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Of 76 confirmed cases reported from Guinea and Sierra Leone in the 21 days to 14 June, 69 (91%) have come from 3 prefectures in Guinea (Boke, Dubreka, and Forecariah) and 2 districts in Sierra Leone (Kambia and Port Loko). Most (55) of these 69 cases came from well-characterised chains of transmission, and arose among registered, monitored contacts of previous cases. Each of these cases presents a risk of further transmission, but in most instances that risk is well understood and can be planned for accordingly. However, 14 of those 69 cases, and 5 of the 7 cases that were reported from other prefectures and districts during the same period, arose from unknown sources of infection, and/or are associated with a large number of high-risk contacts, some of whom it was not possible to trace. Effectively managing the risks associated with cases such as these will be crucial to getting to zero. To that end, a package of enhanced surveillance and response measures has been introduced in both Guinea and Sierra Leone: In Guinea, health checkpoints have been established in the western prefectures of Boke and Coyah. A 6-day door-to-door case-finding and sensitization campaign was carried out in Dubreka from 7 June, leading to the detection of 1 confirmed case. In addition, intensive investigations are underway to trace a number of high-risk contacts associated with 3 cases reported from the Guinean capital, Conakry, over the past 2 weeks. All of the 3 cases acquired infection outside the capital. In Sierra Leone, a large-scale operation is planned in the districts of Kambia and Port Loko, aimed at ending the secret movement of cases, contacts, and dead bodies that has propagated transmission over the past 2 months. Measures include broadened criteria for identifying and tracing contacts, improved incentives to increase compliance with quarantine measures and encourage the timely reporting and isolation of cases, and expanded use of rapid diagnostic tests.
One way to do this, Seshasayee said, is to improve quality and reduce cost. “That innovation is what we need to stoke,” he said.
In the same article, among 25,594 heterosexual men surveyed, about 45% desired a larger penis, and only 0.2% desired a smaller penis 19. These desires may reflect lessons learned from real sexual experiences with women rather than, as often patronizingly claimed, internalization of culturally arbitrary masculinity stereotypes. The human vagina, cervix, and the exposed clitoral glans have distinct afferent pathways and sensory cortex projections 13; consequently, female orgasms can be triggered in many women by penile–vaginal or penile–cervical stimulation, regardless of superficial clitoral stimulation 20, 21. If vaginal orgasm is favored by greater responsiveness to vaginocervical stimulation, then it seems plausible that women capable of vaginal orgasm would learn to value somewhat larger penises, as these can better stimulate the vagina and cervix. In contrast, among women with lower vaginocervical responsiveness to penile stimulation, the ability to attain vaginal orgasm would be reduced, as would the importance attributed to penis size. This hypothesis received support from the representative Czech sample, in which women who had vaginal orgasms more consistently were more likely to have an orgasm from PVI with a man with a longer than average penis 5. Thus, the objective of the present study is to replicate and extend this finding by examining in a sample from a different country whether greater frequency of vaginal orgasm is associated with greater likelihood of reaching orgasm from PVI with men with longer than average penises. In addition, if penis size is relevant for vaginocervical response, but not for clitoral glans response, we hypothesize that orgasmic frequency provoked by superficial clitoral stimulation will be unrelated to women's rated importance of penis size. Finally, if preference for a longer penis is driven by greater vaginocervical sensitivity, then one might infer that women who reach orgasm from PVI more easily with longer penises value PVI relatively more and value noncoital sex relatively less. We also test these hypotheses.
As far as the news watching public (or as the news loves to call us: The American People) are concerned everything is political, but because they aren’t informed of policies they can’t identify possible solutions to vote for. As policy isn’t discussed, weighing the merits and flaws of a policy isn’t possible. In this information free environment the media has identified a solution that the public can understand and will fit within it’s strategy-game frame. Bipartisanship. For the media, everything hinges on whether or not a policy is bipartisan, regardless of whether or not it is a good policy (because how would anyone know?). If it is bipartisan, it is “what the American People deserve.” If it isn’t bipartisan, than it is seen as another example of politicians seeking their own self-interest. CNN is particularly bad for this behavior, with Anderson Cooper being basically the Avatar of the Golden Mean. Due to the way the news operates, the only thing the public knows about any particular bill is that it is either bipartisan or not, and they know that The American People deserve bipartisan bills. But they don’t really know why. … Fair play maybe? … They aren’t sure. No one has told The American People, but they have been repeatedly told they deserve it and they’re certain that somehow that’s the reason why things aren’t good right now. This is particularly problematic, since parties can refuse to sign a bill for self-interested political purposes (thus rendering it non-bipartisan) and if the bill is passed, the passing party will be tarred by the news as self-interested which the boycotting party can use to political advantage. Mitch McConnell knew this all too well when he ordered his fellow senators to deny President Obama any Republican votes no matter the issue. By doing that, he was able to cast President Obama as a self-interested greedy politician who wouldn’t play nice like the American People Deserve. And the news took the bait. And because the news, and thus the public, are focused like a laser upon policy-free demands of bipartisanship, the actual causes of a particular crisis goes unanswered and unblamed.
Time: 15m (GWAR stuff only) GWAR Theme Misc interview clips Time For Death This is probably the earliest officially released GWAR video product. It's part of a video compilation of Shimmy Disc artists such as Bongwater, King Missile, and lots of others. It opens with a video for GWAR Theme. It is a different recording from the Hell-o! version, and has Oderus in the costume with the top of his head and hair, but no face mask. Also seen are original GWAR Woman Lisa Harrelson (a brunette), and some kind of skinned dog prop. You can also see the Don Drakulich Techno Destructo. After that are some even older clips. There is some 8mm footage of an earlier lineup (no Joey Slutman, but with an early Beefcake (definetly not Bishop)). They are walking over a hill in the snow waving their weapons. The costumes are mostly the same as in GWAR Must Be Destroyed, mostly crude fur and bones outfits with helmets or headgear or some kind, except for Beefcake and Balsac who pretty much had their style even back then. From there it goes into a news clip from a Richmond station (where the anchor mistakenly calls the band "gore") where the band are running around in the winter on the streets yelling and screaming. From that they go to a TV studio and throw a newsman threw the desk then beat him up. Dave can be clearly seen yelling into the camera. He then holds up a bloody head and smears it into the weather map, and Beefcake breaks through the wall. Following that is more 8mm footage of the band eating various body parts for dinner and Dave drooling all over himself. In the background can be seen a big neon sign that says "SIN" (as can be seen in one of the comics in Mind Control Monthly #2). From there it goes to the second video, for an alternate recording of Time For Death. This video features some really odd variations in costumes and props, and is filmed outdoors in front of a large building with the GWAR logo on it.
Really, it is the same idea he had with Scum. Basically, there’s a business in town selling crap that is over-priced. First it was $5 for green slim. Now it’s $4 for coffee-flavored foam. Doug’s big idea is to rip off these businesses. He runs the idea by Grandma Edna, who then runs it by her friends and they give it the go ahead. Here’s where the real stupid happens. Selling Scum and other bullshit is fairly simple. This new rip-off idea required the equipment to turn Grandma Edna’s Craftee Shoppee into a coffee shop too. This meant Grandma Edna needed to take out a loan.NO!So, they end up on the news. When I first watched this, I thought this news segment was going to be a fantasy with the sad reveal that the loan was a total disaster, but it’s real. The store has been bafflingly renamed “Ednaesque.” They have Skunky out on the sidewalk in a cappuccino costume and you wonder if Skunky is getting paid the same as Doug. The place seems to be a hit.After the news reporter is finished, Doug comes out to give Skunky some tips on being “fluffy and foamy.” When Doug isn’t looking, Skunky accidentally/blindly walks into the back of a moving truck, setting up a running gag through the rest of the episode where he gets completely lost, then picked up by one of The Beets looking for a gimmick for their solo career, then carried back to Bluffington to be lowered onto the stage during The Beets’ performance. Just wanted to get that out of the way now.“In all the excitement of putting together the perfect date, I almost forgot the most important thing.” Right you are, Doug. Here he is practicing asking out Patti on Skeeter.After Skeeter gives his approval of the question, Patti enter’s Mr. Swirly’s and walks over to them. Skeeter quickly exits the scene to give them some privacy because he’s a good friend.Doug tells her he has a question but before he can ask, his cell phone rings.I know what you’re thinking, and yeah, like…when did Doug get a cell phone? Who is paying for that? I can’t say I know what a monthly bill on a cell phone was when this aired, but surely a month or two of service could have been sacrificed to pay for Beets tickets.Anyway, Grandma Edna is calling because Skunky is missing. I’ve already covered this.
Prime 5 - 4 FXOpen Prime, after getting lucky to make it to the playoff stages last season and reel of an underdog run to the finals, has made sure no one could think their runner-up position was a fluke. With a deep line-up that has had copious amount of heroes step up through the past two seasons, Prime's teamwork and strength at every race has given them the opportunity to be one step away from the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas and the Grand Finals.FXO, on the other hand, can have the same things said about them. From the early days when they were known as fOu, they've always been a mid-table team, not having the best line-up, but getting farther than people expected due to smart snipes and good coaching. Even with the loss of their former ace sC to MVP a few months ago, FXO has looked stronger than ever since merging the FXO and fOu clans.With these two deep line-ups, let's have a quick breakdown on how they stack up.Prime has a strong Terran line-up even if MarineKing isn't in the equation.was able to qualify in Code S as the youngest player in history and then get first in his group when he got there, andis a former Code S semifinalist who three-killed Startale and is almost always atop the Korean Grandmaster ladder. FXO has, a semifinalist from last season, but he didn't look particularly on point in his Code S group, going 0-2 and even losing a series to Prime's Maru. Gumiho is an amazing player who has the ability to beat anyone when he's at his best, but I can't look past his disappointing results in Code S and have to give the edge to the Prime Prodigy and the Player Formerly Known as Byun.I am warning you now to watch out forand. asd was able to take down Supernova last week to put his team in the position to win, and its a strong possibility that these two will be used in conjunction to take down MarineKing. They might not be as strong as a Gumiho, Maru, or GhostKing, but they very well could be the key to unseating Prime.Prime hasandwhile FXO, if not counting Leenock due to being their ace, will haveandas their Zergs in the early and mid-point of the series.
WIPE TO: 52. INT. "THE RAVEN" SALOON - PATAN, NEPAL - NIGHT 52 A huge stuffed raven, wings spread wide, is mounted be- hind the long bar in the noisy, crowded saloon. A lively mix of patrons is represented in the late hour tableau: Nepalese natives, fierce Sherpa mountain guides, sleazy international smugglers and fugitives, and, of course, mountain climbers from every corner of the earth. A tall Nepalese, MAHDLO, is the bartender. In a corner near the fireplace trouble breaks out suddenly between the groups at two neighboring tables. Ferocious representatives from each table--one a wild- looking SHERPA, the other a muscular Australian CLIMBER-- jump up to face each other. As the two contenders stand poised for action, their respective supporters shift in their places, fondling lethal ice axes and clubs. SHERPA Gmoiska! Shurga rintoik! CLIMBER Aye! That'll be your last word. The bar has quieted ominously and so we hear with startling clarity when--a door behind the bar slams open with a huge BANG! and some Presence, too small to be seen as it moves through the forest of towering patrons, makes a beeline for the troubled corner of the bar. A path clears for it. The Sherpa and the Climber are about to kill each other when the Presence arrives directly between them: she is MARION RAVENWOOD, twenty-five years old, beautiful, if a bit hard-looking. At this moment, however, that look does not hurt. She is not intimidated by the combatants; she jabs accusatory fingers into their chests. She is angry as hell. The patrons shrink under her gaze. MARION That does it! I've been patient with you no-goods long enough. I'm not open at 2 o'clock for myself, you know. It's all for you. And how do you repay me: Trouble and noise and blood on my floor! I won't have it. Everybody out! Out! Out! We're closed. Closed! Do your killing outside! And don't leave any bodies on the porch! The place clears quickly. Stragglers and grumblers are given special attention by Marion and Mahdlo, who has come from behind the bar carrying a big axe handle. Mahdlo herds the crows out the front door as Marion turns and walks behind the bar. A scowl on her lovely face, she has just begun clearing the bar of glasses when she notices one remaining Patron huddled over a glass at the far end of the bar.
Byington deduced that Pyongyang was still in Wei-administered Lelang and thus ruled out as a candidate, arguing that the capital should be the Gungnae Fortress — though he admits this view is not popularly accepted in current scholarship (Byington 2007 : 94). Ikeuchi deemed the whole passage about the relocation to be fabricated by the historian (Ikeuchi 1929 : 119). a b c Byington 2007 : 94. ^ Byington 2007 : 93, note 21. ^ Byington 2007 : 95. ^ Henthorn 1971 : 29. ^ Kim Bu-sik. Samguk Sagi. 17. 十二年冬十二月王畋于杜訥之谷魏將尉遲楷名犯長陵諱將兵來伐王簡精騎五千戰於梁貊之谷敗之斬首八千餘級 . Ikeuchi (1929) questioned the authenticity of the Wei invasion record since the Wei commander was recorded in Samguk Sagi as Yuchi Kai (尉遲楷). Ikeuchi reasoned that since the . Ikeuchi (1929) questioned the authenticity of the Wei invasion record since the Wei commander was recorded inas Yuchi Kai (尉遲楷). Ikeuchi reasoned that since the Yuchi surname was not mentioned in Chinese records before the year 386, the Wei commander's name might be anachronistic. See Ikeuchi 1929 : 114. ^ Byington 2007 : 96. ^ Barnes 2001 : 24-25, citing Gardiner 1964 : 428. ^ Ikeuchi 1929 : 101.
As the year 1840 progressed, Henry Talbot was a very happy man. He had been badly battered by the events of 1839, but the bright weather of 1840 and the rapid advancement of both his technique and his vision had led to a very satisfying portfolio. The public was starting to notice. The year before, in 1839, his experimental Notebook P filled the month of September 1839 with musings on the Daguerreotype, mention of Nicéphore Niépce, notice of Herschel’s new process of making negatives on glass, spectral experiments, electricity, and especially a number of ventures into the possibility of producing photographic images in printer’s ink. He even jotted down a note about “New Art”, “Nature’s Pencil, No. 1” with a partial quote from Virgil that he would later expand for the title page for The Pencil of Nature. A year later, in September 1840 in Notebook Q, his observations ranged through electricity and magnetism, internal combustion engines, atmospheric railways and some new types of photographic papers, including the virtually unknown Leuctotype positive process and Waterloo paper. On 20 September something odd grabbed his attention. Talbot got progressively more and more excited on 21 and 22 September and by 23 September “some very remarkable results were obtained. Half a minute suffices for the Camera the paper when removed is often perfectly blank but when kept in the dark the picture begins to appear spontaneously and keeps improving for several minutes….” Talbot had discovered how to exploit a latent image, subsequently greatly amplified by chemical development, to reduce his exposure times dramatically. The magic ingredient, gallic acid, had an effect so extraordinary to Talbot that he physically cut the word out of his notebook page, lest it prematurely fall into the wrong hands.
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Giant-Shimano 5:34:01 2 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 3 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 5 Benjamin Giraud (Fra) La Pomme Marseille 6 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Team Europcar 7 Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 8 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 9 Baptiste Plackaert (Bel) Roubaix Lille Metropole 10 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling 12 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 13 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Shimano 14 Rudy Barbier (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 15 Thor Hushovd (Nor) BMC Racing Team 16 Yannick Martinez (Fra) Team Europcar 17 Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 18 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Team Katusha 19 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek Factory Racing 20 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Shimano 21 Alo Jakin (Est) BigMat - Auber 93 22 Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 23 Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani CSF 24 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 25 Stephen Cummings (GBr) BMC Racing Team 26 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 27 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Col) Colombia 28 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 29 Domingos André Maciel Gonçalves (Por) La Pomme Marseille 30 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ.fr 31 Michel Kreder (Ned) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 32 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ.fr 33 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Team Giant-Shimano 34 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 35 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 36 Davide Rebellin (Ita) CCC Polsat Polkowice 37 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha 38 Romain Lemarchand (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 39 Carlos Julian Quintero (Col) Colombia 40 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) IAM Cycling 41 Rodolfo Andres Torres Agudelo (Col) Colombia 42 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 43 Peio Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 44 Romain Sicard (Fra) Team Europcar 45 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Roubaix Lille Metropole 46 Riccardo Zoidl (Aut) Trek Factory Racing 47 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) IAM Cycling 48 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Giant-Shimano 49 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) BMC Racing Team 50 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Pomme Marseille 51 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 52 Bob Jungels (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 53 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 54 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Ita) Bardiani CSF 55 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 56 Matthias Brandle (Aut) IAM Cycling 57 Jimmy Turgis (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 58 Armindo Fonseca (Fra) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 59 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) IAM Cycling 60 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 61 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team Katusha 62 Gustav Larsson (Swe) IAM Cycling 63 Julien Stassen (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 64 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) AG2R La Mondiale 65 Matthieu Boulo (Fra) Team Raleigh 66 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Colombia 67 Rudy Molard (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 68 Flavien Dassonville (Fra) BigMat - Auber 93 69 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 70 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJ.fr 71 Tom Dernies (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 72 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ.fr 73 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 74 Christophe Premont (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 75 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 76 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 77 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 78 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice 79 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice 80 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) FDJ.fr 81 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) FDJ.fr 82 Angelo Pagani (Ita) Bardiani CSF 83 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 84 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar 85 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) BigMat - Auber 93 86 Jean-Marc Bideau (Fra) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 87 Rudy Kowalski (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 88 Julien Antomarchi (Fra) La Pomme Marseille 89 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice 90 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Team Europcar 0:00:32 91 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 0:00:44 92 Fabricio Ferrari Barcelo (Uru) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 93 Matthew Busche (USA) Trek Factory Racing 0:00:59 94 Omar Fraile Matarranza (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 95 Théo Vimpere (Fra) BigMat - Auber 93 0:01:07 96 Thomas Vaubourzeix (Fra) La Pomme Marseille 97 Florian Guillou (Fra) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 98 Grzegorz Stepniak (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice 0:01:18 99 Gert Joeaar (Est) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:01:32 100 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:01:47 101 Frédéric Brun (Fra) BigMat - Auber 93 102 Julien Berard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 103 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 104 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 105 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek Factory Racing 106 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 107 Piotr Gawronski (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice 108 Francis De Greef (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 109 Yohan Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 110 Jonathan Dufrasne (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 111 Klaas Lodewyck (Bel) BMC Racing Team 112 Laurent Evrard (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 113 Jérôme Baugnies (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 114 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Androni Giocattoli 115 Dimitri Le Boulch (Fra) BigMat - Auber 93 0:02:00 116 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 0:02:03 117 Florian Vachon (Fra) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 118 Grégoire Tarride (Fra) La Pomme Marseille 119 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:02:41 120 Maxime Anciaux (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 121 Mark Christian (GBr) Team Raleigh 0:04:09 122 Evaldas Siskevicius (Ltu) La Pomme Marseille 123 Romain Hardy (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 124 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 125 Franck Vermeulen (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 126 Marcel Wyss (Swi) IAM Cycling 127 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Shimano 128 Andrea Zordan (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 129 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 0:06:45 130 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 131 Stefan Denifl (Aut) IAM Cycling 132 Pierre Gouault (Fra) BigMat - Auber 93 133 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Team Raleigh 134 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Polsat Polkowice 135 Juan Pablo Valencia (Col) Colombia 136 Karol Domagalski (Pol) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 137 Petr Ignatenko (Rus) Team Katusha 138 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 139 Leonardo Fabio Duque (Col) Colombia 140 Ian Wilkinson (GBr) Team Raleigh 141 Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez (Col) Colombia 142 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 143 Yanto Barker (GBr) Team Raleigh 144 Quentin Bertholet (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles 0:07:45 145 Yoann Paillot (Fra) La Pomme Marseille 146 Alexander Rybakov (Rus) Team Katusha 147 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Team Katusha 148 Steven Tronet (Fra) BigMat - Auber 93 149 Fernando Grijalba (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 150 George Atkins (GBr) Team Raleigh 151 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Team Europcar 152 Donato De Ieso (Ita) Bardiani CSF 153 Christophe Kern (Fra) Team Europcar 154 Jaroslaw Marycz (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice 0:08:20 155 Joseph Perret (GBr) Team Raleigh 0:14:33 156 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:15:59 157 Morgan Kneisky (Fra) Team Raleigh 158 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 159 Darwin Ferney Pantoja Tobar (Col) Colombia 160 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Team Giant-Shimano 161 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team Giant-Shimano 162 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 163 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:17:41 DNF Diego Rosa (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
evaluated and judged. Here is a good illustration of why we made the mistake of believing in rewards, based on benefits that appear on the surface. When an American fast-food company offered food prizes to children for every book they read, reading rates soared. This certainly looked encouraging - at first glance. On closer inspection, however, it was demonstrated that the children were selecting shorter books, and that their comprehension test-scores plummeted. They were reading for junk-food, rather than for the intrinsic enjoyment of reading. Meanwhile, reading outside school (the unrewarded situation) dropped off. There are many more studies showing that, while rewards may well increase activity, they smother enthusiasm and kill passion. Individuals anticipating rewards lose interest in activities that were otherwise attractive. It seems that the more we want the reward, the more we come to dislike what we have to do to get it. The activity required of us stands in the way of our coveted prize. It would have been smarter to just give the kids more interesting books, as there is plenty of evidence that intrinsically enjoyable activity is the best motivator and performance enhancer. Can rewards and praise harm our relationship with our children? You wouldn't think that the positive things you say to your child about himself or herself can be as destructive as negative labels. But there are times when this is true. Thanks to modern advances in behavioral science, our ability to seduce or manipulate children (and animals! and grown-ups!) to do what we want them to has become increasingly sophisticated. But the cost of manipulating through rewards has been great. Below are ten ways in which praise and rewards can damage our relationship with our children. Rewards and praise condition children to seek approval; they end up doing things to impress, instead of doing things for themselves. This can hold back the development of self-motivation and makes them dependent on outside opinion. When children get used to getting goodies for "performing", they become pleasers, over-reliant on positive strokes. Rewards and praise can create a kind of addictive behavior: children can get addicted to recognition, and thus lose touch with the simple joy of doing what they love. So many of us are addicted to prestige: we get depressed when admiration fails to come. Instead of doing what we do for its own sake, we fish for flattery or reassurance, and when the applause dies away, we sink into despair.
