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----- OOO ----- (…ungff…) I know I said the last one was the last, but I lied. Need to keep talking. (…huuuuuff…) If I pass out, or fall asleep, I’m dead. Several of the ponies that I’ve met out here have told me that I need to find my virtue if I hope to survive in the wastes of their former homeland. (…unngh…) Well, I don’t know about a virtue, but I have certainly found my vice. (…uuugh…) Envy is one of the oldest sins, but few can grip a heart like it can. What else but such a severe character flaw could bring me to an end in such a horrid place? (…hunnnnn…) I’m beginning to regret not having numbered these. My pack… tore open in the fight last night, and my meager remaining belongings, including the recordings before this, were scattered through the buildings and streets as I fled the abominations that wear the faces of children. (…huggf…huggf…) If they are not devoured by the Pink Mist, whatever damned explorer finds them will be hard put to piece them together in any order. It would make for a poor final struggle. Still (…hnnngh…), I would like to be remembered. My name (…unnnph…) is Bonaparte. I was the chaplain in my Stable – an odd job for a griffin, I know, playing intercessor between the Stable flock and those we believed watched over us. But I was more than naturally adept at the role. Perhaps, if I had been born a pony, it would have been my cutie mark. (…hunff…) …was that? No. (…hunff…) Anyway… …the Wasteland has little regard for chaplains, and the Talons little use for a griffin with no skills in fighting. I had no place here and even less power, forced to rely on the expertise of others to survive. And worse, observing that even should I attempt to master a skill, I could not hope to match those about me – griffins who had been training since childhood, ponies whose talents and inherent magic gave them an entirely unfair edge. (…huuuh... huuuh… huunh…) To be mediocre was the best I could hope for. And I envied them. Enough that I was willing to risk life and feather to come to this accursed place in the vain hope that here I would find a power that could make me their equal. And indeed, I suppose I have.
“Things have changed on two levels. Recruitment no longer happens out in the open as they did in my dad’s day, with posters around town and public meetings,” said Bercuson. “Now it is far easier to get involved online, open a pipeline that nobody else will know about. Just book the flight and you are there.” War is a click away On the digital front, Canadians can quietly click-and-go into war wherever they want, if so inclined. And on the cultural front, the comparatively homogenous Canada that gave rise to the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion now is home-away-from-home to the whole global family. So many varieties of Canadians with so many varieties of ties. We are all richer for it. But between the more easily parsed poles — those who would fight ISIS versus those who would join it — are a multiplicity of blurred lines. And they raise the question: when, in 2015, is it okay for Canadians to choose to fight with other flags abroad? For Bercuson, the answer is almost never. “I don’t like to see Canadians volunteering to fight for foreign forces, whether we agree with the cause or not. It isn’t technically illegal unless you join someone actually fighting against the government of Canada — or with the specificity of joining someone the Canadian government has declared a terrorist organization. “But at the same time, the grey areas are growing. In the 1990s at one point, there were Canadian citizens fighting on all three sides of the civil war in the Balkans. The truth is, we’ll never know who gets involved in what where. I just feel joining the Canadian army, navy or air force is the right way to go.” Eric Morse, a former Canadian diplomat and co-chair of the Security Studies Committee of the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto, views Canadian volunteerism as “something unstoppable that shouldn’t be countenanced.”

July/August 2015 Test works September/October 2015 Piling works, using some fancy new technology to avoid lots of noise called a “silent piler”, though they noted it’s not exactly silent! 2016 during winter school holidays Centre Road closed for 9 days. Sounds like they are planning for early decommissioning of one track (the “up”, or westernmost track I believe) immediately after the Caulfield Cup in October 2016, which will obviously mean some timetable changes to deal with the current use of three tracks in peak. (It’s been done recently during major level crossing works at Glenhuntly. From memory they made the expresses stop at the MATH stations, and the stopping trains ran express. That meant no need for overtaking.) November 2016 Close Mckinnon station and demolish. You’ll still have the option to walk to Bentleigh or Ormond! December 2016 Close and demolish Ormond and Bentleigh station (with the line left open). Tip for Bentleigh peeps: for the time the station is closed but the line is open, it’s not too far to walk to Patterson, and since the January 2015 changes, the fare is the same. 27 December 2016 Close the line completely for 34 days and do major works. Given the locations where trains can be shunted/reversed, I’d expect the section of the Frankston line from Caulfield to Moorabbin to be closed during this time, with “bustitution” (substitute buses) running instead. Given this is one of the busiest lines, I’m hopeful they will put some thought into where people are going, and not simply try to replicate the train service with the buses, which often doesn’t work well due to local road layouts. One idea successfully used on the Regional Rail Link project was to provide cross-town links into other railway lines, where connections can be quick — linking the southern half of the Frankston line from Moorabbin through to Brighton Beach, with extra Sandringham line trains, might be an option for instance. End of January 2017 Line re-opens — but not the stations just yet! End of February 2017 Stations re-open, minor works continue. Mid-2017 All works complete — well before the 2018 election!
NEW DELHI: Vietnam has invited India to explore and exploit natural resources within its 200-nauticalmile exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea region where China has deployed fighter jets and surfaceto-air missiles to the consternation of other countries.The country’s ambassador to India Ton Sinh Thanh on Wednesday said that Vietnam has sovereign rights and jurisdiction within 200 nautical miles of the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf in accordance with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).“We are determined to protect our rights and maintain regular activities in our sovereign waters. Accordingly, we shall continue to cooperate with other countries, including India, to explore and exploit resources within our 200-nautical-mile EEZ,” Thanh told a select gathering in Delhi.The comments came at a time when fresh reports from the United States said that Chinese Shenyang J-11 and Xian JH-7 warplanes have been spotted on Woody Island in the disputed Paracel Islands chain over the past few days in the SCS region.Vietnam claims sovereignty over both Paracel and Spratly Islands. “We have full historical evidence and legal foundation to confirm our sovereignty over these islands, which in fact have been owned and controlled peacefully and continuously by Vietnam since the 17th century when no other countries claimed their sovereignty over these islands. We are determined to protect our sovereignty over these islands,” Thanh said.The Vietnamese government had awarded India oil blocks in the SCS region amid growing defence partnership between the two countries that saw India placing a satellite tracking system in the country. Despite China’s protests India continues to be present in these oil blocks from where ONGC Videsh Limited supplies oil to Vietnam. South China Sea is rich in hydrocarbons and marine wealth, including fisheries.
Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen - UFC 117 - http://tinyurl.com/gqpsdmj (My other favorite fight.) Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard 2 - UFC 125 - http://tinyurl.com/j9zkg8r [warning: awesome] Dan Henderson vs Shogun Rua - UFC 139 - http://tinyurl.com/zu5vnax (warning: bloody) Georges St-Pierre vs Carlos Condit - UFC 154 - http://tinyurl.com/h3zy6w8 Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson - UFC 165 - http://tinyurl.com/zefat5q [warning: awesome] Mark Hunt vs Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva - UFC Fight Night 33 - http://tinyurl.com/hmvdgjv [warning: BLOODY] Johny Hendricks vs ‘Ruthless’ Robbie Lawler 1 - UFC 171 - http://tinyurl.com/gvxtgpx Jose Aldo vs Chad Mendes 2 - UFC 179 - http://tinyurl.com/jfu9c3t (Quite Violent) Rory Macdonald vs ‘Ruthless’ Robbie Lawler 2 - UFC 189 - http://tinyurl.com/zpznjew (My other other favorite fight) [Horrifyingly violent, very bloody]
(Note, however, that the most easily or commonly observed damage at Chelyabinsk was blowout of glass windows, which would have been absent in first‐century Damascus.) If it exploded 50 km to the south of Saul's group, it could have been ~100 km south of the city, and had it been a Chelyabinsk‐like event, it would been just beyond the distance of noticeable damage, and the object at brightest luminosity would have been only about 17˚ above the horizon. To match the reports of Saul's blindness, the putative fireball may have been somewhat larger and brighter than the Chelyabinsk object; in that case, numbers of people, outdoors in Damascus, may have been aware of it. As for item (3), little evidence exists to suggest that records of specific, anomalous transitory events in random first‐century cities survive until today. There are few systematic records of earthquakes, and even when bright comets were recorded in some ancient cities, no records survive from other cities at the similar latitudes, due in part to cultural factors (Kronk 1999). As for witnesses falling to the ground at Chelyabinsk, I am not aware of any film of outdoor witnesses falling to the ground, other than being knocked down by the shock wave, during the event. Videos from car dashboards indicate that drivers kept control of their vehicles, at least during the luminous phases of the event. Marat Ahmetvaleev (2013), a Russian photographer and blogger, “was taking pictures … in a Chelyabinsk park … when suddenly I saw a bright flash with my peripheral vision [and] I turned [the camera] toward the object.” His account continues with useful physiological detail: At the same time I started to hear a sound that resembled white noise with a slight rustle and crackle. The sound … barely audible … lasted for the meteor's entire flight. In the first seconds, my heartbeat and breathing sped up, and my hand started to shake. When the flash's brightness peaked, I felt strong heat on my face, but it lasted just a split second. I also felt a strong pain in my eyes from the intense glare. This report testifies to the physiological/emotional effect on a witness. The “rustle and crackle” is typical of descriptions of electrophonic sounds, also reported at Chelyabinsk by Popova et al. (2013). Such (apparently internalized) sounds might have initiated Saul's conception of a voice criticizing him.
But what great goodwill and esteem Metellus enjoyed during his exile, and how he spent his time in philosophical studies at Rhodes, will be better told in his Life.32
This is just the latest chapter in an increasingly heated national debate over the balance between religious freedom and the secular character of Canada’s public institutions. In its unanimous ruling the top court drops more than a few hints as to how it sees the way forward. Although it refrains from pronouncing on the place of religious symbols on the walls of public institutions, the judgment suggests that their presence — if challenged — is unlikely to be saved by the argument that they reflect a historical or cultural heritage. That’s the rationale most commonly used to defend the crucifix that hangs on the wall of the national assembly. But perhaps the part of the judgment that will be read most carefully by justice officials and their political masters is the section that spells out that a neutral public space is not one that obliterates religious diversity. In paragraph 74 of the judgment, and almost as an aside from its core narrative, Justice Clément Gascon writes: “I note that a neutral public space does not mean the homogenization of private players in that space. Neutrality is required of institutions and the state, not individuals.” He adds for good measure: “. . . a secular state does not — and cannot — interfere with the beliefs or practices of a religious group unless they conflict with or harm overriding public interests.” That amounts to a red light flashing in the face of any government contemplating — as Quebec recently did — the imposition of a secular dress code on its public sector employees. It also suggests that the federal government, should it want the court to give its ban on face-covering niqabs at citizenship oath ceremonies a green light, may have to come up with a pretty compelling demonstration of the “overriding public interest” served by such a measure. The prayer “God, eternal and almighty, who has all power and wisdom, we are assembled in your presence to ensure the welfare and prosperity of our city. Grant us, we beseech you, light and energy to our deliberations to promote the honor and glory of your holy name and the spiritual and material happiness of our city. So be it. »
Chronic nonhealing wounds have been heralded as a silent epidemic, causing significant morbidity and mortality especially in elderly, diabetic, and obese populations. Polymicrobial biofilms in the wound bed are hypothesized to disrupt the highly coordinated and sequential events of cutaneous healing. Both culture-dependent and -independent studies of the chronic-wound microbiome have almost exclusively focused on bacteria, omitting what we hypothesize are important fungal contributions to impaired healing and the development of complications. Here we show for the first time that fungal communities (the mycobiome) in chronic wounds are predictive of healing time, associated with poor outcomes, and form mixed fungal-bacterial biofilms. We longitudinally profiled 100, nonhealing diabetic-foot ulcers with high-throughput sequencing of the pan-fungal internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) locus, estimating that up to 80% of wounds contain fungi, whereas cultures performed in parallel captured only 5% of colonized wounds. The “mycobiome” was highly heterogeneous over time and between subjects. Fungal diversity increased with antibiotic administration and onset of a clinical complication. The proportions of the phylum Ascomycota were significantly greater (P = 0.015) at the beginning of the study in wounds that took >8 weeks to heal. Wound necrosis was distinctly associated with pathogenic fungal species, while taxa identified as allergenic filamentous fungi were associated with low levels of systemic inflammation. Directed culturing of wounds stably colonized by pathogens revealed that interkingdom biofilms formed between yeasts and coisolated bacteria. Combined, our analyses provide enhanced resolution of the mycobiome during impaired wound healing, its role in chronic disease, and impact on clinical outcomes.
A lot of critics of "New Slaves" seem perturbed by the fact that Kanye is not the first to espouse or rap about racism and political ideals. I feel like "...and?" is a sufficient response, but to elaborate: this criticism suggests not only that it is not worthy to revisit topics initiated by, say, the Black Panthers or Public Enemy or Gil Scott Heron (all of whom Kanye is intimately familiar with -- let's revisit "Crack Music": "How we stop the Black Panthers? Ronald Reagan has the answer/ You hear that? What Gil Scot was Heron") because, you know, been there done that, but also that the context and platform of Kanye's approach are unremarkable and precedented. They are not. No figure in mainstream culture, with as universal and inescapable and unremovable a presence in the average person's life, has challenged that very culture so blatantly in decades. The ideals of Public Enemy are as relevant today as they were in the 80s, but hip-hop was nowhere near as dominant and omnipresent a cultural force as it is at this moment; to compare the reach of their messages is silly. Upper-middle class white families did not have to deal with Public Enemy if they didn't want to. Similarly with politically-minded "noise rap" artists that have been name-dropped in reviews of Kanye's new material -- it's all well and good for Death Grips and Blackie and even Killer Mike to espouse similar messages and sounds (and honestly, the sonic qualities of "New Slaves" and "Black Skinhead" are hardly at the top of the list of why they're important), but none of them have anywhere near the amount of visibility and influence as Kanye, even if they did hit it first. The position from which Kanye is delivering his message is essential to the message's power; for this same reason, while it may seem crass that a pop star be the one delivering these messages, from a logical perspective it's perfectly effective (returning to "Crack Music": "And we've been hanging from the same tree ever since/ Sometimes I feel like the music is the only medicine").
Surging UFC bantamweight contender Aljamain Sterling knows what he wants, and he's not afraid to launch a campaign to get it.Taking to social media and various interviews alike, Sterling made his intentions clear earlier this week: He wants to see No. 3-ranked UFC bantamweight Jimmie Rivera across the cage from him.During the FloCombat Road Trip, Sterling addressed the issue at length, sounding optimistic about his chances. "I finally got that little motherfuc*er to respond," Sterling told FloCombat. "He responded today, he's like, 'Keep mentioning my name.' I'm like, OK, great. I'll keep mentioning your name because that's the fight I want. "What am I going to do? You claim you're the best in the world. I think I'm the best in the world, so let's find out. Let's throw down and see who's going to be the next guy to challenge for that world title. "[tweet url="https://twitter.com/JimmieRivera135/status/910490721270018048" hide_media="0" hide_thread="1"]For Sterling, the bout with Rivera goes beyond its immediate implications. While a win over Rivera would provide Sterling a platform to make a case for UFC gold, it would also grant him something else: bragging rights. Sweet, sweet bragging rights. "[Our rivalry] was at a point where he called me out on the regional circuit," Sterling said. "I was like next in line to get picked up by the UFC, the No. 1 prospect in the world in the rankings system. And he was No. 2, you know? No. 2. I guess that didn't sit well with him. ""The Funkmaster" then drew a comparison to paint the picture more clearly. "It's kind of like that ex, you know? You leave and you level up," he said. "When I got to the UFC, he was still chirping, running his mouth, and I'm over here, I'm trying to evolve my game. I want growth for my life, and you're trying to bring me back down. "That ex is always trying to bring you back down and keep you in that same circle, that same bubble. And right now he's in the position where he's 5-0 in the UFC. I guess he's trying to show the world that he reinvented himself, and I'm going to have to show him that, you know, you're still the ex and I'm going to show you why. What I have now is still better than what you have.
The theory of "ECONOMIC-SUPPLY" or-not, as political-canter and as news-worthy strategy for the pathetic and ailing republican-party, is that true? Please, you have to have something better to struggle with us with than just a simple vague "FUZZY" theory, again. Have republicans gone completely insane? Are "they" U.S. corporations planing and manufacturing goods and services for another region of the world, such as Europe or even Asia or Greater-Easter regions? Betting that those regions will hold margins high-enough to weather a storm (of their own making) and one that they have zero intelligence on? If that is the case the republican-party in America is doomed and done-forever in this country and done enough here in the U.S. to be on their way out and sent packing by many and by most Americans. If the scandal and angle you are working is to wait Barack Obama presidency out by padding the bottom-line with off-shore earned profits. Then your plan has just officially crashed and you're head is not above water. This is a statement that you don't need peak U.S. sales to maintain business in the medium-range or in the medium-term inside of this country helping to bring on an a global economic recovery. So, using a slick method like this you won’t need U.S. consumers to maintain business operations and a vibrant, growing and thriving U.S. consumer base. So why immediately implement hiring practices? Why bring-back U.S. workers in this country when the White House hasn’t been won or gained yet by republicans? Why not try to confuse under-informed Americans even further and piss-off a few more displaced-workers and struggling Americans in the hopes Barack Obama will be blamed for the economic disaster and financial crisis taking place in this country right now. It's just a theory that needs looking at. Question: If you are using "economic-chaos" as a weapon to bring-down and to help destroy a governmental-system and a destroy a nation from deep within, as well as from abroad, isn't that considered treason and paramount to an act of war and actionable under many U.S. laws and under international law(s) and treaties. If you must play, play for keeps.
