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NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel today heard the views of the government on the decision to sell stake in Air India and Pawan Hans , with some committee members flagging concerns about debt burden and job security at the airline.Senior officials from the civil aviation ministry and Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), were present at the meeting.The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, chaired by TMC MP Mukul Roy, had called the meeting to hear the views on the divestment of Air India and Pawan Hans.During the meeting, which went on for a little over one- and-a-half hours, some members raised concerns about the future of employees, post divestment of Air India and Pawan Hans.Civil Aviation Secretary R N Choubey , Air India CMD Ashwani Lohani and Pawan Hans CMD B P Sharma, among others, were present.Both Air India and Pawan Hans, which provides helicopter services, come under the civil aviation ministry.According to a member of the panel, the government officials said formalities for disinvestment of Air India are being worked out even as he claimed that there was no specific response to queries about jobs.Another member said the issues of jobs and large debt burden of the airline were flagged.Air India has a debt burden of more than Rs 52,000 crore and is staying afloat on taxpayers' money. The previous UPA regime had extended a bailout package worth a little over Rs 30,000 crore to the national carrier for 10 years starting from 2012.A group of ministers headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is looking into various aspects of the proposed Air India disinvestment after the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave its in-principle nod in June.The government has already decided to sell its entire 51 per cent stake in Pawan Hans Ltd (PHL), in which the rest 49 per cent holding is with ONGC.The employees' unions at both Air India and Pawan Hans are opposed to the privatisation of the two companies. |
They said that we couldn't release it and that we couldn't say this and that and you can't say "faggot," but DJ Hi-Tek's gay and he said it; he can say what he wants. Even then they were like "No, even if he's gay, you can't say it," so we were just like "Fok you guys. We wanna break up with you. We hate you." And at the time, we had another 1.2 million bucks to make Ten$ion but we gave it all back to them, we wired it back, and left them forever. We've done everything on our own since then.Then we tried to do "Freeky," we shot it a bunch of times and it just wasn't good. Like, it was ok, but it wasn't amazing and there was such a huge pressure because the song was so good. Then we ended up having like ten grand left and we spent it on the video, which was kind of cheap in comparison to some of them. Well like, "Enter the Ninja" was around $500, how funny is that? "Zef Side" was free, "Rich Bitch" was $30,000, but usually we spend like $30 to $50 thousand, which is so much money. Even if we have a certain amount of cash, we'll try make a video that costs ten times that much, like we always push. Then "Freeky" was one of our cheapest videos and one of the most beautiful, perfect things we've ever made. We're just on this level with videos, which pretty much comes from Chris Cunningham, straight up. He set the standard. And we're friends with him, which is fokken crazy.I wish. I beg him all the time. He does stuff with us, but he's so insular, same with Aphex, who we're friends with too. They're such fokken geniuses, but they're so self-obsessed, like in a cool way. They're always doing stuff themselves. Chris is like a maniac who takes so long to do stuff. He'll tinker for ages. For instance, the "Ugly Boy" video we did, he did the Aphex mask for that, so we do stuff with him. Then that track has the Aphex sample too, that Richard said we could use.In the video at the moment, Chris is doing a little secret something on, or this film that I'm making, the South African Ninja, I want Chris to do this one part of it. Not the whole thing, but a little section. |
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Brauti seems intent on re-arguing his case in this document, perhaps as a dress rehearsal for the expected appeal. But the submissions are primarily jaw-dropping for the arguments put forth to secure Forcillo a grossly inadequate sentence on the attempted murder conviction: essentially two years less a day of house arrest. No prison time. No minimum sentence as any other individual would face, though the maximum punishment for attempted murder is life in prison. Why? Because Forcillo is a cop. The crime was committed with a restricted weapon — Forcillo’s police-issued Glock. Brauti argues the mandatory minimum sentence with a restricted handgun is “grossly disproportionate’’ for an officer who used too much force to stop a threat, and the minimum sentence rule should be struck down as unconstitutional. “The gravity of this offence is as close to nil as one can imagine an attempted murder ever being.” Only blinkered cop-huggers would agree that attempted murder is an offence that lacks gravitas. “The Applicant’s act of firing at Mr. Yatim a second time had absolutely no causal effect vis-à-vis his death. It did not even rise to the level of amounting to a contributing cause of death for the purpose of criminal liability.” Yatim was already all-but-dead — Forcillo’s doing — but don’t let that affect the sentence for firing six more times when the teen posed no reasonable threat to anybody. A “misperception,” Brauti describes it. Oh no, Brauti isn’t promoting special treatment for convicted cops. “It is about ensuring that, when we ask men and women to arm themselves to protect the larger community, we treat them justly and fairly when they make mistakes concerning how they use force, because we placed upon them the responsibility of engaging in the conflict in the first place.” This is another way of saying that the law should be applied differently with a cop in the dock. It’s only a mistake, if you, the jury, insist on convicting. Mandatory minimums have indeed been knocked for a loop by the Supreme Court of Canada; just last week, the Supremes struck down a mandatory minimum penalty of a year in prison for low-level drug trafficking. This is not that. |
Unpublished cover to the seventh issue of Stan's favorite comic book character, The Silver Surfer. Art by John & Sal Buscema. © 1998 Marvel Entertainment. Stan: I would guess that (A) when I read the fan mail—would you believe that I read every damn letter! (Which is why I wear glasses now! )—and (B) Martin probably told me. I could tell how well we were doing by the letters where the kids would write, "You're our favorite magazines and we love these characters." Martin was very happy and proud about it and would tell me. Roy: In 1968 Marvel expanded. Every super-hero had his own title—Iron Man, Sub-Mariner, Captain America. Stan: I was drunk with power. Roy: And soon after that, there was a downturn in sales in general. Do you think there was an over-expansion? Stan: I don't even remember. Well, you were there long enough to know that sales have their ups and downs. Even the best books—Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor—some months they didn't sell as well as other months. The same went for Superman, Batman. Today the same goes for Spawn, which isn't selling now what it sold a year ago. They go up, they go down. It's hard for me to remember specifically any particular event or why it happened. Roy: You may recall that in 1971 Martin Goodman suddenly made the decision to jump the page count to 48 pages for 25¢. Then, after one glorious month of these big books, they were suddenly dropped back down to 32 pages for 20¢. I understand the motivation to give 50% off the cover price to the wholesalers, but I was wondering how you felt about this jumping around of page size. Stan: I had so little to do with that. The orders would just come from Martin's office: This month the price would be this, or this month this is how many pages we had. My only job was to make sure somebody got good stories to fill those pages. I was never really consulted when they would raise the price. The only time I was consulted was when he wanted to put out the "treasury editions"—that may have been my idea. I think that I went to him once and said, "Why don't we put out a big book that people would notice?" But when he made these decisions, he made them all himself. |
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Anyway, we got called in by the contractor and asked why we hadn't told them that the targeting was going to be way off. We said, "What are you talking about?! We gave you all of the data a month-and-a-half ago, in the early HST report and the other optics we did. Everything looked good." And they said, "Well, three targets went up, one came down." About two days later, a contracting team contacted us and said, "You've got to see the footage [of the test]." So we—my team partner and I—stopped over there and watched the launch on a TV screen. The segment we saw showed three MIRVs, in post-boost. And we watched this bright speck zipping around all three. Now, they were in this tight post-boost trajectory at that time; all three were on this platform. They hadn't released yet. [They were] prior to reaching apogee, but the nosecone had already ejected. [The MIRVs] were going from lower right to upper left on the screen and they were still attached to the RV platform. It looked like a single blob of light. It was [well] downrange and not like looking at a high-def image. It was like looking at a TV picture, and this was in the '80s so the platform was even less [resolved]. But this thing—we thought it might be lint on the camera lens—was whipping around the RV platform; something moving around it. Then a cloud [in the foreground, well below the altitude of the ascending RV platform, obscured it]. When it emerged from the cloud the engineers [watching the film with us] said only one RV remained on the platform. We watched the platform pass behind the cloud with this little white speck near it. Three RVs went behind the cloud but only one came out. That's why the contractors were upset with us. Later, post-apogee, when the platform released the RVs, only one shot off it. Later, when they checked the [recovered platform at Kwajalein] nothing was on it. If the other two hadn't released for some reason, they should have been there, attached to it. But when they went and got the platform, nothing was there, so they didn't misfire. They never did find them. Even if they had come off in mid-trajectory, they should have been within a certain grid, but the P-3 Orion [aircraft near the splashdown site] never saw the other two come down. |
Son Jed Perl of New York City said his father was a serious collector of Erector sets, Lincoln Logs and other 19th- and 20th-century construction toys, adding, "He enjoyed flea markets, both in England and the U.S., where he bought all sorts of old-fashioned mechanical, scientific and pseudo-scientific devices, ranging from magic lanterns to quack medicine bottles to phrenological heads." Long after he formally retired, Perl continued to come into work at SLAC until his health no longer permitted it, most recently to collaborate on a NASA-funded project to investigate the nature of dark energy. "He was so excited to come to the lab," Joseph Perl said. "It was the one place in the whole world to be, to do what he wanted to do. One of the topics that interested him was creativity in science; he always advocated that you should look at what the crowd is doing and go in a different direction." In addition to the Nobel Prize, Perl was awarded the Wolf Prize in physics in 1982. He published more than 200 scientific papers and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition to sons Joseph and Jed, Perl is survived by son Matthew Perl of San Diego; daughter Anne Bernard of Palo Alto; his former wife and close friend, Teri Perl of Palo Alto; eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. -30- |
Like other Iridomyrmex species, the meat ant is an omnivore, retrieving food sources from various insects it tends, including caterpillars and various sorts of butterflies, particularly the larvae of the Waterhouse's hairstreak (Jalmenus lithochroa). [35][73] Meat ants usually feed on honeydew from sap-sucking insects, flower nectar, sugar and other sweet substances. [45][74] In captive colonies, workers prefer to consume small pieces of grapes rather than honey solutions and other sweet foods. [75] These ants prey on various insects and animals, collecting both live and dead invertebrates and acquire meat from dead vertebrates. [74] Insects the meat ants prey on include giant lacewings, which they swarm up trees to kill,[76] the butterfly genoveva azure Ogyris genoveva,[78] Indian mealmoths, almond moths, the Western Australian jarrah leafminer and the larvae of the wasp Trichogramma. [79][81] Large and developed larvae of the cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae) are attacked more effectively by meat ant workers than those of other Iridomyrmex species. [82] On sandy beaches, this species is observed preying on the polychaete annelid worm, Armandia intermedia, causing high mortality rates on them (rates of 30 percent). [83] These ants will feed on a number of dead or alive animals, including metamorphic crucifix toads,[84] snakes, lizards, and birds. On some occasions, swarms of workers have been found on dead foxes. [45][85] The meat ant is the only known ant in Australia that feeds on fresh guano. [86] The collection of guano by a nearby meat ant colony shows the opportunistic nature of the species. Observations show that trails of workers in groups of two to four were found collecting the guano under an active bat roost within an abandoned mine and proceeded to return it to the nest. The collection of guano by any Australian ant colony was never recorded prior to these observations, but it is unknown why meat ants collect fresh guano. [86] |
Hitler became an anti-Semite in Vienna, which had a large Jewish population, many of whom had escaped the pogroms in Russia. It was reported by those who knew Hitler that he was a hater of Jews long before that time. Hitler did not hesitate to accept meals in respectable Jewish homes nor did he refuse to let these people help him to sell his paintings. In his poor six years in Vienna, Hitler developed his extreme hate of Jews He discovered his remarkable talent for speech that used grand Germanic metaphors, and he developed his view about managing a totalitarian state. Hitler was influenced by the hateful writings of Martin Luther. Hitler claimed that the Jews were enemies of the Aryan race. He held them responsible for every possible mishap that occurred anytime anywhere. A poem that described Hitler’s outpourings was: “Schuld am Elend sagt er Schuld am Leid, sagt er Schuld wenn’s regent, sagt er Schuld wenn’s schneit, sagt er Schuld an allem, sagt er voller Wut, sagt er Schuld alleine, sagt er ist der JUD” (The rain, the misery, the snow, any misery that occurs is caused by the Jew!) Hitler received the final part of his father’s estate when he was twenty- four years of age and at that time he moved to Munich to become a “real” German. The move helped him to escape the military service for Austria. The Austrian authorities finally arrested him but he was ultimately able to leave and gain German citizenship. When the First World War began, Adolf was granted enlistment in the Bavarian army. This occurred in World War I. He did receive some recognition for “bravery” but was never considered for a promotion beyond the rank of corporal since he was considered to have no leadership abilities. Hitler became a German citizen in 1932. Hitler believed he could “Save Germany”. In 1923 the German economy collapsed into hyperinflation. Most Germans lost everything they had. It took four billion “Mark” to get one loaf of bread. This misfortune was causelessly blamed on the Jewish people, who also had lost everything also along with their fellow countrymen. Hitler felt that this was the right time for a revolution. He appointed himself the new political master of Bavaria. He rounded up three thousand men and they created mayhem. |
“The claims of these companies are weak,” said Robert Klitzman, a psychiatrist and bioethicist at Columbia University who had a commentary published last week in a mental health journal calling for vigilance in the marketing of genetic mental health tests. “Conflicts of interest in the field are major problems,” he said. |
Our narrow idea of what rape looks like leads to many victims/survivors to deny their own experience and to feel invalidated which then leads to less assaults being reported and more assailants running free. It took me almost 3 years after we had broken up to acknowledge that what he had done was rape. It took me another 6 months to tell anyone. The first time, it happened because of our different ideas of what “sex” means. This does not make it my fault. I said I didn’t want to have sex - we had just met at a party and went back to his place. He said that was fine then shoved some fingers in me. That was sex to me. That was rape. The second time (and third and fourth and however many more times it happened), it was also with his fingers. This time, there was no misunderstanding. Ignorance was no longer an excuse - not that it was an acceptable excuse the previous time. I was brushing my teeth at his house and he started fingering me. I said “stop,” I said “no,” I don’t remember how many times I said those words. I hit his hand away. I fled the room - that was the only way in the moment that it would stop, that he would stop. I had to put doors and walls between us for it to stop. He thought it was funny, harmless. It wasn’t. He did that many more times while we were together - each time I said no, each time he ignored me and my lack of consent. I was 17, he was 10 years older than me. He should have known better. He probably did know better. I have never confronted him. I have never reported it. I probably never will. I still have trouble saying “I was raped” out loud, even to myself, even while writing this. I have no problem saying I was violated, sexually assaulted, abused. I don’t know what it is with the R word, but it is just so hard for me to claim. To anyone else out there like me: I believe you. It wasn’t your fault. It was rape. |
He did not yet know General Grant intended to decline the invitation and leave Washington on a late afternoon train. The management of Ford's was elated when they heard the news of their special guests for Good Friday's Our American Cousin performance. 11:00 A.M. The president began the scheduled meeting of his Cabinet. Stanton, as usual, arrived late. Grant was present at the meeting, and Lincoln was expecting important deliberations regarding reconstruction to occur. He admitted he was open to suggestions on this very complex matter. Lots of various ideas were proposed to begin the process of reconciliation between North and South. Also discussed was what to do with the leaders of the Confederacy. Lincoln spoke from the heart when he said, "... enough lives have been sacrificed." 12:00 Noon The Cabinet meeting continued with more discussion of the process of putting the country on its feet again. 1:00 P.M. Except for minor differences of opinion, the Cabinet seemed agreed that helping the South economically would also be beneficial to the North. At this point, the president asked General Grant to describe the details of General Lee's surrender. Vice-President Andrew Johnson arrived at the White House. With the Cabinet meeting still in progress, Johnson decided to take a walk and wait until Lincoln could see him. 2:00 P.M. The Cabinet meeting ended. Grant got up from his chair and walked over to Mr. Lincoln. The general explained he and his wife would not be going to Ford's Theatre; rather they were taking the evening train out of Washington to visit their children. At about 2:20 Lincoln left the office for lunch with Mary. Although no record of the lunch time conversation exists, it's quite likely Abraham told Mary that the Grants would not be accompanying them to see Our American Cousin. Lincoln, back at work, studied some papers dealing with an army deserter. He signed a pardon, and made the remark, "Well, I think the boy can do us more good above ground than underground." 3:00 P.M. Andrew Johnson and Mr. Lincoln met for approximately 20 minutes. Then the president met with a former slave named Nancy Bushrod. Her husband had served in the Union Army, but he was missing some paychecks. Lincoln promised to look into the matter. At the War Department, the Stantons decided to "send regrets" about attending Our American Cousin with the Lincolns that evening. 4:00 P.M. Lincoln had finished his day's work. |
