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That may not stop me from trying it, though, because Stand is Grand! (™)Quill & Tankard Curmudgeons - 2 out of 5While Appointed is likely to be going on a long trip to the binder, from where it will never return, there’s a bit more beneath the veneer of this other new Small Council card that could amount to something. The key part here is really the “when a player” (i.e. not just you), which means that there’s a lot more ways to skin this cat. One simply cannot completely dismiss a multi-character stand effect… no matter how niche it may seem at the time of publication. Of course, it might end up that even when there’s a good amount of targets finally available, all decks are running them (and this stands opponent’s characters too), so there’s less benefit to be had!scantrell24 - 2 out of 5All good Voltron decks need a stand engine, but post intrigue win stand isn’t that exciting because not many intrigue characters have Renown or Intimidate. This box is just full of seed cards and obvious combos. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as I enjoy building jank just as much as tourney decks.emptyrepublic - 4 out of 5This agenda will be as powerful as the player’s ability to use it properly. It’s not a rote as Crossing. Obviously you have to make sure you can get your intrigues through, otherwise you are wasting your time. There are lots of good scheme plots and there will no doubt be more in the not too distant future. There’s a vague analogy that could be made with The Maester’s Path from first edition in that you are able to build an on-demand toolbox. I think it will be powerful but trip up players who aren’t strong at think through plot progression in game.JoefromCincinnati - 3 out of 5Rains definitely has its advantages. You have more plots at your disposal and can use them as a ‘surprise’ in the challenges phase, making the deck more flexible and unpredictable, but then it restricts your schemes to only be in the side plot deck, which makes the main plot deck less flexible...You need to win that intrigue challenge by 5 or more, which is very predictable and should be planned for by your opponent...I could see Lannister using this effectively and perhaps Martell. Other than that, I’m not sure many factions can guarantee consistent +5 on intrigue challenges.
Cuomo announced that he had shut down the commission on March 29th. On April 2nd, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. The case clarified and extended the logic of Citizens United, in which the Court had ruled that certain contributions made by corporations cannot be regulated, because corporations are people and money is speech, and therefore money spent by corporations is protected under the First Amendment. In McCutcheon, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the five-to-four majority. “The right to participate in democracy through political contributions is protected by the First Amendment, but that right is not absolute,” he began. Congress may not “regulate contributions simply to reduce the amount of money in politics, or to restrict the political participation of some in order to enhance the relative influence of others.” But there is “one legitimate governmental interest for restricting campaign finances,” he explained: “preventing corruption or the appearance of corruption.” That said, the Court’s understanding of corruption is very narrow, Roberts explained, echoing a view expressed by Justice Anthony Kennedy in McConnell v. F.E.C., in 2003: “Congress may target only a specific type of corruption—‘quid pro quo’ corruption.” Quid pro quo is when an elected official does something like accepting fifteen thousand dollars in cash in exchange for supporting another politician’s bid to run for mayor of New York. The only kind of corruption that federal law is allowed to prohibit is out-and-out bribery. The kind of political prostitution that the Moreland Commission was in the middle of attempting to document—elected officials representing the interests not of their constituents but of their largest contributors—does not constitute, in the view of the Supreme Court, either corruption or the appearance of corruption. In the words of Daniel Halloran, “That’s politics.” Is the distinction tenable? “It’s not a quid-pro-quo thing,” Vincent Tabone insisted, when asked what he wanted in exchange for his support of Malcolm Smith. “It’s a matter of good faith.” “You give us some ideas on how he can demonstrate that good faith,” Raj suggested. Three weeks later, Tabone accepted twenty-five thousand dollars, cash. [cartoon id="a18469"] Last year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee advised freshman members of Congress to spend four hours on the phone each day raising money. That sounds dreadful. But what would be the right number of hours? There’s only so much that can be done about money in politics, of course.
larger image TIFF original image Download: Figure 3. Larval settlement experiment (Field) setup. a) Map of field experiment site in West Bay. Circles denote locations of “off-reef” replicates, and squares are “reef” replicates. The extent of the West Bay oyster reserve is indicated by the box bordering the reef replicates. Inset shows experiment location in West Bay, b) Schematic of the larval housing placed at each replicate in off-reef sites and c) in the reef site. Larval cultures were suspended at 1 m above the seabed at each location, with the two habitats providing the ambient sound treatments. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079337.g003 In each of four trials, four replicate “larval housings” were placed at each site. Larval housings consisted of sample jars identical to those used in laboratory trials and each jar contained an oyster shell disc as settlement substrate. The number of larval cultures used in each replicate larval housing varied among trials (1–4 jars per replicate) based on availability of larvae and logistical constraints. As in laboratory settlement experiments, groups of 100 larvae were placed in the tightly sealed jars prior to deployment at the habitat sites, thereby exposing larvae to habitat sounds while excluding other potential habitat-associated cues such as differences in water chemistry. Larval housings were suspended 1 meter above the seabed (Fig. 3b, 3c). At the reef site, larval housings were deployed within the reserve boundaries, but on sand bottom adjacent to oyster reef structure to minimize potential differences in light or visual cues between the reef and off-reef habitats. Each experimental trial lasted 48–72 hours, determined by field site deployment and retrieval logistics during a given trial period. After a trial, larval housings were retrieved via scuba divers, and settlement discs preserved in 95% ethanol and transported to the laboratory to measure settlement as the proportion of larvae in a culture. The response variable, mean proportional settlement, was calculated for each replicate. An ANOVA model was used to test for differences in mean proportional settlement between the habitat treatments, with trial as a fixed factor and a trial by treatment interaction term. The different soundscapes of oyster reef and off-reef sites at West Bay were well-characterized prior to this field experiment, providing support for the assumption that the sites could provide distinct sound treatments for the experimental units (see soundscape measurement results below).
To whom am I speaking? Subject: Dr. Svetlana Venediktov, archeologist extraordinaire! And I am in a very good mood, friend! A very good mood indeed! Dr. Q███████: And why is that!? Subject: Because I have found it! I have found this caravanserai! There have always been rumours, since Soviet days, but I have found it! The find of the century! Dr. Q███████: Well, congr- wait, what do you mean, "since Soviet days"? Subject: Since forever, my little friend! Hah! I am going to go and get drunk some more! Subject then wandered away, singing Russian folk songs. <End Log> Interview 3150-941 Interviewed: Subject is a male, early 20s. Subject spoke in modern Persian, with some minor alterations. Interviewer: Dr. I███ Foreword: This interview was conducted 02/09/199█, within SCP-3150-1. <Begin Log> Dr. I███: Hello there. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? Subject: No. Dr. I███: OK, then… Who are you? Where do you come from? Subject: I am Ali Isma'ili. I am 22. I am a soldier. In the army. The army of the Empire for the Reclamation of the Islamic Artifacts. Dr. I███: The- what Empire? Do you mean ORIA? Subject: This place is strange. It plays tricks on you. Are you from the Foundation? Good people. Allies. In the war. Old enemies are new friends now. Dr. I███: The war? Subject: The only war that's left. The war against the Red Shah. These are the borderlands. We are losing, you see. I must… I must think. Need to think of a way. A way to win. Subject was unresponsive following this exchange. <End Log>
2-6-0 , up to Gordon the big blue Pacific. The faces are separate resin castings fitted and changed between shooting sequences in order to obtain changes of expression. They are held in place with nothing more sophisticated than double-sided adhesive tape. To allow for differing boiler diameters and a variety of expressions, some 70 individual faces are available. Coupled with the wide range of eye movements they provide for great flexibility in the available expressions. The filming sequences involved live action – that is filming of moving models rather than the stop-frame animation technique which results in the slightly jerky movements associated with many of the TV children’s series. Thus convincing movements and reliable operation were essential. During the nine months of filming, Jamie was on hand to service and maintain the locomotives and the railway. It was a full-time job in keeping wheels and mechanisms clean, batteries charged and rails free from the combined effects of extraneous scenic materials, dirt and smoke oil. Sets were constructed on a rostrum some 3ft above ground level using the specialised techniques of the industry. Grass, for instance, is the plastic variety used in greengrocer’s shops, but specially treated to make it appear more convincing. Each set was used for all the relevant sequences and then dismantled and replaced by the next. Anyone who knows the books will realise that quite a substantial number of different sets would be required. The human characters in the stories, particularly the Fat Controller and the train crews featured much larger scale figures posed alongside enlarged parts of the trains such as cab sides. Thomas, however, does have a driver with an arm which moves to the ‘waving’ position. Apart from the locomotives, the model-makers had to provide a wide range of rolling stock, most of which was scratch-built using parts from the Tenmille range of gauge 1 accessories and fittings. Two other important characters are Bertie the Bus and Terence the Tractor, the latter quickly nicknamed ‘Drac the Trac’ by the film crew. Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the culmination of five years work by producer Britt Allcroft. The series was directed by David Mitton, with incidental music specially written by Mike O’Donnell and Junior Campbell. UK Television rights have been acquired by Central TV and UK video rights by the Guild Organisation Ltd.
So far, we present the only naturalistic study of yawn contagion in humans that provides evidence of the linkage between yawn contagion and empathy by demonstrating that yawn contagion i) is influenced by the social-emotional bond between individuals more than by any other variables considered (e.g. position, gender, social context, nationality differences) in terms of occurrence, frequency, and response latency; and ii) follows the same trend of empathy, thus increasing from strangers to kin.
JPost 13 Feb — Construction of the West Bank security barrier has been mostly frozen for nine years, even though some 36 percent has yet to be completed. Nor is it likely to be finished in the near future, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise last week to wrap a security fence around the entire State of Israel. “We are also preparing a plan to close the breaches in the security fence in Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu said. At issue is not a “hole” or “breach” in a fence initially designed in 2002, at the height of the second intifada to halt Palestinian suicide bombers, but rather more than 250 km. of a 790-km. route that has yet to be built around three main settlement blocs – Gush Etzion, Ariel and Ma’aleh Adumim, including E1. During the last 14 years, Israel has remained orally committed to its right to safeguard its citizens with a barrier. Pragmatically on the ground, however, its work on the route has advanced just 47 km. since 2007, according to United Nations data . . . Most people actually thought it had been finished long ago. The IDF had taken it off its priority list, but wanted to preserve the option to build it if necessary, a security source once told The Jerusalem Post . . . Shlomo Vaknin, who heads security for the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, said the sections of the barrier that could be built, have been already been constructed . . . No one argued with Israel’s right to build a barrier on the pre-1967 lines, but the moment it crossed over, the international community and the Palestinians accused Israel of grabbing PA land and unilaterally creating an Israeli border in the West Bank. In 2004, the International Court of Justice at The Hague issued an advisory opinion that declared the barrier over the Green Line illegal. (Continued)
Voltron: Defender of the Universe Track Listings Track No. Song Title Run Time Note 01 Voltron Opener (Narration) 1:17 Narration by Peter Cullen who also provided voices in the Lions series 02 Descent 1:11 03 Mystical 0:28 04 Alien Landscape 0:41 05 A Witch 1:05 06 Gladiator Fight 1:06 07 Arrival 0:30 08 Sneaking 0:38 09 Bad Guys 0:27 10 Royal Subjects 0:42 11 Dangerous 0:36 12 Bumper #1 0:08 First of three bumpers to transition to a commercial break. 13 Voltron Will Be Back... 0:08 Used for commercial breaks. Narration by Peter Cullen. 14 And Now Back To Voltron... 0:09 Used to transition back from commercial break. Narration by Peter Cullen. 15 Quick Harp 0:08 16 Majestic 0:21 17 Castle of Lions 0:37 18 Sad Princess 1:06 19 Our Prayers Answered (Dialogue) 0:16 Narration by Peter Cullen 20 At The Lake 0:22 21 Hunk and Pidge 0:31 22 Rushing 1:16 23 The Cave 1:10 24 Bumper #2 0:08 Second of three bumpers to transition to a commercial break. 25 Sand People 1:00 26 Captured 0:42 27 A Spy 0:48 28 Voltron Arrives 0:19 29 We Are Friends 1:33 30 Defeat 0:27 31 Quick Harp #2 0:08 32 It's Me 0:36 33 King Alford 0:25 34 Tension 0:22 35 Underground Base 1:23 36 Montage 2:09 37 Bumper #3 0:17 Third and final bumper to transition to a commercial break. 38 Voltron Will Be Back (Instrumental) 0:10 39 Ready To Form Voltron (Dialogue) 1:10 Dialogue by Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Neil Ross, B.J. Ward & Lennie Weinrib 40 Voltron Closer 0:58 World Events Productions logo stinger at the end of the song. 41 Original Opener 1:17 No narration version 42 Original Opener w/Sing Out 1:17 No narration version 43 Original Closer 0:56 World Events Productions logo stinger at the end of the song. 44 Form Voltron Sound FX 0:37 45 Voltage SFX 0:08 46 Voltage Bump 0:08 47 Magic, Fire SFX 0:24 48 Voltron DJ MacMan Dance Remix 2:08 A bonus remix track of the all of tracks. Dialogue by Jack Angel. 49 All Music Compilation 21:14 All music from the soundtrack in one track 50 Music of Voltron Montage 8:23 A montage of music from the soundtrack
Yeah, some angry mob might eventually overpower me, but it's gonna cost 'em dearly in the process. (Clint Eastwood was right. Stop being such a pu--y and learn how to deal with the real world as an adult. )Sadly, most people who own guns never quite learn how to use them very effectively. If you're going to act in self-defense as a last resort to save lives and halt violence, you need toto halt the threat as quickly as possible.Those of us who are trained in tactical handgun combat at the advanced levels are actually, not the chest, because shattering someone's pelvis immediately causes them to crumple to the ground. And that's the entire purpose of shooting someone in self-defense: To STOP their assault and thereby protect lives.If you shoot someone in the chest, they can keep charging in your direction (and often do). If you shoot them in the pelvis with a hollow point or rifle round, they are usually out of the fight almost instantly, which affords you more time to take out their fellow criminals who are also probably trying to murder you. Rookie cops are often trained to shoot center body mass only because it's the simplest way to teach beginner marksmanship to newbies. Veteran cops know that shooting the pelvis is a far more effective way to stop the threat. Also, as a tactical bonus, very few people wear pelvis body armor (or steel underwear). But chest body armor is common among some criminals.Forget your "safe spaces" and "social justice" delusions. When an angry mob (of any skin color)and seeks to carry out acts of extreme violence against them, the correct solution isn't "social justice" but rather HALTING their violence as quickly as possible. This is a universal principle, and it applies to a mob of white people trying to lynch a black person just as much as it applies to a mob of black people trying to beat white people to death.There is no circumstance under which mob violence against racially targeted victims is acceptable in any kind of lawful society., either by law enforcement or by armed, responsible citizens packing hollow point ammo in their Glocks and Colts.
Almost all shellcodes inside metasploit project uses a assembly block called Hash API, it is a fine piece of code written by Stephen Fewer and it is used by majority of Windows the shellcodes inside metasploit since 2009, this assembly block makes parsing the PEB structure much easier, it uses the basic PEB parsing logic and some additional hashing methods for quickly finding the required functions with calculating the ROR13 hash of the function and module name, usage of this block is pretty easy, it uses the stdcall calling convention only difference is after pushing the required function parameters it needs the ROR13 hash of the function name and DLL name that is containing the function, after pushing the required parameters and the function hash it parses the PEB block as explained earlier and finds the module name, after finding the module name it calculates the ROR13 hash and saves it to stack then it moves to the DLL’s export address table and calculates the ROR13 hash of each function name, it takes the sum of the each function name hash and module name hash, if the sum matches the hash that we are looking for, it means the wanted function is found, finally Hash API makes a jump to the found function address with the passed parameters on the stack, it is a very elegant piece of code but it is coming to its final days, because of it’s popularity and wide usage, some AV products and anti exploit mitigations specifically targets the work logic of this code block, even some AV products uses the ROR13 hash used by the Hash API as signatures for identifying the malicious files, because of the recent advancements on anti exploit solutions inside operating systems, Hash API has a short lifespan left, but there are other ways to find the Windows API function addresses, also with using some encoding mechanisms this method can still bypass the majority of AV products.
Unlike with Latin texts, which had been preserved and studied in Western Europe since late antiquity, the study of ancient Greek texts was very limited in medieval Western Europe. Ancient Greek works on science, maths and philosophy had been studied since the High Middle Ages in Western Europe and in the medieval Islamic world (normally in translation), but Greek literary, oratorical and historical works (such as Homer, the Greek dramatists, Demosthenes and Thucydides) were not studied in either the Latin or medieval Islamic worlds; in the Middle Ages these sorts of texts were only studied by Byzantine scholars. One of the greatest achievements of Renaissance scholars was to bring this entire class of Greek cultural works back into Western Europe for the first time since late antiquity. Arab logicians had inherited Greek ideas after they had invaded and conquered Egypt and the Levant. Their translations and commentaries on these ideas worked their way through the Arab West into Iberia and Sicily, which became important centers for this transmission of ideas. From the 11th to the 13th century, many schools dedicated to the translation of philosophical and scientific works from Classical Arabic to Medieval Latin were established in Iberia. Most notably the Toledo School of Translators. This work of translation from Islamic culture, though largely unplanned and disorganized, constituted one of the greatest transmissions of ideas in history. [28] This movement to reintegrate the regular study of Greek literary, historical, oratorical and theological texts back into the Western European curriculum is usually dated to the 1396 invitation from Coluccio Salutati to the Byzantine diplomat and scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (c. 1355–1415) to teach Greek in Florence. [29] This legacy was continued by a number of expatriate Greek scholars, from Basilios Bessarion to Leo Allatius.