Many ruins were not immediately identifiable because of aquatic plant growth.Head of marine archaeology at NIO, Rajiv Nigam said , "Some of them are badly damaged due to strong underwater currents and swells. However, we could make out that they were part of a building complex." The survey was conducted after clues emerged during a survey of the area by sonar in 2005. T Sathyamurthy, former superintending archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai Circle, said of the first survey, "We discovered that the row of large stones people had seen immediately before the tsunami were part of a six feet high, seventy meter wall. We also found remains of two other submerged temples and one cave temple within 500 meters of the shore. "Most of the ruins are thought to be about 1,100 to 1,500 years old. Brick structures were also identified on the seabed which may date back to between 300 BC and 200 AD, a historical period in Tamil Nadu known as the Sangam period . The area is believed to have been submerged in the aftermath of a tsunami that hit the coast in 952 AD. The surviving temples are dedicated to many different deities, making it unusual among temples of that period, which were usually dedicated to the god Shiva.Many of the temples found on the shore of Mamallapuram today were built around the ninth and tenth century AD. But the area was a thriving township and an important trading port even around the first century AD. It is mentioned in several documents in ancient Rome. Geophysical survey data from past explorations have noted that a large built-up area was submerged, possibly due to the tsunami or because of soil erosion and tectonic movement. More about mahabalipuram, indian archaeology, underwater cities More news from mahabalipuram indian archaeology underwater cities
The two contact the Royal Navy and the People's Liberation Army Air Force to explain Carver's scheme; Carver plans to destroy the Chinese government with the stolen missile, allowing a Chinese general to step in and stop war between Britain and China, although not before both sides destroy each other at sea; once the war is over, Carver will be given exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next century. Finding Carver's stealth ship, they board it to prevent him from firing the missile at Beijing. During the attempt, Wai Lin is captured, forcing Bond to devise a second plan. Bond captures Gupta to use as his own hostage, but Carver kills Gupta, claiming he has "outlived his contract." Bond detonates an explosive which damages the ship, rendering it visible to the Chinese and British navies' radars, and thus making it vulnerable to a subsequent Royal Navy attack. While Wai Lin disables the engines, and is recaptured by Stamper, Bond kills Carver with his own sea drill and attempts to destroy the warhead with detonators, but Stamper attacks him, sending a chained Wai Lin into the water. Bond traps Stamper in the missile firing mechanism and saves Wai Lin as the missile explodes, destroying the ship and killing Stamper. Bond and Wai Lin share a romantic moment amidst the wreckage as HMS Bedford searches for them.
Based on these preclinical studies, we are currently preparing a clinical trial for chemotherapy-failed mesothelioma patients to examine the safety of an intrapleural injection of Ad-NK4.
NEW DELHI: As Rahul Gandhi is finally getting ready to take over as Congress President, there is a sense of relief and suspense in party circles. Relief, because of the demonstrated “run-away” streak the 47-year-old Gandhi had displayed every time the Congress establishment lines up the orchestra for his ceremonial plunge. Suspense is understandable due to the mostly patchy track-record of his many organisational and political experiments as ‘de facto leader’. This was increasingly visible after Congress president Sonia Gandhi , eager to pass on the mantle, started delegating more powers to him for over four years now.Yet, most Congress leaders have a cultivated belief to have ‘a Gandhi mascot’ to act as the glue in a party of never-ending mutinies and clash of personalities and views. Most of them feel that it is better late than never to formalise the inevitable transition than live in a lingering state of organisational confusion and drift. The comparatively better performance — vis-a-vis his own past public conduct — Gandhi has put out during the recent addresses at some US universities and during his recent domestic tours, has also made many in the party hope that he is on the way to a ‘second coming’. Whether he likes it or not, his elevation will instantly start the “Modi Vs Rahul 2019 battle” promos.Though the Congress Working Committee passed a resolution almost a year ago, appealing to Gandhi to take charge, the event has been stretched to make it the culmination of the party’s organisational elections this month. The calculations of the Congress leaders are much more. They feel the economic slowdown, meltdown of the demonetisation plank, pains of GST implementation, distress in the farm sector, young Indians’ dismay over diminishing jobs, downbeat middle-class mood amid uptrend domestic fuel prices and inflation, sense of gloom in medium and small enterprises and the not-so-secret worries of the industry –– all have landed for the first time since the 2014 saffron electoral wave.With the development plank of the Modi government and BJP in a spot, the Opposition camp for once sees a ray of light when moves begin for the general elections, 18 months away. This comes at a time when the social fault-lines have already been sharpened with minority communities, Dalits, intellectuals, activists etc increasingly upset over the ‘overdrive’ of some Sangh Parivar outfits.Such a concocted social-political atmosphere is the right time when Opposition parties often try to get back to the political propeller.
Stop trying to take over the world. It shouldn't be done, and more importantly, it can't be done. Nobody on our side of the table is suggesting war isn't sometimes necessary. However, the entire Muslim world is NOT your enemy, and certainly not our enemy. Even if they were, there are over 1.5 billion of them! The attack on Osama Bin Laden's compound was a small, covert, and successful mission. That single mission was more useful than years of occupation. We have ruined literally decades of progress and permanently scarred our nation's reputation, all on the quest to protect American corporate interests. Ron Paul Republicans will not tolerate, much less support a candidate interested in waging these kinds of open militaristic conquests around the world. We have a Congress to make declarations of war so that the people can control the war. The President of the United States is not a military dictator contrary to what President Bush and President Obama may have led you to believe. The recent Romney victory in Washington State pretty much showcased the general mentality of the party. Romney was hated by the Washington Caucus in 2008, placing last in almost every county. Now four years later he is miraculously the top pick by a substantial margin? It's pretty obvious that the majority of you are only interested in voting for the predicted nominee rather than who you believe is a good candidate. That's a pretty sad state for a democracy, especially considering it's only the primary process. So having written all of that, and knowing how much I'd love to see a change in D.C. next year, I truly wish you'd wake up to the reality of this election. If you forcibly continue to exclude and ignore these people and ideas, you cannot win this election, period. Every one of the so-called swing states is going to be gift-wrapped and handed to the Democrats. If your only goal this November is to unseat Barack Obama, then it would seem that ignoring this population does your cause a grand disservice. Please feel free to email me anytime with your questions on the topic; I'd be more than happy to respond. In the meantime, keep looking for that birth certificate, because that's sure to fix our problems.
As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door. I went down to open it with a light heart, --for what had I now to fear? There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police. A shriek had been heard by a neighbour during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged at the police office, and they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises. I smiled, --for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search --search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone. My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted. The ringing became more distinct: --It continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definiteness --until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears. No doubt I now grew very pale; --but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased --and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound --much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath --and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly --more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why would they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men --but the noise steadily increased. Oh God!
Zak: Well before, there was almost double latency. So you had the latency to the server from the client, which can’t be fixed because that’s purely down to connection speed. But also what happened is previously when you pressed a direction key, that would tell the character to start turning the wheel that way which would take a considerable amount of time to do. So you’d sort of have the duration before, between you telling the character – and telling the server – to turn the wheel and the wheels turning, which would take about another half second so you have a lot of delay there. We still keep that for some vehicles that we want to feel really heavy and sluggish, which is what all vehicles used to do. Now it’s just things like armoured vans and garbage disposal trucks that are really sluggish but a lot of the other ones are really fast and can nip about. I was really trying to get all the vehicles to fall into their own archetype and feeling like they should. In a lot of cases not how they would in real life but sort of Hollywood realism. So, driving a muscle car it’s going to go driving in a straight line insanely fast but you’re going to have to handbrake turn corners, that sort of stuff. The thought is that you can zip in and out of traffic fairly easy. It’s definitely one of the first things that someone who has played the original game will notice when they get into the new one. You get a vehicle and you can drive it. It’s actually a bigger problem in our beta – you’ve got a new vehicle as the starting vehicle and it’s really easy to drive, really responsive and nimble. Old players would jump in it and [not get it] at all because they’re turning a second and a half too fast. They’d try it, see a corner coming up and turn before they’d think they’d have to because they expect it to lag and they’d just crash into the wall before they hit the corner because we’ve taken a second off the turning time of most vehicles.
During the season reset, we have a server that runs through all of the things that happened during the season and performs calculations for each user, once that’s one it will reset leaderboards and we’re off into the next season.There were two main issues we ran into, the first had to do with how robust our logging and tracking systems were to accommodate the scale of a long season, the second is within the interface to Steam’s service. Scaling up from our test environments to the final season reset put some of the reset operations resulted in 1-2 day timeframes for the reset process to operate, during which memory allocation errors caused unintended outages. These issues have been resolved and the reset system is functioning as intended. Additionally, the amount of calls we can make into Valve’s service is gated, resulting in a dramatic increase in processing time for longer seasons. In the future we’re going to be doing seasons…well seasonally, with the current one ending at the first day of Summer (well summer for the northern hemisphere at any rate). This should help keep things running smoothly into the future.Just out of interest, we had over 27,000 participants receiving badges from season 1.Relatively minor one here, increased visibility for unit hit point bars.Improved visibility on move arrowsI suspect you see a trend here, visibility improved on waypoint flags.We’ve received a number of reports of AOM’s performance well below expected behavior on some systems, especially when saving and loading files. Unfortunately we through the majority of development, we never had any machines that experienced the same issue locally thus making it extremely difficult to debug. One of the newer members added to the team recently however discovered that upon creating a new game, saving the game state took an extremely long amount of time (several minutes vs an almost instantaneous load on normal machines). The engineer’s hardware configuration is almost identical to the other machines at Skybox, so at the end of the day there’s still not a clear reason as to why some hardware is affected. This did however give us the chance to identify what was happening, and prevent it from occurring in the first place. For those interested in the root cause, the original code in AOM did not fully buffer files prior to loading / saving, resulting in large number of IO r/w calls to be made.
(`Cause of Death`, Sex), summarise, Count = sum(Count)) EthCOD <- ggplot(COD, aes(x= reorder(`Cause of Death`, Count), y = Count)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity", aes(fill=Sex)) EthCOD <- EthCOD #+ scale_x_continuous(labels = comma) EthCOD <- EthCOD + theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = 'lightgrey'), panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "white", size=.5)) EthCOD <- EthCOD + scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Dark2") + coord_flip() EthCOD <- EthCOD + xlab("Cause of Death") + ylab("Death Count") + theme(legend.position="bottom") ggsave(EthCOD, file="/Users/nicholasbernstein/Desktop/NycDeathSex.jpg", dpi = 500, width = 12, height = 7) COD <- filter(COD, `Cause of Death` != "MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS", `Cause of Death` != "DISEASES OF HEART") EthCOD <- ggplot(COD, aes(x= reorder(`Cause of Death`, Count), y = Count)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity", aes(fill=Sex)) EthCOD <- EthCOD + scale_y_continuous(labels = comma) EthCOD <- EthCOD + theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = 'lightgrey'), panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "white", size=.5)) EthCOD <- EthCOD + scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Dark2") + coord_flip() EthCOD <- EthCOD + xlab("Cause of Death") + ylab("Death Count") + theme(legend.position="bottom") ggsave(EthCOD, file="/Users/nicholasbernstein/Desktop/NycDeathSexNoCancer.jpg", dpi = 500, width = 12, height = 7) COD <- ddply(nycDeaths,.
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Mish: Before we can discuss inflation and deflation it is imperative to define the terms. Not everyone will agree with my definitions, not even those who claim to be followers of Austrian economic theory. Yet my definitions have a solid theoretical and practical foundation.Inflation and Deflation Definitions Inflation is an expansion of money and credit, with credit marked to market. Deflation is a contraction of money supply and credit with credit marked to market. The "marked to market" bit is my own addition. I use it because it explains a lot of things that are happening. Indeed, the entire definition is predictive of things that will happen. For example, if credit contracts and there is demand to hold money, treasury rates are going to drop. Contrast that with a definition that says rising prices constitute inflation. What will treasury rates do? It was easy to see the housing bubble would collapse and in turn credit would plunge and writeoffs would soar. That was the basis for my prediction that interest rates across the entire yield curve would make all-time lows. When I made that call, oil was near $140, and nearly everyone thought I was nuts. But it happened. Recently we made new lows in 2- and 5-year treasuries and credit continues to contract. Bernanke and various Fed members talk about preventing deflation, but that talk is always in terms of the CPI. However, it is impossible to measure prices of consumer goods accurately enough, housing prices are not in the CPI (I think they should be), but most importantly, we are in a fiat credit-based economy. In a credit-based system, where credit dwarfs money supply, it is foolish to look at inflation through the myopic eyes of either prices or monetary inflation alone. Sure, the Fed can print, but if there is no demand for credit, what does $1T or even $10T of excess reserves do? The answer is nothing other than to make the Fed's exit problem down the road a nightmare.Money Multiplier Theory is Wrong It is important to understand that widely believed money multiplier theory (the Fed prints and the money makes its way into the economy 10 times over) is wrong. The reality is credit expansion comes first, reserves come second.
A flourishing downtown Shanghai in January 2010 At the World Economic Forum in Davos this January, Chinese vice premier, Li Keqiang, gave an entirely unremarkable speech. Steering clear of subjects that make headlines, he instead sung the praises of China’s stability and technological progress. Yet the moment was made extraordinary by Li’s entourage: a group of about 75 subordinates who laughed, cheered and applauded on cue—and all with apparently genuine gusto. This scene brought to my mind Deng Xiaoping’s famous dictum that his country must “keep a low profile and never take the lead.” There was plenty of Chinese exuberance in the room, and the rest of us were meant to notice. Has the need to lie low subsided, I wondered? Does China believe that its time has come? That was the message many people took from the triumphalist pageantry of Beijing’s 2008 Olympics. But the real game-changer was economic. The financial crisis, global recession, and China’s remarkable recovery have produced a big shift in the world’s most important state-to-state relationship. Chinese officials argue that their country’s resilience in the face of America’s meltdown has vindicated a Chinese model of development, one that rejects US-style free markets in favour of a “state capitalist” system. A relationship until recently shaped mainly by shared interests must now adapt to accommodate the two sides’ increasingly divergent views of capitalism—and a large shift in the balance of confidence. The list of irritants in US-Chinese relations is growing. Google threatens to quit China over censorship and cyber-attacks. Washington and Beijing are at cross purposes over Iran’s nuclear programme. US lawmakers have again criticised China’s unwillingness to allow the value of its currency to rise and its failure to protect the intellectual property of foreign companies. There are trade disputes over tyres and steel pipes. Yet these problems are merely symptoms of an illness that has progressed further than some observers realise. Put bluntly, the Chinese leadership no longer believes that American power is as indispensable as it once was for either China’s economic expansion or the Communist party’s political survival. Nor does it accept that access to US capital or commercial know-how is quite so important for the next stage of China’s development—or that its growth depends on the spending habits of American consumers.
Perhaps this is generational: from the outside looking in, it doesn’t appear that the alliance’s military and foreign policy decision-makers truly understand social media at all, much less as a tool and weapon for the common defense. How many generals are active on Twitter and truly understand it beyond the explanations of their kids or younger colleagues? Even for those of us who live on social media, it is sometimes difficult to appreciate how quickly information can spread, the profundity of its global scope, and the significance of its impact on perceptions, narratives, and social movements. Once one starts viewing the Internet through meme-colored glasses, you see memetic warfare everywhere — in political campaigns, in contested narratives about news events, in the thoughtless memes shared by Facebook friends, and in videos on YouTube. It shows up in movements like #BlackLivesMatter, where there’s an attempt to shape perceptions and galvanize public support. In the U.S. Republican Primary race, Jeb Bush recently attempted to paint Donald Trump as the ‘chaos candidate’. But when his campaign tried spreading a #ChaosCandidate hashtag, trolls supporting Trump took it over and used it to denigrate Jeb Bush. (15) Hashtags, one might say, are operational coordinates of memetic warfare. On the geopolitical stage, memetic warfare is being used in a military capacity by centralized governments like China and Russia, in addition to non state actors like Daesh. Anyone who has read the comments on news articles related to foreign policy has probably noticed some suspiciously inauthentic, biased comments. China employs 20,000-50,000 Internet police and an additional quarter-million ‘trolls’ who spread pro-Beijing material domestically and abroad, and who help monitor citizens. (16) Similarly, Russia has ‘troll farms’ where Internet commentators spread pro-Moscow messages and disinformation. It tends to use memetic warfare offensively. It has been notorious in its disinformation related to Ukraine, from the ‘green men’ who were ‘not’ Russian troops, to the shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner, to the nature of the Ukrainian government itself. Moscow has also targeted domestic affairs in the U.S. In 2014, Russian trolls spread disinformation about a chemical plant explosion in Louisiana under the #ColumbianChemicals hashtag. They spread similar disinformation about an Ebola outbreak in Atlanta, under #EbolaInAtlanta. In each case, there were fake videos, photos, and Wikipedia pages, combined with outreach to journalists and buzz centered on a hashtag.
