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Therefore, only stones that were dropped into the wide outer tube with a concealed connection to the central tube would raise the water level in the rewarded central tube; adding stones to the other wide tube that was not connected to the central tube would not raise the water level. The causal relation in this task was counter-intuitive: putting a stone into one body of water would raise the water level in another body of water. Thus, if subjects' actions were guided largely by a basic understanding of causality (which could not account for a hidden causal mechanism) their performance should be selectively impaired on this task (see [30]). On the other hand, if subjects relied on an associative rule or simply made quick reactions to perceptual feedback – repeating certain actions that bring the food closer within reach [28], [32] – they would be able to succeed. Alternatively, subjects could also pass by using a robust understanding of displacement to posit the existence of a hidden causal mechanism, that one of the outer tubes is connected to the central tube, underneath the table, allowing the displaced water to move between both tubes. If subjects succeeded on this task, the strategy they used to succeed could be identified by verbal response (for children), or in follow-up studies, by revealing the hidden connection, or changing the colours of the outer tubes. The majority of eight-year-old children, and some younger individuals, solved this task. While some older children inferred the presence of the hidden connection, most succeeded by identifying which outer tube was the ‘correct’ tube to drop stones into. Thus, the primary method children used to solve the task was an associative rule. At all ages, the children's success rate on the U-tube task was similar to the other tasks, which followed intuitive causal rules. In contrast, Eurasian jays selectively failed the U-tube, suggesting that they struggled to learn a rule that contradicted their understanding of how the world should work. Thus, the difficult U-tube task can be used to investigate different types of reasoning about displacement. In the current study we used the Aesop's fable paradigm to examine causal understanding in NC crows, producing a series of tasks to tap the extent to which animals can understand or learn about the causal features of displacement. NC crows are a strong candidate for understanding this type of causal information.
Surprised, the town council and the town library board considered the name. Members who hesitated were asked to read the book that the Grobs had read. And soon both the council and the board gave their unanimous approval to the new name. Enter Israel A few days later an angry letter arrived from one Gideon Goldenholz, rabbi of the Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue in nearby Mequon. Sharpening a weapon that had served well in the Golda Meir library skirmishes, Goldenholz called the proposal "a cynical act" which carries "a hint of anti-Semitism" and is therefore "insulting to Jews." "The USS Liberty incident has become a rallying point for anti- Israel and anti-Semetic (sic) people and groups," wrote James Fromstein for the Milwaukee Jewish Council, an umbrella group that represents Goldenholz's synagogue and 21 other Milwaukee Jewish organizations. "As such, it is...considered offensive...to Jewish people everywhere," he said, raising a trusted bludgeon from previous wars. A few days later Fromstein appeared at Grant's door with two television trucks, three newsmen from Milwaukee, and an aide. Grant, however, would not be intimidated. "We are very comfortable with the name," he said. "The name caters to Arabs and anti-Semites," Fromstein insisted. After all, his aide added, Arabs are "only nomads," while anti-Semites must be opposed on principal. After an hour of fruitless argument, Fromstein departed amid promises of "further action" and some lightly veiled threats of economic and other sanctions. "We can never yield to anti-Semites," he insisted. "The name sticks," Grant said. A Combined Media Blitz Soon Jim Grant discovered that someone was checking into his background, verifying his military record, and otherwise searching for some fodder for a scandal. Librarian Kathy Kafka learned that persons unknown were attempting to verify her academic record. Almost immediately Grant learned that the $83,000 federal commitment had been "postponed" because of complaints about the "anti-Semitic" name. Phone calls and letters from Israeli spokesmen in Milwaukee urged local donors to withdraw their contributions because of the "anti-Semitic" influence. Next, a solid barrage of stories about the library appeared in five area newspapers and the Chicago Tribune, along with frequent and highly caustic mention on area television news and talk shows. The Milwaukee Jewish Chronicle set the tone early with a headline that proclaimed, "Jews battle extremists on library name." "Rename the library," demanded a Chronicle editorial. "New Library divides Wisconsin town," wrote the Tribune. Milwaukee Magazine complained editorially about "The Gift of Grob."
Like, I'm gonna take this image and just Base 64 encode it and put it into HTML such that you don’t have to--you don't even have to ask me for it," but that's what server push accomplishes as well, except server push, when the resource is pushed, actually goes into the cache, so it's separate from the HTML files, so that resource can be reused across multiple files. It can be validated, all the same things. So that's another example, and for server push, I think we have some exciting news coming up, maybe once this podcast goes live, that'll show you how to use that on App Engine and other places as well, so I'm really excited about that.
Supernova said in a calm and slightly bemused tone, which she kept up for the entirety of the meeting. "I have heard forty six thousand seven hundred and twenty two over the years. ""You mean from the two legged rats the squabbled over this frozen wasteland that no one else wanted?" She said as she began to peer into the strange mind. "The one's that you were commissioned to avenge? ""They had their uses." She said bitterly. "Namely in gathering up the starved cowards you have embraced as subjects and making them available to the masters of this planet. Your actions have earned you the scorn of many great houses." This was background activity as she looked into that thing's bizarre mind. To try to find something she could use to her advantage. All Elves are psychic to some degree. For most it was merely the ability to detect the emotions of those nearby. Some could look deeper or relay their thoughts to others. It was possible to train one's mind to make one's thoughts more difficult for a telepathy to scan. This one was not so much difficult to probe as it was strange. She concentrated her mind's efforts to get into the head of this strange being.Then she broke through.What she detected shocked her. She looked through the metal and plastic into the black cube at it's core. The mind of anything she looked through before was linked with it's body rather intimately. This one was merely wearing it like a suit. But that was only the beginning. An Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Even a dog, cow or dragon thought in roughly the same manner. Even the simplistic mind of a golem was based off a rough template of that of it's creator. Supernova's mind was like none of them. This mind was vast, cold and utterly alien. The closest thing to it that she ever knew was when she once stared into the mind of someone who was deeply invested in mathematical problems. But that was a mere organic mind twisting itself to do what the smallest section of it's thought processes, which raced by at incredible speeds. Thousands of interconnected ideas and concepts moved together and played off each other, setting off, magnifying and calming others at break neck speed. Of these there were at leas seven main sequences of events running.
In the light of these sobering assessments, we are well advised to dismiss more or less everything that sails under the flag of neuropolitics. No questions asked, do not even read that stuff! In a recent programmatic review paper on political neuroscience (Jost et al. 2014), a characteristic discursive pattern is on full display. In fact, it quickly turns out that the authors and most of the fellow travellers on the oh so exciting trail towards political neuroscience are in fact not themselves neuroscientists. Instead, they are psychologists and political scientists that share “enthusiasm for the models and methods of neuroscience, including the use of electroencephalography (EEG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and other measures of the central and peripheral nervous system” (Jost et al. 2014, p. 4) – in other words: they are cheerleaders and bandwagon jumpers. What can be hard to decipher for casual observers is revealed quite clearly here: Much of the hype surrounding neuroscience as an alleged high road to revolutionary insights into all matters human does not originate from those at the forefront of neuroscientific work. Much rather, it comes from psychologists who seek a more scientifically robust access to their murky objects of study, and it comes from moderately knowledgeable enthusiasts from other fields, often from the humanities or social sciences, who want to amass some extra accolades by loading up on what they think is the newest, fancy science. It is obvious that too much familiarly with actual research can only hinder these pursuits. It is telling that the authors earnestly think that fMRI research is today at a stage where meaningful answers might be obtained to the question “where in the brain is X process instantiated?” (Jost et al. 2014, p. 4). Despite routinely paying lip service to the limitations of brain imaging methods, it is clear that many of the authors that have recently published work of this kind blatantly disregard the ongoing debates about the virtual uselessness of fMRI for addressing questions about psychologically relevant neural functioning in humans (see, e.g., Stelzer et al. 2014; Gonzalez-Castillo et al. 2012; Miller et al. 2012). Much-cited work on the “neural correlates of liberalism and conservatism” (Amodio et al. 2007), for instance, falls into the category of fMRI trash.
As time ticked on, Patrick grew into his own person. He took pride in his love for the Chicago Cubs and received grief from his family full of Sox fans for it. We attended several Chicago White Sox games with Patrick by our side dressed in his Cubs jersey and baseball cap rooting for the opposing team. Our family remembers him most for his love and knowledge of sports and the enjoyment he brought to every game we watched with him. He would freely offer up every little detail or statistic without an ounce of doubt in his tone. He knew the sport and the athletes who played it, and it showed. Our family always joked that one day the world would see Patrick sitting behind one of those desks on ESPN. It was bittersweet when we sent our youngest addition to his first day of high school. Patrick was a freshman at Lincoln-Way East and could not have been more eager to begin the next chapter of his life. He expressed his excitement in getting his license and braces off, but most of all joining his older brother on the Lincoln-Way East cross country team. As always Patrick devoted his time and energy to training all summer and with the start of school he joined the team in conditioning at Teason Woods. It was on the tragic day of September 15, 2011 that changed our lives forever. Patrick was fatally struck by a vehicle while running with his team. Although all efforts were made to spare his life, we lost the most important part of our family. During the following months, we were shocked by the amount of support we had received from the community. All the individuals that Patrick had touched during his lifetime were now returning the favor. This kindness and generosity sparked the creation of this foundation to keep Patrick’s memory alive. Just as Patrick spent his life working to reach his goals and make a difference in the world, the foundation is committed to encourage children, teens, and young adults to “Strive For 5”: to be their best and to do their best.
On Thursday, Hodges called the "data … another reminder of the work that we have in front of us, the work that I am committed to doing," in a statement released by her office. "It comes at a fortuitous time as we are focused on criminal justice reform, particularly when it comes to youth. The more information we have, the better." The Minneapolis Police Department did not respond to requests for comment. Hodges said she is “committed to closing every harmful gap—safety, health, education, income, housing, and employment—where outcomes are worse for people of color than white people." Racial disparities are a huge problem in the American criminal justice system, which arrests and incarcerates black men at extraordinarily high rates. But focusing on disparities also has pitfalls: The creation of mandatory minimum sentences, for example, was in part a result of attempting to make sentencing more consistent. The political scientist Marie Gottschalk commented on the perils of focusing on disparate impact at the expense of recognizing the criminal justice system's general severity: [Doing so] often obscures the fact that the incarceration rates for other groups in the United States, including whites and Latinos, is also comparatively very high, just not astronomically high as in the case of blacks. The South actually has some of the nation’s lowest racial disparities when it comes to black-white imprisonment—much lower than a state like Minnesota. Blacks in Minnesota are about 11 times more likely to be incarcerated than whites, giving Minnesota the country’s highest black-white disparity in imprisonment. But Minnesota also has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country. So overall, African Americans are less likely to be sent to prison in Minnesota than in the South, which is a more equal opportunity incarcerator. The Southern criminal justice system is indeed a disaster. But the carceral state is a defining feature of American life, a problem that even liberal Minneapolis must confront.
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Core ---- * Added support for Python 3.5 and 3.6 * MySQL is now an officially supported database * Many improvements with importing Mailman 2.1 lists * DMARC mitigations have been added, based on, but different than the same feature in Mailman 2.1 * The REST API requires HTTP/1.1 * A new REST API version (3.1) has been added which changes how UUIDs are interpreted, fixing the problem for some JavaScript libraries * Many new REST resources and methods have been added * Individual mailing lists can augment the system's header matching rules * `mailman create` now creates missing domains by default * `mailman digests` now has `--verbose` and `--dry-run` options * `mailman shell` now supports readline history * `mailman members` can filter members based on their subscription roles * A new template system has been added for all messages originating from inside Mailman. * The Message-ID-Hash header replaces X-Message-ID-Hash * New placeholders have been added for headers and footers * Unsubscriptions can now be confirmed and/or moderated Postorius/HyperKitty -------------------- * General U/I and U/X improvements * Many more features from the Core's have been plumbed through * We've adopted Django social auth logins and dropped Persona (since it's no longer supported upstream). You can now log in via Facebook, Google, GitHub, and GitLab. Backward incompatibilities -------------------------- * Core/REST: Held message resources now have an `original_subject` key that is not RFC 2047 decoded. `subject` is now RFC 2047 decoded. * Core/REST: If you've run pre-release versions from git head, and stored welcome and goodbye templates via REST, the template key names have changed backward incompatibility. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-... Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Muslim extremists trust that time is in their side, in part because they are on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons. Once Iran and other Muslim countries have this capability, they will have the military means to blackmail their oil-rich neighbors, destroy Israel and threaten Europe. What makes negotiations with Iran, ISIS, Hamas or any other Islamist group impossible is that their leaders believe they are acting according to the immutable word of God. America, Israel, other Muslims with whom they disagree, cannot do anything to satisfy them except "submit" (the Arabic word "Islam" means "submission"). As Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hussein Ya'qub said in a televised sermon in 2009, "If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not. The Jews are infidels not because I say so but because Allah does... They aren't our enemies because they occupy Palestine; they would be our enemies even if they had not occupied anything." Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and other terror groups do not conceal their intentions. The Hamas covenant explicitly calls for Israel's destruction and does not distinguish between Israelis and Jews: Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious... It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine... It is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders... The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him'".... There is no solution for the Palestine question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. Palestine is an Islamic land. Regrettably, this is why "solving the conflict with the Palestinians," or even recognizing a Palestinian State, will not bring peace and tranquility to the Middle East. The radical Islamic focus on Israel serves as an easy rallying point for the masses in the Middle East and Europe; however, the goal of jihad for many Muslims extends beyond eliminating or subjugating Israeli Jews. According to caliph 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, any land previously occupied by Muslims cannot be surrendered.
Sieve dust to get bone meal and use the clay and the bone meal to craft an unfired crucible. Cook the crucible in a furnace and place it over top of a heat source such as a torch (and later, lava or fire). Fill the crucible with cobblestone and it will melt into lava. Use your bucket to collect the lava from the crucible and the water from the barrels to make a cobblestone generator. Once you have the cobble gen it becomes a lot more like a standard modded Minecraft play, and you can use the challenges below to give yourself direction. For more info about the sieve, crucible, barrels, or crook read the Ex Nihilo page: http://bit.ly/1jeeF3p or their wiki: http://bit.ly/1pad7Ze A Note About Biomes =================== THIS MIGHT BE CONSIDERED A SPOILER IF YOU'D RATHER FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN! Barrels fill with water just fine when it snows so there is nothing wrong with spawning in a snow biome such as Taiga. It does not rain in desert so barrels will not fill with water, but that is still a fine place to spawn because of the alternate way of getting water. Look up the crafting recipe for a water bucket in NEI to see that. Oceans will spawn monsters but will not spawn passive animals, and Mushroom biomes spawns only Mooshrooms and no monsters. Because of that Ocean and Mooshroom are both viable places to spawn in, it will just add to the challenge and force you to travel if you want to complete all the challenges. As a bonus, a viewer managed to spawn in a mushroom biome in a Sky Factory world! Here's the seed if you'd like it: 3427162931496724061 Sky Factory Challenges ====================== How do you beat the pack? Well, it's Minecraft so you don't ever technically "beat" the pack, but I've provided a list of challenges designed to help you progress, give direction to your play, as well as stretch your knowledge of the mods and of Minecraft itself. If you have no idea how to do some of these things, that's ok. In fact it's the whole point!
I think kites are progressing fast and that for a 5 to 10 year timeframe it is reasonable to plan on computer controlled kites at reasonable prices. Most of the stuff inside a seastead, sinks, water makers, showers, beds, fridge, solar panels, generators, etc. will just be stuff that regular boats or houses use and are easy to buy. Discussions of anything that you can just buy on westmarine.com or amazon.com seems like a waste of time at this point. Only the structure is different from a boat or house, not the kitchen sink. This can start small. Maybe my family would kick it off. Then if it works we can get plenty of publicity in magazines and TV. Could probably do a reality TV show if we had a design that worked. So once the engineering is such that we beat a boat, the rest will follow. So the focus should be on exploring the engineering possibilities at this time, not publicity. It could also start with sort of 1:2 scale seasteads as floating villas a bit like houses on the water in Tahiti. Two people visiting for a week don't need nearly the space a family living fulltime would. If located a few miles offshore the maximum wave can be much lower than out in deep water. So a smaller seastead could work. I think 3 of the single family seastead designs I have would be more comfortable in large waves and be able to handle larger waves than ClubStead (WaterWalker, Tension Circle, BallHouse). It would be nice if single family seasteads could tile together, and I think WaterWalker could. But computers controlling the position is probably good enough to make a community. We can work out ways to go between two seasteads that are very near each other. I laugh when I see a new country plan with 10 steps where step 1 is "raise a billion dollars". I laugh 1/5th as much when I see a plan where step 1 is "raise $0.5 million" and step 2 is "raise $200 million". But deep down I am thinking, infinity divided by 5 is infinity. Things have not really improved. Funding single family seasteads is much more realistic. I have a fair shot at funding my own sometime in the next 10 years. I don't think there is a realistic business model that starts with a large structure and evolves into a new country.
2013), ancient DNA recovered from mammoths and mastodons has generally come from specimens preserved in permafrost (Rogaev et al. 2006; Barnes et al. 2007; Haile et al. 2009; Rohland et al. 2010b; Cappellini et al. 2012; Nyström et al. 2012). Ancient DNA has been reported from proboscideans not preserved in permafrost, but several of these studies have been seriously challenged (e.g., see the critique by Rohland et al. (2007) of DNA recovered from a Michigan mastodon fossil (Yang et al. 1996), or challenges by Binladen et al. (2007) and Orlando et al. (2007) to claims of DNA recovered from a Cretan pygmy elephant fossil (Poulakakis et al. 2006)). The geographic range of M. columbi was significant, extending across the Southwestern United States into Florida and Mexico, but it appears to have stayed south of the North American ice sheets (Graham 2001). Subsequently, no permafrost specimens of M. columbi have been recovered. However, Enk et al. (2011) reported mitochondrial DNA from two M. columbi individuals. The first was from a specimen discovered in Huntington Canyon, Utah, which had previously been shown to exhibit particularly exquisite collagen matrix preservation in bone and dentine tissue (Schaedler et al. 1992). The second specimen was recovered near Rawlins, Wyoming; DNA fragments recovered from the teeth of this sample were identical to the Huntington mammoth. Whether the dentine of the Rancho La Brea mammoth would prove a better prospect than postcranial bone is uncertain. The skull of the Rancho La Brea mammoth (which was permeated with asphalt) was not available at the time the scapula or rib samples were taken, but it has since been prepared in the laboratory at the George C. Page Museum. Given the degree of diagenesis in the rib, an asphalt‐free bone with less permineralization would be useful in further testing our hypothesis that the environment was not conducive to ancient DNA preservation. Finally, the recovery of what appears to be noneukaryotic DNA from the rib fragment highlights the issue of microbial contamination. It is possible that contamination occurred during the bone's handling in the museum collections, but it is also known that Rancho La Brea asphalt supports dense communities of petroleum‐reducing bacteria and archaea, many of which were previously unknown to science before their discovery in the tar pits (Zhao et al. 1989; Kim and Crowley 2007). The genome of Methanocorpusculum labreanum, a methanogenic archaeon that has only been described from Rancho La Brea (Zhao et al.