All fMRI data underwent pre-processing including motion correction (INRIAlign), spatial normalization into the standard Montreal Neurological Institute space, and spatial smoothing with a 3D Gaussian kernel with a 8 mm full width at half-maximum radius in preparation for statistical analysis (SPM8, http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm). In addition, Artifact Detection Tools (ART) software was utilized and those participants with 5 or greater identified artifacts were excluded, carrying forward 61 participants for further analysis. The small number of artifacts remaining was primarily movement related. This was addressed by utilizing six realignment parameters calculated during pre-processing and entered as regressors of no interest during statistical analysis to remove residual motion artifacts. Remaining were 17 HC, 15 MDD, 15 MJ, and 14 MDD + MJ participants. In the MDD + MJ group, 10 met current criteria for current MDD and 4 for past MDD. All statistical analyses were performed using SPM8. Individual participant SPM contrast maps were calculated using the general linear model framework. For each participant, the first 45 s of each music block was modeled using a standard boxcar design convolved with a canonical hemodynamic response function. The first 45 s was used to capture the peak activation related to the task that we hypothesized was most reflective of the reward component of the preferred music. Each music condition block was then compared to the rest condition. These participant-specific maps were then carried forward into a whole brain, second level (between participants; random effects) analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with two factors involving four groups (HC, MDD, MJ, MDD + MJ) and two music types (preferred, neutral). Sex was included in our model as a regressor of no interest to account for differences in sex composition between groups. Correction for multiple comparisons are as indicated below for each analysis.
Another Linux distribution which tries to protect the user and their files is Subgraph OS. The Subgraph distribution is based on Debian and includes several security features to keep the operating system locked down and our on-line browsing anonymous. The following excerpts from the Subgraph website give us a taste of the project's features: Subgraph OS ships with a kernel hardened with Grsecurity, the best set of Linux kernel security enhancements available. Grsecurity includes PaX, a set of patches to make both the userland and the kernel more resistant to exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities. * * * * * Subgraph OS's application containment mechanism creates sandboxes around at-risk applications, such as the browser, e-mail client, PDF viewer, and IM client. The objective of this is to contain the impact of a successful attack against these applications, preventing compromise of the entire system. Each application within a container has a limited view of the host system and limited set of capabilities such as limiting access to the file system or the network. Subgraph OS's application containment mechanism creates sandboxes around at-risk applications, such as the browser, e-mail client, PDF viewer, and IM client. The objective of this is to contain the impact of a successful attack against these applications, preventing compromise of the entire system. Each application within a container has a limited view of the host system and limited set of capabilities such as limiting access to the file system or the network. * * * * * Subgraph OS includes features to enforce application network policies such as Subgraph Metaproxy and the application firewall. Subgraph OS includes features to enforce application network policies such as Subgraph Metaproxy and the application firewall. * * * * * Metaproxy is configured to redirect outgoing connections to the Tor network based on a white-list of approved applications. Each application is automatically relayed through a proxy that will use a different Tor circuit. Metaproxy is configured to redirect outgoing connections to the Tor network based on a white-list of approved applications. Each application is automatically relayed through a proxy that will use a different Tor circuit. * * * * * The application firewall will restrict which applications can connect to the network based on the name of the application or the destination. Users will be prompted to set temporary or permanent policies as outgoing connections are made.
However, the U.S. has not withdrawn or formally qualified its condemnation of the ETIM from the U.N. list. In the process, it has handed China a major propaganda victory against its political opponents in Xinjiang. China has also been very active in enrolling the support of its Central Asian neighbors in the crackdown against Uighur ethno-nationalist aspirations. It is the driving force behind the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ( SCO ), a regional security body composed of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan set up in 1996 (Uzbekistan joined in 2001). The SCO was established in part to address Chinese concerns about a number of small Uighur political and opposition movements that, in the first years of independence for the former Soviet republics, set up organizations in the region, giving Uighur exiles a much closer base for their operations than the previous generation of activists, who had been based in Turkey and, later, Germany. Under pressure from Beijing, since 1996 these Central Asian countries have effectively silenced independent Uighur organizations on their soil and on several occasions have repatriated refugees in response to requests by China. Some of those repatriated refugees were executed upon their return. Since the co-option by China and other states of the notion of the "war against terror," international co-operation has been leveraged in the Central Asian region by means of mutual agreement about those regarded by these states as political opponents. These cases have not always involved activists involved in the use of violence. In October 2004, China and Russia made a joint call for international efforts to help in their respective fights against opponents, with the Russians seeking help against Chechen rebels and the Chinese seeking help against Uighur separatists. The statement referred to "terrorists" and "separatists" in Chechnya and Xinjiang, whom it said "are part of international terrorism" and "should be the targets of the international fight against terrorism." The wording of the Chinese part of the statement referred both to terrorism and separatism, but implied that they were interchangeable: China understands and firmly supports all measures taken by Russia to resume the constitutional order of the Republic of Chechnya and to fight against terrorism. Russia firmly supports all measures taken by China to fight against the terrorist and separatist forces in "East Turkestan" and to eliminate terrorist jeopardy.
Study subjects (n = 72) were randomly assigned to 4 groups: (1) group 1 received 1.5 mg of boron, 2 ×/d; (2) group 2 was given 3 mg, 2 ×/d; (3) group 3 received 6 mg, 2 ×/d; and (4) group 4 received placebo, 2 ×/d. Fifteen days of dietary supplementation with calcium fructoborate lowered inflammatory biomarkers— CRP, fibrinogen (FBR), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)—in all groups except the placebo group; no effect was seen on lipids. In groups 1, 2, and 3 (ie, those supplemented with boron in the form of calcium fructoborate), significant decreases occurred in ESR levels: a drop of −10.25%, −11.9%, and −8.5% in groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively, compared with baseline. In the placebo group, the ESR level rose 36.36%. FBR also dropped in those supplemented: −13.73 in group 1, −2.05 in group 2, and −4.18 in group 3. In the placebo group, FBR rose 4.10. CRP also dropped in all supplemented groups: −60.25 in group 1, −26.66 in group 2, and −17.54 in group 3. In the placebo group, CRP increased 5.47. Most recently, calcium fructoborate 110 mg 2 ×/d, which provides approximately 3 mg of boron 2 ×/d or 6 mg/d, was shown to improve knee discomfort within the first 14 days of treatment. In this study, subjects with self-reported knee discomfort (n = 60) were randomized into 2 groups given either calcium fructoborate or placebo.64 At both 7 days and 14 days, significant reductions in the mean, within-subject changes in scores, as measured using the WOMAC index and the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), were seen in the group supplemented with calcium fructoborate when compared with the placebo group. Estimated treatment differences for the MPQ score were −5.8 and −8.9 at days 7 and 14, respectively. Estimated differences for the WOMAC score were −5.3 and −13.73 at days 7 and 14, respectively. Negative values indicate greater reductions in reported discomfort. No changes in the WOMAC or MPQ scores were seen in the placebo group.65 CRP levels are typically higher in patients with OA compared with normal controls, and CRP levels with reference values above 0.5 mg/dL in OA patients are associated with disease progression.66,67 As noted earlier, in addition to OA and CVD, higher levels of CRP are also associated with NAFLD, MetS, type 2 diabetes, obesity, depression, kidney disease, and osteoporosis.
As a leader in micro market technology, it is important that 32M continues leading the way with advancements such as chip implants" added Mr. Westby. "The international market place is wide-open and we believe that the future trajectory of total market share is going to be driven by who captures this arena first," said 32M COO Patrick McMullan. "Europe is far more advanced in mobile and chip technology usage than the U.S. and we are thrilled with the growth opportunity this enhancement will bring to us. Thanks to our market partners in Sweden, we met this innovative company and look forward to working with them to take our market share to another level. "32M is envisioning this technology to help it grow its other self-checkout businesses. "We see this as another payment and identification option that not only can be used in our markets but our other self-checkout / self-service applications that we are now deploying which include convenience stores and fitness centers," added Mr. McMullan.Employees will be chipped at the 32M inaugural "chip party" hosted at their headquarters in River Falls, WI on August 1, 2017.32M based in River Falls, WI, is considered a leader in micro market technology. With its' patented technology and industry-leading smart phone application and inventory intelligence, 32M has grown to over 2,000 kiosks in operation in nearly 20 different countries plus it operates over 6,000 kiosks in its' corrections industry business, TurnKey Corrections. For more information on 32M visit http://www.32Market.com or http://www.BreakRoomRehab.com or follow them on Twitter, @32Market, on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn by typing in 32Market.BioHax International is a company based in Sweden on the forefront of implanted chip technology. Osterland was recently a guest speaker on the TED Talks. Visit www.BioHaxSweden.com for additional information.
But at a time of rapid climate change, local is not always best, and one option for realigning lower-elevation forests is replanting areas with so-called genotypes of some of the existing tree species that originate in drier areas, a process known as “assisted population transfer.” To ensure that the tree seed used in forest plantations and restoration projects best matches the conditions at the planting site, a system of “seed zones” and “seed transfer guidelines” has long been in place. British Columbia’s Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, a pioneer in the field of adaptation, has facilitated assisted population transfer by updating its system to account for current and projected climate change. The province’s standards that restricted the upward movement of tree seed were amended to extend the limit by up to 656 feet to account for recent and future warming. In the Sierras, Millar says, if massive tree mortality “continues to accelerate and sweeps up the west slope” in the decades to come,” even stronger medicine may be necessary. This could include assisted migration of species unable to keep pace with rapidly changing conditions on their own.
There are still plenty of tourists milling around, although the top attraction in the area, the Stock Exchange tour, has been shut down since September 11th. Indeed, it is believed that Issa al-Hindi’s reconnaissance team used the tour to case its target. “They had counted the chairs in the Big Board room,” Esposito said sourly. “We had sharpshooters, bomb dogs, drug dogs years ago,” Esposito went on. “But, suddenly, it’s so sophisticated. The N.Y.P.D. has created a body of experts that is just unbelievable. Without frightening the public, they’ve just been quietly going about their business. Our people have trained with the Police Department, the Fire Department, on C.B.R.N. We’re really customers of their expertise.”
As the shortages drag on and spread, fuel is hoarded, and a black market for it develops: fuel diverted from official delivery channels and siphoned from gas tanks becomes available on the black market at inflated prices. And so the effect of even a minor initial shortage can easily snowball into an economic disruption sufficient to push the economy over physical and financial thresholds and toward collapse. If at this point you are starting to feel despondent, then -- I am sorry to have to say this, but you must be a lightweight, because there is more -- lots more to consider. Peak Oil's Rosy Scenario may look pretty, but even a rose has its thorns. And there are a number of other issues which need to be considered and taken into account within a single, integrated view. First, the rosy post-Peak Oil global production profile is based on reserve numbers which have been overstated. Much of the remaining oil is in the Middle East, in OPEC countries, and these countries overstated their reserves by various large amounts during OPEC's quota wars back in the 1980s. While other OPEC members sheepishly cooked up bogus numbers that looked vaguely real, Saddam Hussein, who was always a bit of a showboat, rounded up Iraq's reserve numbers up to a nice round number: 100 billion barrels. And so OPEC reserves turn out to have been inflated by some large amount -- about a third at a minimum. Nor is OPEC unique in overstating their reserve numbers. Energy companies in the US play much the same game in order to please Wall Street. Set your bathroom slippers aside; to negotiate Peak Oil's downward slope you will need good mountaineering equipment. Second, there is a phenomenon called Export Land Effect: oil-exporting countries, when their production starts to falter, have a strong tendency to cut exports before cutting into domestic consumption. To be sure, there are some countries that have surrendered their resource sovereignty to international energy companies and have lost control over their export policies. There are also some despotic regimes that starve their domestic consumers but to continue to earn the export revenue needed to prop up the regime. But most countries will only export their surplus production. This means that it will become impossible to buy oil internationally long before all the wells run dry, leaving oil importing countries out in the cold.
M y father was completely in awe of Mrs Kaushalya Atma Ram, the eminent educationist, who passed away recently. From the much-admired principal of two government colleges, she became the Director Public Instruction, Punjab. There were anecdotes about her as a disciplinarian and a strict administrator, one who did not mince words or pander to authority unless convinced. So intimidating was her persona that when I was summoned one morning by my father and instructed to go to her for lessons in expression and writing, to say I was terrified would be an understatement. But he was not the one to take no for an answer. I mustered whatever courage I could and went to her house. Imagine my surprise when I found that she was not just amiable and witty but also put the other person completely at ease. I honed my written skills, learnt to frame official letters, draft proposals, read between the lines and frame responses to the most obtuse comments in a non-threatening manner. She regaled me with stories of the 1960s and 1970s, of her students and her many trysts with the local administration. I was also privy to her dabbling in poetry and literature. Had she not been an educationist, she would have been a writer or a poet. She was a regular at our cultural concerts, especially the ones in which leading Indian classical musicians. She could sing quite well herself. Surprisingly, while she could have always asked for special seats, often I would run into her in the audience. Clearly, she was not one to use clout to get special favours. An institution in herself, her stellar career spanned five decades in different official capacities. Over another three decades, she also contributed in honorary roles and helped to shape the educational landscape of Chandigarh and Punjab. Labelling her as an academician par excellence would not be doing justice because her contribution went beyond mere academics. Progressive, creative with her ideas and bold in executing them, she won the admiration not only of her students and staff but also government officials, bureaucrats and politicians. Her qualities won her the unflinching loyalty of those fortunate enough to work with her. As my involvement in running schools, a cultural centre and managing activities of our NGO grew, she lent her expertise to the administration.
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The concept of a common fate is based on the sacrifice of the owner and the nonowner. Put another way, the notion of a human condition is based on an ideal and tormented image whose function is to resolve the irresolvable opposition between the mythical sacrifice of the minority and the really sacrificed life of everyone else. The function of myth is to unify and eternalize, in a succession of static moments, the dialectic of "will-to-live" and its opposite. This universally dominant factitious unity attains its most tangible and concrete representation in communication, particularly in language. Ambiguity is most manifest at this level, it leads to an absence of real communication, it puts the analyst at the mercy of ridiculous phantoms, at the mercy of words -- eternal and changing instants -- whose content varies according to who pronounces them, as does the notion of sacrifice. When language is put to the test, it can no longer dissimulate the misrepresentation and thus it provokes the crisis of participation. In the language of an era one can follow the traces of total revolution, unfulfilled but always imminent. They are the exalting and terrifying signs of the upheavals they foreshadow, but who takes them seriously? The discredit striking language is as deeply rooted and instinctive as the suspicion with which myths are viewed by people who at the same time remain firmly attached to them. How can key words be defined by other words? How can phrases be used to point out the signs that refute the phraseological organization of appearance? The best texts still await their justification. When a poem by Mallarmé becomes the sole explanation for an act of revolt, then poetry and revolution will have overcome their ambiguity. To await and prepare for this moment is to manipulate information not as the last shock wave whose significance escapes everyone, but as the first repercussion of an act still to come.
In the 70 seasons from 1946 through 2016, the Cardinals have finished ahead of the Cubs 53 times. In that same span the Cardinals have had 50 seasons in which their winning percentage was over .500, while the Cubs have finished over that mark 21 times (they finished at an even .500 twice). Cardinals-Cubs games see numerous visiting fans in either St. Louis' Busch Stadium or Chicago's Wrigley Field. [27] When the National League split into two, and then three divisions, the Cardinals and Cubs remained together. This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in 1984, 1989, 2003, 2004, 2015, and 2016; the first three times the division title was won by the Cubs, the fourth by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season. However, 2015 and 2016 were special years for the Cubs. In 2015, the Cubs finished in third place in the NL Central Division behind the Cardinals and Pirates, but they made the playoffs as the second National League Wild Card team. After defeating the Pirates 4-0 in the Wild Card game, they disposed of the Cardinals in the NLDS in four games (3-1); however, they later lost to the New York Mets in the NLCS (Mets 4- Cubs 0). In 2016, the tide really turned in a positive direction for the Chicago Cubs. They won the NL Central Division crown with a record of 103-58 which was 17.5 games ahead of the second place Cardinals (86-76). The Cubs then defeated the San Francisco Giants in the NLDS (3-1) followed by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS (4-2) to win the NL pennant for the first time since 1945. In an epic 2016 World Series, the Cubs ended their 108-year World Series Championship drought by defeating the Cleveland Indians in a thrilling seven game series (4-3).
