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93.9% of its citizens are literate, and almost all children attend school until the age of 15. The official religion, language, and currency are Islam, Arabic, and the Kuwaiti dinar, respectively. Unlike most Middle Eastern nations, Kuwait is not a theocracy; rather, it is a unitary hereditary constitutional monarchy (a single executive figure works within constitutional bounds and is succeeded by his heir). Because of this, there is no significant women’s rights movement in the country, as they are considered equal to men. Kuwait's major trade partners are Japan, United States and India, and it has defense arrangements with the US, UK, Russia, and France. Kuwait’s history of relative opulence is likely to continue far into the future. It has a steadily increasing economy, has some kind of alliance with 4 of the 5 permanent United Nations council members (US, France, Russia, UK), and has a stable population. Kuwait is also allied with or close to almost all surrounding countries. It is estimated to have 104B barrels of crude oil supply, which is equal to 10% of the world total. Although the main industry is petroleum, Kuwait also has one of the largest shipping in the region, and several other smaller industries. Because of its prosperity, Kuwait is a significant site for refugees; nearly half of its population consists of non-nationals (people not born in Kuwait). An increase in these fugitives could lead to a drain on the economy and problems for the government. In its current situation, Kuwait has no reason to be the aggressor of any wars for a long time, and its extensive alliances will likely dissuade any would-be attackers. Kuwait's current prosperity is a result of several factors. Centuries of trade and commerce strengthened the economy to the point that the average Kuwaiti makes 20x what an Iraqi would. The country hasn't been directly involved in a war since the 1990's, and is one of the most peaceful countries in the Middle East. It also has one of the only non-theocratic governments; Kuwait has a Emir (king), Prime Minister, and parliament. Almost all children receive at least 15 years of education, unlike some surrounding nations, where only boys are permitted to attend school. Because of these factors, Kuwait is one of the most prosperous, stable, and progressive countries in the Middle East. Works Cited BBC. "Kuwait Timeline." BBC News. BBC, 29 Oct. 2013. Web. 11 Dec. 2013. CIA. "World Factbook." The World Factbook. CIA, n.d.
TABLE 5 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 β sd(β) exp(β) β sd(β) exp(β) β sd(β) exp(β) Survey year 0.714 0.104 2.041* 0.900 0.121 2.460* 0.243 0.288 1.275 Religion (Evangelical) Mainline – – – −0.568 0.161 0.567* −0.868 0.215 0.420* Black Protestant – – – −0.054 0.336 0.947 −0.212 0.385 0.809 Catholic – – – −0.488 0.144 0.614* −0.607 0.199 0.545 Other – – – −0.832 0.313 0.435 −2.008 0.748 0.134 Attendance: frequent – – – 1.231 0.132 3.424* 0.789 0.179 2.201* Attachment: weak – – – −0.412 0.119 0.662*** −0.424 0.168 0.654* Immigration: liberal – – – −0.331 0.126 0.718** −0.397 0.164 0.672* Education – – – −0.288 0.061 0.750 −0.300 0.062 0.741* Cohort (<1940) 1940–59 – – – −0.734 0.169 0.480* −0.744 0.171 0.475* ≥1960 – – – −1.180 0.172 0.307* −1.210 0.174 0.298 Female 0.189 0.104 1.208† 0.215 0.115 1.240† 0.222 0.116 1.248† South 0.731 0.110 2.076* 0.543 0.125 1.721* 0.520 0.126 1.682* Race (white) Black 0.810 0.172 2.249* 0.895 0.282 2.447 0.925 0.286 2.521 Other −0.640 0.239 0.527 −0.412 0.261 0.662 −0.349 0.264 0.706 Interactions: Religion (Evangelical) Mainline – – – – – – 0.674 0.321 1.962* Black Potestant – – – – – – 0.273 0.475 1.313 Catholic – – – – – – 0.267 0.281 1.307 Other – – – – – – 1.682 0.843 5.376* Attendance: frequent – – – – – – 0.994 0.272 2.703* Attachment: weak – – – – – – 0.021 0.236 1.021 Immigration: liberal – – – – – – 0.137 0.252 1.147 Constant −0.741 0.101 0.476* 0.804 0.212 2.234* 1.144 0.248 3.139* −2LLX2 2110.320 1847.794 1825.681 ΔX2 145.118* 262.526* 22.113 df 5 10 7 Nagelkerke R2 0.114 0.295 0.310 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 β sd(β) exp(β) β sd(β) exp(β) β sd(β) exp(β) Survey year 0.714 0.104 2.041* 0.900 0.121 2.460* 0.243 0.288 1.275 Religion (Evangelical) Mainline – – – −0.568 0.161 0.567* −0.868 0.215 0.420* Black Protestant – – – −0.054 0.336 0.947 −0.212 0.385 0.809 Catholic – – – −0.488 0.144 0.614* −0.607 0.199 0.545 Other – – – −0.832 0.313 0.435 −2.008 0.748 0.134 Attendance: frequent – – – 1.231 0.132 3.424* 0.789 0.179 2.201* Attachment: weak – – – −0.412 0.119 0.662* −0.424 0.168 0.654* Immigration: liberal – – – −0.331 0.126 0.718** −0.397 0.164 0.672* Education – – – −0.288 0.061 0.750 −0.300 0.062 0.741* Cohort (<1940) 1940–59 – – – −0.734 0.169 0.480* −0.744 0.171 0.475* ≥1960 – – – −1.180 0.172 0.307* −1.210 0.174 0.298 Female 0.189 0.104 1.208† 0.215 0.115 1.240† 0.222 0.116 1.248† South 0.731 0.110 2.076* 0.543 0.125 1.721* 0.520 0.126 1.682* Race (white) Black 0.810 0.172 2.249* 0.895 0.282 2.447 0.925 0.286 2.521 Other −0.640 0.239 0.527 −0.412 0.261 0.662 −0.349 0.264 0.706 Interactions: Religion (Evangelical) Mainline – – – – – – 0.674 0.321 1.962* Black Potestant – – – – – – 0.273 0.475 1.313 Catholic – – – – – – 0.267 0.281 1.307 Other – – – – – – 1.682 0.843 5.376* Attendance: frequent – – – – – – 0.994 0.272 2.703* Attachment: weak – – – – – – 0.021 0.236 1.021 Immigration: liberal – – – – – – 0.137 0.252 1.147 Constant −0.741 0.101 0.476* 0.804 0.212 2.234* 1.144 0.248 3.139* −2LLX2 2110.320 1847.794 1825.681 ΔX2 145.118* 262.526* 22.113** df 5 10 7 Nagelkerke R2 0.114 0.295 0.310 View Large
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This, however, is merely the result of the aphoristic mode of expression. Let us now consider the mode itself. Academic schools of thought have often reproached Nietzsche with having no system, something they held to be necessary to a real philosopher. Nietzsche himself roundly condemned all systems: ‘I mistrust all systematic thinkers and give them a wide berth. A deliberate systematization means a lack of honesty.’[4] This tendency we have already observed in Kierkegaard, and it is not fortuitous. The bourgeoisie’s philosophical crisis, as evidenced in the demise of Hegelianism, amounted to far more than the recognition of a given system’s inadequacy; it signified the breakdown of a concept that had swayed men for thousands of years. When the Hegelian system collapsed, so did the whole endeavour to co-ordinate, and so to comprehend, the world’s totality and its principle of growth from idealist sources, i.e., from elements of the human consciousness. This is not the place to give even a rough outline of the fundamental changes resulting from this final breakdown of the idealist system-concept. Granted, we know that even after Hegel academic systems were created (Wundt, Cohen, Rickert, etc. ), but we know also that they were totally insignificant for the evolution of philosophy. We know too that the demise of the system in bourgeois thought prompted the outbreak of a bottomless relativism and agnosticism, as though the now obligatory renunciation of idealist systematizing were at the same time to mean renouncing the objectivity of knowledge, a real coherence of the actual world, and the possibility of knowing this. But equally we know that the burial once and for all of the idealist system coincided with the discovery of the real framework of objective reality, namely dialectical materialism. Engels, polemicizing against Nietzsche’s contemporary Eugen Düuhring, formulated the new philosophical position thus: ‘The real unity of the world lies in its materiality ...[5] This unity the individual branches of learning seek (with ever greater accuracy) both to reflect and to embrace conceptually; the principles and laws of this cognitive process are summed up by philosophy. So the systematic framework has not disappeared. It no longer appears, however, in the form, of idealist ‘essences’, but always as an approximating reflection of that unity, that coherence, that set of laws which is objectively — or independently of our consciousness — present and operative in reality itself.
So you see a dedicated space can transform a person into something they could become 'unconsciously' and make a small step to start a hobby or further than that. If you have empty garage there are definitely a moment you wish you could transform it into something useful; why not start carpenter build sofa and table for your homes. Who knows from there you grow into business selling furniture or just as a hobby to blog or social media about your carpentry stuff....later you will grow into positive activity that contributes the work your way to become master or a teacher. In return not only you gain respect by community knowing you can do wood stuff but also keeps you away from doing bad stuff like wasting time or out of home wasting money on something that are not important or socially disturbing. Having a hobby or any productive activity will keep you 'sane' and alive....not insane. I don't respect people who don't have any hobby because people who don't have any hobby or something to develop their own profile or self esteem usually like to cling to others or "social groupies" because they are lost their way and trying to find identity for themself by being 'loud' hoping the crowds helps him to shape what he should be, trying to standout by associating with other person achievement (shared/parasite-ing success) and brag a lot with nothing to proof....you can see them a lot in their Facebook and Twitter, social media exposed this type of people. So get real, stop bragging and work your future by having a space to be productive. There so many thing you do in life like blogging, collecting HotWheels, collecting magazines, build your own library, art paintings, stone collection, collecting anime merchandise, 3d designs and so much more....even colleting as simple as empty cans of soda or bottle can be a hobby too...check of in Youtube video for lots of weird and interesting hobby, these people are dedicated and become useful to the society because of a simple hobby they have. I even met few wonderful people where i teach my Aviation class at school and also at flying field that some quit their traditional jobs to work on their hobby that they are passionate about and made career out of it like building micro house, modern hydroponic agriculture, food chef, aerial drone 3d mapper, web designer and other out of box opportunism.
Hooks v. Workman, in which another Republican-appointed judge wrote a panel opinion finding that a death row prisoner’s lawyer had failed to present important mitigation evidence, including concerning Hooks’ brain damage, mental retardation, and a history of abuse against him. Gorsuch argued this time that even if that evidence had been presented, the jury would have sentenced Hooks to death. As the majority explained, however, the lawyer’s work was demonstrably “deficient” and “prejudicial,” and there was clearly a “reasonable probability” that at least one juror would have refused to impose the death penalty if the Sixth Amendment violation had not occurred. Motions to Suppress Judge Gorsuch’s record is mixed concerning dissents relating to motions to suppress evidence because of alleged constitutional violations by police. In US v. Carloss, Gorsuch argued in dissent that it was improper for police officers to knock on a homeowner’s door as part of an investigation into illegal possession of a machine gun, without a warrant or exigent circumstances, when the homeowner had conspicuously posted “No Trespassing” signs on his door and around the property. Gorsuch listed this opinion as one of his ten most significant opinions in his response to the Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire. In three other cases not involving trespassing at a home, however, Gorsuch dissented from decisions that suppressed evidence because of improper conduct by law enforcement. In US v. Benard, he dissented from a decision to suppress statements made by Benard after he had been arrested without receiving Miranda warnings; Gorsuch argued that the error was harmless, but the majority explained that they “cannot conclude” that was correct “beyond a reasonable doubt,” as the law requires. In US v. Nicholson, Gorsuch dissented from a ruling that police officers had improperly stopped and then searched a car for an alleged traffic violation, when there was no violation at all because the driver’s left turn was not illegal; Gorsuch claimed it was a reasonable mistake, but the majority explained that according to existing Circuit precedent, “failure to understand the law by the very person charged with enforcing it is not objectively reasonable.” And in US v. Dutton, Gorsuch dissented from a decision by two other Republican appointees that a search warrant for a storage unit contained a “fatal flaw” because the application lacked “any evidence” that the unit belonged to Dutton; Gorsuch called it a good faith error, but the majority clearly disagreed.
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Crowds of people waited anxiously Thursday afternoon to take those first steps into the newly built World Trade Center Transportation Hub Oculus — which is now partially opened to the public. A few minutes after 3 p.m. the doors of the state-of-the art facility — designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava — opened to the public. The March 3 opening will give about 100,000 riders who use the PATH the ability to enter at the corner of Liberty and Church streets. RELATED: Brooklyn-Queens Connector to be one of nation’s ‘biggest urban streetcar systems’ Recommended Slideshows 4 Pictures PHOTOS: Singapore's treasures star in NY Botanical Garden's 2019 Orchid Show 4 Pictures 36 Pictures Oscars 2019: Red carpet looks and full list of winners 36 Pictures 36 Pictures All of these celebrities have had their nudes leaked 36 Pictures More picture galleries 16 Pictures These photos of Trump and Ivanka will make you deeply uncomfortable 16 Pictures 4 Pictures Inside Brooklyn's Teknopolis is tech that makes us more human 4 Pictures 4 Pictures Inside The Strand's Fight Against Being Named a New York City Landmark 4 Pictures From the outside visitors see Calatrava’s vision, according to Reuters , of a dove being released into the air from a child’s hand —symbolizing the rebuilding of a terminal that was destroyed during the Sept. 11 attacks. “Lower Manhattan soon will have an architecturally visionary 21st century rail station, combined with world-class retail shops, that will be a focal point for downtown commerce,’’ said Scott Rechler, Port Authority vice chairman, in a statement. “The board of commissioners salutes those whose years of toil finally brought this project to fruition. They have created an iconic structure for generations of New Yorkers, commuters and visitors.” While standing in the transportation hub’s main section—below a glass roof bringing in natural light—visitors filled the hall taking photos, and selfies, and documented the opening. Martin Oppenheim, from Forest Hills, Queens, was stunned by the design and said just looking at it made him smile —especially after remembering the “dark moments” following the attacks more than a decade ago. Related Articles World Trade Center transit hub Oculus to open on Thursday PHOTOS: One World Trade Center almost New York City's tallest building It's official: One World Trade Center now New York City's tallest building “If something beautiful comes out of it, it’s wonderful,” Oppenheim said.
On July 27, 2001, Webber signed a $127 million, seven-year contract with the Kings. In the 2001–02 season, Webber played in 54 games leading the Kings to a Pacific division title and a franchise-record (and league-best) 61–21 season. He also made his fourth All-Star team and the All-NBA Second Team. In the 2002 Playoffs the Kings defeated the Utah Jazz in four games and Dallas Mavericks in five games in the first two rounds en route to reaching the Western Conference Finals against their archrivals, the defending-champion Los Angeles Lakers led by Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, a series that would prove to be one of the most memorable (and most controversial) in NBA History. The series was nip and tuck all the way as both teams traded wins in the first six games of the series as the Lakers won games one, four (highlighted by the game winner from Robert Horry) and six (a game which featured many controversial calls, including a late-game foul on Mike Bibby)after he was bleeding from being elbowed in the nose by Bryant. All told, the Lakers shot 27 free throws in the fourth quarter NBA Commissioner David Stern denied Donaghy's allegations. Lawrence Pedowitz, who led a review of the league's officiating following the outbreak of the scandal, concluded that while Game 6 was poorly officiated, no concrete evidence existed of it having been fixed. [11] Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy filed in court papers in 2008 said that Game 6 was fixed by the NBA. ), while the Kings won games two, three and five, including 29 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists from Webber plus the game-winner from teammate Mike Bibby in game five, heading into the deciding seventh game back at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, a game which would proved to be most memorable of the series. The game was nip and tuck all the way with Webber recording 20 points 11 assists 8 rebounds 2 blocks and 1 steal and Bryant and O'Neal recording 30 points 10 rebounds 7 assists and 2 steals with 35 points 13 rebounds 4 blocks and 2 assists, respectively, as the game went into overtime with missed shots from teammates Stojakovic and Doug Christie, boilling to the last minutes of the game with Webber fouling O'Neal with 1:27 left in overtime causing O'Neal to make both free throws and the Kings would go on to lose Game 7 of the series at home.
Dwolla-Returned May 18 05:39 Dwolla cancelled my most recent withdrawal from Mt. Gox. However, the funds are still missing from my Mt. Gox account. When will they be back? Comments Gene Support Desk Hello, Thank you for contacting us.On checking we find one traction has been processed and as you have informed that Dwolla has cancelled and returned,we will check and update you once we receive it. Thanks, MtGox.com Team May 18, 2013 14:13 Gene Support Desk Hello, We will have this checked with our Developer and will keep you informed. Thanks, MtGox.com Team May 23, 2013 11:59 Gene Support Desk Hello, The transaction returned is yet to reflect ,Could you please check with Dwolla if its returned to our Bank account? Thanks, MtGox.com Team May 24, 2013 10:43 Will I talked with them and they said they had rejected the transaction and I should talk to you guys. I don't know what's going on. Can your developers talk with Dwolla? May 25, 2013 15:09 Gene Support Desk Hello Will, We will check with our Developer on this and will update you on the status. Thanks, MtGox.com Team May 25, 2013 15:11 Will Any luck resolving this issue? I see the funds have still not returned to my account. May 30, 2013 14:35 Gene Support Desk Hello, Sorry for the delay.We are yet to receive an update.We will update you on this as soon as possible.We appreciate your patience. Thanks, MtGox.com Team May 30, 2013 14:42 Will It's been almost a week since I checked in with you guys. I just wanted to see if there's been any progress. I'm sure you can understand I'm a bit worried that it's taking this long to resolve. Thanks for the help. -Will June 05, 2013 15:48 Gene Support Desk Hello Will, Sorry for the delay.We are working towards to get this sorted,We are waiting for an update from our Developer and will surely keep you informed on the status. Thanks, MtGox.com Team June 05, 2013 15:52 Will It's been almost a month now and each time I've emailed you your reply has been the same. It worries me that your response is always the same and you never have any new information or progress to report. I'm beginning to think that nothing is being done to resolve this.
