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A small group of us leave the club at 5 am - there are still 50 people outside waiting to enter. But after some sleep and an uneventful evening, we are back again on Saturday night at 3 am to witness DJ Sasse rock the crowd. Time seems to flow more quickly than ever. Andy Baumecker plays from 8 to 11 am, and the music and the energy truly shoot through the roof. On Sunday morning, the crowd has become even more beautiful, and more fashion-conscious as well. It is warmer, but no one is going shirtless. Every sexy young Berliner must be in this room (although people who came from other clubs, such as Kinzo and Rio, report full capacity there also, which is kind of a relief). We see more very pretty women, more examples of good German breeding in general. Lots of tall people and nice noses; lots of sparkling green and jewel-like blue eyes, lots of eclectic looks: a tall, skinny boy with a huge curly Afro wearing a brown silk tie, suspenders, and wooly pants. Two Turkish boys in oversized jeans, looking like brothers, whose beautiful faces and sultry dark eyes resemble a Herb Ritts portrait. Gloria Viagra the drag queen in big sunglasses, a skimpy black dress and a huge maroon-colored wig, who, with her heels, stands well over 7 feet. Two more skinny drag queens in stilettos, fishnet stockings, and miniskirts are doing prostitute poses in the corner. Three thin and very street-chic girls - one with an asymmetrical fringe haircut in a pale yellow dress with black sequinned brooch and black tights underneath, one with untamed, wavy brown hair wearing a tight black dress with Azzedine Alaia-style straps crisscrossing on her back, and one wearing a vintage red-and-blue color-block dress with a red belt, black stockings and flat white slippers, are holding hands and jumping up and down in the middle of the floor. Two handsome fetish boys - one of them in full latex rubber shirt, leather chaps, red suspenders, red-and-black leather armbands, bleached jeans, jackboots, red hankie in the back pocket AND a nose-ring! - are sitting by the window and smiling at everyone on the dancefloor. There is a woman with a wise, kind-of Helen Mirren smile, hair swept up in a bun, wearing a gorgeous black scoop-neck dress with a black beaded choker, dancing in the corner.
Okey hit a hard ground ball up the middle and drew the throw from the second baseman, allowing Pinder to score and giving Clemson an early 1-0 lead. Schnell, the sophomore lefty, earned the start Tuesday afternoon, and he pitched 3 1/3 innings, allowing four hits and a walk while striking out two. Reed Rohlman got Clemson’s offense going again in the fourth with a single up the middle. He took second on a passed ball and third on a Weston Wilson single through the left side. Seth Beer – who struck out for the first time in his Clemson career in the first – hit a looping single to right field that scored Rohlman. Chris Williams hit a grounder down the third base line that the third baseman couldn’t corral, allowing Beer to take third and then score the second run of the inning. Adam Renwick flied out to right to tack on a third run as Wilson tagged up from third, extending Clemson’s lead to 4-0. Wofford starter John Caskey was chased after 3 1/3 innings, after giving up four runs –only one earned – on six hits while striking out three. The Tigers added to the lead in the fifth. White earned a walk with a nine-pitch at-bat to begin the frame and stole second after relief pitcher Elliot Lance threw over to first several times. Rohlman laced a single through the right side to advance White to third with no outs. Okey promptly rocketed a double up the middle to clear the bases and give Clemson a 6-0 lead. The Tigers loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth after a leadoff single, a walk and another single, but only managed to score one run, as Rohlman flied out to center scoring Renwick from third. Clemson led the Terriers 7-0 after six innings. Clemson plays a three-game set with arch-rival South Carolina this weekend. The first game is set for 7 p.m. in Columbia Friday night. Saturday’s game will be at Fluor Field at 2:30 p.m. and Clemson will host the Gamecocks Sunday at 2 p.m. Lee said this weekend’s series against the Gamecocks will be exciting because both teams are playing at such a high level. “I don’t see how we could [be any more confident]. I think we’re going to be very confident going into the weekend,” he said. “We’ve pitched well. We’ve played good defensively. We’ve hit well.
The convicted murderers were freed as part of a US-brokered agreement to resume direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after a three-year hiatus. The men - the second of four groups to be released over nine months - were welcomed by thousands of people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.On Wednesday morning, the Israeli interior ministry placed an advert in a Jerusalem newspaper announcing that it was pressing ahead with a project to expand Ramat Shlomo. The plans, which were approved by the Jerusalem district planning committee in September 2011, include the construction of 1,531 housing units, public buildings and gardens. The government also approved the development of a tourism and archaeology centre near Jerusalem's sensitive Old City, as well as plans for the establishment of a national park on Mount Scopus in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus. An estimated 200,000 settlers currently live in East Jerusalem, alongside 370,000 Palestinians. Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war and formally annexed the area in 1980. Settlements built there and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. Israel regards Jerusalem as its eternal and undivided capital. However, Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state. Wednesday's announcement is seen as an attempt by Mr Netanyahu to placate right-wing members of his coalition government and many Israelis who have sharply criticised his decision to release 26 prisoners convicted of killing Israelis between 1984 and 1994. "This is a difficult decision that we have made with a heavy heart," his Defence Minister, Moshe Yaalon, said on Tuesday. Mr Netanyahu was reportedly persuaded by US Secretary of State John Kerry earlier this year to agree to the prisoner release programme after Mr Abbas agreed not to insist that all settlement construction was halted before he would restart negotiations. The Palestinian Authority reacted angrily to Wednesday's announcement, but it was not immediately clear if it would have any impact on the talks. "We are worried and concerned that if Israel continues with the expansion of settlements, this might kill the two states vision which we would like to see on this land," Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said.
Daydream Daydream is an interactive screensaver mode that starts when a user’s device is docked or charging. In this mode, the system launches a daydream — a remote content service provided by an installed app — as the device screensaver. A user can enable Daydream from the Settings app and then choose the daydream to display. Daydreams combine the best capabilities of live wallpapers and home screen widgets, but they are more powerful. They let you offer the any kind of content in a completely new context, with user interactions such as flipping through photos, playing audio or video, or jumping straight into your app with a single touch. Because daydreams can start automatically when a device is charging or docked, they also give your app a great way to support new types of user experiences, such as leanback or exhibition mode, demo or kiosk mode, and "attract mode" — all without requiring special hardware. Daydream lets you create powerful interactive screensavers that display any kind of content. Daydreams are similar to Activities and can do anything that Activity can do — from rendering a UI hierarchy (without using RemoteViews) to drawing directly using Canvas, OpenGL, SurfaceTexture, and more. They can play video and audio and they can even accept direct user interaction. However, daydreams are not Activities, so they don’t affect the backstack or appear in Recents and they cannot be launched directly from your app. Implementing a daydream is straightforward and you can take advantage of UI components and resources that you’ve already created for other parts of your app. You can provide multiple daydreams in your app and you can offer distinct content and display settings for each. External display support Android 4.2 introduces platform support for external displays that goes far beyond mirroring — apps can now target unique content to any one or multiple displays that are attached to an Android device. Apps can build on this to deliver new kinds of interaction and entertainment experiences to users. Display manager Apps interact with displays through a new display manager system service. Your app can enumerate the displays and check the capabilities of each, including size, density, display name, ID, support for secure video, and more. Your app can also receive callbacks when displays are added or removed or when their capabilities change, to better manage your content on external displays.
=20 Best, Blake ------_=_NextPart_001_01C91CBC.8768C196 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML dir=3Dltr><HEAD>=0A= <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dunicode">=0A= <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=3DGENERATOR>=0A= <STYLE>=0A= P.MsoNormal {=0A= FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"=0A= }=0A= LI.MsoNormal {=0A= FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"=0A= }=0A= DIV.MsoNormal {=0A= FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"=0A= }=0A= A:link {=0A= COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline=0A= }=0A= SPAN.MsoHyperlink {=0A= COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline=0A= }=0A= A:visited {=0A= COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline=0A= }=0A= SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {=0A= COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline=0A= }=0A= SPAN.EmailStyle17 {=0A= COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;}=0A= DIV.Section1 {=0A= page: Section1=0A= }=0A= </STYLE>=0A= </HEAD>=0A= <BODY lang=3DEN-US vLink=3Dpurple link=3Dblue>=0A= <DIV id=3DidOWAReplyText79046 dir=3Dltr>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I'm free = Tuesday morning, and pretty much all day on Thursday. Wednesday is = a tough day for me, so that won't work. Thanks for working to set = this up.</FONT></DIV>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000000 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></DIV>=0A= <DIV id=3DidSignature36202 dir=3Dltr>=0A= <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000000 = size=3D2>----------------------------------------------------------------= --</FONT></DIV>=0A= <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Chris Lu</FONT></DIV>=0A= <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A></FONT></DIV>=0A= <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>312-505-4864 (cell)</FONT></DIV>=0A= <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></DIV>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr><BR>=0A= <HR tabIndex=3D-1>=0A= <FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><B>From:</B> Benczkowski, Brian A (OAG) = [mailto:[email protected]]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 9/22/2008 8:46 = AM<BR><B>To:</B> Chris Lu; John Podesta<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: = Follow-Up<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>=0A= <DIV>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff = size=3D2><SPAN class=3D051174613-22092008>Chris and = John-</SPAN></FONT></DIV>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff = size=3D2><SPAN class=3D051174613-22092008>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff = size=3D2><SPAN class=3D939454213-22092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff = size=3D2><SPAN class=3D939454213-22092008>Could you let me know a few = days/times this week that might work for a follow-up meeting with you = re:the cocept of operations and MOU? It would probably work best = to have the meeting here at DOJ, but please let me know if you have = another preference. Best, = BAB</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV>=0A= <DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff = size=3D2><SPAN class=3D051174613-22092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><BR>=0A= <DIV class=3DOutlookMessageHeader lang=3Den-us dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft>=0A= <HR tabIndex=3D-1>=0A= <FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><B>From:</B> Gottesman, Blake L. = [mailto:[email protected]] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, = September 19, 2008 12:05 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Chris Lu; John = Podesta<BR><B>Cc:</B> Benczkowski, Brian A (OAG)<BR><B>Subject:</B> = Follow-Up<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>=0A= <DIV></DIV>=0A= <DIV class=3DSection1>=0A= <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN = style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">John / = Chris:</SPAN></FONT></P>=0A= <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN = style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks for your time on = the call.
BEIT LAHIYA (The Guardian) 11 Aug by Harriet Sherwood — Najia Warshagha, age nine, is a veteran of three conflicts in Gaza. She cannot sleep properly and is always terrified — She seemed to represent the collective suffering of Gaza’s children: a little girl, eyes cast down, a tear edging beneath her lashes, blood smeared over her forehead, anguish written into her face. Her picture was taken in the aftermath of the shelling of what was supposed to be a refuge from war, a UN school in Jabaliya … Nine days after the shelling of the school, Najia perches on a sofa at the relative’s house where she is staying, a solemn child whose hands twist into tight little balls as she haltingly recalls what happened. “I was in classroom number one, sleeping. There was a huge boom. My mother hugged us, then another missile landed. I was screaming and crying,” she says. Does she still think about it? A pause, then a nod. And, quietly: “I keep dreaming of what happened.” Her mother, Majdolen, 31, fills in the gaps of Najia’s spare account … The family was taken to the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, a chaotic and overburdened place these past few weeks, whose exhausted staff are working round the clock and where every bed is occupied. Ali spent two days there; Najia was kept in for a week being treated for extreme shock. She is still taking medication. “She is very traumatised since it happened,” says Majdolen. “She can’t sleep properly, she’s always terrified. The children don’t want to leave me, they want to sleep with me and they follow me wherever I go.” Despite the August heat, Najia wraps herself tightly in a blanket at night, says her mother. The family is sleeping in its fourth location since the war began but the child is pressing for another move, feeling that nowhere is safe….
We observed varying sensitivities of the different prostate cancer cell lines to the cytotoxicity of Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN. The level of reporter expression driven by the DD3 promoter and WPRE in LNCaP cells was only 21.79% of that in 22RV1 cells (Fig. 1), suggesting a lower replication of Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN in LNCaP cells, which would seem inconsistent with the higher killing efficacy of Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN in LNCaP cells than in 22RV1 cells (Fig. 3). However, 22RV1 cells express a functional PTEN, while LNCaP cells do not [53]. Given the above data, Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN probably exerts a stronger cytotoxic effect in PTEN-negative PCa cells than in PTEN-positive PCa cells. Volumes of tumor of CL1 cells was redued by 41.3% 20 days after infected with Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN in the nude mouse (Fig. 6A) strongly suggests that Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN has the therapeutic potential for the treatment of androgen-independent cancers. This study revealed that adenoviral replication slowed after approximately 12 days of active replication (Fig. 6B). Interestingly, even the rate of oncolytic virus kept very low in vivo after the period (Fig. 6B), the infected tumor still did not significantly grow(Fig. 6A). Its mechanism for this phenomenon remains unknown. One plausible explanation is that a vast majority of cancer cells was killed in the first days after injection of Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN, while growth of the remaining cancer cells is efficiently inhibited even in the presence of a minimal amount of oncolytic virus. The phenomenon is probably encouraging since most of virus will be cleared up in vivo when the oncolytic virus are used clinically. In conclusion, we developed a novel prostate-specific CTGVT(CTGVT-PCa), Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN, by controlling the expression of the E1A gene with a minimal DD3 promoter and WPRE. Ad.DD3.D55-PTEN had excellent anti-tumor efficacy in both androgen-dependent and -independent prostate cancer cell lines. This report also provides a new strategy for constructing a CTGVT-PCa with tumor types specificity that have few tumor-specific promoters available.
Sarah Weddington, a former classmate of Coffee’s at the University of Texas law school, had been urging Coffee to find a way to file suit against the abortion statutes in Texas. Coffee and Weddington had been academic stars, and both were committed to advocacy on behalf of women. Coffee had clerked for the renowned feminist federal judge Sarah T. Hughes (who in 1963 administered the oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson, aboard Air Force One). Weddington, for her part, had had firsthand experience with abortion laws in Texas, having felt compelled to go to Mexico for an abortion during law school. The two lawyers, both in their 20s, were not much older than McCorvey. Coffee and Weddington met their prospective client at an Italian restaurant in Dallas. Their needs were specific. As Coffee told a reporter in 1983, “It had to be a pregnant woman wanting to get an abortion. She couldn’t have the funds to travel to California or New York for a legal abortion. And we had to have someone who could take the publicity. We weren’t able to guarantee her anonymity.” Also, the pregnancy could not be too far along or the issue might be moot before the case was filed. Five months pregnant at the time, McCorvey seemed a perfect plaintiff. Coffee filed Roe v. Wade at the Dallas federal district courthouse on March 3, 1970. Though by now six months pregnant, McCorvey held on to the hope, she later wrote, that she might “be the first girl in Texas to get a legal abortion.” Meanwhile, Coffee and Weddington amended Roe to make it a class-action suit, ensuring that any ruling would apply to all women in Texas. They also successfully argued for continuing to designate the plaintiff as the anonymous “Jane Roe.” The hearing began in May and ended on June 17 when a three-judge panel struck down the Texas abortion statutes. But the state appealed the decision immediately, so for the time being the statutes remained law. McCorvey claims in I Am Roe that she asked Coffee how long the appeals process would take, since if it went quickly, she believed, she might still be able to get an abortion. According to McCorvey’s account, Coffee told her that, regardless, it was too late.
1 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Translation by Mszlempo 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Timing by AnteroX 3 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:25,960 We would like to hear you opinion in regards to the cause of death of Professor Piers. 4 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:28,960 Ok 5 00:00:34,700 --> 00:00:38,800 Your opinion on the cause of his death is that it was poison. 6 00:00:39,550 --> 00:00:42,200 The question is whether it was murder or suicide. 7 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,900 The biggest problem that makes this investigation confusing is that, 8 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,750 “the key was in the room”, wasn’t it? 9 00:00:51,316 --> 00:00:52,786 That's right. 10 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,100 The room's key was found in the locked room where the corpse was found. 11 00:00:57,558 --> 00:01:04,598 From a security point of view, it is impossible to take the original key and make a copy of it. 12 00:01:05,899 --> 00:01:10,371 There were two cups which shows that there was company. 13 00:01:10,871 --> 00:01:20,444 If it's a murder, the suspect has used a non-existent key to enter the room and purposely left the evidence. 14 00:01:21.615 --> 00:01:24.918 A locked-room murder? 15 00:01:27.087 --> 00:01:31.025 If it's suicide, what is the motive? 16 00:01:31.358 --> 00:01:38.232 The police were investigating the victim’s sexual abuse case with a boy who the victim met through a charity group. 17 00:01:38.332 --> 00:01:43.771 But he is from an upper class family so it's hard to investigate thoroughly. 18 00:01:45.506 --> 00:01:49.643 If it's suicide, what’s the trick with the key? 19 00:01:49.910 --> 00:01:54.615 No, no trick with the key. The victim made the key at the scene. 20 00:01:55.549 --> 00:01:58.185 There is gallium at the laboratory. 21 00:02:01.688 --> 00:02:04.792 Use chewing gum to take the shape of the original key. 22 00:02:04.925 --> 00:02:06.627 pour the gallium into the gum. 23 00:02:06.727 --> 00:02:08.562 chill it in a fridge 24 00:02:08.595 --> 00:02:11.799 And there you have it, A copy of the key is made. 25 00:02:11.965 --> 00:02:15.235 It's easy to conceal the evidence. 26 00:02:16.403 --> 00:02:20.107 Body temperature would melt the key anyway. 27 00:02:21.875 --> 00:02:26.680 Who and for what reason is that person going to do that? 28 00:02:26.747 --> 00:02:31.251 Who in the victim’s family has been chewing gum regularly? 29 00:02:34.755 --> 00:02:40.694 One of the visitors was Lester, the assistant, he is a suspect.
