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"There are a lot of untruths here," said Eisen, whose parents, three siblings, grandparents, aunt and uncle were all killed at the camp. "It needs to be written somewhere that he committed a crime. To let him get away with it would be bad. "Thomas Wulff, a prominent right-wing extremist in Germany, stood outside the court wearing a military-style cap during the first part of the trial surrounded by police. Onlookers had shouted 'get lost' earlier.The case goes to the heart of the question of whether people who were small cogs in the Nazi machinery, but did not actively participate in the killing of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, are guilty of crimes. Until recently, the answer from the German justice system was no.In past years, prosecutors in Frankfurt decided not to pursue the case against Groening and other concentration camp workers, saying there was no causal link between their actions and the killings that occurred around them.Prosecutors in Hanover disagreed, emboldened by the case of Ivan Demjanjuk, who in 2011 was convicted of being an accessory to mass murder despite there being no evidence of his having committed a specific crime while a guard at the Sobibor extermination camp. "It is certainly not an easy trial for us," the judge Franz Kompisch told the court. "This is a trial which is attracting and creating a lot of attention and setting off emotions. "The charges against Groening relate to the period between May and July 1944 when 137 trains carrying roughly 425,000 Jews from Hungary arrived in Auschwitz. At least 300,000 of them were sent straight to the gas chambers, the indictment says.SCREAMSGroening described some of the murders that he witnessed at Auschwitz. On his first day on the ramp where Jewish prisoners exited the trains, he saw an SS colleague grab a crying baby and slam its head against a truck until it was quiet. "I was so shaken," Groening said, adding that at the time he told a superior: "I don't find what he did good at all." Groening told the court that he later asked his commander for a transfer from Auschwitz.He also told of an incident in late 1942 when he witnessed Jews being herded into a converted farm house near the camp. An officer shut the door, put on a gas mask, opened a can and poured its contents down a hatch.
Shape Created with Sketch. The sexual assault claims against Donald Trump Show all 9 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. The sexual assault claims against Donald Trump 1/9 Karena Virginia She alleges Mr Trump groped her in 1998 outside of the US Open tennis tournament BBC News 2/9 Temple Taggart She claims Mr Trump gave her a kiss without consent during a rehearsal for a 1997 Miss USA pageant 3/9 Summer Zervos The former Apprentice contestant alleged that Mr Trump kissed and groped her at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007 4/9 Kristin Anderson She alleges that Mr Trump touched her genitals while at a club in the early 1990s 5/9 Jessica Leeds She told the New York Times that Mr Trump groped her on an airplane in the 1980s BBC 6/9 Natasha Stoynoff She alleged that Mr Trump forcefully kissed her before an interview at his Mar-A-Lago estate in 2005 Everipedia 7/9 Jennifer Murphy The former Apprentice contestant said Mr Trump "surprise kissed" her - but she said it did not bother her 8/9 Jill Harth The makeup artist accused Mr Trump of "attempted rape" while in his daughter's room in 1997 9/9 Mindy Mcgillivray She alleges Mr Trump groped her at Mar-A-Lago in 2013 AP 1/9 Karena Virginia She alleges Mr Trump groped her in 1998 outside of the US Open tennis tournament BBC News 2/9 Temple Taggart She claims Mr Trump gave her a kiss without consent during a rehearsal for a 1997 Miss USA pageant 3/9 Summer Zervos The former Apprentice contestant alleged that Mr Trump kissed and groped her at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007 4/9 Kristin Anderson She alleges that Mr Trump touched her genitals while at a club in the early 1990s 5/9 Jessica Leeds She told the New York Times that Mr Trump groped her on an airplane in the 1980s BBC 6/9 Natasha Stoynoff She alleged that Mr Trump forcefully kissed her before an interview at his Mar-A-Lago estate in 2005 Everipedia 7/9 Jennifer Murphy The former Apprentice contestant said Mr Trump "surprise kissed" her - but she said it did not bother her 8/9 Jill Harth The makeup artist accused Mr Trump of "attempted rape" while in his daughter's room in 1997 9/9 Mindy Mcgillivray She alleges Mr Trump groped her at Mar-A-Lago in 2013 AP
As basic mushroom-like fungi in their simpler stages, scientists suspect that manna plants were among the first Cthorran life-forms to appear on Earth, acting as primary plant growth which established groundwork conditions for other Chtorran life forms birthed out of the shambler tree wombs. Retroactive analysis confirmed that there were reports of manna plants (thought to just be a new kind of fungus) years before the wave of plagues hit in the initial invasion.
Much is being debated on the issue whether Mr Nihalchand, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers, should resign or be sacked. The opposition parties are demanding that Mr Nihalchand should be sacked immediately since he is accused of committing rape.The opposition parties are also contending that Prime Minster Modi's government is protecting the minister instead of sacking him. The counter view-point is that when Mr Nihalchand has been declared innocent by both a police investigation and a Rajasthan court, why must he step down or be sacked? The issue has generated considerable media attention.A dispassionate examination of the facts and the investigation conducted reveal several interesting facets that cannot be ignored.The root of the controversy appears to be some sort of dispute and marital discord between the woman and her husband. In 2011, both parties filed separate FIRs levelling various allegations against each other and their respective in-laws. The husband filed an FIR in Rajasthan while the lady preferred to file it in Haryana. During the police investigations, the lady's statement was recorded on two separate instances under Section 164 of the CrPC. Interestingly in both cases, she did not name Mr Nihalchand.The woman also petitioned both the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the DG of Haryana Police where again she did not name Mr Nihalchand. Throughout, she levelled allegations primarily against her husband and in-laws.It is only subsequently in a fresh FIR filed in Jaipur in 2011 that for the first time the lady accused 19 persons including one Nihalchand, "father's name unknown and resident of Jaipur" of committing rape. It is fascinating to note that the details of the Nihalchand mentioned in the FIR were scanty despite his being a prominent political person who had been elected to the Parliament for three terms (now four), and whose father himself was a well-known MLA.During the investigation, the state police found eight names to be fictitious. Eventually the police concluded the allegations to be untrue and in December 2012, filed a Closure Report in the court. It is worth recalling that at this time the Congress Party was in government and Mr Ashok Gehlot was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan.The complainant challenged this Closure Report. However, after hearing her arguments through her counsel, the court dismissed the lady's Protest Petition and accepted the police's Closure Report in February 2014.
In intertribal warfare, the captives were men, or as a rule they either weren't taken at all, were accepted into the victorious tribe, or were simply killed. Sexual slavery is another kind of slavery all together, but I already wrote about that in the section on personal harems.The year is 132 After Reset. It is the time of opportunists and big possibilities for the descendants of those who survived the apocalypse on the surface. A time in which the first seeds of the new future empires are sown. It is a historical period for the new world, in which small settlements are starting to farm once again. The period when the New Confederacy is born. It is the period when slavery becomes economically efficient and is only beginning to become popular. In addition, it takes considerably different forms from community to community. So, for example, some communities reject it out of principle. Others, like the New Confederacy use it and integrate it into their culture in a way not dissimilar to the Greco-Roman model (a citizen of the NC cannot be made a slave, and any slave after 10 years of service, or earlier if the master, which could be the NC itself, decides can become a "proper citizen"). Among the united tribes of the Indian Alliance slavery is not very popular. They generally hold "white savages" in contempt, and avoid contacting them. At the same time, many whites have tried every possible way to assimilate into the Indian tribes due to the relatively happy and dignified existence of these descendants of the native population of the former America. * * *I hope, you've liked this concept and lore series. And as I promised, we've put all our illustrations for this series in HD available to our backers exclusively in the previous closed update.Thanks for your support and stay tuned for coming news!
mini muffin pan (optional) Instructions Melt the coconut oil in a saucepan or by microwaving it for 30 seconds. Add it to a bowl with the peanut butter and whisk them together until smoothly combined. Take the mini baking cups, placing them in your mini muffin pan for stability if you have one. Carefully spoon about 1 tablespoon at a time of peanut butter mixture into the bottom of the baking cups. (You can use more or less depending on the size of PB&J cups that you want). After using about half of the mixture, place the tray in the freezer for 10-15 minutes to set. Remove the tray from the freezer. Add about 1/2 tablespoon of jelly to each cup. If applicable, use your spoon to gently flatten the jelly (this will make it easier to cover it with peanut butter). If your jelly or jam is fairly runny, return the tray to the freezer to set for another 5 minutes. Otherwise, proceed. Spoon the rest of the peanut butter mixture, about 1 scant tablespoon at a time, over the tops of the cups to cover the jelly. If using any toppings, add them now so that they'll stick. Freeze the cups for another 45-60 minutes until set completely. After that, you can store them in either the refrigerator or the freezer in an airtight container. Recipe Notes You can use unrefined/virgin coconut oil if desired, but note that this will result in a prominent coconut flavor in the final product. To keep these paleo and refined sugar-free, choose a naturally-sweetened jam that meets these criteria; and use almond butter instead of peanut butter. Recipe may yield a varying number of cups depending on how full you fill them. Extra peanut butter shell mixture can also be mixed with maple syrup to taste, and frozen, to make a delicious peanut butter fudge! Nutrition Facts Peanut Butter and Jelly Cups Amount Per Serving (1 mini cup) Calories 132 Calories from Fat 90 % Daily Value* Total Fat 10g 15% Saturated Fat 4g 20% Polyunsaturated Fat 2g Monounsaturated Fat 4g Sodium 50mg 2% Total Carbohydrates 5g 2% Dietary Fiber 1g 4% Sugars 3g Protein 3g 6% * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
NEW DELHI: Android 5.0 Lollipop is perhaps among Google’s most radical software upgrades that aimed to tweak the performance under the hood, adding new features and overhauling the design language of the user interface.However, it seems the update, named after a confection, is leaving a bitter aftertaste for a large number of Nexus 5 users who are unhappy with the update. As soon as Google started seeding the Android 5.0 Lollipop update to Nexus 5 phones, users started complaining about software bugs, SMS issues, connectivity problems and reduced battery backup on online forums and social networks.A number of Nexus 5 users in India who have recently updated their phone’s operating system to Lollipop are also reporting problems ranging from less than optimum battery life, system apps crashing, Wi-Fi connectivity issues and the phone getting heated up.Harsh Garg, an analyst at a global market research firm, is disappointed with his Nexus 5’s battery life and stability issues following the Lollipop update. He says he needs to charge the phone twice during a typical work day. His sister, also a Nexus 5 owner and a light user, is also experiencing reduced standby time.“I was initially disappointed with the delay in getting the Lollipop update but once I updated the experience has been far from satisfactory. The phone freezes and doesn’t respond until you restart it, the launcher lags and even the camera app crashes. Maybe it’s just a ploy to make us upgrade to the expensive Nexus 6,” quips Garg.“The phone’s standby time has reduced considerably after switching to Lollipop. The Camera and Play Music apps crash randomly and the phone takes much longer to sync,” adds Karnika Kohli, manager at a media house. “I am also frustrated with my Nexus 5’s reduced battery backup after updating to Lollipop.”Bhavin Shah, a Mumbai based online entrepreneur, also complains his Nexus 5 has become buggy and slow after the update.While app compatibility for third party apps is likely to remain an issue for some time until developers start fixing their apps and optimizing them for Lollipop, what is frustrating is that system apps updated by Google are also plagued by stability issues.“The Lollipop update has been a big disappointment.
Previous Section Next Section Ubiquitous design faults The Zimed AD Syringe Driver was, according to its company's now defunct website, 11 ‘a ground-breaking new infusion device that takes usability and patient safety to new levels […] Simple to operate for professionals, patients, parents, or helpers.’ Its design quality is however typical of modern medical devices. The Zimed permits error that it ignores, potentially allowing very large numerical errors. 12 One cause for concern are over-run errors: a nurse entering a number such as 0.1 will move the cursor to enter the least significant digits of the intended number, but an over-run (too many move-right key presses) will silently move the cursor to the most significant digit. Thus an attempt to enter 0.1 could accidentally enter 1000.0 by just one excess keystroke with no warning to the user. The B-Braun Infusomat, a popular infusion pump, has a similar user interface to the Zimed, but has a different problem. If a user tries to enter 0.01 ml it gets silently converted to 0.1 ml, with no warning to the user the number is not what was entered. On the Baxter Colleague 3, another infusion pump, entering 100.5 will be silently turned into 1005; the decimal point is ignored, again with no warning to the user. These types of design fault are all possible causes of Hiatt's overdosing; they are particularly worrying in that they are silent problems that do not warn the user. Almost all devices we have examined suffer from similar flaws of sloppy programming. It is possible that the manufacturers will read these criticisms and fix their software, which is good, except it will create the problem that for a time there will be multiple versions of the user interfaces to confuse users further. It is surprising these simple design defects were not eliminated during product development.
>Shirogane is the mastermind. She starts up the killing game by attempting to kill Rentarou the survivor of two previous killing games and Kaede who was the leader of the group >Rentarou catches on while investigating the library and nuters the sixth monokid who was supposed to act as a camera for everything. He plans with Kaede in order to take the mastermind down >In order to make it seem believable Kaede wipes her memories while Rentarou/Kaede activates the trap nearly killing Rentarou but survives due to his talent >Kaede is framed for the murder just as shirogane planned and executed via tomato execution as Rentarou escapes to wait his time >Kirumi kills ryoma via paranhas due to a grudge after he killed mafia members. Buff monokuma execution >Shinguji is really a female. Kills both angie and touko via a stab in the neck due to hating religion and the two practicing in it at the time. Spiders thread execution >Afterwards they go into a VR simulator and meet the AI-ified survivors of the two previous killing games. 8 members of DR1 and 8 members of DR2 including junko >Miu is killed due to a "bug" from gontas avatar. He gets the pyro execution >Everyone wrongly believes ouma to be the mastermind and he goes insane over it. Kaito confronts him in order to stop him but realizes it just before he activates his trap that ouma was telling the truth. This brief moment of someone trusting ouma lets him die happily. In shame kaito flees the scene making it appear both died >Later re appears and admits to his crime despite maki begging him to stop and proceeds to his execution >The world is fucked up and the gang were sent to a station in space in order to escape it >Rentarou is the SHSL survivor and the title is a reference to it with v3 meaning this is his 3rd victory. >Shirogane is executed after Rentarou implicates her as kaedes killer as she was an innocent >Shuichi,Kibo,Yumeno,Maki and Rentarou return to earth in true end
University of Montana football team captain and William V. Campbell Trophy finalistis officially one step closer to becoming a Rhodes Scholar after receiving an invitation to participate in the District 14 interview process in Seattle on Nov. 20-21.In the U.S., 32 Rhodes Scholarships are awarded nationally in 16 districts. As a finalist for District 14, Crittenden is one of the select few scholars from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington who will compete for just two Rhodes Scholarships, which support two-three years of study at the University of Oxford in England. "This interview is the accumulation of making the most out of my experience at the University," said Crittenden. "I'm extremely honored to represent Montana on one of the biggest stages in the academic world. "Crittenden is Montana's seventh Rhodes finalist in the past 11 years. UM has produced 28 scholarship winners, dating back George Barnes, who won the Rhodes in 1904.According the Rhodes Trust website, Rhodes Scholars are judged not only on their outstanding scholarly achievements, but also their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their leadership capabilities in their chosen field.The scholarship is named after Cecil Rhodes, who stipulated in his will that the award be presented on the following criteria: 1) Literary and scholastic attainments,2) Energy to use one's talents to the full, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports, 3) Truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship, and 4) Moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one's fellow beings. "The competition for this award is intense, as some of the best, brightest and most ambitious students across the nation apply. It is a substantial achievement simply to make it to this final stage of screening," said UM Rhodes representative and student adviser Ashby Kinch. "He is an inspiring example of the energy, enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity we hope to see in our most talented students. We hope the committee sees the tremendous promise and potential that we see in Derek.
Today at my meeting with Secretary Carter, we said that we will instruct our officials to continue this work.Now, as for the content that we discussed at this meeting, I will refrain from making any specific comments. But the -- –we will make clear the scope of the SOFA status and those to be covered by the SOFA.SEC. CARTER: Thank you.First of all, let me say with respect the incident itself, it was, as the minister has said, not just regrettable but outrageous and we need and we are committed to taking steps to make sure that heinous crimes like this can't occur again. And that is a commitment that the minister and I made when she first visited in Washington and we're working through the details of that. I'm confident we'll be able to do so and we'll be able to conclude those arrangements in the near future.And we did discuss that today and our teams are continuing to move forward on working out the details. So it was a very positive conversation today, as last time when we talked about it. And I appreciate it, Madam Minister.STAFF: The final question from the U.S. side comes from -- (inaudible) -- of Kyodo News.Q: Thank you, Secretary Carter and Minister Inada. I want to ask Secretary Carter and Minister Inada about nuclear –deterrence to North Korea.Do you -- Secretary Carter, do you support to adopt -- (inaudible) -- policy to deter North Korea?And to -- this is to Minister Inada. So --Q (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): About the introduction of THAAD from the United States, are you considering starting talks and cooperating with the United States?SEC. CARTER: Well, first, is -- with respect to extended deterrence, as I said just a moment ago, our commitment to extend deterrence via the nuclear umbrella to our ally in alliance circumstances is unchanged and we are continuing to build the capabilities to go along with that continuing extended deterrent.And that is important in -- in a number of respects, but one in particular, in the respect that you just -- you cited, namely to deter aggression from North Korea, which is an interest we strongly share, and therefore, and interest of the alliance. So the nuclear umbrella will -- will continue.And I don't know whether you wanted me to say something about THAAD or is that -- I'm happy something to say something about THAAD.
