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Three episodes retain the peculiarly English quality of series 1 and 2 (“Shut up and Dance”; “Men Against Fire”; “Hated in the Nation”), the other three lean more towards Grand American Sci-fi (“Nosedive”; “Playtest”; “San Junipero”). In making that compromise, Black Mirror has lost something of its original flavour. It seems caught between the large canvas and the minutiae, unsure of exactly where it wants to go. What is striking about this series, though, is not just that it looks slicker: it is also more sentimental. The stand-out episode is “San Junipero,” an uncharacteristically optimistic lesbian love-story. San Junipero is a surreal paradise for elderly people, accessible through a highly sophisticated version of VR. The two female protagonists meet in this virtual sphere and, liberated from both the homophobic past and debilitating present, fall in love. If you think that this might sound like a slushy digression from the usual Black Mirror lark, you would be right. The downsides to the San Junipero eternity are scarcely touched on. For a series with the sarcastic tag-line: “The Future is Bright,” in this instance it really did offer a sweet deal. Referring to this episode, Charlie Brooker said in a recent interview with Wired: “That was the first one written for this season, so I was thinking: what are people going to expect? … I thought, what’s a more hopeful take?” But is a lurch to sentimentality really unexpected from the creator of Black Mirror? Before turning to television, Brooker made his name as a grouchy TV critic for the Guardian. Brooker is brilliantly entertaining as a columnist—his sentences spring with profanity and mind-bending metaphors. Yet he is not just a “funny” writer. Seething beneath the flippancy is a genuine frustration with the state of humanity when programmes like Celebrity Big Brother are still enormously popular. As a result Brooker’s print writing often jerks from the disgruntled to the romantic. In 2012, he wrote an article about becoming a father for the first time. Though prefaced with a self-conscious apology— “I look sinister when I grin, like I’m secretly defecating in my trousers and enjoying the warm glow more than is strictly necessary”—the piece was ultimately sincere.
Sign up for two years with Verizon and a get a Google Pixel 2 for $100 at Target!Q:A: People value things differently. There are FP deals here for $4K watches. For those who have made the decision that Verizon is worth the cost (or receive discounts that make it as cheap as other options), this is a great deal on a flagship phone. Please refrain from trolling a 700+ post thread if your only input is complaining about Verizon's cost.A:A: No. The $300 credit is applied via 24 monthly bill credits over the next two years. Each credit will be $12.50. You must enter into a device purchase plan to get the credit, so you can basically plan to take $12.50 off the quoted monthly price of whatever device you choose.Q:A: The Target Mobile associates don't technically work for Target or Verizon. They are staffed by third-party providers who specialize in mobile devices/services. The $300 credit is an offering by Verizon and, frankly, isn't heavily advertised in big box stores, so it's likely they won't know about it. However, the processing to do it is on the back end at Verizon, so as long as you purchase a Pixel device and maintain a device purchase plan for 24 months, you will get your $300 credit.Q:A: Shortly after you purchase the device, you should get an email with the subject "Your bill credit has been applied to your account." It will list an Offer Description of DEVICE PROMOTIONAL CREDIT and the phone line to which it will apply. Once you get that email, go to the Documents & Receipts section and click thelink. You should see the credit under the Monthly Charges section on the line listed in the email.Q:A: Yes. You will receive the monthly device credits for all Pixels purchased during the promotion period that maintain a device payment plan (it's an automatic Verizon thing). From all indications, Target will also give out one gift card per device, though it must be activated in-store.Q:A: Reports in the thread have gone everywhere from 12 hours to 3 days.Q:A: Yes. You should expect the Target Mobile rep to activate the new device and have you make or receive a test call. After that, you will be given a $250 Target gift card that you can use immediately for normal purchases.Q:A: No.
Top Team Performances Most points in a game: Team: 120 DEN vs. LAL (88), 7/13/07 Player: 47 Anthony Morrow, GSW vs. NOH, 7/16/09 Most rebounds in a game: Team: 61 DEN vs. CLE, 7/16/04 Player: 20 (twice) last: Joey Dorsey HOU vs. LAL, 7/16/09 Most assists in a game: Team: 27, POR vs. GSW, 7/7/06 Player: 17, Marcus Williams, 7/14/09 Largest Margin of Victory: 48, BOS 110, TOR 62, 7/11/06 Highest-Scoring Game (combined): 225 (ORL 119, BOS 106) 7/17/04 Lowest-Scoring Game (combined): 112 (twice); last: HOU 58, LAC 54, 7/11/06 Year by Year Leaders 2004 Leaders 25.7 ppg Nikoloz Tskitishvili (DEN) 12.7 rpg Lonnie Jones (CLE) 6.2 apg Steve Blake (WAS) and Jameer Nelson (ORL) 2005 Leaders 20.6 ppg J.R. Smith (NO) 9.8 rpg Josh Powell (DAL) 6.0 apg Sebastian Telfair (POR) 2006 Leaders 24.8 ppg Randy Foye (MIN) 13.2 rpg James Singleton (LAC) 7.6 apg John Lucas (HOU) 2007 Leaders 42.0 ppg Marcus Banks (PHX) 12.0 rpg Amir Johnson (DET) 6.4 apg DJ Strawberry (PHX) 2008 Leaders 29.9 ppg Jerryd Bayless (POR) 13.5 rpg Kevin Love (MIN) 7.3 apg Ramon Sessions (MIL) 2009 Leaders 26.8 ppg Anthony Randolph (GSW) 14.8 rpg Joey Dorsey (HOU) 7.3 apg Marcus Williams (MEM), Brandon Jennings (MIL) Top Individual Performances Points (35+) 47 Anthony Morrow (GSW vs. NOH, 7/16/09) 42 Anthony Randolph (GSW vs. CHI, 7/14/09) Von Wafer (DEN vs. NY, 7/15/07) Marcus Banks (PHX vs. CLE, 7/9/07) 38 Keith Bogans (ORL vs. WAS, 7/17/04) 37 Ike Diogu (GSW vs. PHX, 7/15/05) Marco Belinelli (GSW vs. NO, 7/7/07) 36 Nick Young (WAS vs. CLE, 7/14/09) Jerryd Bayless (POR vs. PHX, 7/19/08) 35 Brandon Roy (POR vs. PHX, 7/12/06) Rebounds (15+) 20 Joey Dorsey (HOU vs. LAL, 7/16/09) Lonnie Jones (CLE vs. PHX, 7/14/04) 17 James Singleton (LAC vs. HOU, 7/11/06) Kevin Love (MIN vs. LAL, 7/16/08) 16 Ian Mahinmi (SAS vs. DEN, 7/14/09) Robin Lopez (PHX vs. DAL, 7/13//09) Joey Dorsey (HOU vs. MIN, 7/12/09) James Singleton (LAC vs. PHX, 7/14/06) 15 Jon Brockman (SAC vs. NYK, 7/17/09) Ben McCauley (LAL vs. TOR, 7/10/09) Kevin Love (POR vs. MIN, 7/17/08) Dwight Howard (ORL vs. PHX, 7/16/06) Assists (10+) 17 Marcus Williams (OKC vs. MEM, 7/12/09) 14 Brandon Jennings (MIL vs. SAC, 7/13/09) 11 Rajon Rondo, (BOS vs. DEN, 7/12/06) Jose Barea (DAL vs. BOS, 7/24/07) Sebastian Telfair (BOS vs. DEN, 7/12/06) 10 Toney Douglas (NYK vs. DET, 7/15/09) Aaron Brooks (HOU vs. DEN, 7/18/2008) Bobby Brown (NOH vs. POR, 7/20/08) Sebastian Telfair (BOS vs. TOR, 7/11/06) Kevin Pinkney (POR vs. GS, 7/7/06) John Lucas (HOU vs. POR, 7/6/06) Sebastian Telfair (POR vs. NY, 7/6/05) Steve Blake (WAS vs. ORL, 7/15/04)
The rabble-rouser was played by yours truly, shouting out stuff like, “We’ve got to stand up for law and order!” and “We have to protect our children!” The mob I was inciting to mayhem was made up of the Guys at Work—band, crew, and studio guys. Another thirty-four-year-old memory emerged as I led the Banger camera and crew around to the back of the studio building, where the lake appeared through the trees. I described the recording of the intro for “Natural Science,” down by the lakeshore. On a cold night late in 1979, Alex and I stood at the water’s edge with rowboat oars and canoe paddles, stirring the water. A microphone on a stand beside us captured the sound effects for the “Tide Pools” section. (Considering all our experiments with sonic environments and music-making gadgetry—digital recording, electronic instruments, midi interfaces, digital sampling—that studio represented a kind of “Science Island,” too.) All these years later, after standing and looking out at that lake again, kind of overwhelmed by so many flashes of memory, I turned back toward the building. Shading the reflections with my arms, I looked through the plate-glass windows into the recording room and saw the parquet floor where my drums had been set up so many times—where I had “faced the music,” and faced that curséd control room door. “My Drums Were Set Up Just There” photo by Martin Hawkes The studio building sits at one end of a small kidney-shaped lake; at the other end is the guest house—a large, multi-bedroomed dwelling, beautifully decorated by owner André Perry and his partner Yaël. Also apparently abandoned now, the guest house was augmented by a smaller building, “The Little House on the Driveway,” usually shared by a couple of crew members. Commuting between there and the studio in summer, you could take a rowboat, canoe, or pedal-boat, or in winter, cross-country ski. On summer nights you could drift in a boat in the middle of the lake, in perfect silence and utter darkness, with the Milky Way seeming to loom down over you from overhead. In the winter of 1980, when we were working on Moving Pictures, and a couple of years later for Grace Under Pressure, I made two “commuter” ski trails: one over the ice and snow around the lakeshore, and one through the woods, on land. I took the lake crossing in the daytime, or if there was someone with me.
You so much as look at him funny, you insult his honor." Given roles like Mr. Chow and Señor Chang, Jeong is often asked about typecasting. It happens, he concedes — but not how you'd think: "My parts are all written for 50-year-old white men." That was the case with his geeky, wannabe medieval King Argotron in 2008's Role Models and his parts in the upcoming Furry Vengeance and The Zookeeper. The same goes for Angus McCormick, his rookie cable news producer in All About Steve. He's intimidated by his reporter, Hartman Hughes (Thomas Haden Church), and his cameraman, Steve Gunders (Cooper). "These guys have been through producers like Spinal Tap goes through drummers," he explains. It wasn't hard for Jeong to put himself in Angus' place. He tapped into his own sense of being starstruck on set. "I couldn't believe I was working with these movie stars. I was wet behind my ears, both in my character and my career." Jeong was more at home in his first movie, using his medical background to play the snarky obstetrician in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, in which he says the cast improvised about 20% of their lines. He counts Role Models as his most challenging role. "I had to do tons of research. I knew nothing about that world (LAIRE, or live action interactive role-playing explorers). I went to those events, watched and interviewed people." But he did get some tips on how King Argotron should look. "Bradley suggested I should have a pathetic little mustache and goatee." Because of filming schedules, Jeong's family (he and Tran have twin daughters, Alexa and Zooey, 2) spent Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday with the Cooper clan. "I'm looking around the table at these gorgeous people," he says. "It's like they're Brad and Angelina and I'm their adopted kid. I'm Bradley Cooper's Maddox." Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more
All, Following the guiding WP principle of Assume Good Faith, I've been trying to boil down the essence of the message following Scaling Bitcoin. There are key bitcoin issues that remain outstanding and pressing, that are* orthogonal to LN & SW*. I create multiple proposals and try multiple angles because of a few, notable systemic economic and analysis issues - multiple tries at solving the same problems. Why do I do what I do -- Why not try to reboot... just list those problems? Definitions: FE - "Fee Event", the condition where main chain MSG_BLOCK is 95+% to hard limit for 7 or more days in row, "blocks generally full" This can also be induced by a miner squeeze (collective soft limit reduction). Service - a view of bitcoin as a decentralized, faceless, multi-celled, amorphous automaton cloud, that provides services in exchange for payment Users - total [current \| future] set of economic actors that pay money to the Service, and receive value (figuratively or literally) in return Block Size - This is short hand for MAX_BLOCK_SIZE, the hard limit that requires, today, a hard fork to increase (excl. extension blocks etc.) Guiding Principle: Keep the Service alive, secure, decentralized, and censorship resistant for as many Users as possible. Observations on block size (shorthand for MAX_BLOCK_SIZE as noted above): This is economically modeled as a supply limited resource over time. On average, 1M capacity is available every 10 minutes, with variance. Observations on Users, block size and modern bidding process: A supermajority of hashpower currently evaluates for block inclusion based, first-pass, on tx-fee/KB. Good. The Service is therefore responsive to the free market and some classes of DoS. Good. Recent mempool changes float relay fee, making the Service more responsive to fast moving markets and DoS's. Good progress. Service provided to Users can be modeled at the bandwidth resource level as bidding for position in a virtual priority queue, where up-to-1M bursts are cleared every 10 min (on avg etc.). Not a perfectly fixed supply, definitionally, but constrained within a fixed range. Observations on the state of today's fee market: On average, blocks are not full. Economically, this means that fees trend towards zero, due to theoretically unlimited supply at <1M levels. Of course, fees are not zero. The network relay anti-flood limits serve as an average lower limit for most transactions (excl direct-to-miner). Wallet software also introduces fee variance in interesting ways.
Making the Market: By generating market awareness and excitement about apps, the Apple iTunes store conjured a market for apps where there previously was none. The iTunes store is part of a virtuous circle: demand for apps draws developers into the fold; more developers means more desirable apps are created; more desirable apps means higher demand for iPhones; and more iPhones means even greater demand for apps. Curating: App stores are in a position to separate the wheat from the chaff. Nobody enjoys paging through dozens of 'crapps.' In a world with tens of thousands of niche developers and few well-known brands, the app store provides a service by keeping out substandard apps (as well as malicious or poorly executed code). The app store can also stimulate sales of selected apps by featuring them in a prominent location. While I don't have statistics to cite with regard to app stores, in studying consumer behavior in supermarkets, Wharton professor David Bell found that up to 45% of purchases are unplanned within the app store demographic of 'young, unmarried adults with above average income.' If the same proportion holds true for app stores purchase behavior, as I suspect it does, then the curation function could account for as much as $3.2 Million of the $7 Million that is forecast to be spent on apps in 2010. Feedback: Apps that receive positive user feedback outsell those that don't. No secret there. Numerous studies have shown that online reviews are second only to direct word-of-mouth recommendations when it comes to influencing online purchase decisions. By providing a forum for user reviews and comments, the app stores give prospective buyers a valuable information source that is not currently available anywhere else. Collecting Payment: Making the purchase process flow smoothly is a key ingredient for app sales. Online consumers are loathe to enter credit card information - especially for a one-off purchase of $0.99 from an unknown seller. And from the merchant's perspective, dealing with credit card fraud (both the malicious and friendly variety), and the resulting chargebacks, is as appealing as a stick in the eye. As a result, offloading this function to the app store is the best option available.
But know, O mother, that this man is a sorcerer, a Moor, a liar, accursed, impostor, cheat, hypocrite. I hold the devils beneath the earth are not his match. May God condemn every record of his deeds! Listen, then, my mother, to what this devil didfor all I tell thee is really true. See how this accursed one brake every promise he made me to work me good; and look at the love he shewed me and how he acted; and all to attain his own ambition! And he would have killed meGod be thanked for my deliverance. Consider and hearken, O my mother, how this Man of the curse acted. Then Ala-ed-Din informed his mother all that had befallen himweeping for excess of joytelling her how, after he had left her, the Moor had led him to a mountain wherein was a treasure, and how he had muttered incantations and spells. And he added: After that, O my mother, he beat me till I fainted from soreness, and a great horror gat hold of me, when the mountain split asunder and the earth opened before me by his sorcery, and I trembled and was afeared at the roaring of the thunder which I heard and the darkness which fell around as he muttered his spells. And I would fain have fled from fear when I saw these awful sights. So when he saw that I was bent upon flight, he reviled me and beat me. But, since the Treasure could not be unearthed save by me, as it was in my name, and not his, and because this ill-omened sorcerer knew that it could only be opened by my means, and this was what he wanted me for: therefore, after beating me, he thought it better to mollify me in order to send me to open the Treasure and obtain his desire. And when he sent me, he gave me a ring and put it on my finger, after it had been on his own. So I descended into the Treasury, and found four chambers all full of gold and silver and the like, and all this was as nought, for that Devils own hand commanded me to touch nothing of it.