Overall, Carter has made 43.8 percent of his shot attempts.Coming off the bench in all 23 games he has played, Deven Simms is putting up 13.5 points per game with a 49.8 field goal percentage. He paces the squad with 24 steals and is second in rebounding at 4.7 per game.The third player averaging double-digit points is Rashad Lindsey at 10.8. He has connected on 47.7 percent of his shots and 44.9 percent on long distance shots while making 35 treys.Pacing ASU and second in the conference with 6.0 assists per game is Deonte Thomas. The point guard has struggled to shoot the ball this season making 36.7 percent from the field, 26.7 percent on three-pointers and 59.8 percent at the charity stripe.Tamas Bruce leads the Red Wolves in field goal percentage (61.0) and rebounding (5.0). His 17 blocks are tied for the team lead with Jahmiah Simmons. Coming off the bench, Connor Kern is a threat from long distance having made 31 three-pointers and connecting on 47.7 percent of his attempts.The all-time series between Arkansas State and Texas State is tied 3-3. The Red Wolves won the first three meetings but the last three has seen the Bobcats come out victorious.When playing at home, Texas State is 2-1 that includes a 78-68 win last season that sawnearly record a double-double with 20 points and nine rebounds. The lone loss in Strahan was the first meeting on Jan. 4, 2014 by the score of 74-69.In the Bobcats' three victories, they have won by an average margin of 10.3 ppg. ASU's three wins have all been by five points.The 2017 Sun Belt Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Championships are scheduled for a week of March Madness in the Big Easy. New Orleans will once again be home to the two championships that will take place at Lakefront Arena from March 7-12 and ticket books can now be purchased from your school's ticket office. For more information, visit the Sun Belt Conference's championship central websites - Men's Championship – Women's Championship – and be sure to follow the #FunBelt on social media - @SunBelt.For the latest on Texas State men's basketball, visit the official website of Texas State athletics at www.txstatebobcats.com , follow the team on Twitter at @TxStateMBB, Instagram at @TxStateMBB and like on Facebook at /TexasStateMensBasketball.
A transient who lives in the Santa Clara River wash and accused of assaulting a 70-year-old woman now faces a felony charge of attempted murder. Colton Ford, 29, who arrived in the SCV about seven months ago from Orange County, was arrested Tuesday morning by deputies of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station after two “Good Samaritans” ran to the aid of the alleged victim and held the suspect for them. The alleged attack happened shortly after 8:20 a.m. Tuesday when a woman jogging on the bike path in Valencia near the post office on McBean Parkway was attacked. Paramedics with the Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to the incident, provided medical aid to the woman and took her to the hospital. Captain Robert Lewis provided details about the incident at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. “Two Good Samaritans who actually came to her rescue, held on to the suspect for deputies,” Lewis told City Council after Santa Clarita Mayor Cameron Smyth asked about the incident. Lewis said the suspect had arrived in the SCV seven months ago and had been arrested on four Proposition 47 charges prior. “This individual is a Prop 47 individual,” he said. “Eight hours into the investigation, we are now looking at an attempted murder charge.” Arrest documents show that Ford was arrested in the SCV June 20 on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia. Lewis closed his remarks to City Council Tuesday by expressing his wish to see the “Good Samaritans” formally recognized with some sort of commendation. A retired police officer and the two Good Samaritans on cycles stopped the suspect’s attack and detained him, pending the arrival of deputies as they called 9-1-1. On Tuesday morning, paramedics were dispatched for reports of an assault near the northern end of Auto Center Drive, north of Creekside Drive, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department told The Signal. The victim, a 70-year woman, was attacked without warning, Sgt. Chris Maurizi said at the time. A retired Los Angeles Police Department officer witnessed the incident and came to the woman’s aid, Maurizi said. The suspect was arrested and transported to Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station where he was booked for attempted murder. He is being held in lieu of two million dollars bail.
DISCUSSION The dose–response models in this paper were used to analyse outbreak data in a hierarchical framework. This may be called a meta-analysis. The variation in apparent infectivity among outbreaks is interpreted as a biological property, i.e. as heterogeneity within and between outbreaks. From this the dose–response relation for each of the individual outbreaks presented can be generalized to the group level. In doing this the variation that is potentially present in all unobserved outbreaks with the same pathogen is incorporated. This can be seen from the appropriate coverage displayed in . Variation in the probability of (symptomatic) infection may have many different causes: variation in susceptibility of the exposed population, intrinsic pathogen properties (e.g. genetic variation), condition of the pathogen (e.g. survival in the food matrix or water, temperature, previous hosts). The dose–response model cannot discriminate between these different sources of heterogeneity because they are individually unidentifiable. If detailed information on the condition of the pathogen or, for example, the immune status of the exposed population was available, this might allow adaptation of the model to incorporate such sources of variation [15]. Strachan et al. [4] collated the outbreak data used here and demonstrated a dose–response model could be built. However, variability between outbreaks could only be incorporated when using a beta-binomial likelihood. This model agrees with the hierarchical model for median and upper (95%) percentiles but underestimates the lower (5%) level of risk where some of the outbreak data-points lie. When compared to the predictions based on only the Morioka outbreak, as shown in a previous paper [3] it is clear that the predictions presented in the current paper show less uncertainty. Moreover, the strain of E. coli O157 from the Morioka outbreak appears to be highly infectious compared to most other outbreaks. Recapitulating the findings of Strachan et al. [4] the Shigella model [1] is contained within the predicted risk interval. The lower (5%) percentile contour of the dose–response envelope developed by Powell et al. [16] more or less coincides with those in , whereas the upper (95%) levels are underestimated, even more so than in [4]. The rabbit model [2] underestimates the human risk of E. coli O157. Dose–response models are affected by heterogeneity both in exposure and in infectivity. Complete absence of heterogeneity results in an exponential dose–response relation. Any increase in heterogeneity results in a less steep dose–response relation. We have modified the dose–response model to include non-Poisson exposure.
Garry Mauro, one of her first contacts in Texas, told the San Antonio Express in 2008 that back then she had a "cultural affinity with Hispanics," asking questions and listening to their concerns, a dynamic that would be on display again, more than three decades later in Nevada, as she tried to woo an influential Latino activist. Eddie Escobedo was a flashy dresser — suits and hats to match — and hotly in demand by Democratic politicians. The owner of a radio station and El Mundo newspaper, both of which he used to great effect, the late Escobedo was an important ally for anyone who wanted to get their message out to Latinos in Nevada. That's why Brian Greenspun, a Clinton ally who runs the Greenspun Media Group (which includes the Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, and Las Vegas Magazine), invited Escobedo along with other minority leaders to his home for dinner to meet with Clinton as she was exploring a 2008 campaign. "She had a way about her," says Eddie Escobedo Jr., who was at the dinner. His father died in 2010 and left El Mundo to him. "The way my dad explained it, she was somebody you could talk to," Escobedo Jr. said. "She spoke from the heart and asked about what the Hispanic community was going through and what had to be done. My dad was taken aback by Hillary, by how she was able to communicate and listen and how she wanted to help Hispanics." Escobedo supported Clinton "tooth and nail," his son says — but of course she did not win. Obama campaign senior advisers repeatedly went to the El Mundo offices to wear down the activist, and finally got him to take a call from Obama. The two eventually had a meeting at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Escobedo presented Obama with a T-shirt and hat with the words "El Jefe" — the boss — on them. When Escobedo died from cancer in 2010, the Clintons offered their condolences in a letter to the family and Obama called Escobedo Jr.
Open the just created SupportedDevices.java file (that is in <path_to_arcore_client_aar>\arcore_client\classes\com\google\atap\tangoservice) with a smart text editor and remove all code of the function isSupported(). Substitute it with “return true”. We’re basically removing the check of the device model, enabling the produced app to run on every device. The file should look like this one: package com.google.atap.tangoservice; import android.content.Context; import android.content.pm.ApplicationInfo; import android.content.pm.PackageManager; import android.os.Build; import android.os.Bundle; import android.util.Log; public class SupportedDevices { private static final String TAG = SupportedDevices.class.getSimpleName(); public static boolean isSupported(Context context) { return true; } private static boolean deviceCalibrationAvailable() { return Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("sailfish:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("sailfish:O") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("sailfish:8") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("marlin:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("marlin:O") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("marlin:8") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("walleye:O") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("walleye:8") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("taimen:O") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("taimen:8") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("SC-02J/SC-02J:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("SCV36_jp_kdi/SCV36:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamqlteue/dreamqlteue:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamqltesq/dreamqltesq:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamqlteldusq/dreamqltesq:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamqltezm/dreamqltecmcc:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamqltevl/dreamqltecan:7") \|\| SupportedDevices.isSupportedExynosDevice(); } public static boolean isSupportedExynosDevice() { return Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamlteldu/dreamlte:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamlteks/dreamlteks:7") \|\| Build.FINGERPRINT.contains("dreamltexx/dreamlte:7"); } }
Many Citizens under their Grave Gowns, came Armed into their Publick Meetings, as if they went to War. Often contrary Factions fell to Blows, sometimes with Stones, and sometimes with Swords; the Blood hath been suckt up in the Market Places with Spunges; the River Tiber hath been filled with the Dead Bodies of the Citizens, and the common Privies stuffed full with them.
They do cite China as a successful example of FDI in retail. But China has a huge domestic manufacturing sector, which needed to market its products. So there was an actual demand for large organised retail to distribute the goods. But even there it led to a huge amount of displacement, people running small shops lost their jobs. But because the manufacturing sector was thriving these people could be absorbed in that, and it did not lead to any turmoil. Here people are already clamouring for jobs. We have such huge unemployment and very little manufacturing. There are no government jobs. We have to encourage the private industry and traders. We can’t have any policy that leads to loss of jobs. What is your approach to boosting the Indian economy? We have to encourage private business. The government has no business to be in business. That is very clear. There is a false propaganda that we are socialists and we’ll nationalise everything. We have no plan to nationalise anything. An Indian is a born entrepreneur, it is in our blood. But the present policies and inspectors do not let people do trade or business in peace. We would like to deregulate business. The government will have no interference. We’ll let people do business without any permissions; just don’t do anything wrong, for which no one will be spared. If you are put in charge of the national economy, what would you do? First, decentralisation is required. At present politics and economics are intricately related to each other. Recently, the son of a very big businessman of the country gave me an interesting perspective. He told me AAP’s economic policy could be defined in two words: ‘good politics’, which was what we stood for. He said if you created an honest environment, business would flourish. People would do the business on their own. It was not the government that did development but the people. They just needed a healthy environment, which the government could provide. Soon we are going to begin relaying the roads in all Delhi industrial areas simultaneously. We’ll provide all the facilities required for business. We will also open more industrial areas. I have had many business delegations come to complain of VAT regulations and forms. I immediately consulted the VAT commissioner and scrapped many of the forms and changed procedures. We’ll have a situation that no trader would have to come to the VAT office.
Each communicator both spoke and wrote about the reasons for his or her support (order counterbalanced). The experimenter provided the following instructions (manipulation of communication medium indicated by slashes): We are recruiting participants from various political backgrounds because we are interested in understanding people’s political beliefs and how people communicate those beliefs to others. Now that you have reported which candidate you support for the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, we would like you to speak/write about why you support this candidate. [Speaking condition only: You will speak out loud while we video record your response.] We will show the recording/what you write to another study participant who may have similar or different political beliefs and we would like you to imagine that you are speaking/writing directly to the study participant. Please think carefully about your opinion and the reasons why you hold it. Try to explain your point of view to the study participant, and try to get that person to understand you. Please discuss your opinions in depth, such as why you support this candidate, why you prefer this candidate over other candidates and what you like about this candidate. First, please jot down notes on this sheet and then tell me when you are ready to begin recording. After receiving these instructions, the communicators both spoke about the reasons for their support, while seated in a chair facing a video camera, and wrote about the reasons for their support, while seated in front of a laptop. We allowed them to speak and write for as long as they wanted. They spent between 40 s and 3 min speaking, and between 2 min and 12 min writing. We observed a statistically nonsignificant difference in the number of words spoken versus written (spoken: M = 251.75, SD = 112.32, 95% CI = [157.85, 345.65]; written: M = 202.50, SD = 123.34, 95% CI = [99.38, 305.62]), paired-samples t(7) = 1.84, p = .108, d = 0.65. One research assistant transcribed the speeches, and a second checked for accuracy. As in Experiment 1, we removed verbal filler words from the transcripts (e.g., “uh”), unless their exclusion changed the sentence’s meaning. For the written condition, we did not make any changes to the communicators’ written texts, just as we did not make any changes to the spoken stimuli in the audio and audiovisual conditions.
Second, Dr. Shugan's study includes the same error this Court recognized in striking Dr. Cockburn's second report last monthit measures the value consumers place on certain phone features as a whole, rather than the incremental benefit to those features allegedly enabled by the 18 technology at issue. Courts have struck similar consumer surveys for this reason. See Fractus, S.A. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., No. 6:09-cv-0203, Dkt. No. 896 (E.D. Tex. Apr 29, 2011) (excluding consumer survey data, that "do[es] not measure the value of Plaintiff s technology, but merely measure[s] the perceived consumer value of cell phones with any internal antennas" and concluding that "[s]urvey evidence purportedly demonstrating the value of intemal antennas not tied directly to Plaintiff's technology confuses the issues and must be excluded"). Third, the results of the survey clearly show that respondents were not in fact holding constant all unnamed features. Dr. Shugan's failure to control for this fact is fatal, because the ability of conjoint analysis to predict consumer preference for a specified feature requires the consumer to ignore potential differences in any unspecified features. Dr. Shugan explained this fundamental presumption of conjoint analysis in his deposition: [REDACTED] Zimmer Decl. Ex. D (Shugan Dep.) at 38:2-25 (emphases added). But the proof is in the puddingand here, almost one quarter of all respondents claimed that they would prefer a smartphone costing $200 to a putatively identical smartphone costing $100. Zimmer Dec. Ex. F (Oct. 24, 2011 Leonard Rep.) at 114.2 No rational person, much less 24% of all rational people, would prefer to pay $200 for a phone they could have for $100. The explanation for this apparently nonsensical result is obvioussurvey respondents were not holding non-specified features constant. Instead, as Dr. Shugan himself conceded in his reply report, his respondents did the opposite: [REDACTED] 19 [REDACTED] Shugan Reply Rep. at 17-18. Dr. Shugan makes no effort to explain this result other than to say that we cannot assume that consumers behave rationally because the purpose of the conjoint analysis was to study consumer behavior. Id. at 17-18. This circular logic ignores the premise of Daubert and the Federal Rules of Evidence. The point is not that Dr. Shugan should have excluded a full quarter of his respondents as "irrational," but rather that the conclusion that 24% of survey respondents gave answers that made no sense proves that the survey design is fundamentally flawed.
Secular Westerners have an objectively superior concept of morality compared to all religious groups, including traditional Christian Westerners. This is because secular Western morality is fundamentally based on reason and empathy, and not tradition, dogma, or authority of any sort. Religious "morality" is really not much of a moral system at all, as it merely entails the blind conformance to certain norms which are accepted on the basis of faith to be divine truths. A highly religious, highly traditional individual who behaves in a certain way is no more moral than a dumb child who behaves a certain way because he/she is afraid of being punished by mommy or daddy. Just as the dumb child is acting a certain way merely because of his/her apprehension of being disciplined by his/her parents, a religious individual is acting a certain way because of his/her fear or apprehension of negative consequences that may follow (whether it be an eternity in hell, or reincarnation as a dung worm, or excommunication, or degradation to the status of an untouchable, or anything else). Neither the dumb child nor the religious individual can be said to have any decent concept of morality.On the other hand, a secular Westerner does not refrain from committing crimes like murder and rape merely because of some authority, or because of tradition, or because of accepted norms, but because we know that committing such actions is wrong. The reason we know it is wrong to do these things is because we have the ability to empathize with other human beings, and imagine being "in their shoes", so to speak. We do not murder or rape because we understand that such actions cause immense suffering to other human beings, and that it is in the best interest of all human beings to create a society where individuals can live without fear of being murdered or raped. Therefore, all it requires to recognize the inherent immorality of such actions is the ability to exercise reason and empathy, both of which are endowed to all healthy human beings thanks to natural evolution. We do not require any deity, any scripture, any tradition, or any authority to develop an advanced concept of morality. Those that insist we do are themselves immoral, for they (by their own admission) would be killing and raping if not for the restraints placed on them by society and religion.
