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“Normally, there would be something that would fall under ethics guidelines, and there would be a complaint made by somebody, and it would go to the ethics committee.” “I don’t believe there is anything in the ethics guidelines that either of the two have violated,” Jasper said. “Had we believed that, that would have been the course we would have chosen. But there has been a lot of public outrage over remarks that have been made, and we’ll see where it goes.” |
We can you view this probably bring up with talk of his career what the course you know. Well he's had the second worst foresee on the team. Which only means that in terms of shot attempts they're getting out shot a lot when he's on the ice which in my mind always speaks to the defense's own. If you're Andy plays quickly and you're not allowing the other team empted the living your zone then you're gonna win that shot attempt battle. But at the same time he's the teams even strength points leader. Which means. That even though he hasn't had the puck all the time and even though they are getting dominated times at him out there he's still producing and that's the part of the game that comes along split the slowest I think to be comment Toews to become that culprits are Persia Iran even Bergeron. Took some time before it became that type with two way player. And I even went back and look at where Sidney Crosby was early in his career he once became and his prime. One of the most dominant accorsi players in the league. But early on his career it took awhile to become an all around player that's not what I'm just saying yes and as well offense was part of his game. Needs to be stronger and he's a little push cart too so he homeless guy who is is like you circled back right to what you're talking about before you know life it's I mean a lot of time it's inaudible line mates it's definitely not a vote the two wingers that are watching the maybe doing a little bit of a twirl or spin where he could've done that in. In use hawk you're or College Hockey you can't do it anymore teams are are he's playing against other teams. Top lines and these guys when they're in the opens his own work as a unit at three. So if your cinnamon down low is not recovering and doing his job you're gonna have shot attempts against and that's what IC with Jack. He's a little bit. Useful in the way that he plays defense that will. Get better with time soul. So what do you think about him being just like thrown to the walls and you know all second line center first line center playing its other team's top lines. |
‘I see a ring,’ said Bernard, ‘hanging above me. It quivers and hangs in a loop of light.’ ‘I see a slab of pale yellow,’ said Susan, ‘spreading away until it meets a purple stripe.’ ‘I hear a sound,’ said Rhoda, ‘cheep, chirp; cheep chirp; going up and down.’ ‘I see a globe,’ said Neville, ‘hanging down in a drop against the enormous flanks of some hill.’ ‘I see a crimson tassel,’ said Jinny, ‘twisted with gold threads.’ ‘I hear something stamping,’ said Louis. ‘A great beast’s foot is chained. It stamps, and stamps, and stamps.’ ‘Look at the spider’s web on the corner of the balcony,’ said Bernard. ‘It has beads of water on it, drops of white light.’ ‘The leaves are gathered round the window like pointed ears,’ said Susan. ‘A shadow falls on the path,’ said Louis, ‘like an elbow bent.’ ‘Islands of light are swimming on the grass,’ said Rhoda. ‘They have fallen through the trees.’ ‘The birds’ eyes are bright in the tunnels between the leaves,’ said Neville. ‘The stalks are covered with harsh, short hairs,’ said Jinny, ‘and drops of water have stuck to them.’ ‘A caterpillar is curled in a green ring,’ said Susan, ‘notched with blunt feet.’ ‘The grey-shelled snail draws across the path and flattens the blades behind him,’ said Rhoda. ‘And burning lights from the window-panes flash in and out on the grasses,’ said Louis. ‘Stones are cold to my feet,’ said Neville. ‘I feel each one, round or pointed, separately.’ ‘The back of my hand burns,’ said Jinny, ‘but the palm is clammy and damp with dew.’ ‘Now the cock crows like a spurt of hard, red water in the white tide,’ said Bernard. ‘Birds are singing up and down and in and out all round us,’ said Susan. ‘The beast stamps; the elephant with its foot chained; the great brute on the beach stamps,’ said Louis. ‘Look at the house,’ said Jinny, ‘with all its windows white with blinds.’ ‘Cold water begins to run from the scullery tap,’ said Rhoda, ‘over the mackerel in the bowl.’ ‘The walls are cracked with gold cracks,’ said Bernard, ‘and there are blue, finger-shaped shadows of leaves beneath the windows.’ ‘Now Mrs Constable pulls up her thick black stockings,’ said Susan. ‘When the smoke rises, sleep curls off the roof like a mist,’ said Louis. ‘The birds sang in chorus first,’ said Rhoda. ‘Now the scullery door is unbarred. |
If they ever watch it and see it here, they will like it.” “I thought it was boring until I got to the field. Then I heard the cheer, and now I like football,” said Abdulrahman Alsalhi, also a Saudi engineering student. “In Saudi Arabia they think it is fighting and there is no strategy. There is strategy, and you must have a good body to win.” |
sSak has an easy time to the round of 16 as the three remaining players in his group are some of the least skilled players in SSL9. The group starts off with sSak with Shinee. Shinee will win the game on Fighting Spirit but unfortunately for him, there are two more maps in a best of three. And in these days you can't even be sure of Shinee winning on Fighting Spirit either. The next game is Modesty vs. ZergMaN. Modesty himself claimed he was a master at ZvZ on his stream, he proceeded to lose to ZerO, and everything went down the drain. Fortunately for him, ZergMaN is not Killer exactly. If Modesty wants to claim anything he better win.Either way both the TvZs will be stomps. sSak is just too good at everything while Shinee went on a Zerg slaughter fest in Proleague. Shinee won against both Killer and hero (Fighting Spirit #1). Zerg like Modesty and ZergMaN stands no chance against someone that can take games off of the top Zerg duo. sSak and Shinee to advance.Oh boy, so many upsets can happen in this group. KwanroTerror? If you are a fan of hero and Pusan, things can go really bad in this group. The first match is hero vs. Kwanro. Initially you would think: "Hey, that's a great match-up! Kwanro is super fun when he early pools and makes everyone tear their hair out!" When Kwanro was first announced to play in SSL9 I was overjoyed. With the loss of a very special amateur , a quirky Zerg that stirred up the pot was exactly what we needed. Unfortunately, ever since he returned, Kwanro's play has been poor, uninspired, and unoriginal. The ridiculous cheeses and early pool shenanigans are nowhere to be found. And without his signature play, Kwanro is actually a pretty bad player. Unless Kwanro can bring some Zelot inspired cheeses, I don't see him winning a single game.Pusan and Terror has been at each others throats for a while now, calling each other stream-cheaters. Finally they get to duke it out in an offline setting. This match will include manner pylons, manner hatches, dancing units, and most of all; a bunch of trash talk. Terror wanted this match to happen badly during the group selection ceremony, and he got what he wished for. I imagine Terror preparing like mad for this. I'll tell you what will happen. |
NEW DELHI: The government is considering an ambitious income transfer scheme that could form the basis of a national social security system though opinion is divided over whether it should be a universal basic income or more focused support limited to the most vulnerable.The idea is being discussed as a means of addressing poverty and if a decision is reached, it could be announced in the February 1 budget by FM Arun Jaitley “There is a thinking… pros and cons of having such a scheme are being examined,” said a government official. Such a programme can have broad implications in terms of delivery as well as the fiscal deficit, said the official, adding that any decision will have to be taken keeping these factors in mind.Providing Rs 1,500 a month to an estimated 200 million poor will cost the government about Rs 3 lakh crore, resources that may be difficult to come by. The debate is between a widely accessible universal basic income that may stretch the social security net too thin and targeting specific groups.The government is committed to lowering the fiscal deficit to 3 per cent of GDP in FY18 though a committee is reviewing that road map. However, if resource generation rises in the wake of demonetisation and the upcoming rollout of the goods and services tax (GST), the government may be in a good position to back such a scheme.The target group is said to include unemployed people with no source of income. One idea is to put the money in the hands of the woman of the household so that funds are better utilised.Some policymakers are confident that Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana accounts and the Socio-Economic and Caste Census of 2011 will facilitate a targeted scheme if a universal basic income cannot be provided.The idea has been gaining ground across the world. Finland recently announced a basic income scheme for anyone seeking employment.The UK government offers a jobseeker’s allowance for the unemployed. Jammu & Kashmir became the first Indian state to commit to the idea of a universal basic income during its budget presentation last week.Chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian has said a universal basic income scheme can help address poverty, though implementing such a programme will be challenging. “People are dragged into poverty due to droughts, declining agriculture opportunities, disease and so on,” he said in October. |
Particularly the word emptiness is rather, is something that is very, highly misunderstood. I mean, I think in California it is understood well, because everyone reads, everyone is familiar about Zen and the Heart Sutra and Zen and the teachings, so people know about emptiness and sunyata a little bit. But in generally speaking, I sometimes find, if you go tell, like someone from the Midwest, that Buddhist do not believe in God, (Sogyal laughs) they believe in emptiness (big laugh Sogyal – big audience laughter). That worse! First tell them that Buddhists don’t believe in God, and secondly you tell them they believe in emptiness (laughs). That’s worse! That they believe in “nothingness!” That’s worse! That’s why you need to explain. Because when Buddhist say they do not believe in God, it does not mean that Buddhists don’t believe in the nature of God! Because the nature of God is the nature of truth, is the sunyata, or emptiness. The same! But Buddhists do not believe in the concept of God. Because in many ways you, you see, however good the concepts are, it does not do justice for the Absolute. All the concepts of God will not describe, really, what God is. Do you know what I’m saying? There is a wonderful saying by a great Buddhist master called Shantideva, who is a very great compassion master. He said, “Absolute is beyond mind.” That which is within the realm of mind is called relative. “Absolute is beyond mind.” Since God is beyond mind, it is beyond concept. Therefore empty, empty means free, open, like the sky. It doesn’t mean emptiness in a nihilistic sense, like my cup is empty of tea or something. You know what I mean? It’s not that kind of emptiness. “Empty” means free. It means limitless. It means open. It means uncompounded. It’s not created. Because anything that is created is subject to death. Emptiness is uncompounded. It’s unchanging. It’s beyond birth and death. It is sky-like nature.” |
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The canefields in the Dominican Republic are a space made significant through their history of slavery and violence—a racialized space. Canefields are where enslaved Africans were forced into labor and dehumanization. These Beli and Oscar canefield scenes are haunted by the displacement and violence against enslaved Africans, the displacement and genocide of indigenous folks, and also the revolts and resistance to these systems. Power of appearance Edit Beli understood how advantageous appearance is in the social situations of the Dominican Republic, but not until she had undergone major physical and psychological changes. Beli desired the same romantic experience as Oscar, despising school in her early years from being "completely alone" (83). Her loneliness derived from her "defensive and aggressive and mad overactive" personality that pushed people miles away from her. Unlike Oscar, however, her predicament reversed, becoming not one of a lack of power, but an abundance. She had to choose whether or not to take advantage of her new curvaceous body which puberty had generously bestowed upon her. With these new curves she was thrown into a world where she could get what she wanted, where she was given attention without having to ask for it. Her model-like body presented her with the relationships that she could have never attained otherwise. After recovering from her initial shock of the metamorphosis, she discovered how "her desirability was in its own way, Power" (94). She had been presented with a magical sceptre that allowed her to satisfy her desires. Asking her not to abuse that power was akin to, as Díaz says it "asking the persecuted fat kid not to use his recently discovered mutant abilities" (94). By utilizing her appearance, she gained a complete understanding of the influences of her body. The power of appearance in the era of Trujillo can not be underestimated, as seen by its dangerous consequences in the de León family history. Abelard Luis Cabral, Oscar's grandfather, learned this first hand after repeatedly refusing to bring his first-born daughter Jacquelyn to Trujillo's events. Trujillo's rapacity towards women knew no bounds, employing "hundreds of spies whose entire job was to scour the provinces for his next piece of ass" (217). Trujillo's appetite for ass was "insatiable" (217), pushing him to do unspeakable things. |
A large part of the initial motivation was to see if I could really merge the two and do it right. Could I blend the two together in a way that was reverent to Friendship is Magic and respectful of its characters. And could I do it in a way that made sense in relation to the show? These questions were first inspired by a picture by Dan Shive called “Pony Vegas”.However, the reason I actually started writing the story was to share My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with my friends in the Fallout fan community that I was part of. I decided to write a story that showcased what I loved about the show while presenting it in the familiar packaging of Fallout.While I garnered several readers, the amount of feedback I received from the members of the forum was almost non-existent, and I was struggling to press on. I felt the story had enough merit to continue, so I looked for advice on where an appropriate place to post the story where I might get more response. I was directed to Equestria Daily.How did you first discover My Little Pony Friendship is Magic?I hate to admit it, but I was teasing a friend of mine for loving My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. He rightly pointed out that if I hadn’t seen the show, I had no grounds to judge it. So he challenged me to watch five episodes, just a couple hours worth... and then, if I still wanted to mock him, he would willingly take it.I have a lot to thank him for. Not only for introducing me to such a wonderful show, and by extension this community, but for hammering home a crucial life lesson about judging something without having taken the time to experience it. Even more than that, he later became one of my editors for Fallout: Equestria.Littlepip and her friends have become fan favorites since the start of Fallout: Equestria. How do you feel about their reception and there recognition throughout the MLP community?Amazed, humbled and deeply honored.When you wrote Fallout Equestria, the show was still fairly “new”. As of right now we have many years behind us and new ideas and concepts that have been introduced to the show. |
The referee ordered the match to continue, but Wahoo missed the signal and Funk grabbed him from behind to gain a quick pin. Fans fumed and screamed, then filed out in silent despair. Long after most of them were gone, Freddy the insurance salesman maintained a noisy vigil at ringside, beating on the mat and shouting to nobody in particular, "People paid good money to come see this, and the damn referee is so stupid he has to ask the timekeeper what happened. There's got to be a rematch." There will be, Freddy, there will be. |
Puyi could not speak Manchu; he only knew a single word in the language, yili ("arise"). Despite studying Manchu for years, he admitted that it was his "worst" subject among everything he studied. [52][53][54][55] According to the journalist S. M. Ali, Puyi spoke Mandarin when interviewed but Ali believed he could understand English. [56] Johnston also introduced Puyi to the new technology of cinema, and Puyi was so delighted with the movies, especially Harold Lloyd films, that he had a film projector installed in the Forbidden City despite the opposition of the eunuchs who disliked foreign technology in the Forbidden City. [57] Johnston was also the first to argue that Puyi needed glasses, as he was extremely near-sighted, and after much argument with Prince Chun, who thought it was undignified for an Emperor to wear glasses, finally prevailed. [58] Johnston, who spoke fluent Mandarin, closely followed the intellectual scene in China, and introduced Puyi to the "new style" Chinese books and magazines, which so inspired Puyi that he wrote several poems that were published anonymously in "New China" publications. [59] In 1922, Johnston had his friend, the writer Hu Shih, visit the Forbidden City to teach Puyi about recent developments in Chinese literature. [60] Under Johnston's influence, Puyi embraced the bicycle as a way to exercise, cut his queue and grew a full head of hair, and wanted to go to study at Oxford, Johnston's alma mater. [61] Johnston also introduced Puyi to the telephone, which Puyi soon become addicted to, phoning people in Beijing at random just to hear their voices on the other end. [62] Johnston also pressured Puyi to cut down on the waste and extravagance in the Forbidden City, noting that all the eunuchs had to be fed. [63] Johnston convinced Puyi that he could open doors for himself and did not need eunuchs standing idly all the time by the main doors of the palaces just to open them if he should happen along. [64] Puyi cut off his queue so he would look like a Western gentleman and under Johnston's advice embraced the bicycle as the best way to move about in the Forbidden City, retaining a lifelong enthusiasm for cycling, though it is doubtful that the eunuchs working as gardeners much appreciated Puyi's habit of riding through the flowers. [65] |
For someone like Currence, who plays an essential role in supporting a culture that the state can be proud of and brings in outsiders and admirers like Bourdain to try to better understand the place, this act seems to evoke a kind of anxiety, the possibility that the place might not be so misunderstood, that the past isn’t as far away as he would like it to be. |
3. Valproic Acid Rodent Model of ASD The model of VPA exposure proposed by Rodier et al. in 1996 is one of the most frequently studied animal models of ASD [36, 37] (also see [38] for review). As reviewed by Dufour-Rainfray et al., this model exhibits many of the structural and behavioural features that can be observed in ASD patients [39]. For example, rats exposed to VPA in utero can exhibit physical malformations (e.g., ear malformations) which have been compared to similar abnormalities that have been observed in some autistic patients (e.g., posterior rotation of the outer ear) [39]. Furthermore, several independent laboratories have also shown that prenatal VPA exposure can lead to behavioral abnormalities that are strikingly similar to those observed in autistic patients; including decreased social interactions and sensitivity to pain, increased sensitivity to nonpainful stimuli, repetitive/stereotypic-like activity, increased anxiety, abnormally high and longer lasting fear memories which are over-generalized and harder to extinguish, and changes in specific types of pup ultrasonic vocalizations [17–28, 30, 31, 39]. At the cellular level, recent morphological data has also suggested that a decrease in spine density in forebrain structures may be a substrate for distal hypo-connectivity, while the increase in dendritic length might support the enhancement of local hyperconnectivity [40]. As pointed out by the authors, this notion is consistent with the ‘‘intense world” theory of ASD which postulates a main neuropathology characterized by hyperfunctioning of local neural microcircuits [40–42]. An animal model, to be considered as a relevant model of a psychiatric condition described in humans, should fit several criteria usually described as construct, face, and predictive validity [43]. Although the effects of VPA have been tested in rodents for many years, only relatively recently it has been used to model ASD in rodents for studying ASD-like behavioural features and potential treatment interventions [1, 26]. Roullet et al. have noted that the VPA model exhibits both construct and face validity [38], and recent work has now provided evidence that it may also exhibit predictive validity [26, 44]. For example, Schneider et al. previously reported that environmental enrichment including multisensory stimulation reversed almost all behavioral alterations observed in pups exposed to VPA in utero [26], while Woo and Leon have recently shown in a randomized controlled trial that environmental enrichment in the form of multiple sensorimotor stimuli was also effective in ameliorating some of the symptoms in autistic children [44]. |
