly those past middle age and with an acute sense of cultural and economic anomie, that America wasn’t kicking them to the side. (Indeed, his most effective ads against Romney sympathetically portrayed precisely those voters and blamed the Republican nominee for their suffering.) He spoke of his desire to broker a compromise on immigration—an issue he framed as a matter of good governance. His campaign explicitly targeted rural counties. Obama didn’t believe he could win them, and by and large he didn’t, but by redirecting populist anger and allaying cultural anxieties, he reduced his deficit among white noncollege voters to a tolerable margin. (When Bill Clinton asked his wife’s campaign to dispatch him to such small towns in 2016, campaign officials refused, because it would take him away from cities with larger vote hauls.) This tactic enabled Obama to win the upper Midwest so decisively that many analysts began to describe the region as part of a “blue wall.”
European Commission Press release Huge cuts in mobile data roaming price caps from 1 July – a drop of over 50% from last summer! It's a big summer sale courtesy of the European Commission! From 1 July 2014, the EU will cut the price caps for data downloads by more than half: down from 45 cents per megabyte to 20c/MB. It will become even cheaper to use maps, watch videos, check mails and update social networks while travelling across the EU. To put it into context: football fans traveling in the EU during this World Cup season will pay 25 times less for data roaming as compared to during 2010 World Cup! Since the EU introduced caps on data roaming, data consumption has risen dramatically. Phone calls and text messages will become cheaper as well. All this is good news, as you can travel around Europe and stay in touch with family and friends at home. Type of mobile activity in the EU 2013 caps (before VAT) 2014 caps (before VAT) Decrease Making a call 24 cents per min 19 cents per min 21% Receiving a call 7 cents per min 5 cents per min 28.5 % Sending a text message 8 cents 6 cents 25 % Downloading data / browsing 45 cents per MB 20 cents per MB 55.5 % What's more, from 1 July 2014 mobile providers in Europe can offer you a specific roaming deal before you travel and, where available, allow you to choose a local mobile provider for data services such as emailing, reading the news online, uploading photos and watching videos online, in the country you are visiting. So you can compare roaming offers, and benefit from more attractive offers and prices while you're away! But that's not the end of the story: the EU is working on new rules to eliminate roaming charges altogether. The Commission's Connected Continent regulation would see the end of roaming charges, as well as a guaranteed open and neutral internet, and better consumer protection for mobile and broadband users. Vice President of the European Commission, @NeelieKroesEU, responsible for the Digital Agenda said: "This huge drop in data roaming prices will make a big difference to all of us this summer. But it is not enough. Why should we have roaming charges at all in a single market?
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“If someone looks in the spirit of Survivor, they’re looking for a more balanced game,” Denise said at the Final Six Tribal Council. “Between the social, the strategic, the physical… I don’t think Abi has brought those fully to the table.” Abi was defiant toward Denise then, and she remains defiant now. “I could have won Philippines with the right group of people,” she tells me. “I had to play with the cards that were given me. I had an injury. Due to circumstances and lack of security in my game at the time, I played the way I did. I had to be the wildcard and play the crazy game. That’s how I made it to the Final Five.” “People look at me like I’m crazy,” she continues, “but I kid you not, if I had made it to the Final Three with Skupin and Lisa, I would have won that game.” Her first season isn’t quite ancient history, but it’s history all the same. That was then, and Second Chance is now — and visions of old opponents aside, Abi knows that in order to win the upcoming game, she has to be mindful of how she played the first time. “I’m not expecting them to like me or dislike me from the get go, but I do think I have a target on my back,” she says. “I’m sure I’ve rubbed people the wrong way by what they’ve seen and I’m sure they have their perceptions.” Indeed they do… and here’s what they think. ON THE NEXT PAGE: The Eyes on the Hurricane
How many Sundays have rolled by since that prophecy was spoken? So much for that effort to pervert the meaning of the sacred text from the judgment day to Sunday! The second text of this class is to be found in I Cor. 1:8; "Who shall also confirm you unto the end. That you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." What simpleton does not see that the apostle here plainly indicates the day of judgment? The next text of this class that presents itself is to be found in the same Epistle, chapter 5:5; "To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." The incestuous Corinthian was, of course, saved on the Sunday next following!! How pitiable such a makeshift as this! The fourth text, 2 Cor. 1:13,14; "And I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end, even as ye also are ours in the day of our Lord Jesus." Sunday, or the day of judgment, which? The fifth text is from St. Paul to the Philippians, chapter 1, verse 6: "Being confident of this very thing, that He who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ." The good people of Philippi, in attaining perfection on the following Sunday, could afford to laugh at our modern rapid transit! We beg leave to submit our sixth of the class; viz. Philippians, first chapter, tenth verse: "That he may be sincere without offense unto the day of Christ." That day was next Sunday, forsooth! not so long to wait after all. The seventh text, 2 Peter 3:10; "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." The application of this text to Sunday passes the bounds of absurdity. The eighth text, 2 Peter 3:12; "Waiting for and hastening unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved." etc. This day of the Lord is the same referred to in the previous text, the application of both of which to Sunday next would have left the Christian world sleepless the next Saturday night.
Examples include the rule that federally aided projects be preceded by an environmental analysis and the Davis-Bacon requirement to pay union wage rates, or the equivalent. The Federal Highway Administration has estimated that the Davis-Bacon requirement added between $293 and $586 million to road costs in FY 1986 (page 12). The federal restriction on state and local road choices occurs not solely because federal standards are high, but because they tend to be inflexible, inappropriate to circumstances that vary from place to place, and more responsive to national interest groups than to the users of specific highways (page 13). There is “fiscal equivalence” when the same political community—the same jurisdiction—finances a governmental program, is responsible for its operation, and receives the benefits of that program … The tie between taxing and spending promotes efficiency and careful choices, whether spending levels are high or low. Because various areas’ highway needs and preferences are so different, a nationally uniform program cannot tailor taxing and spending to each other, as state and local programs can (page 22). With the Interstate system used for long-distance travel, most of the benefits of other federally aided roads are contained within state boundaries. These non-Interstate, federally aided roads should be considered for turnback. Absent federal funding, there is reason to believe that state-local responsibility for the devolved highways would not impair nationwide mobility or interstate commerce. Devolution would move toward “fiscal equivalence.” The same jurisdiction that finances a set of roads will benefit from them. Thus highway spending and highway services would be more closely linked than is presently the case. Efficiency would be enhanced as would political, fiscal, and program accountability (page 48). The diverse goals and constituencies served by the federal highway program has led to a complex operation and has engendered controversy over the program’s procedures and allocation formulas … Devolution … would sharpen goals and priorities (page 48).
However, Startale had more success at the international level, and their deep roster achieved better aggregate results. FXOpen took two GSTL championships, and their ace Leenock was one of the best international tournament performers as well. Yet, as entertaining as the GSTL might have been, it did not carry the same weight as major individual tournaments. GomTV has grand plans for the GSTL in 2013, but it's clear that it was not their main focus in 2012.From from ace to bench, from January to December, from Korea to abroad, Startale was the overall best team of the year.For non-Korean Terrans, it was a terrible year. Terran was never the foreigners' best race even before the queen/overlord patch, but after May, they were hunted to near extinction. Things got so bad at one point that Take organized a tournament called Stim to the Win, giving 75% of its invites to Terran players. Lucifron managed to win that, and sadly, it legitimately counted as one of the bright spots in the year for European Terrans.Still, there were some Terrans who managed to eke out results in the toughest of times. While the aforementioned Lucifron was definitely the most visible foreign Terran in the latter half the year, it's the tried and true ThorZaIN who takes home the award. ThorZaIN won one of the most notable victories of the year at DreamHack Stockholm, where he defeated Monster and Polt on his way to the title. He would go on to then win WCS Sweden, defeating the best of his countrymen including SortOf, NaNiwa, and SaSe on his way to the crown.As well as ThorZaIN did, things were still pretty grim for Terran on the whole. But at least they have things to look forward to in 2013!Mvp entered 2012 as the most accomplished Wings of Liberty player thus far. By May, he had won a fourth Code S championship, making that title his beyond a shadow of a doubt. By October, he put evendistance between himself and the rest of the pack by reaching his second Code S final of 2012, and was once again in the race to be TeamLiquid's player of the year. It follows naturally that Mvp is our Terran of the Year.It's true that players like MarineKing and TaeJa looked stronger than Mvp for months at a time, and they laid waste to all in their paths at the international competitions that occurred during their brief reigns.
