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at his home.
In a highly controversial case, Anwar was convicted of sodomy — illegal in Muslim Malaysia — just hours before MH370 took off.
But friends said Zaharie exhibited no extreme views.
Fariq, meanwhile, was accused in an Australian television report of allowing two young South African women into the cockpit of a plane he piloted in 2011, breaching security rules imposed after the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
But acquaintances have attested to his good character, and reports said he planned to wed his flight-school sweetheart.
Hishammuddin noted that the two pilots "did not ask to fly together" on flight 370."59% of white kids moved up".
As for "Those two groups should sum to less than 100%, certainly not 103%.",
this is incorrect: the 25% refers to the kids who had parents in the bottom
two levels, while the 78% refers to kids who had parents in the top three
levels. Those are separate groups. (same for the number with white kids)
So, if you look at kids coming from the 40% poorest (unclear if it's overall
or amongst white/black people), from 1955 to 1970, only 25% of the black kids
moved up while 59% of the white kids moved up.
And if you look at kids coming from the 60% wealthiest, 78% of black kids
moved down while 43% of white kids moved down.
In other words, poor black kids are more likely to grow up and
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was decorated with lights
and candles and flowers and all sorts of beautiful things. He said the people
there had pooled their money, despite having so little. He then told me a lot
had to do with the Hindu religion. Most Hindu's believed the position they
were born into in life was the place in their spiritual journey they were
meant to be, and doing well in that life was fundamental. It's a completely
different way of looking at one's poverty.
He remarked that I wouldn't find the same type of sense of community in slums
in Muslim parts of India, because their beliefs about their poverty and their
lot in life was different.
I don't know if that's true, I didn't travel to any Muslim-dominated areas of
India. It may have been true, it may have been hisperception, but for that
night, he was at least right about this local community, and it was a huge
culture shock for a young man in his early 20s who had only seen slums in the
US and, potentially more dangerous, Mexico City (and was warned to never, ever
go there by my private corporate-sponsored driver).
~~~
facepalm
I find that Hindu bit fascinating because it is presumably what allows so many
people to coexist on so little space. However, it is also a very convenient
belief for the people who are better off. Kind of like the meritocracy on
speed.
~~~
choosername
I don't see the difference to capatalism (disclaimer: hardly looked). The
believe that anything can be achieved when doing well enough is rather
fundamental, because it's tautological. The modesty to currently accept the
situation as limited by factors out of control
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condos right
next to or in the middle of up-middle-class communities,the result is that
people move out and the house price drops, does not look like a right fix to
me.
~~~
bo1024
Yes: you are missing the history of the United States. This was most of the
point of the article: Black people disproportionately live in poverty (not to
mention the history of discrimination in this country), and the effects of
living in poverty are extremely harmful. Your post seems to be missing the
history of human slavery in the United States, the subsequent history of
discrimination, and the conditions it created whose effects and legacy are
still very strong today. You can't control for these factors by comparing to
other minority immigrant groups!!
One can argue that there are negative cultural effects, but it's a chicken-
and-egg issue because history hasThursday, January 29, 2009
Yesterday I was playing with Stinky in her room. I would stack a block on top of another block and she would knock it down. Pretty soon she was stacking the blocks and then knocking it down herself. It was pretty cool to watch her hand-eye coordination as she attempted to put one block on top of the other. It took her quite a few tries before she got it. I had to encourage her through out the process because I could tell there were times when she wanted to quit. But then she decided she was done. She put her hands on the floor, spread her legs out and slowly stood up. It was so matter of fact. I clapped and enthusiastically said yeah.
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from looters and Kuwaiti arsonists. They said the Kuwaitis were bent on revenge for the 1990-91 invasion and war."
Robert Fisk reported seeing the arsonists arrive in identically colored buses. Is it possible that there was an organized Kuwaiti arson squad which had been allowed in to Baghdad by the Americans with the intention of getting revenge for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
There is a water crisis in Nassiriyah, as reported by Chris Stuart, Public Health Promoter with Oxfam in Iraq:
"The water quality is very poor and smelly and after the intense bombing of this town, many homes have no water. Every civic building has been destroyed. . . . . it is a town of rubble and despair. . . to access water . . . breaking intothat was basically the
"Bloomberg of Australia".
At the time, the Australian stock exchange (ASX) ran its own sharemarket
information service called "Jecnet". It was serial dumb terminals connected
over phone lines back to an HP minicomputer/mainframe in Sydney. It was
extremely popular amongst professional trading houses and institutional
investors.
And the stock exchange decided to get out of the market providing information
services, so they announced they were shutting down Jecnet.
So all the stockbrokers and institutional investors around Australia who used
Jecnet - and there were alot - were going to lose their service. They would
all be forced to move to a new system, away from the one they knew well.
And this guy turned up at equinet - I think he had previously worked for the
ASX.
What he had done, is written a DOS Modula2 application which
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a 4-time Senior National Champion of Mexico, having won the title in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2009.
He also won gold at 2 Junior Olympics in the years 2000 and 2001. He obtained 26 medals at the national level (12 gold, 13 silver and 1 Bronze between 1997 and 2010).is one of the reasons that the aggregate national suicide
rate in Korea (and also in Japan) exceeds the aggregate national suicide rate
in the United States. The elderly (persons born before the end of the Korean
War, and especially before the end of World War II) in those countries kill
themselves at a much higher rate than the same birth cohort in the United
States. On the other hand, rates of YOUTH suicide in recent decades have been
much more comparable among those countries, and once when I checked in the
1990s, looking up World Health Organisation statistics, the youth suicide rate
in the United States was actually higher than that in Japan. So some of the
international comparisons in suicide rates have to take a careful look at
cohort effects (rates specific to a particular era
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if they immigrated to the US.
And as a large company that's an advantage Facebook has and their prospective
competitors lack. I'm sorry you feel insecure that more immigration might
threaten your ability to single-handedly earn three times as much as the
median American family, but literally every other human being other than
native-born American programmers is better off with this kind of immigration
reform.
~~~
esturk
That would mean Facebook would get the same quality of engineers in India vs.
grad students from India that are studying in US. Frankly, this is far from
the case. In fact, most grad students from India studying in the US are by far
of a higher quality than just a regular engineer in India.
From what you've written, you're equating engineers as commodities (as in they
are no different from each other), which isthe NBA had never seen before: 50 points, 16 rebounds, five assists, seven steals, and four blocks. The Pelicans, somehow, lost that game 107-102. Two days later, the Pelicans lost to the Warriors while Davis put a 45-17 on the board. Davis scoring 35 points and 15 rebounds wasn’t enough to keep his team from falling to the Bucks on Nov. 1; neither was a 34-point, eight-rebound performance against the Kings last night.
This is a league in which a star player is supposed to be a golden ticket to the playoffs. LeBron James dragged a collection of corpses to the Finals during his first run in Cleveland, Carmelo Anthony never once missed the playoffs while in a Nuggets uniform, and Chris Paul took the Hornets to the playoffs
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Shared Challenges, Shared Future" British Prime Minister Theresa May read her 5,000-word Cabinet-approved speech in a building, reported to be a disused police barracks, next door to the ancient Santa Maria Novella church in Florence, Italy on Friday. Never at home in Europe? May suggested Britain had for geographical reasons never felt completely part of Europe and the vote to leave taken narrowly in the referendum in June 2016 was in part to regain "domestic democratic control" from the EU. The prime minister suggested there was a profound responsibility to make the decision work and be "imaginative and creative" in making a new relationship between the UK and the EU. May referred to the 14 papers published by the UK on Brexit and three rounds of sometimes "tough"interviewed Alan at his home in LA. First thing that struck me
about his house was the BOOKS, books everywhere, bookshelves everywhere,
shelves in every room, every hallway, stacked everywhere, just nonstop books.
Of course, as we were walking through the house before we even sat down, I
asked about the books. He proudly told me he read a new book every day. On
every subject under the sun.
I knew it was gonna be a great interview... it was.
~~~
vijayr
One book, _every_ day? How is it sustainable? Did he know of any speed
reading/understanding/retaining techniques?
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jwdunne
I think part of it is that he has been reading fluently from a young age. My
son can barely recognise his name and he's nearly 4. That's a very good head
start in terms of practice. It might also be due to
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Council meeting to start a facilities plan for the MD. That exercise is intended to inform Council's position during the forthcoming Joint Council discussions. The motion passed on a split 3-2 vote, Councillors Everts and Lemire opposed.
Notes
Note 1) Minutes of the Pincher Creek Facilities Planning Steering Committee, dated November 30, 2017, item 4 b iii, "Ownership", states "The Curling Club made the application to CFEP as the owner of the facility." A fact-check email sent to the Curling Club requesting confirmation of the accuracy of this statement received no reply.
Note 2) Pincher Creek Town Council motion 17-417, November 14, 2017:
That Council for the Town of Pincher Creek agree to provide the following information to the Community Facility Enhancement Program regarding the construction of a new curling rink inJapan.
(The Japan Trench usually has frequent magnitude 7's. Damaging but not
devestating.) All of the previous magnitude 9's were on subduction zones
similar to the Nankai Trough in southern Japan.
Furthermore, southern Japan has a 1300 year written historical record of large
earthquakes and tsunamis occuring every ~200 years (they're not regular, but
that's another story). The last two were in 1944 and 1946. In contrast,
northern Japan has just as long of a record, but no records of very large
earthquakes and tsunamis. (There's some sedimentological evidence of a very
large tsunami in northern Japan ~2000 years ago, but prior to this, we assumed
that it must have originated somewhere else.)
Therefore, southern Japan has the highest hazard for large tsunamis, and
northern Japan has a much lower risk. Northern Japan's risk is now higher than
we thought it
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at all).
...Okay, I'll stop ranting about things that only geologists care about...
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speeq
"The region lies on the "Ring of Fire" — an arc of earthquake and volcanic
zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim. About 90 percent of the world's
quakes occur in the region." \--
Who had the brilliant idea to build a nuclear power plant there... :\
~~~
jofer
To be fair, it's not like Japan has much of a choice. Nuclear really is their
best option. Japan has only a couple of coal mines, and they've deliberately
tried to avoid being entirely dependent on China for coal imports. This limits
the use of coal power plants (not to mention environmental consequences). They
have limited area, which limits hydropower options (though the steep
topography partly makes up for that). Wind and solar are limited in their
utility for "baseline"of "in-your-face" first contact, followed by a fatal game of hide and seek between a interstellar search party crew and a xenomorph, just one of what will turn out in following sequels to be a hive-race of double-mouthed acid-blooded slick black visitors who take the role of their hosts quite literally.
Never have the film genres of horror & science fiction been so perfectly blended as in this stylish, dark and damp first entry into the franchise which first introduced what is, IMO, one of the most unique & simply bad-@ss alien life-forms ever produced for film.
This film is an excellent example of what can happen when all of the effort of special effects is replaced with maximum effort into the script.
Definitely a thinking man's science fiction film whose
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What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies - ohjeez
http://thebillfold.com/2013/12/what-happens-when-one-of-your-coworkers-dies/
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steven2012
One of my coworkers, my mentor and someone who taught me what it meant to be a
good programmer, was murdered by his wife, who also murdered their two
children and then killed herself.
It took place over a holiday, and I noticed he hadn't shown up afterwards.
After a couple of days, I asked my boss if he was on vacation, and he said no,
so I emailed him. His body and his family were found the next day by his
neighbors. I actually saw his face on the evening news and my heart started
racing, because they made it seem as though he was the murderer, but as events
came out, he and his beautiful children were the victims.
It was really horrible because hefor a jog one
day and an unknown heart defect dropped him dead before he hit the ground.
People were very broken up over it and donated food and all sorts of things to
his widow and kids. I think a small charity was set up in his name.
In another, nobody really knew the guy outside of his group. But he had had a
very bad cough for a few months that to be honest, had become kind of a
workplace annoyance and was blamed for everything from loss of productivity to
a rash of URIs that ran through the office for a few weeks. He didn't show up
one day and everybody assumed he had finally decided to take some time off and
attend his cough. The next day it was announced he had died.
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There was no
further information and nobody outside of his immediate group and management
really knew anything about him or how to reach out to his family. His desk was
filled the next week.
Finally, a guy I knew and my friends all used to work with, broke off to try
his hand in the restaurant business. Things didn't go well and mired in debt
and suffering from some mental illness issues took his wife and daughter
hostage and committed suicide (his wife and kid made it out with very minor
wounds). I think everybody was in such shock over such a mild mannered person
doing such a crazy thing that people wanted to get over it as quickly as
possible and pretend like we all didn't know him at all.
~~~
bsirkia
How did those deaths affect your workplace? Dopeople try to hang out and talk
more or do people generally just carry on normally?
~~~
bane
In the first case, everybody really took a day or two to come to terms that it
had happened. Work really ground to a halt. People showed up to work, but took
lots of time out of the office in coffee shops talking and processing the
event. We named a room after him and had some ceremonies, everybody showed up
to his funeral. It really took a few weeks for everything to get back to
normal.
In the other two people really just carried on pretty normally by the next day
or two.
In the last case, because of the way he went out, very violent and unpleasant,
I think there was definitely an effort on the part of people to just...forget
about him
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or
early summer. Looking back, I think the endless ceremonies, reminiscing, room
naming...his office was a shrine for a couple months and nobody emptied it of
his personal affects until his widow came and asked...I think it extended out
the difficult feelings longer than it would have if everybody had been driven
back to work or gone on vacations or something.
~~~
liotier
Someone in my company died of illness - someone quite young so it was a
surprise and a shock to all around him. It has been more than a year and his
computers are still on his desk...
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morganherlocker
My first day on the job I erased the whiteboard in my office. When a couple
people walked in and saw what I was erasing (a short inspirational phrase on
the corner of the board), everyone had a look ofhorror on their face.
It turned out that a close friend of the company had been in the office and
written that phrase on the board. He died the next day. That was 2 years
before I erased it, and everyone had been keeping it as the last thing to
remember him by.
~~~
willt79
No one knew to write "No Erase" next to the comment? Oops, their bad.
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jboggan
This has happened in my experience before, and it is one of the strongest
reasons for good source control that is infrequently considered. It was a
tragedy when a very wonderful and dear researcher in our group died suddenly,
especially to his three children and wife that he left behind. It was also a
great loss as well that we could never recover some key bits of source code
from his computer,
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early in the morning and had a heart
attack.
Someone discovered the guy, called 911, and went about their business. Due to
some combination of bureaucratic bungling and security nonsense, the ambulance
folks didn't know someone had died, and were either turned away from the
building or taken to the wrong location in the building.
Long story short, the body wasn't removed until early evening. People thought
he was taking a nap. I always found that so sad. The poor guy probably had a
family and people who gave a shit about him, but the people around him
couldn't be bothered to treat him with respect.
~~~
kayoone
wow thats cruel, the guy could maybe have lived if the ambulance would have
been there quickly, a heart attack doesn't necessarily kill you when you react
fast enough.
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infectoid
Happened to me once early inand only knew because of his death?
He was a father. He surely comforted his children on the first day of school.
He went shopping for them on their birthdays. He had loved ones who grieved
for him. Loved ones who had no talent to describe how great he was to them,
but only knew he was great to them.
I still don't understand the oddness of my reaction, or why it still haunts
me. We are all born in a blur of a gigantic population, and he was simply
deleted from my inbox as my company insisted I delete my emails when it
approached 150 mgb capacity.
I kept him new and unread as long as I could.
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edgesrazor
I had something like this happen at a small software company I worked about 15
years ago. Our owner had
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got
to his house, he found the gentleman passed out in front of his house.
Thankfully, this story ended up with a happy ending.