He does complain, after all, about “Toronto dominating the conversation” about the TTC right now. Which is a dubious travesty, given that the TTC—including the Yonge subway line — is owned and operated and for the most part paid for by thecity of Toronto.
As the pages turn, the comfortable myths, produced by history written by the victors, are swept aside. The veil is lifted to reveal the true faces of British and American exceptionalism: stupidity and deceit. Buchanan's strength is that he lets the story be told by Britain's greatest 20th century historians and the memoirs of the participants in the events that destroyed the West's dominance and moral character. Buchanan's contribution is to assemble the collective judgment of a hundred historians. As I read the tale, it is a story of hubris destroying judgment and substituting in its place blunder and miscalculation. Both world wars began when England, for no sound or sensible reason, declared war on Germany. Winston Churchill was a prime instigator of both wars. He seems to have been a person who needed a war stage in order to be a "great man." The American President Woodrow Wilson shares responsibility with Britain and France for the Versailles Treaty, which dismembered Germany, stripping her of territory and putting millions of Germans under foreign rule, and imposed reparations that Britain's greatest economist, John Maynard Keynes, correctly predicted to be unrealistic. All of this was done in violation of assurances given to Germany that there would be no reparations or boundary changes. Once Germany surrendered, the assurances were withdrawn, and a starvation blockade forced German submission to the new harsh terms. Hitler's program was to put Germany back together. He was succeeding without war until Churchill provoked Chamberlain into an insane act. Danzig was 95 percent German. It had been given to Poland by the Versailles Treaty. Hitler was negotiating its return and offered in exchange a guarantee of Poland's frontiers. The Polish colonels, assessing the relative strengths of Poland and Germany, understood that a deal was better than a war. But suddenly, the British Prime Minister issued Poland a guarantee of its existing territory, including Danzig, whose inhabitants wished to return to Germany. Buchanan produces one historian after another to testify that British miscalculations and blunders, culminating in Chamberlain's worthless and provocative "guarantee" to Poland, brought the West into a war that Hitler did not want, a war that destroyed the British Empire and left Britain a dependency of America, a war that delivered Poland, a chunk of Germany, all of Eastern Europe, and the Baltic states to Joseph Stalin, a war that left the Western allies with a 45-year cold war against the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.
He picked me up by my neck with one arm and said, “I’m only going to say it once.” My face was turning red, and I was running out of breath, but I managed to say, “Or what? You gonna hurt me? You’re no hero.” By this time, a few other people started watching our confrontation. At that point I didn’t care about the falafel. I just didn’t want him to have it. So I let it fall to the floor. Everyone watched to see what his reaction would be. He dropped me to the ground. I sat there smiling, trying to catch my breath as he stood over me. He looked around, realizing there was nothing he could do. Then he shot me a dirty look before flying out the door. That was the first time I felt I won. But our battle wasn’t over, and won’t ever be.
Polygon now requires its writers to disclose contributions via Kotaku prohibits its staff from supporting any game developers through the website, except where it is required in order to access materials for review. [ 13 ] [ 58 ] Defy Media adopted a new and stricter journalistic and ethical standards policies for all of their subsidiaries, such as The Escapist and GameFront, and Destructoid updated their ethics policies after Destructoid staff over Twitter. [ 59 ] Many have suggested that GamerGate's criticisms should have targeted large "AAA" game publishers rather than small indie developers, and that the choice to focus initially on Zoe Quinn's personal life resulted in extreme polarization and derailing of the debate. Quinn herself agreed that a discussion on journalism ethics was needed and suggested that all those instead use the "#GameEthics" hashtag to discuss the matter without the baggage of misogyny and harassment that have attached to #GamerGate. [ 5 ] Video game journalists have acknowledged that there are conflicts of interest and other ethical problems within the video game industry, with some news sites adopting new policies in response to the GamerGate controversy.now requires its writers to disclose contributions via Patreon , whileprohibits its staff from supporting any game developers through the website, except where it is required in order to access materials for review.adopted a new and stricter journalistic and ethical standards policies for all of their subsidiaries, such asand, andupdated their ethics policies after Gearbox Software developer Anthony Burch pointed out his personal connections with thestaff over Twitter.Many have suggested that GamerGate's criticisms should have targeted large "AAA" game publishers rather than small indie developers, and that the choice to focus initially on Zoe Quinn's personal life resulted in extreme polarization and derailing of the debate. Quinn herself agreed that a discussion on journalism ethics was needed and suggested that all those instead use the "#GameEthics" hashtag to discuss the matter without the baggage of misogyny and harassment that have attached to #GamerGate.
Q You crossed from Turkey into Syria, where did things go wrong? A We used a guide who we thought knew what he was doing, but halfway down the route he changed direction. There was a communication problem, he didn't speak any English. But he walked us straight into a jihadi training camp. Q A jihadi training camp? Were the fighters from outside Syria, you think? A Absolutely. There wasn't a Syrian present. They were all youngsters from other countries, African countries, Chechnya ... Q And what did they want with you? A At first, they said they just wanted to find out if we were indeed who we said we were, they said they thought we were CIA agents [inaudible]. But then it quickly became apparent they wanted to trade us for ransom. Q And you tried to escape? A Very unsuccesfully ... [laughs] We went towards ... we thought we had figured out a good escape route and thought we had found a quiet moment when almost nobody in the camp was paying attention to us. But they saw us almost right away running, and immediately the bullets were flying, and the big chase had begun. And 10 minutes later we were lying in our blood. Q And then back to the camp? How did you finally manage to get out of there? A There was a moment that we thought we would be disappeared, disappear from the radar screen, that they would take us to a place where no one would ever find us again. Like a place outside Syria, maybe Iraq, or to be handed over to another armed group. Just at that moment, a group of armed men came into the camp. We were blindfolded and bound, trying to wash our clothes at the time. They stormed into our tent and started dressing down everyone. Why the hell we were being kept there, how long we had been kept there, why we were being treated this way. Q And who was this? A From what I know now, they were FSA, FSA soldiers. I don't know which faction. They managed to get intimidate the youth in the camp enough that they could take us out of the camp. Five minutes later they took us out of the camp while shooting [in the air I think]. And we were free.
Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – The passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from around the world and held a wide range of hopes and dreams. While the identities of the 298 people aboard have not been release by the airline, CNN has been able to confirm some of them via family, friends and social media. Hide Caption 1 of 23 Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – Karlijn Keijzer, 25, was a champion rower from Amsterdam who showed much passion and leadership in the United States as a member of the team at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Hide Caption 2 of 23 Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – Miguel Calehr, left, and his older brother Shaka were both aboard the flight. They were on their way to Bali to visit their grandmother. Their middle brother, Mika, was supposed to be on the flight as well, but it was fully booked. Hide Caption 3 of 23 Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – A 77-year-old teacher and Roman Catholic nun, Sister Philomene Tiernan, was on the flight, according to Australia's Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart. The school principal described Tiernan as "wonderfully wise and compassionate." Hide Caption 4 of 23 Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – On Friday, President Barack Obama told reporters that an American, Quinn Lucas Schansman, was aboard. His Facebook page said he was a student at International Business School Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Hide Caption 5 of 23 Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – The World Health Organization was able to confirm to CNN that their employee Glenneth Thomas was on board and heading to the International AIDS Conference scheduled to begin this weekend in Melbourne, Australia. Hide Caption 6 of 23 Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – Shazana Salleh, a Malaysian national, was one of 15 crew members aboard. Hide Caption 7 of 23 Photos: Photos: Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered Malaysia Flight 17 victims remembered – Prominent Dutch scientist Joep Lange was a pioneer in HIV research and a former president of the International AIDS Society, which organizes the International AIDS Conference.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Daniel L. from Perfect step up from DSLR I'd been using Canon DSLRs for video for about 4 years and decided to step up to a mirrorless camera about two months ago. After countless hours of research and watching reviews, I went for the FS5 over the a7s series because of the features and benefits of using a dedicated video camera. The built-in variable ND is absolutely incredible, especially now that it has an auto-ND mode with the latest firmware update. As someone who does a lot of interviews and was always getting tired of plugging mics into an external recorder and then syncing in post, the built-in XLR inputs are a godsend as well and the pre-amps inside are just as good (if not better) than my Zoom h4n. The 10-bit 422 color while shooting 1080p is great as well, and really lets you perfect your image in post. And the slow motion is gorgeous as well - but it only shoots slow motion in a buffer. This is something that I struggled with when comparing the a7s ii to the FS5. The a7s ii can shoot 120fps continuously while the FS5 can do 240fps in 8 second bursts and 120fps in 16 second bursts (automatically conformed to a selected frame rate). After shooting a few weddings with the FS5 I've realized that the burst shooting is really not that bad - if you set it to end trigger and wait for something cool to happen you just simply hit record and it will buffer the last 8 or 16 seconds depending on the fps setting you choose. That said, because you have to wait for it to record and conform, I have missed some valuable shots on run & gun shoots, but it's never been so problematic that I've wished I had a different camera. The FS5 really is light and small and feels great to hold in your hand. If you are looking at this camera coming from DSLRs, I think it's worth noting that even in 1080p the FS5 picture quality looks much better than any Canon DSLR I've used. Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this camera and see it lasting me a long time, especially with the 4K RAW upgrade that is available.
Susannah Ireland / The Independent 16/19 On Christmas "Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better to arrive." 17/19 On Clichés "It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me." BBC 18/19 On Smoking "I think I have always linked smoking and sex. Maybe this is where I have been going wrong all my life." Getty Images 19/19 On Homophobia "Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobic." 1/19 On Being Bipolar "There’s a moment in the film where I recognised that this was the last moment we filmed before this wave of depression came over me, and I was idiotic or victim enough, or whatever one wants to call it, of this mad compulsion." Getty Images 2/19 On Taking Cocaine At Buckingham Palace "I take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly, to the owners, managers or representatives of the noble and ignoble premises and to the hundreds of private homes, offices, car dashboards, tables, mantelpieces and available polished surfaces that could so easily have been added to this list of shame." 3/19 On His Age "I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me." 4/19 On Swearing "It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enjoying swearing." Getty Images 5/19 On TV "I don't watch television. It destroys the art of talking about oneself." PA 6/19 On Happiness "Having a great intellect is no path to being happy." 7/19 On Technology "One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators." PA 8/19 On Being On Stage "You are who you are when nobody's watching." Geraint Lewis 9/19 On Education "Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars." Getty Images 10/19 On Creativity "An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them." Getty 11/19 On Journalism "Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good." PA WIRE 12/19 On Love "Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave."
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:21:44 +0100 Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 09:46:59PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > For clarity, do you mean you're fine with a iceweasel->firefox-esr > > transition in stable(jessie) when we upgrade to 45? (which will be by 45.2, > > at the beginning of June) > > It's likely a lot easier on your side if we do that, right? > > It might actually even also be simpler for us, since we wouldn't need to track two > different source package names for several years. > > If the respective transition packages are in place, that seems acceptable > to me (after all we had a in comparison more drastic UI change between ESR24 > and ESR31). I found this thread while checking when I should expect weasel-ESR31 to go (and when to worry if it doesn't). I'm fine with this idea in principle. However, some users will be surprised by transitional packages _within_ a stable release. Upgrading to a transitional package does not happen when "apt-get upgrade" is used. I _think_ it'll be ok for many people because PackageKit does "dist-upgrade". PK may prompt about installing additional packages (which is sub-optimal, but about par for Debian on the desktop). Unfortunately there are some setups which will fail this. --- It looks like `unattended-upgrades` uses `apt-get update`. `unattended-upgrades` does include modes designed for desktop systems. [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/251303/how-to-automatically-install-updates-before-shutdown I get paranoid about this, because my experience is both Debian 7 and 8 installs lack working update notifications. [2] http://blog.tenstral.net/2015/09/update-notifications-in-debian-jessie.html This means a) I notice some desktop QA problem, so I should try to contribute to it; b) some desktops which _do_ have working update notifications will have been randomly hacked until they seemed to work. E.g. using unattended-upgrades as per the first link above :(. I don't have a suggestion, other than strongly recommend PK & making sure it's working. Just sharing the pain that flared up again when reading your words :-P. Fortunately Stretch fixes gnome update notifications, at least when I last tested. --- There was eventually a recommended backport (apt-config-auto-update), as a good hack to make PK work (about as well as update-manager used to). So that would be fine for transitional packages. Other users may have switched back to update-manager. I _hope_ that's ok due to coming from Ubuntu, where they assume "dist-upgrade" is used e.g. to get kernel updates.
It seeks to put a legal liability for a transitional state of content for no reason other than that Hollywood wants to get paid any and every time a piece of content is touched.If the USTR (or any of the negotiators) actually understood anything (anything at all) about computers and how technology worked, such a request would be a non-starter. Instead, it's front and center in the copyright section of the TPP.
I know there are other explanations sometimes offered for this passage, some of them quite plausible; this is the one that has struck me for many years as having the strongest claim to provide a context for understanding what Paul is saying. After all, his central concern in 1 Corinthians 14 is for order and decency in the church’s worship. This would fit extremely well.
Victory in war means the destruction of the enemy’s will and ability to fight. But as long as Islam exists, there will always be the sacred jihadist command to subdue the infidel, whether the command is acted on or not. So, instead of calling for a “war” that we can never win, a war that we could not sustain, a war that would therefore demoralize us, I call for a permanent policy of Isolating, Containing, and Policing the Muslim world. If we are to have the will to sustain the policy, we must understand what it entails and why it is necessary. In an e-mail in September that I just came upon in my Inbox, Karen in England wrote: In an e-mail in September that I just came upon in my Inbox, Karen in England wrote: Clifford May’s remarks confirm the ignorance of Islam which is prevalent in “conservative” groups and their continued delusion that the violent ones are “extremists” whilst the remainder are “moderates.” An Egyptian Christian friend of mine said that 80 percent of Moslems should be considered to be fundamentalists with the remaining 20 percent largely secular apostates. He said that the West was always underestimating the success Moslem organisations have in brainwashing their populations and the majority are fundamentalists because of that brainwashing. However he added that there is little that non Moslems can do to change Moslems or their educational and religious systems and they should, therefore, be isolated and left alone to sort out their own problems. * * * Below, I will keep adding new Separationists to the list as I become aware of them. Paul Cella, a regular contributor at RedState.com and Tech Central Station, in addition to writing at his own blog, Cella’s Review, is a Separationist. In late December 2006 (Red State doesn’t seem to date its article and comments), he wrote at RedState.com: In my view the wisest strategy of resistance to the Jihad is not engagement but isolation—not isolation of ourselves, but of them. We should make it our policy to have as little contact with the Islamic religion as possible. A sizeable and dynamic faction of this religion, with roots stretching back to the antiquity of Islam, is committed to an uncompromising principle of revolution. Its adherents aim to transform our country utterly, by any means available. Sedition is their piety. Our ability to distinguish this faction from the broader society of Muslims is piteously inadequate.
Look, which of us can honestly say webeen desperate for a few quarters and sold a couple of girls into white (?!!?) slavery (which I assume is somehow supposedly different than other kinds of slavery, but I don't want to know how). It should be noted that many cities, including New York, didn't lift the ban on pinball until the. From there, once video game arcades made their appearance in the eighties, the ground was already laid for how to freak out about them.The article goes on to describe all the other game-related panics:supposedly teaching kids how to run over real people on highways in real life,and other crappy attempts to put nudity in games, the couch-potato claims that fell away onceand the Wii made them untenable, Joe Lieberman (the man who was apparently less fit to be Vice President than Sarah Palin) being Joe Lieberman, howwas directly responsible for the Columbine massacre, and, of course,, which brings this whole panicky nonsense full-circle.And, with that, we're right back to games supposedly teaching roughly all the children to run over people in real life, despite the fact that that didn't happen the last time this nonsense was offered up as a prediction.As always, there's good news and bad news here. The bad news is that we aren't out of the woods on the moral panic over games yet. The good news is that we probably will be soon. The bad news is that Jack Thompson is still making his noise about video games. The good news is that he was disbarred. The bad news is that the media still enjoys whipping up a panic amongst naive adults who will believe their squawks about the dangers of some of these games. The good news is that, every time they have in the past, it only resulted in higher sales for those games, which will only spur on the eventual decline of the panic. Then we can all move on to the next panic. It'll probably be, I don't know, sex robots or something.
