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these are opportunities to generate passive tolerance. Sadly, however, many of these initiatives have fallen victim to local authority funding cuts. The impact of austerity has been compounded by a loss of confidence – in which Putnam's research played its part – about fostering strong diverse communities. Multiculturalism has fallen from favour, misunderstood and maligned as the set of ideas that guided community relations for a generation.
No one was more acutely aware of this danger than Putnam himself when he talked to me on the publication of his research in 2007, the timing made the danger all the more acute in the aftermath of 7/7 bombings. Since then the theme of integration has come to dominate – with its coercive and conformist overtones. The result has been ahad to fight Ahenobarbus like 4 times because he kept letting him
go.
With that, Caesar turned into an absolute master by making reasonable
calculated risks and surviving them. By the point he was clearing the last of
the Pompeans in Africa at the end of the Civil War, he didn't even leave his
tent to give commands -- so confident and expertised in warfare that he didn't
even have to see the field of battle.
This is a bit of a ramble. I really admire Julius Caesar and think there's so
much to learn by studying his life and habits.
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unFou
"By the point he was clearing the last of the Pompeans in Africa at the end of
the Civil War, he didn't even leave his tent to give commands"
Was this an indication of the experience and initiative
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In particular, his most capable commander during
the Gallic Wars, Labienus, defected to the Pompey early in the Civil War, and
was one of Caesar's chief opponents during his African campaign.
As an interesting note, it seems Labienus likely defected from Caesar for two
reasons:
1\. At the beginning of the Civil War it looked extremely unlikely Caesar
would win.
2\. Labienus felt as though Caesar took more credit than he ought to have in
the Gallic Wars, depriving him of his "auctoritas" (sort of prestige) he felt
he rightfully deserved.
Caesar's skilled defeat of Pompey and Labienus show his military skill outside
of his use of good commanders.
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fapjacks
I hope you see this after all this time. Do you have a trailhead to lend me so
I can read about this instance of not having to leave his tent tomore "biased" than histories of
WWII.
There is a 500 year difference bt Herodotus and Tacitus. Even so, Herodotus
did no more than accurately record what he was told, assiduously pointing out
when he saw something first hand. Early ancient historians made up speeches,
that much is known. But by Tacitus's day, the act of writing an objective
history was not a novelty, and in fact he complains in the beginning of his
text that he is undertaking the work because he thinks his peers, also
ostensibly engaged in objective history, have not been objective enough out of
fear or hatred when covering the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and
Nero. Once again, with no reason to doubt him, I ask: why not even consider
taking one of the greatest historians whose works have been preserved for
posterity at face
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complexity.
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wazoox
I've visited several caves this summer (Lascaux, Combarelles, Font-de-Gaume,
Rouffignac, and a couple others) and there is a constant: the artists weren't
amateurs, they were extremely skilled. First, in many places it was impossible
at the time to see the entirety of the drawing at a glance because of the very
low height, or the wall curvature, but the proportions are right anyway (most
visited caves have been dug out; back then you had to crawl for hundreds of
meters in pitch darkness to reach the drawings). Similarly, the animals are
drawn with a very high anatomical precision. Even animals that didn't exist
locally, like mammoths (which mean that the artist had seen mammoths earlier,
very far away).
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mcguire
Interesting article.
" _The first formal writing system that we know of is the 5000-year-old
cuneiform script of the ancient city ofThere are three international soccer competitions being played this summer on Canadian soil, and of the three the Pan Am games are undoubtedly the least important for both the men's and women's teams. The men will have their eye on the Gold Cup, while the women will be recovering from the World Cup.
As such, the rosters announced for both the men's and women's Pan Am teams today were not first choice. The best men's players will be up with the Gold Cup team, the best women's players don't want to do double duty.
However, there are a lot of nice surprises on both team sheets, and both give off the impression that Canada could be a difficult team to beat at Toronto 2015.
The Women's Roster
Canada's women's roster for the
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with Trump
the way it did with past presidents.
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deusofnull
Reunification efforts in the late 1990s and early 2000s were complicated by
the shift in US Policy from the Clinton to Bush Admin. Clinton's admin wanted
to support the so called Sunshine Policy, which favored moving towards
reunification.
For the US's part, they agreed to not re apply new sanctions on the North as
long as the North continued to operate within the parameters of their Sunshine
Policy negotiated with the South. That was what was happening, but then Bush
came into office and this policy changed. New sanctions were put upon DPRK and
they would eventually be included in the Bush Admin's "Axis of Evil" (Iran,
Iraq, and North Korea).
This caused the North to go back on its agreements and the Sunshine Policy as
a whole, and did also alignall the comments here but so far I haven't seen anyone
give credit to Kim Jong Un. He's probably a pretty smart dude and has been
planning these moves ever since he was a kid. At the end of all this, he will
agree to "denuclearize" by reducing his nuclear stockpile over a very long
time period; promise to stop doing nuclear research etc. In return he will get
a ton of foreign aid, much weakened sanctions against his country and
legitimacy in the international stage.
But who knows. I am no expert.
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malnourish
Sure, give him some credit. In the same breath that he allowed for and
committed atrocities against his people.
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imbokodo
You mean like the massacre of No Gun Ri and the general policy of shooting
civilians in the Korean war? The Gwangju massacre?
Oh you don't mean the
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now.
People in each country would like this drama to be over, because it feels
dangerous and intractable. The leaders in each country would love to deliver
that feeling to us.
Kim Jong-un has an incredibly strong hand. He has nuclear missiles at his
disposal, with apparently rapid progress toward increasing their range. He
knows that other nations are fearful of those weapons, and that they won't do
anything that risks putting them on the receiving end of even one.
We've had one bold historic headline after another now: Kim Jong-un has
telegraphed a desire to denuclearize and to end the Korean war. He has raised
the hopes of South Koreans and of Americans just enough that they each want a
deal now, and their leaders now _need_ to deliver.
But the price has not yet been negotiated.
What will bethe US presence is no longer there, it becomes a lot harder for the US to
re-enter in times of conflict because now NK can threaten us with nuclear
weapons. Most American will not trade Seattle or SF for South Korea.
Unification of Korea is pretty much a non-negotiatable goal for the North
Korean regime. It's been their goal since the start and the reason why the
leading families in NK support the Kim family.
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flycaliguy
I would be careful to underestimate the North's ability to fight a war. You
don't need cutting edge technology with the sort of topography they've got.
Look at a topographic map of North Korea. It's mountain ranges and valleys.
Dense veg, steep drops, spots for tunnels, rapid currents. You could put an
army from the 50s in there and have a hell of
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Germany's in the 1990's. There are
also cultural factors: North Korean workers are used to working under
Communism, will they accept working under a capitalist elite?
That being said, a thought experiment with a Unified Korea is rather
interesting. North Korean labor would perhaps be cheaper; South Korean
companies could outsource manufacturing to the North instead of to China and
still remain globally competitive. The North has vast mineral resources which
could be exploited. A land route to China would increase Korean-Chinese trade
immensely. So generally it would look very good economically.
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tobyhinloopen
This is just a PR show... the war isn’t over until the NK population is free
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lucb1e
That's a... very American statement. USA has a history of forcing their view
of freedom on other nations, whether they want to or not.
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eggnet
By which country's standards is North Korea free?
Edit:them fear too much freedom among the survivors.
People hunted Nazis for generations. Wouldn't the North Korean decision-makers
fear being hunted?
Meanwhile, China has been invaded more than once from the Korean peninsula.
How willing will they be to lose a buffer between themselves and U.S. military
bases?
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mc32
The only significant thing to change was American policy. The admin put great
on China to end smuggling goods across the border and ending the hijinks in
the high seas, basically putting an end to doing an end around sanctions as
well as the bluster.
The South Koreans indeed mention that the US played a major role in having
this happen.
It would be cosmically ironic if peace is achieved in this instance given the
prev admin winning the peace Nobel while achieving no peace at all.
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Trump & Kim Jung Un have the
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Are the people who authorised and developed South
Africa's nuclear weapons still living in that part of the world?
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neuro_imager
South Africa didn't 'denuclearise' in the sense of giving up arms.
They had a change to a completely incompetent government who wouldn't know how
to spell 'nuclear' let alone fathom the scientific research and economic and
political strategy required to run such a program.
And given that nuclear scientists and competent political strategists tend to
be smart, they don't hang around in swamps very long.
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bitL
So Kim's nuclear test site collapsed, likely destroying years of work,
necessary equipment and possibly hit trained human personnel, so he suddenly
went on a "tour for peace". Can't say I am unhappy.
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nsnick
That's not how underground nuclear testing works. The bombs are not developed
or stored inside the mountain where they test. There would havecountry. Capitalism with socialist characteristics-
style.
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golergka
Trump's madman tactic turned out to be much more effective than everyone gave
him credit for. Who would have thought.
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louhike
Maybe it's giving it too much credit to say it happened because of him or that
it was what he planned.
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frockington
South Korea thanked him and said he had a big role. It's definitely not 100%
on him but he had a large role
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lightbyte
The only thing that drives him is praise, seems like an easy way to suck up to
him regardless of what he actually did
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gaius
I expect this will be a chapter in The Art Of The Deal vol II
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fnord123
I'm very naive of NK/SK politics but I do wonder how much of this was
influenced by installation of John Bolton who is absolutely frothing at the
mouth for a war with
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the time, and was instead looking
towards tablets, but it never even ran properly on a Nexus 7 and those only
turned up while it was on the decline. Without hardware, software is useless.
This time around Plasma Mobile is shipping for the Nexus 5 out of the gate, a
significant improvement. If they can make images for popular dev phones for a
while, they will certainly have more potential devs than Active ever did,
which pretty much amounted to building and running the shell in a child Kwin
to tinker with, but never use on an actual device.
Number two, its UI was a wreck. This was before the KDE VDG, Breeze, and
Material Design were a thing, so Plasma Active was built on ugly Oxygen and
Active Apps were made with effectively prototype QML1 where youSaturday, April 14, 2012
The plan is to draw out the negotiations with Iran until after the American Presidential election, at which point the Jew Jackboot won't be pressing on Obama's throat - he will no longer be dependent on their money to be reelected - and sensible, adult negotiations can reach a successful conclusion. Therefore, the Jews have to blow Barry's head clean off before November.
Barry's visiting Colombia.
Colombia is a hotbed of nefarious activities by 'ex' Israeli soldiers.
"Obama was to hold two days of summit meetings with regional leaders before heading back to Washington Sunday night.
The
agents at the centre of the allegations had stayed at Cartagena's Hotel
Caribe. Several members of the White House staff and press corps were
also staying at the hotel.
A
hotel employee, speaking on the condition of
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much more intense from a bicycle perspective.
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hdx
I used to drive a cab in the city a couple years ago and the bikers situation
on Market street during rush hour was pretty chaotic from that perspective as
well :P
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dasht
Same year, across the Bay in Berkeley.
The street is Euclid Ave. which borders the central U.C. Berkeley campus to
the north.
Do be sure and note (a) the same generally languid approach to street travel;
(b) the role of the fine gentlewoman in breaking up a dispute before it
descends to far into fisticuffs. I _think_ that the guy walking on the tracks
might be black and so I suspect there is also a racial element to these
snapshots of history, but I'm not sure. I'm also not so sure that the
confrontation we see in the video wasn't stagedMany doctors are not familiar with myofascial pain and do
not treat trigger points. This is ironic since the science of Myofascial Pain
and Dysfunction, and Trigger Point treatment was first codified my Dr. Janet
Travell, physician to President John F. Kennedy and Dr. David Simons. They
pulled together the research of doctors from three continents conducted
throughout much of the 20th century in their landmark books Myofascial Pain and
Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual. These books were written by doctors, for
doctors.
Why, despite this,
don't more doctors diagnose and treat trigger points? Although recognition of
the field is growing, some of the reasons include:
• A lack of training in Trigger
Point Therapy is due to the immense amount of material a physician must learn
during undergraduate, medical school, internship and residency. Specialists will spend additional years of
study.
• There
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stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company."
The reason of this law is derived from the gross injustice of making a person liable as the owner of stock when he only holds it in trust or by way of security, and from the inexpediency of putting a clog upon this species of property, which will have the effect of making it unavailable to the owner, or of deterring prudent and responsible men from accepting positions of trust where any such property is concerned. It seems to us that not only the law, but the reason upon which it is founded, applies to the holders of stock as collateral security, whether received from an individual or from the corporation itself. ItCouchbase, Couchbase Server, Couchbase
Mobile, Couchbase Lite, CouchApps, BigCouch, Touchbase, Membase, Memcached,
MemcacheDB... all different and yet related in a way not at all obvious from
the names alone.
First there was CouchDB, a database created by Damien Katz, a former IBM
developer. Its official name was changed to Apache CouchDB after it became an
Apache project.
A company named CouchIO was founded to work on Apache CouchDB and later
changed its name to CouchOne (by "its name" I mean the company name - not the
database name).
CouchOne (formerly CouchIO) merged with Membase (formerly NorthScale) to form
a new company called Couchbase. Membase (the company) developed Membase (a
product of the same name). Membase was created by several leaders of the
Memcached project and it used the Memcached protocol. After the merger of
CouchOne and Membase, Couchbase continued the development of
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two years later, the school board seats were filled in a nonpartisan election while the Legislature figured out a new system.
Filling seats on education boards varies from state to state. Colorado, for instance, has partisan school board elections for seven of its board members. Four of the 11 seats in Nevada—one from each congressional district—are won in nonpartisan races, while the remaining seats are appointments from various officials or bodies. In Wyoming, 10 of the 13 members are directly appointed to six-year terms by the governor.
During the 2016 legislative session, lawmakers presented SB78 as a way to winnow the candidate field. Sen. Ann Millner, R-Ogden, who sponsored the bill, pointed to a glut of 19 candidates from one district who were all eyeing the school board that year.
"Thatworking hours is a bit extreme. In
my time in Japan, I noticed two distinct rush hours on the trains and
expressways in major Japanese cities: one around 8-9am, and another around
5-6pm. That seems like a pretty normal working day to me. If everyone was
putting in 8 hours of overtime, the evening rush hour would start a lot later.
(And it's not like the employees are going home and continuing to work for
many more hours. Remote work is not common in Japan.)
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mattnumbe
I agree about the rush hour on the trains in the cities. I also live in a
large city in Japan and have to battle to get on the train around 8am and
6:30pm. The guys that are working all the over time tend to work in the really
big name companies (Toyota,
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curve, that's got to lift the adjacent next level up bricks as well, which
in turn have to lift the next level, and on and on.
It's been a long, long time since i studied static forces though.
The impact of structured training on academic medicine in the UK.
Introduction of structured training has been a recent event. The programmes have been modelled on curricula produced by the medical royal colleges. Regular assessment throughout the training has helped to achieve the designed goals. This reform encourages research for up to 1 year. However, the research year would not be funded by the normal National Health Service channels. The period of research can be extended by a year without losing the national training number. If the specialist registrars take this towards the end of year 4 then they can continue in research and acquire the certificate of 'Completion of Specialist Training' yet continue with the research for a degree by thesis. Clinical competence needs new ways of measurement
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was king, with dark matter at about 83% and normal matter at around 17% of the Universe. And this was true from when the Universe was about 1% of its current size (when it was only about 10 million years old) until dark energy took over.