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SFN reduces the expression of genes involved in glucose production To further explore the mechanism by which SFN affects glucose production, we analyzed the expression of genes involved in gluconeogenesis, a major determinant of hepatic glucose production. Of the four key enzymes involved in gluconeogenesis—pyruvate carboxylase (PC; P = 0.2), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 1 (PCK1; also known as PEPCK-C; P = 0.004), fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase 1 (FBP1; P = 0.0007), and glucose-6-phosphatase, catalytic subunit (G6PC; P = 0.002)—all except PC were significantly down-regulated by SFN, as assessed by expression microarrays of H4IIE cells (table S4). Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction of H4IIE cells treated with 3 μM SFN for 24 hours confirmed these findings, with Pck1 and G6pc being the gluconeogenesis genes most strongly down-regulated by SFN (Fig. 1F). PCK1 is of special interest because it catalyzes the conversion of oxaloacetate to phosphoenolpyruvate, the rate-limiting step in gluconeogenesis. SFN reduced PCK1 protein by 60% in H4IIE cells (P = 0.0011; Fig. 1G). We also analyzed the effects of SFN on PCK1 protein after Nrf2 knockdown and observed a mere 22% reduction of PCK1, which is a significant attenuation compared with the 60% reduction in control cells (P = 0.0082 for the comparison of SFN effects in Nrf2-KD versus control cells; Fig. 1G). This suggests that PCK1 down-regulation by SFN is largely mediated via NRF2. We next silenced Pck1 with siRNA (Pck1-KD) in H4IIE cells (69 ± 2% knockdown), which resulted in a 38% reduction of glucose production. The inhibitory effect of SFN on glucose production was attenuated by 23% (49% reduction of glucose production by SFN in control cells compared to 38% reduction in Pck1-KD cells; P = 0.025; Fig. 1H). In contrast, the effect of metformin (250 μM) was unaffected by Pck1-KD (38% reduction in both cases), showing that metformin-induced suppression of glucose production is independent of PCK1. We also observed that the effect of insulin was significantly reduced (33% reduction of effect size; P = 0.037) in Pck1-KD cells, confirming previous observations that PCK1 is regulated by insulin (33). Together, these data suggest that a major mechanism for SFN-mediated reduction of glucose production is down-regulation of key gluconeogenetic enzymes via NRF2. The mechanism of action of SFN is therefore different from that of metformin, which acts via AMP-activated protein kinase, by lowering cyclic AMP and inhibiting mitochondrial glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (12–14). |
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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.100.139.5 with SMTP id m5cs283083and; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.193.16 with SMTP id q16mr2347215rvf.173.1218312869239; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.248.19 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <ab48a30f0808091314n368a759bo92279ef7383bd6db@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:14:29 -0700 From: "Christopher Edley" <cedley@gmail.com> To: john.podesta@gmail.com Subject: Three matters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_46545_19688120.1218312869220" ------=_Part_46545_19688120.1218312869220 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Dear John: 1. Preeta Bansal wrote and called me. Recall that she is the chief of appellate litigation at Skadden, put together the Asian American Finance Committee (which is raising over $5m), and been active on campaign policy groups. You called her last week about participating, but when Mike Froman called her to follow up after Friday's Board conference call, Preeta got a very different description of her proposed role than what she had understood from your tactically vague description. Bottom line is that in light of her previous campaign activities and conversations with Betsy Myers and Tom Daschle, Preeta had thought she would be invited to play a considerably more significant role, if not made a member of the Board. (I note that the Board has no Asian-Americans.) I know independently that there is frustration among Asian-American supporters that they have not had a voice in the campaign, despite the fundraising, loyalty in politically tough times ("Democrat from Punjab") and hard work. Post-primary, Asians have been added from the DNC and HRC camp, while dissing the Obama loyalists -- or so people have told me. I'd be happy to have Preeta co-chair the Immigration working group, but that's probably not enough. My sense from the conversation with Preeta is that she may talk to Daschle or even try to reach Barack. She's not a kid, John. She's a senior, very accomplished Wall Street litigator. (And another former student of mine.) On a mission. 2. On the outcome of the ethics discussion, I said more than I cared to but much less than I could have. I was disappointed that folks claiming to be politically shrewd think the formal "lobbyist" distinction in law will suffice for political cover. If a half-smart journalist thinks about it for five minutes -- admittedly not a certain thing -- they will realize that the real issue is "special interests", not the definitions in the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, 2 U.S.C. sec. 1602. 3. |
The incident in question Schumacher, a former world champion who drives for Ferrari, admitted making a mistake and accepted the penalty. He had defended himself by claiming his move was the result of an instinctive error of judgement. The smash ended in failure for Schumacher, who spun out while Villeneuve drove on to finish third behind the McLarens of Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard. That was enough to seal the title. The FIA decided that Schumacher deliberately tried to ram Villeneuve to try to gain an advantage, but it did not ban or fine the German. "Actions not premeditated" The FIA President, Max Mosley, said his panel did not think it would be appropriate to ban Schumacher from the 1998 Championship. Mr Mosley said: "The World Motorsport Council have carefully considered all the evidence in relation to the incident and have concluded that although the actions were deliberate they were not premeditated." Villeneuve's Williams' team-mate Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who finished third in the championship, has been promoted into the runners-up spot. Schumacher's reaction After the hearing Schumacher said the last two weeks had been "fairly tough" not just because of the negative publicity he received but also as he had gone into the race "confident" of winning the championship. He said: "It was something not very easy to live with ... Two or three days after the race I really started to struggle with it and had some bad nights sleeping and accepting what I had done, which is not usual for myself, but obviously I am as much a human being as anyone." He thanked the Ferrari team for its continuing support: "We have learnt. We have made mistakes. But we will become stronger and I hope we will become better in the future." Chequered record Schumacher has a history of being involved in controversial collisions throughout his career. In the final heat of the 1990 Macau Grand Prix, a Formula Three event, he smashed into Hakkinen's car and removed him from the race which he went on to win. One year later, he collided with Briton Derek Warwick in a Group C sports car event in Germany after which the British driver had to be restrained from punching him. In 1992, he was grabbed by the throat by Ayrton Senna after an altercation during testing in advance of the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. |
I’ve always felt that if you can make it 10% easier to fill in a bug report, you’ll get twice as many bug reports. (When I removed two questions from the Joel On Software signup page, the rate of new signups went up dramatically). Think of these barriers as an obstacle course that people have to run before you can count them as your customers. If you start out with a field of 1000 runners, about half of them will trip on the tires; half of the survivors won’t be strong enough to jump the wall; half of those survivors will fall off the rope ladder into the mud, and so on, until only 1 or 2 people actually overcome all the hurdles. With 8 or 9 barriers, everybody will have one non-negotiable deal killer….By incessant pounding on eliminating barriers, [Microsoft] slowly pried some market share away from Lotus. The vast majority of raters were previously only readers of Wikipedia. Of the registered users that rated an article, 66% had no prior editing activity. For these registered users, rating an article represents their first participatory activity on Wikipedia. These initial results show that we are starting to engage these users beyond just passive reading, and they seem to like it…Once users have successfully submitted a rating, a randomly selected subset of them are shown an invitation to edit the page. Of the users that were invited to edit, 17% attempted to edit the page. 15% of those ended up successfully completing an edit. These results strongly suggest that a feedback tool could successfully convert passive readers into active contributors of Wikipedia. A rich text editor could make this path to editing even more promising. |
msscript: Initial support for hosting script engines. dwrite: Use more intuitive naming for layout stages. dwrite: Validate CreateTextFormat() arguments. dwrite: Implement SetTrimming() for layout. msscript: Implement Timeout property. dwrite: Implement GetOverhangMetrics() for trimming sign. dwrite/tests: A couple of tests for matching with invalid font properties. dwrite: Filter invalid weight in SetFontWeight(). msscript: Implement SetAdvise/GetAdvise. msscript: Added IServiceProvider stub. msscript: Added IActiveScriptSiteWindow stub. msscript: Implement Reset(). comctl32/tooltips: Fix TTM_GETMARGIN/TTM_SETMARGIN handling. Piotr Caban (2): msi: Don't validate platform while checking if transform is applicable. msvcr100: Fix compilation on NetBSD (conflicting fenv_t definitions). Piotr Chruściel (1): server: Move the \BaseNamedObjects symlink in \Sessions\0 to \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects. Sebastian Lackner (11): secur32: Define missing gnutls_kx_algorithm_t constants for gnutls versions < 3. kernel32/tests: Use inline implementation of NtCurrentTeb for debugger tests. ntdll/tests: Use inline implementation of NtCurrentTeb for exception tests. ntdll/tests: Use inline implementation of NtCurrentTeb for rtl tests. opengl32/tests: Include wgl.h and remove duplicate declarations. dmsynth: Fix a module refcounting regression. kernel32/tests: Use inline implementation of NtCurrentTeb for process tests. vcomp: Implement 16-bit atomic instructions. vcomp/tests: Add tests for 16-bit atomic instructions. vcomp: Implement 8-bit atomic instructions. vcomp/tests: Add tests for 8-bit atomic instructions. Stefan Dösinger (1): ddraw/tests: Skip A4R4G4B4 ckey tests on Nvidia. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org |
What do you consider not finished yet? <Tiyuri> the missions cant be disregarded the first time <Tiyuri> lotsssss of things are not ready <Tiyuri> but like i said its periods of what APPEARS to be little progress <Tiyuri> as the systems behind everything are produced <Tiyuri> and then we USE that system to *very* quickly create content <aidey> Tiyuri, are you still confident in a first quarter release of any kind? <agni> Have you shown any missions or these would be spoilers? <Tiyuri> aidey: honestly im not sure, we try to predict because people.. want us to <Tiyuri> I mean, we're asked for a guess a LOT <Tiyuri> but it's really really hard for us to know how long everything will take to produce <Tiyuri> sometimes we assume a feature is going to take a month and it takes a week <Tiyuri> other times, we think something is going to be a single days work, and it spirals into a fortnight <Tiyuri> its all putting a puzzle together, and you never really know whats going to happen until you start fixing it up <Tiyuri> and problems pop up you have to solve <Tiyuri> and sometimes you implement something and it's just.. not good <Tiyuri> so you redo it <tramsan> Time permitting, Tiy, maybe you could make a video where you highlight a few different kinds of NPC behaviours. Just to show what kind of variety there can be, since all(?) of the streams have been showing the basic beeline-for-player behaviour. <Tiyuri> oops im running out of battery <Tiyuri> let me grab a cable, hold on a sec ... <Tiyuri> so <Tiyuri> current progress lets see <Tiyuri> world generation is basically complete, we're still adding content because.. the more the better, honestly. But its there and ready to rock. Content wise too, we have lots of biomes with tons of content <Tiyuri> Dungeon generation is complete system wise. We have lots of dungeons done, not all of them yet, but getting there. There are going to be 2 hostile dungeons and 1 friendly dungeon (village) per race <Tiyuri> Crafting works, but it's a little ugly at the moment because it doesnt contain all the info its going to contain. |
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Arthur would have to step up and start proving himself a worthy king-in-waiting in order to keep Merlin on his side. Morgause (and Morgana) could have been honing in on Merlin’s secret, as well as Arthur and Uther, putting him in even more of a precarious situation.Instead we got a bunch of filler.– all rather pointless. Even the episodes in which Elyan and Gwaine are introduced are otherwise superfluous. Morgana taking over Camelot should have happened at the halfway mark of the season, or just past it. By cutting out all the extraneous bits, there could have been at least seven episodes in which to see Arthur and his allies escaping from the castle, foraging in the countryside, hiding out, learning to work with each other, going on reconnaissance missions, organizing their counterattack. There could have been more Morgana/Uther recriminations, Gwen acting as a spy on the inside, Arthur/Merlin forced by circumstances into behaving as equals, Arthur going to his allies for help and shelter. Places like Stonehenge and Tintagel could have been visited. The druids could have been involved somehow. Arthur could learn first-hand that magic could be a thing of beauty as well as destruction. Gah, it could have been great!I also feel that the magical reveal rightly belonged in this season. A number of things could have been done with it. Morgause could have figured it out, and passed on the information for Morgana to blackmail Merlin with. For her part, Morgana could have been vengeful over the fact that Merlin never saw fit to confide in her, and perhaps start dripping (figurative) poison into Arthur’s ear about Merlin’s strange behaviour. Arthur could notice Merlin doing something suspicious, leading him to investigate further, and discovering Merlin’s magical abilities without Merlinthat he knows. There didn’t necessarily have to be a confrontation between the two of them straight away, but Arthur would have to make a personal, secret choice: to continue to trust Merlin, or to obey his father and the laws of the land. With the search for the traitor going on in the background, it could have led to all sorts of suspenseful storylines.For what ultimately crippled the show was its steadfast refusal to go ahead with the magical reveal, even if it had just been metered out in small doses. |
Those taking part in the New Apostolic Reformation are primarily teaching mid-Trib or post-Trib premillennial narratives. A few of the leaders have moved into full blown post-millennialism, similar to that taught by Gary North, however, most New Apostolics are still premillennial and they have distinct theological differences from Reconstructionists. They teach that the Tribulation is imminent and that these events could begin at any moment. Youth in the movement are being taught to be prepared to fight in the coming battles with some leaders already openly calling for martyrs. Following Palin's speech at the Wasilla AOG Master's Commission event in June 2008, the ceremony was completed by the awarding of swords to the graduates. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in The Atlantic that he contacted Thomas Ice of Tim LaHaye's Pre-Trib Center to asks Ice about Palin's comment that "more and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel." Goldberg quotes Ice as saying, "I've read that Palin has been part of an apparently unique movement I've heard of -- that her pastor, when she was in the Assembly of God, believed based on some personal revelation he claims to have gotten from God, that the Jews would move to Alaska during the Tribulation." The dispensational theology of the pre-Trib center is based on interpretation of biblical scriptures. The New Apostolics believe that they continue to receive prophecy revelations directly from God and these messages are then disseminated throughout their extensive spiritual warfare networks in all fifty states. This has included many prophecies concerning Palin. This should be of the utmost concern to all Jewish leaders. While John Hagee still shouts that the Rapture could take place before his sermon is over, and his dispensational beliefs are permeated with anti-Semitic themes, much of his Christians United for Israel (CUFI) leadership and event hosts are now New Apostolics. Many of the leaders of Christian Zionist activism at the international level are part of this Apostolic and Prophetic movement. Shifts in eschatology mean changes in activism. In plain English, the current trend removes theological restraints and mandates humans to move the hands of the prophetic clock themselves. This includes support for aggressive proselytizing and Messianic ministries. Only Messianic, or evangelized Jews are necessary in this end times scenario in order to bring about the 1000 year Christian utopia or Millennium. |
In 2006, the French government recalled the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau after a lengthy campaign by Greenpeace and other environmental groups who said the ship contained huge amounts of toxic chemicals, including asbestos. A report commissioned by the Indian government three years ago showed that one in six workers at the Alang shipyard showed signs of asbestos poisoning. It said many of the workers tested showed early signs of asbestosis - an incurable disease of the lungs. Activists say the yards are not equipped to handle asbestos. |
Help at last for suicidal young men, That message came across loud and clear in an article by Anthony Browne that got published in The Observer, Sunday, March 4, 2001. More males in their twenties die by their own hand than in car crashes. MPs are demanding action to stem the tide Somebody wrote to me and suggested that one of the sentences in the article would make for a good quote that should be used frequently: The suicide rate for young men has doubled since the early Eighties, while for women it has almost halved. No doubt, it is a good quote but it doesn't tell the whole story. A picture is worth a thousand words and tells the story even better. The quote will make people remember what the circumstances are that prompted Anthony Browne to write his article. The table from which the preceding graphs were constructed is located at the end of my comments I don't want to run down the article too much, because it is good, but neither the good quote nor the article that contains it will do much to bring the picture out into the open. Still, the article is a very good start. Let's hope that the most serious and most deadly problem symptom of all that affect men, and thereby all of society, will receive enough concern to make the article the first one in a long series. However, even that is not enough to make a dent in the fundamental issue; showing trend lines for suicide rates will. If anyone wants to do anything about it, keep those trend lines in view at all times. Bring them up in TV programs, in every article that is being written, on the Internet, on every single men's web site, put them on bill boards, on posters, on T-shirts, on cigarette packages, and in newspaper- and magazine articles. Who the heck cares how many people smoke themselves to death. Add an extra line to the warning messages about smoking and show that, although smoking kills people, it doesn't by far kill as many as suicide does. Suicide kills hundreds of times more men than the number of people who get killed from smoking. (Now, that is a damned good slogan.) All we need to do is determine the exact figures for each country. That is not hard to do. |
Woodford Reserve: Highly Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 6.2 Price: $39 Tasters Said: "Cinnamon? Woody? Very smooth." "Big bourbon flavor. Aged." "Pretty smooth. But a little too intense for me. Too strong." "Oaky scent, a bit of honey smell too." 8. Henry McKenna: Highly Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 6.1 Price: $26 Tasters Said: "This is CRAZY. Wild. Like a roller coaster. Big spice, not too much sweetness." "Lots of pine." "Sweet aroma with a sharp taste." "Smoky and bitter." Andrew Said: "Nice nose. Lavender. But musty & earthy too. Exotic fruit. Palate spicy. High proof. I love how dry and gritty the mouthfeel is, but feel deceived by the proof. Tootsie Roll and fudge notes." 9. Jim Beam: Recommended, Great Value Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 6.0 Price: $16 Tasters Said: "Light, mild, not too alcoholic. Doesn't burn when it goes down." "Great balance of bitter and sweet." "Tastes like medicine. Strange." 10. Breckenridge: Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 5.7 Price: $43 Tasters Said: "Very strong. Really spicy. Kinda like my college girlfriend." "Packs a punch." "Strong and sweet but I like it. A little spice, but in a cinnamon way -- not a chili way." 11. Angel's Envy: Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 5.5 Price: $47 Tasters Said: "Yes. Smooth. Right." "Gasoline-like flavor." "Not too sweet but perfectly balanced. Perfect one for a girl. Aromatic." "Strange aftertaste." "By far the sweetest." 12. Bulleit: Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 5.4 Price: $24 Tasters Said: "Middle of the road whiskey." "Light, malty, but nothing spectacular. Long finish." "All there: sweet, leather, savory." "Tastes a little syrupy." 13. Knob Creek: Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 5.4 Price: $26 Tasters Said: "A little harsh -- kinda spicy. Meh." "Alcohol forward -- let's you know you've been somewhere." "Oaky taste." "Warm, spicy, light pecan, easy to drink." Andrew Said: "Very balanced. A very front palate, rye forward cocktail. Just a hint of bitters, but fine woody, spicy and caramel finish." 14. Maker's Mark: Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 5.4 Price: $26 Tasters Said: "Smooth, subtle leather, vanilla, lots of vanilla." "Very neutral." "Very light, sweet. Easy to sip." "Nothing to write home about." "Strong aftertaste." 15. Four Roses Yellow Label: Recommended Tiara Chiaramonte/The Huffington Post Score: 5.3 Price: $20 Tasters Said: "Hard to figure the flavors -- it's an overwhelming initial taste of alcohol." "Kerosene & plastic flavors." "Dry, slightly spicy -- almost harsh. |