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Shivetya
We are going through this where I work currently, a co-worker, a good friend,
passed away on the 13th. We'd been joking the day before about what food item
he was going to bring in the next week though we all knew what it would be.
While he had been sick for a few years, at times appearing in colors no human
should ever appear in, he had been improving steadily and was in very high
spirits. To say it caught us off guard is one thing, it caught his doctors and
family off guard as well.
It is very odd to have lost two friends who just happened to be coworkers
since I startedher desk and
died several weeks later. I had been interacting her a lot for work-related
projects and had had learned how stressful, difficult and important that job
was and did not begrudge her her salary at all.
~~~
jvagner
i don't mean this crassly: that CEO probably needs more than one assistant,
from the sounds of it.
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aaronem
More than one at a time, at the very least.
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brc
One of my close relatives passed away this year. She was the partner in a
professional services firm, and well like by her staff. The entire company had
a day off on the day of her funeral, and many of them were distressed by it.
It was not a shock as she had been ill for quite some time, but it does entail
an adjustment.
This is going to become more of a common
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and that was the last
I heard from him. I was not surprised to hear, a few months later, that the
guy had been fired, because of his attitude.
Fast forward another few years, and I was Googling (or was it Facebook
searching?) ex-colleagues who I'd lost touch with. My search led to news
articles that referred to his death. He was killed in a bizarre road-rage
incident, where he was clearly the aggressor.
His family had created a memorial page on Facebook, but hadn't reported him
deceased. I reported his FB profile as deceased, it was memorialized and I
moved on.
I spoke to the ex-coworker about what happened (the same one who told me about
him being fired a few years earlier), and he pointed out how kind the eulogies
were- not really describing the arrogant prick weworked with.
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dzink
A classmate fell to his death from his apartment's terrace in a skyscraper a
few months ago. We were just coming back for our second year of Grad school.
He was full of life, working on a startup for which he had won some funding
via a competition, spending the summer at an Angel investor group, serving as
a favorite TA for a top VC professor. He was a self-made immigrant and the
best parts of life were right ahead of him. Nobody knew what happened, but it
hit too close to home.
His parents requested that his name was not mentioned on social media until
they had a chance to take him home to Europe and tell their family at home. We
got together to honor him and express condolences to family and after a
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a system (theoretic) and a way of life (practical-
applying the theory). Socrates already criticized sophists. They were payed to
teach philosophy (and rhetoric, logic etc.) but didn't apply philosophy to
themselves. Platonism, Epicureanism, Stoicism were all both a system and a way
of life.
This distinction disappeared, but not totally, with Christianity. Christianity
was seen as the ultimate philosophy, bringing a system and a way of life
together and making it popular as the ultimate, definitive and right system.
Whereas in the ancient Greece philosophy and religion were both side by side
in the live of people, with Christianity they were mixed together. Only the
theoretic foundations of philosophy remained and were taught, since there were
not needs anymore for a way of life.
Lately some thinkers came back to this primary vision, like Nietzsche who set
up a system20 involves mainly automotive and healthcare players, with software and internet supplier Oracle at number 20.
Most innovative companies
As part of the research, the consulting firm asked survey respondents to rank which companies, in their opinion, are the most innovative. Interestingly, a considerable disparity between investment and ranking was noted, both in absolute terms and as a % of revenues.
Apple takes the number one spot, where it has been since 2010, even in light of its lowest ranked place in the top 20 in terms of spending as a % of revenue. The report notes however that Apple’s lead on key rival, and second spot holder, Alphabet, has shrunk in recent years. 3M, following a decline in the ranking that saw it drop to sixth place, has again claimed
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to get on the ground. After he was frisked and handcuffed, Moore gave officers a fake name, Kobel said.
Moore remained in a patrol car until he was turned over to the FBI.
Authorities released few details during a briefing for the media in Jefferson County this afternoon, but said Moore would remain in federal custody at least through tomorrow’s court appearance. Details of the charges against him remain sealed.
Last Wednesday’s incident at Southwest Plaza occurred one week after Moore was released from federal prison for a 2005 bank robbery in West Virginia.
His criminal record also includes multiple larceny convictions, a drug offense and reckless driving. Court records show he also had financial problems leading up to the 2005 bank robbery.
Moore lived in Colorado for several years prior to thein most contexts. I also think
the word "state" is diluted by the US.
Anyway, I'm not really advocating for one side or the other. In common usage
"American" definitely relates to the US most of the time.
I can understand the annoyance of people from other American countries,
though. Surely Nigerians, Eritreans, etc. would have a reason to be frustrated
if "African" came to refer particularly to "South Africa" and not to the
continent.
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jwatte
The title of the blog is "people before ..." And the writer doesn't understand
the social signaling of clothing? Like, at all?
First, clothing is really personal, and funding a second skin that "suits me"
and "fits me" requires much wider selection than a rack of time socks can
supply.
Second, anyone with a social job that depends on status, or who is in the
marriage/mate market,
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at one place. The second ISP used USR
digital modems (I forget what they were called?) By the time I set up the
third one, we'd outsourced all dialup to a third party network.
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EvanAnderson
I knew a guy who ran a small ISP in the Dayton, OH area. He went from having
banks of external modems on POTS lines connected to multi-port serial cards
attached to a Windows NT Server 3.51 machine to an Ascend router with a PRI
and "digital modems" (CODECs in DSPs, no doubt) to finally using an outsourced
dial provider, all in the space of about 18 - 24 months. I wish I'd been a
little older and a little more business savvy at the time. It was clearly a
wild time, and was probably lots of fun.
~~~
icedchai
I remember working in the "serverOlczyk scored the go-ahead goal for UMass with 1:05 left in regulation. Seconds after the ensuing faceoff, Casey DeSmith raced to the bench and senior John Henrion jumped on the ice as an extra UNH attacker. Initially, UNH scrambled to control the puck in the UMass zone but was unable to generate a quality scoring opportunity.
With just 11 seconds left, Henrion backhanded the puck around the dasher behind UMass goalie Steve Mastalerz. Kevin Goumas collected the puck, came out from behind the net to Mastalerz' left, and threaded a perfect, diagonal pass to Eric Knodel at the top of the slot.
Knodel one-timed a wrister low to the ice which Mastalerz saved with his stick. The rebound trickled off to the right of Mastalerz. Henrion dove at the puck
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because
online studying has given me quite a bit of flexibility in my study
schedule."_
Yes, and all of the 16 and 17 year olds who got into college with my freshman
class got in way over their heads socially and emotionally. If I were to have
a daughter who finished High School early, or found some way to dispense with
it entirely, then I'd have her do some sort of research or work until she
reached age-parity before going away from home.
~~~
lotharbot
Are you sure you identified _all_ of the 16 and 17 year olds?
When my wife was a 15 year old college student, people assumed she was quite a
bit older. She was intellectually, emotionally, and socially ready for college
at that age. Those students who are ready in all three ways are often
overlooked. Other studentsout to the immovable objects known as first, second and third is unfairly long:
• Bryce Harper of the Nationals sprained his left thumb diving into third on a triple on April 25 and won't be seen in the lineup again until July.
• Teammate Ryan Zimmerman broke his right thumb diving back into second on a pickoff attempt on April 13 and probably will miss another six weeks.
• Mike Napoli of the Red Sox dislocated his ring finger sliding headfirst into second on a wild pitch on April 15 and is still having trouble swinging the bat.
• Josh Hamilton of the Angels tore the ulnar ligament in his left thumb diving headfirst into first base on April 8. He won't be back until July.
• Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers
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that prompted the trip? There's a
bit of the military worship and grandstanding you'd expect, but it's
shockingly progressive. Besides pushing for reaching global standards in
education, science and technology, he's actually calling for peaceful
discussions with South Korea about reunification, and removing the barriers
for that.
Kim Jong Un has barely been in power for a year, is not even thirty, and was
educated in Switzerland. He's also a bit unknown, in that he was fairly well
hidden from the world (seriously, it's kind of frightening). There is an
actual, real chance that he wants to push for a peaceful reunification,
something that would be amazingly good for the world. If he really wanted to
do that one of the huge barriers is how polarized the two states are, both in
terms of attitude towards each other and inAlmost exactly three years before Sandy, on October 27, 2009, President Obama stood in front of a 25-megawatt solar farm in southern Florida to deliver his vision for a 21st-century grid. The speech was one of many on a cross-country tour to highlight the newly passed stimulus package, which set aside $90 billion to support renewable energy projects and smart grid technologies. Joined by Lew Hay, CEO of the Florida utility FPL, President Obama was in Arcadia, Fla. to announce a $3.4 billion package of investments for smart grid projects -- mostly advanced meter deployments -- to build a “smarter, stronger, and more secure electric grid.”
Photo Credit: White House. Obama announces the stimulus smart grid package in 2009.
For 15 minutes, the president spoke about the economic and efficiency
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done to
get infrastructural latency to zero.)
~~~
boyter
Politics is the answer with regards to communications. I suspect that may also
be the case for other technology in Australia.
The only reason Australia needed a NBN was because of the sale of Telstra as a
vertically integrated monopoly. It should have been split from the start into
wholesale and retail as happened in New Zealand. Apparently they were starting
to roll out fibre when the sale was announced. It was politically good to sell
it as a single unit at the time.
Then when the NBN was announced the opposition and specifically Tony Abbot
lacked the vision to see the value and believed that it was just an advanced
video game system. Given the power I believe he would have stopped the build
entirely. Instead he handed it over to Malcomof the trial. In the four counts remaining the government alleges that the defendant owes taxes for the years 1966, 1967 and 1969 totalling $2,671.41.
The defendant, born in 1909, is a retired tailor, who graduated from 8B from a public school in the Bronx. A joint tax return was filed for each year with his wife, who worked as a "sales person" in a major metropolitan department store, and reflected her income along with some earnings from a two family house the defendant and his wife owned in the Bronx. The government alleges that the defendant failed to report that he was paid $3,896.33 in 1966, and $4,419.60 in 1967, for running a valet service at the Hotel Ten Park Avenue. The valet service was leased by the
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think are the chances that the tanks roll in, all protestors are
shot or arrested, marshal law is declared for a few months, and eventually
Hong Kong becomes just another city in China without its own special
governance or laws?
~~~
Mengkudulangsat
There's a third way; getting "Singapore-d".
In the 1960s Singapore annoyed Malaysia so much they were essentially ejected
from the federation against their will.
It was a major shock at the time, but decades later the two countries are
still mostly amicable. I sincerely hope China would consider this route.
~~~
mytailorisrich
Why would China even consider "ejecting" a part of its territory that they
fought over for a long time to finally get back?
Recovery of lost territories and reunification of the country is a core policy
of the Chinese government(s) since 1912...
And as noted in the replies, striving for nationaleso8809 — Science Release
The Vanishing Star
8 December 1988
Reinhold Häfner, visiting astronomer at the ESO La Silla Observatory, got his life's surprise when the star on the screen in front of him suddenly was gone. All the other stars were still visible, but this particular one had simply vanished.
The mysterious, 17 magnitude star (in the constellation Ophiuchus) has the designation PG 1550+131 and was first observed at the Palomar Observatory in the mid-seventies. At that time, it was found to have an unusual blue colour. Later observations indicated that its brightness varies somewhat, and Dr. Häfner had therefore decided to have a closer look at it. He thought that it might belong to a relatively rare type of stars, known as "cataclysmic variables".
"Cataclysmic variables" are double (binary) stars in
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A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics - bookofjoe
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211023
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toomanybeersies
I know a guy who was "microdosing" acid. He started small, but in the end was
taking a couple of tabs a day, I guess trying to chase the enhancements. He
was also smoking a bunch of weed at the same time.
It cooked his brain and he's lucky he didn't end up in a psych ward. He's
stopped now (not by choice) and he's slowly coming back to normal.
I'm not writing this to dissuade people from microdosing, or from drugs in
general (I'd be a massive hypocrite if I did). But to note that when left up
to their own devices with drugs, some otherwise incredibly intelligent people
will fall victim to the drugs. I've seen people (a lot who should've known
better) get wiped out by basicallyA US federal appeals court in New York ruled today that the National Security Agency (NSA) programme systematically collecting US citizens' phone records is illegal.
Despite being authorised by two presidents, both Republican and Democrat, and being ruled legal by the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the US government, the NSA collection programme remains under fire.
The latest decision rules that the collection of metadata of phone calls to and from Americans is not authorised by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.
A panel of three federal judges said the USA Patriot Act, which had been used to justify the data collection program, cannot be legally interpreted to support the programme.
Unanimous decision
The case was brought to the courts by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). A spokesperson for the
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diet of Tamils in Tamil Nadu (India) and Tamil
Eelam (Ceylon) is wide & varied, largely dairy-free, and mostly gluten free.
This largely applies for the other South India states, too. The diet consists
in large parts of lentils, leafy greens, vegetables, and spices. 8) in
particular, the diet in Tamil Nadu/Tamil Eelam of 50 years ago should be
examined, which is before the Green Revolution occurred in India. Back then,
many of the healthier grains eaten in large quantities by a large swathe of
people (millet, sorghum, finger millet, etc.). 9) An unintended consequence of
the Green Revolution in India and China in the 1950's is that, at least in
India, many of the healthier grains eaten in large quantities by a large
swathe of people (millet, sorghum, finger millet, etc.) were dropped in favor
of the farFire Rips Wayne County Home
PRESTON TOWNSHIP — A family in northern Wayne County is picking up the pieces after a fire ripped through their home Wednesday.
Crews say it started around 8:30 in the house on Cribbs Road in Preston Township.
Neighbors were the first to run to the family’s rescue. It was a terrifying morning for neighbors as they realized a 100-year-old home nearby was on fire.
Many of them rushed inside the burning house, worried the family’s teenage daughter was still inside.
“My husband said ‘I smell smoke’ and then he banged on the door and oh, my God, we couldn’t believe it. It was already heavy smoke coming out of the top floor,” said neighbor Janice Plavnicky.
The Laird family moved into the century-old home that used to be a
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good terminal, a
standard Unix environment, Perl out of the box, etc.
It was a fresh alternative to Windows which was a lot more open than iOS of
today but still pushed software development in non standard and monopolistic
directions compared to the Unix based OSX.
Thus began the rise of OSX. It was a credible technical platform and at the
same time it would spawn some killer consumer features, a nice and fast
simplified desktop environment and well integrated innovative consumer
accessories such as the iPod. Sure Apple pretty much always limited their OS
to their own hardware, but it didn't matter to techies as long as they played
well with others by staying mostly compatible with Unix standards.
Entrepreneurs were also free to sell software for it directly to their
customers. You could buy a subscription on thethe 20th century have drastically modified the hydrological functioning of the region, in particular reducing the total input and distribution of water within the large temporal wetlands of the National Park [@pone.0071456-Aldaya1]. Water inputs from the Guadalquivir and Guadiamar rivers are very low, although restoration programs have been implemented, the main inputs of water are rainfall, the smaller streams situated in the west and ground-water.
Outside of the National Park adjacent to the Guadalquivir estuary is a privately owned wetland system with Natural Park status (Veta la Palma, ca. 11.300 ha). The area has a long history of traditional human activities and is roughly divided into 3200 ha of permanent ponds used for extensive and semi-extensive aquaculture, 3500 ha dedicated to agriculture (of which 400 ha is seasonally inundated
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countries. There is a large literature on how international institutions affect domestic policies to which DESTA could contribute. These are all areas to be further explored, and we hope our data can assist in tackling existing and new puzzles of international economic cooperation.
References
Baccini, Leonardo, and Andreas Dür (2012), “The New Regionalism and Policy Interdependence”, British Journal of Political Science 42(1): 57–79.