Participants read eight different scenarios that implicated an actor in unrightfully taking or benefiting from something, and reported the likelihood that they would engage in the behavior described (16). Participants also reported their social class using the MacArthur scale of subjective SES (2). This measure parallels objective, resource-based measures of social class in its relationship to health (2), social cognition (4), and interpersonal behavior (7). As hypothesized, social class positively predicted unethical decision-making tendencies, even after controlling for ethnicity, sex, and age, b = 0.13, SE b = 0.06, t(103) = 2.05, P < 0.04. These results suggest that upper-class individuals are more likely to exhibit tendencies to act unethically compared with lower-class individuals. Study 4. Study 4 sought to provide experimental evidence that the experience of higher social class has a causal effect on unethical decision-making and behavior. We adopted a paradigm used in past research to activate higher or lower social-class mindsets and examine their effects on behavior (5, 7). Participants experienced either a low or high relative social-class rank by comparing themselves to people with the most (least) money, most (least) education, and most (least) respected jobs. Participants also rated their position in the socioeconomic hierarchy relative to people at the very top or bottom. This induction primes subjective perceptions of relatively high or low social-class rank. In this prior research, as expected, manipulations of perceived social-class rank influenced generosity (7) and the ability to identify others’ emotions (5). Participants completed a series of filler measures, which included the measure of unethical decision-making tendencies used in study 3 (16). Our main dependent variable was a behavioral measure of unethical tendencies. Specifically, at the end of the study, the experimenter presented participants with a jar of individually wrapped candies, ostensibly for children in a nearby laboratory, but informed them that they could take some if they wanted. This task was adapted from prior research on entitlement (17) and served as our measure of unethical behavior because taking candy would reduce the amount that would otherwise be given to children. Participants completed unrelated tasks and then reported the number of candies they had taken. The manipulation of social-class rank was successful: Participants in the upper-class rank condition (M = 6.96) reported a social-class rank significantly above participants in the lower-class rank condition (M = 6.00), t(127) = 3.51, P < 0.01, d = 0.62.
But it wasn’t just the supply companies. Goldex’s own books were also works of fiction, the prosecutors say. Millions of dollars disappeared into mismatched accounts and phantom transactions. “It is not possible to come to any conclusion except that all of the gold and all of this income they were trying to justify was of illegal origins and came from illegal organizations that needed to create a structure to launder their profits,” said lead prosecutor Luz Angela Bahamon at the indictment hearing. In the final six years of its operations — during the height of the violence in Bajo Cauca — the now-defunct Goldex exported over 47 tons of gold, worth more than $1.4 billion, according to the records of Colombia’s National Tax and Customs Directorate (DIAN). The DIAN’s export declarations show that more than 97 percent of this gold went to Republic Metals Corp., or RMC, in Miami and Metalor Technologies USA in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, a subsidiary of the Swiss business group Metalor Technologies SA. But according to both companies’ supply chain policies they should not have been doing business with Goldex at all. Their own internal guidelines prohibit RMC and Metalor from dealing with suppliers when there is a reasonable risk they are sourcing gold from parties that provide direct or indirect support to nonstate armed actors that control or extort mines or traders. Their policies also include commitments to take action when there is a reasonable risk the supply chain is being used to launder money. However, both Republic and Metalor continued to buy from Goldex even after one of its suppliers, Jairo Rendon Herrera, who is the brother of the founder of the Urabeños, and had alleged ties to the AUC, surrendered to U.S. authorities to stand trial for drug trafficking in 2009. RMC continued to buy from Goldex even after it was contacted by Colombian tax authorities who asked about two transactions in which Goldex reported receiving nearly $200,000 more from RMC than the $5.7 million it actually received — a classic money laundering technique, say prosecutors. Even after Goldex was sanctioned over those irregularities in 2012, the exports continued. In the case of Metalor, the transactions continued for at least eight months after Colombian prosecutors said publicly in August 2013 that they suspected the company of money laundering.
A federal judge has ordered the State Department to start releasing her emails starting June 30th then every 30 days until January 2016. HRC told reporters last week she wants those emails released as soon as they can. WFFF-BUR Local 44 News at 8am <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=1675&DateTime=5%2F28%2F2015+8%3A15%3A03+AM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=1675&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Burlington (VT), 5.28.15 -- Report on Sander’s criticizing HRC on trade. Noted it was one of the first times he has criticized her and used footage from town hall. Showed footage of voter in his audience saying “I don’t want to be just the party that takes away from Hillary, I want to be able to kick her butt. We need to move ahead.” Showed footage of Bernie criticizing HRC. “Voters in the crowd are disgruntled Democrats craving an alternative to HRC.” Channel 3 News Morning <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=1660&DateTime=5%2F28%2F2015+6%3A35%3A35+AM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=1660&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Burlington (VT), 5.28.15 -- Report on HRC calling out Republicans for standing in the way of equal pay for women. Showed footage from yesterday’s event and noted HRC was referring to comments made by Walker, Rubio, and Paul. 7News Today in New England <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=924&DateTime=5%2F28%2F2015+9%3A18%3A51+AM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=924&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Boston (MA), 5.28.15 -- Report on HRC’s New Hampshire campaign offices. Noted that a few weeks after moving into their Manchester HQ, the campaign is opening up their first regional office in Nashua. NH1 News Tonight <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=6655&DateTime=5%2F27%2F2015+10%3A16%3A30+PM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=6655&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Boston (MA), 5.27.15 -- Report on HRC’s private email release. A federal judge has ordered the State Department to start releasing her emails every 30 days until January 2016. HRC told reporters last week she wants those emails released as soon as they can. WVNY-BUR Local 22 News <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=1670&DateTime=5%2F27%2F2015+11%3A16%3A19+PM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=1670&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Burlington (VT), 5.27.15 -- Report on Sander’s criticizing HRC on trade. Noted it was one of the first times he has criticized her and used footage from town hall. “Voters in the crowd are disgruntled Democrats craving an alternative to HRC” Channel 3 News at Eleven <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=1660&DateTime=5%2F27%2F2015+11%3A13%3A15+PM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=1660&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Burlington (VT), 5.27.15, -- Report on Sander’s criticizing HRC on trade. Showed footage of voter in his audience saying “I don’t want to be just the party that takes away from Hillary, I want to be able to kick her butt. We need to move ahead.” WCAX-BUR The :30 <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=1660&DateTime=5%2F27%2F2015+5%3A46%3A28+PM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=1660&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Burlington (VT), 5.27.15 Nevada: -- Report on Marco Rubio’s visit to Nevada. Noted that HRC visited Las Vegas a few weeks ago.Good Morning Reno 6am <http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=3755&DateTime=5%2F28%2F2015+6%3A05%3A57+AM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=3755&playclip=True&RefPage=>, Reno (NV), 5.28.15 -- Report on HRC’s private email release.
Hi Everyone — With a mixture of emotions and a heavy heart, I wanted to let you guys know that I have decided to close our Mueller location effective Friday, September 1st. For the last two years, I’ve fought to build a dream come true: my pink palace of whimsy and wonder. Through hard work and a lot of struggle, I was able to conquer my fears and create a space that’s so personal and connected to me – a real representation of me. I am so proud of my accomplishments, and I have loved owning and operating my dream-shop. Juggling two bakeries, two staffs, and two groups of customers was all-consuming. I spent all my time on bills, taxes, schedules, emails, and putting out fires. I didn’t have time or energy for what I love most – being in the kitchen and making desserts that I want to eat and that I want others to experience. It’s been a constant struggle, and I eventually burned out. But I do believe that the bright and happy space brought joy and optimism to everyone who walked in the door. I was able to share this fancy little version of myself – feminine and classy and fun! I loved bringing it all together: the hot pink trim, the wallpaper, the brass accents, the neon signs, the pink chairs – and sitting with Billie to assemble each crystal on the chandeliers. I’m so thankful for this experience! I’ve learned a lot, and I’m ready to apply all of it to the future of Bribery. I am soooo excited to reconnect with my family, my creative spirit, and the simple joy of daydreaming. I am extremely grateful to your continued support; I wouldn’t have been able to get this far without you. Our Wells Branch location is alive and well and will remain my creative pastry workshop! I can’t wait to share all the new ideas I haven’t had the time or energy to execute… stay tuned for delivered cakes and treat trays, mail-order treats, wedding cakes, exciting holiday kits, cookbooks, hats, bags, boxes and so many more exclamation points!!!!! xoxoxo — Jodi
The travel-literature, brand-name side of Hemingway—the side that made Pamplona a tourist trap and Venice’s Gritti Palace an “icon,” the side kept alive in degraded form by all that artisanal rum and patio furniture—is essential to his effects. Hemingway was a master not of a realized stoicism but of a wounded epicureanism. Have fun while you can, and then endure the bad stuff when it comes. It doesn’t sound high-minded when you say it, but it was saner than almost anything else on offer.

(lol) KP: (as Tomomi) [He cried a lot when he was little.] (lol) Sasahara: [Yeah, you teased me too much then.] is what I'll say back. KP: (as Tomomi) [Don't say strange things. You chase around little girls.] Miyako: From the time he was little, he's liked little girls. (lol) Tatsumi: Cut the idle chatter and get to work! Sasahara: All right. Miyako-san has my number on her cell phone. I have her number on mine. If something strange happens, we'll call each other to report it. Tatsumi: This guy is very cautious. KP: Although those two went outside, it's still difficult to look inside the room. The window is high up. Sasahara: Okay, I see how it is. Sayaka-chan, you can stand on me and look into the room. Miyako: There goes Sasahara-kun, being all grim and stern while showing frightening things to other people. (lol) Sasahara: Well excuuuse me, princess. Let's change things. Sayaka-chan, you can lift me up instead. I only have a 17 SIZ. Sayaka: No, the original way was better. Just don't look up my skirt, please. Sasahara: I won't, I won't ... is what I'll say, and afterward I'll look. (lol) Sayaka: I'll step on his peeping face. Sasahara: Ow! Sayaka: Anyway, I want to look in the window. KP: Make a (Luck) roll, please. Sayaka: (rolls dice) Made it. KP: Okay. You are blessed with good luck. (That was a roll to see if she could see the horrifying work the monster did while killing Sougo. She passed, so she didn't see that.) You look inside the room. You see that Sougo has fallen against the bed. Sayaka: How is he? KP: From what you can see from this angle, you don't see any surface wounds. You do see documents that have been scattered around. Sayaka: [Ah, this is terrible!] Sasahara: [What is it, Sayaka-chan!?] Sayaka: Sasahara-kun is battered by footsteps from above. [Quick, call Miyako! I can see Sougo and it looks like he has collapsed inside!] Sayaka: I'll call Miyako-san. Miyako: I report the situation to Tatsumi-sensei. Tatsumi: [We'll have to break the door down.] Can we do that? KP: You guys don't have the key. Up to two people can work on the door at the same time. Tatsumi: We will tackle the door together. KP: Master and pupil tackle the door together. The door bursts open. Both of you can attempt a (Spot Hidden) roll for me.
The Jamaican audio engineer Scientist is one of the crucial links in a musically innovative chain that begins in the late 60s with King Tubby, progresses through Prince Jammy in the 70s, and falls to a close with Peter Chemist in the mid-80s. A truly outstanding practitioner who thrived on innovation, Scientist helped dub reach some of its greatest heights of creativity. He became one of Jamaica’s most sought-after engineers at a very young age, his mixing artistry rising up in tandem with the Roots Radics in the late 70s and early 80s. Because of the incredible dub works he fashioned as an apprentice engineer at King Tubby’s studio, many dub fans consider Scientist to be the last of the classical Jamaican dub mixers, yet his overall contribution to the evolution of reggae is far more multifaceted than most realise. In fact, Scientist was all over the place as the 70s gave way to the 80s, shaping significant vocal and dub works at Studio One, Channel One and Tuff Gong at a time in which reggae was undergoing dramatic changes. Yet the fact that he never really made the shift to becoming a self-sufficient record producer in his own right, unlike Jammy and Tubby, is part of what has kept him from gaining rightful recognition for his full contribution. The lack of proper financial recompense, as well as artistic acknowledgement, ultimately yielded longstanding frustration, which, along with other personal factors, led to some overseas wilderness years following his exit from Jamaica in 1985. Although he was less prolific thereafter, Scientist’s great talent has seen him remain in demand as a dub mixer and live audio engineer, and in the new millennium he has even worked with Death In Vegas and Liam Gallagher, as well as with old stalwarts from Jamaica, such as Mikey Dread and Culture. Born in 1960 with the unlikely name of Overton Brown, he was raised in Harbour View, a gritty fishing village located near the approach to Kingston’s international airport. His father had some knowledge of electronics, and young Overton displayed an early aptitude in that direction, so by the age of 16 he was already fixing televisions and building and testing amplifiers for local sound systems.
Yau had no idea that Hamilton’s work on the Poincaré had stalled. He was increasingly anxious about his own standing in the mathematics profession, particularly in China, where, he worried, a younger scholar could try to supplant him as Chern’s heir. More than a decade had passed since Yau had proved his last major result, though he continued to publish prolifically. “Yau wants to be the king of geometry,” Michael Anderson, a geometer at Stony Brook, said. “He believes that everything should issue from him, that he should have oversight. He doesn’t like people encroaching on his territory.” Determined to retain control over his field, Yau pushed his students to tackle big problems. At Harvard, he ran a notoriously tough seminar on differential geometry, which met for three hours at a time three times a week. Each student was assigned a recently published proof and asked to reconstruct it, fixing any errors and filling in gaps. Yau believed that a mathematician has an obligation to be explicit, and impressed on his students the importance of step-by-step rigor. There are two ways to get credit for an original contribution in mathematics. The first is to produce an original proof. The second is to identify a significant gap in someone else’s proof and supply the missing chunk. However, only true mathematical gaps—missing or mistaken arguments—can be the basis for a claim of originality. Filling in gaps in exposition—shortcuts and abbreviations used to make a proof more efficient—does not count. When, in 1993, Andrew Wiles revealed that a gap had been found in his proof of Fermat’s last theorem, the problem became fair game for anyone, until, the following year, Wiles fixed the error. Most mathematicians would agree that, by contrast, if a proof’s implicit steps can be made explicit by an expert, then the gap is merely one of exposition, and the proof should be considered complete and correct. Occasionally, the difference between a mathematical gap and a gap in exposition can be hard to discern. On at least one occasion, Yau and his students have seemed to confuse the two, making claims of originality that other mathematicians believe are unwarranted. In 1996, a young geometer at Berkeley named Alexander Givental had proved a mathematical conjecture about mirror symmetry, a concept that is fundamental to string theory. Though other mathematicians found Givental’s proof hard to follow, they were optimistic that he had solved the problem.
So, if you want to check your audio fingerprint, you can check on the demo page.The audio fingerprinting technique is not widely adopted but joins a number of other approaches that could be used in combination for tracking users as they browse the Internet.To carry out measurements to track the trackers, the researchers said they used a custom piece of an open-source software called OpenWPM, which loads sites in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, collecting data on the tracking loaded on each page.Another widely used method to track online users is fingerprinting technique based on the HTML Canvass API and WebRTC local IP discovery.From last few years, many websites and third-party trackers are utilizing the fingerprinting power of HTML5 Canvas , which is a HTML element used to dynamically generated an image in your browser’s web page.For the detailed study, you can read this full PDF full here.