Adult female Avicularia urticans feeding on a Greater Sac-winged Bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) on the side of a palm tree near the Rio Yarapa, Peru (photo by Rick West, Victoria, Canada; report # 1). B - Adult Proboscis Bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) entangled in a web of Argiope savignyi at the La Selva Biological Station, northern Costa Rica (photo by Mirjam Knörnschild, Ulm, Germany; report # 14). C - Dead bat (presumably Centronycteris centralis) entangled in an orb-web in Belize (photo by Carol Farneti-Foster, Belice City, Belize; report # 12). D - Dead bat (Myotis sp.) entangled in a web of Nephila clavipes in La Sirena, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica (photo by Harald & Gisela Unger, Köln, Germany; report # 17). E - A bat caught in the web of an araneid spider (possibly Eriophora sp.) in Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica (photo by Cassidy Metcalf, USA; report # 18). F - Live bat trapped in web of Nephilengys cruentata in a thatch roof at Nisela Lodge, Swaziland (photo by Donald Schultz, Hollywood, USA; report # 47). G - Volant juvenile Proboscis Bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) entangled in web of Nephila clavipes photographed in a palm swamp forest near Madre de Dios, Peru (photo by Sam Barnard, Colorado Springs, USA; report # 7). H - Dead bat entangled in web of a female Nephila clavipes in tropical rainforest in the middle of the Rio Dulce River Canyon near Livingston, Guatemala (photo by Sam & Samantha Bloomquist, Indianapolis, USA; report # 11). I - Dead bat (Rhinolophus cornutus orii) caught in the web of a female Nephila pilipes on Amami-Oshima Island, Japan (photo by Yasunori Maezono, Kyoto University, Japan; report # 35). J, K - A small bat (superfamily Rhinolophoidea) entangled in web of Nephila pilipes at the top of the Cockatoo Hill near Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia (photo by Carmen Fabro, Cockatoo Hill, Australia; report # 39). The spider pressed its mouth against the dead, wrapped bat, indicating that it was feeding on it. A Nephila pilipes male also present in the web ( K ) may have been feeding on the bat as well. L - Dead vespertilionid bat entangled in the web of a female Nephila pilipes in the Aberdeen Country Park, Hong Kong (photo by Carol S.K. Liu from AFCD Hong Kong, China; report # 32). |
Bernie Sanders quite reasonably wants to fix our campaign finance system to rein in the influence of corporations on politics, because that corporate influence naturally prevents political reforms that might benefit workers at the expense of corporations, because corporations are machines built for the sole purpose of making profits. If Chait would stop mischaracterizing Sanders’ positions, he might be forced to admit they make sense. |
Harry Sloan, chairman and chief executive officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), kept his tickets but declined when offered the opportunity to move behind the plate. He says he prefers staying out of the camera's way. Instead he sits several rows back on the third base side. Joe Strohm, Cardinals vice president of ticket sales, says premium seats left behind in St. Louis are from corporate sponsors looking to save money. "Corporations that maybe bought bulk tickets in those areas are definitely trimming back on their spending," Strohm says. "We are marketing those on an individual basis, and we're having some success, but at the end of the day it's still going to be down. "What we're seeing is all fans are looking for added value, not only in baseball, but in all of their purchasing." Most teams won't release detailed information on premium seat sales, but they are talking about the losses, which are easy to see when watching a game on TV. The Yankees slashed prices in April on selected premium locations, including cutting some tickets to $1,250 from $2,500. The Mets' prices are cheaper at Citi Field, with their top ticket selling for $595 a game, but David Howard, Mets executive vice president of business operations, concedes about 10% of seats have not been sold. The Mariners, whose overall attendance has declined by 7.1% compared to last year, also have empty seats behind home plate for the first time in the stadium's nine-year history. "You just see (empty) pockets," says Mariners president Chuck Armstrong, whose team has finished in last place four out of the past five years. "Hopefully, the economy turns around, but winning helps a lot. If we win, those things will take care of themselves." *** 3 — In Detroit, sales down; Phoenix holding steady Detroit's auto industry is in shambles, and the housing market has hit the skids in Phoenix. But the teams in those two cities are getting different results at the ballpark. "We anticipated a difficult time, and we're seeing it," says Detroit Tigers President David Dombrowski, whose attendance has declined by 27%, nearly 10,000 fans a game. "Our downturn started last year. We're still not sure exactly where it's all heading. "But I still believe that people in tough economies are looking for escapisms." |
Joshua A. Norton So much has been written about Emperor Norton, and interest in this ninteenth-century character continues into the twenty-first century. Many of the decrees attributed to Norton I were fakes; written in jest by newspaper editors at the time for amusement, or for political purposes. Those decrees listed here were, we believe, actually issued by Norton. September 17, 1859 Joshua A. Norton, who lost his money in an attempt to corner the rice market, today declared himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. December 2, 1859 Norton I dismissed Gov. Wise of Virginia for hanging John Brown and appointed John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky to replace him. February 1, 1860 Decree from Norton I ordered representatives of the different states to assemble at Platts Music Hall to change laws to ameloriate the evils under which the country was laboring. July 16, 1860 Decree from Norton I dissolved the United States of America. October 1, 1860 Decree from Norton I barred Congress from meeting in Washington, D.C. February 5, 1861 Norton I changed the place of his National Convention to Assembly Hall, Post and Kearny, because Platts Music Hall had burned. September 17, 1861 A new theater, Tuckers Hall, opened with a performance of Norton the First, or "An Emperor for a Day." October 1863 Death of Lazarus, Emperor Nortons dog. February 14, 1864 Norton I arrived in Marysville to join the celebration of the opening of the railroad. November 11, 1865 Mark Twain wrote an epitaph for Bummer, the long- time companion of Lazarus. January 21, 1867 An overzealous Patrol Special Officer, Armand Barbier, arrested His Majesty Norton I for involuntary treatment of a mental disorder and thereby created a major civic uproar. Police Chief Patrick Crowley apologized to His Majesty and ordered him released. Several scathing newspaper editorials followed the arrest. All police officers began to salute His Majesty when he passed them on the street. July 25, 1869 Decree from Norton I that San Franciscans advance money to Frederick Marriott for his airship experiments. August 12, 1869 Decree from Norton I dissolved and abolished the Democratic and Republican parties because of party strife now existing within our realm. December 15, 1869 Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, left San Francisco to seek his yearly tribute from the legislature and lobbyists. |
He is most confused because the work in question is already readable on the iPhone in several other capacities, such as by searching for it on Safari or purchasing it through Stanza, eReader, or Amazon's new Kindle app.Apple's high-pressure censorship tactics are working, however, and Montgomerie intends to cave to Apple's policy and manually block the "Kama Sutra" so that he will be able to pass inspection, much in the same way that David Carnoy removed all the profanity from his novel "Knife Music" earlier this year in order to get it approved by Apple. "I'm afraid I've currently decided to sell my soul, or at least rent it out for a while, and manually block the Kama Sutra from appearing in Eucalyptus. It may become accessible again in a later version of Eucalyptus when Parental Controls become available. If someone at Apple would like to contact me to let me know that this is unnecessary, and that Eucalyptus will now be treated the same way as other iPhone apps, I would be very happy to hear from them. "So why does Apple find the "Kama Sutra" obscene? Is it because it teaches people about clits? Is it because the "Kama Sutra" features Hindus fucking? Can only white people relentlessly write about fucking and have the book be pure?Is everything that white people say bleached by the moral perfection of white skin, and everything that brown people say tainted by animalistic lust and third-world inferiority?What is more "defamatory" than not carrying ancient texts from the world's oldest and richest culture?What is more offensive than saying "we at Apple think it is gross when Hindus fuck, and only enjoy the copulating rituals of Semitic cultures, preferably whitewashed by Nordic existential philosophy? "While it's certainly possible that the censors at Apple are bigoted fascists who are trying to start a war with India, it is more likely they are banning "Eucalyptus" for protectionist reasons as a result of their standing deal with Amazon.Amazon is charging a dollar for every "Project Gutenberg" book, and Montgomerie is trying to give them away for free, only charging people for the reader.So of course he is going to take a beating until they can figure out a way to deal with him.Apple is going to stonewall anybody who undercuts the heavily-leveraged partners that are bringing them more money.Somebody at Apple said:"Send him the 'offensive' letter and see what he does. |
Shine did happen to have a terrible December with a 0 – 6 record in Proleague, but since then he's started to show the skills that caused Samsung to continuously send him out in the first place. He's on a three game win streak in the Proleague, and he defeated MMA 2 – 0 to qualify for Code A.HuK does have a puncher's chance just because he plays a bizarre PvZ style revolving around weird two base pressures and all-ins that pretty much no one else in the world uses. Back in Code S, Sniper somehow dropped a map to HuK despite knowing about his style and playing with it in mind, due to some poor judgments against an 8-gate all-in he rarely faces. However, if there was ever a chance that Shine would get caught off guard, the fact that Sniper lost such a high profile match has probably eliminated it.– 0 HuKWhile the other names on the roster might be bigger, this could be the most high level match of the night. YoDa, a Code S regular in recent seasons, has been an excellent player in inconsistent spurts. His opponent, Tear, is one of the last Code B Bonjwas to finally make his Code A debut. He's shown he can hang with the best Code S players in FXO's GSTL runs, and elitist hipster fans have been touting his abilities for a long time.While YoDa could definitely win if he plays to his best, I've gotta side with the elitist hipster faction here. Their past darlings, such as Creator, Life, TaeJa, etc have all turned out to be excellent players. While Tear doesn't carry the same kind of hype that trio once did, he's still a player who has huge potential.– 1 YoDa |
Instead it is a formal copy that the Continental Congress hired someone to make for them after the text was approved. This formal copy was probably made by Timothy Matlack, an assistant to the Secretary of Congress. This copy was signed on August 2, 1776. No one who signed the Declaration of Independence was born in the United States of America. The United States didn't exist until after the Declaration was signed! However, all but eight of the signers were born in colonies that would become the United States. The first public reading of the Declaration took place on July 8, 1776, in Philadelphia. A fictional story written in the 1840s suggested that the bell now known as the Liberty Bell was rung that day to bring the people together. However, historians now doubt that this happened. The steeple that housed the bell was in very bad condition at the time and the bell was probably unusable. Although August 2, 1776, was the date of the official signing ceremony, there were several people who signed on later dates. Some of these late signers included Elbridge Gerry, Oliver Wolcott, Lewis Morris, Thomas McKean and Matthew Thornton. |
117747 | Abyss:1 | Reached skill level 15 in Evocations 117900 | Abyss:1 | Got a wavering bone amulet 117901 | Abyss:1 | Identified the amulet of the Oligarchy {Gourm -Cast rPois} (You found it on level 1 of the Abyss) 118336 | Abyss:1 | Found a shimmering altar of Xom. 118905 | Abyss:1 | Found a corrupted altar of Lugonu. 119583 | Abyss:1 | Found a corrupted altar of Lugonu. 120394 | Abyss:1 | Noticed an ancient lich 120398 | Abyss:1 | Killed an ancient lich 120465 | Abyss:1 | Found a corrupted altar of Lugonu. 121744 | Abyss:1 | Reached skill level 10 in Earth Magic 122543 | Depths:4 | Escaped the Abyss 122610 | Depths:4 | Voluntarily entered the Abyss. 124061 | Abyss:1 | Identified the Grimoire of Cheese (You found it on level 1 of the Abyss) 125069 | Abyss:1 | Found a corrupted altar of Lugonu. |
( 0 <= x || x < 9 ) ) { return false ; } if ( ! ( 0 <= y || y < 9 ) ) { return false ; } if ( v != null && ! isValidValue ( v . Value ) ) { return false ; } if ( v == null ) return true ; int offx = x - ( x % 3 ) ; int offy = y - ( y % 3 ) ; for ( int n = 0 ; n < 9 ; n ++ ) { if ( board [ x, n ] == v ) { return false ; } if ( board [ n, y ] == v ) { return false ; } if ( board [ offx + n % 3 , offy + n / 3 ] == v ) { return false ; } } ; return true ; } static public SudokuState Insert ( SudokuState S, int x, int y, int v ) { var clone = new SudokuState ( ) { board = S . board } ; clone . board [ x,y ] = v ; return clone ; } public Tuple < int , int > getFirstEmpty ( ) { for ( int x = 0 ; x < 9 ; x ++ ) for ( int y = 0 ; y < 9 ; y ++ ) if ( board [ x,y ] == null ) return Tuple . Create ( x, y ) ; return null ; } public IEnumerable < SudokuState > GetSolutions ( ) { var firstEmptySpace = getFirstEmpty ( ) ; if ( firstEmptySpace == null ) return Enumerable . Repeat ( this , 1 ) ; else { var state = this ; int x = firstEmptySpace . Item1 ; int y = firstEmptySpace . Item2 ; return Enumerable . Range ( 1 , 9 ) . Where ( v => state . isValidInsertion ( x, y, v ) ) . Select ( v => Insert ( state, x, y, v ) ) . flatMap ( S => S . GetSolutions ( ) ) ; } } } class Program { static void Main ( string [ ] args ) { var data = new int ? |
As promised, Mr. Wong visited Direct Sound at the January 2013 NAMM show, and he again discussed the e.a.r.Pods product with Mr. Rois of Direct Sound. At the January 2013 NAMM show, Mr. Wong asked to take a photo of the Direct Sound headphones with the e.a.r.Pods trademark clearly visible. Apple did not do business with Direct Sound as Apple first suggested in October 2012. Instead, Apple decided to have its attorneys send a cease and desist letter to Direct Sound shortly after Mr. Wong visited Direct Sound for a second time and after Mr. Wong initiated discussions about Apple and Direct Sound working together. Notwithstanding Apple’s knowledge since as early as October 2012 of Direct Sound’s prior and continued use of the e.a.r.Pods and E.A.R.PODS marks, Apple continued to use and continues to use “EarPods” without Direct Sound’s authorization or permission. Apple’s actions have caused actual confusion and are likely to cause confusion concerning the source of Direct Sound’s e.a.r.Pods and E.A.R.PODS volume-limiting headphone product, Direct Sound’s association with Apple, Direct Sound’s use of marks associated with Apple, and the association of Apple with Direct Sound and Direct Sound’s “e.a.r.Pods” and “E.A.R.PODS” marks. As a result of Direct Sound’s advertising and promotion of its E.A.R.PODS and e.a.r.Pods marks, including its website (www.earpodsheadphones.com) and Internet usage, Direct Sound has acquired a valuable reputation and goodwill in its business and related services. Well after Direct Sound established its rights in its E.A.R.PODS and e.a.r.Pods marks, Apple began using and has continued to use “EarPods” in connection with its business. Apple’s use of “EarPods” is likely to cause confusion, mistake, or deception as to the affiliation, connection, or association of Apple with the E.A.R.PODS and e.a.r.Pods marks or with Direct Sound’s business and products, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of Apple’s products by Direct Sound. Apple’s acts will cause substantial harm to the goodwill, business reputation, profits, and business plans, expectancies, and abilities of Direct Sound unless the relief sought herein is granted. Apple’s acts are in violation of the common law of the various states in which Apple and Direct Sound do business, including the State of Missouri. Direct Sound has no adequate remedy at law inasmuch as money damages alone would not indemnify Direct Sound for the permanent loss of its proprietary rights, established goodwill, business reputation, and business plans, expectancies, and abilities. |
It is the first time in a long while that I have heard of a custodial death in America, and it made me think about how similar the story is to those we encounter so often back home, in India.Racism, abuse of power, and authoritarian overreach are not unique to America, but it shocks the world even more when evidence of these structures surfaces in that country. It is, after all, ironic that ‘Black Lives Matter’ is trending when the most powerful man in America, and, by extension, the most powerful man in the world, is Black.Yet, there have been three distinct cases this summer alone, of people being targeted over their race, and two of these have been by the police – the Texas pool party, the Charleston shooting, and now the death of Sandra Bland.For every one of these, one can find parallels in India. Every few months, communal riots break out in some part of the country, often aided or exacerbated by political interests. Even on an individual level, a lot of how one is treated depends on how one looks, what one wears, and what labels one carries.False charges are slapped on suspects, and cases of custodial death don’t make it beyond the inside pages of newspapers. On a slow news day, journalists will seek out the despondent families of such victims, and a story will be made on police atrocities, only to be buried along with the victims.The TADA, POTA, and AFSPA have given security forces the power to not just pick up anyone on suspicion, but get away with their ‘mistakes’, however grave they are.You could get arrested over a Facebook post, if you’re not burned to death first.For every religious nut in America who decries evolution as “lies straight from the pit of hell” or who announces a grand plan for getting rid of gays and lesbians by hustling them into electric-fenced pens and waiting for them to die out – because, clearly, homosexuality is inherited from one’s parents – there is a religious nut in India, who believes that Ravana’s Pushpak Vimaan was the blueprint for the aeroplane.And, now, India is planning to follow the US template for spying on its citizens. |
> But unlike the MSM, FBI, and shadow state, if I am wrong, it won't be on purpose. Who are you going to run to? Alex - who is running the MSM line hard - "lone nutcase hooker seeking heavy gambling right wing second amendment Islamic Jihad alcoholic convert pal of ISIS?" If what I post is worse than that, I'm sure there is a refuge for you out there somewhere. Start with Infowars I guess, this one toasted Alex for me, he's OUT FOR ME so maybe he can pick up you. And you know what? Despite all the consistencies, I still can't say it really is Paddock in Atlantic City, but I CAN SAY it should be posted, so people can think for themselves. Whether or not it is Paddock is really irrelevant and only trivia, when the deep state has become so potent there is no doubt they will get away with Vegas. Whatever happened in Vegas is going to stay in Vegas if the FBI has its way, and TO HELL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Muddying the waters The tactic of muddying the waters is in use with the Vegas shooting to an extent I have never seen done before. Muddying the waters is when crap info is thrown into the story line to make whatever flows through it too dirty to make sense of. EXAMPLES: Paddock's prostitute speaks up, Paddock had countless girlfriends, "fake calls" made by numerous hotels about getting shot up when there are plenty of witnesses that actually lived through it, etc. The fact is that the FBI got busted for once, for real, doing a real coverup under the filthiest of circumstances that they can't get out of. They will employ the best they have to create so much confusion no one reaches an answer. The facts are very easy - no broken windows in the Mandalay immediately after the shooting, obvious multiple shooters, multiple hotels involved, people left abandoned to die at the concert, Paddock was the fall guy. One line of text says it all. Anything outside of that (except perhaps the crisis actor approach, which I ought to mention but seriously doubt) is probably just a black op ruse to muddy the water. Lots of people have their own legitimate pet theories with this, that pretty much follow what I mentioned here. |