But when the Universe was even smaller? Radiation — in the form of photons and (to a slightly lesser extent) neutrinos — was not only important, but at small enough scales, dominated the Universe. Radiation dominates all the way back until inflation happened, and our Universe, as we know it, firstbegan.
The cosmic microwave background came at an important transitional time in the Universe, when it was about 0.092% of its current size. At that time — when the Universe was only 380,000 yearsor 3, his mother insisted that she'd never buy him any toy guns (LEGOs, pop
guns, or anything). When he'd visit us, he always somehow dug out the old pop
gun toys we had buried away. A year later, I visited her and she'd entirely
caved. I asked her about it, and she said she gave up when she realized he was
just using sticks or anything else he could think of simulate one while he
continued playing cops and robbers and all the "violent" games little kids
play.
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slantaclaus
Bigthink is not a credible source of information IMO
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okket
The price LEGO had to pay for going down the lucrative movie franchise /
merchandise road... btw, is the main audience still kids?
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zihotki
tl;dr - researchers are a scared of increasing trend of 'violent' Lego toys
mostly because of movie sets
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a few footnotes about the
differences.
People who started after Rails was released don't see it because they haven't
seen how it was done before. But it's incredible how many conventions DHH
created with rails that have since entered the basic repertoire of all web
frameworks: migrations, its take on MVC, :belongs_to, the router DSL, the
asset pipeline, generators – while you can probably find prior art for all of
them somewhere, it's the implementation in Rails that, 10 years later, is
still the blueprint for new frameworks.
Rails was also the best teaching tool ever invented in the space. Code quality
was atrocious, people were reinventing "clever" solutions for every project,
testing was probably rare (I never saw it, but it must have been around,
right?) I distinctly remember a templating system that turn .xls into a perl
script thatWest Virginia Democrats joined in on a call to end the role of unbound superdelegates in the Democratic primary process and also showed support for the resignation of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
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27 years ago. That might have never happened had the heart recipient's story not been told in The Courier Journal.
Newspapers help reunite people.
Newspapers tell people's stories.
Newspapers don't let us forget.
Just ask the family of Kara Tingle Rigdon who has depended on this newspaper to get the word out about Kara and the fact that, after more than two years, she is still missing. She was last seen on July 17, 2010. She has two young children who miss her terribly. "If somebody had my mommy, I'd ask them to give her back," Kara's 9-year-old son, Austin, told the Enterprise in July.
Do newspapers still matter? Austin certainly thinks so.
Ask the family of Lebanon Police Officer David Ford, who was murdered in February of 2009. They lived through a highlyethical space at all - but from what I've seen they
simply don't understand why anyone would have a problem with what they do.
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ShroudedNight
I got this information second hand, but for what it's worth: There was a
graduate student at my university that was well known and highly regarded for
his stellar software engineering skills. At one point he took a job writing a
missile guidance system. His reasoning was that there were two options, either
he wrote the system, and could make damn sure it worked exactly to spec, or
someone else would write the system, and do about as good a job as the other
complex software engineering projects he had encountered. In essence: he took
the job to minimize collateral damage.
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i'm surprised the article never explicitly spelt out the main point - for
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Part 1: Verbal Harder Than Math?
A month ago, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who was also the first female Field’s Metal winner, died. From her obituary, this passage stood out:
Maryam Mirzakhani was born on May 3, 1977, in Tehran. As a child, she read voraciously and wanted to become a writer. Iran was at war with Iraq at the time, but the war ended as she entered middle school.
So she transitioned from being reading and writing prodigy, to a few years later, an Olympiad-winning math prodigy. Obviously, her IQ was immeasurably high, but it also shows how people with high verbal IQ can easily make the transition to advanced math, whereas the reverse transition is harder. Thus verbal ability is possibly a better predictor of exceptional math ability, than
Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white person on British currency - seesawtron
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8586361/Mahatma-Gandhi-set-non-white-person-British-currency.html
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dragonsh
Gandhi is a first example of proving that non-violence is one of the most
effective tool for transformation as a society. He wanted equal treatment for
Indian people at par with any British citizen. But Britain wasn’t ready to
grant full dominion status, then series of incidents moved him to ask for full
freedom. In his early years in Africa when he was going through
transformation, there were some incidents which reflected some prejudice
against native Africans, but subsequently he became a changed man, his
greatness lies in constantly reinventing himself as he learns more about life.
Gandhi will be crying in his grave of what India has been turned into, in just
6 years. An intolerant, divided society with complete disdain for
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was loyal to the British
and he helped install a pro British government. I don't know what the proposed
better alternative is. The British was ruling the country for the better part
of 4 centuries by then, and changing it to something else would take years of
effort. Combine this with different princely states not wanting to be part of
independent India, the economic realities, and the looming threat from China -
you have a recipe for a failed state. I would have preferred India not
colonized at all, but there was no better alternative than this for India to
become independent from the British.
Armed uprisings were few and far in-between in India. Subash Chandra Bose was
the only one that came any close to having a successful army but even if he
was more successful than heperson as he
aged. He worked in South Africa as a young(er) man, his views on Black people
changed as he grew older.
Regardless, Gandhi's writings about Black people have been taken out of
context in many places, and it would be a good idea to read entire
letters/articles written by him before jumping to conclusions.
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gremlinsinc
Gandhi's cool, but I'd have picked Freddie Mercury.
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person_of_color
He was an anglophile to the point of Stockholm Syndrome.
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encom
Well, good! That's the kind of person you'd want on your currency. Why pick
someone who hates their country?
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tasogare
This is very odd for a country to celebrate in this way a foreigner that lead
a revolution which concluded in huge territorial loss.
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IfOnlyYouKnew
Gandhi was a British citizen, with a law degree from Oxford IIRC.
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blaser-waffle
A law degree does not mean you can't lead rebellions, and being
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understood sit (only with food in my hand,
so I'm half betting this was a natural reaction than actual training), and
that was the extent of her tricks.
With only reinforcement of her existing behaviours we've got her to learn:
sit, spin, lay, roll (over), pretty (where they sit with their ass on the
floor but upright with her front paws off the floor, my mother-in-law's dog
helped greatly with teaching by example), tall (where she stands by herself on
her back legs) dance (she'll do a 360 while on her back legs) and speak. [Ed:
I forgot, we taught her to 'stand', IE move from lay down to sit, or sit to on
all fours, because she'd continuously lay when told to sit.] These are all
performed easily with verbal command only.
So far we've only trained usingbut will not be published in order to respect the confidentiality of the participants.
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only two gubernatorial challengers in the country to outraise the incumbent during the last fundraising quarter — but that Deal is running worse. That’s a consequence of the 2 inches of snow that managed to paralyze metro Atlanta at the end of January and a scandal around fundraising for his 2010 campaign that have hurt his poll numbers. In a sign of how seriously the GOP is taking Carter, the Republican Governors Association spent a reported half-million dollars last month on an attack ad against the Democratic nominee.
Nunn, meanwhile, is seen by Democrats as their most promising nonincumbent candidate of 2014, with the best shot at flipping a GOP Senate seat. A win by her could mean the difference between keeping the chamber or not. Waiting out thepatent on public key cryptography and enforced it
against companies using it (say, for running a secure webserver) unless they
used their closed-source library.
So using crypto in the US was made difficult, and yet the internet was fine
and most people got the crypto they wanted (except, ironically, defense
contractors.)
Although the new law sucks, everything will probably be fine there too. The
Internet is pretty resistant to the sort of damage this law could create.
~~~
tptacek
Export regulation had a lasting impact on everyone's security, because the
mechanisms used to support it, even for people who had strong crypto available
to them, were themselves vulnerable. See for instance FREAK.
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When the Clipper fiasco happened in the States about 30 years ago, it didn't
take long before the US started being left behind in crypto work by the rest
of the
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be served by an awesome
network of public transit, but if investments continue into dense areas of LA
City you should see market forces at work -> public transit availability
driving higher density development, driving more desire for public transit.
You can't de-sprawl Southern California as a whole, but you can make the dense
urban core more palatable.
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Aloha
The sprawl in the LA metro area was built on the back of the then largest
interurban system in the world, the Pacific Electric. If you take a map and
overlay it on the modern freeway system, there are large parallels. There are
also parts of LA City that have (and not even recently acquired) density
rivaling Manhattan.
The future of maintainable sprawl is workable wide ranging rail and bus
options, rail for the distance, bus for the last mile.
~~~
waterlesscloud
There was anService / Region 5
Partners: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Region 5, Bavon Beach Homeowners Association, Mathews County, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and several interested corporate partners
Overview
A peaceful beach on the serene coast of Virginia holds a rich history as home to generations of families and abundant wildlife. But as Mother Nature changes the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, the homeowners on this beach have struggled to protect their narrowing strips of sand. Here at Bavon Beach, the northeastern beach tiger beetle, a federally threatened insect, has become the root to the solution to save this shore.
Part 2 of a
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to root if it wasn't for the monocultures being so tightly
planted
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saiya-jin
We have this back home, pine monoculture planted some 50-60 years ago to make
parts of mountains more visually appealing (and probably more good reasons
like cleaner air). In 2004 there was a freak storm with quite strong winds,
half of that forest was destroyed, in many cases trees literally snapped in
the middle of the trunk. Still pretty bad sight 25 years later.
They said it was freak accident that happens every few hundred years. Well
there was another one few years after, and few other smaller ones since then.
Now its largely left on its own as being national park with highest protection
level, but this has some (hopefully relatively short term) negative effects -
population of bugs eating trees exploded and they are destroyingyears many Conservatives have scratched their heads and wondered what makes the prime minister tick. Is he a metropolitan, liberal Conservative who hugs hoodies and huskies? Or is he a rural, right-wing Conservative with traditional views on Europe and law and order?
Today the prime minister's answer was that he may be an old Etonian from Berkshire with a stockbroker for a father, but he is not on the side of the better off, he is on the side of those who want to be better off. He is not a "cartoon Conservative" who does not care, but a compassionate Conservative who supports anyone who aspires to get on. In his most telling phrase, he said: "I am not here to defend privilege, I'm here to spread it."
Mr Cameron
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is hard to Google him up) who
moved back to Minnesota with his northern "white" parents after spending his
early years in Alabama. He told me frightening stories about Ku Klux Klan
violence to black people (the polite term in those days was "Negroes"),
including killing babies, and I was very upset to hear about that kind of
terrorism happening in the United States. He made me aware of a society in
which people didn't all treat one another with decency and human compassion,
unlike the only kind of society I was initially aware of from growing up where
I did. So I followed subsequent news about the civil rights movement,
including the activities of Martin Luther King, Jr. up to his assassination,
with great interest.
It happens that I had a fifth-grade teacher, a typically pale, tall, and
blondeNorwegian-American, who was a civil rights activist and who spent her
summers in the south as a freedom rider. She used to tell our class about how
she had to modify her car (by removing the dome light and adding a locking gas
cap) so that Klan snipers couldn't shoot her as she opened her car door at
night or put foreign substances into her gas tank. She has been a civil rights
activist all her life, and when I Googled her a few years ago and regained
acquaintance with her, I was not at all surprised to find that she is a member
of the civil rights commission of the town where I grew up.
One day in fifth grade we had a guest speaker in our class, a young man who
was then studying at
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the past
year whereas it had controlled the majority of south Somalia for the three
years or so prior.
There was a shit ton of military action and natural disasters such as the
drought affecting this area, so certainly this part of the country is no
utopia.
The other parts of the country is like another world. As al-Shabaab has lost
ground in the south, they have moved some operations to the divided city of
Galkayo. 1/3 of the city is controlled by the south and whatever Transitional
Government is ruling now while the other 2/3 of the city is part of Puntland.
This is about the extent of violence in Somalia. Coincidentally, the 2/3 of
the geographical area of Somalia besides south of Galkayo.. the Horn and
Somaliland, are relatively peaceful with only a dash of violence spreading
from the-
the law in England moved out of the church and Xeer appears to have been born
out of the reigning power in Somalia (elders) and remained therein.
I'll take the English common law and equity any day of the week - flexible
where it needs to be so it's capable of applying concepts of natural justice
constrained by well established principle, while still providing vital
certainty as to the law. This passage in the wikipedia article makes the legal
scholar in me shiver:
"The lack of a central governing authority means that there is a slight
variation in the interpretation of Xeer amongst different communities"
Dealing with conflict of laws without prejudicing parties in an international
setting is hard enough: imagine having to pursue justice according to
discrepancies between individual communities! Better have some cast-iron
choice-of-law clauses in those trade
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not exceed three years from the date of acquisition of the Apple Watch Series 2 branded Apple store. Ever since the Apple Watch was introduced, developers have been asking for the ability to create their own watch faces .
Russia Warns of "Consequences" as Putin Denounces Syria Strikes
And she claimed that Russian Federation simply wanted to stop terrorism in Syria "because we're much closer to Syria than the US". President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he hoped common sense would prevail and that the situation would stabilise.
Paul Ryan is quitting like a coward
This is why he had to push back against suspicions he is leaving before a political deluge engulfs House Republicans this fall. Ryan's allies insist the party's top fundraiser and champion of a crisp GOP messagehave an advantage over direct
democracies primarily in ease of administration and legislation. I don't think
there are any particularly strong reasons to suggest representative democracy
is less prone to a tyranny of the majority than a direct democracy.
My hypothesis is that the idea is borne out of a necessity to resolve the
dissonance between the US founders and constitution being in many ways anti-
democratic, with a culture that holds up democracy & freedom as its highest
ideals. (democracy in this case defined as it would be in the dictionary)
~~~
jonathankoren
The "We're a republic, not a democracy," comes from the 1930s as an
isolationist slogan to argue against getting involved with "the defense of
democracies" (the FDR argument) during World War II. From there it became a
quip from the John Birch Society to delegitimize a political
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of the Lyons home and startled 19-year-old Richard Lyons. The fireball flew around the room before disappearing with a concussive force that knocked Richard from his chair. The ball lightning next entered the cellar window of the house next door—belonging to one John Blynn—passed into the kitchen and through the range, cleaned the soot from the stovepipe on its way out, and ruined the Blynn family’s supper. Finally, the fireball drifted into the next house—the Garrity’s—where it left scorch marks and blasted out their range.
1 Causing a Religious Miracle (1904)
In Morristown, New Jersey, traveling painter Abbot Parker was struck by lightning while walking on the sidewalk. He was taken to All Souls’ Hospital where doctors and nuns realized the burns on his back had begun to form abut
this was originally a military term closely related to “commander”. This
slowly merged into its modern imperial meaning roughly co-incident with the
emperors slowly dropping republican forms and ruling in their own right.
~~~
rgrieselhuber
Julius Caesar was a populist threat to the Senate aristocracy and his social /
monetary reforms put him at further odds.
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village-idiot
Indeed, and his military successes were also a threat.
