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Bi-polar syndrome ("emotional rollercoaster") A form of depression. As the name indicates, the syndrome consists of alternations between mania (happiness) and depression (sadness), with no obvious reason for the cycling up and down. The period of cycling varies from days to minutes, with the amplitude of the effects eventually dying down to zero within two weeks or so. Unfortunately, there isn't much one can do about it except wait it out and enjoy the fun parts, but maybe just being aware that the depression is chemically induced and will end may help. Oddly enough, unlike other post-trip phenomena, it appears that this syndrome does not correlate with dose and this may well happen even after a non-spectacular low-dose trip. Conversion experiences A sudden and complete reorientation of one's value system, as opposed to the more or less gentle rejiggling of priorities that psychedelics tend to cause. "Everything you know is wrong, but you can be cured." Depression Probably the least rare of the rare effects, often triggered by a negative trip, esp. one in which you learned something unpleasant about yourself or others; but something appears for no evident reason. Like bi-polar syndrome, it will usually pass in a week or so. 'Flashbacks' The most famous post-trip effect, and without a doubt the most exaggerated one as well. Full-fledged "pathological" flashbacks, where you for a moment relive a segment of the trip entirely and which are the only type the media ever refers to, belong to the "very rare" category. What is much more common is that something reminds you of the trip, and for a moment you experience trippy phenomena: often a simple hallucination or that cosmic feeling of floatyness. This is nearly always fun and provokes a reaction of "Wow! ", frequent trippers refer to these as "freebies". In computer terms, flashbacks aren't a bug, they're a feature. Psychotic episodes of 48 hours or more Or in other words, an episode of serious insanity that does not end along with the trip. This is quite rare, .08% (8 out of 10,000) according to one study of LSD users. Even in these rare cases, the patient nearly always had a history of mental illness, but there have been exceptions. Even a serious psychotic episode does not mean you'll go permanently nuts.
died at the age of 61, after conquering the whole of Arabia and uniting it under the code of Islam. This ‘conquering’ wasn’t spiritual or peaceful; it was a bloody and barbaric affair – like the imperialist royalty of the medieval world.Jesus was crucified, Buddha took samadhi, Mahavira took the oath of complete non-violence, but Mohammad lived by the sword. Is it a surprise that he taught his followers that it’s ok to slain the non-believers? Islam starts brain-washing a child from his formative years that how kafir is the enemy. Is this the message of Allah? Jihad involves the spread of Islam through violence – and it is one of the key duties of every Muslim. Most people in our world are born into a religion. Choosing your own religion is still a very radical idea in most parts of the world. According to Islam, every non-Muslim is born into sin. You don’t get a choice – either convert, or die. This is not a religion, this is a battle-plan.Imagine if the notoriously sham holy-man of India – Nirmal Baba – with a huge following becomes a religion in 200 years and has millions of followers. Does that mean his message is genuine? Telling people what they want to hear – serves as a good strategy for him to make simpletons believe into his ‘divinity’. This is 21st century. There’re many scam artists like him across the world. If in today’s age of science – such con-men can accumulate large crowds – imagine what a cake-walk it would be for the tricksters of 570 AD.Mohammad was a very intelligent man. He didn’t control people by acquiring power through political means - he became their warrior prophet instead. He knew religion will create a much bigger army for him. He told his followers what they wanted to hear. He recognized Moses / Jesus and added his name to the list of prophets. He told them that Allah speaks through him. He was charismatic – people believed him. His audience were barbaric tribal men – so he gave them rules which appealed to them. And what do men want? More wives, more sex, easy divorce. He gave them that. He told them it’s ok to hit your wives to discipline them. He also told them that temporary marriage is ok because Allah allows it.
Many aviation enthusiasts have heard about the so-called "plasma stealth": using ionized gas to reduce the radar cross section of an aircraft. Some consider this to be science fiction - a Romulan cloaking shield. However, sarcastic remarks aside, "plasma stealth" is quite real. At least in theory. Interactions between EM radiation and ionized gas have been extensively studied for a variety of purposes ranging from radio communications to astrophysics. Plasma is a highly complex topic with many unanswered fundamental questions. Nevertheless, a plasma stealth device for combat aircraft has been offered for export by Russia in 1999. While the theoretical possibility of reducing an aircraft's RCS by wrapping the airframe in ionized gas flow is not in question, the technological aspects of such methods represent considerable interest. How is it done? There are many possibilities running from "simple" electrostatic discharges to complex and power-hungry plasma lasers. The following collection of resources is unlikely to answer specific technical question, but it may provide you with a push in the right direction. Plasma stealth-related articles in scientific and industry publications Article listings by source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Jane's Information Group Aviation Week & Space Technology NOTE: these article collections will be updated more frequently than this page, so you may want to bookmark them separately. Foreword As I already mentioned, plasma is a complex subject. Not all researchers understand it equally well. This includes me. No single scientist understands it all. Physics is a very multifaceted science and plasma (being, after all, the fourth state of matter) is a big element of it. Most of the universe exists in the state of plasma, while we live in its tiny corner consisting of solids, gases and liquids. Different type of plasma vary greatly in temperature, levels of ionization, density and chemical composition. Different types of plasma are as far from each other in their physical properties as the fluorescent light in your kitchen is different from the solar core or as Aurora Borealis is different from magnetic confinement fusion. The fact that you found a relevant scientific article written by PhDs and published by a reputable source does not mean that you can take everything printed in the article for a fact.
So cute. It's 8oz so the size of a typical mug Sweet skull on the right was designed to be a sugar bowl. I rescued it. Now it will be an awesome candle then skull dish for your treasures. Like the earlier skull piece, I recommend La Muerta in the Loteria collection, but they're whispering in my ear, telling me that they'd be thrilled with anything from the Pick Yer Poison collection. Also browse the Mythos collection. Dang these dudes are demanding! K Left: MAY BLOSSOM 6oz $40 L Right: FLORAL GLORY 6oz $40 We're going to switch gears now and get a little fancy. These are Royal Albert Bone China cups. The value of the cups themselves vary from $10 to $30. I'm not adding that cost to the total. You just get a valuable cup after your candle is gone. The set on the left is called May Blossom. To me it looks a bit Japanese and dappled with cherry blossoms. Either way, it's gorgeous. My perfume Amaterasu in the Mythos collection would be a lovely addition to this fine cup On the left, we have another Royal Albert Bone China cup. It is decorated with an assortment of various opulent flowers. It would pair wonderfully with Persephone in the Mythos collection. M Left: IN THE GARDEN 6oz $40 N Right: PEARLESCENT STARS 6oz $40 On the left we have another Royal Albert Bone China cup. It's a gorgeous cup with a fun floral print on both the cup and saucer. Find your deity in the Mythos collection and honor them with opulent floral splendor. Pearlescent Stars is nothing short of magickal. It has hand painted golden stars covered in a pearl glaze. Aradia, the star goddess in the Mythos collection would be a wonderful choice for this candle. O Left: CROW FEATHER SUGAR BOWL 10oz $45 P Right: CROW FEATHER SUGAR BOWL10oz $45 I wasn't kidding when I said I was a rescuer of sugar bowls! They make such amazing candles and the lid makes them super classy. Both of these vessels are identical in shape, design and color. The sheen is that of a crow's feather or an oil slick. Anything from Miss Victoria's Marauding Mercantile or Atypical Teahouse would be an amazing selection for these candles! Q Left: MELODY SERIES SERENADE 6oz $40 R Right: AUTUMN MAPLE SPLENDOR 6oz $40 On the left we have another Royal Albert Bone China cup and saucer.
The NGOs do not coordinate their relief efforts. They are engaged in capitalist competition with one another for funds and are pre-occupied with branding their separate efforts so that they can advertise their "successes" to their donors. As a result, the NGOs provide at best provide a chaotic jumble of services to quake victims. At worst, they are sitting on piles of cash. In truth, the U.S., its allies, and NGO surrogates have overseen and in many cases caused worsening conditions in Haiti worse over the last year. The failure of reconstruction left hundreds of thousands trapped in camps, vulnerable to storms, disease, and violence brought on by desperate conditions. On top of that, the UN occupation forces, specifically a contingent of Nepalese soldiers, most likely introduced cholera that has now become a countrywide epidemic, killing thousands and infecting hundreds of thousands more. The U.S. then precipitated a political crisis by pushing for parliamentary election to give a democratic veneer to American neocolonial rule. The election was a sham; it excluded the country’s most popular political party, Fanmi Lavalas, and was marred by massive fraud and a contested outcome. Finally, like a nightmare, the former dictator, "Baby Doc" Duvalier, has returned to the country from exile, throwing the country into political chaos. MW—Professor David Harvey says that NGOs act as "Trojan horses for neoliberal globalization." Do you agree with Harvey and, if so, would you elaborate? Ashley Smith—Let’s be clear first that NGOs form a big range of groups, from reformist organizations to large international humanitarians ones and others that are essentially appendages of various state powers, both major and minor. Some reformist NGOs have played a significant role in the World Social Forum and others are clearly on the side of neoliberal globalization. Harvey is absolutely correct about the role of the international NGOs. There is an insidious relationship between them, U.S. imperialism and neoliberal globalization. After the economic crisis of the 1970s, the U.S. abandoned Keynesianism, whose emphasis on state-led development had failed, and adopted market fundamentalism, aka neoliberalism, at home and abroad to restore profits and growth in the system. In the U.S. the ruling class busted unions, cut the welfare state, and deregulated the economy. Internationally, as Walden Bello documents in Dark Victory, the U.S. used the debt crisis to compel third world countries to open up their markets, abolish regulations on foreign and domestic capital, privatize state industry, and shred state-run social programs.
AHMEDABAD: Together, they are perhaps the most unusual group of campaigners in Gujarat’s high voltage polls — a group of 60 wealthy Gujarati NRIs who have flown in to, as they say, spread the word that voters must back Prime Minister Narendra Modi and not be swayed by “misleading forces”.They are in their home state on their own dime, they said, and many, said BJP leaders off record, know the PM personally from his days as the state’s chief minister.Their professions range from doctors and pharmacists to businessmen and technology executives.Jashubhai Patel, 51, a surgeon from California, US has his ancestral home in Vadnagar, which used to be Modi’s consti tuency in assembly polls. Patel told ET, Modi has given a “unified identity” to Indians abroad.“The way he has taken Hindutva to the world, from yoga to Indian way of simple living, everyone is looking up to us. I tell voters to strengthen him. Life was very difficult for us when we were growing up in Gujarat. Narendrabhai took Gujarat out of the misery of both caste politics and underdevelopment,” he said.Patel who hails from the Patidar community said he specifically has reached out to voters from his community urging them not to fall for fake promises made by others.“We as a community have come up striving hard. Let’s not ruin that by asking for reservation . Quality and merit is important for the nation to grow.”Jashubhai says he has known Modi since the latter was a RSS pracharak in Ahmedabad. “I have known him for years. He does nothing for himself. Growth and welfare of the poor is his only concern.”BJP foreign affairs head Vijay Chauthaiwale, who is currently in charge of the party’s social media campaign in Gujarat, said: “Some NRIs have come to Gujarat and are campaigning for BJP. Others, who can’t spare time to visit India, are part of our social media messengers. They are also making calls to their friends and family back home to urge them to vote for BJP. All these efforts are purely on voluntary basis. People visiting India and campaigning are doing at their own expense. All these efforts show their great affection for BJP and PM Modiji.”Bharat Barai, an oncologist who was among NRIs who arranged Modi’s Madison Square, New York, address to Indian-Americans is also in Gujarat to campaign for BJP.
Charlie Sykes, the Trump critic and former conservative talk radio host in Wisconsin, says there is an “alternative reality bubble” within the right, created in part by conservative media. Trump, he said, is both developing and exploiting this “post-truth environment,” elevating once-fringe conspiracy theorists and propagandists who will then amplify his lies. “He is extremely aware of his ability to sort of throw these giant turd bombs out there and create disruption. And to a certain extent that’s all he really needs to do. Just create enough doubt, spread enough chaos, and he will survive.” In the long term, Sykes said, “the destruction of his credibility is potentially fatal” — but “news cycle by news cycle, it probably works for him.” His success with lying, however temporary, reflects broader problems afflicting the U.S. political system: extreme partisan polarization and historically low trust in institutions. Trump supporters’ scant faith in institutions, actively encouraged by Trump himself, makes them skeptical of the people who have called him out on the wiretapping lie: news outlets, Democratic leaders, even law enforcement. Darla Stewart, a 51-year-old office manager, said Obama “absolutely could have done that.” Asked about Comey’s debunking, she said: “That’s the same FBI director that let Hillary Clinton go. I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him.” Barb Beddard, a 66-year-old retiree, began to question Trump’s claim, then stopped. “It’s possible, but they said that there’s no … I feel the media’s against Trump, and it was done by Nixon, I wouldn’t put anything past Obama or the Clintons,” she said. It has never been clear how much of Trump’s deceit is strategic and how much it is impulsive. But there is one thing he has known since his days as a serially untruthful businessman: attempts to correct his nonsense get far less attention than the original nonsense itself. Anthony Skaggs, 50, a Newark engineer for a Fortune 500 company, said he had heard about the wiretapping claim. “I don’t know if I necessarily believe it,” he said, “but it wouldn’t surprise me.” He had only heard “a little bit of a blurb,” though, about Comey’s debunking. “To tell you the truth, I’ve been turning away from the news a lot recently,” he said.
This side art is a part of series The Adventure Log Of Young Queen vavacung.deviantart.com/galler… Scootaloo in this story is the same Scootaloo from this PMV of mine www.youtube.com/watch?v=deYNvs… "Ever since Spike had grown up into a mature age, both mentally and physically, he finally had the courage to confess his love to mare representing generosity…But she didn't return those same feelings to him, not even giving him a chance to prove himself…He became very depressed after that, but managed to move on like a proper adult. And after looking passed the mare of his first crush, he could finally see the world more clearly and had finally noticed that there have been other mares who were interested in him. But never did he know until now, when he no longer had his eyes only on the white unicorn.Learning from the past made him realise what it felt like not getting the chance to prove his love. He gave all mares (except Twilight) a chance to try dating with him and see if they were good to be together or not. Most mares were only interested in his body and got rejected not long after, but there was still others who were more interested for who he was inside. Scootaloo was one of those mares.Those two used to date before, and Spike had helped Scootaloo to set up a Repair Shop inside the old Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse, once she deemed herself old enough to leave the Orphanage and live on her own. After he saw her as a grownup that was mature enough to take care of herself, they never even broke up. Yet Spike’s heart was smitten by another mare, and he chose to marry Applejack, the last mare he promised to date with.As for Scootaloo, he just didn't choose her…And he never even told her why. Never told her what she was lacking, what she did wrong…She just didn't end up being the chosen one. So their relationship remains cloudy to this day, is she either a friend or a lover? She didn’t know, for it was something so close to romance, but yet never seemed so far from it...Be it's didn't matter to her anymore. She don't mind to be just friend with Spike. Manage to end the Unrequited Love conflict on her own. She believe that someday the orphan mare like her will found a good stallion, as good as Spike to settle down.
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"It seems like the day has come for me to leave the Xbox. It's total nonsense that there is no backwards compatibility. Ah, but if The Idolmaster 3 comes out, I guess I'll have to buy it..." "Television. The NFL. These things seem the biggest, but in Japan, they're totally irrelevant. For Japan, it's totally over. It's at the point where it doesn't matter if this doesn't sell in Japan." "I gathered that they didn't think about Japan at all." "I'm looking forward to the new Kinect." "The PS4 [reveal] had more of a technical rundown, so it was more interesting." "Western internet forums are on fire. lol" "It was like, you can play those [old games] on the 360." "Well, the controller didn't get worse. But, whatever..." "Even if the functionality is increased, what you end up with is an old PC. It's okay they are putting effort into TV and video services. I don't need that, though, because I'm enjoying my PC gamer life." "Put together a presentation for gamers." "I wonder how Americans are gaming at home. Whenever I'm playing a game, I never feel like I want to watch TV, so the ability to switch between the two makes no sense to me." "They [Microsoft] are not looking at Sony or Nintendo, but are frantically coming up with countermeasures for Apple and Google." "And here, I thought they were going put out something with amazingly high specs..." "The only thing I thought was amazing was the multi-tasking." "Kinect is certainly amazing... But, what's this feeling I have that I cannot really explain... Have I turned into some elderly, decrepit gamer?" "They're totally not thinking of Japan...This is worse than the Xbox 360." "That D-pad on the controller was good. I guess they won't put that out on the slim Xbox 360." "I like the console's design. But I have no clue why it's so damn big." "The reaction from foreigners isn't good. On Twitter, it's being trashed."
[20:35:34] <agentlame> Tell him to leave then. [20:35:35] <creesch> captainmeta4: you right, I am done now. [20:35:39] <CandyManCan> i feel like agentlame is like a 10 minute delay or something.
Springtown's reputation precedes it. A town that would barely register on a map is one of Oklahoma's most notorious speed traps. And this recent smackdown by the DPS is one of several.It was investigated in the late 1990s, with the end result being an increase in the town's speed limit in order to better match the surrounding areas. A former Transportation Dept. spokesman also said the town's PD had been investigated in the 1980s for the same reason.So, why can't theStringtown PD be taught? Well, it's because the town itself has come to rely on the influx of income its police department provides. But rather than limit itself to a reasonable amount of money and living within the sort of means most towns with a population of 400 would,Stringtown began viewing law enforcement as a growth industry.The money from speeding tickets also built a new city hall and police station, something that's definitely a luxury for a town that would otherwise be fortunate to bankroll two full-time police officers.The citizens of Stringtown seem to have bought into the city's delusion that it "needs" 20 employees and six cops The town is mostly dead and yet, the PD's supporters somehow think a super-prolific speed trap is the proper way to revive it. Smith's worry about people "breaking in" to the one store still alive in town seems misplaced. If the PD's ticket revenue is to be believed, everyone was passing throughStringtownto be bothered to pull a smash and grab at what seems to be one of the only surviving businesses in the city limits.Stringtown has been relying on its police force to balance the town's books for more than 30 years now, despite being forced to go "cold turkey" multiple times. The DPS may have cut off its supply again, but history has proven the town has run out of revenue generation ideas that don't involve a 6-person PD -- stationed in a town of 410 -- ticketing as many drivers as possible.