The Gelug school places great emphasis on tantra being practised upon a firm basis of renunciation, altruism and a correct understanding of Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti's view of voidness. To this end, monastic discipline, study and logic in the form of stylised religious debate are held in great esteem. Not surprisingly, this school associates itself with Manjushri, Bodhisattva of wisdom. It is also a tradition which has given rise to the largest monastic universities the world has ever known, the most important being founded in Central Tibet by disciples of Tsongkhapa. In 1416, Tashi Palden founded Drepung monastery which, at its height, had over 10,000 thousand monks and an influence felt as far away as Mongolia. In 1419, Sakya Yeshe founded Sera, which grew to house over 5,000 monks. In 1447, another disciple, Gendun Drup, later to become the first Dalai Lama, founded Tashilhunpo in Zhigatse. This later became the seat of the reincarnations of Tsongkhapa's disciple Khedrup Je, who became known as Panchen Lamas. Tsongkhapa himself founded Ganden monastery in 1409. This grew to house some 3,000 monks and whoever is its Abbot - the Ganden Trichen - has traditionally presided over the Gelug tradition, although its most famous personage is without doubt the Dalai Lama. Of the Dalai Lamas to date, the fifth was the most renowned. It was he who, in 1645, undertook the rebuilding of the Potala palace, one of the world's first skyscrapers. The original eleven-storey royal palace had been built on Mt Marpori in Lhasa in 637. During the nine centuries between its destruction by lightning in the eighth century and the reign of the 'illustrious fifth', the Tibetan capital had been located successively at Sakya, Tsetang, Rinpung and Zhigatse. This was the result of various religious factions wooing the support of Mongol armies and establishing the Tibetan capital at their own stronghold. The violent backing of the Qosot Mongols not only established Lhasa as the capital but made the Dalai Lama temporal king as well as spiritual luminary, giving him more power and a larger kingdom than Tibet had known for many centuries. While the Gelug spiritual tradition flourished in its giant monasteries of Central Tibet, the fate of subsequent Dalai Lamas was less illustrious. |
On April 8 Vice Chancellor Von Papen, went to Rome. On behalf of Cardinal Pacelli, Ludwig Kaas, the out-going chairman of the Centre Party, negotiated a draft with Papen. Kaas arrived in Rome shortly before Papen because of his expertise in church-state relations. He was authorized by Cardinal Pacelli to negotiate terms with Papen, but pressure by the German government forced him to withdraw from visibly participating. [citation needed] The concordat prolonged Kaas' stay in Rome, leaving the party without a chairman. On 5 May Kaas resigned his post. In his place, the party elected Heinrich Brüning. Congruently, the Centre party was subjected to increasing pressure under the Nazi campaign of Gleichschaltung. The bishops saw a draft May 30, 1933 as they assembled for a joint meeting of the Fulda bishops conference, led by Breslau's Cardinal Bertram. And, the Bavarian bishops' conference, led by its president, Munich's Michael von Faulhaber. Bishop's Wilhelm Berning [de] of Osnabrück, and Archbishop Conrad Grober of Freiburg presented the document to the bishops. [117] Weeks of escalating anti-Catholic violence preceded the conference. Many Catholic bishops feared for the safety of the church if Hitler's demands were not met. [118] The strongest critics of the concordat were Cologne's Cardinal Karl Schulte and Eichstätt's Bishop Konrad von Preysing. They pointed out the Enabling Act established a quasi dictatorship, while the church lacked legal recourse if Hitler decided to disregard the concordat. [117] The bishops approved the draft and delegated Grober, a friend of Cardinal Pacelli and Msgr. Kaas, to present the episcopacy's concerns to Pacelli and Kaas. On June 3, the bishops issued a statement, drafted by Grober, that announced their support for the concordat. [citation needed] After all the other parties had dissolved, or banned by the NSDAP, the Centre Party dissolved itself on 6 July. |
Whoops, here is a second e-mail from Richard McKim:"Dear Jim:Thank you. In fact I misunderstood your ......-18LTL image, as I was looking more at the large light area you had artificially highlighted rather than the terminator projection. Before your blue image arrived on its own I had assumed, from quickly reading, that the artificial area was the new feature! It is all perfectly reasonable-looking now that I have your blue image and, although we don't see much phase visually yet there will be a slight and growing phase defect on the following side.Although quite evident the projection is no doubt standing out even more because the processing of any image has caused the terminator to darker somewhat (and in the case of Venus to recede) to leave the projection more visible. There is a history of high latitude martian projections. I am thinking of certain HST images from the 1990s, and visual observers have certainly detected many, and I can recall quite a few examples even in my own Mars reports. I don't think our amateur images were good enough to catch them before 2003. I have examples in the 2003 BAA Mars report which is posted as a pdf at www.britastro.org \mars...............This particular one you have caught so nicely is certainly on the large side, and I hope you will get the chance to repeat the observation at the same CM over several nights. And that brings me to ask if you can compute the CM and put it on each image because it does save looking it up. From the position of Propontis with regard to the morning terminator I would say that the attached image by Efrain Morales is really pretty similar to yours in CM but is dated two days earlier (March 19d 02h 31m UT). I notice that he shows the same effect but it is less visible. It is easily missed unless one enlarges the image.I will of course search for others. I receive a lot of material which is not uploaded to any of the image archiving websites.Let me know what you think.I am off to bed as it is getting late here and I must teach first thing in the morning!With regardsRichard" |
“If someone had actually stepped up in the making of this and tested several different versions of the [software], then there would be alternatives and you should choose the one that’s the least discriminatory and most effective,” Selbst says, adding that organizations often don’t have incentive to fully evaluate software for fairness concerns. “If we want to have best practices, we should be testing a lot of versions of the software and not just relying on the first one that we’re presented with.” Since algorithms are proprietary and frequently protected under non-disclosure agreements, organizations that use them, including both private companies and government agencies, may not have the legal right to conduct independent testing, Selbst says. “It’s not completely clear that the companies or police departments or judiciaries that buy this software from these companies have done any testing whatsoever. In fact, it is clear in many cases that they don’t, and they’re not allowed to,” Selbst says. |
The closure is called whenever a handler believes it should unregister itself or another handler, or close the socket. Because we will often close the socket in the disconnector closure, we can't use WITH-OPEN-SOCKET to automatically close the socket because WITH-OPEN-SOCKET may try to flush data on the socket, signaling another condition. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | (defun make-ex5a-client-disconnector (socket) ;; When this function is called, it can be told which callback to remove, if ;; no callbacks are specified, all of them are removed! The socket can be ;; additionally told to be closed. (lambda (&rest events) (format t "Disconnecting socket: ~A~%" socket) (let ((fd (socket-os-fd socket))) (if (not (intersection '(:read :write :error) events)) (remove-fd-handlers *ex5a-event-base* fd :read t :write t :error t) (progn (when (member :read events) (remove-fd-handlers *ex5a-event-base* fd :read t)) (when (member :write events) (remove-fd-handlers *ex5a-event-base* fd :write t)) (when (member :error events) (remove-fd-handlers *ex5a-event-base* fd :error t))))) ;; and finally if were asked to close the socket, we do so here (when (member :close events) (close socket :abort t)))) | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 7. The entry point for this example and setting up the event-base: This function is much more complex than in examples that do not use the multiplexer. Protected by an UNWIND-PROTECT, we first initialize the event base my calling make-instance 'iomux:event-base. Here is where we pass the keyword argument :exit-when-empty t which states that the event-dispatch function should return when there are no more registered handlers. Once that is done, we call the helper, catching a common condition and waiting until we return. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | ;; This is the entry point for this example. (defun run-ex5a-client (&key (host *host*) (port *port*)) (let ((*ex5a-event-base* nil)) (unwind-protect (progn ;; When the connection gets closed, either intentionally in the client ;; or because the server went away, we want to leave the multiplexer ;; event loop. So, when making the event-base, we explicitly state ;; that we'd like that behavior. (setf *ex5a-event-base* (make-instance 'iomux:event-base :exit-when-empty t)) (handler-case (run-ex5a-client-helper host port) ;; handle a commonly signaled error... (socket-connection-refused-error () (format t "Connection refused to ~A:~A. Maybe the server isn't running?~%" (lookup-hostname host) port)))) | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 8. The cleanup form for UNWIND-PROTECT: This cleanup form closes the *ex5a-event-base* instance. IOLib defines a method for the generic function CLOSE which accepts an event-base and performs the necessary work to shut it down. |
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 3.51 KB Okay, folks, listen up. I need your help. This will only take you five minutes to do. We're pulling a big chunk of Gameranx's funding tonight. How, you may ask? By getting their Google AdSense account banned. They are in serious violation of several AdSense policies. Google takes this very seriously; we just have to get their attention. Here's how. 1. Disable AdBlock. 2. Go here: https://support.google.com/adsense/contact/violation_report Try here instead http://www.gameranx.com/features/id/26194/article/game-developer-interviews-about-gamergate-silverstring-media/ 3. Scroll down until a floating 728x90 ad appears pinned in the BOTTOM CENTER of the page, which doesn't go away no matter where you scroll. Ignore other ads; this is the one we're interested in. 4. In the top right corner of that floating ad, you should see a tiny blue triangle pointing to the right. This is the AdChoices arrow. If you click it, it will give you information about the ad network being used. If clicking that arrow doesn't bring you to a google.com link titled "AdSense Help", then refresh the page and repeat steps 1-4 until it does. 5. Scroll to the bottom of the resulting AdSense Help page. You should see two options for what you are reporting: the ad, or the website. Click "the website". 6. Check the following boxes: - The site encouraged me to click on the ads. - The site makes it difficult to distinguish ads from content. - The site violates AdSense program policies in other ways. (…and yes, there is another checkbox labeled "The site promotes racial intolerance, or advocacy against an individual, group, or organization", but I don't think we should go that route.) 7. Fill out the "additional information" box. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, make the following points: - The ad appears in a floating box pinned to the bottom center of the page, and stays there no matter where you scroll. This encourages unnatural clicks, and it specifically violates the AdSense policy of "No floating box scripts allowed". - The ad overlaps clickable content on the page. This specifically violates the AdSense policy against encouraging accidental clicks. - The page contains a ton of foul language, such as the F word and the S word. This violates the "No excessive profanity" rule of AdSense. 8. Click "Submit", and wait for Google to confiscate the last 53 days worth of Gameranx's AdSense earnings and give it all back to the advertisers they scammed. |
“Meeeeeeeemes, what car is it again?” he shouts. “We call it the Clivemobile. It’s a Volkswagen Caddy with blacked-out windows. It’s like an American gangster’s car. They’ve put concerts on to raise money, not just for me but for other people with MS. They put a stair-lift in our house. Sometimes I’ll go up and down the stairs, looking at the gold and platinum records on the stairwell. Ha ha.” Better than that, and what he appreciates most of all, Mimi says when Clive is out of earshot, is that they involve him. “They say if ever you need anything, just ring, just call,” she says. “Whenever they play in London, Clive knows that he’s only got to pick up the phone and he’s got two of the best tickets in the house. It might not sound like much, but it is to Clive. Finally, to him, it’s like his achievements – who he is and what he did – are being recognised.” |
Mayo promoted leaders who focussed first on what was best for patients, and then on how to make this financially possible. No one there actually intends to do fewer expensive scans and procedures than is done elsewhere in the country. The aim is to raise quality and to help doctors and other staff members work as a team. But, almost by happenstance, the result has been lower costs. “When doctors put their heads together in a room, when they share expertise, you get more thinking and less testing,” Cortese told me. Skeptics saw the Mayo model as a local phenomenon that wouldn’t carry beyond the hay fields of northern Minnesota. But in 1986 the Mayo Clinic opened a campus in Florida, one of our most expensive states for health care, and, in 1987, another one in Arizona. It was difficult to recruit staff members who would accept a salary and the Mayo’s collaborative way of practicing. Leaders were working against the dominant medical culture and incentives. The expansion sites took at least a decade to get properly established. But eventually they achieved the same high-quality, low-cost results as Rochester. Indeed, Cortese says that the Florida site has become, in some respects, the most efficient one in the system. The Mayo Clinic is not an aberration. One of the lowest-cost markets in the country is Grand Junction, Colorado, a community of a hundred and twenty thousand that nonetheless has achieved some of Medicare’s highest quality-of-care scores. Michael Pramenko is a family physician and a local medical leader there. Unlike doctors at the Mayo Clinic, he told me, those in Grand Junction get piecework fees from insurers. But years ago the doctors agreed among themselves to a system that paid them a similar fee whether they saw Medicare, Medicaid, or private-insurance patients, so that there would be little incentive to cherry-pick patients. They also agreed, at the behest of the main health plan in town, an H.M.O., to meet regularly on small peer-review committees to go over their patient charts together. They focussed on rooting out problems like poor prevention practices, unnecessary back operations, and unusual hospital-complication rates. Problems went down. Quality went up. Then, in 2004, the doctors’ group and the local H.M.O. jointly created a regional information network—a community-wide electronic-record system that shared office notes, test results, and hospital data for patients across the area. Again, problems went down. Quality went up. |
When we first activate megabeasts out on the world map, it'll likely be to get them to do things they do at random currently (like appearing at your fort).The actual husking cloud events are tracked more closely, and it knows how deep the snow is in advance, but, yeah, residual rain products aren't handled at all. I'm not sure when I'll get to it.I think that's reasonable, though I don't have a particular plan at this point.I'm not sure how it'll work yet. I think it's reasonable to decrease the penalty for having only 1 target, but part of the penalty should always apply, since you'll almost always be spreading your power around and trying to be accurate in more than one way when doing multiple attacks.The situation at this point remains unchanged.Yeah, this will be a thing. The old charges have been gutted, and everything's going under the new action framework.When we do infiltrating the compound etc. as we progress with villains, I think the silliest things will be managed, and it'll slowly be improved like the rest of everything. There's a specific dev item for raising the alarm.Ideally we'll be able to do that. There's a lot of specific interface etc. associated to being in that position though. It's similar to bandits messing with your site beyond murder and stealing (which we have), but even more complicated. |
Feldmann H. Complete genome sequences of three ebola virus isolates from the 2014 outbreak in west Africa. Figure 6 Liberian Sub-Lineages of EBOV Contributed Substantially to the Largest Peak in Guinean EVD Cases Show full caption (A) The number of Guinean EBOV sequences through time colored based on the geographic origin of the evolutionary lineages to which each sequence belongs. WHO, 2015 WHO (2015). Ebola Situation Reports. http://apps.who.int/ebola/ebola-situation-reports. (B) Confirmed and probable EVD cases in Guinea through time, according to the WHO’s patient database (). The EBOV transmission pattern we deduced for Liberia, driven primarily by within-country spread and diversification, is very similar to that described for eastern Sierra Leone during May 2014–January 2015 (), but distinct from the developing picture of the Guinean portion of the outbreak, which appears to have included multiple re-introductions of EBOV from both Liberia and Sierra Leone (). This difference in transmission dynamics may partly explain differences between countries in the distribution of EVD cases over time. The portions of the outbreak in Liberia and Sierra Leone both exhibited a single primary peak in cases, whereas the Guinean portion of the outbreak has been characterized by several distinct peaks of similar magnitude (). Our combined analysis of genomic data from samples collected in four Western African countries demonstrated that occasional importation of EBOV from Liberia likely played a role in the continuation of the Guinean outbreak and the spread of EBOV to Mali. Starting in August 2014, 70% (69/99) of sequences from the eastern half of Guinea and 30% of sequences from the western half of Guinea (23/76) belonged to evolutionary sub-lineages that originated in Liberia ( Figure 6 ). At least five distinct transmission events from Liberia into Guinea are supported by our analysis, and at least three of these led to sustained EBOV transmission within Guinea. One of these imported sub-lineages, LB5, was further transmitted, on two separate occasions, from Guinea to Mali (). We were able to place the ancestors of the three most successful imported lineages within June–July 2014, which is before the official border closings and just before the largest of the peaks in Guinean EVD cases ( Figure 6 ). |
Now we have 2014, a new year and a new hope for much better results. I personally don’t think a slight improvement from last year will be good enough. There has to be a great improvement and expectation that the team qualifies to the Liguilla. But I’m also realistic and wishing for a championship right away might be a bit too farfetched. The new president who replaced Te Kloese, Juan Manuel Herrero already stated his expectation is a championship in 2014, but like many past presidents in the team, they all state the same thing. As a big club, those expectations should always be in the team's mind, but we also have to step into reality. Chivas is coming from a re-building (to put it nicely) offseason. Though Jose Luis Real is familiar with most of the team, he still has to figure out how he is going to make this team play and work together. Even though Real had a successful run in Copa Libertadores back in 2010, reaching the final, his strategy seemed to upset many as being too scared to attack. He tried to squeeze out a positive result by playing a counter-attack style of play. As a Chivas fan, I’m eager for the season to start and confident of the team (well at least that’s what my passion is telling me). And though I don’t even want to think about it, let’s not forget the ghost of the “decenso” is looming around Guadalajara. ** the photo is used under a Creative Commons license from Grehundr |