A popular but misguided view of homosexuality is the "opposite sex role" theory -- that gays are feminized and lesbians are masculinized.I've shown in earlier posts that this theory fails to explain the full behavioral syndrome of gays, who are infantilized rather than feminized, and who only appear feminine in some ways because females are more neotenous (childlike).The defining female traits of nurturing babies, keeping house, settling down, being a wet blanket, being a worry-wart, giving time to small local charities, etc., are alien to the male homosexual, who in fact behaves like a bratty girl-hating 5 year-old with a turbo-charged sex drive.Normal men respond to gays not as though they were feminine, but as though they were an annoying and creepily over-eager toddler trying to join the big kids, one who can only be bullied away because he's too socially retarded to take a hint.What about lesbians being masculinized? I find them harder to study because they don't stand out quite as much. But the butch dyke types sure do. Over Christmas I was standing behind a pair of lesbian parents and their utterly undisciplined children at the airport. The more feminine one had normal-looking medium length hair, and I expected the masculine one to have a man's haircut. I could tell from behind that it was short and parted, so that much checked out.When she turned around, though, she had one of those severe sideways-pointing hair-do's with the sides and back shaved. The technical name is "undercut," although I find "gay whoosh" more descriptive.Here are a few examples of this distinctly gay haircut on real-life gays:And here are only a handful of many, many examples of twink haircuts worn by butch dykes:If butch lesbians were simply masculinized, why wouldn't they look more like normal men? Why do they copy so specifically the grooming and even clothing habits of gay men, who look and act kiddie? Nothing kiddie can be masculine or macho, including that "I'm such a little stinker" smirk on the dyke at the end.Maybe they want to look recognizably male, but only a degenerate and abnormal kind of male, to give the middle finger to straight society. And what more familiar model of abnormal male do they have ready to imitate than the faggot?How ironic that in emphasizing the rejection of hetero patriarchy, the butch dyke winds up looking like a goofy little kid rather than the strong warrior she imagines herself to be.
In the coming months and weeks, Team Liquid will be here to deliver the best of the Korean and International amateur leagues, and in doing so, celebrate the continued existence of a competitive scene for this game that we have come to know and love.To that end we're also proud to unveil TL's newly constructed Brood War news portal. As our hastily constructed temporary BW news page once did, it will filter BW, the whole BW, and nothing but BW.And if that wasn't enough, you can include this Brood War content on your front page by adjusting your front page settings here Well, there you have it. We've put our money where our mouth is, and brought you your game, the way you want it. The infrastructure is in place, and we've also got the manpower to provide you with the same great content you've been enjoying for years. Whether it's SOSPA or Gambit, ThSL or a great new foreign tourney run by Team Liquid itself, we're just letting you know that we will continue to cover the beautiful game the same way we've been doing it for the past decade.We hope you'll be along for the ride.Broodwar is dead. Long live Broodwar.
Below is a proof-of-concept implementation of BIP102 as a softfork: https://github.com/ZoomT/bitcoin/tree/2015_2mb_blocksize https://github.com/jgarzik/bitcoin/compare/2015_2mb_blocksize...ZoomT:2015_2mb_blocksize?diff=split&name=2015_2mb_blocksize BIP102 is normally a hardfork. The softfork version (unofficial codename BIP102s) uses the idea described here: http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/012073.html The basic idea is that post-fork blocks are constructed in such a way they can be mapped to valid blocks under the pre-fork rules. BIP102s is a softfork in the sense that post-fork miners are still creating a valid chain under the old rules, albeit indirectly. From the POV of non-upgraded clients, BIP102s circumvents the block-size limit by moving transaction validation data "outside" of the block. This is a similar trick used by Segregated Witness and Extension Blocks (both softfork proposals). From the POV of upgraded clients, the block layout is unchanged, except: - A larger 2MB block-size limit (=BIP102); - The header Merkle root has a new (backwards compatible) interpretation; - The coinbase encodes the Merkle root of the remaining txs. Aside from this, blocks maintain their original format, i.e. a block header followed by a vector of transactions. This keeps the implementation simple, and is distinct from SW and EB. Since BIP102s is a softfork it means that: - A miner majority (e.g. 75%, 95%) force miner consensus (100%). This is not true for a hardfork. - Fraud risk is significantly reduced (6-conf unlikely depending on activation threshold). This should address some of the concerns with deploying a block-size increase using a hardfork. Notes: - The same basic idea could be adapted to any of the other proposals (BIP101, 2-4-8, BIP202, etc.). - I used Jeff Garzik's BIP102 implementation which is incomplete (?). The activation logic is left unchanged. - I am not a Bitcoin dev so hopefully no embarrassing mistakes in my code :-( --joe
Skeptics believed that the scene wouldn't grow, or that he wasn't good enough to succeed, or that he should just stick with his education... and EternalEnvy politely declined their concerns and went ahead with it anyway. He disappeared for awhile, but began rising in the community as a skilled player, often showing up in the highest-level pub games. Among players that he would encounter on his rise was a Syllabear specialist named AdmiralBulldog, and together, they would become known as two of the strongest "pub stars" in the Dota 2 scene... until suddenly, out of nowhere, it was announced that both of them would be joining No Tidehunter with EternalEnvy as captain. Reactions were mixed - two pub stars joining some of the most legendary Swedish Dota 2 players in history? But the doubters were quickly silenced, as No Tidehunter scored victory after victory after victory, proving that yes, dreams can and do come true as long as you're willing to put the hard work into it.Dota 2 may be in its infancy, but the DotA scene has a long and storied history. As Dota 2 gets more popular, players of old find themselves hard pressed to resist the clarion call of competition once again, and with every passing minute, old blood is revitalized and flows back into the scene. One such player who has made resounding success with the scene is nth`'s Loda, once of MYM and SK fame. In late 2011, he announced that he was seeking to make a Swedish team with his old teammate Akke, and in 2012, they were picked up by League of Legends powerhouse Counter Logic Gaming. However, due to intrateam issues, Loda ended up leaving shortly afterwards. Some time passed before he was found halfway across the world, surprising people by joining Singaporean team Zenith and representing them at The International. However, after The International, Loda sought to return home to Sweden. By this time, Counter Logic Gaming had disbanded, and Loda found himself creating a new team with its remnants and a few upstarts. Calling themselves "No Tidehunter," the team exploded onto the scene with resounding success, ending the year with a Dreamhack Winter victory and a place among the giants of Western Dota.I believe that our beloved Russian commentator v1lat can do this category more justice than I could ever hope to in words. So, here you go. (Be sure to turn on subtitles!
However, if code were to be submitted that performed Sha256(address + "secret_password1234xyz"), that would look VERY suspicious. My guess is someone has slipped in a routine that LOOKS harmless but is actually diverting bitcoin to their awaiting bot ready to gobble them up. It's actually quite clever. No one can know the destination address in advance. You would have to keep performing Sha256 on all public addresses ever used to catch that one in a million transaction. Someone would be able to capture those coins by simply watching for a transaction into an address that corresponds to a private key generated from Sha256 of one of the existing public addresses. Keeping such a database is trivial and lookups are quick. To be fair, I suppose this could be a coding error. Anything is possible with a buffer overflow. I would love to see the code if this is ever found. Transactions were STILL happening right up until a couple weeks before I made this discovery! So I wrote a bot to try and 'catch' a transaction. Mind Blown ---------- Within the FIRST 48 HOURS of my bot going live, on Jun 19, a whopping 9.5 BTC was transferred into an address for which I had the private key. This was approximately worth $23,000 USD at the time. I was shocked. This is the address: 12fcWddtXyxrnxUn6UdmqCbSaVsaYKvHQp The private key is: KzfWTS3FvYWnSnWhncr6CwwfPmuHr1UFqgq6sFkGHf1zc49NirkC whose raw bytes are derived from Sha256 of: 16SH69WgJCXYXWV58sxjTxonhgBh5HCZTt (which appears to be some random address previously used in the chain) BUT... I had failed to test my program sufficiently and it failed to submit the transaction! The 9.5 BTC was sitting there for almost 15 minutes before being swept away by someone else. I honestly didn't think the first amount to cross my radar would be so high. The other samples I found from past transactions were for tiny amounts. It is quite possible that whoever moved them later out of the poisoned address actually owned them. Maybe someone else's sweeper bot only takes small amounts most of the time to avoid attention? At this point, I was pretty confident I was on to something not yet discovered by anyone else. I _could_ have taken those 9.5 BTC and if this was known to others. Also, if you look into the history of that account, 12 BTC was transferred into it (and out right away) only one month earlier.
Sergei Krivov, 63, a Russian diplomat at the Russian Consulate in New York was found dead on November 8. Krivov served as duty commander involved with security affairs, according to Russian news reports Russia's Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov — assassinated by a police officer at a photo exhibit in Ankara on December 19. On the same day, another diplomat, Peter Polshikov, was shot dead in his Moscow apartment. The gun was found under the bathroom sink but the circumstances of the death were under investigation. Polshikov served as a senior figure in the Latin American department of the Foreign Ministry. Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died in New York in May. Churkin was rushed to the hospital from his office at Russia's UN mission. Initial reports said he suffered a heart attack, and the medical examiner is investigating the death, according to CBS. Russia's Ambassador to India, Alexander Kadakin, died after a "brief illness January 27, which The Hindu said he had been suffering from for a few weeks. Russia's Consul in Athens, Greece, Andrei Malanin, was found dead in his apartment January 9. A Greek police official said there was "no evidence of a break-in." But Malanin lived on a heavily guarded street. The cause of death needed further investigation, per an AFP report. Malanin served during a time of easing relations between Greece and Russia when Greece was increasingly critiqued by the EU and NATO. Ex-KGB chief Oleg Erovinkin, who was suspected of helping draft the Trump dossier, was found dead in the back of his car December 26, according to The Telegraph. Erovinkin also was an aide to former deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, who now heads up state-owned Rosneft. The top official of Russia's space agency, 56-year-old Vladimir Evdokimov, was found dead in his prison cell (where he was being questioned on charges of embezzlement). Investigators found two stab wounds on Evdokimov's body, but no determination had been made of whether they were self-inflicted.
A Democracy Corps poll conducted the night of and the night after the election found that the Obama campaign successfully tapped into the country’s “populist mood” by making Romney synonymous with Wall Street and the rich. Not only had Obama largely maintained the support of the diverse Millennial generation that had helped propel him to victory in 2008, he’d also held onto the support of a significant number of non-college-educated white voters, who — despite disagreeing with Obama on some social issues — turned against Romney because he opposed funding for Planned Parenthood and was seen as “rich and out of touch with average people.” So broad was Obama’s backing that even if black turnout in 2008 and 2012 had remained the same as in 2004, he still would’ve won. He “would have won re-election even if he hadn’t won the Hispanic vote at all,” the New York Times ’ Nate Cohn wrote. “He would have won even if the electorate had been as old and as white as it had been in 2004.” That’s because Obama did startlingly well among whites in the North, including non-college-educated whites. “Overall, 34 percent of Mr. Obama’s voters [in 2012] were whites without a college degree — larger in number than black voters, Hispanic voters or well-educated whites,” Cohn noted. Obama picked up key Rust Belt states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, pulling a larger share of non-college whites than in other states. In an inversion of the ideal DLC pattern, Obama lost more ground among college-educated whites between 2008 and 2012 than among non-college whites. He cleaned up in cities and inner-ring suburbs en route to his win, while Romney racked up his votes in rural areas and the New Democrats’ coveted exurbs and “emerging suburbs.” With Republicans in control of Congress, whatever lessons Obama learned about the vices of moderation and the virtues of populism wouldn’t be reflected in policy. But it seemed that his reelection strategy, along with the success of candidates running on a populist anti–Wall Street message in the 2014 midterms, pointed the way forward for Democrats in 2016. The holdover New Democrats had other ideas.
As we left, we went up above the earth’s surface. We went above, because we were still in a tunnel. Soon I couldn't see it any more, but it was like a whirlwind, a giant whirlwind we were in. We kept going up. We had to go up, to get out of it apparently. When we got to the top of it, I looked down at the earth and it was about this high. The curve of the earth was like that. It's awesome to look back at the earth! I know God allowed that for me. He could have left that tunnel any which way He wanted. He knew in my heart, as a kid I always wanted to see what the earth looked like from space. Maybe I watched too much Star Trek or something, you know? I just thought it would be really neat to see the earth, and to see it hung on nothing. Like the Bible says. It says in Job 26:7 , He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. As you look, you think, "What's holding this thing up? What's making it turn so perfectly?" God is in such control. The power of God that flooded me, that He has, it's awesome. He has so much power. Every single thing is in His control. Not a hair on your head falls to the ground that He doesn't know about. Not a bird hits the ground that He doesn't know about. I was flooded with these thoughts. God has so much power. It overwhelmed me. There's scripture in Isaiah 40:22 that says the Lord sits upon the circle of the earth. There I was upon the circle of the earth. I even thought, "Lord, how come before Christopher Columbus they could have read that scripture and known the earth was round." You know? People wondered, they thought it was flat? Anyway, as we came back down we passed through the shields; I knew we were passing through the heat shield that was around the earth. I just knew it. I even thought stupid thought, here I am with God, and I thought, "I wonder how He's going to go through that shield?" You know how in space they have to penetrate it at just the perfect angle. We went through it with no problem what so ever. No surprise!
Dr. Melanie Bechard, a pediatric resident and CDM board member who also made a video for Sanders, is happy to share her experiences as a Canadian physician if it can help both countries have a meaningful discussion about best health-care practices. A short while ago, a refugee family came to see Dr. Bechard at a pediatric outreach clinic. Back home, they had tried, repeatedly, to get their very sick child medical attention. Their child was “medically complex,” she says, and required a very long treatment. For privacy reasons Bechard can’t share this family’s identity, or the nature of the child’s illness. What she can share is how the family broke down in tears when she conveyed they didn’t need to pay thousands of dollars for a treatment that required numerous specialists. They were living at a shelter. “I was so grateful in that moment to be able to say that we could provide that care, that we could help this child,” said Bechard. Both Raza and Bechard are surprised at how viral their videos on Canadian health care have become. When their parents stumbled across them, or when nurses and hospital janitorial staff came up to talk to them — it’s a small level of notoriety that makes them hopeful. But, both Bechard and Raza are quick to recognize that Canada’s health-care system is not perfect. “There are certainly things we should celebrate,” said Raza, “But, at the same time we need to recognize we have gaps.” Both doctors list long wait times, financial barriers to prescription drugs, no dental coverage and limited health care access for marginalized population, including Indigenous and rural communities, as issues. Raza hopes Sanders is successful in implementing a strong single-payer system in the U.S., so Canadians can start looking inwards. In the meantime, he hopes the conversation keeps going. “Some days, we feel disempowered or ineffectual,” said Bechard. “It’s nice to have had a tiny, tiny impact.” Correction – November 1, 2017: This article was edited from a previous version that mistakenly said Dr. Danyaal Raza works at St. Michael’s College.
Here, the possibility that archaeoviruses picked these FSFs from archaeal hosts during infection cannot be ruled out with confidence. These FSFs were, however, more widespread in bacterial and eukaryal proteomes than in archaeal proteomes but were absent in their respective viruses (Fig. 3C). This could be a result of the loss of viral lineages from Bacteria and Eukarya or from reductive evolution in Archaea itself (18, 36), which would again negate HGT. In turn, b and e FSFs were more represented in bacterial and eukaryal proteomes, respectively (as expected), and did not have very high f values (Fig. 3C). Specifically, 198 FSFs unique to bacterioviruses could be a result of HGT in either direction in Bacteria and viruses, especially because bacterioviruses are known to mediate gene exchange between bacterial species (for example, the 60% BV FSFs that could be potential VSFs; Table 1) and most of these FSFs originated very late in evolution (fig. S2, b group). Similar patterns were also observed for e FSFs (fig. S2, e group). Finally, only two FSFs [“DNA polymerase β, N-terminal domain–like” (a.60.6) and “Alkaline phosphatase–like” (c.76.1)] were shared by archaeoviruses and eukaryoviruses (ae). This is in line with previous understanding that eukaryoviruses are very distinct from archaeoviruses (46) and challenges the concept that eukaryoviruses originated from the merging of prokaryotic viruses [for example, (45); see Discussion]. In summary, the evolution of viruses follows a bidirectional route influenced by both the vertical inheritance of a structural core present in many distantly related viruses (that is, those infecting more than one superkingdom) and the HGT of FSFs from modern cells. The common core includes proteins mainly of cellular origin that likely originated in ancient cells.