If you have a tendency to get motion sick or don't like g-forces weighing you down then this may not be the ride for you. Otherwise, you need to check it out. Mission: Space is never one of the shortest lines at Disney World, but a couple of years ago it ended up with a significant summer time wait. Frozen Ever After Longest Posted Wait Time: 300 mins Longest Verified Wait Time: 175 minutes, July 4, 2016 Last summer's big new ride at Disney World was Frozen Ever After. The ride took over over the Viking boat ride Maelstrom in the Norway Pavillion section of EPCOT. As one would expect, being both one of the newest rides at Disney World, as well as being a ride based on Disney's out of control success story, _Frozen, _ this ride was a high demand experience. The 300 minute wait time posted by Disney was from the ride's opening days in June of last year. According to some anecdotal evidence, the wait may have actually been longer than that. However, the longest verified wait, from the busy July 4 weekend last year, is still a crazy time to stand in a line. Peter Pan's Flight Longest Posted Wait Time: 300 mins Longest Verified Wait Time: 192 minutes, June 28, 2016 I will never for the life of me understand why Peter Pan's Flight is so popular. It's far from the most popular Disney movie you can find in Fantasyland, and yet the ride routinely has a line that extends for an hour or more. You can basically ride everything else in the area in the time you would wait for this one. That's especially true if the line is as long as it can get. Even if you avoid the dreaded 300-minute wait, certainly a wait that's nearly 200 minutes will be long enough. Bring snacks. Soarin' Longest Posted Wait Time: 300 mins Longest Verified Wait Time: 193 minutes, August 5, 2016 Formerly Soarin' Over California but recently updated to Soarin Around the World, it might actually be a bit surprising that this is one of the most popular rides at EPCOT. Especially considering that it now shares the park with the Frozen ride, you might think that the lines on this one might begin to shrink. However, Soarin routinely still sees incredibly long lines.
PEA normalized spinal microglia and astrocyte activation in the rat model of inflammatory pain induced by formalin [25] as well as after spinal cord trauma in mice [26]. Treatment with PEA reduced microglial activation and the number of astrocytes in the model of Parkinson's disease induced by 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) [27] and counteracts reactive gliosis after β-amyloid peptide injection in rat brain [28]. Based on the hypothesis that the glial cell modulator PEA may influence the development of morphine tolerance, the antinociceptive effect of repeated treatment with the alkaloid was evaluated overtime during PEA administration.
Marked targets bleed with a grievous wound, granting true vision for the duration of the mark and take damage each second based on the extent of their wounds (% missing health, scaled with Bonus AD). The duration of this mark is refreshed each time Rengar auto attacks a marked target. Why this change? I'm biased, and I miss the old Q. With this Q, we remove a bit of Rengar's notorious burst but allow him to still thematically work as a Hunter/Assassin by chasing his target (provided he's found his target in anew area populated with brush) and executing them effectively. W - Battle Roar: (Passive) Rengar stores a portion of the damage he's Dealt in the last 1.5 seconds as Grey Health (100% vs Monsters) (Active) Rengar let's out a battle Roar, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies and healing Rengar for his Grey Health. (Empowered) Rengar's Roar additionally cleanses him of any CC effects. If Rengar has killed a target in the last 1.5 seconds, Rengar additionally gains 1.5 seconds of CC Immunity. Why this change? This seems like a simple solution for Bruiser Rengar. This forces him to Deal damage in order to heal instead of taking a beating and getting a ton of health back for free. Additionally, it rewards Rengar for successfully killing his target with a more reliable escape. The issue with the reworked Rengar was he could mindlessly engage and get out regardless of his performance. E - Bola Strike: Rengar throws a Bola in the target direction, dealing physical damage to the first enemy hit and slowing them for 1.75 seconds. (Empowered) Bola Strike deals bonus physical damage and roots it's target for 1.75 seconds instead. R - Thrill of the Hunt: Rengar channels his predatory instincts, becoming camouflaged after 1 second, and gains unit vision of the nearest X champions (where X equals the number of Trophies Rengar has earned) who he can leap to for a guaranteed Critical Strike. While camouflaged, Rengar gains 40% bonus movement speed. Attacking or casting most spells ends Thrill of the Hunt. Why the change? This feels like a happy median between the old and new Thrill of the Hunt. Good Hunters should be rewarded accordingly through the additional target vision and options for who to engage on while poor Hunters will continue to struggle by having the extra vision denied.
Smith was not really a small “d” democrat. The common people, the poor, the working class, are too frequently misled by the wealthy, especially the business class. Hence, “in the public deliberations, therefore, his voice is little heard and less regarded, except upon some particular occasions, when his clamour is animated, set on, and supported by his employers, not for his, but for their own particular purposes” (249). So, the majority of people need to watch out that they are not misled by their business leaders in general, and their employers in particular! One side of the problem is that workers tend to work too long and hard at boring, deadening jobs to have the time, ability, and practice in developing their critical faculties. Unfortunately, “The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur” (734). As far as intelligence is concerned, it is use it or lose it! “He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become” (735). The workers also tend not to be able to enjoy taking part of any rational conversation; of conceiving proper sentiments and hence forming just judgments; they tend to become cowards; and each particular job or occupation tends to corrupt “even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance in any other employment than that to which he has been bred” (735). Such are the dire problems caused by overworking the working class. Once again, we see here a side of Smith that is rarely stressed by our libertarian and right wing pundits!
S&M Restaurant (Alfredo's): restored Thonet chairs & Vitrolite tables Courtesy Phil Nicholls Psychogeography is the hidden landscape of atmospheres, histories, actions and characters which charge environments. The term originally harks back to Thomas De Quincey's dreamy, druggy treks of the nineteenth century and Walter Benjamin's excursions around the Paris streets of the 1920s, fusing Jewish messianism, Kabbalism, Marxism and visionary Surrealism. But after Internationale Situationiste #1 1957, the term evolves again, indicating the study of the effects of geographical settings on mood and behaviour. Today, the expression is possibly most readily associated with Iain Sinclair's synoptic urban drifts; the divining of the unconscious cultural contours of places: "By the time I was using [the word], it was more like 'psychotic geographer' more of a raging bull journey against the energies of the city of creating a walk that would allow you to enter into a fiction." Sinclair's work is a dense, fused poeticized prose often inspired by walks and free-associated treks around the underside of London, most especially the expansice wilds of the East End and its Essex deltas. Cafes often figure in his novels, and the Alpino in Islington's Chapel Market N1 has long been one of his stop-offs on regular walks up the Regent Canal. Those new to Sinclair's work should start with his collection of essays Lights Out For The Territory. Then move on to his co-written account of the mystery of Whitechapel legend David Rodinsky - Rodinsky's Room - and his vanishing from a hidden East End Synagogue. On no account miss Sinclair's early novel Whitechappel Scarlet Tracings or his exorcizing of modern City meltdown, Downriver. Cafes are vitally about atmosphere and kindled memories; their dowager bearing apparently drably familiar, yet full of secrets. Developing from the early twentieth century Welsh and Scottish Italian immigrant coffee houses and their binding family function in continental street life, today's remaining classic cafes show Britain looking beyond itself - combining cultural bloodlines that played a part in making modern British life a little less constricting, yearning for the more open social lifestyles of Europe. The Italian caff families that ended up in London mostly hailed from the Welsh valleys of Taro and Ceno in the 1880s. As news of the boom in the Welsh coal fields of the time (particularly the Taf, Cynon, Rhymni and Rhondda valleys) filtered back to Italy from these first settlers, hundreds more Italians came over to set up cafes and ice cream parlours.
Your patient is a 37-year-old man with a history of maternal alcoholism. On the basis of the national database study using the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, wave III, by Thapa and colleagues, which one of the following statements about risk for lifetime major depressive disorder (MDD) among children of alcoholic parents is correct? Parental alcoholism was associated with nearly twice the risk for MDD (OR, 1.98; 95% CI, 1.85-2.11; P < .001) The association between parental alcoholism and MDD declined with increasing age above 50 years Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), criteria for MDD were met by 15% of those who reported parental alcoholism and by 6% of those who did not Age at first episode of MDD was not significantly different between those who reported parental alcoholism and those who did not According to the national database study using the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, wave III, by Thapa and colleagues, which one of the following statements about risk for lifetime persistent depressive disorder (PDD) among children of alcoholic parents is correct? Parental alcoholism was not associated with a significantly higher risk for PDD The association with PDD significantly declined among older adults, with those older than 73 years no longer at increased risk for PDD DSM-5 criteria for PDD were met by 12% of those who reported parental alcoholism and by 3% of those who did not Age at first episode of PDD was not significantly different between those who reported parental alcoholism and those who did not According to the national database study using the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, wave III, by Thapa and colleagues, which one of the following statements about clinical implications regarding risk for lifetime depression among children of alcoholic parents would be correct? The study proves that parental alcoholism causes depression among offspring Given the low prevalence of parental alcoholism, it is unlikely to cause a significant public health burden in the offspring Adult offspring of alcoholics are more likely to seek treatment for depression than those without this family history The findings support the need to screen adults with parental alcoholism for depression to provide them with services and support to manage this mental health burden
"We need to recall that our original rationale for concern about Syria was humanitarian in nature, based on the suffering of millions of Syrian civilians who became refugees or internally displaced within their own country. The goal of providing medical assistance, shelter, and food to these innocent people is widely shared by the majority of the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. To that end, the U.S. Government has provided over one billion dollars in humanitarian assistance for this crisis, and has been quite successful in providing aid to millions of civilians, both within Syria and to Syrian refugees in surrounding countries. In contrast to our largely unsuccessful efforts to engineer a political transition, and to strengthen a disorganized and fragmented opposition which may or may not represent our interests, our humanitarian assistance has been our most effective and successful effort. "Before we contemplate military strikes against the Syrian regime, we would do well to carefully consider what impact such strikes would have on our ongoing humanitarian programs, both those funded by the U.S. and by other countries and international organizations. These programs currently reach hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people throughout Syria, in areas controlled both by the regime and the opposition. We know from past military interventions, such as in Yugoslavia and Iraq, that airstrikes launched for humanitarian reasons often result in the unintended deaths of many civilians. The destruction of roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, which such airstrikes may entail, would significantly hamper the delivery of humanitarian aid in Syria. "The provision of this assistance in regime controlled areas requires the agreement, and in many cases the cooperation, of the Asad government. Were the Asad regime, in response to U.S. military operations, to suspend this cooperation, and prohibit the UN and Nongovernmental Organizations from operating in territory under its control, hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians would be denied access to food, shelter, and medical care. In such a scenario, we would be sacrificing programs of proven effectiveness in helping the people of Syria, in favor of ill considered actions that may or may not prevent the future use of chemical weapons, or otherwise contribute to U.S. objectives in any meaningful way."
How They Could Win And Why They Might Not Murphy How he could win He stays the course, doesn’t make a mistake and limits any mentions of his former employer, Goldman Sachs. He stays the course, doesn’t make a mistake and limits any mentions of his former employer, Goldman Sachs. Why he might not If he faces an unknown big scandal or an F.B.I. investigation or if a celebrity populist makes a late entry. If he faces an unknown big scandal or an F.B.I. investigation or if a celebrity populist makes a late entry. Johnson How he could win He cobbles together a coalition of progressives, African-Americans, cultured Montclair-ites, Murphy-wary Democrats and first-time voters. He cobbles together a coalition of progressives, African-Americans, cultured Montclair-ites, Murphy-wary Democrats and first-time voters. Why he might not A late entry into the race compared with Mr. Murphy’s, and a lack of political experience hurt his recognition. A late entry into the race compared with Mr. Murphy’s, and a lack of political experience hurt his recognition. Wisniewski How he could win Senator Bernie Sanders descends on the state and endorses him and helps mobilize the activist progressive wing of the state. Senator Bernie Sanders descends on the state and endorses him and helps mobilize the activist progressive wing of the state. Why he might not Mr. Sanders most likely won’t be coming to make an endorsement, and the activist wing isn’t as large in New Jersey as, say, in Wisconsin. Mr. Sanders most likely won’t be coming to make an endorsement, and the activist wing isn’t as large in New Jersey as, say, in Wisconsin. Lesniak How he could win There is a sudden surge in environmentalists and animal rights activists, combined with a historically low turnout. Or the other three drop out. There is a sudden surge in environmentalists and animal rights activists, combined with a historically low turnout. Or the other three drop out. Why he might not As Mr. Lesniak surely knows, the political machine in New Jersey is almighty, and it has chosen Mr. Murphy. As Mr. Lesniak surely knows, the political machine in New Jersey is almighty, and it has chosen Mr. Murphy. Guadagno How she could win She strikes a balance between maintaining poll position as the establishment Republican and still being a change from Mr. Christie. She strikes a balance between maintaining poll position as the establishment Republican and still being a change from Mr. Christie.
Table 4. Diseases and conditions where translocation of bacteria are present References Communicable diseases Fibrosis stage in HIV/HCV coinfection Balagopal et al. (2008); Montes-de-Oca et al. (2011); Page, Nelson and Kelleher (2011); Lin, Weinberg and Chung (2013); Sacchi et al. (2015) Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection French et al. (2013); Munteanu et al. (2014) HIV/AIDS infection Sandler and Douek (2012); Klatt, Funderburg and Brenchley (2013); Vázquez-Castellanos et al. (2014) Pneumonia in immunocompromised patients Sawa (2014) Diseases usually seen as non-communicable Abdominal compartment syndrome Mifkovic et al. (2013) Alcoholic liver disease Chen and Schnabl (2014); Malaguarnera et al. (2014) Allergic disease: bacterial translocation during pregnancy Abrahamsson Wu and Jenmalm (2015) Atherosclerosis Epstein, Zhou and Zhu (1999); Kozarov et al. (2006); Erridge (2008); Renko et al. (2008); Epstein et al. (2009); Nagata, de Toledo and Oho (2011); Rosenfeld and Campbell (2011); Hopkins (2013); Dinakaran et al. (2014); Rogler and Rosano (2014); Trøseid et al. (2014) Burn wounds Macintire and Bellhorn (2002); Sharma (2007); Aboelatta et al. (2013) Cirrhosis Wiest and Garcia-Tsao (2005); Jun et al. (2010); Giannelli et al. (2014); Wiest, Lawson and Geuking (2014) Chronic kidney disease Anders, Andersen and Stecher (2013); Sabatino et al. (2014) Metabolic syndrome Festi et al. (2014) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Bieghs and Trautwein (2014) Obesity Vajro, Paolella and Fasano (2013); Sanz and Moya-Pérez (2014) Pancreatitis Mifkovic et al. (2009); Guo et al. (2014); Oláh and Romics (2014) Rheumatoid arthritis Ogrendik (2009b, 2013b); Ebringer and Rashid (2014); Koziel, Mydel and Potempa (2014) Schizophrenia Severance et al. (2013); Severance, Yolken and Eaton (2014) Sepsis and Septic shock* Tsujimoto, Ono and Mochizuki (2009); Wallet et al. (2011); Deitch (2012); Leli et al. (2014) Stroke Syrjänen et al. (1988); Emsley and Tyrrell (2002); Emsley et al. (2003); Emsley and Hopkins (2008); McColl, Allan and Rothwell (2009); Emsley and Chamorro (2010); Grau, Urbanek and Palm (2010); Wang et al. (2012a); Chien et al. (2013); Dalager-Pedersen et al. (2014); Fugate et al. (2014) Surgical procedures Bariatric surgery Festi et al. (2014) Cardiac surgery Allen (2014) Multiple organ failure (MOF) Swank and Deitch (1996) Sepsis due to surgery MacFie (2004); Puleo et al. (2011) Diseases and conditions where translocation of bacteria are present References Communicable diseases Fibrosis stage in HIV/HCV coinfection Balagopal et al. (2008); Montes-de-Oca et al. (2011); Page, Nelson and Kelleher (2011); Lin, Weinberg and Chung (2013); Sacchi et al. (2015) Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection French et al. (2013); Munteanu et al.
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Nader El-Bizri is a modernist in outlook since he aims at bringing newness to the tradition rather than simply reproduce it or being in rupture with it. [112]
Evans went on to say "These tests were proposed to support a schedule for space exploration that no longer exists. Experiments on primates only take focus away from the critical need for shielding technology.” NASA's Administrator, Charles F. Bolden, responding to the growing protests against the experiment, told the Opposition to the experiment has come from famous While announcements about the experiment say up to 18 monkeys will be used in the experiment, the Those who would like to add their voice to the protest against the experiment are encouraged to sign a petition organized by Earlier this year a NASA engineer, April Evans, quit her dream job at NASA, where she had worked for eight years after she could not convince her higher-ups at the space agency to reconsider the experiment. Evans' resignation was publicly announced by Animal Defenders International (ADI) in late June. Prompting Evans' resignation are plans to irradiate a number of squirrel monkeys in an experiment. NASA had not irradiated monkeys for 30 years, said ADI, but NASA had agreed to fund an experiment which is supposed to get started this year. In her letter of resignation Evans saidThe news of the testing was released by NASA in late 2009 when the organization announced it was proceeding with a planned $1.75 million experiment it was funding reported the New Scientist . To be conducted by Harvard researchers, the proposed experiment would use up to 18 squirrel monkeys and expose them to radiation.The experiment would see monkeys irradiated with one large dose of radiation, thought to be the equivalent of what a person would receive as an astronaut travelling to Mars on a three year mission.The Galveston Daily News spoke with a NASA representative last week. Michael Braukus told the Daily that NASA was revisiting its approval, and there is a chance the agency might pull the plug on the experiment.A North American movement to try to protect the squirrel monkeys has been underway since at least early this year, largely led by PETA , which claims the monkeys will be caged for life-long observation following their irradiation.PETA has held demonstrations to protest the experiment, and it was one of those protests that caught the attention of former NASA engineer, April Evans. Evans told the Galveston Daily News she attempted to have NASA change its policy on using animals, but was not successful.
(Photo by Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call) Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., speaks at the 'Iran Democratic Transition Conference,' hosted by the Institute of World Politics in Capitol Visitor Center. The conference explored the prospects of political change in Iran. (Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call) US President Barack Obama (C) signs the Fair Sentencing Act in the Oval Office of the White House, on August 3, 2010 in Washington, DC. The law will aim to correct the disparities between crack and powder cocaine sentencing. Also in the picture (L to R); Attorney General Eric Holder, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Democratic Representative Bobby Scott of Virginia, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas. Previously, people in possession of powder cocaine could carry up to one hundred times more grams than crack offenders and receive the same sentence. (Photo by Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images) U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan (L) shakes hands with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (R), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, while Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) looks on, after she arrived for the first day of her confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill June 28, 2010 in Washington, DC. Kagan is U.S. President Barack Obama's second Supreme Court nominee since taking office. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The new co chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Jeff Sessions (D-AL) works in his office on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning May 02, 2009. Sen. Sessions speaks to Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) before visiting with US Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor. (The Washington Post via Getty Images) US President Barack Obama (3rd-R) and Vice President Joe Biden (3rd-L) meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (2nd-R) ,D-NV, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (2nd-L),R-KY, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (R) ,D-VT, and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (L),R-AL, about the upcoming Supreme Court nomination on May 13, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC. (TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images) Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (R) listens as ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (L) questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor during the second day of her confirmation hearings July 14, 2009 in Washington, DC. Sotomayor faces a full day of questioning from Senators on the committee today.