He stopped about as many runaways; but when the horse was really panic-stricken he usually had to turn his wheel loose, getting a firm grip on the horse's reins and then kicking his wheel so that it would fall out of the way of injury from the wagon. On one occasion he had a fight with a drunken and reckless driver who was urging to top speed a spirited horse. He first got hold of the horse, whereupon the driver lashed both him and the beast, and the animal, already mad with terror, could not be stopped. The officer had of course kicked away his wheel at the beginning, and after being dragged along for some distance he let go the beast and made a grab at the wagon. The driver hit him with his whip, but he managed to get in, and after a vigorous tussle overcame his man, and disposed of him by getting him down and sitting on him. This left his hands free for the reins. By degrees he got the horse under control, and drove the wagon round to the station-house, still sitting on his victim. "I jounced up and down on him to keep him quiet when he turned ugly," he remarked to me parenthetically. Having disposed of the wagon, he took the man round to the court, and on the way the prisoner suddenly sprang on him and tried to throttle him. Convinced at last that patience had ceased to be a virtue, he quieted his assailant with a smash on the head that took all the fight out of him until he was brought before the judge and fined. Like the other "bicycle cops," this officer made a number of arrests of criminals, such as thieves, highwaymen, and the like, in addition to his natural preyscorchers, runaways, and reckless drivers. 33 The third member of the trio, a tall, sinewy man with flaming red hair, which rather added to the terror he inspired in evil-doers, was usually stationed in a tough part of the city, where there was a tendency to crimes of violence, and incidentally an occasional desire to harass wheelmen. The officer was as good off his wheel as on it, and he speedily established perfect order on his beat, being always willing to "take chances" in getting his man.
Oh, and I always thought it was funny how the Japanese didn't quite understand our language so good. Certain trucks would move once you got in the back of them and to this day I find it funny the caption that pops up on the screen, "The truck have started to move." Ohhhh yeah, good times. I know this has been an issue in a couple of other games too, but you gotta love it. Part of what gives a game like this its charm. This game does not contain a battery, but thank God its got passwords. Just like Castlevania II, Simon's Quest, these passwords are VERY long. Once again, make sure you tak your time and make sure you get it right before you shut off your system. Make sure you distinguish between 2's and Z's and 5's and S's somehow. The music is pretty good in this game too. I can still hear the various themes (outdoors, building, boss fight). The music is very catchy... I'm not sure, maybe you think that's a bad thing. I think it's good because it brings back warm memories. Haha. Yeah, this game was payed A LOT when I was a kid. This was another one of those games played by my dad. Back then I guess this game was a little bit over my head, it really was WAY ahead of it's time. Most games of this genre (most of them were mostly shooters) were pretty cut and dry. Just has levels as a platformer, but this one actually had depth!Read full review
“The Federal Reserve and Housing: A Cluster of Errors?” April 22 Englund, Eric. 2007. From Prime to Subprime, America’s Home-Mortgage Meltdown Has Just Begun.” September 24 Englund, Eric. 2008. “Countrywide Financial Corporation and the Failure of Mortgage Socialism.” January 28 French, Doug. 2005. “Condo-mania.” July 11 Grant, James. 2001. Sometimes the Economy Needs a Setback.” New York Times. September 9 Karlsson, Stefan. 2004. “America’s Unsustainable Boom.” November 8 Mayer, Chris. 2003. “The Housing Bubble.” The Free Market. Volume 23, Number 8 August Murphy, Robert P. 2007 “The Fed’s Role in the Housing Bubble.” December 28 Murphy, Robert P. 2008. “Did the Fed, or Asian Saving, Cause the Housing Bubble?” November 19 North, Gary. 2002. “How the FED Inflated the Real Estate Bubble by Pushing Down Mortgage Rates: Report As of 2002,” Reality Check, March 4 North, Gary. 2005. “Surreal Estate on the San Andreas Fault.” November 25, 2005 Paul, Ron. Various dates. Paul, Ron, 2002. Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives, July 16; text of speech in Woods (2009, 16–17): “The special privileges granted to Fannie and Freddie have distorted the housing market by allowing them to attract capital they could not attract under pure market conditions. As a result, capital is diverted from its most productive use into housing. This reduces the efficacy of the entire market and thus reduces the standard of living of all Americans.
The general principles guiding Romanian cultural policy have already been discussed. It remains to consider their application, and in doing so one must emphasize once again the overwhelming importance of the Churches in the national-cultural life of Romania. The separate existence of each local nationality is very largely bound up with that of its particular Church or Churches, and even identified therewith. ‘Lutheran’ and ‘Saxon’ are, for example, almost interchangeable terms. Such exceptions as still existed in 1918 were of the sort which proved the rule, for the Serbians—the one important national minority which had no Church of their own—were fast losing their nationality for that very reason. Moreover, the Church is not merely the symbol of each nation’s existence, but also its most important cultural institution. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century, all education had been exclusively denominational. After that date the State began to intervene, in increasing measure as time went on. The State institutions were always purely Magyar; and thus the situation arose that, while such education as the minorities still retained was solely denominational, Magyar education was about equally divided between State and denominational establishments.’ The latter were, for the most part, those situated in Magyar districts, rural or urban; the former existed as much, or more, for the benefit of the non-Magyars as of the Magyars. They comprised the higher establishments which served the needs of the country at large, and the primary or burger schools established in non Magyar districts for purposes of Magyarization. They included, however, also a number of Magyar schools, formerly denominational, which the State had taken over under various complicated arrangements. A high proportion of the social and charitable activities of each nationality is also traditionally conducted by its national Church, the freedom and security of which is thus vital to the nationality in question. On the other hand, the vast political power which lies in the hands of the ecclesiastical leaders must cause the State concern, if it is not sure whether that power will be loyally used. The Romanian legislation on the Churches represents a compromise, which each party thinks unduly favorable to the other side, between the claims of the Churches and the State. Roughly speaking, the position obtaining up to 1918 is reversed. Under the Romanian Constitution, the Orthodox Church becomes ‘the predominant Church in the Romanian State’, while the Uniate Church, as the second Romanian Church, ‘takes precedence over the other Churches’.
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Introduction It is over 50 years since Russell and Burch first introduced the concept of the 3Rs—the reduction, refinement, and replacement of the use of animals in research and testing [1]. Since then, there have been increasing requirements for scientists using animals in their daily work to consider and incorporate these guiding principles into their research. A recent surge in initiatives from various organisations around the world is helping to create an environment in which the consideration and application of the 3Rs is becoming more widespread. There are the beginnings of a move towards a future in which more human-relevant, non-animal systems are used in the study of biological processes and in the early stages of the development of novel pharmaceutical compounds. One area that remains heavily reliant on animal models, however, is chemical safety assessment, in which toxicity tests are carried out to ascertain whether manufactured products pose a threat to the health of humans or the environment. This continued reliance is largely due to the considerable debate about whether non-animal methods will ever truly be capable of predicting the effects of chemicals on a whole, intact organism. There is also a perception that only safety assessments based on animal data can convincingly address the strong societal concerns around human exposure to environmental chemicals, such as those that may affect the reproductive system. However, the increasing pressure to reduce the use of animals for scientific purposes, in alignment with the principles of the 3Rs, and the recent bans on the testing of cosmetics on animals in Europe [2] and other geographical regions, means that the use of non-animal approaches is no longer just a desire, but a necessity. The types of such approaches already in development and use for the prediction of toxic effects include cell-based (in vitro) methods (such as stem cell technologies, tissue engineering, and organs-on-chips), next-generation sequencing and ‘omics technologies (including genomics, epigenomics, and proteomics), and computational (in silico) modelling techniques. Here, we detail incentives to make the transition away from traditionally used toxicity tests, challenges that must be met before animal tests can be confidently replaced with newer alternative approaches, and highlight some of the initiatives being undertaken to help the toxicology field embrace the 3Rs.
Monks were ushered away by authorities and loaded into waiting trucks while several hundred onlookers watched, witnesses said. [citation needed] Some managed to escape and headed towards the Sule Pagoda, a Buddhist monument and landmark located in Yangon's city centre.
NMP is crowd sourced data that measures network performance under actual user demand, whereas other data sources measure a network’s performance capability via stress testing like speed tests.Every week Nielsen analyzes network performance data from tens of thousands of consumer panelists using Android devices recruited in 44 of the largest U.S. markets. Nielsen uses crowd-sourced data to measure consumers’ use of common applications such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, Netflix, Instagram, Snapchat, and others. Based on Nielsen’s crowd-sourced data, Sprint’s application download speeds for all file sizes have now surpassed Verizon and AT&T, with significant gains made starting in July when our deployment of two-channel 2.5GHz carrier aggregation began taking hold.Furthermore, the same NMP data set indicates that Sprint’s LTE Plus network delivers large files (5MB+) faster than any other carrier in 20 out of 44 markets tested. Again, we see the positive impact here from carrier aggregation which kicks in when network demand is high, resulting in a correlation between bigger files and faster speeds. So, you need to download that work presentation to your phone? Sprint will get it there the fastest. Downloading a movie before you hop on a flight? You’ll get it quicker with Sprint.Another important metric, latency, looks at the delay between the time wireless information is sent and received. OpenSignal reports that in the third quarter of 2015 Sprint had the lowest LTE latency, beating out AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. This is the second consecutive quarter for Sprint to hold this lowest latency ranking.Where our network shines the brightest is when new devices such as the iPhone 6s meet carrier aggregation (technology that essentially creates wider lanes, allowing more data to travel at faster speeds). In PC Magazine’s recent review of Sprint’s iPhone 6s we received the Editor’s Choice Award in large part due to our “killer speeds.” Journalist Sascha Segan touted the iPhone 6s’ great new features, but stated “that’s not why Sprint customers in major cities should be turning over their old iPhones for the latest model. The chart below is.”PC Magazine looked at Speedtest.net results for LTE connections on Sprint iPhones from October 1-9. They analyzed more than 32,000 individual speed tests, including more than 10,000 taken on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. They found that the average download speeds on the two new devices are 50 percent faster than the iPhone 5/5c/5s.
DO NOT TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF THE IMAGES YOU "SEE, FEEL OR HEAR" BEFORE YOU! Just go with the flow! You may feel yourself start to tingle or vibrate, you may feel heat, cold or just detached from yourself. This is the crystal raising or lowering your vibratory level so that you may both be one in harmony and make the needed psychic connection. Next you will begin to speak (a voice activated recorder is nice at this point) or write about what you see. You have entered the Astral plane at this point and may have some memory recall problems when you break the trance like state. This may occur until you have training and can work on both the Astral and physical plane at the same time, and not to lie to you, this could take years of concentration, practice, and many sessions! So don't give up and I advise using a tape recorder as it doesn't interfere with your focus, concentration, or gazing/scrying. Finally when you feel you have seen enough, or the crystals images fade out, allow your mind to return to the present (physical plane). Feel your vibratory rate change once again as the crystal separates from one to two separate beings again. Refocus your eyes; blink as you need and breathe deeply, as you ground yourself once more. Finally returning to the physical plane, with your mind cleared and energized. In Grounding yourself ,a drink of water/juice and a snack can help, as you pull the earth's energies up into your body once more
But by the time the child was 5, most of the fathers were gone and the child had little contact with him. As many of the mothers went on to new relationships, the children were hampered by repeated transitions that did more harm to their development. These " fragile families" are not a new phenomenon. In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a Labor Department official and later a prominent senator, rang alarm bells when unmarried births in the black community were nearing 24%. (The rate among white mothers was about 3% then.) But his paper on the subject ignited a furor, particularly among fellow liberals and civil rights leaders, who charged him with racism and blaming the victim. Today, the 1965 numbers look quaint. Yet despite the soaring statistics, the problem never gets the profile it deserves. Many on the right focus on marriage as the answer, and surely that is a big part of it. Single-parent success stories aside, reduced commitment is no virtue. On the left, the tendency is to see poverty as the villain, and just as surely, fighting its causes is also part of the answer. So is improving schools. But so far, no one's answers seem to be working. Even as school programs have cut into teen pregnancy rates, more babies are being born to unmarried women in their 20s. In 2009, for the first time since the Census began tallying marriages, the proportion of never-married Americans ages 25 through 34 exceeded those who had been married. There are no easy ways to reverse these trends. Anything that promotes stability in children's lives can help. But this much is clear: When 41% of babies born in the USA have unwed parents and most children reach adulthood with serious problems, more attention must be paid. We've updated the Conversation Guidelines. Changes include a brief review of the moderation process and an explanation on how to use the "Report Abuse" button. Read more
“That work with Repair’s Jewish delegation at Facing Race was very pivotal in solidifying my work in racial justice.”Following that first interaction with the organization, Pruce recently worked to initiate a retreat with members of Repair the World to discuss racial issues further.She said that growing up in Baltimore, these topics were always important to her.“Race and class were extremely salient factors,” she explained. “These concepts have not been new to me. I’ve been interested in the intersection of race poverty and education for the last decade.”Trump’s controversial appointments to key positions in his cabinet, she said, have amplified her motivation.“It has made me very, very concerned and made me want to double down [my involvement]. I will absolutely push 10 times harder than I did before,” Pruce told the Post. “I’m not convinced that the people in power are going to protect all Americans.“I am disheartened but extremely motivated to fight for my community and to fight for others,” she added.Eisner explained that Repair the World sees significant Jewish value to volunteering and conducting the kind of work that Pruce has engaged in. One of the group’s main goals is to help young Jews make the connection between their passion for helping their communities with their Jewish identity.“Loving the stranger because you were once a stranger in Egypt, taking care of the widow and the orphan and not putting stumbling blocks in front of the blind: these are not optional pieces for people that hold Jewish values,” he said.“There is nothing more hopeful than watching Jewish young adults make change in communities that improves justice, that strengthens relationships, that builds community understanding and that strengthens their personal character and their understanding of their own connection to their Jewish identity,” Eisner said.When asked whether volunteering is part of her Jewish identity, Pruce responded: “This is my Jewish identity. This is what it means for me to be Jewish in the world.”
372504 Hanging on exit_group 372600 process loops forever when fatal signals are arriving quickly 372794 LibVEX (arm32 front end): 'Assertion szBlg2 <= 3' failed 373046 Stacks registered by core are never deregistered 373069 memcheck/tests/leak_cpp_interior fails with GCC 5.1+ 373086 Implement additional Xen hypercalls 373192 Calling posix_spawn in glibc 2.24 completely broken 373488 Support for fanotify API on ARM64 architecture == 368864 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 262 (fanotify_init) 373555 Rename BBPTR to GSPTR as it denotes guest state pointer only 373938 const IRExpr arguments for matchIRExpr() 374719 some spelling fixes 374963 increase valgrind's load address to prevent mmap failure 375514 valgrind_get_tls_addr() does not work in case of static TLS 375772 +1 error in get_elf_symbol_info() when computing value of 'hi' address for ML_(find_rx_mapping)() 375806 Test helgrind/tests/tc22_exit_w_lock fails with glibc 2.24 375839 Temporary storage exhausted, with long sequence of vfmadd231ps insns == 377159 "vex: the `impossible' happened" still present == 375150 Assertion 'tres.status == VexTransOK' failed == 378068 valgrind crashes on AVX2 function in FFmpeg 376142 Segfaults on MIPS Cavium Octeon boards 376279 disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0xD50320FF 376455 Solaris: unhandled syscall lgrpsys(180) 376518 Solaris: unhandled fast trap getlgrp(6) 376611 ppc64 and arm64 don't know about prlimit64 syscall 376729 PPC64, remove R2 from the clobber list == 371668 376956 syswrap of SNDDRV and DRM_IOCTL_VERSION causing some addresses to be wrongly marked as addressable 377066 Some Valgrind unit tests fail to compile on Ubuntu 16.10 with PIE enabled by default 377376 memcheck/tests/linux/getregset fails with glibc2.24 377427 PPC64, lxv instruction failing on odd destination register 377478 PPC64: ISA 3.0 setup fixes 377698 Missing memory check for futex() uaddr arg for FUTEX_WAKE and FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET, check only 4 args for FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET, and 2 args for FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI 377717 Fix massive space leak when reading compressed debuginfo sections 377891 Update Xen 4.6 domctl wrappers 377930 fcntl syscall wrapper is missing flock structure check 378524 libvexmultiarch_test regression on s390x and ppc64 378535 Valgrind reports INTERNAL ERROR in execve syscall wrapper 378673 Update libiberty demangler 378931 Add ISA 3.0B additional isnstructions, add OV32, CA32 setting support 379039 syscall wrapper prctl(PR_SET_NAME) must not check more than 16 bytes 379094 Valgrind reports INTERNAL ERROR in rt_sigsuspend syscall wrapper 379371 UNKNOWN task message [id 3444, to mach_task_self(), reply 0x603] (task_register_dyld_image_infos) 379372 UNKNOWN task message [id 3447, to mach_task_self(), reply 0x603] (task_register_dyld_shared_cache_image_info) 379390 unhandled syscall: mach:70 (host_create_mach_voucher_trap) 379473 MIPS: add support for rdhwr cycle counter register 379504 remove TileGX/Linux port 379525 Support more x86 nop opcodes 379838 disAMode(x86): not an addr!