Winter is coming! " Greetings, I have recently got drafted to the army..and two days later had my 19th nameday. After reading "A Game of Thrones" I got swept with a huge feeling of excitement and euphoria..The book and the series became a huge thing for me..They're the best thing that I've read.. Anyway, I recommended my cousin to read AGoT. After he finished, knowing the book meant so much to me, and that I'm a huge medieval-fantasy fan, he decided to give me a gift: THE SWORD OF ARYA STARK! Needless to say I immediately got excited..and still am! After being stuck at the military base for two weeks, today I came back and the sword was waiting for me..the smiles won't disappear from my face for a while now! The sword is amazing! The weight is perfect, the build is sturdy and of high quality, the blade is sharp and strong and oh boy..the leather and the little direwolf logo..I'm speechless! We passed the sword around the table and all agreed on its quality and beauty. A true blade. A real Needle! A genuine Valyrian steel! The plaque is great as well! the Stark house banner is great, the wood has a sturdy feeling and the metallic knobs both look awesome and made of high quality materials.. Needless to say, George R.R Martin is like a hero to me..and the certificate with his autograph means a huge deal for me, I'm gonna frame it and hang on the wall! The bottom line is- Valyrian Steel made a fantastic job! Everything is of high quality! and beautiful! And fits the descriptions in the books perfectly! Even the package it came in was awesome..I'm going to keep it as well :D I think I'm the only one in my country with such an item! By the way, mine is sword #384 :) I want to thank Valyrian Steel for giving me the chance to possess a figment of my imagination in real life, you've made this soldier a happy man! And the same goes to my cousin and my family! I can't thank you all enough! Now I'm off to order Ice! hehehe Have a great day folks, and don't forget: WINTER IS COMING! " Feb 25 2011, 23:18 PM by Or "Eddard" Efrima
Five British yachtsmen have been detained by the Iranian navy while sailing from Bahrain to Dubai. Here is some of the reaction to their situation. DAVID YOUNG, FATHER OF OLIVER Oliver Young comes from Plymouth "The journalist that is with them has got a local mobile which they were allowed to use on Monday and all of us were able to have a quick conversation - each of the families. "It was only a brief conversation but they did confirm they're being well looked after, being well fed. We believe they are ashore on an island and are quite bored now, wanting to see things resolved themselves obviously." Earlier he told the Plymouth Herald: "He's travelled a fair bit. He's got quite a bit of experience under his belt. They'll be coping with it fine out there. We understand they are being well looked after. "We're confident this will be resolved very quickly. We're all concerned and the sooner they are released the better. It is dragging along longer than we thought it would do. "It's just a worry that there are diplomatic stresses at the moment. They are under international pressure. We just hope they're not used as a bargaining chip." SUSAN YOUNG, MOTHER OF OLIVER "He will be absolutely fine. He is a very strong person, he will be coping with this fine. The team get on really well, they are a really nice group of lads and I am not worried about their morale or anything like that. "As a mother I do feel worried but who wouldn't be? We are just hopeful that it will all come to an end very soon." "Sailing is a complete passion for him and this will never put him off, he will be fine." CHARLES PORTER, FATHER OF LUKE "We are holding things together as a family at the moment. I haven't spoken to him since yesterday. He was as good as can be expected. "He is a very strong character, very resilient. He's a professional sailor, very used to dealing with adversity. "He's as good as we can expect. We are very concerned." FOREIGN SECRETARY, DAVID MILIBAND "These are five civilians - they're yachtsmen. They were going about their sport and it seems they may have strayed inadvertently into Iranian waters. "We look forward to the Iranian government dealing with this promptly and clearly.
Ofcourse she (the wife) already made plans to sell her inheritance and a divorce so after her death a lawyer comes up to the land asking about her as she just dissappeared, this is also the story the farmer tells why she isn't there anymore and the police ofcourse show up and he (as in the local sherrif) is convinced by the farmer and his rouse, they also have a cow thrown into the well with the wife (here are a couple graphic scenes in here).Eventually ofcourse as things go with things made by stephen King the farmer is going to hell, rats show up everywhere in the farm and the thing is that the farmer's financial world is also collapsing and the second storyline, the son falling in love with the neighbour's daughter makes her pregnant and they run away after the girl gets placed in some kind of place where she can have her child and then they take her baby, or that was planned like that but because of the farmer's son running away he frees her from this place and he goes on a crime run whom kills them both (or all three of them as she is still pregnant)Everything is even getting worse for the farmer asswell as he developed some sort of cabin fever and hallucinates his wife coming back to him and telling him all the secrets only a dead person could know and begs for death. Eventually he is forced to sell his farm as his financial situation worsens even more and ends up in Omaha and works in a factory and drinks himself stupid and sees the rats again, they have seemed to have followed him which leads him to be setting him into the room where he is writing his suicide note.My opinion about this movie is that it is a good story but there isn't much to be seen as like the story is being told and there isn't much room for interpretation and thinking about what could have happened to who or what like for example Predestination, which allows you to craft your own theories before the plot starts unraveling but in this storytelling mode this doesn't happen. As we are just hearing a person telling his life story. It doesn't make it a bad movie however as I enjoyed the camera work and there is barely any cgi involved and the acting is great!
Indeed, in our set-up, task partitioning greatly reduced the amount of costly switching required between environmental locations. Furthermore, our work also confirms the economic transport hypothesis, i.e. that task partitioning results in more economical transport, which in our case was due to the fact that gravity acted as a helping hand to transport the items. Previously, this hypothesis had also found significant empirical support [7,43,46,48], e.g. by the fact that in leafcutter ants, species that collect leaves from trees tend to engage in task partitioned leaf retrieval, whereas species living in more homogeneous grassland usually retrieve leaf fragments in an unpartitioned way, without first dropping the leaves, particularly at close range to the nest [43,49]. A surprising result in our evolutionary experiments was that adaptive task specialization was achieved despite the fact that the robots in each team all had identical controllers encoded by the same genotype. This implies that a combination of individual experience, stigmergy and stochastic switching alone were able to generate adaptive task specialization, akin to some of the documented mechanisms involved in behavioral task specialization in some asexually reproducing ants [63] and in cell differentiation in multicellular organisms and clonal bacterial lineages [59,64,65]. The choice of using homogeneous, clonal groups of robots with an identical morphology precluded other mechanisms of division of labor observed in nature from evolving, based, for instance, on morphological [4,12] or genetic [4] role specialization. Such mechanisms, however, could be considered in the future if one allowed for genetically heterogeneous robot teams [28] or evolvable robot morphologies. Lastly, the grammar we used did not specifically allow for recruitment signals to evolve, such as those observed in leafcutting ants, where both trail pheromones and stridulation are used as mechanisms to recruit leaf cutters [66,67], or the ones in honeybees, where the tremble dance is used to regulate the balance between number of foragers and nectar receivers inside the colony [68,69]. Nevertheless, including low-level primitives for communication behavior into the grammar, which we plan to do in future work, would readily allow for the evolution of such mechanisms, and would likely boost the performance of the evolved controllers even further (cf. [26,27]). In terms of the mechanisms of task specialization and task allocation evolved, our work is important in that it alleviates one of the limitations of existing models on the evolution of task specialization, namely, that they normally take pre-specified subtasks and an existing task allocation model (e.g.
A handful of nice new features make the site more useful than just a repository store: file edit for convenient quick edits, repository compare and patch bundle support for enhanced collaboration with forks, changes/annotate on files for better insight on the evolution of you code. Finally, the new build packs feature (see repository settings) enables an optimisation (GSoC 2010) which we hope will pave the way to much faster darcs get over networks. These changes have been merged into the mainline Darcs and Darcsden repositories, and are expected to available in the next stable release of Darcs. Darcs is free software licensed under the GNU GPL (version 2 or greater). Darcs is a proud member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a US tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. We accept donations at http://darcs.net/donations.html. Further reading http://darcs.net
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Hey all, It’s been two months since we launched the new champ select and dynamic queue. The team has been heads-down addressing issues and we realized it’s past time to update where we are and where we still need to go. The number of people playing in premades is the highest we’ve seen in League’s history and 98.6% of the time, premades of 4 or 5 teammates are being matched against a premade of the same size (most of the 1.4% with more divergent premade sizes come from very high and very low MMR ranges). Teams made of solos and duos are matched against a premade 4 or premade 5 only 0.21% of the time, and players queueing solo get teamed up with 4 man premades 3% of the time. Match quality (defined by the average MMR difference between players on one team vs. the opposing team) has improved slightly, giving us closer, fairer games across all tiers of ranked play. With the introduction of new champ select and dynamic queue to ranked, as players get the roles they want (with some exceptions we’ll talk about below), we’ve seen the frequency at which ranked players encounter language serious enough to result in a chat restriction has dropped by nearly 40%. Overall, we interpret these numbers to suggest a higher (and more positive) degree of engagement with dynamic queue, but we still have a lot of work to do on a number of fronts. At the launch of new champion select, dodge rates almost doubled from the old queue because of the new lock-in requirement. We’ve added new sounds and made a few other usability improvements to help correct this. We’re also still pursuing a tricky bug that makes the client not pop to front when it’s your turn as well. The dodge rate is now slightly lower than the previous champ select (even when we include players who dodge by failing to lock in), but there’s still room for improvement. There are some remaining critical issues with matchmaking. High-skill players above Diamond tier have seen unacceptable queue times lasting as long as an hour. We launched a high-MMR queue time update on March 4. As a result, average queue times for most high MMR players are down to 5 minutes, but some at the highest levels still have much longer waits. That’s still not good enough and fixing it is one of our highest priorities.
Most people don't get this, though, and consequently they create nifty products and systems that ultimately fail to achieve any kind of stickiness: creations destined to be nothing but flashes in the pan.If you don't already know all this stuff better than I do, then you know fuck-all about creating addiction, and it's no wonder your product's badge system isn't generating adoption or stickiness or 7-day actives or any of that other shit you're measuring.It irritates me to the point of boiling rage that I have to explain this stuff -- that the people most companies put in charge of mission-critical initiatives are so completely fucking clueless, to the detriment of their companies and all the rest of us. So I'll stop here before I have a heart attack. You either get it, or you don't.Gearbox gets it.Well, sort of. I mean, it's kinda hard to tell. They definitely get part of it.I need to relax a bit, so I'm going to time-out here for an utterly incongruous digression. This section has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the post. But it has to be said.Jumping is fun. Period. End of story. If playing your game involves manipulating a humanoid ragdoll in three dimensions, and it doesn't support jumping, then you suck. No, don't go pointing at Zelda. Zelda gets a bye because it's Zelda for christ's sake. But Zelda is un-fun exactly to the extent that it fails to support jumping, except off ledges which is kinda OK but not really true jumping.Practically the first thing everyone tries in a game is jumping. If the game doesn't let you jump, then people enter a Fuck You mode that can be hard (possible, but hard) to overcome.You kinda don't want your players to enter Fuck You mode. Just sayin'. Yeah, I'm going out on a limb here, but I'll contend that it's probably a good idea not to make a game that puts people in Fuck Everything About This mode. If you're not exactly sure what that mode looks like, well, it looks like the Acornfilms Dead Rising 2 review . Which Irecommend watching in its entirety, but for the impatient the most relevant section is from 6:20-6:45 If a game doesn't let you jump over a foot-high obstacle, then -- that's right, you've got the idea now -- Fuck This Game.
// Not mine! Simply copied from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZIRWRNbOl5R5Yy4FhsPcKKcRJuU0At_dtcftqooA1mo/edit because of how messy it became // The Big LGBT Anime and Manga List (i’m only really aware of a few shook guys, gals and everyone in between how about we get a list of LGBT themed anime and manga or ones that feature a prominent LGBT character going? post in the comments and i will keep updating the list (i’m only really aware of a few shows so the more input from others the better and please include summaries if you can) Feeling frisky? in the interest of keeping this list as sfw as possible hentai submissions will now appear in an over 18 area here Lesbian Aki Sora (manga/ova) (NSFW: Erotica) brother and sister develop feelings for each other and don't tell second sister who tries to set the brother up with her friend. second sister and friend struggle with homosexual feelings towards each other Aoi Hana (Sweet Blue Flowers) (manga/anime) Fumi and Akira have reconnected as best friends after being separated for years when Fumi moved away. A lot has changed since then: they go to different high schools, Akira has a doting older brother who follows her around, and Fumi is struggling with her relationships as a young lesbian. What hasn’t changed is their deep love for each other. Azumanga Daioh (manga/anime/web OVA) Kaori has a major crush on Sakaki (although its later stated she would like Sakaki if she were a boy or a girl so she could be classed as bisexual or pansexual) Blue Drop (manga/anime) he war against the Arume is set from 2000 to 2008, ending with the aliens winning the conflict. In 2009 the aliens take control of the Japanese government, which sets the backstory for the Blue Drop storylines. one of the story lines involves the relationship between a formerly homeschooledhome schooled girl and the popular class rep Canaan (anime) A synesthetic young woman must battle terrorists, super-powered virus victims, and even the CIA to protect a beloved friend Ga -Rei/Ga-Rei: Zero (manga/anime) Kagura is an agent of a government agency that defends the public against supernatural enemies. She wields Ga-rei, a spirit beast that kills these spirits. Zero focuses on the relationship back story of Kagura and the manga's villain Yomi before her fall into darkness Kampfer (light novel/anime) Guy becomes a girl and realizes he's suddenly much more popular with women, much to his dismay.
The revenge match from IPL 4 between MMA and Squirtle began with ten exciting minutes of zero action as both players minded their own business and set up their late-game economy.Sadly, all it was not building towards double the time of non-stop PvT action that would drown Cloud Kingdom and put it to ruins. Instead, MMA found three high templars stranded from the protoss pack and killed them off to render Squirtle's army impotent. Squirtle's best chance of survival was to fall back and recuperate but for reasons unknown he chose to fight at his fourth, despite his chances for victory being far below the nil.It must have been the easiest TvP battle in MMA's career.Squirtle played that out like a boxing match, just sitting still behind his perimeter of observers, fending off every attempt of MMA to make a move and waiting for his hour to come. As the gong sounded for round two, Squirtle already had a good stalker-centric deathball with colossus support in a very Genius style and in full opposite to the chargelot/storm compositions we saw yesterday. The advancement of Squirtle left MMA no chance but to take the fight but, unfortunately for the former champion, there exists no way to micro against colossi in the absence of vikings.MMA and his bio/medivac army were chased back, paving the way for Squirtle's dead cert victory.Squirtle went for a 3-gate blink attack off one base which turned into a soft contain after MMA made it perfectly clear that not a single protoss unit will survive the blink into his main. Still, the contain was as good as option as any, giving Squirtle the opportunity to get a second nexus and transition into a standard game. Additionally, sniping a drop attempt of MMA ensured his mid-game safety.The game ended with a Daybreak deja vu with Squirtle launching a blink/colossus timing attack just as MMA was preparing to take a third. The terran had to lift all his command centers but the one in the main and was put in a position where barely mining was not even the second worst thing slapping his face. Squirtle had the pefect army composition in terms of cost efficiency and his arc encircled MMA's units to an extent where the terran could not maneuver at all.
"We use the id Tech engine to get the feel of the core gameplay right and the Saber Tech for rendering and other elements around that." He also mentions that the business model for the game is not yet decided.The new feature that Quake Champions brings to the table are – who would have guessed – the so called champions. This newest addition is simultaneously the most controversial, basically splitting the community in half. Tim Willits explains the thought process behind adding champions to the game by saying that seemingly everyone plays Quake in a different style: be it offensively or defensively. In an interview with GamereactorTV Willits explained that the champions are designed to have slightly altered rulesets fitting various playstyles. Combined with new active abilities allow for more depth in gameplay. However at this point it's just speculation about how these champions are going to influence the gameplay.What would a modern multiplayer game be without the eSports component. With Quake, Id Software created one of the first eSports titles – some might even argue the first ever. With the new game coming up, they're planning to expand on their experience and knowledge. We want better spectating, better shoutcasting as well as tournaments, leagues and championships, says Willits.According to the official Bethesda news site , the game should go into closed beta in 2017.Bullet points of what we can expect (so far):Feel free to add stuff I forgot in the comment section.
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NEW DELHI: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is looking at acquisition of Indian e-tailers that have a large customer base as well as a robust network of merchants.It is also looking at firms that can help improve customer experience as well as expand its range of products and services. "Alibaba Group's investment strategy focuses on three aspects of our business: increasing user acquisition and engagement, improving customer experience and expanding our products and services," an Alibaba spokesperson told PTI.At present, Alibaba Group has four offices in India. Its platform has several small businesses from here selling goods ranging from spices to chocolates to tea.Its B2B e-commerce platform provides a global market to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), she added. "Our investment approach also involves supporting entrepreneurs in the development of innovative products and technologies," she said.In November 2014, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who was on his first visit to India, said that he will "invest more in India, work with Indian entrepreneurs, India technologists to improve the relationship of the two nations".Ma, one of the richest persons in China with fortunes of about $24 billion, founded Alibaba in 1999 in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang province.Market insiders said one of Alibaba's key strategies over the short-to-medium term is to go global so that it can collaborate and work with small businesses around the world.It is also in talks with many smaller e-commerce players in an attempt to create a large online marketplace model to take on rivals such as Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon.India with its expanding Internet users and smartphone penetration is one of the largest online retail markets in the world and is seeing growing interest from investors globally.According to the consultancy firm PwC, the e-commerce sector in India is expected to grow by 34 per cent to $22 billion in 2015 compared to last year.In January this year, Alibaba signed a memorandum of understanding with industry body CII for greater business engagement between SMEs in India and China.In February, Ant Financial Services -- part of the Alibaba Group -- had announced acquisition of 25 per cent stake in One97 Communications, the parent of mobile commerce firm Paytm.In March, Alibaba pulled out of talks with Snapdeal on stake purchase due to high valuations being sought by the homegrown online marketplace.During the same month, Ma met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed how the firm can help in empowering small businesses in India.
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How might China’s progress in artificial intelligence translate into capabilities for the PLA? At the CMC level, the PLA has seemingly established an Intelligent Unmanned Systems and Systems of Systems Science and Technology Domain Expert Group (军委智能无人系统及体系科学技术领域专家组), which may reflect a redoubled focus on intelligent systems. To date, the PLA has started to experiment with intelligent unmanned systems and evaluate their utility in peacetime and wartime contingencies. For instance, multiple versions of an intelligent unmanned boat, the Jinghai (精海), which has the capability to navigate autonomously and intelligently avoid obstacles, have been tested. Reportedly, the Jinghai was evaluated by the PLA’s former General Armaments Department and the PLA Navy’s Equipment Department, perhaps an indication of the navy’s intentions to acquire such a system, which could be utilized for sensing and reconnaissance missions and to reinforce its presence in disputed waters. Recently, there also appear to have been significant breakthroughs in UAV swarming. At the 2016 Zhuhai Airshow, the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), a prominent state-owned defense industry conglomerate, in partnership with Tsinghua University, demonstrated its progress in swarm intelligence (集群智能) with a formation of nearly seventy UAVs that operated autonomously. Future UAV swarms could serve as an asymmetric means through which to target high-value U.S. weapons platforms, including aircraft carriers. Although recent claims of progress in the incorporation of artificial intelligence into cruise missiles cannot be verified, the Chinese defense industry may have achieved at least initial progress in the “intelligentization” of missiles and evidently aspires to enhance these capabilities in the future.
The Englishman earned a England call-up and even though he is often a substitute for United, against Middlesbrough he was a creative force, regularly providing the key pass for Rashford, but it was his strike from outside the area that once again showed his ability to score from range and score at a crucial point in the game, remind you of anyone? Getty Images 6/10 Must Improve: 1/5 Ander Herrera: Usually such a dependable player this season, but March has been a harsh lesson for the Basque player. It could be down to a loss of energy due to his high work rate but without that same tenacity he appears a different prospect, highlighted in the Rostov match at Old Trafford and against Chelsea. The red card against Chelsea could be deemed harsh but either way it cost United in an important game for his team and Mourinho as it appeared his tactics could allow his side to snatch a result. AFP/Getty Images 7/10 Must Improve: 2/5 Phil Jones: The defender has had moments of brilliance at United but this month it was filled with awkward and bad decisions. Understandably, it’s not Jones’ fault about being put on the wing, but Jones regularly used to make darting runs into the opposition half. This showed the injuries have impacted his game and a lack of confidence in his ability. The poor tackle to give Bournemouth a penalty for the draw was another costly decision, by a defender who could be on the way out of United in the summer. Getty Images 8/10 Must Improve: 3/5 Zlatan Ibrahimovic: The talisman for the season for United has been the Swedish striker. But the elbow on Tyrone Mings could have a lasting effect on the season for United beyond March. It did open the door for Rashford to gain some minutes but he failed to score in the Europa League against Rostov, especially at Old Trafford which was another poor performance. Getty Images 9/10 Must Improve: 4/5 Paul Pogba: The Frenchman was pulled off injured against Rostov at Old Trafford but with United winning comfortable at Middlesbrough in the next game it would have hurt his pride. The Frenchman struggled to control N’Golo Kante in the FA Cup and resorted to hauling him to the ground in frustration, while against Bournemouth failed to conjure up any world beating inspiration.