But my point is more subtle. Caesar was a arguably a populist, and was both
ambitious and wildly popular with the common people of Rome. But there were a
few incidents where Caesar was offered to be crowned king, and the people of
Rome _hated_ it. It would be a few more generations before the idea of being
ruled by a guy in purple whose dad had done the same would be okay to Romans.
~~~
eropple
As
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right time in the right place. Crassus, despite being an
inferior general, was richer than him and had more influence in the Senate.
Caesar initially had less political influence than him, but he was superior on
the battlefield.
~~~
vondur
If that was the case, then why did he not just run the Senate out of town when
he returned from the East after clearing the Mediterranean of Pirates and
finishing off Mithridates? He was extremely popular with the people and the
Army. Right before the civil wars with Caesar started, he was preparing for a
virtual retirement with his appointment as governor of Spain. The governorship
was to give him a steady source of income.
~~~
anacleto
> He was extremely popular with the people and the Army.
Yes, he was extremely popular because he was a skilled general. He had a‘Jewish Taliban’ Cult in Quebec Draws Attention and Concern
Details
Written by By Sholom Schreiber
Created: August 15, 2012
A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Quebec have attracted media attention – and some serious concern – with reports of extremist religious behavior and communal coercion that go way beyond the standard behavior of even their most devout co-religionists.
The cloistered sect, known as “Lev Tahor,” which means “pure heart,” is led by Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, a 50-year-old baal teshuva who – in addition to having no tangible proof of his rabbinical ordination – spent six years in prison after being convicted in 1994 of kidnapping a 13-year-old New Jersey boy for the alleged purpose of ensuring that the child would be raised in an Orthodox environment. Deported to Israel in 2000, Helbrans moved
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the Lower School. Here a link to our i.Design Lab picture blog to see more DEEP design thinking demonstrations. http://mvidesignk4sciencelab.wordpress.com/ Gradually we have implemented design thinking within the middle and upper schools, and last summer several of our teachers participated in Stanford's d school summer bootcamp experience.
In the spring of 2012, we hosted our inaugural Design Thinking Summit. Sponsored by Turner Entertainment Networks, teachers from Atlanta's public and private school communities participated in this sold out event. Many notable experts in the field of design thinking shared their experiences. Some of the headliners were Kim Saxe, The Director of the Innovation Lab at the Nueva School, Chris Kasabach the Chair of K*lab, conceived and started at Harvard Kennedy School, and Leonard Medlock, an associate editor with EdSurge andsublease agreement)
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ethanbond
Yeah I've totally _never_ run into someone who "owns a startup" and was
"actually broke."
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So, I went to college with Ross. He was a year ahead of me.
I didn't know him personally, but several of my friends did. I had a few
friends in college (some of whom I still talk to) who were good friends with
him. When he got arrested, I looked up his Facebook page, and I found we have
5 mutual friends listed (and I know a couple of others who knew him but didn't
have him on FB). Also, when he was arrested, my then-officemate looked him up,
and it turns out he met Ross at a party once and had a conversation with him
(though they didn't know each other beyond that). Small world.
That stunned me, but what
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stunned me more was when I found out Richard Bates
did most of the technical work. I knew Richard. We were in a few of the same
clubs, we had a class or two, we hung out in the same friend groups, and we
were almost friends for a while. Richard was a... peculiar person. He had no
people skills whatsoever, and he managed to be both shy and condescending at
the same time. He treated people horribly. I ended up having a falling out
with him in my senior year after he cut me out of his life for trying to patch
things up between him and one of my best friends, who he suddenly cut out of
his life with no explanation whatsoever (that is, Richard cut my friend out of
his life). IMO, hegut-check and deciding to go
ahead with the hit anyway.
(edited for grammatical clarity)
~~~
pakled_engineer
He hired CIs posing as hitmen a few times. His diary/movie script/fictional
book on his laptop they found claimed he tried to kill an employee who had
potential to snitch, and a scammer in Canada that ripped off many users.
He also agreed to a higher price for the "hit" in Canada, as it was claimed by
the CI the target lived with 3 other people and if they were to collect all
his assets as ordered then everybody would have to die. Ross was totally cool
with that and paid.
I also don't think this is why his fanbase on SR dumped him, they seemed more
pissed that his security practices were so terribad awful it put everybody
else in jeopardy. It's almost as if
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This
was an _amazing_ feeling..). Balzac also knows his humans and describes the
human traits and the things you don't expect characters to do or say. All the
little unflattering internal thoughts.. When a character gives you goose
bumps, the author is doing something right.
"How the Steel Was Tempered", by Nikolaï Ostrovski: relates the adventures of
Pavka Korchagin, a kid warrior during the Russian Revolution.
"On the Genealogy of Morality", Friedrich Nietzsche. I found it in a library
and I had just enough money to buy it, so I did and walked 5 miles home. I was
asked by a beggar for the equivalent of a dollar, and it made me laugh.
Except for Ostrovski, Balzac, and Pascal which we had at home, the others were
from a Canadian university's website. You can't order just any book youCongo as a security guard.
He is also a hitman for hire, something he keeps hidden from his doctor lover Jasmine Trinca. But, after shooting the Congo’s Minister of Mining on the instructions of his assassin-for-hire colleague Javier Bardem, Penn is forced to flee without telling Trinca…
Several years pass (at least is seemed that way to me) and Penn is back in Darkest Africa only to be attacked, presumably for some past transgression. Having (I assume) read the script he heads back to Europe where – relying as much on lovingly photographed locations as on the story, he sets out to find out who wants him dead and fix them.
The plot is even less plausible than the average election manifesto. Penn starts off in London where he reunites with
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from doing more productive things.
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baddox
No exercise, unless it was somehow included in "Work." Of course, the three
hours before work in the morning would leave time for half an hour of
exercise.
~~~
M1573RMU74710N
Ben Franklin was actually fairly athletic. One of his many occupations was
being a printer, which required carrying around heavy equipment. He was known
to carry 2 trays where many Printers only managed 1.
He was also a very avid swimmer (unusual as at the time, many people couldn't
swim at all) and promoted physical fitness and moderation.
(I come from Philadelphia: a town where BF is a revered local hero, to the
point we have an "official" BF impersonator.)
~~~
wyclif
I'm from Philly, too. Early in the book, where he talks about his impetus for
all the early inventions, there's a section discussing how he rigged adeath, as it hangs helplessly. I have personally fought about this with South Korean Christians and I've been told to my face that the dog died in a beautiful setting so what else could it want? [I am not kidding!]
In Indonesia dog meat is served at many christian bible study groups, to encourage people to attend and learn about love and compassion! One particular christian minister from the United States, living and teaching Christianity in Indonesia, videoed himself and his wife making dog meat stews for his bible study parishioners, which I featured on Fight Dog Meat's website. When he realized he was featured on my website, he panicked and removed his videos and locked up his account, but he still promotes and distributes dog meat as a
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Related Tags:
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Penn State football was hit with a four-year postseason ban, the loss of 40 scholarships over four years and a $60 million fine as a result of the cover up in the Jerry Sandusky scandal. In addition, all Penn State wins from 1998-2011 will be vacated. The fine is equal to one year’s gross revenue. The NCAA discussed the death penalty, according to president Mark Emmert, but it was not applied.
Emmert made the announcement Monday morning in a landmark press conference at the NCAA headquarters. Never before at the highest level of college athletics has a school been penalized this severely without a formal investigation by the enforcement division and a hearing before the infractions committee. Emmert explained that his authority to applyAnother such "pilot project" is run at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and
that one got a lot more bad feedback, because they also "try" facial
recognition and tracking smart phone signals.
It should be noted that the european union invested into this technology
starting with the 7th Framework Programm in 2007 under the codenames INDECT,
ADABTS and SAMURAI. Expect to be flagged for "abnormal, possibly criminal
behaviour" in the future if you run or loiter at a large train station.
~~~
Jon_Lowtek
Germany: the city of Freiburg is also buying 18 new cameras for the area
"Bermudadreieck" and "Bertoldstraße". I couldn't find any information on how
"smart" that system is going to be.
In Darmstadt the central tram hub "Luisenplatz" is going to get modern video
surveillance, too. Bought from Dallmeier Electronic GmbH & Co. KG. The mayor
said no facial regocnition is planned,
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was very poorly considered, and no maintenance was
ever done on it except for daily care and feeding -- which quickly grew to
consume all of the previous engineering team's day.
When the previous engineering team was shown the door, the entire system had
no maintenance and no path forward. It's an epic management fail, but ...
let's just color me cynically and sarcastically surprised that I used
"management" and "fail" in the same sentence.
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traf68
Worked for rs in the early 2000s. The culture was pretty cutthroat and it was
the chiselers and greasy guys who moved up.
I worked as a dc tech during the .com bust recovery period and the level of
incompetence and the personalities I encountered led me to leave < 6 months.
Any decent SA from my generation can code a one-off virtualization base
withouton how golf courses are economically undemocratic, how US drug corps block much cheaper medicine imports, why US corps neither need nor deserve tax cuts, how Monsanto bought academic research to keep dangerous "Roundup" on the market, and the economics and politics of scapegoating immigrants in the US and Germany. Interview with Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger on their combination of faith and advocating for labor to undo inequality in the US.
Updates on Oklahoma cuts funds for public schools, why Americans dont take paid vacations owed them, how coal/oil companies fight solar/wind companies to buy politicians that decide what energy system we must live with. Interview with Lisa E Davis, author of "Undercover Girl" about undoing the New Deal, FBI paid informers and destruction of the CPUSA.
On this
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in the US
is called the Honda Legend in Japan.
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fragmede
What's in a name? The Japanese invented a new brand name, slapped it on the
same car, and suddenly American consumers think it's luxury car. It's a
textbook case of brand engineering and American consumers don't look any
smarter for needing to be tricked like that.
~~~
amyjess
Eh, they _were_ luxury cars. It just wasn't in Japanese culture to use
separate marques for luxury and non-luxury cars (though I guess it's changing,
with Toyota bringing the Lexus name to Japan about a decade ago).
The Toyota Crown is probably Japan's most historically significant luxury car,
and it's always been sold as a Toyota alongside cheaper cars like the Corolla
and Yaris (fun fact: a huge chunk of Toyota's cars are named after the Crown,
including both the Corolla and the Camry,Artists from across the world to feature in second Plymouth Contemporary
More than 800 submissions from across the world were put forward for the biennial competition, with 41 artists eventually selected
Piece by Joan Stack – photograph taken by Patricia McCormack
Miss Amy King
Media and Communications Officer
Communication Services (External Relations)
7 April 2017
Contemporary artworks demonstrating high levels of quality and vision have been selected to feature in a dual-site exhibition for the second Plymouth Contemporary.
More than 800 submissions from across the world were put forward for the biennial competition, with those entries being whittled down by a panel of expert judges.
Successful applicants have been notified and they can be viewed on the Plymouth Contemporary website.
The judges have selected 41 artists to feature in the final exhibition, which will be held from 15
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school in Australia, everyone was issued laptops last year. The rollout
began with seniors (y12) and progressed down through the years. Within about 2
hours of having the machines most of my year had installed chrome, bypassed
the web filtering, installed iTunes and copied their music to the laptops. The
school knew immediately, and came around to the classrooms to inform everyone
that we had now been restricted to 10GB of space on the laptops, and that they
had removed iTunes and chrome.
For the remainder of the year everyone found ways to play games and to log
onto various school servers and mess with things. It was more a point of we
could. A lot of people still used pen and paper, or their own laptops. The
most common use of the school issued laptops was freeWestern progressives who support the likes of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party, couch their hostility toward Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric as legitimate criticism of the Israeli government. Earlier this year, for example, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) rushed to the defense of Omar, who not only accused American politicians of supporting Israel because of the influence of Jewish money, but also insinuated that American Jews are guilty of "allegiance to a foreign country," meaning Israel. "We must not equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel," Sanders said after Omar received a wave of bipartisan backlash. "Rather, we must develop an even-handed Middle East policy which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting
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observed this in myself: I gained _enormous_ amounts of weight
while living in a poor, working-class neighborhood, and promptly shed it once
I moved to a wealthy upper middle-class neighborhood. I've bounced back and
forth between poor areas and rich areas since then, and the pattern has so far
held up.
But, anecdotes not equivalent to data, etc etc.
In a upper-middle class neighborhood healthy diets practically come after you
with a baseball bat. It's steeped in the general consciousness of the area,
support by people who possess the freedom of finance, time, and effort to
think about such things, and it's supported by the merchants in the area.
The same is not true in poor neighborhoods, where fast is king to a population
of overworked and tired people. When you're holding down multiple jobs and
raising kids at thebelief, the main bottleneck of being poor is not access to
food - the market has solved that part remarkably well, and farming
improvements throughout the last century (Borlaug is perhaps rolling in his
grave) means that food in general is so cheap that everyone in a developed
country has access to it.
The main bottleneck of being poor is _time_.
A poor person spends considerably more time just to ensure survival than a
wealthy person, and has remarkably little "disposable" time remaining in a
day. Long, irregular hours, possibility of multiple jobs, lack of access to
speedy/on-demand transportation, lack of access to time-creating conveniences
(laundromat far way instead of laundry in the house, for example), all serve
to make time the rarest resource for the poor.
That's not an exhaustive list by the way, and I don't pretend to
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because he's a super smart dude who gets shit done and has already helped one startup get to a successful exit. But that was a few years ago. Now he's in Architecture school and living in Europe. I'm here in the US. When I originally contacted him, we hadn't spoken for >5 years and he had just started this architecture program after a career doing film CG (like I said, super smart dude). He was bored with school (not technical enough, he said) and I talked him into building a prototype of our product (I'm not a programmer). Then I went out and pitched to a top-tier VC. He said he loved it and even wrote about it on his blog. At this point, my co-founder and Ipreparation, will mark a departure from previous strategies by concentrating the engagement on the key remaining problems, using the Group’s resources to catalyze change, and identifying opportunities for knowledge spillovers.
KEY ENGAGEMENT
The Poland program consists of two lending operations (flood management projects) and a number of knowledge and advisory products that help the country to address its crucial development challenges, including in the areas of health and regional disparities.
Health
Since 2013, Poland’s Ministry of Health, National Health Fund (NFZ), and the World Bank have been working together to introduce enhanced service delivery integration across all levels of care and all types of providers in Poland. The partnership with the World Bank allows for the sharing of evidence-based resources, such as experiences in the design and implementation of integrated care systems.
At
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flight and to allow countries
to pursue independent macroeconomic policies while still welcoming flows
intended for productive investment.