Circles represent the optimum values (see Materials and Methods ), which are fixed for the simulations of each bat. All the data is available in the S1 Data .
IV. Demolition of Civilian Property Former residents of the villages around Amerli said they saw militias destroying homes and infrastructure with explosives and heavy machinery both during and after the fighting to lift the siege of the village. J.M., a resident of Hufriyya Kabira, 15 km from Amerli, told Human Rights Watch that between 30 and 50 cars carrying town residents who had earlier fled fighting between militias and ISIS returned on September 23, 2014, after hearing that the militias had withdrawn, to check on the status of their homes and belongings. J.M. said he returned to a scene of total devastation: I saw the village was completely destroyed, from the health center to the newer brick houses, which they destroyed with explosives. They also blew up the Asiacell [mobile phone company] tower. The mud houses were burned along with the belongings in the homes and some had been destroyed by bulldozers.… I returned [again the next day] as I had 3 houses, one of them brick, and I wanted to collect some of the windows that were still intact. They were scattered around due to the force of the explosion inside the house. I was only able to find 10 intact porcelain plates from my 3 houses. All the furniture was burned, even the steel in the ceiling had melted…. They also took the electric transformers, burned down one of the schools and destroyed the high school building. The village is no longer livable at all. Human Rights Watch examined satellite imagery recorded on the morning of September 17 over Hufriyya Kabira and found graphic evidence that over 95 percent of village buildings were destroyed, in most cases reduced to rubble. Damage signatures identified in the satellite imagery indicated a large majority of these buildings had likely been demolished with heavy explosives as well as earth moving equipment, although the possibility that some building destruction was the result of air strikes cannot be ruled out in this case. It was also apparent that building demolition was concentrated in the center and northern sections of the village, and that buildings in the southern end of Hufriyya Kabira had been primarily destroyed by fire. Satellite imagery recorded later, on September 28 and December 22, shows evidence that limited building demolition activity continued after September 17, and building fires continued for several more weeks, raising the total number of destroyed buildings in Hufriyya Kabira to over 730.
Biological sex, shown on the top scale, includes external genitalia, internal reproductive structures, chromosomes, hormone levels, and secondary sex characteristics such as breasts, facial and body hair, and fat distribution. These characteristics are objective in that they can be seen and measured (with appropriate technology). The scale consists not just of two categories (male and female) but is actually a continuum, with most people existing somewhere near one end or the other. The space more in the middle is occupied by intersex people (formerly, hermaphrodites), who have combinations of characteristics typical of males and those typical of females, such as both a testis and an ovary, or XY chromosomes (the usual male pattern) and a vagina, or they may have features that are not completely male or completely female, such as an organ that could be thought of as a small penis or a large clitoris, or an XXY chromosomal pattern. Gender identity is how people think of themselves and identify in terms of sex (man, woman, boy, girl). Gender identity is a psychological quality; unlike biological sex, it can't be observed or measured (at least by current means), only reported by the individual. Like biological sex, it consists of more than two categories, and there's space in the middle for those who identify as a third gender, both (two-spirit), or neither. We lack language for this intermediate position because everyone in our culture is supposed to identify unequivocally with one of the two extreme categories. In fact, many people feel that they have masculine and feminine aspects of their psyches, and some people, fearing that they do, seek to purge themselves of one or the other by acting in exaggerated sex-stereotyped ways. Gender expression is everything we do that communicates our sex/gender to others: clothing, hair styles, mannerisms, way of speaking, roles we take in interactions, etc. This communication may be purposeful or accidental. It could also be called social gender because it relates to interactions between people. Trappings of one gender or the other may be forced on us as children or by dress codes at school or work. Gender expression is a continuum, with feminine at one end and masculine at the other. In between are gender expressions that are androgynous (neither masculine nor feminine) and those that combine elements of the two (sometimes called gender bending).
While Skarner does seem to perform well in his role as an objective controller, he does have the aforementioned issues. Given the opportunity to do some cleanup work on the champion, we would probably look to: * Explore options to reduce total mindshare (especially for other players) required by his passive. * Adjust his stat profile to be a bit less Juggernaut-y and a bit more Diver/Vanguard-like. * Look to reduce some of his dependency on snowball to succeed. Given this assessment, there may be some follow-up work we can do to clean up some of those issues, and we may try some small scope experimental stuff on the PBE to see how they feel. Again, sorry for the delay on getting this out. Cheers, Repertoir
Wendy Brown’s scathing critique of modern liberalism, building on Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment as it pertains to political identity, is rooted in what she identifies as political moralism, which is a reaction to being made materially vulnerable through which political subjects socially define themselves through harms that have been inflicted upon them, while distancing themselves from the vaguely conceptualized power that is responsible for that subordination. [34] Brown’s critique of moralistic identity politics—of identifying oneself apolitically, as a victim defined by a harm the victim is historically unable to challenge—illustrates how the production of self-reified victimhood reduces political identity to an effect of power. This moralistic definition of politics and the self makes the formulation of a vision of overcoming social injustices ultimately impossible through the adoption of an abjectified identity that is powerless, both theoretically and practically. “The problem with a politics of ‘difference’ is that it lacks a vision of the future that overcomes the political significance of such differences, and thus lacks an affirmative collective project.”[35] Brown’s argument, directed at the Left generally and strands of academic Gender Studies in particular, speaks to a far more general dynamic within modern politics that cuts across political lines and identities. The late-modern loss of faith in both historical progress and in the state as a vehicle for fostering progress or justice is not exclusive to the Left. The individualistic politics rooted in identity groups competing for recognition and resources that Brown is critiquing in the Left is a symptom of broader political trends and an approach to politics that has increasingly been adopted by socially dominant groups to protect their privileged position in and through presenting themselves as victims.
The chemicals could be purchased, legally, by physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals who could certify legitimate use for the substances, The only major restriction was a United States Food and Drug Administration label on each LSD container: "Caution: New drug--limited by federal law to investigational use." During 1962 and the years immediately following, the Food and Drug Administration issued more stringent regulations pertaining to investigational new drugs (IND), including LSD-25. In consequence, many states passed legislation outlawing LSD and a new federal law further restricting use of investigational drugs, including LSD, went into effect. Sandoz virtually curtailed production of LSD-25. However, the formula for making LSD could be gotten from the U.S. Patent Office for fifty cents, and precursor chemicals were still relatively easy to acquire. Underground laboratories began production. Far from limiting seriously the availability of LSD, the new federal regulations only served to give the drug wider publicity. Both supply of and demand for "acid" were higher than ever before. The Sixties took over, the psychedelics became a subcult, the partisans said it brought Utopia, the antagonists said it brought the plague; LSD became a terror symbol, which made it attractive to children who... knew that the Establishment and the law and their parents were all lying. "The anti-LSD publicity, the scare campaigns, and the laws," said Consumer Reports, "helped to convert what had been (for twenty years) a relatively unknown and innocuous drug into a quite damaging one." ... The laws were passed, the police were alerted, raids began, the generation gap widened, and the epidemic spread (Smith, 1975). LSD and Soci2lz Two men who helped spread the epidemic and widen the cultural gap were Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, instructors at Harvard University's Center for Research in Human Personality. During the summer of 1960, Leary had tried the Mexican psilocybin mushroom--and liked what he found. He and Alpert began experimental work with LSD and synthetic psilocybin--which, by the way, was first synthesized by Sandoz's Dr. Hofmann, some 15 years after his psychedelic bicycle ride. In the fall of 1960, Leary and Alpert purchased some psilocybin from Sandoz for an experiment they planned with prisoners at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in nearby Concord. Initial results were promising: Prisoners who had taken a psilocybin trip prior to release from Concord were found less likely to be returned for parole violation than those who had not had an Alpert/Leary trip (Brecher, 1972). Drs.
Biggest Changes in Generosity 6. Idaho None of the nation’s 400 largest charities hail from Idaho, yet its residents are among the nation’s most generous with both time and money. Idaho households gave 6.4 percent of their discretionary income to charity in 2008, and 32 percent of its residents reported that they volunteered with a nonprofit—well above the national rate of 26 percent. 7. Arkansas Former President Bill Clinton gets a lot of headlines for his philanthropy, but generous giving in Arkansas doesn’t end with him. Its households donated 6.3 percent of their discretionary income on average to charity, and their estimated median charitable contribution of $3,554 ranks in the top five nationally. 8. Georgia The Peachtree State is home to three of the nation’s 20 largest nonprofits: the American Cancer Society, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity International. It also has generous donors: Typical households donated 6.2 percent of their discretionary income to charity, and the state’s capital, Atlanta, ranks No. 5 in generosity among the biggest metropolitan areas. 9. North Carolina North Carolina is one of the few states that tops the rankings not just in percentage of discretionary income but also in total dollars donated. Its residents claimed nearly $4.3-billion in contributions, the ninth-highest total nationally. The average household contributed 5.9 percent of its discretionary income to charity. The state’s Charlotte metropolitan area ranks No. 6 in generosity among America’s biggest metropolitan areas. 10. Maryland Maryland scores high across the board in its giving. Its residents claimed more than $3.8-billion in charitable contributions in 2008, ranking the state 11th in total contributions. Its typical household contributed 5.7 percent of its discretionary income to charity.
-f $VMName) } } Write-Verbose -Message ('Retrieving all current settings for virtual machine {0}' -f $VMName) $CurrentSettingsDataCollection = $VMObject.GetRelated('Msvm_VirtualSystemSettingData') Write-Verbose -Message 'Extracting the settings data object from the settings data collection object...' $CurrentSettingsData = $null foreach($SettingsObject in $CurrentSettingsDataCollection) { $CurrentSettingsData = [System.Management.ManagementObject]($SettingsObject) } if($NewID -eq $null) { Write-Verbose 'Generating new GUID...' $NewID = [System.Guid]::NewGuid() } $OriginalGUID = $CurrentSettingsData.BIOSGUID Write-Verbose -Message ('Orginal BIOS GUID: {0}' -f $OriginalGUID) Write-Verbose -Message 'Changing BIOSGUID in data object...' $CurrentSettingsData['BIOSGUID'] = "{$($NewID.Guid.ToUpper())}" Write-Verbose -Message ('New BIOS GUID: {0}' -f $CurrentSettingsData.BIOSGUID) Write-Verbose -Message 'Assigning modified data object as parameter for ModifySystemSettings function...' $ModifySystemSettingsParams['SystemSettings'] = $CurrentSettingsData.GetText([System.Management.TextFormat]::CimDtd20) if($Force.ToBool() -bor $PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess($VMName, ('Change BIOSGUID from {0} to {1}' -f $OriginalGUID, "{$($NewID.Guid.ToUpper())}"))) { Write-Verbose -Message ('Instructing Virtual Machine Management Service to modify settings for virtual machine {0}' -f $VMName) Process-WMIJob -WmiClassPath $VMMS.ClassPath ($VMMS.InvokeMethod('ModifySystemSettings', $ModifySystemSettingsParams, $null)) Process-WMIJob -WmiResponse ($VMMS.InvokeMethod('ModifySystemSettings', $ModifySystemSettingsParams, $null)) -WmiClassPath $VMMS.ClassPath -MethodName 'ModifySystemSettings' -VMName $VMName -ComputerName $ComputerName } $VMObject.Get() if($OriginalState -ne $VMObject.EnabledState) { Write-Verbose -Message ('Returning {0} to its original running state.'
and, in 1987, became the state commerce secretary under Governor Bob Martinez but left the post less than two years later to work on his father’s successful Presidential campaign. Around that time, he decided to run for governor, and, in 1992, with his father’s reëlection in doubt, he began to focus on a gubernatorial campaign for the 1994 election. (By then, he had a net worth of more than two million dollars.) In Texas, his brother did the same, which the family viewed as an intrusion on Jeb’s more serious effort. After Bush senior left the White House, he spent far more time campaigning in Florida than in Texas. Unlike George, Jeb embraced the ascendant right-wing orthodoxy: he declared himself a “head-banging conservative”; vowed to “club this government into submission”; and warned that “we are transforming our society to a collectivist policy.” On Election Night, he lost narrowly to the incumbent, Lawton Chiles. George Bush, having shown himself to be an unexpectedly able candidate, with a more modulated tone than his brother, beat the incumbent Texas governor, Ann Richards, by more than eight points. After the loss, Jeb returned to business, working primarily with Codina Partners again. It wasn’t clear if he would continue to pursue a political career. Tom Slade, a former chairman of the Florida G.O.P. (who died in October), told me that Bush had said, “I don’t know if I’m going to run for governor again or not, because I’d rather go settle some stuff with my wife.” Campaigning had been a strain on the family, but, Slade added, “I remember having heard Columba say, ‘Jebby really loves politics,’ and kind of sigh.”
The differences in changes in fat mass from baseline in the 3-mg group compared to placebo were similar in males and females with approximately a loss of 0.6 kg relative to placebo. No differences in total body weight were observed, indicating that the shift to more lean body composition in the 3-mg-dose group was achieved, at least partially, at the expense of body fat. Open in a separate window Table 2 Baseline SD Absolute change SD P value treatment versus placebo Lean body mass (g) Placebo 44,614.8 9,674.22 −73.2 1,126.77 0.1 mg 46,399.5 9,350.43 164 868.19 0.474 0.3 mg 45,257.8 10,102.75 78 1,150.33 0.651 1 mg 48,145.3 10,589.96 588.7 1,257.47 0.055 3 mg 45,030.7 10,255.4 1,246.3 1,287.92 <.001* Fat mass (g) Placebo 20,806.6 8,688.95 304.7 1,105.24 0.1 mg 23,354.5 6,019.07 222.7 958.04 0.793 0.3 mg 21,554.8 6,693.72 −65.4 1,054.9 0.242 1 mg 22,561.4 5,659.38 −255.1 947.95 0.085 3 mg 20,492.9 6,932.34 −321.9 1,281.95 0.049* Total body weight (kg) Placebo 68.0 12.01 −0.1 2.32 0.1 mg 72.5 10.61 0.4 1.28 0.51 0.3 mg 68.6 15.87 0.9 4.88 0.196 1 mg 72.9 13.65 0.3 1.67 0.55 3 mg 67.5 13.48 0.9 1.74 0.178 Stair climb speed (s) Placebo 5.0003 1.24036 −0.2 0.84768 0.1 mg 4.3008 1.09389 0.6 1.788 0.010* 0.3 mg 4.3789 1.17799 0 0.79584 0.507 1 mg 4.7289 1.04263 −0.2 0.78467 0.953 3 mg 4.9847 1.59781 −0.8 0.86947 0.08 Power (W) Placebo 280.72 87.807 20.35 38.835 0.1 mg 331.77 91.95 −16.68 60.608 0.012* 0.3 mg 307.47 96.69 14.45 49.106 0.69 1 mg 324.7 100.826 10.68 50.955 0.522 3 mg 298.69 97.232 49.67 50.317 0.049* Open in a separate window GTx-024 demonstrated a dose-dependent decrease in the time required for elderly men and postmenopausal women to climb 12 steps. The reduction in time was observed at every segment of the stair climb (i.e., 1–4, 4–8, 8–12, and 1–12 stairs; data not shown) within the GTx-024 3-mg-dose group. A statistically significant (P = 0.013) improvement in stair climb power was observed in the GTx-024 3-mg-dose group (Fig. ). Open in a separate window GTx-024 3 mg significantly (P = 0.006) decreased blood glucose an average of 6.9 ± 2.5 (milligrams per deciliter), while a trend toward a significant (P = 0.052) reduction of 2.2 ± 1.1 μIU/mL in blood insulin was also observed in this group compared to placebo.
Those were all driven by the gestalt of that, and Edgar Rice Burroughs had the brilliant pulp narrative wisdom and transform into this rich world of Barsoom, which is in this long, slow, gradual decline, having once reached this mighty pinnacle.
