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Substance abuse beginning in adolescence can be the onset of decades of suffering; adolescence is the window of risk for a lifetime course of disorder with alcohol and drug abuse, often set in motion by unmet spiritual needs.The escape and connection described by teens needs to be understood as a spiritual quest, inherently good and important. We as parents need to help the adolescent see that spiritual hunger is not met by alcohol or drugs. The illusory jolt from drugs does not last; it only jump-starts the physiology. There is nothing sustaining in it. Authentic spirituality requires reflection and the development of a road back to transcendence through the cultivation of our inner life, through prayer, meditation, or perhaps good works, intertwined with our general capacities of cognition, morality, and emotion.We can say, "I appreciate the warm feeling of being connected. I know how good it feels to sense that you are part of everything. These sound like spiritual feelings. But now that the warm glow of alcohol has passed, can you get back there without the drink? If not, then it is not real, it is an empty jolt of the brain. Let's talk about other ways to get to that sense of moving beyond daily struggle and finding connection. "Girls: Impressive Development for Emotional Depth and Discernment, Not DramaAdolescents, particularly girls, are often described as being "helplessly emotional" or "histrionic." One exasperated mother described her adolescent daughter as "totally emotionally wrought, way over the top, gushing with emotion. And when she gets her period, she is like a ball of oversensitivity and tears. "However, research on spiritual development shows that with the burgeoning of fertility in girls, specifically getting their period, comes the start-up of an augmented spiritual capacity. Many ancient traditions have built into female puberty ceremonies the interwoven expressions of fertility and expanded female spirituality. Now science has recognized a unified path of sexual development and spiritual development in girls.In theI published with my colleague Merav Gur the results of an investigation of the benefit of personal spirituality in warding off depression in girls, before and after the onset of menstruation.
I feel that they have the burden and joy and everything that comes with raising a child. Because I’ll take care of the baby in the NICU, but then I’m gone.” [cartoon id="a16107"] That approach, however, does not mean that the doctor exempts herself from the decision. “I make the recommendation, which in certain cases can be very painful,” Kourembanas said. “But I feel it’s far more cruel to say to the parents, ‘You have x per cent of a chance of this complication,’ and then look at them and say, as the doctor, ‘I’ll do whatever you want to do. Now, what do you want to do?’ How are that father and mother going to go to sleep at night if they think, I killed my baby.” A study of French and American NICUs supports the idea that the doctor’s recommendation whether to continue intensive care can relieve parents of guilt. The death of a baby is a devastating experience for any parent, but most of the French parents did not express the same level of grief and distress shown by their American counterparts. The explanation appeared to be that French parents whose children died had not personally made the choice not to pursue treatment. The study concluded, “American parents’ tendency to express more guilt and self-blame for the decision outcome suggested their greater perceived causality may have a role.” Kourembanas told me that senior neonatologists may disagree about intensive treatments. “We are dealing with life and death, and it’s not natural for a baby to die. A baby needs to live, needs to go to college, needs to have his or her own kids. Each one of us focusses on a different length of gestation. So I find that many of my colleagues would resuscitate a fetus at twenty-three weeks, if the fetus makes an effort to live.” But what constitutes an effort to live? “Babies are challenged with their first breath, so they will cry and try to breathe, they will gasp, and then some have a good heart rate,” Kourembanas said. “You may say that’s an effort to breathe. So some neonatologists say that any sign of life—crying, breathing, good heart rate—means the baby needs help. Others would say, ‘Well, it doesn’t really.
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On the other, the very act of copying and the counterfeit nature of Shanzhai fashion products do not fall into the rational system of creativity, which legitimizes the state's expropriation of Shanzhai to innovate the nation, a vision of a great cultural power also comprised in the Chinese Dream. Women designers are impossible Chinese Dreamers, being pushed away by the same Dream they yearn to fulfill. In other words, women designers' Shanzhai practice exposes from within the possibility and impossibility of the Chinese Dream. The precarious creativity of Shanzhai fashion in China is an elaborate dance, in which the relation between the power of copying and the power of policing is becoming strained in a global context. Shanzhai women designers aspire to the promises of Shanzhai fashion, and meanwhile they are also exposed to the dangers and crises inherent in such practice. The Chinese Dream is tangible but evasive, promising but vanishing, indeterminate as to what Berlant (2011) called “cruel optimism” (p. 1). It forces these women designers to embrace creativity in the precarious space between danger and promise, crisis and hope, survival and success. In this way, these women designers not only epitomize the ambitions of other Shanzhai practitioners or Chinese Dreamers, but also are becoming a pivot of the precarious creativity that is prevalent in the ongoing cultural transformation of China.
With that, the soldiers began picking out, one by one, the younger women and the girls, and pulling them toward the door. "The girls would hang on to their mothers, and the soldiers would come in and just grab them from their mothers," Rufina says. "There was a lot of screaming and shouting. Everyone was screaming, 'No! No! Don't do this!' But the soldiers would hit the mothers with the butts of their rifles, and they would reach behind and grab the girls and pull them along with them." From the house of Alfredo Márquez, the soldiers marched the group of young women and girls — some of them as young as ten years old — out of the hamlet and up onto the hills known as El Chingo and La Cruz. Before long, the women in the house could hear screams coming from the hills. The guides, on El Pinalito, nearby, also heard the screaming. "We could hear the women being raped on the hills," the Perquín man told me. "And then, you know, the soldiers would pass by, coming from there, and they'd talk about it. You know, they were talking and joking, saying how much they liked the twelve-year-olds." In the midst of this, one or perhaps two helicopters — accounts differ, as they do about many details of the story — touched down in the plaza in front of the church, and a number of officers climbed out. From his vantage point on the hill, the guide says, he recognized the distinctive figure of an officer he had seen several times before: Colonel Ja
(the 552 Cassorla patent) and (b) various papers issued or submitted in connection with international application number PCT/US00/33081 (the 081 international application) including (i) a March 26, 2001 international search report, (ii) a January 1, 2002 written opinion, and (iii) a May 5, 2002 international preliminary examination report. 61. On its face, the 081 international application claims priority to U.S. patent application 09/455,806 (the 806 application). The 806 application issued as the 233 patent. Thus, the 081 international application and 233 patent are related. 62. On information and belief, Mr. Glembocki was involved in the prosecution of both the 081 international application and the 806 application and is listed on correspondence in both applications file histories. 63. On or around March 26, 2001, an international search report issued in connection with the 081 international application. This international search report listed the 552 Cassorla patent as a [d]ocument considered to be relevant. The international search report further stated that the 552 Cassorla patent is a document of particular relevance such that the claimed invention cannot be considered novel or cannot be considered to involve an inventive step when the document is taken alone. 64. On or about January 1, 2002, a written opinion issued in connection with the 081 international application and was mailed to Mr. Glembocki. 65. Citing the Abstract and column 2, line 5 to column 3, line 34 of the 552 Cassorla patent, the January 1, 2002 written opinion noted that that patent discloses a method for associating annotations for a certain document (object) adopting the technique of separately storing annotation and its position in order to maintain unmodified the document itself. Further, it was noted that [t]his technique corresponds to and has the same effect of the storing of objects in non-modifiable portion of the file to be annotated.... 66. The January 1, 2002 written opinion also noted that the claims of the 081 23 international application are not inventive in view of the disclosure of the 552 Cassorla patent. 67. On or about May 2, 2002, an international preliminary examination report issued in connection with the 081 international application and was mailed to Mr. Glembocki. 68. The May 2, 2002 international preliminary examination report again cited the 552 Cassorla patent and noted that the claims of the 081 international application are not inventive in view of the disclosure of that patent. 69.
Widespread Contamination of Glyphosate Weedkiller in California Wine 100% of wine tested showed positive results for Glyphosate weedkiller Report Zen Honeycutt March 24th, 2016 Concerned with the widespread contamination of glyphosate/Roundup and other glyphosate based herbicides from GMO chemical farming, Moms Across America has initiated the testing of glyphosate in water, urine, breast milk, Pediasure feeding tube liquid given to pediatric patients with cancer, baby formula, and beverages. Since then, several groups have since reported finding glyphosate in cereal, bread, honey, cow’s milk, soy sauce, pet food, beer and more. In this recent project, an individual and Moms Across America supporter sent ten wines, including organic and biodynamic, to be tested for glyphosate based herbicides Results On March 16th, 2016 Moms Across America received results from an anonymous supporter which commissioned Microbe Inotech Lab of St.Louis, Missouri that showed all ten of the wines tested positive for the chemical glyphosate, the declared “active” ingredient in Roundup weedkiller and 700 other glyphosatebased herbicides. The highest level of glyphosate detected was up to 28.4 times higher than the other wines at 18.74 ppb from a 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon from a conventional, chemically farmed vineyard. The lowest level was from a biodynamic and organic vineyard, 2013 Syrah, which has never been sprayed according to the owner, with a level of .659 ppb. An organic wine from 2012 mixed red wine grapes, had 0.913 ppb of glyphosate. It is important to note that the detection of glyphosate is an indicator of the presence of many other coformulants in glyphosatebased herbicides which have recently been shown by French scientist Seralini’s team to be endocrine hormone disruptors and to be 1000x more toxic than glyphosate alone.(11) Therefore, the type or amount of the coformulant chemicals in the wines are untested and the consequences on our health are unknown.
Name one festival that you are craving to play at: Tie between Shambala & Hulaween. I’ve heard great things about both and got a little taste of Hula for the first time with Artifakts this past weekend. Daily Bread is going to be in Denver for the first time on Saturday at The Bluebird Theater with Marvel Years, Artifakts, and Unfold. How ecstatic are you? I’m verrry excited. I have my man Obeah with me, who wrote the words to “The Storm” off of my last LP, Cloud Conductor. Plus I’ve been itching to get out to Denver for some time now. Some of my favorite producers in the scene like Michal Menert, Late Night Radio, and PL are all from here. That makes it pretty an inspiring place. I’m also a fan of both Marvel Years and Artifakts and love their respective styles. You’ve opened for Artifakts several times and he invited you to Hulaween this past weekend. Can we expect something from the two of you on Saturday? I can’t say. Gary works on the fly. One minute he’s side stage, next minute he’s beside you on stage drinking champagne out of a crystal skull – phaser on blast – tapping out the queen break while dancing that fly lil jig he does. So, maybe? You’re also gearing up for a new release with Derlee. In three or less words, describe what it will be like: Best stuff yet. Don’t miss Daily Bread Saturday 11/5 at The Bluebird Theater. Click here for tickets.
The first motorised taxicab service in the United States started in New York City. Harry N. Allen, incensed after being charged five dollars ($126.98 in today's dollars) for a journey of 0.75 miles (1.21 km), decided "to start a [taxicab] service in New York and charge so-much per mile." He imported 65 gasoline-powered cars from France and began the New York Taxicab Company. The cabs were originally painted red and green, but Allen repainted them all yellow to be visible from a distance. By 1908 the company was running 700 taxicabs. Within a decade several more companies opened business and taxicabs began to proliferate. The fare was 50 cents a mile, a rate only affordable to the relatively wealthy. By the 1920s, automobile manufacturers like General Motors and the Ford Motor Company began operating fleets. The most successful manufacturer, however, was the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company. Founded by Morris Markin, Checker Cabs produced large yellow and black taxis that became the most common taxis in New York City. In 1937 Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia signed the Haas Act, which introduced official taxi licenses and the medallion system that remains in place today. The law limited the number of licenses to 16,900. The medallions are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars with fleet medallions topping $600,000 in 2007. In 1967, New York City ordered all "medallion taxis" be painted yellow to help cut down on unofficial drivers and make official taxicabs more readily recognisable. By the mid-1980s and into the 1990s the demographic changes among cabbies began to accelerate as new waves of immigrants arrived in New York. According to the 2000 US Census, of the 62,000 cabbies in New York 82 per cent are foreign born: 23 per cent are from the Caribbean (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and 30 per cent from South Asia, and Pakistan. In 1996, when Chevrolet stopped making the Caprice, the Ford Crown Victoria became the most widely used sedan for yellow cabs in New York. In addition, yellow cab operators also use the Honda Odyssey, Isuzu Oasis, Chevrolet Venture, Ford Freestar, and Toyota Sienna minivans which offer increased passenger room. The distinctive Checker cabs were, due to their durable construction, phased out slowly, the last one being retired in July 1999, being over 20 years in service and nearly one million miles on its odometer. Laws since 1996 require taxis be replaced every 6 years regardless of condition.
If that statement were in a student essay, the tutor would put a big ring around it, and mark the essay down for unsubstantiated and unexplained assertion-making.
Even as Trump proved that money was not the decisive factor in political victory by running a lean campaign. Stand by for over-the-top hatred from the Brockosphere that will backfire on the left.
By Gregg Wolper for MorningstarIt's hard to avoid the daily updates on the crisis in Europe. The financial troubles once concentrated in Greece and Ireland have broadened in scope, raising deeper questions and prompting gloomy predictions. Some wonder whether the euro can survive. Others think it will, but only at the cost of deep and lasting recessions in many European countries. Though optimism occasionally peeks through, sending stock markets higher for a few days, the headlines, columns, and political pronouncements usually sound notes of alarm. In this climate, it wouldn't be surprising if investors contemplated taking action. If the eurozone is in danger of collapse, perhaps it would be best to get out of the way.Such thoughts are understandable. The situation carries much risk and uncertainty. But investors should be careful before making a move. Identifying the right areas to avoid is easier said than done. Even if one decides correctly on that score, the situation can change rapidly, and a seemingly safe haven can itself come under fire. Moreover, the areas being shunned can recover quickly, and when they do, investors who headed for the sidelines can be left behind.It's not hard to locate the countries and securities most at risk. But the stocks and bonds of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal have already suffered steep declines, and the overwhelming majority of international funds devoted only a tiny portion of assets to those countries in the first place. As time has passed, though, worries have engulfed a variety of other targets. Spain found itself the centre of attention, then Italy, then those banks throughout the region thought to have the most exposure to the danger areas. Even German government bonds have been hit.This complicates matters for those wishing to take evasive action. Avoiding Greece is one thing. Trying to avoid all of Europe, or even just the eurozone, is another matter. And that is not so easy to do: a large portion of the assets of global equity funds are often invested in Europe. Avoiding Europe would mean selling all your broad global equity funds--not just those focused on Europe--or trying to find one with an exceptionally low stake in Europe or the eurozone and hoping that fund's strategy, costs, and other features appeals to you.
In other words, the Ontario government supports the secretive approach in which the public has seemingly no right to know how its money is spent. Not only is the lack of transparency surprising, but government documents suggest that the initial results are underwhelming. When asked about the results in an interview last year, Michael Coteau, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, claimed that the fund created 2,000 jobs and that more than $24 million in revenue was brought into the sector in the first year alone. Those claims led to a second access to information request on the program results. Once again, the OMDC was unwilling to release specific details on the results of any funded organization. Instead it provided a spreadsheet with de-identified data on all program recipients. The data indicates that contrary to Coteau’s claims, there were only 263 new full-time jobs created by the fund, a cost to taxpayers of $57,000 per new full-time job. In addition to the new full-time jobs, another 569 full-time jobs were retained, still well short of the 2,000 figure. The investment results were not much better. Recipients reported spending less than $7 million in private equity and support, less than half the provincial government investment. Moreover, while Coteau promoted the benefits of attracting recording to Ontario, the data indicates that only 15 international artists recorded in the province and that the total international investment in Ontario recording studios was $213,277. As the Canadian cultural sector faces new challenges and opportunities in the digital age, there is unquestionably an important role for government support. Yet the secrecy associated with the Ontario Music Fund and the results to date provide a cautionary tale on the need for greater transparency, oversight and accountability in public funding programs. Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can be reached at [email protected] or online at www.michaelgeist.ca .
8" roundDuncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge cake mixiced and filled with semi-sweet + milk chocolate ganachecovered in white MMFa border with royal icingfondant accentsThis was my first chance to work with Satin Ice (brand of manufactured fondant). I ordered red, green, and black 2 lb. tubs from www.fondantsource.com. The price, including shipping, was the cheapest I could find. It shipped quickly and arrived on my doorstep last Thursday. I was so excited I started making the bodies for the penguins right away.I also started the Christmas trees early. The large Christmas tree got scrapped because I ended up making it look ugly and figured it was too heavy for the cake anyway.I used scissors to snipe the branches ... it looked much better when I watched Buddy do it on Cake Boss. Mine came out dry and rough looking. Oh well. I hope the decorations detract from that.The cake baked up so nice ... this is the highest rising cake mix I've ever used. I tried making ganache with 12 oz of semi-sweet morsels plus a handful of milk chocolate morsels. When it came to icing the cake, I could see that the milk chocolate morsels didn't get incorporated into the rest of the chocolate. They were still soft and spreadable, but it looked like light brown splotches all over the cake. I let it chill in the fridge overnight to set. When I rolled the fondant onto it, I noticed the ganache might have been too hard. I could smooth out a lot of the roughness. You can see it along the edges in the picture below.Otherwise, icing and covering the cake went really well. I'm really getting the hang of eye-balling how I need my stuff to be. I'm not even measuring the sugar when I make fondant or royal icing.Typical bead border on the bottom. But the fun part was the top. All my little guys first got skewered with a toothpick. This cake was making a 3-hour car drive, and I wanted to make sure there were no casualties. Each got secured with some royal icing. You can see it peaking out underneath them.My previous cake proved I could make an icy/drippy border, which was perfect!
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 2.13 KB You guys win… I surrender! Over the past 4 months you've brought our servers to their knees, discovered more bugs then in any other beta phase and managed to submit more demonstrable feedback then we could possibly respond to in a month of Sundays. You've proven exactly how powerful it is when you have engaged beta players and designers working together. The bottom line, I’m proud to have been a part of it. That being said, it’s not over, not by a long-shot. The closer we get to launch, the more important focused feedback becomes. Most of the overarching designs and systems are locked down (thanks to you) and what we need now is focused feedback. What do we need you to focus on? Glad you asked: * Focus on reporting bugs! It's time for us to start "wrapping up" by cleaning everything up and polishing it. Bug reports are the best way to help out with this. Always aim to include "reproduction steps": Clear, repeatable instructions in order to find the bug you're reporting. These can be reported on the Bug Forum or via /bug in-game, either one gets to our QA team! * Polish is everything! We want everything to be in the best possible state between now and launch, but there's not much time for any "new" work. Help us take a look at the systems and content we have in the game, and suggest minor tweaks we could make to improve them without too much work. While "bigger picture" feedback is usually encouraged, this narrow, tight feedback is what's most important to us during these final months pre-launch. Thanks so much to those who have been active, contributing members of beta so far, and we look forward to pushing to launch with your help! PS. We know that those of you sitting at level 36 have had no new content for months now, and we appreciate those of you who have stuck it out to help continue testing the existing stuff. The plan is for the next major patch (about a month from now) to raise the cap all the way to level 50, with every game system opened up for play. Yes, even warplots and (maybe) a little raiding. It's just about time we get some heavy elder game testing going, so get yourself up to level 36, pronto.