Radio reporter Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) interviews a backwoods philosopher named Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) at a southern jail and his down home wit, personality, and talent with a guitar impresses her. Soon, she begins to develop him as a radio personality and after his initial debut Lonesome quickly becomes a star of the airwaves. But as his radio fame grows, the singer/philosopher sets his sights on television. His Will Rogers-like appeal to audiences is perfectly captured by the TV cameras and soon transforms him into a powerful national celebrity. However, Lonesome has a dark side and it begins to emerge as his ego grows larger, eventually requiring Jeffries and her assistant Mel Miller (Walter Matthau) to take control of their "creation. "A potent message film about the power of celebrity in the mass media,was not a big success when first released in 1957. Clearly ahead of its time, and certainly one of the first movies to question the influence of television, director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg's jaundiced view of TV now seems entirely prescient. In this modern age of American culture, where the confluence of media and politics has never been more tightly intertwined, there have been many media celebrities who have captured the attention and the imagination of the American populace, not by their message, but by how they look and sound on television. Kazan and Schulberg intendedto stand as a warning: when we turn on our television sets, radios, or exercise our right to vote, we should be wary of the specter of Lonesome Rhodes. It is a warning that still rings true today.Inby Michael Ciment, the director commented on: "One of the points we wanted to make with the picture was the fantastic upward mobility in this country, the speed with which a man goes up and down. That we both knew well, because we'd both been up and down a few times. It's best illustrated in the film when he goes down in the elevator. We were thinking of suicide at one time, but we abandoned it....Our basic interest in this picture was Lonesome Rhodes as a legend. It was to make a legendary figure of him, and to warn the public: look out for television. Remember, this was Eisenhower's time, and Eisenhower won the elections because everybody looked at him and said: "There's Grandpa!"
> > There are some Progressives who are truly pacifists – who feel that the use of force and violence is never justified. > > I respect the convictions of those who hold pacifist views, but I do not agree with them. > > When Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas refused to allow the integration of the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1954, it would have been easier for the rest of America to simply shake our collective fingers and decry racism. It would have also been more popular. Instead the federal government sent troops from the National Guard to enforce the desegregation order with the threat of force. > > Some times the threat – or actual use of force – is necessary – especially to prevent violence. > > That’s why we empower police departments with the ability to use the force of arms when necessary to prevent violent acts. > > 2). Some politicians worry that supporting the President’s proposal is simply too unpopular. They should remember that polls showed the public opposed the possible bombing campaign in 1999 that was aimed at protecting Kosovars from ethnic cleansing as well. A Gallup poll in February 1999 showed that 45% of the public opposed the proposed bombing compared with only 43% who supported it. > > After the campaign was successful at achieving its goals, that opposition turned into public support, and the issue played very little role in the November 2000 Congressional elections. > > 3). Some opponents say simply, the use of poison gas in Syria is just not our problem. Let someone else worry about it, they say. > > In fact, of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If the use of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction can occur with impunity any where on our small planet, they will be used more and more frequently in military conflicts. And if they are, they pose a massive danger for human beings everywhere. > > If Assad can get away with using these weapons with impunity that will ultimately endanger us all. > > But assume for a moment it were possible to isolate their use, so that it would never impact those of us thousands of miles away from the suburbs of Damascus. Can we just ignore the suffering of those who are its victims?
NEW DELHI: A significant part of the cesses and other levies that you pay the government have remained unutilised or have been diverted for other purposes, the federal auditor has noted and questioned the rationale of imposing such levies.The comptroller and auditor general ( CAG ), in its comments on the Union Accounts for 2014-15, has listed half a dozen such funds the government has created over the past decade where amounts to the tune of around Rs 3 lakh crore have been collected. The auditor has observed that these funds, meant for specific social causes, have been diverted to other uses or simply remained unutilised though taxpayers had to suffer the additional burden.The last such levy imposed on taxpayers was in November this year — a 0.5% Swachh Bharat cess on all services liable to service tax . The proceeds, according to the government, will be used for financing and promoting Swachh Bharat initiatives.For instance, according to CAG, between 2002-03 and 2014-15, the department of telecom collected Rs 66,117 crore towards the Universal Service Obligation (USO) fund but spent only Rs 26,983 crore for the purpose. More than Rs 39,134 crore was not even transferred to the USO fund and may have been diverted for other purposes. The USO was set up to provide the rural population access to telephone and broadband services. While private companies may have reached many remote parts with broadband services, state-owned enterprises fell short of their obligation.Similarly, the government collected Rs 4,900 crore towards the Research and Development cess between 1996-97 and 2013-14, of which only Rs 542 crore was utilised towards the objectives, CAG noted.“Scrutiny of the finance accounts (between 2004 and 2015) showed that against the collection of Rs 1,54,818 crore of primary education cess, only Rs 1,41,520 crore was transferred for its use,” the auditor has said, questioning the decision not to transfer the remaining Rs 13,298 crore towards the purpose it was collected for.The Secondary and Higher Education Cess (SHEC) was introduced in 2007. Though the government collected over Rs 64,000 crore under this head between 2006 and 2015, there was lack of transparency in its use.
Nicholas Daly has pointed out the irony of imperial anxiety at the fin de siècle, that, even if the ideological basis for Empire was under interrogation by figures such as J. A. Hobson, the period actually saw a dramatic expansion of Britain's colonial dominion. Indeed, as historians P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins argue, intensifying protests against empire up to 1914 "were symptoms less of the erosion of Britain's 'hegemonic status' than of the continuing extension of her global influence." We can be sure that the full force of British imperial power was impressed upon the pupils of Dulwich College during Chandler's time there, and that, when he left the country in 1912, the security of the Empire remained relatively undiminished. When he came to revise "English Summer" for publication in the mid-1950s, however, Britain's decline was in clear evidence. In other words, Chandler's decision to return to his "Gothic Romance" in this period, and to narrate the decline of a particular ideal of English civilization, indicates his own understanding of the historical resonances of genre. The story recognizes the reconfigured power relations between Britain and the United States during the Cold War, in which the latter emerges as the dominant colonial power, and its representative as the new interpreter of civilization. In his notebooks, Chandler had observed that "since political power still dominates culture, American will dominate English for some time to come," and in 1958 declared that "America has become an empire. Its money and influence penetrate everywhere outside the Iron Curtain." Indeed, The Long Goodbye had already transposed elements of the British colonial adventure story to the Americas, as part of what John A. McClure has identified as the Americanization of the British imperial romance in the postwar. In that case, Chandler figured Mexico as the United States' imperial dominion and Terry Lennox's Mexican disguise as a variation on the trope of "going native." The American narrator of "English Summer," in taking control of the murder scene and ensuring that Millicent is not punished for the murder of her husband, ensures that the chivalric moral code is finally disengaged from its English origins and assimilated into hardboiled American individualism. The problem, as the story's conclusion shows us, is that it is utterly without relation to or orientation within any recognisable ethical system, revolving alone in its own reiterative and self-referential circuits: "I stood there for what seemed like a long, long time, looking after nothing.
The tamarisk is now a constant drain on the budget, and the current price for parcels of the subdivided land is cumulatively far higher than the intact original. “When we have a willing seller and we don’t have the funds to purchase the property, that really is unfortunate,” he said.
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Although I am online all of my waking hours, I am considered among friends and acquaintances to be an amusingly 1.0 kind of fellow, with throwback tendencies and Luddite markings. I am not on Facebook. I am not on Twitter. I do not have a website, or a blog. I steer clear of iTunes, having wound up there once a bit pissed and buying about fifty quid’s worth of Human League songs. I do not maintain a Tumblr, or curate a Flickr account, and I am unsure what words to apply to such things, because I do not know exactly what they are, or what they do. I check email, I read the papers, and I busy about looking at … stuff. I occasionally weep gladly in the small hours having fallen into a YouTube hole of the early ’80s synthesizer acts I grew up with, or the deep house tunes from Chicago and Detroit we used to slither around Sir Henry’s to in the early ’90s. I have had an iPhone for almost a year and have downloaded no apps. A little flush of triumph comes to my cheek if I manage to email someone a photo, or paste a link into the body of a mail – this, after eighteen years of Internet activity, is the level of it. I have never looked at porn on the Internet, not having the need, as my mind already projects terrifying sequences of phantasmagorical sex images at all conscious hours of day and night. I have never played games online, or arranged dates, or (yet) sought to locate dogging venues in the vicinity of the south county Sligo swamplands. I have lately bought turf online, but I do very little of the stuff you’re supposed to do. Even so, I become extremely twitchy if force of circumstance keeps me away from the Internet. My thoughts will stream then through the classic addict ruts – when can I next get a connection, where can I find it, and how long will it take me to get there?
It is inevitable that we are going to look at human behavior, history, and music from either end of the decades in question, but one thing for certain: any book that can foster such discussion and still entertain, no matter what the age of the reader, is a keeper. Copyright © 2012 Sherwood Smith Sherwood Smith is a writer by vocation and reader by avocation. Her webpage is at www.sff.net/people/sherwood/.
And while working with the West to eliminate chemical weapons stockpiles and stave off strikes, the Assad regime went on killing folks with more old-fashioned tools of tyranny: mortars, bullets, barrel-bombs, torture devices, ropes, knifes, etc.About a year later, in the summer of 2014, ISIS fell to Assad like manna from heaven. Never the sort of movement that could control—let alone govern—all of Syria, ISIS and radicals among the rebels terrorized the world: they killed Western journalists and octogenarian archaeologists, ate human hearts on the battlefield, and attacked European capitals. The Assad regime then cynically—but credibly—repositioned itself at home and abroad: it became a bulwark against Islamists it had helped create, attract, and unleash; a shield to minorities it had long marginalized, exploited, and even persecuted; and the primary player in an envisioned post-war Syria that it had neither democratized nor developed in decades of prewar rule.Sandwiched between revulsion and apathy, between fixation and fatigue, people tweeted up storms, staged occasional vigils, or wrote their rants (yes, hello)—but did not muster up the attention and energy to do much more. An endless barrage of images—of children bloodied by the regime, of churches pulverized by radicals—distorted, or desensitized people to, the truth.Members of the media did not help, though it may have been beyond their power to do so. Even those who tried to set the story straight inadvertently enabled the regime to spin its story. Reporting on a Syria that was “spiraling” out of control, “descending” into chaos, or “collapsing” into disorder, they minimized Assad’s agency. Fixated on tragedy and disaster, they missed the mark: Assad manufactured and manipulated the war, which his regime could survive, to forestall a peaceful and fair contest for control, which his regime could not.Worse still, some journalists have doubled as Assad’s apologists: They—Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn, and a crop of clones blessed with all of their impulses and none of their talents—have deliberately diluted the regime’s responsibility for Syria’s catastrophe. Fisk, in particular, has let his anti-imperialist impulses and rejectionist reflexes overcome empathy and common sense. At every stage of the war, from the massacre of Daraya to the assault on Aleppo, he has spun the story in favor of the Assad regime and cast a cloud of doubt on the sort of rebels he once would have championed.
Korn’s drummer, Ray Luzier, has a side gig: He’s an internationally sought-after percussion instructor, who has some pretty good advice for aspiring musicians: “Go to law school,” he laughs. On the brink of Korn’s 12th studio release (“Serenity of Suffering," due Oct. 21), the Cali-bred band has just boomeranged their sound from West Coast nu metal to pseudo-dubstep and back again. Luzier knows the fickle favoritism of success and the amount of sheer luck that goes into making it big, noting even classical training won’t guarantee you a spot in the limelight. “These days the music business takes such wacky turns you need to sacrifice your life and family and take it on 110 percent,” he says from Toronto. “If you want to do it, you really have to commit. And even if you’re the top of your class, there’s no guarantee you’re going to get a job. And that’s really, really scary.” 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 Luzier chats about the band’s upcoming album, their current tour with Rob Zombie and what it’s like seeing two generations of Korn fans. Can we talk about the video for “Insane,” which just came out this week. Have you read any of the press about it? David Lee Roth told me to never read your own press — and never read the comments. Anyone can make up a fake name and go online and attack anyone they want to. I’ve looked in vain [this time], but it’s been mostly positive from what I’ve skimmed through. The thing I see the most is “Korn is back,” which is funny to me because we never went anywhere. How does it feel being a band that’s been around long enough to "come back”?
Link to the 'Education' sin The education of children represents a major revenue stream for Microsoft, and a strategic opportunity to embed their products into the lives of future adults. By enticing schools to teach their students using Windows and associated software, Microsoft can also make parents feel obliged to provide the same software at home. Where else do we see one corporation able to put their marketing and corporate branded materials in front of children as requirements in this way? Many US states even boast about how they are cooperating with Microsoft, either ignoring or not understanding the corrupting influence that accepting freebies from this huge corporation has on their government. Because Microsoft's software is proprietary, it is incompatible with education — users are simply passive consumers in their interactions with Windows, they are legally forbidden from adapting the software to solve a particular problem, or from satisfying an intellectual curiosity by examining its source code. An education using the power of computers should be a means to freedom and empowerment, not an avenue for one corporation to instill its monopoly through indoctrination. Free software, on the other hand, gives children a route to empowerment, by encouraging them to explore and learn. Nowhere was the promise of an educational platform using free software more significant than the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Launched by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2003, OLPC was designed to lead children around the world to an advanced education using the combination of information technology and freedom. The project aimed to produce low-cost devices (starting with one called the XO) so that millions of children could have access to them, and free software, so they would have the critical freedoms to explore and share their software. Then under pressure from Microsoft, Negroponte backed the project away from its commitment to freedom and announced that the machine would also be a platform for running the nonfree Windows XP operating system. Microsoft is not the only threat to education — Adobe and Apple are both firmly placed in education, even on Windows. Adobe's proprietary Flash and Shockwave players and Apple's QuickTime and iTunes are widely used by educational software. Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in an attempt to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It remains to be seen to what degree Microsoft will succeed.
Q: Can you tell us if a search has been conducted in Vince's office and if anything was found...? A: ...the Park Service Police were in this morning. They've interviewed a number of staff members about Vince's last day, and will be sort of, I think, finishing up with their look at it today here in terms of Vince's office. They're simply trying to confirm their preliminary notion that it was, in fact, a suicide. -------- Q: Has a note been found to the best of your knowledge? A: To the best of my knowledge no note has been found. That's sort of what they're looking for just to confirm their observation that this was, in fact, a suicide. Q: Is the President getting any routine briefing on this from them? One would think that he would be, you know, wanting to monitor this very closely in terms of whether there was anything here that happened that could have in any way contributed. A: Well, just to be clear, what they're really looking for is just anything that would confirm that it was a suicide, such as a note. I think the President is certainly being kept abreast of what's happening, although there hasn't been a lot of movement today. The Park Service has talked to a number of people, but simply to determine his schedule on Tuesday. -------- Q: What specifically did the Park Police do besides interviewing people who talked to Vince on Tuesday? A: That's all they had done as of half an hour ago. Q: Did they check through his office at all? A: As of a little while ago, I don't believe that they had, but I think they expected to go in and look for signs of a note or some other evidence that he might have taken his own life. Q: How does the President's attorney-client relationship protected (sic) when they do that phase of the investigation? A: Again, the Park Police are simply trying to establish that this was, in fact, a suicide. It is a fairly limited investigation. Q: I mean, do they go through computer files or does someone else-- A: I think they may go through --they may take a look to see if there's a note, something that is specifically a suicide note. I don't think they have any intentions of evaluating the contents of the other documents.
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[display_order] => 5 [champion] => Array ( [champion_id] => 85 [display_name] => Graves [url_str] => graves [title] => The Outlaw [key] => [description] => Malcolm Graves was born in the back of a Bilgewater tavern and left there with a bottle of spiked milk. He survived a childhood in the pirate-run slums using every dirty trick in the book. Intent on building a new life for himself, he stowed away on the first ship to the mainland he could sneak aboard. However, the grim realities of the world forced him to eke out an unsavory living in the underground of various city-states, jumping the border whenever things got too hot. At a particularly high-stakes game of cards, he found himself seated opposite Twisted Fate. They both flipped four aces on the final hand. It was the first time either conman had met his equal. The two formed an alliance, swindling marks at the tables and scrapping back-to-back in the alleys afterward. Together, they ran the streets � stacking chips, decks, and charges. Unfortunately Graves made the mistake of hustling a hefty sum from Dr. Aregor Priggs, a high-ranking Zaunite official and businessman. When Priggs discovered how he'd been played, he became obsessed with revenge. He learned about Twisted Fate's all-consuming desire to control magic and he promptly offered him a trade: serve Graves up in exchange for enrollment in a procedure which would grant his wish. Twisted Fate took the deal � both he and Graves knew the stakes of their arrangement, but the offer was too good. Once acquired, Priggs had Graves taken to a special location built to hold men whose crimes � or more precisely their punishments � were meant to stay off the books. Graves endured years of captivity at the hands of Zaun's most unscrupulous wardens before he managed to escape. One of his fellow detainees introduced him to an eccentric gunsmith who modified a shotgun exactly to his specifications. After he paid a visit to Priggs, Graves joined the League of Legends with two targets in his sights: Twisted Fate and payback. ''They got a saying in the locker: ain't got nothin' but time to plan.''
"As the player, you'd understand "your immediate options, but also distant things so you know where you want to go." The game would have to offer "intermediate rewards" to remain interesting. "What is the fictional structure I can put onto this that will create the exploration I need to do?" Short wondered. She eventually devised the idea of a speech with an awkward intro -- the kind that starts in the manner of "this is a topic some people don't feel comfortable with. "The topic she came up with is werewolf safety. The in-game speaker has had a personal experience with werewolves, but will avoid revealing whether or not she's a werewolf if at all possible, using methods including unrelated conversational tangents, Short said. "This would give it a shape where there is some gameplay dynamic. "Short said there's still "a lot of thinking to be done about the gameplay aspects of conversation. It's very tempting to focus on the simulation aspect," but "there's also a great deal to be gained by backing off of that and thinking about the design issues, and how to make conversation gameplay, and not framed around other gameplay."
