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Arum and Roksa say that forty-five per cent of the students showed no significant improvement, and they conclude that “American higher education is characterized by limited or no learning for a large proportion of students.” The study design raises a lot of questions, from the reasonableness of assessing learning growth after only three full semesters of college to the reliability of the C.L.A. itself. The obvious initial inference to make about a test that does not pick up a difference where you expect one is that it is not a very good test. And, even if the test does measure some skills accurately, the results say nothing about whether students have acquired any knowledge, or socially desirable attitudes, that they didn’t have before they entered college. There are other reasons for skepticism. It’s generally thought (by their professors, anyway) that students make a developmental leap after sophomore year—although Arum and Roksa, in a follow-up study completed after their book was finished, determined that, after four years, thirty-six per cent of students still did not show significant improvement on the C.L.A. But what counts as significant in a statistical analysis is a function of where you set the bar. Alexander Astin, the dean of modern higher-education research, who is now an emeritus professor at U.C.L.A., published a sharp attack on Arum and Roksa’s methodology in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and, in particular, on the statistical basis for the claim that forty-five per cent of college students do not improve. “O.K., but don’t call me again until you have something more specific than ‘Life isn’t fair.’”
The recently filed court documents highlight the mental troubles Moore’s lawyers say he has struggled with since his career-ending injury and reveal details about his efforts to take an admissions test in 2010 for graduate school. Moore’s family members said he “can no longer study effectively on his own. . . . He loses focus and is inaccurate and forgetful,” the documents say. “His communication skills, the ability to quickly and clearly follow more complex conversations, for example, are compromised. He has difficulties establishing priorities and making decisions. . . . His judgment is questionable.” Moore, who has an IQ of about 140, twice wrote the GMAT exam, taken by those hoping to attend graduate school, the documents say. During his first attempt, on March 3, 2010, he scored in the 68th percentile, which means he scored higher than 68 per cent of those who took the test during the previous three years. On his second attempt, on April 5, 2010, Moore scored in the 88th percentile. Moore was allowed 50 per cent more time, an extra break, earplugs and an adjustable chair when he took the tests. The documents cite Kevin Murphy, a psychologist who examined Moore. Murphy concludes Moore had “highly superior cognitive abilities” before his injury, but since Bertuzzi’s attack “does not exhibit the ability to plan, make decisions, set priorities, and to multi-task and is not capable of performing adequately in a wide range of managerial, executive, and professional work. “Moore’s current job prospects are restricted to work that is more routine, less autonomous, less opportune for advancement, and significantly less remunerative than his former prospects.” A company called HR Squared consultants was hired by Moore’s lawyer to provide an expert opinion of Mr. Moore’s post-hockey lost income. The company concluded Moore before his injuries had the chance to work as an investment banker, portfolio manager, high-net-worth adviser, salesperson or perhaps a research analyst. But his “shortcomings” following his injury “would make it difficult for him to perform the job successfully. “In sum: While it is possible that Steve Moore could obtain employment as a hedge fund marketer, there is a very low probability that he would have been able to keep the job,” the court filings say.
Sphagnum, like all other land plants, has an alternation of generations; like other bryophytes, the haploid gametophyte generation is dominant and persistent. Unlike other mosses, the long-lived gametophytes do not rely upon rhizoids to assist in water uptake. [3] Sphagnum species can be unisexual (male or female, dioecious) or bisexual (male and female gametes produced from the same plant; monoecious); In North America, 80% of Sphagnum species are unisexual. [7] Gametophytes have substantial asexual reproduction by fragmentation, producing much of the living material in sphagnum peatlands. [8] Swimming sperm fertilize eggs contained in archegonia that remain attached to the female gametophyte. The sporophyte is relatively short-lived, and consists almost entirely of a shiny green, spherical spore capsule that becomes black with spores. Sporophytes are raised on stalks to facilitate spore dispersal, but unlike other mosses, Sphagnum stalks are produced by the maternal gametophyte. Tetrahedral haploid spores are produced in the sporophyte by meiosis, which are then dispersed when the capsule explosively discharges its cap, called an operculum, and shoots the spores some distance. The spores germinate to produce minute protonemae, which start as filaments, can become thalloid, and can produce a few rhizoids. Soon afterwards, the protonema develops buds and these differentiate into its characteristic, erect, leafy, branched gametophyte with chlorophyllose cells and hyaline cells. [9] This stage dominates the environment where Sphagnum grows, obliterating and burying the protonema and eventually building up into layers of dead moss called peat. Carpets of living Sphagnum may be attacked by various fungi, and one fungus that is also a mushroom, Sphagnurus paluster, produces conspicuous dead patches. When this fungus and other agarics attack the protonema, Sphagnum is induced to produce nonphotosynthetic gemmae that can survive the fungal attack and months later germinate to produce new protonema and leafy gametophytes. [10] It is unknown whether the leafy stage can produce such gemmae.
San Diego Chargers: Walt Sweeney, Guard 26 of 32 James Flores/Getty Images You know that Junior Seau was an all-time great, a relentless wild man on the field but a respected figure off it, a fixture in San Diego for many years, an individual who paid far too high a price for his service in the NFL, and a cautionary tale from which the Pro Football Hall of Fame prefers to distance itself. You may not know that there is a very similar player lurking in the forgotten corners of pro football history. Walt Sweeney was a nine-time Pro Bowler in the AFL and NFL. AFL all-stars should be examined skeptically during Hall of Fame arguments, because the league was not close to NFL caliber in its first two or three seasons, but Sweeney remained a Pro Bowler and sometime All-Pro through the late 1960s and early '70s, when the AFL was winning Super Bowls and forcing mergers. Sweeney was a star lineman for Sid Gillman's innovative Chargers teams that featured John Hadl at quarterback and Hall of Famer Lance Alworth at wide receiver, with Hall of Fame tackle Ron Mix at Sweeney's side throughout the glory years. Sweeney was fierce and a little reckless on the field but a great teammate off it, a popular player in his region and era. Sweeney also became a drug addict. He blamed football for his addictions, and anyone who studies Woodstock-era football knows that uppers and painkillers were practically set out in candy dishes in locker rooms. Leigh Montville wrote of Sweeney's struggles for Sports on Earth when the Chargers great died a few years ago. Montville told the story of a disillusioned, broken man trying to pull his life back together while growing increasingly resentful of the sport that gave him fame and money but took much more away. Sweeney fought for two years to get the NFL's pension trustees to acknowledge that his drug-related health problems were the league's fault, eventually winning a $1.8 million settlement. That decision was later overturned. Sweeney had 25 knee surgeries after his career, including a few replacements. He rehabbed and lapsed. He collaborated on a biography titled "Off Guard," which is full of harrowing tales of team trainers handing out steroids like they were breath mints, stories corroborated by teammates like Mix and just about everyone who was in an NFL or AFL locker room in those days.
Unfortunately, the fourth entry is the weakest in the series. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril zigs and zags a few times too many. Director Takeichi Saito is no Kenji Misumi and you can see that in the final product. The fifth entry Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart and the Land of Demons is easily the grimmest but on par with some of the best as Itto is instructed to kill a lord, his concubine, and their five-year-old daughter after being tested by five assassins who sacrifice themselves to Itto giving him partial instructions for his mission. The fifth film is unforgiving, violent, and terrific. In the final film, Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven and Hell, Ogami Itto and Yagyu Retsudo finally duke it out, a satisfying cap to the series despite not being directed by Misumi. But Yoshiyuki Kuroda helms the final entry and follows the mission statement fairly well.
They did not make the accusers and the judgers -- and the judges the same person. We know the nature of impeachment. We've been talking about it awhile now. It is chiefly designed for the President and his high ministers to somehow be called into account. It is designed to "bridle" the Executive if he engages in excesses. "It is designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men." ² The Framers confided in the Congress the power if need be, to remove the President in order to strike a delicate balance between a President swollen with power and grown tyrannical, and preservation of the independence of the Executive. The nature of impeachment: a narrowly channeled exception to the separation-of-powers maxim. The Federal Convention of 1787 said that. It limited impeachment to high crimes and misdemeanors and discounted and opposed the term "maladministration." "It is to be used only for great misdemeanors," so it was said in the North Carolina ratification convention. And in the Virginia ratification convention: "We do not trust our liberty to a particular branch. We need one branch to check the other." "No one need be afraid" -- the North Carolina ratification convention -- "No one need be afraid that officers who commit oppression will pass with immunity." "Prosecutions of impeachments will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community," said Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, number 65. "We divide into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused." ³ I do not mean political parties in that sense. The drawing of political lines goes to the motivation behind impeachment; but impeachment must proceed within the confines of the constitutional term "high crime[s] and misdemeanors." Of the impeachment process, it was Woodrow Wilson who said that "Nothing short of the grossest offenses against the plain law of the land will suffice to give them speed and effectiveness. Indignation so great as to overgrow party interest may secure a conviction; but nothing else can." Common sense would be revolted if we engaged upon this process for petty reasons. Congress has a lot to do: Appropriations, Tax Reform, Health Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, Housing, Environmental Protection, Energy Sufficiency, Mass Transportation. Pettiness cannot be allowed to stand in the face of such overwhelming problems. So today we are not being petty. We are trying to be big, because the task we have before us is a big one.
Mr Geraghty-Shewan said the centre staff lacked "common sense" A father was told he was not allowed take pictures of his four-year-old son at a Sunderland shopping centre because of fears he could be a paedophile. Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, of Kent, was challenged by a security guard at The Bridges after photographing his son Ben on a children's train ride. He was told he could not prove Ben was his son and later quizzed by a police officer called to the centre. Bosses at the shopping centre have apologised for the "misunderstanding". Mr Geraghty-Shewan, 48, of Gillingham, said they had visited the shopping centre after Ben was given £10 from his grandfather to buy a toy. Ben Geraghty-Shewan is "train obsessed" His wife had suggested taking a picture of their son on a mobile phone camera after the "train obsessed" youngster boarded the ride. A security guard then approached and told him it was against the centre's policy and that he "could be a paedophile". Mr Geraghty-Shewan said: "He said there was no way of proving what I was doing was innocent. "I told him Ben was my own son and that he was blowing everything out of proportion. "Five or 10 minutes later a police officer approached and asked for my name and address. "I raised my voice, as I was getting a little annoyed by this stage, and he threatened to arrest me for breach of the peace. "I could have understood if I had been observed hanging about but I had walked up with my wife and son. 'Security procedures' "Surely these people should be able to tell the difference between the two situations - common sense was missing from the start." In a statement The Bridges said safety was taken "very seriously" at all its shopping centres. The statement said: "We do ask our security guards across the estate to be diligent in implementing our security measures, which includes monitoring photography in our centres. "Unfortunately on this occasion what should have been a simple polite conversation led to a misunderstanding and we apologise for any offence caused. "It is always our aim to implement our security procedures with the minimum of fuss and disruption to our shoppers."
Print This Email This The Politico revealed on Wednesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had initiated a probe of a former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee over the forging of a 2006 election audit. But it left out an important detail: the official in question served as a partner at a firm that was retained by the Swift Boat Veterans and Prioners of War for Truth in 2004 to perform legal compliance work. A report in Wednesday's Politico from Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan reveals that the NRCC, which raises funds for the political campaigns of House Republicans, is auditing its own books due to what may be an FBI fraud investigation of Christopher J. Ward, who served as NRCC treasurer until Aug. 2007. While the Politico report noted that Ward had been serving the NRCC as a private contractor since last year, it failed to note that he was also at one time a partner with the Fairfax, Virginia-based Political Compliance Services, Inc., a firm that specializes in filing reports with the Federal Election Commission on behalf of political candidates and campaigns. PCS, Inc., according to earlier reports, was retained by the Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election. "Since the spring of 2004, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth paid Wards firm nearly $230,000 for services ranging from database management to website consulting, according to disbursements archived at PoliticalMoneyLine, a nonpartisan website that tracks fundraising," according to a July 2007 report in The Hill. Reporter Alexander Bolton also noted that Ward did not directly handle the Swift Boat Vets' work which was carried out by another Political Compliance Services, Inc. partner. The Swift Boat Vets played a powerful role in the 2004 presidential election. The group raised tens of millions of dollars, much of it from major Republican Party donors, and paid for commercials and mailings questioning Democratic Senator John Kerry's military service record, as well as his anti-war activities after his return from Vietnam. The group was led by John O'Neill, who had been tasked by figures close to President Richard Nixon in 1971 to publicly challenge peace advocates like Kerry in public settings in the form of the group "Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace."
As this is the first systematic survey of concussions in water polo, we note several important limitations of our study that must be considered and addressed in follow-up work. First, although we received responses from approximately 2060 individuals, this represents fewer than 4% of the estimated water polo players in the US, and thus, we cannot claim that the data reported here are representative of all water polo players. Second, given that our survey was internet-based, self-report, self-selecting, and relied on participants’ memory for events, and to some extent, on respondents’ subjective definition of concussion, we cannot rule out the possibility of systematic bias or the over-reporting of concussions. However, though the projected lifetime prevalence of concussion that we observed (35%) does not, ipso facto, suggest a systematic bias or skew in selection. Further, although our sample is relatively small, the gender balance, and the distribution of positions, and participation across the levels of the sport are all reflective of the greater water polo population. That is, this sample’s demographics mirror that of typical team rosters. Further, to reduce potential bias, all cases of outliers (concussions >12) were removed before conducting our analyses. Nonetheless, we conducted two sets of post hoc analyses aimed at uncovering evidence of bias. First, we examined whether confounding factors relating to age in our sample (i.e., generational and/or memory differences) led to systematic bias. We did find evidence of age differences in concussion reporting; however, these differences did not systematically bias our overall results. That is, we found no evidence that differences in reporting by individuals over 30, skewed the overall projections for concussion prevalence and number of concussions. Second, we conducted a post hoc analysis aimed at uncovering evidence of bias. Based on the logic that some select group respondents might systematically over-report the number of concussions and head impacts experienced, we examined the pattern of head impacts between those respondents reporting concussion versus those who did not report concussion. In this analysis, we found that although respondents reporting concussions did also report higher cumulative numbers of head impacts, the pattern of head impacts (games vs. practices) that they report is not significantly different from those of respondents that do not report concussions. Thus, this study’s limitations must be considered and addressed by future research. However, despite these limitations, our results highlight several differential patterns of vulnerability across the genders, across positions, and at different levels of play.
"I used to mine coins using GPUs," he says.He is referring to graphics processing units, or computers designed to run graphics-heavy applications such as video games. He also used personal computers. "Most of my hashing power used to come from friends' computers. I know a lot of gamers, which helped," says Samuel.But the rising value of Bitcoins has prompted miners to use powerful computers. The puzzles have become more difficult, too, to control the number of coins that are generated.So low-powered computers now take longer to win a block, which means higher electricity costs. "We used to get a constant turnover of Bitcoins until the difficulty increased and brought in complete disinterest due to the imbalance of effort versus results," says Samuel.He has now disbanded most of his botnets, and is awaiting delivery of a computer designed to mine Bitcoins. The computer, made by Butterfly Labs, one of the few manufacturers of specialised hardware for Bitcoin mining, uses applicationspecific integrated circuits that hugely increase its processing power and energy efficiency. Samuel says he has invested around Rs 1 lakh in the machine, and is unwilling to disclose its processing power. "At the current difficulty level and hash rate, you need a very powerful mining hardware of more than 60 GHz (processing speed) to mine Bi tcoins eas i ly," says the Ahmedabad-based Doctor. "I know miners who have switched from Bitcoin to Litecoin and TeraCoin (also digital currencies), where mining is still easy. "On Butterfly Labs' website, a Bitcoin miner with a processing speed of 50 GHz is priced at $2,499. A 1,500 GHz miner, priced at $29,899 just before the crash on April 11, is now labelled "out of stock". Another manufacturer, BitSynCom LLC, was accepting orders for its new 65 GHz Avalon miners at 75 Bitcoins until recently.The machines are selling like hot cakes. Based on current Bitcoin valuation and puzzle complexity, these machines can pay for themselves in a few weeks. Yes, there is a catch: once these machines start participating in mining activity, the complexity of the hash algorithms will go up.Digital cryptographic currencies are new, and there are not enough regulations governing them. Mining, buying and selling Bitcoins is not illegal in India, but it is not recognised by law either, and their taxability is a question mark.
It is true that when Clinton raised the top marginal tax rate to 39.6 percent -- the same level Obama would like to return it to now -- the U.S. saw strong job growth in the ensuing years. But to the extent Obama is suggesting a cause and effect relationship between those two events -- and we think he certainly leaves that impression when he says we "should go with what works" -- that is dubious, according to the cross-section of economists we spoke to. There were many other economic factors that played a larger role in job growth, they said. However, most agree that the tax increases did not appear to hinder job growth, and that's significant given the dire warnings some Republicans have issued about Obama's plan to return the top tax rate to Clinton levels. Perhaps, as Foster argues, the situation is different enough now -- more precarious -- that a tax hike would have a more damaging effect. That's a matter for economists to debate. When Obama says we saw job growth in the 1990s even as Clinton raised taxes, he's right. But to the extent that he's suggesting raising taxes created job growth -- as he appears to be when he says "we should go with what works," he goes too far. [PolitiFact, 7/6/11, emphasis added]
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There is no past, present, future, because it is "eternally" existing, as is God's essence, "I AM" (Ex3:14) Thus, "..as the Father loves Me, I also love you.." (Jn15:9 VW) This same issue can be found in Mary's "Magnificat" (Lk1:46-55) and many other passages. And if you see how this affects Romans ch1, you see how the sinful state of the world is not for "them" way-back-when, in 'ancient times', but is also for "today", for "present" humanity. God's Word is not a set of some "ancient writings" and fairy tales, but is "timeless", and is for TODAY's lost humanity. "..having believed.." (Eph1:13 NKJV) "..since you believed.." (Ac19:2 KJV) "..who believed.." (Ac11:17 KJV) "..they believed.." (Jn17:8 LITV) While there are many places that speak of a certain "time" at which a person repented and converted, and such a time might be in the past tense (historically); the Christian faith is not in the "past tense". It is continuing and ongoing. It is the fountain of the Water of Life "..springing up.." (Jn4:14) It is praying "without ceasing". (1Th5:17) And so, let's finish this last reference, "..springing up into eternal life." (Jn4:14 VW) Others (including LITV and KJV) say, "everlasting" life. And the most 'famous' verse of all: "..but have everlasting life.." (Jn3:16 NKJV/KJV/LITV) The word rendered over and over as "everlasting", while containing components of "never to cease"; it's definition is actually, "without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be". "Everlasting" conveys a notion that there was some 'starting point', but now, from now on, there will never be any end to it. But if "this life is in His Son" (1Jn5:11), and God is the eternal "I AM", His life is also "eternal". If God is without beginning or ending, then, the life which He gives is also without beginning or ending. Eternal. That which we contemplate is "..eternal in Heaven." (2Cor5:1) If all a person has is "everlasting" life, it is not God's life...it is something else. (Let us not misunderstand. Eternal includes Everlasting, but is so much more.)