Jul 20 19:31:49 * paise (0e634326@gateway/web/freenode/ip.14.99.67.38) has joined #rpcdesktop Jul 20 19:31:51 <FRodrigues> wait Jul 20 19:32:09 <miyako> I would like to take a moment on record to lol at the fact that suner was most opposed to coding conventions, and we're going to be using the one he wrote :) Jul 20 19:32:36 <FRodrigues> +1 Jul 20 19:33:02 <Suner> lol, I only wrote one because nobody else seemed to... Jul 20 19:33:26 <The_Mango> I still don't think it needs to be this strict Jul 20 19:33:29 <miyako> Suner: yeah, I was going to write one before I got the plague Jul 20 19:33:42 <The_Mango> If someone wrote bad looking code someone else can fix it up and commit Jul 20 19:33:49 <calzone21> hey guys, sorry if it may have been mentioned already. say someone submits code that doesn't follow the convention? Jul 20 19:33:54 <Suner> The_Mango: and I agree Jul 20 19:33:58 <calzone21> ok i was a bit late on that Jul 20 19:34:00 <TheDuceCat> yeah but we're trying to keep a level of consistency Jul 20 19:34:06 <thearrowflies> calzone21: we deny it Jul 20 19:34:07 <The_Mango> Why don't we vote on that first? Jul 20 19:34:10 <Suner> here's the thing Jul 20 19:34:12 <thearrowflies> thats what we agreed on Jul 20 19:34:13 <The_Mango> Or has it already been voted on? Jul 20 19:34:15 <Suner> if someone submits code Jul 20 19:34:26 <Suner> that deviates from the convention a bit, but is otherwise good code Jul 20 19:34:32 <Suner> does it really deserve to be denied? Jul 20 19:34:46 <The_Mango> Not at all Jul 20 19:34:47 <paise> IMO no. Jul 20 19:34:55 <TheDuceCat> well it needs to be fixed first Jul 20 19:34:58 <TheDuceCat> then it can be accepted Jul 20 19:34:59 <calzone21> should we consult them on what mistakes they made convention wise? Jul 20 19:35:03 <TheDuceCat> not like comletely blocked Jul 20 19:35:05 <TheDuceCat> yeah Jul 20 19:35:10 <Suner> not that I'm saying if you have someone who submits something with idents all over the place that it should be acceptable Jul 20 19:35:19 <calzone21> yeah, of course Jul 20 19:36:07 <Suner> I just don't think we should be pole-in-ass about it Jul 20 19:36:45 <TheDuceCat> no but it should be encouraged Jul 20 19:37:04 <Suner> yes, but ultimately I think different rules should hold different weights Jul 20 19:37:18 <calzone21> it has to be looked at like an assignment.
But even without the government's "help," the Church hierarchy, prior to Lorenzo Snow taking office, had created more than their share of problems that were now putting the very survival of the Church in jeopardy. Jay Bell reports:Third, tithing receipts were down, and they had been down ever since the Quorum had changed the rules without authorization from God back in August 1844, when they announced the requirement of a tenth of all one's posessions at baptism, another tenth of all possessions upon arriving in Utah, and a perpetual tenth every year thereafter. Many members contributed only as much as they could afford, and a good number just gave up and stopped trying altogether. And of course, there was that little practice of the Brethren "borrowing" tithing funds for their personal use. The Church was in need of a tithing reformation, and Lorenzo Snow was the right guy at the right time.Snow cancelled the requirement to give a tenth of one's property at baptism. Henceforth, tithing would consist of one tenth of one's annual income (and yes, everyone at the time knew what "income" was). Tithing receipts immediately and dramatically increased. He instituted strict controls and oversight to eliminate tithing being justified to increase allowances to members of the quorum.Of course, none of that was mentioned in the movie. An actual liberty taken by the movie was the idea that Lorenzo Snow called the people of St.George to repentance for slacking off on their tithing payments. On the contrary, according to newspaper accounts, "his remarks were mainly eulogistic of the people of this section of the country of their tithes and offerings, giving them the name of being the best tithe-payers and most faithful stake in the Church." (ibid, pg 63)And though he did speak about tithing, Snow exhibited no dramatic revelation received in the middle of his talk, and he did not promise rain if the people would pay their tithing. In fact, contrary to the main message of the movie, there was no connection made whatsoever between the drought and tithing. Good thing, too, because it would have been embarrassing. There was a little bit of rain here and there over the next three years, but the drought cycle didn't end in St. George until 1902.Nothing President Snow said in his talk concerned promises or blessings or windows opening or rain coming down or rivers being filled or harvests being reaped.
“If I knew there was a sliver of a possibility I’d have permanent damage to a vital organ in my body, I definitely wouldn’t have taken the drug,” said Ramsaran. “I’d rather be bald and not have hair anywhere on my body.”
S-IVB Stage Developed by McDonnell Douglas, the S-IVB served as third stage for Saturn V rockets. Fueled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the S-IVB was powered by a single, restartable, J-2 engine. A single propellant tank was divided into two compartments by a common bulkhead. The upper compartment would contain liquid hydrogen, while the lower compartment was for liquid oxygen. Two solid propellant rocket motors, mounted to the aft skirt, were fired during separation of the second and third stages. Thrust from the motors helped to settle fuel and oxidizer in the main propellant tanks, insuring a safe start for the J-2 engine. On Lunar flights, the S-IVB stage would conduct two burns. First, to put the stage and Apollo spacecraft into a parking orbit. After a period of system checks, the S-IVB would be started a second time. Called a trans-lunar insertion burn, this firing sent the stack on its way to the Moon. Auxiliary Propulsion System (APS) The APS provided attitude control and ullage control for the third stage. The system included two pods, mounted 180 degrees apart on the aft skirt assembly. Each pod included three attitude control engines and a single ullage engine. Each pod included tanks for fuel, oxidizer, and high pressure helium. The attitude control engines provide pitch, roll, and yaw control for the stage. The ullage engines would fire after the first J-2 engine burn to minimize unwanted propellant movement within the tanks. Later, the ullage engines would be used to settle the fuel and oxidizer prior to restarting the main engine. S-IVB Stage Photos Saturn S-IVB Stage on display at the United States Space and Rocket Center. (Photos: Richard Kruse, 2008) Saturn 5 S-IVB stage on display at the Kennedy Space Center. (Photos: Kevin Reynolds, 2000)
But also, let’s just not forget to do the same for David Bowie, Hugh Hefner, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski James Franco (who, within the past couple of years, attempted to arrange a hotel hook-up with a 17-year-old girl), Bill Clinton Jerry Seinfeld , and the many other white men of power and fame who continue to rape and sexually abuse women and girls with impunity and protection.We often use the words “allegation” or “alleged” when discussing these men’s crimes, since this is proper and protective protocol employed by the media, but this is often used as a dismissive tactic toward victims. Whenever someone is raped—whether their rapist was famous or not—we question the validity of their claim. It is easier for people to give the rapist the benefit of doubt than it is for them to believe the one who has been abused.For example, Dylan Farrow courageously wrote an open letter regarding the sexual abuse and trauma caused by Woody Allen. The letter was published in The New York Times under Nicholas Kristof’s column where he prefaced her open letter with a disclaimer stating, “It’s important to note that Woody Allen was never prosecuted in this case and has consistently denied wrongdoing; he deserves the presumption of innocence.”When we intersect and factor in race along with privilege, we see that when a rapist is white—especially if his victim was a person of color—it is more difficult for his accuser to seek justice, or even believed. We need to have an intersectional approach to deconstructing rape culture; one that includes race, gender/gender nonconformity, class, documentation status, body type, mental and physical abilities, and age. And while all rapists deserve to be punished, not all rapists will be. Especially when you consider race, class, and other variations of privilege.We must continue to have these uncomfortable conversations and be honest with ourselves about the people we admire and, most importantly, the people we love. Rapists benefit from silence and are protected by doubt. We must understand that we all perpetuate rape culture and have internalized it as well. We must ensure justice and support for all victims.We must hold all rapists accountable.
Going to use a holographic HUD system Behind the Scenes: Building Solar Systems An unsung hero of Star Citizen tech is the Solar System Ed or SolEd tool that simplifies all facets of solar system creation The old system for solar system creation in 2.0 was all based upon individual placement around a point of origin that didn't allow for scalability or later changes without basically redoing the whole piece of work Actual astronomers and astrophysicists were consulted to push the envelope on variety with feasibility in mind as well as gamer enjoyment in the creation of these different solar systems The final result was extremely detailed and realistic with a huge amount of data collected and used One concession was that a one-tenth scale was adopted for playability and feasibility purposes The SolEd will also allow the time dilation that is decided upon to be implemented easily Over the course of a year the numbers given from the consulted scientists were double checked against the lore provided for consistency Asteroids in the game will be much closer to one another in game than in reality as they would pose no gameplay challenge for players otherwise Many times the scientists offered many creative avenues for feasible and realistic differentiation within the solar systems to be created “Space be crazy” SolEd is being used for procedural planets, but not Crusader as it's a gas giant, and the tech for it is not fully developed yet Even at one-tenth scale the distances at quantum speed take a very long time to travel Quantum travel is always in a straight line as an antigrav bubble protects the players, but turning would negate this, and so is not possible It takes 15 hours to drive around a moon of Crusader They hope that the players realize the vast numbers and care taken into the creation of these systems along with the balancing of realism vs gameplay and of massive scale vs the crafted experience
[...] Perhaps that is why — as a centrist and a lifelong independent — I have found myself returning over the past few weeks to the question posed by the lawyer Joseph N. Welch during the hearings that finally helped bring down another Wisconsin Republican, Joe McCarthy, in 1954: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
Over time as more movement speed and evasion became available this item has become unreasonable. The movement speed players were attaining was not something that the game was designed to handle. This cap is unlikely to affect average use of this item.Maximum Fire Resistance granted has been reduced to 5% (from 8%). Life regeneration has been increased to 15 to 20 per second (from 6). New versions now also grant 40 to 60 Life (this cannot be divined).This item granted too much maximum fire resistance, more than any other shield provided for any other maximum resistance type. This made it far too easy to max out fire resistance on a Righteous Fire character. Other bonuses on the item have been added or increased to have the item remain useful for other builds.Each league, the race to 100 is over more quickly than the previous one, as players become more efficient and the experience available gets larger. We receive overwhelming feedback (including from top racers) that this process should be made longer. We're going to be careful though, and just adjust it a bit at a time. In 3.1.0, this takes the form of small additional experience penalties at levels 95-99 that have the following effect:Well, there's the list of significant nerfs. Hopefully we didn't forget any important ones. We have a decent list of buffs to go with it, which will be posted tomorrow in the full patch notes! YouTube \|
A serious humanitarian crisis is developing at Holman prison as correctional officers continue to walk off of the job amid concerns about safety and apathy from Warden Terry Raybon and the office of ADOC Commissioner Jefferson S Dunn, as violence, including deadly stabbings and assaults continue to mount. Several officers expressed dismay and fear after learning that two of their fellow officers, Officer Brian Ezell and another officer, reported to Warden Raybon that they had knives drawn on them and their lives threatened, and that neither Warden Raybon, nor Commissioners Jeff Dunn and Grantt Culliver would take any action to ensure their safety. Both of these officers then quit. Several other officers have also quit in the past three weeks after witnessing a stabbing of a fellow officer in the temple and who had remained hospitalized with life threatening injuries until he was pronounced dead earlier today. This after a former warden, Carter Davenport, was stabbed in March amidst back to back riots and other violence at Holman. Now, after seeing Warden Raybon release approximately 20 people from segregation on September 13, 2016, most of whom were all in segregation for violent incidents (only to see several stabbing take place, including one critically injured and another losing an eye), a total of eight more officers have either quit or turned in their two week notices. Officers are expressing concern that the Commissioners of the ADOC are intentionally exacerbating violence at the expense of human life in efforts to push forward their plan to extort the public for 1.5 billion to build new prisons in next years Legislative Session. Officers have began to express support for the Non-Violent stance of FREE ALABAMA MOVEMENT and their efforts to expose corruption, violence and other issues plaguing Holman and other Alabama prisons, and have went so far as to make repeated requests to Warden Raybon for the release of F.A.M. co-founder and organizer Kinetik Justice from solitary confinement, because officers now feel that he is being wrongfully detained and because he has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to conduct peaceful demonstrations at Holman prison to bring attention to issues within the ADOC and Holman prison. We are asking that everyone call Commissioner Dunn and Warden Raybon and demand that they post daily reports of the staffing levels and incidents of violence taking place at Holman as a matter of public safety. Warden Terry Raybon
3) Bible prophecy If a specific part of the Illuminati plan does not line up with Biblical doctrine and prophecy, I discard it and never report it. Many such parts of the plan I have rejected on that basis. I have never taken their word for anything!! But, the exciting part was that when I adopted this philosophy, I realized a very exciting truth: the Illuminati plan which does line up, when enacted, very precisely fulfills God’s prophecy, in multiple dozens of instances. Their plan is the greatest proof of the Omnipotence and Omnipresence of our Jesus! In communicating this to you, Our primary focus is on your children and your family. We always endeavor to inform you based on knowledge and fact and not by fear. We do not believe there is a conspiracy behind every bush, nor do teach violence in any situation, nor do we teach any uprising or revolt against any government authority. We teach based on the premise that once you understand the plans of the New World Order, you will be able to see its progress towards completion in the daily news. We do not set dates by which things will happen; rather we hold to the Biblical teaching that believers who know their Scriptural prophecy may only know the broad picture, i.e., that we are generally in the time of the End of the Age. We do not teach that the world is about to end or be destroyed. The Bible does not teach that either. Rather, it teaches that Messiah will return a second time to judge the unbelievers and to set up His Kingdom on earth, and will rule for 1,000 years. And finally, we do believe this time is close at hand. Israel is back in her land and all the other prophecies are coming to pass. An Invitation Please join us now and allow our web site to become one of the most important Christian resources in your daily life. If this whole concept of the New World Order is new to you, may we suggest that you begin with the selected transcripts from our radio show. Thank you for visiting and Please feel free to E-mail Cutting Edge Ministries if you have any questions about our outreach ministry. Read our current email free email alerts and updates online here and subscribe to the free email alerts and updates from our editor by entering your email address below
Air-traffic control in Brazil is a military function for historical reasons, none of them good. In the new sector, the controller on duty was an air-force sergeant, aged 38, named Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos. His instruction to the Legacy to “squawk ident” was a request for the crew to push a button associated with the transponder, which would highlight the airplane’s electronic symbol on the control-room console, making it easier for dos Santos to distinguish N600XL from other targets in flight. Why dos Santos felt the need is not clear, since the sector was particularly quiet at the time. In any event, high above Brasília, Paladino briefly neglected to comply. When he caught his error, he said, “Oh fuck, I forgot to do that.” The ident button was on the Radio Management Unit, a control screen for the radios and transponder. Paladino pushed it. Belatedly, Lepore said, “ID’s right there.” Paladino said, “I think I did it, yeah.” Then he said, “I think you see that … ” He didn’t finish the thought. He said, “Oh shit!” On the same device, the communications frequency had suddenly disappeared. But Paladino knew the number. He said, “Twenty-five-oh-five. That’s why I write it down.” It was a good practice. Despite what engineers may think, there is no cockpit tool as solid as a pen. Paladino reset the frequency. Lepore said, “Yeah.” Between the two men a subtle change was under way, and Paladino was ascending. Together they got back to the electronic maze, trying to calculate landing distance at Manaus, and takeoff performance for the following day. In the midst of this, the Legacy arrived over Brasília and was turned by the autopilot to track the airway, UZ6, on a course 24 degrees to the west of north. The Current Time was 3:55 p.m. The pilots made no mention of the turn that the airplane had just made. That in itself is not surprising. But the Legacy was now cruising at 37,000 feet, in contradiction to the convention that would have shifted it to an “even” flight level in the new direction. This was not illegal—and operationally it did not matter that the original flight plan had proposed a descent here to 36,000 feet. Indeed, the rules are very clear. Lepore and Paladino had been assigned 37,000 feet, and barring an emergency they were obligated to remain there until Air Traffic Control approved a change. There had been no such instruction.
There is no escape until he imagines a finality of death, who the great sea reflects back as the image of a dainty, innocent girl with pink hair, which faster than the speed of thought refracts into a synthesis, a maiden holding a skull, a cheerful agent of pestilence who will spread her love over all the land. 4 The magickian finds himself in a defined space. For the first time since his symbolic birth there are walls to lean against and seats to sit on. He forgets his burdens and rests. The surroundings are rich and sumptuous. He sees a fatherly figure before him in robes that seem medieval. who says to him "Son, our family can establish peace eternal if only you would marry the girl in the next room. Will you take her for a bride, son? Will you save this family from the arrows of its enemies? I would have you do this, as I am your father." He gestures towards the door. You, as a dutiful son, simply respond "Yes, father," and have no choice but to walk through the door. 5 The magickian enters the room to see his betrothed, ebola-chan, almost as you see her in her graven image on the altar. She is caked red with blood but when she catches the fear in your eye she says to you "chastize me not, for none of these was an innocent as no human is innocent and that lack of innocent is multiplied tenfold for these nigger beasts. I am the queen of graves and I bring ultimate absolution for those who would accept it and annihilation for those who would reject it. Through marriage of spirit and flesh we will strengthen both of our kingdoms." She offers you her hand. 6 The magickian accepts the offered hand. Instantly he feels a connection with something both predatory and kind. She looks into your eyes and in hers you see corpses screaming in rictus on funeral pyres. She sees your discomfort and whispers "Shh, no tears now. You know this is how it was always meant to end. I am the death of the subhuman. I am the birth of the first pure generation of humanity. But more importantly, I am the death of the pathological altruism of the white race. I will save them from their best intentions, but only if you take my hand and never let go."
