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By: JayReaders will notice that April 30, 2014, I posted an analysis of the Western establishment’s longtime approach of containment and subversion in regards to Russia and its satellite nations . One of those crucial strategic locales is Urkaine, which has historically been an integral part of Russia. Washington and its axis have sought to wrest Ukraine from Russian influence to divide up the nation, loot the resources, integrate Ukraine into the EU, and establish more military bases that encroach upon the Rus. In that article, I wrote as follows:“The “democratic transformation” Brzezinski is writing about is found in the phony, western-funded NGOs that have sparked a host of “color revolutions” over the last few decades in Middle Eastern and former Soviet satellite nations. The goal is thus to flank Russia and eventually “democratize” and McDonalidize Russia and its satellites even further through perpetual social disorder, collapse, and GMO cheeseburgers, just as the United States itself undergoes tyrannical “democratization” from its degenerate, so-called elite. This plan of Brzezinski to transform Russia at the end of the 90s resulted in the Yeltsin regime, wherein a host of former communist party oligarchs looted the nation through the Clinton Administration’s IMF “aid.” This “aid” resulted in 500 billion being looted from the Russian people, as well as the collapse of the Russian ecomomy. The same Clintonistas that organized this debacle through organized (NGO) crime also organized the banker bailout of recent fame, through unending, repackaged derivatives scams.”The next day, Russia Today reported that the IMF had approved a 17 billion dollar “aid” package to “stabilize” the economy of Kiev. RT wrote “The International Monetary Fund has approved a two-year $17.1 billion loan package for Ukraine. The immediate disbursement of $3.2 billion will allow Ukraine to avoid a potential debt default.The IMF’s 24-member board agreed to the two-year program to aid Ukraine’s troubled economy on Wednesday.The approval gives the green light for the immediate release of $3.2 billion to Ukraine, which will allow the nation not to fall into default, Reuters reports. More than half of that money will be dedicated to supporting the country’s budget.The package will open up loans from other donors totaling around $15 billion.
There are three different men who rub Pacquiao's comically sculpted calves once a day, each taking a morning, afternoon or evening shift. (Like many on this endless payroll, these masseurs aren't trained professionals.) There are the weekly dart tournaments Pacquiao loves staging inside his garage, awarding $100 to those who finish last. (His personal photographer, admittedly awful at darts, is a chronic entrant.) There is the legion tasked with crowd control, already ensuring that when Pacquiao runs his seven miles to Griffith Observatory, he'll have a spot in the parking lot for a gleeful half-hour of situps and leg exercises. (The mob of camera-toting fans will be held at bay by orange traffic cones with rakes sticking out of them and thin rope.) "Manny likes the noise, the excitement," explains Neil Ricablanca, a Navy vet and L.A.-based medical technician who has been conscripted to help with security for close to a decade. "He doesn't want the quiet. He likes people to be happy." Manny
Lupe Fiasco Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16, 1982), better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. He also performs as the frontman of rock band Japanese Cartoon ...read more. 26 Lyrically insane... Songs such as "Dumb it down" makes everyone understand he doesn't want to just be a commercial rapper, but would much rather keep spitting the way he does, weather people like it or not. In addition to amazing lyrical, political songs and insane word play; he has also been able to produce catchy and very popular songs such as: "Kick Push" "Daydreamin'" "Superstar" and "The Show Goes On". Overall the best rapper who manages to spread over all realms of rap... Except pointless "money, cars and girls" rapping... All of his songs are real life and legit. Want to know more about how he thinks... Try understanding "Dumb it down" and say then that this guy isn't a genius. Also amazing in live concerts... Gets the whole crowd involved and leaves everyone happy while leaving everything on the stage every time. Lastly, he originally made both "nothing' on you (feat. Bruno Mars)" and ...more It's kind of ironic that you had him trying not to be a commercial rapper, and then becoming one. - AdamDestructorJr. Not only does he entertain, but he gets a good message across in all the songs I've heard from him. Most rappers you hear of today, only talk about money and hoes and so much other meaningless stuff, while Lupe actually cares and raps about things meaningful. And, not to offend anyone, but I really like his music and I'm a high class white girl living in the suburbs of Texas. He's the best by a landslide. He uses words in such a way that his songs just sound that much better. Four classic albums (Food and Liquor, The Cool, Tetsuo & Youth, Drogas Wave). As someone who regularly reads and goes to Shakespeare plays, I rate Lupe as highly.
The existence of ‘northern’ and ‘southern’ Vlach dialects and physical appearance suggests that there may be a genetic and historical variability. The origin of Vlachs could be clarified through comparisons of DNA samples (deoxyribonucleic acid) of various populations. The various Vlach groups could be compared among themselves and with Greeks, Romanians, and Albanians. However, no genetic studies have been done on the Vlachs. The existing DNA studies on Greeks (which include some Vlachs as part of the general population) show that Greeks are quite homogeneous87 and that the populations of Macedonia and Epirus are more closely related.88 Greeks are different from Turks and Bulgarians but quite similar to other Europeans,89 particularly to Italians.90 So, even if the Vlachs are descendants of (male) Romans, they are a genetically related population. Hopefully, more research will take place later on, though political repercussions may raise obstacles. Without it there is simply not sufficient evidence regarding the origin of various Vlach groups. Nations get created, and one could argue that the language made Vlachs into a nation regardless of origin. Discussions with contemporary Romanians show that the Vlach language received much attention in the 19th century. Some people were moved by this idiom that was so far and so near and wanted to protect it and to preserve it. In the conflicts that followed, the Greek authorities and writers emphasized the Romanian political motives and seemed to consider Aromanian as a negligible peasant language. They did not understand its emotional appeal to the Romanians, similar to the appeal that the Pontus dialect has on Greeks. And the forgotten Vlachs finally found someone to pay attention to them and were flattered that some people valued their language. The lack of understanding for the feelings towards a mother tongue had disastrous consequences for many Greeks and Vlachs. National Identity Decisions The majority wants to be considered Greeks, not Aromanian.91 ..Greeks are mainly the ones who share our education rather than our common nature.92 As the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire approached, the Vlachs became the focal point of political intrigue. Their nationality would determine the land demands by various countries after the death of the ‘great ill man’. Without the Vlachs, the Greeks constituted fewer than 50% in Macedonia. For the Bulgarians it was important not only to make some Vlachs Bulgarian but also to avoid identification with the Greeks. So the Vlach identity became an important issue.
The findings will help doctors craft better ways to talk with parents, said Dr. Gary S. Marshall of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and author of a vaccine handbook for doctors. "For our children's sake, we have to think like scientists," said Marshall, who was not involved in the new study. "We need to do a better job presenting the data so parents understand how scientists have reached this conclusion that vaccines don't cause autism." Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more
def visit_BinOp(self, node): if isinstance(node.op, Mod): new_node = Call(func=Name(id='check_string', ctx=Load()), args=[node.left, node.right, Num(n=node.lineno), Num(n=node.col_offset)], keywords = [], starargs=None, kwargs=None ) copy_location(new_node, node) fix_missing_locations(new_node) return new_node return node old_compile = __builtin__.compile def compile(source, filename, mode, flags=0): # skipping a few parameters # My rewrite code uses ast.parse, which ends up calling this # function with this argument, so pass it back to the real compile. if flags == PyCF_ONLY_AST: return old_compile(source, filename, mode, flags) assert mode == "exec" #traceback.print_stack() code = open(filename).read() tree = parse(code, filename) tree = RewriteInterpolation(filename).visit(tree) code = old_compile(tree, filename, "exec") return code # Ugly hack so I can force compileall to use my compile function. __builtin__.compile = compile exit_status = int(not compileall.main()) sys.exit(exit_status)
There is no instance of any of the boys having ever abused their trust in this matter, and they are given a fixed fee of a few coppers. The cleanliness of the people of Mecca The Meccans are very elegant and clean in their dress, and most of them wear white garments, which you always see fresh and snowy. They use a great deal of perfume and kohl and make free use of toothpicks of green arak-wood. The Meccan women are extraordinarily beautiful and very pious and modest. They too make great use of perfumes to such a degree that they will spend the night hungry in order to buy perfumes with the price of their food. They visit the mosque every Thursday night, wearing their finest apparel; and the whole sanctuary is saturated with the smell of their perfume. When one of these women goes away the odour of the perfume clings to the place after she has gone. On the caravan route to Basra from Mecca to Medina pp. 86-87. Three days' march through this district brought us to the town of Wisit. Its inhabitants are among the best people in Iraq--indeed, the very vest of them without qualification. All the Iraqis who wish to learn how to recite the Koran come here, and our caravan contained a number of students who had come for that purpose. The customs of the Ahmadi dervishes at Umm 'Ubayda As the caravan stayed here [Wisit] three days, I had an opportunity of visiting the grave of ar-Rifai which is at a village called Umm 'Ubayda, one day's journey from there. I reached the establishment at noon the next day and found it to be an enormous monastery containing thousands of darwishes [dervishes]. After the mid-afternoon prayer drums and kettledrums were beaten and the darwishes began to dance. After this they prayed the sunset prayer and brought in the meal, consisting of rice-bread, fish, milk and dates. After the night prayer they began to recite their litany. A number of loads of wood had been brought in and kindled into a flame, and they went into the fire dancing; some of them rolled in it and others ate it in their mouths until they had extinguished it entirely. This is the peculiar custom of the Ahmadi darwishes. Some of them take large snakes and bite their heads with their teeth until they bite them clean through.
I looked up and my eyes widened as I realized that none other than Chad Murray had walked up to my desk and was actually calling me by name. How did I not notice the god himself wandering into the room? And how did he know my 65 name anyway? I thought I was permanently "Freak Girl" to the Haters. My heart skipped a beat. He was dressed in a gray T-shirt and a pair of slouchy jeans. He looked gorgeous as always. I mean, if you were into that sort of thing. Which I wasn't. Well, okay, fine, I was still a girl at the end of the day and it was hard not to notice, but it really didn't matter, did it? Chad was one of the Haters. The ones responsible for sticking me in detention to begin with. This Billy lackey was not a guy to have a crush on. "What do you want?" I demanded, narrowing my eyes. "Come to keep me company?" The sarcasm dripped from my voice. So much for my promise to Mom to be nicer and make friends. Chad took a step back, as if struck. "Um, nothing, really. It's just . . ." He reached into his book bag and pulled out a piece of paper. He held it out to me. "You left this in the cafeteria." I looked down at the paper. It was my drawing. The one Billy had destroyed. "What do I want this for?" I asked. "It's ruined. Your friend Billy made sure of that." Against my better judgment, I smoothed the paper out on my desk, looking at it longingly. My Gamer Girl, Allora, smiled back up at me through the crinkles and paint smears. It had been such a good sketch. . . . "Right." He shuffled from foot to foot. "But I thought 66 maybe ... I don't know . . . you could, like, copy it or something. If you wanted. Then maybe it wouldn't be a total loss." "Oh." I looked up at him, surprised by the gesture. He really was a lot nicer than his friends. "Yeah, that's not a bad idea. Thanks." "No prob," he said, still standing there, awkwardly. He paused, then added, "Sorry about Billy. He can be a real jerk sometimes." "Yeah, just like the rest of the Haters," I muttered, putting the drawing in my bag. "Haters?" I blushed.
[16:04:24] roastedcoyote: where are all the cops..................should be 100 there by now [16:04:25] JustAnotherReddi: cbs is back up [16:04:27] bonked_or_maybe_: I think CBS is showing tape [16:04:27] ChocolateRambo_: dont have cnn over here [16:04:28] cheese24: CBS = ILLUMINATI [16:04:28] Kanilas: CBS is back [16:04:31] JustAnotherReddi: damn [16:04:31] RedMedic: lol [16:04:35] alphanovember: Then the prank caller said "YOU'RE REALLY A DUMBASS". [16:04:35] Nerolus: We uhhh have on the phone with us Jimmy Rustle [16:04:40] JustAnotherReddi: it says live but maybe they're lying [16:04:42] alphanovember: CBS cut him off. [16:04:55] bonked_or_maybe_: They were asking all media on the scanner to cut feeds [16:04:55] JSNTG[SF]: big bear is isolated-ish....could take forever to get cops up there. [16:04:58] antimatroid: cbs link? [16:04:02] entusraem: Dorner could steal the medivac [16:04:02] alphanovember: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/chris-dorner-manhunt_n_2672238.html [16:04:04] trewq: what did he say before the "you're a dumbass" thing? [16:04:07] alphanovember: CBS link on Huff. [16:04:07] wood8_: JSNTG they can use helicopters [16:04:10] JustAnotherReddi: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/live-video/ [16:04:12] wood8_: to move SWAT in place. [16:04:14] verybadwolf_: theyre saying he drove off into a gully? [16:04:18] bonked_or_maybe_: they are surrounding the cabin and don't want him to see their moves [16:04:19] Dennis_: NBC zoomed way in on the cabin [16:04:23] Kanilas: Media isn't going to cut the feeds, this is too huge for their ratings [16:04:25] roastedcoyote: CNN went to tape I think [16:04:28] verybadwolf_: CBS is saying he isnt in the cabin [16:04:30] alphanovember: Before the "you're a dumbass", he was just going on about Ronnie the limo driver. [16:04:30] bing: myfoxla is zoomed way out too [16:04:32] ChocolateRambo: Anyone have an ETA on SWAT? [16:04:33] bonked_or_maybe_: Yes they will - the did [16:04:33] superman_: when it's icy it's so hard to drive up that mountain. SUPER narrow [16:04:43] bonked_or_maybe_: I can tell by looking this is tape on CBS [16:04:54] alphanovember: And the anchor said "Ronnie the limo driver?" and he responded with "YOU KNOW, YOU'RE REALLY A DUMBASS". [16:04:55] bonked_or_maybe_: they are running a tape loop of the last 5-10 minutes [16:04:55] JustAnotherReddi: poop [16:04:59] cheese24: armored vehicles on their way [16:04:00] JSNTG[SF]: they'll probably have to fly in swat [16:04:06] SexualChocolate: God bless Ronnie the limo driver [16:04:08] cheese24: they're driving there [16:04:10] DornerMerks: LIVE VIDEO STREAM WITH ZOOM http://ktla.com/live/#axzz2Khge841v [16:04:12] RedMedic: Ronnie the limo driver [16:04:16] djayc: they are still having a hard time communicating where the cabin is on the scanner [16:04:22] alphanovember: Fucking classic.
For another project, I had been reading Sigmund Freud’s papers. Specifically, I’d been researching the history of how psychologists have responded to patients with histories of . I came across Jeffrey Moussaeiff Masson’s revelation that Freud had begun dismissing as fantasies women’s tales of rape for reasons that had nothing to do with the women but everything to do with his own professional advancement. Fascinated by hysteria, I became engrossed in literature by and about Freud. In all of this research, Anna’s name came up again and again, usually with a nod to her unrelieved loyalty to her father. But also, fairly consistently, people referred to Freud’s having called Anna a “vestal virgin.” I thought that an odd way to describe a fully realized woman. But it seemed to raise no one’s eyebrows. (I now realize that may be because the authors of most of the works I was reading early on were psychoanalysts. They tend not to wonder aloud about Sigmund Freud.) And then I noticed that, occasionally, the name “Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham” came up in association with Anna’s. When the name was mentioned, no further information was divulged—and this struck me as bizarre, given that reams of paragraphs were routinely devoted to nearly every other person in the Freud family circle. I also noticed a tendency on the part of people close to the Freud family to make vague, proud references to men Anna could have married but somehow never got around to . “Poor, lonely Anna, too devoted to her Papa to live a full life” was the general sentiment. Were the two sweet old ladies lovers? He could find no one who wasn’t made terribly nervous whenever he asked that question, and so he did the obvious thing (for him; he’s a self-confessed snoop) and asked the maid. She had been in Dorothy’s employ for 54 years—since the year Anna and Dorothy met. Masson asked her whether Anna and Dorothy shared a bedroom. Essentially, her response was that they each had their own bedroom and they used whichever one they wanted. That’s when my own growing suspicions about Anna’s exploded. I already knew that Sigmund not only believed lesbianism to be a gateway to mental illness, he thought it was always the fault of the father, and was curable by . I began reading a book by Paul Roazen, a historian with no alliance to the Freuds (and with no bone to pick).