public class StickScript : MonoBehaviour { //object which will be instanciated public GameObject woodObjectPrefeb; // bombs are placed as child of wood transform private GameObject[] bombs; private float woodColliderSize, storeRotation = 0, startingPoint, endPoint, distance, newScale, radius = 15.0F, power = 2000.0F; private GameObject tempGameObject; public void blowClicked() { //if there is no bomb to blast if (transform.childCount == 0) return; //initializing bomb array bombs = new GameObject[transform.childCount]; for (int i = 0; i < transform.childCount; i++) bombs[i] = transform.GetChild(i).gameObject; //setting rotation to zero if wood is rotated to any other angle if (transform.eulerAngles.z != 0) { storeRotation = transform.eulerAngles.z; transform.eulerAngles = Vector3.zero; } //bombs array will be arranges in ascending order by their y coordinate. arrangeBombs(); //fetching size of collider woodColliderSize = GetComponent().size.y; //creating object above first bomb. //new objects will be instantiated as child of wood transform. createFirstObject(); //creating objects below each bomb. for (int i = 0; i < bombs.Length; i++) createObjectBelowBomb(bombs[i], i); //rotating wood object on its initial rotation. transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0, 0, storeRotation); //removing wood object's rendering and collider Destroy(GetComponent() as SpriteRenderer); Destroy(GetComponent() as BoxCollider); //new objects will be blasted and bombs will be destroyed. manageChildren(); } //bubble sort for arranging bombs array. private void arrangeBombs() { GameObject tempY; for (int i = 0; i < bombs.Length - 1; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < bombs.Length - i - 1; j++) { if (bombs[j].transform.position.y < bombs[j + 1].transform.position.y) { tempY = bombs[j]; bombs[j] = bombs[j + 1]; bombs[j + 1] = tempY; } } } } private void createFirstObject() { startingPoint = findStartingPointY(gameObject); endPoint = findStartingPointY(bombs[0]); distance = Mathf.Abs(startingPoint - endPoint); //if distance between two bombs is less than 0.1 object will not be created between them. if (distance <= 0.1f) return; //calculating scale of instantiated object. newScale = (Mathf.Abs(startingPoint - endPoint)) / woodColliderSize; tempGameObject = (GameObject)Instantiate(woodObjectPrefeb, new Vector3(transform.position.x, endPoint + (distance / 2), transform.position.z), Quaternion.identity); tempGameObject.transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, newScale, 1); //attaching created object as child to wood object. tempGameObject.transform.parent = bombs[0].transform.parent; } //this will work same as create first object.
While playing the game and in the pub afterwards, the political meaning of Liberté was a constant topic of discussion. If nothing else, recognising and talking about the characters and factions featured on its cards was a history lesson in itself. More interesting were the ideological assumptions embedded within the game’s mechanics. By enabling each of the players to be monarchists, liberals and republicans at the same time, Wallace was echoing the paranoid fantasies of Hippolyte Taine and other 19th century Catholic historians who blamed the social upheavals of the 1789 French Revolution on malevolent conspiracies of freemasons, Jacobins and Jews. However, we reckoned that Liberté owed much more to those bizarre websites which denounce the elite members of the Illuminati who are plotting to subjugate humanity to the New World Order. Left and Right, big business and big government, they’re all controlled by shape-shifting lizards. Similarly, as players of Liberté, you act as the dark forces which give the orders to the politicians, generals and agitators who are directing the 1789 French Revolution. So, we wondered over a pint later on, does this mean that Wallace has invented an inherently conservative game? This time, the Jacobin republic might have won, but the players’ moves that had culminated in this heartening result were realising a reactionary logic. In this cynical reading of history, duty to the king, the rights of man and the one-and-indivisible republic had become nothing more than empty ideological slogans of rival conspiracies struggling for power. Yet, ironically, it was precisely this reactionary model of the 1789 French Revolution that had enabled its players to share the experience of leading the monarchist, liberal and republican causes. When the Jacobin republic won, everyone around the table in the Firebox cafe had contributed to its victory.
Sometimes things which are made in such a way that there is essentially no way to take them apart without destroying them. When it stops working all you can do is throw it away. This is a reasonably new thing, and it makes me a little sad and frustrated. Meet the Apple Bluetooth keyboard. I liked this keyboard quite a bit. It sipped power, was small enough to be a good companion to the Mac Mini that’s hooked up to my TV, resting comfortably on the arm of my couch. I had it for at least three years. However it eventually contracted some kind of slow rot. Keys started to stop working on it. First it was the zero key, then the X. I could work around those keys (it wasn’t my main keyboard and I used the Mac’s software keyboard when I really had to type the word “exquisite”). Then quickly in sequence the A, S, C and finally space stopped working, limiting my typing to single, awkward words. An exact replacement is $70 and since as it was it was essentially worthless I had very little to lose by trying to fix it. Since I’m a bit familiar with how modern keyboards are made I wasn’t optimistic. At best I hoped that some conductive coating had come off and could be replaced. If you don’t know how most thin keyboards work they’re a little sandwich. On top there’s the plastic key face. Below that there’s a little plastic mechanism for making sure the key goes straight up and down when it’s pressed. The key presses a rubbery dimple that works both as a spring and to press a membrane below. When the membrane is compressed it connects two electric traces which electronics in the keyboard recognize as a key press. They’re not very friendly to repair, but they’re cheap to make and there’s not a lot that can go wrong with them. (More information on dome switch keyboards .) But there was something wrong with mine. So time to bust it open and see what I could do. First a I scoured the Internet for repair guides. The usual source didn’t have any advice, and general searching found no information at all. Apparently no one had yet documented fixing, or even taking apart an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. Not a good sign. So I looked at the thing to see how to get into it.
Other species, such as the Arctic fox, rely entirely upon "polar bear left-overs" after the bears have eaten their fill of seal skin and blubber, leaving the remaining meat for such scavengers. BEHAVIOR: The two main focuses of this solitary creature's life are to conserve energy and to hunt. Only pregnant females dig dens and hibernate in the traditional sense for extended periods. The other bears may enter into what is referred to as "walking hibernation" where they remain active and continue to hunt and feed, even though some of their metabolic processes may slow (decreased heart rates, respiration, lowered temperatures, etc.). Polar bears depend mostly on their sense of smell to determine the location of prey. Their white coats make great camouflage for hunting seals, and they will wait patiently for hours next to a seal’s air hole waiting for the seal to take a breath. Once the seal arrives, the polar bear will use its immense strength and sharp claws to clutch the seal and drag it through the small blowhole. OFFSPRING: Females are able to breed at the age of five years. They dig dens either on the coastal mainland or out on the drifting pack ice in late October or early November, and then remain denned until the next spring. An average of two cubs are born, each weighing about 1 pound at birth and growing to about 15 pounds by the time they emerge in the spring. The cubs have much to learn and usually remain with their mothers for more than two years. THREATS: Polar bear populations are distributed in Artic regions throughout Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland and Norway. They must have pack ice to survive and can travel thousands of miles over the course of a year, following the advance and retreat of sea ice. Seal populations are abundant on pack ice, where currents and wind interact with the ice, continually melting and refreezing the edges, making it accessible to both predator and prey. Older, stable pack ice is essential to the polar bear’s continued existence. It is where polar bears hunt, mate and den. Pregnant females make dens in the soft deep snows of the ice. They will give birth in these dens and the snow will insulate both mother and cubs over the harsh Arctic winter. Without a stable ice pack to accumulate sufficient snow, there can be no dens. The ice is also the seal’s habitat.
American Natural Superfood - Free Sample So now, not only is General Electric one of the largest weapons manufacturers in the U.S. and seemingly tax exempt from Federal rolls, they are now investing heavily in the private prison industry. (One cannot help but see the philosophical parallel to the imprisonment of our nation in our current prison of national debt and the decreasing personal and financial security as its corporate controllers attack education and worker representation.) U.S. Corrections Corporation, a private company headquartered in Louisville, runs over 60 prisons in about 20 U.S. states, plus Washington, D.C. CCA has contracts with federal, state, and local governments to run the prisons. The company owns most of the facilities and provides rehabilitation services for inmates. Begun in 1983, it is the largest prison corporation in the U.S. Only the federal government and three states have larger prison systems. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol CXW. In 2006, revenue was $1.3 billion with profits of $105 million. With numbers like these, it is no mystery why the soulless corporate machine would attach itself to this new form of human usury. How many people have to be imprisoned to satisfy its insatiable thirst? In this age of degrading social morals and political ethics, one would easily be led to believe this form of prisoner slavery is a new one, but it is not. In 1893, Fredrick Douglas wrote of this system being in place and using the black culture as the largest contributor to it. Today, the system has not changed much. Still, the ratio of black inmates to the rest of the prison population is imbalanced and prisoners are still working for the man. One could justifiably argue that it teaches work ethic, responsibility, and serves as payment on their debt to society. But when this debt payment becomes the profit of corporate interests; the means do not justify the ends, especially considering how many “free men” are out of work right now. To this author, the symbolic poignancy of this reality confirms the growing opinion that the corporatists want the American worker to be slave labor by way of China’s efficient model. In the same way that NAFTA effectively lowered farm worker’s pay scale in America and Mexico, this new prison labor system is allowing jobs normally held by freemen to be given to this growing, slave labor market.
An essay. It's an overview of what a growth-oriented policy program might look like. Regulation, finance, health, energy and environment, taxes, debt social security and medicare, social programs, labor law, immigration, education, and more. There is a more permanent version here and pdf version here . This version shows on blogger, but if your reader mangles it, the version on my blog or one of the above will work better.I wrote it the Focusing the presidential debates initiative. The freedom of authors in that initiative to disagree is clear.Sclerotic growth is the overriding economic issue of our time. From 1950 to 2000 the US economy grew at an average rate of 3.5% per year. Since 2000, it has grown at half that rate, 1.7%. From the bottom of the great recession in 2009, usually a time of super-fast catch-up growth, it has only grown at two percent per year. 2 Two percent, or less, is starting to look like the new normal.Small percentages hide a large reality. The average American is more than three times better off than his or her counterpart in 1950. Real GDP per person has risen from $16,000 in 1952 to over $50,000 today, both measured in 2009 dollars. Many pundits seem to remember the 1950s fondly, but $16,000 per person is a lot less than $50,000!If the US economy had grown at 2% rather than 3.5% since 1950, income per person by 2000 would have been $23,000 not $50,000. That’s a huge difference. Nowhere in economic policy are we even talking about events that will double, or halve, the average American’s living standards in the next generation.Even these large numbers understate reality.GDP per capita does not capture the increase in lifespan — nearly 10 years — in health, in environmental quality, security and quality of life that we have experienced. The average American today lives far better than a 1950s American would if he or she had three rather than one 1950s cars, TVs, telephones, encyclopedias (in place of internet), or three annual visits to a 1950s doctor.But even these less quantified benefits flow from economic growth. Only wealthy countries can afford environmental protection and advanced health care. We can afford to worry about global warming. India worries about 600 people per toilet, emphysema from burning cow patties, and easily treatable parasitic infections.