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When looking at the two data sets with the greatest variation off the mean (brown and green belts), one does also not observe wildly different results. Finally, if gender were observed discretely, the results would be even closer to the base case SSDV than the other variables. Of all the variables to which this study was sensitive, gender mattered least in terms of the results. Altogether, this diagram shows that this study was not highly sensitive to sample size, belt level, or gender. The results were fairly consistent whether all data sets were observed, or just the data set with the greatest value away from the mean; all belt ranks or only a single belt class, or only females or males. If this study were to be repeated, future experimenters should arrive at an even smaller error range if data were collected from a larger sample size. In future studies, it might be interesting to look at other sports where handedness may have an influence on the results of the sport. One might also wish to explore where in a skill level continuum the break point exists between when players exhibit a high SSDV and a low SSDV. References Ekev, T., & Roth, A.E. (1998). Predicting How People Play Games: Reinforcement Learning in Experimental Games with Unique, Mixed Strategy Equilibria. The American Economic Review , 58-73. Georee, J.K., Holt, C.A., & Palfrey, T.R. (2002). Risk Averse Behavior in Generalized Matching Pennies Games. The American Economic Review , 19-34. Kano, J. (1986). Kodokan Judo. Tokyo: Kodansha International, Ltd. Levine, D.K. (2001). Introduction to the Dynamic Games. Review of Economic Dynamics , 19-26. Mikheev, M., Mohr, C., Afanasiev, S., Landis, T., & Thut, G. (2002). Motor Control and Cerebral Hemispheric Specialization in Highly Qualified Judo Wrestlers. Neuropsychologia 40 , 1209-1219. Roth, A.E. (1991). Game Theory as a Part of Empirical Economics. Economic Journal, v.101 , 107-114. Watanabe, J., & Avakian, L. (1960). The Secrets of Judo: a Text for Instructors and Students. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. Figures Figure 1. Mathematical representation of how learning right and left side throws doubles the number of single-side techniques. |
Q: Are you a vinyl collector? A: Yes, I collect White Albums. Q: Do you collect anything other than that? A: I own some vinyl and occasionally buy other albums, but nothing in multiples like the White Album. Q: Why just White Album? why not Abbey road? or Rubber Soul? A: The White Album has the best cover. I have a few copies of Abbey Road and Rubber Soul, but I keep those in my “junk bin”. Q: Why do you find it so great? It’s a white, blank cover. Are you a minimalist? A: I’m most interested in the albums as objects and observing how they have aged. So for me, a Beatles album with an all white cover is perfect. Q: Do you care about the album’s condition? A: I collect numbered copies of the White Album in any condition. In fact I often find the “poorer” condition albums more interesting. -snip- Q: Are you collecting as an artist or as a music fan? A: I’m collecting them as cultural artifacts. Q: Do you listen to vinyl records on regular basis? A: I listen to the White Album every day. -snip- Q: I’m trying to figure out if you’re a vinyl collector, or a music aficionado or an artist making an art piece with an object that happens to be a Beatles White album? Can you expand on that? A: I’m making an art piece using White Albums as material. But the process also very much involves collecting vinyl and listening to music. Q: Do you buy records other than the White Album for your art project? A: I occasionally buy other records, but I don’t consider these part of my collection. I “collect” only White Albums. Q: How did you come up with the idea of collecting first edition white albums? and why just first editions? A: I got into collecting multiple White Albums because every copy tells a story. Each one has aged uniquely over the course of the last half-decade. The pressings from 1968 were numbered, implying that it is a limited edition, although one running in excess of 3 million. |
Examples of this would be: dragging their dead or injured away, burying their dead, mourning over their injured or dead, running away, going into a rage and attacking you or even rushing in front of a mutant you are attacking and taking the attacks themselves. It begs the question, who's the real enemy? You are in their forest, using their resources and killing them. Endnight games gives you the option to think about it while playing the game. |
Escape velocity is 4.6% that of Earth, so we'll shrink the rocket down to 5% its size and now we have this: With this it's now barely larger than the person standing next to it.For one more example of how easy it is to reach escape velocity from Ceres, take this rocket for example in the video below. It was launched by a private team in 2004 and reached a velocity of 1.5 km/s. That's far below the velocity needed to escape Mars, still not quite enough to escape the Moon...but three times the velocity needed to escape Ceres.So for a rocket to escape Ceres you wouldn't even need the velocity of a fairly small rocket that a group of private space enthusiasts can construct all by themselves. That's a huge difference. Furthermore, looking here you can see a list of rockets built by some other rocket enthusiasts, some of which have maximum velocities over half that required to break orbit from Ceres. These rockets as well are usually only 1-3 metres in height. In short, the difference between the velocity needed to escape Mars vs. Ceres really is the difference between night and day.- A day on Ceres lasts 9 hours compared to 24.6 hours for Mars.- Mars has a thin atmosphere whereas Ceres (probably) has none- Mars has an axial tilt similar to that of the Earth, giving it seasons similar to our own- The gravity of Ceres is only 3% that of Earth whereas Mars is 38%.Granted, Mars maymore like Earth given all that. However, considering ease of exploration Ceres wins out on all three. A shorter day means equipment doesn't need to be built to withstand longer nights. Mars is closer to the Sun and so the amount of power that can be gathered during the day is greater, but the thin atmosphere is actually no help here: it's thin enough that Mars is a void in terms of human physiology (i.e. take off your helmet and you still die) but still enough that dust storms can and do often blow up for weeks at a time, obscuring the Sun and suddenly making it harder to gather power. A dust storm in 2007 darkened the sky in almost the entire southern hemisphere and almost doomed the rovers there, so these dust storms are nothing to take lightly. |
The Indian Buddhist Adept, Tilopa, once said, “If the mind, filled with ambition, should seek a goal, it only hides the Light.” Ma Tzu was being shown that his ambitious, goal-seeking inner mind, focused on the disciplinary and suppression of body and outer mind, was missing the point that the very status of his ambitious inner mind was the real target, the ox. Huai Jang could see that the ambitious inner mind of Ma Tzu was not yet fully stopped in its tracks, so he made the further explanation by saying, “Do you want to go on endlessly sitting in meditation trying to become a Buddha or would you not rather be a Buddha who just happens to be sitting when it is necessary to sit? If you want to sit in real meditative awareness, meditative awareness does not cling to sitting, lying down, standing up or walking about. If you would rather be a Buddha who happens to be sitting, Buddha-nature is neither motionless nor forced to be always in motion, which means that motion is neither accepted nor rejected. If you sit with determination of your non-Buddha nature to become a Buddha, you are killing Buddha in your effort to resurrect him. If you go on clinging to your stupidly ambitious sitting practice, you will never awaken to the true Dharma.” Upon hearing this with super-receptivity, Ma Tzu awakened within his Buddha-nature beyond all doubts, arguments and spiritual ambitions of his inner causal mind of duality. Ma Tzu could not help but bow thankfully at the feet of Master Huai Jang, for this was indeed the supreme moment of his life that he had most deeply hoped for, which he could now recognize. Even though he would need some further instruction from Huai Jang to avoid slipping back into his old ignorant state of wrongly centred spiritual ambition and effort, he had nonetheless been able to rise to the occasion and self-awaken with Huai Jang’s extremely resourceful actions and words. These two Buddha-natures did their dance of teacher and student, but that dance continues in your own Buddha-nature, if you can see it and hear it with superunderstanding; otherwise you will have to patiently wait, for your potential may not be matured yet to the point of self-awakening, in which case you will have to study many things and make many experiments with yourself. |
Who, in the end, realizes the error of his ways; who, in the end, is loved. The “You missed the forest for the trees” response: There's actually a message in “The Lego Movie” more dangerous to Fox News than the one they're complaining about, and, again, please accept this SPOILER ALERT. It's a message about change, and its inevitability, and how it's preferable to stasis. It's a movie that celebrates the relativism of the building blocks of our society, the constant change, the infinite possibilities. Pres. Business, in contrast, wants everything the same. He's cranky this way. He likes things as they were. Which makes him sound like almost every cranky talking head and host on this network. |
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Your suggestions for my Film International editorial piece were largely amateurish.Dear Mr & Mrs Radcliffe,This apology is regarding any film I saw on any given birthday with you, my Mum and Dad, throughout the late eighties and early nineties.Ghostbusters 2, Home Alone 2, Never Ending Story 2, Teen Wolf Too, Karate Kid 2... Sigh.Dad, during that period of time your favourite films included A Clockwork Orange and Blade Runner. This must have been a heavily traumatic experience for you. But then I suppose that's the ultimate sacrifice a person makes when they have a child: taste.Look Who's Talking Too is most notable for having a title that makes you picture a very wacky gentleman saying the title whilst pointing and shaking his head in disbelief. This is what a prick looks like.The second sequel included a dog. We saw that one too. For fuck's sake.Sincerely,Dear Sarah Butters,My high school crush. You loved Keanu Reeves. I loved you. I invited you to see Speed with me. Unbelievably you accepted.I thought that Keanu Reeves' heroism and vacant yet chiselled handsomeness would somehow reflect on to me. Instead you fell in love with Keanu Reeves even harder.I had to sit through Speed. I had failed to win your heart.I left you at the retail park without a lift home. My bad.Sincerely, |
After a lengthy debate with myself over how I had to operate two ESCs at the same time, I chose a channel mixer, which is used on ‘flying wings’ (one would say that I could have chosen Arduino, but I decided not to). I wouldn't even consider buying an airplane transmitter with a built-in mixer, because it was extortionate for me.Later, I’d spend all post-work evenings turning metal sundries and went to my dacha on weekends to weld and polish the stuff. Also, I ordered all sorts of M2 and M3 stainless-steel fittings at AliExpress and silicon O-rings for balance beams’ axels, and bought lock rings and springs at a local car accessories store.Initially, I planned to make roller bands out of black sealer. I decided not to use raw rubber, because it was too hard and I didn't know much about it. However, the sealer did not work either. Merlin sealers solved the problem, although I had to do a bit of grinding. I also had to hire a guy to laser-cut track shoe guides and drive sprockets.Next I was to put it all together – assemble the transmission and weld the tracks. The tracks consist of door hinges, the track shoe guide is argon-welded, and the treads are studded together. The output drive bar features two ball bearings and is connected to the screw gun gearbox with a pair of discs from an angle grinder.Later, the whole thing was disassembled and reassembled many times, and there were tons of sundries, which took tons of my time.Now, my first test drive.Now, my first test drive. The power unit included 6V brushed motors and a two-cell LiPo pack , but that was far from enough. I wanted 12V motors and hence I took out two automobile compressors. I also bought a lead accumulator, but it wouldn’t work because of poor capacity.Then I had to spend a few weeks jazzing it up, as I had to craft small tanks, the gun and other strap-on stuff. I had to cut a lot of old Soviet-style pots and kettles, skewers, cups, etc., as I needed the right kind of stainless steel and aluminum. It also took extremely precise impulse welding.Now that all parts are collected, here are some general pics.This time I used a three-cell LiPo pack , which pretty much sped up my little tank. However, it gained 17 kg of weight. |
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While you're running, ask yourself why you had to run. Was it truly an unexpected gank from the bushes? Were you too far forward in a team fight? Were you trying to solo merc even though you knew the enemy heroes are also going for all the mercs or even setting up a Gazlowe hunting party (it happens a lot!) You will probably be swapping to mercs relatively early. So avoid using all of your mana early. Remember that you get experience whether you hit the minions or not. Useto make sure you can safely stay in exp range. Remember to get the scrap when they die or expire.is good if you can center it on the caster minion, especially with. Remember that you have almost no escape moves, so don't overextend. You will die to a, etc.Later in the game your explodium charge will clear a whole minion wave in a single cast. It's still worth knocking them out as you drive by. The hardest part is slowing down the 2 seconds to soak up the exp.The hardest part of playing Gazlowe is learning when to merc and when it's safe to merc alone. Never merc when there's an impending team fight (tributes, doubloon turn ins, etc.) Early in the game (before level 10, maybe not even until 13ish), never leave a lane empty to merc. If your team has lanes covered, go for it. If your team is more of a roaming style and you're the one covering your lane, you will lose way too much XP leaving your lane for a merc camp.Don't try to solo forward merc camps alone. You'll just be feeding the team your XP and a softened up merc camp. Even on your own merc camps, try not to go alone when there's a good chance the enemy heroes are near or you've seen them aggressively counter-mercing.When you do get to merc, this is where you shine. The goal is to kill the mercs quickly, using as little mana as possible, and taking as little damage as possible. It's OK to take a small amount of damage, as you will get a regeneration globe. When you are done capping (not before! ), start recycling yours to regain some of that mana.Other tips:If you're low level for the camp you're trying to kill, start it out a little different. |
“Make no mistake,” she said in comments that appeared to be directed at certain European countries, “the Israeli government cherishes our strong and warm relationship with friendly nations... but we will not compromise our sovereignty. We will maintain our might, defend our borders and secure our citizens.”The justice minister was speaking at a symposium marking 80 years since the Nuremberg race laws and 70 years since the Nuremberg trials that was organized by the March of the Living International, the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights and Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, the same university, she noted, where her husband’s grandfather had studied law before leaving for Palestine in the 1930s. He was, she said, the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust.Shaked questioned whether Europe had learned the lessons of the Holocaust and charged that anti-Semitism continues unabated on the continent.“We can witness anti-Semitism today; in fact, the anti-Semitic voices seem to get louder and stronger still,” she said. “There are Holocaust deniers, and others wish to slander Israel and blame it for all the world’s travails. We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that should have learned.”Shaked said that unlike the period of the Holocaust, the Jews now have a state and that this is “an era of Jewish power.”“Some of our detractors may find that notion offensive,” she added. “But like other nations, Jews now exercise power. Yes, we exercise power ethically yet resolutely. "“We are committed to the defense and security of the Jewish people,” Shaked continued. “Israel was founded on the premise of offering a safe haven for the Jews. We shall never depend on others for our survival. We will determine our own destiny. We must defend ourselves because others failed to help us.” |
Reno, Nev. (August 18, 2011)— The GEA’s Inaugural National Geothermal Summit culminated on Wednesday after two days of intense discussions related to large scale exploration, equitable tax treatment, reducing development times, funding science and education needs and clearly defining geothermal’s intrinsic attributes and how the industry should market that to potential off-takers. More than 300 policy and industry leaders gathered in Reno for a successful session on moving utility scale geothermal energy forward despite challenging issues facing the industry. “The geothermal industry has the ability to provide a significant portion of home grown energy to U.S. households but we need three things: certainty from policy makers, permit streamlining, and constructive partnerships between business and policy leaders to expedite the process,” said GEA Executive Director Karl Gawell. “Megawatt for megawatt, geothermal employs four times as many Americans as natural gas, and the industry is creating thousands of jobs, even as other industries suffer. This means taking communities out of crisis and providing substantial revenue to local government.” The GEA National Geothermal Summit discussed the outlook for Washington D.C. and the western states, building new transmission projects in the west, new renewable energy policy developments in California, and moving geothermal forward on public lands. Panelists included John Wellinghoff, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC); Karen Edson, Vice President, Policy and Client Services, CAISO; Kathleen Benedetto, Legislative Staff, House Subcommittee on Energy & Mineral Resources; and V. John White, Executive Director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT). Paul Thomsen, GEA Board President and Director for Ormat Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Reno, Nev., said, “This summit created the foundation for state and national dialogues that will continue to educate agencies, utilities, developers and others as to the important role this industry will play as the industry continues to move forward. We expect there will be follow up on almost every critical issue that was raised. We see real dialogue between state officials to get the job done.” Stoel Rives LLP, also a gold level sponsor for the Summit, is uniquely connected with and involved in renewable energy in general and geothermal energy in particular. “The first National Geothermal Summit in Reno was a tremendous success and very valuable for the industry,” said John McKinsey, Partner, Stoel Rives, LLP. |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Google has unveiled an own-brand smartphone called the Nexus One. The wraps were taken off the handset at an invitation-only event held at Google's Mountain View HQ. The Nexus One is a slim, touchscreen phone built in partnership with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC and runs Google's Android operating system. It will be sold via Google's website and initially be available on T-mobile in America followed by Vodafone in Europe and Verizon in the US. Direct from Google it will cost $529 (£331) and on contract with T-Mobile $179 (£112). Google said the phone would ship from launch day. Mario Queiroz, Google vice president for product management, described the unveiling as "the next stage in the evolution of Android". Mr Queiroz said there were now more than 20 Android phones available from 59 carriers in 48 nations. The release of the Nexus One is seen as a move to ensure Google remains relevant as people search the web using mobile phones rather than typing queries into a PC. Google makes the lion's share of its revenue by selling adverts linked to those queries. NEXUS ONE HANDSET 3.7 inch touchscreen 1GHz snapdragon processor 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash GPS and compass Accelerometer Noise cancellation technology Voice recognition can be used with all applications Light sensor changes screen brightness to conserve power 512MB Flash memory with SD card slot (expandable to 32GB) At the briefing, Google said the Nexus was "a point of convergence where the web meets phone and is an example of what is possible on mobile through Android." "You will see it pushes the limits of what is possible on a mobile phone today," said Peter Chou, HTC chief executive. Google has set up its own phone portal through which people can get a handset tied to one of several mobile operators or untethered direct from the search firm. Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said this could be its main selling point as it would mean owners could decide which network to sign up with. "You buy the phone and then choose what sim card you want to put in," she said. Those buying an unlocked phone would be able to use it as a GSM phone on almost any network. |