Wednesday marked the first day of informal Captain’s Practices at Sharks Ice at San Jose and new defenseman Brent Burns , prospect forward Cam MacIntyre and goaltender Thomas Greiss were present.As summer ends and more players return to San Jose, the amount of Sharks attending these practices will grow. But on Day One, the three Sharks players scrimmaged with 10 local skaters before switching over to drills. It was a light-hearted, 90-minute skate.After exiting the ice, Burns strolled into the locker room with a huge grin on his face. He was going back-and-forth with one of the amateur skaters – a guy he had jokingly dropped the gloves with and pretended to fight during the scrimmage.Burns moved from Minnesota to the Bay Area only five days prior, but he already seems comfortable in his new home.“There’s a great attitude here,” said Burns about the city. “Everybody is happy it seems. It’s hard to explain. But you get a different energy when you come here.”Burns himself has a very unique energy. Talk to the 26-year-old father of two for a couple minutes and you’ll realize he has a great sense of humor. When asked what he thought about his first day of Captain’s Practice, he replied, “I was just trying to figure out how to put my gear on today.”Burns also has some unusual hobbies (he collects snakes and tattoos). His first question was, “Are there any good zoos around here?” Burns got really excited when he found out there were penguins at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.“What? Penguins?” said Burns. “It’s my life goal to get a penguin before I die.”And all that happened before he started talking about his Harry Potter tattoo.Yes, Burns has a tattoo of Harry Potter, a large dragon and most of Hogwarts on his upper thigh. He’s a professed Harry Potter fanatic and a huge fan of dragons.“I’m a huge Harry Potter guy,” Burns said as he showed off his tattoo.Burns is clearly a character, the likes of which will probably flourish in the Sharks locker room alongside a musically-emancipated Dan Boyle and a personality-clad Joe Thornton But until those guys arrive for Captain’s Practices, Burns is spending most of his time working with Strength and Conditioning Coordinator Mike Potenza. According to Burns’ Twitter feed , Potenza is “1/2 Terminator 1/2 mutant ninja” and his workouts are like “ninja training.”“I had a crazy workout with Mike this morning,” Burns said. |
"Are there a lot of unanswered questions about what these natural gas storage facilities emit on an ongoing basis?" Jerrett added. "Absolutely. Would I be concerned that we don’t know what’s coming out of these plants? Yes absolutely." Oliver, the attorney representing residents, agreed there were many unanswered questions to the health complaints, but pointed to the presence of benzene as particularly troubling. "Benzene is one of the chemicals that’s associated with oil and gas production and is a known cause of certain types of leukemia," she said. "We do have enough information to know that cancers that are very unusual and are associated with benzene exposure are increasing." Jeffrey Nordella, a doctor who until recently worked at a Porter Ranch urgent care facility, also conducted his own health investigation between 2016 and 2017. The probe was prompted by the health problems Nordella was seeing in the community, and involved collecting hair and urine samples from dozens of residents. Nordella's studies found a variety of toxins. In hair samples he collected, he found uranium, a heavy metal that may cause damage to internal organs, and lithium, which if ingested can cause abdominal pain, cramps, nausea, and other symptoms. In the urine samples, he found styrene, a chemical that in large quantities can cause eye and nasal irritation. "We started doing statistical analysis and found out there was significant statistical differences in the population of Porter Ranch as compared to California and the United States," Nordella told BuzzFeed News. While Nordella's work didn't identify the sources of the various toxins, or go as far as directly linking them to the health effects he was seeing, he agreed additional analysis is needed, including of the community's ground water. "I found out what we found out with about $7,000, and the people of the community financed that," he said. "You’re never going to find causation unless you spend the money." In an email to BuzzFeed News, Southern California Gas disputed the assertion of health risks associated with the Aliso Canyon facility. The company said that thousands of air, soil, and dust samples have been collected, and that "all of the data collected and analyzed by public health officials have shown that there was and is no long-term risk to public health or safety from the gas leak." The company said Nordella's work is "inconsistent with extensive scientific data and the review of that data by multiple agencies." |
I have written a number of pieces in the past year about conservatives having a “poor little ole me” attitude when it comes to the media. Conservatives are convinced the media is out to get them. They are convinced the media is covering up stories and covering for the Obama Administration.Often, conservatives are flat out wrong. They are so convinced the media is out to get them they do not even make their case to the media. They give up without starting. Each time I write about these things, members of the media retweet the posts glowingly and approvingly. And while I stand by each of those posts I’ve written, the media itself needs to be held accountable because, if members of the media were truly honest, must admit it is biased against conservatives.As objective as the media claims to be, the so called Gang of 500 — the reporters and chattering class who develop the conventional wisdom in politics — is mostly of the left or married to the left. There is a revolving door between the media and leftwing politics that rarely exists on the right. It shapes the world view of the members of the media and necessitates conservatives working even harder to get their opinions, views, and stories heard.I have encountered this bias throughout the media in my professional life and seen it up close over the years.Today comes word that Richard Stengel, Time’s managing editor, is leaving the magazine for the State Department. He is but one in a long line of liberals who have, for years, feigned objectivity when his world view is decidedly of the left.Consider the others. [1] [Update: Over at the Daily Beast, Ben Jacobs notes 15 journalists have moved into the Obama Adminstration]Perhaps most famous is Jay Carney. He is currently the White House Press Secretary. Before that he was in the Vice President’s office. Prior to that, he was Washington bureau chief at Time magazine working with Richard Stengel. Stengel, in 2008, defended Carney’s decision to go into the Obama Administration. Of course he would.When Jay Carney left Vice President Biden’s office, the Vice President went to the Washington Post and hired Shailagh Murray as Carney’s replacement. She is married to Neil King of the Wall Street Journal. |
In a group of animals used for trigeminovascular activation and recordings in the VPM, naloxone was used as a pretreatment to single pulse TMS. |
Rarely do I write negative reviews, but I'm hoping that this review will be a warning to new prospective tenants at Falls on Bull Creek apartments and a heads-up to the management company Mission Rock Residential. 1) Apartment(s) already rented? On Monday night, my daughter took a tour of the apartments and was told about a couple available apartments at a low price and in very good locations. Of course, my daughter was excited about the apartments for both her and her baby. It was later that we were made aware that those apartments had been already rented several hours before my daughters initial tour. 2) Poor customer handling: On Wednesday night, my wife visited the leasing office. She met with Manager Sara. Sara verbally agreed to review the situation and possibly adjust pricing and location that would better meet my daughter's needs. Neither of these efforts occurred. On Thursday, it was disappointing that after calling the leasing office and being told that Manager Sara couldn't meet with me today and was also out for the next 3-days. I offered to conference call off hours to better meet Sara's schedule, but from the response, it was clear that Sara only works during normal business hours. Aren't prospective and current renters the customers? I guess not at these apartments. Somewhat surprising since after managing for 25 years, the customer always comes first and I would extend my schedules accordingly. Luckily, when I arrived at the leasing office, Sara agreed to meet with me. Our discussion confirmed the above timeline. It also confirmed that Sara was not willing to help us find a reasonable solution to our apartment dilemma. During that discussion, I was surprised by several remarks that Manager Sara made. When discussing that the apartment complex has had poor reviews (1.5/5 stars on Yelp & 2.7/5 stars on Google), I was told that a lot of apartment complexes get bad reviews. From my perspective, telling your customer that it's OK to have poor customer satisfaction since some of the competitors have poor ratings is just a poor excuse. Also, when discussing the poor reviews, Sara made sure that I knew that she's only been managing the apartments for about a month. A better approach would be for Sara to take ownership and discuss what efforts are being made to improve the apartments reputation. |
A good example of the problems that can be encountered when using new technologies is the case of the Confederate State's Hunley submarine. A military submarine, the Turtle, had been tried during the American Revolution, but the results were disappointing because of a poor means of fixing warheads to intended targets. The CSS Hunley was the first submarine to attack a warship successfully. In 1864, the Hunley rammed the Union's corvette Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, successfully setting a torpedo into the ship's hull. This was the method used to deploy torpedoes before the self-propelled torpedo was developed a few years later. The Housatonic sank. Something went wrong on the Hunley, and it also sank shortly after the Housatonic, taking its crew of nine to a watery grave. It is reported that the Hunley signaled that its mission was completed and was never seen again. Some have speculated that a torpedo exploded accidentally on the Hunley. The sub has recently been recovered and perhaps the cause of its sinking will someday be determined. The sinking of the Hunley ended submarine experimentation for the remainder of the Civil War. After the war, submarine development eventually resumed, but one of the first things that had to be improved was the naval torpedo. Eventually, self-propelled torpedoes were developed in about 1868, solving or causing an enormous problem, depending which end you were on. Changes in Naval Warfare There were many naval warfare experiments conducted during the American Civil War, such as the use of ironclad ships. Other navies had tried various configurations of ironclad ships a few years earlier in the 19th century, particularly during the Crimean War. The Union and Confederate navies began to cover their gun-ships with armor plate so that they could better withstand engagements. The practice showed great promise and the ironclad ships were formidable adversaries for traditional wooden ships in use at that time. One of the most famous naval battles of all time is the engagement between the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor at Hampton Roads Virginia in 1862. The first Confederate ironclad ship, the CSS Virginia, was built from a scuttled Union ship, the USS Merrimac. Confederate forces salvaged the USS Merrimac after they obtained the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard that Union forces abandoned on retreat. Upon advancing into Norfolk, the Confederates raised the Merrimac and outfitted it with armor plate. |
As a public health doctor, I’ve had the privilege of working for two decades in a community clinic that serves a population struggling with poverty, unemployment and housing challenges. Too often I have treated patients who I knew were having trouble affording the essential medications I would prescribe. This can certainly lead to uneven health outcomes, and with one-in-10 Canadians unable to afford the medication they need, this is a gap in our health care system that we no longer can afford to ignore. While a pharmacare program would lessen such inequalities across our country, it also makes good economic sense. There is now a surfeit of evidence for significant cost-savings. Recent reports from the Canadian Federation of Nurses and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives peg those savings at around $11 billion each year. How? A national pharmacare program would allow the federal government, along with the provinces and territories, to buy medication in bulk. This would help lower the prices of medication and give us all more leverage as we negotiate drug prices with unified purchasing power. Currently, we pay more for medications than citizens in almost any other Western nation. Put another way, it’s akin to Canadians paying $60 dollars for a cup of coffee at Tim Horton’s when comparing international prices. This is a serious value gap, and it also puts us at odds with our peers: Canada remains the only industrialized country with universal health insurance but no national pharmacare strategy for its citizens. The provinces and territories have already demonstrated that we can help close the gap to life-saving medications by negotiating together through the Pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance, which will now have its headquarters here in Ontario. We have started to see substantial savings, but there is more we can do as a country. |
At Anderson & Sheppard, ladies were welcome—provided that they wore men’s suits, as Dietrich did. Today, the New York-based satirist and waistcoat enthusiast Fran Lebowitz, who was vouched for by the editor of this magazine, upholds the Dietrich tradition. |
“When I said you must teach your people to overcome their prejudices and accept the Indians, I did not mean that you would encourage intermarriage. I mean that they should be brothers, to worship together and to work together and to play together; but we must discourage intermarriage, not because it is sin. I would like to make this very emphatic. A couple has not committed sin if an Indian boy and a white girl are married, or vice versa. It isn’t a transgression like the transgressions of which many are guilty. But it is not expedient. Marriage statistics and our general experience convince us that marriage is not easy. It is difficult when all factors are favorable. The divorces increase constantly, even where the spouses have the same general background of race, religion, finances, education, and otherwise. The interrace marriage problem is not one of inferiority or superiority. It may be that your son is better educated and may be superior in his culture, and yet it may be on the other hand that she is superior to him. It is a matter of backgrounds. The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different. For a wealthy person to marry a pauper promises difficulties. For an ignoramus to marry one with a doctor’s degree promises difficulties, heartaches, misunderstandings, and broken marriages. When one considers marriage, it should be an unselfish thing, but there is not much selflessness when two people of different races plan marriage. They must be thinking selfishly of themselves. They certainly are not considering the problems that will beset each other and that will beset their children. If your son thinks he loves this girl, he would not want to inflict upon her loneliness and unhappiness; and if he thinks that his affection for her will solve all her problems, he should do some more mature thinking. We are unanimous, all of the Brethren, in feeling and recommending that Indians marry Indians, and Mexicans marry Mexicans; the Chinese marry Chinese and the Japanese marry Japanese; that the Caucasians marry the Caucasians, and the Arabs marry Arabs.” |
In muscle and fat cells, insulin stimulates the delivery of GLUT4 from an intracellular location to the cell surface, where it facilitates glucose uptake thereby controlling the plasma glucose levels [37]. Insulin-stimulated GLUT4 translocation seems to be regulated mainly via activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) and the AKT pathway [38]. Muscle contraction and hypoxia associated with exercise have been shown to regulate glucose uptake mainly via AMP-activated protein kinase and the CAMKII pathway [39]. In addition, p38 has been shown to regulate GLUT4 activity and glucose uptake during L6 myoblast differentiation, and inhibition of p38 reduces GLUT4 translocation and glucose uptake [33]. Previously, we have shown that the Cdo’s promyogenic function is mainly mediated by p38 which in turn activates post-translationally myogenic bHLH transcription factors, such as MyoD [26]. Stx4 overexpression and knockdown increased and reduced p38 activities, respectively (Fig. 5a, b). However, it appears that Stx4-mediated p38 activation requires Cdo, since Cdo-deficient myoblasts exhibit a decrease in the level of p-p38 and the membrane-resident GLUT4 proteins (Fig. 5c, d and Fig. 6d). Other components of Cdo-multiprotein complexes, including Boc, neogenin, and Cadherins, might be also regulated though membrane trafficking by SNARE proteins, since their expression is upregulated during myogenic differentiation [8], though Stx4 appears not to be regulating translocation of Cadherins. Interestingly, Stx4 overexpression in C2C12/shCdo cells restores the level of Cdo at the cell surface to the similar levels of the control C2C12/pSuper cells. Thus, it is likely that Stx4 might restore differentiation of Cdo-knockdown C2C12 cells via enhancing translocation of the residual Cdo. In addition, Stx4 might also regulate the translocation of other components of the Cdo-multiprotein complex such as Boc or neogenin which can stimulate Cdo-mediated myogenic differentiation. However, we cannot exclude the possibility that Stx4 may stimulate translocation of other cell membrane protein which can also activate p38 and induce myogenic differentiation. Further study will be required for elucidation of detailed mechanisms. |
However, they also expressed their concern that tournament organizers will likely need to use similar time-saving measures in order to fit their events into the packed schedule this year. |
AP 23/40 2015 - February Isis militants have posted a gruesome video online in which they force 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages to kneel on a beach in Libya before beheading them. Egypt vowed to avenge the beheading and launched air strikes on Isis positions. AP 24/40 2015 - February The British Isis militant suspected of appearing in videos showing the beheading of Western hostages has been named in reports as Mohammed Emwazi from London. Rex Features 25/40 2015 - March Isis triple suicide attack has killed more than 100 worshippers and hundreds of others were injured after the group members targeted two mosques in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. AP 26/40 2015 - April Iraqi forces have claimed victory over Isis in battle for Tikrit and raised the flag in the city. EPA/STR 27/40 2015 - April Isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed at least 35 people queuing to collect their wages and injured 100 more. EPA 28/40 2015 - April Isis’ media arm released a 29-minute video purporting to show militants executing Ethiopian Christians captives. The footage bore the extremist group’s al-Furqan media logo and showed the destruction of churches and desecration of religious symbols. A masked fighter made a statement threatening Christians who did not convert to Islam or pay a special tax. 29/40 2015 - May Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis has been "incapacitated" by a spinal injuries sustained in a US air strike in Iraq. He is being treated in a hideout by two doctors from Isis’ stronghold of Mosul who are said to be "strong ideological supporters of the group". 30/40 2015 - May Isis has also claimed responsibility for killing 300 of Yazidi captives, including women, children and elderly people in Iraq AP 31/40 2015 - May Isis attack on Prophet Mohamed cartoon contest in Texas was its first action on US soil. Two gunmen were shot and killed after launching the attack at the exhibition. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi have been named as the attackers at the Curtis Culwell Centre arena in Garland. 32/40 2015 - May Isis’s deputy leader, Abu Alaa Afri, a former physics teacher who was thought to have taken charge of the deadly terrorist group, has been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike. |
"Yes - it's just that it does require an additional pass of data-flow analysis (tracking upper and lower bounds for arithmetic expressions based on the original types to check whether an overflow might've occurred or not) that wasn't necessary in 32-bit code; we'll get there eventually, but progress on these kinds of optimizations is way slower than we'd like, especially since all the major compilers have been distracted by other issues for the past few years: MS has been pouring most of its resources into .NET for years only recently realizing that this whole "native code" thing might not just go away after all :), GCC is still caught up in a cascade of major infrastructure upgrades to drag their compiler kicking and screaming into this millennium (plus they have this unhealthy culture of language lawyering beating serious practical concerns sometimes), and ICCs main mission still seems to be raking up good SPEC CPU/FP results. LLVM to the rescue? We'll see :) |