The eradication team set off early the next morning for their first day’s work. There were nineteen Americans and a hundred Afghans in a convoy made up of twenty-four all-terrain vehicles—similar to small dune buggies—eighteen Ranger pickup trucks carrying Afghan policemen, and four of DynCorp’s white Ford F250 pickups. I rode in a truck driven by David Lockyear, an amiable six-foot-seven-inch Tennessean in his thirties, known as Doc Dave. Lockyear, who had a goatee and was covered with tattoos, was a paramedic from Nashville who joined the Marine Corps after September 11th. (“I was just pissed off, like a lot of people, and wanted to do something,” he said.) He fought in the first siege of Falluja, and in 2007 he went to work for DynCorp. He smoked a Marlboro and held a cup of coffee in one hand as he drove. A great dust cloud formed as the A.T.V.s hyperkinetically whizzed past us and the trucks kicked up plumes of swirling yellow powder. Picking up speed, Lockyear exclaimed, “This is redneck heaven. You get to run around the desert on A.T.V.s and pickups, shoot guns, and get paid for it. Man, it’s the perfect job!” When we reached the target area, men on A.T.V.s cut through the fields, dragging metal bars on chains, which knocked down the poppies. Other members of the team whacked at the poppies with shovel handles. Around the edges of the fields and on small hills above them, armed Afghan Interior Ministry policemen stood guard. Wankel had attended a shura, or council of local elders, a few days before, to explain the mission, and a small group of local Pashtun policemen were on hand, but the A.E.F. team consisted mostly of men from other areas of the country. Major Khalil, the deputy commander, was an ethnic Tajik, and didn’t trust the Pashtuns. (Like many Afghans, Khalil uses only one name.) He came from the same village in the northern province of Panjshir as the mujahideen hero Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated by Al Qaeda two days before the September 11th attacks. Khalil described the area where we were as “the heart of enemy territory.” Doug Wankel walked up to an angry-looking farmer who was watching his field being destroyed and asked him, through an interpreter named Nazeem, how much he got for his opium.
“Do you like 1974?” Lemieux asked me. We were driving north on I-5, through the parched wastes of the San Emigdio Mountains, en route from Burbank to the Bay Area. In the trunk were some reels from 1977 and video masters of a few concerts in 1989, which he had pulled from the vault. (When we stopped for gas, Lemieux made sure one of us stayed in the car, to guard the tapes.) During the ride, Lemieux put on 7/29/74, Landover, Maryland—“Weather Report Suite,” a three-part extravaganza written by Bob Weir. This version, nearly twenty minutes long, was a candidate for inclusion on a bonus disk that would accompany the next Dave’s Picks, and he wanted my vote. I’d be honored. Crank it up. Hello, Wall of Sound. I’d probably heard this one before, on the Archive, but the clarity of the vault recording, the distinctive character of each instrument, and maybe the sight, out the window, of raw California fault land made the music seem unique, fresh, and unrepeatable. The Garcia solo in the middle of “Let It Grow,” the suite’s up-tempo finale, had an urgent and purposeful architecture—no spaghetti here. Lemieux and I bobbed our heads in unison, like Wayne and Garth. The jam finished with a piano flourish, and I gave Lemieux a look of holy smokes, which he returned with one of that’s my girl, as though the choice flattered him. “Our philosophy used to be to find things that people haven’t heard, uncirculated things. Now that, what, ninety per cent of the vault has been circulated, it’s just about releasing good music.” He went on, “Obviously, this will end someday. There’s enough good material in the vault to go at this rate for another twenty or thirty years, or, at a slower rate, for fifty years. Whether I’m involved or not, who knows? But it’s a hard thing to walk away from!” We sped through orange groves and then the reeking feedlots of Fresno. I’d brought along a few obscure favorites to play for Lemieux. I wanted to try the Fox on him. Knowing him to be picky about audience recordings, I’d brought the matrix. Right away, the recording sounded odd and the performance flawed. Hearing it through his ears, I tensed up. It starts slowly, I muttered. He noted an absence of Weir in the mix (a Healy tendency) and also what he called phase problems.
The main object of the Hierarchy is so to distribute these constructive energies that the theory of unity may slowly be turned into practice and the word "United" may come to have a true significance and meaning.' Also in The Reappearance of the Christ it is stated that the one who works to produce at-one-ment, unification and fusion is generating a slowly growing will-to-unity within the Assembly of the United Nations. This being can only channel His energies through the mass consciousness or through a group conscious entity, such as the U.N. [...] Let us now consider some thoughts on the reappearance of the Christ in relation to the U.N. The Tibetan Master has said it is in the hands of the masses of right thinking people in every land that the salvation of the world lies and by them the preparatory work for the coming of the Christ will be done. The Tibetan Master says He will come when mankind is ready. It may not be unreasonable to suppose that the Christ may return to Earth through the ' house' of the nations. If He wishes to reach the people of all nations, what better place than the focal point of the nations, humanity's point of tension-the U.N.? Perhaps this may be thought of as 'the Son returns to the Father's House'. Again it would not be beyond reason to expect that one of the first places He would visit would be the U.N., to see how, through humanity, the plan is working out. Perhaps Dag Hammarskjöld and U Thant may be considered as forerunners, as 20th Century John the Baptists.
Hold Your Fire (1987) I'm not really sure how to describe this album. It's less 80s than many of the previous albums, but still maintains that unique Rush sound. I think many of the songs have a very inspirational feel, more so than other albums. My personal favorites are Force Ten and Turn the Page. Force Ten: There's just something about this song that I love. Maybe it's the ratchet (literally sounds like a ratchet) at the beginning, the parts where it's just Geddy with some quiet drums and synth, or maybe part at the end with the OFFBEAT CHINA CYMBAL. Or maybe just all of it. I love the line "Look in / to the eye of the storm / look out / for the force without form." All live versions, "A Show of Hands," "Clockwork Angels," and "R30," are awesome. Time Stands Still: This song reminds me of something they would play at senior prom, if anyone actually played Rush at senior proms. I really like the line "experience slips away," which says more by itself than any interpretation I could offer. Don't forget about the ridiculous music video, which is just amusing. Not necessarily bad, just amusing. Prime Mover: This song embodies that inspirational feel. One of my favorite parts is "The point of the journey / is not to arrive / anything can happen." The music is typical Rush (AKA awesome). There's a nice part near the end with some added synthesizer during the chorus. Mission: This song's opening line gives the name to the album. The halftime during the chorus is what does it for me, as well as the open hi-hat beat later on in the song. There's also a nice xylophone run after the guitar solo. I think the "Snakes and Arrows" live version is the best. Turn the Page: Whenever this song comes on, I can't help doing a little head nodding with the beat. The song is good, but the parts with dat china cymbal doe? Epic. The chorus builds perfectly up until the last line, "We turn the page." The guitar solo is awesome, really screams out at you. I was so happy the day I purchased "A Show of Hands" because I finally had a live version of this song.
The Fed seems unlikely to allow the money supply to fall by one-fourth. Many economists believe that the deflation of the early 1930s was responsible for the depth and length of the Depression. And it seems likely that such a prolonged deflation was possible only in the presence of a falling money supply.
You may have thought that haiku was supposed to be 5-7-5, so what’s up with the logo for National Haiku Writing Month — NaHaiWriMo ? Is haiku 5-7-5 or not? Well, yes and no. In Japanese, yes, haiku is indeed traditionally 5-7-5. But 5-7-5 what ? In English and other languages, haiku has mistakenly been taught as having 5-7-5 syllables , but that’s not really accurate. You probably aren’t in the mood for a linguistics lecture that explains all the reasons why, but Japanese haiku counts sounds , not strictly syllables. For example, the word “haiku” itself counts as two syllables in English (hi-ku), but three sounds in Japanese (ha-i-ku). This isn’t how “haiku” is said in Japanese, but it is how its sounds are counted . Similarly, consider “Tokyo.” How many syllables? Most Westerners, thinking that Japan’s capital city is pronounced as “toe-key-oh,” will say three syllables, but that’s incorrect. It’s actually pronounced as “toe-kyo.” So two syllables, right? Actually, no. Rather, it counts as “toe-oh-kyo-oh”— four syllables. Or rather, sounds. There are other differences, too. For example, if a word ends with the letter “n,” that letter is counted as a separate sound (all words in Japanese end with vowels, or sometimes the “n” sound). So how many sounds are counted in the word “Nippon,” Japan’s name for itself? It actually counts as four sounds (nip-p-on-n). And consider words that Japanese has borrowed from other languages, and how they gain more sounds in Japanese. For example, “Christmas” (with its consonant clusters) becomes “ka-ri-sa-ma-su.” In The Haiku Apprentice, Abigail Friedman points out that “scarf” becomes “su-ka-a-fu”—an increase from one syllable to four sounds. In The Poetics of Japanese Verse, Koji Sakamoto uses the word “sign” as a further example. We would count it as one syllable, but the Japanese would count it as three sounds (sigh-ya-n). Sure, some words have the same number of sounds (for example, “sushi” is two sounds or syllables in both languages), but there are enough words that count differently for practically all translators, linguists, scholars, and leading haiku poets to say and show that about 10 to 14 syllables is approximately equal to the 17 sounds they count in Japanese haiku (and not all haiku in Japanese are 17 sounds either).