EOT Level-3: Retroactive actions Performed by 17 If identification of a banned user attending an event happens due to their involvement in an incident (threat of harm, violent assault, sexual assault), immediately notify chain of command about the incident EOT 18 Alert the designated SuSa team member in attendance of the event through a telephone number supplied. Alternatively, email [email protected] with all available information to alert the SuSa team member on call. EOT 19 Support the victim. Accompany them to a safe place and have another team member remain with them while the appointed individual deals with the banned user/perpetrator. You may use language such as “You are not alone. This is -something we take very seriously.” or “This is not your fault.”
This August, I accompanied Dariani on a visit to his client Anthony Kongphan—whom he described, with some managerial embellishment, as “the hottest commodity on Twitch right now.” (Despite placing only two hundred and seventieth in the site’s rankings, Kongphan was gaining several thousand followers a day.) On a hilltop northeast of Portland, Oregon, Kongphan showed us into a modern exurban house that he shares with two other broadcasters. Inside, a thick layer of dust coated what little furniture was in evidence: two tables pushed awkwardly against a wall. A dining area had been converted into a makeshift bedroom, illuminated by a set of shoebox-size photography lights on telescoping stands. Mail and packages lay in unopened piles. Dariani nodded. “This is a pretty typical streamer house,” he said. Kongphan, who is thirty-two, stands out amid Twitch’s largely sallow, nondescript streamer base. Lithe and tattooed, with an impeccably spiked crest of black hair, he is a former model and actor who once had a part on “The Young and the Restless.” After struggling to break through in Hollywood, Kongphan saw a friend streaming and decided to try it. He spent years building an audience, delivering pizzas on the side. “I will never do it again, but I streamed once for sixty-three and a half hours straight,” Kongphan told me. Now he broadcasts every day from early evening to around 4 a.m. “I just wake up, eat, work out, and then stream,” he said. Recently, he’d hired his older sister to work as his assistant, doubling the salary she made at an insurance company. In the living room, Dariani spotted a box of samples from the St. Louis coffee company Madrinas, which had been courting Kongphan. Dariani looked vexed; he’d forwarded the package months before. “Always love seeing the stuff you sent them that they didn’t even open,” he said. He unsealed the box and extended a can of cold-brew coffee to Kongphan. “Dude, try it. They want to pay you so much money. If you don’t like it, we won’t do it.” Kongphan, who doesn’t drink coffee, eyed it warily before taking a sip. “That’s not bad, actually,” he said. “It works really well with late-night streaming,” Dariani replied. Can in hand, Kongphan led us up to his studio. At the top of the stairs, an enormous translucent purple dildo sat mounted on the wall like a floppy trophy head. “Oh,” Kongphan said, registering it. “Yeah.
!The Americans!I was actually going to do a bit more too haha - if I remember, I'll try to take a picture of the entire GIANT deckplate area in Room #2 (where you see the French, some Pirates and some English above) and also count how many deckplates are in that area alone. XD It's also the area where the English and Franco-Spanish were in Economy Edition, but with myconsolidated deckplate system for this game (necessary due to space constraints - 500 ships in the game!! ), that area now has an unprecedented amount of stuff in it.At 9,078 total points, this game is now far larger than Economy Edition and VASSAL Campaign Game 1It's more than 3 times bigger than EE, and more than twice as big as CG1. Certainly seems unbelievable, but with all the pictures above, you can count the points if you want. XDEnjoy it while it lasts, since I won't likely be able to do this again for a LOOOOOONNNGGGG time. By that I mean like 3+XDAnyway, thanks for reading, and I'll be back with stuff I forgot lol. Won't be able to play tomorrow but I hope to resume on Monday!
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Doctors ignored me as I tried to find answers or help-offering me sleeping pills and advising me to exercise, when I couldn't even climb three steps without being so tired I needed to rest for 1/2 hour. And so forth. My family (wealthy successful leaders in the democratic party, btw) had no idea what to do with or about me as I spiralled downhill, bedridden for two of the last ten years - possibly due to the effects of anaesthesia following a couple medical procedures, and DEFINITELY due to the side effects of Celexa, an SSRI-type 'antidepressant' that, in my opinion, is of the 'devil" to coin a phrase. My sainted husband, who was himself diagnosed with MS two years into our marriage, has been my caretaker this whole time. He has learned how to take incredibly good care of himself and until the last six months, his symptoms were so minimal, due to the incredibly inexpensive allopathic drug, nutritional choices, and medical marijuana, that his bosses : world-reknowned & respected researchers in the field of MS MEDICATIONS! have forbidden him from participating in any more clinical trials-BECAUSE HE SKEWS THE RESULTS. To say I am a little down on western medicine doesn't come anywhere close to expressing my fury. I KNOW the drug companies formulate medications that are deathly. Perhaps it's true that 45,000 people die each year from lack of health coverage, but far more than 100,000 die from bad TREATMENTS and drug interactions and bad prescriptions, etc. Our health 'care' system is BROKEN. Doctors who attempt to promote simple, sensible solutions to costly, complex, life-threatening diseases like cancer & diabetes are run out of town on a rail, dismissed from the insurance company rosters, removed from hospital privileges, and the like. It's as if the Mafia is running this business-facilitating addiction and dependence on costly drugs at the expense of EVERYONE'S wellbeing. Nancy Pelosi is just one monster in an army of monsters who are running our country with a determined focus on undermining our wellbeing on EVERY front-foreclosures, pension destruction, eviscerating the schools, the towns, the cities, the public service infrastructure. It's just mindboggling what's going on around us.
Capital News ServiceRICHMOND – Transparency Virginia, a nonprofit, nonpartisan legislative watchdog group, on Tuesday released a report highlighting “murky practices” and “disturbing” findings from the 2015 General Assembly session with regard to unrecorded votes and short notices for committee meetings.The principal author of the report, Megan Rhyne of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government , said the system is devised for insiders and “the short sessions and the rapid-fire scheduling of committee meetings undermine participation by and accountability to the citizens of Virginia.”Transparency Virginia formed in December to study legislative practices in three areas:• Advanced notice of committee meetings.• Consideration of bills.• Recorded votes on bills.In the House of Delegates, Transparency Virginia’s report revealed (embedded at bottom of story) that 76 percent of almost 2,000 bills died without a recorded vote or without any vote at all. In the House’s Rules Committee, 95 percent of bills died this way.Ironically, that was the committee that could recommend changing the chamber’s procedures.No legislators were identified or chastised in the report, and political parties weren’t accused of wrongdoing. Transparency Virginia said this was because all legislators should be held accountable for the practices.Republicans have a majority in both the House and Senate. Consequently, one party controls who will chair committee and subcommittees.The House Rules Committee, for example, is chaired by House Speaker Bill Howell, a Republican from Fredericksburg. The Rules Committee has three subcommittees: Joint Rules, Standards of Conduct and Studies. The subcommittees are chaired by Republicans Howell, Del. Barry Knight of Virginia Beach and Del. Bobby Orrock of Thornburg.Nineteen of the 20 bills brought before the Rules Committee and its subcommittees died without recorded votes or any vote at all.The report is mostly anecdotal, with bullet points for the most dubious practices. Rhyne wondered what it must be like for citizens to try to participate in their government when even professionals like herself and her colleagues are confused by the procedural jargon.“When engaged observers are physically present in the committee room and yet still cannot completely pick out which members of a 22-person committee shouted out aye or nay, imagine a citizen’s confusion back home when the disposition of a bill is listed online only as ‘subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote,” Ms. Rhyne said.Michael Jackson, president of Richmond First Club, said that the system works – but only for those on the inside.“It works if you’re a legislator – maximum flexibility and minimum accountability.
When a human places themselves in resonance with the blue stone’s Life Force it transforms them from a human into a god. Correspondingly, the Irish root word Ea means fire or the light which lightens all, and raises us out of earth life. To the Irish E.A. also signifies: a cause
WASHINGTON Republican front-runner John McCain accused Barack Obama on Wednesday of waffling on a pledge to accept public financing for the fall presidential campaign. McCain says he will accept public money in the fall and stick to spending limits if his Democratic opponent does the same. Obama agreed to do so last fall if he became the Democratic nominee, in response to a questionnaire from the Midwest Democracy Network, a non-partisan civic group. Obama proposed in a column published Wednesday on USA TODAY's opinion page that McCain agree to refuse fundraising help from outside groups, that they limit the spending by their own parties and that McCain agree to spending limits "while the Democratic primary contest continues." "The campaign-finance laws are complex and filled with loopholes that can render meaningless any agreement that is not solidly constructed," Obama wrote. McCain, speaking in Ohio, said the Illinois senator is engaging in "doublespeak." McCain, a senator from Arizona, wrote the 2002 law restricting campaign spending. He said he and Obama both made the same pledge and it is "not any more complicated than that." "I think the American people would expect him to hold that commitment, especially if we want to bring about change," he said, using one of Obama's campaign themes. McCain said he'd re-evaluate his pledge if Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton did not make the same commitment. Obama spokesman Bill Burton noted McCain did not take public money or adhere to any spending limits for the primaries, despite the senator's role in shaping campaign-finance law. "John McCain is in no place to question anyone on pledges," Burton said. Clinton has not agreed to accept public money if she becomes the Democratic nominee, and her campaign has criticized Obama for not reaffirming his pledge. If candidates accept public financing, they would receive about $84.1 million after their nominating convention, according to Bob Biersack of the Federal Election Commission. McCain and Obama dueled as campaign-finance reports for January were filed with the FEC on Wednesday. McCain reported raising about $11.7 million in donations last month. He began January as an underdog in the Republican primaries but ended last month with victories in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. McCain took out about $1 million in loans to pay for TV commercials, on top of about $3.9 million in loans from last year, his report said.
Full Results 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Sky Procycling 3:54:30 2 Leigh Howard (Aus) Orica - GreenEdge Cycling Team 3 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica - GreenEdge Cycling Team 4 Luke Rowe (GBr) Sky Procycling 5 Sam Bennett (Irl) An Post - Sean Kelly 6 Russell Downing (GBr) Endura Racing 7 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 8 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Endura Racing 9 Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team 10 Yanto Barker (GBr) UK Youth Cycling 11 Nathan Haas (Aus) Garmin - Sharp 12 Chris Opie (GBr) UK Youth Cycling 13 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp 14 Marco Benffato (Ita) Liquigas - Cannondale 15 Rony Martias (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 16 Ben Grenda (Aus) Rapha Condor 17 Rico Rogers (NZl) Node 4 - Giordana 18 Graham Briggs (GBr) Raleigh - GAC 19 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Liquigas - Cannondale 20 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) Garmin - Sharp 21 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) Garmin - Sharp 22 Pierre Cazaux (Fra) Euskaltel - Euskadi 23 Mathew Cronshaw (GBr) Node 4 - Giordana 24 Simon Yates (GBr) Great Britain 25 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Liquigas - Cannondale 26 Richard Handley (GBr) Rapha Condor 27 Christopher Jones (USA) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 28 Richard Lang (Aus) Rapha Condor 29 Christian Knees (Ger) Sky Procycling 30 Zak Dempster (Aus) Endura Racing 31 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Orica - GreenEdge Cycling Team 32 Paul Voss (Ger) Endura Racing 33 Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (GBr) Endura Racing 34 Niklas Gustavsson (Swe) UK Youth Cycling 35 Wouter Sybrandy (Ned) IG - Sigma Sport 36 Dan Craven (Nam) IG - Sigma Sport 37 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) IG - Sigma Sport 38 Ricardo Garcia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 39 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Raleigh - GAC 40 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 41 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Team NetApp 42 David Clarke (GBr) Node 4 - Giordana 43 Adrian Saez de Arregui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 44 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling 45 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Team NetApp 46 Matthias Krizek (Aut) Liquigas - Cannondale 47 Simon Richardson (GBr) IG - Sigma Sport 48 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 49 Jan Barta (Cze) Team NetApp 50 Jacob Rathe (USA) Garmin - Sharp 51 Tom Moses (GBr) Great Britain 52 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 53 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Sky Procycling 54 Michael Northey (NZl) Node 4 - Giordana 55 Alistair Slater (GBr) Great Britain 56 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 57 Owain Doull (GBr) Great Britain 58 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) An Post - Sean Kelly 59 Christopher Jennings (RSA) Rapha Condor 60 Liam Holohan (GBr) Raleigh - GAC 61 Marcin Bialoblocki (Pol) Node 4 - Giordana 62 David McGowan (GBr) UK Youth Cycling 63 Michael Cuming (GBr) Rapha Condor 64 Leopold Koenig (Cze) Team NetApp 65 David Le Lay (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 66 Tom Last (GBr) IG - Sigma Sport 67 Mark McNally (GBr) An Post - Sean Kelly 68 Ian Bibby (GBr) Endura Racing 69 Jerome Coppel (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 70 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team 71 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Raleigh - GAC 72 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) UK Youth Cycling 73 Peter Hawkins (Irl) IG - Sigma Sport 0:00:38 74 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas - Cannondale 75 Kai Reus (Ned) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 76 Peter Williams (GBr) Node 4 - Giordana 77 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas - Cannondale 0:00:41 78 Josh Edmondson (GBr) Great Britain 79 Christofer Stevenson (Swe) UK Youth Cycling 80 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 81 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:00:46 82 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Garmin - Sharp 0:00:47 83 Ronan McLaughlin (Irl) An Post - Sean Kelly 0:00:54 84 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica - GreenEdge Cycling Team 0:01:13 85 Robert Förster (Ger) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 0:00:00 86 Russell Hampton (GBr) Raleigh - GAC 0:01:22 87 George Atkins (GBr) Great Britain 88 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) An Post - Sean Kelly 0:01:27 89 Jack Bobridge (Aus) Orica - GreenEdge Cycling Team 0:01:54 90 Niels Wytinck (Bel) An Post - Sean Kelly 0:01:57 91 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha Condor 0:01:59 92 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Sky Procycling 93 Marc De Maar (AHo) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 0:03:37 94 Jonny Clarke (Aus) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 0:05:08 DNF Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team DNF Blaz Jarc (Slo) Team NetApp
is a skill based hang gliding game where your objective is to collect as many hoops as you can within 10 minutes. You must keep airborne by using your rocket booster attached to your glider! You can add rocket fuel by flying through the blue spirals randomly placed around each map. You must plot your coarse carefully and watch out for the obstacles each map throws your way. You have limited booster so be careful with how much you use and when you choose to collect the blue spirals!Each month we host a tournament and the top winners will receive Amazon Gift Cards. Keep track of your scores on the in-game leaderboards and online here http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx There are 3 maps and each map comes with unique scenery, soundtrack and surprise event. All maps now unlocked on purchase. The first map is Forest Island with 150 hoops and every two minutes a thunderstorm occurs and you must fight the wind. The second map is Volcano Island with 175 hoops and every two minutes a Volcano erupts and you must dodge lava bombs! The Last Island is Desert Island with 200 hoops and every two minutes a Dust Storm occurs and you must fly with limited visibility and wind. We are constantly updating the game so expect the scenery to be updated often.There are two main ways to control the glider.or. Each has their own perks. Hand Controls allow for more precision flying but causes your arms to get tired where Head Controls is more intuitive and causes less motion sickness. We also support flying with the Xbox controller or Mouse/ Keyboard if you are so inclined to used those as well.We support Arcades! If you own a location based arcade you can licence Glider Island via Springboard, SynthesisVR, Viveport, or through Steam Site Licensing Program. : FREE ACCESS to Glider Sim Prototype! This is a much more simulated hang glider experience also developed by 5D Realities. It is a work in progress and will most likely be our next VR title on steam. You can learn more here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/500110/announcements/detail/563351089224178004
alias "tc_msg_173" "say In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing." alias "tc_msg_174" "say The average elephant produces 50 pounds of dung each day." alias "tc_msg_175" "say Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food." alias "tc_msg_176" "say The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus." alias "tc_msg_177" "say There's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state." alias "tc_msg_178" "say Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side." alias "tc_msg_179" "say Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable." alias "tc_msg_180" "say Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep." alias "tc_msg_181" "say More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes." alias "tc_msg_182" "say During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo." alias "tc_msg_183" "say Swans are the only birds with penises." alias "tc_msg_184" "say Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent" alias "tc_msg_185" "say An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year." alias "tc_msg_186" "say The average female American Oyster lays 500 million eggs per year. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity." alias "tc_msg_187" "say Average number of squirts from a cow's udder needed to yield a gallon of milk : 345" alias "tc_msg_188" "say The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe. :3" alias "tc_msg_189" "say A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second." alias "tc_msg_190" "say An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph." alias "tc_msg_191" "say A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day." alias "tc_msg_192" "say America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men." alias "tc_msg_193" "say Chimpanzees have a history of violence after entering puberty." alias "tc_msg_194" "say Sharks are the only animals that never get sick.
While I am present on Facebook as Tobold Stoutfoot , I wasn't actually using Facebook all that much up to about a week ago. Then I read somebody claiming that the future of gaming was Facebook apps, some of which already have millions of players, and I decided to see for myself what the fuzz was about. I tried out several different Facebook games, and quickly realized certain commonalities. These games all work along the same simple lines:1) Gameplay is extremely simple, and does not require a whole lot of tactical or strategic thought. Basically you click on something, and you get a reward. The next reward is never more than a few clicks away. And it is very obvious what to do to get the next reward, so your chance of failure is small. Facebook games are simple Skinner boxes.2) All these apps have some important elements based on real time. As you are rewarded for a few simple clicks, the game basically needs to stop you from doing those simple clicks for hours repeatedly and rise to the top too fast. Real time elements are the answer to that, in different forms. Either your click starts a process for which you can gather the reward only hours later, or you have a maximum number of activity you can do before your pool of energy / stamina / whatever runs out, and you need to wait hours for it to refill. In consequence you are encouraged to play Facebook games in short spurts, not taking more than a few minutes, but to come back every day, or even several times per day.3) With the real time elements braking you out, it is likely that you feel an urge to advance faster than the game will let you. But, lo and behold, the Facebook app also offers a way out from that dilemma: Microtransactions. You can buy yourself more clicks, leading to more rewards per time unit. Or you can even buy the rewards themselves, for cash. I begin to see why some people are so rabidly opposed to microtransactions, because with Facebook apps you really see just the worst kind of them.