Reasoning and working memory were moderately correlated (0.52), with genetic sources accounting for the majority (89%) of the covariation (Fig 3). This genetic component of the covariation was substantially influenced (72%) by sources also influencing RC. It also largely reflects that component of general cognitive ability that covaries with relational processing, with RC influencing only 8% of the covariation between reasoning and working memory independently of IQ (and IQ influencing 12% of the covariation independently of RC). This finding is consistent with the perspective that genes influencing variation in the ability to process complex relations thereby also contribute to variability in both reasoning and working memory. In the present study, while we had substantial power to detect sources of genetic and environmental variance in relational processing using the classical twin design [71], we lacked power for genome-wide association (GWA) due to the complex architecture of traits such as cognition, where many variants of small effect are involved [72]. Thus, our GWA analyses of this novel phenotype are exploratory and our p-values are modest. To reduce noise, we used a cross-trait consistency approach and selected eleven SNPs and two genes for replication. This included a total of nine genes (with additional SNPs in intergenic regions), of which most were plausible as candidates for involvement in cognition (S11 Table). Heterogeneity among the cognitive tests across the five cohorts (Australian Discovery, English ALSPAC, Scottish LBC1936, Dutch NTR, and Norwegian NCNG) was unavoidable. Further, our meta-analysis p-values did not survive correction for multiple testing and should be considered preliminary. However, in support of the findings, there is converging evidence that the genes they lie in or near could plausibly influence cognitive processes. From our GWA meta-analyses, variants in or near the genes DGKB and NPS, as well as two intergenic variants (rs4482248 and rs2964546) were implicated. DGKB is a kinase involved in signalling and phospholipid synthesis, which seems to be preponderant in the brain. In humans, DGKB has been associated with stimulating the secretion of insulin [73], a hormone found to have potent effects in the brain, with insulin dysfunction underlying several risk factors implicated in cognitive decline [74]. Recent replicated gene-based association results suggest DGKB may influence fluid intelligence [54], while rat studies show DGKB involvement in hippocampal development, with flow-on effects in memory maze tasks [75, 76]. The hippocampus is most commonly known for its involvement in memory processes [77], but it is also involved in relational processing [78].
I wanted to blog about this brand for a while. I'm talking about the Korean brand PeriPera. Peripera is the second brand created by CLIO Professional . Back in September 2013 they released their Fall/Winter 2013 collection. Jup, i'm sorry that i'm a bit late for sharing this collection. I was hesitating to blog about this, but I decided to do it after all because it's a cute brand and I have the feeling that not many of you are familiar with PeriPera. Today I will be sharing the products of their Fall/Winter 2013 collections called Love Fairy & Heart Glow. Be aware that this blogpost is picture heavy, please wait until all pictures are fully loaded.You can purchase these 2 collections - Love Fairy & Heart Glow collection from PeriPera at the following shops: w2beauty.com koreadepart.com , ebay seller IamLove-shop and at koreabuys.com . The prices of the products varies from $5 USD to $15 USD, it depends on the product and where you buy it, but PeriPera in general is definitely an affordable brand.These glow sticks are available in 5 colors. My favourite out of the 5 is Magic of Love!Peripera has two lip butters in this collection: the Hello Day Lip Butter with SPF15 (for daytime) and the Sleeping Lip Butter (for night time). Each tin contains 10g of product. Gotta keep your lips moist 24/7 right ^^?There are 3 different kinds of Love Fairy Lip essences: two color changing lip essences - lemon & cherry and 1 is colorless. The lemon lip tint looks yellow, but it will change into a sweet pink glossy color. The Cherry tint essence looks light pink but the color will change into a vibrant pink.In this collection there are two types of hand creams: no.1 is called Mild Love and no. 2 is called Deep in Love. Mild love has a cherry blossom scent while Deep in love has a baby powder scent. Hence the name, the first hand cream is mild & light and the second hand cream will deeply nourish your hands. Which one would you try?This is the CC cream from the heart glow collection. It comes in one shade but in the pictures it's shown that the CC cream is suitable for people with a light as well as dark skin tone.This is a powder with SPF30 PA+++. It comes in two shades: #21 and #23. The packaging is different per shade.
Sublists C and D are what's been withheld from the public, even as these URLs are distributed once a month to software and hardware companies. As of the time of the posting, there were more than 3,000 URLs on the blacklist.The leaker spotted some unusual things in the list of banned URLs. To begin with, it appears that there's very little effort being made to keep the blacklist current.Beyond that, the government body building the list seems to be suffering from technical ineptitude, resulting in supposedly blocked sites not being blocked at all.As is inevitable when entities pursue bulk website blocking , non-offending content is part of the collateral damage.This is on top of strange and very arbitrary blockages, like a listing for the videogame Dead Island at amazon.co.uk and a few offending YouTube accounts whose account pages are blocked, but not the offending videos themselves.Beyond that, the list covers a wide variety of offensive-to-the-German-government (and in some cases, offensive to nearly everyone) content, including "normal porn, animal porn, child/teen porn, violence, suicide, nazi or anorexia." Notably, the Wikipedia page quoted in this post points out that BPjM is an anomaly in the "free" world.With its secret list exposed, the German government has gone after Neocities in a belated attempt to keep its no-longer-secret list secret. Neocities has complied, but not without protest The letter from KJM (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media) makes some rather odd statements More properly stated, thecontain the offensive material, not the URLs themselves. And, as was pointed out by the person researching the list, much of what's in the list is out of date (i.e., the URL no longer contains the illegal content, domain is expired, etc.) or is ineptly targeted (typos, invalid URLs, etc. ), which means the list isn't nearly as useful as the government believes.And, if the statement about violating two countries' laws wasn't (theoretically) frightening enough, KJM goes on to claim that posting this content violates Neocities own mission statement. (No. Really. )The statement is truly wondrous in its inanity, approaching the level of non sequitur. At no point does the mission statement encourage the stripping of anonymity or encourage censorship. Neocities is a platform for website construction, something KJM believes is somehow contrary to sticking up for its users and their content.
Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: Isis' weapons factories Show all 11 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: Isis' weapons factories 1/11 A mortar round fin manufactured by Isis in Gogjali, Mosul, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 2/11 Isis rocket components discovered in Gogjali, Mosul, Iraq in November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 3/11 Isis mortars discovered near Karamlais, Iraq, in November 2016 CAR 4/11 An Isis rocket launch frame in Qaraqosh, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 5/11 A memo from Isis' COSQC on quality control at a manufacturing facility in Gogjali, Mosul, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 6/11 Electrically-operated initiators manufactured by Isis in forces Gogjali, Mosul, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 7/11 Isis mortar tubes at a manufacturing facility in Karamlais, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 8/11 An Isis mortar production facility discovered in Gogjali, Mosul, in November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 9/11 An Isis weapons manufacturing facilities near Mosul in November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 10/11 Stocks of French-manufactured Sorbitol, Latvian potassium nitrate and Lebanese sugar at an Isis weapons factory in Iraq Conflict Armament Research 11/11 A destroyed Isis weapons facility in Qaraqosh, Iraq, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 1/11 A mortar round fin manufactured by Isis in Gogjali, Mosul, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 2/11 Isis rocket components discovered in Gogjali, Mosul, Iraq in November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 3/11 Isis mortars discovered near Karamlais, Iraq, in November 2016 CAR 4/11 An Isis rocket launch frame in Qaraqosh, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 5/11 A memo from Isis' COSQC on quality control at a manufacturing facility in Gogjali, Mosul, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 6/11 Electrically-operated initiators manufactured by Isis in forces Gogjali, Mosul, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 7/11 Isis mortar tubes at a manufacturing facility in Karamlais, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 8/11 An Isis mortar production facility discovered in Gogjali, Mosul, in November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 9/11 An Isis weapons manufacturing facilities near Mosul in November 2016 Conflict Armament Research 10/11 Stocks of French-manufactured Sorbitol, Latvian potassium nitrate and Lebanese sugar at an Isis weapons factory in Iraq Conflict Armament Research 11/11 A destroyed Isis weapons facility in Qaraqosh, Iraq, November 2016 Conflict Armament Research
But even capital requirements--they are not a simple thing to see through and enforce. And I think this will require a fair amount of financial regulation. And if we don't do that, we'll end up with periodic crises that will lead to even more financial regulation and possibly nationalization. So, I think that's a very tricky issue. But I don't think just, you know, hands off laissez faire makes sense there. Russ Roberts: What about environmental issues? You just mention them but you also spend a decent amount of time in the book talking them. How do they interact with the issues of growth that you are talking about? A lot of people would argue that growth is bad for the environment. Economists typically answer, 'Yeah, but countries that grow at higher rates and get wealthier tend to take care of the environment.' What's your take? Tyler Cowen: Most aspects of the environment improve with economic growth. Clean water is an example. Clean air is an example. There's something known as the Kuznets Curve--that as societies become wealthier, they do a better job cleaning up. That's true; but keep in mind, in part we have the Kuznets Curve because some government regulation is used. It's by no means entirely due to regulation, but partly it is. But, I think on this one issue of carbon, we see a lot of countries getting wealthier and not really doing much, if anything, to clean up their carbon emissions. And in that instance I would consider something like a carbon tax. And, if need be, cut taxes on other capital income to make up for the difference. Russ Roberts: So, you wouldn't say we should grow as fast as we can so we can adapt to the climate change that might be coming? Tyler Cowen: Well, I think a carbon tax is the way to grow as fast as we can. Look at it that way. We've got to tax something, right? So, you can either tax productive labor or you can tax something that with some probably emits a negative externality. In almost any model, taxing the negative externality will give you higher growth.
Materials and Methods Animal Experiments. Female Naval Medical Research Institute (NMRI) mice weighing 20–30 g were used, except for the experiments reported in Fig. 5, in which male Wistar rats weighing 270–370 g were used. The animal experiments were approved by the Norwegian Animal Research Authority and were conducted in accordance with the Norwegian Animal Welfare Act of December 20, 1975. The Norwegian Animal Research Authority provided governance to ensure that facilities and experiments were in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act; National Regulations of January 15, 1996; and European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals, Use for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes, of March 18, 1986. Inhalation gas anesthesia with 2% (vol/vol) isoflurane in air was used for all nonterminal experiments. For terminal experiments, i.p. injections of Equithesin (42.5 mg/mL chloral hydrate and 9.7 mg/mL pentobarbitone; Ullevål Sykehus) at a rate of 5 μL/g body weight were used. All imaging and surgery were performed under deep anesthesia. The depth of anesthesia was checked regularly by pinching the metatarsus region of the limb, and additional doses were given if necessary. To overload the EDL, approximately two thirds of the distal end of the tibialis anterior muscle was excised. Denervation was performed by surgically exposing the sciatic nerve in the thigh and then removing a 1-cm-long section of the nerve or by reflecting the nerve and suturing it under the skin to prevent reinnervation. Long-term denervated muscles were checked for reinnervation by stimulating the nerve, and reinnervated muscles were rejected. In Vivo Myonuclear Imaging. For staining of nuclei, single EDL fibers were injected with 5′-Oregon Green–labeled phosphorothioate oligonucleotides (5.0 × 10−4 M; Biognostik) and 2 mg/mL Cascade Blue dextran (Molecular Probes) in an injection buffer [10 mM NaCl, 10 mM Tris (pH 7.5), 0.1 mM EDTA, and 100 mM potassium gluconate], as described previously (18). Satellite cells are not labeled because the oligonucleotides are water-soluble and there are no gap junctions between satellite cells and the muscle fibers (discussion in ref. 18). Unlike satellite cells, stroma cells are outside the basal lamina, and on the rare occasions when the pipette tip was inside such cells, the stroma cells were easily distinguished from the myonuclei. In vivo imaging was performed essentially as described previously (18, 62, 63). Fiber segments of 250–1,000 μm were analyzed by acquiring images in different focal planes 5 μm apart on an Olympus BX-50WI compound microscope with a 20× 0.3-N.A. working distance water immersion objective.
The informant passes these warnings on to Senator Bob Graham and others, but later claims "The complaints were ordered sanitized by the highest levels of government ." Senator Graham admits being "concerned" about this warning before 9/11, but apparently the warning is not passed on. [cooperativeresearch.org] The U.N. Says Taliban Bad Oct. 15, 1999 The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on the Taliban (Resolution 1267), demanding that the Taliban "turn over the terrorist Usama Bin Laden without further delay..." http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99101507.htm Iran Says Put Pipeline in Our Yard December 20, 1999: "Iran has stirred up the fighting in order to make sure an international oil pipeline [goes] through its territory and not through Afghanistan." [BBC, 12/20/99] Bush Sr. Meets Bin Laden Sr. January 2000: Former President George Bush Sr. meets with the bin Laden family on behalf of the Carlyle Group. He had also met with them in 1998, but it's not known if he met with them after this. Bush denied this meeting took place until a thank you note was found confirming it. [Wall Street Journal, 9/27/01, Guardian, 10/31/01] FTW FBI Blunders March 2000 - An FBI agent, reportedly angry over a glitch in Carnivore (snooping system) that has somehow mixed innocent non-targeted emails with those belonging to Al Qaeda, destroys all of the FBI's Denver-based intercepts of bin Laden's colleagues in a terrorist investigation. [Source: The Washington Post, May 29, 2002] Department of Energy Report on Situation April 27, 2000 Afghanistan A MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) has been signed to build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan (and perhaps India) via Afghanistan. The proposed pipeline would also pass from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan en route to a Pakistani port on the Arabian Sea. However, the ongoing civil war has prevented the projects from going forward. The pipelines may not attract the necessary financing without a peace settlement and international recognition of the government in Afghanistan. Although the Taliban control 95% of Afghan territory, only the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia had recognized the Taliban government as of late 1998. Afghan support for Osama bin Laden, and the recent U.S. bombing raids on his suspected strongholds in Afghanistan, also have reduced the likelihood for international financing of the project."
Hey, it’s cheaper than a sports car…As far as cost goes for this amazing little gadget , interested parties can donate as low as £8 GBP ($12USD) and receive NFC inlays with a prompt to print their own ring (3D printing rocks!). Standard NFC rings will set you back a mere £25 GBP ($38USD) apiece, and a custom ring designed to your personal specifications, complete with a custom message engraved inside the band, tops out the product line at around £300 GBP ($461USD). If all goes according to plan, the rings will ship in late October. Soon after, McLear hopes to be able to offer stylish alternatives to the simple metal band, with options like wood inlays and even an all black “stealth bomber” ring. Seriously, how cool is that?Sources: Techcrunch.com, Kickstarter.com, GIZMODO, nfcworld.com, The Washington Post
On the other hand, in ruby you use only functions avaliable for particullar object you use. I would rather say: "some text".length than strlen("some text"); which is much more meaningful! Ruby language itself much more descriptive. I remember myself, from my old PHP days, heaving alwayse to look up the php.net for appropriate function, but now I can just guess!" Yeah you must have weak memory and can`t remember wheter strlen() is for strings or for numbers…. Doesn`t ruby have the same number of functions just stored in objects? Look if you can`t remember strlen than invent your own classes you can make a whole useless OOP framework for PHP in a day……
BlueStacks Releases Software Allowing Consumers to Run Android Apps on Windows PC Alpha Version of BlueStacks App Player now available for free download CAMPBELL, Calif. – October 11, 2011 – BlueStacks today announced the alpha version of BlueStacks App Player for Windows PC, a free software download that allows users to quickly run their favorite Android apps on any Windows PC, tablet or laptop. In addition, the apps can be run full screen providing a unique and new user experience. With 56-percent of smartphone consumers purchasing an Android device in the last three months[1], it’s apparent that Android is rapidly becoming a preferred operating system. The BlueStacks App Player now gives users one-click access to their favorite Android apps right on their Windows PC. Both Windows and Android users stand to benefit greatly from this capability. For application developers in the Android ecosystem, the BlueStacks App Player opens up a market of over a billion PC users. BlueStacks does not require any additional work on the part of developers and the apps run unmodified on the Windows PC. “The openness of Android is enabling innovation around the world. We are grateful to Google and others for their contributions. This is also a social equalizer in the US and countries like Brazil, India and China, where a large percentage of the population who can only afford smartphones can now enjoy and benefit from the ubiquity of apps on the Android platform," said Rosen Sharma, president and CEO of BlueStacks. “We look forward to getting feedback from our users on the alpha release.” The BlueStacks community is growing strong with more than 100,000 Facebook fans, while the BlueStacks App Player is already receiving buy-in from leading consumer, gaming and media companies: · "This has huge implications for gaming. They've created 200,000 plus PC games overnight," said Vladimir Funtikov, co-founder of popular game developer Creative Mobile (available for comment). · “Any incremental way for people to discover our apps and we’re in. With full-screen, this is a big one. It could bring a big shift,” said Markus Kassulke, CEO of HandyGames (available for comment). “BlueStacks will do for Android what iOS has recently done for Apple. BlueStacks has enabled PopScrap.com to become the first cross-platform software application for the recycling industry,” said Stacy Duty, president and CEO of PopScrap.com.