Vigils are being held across the country for people organizers say died at the hands of police brutality 8/10 Portland, Oregon People take turns speaking in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon during a vigil for Michael Brown 9/10 Los Angeles, California A protester holds a sign that reads 'Black Lives Matter' as she joins hundreds of demonstrators who gathered in Leimert Park in South Central Los Angeles, California 10/10 Omaha, Nebraska With his hands raised above his head, University of Nebraska criminal justice senior Aron Sanders, of Omaha, Nebraska, kneels in front of the Nebraska State Capitol building, as he and more than 30 others students gathered for a vigil 1/10 Ferguson, Missouri Protesters ride on top of a car as they gather on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri 2/10 Ferguson, Missouri A protester holds the banner as he joins the protest on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri 3/10 Ferguson, Missouri Missouri Governor Jay Nixon ordered state police to patrol a St Louis suburb, sidelining local police who had clashed with protesters after an unarmed black teenager was killed by an officer 4/10 Ferguson, Missouri People demonstrate in front of a burned down Quik Trip gas station on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri 5/10 New York Thousands of people peacefully gathered in Manhattan's Times Square and Union Square, invoking the rallying cries "hands up, don't shoot" and "I can't breathe," alluding to the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson 6/10 New York People protest in front of police officers in New York's Times Square 7/10 New York Protesters march in New York City's Union Square. Vigils are being held across the country for people organizers say died at the hands of police brutality 8/10 Portland, Oregon People take turns speaking in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon during a vigil for Michael Brown 9/10 Los Angeles, California A protester holds a sign that reads 'Black Lives Matter' as she joins hundreds of demonstrators who gathered in Leimert Park in South Central Los Angeles, California 10/10 Omaha, Nebraska With his hands raised above his head, University of Nebraska criminal justice senior Aron Sanders, of Omaha, Nebraska, kneels in front of the Nebraska State Capitol building, as he and more than 30 others students gathered for a vigil
Could he be a surprise candidate for the White Hart Lane hot seat? GETTY IMAGES 7/12 Jupp Heynckes The veteran German manager, who was named Fifa coach of the year in January, has been out of work since leaving Bayern Munich in May. In his last season at the German giants he won the Bundesliga, German Cup and the Champions League. He is currently retired but could the opportunity to manage Tottenham Hotspur draw him out of his armchair? GETTY IMAGES 8/12 Sean Dyche After being unceremoniously sacked by Watford, Sean Dyche has reinvented himself at Championship side Burnley. Dubbed the 'Ginger Mourinho' by the Turf Moor crowd, Dyche is a manager whose stock is rising, with his Clarets side having been promoted to the Premier League for next season. GETTY IMAGES 9/12 Diego Simeone Diego Simeone has taken to management like a duck to water, although the British public may not be his biggest fans, after the Argentinian was responsible for getting David Beckham sent-off at the 1998 World Cup in France. His record in Spain since taking over Atletico Madrid has been incredibly impressive with his side in contention for the La Liga title as well as reaching the lChampions League final. Might be difficult for Spurs to convince him to switch. GETTY IMAGES 10/12 Michael Laudrup The Dane has been out of work since being sacked by Swansea City over e-mail in February. During his time in Wales he led the Swans to their first trophy in their 102-year history as well as getting them to play some of leagues most attractive football. AP 11/12 Eddie Howe Eddie Howe's name being thrown into the mix for the Tottenham manager's job could come as a surprise to the fans, but he is a manager that has impressed this season in the Championship. After a successful period at Bournemouth, he left for Burnley, his time at Turf Moor wasn't the best, but since returning to the Cherries he has got them playing an attractive style of football and up to 12th in the Championship. pa 12/12 David Moyes Before he was 'chosen' to manage Manchester United, Moyes was linked with Spurs. Having been sacked after less than 10 months in charge of Manchester United, White Hart Lane could provide a quick return to management. His record prior to his latest job is excellent - after all - United thought he was good enough to replace Sir Alex. Reuters
Well, yes, it does. It’s something popularly known as “health insurance.”Two months ago, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), as part of a slide-show presentation, complained to reporters, “The whole idea of Obamacare is … the people who are healthy pay for the people who are sick.”This is the same argument as McMorris Rodgers’ complaint about the Affordable Care Act, and they’re both mistaken – not about the law, but about how insurance is supposed to work.Imagine if I complained about auto insurance by saying, “The problem with the system is that it relies on people who don’t get into car accidents to subsidize the costs of those who do get into accidents.” That would probably sound pretty silly, but it’s effectively what the House Republican leadership keeps saying about health care.As we discussed in March, the whole idea of health insurance is to establish a system in which the people who are healthy pay for the people who are sick. You don’t need to be an expert to understand the model: Americans pay premiums, the money goes into a pool, funds from that pool pay for care. It’s Insurance 101.If the healthy don’t subsidize the costs of the sick – knowing that someday, someone who’s healthy may not be – that leaves only a few possibilities. The sick can try to pay for themselves; the government can pick up the tab; or the sick can go without care.Americans can have a spirited debate about the best approach, but the more House GOP leaders complain about the Affordable Care Act by saying it resembles health insurance, the more I’m concerned they’re not fully prepared for the argument.Postscript: McMorris Rodgers’ op-ed went on to argue that costs would drop for the healthy if people “who are sick or who have preexisting conditions” are removed from the system and put in high-risk pools. That’s almost certainly true. But since high-risk pools have never worked, and since the legislation McMorris Rodgers voted for doesn’t adequately fund such an endeavor, her approach would do real, lasting harm to millions of Americans who are currently protected by the Affordable Care Act that GOP lawmakers are desperate to destroy.
1. NHL realignment shifted Detroit and Columbus from the West to the East, and for good reason. Although not as extreme, it was like having the Carolina Panthers as a member of the NFC West in the NFL. It’s already a stretch for the Chicago Blackhawks to be part of the Western Conference, so even if Cleveland and/or Hartford were added, more tinkering with realignment would be next to impossible. Their presence in the league would merely keep the number of teams in each conference disproportionate. 2. Close geographical proximity to other NHL teams can be a double-edged sword. It can create an intense interest based on the rivalries they create alone. But the competition over market space increases the difficulty in gaining and sustaining support. This doesn’t affect Hartford as much as Cleveland. But as popular as the Whalers once were, and are (after 17 years without hockey), other markets have utilized the time frame of nearly two decades to move in on Hartford’s fan base. The Bruins, Rangers, and Islanders have had nearly an entire generation to woo fans, decreasing Hartford’s odds at gaining a second chance for NHL hockey. 3. Oakland is a sports market on life support to this day. Evidence of that is seen in recent news of the Oakland Raiders exploring a move to San Antonio, Texas. And they’re not alone. The possibility of Oakland losing multiple teams in the near future is a likelihood worth gambling on. The Golden State Warriors will be in San Francisco for the 2017-18 season for the same central reason the Raiders are looking to leave for a second time: outdated and ineffective accommodations. This doesn’t make the city attractive to the NHL in any way. 4. The NHL already has a strong presence in the state of California. Adding a fourth team to the mix is silly considering the state to the north has Portland as a viable candidate for NHL expansion.
More on that in #1, but for now let us focus on ending. As the good people as Pixar properly point out, endings are hard. That is why there are so many bad ones. Good endings are more the exception than the rule. So to watch the episode â€œSleeping in the Light," itâ€™s hard not to get choked up. As not to spoil what is a remarkable episode, all I will simply say is that itâ€™s the end of the series and feels every bit that. But it is also the story of hope.Most series struggle to lose or kill off one member of the main cast. Babylon 5 lost at least nine characters that were credited in opening of the show, and many more secondary characters. Some were killed off for story reasons, others left for health reasons, and some of the people left because of the money. Whatever the reason, the show kept going and for the most part turned those deaths and leavings into important events that affected the story and characters inside it.Was it always perfect, no, but when you consider how much losing one person does to most TV shows, itâ€™s telling that Babylon 5 was about the story and not the actors playing the roles. Which is not to say actors are not great people, I'm sure they are, but it is not a situation such as Stargate SG-1 when Richard Dean Anderson left the show, many of the viewers left with him. They were invested in Mr. Anderson, not in Stargate.How do you tell a giant space epic? Well you can have these huge battles, which are good. And have these god-like cosmic beings battling it out. But there is only so much you can do with that. The story has to take place somewhere, with people we care about. In Babylon 5, we see a giant galaxy-wide war taking place through lens of Babylon 5 the space station and people on that station. It is a slow build that doesn't give you all the information you want right away. You have to wait, and it doesn't always have a happy ending. This is what planning does. When J. Michael Straczynski created Babylon 5, he created A, B, and sometime C plots for all 22 episodes for each season. Now did he use all these? No, but he had a plan.
-- The dramatic scene of Atlanta Thrashers goalie Ondrej Pavelec losing consciousness on the ice during the team's home opener on Friday and being rushed off the ice on a stretcher to the hospital looks like it might end in a diagnosis as simple as a fainting spell.The Thrashers released a statement on Monday saying that Pavelec was released from the hospital and that preliminary results indicate that he had a neurocardiogenic syncope episode -- explained parenthetically as a "type of fainting spell" -- that caused the goalie to hit his head on the ice, which led to a concussion and subsequent loss of consciousness.He was cleared to return home following a battery of tests on his heart and brain. As a precautionary measure, the statement said, Pavelec will continue to undergo testing on his heart and blood as well as genetic testing. "If all goes as expected," the statement said, "he will be medically cleared following those results and will be available to resume playing at the conclusion of any symptoms from his concussion. "Thrashers coach Craig Ramsay was asked if it seemed like Pavelec simply fainted. "It sounds like it," he said. "Really, when it happened, nobody saw it. It was very hard to have a comment on it, but when I talked to him from Tampa [where the Thrashers played on Saturday], he really sounded good, very alert, was really upbeat. Obviously, he was wondering quite what happened. But his attitude sounded great on the phone and he watched our game, so good news so far. "So, perhaps it was a case of a 23-year-old goalie getting an adrenaline rush during the opening minutes of the team's home opener that caused him to faint? "It's that home opener, it's been a big grind to get there, who knows," Ramsay said. "Sometimes you react to it. Let's hope that everything is normal and will continue to be normal and he'll be right back at it. "Ramsay did not say what grade Pavelec's concussion was, but added, "I don't think it was a bad one because he was watching the game that night, he was talking to me about it and was quite aware of what had gone on afterwards. "Ramsay refused to put a possible timetable on Pavelec's return. The Thrashers had recalled goalie Drew MacIntyre from Chicago (AHL) to back up Chris Mason on Saturday.
A four alarm fire that consumed an American Legion post in Philadelphia's Frankford section has left the community devastated.Flames were first reported shortly after 2 p.m. Monday at American Legion Post 396 on the 2300 block of Orthodox Street.A 10-year-old Action News viewer captured video of the huge inferno that destroyed the two story brick building - flames fueled by a lot of wooden material inside the structure.About 20 to 30 veterans and their families were wrapping up a Memorial Day banquet when somebody noticed smoke.John Clark is the Junior Vice Commander of Post 396. He explains, "We have a dumbwaiter at the end of the bar, and somebody said, 'There's smoke coming out of the dumbwaiter.' So, my son-in-law ran upstairs, and here in the attic upstairs a motor had caught fire, and I guess that had started the whole thing. It started out as a little tiny fire. "Stan Donnelly was inside as well. He tells us, "They tried putting it out with fire extinguishers. And then they came out and said, 'Everybody out! Everybody out! And then that was it. "Within minutes, the fire went to four alarms with over 100 firefighters ultimately battling the blaze.Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel says, "It's very difficult when you can't get in there, what you call an, 'exterior attack'. You honestly can't get in and find the fire. That's why we're gonna be here for a while. "It took firefighters over two and a half hours to finally bring the inferno under control. They also managed to save two homes, which had to be evacuated temporarily.As for the American Legion post, John Clark says, "I guess the building's done now. I mean, we've been there for 98 years, for crying out loud... It was a great post. "Asides from the veterans, it would also prove to be a very sad day for many families in the neighborhood.Cathy Donnelly says, "My son's communion party was here, my girlfriend's son's communion party, we have a lot of family events - it's heartbreaking for us to see this building go on fire. "Firefighters will remain on the scene to keep an eye on hot spots through the night.One firefighter suffered minor injuries during the battle. Although witnesses say the fire started in a motor up in the attic, the fire is under investigation by the Fire Marshal's Office.
Leveraging Funds for Global Health—making additional matching funding available for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria to encourage other donors to increase their pledges. Nuclear R&D and Infrastructure The Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative provides additional funding to support the infrastructure and human capital that underpin long-term, effective sustainment of the nuclear weapons stockpile and supporting enterprise. For example, the Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative allows the National Nuclear Security Administration to begin important facilities construction and deferred maintenance projects and to undertake several R&D projects to keep nuclear weapons safe, reliable, and effective.
1 SUMMARY 1a This paper describes a multisponsor research center at Stanford Research Institute in man-computer interaction. 1a1 For its laboratory facility, the Center has a time-sharing computer (65K, 24-bit core) with a 4.5 megabyte swapping drum and a 96 megabyte file-storage disk. This serves twelve CRT work stations simultaneously. 1a1a Special hardware completely removes from the CPU the burden of display re freshing and input sampling, even though these are done directly out of and into core. 1a1b The display in a user's office appears on a high-resolution (875-line) commercial television monitor, and provides both char acter and vector portrayals. A relatively standard typewriter keyboard is supplemented by a five-key handset used (optionally) for entry of control codes and brief literals. An SRI cursor device called the "mouse" is used for screen pointing and selection. 1a1b1 The "mouse" is a hand-held X-Y transducer usable on any flat surface; it is described in greater detail further on. 1a2 Special-purpose. high-level languages and associated compilers provide rapid, flexible development and modification of the repertoire of service functions and of their control procedures (the latter being the detailed user actions and computer feedback involved in controlling the application of these service functions) . 1b User files are organized as hierarchical structures of data entities, each composed of arbitrary combinations of text and figures. A repertoire of coordinated service features enables a skilled user to compose, study, and mod ify these files with great speed and flexibility, and to have searches, analyses data manipulation, etc. executed. In particular, special sets of conventions, functions, and working methods have been developed to air programming, logical design, documentation, retrieval, project management, team interaction, and hard copy production.
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5. Strawberries: Who doesn’t like strawberries, I like mine swimming in a gleaming pool of syrupy condensed milk! But while munching such sweet summer treats, we may also be helping our skin. Strawberries are rich in Vitamin C which in turn is essential in the body’s production of collagen, a protein responsible for keeping the skin firm! So a few strawberries a day may well keep the wrinkles away! 6. Yoghurt: Yoghurt is great for your complexion and you don’t have to spread it on your skin for it to have a beneficial effect! Full of protein, a helping of yoghurt daily will help keep those lines away! Greek is best, with anything up to double the protein found in other yoghurt products. 7. Salmon: Omega 3 is a fatty acid that, amongst other things, will help to keep your skin nicely moisturised – and there are few better sources than Salmon.Not only a tasty dish, hot cold or smoked, Salmon is also packed with selenium that will help protect your skin from the sun. 8. Peppers: Eating either green or yellow peppers may help to fend away those unwanted wrinkles. Tasty stuffed, or wonderful in salads, pepper are a great addition to any meal! Yellow peppers are also packed with carotenoids, an antioxidant that may help protect skin from the sun. 9. Sunflower Seed Oil: Birds love Sunflower seeds and they make a wonderful accompaniment to beer! Packed with vitamin E, they are a great way to help protect your skin from the sun! Apply sunflower seed oil to anything dry, such as lips or skin and help put the moisture back! 10. Tomatoes: If you want to keep those youthful good looks, you could do a lot worse than eating tomatoes. Packed with an antioxidant called lycopene, this tasty soft fruit is laced with anti-aging properties that will keep everyone guessing your age. By the way, your body will absorb all that yummy goodness way better if the fruit has been cooked! So tomatoes tinned in their own juices or squashed into ketchup, will actually prove more effective than those straight from the vine. Source: Dailysmash
1–10 0.877 (0.093) 0.894 (0.104) 0.761 (0.151) 0.962 (0.139) 11–50 0.651 * (0.068) 0.647 * (0.086) 0.522 * (0.107) 0.693 (0.124) 51–100 0.544 * (0.060) 0.570 * (0.084) 0.481 * (0.109) 0.578 * (0.116) 101–200 0.358 * (0.046) 0.487 * (0.081) 0.469 * (0.115) 0.463 * (0.107) 200 or more 0.390 * (0.070) 0.549 * (0.116) 0.471 (0.166) 0.539 (0.157) Total wedding expenses $0 to $1,000 1.472 * (0.144) 0.722 (0.095) 0.591 (0.123) 0.744 (0.137) (in real dollars) $1,000 to $5,000 1.277 (0.124) 0.951 (0.099) 0.905 (0.138) 0.975 (0.148) $5,000 to $10,000 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) $10,000 to $20,000 0.959 (0.114) 1.095 (0.134) 1.190 (0.201) 0.942 (0.172) $20,000 or more 0.891 (0.117) 1.372 ** (0.192) 1.300 (0.250) 1.500 * (0.323) Don't know 1.067 (0.180) 0.735 * (0.135) 0.732 (0.173) 0.606 (0.199) N 3,151 3,151 1,455 1,696 Table A2. Hazard Model Predicting Marital Dissolution as a Function of Wedding Expenses, Recently Married Subsample, No Population Weights All Persons Men Only Women Only Age (in years) 1.127 * (0.042) 1.122 (0.055) 1.244 * (0.084) Marriage age (in years) 0.792 * (0.032) 0.775 * (0.041) 0.739 * (0.054) Female 0.501 * (0.077) Race/ethnicity White 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) Black 1.113 (0.198) 0.951 (0.204) 1.144 (0.410) Hispanic 0.837 (0.175) 0.780 (0.212) 0.773 (0.351) Other 0.990 (0.247) 1.030 (0.296) 0.623 (0.324) Education High school or less 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) Some college 1.451 (0.259) 1.024 (0.221) 3.338 * (1.429) 2‐year college degree 0.956 (0.232) 0.640 (0.205) 2.240 (1.109) 4‐year college degree 0.877 (0.178) 0.599 (0.142) 1.955 (0.839) Graduate‐level degree 0.524 * (0.179) 0.232 * (0.124) 1.674 (0.855) Employment Employed full‐time 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) Employed part‐time 1.106 (0.163) 1.262 (0.234) 0.782 (0.231) Other 1.015 (0.168) 1.311 (0.277) 0.662 (0.174) Household income $0 to $24,999 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) $25,000 to $49,999 0.703 (0.111) 0.647 (0.127) 0.834 (0.265) $50,000 to $74,999 0.525 * (0.103) 0.531 * (0.127) 0.587 (0.253) $75,000 to $99,999 0.512 * (0.130) 0.614 * (0.181) 0.259 (0.150) $100,000 to $124,999 0.486 (0.156) 0.540 (0.225) 0.365 ** (0.185) $125,000 or more 0.614 (0.293) 0.622 (0.315) 0.680 (0.625) Don't know 0.821 (0.303) 0.747 (0.382) 0.905 (0.554) Region of residence West 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.) 1.000 (ref.)
Hanson outlines some of the obstacles that confront budding African American women scientists from elementary school to the postgraduate level. Stereotypes about girls of color lacking proficiency in science, the absence of nurturing mentors, the dearth of education about people of color who have contributed to science research (i.e., culturally responsive science instruction), and academic isolation often deter youth who would like to pursue science careers. Science researcher Diann Jordan, author of Sisters in Science, notes that her study of black women scientists helped her combat the sense of isolation she felt in a field where she was often perceived as an interloper. Nonetheless, Jordan, Hanson, and other researchers have found that “African American girls in particular are very positive about science.” Stem cell scientist Valerie Johnson McCullar stresses that black girls begin with high interest in math and science in elementary school then begin to lose interest in quantitative subjects because “if there is not someone around you to constantly show you the beauty in certain things you get channeled in certain ways.” Hanson notes that black girls, as opposed to white girls, are actually more inclined to stay engaged with science throughout their K-12 careers. In elementary and middle school girls tend to outperform males in math and science. However the “trend tends to reverse itself in the white but not the African American communities as the young people enter high school.” Indeed, “African American girls have been found…to be in more advanced math classes, to get better science grades, and to participate more in science than their male counterparts.” But Hanson emphasizes that greater participation amongst African American girls does not necessarily translate into high achievement. Academic outcomes for students of color still lag behind their white counterparts. Indeed, the presumption of underachievement that dogs even the “best and brightest” science students underscores the depth of educational apartheid in the U.S.