It can be so far at bay that it seems to have disappeared entirely, then on a quiet, hot, lonely summer weekend afternoon, it can come rushing back in, overwhelmingly, taking a physical hold over the mind and the body, whose heart pumps and whose hands tremble at the tantalizing thought. And that is how I relapsed and, in the midst of that relapse, reached out for the first time in over a year to Ron. I found him not on the original hookup website where we'd met, but on the new one that everyone had seemed to migrate to after 9/11. Evan doesn't want me partying in the apartment anymore, he wrote. But we can meet at — and he named a well-known 24-hour sex club. We didn't meet, though. I had the twinge of conscience I'd failed to have a year before. If Evan had banned Ron from using drugs in the apartment, things must have gotten much worse. I didn't like the idea of partying with Ron in some cubicle at a sex club, behind Evan's back. That wasn't the cozy, domestic three-way we'd had going. I don't know how I begged off. That relapse was brief, just 24 hours, but did major damage to my relationship and my job, stopping just short of ending them both. It would not be my last relapse before the aughts ended, but they would be few and far between, and brief. Today, nearly 15 years later, I can stop myself from moving toward drugs because I can palpably taste the misery that follows, the inability to return to normal thinking and doing for two whole weeks. I know how to get my hand up, reach out to someone, tell on myself — and, almost magically, cut that secret desire down to size.
The production is dazzling, especially the visual element that complements each event. And perhaps most importantly, the festival's emphasis on live acts shines light on a creative side of electronic music, emphasizing performance over partying. But on a more simple level, hopping around Montreal in spring, seeing artists like Andy Stott, Rrose, Dasha Rush, Mika Vainio, Steffi and dozens of others, is a great way to spend five days.Few artists fit the bill as well as Cobblestone Jazz.Before you even get to the music, Nuits Sonores is one hell of a festival. It takes place in excellent locations (including an old wholesale market and a former sugar factory) in Lyon, a gem of a city, with full support from the local government. For 2015, organisers have handed over the reins of its daytime programme to three of their favourites artists: Ben Klock, John Talabot and Jamie xx. All three have delivered interesting selections, with Goldie, Shackleton, Barnt, Ninos Du Brasil and Lena Willikens among their picks. Then there's the night time programme, which sees the likes of Nils Frahm, Moodymann, Voices From The Lake and Nuits Sonores favourite Laurent Garnier performing at venues across the city.Baris K and his Insanlar live project will bring some Eastern flair to the Rhône-Alpes.Electronic festivals are a dime a dozen these days, but Movement always feels essential. At Detroit's flagship techno event, you're not simply being entertained—you're being presented with one of the city's proudest cultural traditions. This feeling is anchored by the lineup's many local acts, who range from pioneers like Model 500 and Carl Craig to young guns like Jay Daniel. But it permeates the rest of the event as well. No matter who's playing or what their style is, all of the sets at Movement have a subtle element of homage, which is part of what makes this one of the most heartfelt and authentic events on the electronic music calendar.See what Motor City underdog Mike Servito brings to the big stage.
Some of the worst damage occurred during the six months from November through April. In that period, real estate funds lost 9.8%, according to fund tracker Morningstar. At the same time, large growth funds dropped 10.8%, while foreign large growth declined 10.5%. Supposedly safe ultrashort bond funds lost 2.1%. Comparing recent experience with the past, Ibbotson's Chen examined correlations, a measure of how closely two assets track each other. The lower the correlation (1.0 is perfect correlation, 0 means there's none), the greater the diversification. If an asset has a high correlation, then there may be little reason to own it. Comparing recent experience with the past, Ibbotson's Chen examined correlations, a measure of how closely two assets track each other. The lower the correlation (1.0 is perfect correlation, 0 means there's none), the greater the diversification. If an asset has a high correlation, then there may be little reason to own it.
[+10, -0] You have to admit they're good at acting this stuff out though. They look like professionals well versed in these type of tools with the way they look at the camera and move their bodies to allude to the acts.10. [+5, -0] Their director is so dirty... poor kids ㅜ just gonna stick to the song
Clinton’s instincts on Colombia are identical to those of the Bush administration and those of the Clinton administration before it: continuance of a doctrine that is hostile to human rights and democracy in the region. Obama’s response – while it offered banal rhetorical support to the Colombian government – was far less bellicose in tone and substance, urging cooperation in the region “to ensure that events not spiral out of control,” and laying the responsibility, equally, upon all three governments involved: ”The Colombian people have suffered for more than four decades at the hands of a brutal terrorist insurgency, and the Colombian government has every right to defend itself against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The recent targeted killing of a senior FARC leader must not be used as a pretense to ratchet up tensions or to threaten the stability of the region. The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela have a responsibility to ensure that events not spiral out of control, and to peacefully address any disputes through active diplomacy with the help of international actors.” Uribe’s statement this week against Obama was more a response to the senator’s call for “diplomacy” in the region – a concept Uribe considers threatening to his US-propped hold on power – than to Obama’s opposition to a trade agreement that so far doesn’t have the votes to get through the US Congress with or without Obama’s opposition. It wasn’t that Obama opposed the trade agreement that bothered Uribe so vocally. It was Obama’s public tying of the agreement to human rights and respect for union organizations that had Uribe apoplectic. Uribe’s statement against Obama inadvertently tipped his – and Senator Clinton’s – hand on US-Latin America policy, especially as the Bush administration now pushes the extension of Plan Colombia into a new country with an almost identical proposal for a “Plan Mexico.” And this, too, comes at an hour when Senator Clinton’s conflicting statements about her claim of having opposed, during the Clinton White House, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – when recently released White House documents reveal that she, in fact, lobbied for the treaty’s passage – are getting increased public and press scrutiny in upcoming primary states of Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina, each of which lost more than 20,000 manufacturing jobs because of NAFTA.
3. OTHER PHARMACOLOGICAL MODELS The investigation of novel drug targets for treating cognitive impairments associated with neurological and psychiatric disorders is an important focus of neurobehavioral research. Many promising therapies are progressing through preclinical and clinical development, and offer the potential of improved treatment options for cognitive impairments in AD and schizophrenia. The use of both adult and larval zebrafish in large scale, high-throughput screens for various psychotropic drugs has been extensively validated [77-79]. Given the sensitivity of zebrafish behavior and cognition to various pharmacological manipulations [78, 80], they represent a promising novel organism to study the effects of psychotropic compounds, such as those that may attenuate cognitive impairment in models of neurological disorders. The cognitive deficits observed in aging and neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., AD) have been linked to decreased cholinergic transmission [81-84]. While acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors are currently the first line treatment for AD [85, 86], they have been less promising therapeutically, producing only modest improvements in cognitive function with undesirable side effects [87-89]. Thus, agents which increase the release of acetylcholine by direct activation of presynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have been suggested as a potential alternative [90]. For example, nicotinic agonists (including nicotine) improve memory function in multiple cognitive assays in rodents and monkeys, while impairments have been frequently reported following treatment with nicotinic antagonists [91-94]. The pro-cognitive effects of nicotine have been established in several animal models [91, 92, 94], and the genetic linkage between nAChRs and several cognitive deficiencies has also been established clinically [95, 96]. Overall, the importance of nAChR subtypes in modulating cognitive processes has been extensively validated, suggesting that activation of nAChR by selective nAChR ligands may be a viable approach to enhance cognitive performance. With the growing support for neuronal nAChRs as valid pharmacological targets, zebrafish have been recently used as a model system to study the role of specific nAChR subtypes [97, 98]. Notably, the zebrafish genome contains the complete complement of human neural nAChR subunit genes. For 8 of the 12 human genes, exactly one zebrafish ortholog exists, while for the 4 remaining human genes, two zebrafish homologs have been identified [99, 100]. Thus, while zebrafish have been used to assess the effects of nicotine on cognitive function [39, 101, 102], their role in studying nAChRs as putative drug targets is becoming particularly promising.
The German Bishop's conference unfortunately did not comply, so far, with its own directives. They did indeed "listen carefully" to their Polish partners and accepted all Polish historical interpretations without ever questioning or correcting. It is an outrageous way to violate historical truth when the author of that chart names the cities of Allenstein, Danzig, Koeslin, Stettin, Gruenberg, Breslau, Oppeln - in the provinces of East Prussia, Pommerania and Silesia - as "Polish cities." The declaration of the bishop's conferences reads: "Seventy years ago, on September 1, 1939, German forces started their attack against Poland." (Tagespost, 27 August 2009, page 5) Thus the second world-war began. How truthful is that declaration? In reality, Stalin also started his attack against Poland with his Soviet Red Army on September 17, 1939. Hitler and Stalin together started a local war which ended after 6 weeks. Well, Stalin might have just said "Nyet" and Hitler would have stayed home. Stalin was not forced to sign a pact with Hitler. Stalin gained 51% of pre-war Poland. One violates the truth in dealing with history when one identifies the Germans expelled from the German East provinces as "Polish victims." The German Bishop's conference should consider it their task to urge the Polish Bishops to see that those Polish historical distortions are corrected. In pre-war Poland, millions of Ukrainians, White Russians, Lithuanians, Ruthenians and others were living. How did they become Poles? No newspaper report tells the story. April, 1920 - 22 years before Hitler [invaded the SU] - the Polish Army under Pilsudski started the victorious campaign against the Soviet Union. On May 7, 1920, General Rydz-Smigly occupied Kiev. At the peace treaty of Riga, March 21, 1921, Poland gained vast Ukrainian and White Russian territories with a population of about 11 million. Did anyone have any doubts that the Soviet Union would sooner or later retake those regions? That happened in August 1939 with the Hitler-Stalin pact. Why did the bishops not mention that? Why did the German newspapers, so eagerly interested in historical truth, not report it? All the guilt is loaded on one side; the others carry no guilt at all. Bush's America attacked Iraq on March 20, 2003. No Third World War started because no one wanted one. Katyn Up to June 7, 1943, the Wehrmacht excavated and identified, as well as possible, 4143 Polish officers murdered by the NKVD.
That's not necessarily a common thing you can say about a project in this industry - that there wasn't some major fuck-up that cost a lot of time or made some aspect of the game a disaster - so I would say this one went well overall.If anything, I think with the benefit of hindsight, we probably could've dialed back our Kickstarter stretch goals. They achieved their purpose at the time, which was to drum up enthusiasm among the backers, but some of the bigger goals probably cost quite a lot more to develop than they brought in - the second city, the megadungeon, and the expansion come to mind. Smaller scope would've afforded us more polish time.Well I've taken enough time to respond to the interview that the thing is out now and can speak for itself, to a degree.For the story, we knew the expansion would be released in two parts, and we didn't like the idea of telling two independent 10-hour stories. We wanted to do something with epic stakes, and you have to build those or they don't feel believable. 10 hours wasn't enough time. So while the expansion is playable from the middle of the game rather than as a standalone, we did hope to release something that felt big and important and worth the player's time. Our challenge was in making a story that felt complete both at its midpoint and at its conclusion, so it could be split without giving players aneurysms. The idea we settled on was to tell a small, focused, dungeon-exploration-driven story that set something much bigger into motion, and that the player would be the catalyst and thus have personal investment in the plot.The bummer was having to read reviews aboutthat lamented the small, impersonal, unimportant-feeling story. If there were some practical way to have told reviewers to not review the game until, that would've been ideal from my perspective, but that isn't how the business works. Taken as a whole, I think the work makes a lot more sense and feels much better than when evaluated in serial.Now that you can play both, though, I think people who enjoyed the base game will really like the expansion, and so far that's been the bulk of the feedback from press and the internet masses.Hypothetically, I have a few things I would want to play with. I don't want to tip my hand, so pardon the vagueness.
Who was on board? Muhammad Razahan Zamani (bottom right), 24, and his wife Norli Akmar Hamid, 33, were on their honeymoon on the missing flight. The phone is being held by his stepsister, Arni Marlina The 12 crew members were all Malaysian, led by pilots Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah, 53 and 27-year-old co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid. Police have searched their homes and a flight simulator has been taken from the captain's home and reassembled for examination at police headquarters. It is now believed that co-pilot Hamid spoke the last words heard from the plane, "All right, good night" - but it it not clear whether this was before or after the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) had been deliberately switched off. There were 227 passengers, including 153 Chinese and 38 Malaysians, according to the manifest. Seven were children. Other passengers came from Iran, the US, Canada, Indonesia, Australia, India, France, New Zealand, Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan and the Netherlands. Among the Chinese nationals were a delegation of 19 prominent artists who had attended an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur. With so many of their nationals aboard, the Chinese Government has been very involved in the search, expressing barely-concealed frustration with the lack of progress. Malaysia Airlines said there were four passengers who checked in for the flight but did not show up at the airport. Malaysia plane: Who were the passengers? Could it have been a terrorist attack? The plane was deliberately diverted, the Malaysian PM told a news conference The aircraft's change of direction was consistent with "deliberate action on the plane", the Malaysian authorities said. But it remains unclear whether the course change was carried out by the air crew or flight-trained hijackers onboard. So far no known or credible terror group has emerged to claim responsibility. Initial investigations concentrated on two passengers found to be travelling on stolen passports. The two Iranian men - 19-year-old Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad and Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, 29 - were later found to headed for Europe via Beijing, and had no apparent links to terrorist groups. Other theories for a crash A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER taking off from Narita Airport near Tokyo, Japan, last year Some initial theories suggested that the aircraft could have suffered a disastrous mid-air decompression, but Malaysian authorities say they are now almost entirely focused on the actions of the crew.
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When well-known fish—players of middling skill with money to lose—would turn up, a frenzy would erupt to vie for their action. Falafel became friendly with a wizard at blitz chess named Russian Paul, who adopted a half-mentoring attitude, involving avuncular insults about Falafel’s game or his laziness or his self-destructive habits. “I can tell you how I discovered him,” Russian Paul says. “I used to play at my favorite table, and one weekend morning I came, and there was somebody snoring, sleeping under it.” He hired Falafel—two dollars every morning—to hold his table for him. Before long, Falafel was playing, too. By the standards of the park, where grandmasters sometimes stopped by, Falafel was in no way exceptional—“Stupid, stupid, that’s stupid,” Paul would mutter as he played him—but he enjoyed the camaraderie of the hustlers. Two dollars was enough to get him a falafel, which he ate every day, often for every meal. One night, Russian Paul found him passed out with patches of deep-fried chickpeas stuck to his face, and the park’s newest hustler earned his street name. H. G. Wells once said of chess, “It annihilates a man.” But Falafel wasn’t seeking annihilation; he wanted a way out of his self-made chaos. On a good day, he might win thirty dollars, but he lacked the easy duplicity of the more ruthless hustlers. “He does not like deception,” Peter Mikulas, a former N.Y.U. employee who used to play in the park, says. “He’s a Big Daddy, from ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.’ Mendacity, falseness—it bothers him.” Some of the men in the park played backgammon, which, Falafel noticed, could be far more lucrative than chess. He once watched Russian Paul beat an N.Y.U. student out of a hundred dollars. Falafel had no real understanding of the game, but he was cocky and insistent, and so he sat down to play Russian Paul, who told me, “I learned how to play backgammon two weeks before him, so I took all his money.” With other players, Falafel lost relentlessly. One told him, “Listen, you just don’t know stuff. For thirty dollars an hour, I’ll teach you.” Falafel insisted on playing him for fifty cents a point. Soon he was a hundred and forty points behind.
All of them live at an asylum-seekers' shelter in nearby Vossberg village and are waiting for local authorities to process their asylum applications, after which they will be allowed to live independently and settle elsewhere in Germany 2015 Getty Images 10/12 Germany Kurdish Syrian refugees Leila, 9, carries her sister Avin, 1, in the backyard at the asylum-seekers' shelter that is home to them and their family in Vossberg village in Letschin Getty Images 11/12 Germany Somali refugees and husband and wife Said Ahmed Gure (R) and Ayaan Gure pose with their infant son Muzammili, who was born in Germany, in the room they share at an asylum-seekers' shelter in Vossberg village on October 9, 2015 in Letschin, Germany. Approximately 60 asylum-seekers, mostly from Syria, Chechnya and Somalia, live at the Vossberg shelter, which is run by the Arbeiter-Samariter Bund (ASB) charity, and are waiting for authorities to process their application for asylum 2015 Getty Images 12/12 Germany German Chancellor Angela Merkel pauses for a selfie with a refugee after she visited the AWO Refugium Askanierring shelter for refugees in Berlin Getty Images
While I question the accuracy of the test I do think it makes a good point. Wash your damn phone! It’s covered in germs and all it takes is a quick wipe down with an anti bacterial pad or a alcohol wipe once or twice a week and you will cut down your infectious agent contact in a huge way. Wash your luggage. I know most suitcases won’t fit in your washing machine but a little disinfectant spray or rub down really goes a long way! Think about it, the last time you traveled where did your dirty cloths go? Back in your suitcase, and then what goes into your suitcase for this trip? Your clean cloths. Your clean cloths really won’t be all that clean if you throw them in a dirty suitcase. Pack a garbage bag. To avoid the dirty suitcase problem from #2 all you need to do is pack a plastic garbage bag and keep all of your dirty cloths in it. Once you are done with your tighty whities throw them in the bag, or burn them, boxer briefs are where it’s at anyway. Clean the uncleaned. There are plenty of things in the same category as your cell phone; objects you use daily but never think to clean. These objects carry a huge amount of contaminants but never really affect/infect you because of your bodies immune system. Some of these things are: Your Laptop, your Nintendo DS, your belt (the first thing you touch in the bathroom BEFORE you wash your hands), your shoes, your watch. All of these could use a quick rub down with an alcohol wipe.