They have not been seen since, and there have been no reports of monkeys missing in southern Virginia or nearby northern North Carolina, Geller said. Police theorized the monkeys might have been traveling with someone to the state fair in Richmond, which is about 60 miles north of here, but no one there apparently has lost such animals, she said. 'I suspect they'll show up again' The three monkeys likely are capuchins that were someone's pets, said Metro Richmond Zoo Director Jim Andelin. Capuchins are highly intelligent, and some are trained to assist people with disabilities, he said. The monkeys last seen Sunday along I-95 probably could find enough vegetation to cope on their own until the winter, he said. They would not be able to live through the winter without human care, Andelin said. The three monkeys probably will eventually seek out people because they are not accustomed to fending for themselves, he said. "I suspect that they'll show up again somewhere," Andelin said. ©Copyright 2000 APB Multimedia Inc. BACK to Animal Attack Files Index
Which is the other reason we're here. For any sense of how radical Microsoft is being in inviting us into its secret laboratories, it is in truth being extremely careful: It wants to explain, in great detail, the tradeoffs that it made in building Surface to pre-emptively cut out the roots of any major points of criticism. And the biggest one is that screen. At 10.6 inches with a 1366x768 resolution, its pixel density is 148 pixels per inch, notably lower than the iPad's 2048x1536 retina display, which has a pixel density of 264 ppi. Microsoft is perceptibly more sensitive about this point than perhaps any other aspect of Surface itself, devoting what feels like the biggest chunk of the day to talking about it. We're lectured for nearly an hour by a Microsoftian Bill Nye the Science Guy about displays, contrast, resolution, modular transfer function and the design envelope of information. And about why the marketing view of the relationship between display quality and resolution — that more dots per inch is more better — the one that Apple's been semi-successfully able to push in talking about its "retina displays," is not the entire story. That the just noticeable difference between the Surface's 1366x768 display and the iPad's retina display is 3 on a scale of 116, and that the web isn't ready for super high resolution displays anyway, so it didn't make sense for Microsoft to make Surface heavier and thicker to get to that higher resolution. We're shown in a side-by-side demo how the proprietary optical bonding process and new touch sensor technology developed by Microsoft to create the ultrathin, single-layer display means less reflection, which means less glare, which means greater contrast, which means we can see stuff better on the Surface. And yes, the Surface is far less glare-y than the iPad. But up close, reading, the text still looked sharper and clearer on the iPad to my eye, anyway.
Recalled on July 23 from Double-A Chattanooga, where he was 4-0 with eight saves and a 1.67ERA (5 ER/27.0 IP) in 22 games as the closer ... began the season with Single-A Inland Empire andappeared in 11 games for the 66ers ... earned the save in the Double-A All-Star Game on July 12 ... With Los Angeles, struck out 41 and walked just 15 in his 27.0 innings ... Averaged 13.7 strikeouts per nine innings which ranked third in the Major Leagues among pitcherswith at least 20.0 innings pitched ... Despite pitching in just 25 games, his 41 K's tied forninth among all rookie relievers ... Limited hitters to a .130 batting average (12-for-92)with just three extra-base hits (all doubles) ... righthandershit .064 (3-for-48) against him and lefties.205 (9-for-44) ... Batters were just 4-for-40 (.100) off him during theday ... No. 3 batters were 1-for-13 against him and cleanuphitters 1-for-10 ... The opposition hit .071 (3-for-42) with runners on baseand .091 (2-for-22) with runners in scoring position ... batters were 1-for-12 (.083) with RISP and two outs ... Faced 109 batters and retired 80 of them ... Allowed just one run at home over 12 appearances (13.0 IP) ... his ERA on the road was even betterat 0.64 (1 ER/14.0 IP) ... Had three saves in three opportunities and did not allow a single run against the National LeagueWest this season over 14.1 innings (13 games) ... Made his big league debut on July 24 and tossed a perfect inning ... struck out the Mets' Angel Paganand David Wright for the first two outs of his career ... Earned four saves on the season, including July 25 vs. NYM, which was his second Major Leaguegame ... the other saves came on Sept. 24, Sept. 28 and Oct. 2 ... Struck out a career-high four batters over 2.0 innings on Aug. 26 at Milwaukee ...
The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (German: Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; Serbian: Подручје Војног заповједника у Србији / Područje vojnog zapovjednika u Srbiji) was the area of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that was placed under a military government of occupation by the Wehrmacht following the invasion, occupation and dismantling of Yugoslavia in April 1941. The territory included only central Serbia, with the addition of the northern part of Kosovo (around Kosovska Mitrovica), and the Banat. This territory was the only area of partitioned Yugoslavia in which the German occupants established a military government. This was due to the key rail and riverine transport routes that passed through it, and its valuable resources, particularly non-ferrous metals. On 22 April 1941, the territory was placed under the supreme authority of the German military commander in Serbia, with the day-to-day administration of the territory under the control of the chief of the military administration staff. The lines of command and control in the occupied territory were never unified, and were made more complex by the appointment of direct representatives of senior Nazi figures such as Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (for police and security matters), Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (for the economy), and Reichsminister Joachim von Ribbentrop (for foreign affairs). The Germans used Bulgarian troops to assist in the occupation, but they were at all times under German control. Sources variously describe the territory as a puppet state, a protectorate, a "special administrative province", or describe it as having a puppet government. The military commander in Serbia had very limited German garrison troops and police detachments to maintain order, but could request assistance from a corps of three divisions of poorly-equipped occupation troops.
Medical professionals from Duke teamed up with veterinarians at NC State to help save a dog named Nekot, who was battling through heart complications. It happened during a tough time in David Nance's life - his son left for college, his dog Tango died suddenly, and now his new dog, Nekot, was suffering from heart failure. "It was very nerve-racking to know that his heart was beating like that, that fast, and just to still be a pup," Nance said. "He wasn't able to efficiently pump blood forward to the other organs in his body, including his brain," said Dr. Brent Aona, a cardiology resident at NC State.Nance, a Wilmington resident, drove to NC State College of Veterinary Medicine for answers, and it turned out Nekot had an extra pathway in his heart that only complex surgery could fix. "This is one of those 10,000 hours kind of thing where you need to have an enormous amount of training and experience," Dr. Bruce Keene, veterinary cardiologist at NCSU, said.So Dr. Keene reached out to his friend Dr. Salim Idriss, director of pediatric electrophysiology at Duke University Hospital. "He was a kind enough and lovely enough person to come down and help us," Keene said. "And to do that for free as well. "They operated by simulating the rapid heart rhythm, using a tiny camera to find the problem and a microwave laser to cut it out. But finding that problem in the first place was the hard part. "Zeroing in on it with these tiny catheters and finding out microscopic piece of muscle," Dr. Idriss said, "and then doing the ablation, which is delivering electricity to put a little scar in there, and stop that muscle from working. "It's an operation he normally does on children. "What's exciting is being able to do this, being able to help Nekot and other animals if we need to, but also being able to come over and work together," Idriss said.Now Nekot's heart is growing nice and strong, and Nance couldn't be happier about the collaboration between the ACC schools. "We were tickled to death," Nance said of the procedure. "It was like we couldn't wait. It was like Christmas - we couldn't wait for it to happen. "This sort of operation on a dog is so rare, researchers at NC State said it's the first time it's ever been performed at a university.
. In addition to the huge list of corporations that made up "BoB" proper, there were also hangers-on dubbed the "Greater BoB Coalition" (GBC) within the BoB territory who used BoB for protection. These lesser corporations and alliances (Skunk-Works, EXE, Frontal Impact, Goodfellas, Atlas Alliance, FinFleet, and more that I've probably never heard of) were referred to as "BoB's Pets". They were given permission to use BoB territory so long as they paid a "rent" to BoB and pledged support and subordination to their control in the event of a conflict, but they had no territorial rights of their own. Together, the GBC was the largest and strongest group in the game. Furthermore, there were many independent players that came to BoB's territory and also paid "rent" because it was not only a relatively safe area, but it was also the richest territory in the game (there have been past accusations that the mineral wealth of the area had been increased by corrupt Devs after BoB claimed it).GoonSwarm controlled (past tense) two very large areas in the south and southeast. They are associated on friendly terms with the broad "Northern Coalition" consisting of the Tau Ceti Federation (a francophone group), RAZOR Alliance, Morsus Mihi, KIA Alliance, and the Pandemic Legion. The Pandemic Legion is very tightly aligned with the Goons and although they appear to actually be the smallest among these province-holding groups, everyone also seems to be afraid of their pilots. The bit of "Fountain" area that is home to PL was actually a wealthy BoB territory taken and held during the last war.The first twenty four hours were utter chaos. Every independent or small-time operator who had depended on BoB's perennial protection grabbed their resources in a panic and tried to flee the area. Every group that had long wanted a piece of the rich pie that BoB was sitting on formed up and headed to Querious and The Delve. And virtually everyone else who didn't live under BoB's roof jumped in wherever they could to cause mayhem. The word coming out to EVE-Radio internet station was to "trust no one!" in The Delve and that anyone might suddenly turn on you.
A US-led coalition on carried out its first air strikes and missile attacks against jihadist positions in Syria, with Damascus saying it had been informed by Washington before the operation began 15/20 Syria A Syrian man rides his bike past a communications tower that was destroyed after a US drone crashed into it, according to fighters with the Isis group, in the Syrian city of Raqqa 16/20 Syria People inspect a shop damaged after what Isis militants say was a U.S. drone crashed into a communication station nearby in Raqqa 17/20 Syria A man holds the remains of what Isis militants say was a U.S. drone which crashed in Raqqa 18/20 Syria Resident gather in the back of a van the remains of what Isis militants say was a drone which crashed in Raqqa 19/20 Syria A man inspects the remains of what Isismilitants say was a U.S. drone which crashed into a communication tower in Raqqa 20/20 Syria A man inspects the remains of what Isis militants say was a U.S. drone which crashed in Raqqa 1/20 Syria Syrian citizens check a damaged house that targeted by the coalition airstrikes, in the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Isis group, between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib 2/20 Syria A Syrian boy (L) looking at a destroyed car that activists say was targeted by the coalition airstrikes, in the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State group, between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib 3/20 Syria Parts of a missile that activists say was fired by coalition airstrikes, in the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Isis group, between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib 4/20 Syria Tthe guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) launching Tomahawk cruise missiles against Isis targets 5/20 Syria The USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) launches a Tomahawk cruise missiles in the Red Sea, to conduct strike missions against Isis group targets in Syria 6/20 Syria The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launching a Tomahawk cruise missile against Isis targets in Syria, as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W.
Three-dimensional (3D)-multiple object tracking (3D-MOT) task: comparison of tracking performance in the donepezil (DPZ) and placebo group. (A) Example of the 3D-MOT: eight yellow spheres are randomly positioned in a virtual 3D environment; four randomly selected spheres turn orange for identification of the spheres to track (targets); then all spheres turn back to yellow and move following a random linear trajectory (arrows represent initial movement) at a defined speed; the spheres stop, are numbered and the participant identifies the targets (orange border); finally, the targets turn orange for correct feedback; the targets turn yellow with a red border for a wrong answer and the targets turn light orange for a right answer not identified. The trial is then repeated, changing the speed of the movement of the spheres using a 1-up-1-down staircase procedure. The speed threshold for which the subjects are able to track balls is calculated from the mean of the last four reversals of the staircase. (B) Tracking performance in terms of speed threshold (cm/s) for each participant every testing week (Weeks 1–5) in the control group (blue-shaded squares) and DPZ group (purple-shaded circles). The mean of the speed threshold (gray bar) is given. (C) Speed threshold (percent change from baseline) for tracking performance of subjects every testing week and during long-term testing (4–14 months after the initial training) for the control group (in blue) and the DPZ group (in purple). (D) The significance table represents (a) the statistical comparison of the mean speed threshold for each group using Friedman’s test with Bonferroni correction (upper panel). Note that the DPZ group significantly improved their performance (significant difference in speed threshold compared to baseline value) at Weeks 4 and 5, while the control group only reached this level of improvement at Week 5; (b) the statistical comparison of the mean speed threshold of long-term testing to baseline values using the Wilcoxon test. There was a significant sustained improvement in the speed threshold in the DPZ group but not in the control group. *Significantly different compared to baseline (week 1), p < 0.05.
Although he wants to play as a number 10 (just off the striker) hes been placed on the wing on many occasions but can see himself almost marked out of the game (vs Chelsea this season). This is when you want other players to step up into the space afforded them by defenders doubling up on Ben Arfa. Cabaye did this brilliantly away at Swansea last season, using the extra space to pick out 2 killer passes to Cisse who finished with aplomb. Currently no one looks prepared (be it through fitness or form) to take over his defense-destructing mantle. The international break will hopefully see Cheick Tiotes return to fitness and a number of players return to form but Newcastle will face a tough challenge away at Everton. Already Fellaini vs Tiote looks to be a key battle in the centre of the park, if the Ivorian is not fit I fear for youngster Bigirimana or utility man James Perch who has deputized at DM before, but never against someone as physical as the Belgian. Evertons first choice centre backs of Distin and Jagielka are dominant in the air but, as evidenced in the 2-0 loss to West Brom, susceptible to pace so a counter-attacking 4-3-3 might just be whats required to take all 3 points away at Goodison Park.
Strange to say, although they were very handsome women, and he loved them very dearly, he was never willing to marry any of them to a man of their own nation or to a foreigner, but kept them all at home until his death, saying that he could not dispense with their society. Hence, though other-wise happy, he experienced the malignity of fortune as far as they were concerned; yet he concealed his knowledge of the rumors current in regard to them, and of the suspicions entertained of their honor.
But the situation in Mesopotamia became still more alarming and inspired a more genuine fear in all, not merely the people in Rome, but the rest of mankind as well. 2 For Artaxerxes, a Persian, after conquering the Parthians in three battles and killing their king, Artabanus, made a campaign against Hatra, in the endeavour to capture it as a base for attacking the Romans. He actually did make a breach in the wall, but when he lost a good many soldiers through an ambuscade, he moved against Media. 3 Of this country, as also of Parthia, he acquired no small portion, partly by force and partly by intimidation, and then marched against Armenia. Here he suffered a reverse at the hands of the natives, some Medes, and the sons of Artabanus, number either fled, as some say, or, as others assert, retired to prepare a larger expedition. 4 1 He accordingly became a source of fear to us; for he was encamped with a large army so as to threaten not only Mesopotamia but also Syria, and he boasted that he would win back everything that the ancient Persians had once held, as far as the Grecian Sea, claiming that all this was his rightful inheritance from his forefathers. The danger lies not in the fact that he seems to be of any particular consequence in himself, but rather in the fact that our p485 armies are in such a state that some of the troops are actually joining him and others are refusing to defend themselves. 2 They indulge in such wantonness, licence, and lack of discipline, that those in Mesopotamia even dared to kill their commander, Flavius Heracleo, and the Pretorians complained of me to Ulpianus, because I ruled the soldiers in Pannonia with a strong hand; and they demanded my surrender, through fear that someone might compel them to submit to a régime similar to that of the Pannonian troops.
But I know that’s squarely out of my control. All I can do is manage what I do with that. I don’t know what else to do other than seek external advice from people smarter than me when something comes up that really gets under my skin or makes me doubt my own version of events even when I damn well know something didn’t happen to help counter the trashbrain filter that the disinformation comes in through because having those issues doesn’t let me off of any hooks. I don’t want to use any of that, or even my status as someone who is frequently targeted with shit that I’m too exhausted to type out so just picture me gesturing vaguely at everything to absolve me of anything. I don’t ever want to think I’m above reproach, so I check in with people around me who will be honest and call me on my shit. When I do fuck up, and I do because I’m a human in an extremely weird fucking situation, I do whatever seems like the right thing to do, not the face-saving thing to do. Sometimes, this is shit that’s done in private. I don’t know why people assume everything has to be handled extremely online. But overwhelmingly more often than not, shit is maliciously made up, and more often than not the only right move that will de-escalate shit and hurt the least amount of people is just letting it go and praying that people will see through it, or they’ll actually talk to me if they see some wild accusation. And if people wanted to look for reasons to think the worst and get the knives out immediately, honestly, I feel extremely done with anyone looking to build people up only to gleefully tear them back down. I’m tired and I’ve watched too many communities devour themselves to want any part of that, and am only interested in working toward a future that’s centered on restorative justice instead of exclusively punitive systems in different settings. I’m tired of enthusiastic disposibility masquerading as community. All that behavior says to me is that I was never safe around you in the first place.
The ECB report also refers to the academic literature and explains: The empirical literature offers diverse results as to whether fiscal consolidations in the euro area have had expansionary effects on economic activity in the short run. With reference to the periods of sizeable government debt reductions mentioned above, expansionary fiscal consolidations are suggested in Ireland, the Netherlands and Finland. Looking at a broader range of experiences, it is found that around half of the fiscal consolidations in the EU in the last 30 years have been followed by an improved output growth performance in the short term relative to the initial starting position. (ECB June 2010 Bulletin, p. 85, bold added.) As Brian Lee Crowley, Niels Veldhuis, and I explained in a recent publication (2012), Canada offers yet another case of expansionary austerity. An earlier study by David R. Henderson (2010) also lucidly explains the Canadian episode. By the mid-1990s, the Canadian federal government had been running deficits for two decades, with one third of federal revenue being absorbed by interest payments. A Wall Street Journal editorial on January 12, 1995 declared that Canada “… has now become an honorary member of the Third World in the unmanageability of its debt problem….” Yet the Canadians swiftly solved the crisis with serious reforms. In just two years, from 1995 to 1997, total federal government spending fell by more than seven percent, while the budget deficit of $32 billion (four percent of GDP) was transformed into a $2.5 billion surplus. There were also tax increases, but the ratio of spending cuts to tax increases was about five to one. Canada’s federal government ran 11 consecutive budget surpluses, causing the debt-to-GDP ratio to plummet from 78 percent in 1996 to 39 percent in 2007. In the decade after reform, Canada out-performed all the other G7 nations on economic growth, investment, and job creation. According to International Monetary Fund data, from 1996 to 2005, Canada’s average growth of real GDP was 3.3 percent, with the United States the runner up with 3.2 percent average growth, and the G7 excluding Canada averaging only 2.1 percent growth. Even in the short-term, Canada’s dramatic spending cuts (and moderate tax increases) in the mid-1990s had only mild side effects, causing only a temporary uptick in the unemployment rate.
