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Given that niche models depend on their own set of assumptions (20), it is possible that more extensive suitable areas were present at the LGM but are underrepresented in the current environment, upon which the model is based, thereby leading to underprediction of habitable area (21). We explored this issue by rerunning models with differing climate layers but found no changes to our results (see Materials and Methods). Furthermore, the amount of available habitat predicted by models of plant species distributions (22) also suggests that LGM populations would be very small and likely not viable for the duration of an interglacial period. Because the niche models built on climatic niches of current breeding populations did not predict presence in Central or South America at the LGM, it suggests a major climatic niche shift for breeding populations at each major phase of the glacial cycle (which are extended processes themselves). However, given that many migrant species spend most of their annual cycle in the tropics, it is not likely an insurmountable problem to (re)initiate breeding on the ancestral wintering grounds during glacial maxima, as has been suggested for Nearctic species that might breed secondarily along southward migratory routes (23). Furthermore, many but not all tropical habitats were more, not less, extensive at the LGM (24), supporting the notion of an expanded area for tropical breeding in species for which migration was suppressed during glacial maxima. Effects of oscillating migratory status on phylogenetic reconstruction of migration in New World warblers Hypotheses about the evolution of avian migration can be tested by plotting the distribution of migratory behavior on a phylogenetic tree (25, 26). If the SHH was the dominant mode for the evolution of migration, one should observe a consistent transition from sedentary to migratory. However, phylogenetic tests mostly using parsimony found no consistent support for any particular migration hypothesis (10), which could result from several factors. First, the hypothesis might apply to only some species. Second, reconstruction methods, such as parsimony mapping (25), restrict multiple changes along branches, which might be unrealistic given the species durations that span multiple glacial cycles (10, 26). That is, if migration is expressed and suppressed at the temporal scale of glacial cycles, reconstruction methods should reveal that changes in character state (migratory and sedentary) occur much more frequently than speciation events.
as_forest: SkyBox by MJC ([email protected]), Special Thanks to [UGP]Skittz/AD testers de_foption: Special Thanks to: Recycled & [UGP]SkittZ as_tundra: Contributors Joshua (EuroBrew) DeJong, Devnull (compiler), Mr_Deth, Janitor209, Feltch, N0TH1NG, Boxlor, The Guy, Agent as_oilrig: Wessex helicopter by Agent Orange [email protected] DaveJ * [email protected] * http://www.planethalflife.com/davej/ de_dust (added BETA 4.0, survived 6 cuts) de_cbble (added BETA 6.5, survived 3 cuts) cs_tire (added BETA 3.0, removed BETA 6.0, survived 2 cuts) de_dust2 (added MOD 1.1, survived 1 cut) Chris Auty * Barney * [email protected] de_aztec (added BETA 6.5, survived 3 cuts) de_inferno (added MOD 1.1, survived 1 cut) de_vertigo (added MOD 1.1, survived 1 cut) cs_thunder (added MOD 1.1, removed MOD 1.3, survived 0 cuts) es_frantic (added BETA 6.0, removed BETA 6.5, survived 0 cuts) N0TH1NG * [email protected] cs_siege (added BETA 1.0, survived 10 cuts) cs_docks (added BETA 2.0, removed BETA 7.0, survived 5 cuts) Poor Yurik * [email protected] cs_ship (added BETA 3.0, removed BETA 6.0, survived 2 cuts) cs_zoption (added BETA 2.0, removed BETA 4.0, survived 1 cut) as_forest (added BETA 6.5, removed BETA 7.0, survived 0 cuts) de_foption (added BETA 7.0, removed MOD 1.1, survived 0 cuts) Zaphod_Beeblebrox * [email protected] * [email protected] as_tundra (added BETA 6.5, survived 3 cuts) cs_estate (added BETA 6.5, removed MOD 1.3, survived 2 cuts) cs_iraq (added BETA 5.0, removed BETA 6.0, survived 0 cuts) Hobbit * [email protected] * [email protected] de_prodigy (added BETA 4.0, survived 6 cuts) cs_office (added BETA 7.0, survived 2 cut) Jo Bieg * [email protected] * http://meeeedic.hlcenter.com de_nuke (added BETA 4.0, survived 6 cuts) de_fang (added BETA 6.0, removed BETA 6.5, survived 0 cuts) CryptR * [email protected] cs_assault (added BETA 1.1, survived 9 cuts) Andrew Aumann * [email protected] cs_militia (added BETA 3.0, survived 7 cuts) +Cadaver+ * [email protected] de_vegas (added BETA 7.0, removed MOD 1.3, survived 1 cut) es_trinity (added BETA 6.5, removed BETA 7.0, survived 0 cuts) TYR * [email protected] cs_backalley (added BETA 5.0, survived 5 cuts) Chris Mair * [email protected] de_train (added BETA 5.0, survived 5 cuts) Matthew Van Sickler * [email protected] cs_bunker (added BETA 2.0, removed BETA 6.0, survived 3 cuts) Captain Gram * [email protected] cs_facility (added BETA 2.0, removed BETA 6.0, survived 3 cuts) Stephen "Judas" Superville * [email protected] cs_747 (added BETA 6.0, removed MOD 1.3, survived 3 cuts) MacMan * [email protected] as_oilrig (added BETA 6.0, removed MOD 1.3, survived 3 cuts) glenC * [HOTSHEEP]Bastard * [email protected] cs_italy (added BETA 6.5, survived 3 cuts) Markus * [email protected] cs_station (added BETA 4.0, removed BETA 6.0, survived 1 cut) Mr_Deth cs_iraq (added BETA 5.0, removed BETA 6.0, survived 0 cuts) Rob Smolders * [email protected] de_rotterdam (added MOD 1.1, removed MOD 1.3, survived 0 cuts) Bluestrike * [email protected] es_jail (added BETA 6.0, removed BETA 6.5, survived 0 cuts) Paramedic911 * [email protected] cs_arabstreets (added BETA 7.0, removed MOD 1.1, survived 0 cuts) Zaka * [email protected] as_riverside (added BETA 6.0, removed BETA 6.5, survived 0 cuts) MattS * [BA]Pantera * [email protected] as_highrise (added BETA 7.0, removed MOD 1.1, survived 0 cuts) FLiPMoDE\|Daank * [email protected] de_storm (added MOD 1.3, survived 0 cuts) Michael Visser * 3D_Mike * [email protected] * [email protected] * www.lanmaniax.com de_survivor (added MOD 1.3, survived 0 cuts) Crinity & Madcross * www.planethalflife.com/crinity/ de_torn (added MOD 1.3, survived 0 cuts) KaRRiLLioN * [email protected] * and Lestat de_railroad (added BETA 6.5, removed BETA 7.0, survived 0 cut) Unspecified Author (need info please) cs_desert cs_mansion cs_prison cs_wpndepot cs_hideout cs_alley1 ==================================---+ Speculation 1: Hastily Removed Maps?
Successful athletes are inevitably displaced—if you’re good, you leave home—and something is always lost in transition. Much of what Hawkins carried onto the court would have been invisible to Chongqing fans, who know nothing about Compton or American single-parent families. In Chongqing, Hawkins was simply an excellent player who looked completely different from everybody else in the city. When I lived in a nearby town, it was common for crowds of twenty or more to gather and gawk at me on the street. A local night club once hired an African dancer, knowing that his freakishness would draw customers. Yao Ming had an excellent rookie season, and there were clear signs that eventually he’d develop into a dominant center. But the Rockets ran only about thirty plays a game to him; initially, his American fame resulted from his height and his off-court persona. He handled attention with remarkable humor and grace. He also appealed to the national missionary instinct: if Americans had failed to convert the Chinese to God and democracy, at least we were turning them into N.B.A. fans. The American media portrayed Yao as a non-threatening figure—a gentle giant. But he entered another world whenever he dealt with the Chinese press. After a difficult defeat in Los Angeles, where Yao had fouled out for the first time in his N.B.A. career, a Chinese reporter asked what it had been like to be dunked on by Kobe Bryant. Yao said evenly, “Please don’t ask me about an incident in which I have no face.” At an All-Star Game press conference, Yao showed up wearing an old Chinese national team sweatshirt, and a Chinese reporter asked why. “It’s comfortable, that’s all,” Yao said. Another reporter asked, “If you could say one sentence to all of the young Chinese players back home, what would you say?” Yao’s sentence: “I don’t believe that I can say very much with one sentence.” Even as they idolized him, few people in China seemed to realize how different Yao was from the typical Chinese athlete. When he played, the joy was apparent on his face. He hit free throws in the clutch, and the Rockets learned to run plays to him at the end of close games. Often, he subtly deflected the patriotic questions of the Chinese media, as if sensing that such concerns were too heavy to bear on the court.
All my life as a boy until I ran away from home to join the Marine Corps ( At this point in the note, Whitman broke off his writing, picking it up later that same night ) friends
I've seen great bargains out there for scratched lenses, often going for half the cost of an "unblemished" front element lens. Before I whipped up this article, I would've shied away from a scratched lens, but not now. Hopefully, with this article, I'll save a few lenses from death, or extended the life of a few lenses with minor defects such as small front element scratches.
And we want an end to our commitment to an 'ever closer union', as enshrined in the Treaty to which every EU country has to sign up".Furthermore, they say, "we will continue to ensure that defence policy remains firmly under British national control, maintaining NATO and the transatlantic relationship as the cornerstones of our defence and security policy".And then, they tell us they will scrap the Human Rights Act. They will scrap "Labour's Human Rights Act and introduce a British Bill of Rights which will "restore common sense to the application of human rights in the UK".The Bill, they say, will remain faithful to the basic principles of human rights, which we signed up to in the original European Convention on Human Rights. It will protect basic rights, like the right to a fair trial, and the right to life, which are an essential part of a modern democratic society.But it will reverse the mission creep that has meant human rights law being used for more and more purposes, and often with little regard for the rights of wider society. Among other things the Bill will stop terrorists and other serious foreign criminals who pose a threat to our society from using spurious human rights arguments to prevent deportation.The Conservatives will, they then say, take action in Europe to make us better off. They want an EU that "helps Britain move ahead, not one that holds us back". They tell us they have already succeeded in exempting our smallest businesses from new EU regulations, and kicked-off negotiations for a massive EU trade deal with the USA, which could be worth billions of pounds to the UK economy.They say they will build on this. They want to preserve the integrity of the Single Market, by insisting on protections for those countries that have kept their own currencies.They want to expand the Single Market, breaking down the remaining barriers to trade and ensuring that new sectors are opened up to British firms. They want to ensure that new rules target unscrupulous behaviour in the financial services industry, while safeguarding Britain as a global centre of excellence in finance.So, they say, they will resist EU attempts to restrict legitimate financial services activities. They will press for lower EU spending, further reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and Structural Funds, and for EU money to be focused on promoting jobs and growth.And there you have it – the first self-fisking manifesto in history.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2014—As in Alice’s journey through the looking-glass to Wonderland, mirrors in the real world can sometimes behave in surprising and unexpected ways, including a new class of mirror that works like no other.As reported today in The Optical Society’s ( OSA ) new high-impact journal Optica , scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, a new type of mirror that forgoes a familiar shiny metallic surface and instead reflects infrared light by using an unusual magnetic property of a non-metallic metamaterial.By placing nanoscale antennas at or very near the surface of these so-called “magnetic mirrors,” scientists are able to capture and harness electromagnetic radiation in ways that have tantalizing potential in new classes of chemical sensors, solar cells, lasers, and other optoelectronic devices.“We have achieved a new milestone in magnetic mirror technology by experimentally demonstrating this remarkable behavior of light at infrared wavelengths. Our breakthrough comes from using a specially engineered, non-metallic surface studded with nanoscale resonators,” said Michael Sinclair, co-author on the Optica paper and a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA who co-led a research team with fellow author and Sandia scientist Igal Brener.These nanoscale cube-shaped resonators, based on the element tellurium, are each considerably smaller than the width of a human hair and even tinier than the wavelengths of infrared light, which is essential to achieve magnetic-mirror behavior at these incredibly short wavelengths.“The size and shape of the resonators are critical,” explained Sinclair “as are their magnetic and electrical properties, all of which allow them to interact uniquely with light, scattering it across a specific range of wavelengths to produce a magnetic mirror effect.”Conventional mirrors reflect light by interacting with the electrical component of electromagnetic radiation. Because of this, however, they do more than reverse the image; they also reverse light’s electrical field. Though this has no impact on the human eye, it does have major implications in physics, especially at the point of reflection where the opposite incoming and outgoing electrical fields produce a canceling effect. This temporary squelching of light’s electrical properties prevents components like nanoscale antennas and quantum dots from interacting with light at the mirror’s surface.A magnetic mirror, in contrast, reflects light by interacting with its magnetic field, preserving its original electrical properties.
During the Mission at the Pumping Station where you have to protect Sig while he kills 5 Metal Heads for Krew, the charging sound of the peacemaker will continue after each of his shots are fired. (I haven't tested if they stack as they're really annoying to me) It's fixed by simply pressing select to pause. During the first fight with Baron Praxis at the Palace while he is still on his first health bar, he will randomly start to shoot in directions completely away from you as if blinded. (You may kill him too quick to experience this but I thought it was laugh worthy as it wasn't on the PS2. (May have been on the PS3 too?) Jak 3
Scientific tests have shown that this water quality is better now than it's ever been. And this is after 22 million tons of coal have been mined in nearby land. Our need for energy is greater than ever. And with responsible practices in place, we can safely mine coal while restoring our land for future generations. From the mouth of self‐proclaimed conservationist Jeremy Starks, we are assured that coal extraction and a clean environment can coexist.5 We are even told that the coal industry actually improves water quality! It is through this assertion that the Friends of Coal attempts to identify itself as the quintessential West Virginia “outdoorsman.” Through appropriating some of the most potent cultural icons of the region, such as football, the military, race‐car driving, the accomplished outdoorsman, and the working‐class provider, the Friends of Coal has attempted to amplify the connection between West Virginia and coal so that this industry appears to be more than a provider of jobs; it embodies all of the characteristics of the archetypal West Virginian. It is no coincidence that this “archetypal West Virginian” is clearly constructed to be a man. With the changing economic realities in West Virginia, wherein coal is no longer the main source of employment or earnings, the gendered division of labor, and related gender ideology, is under attack. With the rise in service‐sector jobs and decline in mining employment, women have increasingly entered the workforce, while greater and greater numbers of men have been forced to leave, threatening men's status as the sole breadwinners of the family (Maggard 1994; Miewald and McCann 2004). As Maggard (1994) relates, “The Appalachian coalfield region is witnessing the disassembling of a nearly century old economic and domestic arrangement” (31). However, while the strict gendered division of labor has declined, the related gender ideology “is still felt” (Miewald and McCann 2004:1054). This disconnect between ideology and economic reality has meant that many men are no longer able to live up to their traditional definition of masculinity. In many cases, this has translated to turmoil at home, including divorce, depression, domestic violence, and even suicide (Miewald and McCann 2004). Ironically, the very industry that created the hegemonic masculinity of the region in the first place is also responsible for preventing most coalfield men from achieving it.