Baldwin, Richard (2011), “21st Century Regionalism: Filling the Gap Between 21st Century Trade and 20th Century Trade Rules”, WTO Staff Working Paper ERSD-2011-08.
Dür, Andreas, Leonardo Baccini, and Manfred Elsig (2014), “The Design of International Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Database”, Review of International Organizations, forthcoming.
Mansfield, Edward, and Helen Milner (2012), Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy ofInternational Trade Agreements, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
World Trade Organization (2011), Worlddefinition of the word) than your
average resident of Athens, Georgia. (I jumped out of Alabama, but I hope my
point is clear.)
The American people aren't nearly as polarized as the American people think.
~~~
carsongross
There is no "american people". And yes, my point holds, down to the
metropolitan area.
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inscrutablemike
If he's so concerned about America exhibiting the signs of a Fascist
dictatorship, perhaps he should take a long, difficult, critical look at the
ideology that actually accomplished it: Progressivism.
We aren't "headed toward" Fascism. The Progressive Movement and their
fundamental changes to the government of the US was a core _inspiration_ for
Fascism. This is old, old news.
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In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty,
she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation
Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II
and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II
to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug.
This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log
book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call
reveals the history that began South Africa`s most beautiful city. A trip to a museum is next with the options of visiting one of the many that offer a depth of insight into our diverse and fascinating history.
Ease your way through the company gardens, the nucleus of our city, with pigeons, geese and squirrels criss crossing your path. Experience midday with a bit of a bang by heading up to the firing of the noon gun cannon on Signal Hill (except for Sunday and Public Holidays) We then drive out through cobbled and colourful streets of the iconic Bo-Kaap before heading on route to our famed Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.
Take a stroll through our magnificent gardens, soaking in such highlights as the Boomslang Tree Canopy Walk, the Conservancy and
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father died, there
were continuous rocket attacks on Israel. At around 7pm, a rocket hit a high
school in Ashkelon. A student from the school told the reporter, "We were
playing soccer near the school and suddenly there were sirens, and we saw the
Iron Dome rocket fire above us, and then we heard a large explosion and we
realized it fell just near us. The police came and we directed them." The
rocket fell on the rooftop of a nearby school building unexploded and was
disarmed by the police. The IDF later released a statement saying it attacked
over 50 tunnels and tens of hidden rocket launchers. The Hamas often places
the rocket launchers near civilian homes for protection and this might have
been the cause of the attack. The civilians, as perhaps the Hejazi family in
thisof U.S. democracy and intellectual aspirations. According to the council's constitution, its mission was advancing humanistic studies and social sciences and maintaining and strengthening national societies dedicated to those studies.
Advancing scholarship in the humanities
Since its founding, ACLS has provided the humanities and related social sciences with leadership, opportunities for innovation, and national and international representation. The Council's many activities have at their core the practice of scholarly self-governance. Central to ACLS throughout its history have been its programs of fellowships and grants aiding research. ACLS made its first grants, totaling $4,500, in 1926; in 2012, ACLS awarded over $15 million in fellowship stipends and other awards to more than 320 scholars in the United States and abroad. All ACLS awards are made through rigorous peer review by specially
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the Cloud Chamber Bowls, Kithara, BooBams, Chromelodeon, HypoBass and Adapted Guitars. For At the Edge of the World, the group has assembled a program of Partch’s compositions that features excerpts from Lyrics of Li Po, Castor and Pollux (streaming above), The Wayward and Summer 1955, including Ulysses at the Edge of the World, which was written for jazz great Chet Baker. In addition, a rare 1958 film documenting Harry Partch giving a tour of his Chicago music studio and conducting a recording session for Daphne of the Dunes screens both nights.
Listen to and “play” some of the Partch instruments via American Public Media’s American Mavericks’interactive article, which includes recordings of Partch explaining each instrument.
24700 is CalArts' online space dedicated to sharing news and work of the larger CalArtshard to monetize with Adsense and other affiliate
ads, but they're definitely not impossible to monetize.
I started/ran silverfishlongboarding.com for a few years and the forums became
very popular. Even so, it never made more than a couple hundred a month off
Adsense.
Eventually we got rid of Adsense and started selling ads directly. Within a
few months we were bringing in several thousand a month. It was much more time
consuming, but it worked. I sold the site a couple years ago, but I keep in
touch with the new owners and I know that at least one of them is making a
living full time off it.
~~~
Nwallins
Wow, I used to surf the 'fish a good bit last year. Got hooked up with the
Friday Night Rip at Prospect Park with the Earthwing and Bustin crews, bought
a
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a new mascot. Our lead was culturally jewish, and he told us of a
tale called "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins". Apparently this is a real
book. Well - to fit into the theme, our new mascot that appeared one day was a
hobby horse we named "Hershel". We propped it up on our desk system, added a
hat and feather, and continued to work.
We got the system done - well, working to the point that it was real, did what
it was supposed to do...
Eventually, the barn was dismantled when we moved to a new office - to an open
floorplan (ugh). Too much light. The camaraderie that was developed in our
oven barn, while it continued to a certain point - it wasn't quite the same.
About a year later, the company was sold,I quit and moved on to other
pastures, and the new company eventually got rid of the dev team (because they
never wanted it in the first place, nor the software we developed).
But it was a great time while it lasted. Take from it what you can or will...
~~~
bvinc
The pirate metal had to be Alestorm, right?
~~~
cr0sh
Yes.
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wainstead
See also: chapter 9 of the seminal "Peopleware," 3rd edition:
[snip] Before drawing the plans for its Santa Teresa facility, IBM violated
all industry standards by carefully studying the work habits of those who
would occupy the space. The study was designed by the architect Gerald McCue
with the assistance of IBM area managers. Researchers observed the work
processes in action in current work spaces and in mock-ups of proposed work
spaces. They watched programmers, engineers, quality control workers, and
managers go
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the most popular
implementation of the hyperlink part of that essay.)
Now one may wonder how Vannevar Bush was able to have such great insight into
how to make computing useful for people when computers were in their infancy.
(For instance Von Neumann's description of the Von Neumann computer
architecture came out only weeks before.) The explanation is simple - Vannevar
Bush had pretty good ideas about how to make this stuff work because he'd been
building/configuring/etc computers for almost 20 years at that point. And in
his work he'd encountered all sorts of machines that handled information,
including machines used for tabulating the census, and he'd been thinking
about the memex for about a decade.
We live in a field that likes to forget its history. There is a lot more of it
- extending back farther - thansigns and symptoms, and the ways to reduce its harmful effects. The seminar had about 400 participants and its topics focused mainly on individuals at higher risk for health effects of air pollutants.
In his opening lecture, A/Prof. Kamal Heidari, Director of Isfahan Provincial Health Center and the Vice-chancellor for Health of IUMS described the broad activities conducted by the joint collaboration of IUMS health sectors with the Province Governorate, the Municipality, and other related organizations. He appreciated the hard work of his deputy, Dr. Ali Sajjadi in this regard. Engineer Ghatreh Samani, Director of the the Meteorological Provincial Office explained issues on climate change and the current aerologic situation; Engineer Sadeghi, deputy of the Provincial Directorate of Environmental Protection described the annual air quality of the province and
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housing from being built anywhere
in the city and also the failure of running reliable/usable public transit to
any region outside of the area bounded by BART and Market Street. Rent control
certainly doesn't help (though I think there should absolutely be a rent
stabilization law -- everywhere.)
~~~
_delirium
I don't think they're prohibiting dense housing per se, just not
approving/building enough of it. There have been several 50-story condos
opened in the past few years, and several more currently under construction,
but they're not enough to keep pace with growth in demand. It didn't help that
there was a ~2-year lull in construction when a bunch of developers got into
financial trouble during the financial crisis and had to put projects on hold.
It's not as if SF _isn't_ dense; it's the 2nd-densest city in the country, and
way-way-way aheadHong Kong’s protestors want greater autonomy from mainland China, a grievance they’re expressing through a song some are calling their new “national anthem.”
“Glory to Hong Kong” has spread like wildfire: on a quiet Monday night, hundreds of people spread out across four floors of a suburban shopping mall to sing it. The song has been watched on YouTube over a million times, and at least half a dozen English translations, and a Japanese iteration, have surfaced.
The composer is Thomas, a full-time musician in his mid-twenties who asked to be identified only by his first name. He says he recruited performers, as well as people to help with the mixing and arrangement, on Hong Kong’s Reddit-like forum LIHKG, after sharing a demo version last month.
“Music is a tool for
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Know Nothings, a political group determined to deprive foreigners and Catholics of their civil rights; the group burnt down convents and schools. Discouraged, Neumann unsuccessfully wrote to Rome and asked for someone else to take his place.
Neumann wrote in many Catholic newspaper and magazine articles. He also published two catechisms and a Bible history in German. There were also many teaching orders brought in by him.
In 1860, Neumann died due to a stroke at the age of 48 while walking down a street in Philadelphia. After his death people began to talk of how great he had been.
EWTN Audio Library:
Series Name: EWTN LiveProgram Name: St. John Neumann & Devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Helpwho got in with a bad crowd in high school. At some
point, when he was about 17, he was caught illegally entering a business at
night. His parents refused to go pick him up from the police station, so he
had to spend the night and most of the next day in a cell. I don't believe his
ultimate punishment involved any jail time.
I respect his parent's decision. That sort of action teaches a troublesome kid
that there are real consequences for breaking laws beyond just upset parents.
While a criminal record might make it harder for him to get a job in the
future, it certainly doesn't make it impossible. I also suspect it is better
than letting a kid think that other people will protect him and he can get
away with whatever he
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resources. They now have the power
over a human life. Unlike street gangs of the 90's, the internet has allowed
them to be apart of something big, bigger than any street gang has ever had
the opportunity to reach. Where a gang was always limited by location,
Trolling is only limited by language. A troll hierarchy has formed in several
different hives. Troll soldiers are dispatched in the thousands, maybe even
millions, in strategically placed cyber attacks. Worse these troll soldiers,
at the easily corruptible age of 17, will have the mentality of an
anarchist,ego of a street banger, and posses the technical ability of a
hacker. Where a banger would steal and old ladies purse, they will get into
her bank account. Where a banger would shoot someone for initiation, these
trolls would attack every online outlet youKopitar played junior hockey for his hometown team HK Acroni Jesenice before moving to Sweden at age 16 to play in a more competitive league. He spent one season with the junior teams of the Södertälje SK organization, and then with the senior team of the top-level Elitserien. He moved to North America to join the Kings in 2006, one year after he was drafted, and finished fourth in the Calder Memorial Trophy voting for the league's top rookie. Kopitar's offensive talent was immediately apparent when he joined the Kings, though his defensive developed in later seasons and he has become recognized for his two-way play, being a finalist for the Selke Trophy twice, in addition to his one win. Praised as one of the best players in
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Chris Fox, CP24.com
A massive cleanup is underway at an east end high school after a mix of peanut butter and cooking oil was smeared throughout the building as part of an apparent prank.
Staff at Senator O’Connor College School near Lawrence Avenue and Victoria Park Avenue discovered the mess on Wednesday morning.
According to Toronto Catholic District School Board Spokesperson John Yan, it appears as though a student or students entered the school earlier in the day and proceeded to smear the mixture “throughout a large portion of the school, including on floors, stairs and doorknobs and handles.”
Yan said the apparent prank is particularly upsetting because of the prevalence of serious peanut allergies among students.
“We do have a number of pranks that are part of the high school culture butbought a ticket.
~~~
HarryHirsch
_Did someone promise this guy 15 yrs ago when he started on this journey that
he would land in a tenure track job? Did someone tell him that it 's not
competitive? I don't think so._
I don't know about the humanities, but up to about 2009 with a PhD in the
sciences from a second-tier institution you could get a tenure-track job at
another second-tier university or four-year college. That was the typical
career track, because industry recruits only from top institutions at PhD
level.
Then the funding crisis struck, and while universities are increasing
enrollment (with the students shooting mostly for pre-med at my state school)
they are no longer hiring for tenure-track positions, it's now untenured
lecturers or part-time adjuncts.
Universities have found out that they can hire at lower salary levels because
of plentiful supply,
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is a commonly-used short form for the United States of America, as
it is in this case. (Edit to add: Actually, it's even more specific than that:
_American_ is the commonly accepted demonym for citizens of the United States,
which is how it's used here.) To refer to the landmasses including North and
South America, the term _the Americas_ is typically used.
~~~
cdnh22
The funny thing about it, is that at the time the name "United States of
America" came to be, "America" was the full continent and the name of the new
nation simply reflected the fact that it was a union of states in that
continent. I think the name "America" for the country got stronger because
people from there were calling them selves "Americans" for a lack of better
demonym.
~~~
bmmayer1
Hard to believe 'United Statesians' didn't getmore traction :)
~~~
cdnh22
Actually, in Portuguese and Spanish there is the word "estadounidense" that is
basically "Unitedstatizen". But this is a formal word, used only in books (and
Wikipedia). At least in Brazil, we use "americano" in the day by day for both
someone born in the USA or in the continent (which is still called "America",
no plural).
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doxanthropos
Strange headline. Last time I looked at a map, Brazil was part of America.
Where else would they look for Sperm? Asia, Europe? (Of course I read along
and even before knew they meant the United Stated, but America is not the
United States.)
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finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on terror from September 12, 2001, through fiscal year 2018. That figure: a cool
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Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of The Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
In the third andbeen a relatively
large movement in the past three years or thereabouts towards developing
shared testsuites, in large part down to various Microsoft and Opera people
(myself included, in the early days, as a disclaimer) and several WG chairs
(trying to push specs to REC — which nowadays requires two interoperable
implementations, and hence practically a testsuite), so things are at least
slowly changing there. But there's still a lot of work to be done — and it's
one area where improvements can have large effects, as it increases the
consistency of all implementations, and makes it easier for smaller, and
newer, competitors to enter the market.
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vacri
Following the thread, the TLS 1.2 spec was completed in 2008, but it wasn't
supported in OpenSSL until mid-2012 - so anything that depends on OpenSSL had
to wait until at least then,
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of room for everyone in the world to
be rich, regardless of where the engine of dynamism in the world rests. I
think in the next 20 to 50 years we'll see much of India, South America, and
at least coastal China become fully first world societies, with individual
income and wealth in the same range as that of America, Western Europe, Japan
et al.
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pw0ncakes
The American Empire? Yes, it will decline, but the OP did a poor job of
explaining why. American corporations won't dominate the world's economic
landscape forever.
As a country, we'll be fine. We won't really notice the change, because our
standard of living will still be improving as this occurs.
~~~
jordanb
One thing I like to observe is that even with the evaporation of the Empire,
Britain remains a very wealthy country with a high standardof living. In
fact, their standard of living is considerably higher now than it was at the
height of the Empire in the 1950s.
~~~
arethuza
I think the "height" of the Empire was definitely before WW1 - by 1950 Britain
was in a pretty bad way.
~~~
pw0ncakes
The discrepancy in wealth between Western and Eastern Europe is due largely to
the Marshall Plan (Eastern bloc states couldn't accept the aid). Without it,
Britain would have struggled to rebuild its economy (and Britain was very poor
in the '50s). So the "American Era" effectively began with the conclusion of
World War 2.
World War 1 was the sign that imperialism might not be such a good idea, since
it led to an effectively pointless war, but it didn't change the relative
levels of power. World War 2 occurred because certain societies didn't learn
this
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as dirty tricks and he compared his opponents to Nazis after he was jostled by Workers Party militants during a walk-about in Rio de Janeiro. He claimed they struck him on the head during the confrontation which forced him to take refuge in a local pharmacy.