She added: “How can a retreat into selfish and insecure individualism be the right response when Europe faces genuine threats, when the bonds that tie us are so powerful, when we have come so far together? How can we hope to conquer the enormous challenges of terrorism and climate change without cooperation and collaboration?” Getty Images 10/30 Vivienne Westwood (REMAIN) British fashion designer expressed her support for Remain vote Getty Images 11/30 Michael Caine (LEAVE) The actor has said he is a reluctant Leaver. He said: "I don't know what to vote for. Both are scary. To me, you've now got in Europe a sort of government-by-proxy of everybody, who has now got carried away. Unless there is some extremely significant changes, we should get out." Getty Images 12/30 Benedict Cumberbatch (REMAIN) Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Patrick Stewart led more than 280 figures from the arts world who backed a vote to stay. An open letter pledging support for Remain was also signed by music stars Hot Chip, alt-J and Paloma Faith, authors Dame Hilary Mantel and John le Carre, and fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood. Daniel Craig was pictured wearing a vote Remain t-shirt with the words "No man is an island. No country by itself" emblazoned across it in a picture tweeted on the Stronger IN account. Getty Images 13/30 Patrick Stewart (REMAIN) Actor is a leading supporter of the Remain campaign Getty Images 14/30 Elizabeth Hurley (LEAVE) The actress said “If it means we can go back to using decent lightbulbs and choose high-powered hairdryers and vacuum cleaners if we so wish, I'm joining Brexit for sure.” Getty Images 15/30 Stephen Hawking (REMAIN) The physicist is in favour staying, and said "progress comes from co-operation". He said: "By working together in Europe we make our economy stronger and we give ourselves more influence in the world and we provide future opportunities for young people." Numerous scientists have also voiced their support for Remain, claiming an out vote would badly damage the field. Getty Images for Breakthrough Pr 16/30 Sol Campbell (LEAVE) – The former England international football star said he is backing Brexit so that young British sporting talent would be nurtured and given greater opportunities at British clubs.
Just days afterdeveloper Blizzard Entertainment said it would require its customers to use their real names in their online forums, CEO Mike Morhaime has retracted the policy.The new policy, which was to go into effect on the launch oflater this month, caused an uproar among Blizzard's message board community. Blizzard unveiled the policy on Tuesday this week. "We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums," said Morhaime in a Battle.net forum post . "As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums. "The Real ID feature was meant to "Remov[e] the veil of anonymity typical to online dialog" in an effort to encourage "a more positive forum environment, promote constructive conversations, and connect the Blizzard community in ways they haven�t been connected before," Blizzard said earlier this week.But the large majority of posters were against the move, with many citing privacy issues, and concerns that anyone on the internet could use the full names provided by Real ID as a starting point to find more sensitive information about Blizzard users. The announcement of the measure brought tens of thousands of replies to Blizzard forums, and the studio told Gamasutra that it was definitely listening to player feedback.While the Real ID feature meant that Blizzard forum users would have to use their real names, players wouldn't have to use real identities in-game when using the Battle.net gaming network. But if they did use Real ID in games likeor, they would have more access to community features like cross-game and cross-realm chat.Morhaime said Blizzard will take other measures to continue to improve the forum experience, which like most popular message boards can often be plagued by trolls and spammers. "However, when we launch the newforums that include these new features, you will be posting by yourBattle.net character name [and] character code, not your real name," he said. "The upgradedforums with these new features will launch close to the release of, and also will not require your real name. "He also expressed appreciation for the quick and vocal feedback from the game's players. "I want to point out that our connection with our community has always been and will always be extremely important to us.
As the FBI reported, the adoring crowds in attendance at Mandela’s U.S. public appearances frequently “overwhelmed police lines and swarmed the motorcade.” However, it was with good reason that the State Department “classified the threat level for this visit as ‘high[. ]’” Mandela was the subject of numerous death threats on his 1990 trip to the U.S. Some of these threats were notable for their bizarre nature, such as the man who claimed the famous disk jockey Casey Kasem instructed him to inform the Chicago Terrorism Task Force of his “’visions’ that Nelson Mandela […] and/or the Rev. Jesse Jackson would be assassinated” later that month. And in Atlanta, a man identifying himself only as “Igor” warned he “heard it on the street” that the Cuban Liberation Front was going to kill Mandela in Miami. More ominous was a threat made by an unidentified caller in Georgia who “stated that he and his two companions had spent their lives trying to stop Mandela [and that] they had various weapons and means with which to accomplish this task and had received military training.” Elsewhere, a group calling itself the “Aryan Knights” issued a bomb threat against Mandela. This threat caused the FBI some degree of consternation when the Bureau realized it could not determine which of the many groups identifying as “Aryan Knights” was responsible. Contenders included the so-called “Aryan Knights of the Great Forrest” and the “Aryan Knights Motorcycle Club” of Providence, Rhode Island. A particularly chilling threat came in the form of a letter [pdf] from an unidentified individual in Houston, Texas. Covered in white power insignias and attached to a recent Houston Chronicle article about a potential upcoming visit by Mandela, the letter read, “Remember John F. Kennedy in Dallas? Bring this black murderer to Houston and we will give him a welcome that the world will not forget!! !”
Around the time of the hack, Warren Red, who is based in Philadelphia, looked up the names on the list with Pennsylvania addresses and discovered that one of them, Ian Lichterman, was that of a police officer — the name had appeared in a short news blurb about an award he’d won for his patrol work. The local antifa group published this information in a blog post on its website, but “nothing became of it,” Red said — until the tattoo controversy drew local news outlets to antifa’s updated post on the officer.
In what may have been the best kept genetic secret, the wildly popular Florida Panthers may soon be stripped from the Endangered Species Act. Citizens Science has obtained documentation illustrating three genetically seperate Puma’s currently inhabiting and breeding in Florida.First the, Scientific research indicates there are two genetic strains, one closely related to a South American subspecies, the other resembling North American pumas. It’s been reported South American Puma’s were released from a road side zoo with the reported permission of the National Parks Service circa 1957.A third genetically separate Puma is nothing more than a modern-day contemporary Puma of recent “Invented” Texas origin…USFWS, against its own policy allowed for 8 Texas Cougers to be trapped and relocated within the Florida Panther population. However, by mixing (interbreeding) two subspecies previously seperate and apart this action has genetically contaminated (Hybridized) the population of Florida Panthers.Nothing contained within the ESA nor the intent of Congress afforded Endangered protections for a Puma that genetically never existed prior to its 1995 "Invented" origin.In 2014, Wildlife Management Institute received $150K to sort out the failed USFWS $35M Red Wolf Recovery Program, ultimately reporting, todays Red Wolf is a product of “Selective Breeding” and “Human Construct”.So what its the Florida Panther you ask?Wildlife managers and Washington policy writers are bound by the tenets found within the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which state the decision to list or delist a species may only be made using the “best scientific and commercial data available.”In what may prove to be the hardest fact to swallow for Floridians may be, "Accounting for economic considerations in the listing process is forbidden”: only the best science may guide the agencies charged with deciding which species will receive protection under the ESA and which will not.The plain language of the ESA, its purposes, and its legislative history all suggest that this system was designed to ensure that truly endangered species would receive protection at any cost.
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Elon Musk presented his plan to a live audience on September 27 at the International Astronautical Congress in Mexico (see “Elon Musk’s road to Mars”, The Space Review, October 3, 2016). Musk unveiled the designs for SpaceX’s Interplanetary Transport System (ITS) and dedicated the company to begin flights to Mars on precursor Red Dragon missions as early as 2018. Musk later revealed that tests on the actual hardware that would be performing the task of delivering people to Mars were proceeding and were looking “promising.” Musk described the design and process of actually doing the traveling to Mars as “really fun,” stating, “You’ll have a great time.” Hardly stirring oratory. But is there something hidden under the surface? In both instances, my own first impression was to be excited at the amazing things that were going to be done in the near future. But something bothered me about how I felt about President Obama’s plan. It reminded me all too much of a day I still remember as a child. In January of 2004, I remember feeling another spring of excitement and awe at what the future would hold when my mother pointed out a news heading that flashed across the screen of our living room television set. Still not enraptured by the evening news, I was not terribly excited about what my mother had to show me until I understood the subject: President Bush was announcing plans for going to Mars. And what’s more, he announced we would be doing it… wait for it… as early as 2030. I recall vividly the rush of excitement knowing that I would be around to see mankind set foot on Mars! I could hardly believe my ears! For weeks my eyes searched for the great changes that I anticipated would be permeating society. I had pictured buildings being constructed, the national conversation shifting towards space exploration as I always had imagined had happened in the ’60s. And day after day, I was disappointed at seeing… nothing. Now we’re being told, “we meant the late 2030s,” about ten years later than we thought ten years ago. Have things become ten years more difficult? Or is the prospect of a lofty inspiring goal more than 25 years into the future a relatively safe bet to make? I suspect that it is probably the latter. Inspiration versus the inspirational Don’t get me wrong, I am all for inspiration. Words and ideas do matter!
[u]What[/u]: One (1) Breed Change: Imperial Scroll [u]When[/u]: Purchase of entries will be open now through December 20th, 2016. Participants will be issued “ticket numbers” and the winner will be determined via random number generator. Record keeping assistance thanks to @Dannilise. [u]Cost[/u]: Entries can be purchased for either 10,000 treasure or 11 gems each (1g:900t ratio). [u][b]Limit of 100 entries per person[/b][/u], can be purchased at once or over time before December 20th. [b]1 Entry (ticket) = 10,000 treasure OR 11 gems Maximum entries (tickets) per person = 100 (1,000,000 treasure OR 1100 gems)[/b] [u]How[/u]: Treasure/gems in the amount appropriate for the number of entries you wish to purchase can be PMed, please include the number of entries you are purchasing in the body of the message for backup reference. If the estimated minimum value of this item (270,135,000 treasure) is not met by raffle entry sales by the close date of December 20th, all funds received will be returned and the scroll will move to be sold in auction. [u]Ping List Requests[/u] We are running two lists: 1) general add requests ("please add me to the ping list!") - these individuals are being added to the list in this post as requests are made 2) reminder requests ("I would like to be pinged/reminded closer to the end of the raffle.") - these names are being added to a list we are maintaining in our tracking spreadsheet.
SANDISFIELD - There were some new faces at Otis State Forest Saturday, and they've come here from Standing Rock in North Dakota, they say, to continue fighting another pipeline. "They called and we answered," said Alvin Grassrope, referring to the climate justice group, Sugar Shack Alliance, of which 22 more members were arrested for trespassing into pipeline work areas on Saturday.While Sugar Shack activists were being handcuffed by state police and loaded into a van, Grassrope, a Lakota Sioux Indian, told The Eagle he and Antoine American Horse were from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, the center of a massive protest entrenchment began last year by the tribe and activists nationwide over Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline.The Lakota Sioux resisted the path of that 1,172-mile crude oil transmission line, saying it cut through tribal areas of cultural and religious significance, as well as a tribal water source. The pipeline was completed last spring, and is now active. "It's going to be a big problem," Grassrope said of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.'s 13-mile Connecticut Expansion Project, two miles of which run through the state forest here.The two young men have never been east. "I love it here," American Horse said. "I'm a plains Indian so I'm not used to all the trees.
She specializes in photorealistic oil painting, and has become popular for rendering photographs of graffiti onto canvases. But in 2009, she was a little-known artist based in Boston. Emboldened by a sense of opportunity, she decided to move to San Francisco, rather than simply fly out, for the White Walls show.According to Hess, only two of her paintings sold at that first exhibit, and at a large discount. Still, a year later, Giarla invited her back to do a solo show at the gallery, scheduled for September 2011.“That was the show I didn’t get paid for,” Hess said.She says that, at first, Giarla “seemed really nice.” She was broke at the time, and needed a part-time job in order to make rent. Out of fear that she wouldn’t paint enough work to fill the space by her deadline, she asked him to turn the solo exhibition into a two-person show. He refused. Instead, he gave her a $1,800 advance.“‘I’ll take care of you,’” she recalled him saying.She pulled off the show. But by opening night, her bank account was back at zero. And that’s when she says her relationship with Giarla began to sour.Hess’ parents had flown in from North Carolina for the opening. It was a big moment, a chance to prove that being an artist was a respectable profession. But at the debut, Hess says that Giarla spent the majority of his time in his other gallery, celebrating a different reception. And, as Hess and her parents left White Walls, she says Giarla stumbled out of a bar down the block and vomited in the street right in front of them. “I was mortified,” she said.It was an omen.According to Hess, Giarla took off for a vacation in Bali after the opening, and he was absent for the majority of her exhibition. When he returned, she showed up at the gallery to ask for her share of the sales, knowing that if she was late paying rent one more time she would be evicted.Hess says that Giarla agreed to pay for the framing of her work, and that he also promised to ask permission before offering discounts of more than 10 percent. But she says he deducted both the cost of framing and also gave larger discounts to customers. Despite this, and minus the amount of her advance, she says he owed her $8,675.But Giarla didn’t have her money.
[Follow CityLab on Instagram] This would be a shame, especially since developers could be building much more affordable housing using private-activity bonds. According to the Council on Development Finances Agencies, states are not meeting their volume cap for qualified private-activity bonds (although things have improved a lot since 2008). While much of the unused allocation carries forward year to year, it eventually expires. The report states: “In 2017, states again have at their disposal record amounts of private activity issuing capacity.” Cities are changing fast. Keep up with the CityLab Daily newsletter. The best way to follow issues you care about. Subscribe Loading... The best engine for new affordable housing—Low Income Housing Tax Credits—could be undermined by tax reform The very possibility of a tax bill has already changed the market for the most effective tax incentive for building new affordable housing in the U.S.: Low Income Housing Tax Credits, or LIHTCs. While private-activity bonds serve to finance all sorts of qualified projects, housing credits are specific tools for developers of affordable housing. (Bonds for multifamily housing projects come with housing tax credits automatically.) Banks buy the credits in order to claim benefits that pay out over 10 years. Tax reform shifts the appeal of LIHTCs. While the tax bill does not repeal housing tax credits, it could undermine them. A dramatic reduction of the corporate tax rate might diminish the appeal of tax credits to investors, which in turn could make new affordable housing developments harder to finance. Tax credits are worth less in an environment where would-be investors pay much, much less in taxes. As for LIHTCs specifically, the House and Senate versions treat these credits different ways. Some housing tax credits go hand in hand with private-activity bonds, so these credits would go away with the House bill but be retained by the Senate version. Also at issue are some wonky tax details that affect how housing tax credits are allocated and calculated—whether the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) or “chained CPI” is used to adjust for inflation. These decisions could result in thousands fewer affordable housing units built each year.
7,10 The issue therefore deserves to be the focus of more targeted study. In particular, future research ought to explore in more detail the hypothesis regarding social network connections. Although an actual cluster analysis of social network connections may be difficult to perform, the role of social connections can be further explored through inquiry into other kinds of social group memberships, particularly associations that are unique to the medical school environment. In addition, future research should address the limitations of the present study, in particular by using a wider sampling frame to improve the generalizability of the results. Finally, monitoring patterns of use longitudinally, starting from the years before clinical practice and moving through the years of clinical rotations, residency, and beyond, will be difficult but also highly informative. Our findings on the patterns of nonmedical use of prescription stimulants among medical students diverge in critical ways from those noted in undergraduate student populations. In particular, stress and competitiveness were not associated with prescription stimulant use for nonmedical purposes in our population, as they were in undergraduate populations.The issue therefore deserves to be the focus of more targeted study. In particular, future research ought to explore in more detail the hypothesis regarding social network connections. Although an actual cluster analysis of social network connections may be difficult to perform, the role of social connections can be further explored through inquiry into other kinds of social group memberships, particularly associations that are unique to the medical school environment. In addition, future research should address the limitations of the present study, in particular by using a wider sampling frame to improve the generalizability of the results. Finally, monitoring patterns of use longitudinally, starting from the years before clinical practice and moving through the years of clinical rotations, residency, and beyond, will be difficult but also highly informative.
Todd: Do you think Elvis needed the 68 Comeback to get back on the hit trail again? Red West: Elvis was wondering, after all the movies, he was a little unsure of himself and that’s exactly what that was for, to see if he still had it. The thing the Colonel had for him would have destroyed him. He wanted him to come out and do a bunch of Christmas songs! And Elvis said to hell with that, I’m doing this, so that was his "testing the waters". Todd: You say you became as close as two brothers, did you ever have a fight with Elvis? Red West: Never. Never. Like I just said, his mother said take care of him, don’t hurt him. There were three times that I came very close, but he would’ve had to almost pull a gun or a knife on me before I would hit him. No, I would do that. (Right;Elvis & Red training in Germany) Todd: Did Elvis have anyone to confide in other than those who were on the payroll or depended on him financially? Red West: No. Todd: When you wrote the book discrediting Elvis and he died a few weeks later, did you feel any responsibility for his death? Red West: No, I did not feel any responsibility because Elvis was dead once before but we found him just in time. I knew it was coming and that was one of the main reasons I wrote the book because, like I said earlier, I tried to stop what was going on while I was with him and that didn’t work. So we wrote this book to just put right in his face what was going on and it still didn’t do any good, but it was a coincidence, I grant you that, but I know what kind of shape he was in. Fans unfortunately didn’t know what kind of shape he was in. I knew and everybody that was with him knew if we hadn’t been there a couple of times before he would have been gone. And we were trying to open up his eyes and, like you said, there was no place to put him and we couldn’t put him into hospital, the only person who could put him there was his father and that didn’t happen. So he was just kinda out there, helpless.
Biophotonic studies have photographed the effective light balancing in the meridian system by traditional acupuncture techniques, recording rhythmic fluctuations in human photon field intensity that directly correspond to the sacred Mayan calendar cycles of 14 days, 1 month, 3 months and 9 months -according to the influence of planetary cycles. Integration of the tenets of ancient wisdom with the latest findings of biophysics allows mastery of atomic transmutation and a renewed awareness of the light-storing capacity of DNA as nonlinear standing waves form within nucleotide bases, now recognized as an 'exciplex' laser array located both in the cell nucleus and circulating throughout the qi meridian system.