…[T]he FBI fiercely resists any efforts at Congressional oversight, especially on whistleblower matters. For example, four months ago I sent a letter to the FBI requesting its training materials on the Insider Threat Program. This program was announced by the Obama Administration in October 2011. It was intended to train federal employees to watch out for insider threats among their colleagues. Public news reports indicated that this program might not do enough to distinguish between true insider threats and legitimate whistleblowers. I relayed these concerns in my letter. I also asked for copies of the training materials. I said I wanted to examine whether they adequately distinguished between insider threats and whistleblowers. In response, an FBI legislative affairs official told my staff that a briefing might be the best way to answer my questions. It was scheduled for last week. Staff for both Chairman [Patrick] Leahy and I attended, and the FBI brought the head of their Insider Threat Program. Yet the FBI didn’t bring the Insider Threat training materials as we had requested. However, the head of the Insider Threat Program told the staff that there was no need to worry about whistleblower communications. He said whistleblowers had to register in order to be protected, and the Insider Threat Program would know to just avoid those people. Now I have never heard of whistleblowers being required to “register” in order to be protected. The idea of such a requirement should be pretty alarming to all Americans. Sometimes confidentiality is the best protection a whistleblower has. Unfortunately, neither my staff nor Chairman Leahy’s staff was able to learn more, because only about ten minutes into the briefing, the FBI abruptly walked out. FBI officials simply refused to discuss any whistleblower implications in its Insider Threat Program and left the room. These are clearly not the actions of an agency that is genuinely open to whistleblowers or whistleblower protection.
1 to Exclude Portions of David Driver's Witness Statement 01/30/2012 - 470416 - Respondents' Paper in Response to Microsoft's Dropped Motion in Limine No. 4 to Exclude Expert Testimony and Related Evidence on Netscape Software as Purported Art 01/30/2012 - 470417 - Microsoft's Opposition to Respondents' Motion in Limine No. 3 to Exclude Portions of Dr. Gottesman's Testimony as "Legally Irrelevant" and "Not the Proper Subject of Expert Testimony" 01/30/2012 - 470419 - Respondents' Response to Microsoft's High Priority Objection Regarding the Witness Statement of Dr. Gregory Leonard (RX-2891C) 01/30/2012 - 470421 - Complainant Microsoft Corporation's Responses to Respondents' Objections to Microsoft's Rebuttal Exhibits, Rebuttal Witness Statements, and Deposition Counter-Designations 01/30/2012 - 470425 - Respondents Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s, Barnesandnoble.com LLC's and Inventec Corp.'s Brief in Opposition to Microsoft Corp.'s High Priority Objection Regarding Respondents' Untimely Rebuttal Exhibits Related to Invalidity and Misuse Defenses 01/30/2012 - 470433 - Complainant Microsoft Corporation's Memorandum in Opposition to Respondents Barnes & Noble, Inc., barnesandnoble.com LLC and Inventec Corporation's Motion in Limine No. 2 01/30/2012 - 470432 - Opposition of Respondents Barnes & Noble, Inc. and barnesandnoble.com LLC to Complainant Microsoft Corporation's Motion in Limine Concerning the Direct Witness Statement and Hearing Testimony of Dr. Timothy F. Bresnahan (Motion Docket No. 769-068) 01/30/2012 - 470439 - Respondents' Brief in Opposition to Microsoft's Motion in Limine No. 1 to Preclude Supposedly Untimely Claim Constructions 01/30/2012 - 470444 - Respondents' Response to Microsoft's High Priority Objection Regarding RX-747, RX-480, RX-766, RX-768, RX-190, RX-825 and RX-701 01/30/2012 - 470442 - Respondents' Response to Microsoft's High Priority Objection Regarding Re: Mark 2.0 Software (RX-746) 01/31/2012 - 470446 - Joint Motion for Leave by Complainant Microsoft Corporation and Respondents Barnes & Noble, Inc. and barnesandnoble.com LLC to Submit Out of Time Deposition Designations and Objections Thereto for Mr. Steven A. Ballmer and Mr. Trenholme Griffin 01/31/2012 - 470445 - Complainant Microsoft Corporation's Response to Respondents' High Priority Objects to Complainant's Proposed Direct and Rebuttal Exhibits 01/31/2012 - 470477 - Initial Determination Granting Microsoft's Motion for Summary Determination of Respondents' First Affirmative Defense of Patent Misuse 01/31/2012 - 470573 - (1) Denying Respondents Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Barnesandnobles.com, Llc's Motion for Summary Determination of Invalidity of US Patent No.
With only 100 compromised ATM cards thieves were able to grab $9 million bucks from the banking system in a new style of attack. Law enforcement sources told Fox 5 it's one of the most frightening well-coordinated heists they've ever seen. "We've seen similar attempts to defraud a bank through ATM machines but not, not anywhere near the scale we have here," FBI Agent Ross Rice told Fox 5. "We've never seen one this well coordinated," the FBI said. How did the hackers steal $9 million in one 30-minute time period using only 100 ATM cards you ask? That shouldn’t be possible given the daily limits (usually about $500/day) placed on all ATM cards. Well it turns out that the hackers applied military like precision to old ATM Scam techniques and added a touch of devious ingenuity to pull this one off. Here is a look at how the theft was perpetrated. First, the bad guys had to obtain the ATM cards. To accomplish this they hacked into RBS WorldPay and stole at least 100 payroll cards. According to RBS WorldPay, “Payroll cards are used by a growing number of U.S. firms to pay wages to employees. A payroll card is a reloadable stored value card that can be used at any point of sale that accepts credit and debit cards.” Second, the bad guys had to figure out how to reload the cards. To accomplish this they hacked into RBS WorldPay’s systems once again. Once this was done they had the power to reload the payroll cards with new fake deposits that they could turn into cold hard cash via an ATM withdrawal. Third, the bad guys had to clone the card info they stole into thousands of real ATM payroll cards. This is easily and cheaply done using various over the counter card printing devices. Given that this market is completely non-regulated, anyone can buy all of the gear necessary to make your very own credit, ATM, Bank, etc. Cards. Fourth, the bad guys needed to recruit an Army of “cashers” to physically go to an ATM machine with the newly minted counterfeit (but valid) payroll cards and withdrawal cash. Cashers is the name given to the street-level thugs that do the actual cash withdrawals at ATMs. It is hypothesized that there were dozens of them recruited for this scam. Fifth, the bad guys developed an incredibly precise global attack plan.
My girlfriend now is the love of my life and something that I unexpectedly was given after writing a record saying I may be a human being that is designed to want love but can’t necessarily get it because of my patterned nature and my prior experiences with romance and trust and connectionswith other human beings. And all of a sudden—and again, there’s that duality—in that moment, where I was just like, "Yeah, I could just be that person and I need to be OK with that," while I’m trying to find some peace and solace in the fact that I may not find love, even though deep inside I know it’s all I want, I was obliged and gifted with the woman in my life now. It’s completely changed my perspective and it’s not this sort of idealistic and cinematic idea. It’s real. I’m in love with her. And because of my dark places, this love is the most powerful thing I’ve ever felt—because of all that hate, because of all that aggression, because of all those moments when I was truly so ignorant to the fact that this was even a possibility. Because of that, I have catalysed and enhanced the love I have for this woman and it’s fucking insane. Long story short, man—if I can do it, I feel like I should explain to people who I was and who I’ve become, if only to present a testimony, like, "I’ve done this!" And I’m not saying it’s going to happen immediately or it’s going to happen to everyone in this room at a certain time, but it is possible. If I did it in the state that I was and the way it happened, anybody can find a place where they find happiness. It doesn’t even have to be falling in love romantically, but falling in love with yourself. That’s what she’s helping me with now. Falling in love with something you can enjoy in any capacity. Love is a huge thing and it’s such an exhausted word and I’m trying to find a new way to look at love, because the shit I feel for my girlfriend and for people that are with us on this whole journey that is letlive., that love I feel is beyond a storybook, it’s beyond a movie, it’s beyond four letters. It’s all-encompassing and it’s inexplicable. It’s a fucking feeling. That’s what it is.
Oil companies could not make gasoline and diesel from denser oils—or get those oils out of the earth—until they invented and deployed new technologies that had not previously existed anywhere else in the world. The most significant mid-20th century California refinery innovations were those involving "cracking"—the breaking up of larger and denser hydrocarbons in heavier oils into smaller, engine fuel-sized ones. California producers also pioneered the now-common technique known as "enhanced oil recovery," which involves injecting steam to loosen the denser and more viscous oil in underground deposits, and thus get it to flow more readily. CBE's Karras, who is one of just a handful of U.S.-based oil refinery experts who isn't affiliated with the oil industry, noted that refineries in California and Washington state have a proportionate capacity to "crack" more than twice as much oil, on average, than refineries worldwide. Based on data from the US Oil and Gas Journal, if California and Washington were part of a region that split off from the rest of the country, it would have a greater capacity to "crack" heavy crude oils than any other nation in the world—except the United States. One reason California's unique heavy oil refining capacity is not widely known is that the public is not accustomed to thinking about differences in crude oil quality, Karras explained. "The liquid fossil fuel spectrum is enormous, but we're taught to think of it all as 'petroleum,'" he said. One type of crude oil can have the consistency of olive oil, he noted, while another flows like cold molasses. Almost all of what remains in California's major producing regions, like Kern County, fall into the latter category. Pollution levels from oil processing are a function of the oil's quality, and high-density oil is the biggest driver of increased emissions. As Karras demonstrated in a 2010 peer-reviewed study for the journal Environmental Science and Technology, California's refineries emit proportionately greater quantities of greenhouse gases than many other refineries worldwide—a fact that runs counter to the state's reputation as a laboratory for climate innovation. California refineries' capacity to "crack" heavy oil prompted the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2009 to remark that the Canadian tar sands are "the most promising source for California refineries" to replace dwindling current crude supplies over the long term. Oil refiners themselves have acknowledged as much.
- Much to the delight of some Bills fans, rookie quarterback Nathan Peterman got some time with the first-team offense — even if he was brought in under the wrong circumstances. He came in to get time with the first unit after Taylor’s injury — and his first few throws were his best of the evening. Peterman completed a great pass that zipped into Zay Jones, then he completed a wonderful back shoulder throw along the sideline, and all the while in the early going he was going through his reads. It had fans excited and some — in a completely premature manner, might I add — were ready for him to be the starting quarterback of the team. As I’ve been writing, let’s just pump the brakes on him a bit, because what we saw through the rest of the game was a rookie player trying to get a feel for the professional game. He nearly was intercepted after a bad decision while in the arms of the defender, and then struggled with accuracy for the rest of the way. Now, it’s fair to point out that a couple of his big plays were called back due to a penalty on the Bills offense, but even with those, his day wasn’t near anything that would realistically push the Bills to the idea that they should even consider playing the rookie quarterback. There are definitely signs of life there for Peterman, but there is absolutely no reason to push a rookie quarterback, that has completed under 50-percent of his passes over the last two games, forward into the starting lineup when they have a player in place that they’re trying to make a decision for the future on. It’s the shiny new toy theory, but frankly, we just don’t know enough about Nathan Peterman at this point to know all his deficiencies. As one reader astutely pointed out, it’s too small of a sample size, which makes the idea of putting him in the starting lineup over a healthy Tyrod Taylor a bit far-fetched — at least for the beginning of the season.
JOHN: “But it is changing, I must say. Look, when I say, ‘Oh football players are doin’ it and ‘businessmen are doin’ it’ I mean the fact is people are believing in projecting their own power, visualizing goals, visualizing positiveness and… and doing these things that are changing… changing the world. It… it all takes time. You see, I… the bit about the sixties we were all full of hope and then everybody got depressed and the seventies were terrible – that attitude that everybody has; that the sixties was therefore negated for being naïve and dumb. And the seventies is really where it’s at, which means, you know, putting makeup on and dancing in the disco – which was fine for the seventies – but I don’t negate the sixties. I don’t negate the seventies. The sixt… the seeds that were planted in the sixties – and possibly they were planted generations before – but the seed… whatever happened in the sixties the… the flowering of that is in the feminist, feminization of society. The meditation, the positive learning that people are doing in all walks of life. That is a direct result of the opening up of the sixties. Now, maybe in the sixties we were naïve and like children everybody went back to their room and said, ‘Well, we didn’t get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate and, and, and it wasn’t just pretty and beautiful all the time’ and that’s what everybody did, ‘we didn’t get everything we wanted’ just like babies and everybody went back to their rooms and sulked. And we’re just gonna play rock and roll and not do anything else . We’re gonna stay in our rooms and the world is a nasty, horrible place ’cause it didn’t give us everything we cried for’, right? Cryin’ for it wasn’t enough. The thing the sixties did was show us the possibility and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility, and the seventies everybody gone ‘Nya, nya, nya, nya’. And possibly in the eighties everybody’ll say, ‘Well, ok, let’s project the positive side of life again’, you know? The world’s been goin’ on a long time, right? It’s probably gonna go on a long time… ”
After all this discover of the tomb of Peter in Jerusalem is quite embarrassing to the church of Rome since it strikes at the very pillar of it faith and the idea of apostolic succession. Biblically, it has been shown that Peter was not in Rome and now archeologically, we see that the apostle Peters tomb has been found in Jerusalem. Copyright 1960 F. PAUL PETERSON, www.remnantofgod.org This strikes at the very tradition of St. Peters bones being under the altar at St. Peters basilica. As a side note the On December 23, 1950, in his pre-Christmas broadcast on radio, Pope Pius XII announced the discovery of St. Peter's tomb far below the high altar of St. Peter's basilica in the Vatican. This was again in 1968, Pope Paul VI announced that those bones belonged to St. Peter. If one were suspicious they would have to question why suddenly in the twentieth century did the Popes have to claim that Saint Peters bones were under the altar of the Basilica? We saw early that Simon Magus went to Rome to start a Universal Church. We also see that Simon Magus was a self proclaimed God were the title of Peter was given. There are also several traditions that do not fit with The Bible but are common today with the papacy. What is the link that I hope to show with Simon Magus and the title of Peter? That Simon Magus was called Simon Peter Simon the self proclaimed God, after he moved to Rome and setup a false universal religion with himself as the head of that church. I believe that it would be safe to say that Simon Magus is the Simon Peter of Rome that is called the first pope of the Roman Catholic Church and not the apostle Simon Peter of The Bible. I believe that the above quotes say it all. They say that the Simon Magus Peter who proclaimed to be a false Messiah God with the cover of Christianity to set up a Universal catholic church. This is the catholic first pope and the beginning of the church of Babylon that has affected history. Paul saw this also 2 Thess. 2:7-1O, "...the mystery of iniquity doth already at work...". Here is a list of a few writings that we may want to keep in mind as we read the New Testament.
And you'll find nothing better to respond with than a lamblike bleat: "Me? What for?" That's what arrest is: it's a blinding flash and a blow which shifts the present instantly into the past and the impossible into omnipotent actuality. That's all. And neither for the first hour nor for the first day will you be able to grasp anything else. Except that in your desperation the fake circus moon will blink at you: "It's a mistake! They'll set things right!" And everything which is by now comprised in the traditional, even literary, image of an arrest will pile up and take shape, not in your own disordered memory, but in what your family and your neighbors in your apartment remember: The sharp night-time ring or the rude knock at the door. The insolent entrance of the unwiped jackboots of the unsleeping State Security operatives. The frightened and cowed civilian witness at their backs. (And what function does this civilian witness serve? The victim doesn't even dare think about it and the operatives don't remember, but that's what the regulations call for, and so he has to sit there all night long and sign in the morning. [The regulation, purposeless in itself, derives, N.M. recalls, from that strange time when the citizenry not only was supposed to but actually dared to verify the actions of the police.] For the witness, jerked from his bed, it is torture too — to go out night after night to help arrest his own neighbors and acquaintances.) The traditional image of arrest is also trembling hands packing for the victim — a change of underwear, a piece of soap, something to eat; and no one knows what is needed, what is permitted, what clothes are best to wear; and the Security agents keep interrupting and hurrying you: "You don't need anything. They'll feed you there. It's warm there." (It's all lies. They keep hurrying you to frighten you.) The traditional image of arrest is also what happens afterward, when the poor victim has been taken away. It is an alien, brutal, and crushing force totally dominating the apartment for hours on end, a breaking, ripping open, pulling from the walls, emptying things from wardrobes and desks onto the floor, shaking, dumping out, and ripping apart — piling up mountains of litter on the floor — and the crunch of things being trampled beneath jackboots. And nothing is sacred in a search!