The system remained in place from 1945 to 1971 when the central role of the US
Dollar became a problem as the international demand for dollars eventually
forced the US to run a persistent trade deficit, which undermined confidence
in the dollar. This, together with the emergence of a parallel market for gold
where the price soared above the official US mandated price, led to
speculators running down the US gold reserves. Even when convertibility was
restricted to nations only, some (notably France) continued building up hoards
of gold at the expense of the US. Eventually these pressures caused President
Nixon to end all convertibility into gold on 15 August 1971. This event marked
the effective end of the Bretton Woods systems;follow-up should do just fine, returning to its early February roots, it likely won’t surpass the original.Alita: Battle Angel could very well be the first big flop of 2019, a movie that has been languishing in development for more than 15 years. James Cameron had initially planned on directing this after Titanic, although it would eventually be put on the back-burner so Cameron could work on a project known as Project 880, later to be renamed Avatar. Years later, in 2016, Robert Rodriguez came aboard to direct, and by the time the movie will be released, it will be just over two years after principal photography wrapped. The release date was bumped twice, from two prime dates - July 20, 2018 and December 21, before landing on its
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path and then it's just a little jog and you're there. Want me to ride it with you?" (They did.)
Other conversations are not about bicycling at all.
Two very shy persons staying an hour past their shifts to discuss a favorite video game.
Two women sharing their experience of transitioning from male to female.
A high school honor student and juvenile delinquent discussing normal teenage life.
Whatever the topic of the moment, being in the valet places you among a diverse, thoughtful group of people that includes all ages, races, gender identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, bodies, types of cyclists and more. It's good folks, working hard, talking and learning from one another. We ride more, and enjoy life more, from being together. Indeed, Yay Valet! offers a rare and unexpected—yes, even magical!—space forone of X-Files "Lone Gunmen". When he
explains the beeper to his wife I needed the oxygen. It's like "Doctor Who vs
hackers" :-)
~~~
gabrielblack
Debugging of networks with logic analyzer, counting round trip with the
oscilloscope's divisions, what glorious times ! :-)
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frereubu
I highly recommend this book. It's easily accessible, fun to watch the story
spin out, and recalls the magic of early UNIX and dial-up internet. Cliff
Stoll is quite a character - check out his TED talk to see what I mean.
~~~
jhbadger
"Early UNIX". Ouch. The events of the book took place in 1986, at which time
UNIX was more or less like what we use today. Except for the absence of modern
scripting languages, a modern user could use UNIX from 1986 with very little
problem. I tend to think of "early UNIX" as things like
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PNC.[@R13] Globally, there has been a renewed interest in investing in CHWs programme for their potential impact on strengthening primary healthcare linkages for women and children. Several South Asian and African countries, including India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and South Africa, are investing in training and deploying cadres of CHWs to focus on maternal and child health.[@R13] Given their scale and the investments, it is important to assess the evidence on the effectiveness of these programme.
Our study evaluates the role of CHWs in retaining women in the maternity care continuum, using the example of the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) programme in India. The ASHA programme in India is the largest CHW programme, with nearly one million ASHA's operating nationally. The ASHA plays a critical role atand improvisation, but at the same time _really_ perfect at
straight reproduction. By the same token, musically creative people seemed to
experiment a lot, often doing a bunch of really interesting improvisations
without giving it much thought.
One of my music teachers was this way, it really was something else listening
to him just idly talking and playing around on the piano for entire lesson. On
the other hand, he was really bad at identifying individual notes but he could
re-play a melody that he heard just once without any problems, immediately
going off on several tangents and experimenting on it in different keys.
On a personal note, that was the point where I recognized that I was in
neither of these categories. I switched my art class to painting after a while
and stayed there ;)
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andrewljohnson
The paper says
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II btw), but this comment
seems eerily familiar.
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AndrewKemendo
Indeed, and Curtis Lemay - head of the firebombing campaign on Japan and later
head of SAC, the nuclear arm of the US Air Force - was the primary proponent
of the theory that War should be so bad and brutal for the purpose of ending
it swiftly.
"The New York Times reported at the time, "Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay,
commander of the B-29's of the entire Marianas area, declared that if the war
is shortened by a single day, the attack will have served its purpose." This
view was later echoed by Japan's former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, who
said, "The determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing.""
War is hell, as you saw first hand, and those of us who are charged to execute
it want it todays later he signed by the Vancouver Whitecaps of the United Soccer Leagues First Division. On 12 October 2008, he helped the Whitecaps capture their second USL First Division Championship beating the Puerto Rico Islanders 2–1 in Vancouver
On 30 September 2008, Charles was called up for the USL First Division All-League Team. On 18 December the Whitecaps announced the contract extensions of Charles for the 2009 season.
On 22 July 2009, Charles was released by the Whitecaps after a second incident with a teammate in just over a month. The first incident with a teammate occurred during a home game on 12 June. Charles was involved in an altercation with teammate Charles Gbeke, which both players were fined and handed suspensions as a result. The second incident took
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from ArahMan7 who had sent me a SMS when I was on the return trip home, and also that of Kbguy a few days ago. Both had wanted to know about my meeting up with Mat Salo – something that I had not planned.
The reason I had been to KL was to attend a meeting at Plaza Mont Kiara. Okay, I feel it’s proper to mention a bit about this since I regard those who come to this site as friends.
Thanks to the efforts of someone in Petaling Jaya, I was given an opportunity to undertake a work-from-home project in writing and sub-editing through the Internet for an education-related company in KL. The meeting – scheduled at 11 AM – was to introduce myself to two of itssince long of the owners of multiple local news
channels? It's a running joke on reddit since so many years.
~~~
portofcall
The problem is that they’re the single largest television broadcaster.
_Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, the company is the largest
television station operator in the United States by number of stations, and
largest by total coverage; owning or operating a total of 193 stations across
the country (233 after all currently proposed sales are approved) in over 100
markets (covering 40% of American households), many of which are located in
the South and Midwest._
~~~
yborg
With the shift to the various 21st century streaming platforms, broadcast TV
in its traditional form is rapidly becoming the bastion of the elderly. The
average traditional broadcast news viewer is 50+[1] so very soon Sinclair will
be dominating retirement homes everywhere in America. It's
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GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines - KanyeBest
http://www.enforcementtracker.com/
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throwaway13337
Wow. Here's an crazy one:
Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing
list newsletter of 150 people in Germany.
"The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails
between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses
visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless
other recipients. The man was accused of ten offences between mid-July and the
end of July 2018. According to the authority's letter, between 131 and 153
personal mail addresses were identifiable in his mailing list."
Poor guy.
This seems to be proof that the GDPR is being weaponized against people and
organizations one doesn't like.
~~~
jdietrich
In the UK, the data regulator fined a small organisation £180,000 ($230,000)
for exactly the samewater flow at Yngeredsfors Power Station has been kept record of. It was on average 37,2 m³/s during the years 1909-1967. The maximum flow was 275 m³/s, while the minimum flow was about 5–7 m³/s.
References
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Category:Götaland
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as part of the water treatment process.
After Flint River water began flowing, corrosive water caused lead to leach from joints, pipes and fixtures, causing a spike in toxic lead levels in the blood of Flint children and other residents.
Investigators also examined possible links between the water switch and a spike in Flint-area deaths related to Legionnaires' disease. The manslaughter charges stemmed from some of those deaths.
The statement from Hammoud and Worthy said they would, for the first time, "evaluate criminal culpability for all Legionnaire's deaths" after the switch to the Flint River.
Flint switched back to Detroit water in October 2015, and tests show water lead levels at now within federal limits. But many residents have lost trust in drinking the water, even with filters on their taps, andthere . Also they send to the
US lots of prostitutes as women, and then withing America, they send the "wild
women" to the West.
You almost could feel the Mustang or Maverick spirit. I have only seen this
spirit in some places in Africa.
On the other side when you go to Asia, you find the other side of the coin,
submissive to the limit, society not tolerating any minimal deviation of the
norm of the pack.
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Photo: Kings of the road
Posted: Sunday, August 06, 2006
By Al GrilloThe Associated Press
Two caribou pause Friday as they walk down a road at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope. The hundreds of caribou that wander around the oil field have the right of way and are not allowed to be interfered with. Vehicles are prohibited from honking their horns and must yield to the animals and wait for them to leave the road.to 40 _billion_ dollars. The government admits that
they don't have the money, and that there will be no commercial return for at
least 20-30 years. They, so far, have spent $17 million dollars in studies and
reports by consultants, and have delievered a pitifully low amount of
Broadband to Tasmania, the smallest (by an order of 10) state (think Rhode
Island vs Alaska). Already it is covered in scandals and rorts, the head of
the project gets a $400k salary and is an ex-union hack who was given the job
on the basis of being friends with the minister responsible. The main
opposition party has promised to scrap the entire project for fiscal
responsibility reasons and turn the market back over to private competitors,
with government backing for rural areas, as was the original plan. The
opposition are
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and has long supported the streetcar, is calling a meeting to get all the details on how the project got here and whether it's still economically viable. Qualls says it's too soon to jump to conclusions about the project's fate, and she says she would like to see the options and details laid out by City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. at the hearing. But Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley, a longtime opponent of the streetcar, is already using the news to call for the project's demise. The streetcar is one of few issues dividing the Democratic candidates in the mayoral race, which the latest poll has Qualls leading by 14 points.
The Ohio House is expected to vote on a budget
today that would defund Planned Parenthood, ban comprehensive sex
educationexactly on the grounds
of free speech.
The merits, policies, methods and value of schools, colleges and even
individual professors are matters of public debate with no restriction.
Attempts of imposing sanctions on pupils for expressing views of discontent
with institutions do occur, but are isolated and rarely carried out, due to --
you've guessed it -- public outcry.
Perhaps most symbolic for this: after the fall of the Communist regime, school
uniforms quickly fell out of favour and are quite rare after 4th grade or so
even today. And where they are in place, the rules against _not_ wearing them
are rarely enforced for precisely the same reasons. It's all nice on paper,
but as soon as someone decides a kid should be expelled for not wearing _those
particular clothes_ , things usually get ugly.
Press freedom, corruption and the
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one who thought about Y.T's mother reading the bathroom tissue
memo in Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" (quoting below)?
_Y.T. 's mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it.
The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her
end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M.,
she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time
spent reading this memo..._
_Y.T. 's mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading
the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that
they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast,
to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the
memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regularAbout
Eldet
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backers
What is Eldet?
Eldet is an upcoming gay 18+ visual novel/dating sim game taking place in a late medieval fantasy setting, including locations based loosely on Andalusia (southern Spain), Sweden, Cambodia, Algeria, and India.
One of the primary philosophies of Eldet is that diversity matters. The game include characters of racial and ethnic backgrounds that are normally excluded in the fantasy genre.
Plot Overview
You play as Kunal, a man in his early 20s, who has spent the past sixteen years of his life studying at a college of mages--only to realize that, despite coming from a family of famous mages, he may have no magical powers of his own.
Kunal, the player character
Nevertheless, when he is contacted by a mysterious "tomb raider" seeking to hire a mage for a
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to run into Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren Sunday and asked her views on the Ryan budget -- and she made a point quite similar to one I had written a while back: that the Ryan budget is a plan that forfeits the future and global leadership to China.In August 2012, Warren lamented the pathetically low level of investment America makes in its own infrastructure compared China.'s Ryan Grim wrote about Warren's comments and Senator Scott Brown 's lame response:Warren told me yesterday that Ryan's plan would cut $500 billion over 10 years from investments in science and technology support and basic research as well as education and training programs. She is right. Ryan's plan, which now defines the Romney-Ryan GOP ticket , outlines a path to aplatform in the Bahamas one time
with 20' waves and the crew boat was only about 30' long. They had multiple
wooden landings to accomodate the tides, one was virtually submerged, the next
was slightly below the waves' crest and the third was out-of-reach at the
time. A knotted rope descended from the main metal platform at the top of the
ladder, draping all 3 landings. Each worker waited for the pilot to sync a
wave properly, then he would quickly reverse the boat to within inches of the
target landing, you step off the back of the boat grabbing the wet rope, hang
& swing onto the landing as the boat drops a dozen feet the next second and he
powers away to a safe distance to repeat it for the next person. Climb the
ladder quick
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globe.
The U.S. diplomatic campaign has so far managed to convince counterparts in Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand to restrict Huawei.
The beef worsened last week when Canadian authorities arrested Huawei’s chief financial officer, Sabrina Meng, at the request of U.S. authorities.
They were set to ramp up the pressure in a coordinated release of indictments and statements this week slamming Beijing for continued aggression in cyberspace and for violating a 2015 agreement on cyber espionage activities, the Washington Post reported.
Pressure on EU governments is rising by the week for more public criticism of Huawei.
These moves add fuel to an escalating trade war between the United States and China. Trump previously used such judicial procedures as bargaining chips in his feud with Chinese counterparts over trade barriers and market access,the company are incapable of being on time to
those meetings, and you can probably guess as to one of the reasons I'm moving
on to another company. The meetings are usually also at short notice and the
person who requests it will universally be late to their own meeting.
I see excessive meetings and calls as a failure of written communication
skills. The people I see organising the most meetings are also those who are
least adept at understanding writing, and the worst at communicating via it
themselves. There's definitely an art to being a good written communicator,
and maybe there should be more emphasis placed on it when recruiting in tech
roles.
~~~
dhdhebsb
I must work at the same place
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GordonS
True story:
A project I was on earlier in the year was full on Agile, with _constant_
meetings - daily
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of those. Weird I've never
heard about him before, impressive number of books.
~~~
neves
Maybe because he is from the pre-internet era. The tech parts are dated, but
since he sees people as the center of the problems, it doesn't matter much.
Any of his books will give you a year of blog posts.
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snorberhuis
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
This book is about the lessons learned on leadership by two Navy Seal Officers
and how they are applied in business. It learned me to take ownership on what
is happening, always work together, keep it simple, focus on a single
priority, and give ownership.
Turn the ship around! by L. David Marquet
This book tells the story of a submarine captain that turns his subordinates
into leaders and his submarine goes on becoming the best submarine in theTooele's town square is located on the
main intersection in Tooele. The city asked for a pedestrian circulation
plan including a stage, and a planting plan to help create a sense
of place for the square. The two illustrative drawings above were
given to the city as options to pursue.(Finished:
12-03
Designer: Chad Kennedy)
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the middle but rather try to
trick player into thinking that it is aware of an enemy nearby. Looking clever
but stupid inside.
~~~
unkulunkulu
Yes, the trick could be choosing the target to optimize. I once had an online
chess adversary that seemed strong but who appeared to be losing to me in
complications, I even briefly considered an idea he was doing it on purpose to
gift some entertainment and fun to his opponents. An AI targeted to do
something creative and challenging and at the same time not trying to abuse
its obvious advantages could be fun to play against.
~~~
RugnirViking
You've hit upon the fundamental difficulty in game ai design. It's trivial to
make an AI execute strategies perfectly (in most games). The trick (and the
significant difficulty) lies in making it not perfect, but in a waywith the front housing member and which houses electrical connectors (i.e. pins). At the distal end of the rear housing member are the terminals of the pins, which connect via a cable assembly to another component in the vehicle. At the front end of the rear housing member, a jumper is typically used to connect the front ends of the pins to the circuit board. This solution is used because it accommodates variation in the positions of the pins in the rear housing member and in the positions of the points on the circuit board intended to connect to the pins.
It would be advantageous to provide a camera that addresses one or more of these considerations.