Growing up in Trondheim, a small seaside city in Norway, Mikkel Eriksen was nuts for American R. & B. and hip-hop, but there was no Norwegian urban-music scene. He made hip-hop drum loops on his Commodore 64 computer, and he kept all his electronic gear under the bed—keyboard, tape machine, reverb, sequencer. “That was my whole life,” he told me, “buying gear, and playing in cover bands to make money to buy more gear.” One day in 1998, a friend said to him, “You should meet this guy Tor Hermansen—you are the only two guys who listen to urban music in Norway.” Hermansen’s parents divorced when he was five, and he lived with his father, who drove a backhoe for work. He wasn’t around when Tor came home from school, so Tor listened to lots of music, to pass the time. “I got hooked on American culture from movies—Steven Spielberg, ‘Grease,’ and ‘Beat Street,’ ” he said. “I was obsessed with the South Bronx, from songs like ‘The Message,’ without even knowing where it was.” He started writing stories and taking pictures for local newspapers when he was thirteen. He wrote frequently about music, and eventually got a job at Warner Bros. in Oslo, where he worked his way up to head of A. & R. Eriksen made an appointment with Hermansen and took along a demo of an artist he was working with. Hermansen didn’t like the artist, but he liked the backing track. “He said, ‘Did you make this music? It’s good,’ ” Eriksen recalled. Before long, Hermansen had quit his job and joined forces with the other half of Norway’s urban-music fan base. Their big break came when they met Tim Blacksmith and Danny D., a British management duo, who brought them to London to remix American urban hits for the European market and to produce U.K. acts. Their job was to add Euro-pop sweetness to the city grit. “The idea at the time was that urban music needed to have more sparkly, brighter choruses, and more of a lift, to work in Europe,” Eriksen said. He added, “Our experience with remixing really has helped us in the way we work today, because we know that if we have a good vocal we can strip out the music and replace it with other music.” Their dream was to be on the radio in the United States.
(There is a reason that myself, and others critical of the "evil Stalin" discourse, tend to champion the work of J. Arch Getty and those other liberal scholars of that period of the Soviet Union who, at least within academia, are now seen as the primary experts in this area. We have disagreements with Getty's theoretical understanding of things, because Getty and that group of scholars are not communists, but we think it is important to read serious historical scholarship that, while never praising Stalin and being quite critical, also shuts the door on so much of the unsubstantiated anti-communist "scholarship" that was quite often justified by appeals to conservative authors of fiction such as Solzhenitsyn and Koestler. )Outside of these obvious replications of reactionary history, the entire "Stalin betrayed the Russian Revolution" approach to history is, as I know I've suggested elsewhere, not a very historical materialist approach to history. History's momentum is not produced by the actions of "great individuals" but is rather the product of social classes, and though this movement sometimes throws individuals to the forefront of history this does not mean that these individuals are themselves the prime movers of historical conjunctures; rather, they are ciphers of other complex social forces. Even if I was to accept that the Soviet Union under Stalin was a "degenerated workers state" (which I don't, though I think it is a critique worth examining), I could not accept that this degenerated workers state was the product of Evil Stalin kicking out Good Trotsky and remain a historical materialist. Whatever problems existed in the Soviet Union under Stalin, that would be transformed into clearly revisionist problems under Khruschev, there is no way that these problems are reducible to a single man and I think it is doubtful that they would not exist had Trotsky won the line struggle and purged Stalin. After all, there really is nothing in Trotsky's theory or practice that proves otherwise.
ASUS today announced Echelon GTX 950, a limited-edition gaming graphics card with unstoppable performance, military-grade quality and reliability, and stunning arctic camouflage coloring on both the card and backplate. Powered by the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 graphics processing unit (GPU) - clocked at 1329MHz - Echelon GTX 950 delivers up to 10% faster performance than reference cards in the 3DMark 11 (Extreme) benchmark.Echelon GTX 950 features ASUS-exclusive DirectCU II cooling technology and a dual-ball-bearing fan for 20% cooler performance and a 4X-longer lifespan than reference cards. Industry-first Auto-Extreme fully automated production technology, TUF Components, and rigorous server-level testing ensure premium quality and military-grade reliability for tough, dependable service.Echelon GTX 950 comes with GPU Tweak II, an intuitive yet powerful overclocking tool designed to let users get maximum performance out of their graphics card. It also comes with a 14-day XSplit Gamecaster premium license, so gamers can easily stream or record their gameplay via a convenient, in-game overlay.Echelon GTX 950 is equipped with ASUS-exclusive DirectCU II cooling technology, which features flattened copper heatpipes that make direct contact with the GPU and have double the heat-dissipation area for 20% cooler and 3X-quieter performance. A dual-ball-bearing fan design eliminates the problem of oil drying that is common in sleeve-bearing fans, resulting in a 4X-longer fan lifespan. Additionally, the reduced friction of ball bearings allows the fan to run smoother, further improving card lifespan and cooling efficiency.Echelon GTX 950 is produced using ASUS-exclusive Auto-Extreme technology, an industry-first, 100% automated production process that incorporates premium materials to set a new standard of quality. Auto‑Extreme technology ensures consistent graphics card quality as well as improved performance and longevity. This new manufacturing process is also environmentally friendly, eliminating harsh chemicals and reducing power consumption by 50%.Echelon GTX 950 also incorporates military-grade TUF components to ensure incredible durability and high reliability. TUF capacitors last 2.5X longer than standard capacitors, strong alloy chokes manufactured using high-grade materials provide 13.6% better heat dissipation and unbeatable durability.In addition to being built with military-grade components, Echelon GTX 950 is subjected to extreme environment measurements, thermal-shock testing, and punishing burn-in tests with temperatures of up to 55°C for 48 hours at humidity levels as high as 90%. Echelon GTX 950 is also tested with over 1000 devices and goes through more than 7000 hours of strict validation.
“This is my free decision, and I urge all of you to follow me,” one young bomber, Muhammad Abu Hashem, said in a recorded testament before blowing himself up, in 1995, in retaliation for the assassination of Fathi Shiqaqi. The young man repeatedly watches the video of himself, as well as the videos of his predecessors. “These videos encourage him to confront death, not fear it,” one trainer told me. “He becomes intimately familiar with what he is about to do. Then he can greet death like an old friend.” Just before the bomber sets out on his final journey, he performs a ritual ablution, puts on clean clothes, and tries to attend at least one communal prayer at a mosque. He says the traditional Islamic prayer that is customary before battle, and he asks Allah to forgive his sins and to bless his mission. He puts a Koran in his left breast pocket, above the heart, and he straps the explosives around his waist or picks up a briefcase or a bag containing the bomb. The planner bids him farewell with the words “May Allah be with you, may Allah give you success so that you achieve Paradise.” The would-be martyr responds, “Inshallah, we will meet in Paradise.” Hours later, as he presses the detonator, he says, “Allahu akbar”—”Allah is great. All praise to Him.”
Top tool: a wrist watch. You will not be able to use your cell phone’s clock, so beg, borrow, but do not steal a watch, and set it to 12 o’clock. Calculate the time allowed for each question, and write the time on your exam sheet. After one hour (1 o’clock) on a 60-minute question, you must move on. Whatever small number of points that you might earn for writing 30 minutes beyond that allotted time will not make up for missing a question entirely. You get no points for questions that you skip. Read the questions. Read them again. Follow the instructions. If you are asked to write a memo to a client, do it. If you are hand-writing the exam and are instructed to write on every other line on every other page, do it. Whether writing or typing, know that a live person will read your answers. Make it as easy as possible for that person to give you points. Using IRAQ, outline your answers, and do not start to write before you think carefully. The late Earle Kyle IV, who graded seven rounds of bar exams, often advised University of Minnesota Law School students that bar exam graders can tell if you write without a plan because relevant issues surface after you have dissected red herrings. You may get points for something on your outline. Can’t remember the law? He suggesting discussing the facts. Telepathy is not a bar exam tool. Kyle advised students that their exams are graded against a grid. He noted that bar exam graders do not know what you know, and that test takers should write down everything. For a ConLaw question, write: “This is a Constitutional Law Question. [1 point] It involves state action [1 point].” Do not risk your career on this exam. Bar Exam Graders are the last stop on your road to becoming a lawyer and inappropriate answers calling your fitness into question will be referred to the Board of Law Examiners. Nothing in your answers should be funny, snide, nasty or obscene.
Once again, the best part of the game by far is the Nemesis System, a term coined for the way orc officers will respond to you and remember encounters you have. For example, you may defeat an orc in combat by lighting him on fire, and the next time you see him he will be scarred from the burns and terrified of any fire he sees. Another example, an orc may remember if you jumped over him in combat, so he will adapt and counter your attempts to jump over him in the future. The system was fantastic in the previous Middle-earth game, and is even better in Shadow of War by having more ways the orcs can react and adapt from your actions. The orc officers themselves have a fantastic variety of personalities and traits, ranging from ridiculous to bad ass. You can learn what strengths and weaknesses individual orcs have, and attack them with an orc from your army who will have an advantage over them. Additionally, orcs have levels and rarities, which should be considered when recruiting them to your forces. Orcs above Talion's level cannot be recruited, but can be publicly shamed to bring their level down and later controlled if you want them badly enough. "Epic" and "Legendary" orcs will have fewer weaknesses and more strengths, making them generally more valuable to have. A significant change to the orc control system is that orcs can now break free from your control and betray you. This isn't really explained in the game as to why they can now sometimes break free, but it creates some great gameplay moments. I had a bodyguard named Black-Blade, an epic orc who wore a hood and carried a sword gushing with shadowy dark magic. He would quickly dispatch any orc foolish enough to oppose me, and was generally a cool bodyguard to have. What was meant to be a pretty standard encounter against an orc Warchief turned into chaos when Black-Blade showed up unexpectedly and turned on me, killing me and becoming my new nemesis.
The South Dakota Supreme Court agreed a few years ago and they said, This gentleman refused to incriminate himself by breathing into that machine and it was reversible error for the prosecutor to comment upon that to the jury and tell them that he refused because he knew he was guilty. Now you're probably ahead of me, guessing the outcome here. It went to the United States Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court, in South Dakota v. Neville in 1983 said, There's a DUI exception to the Fifth Amendment. There is no right to refuse and the prosecution can comment freely in trial upon that refusal. And they sent it back to South Dakota. And. like Michigan, South Dakota said, If you folks in Washington, DC will not protect our citizens, we will rely upon our own state constitution, and they reversed it again based upon the South Dakota constitution's provisions against self-incrimination. Unfortunately, that's the last story I have of a state supreme court protecting of its own citizens. So, you decide you're going to breathe into that machine. And you do. You breathe into one end and out comes a piece of paper at the other end that says your blood alcohol concentration is .13%. Now, at this point, in most states, the police are supposed to give you a choice as to whether you want a blood sample taken and saved as well, so that you have something for your defense attorney to have examined for an independent analysis. This is called the Trombetta advisement. They don't give it usually. They're supposed to, but if they don't, no harm, no foul and so it is rarely done. It's called the Trombetta advisement because a few years ago, in 1984, a defendant in California said, Wait a minute, that machine captured my breath and minutes after analyzing it, just purged it into the room air. It could have saved the breath. [Very easy to do: costs about $4.50 per sample utilizing a special kit to preserve it.] It could have saved the breath and then my attorney could have had it analyzed by a separate laboratory by a more exact and reliable testing method. You have destroyed evidence that I could have analyzed and may have been proven my innocence.
There is a man, let's say his name is Sweet. He has been investigating the corporate government activities for over 12 years on a full time basis. Now, let's look at Sweet's recent case. He won his case. He went into court and defended his common law lien on his property so as to be compatible with statutory law. The judge said, "However, since you presented me with a lien on your property, I will stipulate that the county is the owner of your property with the provision that all liens be satisfied." Sweet was very happy about the judgment. Sweet doesn't care if the county is the owner of the property because the county can't take the property for the next 90 years. The county can't take the property away from him because of his common law lien on the property. Sweet is free to use it, rent it, whatever. If the county really wants the property, they have to satisfy the lien first. However, there is a problem regarding setting a precedent. Sweet went back a couple of weeks later and asked them to punch up his case number. Guess what? The case number had disappeared! The reason the case number had disappeared is that after the judge ruled the county owned the property, subject to the lien, it became a case that goes against the corporate county bankruptcy public policy. Since Sweet placed a lien on his own property, he is the one who has to be paid off first - not the county! The county is now required to satisfy the lien before the county is allowed to take possession of the property. The property is probably not worth the price of the lien. This would not satisfy the true creditors, the International Banksters. If the county pays Sweet off first, the city has to on their records a $75,000.00 deficit. The true creditors wouldn't like that deficit. They certainly wouldn't like the fact that Sweet's clever maneuver had out foxed the foxes. What if one hundred, two hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand, people in this state/republic would just put a common law lien on their property and then stopped paying taxes; then cited Sweet's case. It would set a precedent. Let the county have the property as long as the judge makes the judgment subject to existing liens.
This is straight out of a Bollywood blockbuster. The man who carried out one of the biggest gold heist in recent times in Hyderabad on Friday walked into a news channel's office to turn himself in.But why a news channel and not a police station? Because he had a message.According to a report published in The Times of India, 23-year-old G Kiran Kumar who stole more than 15 kg of gold from a Tanishq store in Hyderabad on Friday night said he did this to draw people's attention because he had a message for them.The report quotes Kumar as saying, "I am fed up with the way the system is functioning these days. Politicians are thieves who loot us for five years and I became a thief just for a night to show the world the growing inequality in the country. ""If given a chance, I can serve the society better than any politician," he told the newspaper.Kumar walked into a local television channel's office late on Sunday and told the receptionist that he was the one who had carried out the sensational heist.A wannabe pilot, eager to send a message on growing social inequality in India and widespread corruption, Kumar later took the police to his house in suburban Hyderabad and showed them the stolen gold kept there.Kumar told his interrogators that he along with his cousin had drilled a hole in the rear wall of the shop located in the busy Punjagutta area in the heart of the city. They entered through the hole and broke open the locked table counters and looted the gold ornaments and stones. To fox sniffer dogs from detecting their scent, they sprinkled chilli powder at the scene of offence, he said.Based on his confession, police recovered 528 gold bangles, 40 bracelets, 33 necklaces, 89 pendants, 58 ear studs, 98 rings, colour stones and emeralds, with a total worth of Rs 5.75 crore.
Do not get discouraged if in the early stages of your novitiate a you cannot successfully translate these basic principles into practice. And indeed reflect that when you are sufficiently skillful to do so, say, more often than not in practice or contest, with an opponent one degree below the Dan grade, you will already have qualified for the coveted Black Belt. Dogged patience and perseverance are just as important and necessary ingredients of your mental and moral make-up as are good health and strength of your purely physical equipment, for success in your study of this fascinating art. And the primary object of countless repetitions of your chosen throws is to render the response to your opponent’s every move virtually a reflex action. One other principle should be noted: unless in the very act of applying a throw, hold or lock, avoid tension and rigidity when grasping your opponent’s lapel and sleeve in any of the natural or self-defensive postures already described. To adopt a simile used by renowned teacher Sakujiro Yokoyama (pictured), your arms should serve as chains loosely connecting you with your antagonist or as an electric cable along which his impulses and contemplated moves may be conveyed to you at the moment of their inception. On the other hand, if you persist in keeping a strong grip on your opponent’s lapel and arms stiff, you will not only all the sooner tire yourself but owing to the cultivation of this bad habit, when you come to apply a throw, both your Tsukuri and Kake will lack the speed and suppleness essential to their success. This bad habit will also deprive your contemplated attack of the element of surprise which in its turn is indispensable to the successful execution of every Judo technique. If you’re always afraid of being thrown, especially in randori, and although perhaps you may, if ever on the defensive, prove a difficult man to throw, you can never hope by such tactics to develop into an efficient judoka with ability to throw the other fellow. In the early stages of your training it is almost inevitable that the bold essay of any new throw will expose you to the risk of a counter. Yet if you are wise you’ll make light of this risk and always go “full out” for every throw regardless of the consequences.
Since the Enlightenment, one mode of science has always been dominant, the top metaphor that educated people use to talk about experience. In most of the twentieth century, physics played the role of super-science, and physics is, by its nature, accommodating of God: the theories of physics are so cosmic that the language of physics can persist without actively insulting the language of faith. It’s all big stuff, way out there, or unbelievably tiny stuff, down here, and, either way, it’s strange and spooky. Einstein’s “God,” who does not play dice with the universe, is not really the theologian’s God, but he is close enough to be tolerated. With the great breakthroughs in understanding that followed the genomic revolution, evo-bio has become, insensibly, the model science, the one that so many of the pop books are about—and biology makes specific claims about people, and encounters much coarser religious objections. It’s significant that the New Atheism gathered around Richard Dawkins. The details of the new evolutionary theory are fairly irrelevant to the New Atheism (Lamarckian ideas of evolution could be accepted tomorrow, and not bring God back with them), but the two have become twinned in the Self-Making mind. Their perpetual invocation is a perpetual insult to Super-Naturalism, and to the right of faith to claim its truths.
“Will analysis, or revolution, or anything else dissolve this picture? Is understanding a goal in itself, or is understanding a byproduct? Do we want a closer rapport between artist and collectivity, or do we want an increasing tension? Do we want art to become more communicative, or do we want it to be more fecundating? Do we want every man to become an artist and thus eliminate art? Unconsciously I think that every great artist is trying with might and main to destroy art. By that I mean that he is desperately striving to break down this wall between himself and the rest of humanity. Not for the sake of the brotherhood of man, because at bottom he is tyrant (like Mohammed, Buddha, Christ, Tamerlane), but in the hope of debouching into some more quick and vivid realm of human experience. He is not struggling to isolate himself from his fellow-men, since it is his very isolation which drives him to create, but rather to emancipate himself from false relations with his fellow-men, from false relations with nature and with all the objects which surround him. Art is only one of the manifestations of the creative spirit. What every great artist is manifesting in his work is a desire to lead a richer life; his work itself is only a description, an intimation, as it were, of those possibilities. The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. Da Vinci, who troubles us more than any other artist, who left so much unfinished . . . fortunately! . . . has left us the symbol of this desire in that upraised index finger which speaks to us more laconically than the famous Mona Lisa smile. Da Vinci was the forerunner of those anatomists of the soul who are now moving into the foreground with megaphones and amplifiers.
