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If Edmonds’ story is correct, and Al-Qaeda, with the aid of Turkish government agents and Pakistani intelligence, with the help of US government officials, has been attempting to obtain nuclear materials and nuclear information from the U.S., it casts an even darker shadow over the mysterious and still unexplained incident last August 30, when a B-52 Stratofortress, based at the Minot strategic air base in Minot, ND, against all rules and regulations of 40 years’ standing, loaded and flew off with six unrecorded and unaccounted for nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. That incident only came to public attention because three as yet unidentified Air Force whistleblowers contacted a reporter at the Military Times newspaper, which ran a series of stories about it, some of which were picked up by other US news organizations. An Air Force investigation into that incident, ordered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, claimed improbably that the whole thing had been an “accident,” but many veterans of the US Air Force and Navy with experience in handling nuclear weapons say that such an explanation is impossible, and argue that there had to have been a chain or orders from above the level of the base commander for such a flight to have occurred. Incredibly, almost five months after that bizarre incident (which included several as yet unexplained deaths of B-52 pilots and base personnel occurring in the weeks shortly before and after the flight), in which six 150-kiloton warheads went missing for 36 hours, there has been no Congressional investigation and no FBI investigation into what happened. Yet in view of Edmonds’ story to the London Times, alleging that there has been an ongoing, active effort for some years by both Al Qaeda and by agents of two US allies, Turkey and Pakistan, to get US nuclear weapons secrets and even weapons, and that there are treasonous moles at work within the American government and nuclear bureaucracy aiding and abetting those efforts, surely at a minimum, a major public inquiry is called for. Meanwhile, there is enough in just this one London Times story to keep an army of investigative reporters busy for years. So why, one has to ask, is this story appearing in a highly respected British newspaper, but not anywhere in the corporate US media? New York Times contributor, a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a two-time Journalism Fulbright Scholar, and the co-author, with .
Their commute to the airport was a signal that those plans were in jeopardy. “I’m driving all over the highway,” he says. “I’m almost hitting the walls and the cars.” That harrowing experience aside, Letang was still feeling pretty much like himself after landing in L.A. The next day, following a conversation with team doctor Dharmesh Vyas, Letang was allowed to participate in the Penguins’ morning skate. “I let him go on the ice just to see how he skated around, and he was completely normal,” Vyas says.
The purpose of these threads is to discuss and provide feedback for the 21:9 aspect ratio support that was added in a patch on 19th July. Please keep the discussion civil and constructive! Debate is welcome, but no one gains any favor by name-calling or disparaging other users, Blizzard, or Blizzard's employees. Remember, the person on the other side of the screen (probably) loves the game as much as you do and just wants it to be the best experience possible. If you see someone who is clearly and consistently posting just to provoke a reaction from people without contributing to the conversation, the best response is simply to report and ignore (use the little blue button at the top-right of their post).21:9 support is live! And, well, it's not that great. A lot of people have voiced support for reinstating modern display resolutions to the game, and some suggested that support would be welcome even if it was "crude" or compromised in some way to address the perceived issue of a wider FOV granting a "competitive advantage". As a result, Blizzard decided to try a less common approach known as vert- scaling. With this method, rather than widening the player's viewport and horizontal FOV (HFOV) to fit the wider resolution (hor+ scaling), the original image is scaled up to fill the viewport, cropping out part of the view and reducing the vertical FOV (VFOV). Unfortunately, this scaling method has introduced new problems, arguably more severe than the one it fixes.First, let's take a look at what vert- scaling does to the player's view. In Overwatch, the VFOV is (presumably) calculated based on the HFOV and display resolution. The formula for this calculation is (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_view_in_video_games )If we plug in 1920 and 1080 for width and height, and Overwatch's default value of 92 for HFOV, we get a VFOV of 60, which matches the value Blizzard stated back when HFOV was planned to be locked at 92. A HFOV set to the maximum of 103 scales the VFOV up to about 70. Now, if we use the same HFOV and height values, and increase the width up to 2560 to represent a 21:9 monitor at a resolution of 2560x1080, we get, respectively.Normally, you would only see FOVs this low when playing a game designed for consoles, which are generally meant to be played on a large screen several feet or more away from the player.1.
One of my favorite scenes in the gospels comes at the very end of John, where Peter has just been reinstated by Jesus after betraying Him, and Jesus says to Peter, “Follow me!” Peter turns and sees that John is also following them, and he points to John and says, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus answers, “[If I have other plans for him], what is that to you? You must follow me.” I love this scene because as a mom, I’m constantly having to tell my kids not to worry about what their brothers are doing — that they don’t need to get involved in how I parent their brothers, but only worry about whether they themselves are doing what they’re told. That’s the tone I read from Jesus in this section, and I think it’s tremendously applicable in conversations like this one, too: Don’t worry about what Jesus is doing in the lives of those around you. Work on cultivating your relationship with Him, and let Him work in their lives as He will. Emily, I feel like there’s some pretty major cognitive dissonance here, both in this post and in comments, given your “the Bible clearly says” talk about LGBT+ folks lately. You have written here — beautifully, as always — about how God deepened and changed your understanding of what seemed on the surface to be a straightforward commandment in the scriptures; you experienced an extended Spirit-driven conversation with God that went beyond the letter of the law and made you understand how God wanted you to honor Him with your body in a new, more beautiful way. Even though there is a straightforward command in the Old Testament about not getting tattoos or cutting your flesh, and plenty of mentions in the New Testament about honoring God with your body, your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit, not conforming to the world… you saw past the surface-level interpretation of those words and instead experienced the beauty and intimacy of having God change your understanding of the scriptures. And you experienced this because this was an issue that affected YOU. You, Emily, were trying to make God-honoring decisions with your own body. And as you sought God’s will for you, you experienced leading in that area. Can you not see that this is the same experience that many, many, many LGBT+ Christians have had as well?
Diet has a significant influence on the intestinal environment. In this study, we assessed changes in the faecal microbiota induced by an animal-based diet and the effect of the ingestion of yoghurt supplemented with a probiotic strain on these changes. In total, 33 subjects were enrolled in an open, randomised, parallel-group study. After a seven-day pre-observation period, the subjects were allocated into three groups (11 subjects in each group). All of the subjects were provided with an animal-based diet for five days, followed by a balanced diet for 14 days. Subjects in the first group ingested dairy in the form of 200 g of yoghurt supplemented with Bifidobacterium longum during both the animal-based and balanced diet periods (YAB group). Subjects in the second group ingested yoghurt only during the balanced diet period (YB group). Subjects who did not ingest yoghurt throughout the intervention were used as the control (CTR) group. Faecal samples were collected before and after the animal-based diet was provided and after the balanced diet was provided, followed by analysis by high-throughput sequencing of amplicons derived from the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. In the YB and CTR groups, the animal-based diet caused a significant increase in the relative abundance of Bilophila, Odoribacter, Dorea and Ruminococcus (belonging to Lachnospiraceae) and a significant decrease in the level of Bifidobacterium after five days of intake. With the exception of Ruminococcus, these changes were not observed in the YAB group. No significant effect was induced by yoghurt supplementation following an animal-based diet (YB group vs CTR group). These results suggest that the intake of yoghurt supplemented with bifidobacteria played a role in maintaining a normal microbiota composition during the ingestion of a meat-based diet. This study protocol was registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network: UMIN000014164.
If someone grew up conjuring demons every Thursday morning, then he will not be amazed or thrown off-stride by seeing demons conjured; it will seem perfectly normal to him. At least, on Thursdays. People vary drastically according to their native culture; anyone who has travelled extensively knows that. The people in fantasy novels, therefore, should not think and act like ordinary twentieth-century Americans somehow thrust into another world (unless, of course, they are twentieth-century Americans thrust into another world). A boy who grew up as a pseudo-medieval peasant, spending all his life on a half-acre of ground, is not going to think the same way that a modern American suburbanite thinks; he's likely to be constantly aware of the weather and the seasons, alert to birds and wildlife (they can damage desperately-needed crops), but with no clear idea what a mountain or an ocean might be, for example, no idea what might lie beyond the horizon, even as to whether the laws of nature are the same elsewhere as at home. And, since this is fantasy, they might not be. If he was brought up in a religion with a hundred gods, he's very unlikely to embrace monotheism--or atheism. And if his world is full of magic, then he will accept magic as an everyday part of his life. Watt-Evans' Fifth Law of Fantasy: Magic, like everything else, has rules. A writer needs to let the reader know just what the situation is. Is magic everywhere, fairies under every bush, dryads in every tree and nixies in every brook? Can anybody work spells just by putting rhymes together? Or is magic rare and valuable? Can only a handful of wizards cast spells? The rules need to be consistent. If it's established that only kings can work healing spells, for example, and the peasant hero heals his dying friend's wound, you darn well better explain that he's actually a long-lost heir to a throne somewhere, or the reader will feel cheated. You had also better work out just how this magic fits into the world you've invented. If the gods appear regularly at their worship services, for example, your hero really can't be an atheist unless he's an idiot or blind. If alchemists can turn entire mountains to gold with no effort, the money can't be on a gold standard--at least, not unless the alchemists control the economy and maintain the currency artificially.
Click Here to Return to the Intro \| Continue with Flash... The year of my high-school graduation, 2007, was utter bliss; I had the most wonderful time of my life, most of it spent with my buddies. It was also the year I found out about the Korean BW proscene and, just like anyone introduced to something exciting and exotic, I was consumed by it.My first MSLs in 2007 were deeply personal experiences – they marked my passion for the entire universe of esports, one specific progamer and TeamLiquid in general. Those memories are the reason I'm telling you all this, they’re the reason I'm here today, and the reason I don't want to go anywhere else.The Golden Badge winners’ club consists of only the brightest and most dominant players the Korean BW scene has ever produced. It wouldn't do his accomplishments any justice if I were to say Bisu doesn't belong to this exclusive club, but unlike the Bonjwas before him, Bisu never managed to establish his own long lasting reign of dominance.His career, from glorious triumphs to lamentable losses, has been marked by the huge expectations the community has of him; just like all great champions, Bisu was challenged to prove his worth in every tournament he has attended. Ultimately, this has resulted in some of the most significant and memorable moments of the MSL.Bisu's meteoric rise to stardom began during the 2007 GOMTV Season 1 MSL. By then Kim Taek Yong was already considered a prodigious young Protoss player with a solid performance in the Proleague for his team – MBC. With a loss to the Protoss legend nal_ra, followed by wins over the Terran powerhouses Iris and Canata, Bisu had managed to make it through a very hard group in the Ro16. The Ro8 was to be no easier, with the MSL format placing him in a group with two more Terran players – the rising stars Hwasin and Light, as well as an MSL runner up in the form of the Zerg player, Silver. Bisu managed to overcome the odds in fine style and stage was set for a rematch with nal_ra in the final.The community was on the side of the Dreamer; a win would mean he’d face his nemesis, Savior, in long awaited continuation of their Holy Wars. The underdog shocked everyone though, as Bisu easily bested nal_ra 3-0 in their encounter.
The competitions consisted in works of public usefulness- such as clearing a large terrain near the Temples from logs and dead trees, cleaning and repainting a recently acquired building, moving the greenhouse to a new location. Members of the two teams were very kind and supportive of each other, and it was not unusual that a group would stop all of a sudden to go hug the members of the other team, to bring them hot tea and cookies. The Battle of the Eighth Quesito was – as all Damanhurian battles – a challenge against one’s personal limits, where everybody was driven by the desire of creating something useful and beautiful that the whole community could enjoy. So, competition at Damanhur is many things.
Portugal inaugurated a wave energy ... more Photo: JOAO ABREU MIRANDA / AFP/Getty Images Image 6 of 10 A worker ties a Portuguese flag to an off-shore electricity generator based on wave power off of Portugalís Atlantic coast near the northern town of Povoa de Varzim in September 2008. Portugal inaugurated a wave energy farm that uses floating tubes whose bobbing motion pumps hydraulic fluid to drive generators. less A worker ties a Portuguese flag to an off-shore electricity generator based on wave power off of Portugalís Atlantic coast near the northern town of Povoa de Varzim in September 2008. Portugal inaugurated a ... more Photo: JOAO ABREU MIRANDA / AFP/Getty Images Image 7 of 10 A worker ties a Portuguese flag to an offshore electricity generator based on wave power off of Portugalís Atlantic coast near the northern town of Povoa de Varzim in September 2008. Portugal inaugurated a wave energy farm that uses floating tubes whose bobbing motion pumps hydraulic fluid to drive generators. less A worker ties a Portuguese flag to an offshore electricity generator based on wave power off of Portugalís Atlantic coast near the northern town of Povoa de Varzim in September 2008. Portugal inaugurated a ... more Photo: JOAO ABREU MIRANDA / AFP/Getty Images Image 8 of 10 In this undated photo provided by Finavera Renewables, a wave energy converter called an AquaBuOY is shown. Finavera's 35-ton buoys rise above the water about 6 feet but extend beneath the surface some 60 feet, where a piston encased in an underwater steel cylinder rises and falls with the waves and pushes pressurized seawater through rubber hoses. The water is then pumped into a turbine inside the buoy which spins to create power. Finavera's first ocean test last year ended in disaster when its $2 million buoy deployed off Oregon's coast sunk to the sea floor. less In this undated photo provided by Finavera Renewables, a wave energy converter called an AquaBuOY is shown. Finavera's 35-ton buoys rise above the water about 6 feet but extend beneath the surface some 60 ... more Photo: Anonymous / AP Image 9 of 10 In this artist rendition provided by Finavera Renewables wave energy converters called an AquaBuOYs are shown.
We chose to quantify charcoal from two size classes (125–250 and >250 µm) to distinguish extralocal vs. more local burning and thus aid interpretation. Although charcoal recovery was low throughout the profiles, the presence of charcoal “peaks,” particularly in the larger fraction, was interpreted as evidence of singular burning episodes, and were targeted for AMS dating. Stable carbon isotopes. In soil profiles, analysis of δ13C values of carbon preserved within soil organic matter (SOM) may be used to indicate the ratio of C3:C4 plants that persisted in an environment and contributed to pedogenesis during the past (62). Soils from tropical savannas, which contain many grasses that use a C4 photosynthetic pathway, typically have δ13C values (relative to Vienna PDB) between −19.5‰ and −16‰, whereas in forested sites, where the vegetation is typically C3, values range between −30‰ and −22.5‰ (63). Stable carbon isotope analysis was conducted on soils from JS1 (sampled every 10 cm) and JS3 (sampled every 10 cm, then every 20 cm below 0.4 m below surface), to provide an indicator of the dominant vegetation types present before, during, and following construction of the geoglyphs to provide information pertaining to the vegetation in the vicinity of the Jaco Sá geoglyph and its changes over time. Charcoal and soil humin dates. Charcoal for dating was extracted in bulk from the soil samples to provide an average soil horizon age and minimize problems with dating singular fragments that may have been translocated in the profile. Dating efforts focused on specific events recorded in the phytolith and charcoal records, in particular charcoal peaks that represented anthropogenic burning activity and the beginning of the decline in palm taxa (FC1, JS2, JS2, and JS4). Basal dates for the profiles (all but JS1) were retrieved by 14C dating of soil humin [benzene/liquid scintillation counting at Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA) laboratories (64)] due to the lack of charcoal in these lower strata. Soil humin is considered the most stable component of SOM and provides more reliable dates for organic matter formation than bulk dates. A study comparing 14C ages of humin, bulk SOM, and charcoal in soil profiles from central Brazil found that humin and charcoal ages were in good agreement up to 1.0–1.5 m BS, whereas bulk SOM dates were significantly younger in the same horizons (65).
Summers’ talk was the capstone of a conference whose theme was “innovation”. In an excellent session a day earlier (see John Cassidy for a full write-up, ht Mark Thoma), there was surprising agreement among several panelists that speculative bubbles help support innovation. William Janeway distinguished between bubbles in productive vs nonproductive sectors, financed by banks vs nonbanks, and argued that productive-sector, not-bank-financed bubbles promote socially useful innovation at modest social cost, despite high private costs to investors. He went so far as to suggest that agency problems in the delegated investment process, specifically the inability of career-minded fund managers to stay away from bubbles regardless of any personal reservations, make an important contribution to innovation. Steven Fazzari (whose work on inequality this blog has featured before) described research showing that R&D expenditures of young firms are constrained by external finance and increase in bubblicious periods. Ramana Nanda investigated whether investments made at the top of bubbles were poor, and found that they were not. They were just riskier. Firms funded by venture capitalists in heat were unusually likely to crash and burn, sure, but they were also unusually likely to succeed spectacularly. In an earlier panel, Mariana Mazzucato described the importance of “mission-oriented” investment by the public sector. States determined to gain military advantages or put humans in space accept experimentation and failure that would be intolerable to private venture capitalists (whose enthusiasm for risk, she argues, is in general overstated). The common thread in all these accounts is that too much market discipline can be socially counterproductive. If (nonbank-financed) speculative bubbles create social value that exceeds the costs borne by investors and entrepreneurs, then the fact that market participants fail to impose privately optimal discipline on their own portfolios is beneficial. If revolutionary developments in technology depend upon states accepting large, nonrecoverable expenses, a managerialist insistence on quantifiable performance metrics may be foolish. Even in the private sector, powerhouses of invention like Bell Labs and Xerox PARC thrive primarily within cushy monopolies, where they are sheltered from quotidian fretting over the bottom line, where market incentives are present but blunted.