We used F&M since some people in our complex have used. We needed a kitchen faucet switched out and the guest bathroom had an issue with hot water not working. So the first guy comes and switches out the kitchen faucet. Then tries to fix the guest bathroom. A screw had been messed up in the handle so he had to yank it off breaking the plastic inside the value in the wall. So at this point, he calls his supervisor who comes and looks. He tells me will need to make wall hole bigger to work and remove valve/replace. This will require a more expensive plate to cover the larger hole and will cost $750 to do. I agree and another two guys show up to do this. They proceed with cutting out the old valve to replace with new one. When working on this our wired smoke detectors go off and water starts pouring from the smoke detector below where the bathroom being worked on is located. Making a huge mess and all smoke detectors are going off to where we had to cut the power at the box. They cleaned up and said "dried" the water but by now there could be mold is growing in the walls. The two guys working on the bathroom tell me the good news that they did not need to make the hole bigger which was what I was led to believe was the big part of the job. So I was happy since how could it cost the same with less than half the work needed!? Surprise! I get the bill and is $915! So I email the accounting people explaining and am told they will take off a whopping $75! So I seem to pay the full $750 and somehow a bad installation of a faucet that I provided costs $165. Now I am stuck with a huge plate behind shower faucet that I ended up not needing in the first place and a kitchen faucet that wobbles around. Along with potential mold from all the water they poured into the wall. Well worth the "discounted" $840 price??? I think not. Save yourself the trouble and pick another plumber.
Over the last twelve years A Comic Shop's been burglarized several times, but this time we were hit hard by professionals...and it hurt!Three men stole a firefighter's truck, destroyed both of our reinforced and barred steel doors, wrecked equipment and electronics in the backroom, and crowbarred and removed our safe! The safe had new comic book day's cash, our register's bases, and a petty cash box (as well as some high end comics).Yes we have business insurance, a two million dollar policy in fact, and have never made a claim for the other burglaries because the theft and damage weren't over the deductible. This time it's substantial, and we found that even though we have one million in "damage to rented premises" insurance, it doesn't cover these $1,000 solid steel doors as we didn't install them ourselves (even though we are liable to replace them on our lease). Our policy doesn't cover any cash loss (which I will change for the future), and there's a $2,500 deductible on business property loss or damage due to theft that I didn't notice, as everywhere except one page states a $1,000 deductible (that's for everything but theft apparently).We are hurting from this targeted hit on A Comic Shop and The Geek Easy and are asking for help to cover two $1,000 solid steel doors (with installation) and $1,500 of cash that was taken with the safe. Our insurance may eventually pay for the other damaged or stolen things, but those are definitely not covered. Anything would help, monetarily or items we can sell to raise the money. Publishers or creators could send us trades, variants, exclusives, signed copies, or anything they're inclined to send (Aftershock comics already sent us a care package on their own volition).Thank you all for the empathy and support in this crappy time for us.Love,Aaron and Adam114 South Semoran Blvd, Suite 6Winter Park, FL 32792*Check the updates tab reguarly for new information!
does not occur in the presence of organic mental disorders, affective disorders or panic, or generalized anxiety disorder. In an open study 27 healthy students, physicians, and scientists aged 19-46 years were given 10 drops of R. rosea tincture (equivalent to 100-150 mg R. rosea extract) once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks, beginning several days before intense intellectual work, such as final exams.58 The extract improved the amount and quality of work and in all cases prevented asthenic decompensation (loss of work capacity due to fatigue). A series of studies using a proofreading test showed that a one-time dose of R. rosea did not significantly increase the number of symbols corrected, but very significantly decreased the percent of errors made, particularly over an 8-hour period.65,66 Positive results found in the studies of proofreading tests were based on 300 mg/day or more. In medical treatments, the usual doses are 200-600 mg/day. R. rosea increased intellectual capacity (particularly by improving perception and processing of information) to a greater degree than an extract of eleuthero, formerly called Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus Rupr. et Max., Araliaceae).18 The decrease in physical and mental performance of physicians on prolonged night call is well known. Low dose (170 mg/day) R. rosea extract was given to 56 young, healthy physicians on night call.18 The effect was measured as total mental performance calculated as "Fatigue Index." The tests reflected an overall level of mental fatigue involving complex cognitive functions, such as associative thinking, short-term memory, calculation, concentration, and speed of audio-visual perception. These parameters were tested before and after night duty during three periods of two weeks each in a double-blind crossover trial. A statistically significant improvement in mental performance tests was observed in the treatment group (R. rosea) during the first two-week period. However, at 6 weeks the effect appeared to be lost. No side effects were reported. These results suggest that R. rosea extract can reduce fatigue under certain stressful conditions for some period of time. Possible reasons for the loss of efficacy over time may be the low dose used, the crossover design, or the overall length of night duty with increased fatigue by weeks 5 and 6.
Alternatively for males, walking away from their energetic optima leads to rapidly increasing energetic costs; if male speeds are going to increase when walking together, the energetic burden could become quite high [17], thus suggesting one possible reason for single-individual male hunting and foraging [5], [17], [26] (other reasons relating to specific hunting and foraging strategies may likely also be of issue). If males and females are not traveling separately, the males are much more likely to bear the energetic burden in order to walk with the females, particularly if they are partners. From an energetics perspective, this is the expected outcome since the female reproductive system is sensitive to even the slightest energetic perturbations [11], [12], [32]. If a female is in negative energy balance, ovarian function may be stifled, thus eliminating the possibility of conceiving until energy balance is restored by either expending less energy or consuming more energy [11]. Walking great distances is energetically demanding, making it crucial for females to be walking at or near their optima in order to minimize the energetic cost of walking as much as possible so that energy can be allocated to reproduction. The male reproductive system is much more resilient to energetic expenditures so that even high energetic outputs have no clear impact on sperm production [11]. In order to protect the fertility of females, males may bear the energetic penalty to walk at the females’ paces if they are walking together, and are more likely to bear this burden with a romantic partner than with another female. Work amongst the Hadza demonstrates that males provision for their females following parturition and early lactation periods when females are less productive than at other times [33], thus suggesting an investment in a mate even when she is not fertile and/or less sexually desirable. This exemplifies the willingness and capability of males to expend energy in order to obtain and allocate energetic resources for the female in whom he is reproductively invested. Within a mobility context, the male pays the energetic cost of deviating from his optimal speed in order to walk at the female’s optimum, allowing her to conserve energetic resources that can be allocated to reproduction. It would be useful in the future to assess how male speed is influence while walking with female partners experiencing reproductive loads.
Before I begin, I need to introduce you to a coworker of mine. His name is Viktor. He was born in Eastern Europe, but got to the US when he was about 5 years old - in other words, he's about American as one can get despite his birthplace. He's 18 now, a lower-level manager at work, and in all honesty, one of my best employees. I couldn't begin to tell you why I decided to disclose my status to him. Perhaps my last test was coming up and it was pressing on my mind, or maybe I just was hoping for an ally at work for any possible future meltdowns.One day, when we were sitting down for lunch, I took a deep breath and said, “Can I tell you something and you keep it strictly between us?” I was direct, and probably more nervous than I would like to admit. His reaction was a simple, "Wow!" with the expected look on his face.I spent the next few minutes giving him a basic education: immune systems, medications, stigma, infection statistics, etc. His first (and really, only) question was shocking: "Is it deadly? "My exact reaction escapes me. I was lost somewhere in the middle of shock and boarder-line disgust. I only remember saying "My generation failed you. I'm sorry. "How did we get to this point? How did we get to 2013 without educating the next crop of kids about a plague we're still fighting? This reminds me of why I started this blog. It's why I insist on talking about it. We have all gotten lost in the idea that there are new and great drugs out now that control this virus -- many believe we have cured it. Only education can save us.The younger generation I work with knows I'll speak frankly with them in almost any sense. I employ a lot of teenagers, so I'm privy to more knowledge about what kids are up to these days than I'm prepared to talk about, but it's beneficial on many levels.They don't know why it’s so important to me, but they know I advocate safe sex. They know if they're too embarrassed, I'll even buy them condoms. To date, only 1 teenager has asked -- and I felt honored that he was that comfortable around me.
Well, the emails keep piling up regarding my last two postings about the Creative Commons here and here , as do the links people forward me to stories and whatnot. Though you may be thinking, "enough already! ", I only wish I'd started with this one.I begin with an eye-opening email I got from an in-house attorney for a large company that is currently in settlement talks with a photographer who is suing them for copyright infringement. He didn't give me explicit details, and requested I keep his name withheld, but the shocker is just how bad the CC has become.First, an excerpt from the lawyer's email:To explain how this company got into its mess, let's start with this common question: What do you do when someone uses your CC-licensed image, but fails to give attribution (or other CC provisions that you assigned to the photo)?If you're like most people, you complain--bitterly--and probably post a few things on forums and send email to your friends. (And me. )But, if you know something about copyright law, and you set things up just right beforehand, you can do more. Amore. And the reason you may not have thought of some of these things is due to a few common (gross) misunderstanding about what copyright is, and what the Creative Commons is, and where the cracks are in the system. So, let's start there:Some people think that CCcopyright. It doesn't. Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the "authors of original works of authorship." Creative Commons is a, which stipulates terms of use for your copyrighted work. Or, as the FAQ from the creativecommons.org website says, "Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may exercise your copyright rights. "Copyright and CC work together. You can't assign a CC to a work that isn't yours; it would be considered invalid (and an act of fraud). My previous posts on the subject focusedon this aspect, which was short-sighted on my part, not because it wasn't true, but because it missed the much larger risk that licensees bear. I suggested that CC puts licensees at risk because of thissequence of events by innocent bystanders who had no idea what was going on.
“A large piece of advice that I must give to young fencers is to not let anybody take the fun out of fencing. You must train hard and motivate yourself to work harder and do better, but you cannot go overboard on it.” – Ari Simmons, 2013 Cadet World Champion. Fencing is fun, so don’t lose sight of that! Learn to fence the referee- No no, that does not mean to bludgeon the referee with your blade. We don’t do that? Ok? We don’t do that. As I competed in my first right of way weapon nationals, I had one of those “ah-hah” moments, which is probably a stupid epiphany that most of you foilists and sabrists have already had: it is of equal importance to sell the touch to the referee as it is to land it on your opponent. What a referee in your division might call a full extension to a cut might be different from how Joe Referee from South Carolina calls it. Take this season to understand not only the opponents you fence, but to digest how to read your referees and sell the touch. No matter the quality of the referee, every single one sees a bout differently. The easier the fencer sells it, the easier it is to win. Question everything- One of my favorite weekly lessons to give is to a Veteran fencer who asks me “why?” after every action I show her. It’s not because she doubts me (I hope), but because she wants to understand the tactics behind the action and how to apply them to her bouts. When you take lessons, don’t be afraid to initiate dialogue with coach. It’s easy to follow blindly, but take this season to ask “why?” when you learn from your coach. Gain a better understanding of everything you’re doing on the strip. The best way to do that is to not only learn the motions, but the tactic behind each motion. A key to becoming a successful fencer is to think for yourself, which leads me to… Become more independent- You don’t need your coach to tell you to get off your tush and work. You don’t need your coach to hold your hand through every tournament and tell you what to do in every hairy situation in a bout.
[5:40 AM] equius_zahhak: "How far away are they from here?" while embracing her [5:40 AM] sammiepie: start to kiss down her neck [5:40 AM] joeshmo101: Interrobang her [5:40 AM] sammiepie: ^ [5:41 AM] plotospex: You can't PUCTUATION! You're not a DICTIONARY! [5:41 AM] joeshmo101: (anyone who knows the real meaning of interrobang should be luaghing right now) [5:41 AM] plotospex: "How far away are they? ", you ask SPITFIRE PONY while you deliver a sexful steam of [5:42 AM] plotospex: kissu~ down her neck. [5:42 AM] joeshmo101: [a steam of kissu?] [5:42 AM] sammiepie: stream? [5:42 AM] plotospex: [Okay, a series of kissu~] [5:42 AM] plotospex: [A sexful cascade of a series] [5:43 AM] plotospex: SPITFIRE PONY wraps her forehooves around you, pulling you a little closer as you kissu~ [5:43 AM] equius_zahhak: [a resonance cascade perhaps?] [5:43 AM] plotospex: "You could get there in maybe 3 hours, I think," she adds, almost as an afterthought. [5:44 AM] plotospex: Your HORSE GENITALS grow excited at her FAMILIAR EMBRACE. [5:44 AM] plotospex: what do [5:44 AM] sammiepie: keep kissing down to her breasts but stop to look up and ask a question [5:44 AM] sammiepie: *kissing slowly [5:45 AM] cloppyhooves: What ask [5:45 AM] cloppyhooves: ? [5:45 AM] plotospex: ^ [5:45 AM] joeshmo101: what breasts? [5:45 AM] equius_zahhak: "Xan I count on you to rally some more ponies for the cause while I'm away?" [5:45 AM] joeshmo101: crotchboobs? [5:45 AM] plotospex: Crotchboobs, brah [5:45 AM] sammiepie: ^ [5:45 AM] outta_spec: ^ [5:45 AM] sammiepie: [whoops sorry] [5:45 AM] sammiepie: [forgot} [5:46 AM] cloppyhooves: We don't really need to rally ponies [5:46 AM] joeshmo101: & [5:46 AM] joeshmo101: ^ [5:46 AM] sunasmine: we just need to get the elements [5:46 AM] cloppyhooves: Should we tell her what we did about Blueblood, Caesar, and Trixie? [5:46 AM] sammiepie: nah [5:46 AM] joeshmo101: no [5:46 AM] cloppyhooves: Not it terms of sexin', but in terms of alliances and such [5:46 AM] equius_zahhak: just tell her to lay low [5:46 AM] sammiepie: ^ [5:46 AM] joeshmo101: (not ponies, but good music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5MekUgWuM ) [5:46 AM] joeshmo101: w/ e_z [5:47 AM] sammiepie: do both e_z and ch [5:47 AM] equius_zahhak: in regards to alliances [5:47 AM] equius_zahhak: do we tell her we intend to sway BB? [5:47 AM] sunasmine: perhaps we should ask her thoughts in the other three before telling?
The Smithsonian’s new museum—the last to be built on the National Mall—follows the African-American experience through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era. The museum proceeds chronologically, escalating from African and pre-colonial history (in the third and lowest basement level) to contemporary art (on the fourth floor). It is a massive undertaking, sometimes breathtaking. And the architecture of the museum both builds and hinders its narrative. (Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC) Some 60 percent of the building is below grade; the historical galleries all fall along three underground mezzanine levels. To create exhibition space so far below ground, Davis Brody Bond—the same architecture firm responsible for the largely subterranean National September 11 Memorial and Museum—had to build a concrete container in which the museum sits, a bucket with walls rising 75 feet high that frame the entire historical experience. “The largest challenge was water,” says Robert Anderson, director of Davis Brody Bond’s D.C. office. “Everything west and south of the Washington Monument was infill. It was all swampland. When you dig down 12 feet, you hit the water table. We had to build essentially an inside-out bathtub in order to keep the water out of the building.” Related Story The Disappearance of Rural Museums A new documentary details the struggles of tiny historical sites in Manitoba. Visitors pass from the narrow hall on slavery into this major space, following a ramp that shepherds them by several iconic exhibits: the pointed Monticello statues, a slave cabin, the Jones-Hall-Sims House, a segregation-era railcar, and a prison tower from the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary (nicknamed Angola) among them. This fairly linear course then deposits viewers at a Reconstruction gallery, on the second mezzanine level, with information-heavy exhibits that characterize most of the rest of the museum. “We thought the added volume made sense,” says Phil Freelon, one of the principal architects responsible for the building’s design, discussing how the area of the history galleries doubled during the museum buildout. “As you move through history, you’re able to see different aspects of the exhibits from varying perspectives. Which adds another layer of understanding to the overall sweep of history.”
Access to the Merciless Labyrinth will be added alongside Act 8.The new minimap will be included as well.The Act 2 bandit rewards have been restructured to better fit a single difficulty.Act 8 will not be available on day one, but will be added to the beta before we launch The Fall of Oriath.Acts 9 and 10 will not be available in the beta, so neither will be any game features (such as parts of the Pantheon) that are tied to story progression within acts 9 and 10.We are not including any new unique items in the beta. We want to keep the focus of the beta on existing systems, broad balance changes, act content, and the Pantheon.We are not initially adding new support or skill gems to the beta, though they may be added later.The new Microtransaction system will not be active on day one of the beta. You will not have access to any of the Microtransactions you have purchased on your Path of Exile account in the beta initially. We expect to be able to add the new Microtransaction system and access to purchased Microtransactions during the beta, once we have resolved the issues we encountered deploying 2.6.1.The act 7 mid-act boss fight will only have one variant initially. There will ultimately be 4 variants, based on your choices during the Bandit quest in act 2.Some NPCs, bosses, and player characters may be missing dialogue audio.Some enemies, including bosses, are using temporary sound effects or are missing certain sound effects altogether.Boss and monster balance is still in flux.The corrupted side areas in act 5 are using a temporary boss for all variations. Each variant will have its own boss by launch.Changes related to the removal of 'double dipping' may have bugs or irregularities. Be sure to let us know if you believe you have found some.Some aesthetic elements, such as monster skill effects, animations, or models, are temporary or are works in progress.Some new areas don't have the layout diversity that they will have by launch. Last edited by Bex_GGG on Jun 7, 2017, 5:25:06 AM Last bumped on Aug 11, 2017, 11:33:33 PM
larger image TIFF original image Download: Figure 1. Mean judgments of the moral acceptability of intended, neutral, and foreseen harm by 5-HTTLPR genotype. Error bars denote standard error. Acceptability judgments of foreseen harm scenarios varied linearly with genotype. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025148.g001 Response times It has previously been observed that heightened response conflict during moral decision making is associated with longer response times [4], [5]. We thus conducted a 2 (intentionality)×3 (genotype) ANOVA assessing participants' median response times across all response options when they judged foreseen and intentional harm scenarios. A marginally significant main effect of intentionality, F(1, 62) = 3.37, p = .07, reflected longer response times to foreseen harm scenarios (M = 6836 milliseconds, SD = 2246) than intentional harm scenarios (M = 6540 milliseconds, SD = 2612). No main effect of group or interaction was observed (p>.10). More important for our specific hypotheses, we also analyzed variation in response times when participants made different responses. In other words, how did participants' response times vary as a function of how acceptable they judged a course of action to be? To conduct this analysis, we calculated for each participant the correlation between his or her mean response times and the numeric response (1–7) he or she provided for both foreseen and intentional harm scenarios. Thus, a positive correlation indicated that the participant responded more slowly when judging actions to be more acceptable, and a negative correlation indicated that participants responded more slowly when judging the action to be less acceptable. We performed a Fisher transformation on these coefficients to normalize their distribution and compared the resulting coefficients across groups for intentional and foreseen harm using a 2 (intentionality)×3 (genotype) ANOVA. An intentionality × genotype interaction emerged, F(2, 58) = 3.42, p = .04. In accordance with findings for moral judgments, group differences in response times emerged only when participants judged foreseen harm. Examination of the means indicated that only the responses of homozygous L-carriers varied as a function of response. These participants showed slower response latencies the less acceptable they judged foreseen harm to be (M = −0.74, SD = 0.69). No relationship between response selection and response times was observed for S-carriers (all M<0.15). No main effect of group was found. These patterns suggest that LL homozygotes experienced increased response conflict, and hence delayed response times, when their responses contradicted the principle of double effect.