Language barrier Maybe so. But it was lost with the second world war and the embracing of English as the lingua franca of science afterwards. In Grafe’s chapters on obesity, over 90% of the 235 references are from the German language literature. In Rony’s Obesity and Leanness, this is true for a third of the almost 600 references. But post-war, the German language references fall away quickly. In Obesity…, published in 1949 by two Mayo Clinic physicians—Edward Rynearson and Clifford Gastineau—only 14 of its 422 references are from the German language literature, compared with a dozen from Louis Newburgh alone. By the late 1960s and 1970s, when the next generation of textbooks were written, German language references were absent almost entirely, as were the clinical observations, experience, and intuitions that went with them. By then, obesity had evolved into an eating disorder, to be treated and studied by psychologists and psychiatrists, while laboratory researchers focused (as they still do) on identifying the physiological determinants of hunger, satiety, and appetite: why do we eat too much, rather than why do we store too much fat? Two entirely different questions. What makes this transition so jarring in retrospect is that it coincided with the identification of the hormone insulin in the early 1960s as the primary regulator of fat accumulation in fat cells.13 Had Falta’s ideas and the lipophilia hypothesis survived the second world war, this discovery would have served to bring these two hypotheses together. And because serum insulin levels are effectively driven by the carbohydrate content of the diet, this hypothesis would implicate refined, high glycaemic grains and sugars (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup, in particular) as the environmental triggers of obesity. They would be considered uniquely fattening, just as Falta had suggested, not because we overeat them—whatever that means—but because they trigger a hormonal response that drives the partitioning of the fuel consumed into storage as fat. This might have been perceived, although it was not, as a medical triumph: the elucidation of both the biological underpinnings of obesity as well as an explanation for what was until then the conventional wisdom on the cause. “Every woman knows that carbohydrate is fattening,” as Reginald Passmore and Yola Swindells wrote in the British Journal of Nutrition in 1963: “this is a piece of common knowledge, which few nutritionists would dispute.”14
Priyanka Chopra was born on 18 July 1982 in Jamshedpur, Bihar (now in Jharkhand), to Ashok and Madhu Chopra, both physicians in the Indian Army. [4][5] Her father was a Punjabi Hindu from Ambala. [6][7] Her mother, from Jharkhand, is the eldest daughter of the late Smt. Madhu Jyotsna Akhouri, a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly, and Dr. Manohar Kishan Akhouri, a former Congress veteran. [8][9] Her late maternal grandmother was a practicing Jacobite Syrian Christian originally named Mary John,[10] belonging to the Kavalappara family of Kumarakom, Kottayam district, Kerala before her marriage. [11][12][13][14][15][16] Chopra has a brother, Siddharth, who is seven years her junior[17] and actresses Parineeti Chopra, Meera Chopra and Mannara Chopra are her cousins. [18] Due to her parents' occupations the family relocated to a number of places in India, including Delhi, Chandigarh, Ambala, Ladakh, Lucknow, Bareilly, and Pune. [19] Among the schools she attended were La Martiniere Girls' School in Lucknow[20] and St. Maria Goretti College in Bareilly. [21][22] In an interview published in Daily News and Analysis, Chopra said that she did not mind travelling regularly and changing schools; she welcomed it as a new experience and a way to discover India's multicultural society. [23] Among the many places that she lived, Chopra has fond memories as a child of playing in the valleys of Leh, in the cold northwestern Indian desert region of Jammu and Kashmir. She has said, "I think I was in Class 4 when I was in Leh. My brother was just born. My dad was in the army and was posted there. I stayed in Leh for a year and my memories of that place are tremendous ... We were all army kids there. We weren't living in houses, we were in bunkers in the valley and there was a stupa right on top of a hill which used to overlook our valley. We used to race up to the top of the stupa". [24] She now considers Bareilly her home town, and maintains strong connections there. [25]
On the 28of July 2017 the South African Department of Home Affairs released The White Paper for South African Migration with the aim to improve the management, security and the entering and leaving of foreign and local nationals in South Africa. These proposed changes would not only affect foreign workers in South Africa but also South African workers abroad.A new points-based system is being proposed for migrants who hold skills, potential investments or have business interests in South Africa. This is being proposed because to date, South African has not been successful in attracting highly skilled foreigners. The proposed new scoring system will be based on factors such as qualifications, work experience, age, the amount of money the expat is able to invest, their business ability and their willingness to transfer their skills to South Africans. A more liberal and open approach is being proposed to entrepreneurs as the current approach, which requires a minimum investment of 5 million rand, is seen as being rather inflexible.The white paper proposes that there should be no link between the duration of having permanent residency and the right to apply for citizenship by naturalisation. The white paper recommends that an advisory panel is established for citizenship and that “the granting of citizenship to foreign nationals should be considered and being exceptional and requiring an executive decision of the Minister.The white paper proposed that the Permanent Residence Permit be entirely replaced by a long-term residence visa – in order to dispel the idea that immigrants have a constitutional right to advance and become citizens. Unlike the current Permanent Resident Visa, which once granted, cannot be lost – the new long-term resident visa will be reviewable.Although the white paper largely deals with migration to South Africa it does mention that South African citizens who intend to emigrate for a period longer than three months will be mandated to apply for registration as per the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) – a database that SARS will more than likely be very interested in. Some elements of this new white paper only require administrative action, others require legislative steps that will take at least one, if not two years.With over 15 000 customers in over 80 different countries, FinGlobal is regarded as the ‘go to’ company when it comes tounlock their wealth and achieve financial freedom abroad. To find out how we can assist you with your emigration contact us today.
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The very last sentence in this editorial, the same editorial, conveys to me the thought that not only is the menace recognized, but there is another criticism of lack of control; and I read this sentence: The two problems of greatest menace at the present time seem to be the rise in the use of Indian hemp, with inadequate control laws and the oversupply of narcotic drugs available in the Far East, which threatens to inundate the western world. Dr. Woodward: I think we shall agree that, based on Commissioner Anslinger's statement, that does seem to be the case. Mr. Vinson: Doctor, you have been appearing before committees of Congress on behalf of the American Medical Association for 15 years in your present status? Dr. Woodward: About 15 years. Mr. Vinson: And for several years before that; is that correct? Dr. Woodward: Back to 1892, seldom a year has passed that I have not appeared before one or more committees of Congress. Mr. Vinson: Would it be too much trouble for you to give us a statement of bills on which you have testified, representing the American Medical Association, and the stand that you took in regard to the pending legislation? Dr. Woodward: It would be certainly impossible to do that. Mr. Vinson: Let us take the last 15 years. What bills have you advocated the passage of in behalf of the American medical Association since 1922? Dr. Woodward: We have most vigorously advocated the passage of food and drug, medical device, and cosmetic legislation, and we are doing so now. Mr. Vinson: which one? Dr. Woodward: There are several. Mr. Vinson: There are several bills, and there are several groups of folks who are fighting your bill. Which bill are you supporting? Is it the administrative bill? Dr. Woodward: There are two administrative bills, so to speak. either one of them can be amended to make it an effective bill. I should say, if you want my own judgement, it is that the Copeland bill, in its present form, is the best bill that has yet reached Congress; and it is woefully ineffective, so far as it relates to drugs, therapeutic devices, and advertising. Mr. Vinson: What other legislation have you sponsored or favored? Dr. Woodward: I would have to go back and look through the record.
BILL ANALYSIS Ó SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Chair 2013-2014 Regular Session AB 2643 (Wieckowski) As Amended June 9, 2014 Hearing Date: June 17, 2014 Fiscal: Yes Urgency: No RD SUBJECT Invasion of Privacy: Distribution of Sexually Explicit Materials DESCRIPTION This bill would create, subject to certain exceptions, a new basis for civil liability for the non-consensual and intentional distribution of intimate images where the person in those images had a reasonable expectation of privacy, the defendant knew that the other person had a reasonable expectation that the material would remain private, and the person suffers either general damages or special damages, as specified. The bill would protect third parties from civil liability where the distributed material was previously distributed by another person, and would otherwise exempt defendants from civil liability in certain circumstances, such as where the person appearing in the material waived any reasonable expectation of privacy in the distributed material by making it accessible to the general public. The bill would authorize, in addition to any other relief available at law, equitable relief against the person in violation of this bill, including a temporary restraining order, or a preliminary or permanent injunction, as specified, and would provide for attorney's fees and costs for the prevailing party. BACKGROUND "Revenge porn" has received national attention in recent years, with legislation being proposed throughout the various states to address this unfortunate phenomenon. As described by the (more) AB 2643 (Wieckowski) Page 2 of ? National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), revenge porn is the posting of nude or sexually explicit photographs or videos of people online without their consent, even if the photograph itself was taken with consent. It can be as a result a spurned spouse, girlfriend, or boyfriend who seeks to get revenge by uploading photographs to websites, many of which are set up specifically for these kinds of photos or videos. (NCSL, State "Revenge Porn" Legislation (May 30, 2014) [as of Jun. 11, 2014].) It can also be as a result of the acts of a person who hacks into a personal computer and then releases the photographs or videos. The victim's name, address, and links to social media profiles are often included with the images, and some Web sites charge a fee to have the materials removed. Accordingly, last year, SB 255 (Cannella, Ch. 466, Stats.
Belarus With 17% of the land, small farmers produce: 87.5% of fruits and berries, 82% of potatoes, 80% of vegetables and 32% of eggs Botswana Small farms are 93% of all farmers, have less than 8% of the agricultural land, and produce: 100% of the country's groundnuts, 99% of its maize, 90% of the millet, 73% of beans and 25% of the sorghum Brazil 84% of farms are small and control 24% of the land, yet they produce: 87% of cassava, 69% of beans, 67% of goat milk, 59% of pork, 58% of cow milk, 50% of chickens, 46% of maize, 38% of coffee, 33.8% of rice and 30% of cattle Central America With 17% of the agricultural land, small farmers account for 50% of all agricultural production Chile In 1997, small farmers owned 6% of the land and produced: 51% of vegetables, 40% of field crops, 26% of industrial crops (sugar beet, sunflower, rapeseed), 23% of the fruits and vineyards, 22% of cereals and 10% of pastures Cuba With 27% of the land, small farmers produce: 98% of fruits, 95% of beans, 80% of maize, 75% of pork, 65% of vegetables, 55% of cow milk, 55% of cattle and 35% of rice Ecuador Almost 56% of farmers are small and have less than 3% of the land but produce: more than half of vegetables, 46% of maize, over a third of cereals, over a third of beans, 30% of potatoes and 8% of rice El Salvador With just 29% of the land, small farmers produce: 90% of beans, 84% of maize and 63% of rice, the three basic staple foods. Backyard farmers, with even smaller land areas, provide 51% of the country's pork, 20% of its poultry and most of its traditional fruits. Hungary Small farms control 19% of the land and obtain 25% of the agricultural sector's total standard gross margin Kazakhstan Just over 97% of farms are small and operate on 46% of the land, producing: 98% of fruits and berries, 97% of milk, 95% of potatoes, 94% of melons, 94% of vegetables, 90% of meat, 78% of sugar beet, 73% of sunflower, 51% of cereals and 42% of eggs Kenya With just 37% of the land, small farms produced 73% of agricultural output in 2004 Romania Family farms are 99% of all farms, and have 53% of the land, with an average of 1.95 ha/farm.
Headley was small-time narcotics dealer turned US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) informer who went rogue.In their closing arguments, US attorneys Daniel J Collins and Sarah E Streicker had sought between 30 and 35 years of imprisonment for Headley.His attorneys Robert David Seeder and John Thomas had sought a lighter sentence arguing he had given huge amount of information to the US government against terrorist organisations like LeT and several of its leaders.Headley has confessed that he had undertaken numerous scouting missions for his handlers in Pakistan. He had videographed a number of targets in India including the iconic Taj hotel in Mumbai which was attacked by 10 LeT terrorists.According to security agencies, the detailed videos made by Headley was the foundation on which the Mumbai attacks was planned and carried out.Headley, born to a Pakistani father and American mother, had even changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 to easily move in and out of India without raising suspicion.The US attorneys argued that while there is no question that Headley's criminal conduct was deplorable, his decision to cooperate, provided uniquely significant value to the US government's efforts to combat terrorism. "We are seeking less than life time sentencing, because of the significant intelligence value information provided by Headley. Crime is deplorable, shocking and horrific. "We have to recognise the significant value of the information. We believe that 30-35 years of imprisonment would be justified and balance and thus be downgraded from life sentence," Collins said.Former US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who appeared in court, urged leniency saying that Headley's decision to become an informant "saved lives."
However, while there may be a valid explanation for what happened, it is impossible to deny that there are questions that need to be asked of Alexandr Dolgopolov.Over the past 18 months, there have been a number of grand statements from the tennis authorities and the Tennis Integrity Unit about tackling the problem of fixing in tennis. If they are seriously about living up to those statements, then this is a match that they should be taking a very close look at. The TIU has said that it does not regard unusual betting patterns as an indication of corruption. However, to ignore them completely is to disregard one of the clearest indications of something amiss.
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From that point on, history was made and the school principal caught wind of this nefarious of acts, prompting its proliferation further up the food chain to the superintendent. Yes, these mindful folks in the Kermit School District are keenly aware of the fact that magic rings are not to be trifled with.As of now, the perpetrator of this most heinous of crimes, 9-year-old Aiden Steward, remains suspended from his school, where he now sits at home, prevented from conjuring malevolent magical curses upon his enemies. Thank you, Kermit School District, you’ve given America another valuable win.
Every tyrant worth his salt knows that you first have to deceive the peasants into wanting to be oppressed, but Obama has utterly failed to do that.5) A good tyrant looks like he's on the people's side, "fighting" for them. While Obama duped a lot of people into thinking that during the campaign, he seems to have all but dropped that charade since he got into power. The huge corporate and bank bailouts, the attempt to nationalize healthcare, the huge proposed tax increases, all make him look like the megalomaniac he is, with only the flimsiest facade of good intentions to try to hide it. A tyrant that does not appear as a savior and protector is not going to accomplish much. And the astounding number of firearm and ammunition purchases which occurred immediate after Obama's election give a pretty clear indication that a whole lot of people certainly don't see Obama as being on their "side. "6) A good tyrant knows how important it is to keep up the charade that he is representing "the people." Obama did a fairly good job of exploiting the anti-Bush sentiment, but then almost completely dropped the act once in power. By continuing much of the fascist agenda of the prior administration, such as continuing to lock people up indefinitely without charges, continuing to condone torture, continuing all of the other fascist garbage of the "Patriot Act," and not only continuing the military occupation of Iraq (after pretending to be morally opposed to it), but escalating the conflict in Afghanistan, Obama effectively slapped in the face all of the anti-war protestors (left and right) who thought he was on their side. He seems to be so short-sighted that he really thought that getting elected was all he had to do in order to get away with whatever collectivist oppression he wanted. A smart tyrant knows better.7) Making and breaking promises is not necessarily a bad thing for a tyrant to do, but it must be done carefully. When infringing on individual freedom, the successful tyrant will make up a really good excuse, and will pretend that it pains him to do so. On the other hand, when a control freak makes dramatic promises to get elected, and then immediately and casually ignores them, without even a half decent excuse, that clearly conveys his contempt for the very people that he is pretending to "represent."
Steinberg describes the philosophy Broadway sound today as much different than that of the past. “I came to the business at a time where there was still a lot of talk about how sound systems should be transparent, how you shouldn’t notice them,” he explains, “and the event should appear to be unamplified.” But shows like Hamilton can amplify sound to an extreme. Steinberg says audiences are aware that the sound system exists and will happily accept, and ultimately forget, that it’s there, because the experience is “so connected and so direct that that sort of veil of electronics and acoustics is no longer significant to them. And then they’re under our spell.” One particularly effective transition where jumping between extreme sound and extreme quiet has an effect on the audience comes between the numbers “The Reynolds Pamphlet” and “Burn.” In “The Reynolds Pamphlet,” which Steinberg describes as “out-and-out madness,” Alexander Hamilton admits to having an extended affair with a woman named Maria Reynolds, with the consent of her husband. The cacophony of sound produced by everyone reading the pamphlet and gossiping is only realized after it disappears. Hamilton’s wife Eliza, played by Phillipa Soo, is left devastated and alone singing “Burn,” with just a fraction of the musicians left accompanying her at a much lower dynamic. Much like a real fire, Steinberg says the transition "suck[s] the oxygen right out" of the room. Steinberg designed the sound system for both the Off-Broadway and Broadway runs of Hamilton. His past sound design credits include Hamilton writer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first, TONY-winning musical In The Heights, as well as TONY winners Avenue Q and Monty Python’s Spamalot, among others. He is responsible for choosing, setting up, and making sure every piece of equipment that will enable the Hamilton audience hear the show works, including but not limited to all 172 speakers in the Richard Rodgers Theatre, the wireless microphone every cast member wears (Miranda and co-star Leslie Odom Jr., who plays Hamilton's political rival Aaron Burr, each wear two for redundancy), the 61 inputs that feed the musicians’ output into the system, and all of the show’s pre-recorded sounds. Crystal's job is to help implement Steinberg’s vision. He also programs and wires many of the devices of the sound system, helps the running crew with any issues they may have, and provides ongoing support to the show. The pair met after Crystal moved to New York in the fall of 2007.
Without Vale’s chaotic skyline in the background, she could truly pay attention to every detail of her outburst.The anger, the bitterness and the self pity.The outrage, the sour sadness and the self-doubt.From every corner of her mind, from every fibre of her body, she could only reject the Valkyrie’s conclusion.--The sky was smeared in black.Epli watched as light left Vale. From the industrial district, street by street, the battlefield was plunged into darkness. An eerie silence fell as stomping mechs ceased to move. Weapons dependant on electricity shut down. But it meant little compared to the chilling cold that ran down her spine.In the darkness, she felt the grimm’s strength grow. Their snarls echoed through the streets, the ground cracked to their rapid growth. The negative energy that they fed on had been smeared across the sky.The expanse of black began to swirl. From the gaps in its coverage, brief rays of moonlight lit up the darkened battlefield. The power she sensed was not driven by despair nor fear. It was a display of power without an audience, a brash and ill-timed burst of anger. It left her confounded. On this scale, it was too early for meaningful analysis.At this point, she wouldn’t know what she’d fear more.At this point, she couldn’t afford to fear. From all around her, smears of black began to form. In alleyways, on the crumbling roads, the same viscous substance that dripped from Hydra began to flood the streets. From her vantage point, she saw the reflective sheen encroach and corrode its way into the commercial district’s heart. The distinctive stingers from Deathstalkers rose from the ground.Epli paused as the futility of her actions dawned on her. It wouldn’t matter if she knew how many Deathstalkers were in the distance. Their spawning was as relentless as the huntsmen’s killing. Prior to this point, for each grimm they killed, two more would spawn. Now…those two Grimm would have spawned before the first had been killed. Out from the black mud, the harrowing orange glow lit up Vale from every observable corner.On the street below, the prowling packs of grimm began reacting to the sudden change in atmosphere. Flinching and growling, their bony spinal armor further developed. Within the space of several seconds, the ground trembled to the sound of the grimm’s rapid evolution. The black of fur was all but covered now by large, bony plates of armor.