The Workers Party released a video which it claimed showed Mr Serra was struck by nothing more than a ball of paper with president Lula accusing the opposition candidate of “lies” in order to drum up a new controversy. But Brazilian media said the Workers Party had doctored the video, cutting out the moment Mr Serra was struck by a second object.
Adding to the increasingly acrid tone is an ongoing stream of accusations and counter accusations of corruption and spying by both sidesthe opposite scam.
I was selling a house myself. I took photos, paid to have it listed, posted a
sign out front, and posted ads in various places including CL.
Someone contacted me to say they responded to an ad on CL for a rental house.
The prospective renter was told by the scammer he was out of town and that
they could go to the house and look around the property. He would transact the
rental remotely and mail them the keys if they liked it. They were also told
to ignore the For Sale sign out front! They did go see the house but saw the
For Sale sign and called the number - me - at which point we figured out what
was going on. They had also spoken to the guy on the
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figure whose presence is defined by her absence. Narratively the more important of Aquaman's parents — without her, he would just be "Dude who's good at swimming but, you know, not superhumanly good" — Atlanna is nonetheless less present in Aquaman stories than the dead man who raised him as a kid. Sexism, apparently, isn't just for air-breathers.
Aquaman, which stars Jason Momoa, Amber Heard and Patrick Wilson, is scheduled to start shooting in April for an Oct. 5 2018 release.initiate lawsuits ---
you'll already have proven your company or not.
~~~
tzs
I'm not a lawyer, though I once was studying to be one. In '92 I took a break
from programming and went to law school (University of Washington) with the
intent of becoming an IP, corporate, tax, and civil rights lawyer.
This was motivated both by curiosity about the law, and I was getting burned
out on programming. We were basically a small contract programming shop,
specializing in taking on firmware projects that were late, over budget, and
failing and turning them around on a fixed bid and tight schedule. It was
rather intense, and after four years of it, I needed a break.
Law school was a perfect extended vacation. While I was in law school, my
former company had switched from the business of fixing people's
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(CNN) At least 42 people, mostly soldiers and one child, were killed when attackers launched four suicide car bombings at security targets in a major Yemeni city, two senior government officials told CNN.
The attacks occurred in Mukalla, a southeastern port city in Hadramaut province.
At least 30 people were injured -- all security officers except for five civilians, according to the two officials, both of whom are in the provincial governor's office.
One of the attacks targeted a military compound near a government intelligence building. The others targeted military checkpoints. A child walking near one of the checkpoints was killed.
The attackers were from ISIS, group's media voice says
Read Morethe industry and steadfastness
that come from strong religious conviction and deep sense of moral
responsibility. He is never at a loss for an effective moral attitude. As the
great champion of freedom and national independence, he conquers and annexes
half the world, and calls it Colonization. When he wants a new market for his
adulterated Manchester goods, he sends a missionary to teach the natives the
gospel of peace. The natives kill the missionary: he flies to arms in defence
of Christianity; fights for it; conquers for it; and takes the market as a
reward from heaven.
In defence of his island shores, he puts a chaplain on board his ship; nails a
flag with a cross on it to his top-gallant mast; and sails to the ends of the
earth, sinking, burning and destroying all who dispute
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the empire of the seas
with him. He boasts that a slave is free the moment his foot touches British
soil; and he sells the children of his poor at six years of age to work under
the lash in his factories for sixteen hours a day. He makes two revolutions,
and then declares war on our one in the name of law and order.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it;
but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on
principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business
principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly
principles; he supports his king on loyal principles, and cuts off his king's
head on republican principles. His watchwordnot connected with the attempted burglary as he had testified; and that the reason he gave testimony to such effect was because of his hope that an habitual criminal charge, based upon his conviction of prior crimes, would not be pressed against him.
Evidence submitted and relied upon by the state as meeting the requirements of § 634.04 consisted of the testimony of police officers investigating the scene of the crime on the day following its commission to the effect that they had discovered footprints of two men leading to the elevator and back to an automobile which had been parked nearby, indicating that two men had participated in the attempted burglary. It is conceded that there was no evidence which connected either the automobile or footprints with defendant.
Evidence
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1970s that child sexual abuse was widespread in Boy Scout troop activities across the country. Witnesses in the trial said the Boy Scouts maintained thousands of secret cases it called "the Confidential Files," dating to the early 1920s. The files were held in locked cabinets in the Boy Scouts national headquarters in Dallas, according to the attorneys.
Rather than using the information to inform and educate local troop leaders, parents and Scouts about the existence of sexual abuse, the plaintiff claimed, the Boy Scouts hid the information, partly out of concern for protecting the Boy Scouts' all-American image.
Attorney General Eric Holder, who this week announced his plans to resign, has been a leader in addressing systems of racial discrimination and protecting the fundamental rights of every American to beto businesses(big and small).
One day one of his customers asked him whether he would be able to supply
instant tea and coffee mix to the business. He agreed and started supplying
tea and coffee. Went to other businesses and asked if they would be
interested. Got sizeable amount of customers. One day, one of his tea and
coffee customers, a defence establishment, asked him if he could arrange
student visits to their facility for educational purpose. He agreed. Then went
to lot of other schools and businesses and asked them if he could help them
arrange student visits. He got success in that! Now he has recently started
building a park(with space theme) for students.
So, if you look at the journey it is not some magic with which one finds a
PMF. The entrepreneur has to go
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was being held in a conference room situated in one of the many close-by hotels of the convention.
What first struck me, and what I ultimately liked about it, was that it was really more of an intimate setting.
Aidan Turner was pretty much deep in thoughts on that picture, while Russell Tovey was listening intently to one of the girls' answer.
Upon arrival, I was kindly and personally met with the person in charge of publicity from BBC America for the very successful British television series.
Inside the room, the four main actors of the series: Aidan Turner (Mitchell, the vampire), Russell Tovey (George, the werewolf), Lenora Crichlow (Annie, the ghost) and Sinead Keenan (Nina, George's girlfriend) were waiting for us.
They were all seemingly well-relaxed (they had just done a pressthe Bantustans
that were used to deprive black people of citizenship by driving them into a
tiny proportion of the country.
The apartheid government ultimately was a creature of greed masquerading
behind an ideology. It enabled a part of the population to loot the wealth of
South Africa for its own gain, using others as a pool of cheap labour. It
deliberately, as a matter of state policy, gave blacks an inferior education,
so they could be “hewers of wood and drawers of water”. Yet it was always open
to dialogue, as long as that dialogue enabled it to survive on its own terms.
The apartheid government did finally capitulate, but only after it realised
that it was utterly alone and isolated and almost universally reviled, and the
collapse of world communism meant that it wouldn’t be shielded by
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of his approach is the genuine respect he showed for the
racists. He approached them as reasonable and intelligent and let that work to
his benefit by essentially forcing them to deal with the resulting cognitive
dissonance in their heads.
The wrong lesson from this would be "being nice to racists" is somehow a
meaningfully important aspect of his approach. He didn't bake them cookies and
expect their racism to melt away. He showed them respect and didn't preach or
moralize to them. In fact, he didn't seem to directly confront the poisonous
beliefs at all.
His approach was the same as that of the most effective leaders.
So many social groups start from the premise of zero respect for those with
whom they disagree. Which is great for feeling superior to others, but not for
actually making a positivewas one such person. He ran a blog called
"Jewlicious," and after several months of heated but friendly arguments
online, he came out to see me at a picket in New Orleans. He brought me a
Middle Eastern dessert from Jerusalem, where he lives, and I brought him
kosher chocolate and held a "God hates Jews" sign._"
" _It took time, but eventually these conversations planted seeds of doubt in
me. My friends on Twitter took the time to understand Westboro 's doctrines,
and in doing so, they were able to find inconsistencies I'd missed my entire
life. Why did we advocate the death penalty for gays when Jesus said, "Let he
who is without sin cast the first stone?" How could we claim to love our
neighbor while at the same time praying for God to destroy
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a voice to the Klansmen at all. It just says: I went and
talked to them and they became friends. Eventually they changed and gave me
their robes.
Nice story and I'm sure it's true. But it didn't help me understand the KKK
any better, which is a shame.
~~~
antod
As far as I can tell, the point is that there was NO actual reason why they
hated him apart from they didn't know him. Once they knew him, they didn't
hate him.
The ones that changed their point of view, eventually just realised they had
no remaining reason to hate him. And by extension it was irrational to
automatically hate every other black person they didn't know yet.
It was his attempts to understand them, that helped some of them understand
him. As he points out though, there were plentySINGAPORE: One person was taken to hospital after a thunderstorm caused heavy damage to Koon Lee Nursery and Chew's Agriculture in Lim Chu Kang on Friday (Mar 30).
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it responded to a call for ambulance assistance at 2 Murai Farmway at around 4pm.
A 38-year-old worker from the nursery was taken conscious to Ng Teng Fong Hospital.
Channel NewsAsia understands the police and officials from the Building and Construction Authority were at the scene.
Video and photos of the storm's aftermath showed widespread damage to the nursery with collapsed structures and debris strewn across the ground. A fire engine could also be seen at the scene.
A heavy thunderstorm caused widespread damage on Friday (Mar 30). (Photo: Mac Teo)
Damage caused by the heavy thunderstorm. (Photo: Mac Teo)
Fallen
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28, completed 59 percent of his passes this season for 1,615 yards, six touchdowns and five interceptions. His 78.5 passer rating is the fifth lowest in the NFL among qualified quarterbacks.
A second-round pick out of Nevada in 2011, Kaepernick took over in Week 11 of the 2012 season from a concussed Alex Smith and started 53 straight games, including the Niners' Super Bowl XLVII loss to the Baltimore Ravens and the following season's NFC title game loss to the Seahawks.
It was in that offseason when Kaepernick signed a $126 million contract extension that was lauded at the time as being very team friendly. While he is due to make $14.3 million in 2016 ($11.9 million in base salary, plus bonuses), $16.9 million in 2017, $17.4 million in 2018cold war after all.
Also the Soviet Union was winning most of the relevant milestones in space
(first satellite, first animal in orbit, first human, first woman, first space
walk, etc), and this was a great source of national pride. Beating them had
great propaganda value.
~~~
dTal
>Also the Soviet Union was winning most of the relevant milestones in space
(first satellite, first animal in orbit, first human, first woman, first space
walk, etc), and this was a great source of national pride. Beating them had
great propaganda value.
I would rather say that the Soviet Union was winning the _irrelevant_
milestones, precisely for the propaganda value. First woman in space means
nothing, really - you put a woman on your spaceship, wham, easy win. The moon
landings forced the USA to tackle real engineering challenges - rendezvous and
docking, piloted spacecraft
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and piloted orbit changes, functionally useful
EVAs, keeping humans alive in space for long periods, etc.
~~~
novaRom
Oh boy, you underestimate the power of feminism. First woman in space is a
lot, especially if you go back to 60th of previous century.
~~~
dTal
That's the point - it's a propaganda win, not a technical achievement in any
way. Not to belittle the symbolic importance of it, but cmon - first dog
murdered by being launched in a rocket, first time running two manned missions
at the same time, first nap in space - a large proportion of the Soviet
"firsts" were just low-complexity stunts.
One of the last major "firsts" was "first organisms to circle the moon" \-
they barely squeaked this one in a few months before Apollo 8, and they
accomplished it by shoving some tortoises into a SoyuzA training module developed by a city -based institute for empowerment of women representatives in local self-governments has been selected by the Commonwealth Local Governance Forum (CLGF) for promotion in member countries.
Pune: A training module developed by a city -based institute for empowerment of women representatives in local self-governments has been selected by the Commonwealth Local Governance Forum (CLGF) for promotion in member countries.
Conceived by YASHDA (Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration) here, the module is being employed in Maharashtra to train elected women members of local self government bodies such as Panchayat Samitis, Grampanchayats, Zilla Parishads and municipal councils.
"The recognition by CLGF of our `Panchayat Mahila Sashaktikaran` module, which was developed to spur the movement for women`s empowerment in rural and semi-rural areas, has come as a
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PC vs. Mac ads are officially over
Last month, Justin Long, the "Mac" in Apple's popular Mac vs. PC commercials (officially "Get A Mac"), said the ad campaign may be close to its conclusion, ending one of the more effective ad series in history.
He said he had heard from "PC" John Hodgman that Apple was planning to move on.
Today, it appears that prediction has come true, as Apple has officially ended the series of ads, the last of which played in October of last year.
The "Get A Mac" series has been replaced on the Apple site by the "Why You'll Love a Mac" page, which markets Macs over PC counterparts, claiming: "Better Hardware, Better Software, Better OS, Better Support, and It's Compatible."
All of the ads have been removed asat the gate until
your flight was called, then got in line (with some minor prioritization) then
flew.
Whenever I had the misfortune of flying United (an ever rarer occasion as I
wizened up to the situation and later to "codeshare" flights), half the gate
was at the counter, jockeying for perks and arguing status and privilege.
This has apparently now been codified with (last I checked) 6 separate cattle
lanes for boarding. Also, when I was booked on United business (a mistake),
the flight attendants apparently had to try to find certain "special" elite
passengers and suck up to them, in order to get little "stars" on their cards.
How utterly demeaning!
Again, the US has been on the frontier of this deplorable trend, but the rest
of the world is catching up, with Heathrow being the first airport
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treatment of Geoff Fearns, including a threat to place him in
handcuffs, comes close.
Fearns, 59, is president of TriPacific Capital Advisors, an Irvine investment
firm that handles more than half a billion dollars in real estate holdings on
behalf of public pension funds. He had to fly to Hawaii last week for a
business conference.
Fearns needed to return early so he paid about $1,000 for a full-fare, first-
class ticket to Los Angeles. He boarded the aircraft at Lihue Airport on the
island of Kauai, took his seat and enjoyed a complimentary glass of orange
juice while awaiting takeoff.
Then, as Fearns tells it, a United employee rushed onto the aircraft and
informed him that he had to get off the plane.
“I asked why,” he told me. “They said the flight was overfull.”
Fearns, like the doctor atLocation
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Interview with the Pragmatic Programmer, Andy Hunt - variedthoughts
https://testandcode.com/69
======
variedthoughts
Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wrote the seminal software development book, The
Pragmatic Programmer. Together they founded The Pragmatic Programmers and are
well known as founders of the agile movement and authors of the Agile
Manifesto. They founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing business in 2003.
The Pragmatic Bookshelf published it's most important book, in my opinion, in
2017 with the first pytest book available from any publisher.
Topics:
The Pragmatic Programmer, the book The Manifesto for Agile Software
Development Agile methodologies and lightweight methods Some issues with
"Agile" as it is now. The GROWS Method Pragmatic Bookshelf, the publishing
company How Pragmatic Bookshelf is different, and what it's like to be an
author with them. Reading and writing sci-fi novels, including Conglommora,
Andy's novels. Playing music.
Pip Skid
Skid Row
A load-bearing cornerstone of Peanuts & Corn, one of only a few successful indie hip-hop labels in Canada, rapper Pip Skid has a deep discography that spans his beginnings in Brandon, MB as a member of Farm Fresh through collaborations like Fermented Reptile, Hip Hop Wieners and Taking Care of Business, as well as a string of solo stops along the way. His latest is Skid Row, produced by Frek Sho alum DJ Kutdown, whose slamming drums and frequent use of guitars (check the Nirvana riff on "I Never Knew" for just one of many examples) provide Pip with the hardest musical backdrop he has yet to rock. For his part, Pip amps up his usually gruff voice and harsh delivery to match the aggressive nature
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A number of the Premier League's big guns, including Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City have held a long-term interest in Subotic and were linked moves for the 23-year-old.