Mounting from the rear, he put his forelimbs on her shoulders, lifting one hind limb across her back and twisting his tail under hers. "Kristi Curry Rogers, Assistant Professor of Biology and Geology at Macalester College in Minnesota, said: "The most likely position to have intercourse is for the male behind the female, and on top of her, and from behind, any other position is unfathomable."Dr. Gregory M. Erickson, evolutionary biologist at Florida State University, told The Huffington Post : "I don't think there's much doubt about that. It must have been a hell of a thing to see. "Very much like African lizards do it, if you've been privileged to observe.But many other scientists balk at the picture of a 30-ton T. Rex male making love in essentially the same position as the inches long male Agama lizard. They insist that the physical challenges for a 30-ton animal supporting itself against gravity may prove daunting. According to an expert Stuart Landry, the male would simply fall over under his own weight if he attempts to stoop over his lover in the position scientists are proposing. According to Landry, dinosaurs would need support, such as can be obtained if they make love in water. Large crocodiles and alligators , for instance, mate in water, with the male over the female for only a few seconds. The lovers enjoy the advantage of the buoyancy that a watery medium provides. As attractive as this theory appears, there is no evidence that large terrestrial dinosaurs sought water for lovemaking.Some science illustrators have devoted attention to assisting scientific and non-scientific imaginations alike to picture what biologist Erickson thinks "must have been a hell of a thing to see. "The Huffington Post rightly wonders whether these images or science or dino-porn. More about t rex, Dinosaurs, Sex, tyranosaurus rex More news from t rex Dinosaurs Sex tyranosaurus rex
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The good news is that Reddit's privacy policy (which states that it will inform users that their information has been requested unless prohibited by a court order) trumps the ridiculous phrase the state DOJ deploys in all caps mid-subpoena.Well, if you seriously believe an investigation might be "impeded" or "obstructed," you might want to put with more legal weight than a caps lock key behind it. Most court orders don't say "please," and most court orders point out the legal reasons for the demand. This subpoena tries to demand compliance with shouty typing.Apparently, this is the way things are done at Joe Biden Jr.'s office. Another subpoena sent late last year demanding that Facebook turn over information on the "owner" of a small (~300 likes at the time subpoena was issued) page with an anti-government slant contained similar all-caps demands for keeping everything a secret… which was also ignored.Seeing as the subpoena was posted by the page being investigated , Facebook also has little respect for slightly larger letters with no legal weight behind them.So, why would a "special investigator" at the state DA's office be interested in a tossed-off comment on a photo of two people having sex out in the open? Well, as far as anyone can theorize, whoever's monitoring social media for the Delaware DOJ (or the entities that feed into it) must have thought unic0rnbl00d was the rarest of creatures on the internet: someone who only tells the truth, and if so, was hoping to bust his "sister" (and possibly Joe Random Stranger as well). Quotes from police "investigating" the sex that two (probably inebriated) people momentarily enjoyed confirm that the force was indeed looking to slap these two with some sort of charge . (Link contains photo -- NSFW)Why the hell the state is so interested in punishing people for consensual acts performed in the past is beyond me, other than that pervasive belief that the word "justice" means no one getting away with. I would think whatever nearly-nonexistent tarnishing of state pride would pale in comparison to the state now being viewed as overreaching busybodies after sending subpoenas to track down an internet commenter and targeting people engaged in First Amendment activities. The latter subpoena is vastly more concerning, as it shows the state attempting to sniff out people with anti-government sentiments. Sure, the pagecontain the word "riot," but the full title of the group is "Peaceful Rioters For Wilmington, Delaware.
Any Democratic president will certainly get The Treatment by Republicans (acting as though he's not the real president, or that he doesn't deserve the office), just as Trump is getting The Treatment now ("He's not really president. He cheated to win.") by many in the "Trump-Russia!" crowd.Remember, if we think it right to withhold judgment on which laws were broken in the Al Franken case until an investigation is completed (I do), we should also withhold judgment on Trump untilcurrent investigation is completed. Nevertheless, in Trump's case the Democratic media's fevered speculation started almost the day he took office and before any evidence was in.In that light, what would happen to a President Sanders? Remember, Sanders' policy proposals are likely to be as anti-Establishment as Trump's were during his own campaign. It's those anti-Establishment positions that would get him elected in our ongoing popular rebellion against Rule by the Rich.Sanders would, in effect, be "Trump on the Left," but far more meaningfully, since he'd actually be sincere about his policy promises.• Sanders will certainly get the Bill Clinton version of The Treatment — endless investigations by elected officials and private investigators — by Republicans.— as well?• If the national security establishment joins an attack on the second elected president in a row,— even as Sanders is proposing policies more like Jeremy Corbin's ("For the many, not the few") than anything supported by mainstream Democratic leaders in decades?• And finally, if Sanderselected president, and mainstream Democrats, subtly or not, join with Republicans and the corporate media in taking him down or rendering him ineffective —Because, keep in mind, when it comes to climate, slow Democratic Party-style "winning" is as deadly as losing, and by the mid 2020s, that horse will have certainly left the barn for good.Plus, when it comes to the real Resistance against Rule by the Rich, our "rolling civil war" — the one where people give up on elections and the two sides just go to battle — keeps getting closer and closer . What will be the state of relations between the "muscular" security state and the Real Resistance at that point? Will elections have any meaning at all after the State and its mainstream, Establishment defenders have closed ranks for good?Over to you, Democratic Party and your media enablers. Whatyou do if Sanders is your candidate?GP
My only concern with it is the weight of the lid, and its proportion to the rest of the machine; as this is a touch screen you have to expect that you’ll be poking at the lid from time to time. And, due to the aforementioned solid hinge, sometimes when the lid is at greater angles from the base, using the touch screen causes the base of the machine to raise ever so slightly. Not a huge deal for sure, but if you are a frequent touch screen user (I’m not a big fan and stick to the keyboard and trackpad for input in most scenarios), this may start to get on your nerves. Personally, I think a thinner lid with a slightly thicker base would help alleviate the awkward ratio, as well as possibly improve one-handed opening. Then again, I’m not an engineer. The Rest: Ports on this machine are really good considering the segment competition; it has two USB-C ports (only one can be used for charging), a micro-SD card slot and a headphone jack. Dell is also kind enough to include in the box a standard full-size USB-A to USB-C dongle for those who haven’t yet made the switch. I think USB-C has received some bad press of late, but in a year or two all of these giant USB cables and SD cards will be well behind us. I really like what USB-C is doing for consumer electronics and certainly don’t mind a few dongles here and there until it is fully adopted. Also along each side are stereo speaker grills, and the speaker performance is fine; plenty to get you through if you need to (although headphones are always the best option, whether Bluetooth or wired). Battery life has been good, and about what I’d expect from an ultrabook battery in 2017. I tend not to stress test batteries on any review items because every user’s experience, based upon individual use, will result in different battery performance. Needless to say, I didn’t have to charge it nearly as much as I thought I would, and it charges relatively quickly. There is also a fingerprint scanner that is integrated with Windows Hello, and its performance is the best I’ve experienced from a laptop fingerprint scanner (this includes the latest MacBook Pro with Touchbar, which is accurate but a little laggy); it was extremely responsive and wait times for my fingerprint to register were pleasantly brief.
ITEP modeled the administration�s full tax proposal except for the severance tax, the one-time cigarette floor stock tax, the elimination of the deduction for early filing and payment of beer and wine tax, the reduction of the watercraft trade-in exemption to 50 percent and the new vapor product tax. See data notes at the end of this report for more description. - See more at: http://www.policymattersohio.org/kasich-tax-proposal-feb2015#sthash.yPY9bNLJ.dpuf n analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based research group that has a sophisticated model of the tax system, for Policy Matters Ohio - See more at: http://www.policymattersohio.org/kasich-tax-proposal-feb2015#sthash.VAUNjpQB.dpuf The bottom three-fifths of taxpayers as a group, making less than $58,000 a year, would see increases in state and local taxes. Those in the bottom fifth, making less than $20,000 last year, would see an increase of $116 on average. Even excluding changes in tobacco taxes in Gov. Kasich�s proposal, taxpayers making less than $37,000 a year – those in the bottom two-fifths of the income spectrum – on average would see no benefit from the plan. - See more at: http://www.policymattersohio.org/kasich-tax-proposal-feb2015#sthash.VAUNjpQB.dpuf The bottom three-fifths of taxpayers as a group, making less than $58,000 a year, would see increases in state and local taxes. Those in the bottom fifth, making less than $20,000 last year, would see an increase of $116 on average. Even excluding changes in tobacco taxes in Gov. Kasich�s proposal, taxpayers making less than $37,000 a year – those in the bottom two-fifths of the income spectrum – on average would see no benefit from the plan. - See more at: http://www.policymattersohio.org/kasich-tax-proposal-feb2015#sthash.VAUNjpQB.dpuf The bottom three-fifths of taxpayers as a group, making less than $58,000 a year, would see increases in state and local taxes. Those in the bottom fifth, making less than $20,000 last year, would see an increase of $116 on average. Even excluding changes in tobacco taxes in Gov. Kasich�s proposal, taxpayers making less than $37,000 a year – those in the bottom two-fifths of the income spectrum – on average would see no benefit from the plan. - See more at: http://www.policymattersohio.org/kasich-tax-proposal-feb2015#sthash.VAUNjpQB.dpuf The bottom three-fifths of taxpayers as a group, making less than $58,000 a year, would see increases in state and local taxes. Those in the bottom fifth, making less than $20,000 last year, would see an increase of $116 on average. Even excluding changes in tobacco taxes in Gov.
By the 1970s, CIA analysts were growing deeply suspicious about the lack of centrifuge plants and began to protest the official assessment, but the absence of evidence remained. The estimate did finally change in 1991 when Russia announced in a diplomatic exchange that it had a uranium-enrichment capability built almost entirely on centrifuge technology—and incidentally it was largest in the world by almost a factor of ten. China’s program remained similarly hidden for almost two decades. China achieved a centrifuge capability by 1961 and was on its second-generation centrifuge design by the time of its first-nuclear test in 1964. In China’s case, the United States not only suspected an absence of centrifuge facilities, it estimated that China had not yet mastered the technology even at the laboratory scale. In 1970 a human source divulged to the CIA that China had learned how to make centrifuges, but the official estimate on centrifuge use concluded, “Analysis of all available data has produced no evidence of a centrifuge plant because there are no specific identifying characteristics of a centrifuge plant.” Time has not cured this shortcoming. Iraq’s nuclear-weapon ambitions were known at the time of the first Gulf War, but its centrifuge program was not. The world did not learn of Iraq’s centrifuges until after the war when an engineer revealed to an inspector that Iraq had had a centrifuge program as part of a multi-pronged uranium-enrichment effort. Libya’s program was yet another case. According the 2005 report of the presidentially mandated Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, the United States did not see Libya’s centrifuge program for sixteen years. According to that report, when it finally did, a “disproportionately large volume” of intelligence was related to Libya’s shopping habits, while little to no information had been obtained about what was happening inside of Libya. The report concluded on this point: “It is apparent to us that the [Intelligence] Community is not well-postured to replicate such success.” The most recent case of surprise came from North Korea. In November 2010, North Korea invited three U.S. visitors to tour of its hither-to unknown centrifuge plant. Previous intelligence estimates had variously assumed that North Korea had an interest in centrifuges, based again on the country’s shopping habits and one-time confession, but no centrifuge plant had been identified.
It can also be applied with some minor changes to other Linux variants without difficulty.This manual will be talking about local file encryption - that is, encrypting files on a hard drive (or encrypting the entire hard drive; more on that later). The files are safe as long as they are kept in the encrypted area. TrueCrypt is a free, cross-platform program (meaning that it works in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions including Ubuntu) that you can use to encrypt your data. It is classified as "On The Fly Encryption" (OTFE) software, which basically means that it encrypts and decrypts files as you access and modify them and that all files within the area of encryption are available as soon as you enter the key.Also with this free guide you will also receive daily updates on new cool websites and programs in your email for free courtesy of MakeUseOf.The Bash Guide for Beginners gets you started with Bash scripting and bridges the gap between the Bash HOWTO and the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide. Everybody who wants to make life easier on themselves, power users and sysadmins alike, can benefit from reading this practical course. The guide contains lots of examples and exercises at the end of each chapter, demonstrating the theory and helping you practice. Bash is available on a wide variety of UNIX, Linux, MS Windows and other systems.This guide assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little nuggets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts. This book is also suitable for classroom use as a general introduction to programming concepts.Use this book to go far beyond basic deployment, leveraging all of Samba's components, from directory services to remote administration. Use it to find practical optimization techniques for any environment, from the workgroup to the enterprise. Use it to find detailed guidance and best practices for troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Press 1 and 2 buttons simultaneously on Wiimote, blue leds should all blink repeatedly. - Click Next, wait for scan to find your Wiimote... - No passkey needed. Next. - It should now show under Peripherals (keyboards, mice, joysticks) your Nintendo RVL-CNT-01 device as Connected (No passkey). - Ok. (closes window) All Windows Versions: 6. Right-click, Save Target/Link As... on this: LoTRO.PIE (version 0.10) 7. Start GlovePIE, load the LoTRO.PIE script and click RUN. 8. Optional: Open notepad and press keys on the Wiimote to make sure it's sending the keys... If NOT, check to make sure the connection is made. Vista: "Bluetooth Devices" in lower right XP : Blue Soleil (double-click device, wait, click mouse up top, wait, should start periodically sending blue blobs to the sun) 9. Start Lord of the Rings Online, equip your instrument, and get jiggy with your Wiimote! Note: For optional enjoyment value, play naked in front of a window so the neighbors can wonder what drugs you're on tonight... ;) Wiimote mapping to notes: 1: Trigger button (B) - BONUS: RUMBLES WHEN PRESSED! * :D 2: minus (-) 3: plus (+) 4: directional LEFT 5: directional UP 6: directional RIGHT 7: directional DOWN 8: Clear thumb button (A) * to disable Rumble on pressing B, in GlovePIE when script is loaded simply type // at the start of the line that says Wiimote.Rumble = ... Nunchuck mapping: Holding big trigger button (Z) is like holding CTRL Holding small trigger button (C) is like holding SHIFT Here's an overly long video showing the Wiimote in action: Skip to about 3 mins to see anything worthwhile, sorry I was too lazy to cut it ;) P.S. This was one of my worst jam sessions ever! :( - page break here for printers - Playback of ABC Files I personally don't prefer this, it takes all the fun out of playing but at the same time I've heard some incredibly beautiful and quite possibly otherwise impossible to play songs (mostly due to lag)... Here's what I've been able to dig up thus far: Notes are shown hollow (to discern from 'manual' playing) This means nothing of course, as some people still script outside of the ABC system... perhaps to make others think they are great?
You can use the CSS function attr() to access an element’s attribute for some reason. As I mentioned in another post, you can make the whole page editable by typing document.designMode = ‘on’ in the console. A MediaQueryList will emit an events when media query matches occur. They make a very faint trumpet sound too. There is a whole bunch of tags for user output, rather than just <pre> or <code>. Like <kbd> to represent keyboard strokes, and <var> to represent variables, and <samp> to represent sample output. And you are totally going to use those now because they’re semantic and that’s um, more accessible or something. You can do a dainty little transform: rotate(1turn). I tried transform: translateY(1twerk) and it didn’t do anything for me. text-align-last sets the alignment for the last line in a paragraph. There’s a presentation API just for sending content to a second screen. Isn’t that great? You can detect CSS support in JavaScript. For example you might add/remove DOM if CSS.supports(‘display’, ‘flex’). A <table> element has .insertRow() and .deleteRow() and other such methods. There’s a <details> element that expands collapses its contents (with some fairly ugly UI) via an open attribute. Event interfaces have handy constants. So if you want to know if the event you’re looking at is at the target phase, instead of checking if e.eventPhase === 2 you can instead use the more readable e.eventPhase === Event.AT_TARGET (if you type Event.AT_TARGET in the console, you’ll see it’s just a ‘2’) document.images gives you a list of all the images on the page. I don’t know why. You can programmatically call undo with document.execCommand(‘undo’) There’s a Node.contains() to see if one element contains another e.g. if (document.querySelector(‘.modal’).contains(e.target)) return; If you want to check that an element is a particular element based on a CSS selector: Element.matches(‘#my-list li:nth-of-type(2)’) The TreeWalker, NodeIterator, NodeFilter trio were incredibly useful, exactly once (as a way to traverse all the comments in the DOM, since comments are nodes just like any element). There’s an Element.classList.toggle(‘my-class’) method. You can pass it a boolean second parameter too, sort of. You can finally use forEach on a NodeList (in very modern browsers). E.g. document.querySelectorAll(‘img’).forEach(img => console.log(img.src)) There is a helper for working with query parameters in URLs. E.g. new URLSearchParams(location.search).get(‘ sourceid’) would get the value of the ‘sourceid’ parameter. I will eat my nearest pet if you already knew what window.length returns.
However, some schools are taking on OSS. Highworth Grammar School, in Ashford, is offering both licensed and open source software to students. The school's network manager, Marc Blake, said that while it was important for pupils to be aware of alternatives to Windows, it was worth acknowledging that pupils live in a world dominated by Microsoft. But, he told the BBC, significant savings could be made by using some open source alternatives. "We offer both Office 2003 and OpenOffice, so that people have a choice. I'd estimate 98% of people choose Microsoft Office over OpenOffice, but at least that choice is there," said Mr Blake. "For our school to upgrade to Office 2007, it will cost around £27,000 as a one-off cost, but that doesn't include the cost of re-training and updating all the associated worksheets and teaching material." Linux has proved popular with web servers across the globe "To get the equivalent of Moodle [a free source of e-learning software] for our 1200 students would have cost in excess of £3,000 per year. You don't get the professional support, but if you're willing to take that on, it's great money saving," he added. One of Mr Blake's main concerns with moving to Linux was whether it would work with some of the newer web technologies. However, although the school does have several Linux-based Asus EeePCs which are used predominantly for Web 2.0 projects. At this years BETT, a significant proportion of educational software went Web 2.0, in an attempt to stay cross-platform compatible. Schools could make significant savings by using open source, but this also requires a significant investment of time, research and training. But using a combination of both commercial and open source, such as that employed by Highworth School, can help to reduce costs while still giving students a choice. That's got to be good news for any school's report card.