Everyone was dumbfounded by what they heard! "What?" "10 million?" "A documentary? 10 million?" "This…this…" "Director Yan, what's this about?" Zhang Ye was also a little confused. Damn, just what the hell was happening? He's handing out the money just like that? And it was even for a budget of 10 million which had surpassed his requirements? This was more than enough for him to shoot the entire documentary! There would even be a lot of surplus funds leftover! Zhang Ye exclaimed, "Director Yan!" Yan Tianfei was not afraid to say what he wanted and interrupted, "Don't say that it's too much. I won't let you reject this either. I don't have any requirements for the documentary and it doesn't matter if the viewership rating is low or not! The only thing you need to do is to spend all 10 million on this documentary! You must spend it all! Don't leave a single cent! All the money will be handed to you!" All of a sudden, he was given 10 million! And he must even fucking spend it all?? Zhang Ye was elated and immediately said, "OK! I will definitely complete this mission!" Yan Tianfei nodded. "Good! Very good!" Everyone's jaws dropped as they did not know what was happening here! Only Zhang Ye knew clearly that it was because of the power of the upgraded Lucky Halo. All the problems he had were easily solved. It was just that awesome
The iPhone has risen to tremendous popularity in the country and indeed most people at the S6 launch event were taking photos on iPhones. The company could have been trying to appear more popular in order to entice potential buyers to its brand. The report comes from Shangai newspaper the Paper and has not been confirmed by any independent source. Samsung has not commented on the allegations. More about Samsung, Galaxy, s6, Launch, Phone Samsung Galaxy s6 Launch Phone Smartphone Android Fans Fake Audience Recruiters Job Employment Press Event Edge Reporters Application Device Popularity
This terminal phase of capitalist modernity presents itself in a necessarily contradictory light, because in this process it denies itself at the same time as it realizes itself. On one side, each of its advances contributes, at this stage, to ruin a little more its proper foundation, the negation of the metaphysical, in other words the strict disjunction between the sensible and the supersensible. With the virtually infinite extension of the universe of experience, “the content of speculations. . .tends to have a sense more and more real; upon the base of technology, the metaphysical tends to become physical” (Marcuse, One Dimensional Man). The separation of the sensible and the supersensible finds itself each day further bankrupted by the new realizations of industry. “The marvelous and the positive contract a shocking alliance, and these two ancient enemies beg us to engage our existences in a career of indefinite transformations and surprises. . .The real no longer ends clearly. Place, time, and matter admit liberties of which we have hardly any presentiment. Rigor engenders dreams. Dreams take shape. . .The fabulous is in commerce. The fabrication of marvels by machines makes millions of individuals live,” remarked Valery in 1929 with the disarming naivety of a time when the meaning of life had not yet become the most hackneyed sales pitch, nor a common consumer good in the shopping basket. Even during the realization of abstraction- in the mimetic comportment of the hip youth, the televised image where the new city offers to the view of all the evidently physical character of the metaphysical; Biopower, a differentiated moment of the Spectacle, shamefully avows its political character, and there is a “metaphysical nugget present in all politics” (Carl Schmitt, Theological Politics), in the most coarse physicality, in “naked life”. Under this relation, it is very much a question of a process of reunification of the sensible and the supersensible, of meaning and life, of the mode of unveiling and the object unveiled, which means the achieved disowning of that upon which commodity society founds itself, but at the same time this reunification operates on the terrain of their separation. It follows that this pseudo-reconciliation is not that passage of each of these terms into the other to a superior level, but rather their pure and simple suppression, which does not reunited them as united, but only reunites them as separated.
I could classify the emotion for hatred by describing it as "chili peppers". Nature doesn't have any specific name or meaning that it assigns to our feelings. Or, for that matter, anything else. Again, language itself is the source of this barrier. Have you ever looked at a tree and considered that the word "tree" might not be the true name for the thing in question? Furthermore, I also believe that human thoughts and actions are, to some extent, deterministic, and people have a whole lot less free will than they think. The brain is a state machine, like any other. Just because it's a fuzzy, inaccurate one that confuses randomness with freedom, that doesn't make it special. The next step is to develop a complete theory of the human mind and consciousness, and to confirm it by experiment. When we crack the mind's code, we'll know what makes all sorts of people tick, from the pious scholar, to the investment banker, to the hardened criminal.
He is going to be a great addition, especially when you lose Brandon Williams and Tra Carson a year from now, but we are very pleased with Kendall Bussey and he is going to make an immediate impact with us in special teams and you’ll probably see him in a few appearances in games next year as well.”“Connor Lanfear was in my recruiting area, the kid is a huge individual, hes enormous. The thing I like most about him is that he is nasty, he gets in there and get dirty. I’m looking for that right now in offensive lineman, I want guys that are going to stick their faces in there and fight. We’re fired up.”
This processed jobs are post-processed by the main thread in order to change the status of the keys from swapped to in-memory or vice versa and so forth.To resume a client that is in the middle of a command exectuion is hard, but there was a simple solution, a probabilistic one.When a client issues a command, like:, we scan the arguments looking for swapped keys. If there is at least one swapped key, the client is suspendedthe command is executed at all. Once the keys are back in memory the client is resumed.This trick allows to reduce the complexity a lot, but it is just probabilistic. What if once we resume a client a key is swapped again as we are in hard out of memory conditions? What about the "SORT BY" command that will access keys we can't guess beforehand? Well, that's simple: if a given key is swapped for some reason, Redis reverts to the blocking implementation.. As simple as that, and works very well for all the commands butthat is a slow operation anyway.The actual implementation is much more complex than that as you can guess. What happens if a value is being swapped off by an I/O thread while a client is accessing it? And so forth. There was to design the system so that I/O operations can be invalidated at any time, and this was tricky.After the VM, I lost my feeling that Redis was trivial to gasp by the casual coder just reading the source code. Now it's 13k lines of code and there are many things to understand. Some functions are a few lines, but there are a lot of comments just to explain what's going on. Just an example, from the function in charge of jobs invalidation:(Nazi Grammar Is Not Happy, I know). The complexity is self contained, but still there are a number of non trivial issues to understand for an external programmer in order to hack with the VM.Fortunately the VM needs very little maintenance work, as the trick of using the same serialization format used to persiste on disk completely decoupled it from the other Redis subsystems. Want to implement a new type for Redis? Just write the commands to work with this new type and the functions to load/save it in the .rdb file and you are done. The VM will do the rest without your help.Ok this article is already too long.
Supported George III in the American Revolution. Fully a third of the population of the colonies didn’t even want independence. Supported protection for the institution of slavery in the Constitutional convention. This included the bizarre insistence that slaves be counted in determining slave state representation in Congress. Slaves were people according to conservative planters, but only for purposes of counting them. Those same interests also prevented regulation of the importation of slaves prior to 1808. Opposed tariffs to protect American manufacturing. Reactionary southern planters failed to grasp the need to develop our own industrial base. They preferred to operate a slave labor driven cash crop economy for the simple reason that they – the wealthy planters that is – profited from economic underdevelopment. Supported “nullification”, which said that states didn’t have to enforce federal laws they didn’t like. This “theory”, such as it was, was in direct contradiction to the provision of the US Constitution that made federal law “the supreme law of the land”. Supported repeal of the Missouri Compromise so as to allow slavery in places like Nebraska and the deserts of New Mexico. Opposed the transcontinental railroad, because it might encourage small farmers who owned no slaves to settle in western territories. Contemporary conservative pundit, Joseph Sobran has dressed up opposition to this as a “principled” stand against “big government” proponents like Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln. Opposed the Homestead Act for the same reason. Opposed freedom of speech for Southern opponents of slavery. It seems the institution of slavery became so sacred, the conservative southern planters made it a crime to speak out against it. Before the 14th amendment, freedom of speech was not required of the states. Declared – contrary to Jefferson’s dictum that “all men are created equal” – that “the black man has no rights the white man is bound to respect”. This was the holding of Dred Scott v. Sandford, perhaps the single worst opinion in the history of the US Supreme Court. Supported destruction of the union rather than allow Congress to so much as restrict slavery to places where it already existed. Opposed the earliest civil rights legislation to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments. Obstructed, intimidated and harassed newly freed slaves who attempted to exercise their Federal civil rights, including the right to vote. Opposed preserving the union. Northern cheap-labor conservatives, not surprisingly, either actively or tacitly supported southern secession.