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Come riportato negli atti della fabbriceria, il 12 giugno 1655 viene incaricato l'astronomo Giovanni Domenico Cassini di realizzare una nuova meridiana in sostituzione della precedente, questo perché il Riccioli fece presente che lo gnomone del Danti, essendo la basilica ancora in fase di completamento, avrebbe cessato di funzionare, cosa che avvenne nel 1656 quando poi venne demolito il muro di fondo della navata sinistra. La meridiana di Cassini venne terminata nel dicembre del 1657. Le sue misure sono eccezionali: con una lunghezza pari a 66,8 metri, ancora oggi ne fanno la meridiana più grande al mondo. Per la realizzazione, Cassini si basò su alcune altezze del Sole, prendendo come traguardo il piano della facciata, decidendo di sfruttare la massima altezza possibile e riuscendo a fissare la lastra col foro gnomonico ad un'altezza pari a "1000 once del piede regio di Parigi" (all'epoca l'unità di misura lineare usata normalmente dagli scienziati europei), corrispondente a 27,07 metri, più volte verificata per via di piccoli cedimenti strutturali o a terremoti. Il foro della lastra, avendo un diametro inferiore a quello apparente del Sole (1 Oncia Francese, cioè 27,07 mm), assumeva la funzione di un vero e proprio foro stenopeico, proiettando sul pavimento non una semplice macchia di luce, ma l'immagine stessa del Sole rovesciata come in una camera oscura (Il 30 giugno 1973, ad esempio, si poté osservare l'eclisse parziale di Sole con la classica immagine,rovesciata, a mezzaluna). Le ore all'italiana erano indicate in lastrine sporgenti a est e a ovest, indicando la lunghezza del meridiano dal "punto verticale" in secondi e terzi d'arco. Una volta certo di tali misure, Cassini fece scolpire sul marmo a grandi lettere che la lunghezza della Linea corrispondeva alla seicentomillesima parte del meridiano terrestre, ponendo così per la prima volta una corrispondenza fra una misura lineare e la dimensione della Terra, esattamente come verrà fatto alla fine del Settecento, quando il "metro" sarà usato quale unità di misura internazionale rapportandolo alla quarantamilionesima parte del meridiano terrestre. Alcuni anni dopo il Cassini venne richiesto a Parigi dal re Luigi XIV per dirigere il nuovo Osservatorio Astronomico appena terminato. Soltanto nel 1695 ritornò a Bologna in occasione di un suo viaggio per Roma in compagnia del figlio Jacques e con la collaborazione di Domenico Guglielmini provvide al restauro della Meridiana: alcuni degli strumenti utilizzati allo scopo sono ancora conservati nel Museo della Basilica.
And because there are so many P2P nodes, it's possible to split up your list of addresses and send a subset to lots of different peers, so none get an accurate idea of what's in your wallet (bitcoinj doesn't do that today though). By adjusting your false positive rate, you can decide how much bandwidth you want to spend on garbling the other nodes picture of your wallet. If you're on a very slow or expensive link you might decide you want no noise in your filter at all, if you're on a fast wifi connection, you might be OK with downloading a megabyte or two of other peoples transactions just to obscure which ones are yours.Using these fancy mathematical tools MultiBit and the Android wallet app give us the same nice performance that we can get from a web wallet like blockchain.info or Coinbase, but without the need for any central servers and keeping Bitcoin's P2P nature intact. SPV wallets will always be fast no matter how popular Bitcoin gets. Together with being able to delete old blocks, these are our solutions to the ever-growing size of the chain - which has been Satoshi's plan since the very first day Bitcoin was announced.I hope it's all clearer now and everyone understands what's going on.
Infested by the epidemic (contagious and wasteful) bonds of philia, openness is triggered on all levels of its communicative lines but more on the plane of "being opened" than "being open" or "being open to". This is an openness abolishing or messing up all trajectories of economical communication, autarky and insularism: everything is terminally and ruthlessly softened and opened; this is what happens for necro- in necrophilia. Philia is an infection not in the term of invasion but unavoidable attraction (epidemic bonds: symbiosis, base-communication, parasitism, contamination, alliance, etc.) Through this openness, philia debases whatever attaches to it whether as a supplementary or articulative attachment (as in necrophilia). Philia does not answer the quiddity-oriented questions or the interrogations around genesis (oversimplifying philia as a rooted genesis element); it is the 'where' not as a question but an unground; philia is the unground where events or entities undergo a descent without stoppage; where everything is contagious, epidemic, compositional and under an immense ungrounding process. Through philia space is experienced in its non-accommodating / non-dwelling openness, an openness free from affordance-based (J. J. Gibson) or economical appropriations.
IV In 1910, Japan annexed Korea to integrate it into the Empire of Japan. According to its policy of assimilating colonies, the Japanese government intended to remove tariffs between Japan and Korea, and this policy had almost been realized by 1923, when tariffs on the commodities exported to Korea from Japan were essentially removed. The reduction of the tariff barrier was supposed to improve market access between Japan and Korea. This article has explored the implications of this event, focusing on the spatial distribution of economic activity in Japan. The regression results suggest that the integration of the Korean market increased the population growth rates more in the regions close to the former border between Japan and Korea than in the other regions. Furthermore, the regions close to Korea that specialized in the fabric industry, whose products were the major export goods to Korea from Japan, experienced greater population growth than the other border regions after integration. Our results suggest that market accessibility was indeed a determinant of the spatial distribution of economic activity, as predicted by spatial economics theory. In the context of the history of imperialism, the literature has revealed that modern imperialism expanded trade by providing ‘international public goods’, which, in turn, changed the industrial structure of the mainland and the colonies. Our findings indicate that, in the case of the Japanese Empire, the economic effect of colonization on the mainland was spatially heterogeneous, which suggests that introducing a spatial viewpoint into research on the history of imperialism is important. In particular, based on the findings presented in this article, we can infer that the impact of annexation on the Korean economy was spatially heterogeneous. This issue is left open for future research. Finally, our results contribute to the literature on regional development in prewar Japan. Matsumoto estimated prefectural incomes for 1905, 1920, and 1935 and found that prefectures in western Japan experienced faster growth than those in eastern Japan during this period. Additionally, he and his co‐author reached a similar finding based on business tax data.55 These findings are consistent with the results of this article.56 Exploring the impact of Japan's expanding empire may provide a new perspective on the long‐term regional development of its economy.
Schiaparelli fled to London to avoid the certainty of marriage to a persistent suitor, a wealthy Russian whom her parents favored and for whom she herself felt no attraction. In London, Schiaparelli who had held a fascination for psychic phenomena since childhood, attended a lecture on theosophy. The lecturer that night was Willem de Wendt, a man of various aliases who was also known as Willie Wendt and Wilhem de Kerlor. He was reported to have legally changed his name in England to Wilhelm Frederick Wendt de Kerlor, a combination of his father's last name and mother's maiden name. [10] de Wendt's profession was one of a tireless, inventive self-promoter, in reality a con man who claimed to have psychic powers, and numerous academic credentials. He alternatively and simultaneously passed himself off as detective and criminal psychologist, doctor, and lecturer. In a stint on the vaudeville stage de Kerlor billed himself as "The World Famous Dr. W. de Kerlor. "[11] Schiaparelli was immediately attracted to this charismatic charlatan and they became engaged on the very next day of their first meeting. They married shortly thereafter in London on July 21, 1914, Schiaparelli was twenty-three, her new husband thirty. [12] de Kerlor attempted to earn a living aggrandizing his reputation as a psychic practitioner as the couple subsisted primarily on the wedding dowry and an allowance provided by Schiaparelli’s wealthy parents. [13] Schiaparelli played the role of her husband's helpmate and helped facilitate the promotion of his fraudulent schemes. In 1915 the couple were forced to leave England after de Kerlor was deported following his conviction for practicing fortune-telling, then illegal. [14] They subsequently lived a peripatetic existence in Paris, Cannes, Nice, and Monte Carlo, before leaving for America in the spring of 1916.
Yet the foundational sense that there were bizarre forces at work in the period, paranoid and violent and tightly interlocked in the strangest imaginable ways, and by their nature resistant to the common-sense impulses of ordinary explanation—this is, as far as one can tell, true. As J.F.K. himself is claimed to have said, apropos of the then popular coup-d’état thriller “Seven Days in May,” such a coup in the United States was far from being unthinkable: “It’s possible. It could happen in this country. But the conditions would have to be right. If, for example, the country had a young president and he had a Bay of Pigs, there would be a certain uneasiness. . . . Then if there were another Bay of Pigs, the reaction of the country would be, ‘Is he too young and inexperienced?’ The military would almost feel that it was their patriotic obligation to stand ready to preserve the integrity of the nation, and only God knows just what segment of democracy they would be defending if they overthrew the elected establishment.” (He added that he intended it not to happen “on his watch.”) By J.F.K.’s own accounting, the Bay of Pigs was the first failure. In the eyes of the national-security hawks, the Cuban missile crisis, though presented to the public as a showdown that Kennedy won, was the second, an exercise in abject appeasement. Kennedy had refused the unanimous advice of his generals and admirals to bomb Cuba, and had settled the crisis by giving the Russians what they wanted, the removal of missiles from Turkey. (This was kept quiet, but the people who knew knew.) The notion that the Cold War national-security state, which Eisenhower warned against, might have decided to kill the President is not as difficult to credit as one wishes. There were C.I.A. operatives prepared to kill foreign leaders, some of them previously friendly, for acts they didn’t like, and to recruit gangsters to do it, and generals who were eager to invade Cuba even at the risk of nuclear war, and who resented Kennedy for restraining them. (A veteran journalist, Jefferson Morley, has been pursuing the trail of a now dead C.I.A. agent named George Joannides through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, believing that, at a minimum, the C.I.A. was keeping a much sharper eye on Oswald than it ever wanted known. Relevant documents are supposed to be released in 2017.)
The impact of Iowa’s ag gag law in silencing that information goes beyond the plaintiffs in this case and extends throughout the state and country. Iowa is by far the country’s biggest producer of pigs raised for meat and hens raised for eggs, along with millions of cows, chickens, turkeys, and goats raised in the state. Agricultural production facilities employ tens of thousands of workers, and have a significant environmental impact. Additionally, puppy mills have flourished in Iowa, typically located on agricultural land, with Iowa unfortunately having been categorized as a haven for problem dog breeders by the U.S. Humane Society.
In one episode, one of Hustle Man's more outrageous items for sale was an 'appetizing' array of roasted pigeons impaled on a tree branch (as if barbecued on it), which he attempted to sell to Martin and his friends while they were snowed in and starving. In another episode he served as Martin's cut-rate "wedding planner", armed with a shopping cart brimming with plastic flowers, chitlin loaf, and a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor—Martin's retaliation for Gina's choice of a more elegant and ridiculously overpriced wedding planner.
There may be more franchises and would-be “cinematic universes” now than ever before, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that there are more legitimate (franchise-worthy) “movie stars” these days. As a result, studios are increasingly vying for attention from the same consistently proven movie stars (let’s wave at Jennifer Lawrence up above, folks!) to help launch their franchises with the required star power. One such actor is Dwayne Johnson, who, in addition to the Fast & Furious movies, has also added his star power to the Journey, G.I. Joe, and San Andreas franchises, and also has Baywatch, Disney’s Moana and the video game adaptation Rampage in the works. This week brought news of two more. The studio that is specifically throwing around the “cinematic universe” is Universal Pictures, which has now attached Dwayne Johnson to star in The Janson Directive, based on a novel by espionage author Robert Ludlum (AKA the writer of the Jason Bourne books/movies). Dwayne Johnson will star in The Janson Directive as “a former clandestine operative, now the best private security consultant in the world, who is framed for a horrendous crime and must join forces with the protégée sent to kill him in order to survive.” Screenwriter James Vanderbilt (Zodiac; cowriter of The Amazing Spider-Man) will both adapt The Janson Directive and continue to develop adaptations of other Robert Ludlum novels (Vanderbilt previously wrote for Johnson on The Rundown). It’s yet unclear if the Johnson/Vanderbilt “Ludlum Cinematic Universe” will also connect to the continuity of Universal’s “Bourne” films. Dwayne Johnson also seemed to tease on Instagram this week that he might be working with director Shane Black (The Nice Guys) next year on his long-in-development adaptation of the pulp hero Doc Savage. Johnson doesn’t come right out and say, however, that he would be playing Doc Savage (since he could be playing any other character in the movie). Having said that, most people are interpreting the tease that way, and it does seem more likely that Johnson would himself play Doc Savage. Perhaps Shane Black or the studio will confirm Johnson’s involvement and role soon.
Last month, we wrote about the vastly different views on net neutrality from a variety of minority and latino organizations. The key to the story, not surprisingly, was that the minority groups that arefunded by the giant broadband troika of Verizon, AT&T and Comcast apparently think that true net neutrality would be a disaster for the minority community -- while the groupsfunded by those corporate giants believe that more open and free internet devoid of fast and slow lanesfor the minority community.Reporter Lee Fang had written a similar article for Republic Report, touching on some of the same points about the disagreements between these groups. That story got syndicated to a bunch of other sites, including Salon , and some others wrote about it. One site was NewsOne , which describes itself as being a news site "for black America." They had a blog post that discussed the Salon story and quoted heavily from it. That story no longer exists , taken down thanks to complaints from the same group it criticized. Here's a screenshot of what it looked like (you can click for a larger version):So, where did the article go? Well, it just so happens that NewsOne is owned by Radio One, a company that is closely tied to Comcast . So, there's a bit of a conflict there already. Fang called up NewsOne and was told that the order to take it down "came from corporate headquarters. "For the life of me, I can't see anything in the original article that was "inappropriate," other than that corporate bosses might not have liked pissing off corporate partners by exposing some of their astroturfing. But that's not all. Fang also reached out to the lobbying group the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC). MMTC is the organization that featured prominently in both my story and Fang's original story as being the central player in pushing the big broadband players agenda in DC and dragging along these other minority groups. Just last year, the Center for Public Integrity had called out MMTC as a big broadband astroturfing front group, noting that it had taken a strong standtelco consolidation... until it was suddenly flooded with money from the telcos, and totally flipped its position:It's also worth noting that one of Comcast's main political operatives, Joe Waz , happens to be on MMTC's board of advisors .
With regard to the reliance on the subjects' memories, the forty-year time lapse between initial study participation and follow-up interview poses a significant threat to validity and reliability of some of the data. Fortunately, the most important data were not the subjects' descriptions of their original LSD experiences but rather their discussion of the consequences of that experience in the course of their entire lives up to the time of the interviews. Considering the subjective nature of the information we sought on long-term effects, the attempt to seek independent corroboration was not considered necessary or practical in this follow-up study. Independent raters should be used, however, in the context of new clinical trials. In regard to dose, the amount generally used in this experiment was 2 micrograms per kilogram of body weight given orally. Rarely, larger doses or different routes of administration were used. Subjects clearly received a dose of LSD sufficient to catalyze a profound reaction, though less than the dose generally used in psychedelic psychotherapeutic contexts. The results of this research should not be generalized to the use of larger doses. Summary of findings: perceived benefits and minimal harm The goal of the initial research was to observe what happened to individuals under the influence of LSD in a non-directive naturalistic setting and to attempt a phenomenological characterization of the essential nature of the LSD state, as contrasted with descriptions of the content of that state. Although therapeutic benefits were reported by some subjects, the objective of the original study was not directed toward therapy. As the original research developed, other projects emerged such as the exploration of artistic creativity, a study of twins, and other sub-studies. Forty-four out of the 45 respondents in the follow-up study described their LSD experience(s) as being, on balance, positive. The one exception is discussed in the body of the paper. This subject described his overall experience as negative and would not discuss many details of it except to say that he had a "double dose" of LSD and "it was dreadful." The respondent also noted that he had experienced psychological "problems" before ingesting LSD. This subject did not report experiencing long-term negative consequences such as flashbacks or continuing adverse experiences resulting from his participation in the experiment. He even reported that it did some "good work" for him psychologically. In approximately five interviews, adverse effects were reported during the LSD experiences, even though these experiences were considered, on balance, positive.
Creative, hard-working, dedicated, musical, performance-inclined, group-coordinator, resourceful, cooperator, and interested in food; these words could accurately describe a few of my attributes. They still exist even after a character-trying set of surgeries. Beginning in March 29, of 2009, I experienced major leg surgery to correct a large leg-length-discrepancy. The difference between my right and my left leg was a total of 3 cm. Over 25 days and adjusting the external fixator on my left leg 3 times a day, we were able to stretch my leg just over an inch at 2.553 cm. It stretched my patience as well. Seven months later, the gap in my bone was still not solid, so I went for a second surgery to have the external fixator removed and a titanium rod inserted into my bone. Soon I contracted an infection, and about five months later, I went for the third surgery to have the rod removed. Since the recovery, I have persevered through two reconstructive scar surgeries and another infection. All throughout the process, I maintained my exceptional grades and recovered my original strength. I was able to participate in a mission trip to Atlanta this summer one week after my final reconstructive scar surgery. With incisions taped, I was able to serve the community in a day care for challenged children and a food packaging line that provides food for under-privileged and immune depressed people. I plan to continue in the path I have traveled, helping others, keeping up my GPA, and fighting to overcome some physical difficulties. I want to get involved in a ministry such as the Baptist Campus Ministry at the university and reach out to the spiritual needs of students. I also desire to work diligently to impress the University of Tennessee instructors by giving insightful comments and completing homework competently and on time. I am ready to work toward maintaining my GPA as I have done throughout my years of education as I received a 30 on my ACT in my junior year of high school even when it was not easy. Not only did I maintain my 4.0 GPA, I also continued in my musical studies. I have played the violin for thirteen years now, and have been awarded with many honors and have achieved new heights in my violin experience. I know I can honorably complete college with the experience I have had in the degree I have already been awarded.