This only applies to the interior, it does not work on the awnings, next update for that as I'm thinking of making a change to the bedding side!Auto-locked to 1st person on entering the interior then auto-switch back to 3rd person if that's how you entered. So no more bouncing around inside! !Tweaked the living daylights out of the carriage physics & gravity, this is about a good as it's gonna get, but it's not half bad if I do say so myself, even at full speed! !-)Oh, and I've swapped out the Winterhold symbols for new gold eyes, I'll want the Winterhold symbol for that cities carriage!Defaults:Mounted Menu = OffSwap saddle for harness = OnAuto dismount & unhitch when attacked = OnSome great tips from vvk78¬A few nice features of this mod that aren't self-evident, plus a few tips on improving your enjoyment of this wonderful mod..1. Your caravan's horse gets into unwanted fights on its own?! Change its behavior!The caravan's horse is just as important as the caravan! And no one wants their caravan to be suddenly dragged off the road by a crazed caravan-horse, that decides to attack some unseen enemy (e.g., a roadside wolf).There are some nice horse mods, that will allow you to change the default behavior (and looks -- get some horse armor!) of your horse/mount, so the horse will avoid/ignore combat. Convenient Horses or Better Horses mods will enable your caravan horse to behave obediently.2. Don't doze on the caravan driver's seat, go ride the caravan horse and pull your caravan!After tethering the horse to the caravan, it is better to ride the horse than drive the caravan from the carriage seat, for a few reasons.a. It is(and hence the caravan), as it is easier to see where it's going.b. Riding the tethered horse means, and for advanced (mod added) followers, they're most likely to follow on their own horse -- now they don't bump erratically into the caravan and can deal with enemies by themselves if your caravan is ambushed, while you continue driving the caravan slowly.c. You can dowhile riding your caravan-horse, with the caravan bouncing merrily behind you! Very useful for quickly dealing with that odd (and pesky!) wolf and sabercat, that may waylay you (and its loot get added to you automatically, so you do not even have to get down from your caravan horse).d.
server: Make async_queue object a simple list instead of a server object. server: Remove no longer needed NULL checks. server: Make fd_queue_async infallible. server: Call create_irp from queue_irp. rsaenh: Implement duplicate_hash_impl for bcrypt-based hashes. d3d11.idl: Added CD3D11_DEPTH_STENCIL_DESC declaration. wininet: Fixed connection_pool_cs declaration. Jactry Zeng (1): ucrtbase: Implement wcstoull and _wcstoull_l. Lauri Kenttä (1): po: Update Finnish translation. Marcin Mikołajczak (1): po: Updated Polish translation. Martin Storsjo (1): ntdll: Handle IMAGE_REL_BASED_DIR64 for arm64 in the same way as for x86_64. Michael Stefaniuc (3): wineandroid: Use EqualRect() instead of memcmp(). regedit: Remove a redundant NULL check before HeapFree(). urlmon: Remove a redundant NULL check before SysFreeString(). Nikolay Sivov (16): d3drm: Added IDirect3DRMWrap stub. d3drm/tests: Some tests for animation object QI behavior. d3drm: Store animated frame pointer in animation object. d3drm: Store animation options. regedit: Use notification message to clean up item data. regedit: Remove explicit iIndent field initialization. po: Update Russian translation. d3drm/tests: Additional test for SetOptions(). d3drm/tests: Some tests for animation keys handling. d3drm: Use AddKey() method internally to add all types of keys. iphlpapi: Fix GetIfTable() trace message. d3drm: Store frame traversal options. d3drm: Store face color. regedit: Remove commented out block. d3drm: Initial support for storing animation keys. d3drm: Implement DeleteKey(). Owen Rudge (16): wsdapi: Add stub implementation of IWSDUdpMessageParameters and WSDCreateUdpMessageParameters. wsdapi/tests: Add tests for CreateUdpMessageParameters. wsdapi/tests: Add tests for Get/SetLocalAddress. wsdapi/tests: Add tests for Get/SetRemoteAddress. wsdapi/tests: Add tests for Get/SetRetransmitParams. wsdapi: Implement Get/SetLocalAddress. wsdapi: Implement Get/SetRemoteAddress. wsdapi: Implement Get/SetRetransmitParams. wsdapi: Implement IWSDUdpAddress_SetTransportAddress. wsdapi/tests: Add additional SetTransportAddress tests with port numbers. wsdapi: Implement IWSDUdpAddress_GetTransportAddress[Ex]. wsdapi: Implement IWSDUdpAddress_Get/SetPort. wsdapi: Implement IWSDUdpAddress_Get/SetMessageType. wsdapi: Implement IWSDUdpAddress_Get/SetSockAddr. wsdapi: Implement WSDXMLGetValueFromAny. wsdapi/tests: Add tests for WSDXMLGetValueFromAny. Paul Gofman (6): d3dx9: Remove redundant parameter size check in set_constants(). d3dx9: Get rid of constant's length checking for matrix in set_constants(). d3dx9: Move transpose 'if' outside of the inner loop in set_constants(). d3dx9: Check type and register count for sampler constants. d3dx9: Support arrays of samplers. d3dx9/tests: Add tests for array of samplers. Pierre Schweitzer (1): mpr: Implement WNetConnectionDialog(). Piotr Caban (3): gdiplus: Add GdipDrawLine test on EmfTypeEmfOnly metafile. gdiplus: Add GdipDrawImagePointsRect test on EmfTypeEmfPlusOnly file. winedump: Add initial support for handling EMF+ records. Vincent Povirk (1): gdiplus: Set flatness more appropriately in GdipDrawPath. Zebediah Figura (14): msi/tests: Add another test for MsiProcessMessage. comctl32: Don't FIXME on handled cases. winedbg: Add support for printing floating point registers. winedbg: Add support for printing SSE (XMM) registers. msi/tests: Add tests for external UI callback.
The lessons of the 1930’s and 40’s will be lost in the mists of time if the people and events of those years continue to be diminished by exploiting them for meaningless political fodder and to vanquish one’s political foes as the contemptible Left, including Hollywood, is attempting to do today.
But his quest had morphed into something else, and so now he just lurked, waiting for the court, or perhaps the entropy of Atlantic City, to scuttle Straub’s bid. Quietly casting himself as the new white knight, he’d submitted an offer, but so far it had gone unacknowledged. “Straub is done,” Crandon told me later. “We’ve put in a better offer. We’re sitting back, taking our time.” He added, “Straub thinks he’s the only guy in town.” The town, and the sellers, seemed to think so, too. After the ninety-five-million-dollar offer fell apart, Straub put in a lower bid, for eighty-two million, and lawyers for Revel and the lenders, increasingly desperate, supported it in court. At the beginning of April, the presiding judge, Gloria Burns, who said she would not let the case delay her impending retirement, abruptly ruled in favor of Straub. The questions of the tenants and power plant remained unresolved. For a few days, anyway, the town experienced something like hope.
These dungeons were an important part of 4.3 (I think the term 'prime focus' overstates the case a bit, though) and actually, a tremendous amount of effort went into making them not only fun and engaging, but also as lore-appropriate and visually authentic as possible. It's a little unfortunate that the majority of that effort is being completely overlooked.All of those were possible courses of action, sure, though I suspect that using a different existing model would likely had the same result. Slight modifications to an existing model may not even have been noticed, given the light show going off in that scene. Also, as others have pointed out, he was already wearing the armor at that point. In the end, we're currently having a long discussion about a single model which appears for a few seconds, and is wreathed in gold lightning for much of that time. ( Blue Tracker
Phil Coulson Agent Phil Coulson is the star of his own TV series now, but a brief appearance with his old superhero buddies would make for an interesting surprise. To the Avengers, Phil Coulson has been dead for years at the hands of Loki, although frankly, it’s surprising that they havn’t figured out this was a ruse considering all the ruckus his team have been causing on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., to those who haven’t been keeping up with the show. Agent Phil Coulson is the star of his own TV series now, but a brief appearance with his old superhero buddies would make for an interesting surprise. To the Avengers, Phil Coulson has been dead for years at the hands of Loki, although frankly, it’s surprising that they havn’t figured out this was a ruse considering all the ruckus his team have been causing on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Isn’t it about time he let the heroes know that he’s still alive and kicking? Besides, despite S.H.I.E.L.D. having significantly less resources than it did pre-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, he and his team might be able to help out in the battle against Ultron. Including Coulson would also be a small way to tease what’s been going on with him in, to those who haven’t been keeping up with the show. 10 Marvel and DC Characters Who Will Steal The Show in 2019 Blended From Around The Web Facebook
Now, in Thailand there are many ways to express dominance, but almost all of them involve the portrayal of self-control. You can dominate with a relentless march forward with knees and clinch. You can dominate through long, successive hand combinations. You can dominate through repeated similar strikes that can’t be stopped, or through the variety of strikes. You can dominate through fakes and threats that disarm your opponent. And – and this is very important – you can dominate through evasions, through interruptions, through the control of the space between you and your opponent. This is why – and this is something that some of the west do not know – the retreating fighter is usually, all things being equal, seen to be in the lead. The lead. Once you have the lead you (largely) defend your lead through retreat, countering as you go, taking a “come and get me” approach, demonstrating your control over the space and your mastery of your opponent. If you could push it to an extreme: the western fighter is trying to smash her/his opponent, the Thai fighter is trying to show her/his opponent crumbling from within, exposing a flaw. This is dominance, not necessarily aggression. Dominance is far more nuanced than aggression is, and it relies on a host of culturally grounded cues that are not always natural to western eyes. In the west we understand the “don’t let him make you lose your cool,” ethic, where if you can keep cool while getting a rise out of your adversary (usually verbal), you’ve won on the social level. This lack of self control is tightly woven into current Thai custom and culture, where strong emotional expression of any kind is frowned upon, and so this carries into the story of how fights are viewed when one person is calm and cool and coaxing the opponent to “catch me if you can,” and the fighter trying to catch up is forced into a state of desperation. In Thai the expressions are to have a “cool heart” (jai yen) or a “hot heart” (jai rohn), with very much the same connotations as the English cool-headed and hot-headed. Above all, you want to remain jai yen and risk losing face – or losing the fight – by being pushed toward jai rohn, which is what western aggression looks like on a Thai stage.
For Duff, there remained the challenge of trying to explain why the Easters wanted to ruin Kelli Peters in the first place. The provocation had seemed irrationally small. A school volunteer, Peters had inadvertently left the Easters’ 6-year-old son in the back recess yard for a few minutes one afternoon. Peters explained that the boy had been slow to line up after tennis class, which Jill Easter seemed to perceive as an insult to his intelligence. “There’s a whole show, ‘Orange County Housewives,’ where all the housewives are crazy,” Duff told jurors in his closing statement. “This is the 21st century, where everyone thinks their son should be the star quarterback, star shortstop, batting first, whatever it is. Whatever happened, whatever their son said, got these two very upset and it escalated.” As he had at the first trial, Duff emphasized that the Easters remained married. “How uncomfortable is it at the dinner table?” Duff asked. “‘Jill, can you pass me the mashed potatoes, please?’ ‘Yeah, OK.’ ‘Don’t frame me while you’re passing the mashed potatoes, please, though.’ Really? They’re still together.” The most dramatic moments of the second trial came during Duff’s final remarks to jurors. He noted that the location of cellphones is knowable in three ways — when they ping against the nearest tower during calls, when texts are exchanged, and when automatic “data checks” monitor the devices’ health. Until now, the data-check records — though put into evidence — had barely been mentioned. Irvine detectives had missed their significance during their investigation, as had Duff during the first trial. Preparing for this trial, however, Duff had pored over them carefully and discovered what he thought might destroy Kent Easter’s alibi for good. Support our narrative journalism Become a Los Angeles Times subscriber today to support stories like this one. Start getting full access to our signature journalism for just 99 cents for the first four weeks. It had long been established, from the text pings, that Jill Easter’s iPhone had been at the Easter home on the night in question. For at least part of that night, however, the data checks indicated that her phone had also been near Peters’ apartment. It had been pinging off the local tower intermittently from midnight to 8 a.m. The Easters had executed the plot together while a babysitter watched their kids, the prosecutor argued. One had planted the drugs while the other acted as the lookout.
HEAL SPECIAL REPORT: ABUNDANT LIFE ACADEMY'S ENROLLMENT AGREEMENT REVIEW HEAL has found multiple problems with Abundant Life Academy's enrollment agreement including apparent unconscionable terms and contradictory terms leaving us to believe that Abundant Life Academy is running a money-making scam on families in need of assistance. We will be alternating between the "quoted words" of Abundant Life Academy in their enrollment agreement (as was updated by Abundant Life Academy on April 23rd, 2009) and HEAL's questions and concerns. HEAL will not repeatedly link to the enrollment agreement in full throughout this review, and, we advise readers to scroll back and/or open the enrollment agreement in a new window while reviewing our work for accuracy or if additional contextualization is preferred. This is an independent review and if you are in need of legal assistance or advice, please consult with an attorney. Enrollment Agreement (Page 1) "...Xtreme Faith Academy, Inc., dba Abundant Life Academy, Inc..." "...for a period of not less then 9 months and not more then 18 months..." "Leadership Training and accredited long distance learning educational curriculum..." "The parent full acknowledges and realizes that the degree of the "Youth's" educational, emotional, and spiritual and growth is not the responsibility of the Academy..." "The "Youth's" participation is all voluntary and by his/her choice." "The main purpose of the Academy is to provide..."mentoring" (Christian values training: teaching the principles of Bible which include:..."learning the principles of 'submission to parental authority'", and development of character through training in "discipline, good work ethics, respect towards authority...)" "The Academy introduces controlled and measured challenges to the Youth so as to help them learn to serve the needs of others." HEAL's Questions/Concerns To listen to audio of a lawsuit regarding abuses and removal of children from Xtreme Faith Academy Inc./Abundant Life Academy, click here . This hearing was held on November 13th, 2009. It states that the former judge's decision in the case was to shut down Abundant Life Academy. HEAL wonders why Abundant Life Academy is still open. It must be due to the nature of Utah laws that protect abusive programs at the expense of children's welfare and lives. On page 3 of the agreement, the second statement above is contradicted. It states that there are early graduations/completions and that the above stated term of 9 months, stated firmly as a requirement, is later shown to be not a true requirement of the agreement or the program.
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As part of his release, Matt was required to wear a GPS anklet, which ensured that he return home by 9 every night for his curfew. Trauger’s decision pointedly called the child porn case against Matt into question. Though the probation office could have imposed conditions on a suspected child predator to curb his flight risk, no such measures had been taken in Matt’s case. “No one told him he could not leave the United States when he went to Mexico,” Trauger said. “No one told him he could not leave the United States when his desperate parents are trying to get him involved in something [school in Canada], get him on a different track than he's on.” She concluded that, with regard to the child porn charges, “the evidence is not as firm as I thought it was.” As for the national security investigation against Matt, Trauger also had choice words. “I can easily understand why this defendant was much more focused on that investigation, much more afraid of that investigation, which was propelling his actions at that time,” she said. Matt “thought that the search for child pornography was really a ruse to try to get the proof about his extracurricular national security issues,” Trauger told the court. “I found him very credible on that issue.”
Samsung, the Korea-based electronics giant, holds the greatest number of patents in graphene, but in recent years research institutions, not corporations, have been most active. A Korean university, which works with Samsung, is in first place among academic institutions. Two Chinese universities hold the second and third slots. In fourth place is Rice University, which has filed thirty-three patents in the past two years, almost all from a laboratory run by a professor named James Tour. Tour, fifty-five, is a synthetic organic chemist, but his expansive personality and entrepreneurial brio make him seem more like an executive overseeing a company’s profitable R. & D. division. A short, dark-eyed man with a gym-pumped body, he greeted me volubly when I visited him recently at his office, in the Dell Butcher building at Rice. “I mean, the stuff is just amazing!” he said, about graphene. “You can’t believe what this stuff can do!” Tour, like most senior scientists, must concern himself with both research and commerce. He has twice appeared before Congress to warn about federal budget cuts to science, and says that his lab has managed to thrive only because he has secured funding through aggressive partnerships with industry. He charges each business he contracts with two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year; his lab nets a little more than half, with which he can hire two student researchers and pay for their materials for a year. Much of Tour’s work involves spurring the creativity of those researchers (twenty-five of whom are devoted to graphene); they’re the ones who devise the inventions that Tour sells. Graphene has been a boon, he said: “You have a lot of people moving into this area. Not just academics but companies in a big way, from the big electronics firms, like Samsung, to oil companies.” Tour brings a special energy to the endeavor. Raised in a secular Jewish home in White Plains, he became a born-again Christian as a freshman at Syracuse University. Married, with four grown children, he rises at three-forty every morning for an hour and a half of prayer and Bible study—followed, several times a week, with workouts at the gym—and arrives at the office at six-fifteen. In 2001, he made headlines by signing “A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism,” a petition that promoted intelligent design, but he insists that this reflected only his personal doubts about how random mutation occurs at the molecular level.
Pop artist Romero Britto last week filed a lawsuit against Apple over its "Start Something New" campaign , for using Craig & Karl artwork that allegedly mimics the design style that Britto is famous for. The lawsuit, levied at both Craig & Karl and Apple, accuses the two artists of violating the Britto trade dress and targets Apple because Britto became aware of the copycat art through Apple's recent promotion.Apple uses a Craig & Karl image featuring a patchwork hand on a bright yellow background on one of the iPads in the graphics used to promote the "Start Something New" campaign, and there's a profile of Craig & Karl on the company's website describing how the image was made on an iPad Air 2 using iOS apps.Apple also featured the Craig & Karl image heavily in retail stores, leading people to contact Britto with the false impression that he had created the artwork, where he discovered that the two had been making art similar to his own for years.Britto's work is fairly well-known and on display in dozens of locations around the world. He's also worked with multiple different brands on major advertising campaigns, with all of his work featuring bright colors, strong lines, and simple designs.According to the lawsuit, Britto's specific Trade Dress is "strong, fanciful, non-functional, and inherently distinctive," composed of vibrant color combinations, the juxtaposition of different patterns, bold black outlines, and "uplifting, bright and happy visual themes." A quick visual comparison of Britto's work next to Craig & Karl's does indeed reveal similarities between the two.Britto contacted Apple and asked the company to cease using the Craig & Karl images, but he did not receive a response, leading him to file a lawsuit. Britto is asking for damages and attorneys' fees, along with an injunction that would require Apple to stop using the artwork and Craig & Karl to stop producing artwork that mimics his style.