They would kill all the men and then share the women among the fighting men. Some concubines were bought at auctions. Prostitutes rented themselves on time-limited basis and [the practice] was never wrong (common, not temple prostitutes worshiping the fertility gods – idolatry was wrong, not prostitution). It was better to buy a woman than rent one. They had no condoms, or birth control or modern medicines in the Bible days. Most sex rules were just to solve a practical problem of the time. Today, women have the same sexual freedoms that men have always had. But to try and preach that responsible non-monogamy, premarital sex, or fornication is somehow wrong, simply shows biblical ignorance. But the sexual repressive teachings that developed in the Middle Ages are still followed today based on repressive Christian traditions – out of ignorance and having no biblical basis. Old Testament: Exodus 22:16 – 17, “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.” Deuteronomy 22:28 – 29, “If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.” This Exodus passage is one of the few passages that deal directly with the issue of premarital sex. There are a couple of important points concerning this passage. First, neither the man nor woman is rebuked or punished for any sin (compare with Deuteronomy 22). The man is required to seek marriage but can be refused by the father. The key here is that there is no punishment for the man and woman having sex. The punishment is for the change in value of the woman as bride. The term “virgin’s dowry” implies that there was a special dowry (probably of greater compensation) for her virgin status and since she is no longer a virgin, the father is still payed the dowry as compensation regardless of whether she marries the guy or not. Also note that there is no law concerning the pre-marital sexuality of men or unbetrothed non-virgin women.
And although the labor was immense, there was a definite, scientifically accepted methodology for separating the signal from the noise. Now, in the UFO problem we did not know at the start that there was a signal - there were merely tales, unacceptable to scientists as a body. Only those of us, through a long exposure to the subject, or motivated by a haunting curiosity to work in the field and to get our hands dirty with the raw data, came to know there was a signal. We know that we cannot find a trivial solution to the problem, i.e., a common sense solution that the phenomenon is either entirely a matter of misidentification, hallucinations, and hoaxes, or a known phenomenon of nature, e.g., of a meteorological nature. We know that there exists a subset of UFO reports of high strangeness and high witness credibility for which no one - and I emphasize - no one, has been able to ascribe a viable explanation. But the Isaac Asimovs and the trained scientists, as well as large segments of the public, do not know this. And we cannot expect them to know this unless we present data to them properly and thus provide motivation to study the subject. We who have worked in the UFO field are somewhat in the position of Einstein who wrote to Arnold Sommerfeld in response to Sommerfelds skepticism of the General Theory of Relativity: "You will accept the General Theory of Relativity when you have studied it. Therefore I will not utter a word in its defense." Emotional defense of the UFO phenomenon is pointless; the facts, properly presented, must speak for themselves. With the noise level so high, and with the popular interpretation of UFOs as visitors from outer space rather than simply what their initials stand for, Unidentified Flying Objects - an unidentified phenomenon whose origin we do not know - it is very difficult for one to be motivated to study the subject. The noise in the UFO problem is two-fold. There is the obvious noise, and also the more "sophisticated" noise, which might even be part of the signal. The obvious noise is akin to that well known to any scientist. An astronomer recognizes the noise of errors of observation, of instrumental errors, or that introduced by atmospheric distortion, by photon statistics, etc.
I'm sorry, but I wouldn't ask Google to remove the "Make me Irish" app, partly because I don't want Google policing apps in general based on the kind of speech involved and also because I don't need the name of that app showing up on CNN, drawing attention to it and Streisanding it into greater sales.For its part, Google has confirmed that the apps do not violate their terms of service regarding offensive speech and has refused to pull the apps from the Play Store. Which means that all these interest groups have accomplished is to draw more attention to the apps they don't like. Plus, they reacted, which is what racists would like them to do.The lesson here isn't that racism is okay, that we should embrace it, like it, or remain silent about it. Of course we should do none of those things. But asking others to censor speech we don't like isn't the answer and it can often backfire on us. Social shaming is a better approach, if done in a reasonable way, but I prefer to try and figure out what the person offering offensive speech wants to accomplish with that speech and then do the opposite. Plus, and you can take this from me based on personal experience, racistsbeing ignored.
What Jerome's Return Means For Gotham, According To David Mazouz By Corey Chichizola Random Article Blend Spoilers ahead for the midseason finale of Gotham. If you haven't watched the latest episode, you may want to check out one of our other stories. It's an exciting week for avid TV fans, as many shows are airing their midseason finale, ahead of the winter hiatus. Fox's Batman prequel Gotham was no exception, as "Queen Takes Knight" brought the first half of the season's conflicts to a boil, while also setting up what will happen in the show's next set of episodes. One of the biggest cliffhanger moments of the episode featured the return of fan favorite Jerome. The show's answer to the Joker will be interacting with The Penguin from within Arkham Asylum, and series star David Mazouz (aka Bruce Wayne) recently teased the anarchy that the villain will be bringing to the back half of Season 4 when he inevitably escapes the Asylum. The second half of the season will mark one of the worst episodes in Gotham yet. And, the worse the episode is for Gotham, the better it is for viewers, right? Jerome will team up with some less than likable villains and they will take over the city and it will be a terrible, terrible fiasco. This is equal parts exciting and terrifying terrifying. While his appearances in the show have been few and far between, the walking crazy that is Jerome has always resulted in massive conflicts, especially regarding Bruce Wayne. And if he's able to team up with some of the show's other villains, then there's no telling how much chaos he will bring upon Gotham City. The last time we saw Jerome was back in Season 3, with his influence reaching more and more followers who are inspired by his anarchist ways and signature cackle. He very nearly killed Bruce Wayne, but Gordon was able to save the future Batman in the nick of time, punching Jerome's face clean off his head after the villain crudely stapled it back on (it's a long story). His face seems to be healing well from within Arkham Asylum, although he's no less creepy. But Jerome's Season 4 conflict should be quite different from his previous goes on the prequel series. Because this time around Bruce has become a capable (albeit super moody) vigilante.
After completing baseline assessments, 6 cannabis smokers and 6 nonsmokers entered a specially constructed smoke exposure chamber (approximately 0900 hours). The chamber measured 10 ft. X 13 ft. (3.05 m X 3.96 m) with a 7 ft. (2.13 m) ceiling, was constructed using a combination of Plexiglas and aluminum support beams, and incorporated an adjustable ventilation/exhaust system. Smokers and nonsmokers sat around a table in alternating seats. All participants wore protective clothing over their normal clothes (disposable booties, jumpsuits) during the exposure session, and were provided with swimming goggles to prevent eye irritation from accumulated smoke. … Each smoker was provided with 10 cannabis cigarettes obtained from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Drug Supply Program and a CReSS Pocket smoking topography device (Borgwaldt KC, Richmond, VA, USA). Each cannabis cigarette contained approximately 1 gram of high potency (11.3% THC) cannabis. The door to the chamber was sealed using magnetic strips around the frame of the door at the start of each 60-minute exposure session. Active smokers were instructed to smoke the provided cannabis cigarettes ad libitum through the CReSS device, which measured the number of puffs taken, puff volume, and other parameters of smoking behavior. Participants were instructed to remain seated for the entirety of the session, but were allowed to engage in leisure activities (e.g., talking, reading, using personal electronic devices, etc.). Research staff monitored the exposure session from outside the chamber to ensure nonsmokers did not actively inhale from the cannabis cigarettes and that smokers only consumed cigarettes from their own supply. Pulse oximeters were used to monitor blood oxygen concentration of study participants every 15 minutes to ensure an adequate oxygen supply was maintained in the chamber.
And they realize that most of them won't; and they can't know which ones they are in advance. And that's what that market does really well. And the stock market--the public company market--does something different. It's not surprising that it's hard to sustain brilliant innovation through the life cycle of a company. Apple is really an extraordinary story in that Steve Jobs was able to innovate more than once. Once is a huge number. But he was able to transform a number of industries through visionary investing. It's not in R&D. It's not surprising that Tim Cook can't do it. I don't think it's because Tim Cook isn't, has a different philosophy. I think Tim Cook is not as talented. And I say that with total respect for him. It's a tough standard to say you are not as talented as Steve Jobs. Rana Foroohar: Yeah. Well, he has his strengths. But I would say that one of the things that's concerning to me is that when you look at how, who the new challenges are, globally, for big American companies, they tend to be emerging market giants or international competitors that don't have that same short-term market pressure. And I do think that makes a difference. I think that family-run emerging market companies, they can look out over 20-, 30-, 50-year horizons rather than 2-quarter horizons, are able to do things that big American multinationals aren't. And given that those companies are still the largest employers in the United States, I think that their operating environment is really important for all of us to understand. Russ Roberts: Yeah. I agree with that. I think the deeper question--and I don't deny that there is some short-termism in U.S. companies. Part of it is a result of that-- Rana Foroohar: Ha, ha, ha-- Russ Roberts: What? Rana Foroohar: Some. I mean, I would say that that's the fundamental driver. Russ Roberts: Well, would you say that that's the driver in the political market as well? That politicians only care about 2 years, because they most--most representatives-- Rana Foroohar: Well, yeah. Yeah, I think I would-- Russ Roberts: are at risk of being thrown out? So-- Rana Foroohar: and that's part of it. I mean, I have a whole chapter on the interaction between Wall Street and Washington, and I want to--we can get to that. Russ Roberts: We'll get to that. No, that's the one we agree on totally.
Lucy Biddle, Jenny Donovan, Keith Hawton, Navneet Kapur, David Gunnell, "Suicide and the internet" British Medical Journal 2008;336:800-802 (12 April). Book review of Quinnett-Suicide. The forever decision. http://archive.ashspace.org/ashbusstop.org/2b_quinnett.html These thoughts were suggested to me by the passages in Heidegger's Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) about the awareness of death as constitutive for authenticity (esp. Div I, chapter 6, §§44) and lack of this awareness as a mark for the fall in the impersonal das Man (They). Heidegger did not, however, endorse suicide — he condemned it. A popular Romanian fairy tale called Youth without Age and Life without Death that can be read here is a meditation on the same desire for immortality and youth, which is impossible as it requires stopping the passage of time and erasing memories. This beautiful story can be read online in several English translations, for example here: http://translations.observatorcultural.ro/Youth-Without-Age-and-Life-Without-Death*articleID_40-oarticles_details.html as he refused to evade the death penalty he considered unjust, although he could have done so; see Plato's dialogues Aplogy and Criton. Plato-Socrates' Apology 17a to 42a. For Socrates' arguments that death is not a bad thing, see http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/apology.htm Heidegger throughout his Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) speaks about the human person (Dasein) as being-unto-death and of the awareness of death as essential for authenticity, as opposed to the fall into impersonal life. His philosophy is atheistic, as he equates death with nothing. Yet he unexpectedly condemned suicide in his 'Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs' — probably because of his religious background and probably because he was afraid not to be accused (like Goethe) of unleashing suicide through his work. It is ironical that the fear of suicide and his religious background did not prevent Heidegger from being a Nazi. The ASH FAQ Debate: http://archive.ashspace.org/ashbusstop.org/std.html "Recurrence of suicidal ideation due to treatment with antidepressants in anxiety disorder: a case report" Doron Todder[1] and Bernhard T Baune[2,3] http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2170450 , Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2007 except perhaps in the case of the terminally ill, which is not discussed here. The Prince in Youth without Age and Life without Death thought differently: he preferred to be unborn rather than to be condemned to age. By Euthanasia advocates. ASH supports Euthanasia movements in their struggle, but wants to make suicide a right for everybody who persistently desires it, regardless of their medical condition.
At the Dolo she saw Bil talk to Madani Bouhouche, suspected of having been a member of the Gang of Nijvel and a rapist of X1) Worked at Taxis Metropol, a taxi company. Private driver and confidante of Paul Vanden Boeynants 1971-1978. Did various low profile jobs, mainly for VDB's PSC party. Known to have gone to Pataya, Thailand in June 1994 and bragged he had sex with 14 year old girls there. Others have stated he went as a sex-tourist to Thailand and was very well known to underage prostitutes. Went to St.-Dominique, an island in the West Indies, and Kenya in Africa in 1995. Also went to Tunis in northern Africa. Often went to private clubs in the Netherlands. Was trying to set up an import-export business in tires with his brother in Hungary in January 1995. Claimed he didn't know Nihoul personally, but said he had heard that Nihoul was the right-hand man of Baron de Bonvoisin (PV 39.027). Others have stated that Bil did know Nihoul personally and that he even drove him around sometimes. X1 has stated Bil was an associate of Tony and that he brought them to parties where Nihoul and VDB were. X2 said she saw Bil often in the presence of a Gendarme officer named Lionel Ruth. It's probably no coincidence that a Gendarme officer with the same name was the investigating chief of the Waals-Brabant cell in the 1990s and early 2000s, which was still tasked with solving the Gang of Nijvel case, two decades after its reign of terror. X2 had seen Bil at the Dolo, where Nihoul also went, and saw him speak there with Madani Bouhouche, a chief suspect in the Gang of Nijvel case. Another frequent contact of Bil, according to X2, was Yves Zimmer, head of the sexual abuse department of the Brussels police from 1982 to 1987. Owned four horses and a trailer. Ado Blaton - Source(s): 1979 Pinon Affair Real Estate broker. Together with Charly DePauw he built Parc Savoy where Cercle des Nations was located and people like Michel Nihoul came to party. Member of Cercle des Nations, which was founded in 1969. Together with Charly DePauw he was an investor in Baron Bonoît de Bonvoisin's Promotion & Distribution Générales (PDG) NV, located at the same address as CEPIC. In return for their investments PDG created fake invoices for De Pauw, Blaton, and others.
Ahead of us, the outline of the track, framed by the sycamores, went up a hill, but the way was filled in with undergrowth. Fraser had evidence that it was a public path until 1910. He came across it, and the rest of the Maze, while walking on his lunch break. (His office was in an industrial park not far away.) I asked Fraser if he had been trying to get anywhere in particular. “Well, I roam about all over the place,” he said. He took out the map to try and explain. The Maze showed up as a tangle of white, indeterminate lines. “You go up here, and you go down this one,” Fraser said, his finger wandering across the countryside. “You can go out here to this one, or link up with this one.” Destination wasn’t the point. “There are all sorts of opportunities.”
It is quite possible, however, that such "no-wire" motors, as they might be called, could be operated by conduction through the rarefied air at considerable distances. Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature. There is no doubt that with the enormous potentials obtainable by the Use of high frequencies and oil insulation luminous discharges might be passed through many miles of rarefied air, and that, by thus directing the energy of many hundreds or thousands of horse-power, motors or lamps might be operated at considerable distances from stationary sources. But such schemes are mentioned merely as possibilities. We shall have no need to transmit power at all. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtile speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic -- and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature. Of all, living or dead, Crookes came nearest to doing it. His radiometer will turn in the light of day and in the darkness of the night; it will turn everywhere where there is heat, and heat is everywhere. But, unfortunately, this beautiful little machine, while it goes down to posterity as the most interesting, must likewise be put on record as the most inefficient machine ever invented!
The judges will award prizes based on but not limited to the following criteria: successful execution of Luce Foundation Center requirements, creativity, usability, quality, and demo performance. Will my prototype be used or displayed by the Smithsonian? Successful prototypes will be presented to Smithsonian senior staff. The museum may use all or part of the winning designs in the final solution for the Luce Foundation Center. As appropriate and feasible, the museum will credit participants whose submissions are used, in whole or part, by the museum. If the museum opts to hire a contractor to complete the project, participants will be invited to bid on the contract. Can I promote my participation in the hackathon? You can include your participation in this hackathon for professional development purposes in a resume or a portfolio. You may not use the Smithsonian name or brand to endorse or promote your work.
Printer Friendly Version >>> Six years after the end of World War I Congress enacted a bill that would reward veterans of the conflict a cash bonus for their service. However, the legislation stipulated that the veterans would not collect their bonus until 1945. This delayed gratification was acceptable to the World War I veterans during the prosperous '20s but the onslaught of the Great Depression changed their attitude. Out of work, destitute, and with families to feed, the veterans organized a march on Washington in May of 1932 to force Congress to immediately pay their bonus. An estimated 15,000 made their way to the nation's capital and dubbed themselves the "Bonus Expeditionary Force." Using scrap wood, iron and any other loose materials they could find, the veterans set up ramshackle camps throughout the city. The largest housed an estimated 10,000 people. They waited in vain for Congress to act. On June 17 the Senate voted against the House-passed bill that would have given the Bonus Marchers immediate payment of their benefit. Having no other place to go, the majority of the Bonus Army remained encamped in the city, despite the fact that Congress had adjourned for the summer. Finally, President Hoover ordered the Army to forcibly remove the veterans. On July 28 a force of tanks and cavalry under the command of General Douglas MacArthur stormed the camps and drove the veterans out. Their makeshift houses were then set ablaze. "I was horrified to see plain evidence of hunger in their faces." Evalyn Walsh McLean was the wife of the owner of the Washington Post and a pillar of Washington Society. She describes the scene as the Bonus Army first entered Washington and marched past her elegant mansion: ADVERTISMENT "On a day in June, 1932, I saw a dusty automobile truck roll slowly past my house. I saw the unshaven, tired faces of the men who were riding in it standing up. A few were seated at the rear with their legs dangling over the lowered tailboard. On the side of the truck was an expanse of white cloth on which, crudely lettered in black, was a legend, BONUS ARMY. Other trucks followed in a straggling succession, and. on the sidewalks of Massachusetts Avenue where stroll most of the diplomats and the other fashionables of Washington were some ragged hikers, wearing scraps of old uniforms. The sticks with which they strode along seemed less canes than cudgels.