2. Munger: “If we’d stayed with the classic Graham, the way Ben Graham did it, we would never have had the record we have. And that’s because Graham wasn’t trying to do what we did.” “See’s was the first high-quality business we ever bought.” “After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See’s, we’ve made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners.” “If See’s had asked $100,000 more, Warren and I would have walked — that’s how dumb we were. [Munger’s friend] Ira Marshall said you guys are crazy — there are some things you should pay up for, like quality businesses and people. You are underestimating quality. We listened to the criticism and changed our mind. This is a good lesson for anyone: the ability to take criticism constructively and learn from it. If you take the indirect lessons we learned from See’s, you could say Berkshire was built on constructive criticism.” “The main contribution of [buying See’s Candies] was ignorance removal. If we weren’t good at removing ignorance, we’d be nothing today. We were pretty damn stupid when we bought See’s – just a little less stupid enough to buy it. The best things about Berkshire is that we have removed a lot of ignorance. The nice thing is we still have a lot more ignorance left. Another trick is scrambling out of your mistakes, which is enormously useful. We have a sure to fail department store. A trading stamp business sure to fold and a textile mill. Out of that comes Berkshire. Think about how we would have done if we had a better start.” “See’s Candies was acquired at a premium over book (value) and it worked. Hochschild, Kohn, the department store chain (in Baltimore), was bought at a discount from book and liquidating value. It didn’t work. Those two things together helped shift our thinking to the idea of paying higher prices for better businesses.” |
Konkret: Er wird Steuern erhöhen und immer mehr Immobilienkosten auf die Eigentümer abwälzen, damit die Mieten für die verarmte Masse bezahlbar bleiben. Wir sehen diesen Trend schon heute: Mietpreisbremse, Bestellerprinzip, die knallharte Parteilichkeit der Justiz zugunsten der Mieter. Dieser Trend zum Neosozialismus wird noch durch den gigantischen Geldbedarf verstärkt werden, der für die ethnische Umvolkung gebraucht wird. Der Staat will ja auch in Zukunft seinem liebsten Hobby nachgehen und ungelernte, unproduktive Ausländer in Deutschland ansiedeln, obwohl er sich dieses Hobby mit den höchsten Staatsschulen aller Zeiten gar nicht leisten kann. Die Kuh, die sich zur Finanzierung seines Hobbys am einfachsten melken lässt, sind wieder die Immobilienbesitzer, die mit ihrem Klotz Immobilie am Bein nicht weglaufen können. Schon jetzt wird überall die Grundsteuer angehoben, um Merkels seltsame „Flüchtlinge“ zu bezahlen. Diese Leute kosten uns Steuerzahler ja etwa 100 Millionen Euro – jeden Tag! Dieser Trend wird sich fortsetzen. Folge: Durch diesen Multikulti-Neosozialismus werden die schon heute hauchdünnen Renditen von Immobilieninvestitionen noch dünner werden. Ergebnis: Je schmäler die Renditen, desto weniger lohnt es sich, weiter zu investieren. Bausubstanz wird verfallen, ganz Stadtteile, die heute schon am kippen sind, werden endgültig den Bach runtergehen. Deshalb: Vor der Kaufentscheidung gut abwägen, ob man sein Geld nicht lieber in andere Anlageklassen stecken sollte, die vor staatlichen Machenschaften besser geschützt sind. 5. Risiko Bürgerkrieg und islamischer Staat in NRW Die Sicherheitslage wird jedes Jahr schlimmer, auch dies ein Megatrend, der sich durch die Ansiedlung der arabischen Gewaltreligion weiter beschleunigen wird. Der Bürgerkrieg wird in jedem Fall kommen, es fragt sich nur, ob schon in zehn Jahren, in zwanzig oder in fünfzig – für Immobilienbesitzer ganz normale Planungszeiträume. Die Bilder aus dem Aleppo von heute sind die Bilder aus dem Köln und Düsseldorf von morgen. Es ist eine dumme Mär, zu glauben, Immobilien seien eine kriegssichere Investition. Das Hauptrisiko von Immobilien ist nämlich, dass sie immobil sind. Man kann sie nicht in den Koffer packen, wenn es knallt, wie seinerzeit Millionen von deutschen Immobilienbesitzern in Danzig, Breslau, Königsberg – alles teure Bestlagen – am eigenen Leib erlitten haben. Bei Brand oder Zerstörung durch Krieg zahlt die Versicherung übrigens nichts, da höhere Gewalt. Ein Totalverlust durch den Bürgerkrieg droht natürlich nicht überall. Kommt der Krieg, wird er sich wie in Syrien nur in Teilen Deutschlands abspielen. Im ethnisch chaotischen NRW ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, mit seinem Immobilienkauf in einem Kriegsgebiet zu investieren, natürlich höher als im weitgehend islamfreien Mecklenburg. |
For instance, in just the past two years, fines in excess of $400 million have been levied against both JPMorgan Chase and Barclays for allegedly manipulating the delivery of electricity in several states, including California. (25). Global Research confirms that large banks have recently expanded their businesses into such fields as electric power production, oil refining and distribution, owning and operating of public assets such as ports and airports, and even uranium mining. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley are no longer just banks they have effectively become oil companies, port and airport operators, commodities dealers, and electric utilities as well. This is causing unforeseen problems for the industrial sector of the economy. For example, Coca Cola has filed a complaint with the London Metal Exchange that Goldman Sachs was hoarding aluminum. JP Morgan is currently being probed by regulators for manipulating power prices in California, where the 'bank' was marketing electricity from power plants it controlled. We dont know what other price manipulation could be occurring due to potential informational advantages accruing to derivatives dealers who also market and sell commodities (26). It was revealed that GS exploited workers who endured dangerous and environmentally threatening working conditions through their ownership of a uranium trading company and two open pit coal mines in Colombia. When one of the mines was shut down last year due to labor unrest, Goldmans Colombian subsidiary requested military and police assistance to end a human blockade before paying the miners with $10,000 checks to end the protest. Since 2008, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley have engaged in many billions of dollars of risky physical commodity activities, owning or controlling, not only vast inventories of physical commodities like crude oil, jet fuel, heating oil, natural gas, copper, aluminum, and uranium, but also related businesses, including power plants, coal mines, natural gas facilities, and oil and gas pipelines. GS has led the pack in Mixing Banking and Commerce; Affecting Prices; Gaining Trading Advantages; Incurring New Bank Risks; Incurring New Systemic Risks and Lacking Key Information. Federal regulators and the public currently lack key information about financial holding companies physical commodities activities to form an accurate understanding of the nature and extent of those activities and to protect the markets (27) GS Fuels Nuclear Power Trade Majia's Blog reports that [i]n 2006 and 2007 hedge funds piled into Uranium. |
The government has begun a major offensive against the rebels A senior Maoist rebel leader in India has offered a ceasefire ahead of possible talks with the government. Koteswara Rao - also known as Kishenji - told the BBC that the truce, apparently without conditions, could start later this week. The government, which recently launched a major offensive against the rebels, has yet to respond to the offer. The rebels want communist rule in a large swathe of India. More than 6,000 people have died in the 20-year fight. Koteswara Rao offered a 72-day ceasefire across central and western India between 25 February and 7 May. "First let us have a ceasefire and stop killing each other. Then we will see whether we can talk meaningfully," he told the BBC. The offer came in response to Home Minister P Chidambaram's recent statement that the Maoists had to give up violence in order to hold talks with the government. "They don't have to surrender weapons or disband their army. They just have to stop the violence for negotiations to happen," Mr Chidambaram said. The BBC's Subir Bhaumik in Calcutta reports that the home minister is believed to be using a cabinet colleague for secret talks with the Maoists. According to senior home ministry officials, Railway Minister Mamata Banerji, who hails from West Bengal and who has always advocated negotiations rather than military action against the Maoists, is conducting the talks, our correspondent says. 'Last chance' Two weeks ago, Koteswara Rao offered to hold talks - but only if four senior rebel leaders were freed from custody and a security offensive against them halted. The Maoists have fought for a communist state for 20 years Our correspondent says the climbdown points to a division in rebel ranks over holding talks with the government. Koteswara Rao has been under pressure from other senior rebels to open talks with the government, our correspondent says. The rebels also fear continuing violence may lead to them losing support. At the same time, some analysts say the rebels may have offered the ceasefire to regroup and consolidate their defences in the middle of the security offensive. Mr Chidambaram says the Maoists have "one last chance" to hold talks with the government or the security forces will step up the offensive against them. |
It’s kind of like it’s time travel.” After Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 crashed in Ukraine in the summer of 2014, from what was ultimately discovered to be a missile attack, Toler and bellingcat used Google Earth to find the spot where the Russian anti-air team launched the fatal missile. |
Decide whether to roll ten crummy cigarettes to trade, or board up your window a little bit better against intruders. There will be intruders.Once we had a former soccer star. We sent him out running at night to scavenge supplies. In the hotel we found, for the first time, not machine parts and harmless rubble, but bad men. They had guns, like, real ones, and hostages. He came back too injured to go out again. The next night we sent the plucky journalist, eager to prove herself. She died there.A lot of developers tell me they want to make really hard games, and I love hard games. I think most of us do. I just like there to be a reason for the difficulty besides its own sake.is difficult as a facilitator for happy accidents -- eking out as long a life as you can in a brutal, freezing disasterscape, you finally manage to scrape up a serviceable homestead, only to realize you lost your only bedroll somewhere in the wilderness. You finally craft the hook, thread the line, carve the ice and try to fish, only to watch your crude little rigging disappear into the fishing hole, never to be seen again. You build an animal snare and accidentally tumble into your own fire.Every session is fleeting. You are not going to do well. You are not going to build a life here, in a place like this. It's an especially good game for two people to sit in front of a computer and dither with together -- all kinds of procedurally-generated games promise you those good stories to tell, to take away with you, and you get that here.But an even better takeaway is this private refinement of your own instinct of the rhythm of life. Each session, you get a little more sleep and a little less to eat, or some more fresh water and a weapon though you shiver within an inch of your life all the while. |
In case of an ambulance, the complaint has to be made by its driver and endorsed by the doctor to substantiate that it was on an emergency call when its right of way was obstructed," he added.According to the circular, the emergency vehicles when using the extreme right hand lane in emergency situation, indicated by a siren and flashing of lights will have the overriding right of way over all motorised traffic. All other categories of vehicles shall vacate the extreme right lane by moving to the left of the road/street, the notification said. |
También quiero comunicar a todas las comunidades mapuche que es un derecho legítimo continuar con nuestro reclamo de las reivindicaciones territoriales y del despojo que hemos sufrido durante años. Quiero también darles un fuerte saludo a los peñi que están en huelga de hambre en distintos penales, sobre todo en la cárcel de Temuco. Vamos a estar siempre presentes y pendientes observando cada movilización, apoyando, difundiendo, denunciado la mala práctica de las instituciones. En ese sentido, ¿cómo ves todo lo que está pasando con el “Caso Iglesias”, la “Operación Huracán”, la huelga de hambre y las negociaciones con el Gobierno? Veo yo que la operación huracán es un nombre que se le dio para darle más importancia, no sólo para la justicia, sino para los medios de prensa, para que le den bastante cobertura y puedan expresarse los grandes empresarios del país. Lo que vemos es que no es una acusación con fundamento, los peñis tengo la certeza de que van a quedar todos absueltos, lo mismo que en el caso iglesias. Ellos están convencidos de que va a ser así y si están movilizándose no es porque quieran, es porque no es justo lo que está pasando con el pueblo mapuche. |
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A special report by Elijah J Magnier on the ongoing Yabrud Offensive. His earlier report on the opening stages of the Offensive can be found here It is not the battle of Yabroud but the battle of Al-Qalamoun. Regular Syrian Army Forces, along side with Hezbollah Special Forces, initiated this week a ground attack against Al Qalamoun occupying strategic position and attacking cities around Yabrud. None of the forces engaged consider it is going to be an easy walk. The attacking forces describe the topography of al-Qalamoun, with its mountains and hills, as the ‘Syrian Tora-Bora’, referring to the infamous Afghan mountains.Over 45 air raids were carried against the rebel’s position in the area so far. More than 207 rebel fighters were killed. All three arms (ground, air, artillery) are fully engaged on the front line.Hezbollah claim that all car bombs are prepared in Yabroud, driven to Arsal and into its stronghold in the Bekaa and the suburb of Beirut.A few days prior the beginning of the attack, Shaikh Naim Qassem, vice Secretary general of Hezbollah, explained that ‘it was necessary to put an end to the car bombs coming from Yabrud’. Sayed Hasan Nusrallah, Hezbollah Leader, will be tomorrow evening on Al Manar TV to talk about the newly formed government; the Takfirees operation in Lebanon following the arrest of Naim Abbas, a commander of the Al-Qaeda affiliated Abdullah Azzam terrorist group; to prepare the Shia community for the lost of lives Hezbollah will suffer in Al-Qalamoun battle as he did prior the battle of Quseyr and during Hezbollah full engagement in Syria since May 2013.A high-ranking source in the joint military operational room said “Al Jarajeer and Al-sahel are fully under the control of the attacking forces, advancing at the moment toward other objectives close to Yabrud and engaged on different fronts. So far, we have counted 207 rebels killed even if the close contacts has been limited so far, allowing the fire power to pound all rebels positions in the area”. The source explained the course of the battle as following:Syrian troops and artillery are deployed East of Yabrud on all strategic positions and hills overlooking Yabroud, from Al Nabak to al-Qastal where Rima farms, Yabrud and Ras al A’yn are under artillery fire control. |
So do I, but I think the vibrancy of real renewal is far more valuable - for all of us - than a view. Edward Crawford is chairman of the Property Council of Australia Hunter chapter and lectures in property economics and finance at the University of Newcastle. |
A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to 22 1/2 to 45 years in prison on Wednesday for a shooting that killed another teenager's unborn child in Duquesne. Eric Taylor, of Duquesne, was 15 when police say he shot DaRae Delgado, who was also 15 and seven months pregnant, in May 2014. Delgado survived but the child she was carrying did not. "I do not hate you. I pray God has mercy on your soul. You will always be in my prayers," Delgado's mother said in a written statement that was read in court.Video: Katelyn Sykes reports from the county courthouseTaylor was convicted as an adult of third-degree murder, attempted homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and three weapons charges in May.Police say Taylor knocked on the door of the victim's home on Friendship Street, covered the peephole and then opened fire when she answered.Delgado and her family moved out of Pennsylvania after the shooting. They did not attend Taylor's sentencing hearing.In her written statement, Delgado's mother asked "Was it worth it?" and said her daughter "will never get over the fact her son was murdered before he could take his first breath. "Taylor was sentenced by Allegheny County Judge David Cashman, who told the youth that he had used Delgado's unborn child as a shield during her attempted assassination.Taylor did not make a statement in court.Defense attorney Chris Conrad said Taylor is innocent, and they plan to appeal the sentence. "It was a difficult sentencing procedure for us because my client can't show remorse, because he's not the one that did the shooting. He's real steadfast in it," Conrad said. "That's the only thing that could have helped him out, if he said, 'It was me and I made a mistake,' but that's why he didn't say anything in sentencing. "Get the WTAE Pittsburgh's Action News 4 App |
New state Telangana has recorded some bleak statistics in its first five months of existence - 348 farmers have committed suicide. While that will be a big issue in the state's first Budget session that began today, legislators are also pushing for a salary hike.The bigger pay package did not find mention in the budget presented by Finance Minister Etala Rajender today, but legislators from the ruling party Telangana Rashtriya Samiti or TRS say the government plans a Bill in this session to increase the salary of legislators from Rs. 1.2 lakh to Rs. 2 lakh a month.Such a hike will mean an additional expense of over Rs 38 crore per annum in a state that is reeling under a massive agriculture crisis brought on by an acute water and power shortage. While delayed and deficit rains have played havoc, social activists say no fresh bank loans and poor power supply this season have pushed debt-ridden farmers further into despair.Uttam Kumar Reddy a Congress legislator said it would be embarrassing to get a hike at a time when the entire state is reeling under drought.But Jupally Krishna Rao of the TRS said a salary hike for legislators hike was very justified and the Telugu Desam's Revanth Reddy said the increase should be even more. He said spending a little over Rs 3 crore on legislators salary was nothing at all, considering they had so many responsibilities and obligations as elected representatives.The BJP's Ramachandra Reddy said his party has not demanded the hike so they "are not responsible. "Across parties, legislators however justified the hike in private, saying they need the extra money to function effectively. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had also justified his proposal for a hike, saying that when they were presenting a one lakh crore budget, Rs 38 crore was not a big spending on legislators with many duties, responsibilities and obligations. Within the budget, a hike in Constituency Development Fund has been mentioned, from Rs 1 crore to Rs 1.5 crore that will cost the exchequer Rs 234 crores. |