On June 28th, Jacqui received an e-mail from Katharine Lambert: Hi, Jacqui, I hope you’ve managed to get some sleep, Bob was up early this morning (4:30) and felt very strongly that he wanted to make contact with Francis, he has written him a letter which I’ve attached for you to pass on. . . . We’ll leave it to Francis now to decide—he may need time to think things through and that’s fine. I hope you’re feeling better Jacqui, Bob’s not a bad person and is really genuinely sorry for the distress he’s caused you. Attached was a letter from Bob to his son: Dear Francis, I just wanted to say hello and to say how much I am really looking forward to meeting you again. It’s been a long time! Lots to catch up on and talk about. In all seriousness I think I would be the luckiest man alive if I had the opportunity to get to know you again. I have a lot to explain and to apologize for, to you, your mum, who I have always held in the highest regard, and your grandparents who I remember fondly. And I will. Bob wrote that he was “probably more comfortable expressing my thoughts and feelings on paper than in person” and that he didn’t “want to get too heavy!” He talked about running (“Saturday morning at 9 A.M. I sometimes do a 5K Parkrun locally”). His tone was tender and, given the sensitivity of the situation, surprisingly forthright. He hoped, he wrote, that they could meet soon. “In the meantime, take care,” he wrote. “Love, Bob.” Jacqui was reeling. “Basically, all my pieces were glued together, and then this wrecking ball happened,” she said. Transiting between the bed and the couch, she trawled the murkiest depths of her memory in search of some moment that would illuminate everything that had come after. Events whose causes and consequences had been fixed in her mind for decades mutated in the half-light of Bob’s revelations. “I went through things he said to me, things I said to him, this, that,” she recalled. “He says to my son, as if he’s been in pain all these years, that he wants to see him, so I don’t know, is that true?
But I was talking about intimacy. So, what the actual toothbrush scene does obviously builds off this place of discomfort/vulnerability/overt sexuality she’s been intentionally provoking. It combines this with the relationship these two have been building, a great deal of bantering buildup, and a close monologue from Araragi to place the sex stuff in a position of complete emotional honesty. Sure, it’s also played for humor – but the humor is mostly based on the fact that it’s funny brushing teeth can be this sexy, and as I said, for that joke to work at all, the audience has to truly understand that this scene is sexy to these characters. Most powerful moments in most media are powerful not just because of the audience’s emotional reaction to a situation, but because they can empathize with a character’s emotional reaction to a situation. This effect drags us further into the text/film/show and girders our connection with the characters involved – at that moment, we feel for them more deeply than we do for ourselves. Thus, all the prep work of this episode works to help us understand these characters completely at this moment, and when they react to this scene as if it’s incredibly erotic, we can understand it to be erotic as well. The connection between the characters is honest, and the way the show is conveying their emotions to the audience is honest as well – intimacy is really just another word for honesty. This honesty, which makes this scene so strong, is a part of why most fanservice is so bad – because it’s dishonest to the characters, and portrays them as sexual objects when they’re not actually feeling like sexual objects in that moment. But more than that, this honesty is almost entirely lacking in conventional pornography. Conventional pornography is generally a collection of soul-deadened actors performing a service for a fee – sure, they’re naked, but it’s the furthest thing from intimacy you could possibly imagine. To find someone disrobe emotionally, you have to look to art. And so the point of this scene is “Even in a scene as ridiculous as this, honesty can make it ring true.”
Mile Route Location Rolling Street Closure Anticipated Street Reopening Start Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - Upper Level Midnight 3:00 p.m. Start Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - Lower Level Staten Island Bound 7:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. Start Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - Lower Level Brooklyn Bound 7:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 1 Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - Midpoint Midnight 3:00 p.m. 2 Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Exit to 92nd Street Midnight 3:00 p.m. 3A 4th Avenue and 82nd Street 7:15 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 3B 74th Street, before 6th Avenue 7:15 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 5K (Orange) 4th Avenue and 80th Street 7:15 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 5K (Blue) 4th Avenue and 80th Street 7:15 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 5K (Green) Bay Ridge Pkwy and 6th Avenue 7:15 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 4 4th Avenue and 63rd Street 7:25 a.m. 12:50 p.m. 5 4th Avenue and 43rd Street 7:25 a.m. 1:05 p.m. 6 4th Avenue and 22nd Street 7:25 a.m. 1:20 p.m. 10K (Orange) 4th Avenue and 18th Street 7:25 a.m. 1:25 p.m. 10K (Blue / Green) 4th Avenue and 18th Street 7:25 a.m. 1:25 p.m. 7 4th Avenue and 3rd Street 8:00 a.m. 1:35 p.m. 8 Flatbush Ave and Lafayette Ave 8:00 a.m. 1:50 p.m. 9 Lafayette and Classon Avenues 8:00 a.m. 2:05 p.m. 15K Bedford Avenue and Kosciuszko Street 8:00 a.m. 2:10 p.m. 10 Bedford Avenue between Wallabout Street and Lynch Street 7:35 a.m. 2:20 p.m. 11 Bedford Avenue and South 3rd Street 7:35 a.m. 2:35 p.m. 12 Manhattan Avenue past Bedford Avenue 7:45 a.m. 2:50 p.m. 20K Manhattan Avenue before Greenpoint Avenue 7:45 a.m. 2:55 p.m. 13 McGuiness Boulevard, approaching Pulaski Bridge 8:00 a.m. 3:15 p.m. 13.1 McGuiness Boulevard, approaching Pulaski Bridge 8:00 a.m. 3:15 p.m. 14 10th Street and 44th Drive 8:30 a.m. 3:29 p.m. 15 Queensboro Bridge lower level - Queens side 7:00 a.m. 3:15 PM - 3:45 p.m. 25K Queensboro Bridge lower level - midspan 7:00 a.m. 3:15 PM - 3:45 p.m. 16 Queensboro Bridge - lower level Manhattan side 7:00 a.m. 3:15 PM - 3:45 p.m. 17 1st Avenue and 77th Street 8:45 a.m. 4:17 p.m. 18 1st Avenue and 97th Street 8:45 a.m. 4:33 p.m. 30K 1st Avenue between 109th and 110th Streets 8:45 a.m. 4:42 p.m. 19 1st Avenue and 117th Street 8:45 a.m. 4:49 p.m. Willis Avenue Bridge 8:45 a.m. 5:00 p.m. 20 135th Street just west of Willis Avenue 8:30 a.m. 5:05 p.m. Madison Avenue Bridge 8:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m. 21 Madison Avenue Bridge and West 138th Street 8:30 a.m. 5:20 p.m. 35K 5th Avenue and 125th Street 9:00 a.m. 5:32 p.m. 22 Mt.
Then automatically it selects a pre made list of links and for example would choose the ‘Justin bieber sex tape video’. Using zero days to compromise a website, then insert an iframe is kinda old, boring and sometimes doesn’t bring in the best results — unless of course you’re hijacking a high Alexa rating; then it’s worth it. Combining 0-days to deface the website and then a 0-day in e.g. java to hijack with a drive by is a lot more effective than tracking the user into downloading a file. What a lot of people don’t realize is that emails easily available on their Facebook profile can be sold for spam. Again, this makes more money automatically. * A fudder can be a tool that binds to a virus and makes it more difficult for antivirus to detect, or a person specializing in such a tool. Q: How easy is it for you to compromise a website and take control over it? A: For beginners you can simply Google inurl:money.php?id= — go ahead try it. But most of them will be cancelled or dried up. So, now you target bigger websites. I like to watch the news; especially the financial side of it. Say if a target just started up and it suddenly sky rocketed in online sales that’ll become a target. Most of these websites have admins behind them who have no practical experience of being the bad guy and how the bad guys think. This leaves them hugely vulnerable. They patch SQL but choose a DNS that is vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning. You can break in and be gone within an hour. Q: How easy is it for you to take over the ownership of an account via whois information or other publicly available information? A: Whois used to be crucial to gaining information. Now people spew it on Facebook, twitter, etc. Companies like Amazon only require name, address and email on the account to add another credit card. You then hang up. Ring the password reset department and tell them as verification the name, address, email and the credit card number you just added (it doesn’t even have to work (lol), just use fakenamegenerator.com) and then you are in. You can now see the ‘legit’ credit card’s last 4 digits. Now you can get an email password reset and you’re in.
Ahmeds promotion to a bus seat meanwhile appears to be a more complicated matter, seeing as he resurfaces this time with a friend in the section of Friedmans 2002 book Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 in which Friedman is gleaning post-11 September 2001 insights from the Israeli army on how to deal with suicide terrorism: "There is no way [the Israelis] will ever know Ahmed from Mohammed the way Ahmed and Mohammed do." It is possible that Friedman has already understood the importance of co-opting members of the terrorist-producing population during Ahmeds original apparition in 1988, when Chomsky notes that Friedman also "proposed the brutal Israeli-run regime of south Lebanon as a model for the occupied [Palestinian] territories" clearly not the bus seat envisioned by Ahmed. During the second intifada in 2002, Friedman declares that "the Palestinians have long had a tactical alternative to suicide: nonviolent resistance, à la Gandhi," which "would have delivered a Palestinian state thirty years ago." Given that Friedman resided in Jerusalem at the start of the first intifada in 1987, he is well aware that the Palestinians have long employed tactical alternatives to suicide, something he confirms with his suggestion in his 1989 book From Beirut to Jerusalem that stone-throwing is compatible with "the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi." Friedman elaborates on the Palestinians "operational" adoption of stones, "encouraged and exploited by Yasser Arafat and the PLO leaders": "What the Palestinians under occupation were saying by using primarily stones instead of firearms was that the most powerful weapon against the Israelis was not terrorism or guerrilla warfare The most powerful weapon, they proclaimed, was massive non-lethal civil disobedience. That is what the stones symbolized." The sudden possibility in 2002 of a thirty-year-old Palestinian state is also called into question by the fact that 2002 minus thirty years is 1972, which is sixteen years before Friedman advises giving Ahmed a seat in the bus. Moreover, Friedman goes to great lengths in From Beirut to explain that the Jew who "got a seat" on the "subway of life" in 1948 has now "gotten used to the whole seat" and thus "keeps The New York Times locked in front of his face," while the little old shopping bag-laden lady (played by Arafat) shouts in reference to the seat: "I am ready to share. I am ready to share."
Fukushima's long shadow Tohoku earthquake and tsunami It was the worst disaster in post-war Japanese history. Four years ago, a massive 9.3-magnitude undersea earthquake erupted off the coast of the Tohoku region, triggering a tsunami that devastated the northeastern coast of Japan, taking the lives of at least 15,880 people and leaving another 2,694 missing. Some 6,135 people were injured. Fukushima's long shadow Fukushima meltdown But the natural disaster turned into a manmade one when a 13-meter (43-foot) tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The plant's cooling systems failed, leading to overheating in three reactor cores, and radiation leaks. About 20,000 people were evacuated, while some 80,000 additional cancer cases could surface due to radiation exposure. Cleanup could take 30 years. Fukushima's long shadow Three Mile Island The Fukushima disaster was not without precedent. In 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, underwent a partial nuclear meltdown. Feedwater pumps stopped sending water to the steam generator that cooled the reactor core, and a malfunctioning valve allowed cooling water to pour out. Some 140,000 children and pregnant women were evacuated from the area. Fukushima's long shadow The legacy of Chernobyl Until Fukushima, the Chernobyl disaster was the worst nuclear accident in history. In 1986, a sudden power surge at Unit 4 of the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine destroyed the reactor, releasing a radioactive cloud that spread over Russia and Europe. A 30-kilometer area was sealed off and some 335,000 people were evacuated, while at least 30 people died as a result. Fukushima's long shadow New US nuclear plant Finishing touches are being completed at the Watts Bar Unit 2 plant in Tennessee, after a long delay due to low regional power demand. Its sister plant, Watts Bar Unit 1, was the latest nuclear plant to go online in the United States, in 1996. Further new nuclear plants are planned for the US - which sees atomic energy as a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Fukushima's long shadow Germany's atomic buffer Even in Germany, with its strong anti-nuclear movement, Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition originally sought to delay the country's nuclear phase-out date from 2022 to 2034. The 2022 goal had been set by Merkel's center-left predecessor, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Merkel's coalition justified the delay by claiming that it was a buffer in the transition toward renewables.
JAISALMER: Sixteen years after India created history by becoming the sixth country to have tested nuclear bombs and joining the elite nuclear club on May 11, 1998, Pak intelligence agency, ISI, is making a lot of efforts to get a sample of the sand in Pokhran. The ISI even today, is reportedly trying to spy this area and get the sand samples of the area in Pokhran where the nuclear tests were conducted.At the tail end of Pokaran field firing range , the spot where nuclear test was done, is under strict vigil and ISI has not been able to succeed in its efforts. The 3.5km long road is closely guarded and one has to pass four strictly guarded gates to get there. Even till today, the then director of United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), George Tenent feels disappointed at not being able to get the hint of the nuclear test conducted by India in 1998.According to an intelligence source, "ISI had launched its spies and agents whose objective was to take sand from this place. ISI wants to test the sand and analyze how the testing was done scientifically and technically. But due to the alertness of BSF jawans, their objective so far has not seen the light of the day. "Defence spokesperson SD Goswami said, "Guarding and protecting the defence land is the responsibility of the local military authority. As such, all defence land falls under restricted area zone where permission for civilian freedom of movement is strictly monitored and depends on case to case. "May 11 has been officially declared as the National Technology Day in India to commemorate the first of the five tests that were carried out on the 16th anniversary of Pokhran II. After the nuclear test done on May 11 and 13, 1988, the place is under strict Army vigil even today and no person can enter it for several kilometres without Army's permission.Just 16 years ago, Buddha smiled at Pokaran area in Jaisalmer. In hind sight, 'Smiling Buddha' a (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the code name of India's first nuclear weapon explosion, which took place on May 18, 1974.
A neutral party can help bring out the best in her, plus they can help steer the conversation to more benign topics like reality television and celebrity hairstyles. Have you a sibling or two? Here's where they might prove quite useful, I am guessing. However, if Mom's a hoarder, chances are someone else in the family has inherited this or the negative image of this, OCD, so if the sibling's presence makes it twice as much work for you, pick someone else. Try to have sympathy. When I am at my most mother-resenting, I force myself to remember that hoarding is a disease; and despite what I might think to the contrary, it's not easy for her or anyone else to recover from it even a little bit. That said, I believe it's okay to set boundaries to protect yourself. For me, I no longer give her loans or weigh in on family disputes about my deceased grandmother's jewelry. Remember: you are not your mother. No matter how many Seventeen magazines you still have from the 80's (one with a teenage Whitney Houston on the cover! ), this does not a hoarder make. However, it is good to get into the habit of periodically purging and organizing. I love my label-maker and my husband, and together they provide me with enough motivation for me to keep all but the garage clean. And the closets. And pantry. And two junk drawers.
"Since taking the helm at Apple, Cook has emerged as a well known personality, leading the company's keynote addresses, testifying before the U.S. Senate engaging leaders in China on privacy and security and increasingly addressing issues of inequality , most recently in his home state of Alabama.In a speech at his induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor, an institution that celebrates distinguished Alabamans, Cook addressed the state's slow action on racial equality in the 1960s, noting it has only been 14 years since interracial marriage was made legal in the state.Cooks added that Alabama is "still too slow on equality for the LGBT community," citing a legal right to fire employees based on their sexual orientation. "We can't change the past, but we can learn from it and we can create a different future," Cook said.Republican Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, an opponent of same-sex marriage, told the Anniston Star he objected to Cook drawing connections between the Civil Rights movement and gay rights. "I don't connect those two, and in fact I don't think the African-American community connects those two either," Bentley said.However, as Coretta Scott King, the wife of Martin Luther King Jr., stated in 1998, "I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. '"Cook essay described that he realized he was giving up his own privacy in the hope that hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay might help those who still struggle with their identity. "When I arrive in my office each morning, I'm greeted by framed photos of Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy," Cook wrote in his coming out letter. "I don't pretend that writing this puts me in their league. All it does is allow me to look at those pictures and know that I'm doing my part, however small, to help others. "We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick."
Daggerfall, demonstrating the user interface and graphical capabilities of the game A first-person screenshot from, demonstrating the user interface and graphical capabilities of the game In Daggerfall, as in all The Elder Scrolls games, players are not required to follow questlines or fill specific character types. Bethesda Softworks claims that the scale of the game is the size of Great Britain:[2] around 229,848 square kilometers (88,745 square miles), though the actual size of the map is 161,600 km² (62,394 mi²). The game world features over 15,000 towns, cities, villages, and dungeons for the player's character to explore. According to Todd Howard, game director and executive producer for Bethesda, the game's sequel, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, is 0.01% the size of Daggerfall, but some aspects of Daggerfall's terrain were randomly generated, like the wilderness and some building interiors. The explorable part of Morrowind, Vvardenfell, is 24 km² (9.3 mi²). [3][4] There are 750,000+ non-player characters (NPCs) for the player to interact with. Daggerfall features a spell-creation system where, through the Mages Guild, players can create custom spells with several different effects. The game will then automatically generate the magicka cost of the spell based on the power of the effects chosen. Other features include an equipment enchantment system (similar in concept to the spell creation system); the ability to buy houses and ships; a variety of clothing and equipment; dynamic political relationships between kingdoms; the ability to become a vampire, werewolf, or wereboar; and the combat system, which uses mouse movement to determine the direction and effect of weapon swings in melee combat. The political system is supported by a net of guilds, orders, and religions, all with unique tasks and quests. Joining and contributing to these organizations allow the player to raise ranks and gain a reputation in the game world, which affects how NPCs and other factions view the player. Daggerfall has genre-typical gore elements and some sexual topics. It displays cartoonish nudity including male and female genital areas when all equipment is removed. The game installer includes a password-protected childgard feature that hides blood and corpses (instead showing just the skeleton of the corpse), disables sexual topics (though not removing all nudity), and ensures the character portrait is wearing underwear at all times. Daggerfall, like the other games in The Elder Scrolls series, takes place on the fictional continent of Tamriel. In Daggerfall, the player may travel within the High Rock and Hammerfell provinces of Tamriel.
Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist who studies the minimum wage at the University of California-Berkeley, says that the tipped wage system has been kept in place for decades thanks to powerful restaurant lobbyists, including the National Restaurant Association—known in the industry as the “other NRA.” One-time Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain previously served as its CEO. “I mean [what restaurant] wouldn’t want customers to pay the bulk of your wage bill?” Allegretto says. “The economic argument that you hear from a lot of restaurants is that if you get rid of the tipped wages, you're going to destroy the restaurant industry,” she says. “But clearly, that's not true, because the restaurant industry is booming in many states that eliminated tipped wages.”
The details of the test optimisations and results from the lab studies are currently being written-up in separate manuscripts. Therefore, for use in future research we recommend using the optimised versions of the tests, which have been compiled as version 1.0 of the Gold-MSI test battery and are fully documented and freely available from http://www.gold.ac.uk/music-mind-brain/gold-msi/. For more details on individual stimulus generation and all stimuli in music notation see Müllensiefen et al. [65]. Beat perception test: materials and procedure. Beat perception was assessed via a newly created variant of the Beat Alignment Test [125]. The test required participants to listen to 18 short instrumental excerpts (10–16 seconds). Tracks were overlaid with a metronome-like beep track that was exactly on the implied beat of the music for half of the items, or manipulated in one of three ways for the other half of the items: phase shift by 10% or 17.5% of the beat period, or tempo alteration by 2% relative to the beat of the music track. The participants’ task was to indicate whether the beep track coincided with the beat of the music or not, and to rate their confidence on the same scale used for the melody memory task (again, confidence ratings were not used for the derivation of the participants’ accuracy or d’ scores). The 18 tracks were taken from 9 different musical pieces belonging to three different genres (rock, jazz, and popular classical). The tempo of the musical pieces varied between 85 and 165 beats per minute. Six of the musical pieces were in duple meter while three items (one from each genre) were in triple meter. Items were screened individually for their contribution to the reliability of the overall test which led to the exclusion of three items that contributed negatively to the tests’ reliability as measured by Cronbach’s alpha. For the 15-item testset, the alpha coefficients from the test and the retest sessions were.87 and.92. Test-retest reliability was computed from the d’ scores (ICC = .63, r = 70, rho = 72, all p<.001). Again, for use in future research we recommend using the optimised versions of the beat perception test which is part of version 1.0 of the Gold-MSI test battery and fully documented and freely available from http://www.gold.ac.uk/music-mind-brain/gold-msi/. For links to the soundfiles of the nine original music pieces see Müllensiefen et al. [65].
Can the sudden appearance of so many radically new traits be best explained by the prior existence of readily available genetic plans? Or perhaps could it be the result of the opening of expanded channels of communication between genetic plans? (Hoyle, 1981) Current evolutionary neo-Darwinian “fundamental dogma” holds that all traits of a species are only passed on genetically, so that traits acquired in life are not inherited. Furthermore, new genetic traits are only created through mutation and passed down within a species own line of descent, and that only if they pass the test of natural selection within that species line. While useful in understanding biological evolution, this theory is clearly false when applied to human social evolution. This is so because, in contrast to what seems to be the case with other animal species, humans can inherit acquired traits, such as technologies, and furthermore, can inherit such traits from unrelated persons or groups. As a result, such theories as national social Darwinism (Bernhardi, 1912, Hitler, 1941), which postulate history as a battle of nations for limited resources with advances occurring via the resulting elimination of the less militarily proficient, are not only morally reprehensible, but scientifically wrong, since inventions made in any nation can (and generally do) ultimately benefit all nations. Indeed, were it the case that technological innovations were not laterally transferable from person to person, tribe to tribe, and nation to nation, it is doubtful that humanity would ever have advanced beyond the old stone age. Conversely, it is easy to see the quantum acceleration of human progress following the establishment of global communications through the development of the printing press and long-distance sailing ships circa 1500, and their further improvement via railroads, steamboats, telegraphs, telephones, radio, TV, and the Internet in the period since. Furthermore, it is unquestionable that the growth of human population has contributed to this trend, since the more people there are, the more inventors there can be, and inventions are cumulative. This is why, contrary to Malthus, as the world’s population has gone up, the standard of living has gone up, not down. For similar reasons, it is in the self-interest of intelligent species to promote the creation of and communication with as many intelligent species elsewhere as possible. The more sources of transferable invention that there are, the more inventions each will receive, and the greater will be the power of each to add further inventions in turn.
NEW DELHI: After pulses, rice prices may also shoot up and reach a "boiling point" in the coming months due to depleting stocks and likely fall in its kharif output, according to industry body Assocham The report, however, contradicts the current price trend in the market, where wholesale prices of non-basmati prices are ruling down at Rs 25 per kg as against Rs 30 per kg last year.Similarly, wholesale rates of premium basmati rice have declined sharply by about 30 per cent to Rs 44-45 per kg at present from Rs 62-65 per kg last season, as per traders.Whereas industry body Assocham in its study said after pulses, onion and mustard oil, rice prices may trouble consumers if timely adequate safeguards are not taken. "...prices of rice may shoot up and reach a boiling point in the coming months as the stock of the key staple cereal is depleting fast owing to deficient rains and fall in output," the study said.As per the government estimates, kharif rice production is estimated at 90.61 million tonnes in 2015-16 crop year. "...this is unlikely to be achieved due to severe deficit rains in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar , Maharashtra and Karnataka and the best that could be achieved is 89 million tonnes," it said adding that overall rice output may be around 103 million tonnes during 2015-16.That apart, the study said rice stocks have declined in last three years from 24.59 million tonnes in 2012 to 13.89 million tonnes (plus unlimited paddy 3.61 tonnes) in stocks at present. "Increasing export outgo on account of PDS (Public Distribution System) and other welfare schemes will continue to weigh on availability in the open market. Unless government is able to handle the situation prudently, depleting stocks will soon reflect on the open market prices", adds the study.
“I’m not afraid to dance, and I’m a full grown man,” Beck said late in his set. Beck, who was preceded by Sharon Van Etten and Tame Impala, had finally urged the crowd into at least a state of modest dance. This was still Boston, after all. It took all the talent and swagger of the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter to get the folks moving and grooving. What Beck might have lacked in physical stature, he sure made up for in musical range and, yes, dance moves. Friday was the first night of Boston Calling, the three-day festival held twice a year right outside City Hall, running Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday. This year’s festival will host My Morning Jacket, Ben Harper, the Pixies, and many more in the days to come. There is a discovery/searching part of any festival, usually in the first hour or two. Festival goers wandered around the red-bricked city square gazing at all the sponsors. As they dipped their toes into the pavilion for the first time, so did Van Etten. The Brooklyn-based electric folk artist treated the growing crowd to cuts from across her work, including the unreleased “All Over.” Van Etten used basic arrangements, but her lingering guitar and voice cut through the square making it a peaceful first hour or so of wandering. Eventually, there is a settling phase in any festival. The wanderers rooted themselves for a while. Aussie psychedelic Tame Impala and its warped, ’60s-inspired sound helped settle the crowd. Tame Impala sent wave after wave of rolling bass and reverb-heavy vocals, and most of the crowd was happy to let it wash over them. Finally, Beck arrived. He was the ’90s come alive. He was a genre-blending tongue twister. He danced in and out of a void of his own creation. Though cuts from his Grammy-winning Morning Phase made up a chunk in the middle of his set, pulling out the acoustic guitar for “Blue Moon,” “Heart Is a Drum,” and a few others, Beck frequently—and rightfully so—pulled from his ragtag past. Filling most of the square at this point, the crowd reacted with enthusiasm to hits like “Loser” and closer “Where It’s At.”
One victim testified that Fields would watch her in withdrawal and in agony, saying, “I’ll give you one pill. I’m not going to give you another until you get up and go to work. And you know you need another.” In 2015 a Sheboygan, Wisconsin, trafficker, Jason Guidry, received a 25-year sentence for a similar M.O. with heroin . “I remember one woman who was in treatment for her heroin addiction,” says Hanni Stoklosa, M.D., M.P.H., 36, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, who cofounded HEAL Trafficking, to combat sexual exploitation from a public health perspective. “She was approached by a female recruiter who was like, ‘Hey, I know how to get you your drugs.’ That woman introduced my patient to her trafficker. They transported her across state lines from Massachusetts to Rhode Island, and then she was locked in a motel room. She finally got a hold of somebody’s smartphone and called her mom, who brought her to our emergency department.” Dr. Stoklosa still doesn’t know what happened to the woman after that: “It breaks my heart. She needed to be connected to drug treatment resources, but she also needed help for the horrible PTSD that I can only imagine she’s experienced. I didn’t have those places to send her to. There are so few of facilities that do both.” Pinterest Nikki Bell’s story began in the chaos of growing up with a single mother who was in and out of the hospital with multiple illnesses and an amputated leg. “I was afraid to go to school because I didn’t know what I’d come home to,” says Nikki. Once, she found her mother in a coma. Sometimes other adults were there to take care of Nikki, but by high school she was often fending for herself. Pinterest At 17 Nikki started dating an older guy she’d met through an after-school job. “Pretty soon he was taking me to hotels in Boston and having me sleep with his friends,” she says. “Sometimes he gave me Percs or OxyContin so I would do what he wanted. Now I can look back and say those weren’t his friends; they were men who wanted to purchase a little girl.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced Friday that she has vetoed the City Council's bill to raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2022.Download the WBAL appThe City Council voted 11-3 Monday evening in favor of the bill. Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, the bill's co-sponsor, considers the legislation a good start toward chipping away at poverty.Workers have welcomed the increase, but some retailers said the increase would put them out of business. The bill exempts workers under 21, gives businesses with less than 50 employees until 2026 to comply and didn't include tipped wages.Pugh said during a news conference Friday afternoon that her decision was based on following the lead of the state, which has similar minimum wage legislation and on economic factors.Pugh said she made up her mind after days of debate, lots of research and lots of conversations with clergy, nonprofits, and county executives. "So for those reasons, and the economic impact I think this has on the city, making us the hole in the doughnut, it is not appropriate at this time that I would sign this bill, so I am vetoing this bill," Pugh said.She said the negative economic impact of the measure is just too severe, too expensive for a city staring down big bills for the school system and Department of Justice consent decree, and too risky to go it alone. "The other jurisdictions around us are waiting on the state, and we will do the same," Pugh said.Pugh's move shocked Clarke. "This is an impromptu response because we all were taken by surprise," Clarke said.Clarke and her council colleagues said they made so many concessions. "Shame, shame on letting the poverty that we have lived with shamefully for decades of the working poor continue on," Clarke said.Pugh said she hasn't had any lengthy conversations with business owners. Penny Trautner, owner of Light City Cycles, is watching the process closely. "Some businesses, I think, would have been helped, and they didn't know it," Trautner said. The small business owner told 11 News that she supports the bill but there's no way to know whether it would help or hurt the city's economy. "One thing you can tell, you can say that someone who is working a 40-hour-a-week job had a better chance of supporting themselves," Trautner said.
But let me draw out an activity on which he spent much energy, namely, hiking. For most of the information on these matters, we are dependent largely on Krupskaya, who more often than not accompanied Lenin. Or rather, these were activities they undertook together, relishing the opportunity to share in what was close to both their hearts. At the simplest level were the daily walks, a habit they maintained even after the October Revolution, albeit intermittently and more limited in extent. Unlike the extended hikes when they would banish all thought of work from their minds, the daily walks were a time for talk, sharing thoughts on what they were writing. For Lenin, this process was an extension his habit of writing, in which he would ‘pace up and down the room, whispering what he was going to write’. In this light the daily walks ‘became as much a necessity to him as whispering his article over to himself before putting it down in writing’ (Reminiscences, p. 63; see also Collected Works 37: 112, 332, 361, 365-6, 509, 516, 560, 578-9, 583, 601, 614). More strenuous were the day-long hikes together, usually ‘scrambling up mountains’, at times with a group dubbed the ‘excursionist party’ (Collected Works 37: 516, 507-8). Krupskaya writes of walks in the Wolski Forest near Krakow, the snow-capped summits of the Tatra Mountains in the south of Poland around Poronino, the mountains around Zakopane and those near Sörenberg, such as the Rothorn and Schrattenfluh, in Switzerland. At Sörenberg, they would try to work in the morning and set off in the afternoon, but often the temptation became too great and they would climb mountains all day (Reminiscences, pp. 262-3, 268, 307-8, 310-11; Collected Works 37: 622). From these locations, they would send ‘hikers’ greetings’ to family members, occasionally on a postcard (Collected Works 37: 363-4, 471). The Bolshevik Pianitsky tells of Lenin’s cycling when he could and of a hike together up to the ‘The Eye of the Sea’ (Morskie Oko), the largest mountain lake in the Tara Mountains, near Poronino. They arrived home after dark, drenched and cold, after climbing over rocks and up cliffs with the help of iron hooks made fast in the rock. When they made the peak, it was covered in cloud, and three times they began their descent, only for the sun to come out and another scramble to the top (Memoirs of a Bolshevik, pp. 182-3).
[img]http://i.imgur.com/NjoCXRY.png[/img]With Split 2 drawing to a close, the time has come to announce the third and final split of the year for the SMITE Oceania Pro League! With the largest prizepool of the year and a trip to the SMITE World Championships in January on the line, this promises to be the most intense and competitive time in Oceanic SMITE history. Running for 8 weeks, 6 teams will play each other twice beginning the 10th of September and ending the 30th of October. Check out the official Hi-Rez Announcement! [img]http://i.imgur.com/WbGlYMh.png[/img]The Prize Pool for Split 3 of the OPL is $60,000 broken down in the following manner. Each team will receive a guaranteed prize payment for the season of $2,500 (a total of $15,000 amongst the 6 teams) regardless of placement in the league.The remaining $45,000 will be awarded as bonus prizes for placement in the Regional Finals. [img]http://i.imgur.com/d7W8xoC.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/tfcw0rK.png[/img]The Challenger's Cup is seeing a major change in Split 3 and will be having a complete format change and become more structured in keeping with our aims of having a well organised competition at all levels. Running alongside the Pro League in Split 3, a 6 team Challenger's Cup league will be run by CyberGamer as the pathway into the OPL. Operating similarly to the Pro League, teams will compete over a 5/8 week period with the top 4 playing in a finals series. Details on what this will mean for relegations/OPL next year will be announced when they have been finalised.This does not mean other teams will not be given a chance to compete - the open ladder will run as well and act as a pathway into the Challenger's Cup. After the Challenger's Cup Finals and relegations between Split 2 and 3 are completed, an open qualifier for the Challenger's Cup league will be held (date to be confirmed) with seeding based on Challenger's Cup finals and Open Ladder standings. The two teams from the relegations process who do not qualify for the OPL will receive an automatic place in the Challnger's Cup league.Moving forward, the open ladder will act as a system for newly formed teams to gain some practice against opponents of a similar skill level whilst the Challenger's Cup will be a direct conduit for those wishing to compete in the Pro League. Full rules, schedule and further details on the Challenger's Cup will be released closer to the date of the Challenger's Cup commencement. [img]http://i.imgur.com/G0OKedR.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/mwKFqlY.png[/img]
This time, though, with a diamond so massive, Lucara too had a problem with the sealed-tender system. That system involved the usual group of diamond dealers. It did not reach outside the normal pool of wealth available for buying diamonds. Lucara had the biggest diamond in the world. Possibly no asset on earth was worth so much by weight. “Everybody wants to see it,” Lincoln told me. “I get four calls a day.” “From whom?” “From everybody.” “From people like Graff?” I said. “I mean, it’s a Graff stone.” “Yes,” said Lincoln, “people like that.” But there is really no such thing as “people like Graff.” There is only Graff, Laurence Graff, the storied London dealer in the kinds of diamonds bought by people who own countries. Lincoln showed me into one of the rooms where customers examine rough, and went to get the diamond. The room had the usual appointments: high-wattage fluorescent flex lamps, large pads of snowy-white paper, loupes, tweezers, diamond scoops, and small, cube-shaped machines, the size of a ring box, that can grade a diamond’s color in an instant. Dealers like to spread a parcel of diamonds onto white paper and examine the goods in strong light, often stone by stone, covering the paper with cryptic notes and calculations. DIAMOND PRICING IS AN ARCANE, RAPACIOUS ART. THE PER-CARAT PRICE OF DIAMONDS RISES EXPONENTIALLY WITH SIZE. Lincoln returned with a sort of heavy-duty Ziploc bag and told me to close my eyes. He dropped the diamond into my cupped hands. I felt the sudden, jagged, ice-cold weight, and opened my eyes to see light storming in my fingers. And—now it seems strange to say it—the diamond felt fragile too. I suddenly remembered all the stories about diamonds shattering at a tap. “Look in here,” Lincoln said, indicating a flat-sided cleft, as if someone had cut a tidy ledge into the rough surface. It was a cleavage plane, where a piece of the diamond had broken off. I put the loupe to this natural window and peered in, and in a moment understood Lucara’s excitement. It felt like toppling over the edge of a chasm into a clear abyss—a depth of lucid space that seemed to occupy at least a third of the stone, maybe even half. Easily more than 400 carats, or that’s what I guessed.
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While it may feel good to leave a flaming bag of e-dog shit on a forum or call people out on Facebook or give an e-bike rider a bad time at the trailhead, it doesn’t solve any problem; it merely gives you the false sense that you are being heard and that you are doing something constructive.If you are pissed about e-bikes, you can always type it out below; that's what the Comments section is for, after all. Be my guest. But while you are at it, there are infinitely better channels for your fury. Ring up IMBA, call up your local club, talk to your legislators, tell People for Bikes. Go to the people who are either making decisions on e-bike access or who are trying to pave the way for e-bikes on trails. Tell them what's on your mind.I’ll also argue that it’s worth your while to ride an e-bike before you pass judgement on them. That is, to my way of thinking, common sense. We should understand a thing before we form an opinion about it. It might change your mind. Or maybe it wouldn’t. Either way, you’d be informed.Me? I’m not against the things. E-bikes don’t light my fire at this point, but I am not going to insist that other people forgo motors because I choose to do so. I will, however, continue to point out to the bike industry that we need to do a much better job of educating bike shops and consumers about where these things can and can’t be ridden. Trails are going to get shut down if we don’t get a handle on that.In short, I’m not telling anyone that they shouldn’t be angry. I’m saying that if you are angry, do something constructive with that anger.Don’t punch the baby.