There are many signs that your child may be twice exceptional. The specific signs will depend on the learning disability that accompanies the giftedness. The child may exhibit an inconsistency between ability and results. An example is a child who can take command of conversations involving complicated ideas and details but has trouble putting his ideas in writing or being tested on the information. They are considered extremely observant but might skip over details when answering questions. They might lose points on math homework because they don’t see the point in writing down the steps. Their memory for rote or sequential information may be lacking, and deficits may exist in overall short term memory and attention. Often, they will excel in less structured environments where the constraints of time and specific rules are lifted. Teachers sometimes label these children as being underachievers or unmotivated, with low grades on tests and homework that are not indicative of their knowledge. This can lead to overcompensation by trying to prove their intelligence, or ability, which can create negative behaviors such as being sarcastic, negative or lashing out. They may begin to show signs of depression that include fears or concerns about global issues and the uncertainty of their future, give up on activities or subjects that they used to enjoy, and blame themselves for not putting in enough effort to get good grades. A need to feel academically stimulated is very important to them, but explaining to them why it is important to get good grades will leave them annoyed and disinterested. Peeking into their notebooks will expose almost illegible handwriting and disorganization. Their clothes room or work area may be disorganized as well. In some cases, the child is able to completely conceal the issues by learning how to answer questions on graded assignments to get enough points to pass. |
At the other end are those who believe that monastics should be actively engaged in such activities, indeed that they should be at the forefront of the struggle for peace and social, economic, and political justice. A middle position might recognize the importance of developing a Buddhism that engages more fully with the world, but holds that monastics should serve as guides, sources of inspiration, and educators in programs of social engagement, while the hands-on work of dealing with governments, policy makers, and institutions should generally be entrusted to lay Buddhists. (4) Finally, with respect to religious pluralism, we find, at the conservative end of the spectrum, monastics who believe that Buddhism alone has the ultimate truth and the unique path to spiritual liberation. Since those following other religions are immersed in wrong views, we have nothing to learn from them and would do best to avoid religious discussions with them except to persuade them of their errors. We can cooperate on projects aimed at worthy ends, such as world peace and environmental awareness, but there is no point exploring our religious differences, for such discussions lead nowhere. Conservative followers of a particular school of Buddhism might bring forth similar considerations in relation to Buddhists belonging to other schools. At the liberal end of the spectrum are monastics who believe that all religions teach essentially the same thing, and that it does not particularly matter which path one follows, for they all lead to the same goal. In the middle, we might find those who, while upholding the uniqueness of the Buddha’s teaching, also believe in the value of inter-religious dialogue, who recognize elements of truth and value in other religions, and who might be willing to live for periods in monasteries of another religion, or in monasteries belonging to a school of Buddhism different from that in which they have been trained. It should be noted that while I designate certain positions as conservative and others as liberal, it is not necessary that the four conservative positions constitute an inseparable cluster and the four liberal and four middling positions other inseparable clusters. It is quite possible for one who takes a conservative position on one, two, or three of these issues to take a liberal or middling position on the fourth. Someone might take a conservative position on two issues and a middling or liberal stance on the other two. |
And on that note: I wish the US would finally accept the SI system and just remove itself from the list of only three nations not using the international standard. It is just ridiculous. The only thing that I am not so fond of here is using a decimal point for the thousands marker and a comma for the decimal marker. A bit confusing there...but that seems standard in the German speaking world. Not sure why. Anyhow, here is the system in Germany: 1E6 = 1 million 1E9 = 1 milliarde 1E12 = 1 billion 1E15 = 1 billiarde 1E18 = 1 trillion 1E21 = 1 trilliarde and so on... Larry Lowe, Wiesbaden Germany Bring back the original meanings of words, we should be using the word "milliard" instead of this annoying Americanism. William Westaway, Edinburgh, Scotland As a little boy, well maybe not so little, I was taught that a million was 1x10to the 12th a billion = 1x10 to the 24th a trillion 10 to the 48th etc. I have refused to change. Bob Lewies, Chatham. Ontario, Canada One old American = one new dullard. One new presbyter = one old priest writ large Mavis Enderby, Cheam, UK While the official use of one billion in the UK may have changed to 1000,000,000 I think that colloquially many Brits still use the original 1000,000,000,000 version. That was certainly the way I was taught growing up, even though I was born almost a decade after the change. I think it's safe to say that the change was more to do with the US financial dominance (and therefore the dominance of the US financial/numeric systems) than any belief that the 'US system' was in any way better or more useful. Christopher Brown, Cheltenham, UK I was taught that mille(Latin)= 1,000. If 1,000 is regarded as a unit then 1,000 x Unit = mille x unit i e 1,000 x unit or 1 million. Therefor mille(1,000) x 1 million = mille x mille x Unit = 1 billion and so on. To me this makes logical sense. George Simons, Cape Town South Africa How sad to see so many old people refuse to change in the face of better systems. Maybe if old people were more flexible young people wouldn't hate them so much. |
In period 1249 -1254, on the southern slopes of Medvednica, fortress of Medvedgrad was built, by the order of bishop Philip of Zagreb.In the 14 th century the first known census of houses and residents was performed. Around three hundred houses and 2810 residents was listed, among them there were 21 shoemaker, 6 blacksmiths, 4 goldsmiths, 4 potters, 3 butchers and 2 saddlers.Everyday Life with its common problems was replaced with the hard times during the reign of King Sigismund of Luxembourg, who was not willing to recognize the privileges and status that Gradec had as a free royal city. Royal policy was most resolutly supported by a powerful feudalist Herman II of Celje, who had been appointed the as Croatian Ban (ban was the head of government, army and judiciary, as the king's deputy representative in Croatia). Thanks to good relations with the king, who married his daughter Barbara, he got in possession of Medvedgrad fortress. From fortress his man daily harassed local residents, and finaly completely abolished the former liberty and rights. Because of terror, many citizens fled their homes and left Gradec. Only by death of Count Ulrich, the last male member of the Celjski family, the situation got back to normal and in 1457 the former freedoms and privileges of city were restored, and residents got in posesion of their seized properties.Unfortunately, the period of peace did not last for long, in september 1469 Ottoman army reached southern bank of Sava river, threatening the city of Zagreb, and probably would have been burned and destroyed it if the floods of Sava river didn't stoped its advance.During the 16th century, the Turks gradually conquered central and southern parts of Croatian territory. The so called 'Personal union with Hungary' ended in 1526 with the Battle of Mohács and the defeat of Hungarian forces by the Ottomans. After the death of King Louis II, Croatian noblemen gathered in 1527 at the Cetin fortress and elected Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria as the new king of the Croatian kingdom, under the condition that Habsburg rulers provide the troops and finances required to protect Croatia against the Ottoman Empire. Despite all disagreements, the alliance managed to organise the defence of the remaining Croatian territories. |
Pinkerton was eventually taken off Secret Service detail and subsequently replaced by the clowns who let Lincoln get capped in the head at Ford Theater, so instead of running the Presidents' personal spy network he instead went back to work running his multi-million-dollar national detective agency. Tracking down badass Old West outlaws from Kansas to California, Pinkerton not only hunted the most dangerous gunslingers the country has ever seen, but he also worked security for banks, stagecoaches, and railroads, and infiltrated hardcore criminal organizations. When he wasn't ordering tough-looking motherfuckers to apprehend murderers and bust caps in horse thieves he revolutionized police work as we know it, inventing mug shots, spending countless hours improving the practice of handwriting analysis, and assembling a national database of known criminals from across the country. Oh yeah, and he also captured Cole Younger, blew up Frank James' mom's house, broke up Butch Cassidy's gang, brought Black Jack Ketcham and the Reno Brothers to justice, personally chased Jesse James through the Smoky Mountains on horseback with a shotgun on his lap, and wrote a bunch of crime novels that would end up being listed by Arthur Conan Doyle as influences for the Sherlock Holmes stories. After a long and glorious life of kicking ass and recording the names in a series of jacketed folders with pictures of the offenders, Allan Pinkerton died of a probable stroke on July 1, 1884, at the age of 64 (some stories claim he fell on the sidewalk, bit his tongue, and got gangrene, but those stories are what we like to call "bullshit"). Allan's son took over the Agency after his death and ended up getting into trouble for his nasty habit of opening fire on labor disputes and union organizers, but the Agency survived and is still around today, 162 years after its founding by one of America's most successful and most famous cops. Pinkerton's name is also the title of Weezer album with "El Scorcho" on it, which counts for something I think. Oh right, and the national database of criminals (as well as most Pinkerton practices), was adopted by the federal government in 1908 when they decided to create their own national detective agency based on Allan Pinkerton's model of interstate crime-fighting. They called it the FBI. |
WASHINGTON -- Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) revealed.An international team of scientists used a combination of satellite measurements and models to differentiate between the two known causes of melting ice shelves: warm ocean currents thawing the underbelly of the floating extensions of ice sheets and warm air melting them from above. The finding, published today in the journal Nature, brings scientists a step closer to providing reliable projections of future sea level rise.The researchers concluded that 20 of the 54 ice shelves studied are being melted by warm ocean currents. Most of these are in West Antarctica, where inland glaciers flowing down to the coast and feeding into these thinning ice shelves have accelerated, draining more ice into the sea and contributing to sea-level rise. This ocean-driven thinning is responsible for the most widespread and rapid ice losses in West Antarctica, and for the majority of Antarctic ice sheet loss during the study period. "We can lose an awful lot of ice to the sea without ever having summers warm enough to make the snow on top of the glaciers melt," said the study's lead author Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, United Kingdom. "The oceans can do all the work from below. "To map the changing thickness of almost all the floating ice shelves around Antarctica, the team used a time series of 4.5 million surface height measurements taken by a laser instrument mounted on ICESat from October 2003 to October 2008. They measured how the ice shelf height changed over time and ran computer models to discard changes in ice thickness because of natural snow accumulation and compaction. The researchers also used a tide model that eliminated height changes caused by tides raising and lowering the ice shelves. "This study demonstrates the power of space-based, laser altimetry for understanding Earth processes," said Tom Wagner, cryosphere program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington." Coupled with NASA's portfolio of other ice sheet research using data from our GRACE mission, satellite radars and aircraft, we get a comprehensive view of ice sheet change that improves estimates of sea level rise. |
Midwifery was considered witchcraft once upon a time for this very reason.The examples are endless: Monotheistic religions with a male god (and institutional misogyny, ahem) are similarly privileged over female-centric religions. Believers in bootstraps are privileged over believers in a social safety net, because authoritarianism and individualism are coded as masculine while socialism and collectivism are coded as feminine. Meat-eating ( manly !) is privileged over vegetarianism and veganism (salads are for girls ! ). Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.What you'll note about how people in the marginalized groups are dismissed, irrespective of their individual gender—wacky, woo-woo, unserious, irrational, emotional, empathetic, weak—are the same way women themselves are often dismissed.That, also, is no coincidence.When we hear people dismissing whole slices of culture, without caveat or exception, using the same sorts of language that misogynists use to dismiss women—or when we catchusing that language, thus more deeply entrenching the ubiquitous trope that anything coded feminine is inherently—we should question why that is.Just as we question why specific classes of people are privileged over another, we must question why specific institutions are privileged over others, and how that privileging might actually exist in service to a patriarchy.It's not difficult, upon close examination, to understand how uncritically privileging Catholicism, which is male-centric and authoritarian, over a female-centered paganism serves the narratives of the Patriarchy. It is not difficult, upon close examination, to understand how reflexively privileging Western medicine, which is best at serving the needs of financially privileged straight white thin generally able-bodied cis men, serves the narratives of the Patriarchy. The point isn't that this stuff isn't evident upon reflection, but that we aren't predisposed to think about how coded misogyny works on an institutional scale.Nor how that then serves to reinforce the oppression and marginalization of individual women.Because as long as the narrative that "anything coded feminine is inherently" is allowed to flourish on any scale, women cannot be truly equal.This is not, of course, an argument for regarding a demonstrable snake-oil salesmanwe regard an ethical and principled scientist. It is, as are most feminist arguments, an argument for nuanced thinking, for not looking at the world in black and white binaries, for not letting assumptions about institutions stand in substitute for facts about the individuals who populate them, and, most importantly, for avoiding gender essentialist binaries when discussing those institutions, a habit which starts by being aware of those binaries and how they work in the first place. |
And it has killed funding for a program that helps keep more than a dozen Arctic science research stations operational.The elimination or severe reduction of funds for research into climate change and the Arctic has especially serious implications, given that the Canadian Arctic is warming faster than almost any other region on earth . Scientists say that Harper’s sharp cutbacks will mean a drastic shortage of funds to monitor huge environmental changes in the Arctic, including melting sea ice, thawing permafrost, a rapidly changing tundra environment, and widespread impacts on fauna and flora.“The kindest thing I can say is that these people don’t know enough about science to know the value of what they are cutting and doing,” says David Schindler, co-founder of the Experimental Lakes Project and one of the world’s best-known freshwater scientists. “But I think it goes deeper than that. This government is not going to let anything get in the way of resource development.”Many think that statement goes to the heart of the matter now that international controversy over the Alberta tar sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline — which would carry that oil across the U.S. to Texas refineries — have put the Canadian government on the defensive. How else, they say, do you account for Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver writing an open letter last January claiming that “environmental and other radical groups” use “funding from foreign special interest groups to undermine Canada’s national economic interest ” — an apparent allusion to international opposition to the Alberta tar sands and related pipeline projects. What else, they add, could be behind the government’s decision this spring to give the Canada Revenue Agency an extra $8 million to crack down on environmental charities Justifying the tax crackdown, Harper said recently, “If it’s the case that we’re spending on organizations that are doing things contrary to government policy, I think that is an inappropriate use of taxpayers’ money and we’ll look to eliminate it.”Tides Canada is one of the charities at the center of this particular controversy. |
Why Marvel and Kevin Feige were willing to go out on something of a risky limb with their visuals as well as just how far Strange can push his powers, but not with the story that brings the titular Doctor into the world of magic and mysticism is a little perplexing, but at the end of the day it's clear this is a board room picture designed to change up Marvel's winning formula just enough so as to appear to be something new and different, but what in reality will rely on the same tricks that have guaranteed consistent hints for eight years now. |
Hello again, It'll be three years this June, three years since I was banned from the #site19 chat and left the wiki. Since I caused the chaos that led to my eventual dismissal as an administrator. While the majority of you weren't there, those who were still remember my mistakes. Some of you might be expecting me to attempt to excuse these mistakes, or attempt to defame those who brought charges against me, in an attempt to ameliorate my own guilt. I did not write this with either of those things in mind, however, because to do so would be dishonest. I did those things, and I was punished for them. My goal however, with this appeal, is not to explain away my crimes, but to simply ask for a second look upon the perpetrator. Three years is a very long time when placed within the transition from high school to college, from the easy wins and passing grades to a world where things now mattered, and a lack of attention or seriousness could lend towards actual consequences. Simply put, the me that you banned is gone, lost to that moment in time that exists now only in the minds of those who remain resolute on maintaining my ban. I can only imagine that you may still see me as that immature child, who may cause the same problems that you banished me for in the first place, but I ask you to simply take a second look. While I was never banned from the Wiki, I never posted again after being removed from the chat. This was a simple decision for me, one that hasn't changed since I first made it. The reason is clear: being part of the official chat is an integral part of the creative experience here. I suggested a chat in the first place as a way to better communicate, to more efficiently work together, and to this day it serves this function. So, this appeal is not for my access to the wiki, but to be given the right to once again speak freely amongst the community I once belonged to. So in conclusion, I would like to state my purpose once more in clarity. I wish to return to SCP, and one again provide content as I once did. |
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Meanwhile, the Raptors remain at their franchise crossroads, still deciding which path to take. The prospect of trying to trade for George as a one-year rental — with his contractual Bird rights, which means you can outspend others to keep the player in free agency — seemed remote Monday night, though not impossible. Any Raptors deal would likely look something like this: centre Jonas Valanciunas, one of Norm Powell or at least Delon Wright, maybe a pick or two, and whatever else you can cobble together. Last year’s Raptors plus Paul George would be . . . jeez, really good, for a year. But it wouldn’t make much sense, long-term. Still, things can change. That’s what Ujiri is facing. Even if the organization did manage to make a deal for a big-time player, Kyle Lowry is a free agent, and multiple league sources say the all-star point guard has been grumbling about dissatisfaction with the Raptors for months. As of mid-May other teams were being told Lowry had “zero interest” in returning to Toronto, even if the Raptors offered a maximum five-year deal. Which since the club had no intention of offering a five-year deal probably made Lowry’s declaration easier to make. But again: things change. West in L.A. may increase the likelihood Paul re-signs with the Clippers rather than goes to San Antonio, but San Antonio is said not to be interested in Lowry. Philadelphia’s draft move means they can draft dynamic guard Markelle Fultz, which closes a door on the 76ers pursuing Lowry. Which, for the record, was always considered a bit of a fan dance by plugged-in NBA sources. Which means Lowry’s possible destinations are dwindling, if he wants to win and get paid. Lowry is prone to dramatic outbursts anyway, and the organization is used to it by now. Last week he gave an interview to TSN 1050 in which he said, “I love this city, everything about this city ... I think everything about Toronto has been as positive or better than other NBA cities.” The team has recently spoken to Lowry, on good terms. And the prospect that LeBron — reported by various fine NBA reporters as “shocked,” “disappointed” and “concerned” about Griffin’s departure — could leave Cleveland? Well, accommodations can be made to paper over Lowry’s grumbling, once again, if need be. In other words, everyone’s leaving their options open. |