A novel theory for the metabolic syndrome In our view, MetS arises out of a dietary imbalance with an overabundance of refined, high-glycemic index carbohydrates, most notably, fructose, and a relative dietary deficiency in cholesterol. A recently published paper [24] demonstrated an intriguing relationship between fasting glucose level and cholesterol metabolism. For people exhibiting insulin resistance, cholesterol synthesis was upregulated and cholesterol absorption was downregulated, independent of obesity level. This suggests that a dietary deficiency in cholesterol, or an impaired ability to absorb it, may be associated with insulin resistance. A study of the relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol in rats, undertaken in the mid 1970s, uncovered some surprising results [25]. Most notably, a cholesterol-free diet resulted in greater accumulation of cholesterol in adipose tissue than a diet enriched with 0.05 or 0.1% cholesterol. Furthermore, even up to a 5% cholesterol diet, serum cholesterol concentration was inversely related to dietary supply after a two-month interval. These authors also demonstrated compellingly that the amount of cholesterol stored in adipose tissue is proportional to the amount of triglycerides stored. Leptin-deficient (ob/ob) mice, (a model of type 2 diabetes with relatively mild hyperglycaemia and obesity) had five times the adipose mass of controls, and 1.2- to 2-fold differences in fat cell diameter, yet the cholesterol to triglyceride ratios were identical between the two groups. Fructose is especially damaging because it is highly reactive as a reducing agent, and the liver must remove it aggressively from the blood serum to prevent it from damaging serum lipids and proteins via fructation [26]. With a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet, postprandial fructose and glucose enter the bloodstream very rapidly due both to the abundance of refined carbohydrates and to the lack of buffering in the gut by dietary fats. The tissues are reluctant to utilize fructose as fuel, likely because it is ten times as reactive as a reducing agent as glucose [26]. An excess of fructose and glucose in the bloodstream causes extensive glycation damage to vulnerable proteins [27, 28]. A glycated (whether fructated or glucated) protein is typically both impaired in its function and more susceptible to oxidation damage. It is also resistant to degradation through lysosomal breakdown. Over time, a collection of glycated protein debris accumulates in the blood serum and along arterial walls.
I want to start with; this source is the best out there. Kudos again to CMiller.Don't Ease starts with some serious mix issues. Jerry singing to Keith playing.BTW is sweet. Such a great song. It is played with spunk, and Bob overdoes the singing a bit, which is a testament to the energy.Peggy-O was a decent performance, a bit slow for me. Decent jam at the end.Jack Straw managed to gather some steam, not blown away yet.Loser could give us a shot at something special, but goes nowhere really. So far the set is a 3 of 5. Struggling.GSET is a great song to push some energy in their playing. Jerry is low in the mix though. In general through source, vocals are too high compared to the instruments. Energy, at least, has picked up substantially. At least this means during the jams, when there isn't Donna flow moaning in the background, you get to hear the instruments at a pretty good mix. Energy has increased at this point.Cumberland is brimming with pep. This was needed, and for whatever reason, the levels regarding vocals seem a bit better. Maybe it's just Bob and Donna not sucking the chrome off theirs when they get too excited that is helping. Jerry rips out some good solos here. There's a patch here, not really a problem.Dire slips back into laid back mode.PITB>UJB>PITB is going to determine a lot about the way I rate this show. They don't waste time getting to the jamming after the verses. Early on Phil does something like a double stop on the base while Jerry searches for the path of noodles to wander down. Billy is just awesome, par excellence. Jerry sits back and lets Keith do some solo on his quasi-organ. I don't think this was a good idea. Poor Billy is pouring his heart out, and Jerry is sitting back and watching. It's kind of how the whole set has gone. He finally steps back in around the 11 minute mark, but I'm a bit disturbed by the flow of what I was hoping would be great. Jerry can bring a show back at any moment, but there's really no push here. Around 14 we get the first hints of a possible Tiger, and about 15:20 it's much more likely to happen. Perhaps a tiger cub, I don't know.
<JustPassingThrough> yeah well the qatarians had it coming for having a country that has such a cheap scrabble name <agentlame> They almost never use it. <davidreiss666> they have admitted to using them occasionally <JustPassingThrough> >:C <agentlame> That's what happen to Ides. <JustPassingThrough> she moved to qatar??? <greenduch> no its not agentlame <greenduch> her housemate's account wasnt touched <JustPassingThrough> her housemate lives in qatar with her though <greenduch> wat <agentlame> Did they create a new account in that time? <JustPassingThrough> with the whole country gone, the housemate would have definitely been banned <fritzly> redtaboo: "or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or VICES" We mock the act not the people <redtaboo> in the process you mock the people <fritzly> we never single out a user <redtaboo> they aren't seperate things <JustPassingThrough> youve singled out the entirety of qatar <fritzly> cuz they suck <JustPassingThrough> well ya <fritzly> and oppressive <redtaboo> except when you tell them to post their problems there from the help subreddits? * JustPassingThrough is now known as JustQataringThrough <fritzly> better than removing the post without reason <redtaboo> that wasn't mocking the person? <fritzly> No. It was advertising <redtaboo> lol <fritzly> Plus those comments had legitimate advice the ops thanked me for it. * JustQataringThrough is now known as JustPassingThrough <fritzly> removing it 13 hours after did nothing but showed you have a bias against comedy /s <redtaboo> or someone had just reported it? <fritzly> Doesn't matter if someone reported it. It didn't break the rules. <fritzly> It also wasn't down voted <redtaboo> lol <fritzly> not like that played a factor but it shows people were not unhappy with it <fritzly> redtaboo, can I redirect to /r/karmacourt or is no satirical subs allowed in the help subs? <redtaboo> no subreddits like that, te help subreddits are for helping people not starting witch hunts <redtaboo> karma court is good at those * Forest\|_ (Forest@user/ForestL) has joined channel #modtalk <fritzly> which hunts? <fritzly> Who is talking about witch hunts? <TomRiddle> karmacourt is great at starting witchhunts <TomRiddle> remember when they made that video to say fuck you to a user? <fritzly> Yeah <fritzly> that isn't a witch hunt <TomRiddle> ahh, goood times <TomRiddle> tfw they are all neckbeards <TomRiddle> http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe/comments/19192k/moderators_of_rkarmacourt_make_a_video_telling_a/ here <fritzly> remember when NotAMethAddict was a mod there <TomRiddle> seal of approval, fuck yeah.jpg <JustPassingThrough> isnt karmakourt supposed to be roleplaying and not stupid <TomRiddle> turns out he was like 12?
The video of execution of American hostage Nick Berg in Iraq is threatening to develop into a major scandal. During a press conference the father of the beheaded American accused Bush and Rumsfeld of killing his son. There are more and more suspicions that Nick Berg was really executed not by Arab militants, but by the US intelligence services in order to divert the attention from the scandal about the tortures in Baghdad prison. First there was a report that a video showing an execution of an American expert captured in Iraq was shown on a so-called 'Islamic extremist' website. It was reported that the execution was carried out by a group of guerillas tied to Al-Qaeda in order to take revenge for the tortures that the American soldiers did to Iraqi inmates. The video shows five men, whose faces are hidden behind black masks and traditional Arab scarves. They all are standing around a tied-up man with an orange suit on, the kind of suit inmates wear. The victim says to the camera: «My name is Nick Berg, my father’s name is Michael, my mother’s name is Susan. I have a brother and a sister, David and Sarah. I live in Philadelphia ». After these words they got him down on the floor, put a big knife to his throat and cut his head off, while screaming 'Allah Akbar' ('God is Great'). The video footage was called «Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi shows killing of an American». A day before the video was shown, Mr. Berg’s parents were told that their son’s body was found near a highway in Baghdad. The scene of the execution and the comments on it were the number one news in the world’s mass media for some time. Then the CIA experts released a statement saying that Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was the man in mask who beheaded the US citizen Nick Berg in front of a camera. Then Western commentators and moralists took over and launched a campaign to vindicate the Americans exposed for torturing Iraqi inmates. Compared to the brutal murder of an American with cutting his head off, the tortures of Iraqis in prisons started looking like minor pranks of undisciplined soldiers. Another factor was that the beheaded victim was a Jew, which was picked up by the Zionists immediately to justify their actions and to show what kind of enemy they have to be dealing with.
We see it, of course, in quantum mechanics itself. And what is BQP, if not P=BPP with Nature’s trademark little twist?
Investigative holds initiated by [Ville Platte Police Department] VPPD often last for 72 hours—and sometimes significantly longer—forcing detainees to spend multiple nights sleeping on a concrete floor or metal bench. Indeed, VPPD's booking logs indicate that, from 2012-2014, several dozen investigative holds extended for at least a full week. During this time, VPPD exerts control over the detainees' liberty: The detained person is not permitted to make phone calls to let family or employers know where they are, and have access to bathrooms and showers only when taken into the jail's general population area. Similarly, [Evangeline Parrish Sheriff's Office] EPSO's investigative holds often last for three full days. During that time, detainees are forced to sleep on the Parish Jail's concrete floor. One EPSO deputy reported that he saw someone held without a warrant or a probable cause determination for more than six days. As with VPPD, EPSO also controls the detainee's liberty. EPSO does not permit detainees who are "on hold" to make phone calls to let family or employers know their whereabouts. Indeed, we were told that certain detectives have threatened EPSO jail officers (referred to as "jailers" in the Parish Jail) with retaliation if the officers allowed detainees to make phone calls. One EPSO jail officer described an incident in which an EPSO detective reprimanded him after the jail officer provided toothpaste and other personal supplies to a person locked in the holding cell. These investigative holds are not even ostensibly supported by probable cause. Both EPSO and VPPD detectives acknowledged that they use investigative holds where they lack sufficient evidence to make an arrest, but instead have a "hunch" or "feeling" that a person may be involved in criminal activity. One VPPD officer noted that they use investigative holds specifically where the officer needs more time to develop evidence to support a lawful arrest. Similarly, an EPSO detective described using investigative holds when he had "a pretty good feeling" or a "gut instinct" that a certain individual was connected to a crime.
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Last, but not least, uninstalled natural body parts can now spoil and thus need freezing.have also been completely refactored. Material costs are now more proportional with the size and complexity of each part, and most parts above 'Basic' tier also require textiles (simple needs cloth, bionic needs synthread, etc.). Parts above basic tier also take longer to make, and you no longer 'upgrade' lower tier parts to get high tier parts; I envisioned them as having completely different architectures.are more component-intensive to build, and less resource-intensive - with the exception of the basic prosthetic bench, which just had its build cost nudged down. EPOE workbenches are also no longer instantly buildable, and their work to build is based around vanilla workbenches for more consistency with vanilla. The Basic Prosthetic workbench also now needs the 'Basic Prosthetics' research to be constructed; another oversight in base EPOE.include the effective removal of the rather gimmicky golden eye, most surgical operations taking as long as they do in vanilla as opposed to significantly less, and removing surgery success chance variations in most medical operations for consistency with the 'surgery success chance' stat. Additionally, Brain Stimulators and AI Chips now work properly for brain-damaged pawns.Ykara for their original work: Expanded Prosthetics & Organ EngineeringSomebody who wishes to remain anonymous for the B18 update.Marnador for the RimWorld-style fontAs previously mentioned, this mod is dependent on EPOE, so you must have both this and EPOE active. Remember to load this after EPOE since it adds research that has EPOE researches as prerequisites.This mod will not work with Rah's Bionics & Surgery Expansion since that doesn't have EPOE's glitterworld implants or energized components.If you're using Combat Extended, place this above Combat Extended in the load order. This edits Steel Arm's melee verbs, but CE then removes it.This can be added to existing savegames if you don't have any pawns with golden eyes present.Like this mod? Check out my other mods here
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However Chinese savings rates are over double other Asian savings rates - this is the highest savings rate in history and the main cause is the one-child policy.Low and middle income Chinese have very limited savings options The Chinese lower income and middle class people have extremely limited savings options. There are capital controls and they cannot take their money out of the country. So they can't invest in any foreign assets. Their local share market is unbelievably corrupt. I have looked at many Chinese stocks listed in Shanghai and corruption levels are similar to Chinese stocks listed in New York. Expect fraud. What Chinese are left with is bank deposits, life insurance accounts and (maybe) apartments.Bank deposits and life insurance as a savings mechanism in China Bank deposits rates are regulated. You can't get much different from 1 percent in a bank deposit. Life insurance contracts (a huge savings mechanism) are just rebadged bank deposits - attractive because the regulated rate is slightly higher. This is a lousy savings mechanism because inflation has been between 6 and 8 percent (but is now lower than that and is falling fast). At almost all times (except during the height of the GFC) the inflation rate has been higher - often substantially higher - than the regulated bank deposit (or life insurance contract) rate. In other words real returns for bank accounts are consistently negative - sometimes sharply negative. You might ask why people save with sharply negative returns. But then you are not facing starvation in your old age because of the "four grandparent policy". Moreover because of the underlying economic growth (moving peasants into a manufacturing economy) there are increasing quantities of these savings every year. This is the critical point - the negative return to copious and increasing Chinese bank deposits drives a surprising amount of the global economy and makes sense of many things inside and outside China.The Chinese property market as a savings mechanism Chinese people have very few savings mechanisms. The major ones (bank deposits and their life-insurance contract twins) have sharp and consistently negative real returns. Beyond that they have property. Bank deposits have sometimes 5 percent negative returns. If you got 1 percent negative returns from property - well - you would be doing well. Buying an empty apartment and leaving it empty will do fine provided you can sell the property at some stage in the future.
And proceeded to tell–which was the Jewish neighborhood–and proceeded to basically say to him as far as he was concerned, every Jew was a communist and every communist was a Jew. And I think that’s something that J. Edgar Hoover shared, that kind of a sentiment. When Pearl Harbor comes, the FBI has a list of Japanese to arrest, but I was wondering, if they haven’t put Hermann Schwinn under surveillance until three weeks before Pearl Harbor, how do they know which Nazis to arrest? And the answer is, from 1933–1939 on, from the moment World War II started, Leon Lewis and Joe Roos were sending the FBI military intelligence and naval intelligence, lists of all the dangerous Nazis in L.A., and people to be put under suspicion. And they divided it eventually into three lists: the most dangerous, dangerous, and just keep under surveillance. And those names were the names, when I read the list of who was arrested after Pearl Harbor, they were all the names sent by Lewis and Roos. And I went to the National Archives just to check it out, and I found the original document. And what the FBI had done is to simply retype the memos that Roos and Lewis had sent them, claim it as their own, and all the descriptions, the addresses, were all theirs. So the FBI was monitoring some of the Japanese, but they never saw the Germans and Nazis as any problem at all.
‘Agami karma’ will accrue from actions — both good and evil — of our present life and will influence our future lives.The third and the most important one is the ‘prarabdha karma’which is already bearing fruit in our current life and shapes our destiny. The wise understand that the primary aim of our life is to realise God by striving to achieve perfection. By doing so, the fire of knowledge reduces agamai karma and helps in attaining salvation. Hence it is instructive to make efforts to be righteous and to connect with the Self. Right knowledge helps in destroying sanchita karma as well.However, prarabdha karma will have to run its course in our present life.A karma yogi,with evenness of mind and steadfast resolve, may not be affected by it. Krishna explained Karma Yoga to Arjuna — Karma Yoga is when an individual performs his duty with a combination of vidya or consciousness with ego and avidya, egoless ignorance. The best state to be in while doing your duties is to be in the state of egoless consciousness. KarmaYogi strives to attain freedom from God’s maya, prakriti, the lower truth and succeeds in realising the Self. Karma is an action with desire, when the doer is attached with a sense of doership.However, when the sense of doership disappears, no matter what is done, action becomes harmless and can no longer bind the jiva to the body for rebirth. On the other hand, even if an individual is inactive but the idea of doership is lingering in his thoughts, he is constantly creating desire.The thought — “I am the doer of an action,” is deluded by egoism and adds to already accumulated karma. Finally to attain eternal bliss and happiness, a mortal being should strive to achieve perfection by performing his dedicated duty selflessly. This would be a stepping stone for realising God in future and help him get liberated from the cycle of birth and death.