1. Brown KH Hambidge KM Ranum P Zinc fortification of cereal flours: current recommendations and research needs . Food Nutr Bull 2010 ; 31 ( 1 Suppl ): S62 – 74 . ): 2. White PJ Broadley MR Physiological limits to zinc biofortification of edible crops . Front Plant Sci 2011 ; 2 : 80 . 3. Hotz C The potential to improve zinc status through biofortification of staple food crops with zinc . Food Nutr Bull 2009 ; 30 : S172 – 8 . 4. La Frano MR de Moura FF Boy E Lonnerdal B Burri BJ Bioavailability of iron, zinc, and provitamin A carotenoids in biofortified staple crops . Nutr Rev 2014 ; 72 : 289 – 307 . 5. Hess SY Brown KH Impact of zinc fortification on zinc nutrition . Food Nutr Bull 2009 ; 30 ( 1 Suppl ): S79 – 107 . ): 6. Powell SR The antioxidant properties of zinc . J Nutr 2000 ; 130 ( 5S Suppl ): 1447S – 54S . ): 7. Eide DJ The oxidative stress of zinc deficiency . Metallomics 2011 ; 3 : 1124 – 9 . 8. Reuter S Gupta SC Chaturvedi MM Aggarwal BB Oxidative stress, inflammation, and cancer: how are they linked? Free Radic Biol Med 2010 ; 49 : 1603 – 16 . 9. Prasad AS Zinc is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent: its role in human health . Front Nutr 2014 ;1:14. ;1:14. 10. Oteiza PI Zinc and the modulation of redox homeostasis . Free Radic Biol Med 2012 ; 53 : 1748 – 59 . 11. Han Y Chen JZ Oxidative stress induces mitochondrial DNA damage and cytotoxicity through independent mechanisms in human cancer cells . Biomed Res Int ; 2013 : 825065 . 12. Song Y Chung CS Bruno RS Traber MG Brown KH King JC Ho E Dietary zinc restriction and repletion affects DNA integrity in healthy men . Am J Clin Nutr 2009 ; 90 : 321 – 8 . 13. Foster M Samman S Zinc and redox signaling: perturbations associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus . Antioxid Redox Signal 2010 ; 13 : 1549 – 73 . 14. Ho E Ames BN Low intracellular zinc induces oxidative DNA damage, disrupts p53, NFkappa B, and AP1 DNA binding, and affects DNA repair in a rat glioma cell line . Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002 ; 99 : 16770 – 5 . 15.
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On Thursday, a California lawmaker launched an online petition demanding that, saying he exhibits “all the symptoms of the mental disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder.”Congresswoman Karen Bass’ petition, #DiagnoseTrump on Change-.org, calls Trump “dangerous for our country” and says she is concerned about his “impulsiveness and lack of control over his own emotions.” More than 10,000 supporters had signed the petition as of Thursday morning. But thousands also gathered to hear Trump speak in Jacksonville, Florida, as the candidate railed against the media and ranted haphazardly about issues without any coherent, specific details about how he plans to “Make America Great Again”.
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Was wounded and taken prisoner at Gaines' Mill, Va., June 27, 1862; was wounded at Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862; was wounded and taken prisoner at Laurel Hill, May 8, 1864. Was promoted to 2d Lt. in Company E on Nov. 1, 1864. MEDAL OF HONOR: Awarded for extraordinary heroism on May 5, 1864, in action during the Wilderness Campaign in Virginia. Credited with rescuing a comrade from two Confederate guards, knocking down one and capturing the other. Henry T. Johns, Hinsdale VITAL DETAILS: Born April 8, 1828, in Philadelphia. Died May 13, 1906, in Oakland, Calif. MILITARY SERVICE: Was a member of the clergy when he joined Company C, 49th Massachusetts Infantry in Hinsdale on Sept. 11, 1862. Commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the 61st Massachusetts Infantry in August 1864, then promoted to 1st Lt. Jan. 15, 1865 and breveted captain in April 1865. Mustered out June 4, 1865, then from the 49th Massachusetts, on Sept. 1, 1863. MEDAL OF HONOR: Awarded for extraordinary heroism May 27, 1863, while serving with Company C, 49th Massachusetts Infantry, for action at Port Hudson, La. As a private, he volunteered for an attack under heavy fire in advance of a general assault. LATER LIFE: The 1865 census recorded him living in Pittsfield with his wife Martha and children. Was appointed first state police deputy constable for Berkshire County in July 1865. In 1870 census was said to be living in St. Paul, Minn., and listed his occupation as hotel keeper. By 1880 he was living in Washington, D.C., and listed his occupation as journalist. Wrote a book on his Civil War experiences, “Life with the Forty-Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers.” James N. Strong, Pittsfield VITAL DETAILS: Born Feb. 28, 1818, in Pittsfield. Died Dec. 17, 1900, in Fairfield, Iowa. MILITARY SERVICE: Mustered into service with Company C, 49th Massachusetts Infantry as a corporal Sept. 8, 1862. Promoted through ranks to 2nd Lt. June 24, 1863. MEDAL OF HONOR: Awarded for gallantry in the face of the enemy. While a sergeant he volunteered to lead an attack against the Confederate fort at Port Hudson, La., May 27, 1863. Under heavy fire, his group advanced to weaken the rebel position making the general assault possible and ensuring the fort's surrender. LATER LIFE: The 1895 Iowa Census lists his occupation as laborer, with no family living with him. Charles A. Taggart, Otis VITAL DETAILS: Born Jan. 17, 1843, in Blandford.
For instance, if a veniremember is under 18, or is not a citizen of Texas, the veniremember may not legally serve. The Court is required to exclude such jurors from service. More importantly, veniremembers may be challenged FOR CAUSE. These challenges are unlimited in number, and are spelled out in CCP Art. 35.16. A juror may be challenged for cause if he: 1. Is not qualified to vote; 2. Has been convicted of a theft or felony; 3. Is under indictment or other legal accusation for a theft or felony; 4. Is insane; 5. Has "such a defect in the organs of feeling or hearing, or such bodily or mental defect or disease as to render him unfit for jury service, or that he is legally blind, and the Court in its discretion is not satisfied that he is fit for jury service in that particular case"; 6. Is a witness in the case; 7. Served on the Grand Jury which indicted the defendant; 8. Served on a Petit Jury in a former trial of the case; 9. Has a bias or prejudice in favor of the State or the Defendant; 10. Has established a conclusion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant that would influence him in his action in finding a verdict; 11. Cannot read or write; 12. Is related to either the defendant or the victim; 13. In a capital case, has conscientious scruples in regard to the infliction of the death penalty (only to be used by the Prosecution); or 14. Has a bias or prejudice against any of the law applicable to the case. If the Judge finds the challenge to be good, he MUST exclude the juror. It is not discretionary; failure to exclude will be reversible error. Additionally, both the Prosecution and the Defense have a limited number of PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES. In a misdemeanor case, both sides have three, in most felonies, ten, and in capital cases, both sides have fifteen. Peremptory challenges may be exercised for any reason or for no reason whatsoever, EXCEPT that they may not be used to exclude women or minorities from the jury merely because of their gender or race. (See CCP 35.261, Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986)).
Following our successful kick-off of Sprint’s Unlimited Freedom, today we’re announcing more good news for Sprint customers with the availability of Unlimited Freedom Premium. For those customers who want to watch video, listen to music and stream games in higher resolution on their mobile devices, and for those wireless users who would like to stream movies and games on their HD TV, Sprint introduces Unlimited Freedom Premium.Now we offer two distinct options for customers who want unlimited:1) Unlimited Freedom - An unlimited option for $60/month with mobile optimized streaming video;2) Unlimited Freedom Premium - An unlimited option for $80/month for those who prefer a higher quality video experience.Unlimited Freedom PremiumThe best part is that the premium resolution experience is family-friendly. Each family member can pick the plan best suited to them. Mom can choose the Unlimited Freedom plan for her line of service, while her son needs Unlimited Freedom Premium for its HD quality while gaming online. Dad may be fine with Unlimited Freedom, but his daughter sees Unlimited Freedom Premium as a necessity for streaming her favorite music.As a reminder, Unlimited Freedom is simple and straightforward with no access charges or ugly hidden fees. Coupled with Sprint’s reliable network, customers get the best price among all carriers and can enjoy as much data – worry free – as they want. And, in tests with actual consumers, most indicated the difference between HD and optimized video was practically indistinguishable.Small Business customers are also able to take advantage of Unlimited Freedom with an additional $5 discount per line. Line one for a small business customer is $55/month; line two is $35/month; and lines 3-10 are $25/month. All small business customers are able to receive the Unlimited Freedom Premium Experience for an additional $20/month per line.Sprint has listened to wireless users and created groundbreaking plans for customers to fully enjoy unlimited data. Unlimited Freedom is a great option for the vast majority of smartphone users to access social media, send photos, and watch mobile optimized video. Unlimited Freedom Premium is designed for those who demand a higher quality HD experience. With the launch of these new plans, Sprint is the only carrier to offer customers clear, simple and worry-free options and solutions for their wireless needs at unbeatable prices.
MUMBAI: Even as railway officials claim to be operating maximum suburban trains to ease the hardships of daily commuters in Mumbai, the number of deaths and those injured after falling from trains has gone up in the last one decade, as per an RTI query. A whopping 25,722 passengers fell from suburban trains (traveling on Western, Central and Harbour suburban services in Mumbai commissionerate) in last 10 years , of whom 6,989 commuters died while 18,733 survived, said RTI activist Anis Khan quoting a reply received from government railway police (GRP), Mumbai.In 2005, total 494 commuters lost their lives after falling from running trains. This figure went up subsequently in the coming years and reached upto 901 in 2013, up 82 per cent as compared to the death toll in 2005, he said.However, 2014 saw a marginal decline with 797 deaths reported after falling from suburban trains, he said.Khan said the railway administration has "completely failed" to provide safe and comfortable journey to the people. "The basic reason why people are dying like animals is that railway officers have entirely failed to comprehend the hardships of the commuters ... and the basic reason behind this (inability to comprehend the problems) is that officers never travel in local trains," he said.Most of the passengers fall or slip from the running trains when they struggle to get into a coach and fail to enter it or get dashed against a pole near railway track, he said. "Until and unless officers do not feel the pinch of traveling in overcrowded local trains, such deaths are not going to stop," Khan said.As per the statistics provided under the RTI query, apart from 6,989 passengers who died after falling from trains, 22,289 passengers succumbed while crossing the tracks (trespassing).A railway officer, on condition of anonymity, said, "This is true that number of cases of falling of passengers has gone up, but it also includes those cases when many people lost their lives while performing stunts. ""But sensing the gravity of the cases, constant announcements are made not to board or alight from running trains," he added.
Many evangelicals and traditional Roman Catholics like to paint themselves as a persecuted group. They speak of Christian bakers prosecuted for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, dressmakers in trouble for rejecting the business of a gay woman wanting to buy a dress for her special day, and so on. Actually, these are cases of discrimination and the law is the law. You can believe whatever you like, be a bigot about whomever you like, but once you withhold services to someone because of their gender, race, religion, or sexuality there are consequences. If there is persecution it comes from the other side. Believe me, I know. I’m a straight, middle-aged man but when I publicly declared for equal marriage and abandoned by former views I saw the spiteful face of the Christian right close up. My children were targeted, I was called a pedophile, a thief, a liar, and an adulterer, there was a concerted campaign to have me fired from my places of work, and my wife was told to leave me. Other Christians have suffered far worse. Vicky Beeching, a gifted singer from Britain, was becoming a star on the Christian music scene in the United States. After years of struggle, this gentle and moderate woman came out. Her career was over, and she was and still is the subject of the vilest abuse. Remember, she’s still very much a Christian, as am I. As, of course, is Eugene Peterson. As are the people at the charity World Vision, who suffered a similar fate after they made a progressive statement about same-sex couples. The list is long. But the Christian right is becoming more and not less strident. For them the issue of LGBTQ equality is the litmus test of faith. To oppose gay rights is to be a follower of Jesus, to embrace them is to be the contrary. Corruption or cruelty may be forgiven but not extending a Christian embrace to those who are simply attracted to people of the same gender. Christ was love personified. Too many Christians, however, still haven’t got — well — the message. Michael Coren is a Toronto writer.
Hef, as he likes to be called, and Crystal Harris, joined by his son Cooper, tell Piers Morgan what life is like when lived in the Playboy Mansion.Hugh: A lot of people think they know everything about me, but they don’t.Hugh: It’s just a very, very good time to be alive.Hugh: Well, literally, it’s fate. Obviously, I didn’t see it coming. To some extent, it was Woody Allen who said in a movie, ‘Marriage is the death of hope,’ and I had not had a lot of luck in my first couple of marriages. But, you know, I found myself in a relationship. We’ve been together for about two-and-a-half years now, where I just could not imagine spending the rest of my years with anyone else. And it just doesn’t get any better than this. I mean, we laugh a lot, and that is what it’s all about.CRYSTAL: It is June 18.Hugh: And my brother will be my best man. The groomsmen will be my two youngest sons, Markston and Cooper.Crystal: I love Hef. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met. I have so much fun with him. And it’s hard for me to keep up with him. I mean, for my birthday, I wanted to go bowling, and for his birthday, he wanted to go to two different nightclubs at the Palms in Las Vegas. We laugh, we have so much fun together.Hugh: I’ve said it more than once before, age really is just a number. You really don’t know how long you’ve got. How long does the average marriage last?Hugh: Yes, without question, a relationship with somebody younger does keep you alive.Hugh: Yes.Hugh: I was faithful – my last marriage, which was not successful – I was faithful to it.Hugh: Yes. Absolutely.Crystal: They still come around, every weekend. Everyone’s there.Crystal: They’re not allowed upstairs. No. (laughter)Hugh: Unless she invites them!Hugh: Well, you never know. I mean, you know.Crystal: Yes. I trust him.CRYSTAL: I don’t know what to say. I’m like, what? (laughter) We don’t have a traditional anything, so it’s...Hugh: I will never do anything behind her back. Let me put it that way!Hugh: Yes. Yes.Hugh: I’m a guy who dreamed impossible dreams and made them come true. You know, from my own perspective, I’m the luckiest cat on the planet.Hugh: I have a lower back problem which I got in the wars.
The journey of winner Nadiya Hussain captured the nation – and her win even made Mary Berry cry BBC/Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon 14/20 Terry Wogan missed Children in Need for the first time Due to illness, Terry Wogan was unable to host Children in Need for the first time ever. Luckily Dermot O’Leary, no longer on X Factor duties, was on hand to step in at the last minute 15/20 Piers Morgan joined Good Morning Britain The man you love (and love to hate), loves that you love (and love to hate) him. Piers Morgan joined Good Morning Britain as a permanent fixture, and has already caused controversy a-plenty with his flirty manner and tough interviews style 16/20 Clara Oswald left Doctor Who Doctor Who’s best series in years saw a dramatic end for companion Clara Oswald, who paid the price when she got caught up in the schemes of immortal girl Ashildr. Actress Jenna Coleman is now gearing up to play a young Queen Victoria in ITV’s new big drama series 17/20 Vicky Pattison was crowned Queen of the Jungle on I'm A Celebrity Howay! Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison did a fantastic job of rewriting her bolshy image as she emerged a funny, kind, and loveable reality TV star in the I’m A Celeb jungle Nigel Wright/ITV/REX 18/20 Louisa Johnson won The X Factor Louisa Johnson might have won the X Factor – but she didn’t quite steal the nation’s hearts, as her debut single only reached #9 in the charts 19/20 Peep Show ended - for ever Channel 4’s cult sitcom went out with a belter of a final series. Of course Mark and Jez didn’t get a true happy ending – they’re stuck together always, as the camera cut away from the show’s trademark point-of-view shots and saw the pair slumped on the sofas in their Croydon flat. Goodbye, El Dude Brothers 20/20 Downton Abbey closed its doors The end of an era – Downton Abbey finally came to a close with one last Christmas special which (SPOILER ALERT) saw happy endings all round. Phew!
to a corporate-like structure that automates redistribution of internal capital among participants in exchange for services provided, assets, or computational power. Transactions can contain information like votes, changes in the contract (such as amendments), or adding/removing members [1]. Most importantly, this is all automated without reliance on an escrow or central authority.The U.S. healthcare crisis has demonstrated how lawmakers, insurance companies, and healthcare systems are struggling to figure out a way to fairly distribute access to healthcare. The U.S. healthcare system was hurt by an incentive system that rewards procedures rather than quality of care and health outcomes. Recent changes in CMS reimbursement are starting to change this, prompting the emergence of Accountable Care Organizations that receive payment in exchange for providing healthcare to a fixed population, rather than on a fee-for-service basis. The healthcare system failed for the same reason the financial industry lost its credibility in the 2008 financial crisis: third parties succeed in manipulating an easily manipulable system in their favor. People were robbed blind.I'll give a simple example of what I'll call Decentralized Autonomous Health Insurance. Let's say individuals A through J enter an agreement with physicians X and Y, in which X and Y agree to provide healthcare to individuals A-J. Let's say in this simplified example that X and Y are not reimbursed for their services, but by A-J's health outcomes (in ancient China, physicians were paid when their patients were healthy, not when they were sick). Let's also say that X & Y have a practice that accepts cryptocurrency as payment. Then, A-J and X&Y can pen a virtual contract with the following stipulations:We might even imagine a scenario in which each patient's medical record is encoded and distributed in a decentralized manner such that it exists as undecipherable bytes among millions of computers around the world, rather than behind the walls of a single healthcare system. For example, a chip could keep track of our health habits and automatically append these data to our blockchain-based medical records. These data (such as smoking and exercise habits) could then be integrated into the communal contract, so that sedentary smokers have to pay more Bitcoins per year than active non-smokers in order to receive care from X & Y.. Everyone is both a payer and consumer of healthcare, and everyone has the power to vote on the bounds and conditions of care provided.
Qualifications At least two years of direct experience in administrative support, customer service, and/or non-profit work As this position requires leading phone banks, candidate must be extremely comfortable on the phone, including cold calling Excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask Proficiency in or ability to learn database management and reporting Dedication to the mission of Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, including veganism Thrives in a fast-paced work environment Experience in project management preferred Emotive writing experience preferred Woodstock Farm Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer, committed to values of diversity and inclusion. Full time Development Associate, Woodstock Farm Sanctuary Location: High Falls, NY Organizational Description Woodstock Farm Sanctuary rescues farmed animals and gives them care and sanctuary, connects animals with people to advance veganism, and advocates for animal rights in alliance with other social justice movements. We welcome visitors to come and meet animals who are most commonly exploited, abused, and killed in animal agriculture. Our animal residents are given lifelong sanctuary and are treated with respect as individuals. By giving farmed animals the chance to live their lives with dignity and by sharing their stories, we advocate for veganism and aim to reduce suffering for all. Job Overview The Development Associate will report to the Development Manager and will work closely other administrative staff. This position supports all aspects of fundraising with a focus on donor engagement and stewardship. The Stewardship Associate will assist with annual fund, major gifts, grants, planned giving, workplace giving, and events as well as helping with social media and communications as needed. Key Responsibilities Include: -Enters data for all gifts into database in conjunction with interns. -Fulfills all deliverables for gifts such as acknowledgements, thank you calls, and mailed packages. -Works alongside key staff to create stewardship programs for donors. -Oversees recurring gift programs and works to hit goals for revenue. -Works in conjunction with key staff to hold tours for mid-level donors throughout tour season and works to hit goals for middle donor revenue. -Lead for phone banks and thank-a-thons. -Coordinates printing, list cleaning, and letter sending for direct mail campaigns. -Answers development related phone calls and emails to the general line. -Assists at on site events where donors will be present, which will require some weekend work. This position requires standing and sitting for hours at a time, interacting with farmed animals, and moving around the large Sanctuary property for tours, events, and donor visits.