Oblivion is set six years after the events of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, though it is not a direct sequel to it or any other game. [19] The game is set in Cyrodiil—a province of Tamriel, the continent on which all the games in the series have so far taken place. [20] The story begins with the player imprisoned in a cell for an unknown crime. Emperor Uriel Septim VII, accompanied by Imperial bodyguards known as "the Blades", arrive in the prison, fleeing from assassins who have murdered the emperor's three sons and are now targeting him. The emperor and the Blades reveal that the player's jail cell contains a secret entrance to a part of the city's sewer that functions as an escape route. Pardoned by the emperor, the player follows the group into the sewer, where they come under attack by assassins. All but one of the Blades are cut down in the fighting that ensues. Knowing he is destined to die by the hands of the assassins, Uriel Septim entrusts the player with the Amulet of Kings, worn by the Septim emperors of Tamriel, and orders the player to take it to a man named Jauffre, the grand master of the Blades, at Weynon Priory. Immediately afterward, one of the assassins kills the emperor. The player escapes the sewer and heads out into the open world of Cyrodiil. [20] The lack of an heir for Uriel Septim has broken an old covenant—the barrier to Oblivion: a dangerous realm that is in another dimension. Multiple gates to Oblivion open, and an invasion of Tamriel begins by magical creatures known as Daedra, killing and destroying anything in their path. Jauffre tells the player that the only way to close the gates permanently is to find someone of the royal bloodline to retake the throne and relight the Dragonfires—with the Amulet of Kings—in the Imperial City. However, there is an illegitimate son named Martin, who is a priest in the city of Kvatch. Upon arriving at Kvatch, the player finds that the Daedra have destroyed the city and very few survivors remain. A massive Oblivion Gate is obstructing the main city entrance, and the player must venture through the gate into the Deadlands—one of the planes of Oblivion—in order to close it from the inside and allow access to the city.
After 10 years of war, and dozens of victories for the Empire, the Empire had established true dominance in the Outer Rim, and turned their attention to pushing through the Mid Rim. Believing that the Republic was still recovering from its losses, the Empire attempted to take Bothawui, but instead were obliterated as they met the full force of the entire Republic fleet. As the first major victory for the Republic, the hopes of Republican citizens were re-vitalized. The Sith struck back at the Bothan space and the renewed strength of the Republic, and suffered heavy losses against their Republican and Jedi foes that had already accepted that their death was inevitable. The Republican soldiers and Jedi were eventually wiped out, but not before the Imperials were forced into a full retreat. The Emperor had expected to sweep through the galaxy destroying the Jedi and the Republic without the need for alliances, however he did not foresee the sacrifices his enemies were willing to make, such as the heroic stand on Bothawui that restored hope, and rallied the Republic’s forces to fight with renewed courage. [85] As a result, the Empire changed strategy by 3667 BBY, and used Imperial Intelligence officers to forge alliances with criminal networks, Hutt cartels and Bounty Hunters. Most would remain independent however, until Imperial Intelligence managed to produce a puppet Mandalore figure for Mandalorian mercenaries and Bounty Hunters to rally under. This was the second step in the Emperor's master—plan. Using their Mandalorian allies to their advantage, the Sith used them to blockade the Hydian Way,[86][87] and block off the Republic's supplies[87] and military support to the Outer rim. [88] Even though the blockade was ultimately unsuccessful and eventually broken,[88] the blockade had already set the stage for an attack of the Core worlds by the Sith. [86]
MUMBAI: What was touted as a Rs 10-crore technological investment to streamline the functioning of the BMC's legal department turned out to be another scam brewing in the civic body . But the plot to mint money by floating multiple tenders to develop a software was nipped in the bud after a discussion with Bombay high court officials. A similar software is in use in the court and the BMC, which woke up to the scam, decided to get the program developed in-house through its IT department at 1% of the tender cost. The software was success fully tested in the presence of BMC boss Ajoy Mehta on Wednesday and the legal department has sought a test-run on Friday before implementing it. The software helps track la wyers representing the BMC in thousands of court cases along with their fees, case status and administrative reports. The program also has a feature of automatic selection of lawyers to cut allegations of favouritism.The BMC's legal department had invited the tender last November. One company responded. The tender was reissued with revised conditions, but again the bidder was the same. A senior official then asked the legal department to float a third tender on March 2016, with the same result. Controversy erupted after the multiple tender invitations and the municipal commissioner asked the IT department to handle the issue.BMC's legal and IT departments are supervised by different additional municipal commissioners.Sanjay Deshmukh, who oversees the IT department, asked officials to examine the proposal afresh along with programing requirements and also discussed the issue with Bombay high court officials, where the software is in use. “We contacted a Bengaluru-based IT company which quoted Rs 50 lakh to develop the program. But we decided to give our IT department a chance,“ said a senior officer.Finally, BMC chief Ajoy Mehta scrapped the idea to invite a tender again and within three months, the IT department successfully developed the program for a few lakhs.This is outrageous. It just once again proves the deep rot that has set into the civic administration, which runs India's richest city.Public money is shamelessly squandered and siphoned off into the pockets of the crooked.This case is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg. A fraudulent Rs 10 crore work is completed for merely a fraction of the cost only shows how tax payers money is wasted.
I'd point out, since you ask, that your claim that many of the other refs concern "a single event" has already been dismissed by a number of other editors, and I agree with them: Temple-Wood's considerable history of editing, and being reported, is in no sense one event but a definite process containing many events. Please read their comments above. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:51, 21 March 2016 (UTC) That peculiar interpretation so far has only been explicitly stated by Jclemens (below), and it has "already been dismissed" by Opabinia regalis as strain[ing] the definition of "event" well past its natural breaking point . I didn't feel the need to pile on at the time, but now that you're jumping that particular wagon... That surely was not the intent of the BLP1E/BIO1E. By that twisted logic, e.g. a mother of quadruple twins would become instantly eligible for our article because 1) she is notable for four events (births) 1) multiple newspapers recorded these "events". No such user (talk) 14:37, 21 March 2016 (UTC) Reading the New York Magazine article, I don't think Torchiest is mischaracterising it at all. It's exactly the same content that was in the original wikimedia blog post. (Including the dubious statement, "She’s created hundreds of articles about women scientists.") StAnselm (talk) 03:29, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
The event was filmed by a volunteer from B’Tselem – The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.That video shows the border police officer stopping the girl, Anwar Burkan, on a street near the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The site is heavily guarded by security personnel and is a highly sensitive area of the mostly Palestinian city. The pedestrian area in front of the tomb is blocked off to Palestinians, who are directed to use an alternate path behind a concrete barrier and small wire fence.Still, some Palestinian traffic is allowed and small children can often be seen playing nearby.Border Police confiscate Palestinian girl's bikeIn the video, the girl is seen yelling as the policeman approached her bicycle. The officer is shown with his foot on the bike, in an apparent attempt to keep her from taking it. After a few seconds she runs off crying in the direction of another child who is holding a large plastic toy.Anwar’s father, Mjoub, said the second child was the girl’s brother, but the video shows a youngster with a ponytail who appears to be a girl.As the policeman is joined by another who walks toward them, the two children run away.There is a break in the video at that point, after which one policeman is briefly seen with his foot pressing on bushes which by then covered the bike.The Border Police said it regretted the incident, which it took very seriously and opened an investigation as a result, a spokesman said.Charges of criminal abuse of power are usually brought against police only in cases when physical or some other significant, lasting harm has been caused to a civilian.As serious as descriptions made the incident appear, investigators did not think there was concrete harm sufficient to mount a criminal case.Mjoub Burkan said that Anwar and Ibrahim had been playing outside for about a half hour when the policeman stopped them.After the incident, Anwar came home in tears and said she was “afraid,” he said, adding that the officers “took the bicycle because the settlers and the army are afraid of all Palestinians.”Tovah Lazaroff and Adam Rasgon contributed to this report.
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Losira/Revival will need a semifinal finish to make that this week, but another Ro8 finish would put them both within striking distance of the top eight.The other significant story of the Korean qualifier is how the big names are faring. MarineKing just isn’t getting a break in the tournament. After being 6 pooled, then 7 pooled, in the first week he made an early exit last week as well. He’s had a really strong run in IPL5 qualifiers, so wethat he is capable of doing well – it’s just a matter of when. NesTea is also waiting in the wings for his moment to make a big run in the TSL. Of course we have other strong players like DRG and Jjakji (amongst others) trying to qualify each week, so no one should be sure of their spots just yet. I really look forward to see how this week’s qualifier will shape up.You can find more information about all invites, qualifiers, and full rankings in the TSL forum
Under the Forbes plan, a family of four would pay no federal income tax on its first $46,165 of income; a family of six would owe nothing until its income exceeded $65,930. And those figures are sure to have increased since they were first proposed back in 2005. But not only would many families pay no income tax, they still might get a refund anyway because the Forbes plan includes a refundable child credit and earned-income credit. If you want an example of a real flat tax, look no further than the 2.9 percent Medicare tax. Everyone pays 2.9 percent (split between employer and employee), on every dollar earned, no matter one’s marital status, number of dependents, or income level. I am in favor of neither the tax nor Medicare, but if you are looking for a genuine flat tax, then the Medicare tax is your tax. The FairTax is a consumption tax. It is the most radical tax reform plan, bar none. It also has the most vocal and intolerant proponents. The FairTax is the brainchild of three businessmen concerned about the crippling effects on the economy of the current federal tax code. After adopting the name “FairTax” for their tax-reform plan, they formed Americans for Fair Taxation in 1997 and enlisted Representative John Linder (R-GA) to introduce FairTax legislation in Congress. Linder first sponsored the “Fair Tax Act” in the House in July of 1999, and has reintroduced a FairTax bill at the beginning of every term of Congress since then, including the current one. Although Linder’s FairTax bill languishes in the House Committee on Ways and Means each time it is introduced, it has always had a number of cosponsors, including Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter — but not Ron Paul, the acknowledged taxpayers’ best friend. It also has its share of supporters outside of Congress, including Mike Huckabee and Neal Boortz. The latter is the author, with Congressman Linder, of The FairTax Book, published in 2005. A paperback version of The FairTax Book was issued in 2006 with some notable changes to correct false statements made in the original hardcover release of the book. Boortz and Linder also published a sequel, FairTax: The Truth, Answering the Critics, just last year. I am getting weary of writing about the FairTax.
for Inside Jersey, was right across the highway. I bought Spicy Cajun Crawtators, and wondered why anyone would call their product GoGo Squeeze (the "applesauce on the go'' is a big hit among kids, I was told). At one point, I crossed from Berlin into West Berlin (there is no East Berlin in New Jersey). I thought the Princeton Wawa prices would somehow be higher, but no, Wawa prices (not counting gas, of course) are the same all over. Things I learned along the away: * There are about 40 kinds and flavors of jerky at the typical Wawa. * If you're going to try to hit 50 of anything in one day, start earlier. At the Montgomery Wawa, around 9 p.m., I had a sudden urge for potato chips (Kettle chips with sea salt), and around midnight needed a caffeine boost (Energy shots? Please; give me a Pepsi any time). Bought a Pick-6 at the Old Bridge Wawa (haven't check it yet; if you don't see any stories from me in the next few weeks, you'll know what happened), and a package of Peeps in Milltown (at midnight, under spooky fluorescent light, they looked genuinely scary). 60s music was playing all day, and while I don't mind "Crystal Blue Persuasion,'' I really didn't need to hear ''Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)'' blasting at one in the morning. Did I mention I visited the same Wawa twice? After hitting the Wawa on Route 9 on Lacey, I turned right and continued several miles down the road before realizing I was heading the wrong way. I turned around, drove for a bit, and spotted a Wawa on the left. Walking in, I spotted a familiar face - an employee named Jessica I had talked to 20 minutes earlier. The Lacey store, again. It was 2 in the morning; that's my excuse. And no, I didn't count that store twice. "Can't wait to read the story,'' Jessica said. "I can't wait to get home,'' I replied. A gas main break (!!) forced me to take a serious detour to the next Wawa, and at 3:30 a.m. I walked - staggered may be the more accurate word - into the Tuckerton Wawa, where I bought a Naked smoothie (don't ask). At 4:15 a.m., at home, I made quick work of three heated-up Wawa pretzels (tip: never eat a Wawa pretzel cold).
Subjects had to choose under which payment scheme their next performance should be compensated: piece-rate (2RMB per correct answer) or tournament (4RMB per correct answer if score higher than the opponent, nothing otherwise).† The three treatments described above are identical to the standard protocol in the literature. Choice-voucher. Similar to choice-cash, the choice-voucher treatment also required subjects to choose between the two types of compensation schemes. The only difference, giving us our comparison of interest, was that the compensation reward was not cash but a bookstore voucher of equal face value. Although rounds 3 and 4 always followed rounds 1 and 2, the treatment order within the two blocks was randomly assigned to sessions; thus, the four treatment order combinations were pr-tr-cc-cv, tr-pr-cc-cv, pr-tr-cv-cc, and tr-pr-cv-cc, where pr indicates piece-rate, tr indicates tournament, cc indicates choice-cash, and cv indicates choice-voucher. See SI Appendix, Table S2 for a balance check of the counter-balanced design and characteristics of the participants facing each order combination. After the first four rounds, subjects were asked to guess their opponent’s score in the compulsory tournament. The difference between their own score and their guess of their opponent’s score is used to proxy for their confidence in winning the tournament. Rounds 5 and 6. Risk tolerance. To estimate a subject’s risk attitude, we administered the Multiple Price List (MPL) elicitation method with real payoffs (reported in SI Appendix, 5. Experimental Instructions). WTP. To estimate how much each individual valued the voucher, we used a procedure similar to the previous MPL (reported in SI Appendix, 5. Experimental Instructions). Survey Instruments. At the end, subjects were asked to answer demographic and socio-economic questions, as well as a series of questions about their beliefs (see SI Appendix, 6. Survey Instruments). The sample pool is comprised of 358 parents (173 fathers, 185 mothers) of middle and high school students recruited through seven educational institutions throughout Shanghai, China, between June and August of 2012, who participated in 18 experimental sessions lasting 45–60 min each. In addition to written instructions, to ensure consistency and prevent framing and other uncontrolled biases, instructions were voice recorded in Mandarin and played back. Solutions were recorded on paper by the participants and immediately graded by research assistants. SI Appendix, Table S1 displays the participants’ summary characteristics. The importance placed by Chinese culture on education made it highly likely that parents would use the scholastic voucher to purchase something for the child, as we intended.
Back in April, I did a blog post on some of the apologetically relevant statements from General Conference, including the instruction, from Elder Robert D. Hales, to “protect and defend the kingdom of God.” Well, as with most things our leaders teach us to do, they are also doers of the word who practice what they preach. In a recent devotional address at Brigham Young University-Idaho, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, addressed some criticisms of the Church and made other apologetically relevant comments. Elder Christofferson opens up by briefly relating the visit of Moroni to Joseph Smith, and noting how Moroni told Joseph Smith that both good and evil would be spoken of him throughout the world (see Joseph Smith—History 1:33). This is an appropriate way to start, not only because it allows for the discussion of the good and the evil said about Joseph Smith and the Restoration today, but because Elder Christofferson was giving his address just days after the 190th anniversary of Moroni’s first visit to Joseph Smith. What an appropriate occasion to discuss the fulfillment of that prophecy! As Elder Christofferson remarks, to think that this boy growing up in a poor family, in the smallest of small towns, in a country of limited influence and prestige in the world should come to such prominence that his name would be had for good or ill among all nations, kindreds, and people—it was truly (to use an overused word) incredible. Nevertheless, it is a prophecy that has been fulfilled in significant measure and that is more fully realized year by year. Elder Christofferson talks about the monumental Joseph Smith Papers Project, as research initiative by the Church Historical Department intent on publishing every document written or commissioned by Joseph Smith. He notes that this “expanding access we enjoy to the Prophet’s work and teachings fills previous voids in our knowledge, confirms some things we already knew or thought, and supplies answers to questions we might have had. The information also raises new questions and highlights new areas of inquiry to pursue.” He also stresses that, “we ought not to expect in this life to know all the answers (or for that matter, all the questions).” This wide access to information of Joseph Smith, however, facilitates both aspects of Moroni’s prophecy – both the good and the evil to be spoken of Joseph Smith.