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focusing on the complicated details of
thoroughbred handicapping, the groundbreaking “Dr. Z” system offers
mathematical models based on stock-market analysis._
_William T. Ziemba is professor of management science at the University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is an expert in operations research
and portfolio management and has served as consultant to the Canadian
government on lotteries and pari-mutuel betting systems. Donald B. Hausch has
a doctorate in managerial economics and decision sciences from Northwestern
University, and is currently teaching in the School of Business at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison._
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incompatible
I believe David Walsh did something similar in Australia. He eventually spent
his winnings on building a gigantic art museum (MONA) in Hobart.
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ttul
[https://outline.com/sfXdYZ](https://outline.com/sfXdYZ)
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skizm
"Calculated Bets" by Steven Skiena is a pretty good read if you're interested
in this stuff.
~~~
kgwgk
I was just thinking of adding a comment about that booka military transport aircraft, to the government on time. Dietrich wrote, however, that the real purpose of the probe may have been neutralizing Hughes, owner of TWA, while rival Pan Am – whose president, Juan Trippe, had implored Maine Senator Owen Brewster to carry it – pushed for a federal law establishing only one official American carrier of international air traffic, and Pan Am becoming that carrier.
Dietrich discussed the famous Hughes counterattack before the Senate committee investigating him – and revealed that both his own and Hughes' hotel suites had been bugged during the hearings, allegedly at the behest of Brewster and Trippe. The hearings, and Hughes' legendary triumph over them, helped end both the legislation and Brewster's political career; On Hughes' orders, Dietrich poured money into a challenger's campaign a
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some sports teams which use Native American names (eg, both the Seminole
Nation of Oklahoma and Seminole Tribe of Florida endorse the name and its use
for the Florida State Seminoles, which caused the NCAA to overturn their own
decision that the use was 'hostile and abusive'.)
Instead, I look at the history. As I and everyone else who knows or has
examined the history has shown, the first few years of official Apache
documentation only talked about the 'cute name.'
That tells me that "honor" was not the primary reason. A possible correction
to the FAQ would be to omit explicit ranking while leaving "honor" listed
first.
4) I think that would still be incorrect. What little history comes through
suggests that honoring the Apache nations was not part of the original
decision. The earliest discussion of this ison all three counts. We affirm the convictions.
I.
2
Evidence at trial established that Martinez had known the government's informant, Joe Navin, since January or February of 1990, and had sold cocaine to Navin ten to twelve times before November 1990. Navin was arrested on November 14, 1990, on cocaine possession and gun charges. He immediately indicated to law-enforcement personnel that he wanted to cooperate. In cooperation with the government, Navin set up a meeting with Martinez for him and Agent Weir to buy cocaine. Martinez agreed to call Navin at the Holiday Inn when the cocaine was available. On the evening of December 9, 1990, Martinez called Navin at the hotel and told him to come over
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was entitled to recover from the third party. However, the status of a soldier in the Armed Forces is very different from the status of an enrollee of the Civilian Conservation Corps. In the law governing the status of a soldier there is no provision making the provisions of the United States Employees' Compensation Act applicable to disability caused by a traumatic injury. In the case of an injured soldier there is no specific provision of law providing a special remedy by which the United States could recover. It is observed that the court in that case expressed the view that the obligations which the government assumes toward a soldier are more legislative than contractual, and that the Congress of the United States, in the exercise of itswhat I think of Steve Jobs. No doubting he was brilliant and had
amazing taste. But he wasn't the most important person in the room. At it's
start Woz built Apple. Steve just sold it. And today, he didn't design the
products, but he had vision of what he wanted. And many of us wanted the same
thing. He was a damn good salesman. And he had a great ability of keeping
everyone on focus. But he wasn't the most important person in the room. Apple
could (and it does) go on without him. And I think he knew it. And it dogged
him all his life.
I'm also believe in karma. And the way he died,, his long battle/suffering -
leads me to believe he had debts to pay. I only hope, in the end he
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study at this center. A gastroenterologist (KN), with formal training in US of the GI tract and 3-year experience in the modality, conducted a focused luminal POCUS examination. A standardized approach was used, conducting the examination from the left lower quadrant, examining the colon from the rectum to the cecum, with examination of the rectum, sigmoid, descending, transverse, and ascending colon, and cecum. The terminal ileum was then evaluated, followed by systematic four-quadrant examination to include the remaining small bowel. All exams were completed using a Phillips IU22 US machine utilizing a range of transducers, including high frequency curved (4--9 mHz) and linear probes (12--15 mHz).
Presence of inflammatory activity was documented in binary fashion ("active"/"inactive"). Inflammation was deemed to be present, as per standard sonographic assessment, if there was increasedin those days. Instead of hailing early
adopters we were frequently criticized as harbingers of a cold and inhumane
new world order.
~~~
rsynnott
There was also an attempt to introduce a Minitel system here in Ireland. It
was ridiculously badly-timed; by the time it was actually up and running,
things like Compuserve were around and the first ISPs were only a couple of
years away.
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abeppu
It makes me a bit sad to realize that even I remember minitel, though I grew
up with the internet, and not in France -- not because I'm into tech history,
but because in 2002, that's how old my high-school French textbook and its
helpful cultural asides were.
~~~
lanstein
Same, and somehow, apparently, I still remember that the slang for it is 'le
mini'. I really need to call realloc() on that.
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rbanffy
I met my first wife on
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This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the
hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern
brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each
serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with
a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes
that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life
at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity
hanging from a cross of iron."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
~~~
Roritharr
I wonder ifwhich should bring Forrest on-screen in mid-December.
Heather Kenzie will take over the role of Di Henry beginning on the week of November 10. Di, the half-sister of Dixie Cooney Martin (Cady McClain), was last played by Kelli Giddish from 2005-2007. Kenzie will appear on several episodes of the ABC drama as Di finds herself mixed up in a big mess courtesy of her old friend, Annie Lavery (Melissa Claire Egan).
The character of Brot has been cast and will also begin airing during the week of November 10. In September, “AMC” put out a casting call for a real-life Iraq war veteran to play the role of Army Lt. Taylor Thompson’s (Beth Ehler) not-so-deceased fiancé. We’ll first see Brot in a V.A. hospital; the injured character who has allowed
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Pictures of the day: 3 January 2013
Thai national Ekkapan Kaewkla, 26, who is suspected of killing British tourist Stephen David Ashton, is escorted by police officers following his arrest at a police station on Koh Phangan Island, southern Thailand. Ashton, 22, was caught by a stray bullet during a fight between two groups at a bar on Koh Phangan on New Year's Day.Picture: REUTERSto Southern Vietnam. Graham later told Nixon that this
proposed escalation of the war in Southeast Asia was a plan that 'could
overnight destroy the economy of North Vietnam' by employing 'tens of
thousands of North Vietnamese defectors to bomb and invade the North.'
Estimates from the Nixon administration concluded that such a military aerial
bombing campaign against dikes in North Vietnam would have killed
approximately one million North Vietnamese."
I'm not bringing this up to smear a guy who's recently died. It's just
fascinating to me that the same person who's perhaps the most effective (and,
by all appearances, genuine) evangelist ever would also have opinions on the
right kind of bombing tactics to force a military agreement by crippling
civilian infrastructure.
~~~
donquichotte
Interesting! It would appear that religiousness and impirialistic warmongering
make a splendid match. Of course, we must not
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Jews and the Jewish
community. From those who are ignorant (of which there are many), they will
oppose the majority of a group for the actions of a few. This is applicable to
many different groups.
What a lot of people have forgotten is that the vast majority of the first
followers of Jesus Christ were Jews. There were sections of the Jewish
leadership that wanted him dead and happily conspired with their political
opponents and enemies to bring about this outcome.
Those first Jewish followers were persecuted and hunted down by the Jewish
leadership. It is interesting that it was one of those ravening wolves by the
name of Saul who ended up being one of the great evangelists for Jesus Christ
going by the name of Paul.
The historical antipathy against Jews arose out of the idea thatGood News.
I find it fascinating that amongst the Jews there is a growing group who
recognise that Jesus Christ is their messiah and they are being persecuted by
the various Jewish authorities for this recognition.
Without the Jews, the Gentiles are incomplete and without the Gentiles, the
Jews are incomplete.
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iambateman
Today is a sad day for those of us who think of Billy Graham as a spiritual
father (or in my case great grandfather).
He was great for his influence over so many millions of people, generous for
his message of peace, and flawed for his humanity.
While the 20th century will be remembered for its many violent moments, Mr.
Graham joins Gandhi as one of the great luminaries of hope amid dark times.
On a personal note, my grandmothers life was changed by the preaching of Billy
Graham when
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to ignore Trump and rise above the fray. But those candidates who took him on directly – Jeb Bush branding him the “chaos candidate”, Marco Rubio mocking the size of his hands, Ted Cruz calling him a “pathological liar” – did not fare too well either. Hillary Clinton still faces the humiliating prospect of Trump goading her with allegations of her husband’s cheating during primetime televised debates.
While she is eager to remind the public of the 1990s as a golden decade for the economy, she would rather not revisit the tawdry scandals that dogged her husband during the same period. To recap, in 1994 Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment over an alleged 1991 incident in which she said he exposed himself to her. Bill Clinton
Company size: Big is back - mrduncan
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=14303582
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lkrubner
I am concerned by the public's changing mood, in regards to entrepreneurs. In
the 1970s the American government began the process of deregulation, which
allowed some important innovations in the industries that were deregulated.
Transportation was probably the first big industry effected, followed by many
others.
My impression was that there was a stretch when some combination of the public
mood and the government's emphasis conspired to encourage small startups. The
1980s and 1990s were clearly good in this respect.
The mood of the last decade has been increasingly punitive. An increasingly
harsh attitude toward flexibility in the law has been evident elsewhere for
some time, but in the last 10 years that attitude has increasingly been
expressed in the field of business. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the most evident
expression of the new
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exclusive scholarly columns including InDepth InterViews, Sound Off, Theatrical Throwback Thursdays, Flash Friday and Flash Special as well as additional special features, world premiere clips and extensive news coverage. His work for the site has appeared in The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, US Weekly, The Biography Channel, NBC and more. He also wrote and directed two sold-out 2014 BroadwayWorld charity concert events featuring all-star casts, EVERYTHING'S COMING UP BROADWAYWORLD.COM: A JULE STYNE TRIBUTE and THE LORD & THE MASTER: BROADWAYWORLD.COM SINGS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER & STEPHEN SONDHEIM.in the USA..and about 2/3 of nuts and citrus. A state
that has been ravaged by drought and yet grows thirsty crops like citrus,
almonds and alfalfa.
In the 1970s, a farmer from the Midwest started exporting cubed hay to Japan.
To this day, japan is one of the largest importers of alfalfa hay from the
United States. The Middle East and esp UAE imports hay too. But the biggest
importer of hay from the USA is China.
In the early 2000s, there was no hay exports from California. But it was the
high season in Silicon Valley with iPhones and cheap plastic toys coming into
our ports in giant shipping containers. Instead of sending them back
empty..someone thought it was a good idea to sell hay to china. It made sense
from a logistics pov because shipping hay
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to My Students.
When leading in public or corporate prayer one should remember that he is praying in behalf of those gathered. Corporate praise, corporate confession and petitions that are appropriate for the body in general should punctuate such praying. When leading a church in pastoral prayer, the minister, Spurgeon suggests, should consider the general needs and concerns that mark the congregation. "He should bring the joys and sorrows of his people alike before the throne of grace, and ask that the divine benediction may rest upon his flock...and that the forgiveness of God may be extended to their shortcomings and innumerable sins." Such prayers must seek to carry to the throne of grace all of those who are gathered for worship. Anything that would hinder spiritually minded peoplecombinations of instruments.
And it's not just old classical artists: in the 20th and 21st centuries, there
are plenty of geniuses who have and continue to find new ways to bring out
what makes the piano such an interesting instrument. Debussy broke all the
conventional wisdom of his day to make the most beautifully resonant piano
pieces. Check out Nancarrow's player piano pieces on YouTube to see the
instrument taken to a ludicrous extreme; John Cage's piano pieces often go all
the way in the other direction; Steve Reich's _Piano Phase_ is a brilliant
exploration of how we hear piano music; and finally, compare John Adams's
_China Gates_ (a solo piece) with _Century Rolls_ (a concerto) for very
different approaches from the same composer.
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analog31
Indeed, when you get very far outside of keyboard instruments, there is no
"temperament," but merely
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their pre-existing, sometimes nonsensical
processes.
(Disclosure: I work at SAP, though not on customer-facing software.)
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hirundo
The horrors of the automation revolution have been on our collective mind for
a long time. In the '70s this was one of my dad's favorite jokes:
"It's terrible, my father lost the job he had for decades. He was replaced by
a clever mechanical gizmo just six inches long. And then my mom got one."
It plays on the fear of being emasculated by technology. Maybe that leads us
to exaggerate the threat.
~~~
toomuchtodo
The fear is very real, not about emasculation, but a loss of identity in a
society where "you are your job". I have seen this first hand in both people
who weren't "essential" during COVID shutdowns (to their horror), and people
who _were_ deemed "essential" but it was, in their words,Inside The Mysterious And Long Lost Ancient City of Petra, Jordan
The City of Stone
In the heart of the Jordan desert lies one of the strangest and most wonderful of human constructions: the long lost ancient city of Petra, the city of stone. The site of Petra is so fascinating and unique that it has been used as a filming location for the fantasy adventure film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as the famous archeology professor goes in search of the Holy Grail. Even today, the city of stone shows all the ingenuity that even men living in ancient times could deploy. Petra is full of mystery and grace, but why was a city built in the rock?
History of Petra city
Built in the 8th century BC by Edomites,
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we still think of the totalitarian governments that ruled Europe before
the Second World War we can easily say that it would be difficult for them to
reappear in the same form in different historical circumstances. If Mussolini
's fascism was based upon the idea of a charismatic ruler, on corporatism, on
the utopia of the Imperial Fate of Rome, on an imperialistic will to conquer
new territories, on an exacerbated nationalism, on the ideal of an entire
nation regimented in black shirts, on the rejection of parliamentary
democracy, on anti-Semitism, then I have no difficulty in acknowledging that
today the Italian Alleanza Nazionale, born from the postwar Fascist Party,
MSI, and certainly a right-wing party, has by now very little to do with the
old fascism. In the same vein, even though I am much concerned abouttheir first ascent of the Dawn Wall in 1970. The cover of Alpinist 25 shows Harding on the last pitch of that climb. [Photo] Glen Denny
Dennis Henneck and Don Lauria early on during the second ascent of the North American Wall. The image was taken with a 4x5 view camera on April 7, 1968. [Photo] Ed Cooper
El Cap seen from the road not too far from Bridal Veil Fall, after a snowstorm. It was taken with a 4x5 view camera on March 5, 1970. Cooper notes that "the trees in the foreground have now grown to the point that it is not possible to get this same view showing almost the entire face of El Cap." [Photo] Ed Cooper
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that organisations in Australia must not discriminate against any individuals based on their gender. But the law allows for special exemptions, such as religious grounds. Under these exemptions, religious organisations are free to refuse to allow women to ordain as clergy.