8,500 and up: You're active, stick with it A recent study found that people who wear a pedometer walk about 2,000 more steps a day or about another mile than those who don't. That burns about 100 extra calories a day. If your goal is to lose weight, you probably need to work up to 12,000 or more steps a day. Source: USA TODAY research Ladies, go take a hike. Or at least a brisk walk. Seriously. It may lower your risk of stroke and prevent the dreaded middle-age weight gain, new research shows. These findings join a long list of reasons why you should remain physically active. TO IMPROVE HEALTH: How much activity is needed? WALKING: An hour a day keeps the weight away CUSTOMIZE A PLAN: Quiz yourself to find the right walking routine And almost no one knows those reasons better than Miriam Nelson, 49, director of the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Prevention at Tufts University in Boston and co-author of a new book, The Strong Women's Guide to Total Health, with Jennifer Ackerman. Nelson is one of the country's leading researchers on exercise for women, and she co-chaired the committee that created the government's 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Many women complain about gaining weight during and after menopause, but a recent study found that some normal-weight women were able to prevent weight gain by doing an hour a day of moderate-intensity physical activity such as brisk walking. Say what? An hour a day? That amount is doable for most women, Nelson says, but it takes effort to do more activity all day long, including while traveling to and from work, socializing and playing with your kids or grandkids. Almost nothing is easier and cheaper than walking, but that means you need to get the lead out and put some spring into your step. It's not window shopping or taking a stroll in the park. "Brisk means that you get warm while walking and that, while you can carry on a conversation, you can't just gab forever — you need to speak in shorter sentences," she says. "You should feel that your heart rate is elevated. But it is not so intense that you are sweating a lot, unless, of course, it is hot outside. And remember that exercise intensity is relative. A brisk walk for one lady may be a stroll for another."
Divorce solicitor Anne Kay The fact that the same claims are theoretically available does not mean that they will be appropriate in every case. Gay unions are statistically less likely to produce children and therefore it is likely that less maintenance orders will be made. That is because such orders often arise because a spouse has given up work to care for children, making that spouse financially dependent on the other and therefore in need of maintenance after a split. It is most unlikely that Kevin McGee will get half of Matt Lucas's wealth, for the same reasons that Guy Ritchie will not get half of Madonna's wealth. Both Madonna and Lucas were well-known and wealthy prior to getting married and their relationships have been fairly short, particularly so in relation to Matt and Kevin. The court takes into account a number of factors when deciding on the right award to make. These include: • the length of the marriage/civil partnership • their ages • whether there are children • how much money each had before the marriage/civil partnership • how much they have each contributed both in monetary and non-monetary terms to the relationship There is no easy answer to what Guy Ritchie or Kevin McGee will receive as the manner in which courts treat the division of assets on divorce depends very much on the individual facts of the case. WHO, WHAT, WHY? A regular feature in the BBC News Magazine - aiming to answer some of the questions behind the headlines This is why Heather Mills-McCartney only received what amounted to 6% of Sir Paul's assets whilst Beverley Charman (in one of the largest reported British divorces) walked away with 37% of the assets (just under £48 million). It will, however, be important for the courts to demonstrate that what Kevin McGee receives is the same award that a wife in his situation would have received. Unless the courts can show there is an even playing field, there will inevitably follow a number of human rights act cases initiated by gay divorcees complaining that the treatment they have received amounts to discrimination. Compiled by Anne Kay at Boodle Hatfield
And these were incidents done by the good guys, often American federal agents, defending the nation. Not only was 24 showing torture, but there was also some very big box office films. Casino Royale has as its kind of dramatic center point a homoerotic torture scene of Daniel Craig, his body shaved of hair, stripped naked, being generously tortured by the evil Le Chiffre beating his genitalia with a knotted rope. The Passion of the Christ takes a dozen words in the gospels and transforms that into eight minutes of the most brutal, gruesome physical torture that turns the body of Christ into a suppurating mass of bleeding lesions. I mean, the World of Warcraft 2 came out, two million copies sold right out of the box, with a torture program built right into the game. You know, we were awash in it. What was the point of this? It served, in some, to normalize torture for Americans. Torture was not—was transformed from a crime, an aberration, an abomination, into something that was necessary—and even arousing, in a dark way. I mean, Kiefer Sutherland’s body was displayed, Daniel Craig’s body was displayed, in the conventions virtually of homoerotic pornography. This was, you know, appealing to the darkest recesses of the human mind. AMY GOODMAN: Professor McCoy, the significance of WikiLeaks and how it plays into all of this? ALFRED McCOY: Well, WikiLeaks, first of all, has provided us with information, I think very importantly. In the release of the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, if you go through them, as people have done—I’ve done it, as well—what you can find is the U.S. using its extraordinary diplomatic power, first under Bush and now under Obama, to stifle those investigations, particularly in Spain, by Judge [Bartasar] Garzón. We placed enormous diplomatic pressure to end Spain’s exercise of universal jurisdiction to investigate top Bush administration officials—Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney and others—for human rights abuse. You know, we leaned on the Spanish authorities very hard. Germany is another area where progressive lawyers, the RAV, the Republic Lawyers Association, has tried on several occasions to file a case and get the German government to exercise its universal jurisdiction, under the European human rights convention and the U.N. Convention Against Torture, to investigate and possibly indict American officials for their crimes of torture.
Another key component of van Gaal’s philosophy is for his players to play with the brain, rather than acting on instinct, which is perhaps not Falcao’s forte. This is not to say he isn’t an intelligent player, with him often making fantastic runs without being picked out by teammates still adjusting to each other, but that he thrives more on freedom to play his natural game, rather than fulfil specific tactical instruction.
Effects of fire protection on savanna structure in Central Brazil Journal of Biogeography 2000 27 1021 1029 Noss RF Platt WJ Sorrie BA Weakley AS Means DB Costanza J Peet RK How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: Lessons from the North American Coastal Plain Diversity and Distributions 2015 21 236 244 Olson DM et al. Terrestrial ecoregions of the worlds: A new map of life on Earth BioScience 2001 51 933 938 Parr CL Lehmann CER Bond WJ Hoffmann WA Andersen AN Tropical grassy biomes: Misunderstood, neglected, and under threat Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2014 29 205 213 Putz FE Redford KH The importance of defining “forest”: Tropical forest degradation, deforestation, long-term phase shifts, and further transitions Biotropica 2010 42 10 20 Ratnam J Bond WJ Fensham RJ Hoffmann WA Archibald S Lehmann CER Anderson MT Higgins SI Sankaran M When is a “forest” a savanna, and why does it matter? Global Ecology and Biogeography 2011 20 653 660 Rojas-Briales E. Sparing grasslands: FAO's active role Science 2015 347 1211 1211 Sankaran M. Diversity patterns in savanna grassland communities: Implications for conservation strategies in a biodiversity hotspot Biodiversity and Conservation 2009 18 1099 1115 Searchinger TD Estes L Thornton PK Beringer T Notenbaert A Rubenstein D Heimlich R Licker R Herrero M High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa's wet savannahs to cropland Nature Climate Change 2015 5 481 486 Staver AC Archibald S Levin SA The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states Science 2011 334 230 232 Suding K et al. Committing to ecological restoration Science 2015 348 638 640 Veldman JW Putz FE Grass-dominated vegetation, not species-diverse natural savanna, replaces degraded tropical forests on the southern edge of the Amazon Basin Biological Conservation 2011 144 1419 1429 Veldman JW et al.
STONE THE CROWS! Are you ready to explore the wilds of the Australian Outback in this remastered version of the classic game, TY the Tasmanian Tiger?Join TY on a RIPPER of an adventure to free his family from the DREAMING and stop the nefarious evil genius BOSS CASS from removing mammals from the top of the food chain.To help you on your quest, you've got a BEAUT arsenal of boomerangs, sharp teeth, and the help of a few friends!So don’t be a galah - let's head down under, and have a CORKER of a time! BEAUTY, BOTTLER, BONZA!G'day mate! Things can be a bit confusing at times, so let me remind you what's going on...You are TY, the last of the Tasmanian Tigers. Raised by a family of Bilbies, you can only vaguely recall your real parents. You've always thought that all the other Tassie Tigers died a long time ago.But then the Bunyip Elder found you, and told you that your family is alive, but trapped in the Dreaming. Now hold your horses... don't get upset... you see they're not stuck there forever, if you're up for a bit of an adventure!You see, deep in the Outback, there's this kind of glowy portal thing that is a doorway to the Dreaming. And around that portal there are some carvings in the rock, where five ancient mystical Talismans used to lay. Now, all you have to do is find the five Talismans, put them in the carvings, and the portal to Dreaming will open!Now, before you go off like a frog in a sock, there's just this oneproblem. You see there's this evil cassowary - Boss Cass - who's also after the Talismans. Yes.Boss Cass. The one that trapped your family in the Dreaming in the first place, and told the school board to remove all the meat pies from the tuck shops. And if you didn't think that made him enough of a megalomaniac, he'strapped a whole bunch of your Bilby mates in cages all across the outback... something about overdue library books... Anyways, if you want to open the portal, you'll have to beat him and his henchmen to the Talismans!Don't worry though, you won't be alone! You'll have a bunch of friends to help you along the way, including me - your old mate, Maurie. Now let's get down to brass tacks, find those Talismans, and rescue your family!
Another simple example is the story that young Americans can't afford to move out and are all now stuck with the folks. Since 1970, when 12.5 million 18-34 year olds lived with their parents, the number has apparently risen by 48%, to more than 18.6 million. Except that the American population has also risen in that time - by about 32%, or roughly 75 million people. So, in figures easier to translate to real life, the number of 18-34 year olds still living with the folks has gone from a bit more than one in five to not quite one in four. Still a real increase, but nothing like 48%. The biggest part (though not all) of the explanation for increasing numbers of Americans living with their parents is... that there are increasing numbers of Americans. Or take what it means to be 99.9% effective. In the NHS it might mean 135 botched operations and 13 babies given to the wrong parents, every week. (Thanks to writer Anne Miller for that example). A percentage is not really a number, it is a share. The simple question to keep in mind is one that always strives to put it into a proper, human context: "A share of what? A share of a lot - or a share of a little?" Better still: "A share of who?" Keep it real. Next week, Lesson Four: Averages Michael Blastland is the author, with Andrew Dilnot, of The Tiger That Isn't. Add your comments on this story, using the form below. Excellent article. I remember reading a short story in the Eighties where a computer selected a "Mr Average" from the electoral register, and everything that person said was taken as general public opinion. And sometimes I wonder if we aren't getting very close to that situation now.
The winner of their series went on to win 5 of the 7 tournaments, with Taeja winning 3 and Life claiming 2. In the two tournaments they didn't win, they placed 3rd/4th and 2nd. If Taeja had made it to the GSL Season 4 finals, he’d have been favored against Mvp (though technically anyone in the Ro8 should have been favored against Mvp given his wrist issues). If one of these two players had not existed, the other would have likely superseded Mvp as the greatest player of all time by winning 2-3 more of the greatest premier tournaments we've ever had.This wasn’t just a rivalry of two of the best players in the game, it was a rivalry for the very legacy and history of SC2. At the very height of the game Life and Taeja battled for the very throne of the world and almost none of the casters or production noticed. While everyone was waiting futilely for the Flash vs Jaedong matchup, we saw the fate of SC2 be decided time and time again each time Taeja and Life met in some of the biggest tournaments in SC2’s history. : Brita Jonsson, Kevin "silverfire" Chang,Frederike “Wolf” Schmitt and Carl Oscar “kalaspuff” Aaro: stuchiu: v1: Merulichter
The science is simply being a little over-careful, a hedge. Even though these are very small trace amounts of introgression, bison and cattle are different metabolically. In the winter, bison metabolism slows by as much as 25 to 30 percent. That’s why they can handle being out at 35 below zero for weeks on end and survive on little scraps of grass. Cows, their metabolism doesn’t slow at all. They have an extraordinarily tough time being out where we are. The amount of introgression is enough to affect things like metabolism.The politics is that our long-term hope is that at some point bison will eventually be classified as free-roaming wildlife in Montana. Now, when they come out of Yellowstone, they’re rounded up for slaughter or shot or hazedback into the park. They can’t roam where they want, but we believe it’s a historic inevitability. Bison is the only species not allowed to roam, and we think it will happen. When that occurs, we will go to Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and say, “We would like to give you our herd, let them join the wildlife of the people of Montana.” That’s the end result we’re hoping for. That might happen in 30 years, 50 years, 100 years. For that handoff to occur and not hit any politics, these bison need to be as good as or better than any bison on the planet. They can’t be seen as substandard. That reason is probably more important than the science.Who exactly are the project’s opponents? Is it individual ranchers or organized groups? And what are they opposed to — fear of brucellosis, depletion of grasslands, the prospect of wolves at some future date?Opposition comes from individuals, not organized groups, and I believe is generally a reaction to sociological change. APR gets lumped in with actions by the federal government to change aspects of the Farm Bill, state government wanting to increase wildlife numbers in the region, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service making it more difficult to graze cattle in the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge. Some local individuals see all of this and the goals of APR as unwelcome changes to the lifestyle they once knew.Is this opposition impinging on the grand plan at all?The opposition is not hindering our progress toward our vision in any way.
It’s good advice – and Marchesi knows it. After all, it doesn’t get much simpler, or more impactful, than Orange Sky, the mobile laundry he founded with friend Lucas Patchett in 2014. The two men, now 21, came up with the easy way to wash and dry the clothes of homeless Australians while thinking of ways to get their schoolmates interested in volunteering after graduating. Marchesi already had a van, and the pair successfully pitched their idea to a laundromat supplier. "They had a few questions and qualms, but eventually said 'OK, let’s go downstairs and pick out the machines you want'," says Patchett. "It blew us away." Three weekends, twenty trips to Bunnings, and a lot of experimentation later, they had the world’s first mobile laundry. Two days after the charity launched, it blew up online. “I remember waking up and we had over a thousand emails in our crappy little Gmail account because we had trended overnight on Reddit,” says Patchett. The media attention led to donations from people around the world, and within a couple months, a second van hit the streets. Now, there are five vans across Australia and almost 300 Orange Sky volunteers wash thousands of kilograms of laundry a week. But just as important as the practicalities of clothes-washing are the conversations volunteers have with Orange Sky clients, says Marchesi. “You spend a few minutes driving to a location, press a few buttons and the machines are running – and then it’s time to have a chat. The great thing about those conversations is that they’re making a massive impact." Patchett recalls one conversation that really opened his eyes. Jordan, who was getting his clothes washed by Orange Sky, had gone to school just down the street, and studied the same degree at university. “This guy has had the exact same past trajectory as me, but a few wrong turns, maybe a few poor decisions and he’s found himself living on the streets,” says Patchett. “That’s something I think about a lot – one or two or three tiny things can go wrong and you can find yourself in the really unfortunate situation.” As for the next generation of social entrepreneurs, Patchett's advice is simple: give it a crack. “Everyone has ideas, everyone can drink beers and sit around a table and talk crap.
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I wonder just how many non-Orthodox women have taken them up on their offer? Are you telling me that what I stated in my original post as to how Orthodox people work the system is not correct? Have I not had people relate to me how they witnessed Orthodox women in a grocery store with full carts and used a food stamp card to pay for their groceries. I have a relative who used to work in the OB/GYN unit at Crystal Run HealthCare in Rock Hill. She stated many times how the Orthodox women would come in and Medicaid was picking up the tab. I have the same attitude for single women and or couples with multiple children who live off the system, have their mother watch their children and then get paid by the government for babysitting! Ive worked my whole life for everything I have. As have everyone in my family. Ive never had the thought to try to get anything I wasnt entitled to. And its disgusting to see how some people "work the system". I, and everyone who works and pays taxes, supports them. When welfare was instituted its intented purpose was to help citizens get through a rough time until they could get back on their feet. Unfortunately in a very large way it has become a way of life/career for many. And it passes from one generation to the next in the family. To "A Jewish Woman". You state you are married both religiously and with papers from the city and also that you pay taxes. But Im curious as to whether or not you're Orthodox or Hasidic. If so does it not bother you to know how so many Orthodox/Hasidic people marry only as to the religion and use that to receive benefits? And also do whatever they can to get out of paying taxes? And don't try to tell me this isn't true. You also mention the taxes you pay are "too much." Taxes, yours as well as all people who do pay them, wouldn't be so high if we weren't supporting the "users." And in reference to the statement made in "An open letter to the world" making reference to the Jews in Israel. My statements have nothing to do with Jews in Israel. Im talking about right here in Sullivan/Ulster counties.
The main bottleneck is not the cpu, but memory, disk, and other IO. So they are trading better cpu speed (theoretically) for worse memory. However since memory is often the bottleneck - and not the cpu, the runtimes will often be slower for lots of work loads.It seems python2.6 will still be faster than unladen swallow for many peoples work loads. If they do not get other peoples programs and workloads working faster, or working at all, it will not be a carrot. As peoples programs work, and go faster with python2.6/2.7 it will be a stick.Unladen swallow has not (yet) got to it's 5x faster goal, and for many work loads it is still slower or the same speed. For these reasons, I think it's too early to think about incorporating unladen swallow into python. (ps... ok, that made no sense, sorry. Sticks and carrots?!?... donkeys like carrots, but so do ponies. I don't think we should hit people with sticks. Also people don't like carrots as much as perhaps chocolate or beer. Perhaps all this time hitting people with sticks and trying to get them to do things with carrots is the problem. Python 3 has heaps of cool things in it already... but more cool things always helps! Beer and chocolate would probably work best.)
Nanoformulations of antiretrovirals Current HIV-HAART therapy exposes the entire body to multiple drugs at high doses, resulting in enormous side effects, which often limit therapy due to adherence issues leading to unsuccessful therapy. Adherence to drug regimens that constitute complexities of frequent administration and high dosages are crucial in the treatment of HIV infection. Development of targeted drug-delivery approaches for AIDS therapy will improve the safety and efficacy of anti-HIV drugs by reducing the dosage and adverse effects associated with them. The systemic distribution pattern of nanocarrier-based HIV drugs should be dictated by the properties of the nanocarrier rather than the antiretroviral drug and an ideal nanocarrier-based HIV drug should deliver higher drug concentrations and have increased residence time at target cells whereby enhanced viral load reduction can be achieved. Surface modification of nanocarriers by modulating polymer characteristics on the nanocarrier surface allows controlled release of an anti-HIV drug from nanocarriers to achieve the desired therapeutic level in target tissue.11,14–22 Development of a biocompatible nanoformulation that can target HIV-1 in sequestered sites requires the use of functionalized nanoparticles that are engineered to deliver drugs to specific tissue or cell compartments.28 Although efficient internalization within the cells and selective targeting are the major aims of such a drug carrier, ideally it should also have the characteristic of long circulation time in blood and self-regulation of drug release, and have low toxicity and minimal side effects. In general, the sizes of such nanoparticle-based delivery platforms range from 10 to 1000 nm and consist of therapeutic agents within the nanoparticle system.18–20 Such a nanoparticle system increases solubility and enhances stability of mostly poorly water-soluble therapeutic agents such as antiretroviral drugs which are mostly hydrophobic, and protect them from interacting with nonspecific sites, thereby reducing toxicity. lists the various antiretroviral nanoformulations used as HIV-1 therapeutics. Table 3 Antiretroviral drug Nanoparticle type Stage References Stavudine (D4T), delavirdine (DLV), saquinavir (SQV) Methylmethacrylate-sulfopropylmethacrylate (MMA-SPM) nanoparticles with grafted RMP-7
Wavesmashing, however, in my opinion, is also a bad idea, because, in the time and damage it takes you to actually land a smash, you could have just used The Punch and killed you opponent by then.Even though he has to fight mostly in the air, 3 of his 4 air attacks are pretty fast, and are quite massive. A major advantage he has is that nearly all his attacks move the opponent considerably, and can topple him from 0%, so his opponent gets little to no counterattack opportunity.The only explanation I can find for why he is low on the tiers is that no one has used him seriously. I think he really keeps up, if not tops, the top tier characters.I really do not like to simply shoot my mouth, and I am not one who thinks it right to shower a character in encomium, and never actually prove anything. Is there online for this somewhere, or is that simply wishful thinking? If not, please do not yell at me and stuff until you at least check out The Punch. Goes right through projectiles, goes right through attacks, goes right through faces. Please just give Ganondorf another shot and tell me what you thnk.Final Comment: People have a tendency to think that posts from newcomers to a board but veterans of its respective game are saying they are better than everyone else, regardles of what the post actually says. Please note that I did not say 'I am better than you' or 'Ganon is better than Fox.' I said, essentially: 'Ganon seems to be great. These are his strengths. He may top Fox. Check him out and see if you agree.' I will say, however, that I am a full master of Ganondorf.Please give Ganondorf a second look before responding so you know where I am coming from!
NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications may not allow telecom companies liberal payment terms for spectrum auctions, as proposed by the regulator, because it could hit the government’s revenue collections.To ease the burden for carriers, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had recommended that telcos be allowed to pay 10% of the winning bid initially for any spectrum in an auction. The balance, including interest, could be paid in equal instalments over the next 18 years. At present, an auction winner can pay the entire money upfront or 25% or 33% of the total amount initially, depending on the band, and the remainder in 10 equal instalments after a two-year moratorium.The DoT , however, opposed the proposal. “The payment terms have already been eased. In the 2010 auctions, the government had received an upfront payment and later to support the industry, we changed it to staggered payment,” said an official. The Telecom Commission, an inter-ministerial panel, is scheduled to take a decision on the matter on March 30. The panel will also decide on the pricing and quantum of 700 MHz spectrum – considered the most efficient for 4G services – to be auctioned. Trai suggested a reserve price of Rs 11,485 crore a unit for the 700 MHz band – the most expensive – and a block size of 5 MHz for the upcoming auction.At this base price, each block would fetch the government over Rs 57,000 crore, which is more than half the entire proceeds of the 2015 sale of spectrum. Trai’s recommendation on easy payments was made in its response to the Telecom Commission’s queries on the reserve price and quantum of airwaves to be offered in the auction scheduled for July. The regulator also maintained its stand on pricing the 700 MHz bandwidth atRs 11,485 crore per MHz and the methodology for arriving at the price.“Reduced upfront payment and longer payment schedule will result in a situation where bidders would find themselves in ‘pay as you earn’ situation and will not be burdened by payments in the initial years,” Trai said in its recommendations. The payment plan proposed by the regulator would have benefitted telcos if the reserve price for 700 MHz had been reduced or if the government lowered the interest to be paid, said Prashant Singhal, global leader telecom with EY.Rajan Mathews, director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India, agreed.
Bugs inevitably crop up, so now in addition to continuing development we're fixing bugs on two separate builds of the game simultaneously, and fixing a bug in one might break something in the other, or a tired coder might slip the terminology for one build into the other accidentally as mistakes happen. This can delay everything and requires more work.Changes will inevitably have to be made. Maybe one of your artists in Japan needed a logo or a graphic for a troll or whatever and hit up Google for some reference images, and it turns out they copied it a little too closely. That's a legal issue and will have to be changed. More delays. Maybe a level or an area isn't working out very well, and the decision has to be made to delay the game to fix it, cut it and release it later as DLC, or just remove it entirely. Bear in mind we're still working with marketing to get this thing out on time and we may even have a manufacturing date because these discs have to get pressed at some point and that has to get booked in advance, so now we're under pressure to get this thing out when it's supposed to come out or we're incurring more cost.I could go on like this for another 10 paragraphs; you get the idea.All this forconsoles. We're not even counting PC.If we add PC, here's what else we need:Added testers for the PC version.Probably have to hire out a 3rd party to work on the PC interface, as it's radically different than either console interface.Have to make sure no console-specific stuff winds up in the PC version, unless it's supposed to (i.e. an Xbox controller interface).Additional submission to Steam and/or additional manufacturing because some people still want disks.Computers for all the testers of varying kinds. Game needs to be tested on ATi and nVidia cards and multiple chipsets/control schemes/languages.How are we going to do patches? MS and Sony have built-in pipelines for that; Steam does too but that's an added one and those have to be made separately.Are we using DRM? Which? In-house or 3rd party?
We are furthermore requesting that Karmanos answer the allegations contained in this document and go on the record with its position on these matters.THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST KARMANOS, FATA AND GORSKIBased on what we know so far from our independent investigations and sources, we have a rational basis and multi-point reasonable suspicion to believe that all the following allegations may be true, and that they warrant further investigation by Karmanos and law enforcement:* That the Karmanos medical group has deliberately protected the activities of criminal cancer fraudsters who generated revenues for Karmanos. That Karmanos has a financial motive to engage in a deliberate cover-up that prevents the truth about its revenue-generating operations from becoming publicly known. That this cover-up continues to this day, to the detriment of Karmanos patients who are being harmed by medically justified cancer treatment interventions. * That Karmanos is currently harboring other doctors and medical decision makers who, like Dr. Fata, also place the safety of the public at serious risk in order to generate revenues for themselves and for Karmanos. * That Dr. David Gorski , colleague of Dr. Fata and active cancer surgeon at Karmanos, blogger at "science blogs" and author of "Science Based Medicine," demonstrates a consistent pattern of pathological deception and intense hatred toward others, which is irreconcilable with the professional demeanor of a clear-headed physician working in the interests of patients. * That Dr. Gorski demonstrates the kind of pathological behavior that is in many ways consistent with a criminal mind or "mad scientist" engaged in unethical and possibly illegal activities that place the safety of the public at risk. * That the pathological denials of mass harm carried out by Dr. Farid Fata reflect a similar pattern of denialism and deception routinely exhibited by Dr. David Gorski * That Dr. David Gorski knew important details about the criminal activities of Dr. Farid Fata but failed to alert officials. That he may have contributed to the criminal cover-up that caused harm to large numbers of patients. What did he know and when did he know it? * That Dr. David Gorski is "psychologically unfit to practice medicine" yet continues to operate inside the Karmanos group as a licensed cancer surgeon, placing the health and safety of Karmanos patients at risk.
[Xom's mischief] 62707 \| Vaults:2 \| Lost mutation: You passively map a small area around you. [Xom's mischief] 62940 \| Vaults:2 \| XOM: swap monsters 63037 \| Vaults:2 \| XOM: harmless Erth miscast 63225 \| Vaults:2 \| XOM: stat loss: -1 Str (17/18) 63253 \| Vaults:3 \| XOM: stat loss: -1 Str (16/18) 63260 \| Vaults:3 \| XOM: blink monster(s) 63262 \| Vaults:3 \| XOM: repel stairs 63275 \| Vaults:3 \| You fall through a shaft! 63391 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: harmless Divn miscast 63412 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: potion effect (speed) 63414 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: polymorph stone giant -> fire giant 63499 \| Vaults:4 \| Reached XP level 22. HP: 225/231 MP: 44/44 63499 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: confusion 63519 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: polymorph green ugly thing -> boulder beetle 63567 \| Vaults:4 \| Noticed Frances 63576 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: chaos upgrade 63586 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: harmless Summ miscast 63588 \| Vaults:4 \| Killed Frances 63993 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: give mutations 63993 \| Vaults:4 \| Lost mutation: You are extremely robust (+30% HP). [Xom's mischief] 63993 \| Vaults:4 \| Lost mutation: You can spit moderately strong poison. [Xom's mischief] 63993 \| Vaults:4 \| Lost mutation: You have a considerably increased reservoir of magic (+20% MP). [Xom's mischief] 63993 \| Vaults:4 \| Lost mutation: You are extremely resistant to the effects of hostile enchantments. [Xom's mischief] 63998 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: polymorph cyan ugly thing -> komodo dragon 64078 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: severe Conj miscast 64371 \| Vaults:5 \| Entered Level 5 of the Vaults 64378 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: cast spell 'Necromutation' 64394 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: divination: magic mapping 64395 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: enchant monster (bad) 64396 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: divine lightning 64408 \| Vaults:5 \| Noticed Xtahua 64415 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: swap monsters 64421 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: blink monster(s) 64425 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: confusion (+ monsters) 64504 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: colour smoke trail 64670 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: harmless Pois miscast 64790 \| Vaults:4 \| Killed Xtahua 64804 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: blink monster(s) 64812 \| Vaults:4 \| Reached skill level 10 in Armour 65008 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: summons 4 hostile shadow creatures 65025 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: cast spell 'Summon Small Mammal' 65029 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: confusion 65050 \| Vaults:5 \| XOM: noise 65363 \| Vaults:4 \| XOM: give mutations 65363 \| Vaults:4 \| Lost mutation: You have sharp fingernails.
“The police were pushing us off the picket lines even though the judge said it’s illegal. After last time, when they hit people with batons , people were afraid, but they kept moving to hold the lines,” said local trucker Jose Gomez. POTA’s press release said, “Some truckers who crossed picket lines today claimed they faced retaliation from their companies. During the last work stop- page, notoriously bad trucking dispatch company GSC charged their drivers illegal demurrage fees for honoring picket lines. When drivers refused to pay, they found deductions in their pay checks. While some long-distance truckers and employee drivers crossed picket lines, the vast ma- jority of independent contractor truckers picketed or refused to take loads today.” “At 10 a.m. most of the supporters, media and police trickled out, while more truckers gathered at the primary SSA trucker entrance and resumed pickets on their own. Without the heavy police presence that accompanied activists and supporters, they were able to hold the picket lines at SSA,” according to POTA’s press release. “When the local drivers won’t work, the Port won’t work. Even if we are not the majority group of truckers servicing the port, we do the majority of the work,” said Roberto Ruiz, another local driver. Part of the independent truckers’ action was not as effective as planned. Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 crossed the picket line at the SSA termi- nal. POTA was disappointed that Local 10 didn’t honor the picket lines. It was a surprising response from Local 10, which has historically honored picket lines in support of progressive struggles. It was particularly surprising, since Local 10’s membership meeting had voted to honor all POTA picket lines. According to Stan Woods, a member of ILWU Local 6 who attended Local 10’s membership meeting as an observer, the membership had voted 73-to-39 to honor POTA picket lines. It was hotly debated. There were strong feelings on both sides. A conti ngen t from POTA atten ded the union’s meeting and Frank Adams of POTA spoke at the meeting. In the end, the union’s membership voted to act in solidarity with POTA by honoring their picket lines, according to Woods. Members of Local 10 said they called a union telephone recording daily and that, on Nov. 27, this recording told them to go to work.
A one minute breath hold could be a relaxed 30 m [98 ft] down and 30 m back up in a typical dive profile. Persons trying to better their depth are going to increase their speed, which would work against them at that point. So I can understand the pros to the ideas, but there would certainly be a lot of cons to it that need to be addressed. DR. BUTLER: I appreciate your point. That is why I took some pains to exclude the elite breath-hold divers from the proposals. MR. KRACK: I would not say that 100 ft [30 m] indicates an extreme breath-hold diver. That is becoming a very common recreational freedive nowadays. DR. BUTLER: I am not trying to include a depth consideration in this discussion. It really is more about time and oxygen consumption. Some of the techniques used by elite breath-hold divers, such as riding a sled down and a balloon up, reduce oxygen consumption significantly. What the studies that I presented had in common was that they looked at exercising, immersed divers. They were engaged in an activity that produced an oxygen consumption that we could then extrapolate to other immersed, exercising divers, however roughly
And if they have little to no resources, well, then they need to grab a firm hold of their bootstraps. And to top it off, these are the same people who are diametrically opposed to raising the minimum wage. He's using the exact same phrases and sentiments that have been used against African-Americans the past forty years.Expect to see a lot more of this thinking coming from the Right's propaganda outlets as automation accelerates.As Serlin points out, the Republican party, which controls congress and statehouses across the country, virulently opposes expanding access to education, higher wages, or really any sort of investment in human capital whatsoever. In fact,Ayn-Rand inflected free market fundamentalism is the dominant philosophy of the executive class who control the nation's wealth, and, via campaign contributions, its government. Does that sound like a society that's going to make the investments in education necessary based on the above, or one that will continue to portray a society of "makers and takers" as the jobs are automated away?Recall that the last candidate for president on the Republican ticket claimed to his wealthy backers (secretly) that forty-seven percent of Americans, because they pay no Federal income taxes, take no responsibility for their lives, and are just looking for handouts And his vice-presidential candidate was fond of saying that America's threadbare social safety net has become,Both called for a drastic shrinking of the safety net and massive tax cuts for the richest Americans, tax cuts that will probably ultimately help fund the technology that automates away even more jobs.So Kevin Williamson's thinking above is not fringe at all.If everyone went to university, there wouldn't be enough places for them. The best universities are predominantly located in urban areas with high rents, and besides, they already reject many of the people who apply to them for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, our expensive and inefficient education system is designed to take at least four years to complete because of unnecessary padding and frills (despite our insistence that it be a glorified vocational school). What are these people supposed to do in the meantime?And even if we expanded online options, we would just have more underemployed people, or a more educated unemployed workforce. Online college won't create new jobs (except, or course, for those providing the education). The economy isn't primarily creating fast-food jobs because of a lack of education, instead, educated people are being forced to take on these jobs.
Better data Human error is inevitable. Although we cannot eliminate human error, we can better measure the problem to design safer systems mitigating its frequency, visibility, and consequences. Strategies to reduce death from medical care should include three steps: making errors more visible when they occur so their effects can be intercepted; having remedies at hand to rescue patients 17; and making errors less frequent by following principles that take human limitations into account (fig 2⇓). This multitier approach necessitates guidance from reliable data. Fig 2 Model for reducing patient harm from individual and system errors in healthcare Currently, deaths caused by errors are unmeasured and discussions about prevention occur in limited and confidential forums, such as a hospital’s internal root cause analysis committee or a department’s morbidity and mortality conference. These forums review only a fraction of detected adverse events and the lessons learnt are not disseminated beyond the institution or department. There are several possible strategies to estimate accurate national statistics for death due to medical error. Instead of simply requiring cause of death, death certificates could contain an extra field asking whether a preventable complication stemming from the patient’s medical care contributed to the death. An early experience asking physicians to comment on the potential preventability of inpatient deaths immediately after they occurred resulted in an 89% response rate.18 Another strategy would be for hospitals to carry out a rapid and efficient independent investigation into deaths to determine the potential contribution of error. A root cause analysis approach would enable local learning while using medicolegal protections to maintain anonymity. Standardized data collection and reporting processes are needed to build up an accurate national picture of the problem. Measuring the consequences of medical care on patient outcomes is an important prerequisite to creating a culture of learning from our mistakes, thereby advancing the science of safety and moving us closer towards the Institute of Medicine’s goal of creating learning health systems.19
For example, a report from the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants quotes the median size of airborne dust from the air in London to range from 0.09 to 0.13 μm.10 Figure 1 Photomicrograph of airborne tunnel dust from Holland Park station, showing the majority of the particles to be between 0.5 and 5 µm, some of the larger ones being clumps of smaller particles.
Before that, however, Tolstoy depicts the thoughts and feelings of two brothers and other officers going about their duties. The younger brother, Volodya, dreams of acting heroically, fears being killed or perceived as cowardly, and wishes to be liked by the men under his command. Tolstoy describes the enlisted men here more than in either of the first two stories. Before they attempt to repel a French attack, we see them talking, smoking, drinking, playing cards, and joking amidst intermittent French artillery barrages that kill some of them. Tolstoy's description of an experienced "immensely tall gunner" who assures Volodya he can get two broken-down mortars operating again, and does so, is a timeless depiction of a seasoned professional aiding a young inexperienced officer. In the end both brothers act bravely and are killed in the French assault. By the time hostilities came to an official end the following year, the Russians had lost about a half million men in the war and their combined enemies probably at least that many. On both sides, losses came not only from combat, but from diseases that developed rapidly among the troops such as typhus, cholera, and dysentery. Soon after the war, Tolstoy resigned from the army. A decade later, the first part of his most famous novel, War and Peace, appeared, and during the last three decades of his long life (1828-1910) he was perhaps the world's most famous pacifist, but his Sevastopol Stories continued to have relevance. In translation it influenced Stephen Crane in his Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and later Ernest Hemingway, who wrote several novels dealing with war. Less than a month after the Nazi government launched its attack on the USSR, the Soviet government reprinted 150,000 copies of it. (Like the Sevastopol of 1854-5, the city again held off the enemy for many months, but finally succumbed in July 1942.) In writing about the experiences of British writers in The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell first sketched the influence of writers such as Alfred Lord Tennyson on them. Tennyson's most famous poem dealing with the Crimean War was his "Charge of the Light Brigade," in which he depicted a British cavalry brigade riding "into the jaws of death," even though the cavalrymen knew the order was foolish.
package com.javagists; import java.io.IOException; import java.time.Duration; import java.time.Instant; import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException; public class ProcessDemo { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException { Process process = new ProcessBuilder("notepad.exe").start(); System.out.println("** PROCESS INFORMATION OF CURRENT PROCESS "); printInfo(ProcessHandle.current()); System.out.println(" PROCESS INFORMATION FOR NOTEPAD.EXE"); printInfo(process.toHandle()); } private static void printInfo(ProcessHandle ph) { System.out.println("============================="); System.out.println(" Process ID : " + ph.pid()); ProcessHandle.Info pInfo = ph.info(); System.out.println(" Executable path : " + pInfo.command().orElse("No path")); System.out.println(" Arguments : "); String[] argArray = pInfo.arguments().orElse(new String[] {}); for(String s: argArray) System.out.println(s); System.out.println(" Process Owner: " + pInfo.user().orElse("No owner")); System.out.println(" Process Start time : " + pInfo.startInstant().orElse(Instant.now()).toString()); System.out.println(" Total Up Time : " + pInfo.totalCpuDuration().orElse(Duration.ofMillis(0)).toMillis() + " milli seconds"); System.out.println("============================="); } } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 package com . javagists ; import java . io . IOException ; import java . time . Duration ; import java . time . Instant ; import java . util . concurrent . ExecutionException ; public class ProcessDemo { public static void main ( String [ ] args ) throws IOException , InterruptedException , ExecutionException { Process process = new ProcessBuilder ( "notepad.exe" ) . start ( ) ; System . out . println ( " PROCESS INFORMATION OF CURRENT PROCESS " ) ; printInfo ( ProcessHandle . current ( ) ) ; System . out . println ( " PROCESS INFORMATION FOR NOTEPAD.EXE**" ) ; printInfo ( process . toHandle ( ) ) ; } private static void printInfo ( ProcessHandle ph ) { System . out . println ( "=============================" ) ; System . out . println ( " Process ID : " + ph . pid ( ) ) ; ProcessHandle . Info pInfo = ph . info ( ) ; System . out . println ( " Executable path : " + pInfo . command ( ) . orElse ( "No path" ) ) ; System . out . println ( " Arguments : " ) ; String [ ] argArray = pInfo . arguments ( ) . orElse ( new String [ ] { } ) ; for ( String s : argArray ) System . out . println ( s ) ; System . out . println ( " Process Owner: " + pInfo . user ( ) .