Syrian doctors and medical personnel will be employed at health centers for migrants, Health Minister Recep Akdağ has said, adding that there were a total of 27 migrant health centers in Istanbul.“Syrian doctors and medical personnel will be employed in these centers,” Akdağ said during a fast-breaking event late on June 11, adding that efforts were underway to improve the migrant centers and establish new facilities.“We provided the doctors with training. We are carrying out exams. Honestly, we saw that they had generally been well-trained,” he said.A significant number of Syrian doctors and health personnel cannot obtain equivalency certificates because it is difficult to contract any official in the country, Akdağ said, while noting that they often had diplomas in hand.“We are developing a system that will allow Syrians to serve, and it will only work for Syrians,” he added.During his speech, Akdağ also talked about the family practitioner practice, saying the ministry aimed to assign one doctor for every 2,000 Istanbul residents.“We have 1,114 family health centers in Istanbul at the moment. We have 4,368 family practitioner units.According to these numbers, one family practitioner is assigned to take care of 3,300 people. Our aim is to decrease this number to 2,000,” he said, adding that the ministry were handling the healthcare services in Istanbul “in a special way because the city is massive.”“We believe that Istanbul deserves some special treatment. The aim to assign one family practitioner to 2,000 people requires the construction of new family health centers or the enlargement of the current ones.We will accomplish this in the following years. We also want to be fast in intervening in emergency cases in Istanbul, and we will increase the number of mobile teams,” Akdağ also said.Noting that severe penalties had been imposed on the businesses that do not comply with a ban on smoking indoors, Akdağ said the ministry had “no tolerance” on violations.“We are telling all business owners that the areas that can be both closed and open are counted as closed spaces. If it’s an area that can be closed, then it’s considered a closed space,” he said.“There are very heavy penalties. Depending on the size of the business, there are fines of between 5,000 and 10,000 Turkish Liras.
It's not yet known what movie studios will charge for a high-def DVDs, although a decline in existing DVD prices and the prospect of charging more for the next generation is one reason Hollywood is eager for a new format. Opinions as to which DVD version is better vary among analysts and within the entertainment and technology industries. Both promise better safeguards against piracy, which is a top priority now for movie studios. And both offer significantly more storage capacity than today's DVDs, with Blu-ray offering up to 50 gigabytes and HD DVD promising as much as 25 gigabytes. By way of comparison, current DVDs contain about 5 gigabytes of storage. Analysts, however, say that HD DVD is an easier and cheaper technology to make, but that Blu-ray's ability to hold more memory is more promising in the long run. Both camps have lined up powerful supporters. The Blu-ray team, which has spent years and an estimated $1.2 billion developing the technology, has won the backing of Hewlett-Packard (Research), Samsung, Electronic Arts (Research) and now Apple. The major movie studios behind Blu-ray include Walt Disney and Sony Pictures. The HD DVD side has fewer technology companies behind it, but more Hollywood studios. Among its top supporters are Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros. and New Line. Warner Bros. and New Line, along with CNN/Money, are owned by Time Warner (Research).
The robes are not the same, eating habits are not the same, everything is different. Namely, they don't train themselves, they don't practice. The place is wasted, it doesn't really work. If it does work, it does so only as a venue for showing off or publicizing, just like a medicine show. It goes no further than that. Those who have only practiced a little and then go to teach others are not yet ripe, they don't really understand. In a short time they give up and it falls apart. It just brings trouble. So we must study somewhat, look at the Navakovada, [21] what does it say? Study it, memorize it, until you understand. From time to time ask your teacher concerning the finer points, he will explain them. Study like this until you really understand the Vinaya.
Citing an example, Athreya said that research at the Large Carnivore Conservation Lab at Washington State University had found a co-relation between hunting and incidents of attacks by mountain lions on humans. "A separate study carried out in the Russian Far East on tiger attacks on humans had found that most of the attacks had been provoked. For instance, if a tiger had lost a member of its family to hunters, it was likely to turn aggressive and attack humans," she added.
On the other hand, when the subject was at one remove, he was vivacious and funny at telling stories and explaining how things worked, so much so that, forty years later, some of the things he said still make me smile. When he first joined the bank, it had a telegraphic codebook for communicating with the head office, in Hong Kong. The codebook quoted a typical message: “The marketplace is dominated by small Manchurian bears.” Dad explained that the message indicated the influence of pessimistic small-scale investors who were either based in Manchuria or had made investments there. What I liked was the image of those bears, which I imagined were like the small bears in a Tintin book, causing the market stallholders to flee in terror as they rampaged among the carts and awnings, on a furious quest for nuts and honey. Even as a child, I was struck by the fact that the decoded phrase itself was in need of further decoding. But the fact that my father worked in the world of money gave me a sense that it was, and is, comprehensible. Many people don’t have that advantage. They feel put off or defeated by anything having to do with money and economics. It’s almost as if they didn’t have permission to understand it. I did have permission to understand it, if I wanted to, and ten or so years ago, while working on a novel about contemporary London, I began to teach myself how. One of the things that happens to you—or, at any rate, happened to me—as a novelist is that you become increasingly preoccupied with this question: What’s the story behind the evident story? In my case, the story behind the story turned out to concern money. I realized that you can’t really write a novel about London and ignore the City—London’s financial center—because finance is so integral to the place that London has become. I started to grow more curious about the economic forces behind the surface realities of life. I wrote articles on Microsoft, on Walmart, and on Rupert Murdoch. I came to think that there was a gap in the culture: most of the writing on these subjects was done either by business journalists who thought that everything about the world of business was great or by furious opponents from the left who thought that everything about it was so terrible that all that was needed was rageful denunciation.
Remarks on Mr. Ricardo's Theory of Profits: Adverting to the known effects of permanent improvements on the land... [a] extensive territory... capable of cultivation, might, by continued improvements in agriculture, admit of the employment of a vast mass of capital for hundreds of years, with little or with no fall of profits; while the small but fertile territory, being very soon filled with all the capital it could employ on the land, would be obliged to employ its further accumulations in the purchase of corn with falling manufactures; a state of things which might easily reduce profits to their lowest rate.... A country, which accumulates faster... might for hundreds of years still keep up its rate of profits, if it were successful in making permanent improvements on the land; but, if with the same rapidity of accumulation it were to depend chiefly on imported corn, its profits could scarcely fail to fall... by a fall in the bullion price of the exports with which the corn was purchased by the country in question. These statements appear to me to accord with the most correct theory of profits, and they certainly seem to be confirmed by experience.... [T]he effect of falling [manufacturing export] prices in reducing profits is but too evident at the present moment. In the largest article of our exports, the wages of labour are now lower than they probably would be in an ordinary state of things if corn were at fifty shillings a quarter. If, according to [Ricardo's] new theory of profits, the prices of our exports had remained the same, the master manufacturers would have been in a state of the most extraordinary prosperity, and the rapid accumulation of their capitals would soon have employed all the workmen that could have been found. But, instead of this, we hear of glutted markets, falling prices, and cotton goods selling at Kamschatka lower than the costs of production. It may be said, perhaps, that the cotton trade happens to be glutted; and it is a tenet of the new doctrine on profits and demand, that if one trade be overstocked with capital, it is a certain sign that some other trade is understocked. But where, I would ask, is there any considerable trade that is confessedly under-stocked, and where high profits have been long pleading in vain for additional capital?
-- The six Long Island railroad passengers murdered in 1993 by Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson. Before the shooting, Ferguson was unemployed, harassing women on subways, repeatedly bringing lawsuits against police and former employers, applying for workman's compensation for fake injuries and blaming all his problems on white people. Whom he then decided to murder on a train.-- Christoffer Burmeister, a 27 year-old musician killed in a mass shooting by Palestinian immigrant Ali Hassan Abu Kamal in 1997 at the Empire State Building. Hassan had immigrated to America with his family two months earlier at age 68. (It's a smart move to bring in immigrants just in time to pay them Social Security benefits!) -- Bill Cosby's son, Ennis, killed in 1997 by 18-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Mikhail Markhasev, who had come to this country with his single mother eight years earlier. (We were running short on single mothers.) Markhasev, who had a juvenile record, shot Cosby point-blank for taking too long to produce his wallet. He later bragged about killing a "n*gger." -- The three people murdered at the Appalachian School of Law in 2002 by Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa, angry at America because he had failed out of law school. At least it's understandable why our immigration policies would favor a 43-year-old law student. It's so hard to get Americans to go to law school these days!-- The stewardess and passenger murdered by Egyptian immigrant Hesham Mohamed Hadayet when he shot up the El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles airport in 2002. Hesham driving a limousine Americans just wouldnt drive -- received refugee status in the U.S. because he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Apparently, that's a selling point if you want to come to America.-- The six men murdered by Mexican immigrant Salvador Tapia at the Windy City Core Supply warehouse in Chicago in 2003, from which he had been fired six months earlier. Tapia was still in this country despite having been arrested at least a dozen times on weapons and assault charges. Only foreign newspapers mentioned that Tapia was an immigrant. American newspapers blamed the gun.-- The six people killed in northern Wisconsin in 2004 by Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang, who shot his victims in the back after being caught trespassing on their property. Minnesota Public Radio later explained that Hmong hunters don't understand American laws about private property, endangered species, or really any laws written in English.
When we understand the ordinariness of extraordinary evil, we will be less surprised by evil, less likely to be unwitting contributors to evil, and perhaps better equipped to forestall evil." So, humans-- every one of us --are very complex, with motives both good and bad, mercenary and altruistic, and categorical demonization and vilification of others, whole societal groups, peoples or cultures only serves to inflame conflict, obscure our human potential to do good and elicit the innate potential for evil we all carry. I have come to feel that humanity must, above all, learn to transcend such forms of racism and categorical hatred if we are to survive in the coming decades. "It's just upsetting to me, as a daughter of a Protestant theologian, who was taught that Nazism was - that Christians were anti-Nazi... to actually discover that when I read documents from the Third Reich... medical doctors, legal theorists, they kind of throw in anti-Semitism to please the regime, you can tell they're instrumentalizing it, they're doing their little - granting the regime it's wanting to hear the little anti-Jewish thing. You don't really believe them. They're not really anti-Semitic. It's not viscerally felt. You read the Protestant clergy and the Catholic clergy... they hate the Jews. They really do... You feel the hatred coming off the page. They're deeply threatened. It's scary to them, and they blame Jews not just for sexual immorality but also for secularization, for doubt about the truth of the Gospel." - Dagmar Herzog, author Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany, as quoted in Steve D. Martin's new documentary "Stormtroopers Of Christ".
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He has to input the data the old fashioned way so that they will "learn" from it the same way as a human child would. They will pick up behavioral patterns based on their "father" and his friends. He lives with Robin, Marshal and Lily as well as the woman who built his kids. She is now a close friend, having joined the group the same way as Robin did. Barney still has an anti-relationship apartment somewhere else but close-by. The story of how Ted met their mother is really the story of how he met and got to know the woman who would build them, so we have at least two decades left to go. Well, the mother does like to paint robots playing volleyball... oh my God... Ted isn't really the father. Ted isn't really the father of the two children. After he meets their mother, they become really close, and he becomes their Ted doesn't even say that he's married to their Mom. Could be that Robin is their step-mom and they just call her 'Aunt' Robin because she's so uncomfortable with the idea of having kids. He does mention their wedding at one point. It is also stated that Robin eventually made her peace with children. As well, the kids seemed shocked and appalled that Ted and Robin had ever been a couple.
Many of our observations mirrored epidemiological and sex-specific expectations of heightened exposure to C. albicans in women, in those who were immunocompromised and in people who had a history of homelessness. In this regard, these antibody associations with lifestyle and somatic conditions represented conceptual controls. The portion of our analyses with males showed the most direct and strongest linkage of C. albicans antibodies with schizophrenia, and this association was independent of potential confounders such as age, race, antipsychotic medication, homelessness, socioeconomic status, and a history of cancer. The similarly significant antibody elevation in males with bipolar disorder was found to be purely a function of increased exposures to this pathogen due to a past period of homelessness. In women, we were not able to detect significant differences in strict comparisons of antibody levels among the diagnostic groups. This finding seems logical given that the female reproductive anatomy is prone to yeast infections. Thus, women are likely exposed more often to C. albicans overgrowth regardless of psychiatric status and so any disease-related association might be obscured. Intriguingly, however, it was women who exhibited C. albicans associations with decreased cognition, suggesting that elimination of the overgrowth might help to improve cognition-associated symptoms. We can speculate that this significant association of yeast antibodies with cognition, which is not observed in control women in spite of an equivalent rate of exposure, is consistent with a gene by environmental etiology of psychiatric disorders.16,17 In this scenario, the exposure to an immunopathogenic substance or agent in an individual with a genetically encoded immune system or endothelial barrier defect could be prone to CNS compromise by potentially neurotrophic pathogens or by peripherally generated immune factors.18,19 A role for peripherally acting systems in a CNS disorder was also supported by our findings that antibody levels were higher in people who reported GI conditions compared with those who did not. This GI connection was independent of those variables identified as confounders and preliminarily points toward a GI route of C. albicans immune response generation, perhaps signaling the presence of gut dysbiosis. Our findings, therefore, may be consistent with the hypothesis that disturbance to the gut microbiome in psychiatric disorders can lead to translocation of gut-related products, including those that are derived from fungi, into systemic circulation.18, 19, 20
BONUS KARRAS CLIP: Karras grappling with a female wrestler on The Match Game. This is what the 1970s were like, kids.
We said our goodbyes to our new friend Habib, hopped out of his semi and walked to the entry point for cars. The military guards at the checkpoint stopped us. We explained why we were carless. Laughing, they shouted to some guards who were greeting cars as they passed into Aqaba. “These guys need a ride! Get them a nice car!” We soon found ourselves sitting in the back of a shiny BMW, being served cold juice by the driver and his friend. Twenty-one cars and a hundred conversations after the start of our journey, we pulled into the Red Sea town on Jordan’s southern border.When we began our trip, we wanted to see if Jordan was a safe destination for travelers. Setting out from the northern border, we worked our way south. Not only did we discover that it is safe, our picture of Jordan was enhanced by the remarkable people who call it home. We were showered with smiles, introduced as friends, and overwhelmed by the generosity and hospitality of the Jordanian people. Our trip began with tea, laughter, and conversation. It ended with a profound realization: A life changing experience lies waiting for those who not only visit Jordan’s sites, but interact with her people. Build Your Tour Interested in taking a Jordan tour? You fill out our customized form, we start handcrafting your tour. Build Your Tour
When Brant arrived in York in June 1797 asking for Russell to confirm the land sales along the Grand, the governor asked for the opinion of the executive council of Upper Canada who told him to confirm the land sales. In July 1797 a message from London arrived from the Colonial Secretary, the Duke of Portland, forbidding Brant to sell land along the Grand. Russell offered Brant an annuity that would be equal to the land sales along the Grand, which Brant refused. In a report to London, Russell wrote that Brant "had great Influence not only with his own Tribe, but with the rest of the Five Nations, and most of the neighboring Indians; and that he was very capable of doing much mischief". To keep Brant loyal to the Crown, Russell then struck a deal under which the Brant would transfer the land along the Grand river to the Crown, which would sell it to the white settlers with the profits going to the Six Nations. Brant then declared: "[T]hey would now all fight for the King to the last drop of their blood. "[citation needed] In September 1797, London had decided that the Indian Department was too sympathetic towards the Iroquois, and transferred authority from dealing with them to the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, Russell, a move that Brant was openly displeased with. The veterans of the Revolutionary War like John Johnson who fought alongside Brant were more sympathetic towards Brant's efforts to maintain independence for his people, which was why London had removed them from dealing with Brant. William Claus, the new man appointed to handle Indian affairs in Upper Canada, wanted the traditional paternal relationship with the Indians as wards of the Crown. On 5 February 1798, some 380,000 acres of land along the Grand belonging to Brant was transferred to the Crown, and Brant hired a lawyer from Niagara named Alexander Stewart to manage the money from the land sale.