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TONY KUSHNER: Well, you know, I mean, partly because I think it spoke a provable truth about their relationship which is that she, you know, he left her at the altar famously and went into what we think of as a great depression. My feeling was that he knew that if you married Mary Todd you weren't going to stay a circuit lawyer in Illinois and that she was going to make him step into his role. I don't think it's the thing Pascal says, anyone who's a genius and doesn't know it probably isn't one, I think Lincoln knew from the time he was a boy that he was able to do things intellectually that most people couldn't do. And I think he knew that his particular genius weirdly was not so much as a writer because I don't think he could have written just essays, he wasn't Emerson. I think he knew that his genius was in politics which is a strange amalgam field. And I think he knew as everyone knew in the middle of the 19th century the main issue was going to be what was going to happen to slavery and could the country cohere. We knew this from the really from the constitutional era on. And I think he was terrified. It's a Garden of Gethsemane moment, it's like do I have to take up this cup of poison? He knew what would become of the person who stepped into the center of that crucible. And he also knew that it was probably his destiny that he had to. That he alone of all people in the United States, I believe, really saw how to do this. Certainly no one else gave us any evidence of having been able to do the whole thing. And I think he ran from her because he was running from that terrible destiny. I think that you want to see a marriage that had that degree of importance. And I absolutely think it's plausible whether she's that particular formulation or not, that she went and listened to those debates, we know that, and that she, you know, if for no other reason than he wanted it and so she was determined that he was going to get it.
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and/or synthetic substances, derivatives, and their isomers with similar chemical structure and pharmacological activity such as the following: S. 1747 7 /\1 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their optical isomers /\6 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their optical isomers /\3, 4 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and its optical isomers (since nomenclature of these substances is not internationally standard- ized, compounds of these structures, regardless of numerical designation of atomic positions covered). [(22)] (21) Ethylamine analog of phencyclidine. Some trade or other names: N-ethyl-1-phenylcyclohexylamine, (1-phenylcyclohexyl) ethyla- mine, N-(1-phenylcyclohexyl) ethylamine cyclohexamine, PCE. [(23)] (22) Pyrrolidine analog of phencyclidine. Some trade or other names 1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)-pyrrolidine; PCPy, PHP. [(24)] (23) Thiophene analog of phencyclidine. Some trade or other names: 1-{1-(2-thienyl)-cyclohexyl}-piperidine, 2-thienylanalog of phencyclidine, TPCP, TCP. [(25)] (24) 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). [(26)] (25) 3,4-methylendioxy-N-ethylamphetamine (also known as N-ethyl-alpha-methyl-3,4 (methylenedioxy) phenethylamine, N-ethyl MDA, MDE, MDEA. [(27)] (26) N-hydroxy-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (also known as N-hydroxy-alpha-methyl-3,4 (methylenedioxy) phenethylamine, and N-hydroxy MDA. [(28)] (27) 1-{1- (2-thienyl) cyclohexyl} pyrrolidine. Some other names: TCPY. [(29)] (28) Alpha-ethyltryptamine. Some trade or other names: etryptamine; Monase; Alpha-ethyl-1H-indole-3-ethanamine; 3- (2-aminobutyl) indole; Alpha-ET or AET. [(30)] (29) 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylamphetamine. Some trade or other names: DOET. [(31)] (30) 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine. Some trade or other names: 2-(4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-1-aminoethane; alpha-desmethyl DOB; 2C-B, Nexus. [(32)] (31) 2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)-propylthiophenethylamine (2C-T-7), its optical isomers, salts and salts of isomers. S 5. Section 3382 of the public health law, as added by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows: S 3382. Growing of the plant known as Cannabis by unlicensed persons. A person who, without being licensed so to do under this article, grows the plant of the genus Cannabis or knowingly allows it to grow on his land without destroying the same, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO A PERSON EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER WHO POSSESSES, GROWS, OR TRANSPORTS NO MORE THAN SIX MARIHUANA PLANTS, WITH THREE OR FEWER BEING MATURE, FLOWERING PLANTS, PROVIDED THAT THE PLANTS ARE GROWN IN AN ENCLOSED, LOCKED SPACE, NOT OPENLY OR PUBLICLY, AND THAT THE MARIHUANA IS NOT SOLD. S 6. Subdivision 1 of section 3397-b of the public health law, as added by chapter 810 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows: 1.
Methodology used to tabulate these statistics "USR + USR or FR" = Spouse 1 is U.S.-Raised while Spouse 2 can be U.S.-Raised or Foreign-Raised"USR + USR Only" = Both spouses are U.S.-Raised History shows that these anti-miscegenation laws were very common in the U.S. They were first passed in the 1600s to prevent freed Black slaves from marrying Whites and the biracial children of White slave owners and African slaves from inheriting property. It was not until 1967, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Loving v. Virginia case that such laws were unconstitutional. At that time, 38 states in the U.S. had formal laws on their books that prohibited non-Whites from marrying Whites. As suc, one could argue that it's only been in recent years that interracial marriages have become common in American society. Of course, anti-miscegenation laws were part of a larger anti-Asian movement that eventually led to the Page Law of 1875 that effectively almost eliminated Chinese women from immigrating ot the U.S., the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, and other restrictive regulations. These laws actually made the situation worse because Asian men were no longer able to bring their wives over to the U.S. So in a way, those who wanted to become married had no other choice but to socialize with non-Asians. After World War II however, the gender dynamics of this interracial process flip-flopped. U.S. servicemen who fought and were stationed overseas in Asian countries began coming home with Asian "war brides." Data show that from 1945 into the 1970s, thousands of young women from China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and later Viet Nam came to the U.S. as war brides each year. Further, after the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, many of these Asian war brides eventually helped to expand the Asian American community by sponsoring their family and other relatives to immigrate to the U.S. These days, Asian Americans in interracial relationships are very common. One of the best research articles on this topic is a study conducted by Shinagawa and Pang entitled "Asian American Panethnicity and Intermarriage," reprinted in the highly recommended Asian Americans: Experiences and Perspectives. Similar in structure to their study, my colleague J.J. Huang and I have analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau to construct the following table on marriage patterns among Asian Americans.
Couples are not allowed to even touch until it is deemed that they are intellectually compatible.Ruth has a full-time maths post at the Hebrew University, but her undoubted academic gifts do not appear to have brought any tangible, material benefits.Home is a basement flat in the run-down Jerusalem suburb of Bayit Vegan. The five-storey building is on the long and dusty Uziel Street, home to a large number of Orthodox families. As we talk she breaks off to stamp on a cockroach scuttling across the floor. "Obviously I miss many things about being in Britain. I certainly enjoyed my time there. "But one thing I do not miss is all the attention. I very much feel I've found my natural place in Israel. "I am known for my mathe-matics here - there is no public scrutiny. I still take maths very seriously. By no means have I given up everything to become a mother. And the jobs at home are shared, I am not bound by the home. 'I have a husband and son -before it was just maths'"But I obviously have three big responsibilities now with my husband and son, whereas before it was just solely mathematics. "In Michigan her father is finding it hard to adjust to life without Ruth. The joy that the new life has brought Ruth has left 63-year-old Harry Lawrence alone and unable to work without an employment visa.There is an air of melancholy in his voice as he says: "Ruth is my legacy in a sense and more of me has gone into her as she grew up than many parents can claim. And I see nothing wrong with that. "In England I found people were afraid or did not understand Ruth's excellence and special abilities and there was often a dislike for our relationship and my efforts in dedicating myself to her. "It has been a tour de force, I have to admit. But my relationship with Ruth is quite different now because I devoted much of my life to her - and now she is gone." Of course I miss her very much now but one has to move on with one's life..."Ruth and her father last met at the beginning of the year. "It's not as if she has disappeared. She is just not here with me any more, that's all, he says. "It's different.
At the Smartpark, for-profit companies like Monsanto lease space in the university’s innovation centers. These corporate interests are, of course, beginning to bleed into campus life. Serenity Joo, associate professor in the Faculty of Arts, described a colleague who was “reprimanded for being uncollegial” after critiquing bad research put out by the factory-farm interests on campus. And, like many other campuses in Canada and the United States, Manitoba is heavily recruiting international students, who pay three times what provincial students pay. While cashing their hefty tuition checks, the university has farmed out English language instruction to Navitas, a for-profit company. Hudson explained that management fights to preserve “maximum flexibility to readjust [and] reallocate labor” to make sure revenue stays high. This so-called flexibility manifests in a number of different forms, but two recent developments contributed to the union’s anger going into contract negotiations. Last year, the dean of the Faculty of Arts increased courses for non-tenure-track faculty from three to four classes a semester, a 33 percent increase. In past years, deans would have sought approval from faculty before making any change to workload requirements, especially one so major. As negotiating team member Brenda Austin-Smith reported, this time the dean responded to two negative votes from faculty by saying “‘Thank you very much, I’ve consulted with you, and now I’m going to go ahead and [increase workloads].’ Members were incensed.” Austin-Smith likened the move to a “speedup on the line,” a logic that now permeates the university. When deans couldn’t add additional classes to instructors’ duties, they simply increased the number of students allowed to enroll. Meanwhile, forty librarians were fired, massively increasing workload for everyone else. As Joo pointed out, “Even if you did get rid of the riff-raff, that’s an immense amount of labor that’s been shifted onto them.” University president David Barnard defended the move, explaining that technology had made librarians obsolete. These decisions, and Barnard’s baffling defense of them, indicate that the administration and faculty fundamentally disagree about the university’s mission. The professors I spoke with all argued that the administration does not support the values of education, ignoring — either willfully or out of ignorance — the faculty’s expertise and the students’ needs.
In 1981, Rand entered Baylor University, a Baptist school in Waco, four hours from home. He immediately set himself apart. He contributed regularly to the school newspaper, the Lariat, drawing on Ayn Rand, Hayek, and Mises’s disciple Murray Rothbard. He studied biology (as his father had in college) and liked to challenge Waco’s fundamentalists, some of whom criticized the school for teaching evolution. George Paul, the son of a prominent Texas political fund-raiser, was Rand’s closest friend in college. George told me, “Many of the students had never left Texas and could be very limited in their outlooks.” He said that on Sundays he and Rand often visited different churches in an attempt “to observe how people practice their spirituality,” and frequently debated “individuals who very literally interpret the Bible, who question many scientific theories.” He added, “We would start digging by asking very direct questions, and people’s inability to answer them would fluster them and in some ways make it uncomfortable for them—and hopefully inspire one or two to think back on it later.” He recalled that he and Rand would debate anti-abortion extremists calling for the death penalty for doctors who performed abortions. (“Senator Paul denies that he went church to church seeking out people to argue with on religious matters,” Brian Darling, Paul’s communications director, said.) Rand’s friendship with George Paul was itself a small act of rebellion. George and Rand, who were both on the Baylor swim team and often spent six hours a day in the pool, became so close that, shortly after they arrived at Baylor, George legally changed his name from George Paul Schauerte to George Schauerte Paul. George was known on campus for his ability to acquire things without paying for them. He explained to me that he had “a God-given talent for being able to find things on short notice when they’re needed.” He once procured tanks of nitrous oxide from a friend studying dentistry. “He called them pleasure units,” Kristy Ditzler, who was on the swim team with Rand and George, said. She, Rand, and George got high on laughing gas. “We attached a scuba mask directly to it,” George said. “We knew it was dangerous, but we also knew how to adjust the air mixture to keep it just right.” (“College was a long time ago,” Paul said in a statement.
It is not enough to make the usual answer that of course Swift was wrong, in fact he was insane, but he was ‘a good writer’. It is true that the literary quality of a book is to some small extent separable from its subject-matter. Some people have a native gift for using words, as some people have a naturally ‘good eye’ at games. It is largely a question of timing and of instinctively knowing how much emphasis to use. As an example near at hand, look back at the passage I quoted earlier, starting ‘In the Kingdom of Tribnia, by the Natives called Langdon’. It derives much of its force from the final sentence: ‘And this is the anagram-made Method.’ Strictly speaking this sentence is unnecessary, for we have already seen the anagram decyphered, but the mock-solemn repetition, in which one seems to hear Swift's own voice uttering the words, drives home the idiocy of the activities described, like the final tap to a nail. But not all the power and simplicity of Swift's prose, nor the imaginative effort that has been able to make not one but a whole series of impossible worlds more credible than the majority of history books — none of this would enable us to enjoy Swift if his world-view were truly wounding or shocking. Millions of people, in many countries, must have enjoyed Gulliver's Travels while more or less seeing its anti-human implications: and even the child who accepts Parts i and n as a simple story gets a sense of absurdity from thinking of human beings six inches high. The explanation must be that Swift's world-view is felt to be not altogether false — or it would probably be more accurate to say, not false all the time. Swift is a diseased writer. He remains permanently in a depressed mood which in most people is only intermittent, rather as though someone suffering from jaundice or the after-effects of influenza should have the energy to write books. But we all know that mood, and something in us responds to the expression of it. Take, for instance, one of his most characteristic works, The Lady's Dressing Room: one might add the kindred poem, Upon a Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. Which is truer, the viewpoint expressed in these poems, or the viewpoint implied in Blake's phrase, ‘The naked female human form divine’?
As in experiment 1, oyster settlement at the conclusion of a trial was measured in each container under a dissecting microscope as the proportion of individuals attached to the substrate or container surfaces, and the mean proportional settlement for each replicate was calculated. For each of the two experiments, randomized block ANOVAs were used to test for a difference in the response variable (mean settlement) amongst sound treatments, blocked by trial. Significant differences in mean settlement among the sound treatments were identified with a Tukey's Honestly Significant Differences test. Larval settlement experiments (Field) To further overcome limitations related to the reproduction of sound using speakers in small tank experiments [14], [38], a field-based settlement experiment was conducted on oyster reef and adjacent off-reef habitats that served as ambient sound sources for cultures of hatchery-reared oyster larvae. Four trials were completed in June and September of 2011 and July and August of 2012. An oyster reserve in West Bay, Pamlico Sound, North Carolina served as the “reef sound” site and the “off-reef sound” site was a soft sediment bottom located ∼ 800–1000 m from the reserve (Fig. 3a). Off-reef sites were also selected to match the reef site depth of approximately 3 meters. PPT PowerPoint slide
As the Congress searches for an explanation for its rock-bottom performance in Uttar Pradesh, a poster, put up at the party office in the state capital of Lucknow, pointed a very large finger: Find Prashant Kishor, Congress strategist. The hoarding, which was taken down Saturday morning, offered a five-lakh award, and made no attempt to conceal the identity of the purveyor. In fact, it bragged a large photo of him: Rajesh Singh, a Congressman for more than two decades who has served four times as a secretary for the UP Congress.For his missive against Mr Kishor, the politician was suspended on Sunday from the party for six years. The penalty was declared at a meeting held over the weekend between Raj Babbar, the actor-turned-politician who was made president of the Congress in UP ahead of the election, and the modest group of seven newly-elected state legislators from the party. This is the Congress' worst performance in India's most-populous state and the homestead of the party's Gandhi dynasty. "I stand by what I did. Prashant Kishor took us for a ride. We are honest workers who have given our blood and sweat for the party. Yet our views in the election were totally ignored. This (defeat) is the result of hiring these consultants who are out to make a quick buck," Mr Singh alleged.Mr Kishor, who is in his late 30s, was credited with abetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's huge victory in 2014. Then, two years later, he signed up with the Congress to handle its election campaign in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. The hill state of Uttarakhand was a late addition to his tasks. The Congress won Punjab but was totally eclipsed in UP and Uttarakhand, where the PM led his party to a walloping majority. Captain Amarinder Singh , the 75-year-old Chief Minister of Punjab, has acknowledged Mr Kishor's role in his victory- the sole bright spot for the Congress in a spate of recent elections.In two other states- Goa and Manipur- where the Congress won the most seats, it blew its shot at forming the government with ineffectual and slow negotiations with regional parties. The BJP is now in power in both.Rahul Gandhi, who is running the Congress - his mother and party chief Sonia Gandhi is unwell - has been sheltered from accountability by a series of colleagues upholding the party tradition of unquestioning allegiance to their First Family.
When Epstein first considered the microbial dark matter, he paid little heed to its practical uses. “I was a fairly snobbish academician who looked down on biotechnology,” he told me. “My interest in the Great Plate Count Anomaly was ninety-nine per cent academic; it was a big intellectual challenge.” But during his collaboration with Lewis he began to meet people in the pharmaceutical industry who had been searching for bacteria that produced novel antibiotics. The problems that they encountered struck Epstein as surprisingly complex, and his snobbery dissipated. The word “antibiotic”—a Latinate term meaning “life-negating”—suggests a misleading confidence about how these chemicals work in nature. “We actually don’t know,” Epstein told me. The conventional theory is that they are weapons, deployed in a primeval struggle among microorganisms. Long before humans began making use of them, evolutionary pressure caused some bacteria to mutate and develop resistance to attacks from others. Those defenses in turn promoted the evolution of new forms of weaponry. Epstein is skeptical of this theory. For one thing, no one has ever measured concentrations of antibiotics in nature which are lethal to bacteria. He is open to the notion that these chemicals might be for signalling, and that they seem like weapons because of how we use them. As an illustration, imagine if curious Martians sampled the air around pedestrians in New York City and determined that some people were coated in aromatic compounds. And suppose they isolated those compounds and, as an experiment, dumped tons of them, at a hundred million times the concentration, into Madison Square Garden on a packed night. They might conclude from the resulting mass casualties that cologne is a tool of violence. In Epstein’s view, human researchers may hold a similar bias toward microbial life. “The default hypothesis should be that this or that molecule is used in coöperation rather than in fighting, because that is what dominates among microbes in the first place,” he told me. He mentioned a recent experiment, in which researchers found that a chemical used by a microbe called P. aeruginosa to conduct a census of its colony could also be used, in significantly higher doses, as an antibiotic. Kim Lewis believes in the weapons theory, and most people who work on antibiotic resistance do, too. There may be no observational evidence for it, but there are important clues in DNA.