With this logical principle in mind, let us similarly corner one of one of Holohoaxianty's High Priests , Timothy Ryback, by using the accumulation of his own 2004 written concessions, as published by the oh-so-"prestigious" Wall Street Urinal, against him. This is 'gonna' be fun! Forensic Evidence Of the Holocaust Must Be Preserved Ryback: Last month, Jarek Mensfelt, spokesman for the Auschwitz memorial site, announced plans to preserve the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria in the notorious death camp at Birkenau near the Polish town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz). "This is an attempt to keep it as it is now -- in ruins -- but not let the ruins go," he said. "It was meant to be here forever as a warning." Analysis: So, Mr. Ryback, both you and Mr. Mensfelt now admit that what you claim were "gas chambers ™ and crematoria" now lie in ruins. That means the "gas chambers and crematoria" that are still being shown to the teary-eyed tourists are Soviet-era "reconstructions" -- a fact that "Holocaust Deniers" were once attacked for claiming. Thanks for confirming that for us in the Wall Street Urinal. Images 1 & 2 are of the Soviet-era reconstruction of the "gas chambers" ™. Image 3 depicts the ruins of the what is said to the original "gas chambers". Ryback and the Polish curators concede that what is shown to gullible tourists are NOT the actual "gas chambers" ™. Ryback: In the coming weeks, as the Auschwitz preservationists begin their work, they should be guided by the knowledge that these heaps of dynamited concrete and twisted steel are not only historic artifacts but among the few remnants of untainted, forensic evidence of the Holocaust. Analysis: How exactly do these bombed-out remnants constitute "forensic evidence" of mass murdering gas chambers? Have any traces of poisonous gas been detected in the stones? Ryback: Of course, the historical and circumstantial evidence of a premeditated Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe is overwhelming. Analysis: Ah yes. The good ol' "the-evidence-is-overwhelming" rhetorical trick. Such a bold statement may sway the weak-minded, but it proves nothing. Talk is cheap, as they say. My. Ryback, could you please share with us this "overwhelming evidence" of a premeditated "Nazi" plan to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe . Ryback: There are the watch-tower-girded enclosures of Nazi concentration camps .... Analysis: "Watch-towers?" Well, duh! They were internment camps, after all.
Encryption? Most ZeroMQ developers recommend using ZeroMQ for the LAN with other code that can bridge network segments together using out of band communications. It works, but ZeroMQ wasn't designed to work across the vastness of the Internet. Furthermore, one must wrap ZeroMQ in another translation layer to provide end-to-end encryption. Authentication within a ZeroMQ system is another component that must be added on. It is a common practice to not include an authentication layer when used within a datacenter's LAN, but again that does not work for the greater Internet. Graviton hides those knobs from users and expects transport backends to implement a common authentication API and to encrypt data as appropriate. Work is ongoing to support the use of public key encryption as authentication and encryption for the JSON-RPC interface. The Privacy Things It is not currently implemented, but an authentication and encryption protocol is to be implemented using public key encryption. In Graviton, networks are organized by two identifiers: the node and the network. Each is currently represented by a UUID, though this may change to a raw public key in base58 much like most modern crypto network systems. Membership within a network can be identified by being able to respond to a challenge with a signature based on the shared private network key combined with a single node's private node key. Together, these two signatures can uniquely identify network membership and network identity. A rogue node that has acquired the shared private key can be blacklisted based on their identity key, giving the network operator time to rekey nodes. To accomplish this challenge-response mechanism, inter-node communications will be encrypted to the destination node's public key and signed with the network's shared private key. Since network keys are shared among a potentially vast number of nodes, it is important that a mechanism for frequent network key rotation is implemented while still being able to maintain a network's original identifier as the session identifier. Authorization mechanisms can be built on top of this as every transport backend must support authentication via these two keys and provide them to the upper layers in the OSI stack as attributes of the opaque handles. One can see how separate node/group/unknown identities is analogous to the existing user/group/world permissions in Unix.
Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast An aerial photo shows Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on Tuesday, November 29 -- a day after wildfires hit the city. Gatlinburg city officials declared mandatory evacuations in several areas as firefighters battled at least 14 fires in and around the city. More than 30 large wildfires have left a trail of destruction through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky, according to the US Forest Service. Hide Caption 1 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Polo Gutierrez climbs onto the foundation of a destroyed home to try to see if his apartment building is still standing in Gatlinburg on November 29. Gutierrez fled his apartment with other residents as fires approached the previous night. Hide Caption 2 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast A destroyed structure and vehicle are seen near Gatlinburg on November 29. Hide Caption 3 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast An Alamo Steakhouse was one of the Gatlinburg businesses destroyed by fire. Hide Caption 4 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Trevor Cates inspects the damage to the Banner Missionary Baptist Church in Gatlinburg on November 29. Hide Caption 5 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Two dormitories at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts were damaged from the wildfires that flared near Gatlinburg on November 29. Hide Caption 6 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Photographer Bruce McCamish captured this image of the fires burning behind the Dollywood Dreammore Resort in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Hide Caption 7 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Fires burn on both sides of Highway 441 between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge on Monday, November 28. Hide Caption 8 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Thick smoke looms in Gatlinburg on November 28. Hide Caption 9 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Officials from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park reported the closing of roads and several trails near Gatlinburg on November 28. Hide Caption 10 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Firefighter Layne Whitney checks the treetops while working to hold the northern head of the Rock Mountain Fire, north of Tate City, Georgia, on Tuesday, November 22. Hide Caption 11 of 24 Photos: Wildfires scorch the Southeast Flames from the Rock Mountain Fire silhouette a weather vane north of Clayton, Georgia, on Monday, November 21.
Adding to the financial burden of our state labs without adaquate funding is only an incentive to the overburdened labs who are already 14 months behind in turn around time just on samples from our existing laws, to falsify results to ensure timely results for their friends in the courts. Please follow these links to some other timely info about testing facilities here and nationwide. If we cannot fix these flaws I would strongly urge you to vote no on the entire Bill HB13-1317. Also re: 13-1318 I know many in the blackmarket who cant wait to raise their prices by 20 to 25% as they can increase their profit when industry prices rise.... Right now you can pay about the same price for marijuana from a MMC or a private grower (I don't know where the talk about cartels comes from the growers in my area outside Nederland have been there happily serving the same client base for over two decades, we aren't seeing new "gang type" activity where i live. the only cartel in CO is lobbyists backed MMIG and CBA , or as I call them the alphabet soup cartel). Furthermore these "black market" growers far and away exceed the quality of the cannabis grown by big buggy denver warehouses from the cartel of lobbyist backed MMCs. I've heard Rep. Singer claim audaciously that because we have "skin in the game" industry members will support, fund election campaigns, and promote the passage of this bill to which I say HA HA HA no way on earth any of us will remotely do any such thing. In fact you can be certain that as you read this industry members are already actively campaigning against this bill to any patient or person we encounter. We in the industry think a 12% combined tax is about right... 5% sales tax, and 7% excise tax which should generate between 3.5 and 20 million dollars based on the two extremes of potential sales Ive seen bandied about. If the MMED cant make that kind of money work for actual enforcement (which we've all been waiting to see since 2010) then they are the criminals, not the industry.
Start Slideshow The DC Extended Universe is undergoing a bit of a remodel after the critical bashing of Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman. Instead of Snyder at the helm of the universe, Geoff Johns has now taken over as the Kevin Feige of DC, and fans have been responding well to the decision. Johns has a lot of work to do on this expanding universe, but one of his first priorities must be finding a new director for The Flash, slated to release in March 2018. Late last month, it was announced that filmmaker Seth Grahame-Smith was dropping out as the writer and director of The Flash due to creative differences. While we still aren't sure what those differences are, we know that the film needs to find a director ASAP. With Wonder Woman having wrapped principal photography, Justice League currently filming, and Aquaman in the casting phase, The Flash is the next film to get rolling. They have their star, Ezra Miller, already attached to the film, but that's about it. With less than two years to go, and with a film as big as this one, it's really time Johns and the folks over at DC picked a director. There are a ton of great filmmakers out there, but only a handful who could really capture the essence of The Flash. We know the film will be going for a lighter tone than its DCEU counterparts, but the director should still have some grounding in fast-paced action. Not only is the film itself a challenge, but there will be added pressure due to the success of The Flash series over at CW. The filmmaker brought on to helm this project will need to bring their own voice to the film, and make it stand out in a world where Marvel is king. We've seen directors really let us down with projects like these, but I trust Geoff Johns' judgement. Let's take a look at 12 directors who could realistically helm The Flash, and who could make a film that comic and movie fans can be proud of.
Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 IV.2. REMIND THE GOV OF USG INTEREST IN THE EFFORTS OF US BUSINESS TO PARTICIPATE IN INDUSTRIAL, INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER PROJECTS ARISING FROM VENEZUELAN DEVELOPMENT. V. STIMULATION OF INCREASED VENEZUELAN COOPERATION ON SECRET SECRET PAGE 04 CARACA 11634 02 OF 06 122140Z POSS DUPE INTERNATIONAL ISSUES. V.1. CONTINUE CONSULTATIONS WITH VENEZUELA THAT FACILITATE A MORE COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP ON MULTILATERAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND ENCOURAGE VENEZUELAN LEADERSHIP ON SUCH ISSUES. V.2. DEVELOP A CONTINUING DIALOGUE WITH PRESIDENT PEREZ AND OTHER KEY VENEZUELAN OFFICIALS ON MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC AND TRADE ISSUES. V.3. ENOURAGE VENEZUELA TO ADOPT A PRAGMATIC POSITION IN THE NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE. -- IN MARCH OF 1978 PRESIDENT CARTER, SECRETARY VANCE AND NSC ADVISOR BRZEZYNSKI CAME TO CARACAS FOR DISCUSSIONS OF, AMONG OTHER ITEMS, MULTILATERAL AND BILATERAL ECONOMIC ISSUES OF INTEREST TO BOTH GOVERNMENTS. IN MAY 1978 A HIGH LEVEL STR-STATE GROUP VISITED CARACAS FOR INTENSTIVE DISCUSSIONS WITH GOV OFFICIALS ON MTN. DAS SCHNEIDER CAME TO CARACAS IN AUGUST OF 1978 FOR MINISTERIAL LEVEL TALKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. WE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION TO BROADEN THE DISCUSSIONS TO INCLUDE MANY ECONOMIC ISSUES OF MUTUAL INTEREST. DURING VISITS BY REINALDO FIGUEREDO AND HECTOR HURTADO TO WASHINGTON ON OTHER BUSINESS, WE ARRANGED APPOINTMENTS WITH USG OFFICIALS FOR CONSULTATIONS. EMBASSY OFFICIALS HAVE HAD FREQUENT DISCUSSIONS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FOREIGN TRADE INSTITUTE AND PEREZ-GUERRERO'S OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. DURING ALL OF THESE CONSULTATIONS WE HAVE FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON BILATERAL TRADE ISSUES, MTN AND NORTH-SOUTH (ESPECIALLY THE COMMON FUND). SECRET SECRET PAGE 05 CARACA 11634 02 OF 06 122140Z POSS DUPE -- SPECIFICALLY REGARDING THE OBJECTIVE IV.1: THE EMBASSY AND THE US DEPT. OF COMMERCE HOSTED TRADE Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 MISSIONS AND PRESENTED A SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS AND CATALOG SHOWS FEATURING US EQUIPMENT IN THE FIELDS OF ENERGY, CONSUMER GOODS, PRINTING AND GRAPHICS, PLASTICS AND CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION. WE HAVE ASSISTED AND ENCOURAGED THE EXIM BANK TO COLLABORATE WITH VENEZUELAN COMPANIES AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, HELPING TO INSURE THAT US FIRMS CAN COMPETE ON A MORE EVEN CREDIT FOOTING.
Hide Caption 33 of 40 Photos: New to Netflix in April New to Netflix in April – Blink and you may have missed the 2000 crime drama "The Yards" with a cast including Joaquin Phoenix. Now is your chance to catch up. Hide Caption 34 of 40 Photos: New to Netflix in April New to Netflix in April – Before you check out the latest Muppets movie, enjoy "The Muppets Take Manhattan" from 1984. Hide Caption 35 of 40 Photos: New to Netflix in April New to Netflix in April – Pierce Brosnan brings the suave in 1999's "The Thomas Crown Affair." Hide Caption 36 of 40 Photos: New to Netflix in April New to Netflix in April – Before there was the TV series, there was the 1968 film "The Odd Couple" starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, right. Trivia alert: The film was based on a hit play. Hide Caption 37 of 40 Photos: New to Netflix in April New to Netflix in April – If you didn't get to watch the 2009 TV series "Royal Pains" when it was airing, now's your chance. Hide Caption 38 of 40 Photos: New to Netflix in April New to Netflix in April – Hugh Laurie gained a cult following as a less-than-likeable doctor in the television series "House," which ran on Fox from 2004 to 2012. Hide Caption 39 of 40 Photos: New to Netflix in April New to Netflix in April – The 2014 TV series "Short Poppies" is a mockumentary set in New Zealand. Hide Caption 40 of 40
Hi everyone! I definitely want to start off by apologizing for not posting this past week. The flu bug has really taken its toll on me and I have not been able to do much the past two weeks. The smell of acetone and polish make me start up a coughing fit :( I'm starting to feel a bit better, however, I still don't have much nail art to show you. I want to have a bit more going on this week, but let's play it by ear shall we?Here's a mani I completed a few days ago, a simply cute doticure.Isn't it awesome how the cute bow matches my nail polish? Yup, it's not a coincidence. For today, I want to share this really cute idea that I learned from the lovely blog Seize the Nail (http://seizethenail.com). Matching your nail art bows to your nail polish! It's definitely one of those things that you look at and realize 'wow why haven't I done this before?!'. These cute bows can be purchased at many different websites, personally I buy them from eBay, and they usually come in an assortment of wild colors. Colors that almost never match my polish lol. Here I'm going to show you how to paint them and how I remove the paint if you want to reuse the same bow. Just to show you guys, here are the bows I received from a eBay purchase recently. As you can see they came in a bunch of different colors and I paid about $2.00 for the pack (there were about 3-4 more than what you see here in the pack). Now there are two ways you can paint these: using the polish brush or using a small art brush. I used the small art brush because I felt much more in control. There are also little nooks that are harder to get with the polish brush as opposed to the art brush. Art brushes can be purchased on eBay as well.I started off by painting the outer edges then working my way towards the middle around the rhinestone. Don't worry about getting paint on the rhinestone, you can get rid of the excess paint by using a cotton swab with acetone.
Photo: Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Image 2 of 23 How about being ranked as overall one of the best cities by Business Week and Bloomberg? Yup, Houston made that list thanks to the local food scene, sports teams and parks. How about being ranked as overall one of the best cities by Business Week and Bloomberg? Yup, Houston made that list thanks to the local food scene, sports teams and parks. Image 3 of 23 Forbes called the Lower Westheimer area the 20th hottest hipster spot in the nation. Forbes called the Lower Westheimer area the 20th hottest hipster spot in the nation. Image 4 of 23 Houston was No. 9 for major metro college students in the American Institute for Economic Research study. Houston was No. 9 for major metro college students in the American Institute for Economic Research study. Image 5 of 23 Image 6 of 23 Houston made Forbes' top U.S. cities for jobs list in terms of employment numbers. Houston made Forbes' top U.S. cities for jobs list in terms of employment numbers. Image 7 of 23 IAH Houston came in as one of the worst airports in the U.S. in a Travel + Leisure list. IAH Houston came in as one of the worst airports in the U.S. in a Travel + Leisure list. Image 8 of 23 Houston was ranked as the sixth most miserable sports city by Forbes. Well, at least the Texans are good. Houston was ranked as the sixth most miserable sports city by Forbes. Well, at least the Texans are good. Image 9 of 23 Having the Galleria certainly helped Houston to be named the top shopping city in America by Forbes. Having the Galleria certainly helped Houston to be named the top shopping city in America by Forbes. Image 10 of 23 Image 11 of 23 Houston knows how to keep its young professionals happy. Houston came in at No.20 according to this list from CareerBliss. Houston knows how to keep its young professionals happy. Houston came in at No.20 according to this list from CareerBliss. Image 12 of 23 The American Planning Association named Buffalo Bayou one of the nation's 10 "great public spaces." The American Planning Association named Buffalo Bayou one of the nation's 10 "great public spaces." Image 13 of 23 The beautiful Hermann Park made this top 10 parks list from Homes.com.
Julia Barnes, who announced last month she’s leaving her position as executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party, has landed a job as New Hampshire state director of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) presidential campaign.Barnes had planned to go to graduate school until the job with Sanders came through. She will work alongside Sanders’ New Hampshire political director, Kurt Ehrenberg, in Concord, N.H., according to Sanders’ office.In Vermont, Conor Casey will replace Barnes as executive director of the state party. He spent nearly eight years as legislative coordinator with the Vermont State Employees' Association.Barnes has presidential-campaign experience in New Hampshire, which will hold the nation’s first presidential primary next February, following the Iowa caucuses.Barnes, 32, was regional field coordinator for Democrat Joe Biden's presidential bid in 2007 and 2008. She later worked for then-New Hampshire governor John Lynch before becoming field director for his reelection campaign in 2008. Barnes also worked in New Hampshire on President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2011. She became executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party in May 2012.Barnes led the party during a fairly low-key period during which Democrats maintained control of most of the state's top political slots. With Gov. Peter Shumlin not seeking reelection in 2016, Democrats could see a primary for governor and lieutenant governor.Casey, 34, said a primary can be healthy for the party, as it proved to be in 2010 when Shumlin emerged from a five-candidate field to win the general election. The coming contest is "probably the most interesting race since the 2010 election,” Casey said. “I’m excited to be part of it.”Casey comes with considerable political connections through his work with VSEA from 2005 to 2012, a time that included difficult recession-era negotiations between the union and former Republican governor Jim Douglas. He then moved to Connecticut to work as political action director for the Connecticut Education Association, but returned to Vermont this year to run his family’s business organizing trips to Ireland.A dual Irish-U.S. citizen, Casey was born in New York but spent part of his childhood in Ireland. Casey said that’s where he got hooked on politics. He recalled British soldiers stationed all around him. In 1998, he said, Bill Clinton, then the president, negotiated the Good Friday agreement and the soldiers went away.“I saw in every tangible way the effect politics can have on regular people,” he said.