Increasingly, the world watches as more dirty laundry is aired and the GCC implodes after years of nearly all the gulf monarchies funding jihadist movements in places like Syria, Iraq, and Libya.The top Qatari official is no less than former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, who oversaw Syria operations on behalf of Qatar until 2013 (also as foreign minister), and is seen below with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in this Jan. 2010 photo (as a reminder, Qatar's 2022 World Cup Committee donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 ).In an interview with Qatari TV Wednesday, bin Jaber al-Thani revealed that his country, alongside Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States, began shipping weapons to jihadists from the very moment events "first started" (in 2011).Al-Thani even likened the covert operation to "hunting prey" - the prey being President Assad and his supporters - "prey" which he admits got away (as Assad is still in power; he used a Gulf Arabic dialect word, "al-sayda", which implies hunting animals or prey for sport). Though Thani denied credible allegations of support for ISIS, the former prime minister's words implied direct Gulf and US support for al-Qaeda in Syria (al-Nusra Front) from the earliest years of the war, and even said Qatar has "full documents" and records proving that the war was planned to effect regime change.According to Zero Hedge's translation, al-Thani said while acknowledging Gulf nations were arming jihadists in Syria with the approval and support of US and Turkey: "I don't want to go into details but we have full documents about us taking charge [in Syria]." He claimed that both Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (who reigned until his death in 2015) and the United States placed Qatar in a lead role concerning covert operations to execute the proxy war.The former prime minister's comments, while very revealing, were intended as a defense and excuse of Qatar's support for terrorism, and as a critique of the US and Saudi Arabia for essentially leaving Qatar "holding the bag" in terms of the war against Assad. Al-Thani explained that Qatar continued its financing of armed insurgents in Syria while other countries eventually wound down large-scale support, which is why he lashed out at the US and the Saudis, who initially "were with us in the same trench.
Further adjustment for sexual behaviors (model 5) explained about 37% of the odds of pregnancy involvement among male students who were unsure of their sexual orientation (e.g., change in odds between model 4 and model 5),24 and about 23% of the odds of pregnancy involvement among male students who had had male and female sexual partners.
Discussion Hitherto, the majority of studies looking at genetic variation and sociality have focused on one neuropeptide (usually oxytocin), thereby ignoring confounds due to the potentially parallel roles of other neuropeptides. In addition, researchers have invariably focused on a narrow facet of sociality. As a result, it remains unclear whether particular neuropeptides have a general role in creating or sustaining social relationships or are more closely allied to specific domains of social engagement. By simultaneously comparing many of the candidate receptor genes previously independently linked to human social behavior, and in the context of three different social domains, this study provides a more nuanced picture. Our results suggest that anxious, but not avoidant, attachment is associated with OPRM1, AR, and OXTR variation. Both measures of empathy were related to OPRM1 genotypes: there were significant associations with empathy (RMET) for three of five OPRM1 SNPs, one of which was also significantly associated with the EQ. However, only OPRM1 remained significant when controlling for other significant genes. Romantic relationship quality and sexual attitudes/behavior were significantly and strongly associated with variation in OXTR (70% of SNPs showing a significant effect on sociosexuality, SOI-R), as well as two OPRM1 SNPs and the DRD1 SNP. The OXTR SNPs rs2268490 and rs4686302 were linked to both RAS and SOI-R scores, and OXTR rs2254298 was significantly linked to SOI-R (and approached significance in relation to RAS, an index of relationship quality), though these relationships did not survive controlling for OPRM1. Vasopressin had a significant association only with RAS, confirming an earlier finding that it is predictive of high levels of promiscuity (39), but in a way suggestive of impulsivity or lack of inhibition rather than promiscuity per se (act first, and think about the consequences afterward). The two measures of engagement in a wider social network were related to variation in HTR1a (network size) and the dopamine genes DRD2 (network size: rs4648317; IOS: rs1076560) and ANKK1 (IOS), as well as one OPRM1 SNP (IOS) and two OXTR SNPs (one for IOS, one for social network size). As has previously been found in both voles and humans, we found strong associations between oxytocin receptor variation and romantic relationships. Although a smaller number of OXTR SNPs were found to be linked to measures of wider social engagement (corroborating some previous findings) (50), it may be that this relationship is mediated through the partner’s network.
(c)1990 Igor Goldkind & David Lloyd, because Robert Maxwell is dead.Any fellow artists able to tell me what kind of paper Lloyd used here? I want to try it. (PS if interested: This week's LULU.)
If I had to sum the intergalactic adventures of intrepid explorer/warrior/adventurer/carnage-enthusiast Commander [Insert Name] Shepard up in one word, it would probably be Killboner. Between going on a non-stop mad intergalactic rampage of head-butting destruction that makes the galaxy's deadliest criminals, bounty hunters, and mercenaries look like ten pounds of crap stuffed in a five-pound bag, and the fact that he's so insanely potent he can have sex without taking off his clothes, I feel that no other word appropriately describes it. The hero of the amazing Mass Effect series, Shepard is a double-stuffed, leather-bound, thermonuclear badass so hardcore he can knock Turians unconscious by punching them in their chest armor and so insanely destructive that his pet goldfish have a tendency to spontaneously die of heart attacks simply because they can't handle the stress of living in the same room as the galaxy's ultimate killing machine. Everyone this guy meets either dies painfully in a fire or gets naked and dances for him, and he's so cripplingly confident and beloved/feared throughout the galaxy that even though even though he can't walk into a bar without pistol-whipping someone and his dance moves should probably constitute a war crime, he always seems to get straight into the VIP rooms in clubs whenever he wants (presumably because the Krogan bouncers don't want to screw with someone with more balls than them). Now, before I get too much further, I should mention that there are three major reasons why I feel compelled to finally write about Commander Shepard this week. The first is that Mass Effect is easily one of my favorite games of all time. The second is that I was up until 6am pretty much every night this week pumping 30+ hours into the most recent (and final?) installment of the trilogy, a practice that, combined with my mad dash to complete the Book Three manuscript by March 31st, has left me very little time to do anything other than ponder the more mysterious aspects of Asari anatomy and have agonizing nightmares about whether it's more efficient to carry an assault rifle or just spam out Adrenaline Rushes non-stop all the time. Finally, I'm compelled to action because about a year ago that THIS happened, and as soon as I saw it I resolved to finish the series before I made it a self-fulfilling prophesy:
With the upcoming Launch Module, there are still questions on whether or not we will be dealing with group sizes that are over 4 and under 12. As already mentioned in the previous design update for the Launch Module, those group sizes created a rift in how teams are balanced and having to try to determine an arbitrary number of players we would consider over powered in the public queue.We have stated that 5-11 man teams will not be supported for the Launch Module and we are not changing that. However, it does not mean that the 5-11 man conundrum was dumped off the plate and into the trash. It meant that we do not have the resources at this moment to get the Launch Module out on timeinclude a special rule set for odd number 5-11 man groups. As the numbers indicated in the previous post showed, group launches, no matter what size, were always going to be a smaller subset of the overall game population.Our design goal then became to ensure a much more even team build for the public matches and to add the private match lobby system for the competitive crowd. Even with that distinction, we added additional functionality in the private match lobby to somewhat address the needs for smaller group launches as well. It does not directly fix the issue of 5-11 man groups, but it does let them have SOME kind of option to play the way they want to play.We have in our backburner an idea for the Group Only queue. This system will allow groups of any size match against each other. It would probably replace the current 12-man public queue. The problem areas come around the groups that are 11 in size. There will not be single player groups to fill that 12slot so the Lobby is now soft locked and players will not be able to launch. Some of you may suggest that allowing solo players the ability to drop into the group queue would be the solution. A solo player would have MUCH greater success at winning in the regular public match than up against teams.This leaves us with yet more restrictions: the Grouping interface cannot allow teams of 11 players, the Match Maker cannot create groups of 11 players (5+6, 4+7, 3+8, 9+2, 5+2+4, etc). An additional problem that arises is the exact tonnage matching that happens in the public queue.
“What we’re trying to do is cut off the head of the ultimate recipient,” he said, referring to the smaller renderers and biofuel companies who buy stolen grease. “Once we put these people out of business and there’s no place to sell it, the gypsies”—his term for street-level thieves—“will go on to a different crime.” It was the same strategy that Griffin employed twenty years ago against Henley. Indeed, GraBois described to me a classic reverse sting—or started to. “We’ve set up undercover operations, where we try to get people to deliver the stuff— Mike,” he said, interrupting himself and turning to Ferrandino, “stop me if I’m going too far.” Mike stopped him.
This is a single solo track, so there are no simultaneous notes.Note_on events with non-zero velocity are used to start playing a note. note_on events with zerovelocity are used to end a note.Finally, a new MIDI::Opus object is created, the track we just created is assigned to 'tracks' in itsconstructor, and the write_to_file method is used to generate the midi file.Now, suppose you're a music composition instructor, and you're giving your students an assignmentto compose La Folia variations. You specify that the variations must be playable with the bass lineprovided. You further specify that they must submit only the melody track.Then you can use the MIDI module to put the melody track together with your bass track, and thenwhen you listen to them, or when you read the notes, you can see that they really match up.The following code reads two MIDI files and generates a new MIDI file combining the two:We've seen a few code sample showing how it only takes a few lines of code to read, manipulateand generate MIDI files in Perl. This can be both fun and useful.
The Flash Season 3: What We Know So Far By Nick Venable Random Article Blend If it were a more perfect world, everyone involved with making The CW's The Flash a reality would share Barry Allen's signature speediness, so that episodes of the popular drama could be created on a weekly basis for entire years at a time for one of the most groundbreaking feats in television history. (I'm admittedly not sure if the math works out on all that.) Alas, we are limited to conventional hiatus-filled TV seasons, and we'll have to wait for Season 3 of The Flash to premiere so that we may once again light up our lives with orange lightning and explosions. But that wait doesn't have to be completely boring and absent of all things Flash-related. Here, we've put together everything we know about Season 3 of The Flash for a look ahead that will be updated as new information, trailers, castings and more are unveiled. And this is a show that's fast and furious with conversation-starting announcements, so check back every time you see a blur go by that you can't quite explain, but you know it definitely isn't a mosquito. When Will The Flash Season 3 Premiere? It didn't require the brain power of someone like Harrison Wells (of any dimension) to wager a near-perfect guess on when Barry Allen would be heading to the starting blocks for Season 3's kick off, since both Season 1 and Season 2 debuted on the first Tuesday in October of their respective years. And so it shall be for Season 3, as The CW announced its fall schedule with The Flash zipping back into our lives on Tuesday, October 4, at 8 p.m. ET. And we already know that the premiere will be called "Flashpoint," so that should make the entirety of October quite exciting. What Have We Seen From The Flash Season 3? Currently, the majority of The Flash Season 3 exists within the brains of creators Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns, along with any writers or producers that they may have shared the information with. But Comic-Con thankfully brought us the first look at the season, which is kicking things off by putting viewers in a completely different universe. Even more different from what we're used to, even. Check out the first trailer below.
Subway champion De Baermaeker insists his revised motion was in order, saying he re-worded it to remove any mention of supporting a subway instead of an LRT — just to support a subway. “That motion was designed to make sure it was in order,” he said. But by being allowed to support a subway, council effectively endorsed two different types of technology for the same project with only one source of funding. In her ruling, Nunziata herself foreshadowed the problem: “I recognize that some individuals may feel that proceeding with both the projects outlined in the motions today and the projects agreed upon in the master agreement does not make sense,” she said. “If and in fact Metrolinx advises this city that this is the case and selecting one or the other would require change to the master agreement, that is a decision for this council to consider at that time. Today is not that time and that question is not before council today.” The implications of her ruling and that dilemma were almost immediately felt. In a letter signed by Metrolinx president and CEO Bruce McCuaig the following month, councillors were asked to confirm their position on Scarborough transit, warning the decision had both delay and cost repercussions for the LRT project already underway. In July and October of 2013, council voted to scrap the LRT and build the subway instead. The province has maintained its $1.48-billion contribution to the project will not increase, which left Torontonians on the hook for almost $1 billion of the subway’s cost despite additional funds from Ottawa. Council put a special tax in place to raise funds for the subway. Earlier this year, the city also confirmed that sunk costs for the scrapped LRT, owed to the province, are $75 million. A staff report is expected back this fall on possible alignments for the subway, which could further increase costs — in some cases by at least a further $300 million. Tomorrow: How the Scarborough subway was justified using “problematic” analysis Jennifer Pagliaro can be reached at 416-869-4556 or [email protected]
Introduction There is increasing evidence that single bouts of physical exercise improve cognitive functions. Exercise has been shown to increase the speed of information processing [1]–[3], improve executive function; such as in the Eriksen flanker task, Trail making test, or Stroop interference [4], [5], enhanced cognitive flexibility [6], as well as working memory [7], [8]. However, there is opposing evidence concerning long-term memory. On the one hand, acute exercise has been found to have little or no impact on long-term memory. Winter and colleagues [9] tested young and healthy male recreational athletes with a within-subjects learning paradigm, where participants had to learn new vocabulary either (i) after being sedentary, (ii) after treadmill running at high intensity, or (iii) after treadmill running at moderate intensity. They found that neither high- or moderate-intensity exercise prior to learning led to enhanced vocabulary retention at the same day, after 1 week or after 8 months. Coles and Tomporowski [10] also applied a within-subjects design to investigate the influence of acute exercise on cognitive tasks including a free-recall test. This test was applied prior to and after the following interventions: (i) 40 minutes of continuous cycling at moderate intensity, (ii) 40 minutes of sitting on a cycle ergometer, and (iii) 40 minutes of watching an educational documentary. When comparing performance before and after the exercise intervention, acute exercise did not enhance recall performance. However, in comparison to the other interventions, acute exercise could offset the recall decline observed in the non-exercise conditions. On the other hand Labban and Etnier [11] provided evidence for a significant exercise-induced memory improvement as tested by a paragraph recall. The authors compared three experimental conditions in a between-subjects design: (i) 30 minutes of cycling at moderate intensity prior to exposure and 30 minutes of rest after exposure (ii) 30 minutes of rest prior and 30 minutes of cycling at moderate intensity after exposure and (iii) 30 minutes of rest prior and after exposure. The acute exercise bout prior to exposure but not after exposure resulted in significantly higher memory performance. Hence the timing of exercise relative to a memory task modulates its effect. Additionally, Salas et al. [12] provide evidence that walking prior to encoding but not prior to retrieval enhances performance in a free recall task. Hence, acute exercise seems to be particularly beneficial if temporally close to encoding.
So, here is the story:Lexipie was a priest in our guild, and a girl in real life. A large number of people didn't like her, ranging from finding her annoying, to outright contempt (personally, I had her on permamute). In her defense, she had good attendance, rarely ninjalogged when things were getting shitty, and provided lots of mats for the guild.Unbeknownst to many, she and another Req priest, Angie, were e-dating. Last week they broke up, and started fighting, apparently along the lines of "this guild isn't big enough for the two of us". Lexi talked to Feneshem (a guild leader, unfortunately) about this, and Feneshem said that he would defend Lexi, although Angie is the better priest out of the two of them.At the same time, our guild is trying to kill C'Thun. One of the interesting things about this fight is that for the first stage, gear can be almost irrelevant, it is all about skill. But every attempt we are getting stupid, avoidable deaths from people who just don't pay attention. It was the decision of the GLs that we cancel all other raiding for awhile until we killed C'thun. This didn't sit well with a lot of people- it means we are not gearing up our new people, or giving them needed practice on high end encounters. Those who were proponents of going to BWL were frequently labelled greedy lootwhores who just wanted more epics instead of the honor of getting a server first. One of the people who supported going to BWL was Angie, while Feneshem opposed it.So, Angie quit the guild because he felt that was what the GLs wanted (which might have been true of Fen, but that was not shared among the others). He took Cera (another priest) with him. The next day a lot of people were upset when they discovered we had lost two good, geared, active priests because Fen had sided with Lexi. Hoei and Thormx (both druids) quit, Hoei being the person who hates Lexi most. Now, Requiem was already really short on healers - the majority of our priests had been in the guild less than a month and of dubious quality. Shamans were better, but had sporadic attendance.
Carroll Rex Byrd, cross-trained as both a pilot and a radioman, was a crewman aboard a Grumman JRF-5 Goose on September 21, 1943. The small twin-engine amphibian had just been transferred from the Navy to the Coast Guard and was en route from NAS New York, at Floyd Bennett Field, to CGAS San Francisco. Byrd, 26, never made it to California. A farmer picking tomatoes near Kratzerville, Pa., heard the Goose overhead and looked up just in time to see what he thought was a mailbag falling from the airplane. The “mailbag” was Byrd, who hit the ploughed ground and bounced 8 feet back into the air. The airplane, to the farmer’s amazement, simply continued droning westward. Had Byrd been a suicide jumper? Had he been pushed? Fallen unnoticed through an unlocked door or hatch? The story that eventually came to light was that Byrd had told the pilot he was going to fix an inoperative radio antenna and had pulled himself out of the cabin door onto the airplane’s roof to work on the aerial in flight. When he hadn’t returned in 20 minutes, a crewman poked his head out and saw that Byrd was gone. That remains the official version, yet it seems strange that the Goose pilot didn’t at least assign a crewman to more closely monitor Byrd’s crazy mission and immediately see that he’d fallen, and that the crew apparently reported the loss rather casually. It took days for a Navy accident investigation team to identify Byrd and figure out where he’d come from while the Goose continued to California. The Kratzerville farmer later found a yard-long piece of metal in his tomato field that may or may not have been part of an aircraft antenna. Was Byrd gripping it when it broke off? We’ll never know, and maybe we should chalk this one up to “There’s a war on, we have more important things to worry about.”
A limitation of the study is its limited sample size. Though it is large by autism research standards, the number of participants is still less than half what Green would like it to be. Another caveat is the early age at which the intervention took place. Green and his colleagues won’t know for sure whether their approach worked until the children are three, the age at which the disorder can be reliably diagnosed. The Challenges Ahead Establishing a firm autism diagnosis in babyhood is never going to happen, says Michael Siller of Hunter College, because early child development is too unpredictable. “You’re not going to get any autism diagnoses below 18 months. There’s just no way.” As such, all one can do is screen for babies at risk with the knowledge that many of those babies will go on to develop normally and won’t need any intervention. Even between 18 and 24 months, when a firm diagnosis is possible, Siller says, parents are overwhelmed and often unready to even think about early intervention. It also poses an ethical quandary. In Green’s study, there were hints that intervention may have impeded language development, though the data were not statistically significant. Yet it does highlight the possibility that early intervention could affect a child who would have gone on to develop normally. In some ways, focusing on the younger siblings of children already diagnosed with autism circumvents some of these issues. In addition to being higher risk, such families “know much more and may be more likely to accept the news,” Siller says. “That’s a very different group from an average family who has their first child with autism.” But it isn’t clear that the inherited form of autism seen in infant siblings is representative of autism in the general population, which is likely several disorders under a single name. Moreover, infant siblings represent only a small fraction of kids who go on to develop autism. Identifying only those children ignores the vast majority of babies without an older sibling on the spectrum who will go on to develop the disorder.