The Serbia international has earned himself a reputation as one of the best defenders in Europe after impressing for club and country over the last couple of seasons.
Dortmund revealed earlier this month that they were in talks with Subotic over a new deal and now an agreement has been reached between all parties
Subotic's existing contract was due to expire in 2014 and Dortmund have moved to offer him a two-year extension to keep him the Westfalenstadion until 2016.
News of Subotic's new deal will come as a major boost for Dortmund as they look to keep hold of their best playersis to have the state or feds take over,
like too many of our school districts around here. Then again, every governor
of IL goes to jail, so maybe just the feds.
~~~
ghostbrainalpha
"Metro East, the city of East St. Louis had always served as more of a legal
shell for corporate privilege—low taxes, nonexistent regulation, minimal
public services—than a fully functioning city. By the late 1980s, the city’s
sewer system was failing, and the city government was being sued by the EPA
for misusing federal funds that had been earmarked for its repair."
Corruption was a big part of the problem. But the root goes deeper. This was
always a fake town, a hollow shell built to serve the interest of a business
that no longer exists.
I know this sounds cruel but the sewage is only a symptom
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Buffalo. It's not a
place known for high tech, nor is it known for high municipal spending.
The backstory of how this came about would surely be interesting.
~~~
souterrain
A plausible story is that Lockport is the county seat of Niagara County, NY,
which has three land (bridge) crossings with Canada, and therefore has
significant USCIS presence throughout the county. I can imagine a joint task
force involving county law enforcement and USCIS. Most schools in NY State
have armed police (“school resource officer”) present. They probably all go to
the same sporting events, drink at the same pubs.
Nothing like a refreshing beverage and discussing pervasive surveillance
technology for the youth of America.
~~~
debacle
Lockport is not the county seat of Niagara County. It's a dilapidated, failing
school district that's experiencing a huge amount of wealth flight as it's
situated ~10 minsif "watch" means "keep watch" in Chinese as it does in English, and sprint to first the women's room downstairs (closed) then the men's room (open but crowded with men waiting for the stalls, doors flung open, watched men shitting and crouching and smoking, felt out of place as 16 year old boy/31 year old woman, had to leave) then the women's room upstairs and suddenly empty four days of offerings to the fecal finger of fate. Do you know what that looks like? Atlantis. Layers of cities, almost distinct but mingled at the edges, each layer in a more advanced stage of decrepitude. Hot peppers an apparent specialty of one of the civilizations. A pale archaeologist might step through in knee-high waders and say: Was it plague
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tell the "down" story, because the down story
is the only new thing to say after a subject is painted with such grandiose
brush strokes.
Example: Marc Andreessen gets profiled in The New Yorker and a year later the
WSJ publishes a hit piece on Andreessen Horowitz's returns. That's how
journalists think: "what can I say that's different?" The whole industry plays
a kind of ping pong, with one reporter telling an up story so the next can
tell the opposite. It's a strange form of job security in an insecure
profession. In a sense, you know you made it when they're publishing hit
pieces about you.
A New Yorker profile is as good as it gets, and in a sense represents peak
exposure, at least for someone in tech. (The Kardashians have other
benchmarks...) It's doubly risky because atdied in Morelos in 1992. In the southern state of Chiapas, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials) had just launched a campaign that would soon bring in a flood of revolutionaries, journalists and human rights observers from around the world to Mexico. The movement in Tepoztlán identified closely with the Zapatista insurrection. Even the embroideries in carnival costumes declared solidarity: “We are all TEpoZtLáN,” they spelled out, with the letters EZLN bigger than the others. The inspiration went both ways. Tepoztlán was an autonomous municipality before any were formed in Chiapas. The link with the emerging Zapatista movement, Rosas remembers, helped Tepoztlán overcome a sense of isolation. For a moment the struggle was about something bigger than a golf course. “Tepoztlán is made
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fraudulent transfers is based in part on the reduction in Smith's net worth from May, 1995 to August, 1997, such theory might be misplaced.
SDC's trial counsel exposed Smith's personal financial statement as being inaccurate to the extreme. For example, Smith represented ownership of a personal bank account at Fidelity National Bank worth $843,000. (SDC Ex. 2, Schedule A). The funds were actually in the debtor-in-possession account of American Investment Medlock I, LP, a bankrupt company in the Middle District of Georgia. (Tr. at 159, l. 1 p. 161, l. 13). Smith represented that he owned $650,000 worth of Restore, Inc., stock. (SDC Ex. 2, Schedule B). The stock was not in Smith's name, and it appears that neither he nor one of his companies ever received it.what
Apple was/is and strives to be. If he still elicits respect from the current
Apple camp, wouldn't he be a good choice to take over Steve Job's role? If not
a CEO, an advisor? I say this not knowing a thing about corporate structure so
excuse my ignorance.
~~~
rickdangerous1
I'm reading his book iWoz at the moment. In that he makes it clear he's never
wanted to be a manager. He didn't/doesn't want to control other people etc. In
fact, he only agreed to leave HP and join apple (after designing and building
the apple I and II in his spare time) when he realized he could be in his own
company and still stay as an engineer.
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dvdhsu
Reporter sounds very ersatz. Constantly interrupting, interjecting with "huh",
"oh", "yeah", and "ah, interesting". She pretends to know what she's talking
about,
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although it's obvious that she doesn't.
Anyways, the parallel to Sony is interesting. Many have mentioned it before,
but only time will tell.
~~~
firefoxman1
Haha my favorite part is around 2:35.
Woz: "...one mind still in control to keep products so..."
Interviewer: "Advancing?"
Woz: "small."
~~~
bored
Good catch
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ethank
I sat next to Woz during the keynote where the iPod with video was introduced
(I believe the event where Madonna was called, as I was working on her project
at the time).
The guy had such enthusiasm for everything around him, especially while Steve
was on stage. It was inspiring. He also had time for everyone, which was
equally so.
I like to think of him as evangelist in chief. I mean, the guy checks in
wherever he is on Foursquare and from what I understand is really kind to
anyone that says hello.
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rbanffy
I for one wouldprimarily used to pay off the Household Finance Corporation retail installment contract, although additional funds over and above the amount due Household Finance Corporation were advanced. A true, correct and genuine copy of the note and security agreement of November 6, 1987 is attached hereto, marked Exhibit "B", and is incorporated by reference as though fully set out herein.
3. On June 2, 1988, the debtor refinanced the Third National Bank of Sedalia loan by entering into a second note and security agreement, wherein the debtor put up for collateral the same sofa sleeper, coffee and end tables, and benchcraft recliner which were the subject of the original retail installment contract with Household Finance Corporation and the first note with Third National Bank of Sedalia. Most of the proceeds
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a pain. It's a problem everywhere, but in the
west, the US has it particularly bad. I don't know about Cali, but in a lot of
cities the building code is a total joke, and Americans are known to be LOUD.
City rules are rarely enforced properly, either. So the only option you have
is to prevent neighbors from moving in in the first place. That's easily
fixed: better construction quality and clearer, enforced rules that make
coexisting easier and nicer, alongside investments to keep the area from going
down the shitter.
Do that for a while, and people just won't mind. Having moved from a dense
city in another country to a medium sized American metro made me "appreciate"
why NIMBYs are such a problem here. Living near people can become a nightmare
real quick if you're notObama presses GOP to act on infrastructure
President Obama greets audience members after speaking about transportation and the economy at Georgetown Waterfront Park, on the Potomac River in Washington. President Obama greets audience members after speaking about transportation and the economy at Georgetown Waterfront Park, on the Potomac River in Washington. Photo: Charles Dharapak, Associated Press Photo: Charles Dharapak, Associated Press Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Obama presses GOP to act on infrastructure 1 / 7 Back to Gallery
Washington --
President Obama called on congressional Republicans on Tuesday to take quick action to fund infrastructure projects throughout the country, arguing that failing to do so could mean huge layoffs for Americans this year.
Stepping up criticism of his opponents on Capitol Hill, Obama poked derisive fun at Republicans as
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In the recent years the field of neuromuscular diseases with onset in childhood has been revolutionized by the discovery of several new genes and the underlying mechanisms responsible for diseases. With this perspective the conference \"News and Views. Neuromuscular disease from child to adulthood: new tools and new opportunities\" was held in Pisa at the end of last September.
Starting from the latest scientific advances in the most common neuromuscular diseases, the conference addressed the need to integrate the disciplines and the clinicians daily involved in taking care of patients with these diseases, focusing in particular on the phase of transition from childhood to adulthood.
The present issue of Acta Myologica and the next at the end of the year will collect a series of interventions presented during the conference.is a renowned physicist interested in climate science. I believe that
his physics/math skills and general intelligence allow him to be quite
competent in climate issues.
Lindzen retired only in 2013. I don't see how this makes his opinion about
CAGW less valuable, especially given the fact that he was skeptical about CAGW
hypothesis for a long time.
"Judith Curry also used to be a scientist and quit her academic job;
presumably being a shill pays WAY better." \- where's the proof that she is a
"shill"?
Roy Spencer is a renowned scientist in my book: "Roy Warren Spencer is a
meteorologist, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave
Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. He has served as senior
scientist for climate studies at NASA's
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million times as much KR85 as in 1945, at the start of
the Atomic Age.
KR85 is a radioactive gas, and radioactive gases consist of charged particles.
When charged particles enter a magnetic field, they migrate to the poles. The
earth is a giant magnet, so the KR85 ends up equally at the North and South
poles. There it interacts with the charged stream entering the earth's
atmosphere from space, known to astronomers as the Wilson Current, a part of
the Wilson Circuit, which keeps the earth charged up.
The discharge portion of the Wilson Circuit is lightning, most of which is in
the belt of constant thunderstorm activity that circles the earth at the
Equator. As the inflow of charge at the poles weakens, so does the amount of
lightning decrease everywhere on earth.
And lightning is essential tocombined.
The increase in both frequency and severity of storms in the temperate and
polar zones is also being augmented by the build-up of charge at the poles
from KR85.
The strong tropical storms that form along the Equator are highly-charged
systems. How far they travel from their birthplace along the Equator toward
the poles is determined by two factors: The strength of the charge of the
storm itself, and that of the pole that is attracting it. As KR85 builds up at
the poles, these strong tropical storms are drawn farther from their normal
home in the tropics and sub-tropics toward the poles, bringing with them
tropical heat, as well as more frequent and stronger storm activity to areas
not formerly accustomed to such weather.
The observations of decrease of ice in the polar zones and more frequent and
severe
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coal is both owned by a few monopolistic companies. In Germany
there were four regions for electricity production and these four companies
each owned one: basically all production and distribution of electricity.
None of these companies had any interest to invest in renewable energy or to
open up their markets for competition. Politicians were given jobs in these
companies after their political career.
It took literally decades to break up this system and the Energiewende was the
first movement towards open energy markets, competition and renewable energy
production. It's a system which takes decades to reform and rebuild. Whether
nuclear or coal is first to go out is a minor issue over that time scale.
The money invested into renewable created a lot of effects which will drive
down electricity prices in many other countries much faster than nuclearthat 70 per cent of Hong Kong is officially countryside – “rolling hills, country parks [and] surf-beaten coastlines,” as Lonely Planet describes it – is not lost on the throngs of nature-loving residents and visitors who head for the hills at every opportunity.
From Leisure to Business
The mountains so enamoured British expatriate Steve Pheby when he arrived in Hong Kong five years ago that he not only joined a local hiking group, he turned it into a business.
Hong Kong Hikers Ltd, of which Mr Pheby is now Director, started out as a social club for folks who love to tramp through the countryside. He had left a job leading a relocation company in Turkey to move to Hong Kong as a “trailing spouse” – joining his wife who came
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State is a glaring exception to the numbering convention,
being located north of I-84. Are there other exceptions?
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Sanddancer
Another glaring exception is Interstate 238 in California. It's an important,
if short, route in the Bay Area, but at the time it was redesignated an
Interstate, every x80 number had been taken, either by other local freeways,
or by unrelated highways. So, when it was updated to interstate standards,
they just decided to let it keep its old number, even though interstate 38
doesn't even exist.
Since then, Highway 480 (it was never formally adopted as an Interstate) has
been removed, but renumbering would be more trouble than it's worth, so it's
remained I-238.
~~~
GFK_of_xmaspast
There's also I-595 between DC and Annapolis, which is signed as US-50 instead
because there are too many x95s in the area.
~~~
Sanddancer
There's a simpler explanation. It's aParks Canada has chosen Ottawa Boat Cruise to bring back boat tours on the northernmost stretch of the Rideau Canal in 2016.
In an email, Parks Canada said the more than 30-year-old company, which currently runs Ottawa River cruises, beat out two other bids after the department's request for proposals earlier this year.
"Parks Canada is now working with Ottawa Boat Cruises Inc. (Croisières Outaouais) to detail the full package of services that will be offered, with implementation scheduled to start in 2016," the statement said.
"One of the services will be a new tour boat which will begin operations in the 2016 navigation season. Details on other offerings will be announced at a later date once an agreement has been signed."
The Parks Canada request for proposals went out March 25
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characteristics of a system as a methodology for the description of systems. The structure, function and ecology of animal production systems. Introduction to systems analysis, synthesis and its use in management. The methodology of systems analysis and synthesis: general systems theory, identification of components, systems representation, systems behavior, use of systems studies for the design and management of livestock systems. A general description and classification of agricultural and livestock systems.
Livestock Population Dynamics And Modeling Description .The structural, functional and productivity characteristics of individuals. Populations and ecosystems. Analysis of fecundity and fecundity tables. The construction of population life tables and their use in improving productivity. The methodology and use of animal census. Modeling: Descriptions of animal systems; use of descriptive statistics, use of statistical models, problems of prediction andcreating
islands in the middle of traffic you'd get street cafes. Just one, pretty
please?
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travmatt
I'm currently finishing reading Robert Caro's "The Power Broker", which is
about the man who is mostly responsible for New York's choice to embrace the
automobile over people, Robert Moses. In short, this choice was extremely
conscious and in large part driven by racial and class based segregation.
~~~
mountaineer22
Excellent book. I highly recommend this, as well.
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ideonexus
I agree with the author, and am cognizant of the problem and outraged for the
same inefficiencies, deleterious health effects, and fatalities he outlines.
But I wish he could have spent an equal amount of time exploring how we solve
this problem rather than just inciting futile anger over it.
One solution is telecommuting; get people of the road by having them work from
home. Another is mandating fuel efficiency
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can be developed in retrospect, but an over arching plot
fails to account for some of the opportunities that fit more into an investor
trying to make monies.
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mountaineer22
It is not a theory. It is an actual conspiracy.
From the link:
"On April 9, 1947, nine corporations and seven individuals (officers and
directors of certain of the corporate defendants) were indicted in the Federal
District Court of Southern California on counts of "conspiring to acquire
control of a number of transit companies, forming a transportation monopoly"
and "conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies to companies owned
by National City Lines"[35] which had been made illegal by the 1890 Sherman
Antitrust Act. In 1948, the venue was changed from the Federal District Court
of Southern California to the Federal District Court in Northern Illinois
following an appeal to the UnitedTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Prisoners in southern Iran broke cameras and caused other damage during a riot, state media reported Monday, the latest in a series of violent prison disturbances in the country, which is battling the most severe coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East.
Iran had temporarily released around 100,000 prisoners as part of measures taken to contain the pandemic, leaving an estimated 50,000 people behind bars, including violent offenders and so-called “security cases,” often dual nationals and others with Western ties.
Families of detainees and Western nations say Iran is holding those prisoners for political reasons or to use them as bargaining chips in negotiations.
Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up
The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Governor
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the soviet Union official markets will have stands selling just one potato,
or one lemon or egg. Then in the black market the communist families could
buy(or access, because with power and influence you don't need
money)everything, from good meat, fish...
People that traveled abroad, with public money were the children of the
communist... they had access to (imported)TVs, good houses and cars instantly
while the rest of the population will wait for years or decades, only to get
bullshit TVs, bullshit houses and bullshit cars.
In the UK,and the US with confiscation taxes rich people found ways to not pay
taxes at all. It was only a barrier of entry to middle class.
~~~
wycy
It's only 70% of what you earn on dollars _after_ certain other nominal
limits. For example, 70% of what you earn _after_ you've earned yourTwo screenshots. On the left, an early press photo for NBC's new show Revolution, set in a post-apocalyptic 2027, as the characters walk pass a Wrigley Field claimed by the ivy. On the right, the same picture, taken from the show's actual broadcast last night. The "2012 World Series Champions" sign has been removed, probably a good call as the Cubs have eliminated from playoff contention. It's telling that they didn't just digitally change the year to 2013, or even 2023—the producers have decided the smart money is against a Cubs title any time soon.
There's still hope! Back to the Future Part II has the Cubs sweeping Miami in the 2015 fall classic. It'll take some radical realignment, but at least it's not mathematically impossible.
[Chicago Tribune]
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core office serving the Los Angeles market, satellite offices in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, and has a continuous staff presence in Sacramento. Our broad membership benefits apply to biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, genomics and diagnostics companies of all sizes, as well as to research universities and institutes, clinical research organizations, investors and service providers. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter (@BIOCOMCA).of State for the better part of eight years. They remained
outraged at Manning and never ceased their push for punitive action.
But she very apparently never tackled and fixed the systems deficiencies that
allowed the problem, in the first place.
As her campaign proceeded, I read numerous stories about its fundamental
disorganization and corresponding disfunction.
To speak politically for a moment, I'd take this in a second compared to the
malicious disaster that is Trump and his crony clown car of an administration.
But neither did she acknowledge, accept responsibility for, and actually work
to fix the very tools her and State's work are now founded upon.
Go back twenty years. The intelligence services had a better scoped
information collection and analysis system that showed real promise, while
also better respecting privacy. Thin Thread.
Dick Cheney gets into the VP
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Democrats for not sharing Ford's allegations sooner. The California Democrat did pass the letter along to the Justice Department in September but she has denied that she or anyone in her office gave Ford's letter to reporters.
More:Trump lands in Iowa; here's what he said before leaving D.C. to go to Council Bluffs, Iowa rally
More:President Trump calls 'Iowa legend' Sen. Chuck Grassley a 'very tough cookie'company is different: We are a marketing company looking for a combination of technology interfaces, not a technology company looking for marketing. The space is solid. The concept is unique, marketable and defensible.<p>Me: Grew up in the Seattle area. Graduated from the Univ. of Arizona with a degree in Mktg, Comm & Poly Sci. Held various leadership positions through college and worked for Senator John McCain in communications and stumped speeched for him numerous times. Got entrepreneurial, moved to San Francisco and started, operated and sold a coffee company. Worked as a consultant, taught classes on how to start a coffee business, created business plans for three years and actually helped opened a few. Took some graduate classes
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Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Anthony has a scar on his knee. His nickname is Tony.
Details of Disappearance and work by Brian Ladd:login to view) (login to view)
Anthony was last seen in Anacortes, Washington on January 25, 1986. He and two friends,
Keith Humenik and
Mitchell Zimny, went out on the ocean in a homemade ten-foot white aluminum boat. They were last seen near Fidalgo Island. None of them returned to shore or were ever heard from again. The three of them are presumed drowned. Their remains have never been recovered.
Skagit County Sheriff's Office
360-336-9450
OR
360-428-3211
disableSelection(document.body) //disable text selection on entire body of pagebig money into actually innovating on the city concept, its
all about buying politicians for favorable zoning over actually making
anything lasting and meaningful out of the interest in urban renewal.
~~~
freehunter
Is it possible that the "urban renewal" just didn't hit already-popular and
not-in-need-of-renewal cities like Manhattan?
My city was almost completely dead as recently as the 90s. Very high crime,
lots of abandoned buildings, no businesses in the city center, only poor
people lived downtown. Today there is a brewery on every corner, food trucks
parked outside every day, live music almost every night of the week, and tons
of people who don't own cars making it because downtown is an amazing place to
be.
And you talk about Detroit: Detroit was one of the biggest benefactors of the
urban renewal. Sure it's not back to its pre-1968 glory
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UI experience. The "threads"
link is no longer where it used to be. I'd guess the earliest it should go
would be before "jobs" as I doubt the average HN user clicks "jobs" or
"submit" more than once a day (if that often), whereas "threads" is the way to
a common activity.
Twitter did something like this when they added the new "retweet" feature.
They pushed the "reply" link aside and put the "retweet" in its place. I had
to write a Greasemonkey script to resolve this due to years of muscle memory
built up on how it was.
~~~
pg
Better now?
~~~
psawaya
I think the top bar is a little screwed up on the jobs page - the word jobs
appears twice. Here's how it looks to me:
new | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit | jobs
~~~
pg
Thanks,but you’ve got to run where they put you,” he said.
Allen owns a ranch near Roswell, while his mother and sister still live in the Grand Junction area. The family also owns 10 acres off 24 Road.
Allen teamed with a neighbor in Roswell last year to purchase Mine That Bird for $400,000 as a gelding, while the horse sold for $9,500 as a yearling, according to the Associated Press.
Allen said he has worked around horses since age 12, when he started cleaning stalls.
“The guys who introduced me were real cowboys,” he said.
His family’s recent history in Alaska reads like something out of the Wild West, too. Mark Allen and his father, Bill, both were the subject of testimony in last fall’s corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens,
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laugh.
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stevenh
I feel Google goes above and beyond to financially compensate content
creators, at least as far as YouTube is concerned. Google even automatically
detects duplicated content in other people's YouTube videos so that true
creators can monetize stolen copies of their own work on the same platform if
they choose.
In contrast, freebooting on Facebook is becoming an enormous problem. Facebook
has a ton of hidden throttles in place which prevent external links such as
YouTube from going viral; they automatically favor stolen reuploaded copies
instead. Those who help Facebook to profit from this theft are rewarded with
more exposure and more likes.
Silent victims are being robbed en masse like this by Facebook on a daily
basis, and many will never realize it.
A recent depressing example I noticed was a video by a woman named Leslie
Hall, whose entirecombined view count for all of her copyrighted YouTube
videos over the past nine years was around 12 million. It seems like she's
poured a lot of money and effort into trying to get attention with her strange
videos. Nothing ever really caught on, until finally one of her videos
exploded in popularity, receiving over 16 million views in just one week -
more views than all of her life's work on YouTube had ever received.
Unfortunately, it was a freebooted copy on Facebook which did not even bother
to include her name anywhere. People interested in seeing more of her work
were unable to do so, unless they went the extra mile and performed a google
search for the chorus. That's how I found her, so I emailed her to let her
know she might want to
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A TODDLER drowned in a stormwater drain, a dozen residents had to be rescued from their vehicles and 1800 residents of a country town face being cut off for five days as storms ravaged NSW.
The three-year-old boy went missing in Bingara about 12.30pm yesterday and was found in a drain outside his home a short time later.
Flooded ... Ian Bailey and dog Scotty inspect the swollen Tycannah Creek, near Moree. Credit:Cate Bailey
The toddler's family and neighbours watched helplessly as emergency services tried to revive him but he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at Bingara Hospital.neighbor.’ ” Finally, Lenny gets off a heartfelt anti-war speech and exits.
~~~
dash2
That's amazingly good (and long) and lots of it still seems relevant today.
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vermontdevil
Tom Wolfe writing on hangovers:
The telephone blasted Peter Fallow awake inside an egg with the shell peeled
away and only the membranous sac holding it intact. Ah! The membranous sac was
his head, and the right side of his head was on the pillow, and the yolk was
as heavy as mercury, and it rolled like mercury, and it was pressing down on
his right temple… If he tried to get up to answer the telephone, the yolk, the
mercury, the poisoned mass, would shift and roll and rupture the sac, and his
brains would fall out.”
~~~
plankers
Every year, the morning after my birthday, this metaphor plagues my mind.
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quantumofmalice
Very sad to hear.
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for the Hillyfield Academy expansion from September next year.
It would have been in use already if the governors from the Chapel End Infant and Junior Schools had agreed to amalgamate two years ago. The site was offered to them for expansion on that condition.
Antonk, the old Aveling Park School behind Lloyd Park will be used for the Hillyfield Academy expansion from September next year.
It would have been in use already if the governors from the Chapel End Infant and Junior Schools had agreed to amalgamate two years ago. The site was offered to them for expansion on that condition.Helen, Walthamstow
Helen, Walthamstow wrote:
Antonk, the old Aveling Park School behind Lloyd Park will be used for the Hillyfield Academy expansion from September next year.
It would have been in use alreadyabout are 1) the 7 train that
would have served Amazon's HQ2 location would be hard pressed to accommodate
25,000 additional riders. The 7 train is notorious for delays whenever there
is in-climate weather - for at least the past twenty years the slightest
precipitation knocks out the signal system and the segment connecting to
manhattan shuts down every alternate weekend and whenever the weather is in-
climate for maintenance. 2) housing in the area if at capacity so not sure
where they think 25,000 additional people are going to live 3) schools in the
area are over capacity so not sure where they think the kids of the 25,000
extra people were going to go. I've also observed that Amazon employees live
in utter terror of being out of contact - I'm under the impression that
missing a
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of the party that a reasonable person with some sense
of moral and intellectual consistency wants nothing to do with. How far right
does the party have to go before you will question the state of affairs? Trump
called Ted Cruz a liar. He implied Jeb Bush is a wimp. He implied that Ted
Cruz's wife is ugly. He implied that Rand Paul is ugly. He said that McCain is
a loser because he was a POW. He was a loser for getting captured. Trump
agreed that his own daughter is a nice piece of ass. This was on the Howard
Stern Show. How far does the man have to go to lose credibility in your eyes?
~~~
magduf
>Trump called Ted Cruz a liar.
To be fair, was he wrong? How many career politicians do you know thatvibrant musical communities of Brooklyn and New Orleans, Brooklyn Comes Alive is set to take place across three venues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Brooklyn Bowl, Schimanski, Music Hall of Williamsburg) on September 23rd and 24th. The unique homegrown event puts the focus on the musicians, curating dream team collaborations, tributes, and artist passion projects for two full days of incredible music both new and old.
The 2017 lineup is set to include hand-selected band lineups featuring all-star musicians like John Scofield, George Porter Jr. (The Meters), Vinnie Amico and Al Schnier (moe.), Bernard Purdie, Kofi Burbridge (Tedeschi Trucks Band), Joel Cummins, Ryan Stasik, and Kris Myers (Umphrey’s McGee), Aron Magner and Marc Brownstein (The Disco Biscuits), Mike Greenfield and Jesse Miller (Lotus), Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident), Alan Evans (Soulive),
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Cage Warriors
References
Category:Cage Warriors events
Category:2007 in mixed martial artswould sing higher than he did before!"
~~~
malkia
I didn't know that. Went this year to see Ozzy + Black Sabbath in Los Angeles,
then Iron Maiden later, but the biggest event I was was David Gilmore (from
Pink Floyd) - the sound (at the Hollywood Bowl) was so amazing, that when I
recorded it, and sent it to my father, he couldn't believe it was live. And my
father, since he bought me Heaven & Hell when I was teenager, and had lots of
time listening to Wish you were here, Welcome to the machine and many other
crazy songs in the car.
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StevePerkins
Oh. They really should have appended "... ( _not_ Tony Iommi)" in the title.
~~~
StavrosK
Iommi?! I mean, Iommi was good, but Dio is where it's at. The Ozzy stuff
wasn't as good, in my opinion.
~~~
cholantesh
Iommi
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is amazing, I love Nautilus.
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bitwize
I thought it was going to be about Jimi Hendrix.
~~~
gnaritas
Why? Hendrix wasn't metal; he's more the father of modern electric guitar
playing.
~~~
ChemicalWarfare
I wouldn't go that far even. Sure, influential player but there are many more
who are at least at the same level influence-wise or higher.
~~~
gnaritas
Who? Everyone after Hendrix was heavily influenced by his electric guitar
playing, before Hendrix, Cream was what electric guitar rock style sounded
like. Hendrix was more than just influential, he changed how the instrument
was played.
Go listen to "Machine Gun" and then find anything in all of rock music before
Hendrix that sounds remotely like anything more than an amplified acoustic
with maybe a little distortion in comparison.
~~~
soundwave106
Jimi Hendrix had a _lot_ of influences and that's part of why he sounds so
unique, and ended up beingExplore the Collections
Label:The image of youth and beauty, dressed in white and fresh as the flowers tucked in her sash, this young woman embodies the dainty ideal of femininity of about 1890. Her style of dress evokes the earlier Romantic period as well as the classicizing mode of the late nineteenth-century Aesthetic Movement. Famous as an illustrator and a muralist, the Philadelphia-born Abbey excelled at such idealized and allegorical figures from literature and history. He worked with John Singer Sargent and Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the decorations of the Boston Public Library, and with Violet Oakley to paint murals for the Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg.
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is
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Center! Whether you’re working to build a new school garden or support an existing one, this guide can help.
We've researched and tested the best home gardening tools and lawn-care supplies. The Best Shovel. Updated September 27, 2018. by Tim Heffernan.
Pitching his fiancé Sam on an allotment garden – also known as a community garden – was a. gardens in rubber boots and rai.
A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, In gardening and horticulture, they are useful in planting and potting for digging holes and breaking up clumps of soil. Gardening trowels.
Compost is much easier to make in bulk than in small. or adjust to suit the size of your garden. As a rule of thumb, each.
Garden Toolseffects and papers at the border,
ideally in a case that went to the courts?
~~~
int_19h
It is generally assumed to follow from the fact that the United States Customs
Service was established back in 1789, and its duties, from the very beginning,
involved dealing with contraband.
I poked around a bit, and while the first SCOTUS decision addressing this head
on seems to be from 1977, it goes into more detail:
"That searches made at the border, pursuant to the longstanding right of the
sovereign to protect itself by stopping and examining persons and property
crossing into this country, are reasonable simply by virtue of the fact that
they occur at the border, should, by now, require no extended demonstration.
The Congress which proposed the Bill of Rights, including the Fourth
Amendment, to the state legislatures on September 25, 1789,
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The case was not for the value of plaintiff's name in advertising a product but for damages by way of injury to him in using his name in advertising beer. Throughout the pleadings, the record and the brief, plaintiff has uniformly taken the position that he is not suing for the reasonable value of his endorsement of beer, on the contrary, the whole burden of his pleading and brief is the repeated asseveration, that he would not and did not endorse beer, and the complaint is that he was damaged by the invasion of his privacy in so using his picture as to create the impression that he was endorsing beer.
The judgment was right. It is affirmed.
HOLMES, Circuit Judge (dissenting).
There is no Texas statute or decision directly inThe
current record for South Korea is around 15cm per hour. Since Japan gets more
typhoons than we do, I wouldn't be surprised if their record was even higher.
~~~
cdr
Localized precipitation can be unbelievable when a front stalls over an area,
no major event like a typhoon / hurricane even required. The September 2013
floods in the front range of Colorado caused by a stalled front topped out at
9.6mm/hour on the worst day, with 430 mm total in 6 days - just under the
average _annual_ precipitation.