He went to the adult education program in Watsonville, where they told him it would take a year to get a GED degree, but he knew that would kill the job offer. So he bought several GED books and boned up on them for days, went in and aced the test, earning his degree on the first try. He approaches police work with the same focused intensity. On a ride-along I took with him through town, he knows every person he sees on the street, like an old beat cop who walked the streets. He's arrested them, or helped them, or listened to their stories. As we drive, he gets a call from a woman who had a restraining order against her husband and needed advice. Later, he tries to help a man who was passed out on the street. But the man didn't want help. He woke up and started swearing and making racist comments to Duarte, using a word that went out generations ago, calling him a "spic." Duarte cast a blind eye at the words. "I've heard it all," he says. "You'd have to do something a lot worse to bother me." But when the 280-pound 6-foot 3-inch man man lashed out at the officer, Duarte, only 5 feet 6 inches tall and 100 pounds lighter, subdued him with skilled martial arts training, and had him handcuffed in seconds. The toughest part of his job has been enforcing laws he once broke, he says. He feels bad when he pulls over an immigrant who doesn't have a license because he doesn't have a green card. "Coming from a country where the police are known not to be honest, I know that I have to be," he says. "I don't make the laws and there is a certain flexibility in interpreting some of them, but I can't overlook them." He's been called a traitor and offered bribes from his former countrymen. "I tell them, this isn't the old country, and they could be arrested for that here." He also does volunteer work helping fellow immigrants adapt to the U.S. and talking to kids in gangs about getting out of them. "He does that on his own time," said Deputy Chief Rick Martinez. "We don't pay him for that and he puts in a lot of his own time to mentor at-risk youth. The reasons he became an officer are above and beyond the usual ones.
While puCK and Neeb have made the biggest splashes recently, and HuK's been the patron saint of the NA scene, with all the good and bad that implies since forever, it's worth pointing out that they aren't the only players around. MaSa has finally gotten a chance to claim his #1 in Canada title and has looked quite impressive as of late, especially in his Kings of the North run and his tight encounter with Bly in TING. His WCS Winter performance was also a huge surprise, involving a well-played upset over Harstem, before being edged out by runner-up Snute: be on the lookout for this guy. He's damn good, and with his WCS Winter performance he proved that he can bring it when it really matters. JonSnow, who missed out on WCS Winter despite qualifying, has also found his own niche by qualifying for Austin in a pretty solid run over HuK, Scarlett and Bails. He's a lot less proven and has generally had middling success in the North American scene, so this opportunity to show himself is gonna be quite interesting to see. Will he shine? It's very likely that he won't, but he does seem to elevate his play quite a lot going into important qualifiers such as for WCS Winter and (of course) Dreamhack Austin. Bails is another solid up-and-comer, while players ranging from PiLiPiLi to State show occasional potential but still haven't had their moment in the spotlight. To round out this collection of all the 'underdogs', I have to mention Kelazhur: he's been one of the most talented terrans in the foreign scene for a while now, and I found myself quite impressed with his WCS runs last year especially. He (and MajOr) don't get their own sections because they tend to run with Latin America, but they're both very red-hot terrans who can at any moment find a good run. If Kelazhur manages to not draw Neeb, his match is definitely going to be worth watching if he manages to qualify for WCS Spring.
Page Content Oregon Minimum Wage Rate Summary Enacted by the 2016 Oregon Legislature, Senate Bill 1532 establishes a series of annual minimum wage rate increases beginning July 1, 2016 through July 1, 2022. Beginning July 1, 2023, the minimum wage rate will be indexed to inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a figure published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition to a new standard minimum wage rate, the bill sets out a separate rate which will apply to employers located in the urban growth boundary of a metropolitan service district. (Currently, only the Portland metropolitan area has an urban growth boundary.) Finally, a third rate will apply within certain "nonurban" counties named in the bill: Date Standard Portland Metro Nonurban Counties January 1, 2016 $9.25 $9.25 $9.25 July 1, 2016 $9.75 $9.75 $9.50 July 1, 2017 $10.25 $11.25 $10.00 July 1, 2018 $10.75 $12.00 $10.50 July 1, 2019 $11.25 $12.50 $11.00 July 1, 2020 $12.00 $13.25 $11.50 July 1, 2021 $12.75 $14.00 $12.00 July 1, 2022 $13.50 $14.75 $12.50 July 1, 2023 Adjusted annually based on the increase, if any, to the US City average Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers $1.25 over the standard minimum wage $1 less than the standard minimum wage Portland Metro The Portland Metro rate applies to employers located within the urban growth boundary (UGB) of the metropolitan service district. Search by address to determine whether a site is located inside the UGB with Metro's Urban Growth Boundary lookup tool A map of the UGB is also available for download Nonurban counties The nonurban rate applies to employers located within the following counties: Baker Klamath Coos Lake Crook Malheur Curry Morrow Douglas Sherman Gilliam Umatilla Grant Union Harney Wallowa Jefferson Wheeler Oregon Minimum Wage Rates by County NOTE: Employers located within Washington, Multnomah and Clackamas counties but NOT within the UGB will be subject to the standard rate, not the metro rate. (Click for black and white version of this map.)
Dean and Stock remained a week in Fairmount. It was simultaneously a reunion and a farewell. Stock later wrote that James Dean knew that he would never see the farm again, and for that reason insisted that the last shots were taken of him before the farmhouse. James posed himself, looking straight ahead, while his dog Tuck turned away. It was, according to Stock, the actor’s interpretation of ‘you will never return home again’. Fairmount had formed him, New York had changed him. New York was his laboratory, in which parts of him flew apart only to form together in an arbitrary manner. In New York, he had been discovered by Elia Kazan, director of Fast of Eden, the son of the land had become a god-in-the-making. Even if it took Hollywood to form his image definitively, New York was where the career of the coming star had been launched. Blue jeans, T-shirt, closed windbreaker belong to the Dean mythos just as much as the cigarette and the only partially tamed hair. Dennis Stock wrote “James Dean haunted Times Square”, beneath his perhaps most famous portrait of the young actor. “For a novice actor in the fifties this was THE place to go. The Actors Studio, directed by Lee Strasberg, was in its heyday and just a block away.” Dean is wearing a dark coat – because of the weather, of course. But the way in which he hides himself in it may also be interpreted as a reference to his vulnerability – it is a cocoon, even if it is in fact black. One should not perhaps over-interpret the color, even though we know that Dean will not live to see the premier of Rebel Without a Cause. On 30 September 1955 at 5:45 p.m., his Porsche Speedster will crash into a Ford sedan. It cannot be claimed that he made a “good-looking corpse”; but he had succeeded in living fast, and dying young -at age twenty-four. – History of Photography
- Although he has proclaimed his innocence since FBI agents raided his home and City Hall, Trenton Mayor Tony Mack was found guilty today. A jury returned the verdict after seven and a half hours of deliberations, saying that the first-term mayor is guilty of all counts in his corruption trial. Mack stood trial beside his brother Ralphiel Mack who was found guilty of three of the six counts against him. “The jury’s verdict solidly affirms what we first charged more than a year ago – that Tony Mack, with the helping hands of his brother and their cohorts, sold the mayor’s office and sold out the people of Trenton,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. “We are very grateful to the members of the jury for their service.” The trial, which began on Jan. 6, consisted of 14 days of testimony including one defense witness who testified for only 10 minutes. Neither the mayor nor his brother took the stand in his own defense. Tony Mack, elected in 2010, took bribe money from the purported developers of a parking garage downtown. The jury found that Mack used his official influence as mayor to agree to sell the city-owned lot where the developers sought to build the garage at below market value in exchange for cash. The developers – Harry Seymour and his local representative Lemuel Blackburn – were working in cooperation with the FBI for the sting operation targeting Mack. On several occasions either Seymour, a residential and commercial developer from North Jersey, or Blackburn, a former city attorney who worked as former Mayor Douglas Palmer’s personal counsel, met with Mack supporter Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni and others to discuss the particulars of the deal. During those meetings, Seymour and Blackburn were wearing hidden FBI recording devices, capturing every moment on audio and video. The FBI also had a wiretap recording phone calls made and received by Giorgianni, the mayor and admitted co-conspirator Charles Hall III, who at the time was working in City Hall put in charge of running the recreation department, even though he was hired to be a meter reader for the city’s water utility. Mack accepted cash for the project through Giorgianni, who gave the money to Ralphiel Mack to give to his brother. In recordings played in court, Giorgianni said the buffers insulated the mayor from suspicion about accepting illicit cash.
The voices of women are heard every Sunday. In calling us to worship. In prayer. In the reading of Scripture. In welcoming us to the Table.My two sons are growing up hearing the voice of their mother from the pulpit on Sunday morning.For all this the Highland elders--the pastoral leaders of our church--are to be greatly commended. They endured and suffered much in making these changes.And yet, our progress on this front has been stalled leading me to make, as a matter of conscience, some decisions about my participation in the life of Highland. These decisions have, until recently, been private. But since I've now shared these decisions with our leadership I'd like to make a public record of them in the hope that Highland would reengage this conversation.As a part of Highland's discernment process regarding women's roles two roles were left off the table. First, we did not consider if a woman could preach. Second, we did not consider if a woman could be an elder of the church. These two roles--preaching and serving as an elder--were to remain in the hands of men as they represented more formal roles of "leadership" and "authority." In short, women can do anything at Highland except these two things, preach and serve as an elder.Let me pause here to also register a disappointment in this regard. During our discernment process it was determined, and publicly stated by the elders, that women could lead the praise/singing time during our assemblies. And yet, while this role was formally opened up, to date no woman has been asked to lead our worship. This failure to move forward on something the elders publicly committed to has been most discouraging and disappointing.But to offer some clarifications. In many ways the roles where woman are--formally or functionally--excluded do have an egalitarian feel. Women sing on our praise team and sing solos. Our preacher can invite women up as a part of a sermon and allow them to share, though they have to be "hosted" onstage by the male preacher. Elders are often introduced as couples and the elder couples are often called onstage to pray over and minister to people. Highland recognizes that the wives of the elders are carrying as much of if not more of a pastoral burden given the gifts of the particular couple (i.e., some of the wives, and this is often publicly acknowledged, are better pastors than their husbands).
Rochelle Initially, Nick would address Rochelle in a patronizing way, sarcastically using endearments like "sweetie", "sweetheart", and "honey". However, Rochelle's sensible attitude, level-headed view of their situation, and her own brand of sarcasm right back at him earns her Nick's respect and liking almost immediately. She is the one character he will not threaten with violence if she accidentally shoots him, instead telling her firmly to stop. [16] Like with Coach, Nick's interaction with Rochelle consists of trading banter. [17] [18] After Francis takes a liking to Rochelle and she seems to show signs of reciprocating, Nick is quick to tease her[19] [20]. Despite his vocal dislike of Francis, he tells her not to play hard to get and encourages her to go for it, seeing as she "isn't getting any younger". Generally, Nick and Rochelle get along. Sometimes, when Nick mourns for Rochelle, he will say, "I can think of two other people I would have rather seen go first" or "So much for repopulating the Earth". They share similar realistic perspectives of the apocalypse situation, which will result in certain conversations in which Rochelle takes Nick's side, such as defending his shooting the Infected helicopter pilot in Swamp Fever. But her patience with him does wear thin at times; in The Passing, she goes as far as saying that she hates him when Nick mocks Ellis's crush on Zoey one too many times. Still, the two seem to have more in common than with the others; they are both not from Georgia (Rochelle is from Cleveland, Ohio; Nick never says where he's from but his accent and the places he mentions imply he is from somewhere in the North), they use sarcasm freely, and as Survivor Bots they have similar taste in weaponry (Assault Rifle variants). They stand next to each other in all of the campaign posters.
It was later titledbut was shelved.In 2005, he was the co-presenter, alongside Sugar Ray Leonard , of the NBC Reality television boxing series. That same year he also made a guest appearance in two episodes of the television series. In 2005, Stallone also inducted wrestling icon Hulk Hogan , who appeared inas a wrestler named Thunderlips, into the WWE Hall of Fame; Stallone was also the person who offered Hogan the cameo inAfter a three-year hiatus from films, Stallone made a comeback in 2006 with the sixth installment of his successful Rocky series,, which was a critical and commercial hit. After the critical and box office failure of the previous installment, Stallone had decided to write, direct and star in a sixth installment which would be a more appropriate climax to the series. The total domestic box office came to $70.3 million (and $155.7 million worldwide). The budget of the movie was only $24 million. His performance inhas been praised and garnered mostly positive reviews.Stallone's fourth installment of his other successful movie franchise is titled simply. The film opened in 2,751 theaters on January 25, 2008, grossing $6,490,000 on its opening day and $18,200,000 over its opening weekend. Its box office was $113,244,290 worldwide with a budget of $50 million.Asked in February 2008 which of the icons he would rather be remembered for, Stallone said "it's a tough one, butis my first baby, soStallone's debut as a director came in 1978 withwhich he also wrote and starred in. In addition, he directed, the sequel to, along with, and. In August 2005, Stallone released his bookwhich claimed to be a guide to fitness and nutrition as well as a candid insight into his life and works from his own perspective. The book also contained many photographs of Stallone throughout the years as well as pictures of him performing exercises. In addition to writing all sixfilms, Stallone also wrote, and. He has co-written several other films, such as, and the first threefilms. His last major success as a co-writer came with 1993's. In addition, Stallone has continued to express his passion in directing a film on Edgar Allan Poe's life, a script he has been preparing for years. In July 2009, he appeared in a cameo in the Bollywood moviewhere he played himself. Stallone also provided the voice of a lion in Kevin James's comedy.
It said there were a variety of measures people could use to protect themselves from unwanted contact and that Facebook strongly encouraged their use. 'Calculated and wicked' Prosecutor Graham Reeds QC said: "Having invented 19-year-old Peter to make contact with girls, he now decided to invent Peter's dad in order to persuade Ashleigh that it was safe to get into his car. "The plan he devised was calculated and wicked and it worked." Mr Reeds said Chapman picked her up near her home, and then drove her to Thorpe Larches, near Sedgefield, where he attacked her. He is a predatory sex offender who, through the tentacles of the internet, could reach out to the young
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 From PTJ: PT, PTA Injuries Related to Patient Handling Still Common in LTC Settings Despite efforts by APTA and others to emphasize safety and the use of lifting devices, physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) working in long-term care (LTC) facilities continue to experience musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) linked to patient handling incidents, say authors of a new study. Areas of injury most frequently cited by PTs, PTAs, and other "therapy personnel"—occupational therapists (OTs) and occupational therapy assistants (OTAs)—were the lower back, shoulder, and neck. For the study, published in the February issue of PTJ (Physical Therapy), researchers looked at a year's worth of workers compensation claims (WCCs) from a long-term care company with 202 skilled nursing facilities and 20 assisted living facilities, and compared those data with the results of confidential surveys completed by 2,642 employees of the company. While the primary aim of the study was to get a sense of the magnitude of musculoskeletal injuries experienced by employees, authors also were interested in how those injuries correlate to workers' perceptions of their job demands and whether they routinely used resident-lifting equipment. For the analysis, the authors divided the WCC claims into 4 categories related to the cause of injury: ergonomic (manual or patient handling, bodily reaction, repetition), workplace violence, acute incident (fall, slips, trips, being struck by an object), and other. The nature of the injury—acute, subacute, nonspecific, nonmusculoskeletal—and body region affected also were grouped into major areas. Employees were grouped into larger categories: therapy personnel, nursing aide, licensed practical nurse (LPN), registered nurse (RN), social/speech/respiratory service, technician, housekeeping/dietary maintenance, and office/administrative service. Among the findings: According to WCC data, the most commonly injured body regions among all employees were upper extremities (37%), lower back/back and trunk (20%), and lower extremities (17%).
Brian C. Gray, head of reference and engineering librarian, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, explains, “I started locally first by submitting content to my library school’s discussion list and volunteering as an officer for the SLA Student Group at my school. While in school, my Student Group involvement and name recognition from the list participation snowballed into working with the Cleveland SLA Chapter, receiving an SLA scholarship, and being selected to an SLA committee at its annual meeting.” Wolske also advises that students look for opportunities to participate in ongoing research. “Grant writing and outcome-based evaluations of programs are becoming common requirements to fund new initiatives at libraries, and participating in research while in the program can provide an important edge after graduation,” he explained. And while the MLS is all that most jobs require, it’s not the end of available library education. Post-masters certificate programs in various specialties can help differentiate you from other entry level applicants, or help mid-career librarians brush up on new developments and qualify to switch fields or apply for a promotion.