This is a classic example of bizarro-world programming: we have created an entire class template to avoid TWO LINES of business logic code!ALL of these issues would go away if Customer simply proxied the request, and clients realized that if they want to add an Address to a Customer, they need to have a conversation with the Customer rather than Customer's address book.Thank you for your comment. I think we agree that we should use delegation when delegation is appropriate and proxying when proxying is appropriate; if we disagree is in mainly in how often and which situations we find appropriate.HMMM, that's ANOTHER thought that hadn't occurred to me until you provoked it: My experience has been that many people tend to use delegation when they aren't sure, and those people are my target audience here, because I think that in almost all of those cases proxying would be better. It is true, however, that in statically-typed languages like Java and C++, proxying requires lot more typing and boilerplate than delegation. And since a little delegation doesn't hurt, we use it perhaps more often than we should. I must think on this more.Thanks! Reply ) ( Parent ) ( Thread From: (Anonymous) Date: January 14th, 2008 07:45 am (UTC) (Link) I do a lot of GUI programming, and I can ensure you, your proposal wouldn't work there. It would be a total waste of time to proxy all methods of all controls on a form. Of course you could see this as the exception, but it does prove the proxy method isn't efficient. You lose all benefits Object Orientated has to offer. Another example would be, if you had 10 different objects all having an address list, you have to copy/paste your safe-guarding routines 10 times.
BENGALURU: Defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday conceded that 'Make-In-India' lacks clarity and said the Centre was drawing up out a separate policy to flesh it out. "The Defence Procurement Procedure, as a document, is also not well-articulated and there is a lot of confusion. Besides, everything does not need to be squeezed into it. So, we are planning a separate policy on Make-In-India," he said on the sidelines of the inauguration of Aero India 2015 here.The separate policy is likely to be notified after budget in April-May to have clarity and the focus on providing level playing field to everybody -- the ordnance factory board, PSUs, import partners and domestic private industry.Parrikar said among the projects under this banner, the government is open to manufacturing 338 helicopters (military and civil) and private industry will also be roped in. "HAL needs to augment its production capability. Right now, it has the capacity to make 25-30 per year, but it has to be 50-100," he said.The defence minister announced a policy on legalizing lobbyists or middlemen representing various arms manufacturers across the world will be ready in the next four to five weeks as part of easing up working with the government and defence manufacturers. "The draft is ready, it will now need approval from the Defence Acquisition Committee, which is expected in the next meeting, and the process of giving it legal sanctity will follow. "Aero India 2015 earlier got off to a rocking start with clear skies and a clear-minded PM Narendra Modi making his intent of business more than apparent at the inaugural of the 10th edition of the event pegged to be the largest ever.Metal band Metallica's song 'Unforgiven' was played as the cover for what turned out to be a Modi rockshow. A lot of changes were more than apparent with even the flypast not taking its traditional turn. "We have the reputation as the largest importer of defence equipment in the world. That may be music to the ears for some of you here. But this is one area where we would not like to be number one," he said.Modi underlined the need for India to have greater defence preparedness and modernize its forces to meet security challenges and international responsibility.
I wouldn't say Ibaseball exactly, but it is one of those things I don't think about it until something reminds me of it, and then I think to myself, "Yeah, that should just go away." When people ask me "Yankees or Mets?" I struggle to figure out which team I give fewer fucks about, but I suppose if I had to choose a team to root for I'd go with the Mets, only because there's a strong correlation between driving like a fucking dickbag and having a Yankees logo on your car or person.Anyway, apparently Bonds has become a born-again Fred (which is the worst kind of Fred really), right down to the Rapha jersey:And funding a cycling team is laughably cheap when you've got professional baseball money:However, naturally Bonds's association with doping makes some people uncomfortable:Many people bemoan the fact that women's cycling receives so little support, and of course I agree. (Perhaps this is a calculated move on Bonds's behalf, since it's easier to deflect criticism by pointing out just how badly these particular athletes need money.) At the same time, it's hard for me to getworked up over gender inequality in professional cycling, only because pro cycling as it exists is inherently unethical, and therefore it's unreasonable to expectgood from it. It's sort of like fundamentalist religious groups: if these people are batshit crazy enough to encase themselves in plastic bags on airplanes , then how can you possibly expect these nutjobs to have anything approaching the common sense it requires to treat women as equals?So anyway, here comes Barry Bonds with his money and his Rapha jersey and his crabon Specialized or Pinarello or whatever it is to save the "little girls:"Eeew, creepy. Sure, not as creepy as Mario Cipollini sponsoring a women's cycling team , but creepy nonetheless.In other news, a guy in Portland pitched a u-lock at a car from his lofty perch above a tall bike My first thought upon seeing the photo was that in Portland hood ornament horseshoes has become the new bike polo, but apparently the driver (or the driver's mother) and the tall biker got into some sort of altercation, and then the u-locks started to fly.As for the second cyclist with the mismatched socks, as it turns out he merely happened upon the situation as it was unfolding, and he was kind enough to email me an account of what he witnessed.
The judge put the order in place while the court considers whether to issue a permanent injunction against enforcement of the state's ban on recognizing such marriages, but state officials announced on Tuesday, March 18, that they were appealing the preliminary injunction. Oral argument: Set for Aug. 6.
Over the past year, Microsoft has aggressively worked to force companies manufacturing products that use the Android operating system to take a prohibitively expensive license to Microsoft's patents. As Microsoft is in the market for smartphones and tablets, these licenses raise competitors' costs and reduce their ability to compete with Microsoft's products, such as smartphones using Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system. Barnes & Noble, a small player in the eReader market, could not agree to Microsoft's extortionate license (and also does not believe the infringement claims to be valid), and when we refused to pay, Microsoft filed its lawsuit. March 28, 2011
Abdul and Harish got off to a bad start. It was quickly clear to those outside the mall that this was a terrorist attack and there was little doubt that al-Shabab was responsible: The group had threatened Kenya’s capital and carried out a series of small-scale attacks in different parts of the country, and Nairobi residents knew the city’s malls with their wealth and crowds were obvious targets. When Abdul, an ethnic-Somali Kenyan who is Muslim, arrived carrying a pistol, Harish got in his face, shouting. Abdul pulled out his gun license ID and calmed Harish down. Nura was the first to go up the ramp toward the rooftop car park, spurred on by shame at the cowardice of his police colleagues rather than the desire to be a hero. The carnage in the car park was horrifying. There was a mess of bodies in the corner, more scattered beneath the open-sided marquees, and still others poked out from beneath and between cars. Nura thought he was spearheading a rescue mission, but all he could see were bodies and blood. It looked like a slaughterhouse. Nura noticed some movement and stopped, suddenly realizing how he must appear: an ethic-Somali man in civilian clothes, clutching an AK-47. “I am the police,” he shouted in English. “I’m the good guy!” The first Kenya Red Cross medics had followed Nura up the ramp. They began doing triage, finding the wounded among the dead and providing emergency first aid. Simon was pulled out from under the car and put in an ambulance with Amanda, who was unhurt. Hundreds of people were escaping through the mall’s downstairs emergency exit, and Elaine and Sandeep, both of whom had been at the cookery competition, joined the exodus from the rooftop through a stairwell at the corner of the building. Out on the street, journalists had begun to gather. Both Elaine and Sandeep were photographed, staggering and bloodied, from the mall. The crowd outside Westgate was growing, but with no sign of any official or organized security response. Instead, an ad hoc volunteer rescue mission had begun to take shape, comprising a motley crew of uniformed, plainclothes, and off-duty police and licensed civilian gun holders. From the rooftop car park, they could hear shooting inside and could tell it was not coming from the mall’s upper levels. Nura led the way with Abdul and Harish and two plainclothes armed officers: two Muslims, a Hindu, and two Christians.
What truth is and what is not credible can generally not be determined until much later, and an “absolute” truth will sometimes be accepted only after centuries. Today we can say with confidence how stupid it was that Pope Urban VIII opposite Galileo insisted on retaining the Earth as the center of the universe. […] New theories emerged continuously, which subsequently proved to be foolish, but which at the time were decided to not seem foolish. All these wisps are now forgotten, so only the star of Galileo continues to shine. […] The history of human stupidity is largely also the history of science. To speak with Pilate to Jesus of Nazareth: What is truth? If it was spoken to Jesus at all, because the Italian philologist Carotta has recently launched the bold theory that Jesus was actually Julius Caesar. I will not comment for the life of me. That remains to be seen. But it is striking that the established scientific order in this new “stupidity” reacts like any established order, and therefore just like the Vatican in the case of Galileo. At first ignore it, and then, if ignoring does not work anymore, fight against it with a ferocity as if one is personally being threatened and insulted. Underlying that fierce reaction are three human impulses. First, the fear of coming forward early, even if one confirms only a mu of the new theory. Second, professional jealousy: It can be hard to swallow for those who have enjoyed decades as a scientific authority when an outsider discovers something that did not occur to them during all this time. And third, if such a theory is true, one’s own entire work needs to be thrown into the trash. In short: The fierce reaction is quite understandable, as understandable as that of Urban VIII in his time, but likewise their reaction is not a priori scientifically correct.
public class SignInHelper { public SignInHelper(ApplicationUserManager userManager, IAuthenticationManager authManager) { UserManager = userManager; AuthenticationManager = authManager; } public ApplicationUserManager UserManager { get ; private set ; } public IAuthenticationManager AuthenticationManager { get ; private set ; } public async Task SignInAsync(ApplicationUser user, bool isPersistent, bool rememberBrowser) { AuthenticationManager.SignOut(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.TwoFactorCookie); var userIdentity = await user.GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager); if (rememberBrowser) { var rememberBrowserIdentity = AuthenticationManager.CreateTwoFactorRememberBrowserIdentity(user.Id); AuthenticationManager.SignIn( new AuthenticationProperties { IsPersistent = isPersistent }, userIdentity, rememberBrowserIdentity); } else { AuthenticationManager.SignIn( new AuthenticationProperties { IsPersistent = isPersistent }, userIdentity); } } public async Task<bool> SendTwoFactorCode( string provider) { var userId = await GetVerifiedUserIdAsync(); if (userId == null ) { return false ; } var token = await UserManager.GenerateTwoFactorTokenAsync(userId, provider); await UserManager.NotifyTwoFactorTokenAsync(userId, provider, token); return true ; } public async Task<string> GetVerifiedUserIdAsync() { var result = await AuthenticationManager.AuthenticateAsync( DefaultAuthenticationTypes.TwoFactorCookie); if (result != null && result.Identity != null && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(result.Identity.GetUserId())) { return result.Identity.GetUserId(); } return null ; } public async Task<bool> HasBeenVerified() { return await GetVerifiedUserIdAsync() != null ; } public async Task<SignInStatus> TwoFactorSignIn( string provider, string code, bool isPersistent, bool rememberBrowser) { var userId = await GetVerifiedUserIdAsync(); if (userId == null ) { return SignInStatus.Failure; } var user = await UserManager.FindByIdAsync(userId); if (user == null ) { return SignInStatus.Failure; } if ( await UserManager.IsLockedOutAsync(user.Id)) { return SignInStatus.LockedOut; } if ( await UserManager.VerifyTwoFactorTokenAsync(user.Id, provider, code)) { await UserManager.ResetAccessFailedCountAsync(user.Id); await SignInAsync(user, isPersistent, rememberBrowser); return SignInStatus.Success; } await UserManager.AccessFailedAsync(user.Id); return SignInStatus.Failure; } public async Task<SignInStatus> ExternalSignIn( ExternalLoginInfo loginInfo, bool isPersistent) { var user = await UserManager.FindAsync(loginInfo.Login); if (user == null ) { return SignInStatus.Failure; } if ( await UserManager.IsLockedOutAsync(user.Id)) { return SignInStatus.LockedOut; } return await SignInOrTwoFactor(user, isPersistent); } private async Task<SignInStatus> SignInOrTwoFactor(ApplicationUser user, bool isPersistent) { if ( await UserManager.GetTwoFactorEnabledAsync(user.Id) && !await AuthenticationManager.TwoFactorBrowserRememberedAsync(user.Id)) { var identity = new ClaimsIdentity(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.TwoFactorCookie); identity.AddClaim( new Claim(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier, user.Id)); AuthenticationManager.SignIn(identity); return SignInStatus.RequiresTwoFactorAuthentication; } await SignInAsync(user, isPersistent, false ); return SignInStatus.Success; } public async Task<SignInStatus> PasswordSignIn( string userName, string password, bool isPersistent, bool shouldLockout) { var user = await UserManager.FindByNameAsync(userName); if (user == null ) { return SignInStatus.Failure; } if ( await UserManager.IsLockedOutAsync(user.Id)) { return SignInStatus.LockedOut; } if ( await UserManager.CheckPasswordAsync(user, password)) { return await SignInOrTwoFactor(user, isPersistent); } if (shouldLockout) { await UserManager.AccessFailedAsync(user.Id); if ( await UserManager.IsLockedOutAsync(user.Id)) { return SignInStatus.LockedOut; } } return SignInStatus.Failure; } }
Nothing worse than piecing together last night next to a fat hog of a woman you don't remember havin sex with in the first place! Now stop being a sissy, come over here and kill this hog. Oh come on now, don't tell me you are messing around with Lot Lizards. Oh I'm comin up over there! Oh, look, you need to stay away from my man or I will kill you, bitch. Oh, you know I can't put her down. I love that little girl. She was my first. Ohh, I don't even remember. I blacked out! Ok, ok, Missy Missy - thanks for telling the whole world. Okay, okay, whoa. Listen, before you get all pissed off, let me explain. I was moving the truck and the clutch slipped, Ol' Unzy was just over here chewin' the dickens out of that damn Nicotine gum. Only good part was when I was in the women's wing of the prison. or at least put someone mean there with a six pack and a gun. That's how they did it in the old days. Please don't leave me again. This trailer is sad as hell when I'm sober and without you. Plus they try harder. Pretty girls had everything handed to 'em. That's why I hate 'em. Poured lighter fluid on my jeans and lit 'em up when I was asleep. Pretty much. Sometimes I just whip out my junk and point. Rambler. Why you hate women so much, huh? Mommy issues? Said the cocaine cowboys are on the lookout for a big shipment of Columbian Primo coming through in a big rig. Same as always, pussy pics on his phone. Scooter. What's yours? Screw you Frankie. Screw you, asshole. Screw you, Muddy. Screw you. What the hell you do for a living? She is a big girl. She said there is pot seeds and beer cans and poop in a plastic bag. She's a pig! Pigs make bacon. People need to eat. short sightedness and absolute stupidity is that they don't know when to shut their yaps. Shut the fuck up, Lacie. Shut up all you annoying bitches! so I tossed her in the back of the truck and now we got a problem, know what I'm sayin'? Sometimes a woman needs a wake up slap, know what I'm saying? Son of a bitch kicked back mad as hell. Ol' Chris cut off his finger on a miter saw.
RULESET Taking quite a few ideas from Iron Man, Avatar’s ruleset manages to add a couple of interesting twists to the familiar formula. The N-A-V-I targets only have a single mode (Na’vi scoring) but make up for that by adding a multiball for completing all the characters. But the way in which characters are collected and what doing that achieves could have been better implemented, as there’s no obvious link between the characters and the Na’vi feature either in the playfield artwork or on the display. The Bond is a curious variation on completing the inlane rollovers, and works to some degree, but hitting the relatively safe N-A-V-I targets and starting Na’vi scoring is always an easier way to collect the characters. On the other side of the playfield, the seeds targets really aren’t worth bothering with which is rather a shame as they could have done much more. Of the two main multiball modes, amp suit is where the money went, having the motorised 3-bank, its disrupter magnet and the collapsing toy. As a feature it works pretty well. The magnet is effective in randomising the ball’s movement, without being as downright nasty as the Iron Monger one, while behind the 3-bank, the combination of side targets and a harder centre target is well implemented. As for the amp suit toy itself, well it’s certainly disappointing that it doesn’t interact better with the game like the Iron Monger toy does. Its single trick of falling forward over the amp suit lane targets might impress players playing the game for the first time, but when the inevitable question ‘what else does it do?’ is asked, the answer is bound to lead to disappointment. The only good thing about that is the way a broken amp suit toy doesn’t impact negatively on the gameplay, but that’s scant consolation for a device which seemed so full of possibilities when we first saw it. The amp suit multiball is quite standard, with jackpots, double jackpots and super jackpots, while the link multiball varies things by alternating shots and offering victory laps for completing it. The two complement each other well although having both running together can get confusing when it’s not clear which shot is lit for which multiball. If the amp suit model is a let down, the pod toy over the link lock is even more disappointing.
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"I want to get away from treating EC Comics as this kind of cultist monolith. I want the stories to stand on their own." Groth admitted that the one thing that may eventually lead to more of a series design is the opportunity that comes with exploiting the still-popular EC brand.The books will be in black and white. Groth indicated that support material in each volume will include at least an EC history and some sort of written profile on the featured artist, although additional and more selectively focused pieces are possible for each book.Groth indicated that Fantagraphics has access to the pre-trend (the company's early days, starting in 1944), new trend (the glory days of the early 1950s) and new direction (mid-1950s post-Code efforts) offerings from the company -- essentially everything save for the Warner-owned. Groth says that while the publisher will certainly focus on the best material from the company's obvious heyday, they will be open to using material from the early comics and will pay particular attention to the later comics, as they have a more direct artistic continuity with the new trend era.The acquisition of this publishing effort makes for the fourth such tricky, massive series for the Seattle-based publisher, following in the footsteps of books featuringand comics efforts starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Those efforts of course join any number of stand-alone efforts and archival series put onto the market by Fantagraphics. Asked if overtaxing his company's resources is a concern on any level, Groth readily admits they're reaching the limits of current production and announced plans to hire one and possibly two new employees by year's end. "I don't think I've ever worked longer hours in my life," the publisher said.Groth claims a personal connection to the EC material that goes back to his days as a fanzine maker and comics collector, when he and a friend pooled resources and bought a complete run of the classic New Trend material. As a maker of quality comics just out of the future publisher's direct, historical grasp -- Groth grew up too late to read the book as they were published on the stands -- the EC comics had obtained an undeniable imprimatur of quality through a still-active fandom and some of that era's best writers about comics. "In that era, the early 1970s, EC really did represent a standard that hadn't been achieved since.