Turkey’s EU accession is an issue for us here as well,” he added.The EU is hardening its stance in a bid to defuse the worst refugee crisis since World War II by increasingly putting the onus on Turkey and EU member Greece in return for aid.Earlier in the day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he hoped Davutoğlu would return from the summit with the 3 billion euros in aid.“We already spent $10 billion for 3 million people. They promised to give us 3 billion euros but four months have passed since then. The prime minister is in Brussels right now. I hope he returns with that money, the 3 billion euros,” Erdoğan said in a speech.On March 6, Davutoğlu held a six-hour meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU term president Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Brussels, during which the joint action plan on illegal migrants, regional developments, and Turkey’s membership process to the EU were on top of the meetings’ agenda, according to sources from the Turkish Prime Ministry.The tête-à-tête was held at Turkey’s Permanent Representation to the EU late on March 6 and was followed by a trilateral meeting of Turkish, German and Dutch delegations.
By 1931, J.P. Morgan had floated $263 million in loans for Japanese borrowers, including direct loans to the government in 1930. Mukden The Chinese government, both before and after the 1927 consolidation of Nationalist power, took measures to counter expanding Japanese control over Manchuria. In particular, the Manchurian warlord/governor Chang Tso-linand his son Chang Hsueh-liang, who became governor after the Japanese assassination of his father in 1927worked with the Peking government to construct Chinese-owned rail lines in Manchuria, so as not to be dependent on Japan's South Manchurian Railroad for economic or military transport. The project was financed internally, through the proceeds of the Chinese-owned Peking-Mukden rail line. Japan condemned the effort by sovereign Chinese interests as a breach of the Japanese sphere of influence in their country! In September 1931, Japan's army in Manchuria carried out the infamous "Mukden incident." The army blew up a stretch of the South Manchurian Railway north of Mukden, blamed it on Chinese subversives, and within hours, without requesting authority from Tokyo, seized Mukden and all the towns in a 200-mile radius north of the cityall within four days. The League of Nations passed a resolution demanding that Japan withdraw from the conquered territory. The United States, which was not a member of the League, declared Japan in breach of the Kellogg-Briand Pactan agreement among major powers, including Japan, signed in 1928-9, "for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy." But not Lamont. The Morgan CEO leaped to defend Japan. In a letter to his journalist friend Walter Lippmann, intended for publication, Lamont argued that: Japan would assure the peace in Manchuria; the Chinese had broken agreements by building competing railroads, in "deliberate economic wastage in duplicating existing facilities"; and China was "withholding payment on any Japanese bonds" and using the money for the competing railroad. "In other words," he concluded to Lippmann, "China has conducted the most lawless and aggravating course possible. . . . They make the world believe that Japan hasn't changed. I think it has." Lamont wrote to Finance Minister Inouye. Inouye, like his counterpart Hjalmar Schacht, portrayed himself as an opponent of the militarists, even while imposing policies which could only be implemented through military force, domestically as well as in foreign policy.
NEW DELHI: India is contemplating energy pipelines from the Gulf again — this time running under the sea, rather than traversing Pakistan. With international sanctions on Iran fading as a result of a nuclear agreement, an energy pipeline may be the most positive regional consequence.The new plan proposes to transport oil and natural gas through deep sea pipelines via Oman in a process where Iran, and even Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan energy can feed the pipeline for an ever-growing Indian market. Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah , Oman’s foreign minister, raised the possibility with Salman Khurshid during their meeting on Friday.Oman had invested $90 million on this project over a decade ago, but it got no traction then. But now, the technology has come of age, with pipelines being built under the Mediterranean Sea from Algeria to Itali, and under the Black Sea from Russia to Germany. Abdullah suggested the pipeline could transport gas from Iran, even Qatar, as well as Central Asian states.Khurshid floated the prospect with Javad Zarif , Iranian foreign minister, who he met later in the day. The Iranians have revived talk of deep-sea pipelines to India after the failure of the IPI pipeline . Iran cancelled a $500 million loan to Pakistan in December. India had pulled out of the IPI several years ago citing price and security issues.Those issues remain. In fact, as the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the TAPI pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan is fast losing its attractiveness.Iran has reportedly jumped at the idea. Oman is India’s most trusted partner in the Gulf, therefore comfort levels are high between New Delhi and Muscat, more than even with Iran. Zarif added to the Omani proposal __ Iran was negotiating separately with Turkmenistan for an overland pipeline to carry its gas to an Iranian terminal and thence to markets like India. If these negotiations succeed, Iran could be a beachhead for gas not only from its fields but from other Gulf suppliers, even Qatar, which is India’s largest supplier of LNG.“An undersea pipeline from Iran to India could be completed as quickly as 3-4 years. Our feasibility studies show they would cost in the region of $5 billion,” said Subodh Jain, whose company, Sage is the best known Indian entity to acquire technology for such pipelines. Jain has proposed building an under-sea energy infrastructure corridor, which could be used by major gas suppliers to connect to terminals in India’s west coast.
Yet unbeknownst to most of Cubby's clientele, the restaurant's quiet back booths have for more than a decade also served as an oasis of comfort in hostile territory and, at times, as the setting for unconventional freelance diplomacy—not just for North Koreans, but for envoys from Vietnam, in the period preceding the restoration of diplomatic relations, and those from Iraq, following the first Gulf War. After the diplomats parked and piled out, passing Cubby's foyer pinball machine and entering the restaurant proper, the owner, a 48-year-old Irish-Italian American named Bobby Egan, strode forth to greet them with double-handed handshakes. Egan talks like De Niro in a mob role, and enjoys it; with a full head of hair, black still and combed back neatly, he could pass for a cousin. On this day, he was wearing the usual: jeans and a black chef's coat, double buttons down the chest. "Mr. Ambassador!" Egan said, ushering the envoys in. Standing a few respectful steps back, also smiling, was a burly ex–Special Forces sergeant and security consultant, Mike "O. D." O'Donovan, who is usually on hand (and armed) when the North Koreans are in the house (or when they're out fishing with Egan—deep-sea or freshwater—an activity Egan says he finds conducive for his "work" with them). The diplomats turned up hungry that day. Egan steered them to two long tables in the back of the restaurant. As they settled in, Ambassador Han, asserting his rank, insisted that ordering precede any discussion. He takes his ribs rare and has eaten plenty of them over dozens of visits to Cubby's. Several of the other envoys were first-timers, part of a newly arrived delegation from Pyongyang that was most likely sent to manage diplomatic fallout from the nuclear test. One of them, by many inches the shortest in the group, bore a striking resemblance to Kim Jong-il himself, down to the bouffant hairdo. If he was a relative of the Dear Leader, however, he wasn't saying (and with this crowd, Egan tells me later, you don't ask). As they settled in, Egan's older daughter appeared from around the counter with a tray of mugs: Coors Light all around, except for Egan, who no longer drinks. This would be something of a Last Supper for Ambassador Han, who had recently learned that he was being recalled to Pyongyang, probably for good, after two tough tours of duty in New York.
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Given that GF animals have no bacterial exposure from conception onwards, they are perhaps of limited usefulness for experimental questions regarding the impact of altered microbiota composition that first occurs later in life. For these reasons, alternatives to the GF model must be explored that allow for alterations in bacterial exposure occurring throughout the lifespan. Some alternatives do currently exist and are being used to complement GF findings, including those using antibiotic treatment, probiotic feeding, fecal transplantation, and mouse humanization, among others. Antibiotic treatment of mice is regarded as a practical and potentially more relevant alternative to the use of GF mice, and, interestingly, many of the phenotypic features associated with the GF state (eg, reduced anxiety-like behaviors) are also evident after a sustained antibiotic-induced disruption of the gut microbiota. A recent study examining the long-term effects of antibiotic treatment and the resulting altered intestinal microbial composition focused on the critical developmental window of adolescence (Desbonnet et al., 2015). Here, treating mice with a combination of antibiotics resulted in reduced anxiety, reduced cognitive abilities, and social deficits. In addition, antibiotic-treated mice also displayed reduced levels of BDNF, oxytocin, and vasopressin in adult brain tissue (Desbonnet et al., 2015). Alterations to tryptophan metabolic pathways were also observed (Desbonnet et al., 2015). Earlier work involving administration of an antibiotic cocktail of bacitracin and neomycin as well as the anti-fungal primaricin to mice has demonstrated reduced anxiety-like behavior and increased hippocampal BDNF mRNA expression (Bercik et al., 2011a) as well as increased visceral sensitivity to colorectal distension tests that can be ameliorated after probiotic administration (Verdu et al., 2006). Researchers have also investigated the effects of introducing bacteria to mouse models of intestinal dysbiosis. Humanization studies can involve human fecal transfer to GF mice but have recently been broadened to include inoculating non-GF antibiotic-treated mice with human feces (Hintze et al., 2014). Mice treated in this fashion are not only useful in examining microbiota-gut-brain communication but provide a more clinically relevant model in which to ask questions regarding the effects of differing bacterial communities on the host. GF animals have been vital in helping us elucidate mechanisms of gut-brain communication, as well as the role of commensal microbiota in development and function of the organism. However, moving forward, alternatives to GF animals such as those elucidated above will provide us with a complementary understanding in a more obviously clinically relevant manner.
The two approaches described above reflect different conceptions of the counterfactual—what would have happened under other circumstances—bases for making causal inferences. In the first case of comparison across states, a given state is compared with concurrent others that are similar on the characteristics in the model. In the second case, a given state is compared with itself in earlier or later years. Because both the inter- and intrastate comparisons are reasonable counterfactuals, we estimate a multilevel model consisting of time points t nested within states s. The within state model of time points (level 1) allows us to evaluate whether changes in a state’s conditions increase or decrease emissions (we also include a time trend variable in this model), whereas the model between states (level 2) allows us to estimate the relationship between state level characteristics and emissions in a given year.
That’s the big, loud, delay-creating stuff. Less noticeably to riders, the agency has also been laboring to figure out a way to seal up every vulnerable walkway, vent, and manhole before the next big storm comes. A recent partnership with a specialized product engineering firm, ILC Dover, has yielded a bespoke flood-proof stairwell barrier that draws inspiration from both window shades and spacesuits. It’s called the Flex-Gate—a soft cover that sits spooled in a container perpendicular to subway entrance railings, ready to unfurl, horizontally, over the entire staircase opening along built-in tracks. It’s made from two layers of materials: The outward facing side uses a coated fabric similar to the kind that contains gas inside spacesuits (ILC Dover has been NASA’s go-to astronaut tailor since the Apollo mission); underneath, there’s structural Kevlar webbing. Ready to go in 5 to 10 minutes, it’s a big improvement over the crude “stoplogs” that the MTA previously used to block openings in low-lying areas. “Someone would have to go get aluminum planks from some storage room and then you’d bring them to location and drop them into receptacles that create a wall in front of doorway,” says Dave Cadogan, ILC Dover’s director of engineering and product development. “It works well. However, for Metro or anyone, when a storm is coming, everyone is just freaking out. And they really don’t have the time and energy and personnel to go and find all this stuff and read the manuals and make sure it’s working properly.” Flex-Gates have now been installed in 14 subway station entrances around New York City, and by the end of the year, another 50 or more should be in place. They’re mostly around lower Manhattan, where the greatest flood risk is, but certain coast-adjacent stations in Harlem and Brooklyn will also be kitted out. Also in the works are Portal Flex-Gates (pictured at the top), a larger-scale version that function like garage doors to cover rail and vehicle tunnels such as the Brooklyn Battery and Queens-Midtown.
Appendix B: Common Pathway vs. Independent Pathways Model Comparisons The structures of the genetic models we present were motivated by our latent variable approach. They include assumptions about the multivariate genetic structure: in particular, that the executive functions’ ACE variables influence the individual executive function tasks through their respective latent variables (i.e., Inhibiting, Updating, and Shifting). This type of model is known as a “common pathway” model (Neale & Cardon, 1992). However, there is another less restrictive “independent pathways” model in which the common ACEs influence each task separately, not through a latent variable. These two models are depicted conceptually in (Panel A for the common pathway model and Panel B for the independent pathways model). The primary difference is that in the independent pathways model, there are more free parameters (three paths from each common A, C, and E), and the variance in each task due to the common ACEs are not necessarily proportional to their relation to a latent variable. In the common pathways model, there is only one path from each executive function A, C, and E, and the variance in each task explained by these executive function ACEs are proportional to the tasks’ loadings on the latent variable. presents the model fits for the independent pathways and common pathway models applied to the three executive functions individually (top three rows of ) as well as to the hierarchical model with all three executive functions (bottom row of ; in that case the common pathway was through the Common EF factor). In all cases, the common pathway models did not fit significantly worse than the independent pathways models, confirming our hypothesis that the higher-level ACEs influenced the measures through the theoretically defined latent variables. Table B1 Common Pathway Independent Pathways χ2 Difference Common
Loss of resilience and its consequences Section: Choose Top of page Abstract The ethical minefield of ... Monitoring the warfighter Performance-enhancing pha... Loss of resilience and it... << Nutrition and supplementa... Ethics and the enhanced w... References Over the last decade, the demands the military places on warfighters have changed in ways that go beyond the strains of the repeated tours of duty common in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Modern technological warfare necessitates a level of cognitive ability and discipline unheard of in the history of war, and it does so at every level of command, from the dismounted soldier to the commander in the operations center. Additionally, the military population largely reflects the physical condition of the broader civilian population from which it is drawn. A trip to your local Wal-Mart, shopping mall, or airport will illustrate the problem. The US military has a more overburdened and stressed and less healthy and, arguably, less resilient force than in generations past. In 2011, nearly 110,000 active-duty Army troops were prescribed antidepressants, narcotics, sedatives, antipsychotics, or anti-anxiety drugs—reportedly an eight-fold increase since 2005 (Murphy, 2012). If these numbers are accurate, the dramatic increase in the use of pharmaceuticals must reflect an aggressive attitude toward medication to deal with the consequences of the loss of resilience. Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, suicides across the services have risen sharply. In 2012, a record 349 service members committed suicide—substantially more than the 295 Americans who died in combat in 2012. Although it remains unclear to what extent combat deployments are contributing to the military suicide rate (Hoge and Castro, 2012; Kang and Bullman, 2008; LeardMann et al., 2013; Ramchand et al., 2011), the capacity to work under substantial stress for extended periods of time while maintaining resilience is among the most urgent manpower needs facing the military. During 2011, the most recent year for which data is currently available, roughly 47 percent of those who died by suicide had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and approximately 15 percent had direct combat experience (Luxton et al., 2011). The causes for suicide are multiple, and the military is making great efforts to reduce the suicide rate among its members. Should effective means be found to reduce the rate of suicide among service members, one can reasonably anticipate that similar benefits would accrue to society as a whole.
Mental math ability is a lot like physical fitness training. You may be out of shape in the beginning, but with diligent training you can and will improve. Initially you might not enjoy the exercise, but you will reap significant rewards for your effort. As you become more fit, you’ll begin to enjoy the activity much more. If you are serious about it, your mental calculation fitness could become a source of energy, galvanizing you to face the challenges of life with enthusiasm. In physical training, you break down the fibers in your muscles during a workout session. Your muscles actually sustain tiny tears during resistance training exercises. While you rest afterwards, your body repairs the damage, rebuilding the fibers thicker and stronger. A similar process is believed to occur for cognitive tasks. A 2016 study found "extensive evidence that brain-training interventions improve performance on the trained tasks".1 Therefore you can expect training your brain to answer mental math questions will lead to improved performance over time. In the context of physical fitness, a "trainer" often refers to a trained professional who guides the workout and recovery process. Personal trainers are tasked with assessing a trainee's level of ability, prescribing an exercise regimen, and offering feedback as the training goes along. The word "trainer" could also refer to a system that automates the role of a personal trainer. Many aerobic exercise machines today offer interactive training programs with feedback and analysis of a user's performance. A math trainer is needed for optimal math fitness. Like in physical fitness, the trainer should be compatible with users at a variety of skill levels and should guide them to the next level. It should give an accurate assessment of a user's strengths and weakness, as well as offer helpful feedback on where to focus one's efforts. Learning the ropes of mental maths with a math trainer should be a seamless, rewarding journey to ever-greater abilities.
Radaway rebalanced accordingly, and affected properly by medic perk.- Quicker stims now works properly with medic perk.- Renumbered many health modules to fit endurance level bonus in a logical place- Added player damage 25.- Added some missing chems to heavier chems- Fixed some fomod typos, and rearranged a number of modules.- Version 1.025 - 06.12.15- New Modules:- Added module to remove the carry weight penalty for human companions, reduced for non-human- Added new beta module for damage localization- Existing Modules:- Further tweaks to AI beta, added heavy option.- Further refined stealth tweaks, increased importance of armor weight. Added medium and heavy options (previous version was ~light)- Added dirty and purified water to food healing at 75%- Increased values for all versions of barter, light is roughly what medium was, medium heavy, and heavy a step past what it used to be.- Added module to "disable" limb regen. Regen will still occur at some point, it'll just be in a really long time.- Version 1.02 - 30.11.15- New Health modules: Endurance Bonus, Level Bonus, NPC Level Bonus, Fall damage, Leg Damage, Limb Regen, Food Healing- Heavier Ingestibles renamed to heavier chems, food entries and rad-away removed for compatibility- Small tweaks to less caps/+, less chems/+- Two new options for global experience: 15%, 35%- New beta module for crippled effects.- Further refinement of Stealth Tweaks- Added another option for AI tweaks. Still beta, previous version renamed to light.- Minor fomod tweaks- Small changes to prebuilt options- included settings used for prebuilt files- Version 1.01 - 26.11.15- Small tweaks to less ammo 25, 50, less caps, less chems- Added less ammo 75- Added less chems+- Added less caps+- Added legendary chance 500, 600- Added 4x survival damage for players and NPCs- Added Quicker Stims- Added Stealth Tweaks Beta- Added AI Tweaks Beta- Stimpak weight removed from misc weight and heavier chems for compatibility reason. Added as part of quicker stims.- Fix to sneak attack .esps not applying to some melee weapons- Increased number of premade .esps to three.- Version 1.0 - 24.11.15- Initial Release
“It was a very special time, a very special feeling.” As he talks over the phone, he flips through the Monster Jam fliers that are part of a collection of memorabilia that he’s stored away all these years, and reads out the big names that came to Toronto in late ’80s, including American rappers Salt-N-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane and the late Heavy D, as well as Michie Mee. “Anyone who sees these are going to go down memory lane,” says Nelson.