`Two Of A Kind' starts off the album with a fantastically catchy chorus. One hell of a song to start off the album. `Half Empty Bottle' is next with its great guitar riff and solo driving the song from start to finish. Havoc's vocal delivery is excellent here. `Yurf Rendermein' is one of AFI's all time best songs, it is truly a classic in their musical cannon. Really the same exact song as on Very Proud Of Ya but that's alright its so good it should be released twice. `I Want A Mohawk(But Mom Won't Let Me)' is another AFI classic. This to many the bands signature song. It's everything a little punk kid wants and does. The guitar intro alone is classic. `Brownie Bottom Sundae' starts and its full speed ahead. A great song but nothing too special other then the amazing bass line through out the song and the nice guitar solo. `The Checkered Demon' is super fast, one of the fastest songs ever heard. `Cereal Wars' contains one of the all time greatest bass lines ever! The lyrics are a personal favorite and it is a really great song, one of the best on the album. `The Mother In Me' aside from having a really obscure title is a truly great song, one of the best on the album in fact. `Rizzo In The Box' is a very good song, quite simply put. Lots of tempo changes and lots of great moments through out. Another shining moment on the album. Kung-Fu Devil is another song that features a clip from the movie Reservoir Dogs, then goes into a killer guitar riff and awesome song all around, one of the standout's on the album. 'Your Name' contains a great chanting chorus "No More No More" which will for sure be stuck in your head. `Ny-Quil' aside from having some of my all time favorite lyrics and subject matter also has very great guitar playing. A personal favorite off the album. `Don't Make Me Ill' also contains another clip from Reservoir Dogs and then goes into another great song by the band. This is my favorite song on the album personally. A song all true AFI fans love really. `Open Your Eyes' Is old school hardcore at its best with lots of complicated rhythms that make this song really stand out on the album. `Highschool Football Hero' closes the album and does so very well.
the profits of entrepreneurship (the activity of choosing investments and organizing production). Thus a successful urban growth strategy in a market economy must either increase the amounts of land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship that are used in a city or increase the payments that are made per unit of each factor, or both. The land that a city has is fixed (or if it changes, it does so at the expense of other administrative units). Therefore, with respect to land, socially productive urban growth means adopting policies that raise the productivity of land. Labor, on the other hand, is reasonably mobile, and capital is highly mobile. Entrepreneurship springs up and fades away with the rise and fall of opportunities. Therefore, in a market economy, the payments that must be made to attract these factors are substantially outside the control of a city. Thus the growth of a city with respect to labor, capital and entrepreneurship is achieved primarily by making the city a place that attracts more of these factors, taking the rates of wages, interest and profits that must be paid to attract them as given by market forces. Tax policy is critical for urban growth because taxes on the earnings of labor, capital and entrepreneurship drive these factors away. A city that desires to grow should refrain from taxing wages, interest or profits and concentrate its taxes on land, which does not have the option of moving away. Certain other sources of public revenue, in addition to the rent of land, have the characteristic of not discouraging growth. These sources of revenue involve either charging people for using scarce opportunities that no one created, as with land, or charging people for the costs that their actions impose on others. A city that wishes to grow should confine its search for revenue to these sources. In this way it will attract more labor, capital and entrepreneurship, thereby raising the rent of land, which can be collected publicly without discouraging growth. Additions to the stock of capital are extremely important for urban growth, because of the impact of abundant capital on wages and rents. When capital is abundant, labor and land are more productive, and the more productive they are, the higher wages and rents are. There is virtually nothing a city can do to affect the rate of expected return that is needed to attract capital, because capital is highly mobile.
08/08/2017 – August 8th Release Notes World Polish General Current Events achievements from Living World Season 3 have been grouped into new categories under the Side Stories achievement group. All Season 3 Current Events achievements have been unhidden, with the exception of those that cannot be progressed without specific Living Story chapters or expansions. Meta-achievements have been added for two of the new Side Stories categories, including an achievement for beginning each new meta’s story. A Central Tyria Mastery Point has been added to the existing rewards for the Transfer Chaser meta-achievement. With her journey concluded for now, Seis Burntheart has returned to her original location in Frostgorge Sound, where she will direct adventurers hoping to follow in her footsteps. Event scaling on the Ley-Energy Coalescence events has been rebalanced. The Bloodstone-Crazed Arctodus, Bloodstone-Crazed Devourer, and Bloodstone-Crazed Moa have gained additional Power. Anomaly fragment enemies during the Ley-Line Anomaly events are now easier to stun when Counter Magic is used against them. Bandit leaders across Kryta have found their health further reduced as their supply lines remain in disarray. Responding to local demand for pet-care supplies, a new vendor has set up shop in Rata Sum to provide shoppers with fun and safe toys to entertain their cats. Further responding to local demand to “get these infuriating felines out of my lab,” harmless and scientific equipment for shooing cats away is also provided. Text has been standardized on food and utility tooltips. Added two new options to the Sound Options panel that will allow you to determine how items with unique sound effects play back on your game client. The four options are listed below and can be independently specified for both your items and other players’ items: All: All unique item sound effects will play back without restrictions (as they have traditionally). Limited: Unique item sounds will have a chance to play but will usually fall back to default sound effects. Mute Projectiles Only: Unique item sounds originating from projectile attacks (such as Quip and the Dreamer) will be muted, and all others will play normally. Off: Unique item sound effects will be completely disabled, and default sound effects will play in their place. Fixed some issues in which only the left modifier keys (Shift, Alt, Control, etc.) were considered for various UI interactions. Fractals Shattered Observatory Fixed a bug in which green circles would not display properly for the final boss.
Ask other grad students, family, or friends who know what you’re trying to learn to serve as coaches. Capture devices like video cameras can give you a sense of how you're performing. Integrate as many feedback loops as you can into your practice. While I’m learning Drupal, I have a couple of guides that walk through steps and provide examples of what my work should look like at each stage. I also know several people who understand how the backend of Drupal works who can help if I get stuck. Practice by the clock in short bursts. Try using the Pomodoro technique: Set a count-down timer for 25 minutes. Once you start the timer, you must practice until it goes off. Take a five minute break to stretch, clear your mind, and then get back to it! Shoot for 3 Pomodoros a day. Emphasize quantity and speed. Don't focus on practicing perfectly! This is going to be a hard one for us, but it, too, is very important—maybe even the most important step to help us get past some of our common mental blocks.
Laden states in his article that using a certain criteria when judging whether a person is a terrorist is fine, stating, "If your concept of what makes a person more likely a terrorist is correct, then you will have a better chance of catching a terrorist, and it will take fewer resources to do so. But it must be done correctly. "Laden suggests also using things like a passenger's itinerary to determine whether or not someone might be a terrorist. "Had the American security people been on the ball with itineraries, they may have prevented 9/11, where several guys who had a loose association independently bought plane tickets...".Whether you are for or against racial and religious profiling, one thing is certain: the TSA conducts a lot of invasive searches on people who do not need to be subjected to such behavior. There is absolutely no reason for children or the elderly to be screened so harshly. The heavy list of unnecessary "precautions" needs to be wittled down to three: metal detectors, explosives detectors, and X-ray machines. And everyone must go through all three, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, or status.By streamlining the security process, the easier it will be to get people to their planes on time. The travelers who have been scared away by the procedures will come back to fly and airline profits will rise. This will in turn lead to more flights, more jobs, and happier travelers. This opinion article was written by an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily intended to reflect those of DigitalJournal.com More about Sam harris, Atheism, Racial profiling, religious profiling, Tsa Sam harris Atheism Racial profiling religious profiling Tsa Airport security Racism
GiveWell is a meta-charity, an organization that evaluates other charities. They have four broad criteria, in Hassenfeld’s words: “effectiveness” (does the charity make a difference? ), “cost-effectiveness” (how much difference does the charity make per dollar received? ), “room for funding” (can the charity use your donation in the near future? ), and “transparency” (is the charity forthcoming about its spending and its results?). Its top-ranked charities for this year include GiveDirectly, a radically simple approach to sending no-strings-attached cash to extremely poor households, and the Against Malaria Foundation, which distributes insecticide-treated malaria nets in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s impossible not to be struck by the encyclopedic thoughtfulness of GiveWell's analyses, which take months to complete and are often thousands of words long, contain more than 100 footnotes, and elaborate on concerns they have for even the top-ranked charities. It is hard for the casual donor to determine on her own which charities do the most good. For example, compare two well-meaning organizations: Charity A accepts $100 and sends $90 to the field to buy better textbooks for Kenyan children. Charity B accepts $100 and sends $45 to the field to buy deworming tablets for Kenyan kids. If you focus on “overhead" costs, as many people do, the choice is clear: Charity A is twice as effective. But randomized controlled trials have shown that while textbooks do little to raise school attendance, medicine for intestinal worms often helps children go back to school. In the end, Charity B might be many times more effective. This is why it’s so important for organizations like GiveWell to track dollars and outcomes. GiveWell estimates that the cost-per-child-life saved by the Against Malaria Foundation is just $3,340. But comparing outcomes is tricky. Is it better to avert a death from a tropical disease, or to raise a family from abject poverty? Philosophically, the most difficult task facing GiveWell is putting the vast spectrum of human suffering into numbers. It is, in a way, a math problem, but one laden with value judgments, about which reasonable people can disagree. For example, to compare suffering across countries, some organizations use a metric called DALYs, or Disability-Adjusted Life-Years. One DALY could equal one year lost to early death, 1.67 years of blindness, or 41.67 years suffering stomach pain from an intestinal parasite. If a program has averted 80 DALYs, it might have saved the death of one infant or cured minor health problems for several adults.
En los convenios a los que ha tenido acceso este periódico, la Fundación para el Estudio de los Problemas de las Ciudades se comprometía a invertir el dinero que le daba Caja Madrid en la realización desobre la ciudad y su marco estratégico.se puso en contacto con el PSM para saber si guardaban copia de dichos proyectos de investigación y sistemas documentales. Una portavoz de los socialistas madrileños justificó la negativa a suministrar los documentos pormunicipales y autonómico.Preguntado por este diario, el presidente de la gestora del PSOE, Rafael Simancas, defendió la legalidad de la actuación de la fundación "Todo se justificó ante el protectorado de la fundación y ante el Tribunal de Cuentas y no hemos recibido ningún reproche de tipo legal. ".No obstante, Simancas reconoció que las actividades de la: "Por ejemplo organizábamos unas jornadas sobre la sanidad pública, y las organizaba la fundación Ciudades , o se le encargaba un informe sobre algún tema que tiene que ver con la educación, seminarios, jornadas, encuentros. También aprovechábamos el dinero de la fundación para organizar este tipo de cosas, y eso se ponía en folletos, en dípticos...".Un correo de Blesa, de 15 de julio de 2004 , explica el funcionamiento real de las ayudas concedidas a las fundaciones de los partidos, cuyos dirigentes eran losel reparto entre las diversas entidades de las ayudas que aprobaba todos los años la entidad financiera.Las donaciones las concedía el Patronato de la Fundación Caja Madrid y lo hacía en función de lo que Spottorno denomina en el mencionado email "sensibilidades". La sensibilidad PSOE "(igual que en 2003) no entre dos, sino entre seis fundaciones, porque así lo deciden ellos mismos. A lo largo de los años han cambiado varias veces de fundaciones beneficiarias (hace cuatro años, por ejemplo, decidieron excluir de la lista, en la que estaba hasta entonces, a la Fundación Largo Caballero, ligada precisamente a UGT), sin que nadie haya objetado nunca el reparto interno", relata Spottorno en el correo electrónico adelantado porEntre los convenios a los que ha tenido acceso este diario se incluyen tres de la(UGT) de los años 1997, 1998 y 2001 por una cuantía total de 46.577 euros.
1. George Soros, Soros Fund Management: $7,000,000 The 85- year-old billionaire is behind the largest, single donation towards Clinton’s run. He has also been vocal about his disdain for Trump. He donated to PUA Super PAC. 2. Haim Saban and Cheryl Saban, Saban Capital Group: $5,000,000 Media mogul Haim Saban has been a long-time friend of Clinton, and his wife Cheryl sits on the board of the Clinton Foundation. They both donated separately to PUA Super PAC. 3. Jay Robert Pritzker and Mary Pritzker, Pritzker Group and Pritzker Family Foundation: $3,800,000 JB, the heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and co-founder of an investment firm, donated to PUA Super PAC along with his wife. The Pritzker Family Foundation led by Jay Robert also donated to PUA Super PAC. 4. James Simons, Euclidean Capital: $3,500,000 The billionaire hedge fund manager donated to the PUA Super PAC. 5. Donald Sussman, Paloma Partners: $2,500,000 The President of this Connecticut-based hedge fund donated to PUA Super PAC. 6. Herb Sandler, The Sandler Foundation: $2,500,000 Sandler and his late wife Marion purchased Golden West Savings and Loan in 1963 and created the Golden West Financial Corporation. In 1968 the corporation went public. The company was acquired by Wachovia Bank in 2006, and coinciding with the subprime lending crisis, the merger was often given as an example of financial overreach. The foundation has supported the Center for Responsible Lending, ProPublica and the Centre for American Progress. 7. Fred Eychaner, Newsweb Corporation: $2,005,400 Eychaner is the founder and chairman of Newsweb, a Chicago media company.He donated to PUA Super PAC and Clinton’s campaign committee. (Note from editor: Although Eychaner is featured in numerous articles about Jewish donors, including this one from the Times of Israel, his Wikipedia page lists him as Methodist.) 8. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks Animation: $2,000,000 CEO Katzenberg and co-founder Steven Spielberg both donated to the PUA Super PAC. 9. David E. Shaw, D.E. Shaw & Co.: $1,500,000 Shaw founded the hedge fund but currently focuses on his role as Chief Scientist at D.E. Shaw Research. He donated to PUA Super PAC. 10. Bernard L. Schwartz, BLS Investments: $1,000,000 The Chairman of BLS Investments and life-long supporter of the Democratic Party, Schwartz donated to the PUA Super PAC.
To uphold human rights by supporting a murderous terrorist state, while condemning a democracy forced to defend itself against outside forces bent on its destruction -- do any of these writers know what free speech and human rights are about, what democracy means, or what international law consists of? One suspects not. Meanwhile, Seret will go on. Genuine lovers of cinema and television will watch the films and go away satisfied, hoping to see more like them. Denis MacEoin, a self-confessed film buff, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute. © 2019 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. The articles printed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. No part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute. Recent Articles by Denis MacEoin French Muslims and the Secular State, 2019-02-23
These hemispheres were embedded in agarose and sectioned on a vibratome at 300–500 μm (depending on size of a hemisphere) in the coronal plane. Under oblique transmitted light at the stereomicroscope and with the use of a microsurgical knife (Stab Knife Straight; 5.5 mm; REF 7516; Surgical Specialties Corporation), we manually dissected the pallium from subpallium on each section by cutting along the pallial-subpallial lamina, as defined by Reiner et al. (41). The subpallium included all major subpallial cell groups enumerated therein; the remaining parts of the telencephalon constituted the pallium. The dissected structures were dried with paper towel, weighed, incubated in 30% (wt/wt) sucrose solution until they sank, then transferred into antifreeze (30% glycerol, 30% ethylene glycol, 40% phosphate buffer), and frozen for further processing. Isotropic Fractionator. We estimated total numbers of cells, neurons, and nonneuronal cells following the procedure of isotropic fractionation described earlier (40). Briefly, each dissected brain division was homogenized in 40 mM sodium citrate with 1% Triton X-100 using Tenbroeck tissue grinders (Wheaton). When turned into an isotropic suspension of isolated cell nuclei, homogenates were stained with the florescent DNA marker DAPI, adjusted to a defined volume, and kept homogenous by agitation. The total number of nuclei in suspension, and therefore the total number of cells in original tissue, was estimated by determining density of nuclei in small fractions drawn from a homogenate. At least four 10-µL aliquots were sampled and counted using a Neubauer improved counting chamber (BDH; Dagenham) with an Olympus BX51 microscope equipped with epifluorescence and appropriate filter settings (Olympus filters U-MWU2 for DAPI and U-MWG2 for Alexa Fluor 546-conjugated secondary antibodies); additional aliquots (typically two to five) were assessed when needed to reach the coefficient of variation among counts ≤ 0.15. Once the total cell number was known, the proportion of neurons was determined by immunocytochemical detection of neuronal nuclear marker NeuN (61). This neuron-specific protein was detected by the mouse monoclonal antibody anti-NeuN (clone A60; Chemicon; dilution, 1:800), which was recently characterized by Western blotting with chick brain samples and shown to react with a protein of the same molecular weight as in mammals (62), indicating that it does not cross-react with other proteins in birds. The binding sites of the primary antibody were revealed by Alexa Fluor 546-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (Life Technologies; dilution, 1:500). An electronic hematologic counter (Alchem Grupa) was used to count simultaneously DAPI-labeled and NeuN-immunopositive nuclei in the Neubauer chamber.
Not long ago, I took a 10-day trip to Africa with the aim of finding out about the real situation of China-Africa cooperation against the background of the "One Belt and One Road" (B&R) initiative. The three countries I visited were Egypt, Ethiopia and Tanzania. All three are major players in the China-Africa industrial capacity cooperation, but only Egypt is on the B&R route. After visiting Chinese embassies, Chinese-funded enterprises, investment projects and parks, local government agencies and think tanks in the three countries, I came up with several thoughts with regard to China-Africa cooperation.First, I was impressed by the in-depth and broad economic cooperation between China and Africa. The three countries I visited each have more than 20,000 Chinese workers engaged in areas including manufacturing, services, medicine, planting and mining, as well as in areas of infrastructure such as railways, highways, bridges, airports, ports, factories, telecommunication networks, housing and municipal facilities. There are quite a number of Chinese State-owned and private enterprises operating in Africa, which has become one of the fastest-growing markets for many private enterprises and even the key overseas investment destination for some Chinese firms. For instance, Huawei Technologies Co now holds the leading market share in Africa, having overtaken its Western rivals.In-depth China-Africa economic cooperation is also seen in many other African countries. From an economic point of view, China has much closer ties with African countries than with many Asian countries along the B&R route.Second, I saw the importance of bilateral relations. China attaches great importance to relations with Africa. Chinese foreign ministers have visited Africa during their first foreign trips each year over the past two decades, which is a unique tradition among big countries. Meanwhile, African countries also pay great attention to relations with China. The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, the ruling political party in Ethiopia, learned from and combined China's experience with their reform policies, in areas such as governance, anti-corruption, promoting industrialization, building development zones and agricultural reforms. Tanzania is eager to deepen its economic cooperation with China, and President John Magufuli has called for China's participation in the construction of Tanzania's central railway line linking its major cities. One of the priorities of Egypt's policy of "turning to the East" is to strengthen economic cooperation with China.
Duchamp then took it back to his studio, signed it R. MUTT, and submitted it to the Independents exhibition, calling it Fountain.