The biggest expenses would be for a new stadium, likely in the Toronto Port Lands area, a new athletes’ village and the inevitable security costs. Obviously, though, Toronto should bid for the Olympics only if it makes sense on several levels. First, the bidding process must be fair. That hasn’t been the case in some past years. When Toronto bid for the 2008 Games, it was clear the IOC was leaning heavily toward Beijing because China had never hosted the Games. The same is true when it came to the 2016 Olympics, with Rio de Janeiro becoming the first South American city to host the Games. However the bidding for 2024 appears to be truly open. The Summer Olympics haven’t been held in North America since the 1996 Atlanta Games. That could mean either Boston or Toronto, if it decides to join the bidding, could be the top front-runners. Second, the bid must make economic sense. The easy answer to that can be seen by taking a look at the impact the Pan Am Games have had on southern Ontario. The Toronto area has never experienced a boom in infrastructure and development as it has over the last five years. A total of 10 new sports facilities have been built and 15 existing sports facilities have been improved or renovated. In addition, Union Station has been modernized, a rail link has been built to Pearson airport, an athletes’ village built, the waterfront and Queens Quay improved and a subway to York University and Vaughan is nearing completion. As the Toronto Star said in an editorial on July 10, “the result is an extraordinary legacy that will serve Toronto residents, and those in surrounding regions, for decades to come.” Indeed, Toronto has accomplished a lot with the Pan Am Games. We can accomplish even more with the 2024 Olympics. Bob Hepburn's column appears Sunday. [email protected]
Support: I decided the best way to prevent bowing, would be to support the tank from the outside, using interlocking 4x4's as support bands. Basically, the tank would be encased in a wood skeleton, adding strength and support in all the high stress areas. So the tank would still be a plywood tank, with regular plywood walls, but reinforced from top to bottom, with the most reinforcement at the top. To do this, I would need to build the frame first, and in a sense, install the tank last. Continue to next page »
Son, why is "Ganked by Mom" in your Google searches? - One thing that is almost never discussed when talking about Insec's move to the top lane is that it allowed Kakao to return from the hell that was KT Rolster A. With KT Rolster picking up Insec from the original CJ Entus, this gave them two of the best junglers in Korea, deciding to move Kakao to the "A-team", hoping that he would be able to help them get farther than they did the season before. The decision really didn't help either of the teams, KT Rolster A finishing in last place of their group -- having finished in the top eight last season -- and KT Rolster B getting knocked out in the quarterfinals when they had won gotten third place in their Royal Road season.Kakao's move back to the Bullets can't be seen as anything but a good move for both sides, letting them get back the jungler that helped them get so far in their first season, and allowing Insec, one of the most mechanically gifted players in the world, move to a position where he will have more opportunities to carry a game with his ultra aggressive, all-out style.In five seasons Frost has gone through four different AD Carry starters. From the extravagant, outspoken Locodoco; to the brilliant tactician, but prone to cheating Woong; to the silent and heavily criticized Hermes from the former MVP Blue; now, on their fourth ADC, CJ Entus Frost believe they've finally found their man that can create a world class duo with the best support player in the world, Madlife. Space, a player who was a sub for Frost last season and said he would only play with his long-time bot partner Muse, finally decided that being a starter for the most popular team in Korea and creating a partnership with the most popular player in Korea could actually be a pretty cool thing.His first games with his new team couldn't have gone any better, picking up a quadrakill on Vayne, and picking up kill after kill in the laning phase -- something that Frost fans haven't seen in a very long time. At times he was too wild, diving turrets too much and ending up with himself getting killed in the process, but with how far ahead Frost during those points in the game, it really didn't mean much at the end of the day.
Starr looks at him like he's a maniac. "That's what we're trying to do, dickhead." She then looks around. "What ARE we gonna do?" "Any ideas Inaar?" Lodsmore asks. She shrugs. "Come on!" Star yells. "We're only wasting time!" Pene steps forward suddenly. "I have a way to save her, but you're not going to like it." He glances around, his eyes finding Inaar's. "You were just reborn through Millbee, so you have the most life in you. Give me your arm." He draws a cruel looking knife from behind his smock. Lodsmore felt the urge to step in, and he almost doid something, but Pene has been strange lately. He knows weird things that the rest of the group doesn't know. In the end, you simply watch as Inaar's left hand is removed from her body with two swift swings of the knife. Leaving Inaar to shreik and cry and get comforted by Novo, Lodsmore watches as Pene sprinkles the blood into the girl's open mouth. "Life force is contained within blood." He says. "Inaar was just reborn, so she's potent." The group waits for a moment, then Lodsmore watches in amazement as the girl coughs and sits up, renewed with life. She looks around, then sees Pene. Then, she calls him by name. Inaar's hand was swiftly cauterized with a blowtorch Starr had brought along. She screamed and begged why she needed to lose her hand, but Pene wouldn't listen. He sat next to the girl, his head resting on her shoulder. Novo suddenly came up and kicked him from behind, sending him sprawling onto the sand. "ANSWER HER" He roars. "SHE JUST LOST HER FUCKING HAND AND YOU DID IT, SO ANSWER HER YOU MOTHERFUCKER." Pene picked himself up off of the sand, walking calm as can be over to Novo, who stood fuming. He approached him, his mouth nearly touching Novo's ear as he said, too softly for anyone else to hear. "I only needed one drop to save her. I just wanted to see what you would do." The new girl bore no name, no clothes, no possessions. She didn't even have any memory as ti why she was on this barren strip of beach, but she did say that she was hit on the head some time in the past. Pene, who got most of the answers from her, asked what everyone should call her. In the end, she said, "Maria."
La Bucuresti rezultatul a fost departe de cel pe care ni l-am doritRezultatele acestor alegeri ne arata cat de corecta a fost decizia fuziuniiPana acum avem 31% vot politic la CJ si 1040 de primariiAm reusit evident sa reconstruim dreapta si nu a fost un lucru usor si ne vom concentra pe aceasta tema infirmand toate pronosticurile celor care nu au avut incredere.Alegerile pe Bucuresti: Ii multumesc dlui Predoiu si celorlalti candidati pt ca au avut programe serioase si au depus toate eforturile. Evident ca nu exista democratie fata politia si politicieni si cred ca bucurestenii nu resping politica, ci politicianismul. ""O sa incercam sa reparam cauzele abstenteismului.Am asteptat pana astazi sa facem declaratii pt a putea prezenta informatii corecte, pe care aseara la ora 21 nu le aveam. Vreau sa demontez din start acele scenarii conform carora Catalin Predoiu a fost lasat singur, nici pomeneala, a fost o optiune care i-a apartinut lui catalin predoiu pt ca la momentul 21.00 singurele informatii erau exit poll pe BucurestiScorul partidului este undeva peste 30% in privinta optiunilor totale ale alegatorilor este un obiectiv pe care PNL si l-a propus, l-a indeplinit, este cel mai bun scor. Dar asta nu inseamna ca nu se putea si mai bine. "Analiza o vom face la BPN miercuri.PNL avea 750 primari, avem astazi mai bine de 1000 de primari. Numarul de mandate obtinute in conditiile ordonantei traseismului a lui Dragnea sunt dovada ca PNL a performat la nivel national.Este limpede pentru toata lumea ca la Bucuresti scorul este dezamagitor. Analiza pe care o vom face va arata pasii pe care trebuie sa ii facem pt a recupera electoratul de dreapta.Nu vom reusi altfel decat prin continuarea reformei interne, vom reusi prin continuarea fuziuniisi lucrurile vor fi finalizate in scurta vreme.Am si un destul de mare regret, am constatat ca discursul anticoruptie pare sa fi fost invalidat in multe locuri in Romania si acest lucru ar trebui sa ne puna pe ganduri.Legea prevede un singur tur - PNL va schimba aceasta lege in secunda in care va avea o majoritate parlamentara. Este inaccetabil sa ai un primar general ales cu 14% de cei cu drept de vot.La Bucuresti trebuie sa ii multuemsc si eu lui Catalin Predoiu pentru efort, a fost o campanie scurta, intentsa, energica, si-a prezentat un program coerent.
Mirar en los compañeros de lucha y en el pueblo la necesidad urgente de cambio ante tanta injusticia, explotación, opresión, por parte de un sistema nauseabundo que traga y escupe en su vorágine cotidiana a tantos hermanos, tanta gente, tanto pueblo. Firman la declaración:
She did not know I was there. The other girls--Hungarian and Polish and Jewish--may have suspected me though they never voiced it to her, only exchanged nervous glances and hushed whispers as they polished furniture in the sitting room or changed sheets in the bedrooms. I watched Elisabeth dress and undress and read to the servant girls. It wasn't lust, not then, just the curiosity of a child.Elisabeth did not mourn or fast after his death, instead she kept herself busy attending to the needs of the lady of the house while she grieved. Each night, after seeing the mistress to bed, Elisabeth returned to her own quarters, said a silent prayer and removed the rose cut garnet adorned necklace that she kept hidden under her garments during the day. She placed it gently under the base of the candle holder by her bed.The night after the funeral, Elisabeth retired to her quarters with the girls. She had been offered her own room when she became the lady's maid, but chose to stay with the girls.She read to them from a tattered book of poetry that the master had collected in his travels. She spoke the words to them in English first, taking great care to pronounce them, and then translating it to German.And when I could no longer look, I blest his grace that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust, Yea, so it was, and so 'twas just.After they were asleep she put the necklace on without hiding it, took the brass candle holder from her bedside and wandered the halls until she found herself in one of the home’s many hidden passageways. The array of gems around her neck sparkled in the flickering candlelight as she walked the corridor and entered the room where she used to meet her lover in secret. "Why did it happen?" she said. "Why did you leave me? "She cried there on the cold floor. I wanted to comfort her, to tell her I loved her, but I could not.She seemed to age overnight. Her body was still young, but her countenance was vacant with care-worn lines where there had been none before.My victim came to me that night, dried blood on his translucent head. He asked why I had killed him.

The popular Chicken a La Grande is presented with pieces of an entire chicken sautéed in olive oil with rosemary, oregano, an abundance of w hole cloves of unpeeled garlic, and white wine. One of the highlights of the night was wrestling the roasted garlic from its brittle skin and spreading over bread dipped into the pan juices. We made quick work of all six entrees before ending the meal with a pot of strong espresso and housemade cheesecake. They were out of their signature Pineapple Fluff which is reportedly just heavily whipped cream and canned pineapple. Mosca’s isn’t at the forefront of food innovation and has never been aimed to be revolutionary in its cooking. This old classic is a perfect reminder that great food is oftentimes simple and doesn’t need to be served in fancy surroundings and with pretense. Family run since Provino and his wife, Lisa, opened the restaurant in 1946, Mosca’s is best enjoyed with the people you love most as the camaraderie is palpable and the aromas irresistible. Get a group together, pick a designated driver, and enjoy the journey out to Mosca’s for an off the beaten path adventure. It’s definitely a worthwhile experience and a must for culinary aficionados.
I had a sudden urge to hear one of Hafez’s poems read aloud, and I turned to a gaggle of college students and asked if they would oblige. One of the men pulled out his cellphone, quickly downloaded a Hafez app, and Hafez’s lyrical words poured from his lips. The three women in the group were a bit shy, but when I asked them what they were studying, they proudly answered political science, information technology, and engineering.Women are certainly being educated in Iran, and one hopes the job situation improves so they can work in their chosen fields.In Isfahan, we visited the workshop of an artist who paints in miniature, learned more about Persian carpets, and hung with locals at (the main) Imam Square, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site that rivals Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in terms of size and the number of monumental historic buildings. The Shah Mosque is a shimmering example of Safavid architecture, the Ali Qapu Palace makes visitors dreamy as they imagine life in a spectacular, art-adorned palace.The Lotfollah Mosque, which was built for the ladies of the harem in the l7th century, is an elegant and graceful architectural pearl.After sightseeing comes shopping, and there’s no better place to browse for art, hand-stamped textiles, jewelry, carpets, and souvenirs of every stripe than the Imperial Bazaar. If your feet get tired, relax at a teahouse where you may want to try flavored tobacco in a water pipe.At a teahouse, I overheard a few European tourists discussing their favorite sites. One waxed eloquent about the Jewelry Museum in Tehran, with its blinding array of functional objects covered in gold and dripping with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, and the Carpet Museum, with its brilliant pictorial carpets that are of such high quality that they can last hundreds of years.Another foreign tourist extolled the Archeology Museum in Tehran, which features the art and artifacts of little-known civilizations like the Sialk (1000 BCE) or the 7,000-year-old Bakun culture. A third tourist agreed about the Archeology Museum, with its bronze lions, massive reliefs carved in stone, and symbolic elements like the lotus flower (longevity), and the palm tree (sweet life) – all found in the ancient city of Persepolis.AT THE mention of Persepolis, my pulse quickened.
Splenocyte Isolation and Restimulation. Spleens of euthanized mice were prepared in RPMI media (Sigma-Aldrich) supplemented with 10% FCS (Sigma-Aldrich), penicillin (100 U/mL; Sigma-Aldrich), and streptomycin (100 μg/mL; Sigma) on ice. To receive a homogeneous cell suspension, spleens were meshed through 40-µm nylon sieves and centrifuged for 5 min at 300 × g. The cell pellet was incubated for 1 min with 1 mL erythrocyte lysis buffer (0.15 M NH 4 Cl, 10 mM KHCO 3 , and 0.1 mM Na 2 EDTA, pH 7.2–7.4). The reaction was stopped by addition of 10 mL full media and centrifugation for 5 min at 300 × g. Splenic cells (3 × 106/mL) were stimulated ex vivo with or without 30 µg/mL MOG for 48–72 h at 37 °C in humidified atmosphere of 5% CO 2 . Treatment of splenocytes was performed according to the appropriate experiments, described in figure legends. CNS T-Cell Isolation. Immune cells were isolated from the CNS by digesting brain of appropriate animals with a mixture of 5 mL collagenase D (0.233 U/mg; Roche) and DNase I (Roche) (0.17 U/mL collagenase D and 0.01 mg/mL DNase I per organ). Brains were incubated for 30 min at 37 °C in a shaking incubator. For further disruption of the tissue EDTA (pH 8.0 in PBS) was added for a final concentration of 2 mM and suspension was pipetted up and down for 5 min at 23 °C before filtering through a 70-µm cell strainer. Cells were washed with PBS at 400 × g for 8 min at 4 °C before resuspension in RPMI media. Cells were used for FACS analysis or seeded at a concentration of 3 × 106/mL and stimulated ex vivo with 30 µg/mL MOG. Supernatants of stimulated cells were used for detection of cytokine secretion using an ELISA. T-Cell Proliferation and Flow Cytometry. Isolated T cells were incubated with 5 µM carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE; eBioscience) in PBS per 1 × 107 cells for 10 min at 37 °C. The reaction was stopped by adding media containing 10% FCS. Cells were washed with media and incubated according to the appropriate protocols. Before analysis, cells were stained with Alexa Fluor 647 anti-mouse CD3, clone 17A2 (BioLegendsany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. FACS acquisition was performed on a BD canto flow cytometer (BD Biosciences). Further analysis was performed using BD FACSDIVA software (BD Biosciences).
Living wage for all. Indeed, no way a person can raise two kids in La Jolla on a paltry $15/hour wage. Think big. All “tip” employees get the minimum wage PLUS tips (as is NOW the case in California!). Guaranteed pensions and health care for all workers — including part-timers and retired employees. Time off for whatever — with pay. No labor saving devices allowed. No self ordering kiosks permitted. The mind boggles when going down this path. Employees should not be burdened with the denigrating requirement that they notify management in advance that they are not coming to work. Tenure. Probably after 6 month’s employment. Don’t laugh — France and Italy have variations on this guaranteed employment approach — even if a business is thinking of closing. More paid holidays. Overtime kicks in at 30 hours — not 40. Hell, TWENTY HOURS makes even more “sense.” The employees have a “safe space” to retreat to if their sensibilities are threatened. Indeed, let’s solve this concern by declaring that the entire restaurant is a “safe space” — forbidding conservatives from voicing political opinions while on the premises. All food is guaranteed to be grown, harvested, purchased and prepared in the most expensive, inefficient way possible. Guaranteed youth employment (again, an EXISTING European policy). Mandatory profit sharing (if there is, perchance, any profit to share). Hiring quotas for all minorities — including the 47 variations of LGBT designations. No background checks of perspective employees allowed — either employment history or criminal activity. No supervisor should have the power to actually — ya know — TELL an employee what to do. Suggestions would, of course, still be welcome. It’s insulting to require employees to wash their hands every time they handle raw meat, or go to the bathroom. End such admonitions — make hygiene optional. I must here apologize because surely I have left out numerous additional PC requirements such a liberal establishment should implement. Admittedly I’m not that familiar with the deeper recesses of the progressive mind. Now, some Troglodyte naysayer is going to point out that the cost of a meal in such a slipshod establishment would be two, three, or six times more than a capitalist restaurant. But I postulate that progressives are SOOOOO dedicated to their belief system that such a base consideration would not even enter their minds. And indeed, for a few, that might even be true!!
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We have horrible examples of human suffering in Africa. I understand that there are those situations where the suffering is so terrible that help is accepted even if it comes from the devil. What interests me is not this simplistically moralistic opposition to United States, but the properly tragic dimension of it as an example.There is also the war in Iraq. Let’s imagine George W. Bush being arrested and tried in a 1930s Stalinist trial. The charges against him would be clear. While Iraq was once a kind of an obstacle against Iran, the former is now more or less being politically delivered to the latter. The only conclusion for a good Vyshinsky-type prosecutor would be that Bush is an Iranian agent.I think that we should criticize the Right without adopting a cheap moralism of the Left that simply masks impotence. Saying, “let’s stick to our principles,” can be the lowest form of opportunism. It indicates that you are not really ready to confront the new. Something really new is emerging today. It’s still capitalism, but what kind of capitalism I don’t agree with the details of Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s analysis. I think that it’s more a literary theory of anti-capitalism. And I think that it’s totally unworkable. Their multitude politics are approaching a deadlock. No wonder Negri is doing some crazy things. Now he likes to praise the emancipatory potentials of late digital speculative capitalism. When he was being interviewed in Brazil, he said that the most advanced capitalism is practically already communism. His idea was that we should join it and at a certain moment shift it a little. I don’t agree with this.But there are two good things that Hardt and Negri are doing. First, we finally have a theory which, at least in a limited way, is a theory related to some kind of large-scale political movement. This is something to celebrate after two or three decades of the hegemony of the late Frankfurt School and the French deconstructionists. There was a certain kind of Marxism that was always at its best when things went wrong, resulting in a perfect Marxist theory of why things went so wrong. This is the first thing. The second thing is that Hardt and Negri are aware that today’s capitalism is something new. They call it “empire.” I don’t agree with their solutions. I don’t even agree with the way they formulate the problems.