... the Reverend Flake focused his appeals on a core group of swing voters in the state legislature. In particular, he targeted the black and Latino caucuses, comprised of Democrats from the Assembly and the Senate. ...Generally, black and Latino legislators opposed charter schools as a Republican attempt to decrease public investment in public schools and a step toward legalization of vouchers. ...Knowing that most black and Latino legislators were Christians and relied on the backing of Afro-Christian churches for their electoral success, the Reverned Flake made a case to them for charter schools, sometimes even in the pulpits of their churches, by incorporating Scripture and references to the Gospels. Morken describes Floyd Flake in 1999 as being chosen in a poll as the single most influential figure in the country who could move "school choice" to the national stage. Flake was listed ahead of other significant leaders at that time including Howard Fuller of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning (also funded by the Bradley Foundation and Waltons), William Bennett, and Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice. Bolick is also the former president of Alliance for School Choice. Morken describes Floyd Flake in 1999 as being chosen in a poll as the single most influential figure in the country who could move "school choice" to the national stage. Flake was listed ahead of other significant leaders at that time including Howard Fuller of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning (also funded by the Bradley Foundation and Waltons), William Bennett, and Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice. Bolick is also the former president of Alliance for School Choice. Pennsylvania began removing some of the Philadelphia schools from private management by 2008. A Washington Post article at that time described the failure, "Longtime opponents of the privatization plan immediately said the decision showed that the experiment of turning schools over to private managers and market forces -- an idea popular with pro-school-choice Republicans and pushed at the time President Bush was taking office in Washington -- had run its course." But the privatization juggernaut lived on, and today has gone to great lengths to disguise its roots. But the privatization juggernaut lived on, and today has gone to great lengths to disguise its roots.
She was making every effort to achieve her goal,” says Li Hong, who is now married to a Xuzhou policeman. “Look at me-no dream, no accomplishment.” She is full of praise for her one friend who made it to America. “No one like her; she is the only one,” she says. “Murdoch, such a media king, one of the richest men in the world, was attracted to her. He divorced his wife, which shows Wendi is outstanding, unusual. If someday you meet her, please tell her I really miss her.” When Wendi’s father was transferred to Guangzhou, the former Canton, to manage a factory, Wendi stayed in Xuzhou, sometimes sharing a bunk bed with Li Hong in the sports dormitory until she could join her parents. She then enrolled in medical school, majoring in clinical treatment, but she concentrated more on learning English than on medicine. As she explained later, “In China, at that time, the idea of getting out and going to America was the stuff of dreams.” When she was 19, three years into her five-year medical-school program, and had changed her name from Wen Ge to Wendi, luck shone upon her in the form of a middle manager from Southern California named Jake Cherry, who had taken a temporary job in Guangzhou. “Take me off your list!” he shouted when I showed up at the office of his refrigeration company, in an industrial suburb of Los Angeles. “I just want you to verify a few things,” I told him. “I’m not verifying anything!” he said.
Sociologist James Beckford claimed that Russell's "sometimes ingenious" ex post facto rationalizations of events in 1914 contributed to the survival of the Bible Student movement. [13] Under doctrinal changes introduced by his successor, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, it was later decided that the Millennium would come within the generation of those who saw the events of 1914. The years of 1799 and 1874, until then significant dates in Russell's millennial chronology, were also abandoned. [16] Yet Chrissides said there was no clear failure of the predictions surrounding 1914. "Although there was clear disappointment at the non-occurrence of certain empirically observable events, a number of the events to which Russell alludes are incapable of disconfirmation. One cannot verify the beginning of Christ's sovereign rule, the cleansing of the sanctuary, and the admission to heaven of those who have experienced the 'high calling'. Even events like the ending of the Gentile times do not have obvious empirical indicators. "[1]
Pairwise comparisons (t-test) were used for data measured on the interval scale (age, MVIC, FVC), Wilcoxon rank sum tests for ordinal data (ALSFRS-R, SF-12), and χ2 tests for nominal data (gender). The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to test interval data for normality. If the data were not normally distributed, the appropriate non-parametric test was employed. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Ailesi mutlu, taraftar mutlu, hoca mutlu, ben mutluyum. "Çocuğum Beşiktaş'ta oynayacak" diyor, doğrudur. Quaresma'nın Beşiktaş'ta futboldan sonra görev almasını istiyorum. Atiba'nın da futboldan sonra kalmasını istiyorum. İki sene sözleşmesi var, ondan 5 sene daha faydalanmak istiyoruz. (Gülerek) Atiba ve ailesiyle mutluyuz. Bütün oyuncularımızın ailesiyle mutluyuz. Bunu bozacak bir şeye izin vermem" diye görüşlerini aktardı.Dick Adovcaat'ın "Mehmet Ekici için Beşiktaş, 2 milyon euro verdi" iddiasını yanıtlayan Orman "Mehmet Ekici'ye 2 milyon euro vermedik. Advocaat, Beşiktaş maçlarından sonra da kariyerine yakışacak şeyler yapmadı. "Bize çelme takmaya gelmişler" falan. Nitekim gidiyor, Allah yolunu açık etsin" dedi.Uzak Doğu için büyük projeler yaptıklarına vurgu yapan Fikret Orman, "Çin ve Uzak Doğu için projelerimiz var. THY ile Uzak Doğu programı yapıyoruz. Orada sosyal medya hesapları açıyoruz. Zaman bırakılan bir şey değil, şu an çalışıyoruz. "Hadi Çin'e gidip bir maç yapalım" projesi değil. Baya bir emek var" diyerek planlarından bilgiler verdi. "Beşiktaş Üniversitesi projeniz var mı?" sorusunu da cevaplayan Orman, "Beşiktaş Üniversitesi hedefimiz var. Ancak sadece üniversitesi değil, eğitim çatısı projemiz var. Bunu Kabataş Lisesi ile birlikte götürüyoruz. Çok yoruluyorum. Herkes, her şeyi istiyor, yaptıkça daha fazla isteniyor." dedi.Beşiktaş'ın büyük bir kurum olduğuna vurgu yapan deneyimli yönetici "Rakiplerimizi hor görmüyoruz. Ancak Türkiye'de en büyük biziz diyoruz. Rakiplerimiz de kendi adlarına bunu söyler, normal. Sessiz tezahürat ile 120 ülkede haber olduk. Milyarlarca kişiye ulaştık. Beşiktaş ile oynarken artık herkes tedirgin olur. Real Madrid de olur Barcelona da olur. Beşiktaş artık cepte kuş değildir" şeklinde iddialı konuştu.Şampiyonluk kutlamaları için bilgi veren Orman "Türkiye'nin tek yalı stadı bizde. Denizden geleceğiz. Havada, karada, denizde, Beşiktaş. Sonra bir organizasyonumuz var. Dünyada şampiyonluklar sonrası takım meydana gelir. Bizim kendi stadımızda meydanımız var. Stattaki terasımızda, takım ile taraftar bir araya gelecek. Detaylı programı arkadaşlar açıklarlar. Erken bitecek çünkü yanımız cami. Ramazan ayı içerindeyiz. İftar önce biter herhalde. Ramazan'dan sonra balo yapmak istiyoruz. Taraftarlar için de bir çalışmamız var" diyerek camiasına bilgi verdi.Bu yaz Çin'de kamp yapacaklarını ilk kez açıklayan Fikret Orman, "16 Temmuz'da Çin'e gidiyoruz. İlk maçımızı Schalke ile Guangzhou'da oynayacağız" dedi.Ümraniye'de yapacakları projeden bahseden Orman, "Ümraniye'de altyapı için saha yapacağız, izin almaya çalışıyoruz, birçok engel çıkıyor. Bu Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray için de aynı, engeller oluyor. İnşallah en kısa zamanda Başbakanımız ve Cumhurbaşkanımız ile görüşebiliriz onlar bu işlere destek veriyor" diye konuştu.Fenerbahçe'nin köprüdeki bayrağının yakılması hakkında konuşan Orman "Bayrak yakma olayına üzüldüm. 2-3 kendini bilmezin yaptığını camialara yüklemek ağır olur. Benle bir fotoğraf çektirmiş, günde iki bin tane fotoğraf çektiriyoruz. Bunların camialarla alakası yok. Efendi Beşiktaş'ız.
Depending on your particular interest, there are numerous other conferences on sexuality-related topics, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues; women's sexuality; and youth sexuality education. In general, conferences and workshops are a great way to get more education about sexuality, to network with other people in the field, and to learn about other opportunities you might want to pursue.Marshall is a trainer of teachers for Our Whole Lives , a comprehensive sexuality education program created by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ Board of Homeland Ministries. OWL is taught in both faith-based and community settings, such as Planned Parenthood affiliates. Even if you're not in a position to teach OWL, the trainings themselves provide a great learning opportunity for aspiring sex educators. Check the online calendar for upcoming dates.
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I fought the communists as part of the battalion combat teams, I went up the ladder. Battalion staff officer. Company commander. Task Force commander. Special Forces group commander. Brigade commander. All in different periods in our country. Huk campaign. Korean War campaign. The Vietnam War, and I was the head of the advance party of the PHILCAG (Philippine Civil Action Group to Vietnam) that went to a tiny province at the Cambodian border – the so-called Alligator Jaw – War Zone Z where even Max Soliven said The Viet-Cong will eat us up. Of course, we were physically there as non-combat troops. But you try to be a non-combat troop in a combat area – that is the toughest kind of assignment. Korea – as a platoon leader. Recon leader. What is the job of a recon leader? To recon the front line – no man's land. And what did we do? I had to assault a fortified position of the Chinese communists and wiped them out. And what is this Special Forces group that we commanded in the Army – '62–'65? That was the only remaining combat unit in the Philippine Army. The rest were training in a division set-up. We were in Luzon. We were in Sulu. And then, during the previous regime, Marawi incident. Who was sent there? Ramos. We defended the camp, being besieged by 400 rebels. So next time, look at the man's record, don't just write and write. You said, no combat experience, no combat experience. Look around you who comes from the platoon, who rose to battalion staff, company commander, group commander, which is like a battalion, brigade commander, here and abroad. Abroad, I never had an abroad assignment that was not combat. NO SOFT JOBS FOR RAMOS. Thirty-seven years in the Armed Forces. REMEMBER THAT. You're only writing about the fringe, but do not allow yourself to destroy the armed forces by those guys. You write about the majority of the Armed Forces who are on the job. That's why we're here enjoying our freedom, ladies and gentlemen. You are here. If the majority of the Armed Forces did not do their job, I doubt very much if you'd all be here. [13]
Hope to see some of you there! Posted by cedric at May 12, 2008 09:16 PM
President-elect Obama addressed the devastation in the construction and manufacturing industries by proposing an ambitious New Deal-like program to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. He called for a two-year “shovel ready” stimulus program to modernize roads, bridges, schools, electrical grids, public transportation, and dams and made reinvigorating the hardest-hit sectors of the economy the goal of the legislation that would become the recovery act. Women’s groups were appalled. Grids? Dams? Opinion pieces immediately appeared in major newspapers with titles like “Where are the New Jobs for Women?” and “The Macho Stimulus Plan.” A group of “notable feminist economists” circulated a petition that quickly garnered more than 600 signatures, calling on the president-elect to add projects in health, child care, education, and social services and to “institute apprenticeships” to train women for “at least one third” of the infrastructure jobs. At the same time, more than 1,000 feminist historians signed an open letter urging Obama not to favor a “heavily male-dominated field” like construction: “We need to rebuild not only concrete and steel bridges but also human bridges.” As soon as these groups became aware of each other, they formed an anti-stimulus plan action group called WEAVE– Women’s Equality Adds Value to the Economy….The president-elect responded to the protests by sending Jason Furman, his soon-to-be deputy director at the National Economic Council, along with his senior aides to a meeting organized by Kim Gandy and Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal…The senior economists listened attentively as Gandy and Smeal and other advocates argued for a stimulus package that would add jobs for nurses, social workers, teachers, and librarians in our crumbling “human infrastructure” (they had found their testosterone-free slogan)…. …Our incoming president did what many sensible men do when confronted by a chorus of female complaint: He changed his plan. He added health, education, and other human infrastructure components to the proposal. …In her March “Below the Belt” column on the NOW website, Kim Gandy could not contain her elation over “this happily-ever-after ‘stimulus story.’ ” When she and her allies saw the final recovery package, they were amazed to find “over and over” versions of “very specific proposals that we had made.” More than that, the programs NOW had proposed had vast sums of money next to them–“numbers that started with a ‘B’ (as in billion),” Gandy said gleefully.

Seed's stable and solid play inspired confidence that he was not just the beneficiary of a lucky run, but a player who would be around in the scene for a long time. But more recent events suggest differently. Seed fell out of WCS Asia, and in last week's GSL matches Seed joined jjakji in Code B after losing to the unheralded TSL_Center.Few would remember that in IPL4, Jjakji was considered one of the favorites . After his GSL win, Jjakji too, had his successes, even winning the IPL tournament of champions . But after a disappointing performance at IPL4, his stock seemed to plummet, sending him into obscurity. Seed will have to do his best at IPL5 to avoid suffering the same fate.It's weird to say, but Symbol, the hottest kid on the Zerg block, is rapidly being phased out by newer players like Life, Sniper and even his own teammate Hyun. Red hot with momentum after surprising everyone at Iron Squid in April and then following it up with a reverse all-kill of LG-IM in the GSTL, Symbol was never able to get past the Ro8 of Code S and went out 0 - 2 in this season's Ro16. With Hyun destroying IPL Fight Club, making the semifinals of GSL, and even used as TSL's final ace in the most recent GSTL semifinals, Symbol has seemingly been replaced as the head Zerg on the TSL team. Hyun and Symbol are known close friends and share everything when it comes to builds, and Symbol has stated thousands of times that Hyun is one of the main reasons why he is so good. Symbol is still one of the best Zerg players in the world, but this is a tournament where he's in danger of being demoted from TSL's super ace to Hyun's sidekick if he can't put in an awesome performance.The events of DreamHack Winter were critical in HerO overtaking TaeJa for the first time in months. Both destroyed their group stage opponents, but come the playoff stage, TaeJa had a fairly rough time handling ThorZaIN and Nerchio (his games vs. the latter were tighter than the 3 – 0 scoreline suggests) while HerO breezed through monchi and Snute.
Strict vegetarians bite into meat at Indigo Deli, say they’ll go to court.A Jain family, strict adherents of a vegetarian diet, were inadvertently served, and unknowingly consumed a dish of lamb at the reputable Indigo Delicatessen at Palladium on Thursday. The Shahs, who live in Breach Candy and are engaged in the garment trade, were so incensed at their faith being sullied that they attempted to lodge a complaint with the local police, who directed them to take their grievance to consumer court.The staff and management of Indigo, meanwhile, have issued a written apology to the family. Unconvinced, the Shahs have said they will pursue the matter in consumer court.“Five of us were at the deli on Thursday to celebrate my daughter’s birthday,” said Ekta. “We ordered five vegetarian falafel rolls and when we bit into them we realised instantly that something was amiss. The taste was completely different to anything we’d experienced earlier.” When it dawned on them that they’d chewed mouthfuls of lamb rather than chickpea patties, they were aghast. “We instantly summoned the waiter, who admitted to the mistake,” Ekta said. “It came as a shock that we’d eaten non vegetarian food. We rushed to the washroom to clean our tongues.”The Shahs observe a diet that is prescribed by their faith – they abjure meat, fish, eggs, garlic and onions. “And to think that we ate lamb; that too on Dussehra, just after we’d performed Devi pooja,” Ekta exclaimed. “We feel cheated and this incident has hurt our religious sentiments.”The Shahs railed against the slight furiously, upon which Indigo’s assistant manager Shabir Shaik and the chef Sanyo offered a written apology.“We inquired into what happened and it turns out that an order of lamb falafel meant for another family landed up at the Shahs’ table,” said Indigo’s manager, Abhiraj Shekhar. “We are really sorry for what happened. It was not intentional.”Sameer Bhatia from Degustibus Hospitality Private Limited, which handles brand marketing and communications for Indigo Deli, added: “This is the first time such a thing has happened at Indigo. In fact just after this incident occurred, we held a meeting and decided that the chef would use a different coloured garnish in the lamb falafel to set it apart from the vegetarian version so the mistake isn’t repeated.”“Just an apology will not suffice,” Ekta said.
Figure 7 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Difficulties with Landlords and Other Community Authorities Figure 8 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Positions in Community Groups Figure 9 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Hiding Program Participation Figure 6 onward includes additional comparisons with Mincome participants who have prior welfare experience. In some cases, in particular some data points in Figure 9, this comparison weakens the overall argument. However, more often than not the comparison with this subgroup strengthens the argument due to subgroup results that are similar to results in the full Mincome sample. In all cases, it is hard to argue that Mincome led to difficulties in the community in the way that welfare did. In large part it appears that Mincome participation was compatible with community experiences not unlike those experienced by nonparticipating Manitobans. This is particularly striking given the more “mainstream” demographic characteristics of the community group. Absent the experimental treatment, theory would predict this group to be less socially isolated and less stigmatized. Below, I develop these findings with qualitative accounts. Moralist on Welfare, Pragmatist on Mincome Mincome participants who would not accept traditional social assistance sometimes explicitly and more often implicitly argued that the latter was stigmatizing. This did not mean that people did not need assistance. However, accepting aid only became possible when stigma was reduced: one man declined welfare, simply citing “status,” but joined Mincome for “extra income.” A woman refused to join welfare because “It would make me feel bad and think people may be laughing at me.” She joined Mincome “to help along with the expenses.” This subsection describes the consistently divergent personal assessments shown in Table 4. Table 4. Why Mincome Participants Would Not Join Welfare; Why They Joined Mincome Mincome participants who would NOT go on welfare (if it would improve their income), asked: “Why wouldn't you?” … Corresponding subsample answers (if available): “Why join Mincome?” Coding category N Percentage Sample answers Would rather work/support myself 43 37 “Because I'd go crazy doing nothing at home ‐ I feel more useful working.” … “To back up my financial state in case of sickness etc.” “I can make my own living.” — “I would rather work if I could.” — “I'd rather work first.” … “We were asked and we accepted.” “I wouldn't go on welfare unless I was extremely desperate.