External Cranial Fenestrae In the cranium of Sarmientosaurus, three large openings are clearly visible in lateral view: from rostral to caudal, these are the antorbital fenestra, the orbit, and the infratemporal fenestra. As preserved, the bony nasal apertures (= ‘external nares’ of many paleontological works) open rostrodorsally in a confluent fenestra, as in Rapetosaurus; nevertheless, it appears that, in life, these openings would have been separated by a bony lamina formed by the premaxillae and nasals (the internarial bar). Although this structure has been mostly destroyed by taphonomic processes, the caudally-incomplete narial flange of the premaxillae and a broken rostral projection of the nasals attest to its former existence. Ventral to the rostral end of each antorbital fenestra is a minute, poorly preserved opening that we interpret as the homolog of the preantorbital fenestra; this foramen is discussed further in of our description of the maxilla below. The antorbital fenestra of the new Patagonian taxon is small, and its long axis is aligned obliquely with respect to that of the skull. It is teardrop-shaped, with the wider, rounded terminus situated rostroventrally and the pointed end positioned caudodorsally. The antorbital fenestra of Sarmientosaurus resembles that of the Jurassic brachiosaurid Giraffatitan [95] but differs from those of the basal macronarians Camarasaurus [96] and Europasaurus [97] and the Cretaceous titanosauriforms Abydosaurus [98] and Euhelopus [99–101], which are oriented more vertically. The fenestra of Sarmientosaurus also differs from those of Nemegtosaurus [10,11] and Tapuiasaurus [14], which are larger, and especially that of Rapetosaurus, which is extremely large and rostrocaudally elongate [13]. A greatly enlarged antorbital fenestra also appears to be present in an isolated sauropod (presumably titanosaurian [102]) maxilla from the Maastrichtian Lameta Formation of India (ISI R K 27/528; see Huene and Matley [31]:fig. 19). The shape of the rostral edge of the lacrimal of the Late Cretaceous titanosaur Bonitasaura indicates that the caudodorsal margin of the antorbital fenestra was smoothly rounded in this taxon [24] rather than sharply acute as in Sarmientosaurus. The antorbital fenestra of the new Patagonian taxon is oriented at an angle of approximately 45° relative to the rostrocaudal axis of the skull, comparable to the condition in Giraffatitan and that reconstructed for Bonitasaura. The orbit of Sarmientosaurus is proportionally very large, rostroventrally—caudodorsally elongate, and rounded at its caudodorsal and rostroventral margins, with the caudodorsal end rostrocaudally longer than the rostroventral end.
Percent freezing differed among groups during training [ , F(4,61) = 7.88, p<0.001]. Mice that received 0.075 mg/kg modafinil froze significantly more than saline controls (i.e., 0 mg/kg; Fisher’s PLSD, p<0.05) and mice that received 75 mg/kg again showed a strong deficit in freezing (p<0.05). No other doses differed significantly from saline controls. Differences were also found during the immediate memory test [F(4,61) =8.10, p<0.001]. Mice that received 0.75 mg/kg showed enhanced immediate memory ( , p<0.05) while mice that received 75 mg/kg mice froze significantly less than controls (p<0.05). As stated previously, this decrease in freezing may be caused by the stimulatory effects of the drug or an immediate memory defect, although we did not detect any increase in activity from any dose of modafinil ( , ). Baseline activity (measured in arbitrary units) during the first two minutes of training ( ) showed group differences [F(4,61) = 2.63, p<0.05]. Post-hoc analysis showed that activity was reduced in mice that received 0.075 mg/kg compared to saline controls (p<0.05). No other doses produced significant changes in activity. illustrates that during the 2-second shock no differences in activity were found [F(4,61) = 1.26, n.s.] indicating that all groups had a similar reaction to the shock. Group differences were again found during the context test, done off-drug one week later [F(4,61) = 7.76, p<0.001]. Compared to controls, contextual memory ( ) was enhanced in mice that received 0.75 mg/kg (p<0.05) and disrupted in those that received 75 mg/kg (p<0.05). No other groups differed significantly from controls. During the tone test no differences were found during the two minute baseline [F(4,61) = 1.52, n.s.] or the tone-on portion of the test [F(4,61) = 1.40, n.s.] (data not depicted). In this experiment, a moderately high baseline was encountered, and less tone-elicited freezing, so we further examined tone freezing by subtracting the baseline freezing from tone-elicited freezing. This was likely due to the fact that we reduced shock intensity from Exp 2 (0.75 to 0.5 mA) because pilot data showed cleaner effects on context freezing. However, no significant differences were found after subtracting the baseline from the tone-on portion of the test [ , F(4,61) = 1.45, n.s.]. Taken together with the results of experiment 2, where much more robust freezing was encountered, there is little evidence that modafinil affected tone conditioning at any dose.
To achieve this, PS-b-PAA was prepared from the hydrolysis of polystyrene-block-poly(tert-butyl acrylate) (PS-b-PtBA) with number-average-molecular weights (M n ) of 26,000 g mol−1 for PS and 128,000 g mol−1 for PtBA. Complete conversion of PtBA to PAA was confirmed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) (Supplementary Fig. S2). For functional testing in tissue, we selected swellable tips fabricated with PS-b-PAA with M n of 26,000 g mol−1 and 76,000 g mol−1 for PS and PAA, respectively, and a PS weight fraction of ~25%.
The Magick Path of Tantra The Preposterous Exordium: This manuscript is not a history of Tantra, although it will dwell much on the past and also write a new history for future generations, if there will be any future generations. This manuscript is more in the nature of a perfunctory peep at a remarkable phenomenon in Mankind's progress and development. The spark of Tantra was ignited in India but was exported and burst into flame in other countries. Although Tantra had a firm spiritual basis, it was not so much a religion as a way of life. There are now many indications that several Tantrik communities existed in different parts of India, communities which shared vast areas with other Hindu communities and lived in harmony. "Tantra" and "Tantrik", as applied to a unique way of life is a fairly modern expression and development. Tantra means a treatise, but a treatise or manuscript dealing with occult and esoteric subjects like astrology, secret medicine, numerology and spiritual expressions of sex. The words Kaula or Natha were originally used for the unique way of life or life style we now know as Tantra. This word has now established itself and appears in all modern dictionaries and literature. For this reason we will continue to use the words Tantra and Tantrik in this manuscript. Thus Tantra, as a word, still relates to the Naths and Kaulas, now become synonymous. Tantra, as a way of life, is the golden thread which runs through all the manuscripts I have written for the Western Nath Order and the higher grade Magickal Order of AMOOKOS (Arcane Magick Order of the Knights of Shambhala) and these include the Trilogy of Twilight Yoga - Ecstasy, Equipoise and Eternity; The Magnum Opus and Esoterikos. I have frequently titled my manuscripts with Greek words as I think the Tantrik Way of Life was also expressed in the pastoral paradise of Pan though without the final attainment, but where gods mixed with man and man mixed with gods. We don't know whether the esoteric aspects of enlightenment were experienced in other nations, at other ages. Insight would indicate that it must have been so. India was unique in proposing various methods, philosophies and theories relating to enlightenment. This Supreme Attainment, "Atma Jnan", Self Realisation, Moksha, Enlightenment was the greatest spiritual concept which emerged among humans.
This is all more disappointing than finding out that we weren’t getting a The X-Files will For so many years, fans ofwere chomping at the bit to get a taste of romantic feelings developing between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. One of the only memorable aspects of the film The X-Files: I Want to Believe was that they were living together and functioning as a couple who kiss and sleep in the same bed and stuff. But it looks like that hard-fought jubilation will get sliced in two for the upcoming revival series on Fox, as Mulder and Scully are no longer together. Does anybody have a blazer I can wipe my eyes on?This somewhat surprising reveal came during Fox’s panel at the ongoing TCA press event, where audiences were treated to a new clip from the series that assumedly wasn’t shown specifically to make everyone feel like love is dead. (We already knew that, following the public break-up of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.) The scene is a predictably hectic one, and features the two beloved characters having an angst-ridden conversation that sadly doesn’t end in smooches and wine.According to Zap2It , Scully shows up at Mulder’s house and gets on him about being out of communicative commission, at which point he starts on about how he’s finally figured it all out, actually saying “the truth is out there,” which I’m sure got a cheer from the crowd. Mulder says that Joel McHale’s TV newscaster Tad O’Malley is going to bring whatever that truth is to his show, and that’s when Scully dropped the truth bomb on everyone.Not “as your friend and your physician and the person who agreed with you just yesterday that we will be together forever in a romantic way even if marriage isn’t really our thing.” That wouldn’t have been very good dialogue from Chris Carter, who’d previously stated that the pair’s relationship would be different here, but still.In fact, the scene goes on to show that Mulder has another woman in his house! Though that’s not for love’s sake, either, as it’s Annet Mahendru’s Sveta, a victim of alien abduction, and Mulder says that she is “the key to everything.” The key to conspiracy-driven stuff, sure, but not to our hearts.This is all more disappointing than finding out that we weren’t getting a ”Home” sequel after that had been rumored.