The Tachikoma (タチコマ) are the think tanks utilized by Section 9 in the Stand Alone Complex series. During the series, one Tachikoma is preferred by Batou who uses a natural oil to lubricate its parts, and this usage of natural oil and its experiences with Batou begin to disseminate through the others, slowly causing the whole group of them to develop their AIs into separate identities, which Kusanagi begins to suspect are unique Ghosts. This leads to their decommissioning, although they all react to the Umibouzu assault on Section 9 and try to help, but their new hardware for civilian work prevents them from doing so. In the premiere of 2nd GIG, Batou is pleased to see that the Tachikoma have been recommissioned, but when one speaks with the original robotic voice he is disheartened until the Tachikoma breaks into laughter, revealing that they have retained their ghosts. At the end of 2nd GIG, when the American Empire is attempting to bomb Dejima, the Tachikoma finish saving the refugees' ghosts before uploading their own ghosts into the satellite that contains their AI to stop the final missile, resulting in their apparent death. In the final scene of 2nd GIG, Section 9 is seen using new think tanks known as Uchikoma (ウチコマ), devoid of the individuality of their Tachikoma predecessors as well as an inferior AI. With the return of Kusanagi during Solid State Society, it is revealed that the Tachikoma's AIs were spared from destruction, with Kusanagi accompanied by the "ghosts" of two of them, now calling themselves Max (マックス, Makkusu) and Musashi (ムサシ). Musashi, who has modified its digital self to be yellow in color, is Batou's preferred Tachikoma. In the novelization of the film, the other Tachikoma AIs have also given themselves names: Loki (ロキ, Roki), Conan (コナン, Konan), Rex (レックス, Rekkusu), Triton (トリトン, Toriton), Chewy (チューイ, Chūi), Shiva (シーヴァ, Shīva), and Hannibal (ハニバル, Hanibaru).
Madrid came into December carrying a three-game losing streak and facing the danger of elimination as visiting group leader Fenerbahce Istanbul presented the first of several virtual must-win challenges. Trailing by 9 at halftime, Madrid needed someone to step up, and Ayon answered the call. He scored the first 2 baskets of the second half and assisted to Sergio Rodriguez on a three-pointer that brought the champs back to life. Ayon was then at the heart of a 13-0 run that bridged the third and fourth quarters, scoring the go-ahead basket among his 4 points, 2 rebounds and a block. He added 3 more points and 3 rebounds and finished with 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting to help Madrid seal an 80-73 victory that ended Fenerbahce's five-game winning streak. That impressive showing was dwarfed by what Ayon did next. On the road at FC Bayern Munich in Round 9, Madrid faced the possibility of being eliminated before the night was finished. In the face of that, Ayon put up career-high numbers in scoring, steals and index rating as Madrid rallied after halftime to a resounding 67-86 win. Ayon made 8-for-10 two-point shooting and 6 of 7 free throws on his way to 22 points and added 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 6 steals and 3 blocks. His PIR of 41 was the second-best of the entire regular season among all Euroleague players. In the regular season finale, Ayon became a facilitator as Madrid seized its Top 16 qualification with a blowout, 97-65 home win against Strasbourg and he posted 6 assists, another career high, while making all of his shots, too. In the Top 16 opener, Ayon was there for his team once more, pulling a game-high 8 rebounds while scoring 3 baskets late in the third quarter to spark Madrid's comeback from 8 points behind to an 82-79 victory over Brose Baskets Bamberg.
While some of the positions of the relatively tame types we’ve looked at so far might be strong enough to satisfy some people of postmodern sensibilities, I suspect that they won’t go far enough for some others. For positions of the type we’ve looked at so far do not seem to make sense of the talk about the “social construction” of reality that seems so dear to some postmoderns. Here I must tread somewhat lightly, for I don’t feel I have a firm grasp on what exactly is being meant by such talk. But, somewhat tentatively, I do assume that what’s meant by such claims is supposed to go beyond the boring truisms I’m about to present in the ways I’m about to explain. First, I take it that it’s supposed to be a truism that some of reality – like the rules of baseball – is “socially constructed.” This does depend on just what’s meant by “socially constructed,” but I take it that whatever exactly is meant is supposed to be such as to make this a truism. And postmodernists want to be expressing something that goes beyond this truism. Their point, I take it, is that other things – things that not everybody would recognize as “social constructions,” like perhaps the laws of nature or other things that science studies – actually are “socially constructed” as well. Second, I take it that the meaning of “socially constructed” is supposed to be such as to make it a truism that our theories about, claims about, thoughts about, and accounts of even these other things are all “socially constructed.” And, despite some of what Prof. Fish writes in some moods, I take it that, at least for many postmoderns, what’s at least often meant by the claims about various things being “social constructions” is not supposed to be the so-tame-as-to-be-completely-boring claim that our accounts of (claims about, etc.) the world are “social constructions.” (If I’m getting any postmoderns wrong here, and all you ever meant to be saying were the so-tame-as-to-be-completely-boring things, just say so, and I’ll stop attributing wilder claims to you. But in return, I’ll ask you to please stop saying these things in such a way as to lead me and many others to think you’re saying something at all interesting, if you are one who does sometimes say these things in such a way.)
This program concurrently runs a collection of programs, including GLIMMER79 V. 3.02 for the prediction of open reading frames or ORFs and GeneMarkS80, to verify the calling of ORFs. ARAGORN81 V. 1.1 was used to predict tRNAs and BLASTP searches were performed on predicted ORFs for a functional analysis. Bacterial virulence genes were searched using VirulenceFinder29 and genes encoding antibiotic resistance using ResFinder31.
Scouring the “South Pole” of New York From St. George, ride the Staten Island Railroad to the end of the line and you’re only a short walk from the southernmost point in New York State, at the mouth of the Arthur Kill. The name of the waterway stirs the imagination, but its Dutch origins are benign. Achter kill means back river or channel, in reference to its location at the “back” of Staten Island. Intriguingly, the route was carved out by an ancestral iteration of the Hudson River. Glacial activity altered the course to its current position, but the vestigial strait remained, isolating a sneaker-shaped land mass. Staten Island was born. A stone’s throw from the so-called “south pole” of New York State, there’s an impressive bit of Revolutionary War history known as The Conference House. The name refers to a peace conference held there on September 11, 1776 between British commander Lord Howe and representatives of the Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams among them. Over the course of the three hour meeting, Howe urged the men to put aside their little rebellion. (They declined to do so.) True to its contrarian nature even in revolutionary times, the borough was a loyalist stronghold, warmly greeting British troops upon their arrival. Hundreds of islanders enlisted in the British army as the conflict escalated. George Washington himself called the Staten Islanders “our most inveterate enemies.” John Adams was less generous, labeling them “an ignorant, cowardly pack of scoundrels, whose numbers are small, and their spirit less.” Tracing the Arthur Kill past the quaint historic houses of Tottenville, we enter into wilder territory and arrive at the base of Outerbridge Crossing, which spans the Arthur Kill between Charleston, SI and Perth Amboy, NJ. New Yorkers could be forgiven for assuming the name refers to its status as the most remote bridge in New York City, but it’s actually named for Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first chairman of the Port Authority of New York and a resident of the borough. “Outerbridge Bridge” wouldn’t do, so they deemed it a “Crossing.” Wandering these regions can be treacherous if you don’t plan ahead. As the tide ebbs and flows, open shoreline gives way to mud and water, leaving you with no way out but the head-high reeds of the marsh. In nesting season, geese are liable to attack (speaking from experience here). But for those willing to brave the wilderness, there are rewards.
TABLE 3 HR (95% CI) All-cause mortality Cancer mortality CVD mortality Men No. of deaths 14,326 5610 3579 Total meat Q1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) Q2 0.95 (0.89, 1.01) 0.99 (0.91, 1.08) 0.87 (0.75, 1.00) Q3 0.93 (0.85, 1.03)* 1.01 (0.91, 1.13) 0.91 (0.79, 1.04) Q4 1.02 (0.91, 1.15)† 1.11 (0.94, 1.30)† 0.91 (0.78, 1.05) P-trend 0.82 0.25 0.29 Red meat Q1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) Q2 0.94 (0.88, 1.00) 0.95 (0.85, 1.05) 0.89 (0.79, 0.99) Q3 0.86 (0.80, 0.93) 0.87 (0.78, 0.96) 0.87 (0.79, 0.97) Q4 0.93 (0.84, 1.02)† 0.90 (0.77, 1.05)* 0.87 (0.78, 0.98) P-trend 0.06 0.09 0.04 Poultry T1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) T2 0.88 (0.83, 0.93) 0.93 (0.84, 1.02) 0.82 (0.66, 1.02)* T3 0.89 (0.81, 0.98) 0.91 (0.80, 1.04) 0.82 (0.64, 1.06)* P-trend 0.02 0.17 0.14 Fish Q1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) Q2 0.98 (0.89, 1.08)* 1.02 (0.90, 1.15) 0.99 (0.82, 1.20)* Q3 0.98 (0.89, 1.08)* 1.04 (0.96, 1.13) 0.96 (0.79, 1.15)* Q4 1.05 (0.95, 1.16)† 1.14 (1.04, 1.26) 0.95 (0.80, 1.13) P-trend 0.43 0.02 0.50 Women No. of deaths 9957 3948 2794 Total meat Q1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) Q2 0.88 (0.82, 0.94) 0.92 (0.78, 1.08) 0.88 (0.78, 0.99) Q3 0.91 (0.82, 1.02) 0.96 (0.79, 1.17)* 0.88 (0.74, 1.04) Q4 0.93 (0.86, 1.01) 0.90 (0.78, 1.04) 1.02 (0.89, 1.18) P-trend 0.25 0.27 0.80 Red meat Q1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) Q2 0.93 (0.87, 0.98) 0.92 (0.82, 1.04) 0.93 (0.82, 1.06) Q3 0.88 (0.81, 0.95) 0.83 (0.74, 0.92) 0.86 (0.75, 0.99) Q4 0.93 (0.86, 1.00) 0.85 (0.76, 0.94) 1.03 (0.85, 1.25) P-trend 0.05 <0.01 0.99 Poultry T1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) T2 0.91 (0.85, 0.97) 0.91 (0.83, 1.01) 0.97 (0.85, 1.09) T3 0.93 (0.86, 0.99) 0.88 (0.79, 0.97) 1.05 (0.92, 1.18) P-trend 0.03 <0.01 0.49 Fish Q1 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref) Q2 0.86 (0.75, 0.98) 0.97 (0.80, 1.17) 0.84 (0.75, 0.94) Q3 0.89 (0.83, 0.96) 1.01 (0.81, 1.28)† 0.79 (0.68, 0.91) Q4 0.91 (0.85, 0.97) 1.00 (0.83, 1.20) 0.88 (0.77, 1.01) P-trend 0.05 0.92 0.04 HR (95% CI) All-cause mortality Cancer mortality CVD mortality Men No.
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CPP was induced using a standard three-chambered apparatus, consisting of two conditioning compartments and a middle, connecting compartment (Stoelting Co., Wood Dale, IL). The two conditioning compartments had distinct wall patterns and floor textures to allow mice to distinguish between them. Naive mice were first allowed to habituate to the entire apparatus during a 30-min session on day 1. On day 2, mice in the conditioned group received a 15 mg/kg injection of cocaine and were placed in the conditioned chamber for 15 min. Mice were assigned to receive cocaine in one compartment or the other using an unbiased design. Individual mice were removed from the experiment if they showed a strong baseline preference (>70%) for the conditioned chamber. The following day, the remaining mice received an equivalent volume of saline, and were placed in the opposite, unconditioned compartment. This alternating pattern of conditioning was repeated three times (6 d total). On test day, place preference was assayed by giving each mouse a priming injection of saline, placing them in the middle connecting compartment, and recording the amount of time spent in the two conditioning compartments over a 30 min period. If mice underwent the extinction of CPP, the test day protocol was repeated each day until the drug group's preference for the conditioned chamber had returned to habituation levels. In the CPP + home cage extinction experiment (CPP + HC), mice underwent CPP as described above, and were then returned to their home cages without any re-exposure to the test apparatus for 6 d (the same duration of time as was required for extinction of CPP in the previous experiments). CPP using a palatable food reward ('food CPP') was induced using similar apparatus and methodology. Mice were food restricted for 1 week before the start of testing such that their weight was maintained at 85% of baseline and were introduced to the palatable food 5 d before the start of testing so that they were familiar with the food. During conditioning, 2–3 g of palatable food (Bacon Softies, VWR) was placed in the conditioned chamber, and mice were given access to the food in this chamber for 30 min. The food pellet was weighed before and after the conditioning sessions so that the amount of food consumed could be determined. Mice received no food reward in the unconditioned chamber during the 30-min conditioning session. A control group received no food in either conditioning chamber.
AR HEEL, N.C. -- It must have been 1 o'clock. That's when the white man usually comes out of his glass office and stands on the scaffolding above the factory floor. He stood with his palms on the rails, his elbows out. He looked like a tower guard up there or a border patrol agent. He stood with his head cocked. One o'clock means it is getting near the end of the workday. Quota has to be met and the workload doubles. The conveyor belt always overflows with meat around 1 o'clock. So the workers double their pace, hacking pork from shoulder bones with a driven single-mindedness. They stare blankly, like mules in wooden blinders, as the butchered slabs pass by. It is called the picnic line: 18 workers lined up on both sides of a belt, carving meat from bone. Up to 16 million shoulders a year come down that line here at the Smithfield Packing Co., the largest pork production plant in the world. That works out to about 32,000 a shift, 63 a minute, one every 17 seconds for each worker for eight and a half hours a day. The first time you stare down at that belt you know your body is going to give in way before the machine ever will. On this day the boss saw something he didn't like. He climbed down and approached the picnic line from behind. He leaned into the ear of a broad-shouldered black man. He had been riding him all day, and the day before. The boss bawled him out good this time, but no one heard what was said. The roar of the machinery was too ferocious for that. Still, everyone knew what was expected. They worked harder. The white man stood and watched for the next two hours as the blacks worked in their groups and the Mexicans in theirs. He stood there with his head cocked. At shift change the black man walked away, hosed himself down and turned in his knives. Then he let go. He threatened to murder the boss. He promised to quit. He said he was losing his mind, which made for good comedy since he was standing near a conveyor chain of severed hogs' heads, their mouths yoked open. "Who that cracker think he is?" the black man wanted to know.
Each response requirement was tested for at least 5 consecutive days. At each requirement, a response on either lever reset the response requirement on the other lever. Average behavior at each price was considered stable when there was no increasing or decreasing trends over 3 consecutive days. Induction of cocaine intake escalation Rats (N = 11) had prolonged access to cocaine self-administration (i.e., 6 h per day during 18 days) before being allowed to choose between cocaine and saccharin. Daily access to cocaine was contingent on a fixed-ratio time-out 40s schedule, that is a fixed number of responses (see below) was required to earn a unit dose with a minimum inter-dose interval of 40s. The unit dose of cocaine was 0.25 mg during the first hour and 0.75 mg during the last 5 hours. The increase of the unit dose of cocaine during the last 5 hours was intended to speed up and to aggravate cocaine intake escalation. The response requirement was initially set at 1 response/dose (first 14 days) and then incremented to 2 responses/dose (remaining days). The day after cocaine intake escalation, rats were allowed to choose between cocaine and saccharin during 10 consecutive days on the discrete-trials choice procedure described above (S+/C+ condition). Choice during cocaine intoxication Rats (N = 10) were first trained to self-administer cocaine 3 hours per day during 1 week, under a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement, with a time-out of 40 s. The response requirement was initially set at 1 response/dose (first 3 days) and then incremented to 2 responses/dose (remaining days). Then, rats were tested under a modified discrete-trials choice procedure. The sampling period of the original procedure was replaced by a 1-h continuous access to lever C alone during which rats could obtain cocaine according to a fixed-ratio 2 time-out 40 s schedule. Except that, the novel procedure was identical to the original (described in the main text). Thus, each day, rats were under the influence of cocaine (i.e., cocaine-intoxicated) before making their 8 choices between lever S and lever C (S+/C+ condition). Meta-analysis: effects of sucrose, saccharin or cocaine consumption on striatal dopamine levels A Medline search was conducted, using the following keywords: rat, cocaine, saccharin, sucrose, self-administration, dopamine, microdialysis, striatum, accumbens. Retrieved articles were checked and sorted out according to content and relevance. At the end, a total of 18 papers [62]–[79] were kept for graphical analysis.