Methods Observer Team. The observer team consisted of the first author and 7 different assistants: E. van de Waal (September 2005 to January 2006), S. Lemoine (February to May 2006), V. Dufour and S. Aubel (May and June 2006), E. Hellard and A. Brotz (June to August 2006), and E. Hellard and D. Carter (September 2006). Research Area and Subjects. We used 2 free-ranging vervet monkey groups, Chlorocebus aethiops, in the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Loskop is located at 180 km northeast of Pretoria, covers ≈25,000 ha, is on average 1,000 m above sea level, and consists mainly of “bushveld” (tall grasses and thick acacia bushes). Winters (May to October) are dry and cold and summers (November to April) are hot and humid. Both study groups were habituated to human observers before the start of the experiments. Their home ranges of ≈3 km2 each were ≈3 km apart. The Donga group had a period of fast turnover of adult males before the study period but the total group size never exceeded 15. We observed 3–5 adult males, 7 adult females, 1–2 subadult individuals, and 1–2 infants at a time. The Picnic group had 2–3 adult males, 4 adult females, 1 juvenile, and 2–6 infants at a time. The dominance hierarchies remained stable throughout the study period. For the experiment, we selected the 2 lowest-ranking females that would accept manipulating the containers as food providers. Experiment Protocol. The experiment had 3 phases: a period without a provider (phase 0, September 2005 to April 2006, 221 observational sessions for the Donga group and 191 for the Picnic group, of which we randomly chose 55 sessions per group for analysis), a period with 1 provider per group (phase 1, May to June 2006, 16 trials per group, always the same female as a provider), and a period with 2 providers per group (phase 2, August to September 2006, 22 tests per group, the same first provider plus a second one). Both experimental phases were preceded by a period of training in which the providers learned to touch the lid of their specific food container. The groups were followed every second day during phase 0 and 2 days in a row every 4 days during the 2 testing phases 1 and 2.
Odhiambo and Pocic were the worst here Good pocket Holding call on Odhiambo and sack (10: Odhiambo x2) allowed Not a great rep from Pocic but it was a screen so didn’t really matter RB chip probably didn’t help Pocic much here. Hard to fault the RG (Glowinski) much for this since he didn’t expect the QB to be where he was. Pressure (11: Glowinski) Great protection Good protection Holding (12: Pocic) on Pocic Should have been holding on Odhiambo but Aboushi got beat too. Pressure (13: Aboushi) RB chip help for Pocic. Aboushi gets beat again. Pressure (14: Aboushi x2)
29 - * at Arkansas StateNov. 05 - * South AlabamaNov. 12 - * at Georgia StateNov. 19 - * at Appalachian StateDec. 03 - * UL LafayetteSept. 03 - at UTEPSept. 10 - New MexicoSept. 17 - at KentuckySept. 24 - * at TroyOct. 01 - * UL LafayetteOct. 15 - * at IdahoOct. 22 - * Georgia SouthernOct. 29 - at Texas A&MNov. 12 - * at Arkansas StateNov. 19 - * Texas StateNov. 26 - * Appalachian StateDec. 03 - * at South AlabamaSept. 03 - at Mississippi StateSept. 10 - * Georgia SouthernSept. 17 - * at UL LafayetteSept. 24 - Nicholls StateOct. 01 - San Diego StateOct. 15 - * at Arkansas StateOct. 20 - * Troy (ESPNU)Oct. 29 - * Georgia StateNov. 05 - * at UL MonroeNov. 19 - at LSUNov. 26 - * at IdahoDec. 03 - * New Mexico StateSept. 03 - at OhioSept. 17 - at ArkansasSept. 24 - HoustonOct. 01 - Incarnate WordOct. 08 - * at Georgia StateOct. 15 - * at UL MonroeOct. 22 - * UL LafayetteNov. 05 - * at Appalachian StateNov. 12 - * IdahoNov. 19 - * at New Mexico StateNov. 26 - * TroyDec. 03 - * Arkansas StateSept. 03 - Austin PeaySept. 10 - at ClemsonSept. 17 - at Southern MissSept. 24 - * New Mexico StateOct. 01 - * at IdahoOct. 15 - * Georgia StateOct. 20 - * at South Alabama (ESPNU)Nov. 05 - UMassNov. 12 - * Appalachian StateNov. 17 - * Arkansas State (ESPNU)Nov. 26 - * at Texas StateDec. 03 - * at Georgia Southern* denotes Sun Belt Conference gameSchedule is subject to change^ Exact date for Arkansas State at Georgia State will be determined following the release of the NFL schedule
On September 24, the House passed the $612.5 billion fiscal year 2009 defense budget bill with no debate by a vote of 392 to 39. The massive measure had already passed the Senate on Sept. 17 by a vote of 88 to eight. This unprecedented appropriations legislation breezed through Congress despite a bevy of earmarks because of pressure put on conservative Republicans and far-left Democrats to be "patriotic" and to "support the troops."" (1) This had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TROOPS, and everything to do with the Defense Industry and with the secret no-bid contractors that are already rolling in illicit billions! This, while the government is supposedly fixated on trying to solve the meltdown problem, given that the nation is so broke! Crime upon crime, criminality upon deceit and a generous portion of public lies that has been poured over all our days, yet seemingly all we chose to do about it-is to beg for even more of the same- no alterations in the composition of the government is apparently required! Had we used IMPEACHMENT when it mattered, this could not have happened: but then Pelosi FORBADE the public from using our constitutional right to throw out our thoroughly corrupt leaders. Do you still think that this is over yet? There is no "safe or distant way" to confront this nightmare. You have to get involved if you want to see a change, because no politician will ever do this for you! It's your money, or rather it was your money: but isn't there still more that remains for you to lose! It's your call America: if you begin to talk among yourselves maybe you can find some ways to take this on and actually WIN for a change! In any case that would beat just waiting for the other shoes to drop because this won't be over till all the accounts have been emptied! [email protected] 1) Was entire MELTDOWN A BOGUS THEATRICALE! http://www.masterjules.net/bogus.htm
Hi guys, how's your weekend going? I hate how fast mine has flown by. Too many errands to run and Father's Day shopping all weekend long, my head is still spinning. I was supposed to have this up yesterday but with so much going on I didn't have the time. I'm starting to think I may need to pull an all nighter to catch up on all my things, haha. If you have never stayed up 24 hours, I definitely recommend you don't do it. Sure it may seem like a good idea but trust me your body will hate you for it.Today I have the 2nd half of Heather's Hues Hello Kitty and Friends Collection . In this post, you'll be see the remaining five polishes that are made of cuteness supreme.Please note, all polishes have been pre-conditioned and left upside down a full 24-hours before use. Warm (Cocoa) Kitty is a metallic brown shimmer polish filled with micro flakes and gold, blue, and silver glitters.Starting off the second half of this collection is this beautiful and unique brown polish. I don't know why it's so uncommon to find brown polishes, but this one proves why we need them. It is absolutely jam-packed with glitters, making it almost appear like a texture polish. The one thing I do have to say though, it's not really summer friendly. It's definitely more appropriate for the fall. Swatched over a clear base, used two thin coats, and sealed with a fast drying topcoat. The formula is pretty good, I did not have any problems with the glitters. You'll find this to be sheer in a single coat but only needs two coats for full opacity. Make sure to add a topcoat to smooth down all the glitters and brush strokes.Overall I enjoyed this half of the collection just as much as the first half if not more. There is a lot of variation in finishes and colors, which gives it a little something for everyone to enjoy. The only negatives I have are the glitter fishing for some of the more heavier glitter based polishes and the bit of staining I experienced. As I mentioned in the other half, these problems were addressed with Heather who has taken measures to correcting them. The batch used for these swatches was a very early testing one and not the one used for release.
Discussion Men in their mid- to late 30s made up the majority of cases and a residential address was the most common place of death. Heroin was implicated in 67% of the cases and the majority were polydrug intoxications. More than half of the cases had contact with health- and/or social services often in close proximity of the death. Women were on average four years older, more often Oslo residents and fewer died from heroin intoxication than men. Non-Oslo residents were younger and more likely to have been found outdoors with heroin as the main intoxicant. Other identified subpopulations were those who died after prison release and those discharged from drug treatment. The majority died from a heroin overdose and most overdoses were polydrug intoxications. In a study among IDUs in Oslo, almost all reported combined use with benzodiazepines, whereas less than half reported combined use with alcohol [22]. The high proportion of heroin combined with benzodiazepines and the relatively few cases where ethanol was implicated are therefore likely to mirror the patterns of drug use among drug users in Norway. The majority of heroin users in Norway inject [23], and Norway has a higher proportion of IDUs compared to many other European countries [15]. In addition, Norway has a high proportion of polydrug users [22]. The high prevalence of injecting heroin use and polydrug use, especially benzodiazepine use, are likely to be factors which in combination contribute to the high annual number of drug-induced deaths. The finding that a majority of cases (82%) had been in contact with health and social services is in accordance with a similar study from Glasgow in 1999 [24]. Jones and colleagues found that as many as 90% of their cases had visited a general practitioner in the year before they died, and 60% more than six times [24]. These findings suggest that many of those who die are available for preventive measures through their contact with health and social services. However, these findings show that contact with such services not necessarily prevent overdoses, instead specific preventive measures need to be introduced. These services are therefore important for establishing contact and introducing preventive measures. The proportion of women was similar to the proportion of female injecting drug users in Norway [25], but they differed significantly from men in regards to age, capital residency and toxicology.
Hey everyone!Great news! As promised, it's time for another biiiig update!The update is called "The Latinum Shipyards" and it's all about expanding the game's lineup of ships and weapons, as well as adding a bunch of cool new features and stuff to do.The first thing you'll notice is the overhauled new look of the shipyard screen, to make buying a new ship feel more sci-fi-authentic. The next thing you'll notice is that there are now lots and lots of new ships to choose between, ranging from small, bumbling space trucks, over lighting quick space-bikes, up to high-end Interceptors with elegant solar-sails. Because of all these new ships, we've now also added multiple pages to the shipyard screen, so you'll always have enough space cruisers and traders to choose between.The second area that we focused on with this update is weapons and combat. You can now equip a range of new weapons, such as the slow but deadly Plasma Bomb, the close-combat Flak guns, or the beam-of-death Plasma Cutter (we really love that one :D). You can also add weapon mods to your front-mounted gun now, such as an alternating fire mod, or a focus-fire sharpshooter mod, for all you space-snipers out there. Enemies also have some new behaviour, with skilled enemy pilots being able to execute mini-split-jumps, adding a lot more action to dogfights and battles.We've also been listening to the community about achievements, and have added a bunch of new ones to give new and long-time players some new goals to aim for. There are new ones for amassing huge amounts of cash, as well as for simple stuff like rescuing crew in space. We also didn't forget to add some for squashing those terribly annoying, but oh-so-crunchy, critters on the station screens! :)Besides those focus areas there is lots more stuff, such as new player outfits (which you can unlock through the story), a new Nebula detector upgrade, further improvements for modding and much, much more. As always here's the full changelist for your perusal:Features / GameplayFixes / ImprovementsWith this update, we're again pushing really hard to spread word about the game. Every Steam review, Retweet, post or mention of the game helps us out immensely, and we're very thankful for it!! We're currently trying to reach, which would push us into thecategory.
2:39:15 PM: Kyle Ballard, age 13, is seen spinning SCP-2947-1, before inadvertently letting go as another unidentified student collides with their shoulder. It hovers in midair, unnoticed by Ballard, as he proceeds to berate the student who collided with him. 2:39:27 PM: In the cafeteria, another student, Michelle Fletcher, puts down their SCP-2947 instance after spinning it counter-clockwise. It proceeds to hover in midair, before an instance of SCP-2947-A ("Congo Cerebus") resembling a three-headed gorilla appears underneath, and grows to reach the ceiling (approx. 10m high). The table it was laid on buckles under its weight, and Fletcher and several other students run out of the room. 2:39:31 PM: Ballard's SCP-2947 instance flies around him in a figure-8 pattern, before it manifests its own SCP-2947-A instance ("Burning Smilodon"), a Smilodon fatalis with a mane made of blue fire. It roars, before proceeding to run in the direction of the cafeteria. 2:40:02 PM: Dr. Craig Ward, Ballard's homeroom teacher and original confiscator of SCP-2947, idly spins a two-pronged fidget spinner, before abruptly sneezing and having it fall out of their hand. It hovers in mid-air, and an SCP-2947-A instance ("Queen Aranae") in the form of a twenty-limbed spider-like creature appears, running from the room with the SCP-2947 instance in tow. 2:41:00 PM: Queen Aranae runs down the chemistry hallway at high speeds; the air pressure wave created by its running shatters the fume hoods within labs 1 and 3, and leaves a large crack in the hood of lab 2. A fourth SCP-2947-A instance ("Centurion Remus") in the form of a Roman centurion with the head of a large wolf appears and engages in combat with Queen Aranae, resulting in damage to several rows of lockers. The origin of Centurion Remus is unclear; SCP-2947-4, when recovered, was found to have been soaked in water that was identified to be from the toilet of the men's restroom. 2:41:09 PM: Several tables in the cafeteria are buckled and broken by the arrival of Burning Smilodon, which grows to match the size of Congo Cerebus. Burning Smilodon pounces on Congo Cerebus, causing both SCP-2947 instances to come into view of the cameras. They proceed to collide repeatedly, shooting sparks from the collisions. 2:43:05 PM: After several minutes of battling, the sparking from the two battling SCP-2947 instances ignites leftover cooking oil in one of the warming trays for cafeteria food, causing a fire to break out.
The survival of Israel and the fact that they are back in their homeland after 1900 years should at least cause us to consider the claims of the Bible.
I think that Bernie Sanders is not a strong candidate and h= is policies are not sound or realistic, but many young people hear "free college" and automatically give him their support. <u></u><u></u></p><= p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">I thin= k there are certain issues that the Clinton campaign should address more to get a better response from younger voters. First of = all, many young people think that Clinton is wishy- washy on her stance on racia= l injustice in America. They believe that Clinton has not engaged with the movement =E2=80=98Black Lives Matter=E2=80=99 in the way that she should. S= econd, the youth is concerned that Hillary Clinton accepts money from huge donors, like Super P= ACs, while the biggest Sanders donors are unions. Why don=E2=80=99t more unions = support Clinton? Thirdly, they want to hear more about Hillary Clinton=E2=80=99s ed= ucation plan. I am familiar with the plan because I have researched it, but most yo= ung people don=E2=80=99t have the initiative to actually search fore it. <u></u= ><u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoN= ormal">My last concern is about the Clinton Campaign=E2=80=99s social media team. I think that it needs to be reformed. I understand that the media tea= m is trying to appeal to the youth, in funny ways like =E2=80=98memes=E2=80=99 b= ut that is simply not the way to go. I cringe almost every time I visit the Hillary Clinton Twitter account or view the Clinton Campaign Snapchat story. Young people w= ant to be spoken to like adults, and in some ways it seems like Clinton is just peddling to the masses. It seems to me like Hillary Clintons media team is almost frightened to address the real, pressing issues. The Youth don=E2=80= =99t want to know =E2=80=98Why Hillary Clinton Is Just Like Your Abuela=E2=80=99, they w= ant to know how she is going to serve this country for the better. Not to mention =E2=80=98Why = Hillary Clinton Is Just Like Your Abuela=E2=80=99 was a little disrespectful and cu= ltural appropriating. It is a misguided way to connect with Latino voters. <u></u>= <u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNo= rmal">I want nothing more than to see Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office. I have looked up to her for years now and I am determined to get he= r elected. But there are huge weak spots in her campaign strategy.
The scientists, who belong to an international research partnership known as the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network (DIAN) write about the timeline, which chronicles the human brain's slow decline into full-blown Alzheimer's, in a paper published online this week in theFirst author Randall Bateman is the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, in the US. He told the press:Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's is caused by three rare inherited gene mutations. Symptoms in this inherited form of Alzheimer's often start affecting people in their 30s and 40s, at a much younger age than the more common form of Alzheimer's, which typically strikes after the age of 65.A person born with one of the mutations not only develops Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer' disease, but has a 50-50 chance of passing the gene to each of his or her children.This means that inUsing, the team, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, evaluated a range of pre-symptomatic biomarkers in 128 people from families genetically predisposed to develop Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's disease who are taking part in the DIAN project.Thus each of the 128 people in the study has a 50% chance of inheriting one of the three mutations that causes this early-onset form of the disease.The researchers usedto estimate the likely age of onset of symptoms in the (offspring) study participants. Using these timespans, and the results of the tests they carried out, they compiled a list, in time order, of the detectable changes that lead up to the memory loss and cognitive decline characteristic of Alzheimer's.These changes include:Bateman said:"As we learn more about the origins of Alzheimer's to plan preventive treatments, this Alzheimer's timeline will be invaluable for successful drug trials. "For example, as the new the timeline shows plaques can be seen on brain scans 15 years before onset of memory problems, DIAN researchers now plan to give treatments that remove or block plaque formation at this early stage, and monitor participants closely to see not only if the plaques go away or diminish, but also to check whether the treatment improves other markers of the disease.The DIAN partnership was set up by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (US) to bring together researchers who study genetic forms of Alzheimer's.
This would mean allowing significantly negative retail deposit rates or perhaps even wealth taxes. With this stick would also come a carrot – one example being that while deposit rates penalize savings (the whole point), banks might also pay borrowers to buy houses via negative mortgage rates.
We ended last week describing how mixing home, work, culture and recreation, rather than separating them by regulation is the key to creating 21st century cities. Inherited environments almost always have part of that urban mix already. This week we will deal with some of the most important ways of preserving the valuable qualities of older cities. Historic preservation is the practice that conserves, redevelops and interprets these environments. We will discuss topics such as landmarks and historic districts, adaptive re-use of old buildings, and preserving the industrial heritage. The first session deals with landmarks and historic districts: recognizing and listing historic buildings, and the public policy and design tools that help city designers preserve and regulate historic environments. But historic preservation is not just about congealing a place in time. While a curatorial approach to preservation restores buildings to specific periods, the urbanistic tradition of preservation seeks to preserve the whole place and life, while promoting economic vitality. As we reduce, reuse and recycle waste, so we can give buildings a new life when their use expires. This is what we call adaptive reuse: to give a disused building a new purpose in order to help prolong its lifespan, instead of outright demolition. Adaptive reuse helps preserve a building’s heritage features and ensures them for future generations. How can we adapt historic structures such as churches, palaces, and houses to the needs of the present, without destroying their authenticity? Old industrial buildings are often unique spaces. Built to withstand heavy industrial processes, and to accommodate large equipment, they often have thick walls, high ceilings, and exposed structures that give this rugged industrial look that is now all too fashionable. But as cities move from an industrial to post-industrial economy, what to do with our historic factories, warehouses and power stations? We will look at some of the most important examples of preserving and adapting our industrial heritage. Finally, toward the end of this week we will select some of your second assignments and review them.