Ahmad ibn Idris Shihabudin as-Sanhaji al-Qarafi al-Maliki was born in Egypt in the seventh Century, and died there in the year 684. He was one of the greatest Maliki scholars who ever lived and is especially known for his work in methodology and law (usul al-fiqh). He was a master of the Arabic language and has remarkable works in grammar. His book adh-Dhakhira is a magisterial 14 volume work recently published in the Emirates, that looks at Maliki fiqh with proofs from usuli sources. He is buried in Qarafi in Egypt near Imam as-Shafi’i. May Allah have mercy on them both. [BACK] Sidi Abdullah says in his commentary on this line that the faqih is synonymous with mujtahid in the science of usul. There are different types of faqih. A faqih according to the scholars of usul is anyone who has achieved the rank of ijtihad. According to the scholars of furu’u, a faqih is anyone who has reached the level of knowledge in which he can give valid juristic opinion. This latter definition is important considering endowments that are given to fuqaha. See Nashur al-bunud `ala maraqi as-sa’ud, kitab al-ijtihad fi al-furu’u (1409 Hijrah. Beirut: Maktabat al-Kutub. p.309) [BACK] The foundational condition is that a human being is not asked by Allah to do anything other than those things which have a firm proof through the transmission of the prophets, peace be upon them, and that the human being is only accountable for those things in which there is clear responsibility. All other matters are considered permissible because of the lack of a proof indicating their impermissibility. [BACK] The transmission (sanad) goes to the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) the hadith came from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace). [BACK] A tabi’i related it from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace); a companion (sahabah) is missing from the line of the transmission. [BACK] The hadith comes from so many sources that it is an absolute proof. [BACK] A hadith, that at some point in the line of transmission, has only one narrator. [BACK] Two people in a row are missing in the chain of narrators. [BACK] The narrator of the hadith is trustworthy, but no one else related the hadith. [BACK] The Dhahiriyya followed Daw’ud ad-Dhahiri’s madhhab. [BACK] Mudawwana: Imam Malik’s work of fiqh. [BACK]
Some of these things. It's none of these things. It's leaderless, undefined, and undirected, reaping the supposed benefits of decentralization, at the same time suffering from its failings.It's that representation of everything and nothing that some proponents celebrate. But for others, that something so vague, so ambiguous, so nebulous can have such an effect on the game industry and the mainstream perception of video games � that is what's so profoundly disheartening.In retrospect, the large-scale politicization of video games � in consuming them and in creating them � was bound to happen. Thanks to game development tools that allow nearly anyone from any background to be a game developer � to be an artist � we reached the critical mass of viewpoints that caused the inevitable splintering of ideologies and values. It's just that no one expected the growing pains to be so intense.We'll leave you with this thought from a recent blog post from 20-year game industry veteran Laralyn McWilliams: "It's not about where we are right now. It's about where we'll be when it's done."
An adequate national defense would be provided by the same citizen- controlled Congress, and there would be no bankers behind the scenes, bribing politicians to spend billions of dollars on overseas military adventures which ultimately serve the schemes of international finance. Creating a Debt-Free America With debt-free and interest-free money, there would be no direct confiscatory taxation and our homes would be mortgage-free without approximately $10,000-per-year payments to the bankers. Nor would they get $1000 to $3000 per year from every automobile on our roads. We would need far fewer financial "help" in the form of "easy payment" plans, "revolving" charge accounts, loans to pay medical or hospital bills, loans to pay taxes, loans to pay for burials, loans to pay loans, nor any of the thousand and one usury bearing loans which now suck the life blood of American families. Our officials, at all levels of government, would be working for the people instead of devising capers which will place us further in debt to the bankers. We would get out of entangling foreign alliances that have engulfed us in four major wars and scores of minor wars since the Federal Reserve Act was passed. A debt-free America would leave parents with more time to spend raising their children. The elimination of the interest payments and debt would be the equivalent of a 50 percent raise in the purchasing power of every worker. This cancellation of interest-based private debts would result in the return to the people of $300 billion yearly in property and wealth that currently goes to banks. Controlling Public Debate and Opinion We realize that this small, and necessarily incomplete, article on money may be charged with oversimplification. Some may say that if it is that simple the people would have known about it, and it could not have happened. But this conspiracy is as old as Babylon, and even in America it dates far back before the year 1913. Actually, 1913 may be considered the year in which their previous plans came to fruition, opening the way for complete economic conquest of our people. The conspiracy is powerful enough in America to place its agents in positions as newspaper publishers, editors, columnists, church ministers, university presidents, professors, textbook writers, labor union leaders, filmmakers, radio and television commentators, politicians ranging from school board members to U. S. presidents, and many others. These agents control the information available to our people.
Commissions can lead to you being sold things that aren’t in your best interest. You don’t have a lot of assets to invest (yet), and so your investment choices should be simple, low-cost index funds. There’s no sense in paying a percentage on top of those fees to manage your money. Hourly rates for a plan you can execute for the next several years is the most you would need, and likely just for unique career circumstances like OWL—some of these players will need to finish their educations or retrain for their next careers, or at least prepare for downtime between teams, so they have some specialized planning considerations. Pretend the bonus isn’t going to happen. It may not and the numbers can change. That OWL bonus estimate assumes only six players per team, almost certainly wrong), and that they win first place, which will be true for only one of the twelve teams. Your boss may change their mind, the economy may turn, you may not stay until the end of the year. Don’t count on anything like a bonus in your financial planning. If it does come through, retire debt, max out your savings, and consider investing the rest in low cost index funds. Then treat yourself to a reward. (BTW: Happiness research says an experience will make you happier than an object.)
Although the panel supported the Ares I-X test flight, it questioned the need to develop the launch vehicle. In particular, the panel queried the cost and design of the craft as well as its development time. The decision on the future of the Ares I and the rest of the Constellation programme now rests with President Barack Obama who is expected to give a response in coming weeks.
AVEY TARE: Everything was written with all those textures already in mind. Something like “Lunch Out Of Order,” that particular song, the idea was to do almost like a set of pieces that could be played in any order, which is where the title comes from. You could just sort of randomize it and play it however you wanted and it would just play back infinitely with all these different combinations, but on a record it has to have a final sequence, which is sometimes the drawback of solidifying ideas, ‘cause they’re all just sort of stuck in time as this one thing. I feel like, especially with Animal Collective and making intuitive music or music that’s partly improvised or has the ability to take its time to become something, there’s so many different ways that it could be, which is why I got too much in my head about it in the first place. [There’s that] fear that what if, in the long run, I’m not satisfied with the final product. What if it’s always just this idea that’s in my head? Something like “Coral Lords,” or some of the more spacious parts of it, is just my songwriting style. How I like to emote and convey emotions and incorporate that kind of thing into song is really being connected to the moment and feeling connected to the instrumentation and where it’s going and not as much having these set parts. I feel like my writing style becomes more stream of consciousness almost, in the way that I have one complete thought that I want to get out and it can be inhibited by traditional songwriting. Often that doesn’t feel like the most emotive way of writing a song to me. I want to be able to have this musical element that’s happening and then just be free over top of that. That feels the most natural to me. And some of the best stuff, or the stuff I’m the most proud of, I’ve written in that way.
I was hooked from that point on, catching as many nights as possible. Although Sunday night was awesome as well, i'll always be thankful it sold out and we had to go on Monday night. My first night was a historic night. For the next six years, I caught almost every east-coast Dark Star, even the final in Atlanta 94. I always said that all of that energy at Hampton in 89 turned me into some kind of Dark Star magnet. Thanks to the band for providing me with years of enjoyment and memories. Every time I put this one on, i'm fifteen all over again and life will never be the same. - December 10, 2006my first show - life never the same afterwards
And like Megan McCarthy says, Twilight didn't change drastically, she didn't get separated from her friends, she's still the same Twilight Sparkle as before; only with a couple wings and a place in royalty.At least, if you're going to blame someone for such "terrible god awful thing", blame Hasbro, not Celestia, nor Twilight.---Celestia is probably the least loved among the good guys in MLP:FIM. While real canon antagonist such as Chrysalis, Trixie, Flim & Flam and Discord are treated like gods by the community, Celestia is still treated like trash, not to mention the several fanfictions where she's portrayed as an antagonist or something alike. and it breaks my heart when i witness the amount of abuse that is frequently thrown at her.I seriously don't see what's so funny about a defenseless and innocent filly being sexually assaulted and abused by a bigger pony. I admit that there is hot erotic action on display, but it doesn't change the fact that there's a VICTIM on the scene who is REALLY not enjoying the experience he/she is having. If you still think that it's funny or sexy, just wait until you unluckly get the experience of being painfully molested for the first time.My gut feeling also tells me that a lot of you people haven't read Molestia's original fanfiction, where she is described like this:"Her eyes were open wide and her pupils were now resembling tiny black dots. Little streams of blood seeped into the whites of her eyes, making them seem bloodshot. Her face had a horribly creepy grin on it as her teeth continued to jitter and shake, as if she was freezing cold. "...This little text block(and more in the fanfiction itself) looks a lot like something that is generally used describe a MONSTER, and i don't recall monsters being sexy. If you still see Molestia as some sort of super hot porn star, then i suggest you to look at her original fanfiction and know the truth about her: www.fimfiction.net/story/316/P… I'm sure it will be more than enough to shatter any erotic dreams and fantasies you have about her when you see how she's unpleasantly described in the fanfiction. Trust me, it gave me nightmares for months.The real Celestia doesn't have bloodshot eyes with tiny pupils, a creepy smile nor she is a molester, but she still beautiful and attractive IMO.
That's because the pesticides contain a chemical similar to nicotine, which the bees may be getting addicted to much as humans get addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes. "There's a conundrum that they are attracted to the stuff that actually is having a negative impact on their motor function and their ability to collect food and forage," said researcher Geraldine Wright of Newcastle University. Wright and colleagues offered honeybees and bumblebees a choice between sugar water solutions either containing or not containing low doses of neonicotinoids. The bees drank more from the pesticide-laced food sources.The second study, conducted by researchers from Queen Mary University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London, found that bees infected with parasites were even more likely to drink from neonicotinoid-contaminated nectar than healthy bees. And while the pesticide did appear to slow the progress of the infections, it did not increase the bees' life expectancy.In fact, both healthy and unhealthy bees who consumed neonicotinoid-laced nectar showed negative side effects, including suppressed appetite. Healthy bees who drank more of the nectar had shorter lifespans than those who drank less.
Q: Jewish outreach workers of ours who man a booth in a major city in Israel report seeing young Jewish girls regularly entering cars of Arabs and going with them into Arab villages. Can you help us understand what leads these girls to engage in such dangerous behavior? A: They are in distress, mostly on an emotional level. Some were victims of abuse as children, others witnessed violence at home between their parents. Many are the “black sheep” of the family and have never felt accepted at home. They grew up feeling that their parents didn’t understand them and didn’t love them. Unfortunately, such girls have low self-esteem and little confidence. Many come from a low socio-economic background; all their friends have the latest-generation cell phones and new clothes, while they have nothing. These girls connect up with Arab men who are seeking to “have a good time” in a way that isn’t acceptable in traditional Arab society. Even so, the girls don’t understand the danger they’re getting into? In the beginning there’s a lot of denial. They tell themselves, “Nothing will happen to me,” “He’s not like the others,” or “Why be racist?” Things are good for them at the start, and they don’t think about the long-term. Their Arab suitors pamper them, buy them things, drive them around in fancy cars and make their drab lives much more interesting. Q: Give us an idea of the scope of the problem. How many girls in Israel are involved with Arab men? A: At Yad L’Achim we’re getting more than 100 calls a month for help. The phenomenon, I’m sorry to say, is only getting worse. And we know that those who are crying out to us for help are just a drop in the bucket. Q: Tell us about the rescue operations from Arab villages. A: These rescues are coordinated with the army, police and welfare agencies. They don’t always involve extricating a girl from a remote Arab village. Sometimes it can be a girl or a woman trapped in an apartment in the center of Haifa or Tel Aviv-Jaffa, which have large Arab populations.
Right now RisingStars, TongFu, and LGD.int are sitting really close to each other, and anything can change really fast.The top series of these two weeks was in my opinion DK vs LGD.cn, which ended up in a 1-1 tie. Both games showed great play from each team, as well as some interesting ideas on the new patch.The top game that I feel is 100% necessary to recommend to you guys is DK vs iG game 1. I'm not going to say anything other than please watch it.Author: SGamer\|川辣苦瓜Translator: CountChoculaSource: http://dota2.sgamer.com/news/201311/153479_2.html Out of the Dota 2 event at the National E-Sports Tournament emerged LGD who 2-0'd iG in the finals. After the tournament, our reporter caught up with them for an interview. 我会让他们连馒头都吃不到 Those championships owed me over the years, I will take them back one by one.
The only reason he manages despite this is because of his Rs 11,000 pension. Those without pension, he says, are having a hard time. “They are borrowing from everywhere.”
"Fortunately, we don't have to solve the whole problem — only how to do the best storage possible," he said. "Once a person is at liquid nitrogen temperatures, time is no longer a factor." Huffman has a very peculiar and, I think, reasonable endgame in mind for himself. "The difference between the civilization that revives us will be as different as today versus 400 years ago. I don't really expect to be revived and given an apartment and job and sent into the world," he said. "I think the purpose of reviving a person is about having a better understanding of human history and the human condition." He likens it to studying mummies or discarded artifacts and thinks that this will be the motivation of future generations to revive the residents of Alcor's freezers, even though doing so might well come at great cost. (A factor that many cryonicists choose to ignore, or attempt to explain away using an argument of moral responsibility.) "I think they can reverse engineer neural circuitry, extract out identity, memories, ideas, and study those — to learn what it was like to be human in 1980 through whenever I die." This isn't quite the romantic vision held by many other cryonicists, who tend to want to wake up and be the people they were, in whatever exciting new world they inhabit, but it at least addressed another question that was bugging me. What is going to make future generations want to spend the money, and take the time, to revive freezers full of people from the past who could then become rivals for their resources? Huffman is working on very crude brain mapping as a kind of baby step toward the gigantically huge challenge of unlocking the secrets of our brain — of being able to identify and map every single neural connection. I asked him how close we were to doing that. "What you described is probably one of the hardest problems humanity will ever solve, if we solve it," he answered, as chipper and un-exasperated as if I'd asked him to describe his lunch. "Brain complexity rivals the ecosystem of the entire earth." Huffman believes we will get there — at least 50 and "probably more like 100 years" from now — and that a properly preserved human brain will hold our personality and memories in storage for as long as it takes.
My reservoir of natural energy has been fully tapped, but with enough amphetamines in my system I wont notice the difference. I better chew it up now. If I sync up the come-up of one roll with the comedown of another, the transition is very smooth. At this point, the feelings of a crash must be avoided at all costs. Sometimes I cant recover from a thing like that. I reach in my pocket watch pocket and put the e-bomb on my tongue.There it is. Theres the bitter taste. Theres the chemistry working. Ive bought myself three more hours in the zone and I should make them count. Im on the tail-end of the mushroom trip, and theres a minor but still perceptible afterglow from the LSD. But there were a few hours there where it was all overlapping. The cid, the shrooms, and the X all piled on top of one another to from this otherworldly trifecta of pure psychedelically indulged bliss. I guess that makes me a Jedi now.But what in Gods name drives a person to do a thing like that? Ive taken these three powerful allies and used them in such an indulgent, hedonistic fashion. The LSD and the Mushrooms together were the kind of experience that could drive you completely off your skull. And what was my remedy for that taking more drugs? Maybe this isnt even drug use any more. Maybe this is abuse. Am I doing this for personal growth anymore? Have I been using these drugs for so long as a mere escape from reality? If thats so, then what makes me better than an alcoholic, a coke fiend, a popper or a junkie?Maybe theyre right, those people who seem so concerned about my habits. Those people who insist I have a drug problem. Those people at parties who always tell me that what I do is bad for my brain while I can smell the alcohol on my breath. Those people who insist that tripping will cause some incurable mental disorder. Those people who doubt that Im in control.It puts me in a bad mood to see people talk like that. Its so often that when they say it, they have such a genuine look of concern on their face that I can barely stand to look at. I cant bear that theyre that concerned. Furthermore, I cant bear that theyre that concerned about me.
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Expertise in strategy games has long been a subject of interest for researchers [9], [11], [12], [13]. This is not because there is some expectation that expert chess players will be more savvy generals, or that expert tennis players are likely to be better pilots. While the knowledge and skills do not transfer, there is enough consistency in the development of expertise that unified theories have been developed [14]. One would therefore expect that the development of RTS expertise would resemble the development of expertise in these and even less related domains, such as surgery. RTS games, in which players develop game pieces called units with the ultimate goal to destroy their opponent’s headquarters, have three relevant differences from traditional strategy games such as chess. First, the games have an economic component such that players must spend resources to produce military units. Many of a player’s strategic decisions are related to balancing spending on military and economic strength. Second, the game board, called a map, is much larger than what that player can see at any one time. The resulting uncertainty about the game state leads to a variety of information gathering strategies, and requires vigilance and highly developed attentional processes. Third, in RTS games players do not have to wait for their opponent to play their turn. Players that can execute strategic goals more efficiently have an enormous advantage. Consequently, motor skills with a keyboard and mouse are an integral component of the game. Each game produces lots of behavioral data: an average game of chess consists of 40 moves [15] per player, while the average RTS game in our study consists of 1635 moves per player. We bear the burden of arguing that RTS play can be considered an area of expertise in the same sense that chess or Go are areas of expertise. Playing well requires a great deal of strategy and knowledge, and these require a great deal of experience. It satisfies the definition of expertise as being “characteristics, skills and knowledge that separates experts from novices and less experienced people” (p. 3) [16]. Skilled StarCraft players perform consistently better than less skilled ones, as evidenced by the game developer’s need to develop a matchmaking system for fair play. RTS games also meet more commonplace notions of expertise (such as athletic expertise) grounded in professional performance requiring skills and commitment far beyond that of average individuals.