I explicitly do not include an error response; such a response would be exactly identical to no response at all in terms of violating availability. (In practice, such a response would be a requirement. )If a protocol guarantees, then if a request message is received by any node $M_i$, the result of that operation is based on the latest value immediately prior to that operation. A read request results in the most recent value; a write request overwrites the most recent value with the new value. In order to demonstrate this consistency, I associate a witness with the value maintained by the distributed data store such that the witness begins at 0 with the value at its initial state, and is incremented by 1 every time the value is read or written. As a result, a read request results in the most recent value and a witness value $w+1$ where $w$ is the witness associated with the immediately previous operation; likewise, a write request results in an ack and a witness value $w+1$ where $w$ is the witness associated with the immediately previous operation. I am maintaining the Gilbert and Lynch's requirement for serial consistency.If a protocol guarantees, then if a node $M_i$ receives a request, it sends a response within some bounded period of time; a read request results in a value and a write request results in an ack. An unbounded delay results in an availability failure, as would some hypothetical error response. The actual bound must be protocol dependent. What is explicitly disallowed is a delay until the partition is healed.If a protocol guarantees, then the loss of one or more messagesThe proof of this theorem follows the same lines as the proofs of Gilbert and Lynch.Assume that the total cluster of nodes is divided into two, non-overlapping, non-empty sets $M_0,\ldots,M_i$ and $M_{i+1}, \ldots ,M_{n-1}$, that the current witness value is $w$, and that all messages from members of the first set do not reach any member of the second set, and vice versa. Further, assume that a request is received by $M_j$, one of $M_0, \ldots, M_i$, which responds appropriately with a witness $w+1$ and that the protocol is otherwise quiescent. If the next request is received by $M_k$, one of $M_{i+1}, \ldots, M_{n-1}$, after $M_j$ responds to the first request, then $M_k$ should respond appropriately with a witness $w+2$ by virtue of its availability and consistency.
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Wet your fingers to keep the rice from sticking to them, and then spread rice evenly on top of the gim from edge to edge on the sides, all the way to the bottom edge, and 90% to the top edge. Putting down a thin layer of rice and then using a pressing motion with the tips of your fingers works best. Add the fillings, and then roll with the sushi mat, being careful not to roll the mat into the gimbap towards the end. Set aside with the cut seam facing down and repeat until you run out of ingredients. This should make about 6 rolls. Slice your gimbap into 8 slices using a very sharp knife. Since the gim and fillings are already seasoned, you don't really need any soy sauce, but you can sprinkle a little sea salt on top of the cut rolls if you like.
Perhaps Retro Studios at one point intended for Dark Samus to manifest this absorption ability throughout the trilogy, starting life as a featureless humanoid clone and eventually absorbing the corpses of her varied victims to become a horrific abomination of nature.This theory ties in with another (presumed abandoned) detail from the Metroid 1.5 Design Document.When Metroid Prime was defeated, it regenerated itself into a human shape. The original genetically programmed role of all Metroid creatures (to absorb X-Parasites) could have been distorted, causing the creature to desire the absorption of all flesh.If this theory holds any merit, then perhaps Retro originally intended Phazon to be entirely incidental to Dark Samus’ motives. (Source: Alejandro Roura, website now defunct)This incarnation of Dark Samus has an unreal quality to it, with the artwork showing her to be made up of "bubbles" of matter. The animation shows her sneaking around, an action that the highly volatile Dark Samus never performs during the final release. Could these designs have represented an early, weak and unstable incarnation of the creature, that must stealthily find Phazon to maintain a corporeal form and increase its power?This incarnation of Dark Samus is a grey, heavily armoured juggernaut. It seems to have a shape somewhat reminiscent of some of the Space Pirates (particularly in the upper torso). Possibly the intention with this design was not to make it too apparent who or what the creature was. Perhaps with each subsequent encounter, Samus would destroy more and more of the organic armour, revealing the transformed remnant of Metroid Prime beneath?This incarnation seems far more organic than the other designs, with stretched flesh clearly visible. The shoulders actually appear to have a Metroid-style membrane, and the design is similar in shape (though much darker) to the abandoned Humetroid design from Metroid 1.5:The organic qualities of this design seem to influence Dark Samus’ final form in the game’s final release.These are not excised content, but nonetheless provide a fascinating look at Retro Studios development of the opening story sequences of Metroid Prime 2. These appear to be the internal Retro Studios storyboards for the opening of the game, and I was surprised to discover them released for public consumptionThere is a particular creature on Dark Aether called an “Airthorn”. This creature is unique in that it only appears in a single location, while Samus is in Morph Ball mode.
The auto-exposure isn't particularly smart, and it adjusts too quickly when filming video, with ugly results compared to the camera in the HTC Titan and Sensation XL -- which have far better camera units. Moreover, as you'll hear in the sample video above, the sound recording is terrible: its default sensitivity of the mic is way too high, resulting in clipped audio whenever the person holding the camera speaks, or when there's a gust of wind or any other sharp noise.
Of HSAMIs' 23 variable parameters, two account for evapotranspiration, six for snowmelt, 10 for vertical water movement, and five for horizontal water movement. Vertical flows are simulated with four interconnected linear reservoirs (snow on the ground, surface water, and unsaturated and saturated zones). Horizontal flows are routed through two unit hydrographs and one linear reservoir. The model accounts for snow accumulation, snowmelt, soil freezing/thawing, and evapotranspiration. Model calibration is done automatically using the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (N. Hansen & Ostermeier, 1996, 2001), following the work of Arsenault, Poulin, Coté, and Brissette (2014). The basin‐averaged minimum required daily input data for HSAMI are Tmax, Tmin, and liquid and solid precipitations. Cloud cover fraction and snow water equivalent can also be used as inputs, if available. A natural inflow or discharge time series is also needed for proper calibration/validation. For this study, 9 years (1981–1989) of daily precipitation, Tmax, Tmin, and discharge time series were used for model calibration, and the other 9 years (1990–1998) of data were used for validation. The optimal combination of parameters was chosen based on Nash‐Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) criteria. NSE is a normalized statistic that determines the relative magnitude of the residual variance compared to the observed data variance. It is a metric that reflects the overall performance of a hydrological model, especially emphasizing high flows. The chosen set of parameters yielded NSE values ranging between 0.92 and 0.85 for the calibration and between 0.91 and 0.62 for the validation of the four studied watersheds (column #3 of Table 2). Figure 3 presents the observed and simulated daily hydrographs for the validation period. The first year is used as the warm‐up period, so only 8 years are presented in the figure. The daily hydrograph further indicates the reasonable performance of HSAMI in simulating both low and high flows, especially for three out of four watersheds. Table 2. Nash‐Sutcliffe efficiency of the calibration (CAL) and validation (VAL) of the HSAMI hydrological model using observed (OBS) and regional climate model‐simulated data (CRCM‐NCEP and WRFG‐NCEP). When using CRCM‐NCEP and WRFG‐NCEP, HSAMI was calibrated with respect to reproducing the daily hydrograph (daily), mean annual hydrograph (mean hydro), and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the discharges.
Supporting Information Figure S1. Phylogenetic analysis based on amino acid alignment of IRF7 from representative vertebrate species. Branch support is indicated as the percentage of 1000 bootstrap replicates. Sequences are from the Ensembl database with the exception of P. alecto IRF7. P. alecto IRF7 is highlighted in bold. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103875.s001 (TIF) Figure S2. Alignment of the IRF7 DNA binding motif of P. alecto with other mammals. Residues important for IRF7 binding to the IFN promoter (described in Genin et al, 2009) are highlighted in grey. Sequences from species other than P. alecto and M. davidii were obtained from the Ensembl database. Bat sequences from P. alecto, P. vampyrus and M. davidii genome are colored red. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103875.s002 (TIF) Figure S3. Alignment of MyD88 (in bold) from P. alecto with sequences from other mammals. Residues which are identical to human MyD88 are shown as dashes while gaps are indicated by dots. The death domains which are responsible for activation of IRF7 proteins are boxed. Sequences from species other than P. alecto were obtained from the Ensembl database. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103875.s003 (TIF) Figure S4. Alignment of the P. alecto IFN-β promoter region with the corresponding region from human, horse, mouse, dog, pig and microbat. If more than one IFN-β sequence was present, the gene identified as IFN-β1 was used in the analysis. Residues which are identical to the human sequence are shown as dashes while gaps are indicated by dots. Two modules named positive regulatory domain (PRD) III and I, responsible for binding to IRF3 and IRF7 in humans (Maniatis et al, 1998) are boxed. The TATA binding motif has also been boxed. The residue in the P. alecto IFN-β promoter which may have disabled PRDI has also been highlighted. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103875.s004 (TIF) Figure S5. Bat IRF3 can’t be activated by bat MyD88 (A) but can induce IFN-βP by itself (B). HEK293T cells were transiently co-transfected with bat MyD88 expression plasmid and mouse IFN-α4 or Bat IFN-βP promoter plasmids along with bat IRF3. After 30 h, cells were analysed for promoter activity by reporter gene luciferase assay. Data are mean values of two independent experiments and error bars represent standard errors. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103875.s005 (TIF)
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7. In Dry Climates, Use Indirect Evaporative Cooling in Parallel with Direct Expansion Cooling An economizer draws in outside air for free cooling when conditions are cold enough, and in dry climates, for free dehumidification. But in hot months or climates, the economizer won’t engage because the outside air is too warm. Adding an indirect evaporative cooler in parallel with the existing cooling system will provide cool, dry air to the space with extremely low energy consumption. Indirect evaporative coolers from Munters and Seeley have been shown to be roughly six times more efficient than standard RTUs, potentially reducing cooling energy costs by about 80 percent (assuming an energy-efficiency ratio of 75 for the evaporative cooler versus 12 for a code-compliant RTU).15 An indirect evaporative cooler essentially provides “cheap” cooling and free dehumidification. However, some industry professionals have concerns about bringing in outside air; see the sidebar above. When installing these systems, care must be taken on two fronts: First, because these devices are operated in tandem with other HVAC equipment, the controls should be set up to prioritize the most energy-efficient operating mode of either device at any given time. Second, the supply and exhaust airflows should be designed in such a way that cool air moves to where it’s needed and hot air is exhausted. For more information on these concerns, see Appendix C. 8. Use Combined Conventional and Desiccant Dehumidification for Energy-Efficient Moisture Management Desiccants are materials that readily attract water and can thus dehumidify air without mechanical cooling. Desiccants can potentially reduce HVAC electricity use by 30 to 60 percent and peak electricity demand by 65 to 70 percent.16 The most efficient dehumidifiers that we’re aware of combine both mechanical and desiccant systems. Outside air is first mechanically cooled to the dewpoint—the stage in which it is saturated with water vapor, but the vapor has not condensed. Saturated air is then fed to a desiccant system where the vapor is removed chemically, avoiding the energy-intensive condensation process. The desiccant system is recharged with the heat from the condenser or another source. The benefits of this are twofold: The mechanical cooling runs very efficiently because it’s not cold enough to condense any water vapor, and the desiccant system runs very efficiently because the air enters in a saturated state.
Quantum-optical switch based on a single SiV center The coupled emitter-cavity system can be used to create strong interactions between single photons and achieve single-photon nonlinearities (2, 21). To probe the nonlinear response of the SiV-cavity system, we repeat the transmission and linewidth measurements of Fig. 1F at increasing probe intensities. As expected (21, 22), we find that the system saturates at a level less than a single photon per Purcell-enhanced excited-state lifetime (Fig. 3A), resulting in power broadening in fluorescence ( ) and reduced extinction in transmission ( ) (19). We realize an all-optical switch with memory by optically controlling the metastable orbital states (23–25) of a single SiV (Fig. 2). Specifically, we use a 30-ns-long gate pulse to optically pump the SiV to an orbital state that is uncoupled ( , Fig. 2A) or coupled ( , Fig. 2B) to a weak probe field resonant with the cavity. The response of the system to the probe field after the gate pulse is monitored both in transmission (Fig. 2C) and fluorescence (Fig. 2D). If the gate pulse initializes the system in state (blue curves), the transmission is reduced and the fluorescence scattering is increased. Initializing the system in state (red curves) results in increased transmission and reduced fluorescence scattering. The observed modulation demonstrates switching of a weak probe pulse by a classical gate pulse. The switch memory time is limited by a thermal phonon relaxation process between and that depolarizes the system over ns at 4 K (20). Fig. 2 An all-optical switch using a single SiV. (A and B) The transmission of a probe field is modulated using a gate pulse that optically pumps the SiV to state (A) or (B). (C) Probe field transmission measured after the initialization gate pulse. Initialization in state ( ) results in increased (suppressed) transmission and (D) suppressed (increased) fluorescence. To investigate these processes at the single-photon level, we resonantly excite the SiV-cavity system with a weak coherent light and measure photon statistics of the scattered and transmitted fields. To this end, scattered and transmitted light are each split to two detectors (fig. S1), allowing us to measure normalized intensity autocorrelations for the scattered [ , Fig. 3B] and transmitted [ , Fig. 3C] fields, as well as cross-correlations between the two channels [ , Fig. 3D].
Previous studies demonstrate that glyphosate exposure is associated with oxidative damage and neurotoxicity. Therefore, the mechanism of glyphosate-induced neurotoxic effects needs to be determined. The aim of this study was to investigate whether Roundup® (a glyphosate-based herbicide) leads to neurotoxicity in hippocampus of immature rats following acute (30min) and chronic (pregnancy and lactation) pesticide exposure. Maternal exposure to pesticide was undertaken by treating dams orally with 1% Roundup® (0.38% glyphosate) during pregnancy and lactation (till 15-day-old). Hippocampal slices from 15 day old rats were acutely exposed to Roundup® (0.00005 to 0.1%) during 30min and experiments were carried out to determine whether glyphosate affects 45Ca2+ influx and cell viability. Moreover, we investigated the pesticide effects on oxidative stress parameters, 14C-α-methyl-amino-isobutyric acid (14C-MeAIB) accumulation, as well as glutamate uptake, release and metabolism. Results showed that acute exposure to Roundup® (30min) increases 45Ca2+ influx by activating NMDA receptors and voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels, leading to oxidative stress and neural cell death. The mechanisms underlying Roundup®-induced neurotoxicity also involve the activation of CaMKII and ERK. Moreover, acute exposure to Roundup® increased 3H-glutamate released into the synaptic cleft, decreased GSH content and increased the lipoperoxidation, characterizing excitotoxicity and oxidative damage. We also observed that both acute and chronic exposure to Roundup® decreased3H-glutamate uptake and metabolism, while induced 45Ca2+ uptake and 14C-MeAIB accumulation in immature rat hippocampus. Taken together, these results demonstrated that Roundup® might lead to excessive extracellular glutamate levels and consequently to glutamate excitotoxicity and oxidative stress in rat hippocampus.
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I can probably let this grow for another day. I disregard my razor and pick up my toothbrush instead. I run it through my mouth and look at the bags under my eyes. God, I wish I could get some more sleep. I spit and look at my cellphone for the time. What the fuck? I set my alarm to go off for 8:30 and 8:45, why is it 7:30? I shrug and weigh the option of getting back in my bed for another hour of sleep. The debate in my head is short as I flop down next to Richard, fully clothed, and immediately fall back to sleep. I wake up in a stupor to the sound of the most annoying stock ringtone I could find on my phone. It lets me know that I have fifteen minutes to get my shit together and get out of bed. I don’t fall back to sleep like normal; instead, I lay in bed and think of things to try distracting myself from my current situation. I go to my happy place. A place where I don’t have to wake up today and go to work. A place where I can sit at home with Richard and our pitbull. A place where I can give them everything they’ve ever wanted and we would want for nothing. The alarm goes off for a second time. There it is, my time in the happy place is gone and I have to face this dismal reality once again. I get out of bed and immediately slide into the pants I was wearing yesterday. I pick up another shirt from my closet and drag myself to my sink. I look at my face in the mirror and run my hand across the stubble on my chin.I disregard my razor and pick up my toothbrush instead. I run it through my mouth and look at the bags under my eyes.I spit and look at my cellphone for the time.I set my alarm to go off for 8:30 and 8:45, why is it 7:30? I shrug and weigh the option of getting back in my bed for another hour of sleep. The debate in my head is short as I flop down next to Richard, fully clothed, and immediately fall back to sleep.