This game has it all. You can be an action gamer. RPGer. Pokemon fan, whatever. This game is for you. Set on new islands as well as the old from Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, you are a new trainer on the verge of becomming a teen in the world of Pokemon. With 100 new Pokemon added to the already 151 from previous games you now must collect and train 251 pocket monsters. Your new rival makes even Team Rocket seem not so evil. You get to choose between three new beginning Pokemon in this adventure. Chickorita: A plant-type pokemon. Cyndaquil: A fire-type mole/mouse pokemon. Or Totodile: A water-type gator pokemon. This game features old characters and new alike. Gary's a gym trainer now and Ash is your last rival after you defeat the Elite Four. Prof. Oak and his brother play inportant roles.Pre-evolution pokemon now exist. Like Pichu. Pikachu's child. New pokemon types include the Dark/Evil types and the Steel types which can unleash a major hurt on the once powerful Psychic type pokemon (MewTwo trainers: Watch out!). You now carry the Pokegear rather than the Pokedex. The Pokegear has a cell phone, map, radio, and Pokedex functions. The new backpack now has lots of pockets so it is easier to find things.This new game also has a built in clock which actually keeps track of REAL time. Say it's 5:00am you time, it's the same in the game. The game is devided in time zones as morning, noon and night. Some pokemon like Hoothoot only appear at night. Also it keeps track of the days of the week. So if you play the bug catching game which can only be played on Tuesday, if you miss it that day you have to wait another whole week. Another new addition is the three legendary dogs. Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres beware.You now get to collect 16 badges. 8 new badges and the 8 original. Something very special happens when you complete the game but I won't spoil anything. I'll just say it's almost like getting two games for the price of one... You will NOT regret getting this game! Three words: "A Must Buy! "Read full review
DON'T LOSE THAT SNOOZE DON'T LOSE THAT SNOOZE The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the National Sleep Foundation and other sleep experts offer these tips on getting a good night's sleep: -Do not stay up late to talk on the phone or surf the Internet. -Keep computers and TVs out of the bedroom. -Stick with a regular bedtime. -Avoid food or drinks with caffeine, especially at night. Such stimulants can keep you awake. -Don't stay up all night to cram for a big work project or to finish homework if you're in school. -Avoid vigorous exercise within a few hours of bedtime. ADULTS NEED LESS SLEEP -- UP TO A POINT ADULTS NEED LESS SLEEP -- UP TO A POINT Sleep needs vary, depending on age and other factors. On average, here's how many hours of sleep a night the experts recommend: -Preschoolers, 11 to 13 -School-age kids, 10 to 11 -Teens, 8 to 9 -Adults, 7 to 8 Source: The National Sleep Foundation "The ability to compensate for lost sleep is itself lost, which is damaging mentally and physically." -Fred Turek, sleep researcher, Northwestern University You've got a long list of e-mails to return, bills to pay and, oh, yeah, you don't want to miss the latest episode of The Office. By the time you crawl into bed, it's nearly midnight. The alarm goes off at 6 the next morning, and bingo! You've just joined the legions of Americans who are bleary-eyed and flat-out tired most days of the week. For years, sleep researchers have been preaching the dangers of lost sleep: People who are fatigued can't pay attention to routine tasks, have trouble learning and are prone to a laundry list of health problems, from depression to high blood pressure. New research suggests an added risk to losing sleep day after day: Humans and animals that have chronic sleep deprivation might reach a point at which the very ability to catch up on lost sleep is damaged, says Fred Turek, a sleep researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. His research on sleep patterns in rats appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That, together with findings from a human study, suggests people who lose sleep night after night might not recover the alertness they need to perform well during the day. So far the studies don't tell researchers whether the damage is permanent.
Memories of the Bhopal disaster Bhopal site 'not leaking toxins' "Every time it rains it washes toxins into the ground water. We have ample evidence going back many years." Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Chouhan dismisses the claims. In an interview with the BBC to mark the 25th anniversary of the disaster, he told me that the communities around the plant had been supplied with clean drinking water. "It took some time," he said. "But... we can say that we are providing 100% clean water." The Union Carbide plant had also been made safe, he said. Campaigners angrily dismissed his claims. "Even with people who settled here long after the gas," says Satinath Sarangi, "what we find is a very high incidence of diseases: damage to the kidneys, the liver, the brain, the skin. The incidence of birth defects in these areas is at least 10 times what you would find in similar socio-economic populations." In a neighbourhood just north of the Union Carbide plant, we found people drawing groundwater from a pump. We took a sample and had it tested at a laboratory in the United Kingdom. The test found that it contained nearly 4,000 micrograms per litre of carbon tetrachloride - nearly 1,000 times the World Health Organisation's safe limit. "Carbon tet", as it is known, is a highly toxic pollutant which is known to cause cancer and liver damage. In 1989, Union Carbide reached an out-of-court settlement with the government of India. The company agreed to pay $470 million. The Indian government had initially demanded nearly 10 times that. The money built a hospital for those who continued to suffer ill-health. The survivors of the gas got about $1,000 each in compensation. The agreement represented a full and final settlement of Union Carbide's civil and criminal liabilities. 'Night of the gas' "The environmental damage caused by the toxic contamination was never part of that settlement," says Mr Sarangi. The night of the gas leak continues to haunt the people of Bhopal "Very little was known about the toxic contamination at the time. Data started coming out in 1990 and 1991 about the high levels of organochlorines, talids, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals." Sambhavna, the charity Mr Sarangi runs, wants Dow Chemical, the US company that bought Union Carbide, to pay to clean up the ground.
Returning to the crash site the day after, Ira and Harry discover that the U.S. military has moved in overnight and set up a massive research camp. Brought before the post's overseers, General Russell Woodman and Dr. Allison Reed, an epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control, Harry is amazed to find that Woodman is Ira's old boss and that there is considerable bad blood between them. Woodman gladly tells Ira and Harry that they found out about the discovery through a tap placed on Ira's computer; as he puts it, the military "likes to keep tabs on our prodigal sons." Unable to continue their research, Ira and Harry file a lawsuit in the local courthouse to force the military to allow them access. Woodman reveals Ira's entire disgrace: years ago, Ira had overseen a disastrous field test of a new anthrax vaccine that caused debilitating and humiliating side-effects in the test subjects - a condition that came to be called "Kane's Madness." The judge finds Ira and Harry unfit to be involved in the research and bars them from the site. The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Epidemiology (Greek epi = upon, among; demos = people, district; logos = word, discourse), defined literally, is the study of epidemics in humans. ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is recognized as the lead United States agency for protecting the public health and safety of people by providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. ... It has been suggested that Voice logging be merged into this article or section. ... A vaccine is an antigenic preparation used to establish immunity to a disease. ...
Wounded Folcroft Police Officer Christopher Dorman was released from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Monday, just three days after being shot seven times.Dorman, wearing a red, white and blue cap and shirt, was rolled in his wheelchair past a line of dozens and dozens of fellow law enforcement officers who turned out to show their support.They saluted as he arrived at a waiting police SUV and was taken by police and fire escort to the Folcroft Fire Co. fire house, where he addressed the media and the public. "I'd like to say 'Thank you' to everybody for being there for me and my family - and my fellow brothers in blue for this," Dorman told the fire house gathering. "And everybody's supporting me a lot, and I really appreciate it. "In response, someone at the fire house shouted, "We love you, Chris!" and the room erupted in cheers.It wasn't the first time Dorman spoke publicly since his ordeal.Dorman released exclusive video Saturday to Action News to thank those who saved his life. "I'd like to thank all the police, paramedics and doctors, and hey Kenny, don't forget me," said Dorman from his hospital bed.On social media, he's being hailed a hero and #DelcoLegend has taken off in part because of Dorman's Delco tattoo.The 25-year-old police officer was planning to attend the Kenny Chesney concert Saturday night in South Philadelphia, but instead spent it continuing to recover from his injuries sustained in Friday morning's shooting.It turned out, however, Chesney heard about Dorman and made a point to acknowledge him during his performance.But in video obtained by Action News, the country superstar mistakenly told the crowd that Dorman passed away. Chesney called Dorman Sunday to apologize and offered to take him to a football game "to get some beers. "The man who allegedly shot Officer Dorman, and opened fire on a second officer, has been charged.The suspect is identified as Donte Brooks Island, aka Abdul Wahi. He is charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault and related offenses.Action News was there Friday as Island was escorted to a patrol car to be taken to his arraignment.
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As much fun as it is to see FOTM POTM melt enemies with quadruple starstorms, it is quite clear that the buffing IceFrog had done to make her more viable has overshot its mark. If the upcoming balance patch does not change Mirana in any way, we would be quite surprised (and disappointed) as it should not be possible to deal 1050 magic damage (before resistances) effortlessly in an instant with a simple investment of only 4200 gold. We enjoyed it while it lasted, but it really should be met with some change as that single item can transform the hero into a ridiculous farming and hero-killing machine. Mirana has always been a favorite pick in pubs due to her “skillshot” arrow and after slowly creeping into the meta during the buildup to Seattle, she was certainly the hero of the tournament. Shifting her towards higher farm priority and building her more focused on spell damage (in accordance to her “new” scepter upgrade that came with 6.87 in April) was the factor that allowed her the breakthrough to the coveted first phase ban/pick material. With a skillset that can potentially oneshot underfarmed enemy heroes as soon as she farmed a Aghanim’s Scepter, it is no wonder that Mirana became the most picked hero of the tournament with a win-rate of 59%. Her domination of the event was slightly tarnished by losing every game she appeared on in the Grand Finals, but that is much more owed to Wings outclassing DC that day and not necessarily a fault within the hero.As much fun as it is to see FOTM POTM melt enemies with quadruple starstorms, it is quite clear that the buffing IceFrog had done to make her more viable has overshot its mark. If the upcoming balance patch does not change Mirana in any way, we would be quite surprised (and disappointed) as it should not be possible to deal 1050 magic damage (before resistances) effortlessly in an instant with a simple investment of only 4200 gold. We enjoyed it while it lasted, but it really should be met with some change as that single item can transform the hero into a ridiculous farming and hero-killing machine.
'Those who Do Not heart-Recognize Me and heart-Respond to Me-and who (Therefore) Are Without Faith In Me -- Do Not (and Cannot) Realize Me. Therefore, they (By Means Of their own self-Contraction From Me) Remain ego-Bound To The Realm Of Cosmic Nature, and To The Ever-Changing Round Of conditional knowledge and temporary experience, and To The Ceaselessly Repetitive Cycles Of birth and search and loss and death. Such Faithless beings Cannot Be Distracted By Me -- Because they Are Entirely Distracted By themselves! They Are Like Narcissus -- The Myth Of ego -- At His Pond. Their Merely self-Reflecting minds Are Like a mirror in a dead man's hand. Their tiny hearts Are Like a boundless desert, where the mirage of Separate self is ceaselessly admired, and The True Water Of My Constant Presence Stands Un-Noticed, in the droughty heap and countless sands of ceaseless thoughts. If Only they Would Un-think themselves In Me, these (Now Faithless) little hearts Could Have Immediate Access To The True Water Of My True Heart! Through Devotional Surrender Of body, emotion, mind, breath, and all of Separate self To Me. Even Narcissus Could Find The Way To My Oasis (in The True Heart's Room and House) -- but the thinking mind of ego-"I" Is Never Bathed In Light (and, So, it sits, Un-Washed, Like a desert dog that wanders in a herd of flies). The "Un-Washed dog" of self-Contracted body-mind Does Not think To Notice Me -- The Divine Heart-Master Of its wild heart and Wilderness. The "Wandering dog" of ego-"I" Does Not "Locate" Me In My Inherent "Bright" Perfection -- The Divine Heart-Master Of Everything, The Inherently egoless Divine True Self Of all conditionally Manifested beings, and The Real Self-Condition and Source-Condition Of All-and-all. If Only "Narcissus" Will Relent, and heart-Consent To Bow and Live In Love-Communion With Me, heart-Surrendering all of body-mind To Me, By Means Of Un-Contracting Love Of Me, Then -- Even If That Love Is Shown With Nothing More Than the "little gift" of ego-"I" (itself) -- I Will Always Accept The Offering With Open Arms Of Love-Bliss-Love, and Offer My Own Divine Immensity In "Bright" Return. Therefore, whoever Is Given (By heart) To Me Will Be Washed, From head To toe, By All The True Water Of My Love-Bliss-Light, That Always "Crashes Down" On All and all, Below My Blessing-Feet.
The much hyped “economic reform” launched in 1991 opened the floodgates to foreign investment without adequate transparency, competition and regulation. As one among the eight “fast track” projects, a euphemism for lack of transparency and doling out political patronage, Enron was given the green signal to set up a 740MW base load power project in Maharashtra, at an exorbitant capital cost, using overpriced LNG from Qatar as its fuel. When there was widespread public criticism against the cost of the project, the government asked an expert group to review it. Ironically, for reasons best known to it, the expert group recommended further expanding the project capacity to 2,184MW, without any commensurate benefit to the public, thus making it not only a fait accompli but also converting it into a heavier millstone around the neck of the state. The project’s capital structure was heavily structured in favour of debt, almost entirely financed by the government-owned financial institutions which were also forced to take a heavy exposure to guarantees for the project. The project location was at Dabhol, in the lush green Konkan area, known for its rich biodiversity. In the name of promoting FDI (foreign direct investment), the environment laws of the country were allowed to be blatantly compromised. Under intense political pressure, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) signed a one-sided Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Enron. The PPA imposed an unusually heavy cost burden on the people. Even as per that PPA, Enron was required to install a machinery that could readily ramp up its capacity within a short time to be able to meet the spurts in demand but it failed to do so, as the machinery was not up to it. Still, irrespective of their individual political denominations, the state’s politicians, for their personal gains, forced the taxpayers and electricity consumers to pay a heavy price for the electricity generated by Dabhol.
But it is possible that complaints are registered with state police forces, which we will check now.”CBI is also exploring if parents had connived with the agents to send their kids to France.Sources say that during raids on three agents on Friday, laptops carrying incriminating data about the network has been found, which is being scanned.
Being alone is hard. We all know that. In fact, one in five Americans are estimated to suffer from persistent loneliness. What happens when you feel alone AND have cancer ? Dealing with such a serious diagnosis, particularly at a younger age, can lead to loneliness and feeling distinctly different from your peers Many single survivors shared their stories for my book, and the consensus was that when you are sick, it is much harder to be alone. Here is what a couple of them had to say:Nearly 80% of the single survivors I surveyed reported feeling alone, and 77% cited connections with other cancer survivors as a strong need. On top of the fact that being sick can lead to increased feelings of loneliness, feeling chronically lonely can also lead to illness - talk about a double-edged sword!Research has shown that loneliness can impact stress, health, and immunity. According to Dr. Dean Ornish in his book Love & Survival , "Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy, and relationships." When we lack connections, we suffer. He cites numerous studies about the key role played by family, friends, spouses, and social connections such as church/synagogue or other community associations in fighting illness. If you are single (or even if you're not) and battling cancer or another illness, connecting with the people in your life, or finding new sources of support, may be one of the most important things you can do for yourself.In a survey I conducted of 100 single survivors, these were the most common sources of support reported:So, how can you get what you need?It is so important to be a good receiver. Many of us (especially women) tend to be so good at giving and nurturing others that we can have a difficult time receiving help, or even a compliment. We deflect offers of support, don't want to talk about our problems and sometimes fail to recognize our own needs. For a period in my life, the scariest question I could be asked was, "What can I do for you?". Receiving just wasn't comfortable for me, and feeling "needy" was downright painful.There is not a much better teacher in receiving and asking for help than cancer. When I was diagnosed, I knew I had met my match but didn't realize that it would be one of the best learning opportunities I could ever have.
Perhaps that means Pakistan will have to periodically assure the Court between now and August that Jadhav is alive. That's it. For although our news channels are reporting that the Court has ordered Pakistan to grant consular access, that is not included as a "provisional measure" in the interim order. We might try to interpret the totality of the judgement to argue that guaranteed consular access is implicit in the judgement - but it cannot be maintained that this has ben explicitly provided for as, say, the stay of execution has, indeed, been explicitly provided for.The Court also reminded Pakistan that its order regarding non-execution till final orders is "binding" on Pakistan. But a plain reading of the order only makes it binding on Pakisan to not execute Jadhav before the final judgement is rendered (in August); it says nothing about Pakistan being bound to immediately grant India consular access to Jadhav.But there are nevertheless at least two rays of hope we might consider availing of. The first arises out of a statement made by the Pakistani counsel in the course of his arguments that Pakistani law provides for the "writ jurisdiction" of the High Court even in a case decided by a field court martial. If this is indeed so, perhaps that is what we should concentrate on while the ICJ's injunction prevents Pakistan from executing Jadhav. Since no Indian lawyer is going to be granted a visa for such a purpose, and Pakistani lawyers have been threatened by their own Bar Association from coming to Kulbhushan's aid, perhaps we could find a lawyer from a country that effectively enjoys unimpeded access to Pakistan (Iran? Saudi Arabia? China?) to rush to Lahore and invoke the writ jurisdiction of the Punjab or Balochistan High Court to get the case moved from the military to the civil side. I think this option should at least be explored by our sharpest legal minds.The second option would be the one I have elaborated in a previous column : a "spy-swap". A panelist on a TV discussion yesterday that I was on objected strongly that we could not talk of a "spy-swap" as that would be to concede that Jadhav is indeed a spy. Good point - although in all the spy exchange cases I listed in my previous column, neither side conceded that their man was a spy. But to make my point politically correct, perhaps we could call it a "detenue-swap".