Unlike Nicole Kidman’s acting career, however, Holmes’s never really took off during her marriage to Cruise, while his went on unabated. In their seven years together, Cruise made nine movies, which cost nearly a billion dollars and required shooting all over the world. One of these, Jack Reacher, a thriller—and another possible Paramount franchise—is coming out before Christmas, and Oblivion, a futuristic science-fiction saga produced by Universal, will premiere next spring. Production has already begun on yet another big-budget, science-fiction project, All You Need Is Kill, for Warner Bros. Hundreds of millions of dollars are riding on Cruise’s box-office appeal.
Once again Merkel was taking her time. Like the 10-year-old on the diving board, Merkel was analysing the situation before acting. Putin felt vindicated. He knew that Merkel had opposed Nato’s decision to regard Ukraine and Georgia as aspirant members. Further, his seemingly successful annexation of Crimea seemed to show that military supremacy still trumped economic strength. Left, a young Angela Merkel, 1972-3. Right, Vladimir Putin in 1970. ©GLAESCHER/LAIF/CAMERA PRESS, LASKI DIFFUSION/GETTY IMAGES So it came as a shock when, a month later, Merkel imposed sanctions on Russia. Germany had major interests in Russia: its pharmaceutical companies alone stood to lose an estimated €2.1bn in lost contracts. But Merkel—having consulted with industry and the EU—had reached her decision. Germany could afford it. And with the falling oil price, Russia would pay dearly for Putin’s military impetuosity. Merkel also knew that nothing was more important to Putin than international prestige. In 1998 the old G7 was expanded to become the G8, a symbol of the new post-Soviet Russia being brought in from the cold. The next meeting of this club of the world’s biggest hitters was due to be held in post-Olympic Sochi in June 2014. It was not to be. Merkel told the Bundestag why not: “Russia is isolated in all international organisations, there will not be a G8 summit and there will be no G8 as such.” Russia’s standing took a knock, and Putin was humiliated. The response did not settle the conflict or reverse the annexation of Crimea, but it did buy the Ukrainians time, allowing them to hold presidential elections. In the autumn of 2014 fighting broke out and Russia once more threatened to overrun eastern Ukraine. The conflict was personal: Merkel spoke to Putin on 38 separate occasions between September and January. In February 2015, the western powers agreed to enter peace talks in the Belarusian capital Minsk. Putin had demanded that representatives from the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk were present, and the stage appeared set for a Russian diplomatic victory. Merkel and French president François Hollande accompanied Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, but it was soon clear that this was effectively a bilateral meeting between the two leaders present who spoke without the help of translators. Putin had succeeded in getting his allies involved in the talks, in which his aim was to get the sanctions lifted in return for military concessions.
Tottenham v Burnley - player ratings 6 show all Tottenham v Burnley - player ratings 1/6 Michel Vorm: 6 Hugo Lloris’ replacement had very little to do all night and could not be blamed for Burnley’s equaliser, when substitute Sam Vokes produced a very tidy finish. GETTY 2/6 Vlad Chiriches: 6 A characteristically eccentric display from the Romanian, deputising for Kyle Walker at right-back. Handled George Boyd relatively comfortably but some of his decision-making is hard to fathom. GETTY 3/6 Ben Davies: 8 Spurs’ best player on the night, the Welshman is growing in confidence at the club and seems to be relishing the battle with Danny Rose to be first choice left-back. Efficient in both attack and defence and set up Spurs’ goal. GETTY 4/6 Mousa Dembele: 7 Starting to look a little more like the player Spurs paid £15million to sign from Fulham in 2012. Looked more mobile than in recent times and used the ball well when he had it. GETTY 5/6 Nacer Chadli: 7 Operating on either flank, he always gave Spurs an attacking outlet and underlined his enduring effectiveness by putting his team in front with a typically solid finish – his ninth goal of the season. GETTY 6/6 Christian Eriksen: 6 Although he was far less creative than in recent weeks, the Dane showed excellent appetite with a hard-working display as he was used in three different roles in the 90 minutes. GETTY 1/6 Michel Vorm: 6 Hugo Lloris’ replacement had very little to do all night and could not be blamed for Burnley’s equaliser, when substitute Sam Vokes produced a very tidy finish. GETTY 2/6 Vlad Chiriches: 6 A characteristically eccentric display from the Romanian, deputising for Kyle Walker at right-back. Handled George Boyd relatively comfortably but some of his decision-making is hard to fathom. GETTY 3/6 Ben Davies: 8 Spurs’ best player on the night, the Welshman is growing in confidence at the club and seems to be relishing the battle with Danny Rose to be first choice left-back. Efficient in both attack and defence and set up Spurs’ goal. GETTY 4/6 Mousa Dembele: 7 Starting to look a little more like the player Spurs paid £15million to sign from Fulham in 2012. Looked more mobile than in recent times and used the ball well when he had it.
There are those saying that we drink the same water that the dinosaurs drink, and that’s accurate.”By cooperating to conserve a mutually critical resource like water, Daigger believes, nations have an even greater chance of achieving a more sustainable regional peace.“There are those who have been saying for quite some time that the wars of the 21st century will be over water,” Daigger said. “But water can be a factor that helps disparate communities and countries to collaborate. It is essential.We can live many days without food.Without water, it’s about three days. As water becomes in desperately short supply, the solution is to collaborate.”An entire panel at the conference was dedicated to this sentiment, analyzing the different ways that Middle Eastern countries could partner to conserve water, and the possible ramifications of such collaboration.“We can reach cooperation, but at the beginning, it will only be by acceptance of activities the other side is doing,” Shimon Tal, president of the Israel Water Authority and CEO of Tal-Content, told the Post.
Young men are banned from shaving or listening to music, and can be arrested for talking to women in the street. On one occasion, members of the group even deliberately blew up an electricity pylon near Khan Sheikhun. As a result, many residents would be willing to see Ahrar al-Sham take the place of HTS: despite its hardline vision, it allows a certain amount of freedom.Nobody will be able to stop HTS attacks on residents unless all the factions unite, and urgently. The group is taking over more elements of Idlib’s vital infrastructure each day—something to which Ahrar al-Sham and other factions have paid little attention. Impoverished and displaced people can only complain to God, says Abu Firas al-Masri and Khaldiya al-Mohammad. Her house was seized by HTS courts under a ruling they issued in the border city of Harem on the accusation that her husband had lived in regime areas.Idlib residents’ life under Islamist factions like HTS differs little from life under the oppressive Syrian regime. These factions are not interested in anything but the interests of their fighters, and care little for the rest of the people, who have run out of everything they need for a dignified life. Now they are waiting for a new hero to save them from the clutches of extremist Islamists, who have sent the revolution to the intensive care ward and are waiting for someone to finish it off completely. Neither Aleppo, nor Raqqa, nor Idlib has won its freedom. All these cities have gone from one occupation to another—whether that of a leftist secular state under the hereditary rule of the Assad clan, or by hardline Islamist movements that wage war on democracy and civil life in the name of Sharia law.is a freelance journalist who has written for Al-Jazeera, Alquds Alarabi Newspaper, Arabi 21, and Syria Deeply.
If you try to hold to the Lotus Sutra without seeing once the True Lotus, you will be like a man who holds a bowl of water in his hands and night and day tries to keep from spilling it or letting it move, but still expects to gain sustenance from it. Even if he should succeed in holding it in this way for his whole life, he wouldn't be able to sustain himself or keep himself from dying of thirst. His hopes to benefit himself and others by the practice of the vow will be cut off midway. What possible use does this serve? For the person who once sees the True Lotus and holds to the Sutra, it is as if he had poured this one bowl of water into rivers and lakes everywhere. At once it merges with the thirty-six thousand ripples and its beneficence joins with the waters, so that if all the creatures that leap, run, fly, or crawl came to drink at the same time, it would never be exhausted. The person who has not seen the True Lotus is like the man who holds the bowl of water. Not only can he be of no benefit to others, but neither can he bring benefit to himself. The person who once sees the True Lotus is like the man who pours the bowl of water into all the rivers and lakes. Unconsciously he leaps into the great sea of Nirvana of the various Buddhas, harmonizes deeply with the true Dharma body and the precepts, meditation, and wisdom of the many Buddhas, at once shatters the dark cave of the alaya-consciousness, and releases the Illumination of the Great Perfect Mirror. Passing over numberless kalpas, he practices the almsgiving of the Dharma with no limitations whatsoever. The breadth and greatness of the virtue of the one view of the Lotus is quite without bounds. Rather than read all the works in the Tripitaka, see the True Lotus once. Rather than make a million statues of the Buddha, see the True Lotus once. Rather than adhering to the view that holding a yellow scroll with its red handles is [the practice of] the Lotus Sutra, see the True Lotus once. Rather than recite the Lotus Sutra a billion times, see the True Lotus once with your own Dharma eye. This is truly a lofty statement of complete truth and indestructibility.
Control region and coding region mutations that characterize the Icelandic C1 sequence and previously reported C1 subclades Hg HVS1 HVS2 Coding region Icelandic C1 sequence 16223T 16298C 16311C 16325C 16327T 73G 152C 249d 263G 290‐291d 534T 3395G 3507T 5899i 7331T 13651G 13966G 14324C 15613G C1a 16223T 16298C 16325C 16327T 16356C 73G 249d 263G 290‐291d 3826C 7598G C1b 16223T 16298C 16325C 16327T 73G 249d 263G 290‐291d 493G 522‐523d C1c 16223T 16298C 16325C 16327T 73G 249d 263G 290‐291d 1888A 15930A C1d 16051G 16223T 16298C 16325C 16327T 73G 249d 263G 290‐291d 522‐523d 7697A The aim of this study was to shed further light on the entry date of the C1 lineage into the Icelandic mtDNA pool and its geographical origin prior to this event. To this end, we used the deCODE Genetics genealogical database and mtDNA control region sequencing of new Icelandic samples to find additional carriers and ancestors of the C1 lineage. Moreover, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of 11 carriers of the Icelandic C1 lineage, to determine its exact position in the global haplogroup C1 phylogeny (Tamm et al., 2007; van Oven and Kayser, 2009) and thereby its most likely geographical source.
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uniform of a suit, crisp button-down shirt, open collar, and no tie. But Landgraf is armed with a particularly persuasive demeanor he may have learned shortly after birth as the son of a preacher. Soft-spoken and almost professorial in one-on-one conversation, he is a casual deployer of active listening techniques. (Pamela Adlon, creator of the new FX series Better Things, told Vanity Fair her hour-long pitch meeting with him was “one of the most incredible phone conversations of my life.”) But beyond his engaging manner, there are practical reasons why a Landgraf presentation is so compelling. Most network executives prefer to speak enthusiastically—but vaguely—about their programming slate, but Landgraf usually comes armed with facts and figures to bolster his broader philosophical claims. It’s also hard to deny the wisdom of a man who presides over one of the most critically acclaimed, watched, and awards-friendly networks on television. And unlike HBO and AMC—whose supremacy hinges, at this point, mostly on their big tentpole hits Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead—FX has built its record on a diversified portfolio that includes Fargo, The Americans, and American Crime Story, among others. During Landgraf’s era, FX has launched the melancholic, auteur-driven comedy revolution with Louie and kickstarted the limited-series trend with Murphy’s American Horror Story. Next year Tom Hardy, Ewan McGregor, and Susan Sarandon will all make their prestige-cable homes there. It’s a starry lineup, the sort that, once upon a time, viewers would have only seen on HBO. The question now: With prestige, star power, and nominations in hand, how can FX avoid the market correction its president has predicted?
That is purely a personal view and many will like the eye-catching decorations and woods, but I suppose I prefer plainer models.At the bridge we have a screwed in place tie bar bridge holding what looks like a plastic uncompensated saddle. The distributor tells me that Isuzi claim the wood on the bridge (and fingerboard) is 'Engineering Wood' which I take to possibly mean something like the paper composite 'Richlite' which we are seeing more and more as a response to CITES restrictions on Rosewood. Enya use it for example and call it 'technical wood'. Looking more closely at this sample though I am absolutely positive thisrosewood, and assume this may be a pre CITES sample and they are moving over to composite. Either way, I have no complaints as both make very good materials for these purposes. It's hard to critisise Rosewood, but I do like the concept of using more eco friendly non timber products for parts of ukuleles.Moving on we have a mahogany neck in three pieces with an attractive swoop in the heel shaping. It's a typically far eastern rounded profile and a disappointing 34-35mm at the nut. Topping this is a nice and even coloured rosewood fingerboard (nb - as above, soon to be a composite subsitute) with 18 nickel silver frets to in total and 14 to the join. They are 'on the whole' dressed well in the ends, but one or two are sharp up the dusty end of the neck. Most could also do with a polish as they look a bit dull and cruddy.We have dot markers at the 5th, 7th, 10th, 12th, 15th and 17th spaces, with the 12th being a double and these are thankfully repeated on the side.Beyond the plastic nut is a plain and simple shaped headstock. It's faced in more of the flamed maple, but I suspect would be more consistent with quilted maple to match the top. Laser etched into this is the Isuzi logo. It's nice enough.Tuning wise we have classy looking black sealed geared tuners with small buttons. I like the contrast of the black with the pale woods and they do work ok too. Sadly one of them is fitted slightly askew and this drives my OCD off the charts.. (you had ONE job..)Completing your package are a set of Aquila strings and a thin padded gig bag and that will come at an RRP of £149.99.
The long story would have to do with ergativity in Greenlandic, the agent of the verb takes the Ergative case and the object takes the Absolutive case. Ergativity means that the subject of an intransitive verb has the same case marker as the object of a transitive verb (unlike English, *Him sleeps vs. I see him), in this case, the object would have the markers you’ve already encountered in lesson 3. In fact, the endings for the personal constellations (I do XXX to you.) consist of two morphemes that underly so many extra rules that their true character is very often obscure. I will only illustrate this with the ending -kkit (I –> you, see above) which is built according to the following rules: The first part after the mode ending +va- of those endings consists of the agent of the verb’s meaning in the Relative case, which would be -ma- in this case. When it is the subject of a transitive verb it gets reduced to -m-. In the next step, we take the second person singular in the absolutive case as the object ending, which would be -tit, and put it after the subject ending, but whenever the subject before it is either the first person singular or plural it becomes -git. This would leave us which: (+va)-m+git. As you may know by now, the consonants would assimilate to the last consonant, which would lead us to (+va)-ggit, but a double /gg/ becomes /kk/ when it is used with inflection (see gemination above), which eventually, makes the whole ending (+va)-kkit. But as this is way too long for the basics in Greenlandic transitivity, it should suffice to learn the endings as one morpheme as an intermediate step, which would leave you with 28 endings for all the possible constellations within the indicative mode, instead of 47+ independent endings, that undergo more than 30 rules on how they change forms when they are combined depending on what comes before or after them.
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care says provincial laws should be changed to ensure all home daycare providers are overseen by licensed agencies. “One death is too many,” said coalition spokesperson Andrea Calver. “But now we have three. We need to make sure that something like this doesn’t happen again. It’s not enough to take people’s word that they are providing adequate care.” NDP Children and Youth Critic Monique Taylor urged the government to act. Wednesday’s “tragic death of a 9-month-old child in an unregulated daycare in Markham is another sad reminder of why the province needs to do more to ensure our children’s safety in home-based daycares in Ontario,” she said in a statement.
The North Texas Chapter of the Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club invites you to join us in historic Waxahachie, Texas, on March 1-3, 2019, to celebrate those great orphan marques, those wonderful, historic automobiles that have faded into the mists of time. Our meet celebrates all marques for which the manufacturers are no longer extant, such as Hudson, Nash, Studebaker, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer, AMC, and hundreds of others. We also celebrate corporate orphans such as LaSalle, Marquette, DeSoto, Edsel, and others - and even more recent orphans such as Plymouth, Mercury, and Oldsmobile Please bring only 1989 or earlier models to maintain the historic character of the meet. Finally, we invite ALL marques from 1942 and earlier as we believe them to be historically significant and of great public interest. This meet is not strictly limited to US-built cars and we are delighted to invite international orphans such as MG, Triumph, Hillman, and other orphans from other nations. S&O is a non-profit meet with all profits divided evenly between the American Heart Association and the Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Historical Society. It is a multi-day meet with a driving tour on Friday, a show-and-shine event on Saturday surrounding Waxahachie's beautiful downtown courthouse featured in the movie classic Places In The Heart, our Sweetheart's Date Night on Saturday evening, and our awards program on Sunday morning. S&O is a non-judging meet, other than Peoples' Choice Awards by decade. Your cars don't need to be perfect to be interesting Bring them out even if they're not completely done Our only request is that your vehicle be in original or restored to original condition. Restomods are fine, but please keep the hood shut if the drivetrain is not original. No hot rods, please We love ALL cars but this show is about automotive history rather than automotive art For additional meet registration materials, hotel information, or any other details, please email [ email ] . Hope to see you there ...more >>
Mark looks, at a glance, and especially when he wears a coat, like some Russian Orthodox monk who has wandered off the taiga—a sunburned young Solzhenitsyn. He has an unkempt brown beard, a large, narrow, sun-reddened nose, hair that falls a good five inches below his shoulders, and small, dolefully down-sloping blue eyes. He even makes a habit of wearing sandals. He seldom wears a coat, though; his wardrobe tends toward T-shirts or aloha shirts or no shirt, even in winter. And his physique does not suggest a life of frequent prayer. Thirty years of surfing (Mark is forty) have left him with a great rack of muscles across his back and chest. He carries less fat on him than a racing greyhound: he stands six feet four and weighs a hundred and eighty pounds. The doleful shape of his eyes is also misleading. Closer inspection usually finds them lit with amusement, and weather-deepened spiderwebs at their corners have clearly been formed by constant laugh action. His laugh is loud and, in quality, falls somewhere between a honk and a roar. For someone so tall, Mark is remarkably unself-conscious. He carries himself like a ballet dancer, and his walk, in its precision, borders on the feminine. Before he goes surfing, he ritually performs an elaborate series of yoga stretches at the water’s edge, and I have never seen him skimp on this warmup—not even when bystanders snickered—or cross the sand with any less precise a swagger. Being tall can be a disadvantage in surfing; few top competitors are over six feet. As in gymnastics, a low center of gravity is crucial to great balance. Mark has a low, almost crouching style of surfing that, while not especially beautiful, is superbly balanced, and compensates effectively for his height. In big waves, where brute strength and stability become critical factors, his height, combined with his hunkered-down style, seems to work to his advantage: he uses it to lever the long, hard, high-speed turns that big waves avail, and to absorb the sharp, powerful shocks that even small irregularities in the surface transmit at high speed. He has also had to compensate for poor vision. His original nickname in San Francisco was, in fact, Doc Hazard, for he was once considered something of a Mr. Magoo in the water.