Sexism and misogyny are explicitly woven into the dogma and traditions of all mainstream religions. God is personified as male, and his representatives are male. Men are believed to be of higher spiritual authority to women, and many religions do not allow the full ordination of women into the clergy. Some religions disallow women from sitting at the front in their places of worship, and some places of worship refuse entry to women. Religious texts espouse notions of the mental, moral, and spiritual inferiority of women, and religionSSL bug was around for at least 10
years. HMAC timing attacks were not as widely published as they are now, but
instead were part of common lore to cryptographers.
The WEP vulnerability was almost certainly not "unusual environment". Sure,
there were power and cost constraints in the WEP design, but what was unusual
about it was that the crypto was obviously designed by a group with no crypto
experience and no public review. Using a varying key with RC4, something it
was known to be weak to, was an example of "using a tool wrong" and more
similar to the AWS v1 signature bug you found.
The only "unusual environment" was that the specialized and closed field of
IEEE wifi design led to non-cryptographers designing crypto. There was nothing
unique to the environment that a good crypto person
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after an ax attack on a regional train in southern Germany on July 18, 2016. (EPA)
Herrmann noted that the authorities are currently investigating reports that the attacker yelled out “an exclamation” before the incident. German media quoted some witnesses as saying that he shouted “Allahu akbar” before the attack.
The Takfiri Daesh terror group claimed responsibility for the incident via the Amaq new outlet.
In May, a man was reported as making a similar exclamation before stabbing a person to death and wounding three others at a railway station in Munich.
The incident sparked fears over Takfiri attacks on the German soil.
The culprit was later sent to a psychiatric hospital and police said he had no ties to the Takfiri terrorism.silk
ascot and velvet robe who invites his friends (who are of an age with his
daughter or granddaughter) over for a pool party.
~~~
snrplfth
Getting development permission in New York City is extremely difficult and
expensive, much more so than in Toronto. Also the level of demand is much
higher. This tends to drive developers to serve the upper end of the market
moreso than the middle. As a result, new Manhattan residential towers really
do have a remarkable amount of big luxury units. (Richard Florida would
probably know, he owns a house in Rosedale. He travels in these circles.)
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strict9
Always wanted to live in NY, but knew owning a place would be impossible (also
a developer). Chicago is probably as close as NY as I'll get, and that's fine.
Can easily afford a large SFH or two-flat (with
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as sanguine
in the back room about the threats to its dominance as it lets on. Agreed it
is not wise to put on an arrogant face about it.
~~~
scythe
Hm? Windows was first released in November of '85, and the first release that
achieved significant popularity was released in '87. Do you mean to say IBM
regarded the Apple Macintosh as a toy?
~~~
grellas
I really messed that one up.
IBM senior management regarded the desktop PC manufactured by its own Boca
Raton division as a toy.
What IBM missed (with all its big-systems hubris) was the competitive threat
that arose when it gave Intel and Microsoft a vehicle by which to seize the
future of mass computing when they got to supply the key inner parts for the
PC.
"Wintel" was intended as a shorthand reference to the Intel/Microsoft teaming
but itAlistair Overeem has been on the wrong end of a pair of bad knockouts in 2013. But at least he's been well-paid for them.
The Massachusetts State Athletic Commission released salaries for the Aug. 17 UFC Fight Night event at Boston's TD Garden.
Overeem, who suffered a memorable first-round head-kick knockout loss to Travis Browne in the heavyweight co-feature bout, was the card's highest-paid fighter, earning a flat $285,714.29.
That matches his payout for his third-round TKO loss to Antonio Silva at February's UFC 156 in Las Vegas, giving him $571,428.58 in fight salary so far this year.
Browne, in his winning effort, made $48,000, including a $24,000 win bonus.
Aside from Overeem, two other fighters made six figures, both in the main event: Chael Sonnen earned a flat $100,000 fee for his
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colonial laws with the ethos of constitutional jurisprudence was reflected in the judgment."Why do politicians sometimes hand over power to judges and we see that happening in the Supreme Court everyday. We saw that in 377 where the government told us that we are leaving this to the wisdom of the court and this 'wisdom of the court' was too enticing a principle for me not to respond so I responded in my judgment the other day," said Justice Chandrachud."It is well for a judge to remind himself or herself of the fact that flattery is often the graveyard of the gullible," he quoted from his judgment.Justice Chandrachud was speaking on the topic, "Rule of Law in Constitutional Democracy", at the 19th Annual Bodh Raj Sawhny Memorial OrationAll of a sudden, traffic comes to
a screeching halt.
There are 3 cars in this scenario. The first car is the one that slams on his
brakes, and comes to a stop.
The second car, cannot stop in time, and he swerves out of the way, and safely
gets into the adjacent lane. Close call, but he drives away safely.
The third car, is the Tesla, with the driver on Autopilot, and browsing
Facebook on his iPhone. So, he is inattentive.
The whole sequence plays out in less than 5 seconds.
In this scenario, the third car, the Tesla, will not recognize the situation
that the second car swerved out of the way. So the Tesla will collide into the
first car at high speeds. The velocity of the impact kills all occupants
inside the first car, and the
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able to override timely.
~~~
yellow_postit
When Tesla stops advertising it as such? Maybe also when the system
aggressively disables itself when not under human supervision (hands on wheel)
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beenBoutIT
The Darwin Awards are going to become a big Tesla advertisement.
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aviv
The use and marketing of the word "Autopilot" will go down in history as one
of Tesla's biggest mistakes.
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myaccountforhn
Huh, I'm a little concerned with how much information they were able to
collect and therefore possibly get her to admit she was looking at her phone
instead of the road and hands on the wheel.
I hope she's got great insurance because that guy who got whiplash is probably
going to get a bit of money.
Image copyright EPA Image caption Mr Khan has come under pressure from other opposition leaders to end his "unconstitutional" protests
Pakistan's main opposition leader Imran Khan says he is pulling out of talks with the government until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns.
The two sides began discussions last night, after thousands of opposition supporters occupied a high-security zone in front of parliament.
Protesters say Mr Sharif came to power through electoral fraud.
Parliament had declared Mr Khan's week-long political campaign to bring down the prime minister unconstitutional.
Both Mr Khan, the leader of the PTI party, and Tahirul Qadri, who heads the PAT party, are demanding the resignation of PM Nawaz Sharif.
Mr Sharif's party won last year's elections by a landslide in what was Pakistan's first peaceful transfer of power between two civilian
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The Victorian Kitchen - Wales
Enjoy a traditional afternoon tea at Cefn Park, where the owners of this country estate will tell us the fascinating story of how they unearthed and restored the original Victorian kitchen. The kitchen, built in the early 1800s, is thought to have been unused for 100 years before being used as an underground shelter during World War II. It was blocked at the end of the conflict but has now been found by Archie Graham-Palmer after he took over the property from his father.was still the norm, but over time
producers became more open to trying HD video. Despite being cheaper than
35mm, shooting HD was still a large affair with many moving cogs. It wasn't
uncommon to have to seek out and find specialized service providers just to
have access to the equipment needed, even though we were one of the biggest
and well-equipped post houses in Chicago.
The thing is, over a period of just a few years, things within the industry
radically shifted. The prosumer market began to catch up. Suddenly we had
access to high-def cameras that cost nearly as much to purchase as the former
technologies cost to rent just a few years prior.
We started to get requests from agencies to actually shoot ads ourselves to
save costs. Our coloring facilities, which used to take up
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the United States any judgments
obtained against such directors or officers.
Several of our directors and officers are nationals
and/or residents of countries other than the United States, and all or a substantial portion of such persons’ assets are
located outside of the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process on such directors
and officers, or enforce within the United States any judgments obtained against such directors and officers, including judgments
predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof. Consequently,
stockholders may be effectively prevented from pursuing remedies against such directors and officers under United States federal
securities laws. In addition, stockholders may not be able to commence an action in a Canadian court predicated upon the95% were
either dog poop or miss classified (eg abandoned car or trash collection).
People automatically read the headline and correlate to human waste.
~~~
hombre_fatal
I wouldn't mind half the police force being reassigned to fine the sort of
people who let their dog shit and run.
My buddy had a small garden patch on the sidewalk in front of his house. It
was the only patch of garden on the block, so it was basically chock full of
dog feces within a day after he cleaned it from people walking their dogs.
You'd get a whiff of it just walking to his house.
He eventually had the tiny patch of land paved over.
~~~
ericmcer
Yeh! I think it would really help law enforcement community relations if they
moved away from ticketing people for violating letter of the law rules (street
sweeping
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to clean up the
fenced-in Kindergarten playground, remove the syringes the junkies left. In
one of the better neighborhoods, too. Whole squares right in the city where
hundreds of homeless did drugs with helpless police standing by. I remember
being chased away from a playground in a well-off part of Bremen by an
approaching mob of violent homeless junkies. Lots of refugees from the Balkan
war, often in an absolutely desolate psychological state. That, too, was an
amalgamation of lots of crises – reunification, economy doing poorly, a
society built by the rules of Cold War, falling apart, war in the Balkans,
huge reluctance to change the tiniest thing.
But Germany really turned things around. A lot of targeted action, lots of
reforms, lots of small changes to how the social security net functions, a big
invest in robust policeA Buddhist abbot has been apprehended by authorities for his alleged role in a deadly nightclub stabbing that went cold 16 years ago.
On Aug. 12 Zhang Liwei was whisked away by police in Chuzhou, a city in eastern China’s Anhui province, according to a report by The Beijing News published on Wednesday. The abbot is a member of the local chapter of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a governmental advisory body, and, until his arrest, headed the county-level Buddhist association. Police said Zhang confessed to his involvement in the violent crimes after authorities discovered his true identity when he attempted to go abroad.
The abbot and four others are suspected of stabbing three people to death in a nightclub in 2000 in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province. A bounty
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a pick of what game you want to play against it. IMO, I'd bet on its
positional "weakness" (yes, it is still very strong at positional play, but it
is the most "heuristical" part of the engine)
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Cookingboy
Someone somewhere asked why a lot of people in the Go community is taking this
in a somewhat hard way, here is my hypothesis:
Go, unlike Chess, has deep mytho attached to it. Throughout the history of
many Asian countries it's seen as the ultimate abstract strategy game that
deeply relies on players' intuition, personality, worldview. The best players
are not described as "smart", they are described as "wise". I think there is
even an ancient story about an entire diplomatic exchange being brokered over
a single Go game.
Throughout history, Go has become more than just a board game, it hasbecome a
medium where the sagacious ones use to reflect their world views, discuss
their philosophy, and communicate their beliefs.
So instead of a logic game, it's almost seen and treated as an art form. And
now an AI without emotion, philosophy or personality just comes in and brushes
all of that aside and turns Go into a simple game of mathematics. It's a
little hard to accept for some people.
Now imagine the winning author of the next Hugo Award turns out to be an AI,
how unsettling would that be.
~~~
gsklee
On a more realistic side note... Professional Go players devote decades in
training ever since their youth, giving up normal educations and lots of other
more lucrative opportunities for their lives. It's very easy to imagine their
frustrations now that their life-time devotion actually means nothing in front
of
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about suddenly. Quoting a few key
things since the whole things is very long:
"The idea of using ConvNet for Go playing goes back a long time. Back in 1994,
Nicol Schraudolph and his collaborators published a paper at NIPS that
combined ConvNets with reinforcement learning to play Go. But the techniques
weren't as well understood as they are now, and the computers of the time
limited the size and complexity of the ConvNet that could be trained. More
recently Chris Maddison, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, published
a paper with researchers at Google and DeepMind at ICLR 2015 showing that a
large ConvNet trained with a database of recorded games could do a pretty good
job at predicting moves. The work published at ICML from Amos Storkey's group
at University of Edinburgh also shows similarDETROIT -- A food service worker at Comerica Park in Detroit has been fired after a video was posted online allegedly showing him spitting on a pizza.
WXYZ-TV reports the video was visible on Instagram over the weekend and shows an employee spitting on the pizza intended for customers. WWJ-AM reports officials at the home of the Detroit Tigers determined the video was recorded Friday, when the team hosted the Kansas City Royals.
Detroit Sportservice, which provides food service at the ballpark, said in a statement that it "immediately closed that food stand and disposed of all the product." It says food safety is the "top priority" and that it will take any appropriate action to protect guests.
Detroit police officer Dan Donakowski told The Associated Press on Monday that the
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there would be parchment inside.
He was right.
Once unopened, the scrolls are expected to shed new light on the religious practices of the Jewish people during the Second Temple Period between the years of 530 BC and 70, an era named for a holy place of worship for the Jewish people that was constructed by the builder of ancient Jerusalem King Herod. The Dome of the Rock stands today where the Second Temple purportedly once stood.
At least two dozen phylactery scrolls were discovered in the 1940s and 50 along with the rest of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a limestone cave in the West Bank's Qumran in Israel.
"[I] found a number of fragments of tefillin cases from Qumran Cave 4, together with seven rolled-up [phylactery] slips," Adler told thethat to the extreme, with the return to city-
states, Burning-Man style with citizens moving house in their shipping-
container homes as their loyalties/desires change.
~~~
jerf
One of the great stories of the political landscape today is the... impedance
mismatch, for lack of a better word... between technology enabling ever more
decentralized control (and for "control", read "government"), and the fact
that everywhere you look, centralized governments are expanding their power.
It's one of those thing we're all too close to see clearly, and I do not
exempt myself from that problem, but I suspect in a hundred years it'll be one
of the "big stories" told about this time period.
~~~
eli_gottlieb
Strange how centralized governments everywhere are expanding their power under
what are, universally, "small government" neoliberal regimes.
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Nutella4
Not strange at all. Neoliberals are for big government everywhere except
government regulation of
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what got me interested in life simulations to this day.
* Later I got to work with one of the guys who helped make The Lion King
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2002: Devised without a book what I later discovered was the MinMax algorithm
(my father was quite unhappy when he discovered tic-tac-toe game trees
penciled on the side of the staircase) and wrote a really terrible chess
engine with it. That sparked a lifelong interest in programming. A couple
years later, I had a blast implementing AlphaBeta (w/pruning), NegaScout,
MTDf. Eventually got into NNs, which I used for leaf-node scoring, and made a
bot that played on ICC (Internet Chess Club) that became a recurring opponent
for an IM at the time. The IM would chat with the bot, since he was convinced
by its play-style that it was human. Inmatch will come from someone of the same ethnic background.
A part of the shortage of donors is caused by people from these backgrounds choosing not to donate.
But even if a person does choose to donate by signing up to the register, families have the final say on whether their organs should be used.
'Someone should be helped by our loss'
Image copyright NHS Blood and Transplant Image caption Bimla Parmar became an organ donor after she died
Bimla Parmar, a Sikh who lived in Hayes, west London, became a lifesaving organ donor when she died of a brain haemorrhage, aged 68, after collapsing at home.
Her daughter, Gurpreet Parmar, 39, said: "My mum was not on the NHS organ donation register but my siblings and I were fine with it as we
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be found in many old homes in odd places. I was removing some old putty
around a window and a friend of mine who was an asbestos hygienist suggested
that it could contain asbestos and took a sample for testing (all clear
thankfully).