Peter Singer: Jewish Moralist Cowen: Let me try giving you my reading of Peter Singer, which is highly speculative, and I'm not even saying it's true, it's just what I think when I read you, especially the later Peter Singer, and I'm just curious to hear your reaction to it. My reading is this: that Peter Singer stands in a long and great tradition of what I would call "Jewish moralists" who draw upon Jewish moral teachings in somehow asking for or demanding a better world. Someone who stands in the Jewish moralist tradition can nonetheless be quite a secular thinker, but your later works tend more and more to me to reflect this initial upbringing. You're a kind of secular Talmudic scholar of Utilitarianism, trying to do Mishna on the classic notion of human well being and bring to the world this kind of idea that we all have obligations to do things that make other people better off, that you're very much out of the classic European, Austrian, Viennese, ultimately Biblical tradition about our obligations to the world. What do you say? Singer: I'm amused, I have to say. I think it's interesting. You're right that I come from a Jewish family. It was a pretty secular Jewish family, so I never got as a child, actually, a lot of Jewish teaching, never went to Jewish Sunday school, I never learned Hebrew, I never had a Bar Mitzvah, I never read the Torah. So if I had got some of that it must have come kind of at a distance through, sort of, osmosis, as you say this vaguely Jewish Viennese culture that certainly was part of my family background but was very much secularized. The interesting thing to speculate is whether I'm doing something that, say, someone out of the British Utilitarian tradition, the tradition of Bentham and Mill and Sidgwick could not have done. What are the distinctive features of my version of Utilitarianism that they would have rejected? And if there is something, it probably is attributable to that background you mention. But I'd be interested in your answer, what do you think that there is in my view that Bentham or Mill or Sidgwick could not have whole-heartedly endorsed? Cowen: I'm not sure if there's anything, but I think the mere fact that it is you who is doing it nonetheless reflects something about this.
Demop. If instead of prophesying with undisguised pleasure the downfall of Christianity, you would only consider how infinitely indebted European humanity is to it, and to the religion which, after the lapse of some time, followed Christianity from its old home in the East! Europe received from it a drift which had hitherto been unknown to it — it learnt the fundamental truth that life cannot be an end-in-itself, but that the true end of our existence lies beyond it. The Greeks and Romans had placed this end absolutely in life itself, so that, in this sense, they may most certainly be called blind heathens. Correspondingly, all their virtues consist in what is serviceable to the public, in what is useful; and Aristotle says quite naïvely, “Those virtues must necessarily be the greatest which are the most useful to others“ ([Greek: anankae de megistas einai aretas tas tois allois chraesimotatas], Rhetor. I. c. 9). This is why the ancients considered love for one’s country the greatest virtue, although it is a very doubtful one, as it is made up of narrowness, prejudice, vanity, and an enlightened self-interest. Preceding the passage that has just been quoted, Aristotle enumerates all the virtues in order to explain them individually. They are Justice, Courage, Moderation, Magnificence ([Greek: megaloprepeia]), Magnanimity, Liberality, Gentleness, Reasonableness, and Wisdom. How different from the Christian virtues! Even Plato, without comparison the most transcendental philosopher of pre-Christian antiquity, knows no higher virtue than Justice; he alone recommends it unconditionally and for its own sake, while all the other philosophers make a happy life — vita beata — the aim of all virtue; and it is acquired through the medium of moral behaviour. Christianity released European humanity from its superficial and crude absorption in an ephemeral, uncertain, and hollow existence.
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Incredibly efficient. And . . . to be honest, I didn’t resent it; hell, I loved it. I got to be an emperor, and while the simulation gave me opportunities, each step—each grueling quest or accomplishment—had to be my own. I’d earned this life. Thinking of the millions upon millions of others who had done the same, though . . . that unnerved me. Were there millions of Besks, and millions of Shales, millions of mes, all living beneath a Grand Aurora? Everything else in my existence had taught me I was unique, important, and powerful. I rebelled at the idea that I might just be another person. “It will not take long, my lord,” Besk said. “Choose one of the women from the list—the Wode ranked them for you with compatibility projections—and send her a request to meet. Perhaps you could dine together.” “A woman from their list,” I snapped. “A Liveborn woman, with her own world to rule. Lords, she’ll be insufferable.” The closest I ever wanted to get to another Liveborn was across the battlefield in a Border State, and it had taken me some time to warm even to that. My first meeting with Melhi had— “My lord,” Besk said. “The wall.” I started, realizing that something had changed the stone wall of the stairwell. Words were appearing in the stone, as if chiseled there, each line sinking in a trough. CHILD EMPEROR. I HAVE CREATED A NICE SURPRISE FOR YOU. “Melhi, you snake! How did you hack my palace? You’re violating the precepts of engagement.” THE PRECEPTS ARE ONLY WORDS. SO ARE SCREAMS. I WILL HEAR YOURS FOR THE INSULT YOU GAVE ME. “My spies already told me of your robot, Melhi. You should stop sending those. They never work properly in my State.” I didn’t mention that I’d been surprised at how well they did work. Far better than Lancing would have worked in his State, where the laws of physics were different. YOU WILL SCREAM, CHILD. YOU WILL SCREAM. I entered Lancesight. Here I could see the Grand Aurora even through the stone of the palace—but I stepped backward anyway, into the doorway, where the Aurora’s light could strike me directly. I drew strength into my arms from that warmth, then pushed it from me in a wave.
IT IS A TESTAMENT to the degree to which presentation overshadows practice in modern political life that 49 percent of Americans approve of George W. Bush. Here is a President not only on the wrong side of history in almost every particular, but one whose misjudgments continue to constrain the country in measurable ways into the present. He is the author of two wars, one entered into based on faulty information, that have cost thousands of American, Iraqi and Afghani lives and further destabilized the Middle East, delivering it to the machinations of Islamic militants and increasing threats to our national security. To fund these wars, he employed deficit spending that could have been used to grow human and material capital through investments in infrastructure, education, clean energy and scientific research, among other areas. In the process of ballooning the deficit, he put further pressure on entitlement programs that were already moving toward unsustainability, helping precipitate a political crisis 20 years earlier than necessary. His concrete domestic innovation is a sprawling and convoluted defense bureaucracy lacking adequate oversight. His signature domestic initiative, a stillborn plan to privatize social security and create an “ownership society,” appears, five years into an economic downturn precipitated by unwise investments, astonishingly ill-conceived. His two most successful decisions, the 2007 “surge” and the 2008 bailout, were reversals of errors that he either caused or compounded. This would not, in sum, seem to be a politician who merits much affection from the electorate based on his policies. Yet here he is enjoying a 49 percent approval rating, the result of a successful rebranding in which his professed purity of motives have come to count for more than the quality of his actual performance.
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I they're not very good I mean I mean when delegates what they're out of those days but at which you agree -- That statement that it wanted bank and have core member of that team that we can't -- about the lowest times as they were -- and you know their history. -- -- I have been pretty bad -- is ma whatever Mike is saying there about Andrew -- -- a lot of fans are age would echo those teams made the playoffs. They went out in the first round every time but they made it. And then they usually make these limited. It just it just didn't you know. The bidding go anywhere. This this this thing lately yeah I think that's right I feel that frustration. I just think when I'm thinking about their best players they're ten best players. I got the Vatican Miller mean I just got there when I was sitting here and make analysts now wouldn't it -- that you reminded me a fully know. I forgot about if we always looking at a list of their top scorers but his top my hat. But I think -- Miller are reasonable choices. I'm happy to consider the team accomplishments I think you should -- the the maybe with the eighties guys in comparison to what those guys don't have -- -- grating mean that it was oppressed under presidents trophy team. He was first the league in plus minus that year. So. Yeah there are times when they've been really low there were times in the eighties when they were really low you know like last in the league that happened. -- their truck was on a Saber team that finished last in the league you wouldn't exactly blame him for it -- -- Mike is about to make somebody's day I gotta tell you about this no -- aren't as we've got going on here no local express. And WGR the thirty days of football. -- express given away eighty dollar gift cards twice daily. For thirty workdays if you stop the Nadeau called the couple bills being coffee sleep with a word of the -- they go to W Arafat to -- dot com -- our locker room club. Register your word there's no purchase necessary if you're name is announced. During the morning show our show you'll have 55 minutes to call and claim your gift card.
All the positive emails I get from the community. I remember a lot of them. I think the one that hit home with me was an email from a viewer, stating after watching us on The GD Studio he felt it was acceptable to play video games in his life, and generally was getting on with life with a more positive attitude towards who he is as a person. James: Favourite experiences; well it's been a lengthy journey, so let's go on an adventure!Winning the biggest MechCommander tournament (entitled WW3 haha) at a young age of around 15. The tournament was a 3v3. It felt very cool to lead 2 medical students, who went on to become doctors, to victory. But the camaraderie and sharing in the moment was amazing. I still have them on Skype to this day. They're very good at telling me what kind of STD I might have.Going to my first big LAN event, Insomnia by Multiplay in the UK. The excitement of meeting everyone was not containable, I was on a permanent high the whole event. I still remember that feeling, and my Grandparents even took me, bless them.Being scouted as talent to play for UNR in Q3 by 'Rude'. I was pretty bad compared to Blokey and others at first, but having someone believe you were good at your passion and willing to give you the opportunity to be more. It really fueled me to see how far I could go.My first UK Quake win. It was the 1v1 RA3 Covlan tournament. It wasn't so much the win, but instead having a crowd of people behind me watching, and hearing their comments between rounds on my Shaft. I don't get so many people commenting on that these days, but maybe that's a good thing.Commentating an Unmatched (legendary German team) TDM game on Winamps Shoutcast plugin back in 2004. Only 20-40 people tuned in, but it felt exhilarating to do something I didn't know I could do or not. I seemed to pull it off, as I got a lot of encouraging messages via IRC.Signing a contract to be a professional gamer with Dignitas back in 2004. ODEE even spoke to my parents before I signed. It felt nice just to look at the contract once I got it, It felt more like a ticket than a contract. A pass to do something I loved.
BBC co-commentator Brian Moore: "France have not really created anything but they find themselves in the lead because Ireland have gifted them four penalties." "France have not really created anything but they find themselves in the lead because Ireland have gifted them four penalties." 28 mins: Again poor discipline from Ireland. Donncha O'Callaghan finds himself the wrong side of a ruck after making a tackle, he does not roll away and the obvious penalty is given. Silly, silly, silly. Co-commentator Brian Moore laments that in the old days, Donncha would have got a right old shoeing for lying on the wrong side. Parra bangs over the penalty. France lead for the first time. Again poor discipline from Ireland. Donncha O'Callaghan finds himself the wrong side of a ruck after making a tackle, he does not roll away and the obvious penalty is given. Silly, silly, silly. Co-commentator Brian Moore laments that in the old days, Donncha would have got a right old shoeing for lying on the wrong side.bangs over the penalty. France lead for the first time. PENALTY: IRELAND 10-12 FRANCE 26 mins: Sloppy work from France and effective work from Ireland at the breakdown as the Irish claim possession on the floor. The home side get to half way but O'Leary's kick is aimless and goes straight out in touch. He raises his hand in apology, and well he might. That was a waste. Sloppy work from France and effective work from Ireland at the breakdown as the Irish claim possession on the floor. The home side get to half way but O'Leary's kick is aimless and goes straight out in touch. He raises his hand in apology, and well he might. That was a waste. Pebs10 on Twitter: "This is the championship decider for me. The winner of this match will get a massive boost from this contest." 22 mins: Clermont centre Aurelien Rougerie expertly collects a high ball on halfway and launches a France counter. O'Leary is penalised for not rolling away from a tackle and that man Parra steps up to fire over his third penalty. France are back in this, and make no mistake. Clermont centre Aurelien Rougerie expertly collects a high ball on halfway and launches a France counter. O'Leary is penalised for not rolling away from a tackle and that mansteps up to fire over his third penalty. France are back in this, and make no mistake.
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(photo by Rebecca Truszkowski) The Drums of October In my time, I have climbed some serious mountains, from hiking to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and bicycling over the Simplon Pass in the Alps, to facing down the uphill battles that life throws up in all our paths. However, one of the hardest climbs I ever had to make was just four steps—up to the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, on the night of October 18, 2008. In forty-three years of playing drums, I have walked onto thousands of stages, of course, and I am always tense and anxious—tense with determination to play well, and anxious about not playing well. But this stage, this performance, was, as my teacher Freddie Gruber would say, “a whole other thing.” Earlier that day, friends asked me how I was doing, and I shrugged and said, “Terrified!” They laughed, but that was a pretty accurate confession. I felt I had a lot to live up to on that stage—the weight of expectations, my own and the audience’s, and of course, the peerless drumming deity under whose name we were performing: Buddy Rich. I wanted to do my best—better than my best!—and I would only have one chance: right now. The house was full of great musicians, in the band and in the crowd, and, oh yes—the show was not only being recorded and filmed, it was streaming live on the Drum Channel Web site, all over the world . . . So as I stood at the bottom of those four little steps waiting for the stage manager’s cue, my “fight or flight” instincts were powerfully active. I must admit the “flight” option had its appeal: “Just run away, out that door over there and onto 34th Street, and don’t stop—they’ll never catch you.” But, with a supreme act of will, I decided to “fight”—go up there and . . . face the music. I could only hope all my preparation would carry me through.
Mesa 10.5.0 is now available. It's the three month effort of over 80 individuals, resulting in an excess of 1400 commits. Thanks to all who have contributed. Here are some of the highlights: - Initial support for the new Intel Skylake GPUs and Adreno 4xx GPUs. - Experimental EGL support for Haiku. - The new IR - NIR. A flat, typeless IR, supporting SSA. - GLX/DRI3 fixes and improvements. - A lot of preparation work for GL_ARB_direct_state_access. - The usual amount of piglit and drawElements Quality Program (dEQP) fixes. - Building mesa with GCC 4.1 or earlier is no longer supported. - The distribution tarball has been renamed and now contains all the generated sources. Additionally the following extensions are now supported by the said drivers: - GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB on freedreno - GL_ARB_texture_rg on freedreno - GL_EXT_packed_float on freedreno - GL_EXT_polygon_offset_clamp on i965, nv50, nvc0, r600, radeonsi, llvmpipe - GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent on freedreno - GL_EXT_texture_snorm on freedreno git tag: mesa-10.5.0 ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/10.5.0/mesa-10.5.0.tar.gz MD5: 42ec15166d3efd55443d068214260903 mesa-10.5.0.tar.gz SHA1: 0b318c56ffad695a6667add030bc6c22f509fe7d mesa-10.5.0.tar.gz SHA256: 2bb6e2e982ee4d8264d52d638c2a4e3f8a164190336d72d4e34ae1304d87ed91 mesa-10.5.0.tar.gz PGP: ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/10.5.0/mesa-10.5.0.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/10.5.0/mesa-10.5.0.tar.xz MD5: 133c5264a0c81d23168a65435ad23ede mesa-10.5.0.tar.xz SHA1: 55326a6bedd80188338575df7f07a51829626974 mesa-10.5.0.tar.xz SHA256: d7ca9f9044bbdd674377e3eebceef1fae339c8817b9aa435c2053e4fea44e5d3 mesa-10.5.0.tar.xz PGP: ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/10.5.0/mesa-10.5.0.tar.xz.sig -- -Emil -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/attachments/20150307/d806fe71/attachment.sig>
It has been quite a ride and obviously, we would be honored to be able to host a Major at some point. We definitely keep in touch with Valve, trying to make sure everything we do pleases them. And yes, we did submit a bid for the Major.
- /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// -Unstable Anomaly is a decent utility, but it very much lives up to its name - now more than ever before. The Tal Rasha's set enables Wizards to push into even higher Greater Rifts and while this is absolutely awesome, it also brings to light just how unreliable this very commonly used skill really is.The Tal's set provides great damage and also comes packed with defensives to go along with it - of course as we all know, avoiding Physical and Poison damage is one of the more challenging parts of playing any Tal Rasha's setup. This is absolutely fine, don't get me wrong - it's good that there are upsides and downsides.Now, there's no mitigation for Reflect Damage for example - and one or two large hits will often kill you, depending on what kind of build you're running. This is particularly evident in non-Hydra builds (which contributes even more to the Hydra domination). Just try a Mirrorball setup or Grand Vizier/Nilfur's at high lvl GRs - you'll see what I mean. Reflect Damage scales with difficulty and deals Physical damage.I could start listing a lot of things, but I just wanted to mention Reflect Damage especially and note that many Physical/Poison monster attacks come packed with secondary attacks as well - and since those damage types aren't mitigated by the Tal's set, the shock is even more profound. I've found this to be especially true when playing difficulties we normally couldn't achieve pre-2.2. Any and all attacks hit so much harder at higher GR levels - including Reflect Damage and Physical/Poison monster attacks.Yes, of course it's possible to use gear combinations with String of Ears, Eye of Etlich, Mara's - but when you do, you often also basically disable a lot of potentially awesome builds. Unstable Anomaly is the worst Cheat Death mechanic out of all the classes. I get that Blizzard wants them to feel different, but this isn't working.