SL vs. CS Comparisons CS offers a measure of size independent of shape (63), whereas SL does not. Therefore, we may expect to observe some differences in the analytical results derived from these two types of dataset. When the SL dataset is pruned to match the CS dataset for taxon sampling, it yields near identical results regarding evolutionary rate regardless of timescale choice (Fig. S3). The same is also true of innovation, where K distributions in taxonomic comparisons are very similar for both the pruned SL and CS datasets (Fig. S4). The larger SL dataset produces highly similar rate and innovation results compared with the CS and pruned SL dataset (Figs. S3 and S4). The only minor differences observed occur exclusively in rate, where the larger SL dataset recovers significantly higher rates in crown and total group teleosts in a higher proportion of trees than the CS and pruned SL datasets, regardless of timescale choice (Fig. S3). However, these small differences have almost no influence on our interpretations, because there is only a single instance where the increased frequency of high rate results changes the overall conclusion for a comparison: the crown teleost vs. stem teleost comparison on molecular timescales. Here, the larger SL dataset delivers a majority of trees where crown teleosts possess significantly higher rates than stem teleosts, whereas the CS and pruned SL datasets find this result in a large minority (Fig. S3). Overall, these results suggest that choice of size metric is relatively unimportant for our dataset, and that the overall size and taxonomic samplings of the dataset are more likely to influence subsequent results, despite those factors having a relatively small influence here. Nevertheless, choice of metric may be important for other datasets (e.g., different groups of organisms or datasets of other biological/nonbiological structures), because it is possible to envisage scenarios where the choice of size metric would matter. For example, it is possible that two fishes, identical in SL, could differ greatly in CS if their shapes differed greatly, such as between an extremely deep-bodied taxon (e.g., Opah) and a highly shallow-bodied taxon (e.g., needlefish). This discrepancy could present downstream effects on analyses if a hypothetical “clade A” contained deep-bodied taxa that regularly evolved into shallow-bodied taxa of similar SL (and vice versa), whereas “clade B” consisted solely of similar sized deep-bodied taxa.
Microsoft is balancing that with quick toggles for settings, but it feels like this particular area of Windows 10 needs some big improvements and is a very early form of what will eventually ship. Either way, the removal of the awkward Charms menu is an improvement, providing its replacement is tweaked heavily to keep some of the convenience of accessing settings and features like broadcasting via Miracast or DLNA.
BACK AT THE CLEO CLUB The now drunk Scotty is playing poker with Calvin and his friends. NARRATOR (VO) Back at The Cleopatra Club, as the night wore on, Calvin Candie suggested'a friendly card game. As the game wore on, it came down to a two thousand dollar pot between Calvin Candie and Scotty Harmony. Luckily for him, Scotty was holding.a inside straight. Calvin holds his cards with Sheba draped around him. She whispers something in his ear. CANDIE (TO SHEBA) Really? (TO SCOTTY) You know what Sheba just tole me? Scotty, thinking about his great hand, says; SCOTTY What? CANDIE She says she thinks you're cute. SCOTTY Really? Thank you Sheba, I think you're beautiful. Sheba whispers something else in Candie's ear. CANDIE Sheba says she'd like to give you a little lip. Want some lip? Scotty, is a little surprised. SCOTTY Well, she's your Pony...I mean... CANDIE Oh hush, what's a little nigger lip 'tween friends. Go on honey, give 'em some sugar. Sheba walks over to Scotty's side of the table, and gives him a very lip intensive'soul kiss. The table enjoys the show. Then Sheba goes back to Calvin's side of the table. The game continues. G CANDIE Okay loverboy, I think you're trying to out brazen me in my own club, and I won't have it. If you're really holding cards, time to pony up. I raise you five hundred. Candie throws in his chips. SCOTTY. I see your five hundred... (throws in chips) .and raise you four hundred more. (tosses his last chips) Call. This is where Calvin Candie has waited to be all night. CALVIN CANDIE Not so fast, boy. (BEAT) Pot ain't fat enough yet. SCOTTY I'm all in. CALVIN CANDIE Ain't that too bad. Scotty doesn't intend to let this smiling Jack cheat him out of his pot, especially with him holding an inside straight. SCOTTY I would think a southern gentleman of such renown as yourself, wouldn't have to resort to buying a pot in his own club. Calvin writes on a piece of paper, then throwsit'in the pot. CALVIN CANDIE One final raise. Scotty takes the piece of paper, "What's this?" CALVIN CANDIE It's Sheba's bill of sale. SCOTTY What? I don't want her. Calvin.and the whole table laugh at that. CALVIN CANDIE You sure didn't look like you didn't want her. More laughter. CALVIN CANDIE In Greenville slaves are currency. And Sheba's worth about eight hundred dollars.
Forty-odd rioters are buried around the office. the only citizen killed in the melee was Steve Stokes. The last of the cutthroats has died with his boots on and the ringleader had his head chopped off with an ax." Freeman, however, was irrepressible. Within a few months he resumed publication in Montana, renaming the paper the Frontier Phoenix. He explained, "the Institution shall rise, Phoenix-like, from her ashes, to still advocate the cause of right and truth, to denounce tricksters and mobocracy, uphold the good and faithful." Union Pacfic under construction, Echo Canyon, 1869, photo by Wm. H. Jackson The graders from Echo Canyon were, however, a bit rough. When the Echo Canyon saloon was torn down years later, seven human skeletons were found under the floor boards. A more accurate version of the November 19, 1868, Bear River City Riot was described by George Crofutt in his 1872 edition of Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist's Guide: The Bear River City Riot cost sixteen lives, including that of one citizen. The mob first attacked and burned the jail, taking thence one of their kind who was confined there. They next sacked the office and destroyed the material of the Frontier Index. Elated with their success, the mob, numbering about 300 well-armed desperados, marched up the main street and made an attack on a store, belonging to one of the leading merchants. Here they were met with a volley from Henry rifles, in the hands of brave and determined citizens, who had collected in the store. The mob was thrown into confusion and fled down the street, pursued by the citizens, about thirty in number. The first volley and the running fight left fifteen of the desperados dead on the street. the number of wounded was never ascertained, but several bodies were afterwards found in the gulches and among the rocks, where they had crawled away and died. One citizen was slain in the attack on the jail. By 1872, Crofutt reported that nothing of Bear River City was left except some chimneys and rusted oyster tins. With Victorian rectitude and between the lines, Crofutt was relaying to his readers the nature of the facilities at Bear River City. In the 19th Century West, oysters were commonly believed to have had an affect on the libido.
Subjects Discussed: How to stay writing after getting four novels rejected, Schopenhauer and the will to write, Mr. Bacigalupi’s bleak temperament, the relationship between personal temperament and fictional temperament, why short fiction markets are more open to a dark vision, talking specifically about specifics, imaginative detail in Bacigalupi’s early stories, William Gibson and hyperspecificity, permitting the reader to fill in the gaps, improvisation and what details emerge from the memory banks, devising an imaginative concept vs. the influence of phrasing, the relationship between language and spontaneity, the importance of manipulative violence, whether or not addicts can be sympathized with, stylistic momentum, past tense verbs and participles, getting annoyed with language tics, getting self-conscious about repetition, the frequency of words, the mysterious obsession of the (ology) site, John Banville, using the word “spray,” dreaming space, cannibalizing from the four unpublished novels, uprooting reader expectations through the Windup reading order, origin stories, the disadvantages of writing within established universes, cheshires and megadonts, contending with the logical fallacies of a really cool imagined creature, how the location of a calorie company created numerous narrative variables, the influence of Katrina on the Windup universe and the Ship Breaker universe, descriptive teeth and metaphorical Teeth, the inspirational qualities of biting and tearing, body metaphors, analyzing one’s own writing patterns, J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun, speculative narrative extrapolated from details in the present moment, consequential details vs. making things up, global warming, liquified coal, applying an aesthetic to data points, Lewis Carroll, missing hands and facial scars, Heinlein’s Friday, the Dauntless, James Lennox Kerr, Patrick O’Brian, Citizen of the Galaxy‘s heavy influence, and extrapolating from facts vs. extrapolating from books.
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 22.18 KB <Ed> mz is a retarded 18 year old mtf <Urat[Quet]> mt <Aureus> how is it that i've never met a tranny irl, but they're all over the damned place online <MidgardZolom> I'm not retarded, I'm 25, and I'm already 6 months into transition. <Greggles[Laks]> yeah, i'm wondering the same thing aur <.< <MidgardZolom> But totally thanks for all the stereotyping. :3 <xdaxdb> I'm against transexual operations <Urat[Quet]> ok <MidgardZolom> Becaue Aureus a lot of transgender people go stealth and never tell people. <xdaxdb> strange that I am distantly related to Chaz Bono <MidgardZolom> Once they go stealth they look and act just like any normal member of the gender they identify with. <Ed> [23:39] <MidgardZolom> Once they go stealth they look and act just like any normal member of the gender they identify with. <MidgardZolom> Why are you against them xdaxdb? <Ed> they absolutely do not look like the real thing <Ed> you will never, ever be able to change your body enough to look like a girl <Ed> you can approximate a girl <xdaxdb> I can understand a man being attracted to other men... go ahead and be gay that's fine <Ed> but you'll never break the uncanny valley <MidgardZolom> Ed. :3 Sorry but stealth transwomen and transmen look just like women and men. <Aureus> chaz bono doesn't look anything like a dude <MidgardZolom> Theres tones that do. <Ed> my title is "extremely discerning eye" <Ed> fyi <Aureus> she looks like a fat lesbian with a beard <xdaxdb> but to go and deform your own body to look more like something else.... <MidgardZolom> xdaxdb I'm not attracted to men at all. <Urat[Quet]> there's that one "guy" from tokio hotel <Urat[Quet]> whatshisname <Ed> you'd have to spend a shitload of money on plastic surgery to get around looking like a guy <Urat[Quet]> he's not even trying and he looks like a chick <Ed> especially around the eyes <Greggles[Laks]> Every mtf I've ever seen looks like a really butch chick =x <Urat[Quet]> if he actually wanted to change genders he probably could do it seamlessly :x <Greggles[Laks]> like...you could tell that they used to be a dude <Ed> you can always tell <MidgardZolom> Ed. I'm not there yet, I'm only at 6 months, but this is my progress. http://home.comcast.net/~puer/maxtimeline.jpg <raKia> home.comcast.net : http://bit.ly/tlCa3s <Ed> there's something gently, subtly wrong with the image <Aureus> and hormones don't alter your bone structure, right? still have broad shoulders/square chin?
PIT, and all proceeds benefit the Kids 'N Community FoundationPrior to the game on Friday, Feb. 12, the Hurricanes will host a Champions Tailgate with the Cup, an exclusive pregame party featuring appearances from select members of the 2005-06 championship team and the Stanley Cup.The event, which begins at 5 p.m. on the South Plaza of PNC Arena in a heated tent, includes your chance to take your photo with the Stanley Cup, an intimate setting in which to mingle and relive the championship run with members of the 2005-06 team and heavy hors d'oeuvres and an open bar. Rod Brind'Amour, Glen Wesley, Bret Hedican and Kevyn Adams are scheduled to speak around 6:15 p.m. Click here for a full schedule of events and food menu for the event.
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It's a scary undertaking but it's something that we are all passionate about in creating a very cool gaming experience for you the community.Some players may have concerns about being forced into playing one of each 'Mech weight class during a Community Warfare match. Keep in mind that we've spent a lot of time creating a MechWarrior title where lights, mediums, heavies and assault all have a viable role to play on the battlefield. Bringing in your favorite 'Mech is not going to be hindered in any way and that the rest of your Drop Ship provides you with a means to support your Unit if you do happen to be destroyed in combat. Full 12-man Unit groups participating in CW might be able to ensure that they have exactly 12 'Mechs of each weight class among the 48 total. Random groups and Units that are showing up to defend will have little to no chance organizing which 'Mechs to prep and some people may end up needing to take nothing but 4 lights when they only pilot Assaults. Therefore the most balanced solution that will allow the most strategy amongst teams is to have each person bring one of each weight class into battle.I cannot 100% guarantee Drop Ship mode at this moment, but everyone on board is going to try to make it happen. I will update you all on the final discovery in the next CW update.Please leave your feedback here: http://mwomercs.com/...pdate-feedback/
In his Richard T. Ely Lecture to the American Economic Association, Solow went as far as to proclaim not only the conditional possibility, but the empirical likelihood that "the world can, in effect, get along without natural resources" (1974, p. 11). Solow elaborates that this is so if we have a "backstop technology," such as breeder reactors, which will mean that "at some finite cost, production can be freed of dependence on exhaustible resources altogether" (1974, p. 11). Apparently, the world cannot get along without all natural resources as he first suggested, but only without exhaustible ones. Just how to build and maintain a backstop technology of breeder reactors (the only example offered) without exhaustible resources such as copper, zirconium, tungsten, and iron, not to mention initial stocks of enriched uranium or permanent depositories for radioactive wastes, is not explained by Solow. No doubt it is true that at "some finite cost" we could live on renewable resources, as mankind essentially did before the industrial revolution. But the finite cost is going to include a reduction in population and in per-capita consumption levels or, at the very least, a cessation of further growth. This is accepted by the steady state view but not by Solow and other victims of the infinite substitutability fallacy, who are forced to lower the deus ex machina of backstop technologies onto the stage in order to save the awkward plot of growthmania. Even a perfect backstop technology, one that would deliver energy "too cheap to bear the cost of metering," to recall the early promises of fission advocates, cannot save the ever growing economy. In fact, "free energy would simply enable the growth-maniacs to destroy the biosphere more quickly. Within the context of a SSE [Steady State Economy]. free energy would be a blessing, but in the present growth context it would be a curse.
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There were not enough stars that night, and on the barricade Lea was crying. The lights of the houses went out one after another. The picture in the newspaper that Tomer brought was of a bird whose species would be extinct in two years. The bird was an eagle with a gray tail, but the newspaper said it was called the white-tailed eagle, which made Lea think that the picture and the story could be lies. But the bird looked angry in its eyes in a way she had not known birds could be, even those that knew they were going extinct. “This is the worst you could find today?” she asked. “There was no mention of the demonstrators,” Tomer said. They had reported the incident to the Route 799 headquarters over the phone on the first day, but no one had seemed to care much about it. Tomer was on his back, too, looking at the paper and then over at her. He crushed her shoulder with his. “You are crying, though,” he said. He had not seen her cry before. “Or is it the tear gas? You’re the one who told me to wash my hands twice before touching my face,” he said. “I am not that stupid,” she said. “I am going to go to T.A.U. for accounting, you know.” She had never talked to him about when she would leave, and she didn’t know if he knew that it would be soon. “Then what?” “My shoulder. You’re hurting it.” She had known they would come back the next morning, so she was able to study without being distracted. She made only four mistakes on the practice exam, all of them in the English section. She knew the answers were wrong before she checked, but could not guess what the right ones would be. She had known that the demonstrators would come back and so she went with Tomer for the start of his shift. What she had not known was that the demonstrators would come with lab goggles and surgical masks. She could not use gas against them. They looked like mad scientists and she wondered where they had got those costumes, in their pathetic town in the West Bank and all. The boy wore cheap plastic sunglasses over his goggles, and she smiled when she saw them, so he smiled back.
And I can also assure you, unless they have some secret plan up their sleeve, at the state it's in, don't expect a 2013 launch, no where near it, unless Carbine really wants this game to just fail. That being said, I'm still testing to the best of my ability, giving feedback and bug reporting as much as I can, and hoping that they do listen to their players on the beta forums and turn this game into what it should be, what they promised it would be. CBT3 looks like a great step in the right direction, but it has a long way to come before it's not just Vanilla WoW: Carbine Edition. EDIT: Add in a FUCKTON of bugs since it is beta and you get one hell of a headache as a tester. EDIT 2: Forgot Paths. Paths - Really pointless, really repetitive, and really fucking hard if you're a soldier. Like stupid hard. EDIT 3: Forgot Challenges - Really really fucking hard, to the point where a challenge that you can be given as a solo player is sometimes not even possible with a group of 4 players, they're that hard. And the rewards you get do not match the effort put in at all, not even close. EDIT 4: Also the game is on a closed tag system which just fucks up a whole other bunch of their mechanics, such as challenges. Example? CHALLENGE STARTED! KILL 9 GROUPS OF MOB X BEFORE THE TIME RUNS OUT! As you read this, you get to watch 2 different players tag 2 different sets of the mobs you need when there was only ever 7 groups in the area to begin with and now there is no way on earth to finish your challenge, and you're not even sure if you could've done it in the first place, as you only were given 2 minutes but it takes roughly 30 seconds to kill 1 enemy, let a lone a whole group, let a lone NINE FUCKING GROUPS. It's just stupid. The whole system needs to be completely redesigned from the ground up to resemble guild wars 2 public events more, or they're wasting your time and just bogging down the already monotonous and grindy questing experience and pushing players away from each other.