Note 1) "The origins of the Denkiri name came from a non-Trek SF story I was dabbling with as far back as 1971, inspired by Arthur Clarke's Second Dawn, at least by the descriptions of the intelligent, quasi-mammalian, three-legged creatures. I made mine four-legged. Humans arrive at Denkir IV on a scout ship preceding two big colony vessels by maybe eighteen months. Eight out of the nine scout crew die from a nasty virus that escaped detection after almost a full year of medical research, the ninth guy (engineer type) survives but doesn't know why. Long story short, he leaves the camp for a while, discovers the Denkiri, communicates with them, concludes after a couple of months that once the virus thing is solved, the colony command may not want to be friends. Typical clash of cultures, very Avatar-like, but way before Avatar. Very Dances with Wolves, very Pocahontas. :) The story synopsis could probably be reworked a lot to avoid recent similarities; it's one of those things chucked in a box somewhere in the garage. Anyhow, some bits of art were generated while the story ideas were coming together, and I was able to put them to use on TNG when John Dwyer (lead set decorator) asked if I had anything he could photographically enlarge for the walls during first season." Note 2) Dave Archer on painting with high voltage: "The coils I use for painting in various 'reverse glass' techniques, are designed and fabricated by engineering genius, Bill Wysock, at his company: 'Tesla Technology,' in Monrovia, California. [...] Bill Wysock's list of Tesla accomplishments is a long roll of movie credits. His coils have been used for special effects in many films, commercials, massive outdoor shows, and worldwide installations." "Having used my Bill Wysock, Tesla painting machine for decades, I stake my claim as the first in the world on that score. And I think Tesla would have enjoyed the paintings I make using his invention. How lucky I feel then, that my machines are built and maintained by one of Tesla's true successors." "I paint with two different Wysock coils in my studio. The large one produces nine foot arcs from the tip of an insulated rod hanging over the glass, which is raised from the floor by heavy duty insulators.
A daring confrontation was caught on camera in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood when a man said he saw someone stealing packages from a person's front door.Instead of just calling police, Gene Pierson walked up to the alleged thief with his cell phone camera rolling.The burglary took place near Damon and Dickens after 4 p.m. Friday. What's striking is how casual the alleged burglar simply walked up to the doorstep and then just takes off with the packages. "I'm making a delivery," proclaimed the thief, but that's not what was going on. It was a bold-faced robbery. In the middle of the day Friday, in Bucktown, a man is seen stealing packages off of a home's front steps and it was all caught, both on the church's surveillance video and on Gene Pierson's cell phone. "While I was working I saw a gentleman walking down the street that looked very suspicious. I kept my eye on him," Pierson said.Pierson is an employee at Covenant Presbyterian Church across the street from where the unidentified burglar decided to strike. With his camera rolling Pierson confronted the thief, getting a shot of the man's license plates, which he has handed over to police. "I live in the neighborhood," he said. "I work in the neighborhood and I care about the people around me. It's the right thing to do. ""It says a lot about how desperate these criminals are," said Steve Jensen.Jensen is the president of the Bucktown Community Organization. He says, more police are needed to patrol the streets, and more people willing to get involved and keep an eye out in the neighborhood for would-be thieves looking for the right place to strike. "They know that a lot of the people in this neighborhood are at work, away from their homes and the opportunity is there for them to steal stuff either off the front steps or kick in the door and find whatever they can find within a minute," Jensen said.Police said the value of the stolen packages was less than $50. The investigation continues.
Limited response Yet a month after the first calls for military deployment, forces are only now starting to be mobilised in any numbers. The US, UK, Germany, and France have responded, although not exactly as Liu had hoped they would. The US has said it will send 4000 troops to build new isolation units and treatment facilities in Liberia, a country created by US citizens as a colony for former African American slaves. But President Obama has made it clear that US troops will not be staffing those units and coming into contact with Ebola patients. The UK has pledged to send 750 troops to establish new Ebola treatment centres in Sierra Leone, its former colony, and a training academy for those working in treatment centres. Around 5000 German troops have volunteered to work in west Africa but they have not yet been deployed, and the government has now admitted that it would not have the resources to fly any troops home for treatment should they become infected. So far no other countries have offered their armed forces, and President Obama warned in early October, if most countries choose to remain on the sidelines and watch the US do the bulk of the military work, the outbreak will continue to be a global threat.4 Liu says she is exasperated at the slow, hands-off response. “Countries are approaching this with the mindset of going to war,” she says. “Zero risk. Zero casualties.” Liu describes the current military efforts as the equivalent, in public health terms, of airstrikes without boots on the ground. Pledges of equipment and logistical support are helpful—“The military are the only body that can be deployed in the numbers needed now and that can organise things fast.” But there is still a massive shortage of qualified and trained medical staff on the ground. “You need to send people not stuff and get hands on, not try to do this remotely,” Liu says, “Local doctors have been extremely brave, but we are running out of staff and that is why we are asking for a major workforce to deploy.” Since the 9/11 attack on New York’s twin towers, Western countries have developed military and civilian biohazard teams to protect their populations against a possible bioterrorist attack. Liu had hoped that these could be deployed to west Africa.
As an adult, Huckstep worried that people in her business circle would view her sexual orientation similarly. Apart from a few brief "encounters" with other women, she had had no romantic or sexual relationships before Misner. On the few occasions when Huckstep would have straight colleagues over for dinner back at their Birmingham home, Misner would prepare the meal, then hide in a guesthouse out back. Now and then, when Huckstep brought Misner to a work function, she would introduce her as a friend. Misner, who had lost custody of her children from her previous marriage after her ex-husband learned that she was gay, agreed that silence was best. Gay rights leaders around the country have long viewed Alabama, and the rest of the Cotton Belt, as unwinnable terrain, a backwater hopelessly mired in the past. While gay couples in other states are lining up to get marriage licenses, LGBT people in Alabama are celebrating a court ruling throwing out the state's sodomy law more than a decade after the rest of the country has moved on. And as growing numbers of Republicans in other states are proclaiming their support for marriage equality, conservatives in Montgomery are as vehemently opposed to pro-gay legislation as ever. Alabama remains one of a dwindling number of states in the country with no laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination or hate crimes. The chief justice of the state Supreme Court is waging a campaign around the United States to enact what nearly everyone in the country sees as a politically dead idea -- a federal constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union of a man and a woman, something even former President George W. Bush couldn't pull off in 2004. But in just the last few years, the conversation about gay rights in Alabama has begun to shift in subtle ways. There's the candidacy of Patricia Todd, Alabama's first openly gay lawmaker, who just won the Democratic primary for her third term as representative for Birmingham's downtown district, and who stands unopposed in the general election. There's the sight of young gay couples holding hands on Birmingham's historic brick-lined streets -- something gay people in Huckstep's generation only dreamed of doing.
This confusing language has propagated across many later accounts, and the reporters bear responsibility — the claims they make are not supported by the original document. In one example, reporter Bill Sulon, writing for the Harrisburg, PA "Patriot-News," says "The statement calls evolution 'just a theory' with unexplainable 'gaps,' and refers students to 'Pandas' in the school library as a resource on intelligent design. "A reader may find this sentence a bit tricky to unwind, but the word "unexplainable" belongs only to the reporter, not the school board. This confusing language has propagated across many later accounts, and the reporters bear responsibility — the claims they make are not supported by the original document. It is likely that many of the Web links in this article will expire over time. If the reader wants to see the degree to which the phrase "unexplainable gaps" has been generally and wrongly assigned to the Dover school board, and to keep up to date on this case and its aftereffects, simply Google for "Dover," "evolution" and "unexplainable gaps." It is likely that many of the Web links in this article will expire over time. If the reader wants to see the degree to which the phrase "unexplainable gaps" has been generally and wrongly assigned to the Dover school board, and to keep up to date on this case and its aftereffects, simply Google for "Dover," "evolution" and "unexplainable gaps." To close this section, I want to comment on another phrase from the Dover school board statement: "A theory is defined as a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations." To put it plainly, this description is false. This definition fails to correctly identify either a scientific theory's traits or purpose. A scientific theory is meant to provide a conceptual framework that explains observations, and perhaps predict new observations not yet made, but it is not judged as a theory by how well-tested it is. In the next section I will discuss traits that a scientific theory must possess, traits unfortunately left out of the Dover school board's definition, including one critical property shared by all scientific theories that stands as a litmus test of scientific understanding. To close this section, I want to comment on another phrase from the Dover school board statement: "A theory is defined as a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations." To put it plainly, this description is false.
"When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the crowd who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel. "But when Yeshua heard these things, he was amazed at him, and he turned and he said to the crowd that came after him, “I say to you that not even in the house of Israel have I found faith like this.”Jesus was amazed at the officer when he heard these words. He turned to the crowd following him and said, "I can guarantee that I haven't found faith as great as this in Israel.
According to Kidwai this is also part of reform process as pre-emption of deposits in the form of SLR is highest in India compared to other countries.Many see the accommodative nature of the monetary policy as a message from Rajan that he is willing to work with the government to support growth plans. “RBI extended a welcoming hand to the new prime minister. While reiterating their goal of bringing headline CPI down to 8% by January, officials noted that the risks around this target remain balanced,” said Frederic Neumann Co-Head of Asian Economic Research, HSBC.Rajan said that the first quarter continued to be sluggish and the outlook for agriculture is clouded by the meteorological department’s forecasts of a delay in the onset of the south-west monsoon with a 60% chance of the occurrence of El Nino.On inflation, the governor said that while El-Nino and geopolitical situation was a threat to food prices, these risks were balanced by the possibility of stronger government action on food supply and better fiscal consolidation as well as the pass-through of recent exchange rate appreciation. “Accordingly, at this juncture, it is appropriate to leave the policy rate unchanged, and to allow the disinflationary effects of rate increases undertaken during September 2013-January 2014 to mitigate inflationary pressures in the economy,” Rajan said.
You better win most every game, but even if you do, the Monster will keep chomping. If you get caught up in trying to feed that thing, it will eat you up, too. -- Barry Switzer's advice to Bill Curry % You make a persuasive argument. And by that, I mean there are more of you and you are using that to coerce me into obeying your moral code. -- Belkar, _Order of the Stick_ #125 http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0125.html % i know 0 about coding but i know when you do a prog you write small hints in the code to help others out -- Tatsujin % We're standing there pounding a dead parrot on the counter, and the management response is to frantically swap in new counters to see if that fixes the problem. -- Peter Gutmann % What's bad about tea? The only problem I see with tea around here is that people will put a half-cup of sugar in a cup of tea. It seems it's not tea unless you can shake it and it looks like a Christmas paperweight. -- Gene Cash % The difference is that while C lets you shoot yourself in the foot, Perl shoots itself in the foot first to make sure the gun works. -- Peter da Silva % This doubles the effective focal length to a 35mm equivalent of 17280mm . . . yes, there are five digits in that number, which of course is utterly insane. -- http://www.dvinfo.net/canon/images/images17.php % Yeah, yeah, I'm old. Fuck off. -- stevo (and, no doubt, many other monks) % The instructor, bless him, told us it stood for "Microsoft Certified Shutdown Engineer", because every time you do anything, you have to reboot! -- Ben Aveling % And it's the web page for... ...a stock broker. The site starts out, "a new breed of stockbroker is the born" (sic), and it just goes downhill from there. Made by suits, for suits. No human thought went into the creation of this web site. -- Dave Brown % A security update for the .WMF-exploit will be released today at 2pm ET, instead of Tuesday January 10, 2006, as originally planned, as part of our regular monthly release of security bulletins, once testing for quality and application compatibility was complete. However, testing has been completed earlier than anticipated and the update is ready for release.
But here we’re just bluntly saying, ‘These are the good guys, these are the bad guys, this is a fantasy film taking place in a mythical quasi-Biblical world.’ Aesthetically and stylistically, it’s not clean, but”—he balanced scales—“narratively it allows people to relax and understand what they’re going to see.” Ben Snow, from I.L.M., showed Aronofsky the most kinetic moment in the battle. Four months earlier, at a meeting in New York, the director had told I.L.M., “Samyaza’s three arms in the back are doing nothing—we need a whole other layer of digi-double people flying out like knee-high grass from a lawnmower as he throws and crushes. And I like the idea of a stunt arm that’s a point that could just be squashing people on their heads, like a kid squashing ants.” Now here it was: an entirely composited scene of a Watcher whirling and stamping and clubbing and kicking and smiting about twenty digital humans. “That’s fucking gory!” Aronofsky said. With a measure of chagrin, he added, “So why do I have to go to the set anymore? Next time, can’t I just show up here and see what you’ve done?”
Thanks for getting back to us with all the feedback and emails - we are working hard to address all the issues and requests submitted.Please keep the emails and discussions going!- Fourteen new bounty missions that can be found in Wang's Cave on a bounty board- Two new weapons: Medusa gun and EX-GF01 minigun- Four new perks- It's free!- Fixed problems with "Healer Star" amulet- Fixed Ice Nova crash- Fixed weapon damage exploit using Fire Rate gems- Upgrade Spawn fix- Fixed weapon attachments for idle yakuza- Added pad layouts- Fixed possible inventory crashes- Fixed damage indicators for future weapons- Fixed explodable damage indicators- Improved physics performance- Enemies now regenerate HP after client dies- Fixed cutscene display for client when he was in hub after triggering it- Quest vending machines can be destroyed by client- Fixed a problem with a VFX display for clients when yakuza was firing uzi or cyber uziIt's Payday time for Lo Wang! Two Payday 2 weapons are available in Larry's shop for free that go in pair with a new multiplayer skin. Suit up and put on a classic Payday Dallas mask for some coop action!- Added new reload animations for full clip- Fixed a quest barrier persisting for client who joined during gameplay- Fixed explodable damage indicators- Enemies now regenerate HP after client dies- Fixed damage future weapons damage indicators- Fixed coop issues with Crampus giftbag- Fixed cutscene display for client when he was in hub after triggering it- Fixed game difficulty displayed on server list- Intel graphics card crash fix- Radeon graphics card crash fixWinter has come and gone.- Fixed blocking weapon after interrupting climbing on ladder by starting a cutscene.- Fixed sprint speed after zoom and cutscenes- Fixed hands animation after releasing teleport button.- Fixed a hud issue caused by interrupting a teleport by cutscene in multiplayer.- Fixed enemy navigation in challenge levels- Fixed various audio issues on levels- Fixed objects hovering in mid-air in certain conditions- Fixed various issues with spawning enemies- Fixed various issues with objects in cutscenes- Fixed lightning issues on levels- Fixed various collision issues on levels- Evil rabbit spawn fix.- The friendly Crawler in the hub got a new mask and a new name- Certain Champions have invested in stronger bodyguards in order to hold off the WangpocalypseA Santa impersonator turned out to be a Santa imposter!
Jared Pelletier, director, (PT 2) is an internationally recognized film director from Toronto, who first gained exposure at 18 with a shortlisted film at the Festival de Cannes. He has gone on to win numerous festival awards for more than five different films. His WWII epic "In the Hearts of Men" 2011 , swept all major production awards including Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Editing at the Arizona Film and Media Expo. In February of 2011 Jared made his new project public, a short that would change the possibilities of visual effects in independent films, the movie is called "Halo: Faith". With over 14,000 Facebook fans gained before a single frame of the film released, the project is regarded a massive success. A teaser trailer released in November, 2011 to mixed but mostly positive feedback from fans; Feedback from the industry, however, has been massively positive. Pelletier was given the opportunity to direct commercials for notable organizations such as FIFA, and received major feature film offers. He is currently working with writer Matthew Kingshott on an upcoming sci-fi horror film. Kingshott has most recently worked with Michael Bassett, director of the upcoming "Silent Hill 3D". Pelletier's 2011 success did not end there, as on November 25th, 2011, he released a trailer to a proof of concept "BioShock" film, based on a massively popular video game much like "Halo: Faith". The trailer gained universal acclaim, and was featured on IGN.com, Yahoo News, Joystiq, and over 20 other major news outlets in just days after release. Today, Pelletier has feature films in various stages of production, along with a major short to release in the Summer of 2012 based on Christopher Nolan's popular "Batman" series. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes' Movie Beat for other great interviews, cast & crew listings, events, premieres & more at rexsikes.com
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You've had a taste of Indian stocks, U.S. stocks, Japanese stocks, micro caps, big caps, net-nets, hidden champions, etc. What interested you? What stock was the most fun to research? What did you think you really "got"? What area was that stock in? What kind of analysis — competitive analysis, quantitative analysis, sum of the parts, etc. did you do?Think about what area you might want to learn more about.Then become an expert in that area.Pretty soon, you'll develop your own investing style.Invest with StyleYou'll have a circle of competence to work from.Two of my favorite books are "A Christmas Carol" and "Animal Farm." Think about these two books for a second. Where do stores shelve them? What genres are they in?In both cases, it’s actually very easy to see which genre they were written in. A Christmas Carol is a ghost story. Animal Farm is a fairy tale. There’s really no disputing those facts. Although if you Googled either book you’re unlikely to find them described that way.Why?Because of who wrote them. Genre is not style. It’s more personal than that.For most people, the defining mark of "A Christmas Carol" is its sentiment. And the defining mark of "Animal Farm" is its politics.Well, that’s just a roundabout way of saying the defining mark of each book is its author.Dickens’s style was sentiment. And Orwell’s style was politics.That doesn’t make A Christmas Carol any less of a ghost story. Or Animal Farm any less of a fairy tale. It just adds style.The distinction between genre and style is ignored in most discussion of investors great and small.Are you a value investor? Or a growth investor?That’s genre.Genre is how a specific stock fits in an overarching top down tradition.Style is how a specific stock fits into your personal system. The way you think.Do you buy turnarounds? Hidden champions? Wide moats? Brands? Companies with surplus cash? Family controlled companies? Food and beverage companies? Companies with mind share? With cutting edge tech? With a lack of change? Young companies? Old companies? Low cost operators? Stocks in industries with little price competition? Stocks with an activist banging at the gates?For a blog with style, read Variant Perceptions . All about turnarounds. How about net-nets? Try Cheap Stocks . And notice that Greenbackd doesn’t have exactly the same style as Cheap Stocks even though he’s covering pretty much the exact same ground. Finally, check out The Interactive Investor Blog . Definitely a value investor.