Full-size USB 3.0 port, headset jack, mini-displayport, cover port, stereo speaker, 1024-level pressure sensitive display with supplied pen, 48W power supply (including 5W USB for accessory charging) Sensors: Ambient light sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass Moving around the tablet we have an SDXC card slot, a full-size, full-power USB 3.0 port, a mini-displayport video output, headset jack, volume controls and, of course, the on/off/sleep button. On the rear we have the controversial kickstand which locks to a set 26-degree angle, and the lack of flexibility in its positioning remains an issue, just as it was on Surface RT. The same clumsy magnetic-lock power supply connection that we found on the Tegra-powered Surface is also found on the Pro (inconveniently close to the video output), along with a dock connector on the base of the unit for attaching the Touch or Type Covers. What's curious here is that the Pro interface has additional terminals compared to the RT - Microsoft has confirmed that they can channel additional power, suggesting an upcoming dock or perhaps a more robust keyboard with extra internal battery power, similar to the Asus Transformer keyboard add-ons. Gallery: Booting up the Surface Pro is a seriously impressive experience - from the super-swift boot time onwards, the product oozes quality. The 1080p IPS screen is beautifully vivid, and while it doesn't match an iPad in terms of pixels per inch, it's a revelation compared to virtually any sub-£800 laptop you may care to mention. This is matched by surprisingly good audio performance - it's just about on par with the iPad, pleasingly loud without distortion and with a decent level of bass, but it goes beyond the Apple device in offering stereo output. Other elements in the package also impress. A pack-in stylus auto-activates in proximity to the pressure-sensitive screen and, while support is limited, for certain professionals it could prove indispensible: Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik has already written in depth about what it's like to use from an artist's perspective and the response is clearly positive - it just needs more app support. Even the 48W charger supplied with the Pro has had some thought put into it - not only does it charge the Surface, but there's an integrated USB socket for topping up your smartphone's battery simultaneously.
The scam was carried out by using a computer virus — described by experts as the most dangerous malware programme ever created — that emptied the bank accounts while showing customers fake statements, the Daily Mail reported. Internet security firm M86 Security, which discovered the scam, said the hackers stole a total of £675,000 from the unnamed British bank. "We've never seen such a sophisticated and dangerous threat. Always check your balance and have a good idea of what it is," the security firm said. The latest virus is a variant of the Zeus trojan banking virus which first emerged 3 years ago and is called Zeus v3.Researchers at M86 Security said the virus attacked the systems when victims were browsing the net. It swiped the online banking ID of the customers and hijacked their online banking accounts.The malware was designed to attack only those accounts which had substantial balance, it said.Bank sites that offer two-factor authentication, such as one-time passcodes and ID tokens, are ineffective because the malware has taken over the browser after the victim has logged into the banking site, Bradley Anstis, vice president of technology strategy at M86 Security, told CNET.Meanwhile, British high street banks do not believe they have become victims of the cyber criminals. A spokesman for HSBC said, "There are millions of viruses and other malicious software. We urge people to take basic measure to protect themselves from virus attacks. Any customer who is a victim of fraud will be reimbursed by HSBC. "However, M86 said it believed one high street bank was breached and failed to act quickly after warnings last month. More than 100,000 PCs in Britain have been infected with other forms of the trojan virus. According to Financial Fraud Action UK , about £59.7 million was lost to online banking fraud last year. Another £440 million was lost to credit card fraud.
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Then, closer to Florence, we will stop at Poppi for a lunch (included in the price) and visit this beautiful town and it’s famous Castle. We will make another pass called “ Consuma Pass” to reach Florence.
Akeson, of course, led the fledgling Lehigh Valley Phantoms last season by scoring 23 goals in only 57 AHL games and also finished second on the team in points with 53 despite also skating in a baker’s dozen NHL games for the Flyers. So far this term, the fifth-year pro is currently second in scoring (11 ga, 3 go, 8 pts, 6 pen, – 8 def) for his new club although his plus/minus rating is not impressive.
Since Silicon Valley is the birthplace of computer technology, it just made sense for the Guardian to be the resident computer hacker.”With the highly anticipated unveiling of the 30 individual Guardians within the Guardian Project, the Guardian 30 Match-Up is a Facebook application that enables fans to determine the order in which each team’s Guardian will be unveiled. Launched on December 20, hockey fans determine which team wins each match-up, with team superhero character revealed daily.Created and developed by Stan Lee, Chargin, and Jake Shapiro, each Guardian has been derived from its corresponding NHL team, complete with special powers representative of each team and city.With an initial plan to reach an all-family audience and narrower target demo of tween boys, GME hopes to bring a new audience to the NHL, while engaging the existing, established hockey fan base through a compelling tale of good vs. evil.Fans can continue to vote for their favorites and learn about the Guardian Project and the individual Guardians, as they’re unveiled, at www.guardianproject30.com and by going to www.facebook.com/theguardianproject Guardian Media Entertainment (GME) is a partnership between the National Hockey League (NHL) and SLG Entertainment, LLC, led by Stan Lee (Chairman, POW! Entertainment, LLC).GME will serve as the company responsible for the creation, development and exploitation of The Guardian Project. The executive team includes Howard Baldwin, Chairman, Mark Terry, Chief Operating Officer; Adam Baratta, Chief Creative Officer; Tony Chargin, Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs; Aldo LaPietra, Executive Vice President, Production & Business Development; and Jennifer Sprague, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications.The National Hockey League, founded in 1917, is the second oldest of the four major professional team sports leagues in North America. Today, the NHL consists of 30 Member Clubs, each reflecting the League’s international makeup, with players from more than 20 countries represented on team rosters. According to a Simmons Market Research study, NHL fans are younger, more educated, more affluent, and access content through digital means more than any other sport. The NHL entertains more than 250 million fans each season in-arena and through its partners in national television (VERSUS, NBC, TSN, CBC, RDS, RIS, NASN, ASN and NHL Network™) and radio (NHL Radio™, Sirius XM Radio and XM Canada). Through the NHL Foundation, the League’s charitable arm, the NHL raises money and awareness for Hockey Fights Cancer™ and NHL Youth Development, and supports the charitable efforts of NHL players.
TL;DR: Assassin's Creed is a pretty cool game to run. You should run it. This is my favourite game, and it pains me to see that almost noone runs it. I think this is mostly because most runners don't know about the myriad of ways you can skip things and do cool things in Assassin's Creed. Mostly because this content is located at TheHiddenBlade.com. If you are looking to run any of the Assassin's Creed games, be sure to check out that site. Just ask Fed981981.This topic serves to educate and make speedrunners aware of the fact that AC1 is a fun game to run. I'm currently making a segmented run of this game, but I'm routing and running segments simultaneously, so I don't have optimized routes for any targets after Tamir.Just beware that this is a knowledge bomb. of over 2000 words. That's how much there is to this game, and I didn't even go into very deep detail on mechanics. At first I had a bunch of videos inline, but that took way too long to load, so I just kept the coolest inline and linked the rest.Before we dig into exploits and stuff, here's what a route can look like:So I'll explain a bunch of route-specific stuff from the video later, but first a couple of the main exploits you'll want to know.The most important one is. This is what you see me do to the monk in the video. You jump towards a target, lock onto them in mid-air, and then bump into them, which will skip their dialog. If it's the only character involved in the scene, this will completely skip the scene.A couple weeks ago I also found that you could use Jump and Bump on scenes with multiple people, most notably pickpockets. However, it is a bit more difficult because all parties playing a part in the scene must be bumped, and you have to get around the invisible walls which are put up once you start the scene by locking on.The way you usually do this is by jumping onto a rooftop, and bumping one guy into the next. You can see this in the final moments of the route video. It works in more places, but not always because sometimes the geometry and freerunning mechanics simply don't allow it.The second important mechanic is.
The way forward Scientists, engineers, advocates and flood plain managers say the National Flood Insurance Program is broken. Congress has failed to fix it. Experts generally agree on several solutions: — Stop insuring new construction in the flood plain. Builders in Houston are allowed to construct new homes in the flood plain as long as the homes are elevated to or above flood levels — a tactic that doesn't always spare them from flooding. There are now roughly 26,000 more homes in the Houston-area flood plain than 20 years ago. That was not the goal of the National Flood Insurance Program, which was designed to insure existing homes in the flood plain and discourage new ones. But that doesn't mean taxpayers have to pay to insure those homes. Congress considered barring new development from the flood insurance program as recently as this fall, but the provision was dropped from legislation. — Increase buyout money for properties that are damaged repeatedly. Homes that have been flooded multiple times are hard to sell, and, when sold, often go to unwitting buyers, trapping them in properties that will likely flood again — and demand repeated payments from taxpayers. When the federal or local government buys out homes, however, they demolish the buildings, ending the cycle. Roughly 5,500 Harris County properties have been targeted for buyouts. —Update flood plain maps regularly. The federal government has no requirement to update flood maps. In the Houston area, the maps range from being 3 years old to 30. If updated more regularly, they would reflect new construction, new rainfall trends and new flood control projects. The more recent the data, the better the flooding estimates will be. — End grandfathering of insurance premiums. The National Flood Insurance Program purposely discounted rates 45 years ago, soon after its creation, to get more homeowners to buy insurance. But many of those premiums have stayed artificially low. In some cases, homeowners can even pass on "grandfathered" rates when they sell their homes. Experts say rates should reflect real risks, and make residents think twice before buying in flood plains — reducing damage to homes, payouts and buyouts from the federal government. As long as insurance rates remain low and claims continue to rise, the National Flood Insurance Program will fall even deeper into debt. — Offer financial aid to help poor homeowners pay full-risk premiums.
UNITED NATIONS: Diwali was commemorated for the first time at the United Nations , with the world body's imposing headquarters here lit up especially on the occasion of the Indian festival of lights.The facade of the UN headquarters was lit in bright hues and the words ' Happy Diwali ', along with the image of a traditional 'diya', projected onto the building. "Lighting up. @UN lights up for #Diwali for 1st time," India's Ambassador to the UN Syed Akbaruddin tweeted. "Happy Diwali! @UN celebrates Diwali for 1st time. Thank you @UN_PGA for this initiative," Akbaruddin said in another tweet, thanking General Assembly President Peter Thomson for the initiative.He also tweeted a picture of passers-by clicking photographs of the building as well as being themselves clicked against the illuminated UN headquarters in the background.Thomson also tweeted a picture of the UN building lit up in bright blue for Diwali and said "Light over darkness, hope over despair, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil - the UN lights up. Happy Diwali! "The UN Secretariat building will be lit up for Diwali from October 29-31.It is for the first time that the Indian festival of lights is celebrated at the world body after the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in December, 2014 that acknowledged the "significance of Diwali".Noting that the festival is observed in many UN member states, the resolution had called on UN bodies to avoid holding meetings on Diwali, declaring it a no-meeting day.From 2016 onwards, Diwali was made an optional holiday for the UN, India's Permanent Mission to the world body said in a special video message.Earlier in June, the UN building was lit up on the occasion of the International Yoga Day, with images of Yoga postures projected on the imposing headquarters.
Conversely, Aksungar et al [130] did not note any changes in total cholesterol and LDL-C levels but did note decreases in the TC/HDL ratio, C-reactive protein levels, and homocysteine levels. Changes in heart rate and blood pressure have also been observed during Ramadan. Husain et al [133] observed a significant lowering of resting heart rate in men, although no changes were noted regarding the resting heart rate of women. Heart rate during steady-state aerobic exercise has also been shown to decrease during the fast compared to non-fasting values [134,135]. Regarding blood pressure, one study noted a decrease in both resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure -although this change was noted in both fasters and non-fasters, raising a question regarding the ability of Ramadan fasting to actually promote such an effect [136] while four studies found no difference in either variable [135,137-139]. Ramadan (2002) [135] compared blood pressure changes during steady-state aerobic exercise during and after Ramadan fasting. Systolic - but not diastolic - blood pressure significantly increased during exercise when subjects were fasting. Contrastingly, neither systolic nor diastolic blood pressure changed during exercise in subjects who were not fasting. To our knowledge, only two studies to date have examined the effects of Ramadan fasting on oxidative stress and antioxidant status, highlighting an important area for future research. Ibrahim et al [123] observed a reduction in malondialdehyde (MDA) erythrocyte concentrations, while no changes were noted regarding levels of either serum MDA or plasma protein-bound carbonyls. No changes were found regarding the concentration of glutathione or the activities of glutathione peroxidase and catalase in erythrocytes. Plasma levels of ß-cryptoxanthin and total carotenoids significantly decreased during Ramadan fasting, and plasma levels of vitamin C, β-carotene, lycopene, and lutein were non-significantly reduced. No changes were noted regarding plasma levels of α-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol, retinol, α-carotene, and zeaxanthin. Chaouachi and colleagues [140] reported that blood levels of vitamin A increased, while blood levels of vitamin E decreased during Ramadan fasting. As with the reports of Ramadan's effects on markers of cardiovascular health, similarly mixed results are available regarding Ramadan fasting and the ability to improve glucoregulatory health. Two studies have noted a decrease in fasting blood glucose following Ramadan [123,132], while a recent study noted no effect on blood glucose levels [131]. Kassab et al [141] noted that serum leptin levels increased during Ramadan by 37% and 39% in obese and nonobese subjects, respectively.
On rebirth and the iIncentive of external rewards One of the reasons why naturalists suggest that rebirth ought to be separated from karma is because they hold that rebirth encourages the pursuit of external rewards such as wealth and status in a future life, rather than on the development of character in the present life.34 Such a claim however neglects morality and the independent thoughts of those who believe in rebirth, by confining their concerns to external rewards. According to Lawrence Kohlberg’s (1927 ~ 1987) theory of moral development, the earliest stage in which a person becomes capable of moral consideration is childhood, which Kohlberg terms the “pre-conventional level.”35 One of the characteristics of this level of morality is defining ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ in terms of what results from actions in terms of rewards and punishments. Thus, parents often motivate their children to act in accordance with their wishes by proverbially ‘dangling the carrot before the donkey’. Although external rewards may well in some cases motivate certain types of behavior in Buddhist culture, a blanket statement such as ‘all those who believe in karma and rebirth pursue external rewards’, simply does not hold true. In Mahayana Buddhism, the so-called “bodhisattvas” forsake benefit to self by devoting themselves to work for the well-being of all living beings life after life and to nurture a virtuous character over numerous lifetimes. A fortunate rebirth is not to be pursued as an end in itself, but as a means to enable a practitioner to engage in further virtue for the benefit of others. As such, the accumulation of positive potential through the practice of giving in this life for example, which could manifest in a future life as material welfare, is part of the selfless motivation to benefit others and is a necessary component of realizing Buddhahood. According to Mahayana texts, great bodhisattvas always resolve to be reborn again and again and even vow to be reborn in hell so that they may continuously save beings until such time as the entire realm of hell has been emptied.36 So, instead of focusing all hope on external rewards in a future life, the main concern of a bodhisattva is always to lessen the suffering of beings. One of the key conditions for them to be able to pursue this ideal, is the notion of afterlives. That is, the ambition is too great to reach in the short space of a single lifetime.
The point that we won’t want to miss is that this geopolitical distinction—national v. international—is, on Casanova’s understanding, pegged to a second, properly stylistic distinction: realist v. modernist. Writers who do not care if foreigners read them write stories about their home countries in an accessibly middling prose. Realist fiction thus becomes the symptom-in-literature of a region’s more general backwardness; it is intrinsically parochial, requiring the specifications that anchor prose to a particular pace; and writers who have the option of writing like Beckett and don’t take it stand accused of pursuing a retrograde policy. This is a point Casanova makes repeatedly and in the tones of a Viennese economist instructing protectionist Argentines to stop subsidizing wheat farmers. Such is the uneasy surprise of her book: Its entire conceptual framework is borrowed from the great anti-colonial sociologists, and a reader goes in thinking that she is trying to figure out what literature can contribute towards the liberation of colonized peoples. But it turns out that all she really cares about is the liberation of literature, and that she likes African and Latino writers most when they can serve that other end. It’s like getting to the last page of Wallerstein and finding out that he’d been promoting free markets all along. Casanova thus reliably inverts the anti-colonial position, championing Caribbean and Arab and Asian writers when they take up European intellectual tools against their own peers, as when she praises the Algerian novelist Rachid Boudjedra for “employing the weapons of writers in the center in order to subvert social and religious proprieties [in North Africa].” What in the first twenty-five pages she exposes, with great agility, as the “naïve” idea of a “pure, dehistoricized, denationalized, and depoliticized conception of literature,” she reinstates gullibly in her final paragraphs as a “truly autonomous literary revolution,” commending modernist fiction for generating a second “independent world” to shadow the one we actually live in, which I think anyone would have to admit is a rather peculiar definition of “world literature”: a literature as little as possible about the world.
Obesity has risen steadily in the United States over the past 150 years,1 with a marked uptick in recent decades.2 In the United States today more than 35% of adults3 and nearly 17% of children aged 2–19 years are obese.4 Obesity plagues people not just in the United States but worldwide, including, increasingly, developing countries.5 Even animals—pets, laboratory animals, and urban rats—have experienced increases in average body weight over the past several decades,6 trends not necessarily explained by diet and exercise. In the words of Robert H. Lustig, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, “[E]ven those at the lower end of the BMI [body mass index] curve are gaining weight. Whatever is happening is happening to everyone, suggesting an environmental trigger.”7 Many in the medical and exercise physiology communities remain wedded to poor diet and lack of exercise as the sole causes of obesity. However, researchers are gathering convincing evidence of chemical “obesogens”—dietary, pharmaceutical, and industrial compounds that may alter metabolic processes and predispose some people to gain weight.8,9 Obesity is rising steadily around the world. Convincing evidence suggests that diet and activity level are not the only factors in this trend—chemical “obesogens” may alter human metabolism and predispose some people to gain weight. Fetal and early-life exposures to certain obesogens may alter some individuals’ metabolism and fat-cell makeup for life. Other obesogenic effects are linked to adulthood exposures. Joseph Tart/EHP; woman: gokhanilgaz/iStockphoto; fat cells: David M. Phillips/Photo Researchers, Inc.; fetal development cycle: Dragana Gerasimoski/Shutterstock.com; french fries: Richard Peterson/Shutterstock.com The idea that chemicals in the environment could be contributing to the obesity epidemic is often credited to an article by Paula Baillie-Hamilton, published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in 2002.10 Her article presented evidence from earlier toxicologic studies published as far back as the 1970s in which low-dose chemical exposures were associated with weight gain in experimental animals. At the time, however, the original researchers did not focus on the implications of the observed weight gains.