NOW BUFFY UNDERSTAND THAT WILLOW MAY NOT BE LITTLE MS. STRAIGHT ok good she gets it Wow, Willow’s emotional turmoil is incredibly moving. Does this mean she chose Tara? Oooh it might. This is not the best way for Oz to find out. OH FUCK THAT MEANS HE CAN TURN ANYTIME Riley tried to defend him…poor Oz. Valiant Willow wants to go. RILEY TRIED TO BAIL HIM OUT oh fuck OOOHHH big revelation time for Riluffy! Oh they can’t be together because Willow brings it out sads The Willoz scene is touching. I hate the cliché but feels for days right now. I hope Oz comes back though S4E20 – In the Arms of an Angel This “previous” segment has some Angel? She found Faith? She fought Angel? HOLY FUCK HYPE Adam is actually a pretty compelling leader. The looks are problematic, but damn he is persuasive Xander giving away secrets. SQUEEEE! GILES ON THE GUITAR AGAIN!!! Beatles 2.0 right there Spike is sowing dissension. This is not good. SQUEEE Willara with a cat! (Lots of squees this episode) Buffy + Forrest = Verbal sparring. Attacked by ADAM HIMSELF RUN FORREST RUN too late : ( IT’S FAKE DON’T DO IT GUYS SPIKE IS A DOUBLE AGENT IT’S A PLANT and he’s hurting Willow ;_; ANGEL!!! RILEY V. ANGEL! FIGHT! Riley you a silly motherfucker you can’t take Angel in a fight Spike and Adam talking about the Beatles is awesome. Spike will help Buffy in the end, I think Wow, Buffy is in love with Angel and Riley? Damn she breaks the news with no hesitation Oh no. Now the group comes apart…no one can rationally articulate that Spike is a big factor That conversation did emotional damage to me. WAIITTT RILEY IS WITH ADAM. WHAAAATTTTT (Time for a post-mortem. Spike is a goddamned genius. No one realized that he told them all of this stuff. The only person who really fucked up was Xander. They trusted Spike too much. He was defanged and they didn’t pay him a second thought. Hell, he just became another one of the team. Spike constantly said he would work to destroy the team, but they didn’t account for psychological warfare. Well done Spike. This is what the Scoobies get for a vampire without a soul. Also, I don’t know what the last shot implies with Riley and Adam, but maybe he’s there to avenge Forrest. Oh well, onward we go. P.S.
Given the green light, and less than one second later, the twelve-cylinder engine fired over and settled to a muted growl. The exhaust, also borrowed from the One-77, was subdued until the "Sport" mode button (on the 5 o'clock portion of the steering wheel) was pressed. Once its indicator light illuminated, the flaps opened and the exhaust took on a much angrier note. (The Sport mode not only changes the exhaust note, but also livens up the throttle and programs the Touchtronic gearbox to deliver 37-percent quicker shifts. )After a series of cautious track exercises, with instructors scrutinizing our moves like parole officers, our group was finally allowed to put some heat into the tires. At best, I was driving 8/10ths, but it was still much harder and faster than I would comfortably (and legally) flog a carbon-fiber Aston Martin on public streets.It didn't take long to realize that the Vanquish is a real man's car - strikingly old-school in control feel, power delivery and handling characteristics.The primary controls, such as the steering, throttle and brake, require a firm hand (or foot) for actuation. While some may find the driver interfaces too heavy, I liked the weight of the thick three-spoke wheel in my hands, the firm spring under the accelerator pedal and the short travel of the brake, and they each delivered very clear communication as to what I was asking them to do. Most automakers today are on a fast track to reduce the amount of physical effort required to drive, so it was nice to find Aston still delivering welcomed feedback.Aston's claimed 0-60 time of four seconds feels about right from the driver's seat (it may be a tick quicker under optimal conditions), but numbers don't express how well the naturally aspirated powerplant delivers its thrust. The proven 6.0-liter whirls like a turbine and will eagerly spin the needle on its tachometer counterclockwise until it hits fuel cutoff at redline (estimated at about 7,000 rpm).In terms of track use, the transmission earns a seven on a ten-point scale. With the Sport button engaged, the gearbox is surprisingly intuitive as it holds shifts well and downshifts under hard deceleration. Shifts were quick, but not perfect as I still found one or two turns when I'd press the pedal to the floor and the transmission would drop harshly to a lower ratio nearly unsettling the chassis.
"Aurora and Sam visit a store of real magic utensils and discover that the owner is an old acquaintance of her parents. "Episode Overview:The episode opens at Britta's Taco. Aurora is cleaning the crystal of her necklace while Sam eats his taco, which in his opinion, are small and should be larger. She uses the wand to check the "brightness level" and sees that it is at 57 percent. Aurora throws the last piece of cleaning product into the crowded trash and sinks her face of disappointment into the table. Sam informs her that she's spent over $100 on cleaning products and asks if she's not overdoing it. Aurora argues that if the crystal loses its brightness, it will stop working and leave her vulnerable to whoever is after her life. Sam suggests that she use some spell to clean it, but Aurora says she doesn't want to risk it breaking and that magic crystals can only be cleaned by magic products.Suddenly, they see a woman and her son fleeing from a floating pumpkin with an unfriendly face. Aurora shoots the pumpkin, which bursts and turns out to be a balloon. Aurora recognizes it as an "assorted pet pumpkin balloon that tries to love or kill its owner," an object that is only sold at magical stores. Aurora asks where they got it. The woman says in a shop around the corner, but warns them to stay away from that place. Aurora tells Sam that this place may have the crystal cleaner she's looking for, but he warns her that it might be dangerous. They have a brief discussion, where Aurora wins by saying that "as her bodyguard, he must protect her wherever she goes." Sam sighs giving up. They arrive at the store called "Banana's Witchcraft Store".On the shelves, there are several items that Aurora recognizes as truly magical such as "Pear-Grenades of Anguish," "Scary Garden Dwarves" and "Rememballs," but she doesn't see any crystal cleaners. They go up to the counter and ring the table bell for service. From the back of the store, a voice screams saying they don't accept returns. Aurora says she's looking for crystal cleaners. The shop owner comes to the counter and has a look of surprise just after seeing Aurora. When the woman says her name, Aurora takes a step back and Sam stands defensively between them.
Add this machine to my collection can be over 2.37 million dollars. Aurora Diamante Pen can safely be called the most expensive pen, not only in 2009, but all the time. One and a half million dollars for a beautiful accessory – a bold challenge to the crisis and consequences. Good watches are always expensive. This year’s record price among the hours became a model Patek Philippe Calibre 89. Incidentally, this is a work of art, many consider the most complicated watch in the world. Calibre 89 were sold at auction for 5,053,360 dollars. The most expensive iPhone need something to store. For these purposes, jewelers created a series of beautiful covers cost 34 thousand dollars. Diamonds and python skin – make up the spectacular beautiful accessory. The most expensive suit this year is just over 100 thousand dollars. Unlike ordinary trousers and jackets, costume Alexander Amosu is decorated with inlays of gold and buttons with diamonds. Despite falling house prices, the most expensive house in 2009 – Holmby Hills – is still worth a lot of money. To become the owner of the mansion will have to lay out $ 150 million. The most expensive room – Royal Penthouse Suite … Night at the Royal Penthouse (The Royal Penthouse Suite) in Hotel President Wilson Hotel in Geneva, will cost 65 thousand dollars. Four bedroom penthouses occupy the entire top floor of the hotel. There are also bullet-proof windows and doors. The most expensive in the world disk cluster – RamSan-6200 (4,4 million dollars) RamSan-6200 not only the most expensive in the world disk cluster, but also the most capacious. The total volume of the solid-state drives is 100 terabytes. The system provides five million I / O operations per second every second and is able to transmit up to 60 gigabytes of data. Tweet
As Table A1 in the Appendix shows, the communities ranged from small rural areas with a population size of 2,000 to large metropolitan areas with more than 1.6 million residents. The communities’ economic bases varied, with some largely focused on agriculture and others focused on service or manufacturing. There were significant differences in stages of economic development across the communities, as indicated by varying levels of available infrastructure in communities’ surrounding municipalities. Finally, the communities also differed in their migration profiles. In Community 8, for example, only 3.7 percent of adults had U.S. migration experience, whereas over 23 percent of adults in Community 3 had U.S. migration experience. In all, a total of 1,657 men participated in the BIS. The effective sample size for the primary analysis is 1,353 men. Of these, 124 men (about 9.16 percent) intend to migrate to the United States illegally. The effective sample size reflects deletion of missing data, as well as exclusion of a small number of respondents who (1) intend to migrate legally (N = 47), the vast majority as U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or tourists, and (2) do not intend to migrate but are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents (N = 19). These two groups are outside the main theoretical interest of this study given that unauthorized migration is unlikely to be within their realm of possible choices. In short, the effective sample contains only individuals who are at risk of unauthorized migration. Strictly speaking, the MMP data are representative only of the selected Mexican communities, not the entire Mexican population. However, systematic comparisons between the MMP and nationally representative surveys such as Mexico’s National Survey of Population Dynamics have found a very close match between the surveys in terms of basic migrant characteristics (Massey and Capoferro 2004). The MMP is thus a good source of reasonably representative data on Mexican migrants.
Study 4b. As in study 3, we targeted participants based on self-identified political preference. Four participants indicated that they were politically moderate and therefore were excluded from analyses. Thus, the final sample comprised of 159 United States adults, age (mean ± SD) 34.91 ± 0.37 y, who participated on MTurk for $1 compensation. Participants were predominately White (82%) and male (66%). The sample was approximately equal with regard to political orientation (liberal = 55%, conservative = 45%; mean = 39.82, SD = 27.35). After providing consent and completing a demographics questionnaire, participants were told that they were being offered an extra $2 to make a donation of their choosing to two environmental charities. Participants then were presented with a link to the two most past- and future-focused charities from study 4. Links were presented on separate pages, and participants were instructed to learn about each organization before rating the temporal focus of the organization (1 = very past focused; 7 = very future focused). Next, participants were asked to indicate how much they would like to donate to each group by typing a value between 0 and 2 in a text box which appeared next to the organization’s logo. They also could choose to keep money for themselves by typing that amount into a third text box. The page kept a running total, which had to equal $2 before participants could continue. Finally, participants read a debriefing statement. The past-focused charity was rated as more past-focused (or less future-focused) than the future-focused charity [mean = 4.66, SD = 1.65 vs. mean = 5.53, SD = 1.14, F(1, 157) = 38.74, P < 0.0001], confirming that the two charities could be differentiated on this temporal dimension. Fewer than half of the participants donated money (43%, χ2 = 2.77, P = 0.10), and more liberals than conservatives donated (67 vs. 33%, χ2 = 7.67, P = 0.006). Nevertheless, a repeated-measures ANOVA revealed that conservatives gave more to the past-focused charity than to the future-focused charity (mean = 0.31, SD = 0.57 vs. mean = 0.15, SD = 0.34, P = 0.03, d = 0.31), whereas liberals gave equally to each charity (P = 0.90) (Fig. 4). Conservatives gave less than liberals to the future-focused charity (mean = 0.42, SD = 0.54 vs. mean = 0.15, SD = 0.34, P < 0.001, d = 0.60) but did not differ significantly from liberals in giving to the past-focused charity (P = 0.17).
Last year, a judge tossed drug charges after finding a Toronto constable had withheld information on his McNeil report. Stubbings said TPS representatives meet regularly with prosecutors from the Ministry of the Attorney General, and “we’ve had no complaints whatsoever from our Crown attorneys that we work with each and every day.” Carroll wondered: “How would they know what to complain about?” But Pringle and Tory said they were satisfied that Toronto’s self-reporting system is fine, because no one has complained about the reports being inaccurate or incomplete. Tory said the issue “looks like a solution in search of a problem.” Pringle agreed that without formal complaints, there’s no evidence “that we’ve got an issue here.” “There appears to be the proper compliance. I kind of take comfort in that until I hear differently.” After the meeting, Carroll responded to the Star’s request for comment on Twitter. “The board seems more focused on the savings part of reform than the culture change part,” she wrote. The board has created a task force, purportedly to bring transformational change to the $1 billion-plus organization, but critics see Pringle and Tory as obstacles to any meaningful police reform. During the discussion, Saunders told the board that officers would not jeopardize an investigation — or their careers — by willfully misleading an administrative process, even if “it’s not perfect.” David Bayliss, the defence lawyer who represented the accused in last year’s case cited by TPAC, said the McNeil system falls short because defence lawyers receive only a summary of an officer’s discipline history, not source material. When the defence receives disclosure of cellphone records, he said by way of contrast, “You don’t get a report about the cellphone records, you get the cellphone records.” - ABOUT THE MCNEIL REPORT The “McNeil report” was created after a 2009 Supreme Court of Canada ruling that said police investigating a case must tell prosecutors about findings of serious misconduct against them that could “reasonably impact” the case against an accused person. The ruling followed the case of an accused drug trafficker, Lawrence McNeil, who didn’t learn until after he was found guilty that the officer who arrested him had his own history of drug-related offences. McNeil appealed and his conviction was set aside, based on new evidence of the officer’s drug-related misconduct. As a result, police now submit to prosecutors, in a sealed envelope, a one-page document called a McNeil report.
13 13 "X Marquis the Spot" Eric Gruendemann Timothy A. Jones May 13, 2000 ( ) It's a little bit of pleasure and a whole lot of pain when Jack and Emilia are sent to the Marquis de Sade's island of torture and participate in a leather-clad triathlon in order to retrieve King George's stolen crown. 14 14 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Opera" Chris Graves Melissa Blake May 20, 2000 ( ) It's not over until the fat lady sings when Jack and Emilia are assigned to protect the unstable King George from a staged assassination attempt.
According to one view, which had been promulgated in the United States from at least the 1730s, blacks descended from the same lineage as the biblical Cain, who slew his brother Abel. Those who accepted this view believed that God’s “curse” on Cain was the mark of a dark skin. Black servitude was sometimes viewed as a second curse placed upon Noah’s grandson Canaan as a result of Ham’s indiscretion toward his father. Although slavery was not a significant factor in Utah’s economy and was soon abolished, the restriction on priesthood ordinations remained.” Removing the Restriction “Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood. When one of these men, Elijah Abel, petitioned to receive his temple endowment in 1879, his request was denied. Jane Manning James, a faithful black member who crossed the plains and lived in Salt Lake City until her death in 1908, similarly asked to enter the temple; she was allowed to perform baptisms for the dead for her ancestors but was not allowed to participate in other ordinances. The curse of Cain was often put forward as justification for the priesthood and temple restrictions. Around the turn of the century, another explanation gained currency: blacks were said to have been less than fully valiant in the premortal battle against Lucifer and, as a consequence, were restricted from priesthood and temple blessings.”
But this is irrelevant in the Palestinian context because landowners who accept compensation will face all the sanctions that Palestinians apply to alleged collaborators: dismissal from jobs, houses burned down, assassinations, stigmatization of their children in education and throughout Palestinian society, etc. The bill also imposes formal limits on eligibility: that the settlers should have acted in good faith and that the government should have given tacit approval to their occupation of private land. In the case of Amona, however, "good faith" consisted of acquiring forged documents and "tacit approval," as the bill specifies, was the provision of electricity or water from public utilities. In practice, therefore, lawyers will be able to claim that the requirements of the bill are satisfied in most or all imaginable cases. For instance, Mayor Barkat's municipal water company is supplying water not just to the alleged hundreds of Palestinian dwellings on Jewish-owned land but also to the many more cases where Palestinians have built illegally on land owned by other Palestinians. All such cases will satisfy the requirement of "tacit approval." Originally, the bill included a clause applying it retrospectively to Amona, but this was withdrawn at the demand of the party headed by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon. Yet all the requirements of the law remain tailored precisely to the case of Amona. Since, as just noted, the conditions were so easily satisfied by Amona, Kahlon should be even more worried that, for the sake of some forty families in the West Bank, his ministry will be liable to pay compensation for hundreds or thousands of cases in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. In the worst case for Finance Minister Kahlon, the Supreme Court will strike down the application of the "Regulation Law" in the West Bank, on the grounds that the Israeli Knesset does not have the right to legislate there, but permit its application in Israel, including Jerusalem. Then the law would completely fail in its original intention, but nevertheless land Kahlon's ministry with immense bills to pay in compensation. A word of explanation: the Supreme Court does allow the application of Israeli law to Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, but because the Knesset passed laws specifically extending Israeli law, in its entirety, to those territories.
The fare levels for what people regard as TTC-distance trips are not competitive,” particularly given GO’s relatively infrequent service, he said. GO charges $5.30 one way from Mimico to Union Station ($4.77 with a Presto card discount), compared with $2.70 for a TTC token or $3 cash fare. Munro wondered: If Metrolinx negotiates a competitive fare for Toronto GO riders, will regional riders be subsidizing those trips? The advent of the Presto card opens the door to negotiations on a different fare structure, said Metrolinx’s Woo. But with nine regional transit systems, plus the TTC, all operating on their own fare structure, she said, “It’s a big-step change to move to a regional, integrated fare system.”
Police report the lockdown at Westfield Warrawong is over, after a siege involving two gunmen at the Hoyts cinema. 12.10pm Chris Paver reports that Westfield tenants are being allowed back in to the shopping centre. A 27-year-old woman arrested earlier today has been charged with aggravated break and enter. She has been refused bail and will appear in Wollongong Local Court tomorrow. 11.50am Police believe the gunmen are no longer at the scene. Cydonee Mardon reports police have been sweeping the building but have failed to find the gunmen. There was a short period of time between when the security guards first spotted the men and police arriving and it is believed this is when they got away. A manhunt will now get underway to track down the gunmen. Police are about to hold a press conference at the scene. 11.20am Chris Paver reports that a crowd has gathered at Warrawong McDonald’s opposite the Hoyts cinema, at the corner of King St and Northcliffe Dr. Some business owners and employees said they understood Westfield Warrawong wouldn’t be open for the rest of the day. Alarms at Westfield are still being set off periodically. A crowd of residents and onlookers has also gathered at Cowper St but most of the police presence is on the southern side. Cowper St is open to traffic heading to Port Kembla. 11am Subway owner David Vasquez told Mercury reporter Chris Paver he was inside the centre shortly after 6am when police entered the food court and told everyone to evacuate. "Police ladies came in screaming out 'Is anyone in here'. I said 'Yep'. They said: 'You have got to evacuate the building straight away'. I asked why and they said to me 'there is a gunman in the centre and we need to be evacuated'." MORE: Warrawong Hoyts back in business MORE: Manhunt under way for Warrawong gunmen MORE: Traffic diverted away from Warrawong siege 10.30am Cydonee Mardon reports that police negotiators and tactical response unit officers have entered Westfield Warrawong. 10.00am There are reports police this morning arrested a Warrawong woman at the scene. She is now at Lake Illawarra Police Station assisting police with their inquiries. 9.50am Mercury reporter Cydonee Mardon reports from the scene that police have just set off all the alarms inside Westfield Warrawong in what appears to be a tactic to force the gunmen from the building.