In the half century since Cloud and Barghoorn began scouring the globe for similar sites, the history of life on Earth has been traced back nearly three and a half billion years. But the bigger story lies in the pattern behind the deposits they found. Biologists now believe that cyanobacteria, which produce oxygen through photosynthesis, probably first appeared around 2.7 billion years ago, but the Great Oxygenation didn’t begin for nearly half a billion years. In between, most of the Earth’s great iron deposits were laid down. To Cloud, this sequence made sense. The early oceans must have been full of soluble iron, he reasoned. As the bacteria produced oxygen, the two compounds reacted to form iron oxide, which precipitated onto the seafloor in great layers of rust. When the oceans ran out of iron, the oxygen was free to accumulate in the air. And that’s when Earth truly came alive. Why not Mars? Its red sands are also full of iron, turned to rust by atmospheric oxygen. But somewhere along the way the planet ran out of air. Did an asteroid hit it, blasting the greater part of its atmosphere into space? Was its magnetic field disrupted as the magma in its mantle cooled, exposing it to solar winds? Was Mars, at half Earth’s diameter, simply too small to keep its invisible grip on the air? Whatever the answer, a planet once strikingly similar to ours has become a thoroughly alien place. That’s why the pictures transmitted by Opportunity, nine years ago, were so startling. Instead of a gravelly desert, they showed craggy outcrops; instead of dark basalt, pale sediment. This wasn’t a lava flow. It looked like windblown soil from the bed of a lake or pond—the kind of place most likely to harbor life and preserve its remains. “That was when I realized that I was in this for good,” Grotzinger told me. “This wasn’t just a little detour.”
That's a pretty crucial detail! Thanks for this, will keep in mind for our first round table. Great seeing you, safe travels! Zachary Allen (301) 651-5222 Sent from my iPhone On Dec 17, 2015, at 7:02 AM, Christopher Lowe <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Apparently he agreed to max out and likely come to an event in Q1. So lets look for $. Begin forwarded message: We spoke. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Christopher Lowe <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: He's in China apparently. Just sent you his number. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Zach Allen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 610 506 2083 is what I have Zachary Allen (301) 651-5222 Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Munoz, Henry <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Do you have a phone number for Michael? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Zach Allen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Looks like a great call for today. Henry, that possible at all? Zachary Allen (301) 651-5222 Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Christopher Lowe <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Henry: May be best if you call Michael. He apparently knows you. This came out of emails I sent to a NY list of people who had not been active. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: Mr. Lowe, Thank you for your prompt response. Is Henry Munoz still the NFC Chair? If he is please say hello to him for me. I am willing to max out again this year to show support for the DNC like I always do. But I need you to do me a huge favor and get me 4 invites to the holiday party this year. I think it'll going all the way until the 22nd. Can you at least shoot an email out to the social sec office and see if u can get me added? Thanks so much. I will send you vitals for SS upon request. Hope to meet you in person soon. Mike Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2015, at 7:24 PM, Christopher Lowe <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Michael: I have recently taken the role as a Vice Chair of the National Finance Committee at the Democratic National Committee. The staff there have told me that you were good enough to support the DNC in 2013 and 2014 but haven’t had the opportunity to do so in 2015.
In 2011, the new Bruichladdich turned ten, and so did the oldest batch of new whisky in the warehouse. The distillery finally had a flagship ten-year-old, which it called the Laddie Ten: a definitive name for a definitive dram. Bruichladdich even allowed itself to gloat, with a slogan: “The first ten years are the toughest!” Reviews were generally enthusiastic. Whisky Advocate named the Laddie Ten the year’s best Islay whisky, above bottles that sell for more than ten times the price. (In the U.S., a bottle of the Laddie Ten costs about fifty-five dollars.) And, for the first time, Bruichladdich appeared on the shelves of duty-free shops in airports worldwide. The success of the Laddie Ten seemed to mark Bruichladdich’s transformation from scrappy upstart into successful mainstay, and the impression was confirmed last summer, when the company made a startling announcement: it was selling out to Rémy Cointreau, the French liquor conglomerate, whose products include Rémy Martin cognac and Cointreau liqueur. (The price was fifty-eight million pounds, including ten million pounds of assumed debt.) Out of Bruichladdich’s eight board members, only one voted against the sale: Reynier. Once the deal was struck, Reynier was asked to leave, and was replaced by his longtime business partner Simon Coughlin. Reynier announced his departure on Twitter: “Over & out.” In his next post, he filled in a few details: “(it’s) over & (I’m) out (of here).” “Creative, imaginative, and fierce–these are just a few of the words that I’m reading off the teleprompter.” Reynier now lives in Edinburgh, where his son goes to school, but this fall he was back on Islay for a few days. In his old office, he seemed slightly disoriented—he still thinks the sale came too soon, and he hasn’t shed his habit of talking about Bruichladdich in the first-person plural. “Just being in this office is strange,” he said. “This is where I’ve lived for the last eleven years.” All around the distillery, nothing had changed, with one small exception. On the antique Ford pickup truck in the courtyard, a wooden sign above the windshield read “1881 Bruichladdich 1881.” In recent months, someone had added a new wooden sign, above the old one: “2012 Rémy Martin 2012.” Simon Coughlin, the new chief, says that Rémy is an ideal parent company, because it allows subsidiaries to operate with relative independence. “We’re the experts about Bruichladdich,” he says.
It was originally going to be named Foxfire in the English versions until Nintendo of America settled with Vulpix, which is based on "vulpus", the Latin word for fox.Ninetales (キュウコン Kyūkon, Kyukon), also known as the Fox Pokémon, is a golden-white nine-tailed fox, based on the kitsune, a Japanese fox spirit. The Kyūbi (九尾), which held similar powers such as shapeshifting, were the main inspiration for the Pokémon. Ninetales' name was derived from the number of its tails, nine, and the fact that the idea for it came primarily from ancient Japanese tales. This fox-like Pokémon is covered with a thick, luxurious golden-white fur, with a fluffy crest atop its head and a similar ruff around its neck. Ninetales have gleaming red eyes that are said to give them the power of mind control. Its nine different tails hold strange, cosmic powers, that let it live for 1,000 years, Ninetales are highly intelligent Pokémon that understand human speech. They are very vengeful and have been known to curse those who mistreat them for 1000 years. Many legends surround this Pokémon, one of which stating that Ninetales was born when 9 saints were united and reincarnated as this Pokémon.Jigglypuff (プリン, Purin), known as the Balloon Pokémon, is shaped like a round ball, with pink skin, large blue or green eyes, catlike ears, and a tuft of fur on its forehead. Its skin is rubbery and stretchy. It can inflate its body like a balloon (usually when it becomes angry; this is accompanied by a distinctive "honk" sound), or flatten its body, much like fellow Nintendo character Kirby. An exact limit to the size it can grow to in this manner is unknown. Jigglypuff are characterized by putting their enemies to sleep by singing a lullaby. Before beginning to sing, they mesmerize the opponent with their soft, glowing eyes, and if they inflate themselves, they can sing for longer periods of time. They can easily adjust the wavelength of their voices to that of the brain waves of a sleeping being, allowing for their pleasing melody to put its audience to sleep. They sing without pausing to take a breath, so if the opponent is resistant to sleeping, they potentially run out of air.
Methods: We measured lipid-based and WHO 2005 -TEq-standardized PCDD/Fs and PCBs in maternal blood samples and in early breast milk using gas chromatography/high-resolution mass-spectrometry (GC/HRMS). At the age of 6–8 years parents (mostly mothers) reported sex-typical characteristics, preferred toys and play activities using the Preschool Activities Inventory (PSAI) which was used to derive feminine, masculine and difference (feminine – masculine) scores. We estimated exposure-outcome associations using multivariate linear regression. Between 91 and 109 children were included in this follow-up. Results: Mean blood levels of WHO 2005 TEq-standardized dioxins (Σ PCDD/Fs) were 14.5 ± 6.4 pg/g blood lipids, and of Σ PCBs 6.9 ± 3.8 pg/g blood lipids, with similar values for milk lipids. Regression analyses revealed some highly significant interactions between sex and exposure, e.g. for Σ PCBs in milk, pronounced positive (boys: β = 3.24; CI = 1.35, 5.14) or negative (girls: β = −3.59; CI = −1.10, −6.08) associations with reported femininity. Less pronounced and mostly insignificant but consistent associations were found for the masculinity score, positive for boys and negative for girls. Conclusions: Based on our results and the findings of previous studies, we conclude that there is sufficient evidence that EDCs modify behavioral sexual dimorphism in children, presumably by interacting with the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. Author/-s: Gerhard Winneke; Ulrich Ranft; Jürgen Wittsiepe; Monika Kasper-Sonnenberg; Peter Fürst; Ursula Krämer; Gabriele Seitner; Michael Wilhelm Publication: Environmental health perspectives, 2013 Web link: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/121/11/ehp.1306533.pdf Digit ratios (2D:4D), postnatal testosterone and eye contact in toddlers Previous research has shown an association between eye contact and prenatal testosterone measured in amniocenteses samples. The purpose of this study was to test the association between eye contact and prenatal androgen action measured via second to fourth digit ratios (2D:4D ratios), and to explore the relationship between eye contact and postnatal testosterone levels. Participants included 72 children, between the ages of 18 and 24 months, and their parents. Salivary testosterone levels were obtained when children were 3-months old. At 18-months, 2D:4D ratios were measured and parent-child dyads participated in an 8-min play session that was recorded and later coded for duration and frequency of eye contact. Results indicated that larger 2D:4D ratios (indicative of lower androgen levels) significantly predicted longer duration and more frequency of eye contact, while postnatal testosterone levels were unrelated to eye contact. These novel findings suggest prenatal androgens may influence the emergence of social development.
The reason is that the unit's stat's are not justified and don't match the unit's ability.The adept is a very tanky unit, but at the same time it doesn't actually has to close distance with anything, because of the shade ability.The hellbat for example is a tanky unit, because it's job is to defend tanks from getting overrun. The hellbat is tanky to allow a mech player to get his tanks in position to siege up during an engagement. If hellbat's don't do their job good enough, the mech player risks to lose his army. That's their justification for being a tanky unit. To allow the mech terran to do something with his army.So the hellbat has a very clear role, but as you can see it also has very obvious weakness.Hellbats are very slow, have very little range, can literally get countered by walking away from them.Hellbats have very clear role and very clear counterplay.Now imagine if hellions would be as tanky as hellbats.First of all, you wouldn't see hellbats anymore (Adept/zealot relationship). Also this would lead to hellions being OP for their role.Hellions role is basically harass, but the opponent has clear counter opportunities like walling off mineral lines, having units in position, building static defense or simply splitting the workers to buy time and minimize damage.This relationship between harasser and defender only works, because the hellion is not tanky. If you catch the hellion, it dies. There is no justification for the unit to be as tanky as a hellbat, because it has other strengths (in this case being able to easily escape from danger due to high mobility) and a different role.So as you can see, there is also no justification for the adept to be as tanky as a zealot.The adept does everything a zealot does, but only much better.
In fact, in the 1700’s astronomer Edmond Halley made a map of the path of the coming eclipse and published it in the hopes that the general public wouldn’t panic when the Sun briefly disappeared, and that observers might gather more data on how long the eclipse lasted at different locations. The modern era of eclipse observing had finally begun.
u - an uncursed dagger of venom x - an uncursed dagger of protection G - an uncursed sabre of venom S - an uncursed spear of flaming Missiles b - 12 arrows of dispersal P - 31 runed darts Armour f - a +2 cloak j - a +0 pair of gloves l - a +0 helmet (worn) r - a +2 elven robe y - a +2 pair of dwarven gauntlets (worn) F - a +0 buckler (worn) Z - the +3 chain mail of the New World (worn) {Str+4 Int+4} (You found it on level 9 of the Dungeon) It affects your strength (+4). It affects your intelligence (+4). Magical devices Q - a wand of disintegration {zapped: 4} V - a wand of fireball {zapped: 7} X - a wand of draining (3) Comestibles t - a slice of pizza v - a chunk of goblin flesh O - a meat ration Scrolls a - a scroll labeled JUYQ ERAIT c - 4 scrolls of remove curse h - 2 scrolls of identify k - 2 scrolls of blinking p - 3 scrolls labeled YPRAECS OBAG {tried} w - 3 scrolls of detect curse C - 4 scrolls of teleportation J - 4 scrolls labeled XEQOSOANWE {tried} R - a scroll labeled ECHEOD THUAM {tried on uncursed orcish dagger of distortion} Jewellery m - a +3,+3 ring of slaying s - a ring of protection from magic (left hand) I - a +2 ring of strength L - an uncursed ring of protection from fire M - an uncursed amulet of controlled flight W - a ring of sustenance Y - a ring of sustenance (right hand) Potions d - a gluggy brown potion z - 4 potions of heal wounds A - 5 smoky green potions B - 2 cyan potions D - 3 purple potions E - 4 potions of healing H - 2 pink potions K - a bubbling red potion N - a fuming brown potion T - a yellow potion Magical staves U - an uncursed twisted smoking staff You have 3 experience left. Skills: + Level 6 Fighting + Level 12 Short Blades - Level 3 Maces & Flails - Level 1 Armour + Level 8 Dodging - Level 3 Stealth + Level 2 Stabbing + Level 2 Shields + Level 1 Evocations You have 9 spell levels left. You don't know any spells.
Shall we blow the whistle on it? Naahh, let's see if there's even one person out there that isn't a complete incompetent tool and eventually figures it out.) We must not forget about those of us that are still struggling against the system, one of which deserves to be mentioned, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg also known as Anakata. At the end of the month Sweden is handing him over to the danish authorities. Denmark plans on prosecuting 'Sven' for some of his shenanigans. He will need your support in this journey. There aren't that many real cyber pirates out there left, if he were to be jailed it would be a historic loss and major win for giant corporations and regular corrupt governments. Please help him in anyway you can through these difficult times. Thank you. _____________________________ DoD General Standards breached - Satellite Networking Manufacturer PCI, cPCI, VME, amongst other things. We're leaking over 600.000 record sets as a preview and making sure we send a strong message to the US Gov. that we have the rest of the data from the network that is in terms of millions + documents. This release is comprised of: Thousands of accounts, tens of thousands of orders from certain bodies, hundreds of thousands of details both shipping and serial numbering on its hardware components with buyers and strategic positioning, additional tracking information that was placed on the website beforehand and recorded all of the persons and organizations along with other detailed descriptions of those interested in purchasing which component - the list ranges from private contractors throughout the world to specific governments. Since this is meant to also embarrass them, we will also be leaking the list of their menu food and the type of drugs/medicine they have stockpiled. Everything to the sweetest detail. Bon'a'petit!
larger image TIFF original image Download: Figure 4. Proposed alternative timings and trajectories of colonization routes into the Americas. Dashed lines are approximate boundaries of the extent of settlement based on dated archaeological sites, and solid arrows are hypothesized population movements. A) The initial expansion into southern Siberia from central Asia is relatively uncontroversial. B) Similarly, the expansion from southern Siberia to far-western Beringia by ∼30k calBP is uncontroversial. C) Three proposed pre-LGM colonization routes include coastal, terrestrial, and trans-Arctic routes, however, currently there are no archaeological sites beyond western Beringia to support these routes. D) Post-LGM models include the traditional trans-Beringian route, and a coastal route. The trans-Beringian route is the best supported by current archaeological data, and there is no archaeological evidence to suggest the coastal route was a major factor in colonization, albeit complicated by Holocene sea level rise along the Pacific Rim. However, it is entirely feasible that as colonists expanded across the Beringian mainland local groups close to the southern coast may have included aquatic resources in the diet. However, there is no evidence of full maritime cultures anywhere along the Pacific Rim until well into the Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012472.g004 Figure 4 shows the distribution of dated archaeological sites in the study region in 10,000 year increments, the dashed lines are the approximate eastern boundaries of human occupation suggested by the distribution of ages from radiocarbon-dated archaeological occupations, and the bold arrows are suggested expansion trajectories. Figures 4A and B are relatively uncontroversial, as most researchers would agree that the earliest occupations occur in southern Siberia, most likely from central Asian populations between ∼50k-45k BP, and expand to include the Japanese archipelago by ∼35k BP and the western border of Beringia by ∼30k BP. Figure 4C, which spans the onset and maximum of the last glacial (MIS 2), illustrates the three proposed pre-LGM colonization models proposed in the literature, which involve colonization pathways either along the northern or southern coasts of Beringia, or across the Beringian mainland. However, the distribution of sites, and the boundaries outlined in figure 4C and 4D demonstrate that currently there is no archaeological evidence of human settlements to the east of the extreme western border of Beringia until well after the LGM, ∼16k calBP. Moreover, Figure 5 provides an estimate for the minimum gradient that the Eurasian radiocarbon record would have to demonstrate in order to support a pre-LGM colonization of the Americas.
The supreme skills of two of the NBAs greatest big men did force changes in the dimensions of the foul lane. The width of the lane was doubled from six to 12 feet in 1951 in an effort to limit the dominance of George Mikan; more than a decade later it was further widened to 16 feet in an attempt to contain Wilt Chamberlain. Both players proved skillful enough to adapt their games to the changes, and they continued to be dominant forces in their eras.
By By Marcus Hondro Feb 6, 2014 in World Uruguay's president, José “Pepe” Mujica, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the Dutch activist organization, the Drugs Peace Institute. Thanks to Mujica, in April, his country will be the first to completely legalize marijuana. "Hopefully, the start of the acceptance of this consumption by society and the concomitant development of understanding of its use as a natural medicine, historically used for spiritual liberation, might initiate a process of healing in a world confused and deeply divided over its religious legacy." The institute can nominate President Mujica under the statutes of the Nobel Foundation as it qualifies due to its status as a peace research institute. The Drugs Peace The Nobel Peace Prize, one of five Nobel prizes, is awarded Nobel Peace Prize: more than one winner More than one can be named and organizations can also be winners (the Red Cross has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times). The Drugs Peace Institute said that by working to free his country from the shackles of marijuana prohibition, Mujica has taken on a big role in the search for peace and even implied he has made himself a religious leader. "Jose Mujica once said that he’s been looking for god but (has not) found him yet," the institute wrote. "By legalizing marijuana and opening the doors of spiritual happiness to the young, he might not have found the god of other nations but...has followed in the footsteps of Jesus when he said ‘Let the children come to me." President Mujica "It is a promise to bridge the gap between defiant marijuana consumers and the prohibiting society," the Institute wrote to the Nobel committee about the legislation when nominating Mujica. "Hopefully, the start of the acceptance of this consumption by society and the concomitant development of understanding of its use as a natural medicine, historically used for spiritual liberation, might initiate a process of healing in a world confused and deeply divided over its religious legacy. "The institute can nominate President Mujica under the statutes of the Nobel Foundation as it qualifies due to its status as a peace research institute.