TAIWAN-CHINA RELATIONS Ruled by separate governments since end of Chinese civil war in 1949 China considers the island part of its territory China has offered a "one country, two systems" solution, like Hong Kong Most people in Taiwan support status quo |
The Human Instrument - David Sweet believes in the power of humans -- and biometric sensors. Inter-process communications can help software developers connect with computer programs -- across a variety of software platforms. Shaping China’s Youth - Erin Litke takes us on a curious journey into the mind of China. Continuous attempts have been made by the Chinese government to "protect" the minds of their young people from too many outside influences -- but is this really a valid fear? The Chemistry of Creative Writing – Corey McClintock examines the provocative literary work of combined chemist, writer and holocaust survivor Primo Levi. Together, we’ll explore the unique parallels that exist between chemistry and creative writing. Exhibits Mutants & Chimeras - Alicia Tagliatela, a molecular biology student, investigates engineered mutants and chimeras to investigate the guanine-nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins) involved in transmitting signals from cell surface receptors to downstream pathways. In short: she’s really smart. Earth From Above - In the grand tradition of Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler, Joy Hof uses collaged mixed media and experimental pouring techniques to demonstrate a balance between control versus chaos as well as factual versus the imaginative -- in her senior exhibition. Land of Sky – In Western North Carolina, planning for growth is a collaborative effort. Caroline Ketcham weaves a unique narrative of public economic discussions and the synthesizing of community feedback into real strategies and solutions. HCFCs & You – What’s hanging out in the atmosphere? Hydrochlorofluorocarbons. Otherwise known as HCFCs, they are emitted to the atmosphere through industrial processes, where they contribute to the destruction of ozone and to an increase in global warming. Event information, including livestreaming, will be updated regularly over at www.rtp.org/RTP180. Additional Details The RTP 180 series is meant to be fun and light-hearted -- a sum of all the awesome of the Triangle. For RTP 360, we’re mixing things up a bit as we celebrate research, discovery and human achievement with our educational partners across the state of North Carolina. The hashtag for this event is #RTP360 and we'll do our best to livestream from our YouTube channel over at www.youtube.com/user/TheRTPNC. Afterwards, professionally edited video segments of our speakers will be posted there. |
To: Commodore Free Hi, Just reading Commodore Free Issue 78. Let's see: "Black Lord has created a web site about the Commodore LCD". Well, the site, the information and the emulator is collected/written/etc by me (nickname: lgb, just note the domain: commodore-lcd.LGB.hu), not Black Lord. I guess I can understand what happens here: on one of the Commodore 128 topics, Black Lord opened a thread about the Commodore LCD emulator, but he never mentioned that it's his work, he only linked my site. It seems some people thought that it's the work of Black Lord. The topic is: http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=4799 As you can see, the first post starts with "Posted in the CBM hackers mailing list by Gábor Lénárt", he only reported my work, as I am Gabor Lenart, nicknamed as lgb or LGB (which is from the Hungarian order of my name: Lenart GaBor). Here is my first post from the thread above: http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=4799.msg23689#msg23689 Also, check out the bottom of this page: http://commodore-lcd.lgb.hu/thanks.html And compare the mail address written there with the one I send my mail now from :) Hopefully it's enough to prove that the Commodore LCD emulator, documentation, site, etc is nothing about Black Lord, but it's about me. I would be happy if you can fix this issue, not because I feel so much hunger for publicity, but still it's a bit annoying to treat my hard work for someone else which is completely unrelated to this project... Thanks COMMODORE FREE: Hi Oh! Very sorry, this news item was emailed to me and I guess I didn’t pay attention while reading through, I will print your comments in the next issue, (that’s this one) I can understand you would be a bit frustrated about the error :-( and I must apologise for the mistake Regards Nigel PS: at least the website will get 2 x the publicity! From: Gábor Lénárt |
By By Matthew Hendricks May 26, 2013 in Odd News A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind. Half the mice died while all of the gecko's survived. The mice and other animals are to be flown back to Moscow to undergo a series of tests at Sychov's institute, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Bion-M1 space capsule, the month long space home to the animals, had launched into space on April 19 atop a Russian-built Soyuz 2 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. More than half of the 45 mice aboard the spacecraft died during the flight. All eight Mongolian gerbils and many of the other critters also did not survive. However, all of the 15 geckos did survive. According to According to nbcnews.com , the capsule in which the animals traveled to space, orbited 575 kilometers (345 miles) above Earth. That's higher than the orbit of the International Space Station, which is currently at a maximum altitude of about 421 kilometers (262 miles).The mice and other animals are to be flown back to Moscow to undergo a series of tests at Sychov's institute, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Space.com reports that on the same "space ark" there were also gerbils, fish and other creatures on board.The Bion-M1 space capsule, the month long space home to the animals, had launched into space on April 19 atop a Russian-built Soyuz 2 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.More than half of the 45 mice aboard the spacecraft died during the flight.All eight Mongolian gerbils and many of the other critters also did not survive.However, all of the 15 geckos did survive.According to foxnews.com , the purpose of the mission was to study how space travel affects living creatures. More about Space, Russia, Mice, Gecko, Geckos Space Russia Mice Gecko Geckos Mission Month |
Figure 5. The effect of NNK on α4β2 nAChRs, in the presence of nicotine. (A) Representative current traces elicited at −80 mV by the indicated concentration of nicotine (Nico), in the presence or in the absence of the indicated concentration of NNK. The currents elicited by 10 μM nicotine (top and middle panels) are representative of 11 similar experiments. The bottom panel illustrates the potentiating effect of 100 μM NNK on the current activated by 100 nM nicotine (representative of eight similar experiments). Bars mark the time of application of nicotine and NNK, as indicated. (B) Concentration-response relation for the inhibitory effect of NNK tested on currents activated by 10 μM nicotine, as illustrated in (A). Data points are average steady state currents (n = 11) measured in the presence of a given NNK concentration, divided by the current obtained after NNK was rinsed. Continuous line through the data points is best fitting to Equation 3, giving IC 50 > 100 μM (n H = 0.95). (C) Summary of the effects of NNK plus nicotine. All data are normalized to the current measured with 300 μM nicotine. Black circles: concentration-response for nicotine (same as in Figure 3; only concentrations up to 100 μM are shown). Red symbols: average fractional currents in the presence of 1 μM (squares), 10 μM (triangles), or 100 μM (squares) NNK, as a function of [nicotine]. Data were obtained as illustrated in (A). The values obtained with NNK were generally significantly different from those obtained with nicotine alone. Detailed statistics for the potentiation data are given in (D). The red continuous line is the curve best fitting the data points relative to 1 μM NNK, obtained by using Equation 4. The fit parameters were A = 1, B = 0.27, [NNK] = 1 μM, α NIC = 24 μM, α NNK = 5 μM. (D) The peak current measured in the presence of 10 nM nicotine was 119 ± 24 pA, which was brought to 160 ± 30 pA by 1 μM NNK (0.05 < p < 0.01, with t-test for paired samples; n = 11). The effect of 100 μM NNK was tested in a different series of cells, in which the average current elicited by 100 nM nicotine was 89.4 ± 19.4 pA, which was brought to 159.1 ± 25.1 pA by 100 μM NNK (0.05 < p < 0.01, with t-test for paired samples; n = 8). |
Medieval Food & Cooking Feasting and enjoying food was an important part of medieval life, because during a war there wasn't very much to eat. Nobles had to pay for food and wages for his household. Bread was the basic food in the Middle Ages, it could be made with barley, rye, and wheat. Wealthy people used thick slices of brown bread as bowls called trenchers to soak up juice and sauce from the food. Flour made for the castle was ground at the lord's own mill by his miller. Millers produced different kinds of flour, fine, to make white bread for the king or lord, and brown bread for the servants. Birds like chickens, geese, and ducks were keptr. On special occasions the wealthy ate swan and peacock. Beef and venison were well liked, so was pork. Mustard was a favorite ingredient. Medieval people liked fish and fresh meat that was not salted yet. Meat was salted in huge wooden vats so that the food would not spoil. Salt was expensive but large quantities were bought every year. Most people ate with their fingers and their own knives; forks were introduced towards the end of the Middle Ages. Many people thought forks were silly, but every one had to behave properly at mealtime. There were many rules on the correct way to eat and where people sat at the table. Before 1100 honey was the only way to sweeten food because spices were expensive because they came from the Far East. Herbs were used to season food and make remedies for the ill. Crusaders brought new foods like raisins, dates, and figs to Europe. Cereals remained the most important staples during the early Middle Ages, as rice was a late introduction to Europe and the potato was only introduced in 1536 (and for centuries was used almost exclusively to feed animals). Barley, oat and rye among the poor, and wheat for the governing classes, were eaten as bread, porridge, gruel and pasta by all members of society. Fava beans and vegetables were important supplements to the cereal-based diet of the lower orders. Meat was more expensive and therefore more prestigious and in the form of game was common only on the tables of the nobility and poachers. The most prevalent butcher's meats were pork and chicken and other domestic fowl. Beef, which required greater investment in land, was less common. |
We assume $p(x | z)$ also to be a (multivariate) normal distribution, i. e. $x \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu(z) , \sigma(z))$ , where $\mu$ and $\sigma$ are calculated given $z$.Lets now further assume $\sigma$ to be independend on $z$ : $\sigma(z) = \sigma$ --> $x \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu(z), sigma)$.Keep in mind that since we want to maximize $\mathcal{L}$.Since $p(x | z)$ is (or rather we chose it to be) a normal distribution, maximizing $p(x | z)$ is equivalent to minimizing $|| x - \mu(z) ||^2$ (since $p(x | z) = \frac{1}{Z} e ^{- \frac{||| x - \mu(z) ||^2}{2 \sigma^2}}$ ).Now we can simply express $\log p(x | z)$ by $- || x - \mu(z) ||^2 $ . All that we now left with is to calculate $\mu(z)$.Lets simply use a neural network again, which takes $z$ as input and outputs $ \mu(z) $ , which we shall call $x' = \mu(z)$.Here $\mu(z)$ is now equivalent to a deconder in an autoencoder, and as error function we simply choose the mean squared error (MSE) $|| \cdot || ^2$.Now making a few assumptions we have simply replaced $ \mathbf{E}_ {q_\theta (z | x)} [ log p(x | z) ] $ by an autoencoder (with noise $\epsilon$ added to the middle layer) and a mean squared error $|| x - x' ||^2$ which we want to minimize.-- > $ \max \mathcal{L}^\mathcal{AE} \iff \max - D_{KL}(q_\theta (z | x) || p(z)) - || x - x' ||^2$$ \iff \min D_{KL}(q_\theta (z | x) || p(z)) + || x - x' ||^2 $ .Now lets consider $D_{KL}(q_\theta (z | x) || p(z))$.Lets us now make the "last" assumption that $p(z)$ a normal distribution as well, with zero mean and unit variance $z ~ \sim \mathcal{N}(0, I)$.This allows us to calculate the KL-div analytically since we previously assumed $q_\theta (z | x)$ to be a normal distribution as well (see [1] for the complete derivation):$D_{KL}(q_\theta (z | x) || p(z)) = \frac{1}{2} \sum_{j=1}^{J} (1 + \log \sigma_j^2 - \mu_j^2 - \sigma_j^2 ) $.This gives us now our final minimization objective/ error function :$\min || x - x' ||^2 + \frac{1}{2} \sum_{j=1}^{J} (1 + \log \sigma_j^2 - \mu_j^2 - \sigma_j^2 )$.The last term can also be interpreted as a regularization term for the autoencoder, "pulling" the activation in the hidden layer towards zero (with a unit variance). |
Fortunately I was able to hike up the Rock Creek, which was mostly dry, except for a few trickles of water. The stones along the riverbed were encrusted in white mineral deposits.The water that flowed through it was tinted blue-green in some places and orange in others.At an elevation of about 9000 feet above sea level, I had to stop to catch my breath a few times on the way up. Near the top, I found that the creek was kept at bay by a beaver dam.I reached Gilman tired and out of breath, but was immediately invigorated by the sight of several rows of abandoned homes.I was supposed to meet a friend there who also loves exploring abandoned places (check out her Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/caroleyene/ ), but we didn't end up meeting. Just before I arrived, she saw a woman giving a tour of the place and quickly got out of there.I ducked into the basement of the nearest house and had a look around.The houses were mostly empty and many were badly weathered. It didn't help that most of the windows had been smashed.A few odds and ends were still lying around in a few of the homes, including an iron that looked very much like one my grandma used to have.Most of the homes had excellent views.The homes had coal chutes and were heated by furnaces.I found it ironic that this furnace bore the name "Solar National. "Gilman was founded in 1886 by prospector John Clinton and was originally named after him. The name was later changed to Gilman in honor of Henry Gilman, a well-liked superintendent of the Iron Mask Mine. In 1899 the town was decimated by fire, in which half of the structures were destroyed.I strolled through the quiet neighborhood in a state of awe. It looked like it was once a beautiful little community.Now the porches are sagging and decrepit.Pine trees grow up through cracks in the asphalt. Nature always finds a way.It is strange to think that children once lived here and school buses passed through the crumbling roads.The most prominent feature of the town is the ore processing facilityA large section of the building is in the midst of collapsing in on itself.There are also quite a few little structures that house emergency fire fighting equipment. |
An appealing aspect of considering mTOR as a target for anti‐aging interventions is the availability of rapamycin, a pharmacological agent that is a specific inhibitor of mTOR, and that has been shown to extend lifespan in mice, up to 30% in females at high doses and to a lesser extent in males (Harrison et al., 2009; Miller et al., 2014). Rapamycin is not an active site inhibitor, but rather creates a trimolecular complex between the mTOR kinase and an FKBP protein, most notably FKBP12 (Brown et al., 1994; Sabatini et al., 1994; Marz et al., 2013). This action disrupts the mTORC1 complex leading to acute inhibition and prevents newly synthesized mTOR from entering either mTORC1 or mTORC2, leading to chronic inhibition of both complexes (Sarbassov et al., 2006). Rapamycin has been studied for decades, tested in hundreds of clinical trials, and approved for use in several clinical conditions, including kidney cancers (Lamming et al., 2013; Kennedy & Pennypacker, 2014). However, rapamycin has important side effects, which limits its consideration as an anti‐aging therapy. The adverse effects of rapamycin include metabolic dysregulation (e.g., hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, and insulin resistance), proliferative defects in hematopoietic lineages, and others (Soefje et al., 2011). The metabolic side effects of rapamycin have been attributed to inhibition of mTORC2 (Lamming et al., 2012), suggesting that it may be possible to enhance efficacy‐to‐adverse effect ratios by specifically inhibiting mTORC1. Safety studies using rapamycin have been not been conducted in healthy people, so it is not clear whether rapamycin is harmful in healthy adults. Currently, several trials testing rapamycin are ongoing in healthy older populations, which will help evaluate the importance of mTOR in human aging and determine whether mTOR should be considered a target for interventions to extend healthspan. In summary, ongoing studies to address the role of mTOR in aging and to determine whether it is a valuable target for interventions to extend healthspan are extensive and will likely shed light on these important questions in the near future. Inhibitors of glycolysis Another area that is being actively explored as a strategy of mimicking DR is the inhibition of enzymes within the glycolytic pathway (Minor et al., 2009). It has been suggested that this strategy could provide a more effective upstream targeting to produce DR‐like effects rather than targeting single downstream pathways. |
The driver and passenger enter the EN-V through the front. The transparent panel either swings upward or pushes forward to allow access. Once seat-belted, the driver takes hold of a rectangular steering wheel about the size of a small tablet computer with hand grips on either side. The steering wheel is the interface with the vehicle's onboard computer, enabling the driver to manually steer the EN-V or set the vehicle to travel autonomously, connect to the Internet, and conduct a video chat with other EN-V drivers. Internet connectivity is through wi-fi, but the vehicle transmits collision avoidance signals to other EN-Vs via dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) , a 5.9 gigahertz spectrum allocated by the federal government for public safety.Pressing a button on the steering wheel brings the vehicle to life; it rises from a resting position into "balance mode" on two wheels. The sensation is much like riding a Segway scooter—in fact, the EN-V's propulsion and balancing systems are based on Segway technology. A push forward on the steering column moves the vehicle forward, whereas pulling it back brakes the vehicle. An EN-V can be put in reverse with the push of a button, but this would rarely be needed because the vehicle can rotate on its axis to face any direction. At least five EN-Vs can fit within a conventional parking space.The ride is smooth, although it has a tight suspension that lets the driver and passenger feel the bumps. Because there is no mechanical linkage between the vehicle's controls and its drive unit, the EN-V is not subject to inertia, making it very responsive to the driver's commands, says EN-V development engineer and demo driver Pri Mudalige, who adds, "It's the ultimate drive-by-wire vehicle, put it that way. "An EN-V scoots along at up to 40 kilometers per hour with a range of up to 65 kilometers on a fully charged battery. The driver can program the maximum speed as well as the rate of the vehicle's acceleration, deceleration and rotation on its axis. Mudalige set his test-drive speed at 16 kilometers per hour. The rotation was set at 60 degrees per second, although it can spin at up to 180 degrees per second.The EN-Vs performed as advertised during their CES demo, but they have a long way to go before they are road-ready, which GM projects will not be before 2030. Why two decades? All of the pieces have yet to fall into place. |