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Want to know more about this incredible new dinosaur? What kind of food did Zuul eat? Ankylosaurine dinosaurs had wide, toothless beaks, and small, leaf-shaped cheek teeth. Together, this tells us that Zuul was a plant eater, and research on related species of ankylosaurs, like Euoplocephalus from Alberta, suggests that ankylosaurines ate low-growing plants like ferns and shrubs. Why did ankylosaurs have tail clubs? Tail clubs are definitely one of the weirdest and most recognizable features of ankylosaurs, and Zuul is no exception! Mathematical modeling of tail clubs by Dr. Victoria Arbour has shown that they could smash into things with great force without breaking. Maybe ankylosaurs used their tail clubs to defend themselves from predators like the meat-eating tyrannosaurs, swinging them at their ankles. Or maybe ankylosaurs fought with each other over territory or mates, using their tail clubs like modern deer use their antlers. It’s even possible that ankylosaur tail clubs were used for both defence and offence! What other animals lived in Zuul’s ecosystem? The plants and animals of the Judith River Formation, where Zuul was found, are still poorly understood even though palaeontologists have been searching for fossils from these rocks for over a century. That’s another reason that Zuul is so special – lots of other fossils were found alongside its skeleton in the same quarry. The ROM collection contains most of these fossils, including an ostrich-like dinosaur (an ornithomimid), adult and baby duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs), parts of the frill of a horned dinosaur (ceratopsian), teeth from a meat-eating tyrannosaur, skulls and shells from turtles, a crocodile skull, and fossilized leaves. Just like how Zuul represented a new species of ankylosaur (Zuul crurivastator), some of these fossils might prove to be new species as well. Was Zuul a male or female dinosaur? We don’t know right now if Zuul was a male or female. In very rare instances, palaeontologists can tell if a dinosaur was a female, because they have a cell structure in the limb bones called ‘medullary bone’, which forms right before birds (and dinosaurs!) start to lay eggs. If we don’t see this tissue, it doesn’t mean the dinosaur was male – it could have been a female that wasn’t laying eggs. We haven’t found any limb bones for Zuul yet, but if any are preserved, we’ll be sure to look for medullary bone! What colour was Zuul?
A young married couple—Hi (Nicolas Cage), a semi-retired convenience-store thief, and Ed (Holly Hunter), an ex-cop—decide that, since they cannot have a child of their own, they have the right to snatch one of the quintuplets born to a wealthy couple. This time, the Coens expressed open affection for their lunkheads: Hi and Ed talk in moralistic platitudes culled from the Bible and self-help manuals, and, loving their snatched quint, they desperately want to do what’s right—that’s the comedy built into their outrageous behavior. Their struggle is accompanied by subdued yodelling and Beethoven’s Ninth, played on a banjo. The Coens’ joking is inseparable from topography. In every movie, working first with the cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld and later with Roger Deakins, they establish a specific landscape, and pull whatever eccentricities they can out of it. In “Arizona,” two prison buddies of Hi’s show up at the house and steal the baby, but then mistakenly leave him in a car seat along the road. Shrieking with remorse (they, too, have fallen in love with the kid), they drive back for him, and the camera sweeps across the blacktop, as if sliding on an oil slick. The Coens may have been larking again with genre spoof—this time, of the late-sixties road-hog films—but they were the first to think that a tot’s point of view might be cooler than a biker’s.
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A couple of weeks ago, Nick Bilton of the NY Times wrote an Conan O’Brien got screwed. That’s obvious. What isn’t obvious is how he plans to pick himself back up from the royal beating that NBC has given him. Sure, it’s very possible that NBC will take Tuesday's press release to heart, kick Leno aside, and give Conan his timeslot, but it’s even more likely that they’ll stand their ground, giveback to Leno, and leave the Redheaded Wonder in the dust. And while a-like trip to a beach in Mexico sounds great to most of us, it would be a great waste for Conan to remain unemployed.So what does a man of his stature (no, not just his height) do now? There are the supposed offers from other networks, namely Fox. On a channel like Fox, he’d likely be allowed to bring back the tone from hisdays, opting for more obscure humor than he was allowed to do on(the masturbating bear!). But what’s the likeliness that a brand new talk show – even one from Conan – would have enough success to rival the other networks? Conan would likely have to fight an uphill battle against two late night juggernauts: Letterman and Leno, as well as cult favorite Jimmy Kimmel. If nothing else, he could probably beat Kimmel in the ratings, but Fox's affiliates don't even seem keen on joining the late night world.He could head back to his writing roots. Before he was chosen out of obscurity, Conan was writing classic episodes ofand. It's widely know that Conan has always been a writer at heart; he was, after all, the editor ofduring his college years. But who could really see Conan taking that kind of step back? It's an idealist's view if there ever was one. We'd all love to see Conan bringback to its prime years or even script a pilot or two, but writing is generally a background position (unless, of course, you're Tina Fey), and it seems highly unlikely that Conan would want to step out of the spotlight completely; he's gotten way too good at performing.But what seems like the best but least likely and least talked-about option is for Conan to go online. Recently, television has become less regarded as a ‘push’ form of media and has become more of a ‘pull’ form of entertainment, meaning that we choose what we want to see and when we want to see it.
In botanical Systematics, the morphological description plays a central role in the determination of appropriate taxa for studied species. That is why algologists as well as paleontologists classify their samples exclusively based on observations, and why specialists of these fields can easily identify the species and the genus of well preserved fossils just by looking at images of cells. It is precisely for this reason that Richard Hoover dedicated his time to a scrupulous description of found fossils. However, he was also aided following numerous consultations at the Institutes of Microbiology, Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, and Paleontology at Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Pasteur, Geological Institute at Royal Society of Belgium, etc.. It was the efforts of hundreds of scientists who made this work possible. As one of the results of this collaborative work, was the publication of the first atlas for astrobiology and paleontology with the best images of phosphorites in microfossils. The importance of Hoover work is unparalleled. Its implications will be reverberate through the halls of science for decades, and will only be surpassed with the discovery of extra-terrestrial life. Long time ago, one of the ancient Greek philosophers said "Per aspera ad astra!" ("Through the Thorns to the Stars"), and with these words I am finalizing my commentary. References Hoover, R. (2011). Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites, Journal of Cosmology, 13.
In addition, the form of the heavily indented western coastline can support locally important blooms which may go unnoticed. Unfortunately, remote sensing to detect algal blooms in UK and Irish waters is often problematic due to cloud cover, necessitating increased use of semi‐automated samplers in near‐shore waters to cover this gap in knowledge. Bresnan et al. (2010) suggest that confidence in the UK science base is medium, but that our predictive ability is low. They identify a paucity of experimental and modelling studies of HABs species of UK importance as a problem and recommend enhancing our autecological understanding of the HAB species. In addition, we should improve our understanding of EDABs in general, while further investigating major UK and Ireland blooming phytoplankton. While the link to nutrient‐status (water and phytoplankton), temperature and ocean acidification do need to be clarified, there is also a need for information on their competitors and consumers, both planktonic and benthic. Recent work has shown a profound shift in the relative abundance of diatoms and dinoflagellates in UK waters (Hinder et al., 2012). Dinoflagellates (both HAB and non‐HAB taxa) have declined markedly in abundance, while diatoms (both HAB and non‐HAB taxa) have increased (Figure 6). These patterns have been linked to the combined effects of rising water temperatures and increasingly windy conditions (Hinder et al., 2012). Figure 6 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Thallasiosira) and one dinoflagellate (Ceratium furca) derived from the CPR survey (modified from Hinder et al., 2012 There have been profound changes in the abundance and distribution of dinoflagellates and diatoms in the NE Atlantic region (including the North Sea) related to increasing water temperatures and increasingly windy conditions. Dinoflagellates (both HAB and non‐HAB taxa) have shown a marked decrease in abundance in Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) samples while diatoms (both HAB and non‐HAB taxa) have tended to increase, so that the relative abundance of diatoms to dinoflagellates has increased. The plots show changes in the distribution and abundance of one diatom taxa () and one dinoflagellate () derived from the CPR survey (modified from Hinder.,). Colour scale is based on log transformed numbers of cells per CPR sample and provides a relative measure of the abundance of taxa. Image shows a CPR being deployed in the North Sea.
It’s Allah (God) the almighty who decides and determines man’s daily action.” In November, 2013, Moalin was sentenced to eighteen years in prison, Khadar to thirteen years, Doreh to ten years. At the sentencing hearing, Judge Miller called Doreh “someone who apparently was an upstanding member of the Somali community.” He said that Moalin was “capable of both humanitarian virtue” and of collaborating with terrorists. He said that he understood the defense’s argument that “until we have walked a mile in Mr. Moalin’s shoes . . . what he has been through personally and what his country has been through,” we cannot understand “the choices he has made.” “I don’t think we need to worry about any of these three gentlemen,” Miller said.
This proofs a fact, that the regime has no interest in any win by the opposition and Al Aknaaf of territories in Yarmouk or liberating it from ISIS. It also proofs that there is a cooperation between the two parties, (ISIS and Assad), whether direct or indirect form of cooperation. This also proofs the fact that Assad regime is trying to achieve political gains over the blood of Palestinians in Yarmouk. This bring us back to the same old narrative and abuse of the Palestinian cause, Palestinian civilians, and Yarmouk Camp.
Its overall grade jumped from C+ to B—. The state two years ago began requiring school districts to create at least one career academy that focuses on one field such as health sciences. "It's a career pathway," says Loretta Costin, vice chancellor for Career and Adult Education. "It helps high school students become actively engaged." At the WorkForce One center here, one of 24 regional operations run by the state and private interests, some of the jobless who come for help are taught how to draft résumés and apply for work online. Others are enrolled in local schools to retrain for jobs of the future: technology, health care, engineering and all things "green." Angelo de Santis, 25, has an associate degree in business administration from Miami Dade College. That worked well until he was laid off in February as an information technology analyst. Through WorkForce One, he will take computer classes to earn an advanced certification. "It's going to take a while for the economy and the country to recover," de Santis says. "At the same time, the mentality of people in this state is going to have to shift. Technology is one of those areas that we will always need." •Alternative energy. Eric Silagy, vice president of Florida Power & Light, the state's largest energy supplier, says, "We're building three solar plants right now. It will take Florida from not even being on the solar map to being the second-largest producer in the nation (after California)." By the end of next year, the plants will produce 110 megawatts of electricity, enough for 35,000 homes and businesses. • High tech, medical and bioscience. A "high-tech corridor" stretching along Interstate 4 from Tampa to Orlando is anchored by the University of Central Florida in Orlando and the University of South Florida in Tampa and St. Petersburg. The area also is home to cancer research centers, bio-medical engineering companies and oceanographic centers. Among them: California-based Burnham Institute for Medical Research, which chose Orlando for its East Coast expansion; SRI International set up a facility in St. Petersburg that will research environmental health and security. On the Atlantic coast, the Scripps Research Institute and Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies — both based in San Diego — set up shop in Jupiter and Port St. Lucie, respectively. A housing rebound?
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After Boko Haram militants kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok last year, the group's leader called them slaves and threatened to "sell them in the market. ""We would marry them out at the age of 9," the leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in a video message soon after the girls were abducted, prompting the global "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign. "We would marry them out at the age of 12. "As the group has lost control of towns and thousands of people have fled in recent weeks, a grim picture of that treatment has emerged: hundreds of women and girls as young as 11 subjected to systematic, organized sexual violence.Yahauwa, 30, used her green head scarf to wipe away tears as she clutched a plastic bag full of medicine. She had just tested positive for HIV. "Is it from the people who forced me to have affairs with them?" she asked a relief worker, tears streaming down her face.Later, she explained that she and many other women had been "locked in one big room. ""When they came, they would select the one they wanted to sleep with," she said. "They said, 'If you do not marry us, we will slaughter you.'? "As the women spoke, two trucks crammed with more people arrived at the rudimentary camp guarded by watchful soldiers. Even the local news media are kept out.Many of the residents of the camp spend the day outside in blazing 100-degree-plus heat here. They dare not return home.Six years ago, Nigerian security forces clashed violently with Boko Haram members, and the group has been waging unremitting war against the federal government ever since.It recently declared allegiance to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and its successes over the years contributed substantially to the defeat of the incumbent president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, in a March election. Thousands have been killed in Boko Haram's war against the Nigerian state, often characterized by the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians.Boko Haram is now on the retreat, but the countryside is not secure. People from several towns said the militants had not been defeated, as the Nigerian military maintains, but had simply fled as troops advanced with superior firepower.Indeed, Maiduguri itself, a city of more than 2 million, came under attack again from Boko Haram last week.
• Transit: Streetcar stops can now be placed directly on standalone streetcar tracks, and passengers can walk along the tracks to them. • Transit: Tuned the chance buses or streetcars will go to high-traffic stops first as a minor traffic improvement. • Roads: University pedestrian paths can now cross streets. • Manufacturing Trucks: Fixed issue some users experienced where manufacturing trucks left the city and were lost permanently. • Delivery Trucks: Fixed issue where some users would experience a loss of resources is their delivery trucks returned to garages without proper storage. • Sports Parks: Tuned the amount of skateboarders and neighborhood athletes at the sports parks. • Data Layers: Zones are now visible in heavy data layers. • Edit Mode: Added more valid snap points in edit mode. This improvement is most noticeable on Parks. • Buildings: Addressed some cases where buildings would stack on one another.
Here is what Future Considerations had to say about him: “A strongly built, scoring winger who possesses that natural scorer’s touch…he gets to the right areas of the ice both with and without the puck and has the pro-type shot and release to bury it…he is strong and shifty with the puck, protecting it well as he moves through traffic…gets around the ice well, showing quick jump acceleration to generate space and speed coming down the ice on the rush, and he shows agility and balance on his feet” Here is what ISS Hockey had to say about Tippet: ISS Hockey – Mar. 5th: “Dynamic offensive player can beat a defender with his speed, skill, or size.” ISS Hockey – Feb. 5th: “Explosive offensive capabilities. Strong nose around the net & hands in tight areas.” Most mock drafts that I have seen in recent weeks have Tippet going around the 4-7 range in the draft. It really will come down to what teams that are picking at those areas and above really see as valuable and what the teams see as their top needs moving forward, but whoever ends up with Tippet will not be disappointed once they see him suiting up for their favorite NHL team and starting to put up the kinds of numbers that this kid is capable of. # 6 Cody Glass – C Cody Glass is one of the most complete hockey players in this draft class in my honest opinion. He is a player who simply put just makes the right play and does it at full speed. He isn’t someone who is going to make you drop your jaw with highlight reel moves and plays every time he’s on the ice (though he is capable of that from time to time) but he is someone who just continues to play very good consistent solid hockey. He is putting up solid numbers playing for the Portland Winter Hawks of the WHL. Glass put up 32 goals and 62 assists for a whopping 94 points in just 69 total games played this last season (2016-2017). He has been steadily moving up the draft rankings all season and the closer we get to draft time the more its looking like a team is going to be very happy to pick up Glass at any spot in the first round. As I mentioned before Glass is a complete hockey player. What do I mean by that?
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clinched a 11th-hour deal with a right-wing party to form a hard-line coalition government that could pose a major challenge to any global initiative to break the logjam in peace talks with the Palestinians.Netanyahu, 65, seemed visibly tense as coalition talks with the Bayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party identified with hardline settlers extended till late evening and a deal was agreed just 90 minutes before the midnight deadline.The Prime Minister made major concessions to ensure a wafer-thin majority of 61 members in a 120-member Israeli parliament - Knesset. "Sixty-one is a good number, and 61-plus is an even better number," Netanyahu said. "But it starts at 61 and we will begin.We have a lot of work ahead of us," he added.In return for Jewish Home's support, Netanyahu bowed to its demand for the justice minister portfolio, a post critical to the smooth passage of cabinet-approved legislation to parliament for ratification.Netanyahu informed President Reuven Rivlin that, "I am honoured to notify you I have succeeded in forming a government, which I would like to present to parliament as soon as possible. "President Reuven Rivlin had given Netanyahu a two-week extension after he failed to muster a coaltion during the 28 days allotted time after majority of the elected members had expressed support for him to lead the next government.Netanyahu's ruling Likud party had emerged the single largest party winning an impressive 30 seats on March 17 amid controversial remarks that sparked international criticism and evoked accusations of racism against the hawkish leader.During his campaign, he attacked the minority Arab population saying they were voting in hordes to keep him out of power and were being backed by foreign funding.The new government comprising only of right-wing parties is likely to be at loggerheads with close ally US which has sought firm commitments from Netanyahu to the existing two-state framework.The right-wing parties included in the new coalition support increased building of West Bank Jewish settlements and oppose peace moves with the Palestinians, something that could isolate Israel in the international community as several European nations have started to accord recognition to a Palestinian state.
Inlaid in the wall of a brick building is a night depository, left over from a former bank, serving as camouflage to any passerby who doesn’t think to look up. A modest sign hangs overhead: No pants, just great beer. Inside, on the raised floor where bank tellers once stood, a man in a brown canvas kilt pours off partially fermented pale ale from a 228-gallon cylindrical-conical tank. He tastes it first, before a quick dip of the hydrometer in the pail reveals how much alcohol the yeast has produced, which is not as much as he’d hoped. “I started like everyone starts, with a pot on a stove and a plastic bucket. Most of what I know is from practice,” says Joe Fisher, the homebrewer turned founder of Man Skirt Brewing. When I visit, he’s just finished leading a class of curious Centenary College biology students around the brewery. The water profile, he explains to them and me, is more basic in Hackettstown than in his hometown of Lebanon, and as a result the pH of his usual mash is too high for the enzymes in the grain to convert starches into sugars for the yeast to eat. To compensate, he’ll add acidulated malt, a type of malted barley to which lactobacillic acid has been added—a common brewing technique in locales with alkaline water. One of Man Skirt’s current brews is an English-style best-bitter ale that comes in at a sessionable 4.2% ABV and is decidedly not bitter, but rather falls on the malty-sweet side of the spectrum. Also on tap in his Kickstarter-funded tasting room is an American robust porter— not as heavy as a typical porter, it brings in rich dark chocolate and coffee notes with a surprisingly light mouth-feel. Next in the brew kettle is a German bock brewed with rye flakes and peppercorns. Fisher plans to focus mainly on his favorites going forward— classic British styles, as well as American and German. “I need to make beer that I’m passionate about in order for people to like my beer,” he says. “If I’m forced to make styles I don’t like, it’ll show in the final product.” Along with sourcing local hops, from farms like Bentley B. Hops in Newton and Rope Swing Hops in Green Township, Fisher’s ambitions include making use of a room in the brewery that’s still full of safe deposit boxes.