"You have this pain in your stomach. And you have to try to prove that you’re straight. Just overwhelming weight and stress." For a while, Collins dated women. But later, he’d just tell his teammates that he had a girlfriend who lived in another city. Collins says keeping his secret even affected how he played basketball. "So, my role on an NBA basketball team was the defensive stopper, was to be the most physical player on the team. I love that role. I love contact. I love hitting," Collins says. "And I guess, I took all of my emotion, all of that stress, all of that anger for not being able to live my authentic life at that point and just used it on the court as fuel. To fire me." But during the NBA lockout of 2011, Collins was suddenly facing a life without basketball. And that’s the moment when everything started to change. "I was sitting on my couch with my dog, watching TV and thinking, 'Is this going to be it for the rest of my life?'" So, Collins started coming out to those closest to him. That fall, he ended up in Boston with the Celtics and decided to take a risk. Looking back, it could have been a big one. He chose jersey No. 98 to acknowledge the year 1998, when a gay college student named Matthew Shepard was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming. "I wanted to acknowledge this new identity that I was becoming more and more comfortable with," Collins says. "So each time that I put on my jersey, whether it be a practice or a game, I was wearing jersey No. 98." It’s rare for any basketball player to wear a number higher than 55. It’s discouraged because referees have to use their fingers to signal the jersey number of a player being called for a foul. So, when Collins asked for No. 98, the Celtics equipment manager asked why. And Collins, as he had done for so many years, came up with a lie. "I remember saying that it’s because I like to foul a lot — which is true — and I wanted to mess with the referees," Collins says. "So I started hiding in plain sight." Listen to OAG anytime. Subscribe to the Only A Game podcast. iTunes \| Stitcher \| RSS link Collins says he was happy in Boston.
ww2dbaseAt the rank of petty officer first class, Sakai re-joined the Tainan Air Group in Apr 1942, now based at Lae, New Guinea. On 17 May, together with fellow aces Hiroyoshi Nishizawa and Toshio Ohta, the three young pilots pulled a stunt of performing aerial acrobatics over an Allied airfield; the performance was done without any anti-aircraft fire, but they were later scolded by commanding officer Lieutenant (jg) Junichi Sasai. His tenure in New Guinea saw the most of his kills during the Pacific War. His unit was relocated to Rabaul in New Britain, Solomon Islands on 3 Aug, just days before the Americans launched the Guadalcanal campaign. The Tainan Air Group attacked Henderson Field almost daily, and Sakai saw many engagements there. On 8 Aug 1942, he scored a killed against a F4F Wildcat fighter flown by James "Pug" Southerland over Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. After an extended dogfight where no one seemingly had a clear upper hand over, Sakai was able to hit Southerland's fighter underneath the left wing root, downing it. As he engaged SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers from carrier Enterprise over Guadalcanal, however, he was not successful. He fired 232 rounds at one, scoring several hits but unable to disable the heavily-armored aircraft, he was hit by shots from the rear machine gun (manned by Harold L. Jones), blowing away his canopy and hitting him once in a head. Blinded in one eye by blood, he flew upside down periodically to prevent blood from blinding his other eye. "If I must die, at least I could go out as a Samurai. My death would take several of the enemy with me", he initially thought, as he felt the left side of his body paralyzed after his head wound. After a brief moment, he abandoned that idea as he realized his aircraft was in flyable condition, and he was able to control it despite his partial paralysis. he returned to Rabaul after a nearly 5-hour flight without his cockpit canopy. He insisted on making his debriefing report after landing, and collapsed immediately afterwards. His squadron mate Hiroyoshi Nishizawa drove him to the unit surgeon, who was able to stabilize his condition. He was evacuated to Yokosuka, Japan on 12 Aug where he endured a long surgery without anesthesia, repairing most of the damage to his head, but his right eye would never recover fully. He was out of commission for five months.
Do you wanna party? I remember picking up the VHS box for Return of the Living Dead and wondering if I was, in fact, in the mood to party. It looked inviting and the suffix “of the Living Dead” was the sort of pedigree that teenagers look for in their entertainment choices on a Friday night. I didn’t imagine I would be in for one of the most memorable film experiences of my life, but I’m sure my Friday night with Return of the Living Dead was an experience that mirrored those of thousands of others. I would go into the experience sadly unaware of the writer/director’s pedigree (the irreplaceable talent of Dan O’Bannon), but Return of the Living Dead was an unforgettable experience regardless of my prior knowledge. O’Bannon’s film was notable for its break from established zombie dogma, especially since the film’s title borrowed heavily from George Romero’s established “rules” for how the undead functioned in the movies. With the sketchy legality of the film’s naming rights sured up, O’Bannon would find himself competing with Romero as Return of the Living Dead would hit theaters only a month after Romero’s original conclusion to his Undead Saga with the underrated Day of the Dead. Looking to set his film apart, O’Bannon reimagined much of what made Romero’s movies tick: slow zombies were replaced with fast, thinking creatures. To make matters worse, O’Bannon’s undead could reproduce speech, strategize, and were impervious to anything short of total disintegration. Where some may have found it hard to believe that the shambling undead of the Romero films could ever conquer the planet, O’Bannon’s creatures were an unstoppable juggernaut. Toss in some cliche’ counterculture by making many of the film’s protagonists punk rockers, and the stage was set. Over two decades later, Return of the Living Dead still holds a special place in the hearts of many horror fans, and Scream Factory brings another addition of this classic to Blu-ray. How does it measure up? Let’s find out.
That they were payable in foreign currency would place a great continuing pressure on the Reichsmark far into the future.HOW IS A CURRENCY DESTROYED?In a sentence, a currency is destroyed by issuing or creating tremendously excessive amounts of it. Not just too much of it but far too much. This excessive issue can happen in several ways, for example by British counterfeiting as occurred with the U.S. Continental Currency, and with the French Assignats. The central bank itself might print too much currency, or the central bank might allow speculators to destroy a currency through excessive short selling of it, similar to short selling a company's shares, in effect allowing speculators to "issue" the currency.The destruction of an already pressured national currency through speculation is what concerns us in this case. A related process was recently allowed to destroy several Asian currencies, which dropped over 50% against the Dollar in a few months time, in 1997-98, threatening the livelihood of millions.It works like this: First there is some obvious weakness involved in the currency. In Germany's case it was World War One, and the need for foreign currency for reparations payments. In the case of the Asian countries, they had a need for U.S. dollars in order to repay foreign debts coming due.Such problems can be solved over time and usually require national contribution toward their solution, in the form of taxes or temporary lowering of living standards. However, because currency speculation on a scale large enough to affect the currency's value is still erroneously viewed as a legitimate activity, private currency speculators can make a weak situation immeasurably worse and take billions of dollars in "profits" out of the situation by selling short the currency in question. This doesn't just involve selling currency that they own but making contracts to sell currency that they don't own -- to sell it short.If done in large amounts, in a weak situation, such short selling soon has self-fulfilling results, driving down the value of the currency faster and further than it otherwise would have fallen. Then at some point, panic strikes, which causes widespread flight from the currency by those who actually hold it. It drops precipitously.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, and is likely to be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rainfall in Houston, Texas, causing catastrophic flooding and damage to over 200,000 homes and businesses.With over 12,000 restaurants that include everything from Ethiopian, Pakistani, barbeque, Viet-Cajun, Tex-Mex, to South African, Houston has unofficially become the most diverse city in America . But what makes Houston unique isn't just the diversity of cultures and people, it is seeing everyone come together in times of tragedy, catastrophe and chaos. Among the overwhelming number of inspirational and heroic stories during Harvey these past few weeks were chefs, owners and volunteers from Houston's burgeoning restaurant industry.A handful of these stories involving Asian Americans stood out to me. Not because they were more significant than any others, but because they demonstrated traits that went against typical Asian American stereotypes. These individuals were not weak, silent or passive. They were leaders, they were compassionate, and they wholeheartedly contributed to those who needed help. Cat Huynh , a 38-year-old chef and owner of Les Ba'get , a popular Vietnamese restaurant in Houston, was unable to get into his store with all of the roads being flooded or closed. Instead, Huynh opened his restaurant to allow local chefs and service industry volunteers to prepare food for first responders, relief workers and Harvey evacuees. Among the first to begin food preparations was notable Houston chef Richard Knight , whose past restaurants include Feast and Hunky Dory. "I saw that Richard Knight was using his canoe to rescue people during the day, and he posted on his Facebook reaching out to the community to see if there were any restaurants that were safe from the storm that could open up," says Huynh. "I opened up my kitchen and everything to the chefs and volunteers for as long as they needed it. People were losing their homes, so the least I could do was to provide a space for someone to prepare food for the first responders and people in need of a hot meal. "Utilizing Huynh's restaurant, Knight and teams of volunteers were able to produce sandwiches, tacos, and rice plates, then packaged and delivered the food to nearby shelters. Huynh estimates that at least 10,000 meals were provided in two days.
AGRA: While many Muslims have raised strong objections to singing “Vande Matram”, a self-proclaimed “lover” of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s song from the community in Agra, Gulchaman Sherwani , claims that his children are not being given admission in Muslim schools due to his passion for the national song Sherwani, who lives in Muslim dominated area of Azampara and wear clothes stitched in the tri-colours of the national flag, told TOI that his children had been removed from school after others from his community objected to their presence because he sings Vande Matram When contacted Aslam Khan, who runs School in Azampara told TOI, Sherwani’s daughter was admitted last year but after objection from other parents he was forced to remove her from the rolls. He said many people from the community had objected to her wearing tri-colour clothes like her father. He also admitted that there were objections to her father singing “Vande Matram”, despite a fatwa against singing it.Sherwani told TOI that Delhi Jama Masjid Imam, Maulana Ahmed Bukhari issued fatwa against him and dubbed him a “Kafir”. He said that the ‘fatwa’ hasn’t deterred him from singing the song.Sherwani, claimed that his family had disowned him when he was nine year old for his love for the national song. He said that had never met them since then. However, his step mother, Ajeejan, told TOI that they had never disowned him. “He himself left home due to some personal issues and wanted to stay away from us,” she claimed adding that parents never disown their children whatever the reasons are.His younger brother, Shakir Ali said, “Sherwani never listens to anyone and does things as per his own wish. Everyone in the family was annoyed with him”, he said while refusing to accept that their anger was because of Sherwani love for the national song.According to news reports published in some dailies, Sherwani had protested against a “fatwa” issued in 2006 by Sunni Ulema Board president Maulana Syed Shah Badruddin Qadri in Hyderabad, Gulchaman Sherwani, against singing of Vande Matram in schools. As a mark of protest 'Sherwani went on a fast then under the Bharat Mata statue in front of the Agra Civil Court. He had then stated, "Vande Mataram was not against Islam and by opposing its singing in schools the Maulana had committed an anti-national act.
Shape Created with Sketch. Charlottesville, Virginia Protests Show all 9 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. Charlottesville, Virginia Protests 1/9 Statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee stands behind a crowd of hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' during the 'Unite the Right' rally 12 August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. They are protesting the removal of the statue from Emancipation Park in the city. Getty Images 2/9 Militia armed with assault rifles White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' with body armor and combat weapons evacuate comrades who were pepper sprayed after the 'Unite the Right' rally was declared a unlawful gathering by Virginia State Police. Militia members marched through the city earlier in the day, armed with assault rifles. Getty Images 3/9 Trump supporters at the protest A white nationalist demonstrator walks into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. AP Photo 4/9 Racial tensions sparked the violence White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' exchange insults with counter-protesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Lee Park during the 'Unite the Right' rally Getty 5/9 Protesters clash and several are injured White nationalist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia. A state of emergency is declared. 6/9 A car plows through protesters A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The incident resulted in multiple injuries, some life-threatening, and one death. AP Photo 7/9 State police stand ready in riot gear Virginia State Police cordon off an area around the site where a car ran into a group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia AP Photo 8/9 Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after an white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia AP Photo 9/9 President Donald Trump speaks about the ongoing situation in Charlottesville, Virginia from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. He spoke about "loyalty" and "healing wounds" left by decades of racism.
BATHINDA: With the Centre and the Punjab government not assuring any compensation to farmers for managing crop residue, farmers have started preparations to burn paddy stubble after the harvest. At some places, paddy straw has been burnt collectively.According to information, meetings were being organised by activists of various farmer organisations across the Malwa region where growers were asked to take an oath to burn the stubble if the government failed to provide a bonus of Rs 200 per quintal on paddy.Several farmers of Rampura village in Bathinda and Buttar Kalan in Moga assembled at their local gurdwaras on Friday, took vows and collectively burnt paddy stubble. Sources said the collective decision to burn the straw had been taken in more than 50 villages across Bathinda, Mansa, Barnala and the Moga districts.Paddy has been sown in over 29.5 lakh hectares in Punjab, including 4.5 lakh hectares under the aromatic basmati crop. Output of the paddy in Punjab this season is expected to be 165 millon tonnes and nearly 197 lakh tonnes of paddy straw is expected to be generated, and there is provision to mix nearly 21% residue into soil or use it at other sources.Peasant outfits Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) and BKU (Dakaunda), residents of villages Chathewala, Mansa Khurd, Bhai Bakhtaur and Badiala in Bathinda have decided to burn the straw in coming days.In Mansa, farmers have taken decision to burn straw at Bhainibagha, Burj Hai, Bhai Desa, Thuthiawalia, Nangal, Heerewala, Khaara, Barnala, Khillan, Dalel Singh Wala, Matti, Aklia and Khiala villages. In Moga, paddy stubble will be set on fire at Talwandi Bhangeria and Varrey villages.BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan led the farmers in burning stubble at Buttar Kalan in Moga. He said, “The stubble will be burnt in all the villages and we will see what action the state government takes against us.”BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) Rampura Phool unit chief Sukhdev Singh and BKU (Dakonda) vice-president Gurdeep Singh said, “Many farmers assembled at the village gurdwara today to take oath to burn the stubble. They then went to the fields and collectively burnt the crop residue.”BKU (Dakaunda) secretary Gora Singh Bhainibagha said, “A kisan mela (farmer fair) was organised on Friday at Mansa where we forced the authorities to give us time to address the gathering.
ATHENS, Ohio – Ohio has gone to bowl games two years in a row, but the Bobcats also have lost to a sub-.500 Kent State in each of those two seasons. Last year’s 28-6 loss to the Golden Flashes on Black Friday was especially devastating, causing Ohio to lose a spot in the Mid-American Conference championship game. Ohio coach Frank Solich said it is important for the Bobcats to come out with a different response to the Golden Flashes’ physical style of play this year when they meet Saturday. “Last year’s game was a game that was a rough on us in a lot of ways,” Solich said. “They just outplayed us. We did not respond to the game itself. During the game, we didn’t respond well. There’s an absence there for me as to why we played the way that we did toward the end of the year.” This time it is different, but the game still has a lot of meaning. The Bobcats are following their only loss of the season, a 38-26 setback at Rutgers, and are opening MAC play. “This one’s vitally important to get off to a good start for us, as well as Kent,” Solich said. “We’re going to have to change what transpired really throughout the entire game.” The Bobcats managed only 183 yards of offense in that game, turned over the ball four times and was sacked seven times. Kent State, coming of its first victory of the season, a 33-25 defeat of South Alabama, could provide a challenge with its defense again. The Golden Flashes, despite having played at Alabama and Kansas State, have allowed a respectable 337.5 yards per game. Led by last year’s MAC Defensive Player of the Year as a freshman, defensive lineman Roosevelt Nix has 5.5 of the Golden Flashes’ 26 tackles for loss. “I think he’s a great defensive player,” Solich said. “I don’t use the word great a lot, but he’s so explosive and he’s so quick at the line of scrimmage. You look at his size and you say he’s not that big a guy. His height and his weight, there are guys in there that are bigger than him, but there’s nobody more explosive and there’s nobody that finishes plays off better than he does. Linebacker Luke Batton is the Golden Flashes’ leading tackler with 31.Linebacker C.J.