Bizarrely, this ruling tries to basically walk its way out of that in a footnote, saying that in that case, it only meantand "not the creation of new artistic work." Huh? It also seems to go against the ruling in Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley (again, in the 2nd Circuit) where reusing full concert posters in a book was declared fair use because it was for an aggregated book, rather than to advertise concerts. Again, it was using the work, but for a different manner. And that wasn't about data, but about new works of art.Basically, this ruling seems to ignore existing precedent in its own court for no clear reason at all.Also troubling is the analysis of "the nature of the work," stating that "an original comedy sketch created for public entertainment" Except that's ridiculous -- and not the least because (as noted earlier) this was a classic vaudevillian act that was performed by many others first and eventually by Abbott & Costello. Furthermore, as we've discussed in detail in the past , there's quite a fair bit of "joke copying" in comedic circles, with individuals copying bits and routines from others, and it rarely has anything to do with copyright. Instead, various social norms generally are used to "police" this kind of activity, and lots of comedians admit that the power of an act is in the performance (delivery, comedic timing, flourishes, etc.) rather than in the idea of the joke itself. The idea that copyright is specifically necessary for a comedy routine is simply disproved by the history of comedy and comedic acts,at the time that Abbott & Costello were performing.The court also rejected the district court's (correct) decision that there was no impact on the market of this use, since it would not usurp the market for Abbott & Costello's performance. The appeals court falls for a favorite claim of copyright holders, which other, smarter, courts have disregarded: it's the "but what about the possibility of licensing the work. "Other courts have rejected this kind of argument, because it would undermine this factor of fair use in. This ruling kind of admits that, but then brushes it off, and notes that since there are lots of requests to license "Who's On First?" that this would impact the market. |
The creature hatches after Nick Tatopoulos stumbles onto it and it assumes him to be its parent. Subsequently, Dr. Tatopoulos and his associates form a research team, investigating strange occurrences and defending mankind from dangerous mutations with the new Godzilla, which grew to full size in a few days, serving as humanity's protector from the new threats. [115] |
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I am writing this letter in an attempt to resolve a serious problem I am faced with, and am hoping I can count on you for help. I am sending this letter to other Democratic organizations in the Clearwater area as I’m not sure which Congressional district Gabe Cazares is running in. In March of this year, I met Gabe while he was here in Washington for a convention. We spent most of a very enjoyable evening together, dining and talking. I am not going to get into a big thing here about the morality of whether or not my relationship with a married man is right or wrong, as I know only that I enjoyed myself with him. This is not the main issue but has some bearing on it. While driving around that night sightseeing with Gabe, we had an accident. We hit a man going around a sharp curve in the road, and did not stop to see if he was hurt or even dead. I don’t know why, I only know that I was scared to death, and panicked — I guess we both did. Now, Gabe has been very good about this. He did not turn me in to the police, and when I called him later to talk about the accident, he advised me to get a lawyer and said that he would back up me totally. Since the accident, however, I have had constant nightmares which are horrible, and I’m a nervous wreck. I do not eat well and have lost almost 20 pounds. I decided to go to an analyst about this as I couldn’t live with myself, nor could I face the publicity and degradation of turning myself into the police. With the help of my analyst, I have finally decided that the best action is to turn myself into the police and rid myself of the self reciminations and guilt, but this is where my problem comes in. Advertisement I hold a sensitive government position which is obviously jeopardized by this situation. I realize that going to the police will also mean the end of my job. As you may know, the newspapers are going crazy here in D.C. with sex scandals and other kinds of scandals with government officials. I wouldn’t want this to come out as a scandal in the press. |
It's really hard to get your power level up after you hit 260. That's not really different from Destiny 1, but I'd like to be able to get it close to the max before I have to do stuff like the raid. Raids take a lot of time and coordination, and I don't really have all that much time. If I had more time, I wouldn't have extra money to spend on stuff like shaders. *shrug* Also, it's a real bummer to do Nightfall only to receive crap engrams. At least stick [i]something[/i] in there that's higher than my current level. Current voice chat options are voice-activited and push-to-talk. Push-to-toggle would be handy (push a button to mute/unmute), that way people don't have to listen to me eat because I'm not dexterous enough to hold a button while to talk while shooting. I kind of liked that Destiny 1 required a lot of strategy, particular when it came to hiding places in Nightfall. That was a lot of fun. You were squishy, and you had to stay out of the line of fire. The time limit mechanic adds an interesting twist, but it's not as fun as being squishy and hiding in weird places. [b]Overall[/b], Destiny 2 is a big improvement from Destiny 1. Yeah, there are some changes that I dislike, but you can't please everyone. Really, I'm just happy to finally have Destiny on PC; anything beyond that is just a bonus. |
There are few cards, however, that work well with demons and the rest of the demons are average or terrible for typical arena play. The two spells which synergize with the demons are great if you have a bunch of them, but otherwise bad on their own.In arena, you could spice up your demon synergy withand. Sinceis a common card, the deck should be easy to draft. Unless you can dig up something huge likeor a, that kind of play is not really game ending, so I gave this deck an average viability rating.Note:does not pick a demon from your deck. It just summons one of six random demons ---- and does not trigger the Battlecry effect. So don't expect to getfrom it.8/103/104/10Murloc decks need three cards as a core:and. Unfortunately,is a rare andis an epic, making drafting this deck a huge headache. Even if you get one Warleader early on, there is only a slim chance to get a second one.Furthermore,andare the only Murloc cards you would even consider for arena in normal picks. The other cards all die to any board sweeper and are subpar without any health buff. Since the deck is so difficult to draft and it is not always game ending, I gave it a poor viability rating even if you draw all the combo pieces. Nevertheless,is ok as a vanilla 3/3 and never a wasted pick.3/108/103/10The problem with Pirates is that currently there aren't enough Pirates and none of them are outstanding.is barely an ok pick andis unfortunately an epic: the captain is often competing with much stronger cards for a slot in your deck. You could pickas a vanilla 3/3 with the potential to buff your, but that’s about it. Some Pirate cards are good on their own or in combination with weapons, but since there are no amazing Pirates or cards which synergize with Pirates, it is not viable until better cards are released., weapons3/102/101/10Priest decks are offer a number of small but effective tricks. Just one mana forturns yourinto a 7/7 minion:makes it a 10/10.on anor a Gurubashi Beserker gives you a 7/7 for five or six mana and occasionally a 14/14 for just 2 more mana. As a bonus, Health can be healed back two a piece with the Priest hero ability. |
When we upgraded to Cat-6 cabling and better gigabit Ethernet switches, all of a sudden, Time Machine backups happened at a better-than-glacial pace, so we started doing them again over the network.So, in step two here, take that Text Edit document of all the glorious things you can accomplish with a home network and dedicated server hardware, and see if you really need to do it all.Reutilization of existing computers is a really compelling thing. A home server is easy, and mandates nearly no spousal negotiation, if you're taking idle hardware.Got a Core Duo Mac mini? After you've blown the sticky dust out of it (and you've done this with that run of mini, right? ), it can be connected to USB 2.0 multiple drive cases to serve media, and some light lifting.Like I mentioned before, we had a Mac Pro (1,1) sitting about. At the start, it had four cores, dual gigabit Ethernet, and PCI-E. Four drive slots we supplemented with a SATA card and a bracket for the optical bay to cram it absolutely full of hard drives.Ultimately, we had a pair of 64GB SSDs, plus eight hard drives internal hanging off the machine's six SATA ports, two ATA ports, and SATA PCI-E expansion ports. On the Pro, there was no need for external cases, but man, the power demand was rough —probably $10 per month. However, that's still way cheaper than a new Mac mini would be, if a bit bulky.There are some commonalities between the two machines I've mentioned —there are some upgrade paths. The Core Duo mini can be re-cored to a Core 2 Duo with some finesse required, and perhaps a new processor heat sink standoff or two.The 1,1 Mac Pro can be (and was!) boosted to eight cores , making it much more powerful than it was at launch, challenging even some newer iron. Other Mac Pro models have different upgrade options for processors, with the last 5,1 capable of 12-core processing.Obviously, the Mac Pro can take better array of drives than the mini can internally. More modern machines can't really take upgrades or more internal drives gracefully, and you'll be better off hanging externals off of them through whatever high-speed interface you can muster. USB 2.0 externals are generally more than enough for basic file access across a wireless networkIf you're strapped for cash, or would rather spend on storage, think outside the box. |
As the developing world's coastal cities drowned, across the globe, only the wealthiest cities managed to save themselves from falling beneath the waves by hastily constructed sea walls. Tokyo, Washington DC, New York, and London all found themselves fighting to survive against the seven meter rise in global sea levels. CO2 production had finally stymied by the 2030s with the Electric Vehicle revolution, but the demand for energy put ever greater strain on the global economy, even with Helium-3 shipments from Luna and new improvements in Solar energy. All of this was ultimately secondary in the global zeitgeist when compared to the Population Crisis that drove the Recession of 2027. The sitting administration made several attempts to save the global economy with economic theories left over from the Reagan and Obama administrations, but to no success. This led to the election of Dylan James Price to the Presidency. President Price pushed for an aggressive immigration incentive program to attract skilled immigrants to the US and close the labor gap met by an aging population and increased global demand for high tech goods and services. This is where a silver lining to the rising tide became apparent; as more urban centers found themselves underwater, the displaced populations could fill the labor shortage in the developed world, taking advantage of the new immigration incentives, none more aggressive than those of the United States and Canada (though with the first people's more aggressive calls for independence, Canada was still far behind the US in incentives). Millions of Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, Nigerian, Chinese, Indian, and Bengali immigrants flooded into North America as their home countries drowned, driving the United States population to 400 million citizens. |
Developing the Islamic penal system Q: What about developing the Islamic penal system and reconsidering it in the light of the secular law? A: I believe that there is a possibility to develop the penal system in Islam, and I believe in the legitimacy of all the questions brought up from within the Islamic circle with regards to the issue of stoning for example, and they are all questions that are not out of the context of the known rules of deriving Fatwas, for there is nothing that stands in the way of putting up for discussion the issue of the instantaneousness of the punishment of the apostate or stoning the adulterer/adulteress. Moreover, such questions ought to be handled in a scientific manner away from the psychological pressures created by the media or the pressures exerted by many states and organizations. As such, the possibility of developing the other acts of punishment can be brought up, and actually some jurisprudents did propose something in this regard which was deliberated in the Hawzas under the question: Can we replace some disciplinary punishments with financial penalties (fines), for it is not preconditioned that the punishment be physical in all cases? I believe that there are indications in the texts that support the possibility of coming out with a conception that allows developing the penal system in Islam in lots of its details, yet not comprehensively. One of the most important elements that is useful in this regard is the attempt to perceive lots of the connotations in the penal system as instantaneous and circumstantial measures that can be replaced with other things. We are concerned with asking questions and thinking in a new way that does not go out of the context of the known mechanisms of understanding the religious texts. Some might see my propositions and words as unusually bold, but I believe that I can theorize for them through the recognized mechanisms of Ijtihad. In this context, a question might be raised: What is the purpose of the penal system? Indeed, it is not meant to torture people and retaliate upon them. The penal law in the Islamic legislation, just as in other laws, is a deterrent force that aims at maintaining stability, organizing the society, preventing chaos and putting an end to crime and whatever the Shariah deems Haram. |
BANGALORE: In the second such instance in less than 10 days, a six-year-old girl was allegedly raped on Tuesday and Wednesday by a Hindi teacher on the campus of her private school in east Bangalore.The 37-year-old faculty member, identified as Jaishankar , was picked up for questioning on Thursday. He is believed to have raped her in the boys’ toilet. The second rape was committed around 3.30pm.On Tuesday, when the class I student complained of irritation in her private parts, her mother thought it was an infection. On Wednesday evening, when she again complained of pain, the mother rushed her to a gynecologist, who confirmed the sexual assault but refused to give it in writing or help further with police procedures.The mother, a housekeeping employee at a private firm, was shocked and didn’t know how to react. She sent the girl to school on Thursday. At the woman’s office, her colleagues saw her crying. When they asked her, she told them about the incident.The colleagues tried to call the child helpline, but there was no response even after several calls. They finally managed to contact the Child Welfare Committee . The colleagues also got in touch with an NGO worker they know. The worker took the child to a government hospital.Only a gynecologist and a pediatrician were on duty at the hospital. The doctors reportedly told the girl’s mother that such a case required medical examination by a forensic expert. By then, CWC members had approached the jurisdictional Jeevan Bima Nagar police.The girl’s father, a cab driver, and mother took the girl to the police station around 3.30pm. The child identified the teacher by name. Based on this information, police detained the teacher. Around 9.40pm, police went to the school for investigation. The family was shocked as the accused had given tuitions to the girl’s mother.Additional commissioner of police (law & order) Alok Kumar said: “The girl told her mother she was abused on October 28 and 29. We’re questioning the Hindi teacher based on initial investigation.” Police sources said the girl was taken to Bowring Hospital and subjected to medical tests late on Thursday night.People protesting in front of Jeevan Bhima Nagar police station. (TOI Photo)Jeevan Bima Nagar police booked a case under Section 376 of IPC and Sections 5 and 16 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.“I came to know about the incident around 8.30pm. |
One of the Deputy CEOs had taken just a sip of white wine and his face had immediately flushed red. "We've really done ourselves proud this time!" Fat Sis asked, "Zhang'er, do you think that Plants vs. Zombies can exceed 100 million downloads?" Zhang Ye laughed. "I don't know, but I think there's a good chance." A female staff member said excitedly, "It's definitely not going to be a problem! We've already reached 8 million downloads today! I think we can finish the week with 10 million downloads!" Another staff member added, "Yeah, the sales figures are also out. Paying customers stand at 47% of all users and there are literally millions of yuan coming in every day!" Their company had initially developed their previous game with an investment of a few million RMB. But after Zhang Ye made his changes to it, although the outlook of the game had changed drastically in Plants vs. Zombies, the core game engine was still the same and there was no need to rebuild the game from scratch. Therefore, even though the publicized investment amount of Plants vs. Zombies was over ten million, it was just a figure of speech and did not reflect anything too accurately. If they were to exclude Zhang Ye's endorsement, copyright, and production fees, the entire sum the company invested was just several million RMB, which was also the maximum amount that their company could afford at that time. But now, their returns were obviously going to be much greater! The daily earnings of Plants vs. Zombies were almost about to offset the entire investment into this game! The remaining sales were pure profit! This time, they were going to earn big! During the dinner, the atmosphere was extremely warm and the staff were all visibly excited. After some pushing around of wine glasses, Fat Sis looked at Zhang Ye and brought up the matter of the endorsement fee again. "Zhang'er, the game is selling like crazy because of you. You were the one who designed this game, but we have yet to talk about your endorsement and copyright fee. We had a management meeting at the company yesterday and touched on this matter. Whatever is between you and me shall remain private, but we still have to keep business as business and make everything clear beforehand." Zhang Ye gave a wave of his hand. "Fat Sis, we can talk about this in the future. |
And that might just do the trick. That might be the ticket to way less confusion and suffering. But obviously I’m not Marty McFly or a character in an H.G. Wells novel. If we’re talking about what to do moving forward, we might think about doing away with the life-denying, fear-instilling, divisive aspects of organized religion (that doesn’t mean all religion); and reforming our economic system to be, like, not dehumanizing and rooted in manipulation and enormous inequality; and re-imagining education as something that looks less like corporate bootcamp and more like the pursuit of natural curiosity; and conceiving health care and immigration legislation that empathizes with human beings who are suffering; and realizing the necessity of a pharmaceutical industry not based on profit and knee-jerk prescriptions; and transforming mainstream media into something not entirely vapid, glorifying of violence/self-destruction, and based on deliberate misrepresentation; and re-designing our prison system as a system of rehabilitation rather than demonization; and ceasing to arrest/imprison people for victimless crimes; and stocking grocery store shelves with wholesome, nutritious foods (not to mention food that doesn’t come from environmentally-unfriendly and animal-abusing factory farms) instead of rubbish; and treating addiction/drug abuse as a medical condition rather than evidence of inherent sinfulness; and getting our hundreds of thousands of homeless people some food and shelter; and making it more difficult for Joe Briefcase to purchase insanely dangerous, high-powered killing machines (i.e. guns); and finding ways to deter police brutality against unarmed citizens and hold violators accountable; and weighing the possible benefits of a Universal Basic Income and a shorter work week. |