These statements suggest that humans will always be at the forefront of space travel and that entrepreneurs interested in getting to space, like Musk, are perhaps not so nefarious in spreading doomsday rhetoric. Rather, they are exploiting a clear reality—the only way to make their missions a possibility in the public’s eye is for the “technical” aspects of science to sit in the backseat. “Given sufficient time, a new space exploration paradigm may emerge. Over the years advocates of robotic and human cooperation have envisioned the two exploring space together,” writes McCurdy in his article. “But even in this vision, the two remained separate entities—master and servant, owner and slave, flesh and machine. The human condition and undervaluing of science The empirical evidence of emphasis on humanity within space exploration is likely to elicit a response of “So what?” It’s valid for anyone to buy into the lofty sentiments of space entrepreneurs who essentially say that leaving Earth is the only option for humanity’s survival. “I really think there are two fundamental paths [for humanity]: One path is we stay on Earth forever, and some eventual extinction event wipes us out,” said Musk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, in September. “The alternative is, become a spacefaring and multi-planetary species.” Even Hannah Arendt, a Jewish-American philosopher, as early as 1958, pondered the possibility of re-creating life beyond the Earth when she witnessed the Soviets launch Sputnik I into cosmos just a year before.
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Islam: Macron has said he believes that French security policy has unfairly targeted Muslims and that "secularism should not be brandished to as a weapon to fight Islam." At an October 2016 rally in Montpellier, he rejected President Hollande's assertion that "France has a problem with Islam." Instead, Macron said: "No religion is a problem in France today. If the state should be neutral, which is at the heart of secularism, we have a duty to let everybody practice their religion with dignity." He also insisted that the Islamic State is not Islamic: "What poses a problem is not Islam, but certain behaviors that are said to be religious and then imposed on persons who practice that religion." Marine Le Pen Le Pen, 48, a former lawyer and the youngest daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the National Front party, has campaigned on a nationalist platform. She has called for a referendum on pulling France out of the European Union, abandoning the euro single currency, halting immigration and restore controls at French borders. Le Pen, who has been called the "French Trump," has vowed to fight radical Islam, close extremist mosques and forcibly deport illegal immigrants. On March 2, the European Parliament voted to lift Le Pen's immunity from prosecution for tweeting images of Islamic State violence. Under French law, publishing violent images can be punished by up to three years in prison and a fine of €75,000 euros ($79,000). Le Pen posted the images in response to a journalist who compared her party's anti-immigration stance to the Islamic State. She denounced the legal proceedings against her as political interference in the campaign and called for a moratorium on judicial investigations until the election period has passed. Le Pen is also under investigation for allegedly misusing EU funds to pay for party staff, including a personal bodyguard. She has denied any wrongdoing and said the investigation was aimed at undermining her campaign. "The French can tell the difference between genuine scandals and political dirty tricks," she said. Le Pen's policy positions (platform here) include: European Federalism : "Everyone agrees that the European Union is a failure. It did not deliver on any of its promises, particularly on prosperity and security.... That is why, if elected, I will announce a referendum within six months on remaining or exiting the European Union..."
What if lesbians were cats? Or cats were lesbians? What would that mean? Most importantly, what do my cats say about me? As a single lesbian writer with two cats, I often ponder these questions. Not just because I have a lot of time on my hands, but because the prospect of becoming “that girl with the cats” strikes crippling insecurity into my heart. Single lesbians and cats go together like lesbian couples and packs of tiny dogs; it just works. Cats are fluffy, low-maintenance, independent, inexpensive, and down to chill 24/7. Alas, even in the otherwise enlightened year of 2015, coming out as a cat person is often met with disapproval, suspicion, and disdain. If you’ve ever said “I have a cat,” “I am a cat person,” or (God forbid) “I prefer cats to dogs,” you know what I’m talking about. Take it away, Tumblr: The first date moment I dread most isn’t splitting the check or leaning in for a kiss; it’s telling my date I have a cat. “I didn’t mean to,” I find myself reassuring them, “he was horribly neglected.” On a recent date with a successful boi in her mid-30s, the big feline reveal took a dark turn. Me: I have a cat Date: (flinching): Oh. I don’t like cats. Me: That’s OK, a lot of people don’t. Date: There’s just something about cats… Me: Cats are complicated. Date: I just think they’re mean and kind of pointless. Me: Depends on the cat. Mine is funny and affectionate. Date: Really? I’ve never encountered that. Me: I’ve noticed people who don’t like cats had a bad experience with a cat, usually when they were little. Date: That’s right! A cat scratched me in the face when I was six. Me: See? One bad cat ruined them all for you. That’s traumatizing. Date: Then my Dad took the cat out back and shot it. Me: … Date: … Me: Well, you can’t shoot my cat. Even if she scratches you. Did I mention she brought her dog along on the first date? Not all cat people are weird people. We do not craft with cat fur or write letters to Cat Fancy. America’s Sweethearts/porcelain-skinned rival pop stars Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are both proud cat owners. Theory: they don’t have boy drama, they have CAT drama. Think about it.
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My father had a car, which was a problem — for us,” Virto continued. “So, the militia searched our house. They took whatever weapons we had, a hunting gun and some ceremonial swords. But then they saw it and knew we were dangerous: My grandfather had a life-sized crucifix in his bedroom. And to these guys, the Church was their enemy,” Virto explained. He continued, “So this is the situation the militia sees. They tell my father, ‘We’re coming back tomorrow.’ The next day, my father was already in London. He represented a British fruit importer, so he went to London quickly, and he brought the rest of us later.” “Could my father have survived? It’s doubtful. My aunt was married to a man who was a small industrialist. He was killed by the militia. They had eight children,” Virto said. “It was just like the French Revolution or in the Soviet Union, but it was Spain in the summer of 1936. These militias — the Republican side — took regular people from their homes and took them to the jails or to the cemeteries and just shot them. It was totally lawless.” As Payne wrote in Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and the World (Yale University Press, 2008), the Spanish Civil War witnessed the “most extensive and violent persecution of Catholicism in Western history, in some way even more intense than that of the French Revolution.” Most of the intense killing occurred in the first six months of the conflict, but by the end of the war about 20% of the nation’s Catholic clergy was dead. He said that, while researching the book at the Vatican in 1999, in the office where records documenting new martyrs were maintained, some 13,000 causes had been forwarded from around the world and about half were from Spain. “The Republicans were just utterly unrestrained. Whole convents were killed. Whole orders. It was very nasty,” said Royal.
RAIPUR: Sparking yet another controversy, class X social science text book in Chhattisgarh states abortion as a remedy for population control. The chapter on population explosion also claims that women in India have high fertility rate due to hot climate.It's the same text book of Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education (CGBSE) that had triggered controversy in September this year for its content quoting "working women are one of the causes of unemployment in country".Curious students reported and questioned after reading the content on page number 211 in the book that says, "As remedy of population explosion: For safe abortion modern hospitals and nursing homes, equipped with necessary facility should be set up in large number which will help reduce birth rate. "24-year-old Soumya Garg, who is volunteering as teacher to tribals, said that students at age of 15-16 have ignited minds that need right guidance but CGBSE textbooks’ contents instil concepts of gender inequality and violation of human rights. "While all books are supposedly re-read and printed every year with updates, age-old content is rather simply being copy-pasted in the name of new edition. When students approached me questioning authenticity of abortion as remedy for population control, I found that abortion in our country is condition-based and can't be used as a tool to control population. State Council of Educational Research and Training should look into it," she said.CGBSE and SCERT draw flak: Talking to TOI, Sulakshana Nandi of Public Health Resource Network, who has been extensively working on issues related to women and children's health, condemned the quality of content and those responsible for it saying, "The chapter has more than one problem that's factually wrong and extremely prejudiced. Access to contraceptives and safe abortion services need to be seen as right to quality health services and not to be clubbed with the very negative and crass concept of population explosion. "Enraged over other issues, Nandi further said that high fertility rate due to hot climate is responsible for population explosion while reduction in famines and epidemics the reason for fall of death rate! "What logic is this? There seems to be no quality check and people writing for social science text books don’t seem to have knowledge about demographic transition. They need to have some scientific skill. It's dangerous for students.
Research and laboratory tests prove that infrasound (less than 20 Hz) is capable of producing such an effect. This process creates surface charring along the stems. Microwave radiation (high frequency electromagnetic waves) is also believed to be how the stalks are bent and the plant's nodes are swollen.Farmers have reported that when they find a new crop circle, they have seen steam rising into the air from within the design. Crop circles also show the possible existence of ultrasound also. Several people have reported hearing a trilling sound prior to witnessing crop circles forming. They also report a total stillness in the air (no wind) and total quiet. This trilling sound was captured on magnetic tape and analyzed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab as being mechanical in nature with a frequency of 5.2kHz.Biophysical evidence shows the plant's nodes and stems are drastically extended, seed embryos are altered, and their is the existence of expulsion cavities, as if they have been heated from the inside, and germination abnormalities. Using chemical plant analysis of the crop samples inside a crop circle, the researchers have found starch crystals and lattice structures never seen before. There is also a reorganization of the plant’s crystalline structure (organic structure has been chemically altered). A malt fragrance can also be smelled after cutting open a stem from a freshly made crop circle, which means that the plant has been cooked from the inside, but the crop remains unharmed.Exhaustive lab analysis into hundreds of 1991-1995 crop circles shows physical and biophysical changes to the plants inside a crop circle. There are also alterations in the germination, development of seed embryos, and alterations in the plant's stem node length and circumference (up to 200% increase in one case). The grains from crop circle plants can grow 40% to 50% larger, have a stronger and larger root system, and have larger grains than the grains from the crop surrounding the crop circle. Alternatively, some crop circle plants produce seeds that are smaller than normal plants. The reason for the differences in the plants may be water supply available when the formation was made, the age of the plant when the event occurs or the type of plant. The internal structure of the plants is altered at the cellular level. The cell pit walls of the plants are fractured and expanded. In grain crops, there are nodes close to the ground that help the plant grow vertically.
And while many consumers applaud the idea, even T-Mobile's implementation sets a potentially dangerous precedent in that it fails to whitelist smaller video providers and non-profits -- most of which have no idea they're even being discriminated against. There's a contingent at the FCC and elsewhere that believes efforts like this are a positive example of "creative pricing experimentation. "Either way it's increasingly clear that the FCC needs to takepublic position on the subject as ISPs continue to test the agency's murky boundaries to the detriment of users and small companies alike. Should the FCC win its court case, pressure will grow exponentially for the FCC to actually put its money where its mouth is -- and put the rules so many people fought for to actual use.
KOLKATA: She's a man, baby! Debopriyo Mitra , a resident of Kolkata's Kasba area, is planning to sue Apollo Gleneagles Hospital for refusing to recognize that she's a he. "He (Mitra) was admitted to the hospital on February 23. He was suffering from cardiac ailments and was suggested an Angiography," Dr Milan Chhetri, Mitra's physician, said. "He was admitted to hospital's deluxe cabin and Rs 35,000 was deposited as advance amount," Dr Chhetri added.Dr Chhetri also said that extensive tests during night revealed Mitra's blood contains high levels of creatinine and as such his angiography was postponed. "My angiography was postponed till the creatinine level normalises, A junior doctor suggested me to stay 4-5 days more in the hospital. But on Dr Chhetri's advise I returned home on February 24 and my treatment continued," Mitra said, adding, "They charged me about Rs 21,000 for a single day. But I didn't mind as I have Medical Insurances. ""I was surprised to find that the hospital administration has done foul-up in my discharge certificate. In the certificate, they have referred to me as "her" and as such I am unable to claim medical insurance, "he said.He also said that he was given assurance that the error will be rectified but nothing happened. "...and when I mailed my grievance to the hospital authorities, I was advised to do a fact check," Mitra said.Responding to Mitra's complaint, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital Kolkata CEO Rana Dasgupta said, "I am not aware of this incident. Ask the patient to contact me directly. We will try to solve problems, if there is any. "Meanwhile, he has also taken up the matter with the West Bengal 's Health Secretary on March 2, 2017.Interestingly, the West Bengal assembly , last week, passed a bill to regulate functioning of private health facilities, providing for up to three-year jail terms and trials under the IPC for offenders and fines up to Rs 50 lakh in case of death of patients due to medical negligence.REPORT: Moitreyee Bhattacharya
When Kennedy ran for reelection to the Senate in 1958, he discovered that a number of Jewish voters in Massachusetts blamed him for cuts in a particular AID grant to Israel. He went to John McCormack, who later succeeded Sam Rayburn as speaker of the House and had excellent relations with Massachusetts Jewish leaders, for help. [McCormack explained the legislative palavering to leaders, saying Kennedy was actually trying to save funding for Israel] While the Jewish leaders present may not yet have trusted Kennedy, they did respect McCormack and took his word for what had happened. As a result, much of the anti-Kennedy sentiment in the community lessened… Probably the key incident in the Kennedy wooing took place shortly after the Democratic convention [in 1960]. Meyer Feldman, an influential Washington lawyer and adviser to Kennedy, Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, and philanthropist and businessman Abraham Feinberg gathered about thirty of the nation’s top Jewish leaders at Feinberg’s apartment in the Hotel Pierre in New York to meet the Democratic candidate. Kennedy had agreed ahead of time that there would be no limits on the type of questions asked, and after an initial fifteen-minute presentation the candidate fielded a wide range of questions which were, in Feinberg’s words, “hard, even brutal,” and dealt with his father’s alleged anti-Semitism and Kennedy’s own stand on key issues. After over an hour of this, the thirty skeptical men who had entered the apartment changed their minds about the Massachusetts senator. Although there was to have been no fund-raising, after Kennedy left, the group spontaneously put together a loan fund of $500,000 to be made available to the Kennedy campaign… [As president, Kennedy] recognized that in such areas as refugee repatriation, Arab-Israel negotiations, and plans to divert Jordan River waters for large-scale agriculture and power projects, all of which had become extremely sensitive matters thanks to Eisenhower and Dulles, no government in Israel could survive which conceded as much as some of the State and Defense departments analysts demanded. What Kennedy did, much of it through Feldman, was to signal Israel on how to distinguish between rhetoric and action…. [A]lthough the American government publicly called on Israel to settle the refugee problem and joined in the United Nations censure of Israel after the 1962 retaliatory raids on Syria, the Administration also increased foreign aid, quietly buried a number of potentially dangerous anti-Israel proposals, and entered for the first time into a long-term military-assistance program.
When it came to Windows Phone from Nokia, it was pretty obvious that AT&T received the most love out of the major four wireless carriers. Back last fall, however, Verizon finally saw its first Windows Phone from the Finnish company in the form of the Nokia Lumia 822 . Needless to say, it was regarded as a special occasion, seeing that Big Red’s Nokia lineup prior to the arrival of the Lumia 822 was non-existent. Even though it proved to be a great mid-ranger, especially with its fantastic $99.99 on-contract price point right from the get-go, it really wasn’t that super spec’d Nokia Windows Phone that diehard smartphone addicts crave – and when you look at it on paper, it paled in comparison to AT&T’s Nokia Lumia 920 Fear not people! That’s because Verizon Wireless is getting its own variant of the 920, which should no doubt put Nokia’s name near the top of the ladder within the carrier’s Windows Phone selection. At its core, the recently announced Nokia Lumia 928 might seem like a subtle variant of the version that AT&T has been selling for some time now, but there are some notable differences that should make Big Red’s customers feel proud they’re getting something new. Most importantly, though, it’s priced aggressively at $99.99 on-contract to try and lure people away from some other recent entrants in the space. Armed with Nokia specialties such as a PureMotion HD+ display and PureView camera, it’s a small sampling of what this Windows Phone is packing along for the ride, but ultimately, it’s all about the real world performance that matters the most.Physically, it doesn’t surprise us that the Lumia 928 has the same distinct design DNA we all know and love by now. However, it makes some minor improvements that are noticeable over the Lumia 920, as it’s both thinner (0.4” thin) in profile and lighter (5.7 oz) in weight. Looking at it from its sides, we do recognize its thinner frame, which is partly due to the tapered design that’s been employed by many other contemporary handsets of late. However, despite its skinnier appearance from its sides, it progressively gets thicker towards the middle section of the chassis – and eventually flattening out.
Endowing the Frozen Heart with a subversive sting.Please Disney, explain to me why your princess who is the least alone, person, and least ignored person in your Frozen kingdom are singing about finally having the opportunity to connect with others and be the focal point of their attention? I mean, the proletarians in the Disney kingdoms are totally economically and socially subservient to the royalty at what point is a Disney princess ever alone? The line that solidifies for me Ana's cognitive dissonance is when Ana sings “For years I've roamed these empty halls,” and “There'll be actual real live people.” Which is to say that the servants in the castle don't count as real people in Ana's eyes.
)Other major content that’s contained in Patch 7.3 but not yet complete in this build includes:As the PTR process continues, we’ll provide updates with each build on what’s new. Thanks, and happy testing!