Studies of non‐middle‐class non‐white identities have also often assumed that men's identities are the ‘default’ identities; the study of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) had until recently been very much focused on men, and it is still the case that studies of AAVE‐speaking women are marked as studies of both race and gender in language, rather than just race, as the studies of men have been (Jacobs‐Huey 2006).2 So men are invisible and dominant all at once, and their dominance relies in part on that invisibility: they are dominant not only because they are presumed to be always coercive, but because they are the default human category in language, in society, and even in most studies of language and gender. This is the first step in thinking about men and languages: piercing this invisibility to see men not as unmarked, but as people who, like women, are subject to societal stereotypes about gender and language and who have to work hard to keep up the appearance of masculinity. Note also that before ‘mainstream’ masculine identities were the focus of much research (beginning in the mid‐ to late 1990s), non‐mainstream, or ‘marked’, masculine identities were studied: African American men (e.g., Labov 1972), homosexual men (Leap 1996). In fact, as objects of sociolinguistic research, these groups were often studied because of their assumed differences from heterosexual middle‐class white men: until recently the study of gay men was mostly a search for the features of ‘gay language’, rather than an investigation of how gay men use language to negotiate a homophobic society and challenge hegemonic masculinities. This focus is simply a reflection of the larger social unmarkedness of white, heterosexual, middle‐class (WHMC) men. In recent years, there has been an interest in problematizing these invisible categories, especially ‘whiteness’ and heterosexuality (see Frankenberg 1997; Kiesling 2002; Cameron and Kulick 2003). In this article, then, I will discuss some of the ways that linguists have discovered that WHMC men maintain their invisibility and how being a non‐WHMC man affects linguistic practices. I will assume, following the general assumptions of the language and gender field, that masculinity is something that can be ‘put on’ by anyone – male or female – in just the way that anyone who wears a suit and tie takes on a flavor of masculinity.
II. Torture in Egypt and the Prohibition Against Involuntary Return Over the past ten years, Egypt's campaign to eradicate armed militant Islamists moved from the streets of its large cities and the countryside of Upper Egypt to countries around the world where some of those militants had taken refuge.The government has sought the return of alleged militants from Pakistan, Albania, Bosnia, Sweden, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and Yemen. Torture in Egypt is practiced routinely, and systemically when it comes to suspected Islamist militants. [3]In these circumstances, such returns are forbidden under international law, which prohibits the return of individuals to countries where they are at significant risk of torture. Torture, although it is strictly forbidden under Egyptian law and the international human rights treaties Egypt has signed, has been a widespread and persistent phenomenon in the country, particularly during interrogation of security suspects. Methods of torture include beatings with fists, feet, leather straps, sticks, and electric cables; suspension in contorted and painful positions accompanied by beatings; the application of electric shocks; and sexual intimidation and violence. The government-appointed National Council for Human Rights, in its first annual report released in April 2005, acknowledged that torture is part of "normal investigative practice" in Egypt. [4] Since the early 1990s, suspected Islamist militants have borne the brunt of these practices. [5] The defeat of the Islamist insurgency by the end of the 1990s in no way mitigated the problem of torture, and deaths in custody as a result of torture and ill-treatment have once again shown a disturbing rise over the past several years. Egyptian human rights organizations reported at least ten cases in 2002 and ten more in 2003, several of which were at the hands of SSI perpetrators. [6]The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), in May 2004, reported 292 known torture cases in the eleven years between January 1993 and April 2004, 120 of which resulted in the death of the suspect or prisoner. [7] The single greatest number of known cases of torture, and deaths resulting from torture, occurred in SSI offices. [8] In November and December 2004, Human Rights Watch and Egyptian human rights groups found credible evidence that SSI routinely used torture during interrogations following the October 2004 bomb attacks against the Taba Hilton hotel and other tourist sites, when thousands of persons were taken into custody and held without charge in incommunicado detention.
For decades, physicists have been able to resolve the atomic-scale details of matter using x-ray and electron diffraction. Extending such techniques to ultrafast time scales at which chemical reactions occur is a more recent achievement: Thanks to advances in accelerator technology, x rays from free-electron lasers can probe molecular processes on the femtosecond scale. And for the past few years a handful of groups have been working to extend electron sources to that time regime as well—no accelerator required. The essential ingredients are very cold atoms and an ultrafast laser. One of the groups, led by Jom Luiten of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, has now done crystallography with an ultracold electron beam. To prepare the beam, the group excited rubidium atoms held in a magneto-optical trap and subsequently ionized them using a picosecond laser pulse to create a cloud of a few hundred electrons. The researchers then accelerated the electron cloud with a local electric field through monocrystalline graphite about a meter away. The combination of the externally applied field and the wavelength of the ionization laser pulse determines the kinetic energy distribution of the released electrons—and thus their effective temperature. By varying the laser’s wavelength in a series of runs, Luiten and colleagues changed the electrons’ temperature from 300 K to 10 K; the diffraction pattern shown here was taken at 10 K. The concomitant change in the width of the diffraction peaks at different temperatures allowed the researchers to measure the beam’s coherence length—essentially the spatial extent of the electrons’ wavefunction—which for their 100-µm sample size was no smaller than 15 nm. Reassuringly, that coherence length is high enough to use in complex macromolecular diffraction, a common goal among many groups. (M. W. van Mourik et al., Structural Dynamics, in press.)
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I do not say this just for me but because this ban will set a precedence of unspeakable injustices against the 20 crore Muslims of India. This action will embolden and encourage every fringe element in the country to do as they please. If you thought intolerance increased in the country recently, this action of the government will take it to an all-time high. The Muslim population is already feeling threatened and insecure and I can’t even imagine how they will feel after this action. Muslims are bound to think that today it is Zakir Naik, tomorrow it could be any one of them.But I still can’t stop asking myself - why am I being targeted? Then I realized some time back that if you’ve decided to target a community, you’ve to first target the biggest name and the most popular figure of the community. If you can bring down and demonize this figure of the community, the rest becomes a cakewalk. That, I think, is what is happening. It may sound like a conspiracy theory, but I honestly cannot find any other plausible reason.Right from the beginning of July, I tried staying away from the current controversy. This was not the first time I was being targeted. For years, there have been groups who have opposed me. Instead of retaliating or reacting to them, I’ve felt it best to continue with my work and not pay attention to these detractors. That is 'THOSE TO WHOM THE PEOPLE SAID: SURELY MEN HAVE GATHERED AGAINST YOU, THEREFORE FEAR THEM, BUT THIS INCREASED THEIR FAITH, AND THEY SAID: ALLAH IS SUFFICIENT FOR US AND MOST EXCELLENT IS THE PROTECTOR.' AL-QUR'AN 3:173 2 \| 3 what I tried doing even this time. But I soon realized that this time it was different. There was much greater media involvement, and a much deeper government’s involvement. I’m not privy to internal details so I do not know which came first – my opposition groups, the media or the government. But from what it looks like, this is the best concerted effort used against me so far.I tried answering all the questions and allegations thrown at me. But soon a lot of my own questions started piling up in my mind. Two months into it, they’ve built up and I’m left with no choice but to pose these questions to you, to my fellow citizens.
Once the land resources are scarce and there is no longer a choice between retreat and conflict, then conflict will inevitably begin. Whites aren't unable to engage in the sort of ethnic cleansing that Hispanics are already engaging in across the Southwestern United States (look at the demographic history of Compton sometime; it is borderline mind-blowing to anyone who associates it with NWA), but tend to be reluctant to engage in it because they are too efficient and lethal at it. These furious attempts to enforce diversity by thought police are actually a harbinger of the ongoing transition.The rabbits can sense the wolves beginning to turn on them, and quite rightly, they are afraid. Don't forget who they truly are and what they have done.
Patriotic Bharatiya 16686 8314 more points needed to reach next level. more points needed to reach next level. Know more about Times Points Level 7 Influencer Patriotic Bharatiya has earned the Influencer Level 7 badge as 2500 people have Agreed or Recommended his/her comments on Timesofindia.com. Know more about Times Points . Level 3 Movie Buff Patriotic Bharatiya has reviewed 40 movies on Timesofindia.com to earn the Movie Buff Level 3 badge. Know more about Times Points . Level 7 Wordsmith Patriotic Bharatiya has posted 2000 comments on Timesofindia.com to earn the Wordsmith Level 7 badge. Know more about Times Points . Badges Earned Influencer 7 Movie Buff 3 Wordsmith 7 Networker 2 News King 7 Frequent Flyer 4 Well Connected 1 Member 1 Know more about Times Points . . Manu Mishra - 1 day ago - Follow . The only benefit I could find from our English education system is our top Engineers, Doctors, Scientists; executives etc are working abroad by keeping this country for poor, farmers, illiterates, slum dwellers, labourers, beggars and corrupt politicians.All white & majority mongoloids learn in their own language hence advanced people, Indian & African slaves learn in their master’s language hence most backward people & also known as tribal people.India’s per capita income ... Read More The only benefit I could find from our English education system is our top Engineers, Doctors, Scientists; executives etc are working abroad by keeping this country for poor, farmers, illiterates, slum dwellers, labourers, beggars and corrupt politicians.All white & majority mongoloids learn in their own language hence advanced people, Indian & African slaves learn in their master’s language hence most backward people & also known as tribal people.India’s per capita income is mere 1500 $ in 2015, it is more than 40,000 $ in developed nations where education is based on native languages Show responses 0 0 • Reply • • Flag Find this comment offensive? Your reason has been submitted to the Admin. Choose your reason below and click on the Submit button. This will alert our moderators to take action Reason for reporting: Foul language
With the ‘energy sector in critical condition, a crisis could erupt at any time [which] could have potentially enormous impact on the US … and would affect US national security and foreign policy in dramatic ways.” * The response is to put oil at the heart of the administration — ‘a reassessment of the role of energy in American foreign policy’. * Iraq is described as the world’s ‘key swing producer … turning its taps on and off when it has felt such action was in its strategic interest”. The report also says there is a ‘possibility that Saddam may remove Iraqi oil from the market for an extended period of time’, creating a volatile market. *** Halliburton is one of the firms thought by analysts to be in line to make a killing in any clean-up operation after another US-led war on Iraq. All five permanent members of the UN Security Council — the UK, France, China, Russia and the US — have international oil companies that would benefit from huge windfalls in the event of regime change in Baghdad. The best chance for US firms to make billions would come if Bush installed a pro-US Iraqi opposition member as the head of a new government. Representatives of foreign oil firms have already met with leaders of the Iraqi opposition. Ahmed Chalabi, the London-based leader of the Iraqi National Congress, said: ‘American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.’
The @Essexlion spoof account attracted nearly 40,000 followers before Twitter suspended it.But all the while, Essex Police were taking the suggestion of a lion on the loose seriously and had employed helicopters with heat-seeking equipment, armed officers and vets with tranquiliser guns (no figures were available for the cost of the operation). They had little choice. Witnesses swore it was a lion. Rich Baker, 39, from Romford, Essex, who was staying in a nearby caravan, said: "It was a million per cent a lion. "Yet eventually, the search drew a blank, and an Essex Police spokesman was forced to concede: "Nothing has been found to suggest that a lion was in the area. "In the Middle Ages, they had books called bestiaries, which were compilations of both real and mythical creatures, beautifully illustrated by monks. Maybe we need a British bestiary now. The Beast of Bodmin would go right in. So would the Surrey puma. And the Essex lion – why, that would have the place of honour.-------------------and that ends the Lion of Essex story!
With offices , why are these mega-rich companies knocking themselves out to hire the very best and brightest minds from the world’s best universities, paying them huge salaries , tapping world-class architects to design artisanal office spaces in the most expensive place in the country, and then cramming desks together in noisy bullpens?
At the very least, the gaping and bleeding potential for the most horrific compromise of our national security has been exposed in what is now popularly known as ‘emailgate’. And effectively NO ONE is doing anything about it. Jon Sopel, North American editor for BBC News (the very man who may have minted the term, ‘emailgate’) asked this thunderously unavoidable yet most elementary question back a year and a half ago when the boil had broken open: “But if Hillary Clinton is - genuinely - so supremely relaxed about everyone seeing her emails, why did she conduct her business through this private email account and server, rather than through normal US government systems?” Why, indeed, Jon? And to this day the question is crying out to be answered legitimately - but it hasn’t been. And the same legally empowered giant empire that will haul you or me into court over the most innocently happenstance discrepancies in our tax returns, or because we may have been doing 10 mph over the speed limit, is more and more showing itself to be the friend and ally of the Emperor and his court - as opposed to the blind lady of justice - succor to those who qualify themselves as keepers of the beast. And the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the president himself are looking the other way until one of their own can reclaim the throne. This is an outrage. God Himself must be fascinated and saddened by the extent of our damnable, willful blindness. Comey won’t prosecute Hillary dances as fast as she can Lynch says a lot of nothing *Some of my gentle readers might be unaware of the amazingly timely, multimillion dollar contributions received by the Clinton Foundation which have since been shown to perfectly correspond with the timing of certain US governmental favors received subsequently by those contributors. Nevertheless, even beyond the recent implication that the FBI’s top man has financially benefited from the Clinton Foundation (that allegedly guarantees that about a dime of every dollar WILL eventually make it to someone in need, and also are [quite convincingly to the author] accused of buying cheaper, watered-down AIDS medicine for AIDS victims in South Africa, etc., etc. ), much information is available connecting/attributing all sorts of questionable dealings to this organization.
We will be running basically a constant cyno chain fleet to help people move their capitals back. It will take a long time, probably multiple days with fatigue, but it needs to be done as soon as possible. The citadel route will be posted up in capitals forums for anyone who isn’t in on the capital move right away, but our capital FCs will be running pretty constant move fleets regardless. We want all of the capitals that are currently in Obe to come back to our Catch staging system (for now V-3Y, soon to change to U-Q once the fortizar is online there). We know that all of those capitals are currently insured with 7 weeks left on them, and it’s important we keep those caps together as we are able to assess the risk of a fight differently when we know all the capitals are insured. For pilots without a capital: We are going to be running convoys back for as many of your ships as we can. If you would like to move your ships back via convoy, you will need to keep your deathclone set to Obe so you can death clone back up here and take new ships. We are going to do everything we can to run enough convoys to move everyone’s important ships. However, if you don’t feel like doing that then there are two alternatives. You could take the rigs off of your ships and repackage them and use TEST freight, or you could use TEST freight to move them to Jita and then sell them there if you wish. Once again, this is only if you don’t feel like running in convoy fleets, it’s up to you as these are just the options available to you. Regardless of how you do it, everyone needs to have the proper ships that are now requested in our Catch staging and in D-PN. We have updated the wiki doctrine page to reflect this. This is why we recommend that you bring back all of the ships that you have up in Obe to our catch staging, though we honestly don’t care how you do it as long as you have the proper ships in the proper places. Please check the wiki below to see how your ships need to be distributed between our two stagings.
By now his ulcers appear to have been bilateral, purulent and seeping, and Henry himself wrote to the Duke of Norfolk, excusing himself from travelling and confessing: ‘to be frank with you, which you must keep to yourself, a humour has fallen into our legs and our physicians advise us not to go far in the heat of the day’. Transient superficial healing of the fistulous communications between abscess cavities and skin inevitably led to episodes of sepsis and bouts of fever: ‘and for ten to twelve days the humours which had no outlet were like to have stifled him, so that he was sometime without speaking, black in the face and in great danger’ (Castillon to Montmorency from the English Court). Henry's physicians attempted to keep these fistulae open to allow drainage of the ‘humours’, often lancing the ulcers with red-hot pokers; a therapy unlikely to have improved the King's ill-temper. Courtiers and ambassadors alike were aware of the King's problems. Witnesses called at the 1537 trial of the Marquis of Exeter and Lord Montagu (who were accused of treason and plotting to replace Henry with a Yorkist monarch) alleged that the traitors had disrespectfully discussed Henry's health saying of the King: ‘he has a sorre legge that no pore man would be glad off, and that he should not lyve long for all his auctoryte next God’ and ‘he will die suddenly, his legge will kill him, and then we shall have jolly stirring’. After such treacherous sentiments both men were, unsurprisingly, beheaded. Execution for treason (by hanging, eviscerating, beheading, burning at the stake or boiling alive) had become increasingly commonplace in the latter part of Henry's reign. This king was responsible for more deaths than any monarch before or since. In a brutal age, Henry was known and feared for his cruelty. Indeed, in 1558, a French physician commenting upon the fate meted out to those who had aroused the King's wrath wrote: ‘in this country you will not meet with any great nobles whose relations have not had their heads cut off …’.
NEW DELHI: After igniting awith a column criticising the government's economic policy, the BJP's Yashwant Sinha on Thursday went even further by clearly absolving the earlier Congress-led UPA government for a slowdown in growth. "The economy is in decline. We can't blame the previous government, we had plenty of time and chances," said Sinha, when asked about his comments in the column he wrote, which appeared yesterday.Sinha said that the economy has been on the downswing for a while now, but "I did not speak". "I am not talking just based on one quarter's numbers, the economy has been falling for six straight quarters," said Sinha.The biggest culprit that made a bad situation near-catastrophic is demonetisation, said Sinha who had called the move "an unmitigated economic disaster" in his column. "The biggest culprit for growth slowing is the note ban . A thorough study should have been done on its effects to the economy, to jobs and it should have been introduced when the economy was in a healthy state, not in the manner it was introduced," said Sinha.As for GST , Sinha had written that its rollout was "badly conceived and poorly implemented". He reiterated that today. "After the demonetisation shocker, GST was another one. What was the need to hurry? They could have launched it in October," said Sinha.In his column, Sinha tore the government's economic policies to shreds and blasted finance minister Arun Jaitley.What was Sinha's picture of the Indian economy in his column? He explained in a tirade of a sentence. "Private investment has shrunk as never before in two decades, industrial production has all but collapsed, agriculture is in distress, construction industry, a big employer of the work force, is in the doldrums, the rest of the service sector is also in the slow lane, exports have dwindled, sector after sector of the economy is in distress, demonetisation has proved to be an unmitigated economic disaster, a badly conceived and poorly implemented GST has played havoc with businesses and sunk many of them and countless millions have lost their jobs with hardly any new opportunities coming the way of the new entrants to the labour market," wrote Sinha.by launching Yashwant's son, Union minister Jayant Sinha into the battleground.Jayant said today in a TOI piece that conclusions drawn from a narrow set of facts simply missed the fundamental structural reforms transforming the economy.