Mr. Wallace asked about a Wikileaks report of Ms. Clinton’s vision of a hemispheric open market with open borders. (I say, policy which forwards such a situation is a proper and appropriate goal for neighboring nations, in a world with a bright future for our children to inherit). Ms. Clinton immediately blamed the Wikileaks report on unnamed Russian intelligence hackers, whom she claims do not favor her presidential candidacy. (I say this: The American surveillance state, and the inability for career politicians and war party usurpers who brought about the modern surveillance state as part of the war against everybody but the ruling class, has so saturated daily life that Russia is having to help the American proletariat with investigative reporting. Daylight in the Free West is not just crucial for those who live here, and there’s no Radio Free America. Journalism is not (or is not supposed to be) illegal, and one doesn’t need to be an U.S. citizen to 1) have a preferred candidate for U.S. president or any other public office, nor 2) to conduct flat-footed reportage. Does anyone believe the areas of Texas which are heavily populated with German immigrants, for example, don’t have any right to a political opinion? Do American ex-pats not get to have an opinion or free speech? Can other national governments, with whom we share the same high seas, have an opinion about the leadership of a major world superpower? Yes, of course they have a responsibility to pay attention to international politics. Are our Constitutionally enshrined civil liberties, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly, something which all people of the world have a natural right to enjoy regardless of their geography? Yes. We’re supposed to be a beacon not a dark bellwether. Some determination of whether a foreign agent (e.g. a Mexican grocer, a Canadian skiier, a Russian ballerina, an Italian professor) is acting in good faith and within the confines of constitutional law, does use approximately the same legal threshold to measure whether a federal judge understands and is properly enforcing the law, or for that matter, any such fathom regarding any other U.S. citizen, tourist, or emigrant.
“Charging into a perjury trap against an FBI director with contemporaneous memos & 3rd party witnesses is a novel legal strategy, to be sure,” former Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller wrote on Twitter. Former FBI director Robert Mueller has been appointed to investigate whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Comey suggested Mueller is now looking at whether Trump committed obstruction. If Mueller wants to compel Trump to testify, Akerman and others said, Trump will not have a choice in the matter. Flynn, once a top Trump ally, has been under investigation for possibly lying to federal investigators over his contact to Russia, among other matters. Trump was denying Comey’s testimony that Trump told him in February, after demanding that others leave the room, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” Trump also contested another key Comey claim: that Trump repeatedly asked him, at a Jan. 27 dinner, to offer his personal “loyalty.” But Trump’s comments on this were so muddled that it was difficult to determine what he was actually saying. “I hardly know the man, I’m not going to say I want you to pledge allegiance. Who would do that? Who would ask a man to pledge allegiance under oath?” Trump said, though Comey did not say Trump had asked him to pledge “allegiance” or to make any pledge under oath. “I mean, think of it. I hardly know the man. It doesn’t make sense.” Trump would not answer directly when asked if he had recorded his conversations with Comey, though he threatened Comey on Twitter with the prospect of “tapes.” Pressed on the issue, he said the media would be “disappointed” when he revealed the answer. He may be forced to come clean sooner than he would like. Soon after the news conference, the House Intelligence Committee wrote to the White House to request copies, by June 23, of any recordings — “to the extent they exist now” — of conversations between Comey and Trump. Trump also made news Friday on subjects unrelated to Comey. In response to a question from a Romanian reporter, he promised to honour the NATO policy of defending any member that comes under attack.
Ten orange adult aphids were placed each day at 8°C for five months before we obtained a viable and robust colony of green variants (figure 1). By chance, progenies of the orange adult aphids did not survive at 8°C. Most larvae died from larval stage 1 to stage 4. Cold (8°C) conditions successfully selected a viable and robust green aphid lineage from orange descendants of a 22°C-adapted unique founder mother. Importantly, the switch to the cold adapted green variant never occurred within the actual orange adults, which excludes a direct enzymatic induction. The green phenotype is heritable in the conditions in which it emerged, but its singular pigmentation fades away when it is placed back in optimal conditions at 22°C. This demonstrates that a clonal aphid population under pressure of selection is able to generate complex traits guiding environmental fitness and underlying the recruitment of gene networks11. The scenario precludes allele selection as an explanation (success of the phenotypic adaptation too fast for implying a Darwinian process) and strongly supports the hypothesis of an epigenetic regulation. The mechanism might reside in the extensive DNA methylation as the molecular cue to transmit complex traits in the framework of an unchanged genome11. This selection process is summarized in figure 1. On the other hand, if the pink/orange pigmentation is dominant at 22°C in optimal conditions (low population density and abundant resources), the declining conditions (rarefaction of resources, high population density) trigger the progressive disappearance of the pink/orange phenotype and its replacement by pale/white/yellow colours (figure 1). In such case, the colour plasticity (colour shift orange to pale/white/yellow) is proportionally induced by the increase of population density and the rarefaction of resources. The pale/white/yellow phenotype reflects an unfavourable environment and might be referred as survival forms that have turned down some less essential biochemical processes to minimize energy cost.
The engineer who originally designed hierarchicals apparently had his forearm mounted on a track so that he could move it perfectly in a horizontal direction without any vertical component. Most of us, however, have our forarms mounted on a pivot we like to call our elbow. That means that moving our hand describes an arc, rather than a straight line. Demanding that pivoted people move a mouse pointer along in a straight line horizontally is just wrong. We are naturally going to slip downward even as we try to slide sideways. When we are not allowed to slip downward, the menu we're after is going to slam shut just before we get there. The Windows folks tried to overcome the pivot problem with a hack: If they see the user move down into range of the next item on the primary menu, they don't instantly close the second-level menu. Instead, they leave it open for around a half second, so, if users are really quick, they can be inaccurate but still get into the second-level menu before it slams shut. Unfortunately, people's reactions to heightened chance of error is to slow down, rather than speed up, a well-established phenomenon. Therefore, few users will ever figure out that moving faster could solve their problem. Microsoft's solution is exactly wrong. When I specified the Mac hierarchical menu algorthm in the mid-'80s, I called for a buffer zone shaped like a <, so that users could make an increasingly-greater error as they neared the hierarchical without fear of jumping to an unwanted menu. As long as the user's pointer was moving a few pixels over for every one down, on average, the menu stayed open, no matter how slow they moved. (Cancelling was still really easy; just deliberately move up or down.) Apple hierarchicals were still less efficient than single level menus, because of the added target, but at least they were less challenging than the average video game. Sadly, the NeXT folks, when coming to Apple, copied Windows, rather than the Mac, in designing the hierarchical menu interface for OSX. Today's Mac hierarchicals are just as difficult to use as those of Windows. Fitts' law is not just about target size and distance; it's also about the number of targets. The more targets, all else being equal, the longer the task will take. Hierarchicals automatically add one extra target.
But the agency is demonstrating a pure unwillingness to do this, and instead is planning to cave to the drug industry and to certain lawmakers who are pushing to have the law amended instead.Though the official comment period for the FDA's proposed new guidance for financial disclosure by clinical investigators ended on July 25, it is still crucial to contact the FDA and tell it to stop catering to special interests, and to leave be the conflict of interest policies that help preserve what little integrity remains in the agency's advisory committee process.You can contact the FDA to oppose the new draft guidance by writing to:Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)Food and Drug Administration5630 Fishers Lane, Room 10-61Rockville, MD 20857Or calling:(888) 463-6332Be sure to reference Docket No. FDA-1999-D-0792To contact FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg directly, you can call her:(301) 796-5000Or email her:Office: [email protected] Personal: [email protected] You can also contact your representatives by visiting:
This makes a lot of sense because it is natural for a human being to worship his/her creator who has also created and sustains the whole universe because no one knows more about human beings' nature and needs than their creator and no one can sustain the balance and life in the universe better than God. Furthermore, it is natural to believe that there is one God because if there were more than one God, the universe would have been chaotic. Therefore, it is natural for human beings to want to establish a good relationship with the one and only God. God has sent prophets such Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad, exactly to tell human beings that in order to maintain a good relationship with God, they should follow God's religion, meaning the set of beliefs and practices that: (a) is good for them personally for their life on Earth and in the hereafter, and (b) that creates peace and harmony among people as well as between people and the rest of the universe. God offered one religion preached by all of God's prophets and this religion was finally given the name Islam. Just imagine yourself trying to explain the Trinity of Christianity to someone. The first thing this person is likely to accept is that he should worship God, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, of course as long as this person is not an atheist. If you are dealing with an atheist, then first you have to prove to this person that there is God. Then, you can simply say that since now you believe in the existence of God, God expects you to worship him. Now, your final task, that is to make him believe in the Trinity, is certainly going to be much harder than convincing him of the need to worship God. Trinity is not a "natural" concept. It is a hypothesis (theory) that is more difficult to accept. You have to convince him that 3 is equal to 1. Trinity defies the laws of mathematics and the laws of nature. The purpose or rationale for the Trinity was to say that Jesus died for the sins of human beings and merely by believing in the Trinity and worshiping Jesus, people will be saved and they will go to paradise.
Right, dat should do dat shit. throat clear Yo dawwwwg! Glad ta peep you're hustlin there, so peek-a-boo, clear tha way, I be comin' thru fo'sho. Da name's Fritz, n' welcome ta tha Popgoes' Pizzeria. Da next generation of lil playas entertainment son! As you already, you'll be guardin dis place until 6 up in tha morning, n' as yo' boss, I'm obliged ta help you KNOW yo' thang n' tha tools you'll be allowed ta use durin tha shift. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. So, first thang's first. I'm gonna be honest, yo' current setup might not be hella...optimal, so ta say. I didn't have time ta prepare a thugged-out designated room fo' you up in tha location so you'll just gotta manage wit rockin one of tha Internizzle Cafe monitors near tha stage next ta tha gang. Don't start complainin just yet, I've set a spot near tha window fo' you, biatch. Even looted a gangbangin' fan! Anyway, tha beeper you have up in yo' hand...it's probably used by lil playas durin tha dizzle fo' game n' whatnot yo, but I've sorted up tha securitizzle application dat only activates durin tha night, which is when you're here, obviously. Everythang you need fo' yo' thang is locked n loaded ta use. Go on, press some buttons muthafucka! Yo ass can check all tha rooms wit set cameras dat is connected online n' tha ventilation too! sigh Alright, I know what tha fuck you're thinking. First night on tha thang, I'm ramblin a funky-ass bit, it's a shitload ta take in. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch fo' realz. And fo'sho, I know there be a funky-ass bunch of anthropromorphic plastic muthafuckas round you watchin you work. Trust me when I say I know how tha fuck dat feels. Yo crazy-ass imagination might git a tad bit outta control. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Stress do dat ta you, biatch. But don't worry dawwwwg! You're straight-up safe here, so peek-a-boo, clear tha way, I be comin' thru fo'sho. I've built dis place from tha ground up ta be one of da most thugged-out transparent, real n' safest places on Earth, unlike....some other bidnizzes. If you eva start feelin anxious, lookin up tha window or just...y'know, takin a look outside should calm you, biatch. That tendz ta work fo' me at least. Right, back ta tha anthropromorphic muthafuckas.
In February 2003, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department reported the first known death in the country related to a-methyltryptamine (AMT). AMT is an indole analogue of amphetamine investigated in the 1960s as an antidepressant, stimulant, and monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Today, AMT is recognized as a powerful psychedelic drug among high school and college-aged men and women. Its popularity is partly due to the multitude of anecdotal websites discussing AMT as well as its legality and availability for purchase via the Internet prior to April 2003. Emergency designation of AMT as a Schedule 1 controlled substance by the Drug Enforcement Administration occurred shortly after the death in Miami-Dade County. The case in Miami involved a young college student who, prior to death, advised his roommate that he was “taking hallucinating drugs” and as a result had “discovered the secret of the universe” Approximately 12 h later, the roommate discovered the deceased lying in bed unresponsive. An empty 1 -g vial of AMT was recovered from the scene and sent to the toxicology laboratory. Initial screening of urine by enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique was positive for amphetamines, and the basic drug blood screen detected a small peak later identified by mass spectrometry as AMT. For quantitation, AMT was isolated using solid-phase extraction, derivatized with pentafluoropropionic anhydride, and analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Quantitative analysis was based upon m/z 276, 303, and 466 for AMT and m/z 306, 333, and 496 for the internal standard, 5-methoxy-alpha-methyltryptamine. A linear calibration curve from 50 to 500 ng/mL was used to calculate the concentration of AMT in the samples and controls. Blood, tissue, and gastric specimens were diluted to bring the observed concentration within the limits of the standard curve. Matrix matched controls were extracted and analyzed with each run. Postmortem iliac vein blood revealed 2.0 rag/L, gastric contents (48 g collected at autopsy) contained 9.6 mg total of AMT, liver contained 24.7 mg/kg, and the brain contained 7.8 mg/kg. An additional Medical Examiner case from another jurisdiction revealed 1.5 mg/L in antemortem serum.
In the Ninth Circuit, "[t]o survive vagueness review, a statute must '(1) define the offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited; and (2) establish standards to permit police to enforce the law in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner.'" United States v. Sutcliffe, 505 F.3d 944, 953 (9th Cir. 2007) (quoting Nunez v. City of San Diego, 114 F.3d 935, 940 (9th Cir. 1997). "Vague statutes are invalidated for three reasons: '(1) to avoid punishing people for behavior that they could not have known was illegal; (2) to avoid 27 subjective enforcement of laws based on 'arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement' by government officers; and (3) to avoid any chilling effect on the exercise of First Amendment freedoms.'" Humanitarian Law Project v. Mukasey, 509 F.3d , 1122, 1133 (9th Cir. 2007) (quoting Foti v. City of Menlo Park, 146 F.3d 629, 638 (9th Cir. 1998)).8 Nothing in § 1030(a)(2)(C), its legislative history, or the case law interpreting it provides any sort of "fair notice" to citizens, including the defendant here, that such everyday behavior could constitute a federal crime. For at least the following four reasons the interpretation advanced by the Government would fall short of providing required notice and avoiding vagueness. Given that courts should adopt a narrow construction of a statute to avoid vagueness and other unconstitutional infirmities, see Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. at 689, the Government's proposed view of the CFAA must be rejected. A. Web Site Terms of Service are Routinely Ignored or Not Fully Read or Understood The fallacy of any notion that internet users are on "fair notice" that disregarding the terms of service of the many web sites and web services they visit puts them at risk of serious criminal liability is revealed by the widespread (and widely accepted) understanding that large numbers of users never read these terms, or read and understand only limited portions of them. First, terms are often poorly accessible. Many web sites or web-based services post their terms behind a "legal notices" or "terms of service" hyperlink which users can only access by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on the link. To access the MySpace terms of use, for example, one must scroll down to find a hyperlink labeled "terms". See MySpace.com Home Page, http://www.myspace.com/ 28 (last visited July 28, 2008).
Profit is fine for them, as long as it's for them.If Ripple is a scam, and its users are unable to take advantage of Ripple's services as advertised, then Ripple will quickly disappear as another failed business. If the fact that a centrally organized team is driving the development of a product equates to "scam," (this is the main argument) then pretty much every product and service you've ever used is also a scam.You've probably heard that large websites like Reddit and OKCupid are now accepting Bitcoin. The fact of the matter is, they're not accepting Bitcoin at all. They're actually accepting US dollars. Reddit and OKCupid are using the services of a company called Coinbase that instantly converts Bitcoin payments into US dollars for a small fee. Reddit and OKCupid don't want Bitcoins because they can't pay their employees or their bills with Bitcoins, but they can do that with US dollars. In other words, large corporations aren't interested in Bitcoins themselves, but in the savings that can be had by using Bitcoin as a value-transfer mechanism, or protocol.Similarly, Ripple is a protocol for sending money, but with Ripple you don't have to buy a digital currency like Bitcoin to get your money from A to B. You can send USD, EUR, CAD, AUD, whatever you wish, and as more Gateways come online, more currencies will become accessible. As long as you have a very small quantity of Ripples (XRP) in your account (just one or two dollars worth), you'll be able to complete thousands of transactions. This is Ripple's main advantage over Bitcoin, and why a lot of Bitcoin users are afraid of it.Even Roger Ver, a.k.a. "Bitcoin Jesus" has to pay his supply chain to keep the Bitcoin Store running, so he can't use Bitcoins either. Roger Ver doesn't accept Bitcoin, he accepts US dollars from BitPay. If even Bitcoin Jesus isn't interested in Bitcoins themselves, then why not let customers use their local currencies from the get-go and take out the Bitcoin middleman? If the same, or even greater savings can be had with a better protocol, then why not use Ripple?---As always, do your due diligence, and come to your own conclusions. I can assure you that Ripple is not a scam, but I can't guarantee that it isn't a threat to Bitcoin. Bet with Bitcoin: The Premier Bitcoin Gaming Directory
It is pretty amazing to have thesame features in your home from picture & sound in your home the local AMC has. I won’t be using 3D since my Integra DTC-9.8 Pre/Pro does not support 3D and I can live with that until I upgrade to UHD components in the future. Conclusion I have spent 43 hours with the 3500 so far nothing but love and she is a keeper! My next thing to do is mount the 3500 to the ceiling my old universal mount only has three legs so waiting on a new one to arrive, shoutout to member MississippiMan for the help on a mount. I picked the 3500 b/c it has Super-Resolution feature over the 3000, the features on the 3600e I did not need so the 3500 was right for me. Last something new coming from DLP to LCD, the 3500 has no cool down mode that I’m use to for years when turning off the pj, I thought I had a defective and was disappointed I may have to return it. I hope thoughts helped anyone on the fence thinking about adding a 3500 to your set-up, the 3500 is a fantastic machine although not perfect but the pros outweigh the cons.