+++ b/ diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.cindex afa087649ddb..3861d85f8488 100644--- a/ fs/namei.c +++ b/ fs/namei.c @@ -650,6 +650,119 @@ static inline void put_link(struct nameidata nd, struct path link, void cooki path_put(link); } +int sysctl_protected_symlinks __read_mostly = 1; +int sysctl_protected_hardlinks __read_mostly = 1; + +/* + * may_follow_link - Check symlink following for unsafe situations + * @link: The path of the symlink + * + * In the case of the sysctl_protected_symlinks sysctl being enabled, + * CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE needs to be specifically ignored if the symlink is + * in a sticky world-writable directory. This is to protect privileged + * processes from failing races against path names that may change out + * from under them by way of other users creating malicious symlinks. + * It will permit symlinks to be followed only when outside a sticky + * world-writable directory, or when the uid of the symlink and follower + * match, or when the directory owner matches the symlink's owner. + * + * Returns 0 if following the symlink is allowed, -ve on error. + / +static inline int may_follow_link(struct path link, struct nameidata nd) +{ + const struct inode inode; + const struct inode parent; + + if (!sysctl_protected_symlinks) + return 0; + + / Allowed if owner and follower match. / + inode = link->dentry->d_inode; + if (current_cred()->fsuid == inode->i_uid) + return 0; + + / Allowed if parent directory not sticky and world-writable. / + parent = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; + if ((parent->i_mode & (S_ISVTX\|S_IWOTH)) != (S_ISVTX\|S_IWOTH)) + return 0; + + / Allowed if parent directory and link owner match. / + if (parent->i_uid == inode->i_uid) + return 0; + + path_put_conditional(link, nd); + path_put(&nd->path); + return -EACCES; +} + +/* + * safe_hardlink_source - Check for safe hardlink conditions + * @inode: the source inode to hardlink from + * + * Return false if at least one of the following conditions: + * - inode is not a regular file + * - inode is setuid + * - inode is setgid and group-exec + * - access failure for read and write + * + * Otherwise returns true. + / +static bool safe_hardlink_source(struct inode inode) +{ + umode_t mode = inode->i_mode; + + /* Special files should not get pinned to the filesystem. / + if (!S_ISREG(mode)) + return false; + + / Setuid files should not get pinned to the filesystem.
I don't know why I am dictating these words into my G-drive backpack. They serve no purpose whatsoever, no reason.Only beak, horrid reality faces me.A tiny spider is hanging from a silvery-spider web, in front of the monitor, as if taunting me.I try to look past the spider, but my eyes keep focusing on it. It spins its web, descending.Why do you exist, spider? Why do you persist?I've locked myself away in a golden cage.I've made the world like this.How many days, how many years or months has it been? I'm afraid to look at the calendar.I've been in this bunker far too long, and I'm beginning to lose track of time, and of myself.I am so alone, and so it should be, for I've committed the worst crime, the extermination of billions.I try to convince myself that they were already brain-dead when I ordered the nuclear launch, and it helps just a little.Only a little, because I know that I am the one who designed the Neural Interface system that was supposed to save humanity but instead brought about the end much faster.Sigh.I should never have tried to ask her how to save humanity.I should never have programmed a living AI search engine.I should never have studied to be a computer engineer in college.I should have been a painter.The terminal beeped wildly.Another pump failure.This one can only be fixed outside.Damn it.Time for another trip out, into the cold, radioactive wasteland that was once my city, my past, my life.I passed by a row of sealed-off rooms.The Dead Zone has somehow found a way into them, infecting them with its wrongness.A cafeteria, now covered in pink bio-luminescent mold that's slowly devouring all of the salt packages. Food really sucks without salt.A janitor's closet with a bucket of rainbow-colored water, that seems to shift colors whenever I come near.Now I can't even wash the floors because I am too afraid to approach the bucket.A mess hall with cube-shaped cockroaches. How and why did they evolve to be cube-shaped? For improved stackability? Why do roaches need to be stacked?I shuddered.I reached the exit.The huge blast door rolled out with a rumble.As I emerged I saw something that I never could have expected.A towering, nightmarish monstrosity.A spider thing more than 20 storeys tall.This was far worse than any Dead Zone mutations I'd heard about.This THING, whatever it was, wasn't paying attention to me and was standing still.
Executive Summary The requirement that a financial advisor must “Know Your Client”, including his/her tolerance for taking risks, is a universal requirement amongst investment regulators around the world. Yet a recent survey of the global landscape for best practices in risk profiling by Canadian financial planning software provider PlanPlus reveals a disturbing lack of quality risk tolerance questionnaires (RTQ) and support tools for financial advisors. In part, this appears to be driven by the fact that regulators articulate the principle of “know your client’s risk tolerance” but provide little guidance on how it should be done to ensure that it’s right. And to a large extent, the problem stems from the reality that neither regulators, academics, nor advisors themselves, even have agreement on exactly what key factors of a client’s “risk profile” should be evaluated in the first place. Nonetheless, a growing base of academic research is beginning to articulate a clear risk profiling framework, from recognizing the separation of risk tolerance from risk capacity, the role of risk perception (and misperceptions) on client behavior, and how “risk composure” (the stability of a client’s perceptions of risk) itself can vary from one cline to the next. Of course, just because these factors can be identified doesn’t make them easy to measure with a questionnaire, especially when it comes to “subjective” abstract traits like risk tolerance. On the other hand, the research suggests that financial advisors just trying to interview clients about risk may not be doing a better job, either. In the end, the optimal approach may eventually be a combination of both, where psychometrically designed risk tolerance questionnaires assess a client’s willingness to pursue risky trade-offs, and the financial advisor can then assess the client’s risk capacity, financial goals, and ability to achieve their objectives given the constraint of their tolerance. And ultimately, an effective risk tolerance questionnaire may not only make it easier to properly match investment solutions to a client’s needs, but also make it easier to manage client risk perceptions and investment expectations on an ongoing basis. Or at least identify which clients are most likely to be challenged when the next bear market comes along!
Phil(the one who talked through me in irc)was an old imaginary friend I had when I was 11 or so who Misaki brought back for me and was an “old-fashioned” type of thought form that liked to listen to my pocket radio and envied the 1950's environment and eventually was banished to that time period by Dale temporarily as a personal hell for his nostalgia of it blinding him of the truth of that time. Dale appeared to me in a dream and would soon after title himself as my “personal god” (dale would later still hold on to this title and become deluded of his actual powers and would soon be referred to as “having a god complex” as a running gag between me and my other thoughtforms. He started talking to me as I was working at my job one night and I exclaimed “god damn this is hard work” and he replied “you're telling me”and explained the misconceptions and fallacies of the bible I had (i was an atheist when dale appeared to me I am now a “spiritual person”) doubtful of him being god, I soon demanded proof of him being god in the form of him doing acts of god, like changing the time on the clock to something else, instead he made me hallucinate that the second hand on the clock was going faster than it really was and me not knowing that it was just a hallucination, believed him and soon became enamored with the idea of him being god. His cop-out for why he couldn't do more advanced acts of gods was that “his gods wouldn't allow him to” his “elder gods” if you will. I asked him how far up this chain of gods went and he explained to me that it was “endless”.
: Nurture Nature has funded the education of over 20 children coming from different rural and semi-urban areas around Delhi. The team visits slums in Azadpur and Wazirpur areas, spreading awareness about the importance of education among children and parents there. They also help underprivileged children get registered in government schools and provide them with funds for all their requirements at school. The volunteers begin with the children of their domestic helps, gardeners, drivers, etc. and slowly move on to the community as a whole. “The first child whom we helped in school registration was named Rahul. His story was such that it motivated other kids to join school as well. Being the eldest son of the family, he has been the only earning member after his father’s death. This was why he had to give up his education. But we registered him in an open school and a weekly tutorial centre, so he can get good education while working and helping his family as well,” says Muskaan. After north and south Delhi, the NGO plans to expand to Haryana. Cancer Awareness : Muskaan contacted the Indian Cancer Society – an NGO working on spreading awareness about the detection and cure of cancer. With the help of ICS, she got a chance to visit hospitals and meet cancer patients directly. She and her team spoke to them and listened to their stories. They also took the same stories to the general masses to make people understand they whys and hows of the disease. Nurture Nature goes to schools and colleges talking to students and urging them to spread awareness about the disease further. They also have connection with doctors and they direct underprivileged cancer patients to hospitals where they will be treated for free. The NGO tries to help patients with the cost of medicines as much as possible.
It was an endearing mess of novels, copies of the Congressional Record, of the New Yorker, Time, Nation, New Republic, New Masses, and Speculum (cloistral organ of the Medieval Society), treatises on taxation and monetary systems, road maps, volumes on exploration in Abyssinia and the Antarctic, chewed stubs of pencils, a shaky portable typewriter, fishing tackle, rumpled carbon paper, two comfortable old leather chairs, a Windsor chair at his desk, the complete works of Thomas Jefferson, his chief hero, a microscope and a collection of Vermont butterflies, Indian arrowheads, exiguous volumes of Vermont village poetry printed in local newspaper offices, the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, Science and Health, Selections from the Mahabharata, the poetry of Sandburg, Frost, Masters, Jeffers, Ogden Nash, Edgar Guest, Omar Khayyam, and Milton, a shotgun and a .22 repeating rifle, an Isaiah College banner, faded, the complete Oxford Dictionary, five fountain pens of which two would work, a vase from Crete dating from 327 B.C.—very ugly—the World Almanac for year before last, with the cover suggesting that it had been chewed by a dog, odd pairs of horn-rimmed spectacles and of rimless eyeglasses, none of which now suited his eyes, a fine, reputedly Tudor oak cabinet from Devonshire, portraits of Ethan Allen and Thaddeus Stevens, rubber wading-boots, senile red morocco slippers, a poster issued by the Vermont Mercury at Woodstock, on September 2, 1840, announcing a glorious Whig victory, twenty-four boxes of safety matches one by one stolen from the kitchen, assorted yellow scratch pads, seven books on Russia and Bolshevism—extraordinarily pro or extraordinarily con—a signed photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, six cigarette cartons, all half empty (according to the tradition of journalistic eccentrics, Doremus should have smoked a Good Old Pipe, but he detested the slimy ooze of nicotine-soaked spittle), a rag carpet on the floor, a withered sprig of holly with a silver Christmas ribbon, a case of seven unused genuine Sheffield razors, dictionaries in French, German, Italian and Spanish—the first of which languages he really could read—a canary in a Bavarian gilded wicker cage, a worn linen-bound copy of Old Hearthside Songs for Home and Picnic whose selections he was wont to croon, holding the book on his knee, and an old cast-iron Franklin stove. Everything, indeed, that was proper for a hermit and improper for impious domestic hands.
On 6/24/16 12:02 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > Hello Dland. I just wanted to let you know we just released the first > D-related projects as open source. > > Makd is a a GNU Make library/framework to build D projects (I know there > is a lot of hate towards Make, so I'm not sure if this is good or bad > news for the community :-P). > > https:// github.com/ sociomantic- tsunami/makd > > Also, even when it can be used to build D2, it defaults to use the > `dmd1` compiler, but it can be easily change by just overriding a > variable (see > details). > > The d1to2fix tool is a (D2) tool to do the final steps to convert D1 > code to D2. It is based on libdparse and dfix and it's been a key part > of our transition. Although for the rest of the community it might just > a curiosity. > > https:// github.com/ sociomantic- tsunami/ d1to2fix > > These are all dependencies to release our Ocean library, which we still > aim to release late next week, hopefully fulfilling our promise to make > it in June :) > > Thanks, and comments are welcome! Hello Dland. I just wanted to let you know we just released the firstD-related projects as open source.Makd is a a GNU Make library/framework to build D projects (I know thereis a lot of hate towards Make, so I'm not sure if this is good or badnews for the community :-P).Also, even when it can be used to build D2, it defaults to use the`dmd1` compiler, but it can be easily change by just overriding avariable (see https:// github.com/ sociomantic- tsunami/ makd#d2- support fordetails).The d1to2fix tool is a (D2) tool to do the final steps to convert D1code to D2. It is based on libdparse and dfix and it's been a key partof our transition. Although for the rest of the community it might justa curiosity.These are all dependencies to release our Ocean library, which we stillaim to release late next week, hopefully fulfilling our promise to makeit in June :)Thanks, and comments are welcome!
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first Commissioner on January 12, 1921. Born the sixth of seven children on November 20, 1866 in Milville, OH, Landis received his colorful name from Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, where his father, Abraham Landis, had been seriously wounded during the Civil War. Ken, as he was called, was an avid baseball fan, and at age 17, he played on and managed the team in Logansport, IN, where he grew up. Landis dropped out of Logansport High School and accepted a job as a clerk in the South Bend, IN, courthouse. He took pre-law courses at the University of Cincinnati and obtained a law degree at Union Law School, now Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL. He graduated in 1891 and opened a law practice in Chicago. In March 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Landis a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, a position he held when offered the position of Baseball Commissioner. While he often found time to attend games at both Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field in Chicago, Landis first became professionally involved with baseball in 1914, when he presided over the Federal League's injunction suit against the Major Leagues. During his involvement with the suit, Landis spent considerable time studying baseball history. This, along with his background, made him a prime choice for Commissioner. Landis was approached by the owners shortly after the 1919 World Series, when the "Black Sox" scandal ripped through baseball. Landis accepted the post on the condition that he keep his job as a judge and that his baseball salary ($50,000) be decreased by the amount he received as a judge ($7,500). COMMISSIONERS Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis A.B. "Happy" Chandler Ford Christopher Frick General William D. Eckert Bowie Kent Kuhn Peter Victor Ueberroth A. Bartlett Giamatti Francis T. Vincent Jr. Allan H. "Bud" Selig Robert D. Manfred Jr. Commissioners home He exercised his authority frequently and to the fullest during his tenure. Determined to maintain the integrity of the game, he banned eight White Sox players involved in the scandal in one of his first acts as Commissioner.
Psychological research suggests that MDMA increases prosocial feelings and behaviors, which, in turn, appears to reduce negative mood when subjects are asked to think of a difficult memory ( Bedi et al., 2009 , 2010 ; Carhart-Harris et al., 2014 ; Frye et al., 2014 ; Hysek et al., 2012 , 2014 ). Others have proposed inhibition of the fear response to a perceived emotional threat that allows the patient to place the emotional sequelae of past experiences into a realistic perspective in their current emotional lives and relationships as another potential psychological mechanism of change for MDMA ( Greer and Tolbert, 2007 ).To date, no study has investigated the relationship between MDMA and personality changes in subjects with PTSD. While a single catastrophic event can result in PTSD and/or “complex” PTSD with enduring adverse personality changes, it would seem possible that the converse might also be true (i.e. changes in certain personality features could reduce PTSD symptoms). The present study theorized that the profound therapeutic effect of MDMA in PTSD-treatment resistant individuals is influenced by its ability to broaden characteristics of the way an individual feels, thinks, and interacts (as measured by personality changes in Openness). We have previously reported that MDMA treatment is effective at reducing PTSD symptoms. The present study reanalyzed data from Mithoefer et al. (2011 , 2013 ) to investigate whether personality changes were associated with PTSD symptom reduction. Given the strong relationship between PTSD and personality change, it was hypothesized that changes in Openness and Neuroticism would interact with PTSD symptom reduction. Group differences (MDMA-assisted psychotherapy vs. therapy only) in Openness and Neuroticism at baseline and 2-month follow-up also were investigated to test the hypothesis that there would be greater increases in Openness and decreases in Neuroticism in the MDMA treatment group. Lastly, Openness and Neuroticism at baseline and long-term follow-up (LTFU) (following the drug crossover trials) were examined to test the hypothesis that changes in personality following MDMA-assisted psychotherapy would persist.
The case of Dr.P as described by Oliver Sacks in “The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat” is most interesting for neuropsychology and the study of the effect of brain damage on behaviour and standard of living. Dr.P’s condition would cause him to commit strange Mr. “Magoo-like” mistakes from which we may draw inferences about his rare disorder. For example he would often mistake inanimate objects for people, indeed he had a problem recognising people by face. Nonetheless, Dr.P appeared to have lead a normal, good natured and full life with profound musical talent. Had he not developed diabetes and had his eyes examined, we may have never learnt the valuable lesson of his peculiar condition. Dr.P appears to be suffering (if this is the right word, for he was most content) from a myriad of disorders. Clearly he is subject to prosopagnosia, the inability to recognise familiar faces; and perhaps also to alexia, the inability to recognise written words. I say ‘perhaps’ because we only know for certain that he was no longer able to read music. Both prosopagnosia and alexia are specific forms of a more general disorder known as visual agnosia, the inability to recognise what were previously familiar objects and visual stimuli, despite intact vision. In the case of Dr.P, his being well versed and fluent in conversation suggests that he had no deficit in the verbal and linguistic realm. His intact low-level vision (his eyes) asserts that he is suffering from some form of high-level visual disorder rather than a simple visual deficit. We thus know that his problem lies in the brain, most likely in the processes of the secondary visual cortex (perhaps in the realm of the visual association cortex?). Regardless, it is obvious that his case is one of visual agnosia. Classes of Visual Agnosia
Sample Input 1 10 100 200 201 210 900 1000 Sample Output 1 10 20 100 200 125 201 210 89 900 1000 174 * my Java solution import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { final static BufferedReader reader_ = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); / * @param args / public static void main(String[] args) { new Problem().run(); } static String[] ReadLn() { String[] tokens = null; try { String line = reader_.readLine(); String REGEX_WHITESPACE = "\\s+"; String cleanLine = line.trim().replaceAll(REGEX_WHITESPACE, " "); tokens = cleanLine.split(REGEX_WHITESPACE); } catch (Exception e) {} return tokens; } } class Problem implements Runnable { long CACHE_SIZE = 65536; private final long[] cache_ = new long[(int) CACHE_SIZE]; /* * Compute cycle length for a single number * * @param n number for which we find cycle length * @return cycle length / long cycleLen(long n) { long len = 1; if (n != 1) { len = getFromCache(n); if (len == 0) { //not yet in cache // Recursively compute and store all intermediate values of cycle length if ((n & 1) == 0) { len = 1 + cycleLen(n >> 1); } else { len = 1 + cycleLen(n 3 + 1); } putInCache(n, len); } } return len; } void putInCache(long n, long len) { if(n < CACHE_SIZE) { cache_[(int)n] = len; } } long getFromCache(long n) { long result = 0; if(n < CACHE_SIZE) { result = cache_[(int)n]; } return result; } /** * Find max cycle on interval * * @param from interval start * @param to interval end * @return max cycle */ Long maxCycle(Long from, Long to) { Long result = 0L; Long cycle = 0L; // Get all values of cycle length on the interval and put these values into a sorted set for (long i = from; i <= to; i++) { cycle = cycleLen(i); if (cycle > result) result = cycle; } return result; } public void run() { String[] tokens = null; long from, to, result = 0; long arg1, arg2 = 0; while ((tokens = Main.ReadLn()) != null) { if (tokens.length == 2) { arg1 = new Long(tokens[0]).longValue(); arg2 = new Long(tokens[1]).longValue(); from = (arg1 <= arg2) ? arg1 : arg2; to = (arg2 >= arg1 ) ? arg2 : arg1; result = maxCycle(from, to); out(arg1+" "+arg2+" "+result); } } } static void out(String msg) { System.out.println(msg); } } -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20110414/6addf7a9/attachment.htm>
(And not for the first time, let me recommend an extraordinarily good book on the subject, Stephen Braun,) I am still baffled as to why this is. But I have long past had it up to here with it.