I’m going to rely on that book called Qu’est-ce qui fait la valeur des textes? (literally: What creates the worth of a text? ), a collective work edited and directed by Christine Chollier, a French professor of American Literature, released in 2011. If you’re into that kind of things, it’s a pretty good, albeit very very dry, read. The parts that tackle this notion of “classic” argue that, if you want to bestow that moniker onto a work of fiction, you are in fact saying that this work is creating its own horizon, expanding narrative possibilities – it marks a rupture, a rift, and does so through the articulation of his own narrative and the wider aesthetic and socio-cultural context. This “classical” status is then upheld by an ensemble of cultural institutions – the people that want to witness the whole of the history of an art form, see the trends, and the shifts, and associate those trends and shifts with specific works. When it comes to literature, we’re talking colleges and teachers, we’re talking the Académie Française – when it comes to Who, we’re talking fandom and fanzines and narratives spread through the internet. As you may have noticed, though, we’re not talking about the quality of the episode, here. Worth, value, is not something that is inherent to a work – it’s a construct that is built through a dialog between the work and those that interact with it. There’s really no denial that Genesis is a crucial moment in the history of the show. Of course, it’s the first story to feature Davros which is kind of a big deal in and on itself, but it’s not all. The famous “do I have the right?” scene is equally important, in that it may be the first time where the show creates such an important narrative setpiece. There were moral interrogations before – let’s pick, I don’t know, “The Silurians” – but those were framed within the context of a single story, without much influence on the wider narrative of the show. And there were big storytelling twists and gambits before, but those were mostly a direct consequence of the external production necessities of the shows: characters left, because they actors had to or wanted to; the show limited itself to Earth, because the producers thought it was a good idea.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990, the situation changed and efforts were made to summarize past events (e.g., Munzar 1993) and also analyze recent events (e.g., Šálek 1994; Setvák et al. 1996; Setvák 1999). Other factors that contributed to the increased tornado awareness in the Czech Republic were close contacts between the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and the National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, Oklahoma) and the development of a Czech website containing information about tornadoes in general and details about individual cases (http://www.chmi.cz, accessed 11 December 2015). This resulted in an increase in the number of tornado reports between 2001 and 2010 to 56 tornadoes (18% of all reports). Thus, 307 tornadoes were reported in the Czech Republic between 1119 and 2010.
No bueno, and totally not within the safety certifications. The chin bar should only be lifted while stopped. As with the Schuberth C3 Pro and relative noise levels, however, there is one exception to this rule, and that can be found in the Shark Evoline Pro, which allows for the chin bar to be pulled all the way back and locked in. Hopefully more modulars will follow suit, thus adding yet another advantage to this helmet type.
Moreover, it increases the costs for the aggressor of any potential attack.”Qatari officials were not immediately available for comment.Saudi Arabia announced Dec. 15 the formation of a 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism, according to a joint statement published by the SPA state news agency, in a move welcomed by the United States.The countries the agency listed included Turkey and Qatar along with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Pakistan and several African nations as well Gulf Arab states.
Internet-Draft IPv6 Home Networking September 2011 Do we wish to say anything about other home networking related standards or groups, e.g. DLNA? Dual-stack Operation Any solutions for IPv6 must not adversely affect IPv4 operation. While RFC 6204 is targeted at IPv6-only networks, it is likely that dual-stack home networks will be the norm for some period of time, but IPv6-only home networks will be deployed in due course, perhaps first in "greenfield" scenarios, or may appear as one element of an otherwise dual-stack network. It is likely that topologies of IPv4 and IPv6 networks would be as congruent as possible. Should the text say anything to say about transition tool use? Some discussion has also happened on mapping of external IPv6 addresses to internal IPv4 ones. Largest Possible Subnets Today's IPv4 home networks generally have a single subnet, and early dual-stack deployments have a single congruent IPv6 subnet, possibly with some bridging functionality. Future home networks are highly likely to need multiple subnets, for reasons described earlier. As part of the self-organization of the network, the network should subdivide itself to the largest possible subnets that can be constructed with the constraints of link layer mechanisms, bridging, physical connectivity, and policy. For instance, separate subnetworks are necessary where two different links cannot be bridged, or when a policy requires the separation of a private and visitor parts of the network. While it may be desirable to maximise the chance of link-local protocols succeeding, multiple subnet home networks are inevitable, so their support must be included. A general recommendation is to follow the same topology for IPv6 as is used for IPv4, but not to use NAT. Thus there should be routed IPv6 where an IPv4 NAT is used, and where there is no NAT there should be bridging. ** Perhaps add a Figure here to illustrate the principle. Transparent End-to-End Communications An IPv6-based home network architecture should naturally offer a transparent end-to-end communications model. Each device should be addressable by a unique address. Security perimeters can of course restrict the end-to-end communications, but it is much Arkko, et al. Expires March 24, 2012 [Page 14]
It’s harder to convey this without actually playing the modal shifts and interactions for you on an instrument; if you have questions about this please don’t hesitate to contact me.
When Jones’ ship The Bonhomme Richard was stuck in a deadly battle with the Serapis Captain Pearson asked Jones, “Sir, do you ask for a quarter?” a quarter was a surrender, to which Jones replied, “No, sir, I haven’t as yet thought of it, but I’m determined to make you strike,” to strike was also to surrender.Such an appeal to the words and men that every American held dear would have been an effective way to appeal to the ethos of his readers. No matter what one’s opinions were about the institution of slavery, most Americans were decidedly supportive of the cause of the patriots of the revolution. Douglass accomplishes two purposes by his association with them: first he lays out the inconsistency of the founding doctrines of America with the institution of slavery and second, he humanizes his own experience and the experience of every slave. The accomplishment of those two purposes, readily established by the text, turns that appeal to ethos into an appeal to logos that is just as strongIn several places throughout Narrative Douglass uses logos to directly respond to pro-slavery arguments. One such instance is in his famous discussion of the Negro hymns, sung by slaves, and put forth as evidence of their happiness. Douglass responds to such an argument by saying that it could not be made by one who actually heard them, or heard them and had “flesh in his obdurate heart.”“I have often been utterly astonished,” he says, “to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake . . . The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.” Here there is a strong whiff of pathos as he lays out the condition of the slave, and ethos since his condition as an escaped slave gives him special knowledge of the subject. The real logos comes from his analysis of the content of the songs, “They told a tale of woe . . . they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish.
ntdll: Do not fail to relocate an image if the size of relocation block is 0. kernel32/tests: Fix compilation with PSDK. kernel32/tests: Add some tests for PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION. kernel32/tests: Add some tests for THREAD_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION. advapi32/tests: Add a test to show that THREAD_QUERY_INFORMATION should grant THREAD_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION. server: Add implicit PROCESS_[QUERY\|SET]_LIMITED_INFORMATION access. server: Add implicit THREAD_[QUERY\|SET]_LIMITED_INFORMATION access. server: For querying process information demand PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION access. server: For querying thread information demand THREAD_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION access. Eric Kohl (1): advapi32: Add some well-known SDDL SID strings. Erich Hoover (1): server: Do not permit FileDispositionInformation to delete a file without write access. Gerald Pfeifer (2): d3dcompiler_43: Define BWRITER_SM1_VS and BWRITER_SM1_PS as unsigned constants. oleaut32: Use proper unsigned type in EXPECT_I8(high,low). Hans Leidekker (9): wbemprox: Fix evaluation of LIKE queries. iphlpapi: Set the adapter LUID in GetAdaptersAddresses. iphlpapi/tests: Fix a couple of test failures. include: Add missing SSPI declarations. secur32: Implement a couple of identity helper functions. credui: Add a partial implementation of SspiPromptForCredentials. iphlpapi: Use WS_AF_INET instead of AF_INET where appropriate. iphlpapi: Implement GetIfTable2. msi: Only remove environment strings that were added on install. Henri Verbeet (18): iphlpapi: Simplify the calculation of "ptr" in CreateSortedAddressPairs(). d3d10core: Add locking around wined3d calls. d2d1: Get rid of a FIXME in d2d_solid_color_brush_init(). d2d1: Get rid of a FIXME in d2d_bitmap_brush_init(). d2d1: d2d_bitmap_brush_init() can't fail. d2d1: Get rid of a FIXME in d2d_wic_render_target_init(). d2d1: Only print a FIXME/WARN for specific properties in d2d_d3d_render_target_init(). d2d1: Only print a FIXME/WARN for specific properties in d2d_factory_init(). d2d1: Print a WARN instead of a FIXME for the glyph run description in d2d_text_renderer_DrawGlyphRun(). d2d1: Only draw if the geometry has any faces in d2d_d3d_render_target_FillGeometry(). d2d1: Make d2d_geometry_sink_vtbl static const. wined3d: Also invalidate STATE_SHADER_RESOURCE_BINDING in wined3d_texture_bind_and_dirtify(). wined3d: Separate loading shader resources and updating their binding points. d3d10core: Implement d3d10_device_UpdateSubresource(). d2d1: Implement d2d_bitmap_CopyFromMemory(). d2d1: Implement d2d_text_renderer_DrawInlineObject(). d2d1: Properly cleanup in d2d_rectangle_geometry_init() failure paths. d2d1: Implement d2d_factory_CreateTransformedGeometry(). Hugh McMaster (5): kernel32: Reset insert key toggle when Insert Mode changes. uninstaller: Add WriteConsoleW support. uninstaller: Output Unicode program names in CLI mode. uninstaller: Add WriteFile fallback. uninstaller: Add help switch and usage information. Huw D. M. Davies (3): ws2_32: Avoid using inet_ntoa() which isn't thread-safe. gdi32: Add tests for GetFontRealizationInfo, GetFontFileInfo and GetFontFileData. gdi32/tests: 64-bit GetFontFileInfo may fail with error ERROR_NOACCESS. Indrek Altpere (1): mshtml: Handle nsIDOMWindow_GetFrames returning NULL. Iván Matellanes (7): msvcirt: Allocate a buffer if necessary when a file is opened. msvcirt: Implement filebuf::setmode. msvcirt: Implement filebuf::setbuf. msvcirt: Implement filebuf::sync. msvcirt: Implement filebuf::overflow. msvcirt: Implement filebuf::underflow.
Such penalties range from a brief delay and lecture to being sent on a complicated scavenger hunt, or humiliations like one driver we saw being paraded around the paddock several times while strapped to the roof of the team’s car with cling wrap. photo by Craig M. Renwick Alternatively, at the pleasure of the judges, you were invited to make atonement with a donation to a children’s charity. Our team did resort to that worthy “bribery”—not once, but twice. In mid-afternoon of the second day, Bad Grampa was sent off the track for a one-hour punishment—plus a warning that if our team received one more black flag, we would be disqualified, out of the race. Founder Jay explained to Clouseau that they had cracked down on those infractions because they were having too many serious accidents—averaging two “rollover” crashes per race. After tightening the rules, they were down to about two such scares a season—and in 2014 they ran twenty races at various racetracks across the United States. Given Bamm Bamm’s accidentally untarnished record (so to speak), the team felt that he should be sent out to try to finish. Each of our shifts had typically lasted forty-five minutes to an hour, and there were two more hours of racing time—plus Bamm Bamm was already a little spent from a previous angst-ridden session that day. But of course he said he would try. Many Hands Help Bamm Bamm Buckle Up photo by Craig M. Renwick The reader may imagine that I felt a certain amount of pressure . . . For a full hour I was looking good, staying out of trouble and keeping up a consistent pace. The double yellow came out for a long interval (couple of crashed-up crapcans they had to clear away), slowing everyone to “parade speed.” For ten laps or so I could breathe easily, safe from the T-men and so many other things that could go wrong. I began to visualize the glory of being “the hero,” of driving a flawless two hours and taking the checkered flag for the long-suffering Bangers ’n’ Mash team. The tortoise had a chance to be the champion. When your boyhood fate was to be pathetic at sports, you had no hope of being the one to catch the winning pass, hit the grand slam, or (best of all for a Canadian boy) score the overtime goal.
The February Revolution was the culmination of a wave of strikes that began in July 1916 and increased in intensity through the end of the year and into 1917. On January 9, 142,000 workers struck to commemorate the 12th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," (January 9, 1905, when the Tsar’s troops fired on peacefully demonstrating workers led by the priest [and police agent] Father Gapon, killing over 100 people and wounding hundreds more; the massacre set off the revolution of that year). On February 14, 84,000 workers went out on strike, summoned by the Mensheviks (the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party [RSDLP] - see below), to honor the convocation of the Duma, the country’s largely advisory legislature. Four days later, after being locked out by management for demanding higher wages, the workers at the giant (30,000 employees) Putilov Metal Workers called on workers in other factories to strike in sympathy. By February 22, 100,000 workers were out on strike. The movement took a giant step forward when, on February 23, International Women’s Day, women workers, many employed in the city’s textiles factories, struck and went into the streets, demanding bread and carrying banners: "Down with the Autocracy"; "Down with the War." The demonstrations mounted in size and built in intensity over several days. By February 25, 250,000 workers were out and virtually all of the city’s factories were shut down. After a unit of Tsarist troops, called out to suppress the incipient insurrection, fired on the crowd, killing and wounding a number of people, the demonstrations erupted into riots, assaults on policemen, police stations, and the courts. Demonstrators invaded the city’s arsenal, seized weapons, and distributed them to their comrades. Eventually, in response to direct entreaties, particularly from the women, individual soldiers and eventually entire units mutinied, refusing to fire on the people and, instead, arresting and even shooting their officers.
This movie. It felt offensive to me, and I don’t even know any trans people. It was paced and filmed as if we were watching a movie about someone with a terminal illness, or a psychological disorder. It was so bleak, and just seemed to hammer in how badly things go for trans people, but not in a particularly inspiring way. It just felt like the movie was trying to say there was something wrong with Einar, that actually being Lili was ruining his life, which doesn’t seem terribly pro-trans to me. By the end, I basically felt that Einar/Lili was the damn villain of the movie. She was just terrible to her wife Gerda, throughout the whole thing. She cheated on her, she lied, she kept secrets, and thought about no one but herself. Alicia Vikander was the only likable character in the whole movie, which seems like a weird call for a movie that’s purporting to be pro-trans. And then we get to some stuff that may be my own ignorance…but it didn’t seem to me like the filmmakers understood what being trans meant. Einar decides he’s trans pretty much only because he likes women’s clothes, and then basically develops some sort of Dissociative Identity Disorder, what we used to call multiple personality disorder, where he became Lili, and refused to even acknowledge that Einar was real. Like she was two different people. Now, I’m going to say again, I don’t personally know any trans people, and am not overly aware of what it means to be trans, but to my knowledge, this is incorrect. This movie seemed to posit that inside the body of Einar Wegener there were two completely different people with different thoughts, feelings, tastes, abilities, and genders, and that we had to kill the Einar personality so the Lili one could live. And that seems incorrect to me. I’ve always gotten the impression from when I’ve heard trans people interviewed that they’re still the same person, just with the wrong gender. Sexual-reassignment surgery doesn’t kill the person you were, never to acknowledge their existence again, I thought it was to make the person you are the correct gender. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong and this movie understand what it means to be trans perfectly, but to me it felt like it missed the mark like crazy.