All HRMS spectra were recorded on Bruker microTOF mass spectrometer using ESI in positive ion mode.H NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker 250 (250 MHz) or a Bruker 500 (500 MHz) spectrometer. Data are reported as follows: chemical shift, integration, multiplicity (s = singlet, d = doublet, t = triplet, br = broad, m = multiplet), and coupling constants (Hz). Chemical shifts are reported in ppm with the natural abundance of deuterium in the solvent as the internal reference (CHClin CDCl: δ 7.26 and CHOH in CHOD: δ 3.31, (CHSO in (CDSO: δ 2.50).C NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker 500 (126 MHz) spectrometer with complete proton decoupling. Chemical shifts are reported in ppm with the solvent resonance resulting from incomplete deuteration as the internal reference (CDCl: δ 77.16, CHOD: δ 49.00, (CDSO: δ 39.52). Systematic names for molecules according to IUPAC rules were generated using the Chemdraw AutoNom program. Purity was determined using a Shimadzu HPLC/MS workstation with a LC-20AD pump system, SPD-M20A diode array detection, and a LCMS-2010 EV liquid chromatography mass spectrometer. The column used is an Xbridge C18 5 μm column (100 mm ×4.6 mm). Compound purities were calculated as the percentage peak area of the analyzed compound by UV detection at 230 nm. Solvents used were the following: solvent B = MeCN 0.1% Formic Acid; solvent A = water 0.1%. The analysis was conducted using a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min, start 5% B, linear gradient to 90% B in 4.5 min, then 1.5 min at 90% B, linear gradient to 5% B in 0.5 min and then 1.5 min at 5% B, total run time of 8 min. Compoundsandwere synthesized by our group as described by Smits et al. (35-37)
Of course Modi wants us to reverse our position because that would be part of his rehabilitation process," she said. "One of the things that concern us is that Modi seems more concerned with rehabilitating his own reputation than with providing recompense and rehabilitation for the surviving victims of those terrible events," she added.
This time, she looked beneath the ice bags and peeled back the bandages, and she stayed out of the pictures. “I just started taking photos of everything I saw that was wrong, every little bruise and cut,” Harman said. “His knees were bruised, his thighs were bruised by his genitals. He had restraint marks on his wrists. You had to look close. I mean, they did a really good job cleaning him up.” She said, “The gauze on his eye was put there after he died to make it look like he had medical treatment, because he didn’t when he came into the prison.” She said, “There were so many things around the bandage, like the blood coming out of his nose and his ears. And his tooth was chipped—I didn’t know if that happened there or before—his lip was split open, and it looked like somebody had either butt-stocked him or really got him good or hit him against the wall. It was a pretty good-sized gash. I took a photo of that as well.” She said, “I just wanted to document everything I saw. That was the reason I took photos.” She said, “It was to prove to pretty much anybody who looked at this guy, Hey, I was just lied to. This guy did not die of a heart attack. Look at all these other existing injuries that they tried to cover up.” The next morning, after nearly thirty hours in the shower, the corpse was removed from the tier disguised as a sick prisoner: draped with a blanket, taped to an I.V., and rolled away on a gurney. Hydrue Joyner was reminded of the Hollywood farce “Weekend at Bernie’s,” in which two corporate climbers treat their murdered boss as a puppet, pretending he’s alive to avoid suspicion in his death. “I was thinking to myself, Un-freaking-believable. But this came from on high,” Joyner said of the charade with the I.V. “I took it as they didn’t want any of the prisoners thinking we were in there killing folks.” Joyner referred to the dead man as Bernie, but Army investigators soon identified him as a suspected insurgent named Manadel al-Jamadi. He was alleged to have provided explosives for the bombing that blew up the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad a week before his arrest, and he had died while under interrogation by a C.I.A. agent.
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She refused to finger her cohorts, and further roiled the waters by claiming there were several other women hidden here and there about the ship, which led to yet another search, much more thorough, so that even Adm. Pratt’s quarters were investigated. No one was found. Meanwhile, preparations for departure continued, and, since the ship was imminently ready to sail, Blackie was turned over the local authorities. As the fleet made its way northwards, Capt. Olmstead ordered a full investigation. The result was severe penalties for Arizona’s crew; 23 enlisted men were convicted by courts martial and sentenced to prison for as long as ten years. Moreover, convinced that the ship’s officers had been lax, Adm. Henry A. Wiley, Commander of the Battle Fleet’s Battleships, issued a letter of reprimand to every officer in the ship, from Captain Olmstead down to the greenest ensign. He did this despite a protest from Adm. Pratt, the division commander, who considered the penalties excessive. When Pratt became CNO in 1930, he ordered the derogatory material removed from the officers’ files (he couldn’t do anything for the enlisted men, as they had been convicted by a duly constituted court, and clearing them would have required a presidential pardon, hardly likely to be forthcoming from the straitlaced Herbert Hoover). Pratt’s gesture was good for the future of the Navy, as one of the officers in question was Ens. Arliegh Burke; it was the only negative entry ever made on his record. And Blackie? Well, apparently the local authorities in Balboa didn’t know what to do with her, and she was soon set at liberty. Perhaps the Navy thought it had heard the last of her. But she had one last surprise in store for the fleet. In order to get home to New York, Blackie booked a first class passage on a Grace Line ship, and arranged for the bill to be sent to the Navy Department, which passed it back to Admiral Wiley! As for Miss Blair, what happened to her after returning to New York is unknown. She seems, however, to have been a particularly bright young women.
"The official Islamic clergy of Kazakhstan do not ban visiting mausoleums or the graves of the deceased and reading verses of the Koran there," the indictment summarises Abitova's remarks.Abitova also claimed – without providing any detail - that in another sermon Bashpayev had declared it was permitted to kill those guilty of "shirk".Reached at the Centre in Pavlodar, Abitova refused to discuss her testimony with Forum 18 on 29 March 2017.Interrogated on 12 October 2016, Bashpayev refused to answer any questions, according to the indictment. He was arrested the following day (see F18News 6 February 2017 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2253 ).KNB Captain Bakirov signed the indictment on 25 January 2017 and K. Bazarbayev of the Regional Prosecutor's Office counter-signed it five days later.Korzhavin: why was he arrested?Arrested in Almaty on 18 February was Denis Valeryevich Korzhavin (born 21 May 1983). On 21 February Judge Maral Dzharilgasova of Almaty's Almaly District Court ordered him held in two months' pre-trial detention, the court chancellery told Forum 18 on 3 April. It added that Korzhavin is being investigated under Criminal Code Article 174, Part 1.The Special Department of Almaty's Investigation Prison No. 18 confirmed to Forum 18 on 30 March that it is holding Korzhavin. However, the official – who would not give her name – refused to discuss his conditions in prison, including whether he has access to the Koran and whether he can pray openly.Korzhavin is an ethnic Russian who converted to Islam. He then studied his faith at Medina University in Saudi Arabia before returning to Kazakhstan.Forum 18 has been unable to find out why Korzhavin was arrested. No official at Almaly District Prosecutor's Office would identify the Investigator in the case on 3 April or tell Forum 18 why he had been arrested. (END)Reports on freedom of thought, conscience and belief in Kazakhstan can be found at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?query=&religion=all&country=29 For more background, see Forum 18's Kazakhstan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1939 For a personal commentary from 2005 on how attacking religious freedom damages national security in Kazakhstan, see F18News http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=564 A compilation of Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) freedom of religion or belief commitments can be found at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1351 A printer-friendly map of Kazakhstan is available at http://nationalgeographic.org/education/mapping/outline-map/?map=Kazakhstan Twitter @Forum_18Follow us on Facebook @Forum18NewsServiceAll Forum 18 News Service material may be referred to, quoted from, or republished in full, if Forum 18
Many on the left (and god knows many on the right) like to refer to Assad’s government as a regime. This is an orientalist code for expendable. Chavez was elected three times but was labeled a dictator. Milosevic was the ‘Butcher of the Balkans’. Qadaffi went in and out of favour with the U.S. (and France) a number of times, but his economic reforms were just a step too far. And he served as the perfect object lesson in disobedience. If you don’t do as you are told, you will be driven into a hole and beaten to death. Saddam could gas his own people and get trade breaks, as long as he flew U.S. made helicopters to do it. Eventually it was expedient to lose him, too. Clinton has now famously boasted of the Qadaffi hit. We came, we saw, he died. Those words and her cackle afterwords will linger in the western imagination for decades. And the handling of these narratives always employs a certain very specific Orwellian vocabulary. And there are always lurid tales of chemical weapons or rape and there are always poor dark skinned suffering children used to gain sympathy. Remember the babies torn from incubators in Kuwait story? Or the rape camps in football stadiums in the former Yugoslavia. And now the western funded fraud that is the White Helmets and the ash covered boy in the orange seat. Fictions, created by Madison Ave firms; but you know what was real? Abu Ghraib. A story that has mostly faded from media memory. At what point does the U.S. public decide to remember any of this? To remember that the media lies. I guess never. And even on the left there is often a curious adherence to U.S. state department storylines. Whatever Assad has done, remember the situation. Assad is called out because Syria had torture sites (allegedly) in service to the U.S. You know who else did? Poland. But Poland is not a regime. As for repression and the litany of western accusations against Syria, I would only say remember the position of those countries looking up at the Imperialist boot heel of the U.S., AFRICOM and NATO.
THE BANKS: Brown has been a tough advocate for fixing the financial system that brought the world to the point of economic catastrophe in 2008. He authored the Brown-Kauffman amendment in the Senate during the financial regulation debate. The amendment would’ve effectively broken up the biggest banks, but failed to pass a Senate vote. The Chamber is funded by banking entities like Citigroup and New York Private Bank & Trust. THE HEALTH INSURERS: During the debate over legislation to reform the American healthcare system, Brown was a leader, advocating for a public plan for Americans to buy into at least, if not a Medicare for All system that completely cuts out private insurers. Health insurers from America’s Health Insurance Programs used the Chamber of Commerce to secretly funnel tens of millions of dollars to attack health reform efforts, and their money is now likely going to be used to attack Brown for being a leader in holding their industry accountable. THE DRUG COMPANIES: The American drug industry has a pretty good deal. They use their political clout to get massive funding from the government, then they use their political clout to bar Americans from reimporting drugs from countries where they are cheaper, like in Canada. Brown didn’t think that was right, so he voted for a measure that would’ve allowed Americans to purchase drugs from other countries. Chamber donors like Eli Lilly and Merck are likely very unhappy about Brown standing with Americans and free market advocates over their companies. THE OUTSOURCERS: Support for corporate-written “free trade” agreement that hollow out our manufacturing base and reward human rights abusers overseas has become vogue among bipartisan elites, but not Brown. He opposed the agreements made with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. The Chamber has countless outsourcing-backing corporate members who supported these agreements, including Eli Lilly, Microsoft, Intel, 3M and others.
No one knows in advance how much each claimant will receive, or whether any money will be paid directly to claimants. If the number of claims made renders it economically infeasible to pay money to persons who make a timely and valid claim, payment will be made to the not-for-profit organizations identified on the Settlement website at www.fraleyfacebooksettlement. com (if clicking on the link does not work, copy and paste the website address into a web browser). These organizations are involved in educational outreach that teaches adults and children how to use social media technologies safely, or are involved in research of social media, with a focus on critical thinking around advertising and commercialization, and particularly with protecting the interests of children. In addition to monetary relief, Facebook will (a) revise its terms of service (known as the "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities" or "SRR") to more fully explain the instances in which users agree to the display of their names and profile pictures in connection with Sponsored Stories; (b) create an easily accessible mechanism that enables users to view, on a going-forward basis, the subset of their interactions and other content on Facebook that have been displayed in Sponsored Stories (if any); (c) develop settings that will allow users to prevent particular items or categories of content or information related to them from being displayed in future Sponsored Stories; (d) revise its SRR to confirm that minors represent that their parent or legal guardian consents to the use of the minor's name and profile picture in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content; (e) provide parents and legal guardians with additional information about how advertising works on Facebook in its Family Safety Center and provide parents and legal guardians with additional tools to control whether their children's names and profile pictures are displayed in connection with Sponsored Stories; and (f) add a control in minor users' profiles that enables each minor user to indicate that his or her parents are not Facebook users and, where a minor user indicates that his or her parents are not on Facebook, Facebook will make the minor ineligible to appear in Sponsored Stories until he or she reaches the age of 18, until the minor changes his or her setting to indicate that his or her parents are on Facebook, or until a confirmed parental relationship with the minor user is established.
The tamaleros fought back with their most powerful weapon: their fans. In 1903, when the council tried to outlaw them altogether, they formed a mutual-aid society and presented the council a petition with the signatures of more than 500 customers that read, in part: “We claim that the lunch wagons are catering to an appreciative public, and to deprive the people of these convenient eating places would prove a great loss to the many local merchants who sell the wagon proprietors various supplies.” They also found an ally in Councilman Fred Wheeler. In 1920, he offered an impassioned defense in council chambers when tamale wagons once again faced the ax. “The tamale put Los Angeles on the map,” he thundered. “These wagons are almost an institution of our city. Cabrillo and his sailors are said to have found them here when they landed. Drive these wagons from our streets? Never!” Wheeler convinced his fellow councilmen to spare the tamale wagons that year but wasn’t as lucky in 1924, when a resolution booted tamaleros from the plaza. They continued as usual, though, a move that sparked The Times to quip, “Those lunch carts have more lives than the eighty-one incarnations of Methuselah’s nine cats.” By then, the wagons sold more than tamales — the massive wave of migrants from central Mexico over the previous 20 years had introduced other Mexican delicacies to the city, such as barbacoa, menudo and tacos. But their era was waning. “They belong not to the new order of things,” The Times editorialized in 1924. “They were born of the pueblo — they perish in the metropolis.” The plaza, of course, transformed into Olvera Street, as a new generation of Angelenos wanted a more refined Mexican culinary experience than that offered by the chaos of Tamale Row. As the automobile grew in popularity, Latino families loaded up their trucks and drove through East Los Angeles selling food before settling in downtown, the precursor to today’s loncheras. By 1929, when Samuel C. Wilhite received a patent for a “Tamale Inn” — a tamale wagon shaped like its eponymous snack complete with awning, rows of windows, and even steps — there was no need for it. He parked it on Whittier Boulevard and named it the Tamale, where the structure still stands, although it’s currently a beauty salon.
(But it makes sense, if you think about, say, a crowded room full of people trying to talk. Any one person can be "strategic" by shouting over others, but if everybody is "strategic", nobody can hear anybody, and all you're left with is sore throats and sad peeps.) The other thing to note is which voting systems make people the happiest. If you have mostly honest voters, Score Voting is best. (with Borda Count a close second) And if you have mostly strategic voters, then both Approval & Score Voting are best. (and with strategic voters, IRV does just as bad as FPTP) However, those are still computer simulations. How would these different voting systems play out in real life? Well, we can't just get the DeLorean up to 88, go back in time before the 2016 election, change the voting system, and see what would happen... ...or can we?! No, no we can't. But last month, researchers did something close enough. A polling study asked 1,000+ U.S. registered voters to rank & rate the six presidential candidates, to simulate who would've won the (popular) vote under different voting systems! (But keep in mind that if we had a different voting system in the primaries, we'd have different candidates entirely. So take this study with a pillar of salt.) The results: under Instant Runoff, Condorcet, and Approval Voting, the winner would've been Hillary Clinton. But under Score Voting, the winner would've been Donald Trump. And under Borda Count, the winner would've been... uh... Gary Johnson? ? ??? ?
)We're also still in the process of converting all of our site pages to use our new responsive-design framework so they automatically rearrange themselves on smaller screens and mobile devices. (That effort is slow going because it involves reprogramming every page on the "application" end of the site and converting them to the new framework and auuuugh so many paaaaaaages.) Some pages are done already; you'll notice them because they're the ones that aren't tiny and squished on your phone screen. :)If you're looking for a journal style that works well on mobile, meanwhile, Mobility is designed specifically to scale down well on small screens, and you can customize what it considers a "small screen".Oh, I could keep going all day, since Dreamwidth is my baby and I'm really proud of it, and like any proud parent, I will show off the baby pictures at the drop of a hat. But in the interests of this not getting too long (too late), let me just cover a few things really quickly:Lots of you who are moving in are following tutorials to bring your LiveJournal layout with you! I'd like to encourage you to try one of our native layouts . They're all highly customizable (and if you get stuck, the nice people inare usually happy to help, if you don't find your question's already been answered) and every style supports every feature we have: you don't have to choose between a style you like the looks of and a style that has the features you want.Imported styles don't have access to a lot of the features we've added (and won't, unless you do a lot of work on them) and we can't give you support if anything ever breaks, which it has in the past when we fix or improve things. So, although we keep around the version of S2 that exists on LiveJournal -- which we call "core1" -- and will continue to leave it in place as long as possible and will give you plenty of notice if we ever have to remove it for any reason, it's provided on an "as is" basis and using an imported LJ style will mean you miss out on a lot of stuff. (Mind you, I just switched my personal account over from my old imported custom LJ style to a DW-native style after nine years, so I'm hardly one to talk.
Social Disconnection~do you find they can be the life of the party and be the center of attention? Do they put the charm on for your friends so they are accepted? Do you realize that they are socially disconnected from themselves?
