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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. Multicultura... | {
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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 i... | {
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complexity.
~~~
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 bec... | {
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with Trump
the way it did with past presidents.
~~~
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 pa... | {
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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 rang... | {
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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 co... | {
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Are the people who authorised and developed South
Africa's nuclear weapons still living in that part of the world?
~~~
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 ... | {
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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 p... | {
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much more intense from a bicycle perspective.
~~~
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
------
dasht
Same year, across the Bay in Berkeley.
The street is Euclid Ave. which borders the cen... | {
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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 t... | {
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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... | {
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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... | {
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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 (t... | {
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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,... | {
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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 ... | {
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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 ... | {
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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 want... | {
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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... | {
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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 hur... | {
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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... | {
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to root if it wasn't for the monocultures being so tightly
planted
~~~
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 t... | {
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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 k... | {
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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-... | {
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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 Fede... | {
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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,... | {
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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
... | {
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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 summe... | {
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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 manage... | {
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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 Os... | {
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from doing more productive things.
------
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, wh... | {
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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 equa... | {
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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... | {
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in the US
is called the Honda Legend in Japan.
~~~
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... | {
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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 im... | {
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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... | {
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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 architec... | {
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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 per... | {
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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 hig... | {
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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 ... | {
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II btw), but this comment
seems eerily familiar.
~~~
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 N... | {
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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... | {
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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... | {
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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 ... | {
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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. V... | {
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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 ... | {
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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 p... | {
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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 l... | {
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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 t... | {
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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
Extr... | {
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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 br... | {
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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 por... | {
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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 ... | {
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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 Ac... | {
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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, w... | {
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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 t... | {
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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 ... | {
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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 wer... | {
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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 goadin... | {
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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 B... | {
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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, Spurgeo... | {
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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 j... | {
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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 ... | {
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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... | {
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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.
T... | {
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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 App... | {
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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... | {
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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 wor... | {
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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 us... | {
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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 difficul... | {
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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
appro... | {
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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)
------
Cookingboy
Someone somewhere asked why a lot of people in the Go community is taking this
in a somewhat hard way, here... | {
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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 wel... | {
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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 builde... | {
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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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pattrn
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 th... | {
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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 com... | {
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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 Progr... | {
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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, ... | {
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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 i... | {
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policies of Fascism (and Nazism later) might well
be described as "socialist policies run by - and for - oligarchic
capitalists".
~~~
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.... | {
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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 j... | {
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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 projec... | {
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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 Kore... | {
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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. Othe... | {
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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 str... | {
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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 Kalan... | {
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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 o... | {
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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... | {
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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 sa... | {
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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 ... | {
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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 wh... | {
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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 Kop... | {
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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 t... | {
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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 r... | {
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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... | {
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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 langu... | {
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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'... | {
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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 o... | {
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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 ... | {
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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 tomor... | {
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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, hea... | {
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