Primates on the other hand, gain neurons in the cerebral cortex at an even steeper rate as a function of neurons added to the rest of brain, with exponent 1.852 ± 0.135 (p < 0.0001, r2 = 0.984; Figure , pink). The discrepancy between primates, artiodactyls, and the ensemble of other clades suggests that the former two clades diverged from the common ancestor with modifications that generated larger numbers of neurons in the cerebral cortex than in the rest of brain, that is, with an actual relative expansion of the neuronal population in the cerebral cortex over the brainstem, diencephalon and striatum. Open in a separate window The cerebellum also gains neurons relative to the rest of brain at different rates between primates and artiodactyls compared to other mammals. The cerebellum gains neurons as a function of numbers of neurons in the rest of brain that is not significantly different from linearity (exponent 1.154 ± 0.112, p < 0.0001, r2 = 0.849) across afrotherians, glires, scandentia, and eulipotyphlans (Figure , black). Artiodactyls, in contrast, gain neurons in the cerebellum faster than they gain neurons in the rest of brain, as a power function of exponent 1.632 ± 0.322 (p < 0.0001, r2 = 0.895; Figure , pink), and so do primates, with an exponent of 1.315 ± 0.112 (p < 0.0001, r2 = 0.939; Figure , red). The exponents for artiodactyls and primates are not significantly different, and numbers of neurons in the cerebellum are similar in the two clades for similar numbers of neurons in the rest of brain, although all fall well outside of the 95% confidence interval that applies to the ensemble of afrotherians, glires, eulipotyphlans, and scandentia (Figure , black). The discrepancy between primates, artiodactyls, and the ensemble of other clades suggests that, as for the cerebral cortex, the former two clades diverged from the common ancestor with modifications that generated larger numbers of neurons in the cerebellum than in the rest of brain, that is, with an actual relative expansion of the neuronal population in the cerebellum over the rest of brain (Figure , left). The olfactory bulb gains neurons relative to the rest of brain at a rate that appears much faster in eulipotyphlans (exponent, 1.770 ± 0.578, p = 0.0548) than in the ensemble of afrotherians, glires, and scandentia (exponent, 0.714 ± 0.181, p = 0.0023), although the exponent does not reach significance in eulipotyphlans (Figure ).
Gargoyle names Before they were set loose from the castle of Avalon, the gargoyles did not know each other by names. Only after being in the world for some time did they come to realize that people addressed each other by specific terms of recognition. To solidify their new grasp on evolution, many gargoyles resorted to naming themselves after structures, people or places that already had a name. Few also took it upon themselves to create names that suited their appearance or size. Many times, it was something they admired or a name they liked that they tended to take for themselves. Male Names: Baldur, Downshadow, Luskan, Berdusk, Mintar, Reth, Griffon, Ogre, Goliath. Female Names: Melody, Siren, Fetlock, Spire, Pharra, Eliza, Succubus, Angela, Demona. Gargoyle Traits Your newfound gargoyle character possesses a number of traits that reflect its previous existence as an elemental. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2. Age. Gargoyles reach maturity at around age 20 and can live up to 200 years. Alignment. Though previously of an evil nature, the magics of Avalon have all but washed away what they once were. Now, as they travel the world seeking a new life, they can choose their own path. Many tend to be lawful since they still adhered to a code of honor and protection among the things they did protect previously. Size. Gargoyles can range in size anywhere from 3 feet to 8 feet tall and weigh anywhere in-between. Refer to the size table for more information. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Claws. You are never unarmed. You are proficient with your claws, which are melee weapons that deal 1d6 slashing damage. Your claws also enable you to climb faster than normal; climbing no longer costs you extra movement. Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Tail. You possess a prehensile tail that is capable of lifting and carrying objects that do not weigh more than 5 pounds. It can also be used to make a basic unarmed attack. Tough Skin. While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Strength modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit. Wings.
[Fox also gave permission to use all three quotes.] The earliest post was made in August of 2006 and the email was received in October of 2009, so apparently the cure stuck!
The problem with high-glycemic carbohydrates is that they give an inordinate insulin response. Insulin is an essential hormone for life, yet acute, chronic elevation of insulin leads to hyperinsulinism, which has been positively linked to obesity, elevated cholesterol levels, blood pressure, mood dysfunction and a Pandora's box of disease and disability. Research "hyperinsulinism" on the Internet. There's a gold mine of information pertinent to your health available there. The CrossFit prescription is a low-glycemic diet and consequently severely blunts the insulin response. back to top Caloric Restriction and Longevity Current research strongly supports the link between caloric restriction and an increased life expectancy. The incidence of cancers and heart disease sharply decline with a diet that is carefully limited in controlling caloric intake. “Caloric Restriction” is another fruitful area for Internet search. The CrossFit prescription is consistent with this research. The CrossFit prescription allows a reduced caloric intake and yet still provides ample nutrition for rigorous activity. back to top
That's a really great question because it's really about our brains and consciousness. I don't think anyone knows the answer for sure, but here's the explanation I think is most likely. Your brain is part of your body, but let's imagine your brain and the rest of your body as two different things for a minute. Your body sends signals to your brain about what is happening. Your brain sends signals to your body about what to do. Think about some of those underwater rovers that people use to explore places they can't go like the Titanic. The person on the research ship gets pictures from the cameras on the rover, then sends signals telling the rover where to go. Let's say they control the rover with a cool virtual reality system where they have a helmet showing the images from the rover and they wear special gloves that turn their hand movements into movements of the rover. Now let's say the person wants to stop for lunch. The person has to take off the helmet and gloves. Otherwise they couldn't see their sandwich and when they reached for it, the rover might smash its arm into the side of the Titanic. When you go to sleep, especially when you dream, your brain is "taking a break" and has to turn off most of the incoming signals. It also has to "take off the gloves" so that the body doesn't respond to what the sleeping brain tells it to do. So when you're dreaming, the images you see come from your brain instead of your eyes. When you think about running in your dreams, your body stays on the bed. The controller (your brain) has cut off the connection to the rover (your body). (It doesn't cut off completely. A loud noise, a cat jumping on your bed, or a sudden light can all get through and wake you up. You also twitch and turn during your dreams.) Normally this happens quickly, but during the change from connected to disconnected, we sometimes feel like we're falling and our muscles twitch. Anyway, that's my story. Do you think time passes in our dreams at the same rate that it passes in the real world? How would you test that? Answer 2:
And thus we have at last got thro’ all, that in our author looks like an argument for that absolute unlimited sovereignty described, sect. 8. which he supposes in Adam; so that mankind ever since have been all born slaves, without any title to freedom. But if creation, which gave nothing but a being, made not Adam prince of his posterity: if Adam, Gen. i. 28. was not constituted lord of mankind, nor had a private dominion given him exclusive of his children, but only a right and power over the earth, and inferiour creatures in common with the children of men; if also Gen. iii. 16. God gave not any political power to Adam over his wife and children, but only subjected Eve to Adam, as a punishment, or foretold the subjection of the weaker sex, in the ordering the common concernments of their families, but gave not thereby to Adam, as to the husband, power of life and death, which necessarily belongs to the magistrate: if fathers by begetting their children acquire no such power ove them; and if the command, Honour thy father and mother, give it not, but only enjoins a duty owing to parents equally, whether subjects or not, and to the mother as well as the father; if all this be so, as I Edition: current; Page: [78] think, by what has been said, is very evident; then man has a natural freedom, notwithstanding all our author confidently says to the contrary; since all that share in the same common nature, faculties and powers, are in nature equal, and ought to partake in the same common rights and privileges, till the manifest appointment of God, who is Lord over all, blessed for ever, can be produced to shew any particular person’s supremacy; or a man’s own consent subjects him to a superiour. This is so plain, that our author confesses, that Sir John Hayward, Blackwood and Barclay, the great vindicators of the right of kings, could not deny it, but admit with one consent the natural liberty and equality of mankind, for a truth unquestionable.
*** Weiser warned Sarabeth Spitzer, a third-year medical student at Stanford University, that nonfatal gunshot injuries might be a bad research topic. Weiser told her that a combination of poor foresight, neglect, and a deliberate choking-off of funds had left the field with virtually no data and no analysis to work from. Plus, as with all gun-related matters, it’s a minefield of controversy, which can severely limit access to grants and other funding. But Spitzer, a child of post-Columbine America, said the topic seemed a natural fit to her: For one thing, she intends to become a trauma surgeon. So she lobbied the university to help. Lucky for her, Stanford was willing to pay for a detailed national database of hospital care and payment data, which is why researchers now know, from a paper Weiser and Spitzer published in April, a great deal more about the costs of hospitalization for gunshot victims. “We took a straightforward question—of cost data and insurance—that remarkably didn’t have an answer,” Weiser said. Their study found over $700 million dollars a year just in post-emergency-room hospitalization costs—borne primarily by Medicaid and other government sources, or by victims themselves. Just 21 percent of the gunshot patients had private insurance. These costs can be filed under what Aborn calls the “closet consequences of nonfatal shootings.” They are not insubstantial. Another paper prepared by Kalesan and her team, which is still under peer review, finds that the hospital readmission rate for gun injuries is higher than for automobile accidents. Other research reveals that victims of nonfatal shootings are quietly carrying enormous physical and psychological burdens. Kalesan has been interviewing gunshot survivors for a study on the long-term effects on both the wounded and their families. One of her subjects, a woman who was shot in the arm during a workplace incident 15 years ago, recently told Kalesan, “I’m still waiting for my old self to come back.” Another man was shot in the head while standing in the street; he has a traumatic brain injury and can speak only three words. His mother cares for him full-time; they live on $650 a month in government benefits.
Are you so ignorant and/or disinterested that you could not see through their propaganda, to the fact that your sustenance was assured either way? What have you gained now that the public housing areas you live in, and the public facilities you depend on are part of the battlefield? Though I am a soldier, I can afford you little protection, for you have placed yourselves on the battlefield. I know that all of these places and all of these people are part of the battlefield, not just because I am a soldier, and have experienced a few battlefields in my day; but also because our President declares that even our own homes are on the battlefield, whether we wish them to be or not, and I have no choice but to believe him; it’s not just that the NDAA passed – a battlefield is not defined by law; it’s the profound build-up of martial power and resources across my once-great nation which tells me a battle is being prepared here. Over two billion rounds of ammunition procured by DHS and its sub-agencies in the past 18 months, plus machine guns in the tens of thousands, armored vehicles, combat aircraft, drones, and other implements of war being staged throughout our nation, our home – how do you explain that except as the preparation for battle? I will fight not because I desire it, but because I cannot justify any other course of action – when the enemy attacks, you must fight – you must kill or you will die. I smell you, my enemy; I can feel the ambush you have laid for me and my true countrymen, all about like a sticky spider’s web, yet we will not back down; and though you will kill some of us, you will not get us all before we have finished with you. I stand here, ready, on the eve of battle, and I ask God why I have been brough [sic] to the threshold of this battlefield, about to be thrust in, when I though my soldiering days were through; and I am reminded that there is by His decree, a Time to Kill, as well as a Time to Die… who am I to question why? [2]
gluing up my face. This is the poem of a seven year-old pagan. The "God" of heaven that my parents and the church were asking me to accept, obscured by the mud, leaves, rot, and bullfrog spoors of this world. How amazing this all is, I thought, entering the muddy creek. And how deeply did I love these who stood around solemnly waiting to see my "saved" head reappear above the murky water. This experience of communal love and humble hope for my well-being was my reality of life on this planet. I was unable to send my mind off into space in search of a God who never noticed mud, leaves, or bullfrogs. Or the innocent hearts of my tender, loving people. IT IS FATAL TO LOVE A GOD WHO DOES NOT LOVE YOU. A God specifically created to comfort, lead, advise, strengthen, and enlarge the tribal borders of someone else. We have been beggars at the table of a religion that sanctioned our destruction. Our own religions denied, forgotten; our own ancestral connections to All Creation something of which we are ashamed. I maintain that we are empty, lonely, without our pagan-heathen ancestors; that we must lively them up within ourselves, and begin to see them as whole and necessary and correct: their earth-Centered, Female-Reverencing religions, like their architecture, agriculture and music, suited perfectly to the lives they led. And lead, those who are left, today. I further maintain that the Jesus most of us have been brought up to adore must be expanded to include the "wizard" andthe dancer, and that when this is done, itbecomes clear that He coexists quite easily with pagan indigenous peoples. Indeed, it was because the teachings ofJesus were already familiar to many ofour ancestors, especially in the Newworld they already practiced the loveand sharing that he preached that theChristian Church was able to make asmany genuine converts to the Christianreligion as it did. All people deserve to worship a God who also worships them. A God that made them, and likes them. That is why Nature, Mother Earth, is such a good choice. Never will Nature require that you cut off some part of your body to please her; Never will Mother Earth find anything wrong with your natural way. She made it, and she made it however it is so that you will be more comfortable as part of Her Creation, rather than less.
Happy the man who has while he lives Wisdom and praise as well, For evil counsel a man full oft Has from another's heart. 10. A better burden may no man bear For wanderings wide than wisdom; It is better than wealth on unknown ways, And in grief a refuge it gives. 11. A better burden may no man bear For wanderings wide than wisdom ; Worse food for the journey he brings not afield Than an over-drinking of ale. 12. Less good there lies than most believe In ale for mortal men; For the more he drinks the less does man Of his mind the mastery hold. 12. Some editors have combined this stanza in various ways with the last two lines of stanza 11, as in the manuscript the first two lines of the latter are abbreviated, and, if they belong there at all, are presumably identical with the first two lines of stanza 10. [31] Poetic Edda 13. Over beer the bird of forgetfulness broods, And steals the minds of men; With the heron's feathers fettered I lay And in Gunnloth's house was held. 14. Drunk I was, I was dead-drunk, When with Fjalar wise I was; 'Tis the best of drinking if back one brings His wisdom with him home. 15. The son of a king shall be silent and wise, And bold in battle as well ; Bravely and gladly a man shall go, Till the day of his death is come. 16. The sluggard believes he shall live forever. If the fight he faces not; But age shall not grant him the gift of peace, Though spears may spare his life. 17. The fool is agape when he comes to the feast, He stammers or else is still; But soon if he gets a drink is it seen What the mind of the man is like. 13. The heron: the bird of forgetfulness, referred to in line i. Gunnloth: the daughter of the giant Suttung, from whom Othin won the mead of poetry. For this episode see stanzas 104-110. 14. Fjalar: apparently another name for Suttung. This stanza, and probably 13, seem to have been inserted as illus- trative. iZ2] Hovamol 1 8. He alone is aware who has wandered wide, And far abroad has fared, How great a mind is guided by him That wealth of wisdom has. 19.

Charter schools can increase educational equity by expanding schooling options to disadvantaged students, allowing such students to choose schools outside their often racially isolated neighborhoods. Students and parents can also choose charter schools to further sort and isolate themselves by race and achievement, however. This study uses empirical approaches to explore racial isolation and sorting patterns, including whether racial and achievement self-sorting exist in Delaware’s charter schools, and legal approaches concerning how to address potential racial isolation concerns. Delaware has a long history of racial isolation in its schools, highlighting the importance of this analysis. The empirical portion of this study investigates whether charter schools in Delaware provide a mechanism for student self-sorting. It analyzes the transfer patterns of students with certain characteristics as they switch from traditional public schools (TPSs) to charter schools and vice versa. Using longitudinal student-level data, this study tracks each student who switched from TPSs to charter schools and vice versa, to identify the specific TPSs and charter schools that each student attended. It examines the racial compositions and achievement levels of students’ previous TPSs and their charter schools to determine whether students are moving to schools with a higher proportion of their own race or higher (or lower) scoring students than the schools they left. The outcomes suggest that students are switching to charter schools with more of their own race. In addition, non-minority students transfer to higher performing charter schools while minority students move to lower performing charters. In light of these results, this dissertation continues with a legal analysis that provides charter schools and policymakers with guidance on how they can alleviate racial isolation concerns, informed by the recent Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007), which struck down race-conscious plans in Seattle and Louisville. It also investigates the enrollment practices of charter schools in Delaware, which may be hindering attempts to reduce racial isolation.
“Terrorism that India faces has their source often outside the country,” declared Ravi.Even the 65% turnout in the recent polls in Jammu & Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, was highlighted at the US meet as “a testimony to its (India’s) success story”.As per facts presented by Ravi at the White House summit , a major chunk of education budget in India was earmarked for the smaller communities, enabling rewarding of scholarships to nearly 40 million boys and girls over the last five years, for higher and technical studies. Under government programmes for enhanced skill development of smaller communities, institutions offered 33% seats to girls. Besides, nearly 1,200 new school buildings, 21,000 classrooms, 700 hostels, 150 industrial training institutes and 4,000 primary health centres had come up in areas dominated by the smaller communities in the last five years.The government had, over the last two years, trained over 1.7 lakh women belonging to the minorities, under its scheme ‘Leadership Development of Minority Women’, preparing them for participation in grassroots democratic institutions and for accessing institutional finance.The National Minorities Development and Finance Cooperation disbursed concessional loans of over $500 million to entrepreneurs from smaller communities, for self-employment.