So he did, and as JaMarcus Russell worked through his inconsistencies over the next two years and emerged as one of the top players in college football and became the first player selected in the 2007 NFL Draft, Perrilloux sat on the bench, a backup quarterback. He redshirted in 2005 and in 2006 was the third-string quarterback, an afterthought, behind both Russell and Matt Flynn. He wasn't completely invisible, but when people talked about the best quarterback in the nation anymore, they didn't often mention his name. This is where Perrilloux started to learn the hard way that overconfidence and a lack of patience can lead to frustration. And frustration can lead you to do some things you'll later regret. Third-string quarterbacks usually go unnoticed, but not when one was once the No. 1 quarterback prospect in America, and not when their behavior raises more red flags. In November of 2006, The New York Times reported that Perrilloux tried to purchase gasoline with a counterfeit $20 bill. Perrilloux later told Yahoo! Sports it was actually a friend who had tried to use the counterfeit bill to purchase candy. Whatever really took place, no charges were filed against Perrilloux, but he received six months of probation because he was at the scene. "Wrong place, wrong time," he recently said. All those red flags began to weigh Perrilloux down. And when you're in the spotlight, as Perrilloux would concede years later, perception is as important as reality. In May 2007, a few months before he expected to compete with Flynn to become the starter for the upcoming season, Perrilloux, now 20, got caught trying to use his older brother's ID to board a casino boat. "That was a terrible decision," he now admits. Another red flag. Coach Miles suspended Perrilloux, but after he was reinstated Flynn, a fifth-year senior, was named starting quarterback. Now a redshirt sophomore, Perrilloux started the 2007 season as the backup, on a team that had legitimate national championship aspirations. On Sept. 15, he started for an injured Flynn against Middle Tennessee and in only two and half quarters of play, he completed 20 of 25 passes for 298 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 37 yards as LSU won, 44-0. One week later, Perrilloux was back on the sidelines holding a clipboard. Early one morning in October, Perrilloux was at the Varsity, a local nightclub on campus, when a fight broke out.
On a failed save, the creature succumbs to the desire for something to fill the gap in their soul, and seeks out carnal or base desires such as alcohol, drugs, or sex. This dramatic shift in the behavior supersedes all other desires.
HerpDerpHooves: Damnit So, I have Pony clothes, pony socks, a key, and a pony vibrator DementedMan: > NOTE: ANY SPELLING ERROR IS THE RESULT OF SYNTAX ERROR Slowpon: I am error Epigonic: Have you heard this guy play the song? 2:23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sspm9p29gRs HerpDerpHooves: >OK DementedMan: >YEP, SYNTAX. Epigonic: Cause it's one of my favorite versions ILuvFluttershy goes to listen Epigonic: He was totally at Bronycon, and I totally said I loved his stuff. HerpDerpHooves: >CHECK OPTIONS wapplejack walks in wapplejack rapes emu wapplejack goes afk TheBestPony: Nope. Slowpon: HerpDerpHooves: lol DementedMan: > 1. NEW GAME 2. LOAD SAVE 3. QUIT 4. SETTINGS Epigonic: TheBestPony just pulled a Neo HerpDerpHooves: >4 DementedMan: > 1. INCREASE VOLUME 2. INCREASE DIFFICULTY 3. CREDITS wapplejack ust watched the new ep Epigonic: No spoilers please HerpDerpHooves: >BACK TO GAME Epigonic: I haven't watched it Slowpon: shhh epi hasn't seen wapplejack: Failed Emote: z00 ILuvFluttershy: I now know why I don't like the song Epi Epigonic: Oooh Alright DementedMan: > You are in a room. There is a BED to the west, and DOOR to the east, and a CHEST OF DRAWERS to the north. What do? HerpDerpHooves: >GO TO BED wapplejack: redheart DementedMan: > You are now at the BED. HerpDerpHooves: Hmmm Fuck it Epigonic: >LOOK UNDER BED wapplejack: bombs HerpDerpHooves: alright that works too Epigonic: I'm still afraid I'm going to break the game Slowpon: do it see what the parser can handle DementedMan: > There is an APPLE CORE, a BOOK covered with DUST, and more BAD POETRY under the BED. HerpDerpHooves: >PICK UP BOOK DementedMan: > You pick up the BOOK. Epigonic: Maybe the book requires a key. Could be a diary Slowpon: there should be a score screen to go with the inventory screen Epigonic: Filled with more bad poetry HerpDerpHooves: Maybe Slowpon: show your stats HerpDerpHooves: Damnit, bad poetry Epigonic: oh god, Slowpon, that would be great. HerpDerpHooves: >Check STATS DementedMan: > LOADING DementedMan: > 0 Grubbiness, 2 Social, 5 Silliness, 5 Larceny, 5 Igniteability, 5 Astuteness, 5 Fletching, 5 Basketweave. Slowpon: am also noticing a distinct lack of Swag stat DementedMan: SWA is an ATTRIBUTE HerpDerpHooves: Ah Okay Shall we? >OPEN BOOK DementedMan: > Lets DementedMan: > Upon reading the book, you find it is TWILIGHT'S DIARY.
Figure 4 View largeDownload slide Top: Photographs of the left (L) and right (R) lateral surfaces of Einstein’s brain taken with the back of the brain rotated towards the viewer, with original labels. Bottom: Our identifications. The arrows indicate the pre-occipital notch at the inferolateral border of each hemisphere, which indicate the approximate inferior boundary between the lateral surfaces of the temporal and occipital lobes; on the right, an apparent artificial cut severed the rostral tip (shaded red) of a gyrus in the posterior part of the inferior temporal lobe. This cut appears to be a lateral extension of that observed on the right side of the base of the brain (Fig. 6). Typically, the supramarginal gyrus surrounds the posterior ascending limb of the Sylvian, and the angular gyrus surrounds the upturned end(s) of superior temporal sulcus. These gyri are separated approximately at the level of the intermedius primus sulcus of Jensen and together form the inferior parietal lobule. The supramarginal gyri are shaded blue; the angular gyri are aqua. In the left hemisphere, part of the cortical region above posterior terminal horizontal branch of the Sylvian is shaded an inbetween colour because it could arguably belong to either gyrus. Einstein’s inferior parietal lobules have different shapes in the two hemispheres, and appear to be relatively larger on the left side. Sulci: a1 = ascending branch of the superior temporal sulcus; a2 = angular; a3 = anterior occipital; aS = posterior ascending limb of the Sylvian; c = central; dt = descending terminal branch of the Sylvian; e = processus acuminis; ht = posterior terminal horizontal branch of the Sylvian; i = inferior polar; inp = intermediate posterior parietal; ip = intraparietal; lc = lateral calcarine; oci = inferior occipital; ocl = lateral occipital; ocs = superior occipital; otr = transverse occipital; par = paroccipital; ps = superior parietal; pti = postcentral inferior; pts = postcentral superior; rc = retrocalcarine; S = Sylvian fissure; scp = subcentral posterior; sip = intermedius primus of Jensen; ti = inferior temporal; ts = superior temporal; u = unnamed. The figure is reproduced with permission from the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
What do you get when you putand a NEW Nicktoon together in one short film? TOTAL AWESOMENESS! Watch as one of Nickelodeon's newest Nicktoons,, meets up with some of your favorite friends from the world of master cartoon creator, Butch Hartman! :Update: Added Nickelodeon's press release, below! :Tune into weekdays at 5:30 p.m. ET/PT between Tuesday 21st - Friday 24th February 2017, then Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. ET/PT, only on Nick USA! Visit Nick.com Instagram and the Nick App to learn more aboutShare it: @nickelodeon #bunsenisabeast #dannyphantom #fairlyoddparentsWorlds and characters collide in, an original animated short featuring an ensemble cast of characters from the Nickelodeon animated series created by Butch Hartman:and the brand-new. The short, which marks the first-time these popular characters have ever been featured together, is now available across Nick.com Facebook , and Nick’s YouTube page. Hartman’s latest series,, premieres today, Feb. 21, at 5:30p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon, telling the story of Bunsen and Mikey--two new friends who embark on endless fun and adventures in their town of Muckledunk.In, Danny Phantom and friends capture escaped ghosts in their lab, Fenton Works, but their mission quickly goes awry when secret agent Dudley Puppy messes with the control panel. Soon after, Wanda, Cosmo and Timmy end up in the lab instead of Fairy World, where they are all met by a very different newcomer, Bunsen.For over 18 years, Hartman has created hit series for Nickelodeon, includingand, with his brand-new series,debuting today. As part of Nickelodeon’s continued celebration of its rich animation history, Hartman combined his pantheon of iconic characters into one comedic short.On Feb. 24,voice cast members, David Kaufman, Grey Griffin, Rickey D’Shon Collins, and Colleen O’Shaughnessy, will appear on a brand-new episode of the toon-talking Nickelodeon Animation Podcast, which gives voice to the creators and talent who bring to life some of the most innovative, hilarious, and heart-tugging animation in the history of television. Episodes are available on iTunes SoundCloud and nickanimationpodcast.com (10 seasons), which debuted in 2001, follows Cosmo and Wanda, husband-and-wife fairies, as they wreak havoc and help their godson Timmy overcome typical kid obstacles by granting him wishes. (3 seasons), which bowed in 2004, charts the adventures of14-year-old Danny Fenton, who becomes half-ghost, “Danny Phantom.” Now with paranormal powers, he’s responsible for capturing the ghosts and monsters that roam the Earth.