Completing the package is the Taptic Engine, a haptic feedback module that generates precise vibrations.While 3D Touch yields highly accurate results, its design is complex and construction eats up valuable internal device space. This latter consideration plays into iPhone X and Apple's rumored failure to integrate a sub-screen fingerprint recognition system meant to replace Touch ID.Scuttlebutt circulating in the lead-up to this month's iPhone X unveiling suggested Apple would retain its fingerprint reader as a backup or alternative authentication method to a new facial recognition solution. As is now known, the company scrapped Touch ID altogether, moving instead to the depth-sensing Face ID system.Some industry analysts speculated Apple arrived at its decision to ditch embedded Touch ID only after facing insurmountable difficulties related to the 3D Touch stack. Insiders, however, claim the company has been all-in on Face ID for over a year.Also unknown is whether Apple integrated legacy 3D Touch technology into iPhone X or opted for a redesigned solution. Reports in May claimed the company was moving to a thin film process that does away with the metal backlight sensor in favor of a film-on-glass design, substantially cutting down on sensor stack size. A teardown will likely reveal more answers come November.In any case, the patent granted today could be a solution to technical troubles that supposedly thwarted under-screen Touch ID in iPhone X, and appears to be more accurate and robust than thin film options. Whether Apple plans to take advantage of the technology, or continue full steam ahead with Face ID, remains to be seen.Apple's ultrasonic force sensor patent was first applied for in June 2015 and credits Brian Q. Huppi, Martin P. Grunthaner, John G. Elias, Sinan Filiz and Steven P. Hotelling as its inventors.
That committee recommended that the government hold a nationwide referendum between the status quo, first-past-the-post and a new proportional system of the government’s own design. The Liberals on that committee issued a separate report, which argued the public was not preoccupied with electoral reform issues, and recommended the government continue to engage and educate citizens about the issue before proposing an alternative. It’s not clear if either suggestion could be taken up by the Liberals, or another government, in the future. Now that electoral reform is off her plate, Trudeau has asked Gould to lead an effort to ensure Canadian elections are secure from cyberattacks and foreign meddling. The Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s cyber-defence and electronic espionage agency, and Public Safety Canada have been asked to assist her in that task.
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That's exactly how I play him; If I see a Torbjörn get a little too comfortable in the perch he's built his turret on, I have to aim my hook just right to reel him in, and then blast him point blank with a shotgun full of scrap metal. Some of the character designs border on Street Fighter-levels of typecasting. Blizzard loves to paint with broad strokes, and in drawing from real-world cultures, it occasionally veers into some eye-rolling stuff. Still, having characters like Symmetra, who's formidable and cleverly-conceived as a whole, gives Overwatch a true sense of worldliness. Compare that to Valve's Team Fortress 2, which travels the world for accents but finds only a single person of color – the Demoman, who also doubles as their Scot. I can show Overwatch to anyone I know who might like shooters, and they'll probably find a character they see themselves in. So Overwatch got me playing by letting me window-shop for an identity, but it hooked me, oddly enough, by letting me remain non-committal. When my Discord group couldn't find a match, we were put in a lobby with other players and just shot at each other for a while. I'm not on the clock, working to unlock extra characters, skills or guns – just costumes, voice lines, and bits of flair. If I don't feel like holding down a capture point as the transforming robo-turret Bastion, I can just switch to someone more active mid-match. In a sea of multiplayer games that encourage me to keep playing with progress bars, Overwatch motivates me by letting me bask in my own accomplishments. There's an "on-fire" meter at the bottom of the screen that does nothing except tell me how well I'm doing. The game tracks "eliminations," and gives me credit for every kill I contribute to, not just the ones I commit myself. I can get commended by teammates and opponents alike for how much damage I nullified with Zarya's shields. I get medals for exceeding the team's average eliminations, damage dealt, and healing. Even absent any post-match commendations, I just tell myself it doesn't matter and hop into the next game. The little carrots Overwatch doles out might make it seem like it's deep into "participation trophy" territory, but with continued exposure, I realize that they're goading me into thinking about my matches more strategically.
She added that, after the soldiers moved her son to Shaare Tzedek hospital, they refused to allow his family to see him, and kept him held under strict guard for more than 24 hours, before they made the decision to ‘release him.’ The family said it intends to sue the soldiers who opened fire on their son, and repeatedly assaulted him despite his wounds.
Decarbonizing the last 20% of the electricity sector as well as decarbonizing the rest of the economy that is difficult to electrify (e.g., cement manufacture and aviation) are even more challenging. These challenges are deepened by placing constraints on technological options. In our view, to show that a proposed energy system is technically and economically feasible, a study must, at a minimum, show, through transparent inputs, outputs, analysis, and validated modeling (13), that the required technologies have been commercially proven at scale at a cost comparable with alternatives; that the technologies can, at scale, provide adequate and reliable energy; that the deployment rate required of such technologies and their associated infrastructure is plausible and commensurate with other historical examples in the energy sector; and that the deployment and operation of the technologies do not violate environmental regulations. We show that refs. 11 and 12 do not meet these criteria and, accordingly, do not show the technical, practical, or economic feasibility of a 100% wind, solar, and hydroelectric energy vision. As we detail below and in SI Appendix, ref. 11 contains modeling errors; incorrect, implausible, and/or inadequately supported assumptions; and the application of methods inappropriate to the task. In short, the analysis performed in ref. 11 does not support the claim that such a system would perform at reasonable cost and provide reliable power. The vision proposed by the studies in refs. 11 and 12 narrows generation options but includes a wide range of currently uncosted innovations that would have to be deployed at large scale (e.g., replacement of our current aviation system with yet-to-be-developed hydrogen-powered planes). The system in ref. 11 assumes the availability of multiweek energy storage systems that are not yet proven at scale and deploys them at a capacity twice that of the entire United States’ generating and storage capacity today. There would be underground thermal energy storage (UTES) systems deployed in nearly every community to provide services for every home, business, office building, hospital, school, and factory in the United States. However, the analysis does not include an accounting of the costs of the physical infrastructure (pipes and distribution lines) to support these systems. An analysis of district heating (14) showed that having existing infrastructure is key to effective deployment, because the high upfront costs of the infrastructure are prohibitive.
Opare spent over a month during the preseason living with Cochrane and striker Charlie Rugg, another recent college grad, in a nearby Marriott at the Galaxy's expense. At the time, none of the three had yet been offered a contract, and Opare was just concerned with making the team. His agent told him if he got cut, there would likely be teams in lower tiers of U.S. soccer that would be happy to pick him up, but Opare had his doubts. "I was thinking," In early March, Opare, Cochrane, and Rugg were all offered contracts with the Galaxy that would pay them the league minimum, deals that were presented as, in Opare's words, "Take it or leave it." They all took it. Despite his elation at simply making the team, the first months of Opare's season were marked by frustration. He was struggling to get over a nagging hamstring injury he'd suffered at the MLS predraft combine, and playing only with the Galaxy's reserve team — a collection of fringe players who compete against players in similar circumstances on other MLS teams. As June rolled around, there seemed little reason for optimism: He was a fifth-choice central defender whose most notable accomplishment for the first team was one appearance as an unused substitute in a 2-0 loss in the U.S. Open Cup to the Carolina Railhawks, who play in the NASL, the country's second-tier soccer league. But Opare has the one quality that is probably most indispensable for anyone with dreams of being a professional athlete: a belief in himself that borders on the delusional. Although this is often expressed in the sort of sports-world homilies that make it easy to ignore, when you are a guy who is not earning much and is dealing with injuries, spending most game days sitting in the stands in street clothes, an ability to ignore reality or at least view it through rose-tinted glasses is probably all that separates you from the dude sitting 20 rows behind you, eating a hot dog and drinking a beer. "When I wasn't really playing, it wasn't disheartening," he says. "It added fuel to my fire. The opportunity will come sooner or later." Opare's opportunity came on a big stage. At the beginning of August, the Galaxy competed in an exhibition tournament called the International Champions Cup and were matched up in their first game against global powerhouse Real Madrid.
A small sub-head at the bottom of the front cover stated: "Trail of blood leading cops to O.J." "IT'S OURS!" proclaimed the front page of the New York Post. A small sub-head at the bottom of the front cover stated: "Trail of blood leading cops to O.J." GAME 5: THE WHITE BRONCO Two days earlier, June 13, the bodies of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a 25-year-old man named Ronald Goldman had been found at her home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. The gruesome scene, and the impending national spectacle surrounding the suspected involvement of Simpson, the Pro Football Hall of Famer and NBC broadcaster, barely registered in the New York news cycle. Two days earlier, June 13, the bodies of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a 25-year-old man named Ronald Goldman had been found at her home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. The gruesome scene, and the impending national spectacle surrounding the suspected involvement of Simpson, the Pro Football Hall of Famer and NBC broadcaster, barely registered in the New York news cycle. That is, until Friday, June 17, when it stole the news cycle all over the world -- and Game 5 of the NBA Finals. That is, until Friday, June 17, when it stole the news cycle all over the world -- and Game 5 of the NBA Finals. That morning, Checketts and Knicks GM Ernie Grunfeld were in downtown Manhattan for the Rangers' championship parade. In the evening, the Knicks would host the Rockets in Game 5 of the Finals. As if ending one half-century championship drought weren't enough, the fans in the city during this spring for the ages wanted more. That morning, Checketts and Knicks GM Ernie Grunfeld were in downtown Manhattan for the Rangers' championship parade. In the evening, the Knicks would host the Rockets in Game 5 of the Finals. As if ending one half-century championship drought weren't enough, the fans in the city during this spring for the ages wanted more.
The biggest spark that came to me during the premiere and the preview of what’s to come this season is Ethan, his actions and his drawing. We see him explain to Molly that “they” put a family in the spaceship to keep them from becoming extinct. While I believe that it is natural for our first thought to be that it represents human extinction, I don’t think this to be the case. As we saw with Marcus, he repeated Molly’s last words as if an organism learning but unable to communicate on its own. This leads me to the idea that while the human brain may be too complicated for the entity to entirely grasp or overtake, Ethan’s unique interface is developed for the specific purpose of learning how to be human. As he is a robot and thus does not possess pesky antibodies and protection systems like the human body, it is possible that the extraterrestrial will be able to infect his system and use his interface to learn more about humans and communicate with us. In humans, the being may have the capabilities to cause hallucinations, access memories and learn on a basic level, but the body’s defense mechanisms may very well kick it out after a short amount of time. However, there is one place in the body that allows foreign cells to develop uninterrupted and in fact helps it to grow by nourishing it: the womb. Now take into consideration that this is my hypothesis after only one episode and it will change and grow as we learn more, but I think that the solar flare has to do with the transportation of the alien life form into our area of the galaxy. From there I think it first attempted to have contact with humans via Kryger, in which it was able to invade his brain and cause hallucinations but nothing more. When Molly was in space it tried again and unlike Kryger she had different anatomy; a place where the organism was able to nestle in to protect itself without the body rejecting it.
Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn told government officials on Thursday to review whether a revision was needed to an antigraft law passed last year that has drawn the ire of businesses affected by the regulation’s spending caps.The order came after Hwang received briefs from five government ministries on policy plans for the year and from an unnamed expert in the private sector who suggested the so-called Kim Young-ran Law’s spending limits did not match current consumer prices.The law prevents public officials, journalists and teachers from receiving meals worth more than 30,000 won ($25), gifts worth more than 50,000 won and wedding/funerary cash of more than 100,000 won. The law took effect on Sept. 28 last year.The consultant argued the 30,000 won cap was based on data from 2003 and that other parts of law were unreasonable. The government did not release the name or occupation of the expert.“The law needs to be revised to ease the financial burden on low- and middle-income households,” the expert said, adding that the rules might hurt businesses selling flowers, which are commonly used as gifts at weddings and funerals, and restaurant owners.Hwang subsequently requested government officials to review whether a revision to the law was necessary “as long as it doesn’t damage the purpose of the law.”The expert’s concern was amplified by a new report from the Korea Development Institute, a state-run think tank, that found consumer sentiment had weakened significantly in December. With persisting uncertainties at home and abroad, the institute warned that the economy was not likely to improve in the short run.“The consumer sentiment index tumbled, suggesting the possibility of a gradual fall in private consumption,” the institute said in its report Thursday. “Construction-related indicators, including construction orders received, remained weak, signaling a gradual moderation in construction investment growth as well.”The composite consumer sentiment index in December was at 94.2, down from 95.8 recorded in November. A reading above 100 indicates the majority of survey participants maintain a positive outlook on the national economy, while a reading below 100 indicates a negative view.The sluggish consumer numbers were moderated by industrial output, which grew 4.6 percent year on year in November, as the mining and manufacturing sectors showed improvement, the institute said.BY KIM YOUNG-NAM [[email protected]]
This got started when I heard from one of my sources in Europe that some pictures that I might want to take a look at were making the rounds. These turned out to be the pictures that a French Paranormal magazine called Top Secret published. They claimed that they received them from an anonymous source. That is all they have have said publicly so far. Top Secret source and mine are unrelated. I made connections in the intelligence community in Europe years ago in a project unrelated to UFOs. It was for the Congo’s Mokele-mbembe project that I was working on. They have always been reliable, but you know how these things go, you never really know. I have used them on information based on Russian UFOs in the past, and they have been very reliable with that. I’m obviously trying to directly get access to Top Secret‘s original source, so we’ll see. By the way, feel free to contact them yourself or anyone that you feel can help. Obviously, I want to stay on point with this, and be part of whatever comes out in this case, but the important thing is to get to the truth, and “The Black Vault” name is extremely well respected and that can very much help. Arctic UFO Photographs, USS Trepang, SSN 674, March 1971 Another one of the unknown objects. Here is what we know so far. The original anonymous source claims that these: 1) The photos were taken from a United State Navy submarine. 2) The location was between Iceland and Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic Ocean. (Jan Mayen belongs to Norway, and is only inhabited by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian military.) 3) They were taken in March of 1971. 4) The Submarine was the Navy’s USS Trepang (SSN 674) and the Admiral on board was Dean Reynolds Sackett. Obviously, the next step is to try and locate this Admiral Dean Reynolds, if he exists. 5) The Submarine came upon the object by “accident,” as they were in the region on a routine joint military and scientific expedition. Officer John Klika was the one who initially spotted the object with the periscope. This obviously implies that it wasn’t ours, and unfortunately doesn’t explain the different objects seen in the pictures. Top Secret claims that on one of the pictures, there were some inscriptions.
Also just like the Arcade mode clearing, you will get a ton of rewards and currencies, as well as other lovely gifts.Now the Moment we've all built up to if you followed this guide/strategy.Multiplayer:The MOST important part of this is that each and everyone of you play YOUR WAY, to YOUR liking, how YOU want. Remember that. This is just a game, and you and everyone else have the right to play it however you wantIf you've followed the order of this guide so far, and are jumping into multiplayer you will be able to craft all the cards for you favorite class/class you are working on, as well as a Hero of your choice, also a Star Fighter, AND Special Unit (Aerial/Enforcer) etc.Pick your class to focus on, and use those BP's for the Special Unit or hero you're working on/Star Fighter same deal, and just PLAY. If you've done everything in order/right so far, as you hit rank 10, 15, 20. You wont ever have an issue with upgrades, parts, credits for crates while playing to get more things you may need etc. Not even kidding. That's pretty much it.If you've read this far, I personally want to say thank you for reading.Note: This is me being honest as well. A part of me didn't want to type this Guide/Strategy out out of selfishness. I love learning a new game, it's mechanics, and the fun that can be had, making strategies for progression is one of my top favorite things to do competitively before a launch. But the reason I decided to share this with you all is because of all the pain and fighting we've been going through with the "Pay to win" arguments and Posts, or the "YOU HAVE TO PAY TO GET AHEAD/LEVEL" nonsense. I wanted each and everyone in this community to hear it from ME that all those arguments are not the case at all. If you really do take the time to read this and follow it, I promise you, you will not have a hard time playing this game and Ranking up/Unlocking a thing, I didn't even cover daily/weekly events/ Bonus'. I didn't even cover Holiday Events, or DLC Bonuses that happen when they release. Stack all that on you doing your own thing at your pace, and it always leads to success for each of us Individually. Again Thank you all for reading this.
You start it before a complicated problem and you have to keep concentrated for at least 10 minutes after it becomes green you can continue to work on your problem but you get thing done.An indicator for working with PushBullet With PushBullet-Indicator you can send addresses, files, links, lists, and notes to the configurated devices on PushBullet.Free open-source disk encryption software TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file systems can be encrypted. This package replaces the standard tray icon with a unity indicator. Places is a simple indicator that shows common folders and all bookmarks, the indicator updates automatically if bookmark was added or removed.