Question 2: If you timed or recorded the event using a stopwatch, a stopwatch app, or a timing app on a smartphone, then either (a) what was the duration of the disappearance of the star, or (b) what were the timestamps of the times of disappearance and reappearance. If you did not see the star disappear, please report a “miss”. Some examples would be: Using a real stopwatch or a stopwatch app on a watch or smartphone to measure the duration of disappearance of the star, similar to timing a runner in a race. Everyone in a group can do this if each has their own stopwatch. Smartphone stopwatches are fine, however you have to be famliar enough with the app that you do not have to look down to operate the “buttons”. Practice in advance.
There is a historiographic dispute about whether Ion Antonescu's regime was fascist or more generically right-wing authoritarian, itself integrated within a larger debate about the aspects and limits of fascism. Israeli historian of fascism Zeev Sternhell describes Antonescu, alongside his European counterparts Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Francisco Franco, Miklós Horthy, François de La Rocque, Philippe Pétain and Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, as a "conservative", noting that all of them "were not deceived by a [fascist] propaganda trying to place them in the same category [as the fascist movements]. "[253] A similar verdict is provided by German historian of Europe Hagen Schulze, who views Horthy, Franco and the Romanian leader alongside Portugal's Estado Novo theorist António de Oliveira Salazar and Second Polish Republic founder Józef Piłsudski, as rulers of "either purely military dictatorships, or else authoritarian governments run by civilian politicians", and thus a category apart from the leaders of "Fascist states. "[254] For Schulze, the defining elements of such governments is the presence of a "conservative establishment" which ensured "social stability" by extending the control of a "traditional state" (thus effectively blocking "revolutionary suggestions" from the far left and the far right alike). [254] The term "conservative autocrat" is used in relation to the Conducător by British political theorist Roger Griffin, who attributes to the Iron Guard the position of a subservient fascist movement,[255] while others identify Antonescu's post-1941 rule as a military rather than a fascist dictatorship. [256] Several other scholars prefer "conservative" as a defining term for Antonescu's policies. [91][257] Antonescu described himself as "by fate a dictator", and explained that his policies were "militaristic"[23] or, on one occasion, "national-totalitarian". [258]
I can’t hear you over the sound of my Hunchback’s AC-20!</P><H4>Do you guys have any idea if you will be hitting any Cons next year with early versions of the game? I need to know so I can figure out which to go to (Please say PAX)</H4><P><BR><STRONG>[PAUL]</STRONG> If Bryan pays, I’ll go to whatever cons he mentions in his reply.</P><P><STRONG>[BRYAN]</STRONG> Future announcements will reveal our marketing plans. We are going to be a key trade shows next year.</P><H4>With the release timeframe you have, are you planning on releasing a fairly compact but well developed game and adding lots of content in the months following that? </H4><P><BR><STRONG>[PAUL]</STRONG> Herein lays the beauty of the F2P model. We will be releasing the compact but well developed game that we want players to experience with the ability to expand on the core presentation to give you the AAA quality title that we want to share with the awesome community that has been waiting for so long. Our use of agile project development and listening to community feedback allows us to steer and correct our designs and implementation as needed.</P><P><BR><STRONG>[MATT N]</STRONG> In my mind Quality has always trumped Quantity. Especially when you can continually add content and respond to what the users want with updates.</P><H4>How long has the game been in development? how far along is development? (is more of the game on paper or code currently)</H4><P><STRONG> [PAUL]</STRONG> The game has been in development for a short period of time following a fairly lengthy pre-production cycle. That being said, our internal engineering team is burning through code faster than words can describe. There’s a passion driving them to make the best MechWarrior® game for the players and fans around the world.</P><P><BR><STRONG>[MATT C]</STRONG> The key goal with the release schedule is, to release a solid chunk of core gameplay and content that reflect the pillars that have already been described. Beyond that, we’ll be very anxious to see how it is received by the community.</P><P><STRONG>[MATT N]</STRONG> 2762.5 , Not Alpha Yet, We don’t use paper.</P><H4>Do you have plans to support head tracking, such as the popular-in-the-sim-community TrackIR 5.0? In previous FAQ's, you have stated that it will be possible to destroy certain buildings in urban areas. What other types of destructible terrain are you planning on implementing?</H4><P><STRONG>[MATT C]</STRONG> Stay tuned for future announcements regarding technology partners. We’re not at a stage currently to discuss everything with regards to destructibility in the game.
But there was no significant difference among voters of the Likud, the Zionist Union and Bayit Yehudi.The poll also asked respondents whether Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel contributes to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, harms chances of resolving the conflict or has no impact.While among Israeli Arabs, 76% said Trump’s announcement harms efforts to resolve the conflict, Jews were much more divided.A third of the Jewish respondents said the announcement damages the chance of reaching a solution, 23% said it contributes to resolving the conflict, 36% said it would have no effect, and 8% had no opinion on the matter.Bayit Yehudi voters were the most likely to say the decision contributes to resolving the conflict, at 47%, compared with 22% of Likud voters, 12% of Yesh Atid voters and 14% of Zionist Union voters.
The demand from religious believers to "respect my religious beliefs" is one with which most atheists will be familiar. We have encountered it more times than we can count, and it rarely resonates. Why should we respect a set of beliefs that is both irrational and harmful? Is it even possible to respect such a set of beliefs?Still, I cannot help wondering if some of us might have misunderstood what a believer who makes this demand is actually requesting of us. Moreover, I am convinced that many of my fellow liberals misunderstand what is being requested so much so that they run the risk of creating a host of other problems by attempting to comply with the demand.When a religious believer demands that you respect his or her religious beliefs, what is he or she really asking of you? Is there something in particular that the believer wants you to do differently? Imagine yourself responding to the demand with something like the following:What I am getting at here is that I do not think the religious believer actually cares that I change my thoughts or my feelings; I don't think respect is what the believer is after. I think what he or she is really after is a change in my behavior. So what does this change look like? What does the believer want to see me do differently to provide evidence of an increase in my respect for his or her beliefs? It seems to me that there is really only one thing the religious believer wants to see change in my behavior:. "Respect my religious beliefs" is little more than a demand for silence. It is about silencing dissent and criticism. It is a request that I no longer exercise my right to free expression when it comes to the religious beliefs in question. The believer who demands respect for his or her religious beliefs is demanding that the rest of us grant him or her the privilege not to have these beliefs critically examined.May of us on the left strive to be tolerant of the many ways in which humans differ. When we mistakenly interpret demands to respect religious beliefs as pleas for tolerance or understanding, we find ourselves poorly equipped to respond appropriately. We may even make the situation worse by hurling accusations of "Islamophobia" and the like at vocal critics of religion.
The Congress rout may spell more trouble for former Union railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who had overseen the entire polling process for the party from ticket distribution to framing strategies. Bansal had resigned as Union minister in the wake of the bribery scam and later lost the parliamentary election to Kher in 2014.On the other hand, the BJP victory may become a launch pad for Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon, the son of veteran BJP leader and Chhattisgarh governor Balram Das Tandon, who is looking for a larger role for himself in the party.
My favorite is vanilla ice cream, raspberries, and a little whip cream. Go Rollerskating: Head to the nearest roller rink and relive your childhood years skating around the rink hand-in=hand. If you’re lucky, you might get to do the limbo! Play Frisbee: Grab a frisbee and head to the park or the backyard and toss the frisbee back and forth. Have a Movie Night at Home: Go to the dollar store and get your favorite movie theater candy and a tub of microwave popcorn. Head home and cozy up on the couch and rent a movie from Amazon. Visit an Aquarium: Leave the kiddos at home for an adult adventure at the nearest aquarium. If you have time, see what’s playing at the iMax while you’re there. Float a Lazy River: If you have an outdoor waterpark nearby, grab your suits and spend the day floating around the lazy river while enjoying the sunshine. Check out an Art Gallery: Even if you think that art isn’t your thing, art galleries can be really interesting to visit. Stroll through the gallery and discuss the pieces you see. Visit a Local Bakery: Check out a mom and pop bakery, order coffee, donuts, or danish. Sit and enjoy your treats and read the morning paper together. Go Camping: If you’re into the outdoors, pack up your tent, air mattress, and sleeping bags and venture out for a night of camping, just the two of you. Take a Pottery Class: Groupon always has great specials on pottery classes. Try your hand at throwing some bowls or vases on the pottery wheel. The bonus is that you’ll have an excuse for a second date when you go back to finish your pieces after they’ve dried in the kiln. Test Drive Cars: Even if you’re not in the market for a new car right now it’s still fun to go and test drive the newest models with the latest and greatest gadgets and features. Go to a Horse Track: Grab your floppy hat and head to the horse track for a day of live horse racing. Bring a few bucks and make some bets! Our local track also has an “extreme race day” where they race donkeys, ostriches, and zebras. So much fun! Go to the Casino: I’m not a huge fan of casinos because of the smoke but I enjoy going with my hubby once in a while to play Pai Gow Poker.
WIA.7 For what are the conditions of happiness? Of perfect happiness, many. But the primal and main conditions are few and simple. Are they not liberty and material prosperity? Is it not essential to the happiness of every developed being that he and those around him should be free, and that he and those around him should know no anxiety regarding the satisfaction of their material needs? It seems idle to deny it, and, in the event of denial, it would seem equally idle to argue it. No amount of evidence that human happiness has increased with human liberty would convince a man incapable of appreciating the value of liberty without reinforcement by induction. And to all but such a man it is also self-evident that of these two conditions liberty and wealth the former takes precedence as a factor in the production of happiness. It would be but a poor apology for happiness that either factor alone could give, if it could not produce nor be accompanied by the other; but, on the whole, much liberty and little wealth would be preferable to much wealth and little liberty. The complaint of Archistic Socialists that the Anarchists are bourgeois is true to this extent and no further that, great as is their detestation for a bourgeois society, they prefer its partial liberty to the complete slavery of State Socialism. For one, I certainly can look with more pleasure no, less pain upon the present seething, surging struggle, in which some are up and some are down, some falling and some rising, some rich and many poor, but none completely fettered or altogether hopeless of as better future, than I could upon Mr. Thaddeus Wakemans ideal, uniform, and miserable community of teamy, placid, and slavish oxen. [Online editors note: Thaddeus Burr Wakeman (1834-1913), leading American Positivist. RTL]
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And wherever we encounter arguments to the effect that sensations require supplementation by some other agency such as principles of association, categories of the understanding, language, signs, norms, and so on, we can be sure that actualism is lurking in the shadows and that the ontological conditions for the intelligibility of experimentation have been ignored. Yet how comes it that we fall into this sort of actualism? Bhaskar contends that actualism originates in what he calls the “epistemic fallacy”. As Bhaskar articulates it, This consists in the view that statements about being can be reduced to or analyzed in terms of statements about knowledge; i.e. that ontological questions can always be transposed into epistemological terms. The idea that being can always be analysed in terms of our knowledge of being, that it is sufficient for philosophy to 'treat only of the network, and not what the network describes', results in the systematic dissolution of the idea of a world (which I shall here metaphorically characterize as an ontological realm) independent of but investigated by science. Earlier Bhaskar remarks that, “[t]hese presumptions can [...] only be explained in terms of the need felt by philosophers for certain foundations of knowledge”. Here it is necessary to clarify what the epistemic fallacy is and is not about. A critique of the epistemic fallacy and how it operates in philosophy does not amount to the claim that epistemology or questions of the nature of inquiry and knowledge are a fallacy. What the epistemic fallacy identifies is the fallacy of reducing ontological questions to epistemological questions, or conflating questions of how we know with questions of what beings are. In short, the epistemic fallacy occurs wherever being is reduced to our access to being. Thus, for example, wherever beings are reduced to our impressions or sensations of being, wherever being is reduced to our talk about being, wherever being is reduced to discourses about being, wherever being is reduced to signs through which being is manifest, the epistemic fallacy has been committed. We have seen why this is so, for our experimental practice is only intelligible based on a series of ontological premises and these ontological premises cannot be reduced to our access to being. They are ontological in the robust sense. These ontological premises refer not to what is present or actual to us. Indeed, they refer, as we will see, to beings that are radically withdrawn from any presence or actuality.
Makler and Libik are pushing in the Bot Lane while Yellowstar barely survives a Top Lane gank thanks to great play from nRated. At 6:55, MYM take the first turret at botlane while their top turret is still quite healthy due to Kubon and Mokatte shutting out the AD/Support of Fnatic. The game starts to settle and a close call for Libik fizzles out unspectacularly before MYM comfortably take a dragon. At the same time however, we see the first of two fake Teleportss from Czaru. As Fnatic push the top tower, Czaru begins to Teleport to the Top turret but cancels as Fnatic runs away. This perceived map presence scared off a rather safe Fnatic and paid dividends for MYM – all the effect of Teleporting without the full cooldown or the movement required.From here, the pace picks up, sOAZ and Peke get first blood at Mid Lane while the second lucky escape from Yellowstar ends with another tower for MYM. At 13:45, the first misplay from Fnatic allows MYM to catch sOAZ and forces Cyanide to engage and get taken out. Miss-positioning from Peke lets Kubon’s Elise catch him with Cocoon which means 3 kills and the third turret for MYM at Mid Lane. However, some of the most exciting moments came out of no-where: A last-moment Rappel dodges Peke’s shockwave and the second fake TP stalls Fnatic for a second while Czaru, in fact, pincers in from the back. Fnatic didn’t panic and another set of brilliant Nami play from nRated prevents Fnatic losing more than two players. MYM take the dragon off the back of the fight. At this point, Fnatic are staying in the game and are showing really good play, but they just aren’t turning it into objectives. The gold is close, but they don’t have the same level of map control. This is showcased when MYM push Fnatic off their own blue, although Fnatic take it back with a kill of Mokatte shortly afterward.In the final phase of the game, Fnatic’s team fight starts to kick in, as does MYM’s poke. Despite MYM pushing Peke back while he defends midlane. MYM dodge Zac but Peke returns and hits a massive shockwave to push back MYM . However, Czaru is now able to split push and the map control for MYM powers up.
a. Agar pemerintahan Negara kami menarik dukungan keuangan dan diplomatik dari pemerintah Sri Lanka hingga pemerintah Sri Lanka menutup kamp konsentrasinya dan mengijinkan penduduk Tamil yang terjebak didalam kamp-kamp untuk kembali ke rumah mereka tanpa rasa ketakutan akan represi. b. Agar tidak satupun pengungsi yang lari karena perang dan pengejaran dipaksa kembali ke Negara yang mereka tinggalkan. c. Bahwa Australia, sebagai Negara yang kaya dan berkembang yang telah mengeksploitasi Negara tetangganya yang lebih miskin segera mengembangkan program untuk puluhan ribu pencari suaka dan memainkan peran memimpin dalam membantu mengurangi penderitaan jutaan pengungsi di dunia, yang kebanyakan darinya berusaha bertahan dalam kondisi menyedihkan dalam kamp-kamp pengungsi di beberapa Negara-negara yang termasuk Negara termiskin didunia. d. Agar Australia mengijinkan pencari suaka yang terjebak di Indonesia datang ke Australia untuk agar klaim mereka didengar di Australia. Dan kami mengutuk pemerintahan Indonesia yang menjadi boneka dari Pemerintahan Australia dalam mencegah para pengungsi pergi ke Australia. Kerjasama dari kedua pemerintah ini adalah ancaman tidak hanya bagi para pengungsi Tamil namun untuk hak asasi manusia di region ini. e. Bahwa Australia harus segera menutup penjara pengungsi di Pulau Christmas dan mengijinkan para pencari suaka untuk hidup dengan bebas di Australia sementara klaim mereka diproses. f. Agar pemerintah Indonesia, Malaysia dan Australia menghormati hak asasi manusia dari para pengungsi, memberikan perlindungan, bantuan kemanusiaan dan akomodasi kepada para pengungsi selama mereka berada di teritori Indonesia dan tidak memberikan batasan bagi hak mereka untuk mencari suaka. g. Agar pemerintah Malaysia dan Indonesia meratifikasi Konvensi PBB mengenai Status Pengungsi, membebaskan para pencari suaka di tahanan mereka dan memberikan akses penuh pada UNHCR dan kelompok-kelompok HAM.
I ran the distiller, distilling 100 gallons of fresh herbs at a time, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week until bloom or harvest had been completed. We did the same with rosemary and tea tree though each of them was only two acres and thankfully had separate times of the year for harvest. In 2014 our farm had a major wild fire come through. In an attempt to save the historic buildings (the farm was originally a stagecoach stop), fire crews brought in tractors to build berms of soil near our creek which was the farm’s water supply. In their haste to beat the incoming flames, the fire teams broke the water lines supplying the garden and not only did we lose everything we had growing for that season, but the California drought was declared as well. Our creek had come to a trickle and there wasn’t enough to keep a vegetable garden going. We chose to save the lavender and give whatever water came through to the herbs instead. Before this happened we had a very grand garden: 400 heirloom tomato plants, hundreds of corn stalks, beans, summer squash, cucumbers, lettuce, rare peppers, artichokes, Korean onions, Shisho… If I remember correctly we had over 50 varieties going at once. It was pretty dreamy. In the end I also cared for our livestock, mostly sheep, a few cows, many chickens, one llama and farm dogs. This was pretty encompassing. I fed them daily, spent time with them so they would know me and trust me, watched their pregnant bellies grow and sat with them while they labored if it was difficult. I coordinated shearing events to raise the money to pay for their shearing. I castrated the males shortly after birth and ear tagged each new arrival with the farm name and their own number. Along with all of this came paperwork – tons of it. More than I could have imagined. We had a binder for each type of animal, and a binder for each type of crop. The logs included dates of birth or death, food rations for each head, housing and space per animal, any medications given, how much, how long, etc. eggs hatched, eggs collected, animals sold or slaughtered, where food, vitamins or mineral supplements were purchased (receipts accounting for all food claimed required). For crops, the paperwork is no less.