"Everything you do at one point on the river — anything you take out or put in — will have an effect on the rest of the river," said Alex McCorquodale, a University of New Orleans researcher working on a study to determine how much sediment is in the lower Mississippi. These challenges came into focus as the state began planning the Mid-Barataria Diversion at Myrtle Grove, a $1.1 billion project about 30 miles south of New Orleans. With $275 million in initial funding already in place, it would be the first diversion to be built. The diversion would be located at the northern end of the Barataria Basin, an estuary important to seafood production and to protecting the New Orleans area from storm surge. If nothing is done, this area is predicted to lose 234 square miles of coastline over 50 years. Twenty-two square miles of that could be saved over 20 years — if the diversion is fed with enough of the right kind of sediment, flowing over the right wetlands infrastructure, according to computer models. The state is still trying to answer the many questions that could make or break those plans. The first one: Is there enough sediment in the river to get the job done? Sections of piping used to fill in sunken areas of wetlands rest on new land near the site of the former Manila Village settlement south of New Orleans. (Edmund D. Fountain for ProPublica/The Lens) Researchers know the river carries only half the sediment it once did. Much is trapped behind dams on Midwestern tributaries, while modern farming methods have reduced soil runoff. They are only now in the final stages of a study to determine if enough reaches the bottom section of the river and if it's the right type of sediment to build land. The diversion will be able to deliver 250,000 cubic feet per second, or as much as Niagara Falls at its peak. But computer models have shown that running the diversion at that capacity could increase the risk of flooding nearby communities such as Lafitte. That, in turn, could force the state to raise the levees around Lafitte. If it costs too much to do that, the state will have to reduce how much water goes through the diversion. Less water will build less land. High water flows also could hurt fishing.
There is no such field, but if there were, and if Professor Langdon wanted to study it before making love to mysterious Frenchwomen and nimbly avoiding Opus Dei hit men, this is where he would come to study. Begun at the start of the last century, in Hamburg, by Aby Warburg, a wealthy banker’s son, the Warburg Library has been often expanded, but the original vision has never really been altered. It is a vast and expensive institution, devoted to a system of ideas that, however fascinating, are also in some dated ways faddish, and in some small ways foolish. Warburg, who died in 1929, spent part of his adult life in and out of mental hospitals—at one point, he lived in fear that he was being daily served human flesh. Yet he was the spirit behind the “iconographic studies” that dominated art history for most of the second half of the twentieth century—the man who reoriented the scholarly study of art from a discipline devoted essentially to saying who had painted what pictures when to one asking what all the little weird bits and pieces within the pictures might have meant in their time. In the past several years, the Warburg’s future has been fiercely contested. It is in some senses a small and parochial struggle, right out of Trollope’s Barchester novels, and in others about something very big—about the future of private visions within public institutions, about what memory is and what we owe it, about how to tell when an original vision has become merely an eccentric one. It is the tale that has been told, in another key, about moving the Barnes Foundation from Merion to Philadelphia, and about expanding the Frick Collection, in New York. The question is what we owe the past’s past, what we owe the institutions that have shaped our view of how history happened, when contemporary history is happening to them.
Bundle Your Services – Most cable and home phone providers offer a bundled package, which can net deep discounts on services you’re already using by combining them. If you have existing television, phone and internet service, it might be wise to consider the bundle option. Consider Alternate Providers – Often, we don’t even consider certain types of service providers; companies that specialize in mobile broadband home service can be significantly cheaper than cable or DSL connections, but are almost always comparable in speed and reliability. Choose Your Plan Carefully – While a high-speed connection is non-negotiable for many people, it isn’t always necessary to choose the highest tier package. If your usage is relatively low, you can save a considerable sum by opting for a lower level plan. Don’t Throw Away Those Mailers – Though most people toss those circulars and fliers in the trash can, they may not all be junk mail. Mailers from cable and internet providers often contain valuable promotional information or codes. Speak To A Call Center Agent – Customer service representatives often have the low-down on non-publicized plans and discount deals; explaining your circumstances and asking if there are lower-priced options available can sometimes give you access to these deals. Pay Attention to Television Commercials – It’s practically human nature to ignore television commercials; we’ve even developed technology that allows us to skip them altogether. However, there are valuable deals lurking in those advertising spots. Keep an eye on the commercials for internet service providers, and you might get information that will save your family money. Monitor Your Usage – Many service providers have usage limits; exceeding them can lead to incredibly expensive overage fees. Knowing what the limitations of your plan are and how much you’re using is imperative if you’re on a budget. Comparison Shopping – As with anything else, finding the best deal on internet service requires a bit of research. Comparing the plans and pricing options of several different providers is the best way to be sure that you’re getting the best possible deal. Factor End-of-Promotional Increases – Though promotional pricing can be attractive, it’s wise to check the fine print of an agreement before signing; some plans can increase so much at the end of the promotion that you’d be better of taking the plan with no promo.
It was recently announced that State Senator Marty Block, (D-San Diego), has started the Legislative Jewish Caucus and that this caucus will also form a political action committee to raise money for Israel-friendly candidates. Block told the press that the Legislative Jewish Caucus "isn't a religious based organization. We see this as an ethnic organization." This statement was presumably made to both forestall Muslims from starting a Muslim Legislative Caucus and also to head off complaints that the Legislative Jewish Caucus is breaching the wall between religion and state. At any rate, the Legislative Jewish Caucus, as an ethnic/racial organization, now joins the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus, the Legislative Black Caucus and the Latino Legislative Caucus. These caucuses work, sometimes behind the scenes and out of public view, to represent the interests of their ethnic/racial groups. They write legislation and take other actions on behalf of their particular ethnic/racial groups even though the people they are acting on behalf of may not live in their districts. In other words, unlike the traditional American political notion that people elected to public office represent a specific geographic area, these ethnic caucus members represent "their people," no matter where they live in the state. An example of what the members of these ethnic/racial caucuses do was in the news recently in a story about State Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, a member of the Latino Legislative Caucus, who has authored a bill that would force cities in California to end at-large voting and replace it with district voting. District voting is a scheme that will lead to gerrymandered districts in an attempt to include Latino voters in certain districts and exclude White voters from the districts. On the welcome page of the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus we read this: "[T]he Caucus was founded in 2001 and serves to represent and advocate for the interests of the APIA community...." On the Website of the Latino Legislative Caucus we read: "The Mission of the California Latino Legislative Caucus is to identify, promote and advocate on behalf of the professional, educational, social, political and cultural interests of the Latino Community."
After a lackluster outturn in 2016, economic activity is projected to pick up pace in 2017 and 2018, especially in emerging market and developing economies. However, there is a wide dispersion of possible outcomes around the projections, given uncertainty surrounding the policy stance of the incoming U.S. administration and its global ramifications. The assumptions underpinning the forecast should be more specific by the time of the April 2017 World Economic Outlook, as more clarity emerges on U.S. policies and their implications for the global economy. With these caveats, aggregate growth estimates and projections for 2016–18 remain unchanged relative to the October 2016 World Economic Outlook. The outlook for advanced economies has improved for 2017–18, reflecting somewhat stronger activity in the second half of 2016 as well as a projected fiscal stimulus in the United States. Growth prospects have marginally worsened for emerging market and developing economies, where financial conditions have generally tightened. Near-term growth prospects were revised up for China, due to expected policy stimulus, but were revised down for a number of other large economies—most notably India, Brazil, and Mexico. While the balance of risks is viewed as being to the downside, there are also upside risks to near-term growth. Specifically, global activity could accelerate more strongly if policy stimulus turns out to be larger than currently projected in the United States or China. Notable negative risks to activity include a possible shift toward inward-looking policy platforms and protectionism, a sharper than expected tightening in global financial conditions that could interact with balance sheet weaknesses in parts of the euro area and in some emerging market economies, increased geopolitical tensions, and a more severe slowdown in China.
Its one of the great failings I can tell you the degradation of that place has been so total, and there are people, again, there are many people in those places that really care about human rights. I was getting emails on September the 12th, 2001, from people the inside the FBI saying we are in real trouble with this guy Ashcroft. So there are people there that care, they fight, as hard as they can. Its not as if when you have the kind of leadership we have, I dont know where we go. I just wish I could tell you I am telling you go back, do what you can, youre going to say to yourself, as many people have said to me, Id better do more. But also be terribly aware, that we are so disconnected with this leadership that its not necessarily clear that what you do is going to impact on them. Because these are people that are really out there. We have really been you know, as I say, its not the Manson clan but we really have been taken over, and we have to do something to stop it, and lets hope we can do it electorally. Transcript by http://www.pastpeak.com/
But the fact that I have a good relationship with him, I want to genuinely see him succeed, not only professionally, but also personally, that only goes to enhance that. He probably feels the same way. He’s an awesome guy to hang out with and we have a lot of fun just being around each other.Yeah, Tejay has always been a laid back guy, he likes to lead by example and motivate guys in a very positive manner, he likes the idea of the silent, strong type and that really worked well for us at the Tour last year. That Tour had a lot of adversity, I think he hit the deck more than any other contender and every time it was ‘all hands on deck’ and everyone had to get him back up, chase him back on. We were so proud of his 5th place this year, even though we all believed he was capable of more, it was the fact that we all had to rally around him. It really was an entire team effort just to scrape him into that 5th place because every day something was going wrong. The fact that we all banded together and fought for that, it was cool to be part of.I believe that, it was cool. He wasn’t obligated to, but he gave us all a gift at the end of the race. He actually had dog tags made because we went through a war together, so we all got matching dog tags, all nine of us. So close in San Luis '14I think that’s up to the team management. They always have an eye on how guys are bonding and meshing and they are always aware of the interpersonal relationships because when you are tight you will lay down more for your brother in arms. That’s important in any team work aspect, I think that at the end of the day the management decide the calendars and the riders don’t need the extra pressure having personal roster selections.I think there are a lot of guys who want to ride with Tejay and for him because he also likes to see his teammates succeed. He’s not some guy that’s going to resent you for going up the road and winning a stage or getting a result as long as it's in the best interest of the team and the primary objective of his GC isn’t being compromised.
Not sure if this is a DEA conspiracy, pressure from lawyers in the Standards and Practices dept., bad writing, or what, but the impression is that Vicodin was thrown under the bus for political reasons and House will now tell patients with chronic pain to suck it up and deal. Thanks to Sleepy for digging this one up! Thanks to Sleepy for digging this one up! » more at: www.tvsquad.com Posted By jamesk at 2009-10-07 12:04:32 permalink \| comments » More ways to bookmark this page
Does the pain of women larger than Schumer trump the pain of someone Schumer’s size? And if so, who holds the keys to whose pain is more legitimate? It’s easy to weigh a body, but how do you weigh/rank one person’s pain versus another’s? That seems like a dangerously high horse to be riding, but educate me if I’m wrong. At what weight or dress size is someone’s pain legitimate? If we frame it around race for a sec, is someone of mixed race less entitled to the fear or frustration of racism than someone with darker skin? Do I need to be a few shades darker or a few pounds heavier before I can be considered a member of the “real” oppressed people? If so, why is that? Why is Schumer’s status as a large woman reduced to a yes/no binary, and why is it all or nothing? She doesn’t meet the size criteria, so the only other choice is Skinny White Rich Girl? Why does it go from “She’s one of us” … to “She’s an exploitive outsider?” To me, that feels like quite a leap. Would you mind explaining your thoughts and reasoning there? The Plus-Size label itself: I can’t speak for Schumer, but it seems like she was rejecting the label because millions of American women are a size 6–8 like her (though maybe not in LA), and she doesn’t want young girls to think a size 6–8 is bad. Ijeoma addresses the fact that being called “plus-sized” isn’t an insult, and I agree with that statement in a perfect world, but from what I’ve seen growing up in a house raised by my mother and sister, as well as learning from several women I’ve loved and dated, it’s absolutely an insult to be labeled plus-sized. Soon enough, that label could be reclaimed, but right now it seems idealistic (or worse, maybe even delusional) to say the “plus-size” moniker doesn’t hold any oppressive power (after all, this whole chain of events started because of that label). Do you think “plus-sized” should be removed from language used around clothing? Same with “petite?” Why or why not?
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Their last hope is a guaranteed annual income (also known as a basic income guarantee, negative income tax, national income floor and minimum adequate income). They know it would be costly. They know taxpayers will balk. They aren’t satisfied with any of the existing models. But they can’t abandon Canada’s next generation. “This is the first step back to a compassionate Canada,” says Elaine Power, a professor of sociocultural studies at Queen’s University. She has advocated a guaranteed annual income for more than a decade. But the impetus is no longer coming from people like her, she insists. “The appeal is increasing as people see their kids not doing okay.” Power and three of her colleagues from Kingston – economics professor Robin Boadway, business professor William Cooper and postal worker Pamela Cornell – visited the Star last week, hoping to win support of the newspaper’s editorial board. They had already approached the New Democrats (who said no) and the Liberals who sounded interested but made no commitment. Unlike previous proponents of a guaranteed annual income (GAI), this delegation was willing to attach clear numbers to its plan. It would provide every adult with an annual income of $20,000 and children with an income guarantee of $6,000. “The idea is to make sure everybody has a livable income,” Boadway said. The cost of replacing social assistance (which includes welfare and disability support) and old age security (which includes a top-up for low-income seniors) with a single stigma-free benefit would be $40 billion. The group would not touch employment insurance, the Canada Pension Plan, child care subsidies, social housing, drug benefits or dental care. It would raise the minimum wage to $14 an hour (Current rates range from $10.20 an hour in Alberta to $11 an hour in Ontario.)
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[ 2013.06.21 01:23:29 ] Vile Belief > The better understanding of one subject and how to look at that in different lights too [ 2013.06.21 01:23:40 ] Vile Belief > Man, do you read what you type sometimes [ 2013.06.21 01:23:43 ] Vile Belief > hehe [ 2013.06.21 01:23:52 ] Vile Belief > But anyways, have to agree to disagree [ 2013.06.21 01:24:09 ] Vile Belief > Please don't kill my trade with your radical and illogical thinking [ 2013.06.21 01:24:15 ] Psychotic Monk > I do. And you seem pretty fixated on your conclusion without any backing logic. Or, at least, self-referetial logic. [ 2013.06.21 01:24:23 ] Vile Belief > It's all I got in this game, and I've been in this game for a very long time [ 2013.06.21 01:24:38 ] Vile Belief > Take care!
Almost entirely unnoticed internationally, Turkey's government and rebellious Kurdish groups are locked in battle in a series of sieges in the main towns in the east of the country. Turkey's prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu describes it as a struggle against terrorism which will be fought to the end without compromise.Close-up details of the sieges are scarce even in the Turkish press. Few Turkish journalists let alone foreign correspondents are covering. Other information comes from clandestine Kurdish sources and pictures, coming not from the Turkish press, but sent via the Internet showing ravaged buildings and bodies lying in the streets. According to a government statement on Dec. 25, 217 Kurdish terrorists have been killed in the past month. The Turkish Human Rights foundation says that over 124 civilians have been killed in recent months . In total there have been about 150 days of "curfew", each of them lasting for the whole 24 hours, not simply overnight.The two worst-affected settlements are Sur, the old city of Diyarbakir, and Cizre, a town close to the Tigris and Turkey's border with Iraq. Sur was designated a protected area of outstanding beauty before the shooting started. : the government and the PKK each blame the other.Cizre has been under a daily 24 hour curfew for more than two weeks this month and for at least 30 days into since September. Tanks took up positions around Cizre on Dec. 16 and have been shelling the city since then.The government says that its aims are to punish PKK supporters in Cizre and other towns who began digging trenches in their streets a year ago, suggesting to the government that preparations were being made for some kind of mass uprising. This - and Kurdish calls for autonomy — are now being cited as grounds for the curfews,, apparently as police search and arrest operations.December saw the sieges escalate with few if any breaks in the curfews and. Despite this, resistance continues amid. She was deposed by the Ministry of the Interior in September for warning of the risk of civil war in Turkey, but was released from detention and allowed to go home shortly before the shelling began.