I went to Saturn and back, I can still remember it to this day; it was fun and about as psychedelically intense as two hits of good acid.During this time I dosed DXM sporadically, until I was released from active duty and sent home to start college. The experiences during that time were all pretty similar. I developed a comfortable working knowledge of DXM and its effects on my body and mind. The trip was very psychedelic. It hit the mind and the body. I want to say it was like acid, but it just wasnt. Acid and DXM relate to each other like a strong acidic chemical and a strong base chemical. Hydrochloric acid vs. Lye. Both can burn the shit out of you, but they are polar opposites.DXM had profound physical and mental effects, always affecting my motor skills in an amazing, crazy way. Robot walking. My speech was affected, words did not come out of the mouth as they should. The DXM episode makes me think of temporary cerebral palsy.January 1999 to December 2000: CollegeI go home and enroll in college. I dose DXM maybe four random times during this period, mostly because I was a student employee at the college library and I would grow incredibly bored. I used right there at work. It was really exciting because I still got that intense wild psychedelic ride like taking two hits of good acid, it was like riding a wild bull. I was pretty sure that I was going to lose my mind and have a psychological breakdown in front of all my fellows, but I always seemed to pull through by the skin of my teeth. Good fun.It is truly unfortunate that DXM was not my only means of dealing with the boredom and the unhealthy state of my brain chemistry. Cocaine took me down much darker and dangerous roads. After those experiences, I forgot all about DXM again for another six yearsDecember 2004I eventually graduated from college and then went back to work for Uncle Sam. I enlisted in the Coast Guard. By this time I had been clean and sober for a good two years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and a Mormon marriage are great for keeping a man clean and sober, but it did nothing for my brain chemistry. I was sick and I did not know it.
Now that Tasker has repeatedly been mentioned in a home automation context , I thought it was time to create a simple tutorial showing how you can create a widget to execute a simple automation task, or turn on/off a device such as your lights, using the built-in web server of your home automation controller.Tasker can emulate a web browser in order to retrieve data. This is the feature we will be using for this tutorial. I will show you how you can figure out the correct commands you have to send, in case you have a home automation controller with an undocumented web server, or are trying to do something which no one else has tried before.There are 3 major steps to this process:In order to figure out what URL & data is sent whenever you activate a light/task via your home automation web server, we need to monitor these requests coming from your browser. But before that, I need to quickly explain (in a simplified way) the types of requests your browser sends to a web server. There are 2 types/methods, and in this example, let's assume we are trying to control a light with an ID # of 4, and we are trying to turn it on. The URL is the string found in the address bar of your browser.Like I said, this is an extremely simplified way of explaining things, but if you are interested in the details, check out the W3Schools.com article or this Wikipedia entry.If your web server relies on GET for control, just note the URL and proceed to the next step. If your web server uses POST, then we need to install a tool which can display the variables we are sending to the web server whenever we activate a light/task.To make this process easy, I recommend you install Fiddler , which is a web debugging proxy, and should work with your preferred browser. There are other tools, such as Tamper Data Live HTTP Headers for FireFox, or Chrome's internal Developer Tools (use F12 to activate).
Mashed roasted garlic. Defrost a cube in the microwave, then spread the paste across the bottom of a galette, dollop it onto focaccia dough, or roll into savory palmier—or simply spread it on a piece of toast, cover it with Gruyère, and bake until melty and delicious. Vegetable bouillon. Add a cube of the River Cottage's Vegetable Bouillon to your next soup—or to your next batch of grains or dried beans. Chipotles in adobo. Homogenize the peppers and their sauce in a food processor or blender before spooning into the ice cube trays. Then add the frozen blocks to chili or enchilada sauce or chilaquiles. Caramelized onions. Having caramelized onions at the ready will have you feeling like a kickass weeknight genius. Because you do know how long it takes to really caramelize onions, right? Tomato paste. You'll need two cubes for Victoria Granof's Pasta con Ceci. Fresh herbs in olive oil. Wash, dry, and pick your favorite herbs, then roughly chop any bulky leaves. Use for any sautéed vegetables or to begin a braise, soup, stir-fry... Grated ginger. For your fried rice, steamed fish, braised chicken, and soba salads. And if all else fails, pour boiling-hot water over a frozen cube, stir in honey, and soothe an achey throat. Pesto. Turn it into pasta sauce, salad dressing, panzanella; stir it into yogurt and use it to marinade chicken or fish; dollop over tomato soup. Chicken stock. Add a couple of cubes of chicken stock along with a glug or two of white or red wine when you deglaze a pan. Curry paste. Join these cubes with your frozen coconut milk and frozen ginger and you're moments away from a spicy, zingy curry made of all your vegetable odds-and-ends. Celery leaves in lemon juice. These will chill down your Bloody Mary without diluting it. Saffron soaked in hot water. For more aromatic, longer-lasting saffron, pour 1 cup of warm water over 1/2 teaspoon of the amber threads, then distribute into your ice cube tray. One ice cube will equal 1 pinch.
University of Saskatchewan "An international team of scientists led by Gregg Adams at the University of Saskatchewan has discovered that a protein in semen acts on the female brain to prompt ovulation, and is the same molecule that regulates the growth, maintenance, and survival of nerve cells.Male mammals have accessory sex glands that contribute seminal fluid to semen, but the role of this fluid and the glands that produce it are not well understood.“From the results of our research, we now know that these glands produce large amounts of a protein that has a direct effect on the female,” says Adams, a professor of veterinary biomedical sciences at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the U of S.The work, which appears in the August 20, 2012 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), raises intriguing questions about fertility in mammals, including humans.The team characterized the protein, dubbed ovulation-inducing factor (OIF), that they have found in the semen of all species of mammal they have looked at so far. In the process of discovering its identity, the team compared OIF to thousands of other proteins, including nerve growth factor (NGF) which is found primarily in nerve cells throughout the body.“To our surprise, it turns out they are the same molecule,” Adams says. “Even more surprising is that the effects of NGF in the female were not recognized earlier, since it’s so abundant in seminal plasma.”a protein in semen was found to act on the female brain to induce ovulation and that protein is the same molecule that controls the growth, maintenance and survival of neurons. The findings suggest that semen may work as a signalling hormone that acts via the hypothalamus and pituitary gland of the female brain, which triggers the release of other hormones involved in prompting ovulation.
=========================== OKLAHOMA STATE 21, TEXAS 21 =========================== --------------- 6 plays, 52 yards, TOP 01:57 --------------- R. Schwettmann kickoff 64 yards to the UT1, Jones, Jeremy return 19 yards to the UT20 (Lindsay Sherrer;Robbie Gillem), PENALTY UT holding 10 yards to the UT10, 1st and 10, UT ball on UT10. T 1-10 T10 TEXAS drive start at 06:41. T 1-10 T10 Applewhite, Maj sideline pass complete to Williams, Ricky for 17 yards to the UT27, 1ST DOWN UT (Kenyatta Wright;Jeremy Halferty). T 1-10 T27 Clock 06:23, Williams, Ricky rush over right tackle for 3 yards to the UT30 (Kenyatta Wright;Taber LeBlanc). T 2-7 T30 Applewhite, Maj sacked for loss of 3 yards to the UT27 (Alton Weaver). T 3-10 T27 Timeout TEXAS, clock 04:51. T 3-10 T27 Applewhite, Maj middle pass complete to Cavil, Kwame for 12 yards to the UT39, 1ST DOWN UT (Ricky Thompson). T 1-10 T39 Williams, Ricky rush up middle for 7 yards to the UT46 (Dwayne Levels). T 2-3 T46 Clock 04:00, Applewhite, Maj sideline pass complete to Cavil, Kwame for 6 yards to the OSU48, 1ST DOWN UT (Evan Howell). T 1-10 O48 Clock 03:34, Applewhite, Maj sideline pass complete to Williams, Ricky for 48 yards to the OSU0, 1ST DOWN UT, TOUCHDOWN, clock 03:23. Stockton, Kris kick attempt good. =========================== OKLAHOMA STATE 21, TEXAS 28 =========================== --------------- 7 plays, 90 yards, TOP 03:18 --------------- Stockton, Kris kickoff 57 yards to the OSU8, Jamaal Fobbs return 26 yards to the OSU34 (Jackson, Lee). O 1-10 O34 OKLAHOMA STATE drive start at 03:23. O 1-10 O34 Nathan Simmons rush over left guard for loss of 1 yard to the OSU33 (Woodard, Cedric). O 2-11 O33 Clock 02:36, Nathan Simmons rush over right guard for no gain to the OSU33 (Hicks, Anthony). O 3-11 O33 Timeout TEXAS, clock 01:59. O 3-11 O33 Tony Lindsay screen pass incomplete to Jamaal Fobbs. O 4-11 O33 PENALTY OSU personal foul 15 yards to the OSU18. O 4-26 O18 Scott Elder punt 9 yards to the OSU27, out-of-bounds. --------------- 3 plays, minus 16 yards, TOP 01:39 --------------- T 1-10 O27 TEXAS drive start at 01:44. T 1-10 O27 Applewhite, Maj sideline pass complete to White, Bryan for 4 yards to the OSU23. T 2-6 O23 Clock 01:16, Applewhite, Maj sideline pass incomplete to McGarity, Wane.
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If the state killed him,someday a backhoe would rupture a buried bomb and tens of thousands would die.What's coming is a million new reasons not to live your life.You can deny your possibility to success and blame it on something else.You can fight against everything-Margaret Thatcher, property owners, the urge to open that door mid-flight, God... everything you pretend keeps you down.You can live Kierkegaard's inauthentic life.Or you can make what Kierkegaard called your Leap of Faith, where you stop living as a reaction and start living as a force for what you say should be.What's coming is a million new reasons to go ahead.What's going out is the cathartic transgressional novel, now that we have someone to hate more than each other.