Voegelin inspired the first wave of conservative intellectuals, who rose to prominence in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, but it was Leo Strauss, with his backward-looking prophecies, who dominated the movement’s next phase. Unlike Voegelin, Strauss is still famous, thanks to his position at the University of Chicago, the intellectual citadel of neoconservative thought in the seventies and eighties. Less a grand theorist than a scholar, he was a wizard of “esoteric” reading who extracted rich ore from a spectrum of thinkers—the ancient Greeks but also Jewish and Islamic scholars, and secular moderns such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Max Weber. For Strauss, it was all part of a massive clearance project, meant to return philosophy to its ancient founders, Plato and Aristotle. Exemplars of the life of reason, they made philosophy “the humanizing quest for the eternal order, and hence it had been a pure source of humane inspiration and aspiration,” until the moderns came along and debased it, making it a utilitarian “instrument” and an ideological “weapon.” The culprits were largely social scientists, who had lost sight of reason and confused it with the fetish for knowledge, data, and quantifiable facts, which they separated out from “ultimate values.” What looked like the road to progress, from the ancient world of superstition up to the sunstruck heights of the Enlightenment, had been the opposite, a descent from Olympian reason to the quicksand of modernity: liberal “relativism,” “nihilism.” Reading Strauss “produced the kind of shock that is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Irving Kristol recalled in 1995. Voegelin had readers; Strauss had apostles. And they spread the gospel to “another generation of political theorists, many of whom have relocated to Washington, D.C.,” Irving Kristol noted with satisfaction. Among them was his son, William, who studied at Harvard with the Straussian Harvey Mansfield before going to Washington and becoming a major player in the G.O.P. This history appalls Lilla. His normal approach is that of a courtly sommelier, decanting his intellectual elixir and then stepping back to enjoy our pleasure in it. But not when it comes to the neocons. “The path that led from the seminar rooms in Chicago to the right-wing political-media-foundation complex in Washington,” he writes, “has transformed American politics over the past five decades,” and very much for the worse. Elsewhere, he has written unsparingly of “the remarkable transmutation of neoconservatism from intellectual movement to rabble-rousing Republican court ideology.” He has his reasons. |
Now, in addition to suddenly coming to the realization that he was the most powerful human being in the world and could respond to any threats to his rule with iron-fisted over-the-top bloody vengeance/justice, Sultan Murad IV was also a gigantic scary motherfucker who was built like Ben Wallace, fought like Anderson Silva, and (allegedly) killed more people than Ray Lewis. A ridiculously-behemoth war-mongering hardass, Murad's favorite hobbies including hunting (he was a crack shot with a rifle or bow), competitive javelin throwing, and wrestling against three or four jacked dudes at the same time and crushing each one of them in half one after the other. So, naturally, when it was time to fight some fucking Persians, Murad IV assembled his army, grew out his beard, and grabbed his own personal Royal Armory: A panopoly of badass shit that included a custom-made rifled musket with a laser sight, flash/sound suppressor, and ACOG scope, an Odysseus-grade longbow, a 130-pound steel mace, and a massive broadsword that weighed in at 110 pounds. Now, a decent skeptic would say, "WTF nobody can go into combat wielding a one-handed sword that weighs as much as Lady Gaga," but you'd be wrong, because both the mega-sized mace and the giant sword are still hanging in the museum at the Imperial Palace in Istanbul and Turkish chroniclers have devoted a lot of ink to the fact that nobody other than Murad could even lift the damn things let alone use them to rip apart enemy troops like a samurai sword through an over-ripe watermelon. Sure, his bodyguards had to work pretty hard to make sure their Sultan didn't get himself KIA wading into the middle of enemy formations Dynasty Warriors-style, but the rank-and-file troops naturally had to respect the fact that their leader was out there kicking ass and sleeping on the ground right along side them. |
The Wine development release 1.7.30 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - More support for fonts in DirectWrite. - Improved ATL thunk support. - A few more C runtime functions. - Regedit import/export fixes. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.30.tar.bz2 http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.30.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bugs fixed in 1.7.30 (total 50): 7920 Post provider setup of WMI core 1.5 installer needs advapi32.dll.WmiOpenBlock stub 13593 Microsoft Office 95 installer fails while configuring ODBC drivers. 17042 Microsoft OneNote 2007 trial crashes because richedit doesn't implement ITextDocument 17796 Citavi: No network access (wininet.dll InternetGetConnectedStateExW returns incorrect network connection state) 18567 Universe at War - Reports installation failed but seem to install just fine 18832 compiling with -fprofile-generate fails on sfnt2fnt due to hidden symbol 21880 NHL 2009 Cannot be launched 21945 regedit export: unmatched REG_SZ quote in *.reg files 23293 Pippa Funnell - Secrets of the Ranch fails to start with X error (GLX?) |
concluded that: “the orgasms she experienced in response to the Gräfenberg stimulation felt much the same, whether or not they were accompanied by expulsion.” Pawlik's triangle, a region that corresponds to Lieutaud's triangle in the bladder, is located on the anterior vaginal wall. The mucosa of this region of the anterior vaginal wall is smooth and has little resistance; hence, it can easily bulge into the vagina of a woman with a cystocele (Testut and Latarjet, 1972; Chiarugi and Bucciante, 1975; Puppo, 2013a, 2014b). Of all potential candidates to investigate for establishing the existence of an erotically sensitive spot in the vagina, it is quite surprising that Addiego et al. chose to report their findings from a woman with a cystocele. Such a woman is surely not the ideal subject for identifying an “erotically sensitive spot” or for detecting the G‐spot. Addiego et al. stated in 1981: “1After this case study was submitted for publication, the subject reported that there has now been one exception to this. She said she had recently experienced orgasm accompanied by ejaculation in response to cunnilingus, but without Gräfenberg spot stimulation.” Addiego et al. concluded “the area palpated in the subject was the Gräfenberg spot” and statements that “the orgasms she experienced in response to the Gräfenberg stimulation” and “she agreed with our conclusion” have no scientific basis. Moreover, Gräfenberg did not describe a vaginal spot in his 1950 article. In fact, the title of his article was “The role of the urethra in female orgasm,” not the role of the vagina in female orgasm. Although Gräfenberg did describe some cases of female and male urethral masturbation and illustrated the corpus spongiosum of the female urethra, he did not describe an orgasm of the intraurethral glands (or female prostate). Gräfenberg wrote the following on page 146 of his 1950 article: “An erotic zone always could be demonstrated on the anterior wall of the vagina along the course of the urethra… During orgasm this area is pressed downwards against the finger like a small cystocele protruding into the vaginal canal… Analogous to the male urethra, the female urethra also seems to be surrounded by erectile tissues like the corpora cavernosa. In the course of sexual stimulation the female urethra begins to enlarge and can be felt easily. It swells out greatly at the end of orgasm. |
May 10, 1998 "After waiting for the sun to soften the snow enough to get decent footing, we made our way across a really sketchy side-hill traverse before finally finding the trail again just below the crest of Fuller Ridge. We were so happy to be on it again, but it soon disappeared under 15 feet of snow on the east side of the ridge. We picked up Brian and Brian and Martina's tracks and followed them to Black Mountain Road below Fuller Ridge campsite. Finally out of the snow, we found a great campsite and made a small fire so we could have a hot meal for the first time in three days." They continued to have poor weather on and off, all the way to Kennedy Meadows, including an 18-inch snowstorm in the San Bernardino mountains near Mission Creek Trail Camp on May 13th and several other days of really severe weather. The storms were remnants of the El Nino cycle, which didnt really release its grip on Southern California until mid-June. The High Sierra They arrived at Kennedy Meadows on June 10th and spent four nights there waiting for the weather to improve. They made a foray into the Sierra to see what conditions were like. The majority of other thru-hikers had decided to skip this section, going to somewhere in northern California or flip-flopping (hiking south, from Canada). The hand-wringing, nervous speculation, and endless debates about what to do had consumed a lot of thru-hiker energy over the past couple of weeks. It was a nauseating topic. The weather patterns had settled down by the 13th, and on the 14th, with a new hiking partner, Randy (a section hiker who had started at Tehachapi Pass), they left Kennedy Meadows. They were carrying six days worth of food and their plan was to go as far as Trail Pass and then depending on their progress, continue to Cottonwood Pass or (the best case scenario), continue to Crabtree Meadows, over Trail Crest, and resupply in Lone Pine. Within the first half-day, they met two hikers who said that plan didnt stand a chance. They knew of only two hikers who had left Kennedy Meadows heading north ahead of them. One was only going as far as Olancha Pass, where he would hike to Highway 395 and flip-flop. The other hiker was an experienced nordic skier and had skis with him. |
Our calculations differentiate between the allele frequency of a SNV in our exome samples with its true allele frequency in a population. The T1 test compares the number of carriers of an allele for a SNV with sample (rather than population) allele frequency less than 1% among cases and controls. We considered three factors when extrapolating to larger sample sizes. First, we assumed our sample is comprised of 50% cases and 50% controls. As the prevalence of EOMI is estimated to be 5%, the sample frequency of causal alleles is likely to be higher than the population frequency. Second, some alleles with population frequency below 1% may, by chance, have sampling frequency greater than 1% and therefore be excluded from the test. Third, the true allele frequency of the SNVs in the population is unknown. In contrast to earlier work that relied on population genetics modelling48, we provide an update on the power needed to detect rare variant signal after considering the three factors above. We calculated liberal and conservative estimates for our sample size extrapolations and power calculations. The conservative estimate was based on the estimate of the total population frequency of all causal alleles (below 1%) that would be unlikely to be excluded from the T1 test due to the sampling frequencies exceeding 1%. Because allele frequency distribution is dominated by rare alleles, for an allele with population frequency , expected population allele frequency is smaller than . Therefore, the expected total population frequency of all alleles below frequency is smaller than the total sampling frequency of alleles below sampling frequency . However, setting at 1% would result in a liberal rather than conservative estimate because alleles with population frequency below 1% may be excluded from the T1 test as having sampling frequency above 1%. This occurs due to oversampling cases (our sample has 50% of cases at disease prevalence of 5%) and sampling variance. For example, assuming only one causal allele per gene, the power of the T1 test is maximal for the population allele frequency close to 0.5% for a sample of 1,000 cases and 1,000 controls. For a sample of 10,000 individuals, the chance that a risk allele with population frequency of 0.5% would be excluded from the T1 test is below 10−3, making this threshold even more conservative. |
They also hope that city planners and other regional architects will work to create infrastructures that facilitate local and regional farms that are easily accessible by residents.Sources:Ethan Huff is a freelance writer and health enthusiast who loves exploring the vast world of natural foods and health, digging deep to get to the truth. He runs an online health publication of his own at http://wholesomeherald.blogspot.com |
Digital Foundry: What are the major development lessons you've learned after completing your first Vita project? Stewart Gilray: Not sure it's a major development lesson, more a case of coming to the realisation you can do a lot with a little bit of patience. We're incredibly proud of Stranger on the Vita, especially with the time and manpower on it, so that little machine is a beast and can likely do much, much more. Digital Foundry: On a more general level, you've committed to introducing new features to the existing PlayStation 3 game (and indeed the Vita version) across a series of patches. Most devs simply address bugs. What's your thinking behind this level of fan service and does it actually pay off from a business perspective? Stewart Gilray: It's fan service as well as an experiment. Stranger's Wrath HD is the first Oddworld title to have leaderboards in it, so we wanted to test the water as it were with an existing title. So we added that into the Vita version at the end of the project's development, but held them back due to some technical issues. We were also faced with a need to reduce the size of the PS3 version of the game from 3.2GB down to something more manageable, as such we've reduced it to around 1.5GB, so we decided to use that opportunity to add the leaderboards into the PS3 version too. We're aiming for releasing those in March of this year. From a business point of view it'll be interesting to see how many people will replay parts of the game to improve their standings as well as looking to see how many people might pick the game up now just because we've added leaderboards. It's about community engagement to a degree and allowing our community to do whole "I've just beaten you at..." thing. It's going to be interesting. Digital Foundry: Are you happy with the game now or will you continue to tinker? Stewart Gilray: No, I think it's safe to say we're done now with Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD - that includes the chance of doing an Xbox 360 version, the last of which we heard was Microsoft will not touch the title, unless we did a direct sequel to it. |
The natural tendency in a true "free market" is price stabilization, but what tariffs do is they actually interfere in a way to impede that natural tendency toward stabilization. In some cases agreements are made such that tariffs are tied to conditions, such as saying that the tariff will be reduced, eliminated, or re-evaluated if certain environmental standards or wage standards are met, etc., but even in these cases, the exporting nation has to work against the natural pressure of the tariff to make changes and it just makes making those changes more difficult than it should naturally be. So what is the solution here? What we want is for wages, environmental standards and safety standards to go up in developing countries so that the populations in those countries can become potential consumers of American goods and services, and so that the cost/benefit of producing goods in those countries instead of America is reduced or eliminated, all while facilitating raising living standards of people in developing countries. The way to do this is to eliminate tariffs, and instead implement production standards that are enforced on a per-producer basis instead of a per-nation basis. There are certainly complications to this, and it wouldn't be entirely easy and it wouldn't be without its own potential for problems and abuse, but I believe that the costs would be worth the benefits. Here is how it could work. Anyone importing over $X amount of goods would have to provide a statement of wages from the producer of the goods, for each producer involved in the production of the goods, i.e. if the good had parts manufactured by one producer and it was assembled by another, etc., you need a statement of wages from each. Foreign producers would also be able register with a department in the US so that their information would simply be on file, and thus the practical reality is that for most of the goods that are imported all of this information would be on file. Certain countries could be classified as exempt, and thus have full free trade, if it is deemed that their overall production standards meet or exceed certain guidelines. For example, countries like Japan and Germany would likely meet these standards and thus have full free trade without producers from those countries having to provide paperwork. The statement of wages would show the average compensation for all non-management positions employed by the producer, including contractors. |
18:17 Russ: So, let's take an example of an actual institution. I'll use one with an actual name, and you can change it to XYZ Bank if you'd like. But I'm going to use the example of Citibank. Citibank, I can go and I can make a deposit and have a checking account there and have a savings account. And that currently is FDIC-protected. What would change? What parts of these complex institutions would not be protected that currently or that were, say, in 2008? Guest: Well, if my memory is correct, in mid-2012, so a year ago, Citigroup had total non-deposit liabilities of over $800 billion. By the way, that's 5.2% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product); that's a key indicator, but it's an interesting indicator. They had over 3500 subsidiaries and they operated in 93 countries. So $816 billion in non-deposit liabilities. So, remember, under our proposal, [?] only the commercial bank; so the deposit liabilities would have access to the deposit insurance provided by the FDIC. Discount window loans provided by the Federal Reserve would be limited only to that commercial banking operation. So, those other subsidiaries--and by the way, Citigroup has made significant progress in shedding a lot, but at that time--I'm speaking from memory here, and I know those numbers pretty well--all those total nonbank liabilities, over $800 billion, would not be subject to the safety net. And the two features of the safety net would explicitly by statute have become, under our proposal, unavailable to any of those affiliates or special investment vehicles or other obligations of the parent holding company, which I'll refer to as XYZ Bank. Russ: So, the only problem I have with that--and by the way, I think it's a great idea. We'll talk about some of the other plusses and minuses of it in a minute, as well as the competing ideas for making this problem better. But it's kind of the world we lived in in 2006, 2007, 2003. In theory, JPMorgan Chase didn't get FDIC insurance for its activities. Goldman Sachs didn't have insurance on AIG. They thought they kind of did, sort of, maybe, which was they had some Credit Default Swaps to protect them; they could at least say they were protected; but of course those probably would have fallen apart if AIG had been allowed to go through market discipline. |
The fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Arab authors (Ibn Battuta, Ibn Fadl allah al-Umari, and Ibn Arabshah) have described well the life, mores, and character of the ôzbeks and the Kipchaks of the Kipchak steppe. According to Ibn Arabshah, the ôzbek Turks of the Kipchak steppe are regarded as possessing the most lucid language, their men and women are the most handsome, generally displaying aristocratic bearing, not deigning to trickery or lies, being the gentlefolk of all the Turks.h The language of these ôzbeks, living from Yedisu to Crimea, can be observed in the poetry fragments and other monuments coming down to us, is generally the same; and its Kipchak characteristics have been partially preserved in the speech of today's ôzbek, Kazak, and Mangit-Nogay. Their way of life and customs, parallel to "TÅrk-chigil" and "TÅrkmen-Oguz" group,i is the same. Their written histories, folk literature, and especially heroic epics of the Kipchak steppe such as Chinggis, Jochi and his Sons, Edige, Toktamis, Nureddin, chora Batir,j and Koblandi, their verse stories, Cirenche chechen recitations, and others, are the same everywhere. The melodies of the Baskurt and nomadic ôzbeks are today recited among the Crimean and Constanza Nogays. The Nogay dastans are recited word for word among the Karakalpak and the Kazak of Khorezm. The old and the new Kipchak Turks did not engage in "black service" occupations and considered themselves as the master; they have not made the transition to farming except under extreme necessity, regarding it an occupation contrary to the spirit of the steppe aristocracy; and even under severe economic crisis they did not allow their daughters to marry sedentary grooms. In this regard, the Nogays had shown the greatest exaggeration, and were cut down in their tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands during the Kalmak [Mongol] and Russian occupations. Among them, the historical personae and epic heroes such as Chinggis, Toktamis, Edige, Er Tagin, Urak Mamay, and Adil Sultan personify the spirit and the ideals of the steppe aristocracy. |