Just hours before the Interim Satellite Service was due to be switched off and decommissioned, its replacement, the Sky Muster Long Term Satellite Service began experiencing a national network outage. The Better Internet for Rural Regional and Remote Australia Facebook page was broadcasting the news late on Monday afternoon, sharing a notice from Activ8me Customer Care, which said all Sky Muster services were unable to connect to the internet. “This outage will also affect VoIP services connected via Sky Muster,” it went on to say, noting that while nbn co was working to restore services as quickly as possible, “no ETA is currently known”. This was followed up with an official notification from nbn co, issued at 6.44pm AEDT, saying the incident was national, affecting all beams. The next update was due at 8.10pm. BIRRR founder Kristy Sparrow said it was ironic that the only satellite internet users able to connect to the internet were people who hadn’t migrated across to Sky Muster, touted as a greatly superior service for rural and remote people. Along with other tongue-in-cheek comments on the BIRRR page made by people still able to access the internet via mobile broadband, Kristy said she hoped the people in charge hadn’t turned off the wrong satellite. SkyMesh CEO Paul Rees was quoted as saying, “We’re not sure if they mixed Sky Muster up with the Interim Satellite Service which is due to be turned off tomorrow night, but we have asked them to turn Sky Muster back on please”. On a serious note, Kristy said the loss of internet services for thousands of rural people was exactly why landlines needed to be kept. She was referring to the Productivity Commission recommendation to remove the mandate for every household to have a telephone landline, which would mean voice services would be delivered via satellite for users in rural and remote Australia. “It’s not reliable technology,” she said. She also urged those who were still able to access the internet to let friends and neighbours who would be without internet service, know what had happened. Queensland Country Life
In the masses, who have no fear of what comes after death, the myth-inspired hope of eternal life and the desire of being, the oldest and most powerful of all passions, produces joy and a feeling of happiness, and overcomes that childish terror. Hence, whoever has lost children, a wife, and friends would rather have them continue to be somewhere and continue to exist, even if in hardship, than be utterly taken away and destroyed and reduced to nothing. …. they willingly hear such expressions as “the dying person goes somewhere else and changes his dwelling”, and whatever else intimates that death is a change of the soul’s dwelling, and not destruction … and such expressions as “he is lost” and “he has perished” and “he is no more” disturb them…. They hold in store for them utter death who say: “We men are born only once; one cannot be born a second time…… For the present is of little account to them, or rather of none at all, in comparison with eternity, and they let it pass without enjoying it and neglect virtue and action, spiritless and despising themselves as creatures of a day, impermanent, and beings worth nothing to speak of. For the doctrine that “being-without-sensation and being-dissolved and what has no sensation is nothing to us” does not remove the terror of death, but rather confirms it. For this is the very thing nature dreads … the dissolution of the soul into what has neither thought nor sensation. Epicurus, by making this a scattering into emptiness and atoms, does still more destroy our hope of immortality, a hope for which (I would almost say) all men and all women are ready to be torn asunder by Cerberus and to carry constantly [water] into the barrel [of the Danaides], so that they may [only] stay in being and not be extinguished. p. 1104 – 1105, 1.c
from both Chrysler Group and Fiat, the GEC has helped both parties to maximize the benefits of the Fiat-Chrysler Alliance. Nonetheless, we continue to independently govern our business decisions to enhance our value. Our Strategy Broaden Our Product Portfolio We intend to continue to broaden our product portfolio to better address consumer demands in segments in which we are currently underrepresented, such as small and compact vehicles and mid-size commercial vans. We plan to launch compelling products that reflect our focus on improved styling, driving experience, quality, reliability, safety and fuel economy. We expect our sales of smaller vehicles with smaller engines, particularly 4-cylinder engines, to substantially increase and sales of vehicles with larger displacement engines as a portion of our total sales to start to decline over time. Our strategy aims to meet consumer needs as well as to comply with increasingly stringent fuel economy regulations. With the Dodge Dart we re-entered the compact sedan segment, adding a Fiat-designed powertrain and delivering an EPA-rated fuel economy of up to 41 highway miles per gallon. Further, we are investing heavily in alternative fuel powertrains to ensure we have a complete product lineup to satisfy consumer and regulatory demands. As part of the Fiat-Chrysler Alliance, we have exclusive distribution rights for Alfa Romeo brand vehicles and service parts in North America. In 2011, we began distributing Alfa Romeo vehicles and service parts in Mexico, and we expect to sell Alfa Romeo vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, which will represent our entry into the premium vehicle market. Continue to Improve Our Product Quality While our total quality metrics have improved since we began operations, we are committed to continually improving quality. We have invested over $100 million in new quality tools since we began operations in mid-2009. Due to improved reliability, our warranty claim rate, as measured by conditions per 1,000 vehicles, has fallen by over 21 percent since we began operations in mid-2009 to May 2013. We plan to increase the volume of vehicles from common global architectures to more than 44 percent of our total volumes in 2016, which will enable us to concentrate our product portfolio on a base of strong and validated existing technology, which we believe will further reduce warranty claims and drive improvements in quality metrics. Our WCM initiatives will remain an important part of quality improvement, as WCM initiatives allow us to detect and repair defects more easily.
Finally, I would like to draw the Committee’s attention to its own Unitary Development plan, which states: “Proposals which would involve the loss of public houses (in whole, or in part and in particular the ground floor public house use in traditional purpose-built buildings) will only be permitted if it is demonstrated that there is no reasonable prospect in the medium term of re-use.” The Canterbury Arms, however, is not a closed public house, it is thriving. This development has had strong opposition with a petition with more than 1,000 signatures. I therefore ask that the Committee’s considers refusal of planning permission.
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Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 65.55.169.108 as permitted sender) client-ip=65.55.169.108; From: Glenn Thrush <[email protected]> To: John Podesta <[email protected]> Subject: Re: OTR Thread-Topic: OTR Thread-Index: AQHRY3aQKPNT6cf6W0W1ybNZYTroT58kML0AgAACMJY= Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:00:38 +0000 Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]>,<CAE6FiQ_33yTjesy4zapjkZWcLzswV9KvdCesSrFDvQ+bXjJVow@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE6FiQ_33yTjesy4zapjkZWcLzswV9KvdCesSrFDvQ+bXjJVow@mail.gmail.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:23 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_60ACB5D933B34403A4F01B3727EB0A1Apoliticocom_" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) I do 2) very fair point Again best of luck Sent from my iPhone On Feb 9, 2016, at 3:52 PM, John Podesta <[email protected]<mailto:joh= [email protected]>> wrote: I have no doubt you had sources for your story and weren't just making it u= p, but my tweet was accurate so 1) maybe you should question your sources o= r 2) maybe you are talking to people on the inside who the pressure is gett= ing to.
— The Washington Post quoted an anonymous “Democratic aide” in 2015 to dismiss concerns that Warren did not endorse Clinton’s campaign early in the race, claiming “I don’t think it’s hugely notable that she is not there.” — “I don’t see the Senate being spurred into action by Elizabeth Warren,” the American Banker quoted “one former Hill aide” as saying in a 2013 story about efforts in Congress to shield the Consumer Financial Protection Agency from legal challenges. — As Congress debated an omnibus legislative package that included potential changes to the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill in 2014, Politico gave a “GOP aide” anonymity to blame Warren in case the bill failed. — When Warren drafted an effort to give regulators more authority over auto dealers in 2014, the Hill granted anonymity to “one lobbyist familiar with the congressional discussions” to downplay the effort as “not going to go anywhere” unless Warren could bring on “a Democrat who is more credible than her.” — CNN in January let “one Democratic senator who asked not to be named” criticize Warren for not endorsing a candidate, presumably Clinton, earlier in the Democratic presidential primary. — The Hill granted anonymity to “one former Democratic staffer turned financial services lobbyist” in 2015 to claim that “Elizabeth Warren is the mirror image of Ted Cruz, and if we aren’t careful, she’ll drive the Democrats into the same ditch.”
2001 Arthropod vectors: Ixodes scapularis in Canada Boreal region, 1971–2000 vs. 2001–2050 0.3–0.7 (× 2.3) Climate change This study Boreal region, 1971–2000 vs. 2051–2069 0.3–1.4 (× 4.6) Climate change This study Huron Ontario, 1971–2000 vs. 2001–2050 1.8–3.0 (× 1.6) Climate change This study Huron Ontario, 1971–2000 vs. 2051–2069 1.8–5.3 (× 2.9) Climate change This study Southern Ontario, 1971–2000 vs. 2001–2050 3.0–4.5 (× 1.5) Climate change This study Southern Ontario, 1971–2000 vs. 2051–2069 3.0–6.7 (× 2.2) Climate change This study Upper Southern Ontario, 1971–2000 vs. 2001–2050 0.9–1.7 (× 1.9) Climate change This study Upper Southern Ontario, 1971–2000 vs. 2051–2069 0.9–3.3 (× 3.6) Climate change This study South-Western Quebec, 1971–2000 vs. 2001–2050 1.7–2.8 (× 1.6) Climate change This study South-Western Quebec, 1971–2000 vs. 2051–2069 1.7–4.3 (× 2.5) Climate change This study Old Lyme, CT, USA, 1971–2000 vs. 2001–2050 3.1–4.8 (× 1.5) Climate change This study Old Lyme, CT, USA, 1971–2000 vs. 2051–2069 3.1–7.1 (× 2.3) Climate change This study Fort McCoy, WI, USA, 1971–2000 vs. 2001–2050 2.3–3.4 (× 1.4) Climate change This study Fort McCoy, WI, USA, 1971–2000 vs. 2051–2069 2.1–5.2 (× 2.2) Climate change This study Vector-borne diseases Dengue in Columbia 0.88–3.87 (× 4.4) Human and mosquito density Padmanabha et al. 2012 Dengue in Brazil 1.5–2.75 (× 1.8) With and without adult mosquito control Pinho et al. 2010 Dengue in Brazil 1.6–22.9 (× 14.3) City and year Degallier et al. 2009 Chikungunya in Italy 1.8–6.0 (× 3.3) Local variations in mosquito abundance Poletti et al. 2011 Leishmaniasis (Leishmania infantum) in dogs 5.9–11 (× 1.9) Countries Dye et al. 1992; Quinnell et al. 1997 Bluetongue virus 1.8–11 (× 6.1) Geographic regions of the Netherlands Santman-Berends et al. 2013 African horse sickness in zebra 10–23 (× 2.3) Virus strain Lord et al. 1997 Endoparasites Nematodes of sheep 6–16 (× 2.7) Nematode species Kao et al. 2000 Oncherciasis 5.3–7.7 (× 1.5) Countries Filipe et al. 2005
But I would just say we should use it as the vehicle for giving >> a statement that reads as a walkback, even as HRC will never approve a true >> walkback, and then we circulate the story to our LGBT friends so they see >> that both they humbled us with a bad story and we highlight our statement >> giving a win-win walkback, and we move on. >> On Oct 25, 2015 9:01 PM, "Robby Mook" <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >>> Do we need to get back to Huffpo tonight? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 25, 2015, at 8:40 PM, Brian Fallon <[email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >>> >>> Here is what we have: Huffington post is doing a story tomorrow "fact >>> checking" the idea that there was a push for a constitutional amendment in >>> 1996, as HRC claimed was true. The piece will essentially say there was >>> not, and will quote Rosen's tweet and Evan Wolfson saying this was not true >>> and was hardly a basis for DOMA to be signed by WJC. >>> >>> Xochitl has also gotten an inquiry from the Blade. >>> >>> In addition to this, Socarides tells us he heard from NYT on this, >>> though the campaign has not, so we do not know what he is referring to. I >>> would not be surptised, however, if activists we're pitching this. >>> >>> All that said, I do not think a statement from HRC is warranted simply >>> based on these inquiries. Indeed, I think a statement from her likely >>> attracts more coverage than just these inquiries and also could give the >>> appearance that we are responding to Bernie at JJ, rather than clarifying >>> our own remarks to Maddow. I missed the beginning of tbe conf call this >>> afternoon on thia, but i had assumed we were preparing an HRC statement >>> less for HuffPo and more because that is what political thought was needed >>> to quell the LGBT backlash.
While the magnificence of the Purple Rain songs remains clear 30 years later, the album and the film were also perfectly in tune with the time and place in which they were created, and their triumph was partly the result of impeccable timing and circumstances that could never be repeated or replicated. The first time we heard the songs on the radio, the first time we put on the album, the first time the lights in the movie theater went down, we all did just what the man told us: we went crazy.
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KNIGHTS chairman Brian McGuigan has told the club's awards night audience that new coach Nathan Brown and chief executive Matt Gidley have promised the board a premiership within the next three years for the NRL's wooden spooners. Speaking in front of a packed function room at Wests Leagues Club on Friday night, McGuigan pleaded with sponsors and fans to stick with the embattled Knights. He praised the club's NSW Cup team, who won the grand final before falling to the Ipswich Jets in the state championship. But when it came time to discuss the results of the NRL team, McGuigan said he was "frustrated" and joked he had to remove 16 wooden spoons from the windscreen of his car. "[The NSW Cup squad] have done us proud," McGuigan said. "It was lovely to see our colours on that grand final day, and what a day for our team to be out there with the fantastic game that followed ours. "So this is a sensational result that our NSW Cup team have delivered us, and augurs very well for the future of our club. "And might I say to you all it bloody well better. I'm frustrated with this year's results. "Needless to say we've been arguing downstairs with a few players about what they did and didn't do. "I'm frustrated with this year's results . . . and I have had to remove 16 wooden spoons from under the wipers of my Jeep. No more. No more. No more. "Sponsors, fans, stay with us, please. I know we had a bad one, but please stay loyal to us." McGuigan wrapped up his speech by claiming Brown and Gidley had promised the board a premiership within three years. "It's a change of the guard. We've got a new board, whether you like us or not," McGuigan said. "We're going to work our butts off to make sure that we deliver for this great community of ours. "And so we now have our new super coach by the name of Nathan Brown and together with the league's best CEO, Matt Gidley, the board has been promised a premiership by these two key people within three years. "Did you hear that tonight? Within three years we're going to have a premiership." It is a far cry from the comments Brown made to the Newcastle Herald this week when the former Dragons mentor declined to make predictions about the 2016 season.
and it wound up making a world of a difference for me." MPc: On your Music Man Bongo bass, I understand the neck on yours is not the typical Bongo neck for a six string. Can you tell me a little bit about your guitar? JM: Sure, well, the thing that’s different about what I’m playing is basically: originally I started playing the [stock] five-string Bongo, as is, on Systematic Chaos, and that was great, but it just seemed like the body was too small, and I was used to playing the six string, but we were in the process of developing a six string during that tour. The relevant thing to do at the time was, ok, let’s just increase the body mass and continue with the five-string string spacing and use that calibration in terms of where the next higher string is going to go. And that was cool for a while, but it just started getting to the point on tour where I felt like my hands are telling me something. Every night they were just sort of burning and they felt just really tense and my hands were telling me: listen, we need to make changes to this instrument, because it sounds great and definitely has a place, for a certain type of song, but in terms of what I was playing night after night on tour, I needed something that had a little more chemistry with just the overall relationship of the guitar to my body. So what I decided to do was go back to the five-string spacing and superimpose a six strings on that while maintaining the six-string body. And that worked for a while, but then there was, sort of, stability issues with just the way the original cut of the neck and the way it fits with the body and the way that the strings sat. It was like I couldn’t leverage enough power from my left hand. There wasn’t enough… the shape of the curve in the back wasn’t right in terms of being able to get power from my thumb and leverage my hand that way. And it felt like the only way I could get power was from my palms. My palm supporting the back of the neck, and I was playing and [thinking], you know, my thumb really has to be part of this. So then the neck dimension became an issue.
HOPE SF and the broader set of public housing renovations offer an opportunity to physically knit public housing back into the fabric of the city. But most importantly, it means we can keep all those affordable units habitable. Double the amount of subsidized affordable housing San Francisco has about 16,000 units of "affordable" rental housing (not including public housing), most owned by non-profits. We need to build more. Cities are changing fast. Keep up with the CityLab Daily newsletter. The best way to follow issues you care about. Subscribe Loading... Building housing is expensive. The construction cost of affordable housing units is the same as market rate units. But because they are subsidized, the prices paid by residents are reduced. The average subsidy per unit in San Francisco is around $250,000. The roughly 16,000 units the city has today were built over a period of four decades—a long-term social housing program of which San Francisco should be proud. But given the wealth of San Francisco and the enormous problem we are having with housing affordability, I would suggest we adopt a long-term goal of doubling the current supply of subsidized affordable housing. In 2012, San Francisco voters passed the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which will ultimately set aside around $50 million from the city budget each year for affordable housing construction. If we can get the state of California to create a new affordable housing program, or create one regionally ourselves, we can make our local funding go further. But given the uncertainty of committed state and regional funding sources, it’s also time for the city to make a couple of targeted investments with local money. We are experiencing extraordinary growth in the city budget right now, as a result of the boom. San Francisco’s revenues for fiscal year 2013-14 are projected to be $700 million larger than the previous year. The city should consider some one-time allocations from our budget for the next couple of years aimed at having a direct impact on affordability. This money could be spent on helping to rebuild the public housing mentioned above, or it could be spent helping to buy existing buildings and make more units affordable to low-income tenants.
Could make a comback later.+ Translate this thread to any other language and post it to one of that language's community, then you have reserved for a stake spot.+ Make a video for NEM, then you have reserved for a stake spot.The fee to join in will be 350 NXT or 0.035BTC after page 90. The fee will be increased by 50NXT or 0.005BTC after every 10 pages until the fundraising is over.-----------------. NXT, BTC sent to this project won't be touched until an official date for the genesis block is announced. This project is serious and will go forward. The money collected here will be dedicated 100% to NEM developers to make the genesis block and other supporting apps. It all goes to make NEM a feasible project.If you want to use escrow, feel free to ask Anon136 to hold your money until an official date for launching the genesis is announced. Show proof that he holds your fund, then you reserve a stake spot.------------------is likely to be a fork of Nxt code. I love NXT and I admire the brilliance and vision of NXT inventor BCNext. His idea of a decentralized world is beautiful and in that world we should have more forks of his work such as NEM.as a fork of NXT could have following features100% Proof-of-Stake (PoS) currency. Coins are earned solely by charging transaction fees. Unlike other currencies with PoS mining, NEM's PoS mining does not cause monetary inflation. The total amount of NEM in circulation is 4 billion.is resistant to +90% attacks via its transparent mining algorithm.improves different features of Bitcoin, removes some disadvantages (e.g. bloated blockchain) and resolves a big environmental issue. Time between blocks is one minute. This increases the rate of orphaned blocks, but makes it more convenient for the users.doesnt use so-called scripts aka predicates. This simplifies and accelerates transaction processing. Advanced features like multisig will be created on top of the core as 3rd party services.is routable through Tor and I2P anonymous networks.Some improvement over NXT could be possible:Block Chain stored in databaseSecure WalletBitcoin like AddressesMulti Precision arithmeticas a fork of NXT could have following features- Decentralized Alias System / DNS - Register names and assign them to URIs. URIs can be anything from web addresses to NEX account numbers. These aliases will be tradeable in the near future.- DDoS Protection- Decentralized Asset Exchange / Colored Coins - This allows gateways to issue assets on the NEX network.