I said, “You know, since we’re up this early anyway, why don’t we ride out by 7:00, and get in some cool hours before breakfast?” Even Michael couldn’t argue with the good sense of that idea, and we rode off into the sunrise together . . . This photo illustrates one of the many less-cruel moments in our days and nights of August. Truly, there was much to celebrate as well—the shows, for example, and the audiences. This summer of 2010, and the seasons leading up to it, have been a cruel time for many people, economically, and as we planned our tour, we couldn’t fail to be aware that there had been other concert tours that had been suddenly “rescheduled” (canceled, in fact, due to low ticket sales). So as always, we remain grateful and delighted that after so many years, people still come to see us in such numbers—and with such enthusiasm. While we are the ones supposed to be doing the entertaining, I have written before that we are always entertained by our audiences, too. And inspired by them—when other people care so much about what you do, you can hardly do less than care about it more. Another theme I’ve touched on before is how different one tour is from another—not just in its itinerary, but in its musical dynamic among the three of us. In Roadshow, writing about the Thirtieth Anniversary tour in 2004, I described how it had seemed to me that tour—how a run of good shows would be punctuated by one “magic” show, in which we would transcend ourselves and feel the band, crew, and audience swept into an ineffable vortex of musical elevation. However, in 2007 and 2008, during the two summers we spent on the Snakes and Arrows tour, I wrote that the dynamic seemed completely different—we established a benchmark “good show” early on, then continued improving on it incrementally, show by show, without any that seemed particularly set apart, or “magic.” This summer, on the Time Machine tour of 2010, it has been different again. At dinner before the fourth or fifth show, Geddy, Alex, and I were talking about how the shows were going, and Geddy said, “I don’t think we’ve peaked yet.” Photo by Dunkelkammer And he was certainly right.
Measuring reproductive success and phenology Surveys of the study areas occurred in spring (typically the second half of May and first week of June) and summer (typically the second half of August and first week of September). The number of surveys within each season varied by year, although in nearly all years and seasons the study sites were surveyed a minimum of 3 days with 8 or more hours of surveying occurring each day. This amount of time and effort allowed us to survey the extent of area and habitats within the defined study areas. Hens were located and captured in the spring by first locating territorial males using broadcasts of male calls [27]. Males that successfully attracted hens generally stayed in close proximity to their mates, and most hens were found by searching the area in the immediate vicinity of territorial males [27]. Broods were located in the summer by searching suitable habitats (e.g., moist meadows near rock cover) and broadcasting chick distress calls to elicit responses from hens with broods or hens that recently lost broods [27]. Once broods were located we attempted to capture all observed chicks using a noose at the end of a 5-m pole. Captured hens and chicks were marked with numbered State of Colorado aluminum leg bands. Hens also received unique combinations of colored plastic bandettes (between 2 to 4) for individual identification during subsequent resightings. Individual markings of hens greatly reduced the likelihood of double counting broods during surveys. All hens first captured on the study areas in the spring and observed in the summer were considered breeding residents, even if not observed on the study areas in the spring during subsequent years. We considered these hens breeding residents because hens found on the study area in spring exhibit high site fidelity, especially among adults [28]. Dispersal by females to other breeding territories in early spring (both within and outside the study area) is known to occur at low rates at ME and surrounding areas [29]. We assessed potential bias due to sampling effort in our field methodologies which are presented in supporting information (S1 Appendix). The reproductive measure of interest in this study was the number of chicks produced surviving to the summer count period per hen in the breeding population.
(j) An order under Subsection (h) terminating the parent-child relationship does not preclude: (1) the initiation of a proceeding under Chapter 160 to adjudicate whether another man is the child's parent; or (2) if the other man subject to a proceeding under Subdivision (1) is adjudicated as the child's parent, the rendition of an order requiring that man to pay child support for the child under Chapter 154, subject to Subsection (k). (k) Notwithstanding Section 154.131, an order described by Subsection (j)(2) may not require the other man to pay retroactive child support for any period preceding the date on which the order under Subsection (h) terminated the parent-child relationship between the child and the man seeking termination under this section. (l) At any time before the court renders an order terminating the parent-child relationship under Subsection (h), the petitioner may request that the court also order periods of possession of or access to the child by the petitioner following termination of the parent-child relationship. If requested, the court may order periods of possession of or access to the child only if the court determines that denial of periods of possession of or access to the child would significantly impair the child's physical health or emotional well-being. (m) The court may include provisions in an order under Subsection (l) that require: (1) the child or any party to the proceeding to participate in counseling with a mental health professional who: (A) has a background in family therapy; and (B) holds a professional license that requires the person to possess at least a master's degree; and (2) any party to pay the costs of the counseling described by Subdivision (1). (n) Notwithstanding Subsection (m)(1), if a person who possesses the qualifications described by that subdivision is not available in the county in which the court is located, the court may require that the counseling be conducted by another person the court considers qualified for that purpose. (o) During any period of possession of or access to the child ordered under Subsection (l) the petitioner has the rights and duties specified by Section 153.074, subject to any limitation specified by the court in its order. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 751, Sec. 68, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by: Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 54 (S.B. 785), Sec. 2, eff. May 12, 2011.
2. Empirical background for the collaborative futuring 2.1. Maker culture and maker spaces Although ‘making’ builds on a tradition of handicraft and ‘DIY’ (do-it-yourself), it today also includes (and more commonly refers to) use of digital manufacturing tools in hands-on fabrication of material artefacts, including electronics and physical computing experiments, furniture and items for the home or body and prototypes of all kinds. Shared maker spaces typically contain milling machines for making circuits or casting moulds, vinyl cutters, electronics workstations for microprocessor programming and electronics project prototyping, desktop 3D printers and laser cutters. Product designs (often shared digitally) are realised by the users themselves and, due to their digital form, can be designed together with peers in other locations. The low-cost prosthesis project in the MIT fab lab network, for instance, brings together self-selecting team members from a number of labs around the globe who collaborate on the project both virtually and physically in Indonesia (lowcostprosthesis.org2012 lowcostprosthesis.org. 2012. “The Low Cost Prosthesis.” Accessed January 17, 2014. http://www.lowcostprosthesis.org.). Maker spaces include fab labs, which are workshops in the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms' network (Gershenfeld 2005 Gershenfeld, N.2005. FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop – From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication. New York: Basic Books. ); hacklabs or hackerspaces for exploring electronics and physical computing (Maxigas 2012 Maxigas. 2012. “Hacklabs and Hackerspaces: Tracing Two Genealogies.” Journal of Peer Production 2. Accessed June 19, 2014. http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/hacklabs-and-hackerspaces/. ); commercial machine shops offering paid access to members; and a variety of other spaces that may be independent or associated with a library or museum (Troxler 2011 Troxler, P.2011. “Libraries of the Peer Production Era.” In Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive, edited by B.van Abel, L.Evers, R.Klaasen and P.Troxler, 86–95. Amsterdam: BIS.). The number of maker spaces worldwide is growing rapidly: to date there are over 300 fab labs and 1000 active hackerspaces (FABWIKI 2014 FABWIKI. 2014. “Portal:Labs.” NMÍ Kvikan. Accessed June 25, 2014. http://wiki.fablab.is/wiki/Portal:Labs. ; HackerspaceWiki 2014 HackerspaceWiki. 2014. “List of Hacker Spaces.” Accessed June 25, 2014. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces. ), listings that do not account for independent spaces. There is currently scant research on who uses maker spaces, how and why (e.g. Ghalim 2013 Ghalim, A.2013. “Fabbing Practices: An Ethnography in Fab Lab Amsterdam.” Master diss., Universiteit van Amsterdam (New Media and Culture Studies), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed January 27. http://www.scribd.com/doc/127598717/FABBING-PRACTICES-AN-ETHNOGRAPHY-IN-FAB-LAB-AMSTERDAM. ; Tanenbaum et al. 2013 Tanenbaum, J. G., A. M.Williams, A.Desjardins, and K.Tanenbaum. 2013.
An Evolutionary Force Longstanding ecological and evolutionary theories suggest that culture could also more directly affect the evolution of traits, and even the making of species. Animal populations evolve through natural selection when a heritable trait, like beak size or fur color, varies and different versions of the trait allow some individuals to survive and reproduce more than others. Animal culture has the potential to affect this process in a number of ways, says Whiten. For one, cultural innovations, such as tools or predator-avoidance tactics, could increase an animal’s survival and reproduction, buffering them against some selection pressures. But culture could also enable animals to colonize regions they otherwise couldn’t, exposing them to new selection pressures, such as novel temperatures, predators, or food sources. And culture could generate selection for animals to be better suited to a cultural behavior through physical changes, such as stronger arms for more powerful hammering, or cognitive ones, such as the ability to learn tool use by mirroring others. “And that, of course, may affect the evolution of the brain to match,” says Whiten. Furthermore, cultural differences, such as birdsong or migration patterns, could prevent groups from mating together, which could help maintain or even generate new species. Or anyway, those are the working theories. Finding definitive evidence is a tricky prospect, though recent research in whales and birds offers some substantive support. Scientists refer to the many orca groups with distinct hunting strategies as ecotypes, subsets of a species that occupy unique ecological niches. New genomics technologies allow researchers to search for evolutionary consequences of these various hunting cultures. “We came into the genomics era and really wanted to see whether these cultural traditions in killer whales led to enough of a long-term selection pressure that you would actually see changes in the genome,” says evolutionary biologist Andrew Foote of Bangor University in the United Kingdom. Foote and colleagues sequenced the genomes of 48 orcas across 5 ecotypes to identify whether the groups were truly genetically isolated, and whether their different cultures were associated with unique genomic changes (1). The sample included one mammal-eating and one salmon-eating ecotype from the North Pacific, and one mammal-eating, one penguin-eating, and one Antarctic toothfish-eating ecotype from the Antarctic. The researchers found that the groups were genetically distinct. “What is really surprising is just how differentiated the ones that live in the same area are,” says Foote.
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There is an interesting account here of how Dong’s translation of Nineteen Eighty-four was first published. Dong’s friend and fellow translator Wu Ningkun 巫宁坤also recalls Dong and his efforts to translate Nineteen Eight-four. Dong joined the underground Communist Party in Shanghai in 1940, but like most intellectuals he was persecuted and imprisoned during the 1957 Anti-rightist campaign and during the Cultural Revolution. He was allowed to return to Beijing after injuring himself on a tractor, and this is when he came across The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 第三帝国的兴亡 by William Shirer. According to Wu he saw close parallels between the Nazi period in Germany and the Cultural Revolution. He secretly translated at night Shirer’s eye-witness account of Nazi Germany which after the Cultural Revolution was published as a neibu publication for senior officials and was later published openly. He first encountered Nineteen Eighty-four in the early 1970s when he had found a job in Beijing at Xinhua news agency 新华社 where he had worked in the 1950s. He came to the notice of the deputy director of the agency, Chen Shiwu 陈适五, who was editing a periodical with the title Selected Translations from Foreign Literature 国外作品选译. Chen seems to have been quite an independent-minded official for he told Dong he was looking for “material which has reference value and is quite long and is unconventional in character, for leaders and other comrades to refer to.”. Dong decided that Nineteen Eighty-four was the ideal candidate, and as mentioned above it was published in installment form in 1979. Only 5,000 copies of the periodical were printed. The novel was first issued in book form in China in Guangzhou in 1985, again as a neibu publication. This was the idea of Cai Nüliang 蔡女良, an editor at Huacheng Publishing House 花城出版社, who had it published in a set together with Brave New World and We. It was republished openly by Huacheng three years later. It is worth noting that although Wu quotes from Dong’s introduction in which he states how Nineteen Eighty-four remains valid today, for clearly political reasons he omits the reference to the Cultural Revolution.
Gerald Parker is an American serial killer. He raped and murdered five women and killed the unborn baby of a sixth woman in Orange County, California in the 1970s. Ex-Marine Charged in '70s Killings Crime: Gerald Parker committed six O.C. murders, authorities say, including one for which another man endured 17 years in prison. By Thao Hua, Lee Romney, Mark Platte - Los Angeles Times June 22, 1996 The Green case blew open while investigators from Tustin and Costa Mesa were working a cluster of unsolved murder cases earlier this year--the killings and sexual assaults of women ages 17 to 31 that had baffled them for years. Prosecutors filed murder charges Friday against a former Marine they say is responsible for six slayings, including one where another man was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years. Investigators identified Gerald Parker, a state prison inmate, as the feared "Bludgeon Killer" after a new system of genetic testing helped link him to attacks on young women who were raped and bashed in their Orange County homes in the late '70s. Police and Navy officials said they are investigating whether Parker may be responsible for even more killings across the country, including the 1977 slaying of a 20-year-old Costa Mesa woman who lived close to the other victims. Parker spent 7 1/2 years in the Marine Corps, including stints at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station as well as bases in North Carolina, Alaska and Mississippi, before he was convicted of raping a 13-year-old Tustin girl in 1980. That was the same year another Marine, 22-year-old Kevin Lee Green of Tustin, was convicted of second-degree murder for the bludgeoning attack of his pregnant 21-year-old wife and the murder of her full-term fetus. Parker, who could face the death penalty if convicted, confessed just a week ago to the attack on Green's wife, according to sources close to the investigation. Green, now 38, was freed from custody Thursday as a judge and prosecutors apologized for the mistake. "You can never get back those 17 years. All of us obviously feel very bad that this took place," Orange County Dist. Atty. Michael R. Capizzi said Thursday. "Our justice system is not 100% perfect, but it's as close to perfect as you're going to find anywhere in this world."
"It would be extremely difficult for Motor Sich which produces the helicopter and jet engines to find a European market because [the market] is already dense and these engines do not perfectly fit the European and world standards, quality standards, noise standards, pollution standards. "Still, the very tightness of the military industrial partnership between Russia and Ukraine makes it an unpredictable factor in the current crisis.The desire of both sides to maintain their military trade could help put a brake on escalating tensions. Conversely, the danger of losing it could add fuel to Moscow's desire to have a loyal government in Kyiv, no matter the price.
• Five pedestrians were struck Nov. 20, including a woman and her child who were in serious but non-life threatening condition after being hit in Yorkville on a day of scattered showers and light snowfall. • On a cloudy day two days later, six pedestrians were involved in collisions, all of whom suffered minor injuries. Pedestrians are typically involved in more collisions in November than any other month, according to Toronto police, who say Daylight Savings Time is one of the reasons behind this. “Quite often the moderate to heavy rainfall type storms with heavy cloud cover is a contributing factor during the early morning or early evening hours,” said Toronto police Const. Clint Stibbe. “The weekend of the time change has been shown across many different jurisdictions to be a particularly bad one for car collisions,” said Miller. “It’s like people get discombobulated or something.” That weekend, Toronto Police launched its annual “STEP UP and Be Safe” Pedestrian campaign, which ran Nov. 7-13. “All police officers and parking enforcement officers will be paying particular attention to those motorists, cyclists and pedestrians who commit offences in the vicinity of pedestrian crossovers, crosswalks, intersections, school zones (particularly primary schools) and crossing areas frequented by seniors,” it said. “Pedestrians are encouraged to avoid using distracting electronic devices when interacting with vehicular traffic.” Matti Siemiatycki, an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, said the weather conditions of November, unlike the months that follow, aren’t typically extreme enough to keep people from going outside. “It’s darker and so there’s less visibility. The weather’s not so cold that pedestrian activity has declined, so there’s still a lot of people on the roads walking, but it’s darker,” he said. “Those two combined lead to potential for more accidents.” Stibbe said collisions are more likely to happen in the morning and evening, known as high pedestrian volume times, which at this time of year extend later. He said many accidents happen between about 7-9 a.m. and 3:30-7:30 p.m. Fridays tend to have the most accidents, and Sundays the fewest. On the four Fridays in November, 15 pedestrians and cyclists were hit by vehicles. “It’s well established that November and early December are especially dangerous for pedestrians,” said Dylan Reid, a pedestrian safety advocate and co-founder of Walk Toronto. “Rush hour is darker, basically, so there’s more people out and about when things are darker.
Among the taqueria's accolades was its inclusion on Texas Monthly's list of best tacos in the state, which spotlighted its El Capitan taco, made with Oaxaca cheese and pickled cabbage, along with choice of protein. The Dallas branch will be its fifth. Its location in Fort Worth's West Seventh district attracted media attention when the entire restaurant was moved by Fort Worth's Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission to White Settlement Road, to be part of the River District development along the Trinity River; that branch has not yet opened. It also has three food trucks. The Dallas menu will be basically the same as the others. "We're tweaking our pastor, but that's because we're always refining and improving what we do," says owner Milo Ramirez. The Mayflower is currently under renovation, with a plan to make it a mixed-use project with apartments, retail, and on-site parking. Ramirez says that the location — a short walk away from Klyde Warren Park, Neiman Marcus, and YMCA — is ideal. "It's in a great location, with high-rises all around, and Klyde Warren Park up the street," he says. "We're hoping to attract people who live and work in the area, but also the diehards who will drive down because they want a great taco."
Using a service such as the Nominatim API or Google’s geocoding API we can perform a lookup to turn these address strings into latitude and longitude points.Once we have geocoded these addresses, we can use geographic analysis to find more insights into the data. Neo4j has a JavaScript driver which makes it easy to build web applications that query Neo4j using Cypher.One visualization tool we can use is a heatmap, where observations are represented as colors. More intense colors mean more addresses in that area. Examining a heatmap of Paradise Papers addresses shows a high concentration of addresses in the Atlantic, just off the coast of North America. Many of these addresses are in Bermuda, a known offshore jurisdiction.
Pakhomov is a garrulous, barrel-bellied apparatchik of the new Russia, whose biography cites not one but two Ph.D.'s. When I interviewed him in December in his office, the mayoral building was, like most of the city, still enveloped in scaffolding for the final pre-Olympic cosmetic touches. After introductions, he did not wait for a question but launched into a pre-emptive defense of the games, monologuing for 15 minutes before I managed to interject, briefly. “We built 438 transformer substations, 17 power-distribution hubs, two thermoelectric power stations!” he shouted. “We generate 540 megawatts!” The Olympics, he went on, have done nothing less than transform Sochi, a subtropical resort that stretches about 90 miles along a narrow coastline at the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. Three new water-purification plants; more than 200 miles of new roads; 22 tunnels and 55 bridges to ease the city’s chronically snarled traffic; 13 new and renovated railroad stations; five new schools; six medical centers “with top-of-the-line medical equipment”; 49 new hotels with 24,000 rooms. Pakhomov picked up a laser pointer and turned it to a wall-size map of Sochi, highlighting the sites of the shimmering new Olympic stadiums and arenas, the ski resorts carved out of the mountains above a once-tiny-and-remote village, Krasnaya Polyana, the new airport terminal, the port that will become a yacht marina, the complex of railroad lines and stations that he compared favorably with the Baikal-Amur Mainline, or BAM, the enormous railroad project built across an inhospitable Siberia and Far East in the 1970s and ‘80s by a dying Soviet Union. Not since Stalin favored Sochi as the sunny retreat of the Soviet elite has so much been done to remake the city’s landscape. “It’s incomparable!” Pakhomov bellowed.