We were early adopters, and the door people took notice. We adopted b-boy style, mixing it with our punky outfits, and by 1982 we had transformed into hip-hop-loving white kids with punk backgrounds — fresh Pumas, fat laces, ski hats, lumberjack jackets and all. It was half a goof, half homage. It just was. We were the first wave of kids from the so-called hardcore scene who had crossed over to the adjacent culture of hip-hop. Shell toes with fat laces had replaced combat boots and hi-top chucks. I wrote graffiti and traded moshing for breaking (though I was never very good). We explored trendy clubs like Danceteria and later Area. My friends started rapping, transforming their sound from a hardcore band to a rap group. They called themselves the Beastie Boys. Just a few years earlier, they had been a full-on hardcore band with an EP called Egg Raid On Mojo. Their foray into rap music, “Cookie Puss,” was a flukey success, a celebration of Tom Carvel’s infamous ice cream cake delight. Its release coincided with the record that changed it all: Run-D.M.C.’s “Sucker MC’s” backed with “It’s Like That.” They both came out in the spring of ’83, and for a lot of us, by then hardcore was not the move it had once been. Run-D.M.C. was a pure, cathartic musical release, not dissimilar to when I first experienced the Bad Brains a few years earlier. They were shouting at us the way hardcore had. The songs were all drums, no melody, and I couldn’t fathom anything punker than that. The Bad Brains had broken up, Black Flag had gone weird, hardcore had gone all macho tough guy, and like many would down the road, we had lost the faith. Run-D.M.C. became our new church and hip-hop our religion. |
I'm not sure why anyone would have this guy on TV -- according to his Congressional testimony, he has serious I'm not sure why anyone would have this guy on TV -- according to his Congressional testimony, he has serious memory lapses about precisely what his role in designing Obamacare was in the first place. MIT economist Jonathan Gruber�s factually impoverished testimony on Obamacare didn�t get nearly the attention it should have, as congressional Democrats cleverly decided to release a report on CIA torture abuses on the same day. Gruber's stonewalling about videos in which he boasted that the "stupidity" of the American people and their "lack of transparency" had been the key to passing Obamacare was buried deep inside major papers and ignored by the next morning's network-TV shows. John Harwood of CNBC dismissed his testimony: "I'm sorry, Gruber is a nothingburger and always has been." Mark Halperin of Bloomberg News chimed in: "This has been a sideshow. . . . It has no impact whatsoever." Halperin will be right if journalists continue to look the other way and fail to probe more deeply into the issues Gruber has raised. The lack of curiosity many of them display about a witness who used variations of "I don�t recall" 20 times during his testimony is remarkable. One journalist explained to me that many of his colleagues have bought into the liberal argument that Gruber was just a bit player in the Obamacare spectacle, even though many journalists played up his role just a few years ago. "He's not a legislator. He's not a staff guy. He's like 300 million other Americans who can have their opinion,� now sniffs Jay Angoff, a Department of Health and Human Services official who worked on implementing the health-care legislation. So many of his statements he's claimed were "inexcusable mistakes," and many of the things he did he just can't remember -- he claims. So many of his statements he's claimed were "inexcusable mistakes," and many of the things he did he just can't remember -- he claims. Why are we still talking to him, then? If I'm to believe his Congressional testimony, he's an "inexcusable" incompetent and a partial amnesiac. Why are we still talking to him, then? If I'm to believe his Congressional testimony, he's an "inexcusable" incompetent and a partial amnesiac. Posted by: Ace at 11:32 AM |
Many times, your cards' efficiency are determined on how well your opponent can respond to them.Do these two cards scream out card advantage to you? Ancestral Spirit and Counterspell are cards that don't have a specific amount of card advantage that can be gained by reading their effects. In fact, looking at them briefly, they should be classic examples of 1-for-1. Ancestral Spirit basically gives you the minion back for the cost of a card, while Counterspell negates the effect of an opponent's spell. Simple, right? Not so fast. First, let us look at ancestral spirit * Gaining card advantage: You play argent commander and run it into the opponent's azure drake , removing its Divine Shield. Next turn, the opponent plays a dark cultist . It's your turn. You play Ancestral Spirit on Argent Commander, and run it into the Dark Cultist. Both minions die, but Argent Commander gets revived, Divine Shield intact. Furthermore, it gets to attack again. In this situation, you've basically traded your Ancestral Spirit for the enemy's Azure Drake and Dark Cultist, effectively a 1-for-2, while keeping your Argent Commander in perfect shape. * Losing card advantage: You play chillwind yeti , and cast your Ancestral Spirit on it. During your opponent's turn, he summons spellbreaker , silences your Yeti, and then remove it with a fireball . Suddenly, you're down 2 cards, while the opponent only spent the Spellbreaker's battlecry, along with a card in Fireball. Effectively, you've just gotten 2-for-1-ed. Time to evaluate counterspell * Gaining card advantage: Opponent plays nourish into your Counterspell. You and your opponent just traded evenly (in term of cards) right? Not at all! He was just about to use his Nourish to draw 3 cards, but your Counterspell stopped it in its track. You just 1-for-4 your opponent right there. Effectiveness, unlike decision-making, is result-oriented. * Losing card advantage: Opponent plays sinister strike into your Counterspell. Surely this time, it would be an even trade of cards? Nope! If the effect of Sinister Strike was allowed to resolve, he would be down a card regardless. The card is designed to 0-for-1 itself. However, suddenly now your Counterspell was taken down with it. |
Read the German version of this article (including more politicians) here. Jean Pisani-Ferry: Britain’s Road to Obedience Instead of liberating Britain from European influence, the so-called "Brexit" would make the country a European economic satellite. Jean Pisani-Ferry heads the French government’s strategic commission for policy planning. He is a former economics professor and was also a director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank. Everybody knows it is not Europe that will shape the 21st century. The days when this continent ruled have long since passed. Gone even are the days when its values shaped the building of the global order. Yet we still have the resources to be significant players in the global conversation. Economically, monetarily, financially, militarily, culturally and, ultimately, politically, we continue to matter. We can still promote multilateralism, the rule of law, fair competition, even democracy and social justice. And whereas there is nothing we can dictate anymore, there is as yet no international law that we must abide by without having been party to its drafting. This remaining influence, however, only holds as long as we know what we stand for and remain together. A British decision to leave the EU would weaken it significantly. Without Britain, Europe would still have weight, but a severely diminished one. It would have lost its financial center. It would be put at a distance from its common language, a large part of its cultural heritage and its best universities. And the global London-based media, that are often more European than British, would inevitably become more detached. For sure, geography would still matter and the Eurostar would still run from London to Paris and Brussels. But the powerful logic of divorce would tear preferences and behaviors apart. For sure, the other EU members might find it easier to agree on the budget or social policies. But a Brexit would not dispel home-grown continental Euroscepticism. Britain would be set to lose even more. The careful competence review carried out by the Foreign Office over the last three years has not identified significant fields where repatriation of decision-making powers would benefit the UK. Instead, it has found many where it would have to pay an economic price for leaving the EU. For this reason, Britain would in all likelihood want to retain access to the European market. |
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Moreover, Israel has “turned a blind eye to the outposts set up with the sponsorship of the Settlement Department of the [World Zionist Organization], which receives its budget from the government.”[26] In response to the dwindling number of new “authorized” settlements, settlement activists have created an increasing number of “outposts,” or settlements constructed without prior Israeli approval. Thanks to the combination of new outpost construction and the continuing enlargement of existing settlements, the number of settlers has continued to accelerate since 2001. [27] The fastest-growing sectors among settlers include “national-religious” Jews, who believe in a Biblical right to expand the boundaries of Israel to include the West Bank. [28] National-religious settlers comprise more than 80 percent of the 70,000 settlers east of Israel’s “separation barrier” in and around the West Bank. [29] The second fastest-growing sector is ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are the majority of the population in settlements to the west of Israel’s separation barrier. Most live there for economic rather than ideological reasons. In 2005, an Israeli government report on the outposts identified 105 outposts, including 15 located wholly on Palestinian private property and 39 partly on Palestinian private property. Written by Talya Sasson, an Israeli Justice Ministry official, at the request of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the report sharply criticized the government for providing the outposts, which are illegal under Israeli as well as international law, with support and services that in some cases rivaled those offered to officially recognized settlements. The Sasson report also criticized the role of the settlement division of the World Zionist Organization (WZO) – an international, non-governmental body, whose settlement division is funded by the Israeli government and leases lands to settle in the West Bank from the Civil Administration. The report found that the WZO had improperly provided lands it administered to settlers, who erected outposts without necessary approvals and notifications and had even established settlements on privately owned Palestinian lands; the report recommended that the Civil Administration immediately cancel any outstanding land allotments to the WZO, among other measures. [30] The Civil Administration, the report found, had in turn allocated settlements privately owned lands and lands whose ownership Israel had not determined (a category that Israel refers to as “survey land”), and had authorized the connection of outposts to water and electricity networks. Subsequent Israeli governments have not implemented the report’s recommendations. |
Method Sample and Procedure The methods for this study were approved by the boards of ethics at the participating institutions. All of the men participated anonymously, were apprised of their rights as study participants, and gave their consent to participate before data collection was initiated. Steps were also taken to ensure their safety. At the completion of the survey the participants were given information about obtaining help for any type of IPV victimization and how to delete the history on their Internet web browser. In order to participate, the men had to speak English, live in the U.S., and be 18–59 years old. To reduce costs of survey administration, we required that the men speak English. We sought men who were between the ages of 18– 59 because reporting laws in various states would require us to report instances of child abuse (i.e., victims under 18 years of age) and elder abuse (i.e., victims over 59 years of age), and we wanted the survey to remain anonymous and free from any reporting clauses in the consent process, so that participants would feel comfortable being honest in their reporting. We restricted our sample to U.S. residents so that we could understand the experiences of men in a single nation. Furthermore, to increase accurate recall of the IPV in the relationship and to be consistent with previous studies of IPV (e.g., (Straus 2004a), we required that the men had to have been involved in an intimate relationship with a woman in the previous year lasting at least one month. We also required that they sustained a physical assault from their female partner within the previous year. We required a physical assault because that is an objective indicator of IPV that is considered illegal under U.S. law. We restricted our sample to men in relationships with women because our focus is on men in heterosexual relationships and their experiences might differ from men seeking help for IPV in gay relationships. Finally, so that we can report on their experiences when seeking help, we required that the men sought help for their IPV victimization. Helpseeking included seeking help from formal sources—hotlines, DV agencies, the police, mental and medical health professionals, lawyers, and ministers—and informal sources, such as friends/family and the Internet. |
After a year and a half, Schmiedel took off. He was caught four months later and held at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Lebanon County. Court-martialed on his return to Fort Knox, he was found guilty of going AWOL and sentenced to three months of hard labor. Days later he showed his prickliness at a station hospital while being treated for a cold. A nurse described him as "quite boisterous," "very uncooperative" and "demanding various medications." Assigned to the 90th Quartermaster Railhead Company, Schmiedel went AWOL from Camp Pickett, Va., in September 1942. Within a few weeks he was dropped from the rolls as a deserter. It was the sixth time he'd run off. "The greatest fault my son Werner has, is that he lies too much, you can't believe him anything," his father wrote to the Army after being informed that his son had skipped out. Schmiedel wasn't done causing headaches for the higher-ups, not by a long shot. Showing up in Philadelphia, he enlisted in the Army under a fake name, Robert Schmiedel, claiming no prior service. He was posted to a signal company at Camp Atterbury, Ind., but again couldn't stay put. He went AWOL by year's end, this time for three weeks. Suspicions about his true identity led to a War Department investigation in the spring of 1943 that exposed him as a fraud. In a report signed by Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI said Werner and Robert Schmiedel had identical fingerprints and thus were the same person. When confronted, Schmiedel claimed Werner was a brother who had deserted. The War Department said Robert was Werner and scratched his 1942 enlistment. Schmiedel sneaked off yet again in the summer of 1943 during blackout maneuvers in Tennessee. It was the third time in eight months he'd gone AWOL. As cantankerous as Schmiedel was, the Army needed foot soldiers on Europe's battlegrounds and sent him across the Atlantic as an infantry replacement at the end of the year. He shipped out on Christmas Eve from Camp Patrick Henry in Virginia, according to a statement he later gave criminal investigators. "Prior to coming overseas, the only trouble I was ever in was going AWOL for short periods," he told them. |
Why Swayzak now? Even one-half of the group doesn't know. "There was always an element of pressure to release, pressure to go out and play, pressure to tour, do the promotion," says David Brown. "What's quite nice about this interview is we're not doing any promotion." He's right. Even when I press them on it, I can't get them to sell me anything. There might be some things with 240 Volts, their label, on the horizon. There might be a Swayzak album atpoint this year. Nothing they can really confirm, though.But while there isn't much to sell at the moment, there's plenty to say about the veteran duo. David Brown and James Taylor, after all, have been in and around the world of music since the '80s, when they met at Island Records. As Brown recounts, "I started out answering the phones, parking cars, stuff like that. I worked for the managing director for a little while and he actually noticed that I liked music, which he seemed to think was quite odd in a record company! He told me I should go and work in the A&R department. I used to listen to all the demo tapes that all the major A&R guys wouldn't listen to. I had to listen to them so actually me and James used to sit there on a Thursday afternoon after work and we'd just listen. You know, some of them were good, but some of them were really pathetic. "For a long time, the duo didn't even make music together. For a long time after they started messing around, they didn't bother to release it. "We had no money," remembers Taylor, "so it was like, 'OK, let's play in the studio and make some tunes,' and we'd make some hour-long tracks and stuff like that because we could. Everything was much slower when we started because I was much more into hip-hop and ambient stuff. When we said, 'OK, let's try something faster,' suddenly everything jelled. "That sound has since taken on many different forms. The one constant in Swayzak's career has been that there has been no constants. Trawl through their back catalogue, and you're as likely to find deep house as you are minimal techno. No electroclash, though, thank you very much. ", I think, was the one that sort of opened a lot of doors for us because it was a lot more poppy," remembers Brown. |
Javier Sethness Castro: As you explain, one key parallel the PLM group and U.S. supporters of the “Mexican Cause” were wont to draw was between Díaz and the ossified Russian autocracy, headed by the Romanov Tsar Nicholas II. One of the most momentous such parallels came to light through John Kenneth Turner’s investigation of Mexico’s “tropical Siberia,” the Yucatán Peninsula, where hundreds of thousands of Mayas, Yaquis, and Koreans were enslaved. Turner’s exposé, first published as two reports in American Magazine in 1909 and thereafter as Barbarous Mexico (1910), resonated importantly with U.S. audiences, as it illuminated, in your words, “America’s reactionary slaving tradition pushing yet farther south under the shadowy cover of a dictatorship that [the U.S. government and capital] enthusiastically supported” while also bringing to light yet another manifestation of the extermination of Native America—another Trail of Tears, as seen in the lamentable fate of the deported, displaced, and massacred Yaquis. To be honest, when reading this chapter of the text, “The People Were the Sacrifice,” I was reminded of Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (2000). Could you speak to the significance of Turner’s work in terms of changing international public opinion about Mexico amidst the hegemonic narrative then advanced by media outlets like the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times—owned at that time by William Randolph Hearst and Harrison Gray Otis, respectively, who in turn were the respective beneficiaries of two and one-half million acres of land in Chihuahua and Baja California which Díaz had sold them—toward an analysis that affirmed the Porfiriato as effectively facilitating a “capitalist slave colony”? |
In my conversation with Curtis Ebbesmeyer, he suggested a thought experiment: Make a list of crises and put them in order of which is most likely to end humanity. Global warming? Acidification of water? A meteor? Supervolcano? For a short-term extinction event, Ebbesmeyer’s hunch was plastic. Plastic, and its burden of POPs, would travel up the food chain via fish, concentrating in the apex predators—a dwindling few killer whales, porpoises, tuna, and us. Plus, it’s all around us anyway, beginning with baby’s sippy cup. In our daily lives we are practically plastic-wrapped. Ebbesmeyer referred me to the book The Feminization of Nature, by Deborah Cadbury, for a comprehensive look at endocrine disrupting and estrogen mimicking chemicals. Whether diphenyls and bispherol, virtually all commercially available plastics leach synthetic estrogens, and may be contributing to a host of health problems. Indeed, it’s already happening. One’s grandfather’s penis was, on average, two centimeters longer; our grandmothers hit puberty at age 17; their granddaughters at age 12: Estrogen-saturated parody adults. A final joke before extinction. Sperm counts are down 50 percent since the 1950s. “In another 50 years we may not be able to reproduce,” Ebbesmeyer said. In the endgame, we’ll be a race of sexed-up tweener girls and sterile dudes with little dicks wandering baffled through a rubbish-filled world. Then those poor mismatched souls will grow old and die. End of story. I put out my light and fret in the dark, ever on the verge of being pitched onto the floor of the rolling Sea Dragon, until I’m alerted to the jingle-jangle of safety gear approaching down the dark hallway. It’s Watch Team C come to rouse us. “Rise and shine, Buckminister,” I hear. “We’re depending on you, mate.” Watch Team A congregates at the clothes closet by the gangway stairs and begins pulling out our salt-stiffened foul-weather overalls, bouncing wearily off the walls as we dress. Above is the worst squall yet, with gusts close to 40 knots. It has Captain Clive’s attention. He’s at the wheel, a bearded English gnome, looking superbly calm. After all, he’s skippered around the Horn, through the brutal Roaring Forties. He directs Marcus and me to winch in the mainsail—“A bit more, a bit more, just a bit more, please; there, perfect, thank you.” But the storm does threaten the data stream. Up to now Marcus has taken a trawl sample at least every 60 miles. |