~~~
kijin
9.6mm/hr is an order of magnitude lower than what this Japanese reservoir is
expected to handle. It would be considered heavy rain, but not at all unusual,
for monsoon season in East Asia. It happens a few times every summer, so most
cities in Japan and Korea are equipped to handle
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of its export earnings and as a nationalized industry the government has managed to mismanage it as well. Ironically, the nationalizations which have been the mainstay of the Chavistas' "anti-imperialist" program have rendered Venezuela utterly dependent on the West.
Venezuela sends 40% of its oil directly to U.S. markets, making the U.S. its single biggest customer for just about the only product it has to export. Further, in order to meet short-term financing needs, the Chavista government has been issuing bonds for which it pays as much as 621% to the likes of Goldman Sachs. Fearing market discipline, the Chavistas have never missed a payment.
This is the government Maduro stands to inherit, and the government he will likely try to perpetuate as long as possible, because it benefits thedata.
Almost by definition, a very large place with a very large population should
have regressed to the mean, not far exceed it.
~~~
Ogre
I live in San Clemente (a city of ~60,000 in Orange County) now, and was born
in Pasadena. I was starting to get annoyed at OC being treated as one "city"
here too, then I realized I should probably just be happy that a distinction
between LA and OC was made at all. All too often, "LA" is used to mean
everything south of Santa Barbara and north of Oceanside.
~~~
xp84
That's us Northern Californians doing that to you ;)
> OC
Also, don't call it that.
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far33d
This is a more thorough version of what a popular bike blog "bikesnobnyc" used
to call the "pistadex", where he used the average price of a bianchi pista to
determine the popularity
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Isolation of Mucor circinelloides from a case of ulcerative mycosis of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), and a comparison of the response of Mucor circinelloides and Mucor amphibiorum to different culture temperatures.
The fungus Mucor circinelloides was isolated from a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) suffering from ulcerative mycosis. On horse blood agar at 20, 25 and 30 degrees C, the fungus formed sphaerule-like bodies, a morphology previously associated with Mucor amphibiorum, the species thought to be responsible for the disease in platypus. A biopsy taken from the ulcer was fixed, cut and stained. The sections were compared with sections taken from other platypuses suffering from ulcerative mycosis, and from which M. amphibiorum had been isolated. There were no discernible differences between the sphaerule-like bodies found in any of the sections. The presencecomment I had never seen or heard anyone else use the term.
Since my graduation the school has closed down the wood shop and metal
shop...and when my old teacher retires in the next couple years they will no
longer offer drafting either (of course we lost our T-square desks my junior
year for computers and autocad).
~~~
contingencies
In Australian public high schools (finished 1999) at least in NSW (ie. Sydney)
the drafting part was called _Technical Drawing_ , a design theory (materials,
etc.) part was called _Design and Technology_ , and then there were separate
classes for _Woodwork_ and _Metalwork_. I used to really enjoy all of them,
and aced _Technical Drawing_ and _Woodwork_. Years later, after a 15 year
career spanning various types of software all around the world, I find myself
in China doing a hardware startup,
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radiation weapon
radiation weapon or radiological weapon, a bomb or warhead that uses conventional chemical explosives to disperse radioactive material, sometimes called a "dirty bomb." Designed to produce radiation sickness in a military force or a civilian population instead of destroy a target, radiation weapons typically consist of a highly radioactive material encased in lead and surrounded by a high explosive. During the 1980s, Iraq developed and tested a radiation weapon that was intended to produce health effects that would be difficult to explain, but decided to abandoned the project because a radiation level low enough to escape detection was also insufficient to cause significant medical problems in the weeks following an attack. See also nuclear weapons.by electric-
related techs, such as photovoltaic.
~~~
lizknope
I have driven through parts of the western US where it is 100 miles to the
next gas/petrol station. There are farms and ranches in these areas but they
are connected to the electrical grid with wires. It seems like having an
electric tractor and charging at the farm would be more convenient than
transporting hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel from 100 miles away.
~~~
Vvector
Tractors are bursty. They are heavily used at planting and harvesting. Farmers
can't spend long periods of time recharging in the middle of planting season.
And it would be too expensive to buy 12 hours of battery capacity for a couple
times a year.
Gas still wins with a short refuel time.
~~~
supportlocal4h
Actually, batteries win on refuel time. Swapping batteries is much faster than
filling a tank. Gas wins
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my pop music listening career as a mere ten year old. Jimmy was the singer on “Sugar Shack.”
The way that session unfolded really astonished me. Alan Moore had produced it at the Goldmine, before he moved to Chicago, and I sang with Jimmy and Hank Martin. Alan simply talked for a couple of minutes about what he wanted the jingle to sound like, and the Nashville pickers just played it. There were no charts, no arrangements, no notes written down of any kind. It was what they called a “head session”. The producer simply communicated an idea, and the musicians grabbed it and ran with it, creating as they went.
I told them my favorite vindication story. I will omit the names for the sake of love, but itbest modern parallel is something like Saving Private Ryan, which combines
sympathy for the costs and losses of war in general with full support of the
motivations of the particular war. Neither work is remotely subversive (they
skate close to being outright propaganda for their militaries and societies),
but both are profoundly humanistic.
~~~
ellius
I took Latin a long time ago, but one passage supporting your point sticks in
my brain. Virgil is recounting the many steps that led to the Empire, and he
says something like, "Of such great difficulty was it to found the nation of
Rome." To me it read like he recognized the awesome power and accomplishments
of his civilization, but at the same time he saw the amount of blood that it
cost to achieve that greatness. The two were not separable, and the
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all kinds of critical
internet infrastructure on top of software like OpenSSL. And you know what
that led to.
When he claimed that the mean old gays were bullying poor Brendan Eich, and
his friend Russell Nelson took up and defended his argument, it made me
recognize a pattern that explains their motivation very well:
Eric Raymond and Russell Nelson and Brendan Eich all served as the head of
major free open source software companies: Eric Raymond was the first
president of the Open Source Initiative, Russell Nelson was the second taking
over when he resigned, and then resigned himself shortly thereafter, and
Brendan Eich was CEO of Mozilla.
All three of them made bigoted statements and performed bigoted actions, and
as a consequence of their own speech and actions, and of their high visibility
leadership positions of free open sourceshipped 12 per pack.
American flag-design PE plastic water bottle has a drinking spout, safety strap on lid and integrated carry handle, flattens for easy transport and includes a 50mm aluminum carabiner clip. Designed exclusively by us.
United States of America Coloring Book features many of the great things about the United States of America. The fantastic illustrations inside this book highlight the history, landmarks and symbols unique to the US.
Lip balm. U.S. made. All natural, comes in 10 colors, 9 different color caps, and white, black, or clear tube. Made in the USA and following FDA guidelines and cosmetic industry testing for Quality Assurance. Available in 100 flavors. To change tube or cap colors, please see upcharges with 1,000 unit minimum.
Make a patriotic statement at your next convention or
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and we're usually regarded as "anti-gun" as a country!
~~~
InitialLastName
Anecdotal but related: My grandfather shot competitively and as a hobby for
most of his life (mostly skeet, occasional trap and pistols). Until the 90's
he also taught gun safety and competitive marksmanship at a (comparatively
very wealthy) area high school. He was dropped from that role as a knee-jerk
reaction to the Columbine shooting, as it was deemed "too dangerous" to allow
guns, even well controlled and in professional hands and for the purpose of
teaching safety and responsibility, on the school property.
I don't know how this played out in the rest of the US, but I have a feeling
that there aren't many (if any schools) that allow guns on their campuses,
even if for the sake of education.
~~~
itbeho
I grew up in a small town inThe Forest Folk
The Forest Folk(Button Books, October 2015)Illustrated by Madeleine Rogers
“A pack of hunters, sleek and grey,
the forest wolves run free.
Their song is heard for miles around,
they howl in harmony.”
If you squeeze between the trees, you might be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of five forest animals going about their daily lives. A bear catches fish before hibernating. Wolves run in a pack and then sing together. A squirrel uses his tail to balance his treetop acrobatics. Playful otters glide down mud-slides and swim in the river. Deer lose their antlers in jousts, before growing a new set.
The Forest Folk introduces children to the woodland world by combining simple verses – which always reveal facts about the animals – with the bold and beautiful illustrations of Madeleine
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publications will impact good work done by the
WHO.
Injecting agendas into scientific reviews poisons the well of trust, and trust
is half the battle when working to combat disease in foreign countries. The
WHO really needs to reign in the IARC and soon.
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YeGoblynQueenne
>> Monsanto's vice president of strategy, Scott Partridge, told Reuters he
considered IARC's actions "ridiculous".
>> "The public deserves a process that is guided by sound science, not IARC's
secret agendas," he said.
It's great to see a big player like Monsanto advocating for open science.
/deadpan
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edem
FYI: I thought this were about marijuana after reading the title not some
herbicide stuff.
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Fiahil
> [...] United States, Europe, Canada, Japan [...]
Hey America, Europe is not a country.
~~~
crpatino
In most of the world America is not a country either, but a continent.
~~~
Fiahil
See? It's irritating, isn't it?
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M_Grey
Does anyone have any linksBook #2, Valley of the Bees serial: When Valley realizes her Uncle Jacob has stolen something very precious from her family, she knows it is up to her to return to Tellarton to retrieve it. The existence of her family’s precious beehive hangs in the balance, along with the future of her family and the farm that has now expanded to make room for Reyna, Junior, Liam, and their families.
A mysterious woman wanders in the wasteland of a future world, until a man from her past finds her. They are both legends from another time, and he needs her help. Along with a man who prefers the cold, a creature from the shadows, and a woman obsessed with teeth, they must find the thing trying to destroy what’s
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Larry has been working on perl6 for years, so the people
behind vanilla perl5 are a different group again.
The perl11 people are mostly disgruntled kooks who got kicked out of
perl5/perl6 development after yelling at everybody for not instantly believing
everything they said.
Meanwhile, actual perl5 and rakudo continue to progress.
~~~
pawelmurias
Aren't the perl11 projects an umbrella name for a bunch of different projects?
A large part of them aren't done by disgruntled kooks. Only rurban seems to
have some bad blood with parts of the Perl 6 community after his claims about
threads that don't interact with each others where mocked as magical by people
who didn't notice what he was trying to sell.
~~~
rurban
It was niner's project. His threads project was being wrongly attacked, and
nobody cared. It was a very strange and calculated attack, when theynewly uncovered memos, which were described for the first time Thursday by the New York Times, were drafted by the Justice Department shortly after Alberto R. Gonzales took over as attorney general in February 2005. They appear to show that the Bush administration continued to condone harsh interrogation techniques by the CIA even as Congress was moving to outlaw them.
One of the memos, written by the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, authorized the CIA to use a combination of painful interrogation tactics, including head-slapping, extreme temperatures and simulated drowning, known as water-boarding.
A later opinion declared that none of the controversial methods violated a congressional ban on “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of prisoners that lawmakers enacted in late 2005.
The secret memos were issued at a time when the
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and between
the image capture position and the background along the longitudinal axis, the
front light source being directed toward the elevated platform; a first at
least one rear light source positioned between the elevated platform and the
background, the at least one rear light source directed towards the
background; a second at least one rear light source positioned in a lateral
axis intersecting the elevated platform and being substantially perpendicular
to the longitudinal axis; at least one light shield positioned between the
second at least one rear light source and the elevated platform, the at least
one light shield configured to shield the elevated platform from light emitted
directly from the second at least one rear light source from lighting an upper
surface of the elevated platform; and wherein a top surface of the elevated
platform reflects light emanatingThat time I played golf with the future president
AUGUSTA, Georgia — I played golf with Donald Trump in November 2002 when he was just a billionaire developer who loved golf .
Rounding out our pro-am foursome at Trump International in West Palm Beach, Florida, were Annika Sorenstam and Jim Palmer, the former Baltimore Orioles pitcher. At the time, Sorenstam was the best in the world, and Trump had made sure she was in his group.
Me? I was just along for the ride.
On the last hole, Sorenstam hit her tee shot about 10 yards past mine, and that was all the future president, known for trash talk on the links, needed.
“Did you see how far she hit it past you? And you hit that one good!” he said mockingly.
“Yes, well,
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participants with the objective of the intervention, built rapport, established rules and regulations, and discussed about anxiety, symptoms, and causes of physics phobia. After the sessions, an assignment was given based on physics workbook. During the fourth to seventh sessions, activation of event, consequences, how to change automatic thoughts about a task in physics to rational thoughts were discussed and followed by a review of previous exercise and homework.
Sessions 8 and 11 involved critically listening to the musical material, songwriting, playing various musical instruments, and using music as a point of reference in group discussion and homework assignments. Every week was devoted to the performance and discussion of a CBT-related distinct song. Songs chosen for each week were pre-written and adapted from recognizable classic rock songs with the
An Unexpected Ass Kicking - zdw
http://joelrunyon.com/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kicking
======
patio11
My favorite story in a related genre: I was a scholarship student at
university, funded by a wealthy couple. Also at university I had someone who,
over three classes taken together, had graduated from "rubs me the wrong way"
to "nemesis." It turns out that he was also there on the same scholarship.
The university organized a dinner every year to introduce scholarship students
to their patrons. It was at the Ritz-Carlton and I remember feeling very, very
underdressed. Anyhow, it turned out that our 90-something patron was
simultaneously sponsoring about two-dozen scholarship students, so rather than
doing much talking I sipped a coke and just listened to the dinner table
conversation.
Nemesis, in his oh-so-charming way, began bragging about a civil engineering
project that he had been on ("As a sophomore -- really
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very unusual here is she continued to successfully hide pregnancies,
even after having a fallout with her Catholic family. She didn't become a
serial killer either. She gave up at least two children for adoption.
It's a strange case because she basically is a woman who had many lovers over
the years. That's much more typically male behavior.
Men fairly often pick up women randomly and may have no idea how many children
they fathered on one-night stands. Women usually can't manage to get away with
that or, if they do, it's because they are infertile and incapable of becoming
pregnant.
This is one of the elements of Mae West's life. She couldn't have children.
My sister had serious fertility problems. I had my first baby unexpectedly at
age 22 and never managed to have a real career. Mysister ended up with a real
career and finally had her only child in her mid thirties after years of
intervention.
She read extensively on related topics. She concluded that infertility was a
root cause of serious careers for some women, herself included. She once said
if things had been different, she could see having four kids. But they
weren't.
So what's strange here is this woman wasn't privileged. She didn't have the
money to support a large brood. She took a long time to distance herself from
her conservative family. She wasn't infertile.
Yet she kept drinking and sleeping around. And she sometimes successfully hid
the resulting pregnancies.
Following her death, relatives are still trying to piece together the full
story. There remains at least one hidden pregnancy unaccounted for according
to the records they've been able to find.
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zxcvbn4038
The title is
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a track whose length is greater than the standard 136 inches and the 141 inches available in the aftermarket. While many in the industry have remained skeptical about using long tracks in mountain snowmobiles, the inventors determined that one of the avenues which could overcome the challenges of using the long tracks in mountain snowmobiles is to improve the tread patterns of the tracks. In particular, the inventors of the present invention focused on the relationship between the tread patterns and the nominal length of the tracks with respect to traction, maneuverability, and flotation.
As would be understood by one skilled in the art, a pitch is a traverse row along reinforcing means provided in the track. A particular arrangements of lugs on a pitch is defined herein asroot and empower the
central pillar of human civilization in the 21st century: the city.
The human economy has the remarkable characteristic that greater population
density and better lives can go hand in hand. If great technologists, artists,
teachers, scientists, merchants, politicians, industrialists, and laborers
come together, that's when great things happen. That's when ideas start to
take root and become reality.