Print This Email This The Department of Defense has conspired with the FBI to "circumvent the law" in accessing hundreds of Americans' telephone, e-mail and financial records, say two civil liberties groups that released reams of new documents obtained in a contested public records request. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has challenged the Bush Administration's post-Sept. 11 spying authority, says the Pentagon has issued 455 National Security Letters in concert with the FBI to obtain Americans' private information it is not entitled to receive. "The documents make clear that the Department of Defense may have secretly and illegally conducted surveillance beyond the powers it was granted by Congress," ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said. "It also appears as if the FBI is serving as a lackey for the DoD in misusing the Patriot Act powers. At the very least, it certainly looks like the FBI and DoD are conspiring to evade limits placed on the Department of Defense's surveillance powers." The 455 letters were issued to investigate potential terror threats posed by people directly connected to the Defense Department, including civilian employees, contractors, active duty troops, reservists and their families, military officials told the New York Times. Recipients of the letters -- usually financial institutions, telephone companies or internet service providers -- are prohibited from disclosing that they received them, the ACLU says. And although the Pentagon-issued letter do not require cooperation, those from the FBI are mandatory, records show that the letters are coercive and unclear that compliance to Defense-issued letters is voluntary. "The expanded role of the military in domestic intelligence gathering is troubling. These documents reveal that the military is gaining access to records here in the U.S. in secret and without any meaningful oversight," said Melissa Goodman, staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project. "There are real concerns about the use of this intrusive surveillance power." The Electronic Frontier Foundation joined the ACLU in filing a request for the documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The groups filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department when it tried to withhold the documents earlier this year. The New York Times first reported in January that the Pentagon was issuing National Security Letters, but the documents released this weekend provide the first glimpse at internal machinations behind their use.
1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, "Red Currahee," deployed to Paktya and Khowst Provinces at the end of April 2013. TF Red Currahee assumed responsibility of over two thirds of the entire Brigade AOR on 22 May 13. The initial battlespace encompassed an area approximately 2,809 square miles, to which the task force added responsibility for five additional districts, encompassing approximately 560 square miles, within Paktika Province in the final months of the deployment. TF Red Currahee maintained responsibility for three assistance platforms (APs), with their ANSF counterparts. The ANSF numbered approximately 8,500 strong, and consisted of the ANA, AUP, Provincial Response Company (PRC), Afghan Border Police (ABP), CRC, NDS, ALP, and an OCC-P HQ. TF Red Currahee executed over 270 partnered patrols, 180 partnered named operations, and over 70 quick reaction force and time sensitive target missions. Each company within the battalion immediately partnered with their ANSF partners to improve their capacity through advising and assisting them as the ANSF executed offensive combat operations. TF Red Currahee targeted high-value individuals from each of these cells and killed approximately 150 enemies of Afghanistan and five high-value individuals. Combined with ANSF and other task forces' operations, over 300 enemies were killed and nearly 250 detained. TF Red Currahee fired over 2,291 rounds of artillery in support of ANSF and against enemy forces and executed 14 close-air support strikes and 11 ISR kinetic strikes. In the time during which TF Red Currahee was responsible for the battlespace, kinetic activity increased at a rate of 144 percent compared to previous years, making it the most kinetic[citation needed] province in RC-East. Without losing focus on lethal targeting, TF Red Currahee focused on the closure of its three APs. AP Chamkani was the first AP in the AO to be transferred to the ANSF, followed by AP Zormat and AP Wilderness. By TOA, Red Currahee retrograded over 106,458,842.44 million dollars worth of government property.
While 5XFAD mice exhibit elevations in the β-secretase enzyme (BACE1) that initiates amyloid-β (Aβ) generation, as observed in sporadic AD, 7,8-DHF blocks BACE1 elevations and lowers the levels of the β-secretase-cleaved C-terminal fragment of amyloid precursor protein (C99), Aβ40, and Aβ42 in the brains of these mice. Most strikingly, they demonstrated that BACE1 expression can be decreased by 7,8-DHF administration in wild-type mice, suggesting that BDNF-TrkB signaling is also important for downregulating baseline levels of BACE1. Hence, this study supports that TrkB activation with systemic 7,8-DHF administration can ameliorate AD-associated memory deficits, attributable to reductions in BACE1 expression and β-amyloidogenesis [55]. Nevertheless, the authors employed a subchronic paradigm (10 days intraperitonial injection) in aged 5X FAD mice (12–15 months old mice). Since 5X FAD mice develop amyloid plaques at 2 months old and exhibit cognitive defects at 5 months of age, we employed a different treatment strategy: feeding the mice at 2-months-old till 5-months-old and monitored the cognitive activity in Morris Water maze. In addition, we examined the amyloid plaque deposit, synapse formation and long-term potentiation (LTP) at the end of the treatment. Our data showed that 7,8-DHF protects primary neurons from Aβ-induced cell death and promotes dendrite branching and synaptogenesis. Chronic oral administration of 7,8-DHF activates TrkB signaling and prevents Aβ deposition in 5XFAD mice [56]. In alignment with these findings, 7,8-DHF significantly increases spine density and reduces synaptic and neuronal loss in Cam/Tet-DTA, an inducible model of severe neuronal loss in hippocampus and cortex, and demonstrates substantial improvements in spatial memory in the lesioned mice [58]. These results strongly suggest that 7,8-DHF represents a novel oral bioactive therapeutic agent for treating AD.
So a body of twenty police, filling two carriages and an automobile, had set out in the late afternoon with the shivering squatter as a guide. At the end of the passable road they alighted, and for miles splashed on in silence through the terrible cypress woods where day never came. Ugly roots and malignant hanging nooses of Spanish moss beset them, and now and then a pile of dank stones or fragment of a rotting wall intensified by its hint of morbid habitation a depression which every malformed tree and every fungous islet combined to create. At length the squatter settlement, a miserable huddle of huts, hove in sight; and hysterical dwellers ran out to cluster around the group of bobbing lanterns. The muffled beat of tom-toms was now faintly audible far, far ahead; and a curdling shriek came at infrequent intervals when the wind shifted. A reddish glare, too, seemed to filter through pale undergrowth beyond the endless avenues of forest night. Reluctant even to be left alone again, each one of the cowed squatters refused point-blank to advance another inch toward the scene of unholy worship, so Inspector Legrasse and his nineteen colleagues plunged on unguided into black arcades of horror that none of them had ever trod before. The region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men. There were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight. They said it had been there before d'Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. It was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. But it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away. The present voodoo orgy was, indeed, on the merest fringe of this abhorred area, but that location was bad enough; hence perhaps the very place of the worship had terrified the squatters more than the shocking sounds and incidents. Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms.
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One of the great strengths of the National Museum of African American History and Culture is its heavy emphasis on place. There are rich maps scattered throughout the museum that showcase the many migrations that have defined black history: from the domestic slave trade (after the trans-Atlantic slave trade was abolished in 1807) to the Great Migration during the early- and mid-20th century to subsequent returns to the South. These maps explain how the African-American experience shifted within the states, and how states and the nation changed inalterably as a result. Cities are changing fast. Keep up with the CityLab Daily newsletter. The best way to follow issues you care about. Subscribe Loading... Where the museum may lose viewers, however, is in its sweeping chronology, which is lost over too many side-by-side displays. Many of the exhibits (designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates) serve as portals, with a chunk of text paired with images, or often a video screen, alongside some essential artifacts. Unfortunately, atomic exhibits about the constituent people, places, and moments from Reconstruction and the Civil Rights era do not add up to clear and comprehensive categories. Problems are few in number, but the museum’s biggest ones start with the entry procession. It isn’t immediately clear that viewers ought to take one of two elevators down to the lowest concourse to begin. And it isn’t exactly clear how the escalators connect from one level to the next—though these passages ofter some of the best vistas within the building and through its exterior filigree, which looks as delicate as lace when seen from the inside. (Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC) From design to execution, the largest changes to the museum happened inside the museum’s central hall. The dipping, timber-lined ceiling initially envisioned for the atrium fell off along the way. (The architects say that the space is now more suitable for performance and static art.) Still, one of the museum’s most important metaphors was maintained in the form of its grand vistas: Floor-to-ceiling windows comprise the four walls of the building’s entrance level, opening the museum to the world outside. Portals throughout the the upper floors emphasize the effect.
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Alternatively, the midline (intralaminar) thalamic nuclei may produce Ca v 3.1-mediated action-potential bursts during sleep that excite reticular thalamic neurons to provide feedforward inhibition to other thalamic nuclei (33). Some researchers have speculated that thalamic bursts produced by the T-type Ca2+ channel may underlie the cortical EEG waves observed during sleep (4, 5). We were surprised to find that cortical EEG power within the delta frequency range (1–4 Hz) was not significantly reduced but, rather, was moderately increased (data not shown). The observation suggests that other systems (e.g., intracortical circuits or basal forebrain GABAergic projections; ref. 34) drive the delta waves of the cortical EEG during sleep. We speculate that this delta-wave-generating system may be critical to the maintenance of sleep when thalamic sensory filtering by Ca v 3.1 is defective. The pattern of brief arousals in Ca v 3.1 KO mice resembles the sleep-microstructure alterations recently recognized in patients with insomnia and other sleep disorders of arousal (35). It remains to be established whether these mice rouse from sleep because of inappropriate transmission of normal sensations or because of pathologic sensations like those in sleep apnea or periodic limb movement disorder. If these brief arousals from sleep in Ca v 3.1 KO mice were caused by inadequate gating of sensory stimuli, it would possibly provide a perspective on human insomnia in which relatively mild sensations can disrupt sleep.
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Not that I believe that Jesus has done this to you, but rather Satan has you bound.”Mind you I’ve been suffering from terrible back pain since I was a child from a congenital birth defect – and I've suffered before, during, and after the time I was a Christian. Hurt beyond words I told him that any god that would make me suffer like I do for using the free will he supposedly gave me is beneath my contempt. It degraded even further from there with him telling me that I was going to Hell and that it was probably too late for me to be saved, yadda, yadda, yadda.Bless my tolerant and loving mother. The whole situation hurt her, her children fighting and hurting, so I agreed to talk face to face with my brother for her sake. The conversation started out calm and civil. He said I was militant anti-Christ and I told him the Bible was historically inaccurate, but it was honestly calm. Up until the point when he told me how much I’d offended him by calling all religions myths (which happened WEEKS earlier). I told him that he had said things I found offensive but I never held onto it or held a grudge over it. He asked me, most condescendingly, what had he ever said that I found offensive (from his tone I could tell that he sincerely believed that he’d never said a single offensive thing in his life and that I wouldn’t be able to come up with an example).In response, I started listing off all the times he’d told me about God speaking to him and all the times he’d walked away from a church because of a disagreement and needed to tell me all about the bible verses that backed up his opinion – and I gave specific examples, not generalizations.Well, that started him on a tirade of verbal abuse. He started shouting things at me like, “I don’t like you” “I don’t care about you” “I hate people like you” “If you weren’t my sister I’d never associate with you” and other things.
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[12] As the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination noted in 2007, Israeli policies “targeting a particular national or ethnic group, especially through the wall, checkpoints, restricted roads, and permit system, have … had a highly detrimental impact on the enjoyment of human rights by Palestinians, in particular their rights to freedom of movement, family life, work, education, and health.” Water Water has long been a scarce resource in the semi-arid region, and is under increased threat of over-extraction; a symbol of the pressure on regional water resources is the fact that the level of the Dead Sea is dropping by one meter per year. Israeli authorities have controlled West Bank water resources since they seized the land from Jordan in 1967, and continue to control completely all Palestinian access to water resources in the West Bank, including in Areas A, B and C. Israel provides Jewish settlers with access to water for domestic and agricultural use that it denies Palestinians. This policy has benefited the Jewish settler economy while damaging that of Palestinians, whose agricultural sector has lost up to 110,800 jobs compared to its potential with adequate access to water resources, according to the World Bank. Jewish settlements—which use a significant proportion of the water to produce agricultural goods for export by a government-run private export company, Agrexco—are serviced by wells in the West Bank (largely in the Jordan Valley), and by the Israeli national water network (Mekorot), which itself extracts water flowing from aquifers lying beneath the occupied West Bank. [13] Even many unauthorized settlement outposts are connected to the national water network. In general, Israeli subsidies for settlers, including those for settlement agriculture products, help offset costs of water and other utilities. Average Israeli per capita consumption of water—including water consumption by settlers—is 4.3 times that of Palestinians in the occupied territories (including Gaza), according to the World Health Organization. In the Jordan Valley, an estimated 9,000 settlers in Israeli agricultural settlements use one-quarter the total amount of water consumed by the entire Palestinian population of the West Bank, some 2.5 million people. Over-extraction of water by Israel has caused a drop in the water table in the West Bank, which contributed to a 4 percent decrease in the total amount of water Palestinians extracted from 1995 to 2007, even as the Palestinian population increased by as much as 50 percent, according to the World Bank.
�In Dearborn, Michigan for the #GoldenJubilee ceremony.� – At Henry Ford’s reconstructed Menlo Park in Dearborn, Michigan, Edison re-enacts the invention of his incandescent light.
This bill would, subject to exceptions, commencing July 1, 2010, require certain ammunition vendors to obtain a thumbprint and other information from ammunition purchasers, and would require submission of that information to the Department of Justice, as specified. A violation of these provisions would be a misdemeanor. This bill would provide that a person enjoined from engaging in activity associated with a criminal street gang, as specified, would be prohibited from having under his or her possession, custody, or control, any ammunition. Violation of these provisions would be a misdemeanor. The bill would prohibit supplying or delivering, as specified, handgun ammunition to prohibited persons, as described, by persons or others who know or by using reasonable care should know that the recipient is a person prohibited from possessing ammunition. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor with specified penalties. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 11106 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 11106. (a) In order to assist in the investigation of crime, the prosecution of civil actions by city attorneys pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (c), the arrest and prosecution of criminals, and the recovery of lost, stolen, or found property, the Attorney General shall keep and properly file a complete record of all copies of fingerprints, copies of licenses to carry firearms issued pursuant to Section 12050, information reported to the Department of Justice pursuant to Section 12053, licensee information pertaining to handgun ammunition vendors as specified in Section 12062, dealers' records of sales of firearms, reports provided pursuant to Section 12072 or 12078, forms provided pursuant to Section 12084, as that section read prior to being repealed by the act that amended this section, reports provided pursuant to Section 12071 that are not dealers' records of sales of firearms, and reports of stolen, lost, found, pledged, or pawned property in any city or county of this state, and shall, upon proper application therefor, furnish this information to the officers referred to in Section 11105.
In Kandahar province, where DeNenno served, a full third of the 423 schools the Ministry of Education publicly reported as open in 2011 were not functioning, and in Helmand, it was more than half. But teacher salaries continued to go to these ghost schools — and still do, according to numerous Afghan and U.S. sources. While the Afghan government puts in some of its own money to pay teachers, more than two-thirds of teacher salaries are provided through a World Bank fund, to which the United States is the biggest donor. The World Bank fund did not respond to requests for comment, but USAID said that World Bank financial controls guard against salaries going to ghost teachers. And just as with ghost students, the U.S. government has known about ghost teachers for years. Back in 2005 and 2006, an internal education ministry task force calculated that at least $12 million in salaries were going to so-called ghost teachers annually, according to several former employees of the USAID contractors embedded in the ministry. A scathing, confidential 2013 USAID audit of the Afghan education ministry obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals that the United States had been injecting hundreds of millions of dollars for more than a decade into a ministry marred by an “inadequate payroll system” and lacking even the most basic auditing practices. In some areas, the belief that ghost schools have enriched fat cats at the expense of Afghan children has stoked such widespread ire that American education aid is actually doing the opposite of what the U.S. intended: It’s turning locals against the government. At one point, the provincial police chief shouts out who he thinks are commandeering the payments: “Everyone knows the salaries of teachers come to the province, and then they go to the Taliban.” Military spending under the CERP program required very little paperwork for most projects. The point was to help win a war. But that flexibility means, quite literally, that the military does not know what it spent on education in Afghanistan, or what it got for its money. The military conceded that many CERP projects were not entered into “procurement database systems” but said it “does maintain extensive project records.” Last year, however, the Defense Department told the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction just how little it knew: For more than 40% of CERP projects, the Pentagon could not say who ultimately received its money.