Back in the 1960s, both Joe Simon and Carl Burgos initiated lawsuits, about Captain America and the Human Torch. They never came to very much, and Jack of course made some depositions on behalf of Marvel about Cap at that time when he was still there. It led to Bill Everett, who had created the third big 1940s character - Sub-Mariner - being given a loan by Martin Goodman that wasn't going to have to be paid back, so he wouldn't sue, which he never intended to do, anyway. I don't know how the Burgos thing was settled, but it was probably settled reasonably amicably. But once these things happen, you don't necessarily want to play up the other person. Stan would always talk about Jack as being this great artist, but he didn't always play up Jack's other contributions. Yet from the very beginning, he's always been clear about the fact that Jack invented the Silver Surfer, and just tossed him into a story where Stan had not suggested any character like that. I know for a fact, having seen the pages in pencil when they came in, that the character was just called "The Surfer" in the border notes, not "The Silver Surfer." The name "Silver Surfer" at the very least was Stan's, and the speech patterns. I remember Stan and I got into a good-natured argument ten years ago in L.A. I wasn't even working for Marvel at the time, and we had lunch. He talked about people like Stephen J. Cannell and television, saying if Cannell comes up with a general idea, and wants a few people running around doing this and that, and calls them the A-Team, he's created that. It says "Created by Stephen Cannell." And I said yes, but that's a function of power, not of creativity. It means Stephen Cannell has the power to say he created that thing alone, and other people buy into that by agreeing to sell their work for work-for-hire, or for other financial deals. But it doesn't mean he really created the whole thing just because it says so on paper. That's a legal thing. It's caused by his power; you either play by his rules or you don't play. It doesn't mean he really created the A-Team all by himself. TJKC: How did Stan react to your point? ROY: I think we agreed to disagree in a friendly way.
This is the type of thing that the VOTEFRAUD (NOT voterfraud) investigation ordered by President Trump must focus on. However, this is not the most important concern. The most important concern is Election VENDOR Fraud. This is what the Election Night Gatekeepers website is all about. Only three Election Vendors “count” 96% of the USA vote. These three mega-election vendors (ES & S, Hart, & Dominion) have been hired by about 3000 of our nation’s 3141 counties – to “count” our votes on their privately owned, secret, easily-rigged (by them) computer programs. (For instance, in Ohio, ES &S, Hart & Dominion count 86 of the state’s 88 counties, the the other two counties processed by Unisys, which the excellent reporter Lynn Landes of The Landes Report says is a front for ES &S. This is the type of thing the coming Vote Fraud Investigation should deal with.) AND, shamefully, all 50 Secretaries of State have green-lighted, and all 3000 counties have signed contracts with one of these three mega-vendors that they (the local and state election officials) will not look at the private software (of these three mega-vendors) that tells the election computers what to do on election night, and that they will not sue over any of the computer results. (!!!) We have the Ohio Secretary of State John Husted on tape at a public Tea Party meeting held at the Farm Wedding Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 17, 2012 – confirming that this is the case in Ohio. Furthermore, who has heard of the unholy concentration of power vested in these three mega-election vendors?? Almost nobody. Why? Because these three mega-election vendors have been protected from public view by the 5 Big TV Networks since at least as far back as 1988, and that’s why the Big TV Networks were so nervous about exposure that they had their anchors (Lester Holt of NBC and Chris Wallace of FOX) ask candidate Trump at the end of BOTH the second and third debates: “Will you accept the election results?” When Mr. Trump answered to Chris Wallace in the third debate that he “would wait to see the evidence” and that he “would keep them in suspense”, that was a BIG factor on why those who own the three mega-election vendors had to let the Trump victory stand.
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Scintillating scotomata are also associated with areas of total blindness in the visual field, something Hildegard might have been describing when she spoke of points of intense light, and also the "extinguished stars." Migraine attacks are usually followed by sickness, paralysis, blindness-all reported by Hildegard, and when they pass, by a period of rebound and feeling better than before, a euphoria also described by her. Also, writes Oliver Sachs Among the strangest and most intense symptoms of migraine aura, and the most difficult of description and analysis, are the occurrences of feelings of sudden familiarity and certitude... or its opposite. Such states are experienced, momentarily and occasionally,by everyone; their occurrence in migraine auras is marked by their overwhelming intensity and relatively long duration. It is a tribute to the remarkable spirit and the intellectual powers of this woman that she was able to turn a debilitating illness into the word of god, and create so much with it. Bibliography Hildegard of Bingen, a Visionary Life , by Sabina Flanagan. (Routledge, London, 1989).
Experiment 1 In Experiment 1, we tested the hypothesis that the need for cognitive closure would be related to relying on conspiratorial explanation for a major event when a conspiratorial explanation was made salient. We focused on Poland's agreement to offer asylum to refugees from Syria and Eritrea as a part of the European Union (EU) relocation and resettlement program. This decision likely caused uncertainty among Polish residents. Ethnically, Poland is a very homogenous country, which often results in negative attitudes toward foreigners who do not share Polish traditions. According to the results of a survey conducted by one of the leading Polish public opinion research institutions, 78% of Poles linked refugees' arrival to reduced levels of safety, and only 5% declared that Poland should comply with EU directives and allow refugees to settle in Poland (Kowalczuk, Sobiecka, & Stalmach, 2015). Also, political rhetoric on the refugee crisis strengthened the feelings of uncertainty among people living in Poland. For example, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, claimed that refugees could bring dangerous diseases and parasites to Poland (Goclowski, Barteczko, & Koper, 2015). Thus, we believed that in the face of such threats combined with a fear of the unknown “other,” individuals high in need for cognitive closure should be especially prone to rely on conspiratorial explanation standing behind refugees' arrival. In the study, we manipulated conspiracy salience by suggesting (or not) that the EU is secretly planning hostile actions against Poland to gain power and control over it. Method Participants Experiment 1 was conducted among 245 Polish internet users. The whole sample consisted of 132 women and 112 men (one person did not specify his/her gender). The age of the participants ranged from 14 to 88 years (M age = 36.93, SD = 14.21). Participation was voluntary and anonymous, with no remuneration offered to participants. 1 Procedure At the beginning of the study, participants were asked to fill out the measure of the need for cognitive closure. Then, all of the participants read a short text concerning the EU plans for rescue of Syrian and Eritrean refugees by financing their stay in Poland. The main text was prepared as an imitation of an online article. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions, which differed by the type of material presented below the main text.
CHANDIGARH: A Dalit man and his parents were murdered late Friday night in Sonipat's Kharkhoda town, allegedly because he had married a higher caste Jat woman. The assailants shot and killed the three at their home in a sudden attack that left the other two members of the family critically injured.Pardeep Kumar, 28, his father Suresh Kumar , 50, and mother Sunita, 48, died on the spot after receiving bullet wounds. Pardeep's wife Sushila and younger brother Suraj are seriously injured. Sushila was nine months pregnant.Police officials told TOI that Pardeep had married Sushila, a Jat, against the wishes of her family in 2011 which could be the motive behind the triple murder. With her family unwilling to accept the marriage, Sishila had severed her ti es with her parents who belong to a village in Jhajjar.The couple had fallen in love while studying together at the Maharshi Dayanand University in Rohtak and had a three-year-old daughter. They were expecting their second child in about a week.The attack took place at around 11 pm when the family was preparing to go off to sleep. The assailants knocked on the door and fired at Pradeep as soon as he opened it. As Sushila came rushing out, the men fired at her as well. Pardeep's parents and brother came out to help the two and met the same fate. Before anybody could react, the assailants fled from the spot, leaving the victims in a pool of blood.While Pardeep and his mother died on the spot, Suresh was declared brought dead to Kharkhoda hospital. Suraj and Sushila are being treated at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research at Rohtak. Doctors said Sushila was battling for her life but her newborn had been saved after a surgery.Sonipat SP Ashwin Shenvi has constituted special teams to track down the assailants. “I could be an honor killing but we will confirm the facts and then arrest the accused,“ a senior officer investigating the case said.Bodies of Pardeep and his parent were sent for autopsy to ascertain the number of bullets they received. Ballistic experts have started collecting samples and empty shells from the spot.
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Great weakness mentally and physically yet no relief from lying down. Suited when causative factors for complaints are- disappointed love, egotism, anger, ailments from discord with parents, suppressed discharges, bad effects of tobacco. Anacardium- suited to individuals who are irritable, irresolute, easily angered, lack confidence. Suspicious, irresistible desire to swear and curse; malicious, destructive, offended easily. Laughs at serious matters and become serious about laughable matters. Aversion to work. Forgetful- forgets names of near ones. The characteristics seen in this remedy are- shrieking and cursing when in rage, violent anger, abusive behavior towards partner and children, revengeful.
Supervising Producer SCREAM MMM Supervising Producer MARC KILLGORE Supervising Producer KILL DEADENKIRK Producer GEORGE MEYER Producer RONSTER THE MONSTER Producers TOM CANNIBAL GROSS PROSS Producer MIKE "COMPLETELY SAVAGE" SCULLY Producer DECADENT DAVE MIRKIN Producer DR. MICHAEL & MR. REISS Producer JON BLEEDY Producer JOEL "HAUNTED HANNUKAH" COHEN Supervising Director JIM "MOONLIGHTER" REARDON Produced by OLD DICK THE TOP-KICK RAYNIS Produced by THE LAST GOBLIN STANDING Produced by DAVID SLITHERMAN Produced by DIGITAL DOMINATRIX SIRKOT Produced by RICHARD PSYCHO SAKAI Written by BILL ODENKIRK Directed by THE TELL-TALE SILVERMAN Executive Producers JAMES "DANGEROUS THOUGH CUDDLY" BROOKS BAT GROENING SAM "SAYONARA" SIMON Starring I WAS A TEENAGED DAN CASTELLANETA GHOULS KAVNER BARTFRIGHT CARTWRIGHT AEEIY LMRDTHYS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY and HARRY SHEARER Also Starring TERROR MacNIHIL SNARL WIEDERGHOST Additional Vocals by MARIE CAIN Animation Producers LAURIE BURN-IN-HELL-NACKI MORGUS POLIZZI Animation Executive Producers JOHN "BADGER" HYDE MALEFICENT MIKE WOLF Executive Story Editor MATT BLOOD-SPURTIN' Staff Writer DANIEL C.H.U.D. Post-Production Co-Producer BLACK KITTY CAT BRO Animation Co-Producer HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUN SPONGE BOB Associate Producers FE-LEECH-A NAIL-IN-MY-VEIN-SKI GHOSTLY McGHOSTERSON Theme by DANIEL BEILZEBELSMAN Music Decomposed by G-DADDY CLAWS-SON Original Casting by THINK OUTSIDE THE BOXCUTTER Editors ZOLTAN SANDORS DON "BOO!" BARROZO Post-Production Supervisor BOB Production Coordinator BOOIS FREAKARA Post-Production Coordinator DREW NIGHTMARRISON Dialogue Sound Editors BOBBY "THE SCARY MOOK" MACKSTON TERRIFYING GREENE NORMAN BATES MACLEOD Music Laceration LETHAL LEDESMA BLOB CREATURE Sound Effects Editor TRAVIS EVIL POWERS Re-Recording Mixers RUSTY COX BILLY BLOODBATH Creative Consultant BAT GROENING Executive Creative Consultant JAMES "DANGEROUS THOUGH CUDDLY" BROOKS
NEW DELHI: India has deployed five warships and five aircraft, including a newly-acquired naval P-8I long-range reconnaissance plane and an IAF C-130J Super Hercules, in the ongoing multi-nation hunt for the Malaysian airliner MH370, which went missing six days ago.The Indian effort under the name of 'Operation SearchLight' comes almost three days after Kuala Lumpur first flashed a request to New Delhi, the delay in part being due to "the absence of specific coordinates" in the initial messages as well as some lack of coordination among agencies.The Indian response kicked off as soon as the Royal Malaysian Navy asked India for help within a total "search area" spread over 35,000 square km south of the Andaman Sea. In fact, the Malaysian request came after an offer was made by President Pranab Mukherjee. "The southern tip of the designated search area is just about 60 nautical miles from Campbell Bay in the A&N archipelago, while its northern edge is 267 nautical miles from Port Blair," said an officer. The search that started in the Gulf of Thailand is now almost solely concentrated in the Andaman Sea. The search will continue for three days at a stretch after which the Indian forces will take a decision on whether to continue it or take a different tack. "The search area is being divided into different sectors that will handled by different countries. Real-time communication has also been established between the naval maritime operations centre in New Delhi and the Royal Malaysian Navy. Our defence crisis management group has also been activated," he added.While the Navy is the "lead agency" in the maritime search and rescue mission, IAF too dispatched a C-130J Super Hercules, which was at Kalaikunda (West Bengal) on a mission from the Hindon airbase near New Delhi, to Port Blair on Thursday. The P-8i was sent from the naval air station at Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu.The Dorniers, P-8i and C-130J are all packed with radars and sensors that can be used to detect the debris of the Malaysia Airlines aircraft. "The advanced radars now give two-dimensional pictures instead of single blips,'' said the officer.As for the Indian ships, amphibious warships INS Kumbhir and INS Kesari, offshore patrol vessel INS Sarayu and Coast Guard fast patrol vessels Kanaklata-Barua and Sagar, primarily from Port Blair and Campbell Bay, are fast steaming towards the designated search area.
And you feel so happy, you can’t stop talking. Everybody’s your friend, the colors around you get brighter, the whole world seems like it’s a better place, and you can’t stop talking. You feel like Superman or something. The contact is direct, right into the blood stream, and then the brain. But like I said, it only lasts 10 to 15 minutes, and then this deep depression hits.” Martin pauses and stares off into space, perhaps thinking about his wife and kids. “If you have problems bugging you, crack makes them worse. It makes you dwell on the negative. It makes you feel guilty, like I’m feeling now. I use it, but I can stop anytime.” Martin phrases the end of the declaration like a question. And then the contradictions begin. “Sometimes I ask myself, ‘Why am I trickin’ [spending] money on this crack when I could be using it to the benefit of me and my family? Why was I selling crack and endangering me and my family? Why did I force my wife and kids to leave me when I know I’m in the wrong? '” Another pause, this time highlighted by exploding ice cubes in his mouth. “It’s a heavy weight to carry. It’s heavy money spent to get the crack. It’s heavy time involved when you are consumed by desire for crack. People start turning into zombies, like the creatures in that movie, Night of the Living Dead. You don’t wanna go to sleep, you don’t wanna eat, all you think about is McCrackin’. You can lose a lot of weight doing crack, too. A three-hunit pound guy can drop to 110 in less than two months, maybe even faster than that. But it’s a sickly looking kinda weight loss, like cancer or something. But that don’t stop people from McCrackin’. “Some people crack from eight in the evening until three or four in the morning. They can forget about falling asleep right away, because crack makes you so up, so high, it’s too hard to come down. How can you go to work the next day when you have to get up at six, seven in the morning, and your body is just coming down from a crack high? You haven’t had any sleep. And that’s when crack starts talking to you [hallucinations come with heavy freebase use]. Saying things like, “It’s just me and you today, buddy. We don’t need nobody else.
Blood pressure Maintaining a low sodium intake is essential to lowering blood pressure, however increasing potassium intake may be just as important because of its vasodilation effects. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, fewer than 2% of US adults meet the daily 4700 mg recommendation. 3 Also of note, a high potassium intake is associated with a 20% decreased risk of dying from all causes.3 Asthma A study conducted by the Imperial College of London found that children who ate just one banana per day had a 34% less chance of developing asthma. Cancer Consuming bananas, oranges, and orange juice in the first two years of life may reduce the risk of developing childhood leukemia. As a good source of vitamin C, bananas can help combat the formation of free radicals known to cause cancer. High fiber intakes from fruits and vegetables like bananas are associated with a lowered risk of colorectal cancer. Heart health The fiber, potassium, vitamin C and B6 content in bananas all support heart health. An increase in potassium intake along with a decrease in sodium intake is the most important dietary change that a person can make to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease, according to Mark Houston, MD, MS, an associate clinical professor of medicine at Vanderbilt Medical School and director of the Hypertension Institute at St Thomas Hospital in Tennessee.3 In one study, those who consumed 4069 mg of potassium per day had a 49% lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease compared with those who consumed less potassium (about 1000 mg per day).3 High potassium intakes are also associated with a reduced risk of stroke, protection against loss of muscle mass, preservation of bone mineral density and reduction in the formation of kidney stones.3 Diabetes Studies have shown that type 1 diabetics who consume high-fiber diets have lower blood glucose levels and type 2 diabetics may have improved blood sugar, lipids and insulin levels. One medium banana provides about 3 grams of fiber. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends 21-25 g/day for women and 30-38 g/day for men. Digestive health Bland foods such as apple sauce and bananas are recommended for diarrhea treatment. They are part of an approach known as the BRAT diet; this stands for bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. Electrolytes like potassium are lost in large quantities during bouts of diarrhea and may make those affected feel weak. Bananas can replace these lost nutrients.
ASHGABAT: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived here today on a three-day visit to resource- rich Turkmenistan during which she will co-chair a meeting to discuss key bilateral and regional issues, including the USD 10 billion TAPI gas pipeline project.Swaraj will co-chair the fifth India-Turkmenistan Inter- Governmental Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation with her Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov tomorrow.She was received at the airport by Turkmenistan's deputy Foreign Minister Berdyniyaz Myatiev (rpt) Berdyniyaz Myatiev, Indian Ambassador T V Nagendra Prasad and others.She had a brief chat with Myatiev at the airport lounge. Swaraj will also call on Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. This is her first visit to Turkmenistan after assuming charge last year.Key bilateral and regional issues, including trade and the ambitious Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, are expected to be discussed during the joint commission meeting.The gas project is a 1,680 km-pipeline with design capacity to supply 3.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per annum from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.TAPI will carry gas from Turkmenistan's Galkynysh field that holds gas reserves of 16 trillion cubic feet. From the field, the pipeline will run to Herat and Kandahar province of Afghanistan, before entering Pakistan's Multan via Quetta. It will end at Fazilka (Punjab) in India.The pipeline will have a capacity to carry 90 million standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) gas for a 30-year period and is expected to be operational by 2018. India and Pakistan would get 38 mmscmd each, while the remaining 14 mmscmd will be supplied to Afghanistan.TAPI project has remained on the drawing board since the four nations have not been able to get an international firm to head a consortium, which will lay and operate the pipeline.At the 20th Steering Committee meeting of TAPI project in Pakistan in February, India had pressed Turkmenistan to relax its domestic law to help get an international firm for building the project.At the meeting, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan reiterated "India's commitment to source natural gas from Turkmenistan through TAPI natural gas pipeline project and made a renewed pitch for the expeditious appointment of a mutually acceptable Consortium Leader, which is a vital step in the implementation of the project, in a time bound manner.