He found himself in the southwest. A barren landscape reflective of his soul. He had driven for hundreds of miles, through long cold nights with the window down and the desert air in his face. He stopped in the middle of a long, flat stretch of freeway. After pulling off-road and parking, he got out of his RV and stood there by his open door. Wisps of dust blowing across his feet, bare save for the flip flops. Two steps were taken back and and he was out of them. The feeling of the desert beneath his feet was wonderful. He looked up and saw the universe above him. The sky was clear of any polluting city light. He had never seen the stars so bright, He had never felt so close to everything all at once. In this moment a floodgate had opened. To his mind came every bad memory of his youth, every day he struggled to get through, every bit of remorse and regret, everything negative. It was everything he had suppressed and bottled up for decades. There was a welling of tears in the corners of his eyes. He dropped to his knees and bent over, his forehead touching the earth. A freeway passerby would assume it to be prayer time for this weary traveler, this journeyman, this pilgrim on his pilgrimage. As the first tears fell from his face they hit the sand and formed twin puddles, small dusty pools. He clenched his fists, furrowed his brow. ‘Why the anger? one would ask. ‘Why all the pain?’. He finally had all the time in the world to collect his thoughts, to sift through the good and the bad, through all of the moments in his life that would subtly push him to be the person he was today. Like Noah he would collect everything good and let drown all the bad. Let die every bit of him that clung onto the pains of his past. For too long he was stubborn and would not let go of this pain. He needed it to learn from. But to learn what? He always told himself not to rely on others “for they would only let you down” he’d say. He inflicted upon himself years of isolation because he could not let go of that perception of people. |
My great Grandfather Kimball and his brother came from England and both assisted in gaining the Independence of the United States—My father was the son of Solomon Farnham Kimball, who was born in the State of Masachusets in the year 1770. He married Anna Spaulding, who was born in New Hampshire, in the town of Plainsfield, on the banks of the Connecticut river, She was the dau daughter of David and Speedy Spaulding—My father Heber Chase Kimball was born June 14t h 1801. in the town of Sheldon, Franklin Co. Vermont. Nov 27t h 1822. He married Vilate, daughter of Roswell and Susannah Murray. My mother was born in Florada, Montgomery Co. New York June 1s t 1806. She bore ten children. Their first child was a daughter who died when ten months old. I was their fourth child born in Mendon Monroe Co. N. Y. August 22n d 1828. & the last daughter my mother ever bore. Their fifth child, a son, was born & died in Mendon just previous to their hearing this Gospel preached, which they recieved & gathered up to Kirtland Ohio in the fall of 1833. I was then five years old, & William, my eldest brother, was over seven. I was baptized by Uncle Brigham Young in a branch of the Chagrin river, my father cutting the ice for that purpose. He & Brigham Young then belonged to the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. Years passed away and we were living in the City of Nauvoo. Just previous to my father’s starting upon his last mission but one, to the Eastern States, he taught me the principle [p. 1] of Celestial marriage, & having a great desire to be connected with the Prophet, Joseph, he offered me to him; this I afterwards learned from the Prophet’s own mouth. My father had but one Ewe Lamb, but willingly laid her upon the alter: how cruel this seamed to the mother whose heartstrings were already stretched untill they were ready to snap asunder, for he had taken Sarah Noon to wife & she thought she had made sufficient sacrafise, but the Lord required more. |
Station 4 & 7 (cleared for ferry flights only)Removed LANTIRN – No longer in service, replaced by SNIPER/LITENING for current block aircraft.Removed MK-20 Rockeye – No longer in service – replaced by CBU-87/97 on current blocks.Removed AGM-65E.Removed AGM-65K – LAU-88 option for station 3 & 8.Added AGM-65G – LAU-117 on Station 2 & 8 (as stand-in for AGM-65F).Added GBU-38 - Station 2, 3, 7, and 8.Added GBU-31(V)1/B - Station 2, 3, 7, and 8. (as stand-in for GBU-31(V)2/B)Added GBU-31(V)3/B - Station 2, 3, 7, and 8. (as stand-in for GBU-31(V)4/B)Added MK-82 – Single on Station 2, 3, 7, and 8.Added MK-82 – TERs on Station 2, 3, 7, and 8.Added Mk-82AIR – Single on Station 2, 3, 7, and 8.Added MK-82AIR – TERs on Station 2, 3, 7, and 8.Added MK-82AIR – VERs on Station 2, 3, 7, and 8.Added LAU-68 – Station 2, 3, 7, & 8.Added LITENING II – On station 5 (used by USMC).AGM-65D – Not used by USN/USMC.AGM-65K – Not used by USN/USMC.Added GBU-27 – Station 9 & 4 (as stand-in for Enhanced Paveway III).Added GBU-12 – 5, 6, 7, & 8 (as stand-in for Paveway IV).Added LITENING – Station 5.Removed BL-755 – No longer in service, not carried by GR4 (GR1 only).ALARM – Remove from station 2 & 11 – not carried on these stations, ALARM launchers which mirror the SRAAM launchers on the wing root stations are not modeled.Added: Mk-84, CBU-87, CBU-97, GBU-31, GBU-31(V)3/B, GBU-38. |
Methods This is a revised and updated version of a Cochrane review from 2010,25 adding 11 studies to the seven previously identified. The methods are described in detail elsewhere.25 Data sources We searched Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials up to 25 February 2015. Backward and forward citation searches were also conducted from included studies. Appendix 1 details the Medline search strategy. Inclusion and exclusion criteria To be eligible, studies had to be randomised controlled trials or quasi-randomised controlled trials (controlled trials using a non-random method of allocation to study arm, such as alternation or by date of birth), have recruited adult populations (≥18 years), and include one group that received personalised DNA based risk estimates for diseases for which behaviour change could reduce risk (including heart disease, cancers, and Alzheimer’s disease). We excluded studies that evaluated the communication of DNA based risk estimates of diseases for which there is no known intervention to reduce that risk, such as Huntington’s disease. The studies assessed the effects of the intervention relative to the effects of communicating non-DNA based disease risk estimates (assessment based on family history, biological markers of disease, personal characteristics, or a combination thereof) or of communicating no disease risk estimates. Included studies therefore formed three main groups, defined by differences in the intervention and comparison groups: disease risk estimates based on DNA versus non-DNA based disease risk estimates; disease risk estimates based on DNA plus non-DNA based disease risk estimates versus only non-DNA based disease risk estimates; or disease risk estimates based on DNA versus no disease risk estimates. The primary outcome was performance of a behaviour that could reduce the risk of disease. Behaviours included smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, and physical activity. We only included studies that measured at least one of the primary outcomes. Secondary outcomes were motivation to change behaviour and levels of depression and anxiety. Data extraction and synthesis Two authors prescreened all search results (titles and abstracts) against the inclusion criteria. Studies selected by either or both authors were subjected to a full text assessment. Two authors independently assessed the selected full text articles for inclusion. Two authors independently extracted data on study participants, study design, interventions, outcome measures, results, and risk of bias characteristics. One author entered extracted data into Review Manager software, and these were checked by a second author. We contacted study authors for additional information about included studies as required. |
The bot has also gotten a fair bit of publicity after being promoted on Product Hunt and in a Medium post Crawford wrote about its creation. And, she says, she’s already had a few potential employers reach out through EstherBot using a “connect me” option that appears during long conversations about potential job opportunities that sometimes sets up interviews with Crawford herself. “I actually have had a couple of companies reach out, and I had a conversation with one this morning—they were really interested and excited about talking to me,” she says. She’s also shared the bot with potential employers she was already in touch with, she says, partially as an example of her marketing skill and her ability to shepherd a product through its launch and engage an audience. Her current team is aware of the bot as well, she says, knowing that it may ultimately lead to her departure. “They’re supportive of me building the bot and using it in whatever way makes sense for me personally, even if it is a catalyst for launching into my next thing,” she wrote in an email to Fast Company. How Bots Are Part Of A Larger Trend OF Tech In Hiring EstherBot is far from the only project harnessing technology to make the hiring process more efficient, says Brian Delle Donne, the president of Talent Tech Labs, a New York startup accelerator focused on technology for the job market. Other innovators in the field are building candidate-relations management tools to better organize information about potential hires, similar to customer-relations management tools used in sales, and building tools to help recruiters scour forums and bulletin boards for potential candidates, he says. And others are working on bots like EstherBot that represent potential employers, answering job seekers’ questions before they send in applications or even reaching out to potential hires based on their online activities. |
The Impact on Cuba Trump’s aggressive Cuba policy will undoubtedly negatively affect the island’s economy, particularly its booming tourist sector. The year after relations resumed, 161,000 Americans visited Cuba — almost double the number who went in 2014. The numbers increased even further in 2016, when almost two hundred thousand Americans traveled there. With tourism increasing from other countries as well, Cuba had a record four million visitors last year. (But as prominent Cuban economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago has noted, it is impossible to determine the country’s net profits from this growing industry, since a substantial proportion of the goods needed to support tourism, including food, are imported.) The travel boom, unfortunately, hasn’t alleviated the other economic pressures the island faces. The crisis in Venezuela has hurt the Cuban economy, as the supply of oil fell sharply. The sale of professional services — including doctors, nurses, teachers — helped boost revenue after the sugar industry’s dramatic decline, but now it shows signs of weakness as well. The profits from nickel, an important Cuban export, have declined with global commodity prices. As a result of these developments, Cuban GDP growth in 2016 was negative 0.9 percent. Trump’s policies will likely push growth even further down. Productivity is low, and Cuba does not have enough capital investment to improve and replace its stock. Trump’s ban on American investment in entities associated with the military will directly impact this aspect of the economy. Further, the government’s inability to establish the promised single currency after ten years of preparation has contributed to a climate of economic uncertainty. State employees’ real wages still sit substantially below the levels reached before the Soviet bloc’s collapse in 1989. As a result, approximately 65 percent of the population relies on remittances from family members and friends abroad. While Trump’s new measures have left the flow of remittances open, the economic decline in foreign investment and tourism will further reduce the island’s standard of living. Unfortunately, Raúl Castro’s economic policies will likely only worsen matters. Ever since he assumed power — provisionally in 2006 and formally in 2008 — Raúl has moved the country toward the Sino-Vietnamese model of state capitalism. Under this system, the government retains a monopoly on political power through one-party rule. It also controls the economy’s strategic sectors, such as banking, while sharing the rest with private capital, both domestic and foreign. |
And so, for my brothers and me, the Cold War wasn’t a time of nail-biting anxiety about the arms race and Mutually Assured Destruction; and when Sting sang that the Russians loved their children, too, we shrugged—of course they did. Our Cold War was the scent of softening onions, ground beef, and dill, which my mother, stylish in strappy sandals and a silk wrap dress after a day at the office, would push through the hand-cranked metal myasorubka (meat grinder), which clamped onto the kitchen counter with a vise, as she prepared meat-filled yeast buns (pirozhki) in our sunny kitchen. Our Cold War was the dense, sweet, nutty-tasting poppyseed cake she baked every year for my birthday; and the fragrant, savory, purple-red borscht she made from a Ukrainian recipe when Russian guests dropped by. (Back then, the umbrella terms Russia and Russians enfolded the whole Soyuz.) My Cold War was a visiting poet, Andrei Voznesensky, dramatically declaiming his poems in our yellow and blue living room to a throng of rapt, long-haired Indiana college students, as I looked on in white nylon kneesocks and a demure light-blue dress, munching a pirozhok, and resentfully sporting a floppy Soviet-style cabbage bow in my hair to please my parents. In those days, the Soviet Union made me think of food, singing, dancing, and the sweet, trusting immigrant neighbor kid, Yura, whom I taught to ride a bike when he was six. It was also inextricably tied in my mind, as in my parents’ minds, I suppose, to Russian literature. At our dinner table some wintry nights, over London broil with sauce Béarnaise and spinach casserole, I remember my parents, still young, reciting Pushkin verses to each other: “Ya vas lyubil: lyubov eshcho, byt mozhet, V dushe moyei ugasla ni sovsem …” “I loved you once, nor can this heart be quiet; For it would seem that love still lingers there …” |
Imagine pointing your iphone at different locations around you to reveal geographically pertinent annotations and/or other media that people have deposited there. Now there's an app for that.In futurist circles, this basic world-as-web scenario has been discussed for years (I even worked on one such forecasting project ), if not decades. The simplest version of the concept has always been an application that intuitively and instantly blends real-time first-person physical world experience with the valuable data contained Wikipedia, Yelp or other websites, allowing you to instantly access stats about restaurants, concert venues, parks, car dealerships, schools, businesses, etc, that you encounter in your view. Such an app could, for example, provide information about a certain shrub in your yard, allowing quick access to species data, historical photos and related ads from the local lawncare services. Now, thanks to the convergence of smart phones and real-time geo-sensing, a new Android app (iPhone app out shortly) called Layar, marketed as the "World's First Augmented Reality Browser", claims it can accomplish exactly that... and then some.Here's the impressive demo vid released by the developer, SPRX Mobile Obviously there's no guarantee that Layar will take the cake (haha, get it - Layar. Cake. - rewriting headline... love bad puns...), especially considering that the Gigantor info companies already have scores of AR-hip forecasters, researchers and developers on payroll, but 1) it isthe small company could blow up very quickly to become one of the first critical three into the market, and 2) either way, it certainly does look as though somebody is going to create a compelling and quickly diffusable AR app in the very near-term.Why? Because it's so obviously useful.Just take a look at this (somewhat crude, but very useful) vision of what AR might look like over the coming years:Easily-to-use AR will have a profound impact on the average prosumer, opening up massive phase space for new content and services. They will of course benefit from the efficiencies inherent in mashing together all this data, but, more interestingly, they will also play an critical role in writing content to these new layers and innovating new applications that interact with this new structured content.Ever seen those Google Street View cars with panoramic cameras driving around? Well, imagine this. As component and web costs continue to plummet, it will VERY SOON become for individuals to hook cheap cameras to always-on smart-phones and then broadcast increasingly richer streaming data feeds to the web. |
bybybybybyView all the replays from Map of the Month #6 here! - the Season 1 Finals is coming up soon! June 26th and 27th! Click here for more info! Tune in totoday at 5:00pm EST! Cast by imba.tv!Hey guys, I'm here to announce this month's winner of Map of the Month! This month, we put forth a challenge, and forced you to create 3 player maps. The competition was fierce, attracting top mapmakers from the US, Europe, and Korea. But after all the games played in the tournament, we felt that one map stood out from the others.I'm happy to announce the winner of this month's Map of the Month competition: (3) The Eighteenth , by Silence-!We saw some awesome games on this map; from huge macro battles to fast cheese games. I'm proud to add The Eighteenth to the MotM Official Map Pool.The final pool foris set. Thanks to everyone for mapping - I know this month was extra hard due to the restriction, but by and large TL responded with good maps.This month we had funcmode guest judge. dimfish decided that he wanted to submit one of his own maps, and stepped down for the month. So, funcmode, prodiG, FlopTurnReaver, BoomStevo and myself were left to judge all the 3p maps.The finalist maps are:Click on the names to see the winning maps!These finalists will be the map pool for the MotM Tournament #4, which will be cast on iCCupTV by our very own prodiG!But we know why you're really here. It's awards time.prodiG's special awards will be up soon!I'll be sending out scorecards to anyone who pm's me for them. You do not have to share these with anyone, they are for your information only - if you've got any questions about your score please do it privately.Averages went down this month, but thats to be expected with a difficult restriction like this.For your information, here are the averages this month (last month's in green):Again, thanks to everyone who contributed. MotM 4 is looking great! Just remember that this is only the beginning, that we strongly encourage you to play these top five maps and see what makes them so good! Hang out in channel MotM, I'll set up games on all of these maps when I can on NA, and keep an eye out for events on EU as well!Next month is back to normal - any map can be submitted. |