We'll be using 'unified2' for back end logging to our # SQL database. Syslog and tcpdump I'm simply using as fall back recording # methods. output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT output log_tcpdump: tcpdump.wlan0.log output unified2: filename snort.wlan0.log, limit 128 ############################################################################## # Rule loading. ############################################################################## include classification.config include reference.config include $PREPROC_RULE_PATH/preprocessor.rules include $PREPROC_RULE_PATH/decoder.rules include $SO_RULE_PATH/bad-traffic.rules include $SO_RULE_PATH/dos.rules include $SO_RULE_PATH/exploit.rules include $RULE_PATH/threshold.conf include $RULE_PATH/attack-responses.rules include $RULE_PATH/backdoor.rules include $RULE_PATH/bad-traffic.rules include $RULE_PATH/blacklist.rules include $RULE_PATH/botnet-cnc.rules include $RULE_PATH/chat.rules include $RULE_PATH/content-replace.rules include $RULE_PATH/ddos.rules include $RULE_PATH/dns.rules include $RULE_PATH/dos.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-activex.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-attack_response.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-botcc.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-chat.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-compromised.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-current_events.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-dns.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-dos.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-drop.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-dshield.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-exploit.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-ftp.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-games.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-imap.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-inappropriate.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-malware.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-misc.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-p2p.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-policy.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-pop3.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-rbn.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-rpc.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-scan.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-shellcode.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-smtp.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-snmp.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-sql.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-telnet.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-tftp.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-tor.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-trojan.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-user_agents.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-virus.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-voip.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-web_client.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-web_server.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-web_specific_apps.rules include $RULE_PATH/emerging-worm.rules include $RULE_PATH/experimental.rules include $RULE_PATH/exploit.rules include $RULE_PATH/finger.rules include $RULE_PATH/ftp.rules include $RULE_PATH/imap.rules include $RULE_PATH/info.rules include $RULE_PATH/local.rules include $RULE_PATH/misc.rules include $RULE_PATH/multimedia.rules include $RULE_PATH/mysql.rules include $RULE_PATH/netbios.rules include $RULE_PATH/nntp.rules include $RULE_PATH/oracle.rules include $RULE_PATH/other-ids.rules include $RULE_PATH/p2p.rules include $RULE_PATH/phishing-spam.rules include $RULE_PATH/policy.rules include $RULE_PATH/pop3.rules include $RULE_PATH/rpc.rules include $RULE_PATH/rservices.rules include $RULE_PATH/scada.rules include $RULE_PATH/scan.rules include $RULE_PATH/shellcode.rules include $RULE_PATH/smtp.rules include $RULE_PATH/snmp.rules include $RULE_PATH/specific-threats.rules include $RULE_PATH/spyware-put.rules include $RULE_PATH/sql.rules include $RULE_PATH/telnet.rules include $RULE_PATH/tftp.rules include $RULE_PATH/virus.rules include $RULE_PATH/voip.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-activex.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-attacks.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-cgi.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-client.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-coldfusion.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-frontpage.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-iis.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-misc.rules include $RULE_PATH/web-php.rules As you can see, many more rules have been loaded. In reality, you could probably trim down the rule sets loaded a good bit. However, this is a PoC model, so I'm pretty much "throwing the book" at it. To start and test your Snort configuration, simply run Snort with the appropriate flags: # snort -i wlan0 -c /etc/snort/snort.wlan0.conf -u snort -g snort Substitute the interface (-i wlan0) and configuration file (snort.wlan0.conf) with the appropriate settings for your setup. For this article, I'm simply giving a brief run down of my configurations. Your configuration may vary. If you have problems with Snort, Google around. There are many "HOWTO" documents related to Snort and this article isn't really geared toward a person who is completely new to Snort. Once you verified the Snort setup, you can run Snort with the same configuration options, but add a '-D' (daemonize). This will make Snort run in the background. You might want to consider adding Snort to your system's startup routine.
History repeated itself in June 2011, when Gretzky's 17-year-old son, Trevor, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs. Trevor signed with the Cubs the next month. [151] Gretzky also excelled at box lacrosse, which he played during the summer. At age ten, after scoring 196 goals in his hockey league, he scored 158 goals in lacrosse. According to him, lacrosse was where he learned to protect himself from hard checks: "In those days you could be hit from behind in lacrosse, as well as cross-checked, so you had to learn how to roll body checks for self-protection." Gretzky adroitly applied this technique as a professional player, avoiding checks with such skill that a rumour circulated that there was an unwritten rule not to hit him. Defensemen found Gretzky a most elusive target. Fellow Hockey Hall of Famer Denis Potvin compared attempting to hit Gretzky to "wrapping your arms around fog. You saw him but when you reached out to grab him your hands felt nothing, maybe just a chill." The 205-pound (93 kg) Potvin, a three-time winner of the Norris Trophy for best defenceman, added that part of the problem in hitting Gretzky hard was that he was "a tough guy to dislike... what was there to hate about Gretzky? It was like running Gandhi into a corner." He received a good deal of cover from burly Oiler defencemen Dave Semenko and Marty McSorley. The latter followed Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings in 1989, where he played the same policeman role for several more years. [156] But Gretzky discouraged unfair hits in another way. "If a guy ran him, Wayne would embarrass that guy", said former Oiler Lee Fogolin. "He'd score six or seven points on him. I saw him do it night after night." Commentators have noted Gretzky's uncanny ability to judge the position of the other players on the ice—so much so that many suspected he enjoyed some kind of extrasensory perception. Sports commentators said that he played like he had "eyes in the back of his head. "[158] Gretzky said he sensed other players more than he actually saw them. "I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be", he said. "A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking. "[4] Veteran Canadian journalist Peter Gzowski says that Gretzky seemed to be able to, in effect, slow down time.
region, Caesar established Cleopatra as his surrogate ruler of Egypt. Caesar defeated his remaining rivals in North Africa in 47 BC and returned to Rome with his authority firmly established. Caesar continued to consolidate his power and in February 44 BC, he declared himself dictator for life. This act, along with his continual effort to adorn himself with the trappings of power, turned many in the Senate against him. Sixty members of the Senate concluded that the only resolution to the problem was to assassinate Caesar. Death of a Dictator Nicolaus of Damascus wrote his account of the murder of Caesar a few years after the event. He was not actually present when the assassination occurred but had the opportunity to speak with those who were. He was a friend of Herod the Great and gathered his information during a visit to Rome. His account is thought to be reliable. The Plan: "The conspirators never met openly, but they assembled a few at a time in each others' homes. There were many discussions and proposals, as might be expected, while they investigated how and where to execute their design. Some suggested that they should make the attempt as he was going along the Sacred Way, which was one of his favorite walks. Another idea was for it to be done at the elections during which he bad to cross a bridge to appoint the magistrates in the Campus Martius; they should draw lots for some to push him from the bridge and for others to run up and kill him. A third plan was to wait for a coming gladiatorial show. The advantage of that would be that, because of the show, no suspicion would be aroused if arms were seen prepared for the attempt. But the majority opinion favored killing him while he sat in the Senate, where he would be by himself since non-Senators would not be admitted, and where the many conspirators could hide their daggers beneath their togas. This plan won the day." Brutus Persuades Caesar to Ignore his Apprehensions: ADVERTISMENT "...his friends were alarmed at certain rumors and tried to stop him going to the Senate-house, as did his doctors, for he was suffering from one of his occasional dizzy spells. His wife, Calpurnia, especially, who was frightened by some visions in her dreams, clung to him and said that she would not let him go out that day.
"); //7be0 vortex_mixer_dis_sr ( vortex , ch ); hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , ebp , 0 ); } return 1 ; } static void vortex_mixer_init ( vortex_t * vortex ) { u32 addr ; int x ; // FIXME: get rid of this crap. memset ( mchannels , 0 , NR_MIXOUT * sizeof ( int )); memset ( rampchs , 0 , NR_MIXOUT * sizeof ( int )); addr = VORTEX_MIX_SMP + 0x17c ; for ( x = 0x5f ; x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0 ); addr -= 4 ; } addr = VORTEX_MIX_ENIN + 0x1fc ; for ( x = 0x7f ; x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0 ); addr -= 4 ; } addr = VORTEX_MIX_SMP + 0x17c ; for ( x = 0x5f ; x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0 ); addr -= 4 ; } addr = VORTEX_MIX_INVOL_A + 0x7fc ; for ( x = 0x1ff ; x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0x80 ); addr -= 4 ; } addr = VORTEX_MIX_VOL_A + 0x3c ; for ( x = 0xf ; x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0x80 ); addr -= 4 ; } addr = VORTEX_MIX_INVOL_B + 0x7fc ; for ( x = 0x1ff ; x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0x80 ); addr -= 4 ; } addr = VORTEX_MIX_VOL_B + 0x3c ; for ( x = 0xf ; x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0x80 ); addr -= 4 ; } addr = VORTEX_MIXER_RTBASE + ( MIXER_RTBASE_SIZE - 1 ) * 4 ; for ( x = ( MIXER_RTBASE_SIZE - 1 ); x >= 0 ; x -- ) { hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , addr , 0x0 ); addr -= 4 ; } hwwrite ( vortex -> mmio , VORTEX_MIXER_SR , 0 ); /* Set clipping ceiling (this may be all wrong). / / for (x = 0; x < 0x80; x++) { hwwrite(vortex->mmio, VORTEX_MIXER_CLIP + (x << 2), 0x3ffff); } / / call CAsp4Mix__Initialize_CAsp4HwIO____CAsp4Mixer____ Register ISR callback for volume smooth fade out.
β-Galactosidase Assay. β-Galactosidase assays were heavily modified from Ashburner (23) as follows. Wandering third-instar larvae were dissected in KPM buffer (50 mM KH 2 PO 4 plus K 2 HPO 4 , pH 7.5, plus 1 mM MgCl 2 ). Both wing imaginal discs were separated out and pipetted in 1-µL volume into a microcentrifuge tube containing 4 µL of 1% (vol/vol) Nonidet-P40 detergent in KPM buffer to lyse. Samples were incubated in ice for 1–3 h and then brought to a volume of 400 µL using KPM buffer, vortexed, and centrifuged for 5 min at 4 °C at 21,000 × g. Samples were randomized and 180 µL of supernatant was transferred to PCR strip tubes at room temperature for the assay. For the β-galactosidase assay, 50 µL of sample (i.e., one-fourth disk) was combined with 150 µL of assay solution in clear 96-well plates. To make the assay solution, 4 mM chlorophenol red β-d-galactopyranoside (Roche) was first prepared in sterile deionized water. A 1/9 volume of 10× KPM buffer was added to this and immediately vortexed. Plates were loaded into the Multiskan GO, shaken 15 s, paused 15 s, and absorbance at 574 nm measured over 1 h in 1-min intervals at 25 °C. The response variable used for analysis was the median of two to three technical replicates of β-galactosidase activity, in units of ΔAbs 574 per hour. These assay conditions were chosen to ensure linearity of the response. Serial dilution of CPRG substrate did not yield a flat-asymptoting Michaelis-Menten–like curve at substrate concentrations greater than 4 mM in preliminary tests, perhaps due to the solubility of the substrate in the assay buffer. Therefore, to ensure that the assay was performing linearly, we tested for, and observed, that the assay performed linearly over the observed range of activity present in our fly samples, using serial dilution of purified E. coli β-galactosidase (Sigma) in a buffer consisting of the same concentration of KPM plus Nonidet as used in the fly disk samples (Fig. S1C). Unlike the ADH assays, we did not quantify soluble protein, owing to interference from the detergent and from the much smaller sample concentration of the imaginal discs.
Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin on Jan. 14 began an inquiry into allegations of commercial espionage carried out against French carmaker Renault. The allegations first became public when Renault suspended three of its employees on Jan. 3 after an internal investigation that began in August 2010. Within days, citing an anonymous French government source, Reuters reported that French intelligence services were looking into the possibility that China played a role in the Renault espionage case. While the French government refused to officially confirm this accusation, speculation has run wild that Chinese state-sponsored spies were stealing electric-vehicle technology from Renault. The Chinese are well-known perpetrators of industrial espionage and have been caught before in France, but the details that have emerged so far about the Renault operation differ from the usual Chinese method of operation. And much has been learned about this MO just in the last two years across the Atlantic, where the United States has been increasingly aggressive in investigating and prosecuting cases of Chinese espionage. If Chinese intelligence services were indeed responsible for espionage at Renault it would be one of only a few known cases involving non-Chinese nationals and would have involved the largest amount of money since the case of the legendary Larry Wu-Tai Chin , China's most successful spy. STRATFOR has previously detailed the Chinese intelligence services and the workings of espionage with Chinese characteristics . A look back at Chinese espionage activities uncovered in the United States in 2010, since our latest report was compiled, can provide more context and detail about current Chinese intelligence operations.We chose to focus on operations in the United States for two reasons. First, the United States is a major target for Chinese industrial espionage. This is because it is a leader in technology development, particularly in military hardware desired by China's expanding military, and a potential adversary at the forefront of Chinese defense thinking. Second, while it is not the only country developing major new technologies in which China would be interested, the United States has been the most aggressive in prosecuting espionage cases against Chinese agents, thereby producing available data for us to work with. Since 2008, at least seven cases have been prosecuted each year in the United States against individuals spying for China. Five were prosecuted in 2007. Going back to about 2000, from one to three cases were prosecuted annually, and before that, less than one was prosecuted per year.
On Oleksandr Iaremko’s Facebook page is a poster of an old brown camper van draped in clothes and parked in the middle of nowhere with a saying underneath by Foster Hunting: “Home is where you park it.” It’s a message Iaremko, and others in Metro Vancouver, are taking to heart, by living in vans, trailers and RVs, as a cheaper alternative to paying high-priced rents across the region. The vehicles can be spotted in almost every municipality — in clusters on industrial lots, on residential side streets or in parking lots of big-box stores. For some, the truly homeless, vehicles are the only option in this overheated housing market, which has resulted in record low vacancy rates and high rents. For others, they are a choice, a way to buck conventional society, save money and avoid paying for someone else’s investment. In some cases, the vans or RVs have out-of-town licence plates, suggesting they are also serving as cheaper forms of accommodation for travellers to B.C. “It has its pluses and minuses,” said Iaremko, a 26-year-old roofer who has been living in a cargo van for more than a month. “There are some conveniences. You don’t have to go home after work and it forces you out more. You’re not staying in your apartment.” Iaremko’s van is a tidy, cosy home, with a raised bed under which he has tucked his belongings, tools and food. An electric piano is strapped to the side panel behind the driver’s seat, while sheets of plywood are tucked in beside the bed, waiting to cover the insulation he’s installing to make his home warmer for the winter. He doesn’t have the luxury of his own shower, toilet, or even a sink, but Iaremko has creative ways to make up for such shortfalls by being creative. A raw foodie who occasionally eats cooked foods, Iaremko uses a gas-powered camp stove to make coffee and the odd fried egg, while he always parks near all-night coffee shops for those late night pit stops or to wash out his mug. A pass to Vancouver swimming pools provides him with swims and showers, while big-box stores have high-speed and super-fast Internet, especially at night when no one is using it. “I’m flexible with this life,” he said, but noted it’s not for everyone.
told her she had to do to get them back—going to parenting class, submitting to inspections by a caseworker. By this time, she was pregnant again. “The first thing that caseworker said to me when she met me was not ‘Hello’ but ‘Oh, you’re pregnant again? They ain’t going to do nothing but take that baby, too.’ That was the first thing that came out of her mouth.” But the caseworker was wrong: shortly before Mercedes gave birth to her third child, Tiana, the judge gave Camron and Leslie back to Mercedes, on the condition that she live with her mother. A.C.S. was still uneasy about Mercedes, however. Right after Tiana was born it requested that the court find “derivative neglect” of Tiana by Mercedes, on the ground that she had been found to neglect Camron and Leslie, and argued that all three children should be taken into foster care. It pointed out that Mercedes’s home had been observed to be unsanitary on at least two occasions, that she had refused to participate in drug treatment despite admitting that she smoked marijuana “whenever I get the urge,” and had missed two child-safety conferences, and therefore posed an imminent risk to Tiana’s life or health. But the children’s attorney argued that Mercedes should be allowed to keep the baby, and the judge agreed. Six months later, A.C.S. filed another petition to remove the children: Leslie had cellulitis and eczema, and Tiana was seriously underweight, and A.C.S. argued that the persistence of these problems suggested that Mercedes was failing to care for them properly. The judge pointed out that since Tiana had not gained weight even during a two-week stay in the hospital, it was not clear that Mercedes had anything to do with it. (Years later, Tiana was given a diagnosis of growth-hormone deficiency.) Moreover, she said, there was a strong bond between mother and infant, the disruption of which would only make things worse. Three months after that, A.C.S. tried to remove Tiana a third time, but again the judge said no. “I’m going to level with you, Tom. The rest of the marketing team wasn’t sent upstate to live on a farm.” Mercedes fought with her mother and moved with the kids to a shelter again, but there were bedbugs, so she left.
I am in Greece, where I spent the past two nights in Tirynthas Prison; not as a prisoner, though. I was the guest of the prison warden's son, who is a GNU/Linux fan. I had several chances to try his mother's home cooking. This is a low security prison in which prisoners reduce their sentences by caring for animals: cows, rabbits, chickens. US prisons used to do something similar--I think they called it "rehabilitation"--until the 1980s, when the "war on drugs" caused a great increase in the number of prisoners, and all such ideas were discarded in favor of treating the prisoners in the nastiest possible way. The prison is near the city of Nauplio, which was not much of a city in ancient times but became important under the Venetians, who built a large castle on a hill there and another on an island in the bay. It was also the first capital of Greece on its independance, around 1830. Now it is a place where Atheneans go for the weekend. The prison headquarters building, where I was sleeping, was originally the house of the first governor of Greece after independence. Across the street from the prison were the ruins of ancient Tiryns, a palace built around 1400 bc. It is not much to look at, though, except for the "cyclopean" walls built of very large stones. (The Greeks in later times thought that only the cyclops with their superhuman strength could have built such walls.) A wall painting was found there during excavation, and I hope to see it in the museum in Athens. We also went to see Mycenae, a larger ancient town with impressive underground dome tombs that have long aisles leading to the entrances. One thing that isn't clear from pictures in books is the setting: for defensive purposes, it was built on a rather high hill. On Sunday we saw the theater of Epidauros, 2400 years old and still in use for performances. It was next to a large temple complex, mainly dedicated to Asclepius, a god of medicine; sick people came there to pray for a cure and also in some cases receive medical treatment. Today some group is slowly rebuilding one of the ancient buildings (the Thymele) with new stone, and I think they aim eventually to build it completely anew, but it will probably take decades at the rate they are going.

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