8th Trading Card Market CS, Domestic Tournament, 03/27/2016, 85 Players (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Speedroid Abyss Monarch—————————————————————-2nd Place: Speedroid Abyss—————————————————————-3rd Place: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-4th Place: D/D—————————————————————-5th Place: Monarch—————————————————————-6th Place: Artifact Monarch—————————————————————-7th Place: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-8th Place: Speedroid Phantom Abyss27th Cross Card Games, Local Tournament, 03/27/2016, 18 Players—————————————————————-1st Place: D/DCard Kingdom Tokushima Local Tournament, 03/19/2016, 10 Players—————————————————————-1st Place: Blue-EyesCard Kingdom Tokushima Local Tournament, 03/12/2016, 9 Players—————————————————————-1st Place: Artifact Super QuantumSCS, Domestic Tournament, 03/2016, 64 Players (Custom format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Infernoid—————————————————————-2nd Place: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-3rd Place: Speedroid Nekroz—————————————————————-4th Place: Satellarknight—————————————————————-5th Place: Rabbit Evilswarm—————————————————————-6th Place: Blue-EyesHope Game, Domestic Tournament, 03/2016, 64 Players (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-2nd Place: Performapal Magician Odd-Eyes—————————————————————-3rd Place: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-4th Place: Qliphort122nd Alann Cup, Domestic tournament, 03/2016, 80 Players (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Monarch—————————————————————-2nd Place: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-3rd Place: Blue-Eyes Great Divine Dragon—————————————————————-4th Place: D/DYuuvic Nanako Shop, Local Tournament, 03/25/2016 (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Blue-EyesYuuvic Nanako Shop, Local Tournament, 03/24/2016 (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Anti-MetaYan Okamini CS, Domestic Tournament, 03/20/2016, 72 Players (24 Teams)—————————————————————-1st Place, Player A: Majespecter—————————————————————-1st Place, Player B: Satellarknight—————————————————————-1st Place, Player C: Qliphort—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player A: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player B: Speedroid Abyss—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player C: Burning Abyss—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player A: Blue-Eyes Great Divine Dragon—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player B: Artifact Abyss Madolche—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player C: Qliphort—————————————————————-4th Place, Player A: Shadoll—————————————————————-4th Place, Player B: Qliphort—————————————————————-4th Place, Player C: Speedroid Phantom AbyssYuuvic Nanako Shop, Local Tournament, 03/23/2016 (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Speedroid Phantom AbyssYuuvic Nanako Shop, Local Tournament, 03/21/2016 (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Performapal Odd-EyesGrand Panda Canyon, Local Tournament, 03/24/2016, 5 players (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place: Performapal Majespecter4th Hashimoto CS, Domestic Tournament, 03/21/2016, 132 Players (44 Teams) (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place, Player A: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-1st Place, Player B: Performapal Majespecter—————————————————————-1st Place, Player C: Speedroid Abyss—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player A: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player B: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player C: Artifact Chronomaly—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player A: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player B: Qliphort—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player C: Qliphort—————————————————————-4th Place, Player A: Qliphort—————————————————————-4th Place, Player B: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-4th Place, Player C: Speedroid Phantom Abyss43rd Hatti CS, Domestic Tournament, 03/20/2016, 156 Players (52 Teams) (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place, Player A: Hand Nekroz—————————————————————-1st Place, Player B: Qliphort—————————————————————-1st Place, Player C: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player A: D/D—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player B: Performapal Odd-Eyes—————————————————————-2nd Place, Player C: Performapal Magician Odd-Eyes—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player A: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player B: Speedroid Phantom Abyss—————————————————————-3rd Place, Player C: Speedroid Abyss1st K-1 Grand-Prix, Domestic Tournament, 03/20/2016, 80 Players (16 Teams) (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-1st Place, Player A: Majespecter—————————————————————-1st Place, Player B: Qliphort—————————————————————-1st Place, Player C: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-1st Place, Player D: D/D—————————————————————-1st Place, Player C: D/D12th Duel King Hobby Stage CS, Domestic Tournament, 03/19/2016, 72 Players (April 2016 format)—————————————————————-2nd Place: Blue-Eyes—————————————————————-3rd Place: Speedroid Nekroz—————————————————————-4th Place: Anti-Meta
Your vote should not to be taken for granted and must be earned at every opportunity to help and resolve issues and problematic breakdowns of our Governmental system, and the citizens of Indiana 7th Congressional district of greater Indianapolis are being deceived and misled by their current congressional representative Carson. He has avoided public scrutiny with Bills, of which he said that he personally wrote and president Obama signed them into law..? Go to… Curtis Godfrey For Congress @ facebook and see the full details and the govtrack.us web site and more resources on information that show all Bills written and proposed as well as what has cleared congress and signed by President Obama. The data is on several web sites are chronological and historical information on every federally elected official in USA. That is a seriously extreme deception by Mr. Carson and a destructive rouse to secure our votes. Further, it undermines the office of such a high trust and responsibility by the people given the honor of an elected official. Such tactic are used solely to confound and confuse the voter with a false belief, that he had achieved a major accomplishment; of which he has not. Mr. Carson has stonewalled and avoided public debate or discussions; he is confident that he can continue to keep the people of Indianapolis in the dark and uninformed; therefore his position is secured as a result of his deception and deceit. As Congressman of the 7th District, Curtis Godfrey believes that the people have a right to know what our opinions are and actions we plan to take, as they are related to the direct issues that in our community. Also the people have a right to expect truth, honest hard work from their congressman representative and their staff. As Congressman, Curtis Godfrey will work toward helping you to achieve a plausible resolve for your request and inquiries and to assistance you with getting a resolution with the issues for you and/or your love ones deserve; especially issues that require direct congressional inquiries. As your Congressman, Curtis Godfrey believes that all veterans deserve fair and consistent treatment. Furthermore, we believe that every veteran is special kind of American and earned the respect and should be granted with the benefit of doubt; insomuch as adjudicating their claims for in service injuries. Further, that every veteran shall have secured their life time health care, for their injuries, regardless of discharge.
In my untrained hands, it was basically "spray and pray"... also the 9mm feels underpowered after the RK 62. On the big daddy front, the 12.7mm antiaircraft gun on top of a Sisu APC is about as big as it gets. However, the prospect of trying to down a plane armed with missiles with that thing is not exactly attractive. The bullets were made of some extremely hard metal and would go through almost anything, FWIW. However, I suspect in the real world it is much better for stopping a car than an airplane. The most macho piece of equipment I got to train with was the AGS 17. A bunch of these east European bad boys were bought after the German reunification from East German stockpiles. It is a 30mm automatic grenade launcher. While this contraption weighs at a bulky 45 kg. and is noisy (opening the tripod can be heard a mile away) it is basically a machine gun that fires grenades. The concept is so over-the-top it is almost comical, if it wasn't for its lethal purpose. Yep, this is probably the only piece of kit that makes a machine gun seem like a peashooter.
McDonald’s has announced they will be offering one of 12 Pokémon figures as a well as one of 12 Pokémon Trading Card Game cards in their Happy Meals starting June 17th, 2011. Below is the full press release.BELLEVUE, Wash.--Pokémon™ Black•White-themed Happy Meals arrive in participating McDonald’s® stores across North America beginning June 17, 2011, as one of the world’s most popular entertainment properties launches its Happy Meal promotion with the leading foodservice provider. Pokémon fans visiting North American McDonald’s locations June 17–July 7 can purchase a Happy Meal featuring one of eight McDonald’s exclusive Pokémon figures, including Pikachu and brand-new Pokémon Reshiram, Zekrom, Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott, Zorua, and Zoroark, as well as one of twelve Pokémon Trading Card Game cards, to celebrate what has already been a blockbuster year for the franchise. The Pokémon Company International continues its McDonald’s Black•White Happy Meal promotion in major markets around the world later in 2011 and 2012.“We’re excited that our fans can visit McDonald’s, purchase a Happy Meal, and enjoy something special from Pokémon.”“The Pokémon franchise is having an incredible year, and partnering with McDonald’s is definitely one of our highlights,” said J.C. Smith, director of Consumer Marketing for The Pokémon Company International. “We’re excited that our fans can visit McDonald’s, purchase a Happy Meal, and enjoy something special from Pokémon.”The Pokémon Black•White Happy Meal promotion will be supported by McDonald’s through a fully integrated marketing campaign that includes television advertising, in-store POP, and online activities at McWorld.com and HappyMeal.com.The Pokémon franchise continues to be one of the most enduring entertainment brands in the world. The release of the Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version video games for the Nintendo DS™ family of systems have shattered sales records with more than 11.5 million copies sold since their release in Japan last September and in the United States and Europe this March (Nintendo, March 2011). The all-new Pokémon Trading Card Game: Black & White expansion launched in April, adding to the more than 15 billion Pokémon TCG cards produced worldwide. A new season of Pokémon animation on Cartoon Network, Pokémon: Black & White, and a new feature length film, Pokémon—Zoroark: Master of Illusions, have also been released this year.
As the plans for the new TAFTA agreement are getting increasing heat and concern from the public, apparently the US Chamber of Commerce (a lobbying organization that has long favored these protectionist policies that seek to protect their members) along with the acting head of the USTR, Demetrios Marantis, and various "lawmakers," are planning to host a "rally" next week to pretend that there is "strong support" for such an agreement . Somehow, I doubt that this will bring out crowds of young people. Apparently this will be held on Capitol Hill and they'll be launching a "coalition" in support of "trans-atlantic trade." Sounds like a party.Of course, this reeks of desperation on the part of the USTR and the Chamber of Commerce. The momentum against these kinds of agreements has been growing, and putting together a pretend rally where the only folks likely to show up are the representatives of big legacy businesses (apparently GE and IBM expect to attend) isn't going to mollify a concerned public.I say this as someone who believes strongly in the value and importance of free trade. Trade barriers can create serious economic harm, especially for those they're supposedly designed to help. However, the reality is that these agreements are not really about free trade. They tend to be about helping out a few legacy businesses who don't want competition and don't want to deal with the impact of innovation. And, for reasons that are beyond me, the USTR thinks it's their job to help prop up those legacy businesses and to slow down the pace of innovation. I understand why the Chamber of Commerce does this (they're paid to), but it's pretty shameless for the USTR to be so obviously in the pocket of big business, rather than representing what is really in the best interests of trade policy across the board.
[The setting - A bus with wifi, and two hours to kill]This past weekend, I enjoyed some time back in New York to cast IEM with the ESL crew. This was the first time I'd covered an offline event in the States, and was a very positive experience on the whole. Throughout the course of the event, however, many people asked me about my plans, current situation, and what I really thought about the state of SC2 as a game.Right now, I've reached that point where I know people and feel confident in my work but have difficulty actually finding it. With WCS dominating the StarCraft scene it's very difficult to find actual employment, as doing one-off events doesn't pay anywhere near enough to live in even a small apartment (I currently live in a hometown friend's spare room).Personally I'm hoping that WCS does much better next year not only because I'd like steady work, but with things as they are I've already started looking into casting other games on top of Starcraft. It really hits me hard when the common response to a work interest is that without knowing WCS plans for next year it's too risky to bring me on solely for StarCraft. I intend to look into other games, but still hope that the work available increases during the next year.As far as doing events go, this IEM was very different from my last offline event (Dreamhack Summer earlier this year), especially with the production setup. Of course we had a desk and camera, but the change from in-ear pieces to actual headsets created a few comical situations such as pushing my hair up at the analysis desk. Of course that was its own beast to conquer, since we weren't sure if I'd be doing analysis at the event before it started and I actually didn't take part in the rehearsal for it :DProduction did a great job behind the scenes, and downtime was kept to a minimum except when players needed extra time to set up or use the restroom. The ESL crew was responsive to my concerns about things like which host would be doing an interview for a player that speaks English (you may have heard a few awkward handoffs from me because of this, with me only being told that the interview was ready and not who was conducting it!).
So continue your little obsessions with trying to catch me, but I would advise you to give up, admit defeat and move on, I have better things to do with my time, and I have more important tasks to carry out. Fear is NEVER and will NEVER be an option... To the Snitches/Informants/Traitors: ------------------------------------ You are what is wrong with this world, you sacrifice your friends, partners, confidants, brethrens, and people who saw good in you for your own freedom and personal comfort. There is no corner in this earth you can hide where you will not feel the guilt of turning on your peers, a snitch will have to deal with snitching the rest of his life, and when the tables turn, which they will, you will feel what you made others feel 10x. Your time will come. You think people do not know you are around lurking to get another person v&? Think again, you underestimate the intelligence of the people you once fought with. PIGS ARE HARAM! To those I call my friends: ----------------------------- I am sorry I left on such terms, you will always be remembered, and I appreciate the hard work you put in, what we once had will go down in history, and we DID help a lot of people, do not let anyone tell you any different. As you may think you have to continue fighting as anonymous, this is not true, there are many other ways you can fight the evils that be, let your voice be heard, allow the corrupt to see that you will not kneel to them, and most of all ALWAYS care for the people, as they are also looking for that soldier who fights for them. Anonymous might have lost steam BUT activism is a forever evolving thing, you cannot be 2D when being an activist, and you DO NOT have to carry out "illegal" acts to be heard, exspecially acts that might hurt the public. I may not be around in public view, but I am around, I no longer carry out ops, but I am still an activist and I do still fight the good fight, just as a shadow, as a true Anon, as someone who is taking the fight straight to the powers that be.
Missing 411-Western U.S. Released- February 28, 2013 Link to Purchase:http://www.nabigfootsearch.com/Bigfootstore.html Missing-411 is the first comprehensive research about people who have disappeared in the wilds of North America. It’s understood that people routinely get lost and some want to disappear, but this story is about the unusual. Nobody has ever studied the archives for similarities, traits and geographical clusters of missing people, until now. A tip from a national park ranger led to this 4+ years and a 9000 hour investigative effort into understanding the stories behind people who have vanished. The book chronicles children, adults and the elderly who disappeared, sometimes in the presence of friends and relatives. As Search and Rescue personnel exhaust leads and places to search, relatives start to believe kidnappings and abductions have occurred. The belief by the relatives is not an isolated occurrence; it replicates itself time after time, case after case across North America. The research depicts 28 clusters of missing people across the continent, something that has never been exposed and was a shocking find to researchers. Topography does play a part into the age of the victims and certain clusters have specific age and sex consistency that is baffling. This is not a phenomenon that has been occurring in just the last few decades, clusters of missing people have been identified as far back as the 1800’s. The manuscript for the research was extremely large so the story was split between two books, Missing 411 Western United States and Canada and Missing 411 Eastern United States. The Eastern version will be released in late March and will include a list of all missing people in each edition and a concluding chapter that draws both books together for conclusions. Some of the issues that are discussed in each edition: • The National Park Service attitude toward missing people • How specific factors in certain cases replicate themselves in different clusters • Exposing cases involving missing children that aren’t on any national database • Unusual behavior by bloodhounds/canines involved in the search process • How storms, berries, swamps, briar patches, boulder fields and victim disabilities play a role in the disappearance • The strategies of Search and Rescue personnel need to change under specific circumstances After reading this book, you will forever walk in the woods with a different awareness.
But again to really evaluate memory efficiency, you should put into the bag that specially encoded small aggregated values in Redis are very memory efficient. For example sets of small integers are represented internally as an array of 8, 16, 32 or 64 bits integers, and are accessed in logarithmic time when you want to check the existence of some since they are ordered, so binary search can be used. The same happens when you use hashes to represent objects instead of resorting to JSON. So the real memory efficiency must be evaluated with an use case at hand. * Redis LRU vs Slab allocator Memcached is not perfect from the point of view of memory utilization. If you happen to have an application that dramatically change the size of the cached values over time, you are likely to incur severe fragmentation and the only cure is a reboot. Redis is a lot more deterministic from this point of view. Moreover Redis LRU was lately improved a lot, and is now a very good approximation of real LRU. More info can be found here: http://redis.io/topics/lru-cache. If I understand correctly, memcached LRU still expires according to its slab allocator so sometimes the behavior may be far from real LRU, but I would like to hear what experts have to say about this. If you want to test Redis LRU you now can using the redis-cli LRU testing mode available in recent versions of Redis. * Smart caching If you want to use Redis for caching, and use it ala-memcached, you are truly missing something. This is the biggest mistake in Mike’s blog post in my opinion. People are switching to Redis more and more because they discovered that they can represent their cached data in more useful ways. What to retain the latest N items of something? Use a capped list. Want to take a cached popularity index? Use a sorted set, and so forth. * Persistence and Replication If you need those, they are very important assets. For example using this model scaling a huge load of reads is very simple. The same about restarts with persistence, the ability to take cache snapshots over time, and so forth. But it’s totally fair to have usages where both features are totally irrelevant. What I want to say here is that there are “pure caching” use cases where persistence and replication are important. * Observability Redis is very very observable.
# shutdown -r now =20 After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again: # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r now =20 Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use freebsd-update= to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences in t= he system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x. For more information about upgrading from FreeBSD 6.x using FreeBSD Update, see: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.ht= ml Support ------- The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 7.2 until May 31st, 2010. For more information on the Security Team and their support of the various FreeBSD branches see: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ Acknowledgments --------------- Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 7.2 including The FreeBSD Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium, and Sentex Communications. The release engineering team for 7.2-RELEASE includes: Ken Smith <[email protected]> Release Engineering, amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Buildi= ng, Mirror Site Coordination Robert Watson <[email protected]> Release Engineering, Security Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> Release Engineering Marc Fonvieille <[email protected]> Release Engineering, Documentation George Neville-Neil <[email protected]> Release Engineering Hiroki Sato <[email protected]> Release Engineering, Documentation Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]> ia64, powerpc Release Building Takahashi Yoshihiro <[email protected]> PC98 Release Building Kris Kennaway <[email protected]> Package Building Joe Marcus Clarke <[email protected]> Package Building Erwin Lansing <[email protected]> Package Building Mark Linimon <[email protected]> Package Building Pav Lucistnik <[email protected]> Package Building Colin Percival <[email protected]> Security Officer Trademark --------- FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
For default three keys are sampled, that is a reasonable approximation of LRU in the long run, but you can get more precision at the cost of some more CPU time changing the number of keys to sample.Currently I'm still testing this code carefully, but for sure even if it's little code, it's a major step forward in making Redis a valuable caching solution.all the new features are compatible with the CONFIG command, so you can set and get this parameters at run time using CONFIG SET and CONFIG GET.Today on Twitter I saw a tweet related to the ability to remember the Redis port number. There is a trick, the Redis port number, 6379, isat the phone keyboard.Is it a coincidence that it sounds not random enough? Actually not ;) I selected 6379 because of MERZ, and not the other way around.Everything started with Alessia Merz , an Italian Showgirl (make sure to check some (not safe for work) photo as well ).I and my friends are used to create our own slang, that is evolving since... 20 or 25 years. Well one adjective that we use consistently since 10 years is "merz", but the meaning of the word changed so much in the course of the time.Initially it started because we were really delighted by the stupidity of the sentences that the showgirl was able to state in the italian TV. So we started using "MERZ" when something was... stupid. "Hey, that's merz!". And so forth. But then with some time the meaning shifted in something stupid as pointless, but with very technical value, or with an impressive amount of skills and patience and work involved, but still... stupid.For instance creating a 3D map of your hometown by sampling the points with a GPS and a broken car going around for the whole night, or analyzing tons of lottery data searching for biases, perfectly knowing that we'll never spend a single penny in a lottery ticket anyway, and so forth. "Merz" basically means... hack value, but is also referred to people not just things, people that act in a funny way just for hack value, or to be fun, and so forth.So when I had to pick a port number for Redis I had no troubles, whatever number MERZ was at the phone, it was the Redis port number.
A suspect armed with a spear was shot and killed in a deputy-involved shooting in Maywood on Saturday, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's officials.Deputies responded to a family disturbance call at about 2:30 p.m. in the 5200 block of Corona Avenue, officials from the East Los Angeles Sheriff's Station said.Authorities said the family of the suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Jesus Duran, called for help, saying Duran was threatening them.When deputies arrived, they found Duran armed with a home-made spear. Sheriff's officials said they attempted to use a Taser when Duran lunged at the deputies. One deputy then opened fire.Duran was struck numerous times in the torso and rushed to a nearby hospital, LASD officials said. He later died from his injuries.No deputies were hurt in the shooting.The family said Duran was in the military and had been living with his parents, but the situation had been getting volatile and then parents moved out.That evening, Duran's parents and sister went to the home to check on his well-being. They discovered the front door was barricaded and the suspect's sister broke a window to get inside. The woman found that her brother was in his bedroom, and when she tried talking to him through the door, he threatened her, detectives said. Duran's sister then called for help. "When deputy personnel went inside and made contact with the suspect at his bedroom door, they saw the suspect was armed with a home-made spear. The deputies applied less-than-lethal force, which was unsuccessful in disarming the suspect," said LASD Deputy Lisa Jansen.Detectives later found there were other home-made weapons in the bedroom. Officials said it was unclear whether Duran had physiological issues as a result of combat.No additional information was available, and the investigation was on-going, sheriff's officials said.