This should also include protecting the animals from starvation, brought about by human hands, because of overfishing.California Fish and Wildlife, Director Donald KochFruitvale’s return to the ocean videoArticle on starving Sea Lions from the Santa Cruz SentinelFor more information on helping stop seals from being killed at the Columbia River by the Oregon and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife go to Sea Lion Defense BrigadeAno Nuevo Seal Cam (not always live, sometimes it is a rerun).Article on decline of fish in the Pacific from California Wine and FoodThree West Coast Fish Make Top Ten Most Imperiled Marine Fish ListPORTLAND, OR - To mark Seafood Month this October, ocean conservation groups announced the ten fish with the lowest population levels of fish in U.S. ocean waters that have been assessed and managed by the federal government. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced this week that seafood consumption has increased since 2002, yet many popular fish are already, or soon will be, missing from fish markets. Populations of all of the fish on the list have declined 90 percent - or more - from estimated levels prior to directed fishing, according to the federal government. The fact that so many fish are at such very low levels demonstrates the need for better management of our oceans.Elk Circle
To me, when there is nothing left to learn, nothing left to improve on, you are ready to have dirt thrown on top of you.
The computer took hours to generate answers that Jennings could find in an instant. A year turned into two and then three. Watson’s hardware was upgraded. Benefitting from algorithms that allowed him to learn from his own mistakes, he became more proficient at parsing questions and judging the quality of potential answers. In 2009, I.B.M. began to test the machine against former, sub-Jennings “Jeopardy!” contestants. Watson defeated some, lost to others, and occasionally embarrassed his creators. In one round, in response to a question about nineteenth-century British literature, the computer proposed the eighties pop duo Pet Shop Boys when the answer was Oliver Twist. In another round, under the category “Just Say No,” Watson offered “What is fuck?” when the right response was “What is nein?” I.B.M.’s aspirations for Watson went way beyond game shows. A computer that could cope with the messiness and the complexity of English could transform the tech world; one that could improve his own performance in the process could upend nearly everything else. Firms like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon were competing with I.B.M. to dominate the era of intelligent machines, and they continue to do so. For the companies involved, hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake, and the same could also be said for the rest of us. What business will want to hire a messy, complex carbon-based life form when a software tweak can get the job done just as well? Ken Jennings, who might be described as the first person to be rendered redundant by Watson, couldn’t resist a dig at his rival when the two finally, as it were, faced off. In January, 2011, Jennings and another former champion, Brad Rutter, played a two-game match against the computer, which was filmed in a single day. Heading into the final “Final Jeopardy!,” the humans were so far behind that, for all intents and purposes, they were finished. All three contestants arrived at the correct response to the clue, which featured an obscure work of geography that inspired a nineteenth-century novelist. Beneath his answer—“Who is Bram Stoker?”—Jennings added a message: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.”
on being close to a deal for Draxler…No.on the rumour he had a look around the training ground…That's like a non-identified flying object. Some see them everywhere. on new contracts for Mertesacker and Sagna…We are making good progress and hopefully we can announce something soon. on being linked with Berbatov…You should ask the question, do I rate Berbatov as player? Highly. Have we made any approach to sign Berbatov? No. on whether he will sign Berbatov…I don't think so because we have Bendtner who is coming back, we have Yaya Sanogo who is making very good progress in training. Of course we have lost Theo Walcott and that for us was a big blow but hopefully we can compensate. We have not made any approach. on Mertesacker being curious about the transfer window…I am curious as well, of course I'm curious, it's my nature. But the transfer period lasts until the 31st of January. Are we close to signing anybody? At the moment I would say no. on whether he would scrap the transfer window...Yes, you have my signature straight away. on keeping the same squad for the entire season...[Yes] and then you go to the end of it, that looks to me normal. It is like running a relay, then in the middle of the relay you change your runners.If you have played a team twice before the transfer window, you can have an advantage compared to other teams. on the reason for the January window...It gives teams a chance who are already convicted, it gives some teams hope. But when I arrived in England, the window was open until April, the whole season and it was not a problem.on why the window was changed...To create that high intense activity, and suddenly in January everybody becomes nervous. Before it was the whole season and it did not create any problem. Either you scrap it completely, or you leave it open until as long as possible to the last four games.
There must be more to this phone and the only way to find out is to get it open!
Again condemns all totalitarian or other ideologies and practices, including Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist ideologies, based on racial or ethnic exclusiveness or intolerance, hatred and terror, which deprive people of basic human rights and fundamental freedoms and of equality of opportunity, and expresses its determination to combat those ideologies and practices; 2. Urges all States to draw attention to the threat to democratic institutions by the above-mentioned ideologies and practices and to consider taking measures, in accordance with their national constitutional systems and with the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, to prohibit or otherwise deter activities by groups or organizations or whoever is practising those ideologies; 3. Invites Member States to adopt, in accordance with their national constitutional systems and with the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, as a matter of high priority, measures declaring punishable by law any dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred and of war propaganda, including Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist ideologies; 4. Calls upon all States, in accordance with the basic principles of international law, to refrain from practices aimed at the violation of basic human rights and which constitute a threat to peace and international security; 5. Welcomes that on 8 May l985 the Economic and Social Council held a solemn commemorative ceremony, in the light of General Assembly resolution 39/ll4, whose purpose was to underline the continuing relevance of the Charter of the United Nations, the importance of international co-operation towards peace, security and development and the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms and in particular the fundamental right to life, liberty and security of person; 6. Gives expression to the respect felt by today's generation for the victims of and the struggle of peoples against nazism and fascism in the Second World War and for the establishing of the United Nations in order to save mankind from the scourge of war and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person; 7.
I’ve been watching discussions of the recent rash of reported sightings of Slenderman from Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, England with this commie pinko rhetoric in mind. Yes, I know that Slenderman is the creepy invention of those wacky folks over at the Something Awful website, but have puzzled at length over the tension between “facticity” vs. “authenticity” in regards to Mr. Slender (see “Black-Eyed Children and Slender Men: Waiter, There’s Some Emic in My Etic”), but as the discussion of Cannock Chase has progressed, I realized that the argument was much more nuanced and rooted in the maintenance of an anomalistic dominance hierarchy, that is, some bizarre things are worthy of consideration, and others are prima facie dismissible. Even among those aficionados of the deep weird, this results in a ruthless sorting process that identifies some occurrences as “strange phenomena” and relegates others to “folklore”, folklore translating as code for things that the unwashed masses uncritically accept under the intoxicating influence of culture. This is not to say that anyone who endeavors to explain the folkloric nature of Slenderman is an evil agent of the class war. That would just be silly, and besides we reserve that global appellation for people from Kansas or employees of Fox News. Consider instead that the class war in the Information Age has evolved into a struggle between the technological haves and have nots. Is this sounding a little too “Unibombery”? Don’t worry, I haven’t paid off the mortgage on the cabin in Montana just yet. The modern way in which we control social status is through the control of information. Our technocratic elites are those with a mastery of technology and technique, and thus the arbiters of “real” information. This has extended into the world of the Fortean, where the greater accessibility of a wide variety of folklore that might once have been communicated in oral traditions are now available at the click of a button, and thus the technocratic underclass, always suspected of gullibility, superstition, and increased susceptibility to the power of suggestion, can be safely characterized as genuine but unwitting dupes, rather than witnesses or informants, just as the Marxist theologians celebrated the authenticity of the proletariat, while simultaneously pointing out that the ignorant masses did not understand their own alienation from the means of production, and thus allowed themselves to be oppressed by robber barons.
In much of the new position, the new principle of reverse-slope positions with artillery-observation posts to the rear, was not followed. Artillery observation posts were built in the front-trench system or in front of it. Trenches had been dug near a crest, on a forward slope or at the rear of a reverse slope, which replicated the obsolete positions being abandoned. The 1st Army commander, General Fritz von Below and his Chief of Staff Colonel Fritz von Loßberg rejected this layout since smoke and dust would make artillery observation from such positions impossible. They urged that the 1st Army section of the Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line) from Quéant, where it met the site of the Wotanstellung (Wotan Line) to Bellicourt north of St Quentin, should have another position built 2,000–3,000 yd (1.1–1.7 mi; 1.8–2.7 km) in front of the new position, which would become the artillery protection position (Artillerieschutzstellung) behind the revised front system; the line already had 1,200 dug-outs to accommodate 14,000 men, which was sufficient to shelter local reserves. The new line would be similar but on reverse slopes, have dugouts for 24,000 men and be ready by 15 March. The existing artillery positions were scrapped and the artillery sited to dominate ground useful for the assembly of assault-troops, such as the La Vacquerie plateau. Rupprecht refused to delay implementation of Operation Alberich (the Alberich Bewegung) but having inspected the Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line) on 27 February, sanctioned the 1st Army proposal and provided three divisions and 15,000 labourers for the new construction, which turned the Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line) into the Siegfried I Stellung. Another two-trench system (Siegfried II Stellung) was planned near the artillery reserve positions, which were about 3,000 yd (1.7 mi; 2.7 km) behind the existing battery positions, to be built as soon as labour became available. The extra position would ensure that an attack that captured the Siegfried I Stellung (Hindenburg Line), could not continue without a pause to move artillery into range of the Siegfried II Stellung. When complete the various positions had a depth of 6,000–8,000 yd (5,500–7,300 m) and the original Hindenburg Line had become an intermediate line (Siegfried I Zwischenstellung). Work began on another defensive position in the autumn of 1917, with the original Hindenburg Line as its front-trench system.
British Heart Foundation Approximately two in 100 people in the UK experience angina, which is the most common symptoms of heart disease. Reporting chest pain to a doctor generally means referral to a rapid access clinic, where ECGs taken to predict whether a patient needs further attention. An ECG monitors the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time, looking for evidence of weakness in the heart muscle, or abnormal rhythms. Often the patient will be asked to undergo the test while exercising, which can help highlight these problems. The study compared the progress of the patients, 60% of whom who had an exercise ECG performed. Among the 60%, 1,422 not only had the basic "summary" results recorded, but had detailed data from the ECG used to help make a diagnosis. All the patients were then followed up for the next few years. History call However, almost half of all coronary "events", such as heart attacks, that happened during this period, happened in patients whose ECG results had not shown any sign of problems. A routine clinical assessment, which involved taking a detailed "history" from the patient, and examining them thoroughly, was almost as good in predicting future heart disease as the exercise ECG. The researchers concluded that the tests were "of limited value" to doctors faced by patients with no prior heart disease. Dr Mike Knapton, from the British Heart Foundation said that while early diagnosis of angina was important, the study showed that the best way to achieve that was to talk to the patient. "Tests such as resting or exercise ECGs can be helpful when patients present with unusual symptoms or suffer from chest pain following a heart bypass. "But exercise ECG is not very good at assessing future risk. Better risk assessment of patients with angina is needed to help identify those most at risk of heart attack or death. "Any results for ECGs should be in addition to consultation with your Doctor to properly monitor your condition."
The AI The artificial intelligence by the enemies was not very advanced. There were anti-aircraft guns which would anticipate your path through the air and aim so that the flak would burst near you. The skill of the guns was configurable for accuracy and rate of fire, etc. The enemy air units (Deathballs) simply headed directly towards you, and so would invariably end up on your tail. Since Corncob had a generously large rearview screen, this added to the gameplay, since you would see them coming and thus maneuvering to avoid them was frequent. On the ground, the shopping carts did more or less the same thing, but they were constrained to the ground. 256 Color Vga Cut Scene Graphics! I purchased some plastic airplane models and build them, and took pictures with my camera. I don't remember how I got the film pictures into digital form. I also bought a military flight suit and some combat boots at a surplus store and got family and friends to take pictures of myself. In the picture on the right, that's probably me, digitally added to the picture with MVPPAINT. The Mission Builder This just another build of the game engine, but with lots of key combinations for creating and placing objects. It was like a very early Garry's Mod where you just created objects where you stood. This worked for creating missions but was not very satisfactory for building good-looking things out polygons. Corncob was great fun to create, and because it was shareware and basically free, many people got to enjoy it. Thanks for reading about Corncob3D. If you have any questions or comments, please write to me at the address pictured below:
She was hit by a stray bullet in Tuesday's firing.Protests erupted in the Langate area after her dead body arrived home on Wednesday.Authorities imposed curfew in the six police station areas of Srinagar city and in Handwara in Kupwara district on Wednesday. The situation in uptown Srinagar was normal. Shops and business establishments were functioning as usual in several areas.
Monk writes that the purpose of these confessions was not "to hurt his pride, as a form of punishment; it was to dismantle it—to remove a barrier, as it were, that stood in the way of honest and decent thought." Of the apologies, Wittgenstein wrote, "This brought me into more settled waters... and to greater seriousness." The Vienna Circle Edit See also: Vienna Circle The Tractatus was now the subject of much debate amongst philosophers, and Wittgenstein was a figure of increasing international fame. In particular, a discussion group of philosophers, scientists and mathematicians, known as the Vienna Circle, had built up largely as a result of the inspiration they had been given by reading the Tractatus. While it is commonly assumed that Wittgenstein was a part of the Vienna Circle, in reality, this was not actually the case. German philosopher Oswald Hanfling writes bluntly: "Wittgenstein was never a member of the Circle, though he was in Vienna during much of the time. Yet his influence on the Circle's thought was at least as important as that of any of its members. "[175] From 1926, with the members of the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein would take part in many discussions. However, during these discussions, it soon became evident that Wittgenstein held a different attitude towards philosophy than the members of the Circle whom his work had inspired. For example, during meetings of the Vienna Circle, he would express his disagreement with the group's misreading of his work by turning his back to them and reading poetry aloud. [176] In his autobiography, Rudolf Carnap describes Wittgenstein as the thinker who gave him the greatest inspiration. However, he also wrote that "there was a striking difference between Wittgenstein's attitude toward philosophical problems and that of Schlick and myself. Our attitude toward philosophical problems was not very different from that which scientists have toward their problems." As for Wittgenstein: His point of view and his attitude toward people and problems, even theoretical problems, were much more similar to those of a creative artist than to those of a scientist; one might almost say, similar to those of a religious prophet or a seer...
By By JohnThomas Didymus May 18, 2013 in Politics London - According to a new analysis of 2011 UK census, one in 10 people under 25 are Muslim, Christianity is declining 50 percent faster than previously thought and in 10 years Islam may become the dominant religion with only a minority identifying as Christian. In the same period, the number of of people professing Islam in England and Wales rose sharply by 75 percent. This massive surge was caused by about 600,000 foreign-born or immigrant Muslims. According to The ONS calculated on the basis of the demographic trend that although Christianity is still the dominant religion in the UK with about 50 percent of the population claiming the Christian religion, in 10 years only a minority will identify as Christian. The portent of "Islamization"? The portent of "Islamization" is a growing preoccupation among ethnic whites in the UK. The recent statistics will do nothing to allay growing xenophobia. Dr Fraser Watts, a Cambridge theologian, agreed that on the basis of the trend it was possible that people identifying as Christians could become a minority in 10 years. He said: "It is still pretty striking and it is a worrying trend and confirms what anyone can observe - that in many churches the majority of the congregation are over 60." The analysis also showed that the number of people who identify as atheists increased by 10 percent, from 15 percent to 25 percent. Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the Calls for de-establishment of the Church of England The trend that points to an erosion of the influence of Christianity and surge in number of atheists and secularists is driving calls by secular campaigners for the de-establishment of the Church of England. But a spokesman for the Church of England reacted, saying: "These figures highlight the diversity of Christianity in this country today, something which has been increasing for decades and shows the relevance of Christianity to people from all backgrounds. These figures once again confirm that this remains a faithful nation and that the fall in the numbers identifying themselves as Christians is a challenge but – as you can see from the stability of Church of England attendance figures – the committed worshiping center of the church remains firm. The challenge to the Church is to reconnect with the nominal."
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Using the temperature response functions obtained from the phenol data (presented in Fig. 2) and continuous soil temperature data measured in the field plots, we estimated the efficiency of phenol utilization in control versus heated field plots across the growing season (April–November) when soil temperatures were within the range of our incubation temperatures (5–25 °C). For the two-year warming study, there was no significant difference in temperature response between treatments. Thus, at any given time under field conditions, the efficiency of phenol utilization, and potentially other complex substrates, was always lower in the heated plots when compared with the controls owing to the negative temperature response function for this substrate, possibly explaining in part the greater soil respiration observed in heated versus control soils during the early years of this and several other soil warming studies5,7,22,25. For soils continuously warmed for 18 years, the difference between control and heated plots in the efficiency of phenol utilization was inversely related to temperature and switched from being positive to negative at ∼10 °C (Supplementary Fig. S2). That is, microbial efficiency was greater in the control when compared with heated plots only at lower soil temperatures (<10 °C). At higher soil temperatures (10–25 °C), which represent a significant portion of the growing season when soil respiration rates are highest, microbial efficiency was lower in the control when compared with heated plots. This observation is particularly relevant given that chronically warmed soils contain lower levels of readily available C (refs 21, 23) and that the C being used by the microbial community is probably more recalcitrant. Our results can help explain the observation that elevated soil respiration in chronically warmed soils often returns to near ambient levels within a few years5,6,7.
“And you ask him questions like: 'How are you? What's going on in your life? '” It can take as little as five minutes for death to occur by strangulation, so people who are at high risk of suicide need to be under continuous watch. That means in-person contact, not watching remotely via a surveillance camera. (The Texas Commission on Jail Standards, for example, bans camera-only observation.) People at lower risk should be monitored in person at least every 15 minutes, at staggered intervals, Hayes said.