deteriorate the popularity of companies such as Apple and Samsung, and ZTE desires to play a role to this development with ZTEBlade Vec4G, the leading mobile phone.Even though it does have a plasticity feel, the Blade Vec 4G, like Sony's Xpera Z2, it has a slim and shiny profile. It weighs 131g, 7.8mm thick,and sports a 5-inch IPS LCD, 1,280x720 screen. In comparison with leading mobile phone of other companies, the screen pales - actually, yet this mobile phone really does price a lot less.What's extensive is that it works on the newest Android 4.4 KitKat operating system and sustains 4G LTE, in contrast to several budget mobile phones.Nevertheless, the Blade Vec4G's 1.2 GHz quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 1GB of RAM do not really maintain with the rivalry.The 1-megapixel front and 8-mega pixel rear cameras were not as well extraordinary, however you won't be saving too many pictures on this mobile phones. What really ticked us away was the lack of memory slot to strengthen the 16GB internal storage it provides.However, the practicality of this mobile phone is important: IF you are just browsing and watching YouTube videos, why spend a Thousand-dollar for a mobile phone? Still, there are people who are practical, others even sell cell phones for cash and buy a cheaper one.Mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, ZTE and Oppo are keeping their gadget's prices low yet easily catching up in the specifications with the leading mobile phones, so paying double or even triple-fold in price seems doubtful.The Blade Vec 4G is a mobile phone that does not complement to well-known opposition. In addition, Xiaomi's and Mi3 mobile phone at the same price has a greater specifications - yet only offered in batches online, while Xiaomi's newest Mi4 has just released lately in China. With that value, you may be shocked to discover that your expectations may accommodate the ZTEBlade Vec 4G's deficit.ZTEBlade Vec 4G with 16GB and a size of 5-inch will cost $299 (without agreement), and is going to be available at all Singtel shops from August 23. |
That the poet, indeed, does not narrate these particulars from historical information, is evident from this, that those who have given us |6 a description of the island, have, as Cronius (note 1) says, made no mention of such a cave being found in it. This likewise, says he, is manifest, that it would be absurd for Homer to expect, that in describing a cave fabricated merely by poetical license and thus artificially opening a path to Gods and men in the region of Ithaca, he should gain the belief of mankind. And it is equally absurd to suppose, that nature herself should point out, in this place, one path for the descent of all mankind, and again another path for all the Gods. For, indeed, the whole world is full of Gods and men; but it is impossible to be persuaded, that in the Ithacensian cave men descend, and Gods ascend. Cronius therefore, having premised this much, says, that it is evident, not only to the wise but also to the vulgar, that the poet, under the veil of allegory, conceals some mysterious signification; thus compelling others to explore what the gate of men is and also what is the gate of the Gods: what he means by asserting that this cave of the Nymphs has two gates; and why it is both pleasant and obscure, since darkness is by no means delightful, but is rather productive of aversion and horror. Likewise, what is the |7 reason why it is not simply said to be the cave of the Nymphs, but it is accurately added, of the Nymphs which are called Naiades? Why also, is the cave represented as containing bowls and amphorae, when no mention is made of their receiving any liquor, but bees are said to deposit their honey in these vessels as in hives? Then, again, why are oblong beams adapted to weaving placed here for the Nymphs; and these not formed from wood, or any other pliable matter, but from stone, as well as the amphorae and bowls? Which last circumstance is, indeed, less obscure; but that, on these stony beams, the Nymphs should weave purple garments, is not only wonderful to the sight, but also to the auditory sense. For who would believe that Goddesses weave garments in a cave involved in darkness, and on stony beams; especially while he hears the poet asserting, that the purple webs of the Goddesses were visible. |
And, although Fafnir is not involved in the Ragnarök mythology, he is the central antagonist in the tales of the legendary hero Sigurd (and, I have yet to identify Sigurd). So, it's difficult to say what role he will play in future events, but Fafnir is clearly Tyrion Lannister. Like Fafnir, Tyrion is also a dwarf who slays his wealthy father and then flees across the Narrow Sea to the protection of a dragon (Danaerys Targaryen). He then uses his supposed status as "heir of Casterly Rock" to join the Second Sons mercenary company, which in itself is a clue -- Tyrion is the heir of Casterly Rock... NOT a Second Son. He is Tywin's only son. But Jaime is a second son (second to Rhaegar), as is Jon Snow (second to Aegon), Bran (second to Robb) and Stannis (second to Robert). So, there is clearly something to that. But it's funny that the clues in both Tyrion's name (i.e. Tyr) and the Second Sons allude to Jaime rather than Tyrion. Perhaps Jaime is Sigurd? If GRRM used Thor as a platform for Hoenir, it's possible he could combine the stories of Tyr & Sigurd as well.Garmr-[Edit: see post "Direwolves, Wargs & the Stark Children" for information about Rickon as Garmr. I had Garmr tentatively identified as Gregor Clegane in this post, but a commenter was able to make a much better connection to Rickon.] Garmr is the "bloodstained watchdog who guards Hel's gate". He is described as a massive dog, the "greatest of dogs", who will similarly slip his bonds at Ragnarök and attack the god Tyr. What's interesting about Garmr is that he was only added to the mythology in the 12th - 13th century by the Icelandic poet, Snorri Sturluson (inspired by the hellhound Cerberus, from Greek mythology) and was not present in the earliest tellings of Ragnarök. It is believed he is akin to Fenrir, and was substituted as an adversary for Tyr after Tyr was supplanted as the primary god in the pantheon by Odin. Prior to this switch, Tyr was foretold to prevail over Fenrir in his role as "the Mighty One" (i.e. Azor Ahai). And since Aerys & Robert Baratheon have already been killed off in ASOIAF, I believe GRRM is adhering to the earlier versions of the mythology. With that being said, we do seem to have a match for Garmr in Gregor Clegane -- the Mountain. |
Now, let every mother and father here present know assuredly that it is well with the child, if God hath taken it away from you in its infant days. You never heard its declaration of faithit was not capable of such a thingit was not baptized into the Lord Jesus Christ, not buried with him in baptism; it was not capable of giving that "answer of a good conscience towards God;" nevertheless, you may rest assured that it is well with the child, well in a higher and a better sense than it is well with yourselves; well without limitation, well without exception, well infinitely, "well" eternally. Perhaps you will say, "What reasons have we for believing that it is well with the child?" Before I enter upon that I would make one observation. It has been wickedly, lyingly, and slanderously said of Calvinists, that we believe that some little children perish. Those who make the accusation know that their charge is false. I cannot even dare to hope, though I would wish to do so, that they ignorantly misrepresent us. They wickedly repeat what has been denied a thousand times, what they know is not true. In Calvin's advice to Omit, he interprets the second commandment "shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me," as referring to generations, and hence he seems to teach that infants who have had pious ancestors, no matter how remotely, dying as infants are saved. This would certainly take in the whole race. As for modern Calvinists, I know of no exception, but we all hope and believe that all persons dying in infancy are elect. Dr. Gill, who has been looked upon in late times as being a very standard of Calvinism, not to say of ultra-Calvinism, himself never hints for a moment the supposition that any infant has perished, but affirms of it that it is a dark and mysterious subject, but that it is his belief, and he thinks he has Scripture to warrant it, that they who have fallen asleep in infancy have not perished, but have been numbered with the chosen of God, and so have entered into eternal rest. We have never taught the contrary, and when the charge is brought, I repudiate it and say, "You may have said so, we never did, and you know we never did. |
Excuse the details, but responding to "red flags" is something that many people on the Spectrum don't do well. Many NTs don't do well with this on either, at least when it comes to relationships. (a "red flag" is US parlance for a warning sign.) In an abuse situation, there will be what some people call "red flags". These "red flags" are signs of abuse, but are not necessarily by themselves abuse. Once you see "red flag" issues, it is easy enough to use your autistic abilities of observation to thoroughly investigate them and act on them. "Red flags" are indications that something is wrong. Sometimes it's something as simple as a previous criminal conviction, and other times it's something subtle that suggests something to be wary of. Often it's specific behaviour that fits a pattern of danger. A very obvious "red flag" would be abuse of animals which suggests sociopathic tendencies, but you won't always see that and of course it is possible for an abuser to be kind to animals. "Red flag" gets its name from car racing. Unlike in a car race, "red flags" do not mean to immediately stop. They are really signs of where to look. In the case of a new relationship, one would be looking for "red flags", such as undue criticism about social interactions. Once alerted to that possibility, it should be easy enough to tell if it is part of a pattern or an isolated event. This is convenient because running away from every suspicion results in isolation. Ignoring behaviour signs is also dangerous, as I have found out. By paying attention to "red flags", it is possible to judge the person's behaviour and make rational decisions. For Aspies, this is important because it allows us to use our strengths of rational judgement in relationships. Most "red flags" are too generic to be litmus tests, but they do make good early warning signs. The "red flag" makes an excellent pointer of what to look for. Fortunately, if you miss the first few "red flags", you will notice another one. It's only necessary to be aware of this sort of thing. So "red flags" are convenient because they draw on past experiences of the person or of others. If the underlying presumption is right or wrong, that should also become apparent, because you've recognized the problem and know what to look for. |
edit: I see I've been scooped a few times. :P See this previous thread for some additional discussion.Basically, you're right that the Allied tanks weren't great at fighting other tanks, and could have been improved. But there's a hidden assumption in your OP and an outright mistake.The hidden assumption is the idea that the purpose of a tank is to fight another tank. That's only true if the military in question wants to do it that way. The American concept was to use different weapons for tank killing -- notably purpose-built tank destroyers , anti-tank guns, aircraft, and (in a pinch) bazookas for tank-killing.American medium tanks (primarily the M-4 Sherman and its predecessor, the M-3 Grant/Lee) were general-purpose tanks, designed to fight infantry and obstacles and, above all, to maneuver at speed. As such they were reliable, fast, and had good suspensions for crew endurance during sustained drives. Fighting other tanks -- especially heavy special-use units like Tigers -- came as an afterthought.It is certain they could have been made better for that task, but bear in mind that the theory behind their design was that they were not reallyfighting other tanks -- you'd have to persuade the US military of theto make them anti-tank specialists before you could set about upgrading them.The "outright mistake" is to say the T-34 falls down in comparison to German armor. The T-34 has been called the best tank of the war by many authorities -- even perhaps a majority -- and its only competition for that title is the Mark V Panther, which was designed. Furthermore, the T-34 is often consideredwhen lists are made. The T-34 was superior to anything the Germans had when they first met it, and at war's end was still the equal of any medium tank in battle. The T-34 was fast and reliable, had fantastic cross-country and bad-weather performance, and used solid armor, well-sloped, combined with a good gun. Basically the main area of the Panther's superiority was better optics/rangefinding for long-distance engagements. |
Of course, Fan has the advantage of hindsight and it borrows from a few additional languages than Groovy did (namely, C#, Scala and a bit of Erlang), so I find the result quite promising. Posted by cedric at June 11, 2008 08:29 AM |
In the past, anthropologists believed that the origins of modern Koreans were found in Mongolia, to the north. This was backed by linguistic backgrounds which categorized the Korean language into the Ural Altaic group, along with Mongolian.However, with the introduction of scientific methods and technology to anthropology, researchers have overthrown that existing academic theory about the origins of today's Koreans.A related study has recently been under the media spotlight here. The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and an international research team composed of researchers from the U.K., Russia and Germany announced on Feb. 2 that the gene structure of modern Koreans has been affected by both northern and southern neighbors over thousands of years, and that the gene structure of modern Koreans is closer to that of southern Asians.The UNIST Genome Research Foundation conducted its research with a team from Cambridge University in the U.K., from the Russian Academy of Sciences, and from the University of Potsdam in Germany. The joint research team extracted DNA from human skulls that were found at the Devil’s Gate Cave, located in the Russian Far East, north of the Dumangang River, in order to conduct an analysis of its genetic information. The Devil’s Gate Cave was first discovered in 1973. The cave is believed to be a shelter for ancient humans from 7,000 up to 9,000 years ago.According to the genome analysis of the ancient bones from the Devil’s Gate Cave, the research team discovered common characteristics that can be found in modern people and ancient people, such as brown pupils and shovel-shaped incisors. They also witnessed some common genetic features that can be seen across modern East Asian people, such as genes that make digesting milk difficult, that make one susceptible to high blood pressure and that create a weaker body odor and drier earlobes.The research team said that the ancient humans who lived in the Devil’s Gate Cave used to be considered to be ancestors to the Ulchi tribe that lives near the cave today. Researchers also showed that the Ulchi tribe has the closest genetic structure to today's Koreans, the team said. Also, the mitochondria genome found in ancient humans was the same as that found in modern Koreans.The research team also compared gene mutations between ancient humans from the Devil’s Gate Cave and that of approximately 2,500 people from about 60 Asian countries. |
What was an hour-long journey between Vijayawada and Amaravati, could soon be a 5-minute ride, with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) signing an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh government to build a connecting road between the two cities.The proposed route for the connector would be between the city centres of Vijayawada and Amravati.The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that HTT, an American research firm, has signed with the Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board (APEDB), is a first of its kind in India. The project will use a Public Private Partnership model with funding primarily from private investors.Bibop Gresta, Chairman & Co-founder, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies said in a statement, “We are extremely delighted to bring the HTT Hyperloop to India in partnership with Andhra Pradesh. HTT will work with local stakeholders to build the regulatory standards necessary for safe and efficient operation.”During the first phase of the project, HTT will conduct a six-month feasibility study commencing in October.Working with partners in the public and private sector, HTT will analyze the surrounding cityscapes to create the best route between the two cities, while identifying all pertinent stakeholders in the region.After conducting the initial six-month feasibility study, the second phase of the project will construct the road.Krishna Kishore, Chief Executive Officer, APEDB said, "Major cities of the world has seen a decline in livability and transportation has been a major contributor to the congestion, air pollution and accessibility. Andhra Pradesh is shaping the way it approaches transportation in the future. By collaborating with Hyperloop, Amravati is embracing a prototype for the mobility of future. "The project is expected to create 2,500 jobs and develop the region with its ultra-high-speed transportation. |
* darcs send now prints the remote repository address up front Previously it would first read the remote repository, which made it hard to see what was happening when accessing the remote repository hung. * Informational message about --set-default is now disabled by explicit use of --no-set-default (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2003) This allows users to silence the message by placing 'pull no-set-default', 'push no-set-default' and 'send no-set-default' in ~/.darcs/defaults or _darcs/prefs/defaults. * Handle _darcs/format correctly on get (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1978) This is mainly a forwards compatibility issue as no existing version of darcs would create format files that are affected by this bug. * Fix linking with libdarcs on Windows (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2015) This was a simple problem with a missing object file. |
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The governments of Russia and China submitted a new version of their draft Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (PPWT) on June 10, 2014, two weeks after the European Union (EU) completed their third Open-Ended Consultations (OEC) for the development of the International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities (ICoC) in Luxembourg at the end of May. The timing is not a coincidence, given that this is the first redraft of the PPWT presented for review since the original was presented in the Conference of Disarmament in 2008. That document was rejected by many states for a variety of reasons, including the grounds that it was unverifiable. Does this new draft address some of the major gaps of the PPWT that have been debated in the last few years? The draft treaty emphasizes a great deal on the placement of weapons in outer space, which would likely come in the form of co-orbital ASATs, but overlooks the more dangerous aspect of ground-based assets targeting outer space assets as demonstrated with the Chinese ASAT test in 2007. When they introduced the 2014 draft treaty, China and Russia offered an explanatory note. “We consider a legally binding ban on placement of weapons in outer space as one of the most important instruments of strengthening global stability and equal and indivisible security for all,” it stated. While this on its own is a worthy objective, there are several gaps that the PPWT does not address even in its latest draft. For example, the PPWT has not succeeded in receiving large-scale endorsement principally on the fact that the draft treaty does not address direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) systems. nor does it address soft-kill weapons such as lasers that could be employed to permanently or temporarily disable a satellite. The draft fails to address so-called “breakout” weapons, which could take the form of direct-ascent or co-orbital weapons, that could be manufactured and launched in the event of hostilities. All these are inherently destabilizing and bear consideration yet remain unmentioned. Rather, the draft treaty emphasizes a great deal on the placement of weapons in outer space, which would likely come in the form of co-orbital ASATs, but overlooks the more dangerous aspect of ground-based assets targeting outer space assets as demonstrated with the Chinese ASAT test in 2007 that targeted the defunct FY-1C weather satellite. |
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