[Original text with details on building the LackRack:] With everything built, I could load the server and the UPS into the LackRack. The UPS went on the floor and the server went on the lower shelf. I have all my networking gear on the top shelf along with some other knick-knacks. Assembly of the LackRack itself was pretty easy, but there were a few minor things worth noting. I picked up some basic metal corner braces from a hardware store for reinforcement of the lower shelf; they’re around 3” long and 3/4” wide and seem to work pretty well. I mounted the braces to the legs of the table and the underside of the lower shelf with basic wood screws. The lower shelf is only ~1/3” thick, so I got very stubby screws for that side of the brace. When measuring how low or high to install the lower shelf, I forgot to make sure leave enough room for the server to sit in the space and had to re-do part of the installation at a lower height. For a 4U server (like the one I’ve got), you’ll need a smidge over 7”, so the shelf has to go an inch or two lower than the IKEA instructions would have you mount it. The legs of the table (into which I mounted the braces) are very light weight; it feels like they’re totally hollow except for a small solid area around the middle where you’re supposed to mount the tiny IKEA-provided braces that come with the table. Don’t over-tighten the screws you put into the legs even a little bit, otherwise it will completely shred out the wood and won’t be very secure. In fact, while I was installing one of the braces, I leaned on my screw gun a bit too hard and before I even started to turn the screw, it broke through the outer “wall” of the leg and just went chonk and fell down into place. Not a confidence-inspiring event while building the “rack” that will soon house my ~$5,000 server... Regardless, with all the corner braces installed, the two shorter ends of the shelf seem pretty sturdy. However, the shelf is so thin that it would have started to sag (and could have possibly broken) with any weight in the middle.
/ AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathy Shelton (L-R) are seated at the start of the second U.S. presidential town hall debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., October 9, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young ST LOUIS, MO - OCTOBER 09: (L-R) Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathy Shelton, a guest, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's daughters-in-law Lara Trump and Vanessa Trump and daughter Tiffany Trump sit before the town hall debate at Washington University on October 9, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri. This is the second of three presidential debates scheduled prior to the November 8th election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ST LOUIS, MO - OCTOBER 09: (L-R) Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathy Shelton sit before the town hall debate at Washington University on October 9, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri. This is the second of three presidential debates scheduled prior to the November 8th election. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Up Next See Gallery Discover More Like This HIDE CAPTION SHOW CAPTION of SEE ALL BACK TO SLIDE
Hey everyone,Version 2.0.0 released!This version introduces performance tuning, power management control, and an optional MMC I/O queue extension/timing change.For those of you who have seen reboots / black screens that seem to be caused by Seeder, I suspect it may be due to the power management implemented in previous versions. Disabling power management (by unchecking "Suspend RNG service while screen off") may help. In my testing, battery impact was negligible (less than 2% per 24h).The performance profiles are Light, Moderate, and Aggressive, and they control how frequently rngd wakes. The default configuration (Light) is unchanged from previous versions. Moderate and Aggressive may impact battery life (slightly), but may also help on devices where the entropy pool is drained quickly and often.Last but not least, the "Extend I/O queue" option increases the nr_requests on MMC devices to 1024, and increases the dirty page expiry time, allowing more outstanding writes to accumulate. This may allow the I/O scheduler to make better decisions and combine more writes; some users have reported an improvement under heavy I/O.Feedback appreciated!---On some (older) versions of Android, the JVM (and other components) often read random data from the blocking /dev/random device. On newer builds, this problem has been solved, yet depletion of the input entropy pool still seems to slow devices.So, I cross-compiled rngd, and used it to feed /dev/urandom into /dev/random at 1 second intervals.Result? Significant lag reduction (for some people)!Note - if you want to try it, you must be running a rooted device, and(latest version is best). Then, just open it, and turn it on. The other files (patches / .zips) are intended for recompiling, packaging, and init.d integration. If you uninstall the app, either turn off rngd first (open, and click the on/off button), or reboot afterwards; the UI does not presently kill the daemon on uninstallation.For more information on using the .zip flashing method, see Ryuinferno 's post here:The easiest method is simply installing the latest .apk, attached below. You do not need to use the patch or the .zip file.The patch file contains the source differences needed to recompile the Seeder version of the rngd binary. You only need it if you want to recompile rngd yourself.The .zip file contains the latest rngd binary. It is intended for ROM builders or those who want to build their own CWMR packages.The Seeder UI is only used to configure and start/stop the RNG service, which runs in the background.
Because Eisenhower always strived to do his best and remain ever ready to serve in a crisis, he was prepared to rise to the challenge and performed splendidly. Like Eisenhower, many modern men feel “gloomy” that they’ll never have the chance to test their mettle, to prove that they are really men. But instead of giving up, we should be like Ike by remaining ever ready to answer the call of: “Give us men!”
And, by the way, the more you shout that, without evidence, the harder it is for folks like us who actually think evidence is necessary before accusing someone of "fraud", to get much credence either, even when we do have actual evidence for such charges. P.S. As I'm sure you know, Richard, having studied and writing about elections for so many years, nobody should ever leave a polling place with a "receipt" revealing how they voted --- as you seemed to clumsily suggest in your comment.
NEW DELHI: More than one in 10 deaths globally was caused due to smoking in 2015 and over 50 per cent of them took place in just four countries, one of which was India , a new study today said.Over 11 per cent of 6.4 million deaths worldwide was caused by smoking in 2015 and 52.2 per cent of them took place in China , India, USA , and Russia , according to the latest estimates in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in medical journal The Lancet.China, India, and Indonesia, the three leading countries with male smokers, accounted for 51·4 per cent of the world's male smokers in 2015.India has 11·2 per cent of the world's total smokers.Deaths attributable to smoking increased by 4.7 per cent in 2015 compared with 2005 and smoking was rated as a bigger burden on health - moving from third to second highest cause of disability, the study said. "In 2015, 11·5 per cent of global deaths (6·4 million) were attributable to smoking worldwide, of which 52·2 per cent took place in four countries - China, India, the USA, and Russia)," the study said.The estimates are based on smoking habits in 195 countries and territories between 1990 and 2015, and illustrate that smoking remains a leading risk factor for death and disability.The study said that with growing and ageing populations already heightening the burden of tobacco, it will be crucial to support more smokers in quitting and stopping people from starting to smoke.
What is especially dismaying is that the purists pursue prejudice in the name of protecting minorities. In order to protect people like me (homosexual), they must pursue people like me (dissident). In order to bolster minority self-esteem, they suppress minority opinion. There are, of course, all kinds of practical and legal problems with the purists' campaign: the incursions against the First Amendment; the inevitable abuses by prosecutors and activists who define as "hateful" or "violent" whatever speech they dislike or can score points off of; the lack of any evidence that repressing prejudice eliminates rather than inflames it. But minorities, of all people, ought to remember that by definition we cannot prevail by numbers, and we generally cannot prevail by force. Against the power of ignorant mass opinion and group prejudice and superstition, we have only our voices. If you doubt that minorities' voices are powerful weapons, think of the lengths to which Southern officials went to silence the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (recall that the city commissioner of Montgomery, Alabama, won a $500,000 libel suit, later overturned in New York Times v. Sullivan [1964], regarding an advertisement in the Times placed by civil-rights leaders who denounced the Montgomery police). Think of how much gay people have improved their lot over twenty-five years simply by refusing to remain silent. Recall the Michigan student who was prosecuted for saying that homosexuality is a treatable disease, and notice that he was black. Under that Michigan speech code, more than twenty blacks were charged with racist speech, while no instance of racist speech by whites was punished. In Florida, the hate-speech law was invoked against a black man who called a policeman a "white cracker"; not so surprisingly, in the first hate-crimes case to reach the Supreme Court, the victim was white and the defendant black.
The history of movies and TV is littered with big, beefy, photogenic machines that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Sometimes they're real machines doing unreal tasks. And sometimes they're unreal machines doing unreal tasks. But we love them all. Oh so very much. Mike Loewen first noticed the Q7 in a mid-'60s prime time TV series called The Time Tunnel. Produced by the irrepressible Irwin Allen, Time Tunnel concerned a secret government project to build a time machine beneath a trap door in the Arizona desert. A Q7 powered this subterranean time machine, complete with all those dials, switches, neon lights, and incandescent lamps. No, an AN/FSQ-7 couldn't really power a time machine. But time machines don't exist. So it all works out quite nicely. At first, Loewen didn't know it was a Q7. But then, after he wound up in front of a SAGE system while in the Air Force many years later, it all came together. "I realized that these computer banks running the Time Tunnel were large sections of panels from the SAGE computer," Loewen says. "And that's where I got interested." He noticed the Q7 in TV show after TV show, movie after movie -- and he started documenting these SAGE star turns on his personal homepage. In each case, the Q7 was seen doing stuff it couldn't possibly do, but there was no doubt this was the Q7 -- or at least part of it. Eventually, Loewen proved what he already knew. He tracked down a man named Thomas "Woody" Wood, who owned a Hollywood props house known as "Woody's Electrical Props." Wood declined to be interviewed for this story, but according to Loewen -- who meet with Wood on a recent trip to southern California -- Wood once worked as a prop man for 20th Century Fox, and in the early- to mid-'60s, the movie studio acquired a Q7 that was de-commissioned by the Air Force. 20th Century Fox is the studio behind Time Tunnel and Lost in Space and so many of the other shows and movies documented on Loewen's website. According to Loewen, Wood then bought the Q7 hardware from Fox when he started his own prop house in the '80s. In any event, the AN/FSQ-7 lives on in our collective unconscious. So does the Sperry Rand Solid State that turns up alongside Doris Day in That Touch of Mink.
From the beginning, he put front and center a list of populist-nationalist economic demands supposedly designed to defend American workers. This included opposition to immigration and trade deals, attacks on finance, and, from time to time in a twisted manner, threats to reduce military spending and punish corporations that export jobs. Trump melded this economic nationalism/populism with a mélange of racist, anti-Latino, Islamophobic, and misogynist invective. The racism and misogyny heightened the economic nationalism and the economic nationalism intensified the racism, increasing his message’s potency. The latter combination represented — if only in rhetoric — a resounding break with neoliberalism, endowing white workers with what seemed like an alternative political vehicle. This break was rendered all the more powerful because Trump’s ability to win white workers was paralleled by the abject failure of Hillary Clinton — the embodiment of neoliberalism — to inspire working-class people of any color across the country. Similar dynamics had already brought victory for a similar alliance of forces, with native workers and low turnout playing a central role, in the passage of Brexit in the United Kingdom, and they were also in play in the campaigns of Marine Le Pen and the National Front in France and, if to a much lesser extent, in the victorious vote against the pro-Europe, pro-neoliberal constitutional reforms advanced by Matteo Renzi in Italy.
More importantly, by going the liquid cooled route, the R9 295X2 was able to run at high clock speeds without throttling, had a good amount of overclocking headroom and remained blissfully quiet. With that knowledge, plans were changed.Instead of announcing a card which had a cost in-line with a pair of GTX 780 Tis the so-called TITAN-Z ended up being marketed to CUDA developers and had a suitably stratospheric price of $3000. What followed were delays as NVIDIA tried to dial in clock speeds that could speed up gaming scenarios so it could be cross marketed to a broader user base. Not to mention, higher performance would go a long way towards somewhat justifying its extreme cost.The TITAN-Z was ultimately released with two full-enabled GK110 cores that operated at frequencies which are drastically lower than the GTX 780 Ti and TITAN Black. It does however board a mammoth 12GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 7Gbps so there should be no worries about bandwidth bottlenecks.NVIDIA decided to go with lower clock speeds for the TITAN Z in order to hit a preset set of thermal and power consumption targets. Without those, the card would either hit temperatures that are beyond an air coolers capability to contain or throttle down to frequencies that are lower than its stated Base clock. Neither of those results was optimal so the core speed was reigned in. Make no mistake about it though; the two GK110s sitting on the Zs PCB are carefully selected so they maximize performance at lower TDP levels. High leakage cores need not apply.While it may have a triple slot height, the TITAN Zs defining characteristic is its adherence to an air cooled design. Despite the use a two large vapor chambers, this speaks to the inherent efficiency of NVIDIAs architecture and does tend to broaden the TITAN Zs compatibility in some instances when compared against the R9 295X2.The design language remains faithful to other high end Kepler-based cards with a glowing GeForce logo, windows that look down onto the internal heatsinks and a TITAN Z logo etched into the aluminum heatsink shroud. We should also mention that it uses a pair of 8-pin power connectors and requires a good 850W power supply.The cards back has a black anodized heatsink that covers half of the included GDDR5 memory modules and also helps with the cooling of other PCB-mounted components.
back to news News SOMUA S.35 - Shield of The Republic Today we’re excited to present a familiar face among French tank designs: the SOMUA S.35 medium tank. The SOMUA S.35, considered by many to be one of the best medium tank designs of the 1930s, heads to War Thunder as part of the new French ground forces research tree, coming in War Thunder update 1.75! History ▼ The SOMUA S.35 was developed in 1934 in response to demand for a cavalry tank that could withstand direct hits from contemporary anti-tank weapons. SOMUA was the company assigned to the challenge, and by spring 1935 they completed construction of the first prototype, designated the AC3. Unfortunately, early testing revealed some flaws with the first prototype, which SOMUA subsequently fixed and released in a pre-production batch of four vehicles (called the AC4). This first batch demonstrated satisfactory performance. In 1936, the AC4 modification of the vehicle was adopted as the standard medium tank for the cavalry units of the French army. Shortly thereafter, it received the official designation of SOMUA S.35. Production of the SOMUA S.35 began in 1936, with a goal of producing 600 vehicles. During production, however, financial restraints limited the number that could be produced. Of the initial 600 planned, only 450 were actually ordered and built for the French army. Following the outbreak of WW2, the S.35 was soon deployed to defend French soil against a German invasion. Because the tank was designed to fight contemporary armoured vehicles of other nations, it fared well against the onslaught of Panzer III’s and early modifications of the Panzer IV. In fact, in most battles where the S.35 clashed with German Panzers in engagement ranges of around 1000 meters, the S.35 was able to destroy the Panzers without taking any critical damage in return. Unfortunately, while the S.35 did reasonably well in combat, the mechanics servicing the vehicle had few kind words for it. Due to its cast hull and complex suspension design, the S.35 was notoriously difficult to service and maintain—so difficult that if the tank was damaged in combat, the crew was unlikely to be able to repair it on the battlefield. While the S.35 saw some success in battle, its victories were short-lived. In June 1940, France surrendered and German forces occupied the northern part of the country, while the Vichy government was established in the south.
If you kill them, you still have the karma. If they kill themselves, they take it with them. It's easier on what's left. Of course, some of them don't go down easy. You can ask the spirits to kill them, because then the spirits will take the karma. But then you have to make sure that the spirits will take only them and leave the rest intact. Or you can ask your deity to kill them. Then you have a proper funeral and mourn them, really mourn them. So I don't know if that has to happen to everyone, but I suspect it's not that uncommon. But that's a big undertaking, to decide that this is what's needed. If you are going to do that, you need to talk to other shamans. If you can't, do lots and lots of divination, and get confirmations from omens, so that you can get a clear idea that the divination is correct. "I want to see a freaking billboard that has her name on it somehow, or I want to drive past something with a huge grave on it, or something. I want that level of clarity." Because if you do kill a piece of yourself off, there's no going back. Of course, I don't think you should even contemplate it without advice from your patron deity. What I'm concerned about it someone going to a workshop and saying, "Oh, I saw my totem animal guide and it told me that I should kill myself." You need to have a long-term established relationship with a patron of some kind. They can trigger the shaman sickness without showing themselves to you, or you can be too thick-headed to notice that they're there. Usually in anthropological tales, the spirits come first. Those who go through it without hearing their spirit patrons end up dead. But mainly it's about letting go. Meditations on emptiness. Meditations on letting go. Relaxation exercises. Dissolving work. Letting go as hard as you can.
NEW DELHI: Anticipating record viewership on May 16, the day the 2014 Lok Sabha poll results are to be declared, popular news channels have jacked up their advertising rates. For a 10-second slot, rates have shot up from around Rs 10,000 to up to Rs 2 lakh.So far this year, when it comes to ad rates , IPL 7 has hogged the limelight with advertisers coughing up nearly Rs 5 lakh for a 10-second slot on television. The judgment day of Indian politics comes a close second. "I am not surprised," says Navin Khemka, managing partner of Zenith Optimedia , a Gurgaon-based media-buying agency. "Ad rates for May 16 have shot through the roof as news channels are expecting the whole country to tune in for poll results. "Brands from segments such as, insurance, plywood, veneers, two-wheelers and male innerwear will be looking to make the most of the excitement that poll results will bring to the table on D-day, says Khemka. Despite popular celebrities like Gul Panag hopping onto the political bandwagon, it seems most Indian women like staying away from politics. Or at least that's what advertisers believe.Various media buyers said that mostly male-centric brands are expected to rule the airwaves during the period. "Historically, it has been noticed that brands that cater to men are the biggest advertisers during elections. For poll results too, it's not a very different story," says Hema Malik, VP at Lodestar UM.Says Khemka, "Whether it's the public sector or private, the Indian workforce is still predominantly male. Election results are huge conversation starters for them since they feel it will affect them more than women. As more and more women enter the workforce, we will see a gradual shift in advertising patterns. "Interestingly, when it comes to ad rates during elections this time, media buyers say English news channels have made a lot of headway when compared with their regional counterparts. "There is less clutter in the English news channel space," says Khemka. "And we have seen the emergence of a few big personalities."