All three refrigerators are linked and all give the Ice Cold buff- Bed in Main Bedroom is personalized with player’s name and gives the Well Rested and Lover’s Embrace Bonuses.- Terminal in Main Bedroom is personalized with player’s name- Terminal journal entries contain Fallout: New Vegas inspired lore with a background story on the bunker- Two inventory sorting systems: one container-based, the other terminal based- Working refrigerators with custom textures: Insert any Nuka Cola, Vim or Gwinnett beer variant and it will be come Ice Cold with the associated buff in six hours- Interactive storage units: Weapons storage, ammo shelf, power armor parts shelf, chem shelf, and food shelf will display clutter when items of each category are added. Clutter will deactivate when container is emptied- Trash Compactor unit that breaks junk items into their base components and transfers them to the settlement workshop- Unique Legendary Weapon: The Bunker Buster- Lots of custom textures and meshes- Barber Chair and Surgery Chair- UFO model with functioning light animation- Mr. Purifier water purification unit: Changes all the Dirty Water in your inventory into Purified Water once in a 24-hour period- Clean water source from sinks and water cooler- Working shower gives +2 Charisma boost for eight hours- LOTS of storage! All containers are flagged to not respawn- Two functional beds for Dogmeat. Command him to use them and he’ll stay out of your way! Dog beds can be changed to alternate furniture via Terminals- Fully navmeshed for companions with many idle markersThere are probably some things I’m leaving out, so I’ll update the mod description as needed. Spoiler:
The group is tasked with finding the Devourers outpost and bringing back his master memory cube.Recently the City's Grand Library has been burglarized. Hundreds of manuscripts and books have been stolen. Most of the stolen items are extremely rare.A Mnemonic Devourer has begun to manipulate humanoid tribes into a frenzy. Goblins and Orc tribes are on a rampage. Searching the countryside for a buried vault. Rumors has it that this vault houses rare items from a bygone civilization.5.The group is hired to transport an ancient manuscript. The group is being shadowed as they travel these lonely roads.Recently a lone survivor from a expedition has arrived in town. He claims that a giant domed city resides inside the mountain range. Under the right alignment of the stars does the domed city reveal itself. His group investigated too closely and all his comrades had their minds erased.The local wizard academy has learned of the Mind Vaults of the Mnemoic Devourers. Located in their isolated cities are grand structures that house hundred of memory cubes.
Reading about other people’s experiences and feelings can not only be comforting, but insightful. It can help you think deeply about the situations you come across, and, sometimes, it can help guide your choices for the better. Read about useful skills for polyamorous relationships. Communicating, managing jealousy and insecurity, time management and setting boundaries are all useful relationship skills. If and when you eventually try a polyamorous set-up for yourself, those skills become even more important. So get a head-start by thinking about which skills you need to work on. 5. Start Challenging Your Internalized Heteronormativity “True love only comes around once.” “Love is when you want to be with one person and only them.” “The One.” The language we commonly use when we discuss love and romance is very heteronormative. These messages suggest that the beauty of love is that it’s exclusive – that if we really love someone, we can’t love anybody else but them. This can cause many polyamorous people to doubt themselves. This sort of mentality is ultimately a part of heteronormativity. Heteronormativity is a word that refers to the societal structure which privileges certain types of romantic and sexual relationships over others. One of the underlying assumptions of heteronormativity is that heterosexuality and monogamy are natural and superior to other forms of sexual and romantic attraction. They suggest that love is a universal and uniform experience. We often think of heteronormativity leading to homophobic or queerphobic attitudes, but it also leads to attitudes which oppress polyamorous people. Heteronormative attitudes try to tell us that we all experience attraction and sex in the same way – and this is simply not true. We experience romantic and sexual attraction in a number of different ways. Some people don’t experience romantic and/or sexual attraction at all, and that’s entirely okay! It might be helpful to start thinking about the way we talk about love. Try to recognize how our language and assumptions about romance is rooted in heteronormativity. Once we start to think critically about the language we use, we can start thinking about how we’ve internalized heteronormative messages. Since heteronormativity says that polyamory is abnormal, unnatural and wrong, it can result in us polyamorous people feeling ashamed of ourselves. This deep-seated shame can prevent us from practicing self-love and nurturing healthy relationships. For example, heteronormativity tells us that we only need to love one person at once.
So people start getting a little bit paranoid, you can imagine. Now on top of that, Louis XVI's main financial adviser, Necker, Jacques Necker. He was sympathetic to the Third Estate, to the plight of the Third Estate. And he said hey, Mr. King, I think it's reasonable for you to essentially budget your expenses a little bit better. And maybe a little bit less of a lavish lifestyle. Considering the state of the government's budget. And the state of the people of France, they're starving. Why don't you do that a little bit? But Louis XVI, instead of taking his advice, he fired him. He fired the financial adviser. So taken together, troops are converging on Paris, you have this Tennis Court Oath, Louis XVI has fired his adviser, people are going hungry. They're genuinely going hungry. People in Paris said, the king is going to try to suppress us again, this is no good. And especially if he does it with troops, we have to arm ourselves. So they stormed the Bastille. This right here is a picture of the Bastille. And this is most famous, when you when you first learn about it, or maybe this is the first time you're learning about it. They put political prisoners there and they freed the political prisoners. But in reality, there were only seven prisoners in the Bastille. So it's not like thousands and thousands of political prisoners were being held there and there were freed. The real value of the Bastille to the revolutionaries, we could say, is that there were weapons there. There was a major arms cache there. And so by storming the Bastille and getting the weapons, they all of a sudden could essentially fend off any type of threat that the troops would have. But this is also kind of the very beginning of the real chaos of the French Revolution. And as we're going to see over the next several years, the chaos only gets worse and worse. It's almost on a lot of levels a lot worse than the American Revolution. Because what actually happened in the cities and what fellow Frenchman started doing to do each other was really on many levels barbaric. And you actually saw it here for the first time, where the governor of the Bastille, the guy who was in charge of it, he had the standoff between the troops.
xmonad : a tiling window manager http://xmonad.org xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is optional. xmonad is written, configured and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings and other extensions may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several physical screens. Quick start: Obtain the dependent libraries, then build with: runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --user --prefix=$HOME runhaskell Setup.lhs build runhaskell Setup.lhs install --user For the full story, read on. Building: Building is quite straightforward, and requires a basic Haskell toolchain. On many systems xmonad is available as a binary package in your package system (e.g. on Debian or Gentoo). If at all possible, use this in preference to a source build, as the dependency resolution will be simpler. We'll now walk through the complete list of toolchain dependencies. * GHC: the Glasgow Haskell Compiler You first need a Haskell compiler. Your distribution's package system will have binaries of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the compiler we use, so install that first. If your operating system's package system doesn't provide a binary version of GHC, you can find them here: http://haskell.org/ghc For example, in Debian you would install GHC with: apt-get install ghc6 It shouldn't be necessary to compile GHC from source -- every common system has a pre-build binary version. * X11 libraries: Since you're building an X application, you'll need the C X11 library headers. On many platforms, these come pre-installed. For others, such as Debian, you can get them from your package manager: apt-get install libx11-dev Typically you need: libXinerama libXext libX11 * Cabal xmonad requires a recent version of Cabal, >= 1.2.0. If you're using GHC 6.8, then it comes bundled with the right version. If you're using GHC 6.6.x, you'll need to build and install Cabal from hackage first: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Cabal You can check which version you have with the command: $ ghc-pkg list Cabal Cabal-1.2.2.0 * Haskell libraries: mtl, unix, X11 Finally, you need the Haskell libraries xmonad depends on. Since you've a working GHC installation now, most of these will be provided. To check whether you've got a package run 'ghc-pkg list some_package_name'.
SOURCE: PhotographyIsNotACrime.com / Carlos Miller----------Long Beach police said they had no choice but to repeatedly strike a man on the ground with a baton because he was kicking them.But the video shows he was merely trying to block their vicious baton blows with his leg.Police also say Porfirio Santos Lopez deserved to be beaten because he had started a fight with two men earlier – even though that fight was long over when they had him on the ground, beating him with batons and shocking him with tasers.Police can claim all they want. And the local media will probably eat it all up.But the rest of us can see the truth for ourselves; a sadistic cop who has yet to be identified needs to be criminally charged.There’s no doubt that Santos Lopez needed to be arrested. A surveillance video shows him starting a fight with two men over what police say was a beer.But neither the surveillance video that police turned over to the media in order to justify their actions nor the Youtube video captured by a witness shows Santos Lopez striking out at police.Nevertheless, Long Beach police flack Aaron Eaton video.ktla.com?ndn.trackingGroup=91045& ;amp;ndn.siteSection=ktla_localnews&ndn.videoId=25127443&freewheel=91045&sitesection=ktla_localnews&vid=25127443 that Santos Lopez kicked the baton out of the officer’s hand, kicked the officer’s wrist and even kicked the officer’s face, so the officer was merely trying to defend himself by striking him repeatedly with the baton, proving once again that there is a special place in hell for lying public information officers.Police say he was drunk and high on meth. His family says he suffers from mental illness. Witnesses say he looked to be drunk, but police abused their authority.----------According to abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&am ;amp;id=9235409:“It was way too much. I felt like he was drunk, so they could have easily gotten him down as many of them as there were,” said witness Mycalneisha Jackson.One woman, who didn’t want to be identified, shot cellphone video of the incident and said she thinks the officers abused their power.“There’s no points about it, that they just don’t look good to anybody. But, in this particular case, the officer is trying to get this individual who was combative, who was irrational,” said Sgt. AaronEaton with the Long Beach Police Department.The suspect’s sister started crying when she saw her brother’s bloodied face. He is now at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
Stock that a trader does not actually own may be traded using short selling; margin buying may be used to purchase stock with borrowed funds; or, derivatives may be used to control large blocks of stocks for a much smaller amount of money than would be required by outright purchase or sales. Short selling Edit Main article: Short selling In short selling, the trader borrows stock (usually from his brokerage which holds its clients' shares or its own shares on account to lend to short sellers) then sells it on the market, betting that the price will fall. The trader eventually buys back the stock, making money if the price fell in the meantime and losing money if it rose. Exiting a short position by buying back the stock is called "covering." This strategy may also be used by unscrupulous traders in illiquid or thinly traded markets to artificially lower the price of a stock. Hence most markets either prevent short selling or place restrictions on when and how a short sale can occur. The practice of naked shorting is illegal in most (but not all) stock markets. Margin buying Edit Main article: margin buying In margin buying, the trader borrows money (at interest) to buy a stock and hopes for it to rise. Most industrialized countries have regulations that require that if the borrowing is based on collateral from other stocks the trader owns outright, it can be a maximum of a certain percentage of those other stocks' value. In the United States, the margin requirements have been 50% for many years (that is, if you want to make a $1000 investment, you need to put up $500, and there is often a maintenance margin below the $500). A margin call is made if the total value of the investor's account cannot support the loss of the trade. (Upon a decline in the value of the margined securities additional funds may be required to maintain the account's equity, and with or without notice the margined security or any others within the account may be sold by the brokerage to protect its loan position. The investor is responsible for any shortfall following such forced sales.) Regulation of margin requirements (by the Federal Reserve) was implemented after the Crash of 1929. Before that, speculators typically only needed to put up as little as 10 percent (or even less) of the total investment represented by the stocks purchased.
There’s a thought experiment that seems to prove that if a believable simulation universe is possible at all, then the world that we find ourselves in is mathematically certain to be one. I sometimes like to share it with overly chatty trippers because it tends to make them want to go sit down and shut up for a little while. The logic goes a little something like this: In less than 50 years we’ve gone from Pong to games that make it look like I’m running around inside of a movie. Therefore, it seems not altogether unlikely that if we fail to blow ourselves up for another thousand years, we will at some point be capable of constructing a holosthesia that would be believable to an awareness that arose within that construct. (I actually imagine that we would achieve that capability much sooner, considering the steepening rate of technological advance, but I’m padding all the numbers here so as not to expose myself to charges of hyperbole.) Now it’s easy for me to imagine that the people of the future might use this technology to create ancestor simulations; so even if we were the only sentient lifeform in the universe, simulations would start to outnumber prime realities as soon as the second simulation was brought online. Now if there is other sentient life out there, the odds that any given universe will turn out to be a construct increase quite dramatically. We can see several hundred billion galaxies from here, so let’s lowball it to a hundred billion. That means that if every gigantic galaxy with billions and billions of stars is so life-poor that it only manages to produce one single species that is both capable of and willing to create a believable simulation–if there were only one qualifying simulation per galaxy, in other words–there would still be at least a hundred billion simulated universes for every “real” or base frame universe. Right? So what are the odds that we’re living in the primary one? (There are a lot of holes in this theory, of course, but I’ll leave poking them as an exercise for the student. Go sit down over there and let me know when you figure out a good refutation for this…)
“There are a lot of different factions in Bernieland with different opinions of how the thing should go,” said Ceraso. In interviews this week, current and former Sanders aides said the yet unplanned “new thing,” as several supporters called it, revolves around the future of the campaign’s large email list. Aides have not divulged the size of the database, but Sanders claims 2.4 million donors alone, and his list of names and addresses is likely far larger. “It all comes down to that list, and the power around the list and the money around the list, for the inner circle,” Ceraso said. The “grassroots side,” he added, is more interested in building on the progressive “movement” associated with Sanders’s candidacy. Nearly everyone who’s touched the Sanders campaign seems to have an opinion on the matter, backers said. “If you ask any field organizer, they have an idea for what this should look like,” one former Sanders staffer said. “Folks have competing visions for it.” According to senior campaign officials, though, what’s lost in all the outside prognosticating, is Bernie Sanders. Although the math indicates that his path to the nomination has virtually closed, the senator is described by his senior staffers as loathe to discuss much in the way of plans beyond the primaries and caucuses on June 7 in California, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, New Jersey, and Montana. Still, supporters like DeTemple worry that without developing a well thought-out plan now, the energy and power surrounding the Sanders campaign could end up lost — or subsumed by the disorder that overwhelmed the Nevada Democratic Convention last weekend. “There’s no post-game plan,” as one former Sanders staffer put it. Howard Dean, the former governor whose 2004 candidacy has been compared to this year’s unexpected progressive surge, warned that the Sanders legacy now depends on how well the senator steers his millions of supporters and shapes his next move. “That will depend on what happens in the next few weeks,” he said in an interview, describing Sanders’ potential reach as “10 times bigger” than his own 12 years ago. “If this ends up as a pitchfork fight, he’s basically going to have a relatively small group of deeply entrenched supporters who nobody will pay any attention to,” said Dean, an early endorser of Hillary Clinton. “He could become a major force in the Democratic Party. But you can’t do that by basically spitting at them.
It’s not aimed at bypassing banks in the way that P2P is, but it’s seeking to create an environment where an ecosystem of alternative systems can plug into the underlying infrastructure provided by banks
The major isotope of Si is 28Si, but 29SiO was observed to trace the distribution of SiO molecules because 28SiO is expected to be optically too thick near the star and significant isotopic fractionation between 28SiO and 29SiO is not expected during dust formation. Other Al-bearing species such as Al, AlOH, and Al 2 O are also important for aluminum oxide formation (15), but AlO can trace the dust formation site in the high-temperature region near the star and could be a basic molecule to form aluminum oxide clusters [for example, see the study of van Heijnsbergen et al. (16)]. So far, AlO molecules have been detected only around an oxygen-rich supergiant, VY Canis Majoris (15), Mira variables, specifically o Ceti (17, 18), and R Aquarii (18) at (sub)millimeter wavelengths.
This may or may not have been the origin of the old English sport of bull baiting. At any rate, wherever it began, it became more popular with the passing years. Its popularity created a demand for dogs qualified for the sport. These dogs were selected and bred for courage, power, and ferocity. From the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, bull-baiting was a national sport in England.It was during the continuing years of these sporting events that the dog owners began to recognize the necessity of altering the dogs' size and structure to better survice in the rings. The large mastiff-like dogs were seen as being too heavily built and too slow and cumbersome in the ring. Through judicious outcrosses the Bulldog gradually evolved. The dog began to change shape with the bulk of his weight near the head so that when the bull shook him there was less chance of the dog's back being broken. However, a scientifically selective breeding program certainly did not exist during the Middle Ages and it is evident that dog owners were following a program of breeding based on the individual specimen, which had to have a fierce, vicious and tenacious personality, rather than on the basis of pedigree bloodlines, as illustrated by the following anecdotes.Among a number of informative stories aboutis one concerning a bait at Bristol in March 1822. An old and crippled bitch had been standing calmly at the side of a butcher watching the flight of the numerous dogs through the air as the bull cleverly and effectively disposed of his adversaries. At the command of the butcher, the bitch slowly hobbled into the ring. She was covered with scars, blind in one eye, and altogether deprived of the use of one of her hind legs. Unlike many good dogs, she did not run directly up to the bull's front, but sneaked cautiously around him, with her remaining eye vigilantly bent upon the bull's every motion, apparently watching for an opportunity to bolt in and grab the bull. This was rather un-Bulldog-like behaviour, but considering the infirmity of the old bitch and the little chance of success she would have had if she had gone in like a strong, fleet, and unmaimed dog, it may have been in some measure excusable.