His spent cock responded instantly though and Taylor had no intention of refusing.“Do you have lube and a condom?” Taylor questioned as he unbuttoned Tyson’s jeans.“I never leave home without them.” Tyson grinned as he pulled the requested items from his pocket then pushed his jeans down to his knees.“What if someone sees us?” Taylor worried.“My bodyguard is right over there. We’re fine.” Tyson assured him.Taylor nodded and kicked his jeans off then turned around to face the wall. Tyson opened the condom and rolled it onto his swollen prick then popped the cap off of the lube. He slathered some of it onto his fingers then slowly pressed two into Taylor. Instantly the blonde was pressing back against him and groaning in appreciation. Taylor was still relaxed from his orgasm and in moments Tyson was easily pumping three fingers in and out of him. Tyson deemed him ready and pulled back to slather the rest of the tube of lubricant onto his cock. Then he grasped Taylor’s hips and sheathed himself in one smooth stroke.Taylor slapped a hand over his mouth to muffle his shriek of pleasure and thrusted back, meeting each of Tyson’s brutal strokes with one of his own. Their pace was hard and rough and Taylor couldn’t get enough. Then Tyson shifted his angle and snapped his hips sharply—and Taylor saw stars. Tyson continued to ram against his prostate with each thrust and reached one guitar calloused hand around his hip to grasp his cock.“Fuck that’s so good, so fucking good…” Taylor groaned, losing himself in the dual sensation.Tyson leaned forward and bit harshly at Taylor’s shoulder. Taylor cried out shrilly as his arousal spiked alarmingly.“Oh fuck.” Taylor gasped.“Are you going to come again, Taylor?”Taylor nodded violently and Tyson bit him again, causing him to wail.“I want you to come again. I want you to come so hard you cover my hand and the wall.” Tyson growled against Taylor’s ear then caught his earlobe between his teeth.Taylor thrusted back against Tyson’s cock then forward into his hand one more time then he was coming. He coated Tyson’s hand and spurted against the wall—just as he was commanded. Taylor’s muscles contracted sharply and Tyson let out a strangled groan. He thrusted deeply and went still as his own orgasm ripped through him. Taylor whimpered when Tyson’s fingernails dug into his hips then they slumped together against the wall.
Invokingyieldswhich meansis non-blocking.will not wait for the underlyingpromise to complete. Instead it returns another promise, of different type. When upstream promise completes, downstream promise applies a function passed toand passes the result downstream. Suddenly our functor allows us to pipeline asynchronous computations in a non-blocking manner. But you do not have to understand or learn that - becauseis a functor, it must follow syntax and laws.There are many other great examples of functors, for example representing value or error in a compositional manner. But it is high time to look at monads.I assume you understand how functors work and why are they a useful abstraction. But functors are not that universal as one might expect. What happens if your transformation function (the one passed as an argument to) returns functor instance rather than simple value? Well, functor is just a value as well, so nothing bad happens. Whatever was returned is placed back in a functor so all behaves consistently. However imagine you have this handy method for parsings:Exceptions are side-effects that undermine type system and functional purity. In pure functional languages there is no place for exceptions, after all we never heard about throwing exceptions during math classes, right? Errors and illegal conditions are represented explicitly using values and wrappers. For exampletakes abut does not simply return anor silently throw an exception at runtime. We explicitly tell, through the type system, thatcan fail, there is nothing exceptional or erroneous in having a malformed string. This semi-failure is represented by optional result. Interestingly Java has checked exceptions, the ones that must be declared and handled, so in some sense Java is purer in that regard, it does not hide side-effects. But for better or worse checked exceptions are often discouraged in Java, so let's get back to. It seems useful to composewithalready wrapped inThat should not come as a surprise. Ifwould return anyou would get, but becausefunction returnsitself, it gets wrapped twice into awkward. Please look carefully at the types, you must understand why we got this double wrapper here. Apart from looking horrible, having a functor in functor ruins composition and fluent chaining:Here we try to map over the contents ofby turninginto +Date+. Having a function ofwe can easily transform fromto, we know how it works. But in case ofsituation becomes complicated. Whatreceives as input is no longer anbut anand obviouslydoes not have such a constructor. We broke our functor by double wrapping it.
Using such information, users can make decisions about visiting the geographic location, or just become better educated about it.As these and other variations and combinations of the features discussed above can be utilized without departing from the subject matter defined by the claims, the foregoing description of the embodiments should be taken by way of illustration rather than by way of limitation of the subject matter defined by the claims. As an example, the preceding operations do not have to be performed in the precise order described above. Rather, various steps can be handled in a different order or simultaneously. Steps can also be omitted unless otherwise stated. In addition, the provision of the examples described herein, as well as clauses phrased as "such as," "including" and the like, should not be interpreted as limiting the subject matter of the claims to the specific examples; rather, the examples are intended to illustrate only one of many possible embodiments. Further, the same reference numbers in different drawings can identify the same or similar elements.
NEW DELHI: While acquitting a rape accused recently, a court commented that no one discusses the “dignity and honour” of men, given that everyone is fighting for the rights, honour and dignity of women. Besides, it said, laws meant to protect women might be misused by women.“Perhaps, now it’s the time to take a stand for men,” Nivedita Anil Sharma, special judge of POCSO Act court, said. She found several contradictions in the testimony of the complainant and her parents, pointing out the prosecution's “miserable failure”.Noting that victims were now being called “survivors”, the court asked: “An acquitted accused, who has remained in custody for a considerable period during inquiry, investigation and trial, and who has been acquitted honourably, should he now be addressed as a rape case survivor?”It added: “He may also file any case for damages against the prosecutrix, if advised.”The 20-year-old rape case had seen anomalies and improvements in statements of its main witnesses, including the complainant. The prosecution had claimed that a minor girl, residing with her parents, was abducted and raped on September 18, 1997.The complainant had said that the accused would visit her house. On the day of the incident, she claimed to be alone when the accused threatened her and abducted her, only to rape her later.But the court pointed out that if the girl was being abducted in broad daylight and, that too, in a residential area, why did she not raise an alarm. Additionally, three important aspects — forensic evidence, age of the complainant and day of the incident — were held against the prosecution.In the absence of medical evidence, coupled with the fact that the victim’s statement had serious inconsistencies, the court could not place trust on her evidence. And when it came to establishing the motive of the accused, the police’s version appeared to be untrue. The court said: “No reason is shown as to why the accused would jeopardise his future.”Without mincing words, it opined that no man, accused of rape, could be convicted if the witnesses had not supported the prosecution case, or given quality evidence.
On the scale of Christopher Nolan movies, she's pretty damn good, but he's still got a long way to go.A decidedly mixed bag. The very best and worst, packed into one. It also comes closest to passing the Bechdel test: Ariadne and Mal talk, but Mal is technically a projection of Cobb's mind and their conversation was subtextually about Cobb. So it's debatable.+ Going through the IMDB database, I counted up the number of named characters in the above movies. (Although as we've seen, "named" is a fairly relative term — "Gordon's Daughter" and "Leonard's Wife," for example. )+ That just leaves the hotel manager in Insomnia (who apparently has a name — I was generous there), Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins, Olivia in The Prestige, and Ariadne in Inception. One of them dies in a later film, and one "dies" in a dream, one is almost a Whore, and one barely has a name.But fridging is obviously only part of a larger problem in Nolan's cinescape.I haven't the wherewithal to examine the percentage of speaking roles that belong to women, but I'm guessing that it's not many.Again, let me be clear that I am a fan of Nolan. I belive he's a visionary. But speaking as a woman who watches his movies, I find myself longing to see someone like me onscreen, who doesn't die horribly. I want to believe that he is better than this. I want to believe that he just hasn't been challenged on it yet.Consider this your gauntlet, Mr. Nolan.
On the 123rd birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has accused the Congress of insulting India's first Law Minister and ignoring his huge contribution to the country as the chief architect of its constitution. "The Congress never gave Dr Ambedkar the Bharat Ratna," Mr Modi said at a rally in Lakhimpur Kheri, referring to the highest civilian honour. "40 years after his death, when a BJP-backed government was formed in Delhi, Babashaheb was honoured with the Bharat Ratna," Mr Modi said. Babasaheb, as he was known, was posthumously conferred with the Bharat Ratna in 1990.Mr Modi acerbically added that the freedom of speech, enshrined in the Constitution, was taken away from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by his party president, Sonia Gandhi. "Ambedkar gave us the right to freedom of speech. But who snatched it from the Prime Minister? It is unfortunate that whatever was enshrined in the Constitution was never implemented," Mr Modi charged, referencing the controversy crafted by a new book from the Prime Minister's former advisor, Sanjaya Baru, who says Congress President Sonia Gandhi oversaw all major decisions of the government. (Row over book by PM's former media advisor Sanjaya Baru) Mr Modi said that Rahul Gandhi , who is leading the Congress campaign for the national election, is guilty of blatantly and repeatedly "insulting" Dr Ambedkar. "The Congress party's 'shehzaade' enjoys humiliating Babasaheb Ambedkar by repeatedly saying that Congress has given this right or that right. All the rights and laws have been given to us by Ambedkar," he said. In his rallies, asking voters for a third term in power for his party, Mr Gandhi, 43, has been emphasising that the government, led by the Congress, has delivered landmark reforms and welfare schemes like the Right to Information, Right to Education and Right to Food. (Elections: full coverage)
So, we'll force you to act morally and we'll just keep prices low. Okay, fair enough; at least that leaves--I'll give one cheer out of three to Governor Christie. Governor Cuomo decided that: We'll just give it away. Wouldn't it be nice if people could have free gasoline? And this very quickly collapsed because too many people showed up. Russ: Well, they didn't listen to him. Guest: Too low a price; everybody showed up. Russ: The reason they showed up was because they aren't good listeners and we obviously need some form of a special listening program to help people deal with these kind of crises, because Governor Cuomo asked people not to hoard. Which I took to mean: Don't buy gasoline unless you really, really, really need it. Which of course is what a $25 price tag would do. That would certainly get you to consider only buying gasoline if you really, really, really needed it. But when you price it at $0 and then tell people to only get in line if you really, really, really need it, a lot of people felt: Better safe than sorry. It's $0, zero money price; and they got in line. Guest: And so many of them got in line that the price of acquiring gasoline was probably pretty close to $25/gallon. If I have to wait in line for 5 hours, and you take into account the value of my time, there's actually no way to suppress the workings of the price mechanism. The question is: Are you going to pay it in dollars? Are you going to pay it in the value of your time? Because the combination of queuing and the dollar price per gallon is going to be pretty much the same across a broad spectrum of prices. At $25/gallon, I may not have to wait in line at all. At $0, I may have to wait for 5 hours. But it's going to be pretty similar across those different pricing schemes. There's no way of suppressing the fact that you are going to have to pay. There's not enough for everybody to have it at a $0 price and a 0 wait time. Russ: I think it's useful to point out, and I try to think about this a lot--a lot of people believe, as Bastiat said, that the essence of the good economist is somebody who sees the seen and the unseen.
The Quintet: Five Stars were also all recordedspoke of a time where, despite increasing label pressure, so much was still possible, though as the '80s progressed, not only was it less accepted to be releasing multiple recordings in the space of a single year, but public opinion was narrowing, making it increasingly necessary for artists to focus more exclusively on specific projects.In the case of Hancock, however, the keyboardist bucked the neo-con movement that Wynton Marsalis himself spearheaded, to release a triptych of techno-centric collaborations with Bill Laswell, beginning with 1983's Future Shocka surprising hit with the nascent MTV crowd with his video for "Rockit" that stayed on the Billboard Pop chart for 65 weeks and the R&B chart for 60 weeksand ending, five years later, with Perfect Machine, a surprisingly good record, even after nearly 30 years that, however, failed to make it onto the jazz charts and spent a paltry five weeks on the R&B charts.Clearly times had changed, though Hancock was still involved in other diverse projects, most notably the soundtrack to Round Midnight, the 1986 Bernard Tavenier film, for which Hancock won an Academy Award and star Dexter Gordon garnered a nomination for Best Actor. Hancock also released Village Life (1985), with Foday Musa Suso, after first collaborating with him on Perfect Machine's 1984 follow-up, Sound-System. But with these albums, his tenure with Columbia was over, and while Hancock would continue to tour and guest on other recordings, his own output slowed down considerably. A full six years passed before he next released the very retro A Tribute to Miles (Qwest), which reunited V.S.O.P. in all but name but with a youngreplacing Freddie Hubbard, but the same year Hancock also released Dis is Da Drum, which demonstrated that his eclectic electric disposition remained intact.Since then there have been precious few recordings, with only seven albums released between 1995 and 2010. After a massive 31 recordings in the 17 years between 1972 and 1988, this slowdown is a clear disappointment for Hancock fans, though when he has released a record, regardless of its style and content it has typically been well-received.
His sense of camera, of movement, of editing are what define his cinema and what elevates it to greatness. And all of these elements can be traced back to Kurosawa. Lucas' is a cinema of action, and the same can be said of Kurosawa. It is in the visual aspect that we must understand Kurosawa above all else if we are to fully appreciate the films of George Lucas. As I mentioned before, some of these aspects are not due to direct copying per se, but more due to the fact that Kurosawa himself sources the same influences of Lucas. We shall examine these elements first. It has been said that Kurosawa, despite being Japan's most revered and popular cinematic artist, is decidedly "unjapanese." Many of his influences were western, and his films definitely reflect this. Standing in stark contrast to "traditional" Japanese masters like Ozu and Mizoguchi, Kurosawa's cinema is a much more visually dynamic one, his frames filled with details and his lens frequently moving, his editing quick and lively. Kurosawa was, perhaps more than anything, a product of the silent age of cinema. Growing up in the 1910's and 1920's, these were the first films he was inundated with; every week, his mother would take him to the local cinema, and the young Kurosawa quickly absorbed the entire pivotal silent era. His father too frequently took him to the movies where he saw mainly American and European ones, such as those by Chaplin, and the imported American action serials. His older brother, Heigo, the prototype mentor figure in his films, worked in the silent cinema business in a sense, as a "benshi": in Japan, "benshi" were a sort of storyteller, actors who would narrate the silent cinema projection and embellish the life of the images through running commentary. It was Heigo's love of silent cinema that bequeathed unto Akira the same passion. "I think he comes from a generation of filmmakers that were still influenced by silent films, which is something that I've been very interested in from having come from film school," Lucas notes. Kurosawa was likely influenced by the subsequent development of German expressionism, and his films often attain the same cinematic beauty and visually-driven emotion that masters such as F.W. Murnau achieved in films such as Sunrise.
Although it may seem counter-intuitive, the thin nut should go next to the joint and not be put on last. In other applications, for example on column attachments, two standard thickness nuts are frequently used. A series of tests were conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the two-nut method in terms of resistance to self-loosening. A Junker transverse vibration test machine was used with M10 nuts and bolts. The results are illustrated in figure 6. With the small nut on top, both nuts can be observed to rotate together and can subsequently come completely loose. The results are slightly better than is normally observed with a single plain nut. With the small nut next to the joint, some relaxation occurs but not a significant amount of self-loosening . The performance of the two-nut method, when properly applied, provides a superior locking capability when compared to many so-called lock nuts. The proper application of the two-nut method is time intensive and requires a degree of skill and is hence unlikely to make a major comeback on new machinery any time soon.
At the moment of implementation, the legislative, judicial, and executive powers are supposed to coincide. What makes our government's Constitution different from absolute monarchy is the division of decision-making authority, such that the coincidence of the government's powers is not brought about by one individual or group, acting on their sole authority.Our system has worked up to now because the formal division of powers established by our Constitution has been enforced by the generally effective observance of an oath to support the Constitution. Thanks to this oath, the individuals charged with responsibility for deploying the different powers of government (legislative, executive, judicial) observe the constitutional rule that makes them distinct. However, for some decades now, the effective power of this oath has been on the wane.As president, Bill Clinton violated it, perjuring himself with the intention of thwarting investigation into his conduct. When a majority of senators refused to remove Mr. Clinton from office, some relied on the notion that doing so would go against the "polls," which supposedly reflected the will of the people. These senators were rightly refuted with the argument that "No one is above the law," including the people of the United States. Now the people, in their collective capacity, are the sovereign authority that ordains and establishes the Constitution – which law is the Supreme Law of the Land – but even the people themselves are not above the law. The law to which their sovereignty is subject has a sourcethan their own authority.Throughout most of our existence as a nation, this conclusion was literally regarded as self-evident. From the beginning, America's patriots acted in light of the self-evident truth that human law is no law at all except as it respects and conforms to the will of the highest sovereign, the Creator, God. His self-determined rule informs the very nature of all Creation, including human nature. This is the primordial premise of the Declaration of Independence, in which Americans first articulated the logic that establishes their just claim to self- government.In the Declaration, the people claim that the "laws of nature and of Nature's God" entitle them to assume sovereignty over their own affairs. They reject the abusive rule of monarchic absolutism, on the grounds that every human sovereign power is subject to the sovereignty of the Creator, including the sovereignty of the people.