Having a key function as an argument provides even more versatility, but at the cost of speed.Binary search is often overlooked because it requires a sorted list as a precondition, which seems like it would make it useless if you have a big unsorted list that you need to work with, but you can get around that by sorting the list by every key function you need it sorted by first. And how you do sort a list efficiently? Binary search! Just run through your unsorted list and add elements one by one to a new, first empty, list at the positions that binary search gives you. That's an O(nlog(n)) sorting algorithm right there, and one that you can implement in C without worrying about data structures like lists of lists or heaps that other efficient sorts require. Here's an example for a problem that had you keep track of the ranks of specific participants in a yodelling competition throughout the competition as their scores change (hence the use of a "byrank" array to store positions rather than actually sorting the list).andwere both initialized earlier;is the number of participants. The problem was from a 2004 high school computing competition that I found and did for practice. Binary search is the one algorithm that now appears in almost every single one of my more advanced programming solutions - it simply is that powerful. If you have a problem that looks like it will take O(n) time to compute, chances are there's a solution involving pre-sorting and binary search that will take O(nlog(n)) time. One example of such a binary search-based solution is my approach to the Subsequence Weighting problem in the Codesprint competition; solution here . I won't go into this example in detail here; those curious can go and try to understand the problem and code themselves, but that's an O(nlog(n)) algorithm for solving it. A second, and much more important one, is search trees.Search trees are an incredibly powerful tool in solving optimization problems, where you need to find an optimal solution, such as the minimum cost of performing a certain task (eg. pathfinding, the traveling salesman problem, planning). Here's a naive implementation of the concept that I applied in a medieval/fantasy tactics game that I made a while back**:The idea is to find the shortest path from A to B on a map () with obstacles in it.
^ telos of Jewish history but also of British history. The tendency of nationalist and Zionist histories to develop towards a single point of destiny and redemption allowed for, indeed required, such an explanation. The myth of British 'proto-Zionism', which has had such a longstanding influence on the historiography of the Balfour Declaration, was thus produced, so as to serve the needs of Zionist propagandists working for the British Government." Renton described this as follows: "A crucial aspect of this depiction of the Declaration as a product of British benevolence, as opposed to realpolitik, was that the British had a natural and deep-rooted concern for the rights of Jews and specifically their national restoration, which was an ingrained part of British culture and history. Presented in this way, the Declaration was shown to be a natural, almost preordained event. Hence, Zionism was presented not just as theof Jewish history but also of British history. The tendency of nationalist and Zionist histories to develop towards a single point of destiny and redemption allowed for, indeed required, such an explanation. The myth of British 'proto-Zionism', which has had such a longstanding influence on the historiography of the Balfour Declaration, was thus produced, so as to serve the needs of Zionist propagandists working for the British Government." ^ Donald Lewis writes: "It is the contention of this work that only by understanding [Christian philosemitism and Christian Zionism] can one make sense of the religious and cultural influences that worked together to create a climate of opinion among the political elite in Britain that was well disposed to the Balfour Declaration." ^ With respect to European schemes to encourage Protestant, Catholic and Jewish immigration to Palestine, Schölch notes that "But of the many colonization projects and enterprises, only two had any success: the settlements of Templars since 1868 and those of Jewish immigrants since 1882." ^ LeVine and Mossberg describe this as follows: "The parents of Zionism were not Judaism and tradition, but anti-Semitism and nationalism. The ideals of the French Revolution spread slowly across Europe, finally reaching the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire and helping to set off the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. This engendered a permanent split in the Jewish world, between those who held to a halachic or religious-centric vision of their identity and those who adopted in part the racial rhetoric of the time and made the Jewish people into a nation.
Invoking Comey’s recent letter, Trump declared to a raucous crowd in Phoenix on Saturday that Clinton’s “criminal action was willful, deliberate, intentional, and purposeful … and [she] lied to the FBI many times.” Comey himself has repeatedly and emphatically said precisely the opposite both in a formal written statement and orally under oath, but Trump keeps repeating his big lie again and again. Of course, this is not the first time Trump has said this. But it is news every time he repeats it, because it is so antithetical to our constitutional system. Unlike Trumpian birtherism and the many other big lies he’s told throughout his public life, this big lie takes aim at the very heart of the rule of law. The rule of law is not violated when some guilty people go unprosecuted. The rule of law itself provides for pardons, nonprosecutions, and mercy on a massive scale. (Think about the tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans who have used or will use some illegal drug at some point in their lives.) No government official on facts closely analogous to Clinton’s has ever been convicted; those who have been convicted have committed intentional wrongs and/or lied to investigators. So the rule of law is in no way violated by going easy on Clinton, despite her admitted mistakes. But the rule of law is imperiled by punishing people who are not guilty; the rule of law is violated when the prosecutor-in-chief (also known as the president) pronounces a person guilty by name when the facts utterly fail to support this smear; the rule of law is in mortal danger when an overheated crowd roars, as it did in Phoenix, “Lock her up!” This is news not because it has not happened before, but because it is still happening—and getting worse. And the journalists are missing the headline.
Soros has been lobbying very intensively, after the coup (see all about it by clicking on that link), to persuade the EU, IMF and U.S., to donate enough of Western taxpayers’ money, so as to enable Ukraine to buy enough weapons to win its war against the rebelling portion of Ukraine — the region which had voted 90% for the overthrown former President, Viktor Yanukovych — the region in Ukraine that’s often called “Donbass,” which is in Ukraine’s far east, and which has declared its independence, and which includes much of the Yuzivska gas-field. That region has consistently rejected the Obama-coup-imposed Government; and consequently its gas cannot be used to repay Ukraine’s debts unless Ukraine regains control over that land, where now, almost certainly, even more than 90% of the people reject that Government. (Click here in order to see the transcript of the EU officials’ phone-conversation in which their Foreign-Affairs Minister Catherine Ashton was informed by her own investigator, on 25 February 2014, that Yanukovych had been overthrown in a violent coup, rather than himself perpetrated the bloodshed, and that Ukraine’s current President, Petro Poroshenko, himself acknowledged to the EU’s investigator at the time, that it was a coup — which Ashton hadn’t known of until that moment.) This is the reason why the IMF informed the coup Government, on 1 May 2014, that unless it could regain control over the rebels’ land, which means eliminate its residents (since they would never accept a Government that is set upon exterminating them), the IMF would stop lending (actually donating, since these ‘loans’ will come at the end of the long line in the bankruptcy proceeding that’s now inevitable) Ukraine more of its Western taxpayers’ money. Without those gas-fields and other assets, even the existing IMF loans to Ukraine wouldn’t likely ever be able to be paid back. New IMF loans surely won’t be.
Across Canada most men of military age gave the war a pass. When conscription did arrive, seven of 10 filed for exemption. Conscription was deeply unpopular — especially among working-class Canadians, farmers and members of ethnic minorities, some of whom were sent to prison camps as supposed enemies of the country. Many saw it as an imperial war, with military suppliers its prime beneficiaries. Of course, other Canadians were whipped up into a patriotic wartime frenzy. It was a time, rather like ours, of intense official nationalism. Germans became “The Hun,” that racial epithet designed by Rudyard Kipling to make a whole people seem barbaric. What historian Jack Granatstein tellingly calls some Anglo-Canadians’ “visceral and racist responses” bubbled up during the war. Such nativism lives on in the New Warrior world. Boulerice has asked a crucial question. What was this mass slaughter for? What — apart from laying the groundwork for the even more catastrophic war that followed two decades later — did it accomplish? Can we honestly say the 20th-century record of violent deaths in war — some estimates exceed 90 million — is something we want to glorify? Canada’s government and its New Warrior supporters would substitute patriotic propaganda for evidence-based history, bullying for human compassion. To describe the tragedy of the First World War as something that Canada must revere is to indulge in the most trite and childish form of propaganda. The New Warriors’ immature sabre-rattling is a reminder that playing soldier and recounting thrilling tales of glorious battles are not just suitable past-times for little boys. They are suited to immature people of all ages. Queen’s University historian Ian McKay and Kingston writer Jamie Swift are the authors of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Dafoe Prize for the best book on Canada, Canadians and/or Canada’s place in the world.
- Jeff Skalski ofstudio EA Mythic dismisses criticisms of the new free-to-play remake.Since the reboot of the classic Bullfrog strategy game launched on mobile last week, both critics and players have kicked up quite a fuss over the game's limiting microtransactions.Now senior producer Skalski has told Tab Times that his team is "very aware" of the online outcry, but that he believes its simply down to the fact that people hold such a fond memory of the original, that they were always going to complain about a reboot. "It's important to emphasize that we designed a game that is built around the typical mobile play patterns," he explains. "This meansKeeper is meant to be played on the go multiple times a day with a few minutes here or there. "Skalski says that, regardless of what is being said online, the majority of players are still enjoying and engaging with the game -- indeed, the game currently has more than a four out of five rating on both the App Store and Google Play. : As confirmed by Gamasutra, EA has employed a rather sneaky system for rating the game. As spotted by Mike Robinson on Twitter, when asks you to rate the game on Android and you choose to give it less than 5 stars, the game doesn't allow you to do so , and instead asks you to message the company with your feedback. Note that when you choose 5-stars, the game takes you to the Google Play store, so you can potentially still choose a different rating -- and you can, of course, still rate the game less than 5 stars via Google Play.Gamasutra has contacted EA regarding the move, and contacted Google to find out whether this is against the rules of the Google Play store. EA has responded to Gamasutra , stating that "The 'rate this app' feature in the Google Play version ofwas designed to help us collect valuable feedback from players who don't feel the game is worth a top rating. "]"We're also seeing a lot of game downloads and in-game engagement so that tells us there is a large group of people who are playing and enjoying the game," he notes. "Obviously, this is counter to some of the angry reactions we�ve seen around the internet, so we�re still trying to look at all of these data points.
SPOTLIGHT The report by Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian into illegally deleted emails in the scandal over cancelled power plants shone the spotlight on two key Liberal political staffers: DAVID LIVINGSTON Current job: senior adviser with law firm Borden Ladner Gervais History: was chief of staff to former premier Dalton McGuinty A veteran Bay Street mergers and acquisitions specialist, Livingston was chief executive officer of the government’s Infrastructure Ontario agency, which oversees real estate and public-private partnerships, when he was tapped to work for the premier in May 2012. He left when McGuinty stepped down in February. Ontario Power Authority vice-president JoAnne Butler testified at a legislative committee investigating the cancelled power plants that Livingston, while head of Infrastructure Ontario, led negotiations with Oakville plant builder TransCanada Energy after potentially troublesome involvement by some of McGuinty’s political staff. Told Cavoukian: he had no recollection of how records in the premier’s office were archived. Quote: “He’s a very sharp guy … he’s not a political guy. We never knew what his political leanings were, but he brings great experience,” says former infrastructure minister David Caplan, who first brought Livingston to Queen’s Park in 2004. CRAIG MACLENNAN Current job: transformation strategist, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. Hired August 2012. History: chief of staff to former energy ministers Brad Duguid, who was in charge of the portfolio when the Oakville and Mississauga power plants were cancelled in 2010 and 2011 respectively, and Chris Bentley, who took over the post following the last provincial election. Prior to that, MacLennan was vice-president of public affairs at the Liberal-connected firm Pollara Strategic Insights for one year. He is no stranger to Queen’s Park, having served previously as chief of staff to the minister of public infrastructure renewal from 2007 to 2008 and as a senior policy adviser, MPP liaison and stakeholder adviser to the provincial government from 2003 to 2007. Told Cavoukian: he had a long-standing practice of deleting all emails, he didn’t keep any paper records, he preferred verbal communications and now understands deleting all emails was wrong. Quote: “I don’t know how to archive everything,” MacLennan told legislative committee investigating the power plant scandal.
When Putin tries to interpret what we do, as his speeches and interviews often reveal, he falls back on his (and Russia’s) age-old threat perceptions. He is not always able to distinguish fiction from fact when he looks out at the West, because his tools for doing so are sometimes inadequate. Vladimir Putin has spent a great deal of time in his professional life engaged in espionage and counterespionage, bending the truth, manipulating facts, and playing with fictions (including about his own biography). One of his main skills is to dissemble – to lie. This is not a character flaw. The operative must conceal his true identity and intentions at all times. However, Putin assumes other leaders are always doing the same. As he frequently asserts in both public and private, he believes there are plots and conspiracies by the United States and the West directed against him and against Russia. Such conspiracy thinking is consistent with his logic. The plots make sense in terms of his frame of reference – as seen through his filters of the Cold War, his time as a KGB operative in East Germany in the late 1980s, and the prevailing political views of conservative Russia circles. When Edward Snowden landed in Moscow in June 2013, having blown the whistle on US government mass surveillance, Putin clearly felt his views were vindicated. Efforts by Western interlocutors to persuade Putin that Snowden’s revelations were part of a much more complex picture, tied to US intelligence overreach in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, were dismissed as a ploy. Putin’s mindset is deeply rooted. He and his inner circle do not trust the United States. Putin personally – as he underscores – finds it hard to trust anyone. This is a source of great danger in Russia’s relations with the West.
The first scenario, which the reentry of Phobos-Grunt would implicate, envisions a space object that causes damage to the surface of the earth or an aircraft in flight. 5 It applies a strict liability standard where the launching state is held strictly liable for any damage caused by a space object even in the face of circumstances that are outside its control. Under this standard, if more than one state is responsible for the launch of the space object in question then that State will be held jointly and severally liable for any damage caused. Article I(c) defines “launching State” as a state that launches or procures the launching of a space object, and/or a state from whose territory or facility a space object has been launched. The first analysis is whether the Russian Federation is considered a “launching State.” One condition of the definition in Article 1(c) would be satisfied seeing that the launch of Phobos-Grunt was procured by the Russian Federation on board a Ukrainian Zenit rocket, thus making the Russian Federation a launching State and strictly liable for any damage caused by Phobos-Grunt under the first scenario. The situation with Phobos-Grunt has been analogized to that of the United States reconnaissance satellite designated USA 193. However, the Russian Federation would not be solely liable for any damage caused by Phobos-Grunt. Article I(c) further defines “launching State” as the territory or facility from where a space object has been launched. The Zenit rocket carrying Phobos-Grunt was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Republic of Kazakhstan. 6 The Cosmodrome is leased by the government of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation, which also operates the facility. Under Article 1(c), the government of Kazakhstan would also be considered a launching state and thus be held jointly and severally liable with the Russian Federation for any damage caused by Phobos-Grunt. However, Article V(2) allows launching states that are jointly and severally liable to enter into agreements apportioning the amount of damages or indemnifying them all together. The lease agreement between the Kazakh government and the Russian Federation may anticipate an occurrence where the Republic of Kazakhstan is held jointly and severally liable as a launching State. The term of the lease may require the Russian Federation to indemnify the Kazakh government for its portions of damages, or it might specify the amount of damages that the Kazakh government would be responsible for.
The ill-will continued into this season. On April 12 at Camden Yards, Bautista faced O’Day who backed him off the plate, high and inside. That was followed by another Joey Bats homer and a mocking skip exiting the box. When the series came to Toronto later in April, the Jays pounded out 16 hits in the first game on the way to a 13-6 romp. In the seventh inning, it was rookie Jason Garcia who threw behind Bautista. Once again Bautista homered and flipped his bat and stared at the O’s dugout as he circled the bases. He definitely should have just left it at that, a clear victory, but didn’t. On his way back out to right field for the eighth inning of that April 21 game, Bautista and O’s superstar Adam Jones, on the top step of the dugout, exchanged heated words. On the second pitch of the inning, Delmon Young lined a hard one-hopper to right field. Bautista charged it and came up gunning to first base. Young barely beat the throw and the next day Showalter suggested Bautista was lucky Young did not continue on into right field and pummel him. The worst part for Bautista was that as the result of that ill-advised throw to first base, he aggravated an injury to his right shoulder, missed five games and was forced into a strictly DH role for the next 35 days. The silver lining is that it opened a door for Chris Colabello. When the Jays travelled to Baltimore in mid-May for games 7-8-9, the tensions had settled but now, this weekend the two teams resume the rivalry as two of the hottest teams in baseball. Will Showalter continue his uncomplimentary observations about the new field surface? Recall that as the O’s were leaving town in April after being swept, the manager let it be known that after seeing the new artificial turf up close he had been thinking of pulling his team off the field for Game 1 and refusing to play after Jimmy Paredes was hit by a bad hop in the pre-game. It hasn’t changed.