There are some inaccuracies in the exposition of Scotus. For example, Osborne says that Scotus's definition of praxis "limits praxis to those acts that have been chosen correctly" (81). It does not.1 What Scotus actually says is that praxis encompasses those acts that (given the sorts of acts they are) should be elicited in conformity with a correct intellectual judgment, not those that in fact are so elicited. The relevant part of the Latin is praxis . . . est actus . . . natus elici conformiter intellectioni rectae ad hoc ut sit recta; Osborne's reading would require elicitus for natus elici. He says that Scotus thinks "different actions require that there be different judgments by the intellect" (58), which is simply false. He claims that the contingent precepts of the natural law "have their force insofar as they are in harmony with precepts that are known through their terms" (85). In fact, however, though it is true that the contingent precepts are in harmony with the necessary precepts -- that's why the contingent precepts can be accounted part of the natural law, though in a looser sense -- those precepts have their force because of the divine will. Somewhat trickier to evaluate is Osborne's statement that "unlike Thomas, Scotus thinks that almsgiving lacks specific goodness" (168). The passage that Osborne cites in support of this claim (Ord. 2, d. 7, q. un.) has Scotus saying that almsgiving has generic goodness, which he defines in very much the same way that Aquinas defines specific goodness (goodness from the object; cf. 155); Scotus uses "specific goodness" (also "goodness from circumstances" and "complete goodness") to describe the goodness that an act has when, as Aquinas puts it, "all the goodnesses concur in it" (ST I-II 18.4). On this last point, then, the difference between Aquinas and Scotus is purely terminological.
3. The “urban guerrilla” concept and the spectacle of homegrown “terrorism,” cognisant with the radicalisation of a sympathetic bourgeoisie, is one that is revisited in a number of Godard’s film’s, from his ambivalent treatment of the Algerian War and the underground actions of the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) and OAS (Organisation armée secrète) in Europe – Le Petit Soldat – to his scathingly satirical examination of the almost terminal decadence of the Fifth Republic in his 1967 films Weekend and La Chinoise, the latter anticipating the student militancy of the following year and posing the question of the violent overthrow of the state (in that film, Wiazemsky’s character conducts an “interview” with the philosopher Francis Jeanson, who had actively assisted Algerian National Liberation Front agents operating in France during the Algerian War – Wiazemsky’s character advocates the planting of bombs in order to force the closure of Parisian universities as a political act, something Jeanson opposes, distinguishing gratuitous political violence from popular resistance; later Wiazemsky’s character tries to assassinate a Soviet cultural attaché but farcically shoots the wrong person due to a room number being read upside down in a hotel register). Godard’s sardonic critique of revolutionary play-acting among the children of the bourgeoisie, who in the film spend much of their time in the spouting from Mao’s Little Red Book, finds a stylish iteration in one of Rainer Fassbinder’s lesser-known hothouse dramas of the 1970s, The Third Generation (1979), born out of the disillusionments of ’68, the failure of de-Nazification in Germany, and a new period of radicalism centred around the actions of the Baader-Meinhof Red Army Faction (RAF) and the “German Autumn” of 1977.
“My heart is heavy because we have a lot of applicants to the program asking questions.”The embassy since August is receiving applicants who are hoping to pursue their postgraduate studies at prestigious British universities through the Chevening scholarship program, which has especially been popular amongst civil servants and in academia.The law defines “public officials” broadly and encompasses not only civil servants and lawmakers, but teachers at private schools, journalists and even their spouses.Applications to the annual Chevening scholarship will be accepted until Nov. 8, and 20 students will be selected for this program, which can provide up to 40 million won ($36,245) annually for a student’s tuition and living expenses.Overseas studies programs offered by private corporations or foreign institutions, as well as publicity-related business trips, are prohibited under the Kim Young-ran Law according to the Anticorruption and Civil Rights Commission’s interpretation.While the Chevening scholarship is offered by the British government, it is not clear if it will violate the new law or not.“There has been an outpouring of inquiries from foreign embassies in Korea,” said an official of the commission, “so we are reviewing the application of the law.”While about four million public officials and their spouses are directly covered by the law, those who seek inappropriate favors from them or offer them bribes are also punishable, making the entire nation subject to the new statutes.Neither the commission nor the Board of Audit and Inspection have received any serious reports of violation through their websites so far, but they have been flooded with phone calls inquiring about the law and what it does and does not sanction. Rather than public officials, however, most callers have been civilians.“Rather than asking if somebody else’s behavior is in violation of the law,” the official from the commission explained, “we get calls asking whether the law would apply to themselves. It seems like it will be not be until early October before actual reports start coming in.”BY PARK SUNG-HOON, SARAH KIM [[email protected]]
Natural-Born Ponzis Should The DAO categorically stay away from financial speculation? I believe it should: the risk is too great for the crowds to get caught up in complex feedback loops that give rise to Ponzis and pyramids. Perhaps these dynamics are inadvertant, but perhaps not: they may well be fanned by people who know better but don't let on. Specifically, in this particular naturally-arising Ponzi scenario involving The DAO buying its own tokens, people buy ether and lock it up in The DAO in order to speculate in ether futures, which in turn fuels a price rise in ether (because there is less ether available to buy and supply drops), and corresponding paper gains. This will attract more people into instruments like The DAO, who have heard of these sure-fire gains in 48 days. As they lock up their ether, there will be even less ether to go around, giving rise to increases in the price of ether, which then fuels the next round of investments in The DAO, and so on. The music will stop on any such investment the moment when investors want to cash out: the people who exit early will be rewarded, while the order books collapse on people who are late in getting out. Of course, we have to have to consider the possibility that this is what The DAO investors were hoping for in the first place. Thay may be thinking "that's cool, we'll get in on this Ponzi early!" Let me remind them that we're not at Lake Wobegone: not everyone can be an "early beneficiary" in a Ponzi. In fact, it's not their entrance time but their exit time that will determine whether they make money in a Ponzi. And there will be at least as many losers as there are winners. The sob stories will be unbearable, as anyone who has seen the dogecoin sob stories can attest. This will then bring in regulation, it will hurt ether, and give a black eye to the nascent idea of executable financial instruments. Overall, anyone who quotes interest rates denominated in a virtual currency like ether, without mentioning the exchange rate risk at exit time, is doing something unethical, and deeply flawed, in my book. Is it possible that all these traders-turned-social-media-manipulators are totally oblivious of these dynamics, caught up in short term "arbitrage opportunities"?
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Print This Email This MSNBC host Keith Olbermann says the realistic threat of terrorism is being so overstated by the Bush administration -- and in turn, by Fox News -- that it's downright funny. "What happens when the culture of fear begins to inspire not terror or outrage, but laughter?" asked Olbermann. "Am I being too optimistic, or has giggling now passed paranoia in response to the president and these macabre parrots working at Fox?" Olbermann cited a report yesterday carried by Fox News which suggested that Al Qaeda may be the true culprit behind the rash of recent California wildfires. Basing their coverage on an article it said ran "five days ago" in the Arizona Republic, the Fox and Friends morning program discussed an FBI memo stating that an Al Qaeda detainee had brought up the possibility of such a plan. Calling the the report "almost all wrong," the host took the network to task for grossly misreporting the age of the memo: "The memo was reported not...five days ago, but six days ago -- plus 1,560 more days ago," said Olbermann. "The memo is from July 11, 2003. The Arizona Republic is a newspaper. Congratulations, Fox. But it has not been carrying the story...the guy who reported it doesn't even work there anymore." Later in the program, Olbermann made up his own terror rumor about Al Qaeda's far-reaching powers: "I heard Al Qaeda causes night to fall," he warned. Air America radio host Rachel Maddow, a guest during the segment, said reports like Fox's helped to aid a White House that profited from fear. "They have to come up with superhuman powers for Al Qaeda because they want to use Al Qaeda to justify a super-extreme agenda for the United States of America," said Maddow of the Bush administration. Citing controversial intelligence techniques and possible military action against Iran she described as a "radical agenda," Maddow said the administration required a "really radical justification for it...they've had to elevate this band of death-cult fundamentalist criminals into a threat that is greater to our country than the Soviet Union ever was." "And because it's about such serious stuff," she concluded, "I feel a little guilty thinking that it's funny." The following video is from MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, broadcast on October 24, 2007
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NEW DELHI: Nearly 150 Indians are on the radar of intelligence agencies for actively following Islamic State propaganda and engaging on social media with pro-IS elements, according to government sources.A majority of those under surveillance are from the southern states, sources said.Though agencies are not planning any action or crackdown on the youth who may be showing a more-than-keen interest in pro-IS websites or social media posts, the tracking is meant to pre-empt the possibility of their becoming indoctrinated enough to join the IS. As and when those under surveillance show signs to radicalization, an intervention may be made to alert their families and facilitate their counseling, if need be.Online tracking of pro-IS websites, Twitter handles and Facebook accounts is a key part of India’s counter-IS strategy. Agencies, with the help of experts from the National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), track online traffic related to IS across the country, and constantly flag any unusual trend or activity.TOI had on September 1 reported the results of a national survey conducted by an intelligence agency on online and social media traffic related to IS. According to the findings, Jammu and Kashmir accounted for the highest traffic, followed by Assam, UP, Maharashtra and West Bengal. The cities/towns that showed most interest in IS online were Srinagar, Guwahati, Chinchwad (Maharashtra), Howrah, Mumbai and Unnao. According to the survey, the age profile of those following IS propaganda the most was between 16 and 30 years.Sources in the security establishment told TOI that 23 Indians, including about a dozen from the diaspora, had joined the IS and travelled to Iraq-Syria for ‘jihad’. These include four youth from Kalyan, one of whom Areeb Majeed returned to India and is now in custody here, a Kashmiri based in Australia, a Singapore-based Indian, an Oman-based man and one person each from Karnataka and Telangana and a journalist from Kerala.Of the six Indian recruits believed to have got killed in IS territory are three Indian Mujahideen cadre including Bada Sajid and Sultan Ajmer Shah who joined the outfit from Pakistan, two from Maharashtra and one from Telangana.As many as 30 Indians, including a woman based in Delhi, have been prevented from joining the IS.
larger image TIFF original image Download: Figure 5. Demographic profile for the Drawsko 1 site. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113564.g005 While none of the five interments that included these apotropaics were identified as immigrants to the region, the presence of three males whose 87Sr/86Sr ratios exceed the upper limit of locally bioavailable strontium demonstrates that some residential mobility was indeed taking place during the time in which the cemetery was utilized by the community at Drawsko. Interestingly, these individuals were interred with no indication that their social or ethnic identity differed from that of the larger, local community – no foreign grave goods were recovered from their graves, nor were other, differentiating mortuary treatments apparent. This may suggest that – while identity is undoubtedly a multi-faceted social construct [e.g, see 76] – the role that migration may have played in the lives of these three individuals was not significant enough to be represented in death and/or was masked by other factors, including burial rites specific to Catholicism. The identification of only males as non-local migrants to Drawsko may also shed light on what segments of society were afforded the ability to move from one place to another, particularly as all females examined in the group exhibited local values. While textual records do not specifically describe whether single individuals or entire families migrated and settled in Poland during this period, the biogeochemical results from Drawsko indicate that men were more mobile. The timing of this period of mobility is likewise unclear – while all three males were identified as non-local as a result of 87Sr/86Sr ratios from first molar enamel crowns that form up to 4.5 years of age, age-at-death ranged from 25–44. Future studies will examine individual life histories and the relationship between strontium isotope ratios in both enamel and ribs to determine when migration may have occurred into adolescence and/or adulthood. Interregional Distribution of Strontium Isotopes Despite a wide breadth of local values (0.7082–0.7121) produced by multiple species of modern fauna, human 87Sr/86Sr ratios at Drawsko were largely limited to the upper stratum of this range, with all but five individuals falling above the mean faunal value of 0.7101 (Figure 3). This suggests that strontium input for humans at Drawsko differed somewhat from that biologically available to the small fauna analyzed here (a difference also echoed between the various species of fauna themselves, which produced a bimodal distribution of 87Sr/86Sr values making an assessment of locality using standard deviation difficult).
A Fullerton couple who mysteriously disappeared on Mother's Day was found in a remote and rugged area of the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation on Sunday after apparently getting lost.Off-roaders told police they saw a white car on the reservation near Warner Springs with a man and woman inside. The people inside turned out to be Cecil Knutson, 79, and Dianna Bedwell, 68.Knutson was found dead, and Bedwell was severely dehydrated and airlifted to an Escondido hospital, private investigator Irma Sanchez said.Bedwell told the San Diego County sheriff's investigators that they were trying to take a shortcut when they got lost and were trapped on a remote road. They survived on rain water, a pie and oranges. "There was cups around. They were drinking rain water as it rained and they've been out there for all indications since around May 10th," Los Coyotes Tribal Police Chief Dave Sossaman said.Sanchez said the car was on an incline and had been surrounded by mud. "We don't have any information as to any damage to the vehicle that would indicate there was an accident involving another vehicle. What we do know is that the vehicle was found in a position where it was at an incline, leading investigators to believe they may have been taken off the road somehow," Sanchez said.The couple had likely tried to walk their way back several times, but couldn't make it, Sossaman said. Knutson and Bedwell were last seen on surveillance video leaving Valley View Casino in San Diego County on May 10. They were expected to meet their son at his home in La Quinta in Riverside County, but never arrived.Knutson's death is a devastating loss for a family that's already suffered through tragedy. Bedwell's sister Sylvia Likens was tortured and then murdered by her caretaker about 50 years ago. Her murder has since been dubbed "the most terrible crime in Indiana history." "This is a very difficult time for them, so they're trying to gather themselves together, be available for Diana and, of course, they're grieving the loss of Cecil," Sanchez said of the couple's family.Knutson's exact cause of death has yet to be determined. The couple's son has previously said, however, that both parents are both diabetic and need insulin.Knutson and Bedwell were both retired school bus drivers and had been married for more than 25 years.
Genetic correlations are scientifically useful because genetic correlations can be analyzed over time within an individual longitudinally[42] (e.g. intelligence is stable over a lifetime, due to the same genetic influences – childhood genetically correlates r g = 0.62 {\displaystyle r_{g}=0.62} with old age[43]), or across studies or populations or ethnic groups/races, or across diagnoses, allowing discovery of whether different genes influence a trait over a lifetime (typically, they do not[4]), whether different genes influence a trait in different populations due to differing local environments, whether there is disease heterogeneity across times or places or sex (particularly in psychiatric diagnoses there is uncertainty whether 1 country's 'autism' or 'schizophrenia' is the same as another's or whether diagnostic categories have shifted over time/place leading to different levels of ascertainment bias), and to what degree traits like autoimmune or psychiatric disorders or cognitive functioning meaningfully cluster due sharing a biological basis and genetic architecture (for example, reading & mathematics disability genetically correlate, consistent with the Generalist Genes Hypothesis, and these genetic correlations explain the observed phenotypic correlations or 'co-morbidity';[44] IQ and specific measures of cognitive performance such as verbal, spatial, and memory tasks, reaction time, long-term memory, executive function etc. all show high genetic correlations as do neuroanatomical measurements, and the correlations may increase with age, with implications for the etiology & nature of intelligence). This can be an important constraint on conceptualizations of the two traits: traits which seem different phenotypically but which share a common genetic basis require an explanation for how these genes can influence both traits.
Russ: Green Bay would no longer be able, Milwaukee, St. Louis-- Guest: Any small town with a small market would be unable to compete. Russ: And there's some truth to it. Guest: The first obvious empirical point is that in no sport has there been a clear reduction in the degree of competitive balance. Measured any way you want to measure it. It's kind of a difficult concept to quantify. Does it mean the difference in the quality of the best and worst team in any given year? Russ: The probability of winning equal for every team each year? Is there no dynasty somewhere? Guest: Right. Does it mean multiple wins? Is it the same teams in the playoffs? You can imagine a world in which the best team wins 75% of its games and the worst team wins 10% of its games, but the identity of those teams changes from year to year. So, different teams win the championship every year. That could still be regarded as balanced. But it turns out it doesn't matter how you measure it. That the presence of dynasties--that is, teams who persistently are in the championships, you know, get to the semi-finals or finals, the end of season tournaments--or the spread in the won/lost records in the best and the worst teams--all the measures of competitive balance say that it's at best no difference, and in the few cases it's gotten more balanced. Like, baseball is definitely more balanced now than it was. And the National Basketball Association (NBA) is more balanced. Just before the free agency, the Celtics won 9 years in a row. So, the prediction that this would lead to competitive imbalance was false. And then we can ask--the next question is: Why? Because economists happen to have been right about this one. We have very few victories; we rarely can predict the outcome correctly. So, we are going to have to trumpet this one. Russ: Which part of it, though? One part of it you already said. Obviously the economic prediction would be a shift in revenue toward the players. The competition. Although some could have argued there is not enough competition, it's just a limited number of teams. But surprisingly large impact for some people. But there's definitely been an impact. Guest: Yes. The question is: Why would one not expect that the degree of competitive balance would be pretty much unaffected by player-market rules?