Untold Ref Review: Arsenal – Udinese Gooners versus goners » Untold Ref review : Liverpool – Sunderland By Ref Reviewer 02 updated! (Due to my mistake we have been putting on a not finished review at first) For those who wanted more ref reviews and also of the other teams involved in the league we can let you have another one. We took the game Liverpool – Sunderland on and this is what we found. Ref in charge was our good old pal Phil Dowd. Another one of the let us say older refs in the EPL. Let us have a closer look at what we have seen in this game. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on 1 OTHER Gyan Agger C Push 1 1 1 2 OTHER Downing Catermole C push 1 1 1 4 PENALTY Richardson Suarez C correct call by Dowd, a heavy touch from Suarez before being clipped took the ball well away from the goal and outside Suarez zone of control 1 3 3 4 Yellow C the crowd called for a red, but the yellow was all that could be given as Suarez touch wide preceded the contact from Richardson 1 2 2 7 OTHER Adam Larsson C trip 1 1 1 12 OTHER Brown Suarez C Push 1 1 1 12 Goal C Nothing wrong with this 1 3 3 16 OTHER Adam Colback C 1 1 1 20 OTHER Ferdinand Suarez N/C Suarez was going to ground as ball was in air, there was minimal contact 0 0 1 21 GOAL C The assistant correctly called a pushby Carroll 1 1 3 21 OTHER Carroll Brown C Carrol fouled Ferdinand 1 1 1 23 OTHER Carroll Brown C Push 1 27 OTHER Cattermole Suarez C 1 1 1 27 Yellow A lunge frrom Cattermole earns a yellow 1 2 2 31 OTHER Colback Flannagan C Good call from well positioned Dowd 1 1 1 34 OTHER Flannagan Larsson C 1 1 1 40 OTHER Lucas Sessegnon C 1 1 1 44 OTHER carragher Gyan C 1 1 1 44 Yellow Carragher N/C Carragher went knee high studs showing inn the direction of player and not the ball, this was a reckless dangerous challenge and Gyan had to leave the pitch, I felt this was serious foul play and should have been a red card.
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NEW DELHI: Afghanistan plans to take Pakistan to the UN security council over its continuing support to the Taliban, which Kabul says is destabilizing their country. Hekmat Khalil Karzai , deputy foreign minister told TOI in an exclusive chat, that after the deadly Taliban attack in Kabul last week, the Ghani government is exploring the UNSC option.“The president raised this issue on Monday. It’s been discussed in our government. It’s one of the issues we are exploring. If the security dynamics don’t improve that is something we are going to explore and bring to our international friends.”In his conversation with foreign secretary S Jaishankar, Karzai asked India to provide some more attack helicopters during this current fighting season. “One of the key things we discussed was our list of priorities. I asked him to help Afghanistan, now is the critical time for India to start delivering.” Russia, he said, had just supplied 10,000 AK-47s and ammunition. “We have requested for more support.”The most important consequence of the Kabul attack has been a decision by the Afghan government to engage the Taliban, Daesh and Haqqani network militarily is a significant one. It means the virtual end of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG, including US, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan), which was set up to get Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table.But Pakistan is the real target of Afghanistan because they believe all Taliban/Haqqani network attacks are carried out with Pakistan’s support. Karzai said, “The Pakistan PM’s foreign policy adviser, Sartaj Aziz went to Washington recently and in front of the entire world he said the Taliban live among them. They receive treatment in their medical facilities; there is a vast support infrastructure, logistical infrastructure, all of that exists in Pakistan. What we are asking now is for Pakistan to deal with that infrastructure. They should take action.”“You tell us you are not able to bring the Taliban to the table. That's fine. Your influence with them may have reduced, but you have the ability to take action in your house.
Nice Guys avoid conflict. Nice Guys seek to keep their world smooth. To do this, they avoid doing things that might rock the boat or upset anyone. Nice Guys believe they must hide their perceived flaws and mistakes. These men are afraid that others will get mad at them, shame them, or leave them if some mistake or shortcoming is exposed. Nice Guys seek the "right" way to do things. Nice Guys believe there is a key to having a happy, problem-free life. They are convinced that if they can only figure out the right way to do everything, nothing should ever go wrong. Nice Guys repress their feelings. Nice Guys tend to analyze rather than feel. They may see feelings as a waste of time and energy. They frequently try to keep their feelings on an even keel. Nice Guys often try to be different from their fathers. Many Nice Guys report having unavailable, absent, passive, angry, philandering, or alcoholic fathers. It is not unusual for these men to make a decision at some point in their lives to try to be 1 80 degrees different from Dad. Nice Guys are often more comfortable relating to women than to men. Due to their childhood conditioning, many Nice Guys have few male friends. Nice Guys frequently seek the approval of women and convince themselves they are different from other men. They like to believe that they are not selfish, angry, or abusive — traits they link to "other" men. Nice Guys have difficulty making their needs a priority. These men often feel that it is selfish to put their needs first. They believe it is a virtue to put others' needs ahead of their own. Nice Guys often make their partner their emotional center. Many Nice Guys report that they are only happy if their partner is happy. Therefore they will often focus tremendous energy on their intimate relationships. What's Wrong With Being A Nice Guy? We might be tempted to minimize the problem of the Nice Guy Syndrome. After all, how can being nice be such a bad thing? We might even chuckle at the Marvin Milquetoast behaviors of these men as portrayed in comic strips and television sitcoms. Since men already represent an easy target in our culture, the caricature of a sensitive guy might be an object of amusement rather than concern.
Germany, Austria: Imams Warn Muslims Not to Integrate by Stefan Frank, November 18, 2017: Translation of the original text: Deutschland und Österreich: Imame warnen Muslime vor Integration “While outside the mosque there is constant talk of integration, the opposite is preached inside. Only in rare instances are parts of the sermon — or even more rarely, all of the sermon — translated into German…” — Constantin Schreiber, author of Inside Islam: What Is Being Preached in Germany’s Mosques. “Politicians who repeatedly emphasize their intention of cooperating with the mosques, who invite them to conferences on Islam, have no idea who is preaching what there.” — Necla Kelek, human rights activist and critic of Islam, in the Allgemeine Zeitung. In the debate on migrants in Germany and Austria, no other term is used more often than “integration.” But the institution that is most important for many Muslim migrants does not generally contribute much to this effort — and often actively fights it: the mosque. That is the finding of an official Austrian study as well as private research conducted by a German journalist. In late September, the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF), a department of the foreign ministry published a study, “The role of the mosque in the integration process”. For the purposes of the study, employees of the ÖIF visited 16 mosques in Vienna, attended several Friday sermons and spoke with the individual imams — that is, if the imams were willing to have a conversation, which was often not the case. The result of this, according to the ÖIF, is that only two of the mosque associations foster the integration of their members. The report applauds a Bosnian mosque association that also runs a soccer club. During the discussion, its imam said: “Every country, as with Austria, has its rules and laws and — something I always stress — it is our religious duty to comply with these standards and to integrate accordingly.” With regard to gender roles, in all of the mosques they visited, the authors were struck by the almost complete absence of women at Friday prayers: “Only three of the mosques… provide women with their own space, which is reserved for them and actually used by them. If they exist at all, most of the mosques make the women’s areas on Fridays available to men, too.”
However, the number of revellers ran into several thousands, and they clearly had the upper hand.“It is very disturbing to see women caught in such helpless situation,” she added.Sources in the police department deployed on duty pointed out that the decision to extend the deadline for New Year Celebrations till 2 am also was a major cause of concern for the cops on duty. A senior police official also told BM that the city police announced for the deadline extension due to pressure from some of the commercial establishments, especially the drinking joints in the central division.According to retired senior police officers, the New Year revellers of the city are always an unruly mob and it was the duty of the police to anticipate it and deploy proper security measures.“It has been the case since the 70s. Handling the New Year crowd in Bengaluru is very difficult, but that means the police department should have a clear plan and be well-prepared to ensure there are no major incidents,” said, retired director-general of police.The traffic police booked only 461 cases of drunken driving in the city during on New Year’s Eve. Interestingly, on the previous night, 292 cases were booked in the East subdivision alone. On Saturday night though, riders could be seen openly accosting women on the street. The traffic police had also announced that it would barricade all major flyovers from 9 pm on Saturday night but they were open till about 10.30 pm. Traffic regulations were also in place and vehicular movement was restricted at strategic points on MG Road ahead of the celebrations, but too did not work as expected.The 108 ambulance service attended as many as 471 emergency calls from Bengaluru city alone, out of which 130 were trauma cases.Civil society members have reacted with absolute shock over the gradual degradation of Bengaluru into a city unsafe for women. They pointed out that it was high time for introspection not only for the law enforcement agencies but also for the city’s residents.Some of them expressed shock and demanded that the police act against those responsible for such shameful criminal acts.“It is disheartening to see where Bengaluru is going. We often hear such incidents in Delhi but hearing that shocking news from Bengaluru is really painful. I think the culprits should get caught and punished and that should be made an example.
Vaccines' little helpers A typical vaccine primes our defenses against infections by delivering antigens, pathogen molecules—or pieces of them—that the immune system recognizes. But many immunizations wouldn't work without adjuvants, which rev up the immune response. In recent years, adjuvants have become even more important for providing disease protection, says immunologist Ennio De Gregorio of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics in Siena, Italy. Vaccinemakers are increasingly refining the antigen-containing portions of their products to quell side effects—for example, by replacing disabled viruses with fragments of viral molecules. "The more you purify, the less they are immunogenic," De Gregorio says. So adjuvants have to pick up the slack. Not every vaccine incorporates adjuvants. In the United States, for instance, the shots for measles, mumps, and influenza don't contain them. But these immune assistants are integral to vaccines against hepatitis A and the human papillomavirus, and they are critical to the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis combo. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't approve adjuvants per se; it evaluates the whole vaccine. But of the adjuvant-containing vaccines the agency has licensed, all include alum. Elsewhere in the world, other adjuvants have gotten formally evaluated and approved by regulators. Some vaccines in Europe, for instance, include the oil-in-water mixtures MF59 or AS03. Yet alum remains a vaccine staple around the globe. "It's really the only adjuvant that has been used extensively," says immunologist Fabio Re of the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Illinois. Researchers have discovered that alum helps induce our bodies to manufacture antibodies, defensive proteins that are crucial for defeating some kinds of pathogens. It's attractive as an adjuvant because it stimulates the immune system without causing a dangerous overreaction. "The beautiful thing about alum is that it's effective without being too effective," says immunologist Stephanie Eisenbarth of Yale University School of Medicine. Alum first proved its mettle in studies by the British immunologist Alexander Glenny and colleagues in the mid-1920s. They were hunting for compounds that would make antigens insoluble, a step they thought would improve a vaccine's immune-stimulating ability. The researchers vetted an assortment of compounds. Glenny and colleagues revealed in 1926 that aluminum potassium sulfate was good at precipitating an antigen—the toxin from the bacterium that causes diphtheria—and increased guinea pigs' production of antibodies against the poison. Alum debuted in human vaccines not long afterward, and it's been there ever since. Most modern vaccines now use aluminum hydroxide and aluminum phosphate as their alum.
Suffice to say I did not react in any way negatively to the TEST DOSES.Without a doubt, COLURACETAM's pharmacological effects appear to be significantly more potent, profound and widespread than all the other RACETAMS.Summary of both postive and negative effects experienced as follows:- ENHANCED MEMORY (both SHORT-TERM and MEDIUM-TERM MEMORY): 3I have personally found that with respect to the NOOTROPIC effect(s) of all the RACETAMS, whilst I have experienced improvements in concentration and working capacity / productivity, I have never experienced a noticable ongoing improvement in memory. COLURACETAM is the only RACETAM that I have taken wherein I noticed an improvement in MEMORY, both with regards to SHORT-TERM and MEDIUM-TERM MEMORY. To put matters into perspective, the memory improvement has been mild, yet still significant; whereas I have experienced no such improvement at all with the other RACETAMS.- IMPROVED CONCENTRATION: 5- IMPROVED WORKING CAPACITY / PRODUCTIVITY: 7- INCREASED ENERGY & STAMINA: 4- INCREASED ALERTNESS & LUCIDITY: 3- ANXIOLYTIC: 10- ANTIDEPRESSANT: 5- IMPROVED OLFACTORY SENSITIVITY (both sense of taste and smell): 4- IMPROVED VISION: 3- ENHANCED ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC: 6- CAFFEINE, POTENTIATION OF ITS STIMULATORY EFFECTS / PARTIAL REVERSAL OF TOLERANCE: 4- INCREASED / IMPROVED SOCIABILITY 7This effect was totally unexpected; and first become noticable in that it partially rekindled the stimulatory effect of CAFFEINE when I was suffering a pre-existing state of CAFFEINE TOLERANCE; this effect remains as long as I continue to take the COLURACETAM, but quickly vanishes if I stop taking the COLURACETAM. As a consequence I am finding that I now drink less COFFEE and TEA and their stimulating effects are greater.- SOMNOLENCEPersonally, I found that at a dosage of 80mg BID I experienced daytime drowsiness to the extent that I had instances wherein I felt like I needed to go and lie down; this wasn't an unpleasant feeling, more akin to an extreme relaxation to the extent that it was sedating. Reducing the dosage eliminated this side effect entirely.- NAUSEAI experienced intermittent manifestation of nausea which was most certainly dosage dependant, wherein reducing the dosage eliminated this side effect entirely. Also, the instances of nausea typically occured when I began experimenting with taking the COLURACETAM in combination with other substances, such as HYDERGINE and PIRACETAM.I have added INCREASED / IMPROVED SOCIABILITY to my list of POSITIVE EFFECTS experienced.
Prenatal sex hormone levels affect physical and behavioral sexual differentiation in animals and humans. Although prenatal hormones are theorized to influence sexual orientation in humans, evidence is sparse. Sexual orientation variables for 34 prenatally progesterone-exposed subjects (17 males and 17 females) were compared to matched controls (M age = 23.2 years). A case-control double-blind design was used drawing on existing data from the US/Denmark Prenatal Development Project. Index cases were exposed to lutocyclin (bioidentical progesterone = C 21 H 30 O 2 ; M W : 314.46) and no other hormonal preparation. Controls were matched on 14 physical, medical, and socioeconomic variables. A structured interview conducted by a psychologist and self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data on sexual orientation, self-identification, attraction to the same and other sex, and history of sexual behavior with each sex. Compared to the unexposed, fewer exposed males and females identified as heterosexual and more of them reported histories of same-sex sexual behavior, attraction to the same or both sexes, and scored higher on attraction to males. Measures of heterosexual behavior and scores on attraction to females did not differ significantly by exposure. We conclude that, regardless of sex, exposure appeared to be associated with higher rates of bisexuality. Prenatal progesterone may be an underappreciated epigenetic factor in human sexual and psychosexual development and, in light of the current prevalence of progesterone treatment during pregnancy for a variety of pregnancy complications, warrants further investigation. These data on the effects of prenatal exposure to exogenous progesterone also suggest a potential role for natural early perturbations in progesterone levels in the development of sexual orientation.
Xiaomi products, on the other hand, have a long history of doing just that (and they’re copying not only Apple for that matter).That’s not all, though, Xiaomi is copying not merely the design of Apple products - its copying the way it presents products in its website, the structure of their presentation, and even the way Steve Jobs dresses. Can you guess where the image below comes from?
Fast-forward two years; I had made enough connections that I was able to secure a 'front'. For those who don't know what that means; you give me a pound, I give you the money two weeks later. This is how most weed is sold, as small time distributers or beginning traffickers don't usually have the cash to pay for product upfront. While I now had the connection to get product without paying upfront, I still had to convince my friend that he could sell a pound. At that point, neither of us had any idea. And the idea of sending 3500 worth of weed, through the mail with no guarantee that it would get there or any guarantee that it would sell, was nerve-wracking to say the least. But I was young and foolish, eager to make money, and willing to take the risk. With much relief, the pound arrived at our address back East and while it took twice as long to sell than we expected, the profit margin was some 35% of the investment. Giving us a taste of what was to come. By junior year, my friend and I were basically supplying the entire school with our weed. We were selling three pounds a week minimum. But we were starting to exhaust our residential mailing addresses and struggling to return cash to California in a timely manner. Our sales were limited only by our trafficking infrastructure as opposed to our capital, because at this point, my connections were happy to supply the product. Sometime around the end of the first semester junior year is when we started losing product. We lost our first package, a three pack worth roughly 12 grand which was a substantial hit and easily cut our cash on hand in half. Common sense might have told us to quit while ahead. But we (by this point) were still willing to take astronomical risks because how else can two unemployed colleges students make three grand a week? So after letting any heat die down, we went back to business. Coming back to the second semester, we caught two fairly large breaks in both intelligence and connections. Not only did we find a way to pass commercial shipping security tests, we secured an 'in' at the Law School mailroom where we could send literally any amount of packages - and for the next several years, we never lost product to this location.