In another instance I worked on a demolition of a 1960's era multistory
apartment complex. During construction of the concrete core walls the builder
had used asbestos in the formwork, leaving some embedded in the wall at
regular intervals. This meant that all of demolition waste was considered
contaminated and was going to a special dump at a huge cost.
Finally, there was an infamous case in Canberra, Australia where a company
called Mr Fluffy [1] installed loose friable asbestos as insulation in homes.
A cleanup program in the 90's did not adequately fix the problemHuntsville Extended Stay Apartments
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since it spawned one
of the largest American-born religious movements and contributed to much of
the settlement of the western US. I don't see any religious books on the list
though.
~~~
gtk40
Yeah, I was surprised to not see any religious books. That's a good one I
hadn't thought of. I was thinking of Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, one of
the most popular books ever written by American and probably the most owned
book in the country for an era.
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mmanfrin
A lot of these are in the public domain, would be a good candidate for a mass
torrent of ebooks.
~~~
javert
> in the public domain
... and for everything else, there's the library. :)
~~~
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Bittorent County Library System.
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tokenadult
The Library of Congress put up this list of books that shaped America. I am an
American of American descent since before the Revolution,That's Okay
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map it out. Out of 106, 81
of them were outside of the Valley. There might be a few more, as I don't
recognize all of the towns clustered around the valley. It would be
interesting to plot exit events over time-- I'd guess that we're trending
towards LESS clustering rather than more.
Moniker - Pompano Beach, Florida, United States Bodybuilding.com - MERIDIAN,
Idaho, United States CleverSet - Seattle, Washington, United States
Anywhere.FM - San Francisco, CA, United States Audible - 160 employees split
between its headquarters in Newark, NJ and an office in London, UK. Maven
Networks - Boston, MA, United States FoxyTunes - Israel Vehix- Salt Lake City,
UT, United States HotOrNot - San Francisco, CA, United States Compete -
London, UK BlogDigger - Washington, D.C., United States Auctomatic - San
Francisco, CA, United States BeInSync - TelSan
Francisco, CA, United States Revolution Health - Brooklyn, NY, United States
socialmedian - New York, NY, United States AdEngage - Los Angeles, CA, United
States acerno - New York and San Francisco based. Lookery - San Francisco, CA,
United States Centennial - Wall, NJ, United States
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robg
I think you've reinforced pg's point - 24/106 (~20%) is a huge effect as
compared, like you've done, to every other place on the planet. Basically,
from this data, if you're a tech company and want to eventually get acquired
would you rather choose a 1 in 5 chance or, based on a quick guess at second-
best - NY area (7 in 106) or MA area (8 in 106), a 1 in ~15 chance?
Great idea. I'd love to see 2007 as well.
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jdale27
"N% of startups acquired were located in city
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this year. Odisha has been supporting the game with various initiatives; it owns the the Kalinga Lancers in the Hockey India League.
That included Trump promising Erdogan he would stop arming the Kurdish militant group YPG , much to the chagrin of the U.S. The seeds of the rift between the two countries were planted in 2014, as the Islamic State swept across Iraq and Syria .
I'm very excited about it", Woods said as darkness settled Friday over Riviera Country Club. "Give him a little bit more time. He's still figuring a few things about with equipment, sort of in between drivers and whatever, but he's close ".
Does The Twitter For Mac Suck? It seems like it's fully given up on maintaining a native desktop client for Mac .the US more than 10 years ago.
I was running a small web host at the time and we just happened to host her
website, for free of course. She had just moved to the US, gotten her green
card and started a job as a teacher.
The school she was working for, or wanted to work for, had investigated her
and found her personal website somehow. Even though she was posting under a
pseudonym, and the website was hosted in Sweden. I don't remember if it was in
Swedish though, maybe not.
They objected to certain things on that website, not sure if it was the BDSM
links or something about linking to Amazon.
Either way, she didn't have a computer at the time so all she could do was ask
me to take the website down for
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policies of Fascism (and Nazism later) might well
be described as "socialist policies run by - and for - oligarchic
capitalists".
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gadders
Britain's own failed Mussolini, Oswald Mosley was a Labour MP before he became
a fascist:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley#Crossing_the_flo...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley#Crossing_the_floor)
~~~
Aengeuad
For those that aren't going to click the link: he was a Conservative initially
before becoming an independent and he had radical policies to reduce
unemployment that weren't popular in the then laissez-faire Labour party (or
Conservatives really) such as tariffs to protect British industries from
'international finance', state nationalisation of main industries, and plans
for a corporate state by merging businesses, workers, and the government into
one. He was also against free trade being noted as saying he was trying to
challenge the '50-year-old system of free trade which exposes industry in the
home market to the chaos of world conditions, such as pricefluctuation,
dumping, and the competition of sweated labour'.
After the split from Labour and failing to see success in his own New Party he
went on a study tour of Italy and it's here you see the sharp turn towards the
right wing and the formation of the BUP which was obviously authoritarian
corporate fascism, strongly anti-Communist, and frequently clashed with Jewish
groups.
As dragonwriter notes in his posts in this thread, corporatism is something
that's sometimes shared among these ideologies but the gulf between those
ideologies can still be pretty large, authoritarian nationalism inherently
excludes certain groups in societies and is worlds apart from some other forms
of socialism even if the goal of both is to end or reduce class conflict.
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defective confederation as this was.
But we cannot leave the subject without an additional remark.
As soon as the Constitution was adopted, all legislative measures for
the purpose of enforcing existing treaties, either on the part of the
United States or the states, became at once unnecessary. The institution
of the judicial power was itself adequate to the desired effect. The
partial views and local interests which. might have influenced state
legislatures, or the high tone which might be jealously imputed to the
general legislature, were equally avoided. The people, by the adoption
of the Constitution, had themselves legislated on the subject, and the
judicial principle, in regular and dignified procedure, carried their
legislation into effect.and designer
Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell
Compiler
Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX
Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text
on AI
Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five,
currently working on Fortress
Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX
Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
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Benedict Cumberbatch to cumber-climb EVEREST for Doug Liman!
There's no cumber-stopping the Cumberbatch train. With showy roles in this fall's 12 YEARS A SLAVE, THE FIFTH ESTATE, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, and THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG, the dude's star power is raising with each passing week, and the number of projects he's been attached to and rumored for keeps increasing. The latest film the deep-voiced Sherlock is eyeballing is EVEREST, Sony's Doug Liman film about competing climbers George Mallory and George Finch. He'd be replacing Tom Hardy as Mallory, who died while attempting to traverse the legendary peak in 1924. According to Deadline, Liman is still trying to lock down Cumberbatch while lining up another major name for the Australian Finch. Names that have been tossed around for eithertextbook untreated
PTSD. Decades after he saw conflict, a loud noise, like a piece of equipment
falling on a concrete floor, would send him into immediate action mode, one
time diving out of his car at a stoplight when another car backfired. He was
highly stressed, argumentative over little things and had lots of trouble
keeping a job. I met him when I was working a low waged computer service job
in the mid 90s.
My father was in the Korean conflict, landed with MacArthur's forces at Inchon
and saw quite a bit of action North of the 38th. He was shot in the leg, spent
time in Japan recuperating, got hooked on morphine, beat it, went back in, got
shot again and finally made his way home. Along the way, he was field promoted
from Sergeant to LT
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announced my engagement to my
South Korean wife, his PTSD came back in full force. But then as he got to
accept her, it went away just as quickly. I found him one day looking at some
old National Geographic Magazines one day, looking at pictures of Korea from
around the time of the war, then looking at pictures of Korea from today --
this is the first time he's ever looked at anything Korean since the war. My
mother says his night issues appear to have gone away completely.
When I was very young, I got to know Nguyễn Ngọc Loan [1][2] quite well. He
was a local businessman near D.C. after the Vietnam war. And my family had
gotten to know him and his family well and we frequented his restaurant at the
local shopping mall.His kids worked summer jobs for my parent's business and
watched me from time to time and I think my father and him even did some
business together. Obviously he saw, experienced and participated in some
pretty brutal stuff. Little known is that he also lost one of his legs in the
war so he got as good as he gave. He complained every once in a while about
phantom pain in his leg, but AFAIK didn't suffer from PTSD.
I worked another time with a recent Vet or the Iraq War, his unit was blown up
in an IED explosion in Iraq, he was a few meters from the blast and was
violently thrown to the side with just a few bruises. A couple soldiers in his
unit were not so lucky. The VA classified him
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as partially disabled with
Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD. He said he had nightmares from the incident
and trouble sleeping. To treat his PTSD they put him on some kind of
medication, which caused him to balloon in weight, but didn't appear to have
resolved his night issues. Which lingered on several years later. Other former
soldiers who had seen it worse (some with and without PTSD diagnoses) gave him
endless grief over his PTSD diagnosis and his weight gain. He felt like he
didn't deserve it and it led to lots of depression and social issues. His
symptoms sounded almost exactly like mine, only they hadn't gone away, and
being a vet, he was part of a social circle that should have given him more
sympathy or understanding, but didn't.
It seems that to me that PTSD showsits forms, is in the mind. He'd been planning this well enough in advance to acquire lube and condoms.
My first time receiving anal and getting a facial
As he finished he rested backwards, sitting on my chest. As he was pulling out I started to feel a bit empty, but the fullness returned once he'd started going back in. I didn't feel much pain, only a very small amount. I'd breathed in out of excitement as much as anything else. He slipped the tip of his cock into my ass.
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he managed to stay employed, he was pained at the sight of the multitudes of jobless around him. He also witnessed fascist oppression firsthand during his days as a researcher in Europe in the late 1930s, and this intensified his sense of the need for international legal protection for the rights of all people.
He stressed that the UDHR was the result of a collaborative effort and that it owed some degree of its prestige and importance precisely to the fact that its authors retained their anonymity. Perhaps this is why his contributions remained largely unknown, even after retiring from his twenty-year post as director of the UN Human Rights Division. [7]
Even so, when Dr. Humphrey personally gifted me a facsimile of the draft of the Declaration, each handwrittenof them say that how Floyd was arrested was at a minimum
against procedure, and almost certainly contributory to his death.
\- One cop I spoke to pointed out that his training mandated that once a prone
subject is handcuffed, their training mandates rolling them onto their side,
as being unable to leverage oneself up can restrict breathing, even if
nobody's kneeling on you. He also pointed out that kneeling on the neck or
back in order to handcuff someone is well within procedure at his department,
but continuing after they are restrained is obviously not.
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ajmurmann
"\- I have several cop friends, from a relatively geographically diverse range
of the US. All of them say that how Floyd was arrested was at a minimum
against procedure, and almost certainly contributory to his death. \- One cop
I spoke to
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think "one a felon, always a felon"
I'm not sure that's what is really going on, regardless of what people say.
People have no problem doing business with known frauds, criminals and bad
actors, from the CEO who cheated their co-founder to Wall Street banks to
many, many more. Will nobody do business with Travis Kalanick again? The banks
who sold the shady mortgage-backed securities that caused the Great Recession?
There was a story the other day about prominent scientists who committed
massive fraud and hardly suffered dents in their careers. Pete Carroll
committed many violations of NCAA rules and ethics when coaching U. of
Southern Cal football; he became a professional football coach and nobody
talks about not trusting him; it seems to have had no impact on his
reputation. Another example is the Catholic Church's systematic sexualPublished Monday, December 8, 2014 at 9:29 am
Dec. 8, 2014. Legendary former head coach Jerry Moore officially becomes Appalachian State University’s second representative in the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday, Dec. 9 when he is formally inducted as part of the National Football Foundation’s Annual Awards Dinner in New York City.
Full coverage of Tuesday’s events, including a morning press conference and that evening’s awards show, will be carried live on ESPN3. The press conference, moderated by Bonnie Bernstein, begins at 9 a.m. with the College Football Hall of Fame class expected to take the podium at 9:45 a.m. The awards show, emceed by Rece Davis, begins at 8 p.m.
ESPN3, ESPN’s online platform, is available in approximately 85 million homes nationwide as well as to 21 million
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they are working reasonably quickly to address and attempt solutions
for each crisis as it comes up, and indeed, the crises of 2020 have been
hugely transformative for the city already, leading to a whole new set of
traffic and transit policies, reforms in law enforcement policy, and more. It
won't be long before the officials have to start choosing between making cuts
to essentials and throwing out old pork constituents, and they have a riled
up, locked down population watching every move.
The only thing I'm truly concerned about is the state and national situations
falling into the kinds of scenarios Robert Evans depicts in "It Could Happen
Here".
United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana who awarded judgment to plaintiff IMC against the Yagers in the amount of $93,009.43-- the open account indebtedness of Rainbow to IMC-- and $8,500 for attorney fees.
2
We reverse.
3
IMC is a New York corporation with its principal place of business in Skokie, Illinois. It is engaged primarily in selling at wholesale, fertilizer and other farm-related products, and also leases equipment to its retail customers. Rainbow is an Indiana corporation with offices in Shelbyville, Indiana. It was engaged in retail sale of fertilizer and other farm-related products. Rainbow was owned equally by a Truman Sawyer, its president, and the Yagers. Although defendant Monroe Yager was secretary of the corporation, he apparently took no active part
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to four Stanley Cup titles before retiring in 1980 as the all-time leader in career goals and points. Both records were later broken by fellow Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky.
The Canadian still owns several NHL records, including the most consecutive 20-goal seasons (22), most regular season games played (1,767) and most regular season goals (801) and points (1,850) by a right winger. He is also the only person to play in the NHL after turning 50.me to their project, in exchange for work-from-home and
some other perks. I put the project back on schedule and released it on time.
I did that alone, help was promised but never assigned.
At performance review that year my work was "acceptable". My (indian) project
was delivered on schedule (haha), but I missed a few key meetings on my Irish
project.
Latter I had problem with my manager. While I was slaving on Indian project,
Irish team was learning new technology. I was expected to know this
technology, since I was technicaly part of Irish team while they were learning
it.
I quit shortly after that. Now I do remote consulting
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shams93
Crap happens on any job but having been in the industry 25 years i can say
that poor tteatment of people is often the norm. Everybody in the
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carefully planned architecture and spotless
windows stand directly across from tattered shops with merchants huddled
amongst piles of cheap goods and street vendors selling stir fried noodles for
less than 1 USD.
~~~
berntb
>>The seemingly prevalent distaste for old things continues to frustrate me
Sigh, I need to say this about old buildings...
Sweden kept out of both world wars and that was an economic miracle for a
previously very poor country.
But despite not getting the cities destroyed by bombing (or street-to-street
fighting), lots of old building and whole city centers were torn down in the
1950s and 1960s, to build new buildings.
The whole country has sorely regretted it since then. Surviving old stone
houses are generally really expensive.
Please learn from other's stupidity, instead of repeating it; that is partly
why our brains evolved to be big.
Edit: Ah, that mansionto help out.
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
We went for a walk early in the day yesterday, to get away from the hubbub of renovations at home, and to get some exercise before the day's heat built up.