Generation I Red In battle, it flaps its wings at high speed to release highly toxic dust into the air. Blue Yellow Its wings, covered with poisonous powders, repel water. This allows it to fly in the rain. Stadium Its wings are covered with poisonous dust. If you see one flapping its wings, be careful not to inhale any of the dust. Generation II Gold It collects honey every day. It rubs honey onto the hairs on its legs to carry it back to its nest. Silver Water-repellent powder on its wings enables it to collect honey, even in the heaviest of rains. Crystal It flits from flower to flower, collecting honey. It can even identify distant flowers in bloom. Stadium 2 It collects honey every day. It rubs honey onto the hairs on its legs to carry it back to its nest. Generation III Ruby Butterfree has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can even search out, extract, and carry honey from flowers that are blooming over six miles from its nest. Sapphire Emerald It has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can seek, extract, and carry honey from flowers blooming over six miles away. FireRed The wings are protected by a rain-repellent dust. As a result, this Pokémon can fly about even in rain. LeafGreen In battle, it flaps its wings at great speed to release highly toxic dust into the air. Generation IV Diamond It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen. Pearl Platinum HeartGold It collects honey every day. It rubs honey onto the hairs on its legs to carry it back to its nest. SoulSilver Water-repellent powder on its wings enables it to collect honey, even in the heaviest of rains. Generation V Black It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen. White Black 2 It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen. White 2 Generation VI X It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen. Y The wings are protected by rain-repellent dust. As a result, this Pokémon can fly about even in rain. Omega Ruby Butterfree has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. |
This is a story I didn't want to produce, but fully expected to. For years I've been writing about Barack Obama and his legacy, the one he wants to have and the one he actually has. In 2013 I listed the four economic items Obama wanted to achieve to complete what he considered his legacy list before his presidency ended:He succeeded on the first; tried and tried and tried on the second; bailed on the third only when forced to by popular opposition; and pulled out all the stops, every last one of them, to pass the fourth in the last months of his last year, even as his chosen Democratic successor, Hillary Clinton, under pressure in the primary, finally came out as opposed. (Obama's chosen DNC chair, Tom Perez, was never opposed, nor was anyone else close to his administration, though Perez doesn't talk about that much these days. )If it weren't for Tea Party and Freedom Caucus Republicans, he'd have been three for four — Social Security "reform" and TPP would have passed. Obama didn't lose for lack of trying.Obama's real legacy also includes zero bankers jailed for fraud despite the rampant criminal behavior of Wall Street in the run-up to the 2008 economic devastation. As he told a group of Wall Street CEOs in 2009 , "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks." He was right, and proved an effective shield.For all of those efforts, those that succeeded (passing ACA, protecting Wall Street CEOs) and those that failed (cuts to SS and Medicare, TPP, Keystone), he fully expected to be granted a "Bill Clinton future" — the big money, the big foundation, the international love and acclaim.You can read about his fundraising for the foundation here . It's quite a story in its own right. You can hear the international acclaim grow stronger by the day, thanks especially to the serendipitous contrast with his successor, Donald Trump. And now the money is starting to flow.Fresh from his vacation on privately-owned Necker Island with billionaire Richard Branson, Obama has just inked his first lucrative speaking deal. The fee: $400,000. The venue: Wall Street.Mark Hensch at The Hill The following is from the underlying Fox Business report by Charlie Gasparino and Brian Schwartz, who broke the story. Note the criticism that looks to us like praise (my emphasis):I'll return to the Fox piece in a moment. |
If I lose and I'm flawless on the game, give me only -10 LP and a troll who gives up, give them -20. Make them feel the wrath of their decisions more than those you've stuck them in the pot with. I understand riot wants there to be a shared risk/reward, and there is. Losing 10 LP still sucks, so theres still plenty of incentive to work together and not alone. Alternatively, if someone wins and is the carry give them +25 instead of +20 and give the troll they carried +15 instead of +20. This system can scale with your ELO standard LP awarded and also can scale with how bad you troll... Say you were only slightly better than everyone, maybe you only get +1 added to your score. If you were slightly worse? only -1 from your base. This would also work better than having to win multiple games in order to see a change in your ELO. Bonus Option C) Stop using the stupid chat scanner to report people from games where its a human response to be angry because your system is ineffective and you give them no solution or outlet. Bring back the tribunal where i know many people went years with no reprimand, yet were banned through the scan bot. |
We are sitting one morning in the office of Mayor Christopher Doherty. He is fifty-four, trim, articulate, the father of six children. He has been mayor for eleven years. He speaks to us in his shirt sleeves. The room is stuffy in the summer heat, and the air conditioning is off. The mayor has just negotiated a deal with his antagonistic five-member city council to pull Scranton back from bankruptcy. By the summer of 2012, banks would no longer lend the city money. With only $300,000 left in its bank account and facing a $1-million payroll in July, it was forced to reduce every city employee’s income, including the mayor’s, to the minimum wage: $7.25 an hour. His deal to save the city from default includes a 33 percent increase in real estate taxes over the next three years, less than half of the 78 percent he proposed, along with a new commuter tax, a sales tax, an amusement tax, and higher real estate transfer fees, licence and permit fees, and business and mercantile taxes. City departments will see their budgets cut by $1.6 million, which means further job losses. Doherty has already reduced the city employment rolls from 500 to 400. Scranton’s universities, including the University of Scranton and the Commonwealth Medical College, will be asked to contribute $2.4 million—instead of the current $300,000—to the city’s $70-million operating costs. Borrowing and refinancing will raise nearly $17 million to bridge the budget gap this year, but unless the city creates reliable new revenue streams disaster is merely postponed. There is not much to work with. Scranton is a city where 70 percent of the residents pay less than $500 a year in property taxes; where the average per capita annual income is about $19,000, and around $35,000 for a family. In the end, Scranton, like Stockton and San Bernardino in California, and other medium-sized cities, is probably doomed. |
The ‘right stuff’ now is what’s required for a crew to work well in isolation. It’s a different set of skills. Some people won’t get it until we’re actually doing the mission. But there’s no way around it, unless they can change the speed of light.” The two most recent astronaut classes, in 2009 and 2013, were the first ones chosen explicitly with long-duration space missions in mind. The emphasis on more autonomy for crews has prompted a search for “different competencies,” NASA says. The best astronauts from the cool-test-pilot days of the Mercury program do not necessarily make the best crew for exploring deep space. But, with the right crew selection and planning, the thinking goes, the first step for man on Mars could turn out to be a giant group hug for mankind. |
But if Rodgers wants his midfield to continue functioning – and, in recent weeks, it has been doing so for the first time since his arrival - the goal haul of Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez must be supplemented from elsewhere. Thus, the pursuit of Inter midfielder Philippe Coutinho makes perfect sense.The Brazilian has played as a No.10 in the past and may well be viewed as the long-term solution in that position but, should he arrive at Anfield this month, it is unlikely he will be given a baptism of fire in a role which is not exactly prevalent in English football.Much more likely is that the 20-year-old will be asked to come in from the left, a task he has performed with distinction several times in Italy and during a loan spell at Espanyol last season. Liverpool’s lack of goals from wide may have been masked by their desperate, season-defining pursuit of Sturridge, but with that desire sated, priorities should now shift accordingly.Over the summer, the Merseyside club allowed Maxi Rodriguez, Dirk Kuyt and Craig Bellamy to depart, despite the trio contributing 20 goals from wide positions last season. So far this campaign, the combined efforts of Raheem Sterling, Stewart Downing, Fabio Borini, Oussama Assaidi and Suso have yielded just six.Coutinho, meanwhile, has plundered three goals in just 10 starts despite falling out of favour at Inter, and that is undoubtedly the sort of return from the wings which would instantly improve Liverpool. In fact, somewhat incredibly given the club’s ill-advised summer policy, this threat could even be further boosted by the addition of a decidedly more long-term target in the shape of Tom Ince.The former Reds trainee has scored 13 goals and provided 10 assists this term, statistics which far surpass those of the £15 million-rated Wilfried Zaha (even if they have come in the second tier of English football). Most encouragingly though, Ince has taken 72 shots in order to net on 13 occasions, a conversion rate of 18% which Liverpool’s most clinical winger in terms of shots-to-goals this season, Downing, comes nowhere near at 5%.Barring a late twist in January - one which is entirely possible given the frantic nature of the window - Coutinho and Ince are likely to be the Merseysiders’ only remaining additions. |
So, in a series of memos, I updated them on what was going on, explained to them all the technology in as simple a way as I could, and I argued very strongly that they needed to have the protections restored, that they had to insist that the encryption of domestic identities be restored and that the automated tracking system for access to the database had to be restored. I told them that if they did not, if the administration refused to do this, they should insist that the system be killed, be stopped. What was their response? I got no feedback from -- most of the time, I got very little feedback. But it became apparent that nothing had happened. I was about to retire, so this was over about a three-month period. How unusual is it that you're not getting a response? It was unusual not to get a response. I went and talked to other people in the administration and tried to talk to people in the judicial branch, too, and it soon became apparent that they had basically signed away their life, that before they were briefed on this, that they would never breathe a word to anybody about it or confirm anything about it to anybody. It became very obvious after I had talked to a number of people. Mostly they would listen and not respond. But these are the folks with the oversight. Despite the fact that the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee had the oversight, the members -- and the members were not well versed in the technology, nor were any of them attorneys either. But despite that, they kept their promise not to talk to anybody about it. This became, I think, a critical problem, because intelligence, especially with NSA, is a very technical, very difficult subject, and the Intelligence Committee members rely more than other committees in Congress do on their staff. So in this case, they were unable to get any advice or feedback from their staff, either legal or technical. ... What else were you hearing? Other people came to you. ... Over a period of a couple of months, it became quite evident that the program was expanding greatly. My initial hope was that at least this might be temporary in the fear of a new attack that they could find if there was another attack coming. |
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Seventy five percent of our FUS CLIP clusters were located within introns ( Figure 1D ), consistent with previous reports [28] – [32] . To address the function of FUS in alternative splicing, we analyzed the association between FUS CLIP clusters and known alternative splicing events. Using the UCSC Known AltEvent database as a reference, we scored a FUS CLIP cluster as associated with an alternative splicing event if the CLIP cluster overlapped the alternative splicing event itself or overlapped its immediate flanking introns and/or exons, as described previously [35] . Our analysis identified “cassette exon” as the top category of alternative splicing events associated with FUS CLIP clusters ( Figure S3 ). FUS CLIP clusters are associated with 206 cassette exons in total ( Figure S3 ). To identify FUS binding regions flanking cassette exons, we used 87 FUS-associated cassette exons that are flanked by constitutive exons ( Table S3 ) to generate a normalized complexity map as previously described [36] . We found that FUS binding was enriched in the flanking introns, particularly proximal to splice sites flanking the cassette exons ( Figure 1E ). The peak at 5′ splice sites, within 100 nucleotides (nt) downstream of the cassette exons, showed the highest enrichment of FUS CLIP tags. The peak proximal to 3′ splice sites was about 150 nt upstream of the cassette exons, instead of immediately upstream of 3′ splice sites (less than 50 nt), as previously described [31] . We also observed a peak at about 400 nt downstream of the cassette exons and a peak at about 300 nt downstream of the upstream constitutive exons. The locations of all these four peaks in our complexity map were also detected as statistically significant FUS binding sites in the complexity map from Lagier-Tourenne et al. [30] . Comparing our FUS complexity map with all the other reports [28] – [30] , it is consistent that in general FUS binding is enriched in the intronic regions 500 nt upstream or downstream of cassette exons or constitutive exons flanking cassette exons, although the exact nucleotide positions are not identical in different studies. FUS-RNA binding may be both position and sequence dependent. |
Our general understanding of the influence of resistance exercise on rates of mitochondrial protein synthesis in humans is very limited. Our laboratory has reported that an acute bout of resistance exercise has the capacity to increase rates of mitochondrial protein synthesis in the untrained state (Wilkinson et al. 2008), data which are consistent with the notion that resistance exercise can improve muscle oxidative potential (Tang et al. 2006). It appears the responsiveness of the mitochondrial protein pool, at least during acute recovery, to ‘conventional’ high intensity resistance exercise is attenuated after a training period when stimulated by the same absolute load as used prior to training (Wilkinson et al. 2008). However, our current data show that low intensity resistance exercise can stimulate mitochondrial protein synthesis rates during 0–6 h recovery in trained participants when muscle time under tension is increased during the exercise session. Indeed, it was unexpected that exercise induced mitochondrial protein synthesis rates were elevated to a similar extent at 24–30 h recovery between the SLOW and CTL conditions. Due to the exhaustive nature of the SLOW condition, we anticipated the mitochondrial synthetic response to be more robust. However, this finding may highlight just how sensitive the mitochondrial protein pool is to contraction, regardless of the exercise stimulus, during longer term recovery. In support, many genes involved in mitochondrial function are up-regulated at 48 h of recovery after endurance exercise, although we admit it is not fair to compare resistance exercise versus an endurance exercise stimulus (Rowlands et al. 2011). It is clear, however, that future investigations are needed, which would include a time course of the response, to underpin the physiological mechanism for up-regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis rates during longer-term recovery. In a similar manner, we had hypothesized that muscle PGC-1α expression would be more robust after the SLOW condition (Egan et al. 2010). We found that muscle time under tension, and associated greater increase in metabolic work, had no influence on the PGC-1α mRNA response. Notable, the ∼3-fold increase in PGC-1α mRNA expression observed in the SLOW and CTL conditions are similar in amplitude ( ) to that observed after four 30 s ‘all out’ cycling sprints (Gibala et al. 2009). Also, it is worth highlighting that that our previous investigations which examined rates of sarcoplasmic protein synthesis (i.e. non-myofibrillar proteins) would also have contained the mitochondria protein pool (Moore et al. 2009b; Burd et al. 2010b). |
Mitchell earned preseason first-team All-Pac-10 honors from The Sporting News and Lindy's Sports before the 2000 season as he prepared to take over the starting wide receiver job following Farmer's graduation. [37] Mitchell, along with teammate Poli-Dixon, was named to the Fred Biletnikoff Award watchlist for the best wide receiver in college football during the preseason. [38] In the season-opener against third-ranked Alabama, Mitchell threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Poli-Dixon on a trick play in the first quarter and made a 46-yard touchdown reception from McCann in the third quarter. [39] He finished the game with four catches for 91 yards in the upset win. [40] In the 24–21 win over Fresno State on September 9, Mitchell led the team in receiving with six receptions for 58 yards and a 20-yard touchdown pass from McCann. [41] Mitchell's catches went into the double-digits against third-ranked Michigan, as he had ten receptions for 137 yards in the 23–20 upset win on September 16. [42] On September 23, in the third quarter of a 29–10 loss against Oregon, Mitchell caught what appeared to be a touchdown in the corner of the end zone, but was ruled out-of-bounds by the officials. The Bruins settled for a field goal on the drive and Mitchell explained after the game that "I knew it was a touchdown, you knew it was a touchdown, everybody does. The ref[eree] knew it too because he looked at me like he was sorry. "[43] On the next series, however, Mitchell caught a 54-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Bennett. [43] Mitchell finished the game with eight receptions for 158 yards. [44] In a 38–31 comeback win over Arizona State on September 30, he caught two touchdown passes from Cory Paus in the third quarter, one of which was for 80 yards,[45] and had four total catches for 125 yards in the game. [46] On October 14, in a triple-overtime loss to California, Mitchell made eight receptions for 167 yards[47] and caught a 35-yard touchdown from Paus in the fourth quarter. [48] |
Some farmers are power-washing their orchards or shaving bark off trees.Officials involved with the cleanup are well aware of the drawbacks to these approaches: huge amounts of radioactive waste that no one wants to store long term; immense investments of money, labor, and time; damage to wildlife habitat and soil fertility; increased erosion on scraped-barehillsides; and intrusion by people and machinery into every area scheduled for remediation.“You remove leaf litter from the forest floor and radiation levels fall,” said Shinichi Nakayama, a nuclear engineer at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency who is overseeing the 19 decontamination pilot projects planned or underway. “You take away the deeper layers and they fall more. But you take it all away and the ecosystem is destroyed. Water retention goes down and flooding can occur.”Although no significant conservation areas lie within the most contaminated parts of Fukushima, some species on the prefecture’s Red List of endangered or threatened species — including a grassland butterfly and the Japanese peregrine falcon, both listed as “vulnerable” — are found there and could be impacted if projects like these are implemented on a large scale.But Kiyomi Yokota, a naturalist and secretary of the Fukushima Nature Conservation Association, said that standing up for wildlife in the current situation would be difficult. “If people want to go home, I don’t think I could tell them, ‘No, stop the decontamination, save the fish,’” he said. Human health, in other words, trumps habitat.But just how much fallout does the government need to remove in order to protect human health? On that key question the science is frustratingly inconclusive.Past studies have shown that cancer rates rise in populations exposed to a dose of 100 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation. They reveal much less about the situation in Fukushima, where lower doses will continue for many years . (Measurements taken in Fukushima City in late December, for instance, ranged from .33 to 1.04 microsieverts per hour; sustained for a year, that adds up to doses of 2.9 to 9.1 millisieverts.) |
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