Scahill's report also suggests that US black ops have reached into Uzbekistan, a post-Soviet country of 25 million which borders Afghanistan to the north: 'In addition to planning drone strikes and operations against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan for both JSOC and the CIA, the Blackwater team in Karachi also helps plan missions for JSOC inside Uzbekistan against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, according to the military intelligence source. Blackwater does not actually carry out the operations, he said, which are executed on the ground by JSOC forces. "That piqued my curiosity and really worries me because I don't know if you noticed but I was never told we are at war with Uzbekistan ," he said. "So, did I miss something, did Rumsfeld come back into power?"' [6] Such are the ways of hope and change. The role of US intelligence in fomenting the Baluchistan rebellion for the purpose of breaking Pakistan apart is also confirmed by Professor Chossudovsky: 'Already in 2005, a report by the US National Intelligence Council and the CIA forecast a "Yugoslav-like fate" for Pakistan "in a decade with the country riven by civil war, bloodshed and inter-provincial rivalries, as seen recently in Baluchistan." (Energy Compass, 2 March 2005 ). According to the NIC-CIA, Pakistan is slated to become a "failed state" by 2015, "as it would be affected by civil war, complete Talibanization and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons". (Quoted by former Pakistan High Commissioner to UK , Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Times of India, 13 February 2005 ). Washington favors the creation of a "Greater Baluchistan" which would integrate the Baluch areas of Pakistan with those of Iran and possibly the Southern tip of Afghanistan, thereby leading to a process of political fracturing in both Iran and Pakistan. '[7] The Iranians, for their part, are adamant that the US is committing acts of war on their territory in Baluchistan : " TEHRAN , Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Iran 's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that there are some concrete evidences showing U.S. involvement in recent deadly bomb explosions in the country's Sistan-Baluchistan province, the official IRNA news agency reported. .
Years ago, a downtown retailer announced that he was moving his store to the suburbs, and he made a big deal of what he said was the reason: crime was rampant downtown.That was false. Crime wasn’t rampant downtown then, and it isn’t rampant now. Some neighborhoods in the city do indeed have high levels of crime. But not downtown. Downtown has been and continues to be safe.If the retailer had said something that damaged the reputation of a person or another business, he could have been sued for libel. But downtowns – entire cities – are fair game for smears.And so the local daily newspapers published the retailer’s story, accusation and all. And I assume many people believed it.The store moved to the suburbs, where, for whatever reason, it eventually went out of business. But in the meantime, the retailer had made another contribution to a myth that has plagued downtown businesses, arts institutions, residents, and public officials for decades.The damage is costly, in the revenue of retail businesses and arts institutions, and in the city’s tax base. But no matter; the myth has been repeated so often that it’s now general public perception. And since perception can smother reality, the myth about safety is one of the biggest obstacles to downtown’s health.Let me share an example, part of a comment posted last week in response to my column wishing that companies like Wegmans and Paychex would move their headquarters from the suburbs downtown:Obviously, Mitch believes what he has written. And in fairness, for years the media – television stations in particular – have played up crime stories so much that you’d think the entire city was awash in blood.Another problem: some of the highest-crime areas are closer, geographically, to a Rochester suburb than they are to the heart of downtown. But our city-suburb lines create artificial divisions in our minds.Downtown Rochester is safe. Many people have tried to stamp out the crime myth, to no avail.
Senator Fred Thomson is here to clear things up for ya.
Most folk believe that the Beatitudes defines Christians. In terms of the historical church, it does not. It points to the outsiders, the miserable and helpless common people. We have to keep in mind what the common people looked like in Jesus day. They were absolutely stuck in the filth of an every day existence from which they were not permitted to rise. In our nation and in our culture, the poor are not only permitted but in at least some cases, they are encouraged to rise to the very top where they can be very powerful. Our president is a case in point.We are, as a people, not poor, not humble and certainly not meek. We are more often as Americans and specifically as American Christians, arrogant, manipulating and if we are dirty, our dirtyness lies in the fact that in comparison to much of the world, we are filthy rich. These are hard words and difficult to hear but if you have the ears to hear and the eyes to see, read the follow excerpt from Asian Faces of Jesus Edited by R.S. Sugertharharjah. The passage comes from Chapter 10, “Jesus and People (Minjung) by Byung Mu Ahn and is a summary of a play written by Chi Ha Kim, a Korean poet.“The scene plays in front of a Catholic church, where a statue of Jesus made of cement is to be found. On his head he is wearing a golden crown. Below the statue there are beggars lying around. The time is early morning on a cold Winter’s day.As time passes, first a potbellied priest and then a fat man, looking like the boss of a company, walk by. The beggars ask for alms again and again but are refused with contempt and scorn. Eventually a policeman is seen on the scene. Far from wanting to help them he immediately tries to drive them out of the place and demands a fine from them in return for his connivance.After all of them are gone, one of the beggars starts to lament: ‘I have neither home, no grave to rest fro all the exhaustion . I am abandoned in an endless cold, in a bottomless darkness. I cannot endure it any longer, this miserable time… it is unbearable, really unbearable. But where shall I go, where can I leave for, where, where?
March has arrived and we've got lots of lovely updates and developer blogs planned for the month. At the end of March we will be hosting a Deadman tournament with a $10,000 prize for the last Deadman standing! We will also be picking up on the discussion of Lootshare in Old School.Onthe fight for $10,000 begins as we open a brand new Deadman mode server for 6 days. Accessible only by the top 2,000 Deadman mode players, all starting from scratch, the last Deadman left standing after 6 days will take home the prize!We will be taking the top 2,000 Deadman accounts from the Deadman hiscores on- Get training andby then for your chance to compete!Onwe will be livestreaming the final hour of the fresh Deadman world from Insomnia 57! During this hour the remaining players will be pushed closer and closer together and respawning will be disabled. The last Deadman standing will walk away withSo, what are you waiting for? Hop onto a Deadman world and get grinding - get into the top 2,000 by March 16th for your chance to compete for $10,000!Immediately following the conclusion of the $10,000 Deadman mode tournament, the first Deadman mode season will begin!Brand new Deadman worlds, brand new accounts - onthe race for Deadman domination begins!More information on Deadman seasonal mode will be on the way later on in the month. For now, brace yourself for the hectic kick-off of another Deadman experience!Nightmare Zone rumble mode has always sent you into a dream with the chance of seeing any of the quest bosses you have taken down in the past. This will soon be changing with the introduction of choosing your own rumble!You, and anyone else in your party, will still need to have completed the quests necessary in order to unlock each boss but you will be able to exclude any you don't wish to see. The host of the dream will choose which bosses are excluded.The extra cost of 20,000 coins will be one that many of you are happy to pay for a chance to pick your own enemies in Nightmare Zone rumbles. Keep an eye out for this update coming later on in March.Throughout January and February we discussed the possibility of a Lootshare-like system coming to Old School. After several developer blogs discussing the different possibilities, we ended up polling ShardShare.
Read more… BP is potentially liable for economic damages like lost wages and lost tourism dollars. This will occur if the company is found to have acted negligently or criminally. It may also occur if Congress succeeds in raising liability limits. BP’s stock price has fallen precipitously as the expected costs and liabilities have increased. A dividend cut, therefore, will not reveal any new bad news. At the same time, ironically, a dividend cut will pay an unusual dividend. Part of the reason the stock price has plunged is because of the likelihood that BP will face increased legal liabilities and political costs. Paying the dividend will further enrage U.S. politicians and increase the likelihood that those legal liabilities and political costs grow. If BP cuts the dividend, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and others will no longer be able to accuse BP of paying shareholders before paying the victims of the spill. On this dimension, a dividend cut should actually help raise the stock price. Cutting the dividend may be a good idea for another reason. Last year, BP generated cash flow from operations of $27 billion and spent $20 billion on capital and exploration expenditures for a next cash flow from operations of $7 billion. BP paid more than this, $10 billion, in dividends, leading to a cash flow deficit of $3 billion. Counting the dividend, BP lost money last year. With the substantial cleanup costs this year, BP is certain to lose money again if it pays the same $10 billion in dividends. The shortfall will have to be made up by borrowing. And, BP’s borrowing costs have increased substantially (again because of the risk of high liabilities). If BP pays the dividend, it will be forced to borrow additional money at what are likely to be high interest rates. While it makes good sense for BP to cut or eliminate its dividend voluntarily, it is not a good idea for the U.S. to enjoin BP from paying its dividend. While it may score some immediate political points, the overall effects are likely to be harmful because it would be yet one more indication that the U.S. government and Congress are hostile to business and are trying to tell business what to do.
For more than a century the people of Winfield grew up believing Nichols played a more active role in Twigg’s death. That rumor cast Nichols as a ready-made hero who ended the town's most incomprehensible nightmare, but was forced to deny his role because it was considered too dangerous for a black man to kill a white man, even justifiably. Robert P. Davis, who studied the massacre extensively, speculated further. “Other than the Coroner's Inquest, no other investigation of the episode seems to have been conducted,” Davis wrote in 2001. “Twigg was found with a ‘wound’ in his head. Was it a .32 caliber, close-range wound surrounded by powder burns? Or was it a .44 caliber wound fired from a distance? Nichols was carrying both his Winchester rifle and a .44 caliber revolver. Maybe the wound was from some different sized weapon, fired from an alternate distance. No note of this has ever come to light.” Nichols denied the rumor almost as soon as it began circulating. Its origin was a wire report only a few hours after the massacre stating Nichols “confronted Twigg and fired a bullet into his head, but before life was extinct the demented man drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a shot into his own.” Hindsight and greater understanding of the rush of inaccurate, conflicting statements in the early reports of modern-day mass shootings lend credence to something similar happening here, rather than an early statement of fact in need of quashing. One other point buttresses the truth of Nichols' vociferous denials and silences the rumormongers: his shooting, 17 years after Twigg's massacre, of the man who killed a fellow police officer, and the generally positive media coverage and attention toward Nichols for this justifiable homicide. When George Nichols died in 1944, his obituary quoted an unnamed friend as “reflecting the general esteem” among the town of Winfield: “If everyone was as good as George we wouldn’t need a police force.” He was buried only 100 yards away from Gilbert Twigg's headstone.
He wanted to be absolutely sure Willis would never again see life as a free man. "This is the most heinous, cowardly act I've ever heard of," he said. Jaklevic, in an interview after the hearing, praised the judge’s stern sentence. "Mr. Willis has never owned up and taken responsibility for anything he's ever done,” the prosecutor said. “Mr. Willis personifies evil. The man has no conscience." Baker shared her relief in knowing that sentencing was complete and she could move on. Willis will never live again in a world without fences, she said.
Today, asbestos use is limited or banned in many countries including the Unites States. For more, please read the Asbestos-Related Disease article.Since all smokers do not eventually develop lung cancer, it is likely that other factors, such as individual genetic susceptibility, may play a role in the causation of lung cancer. Numerous studies have shown that lung cancer is more likely to occur in both smoking and non-smoking relatives of those who have had lung cancer than in the general population.from vehicles, industry, and power plants, can raise the likelihood of developing lung cancer in exposed individuals. It has been estimated that up to 2,000 lung cancer deaths per year may be attributable to breathing polluted air, and many experts believe that prolonged exposure to highly polluted air can carry a risk for the development of lung cancer similar to that of passive smoking. For more, please read the Deaths Rise with Ground-Level Ozone Warning article.
When the Path dialog box is open, the only way you can get to a location quickly is to type its coordinates into the Fly To’ box. BEWARE!! If you close Google Earth, all the locations in the space below Fly To’ disappear. I haven´t found a way to save them there. The advantage to working at a very low altitude setting is that you can be accurate and you can make a loop path. You cannot click exactly on top of a point you've already made, so the low altitude lets you eliminate too much error. The program is pretty intuitive, and you'll quickly get the hang of it. copyrighted by Bethe Hagens Additional Platonic Solids mapping software at: Montalk.net
We want volunteers to have a great time, so don’t be afraid to ask us to make changes that would make your Ska Fest experience a better one. Is there a dress code for volunteers? -While there is no specific dress code for volunteers, volunteers do get a unique volunteer t-shirt to wear during the festival and to keep afterward. This shirt MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES ON A SHIFT. This shirt is what separates volunteers from other show-goers, so it is important to be wearing it so people can pick volunteers out easily in a crowd. The shirt must not be altered physically in any way, and is intended to look professional (yet fun) as you are the face of the festival. Can I get a second volunteer t-shirt if mine gets dirty/ if I forget mine at home? -Due to the high volume of volunteers and the cost of t-shirts, we are unable to provide a second volunteer t-shirt for free to any volunteer. Subject to availability, volunteers may purchase a second volunteer t-shirt at cost (about $10) if needed. If volunteers show up for a shift without their t-shirt, they will be sent home to get it or, alternatively, asked to purchase a new one. Volunteers may NOT work their shifts without a volunteer t-shirt. Do volunteers have to sign a contract? -We want to ensure that volunteers get the most out of their experience with us, and that we, in turn, get the most out of our experience with you. Because of this, we ask volunteers to sign a contract outlining the expectations of volunteer conduct and responsibilities throughout the festival, as well as what volunteers can expect from volunteering with the Victoria Ska Festival. This way, we’re all happy! What happens if I get caught breaking my volunteer contract? -Depending on the violation of the contract (and at Volunteer Coordinator and other festival coordinators’ judgement), if a volunteer is found breaking the volunteer contract, he or she may be asked to leave the festival and not to return as a volunteer. He or she may also be asked to pay for the cost of a volunteer t-shirt and possibly for the cost of a ticket to the show in attendance. Will I get a chance to hang out with the bands?
Very interesting nonetheless! Let us know what you think! Feel free to share, copy, link, anything. From the YouTube video description:Global short film with footage shot from outer space with the UrtheCast camera on the International Space Station.“Black Knight Decoded” follows the journey of a father (David Oyelowo) and daughter (Layla Crawford) on their quest to decode the radio signals transmitted from the Black Knight satellite. With the help of their friend Ahna (Freida Pinto), they seek to unite the world in anticipation of the Black Knight’s (voiced by Usher) revelation on Earth.Relying on support from communities around the world, the trio are in a race against time to decode the signals and respond before the government attempts to shut them down.A Pepsi Production in association with Levity Entertainment Group the film includes footage shot from outer space using the UrtheCast camera mounted on the International Space StationAn award winning cast including David Oyelowo, Freida Pinto, Usher and thousands of fans from 11 countries around the world that were brought together to participate as part of the Pepsi Challenge.Directed by: Jabbar RaisaniProducers: Norman Aladjem, John Bravakis, James Frey, John DeMarcoWritten by: James FreyExecutive Producers: Brad Jakeman, Ellen Healy, Allison Polly© 2015 PepsiCo, Inc.PEPSI and the Pepsi globe are registered trademarks of PepsiCo, Inc.All Rights ReservedWhat does all this mean? Is this a disclosure warm up, or alluding to something more? Check out this video.The Black Knight satellite is claimed by some conspiracy theorists[2] to be an object approximately 13,000 years old of extraterrestrial origin orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit. Critics and mainstream academics have called it a conspiracy theory and myth that combines several unrelated stories. [3][4] A 1998 NASA photo believed by some to show the Black Knight satellite is thought by experts to be of a thermal blanket lost during an EVA mission.Thermal blanket, or something more? You decide.Very interesting nonetheless! Let us know what you think! Feel free to share, copy, link, anything.
STRETCHGOAL 11: ZONE SECTOR "HOTEL IMPERATOR" - UNLOCKED! An ancient hotel. A strange cult. A dark secret. Welcome to Hotel Imperator, the finest establishment in the Zone. If we reach this stretchgoal, we will publish a special zone sector, a scenario location that can be placed anywhere in your Zone. All backers on level DRONE and up will get the sector in PDF format. If we reach the Zone Compendium stretchgoal (below), all backers on level ANDROID and above will also get this sector in printed format. STRETCHGOAL 12: ZONE SECTOR "THE GREAT ZONE WALKER" - UNLOCKED! A colossal steel beast is slowly roaming the Zone, huge clouds of dust rise in it's wake.What kind of machine is it? And who controls it? If we reach this stretchgoal, we will publish a special zone sector, a scenario location that can be placed anywhere in your Zone. All backers on level DRONE and up will get the sector in PDF format. If we reach the Zone Compendium stretchgoal (below), all backers on level ANDROID and above will also get this sector in printed format. STRETCHGOAL 13: SECOND PRINTED ZONE COMPENDIUM - UNLOCKED! If we hit this stretchgoal, we will compile all new Zone Sector PDFs unlocked in this campaign and print them in a single, full-color volume. All backers on level ANDROID and above will get this Zone Compendium at no additional cost. STRETCHGOAL 14: ZONE SECTOR "THE LONG JOURNEY" - UNLOCKED! A caravan of rusty old cars, trucks and RVs moves through the Zone, its passengers refugees from Genlab Alpha and Mechatron-7. What secrets do these travelers carry with them? If we reach this stretchgoal, we will publish a special zone sector, a scenario location that can be placed anywhere in your Zone. All backers on level DRONE and up will get the sector in PDF format. The sector will be included in the second Zone Compendium (above), included in reward levels ANDROID and above.

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