It’s currently running an audio loop featuring techno music and the station’s call sign, but Maxwell hopes to broadcast Chesterfield County board meetings and offer a platform for local voices in the coming months. The skeleton operation is what was needed to get on air and meet Federal Communications Commission guidelines. There’s no live studio, and the ancient mixing board that the staff plans to use is sitting cold on a folding table, waiting to light up the airways.“We did the absolute minimum, a transmitter transmitting, and on-air,” he says. “Now we can do the fund drives and get volunteers in to make the actual live situation.”The small crew at WRWK includes fellow WRIR founder and former mayoral candidate Alan Schintzius. The two also got help from Caitlin Reading, a low-power startup specialist who travels the country to help establish stations such as this one.“We have to start teaching people they are empowered,” Reading says. “And one of the best ways to do that is to get them talking freely on a community radio station.”Reading said she ran into some roadblocks with Chesterfield County when she was helping set up WRWK. The lack of knowledge around LP-FM and the perceived possibility of a massive radio tower complicated things. But after some explaining over a number of months, the station is now live. The broadcast tower stands less than 20 feet tall and is barely noticeable.Reading stresses that in the digital age, it can be easy to forget about FM broadcasting. But she’s found that community radio offers a unique outlet for folks once they start to get on air.“Radio is contagious,” she says. “Once people get involved, they keep coming back.”
“The reintroduction of red wolves to the wild was one of the country’s most innovative and successful programs to restore a critically endangered carnivore,” said Hartl. “But under Dan Ashe, this highly successful program has been quietly dismantled to appease a few anti-wildlife zealots. It’s a disgrace.” A 2014 report from the independent Wildlife Management Institute concluded that if the red wolf is going to recover, two additional populations need to be established in the wild, and additional resources need to be invested to build local support for red wolf recovery. Recently 100 citizens who live in the red wolf recovery area in North Carolina sent a petition to the Fish and Wildlife Service expressing their support for keeping endangered red wolves in the wild. In addition 110,000 people from around the United States, including more than 1,500 North Carolina residents, submitted letters in support of the red wolf program. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 990,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
ASUM President Ashleen Williams, who supported the fee increase, predicts the issue will come up again in the fall. "Sometimes you have to make hard decisions," she says. Relying heavily on ticket revenue to fund athletics is a "really risky game" because sales — which have been Montana's largest or second-largest revenue source each of the past five years — can wane if teams don't win. Hawaii's athletics department had been trying to rely on the $23 million a year it generated from ticket sales, donations, television and marketing, plus an additional $10 million in direct and indirect support from the university. But by this summer, the department had accumulated about $10 million in debt and was adding to that at a rate of $1.5 million to $2 million a year. Over the objections of undergraduate and graduate student organizations, the state board of regents voted in July to impose an athletics fee for the first time. Beginning in January, students will be charged $50 a semester, an amount that is projected to increase the athletics department's net revenue by about $1.8 million a year; the fee money will be available for any purpose except staff compensation or benefits. "It showed a pretty messed-up sense of priorities," says Amy Donahue, chairwoman of the University of Hawaii Graduate Student Organization's advocacy committee. "If we're going to pay, it should reflect the priorities of the university and benefit the entire university community." Associate athletics director Carl Clapp says the department hopes the fee will have such a benefit. Athletics "is by no means the most important part" of the university, Clapp says, but "a strong, successful athletic program is very important to the connection with alumni, donors and leaders in the state, and it magnifies the university not only in Hawaii but beyond the state. That's the visibility that the athletics program can have." 'We don't ask where it's going' At some schools, students have been willing to approve fee increases for a variety of purposes. In March 2009, Bowling Green students voted to approve a $60-per-semester fee to help finance the construction of a new campus arena/convocation center — and the measure carried by a ratio of more than 2 to 1. (The school won't collect the fee until the arena's completion, scheduled for 2011.)
The rights question was cut-and-dried, but ultimately secondary to the bigger issues at hand. Through their conversation, Moriwaki was able to help the shōtengai management see that their best course of action would be to continue to promote the arcade on its own merits and strengths, the very things for which Kyoto Animation chose it. For the more than 50 years that Masugata had operated prior to that point, its merchants had worked hard to meet the needs of the local community and maintain open communications with it. At the arcade, there is a wide range of goods and services, with emphasis on high-quality foodstuffs and necessities for maintaining good health. When Kyoto Animation made its assessments, staff were struck by the wonderfully warm atmosphere. Their concept for Tamako Market became to showcase this environment in Masugata as they had found it, from the perspective of a fan of the shōtengai. As attractive as the marketing opportunity had seemed, Masugata began to understand the risks of suddenly pandering to anime fans. The local community would, at best, feel a little inconvenienced that space was being diverted to sales of goods targeting visitors. At a deeper level, to use its connection to Tamako Market to begin selling branded goods would seem to fly in the face of what Masugata means to its customers. To shift from being a trusted provider of daily needs to selling products based only on design risked a real loss of credibility. Furthermore, were Masugata to pander to anime fans in order to capitalize on sales opportunities, it would no longer be the place that it was when Kyoto Animation captured it. In recommitting to authenticity, the benefit to Masugata is that, even if in 50 years Tamako Market is forgotten, it should not have any impact on the shōtengai.
One American serviceman has been killed and three injured in the attack EPA 6/14 A Yemeni female fighter supporting the Shiite Huthi rebels, and carrying weapons used for ceremonial purposes, takes part in an anti-Saudi rally in the capital Sanaa Getty Images 7/14 Yemeni female fighters supporting the Shiite Huthi rebels, and carrying weapons used for ceremonial purposes, take part in an anti-Saudi rally in the capital Sanaa Getty Images 8/14 A boy shouts slogans next to pro-Houthi fighters, who have been injured during recent fighting, during a rally held to honour those injured or maimed while fighting in Houthi ranks in Sanaa, Yemen Reuters 9/14 Balls of fire and smoke rise from a Houthi-held military camp following alleged Saudi-led airstrikes, in Sana'a, Yemen EPA 10/14 Yemenis search under the rubble of damaged houses following reported Saudi-led coalition air strikes on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa Getty Images 11/14 A Yemeni boy looks on as Yemenis search under the rubble of damaged houses following reported Saudi-led coalition air strikes on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa Getty 12/14 A Yemeni boy sits amidst the rubble of damaged houses following reported Saudi-led coalition air strikes on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa AFP/Getty 13/14 Marine One with US President Donald Trump flies with a decoy and support helicopters to Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, for the dignified transfer of Navy Seal Chief Petty Officer William 'Ryan' Owens who was killed in Yemen Getty Images 14/14 US President Donald Trump aboard the Marine One to greet the remains of a US military commando killed during a raid on the al Qaeda militant group in southern Yemen on Sunday, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, US Reuters 1/14 Houthi supporters trample on a US flag during a gathering mobilizing more fighters into several Yemeni battlefronts, in Sana'a, Yemen EPA 2/14 People carry the coffins of men, who were killed in the recent Saudi-led airstrikes during their funeral, in the Old City of Sanaa, Yemen AP 3/14 Pro-government fighters give food to Yemeni children on the road leading to the southwestern port city of Mokha. Yemeni rebels are putting up fierce resistance in a key Red Sea port city where they are encircled by pro-government force Getty Images 4/14 A Yemeni stands in front of a graffiti protesting US military operations in war-affected Yemen, in Sana'a, Yemen.
ABOUT VIEW WORK BROWSE PRINTS Insect Lab is born from my love of science fiction, fact, natural history and storytelling- an intimate sculptural series customizing preserved insect specimens with mechanical components and hardware from antique watches, vintage sewing machines, old gadgets, lighters, typewriters. From beetles to grasshoppers to dragonflies, each handbuilt work I make reveals another chapter of this world, a spirited and precise celebration of biology and engineering. -Mike Libby FAQ How did Insect Lab begin? One day , in the summer of 1998, I found a dead intact beetle. A year later, thinking of how the beetle also operated and looked like a little mechanical device, I located my old broken Mickey Mouse wristwatch, took it apart and so decided to combine the two. After some time dissecting the beetle and outfitting it with watch parts and gears, I had an interesting sculpture, the first Insect Lab work. Where do you get your insects? I get safe non-endangered high quality specimens from Licensed Dealers who supply from all around the world; Africa, China, New Guinea, Brazil, Texas etc. These specimens aren’t endangered or threatened or black market. I also salvage expired insects that I find right at hand, the occasional bumblebee or dragonfly. And for some custom work, some people have a specimen of their own, or a broken watch for the piece. Where do you get the parts? When I started, mostly from pocketwatches and wristwatches- these days it’s sewing machines, locks, lighters, travel clocks, broken cameras, most any small machine of metal, I try to stay away from plastic. Some people donate material for a custom work like with their father’s old watch repair kit, or an artillery fuze. Weird but true. How is the work displayed? Each work is displayed in a glass dome affixed to a black base, signed labeled and dated underneath. The sculptures are mounted on a post and the base lined with a colored acid-free suede mat. Do you ship outside of the US? Do they ship well? Yes, I ship internationally. For shipping within the United States, FedEx or USMail is primarily used, and for international shipping I can include UPS, depending. I build each piece as sturdily as possible in each display and all work is individually bubble wrapped, secured and sealed in a box with packing peanuts, and collectively shipped in a larger box with more peanuts. All shipping is insured.
Applebloom and Diamond Tiara, two natural born enemies, find themselves in a fiery argument over who leads the harder life. Diamond Tiara argues that hers is more difficult, leading the life of wealthy heiress with little control over her future and a family that barely ever sees one another. Applebloom, on the other hoof, won't have any of it, touting that being a poor, hardworking farmfilly with no idea what her future holds is far more difficult. After some mediation, Sweetie Belle proposes an ingenious idea to settle the debate once and for all...Live a week in the other's horseshoes. Live their lives from the other's perspective for one whole week to see who really has it harder than the other.Though this proposal was instantly met with rejection and, in fact, brought silence to the quarrel, Sweetie Belle was determined to find the answer. After casually mentioning the idea to Applejack while Filthy Rich was placing an order for his store, the two adults decided to give the fillies an intervention. After some lengthy convincing, Applebloom and Diamond Tiara agreed to the swap.Upon getting their makeovers at The Carousel Boutique, courtesy of their swapped friends, reality begins to sink in like a ton of bricks in quicksand. What might these two discover about one another? Who really has the harder life?-------------------------Another awesome commission from my good friend ! Given a loose outline of the made-over ponies, I had a bit of fun redesigning these two so that they'd be able to fill in the other's horseshoes for a week. Slayer said that this pic may lead to a mini-series coming up here... personally, I'm very curious to see how these two would handle their week long life swap.I had a little trouble arranging all of the ponies in this piece. After finishing up the lines initially, I realized that my perspective was a bitskewed, making Sweetie, Silver, and Rarara look like giants. I couldn't have any of that going on, so I re-did all of the lines to fix up their proportions. I think as the picture is now, I still get all of the interesting effect of this subtly skewed angle and keep them all in proportion to one another.
THE PRESIDING OFFICER OF ANY MEETING SHALL BE THE SENIOR IMAM, MOULVI OR MAULANA OF THE CHURCH OR IF NONE, AS SHALL BE SET FORTH IN THE BY-LAWS OF THE CHURCH. S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
I'm not entirely sure the Executive Branch's "commitment" is any less compelled than the ODNI's document releases. Obama has said he " welcomes the debate " on national security, but it's a bit like "welcoming" someone who has kicked in your door and made himself comfortable on your couch. It's more "confrontation" than "conversation. "Either way, there's not a ton of surprising stuff in these documents, thanks to the release of an unredacted court order by The Guardian back in June of last year. The verbiage has morphed over the last several years (the docs released date back to 2006 -- the point at which the collection was "authorized") with the greatest changes occurring after Judge Walton nearly shut the program down (for "systemic abuse" of the collection since its inception three years earlier) in March of 2009.Here's what's worth noting from the latest ODNI document dump.A footnote that appears in many of the orders gives us some idea how many numbers have made their way back to the FBI since the program's inception. The earliest order released (dated 8-18-06) states this:Three months later (11-13-06), the number of "tips" increases:There may be several redundancies in the NSA's tipped numbers (presumably the NSA doesn't concern itself with ensuring it hasn't tipped a number before) but the raw numbers indicate the FBI is receiving 1,095 tips per year, per telco. It's by no means a massive number compared to the entire collection, but it's still a lot of numbers for the nation's second largest national security agency to investigate.The next point of interest appears in an amendment to a 2007 order , this one signed by Judge Kollar-Kotelly. Whatever the NSA was searching its collection for apparently didn't fall within the normal "counterterrorism" confines. The text is very heavily redacted, but the words remaining around the edges suggest a non-national security target. [The text doesn't show the lengths of the redacted areas, so this screencap might be a little more relevant .] As of January 2008 , querying the metadata database was restricted to approval by "one of eight people." But by the following order (04-03-08) , this number had mysteriously swelled to twenty-three. There's no documentation or explanation given for the expanded roster of query-approval personnel on what is basically the renewal of the previous court order. (This one is signed by a different judge, however.)
Since day one, the media has portrayed this event as Mayor Jim Ardis abusing his power to shut down a Twitter account he didn't like -- a portrayal that is borne out by the documents obtained from public records requests.He also claims the media is being hypocritical by claiming the account was harmless while simultaneously refusing to print the "offensive" content of the tweets. This is his stupidest assertion. A Twitter account that did nothing but tweet out repeated profanities would be harmless while still being something most journalistic entities wouldn't print verbatim. Arbitrary standards for print are not legal standards for obscenity.Either way, just because many people may find the account's tweets highly distasteful (and probably wouldn't retweet @grandma, etc. ), it still doesn't make the speech less protected or Mayor Jim Ardis any more "right" about pursuing the person behind the account. Once the account was marked as parody, such that it complied with Twitter's terms of service, that should have been the end of it.Justin Glawe, a Peoria native and friend of Jon Daniel who's been covering this case for Vice since the beginning , says that emails and comments made by an unnamed city official hint that Mayor Ardis may have believed the supposedly obscene account might be linked with the Peoria Journal Star This adds a bit more background to the mayor's apparent disdain for the media. Glawe also points out that the braintrust behind the account shutdown not only seemed to have a poor grasp of the law (perhaps intentionally), but was also mystified by the technical aspects of dealing with an online social media platform.In related news, Peoria Police Chief Steve Stettingsgaard has stepped down to take a job with Caterpillar, Inc. While his entire tenure at the head of the PPD has been marked with controversy, there's no doubt this latest incident played a part in convincing him to exit the law enforcement business.Bizarrely, Mayor Ardis hints he's looking at pursuing someone (Jon Daniel or possibly even Twitter itself) for "defamation," apparently forgetting the email conversation he had with Chief Stettingsgaard back on March 11th If Ardis decides to pursue this, he'll just be adding to his list of highly-public debacles. His defensive press conference indicates he's unable and unwilling to learn from his mistakes. There's no case to be made here, especially if Ardis decides to go after Twitter itself for the actions of one of its users.
You know Dravot, Sir! You knew Right Worshipful Brother Dravot! Look at him now!" He fumbled in the mass of rags round his bent waist; brought out a black horsehair bag embroidered with silver thread; and shook therefrom on to my table--the dried, withered head of Daniel Dravot! The morning sun, that had long been paling the lamps, struck the red beard and blind sunken eyes; struck, too, a heavy circlet of gold studded with raw turquoises, that Carnehan placed tenderly on the battered temples. "You be'old now," said Carnehan, "the Emperor in his 'abit as he lived --the King of Kafiristan with his crown upon his head. Poor old Daniel that was a monarch once!" I shuddered, for, in spite of defacements manifold, I recognised the head of the man of Marwar Junction. Carnehan rose to go. I attempted to stop him. He was not fit to walk abroad. "Let me take away the whisky, and give me a little money," he gasped. "I was a King once. I'll go to the Deputy Commissioner and ask to set in the Poorhouse till I get my health. No, thank you, I can't wait till you get a carriage for me. I've urgent private affairs--in the south--at Marwar." He shambled out of the office and departed in the direction of the Deputy Commissioner's house. That day at noon I had occasion to go down the blinding-hot Mall, and I saw a crooked man crawling along the white dust of the roadside, his hat in his hand, quavering dolorously after the fashion of street-singers at Home. There was not a soul in sight, and he was out of all possible earshot of the houses. And he sang through his nose, turning his head from right to left: "The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar-- Who follows in His train?" I waited to hear no more, but put the poor wretch into my carriage and drove him off to the nearest missionary for eventual transfer to the Asylum. He repeated the hymn twice while he was with me, whom he did not in the least recognise, and I left him singing it to the missionary. Two days later I inquired after his welfare of the Superintendent of the Asylum. "He was admitted suffering from sunstroke. He died early yesterday morning," said the Superintendent.
Going down the rabbit hole of quantum mechanics An atom consists of a positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that are trapped by their attraction to the nucleus. In school, we often learn to picture this as a tiny solar system, with the electrons in fixed circular orbits around the nucleus. Such a picture is useful, but almost entirely wrong. Instead, you need to think of each electron as a wave that is spread out around the nucleus. It is, literally, everywhere around the atom once. And, as we add electrons to our atom, the shape of the waves the new electrons take on are different. Some are spherical in nature, meaning that the wave is evenly spread around the nucleus; while others are lobed so that the wave is more concentrated in some spatial locations and not in others. If we were to try and find an electron, we could; it would appear as a particle at some specific location. That would seem to contradict what I have just written, but there's a link between the two: the amplitude of the wave at a location dictates the probability of finding the electron-as-a-particle at that location. These electrons are also stacked in terms of energy. If you consider Neon, it has ten electrons. Two are paired up in the lowest energy, a spherically shaped shell, and two more are in the next shell. The final six are at higher energy, paired up and divided among three lobed shells. But the ten protons have sufficient attractive force to hold on to electrons at higher energies than those in the outermost shell. Indeed, every atom has empty energy levels hanging around like family members at the death of a rich uncle. Because the energy gap between each energy level gets smaller with each step up in energy, there are, in principle, an infinite number of energy levels—though the energy required for an electron to escape the atom remains finite. It is possible to excite an electron into these upper levels, creating a Rydberg atom. When they are excited to these higher energy levels, electrons are rather interesting. They are still confined, so they have wave-like properties. But the wave isn't initially spread out around the entire shell—instead, it is localized in a wave packet that orbits the nucleus rather like a planet.

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