"4.Fitch Ratings warned that Gulf County's predominately rural economy is "narrowly focused," with income levels one-quarter below national averages and economic indicators for the county also comparing unfavorably to national averages.5.Harrisburg is at least $345 million in debt, thanks largely to municipal bonds it guaranteed in order to finance upgrades to its problematic waste-to-energy trash incinerator.Irvington has a violent crime rate six times higher than New Jersey's average, with Moody's citing "wealth indicators below state and national averages and tax-base and population declines due to increased tax appeals and foreclosures. "7.Jefferson County, home to the city of Birmingham, has been dealing with the collapse of refinancing for a sewer bond. It filed for bankruptcy protection in 2011 over a $3.14 billion sewer bond debt.8.Menasha defaulted on bonds in 2007 it had issued to fund a steam plant which has since closed and left the city permanently in the red and, as of 2011, had $16 million in general fund revenue, but had $43.4 million in outstanding debt.9.Newburgh was cited by Moody's for "tax base erosion and a weak socioeconomic profile," with 26 percent of its population below the poverty line and its school district facing a $2 million budget gap.10.Oakland is trying to get out of a Goldman Sachs-brokered interest rate swap that is costing it $4 million a year.
So, where does TPO tie in with the recent transfer success in Portuguese football? 3 of Porto’s 4 largest player sales (Hulk, Falcao, and Mangala) involved third parties which took home 30% or more of the transfer profits. It is worth noting that both Falcao and Mangala are clients of GestiFute. Danilo, the Brazilian right back who recently completed a £24m move to Real Madrid, was part owned by offshore intermediaries. Yacine Brahimi, who has been linked with a host of top clubs after an eye-catching 2014-2015 season, is another one of Doyen’s investments. European Even James Rodríguez, the other of the 4 sales, was only 100% owned by Porto as a result of them selling 45% of young prospect Diego Reyes’ economic rights to an investment group, who is now being followed by many big clubs. Benfica’s sales of Ángel Di María and Fábio Coentrão to Real Madrid, and Ramires to Chelsea, all involved Benfica receiving at most 80% of the total fee. The 2 former players’ deals were brokered by GestiFute, as both are clients of Jorge Mendes. Jorge Mendes’ success (excellently explained by the Guardian’s David Conn here) comes partly as a result of his networking with sports investment groups: he works together with groups such as Doyen, who own percentages of his clients’ economic rights, and uses this to find deals, perhaps sometimes against the player’s interests (see later). The Guardian’s investigation into the legitimacy of TPO describes Mendes as being “serially involved with Kenyon in advising on the third‑party ownership of economic rights in players”. Effectively, Mendes ‘advises’ players to move, perhaps sometimes against the player’s will, a ‘conflict of interest’ which is strictly illegal under FIFA jurisdiction. Mendes’ ability to manipulate such sales, and the domineering nature of TPO means that the Portuguese league loses its best players every year, and this is exactly where the paradox of Portuguese football is rooted: Portuguese clubs who are not in healthy financial situations (effectively all Portuguese clubs) can attract some of the best young talents, having been located through thorough and extensive scouting methods, with the help of a third party: the best of these players will offer the club 2 or maybe 3 seasons of top quality service before being sold to a European superclub, with the Portuguese club only receiving a fraction of the profit.
The industrial output has increased at an annual rate of seven percent, of course, not counting sugar. And the increase for 1963 and the estimates for 1964 show an even higher rate. For 1963, it amounted to ten percent, and the estimates for 1964 will even be higher and the sugar output will also increase. MISS HOWARD: Major Guevara, when you were fighting in the hills of the Sierra Maestra did you foresee that the revolution would take so radical a turn? MAJOR GUEVARA: Intuitively, I felt it. Of course, the course and the very violent development of the revolution couldn't be foreseen. Nor was the Marxist-Leninist formulation of the revolution foreseeable. That was the result of -a know it very well. We had a more or less vague idea of solving the problems which we clearly saw affected the peasants who fought with us, and the problems we saw in the lives of the workers. But it would be very long to recount the whole process of the transformation of our ideas. MISS HOWARD: There is a conviction in the United States that Major Guevara was one of the most radical influences in the revolution and that he pulled Dr. Castro to the left. What happened here was partially his blueprint. Does he accept or deny that? MAJOR GUEVARA: For a long time in the United States and in many other countries I have been given the honor of being considered the brain of the revolution, the cold mastermind, the leftist, the power behind the throne. Well, personally speaking I wouldn't be bothered about this, but my honesty as a revolutionary, my innate modesty and honesty force me to confess that the top leftist in Cuba is Fidel Castro and that the greatest danger to the United States in Cuba is the danger of Fidel, and not me. MISS HOWARD: In the hills of the Sierra Maestra, when Fidel Castro said he was not a Communist, did you believe that he was not a Communist and that he would not become a Communist? MAJOR GUEVARA: I knew he was not a Communist, but I believe that I also knew that he would become a Communist.
10. Presiding over this week’s deliberations as Guest Judge was Isaac Mizrahi, because what more sensible choice could there be in a week without a significant runway segment? On the other hand, his presence did bring out a playful side of Ru, as she mock-death-dropped for him whilst squawking Laganja style. And if mocking Laganja Estranja is wrong, then every second of this show that’s aired since Jinkx’s victory hasn’t wanted to be right. Max and Pearl and Pearl’s Redemption Arc were declared the winners, and Kennedy & Jaidynn’s pairing declared safe, but the rest of the judging happened individually, presumably because Mrs Kasha and Kandy were clearly the two weakest but partnered with two stronger performances, both Miss Fame and Violet having been saved by the opportunity to make cute acceptance speeches more than anything else. I do wonder if the queens thought about the strategic element of giving someone that sort of platform when they were voting. And also, if I’m honest, if Mrs K would have been nominated for anything at all if Most Busted Drag hadn’t been expanded out to four nominees (possibly for that exact reason). HAH LACK OF IMPACT! The lip-sync between Mrs Kasha and Kandy was if anything even more closely fought than last week’s, with Mrs Kasha giving a very high-energy performance right out the gate, albeit one that lost tightness towards the end, and Kandy taking time to get going but taking it to SlamTown right at the very end, but was met with less rabid discussion, because it involved two of the most under-edited queens rather than two of the most over-edited. Also because it was to Teena Marie (no offence Teena). Personally, I will miss Mrs K, but there’s only so much I can swim against in terms of her actually appearing on this tv show in any meaningful way. Sail on Mrs K. Sail on. Oh and for those of you keeping track of the insuRugency, Violet snotted back to RuPaul about the Internet existing now granddad when taken to task over spending too much time on her own in life reading fashion magazines and even more damningly…
There has not been an awful lot of movement at ABC. The network has yet to renew a single series, but between strong ratings and support amongst ABC brass Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Castle, Resurrection, Modern Family and Once Upon A Time are all considered locks for renewal. Of the network’s bubble shows, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. now looks set to swing a second season, largely thanks to the internal politics of Marvel within Disney. The Middle has been a fairly consistent player and is one ABC topper Paul Lee, who recently inked a new deal to stay on as President, is a big supporter of and as such is expected to return. The same is true of The Goldbergs, which has been an OK player on Tuesday nights. On the flip side of that, Trophy Wife wont be coming back. The series does enjoy support at ABC, but the ratings just aren’t good enough. Critical darling Nashville has had some soft ratings this season, but is still considered a shoo in for a pick up, as is Revenge, which is close to the numbers needed for syndication. On the comedy side, Last Man Standing is looking good for a renewal as one of the only comedies that has been able to draw a decent audience for ABC in the Friday night slot. Things are not as clear for Suburgatory. The comedy narrowly avoided cancellation last season and has struggled in the ratings, but sources suggest that it could swing another pick up. Friday night series The Neighbors is considered dead with no chance of coming back. The same is true of Mixology, a fact hinted at when some cast members started booking pilots. By all accounts Super Fun Night is also a goner, though there has been a suggestion of retooling the comedy for a second season. Meanwhile, Betrayal and Killer Women are both set to be officially cancelled, joining the likes of Back In The Game, Minds Games, Lucky 7, Once Upon A Time In Wonderland and The Assets.
"I was living in London and working late nights at a bar/club. The tube (the subway there) shuts down after a certain point and there are night buses that replace the train lines. New to the city, I was still a little unfamiliar with the night bus routes, so one night at about 4:30 a.m., I ended up hopping on the wrong one. Once the bus started veering off in an unfamiliar direction, I must've looked concerned enough that another passenger, a guy probably no older than 20 or so, had noticed. We made eye contact and I simply asked if this bus stopped at the stop I was looking for. He said no, at which point I asked the bus driver how to get home. He told me to get off at the next stop and transfer to another bus. OK. I get off, only to realize that the stranger I had spoken to moments earlier had gotten off too. No big deal. Until I noticed him to my side, also looking at the bus map I was reading to figure out how the hell to get home. I rationalized that this must've just been his stop as well, and he was simply trying to be nice and see that I knew how to find my way home (even though he didn't really say much to me, and sort of just nodded when I said I was going to be fine). I cross the street. He crosses the street. This is when I start to get a little creeped out. It's nearing 5 a.m., I'm in a desolate part of a still unfamiliar city, nothing is open, and a man who, though slender, could easily take me, is following me through the streets. I don't start to really panic until he GETS ON THE NEXT BUS WITH ME. At this point I'm a little afraid to approach him and tell him, no, it is not OK that you're following me home. I said nothing. Now it's so early in the morning that the tube is about to re-open soon, and I see a familiar tube station, so I quickly ask the bus driver of this second bus to let me off in between stops. The suspicious man ALSO GETS OFF, and this is when I completely lose it.
Conclusions Our results implicate TBK1 as an ALS gene, thereby providing insight into disease biology and suggesting possible directions for drug screening programs. We have also provided evidence that OPTN plays a broader role in ALS than previously recognized. Both TBK1 and OPTN are involved in autophagy, with TBK1 possibly playing a crucial role in autophagosome maturation as well as the clearance of pathological aggregates (31, 34). These observations highlight a critical role of autophagy and/or inflammation in disease predisposition. It is also noteworthy that many drugs have been developed that act on TBK1-mediated pathways owing to their role in tumor cell survival (47) and can therefore be used to investigate the effects of drug-dependent loss of function of the kinase. We also provide a large genetic data set for ALS, which suggests other possible ALS genes and provides a substantial collection of pathogenic variants across ALS genes (for genotype counts for all genes for all cases from this study, see alsdb.org). After removing the number of variants expected to be seen on the basis of frequencies of rare variants in controls, we identify more than 70 distinct pathogenic mutations across SOD1, OPTN, TARDBP, VCP, SPG11, and TBK1 that can be used in future efforts to functionally characterize the role of these ALS genes. The identification of TBK1 and the expanded role for OPTN as ALS genes reinforce the growing recognition of the central role of autophagy and neuroinflammation in the pathophysiology of ALS (Fig. 3). These pathways appear to be activated in response to the formation of various types of cellular inclusions, the most prominent of which appear to be ribonucleoprotein complexes; this has led to the proposal that the control of protein misfolding (proteostasis) or ribonucleoprotein/RNA misfolding (“ribostasis”) plays a key role in neurodegenerative diseases (37). Cellular ribonucleoprotein inclusions can be caused by mutations in low-complexity sequence domains or “prion” domains of RNA binding proteins (37, 48) and can be exacerbated by mutations that diminish the autophagy pathway. Remarkably, a hallmark of motor neuron pathology in >95% of sporadic and familial ALS patients is the formation of TARDBP inclusions, which suggests that defects in ribostasis are a common feature of the disease (5, 49).
If the curtains are opened (using a set of finely woven pulley ropes which lie inside the theater), the puppets – stored in a concealed compartment “backstage” – will come to life and perform elaborate shows of their own volition. 268. Pie bombs 269. Smart 50’ rope – obeys simple commands, animated like snake 270. A high quality sharpening stone 271. Potion 3: Phoenix Restorative. The next time the drinker is reduced to 0 hit points, they deal area fire damage, and return to full health, only happens once. The player has no special knowledge this is true, but the flavor of the draught burns their throat but leaves them feeling oddly optimistic. Fire damage dealt should be based on circumstance, but if you can get away with lots, it'd be the most fun. 272. A pickle 273. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (17gp) 274. Helm – cherubic infant embellishment, emits confusion spell at will 275. Knife vest – holds 1d12 knives! 276. ½ of jerked meat 277. A blood-soaked book; a partially written history about a long-lost keep on the borderlands. The last written page is done in a different hand, and is scrawled with “The rules have changed!” in large, bold letters. Roughly a third of the book (of 100 pages) has been used. (5gp) 278. Giant spider silk rope – sticks to most surfaces (including oiled gloves) 279. A set of wooden wind chimes which plays a different tune depending upon the direction of the wind which disturbs it. 280. A life sized copper statue of a fat cat with amber eyes. Purrs if stroked, does not detect as magic. 281. A bestiary! 282. A bright red hooded cape sized for a child, spattered with dried blood. (1gp) 283. The skeletal remains of a long-dead warrior, wearing a suit of plate armor which still glistens as if it had been polished yesterday. The name of every warrior to ever don the armor has been inscribed upon the front and back of the chest plate, covering nearly every inch of its surface with precisely written, black runes. A carful inspection of the armor will reveal that there remains room for one last name. 284. A large, boxed chess set. All the pieces are small, dead pixies somehow sealed within glass. 285. Bound Armor of the Demon/Fey/Lich/Whatever - Gives insane buffs, will eventually turn you into one of whatever it's namesake is. 286.
Inventorying greenhouse gas (GHG) balance associated to sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) based ethanol is critical to assess the degree of carbon (C) neutrality of biofuels. Few studies have considered the GHG emissions from sugarcane cultivation while taking direct land use change (dLUC) into account. This study was conducted to enhance scientific understanding of the GHG balance related to sugarcane cultivation while considering dynamics of all C pools (biomass and soil) upon conversion of diverse land uses into sugarcane during 2006–2011 in south-central Brazil. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of survey data and given that the sugarcane cultivation and dLUC can be credibly assessed by using remote sensing satellite images, estimations of GHG emissions were performed using the IPCC methodologies and expressed in terms of Tg CO 2 eq (Teragram=1012 g=1 million Mg) considering a 20-year time horizon. The overall accumulated GHG balance was 217.1 Tg CO 2 eq by 2030, with an emission of 481.6 Tg CO 2 eq from sugarcane cultivation being offset by a biomass C sink of −274.5 Tg CO 2 eq. Soils had an almost neutral C budget with a slight emission of 10.0 Tg CO 2 eq by 2030. Nevertheless, the ethanol C offset by displacing fossil fuels could readily payback that C deficit and ensures the environmental benefits of sugarcane ethanol. Our results show an increase of C reservoirs (biomass and soil) through conversion of arable and pastoral lands into sugarcane, and a decrease of C reservoirs when citrus, plantation forest and natural forest are converted to sugarcane. Here we support that the impact of dLUC on biomass and soil C pools must be considered while expanding sugarcane plantation as an important mechanism for GHG abatement beyond the avoided emissions through use of sugarcane ethanol.
Don’t tell me that progressively lifting heavier everyday isn’t the easiest and most effective way to get bigger and stronger! That’s what so dumb about the majority of programs. How the fuck is hitting a thousand different exercises with half-assed intensity going to get you bigger or stronger. Think logically and stop living in a fantasy world. Your 3 sets of lat pulldowns will not get you that Dorian Yate’s barn door back. Your 3 sets of dumbbell shrugs will not get you those Johnnie Jackson mountain traps. You know what will? Heavy-as-fuck rack pulls…800, 900, 1,000 lbs. Start with an inch of ROM…work your way down the power rack. “THAT’S STUPID! EVERYTHING I DO MUST BE FULL RANGE OF MOTION!”…Why?! Why the fuck is that necessary? So you can post it on instagram and not have the 14 year old novice lifters heckle you? Get the fuck out of that weak mind set. Lift with balls! And for fuck’s sake…stop trying to become strong with a million different exercises at once! That is, of course, unless you are indeed happy hitting 5 lb PRs every 3 months. Focus on 1, 2, or 3 movements at the very most. I guarantee your training will be much more fun and focused. When it stops being fun, ditch the movement and find a new one. Keep it simple. Keep it interesting.
The majority of units either belonged to the 8th Army or answered directly to the Leningrad Front. The total number of Soviet troops who initiated the offensive was 136,830. But yes, 'fit for combat' is the correct phrasing. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 09:30, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
NEW DELHI: In a move amounting to a virtual ban on unregulated trade of cattle, the Centre on Friday announced strict rules to prohibit sale of animals for slaughter or religious sacrifice at livestock markets and animal fairs that are a common occurrence in rural areas. The animals under purview are cows, bulls, bullocks, buffaloes, steers, heifers, calves and camels.The official reasoning is the order is intended to end uncontrolled and unregulated animal trade. The rules won’t apply to goats and sheep, often sacrificed during Id. Apart from the stated objective of curbing unregulated trade, mixing of milch animals with older, less healthy beasts meant for slaughter, the move has political overtones in tune withThe rules are in line with BJP’s emphasis on shutting down illegal slaughterhouses during the UP poll and the views expressed by senior leaders calling for the promotion of “cattle wealth” rather than the meat trade.Meat export organisations have protested the move saying it wasthat is already taking a hit over the actions of BJP governments that have discouraged the trade.Activists welcomed the step taken in the wake of Supreme Court’s directions for regulation of livestock markets. “We commend the ministry for their vision and their efforts to protect the most vulnerable animals, be it animals used as reproductive machines for breeding or animals that are cruelly sold off at unregulated markets," said Gauri Maulekhi, trustee at People for Animals (PFA).With the onus being on cattle owners to certify that cattle will not be sold for slaughter or sacrifice, the trade in animals will be more regulated, said officials.The rules will bring in new norms for the functioning of well-known livestock markets or annual cattle fairs like the ones at Sonepur (Bihar) and Pushkar (Rajasthan) or in other states including Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.Animals for slaughter can now be bought directly from farms — a move expected to ensure traceability and food safety standards and weed out middlemen between farmers and slaughterhouses, and increase the income of farmers who rear such animals for trade. New rules have, however, not banned sale of such animals for agriculture purposes or milk.