Discussion This study is the first of its kind to provide evidence for the perpetual banter between orthopaedic surgeons and anaesthetists. We have shown a small but statistically significant difference in both grip strength and intelligence score between the two groups, with higher results for orthopaedic surgeons. The intelligence scores were lower than anticipated for IQ in the medical profession. This is likely to be a reflection of the way in which intelligence was tested, and the scores derived from the rather difficult Mensa brain test may not be directly comparable to IQ scores. We selected the abbreviated Mensa test carried out by touch screen for speed and convenience. Full formal IQ testing is more time consuming and cumbersome and would have affected doctors’ willingness to participate in this study. The difference in intelligence scores between groups was unexpected. We had predicted that the anaesthetist group might outperform the orthopaedic group, as intellectually challenging activities such as crosswords and Sudoku are popular among anaesthetists. Neither activity has been found to be linked to IQ, however, and the IQ test probably assesses more complex facets of intelligence than those exercised by popular puzzles.6 Human muscle strength can be measured in many ways, and the appropriateness of testing particular muscles is debatable. Dominant hand grip strength is just one facet of overall human strength, but it is well validated, reproducible, easy, and convenient to measure.7 Orthopaedic surgery can be a physical occupation requiring a strong grip on hand operated instruments, so high grip strength is perhaps not surprising. However, many facets of anaesthesia also require a strong grip, such as manipulating a laryngoscope or maintaining a seal with a facemask. If we had assessed other medical specialties, the difference may have been more pronounced. Limitations This work has several limitations. The male preponderance in orthopaedic surgery meant that we were unable to recruit any female orthopaedic surgeons in the three hospitals included in this study, so our findings apply only to men. In the most recent manpower censuses, 94.8% of orthopaedic consultants in the United Kingdom were male compared with 71.2% of anaesthetists, so our sample is relevant to most of the population.8 9 We chose the measures for both strength and intelligence testing as a compromise between validity, cost, and convenience. A full formal IQ test lasting up to two hours per assessment and whole body isokinetic strength testing machines were outside the scope of this study.
C O N F I D E N T I A L TASHKENT 001896 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/31/2017 TAGS: PREL, PGOV, PHUM, UZ SUBJECT: UZBEK MEDIA ACCUSES U.S. OF SAIPOV MURDER REF: A. A) TASHKENT 1887 B. B) BISHKEK 1320 Classified By: P/E Chief Ted Burkhalter; reasons 1.4 (b, d). 1. (C) On October 29, Uzbek state-run television in Namangan Province broadcast a program describing murdered journalist Alisher Saipov in terms much the same as those used by the MFA in its October 30 diplomatic note (ref A). Saipov was accused of being a tool of foreign (including western) influences, mention was made of his having traveled to Iran and Pakistan (i.e., terrorist sympathies), and he was blamed for stirring up trouble between Uzbekistan and its neighbors. On October 30, the GOU-front internet website, press-uz.info, ran a Russian language article accusing "Americans" of killing Saipov. Specifically, the article mentioned the Soros Foundation, which it claimed funded Saipov (note - NED actually funded him), and then inferred that Soros was backed by the USG. The article opined that the Americans were upset that their puppet had run an interview with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader Tohir Yuldashev and wanted to get rid of him. An Uzbek language version had not yet appeared on the site, as of October 31. Comment ------- 2. (C) The GOU reaction to the Saipov murder appears both oddly frenetic yet fairly well coordinated. First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov, in addressing the murder October 30, even raised with Ambassador meetings Embassy officers had held over the past several years with individuals the GOU accuses of extremism and terrorism. In this and other meetings, Nematov has repeatedly raised the spectre of regime change and U.S. plots (always adding nicely that all this was before the Ambassador's arrival in September). 3. (C) Beyond the obviously coordinated nature of the GOU response is the question "why?" Leaving aside whether Tashkent was actually involved in this murder (which only a thorough investigation can establish), there are underlying factors which may account for the frenzied Uzbek reaction to these events. USG money continues to flow to opposition groups, human rights activists, and independent media in and around Uzbekistan, and these recipients are, generally speaking, more than critical of the GOU. With the color revolutions as a backdrop, it is quite likely some Uzbek officials continue to believe that our policies amount to regime change.
Forms and Controls I shall begin this exploration with an architecture that is both simple and familiar. It doesn't have a common name, so for the purposes of this essay I shall call it "Forms and Controls". It's a familiar architecture because it was the one encouraged by client-server development environments in the 90's - tools like Visual Basic, Delphi, and Powerbuilder. It continues to be commonly used, although also often vilified by design geeks like me. To explore it, and indeed the other architectures, I'll use a common example. In New England, where I live, there is a government program that monitors the amount of ice-cream particulate in the atmosphere. If the concentration is too low, this indicates that we aren't eating enough ice-cream - which poses a serious risk to our economy and public order. (I like to use examples that are no less realistic as you usually find in books like this.) To monitor our ice-cream health, the government has set up monitoring stations all over the New England states. Using complex atmospheric modeling the department sets a target for each monitoring station. Every so often staffers go out on an assessment where they go to various stations and note the actual ice-cream particulate concentrations. This UI allows them to select a station, and enter the date and actual value. The system then calculates and displays the variance from the target. The system highlights the variance in red when it is 10% or more below the target, or in green when 5% or more above the target. Figure 1: The UI I'll use as an example. As we look at this screen we can see there is an important division as we put it together. The form is specific to our application, but it uses controls that are generic. Most GUI environments come with a hefty bunch of common controls that we can just use in our application. We can build new controls ourselves, and often it's a good idea to do so, but there is still a distinction between generic reusable controls and specific forms. Even specially written controls can be reused across multiple forms. The form contains two main responsibilities: Screen layout: defining the arrangement of the controls on the screen, together with their hierarchic structure with one other.
Pathological beliefs tend to follow, in which, in some cases, they may seek medical help because they feel they have a disease. Self-understanding is usually reached when they find a definition that matches their feelings. Asexuality communities provide support and information that allows newly identified asexuals to move from self-clarification to identifying on a communal level, which can be empowering, because they now have something to associate with, which gives normality to this overall socially-isolating situation. [65] Asexual organizations and other Internet resources play a key role in informing people about asexuality. The lack of research makes it difficult for doctors to understand the causation. Like with any sexual orientation, most people who are asexual are self-identified. This can be a problem when asexuality is mistaken for an intimacy or relationship problem or for other symptoms that do not define asexuality. There is also a significant population that either does not understand or does not believe in asexuality, which adds to the importance of these organizations to inform the general population; however, due to the lack of scientific fact on the subject, what these groups promote as information is often questioned. On June 29, 2014, AVEN organized the second International Asexuality Conference, as an affiliate WorldPride event in Toronto. The first was held at the 2012 World Pride in London. [66] The second such event, which was attended by around 250 people, was the largest gathering of asexuals to date. [67] The conference included presentations, discussions, and workshops on topics such as research on asexuality, asexual relationships, and intersecting identities. Symbols Main article: LGBT symbols In 2009, AVEN members participated in the first asexual entry into an American pride parade when they walked in the San Francisco Pride Parade. [68] In August 2010, after a period of debate over having an asexual flag and how to set up a system to create one, and contacting as many asexual communities as possible, a flag was announced as the asexual pride flag by one of the teams involved. The final flag had been a popular candidate and had previously seen use in online forums outside of AVEN. The final vote was held on a survey system outside of AVEN where the main flag creation efforts were organized. The flag colors have been used in artwork and referenced in articles about asexuality. [69] The flag consists of four horizontal stripes: black, grey, white, and purple from top to bottom.
First, then, He is so. Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness. There are but three words, "JEHOVAH" -- for so it is in the original, -- "OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.' He is Jehovah. Read that verse, and you will clearly perceive that the Messias of the Jews, Jesus of Nazareth the Saviour of the Gentiles, is certainly Jehovah. He hath the incommunicable title of the Most High God. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." Oh, ye Arians and Socinians, who monstrously deny the Lord who bought you and put him to open shame by denying his divinity, read you that verse and let your blasphemous tongues be silent, and let your obdurate hearts melt in penitence because ye have so foully sinned against him. He is Jehovah, or, mark you, the whole of God's word is false, and there is no noun for a sinner's hope. We know, and this day we testify in his name, that the very Christ who did lie in the manger as an infant was infinite even then; that he who cried, cried for very pain as a child, was nevertheless saluted at that very moment as God by the songs of the creatures that his hands had made. He who walked in pain over the flinty acres of Palestine, was at the same time possessor of heaven and earth. He who had not where to lay his head, and was despised and rejected of men, was at the same instant God over all, blessed for evermore. He that sweat great drops of blood did bear the earth upon his shoulders. He who was flagellated in Pilate's hall was adored by spirits of the just made perfect. He who did hang upon the tree had the oration hanging upon him. He who died on the cross was the ever living, the everlasting One. As a man he died, as God he lives. As Mary's son he bled, as the son of the Eternal God he had the sway and the dominion over all the world. In nature Christ proves himself to be universal God. Without him was not anything made that was made.
Network Analysis Because network theory can provide essential insight into the structural properties of cortical connectivity networks in both health and disease [83], several network metrics of particular significance were computed for each subject, starting with the degree of each node. In our case, nodes were denoted by parcellated regions and edges were represented by fiber tracts. Nodal degree is the number of edges connected to a node and its calculation has fundamental impact upon many network measures; moreover, node degree distributions are highly informative of network architecture. The entry indexed by i and j in the distance matrix of the graph contains the minimum weighted physical length of the path connecting vertices i and j and was computed using the algebraic shortest paths algorithm [84]. Degree of connectivity is represented as the inner-most ring in Fig. 2, though was not analyzed further beyond its being utilized in the computations of some of the overall network metrics detailed below. The measurement of network attributes can be generally broken down into the examination of overall network integration – the measurement of path lengths between nodes in a network and the extent of network-wide interaction and ease of communication between distinct regions; segregation – the extent to which nodes of the network group themselves into separate communities; and small worldness – the quantification of the generally shorter path lengths and higher clustering observed in many biological and technological networks with respect to randomly connected systems [85]. To specifically measure these overall network properties, we chose to focus on three particular metrics. To assess network integration from each subject's connectivity matrix we measured the characteristic path length, a measurement of the global average of a graph's distance matrix [86]. Appropriate to our application, the weighted characteristic path length of a network may be altered as a result of brain trauma [87]. To measure the degree of segregation, we computed the mean local efficiency of each network. Investigating network segregation can be important because it can reveal how much information brain regions are able to exchange as well as the extent to which such regions remain structurally segregated from each other. In this instance, reduced efficiency might be expected as a result of a severe penetrating head wound. Finally, we measured network small worldness, i.e.
He threw his weapon down. We retrieved that weapon. Our deputy was in school at that time and was in the cafeteria just a short time before that shooting took place," Jones said.Hancock is charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, inducing panic and making terroristic threats -- all felony juvenile charges.Jones said authorities have an idea of the motive for the shooting, but they are not yet releasing it.Police released a 911 call for the incident:Dr. Peter Ekeh, the director of the trauma unit at Miami Valley, told WLWT that Smith and Caffrey are expected to make full recoveries. Ekeh said both boys were conscious when they arrived.Neither has required surgery, Ekeh said. They are expected to be released in a few days, Ekeh said.A parent of one child, whose wife entered the school, told WLWT reporter Karin Johnson that six shots were fired and described the scene as "total chaos" at the school.More: Mother of boy hit by shrapnel says son tried to save studentsImmediately after the shooting, the school went on lockdown. "About 1,600 students Pre-K through 12 and we are all in one building, another reason the entire district immediately went on lockdown. You can actually walk from the kindergarten hallway all the way to the senior hallway if you wanted to. So, it was very important for us to get the entire district locked down immediately," AJ Huff with Madison Local Schools said.Madison Local Schools received clearance from the Butler County sheriff about an hour later and students at the MJSHS were dismissed as quickly as possible.Related: Parents react to Monday shooting at Madison Jr/Sr High SchoolThe Madison Local School District will be closed Tuesday. School officials said that classes will be canceled so staff can put plans into place, including on-site counseling.Classes will resume Wednesday, Superintendent Curtis Philpot said Tuesday.Ohio Gov. John Kasich was at a town hall in Vermont on Monday when he was informed of the shooting. He offered his condolences to families.Unity Baptist Church held a prayer service at 6:30 p.m. Monday.Hancock is due in court for a detention hearing at 8:30 a.m.
To those who control your future -- employers, landlords, banks, college admission offices -- it all looks the same when the background report comes in. The FBI is barely interested in ensuring its criminal database only houses data on criminals and local law enforcement agencies seem to be totally disinterested in clearing those wrongfully charged. Once again, the public is expected to do the legwork if it ever hopes to climb higher than the lowest rung in our nation -- guiltyproven innocent.
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SafeTNA was founded in early 2012 as an inert DNA-based tracer that could be incorporated into hydraulic fracturing fluid to address contamination concerns. Initial modeling indicated that a thimble-full of the tracer would be detectable under foreseeable conditions, even when mixed with millions of gallons of fluid. The tracer uses a unique, proprietary structure to make it withstand extreme temperatures/pressures and stop codons to make it completely inert. Because DNA has the advantage of providing a near-infinite number of sequence variations, the tracer is well-specific and easily testable. We can verify the tracer presence in frac fluid by testing for it in the flowback water. In August, SafeTNA got a new name to accompany breakthroughs in the lab–we are now “BaseTrace”. Our website has background information. Since the summer, we have conducted survivability tests in our Research Triangle Park lab. We have found that the DNA-based tracer survives when mixed with samples of hydraulic fracturing fluid and flowback fluid. Likewise, it survives up to two months exposed to UV in water and flowback, much like conditions in surface impoundment ponds where flowback is being recycled. Moving into 2013, BaseTrace is partnering with North Carolina firms to conduct a few laboratory tests involving industry standards and extreme conditions. We aim to conduct field testing with an industry partner and roll this out commercially before the end of the year. Next, a simple hydrological study involving tracing groundwater will indicate its viability for detecting contamination over long distances. Based on current lab tests, BaseTrace will be pursuing a dual regulatory and commercial marketing strategy in the late summer of 2013. The process and idea are currently patent-pending. Our team is all less than one year out from finishing graduate school at Duke (with degrees in environmental science, engineering, law, and business), and we really hope to make a difference by providing answers where previously there were none.
Before we go out of our minds over global warming, shouldn’t the globe actually be warming? What’s scientific about ignoring that basic fact or for that matter, offering up incredibly expensive, unworkable plans to fight it based on climate models that have been proven wrong over and over again? What is unscientific about wanting further research on the issue to find out the degree of the threat, if there even is a threat, before spending trillions of dollars and potentially decimating our economy to fight against something so iffy that many intelligent people don’t believe it exists? Screaming “scientific consensus” while you hold up a “The End Is Coming” sign and telling sad stories about polar bears aren’t what science is supposed to be like. If and when the scientific evidence to back global warming is really there, nobody will have any trouble convincing conservatives to take it seriously.Does that really gibe with the fact that quite possibly the most popular politician in America with conservatives is Ted Cruz? Liberals try to paint conservatives as racist because many illegal aliens are Hispanic and we oppose illegal immigration. However, to conservatives, the key fact about illegal immigrants isn’t that many of them are Hispanic; it’s that they’re law-breaking foreigners whom we owe nothing. They’re breaking the law to be here, soaking up far more tax dollars than any meager amount a few of them pay into the system and they take jobs away from poor and middle class Americans. Our loyalty is to Americans -- black, white, Hispanic, Jews, Asian – you name it – and illegal aliens aren’t Americans and don’t deserve to be. We already have a way for foreigners to “get right with the law” and become Americans. It’s called immigrating here legally.Despite the fact that I have gay friends, was the first sponsor of GOProud’s Homocon, and organized a conservative effort to get Alec Baldwin fired from Capital One for his homophobic comments, I don’t support gay marriage. That’s because I’m a Christian and that means that while I can support people as human beings, I can’t support things that they do that I believe go against my religion. Even if I wasn’t a Christian, I’d still oppose gay marriage because I believe marriage is the bedrock of our society and we need to strengthen it, not weaken it by further diluting its significance and meaning.
The millipede asks in Verts voice why they are awake and suggests some food, then goes through a hole in the wall to the room with Vert is who soon walks out. At this point the party realizes that Vert is just a Meat Suit for a giant Millipede and that everyone in the city except them are actually giant millipedes that like to wear Meat Suits. The Professor and Dershawkin are met by a priest who starts pushing for them to have the Ritual of Renewal “You’ll feel like all new people!”, they decline and book it as soon they can, chased by the priest and some guards. They are able to evade with the help of invisibility and sneaking, but a sharp smell fills the air from the temple outward spread from each person as they smell it.