Tessa orchestrated the blindside of Henry perfectly. Her new #champagnealliance leaves her in a strong position, and she’s playing the challenges surprisingly well. Locky will probably try to come after her, but I’m not sure where his numbers will come from. Sarah’s social game just keeps ticking along, and I think she managed to turn getting absolutely stitched up at the auction into a positive really well by playing the sympathy card. She can keep working in the shadows, and I reckon she’s got a big move or two in the pipeline Jeri’s war analogies are starting to scare me, I’m a bit worried that he’s going to start actually fighting people, but his position in the merged tribe remains really strong. As I’ve said most weeks, he just flies under the radar, and as long as he doesn’t shake the boat too much then I think he’s in a great spot. Ziggy had a massive week, but now that Henry is gone she’s lost a big ally. I know she still has an idol, but there’s probably a huge target on her back now, and in a merged tribe where the big guns are being blindsided left, right and centre, there is a chance that she is the next to go if she’s not careful. Petey’s name was thrown around as the easy vote, but he is well linked up with Tessa, making him a part of the #champagnealliance by default. I still think he’s one of those middle of the road players whose best chance is to just keep out of the conflict while others take each other out, but he’s done that well so far. Michelle is the kind of person that makes me think I could be on Survivor. She’s struggled so much in pretty much everything so far and she’s still there, and if she can do it then why can’t I? having said that, she’s in with Tessa and Luke now, and is another one that is just happy sitting at the bottom of the pack watching everyone else Luke should just quit now because his game will never get any better than the absolute jackpot that he hit at the auction. He’s nestled in nicely with Tessa’s new alliance but I struggle to see that being a particularly long term arrangement.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI (CO-HOST): So I've just noticed a confidence here that I don't think should be there among the [Hillary Clinton] campaign, I'm sorry. But I mean, you think about this tax thing and were laws broken and did The New York Times find any laws were broken? Were any laws broken? MARK HALPERIN: No. BRZEZINSKI: OK so [Donald Trump] talks about brilliantly using this system, great. Hillary Clinton could have had that same reaction to her speech money, that she says she's going to change Wall Street, but you know what, I used the system to make millions of dollars. But instead she hides it. Donald Trump just doesn't hide it. He's very comfortable with the fact that he followed the law and made a lot of money. She also followed the law and made a lot of money and for some reason it's OK to look at that speech money and somehow we just let it go because she's -- her campaign keeps it kind of under -- it's the same thing and that's what people see. People see somebody being honest about it and somebody kind of like, not mentioning it but still doing it. What's the difference? Does anybody want to explain to me, because I think voters like what they saw from Donald Trump and I'm very worried about that. [...] JOE SCARBOROUGH (CO-HOST): This tax thing, I'm sorry, this tax thing, please, find me one person that pays more taxes than they have to pay. You can't do it. So everybody that's acting so shocked that he did what he was legally entitled to do is a freaking hypocrite. BRZEZINSKI: And the media -- SCARBOROUGH: That's why Warren Buffett goes, "Oh, rich people need to pay." Well, pay more money, Warren Buffett. [...] BRZEZINSKI: I think the reaction to this New York Times story on Donald Trump's part was brilliant, and the thing is he didn't even think twice about it, he just went there, while she has been hiding this speech money, hiding this foundation stuff, hiding this email stuff, and trying to get around it, mistakes were made. And I'm telling you people don't, they are not feeling a complete connection with her and this didn't help to get all high and mighty. Get off your high horse about this tax thing. Unless laws were broken, it's not an issue. You guys cancel each other out. [MSNBC, Morning Joe, 10/4/16]
Over the years he recorded 87 of Cahn's songs, of which 24 were composed by Jule Styne, and 43 by Jimmy Van Heusen. The Cahn-Styne partnership lasted from 1942 until 1954, when Van Heusen succeeded him as Sinatra's main composer. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Sinatra insisted upon direct input regarding arrangements and tempos for his recordings. He would spend weeks thinking about the songs he wanted to record, and would keep an arranger in mind for each song. If it was a mellow love song, he would ask for Gordon Jenkins. If it was a "rhythm" number, he would think of Billy May, or perhaps Neil Hefti or some other favored arranger. Jenkins considered Sinatra's musical sense to be unerring. His changes to Riddle's charts would frustrate Riddle, yet he would usually concede that Sinatra's ideas were superior. Barbara Sinatra notes that Sinatra would almost always credit the songwriter at the end of each number, and would often make comments to the audience, such as "Isn't that a pretty ballad" or "Don't you think that's the most marvelous love song", delivered with "childlike delight". She states that after each show, Sinatra would be "in a buoyant, electrically charged mood, a post-show high that would take him hours to come down from as he quietly relived every note of the performance he'd just given". "His voice is more interesting now: he has separated his voice into different colors, in different registers. Years ago, his voice was more even, and now it is divided into at least three interesting ranges: low, middle, and high. [He's] probing more deeply into his songs than he used to. That may be due to the ten years he's put on, and the things he's been through." —Nelson Riddle noting the development of Sinatra's voice in 1955. "He'd always been critical of his voice, and that only intensified as he got older. He never liked to discuss a performance afterward because he knew his voice wasn't as good as it used to be. If someone told him he'd been great, he'd reply, 'It was a nice crowd, but my reed was off' or 'I wasn't so good on the third number'. Strangely, in spite of his hearing problems, he had the most incredible ear, which often drove those he worked with nuts. There could be an orchestra of a hundred musicians, and if one played a bum note he'd know exactly who was responsible."
Struggling to maintain timely operations due to an ongoing clash with its employees, Air India has now offered a special incentive to crew members who report to duty on time and take limited leave during the Haj season, ensuring on-time flights for pilgrims.A letter from Rohit Nandan, chairman and managing director (CMD) of the national carrier, was circulated on August 14, announcing a 'Haj incentive' of R10,000 for crewmembers who report to duty on time and take only three days of leave in the 40-day pilgrimage period (mid-day has a copy of the mail).The letter reads, 'In order to improve the availability of the crew and in recognition of those cabin crew who fly to the optimum, it has been decided to give a one-time Haj Incentive of Rs 10,000 to all those who would be available and regular in flying duties and not take any type of leave beyond one day in a month of August and two days in September and October. 'The mail makes no mention of mandatory resting periods for crewmembers in between flights, but this has been the bone of contention between the airline and its staffers for quite some time.On the Mumbai-Jeddah sector itself, mid-day had earlier reported how a crewmember was suspended after he demanded the minimum 22 hours of rest before a flight as stipulated by the Directorate of General of Civil Aviation ('Air India, crew slug it out over mandatory rest norms', May 6).Nevertheless, the incentive has come as good news to pilgrims as well, who can now hope for punctual service. Ataur Rahman, CEO of the Haj Committee, which facilitates the pilgrimage for Indians, said, "We welcome this decision of the national carrier as it will definitely help in smoother operations. On Sunday, Air India operated three flights from Delhi, of which two were on time and the third was slightly delayed. "Air India will operate a total of 230 flights between Jeddah and Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Srinagar, Kochi, Nagpur and Goa. 340-seater B777-300ER aircraft will be used to fly 38,000 pilgrims in two phases - departures to Jeddah in the first, and return flights in the second.The departures for Jeddah began from August 16, and will continue for a month. However, flights out of Mumbai will only begin on September 10. The return phase will bring back the pilgrims between September 28 and October 28. An airline official explained, "Flights are going to be operated phase-wise.
In four Baltimore ZIP codes where CFUF works, parents owe a total of $111 million in child-support arrears. That's about a quarter of the city's total. In those ZIP codes, DHR jointly with CFUF identified 4,642 cases (9.4 percent of the total caseload for the city) in which individuals owe an average of about $130 per month. In 68 percent of those cases, DHR has never received a single payment. But while the measures the state can take to recover that money are intended for deadbeat dads, men caught up in the system in inner-city Baltimore are often dead broke. DHR officials say those in arrears are mostly parents who would pay but cannot — the unemployed, underemployed and incarcerated — not those who can pay but won't. "It takes a four-legged stool to get out of this," said Peter Beilenson, who served as Baltimore's health commissioner from 1992 to 2005. The community needs "decent housing; public schools that can turn out kids ready for college; access to healthy homes (lead-paint-free), healthy food and health care; livable-wage jobs in the community. None of those occur in huge swaths of Baltimore city." In addition to discouraging low-income fathers from entering the job market because their wages can be garnished, child-support debt can ultimately alienate the father from the mother — then from his child — rather than giving him an incentive to be an active participant in the child's life. "In the beginning, everybody is like, 'I have this partner, she's wonderful and she's pregnant, and I'm ready to be here,'" says Otis Buckson, manager of the CAT program. "But then life happens. The father realizes there are some responsibilities that (he) can't comply with. Most of it is financial: She needs the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children federal-assistance program). But he has to go downtown, register and have a child-enforcement case against him. That might be one of the reasons he backs up and says, 'If you are going to take me downtown, how can we be together? And if I’m here supporting the child and yet I'm still having these arrears building up?'"
HP: 29/69 MP: 0/3 6278 \| D:7 \| Your ally freed slave died 6420 \| D:7 \| Noticed Duvessa 6421 \| D:7 \| Noticed Dowan 6431 \| D:7 \| Killed Duvessa 6454 \| D:7 \| Killed Dowan 6902 \| D:7 \| Found Lucrekk's Antique Armour Shoppe. 6909 \| D:7 \| Bought a faintly glowing cloak for 168 gold pieces 6910 \| D:7 \| Identified the +1 cloak of Siadd (You bought it in a shop on level 7 of the Dungeon) 7273 \| D:7 \| Noticed Ijyb 7284 \| D:7 \| Killed Ijyb 7330 \| D:7 \| Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 2 turns 7390 \| D:8 \| Reached skill level 14 in Staves 7430 \| D:8 \| Noticed Erolcha 7442 \| D:8 \| Killed Erolcha 7482 \| D:8 \| Reached skill level 15 in Staves 7613 \| D:8 \| Reached XP level 10. HP: 77/77 MP: 3/3 8010 \| D:9 \| Reached skill level 1 in Armour 8253 \| D:9 \| Found a radiant altar of Vehumet. 8262 \| D:9 \| Noticed an ice statue 8876 \| D:10 \| Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon 8900 \| D:10 \| Reached skill level 16 in Staves 9015 \| D:10 \| Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines. 9298 \| D:10 \| Found Tohuf's Jewellery Boutique. 9750 \| D:10 \| Reached skill level 17 in Staves 9795 \| D:11 \| Found a staircase to the Lair. 9795 \| D:11 \| Noticed Grum 9897 \| D:10 \| Acquired Okawaru's second power 9944 \| D:11 \| Noticed Josephine 10303 \| D:10 \| Killed Grum 10437 \| D:10 \| Reached skill level 18 in Staves 10489 \| Orc:1 \| Entered Level 1 of the Orcish Mines 10489 \| Orc:1 \| Found Roepritys' Distillery. 10500 \| D:10 \| Received a gift from Okawaru 10554 \| Orc:1 \| Bought a potion of heal wounds for 36 gold pieces 10555 \| Orc:1 \| Bought a potion of heal wounds for 36 gold pieces 10941 \| D:10 \| Reached XP level 11. HP: 82/82 MP: 3/3 11369 \| D:11 \| Noticed a hill giant 11547 \| D:11 \| Reached XP level 10. HP: 74/77 MP: 2/3 11557 \| D:11 \| Killed Josephine 11557 \| D:11 \| Reached XP level 11.
Shortly after True became curator at the Getty, a well-known London dealer named Robin Symes called to say that he had something he wanted to show her, in a warehouse in the Battersea district. What she saw was a larger-than-life-size statue of a Greek goddess that dominated the room. True sensed immediately that it was a work influenced by late Athenian classicism. “The sophistication of the carving was amazing,” she recalls. “In terms of not only the modelling of the drapery but the incorporation of movement in the drapery and the sense of atmosphere around the figure. With other sculptures, one feels the imposing nature of them. This one really had dynamism built into the stone.” True had never experienced a work of art in quite this way: “It was something that provoked you. You really felt this is what, when you stood in front of a cult statue, you were intended to feel.” Fifth-century-B.C. Greek sculpture was rare enough, but a work this fine, and finely preserved, was almost one of a kind. True consulted with several scholars; they shared her enthusiasm. “Martin Robertson”—an Oxford scholar—“was very cute,” True recalls. “We went to see it, we had lunch, and then we went back. He said, ‘Let’s do like the Persians: First, we discuss it when we’re sober. Now that we’ve had some wine, let’s go look at it and discuss it again.’ ” The Getty began to consider buying the cult statue. But the provenance presented a dilemma: Symes claimed that it had belonged to the family of a Swiss grocery magnate since the nineteen-thirties, yet it had never been on exhibit or studied by scholars, and its origin was unknown. In October, 1987, in an internal Getty memo, True wrote, “The market in antiquities is perhaps the most corrupt and problematic aspect of the international art trade. Accepting the premise that the majority of antiquities on the market were likely to have been removed from their countries of origin illegally, can we justify collecting these objects at all?” She answered that the Getty could, “without compromising either personal or institutional standards for ethical behavior.” As True explained, if museums didn’t collect, important objects lacking provenance might disappear into private hands or a storeroom, and never be studied.
The music video was directed by Nigel Dick. [54] After being chosen, Dick received criticism from his colleagues about wanting to work with Spears. He responded saying, "It's a great song. I don't know anything about Britney. I never watched The Mickey Mouse Club. She seems like a great kid and she's very enthusiastic, but I just love the song. It's just a great song". [21] The video's original setup was in high contrast to what eventually became the final product. The plan was to have the video in a cartoon-like environment, in a likely attempt to attract the audience of younger children. [54] Spears was unhappy with this, and argued that she wanted her video to reflect the lives of her fans and wanted to set the video in a school. [21][54] Spears pitched this idea to Dick, and further explained she wanted the video to have dance scenes. [2] The original setting was scrapped and replaced with Spears's concept. [21] Dick's original idea for the wardrobe was jeans and a T-shirt, but during the wardrobe fitting Spears decided to change it for a schoolgirl outfit. Dick said that "Every piece of wardrobe in the video came from Kmart, and I was told at the time not one piece of clothing in the video cost more than $17. On that level, it's real. That probably, in retrospect, is a part of its charm. "[21] The knotted shirt design was Spears's idea, she recollects saying, "The outfits looked kind of dorky, so I was like, 'Let's tie up our shirts and be cute'". [55] About the experience of shooting her first music video, Spears said, "It was a wonderful experience. All these people there, working for you. I had my own trailer. It was an amazing experience". [21] The music video was shot at Venice High School, the same school used to film the movie Grease. [54] The video premiered on MTV and other video stations on November 26, 1998. [56][57]
When it becomes nearly impossible to do business because of the plethora of laws, regulations, fees, taxes, financialization, and all the rest, highly trained, well-intentioned professionals succumb to the financial pressures and subject themselves to the degradation/humiliation of acquiescing to a system run by hooligans adherent only to the legally mandated corporate bottom-line. Wealth creation based on widely accepted moral standards is what made the United States the great country it is, but if you can not practice your profession/carry out your business in a way that expresses your true professional nature, treats your patients/clients/customers with high levels of respect, while at the same time, deriving a socially acceptable return on your investment in a professional education/practice capital investment, then whats the point? It is time for the leaders of the professions to stand up and say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ! It is within the power of the professions to bring serious change to this country by acting in the direct interests of the American people. Whether it is in health care, the legal system, corporate/government accounting, education, or any other professions, massive change is necessary to restore a balance to our national purpose. It simply takes COURAGE and LEADERSHIP, and a willingness to look at the simple truth that it is time to make the interests of all Americans, PRIMARY. It is time for those in positions of power and influence to put away the toys and pick up the tools that will enable us to rebuild the foundation of this great country so that future generations of Americans can enjoy what we have almost completely squandered. The American people need help, and they need help NOW. The process of capture involves many of the dynamics I have long discussed in the blog and in my books. Wealth is power, and if you want a slice of the wealth then you toe the line and keep quiet. There's a word for for this "voluntary capture": co-option. At every juncture where a decision to opt out (quit) or continue serving the Status Quo arises, the believer is co-opted by their desire to "stay in the game" for the promised slice of wealth and security. The risk-return calculus is heavily skewed to complicity, because the options for wealth and security outside the machine are meager and loaded with risk.
Purchase a high quality second hand shipping container. Work out what size you require, as containers are available in sizes from 10 to 40 feet long. Work out what interior modifications are required (Gateway Container Sales can literally construct almost anything in our containers, from kitchens, bathrooms and accommodation, right thought to firearms storage in case of zombie outbreak!). It is wise to add additional reinforcing to the interior and exterior of the container to ensure that it can handle the weight of earth on the tops and side of it. Repaint and waterproof the ISO shipping container to ensure that it is resistant to corrosion. Believe it or not but there is even paint available that can shield your underground bunker from radiation, radar and cell phone signals. Entry and exit to your bunker is important, especially when it is underground. If your bunker is set into a hillside you may be able to use the original corten steel doors that open outwards, but these will not work if the container is buried underground. Modify the doors so that they can be easily opened from below ground and can open inwards. Generally this is done by sealing the doors, and creating a new door on the other end that can open internally. Dig a large hole where you are planning to install the shelter, this will need to be deeper than the container. Lay a concrete foundation at the base of your hole. This will stop the shelter from sinking into the ground. Use a crane or ISO shipping container transporter to lower the container bunker into the hole. Build concrete steps to allow access to the modified door in the container. Reinforce the sides of the container, this will require lots of rebar (steel poles), cinder/concrete blocks and concrete around the sides of the container. Many “how to” videos on youtube ignore this vital step, without this the walls will eventually cave in under the weight of the surrounding earth. Lay sandbags around the entrance to your bunker so that you have a defensive position. Install air vents or a container ventilator to ensure that you have some form of air circulating in the shelter. Make sure that these are hidden from view otherwise they will give away the location of your secret bunker.

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