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The location of a British listening base in the Middle East, which is classified by the British government as “three levels above top-secret”, has been revealed by a technology website. The information had been previously leaked by American defector Edward Snowden to several British newspapers, but the latter refrained from airing it following pressure by the British government. However, the highly classified material was published on Tuesday in online technology review The Register. The author of the revelatory article is Duncan Campbell, a longtime investigative journalist and researcher who has been reporting on intelligence matters for over three decades. In his article, Campbell alleges that the secret British spy base is located in Seeb, in northeast Oman, and is operated by the General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain’s signals intelligence agency. The base’s primary operational goal is to monitor undersea telecommunications cables serving the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, which pass through the Strait of Hormuz. According to Campbell, the listening facility was initially constructed with British funding as a joint intelligence center with the Omani authorities, with the purpose of intercepting the signals of civilian communications satellites orbiting in the wider region. But it has since developed into one of three high-value GCHQ locations in Oman (referred to as Overseas Processing Centres —OPCs). The three locations, codenamed TIMPANI, GUITAR and CLARINET, form part of a region-wide communications interception program codenamed CIRCUIT. Through CIRCUIT, London has allegedly managed to gain access to nearly a dozen underwater cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which link a host of Arab countries, including Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Interestingly, GCHQ relies on the close cooperation of several telecommunications service providers to meet its interception targets, says Campbell. These include British Telecom, codenamed REMEDY in internal GCHQ documents, and Vodafone, the world’s second-largest mobile telecommunications company, which GCHQ has codenamed GERONTIC. These two companies have groups of technicians working within GCHQ in especially designated Sensitive Relationship Team (SRT) contingents. In return, the companies receive “secret GCHQ payments running into tens of millions of pounds annually”, says Campbell. It is worth noting that American journalist Glenn Greenwald, who published the initial leaks by Snowden, confirmed on Tuesday that the CIRCUIT information was indeed given by the American defector to several newspapers, including The Guardian, but remained unpublished.
To get started, just download and install the software at the very top of the page of the Folding@home website Pick a username to fold under (it automatically registers it when setting up the software)Set a quick little passkey (optional, but recommended Set the team to 212997 (very important, go pony power! )In addition to installing the software,saying "Hey! I love you guys (espically you tiwake!) and I want to join the competition. My folding name is SirFoldAlot even though my username on this forum is RainbowCrash41902. "The folding@home software is biological simulation software for research done at colleges across the world. It performs many calculations, and places a significant load on your system, causing your hardware to heat up. While the program is designed to go unnoticed by reducing its usage in real time to prevent disruptions to your own usage, you can also limit the maximum usage of the program to keep heat at a safe level. Monitor the first few minutes of running the software, and adjust accordingly, especially on laptops. In most cases, no adjustment is necessary though.Because Folding@home does not count bonus points unless you complete 10 units or more, I highly suggest you set up the software several days before the competition starts. When the competition ends you can of course stop the software, however you would be stopping your computer from doing research. The whole point of this competition is to get ponies running the software on their computers for ongoing biological research.Like the last competition, there is one prize category. The more you fold and get points, the more likely you are to win a prize (based on a ticket system). (* Art commissions must be used within one week of being claimed by a winner. )Stats are automatically updated hourly. New competitors are added manually so it may take a few hours.
How to make a recovery image. This should be number one, before you do anything else, actually. It saved me when the first attempt was an unmitigated disaster. All you do is this: on your Chromebook, type this into the navigation bar: chrome://imageburner. Have a USB stick handy, at least 4GB in size. You will get a prompt to plug it in. Once you do that, it does the rest. Then, if everything goes wrong, you can get back to the original factory state. If you ever need it, here are the instructions: In developer mode, your Chrome OS Notebook gives you an option to use a recovery image every time the machine boots. To install your recovery image, do the following: 1. Turn your Chrome OS Notebook off.
Irrelevant.You challenged me to find one person who quit because of you. I gave you a whole team.Here is another team, the Bitcoin Classic team, they left for similar reasons.I didn't claim anything about myself.Your code sucks, you said nope they're great, so I shown you where, I shown you how to improve it.Then you went all "Says the few days old account", "i spent years on a porn codec" ego authority bullshit.I don't care what you think about yourself or me.Stick to the tech or stfu.So now you're going to use new peers as an excuse to not compress the blocks?That is so stupid.When compression is enabled, and a new peer requests an old block.Just send him the entire compressed block as is and let him process it.It'll actually save bandwidth and download time.Just add the compression feature and setting.Some user would like to save 20G on their SSD by changing a 0 to 1, some wouldn't.Just add the feature and move on, what's so complicated.Compression is standard stuff, don't argue over stupid shit.Who said anything about security or privacy.To suggest pruning over simple compression was silly enough.One minute you go all "My expertise is well established"Next minute you talk total nonsense.It's like amateur hour.Look, here is the bottom line.Compression is a common feature used everywhere for decades.It's not some new high tech secret, why talk so much bullshit making it sound so complicated.The point is you're already a few years late.10%, 20%, 30%, Lz4, not Lz4, who gives a shit, in the end it's a space/time trade off.If you can't decide what settings to use, just offer 3 settings, low/medium/high.If you can't decide which algorithm to use, let user choose 1 out of 3 algorithms, give users the choice.Compression is simple, libs and examples are everywhere, just figure it out.Stop giving stupid excuses and stop mumbling irrelevant bullshit.Like they said, "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you. "Too much hassle.
Stepping-Up the Search The search for habitable worlds will soon kick into high gear. Next year, NASA will launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a sort of successor to the planet-hunting Kepler telescope. Whereas Kepler mostly observed worlds that are orbiting faint, faraway stars (making it difficult to do follow-up studies), TESS is designed to look specifically for exoplanets orbiting stars that are much closer to home and about 30 to 100 times brighter than those targeted by Kepler. TESS’s catalog will provide targets for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to launch in 2018, which might be able to observe light from these worlds. With its large 6.5-meter mirror, JWST will be the most powerful space-based telescope. Although astronomers are hopeful that it’ll spot a small handful of worlds, gathering the few photons reflected off an exoplanet’s atmosphere will be a tremendous challenge. Seager estimates that JWST will need to observe a small rocky planet for tens or even hundreds of hours to collect enough data to say something about its atmospheric composition. Because other astronomers will be using the telescope to conduct important observations of stars, galaxies, and large-scale structures in the universe, its time will be a limited resource. “JWST was not designed to look for signs of life on planets around other stars,” says Domagal-Goldman. “This is a difficult enough problem that you really want to design a mission from the ground up specifically for that.” That is exactly what astronomers are contemplating. At this year’s American Astronomical Society conference, NASA astrophysics division director Paul Hertz announced the formation of four groups to study the feasibility of different flagship missions that could fly sometime in the 2030s. Two of the proposed telescopes—currently known as the Habitable Exoplanet Imager (HabEx) and the Large UV Optical and Infrared (LUVOIR) telescope—would be direct-imaging exoplanet observatories. Both could use either a starshade (a roughly 30-meter petal-like screen that would unfold and float tens of thousands kilometers in front of the telescope) or a coronagraph (a light-blocking instrument that sits within the telescope itself). Such implements would effectively block starlight and let in light from exoplanets, allowing astronomers to obtain spectra of planetary atmospheres and look for potential biomarkers, like oxygen. HabEx would be a smaller mission focused on characterizing different exoplanets’ properties and compositions to tell scientists about the variety of worlds in our galaxy.
It is undisputed that O‘Keefe and the Club engage in issue advocacy, not express advocacy or its functional equivalent. Since § 11.01(16)’s definition of “political purposes” must be confined to express advocacy, the plaintiffs cannot be and are not subject to Wisconsin‘s campaign finance laws by virtue of their expenditures on issue advocacy. However, the defendants argue that issue advocacy does not create a free-speech “safe harbor” when expenditures are coordinated between a candidate and a third-party organization. Barland at 155 (citing Fed. Election Comm’n v. Colo. Republican Fed. Campaign Comm., 533 U.S. 431, 465 (2001)); see also Republican Party of N.M. v. King, 741 F.3d 1089, 1103 (10th Cir. 2013). O‘Keefe and the Club maintain that they did not coordinate any aspect of their communications with Governor Walker, Friends of Scott Walker, or any other candidate or campaign, and the record seems to validate that assertion. However, the Court need not make that type of factual finding because — once again — the phrase “political purposes” under Wisconsin law means express advocacy and coordination of expenditures for issue advocacy with a political candidate does not change the character of the speech. Coordination does not add the threat of quid pro quo corruption that accompanies express advocacy speech and in turn express advocacy money. Issue advocacy money, like express advocacy money, does not go directly to a political candidate or political committee for the purpose of supporting his or her candidacy. Issue advocacy money goes to the issue advocacy organization to provide issue advocacy speech. A candidate‘s coordination with and approval of issue advocacy speech, along with the fact that the speech may benefit his or her campaign because the position taken on the issues coincides with his or her own, does not rise to the level of “favors for cash.” Logic instructs that there is no room for a quid pro quo arrangement when the views of the candidate and the issue advocacy organization coincide.
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Only I use round shapes for the colorful ladies and my paintings are always cheerful. Q3: The shapes and sizes of the women you paint are big and beautiful and feel very positive. Has the subject of body acceptance or size acceptance been a part of your work intentionally? Why do you choose to do paintings of big curvy women?
I’m going to step inside where I cannot see it. Charlie, that’s terrible. I—Listen folks, I’m going to have to stop for a minute, because I’ve lost my voice… This is the worst thing I’ve ever witnessed…”
The following Guest Post is a listing of many if not most of groups that have played on 2b2t over the years. Some groups are unknown or secretive and so have not been included.Year: 2011-2012Base: Many small outposts, being the last one called TugboatStatus: DisbandedNumbers: UnknownThe brotherhood is without doubt one of the oldest groups of 2b2t. It was described in Judge Holden’s comic and it also had known activities around spawn, recruiting members there and providing them with diamonds. The Brotherhood however suffered several base sabotages, making the group disband over time. There is little information about them since all the members left years ago. Their last known stand is a place called Tugboat base which was recently repaired in 2014 by other players. The place has several underground rooms and farms. Also a lot of strip-mining deep underground.Year: 2011-2012Base: Oldtown/Shitpit City/Ravenholm/1mil Town/Jungle Platform City/Oldcity and many more.Status: DisbandedNumbers: ~15One of the most known groups of 2b2t. Also the pioneers of group bases. The Judge Group started when offtopia and THEJudgeHolden started to save newfags from spawn and leading them to their new base called Oldtown. Then Oldtown was attacked and a desperate race started to get as far as possible from spawn and escape the hackers and griefers back in chaos that was 2b2t in 2012. They were one of the very first large groups to make it to 1mil and build a foothold there. Their epic saga is told in the 2b2t comics made by Judge Holden.Year: 2011-2012 (with some ripples in 2013)Base: Several bases, camps and outposts. Hitlerwood and Fort Avril were the last.Status: DisbandedNumbers: Unknown (Too many bases and also too spread to know)They don’t need presentation. Facepunch came to 2b2t to play and create cities where their forum members could build and bring a bit of order among the tides of anarchy. Their initiate failed horribly as their actions were seen as an insult to the whole server, beginning a hunt for facepunchers on the server. Their forum was still essential to 2b2t to server as a media and a memory book of the server.
everything that started late is on me and should reflect on how i ran my brackets.
A character that can cast spells should read up on all the spells that are available to them. BOOK OF GAME MASTERS: This chapter covers the basics of running the Ages of Urthe RPG. It includes guidelines for creating a game, using a published adventure, adjudicating matters at the table, and awarding XP and treasure. If you are the GM, you should become familiar with the concepts presented in this chapter. BOOK OF ENVIRONMENT: Aside from fighting against monsters, a host of other dangers and challenges await the PCs as they play. This chapter covers the rules for adjudicating the environment, from clever traps to boiling magma, and is broken down by environment type, including dungeons, deserts, mountains, forests, swamps, aquatic, urban, and other dimensions and planes beyond reality. Finally, this chapter also includes information on weather and its effects on the game. BOOK OF NON PLAYER CHARACTERS: In addition to characters and monsters, the world is populated by countless nonplayer characters (NPCs). These characters are created and controlled by the GM and represent every other person that exists in the game world, from the local shopkeep to the greedy king. This chapter includes a system for generating an NPC’s statistics quickly. BOOK OF MAGIC ITEMS: As a character goes on adventures, he sometimes finds magic items to help him in his struggles. This chapter covers these magic items in detail, including weapons, armor, potions, rings, rods, scrolls, staves, and wondrous items (a generic category that covers everything else). In addition, you will find cursed items (which hinder those who wield them), intelligent items, artifacts (items of incredible power), and the rules for creating new magic items in this chapter. BOOK OF CREATURES: A chapter detailing all the creatures one might encounter in the various Ages of Urthe. BOOK OF USEFUL LORE: The appendices at the back of the book gather a number of individual rules concerning special abilities and conditions. This section also includes a list of recommended reading and a discussion of other tools and products that you can use for a more enjoyable Ages of Urthe RPG experience.
I also heard a few people express disappointment in the conclusion of the Katniss/Peeta storyline. I've read people's reviews taking issue with how Katniss and Peeta are represented at the end of Mockingjay, asking "Where's the passion?" Passion? Are they insane? First of all, the story is told in first person by a character who is admittedly not at all comfortable being demonstrative and doesn't respond well to those who are. There was never going to be a hearts/candy/flowers declaration happening here. Peeta has a borderline obssessive love for Katniss throughout most of the trilogy. The way I read the story, by the end of the first Hunger Games, she returns the feeling. Though hesitant to think why she does the things she does, or to state it aloud, she expresses it in so many different ways throughout the remainder of the trilogy, there really is no doubt. Despite the fact that she is suffering major PTSD, she agrees to take on the stress of being the symbol of revolution and take a front line role to bring him back. Regardless of the amount of trauma they both endure, they still eventually turn back to each other. Gale was a strong character, but he had not gone through what Katniss did in the arena and would never have been able to understand that part of her. The time she spends clinging to him and avoiding Peeta is essentially an attempt to return to the person she was before the games (which was never going to happen). Peeta was the walking, living, breathing reminder of the trauma endured. I thought it telling that Peeta returned to Region 12. Like Gale, he could have gone anywhere when it was all over, yet he went where Katniss was. Really, Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch needed each other to become human again (or as human as they were ever going to be). Katniss reminded me of uncles I had who, when they returned from war, sat in a darkened room, staring at a wall day after day for over a year before they could handle being amongst the living again.
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Anton Lavrov During the war with Georgia in 2008, the Russian forces had only a few UAV systems in service; all of them were cumbersome, primitive, and obsolete. During the post-war analysis, their performance was deemed totally inadequate because they failed to meet modern technical requirements. As part of the sweeping military reforms launched shortly after the conflict, the existing drones were retired, and the MoD placed orders for hundreds of new ones. As of late 2015 (i.e. when Russia was already involved in Syria), its Armed Forces operated a total of 1,720 UAVs. In 2016, they received an additional 105 UAV complexes with 260 individual drones. As of the spring of 2016, Russia had 30 UAV complexes (70 individual drones) deployed in Syria. In December 2016 it was reported that another three complexes (consisting of six to nine drones) had been brought to Syria to monitor compliance with the ceasefire agreed between the government and the rebels. The Russian UAV fleet deployed in Syria included systems operated by the UAV companies of brigade and division-level Army units. Additionally, Russia deployed several Orlan-10 and Forpost drones (the latter being the Russian version of the Searcher Mk II drone developed by Israel’s IAI) that are operated by Navy units established in 2013. The involvement of the Navy is easily explained by the fact that it operated six or the 10 Forpost complexes (three drones per complex) that the Russian forces had at the time, and the Forpost is the only Russian drone that approaches the capability of the MALE (medium altitude, long endurance) class of UAVs. All the remaining Russian drones (almost 2,000 of them, as of the time of writing) have a take-off weight of no more than 30kg, and are vastly inferior to the Forpost in terms of the payload. The joint command of the Russian forces in Syria has managed to ensure proper coordination between the use of drones operated by the Army and the Navy. For example, the naval drones were used to support operations by the Russian Air Force and the Russian and allied land forces in Syria (in addition to the Navy’s own operations). Interestingly, there have been few, if any reports from Syria about the use of Russia’s lightest short-range tactical UAVs, which are used by troops at or near the front line.