Not a problem as long as it's not a detrimental aspect to our team down the road it's going to be a calculated the risk. But what if it's if we think this guy's gonna get us over the hump and get us in the playoffs which is our stated goal why not make the deal. Other guys in this draft worth moving up from nine in your opinion. There are few there are few but again you just have to see how restrictive it is for you in the future with your team if you hearing and be given up a lot of draft choices. Maybe that's not the way to go might be better to move back and collect draft choices so it's a case by case basis. If you you know one of the positions hooked in with you guys -- all these mock -- his offensive tackle. -- Charlie can actually was on our station yesterday said it's possible the top three tackles -- all begun. Before you even pick at nine how confident are you one of those guys would be there or do you think that's possible that all be gone. Anything is possible these days and that and that's what makes a draft so fun entertaining I think its ultimate reality TV now exports but this draft process. But what will will be we are confident no matter how address the draft unfolds we will be ready to pick a good player. You have a short list of of players' positions is that what you think three guys five guys should you got to be prepared for any scenario and what kind of up short list losing your scenarios. Here's how we do we set it up as every name is on the board and myself. Jim owns Calvin Fisher coach and -- will sit down and say if all the players on the board who would retake first. So we pulled that name putting him first and then we'll go all the way down no let's say twenty picks so when it's draft day. Everybody thinks of frantic rate of just activity. Were calm cool collected 'cause we put the work in a more prepared and the names peel off and then the next name that's on the board when we time time for us to pick that's the guy we've already deemed worthy of the pick.
. The last time I checked the BGN database, whose purpose is to serve as a place names reference for communication with the general public, it indicates "Kiev (Conventional)", meaning there's specific common English language usage, while "Kyiv (Approved)" is secondary usage. As soon as BGN deletes this "Conventional" usage, that is, "Kiev" becomes secondary usage ("Variant" in BGN nomenclature), I support the rename. Anything else leads to contentious stalemates over whose Google search or "XYZ uses Kyiv" trumps whose. Oh, and accusations of "Ukrainophobia" do not belong in the dialog here. VєсrumЬа 14:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC) Object to rename. This is English language Wikipedia. The normal spelling of the name for the city in English is Kiev, and has been for a very long time. The Ukrainian Government has no power to change the English language. They can make rules for Ukrainian officials to follow - though they do not seem to have that much success at enforcing their rules on local government officials, who often use the normal English spelling of city names as well as the central government-preferred spellings on Ukrainian local government websites. If the Ukrainian Government cannot successfully impose their will on Ukrainian officials, why should we take any notice of their preferences? In any case, the Ukrainian Governments rule is based on a lack of understanding of the English language; an English-speaking Western European seeing the word "Kiev" will pronounce it much the same as a Ukrainian-language speaker from Ukraine pronounces "Київ".--Toddy1 (talk) 18:27, 19 November 2012 (UTC) Comment. Please be nice. Kyiv is possibly trending upward and may replace Kiev as most common one day (around 2030?). No harm in asking the question now and then. It is my understanding that for technical reasons an actual RM should be placed at Talk:Kiev as this one apparently was, and that all discussion should take place here, at Talk:Kiev/naming, and that after the RM is closed it should be moved here to keep all such discussions in one place. It is also my observation that should Kiev be moved to Kyiv, there will likely be far fewer editors wanting it to be moved back than are now wanting it moved (i.e. this discussion will likely go away). Apteva (talk) 06:18, 21 November 2012 (UTC) Moves are not done to be convenient, they are moved based upon a preponderance of the evidence that is based on Wikipedia policy.
The article quotes Judd again, insisting that men seeking children was a major problem in South Florida, but the actual evidence -- obtained by WTSP -- shows otherwise, with prosecutors quietly admitting that they haveactually showing that happening.But WTSP was only able to find this out via accessing court records -- and not via public information requests.Similarly, in a related report, WTSP quoted Judd blocking access to such records:That same article notes that of the 1,200 men arrested as "sexual predators," 97% have zero history of sexual crimes -- and further notes how the police have no problem continuing to shame even men who are cleared:That statement is fairly incredible, but it gives you some insight into the mindset of Judd and some others involved in these efforts. These people are guilty no matter what -- and they will do anything to get them arrested, and then even once they are cleared of any charges, the police will continue to treat them as guilty.None of this is to diminish the very horrific and tragic reality of situations that do involve actual sexual predators. Those people should be investigated and caught if possible. But what's happening in Florida doesn't seem to have anything to do with legitimately going after predators. Instead, it seems like a combination of entrapment, bogus online stings, high profile shaming of innocent people, stealing their property through asset seizure laws and then abusing public records laws to cover up the details.
The United States finds itself on the slippery slope that leads to the Third World, a Jackass forecast that has been presented since Lehman fell (better described as killed by JPM and GSax). The only apparent alternative is for the United States Govt to lease a large amount of gold bullion (like 10,000 tons) from China in order to properly launch a gold-backed currency. Doing so would open the gates for a generation of commercial colonization, but actual progress in returning capitalism to the United States. The cost would be supply shortages to the USEconomy, a result of enormous export increases to China. The colonization has already begun, with secret deals galore. As Ron Paul has stated, one cannot blame capitalism for the current failure, since we have had almost none! The Gold price will find its true value and price over $10,000 per ounce. The Silver price will find its true value and price over $300 per ounce. In reaching these levels, the ratio will return to the 30-1 range. Several steps have been laid out by the Hat Trick Letter toward the return of proper price to precious metals. The major upcoming events will be exciting to watch unfold, one after the other, in an inevitable sequence away from fascism and concentrated uni-polar power, with a strong movement toward freedom and equitable systems with distributed power. The steps will each involve a quantum jump in the Gold & Silver prices. The process will take a few years, but might be breath-taking in speed once the process is begun. The steps involve: the critical mass of rejected USTBills in trade settlement, citing its corrupt roots and illicit monetary policy as foundation
People who do encounter God find an overwhelmingly loving presence, and an overwhelming sense of peace.” The two things that stuck out as the most common descriptions within their experiences are two-fold. First, by far, God’s overwhelming loving nature; a close second is that people felt a unity, a oneness with God. Typically, they use the stronger language of unity or oneness, as opposed to the less strong words of connection or connectedness. That surprised the heck out of me because that’s not conventionally taught in American or in Western religion. For most of reported history, you could be murdered by the church of power for such thoughts. And yet here were people expressing that overwhelmingly, consistently, and very vividly. It certainly changed my view of God doing that research. I had a liberal Protestant upbringing, but this God is a God I would have more respect for than any God I was taught growing up.
Needless to say, when the thing burns through liquid like that, said liquid is not going to last very long. On the lowest setting, it lasted 3 days. I wasn't sad to see it run out; The rancid over-the-hill hooker smell actually made me nostalgic for the smell of my own excrement.Apple would have to be better. Afterall, who doesn't enjoy the smell of fresh fruit. I'm picturing maybe a nice waft of cinnamon apple pie greeting me at the door like a warm hug. What I got was far less pleasant. I open my door after the apple scent has had time to permeate every cubic inch of space (on the lowest setting, of course). I'm instantly bombarded by an olfactory assault, the likes of which I could barely fathom. This was not apple. This was was more like apple-juice thrice filtered through the failing kidneys of a starving third-world boy. It's rare that a fragrance makes me consider huffing bleach purely for the paralytic effect it is bound to have on my sense of smell. Needless to say, random-apple-flavour thing was even less successful than lady-of-the-night-circa-1920 thing. I've gone back to being awash in a sea of my own vaporous poo.Two lessons to be drawn from this:1) Hetero-friendly names would be a boon.2) Smells that aren't liable to drive people to suicide would be a step in the right direction.
Once a machine of a team has completed his countdown, that team wins.The Chrono Grenades are also part of all the other game modes in addition to the Time Shield and the Time Resistance power-up. While the Chrono Grenades come in the three flavors and slow down, forward or rewind time in the area of the blast. The Time Shield not only makes you immune to time manipulation but also slows down every foreign object in a specific area which is good for dodging enemy fire. The Time Resistance power-up grants immunity against all time effects for a short period of time.
The north Atlantic flight corridor is one of the busiest in the world, with more than 300 flights per day in each direction (Irvine et al., 2013). From the 21‐member ensemble of CAT indices, Williams and Joshi (2013) calculated a 10–40% increase in the median strength of CAT and a 40–170% increase in the frequency of occurrence of MOG CAT in this region, in the doubled‐CO 2 simulation compared to a preindustrial control run. This was the first study to calculate how climate change may impact CAT in the future. Williams (2017) subsequently extended the calculations to study the individual responses of light, moderate, and severe turbulence, finding large and significant increases in each case. The present paper builds on these previous studies by using a current‐generation climate model to calculate for the first time how the various strength categories of CAT are projected to change in different geographic regions across the globe, at multiple flight levels, and in all seasons. The methodology is stated in section 2, the results are presented in section 3, and the paper concludes with a discussion in section 4.
: This is the most common type of permit for film, television, and commercial productions. Productions may list specific locations where they wish to film. Standard film permit applications must be submitted at least five (5) business days prior to the scheduled prep/shoot date at that location. Productions must have required insurance in place prior to the scheduled activity. Depending on the complexity or sensitivity of the shoot, productions may also be required to have supervisory state personnel present on location during a shoot at $60 per hour (with a 4-hour minimum per day). Use of DLNR’s waterborne vessels for monitoring purposes will be charged a $60 per hour fee (with a 4-hour minimum per day). Most state locations are free to use for filming, but there are several exceptions: airports, harbors, and highways under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation are $100/day; small boat harbors, launch ramps, and beaches under the Department of Land and Natural Resources / Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation are $100/day; parks and beaches under the Department of Land and Natural Resources / Division of State Parks have a $100/day ; and locations that fall under the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands are at minimum, $1,000/day. DLNR Open/Accessible Sites Permits: This is the type of film permit that is necessary to request State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Open and Accessible sites for filming locations and only if the low-impact production meets specific criteria. This category also applies to former Annual Permit holders and is only for State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Open and Accessible sites, limited to these specific locations and for very minimal activity. This type of permit may be valid for up to a two-week period and can also be applied for online. It is important to note that this new online system will allow you to apply for your O/A locations for multiple two-week durations at one time, so long as your insurance is valid for the duration of the time you are requesting. The online $10 convenience fee would only be charged once for this type of extended transaction. Applicants must have the required insurance in place prior to applying. The DLNR Open/Accessible permit is for filming activity only; applicants are not allowed to solicit business or conduct any type of business transaction on location.
Medieval philosophy is defined by the tension between Christian "revelation" and Pagan "philosophy". It may be divided in three stages : fideist (IVth - XIth) : before the XIth century, science and philosophy serve theology (cf. Gerard of Czanad's "ancilla theologiae"), and "knowledge" is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Thanks to the Carolingian Renaissance (IXth century), the seven "artes liberales" (or pillars of wisdom) emerged : logic, grammar, rhetoric (trivium), and geometry, arithmetics, astronomy and music (quatrivium). These are contrasted with the "artes serviles", being directed to the satisfaction of a need. Because of political disintegration, the decay of monastic and ecclesiastical life, the degradation of the Papacy, and the attacks of the Norsemen in the ninth and tenth century, the fruit of this renaissance did not come to maturity. Of Greek philosophy, little was known. Part of one dialogue of Plato and only Aristotle's logic were attested. Neo-Platonism was studied through Augustine. Besides the Bible , an intellectual read the works of the fathers of the church. Philosophy was reduced to logic (dialectica). Education was meant to confirm the futility of independent, rational thought and to give a teaching rooted in fundamental theology. Dialectici as Anselm of Canterbury (1033 - 1109) tried to understand the contents of the revealed truths of scripture and to defend it against heretics ; philosophical (XIth - XIIIth) : in the West, about 1150, Latin translations of unknown Greek philosophical texts become available. Among them, the complete works of Aristotle, as well as the extensive writings of his influential Arab commentators, Avicenna (980 - 1037) & Averroes (1126 - 1198). Aristotelism caused a major crisis. These teachings formed a coherent whole, explained nature and articulated a vision of the world and of man contradicting the tenets of fundamental Christian theology (creationism contradicted the concept of an eternal world). From Padua to Paris, intellectuals debated, and although philosophical knowledge was deemed "according to reason" and not the absolute knowledge of revelation, radical thought slowly emerged. Perhaps reason could provide a comprehensive explanation ? Perhaps revelation could be set aside ! It would take three more centuries before intellectuals dared to openly reject fundamental theology. Meanwhile, Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) was first to address these new sources and harmonize them with Christianity. via moderna (XIVth - XVth) : with the assimilation of Aristotle, a new vision on reality and knowledge emerged.
As tensions rose and natives began retaliating for crimes committed against them, the settlers petitioned the U.S. Army for aid. In 1859 the 6th U.S. infantry led by Major Edward Johnson was called to Round Valley. [6] Major Johnson sent Lieutenant Edward Dillon ahead with 17 men to scout the area and assess the situation. Lieutenant Dillon reported back that the settlers misrepresented the situation. Instead of settlers falling prey to natives, the settlers had in fact already killed hundreds of natives, whose hostile actions had been taken out of revenge or in an effort to survive. The problem, he reported, went all the way up the chain to Supt. Henley, who had been involved in organizing many of these raiding parties. [15] In fact, Supt. Henley was in league with Judge Serranus C. Hastings (a former Iowa Supreme Court Justice), who helped him design plans for the removal of natives from the local territory. As part of their plan, they launched raiding parties and held town-hall style public gatherings where settlers aired their grievances, leading to increased racial prejudice and hatred towards the natives. [16] Judge Hastings was also involved in real estate and livestock trade, and in one instance, the natives stole Judge Hastings's $2,000 stallion in retaliation for the beatings they received at the hands of Judge Hastings's ranch manager, H.L. Hall. [17] Hall had been involved in many brutal assaults on natives. He complained to Lieutenant Dillon that the natives were stealing white supplies. Dillon urged Hall to let him handle the situation, but Hall ignored the command and took his own men raiding. By March 23, 1859, Hall and his men had killed about 240 natives. [15] Dillon reported that Hall did not distinguish between guilty natives or innocent ones, and that his murders of even women and children were unprovoked. [18] In fact, later on when Hall asked for soldiers at his property to protect his livestock, the soldiers refused to do anything to help him, since they were only ordered to defend a native onslaught, and they did not believe what was happening resembled a native attack. [19] The natives faced a choice of either starving to death on the reservations that provided them with no food, or venturing off into the mountainous regions of Mendocino County and risk slaughter by local settlers.
The editorial board endorsed a candidate who spent most of his allotted time acting like a sullen teenager enduring a family vacation and now it doesn't want anyone to see its anointed pick in all his disinterested "glory." That's pathetic.
One of America’s founding myths, of course, is that the simple act of leaving England and boldly starting new lives in the colonies had an equalizing effect on the colonists, swiftly narrowing the distance between indentured servant and merchant, landowner and clerk—all except the African slave. Nonsense, Isenberg says: “Independence did not magically erase the British class system.” A “ruthless class order” was enforced at Jamestown, where one woman returned from 10 months of Indian captivity to be told that she owed 150 pounds of tobacco to her dead husband’s former master and would have to work off the debt. The Puritans were likewise “obsessed with class rank”—membership in the Church and its core elect were elite privileges—not least because the early Massachusetts settlers included far more nonreligious riffraff than is generally realized. A version of the North Carolina constitution probably co-authored by John Locke was designed to “avoid erecting a numerous democracy.” It envisioned a nobility of landgraves and caciques (German for “princes” and Spanish for “chieftains”), along with a “court of heraldry” to oversee marriages and make sure they preserved pedigree. For England, the New World was a place to dispose of the dregs of its own society. Class distinctions were maintained above all in the apportionment of land. In Virginia in 1700, indentured servants had virtually no chance to own any, and by 1770, less than 10 percent of white Virginians had claim to more than half the land. In 1729 in North Carolina, a colony with 36,000 people, there were only 3,281 listed grants, and 309 grantees owned nearly half the land. “Land was the principal source of wealth, and those without any had little chance to escape servitude,” Isenberg writes. “It was the stigma of landlessness that would leave its mark on white trash from this day forward.” This was not just a Southern dynamic. The American usage of squatter traces to New England, where many of the nonelect—later called “swamp Yankees”—carved out homes on others’ land only to be chased off and have their houses burned.
FreeOrion v0.4.3 has been released.This is the version of FreeOrion you should choose if just want to play, and don't care about participating in game development or getting the latest development version with new features but potentially more bugs.FreeOrion is still very much in the middle of development. There are still major features to be added, and much work left to be done. However, we think the project has reached the point where most 4X players will get some enjoyment out of it, not only those interested in game development. Follow FreeOrion on Twitter if you want to receive related news, especially announcements of releases.since v0.4.2 February 2013.~ Fundamental change to ship shield mechanics: ship shields reduce the amount of damage suffered from a hit by a fixed value (determined by the shield strength stat), instead of providing additional structure that regenerates between battles~ Reworked supply block / fleet movement blockade mechanics~ ~ Supply blocks and fleet movement blockades have been harmonized to occur in the same situations~ ~ Non-stationary ships no longer create blockades / supply-blocks~ ~ Armed aggressive fleets arriving in a system and then remaining stationary will maintain any supply flow for their empire, and block it against enemies not already having armed aggressive fleets present.~ ~ If armed aggressive fleets for two enemy empires arrive at a system at the same time, supply maintenance takes precedence over supply blocks -- they will each maintain supply for for their empire, and not block supply for the other, for so long as both sides remain and survive.~ ~ An empire 'secures' use of a starlane as an exit from a system simply by having a fleet enter that system along that starlane.
He said he uses three-quarters of his annual allotment most years. Still, he has worries. “I think we could hold on one more year,” Keith said. “If it happens another year, no one will be in business.”
Archaeological Museum Naples Although he is best known today as the Carnival diety, Bacchus, the god of wine, his role as Lord of Souls and the god who brings us into balance with the culture's Apollonian affinity continues to act as inspiration and guide to new generations. At his most popular in Greece, his worship inspired cults with dancing maenad women; the mask, theater as we know it today; the worship of the vulnerable child; the altered state of being outside yourself through wild joy or elixirs; the somber madness and depths of silence; the vine and juices of nature; and the God's special relation with women, especially his sole wife Ariadne. Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences. In the Thracian mysteries, he wears the "bassaris" or fox-skin, symbolizing new life. His own rites, the Dionysian Mysteries were the most enigmatic of all, yet compelling enough that the Christian church included it in the sacrament of the Eucharist. Dionysus, the god of vine-growing and wine-making, was son of Zeus and Semele, daughter of the Theban king Cadmus. Following the advice of the jealous Hera, Semele asked her lover to appear in his majesty. The supreme god of Olympus appeared before the princess surrounded with glittering lightnings. Semele, caught by the fire, gave birth to a son and died. Zeus put the baby into his hip where he grew and got stronger before he was born once again. Hermes, the messenger of gods, took the baby to nymphs to be brought up. When Dionysus grew older he traveled round the Earth, granting vines to people and teaching them vine-growing. On the island Naxos Dionysus met his beloved Ariadne, daughter of the king of Crete, deserted by Theseus. She became the wife of the god and his priestess. Dionysus's old wise teacher Silenus and the goatlike Pan, the patron of forests and pastures, were his inseparable companions. In the suite of Dionysus were also satyrs and maenads snow leopards, tigers, panthers and goats.