National governance and poor economic policy is squeezing the city into a
menial role. They do not have the economic power or independence to make
different rules or undertake great projects. The benefits of the existing
population density is the only thing that still makes cities like New York,
San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles attractive. A trip to Dubai,
Singapore, Macau, or Hong Kong will give you a glimpse of what cities can do
once empowered, even when
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support from the Western powers, who probaly couldn't thank them enough fro their support against the soviets outside and the socialists/marxists inside the "arab world". Just to name another dramatic involvement, we can talk about the toppling of Iranian nationalist (and democratically elected) Mossadegh, that opened a can of worms known as the "islamic revolution" which would be irrelevant to the history save for the fact that it was a new "exportable islamist" ideology, and inspired other local (sunni and more numerous) islamists to go global.
On another note, the labelling of a minority of (armed and trained) islamist crinimals as "The Muslims" in almost every discussion (for a pop. roughly 1 billion, a few dozens of differnets languages, cultures and nationalities) is actually more insulting than the videospike upwards to almost 50%, and that single
motherhood would spike upwards to include over 40% of all children. His tone
suggests that he was writing when the solidity of marriage was still being
taken for granted. Anyone writing nowadays would have to take into account
both the high divorce rate and also the high rate of single motherhood, which
combine to suggest that perhaps there will be no easy reconciliation of what
women want and what men want.
~~~
mturmon
Regarding the date, the HTML appears to be hand-edited. There is a comment at
the top of the file saying:
<!-- Changed by: John McCarthy, 9-Dec-2006 -->
and the same date appears in the title page.
I think the
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of health, will have to take into account the public health concerns associated with bringing in an influx of refugees from the war-torn country; Goodale, minister of public safety, is tasked with security screenings for the Syrians; Brison, minister of the treasury board, will handle the enormous cost of the endeavor; while Dion, minister of foreign affairs, will have to work with Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey to figure out the logistics of picking-up and transporting the refugees. Monsef, minister of democratic institutions is, herself, a refugee from Afghanistan.
"The committee's function is to make this work, which involves getting things moving very, very fast and very, very competently," McCallum said.Foundation, or
its hiring of Mr. Clinton. But her involvement with UBS is a prime example of
how the Clintons' private and political activities overlap.
It should also be noted that in 2011 the Clinton Foundation announced a
partnership with UBS on the CEO-UBS Small Business Advisory Program which
connects "small businesses" with \- One-on-one pro-bono strategic financial
and business counseling \- Access to the entire suite of UBS's resources,
including senior leaders within the firm's marketing, human resources,
operations and Investment Banking divisions \- Opportunities to network with
industry influencers and major decision makers in both the private and public
sectors.
The ten small businesses enrolled in the program had average annual revenues
of $8.44 million in 2010 and together employed a total of 400 people at the
end of 2010. The entrepreneurs and their companies who participated are: Julie
Azuma,
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an individual or department. Even when
"anonymous" PCs and Macs were originally being hooked up the Internet (first
directly, then later via NAT) the initial connection tools still provided
support for identification via finger, message signatures and so on to
continue this tradition. (Anarchie, one of the first Mac FTP clients, also
doubled as a Unix-like identification stack when configured fully. Many PC
video game developers, like John Carmack, continued to use .plan files prior
to rise of the modern "blog.")
But then the Endless September came, and most end users by this point weren't
versed in "netiquette" or the whole RFC tradition to know how to use such
tools and protocols, so anonymity crept in as an accidental default state. (As
the drift towards the modern connotation of "peer-to-peer" demonstrates.) I
personally got online about year or so beforedescribe how 11 European nations are successfully implementing a similar tax. The briefing is to be held October 31, after which the activists intend to fan out on Capitol Hill to press legislators from 26 states to support the bill.
The activists will also unveil a new letter signed by 163 well known economists and financial experts, including former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Gar Alperovitz of the University of Maryland College Park, and Thomas Palley of the Economic Policy Institute supporting HR 1579.
One of those economists, Robert Pollin, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, explained to the conference that “the basic idea is a tax on every financial transaction, the equivalent of a sales tax. Who pays the tax? The people who make trades every day on Wall
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number of people who attempted a beeline across the border
- similarly to the Berlin Wall climbers - past the spotlights and the guards
and all. Thankfully, there were not many of them, as this is a very stupid
approach to crossing any national border anywhere. The American-Mexican border
may prove to be an unusual exception.
~~~
berntb
So like a prison with life sentences! You could theoretically get out by a
pardon -- but the only realistic way was to sneak out while hoping the guards
missed, if they saw you...
~~~
abalashov
The constant comparisons to a prison reflect the theoretical reality of
leaving the country accurately, but poorly reflect the psychological
perception of the issue by most citizens. The USSR was a vast, vast country,
spanning 11 timezones horizontally as the Russian Federation does now. It
contained 15 ethnically and culturallyImage copyright Wales News Service Image caption Ozzie's owners say he has made a full recovery
Labradoodle Ozzie found himself in the dog house after wolfing down £160 in bank notes and landing his owners with a £130 vet's bill to remove the chewed up money from his belly.
Owners Judith and Neil Wright believe they can reclaim just £80 from the Bank of England.
The bank reimburses damaged money if at least half a bank note can be produced.
"He has been known to eat other items before but never money," said Mrs Wright, 64, from Llandudno.
The Wrights returned home from a shopping trip to find the torn up bank notes scattered all over the kitchen and hallway after the money had been posted through the letterbox in an envelope.
Ozzie was
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to see the vehicle in the road. Additionally, Wilson’s car
was parked on a highway ramp with a narrow shoulder, so the road character suggests
this was not a place that was intended for cars to park. The car was also blocking traffic.
Parking a vehicle in a manner that blocks highway traffic, especially in the poor visibility
of the morning twilight, poses a danger to other drivers. As a result, viewing the
evidence in the light most favorable to the government, the evidence was sufficient for a
reasonable trier of fact to find that Wilson operated his vehicle without due care.
great piece of investigative reporting.
If you register an appropriate domain 3 weeks before the news go public, that
is very suspicious indeed.
~~~
vintermann
Yeah, never mind the theology, this story gives a scary view of how an
experienced scammer/conman can work. The part at the end, where he implicitly
admits that he's been found out, but tries to tempt the journalist with
getting in on the scam -- wow.
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ZanyProgrammer
It's fascinating, but dates from hundreds of years after Christ and falls
nicely in the genre of Apocryphal Gospels, of which some indeed strike modern
fancies as bizarre.
~~~
nzealand
Where do you draw the line?
The canonical gospel fragments also date from hundreds of years after Christ,
and some of the later fragments seem also increasingly bizarre.
~~~
AnimalMuppet
I think your data is out of date. I quick glance at Wikipedia says that there
are
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era, it's incredibly unlikely that
Jesus was actually unmarried. The typical age for marriage all the way up
until the 20th century was somewhere between puberty and 20. Jesus didn't
start his ministry until he was 30. It's really very possible that he was
married, maybe even a widower. The fact that no gospel mentions it, could be
the exact same reason women get ignored throughout the rest of history.
~~~
forkandwait
I agree that Jesus was probably married...
.. But your statement about the age at marriage is wrong, at least for Western
Europe since about 1400, which has had late marriage and uniquely high
proportions never married. If you haven't fact checked your demography
assumptions, you are probably wrong.
The story that Jesus was unmarried was probably promulgated by the Roman
Catholic Church, with it's uniquely weird attachment to celibacy.Which, of
course, has affected Western European demography in many complicated ways.
~~~
dragonwriter
> The story that Jesus was unmarried was probably promulgated by the Roman
> Catholic Church, with it's uniquely weird attachment to celibacy.
The discipline of clerical celibacy in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic
Church (at least one non-Latin Rite Church in union with Rome existed at the
time, and there are more now) was a explicitly a adopted in response to
repeated scandal, not theological necessity (which is why it is a discipline
of the Latin Rite and not a universal law of the Church.)
The widespread Christian acceptance of the belief that Jesus was never married
long predates this.
~~~
ubertaco
> The discipline of clerical celibacy in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic
> Church (at least one non-Latin Rite Church in union with
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other people are behaving the same and the web is being
winnowed into a few portals rather than a constellation of sites. I tend to
think I'm not alone in this.
Also just as a vignette, a classmate of mine in high school in the late 90s
had a personal web site (which was very well done at the time) with a GIF of
an aerial shot of our high school with a targeting crosshairs superimposed on
it, and flickering red. Naturally he did not fit in, but that sort of early
web freedom would get you a visit by a police officer nowadays. There are
many, many more restrictions on content than there used to be.
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rehevkor5
As a student developer working for my University, I would occasionally add
ASCII art to my coworker's (also students) branches inpretty big impact on people
losing ownership over their online presence, but often I think it's just
harder to find the cool stuff.
A few years ago I attended a 60th birthday, and I was seated next to a retired
biologist. He was a wonderful man, full gray unkept beard, and, the only man
attending who wasn't wearing a suit. Instead he wore a striped shirt, some
green work pants, suspenders and a green hat that he only reluctantly took off
as his wife shot him a look. A real character, and a great conversationalist.
When he found out that I worked with EDB he enthusiastically told me about his
blog about the fauna of Bornholm (one of our islands). I looked it up when I
got home, and it was exactly what I had expected. He obviously
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George H.W. Bush Shaves His Head in Honor of 2-Year-Old Cancer Patient—See the Sweet Pic
Former President George H.W. Bush has shaved his head to show support for a 2-year-old who is battling leukemia, the son of a member of his Secret Service detail.
Members of the Bush Protective Detail started ditching their hair last week in honor of little Patrick, whose family has been making its seasonal home in Kennebunkport, Maine, for several years while dad Jon has been part of the team guarding the 41st president of the United States.
“It was very easy for him to do,” Bush spokesman Jim McGrath told CBS News.
George and Barbara Bush lost their daughter Robin to leukemia in 1954, when she was 3.
According to the website Patrick’s Pals, set up to keepdisk as an aggregate resource. In the 90s you had
AndrewFS and CODA (CMU's golden age IMO). Then Linux had the whole DRDB era
which gained traction about 10 years ago right around the time Hadoop was
gaining traction. OpenStack has Cinder. 10 years from now we'll have something
else.
Anyways, great points and good post. VAXstations are available on ebay for
pretty cheap, but I'd personally go with a hobbyist OpenVMS Alpha license
running on ES40. I threw a setup together a few years back and it was neat.
Thanks for the data-sheet, my father will get a huge kick out of it.
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Hoff
There are presently OpenVMS servers and clusters in production in a number of
locations, and new configurations are being installed — primarily for existing
applications, obviously.
The most recent OpenVMS release shipped in June 2015, and
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Community Meeting Room of the Central Library. Women in Islam highlights the rights, status and accomplishments of Muslim women through the visual arts.
Berkeley, January 12, 2014 — The Berkeley Public Library’s Brushmobile, a model of the paint-powered vehicle featured in Thacher Hurd’s classic Art Dog, will roar off into the night on January 19, 2015. You are warmly invited to come say your goodbyes, share a memory, and even take a picture with the Brushmobile and perhaps some of our Art Dog props.then will China be equipped to challenge the
American/European hegemony, ushering in a new age of pan-east asian
propserity.
In other words, same words, different empire.
~~~
nneonneo
The average Chinese today would not agree with you. Tell them about American
democracy: they see Trump and a mess of irrational, petty infighting. Tell
them about European democracy: they see Brexit and a perpetual stall in
economic development. Now look to China’s leadership: while they may lack the
freedoms of Western societies, the trade off has been such an incredible
increase in quality of life that people born in 1990 to abject poverty can be
living in solidly middle-class conditions nowadays (I know many such folks
personally!).
The Chinese people as a whole are only going to agitate for democratic reform
when (or if) their system of government stops serving them. Maybe a poor
leader
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realized fundamental gaps in my own skills and
abilities as a leader. Within a month, Robert had taken over as a team floater
and input/output guy. The entire technology wing of the company came to rely
on him five or six times a day; when you're building a tech and a market at
the same time under pressure and on tight budgets, this was invaluable.
Basically Robert became the technology group's go to guy for anything from
packing up deployments to testing functionality to scripting self-tests. You
name it. The key was understanding that Robert needed short term
accomplishments, measurable tasks and in a short period of time, he and I and
his manager learned a very rewarding style of working together.
At the end of the day, properly utilized and managed, Robert became a star in
his ownHumphrey Bogart’s Sam Spade is a likable bastard, someone you might come to with your troubles but not with your power of attorney.
Sam is a private detective in San Francisco on the cusp of wartime (the movie was released about two months before Pearl Harbor), dealing with shady characters of vague and various nationalities. The Maltese Falcon is less about Dashiell Hammett’s plot than about the interplay of cynical villains and anti-heroes, and first-time director John Huston (who also wrote the script) was savvy enough to know that. The Maltese Falcon itself is, as Sam might say, hooey; it’s what Hitchcock liked to call the MacGuffin, the thing nobody has that everyone wants.
This is a great and unmistakably American entertainment, and might lay claim to being the best
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overall pick by the Florida Marlins in the 2000 MLB Draft, Gonzalez has really come in his own, both on the field and at the plate. A little history on him…in 2010 while playing for the San Diego Padres, he was named team MVP for the third consecutive year and fourth time overall. Then after the blockbuster trade that sent him to the Boston Red Sox last offseason, he enjoyed one of his best professional seasons to date, which included his 1,000 career hit, fourth consecutive All-Star selection, third Gold Glove, first Silver Slugger Award, and a top five finish in batting average (.338) and RBI (117) in all of baseball—not too bad!
I also want to stress that MLB 12 The Show will be coming to PlayStation Vitahis
competitors are doing business in a way that will credibly open up space as an
entrepreneurial frontier like we have here in the valley.
~~~
damoncali
Can you elaborate? I used to work in the space industry, but it's been some
time.
I spent some time at Orbital at a time when they were trying to launch
ORBCOMM. What they were doing seems similar in feel to SpaceX. I also noted
that ORBCOMM is one of the first scheduled launches for SpaceX.
Interestingly, Orbital was started by an entrepreneur with a vision of small
launch vehicles and he managed to actually pull it off- it was not some huge
spinoff of an existing giant. I wonder how much the two are talking.
Friends of mine who worked on the early days of Orbital's Pegasus described a
situation that sounded very startup-like
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trying to control
their TVs with gestures and voice commands without success. Properly executed
transactions are logged by the cloud but repeated failures, especially if the
algorithm detects angry or anxious voices, are routed here. The Corporation
decided that to improve customer experience, real people would staff rooms
like these and try to make sense of the commands as a last resort, issuing
instructions back to the TVs as best they can.
More than half of the images and sounds are not people trying to operate their
TVs however. There is a cacophony of domestic arguments, screaming puppies and
wailing children, laughter, someone banging on pots and pans. The employees'
eyes dart back and forth, their ears straining to detect some coherent voice
command directed at the TV. There! A drunken voice murmurs "off dammit".
Fingers tap on a consoleFor months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kept a wary distance from fellow Democrats clamoring to impeach President Trump. She wanted her tenure defined by legislation, not litigation.
But once Pelosi agreed to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry, she leaned in — and made herself manager, chief strategist and public cheerleader for the Democrats’ drive to remove the president from office.
The leader second in line to the presidency invited me and several other columnists to her office in the Capitol this week to explain her thinking. We sat at a polished conference table, under a portrait of a young Abraham Lincoln, by windows overlooking the National Mall.
She began by warning, as a ritual disclaimer, that the House has not decided whether Trump’s conduct merits impeachment. But America’s most powerful woman
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