The Chinese do not know the serial and manufacture date numbering systems on the gold bars, and so that error is quickly detectable. In going on, the report noted that The US Secret Service has just this week been made aware of this problem, which was new to them, and if they decide to launch an investigation, they have indicated that while they cannot do anything about the operations in China, they can, and will, seize any counterfeit US coins they come across. Dealers in these fakes would also be liable to fines and jail time. Foreign fakes are not under their purview, but if that business turns out to be substantial, there could conceivably be an FBI investigation of fraud in interstate commerce, targeting companies who are mail-ordering fake foreign coins. Individuals who have been cheated might also sue their suppliers - in short, this could turn into a huge mess. General appearance aside, it is very easy to spot fakes - just with a scale reading to 1/00th of a gram, and a table of the correct weights and sizes of the coins or bars they are buying. (In the case of large-size bar gold, unless buying from the manufacturer or a reputable bank, the serial numbers need to be verified, so that one does not buy a Chinese bar with a lead or mercury core). Here is a listing of some of the frauds uncovered so far: 1. The U.S .Morgan silver dollar. All dates and all mint marks 2. The U.S. gold coins viz the $2.50, $5.00 and $10.00 Indian head. 3. The U.S. copper penny viz 1909 S vdb 4. Three gold Imperial Russian roubles from the reign of Nicholas II 5. A gold 20 franc coin with the head of Napoleon I on the obverse 6. The South African Krugerrand 7. British sovereigns and half sovereigns of different monarchs and dates 8. And in addition, they are also making fake gold bars from the Credit Suisse people. Rense.com had a second report from Susan Headley on the counterfeiting problem in China . Without going into the details, it can be said that the Chinese have a particular skill at making reproductions of originals. Suffice to say, they are given credit for up to 80% of all worldwide counterfeiting. In 2005, US Customs seized $93 million worth of counterfeit goods from China .
The same is true of products like sour cream or whipping cream whose shelf life can be extended by putting them in ½ height mason jars and vacuum sealing. The only problem I experienced, which I gather is not that unusual, is that the oil/gas separator was broken off in shipment. It results from tipping the vacuum sealer on its side, perhaps accompanied by a jar. When the spring mounted vacuum pump tips, the oil/gas separator, which is mounted on top of the pump, hits the very sturdy hinge casting on the sealer and the connection to the vacuum pump breaks. When I contacted VacMaster about the damage, the technical rep said it regularly happens and while they were initially going to forward me a replacement, since I bought the sealer from WebstaurantStore, they forwarded the claim to them. WebstaurantStore contacted me immediately and shipped me a replacement oil/gas separator without any hassle and in record time. I had no difficulty dealing with them. The damage; however, is totally preventable if VacMaster made an extremely simple change in preparing the sealer for shipment. The vacuum sealer itself is packed very well, as shown in various videos, with double boxes and the sealer unit set in foam supports. However, if VacMaster was to simply insert a block of solid foam between the vacuum pump and the side of the vacuum sealer case so that the vacuum pump could not tip during shipment, the problem would be entirely eliminated. Alternatively, the vacuum pump could be secured for shipment with removable cable ties. The cost for either option would be minimal and easily covered by eliminating the cost of replacing oil/gas separators. VacMaster warns against tipping the unit on its side, but the fact is, it is pretty much impossible, once these units are individually shipped, to control that from happening. The incremental cost to ship the sealer secured to a pallet so it can’t be tipped adds much more to the expense of shipping than the minimal cost of inserting a foam block or using cable ties. It would require some planning since it would be easiest to do this at the factory, something done with a multitude of appliances and equipment. The foam block or cable ties would be easily removed by the purchaser when they take the back cover off to fill the pump with oil.
Solar technology is nothing new. For literal millennia, humans have been harnessing the sun's rays for energy. Over the past few decades, the dream of a solar-powered future has mostly conjured up images of rooftops covered by photovoltaic panels, turning every house into a mini power plant. But a somewhat lower-tech and much older solar solution could well prove to offer the biggest gains in carbon-free energy production. I'm talking about concentrated solar power, or as many call it, "solar thermal. "Whereas photovoltaic panels directly convert sunlight into an electric current, concentrated solar uses the sun's heat energy itself to generate power. As far back as the sixth century B.C. , the Chinese used mirrors to focus the sun's rays and start fires. (Much like how kids these days will torch leaves, lunch bags, and ants with a magnifying glass.) A few decades later, Greeks lit the sacred fire at Delphi using these "burning mirrors," and, supposedly, around 212 B.C., Archimedes ordered soldiers to use their shields to focus sunlight on-and ignite-Roman war ships.Today's CSP projects aim to generate power on an industrial scale, creating a baseload electricity supply that could potentially replace large, centralized fossil fuel-burning plants. Just this week, the world's largest (but not for long) CSP operation plugged in -the PS20 plant in Seville, Spain trains 1,255 mirrors on a 531-foot tall water-filled tower. The intense heat boils the water, which creates steam. The steam spins a turbine, and-voila!-electricity is generated. Under optimum conditions, the plant can churn out 20 megawatts of juice, enough to power 10,000 homes.A massive 200-megawatt project announced last week for Arizona (it's a lively time for CSP) will opt for reflective parabolic troughs, rather than a centralized tower. The principle is the same, but in this case sunlight is focused on a collector line-basically a pipe-filled with a fluid. The superheated fluid, generally oil, is pumped through an exchanger, which draws out the heat to boil water into steam. And, once again-steam spins turbine. Turbine produces power.Recently, the CSP industry has come up with something of a breakthrough in addressing solar's biggest hurdle: What happens when the sun's not shining? How can solar energy be stored for use at night? While storing electricity in batteries is prohibitively expensive (and the batteries themselves are an environmental liability), storing heat is much cheaper and easier. Molten salt, of all things, is particularly good at it.
For urbanites in LDCs, what are their key local quality of life desires? Health care, good nutrition, employment, education for their kids? Street safety? How does the urbanization process affect each of these? One pathway would be that urbanization raises incomes and higher incomes permit (through Engel curve consumption paths) the ability to improve one's quality of life along all of the dimensions I just listed.4. As urbanization takes place in LDC cities, does income inequality rise or fall? One could imagine a "great compression" similar to Goldin and Margo's findings for the U.S in the 1950s as the manufacturing sector's growth helps the less educated. If income inequality increases, does this raise civic unrest? Have improvements in policing (due to information technology) helped to mitigate the challenge of urbanization and crime in the developing world?5. Do mayors learn in networks? Which mayors learn from the experience of which other cities? When Mike Bloomberg experimented in NYC, which mayors were watching and imitated his "good ideas"? Or, is it the case that it takes so long for a field experiment to be implemented and then be evaluated that mayors stop paying attention?
But, he said, "There is no contingency plan in place for Customs, HMRC or the government around what might happen if the government fail to secure its desired outcome".Unsurprisingly, after the nation voted to leave the EU, it was being reported in August that HMRC was finding that its advanced long-term planning to replace key systems had become subject to "Brexit uncertainty".In its IT strategy, decided on in January 2016, six months before the referendum, HMRC said its work on CDS would involve finding a replacement CHIEF that will "rationalise and transform the asset base into a modernised, simplified, streamlined and more integrated suite of systems that are easier and more cost effective to maintain, and which also enable HMRC to comply with EU legal mandates".At that point, the CDS programme had a budget of £87.4 million and had been flagged with an " amber-red " warning in Whitehall in 2015 because of the risks posed. Amazingly, this was reduced to "amber" shortly before the Brexit referendum.By now, the deadline had slipped further to 2018 deadline, and even to meet that, the CDS programme was supposed to have purchased and integrated two commercial off-the-shelf software packages by the end of 2016, the very year in which, for planning purposes, a sizeable earthquake was about to rock Whitehall.Officials had planned for CDS to manage up to 100 million declarations. Since the Brexit vote, maximum capacity needs have been revised up to 350 million. Many declarations are verified by customs officers, suggesting a big increase in staff will also be needed. CHIEF, expected to be in place as a backstop during the transition to the new system, was already suffering occasional outages , due to system overload.In July, we were back to the hapless Alexander Pienaar , who was telling JCC members there was "a clear strategic focus on creating a new customs operating model for the UK" (yes, people really do talk like that), but: "The options available will not emerge until we understand the future trade relationship bwtween (sic) the UK and the EU".Two months after the referendum uncertainty remained, with HMRC in the position of "evaluating" its IT, in the light of the referendum.
But that is because for thirty years, national governments have shirked their responsibility for ensuring that the benefits of trade are fairly shared. I fear that instead of governments reconsidering how best to distribute the proceeds of trade, the return of machismo will mean that trade itself is diminished, replaced by power plays, political posturing and even outright war. If this is where we are headed, we will all be the poorer for it.I am no fan of Ayn Rand's philosophy, but on the supremacy of trade, she was absolutely right. The Morality of John Galt (5-part series) - Pieria
He stated that the McGettigan's invested €30,000 by way of a "loan" and explained that the Group was not due any shares as they had not delivered on their part of the agreement. He didn't elaborate on what that was. He addressed John Deering's proposal. I'm sorry, I'm not interested in a property deal Things then calmed down somewhat. For a couple of weeks anyway. June work flying along in the Carlisle this afternoon pic.twitter.com/taOZGpD0Ca — Bray Wanderers FC (@BrayWanderers) June 4, 2015 Work began on the Carlisle Grounds. The club didn't announce what was being done though. Two days later it was announced that the Carlisle Grounds would be the new home of Rugby League Ireland. Lovely day at the seaside as preparations continue before we welcome Rugby League Ireland to the Carlisle pic.twitter.com/DZ7Zo7gEoM — Bray Wanderers FC (@BrayWanderers) June 9, 2015 July After Trevor Croly's resignation at the start of July speculation about the future of Bray increased dramatically. Immediately following their 1-0 win away to Limerick the players released a statement through the PFAI Statement from the Bray Wanderers players. pic.twitter.com/CXOGtVMOJL — PFA Ireland (@PFAIOfficial) July 4, 2015 The chairman responded with his own statement. There were problems with three players payments this week which was due to a clerical issue which the Club are investigating. These problems were sorted out within 24 hours of my becoming aware of them. The following day they released another statement about Croly leaving. Mr O'Connor appeared on RTE's Soccer Republic. We reported on his performance here and how some of the player felt about the criticism levelled at them. The following evening captain, and stand in manager, David Cassidy spoke to Newstalk's "Off The Ball" on their regular LOI slot. Cassidy didn't hold back. He stated that there had been problems with every Bray payment this season and openly wondered if the club would be better off without the current administration. Mick Cooke was appointed that evening. Bray released yet another statement denying that an EGM would take place. The circulation of this material has been carried out by a shareholder who has 2.2 per cent of the shares of the Company. Over 90 per cent of the shareholders have rejected his previous plans to sell the Carlisle Grounds to developers from the UK.
Which strategy minimizes death depends on conditions that are easily interpreted. Gun-induced deaths are always minimized by a firearm ban if . That is, we have to compare , the fraction of offenders that illegally own a gun, with , the fraction of the general population that could legally own a firearm but does not have it in possession when attacked. If the condition above is not fulfilled, gun-induced deaths can be minimized by either strategy, depending on the fraction of offenders who illegally obtain firearms relative to the level of protection offered by gun-ownership during an attack. If (all people take up their right of gun ownership and carry it when attacked), the conditions is simplest, and a ban of private firearm possession minimizes gun-related deaths if , where is inversely correlated with the degree of protection offered by gun ownership to a victim during an attack, with meaning total protection, and corresponding to no protection associated with gun ownership. All these variables can be estimated from available statistical data, and the implications are discussed as follows. In order to examine the fraction of offenders that cannot legally obtain a gun but own one illegally, , we have to turn to a country with tough gun control laws. If a majority of people can legally own a gun, those that have to obtain one illegally is a negligible fraction. England and Wales have some of the strictest gun control laws since the 1997 Firearms Act, banning private possession of firearms almost entirely with the exception of some special circumstances [32]. Estimating the fraction of potential offenders that illegally carry firearms is a difficult task. Most statistics quantify gun uses during the acts of offense, not among potential offenders. One study tried to fill this gap of knowledge by interviewing a pool of offenders that passed through prison [33]. This was done in the context of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Programme (NEW-ADAM), covering a three year period between 1999–2002, and involving 3,135 interviewees. Among these offenders, 23% indicated that they had illegally possessed a gun at some point in their life. However, only 8% indicated illegal gun ownership within the last 12 months, which we consider a better measure of gun possession associated with committing crimes. More detailed questions revealed that only 21% of people who owned a gun did so for the purpose of an offense.
This month, some of our discussion centered on the socioeconomic realities of our wider culture and how these realities relate to the church. The next several weeks, various members of the group will be blogging on this topic.The table was beautiful. On the snowy white table cloth was a spread of wine and cheese and other finger food I could not immediately identify. Gathered around the table were clusters of priests, professors, and seminary students, fresh from evensong, all dressed smartly in expensive suits and engaged in polite conversation. Walking into this room in a fine house I could only consider a mansion, I felt like I had stepped into another world, a world so foreign to this scholarship student who had grown up in blue collar, rural America. I watched what people were doing carefully, trying to imitate their actions, keenly aware of how underdressed I was for the occasion, choking on what ended up being cheese but looked for all intents and purposes like my mama’s pudding, and scanning the crowd for a familiar face.Whenever I participate in a conversation about declining numbers in the Episcopal Church, I think of moments like this. There are many ways to define class in the United States, but one way researchers do so is based on college education. Only 30% of Americans get a bachelor’s degree or higher for professional jobs; the rest of the American population is working class and getting poorer all the time ( NY Times ). In the rural town I lived and worked for some time, the collapse of the logging industry had driven most of us into low paying service jobs and the poverty rate was high. It wasn’t until I saved enough money to be the first in my family to go to university that I considered attending the Episcopal Church. There was an unspoken assumption in the community that the little stained glass brick church was for middle class people with means. Indeed, when I started attending, disillusioned with the evangelical churches of my past and attracted to the liturgy, I found myself primarily in the company of the dwindling number of well-educated and relatively wealthy people in the area, people who did graciously welcomed me. A recent study in 2011 by the American Sociological Association found that church attendance was rising among middle class, college educated people and declining steeply among working class Americans.
Discussion The present results showed that (i.c.) injection of penicillin (200 IU, 1μl) produced an epileptiform ECoG activity characterized by high frequency and amplitude spike waves. Our results (frequency and amplitude of spike waves after (i.c.) injection of 200 IU of penicillin) are approximately consistent with other findings in which the doses of (i.c.) injected penicillin were 200-500 IU (Canan et al., 2008 ▶; Cakil et al., 2011 ▶; Tamaddonfard et al., 2012 ▶). Clinical experience has indicated that high systemic doses of penicillin in humans can produce myoclonus, generalized tonic-clonic seizures and encephalopathy (Fossieck and Parker, 1974 ▶). In addition, it is well known that (i.c.) or systemically administered penicillin results in a prominent epileptiform activity both electrophysiologically and behaviorally in laboratory animals (Chen et al., 1986 ▶; Fisher, 1989 ▶). In the present study, curcumin (100 and 200 mg/kg, i.p.) and diazepam (5 µg, i.c.v.) produced antiepileptic effects. Moreover, a sub-therapeutic dose of curcumin (50 mg/kg, i.p.) enhanced the antiepileptic effect of diazepam (5 µg, i.c.v.). These results indicate that curcumin and diazepam may produce the same antiepileptic effects on penicillin-induced epilepsy. In addition, a potentiation effect was observed between curcumin and diazepam in producing an antiepileptic effect against penicillin. Curcumin has been exerted antiepileptic effects in various models of experimentally-induced epilepsy. Curcumin (300 mg/kg, i.p.) suppressed the death of hippocampal neurons induced by generalized seizures in pilocarpine-kindled rats (Huang et al., 2006 ▶). Dietary intake of curcumin inhibited the onset and progression of seizures induced by intracortical microinjection of FeCl 3 in rats (Jyoti et al., 2009 ▶). The (i.p.) injection of curcumin at doses of 100 and 200 mg/kg reduced the percent incidence of convulsions as well as the increased brain malondialdehyde levels induced by kainic acid, an analogue of glutamic acid, in rats (Gupta et al., 2009 ▶). The low molecular weight and polar structure of curcumin allows it to penetrate the blood-brain barrier effectively after oral and systemic use (Choi et al., 2011 ▶; Suresh and Srinivasan, 2010 ▶). Diazepam and other benzodiazepines mostly exert their pharmacological actions by allosterically modulating the GABA A -benzodiazepine receptor complex to produce a facilitation effect on the GABA-mediated inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system (Macdonald and Olsen, 1994). Intravenous (i.v.) and (i.c.v.) injections of diazepam reduced frequency and amplitude of spike waves induced by (i.c.) injection of penicillin in rats (Gartside, 1978 ▶; Tamaddonfard et al., 2012 ▶).

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