Metered Market Tuesday RatingsCBS Tops Opening Tuesday; NBC Poised for Young Adult Demo VictoryTuesday 9/23/14HouseholdRating/ShareCBS 9.4/15NBC 7.5/12ABC 5.0/ 8Fox 1.7/ 3CW 0.6/ 1-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 9/24/13:NBC: – 5, ABC and CBS: – 7 each, CW: -25, Fox: -41———-Note: The following labels are based on the household overnights and are subject to change given the availability of other pending data streams. As always, these overnights are your first look at the ratings and a precursor to what could lie ahead. And we take into account other benchmarks including the expected demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence.-Winners:“NCIS” (CBS), “The Voice” (NBC), “NCIS: New Orleans” (CBS)-Honorable Mention:“Chicago Fire” (NBC)-Lackluster:“Forever” (ABC)-Losers (excluding repeats):“Utopia” (Fox), “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” (ABC), “New Girl” (Fox), “The Mindy Project” (Fox)———-Ratings Breakdown:CBS, as expected, won the first Tuesday of the 2014-15 season in the household overnights, besting No. 2 NBC by 25 percent. And, yes…”NCIS: New Orleans” is a flawless fit out of parent “NCIS.” But the home of “The Voice,” NBC, should have no trouble taking the evening in adults 18-49 and all the key young adult demographics. And Fox will have to address the leak it has sprung with so-called social experiment “Utopia.”Tops for the night was the 12th season-premiere of “NCIS,” which scored an 11.0 rating/18 share in households at 8 p.m. Comparably, that was 12 percent below the 12.5/20 on the year-ago evening (which translated into 20.02 million viewers and a 3.6 rating/11 share among adults 18-49, based on the Live + Same Day data). Next was the series-premiere of “NCIS: New Orleans” at a dominant 10.5/16 at 9 p.m., which was seven percent above the year-ago season-opener of former time period occupant “NCIS: Los Angeles” (9.8/15 on 9/24/13). Comparably, retention for “NCIS: New Orleans” out of the 8:30 p.m. portion of “NCIS” (11.2/18) was a stellar 94 percent.At 10 p.m. on CBS was the fourth season-premiere of drama “Person of Interest” at an also first-place 6.6/11, but that initial overnight household rating was 16 percent below the 7.9/14 for the year-ago season-opener.On NBC, two more hours of “The Voice” scored a healthy 8.5/13 in the household overnights from 8-10 p.m., which will clearly dominate demographically. Relax NBC…the singing competition is still clearly resonating.
It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner’s product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user’s failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it.
In a lively exchange over what has come to be referred to as "the Chinese room argument", John Searle sought to refute the claim of proponents of what he calls "strong artificial intelligence (AI)" that a computer program can be conscious, though he does agree with advocates of "weak AI" that computer programs can be formatted to "simulate" conscious states. His own view is that consciousness has subjective, first-person causal powers by being essentially intentional due simply to the way human brains function biologically; conscious persons can perform computations, but consciousness is not inherently computational the way computer programs are. To make a Turing machine that speaks Chinese, Searle imagines a room with one monolingual English speaker (Searle himself, in fact), a book that designates a combination of Chinese symbols to be output paired with Chinese symbol input, and boxes filled with Chinese symbols. In this case, the English speaker is acting as a computer and the rulebook as a program. Searle argues that with such a machine, he would be able to process the inputs to outputs perfectly without having any understanding of Chinese, nor having any idea what the questions and answers could possibly mean. If the experiment were done in English, since Searle knows English, he would be able to take questions and give answers without any algorithms for English questions, and he would be effectively aware of what was being said and the purposes it might serve. Searle would pass the Turing test of answering the questions in both languages, but he is only conscious of what he is doing when he speaks English. Another way of putting the argument is to say that computer programs can pass the Turing test for processing the syntax of a language, but that the syntax cannot lead to semantic meaning in the way strong AI advocates hoped. [70][71]
A year ago, we noted a rather odd statement from President Obama, concerning some of the Snowden leaks. He more or less admitted that with each new report in the press, hehad to go ask the NSA what it was up to. That seemed somewhat concerning to us -- suggesting that the administration wasn't actually aware of what the NSA was up to until after it leaked to the press. Combine that with our more recent story of how James Clapper is basically ignoring the substance of President Obama's called for surveillance reforms, and you might begin to wonder who really runs the show when it comes to surveillance. And, indeed, according to a guy who knows quite well, the national security bureaucracy basically calls the shots, and the President has little to no power. That's the basic summary of an interview with Michael Glennon under the title Vote all you want. The secret government won't change in the Boston Globe.Glennon is the author of a new book called National Security and Double Government , as summarized by the Boston Globe:And, yes, of course, there have long been conspiracy theory books about the "shadow government" and the like, but this one's from someone who actually worked on these issues.Basically, the story that Glennon describes is sort of an exact replica of the concerns that many people have about how lobbyists push legislators in a particular direction. While many like to ascribe nefarious intent to lobbying efforts, theis that oftentimes legislators don't fully understand a particular or specific area, and the people they turn to are the lobbyists. And, to some extent that's reasonable. You'd rather that regulators and legislators actually are informed about the issues they're making decisions on, but too often they don't understand those areas at all. Theis that the "experts" who are readily available aren't unbiased purveyors of truth, but are those who have a very specific agenda.The same thing is true of government bureaucrats within the intelligence community. They're going to advise elected officials in ways that continually push and expand their own capabilities and powers, rather than limit them. And while what happens with lobbyists is often not directly publicly viewable, there can at least be some public recognition of policies and regulations that come out of those discussions. When it comes to the intelligence community, many of the results are, so there's basically no pushback and no "other side" heard.
Oh, sweet victory! / The applause of the masses! / Such loud poetry! Want a fresher style? / Or to be a whole new you? / Try accessories! Poetry is food / But I can't feed you my words / I will cook my best. I'll cook you a dish / I'm best with words on paper / But the kitchen calls! Gourmet cook? Not me! / I have better thing to do. / ...Still a girl must eat! Master chef? I'm not. / Every dish--a work of art? / Who's got time for that?! Very delicious! / The chief is so ambitious! / Is it nutritious? How to describe this? / Words fail as these flavors flail / Take this dish away! Oh, prison duty / A clammy hand on my soul! / But I've time to write. A poet, persuade? / I have a way with my words. / Only in haiku. Blue blood boils red / Observe the noble lobster / Learn from its mistake. Water's warm embrace / I sit still on the flat rock / Heaven is a bath. Visit to the springs / Time melts in the hot water / Faster still with you. Ring the alarm bell / A man intrudes on my bath / He'll regret his crime! Could I meet myself? / A Mitama Einherjar? / Oh, what a mouthful! Whether dried or raw / Fruit is one of life’s great joys / It’s also good poached. Cooking vegetables / Many ways to prepare them / Paralyzed by choice... Hunter meets a boar / Woods are host to their struggle / This is the outcome. Fresh-harvested rice / Pickled plum placed over it / Heaven in a bowl... Sing an ode to soy / Delicious, compact, and round / Cutest of the beans. Milking is an art / Subtle play of squeeze and pull / Some cows get mad fast... Use the ore I mined / To make strong weapons, and please / Give one to Father. Birthright Endgame The flame of life burns/ Truly, deeply...in your soul... / Awaken, my friend! Retreating (Casual) This swan sang her song. / I must fly from this battle. / Er...uh...um... Darn it all! Writer's block. Paralogue 12 My father has come. / But my feather bed is warm. / So I choose to snooze. My best friends are snores. / But who has come to my door? / The master of chores.
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The Android army continues to grow with the introduction of the Motorola DROID X (MB810) by Verizon Wireless. When the original Motorola DROID A855 came out last year, we were impressed by the device’s features and build quality, as it was unique and clearly was the phone to beat. Since then, we’ve seen Verizon release other Android phones, such as the Motorola DEVOUR A555 LG Ally VS740 , and the HTC Droid Incredible ADR6300 , with each one targeted to a slightly different audience. Since its release three months ago, the HTC Droid Incredible has been the premier smartphone on Verizon, sporting a 3.7” WVGA AMOLD display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8GB internal storage and an 8MP autofocus camera. Unfortunately, Samsung hasn’t been able to keep up with demand for its AMOLED display, which has caused a shortage, thus delaying the shipping of orders for the HTC Droid Incredible by several weeks. Because of this, many people are looking for an alternative. The timing could not have been better for Motorola. Enter the DROID X. Not only does it have a large 4.3” TFT WVGA display, 1GHz OMAP 3630 processor, 8MP autofocus camera, and 8GB of internal memory, but it’s also the first Verizon smartphone to record 720p videos and come with a HDMI output for connecting to an HDTV.Included in the retail package is the Motorola DROID X MB810 smartphone with a 16GB Class 4 microSDHC memory card preinstalled, 1540mAh battery, wall charger with detachable microUSB cable, and user guides.Since the Motorola DROID X comes endowed with a 4.3” display, the phone can’t help looking big, measuring 5.02”H x 2.57”W, but Motorola has taken steps to make it as thin as possible, just 0.39” thick, except for the hump at the top that houses the camera, which is about 0.60” thick. Some may not like this, but the alternative would have been to make the entire phone thicker, so we’d rather have the rest of the phone thin. The overall construction of the Motorola DROID X MB810 feels solid, as it is built from metal and covered with a soft-touch coating, similarly to the original Motorola DROID A855, though it is coming in at 0.5 oz less weight (5.47oz total).
Development of attention Bruce McCandliss (Vanderbilt University) gave the second overview lecture. He began by noting a delightful quote from Albert Einstein: “Understanding physics is child’s play when compared to understanding child’s play.” McCandliss pointed out that you could replace the second mention of child’s play in this quote with attention, since, in his view, attention is an incredibly complicated phenomenon. McCandliss presented a series of questions: How do attentional networks relate to play? How do we learn to attend? How does that change over the course of development?—which prompts the question of what matters in life experience. How would play impact these issues? Assuming play is important to the development of attention, how can we get more play into education? To answer these questions, one could isolate an attention-related activity in someone’s behavioral repertoire (e.g., how well they do in attending to something) and connect that to changes in their brain networks—exactly the approach that some labs have taken. McCandliss pointed out that Michael Posner and Steven Petersen, then at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote an influential paper about attention that looked at how brain damage relates to particular deficits in attention.10 They proposed the idea that there might be different networks relating to different subsystems of attention (i.e., different syndromes relating to different patterns of damage). They identified three, somewhat distinct, subsystems of attention: alerting, defined as achieving a state of readiness; orienting, defined as the selection of information from sensory input; and executive attention, defined as detecting and resolving conflict between potential responses.11 McCandliss continued by noting that a further innovation by Posner and colleagues came by developing a paradigm, the Attention Network Task (ANT), that could be used to look at the principles of attention by pushing around a simple decision.12 The decision in the ANT is based on whether something is pointing one way or another, akin to judging the directions of pointed arrows in the arrow-based version of the Eriksen flanker task.13 By applying different cue and target conditions, the ANT allows for the quantification of orienting, alerting, and executive attention. Measures of each are based on how long it takes the brain to process different information (i.e., by comparing reaction times).
Consecutive Hitting Streaks: A consecutive hitting streak shall not be terminated if the plate appearance results in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. A sacrifice fly shall terminate the streak. Consecutive Hitting Streaks: A consecutive hitting streak shall not be terminated if the plate appearance results in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. A sacrifice fly shall terminate the streak. Consecutive-Game Hitting Streaks: A consecutive-game hitting streak shall not be terminated if all the player's plate appearances (one or more) results in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. The streak shall terminate if the player has a sacrifice fly and no hit. The player's individual consecutive-game hitting streak shall be determined by the consecutive games in which the player appears and is not determined by his club's games. Consecutive-Game Hitting Streaks: A consecutive-game hitting streak shall not be terminated if all the player's plate appearances (one or more) results in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. The streak shall terminate if the player has a sacrifice fly and no hit. The player's individual consecutive-game hitting streak shall be determined by the consecutive games in which the player appears and is not determined by his club's games. Consecutive Playing Streak: A consecutive-game playing streak shall be extended if the player plays one half-inning on defense, or if he completes a time at bat by reaching base or being put out. A pinch-running appearance only shall not extend the streak. If an umpire ejects a player from a game before he can comply with the requirements of this rule, his streak shall continue.
Thus females in biology do not have to contend with the biases associated with being the sole representative of their gender in a STEM classroom [32]. Second, there is also a perception that biology lacks a strong math basis, and does not invoke the math-gender stereotype as strongly [33]. Thus, stereotypes about women’s math ability may not be undermining how their peers perceive them to the same extent it might in more explicitly math-based fields like physics or computer science. Finally, biology is a field that people believe does not require “brilliance”, unlike other STEM fields [34]. This perception means that stereotypes that males are more intelligent may not impact peer perceptions as strongly as it does in fields that are considered to require brilliance, like physics and math. For these reasons, we argue that the gender inequities in peer perception in the classrooms presented in this paper are likely conservative compared to classrooms in other STEM fields. Further, this dynamic may exist beyond STEM fields. However, explicit tests are required to confirm these hypotheses.
[6] The a verage weight of an adult chimpanzee brain is 384 g (0.85 lb), while the average weight of a modern human brain is 1,352 g (2.98 lb). The major reason is that while the chimpanzee brain size does not grow after birth, the human brain size keeps growing throughout childhood (Smithonial Institution, 2018) Allen et al (2002), studied 46 adults, aged 22–49 years, of mainly European descent. They found an average brain volume of 1273.6 cm3 for men, with a range of 1052.9 cm3 to 1498.5 cm3, and 1131.1 cm3 for women, with a range of 974.9 to 1398.1 cm3. The human brain size, as measured by cranial capacity, kept increasing during the last two million years, as follows: For homo habilis, who lived 2.3-1.6 million years ago (mya), it was 610.3 cm3. For homo erectus, who lived 1.7-0.2 mya, it was 1,092.9 cm3. For homo heidelbergensis, who lived 800-100 thousand years ago (tya), it was 1,262.8 cm3. For neanderthalensis, who lived 230-30 tya, it was 1,427.2 cm3. For homo sapiens, from 100 tya-present, it has been 1,496.5 cm3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_size Researchers do not use brain size or the ratio of brain size to body size as measures of intelligence. Instead, they use the encephalization quotient (EQ), which is a relative brain size measure that is defined as the ratio between actual brain mass and predicted brain mass for an animal of a given size. Using the EQ measure, humans are shown as the most intelligent specie s on the planet, as their EQ is 6.56. Other mammals have lower EQ scores, such as 5.55 for whale dolphins, 3.5 for macaque monkeys, 2.63 for chimpanzees, and 0.38 for blue whales. https://io9.gizmodo.com/5890414/the-4-biggest-myths-about-the-human-brain In addition to the EQ measure, intelligence also has to do with the different components of the brain. Humans have the largest cerebral cortex of all mammals, relative to the size of their brains. This area of the brain houses the cerebral hemispheres, which are responsible for higher functions, such as memory, communication, and thinking. http://tdlc.ucsd.edu/educators/educators_myths_biggest_brain.html [7] The prefrontal cortex The main functions of the orbital frontal cortex ( the ventromedial region of the frontal lobe ), the lower surface of the frontal lobe, just behind the eyes, The frontal cortex is involved in executive control, delayed gratification, long-term planning. The frontal lobes are connected to every other part of the human.
Antiperspirant and Deodorant Sticks Through Tom’s of Maine Natural Care Brigade, you can fill a box with any brand of deodorant tubes, soap containers and other bathroom leftovers and mail it back to Terracycle for recycling. Some deodorant tubes may also be accepted through municipal curbside or drop-off programs in your area. To determine the materials from which your tubes are made, start by checking the bottom of the tube for the numbered plastic. Before recycling in your curbside bin, remove the dial from the bottom of the tube and be sure to rinse out your tubes with warm water and soap to remove any residual product. Appliances If the appliances are still in working order, you can sell them. If they no longer work and you wish to recycle them, contact the Appliance Recycling Centers of America at 1-800-599-5792. Best Buy accepts most electronics and large appliances, with a few exceptions, and will take them at no charge. Some gas and electric companies offer a rebate program, so be sure to check with yours. The EPA’s Energy Star Program provides a list of special offers and rebates for recycling large appliances when you purchase new Energy Star models.

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