Many cyborg upgrades which will become available in the 20s and 30s, such as hearing and vision enhancement, metabolic enhancement, artificial bones, muscles, and organs, and even brain-computer interfaces will be invisible to the casual observer, implanted beneath the skin. Cybernetic features on the surface, such as dermal enhancements or technological actuators like retractable wings, will be carefully camouflaged. No one will want to shock the rest of society by looking like the tin man in public.The process of cyborgization has already been happening for centuries if not millennia, since the advent of clothing and piercings. For many generations, but especially in the last couple decades, our technological gadgets have been getting smaller, more functional, and more closely integrated with our natural activity.Recently, Microsoft announced Microsoft Surface , a mouseless, keyboardless form of desktop computing which takes input from finger tracing and hand gestures. The sophistication of biotechnology and the availability of better materials and precision manufacturing will let us make systems so small and effective that even everyday people elect to implant them.These cybernetic systems will greatly improve our everyday experience, from letting us hear a wider range of ambient sounds, to viewing millions of stars rather than just a few thousand, to making us more resistant to accidents. They will improve the overall economy by enabling us do more work in less time for better pay. In the long term, enhanced humans may get a bigger portion of the economic pie than un-augmented humans, but the pie itself will become so much larger than even the poorest humans of tomorrow will be better off than the wealthiest of today.Here’s a good cyborg blog I found while doing research for this article, and the Power Jacket , a 4-pound jacket that enhances strength and is used by people recovering from paralysis. For more, see the cybernetics category of my del.ic.ious links, or my top ten list of cybernetic enhancements.Why do manual labor when the robots can do it for you? Self-replication might be considered the Holy Grail of robotics. A landmark NASA study, “Advanced Automation for Space Missions” , found that robotic self-replication is just a matter of engineering, and that no fundamental theoretical breakthroughs are needed.
The 21st century has been hard on American labor. Unemployment soared from a low of 4 percent in 2000 to a peak of 10 percent in October 2009. While the unemployment rate has since recovered to its current 5 percent, labor force participation and productivity have declined, and wage growth is feeble. Many blame America’s labor woes (which began well before the Great Recession) on China’s surging exports and rapid technological change that seemingly replaced humans with computers and robots. But economists have long insisted that trade liberalization and technological innovation were positive overall economic forces, and that disruptive costs to some workers were small and short-lived relative to total benefits for the economy as a whole. David Autor of MIT has shone a bright light on the often-downplayed costs. He and co-authors carefully analyzed the impact of technological change and import substitution on U.S. labor and found that the disruptive costs are much larger and longer-lived than previously recognized. Technology hadn’t cost jobs, for the most part, but it had transformed them: polarizing the labor market into routine and nonroutine jobs, increasing the demand for higher education and contributing to earnings inequality. The “China shock,” as he termed it, while positive for American consumers, had indeed inflicted severe losses on many workers. Moreover, U.S. labor market adjustment was painfully slow. His work has forced the field to re-examine the benefits and costs of trade, and to pay far closer attention to how labor markets truly respond to economic change. It has also made headlines, with front-page coverage in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Autor has had a similar impact on other areas of labor economics, from job placement programs to disability insurance to the minimum wage and inequality. This research—and his teaching, for which he garners frequent awards—is inspired not only by profound intellectual curiosity but also by personal conviction that economics and policy, done well, can make a substantive difference in people’s lives, especially for those who are disadvantaged. Or as he puts it, he is motivated “by a long-standing interest in the opportunities faced by less-educated and less-affluent households and their kids.” Interview conducted July 20, 2016.
Living Harvest of Portland was recently ranked the third-fastest-growing company in Oregon, as awarded by The Portland Business Journal's "Fastest-Growing Private 100 Companies" annual award. "We are looking forward to the opportunity to invest in hemp processing and production locally," says Hans Fastre, CEO of Living Harvest. "This new law represents another step towards heightening the hemp industry's profile within mainstream America and making hemp products more accessible to businesses and consumers." These Oregon-based companies have been on the leading edge of the growing hemp food and body care markets, which are currently estimated by the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) to be $113 million in North American annual retail sales. The HIA estimates the 2008 annual retail sales of all hemp products in North America to be about $360 million. By allowing U.S. farmers to once again grow hemp, legislators can clear the way for a "New Billion-Dollar Crop." Hemp Farming Gains Support from More State Governments and Law Enforcement According to the Illinois Valley News, Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson said that he supports the legalization of industrial hemp. "I think it's a good idea," Gilbertson said in the article which appeared on July 29. "I think it's a viable crop, and the entire county could benefit from it." On June 9, with little fanfare, Maine Governor John Baldacci signed the Maine hemp farming bill, LD 1159, into law. Maine's House had previously passed the bill without objection, and the Senate later passed it by a strong vote of 25 to 10. The bill establishes a licensing regime for farming industrial hemp, although the licensing is contingent upon action by the federal government. Maine had previously passed a study bill that also defined industrial hemp. During the 2009 legislative session, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and Vermont all passed pro-hemp laws, resolutions or memorials. Sixteen states have passed pro-hemp legislation to date, and eight states (Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia) have removed barriers to its production or research. Like North Dakota, where farmers are in a federal court battle over their rights to grow hemp under state law without fear of federal prosecution, the new law in Oregon does not require a federal DEA permit to grow hemp.
By Feb. 6, Rieger was in touch with officials from the Privy Council Office — what’s often called the “nerve centre” of the bureaucracy that supports the cabinet and prime minister. Over the next five weeks, chains of emails show detailed discussions between Rieger, the higher-ups in government and the McCann agency. They zeroed in on the concept they liked — the cover would depict an arrangement of four photographs, each one representing a “pillar” of the budget vision. The government liked the agency’s idea to add “chalk” drawings on top of the photos. These would be “superimposed onto real-life contexts to illustrate visions of the future.” For the “innovation and skills” category, they wanted a “female older millennial” in her mid 30s, or “perhaps early 40s Gen Xer,” one email suggested. An “elderly man” fit the bill for their vision of “Stronger Canada,” while a “young girl,” maybe 7 or 8, would fit well into the “Fair Government” category, which would reflect their commitments to building a country where any child can achieve their dreams. Finally, for “Infrastructure,” the poster boy would be a “sharply dressed” teenager wearing “mid-tone colours” and glasses. This last piece of attire received particular attention, with the ad agency even offering a mockup of the shape and size of the glasses in one of their missives to Ottawa. Dan Lauzon, the director of communications for Finance Minister Bill Morneau, appears to have settled the matter in an email Feb. 23. “I vote glasses,” he wrote. “Put me on team hipster.” Duly noted. But there was also the matter of the actors themselves. Whose faces should be the faces of the 2017 budget? Sorry, it’s #Budget2017 (an official made a point of underlining the importance of that capital B). Following their instructions to consult on the depictions of minorities, a McCann executive wrote: “We would like to know about ethnicities you would like us to cover. Asian? Native? Indian? Latino? There are four models, so we will have to choose.” The agency provided a host of options, prompting Rieger to ask if “No. 2” for one of the categories is Indigenous. The response came that Indigenous people “are identified by the yellow squares.” They went with No. 2 — the future engineer with the “hipster” glasses.
Unlike the incident where he hit my brother, that only had one facet for me (my own guilty about it). But sexual abuse is never one facet; it’s a multi-faceted web of betrayal that takes a while to uncover, figure out, and resolve. We have now spent 4 sessions on it so far, and while I have gained some clarity as to the memory, I have not come to resolution about it yet. It’s a difficult treatment. Remember that episode of the Office, where Michael Scott fucks everything up by trying to resolve employee complaints out in the open? He compares it to shiatsu massage, and he – wait – let me just link to it here So anyway, it’s like that. It’s really painful and it’s really hard but at the end, hopefully, I will feel much better and stop being plagued by my own PTSD. That’s my hope, anyway. 36 years is a long time to be afraid. Meanwhile I keep eating and eating. I am a hot fucking mess. Sleep is difficult. Having to do this therapy sucks serious shit. Not as bad as having to be sexually abused when I was a child, I suppose, but still sucks. This is of course why you shouldn’t fuck kids. I don’t want to spend my time like this, going to therapy, crying, eating, etc. I want to enjoy my sweet beautiful son, and learn to love and trust a man again, and enjoy my life, and go for walks, etc. But right now, my life is this, and I accept that. And I live it with hope for a better life to come. The therapist has tried to impart two things to me, which I wanted to share with you guys, my loyal readers. 1) She said that when all that stuff was happening to me when I was a kid, I was alone and I was powerless. I am neither of those things now. While I am healing, I am not alone, and I am not powerless. 2) She said that I was a child when all this happened to me. I am an adult now. I have a whole range of choices open to me that I didn’t then. All of that was news to me, and was so empowering that I thought maybe you wanted to hear it too. 🙂 Share this: Pinterest
He spent the next several months in and out of state hospitals and rest homes. After his recovery, he found that Bubnov, along with all but one other deputy from the ministry, had been arrested and shot. I remarked to Tolya that it must have been terrifying to learn that many of your colleagues and friends had been liquidated in your absence. We were sitting in his apartment, surrounded by stacks of antique books and family artifacts. The center of the apartment is his grandfather’s old study, a stately room with a heavy desk and a dramatic wall of floor-to-ceiling wood-and-glass shelves. “The thing is,” Tolya said, “before this awful discovery were many others.” One of Volin’s brothers was a Soviet intelligence officer who worked in the United States under the cover of a military attaché. He was called back, arrested, and shot. One of Volin’s sisters was married to an N.K.V.D. officer, and they lived in the House of Government, in a nearby apartment. When the husband’s colleagues came to arrest him, he jumped out of the apartment window to his death. Volin, I learned, kept a suitcase packed with warm clothes behind the couch, ready in case of arrest and sentence to the Gulag. His wife burned an archive of papers dating from his time as a Bolshevik emissary in Paris, fearing that the work would brand him a foreign spy. They gave their daughter, Tolya’s mother, a peculiar set of instructions. Every day after school, she was to take the elevator to the ninth floor—not the eighth, where the family lived—and look down the stairwell. If she saw an N.K.V.D. agent outside the apartment, she was supposed to get back on the elevator, go downstairs, and run to a friend’s house. We spoke about the atmosphere in the building back then, what Tolya’s grandparents must have been thinking as the bright and just world they thought they had built began to cannibalize itself. “They could only think about one thing: how to survive. I am profoundly certain of that,” he said. “They weren’t able to intervene, to control things in the slightest. The forces they were up against were Biblical, like fighting nature itself.”
"We have plan for producing 1000 MW solar power... All our plants are subjected to energy audit so as to bring energy efficiency. We are also using LED bulbs to conserve energy," he said.Forty two per cent of Railways' lines are electrified today. "All broad gauge will be electrified in the country and and all metre gauge will be converted into broad gauge. It will benefit the Railways as train speed will increase and most importantly also help in reducing cost of energy."
The second title probably jokingly refers to the theme of hospitals for theories I still think that the seven authors of both papers must be aware of the second group because it would be rather unlikely for two groups to publish a paper with pretty much the same speculative claim on the same day, just minutes after one another. However, I would normally expect some comment of the type "While this paper was being completed, we learned about some damn competing bastards [83] who wanted to scoop us; we're better, faster, correcter, and prettier than them, but we're also generous to cite their future paper because such incomplete future citations aren't counted, anyway. "But I don't see any such comment in either of the two papers so it is in principle conceivable that the papers are independent! Their detailed argumentation differs and in many technical points, the papers are complementary. However, the basic claims seem to be identical and I will group all these 3+4 authors into one gang.To prove that they are not Seven Dwarfs, The Magnificent Seven starts with an empirical observation. Neither ATLAS nor CMS has detected a clear 3+ sigma deviation from the Standard Model. But if you combine their results, we do see one 3-sigma deviation in a rather important quantity. It is the $W^+ W^-$ cross section, i.e. the probability that the proton-proton collisions result in the creation of a particle-antiparticle pair involving the $W$-boson.The ATLAS detector measures this quantity to be about 20% or 2 sigma higher than the Standard Model, and so does the CMS. In combination, it's a tantalizing 3-sigma excess. This may be a fluke, an accident, but it is a rather important quantity and it may mean something.What is it supposed to mean if this excess is real?People are tempted to use the one-scale-fits-all method to describe what the LHC has proven and disproven. Because the LHC has placed lower bounds on the masses of many particles in many models that are comparable to $1\TeV$, and of course that the detailed numbers depend on the model and the detailed particles that are being constrained, people like to sloppily think that "all new particles are probably heavier than $1\TeV$".But as the loophole discussed by these two papers shows (and it is not the only loophole), such a conclusion is too sloppy.
For fighting gallantly at Mittelwihr, France. On the morning of December 18, 1944, he led a squad against a schoolhouse held by enemy troops. While his men covered him, he dashed toward the building, surprised two guards at the door and took them prisoner without firing a shot. He found that other Germans were in the cellar. These he threatened with hand grenades, forcing 26 in all to emerge and surrender. His squad then occupied the building and prepared to defend it against powerful enemy action. The next day, the enemy poured artillery and mortar barrages into the position, disrupting communications which T/Sgt. Bell repeatedly repaired under heavy small-arms fire as he crossed dangerous terrain to keep his company commander informed of the squad's situation. During the day, several prisoners were taken and other Germans killed when hostile forces were attracted to the schoolhouse by the sound of captured German weapons fired by the Americans. At dawn the next day the enemy prepared to assault the building. A German tank fired round after round into the structure, partially demolishing the upper stories. Despite this heavy fire, T/Sgt. Bell climbed to the second floor and directed artillery fire which forced the hostile tank to withdraw. He then adjusted mortar fire on large forces of enemy foot soldiers attempting to reach the American position and, when this force broke and attempted to retire, he directed deadly machine gun and rifle fire into their disorganized ranks. Calling for armored support to blast out the German troops hidden behind a wall, he unhesitatingly exposed himself to heavy small-arms fire to stand beside a friendly tank and tell its occupants where to rip holes in walls protecting approaches to the school building. He then trained machine guns on the gaps and mowed down all hostile troops attempting to cross the openings to get closer to the school building. By his intrepidity and bold, aggressive leadership, T/Sgt. Bell enabled his 8-man squad to drive back approximately 150 of the enemy, killing at least 87 and capturing 42. Personally, he killed more than 20 and captured 33 prisoners. [1]
Claims by state and local officials that Flint’s municipal water is safe to drink are being put to the test in a precedent-setting independent study.So far, those claims are emphatically failing to pass muster.Researchers from Virginia Tech — working with a group of Flint residents and the ACLU of Michigan — are conducting an extensive analysis of lead and copper levels in water flowing into the homes of Flint’s residents.Initial findings show the problem is roughly twice as bad as the city’s tests indicate.What’s been dubbed the Flint Citizen Science Study is still under way, but the early findings have been so disturbing that the Virginia Tech team is posting results on the web in order to alert residents about how extensive the problem may be.“I think it would have been unethical to not release this information right away,” said VT professor Marc Edwards, who is leading the project.According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations, the city would be out of compliance if 10 percent of homes tested were above the action level of 15 parts per billion lead. The city says its latest sampling, conducted during the first six months of this year, shows that Flint’s water is in compliance with federal regulations, according to documents obtained by the ACLU of Michigan.That claim is based on tests conducted at 69 homes.The VT study is looking at nearly four times as many homes. Of the 120 samples analyzed so far, 20 percent have been over the federal action level — twice what it would take for the city to be out of compliance.“Needless to say, these data are very worrisome,” said Edwards. “There are a disturbingly high number of homes with lead levels in a range where water consumption has caused lead poisoning in children and adverse pregnancy outcomes.”Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality both failed to respond to requests to comment on this story.Edwards said that a study of this type — with residents leading the effort — is unprecedented.Impetus for the project grew after the ACLU of Michigan in early July disclosed an internal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency memo that raised concerns about the water-sampling methodology used by the City of Flint.One major concern is that the city, operating in accordance with Michigan Department of Environmental Quality protocol, instructs residents to “pre-flush” their water lines prior to testing.
[with video, photos] JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 29 Oct — The administration of Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem said Thursday it refuses to hand over medical files to Israeli forces belonging to Palestinians treated after recent clashes that have erupted in the city. The head of Al-Makassed Hospital, Rafis al-Hussieni, told Ma‘an that Israeli forces entered the medical facility on Tuesday and Wednesday requesting the files without permission from an Israeli court. Al-Husseini said that undercover armed Israeli forces deployed in units throughout the hospital, insulting patients and employees before requesting medical files belonging to a Palestinian youth who was shot by Israeli forces, treated in the hospital, and recently detained. The forces told hospital staff that a prescription issued by Al-Makassed had been found during a raid of the child’s home. Al-Husseini and the medical staff in the hospital would decline to release patient information to the forces. “It is not our job to give any information about anyone comes to hospital or to take any personal information. Our job is only to help them and provide them with medical treatment,” al-Hussineni told Ma‘an. He added that the hospital at times provides medical treatment for injured Palestinains without taking any information or creating files for them . . . Al-Husseini condemned Israeli violations against the hospital. “The hospital has become desecrated by Israeli troops,” he said, urging international human rights groups and legal committees to protect the hospital.”Israeli violations against the Palestinian hospital are against the law and until today we cannot find anyone to protect the hospital, the patients, and the staff.”Al-Makassed employees have called for a march on Thursday in front of the hospital to to protest the recent violations.
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Britain's biggest supermarkets spend a lot of advertising money telling us they offer great value. But an investigation by Panorama has revealed that not all "bargains" are quite what they seem. The deals at Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury's might seem to be everywhere, but strip away the jargon and catchy promises of "huge savings" and "special offers" and you are just as likely to find tactics that experts say range from a bit cheeky to others that could lead to prosecutions for breach of consumer protection regulations. Among them: The 'Wow' Factor? At Asda, the well-publicised Special Offers area of their online shopping site was offering Wow deals. They told us that it meant they were cheaper than they would normally be. But a check of the price histories of some of the Wow items found that 11 had been for sale at the same price for at least six months - so no savings there - and four items were actually more expensive than they used to be. Deborah Parry, a lawyer who advised the government on EU consumer protection regulations and British law, says the Wow labelling could be a breach of the law. "Your average consumer when they learned the truth that the price was not reduced and in fact had been increased almost certainly would not purchase them." When contacted by the BBC, Asda said the products should not have been advertised as Wow and removed them from the website. The Multi-buy non-deal This is the advertising on the shelves that announces Two for £2, but fails to highlight that there is no saving there - the item's price is £1 each. But does it make us buy more? Psychologist Gorkan Ahmetoglu, who wrote a report for the Office of Fair Trading on the influence promotions and offers of savings have on shopping habits, says this type of advertising acts as a subconscious trigger. "They are triggering the same reaction as when you eat chocolate. The offer will still attract your attention and a lot of people will not look at the single unit price." The new - yet old - low price This is known as price establishing in the marketing world. A retailer sells a product at a certain price for a long period of time, but then suddenly raises it.
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