The next day, January 3, the same group of LRA combatants attacked another house, about six kilometers away. There they killed Reginard Ngisakumba, 45, and Fuoyo, 50, by blows to the head with large wooden sticks. Fuoyo’s wife, Koakpi, was also killed. Those who later buried her body said she had a wooden stick inserted so far up her vagina that it came out through the upper part of her chest. Her skull had also been crushed. The same day, about two dozen LRA combatants attacked a second home less than a kilometer away, killing the 30-year-old owner of the house and abducting his three young sons, aged 6, 10 and 13; the youngest two later managed to escape. The man’s body was found with a piece of wood stuck in his side, a machete wound to his head, and his entire body burned except for his face. The man’s wife described what happened: They [the LRA combatants] made everyone in the house get on the ground, and then they started pillaging everything. They took my three children and my husband into the forest behind our house. There they started hitting my husband with a wooden stick—on the back of his head, on his eyes, on his side, and on his stomach. After he was dead, they lit him on fire. All this was done in the presence of my three children, just 500 meters from our house. After the killing, some of the LRA came back to my house where I had been hiding. They took our manioc and then set the house on fire. My husband’s second wife had escaped. One LRA asked me where she was. I said I didn’t know, and then he took out a machete to cut my feet, telling me that this would prevent me from fleeing. Luckily I was wearing thick boots so it didn’t cut my skin. Then the group of LRA combatants and the people they had captured spent the night in my compound. In the morning, they left and they didn’t try to take me with them. My two youngest sons managed to escape. They showed me where the LRA had killed their father. My eldest son is still missing. Mutilations In December 2009, LRA combatants mutilated six civilians near the towns of Bangadi and Ngilima in Congo by cutting off the victims’ lips and one ear with a razor.
This elderly woman was given a Wii by her kids, right at the still burgeoning era of Wii Sports. Some-goddamn-how she got a copy of a Zelda game, and loved it. This lady is mid-80s, if we're being kind and generous. So she comes in looking for another Zelda title, and I show her a copy of Wind Waker and explain that she needs GameCube controllers and all this and she says she has it all, so whatever. She sees it's $40 used and has a hard time coughing up the cash for it, so she asks if it will still be there in a few days. I tell her I can't guarantee anything but since we have multiple copies she shouldn't worry too much. She looks at me confused. I tell here there are other copies, and she says she wants the one she's holding. I pop open the case to reveal it's empty and reiterate that there are more discs behind the counter and she shouldn't worry. She's totally bewildered. Adamant, she keeps saying she wants the one she's holding, and I try to explain in as many ways as possible that there are more. "There are more... Of them?" she asks I explain that this game is not a loaf of bread. (Best analogy of my life.) My co-worker and I do not wake up early in the morning to make each individual game like a baker bakes bread every morning. They are produced by the millions, and we have four or five of those million copies. And in the past month, we haven't sold out. She puts the game back on the shelf, looks at me, steely-eyed, the eyes of a woman who has heard WWII first-hand accounts from her friends and says, "I will have enough money in three days, I want this Zelda." She points and puts pressure on the binding of the game. "This one, here." She leaves. It's been six years, and we've both moved on from this retailer. But to this day my co-worker from then still asks me if I have any "more... of them? You know... them, are there more?" — Justin

I think about education and the barriers to the sort of educational reform we need. I could go on and on, but I think the point is clear: unless I have reason to focus on it, atheism is a relatively small part of what occupies my thoughts.So why do I continue to write an atheist blog? First, the Christian extremists do not look like they are going to give up and go away anytime soon. As long as they continue to overreach and engage in bigotry, the need is there. Second, while atheism may be a small part of my identity, it is a part that I have few offline opportunities to explore. The things I write about here give me an opportunity to express myself that I rarely have offline. Third, I still enjoy it (most of the time). While my time away almost always convinces me that I need to take more frequent planned blog vacations , it also shows me that I'm not ready to quit just yet.means different things to different people. At an individual level, I think of it as the point in time when one no longer considers atheism to be an important part of one's identity. At the societal level, it would be the point in time when atheism itself becomes irrelevant because religious belief has faded into obscurity.I do not consider myself a post-atheist, as atheism remains an important part of my identity even if it is only one part. I certainly do not see the U.S. as being very anywhere near post-atheism, but I recognize that my perception is going to be shaped by the region in which I live. I imagine that there are parts of the U.S. where it would be fairly easy to embrace post-atheism today.A different way to think about post-atheism might be a reflection of changing priorities. For example, I could imagine reaching the point where I decide that skepticism, the promotion of critical thinking, and the like are so much more important than atheism that I should focus my efforts there instead. I am not quite at this place yet, but I can imagine that I might find myself there someday.What I am clear about today, however, is that atheism is not enough for me. These other things (e.g., the promotion of reality-based education, critical thinking, reason, and skepticism) are too important to ignore.
The upper limit attainable of ee amplification attainable in a catalytic reaction following this model occurs for when the heterochiral dimer is inactive and is dictated by the magnitude of K D : thus for a 1% ee catalyst showing a stochastic distribution of dimers, the maximum amplification in the product ee is only twofold, to ca. 2% ee. Stronger amplification of ee may be realized only by creating a specific stereochemical bias toward a stable, inactive heterochiral dimer, that is, for systems showing K D values that are significantly higher than that for a stochastic distribution. For example, a 1% ee catalyst would require a K D value a million-fold higher than the stochastic distribution to approach a perfectly enantioselective reaction.
On his new desk, Hadid placed English, Arabic, and French dictionaries, the N.Y.P.D. patrol guide, a small statue of Bob Marley, and the Quran. Against the wall of his cubicle, he propped a copper-plated picture of Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem. Hadid said that he was approached by four analysts from the Intelligence Division who asked to look at the picture. He was happy to chat about the mosque. “It’s one of the holiest sites in Sunni Islam,” he told them. Every few weeks, the Citywide Debriefing Team was told to focus on a “country of concern.” The nations were chosen by examining what the “current threat picture looked like,” Thomas Galati, the commanding officer of the Intelligence Division, said in a deposition, explaining that they were trying “to find those people that were radicalized towards violence.” One week, the team was instructed to debrief people from Tunisia. “This is one of my areas of expertise,” Hadid told his supervisor. “Do you have anything more specific? Do we know what we are looking for?” Hadid said that his supervisor replied, “Any Tunisians.” When no country of concern had been designated, Hadid said that the detectives reviewed a list of the arrests made in New York City in the past twenty-four hours. “They’d look for Muhammad, Abdul, Daoud, Akbar, Hussain,” Hadid said. The arrestees were sometimes questioned for up to four hours. Hadid said one detective insisted that if a person was looking forty-five degrees to the left he was lying about the details of his life. “Some of them cried,” Hadid said. “They got very shaky. They were just in shock.” Muslim arrestees were frequently asked to reveal the mosque where they prayed, and on which days; the schools their children attended; the airline they took when they arrived in America; how often they returned to their homeland; the jobs and addresses of family members back home; whether they’d gone on pilgrimage to Mecca or fasted on Ramadan. A Palestinian-American, arrested for an improper left-hand turn, felt compelled to tell Hadid and another detective that he was hoping for peace in the Middle East, and that he wished people would “know the true nature of Islam.” In the report of his debriefing, the Palestinian-American is described three times as “nervous” and five times as “evasive.” Hadid said, “Inside, I was laughing.
Gadkari is targeting the award of 10,000 kilometres in the current fiscal, of which 8,000 km have been given out.The TOT method also allows the government to better plug leakages in the toll collection system by handing over operations to the private sector. It will also help the government generate more funds to create new assets without putting an additional burden on the exchequer. “The model helps in securitising future cash flows,” said Manish Agarwal, leader, infrastructure, PwC India. “It offers high degree predictability of future revenues to investors. It also transfers the leakage risk to private sector.”The government has been trying to come up with innovative financial models to revive private interest in road projects. Recently, the Cabinet had approved the hybrid annuity model of constructing highways. Next fiscal, government plans to award contracts worth Rs 60,000 crore under HAM
CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) could win just one of the 414 wards falling in the state’s 32 municipal councils on Sunday.Votes were polled and counted on the same day. When it came to the three corporations of Jalandhar, Patiala and Amritsar, the party could not manage to win even a single ward. Though AAP is the principal opposition party in Punjab legislative assembly and won 20 of the 117 seats in state elections, its popularity has been on the decline of late. In the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat byelection in October, AAP finished third; its candidate, Maj Gen Suresh Khajuria (retd), got only 23,579 votes.According to data released by the state election commission, the party won from just one ward in Bholath municipality of Kapurthala The party has been trying to reorganize its state unit over the past few months, but it has failed to handle volunteers, who feel that top leadership in the state doesn’t seem to be on the same page on several issues. “This election, there was no visible campaign of the party. To add to it, there was no fair play by the Congress , which further scuttled any chances of the party opening its account. There is a need for some serious introspection,” said a party leader from Patiala.Another leader said the freehand given to the state unit of the party had not helped either. “The Gurdaspur byelection was crucial for the party. Though Punjab leaders prevailed upon high command to contest the bypoll and the candidate was also chosen by local leadership, the campaign ran out of funds. Also, party supremo Arvind Kejriwal did not turn up for campaigning,” added another party leader.Suffering a loss in Patiala would be a disappointment for AAP, as Malwa has been its stronghold, unlike Majha. In Patiala, MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi has already parted ways with the party. After results for local bodies were declared on Sunday evening, its key leaders, including state president Bhagwant Mann and co-president Aman Arora, were not available for comment.
Post script: Ultimately, the terms set forward in the public debate about this subject–biology versus “choice”–are quite limited, mainly because “choice” is not the most useful term for describing all of the possibilities that sit apart from biology. Several social, cultural, and structural factors can shape our embodied desires and erotic possibilities. The fact that these factors are not physiological in origin does not mean that they aren’t coercive or subjectifying, resulting in a real or perceived condition of fixity or “no choice.” We know that social factors also become embodied over time. And yet, I remain somewhat committed to the concept of “choice”–or something like it–to describe the possibility of a critical and reflexive relationship to our sexual desires. Personally, the idea that I don’t have control over who or what I desire is a big turn-off to me, so I am constantly pushing back on what feel like the limits of my own desires. For instance, I went through a period of pushing myself to date femmes because I had some good reasons for being suspicious about why I had ruled them out from my dating pool. When it felt like I could never be nonmonogamous, I made it a goal to at least try. Then when I realized I only really felt attracted to alcoholic rebels, I nipped that in the bud too. Just when I thought I’d never think hairy men were hot, I allowed myself to face my attraction to Javier Bardem. When my tastes and proclivities start to feel like they are solidifying, I get suspicious and disappointed. So, in the interests of full disclosure, I am writing from the perspective of someone who finds sexual fixity pretty uninteresting, and who believes that there are really good feminist and queer reasons to take regular, critical inventory of the parts of our sexuality that we believe we cannot or will not change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/middleeast/pigs-in-israel-originated-in-europe-researchers-say.html TAU Solves a 3,000-Year-Old Mystery with Pollen TAU archaeologists dig under Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea to explain the collapse of Bronze Age empires in the Levant More than 3,200 years ago, the thriving civilizations in and around modern-day Israel suddenly collapsed for reasons that have long been a mystery. Now Prof. Israel Finkelstein and Dr. Dafna Langgut of the Dr. Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and Prof. Thomas Litt of the University of Bonn in Germany have found an answer in the pollen at the bottom of Israel's lakes. In a study published Monday in Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University and reported in the New York Times, the researchers say it was drought that led to the fall of the ancient southern Levant. As a result of this climate change, "in a short period of time the entire world of the Bronze Age crumbled," explains Prof. Finkelstein. An unusually high-resolution analysis of pollen grains taken from sediment beneath the Sea of Galilee and the western shore of the Dead Sea, backed up by a chronology of radiocarbon dating, pinpointed the period of the crisis at between 1250 and 1100 BC. The study used a unique combination of technological, archaeological, and historical analysis to provide the fullest picture yet of the environmental disaster. Several years ago, Prof. Finkelstein received a grant from the European Research Council to conduct research aimed at reconstructing ancient Israel. The project consists of 10 tracks, including ancient DNA and molecular archaeology. For the climate change part of the project, the researchers extracted about 60 feet of samples of gray muddy sediment from the center of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. Drills passed through 1,000 feet of water and into 65 feet of the lake bed, recovering evidence dating over the past nine millenia. At Wadi Zeelim in the southern Judean Desert, on the western margins of the Dead Sea, the researchers manually extracted eight cores of sediment, each about 20 inches long. "Pollen is the most enduring organic material in nature," explains Dr. Langgut, a pollen researcher who carried out the actual work of sampling. "These particles tell us about the vegetation that grew in the vicinity of the lake in the past and therefore testify to the climatic conditions in the region."
At last year's Haskell Symposium, it was announced that we would change the Haskell Prime process to make it less monolithic. Since then, everyone has been busy using Haskell (or implementing it), and we haven't made much progress on the standardisation side of things. Well, with ICFP and the Haskell Symposium approaching we felt it was time to get the new process moving and hopefully produce a language revision this year. I've updated the Haskell' wiki with the new information; in particular the process is documented here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Process We're aiming to announce the list of accepted proposals at the Haskell Symposium this year. However, owing to the short timescale, the list is going to be correspondingly short, and limited to extensions which are either already fully specified (i.e. the FFI) or are small and well-understood. The following list is very provisional; we'll be making the final decisions next month. ForeignFunctionInterface LineCommentSyntax PatternGuards DoAndIfThenElse Remove n+k patterns RelaxedDependencyAnalysis EmptyDataDeclarations HierarchicalModules NonDecreasingIndentation remove FixityResolution from the context-free grammar change the syntax of QualifiedOperators In the coming weeks we'll be refining proposals in preparation for Haskell 2010. By all means suggest more possibilities; however note that as per the new process, a proposal must be "complete" (i.e. in the form of an addendum) in order to be a candidate for acceptance. I have updated the status page http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Status marking everything except the proposals that have been already implemented in the draft Report as "old". The new process requires a proposal to have an owner or owners in order to make progress; once a proposal has an owner it will move into the "under discussion" state. To take up ownership of an existing proposal, or to start a new proposal, ask on the mailing list. There are other ways you can get involved; some suggestions are on the Haskell' main page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki (hmm, I suppose we should fix that logo too...) Cheers, Simon
However, in Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male." It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait proximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate. Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing. Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term. In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it's legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in. A Florida sex law: If you're a single, divorced, or widowed woman, you can't parachute on Sunday afternoons. Women aren't allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio- a man might see the reflection of something "he oughtn't!" No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed. In Virginia, you can't have sex during the daytime, with a light on, or with socks on. In Rohnert Park, California, it is illegal for a women to have sex with a cow, but it is legal for a couple to have a threesome including the cow. In Oklahoma, it is illegal to have oral sex. In Bedford County, VA it is illegal to have dancing & alcohol together. None of the local bars have a dance floor. (NB: In the South dancing is often considered to be a sex act.) In Minnesota it is illegal to sleep in the nude. (And, as in too many other places, it also illegal to engage in oral sex.)
However, another threat emerges in the form of dragon-like creatures from space, and Jin Kamishina must face the new foe as a "Dragonaut" pilot. Funimation will begin shipping the 25-episode series in late 2009. There is an unaired 26th episode that was released on DVD in Japan, but Funimation has not announced plans for this extra.Saturday's last announced title is Blassreiter, which Ichiro Itano (Angel Cop, Megazone 23 Part II, Gantz) directed for Gonzo and the multimedia studio Nitroplus. Humans are being transformed into demonic creatures all over Germany, and only one man, Joseph Jobson, can control his demonic form and stop the indiscriminate killing. Joseph tries to hunt down the source of the plague and forestall the apocalypse. With this series andlast April, Gonzo became the first major anime studio to release a television series nearly simultaneously on both Japanese airwaves and international streaming websites. Funimation will release all 24 episodes in two half-season sets beginning in late 2009.Images © Masahiro Totsuka, Aguri Igarashi/Square Enix, Bamboo Blade Partners© NBGI/Izumi Project© Dragonaut Project© 2008 Gonzo • Nitroplus/Blassreiter Project
A depletion of U-235 compared to U-238 would also demonstrate nuclear fission.
On December 4, 2013, the Infectious Diseases Society of America released guidelines for appropriate vaccination of immunocompromised patients. These guidelines recognize that the effort to administer vaccines to patients who are immunocompromised is a shared responsibility of the entire health care team. Patients with an immunocompromised status and people who are in close contact with immunocompromised patients routinely receive vaccinations from health care professionals, such as pharmacists.Immunosuppression may be induced pharmacologically through use of corticosteroids or antimetabolites for conditions ranging from cancers to rheumatoid arthritis. In these cases, patients should receive vaccines before the start of immunosuppressive therapy.In general, in patients who will begin immunosuppressive therapy, any live vaccines should be administered at least 4 weeks before induction of immunosuppression, whereas inactivated vaccines may be administered as few as 2 weeks before administration of immunosuppressive drugs.People living in close contact with immunocompromised patients, such as in a household setting, should receive inactivated vaccines to help protect immunocompromised patients from future infections. For instance, inactivated influenza vaccines should be administered annually to all people 6 months or older living in close contact with immunocompromised individuals.Use of the live attenuated influenza vaccine in household contacts of immunosuppressed individuals should be avoided. However, use of the live vaccine is permissible if the household contact receiving the vaccine is healthy, not pregnant, and between 2 and 49 years of age, and if the immunocompromised individual who is in regular contact with the vaccine recipient has not:If the live attenuated influenza vaccine is administered to a healthy household member of an immunosuppressed individual with either of the above 2 conditions, contact between the person who received the live attenuated influenza vaccine and the immunocompromised household member must be avoided for at least 1 week. Live vaccines that can be administered in healthy patients living with 1 or more immunocompromised household members include:The rotavirus vaccine can be administered to infants aged 2 to 7 months living in a household with immunocompromised members. However, importantly, immunocompromised patients should not handle the diapers of infants for at least 4 weeks after the infant receives the rotavirus vaccine. since the year 2000 Although the oral polio vaccine has not been used in the United States , it is still used in other countries.

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