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And yet most of the alternative media on the Internet has claimed just the opposite, that US, Israeli & Saudi financed and supported Al Cia Duh has been responsible.This is actually a titanic struggle between the CMMM and the Cabal (old guard) on the one hand, and the newly emerging worldwide populism fueled by Internet based truth from the alternative news services of the Internet on the other hand (the new guard). This is an epic struggle and even if the old guard wins this battle, its win will be turned back on itself and will magnify the opposition aganst it from this newly emerging worldwide Internet based populism, the new guard.Ron Paul has exposed the lies and deceit behind the USG’s and the CMMM’s position blaming Assad. (Origial video was deleted/removed, here is a similar copy)In England the alternative media won this battle and Parliament voted against armed intervention in Syria because the majority of the British people believed that alternative media wholeheartedly. Obama has said he blames Assad for the gas attack but will attack Syria only if he obtains approval from Congress when it returns September 9, 2013. Aipac has traditionally owned almost all the US Senators but less of the Congress-persons.You can bet Aipac and all the zios as well as the top controllers in the FBI and NSA will be engaged in an extensive “influence” campaign to manipulate Congress to approve this strike on Assad even through Israel, Saudi Arabia and the CIA are responsible for setting up this false flag intended to start another big Mideast war to take down Syria and Iran on Israel’s, the Banksters and Big oil’s behalf. (5) This means numerous pressured phone calls and perhaps even some middle of the night “not to worry” FBI visits, like those mention in G. Gordon Liddy’s book, Will. these master controllers, blackmailers and manipulators will be pulling in every mark they are owed by Congress-persons, bet on it. And even them they may fail.This is a perfect test of the will of the new emerging populism created by the worldwide Internet.
Oil was fetching more than $100 during 2007 but has since dropped significantly and during 2009 was selling for as little as $40.If we look at the industry as a whole, Transoceans’ ROIC has suffered in the recent past. An industry-wide comparison shows that Transocean has the worst ROIC apart from WFT.But if we look at this for the last decade, we see that times were definitely good for Transocean before the price of oil collapsed and the rig explosion. The average ROIC in the last five years has been greater than 12%.If we look at Transocean we see that it has managed an EPS growth of nearly 20% in the last decade, and the forward P/E stands at 9.2. The current price of $54.56 a share by Graham’s formula of Value=EPS*(8.5+2g), where g is the growth rate one expects for the next 7-10 years, gets us a growth rate of 4.85%. This is when the EPS has been significantly affected due to the moratorium and slowdown in the productivity. With a forward P/E of 9.8, the expected EPS is $5.84 a share, and plugging in we see that the market expects a growth rate of 0.4% for Transocean.If we see this another way, with a 4% projected growth rate, a margin of safety 66%, and a current AAA bond yielding 4.9%, the current discount for Transocean is 70% and the fair intrinsic value is $184.81.The discounted cash flow method tells us that the value of a business is the amount of money one can squeeze out of it by looking at the FCF for a long time and then discounting them to its present value. We also need to add the money we will get from the sale of the business (the book value).The current book value of Transocean is $66.82. The FCF in 2010 was $2.5 billion ($1 billion in TTM). Assuming our base as $1 billion of FCF and no growth with 20% discount rate, the cash Transocean will generate will be 1+1/1.2+1/(1.2)^2+ … = $6 billion. Per share this is $18.75 (320 million shares in 2010). Adding the book value, we get a fair value of $83.37. The current price is a 33% discount. Seen another way, the market expects that the company will have a negative free cash flow growth rate.Let's look at the valuation across the industry.
After all, what does it mean to say most Americans see the world as divided into “races”? It means they believe that it is divided into groups which are presumed to share a common descent and geographical origin, who for this reason are seen as different “kinds” of people, that this idea is usually expressed through physical idioms of blood and skin, and that the resulting system regulates sex, marriage, and the inheritance of property and therefore creates and maintains social inequalities. We are talking about something very much like a classic clan system, except on a global scale. One might object that there is a lot of interracial marriage going on, and even more interracial sex, but then, this is only what we should expect. Statistical studies always reveal that, even in “traditional” societies like the Nambikwara or Arapesh, at least 5–10% of young people marry someone they’re not supposed to. Statistically, the phenomena are of about equal significance. Social class is slightly more complicated, since the groups are less clearly bounded. Still, the difference between a ruling class and a collection of people who happen to have done well is, precisely, kinship: the ability to marry one’s children off appropriately, and pass one’s advantages on to one’s descendants. People marry across class lines too, but rarely very far; and while most Americans seem to be under the impression that this is a country of considerable class mobility, when asked to adduce examples all they can usually come up with is a handful of rags to riches stories. It is almost impossible to find an example of an American who was born rich and ended up a penniless ward of the state. So all we are really dealing with then is the fact, familiar to anyone who’s studied history, that ruling elites (unless polygamous) are never able to reproduce themselves demographically, and therefore always need some way to recruit new blood (and if they are polygamous, of course, that itself becomes a mode of social mobility).
People will say I am crazy, but if I am not crazy why would I go to Brazil? For holidays?Thanks for informing me that it will be my last World Cup. Today, I am 33 years old. And it is not because a fool called me an old man that you must believe it. And you may have noticed that the old man was better than the youngsters.Some believe I am going to retire in the United States or in the Middle East, but I have regained the joy of the Champions League and I am going to carry on playing in the Champions League. Where? I am not going to tell you. But I am going to carry on playing because physically and mentally I feel great.So I am going to go to this World Cup and to the next one when I will be 37. Some did it at 42, so I can still play in two more World Cups.I have never been afraid. If you are scared, don’t become a football player. But you need to have respect for your opponents. It will be eleven men against eleven men. It is true, Cameroon lost to Brazil in 1994, but I was part of the team which defeated Brazil at the Confederations Cup, and I scored a great goal to Dida in the 88minute. And then we beat them again at the Olympics. It tells you that football is not an exact science.It is going to be difficult, for sure, but in football everything is possible. I have a lot of respect for all those great players, but I am not afraid. We will have our chances, and we need to take them.
return label ch30_45: m "I know there are times you won't always be able to be here with me..." m "Like if you need to go out, or take care of other things." m "But I'll always have you in my thoughts, patiently waiting for you to come back." m "Come to think of it..." m "If you copy my character file onto a flash drive or something, you can always keep a part of me with you." m "I guess it's kind of unorthodox, but I find it really romantic for some reason..." m "Ahaha. Sorry, that's such a silly idea." m "I don't mean to be too needy or anything, but it's kind of hard when I'm so in love with you." return label ch30_46: m "Back in my debate club days, I learned a whole lot about arguing..." m "The problem with arguing is that each person sees their opinion as the superior one." m "That's kind of stating the obvious, but it affects the way they try to get their point across." m "Let's say you really like a certain movie, right?" m "If someone comes along and tells you the movie sucks, because it did X and Y wrong..." m "Doesn't that make you feel kind of personally attacked?" m "It's because by saying that, it's like they're implying that you have bad taste." m "And once emotions enter the picture, it's almost guaranteed that both people will be left sour." m "But it's all about language!" m "If you make everything as subjective-sounding as possible, then people will listen to you without feeling attacked." m "You could say 'I'm personally not a fan of it' and 'I felt that I'd like it more if it did X and Y'...things like that." m "It even works when you're citing facts about things." m "If you say 'I read on this website that it works like this'..." m "Or if you admit that you're not an expert on it..." m "Then it's much more like you're putting your knowledge on the table, rather than forcing it onto them." m "If you put in an active effort to keep the discussion mutual and level, they usually follow suit." m "Then, you can share your opinions without anyone getting upset just from a disagreement." m "Plus, people will start seeing you as open-minded and a good listener!" m "It's a win-win, you know?"
I feel like we do that a lot for homeless people and the more sympathy you and I give them the more they’re going to feel worthless. Empathy is very different. I want to help them with something that’s going to help them get on their own two feet and just bounce up and be like, you know what, I can do this, I’m a new man, I’m a new woman, I’m a new whatever, and hopefully with that comes a change!
Chivenor and Valley responded well to the drops with congratulatory telephone calls. However, both Wattisham (with an AOC's inspection next day!) and Coltishall rang up and blasted our Station Commander, complaining of dangerous flying, bad example, untidy debris and poor airmanship from No.1 - a happy, successful and operationally very combat ready unit!I saw red, particularly with the attitude from an "operational" station like Wattisham because I knew full well and at first hand Wally Walton's competence as a Hunter driver and live armament deliverer. Throughout the day we had only one reprisal raid, flown by one pair of Lightnings from Wattisham who at least showed some spunk by returning the compliment, even if rather inaccurately, over our wing's dispersal.Apart from the parade as elsewhere, there indeed had been no special celebration for the airmen, that vital body of skills, service sacrifice which had made the Air Force great - no Anniversary dance, no party, no half day off. The head seemed to have forgotten the importance of the heart!Later in the week I carried out a sample survey of 20 airmen at two stations, none of whom knew there was anything special about this week! Virtually nothing was in the press and I was particularly acid with the Government and perhaps less forgiving of the apparent apathy of much of our RAF to its great past.However, RAF Tangmere, doyenne of the UK's fighter stations, had laid on an excellent do for Thursday, April 4. The unit had asked us, No.1 (F) Squadron, to return to our pre-war home after first flying over their "Freedom of the City" parade/march past through Chichester. The previous Friday I had developed a heavy cold and with the impending important visit to Tangmere, I dosed myself with some strong quick-cure anti-histamine drugs bought from a chemist before being prescribed more triominic drugs by the station doctor on the Monday (April 1). These drugs, he said, would make me sleepy but in fact had the reverse effect, keeping me ultra alert and sleepless.
In France, about a dozen AFN stations operated, with AFN Orléans, as the studio control station. The network broadcast music, shows, and news relayed from AFN Frankfurt, locally produced shows and other features aimed at the American soldiers and their families stationed in France. In particular, a whole team of reporters and technicians was sent to Le Mans, France, to report the 24-hour auto race, at a time when Ford was doing its best to beat the Ferraris, and finally succeeded. AFN France broadcast in 50-watts, frequency modulated transmitters purchased from a French manufacturer (TRT), type OZ 305. The network employed a technical director, a program director, several military American broadcast professionals, and some French studio operators, record librarians, secretaries and maintenance technicians. The Frankfurt network programming was received, then re-fed from AFN Orléans studios to another studio-equipped affiliate, AFN Poitiers, and its slave transmitters via modulation lines rented from the French postmaster department. AFN Poitiers, based at Aboville Caserne, Poitiers, France, home of an Army logistical command and a major Communication Zone Signal Corps agency, served Army depots and installations in Southwestern France with locally originated programs and network feeds from AFN Orlean via Frankfurt, Germany. It was the only other studio station affiliate of AFN Orleans because of the large American military presence and it's resident Department of Defense dorm school for children of American military and civilian families assigned to Poitiers, and the American installations located throughout Southwestern France. Children living in outlying American military installations and communities commuted to Poitiers once a week for daily classes and departed for home by bus and train. AFN France was dismantled in 1967, when U.S. forces left France due to the French government's decision of President (General) Charles de Gaulle to withdraw its forces from NATO's military command. The French employees were dismissed but were granted a severance pay (in French francs and taxable) of one month per year of service, paid by the U.S. Army to the French government, in dollars (all the French employees were managed by a specially created service: le Bureau d'Aide aux Armées Alliées AAA). [citation needed]
and "" are names applied to whiskey which produces violent headaches due to various elements which have not been removed during the stilling process.First find the properfor the operation. The next step is the construction of the furnace. The following pages include diagrams and photographs of two furnace styles which were extremely popular during the days of Prohibition. Only a few of them are seen today.Theused was almost always a hard wood such as oak or hickory. Ten- and twelve-foot logs would be fed into the bottom of the furnace with their ends sticking out in front. The fire was started, and as the logs burned, they were slowly fed into the furnace. Since the furnace was made to burn wood, the firebox was spacious.All heating took place around the sides of the still in an area that was completely enclosed except for the flue. The sides of the furnace touched the still at only one point, and that was above the cape at the point where the sides of the furnace tapered in to seal flush against the top half of the still. This area had to be sealed tightly to prevent heat escaping from below.Thewas most carefully constructed for maximum draw. One man told us of a furnace he had built in which the draft was so strong that it would "draw out a torch." Natural stone was used, chinked with red clay. The first furnace illustrated is the "return" or "blockade" variety. The second is called the "groundhog"The construction of the actual still was an exacting process. Everything had to fit correctly or the still would leak.Three thin sheets of copper were purchased. The copper had to be absolutely smooth and of good quality. The sheets purchased were approximately thirty inches wide and five feet long. As money was at a premium, every part of the operation had to come out of these three sheets—still, cap, cap arm, slop arm, condenser walls and caps, washers—everything. Planning before cutting, therefore, was essential.On two sheets of copper, the top and bottom halves of the still were drawn. This was accomplished with the use of a long string which was anchored at a point below the sheet being markedA top arc was drawn so as to be tangent with the mid-point of the top edge of the sheet.
Florida Republican Marco Rubio plans to appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday to detail an eight-point plan for how the United States should respond to Russia's takeover of eastern Ukraine, The New York Times reported. He said hard-fought gains of the Cold War could be lost if the U.S. does not move to punish Moscow for its "grave violation" of Ukraine's national sovereignty. Outlining his plan in Politico, Rubio wrote that President Barack Obama should start by labeling Russia's move "a military invasion. "Secondly, The president should send Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to Kiev as a show of U.S. solidarity with Ukraine's new government.Washington should convene an emergency NATO meeting. And the West should come up with a set of economic measures to aid Kiev's transition to democracy.Third, the administration ought lead a boycott of the G-8 summit set for Sochi in June. And Russia should be expelled from the organization if it does not withdraw from the Ukraine.As a fourth step, Rubio wants to suspend bargaining with Russia on all issues not connected to Ukraine.Fifth, Washington and its allies should seek to pass a resolution in the United Nations Security Council that condemns Russia – and embarrass Moscow into vetoing it.Sixth, the administration should accelerate the process to bring the Republic of Georgia into NATO and supply it with the arms it has asked for since the 2008 Russian invasion.Seventh, the State Department should restrict visits to the United States by Russian officials and businessmen with ties to Vladimir Putin.And lastly, the process of confirming Rose Gottemoeller as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security should be put on hold. The U.S. should not be considering arms-control with Russia under present circumstances. Moreover, Gottemoeller, has minimized Russian breaches of existing arms-control accords, Rubio concluded in his Politico article.According to the Times, Rubio has sought to stake out a foreign policy stance for Republicans that rejects the isolationist approach of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, as well as the hawkish line espoused by Senator John McCain of Arizona.Meanwhile, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker said that "Ever since the administration threw themselves in [Putin's] arms in Syria to keep from carrying out what they said they would carry out, I think he's seen weakness. These are the consequences. "Related Stories:
But none of the News is covering it that way. 1. See what I did there, AP? It's called a hyperlink. It turns out that when you are writing about a thing on the internet, you can "link" to that thing and then users can click it and be redirected to that thing. You do this by typing what's called an "anchor tag" into the HTML code, which looks like this.You should try it sometime.
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Before the United States can even begin to make progress towards sensible healthcare policies, Americans must first comprehend what is being debated. Over the past few decades, and certainly throughout the healthcare debates of 2010, the terms health insurance and healthcare have been increasingly used to mean the same thing. In fact, the phrases are frequently interchanged throughout interviews, debates, and occasionally even on the Congressional floor. It has not surprised me in the least that most politicians have carefully avoided clarifying the topics, at times even dismissing the differences as mere semantics. But however insistent politicians might remain on the synonymy, nothing could be further from the truth. Stated very clearly, health care and health insurance are two fundamentally different ideas. Health insurance is nothing more than a subset of any other insurance. In general, insurance is a system that hedges a fiscal value against the risk factor of potential financial loss. It is nothing more than a legitimate system of gambling, albeit there appears to be a great deal of reluctance to associate that term with it. Nevertheless, in the specific case of health insurance, it is responsible for covering the medical costs of the policyholder in the event of an emergency. This is specifically why insurance policies for those with pre-existing conditions have been significantly higher than those without. It is also why insurance policies for those who commonly partake in dangerous activities have been significantly higher as well. In both cases, the risk of financial loss is elevated and thus a higher wager needed to cover that risk, so to speak. Healthcare, by very stark contrast, is simply the treating of an injury or illness (both mental and physical) by trained medical professionals. The most important distinction between these two phrases is that healthcare has absolutely nothing to do with financial risk mitigation; it has only to do with the wellness of human beings. When we allow politicians to intertwine these terms at their convenience, or when we do it ourselves, it makes it impossible to discuss obvious and costly flaws within the system. Whether some form of universal coverage were to exist or not, we all understand that some form of healthcare is required; this is fairly simple to comprehend as we all have been witness to injury and illness. But by conflating these terms, this also assumes that we need health insurance as well, and that is not necessarily true.

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