Penny had a swim to collect a stick we had thrown into the Yarra, and subsequently proudly carried her trophy as she walked. I'd have preferred if she had carried it in a safer manner, not sticking out of her mouth like a cigar.
We thought it was a rather nice stick, but when we saw this dog, we realised Penny is just an amateur in the stick-carrying stakes. (In this photo he has put it down to re-arrange it in his mouth, but I can assure you that he was really carrying it
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second key the lyrics of "Beat it"?
But the wish for treasure was blinder. Skeptoid concludes:
"After (the pamphlet's) publication, Ward tried to downplay the tale, claiming
that all remaining copies of the pamphlet had been destroyed in a print shop
fire, despite researchers finding no newspaper records of any such fire. Only
the first few pamphlets ever got out, and once they did, it appears that Ward
realized he'd created a monster with a greater effect than he'd anticipated.
Ward had been friends with the Buford and Morriss families, and it's perhaps
most probable that the unexpected attention changed his mind about promoting
his fictional story at the expense of his friends."
But the wish is warmed up again and again.
~~~
acqq
Now checking the sources (ha!) the transcript of the original book has only
"Thomas J. Beale" and nowhereQR-6, 9 February 2019, Statement of the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hami Aksoy, in response to a question regarding serious human rights violations perpetrated against Uighur Turks and the passing away of folk poet Abdurehim Heyit.
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has joined the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), la Ligue des droits Humains, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisations (UNPO) and the Tibetan Community of Belgium in sending an open letter to the Director General and Editing Director of Belgian Newspaper Le Soir, Oliver De Raeymaeker, urging him to stop publishing propaganda inserts from official Chinese press bodies in his newspaper.
In anticipation of the official state visit of the Norwegian royal family, his Majesty King Harald and Queen
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"Marie Hapsderbrock." "The marriage was apparently a happy one as evidenced by the fact that the Countess bore and raised 10 children within these walls." "The statue of Maximilian that you see in the centre of the courtyard was commissioned and begun in 1626, but not completed until 1629." "The name of the sculptor which appeared at the base of the statue was defaced by marauding soldiers around the turn of the century and so has been lost to history." "The north wing of the Schloss..." "I am reminded of the day 40 years ago when a few men, not unlike ourselves, came together in a Munich beer hall." "The flame they kindled at that meeting will burn again." "Gentlemen, I give you the Fourth Reich." "The Fourthto turn on profits"
~~~
adventured
It's a fair comparison, although not to the present Amazon. The Amazon of
today is financially entirely different to the one from 15 years ago.
Amazon nearly went bankrupt after the dotcom bubble era. They were drowning in
particularly bad debt and red ink for years. After the dotcom bubble their
financing abilities almost entirely dried up, the stock collapsed by ~93% or
so. It was almost universally expected that they would not survive,
culminating with the infamous Barron's Amazon.bomb story and a parade of
stories thereafter. For the next three or so years after that story,
bankruptcy was the anticipated end by the press and analysts. Tesla today,
when you look at how they're being discussed by the press + analysts, and
their financials, looks similar to Amazon's general condition back then
(Tesla's growth is
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from the National Transportation Safety Board over Enbridge's handling of a major leak that spilled more than 20,000 barrel in Michigan in July 2010 – almost two years ago to the day.
The NTSB said its investigation found a complete breakdown of company safety measures, while its employees performed like "Keystone Kops" trying to contain it. The rupture, which went undetected for 17 hours, spilled more than 20,000 barrels of heavy crude into Michigan's Kalamazoo River.
In response to the report, Enbridge said it believed its personnel were trying to do the "right thing" at the time.
On Friday, Enbridge said it had no estimate on when Line 14, a 24-inch diameter pipe that was installed in 1988, could be restarted. In most cases, smaller pipeline leaks can be repaired quicklya viper pit of competitive selling seething down there.
The next step? Let those vendors give up margin over to Amazon by bidding to
be in search results.
More money for Amazon both in ad revenue and additional sales (for all its
evilness advertising exists because it works).
Interesting question to see how Walmart responds.
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TACIXAT
I went on the other day to buy a specific brand of pants. I was in the app. I
searched, clicked the first link, seemed like it was coming from a third party
seller. Selected the size I wanted and ordered. It arrived and was a
completely different brand. Went back and looked at the search and it was an
ad. What I thought was a third party seller's store name was the brand name.
From this experience I learned that I can't trust
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in law enforcement
isn't as dangerous as the police unions would like you to think.
~~~
danielvf
I live in the South, and know two officers currently working on the street.
In the last five years, between the two of them: someone tried to run the
officer over with a truck in a dark alley, a man pointed a shotgun at the
officer's head from a few feet away (while carrying three guns and 400 rounds
of ammo, and having previously fired several rounds through a house wall), a
fleeing criminal pulled to the side of the road and opened fire at the
officer, and while responding to an officer who had been shot in the woods,
were ambushed by the suspect, who killed the officer next to him, and sent my
acquaintance to the hospital for a month.
And Idon't even live in a high crime area of country!
~~~
HarryHirsch
Hey, I've got anecdata, too! My previous institution is on the hook for half a
million dollars after an officer-involved shooting. This was a civil
settlement, without admission of liability, the usual kind. The officer was
permitted to resign. He had racked up an unusual number of disciplinary issues
already but was never disciplined for that incident, when he severely injured
the student. The police captain was also permitted to resign, even though
there were severe concerns about discipline in the force he was overseeing.
There was never a criminal trial for either of the two, there rarely is,
because of the unholy alliance between the district attorney and the cops.
Probably both are working for other police forces nearby, they _love_ officers
with a disciplinary record, it shows
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below shows the number of deaths per 100,000 people per year. The post-war period rightfully carries its name, as a bigger share of mankind is living through a sustained period of peace, before dying of old age.Why then are so many people still under the impression that the world is a more violent place than ever?One reason is increasing media coverage: while today's wars are broadcast live, constantly remaining in the public eye, reports on conflicts of earlier decades – such as the various Congo Wars with hundreds of thousands of casualties – did not reach equally big audiences.What is true and terrible, however, is the fact that the number of war deaths has recently been on the rise again, mainly due to the ongoing conflict in Syria.He was certainly wrong, but that was his
perception). The company D. Stempel AG, co-owner of the Haas'sche
Schriftgiesserei, produced the "Neue Haas Grotesk" for Linotype machines and
re-labeled it into "Helvetica" for marketing purposes.
Many years ago I read a fascinating article (I believe from Eric Spiekerman),
about the efforts to re-design the forms of the Deutsche Bundespost (German
state mail service). In an analysis they found more than 600 variations of
Helvetica in use within the organization before the relaunch.
The 1983 effort to design the "Neue Helvetica" (by Stempel, for Linotype) was
certainly motivated by this defragmentation of Helvetica-variations, and it
was sort of a last conservation before DTP would do all its damages to font
identity and quality.
I am not sure what Mike Parkers role was in this process, but I would assume
that he came
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— where George Washington fished shad for pleasure — fish are captured on their spawning runs, their larvae raised in captivity in hatcheries and fingerlings released to survive on their own.
Shad are also raised in hatcheries and released by the millions in the Anacostia, Choptank, James, Nanticoke, Pamunkey, Patapsco, Patuxent, Rappahannock and Susquehanna rivers.
Free passage is another way we can help shad recover by enabling them to do what comes naturally.
“We have to provide any anadromous fish — including both American and hickory shad and herring — access to its historic spawning grounds,” Goldsborough says.
Maryland Department of Natural Resources counts over 2,500 constructed blockages between fish and their spawning habitat in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Under the Chesapeake Bay Agreement of 1987, 1,838 miles were opened by 2005,settling anywhere but in the former Confederate states_
Is that surprising? The Confederate economy was absolutely destroyed by the
Civil War. From my understanding, there wasn't much work even for the
Confederates let alone immigrants.
~~~
tokenadult
_Is that surprising?_
Yes, I found it surprising when I first learned the fact (in the 1970s),
because immigrants were pouring into all other parts of the United States in
large numbers at the time. That includes places that were wholly undeveloped
wilderness and also places that were battlegrounds outside the borders of the
Confederacy.
It's even more surprising to me now, after years of reflection on my visits to
Hong Kong in the 1980s, because the plain lesson of history is that welcoming
immigrants is an excellent way to build up a destroyed economy and to provide
more work both for the new arrivals and
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been struggling with understanding Ludwig von Mises' use of the term
_autistic exchange_ published in 1949 in his book _Human Action_. I was
thinking that as a non-native writing in English he had more or less invented
the term from _auto_. I had already established the words _autism_ and
_autistic_ came into the language in the first half of the 20th century. This
article now makes it clear to me he had been keeping up with the literature in
other social science fields, and the early literature on autism emphasized the
_social withdrawal and detachment_. Hence von Mises identifies autistic
exchange with an economic exchange a person makes with oneself. The example he
gives is a hunter who expends a cartridge he possesses to shoot a deer in
order to eat.
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_> All five also showed a preference forRed maple
Red maple, also called swamp maple, or scarlet maple, (Acer rubrum), large, irregularly narrow tree of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), cultivated for its shade and spectacular autumn colour. It is one of the most common trees in its native eastern North America.
Red maple (Acer rubrum).
Willow
The red maple grows to a height of 27 m (90 feet) or more on a straight trunk; the crown bears upright or spreading branches that become reddish brown with age. Young bark is smooth and gray, gradually becoming ridged, scaly, and dark. Reddish colour characterizes the flowers, which precede the leaves, the leaf stalks, the fall foliage, and the winter buds. The leaf is three- to five-lobed, paler beneath. The small paired, winged fruits are yellow to red. Squirrels consume the seeds;
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In the Philippines, the Next Phuket?
In the Philippines, the Next Phuket? - NYT, July, 2010
[Thanks to Mud for pointing this out.] ...They're going crazy on Boracay because they want it to become the next Thailand, said Margaux Palau, 34, a local diving and yoga instructor originally from Spain, referring to Thailand's touristy shores. "Boracay is much nicer, if you ask me, but it's also much farther for most people, which is why it's still unknown...one of my favorite cities. Peter, has its own vibe, it's still
relatively under-appreciated, it has an interesting street music flavor, the
hermitage museum is excellent and once you become friends with locals, Russian
hospitality is wonderful.
You really want to visit Peter between May till September. End of June to
early July during the White Nights is quiet fun.
My favorite thing is to roam the city on bikes. Peter is a large city and
having a bike gives you a great freedom to take it all in.
Peter has many restaurants. Armenian (Erevan or Yerevan named after the
capital of Armenia is very good but a bit on the pricey side), Georgian,
canteen (soviet style buffet). Many places on or around the Nevsky Street open
late or never close.
SIM card is cheap, Megaphone and MTC is your
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2018.
Howard University alumnus and award-winning actor Chadwick Boseman spoke to graduates about the significance of making it to the top of the Hilltop during the Howard University 2018 Commencement Convocation. In front of an audiences of more than 8,000 family and friends, Boseman encouraged the graduates to not only exceedto
factors and linear approximations. While these may often work well enough,
they also fail often enough to cause trouble. Hundreds of years ago, a work
was written which I believe was quoted by Donald Knuth in one of his books
that I've never forgotten: "Make game of that which makes as much of thee."
That, to me, sound like the most cogent advice to anyone living in the modern
world. If you are seen as a factor to be manipulated, maximized, or reduced,
it is only fitting, appropriate, and ultimately, moral, for you to respond in
kind.
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icebraining
Bureaucracy was doing that way before software came along, and I'm not sure
the former was easier to subvert than the latter.
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mercer
It's much easier, through software and the internet, for bureaucracy, or in a
broader sense 'systems thinking', to extend its
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in the National Reserve, which forms part of the buffer zone, concerning land tenure rights on private property. Private land only occurs over a small area however, use rights extend to much wider areas of the National Reserve. It is important to seek a satisfactory resolution through working with local communities to limit impacts and optimize the benefits of World Heritage listing for stakeholders.
The property has a management plan which was legally adopted in 1997 and will be revised and updated when required, including provisions to enhance participatory approached to management. The property benefits from adequate human and financial resources for its management and has a highly professional ranger corps responsible for on-ground control and law enforcement. However, operational resources are very limited and should be improved.
As oneonline
encyclopedia was the stuff of science fiction.
And science fiction is largely a cultural invention of the article's second
epoch. Around 1950 is when it went from a few authors to a literary genre and
ideas about the technological details of the future went from projecting steam
into the future as rockets and submarines to projecting computers and radios.
We don't have personal helicopters for two reasons: the laws of physics and
the laws of information theory. I can order my potatoes and herring online.
Strapping on a jetpack and flying to the Isle of Man for my fix, isn't just
impossible, it's absurd.
I've got Hari Seldon's prognostic pocket calculator prognosticating
Wednesday's weather and wending through the ether to an encyclopedia galactic.
I can text you a photograph of it from a chair in the sky.
The article does
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this
article is just that: an opinion piece. Since he's a physicist, his
perspective might be somewhat muddled by the place of science in technological
progress:
Science > Engineering > Market Adoption
Today's scientists are discovering things that tomorrow's engineers will turn
into technologies that day after tomorrow's entrepreneurs will consumerize.
It's worked this way throughout history, and yes, it's faster now than ever
before.
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scythe
This guy is a perpetual Chicken Little. He's been featured on /r/economics
multiple times. His argument is two-pronged: he plays up the inventions of
yesteryear, and plays down the inventions of today.
Even the invention of the television was gradual. It was developed via
"refinements" of the facsimilie. Ignorance of history is a bad argument. Ditto
antibiotics: first arsenic, then atoxyl, then arsphenamine, then
sulfanilamide, finally penicillin. The car was nothing but a road-adapted
train. The airplane was precededever-rising living standards is gone. It
was a real thing for a few decades, but I think it's coming to an end.
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afarrell
Income inequality in the United States has grown massively.
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TazeTSchnitzel
I'm talking about the Western world, yes. But is this not also true in others
parts of the world? Has anywhere seen income inequality _decline_?
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manifold
Yes, inter-country inequality has been coming down despite in-country
inequality going up. The rich have been getting richer and the poorest have
been getting richer while the middle class have stood still.
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markbnj
Just taken at face value there is nothing surprising about the article's
premise. As we continue to increase our knowledge more problems move into the
"solved" category, and what remains is the harder stuff.
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frewsxcv
Could it be the case that everything that has been 'discovered' in history has
at some point been
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to be held tomorrow.
The Joint Commission established in 1983 remained dysfunctional during most part of its life. It was first revived in 2005 after remaining suspended for 16 years and again got inactive after 2007.
The sub-groups in their meetings on Wednesday explored cooperation in the fields of agriculture, health, education, science and technology, IT and telecommunications, environment, tourism and information.it clearly uses "Americans" in the broader sense. For
example, here, where Monte Verde is a site in modern day Chile:
_Early Americans apparently knew how to take full advantage of its abundant
resources. At Monte Verde, once 90 kilometers from the coast, archaeologist
Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University in Nashville found nine species of
edible and medicinal seaweed dated to about 14,000 years ago._
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