April, go ahead. Q All right, thank you. Sean — don’t seem so happy. Anyway, with all of these investigations, questions of what is is, how does this administration try to revamp its image? Two and a half months in, you’ve got this Yates story today, you’ve got other things going on, you’ve got Russia, you’ve got wiretapping, you’ve got — MR. SPICER: No, we don’t have that. Q There are investigations on Capitol Hill — MR. SPICER: No, no — I get it. But you keep — I’ve said it from the day that I got here until whatever that there is no connection. You’ve got Russia. If the President puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that’s a Russian connection. But every single person — Q It’s beyond that. You’re making it– MR. SPICER: Well, no — I appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is — Q It’s not my agenda. MR. SPICER: No, hold on. At some point, report the facts. The facts are that every single person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion — Republican, Democrat. So I’m sorry that that disgusts you. You’re shaking your head. I appreciate it, but — Q I’m shaking my head and I’m listening, and I’m trying to get — MR. SPICER: Okay, but understand this — that at some point, the facts are what they are, and every single person who has been briefed on this situation with respect to the situation with Russia — Republican, Democrat, Obama-appointee, career — have all come to the same conclusion. At some point, April, you’re going to have to take “no” for an answer, with respect to whether or not there was collusion. Q But my question was how do you change the perception of — MR. SPICER: We’re going to keep doing everything we’re doing to make sure that the President — that what the President told the American people he was going to do to fulfill those pledges and promises that he made, to bring back jobs, to grow the economy, to keep our nation safe — that’s what he’s been focused on since day one. We’re going to keep focusing on that every single day. Q But when Condi Rice comes Friday. Condi Rice did not support this President. She did not go to the convention.
Members of a rights organisation founded by award-winning activist Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey were allegedly attacked on Saturday evening in Rajasthan's Jhalawar by BJP legislator Kanwar Lal Meena and his supporters while police stood by watching.The group of activists were attacked in Aklera town of Jhalawar district which is in Chief Minister Vasundhara's Raje's son Dushyant Singh's Lok Sabha constituency, members of the Soochna Evam Rozgar Manch alleged.The group, an off-shoot organisation of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan or MKKS founded by Magasaysay award-winner Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, had started a drive last month to spread awareness about government accountability and had been travelling through various districts of Rajasthan.Through puppet shows and songs, the campaign has been asking people about their problems and informing them about various mechanisms available to seek redress from the government, the group said.The 'Jawabdehi Yatra' was also an exercise in making people aware of their rights and what is due to them under the government policies, they said.Today, when the drive was in Aklera town, they were attacked by three people, the members of the group said. When the activists resisted, they were allegedly attacked by another mob of over 40 people led by the local BJP legislator Kanwar Lal Meena with sticks and stones.The activists allege that even women were slapped and beaten while a camera of the group was broken. "After around 10 minutes of songs and speeches, three men with lathis attacked us. One of them charged straight at Anurag screaming 'camera le lo'," one of the activists Radhika Ganesh said.Activists part of the drive also alleged that the police deployed at the spot just stood as mute spectators and watched the sequence of events unfolding. The BJP leader has denied the attack while the state government which is led by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has so far not commented on the incident.
Uses the sound files Songpan.wav and loop.wav. pvsmorph.csd - Demonstration of the 'pvsmorph' opcode - allows morphing between two simultaneously streamed fsigs. Uses the sound files synthpad.wav, Songpan.wav and loop.wav. pvsadsyn.csd - Demonstration of the 'pvsadsyn' opcode which resynthesizes an f-signal but with more user definable options than 'pvsynth'. This opcode is similar to the opcode 'pvadd' and can be thought of as a version of that opcode for streaming f-signals. Uses the sound files Songpan.wav and loop.wav. pvswrite.csd - Demonstration of the 'pvswrite' opcode which can be used to write streaming pvoc signals as pvx files to disk during a Csound performance. pvstencil.csd - Demonstration of the 'pvstencil' opcode which masks a streaming pvoc signal according to data held in a pvx file. This technique can, as this example demonstrates, be used for noise reduction. Uses the files sample.wav and noise.pvx. pvsifd_partials_resyn.csd - Demonstration of the opcodes 'pvsifd', 'partials' and 'resyn' which together perform partial tracking analysis and resynthesis upon an audio signal. Uses the sound file AndItsAll.wav. pvstanal.csd - Demonstration of the opcode 'pvstanal', used for time-stretching and pitch shifting of sound files stored in GEN01 function tables using streaming phase vocoding. Uses the sound files AndItsAll.wav. SynthPad.wav. 808loop.wav. and, Seashore.wav. pvswarp.csd - Demonstration of the opcode 'pvswarp', used for modulating the spectral envelope of an fsig in two different ways. Uses the sound files AndItsAll.wav, 808loop.wav and SynthPad.wav. mincer.csd - Demonstration of the 'mincer' opcode which performs phase locked vocoding on sound files stored in GEN 1 function tables. Uses the sound files AndItsAll.wav, SynthPad.wav, 808loop.wav and Seashore.wav. temposcal.csd - Demonstration of the 'temposcal' opcode which performs phase locked vocoding on sound files stored in GEN 1 function tables. Uses the sound files AndItsAll.wav, SynthPad.wav, 808loop.wav and Seashore.wav, ATSadd.csd - Demonstration of the 'ATSadd' opcode used to perform additive synthesis based upon analysis data held in a ATS (Analysis-Transformation-Synthesis) file. Uses the analysis file AndItsAll.ats,
You won't have to wonder, spinning around till you're dizzy. The mind, when the Dhamma's not always with it, gets attached to its likes, concerned for the khandhas, sunk in the cause of suffering. "So in brief, there's suffering & there's the Dhamma always with the mind. Contemplate this until you see the truth, and the mind will be completely cool. However great the pleasure or pain, they'll cause you no fear. No longer drunk with the cause of suffering, the mind's well-gone. Knowing just this much is enough to soothe your fevers, and to rest from your search for a path to release. The mind knowing the Dhamma forgets the mind attached to dust. The heart knowing the Dhamma of ultimate ease sees for sure that the khandhas are always stressful. The Dhamma stays as the Dhamma, the khandhas stay as khandhas, that's all. "And as for the phrase, 'Cool, at ease, & freed from fever,' this refers to the mind that's rescued itself from the addictive error [of correcting other things]. The sankhara aggregate offers no pleasure and truly is painful, for it has to age, grow ill, and die every day. When the mind knows the unexcelled Dhamma, it extracts itself from its defiling error that aggravates disease. This error is a fierce fault of the mind. But when it clearly sees the Dhamma, it removes its error, and there's no more poison in the heart. When the mind sees the Dhamma, abundantly good & released from error, meeting the Dhamma, it sheds all things that would make it restless. It's mindful, in & of itself, & unentangled. Its love for the khandhas comes to an end, its likes are cured, its worries cease, all dust is gone. Even if the mind thinks in line with its nature, we don't try to stop it. And when we don't stop it, it stops running wild. This frees us from turmoil. "Know that evil comes from resisting the truth. "Evil comes from not knowing. If we can close the door on stupidity, there's ultimate ease. All evil grows silent, perfectly still. All the khandhas are suffering, with no pleasure at all. "Before I was stupid & in the dark, as if I were in a cave. In my desire to see the Dhamma, I tried to grab hold of the heart to still it.
The settlement was for $31 million. It was, he confessed, a “hard peace,” one to which he’d reluctantly agreed largely to remove the Gawker editor who’d posted the Hogan video, A. J. Daulerio (whom Hogan had also sued and who, despite his negative net worth, had remained on the hook for $115 million in damages), out of Thiel’s cross-hairs. But Denton, too, has a stake: the as-yet unsigned deal should restore some of his millions to him, and may even allow him to keep his beloved SoHo loft, site of what had once seemed would be an unending series of Gawker soirees. Denton, though, was not the only one who wanted the case resolved. The papers had picked up much of what the generally circumspect Thiel had said at a press conference two days before the deal was announced, including his support for Donald Trump and his continued attacks on Gawker, which he called a “singularly sociopathic bully.” But it overlooked a thought that Thiel, a lawyer and a chess master, had cribbed from Jose Raul Capablanca, the great Cuban champion. In court as in chess, Thiel had said, “you must begin by studying the endgame.” And the endgame of Hogan’s case may well have been a verdict that was either slashed or overturned on appeal—and a defendant, Denton, who would thereby be at least partly vindicated. In settling, Thiel has shut that process down. Bitchy, Breezy, and Snarky
He was in the retreat from Mons, the Battle of the Marne and the first Battle of Ypres, before he caught a fever and was sent home. Walking across Putney Bridge, four girls gave him white feathers. “I explained to them that I had been in the army and been discharged, and I was still only 16. Several people had collected around the girls and there was giggling, and I felt most uncomfortable and … very humiliated.” He walked straight into the nearest recruiting office and rejoined the army.
While the game is waiting for that data, your GPU usage drops and the game renderer stalls out until it has that information. I haven't been able to find the source of the people saying this since it's been buried in the 'Horrid FPS' threads but it was confirmed by a few people. Further evidence is that if I just run around the outer ring on the IF, at some point my FPS will drop down from the 70s-80s to the 30s-20s. If I then stop in place and wait a few seconds, FPS climbs back up to where it was, regardless of how many people are in the FOV. Honestly, this is not acceptable and has a huge impact on performance.Another thing is the 'arena' cache file that gets stored on the hard drive. I'm not 100% sure what the purpose of this file is but if deleted, it regenerates the next time the game starts. During periods where my FPS takes a huge hit, I notice a lot of hard drive activity on this file. My best guess is when SWTOR runs out of physical RAM, it starts caching assets to this file, almost like a second page file for TOR instead of Windows. The reason I think this is that SWTOR runs 2 processes. According to some, in order to get around memory addressing limitations.This makes sense with what I learned about how the game handles higher res textures. They use what they call a 'texture atlas'. When a conversation starts, the game switches to higher resolution textures. I believe this is why there is a sudden FPS drop right when a conversation/cutscene starts. I also believe the diskcachearena file has a part to play in all of this.Why physical RAM is not used for this file, I have no idea but it seems like poor design to me. Given enough system RAM, you can create a RAM drive and run this file there. That gives a performance increase in general as the game waits much less time to retrieve data from that file. But the performance drop is still there when new data is loaded. Further, I have never seen this file allocate more than about 1GB of space. I have a feeling if this data could be stored in main memory it would solve a lot of issues.
also any questions you may have, you can post them here. :) This is a depository for the source code of older byond games that are not around anymore. I am posting this for both educational and developmental purposes. Note* I am debating whether or not I should put Zeta source up since it is a rather controversial subject on BYOND.this depository will be expanded as time goes on.
Near the Pennsylvania coal mines, Wanda Goransky is staying with her sister, resentful brother-in-law and their several small children. Wanda, who has recently abandoned her husband and two children, has no money and so borrows from neighbors to attend her divorce hearing. At the court, she agrees to all her husband's charges and, stating that the children are better off with him, voices no objection to the divorce. She returns to the clothing factory where she worked a few days, and even after learning that almost her entire salary was deducted for "taxes," asks for more work. The owner, however, brusquely informs her that she works too slowly, and sends her away. Dejected, Wanda goes to a local bar, and after a traveling salesman buys her a beer, she goes with him to his motel. The next morning, he deserts her at an ice cream stand. After wandering the city streets for hours, she goes to a movie, where her money is stolen after she falls asleep. Later, Wanda enters a closed bar to use the restroom. Mr. Dennis, a robber whom Wanda mistakes for the bar owner, demands that she leave as she attempts to wash up. Stepping into the main room, she asks him for a towel and a drink, failing to notice the bar owner tied up on the floor. Dennis sees someone outside and, nervous about exiting alone, drags Wanda with him to the nearby diner, where he buys her dinner. Despite his silence, she accompanies him to his hotel and sleeps with him. Afterward, Wanda, who calls him "Mr. Dennis," asks if he wants to know her name, but he says no and refuses to answer any questions. Later, he instructs her to bring him some food, and after she leaves, looks at the pictures in her wallet of her husband and children. Dennis is infuriated when he sees Wanda on the street talking to a man and later, when she wanders the hallway calling his name, having forgotten their room number, he slaps her. In the morning, however, he brings her along as he steals a car, and as they drive, he demands that she read the newspaper story about the bar robbery. Although she can barely read, she realizes what Dennis has done and questions him. In response, he commands her to get out of the car, but when she quietly refuses, he allows her to stay.
Print This Email This A growing number of bankruptcies among US retailers is set to prompt thousands of store closings, the New York Times will report on the front page of its Tuesday edition. "The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are triggering a wave of bankruptcies in American retailing," with ensuing store closures "expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country," writes Michael Barbaro for the Times. Barbaro notes that over half a dozen store chains have filed for bankruptcy in recent months amidst "mounting debt and plummeting sales" and warns that financial troubles are "quickly spreading to bigger national companies." The Times articles comes amid a slew of reports underscoring America's economic woes. Even presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, who only months ago panned talk of a recession, admitted today that he thought the country was now in one. Even relatively well-off retailers face troubles. Added Barbaro in the article, such store chains who can avoid bankruptcy "are shutting down stores to preserve cash through what could be a long economic downturn." Excerpts from the Times article, available in full at this link, follow... # The surging cost of necessities has led to a national belt-tightening among consumers. Figures released on Monday showed that spending on food and gasoline is crowding out other purchases, leaving people with less to spend on furniture, clothing and electronics. Consequently, chains specializing in those goods are proving vulnerable. ... "You have the makings of a wave of significant bankruptcies," said Al Koch, who helped bring Kmart out of bankruptcy in 2003 as the company's interim chief financial officer and works at a corporate turnaround firm called AlixPartners. "For years, no deal was too ugly to finance," he said. "But now, nobody will throw money at these companies." Because retailers rely on a broad network of suppliers, their bankruptcies are rippling across the economy. The cash-strapped chains are leaving behind tens of millions of dollars in unpaid bills to shipping companies, furniture manufacturers, mall owners and advertising agencies. Many are unlikely to be paid in full, spreading the economic pain. ... In most cases, the collapses stemmed from a combination of factors: flawed business strategies, a souring economy and banks' unwillingness to issue cheap loans. #
By By Garry Malloy Jun 3, 2012 in World Montreal - The international manhunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta continues as the evidence suggests the alleged killer will attack again. The 41 second clip, found If the account really is Magnotta's, then it suggests the alleged killer is still actively seeking the public's concern. When the media attention inevitably dries up, he may kill again to restore it. Paris: Surveillance footage shows who authorities believe is Luka Rocco Magnotta at a security checkpoint area. INTERPOL has issued a Red Notice, or international wanted persons alert, for Luka Rocco Magnotta who is suspected of killing a man and posting body parts to various locations around Canada. Interpol 2012 "Something doesn't add up in this case. I think Luka is being framed by the insane agent that he fired - who has been stalking him for years. The bed pattern from the "icepick" video in which the asian man is mutilated, etc. does NOT match the bed pattern from Luka's apartment... [W]hile Luka was a male fashion model several years ago, I have yet to find any indication of him doing any sort of porn." Several comments have been posted by the suspicious account to videos posted by others referring to the story. The most recent comments were made this morning. The following is one of them: "Just one suggestion.. you take way to long to make your points. Very few people will sit through more than 5 mintues of anything. Your video is nearly 14 mins long. According to the Toronto Sun, I am Luka. wheeee. they said this because I questioned whether Luka is the killer, or he is being framed. If he DID kill the kittens, I think he is warped enough to do this icepick killing However, I have seen no credible evidence that he killed kittens. If you have, let me know please." In an email sent to The Sun in December of last year, a person claiming to be Magnotta wrote: "Well, I have to say goodbye for now, but dont worry, in the near future you will be hearing from me again. This time, however, the victims wont be small animals." "Once you kill and taste blood its impossible to stop." "Next time you hear from me it will be in a movie I am producing, that will have some humans in it, not just pussys."
A few weeks back, we wrote about the arrest of Harold Martin , an NSA contractor working at Booz Allen, for apparently taking "highly classified information" from the NSA and storing it electronically and physically in his home. There were a lot of questions about whether or not Martin was connected to the Shadow Brokers release of NSA hacking tools, though as more info comes out, it sounds like perhaps Martin was just found because of an investigation into Shadow Brokers, but not because he was connected to them. Soon after the arrest was made public (after being kept sealed for a little over a month), reports came out suggesting that Martin was basically a digital hoarder, but not a leaker (or a whistleblower).The latest filing by the government in the case gives you a sense of just how much hoarding was done. Basically, it sounds like Martin has been taking a variety of digital and paper files home for two decades or so. There's a lot of stuff.Now, it may be that he did the taking more recently and just took old documents, but that 1996 date coincides with when he first got access to such material:The government estimates 50 terabytes of data, but admits it's still going through all of it to figure out what is in there.Of course, some in the press are claiming, incorrectly, that this means Martin took 500 million pages of records and secrets , but we don't know that yet. The DOJ admits it's still going through everything, and has no idea how much of it is secret (or even how much of it is from the government).Martin, at the very least, does appear to have been... kind of careless with some of this stuff:Of course, the usual caveat does apply: this is the DOJ's side of the story, and history tells us they have a habit of massively inflating things or misrepresenting things in these kinds of cases. That includes over-classification or other exaggerations about how serious, important, or secret certain information truly is. So, take the DOJ's claims with at least some grain of salt here. It will certainly be interesting to see how Martin responds to all of this.The other interesting, and potentially troubling part, is that it appears the DOJ is moving to charge Martin under.
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Put the bushing in - use tape to pad it out as needed so air doesn't leak around it - and thread screws of your choice into it to keep it popping back out. Add a barrel or adapter and you're good to go!
But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

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