The four computational regressors were entered into a general linear model together with regressors of no interest representing the main effect of task (events as above, but with an equal magnitude on all trials) and head motion. The reported group-level statistical maps were thresholded at p<0.05 corrected for multiple comparisons at the whole brain level using cluster-based False Discovery Rate correction (see Methods)—this resulted in a minimum cluster size of 238 contiguous 2 mm3 voxels at a cluster-forming threshold of p<0.01 uncorrected. Additionally, we limit reporting of activations in the main text to only those clusters with a peak Z-score greater than 3.1 (p<0.001 uncorrected). However, a full table of activations is given in Table S2.
Pittsburgh has an issue with forward depth. Each year it seems as though they have to make deadline deal trades in order to shore up this area of concern. This diminishes the organization’s ability to draft their own players because they never seem to have enough picks.The draft is a crap shoot and a lot of times finding players who succeed is very random in the later rounds. However, you can’t get lucky if you don’t have a high volume of draft picks.The only way to combat this problem is to do a great job shopping for free agents while not breaking the bank. This allows you to hang on to your draft picks.There are players that exist who provide both competent play and value. Mason Raymond is an example from 2013-14 and in 2014-15 you have guys like Daniel Winnik and Blake Comeau who outperformed their price tag.Who is a prime candidate that can bring both value and production for 2015-16? Patrick Eaves.Over the course of his career his has never made over 2.0M per season despite being worth at least that for the majority of his career:Here is his HERO chart from 2012 to the presentWhen you are looking to fill out bottom six forward depth you know that players won’t be offensive juggernauts. If they were they would be playing in a top six role making top six money. Because of this you need to find depth forwards who can do other things successfully when not scoring. Patrick Eaves provides this. He plays at a second line level for both shot generation as well as shot suppression. In other words the puck is in the other team’s end more times than not which is exactly what you want from a depth player. He also generates his own shots at a high level. As far as tangible offense goes he falls in line with that of an average third line player.One area where bottom six players get their notoriety is being a “PK specialist”. Most times this moniker is only earned because of the time on ice a player receives on the penalty kill rather than their actual ability to kill penalties. Patrick Eaves could be considered a player that actually excels at killing penalties. Here are the shot suppression statistics from the past four seasons (2011-15) in 4v5 game states.
Batman states in his book that almost all of the Yezidis in their native land have been forcefully assimilated. There are today mosques and classes on the Koran in once-Yezidi villages.Batman stresses that the Turkish state, local Sunni Muslims, and Islamized Yezidis all applied enormous pressure on Yezidis who try to maintain their beliefs and culture.The book, published in 2014, details the varied social, religious, and economic pressures Yezidis were subjected to.For example, “when a Yezidi brought a few sacks of wheat and a donkey to a mill, they immediately asked him where he was from. When he said ‘I am from Mishacerk’ [a Yezidi village], they said ‘You are a Yezidi. Why don’t you convert to Islam?’ Then they poured his sack to the ground. Meanwhile, his donkey ran away. Then they also beat him. So the Yezidi would not only lose the wheat with which he would feed himself, but also lose his donkey.”Batman conducted many interviews and heard stories of Yezidis being threatened with death if they did not convert, Muslims refusing to do trade with Yezidis, calling them ‘haram,’ meaning forbidden.Yezidis were also targeted alongside Christians during the 1915 Armenian genocide. According to Batman, there was a slogan common during the genocide, “Those who kill 7 Armenians will go to heaven”. The version “Those who kill 7 Yezidis will go to heaven,” was also used.After the end of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923, also made varied efforts to Islamize the Yezidis. Batman writes that the Turkish state changed the names of Yezidi villages to give them Turkish names, registered Yezidis as “members of an unknown religion,” and destroyed Yezidi temples and defaced Yezidi graves.According to Batman, Yezidis lay their dead in graves on their backs facing the sun. But many Yezidi graves were opened, and the dead bodies were placed again according to Islamic rules – this time facing the Qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.A 30-year old man from Diyarbakir, Turkey, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the author, “There were few Yezidis left in the village of Mishacek that I knew. But they pretended to be Muslim because they were scared. And when they died, they were buried according to Islamic faith. Can you imagine that? Even though you are not Muslim, your burial ceremony is held in a mosque.
Artanis went AFK within the first ten seconds, disconnected and never returned. Our “bot” Artanis died throughout with our Jaina then going AFK. Our Abathur went AFK (for real) from the start because he didn’t get to play Li Ming (someone on our team banned her). Diablo refused to help the team and instead stayed in the top lane for the entire match (on Dragonshire). He wouldn’t ever venture anywhere else, resulting in him constantly being ganked. Our “Tank” player chose Chen when the enemy team had drafted Muradin and Uther. He also proceeded to 1 v 5 the enemy team at every opportunity, dying repeatedly as often as possible. Our Illidan died 15 times by 1 v 5ing the enemy team, repeatedly. He achieved 15 deaths before 15 minutes had even passed in the game. Needless to say we never had him once during any team fight. Lunara went AFK after 3 minutes and then dropped connection. She preceded to be a free kill for the enemy team during every objective fight (Infernal Shrine). It also didn’t help that our Chen was also AFK. Our Kael’thas alongside three of our team decided to walk into melee range of the enemy Punisher and die instantly (despite all 4 being ranged). The enemy team pushed onto Core within 15 seconds and won the match even though we were winning throughout. Our Nazeebo refused to leave the bottom lane, despite the map being Cursed Hollow. Asked why, he said he didn’t know what else to do (he was Rank 10). Our Lili refused to do anything other than stay in her lane. No matter the objective (Cursed Hollow again) she would do nothing but lane. Fighting over a Curse doesn’t tend to go well 4 v 5 without a healer. Our Greymane wouldn’t ever transform into Worgen form (I seem to encounter this a lot lately) and simply spent the entire match firing his pistol.
As I hung back and attempted to soothe him he grew more violent, saying: “Come now—do not wait until later; it is better to repent and be forgiven than to defy and be condemned.” Then I tried the opposite of the soothing plan, and told him he was mad—pitifully demented. But he was unmoved, and cried: “If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! Come and be mad whilststill calls with mercy!”This outburst seemed to relieve a pressure in his brain; for as he finished he grew much milder, asking me to let him depart alone if I would not accompany him. My course at once became clear. He was a German, but only a Rhinelander and a commoner; and he was now a potentially dangerous madman. By complying with his suicidal request I could immediately free myself from one who was no longer a companion but a menace. I asked him to give me the ivory image before he went, but this request brought from him such uncanny laughter that I did not repeat it. Then I asked him if he wished to leave any keepsake or lock of hair for his family in Germany in case I should be rescued, but again he gave me that strange laugh. So as he climbed the ladder I went to the levers, and allowing proper time-intervals operated the machinery which sent him to his death. After I saw that he was no longer in the boat I threw the searchlight around the water in an effort to obtain a last glimpse of him; since I wished to ascertain whether the water-pressure would flatten him as it theoretically should, or whether the body would be unaffected, like those extraordinary dolphins. I did not, however, succeed in finding my late companion, for the dolphins were massed thickly and obscuringly about the conning tower.That evening I regretted that I had not taken the ivory image surreptitiously from poor Klenze’s pocket as he left, for the memory of it fascinated me. I could not forget the youthful, beautiful head with its leafy crown, though I am not by nature an artist. I was also sorry that I had no one with whom to converse. Klenze, though not my mental equal, was much better than no one.
The GOP’s path to victory would be to adopt the approach already used by two states, Maine and Nebraska, in which the party that wins the state’s popular vote wins two Electoral College votes (associated with the two Senators), but the candidate who wins in each congressional district wins one Electoral College vote for his party. The two states where I recommend the Republicans move quickly before 2016 are Michigan (16 Electoral College votes) and Wisconsin (10 Electoral College votes). Michigan was competitive in 2000 and 2004, but Obama won the state easily both times he ran (9.5% in 2012, and 16.44% in 2008). Wisconsin was almost a tie in both 2000 and 2004, but was a very strong state for Obama, and even with Paul Ryan on the ticket, Obama won in 2012 by 6.94% (and by 13.91% in 2008). Assuming the Republican nominee for President lost both states, but won the same Congressional districts now held by Republican Congressmen, the GOP would pick up 5 Electoral College votes in Wisconsin, and 9 in Michigan, for a total of 14. Some might argue that if Scott Walker is the GOP nominee, then he will win the state’s 10 Electoral College votes under the current system. Hillary Clinton ran poorly against Obama in the Democratic primary in 2008, and Walker has won a series of statewide votes for Governor and in the recall. I would counter that Walker is not the certain nominee, and even he is hardly a lock to win the state. Every other Republican candidate would start out as an underdog in the state. For all the other possible candidates other than Walker, there are states that they would likely win before Wisconsin might fall into their column (Colorado, New Hampshire, and Iowa). In other words, they probably do not need to win in Wisconsin to win, but the Electoral College votes they might get from a shift in the state’s method of awarding Electoral College votes would be a bonus, improving their chances if they lost Iowa, New Hampshire and Colorado. Assume Walker were the nominee and won the state under the new system. He would likely claim 7 of the 10 Electoral College votes, a penalty of but 3. On the other hand, any Republican nominee would have a decent shot at picking up 5 while losing the state. Michigan seems a no-brainer.
The structures of various flaviviruses alone and in complex with neutralizing antibodies (33) or cellular receptors (31) have been reported previously. These structures have demonstrated multiple mechanisms of antibody neutralization and receptor interactions. Carbohydrate moieties on the virus may be used for cell attachment and probably play a role in disease severity. For DENV, glycosylation at Asn67 on the E protein is an attachment site for several cell types that have been shown to be relevant targets of infection in vivo (31, 32). Similarly, glycosylation at Asn154 in WNV has been linked to neurotropism (34). These observations demonstrate the importance of glycosylation for the attachment of flaviviruses to cells. The carbohydrate densities for ZIKV and DENV2 are not coincident, and the conformation of their surrounding residues is different (Fig. 3). This region varies not only among ZIKV strains (35) but also in other flaviviruses, which suggests that differences in this region influence local virus structure and possibly dynamics (Fig. 3D). In part, this difference is because of an insertion of five residues in ZIKV relative to DENV (Fig. 3A), reflecting a highly variable region of the E protein. The glycan at E residue 154 is located on a loop that is adjacent to the fusion peptide in the neighboring E protein and may control solvent access to the fusion loop. The conserved fusion loop and the neighboring region is an epitope for numerous cross-reactive antibodies that vary considerably in potency and sensitivity to the presence of uncleaved prM on the virion (36). The differences discussed here may modulate the sensitivity of ZIKV to antibodies that bind the fusion loop epitopes. Furthermore, this region may also be important for attachment to cellular lectin receptors. The differences shown here in E protein structure among ZIKV and other flaviviruses may govern cellular tropism and contribute to disease outcomes.
Fire insurance wouldn’t work if people paid for it only when their house was on fire, and health insurance wouldn’t work if people bought it only when they needed it. He was no longer interested in repealing protections for people like him. In this, he was like a lot of others. In 2013, before the implementation of the A.C.A., Americans were asked whether it was the government’s responsibility to make sure that everyone had health-care coverage, and fifty-six per cent said no. Four years after implementation, sixty per cent say yes. “But that doesn’t mean I have to sign on for full-blown socialism—cradle-to-grave everything,” Mark said. “It’s a balance.” Our willingness to trust in efforts like health reform can be built on experience, as happened with Mark, though we must recognize how tenuous that trust remains. Two sets of values are in tension. We want to reward work, ingenuity, self-reliance. And we want to protect the weak and the vulnerable—not least because, over time, we all become the weak and vulnerable, unable to get by without the help of others. Finding the balance is not a matter of achieving policy perfection; whatever program we devise, some people will put in more and some will take out more. Progress ultimately depends on whether we can build and sustain the belief that collective action genuinely results in collective benefit. No policy will be possible otherwise.
Shorter telomeres may result from excessive attrition due to decreased telomerase activity. Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein consisting of a catalytic subunit with reverse transcriptase activity (TERT) and an RNA subunit (TERC) that serves as a template for DNA synthesis. TERT expression is stringently regulated and of the several splicing forms the full-length mRNA correlates positively with telomerase activity (Kaneko et al., 2006; Bollmann, 2013). Telomerase counteracts the telomere shortening by adding TTAGGG repeats to the chromosome ends (Blackburn and Collins, 2011). In addition to maintaining TL, telomerase is involved in other biological activities, most prominent being mitochondria protection from oxidative stress, DNA repair, antiapoptosis, stimulation of cell proliferation, and stem cell activation (Bollmann, 2008; Cong and Shay, 2008). In the adult rodent and human brains, telomerase is expressed mainly in regions where adult neurogenesis occurs, such as the subgranular zone of the hippocampus (Hermann et al., 2006). TERT also plays important roles in neuroprotection (Fu et al., 2000; Wolf et al., 2011; Li et al., 2013), and it was recently shown that disruption of the telomerase activity in mouse hippocampus led to depression-like behavior, which could be rescued by the antidepressant fluoxetine and by Tert-expressing viral vector injection, coupled with the upregulation of telomerase activity (Zhou et al., 2011). In a small open-label study of 16 depressed outpatients treated with sertraline for 8 weeks, there was no overall effect of treatment on telomerase activity. However, those with both low pretreatment telomerase activity and large increase in leukocyte telomerase activity exhibited the largest response to treatment (Wolkowitz et al., 2012). Lithium was previously shown to inhibit glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) (Pasquali et al., 2010), which results in retention of β-catenin (Gould et al., 2004). Lithium-induced upregulation of β-catenin was shown to upregulate hTERT transcription in cancer cell lines (Zhang et al., 2012). Lithium has also been reported to promote expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) which, in turn, enhanced Tert expression (Fu et al., 2002).
The fact that a significant portion of Korea's professionals study abroad, usually in the United States, further reinforces this trend.So for example, in case of an open-heart surgery, Korean surgeons communicate with each other in the surgery room using almost entirely English and Latin phrases--the same phrases that are found in American medical school textbooks. The same trend holds with airline pilots, only more so. Recall that airline pilots must communicate with the local airport in English. This means that it is a part of Korean airline pilots' job description to be proficient in English. As a result, Korea's pilots conduct most of their business in English, even with each other.Take a look at p. 204 of the report, which shows the point at which the pilots initiate their landing check sequence, thinking that they must be near the airport. For the next five pages--which ends with the moment of the crash--the pilots are communicating almost entirely in English. At p. 206, for example:This is the entire page of the transcript. It has one Korean phrase. There is no room for all the peculiarities of Korean language that Gladwell dutifully recounts. There are no honorifics, no indirect, suggestive speech. Just a series of regular English phrases that any airline pilot from any country may utter as he prepares to land.Gladwell explains that the new COO of Korean Air, David Greenberg (a former Delta Air Lines executive,) solved all the difficulties caused by the ambiguous Korean language by requiring the pilots to speak only in English. Gladwell writes: "In English, [the pilots] would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy . . . Instead, the pilots could participate in a culture and language with a very different legacy. "But Gladwell never reveals that Korean Air pilots were already speaking mostly in English, although that fact was absolutely plain from the transcript.
Helsingin kaupungin siivoojat ja vartijat voivat joutua reiluun palkanalennukseen, jos kaupungin Palmia-liikelaitos pilkotaan.Helsingin kaupunki suunnittelee Palmian siivouksen, vartioinnin ja kiinteistöhuollon yhtiöittämistä. Syntyvä yhtiö voi siirtyä noudattamaan Palvelualojen ammattiliitto PAMin työehtosopimusta, kun nykyisin liikelaitoksen työntekijät kuuluvat Julkisten ja hyvinvointialojen liitto JHL:n työehtosopimukseen.Kaupunginhallitus jätti asiankäsittelyn eilen pöydälle. JHL:n järjestämä metro- ja raitiovaunutyönseisaus on tänään vaikeuttanut Helsingin liikennettä. Myös osa Helsingin päiväkodeista oli tänään suljettuna mielenilmauksen takia.Palmian pilkkominen voi laskea uuden yhtiön työntekijöiden peruspalkkoja ainakin viisi prosenttia, jos uusi yhtiö vaihtaa JHL:n työehtosopimuksesta PAMin kiinteistöpalvelualan työehtosopimukseen.Näin arvioi konsulttiyhtiö NAG Strategy & Transactions kaupungin päättäjille tekemässään selvityksessä. Arvio perustuu rajalliseen määrään eri ammattinimikkeitä ja palkkatietoja. Konsultti arvioi eron olevan keskimäärin kymmenen prosenttia, mutta käyttää laskelmissaan viittä prosenttia.Peruspalkan päälle tulevat erilaiset lisät laskisivat tätäkin enemmän. Työehtosopimuksen mukaiset lisät romahtaisivat Palmian arvion mukaan 16 prosenttia sopimuksen vaihdon takia.– PAMin työehtosopimus rankaisisi eniten työntekijöitä, joilla on paljon lisiä. Ne voivat muodostaa jopa kolmanneksen palkasta, sanoo JHL:n pääkaupunkiseudun aluepäällikköAmmattikohtaisesti yhtiöittäminen näyttää työntekijöiden kannalta entistä surkeammalta. Palkat alentuisivat ammattinimikkeestä riippuen 4–8 prosenttia.Esimerkiksi siivoojan peruspalkka on PAMin työehtosopimuksessa 1 538 euroa, joka on kahdeksan prosenttia pienempi kuin kunnallisessa työehtosopimuksessa. Summassa ei ole mukana lisiä, joita moni siivooja saa palkkansa päälle.Yrityksen siivoojan palkka on kaupungin siivoojan palkkaa pienempi koko työuran ajan. Kaupungin palveluksessa olevan siivoojan peruspalkkaa nousee kahdeksan prosenttia 1 812,79 euroon kymmenessä vuodessa.Yrityksessä siivoojan peruspalkka kohoaa kahdeksassa vuodessa 12 prosenttia, mutta jää silti 1 722,56 euroon eli alle kunnallisen siivoojan palkan.

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