Asmara, where Arefaine grew up, is a serene city of half a million people, set on a plateau at almost eight thousand feet. There are broad streets with peach-toned Art Deco buildings; on Harnet Avenue, lined with palm trees, people stroll past cafés, bars, bakeries, and cinemas. In the middle of the street stands a red brick cathedral, where, during my visit, teen-agers sat flirting on the steps. The city is slow-paced, and crime is low. Western diplomats say, with evident relief, that Asmara is “not like an African city.” Because the government restricts permits for new construction, there is a housing shortage in the city, and people build homes in unregulated settlements on the edge of Asmara. Arefaine grew up in one of these quarters, named Godaif; a paved main street gives way to dirt roads into the neighborhood, where the homes range from pastel-painted brick houses to lean-tos with laundry hanging outside. His father, a judge, owned land there, and so he built an orange house with four bedrooms for the family—four boys and four girls. Arefaine’s mother didn’t go to school, dedicating herself to caring for their children. Arefaine still sometimes cries when he talks about her. “My mom is the sweetest person, because she devoted her life to us,” he told me. Arefaine’s neighborhood was known for producing skilled, if rowdy, athletes. He described the local pastimes as playing soccer, fighting, and drinking suwa, a kind of beer made from sorghum. Arefaine wanted to be a professional soccer player from the time he could stretch his legs. His father, who was strict and controlling, pressured him to excel in school, and they argued. Arefaine wasn’t serious enough, he said. He preferred the cinema and night clubs to school, and he was always the first one on the dance floor at weddings. But his talent for soccer was evident. As early as high school, scouts began inquiring about him. He joined a club team called Tesfa, and sneaked out of the house to play matches. School wasn’t that interesting, anyway. In history classes, his teachers spent most of the time on the country’s perpetual struggle against Ethiopia. In geography, Arefaine learned the names of the other countries in Africa, but that was about it. “Our knowledge about the outside world until we finish high school is very limited,” he said. Arefaine grew up surrounded by support for the Afewerki regime.
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Related 4 Rules For Managing Risk From A Decorated Force Recon Marine Like many eureka moments, the answer came in part from what on the surface appeared to be a failure. Because of resource constraints, one kandak in the 1/215–the 3rd–didn’t have any advisers. Yet, oddly, of all the kandaks, that one actually seemed to be doing the best. They had security under control. They were actively collaborating with the other authorities in their area. Insurgents weren’t making any inroads. Indeed, it would be forces from this kandak, based in Marjah, that helped trounce the Taliban that day in September 2012. “We wondered if that was an indicator,” says Bourbeau. What he and Treglia saw as they watched the battle unfold seemed to confirm it. Maybe keeping the advisers around wasn’t helping the Afghans as much as they thought. “Maybe we were actually slowing things down,” Bourbeau says. It was basic human nature. “If you put 19 Marines in one area, that means there are 19 Marines working to get things done, and that means there are 19 ANA who aren’t doing their job,” Treglia says. The Marines are stronger and better trained. Why wouldn’t the Afghans defer? But that approach only solves the problem of the day. “Strategically, to win this war, the ANA must have confidence and must be able to show that they can succeed,” Treglia says. So Treglia decided to take a risk: He pulled the advisers out and replaced them with the two- and four-man LNOs. “It was a brilliant move,” says one of Treglia’s captains, who stayed behind as an LNO team leader. At first, the Afghans hated it. “They’re like, ‘You guys suck. Why are you leaving us?’” says the captain. But after a couple of weeks of the Marines telling the Afghans they couldn’t do things for them anymore, it was like a light went off. “They were like, ‘We can do this.’” And then, “We don’t need any Marines.” And not long after, “What are you still doing here?”
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When Marco was moping around in Star's room, he heard a voice from nowhere that told him the Blood Moon is the Moon of Lovers. That voice is never explained or referenced again. Where did it come from? When asked about who this mysterious voice was, Daron "Dance, Puppets, Dance!" Nefcy responded with the following. https://twitter.com/DaronNefcy/status/692898526787862529 "It was the Sea Captain! He's very wise." Meta-trolling your adoring fans, eh? If that's how you wanna play it... The way I see it, there are two possibilities. First, the Blood Moon itself might possess some level of sentience and it’s trying to help Star and Marco find their way to each other. Given some of the other behavior we've seen from it, especially when it comes around to get Marco's attention in Bon Bon the Birthday Clown, this isn't outside the realm of plausibility. However, the better and more likely alternative is... Sir Glossaryck. Of Terms. He's the only one who we know had the means, motive, and opportunity. I lifted that idea (and a couple related ones) from here. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarVStheForcesofEvil/comments/5o50mq/i_think_i_know_who_the_sea_captain_in_blood_moon/ It's a cracking good analysis and contains lots of stuff that would never have even occurred to me. In fact, just go read that for the Glossaryck stuff, it's a lot better than mine. That said, I want to take a slightly different approach and add something of my own. First and foremost, I've been trying to figure out who voiced the lines of the Sea Captain. Specifically, was it Glossaryck's VA, Jeffrey Tambor? The results have been... inconclusive. Tambor is NOT listed in the voice credits for this and the companion episode (Fortune Cookies), but I wouldn't consider that a silver bullet under the circumstances. Interesting fact... Tambor has also voiced an old sea captain named Flarty on a completely unrelated TV show, Bob's Burgers. Coincidence? Normally I'd say yes, but in the hands of Daron "667 Dimensional Chess" Nefcy? I remain unconvinced. Here, have a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQS5z2Rtv4Q Now go compare that to the Sea Captain, which I couldn't find a good clip for on Youtube. I'm not positive it's the same guy, but it very definitely could be, and if pressed I'd say it is. The gravel in the voices sounds VERY similar. If they were voiced by the same person, would it mean Glossaryck was the Sea Captain? Again, not absolute proof, as many VAs do multiple characters in an episode.
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It takes a certain temperament to run one of the only twopicks when your upper bracket qualification is on the line.Let’s tell the story of Orange by starting with. I don’t actually know a lot about Orange, but I suspect they really like Outworld Devourer despite only playing him once in the entire tournament. How can I reach this conclusion? By looking at the draft histories.First, Orange drew out 8 opening bans on OD, more than any other team in the top 8. They received 3 more later round OD bans on top of that. Of the three possible remaining games, they played the hero once, had the hero stolen away from them by iG (who was willing to give up Batrider to pull this off), and were preemptively counter-picked with Razor by Liquid. That’s a lot of hate to be directed at a single hero.Let’s also look at that one game where Orange did manage to pick OD against Alliance. Orange picked OD at the end of the opening round and spent their next two bans on Razor and Viper to protect their pick. They then also spent their final ban on Beastmaster, once again as protection for OD. Completely unphased by Orange directing 3 of their 5 bans to protect their mid laner, Alliance just goes and grabs Kunkka and wins the game.Despite being the second most banned hero of the entire tournament, Outworld Devourer has struggled, in large part due to all the counter-picking he has seen, such as Na`Vi’s reflexive Razor pickups. He’s honestly quite emblematic of Orange as a whole, in that they strike me as a team that’s way too dependent on specific character interactions that knowledgeable drafters will not allow to go through uninterrupted.In any case, Orange is one of those teams that are more likely to spend their opening picks on control over carry potential, with 6 of their opening picks going toand 8 of their opening picks going to. They have 9 total games with Visage and a record of 7-2 with the hero, so he’s arguably been the star of the team.Orange’s bans are a bit all over the place, but they are another team that does not want to allow you to have. They’re also the only Eastern team in the top 8 to receive aban.Other heroes to keep an eye out on includeand.
It was Monsanto that knowingly poisoned the planet with toxic PCBs.The process of making GMO seeds also poses health risks. Viral promoter genes are used during this production process and become part of the DNA mix, posing a risk for new types of viral disease. An unintended side-effect of this production technology is chronic activation or suppression of normal genes in the modified plants. This alters the actual nutrient structure of food and the function of the proteins within that food – a very serious matter.The entire process of producing GMO seeds is also unpredictable. It creates multiple random genetic events in every food cell invaded by the mutant genes. Because each gene doesn't just do one thing and is highly interactive with other genes, the production of GMO food is not consistent and therefore safety cannot be guaranteed – especially when you understand that our scientific knowledge of gene interdependencies is in its infancy.Eating food that is mutated by other non-food species is a grand experiment to say the least. GMO mutants can transfer to the living bacteria in your digestive tract, as has been shown in animal experiments. This can adversely change the way your gut bacteria behave so that they create pesticides and become more resistant to your immune system and medical treatments. If the GMO mutants were to transfer to an existing infection in your digestive tract then it could create your own superbug.Because the proteins in GMO food are structurally different than normal food they significantly increase the risk for allergy. Allergy is one form of inflammation that is likely to result from GMO food, but there are many other potential sources. These include the mis-metabolism of the food, the inherent toxicity of the food, and the pesticide residues on the food. These inflammatory problems of GMO food will additively contribute to other forms of inflammation such as pollution and stress and add to the total inflammation burden sets the stage for many diseases. It is likely that GMO food will have a significant impact on pregnancy problems and developmental problems in children. At this time nobody can rule out GMO as a possible causative factor in Autism, as the rates of both have risen together.
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