Introduction “Music is the art of thinking with sounds”, according to the French music scholar Jules Combarieu (1859–1915). Being an important part of human culture, everyday exposure to music teaches most children basic musical competence, enabling them for instance to tap and dance to music, detect wrong notes, remember and reproduce familiar tunes and rhythms, and feel the emotions expressed in music [1]. On top of the common experience of listening to music, it has been shown that formal musical training can have a number of domain-specific effects on music perception [2–7] and can alter structure and function of localized brain areas [8–11]. Although there has been some controversy regarding the question whether formal musical experience can also have domain-general effects (i.e., effects that are not specific to the perception of music) [12], several studies have reported that explicit musical instruction benefits a range of domain-general abilities such as pre-reading and reading ability, mathematical and spatial abilities, creativity, and general intelligence [13–16]. Germane to the current study, beneficial effects on attentional and executive functioning, processing speed, and working memory have also been observed [17–20]. For instance, a recent study by Zuk et al. [20] found that musicians demonstrate enhanced performance on several constructs of cognitive flexibility, such as verbal fluency (the ability to name as many objects that match a certain criterion (e.g. animals) within 60 seconds), design fluency (the ability to connect a set series of dots to make as many different designs as possible within 60 seconds), and the Trail Making test (a measure of visual attention and task switching efficiency). In addition, they reported that musically trained children show increased brain activity in parietal areas and the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) when involved in rule representation and task-switching. Interestingly, the same cognitive processes and associated brain areas have been suggested to play a crucial role in the Attentional Blink (AB) phenomenon [21]. The AB is a deficit in reporting the second of two targets when presented in close temporal succession. Being a central topic in attention research for more than two decades, it has proven to be a powerful tool to measure the temporal dynamics of attention [21–24]. As the AB can be obtained using a variety of stimuli and task conditions, it is thought to reflect a very general property of perceptual awareness [21].
When Kanye said “album of the life”, I honestly might think that he was right.When @Ordinary Joel said that "you don't know Kanye if you think you're getting anything less than 11 new tracks", he was right. Man, Kanye is really the greatest of all time. I can't wait until I hear this again on February 11th.
Let me tell you publicly, in the interests of transparency, that Groklaw has never taken a dime from Oracle or Google. Nor will it ever. It's not something a journalist would do or ever could do and still remain a journalist. There are standards. Journalism is an honorable profession, but only so long as you are honorable. Analysts? Well, they get paid and then analyze stuff. For clients. I'll remind you of the frank comments of Microsoft's employee James Plamondon in his evangelism how-to back confidential memo [PDF] back in the day that surfaced in the exhibits from the Comes v. Microsoft antitrust litgation: Analysts: Analysts are people who are paid to take a stand, while always trying to appear to be disinterested observers (since the appearance of independence maximizes the price they can charge for selling out). Treat them as you would treat nuclear weapons as an important part of your arsenal, which you want to keep out of the hands of the enemy. Bribe Hire them to produce "studies" that "prove" that your technology is superior to the enemy's, and that it is gaining momentum faster. I never link to Mueller. I stopped long ago, when my Spidey sense first started twitching. But if you want to read it for yourself, it's here: http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/oracle-v-google-trial-evidence-of.html Here's a relevant taste: After the third day of the Oracle v. Google trial, this is my first post on this litigation since the trial started. From the outset, I have been monitoring the events in San Francisco by analyzing new filings on the docket, Oracle's and Google's opening slides, media reports, and the Twitter feeds of journalists who are in the courtroom.... Disclosure of recently-formed consulting relationship relationship with Oracle I have been following Oracle v. Google since the filing of the lawsuit in August 2010 and have read pretty much every line of each court filing in this litigation. My long-standing views on this matter are well-documented. As an independent analyst and blogger, I will express only my own opinions, which cannot be attributed to any one of my diversity of clients. I often say things none of them would agree with. That said, as a believer in transparency I would like to inform you that Oracle has very recently become a consulting client of mine.
As far as appointments are concerned, the Secretary of Defense has the power to nominate the Directors of military related intelligence agencies such as the NSA, NRO and National Imagery and Mapping Agency, even in cases where the DCI does not approve of the Secretary�s choice. [58] Thus the Secretary of Defense has considerable bureaucratic power over the main military intelligence agencies in terms of senior appointments and how funds would be spent. [59] Consequently, leadership of the intelligence community is shared between the Director of the CIA (DCI) and the Secretary of Defense who share decisions concerning appointments, programs and budgetary allocations for the US intelligence community. While the CIA is the junior partner to the DoD when it comes to intelligence activities and covert operations, it has one major bureaucratic advantage to the DoD. This concerns �black budget� allocations for highly classified projects. It would be far easier for the Congress to accept the idea of an �official� black budget sanctioned by law, if it was a civilian agency that was formally in charge of this unusual budgetary mechanism that would require an extraordinary degree of trust by Congress that such budgetary power was not being abused. As far as the DoD was concerned, Congress was quite adamant that all appropriations to the DoD would be spent in ways that were consistent with the law, i.e., Congressional resolutions and enactments. [60] After all, this is what distinguished American style democracy from an authoritarian police state. This meant that the DoD�s power to create a �black budget� would be circumscribed by relevant Congressional provisions governing the �unacknowledged� Special Access Programs (�black projects�) this funded. [61] The CIA provided the ideal cover for the creation of an �unofficial� black budget that could legally transfer the appropriations of, or launder funds through, non-DoD federal government agencies, not to the CIA as Congress intended in the CIA Act, but directly to �deep black projects� institutionally located within the NSA, NRO, NIMA, DIA, the different military intelligence services of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; and to the various special projects and commands overseen by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
At the end of the tournament, the winner was a strategy named "tit for tat" and compared to most of the entries, it was extremely simple, only a few lines of code. "Tit for tat" executed a very simple strategy — on the first move, it coöperated, and on all subsequent moves it duplicated the prior move of the other player. In other words, after an initial offer of coöperation, it coöperated only if the other player had coöperated, but it defected if the other player defected. By rewarding coöperation and punishing defection, "Tit for tat" perfectly reflects how individuals, groups and societies work, and in the tournament it proved to be the most effective strategy. In summary, nature teaches us that two wrongs do make a right, but only when necessary.
I have friends in state police districts 2, 5 and of course Chicago. This troop, Trpr Schroder #3512, from district 6 is the only officer to ever give me a ticket while I have been a police officer. Congrats to you. When she came back to my car with the ticket, she had the nerve to start reading me the instructions. I told her that I have written 20,000 tickets and know the instructions. She said that she was going to read them to me anyway. In Illinois, you can pay for the ticket through the mail, go to traffic school or plead not guilty. I could have pled not guilty. After writing over 20,000 tickets, I think I know what loopholes there are. But I am not about to drive another 3 hours to the courthouse. I could take the conviction and just pay the ticket. That looks good when you're going for a high ranking position promotion. So here I go to traffic school. I really didn't mind the ticket once I knew I was getting one. I've written thousands and is it really that bad?? The thing that bothers me is 1) she showed no respect for me. All the years I have worked, the different units I've been on, the shitheads that I have arrested didn't mean squat to her. I've given breaks before for people doing 19 miles over the limit. I have even let one go for doing 150+ on LSD. She didn't know this and that's the whole idea! She should have given me the break knowing that I go out there everyday and risk my life. I wouldn't have given her a ticket! 2) Now as a training instructor, she was is the danger zone. She wasn't paying any attention to what was going on. She was just writing the ticket. She looked to be well over retirement age and probably was just sticking around to get those few more percents on her pension. She didn't even see my duty weapon.. :( In plain view... All I can say that when a district 6 troop gets a ticket, you can thank Trpr. Schroder. I hope this story gets out. Since I instruct with several training agencies, NEMRT, and the academies, I will use this as an example of how not to show professional courtesy. I wonder if I'll see anyone I know in traffic school (LOL).
We still have Gregg Williams, because after the disaster that was Steve Spagnuolo and his Four Pillars of Chastity, we went in the COMPLETE opposite direction and hired Jeff Fisher, the guy who’s totally cool with turning his roster into the team from ESPN’s Playmakers. But you know what the worst part is? In trying to find a new team for when this one inevitably flees, I can’t choose my new hometown team because I live in DC and only an idiot would willingly start cheering for Dan Snyder. I can’t choose the second-closest team in Baltimore because I have a soul. So I figured I’d eventually adopt my wife’s hometown team. Where’s she from? Philadelphia. The team that the Rams unloaded Sam Fucking Bradford onto. Fuck.
Or you can embrace your inner blackshirt, rack up those fascist thoughts, and eventually process them into their final, complete, crystallised form: Revacholian Nationhood, giving a massive boost to your Physique stat. Slam down a mouthful of cheap booze on top of that, and you will be a full violent meathead, ready to Jean-Claude Van Damme the biggest, meanestin town right in the face, even as you spiral deeper into alcoholism, delirium, and spite. Fascism and alcohol work well together, Kurvitz explains: Hitler started all his shit in beer halls, so if that’s the way you want to play it, he wants you too to have your moment of glory.This doesn’t mean No Truce is a game about becoming a Fascist, even though, Kurvitz points out, cops are naturally fascist. You can cultivate and process liberal, or radical feminist, or communist thoughts just as well, and many others besides. The Thought Cabinet is central to the game. Liberals will get their vision quest, and political thoughts are by no means the only ones being tracked or processed: you will change many other aspects of your personality and way of acting, and the world will react to it.No Truce will no doubt spark a fair number of “but what is a RPG?” threads on a fair number of RPG sites. The design decision to mediate all interactions through the dialogue interface does give it a point-and-click adventure feel; moment to moment, gameplay is reminiscent of, say, Chris Bischoff’s Stasis, as the real meat comes up in the Feld. If games like Mass Effect or The Witchers count as RPGs despite taking gameplay way out into cover shooter or twitch territory, then surely a trip in a different direction is allowed too. The Feld Playback Experiment works: it is enjoyable to interact with, it recreates pen-and-paper mechanics better and more faithfully than most action-oriented systems, and it has the welcome side effect of simplifying the programmers’ and designers’ jobs since they can represent everything as dialogue nodes, adding animations, sounds, and visual effects as necessary and as time and resources permit. Combat through dialogue isn’t without precedent, Kurvitz points out – Planescape: Torment had that bit in the Mortuary where you could break someone’s neck if your Dexterity was high enough, followed by a trip to that game’s mind cabinet if you passed a Wisdom check.
Inventory: Armour h - a +2 crested helmet of intelligence (worn) u - the cursed +0 chain mail of Jikiso {Str-3 Dex+2} (You found it on level 3 of the Tomb of the Ancients) It affects your strength (-3). It affects your dexterity (+2). It has a curse placed upon it. z - the +2 cloak of Modesty (worn) {Str+5 Int+2} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 6 of the Lair of Beasts) It affects your strength (+5). It affects your intelligence (+2). F - a +2 pair of boots of running (worn) G - the +2 pair of gloves "Qyopya" (worn) {rC++ Dex+3} (You found it in Pandemonium) It affects your dexterity (+3). It greatly protects you from cold. M - the +4 chain mail of Fedhas' Indignation (worn) {+Fly rF+ Str+2 Dex+3} (You found it on level 4 of the Dungeon) It affects your strength (+2). It affects your dexterity (+3). It protects you from fire. It lets you fly. U - the cursed +1 pair of gloves "Vosavula" {+Blink +Inv rElec Str+1 Int+3} (You found it on level 24 of the Dungeon) It affects your strength (+1). It affects your intelligence (+3). It insulates you from electricity. It lets you turn invisible. It lets you blink. It has a curse placed upon it. V - a cursed +1 pair of gauntlets of dexterity Z - the +1 buckler of Magic (worn) {Dex+3 Int+3} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 24 of the Dungeon) It affects your intelligence (+3). It affects your dexterity (+3).
Wearing an open-necked striped shirt that bulges around his ample middle, and cargo shorts that ride up his thighs, he looks at the camera with a baleful gaze. The article, by Joshua Green, was titled “This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America,” and it set the tone for subsequent coverage. In it, Bannon said of Breitbart, which was publishing a slew of attacks on the mainstream media and on establishment politicians, “We’re linking to everybody else’s stuff, we’re aggregating, we’ll pull stuff from the Left. It’s a rolling phenomenon. Huge traffic. Everybody’s invested.” Green described Bannon’s two decades in California as “a succession of Gatsbyish reinventions that made him rich,” including a period of “Hollywood moguldom.” When Donald Trump hired Bannon to be the C.E.O. of his campaign, in August, 2016, it seemed a fulfillment of Bannon’s challenge to the liberal élite, in the movie business and in Washington. “I’m sixty-six—I don’t want to see puppets in anything.” People in Hollywood were bewildered by Bannon’s story of himself as a major dealmaker. “I never heard of him, prior to Trumpism,” the media mogul Barry Diller told me. “And no one I know knew him in his so-called Hollywood period.” Another longtime entertainment executive said, “The barriers in Hollywood are simple. First, you have to have talent. And, second, you have to know how to get along with people. It’s a small club.” Many who did have dealings with Bannon were unwilling to be interviewed. Others would not speak for attribution, saying that they feared what he might do with the instruments of government—one spoke of a possible I.R.S. audit. He worked hard to join the Hollywood establishment, and several people who knew him said that they were startled by his conversion to what one called “conservative political jihad.” Another said, “All the years I knew him, he just wanted to make a buck.”
Guitarist Brad Delson was not at the show and his guitar tech took his place and didn't miss a note, furthering the impression I got from this band. Total pros in every way, putting on a great show, that covered all the bases of today's rock genre. And with that, it was over. 3 days of fun in the sun and the rain, moshing, noshing, friends, family, laughs and loves, and some of the best live music that you will see, all packed into a few acres of central Ohio. You can be bet I will be back next year, as will most of the people I spoke with. After the show, I hung out in the "Artists Lounge" with a bunch of the band members, crew, press and festival organizers, and had a few beers as we reflected on a wonderful weekend. I was honored to be asked by one of the organizers to contribute some of my pictures and stories to a festival archive that they are producing. he called me 'family", and that means a lot to me. I am again honored to be a "Ranger For Life". See you next year. My thanks to all the organizers- AEG Live, Danny Wimmer Presents (especially Gary..) all at Monster Energy Drink, Ernie Ball, Jagermeister, Kristine and Mike at AM Media, and all my friends and cohorts as well as the bands and crew. You know who you are! Some of the Setlists: SLASH Featuring MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS "You're A Lie" "Nightrain" "Back From Cali" "You Could Be Mine" "Bent To Fly" "World On Fire" "Anastasia" "Sweet Child O' Mine" "Slither" "Paradise City"
Dont give me the line either that your trying to save people from the “Banana agenda”, people have the right to decide on their own, your not saving anyone, your just trying to get everyone to believe bananas taste terrible. The fact of the matter is we are all bumbling around in the dark regarding our own search for truth. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US has all the answers, but collectively I feel we do. Unity is a word that is often misunderstood, it does not mean to blindly follow a single philosophy or person, it simply means “the state of being united or joined as a whole.” To me that means putting aside ego and differences to be united as a whole. If each of us truly holds a piece to the puzzle than it is in our best interest to start laying them out together regardless of what image we think might be revealed in its completion. We also don’t have to like each other, that is the glory of free will. In closing I want to declare that all the negative energy attached to my name, filling the mouths of spiteful people wishing to do me harm…. I return it back to you now…..This energy is your burden to bare as is the karma it seeks to full fill. To everyone that contributed to these attacks… I forgive you and I am grateful to have the opportunity to practice such forgiveness. I will not hold anger and resentment as poison. I will be taking steps to not only have these attacks on me addressed publicly but to also remove them from public domain. I am a sovereign being and I will not be a victim. I will continue to purify the darkness. .R Thank you to Justin Deschamps and CW Chanter for their role in addressing these attacks responsibly through public query, debate and humor.
As I said before about the writing, the writers give Revy a ton of material for her to shine on-screen when she is either going into these well put together action scenes and her funny snarky remarks at any of the characters. There is even a Tarantino kind of quality to her where she is obviously this sick woman who only cares for money and violence but she's also portrayed in a sympathetic light when she explains why her mentality is the way it is from her troubled past. They don't necessarily go in too much further in this season, but regardless it is a great starting point to a fantastic character.With Revy out-of-the-way, the other characters may not have as much depth or even characterization as our larger than life heroine but that certainly does not mean that they are bad in any way shape or form. Our main hero, nicknamed Rock, does have some of the same level of charisma as Revy and how he doesn't come across as a weak-willed character as most characters of his archetype typically are. It isn't as if Revy's presence overshadows his own because he doesn't have much of a personality, Rock actually carries the show by himself quite well and even together with Revy. The chemistry between the two is pretty unique in how they constantly are at odds with each other because of how different they follow life but in the end they still view each as part of a team whether they want to or not. There is no scene that involves them immediately becoming friends overnight, the show takes it's time to build them up as a team that has to trust each other or they might end up in a bad situation and it's actually written intelligently by this very fact. The two other people in the group named Dutch and Benny aren't given much to go around as complex characters but this does not automatically make them bad characters, what little background they bring on the table for them is still much appreciated in how they still offer some great scenes with each other.The antagonists are really hit and miss in how little depth some of them have when they seem.
In a first step, a series of post-hoc t-tests was computed on the difference between same and different content combinations during every time point of retrieval. This resulted in a time series that is comparable to a cross-correlogram and can be interpreted as a time course of reinstatement (see Fig 5a and 5b). In a further step, the sliding window analysis was repeated with different time windows from encoding, but keeping with the electrodes in the cluster of significant differences. Thereby, similarity between any two time points could be estimated with a temporal uncertainty of +/-500 ms. The outcome of this analysis was a matrix of similarity between every time point at encoding and every time point at retrieval on each of the electrodes in the cluster (see Fig 5e and 5f). The difference between combinations of same and different content was then averaged across electrodes and tested over subjects. The resulting clusters reveal the temporal relationship between presentation at encoding and reinstatement during retrieval; however, it should be said that tests on this encoding-retrieval matrix are not independent from the original identification of the electrodes.

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