If Wikipedia was hosted in Australia, it would be breaking the law. In an Australian first, the US-based crowd-sourced encyclopedia will launch on Monday a political campaign to change the Australian law, by displaying messages targeting Australians who visit pages it was able to create using a US provision known as "fair use". The banner advertisements will say that Wikipedia was only able to create the pages because of a provision denied to Australians. "Six Australian government reports since 1998 have recommended Australia adopt fair use," the message reads. "The government is currently considering its response to the latest recommendation. If you think Australia should adopt fair use, take action." Fair use would allow extracts of copyrighted work to be displayed without permission in certain circumstances where it didn't harm the market for the original. "When you look up the ABC on Wikipedia and see its logo, that logo is there because a Wikipedia editor has uploaded it as a fair use of the image," said Jon Lawrence, executive director of Electronic Frontiers Australia, which is partnering with Wikipedia. "Wikipedia users can can only upload this content because they are able to rely on the US's fair use provisions. If Wikipedia was based in Australia, you wouldn't see that logo." Cabinet is considering a recommendation from the Productivity Commission to extend the US right of fair use to Australia, allowing local websites and teachers and authors to quote fair use material and allowing libraries to display thumbnail pictures of book covers in their catalogues. The Copyright Agency, which collects payments on behalf of authors, has amassed a $15 million fund to fight the change. "Wikipedia pages display thumbnail images of album covers," said Katherine Maher, head of the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation. "It is conceivable that, if an Australian teacher wanted to display those pages, she would be subject to a licensing fee, even though we are able to display them. "Australians run into conflict with the law without realising it. Forwarding an email or including the text of an email in a reply can break the law. Our Australian users have told us they want us to campaign for fair use because they support our mission to ensure every person in the world has access to knowledge."
Avoiding The Eye - Ships Free Today! Thus, it is for this reason that some of the kindest, most gentle, and thoughtful people among us are often crammed into cells along with the worst. It is for this reason that these individuals, who desire nothing more than to provide for themselves and their families and to live their lives with basic freedom and dignity are hounded by the state and its thugs, often receiving derision from those that they wish to free in the process. Unfortunately, there is coming a time when many of us will be faced with an unpleasant decision – obey an unjust law and continue to be “law-abiding” or disobey the law, stand for our freedom and dignity, and face the consequences of that decision. There is coming a time when laws will be passed against our wishes and against our unalienable rights, where we are forced to decide whether or not we will concede yet again or whether we will stand firm and let the chips fall where they may. Indeed, there may come a time when our government passes laws, whether they be incremental or sudden in nature, where it demands that we disarm or submit to disarmament. If this becomes the case, then we must echo the words, not without some sense of irony, of a man who took part in the slaughter and dislocation of so many in his own right, “They have made their decision. Now let them enforce it.” While nothing in this article should ever be construed as suggesting, promoting, or desiring violent action or, indeed, confrontation of any nature, this article does condone the defense of our basic human rights and freedoms by any means necessary. Violence in the absence of the overwhelming need of self-defense is never just. Nor does it yield the results that its initiators intended. Still, it is not incumbent upon a people whose rights are being taken away to sit idly by as they are gradually dismantled from under them. The guilt of the results of violence rests on the shoulders of the aggressor. Thus, if those in the halls of government decide to outlaw guns, then perhaps the American people should decide to become outlaws. Read other articles by Brandon Turbeville here. Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina.
The NFLPA believes it has a strong case for challenging Ezekiel Elliott's suspension based on what it perceives as serious flaws in the NFL's investigative process, according to a source familiar with this week's appeal hearing. According to the source, Kia Wright Roberts, the NFL's Director of Investigations, testified Tuesday that she was the only NFL employee who interviewed Elliott's accuser, Tiffany Thompson, during the investigation. Roberts further testified, according to the hearing transcripts, that she would not have recommended discipline for Elliott based on her findings and that she was not included in the part of the process where the committee that investigated the Elliott matter recommended discipline to commissioner Roger Goodell. On Wednesday at the Elliott appeal hearing, appeals officer Harold Henderson heard testimony from Lisa Friel the former New York City prosecutor who now investigates domestic violence cases for the NFL. Friel's testimony corroborated that of Roberts, and the part of that testimony with which the NFLPA took issue was that commissioner Roger Goodell imposed the six-game suspension without Roberts' input with regard to appropriate discipline. Roberts was part of the committee that wrote the 160-page report on its investigation into Elliott's case, but that report did not include a specific recommendation of discipline. A different committee, which included some but not all members of the original investigating group, met with Goodell to discuss discipline based on the report. Roberts was not asked to be part of that meeting, according to her testimony and that of Friel. As a result, the union concluded that the process by which the NFL arrived at a six-game suspension for Elliott encountered significant flaws somewhere between the investigation itself and the ultimate decision to suspend. The concerns about the NFL's investigative process in this matter could form the basis for a court challenge aimed at getting Elliott on the field for the Cowboys' Week 1 game against the Giants. If the union files a suit seeking an injunction that would vacate the suspension, Elliott could potentially be allowed to play while the case is working its way through the courts.
inauthenticity? The bad life, in my view, is defined by delusion, because delusion dehumanizes us. Instead of lifting us up to the transhuman, we can regress to a subhuman, purely animalistic state. We regress when we surrender our creative potential, when we submit to some degrading ideology such as that of the capitalistic monoculture which serves the twisted What, then, is personal? The bad life, in my view, is defined by, because delusion dehumanizes us. Instead of lifting us up to the transhuman, we can regress to a subhuman, purely animalistic state. We regress when we surrender our creative potential, when we submit to some degrading ideology such as that of the capitalistic monoculture which serves the twisted oligarchs . Now, there is a Nietzschean reading of oligarchy, which is that the centralization of power is a necessary evil: the masses must toil in various industries so that power can be amassed and eventually the amorality of those steering the major technoscientific companies will lead to breakthroughs that will divinize at least a minority of people. Thus, as I’ve said, the sociopathic oligarchs might be avatars of the undead god , amorally creating and destroying sectors of the economy. But there’s a problem with these oligarchs: their natural corruption effectively deprives them of a conscience and thus of the strength of feeling needed to appreciate great art. They are thus poor creators; to be sure, they’re ruthless in pursuing their ambition and they’re not held back by obsolete moral sentiments, but I lack faith in their creative vision. The Western monoculture which they’ve sustained for the masses lowers the bar instead of elevating people’s expectations. The dehumanization of the majority may be a necessarily evil stage in the natural development of the transhuman, but to worship gods you need a myth that has emotional resonance, and it’s hard to sing the praises of capitalistic oligarchs even if they do work towards our apotheosis.
invited them [the doctors] into another room apart from where Joseph lay[.] Now said I gentlemen (for there were seven of them) What can you do to save my boys leg[.] They answered we can do nothing we have cut it open to the bone 2 [times] and find the bone so affected that it is incurable but this was like a thunderbolt to me. I appealed to the principle Surgeon present. Said I Doctor Stone, can you not try once more by cutting round the bone and taking out the affected part there may be a part of the bone that is sound which will heal over and thus you may save the leg you will [not] take off the leg till you try once more. I will [not] consent to your entering his room till you promise this. They agreed to this after a short consultation; then we went to the invalid:—the Doctor said, my poor boy, we have come again. “Yes,” said Joseph, “I see you have; but you have not come to take off my leg, have you sir?” No, said the surgeon, “it is your mothers request, that we should make one more effort; and that is what we have now come for. [”] My husband, who was constantly with the child, seemed for a moment to contemplate my countenance; then turning his eyes upon his boy, at once all his sufferings, together with my intense anxiety rushed upon his mind; and he burst into a flood of tears, and sobbed like a child. The surgeons immediately ordered cords to be brought to bind the patient fast to the bedstead; but [Joseph] objected and when the doctor insisted that he must be confined he said decidedly, “No, Doctor I will not be bound. I can bear the process better unconfined.” “Then,” said Dr. Stone, “will you drink some brandy.” “No,” said the child, “not one drop.” Then said the Dr., “will you take some wine? You must take something, or you never can endure the severe operation to which you must be subjected. ”No, answered the boy, “I will not touch one particle of liquor; neither will I be tied down: but I will tell you what I will do, I will have my Father sit on the bed close by me; and then I will do whatever is necessary to be done, in order to have the bone taken out.
Victoria, who released her debut album at age 30, has done her time as a novitiate. Shuffled around South Carolina due to her parents’ divorce, then moving on her own to Paris, New York, Tucson, and Atlanta, she felt like she was on the run – from family, school, authority figures, the South. She’d sung in church (a mostly white Seventh Day Adventist congregation) and studied modern dance, but nothing deeply resonated until she heard the pitilessly frank, salty, devastated, witty characters of the blues. She discovered a history she’d never been taught (by teachers or family), one in which she recognized her life as a “poor black girl,” sans magic. There was singer-songwriter-pianist Victoria, who released her debut album at age 30, has done her time as a novitiate. Shuffled around South Carolina due to her parents’ divorce, then moving on her own to Paris, New York, Tucson, and Atlanta, she felt like she was on the run – from family, school, authority figures, the South. She’d sung in church (a mostly white Seventh Day Adventist congregation) and studied modern dance, but nothing deeply resonated until she heard the pitilessly frank, salty, devastated, witty characters of the blues. She discovered a history she’d never been taught (by teachers or family), one in which she recognized her life as a “poor black girl,” sans magic. There was singer-songwriter-pianist “Queen” Victoria Spivey , who wrenched her nasal moan from abjection to destruction, stalking the borders of Jim Crow–era violence, death, and disease, warning men to grind her right. Or Skip James , whose elegant, spectral, untranslatable phrasing on guitar and piano accompanied a voice that keened like a broken bird brought low in the dirt. With such haunted, truth-spitting oracles as heroes, it’s no surprise that Victoria’s music has been tagged “Southern gothic.”
This abstract [Leiter here links to the abstract] is by a professor of English at a major university; it is for “A Prolegomenon to Cognitive Aesthetics.” It will not, I fear, enhance the opinion of philosophers about what goes on in some English Departments: In this essay I begin with the proposition that AI [Artificial Intelligence] programs attempt to construct poems to blow our heads off. Beginning with this proposition opens up at least two pathways. The first pathway leads to the investigation of the nature of theories of mind, logic, and language. This is the domain of cognitive science and philosophy. I will say something about this pathway, but my concerns involve the construction of a second pathway, a path characterized by the transformation of the question ‘what does it mean to be human?’ into the question ‘can one construct a philosophy of mind from literary aesthetics?’. Both questions should be understood as ways (failed ways) of trying to figure what is real as what is meaningful, what I understand as the paradigmatic goal of theology. Consequently, the mind understood in this way is both a theological and aesthetic problem, as much as a scientific question. Accomplishing the transformation of these two questions will delineate a domain of inquiry in which the relation between what counts as the mind and what counts as ways of meaning can be sensibly questioned. These questions are partly motivated by the conflicting claims a string of related words have on me, or anyone, words through which I emerge as a human being to myself within language: ‘psyche’, ‘animate’, ‘inanimate’, ‘soul’, ‘mind’, ‘inhabit’, ‘meaning’, understand’, ‘description’, ‘justify’, ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘mine’, ‘our’, ‘world, ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘then’, ‘now’, ‘soon’, ‘change’, and ‘time’. I organize this collection around four superordinate words: ‘meaning’, ‘self-reflection’, ‘mind’ and ‘animation’. These four words mark the primary areas of contention between the disciplines of literature, analytic philosophy, and cognitive science (or AI). I call these words and the area of contention they delimit cognitive aesthetics. Reading this brings to mind John Searle’s famous remark about Derrida: “this is the kind of stuff that gives bullshit a bad name.”
Recent empirical research shows the impact of past wage hikes has been relatively neutral, retrospective proof that is surely more persuasive than speculative modelling that tries to predict the future with improbable precision. Caught in the middle is the legislature’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO), which warned that 50,000 jobs could be at stake from paying poor people more. The FAO is supposed to keep a close eye on the government’s financial accounting and accountability — notably “the province’s finances, including the budget, and trends in the provincial and national economies.” Why the FAO, on its own initiative, opted to speculate on minimum-wage policy — as opposed to fiscal facts — is an interesting question for a fledgling organization that has repeatedly been proven wrong in its deficit predictions. The bigger problem with the FAO and TD researchers is that they recycle outdated data and unreliable models to forecast typhoons on the horizon, ignoring the evidence in front of them. What does the rest of the economic world really think will happen, plus or minus? “One constituency that has mostly declined to join this chorus of boos has been professional economists,” noted a distinguished group of them in a recent commentary (full disclosure — one of the authors, Lars Osberg, taught me labour economics at university). They cite recent hikes in the U.S. with “no credible evidence that this clear trend in labour policy is hurting job creation.” The reason? It turns out that high-wage employers benefit from reduced turnover, lower recruitment costs, and greater productivity. That’s why more than 40 economists also signed an open letter cautioning against “fear-mongering that is out of line with the latest economic research” that shows a negligible “disemployment” effect. “There is no consensus against raising the minimum wage among our profession; indeed, the emerging understanding is quite the opposite,” they conclude. At a time when the provincial unemployment rate has plunged to the lowest level in 16 years — 5.8 per cent last month — business interests want us to believe that we can’t afford it? To put the doomsday scenarios in perspective, Statistics Canada reported Ontario has gained 154,000 jobs in the past year. Another bank, RBC, predicts Ontario’s economy will expand “at a rapid clip” after years of strong growth that has led the country and much of the industrialized world. If not now on wages, when?
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Since its launch in December 2012, ScreenX technology has been adopted for a total of 15 Korean and Chinese films. But this would the first commercial Hollywood title that adopts the technology. "We Kill Death" by executive producers Alex A. Ginzburg, Tony Lee and Inga Smith centers around death-defying amateur stuntmen Mustang Wanted, Oleg Cricket and duo Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, who scales high-rise structures to pose for stunningly scary photographs.It will be directed by Eric Brevig, best known for "Journey to Center of the Earth" and "Yogi Bear." He was the visual effects supervisor of "Total Recall", "Men in Black," "The Lost Boys" and "Pearl Habor" and "The Maze Runner. ""As a filmmaker, what I try to do is engage the audience in the stories that I'm telling. And I feel that ScreenX is a technology that allows me as the storyteller to immerse the audience better in the film that we're telling. I fell in love with the ScreenX process when I saw a demonstration of it in Los Angeles and really wanted to see if that was something that we could use as we develop our next movie," Brevig said during the 2016 CGV Movie Industry Media Forum at the CGV-Yongsan theater in Seoul.He expressed hope that the audience would really feel like they're experiencing the adventure and suspense of the film's characters as they watch it in ScreenX.The Hollywood film will be simultaneously produced in 2D, 4DX and ScreenX formats for release in 2018.CGV said it, with the film's production as an occasion, will continue to expand the immersive technology to the United States and China.The multi-screen theater unit of the Food and Entertainment giant CJ screened eight films at 107 ScreenX theaters in South Korea, China, the United States and Thailand to date in 2016. "We'll increase the numbers of ScreenX theaters and titles to 1,000 and 40 by 2020," said Choi Byung-hwan, CEO of CJ 4DPlex, during the forum.The company said it plans to co-produce and release some 20 ScreenX titles at home and abroad next year. They include the Hollywood film "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau; "Kungfu Yoga," a Chinese movie starring Jackie Chan; and the Korean star director Ryu Seung-wan's latest, "Gunhamdo." It will star Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-seop and Song Joong-ki of the runaway hit TV series "Descendants of the Sun. (Yonhap)
Those are the four greatest things in the universe and a Master is one of them. Someone who's in touch with Tao is in touch with the earth. The earth is in touch with heaven. Heaven's in touch with Tao. Tao's in touch with the way things are. 26 To be light on your feet, you need a steady mind. If your body is active, your mind should be relaxed. A Master can travel long distances and still see all her possessions. She may be surrounded by beauty but she isn't caught up in it. Why should a Master scurry about thoughtlessly? If you act lightly, you lose your bearings. If you act recklessly, you lose your self-control. 27 With enough practice, you could walk without leaving any footprints. Speak without stumbling over your words. Do complicated math problems in your head. You could build a door with no lock that nobody could open. You could tie something down with no knots, without even a rope, and nobody could get it loose. Masters have time to help everybody, and ignores nobody. They uses their resources wisely, wasting nothing. Some people call this "following the light." Good people teach others who have the potential to be good. Brains count for nothing if you fail to respect your teachers or to honor the potential in others. That's one of the most important lessons of Tao. 28 If you are strong, but remain sensitive, power will flow through you. With that power, you'll always be right with Tao: It's like a whole new life. If you are idealistic, but stay rooted in reality, you are an example to others. Set that example, and you'll always be right with Tao: There is no limit to what you can do. If you are honorable, but remain humble, you will see things as they are If you see things as they are, you'll always be right with Tao: Your life will become simple, yet full of potential. Let Tao show you how to get right with Tao, so your slightest gesture can change the world. 29 Want to take over the world? Think again. The world's a holy place. You can't just fuck around with it. Those who try to change it destroy it. Those who try to possess it lose it. With Tao, you push forward or maybe you stay behind. Sometimes you push yourself, other times you rest.
It was one of Robert Ripley's more prized possessions and while he personally owned it, kept it in his bedroom on a curtained podium. .After it was damaged, it was housed in the Ripley warehouse, awaiting an artist who can match the skill of Hananuma Masakichi and restore it to it's original perfection. Someone recently wrote to me to say they had seen the statue in a museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but I haven't been able to confirm this or find out if it's the original statue or some kind of copy. By the way - the real Hananuma Masakichi is on the right.