NEW DELHI: The Palestine Authority has decided to recall its envoy from Islamabad in the face of India’s strong protest over the presence of the Palestine ambassador to Pakistan in the company of Mumbai attack mastermind and global terrorist Hafiz Saeed in Rawalpindi.A day after India’s demarche, Palestine ambassador Adnan Abu Al Haija told TOI, “Our ambassador in Pakistan has committed a fault, knowingly or otherwise. He is being recalled to Ramallah. He will no longer be Palestine ambassador to Pakistan. Relations with India are very important for us.”Al Haija was called in by Vijay Gokhale, a senior diplomat in the ministry of external affairs, to express India’s concerns after Palestinian envoy in Pakistan Waleed Abu Ali was seen with Saeed, who heads terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba , and was recently released from detention. “We stand together with India in its fight against terrorism,” Al Haija said. “It is a historical relationship and we are working to strengthen it.”The widely circulated picture of Abu Ali sharing a stage with Saeed in Rawalpindi, which also houses the headquarters of the Lashkar boss’s mentor the Pakistan Army , led to strong outrage in official circles, coming as it does close on the heels of India going against the US in a vote in the UN on the American decision to support Israel’s move to declare Jerusalem its capital. India is also implementing projects such as the development of information technology and electronics in the PA.In a statement, the PA said, “On the basis of the principled and firm Palestinian position, the ministry of foreign affairs and expatriates considered the participation of our ambassador in Pakistan in a mass rally in solidarity with Jerusalem, held in Rawalpindi on Friday, and in the presence of individuals accused of supporting terrorism is an unintended mistake, but not justified. Accordingly, the ministry, under the direct instructions of the President of the State of Palestine, has (decided) to recall the Palestinian Ambassador to Pakistan immediately.”Describing the action of Abu Ali as “unacceptable”, the MEA said India’s concerns “were conveyed both in New Delhi to the Palestinian ambassador and in Ramallah to the minister of foreign affairs and expatriates”. In a statement, the MEA said the Palestinian side has conveyed “deep regrets” over the incident and assured India that they are taking serious cognisance of their ambassador's presence at this event.
The real agenda, however, is clear: Gorka has written forcefully about the need to defeat the jihadi threat to Western civilization. He has dedicated his career to understanding the nature of the threat, diagnosing the weaknesses in past Western responses - criticizing the Bush and Obama approaches with equal fervor - and warning Western nations about the virulent ideology sweeping through the Islamic world.Unsurprisingly, Gorka and the Forward find themselves on opposite sides of the debate about Syrian refugees. Gorka sees the European decision to embrace them as a potentially fatal error whose debilitating consequences are already threatening freedom and liberal values across the EU – not to mention the physical safety of Jews, many of whom have been emigrating to Israel in fear for their lives. The Forward, on the other hand, publishes articles advising America’s Jews: “To really love thy neighbor, invite a Syrian refugee into your home.”Gorka’s current position in the White House is directly related to President Trump’s own understanding of the nature of the jihadi threat to America. Because he is in a position of influence, and because his views run directly counter to its own agenda, the Forward has engaged in the basest form of slander to eliminate the “threat” he represents.It has now published two articles making a hysterical case that boils down to: Gorka is an antisemite because he works for Trump, he is Hungarian, and he’s proud of both. One does not have to agree with Gorka to be appalled at the cynicism of a disingenuous campaign attacking a political target as an antisemite despite a total lack of evidence.Having dedicated two lengthy articles smearing as a Nazi this devout Catholic and father of young children, who has committed his life to the struggle to preserve Western civilization and liberal values, and this scholar who has written in the most forceful terms of the evils of the Nazi regime, the Forward helpfully notes that “Gorka, who is 46, could not have been part of any World War II killings.” In point of fact, Gorka’s father Pál (Paul) was all of nine years old when the war broke out.
In reality they were one of the most sophisticated peoples of the time with a great appreciation for art and culture; these weren’t just barbarians. One of the many positive outcomes attributed to the Mongol empire by some historians was the opening of the Silk Route to the west. To explore the legacy of Ghengis Khan today one has to voyage deep into the consciousness and land of the present-day Mongolians who are still very much nomadic and renowned for legendary horsemanship; in some ways not much has changed since Ghengis’ time. It must also involve getting a feel for the whisperings of the steppe; what it was like to forge across its ocean-like vastness on horseback, to drink fermented horse milk day in day out, and live in peculiar round felt tents (a yurt or ger). Furthermore it would make sense to follow in the Khan footsteps to discover the kaleidoscope of people, cultures and landscapes left in his empire’s wake. The surviving legacies from Kazakhstan, a traditionally nomadic society, to the Ukraine, where the Mongols exposed the soft underbelly of civilisation, will be better understood arriving by horse from the steppe just as Ghengis did himself. In the process some of our own misconceptions about this largely inaccessible part of the world may be illuminated and the history better understood. The route of Tim’s journey will begin from Qaraqorum, the ancient capital of the Khan Empire in Mongolia, and finish on the Danube in Hungary, hence reaching the most westerly boundary of the Empire. All of the countries that he will pass through –Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary- were part of the empire and have been heavily effected by its rule. Whilst the journey will not be a blow, by blow reconstruction of the army’s push west –there is no one route anyway-, it will touch on many historical paths of travel, and Tim will be seeking out current day connections where possible. Importantly, Tim will be riding the same horses as the Mongols, experiencing the same harsh conditions, enduring the same physical hardships, and in many cases living on a very similar diet. All of this will add to the sense of following “in the footsteps of Ghengis Khan.”
The Eglise Catholique Gallicane (ECG), founded by Loyson in 1879, was "the Paris mission established under the auspices of the Anglo-Continental Society [ (ACS) ] with oversight of a bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church" and "a bridgehead in a culture war which had been waged by Anglicans". [15](p4, 6–8, 13) The endeavor "was one of a number of Anglican reform mission interventions in Roman Catholic heartlands" among the culture wars that were being fought in Germany, Haiti, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. [15](pp6, 204) William Ewart Gladstone, "played an important part in encouraging the foundation" of the ECG . [15](p1–2) Loyson collaborated with the ACS "in his effort to recall Frenchmen to the principles and practices of the ancient Galilean Church before it was corrupted by Papal innovations." The ACS was an ecumenical organization which saw the "hope of Christian Europe appears to rest on the progress of a de-Vaticanised Catholicism and a de-rationalised Protestantism. "[21] "It was", Cross emphasizes, the ACS "which master-minded the extraordinary venture in Paris which resulted in the founding" of the ECG . [15](p172) Robert Nevin, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA) rector in Rome, "seems to have been present at every juncture in the planning" and "appears to have been, with [Frederick] Meyrick, the principal strategist in winning Anglican Episcopal backing. "[15](p123, 175) Although official Anglican support and "regular substantial financial subsidy" was withdrawn from the ECG at the end of 1881,[15](pp6, 19) it remained unofficially supported. [15](pp19–20) According to Peter-Ben Smit, in Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History, Loyson "was a source of concern" for the Union of Utrecht's (UU) International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference (IBC) because "the Dutch did not want to have anything to do with him and others could not. "[22](p196) It was ceded to the archdiocese of Utrecht in 1893,[15](p13) although most parishioners were Gallican Catholics. [9](p3)
A: And that certainly is what some of this is about (although I'm also not sure if it wasn't more of a case of if you can't trade him, play him). While there certainly should be more playing time available in the wing rotation with Ellington and Johnson gone, I'm still not sold that Erik Spoelstra will simply hand over minutes without those minutes being earned. And there still are issues with the perimeter rotation, considering that Justise Winslow and Dwyane Wade prefer to play with the ball in their hands. You obviously certainly do not want to take the ball out of Justise's hands, so it will be interesting to see if that become the backcourt pairing. Eventually, sort of like hockey defensemen pairings, it could come down to Winslow-Wade, Waiters-Dragic. Now, which pairing starts is another story. In other words, we won't truly get a read on Dion's minutes allotment until Goran Dragic returns. So, stay tuned. Q: Was there not a single expendable attractive player on Miami's roster better than Jonathon Simmons to entice the 76ers to trade for Markelle Fultz? - William. A: In short, no. Practically nothing of consequence and heft expires for the Heat this offseason. By contrast, Simmons' deal has only a $1 million guarantee for next season, making him the perfect short-term rental. In addition, the Heat hardly were in position to forward a first-round pick, something the Magic had available from a previous deal with the Thunder. Often, roster and draft flexibility leads to such moments. The Heat, at the moment, stood lacking in that regard. Q: Michael Beasley should be Heat's starting power forward. The Heat go through long stretches of not being able to score. Hope Erik Spoelstra and Pat Riley are open to his return. -- S.I. A: And . . . we're back. February 7, 2019 Q: What does it say about the Heat that its most tradable asset was a 2021 unprotected first-round pick, going from the Heat to the Suns to the Sixers to the Clippers? And still three more drafts to go. Where will it end up next? -- Dave.
Make certain you are well grounded when handling the chips. Atari strongly recommends that you wear a conductive grounding band (which ties from yow arm to ground) when handling the chips. Thediijw are also susceptible to damage from stress when being removed from or inserted into the sockets. Always use a chip-puUer when removing the chips. Do not pry the chip out with a screwdriver or any other tool. Failure to follow the above guidlines results in unusally high chip failure rates and extra expense. ATARI Home Computer 5-1 400 POWER-UP CATASTROPHIC FAILURES AND BASIC OPERATIONS Remove any Carcrldpe and Power-up Console Is a clear MEMO PAD YES teat special graphics mode of keyboard using Figure 3-1 YES NO Co to START, next pave Pass Go to POWER-UP, PART II, Page 5-8 NO . I N'oce failures t co be used lacer with keyboard cesc ATARI Home Computer 5-2 400 FOWER-UP CATASTROPHIC FAILURES AND BASIC OPERATIONS SNOWY SCREEN Is tha scre«n snowy YES NO Go to Slack/ Gray Screen, Page 5-4 Check, adjust, or replace AC power aciaptor, channel select switch and TV switch box Is a clear MEMO PAD on the screen NO Does Power Supply Board. J201. Pins 3. 6, and 7, have +5v YES' NO I Is there a good ground connection at Pin 1 of RF Module Repair YES, Is a clear MEMO PAD on the screen NO YES Go to POWER-UP, PART II. Pa^e 5-8 YES Is the RF Module mistuned or defective NO Go to Black/ Gray Screen. Page 5-4 YES I Go to POWER-UP: PART II, Page 5-8 MO Check . repair . or replace the following: CR206-CR209. replace IN4001 type diodes with IN5391 (C017988) Does voltage reg- ulator (A202) have +5v Check C208. C209, R203, and S202 - replace if defective Is a clear MEMO PAD on the screen NO YES ATARI Home Computer 5-3 400 POWER-UP CATASTROPHIC FAILURES AND BASIC OPERATIONS BLACK/GREY SCREEN Is the screen black or gray lYES NO Check Power Supply Board for: Is there -5v on J201 Pin 18 iGo to GREEN /YELLO I SCREEN, Page 5-^ NO YES Check, repair, or replace the following: CR206 - CR209 - replace 1N400I type diodes with 1N5391 (C017988) CR201 - Ca203, and C2ai, C202. and C210 Is there >I2v an J201. Pin 2 NOTE 1 See Table 5-1, start at the top of it and trace back until clock signal appears, indicating which component has failed.
The players assess the size and strength of their armies, which determine the number of Battle Dice each may roll. Each "f" rolled is a hit. Men at Arms are defeated with one hit, while Knights require three hits to be removed from the battle. The Kickstarter Edition of Fief: France 1429 included the Fief: France 1429 Expansions Pack and offered 3-D buildings and metal coins as 'add ons.' These items are all still available directly from Academy Games. This game is the most recent edition of Fief. It re-implements:
Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Between its outlaw image, controversial legal status and complex makeup -- the cannabis plant contains more than 400 individual chemicals -- marijuana's action in the brain and body is in many ways a mystery. The vast majority of studies on the drug have examined potential harm, as opposed to potential benefits. Even so, some medical uses are widely accepted and others are the subject of serious research. Here's a look at some potential uses of marijuana as medicine. Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Pain – In the United States, pain is the most common condition for which medical cannabis is taken. Studies show the drug is especially effective against neuropathic pain, a type of pain involving nerve damage. Marijuana is less habit-forming than opiate drugs and carries virtually no risk of a fatal overdose. Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Multiple sclerosis – Sativex, a pharmaceutical version of cannabis, is approved in 25 countries as a treatment for painful muscle spasms arising from multiple sclerosis. Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Nausea – The munchies are no joke. Marijuana is sometimes prescribed to stop nausea or induce appetite in people who have trouble eating, including patients suffering from AIDS or going through chemotherapy for cancer. Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Epilepsy – More than 100 families have moved to Colorado to access "Charlotte's Web," a cannabis strain that in some epileptic children seems to dramatically reduce seizures . Taken as an oil, the medicine is high in a chemical called CBD and low in THC, the component that makes people "high." Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Concussion – NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league is following the work of Israeli researchers who are exploring cannabis as a potential treatment for traumatic brain injury. In 2003, along with two colleagues, Nobel laureate Julius Axelrod, an American, obtained a patent on the drug for its anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties. Hide Caption 6 of 8 Photos: 7 uses for medical marijuana Alzheimer's disease – In studies of rats, marijuana helps stave off memory problems and Alzheimer's-like brain changes. A leading researcher said the drug's iffy legal status has held up further research.
It's not a bad policy to beware of prophets whom you must pay for their roadmaps to Eternity. Quite often, the price can be too high. For an empiricist, the emptiness of the promises of chemical bliss is verifiable by observation. The expansion of mind that drug pushers promised -- or even believed themselves -- simply didn't happen. No great spiritual pathways were ever revealed in the confused and fragmentary memories that travelers brought back from such trips. No new mode of visual or auditory art emerged. No general betterment of personal life or human relationships was evident. Instead, the major outcome we can observe is a group of non-functional young people with very messed-up minds, some of whom are -- years later -- incapable of carrying on a coherent conversation, much less holding a self-supporting job. That is self-evidently not spiritual progress. However, even though some of the most popularized recent approaches to transcendence have proven to be over-sold, the concept itself persists. In one way or another, transcendence of the mortal plane of existence and entry into awareness of a higher order of reality is an objective or an asserted result of every major traditional system of faithful or religious belief. The fact that nobody we know about has ever succeeded in demonstrating this outcome in a repeatable way, has not reduced the apparent human desire to believe that somewhere in our pile of traditional or modern belief fragments, there simply must be a way into the larger reality reported by people who have had moments of transcendence. It is almost as if we all live part of the time within the mind of that youngster who so famously remarked in an old joke, "... I know there's just got to be a pony in here somewhere!" Thus, it seems to me that an observant person might be led to ask: are all of the many historical and modern claims concerning spiritual transcendence nothing more than human wishful thinking? Perhaps some humanists might choose to believe so, and certainly atheists who reject any claim of a higher plane of sentient awareness than we commonly experience in everyday life. But for the rest of us, there remains the troubling issue of the evidence. There are realms of common human experience that are widely shared, for which no explanation seems to exist that can be attributed solely to the order of reality that we experience in everyday life.
“I remember seeing people butcher hogs on Linden Boulevard in the forties and fifties.” Ward wanted to be a teacher, but Woodrow Wilson, the high school that most blacks in the area attended, was a vocational trade school. So he applied to Jamaica, which had acquired a reputation as one of the city’s strongest academic high schools. Ward initially found the rigor daunting. “My first semester, I failed about three major classes,” he told me. “My father said, ‘If you’re not going to work at school, you’ll have to get a job.’ ” Ward studied hard and spent an extra semester earning enough academic credits to apply to college. He played baseball well enough to be selected for the All-City team in 1954, his senior year. “I don’t really recall there being much racial tension,” he said of the school. “The blacks mostly hung out with other black students, but, being an athlete, I interacted with a lot more of the white students.” For a few years in the fifties, Jamaica’s integrated athletics teams, with their winning records, were a point of pride for the school. In 1954, Ward was elected the school’s first black class president. He was accepted at Morgan State University, a historically black institution in Baltimore, but his family couldn’t afford the tuition, so he played D-League baseball for a few years, then applied to the New York City police academy, and, in 1960, became one of the first black members of the motorcycle corps. Of the more than three hundred graduates in Ward’s police-academy class, fewer than two dozen were African-American. In 1974, he was promoted to a plainclothes unit working out of the 114th Precinct. “Out of sixteen guys, I was the black on the street-crimes unit,” he told me. His career on the force was, at least demographically, a replay of his experiences at Jamaica, and Ward later credited the school with giving him not only an excellent education but also the skills that allowed him to navigate primarily white environments. “Jamaica being integrated in the fifties was something unusual,” he told me. “But it was also a place where I felt I belonged.” South Jamaica’s black population continued to grow in the fifties and sixties, though not all of it was as economically stable as Ward’s family.
Moreover, the authority of AKP's nationwide party machine is blurring with the Turkish State's executive power at the provincial and district level and with municipal functions to an extent not seen since the days of the one-party state. These factors seem set to continue for the foreseeable future. 5. (C) Yet Erdogan and AKP face politically fateful challenges in three areas: foreign policy (EU, Iraq, Cyprus); quality and sustainability of leadership and governance; and resolution of questions fundamental to creation of an open, prosperous society integrated with the broader world (place of religion; identity and history; rule of law). EU -- 6. (U) Erdogan indexed his political survival to getting a negotiation date from the EU. He achieved that goal. The Wall Street Journal and other Western and Turkish media have opined that the EU owes Turkey a fair negotiating process leading to accession, with the Journal even putting the onus on the EU by asserting that while Turkey is ready the question is whether Europeans are ready for Turkey. 7. (C) But there's always a Monday morning and the debate on the ground here is not so neat. With euphoria at getting a date having faded in 48 hours, Erdogan's political survival and the difficulty of the tasks before him have become substantially clearer. Nationalists on right and left have resumed accusations that Erdogan sold out Turkish national interests (Cyprus) and Turkish traditions. Core institutions of the Turkish state, which remain at best wary of AKP, have once again begun to probe for weaknesses and to feed insinuations into the press in parallel with the nationalists' assertions. In the face of this Euro-aversion, neither Erdogan nor his government has taken even minimal steps to prepare the bureaucracy or public opinion to begin tackling the fundamental -- some Turks would say insidious -- legal, social, intellectual and spiritual changes that must occur to turn harmonization on paper into true reform. The road ahead will surely be hard. 8. (U) High-profile naysayers like main opposition CHP chairman Baykal, former Ambassador Gunduz Aktan, and political scientist Hasan Unal continue to castigate Erdogan. But theirs is a routine whine. More significant for us is that many of our contacts cloak their lack of self-confidence at Turkey's ability to join in expressions of skepticism that the EU will let Turkey in. And there is parallel widespread skepticism that the EU will be around in attractive form in ten years. 9.

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