“In October 2001, shortly after the catastrophic events of 9/11, U.S. and British newspapers briefly alleged that the paymaster for the 9/11 attacks was a possible agent of the Pakistani intelligence service ISI, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (or Sheik Syed). There was even a brief period in which it was alleged that the money had been paid at the direction of the then ISI chief, Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Ahmad. (19) The London Guardian reported on October 1, 2001, that ’U.S. investigators believe they have found the ‘smoking gun’ linking Osama bin Laden to the September 11 terrorist attacks. . . . The man at the centre of the financial web is believed to be Sheikh Saeed, also known as Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad, who worked as a financial manager for Bin Laden when the Saudi exile was based in Sudan, and is still a trusted paymaster in Bin Laden’s alQaida organization.’ (20) This story was corroborated by CNN on October 6, citing a ’a senior-level U.S. government source’ who noted that ’Sheik Syed’ had been liberated from an Indian prison as a result of an airplane hijacking in December 1999. The man liberated in this way was Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a notorious kidnapper raised in England and widely reported as a probable agent of the ISI. (21) One newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, suggested he may have been a double agent, recruited inside al Qaeda and the ISI by CIA. (22) Others have since argued that Saeed Sheikh worked for both the United States and Britain, since ’both American and British governments have studiously avoided taking any action against Sheikh despite the fact that he is a known terrorist who has targeted U.S. and UK citizens.’ (23) Subsequent newspaper stories reported on the undoubted relationship of Saeed Sheikh to the ISI, to FBI claims that he wired $100,000 to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta’s bank account, (24) to a CNN report that these funds came from Pakistan, (25) and to the uncontested statement that (as later stated in the indictment of the so-called twentieth hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui) ’on September 11, 2001, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi left the U.A.E. for Pakistan.’ (26) The most sensational charge, alluded to earlier, came from Indian intelligence sources: that Saeed Sheikh had wired the money to Atta at the direction of Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Ahmad, then director of the ISI." (27)
Throwing the stick/Throwing stick/Throwing equipment Often accompanied by a penalty shot. If any player on the ice who throws his stick or any part thereof or any other object (i.e. equipment) in the direction of the puck or an opponent in any zone, except when such act has been penalized by the assessment of a penalty shot or the awarding of a goal then a minor penalty will be assessed. Should any player, coach, or non-playing person on the players’ bench or penalty bench throw anything on the ice during the progress of the game or during a stoppage of play, a bench minor penalty unsportsmanlike conduct shall be assessed. Can be upgraded to game misconduct or match penalty depending on severity. Too many men on the ice Having more than the allowable number of players (six, including the goaltender, if not already short handed) on the ice involved in the play at any given time. "Involved in the play" is key; players that are entering the ice as substitutes for players coming off (line changing) may enter the ice once the player returning to the bench is less than five feet from his team's bench (Rule 74.1); at that point the returning player is considered out of the play, even if the play passes in front of the bench, unless he actively makes a move for the puck. Players entering the ice are part of the play as soon as their skates touch the ice. Tripping Using a stick or one's body to trip an opponent, no contact is required under new standards. Unsportsmanlike conduct Arguing with a referee; using slurs against an opponent or teammate; playing with illegal equipment; making obscene gestures or abusing an official. Can carry either a minor, misconduct, game misconduct or match penalty, depending on the gravity of the infraction (for instance, using obscene language to a referee initially results in a minor, but making an obscene gesture to an opponent, fan or official carries a game misconduct.) Also, in some leagues the penalty progression is different for players and team officials (for example, in the USA Hockey rulebook players get a minor for their first infraction, a misconduct for their second and a game misconduct for their third, whereas the option of a misconduct is removed for coaches; in addition, after each penalty for a team official, the penalty count resets itself).
(Regina King): A human resources representative working at the university. In season 6, after Sheldon offends his assistant Alex whilst trying to solve a problem regarding her crush on Leonard, Janine is left to handle a sexual harassment complaint against Sheldon by Alex. Sheldon tells Janine she is a "slave" to her "sexual urges" and in his attempt at defense, rats out "worse behavior" by Raj, Howard, and Leonard, prompting Mrs. Davis to summon them to her office as well. Janine later serves on the tenure committee that is considering Raj, Sheldon, Leonard and Kripke for a vacant tenured position, causing each of them to try to "butter up" Mrs. Davis. Sheldon, in an attempt to win her over, yet again offends her by giving her the boxset for the TV series "Roots", and when she asks Sheldon why he thought this would be an appropriate gift Sheldon asks "you are black, right?". Despite this, Sheldon is still short-listed for Tenure, however he offends Janine yet again by giving her what he considers a traditional "black" handshake. In season 7, Janine is revealed to be recently divorced after her husband cheats on her, and Raj attempts to strike up a conversation with her at a university mixer. After offending her, Raj apologizes and the two talk about their troubles. While Raj is insistent that the two of them had a "moment", Howard disagrees. Lucy (Kate Micucci): A woman who shows up at a party at the comic book store on Valentine's Day for people who had no dates. She has social anxiety issues, which allows her and Raj to connect. On their first date, she becomes so nervous that she goes to the bathroom and climbs out of the window to get away. Raj falls apart and refuses to leave his apartment; however after apologizing to him, Lucy and Raj start afresh. Raj and Lucy have a date at a library and communicate via text messages and, at the end, she offers to kiss him, but chickens out at the last second. In "The Bon Voyage Reaction", Raj tries to introduce Lucy to the rest of the gang. Lucy becomes nervous at the thought of meeting so many new people that Raj suggests she meet just one of his friends first, to which she agrees. Lucy meets Amy, however Raj pressures Lucy and upsets her.
With 9.2 million dairy cows times a minimum of 100 pounds of methane gas per year... that amounts almost a billion pounds of methane gas released into the atmosphere each year. With around 100 million beef cattle... pigs, sheep, and other "factory farmed" animals it should not be difficult to fathom the extent of this problem. This means that "Beef is a greenhouse-intensive food" and a major cause of global warming (with dairy a significant part of the problem). Another major point is: "Milk is a very strong pollutant: it is about 400 times more polluting than untreated sewage. To put it another way, 1,000 gallons of milk has the same polluting potential as the untreated sewage from a town of 7,000 people." Morlais Owen. Chief Scientist for Welsh Water. North Wales Weekly News. 24.3.88. SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED Q: What is WHEY? A: Whey results when the FAT and CASEIN are removed from milk. In making cheese, the curds become the cheese. Whey's main components are bovine serum albumin and lactalbumin. There are other hormones contained in whey. Q: What happens to the: 59 hormones, scores of allergens herbicides, pesticides, dioxins up to 52 antibiotics When made into cheese? A: Everything gets concentrated. When made into butter? A: The allergens get lost: but the dioxin's and pesticides and antibiotics remain in the fat. In the digestive system? A: Steroid hormones survive, as do dioxins and antibiotics. In homogenized milk, protein hormones survive... depending upon the gastric pH, some protein hormones in cheese survive, but not all... eleven steroid hormones survive.
The authors describe a number of national and state government-led initiatives that could explain the drop in deforestation and subsequent decoupling with soy production, and they also mention industry-led initiatives such as SoyM as a potential factor in diminishing incentives to deforest for soy production. In [24] the authors argue that the SoyM should be renewed (which it eventually was) and extended spatially to the Cerrado (savanna) biome, based on their analysis of property-level impacts. Post-deforestation land use analysis using MODIS indicated a sharp decrease in deforestation for soy production, which they attribute in part to SoyM. The present study contributes to the pursuit of policy-relevant research on agriculture and deforestation dynamics in the Amazon using remotely-sensed satellite data and GIS analyses. Building from our previous class separability study [28], we produce a 14-year LC time series for MT with a class structure that includes multiple soy and cotton classes in addition to others. By contrast, mapping efforts used in [17] and [16] did not seek to distinguish the type of cropland detected with MODIS, making the necessary assumption that cropland is most likely soy. This was avoided in [24] where a dataset was created following previous research [25, 26] that does claim to specifically map soy, but this was only for the part of their analysis that is in the Amazon (humid forest) biome. Their Cerrado biome analysis was based on a separate dataset in which all identified cropland is assumed to be soy. Finally, INPE’s PRODES data, though an extremely valuable research tool, is not without ambiguities and difficulties in its use. It is essential to describe how one processes the PRODES data to ensure results can be reproduced, as there has been a substantial lack of consistency among PRODES-based deforestation annual time series that have been independently developed for use in previous studies (S1 Fig). The key outcomes of this work are three-fold. (1) Results from our PRODES-based deforestation analysis are more consistent with a large, direct SoyM effect on Amazon deforestation decline in MT than has been previously reported. (2) We create an updateable 14-year LC map set for MT and make it available for others to use. (3) We provide a detailed assessment of basic soy and deforestation dynamics in MT with attention to SoyM impacts. For map production, we use downloadable MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series data [28] and a random forest (RF) classification model [29].
Introduction Rules and norms of behaviour are fundamental elements of religions. Religions usually contain systems of ideas and rules about how life should be lived. The rules are not restricted to the family (or the individual) but cover also the social dimension, that is, how to behave in the community. These social norms prevent individuals from misconduct within the society (“Thou shalt not kill, not commit adultery, not steal, not bear false witness against thy neighbour, …”, Ten Commandments) and therefore restrain anti-social behaviour. Moreover, most religions promote generosity towards members of the society and also towards foreigners (in Islam the concept of i'thar, that is “preferring others to oneself”, especially towards those who need support; in Judaism, one is requested to give one tenth of his earnings to the needy; or “One who does not give to the poor has no luck”, Proverbs 28∶27). Religions also promote egalitarian distribution of resources. As noted in [1] and [2], egalitarianism is behind the idea of religious charity: sharing with those who have less. One of the basic principles of religions is that God observes what humans do. It follows that individuals believe that they are constantly monitored by Him, who has the power to punish those who deviate from the norm, and reward those who follow the rules (e.g., [3], [4]). Punishment and reward are expected in both the current life and the afterlife. [5] provides empirical evidence (based on a large dataset, estimating equations of attendance of church services) that both the fear of divine punishment (Hell) and the expectation of divine reward (Heaven) significantly affect church attendance. Interestingly, belief in Heaven (reward) has a stronger incentive for church attendance than belief in Hell (punishment). Accordingly, religiosity has proved to exert some effect on individual decision-making and behaviour. An extensive literature shows that religion and religiosity (as well as other cultural traits) matter to important economic phenomena, such as: educational attainments ([6], [7]); labour force participation ([8]); income and financial assets ([9]); marriage and inter-faith marriage ([10]); fertility ([8], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]). It was also demonstrated that religion and intensity of religiosity affect social interactions and attitudes: several studies relate to donations (e.g., [18], [19], [20]) and show that intensity of religious participation is positively associated with amounts donated in charity giving. In a similar vein, [21] finds a positive relationship between religiosity and trust in others and in institutions.
3) I don't want to say the combat in this game is the worst, slowest, most excruciatingly painful experience ever, so I'll just type it instead: the combat in this game is the worst, slowest, most excruciatingly painful experience ever. You're on one side of a grid and the enemy is on the other and you take turns moving from space to space, shooting each other with projectiles that travel as fast as a watermelon. All the enemies I faced looked like rednecks who were on their way to a paintball competition. If you shoot your enemy enough you eventually get a "special" attack which does a ton more damage to them; you kick them in the face. In the future, kicking is more lethal than firearms. 4) The level design was inspired by the concept of "taking random geometric shapes, placing them in arbitrary locations, and covering them with garish neon hell textures." Every color ever created, both real and imaginary, are used together in an orgy of obscene digital vomit. There are approximately 10 polygons per mission, and half of them are used on the characters' breasts. 5) The gameplay... uh, well there is no gameplay to speak of, unless you consider "typing words" and "hitting the spacebar" to be gameplay. If you like typing stupid words, which the creators of this game obviously did, then you'll still hate this game but you might hate it slightly less. Sometimes there are QTEs where you have to press an arrow key up or down within a certain time limit. That's exciting. There's a hacking minigame where you must press an arrow key up or down OR left or right which really ups the stakes. I was on the edge of my seat during these moments, mostly because I was trying to get up and leave my computer. 6) The music and SFX are nearly all royalty free garbage you can still find on Geocities sites. The voice actors were decent, especially if you compare them to an air raid siren going off in your ear for several hours. 7) If there's anything else I forgot to mention, you can pretty much assume it sucks too. In conclusion, this game is a digital car wreck with absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, except perhaps as an effective tool for brutal communist dictatorships to torture dissidents.
It also very much reminded me of the way my real car behaved when going into some drifts during some of my local autocross events. It just felt right, and I was doing it without thinking.The feeling was definitely new to me in iRacing, and I immediately went back into my AccuForce profile in Sim Commander to try and see if I can fiddle with enough settings to try and replicate it. While some settings like Foundation and Rear Traction Loss helped me get close, ultimately, it was no cigar.The AKM 52 motor seemed to deliver plenty of force for relaying a wide range of FFB effects. When I would hit a curb fast enough, there was enough force delivered through the system that would literally rip the wheel rim out of my hands. At the same time, every subtle and minute nuance was felt on the track surface. This was especially useful when I would steer through a high load corner and think I was about to clip in FFB, but instead ended up receiving even more feedback!Despite the ability for the wheel to deliver some intense feedback, overall the wheel was fairly easy on the hands and did not get me tired over a long period of driving.Since the wheel delivered such wide range of torque, for the first time I was able to really appreciate the caster setting in the car's setup. While I had felt the difference in most FFB wheels I've owned, with this wheel I could really feel the difference in caster changes even when making minor adjustments. The setting didn't just impact the level of forces I was receiving, but transformed the very way the car handled for me. It significantly helped me in being able to deal with some of the larger bumps from hitting curbs on the track, without sacrificing the feedback from the subtle and small bumps on the racing surface.I also decided to have a bit of fun in Live For Speed to see how well the wheel felt when drifting. While LFS doesn't have as advanced of a physics engine like iRacing, it's tire model is very forgiving and friendly for sideways action. I decided to start with an in game FFB strength of 10 out of 100, which ended up being quite fine and pretty fun.
Fingerprint As an attacker, it's always nice to be able to figure out exactly what code is running on a given server. Of course, this isn't usually possible, as it requires a large body of information that just isn't there. However, it becomes much, much easier when you have access to the wealth of information contained in an SVN repo. I feel that I should mention that ethicalhack3r's awesome tool WPScan does some of this, but last I checked will only detect if the top 2000 plugins are installed, and, as far as I know, won't give you a version. This is not to fault his work, though, at all; as I said, doing fine grained fingerprinting on every plugin would normally be difficult to impossible in most circumstances, and his tool does a ton of stuff that wpfinger doesn't. So what does the repo give us that we were missing before? Well, we of course have a list of all the plugins, and it is then trivial to grab all of their download stats from wordpress.org to sort them in order of popularity. In addition, we have not only the current version of the plugin in the trunks, but we also (if SVN is being used properly) have tags for each of the major version changes. Simply by comparing these and finding changed files that we can check for remotely (added/removed/modified content files or added/removed php scripts), we can build a very effective fingerprint for each version of the plugin. Then, all we have to do is run a small number of checks once we find that a plugin is installed to obtain, at the very least, the major version of the plugin. My current implementation is not pretty, but it seems to work quite well on the servers I tested with. My signatures are simply binary search trees encoded using Python tuples (don't judge me, it was quick to do it that way), which I regenerate whenever I update the SVN. The initial fingerprinting takes quite awhile, as it stupidly MD5s all of the relevant files in the repos. This was before I knew that filecmp/dircmp existed, so that's probably going to be rewritten soon enough. Once the signatures are created, the scans are quite fast, and very effective. It normally only takes one to two requests to detect plugin presence, and only takes two or three more in most cases to detect the version.
Introduction Ensuring good patient outcomes in hospitals is increasingly challenging as national economic concerns, austerity spending and health system reforms converge to create hard choices in resource allocation.1–3 At its core, hospital care is labour intensive. Health reforms have made it more so by reducing hospital length of stay and diverting discretionary admissions to outpatient settings, such that the remaining inpatients have more complex care needs. Medical advances and new technologies have been more likely to increase hospital nurse staffing requirements than to decrease them.4 The growing use of intensive care beds where professional nurse staffing is highest is but one example. Yet the notion persists in policy and management discussions that hospitals should be able to transition to a lower complement of high skilled workers like professional nurses to reduce costs following examples in other sectors of the economy.5 ,6 The premise is that fewer highly skilled/higher cost professional nurses supported by lower skilled and lower wage assistants would result in lower costs of care without adversely affecting patient outcomes, although evidence to support such contentions is lacking.
ColoradoAggies.com– The wind and snow blew into Colorado on the evening of Friday October 24during the annual CSU Hall of Fame banquet. While new hall of fame inductees Keli McGregor, Tom Proulx, Libbie Johnson, Joe Peters and Gil Sanchez were being honored that night, nobody could imagine that an intense blizzard was about to paralyze the Front Range with up to 22 inches of snow the next day.It was decided on Saturday morning during the height of the storm that the Rams and Tulsa Golden Hurricanes could not play at Hughes Stadium that day. Although many old faithful Ram fans had remembered the infamous San Diego State blizzard game in 1986, this storm was far worse and remains to this day the second worst October blizzard in Colorado history. Since the Tulsa team was in Fort Collins already, the game was rescheduled to the next day.Sunday October 26was a bright sunny day for the only college football game in America and the only time CSU ever played a home game on a Sunday. The Denver Broncos had narrowly escaped the storm and were playing in Buffalo at the same time as the Rams were in Fort Collins. In an unusual twist of events, the PA announcer at Hughes Stadium gave score updates for the Broncos and other NFL games rather than college football scores.A reported crowd of 10,128 made their way into the stadium and claimed whatever seat they could claim. Some brought shovels to dig out their spot, whether it was their assigned seats or not, fans settled in for an afternoon of football.The Rams were motivated to win after Air Force had lost a close game to San Jose State the previous day. The Falcons' loss meant the Rams could gain control of the WAC race, even after being shut out at Hughes Stadium by Air Force four weeks prior.The game action itself was simply a blowout as the Rams offense racked up 626 total yards on the day, 243 on the ground by running backs Kevin McDougal, Damon Washington and Jamie Blake. Quarterback Moses Moreno threw for 323 yards and three touchdowns, two of them to Paul Turner who had six catches for 140 yards.The Rams defense contributed to the massive defeat by forcing six turnovers on Tulsa's first six possessions, four by fumble and two by interception.

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